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As many as one thousand years ago in the Southwest, the Hopi and Zuni Indians of North America were building with adobe-sun bak

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问题     As many as one thousand years ago in the Southwest, the Hopi and Zuni
Indians of North America were building with adobe-sun baked brick plaster with 1.______
mud. Their homes looked remarkably like modern apartment houses. Some were
four stories high and contained quarters for perhaps a thousand people, along
with store room for grain and other goods. These buildings were usually put 2.______
up against cliffs, both to make construction easier and for defense of enemies, 3.______
They were really villages in themselves, as later Spanish explorers should have 4.______
realized since they called them "pueblos", which is Spanish for town.
    The people of the pueblos raised which are called"the three sisters" 5.______
-corn, beans, and squash. They made excellent pottery and wove, marvelous
baskets, some are so fine that they could hold water. The Southwest has 6.______
always been a dry country, where water is scarce. The Hopi and Zuni brought
water from streams to their fields and gardens by irrigation ditches. Water 7.______
was so important that it played a major role in their religion. They developed
elaborate ceremonies and religious rituals to bring rain.
    The way of life of more settled groups was simpler and more strongly 8.______
influenced by nature. Small tribes such as the Shoshone and Ute wandered
off the dry and mountainous lands between the Rocky Mountains and the 9.______
Pacific Ocean. They gathered seeds and hunted small animals such as small
rabbits and snakes. In the Far North the ancestors of today’s Inuit hunted
seals, walruses, and the great whales. They lived right on the frozen seas in
shelters called igloos built of blocks of packed snow. When summer came,
they fished salmon and hunted the lordly caribou. 10.______
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答案by——through
解析 本题为介词误用。“through”表示“以；通过；经由”。是通过某种途径，如：He bought the antique vase through a dealer；he became rich through hard work．“by”是通过某种方法，表示以一般的方法或方式，往往接零冠词名词，如：No one in those days could live by writing poems．How did you send the letter，by airmail or by ordinary mail?此处文中表示经由灌溉水渠运水，故用through。
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