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  3. The Cherokee Nation Long before the white man came to America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation o

The Cherokee Nation Long before the white man came to America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation o

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问题                          The Cherokee Nation
   Long before the white man came to America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation of the Cherokees(切罗基族人) lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United States.
   After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways. One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was to the white man. He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language. He began by making word pictures. For each word he drew a picture. But that proved impossible — there were just too many words. Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language. Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound. His alphabet(字母表) proved amazingly easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. By 1828, they were even printing their own newspaper.
   In 1830, the U. S. Congress passed a law. It allowed the government to remove Indians from their lands. The Cherokees refused to go. They had lived on their lands for centuries. It belonged to them. Why should they go to a strange land far beyond the Mississippi River?
   The army was sent to drive the Cherokees out. Soldiers surrounded their villages and marched them at gunpoint(枪口) into the western territory. The sick, the old and the small children went in carts, along with their belongings. The rest of the people marched on foot or rode on horseback. It was November, yet many of them still wore their summer clothes. Cold and hungry, the Cherokees were quickly exhausted (筋疲力尽的)by the hardships of the journey. Many dropped dead and were buried by the roadside. When the last group arrived in their new home in March 1839, more than 4,000 had died. It was indeed a march of death.
Many Cherokees died on their way to their new home mainly because
选项 A、they were not willing to go there.
B、the government did not provide transportation.
C、they did not have enough food and clothes.
D、the journey was long and boring.
答案C
解析 在第四段剩下的部分中不难发现“the Cherokees were quickly exhausted by the hardships of the journey.”一句，该句说切罗基人很快就被旅途的艰辛弄的筋疲力尽。对比四个备选答案的语义，不难判断C合适(没有食物和衣物印证旅途的艰辛。)，故选C。
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