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  3. All Eskimos live most of their lives close to salt or fresh water. They may follow game inland for several hundred miles, but th

All Eskimos live most of their lives close to salt or fresh water. They may follow game inland for several hundred miles, but th

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问题     All Eskimos live most of their lives close to salt or fresh water. They may follow game inland for several hundred miles, but they always return to the shores of rivers lakes, or seas. Eskimo land has a bare look. Large rocks, pebbles, and sand cover much of the surface. Plants called lichen (地衣) grow right on rock. And where there is enough soil, even grass, flowers, and small bushes manage to live. No trees can grow on Eskimo land, so geographers sometimes call this country the Arctic plains. Some animals, such as rabbits and caribou(北美驯鹿), eat the plants. Others, like the white fox and grey wolf, eat the rabbits and caribou. The Eskimo is a meat-eater, too, and may even eat a wolf when food is scarce.
     The Eskimo year has two main parts: a long, cold winter and a short, cool summer. Spring and fall are almost too short to be noticed. Summer is the good time, when food is usually plentiful. But it is also the time when the Eskimos are very busy. Winter is never far away, and the men must bring home extra meat for the women to prepare and store. For seldom can enough animals be killed in winter to feed a family.
     The Far North is sometimes called the land of the midnight sun. This is true in the middle of summer, for between April 21st and August 21stthe sun never sets in Northern Greenland. But in midwinter the Far North is a land with no sun shining at all. Around Oct. 21stthe Eskimos of Northern Greenland see the sun setting straight south of them, and they don’t see it again until February 22nd. All places on earth get about the same amount of daylight during a year. As a result, if summer is lighter, winter has to be darker.
     Winter nights in the Far North are seldom pitch-blank. As in the rest of the world, the stars and moon provide a little light, The northern lights also help the Eskimo to see. And with the ground covered with snow, even a little light is reflected back to the Eskimo’s eyes.  
In the Eskimo year, ______.
选项 A、there are no spring and fall
B、winter is cold and summer is hot
C、summer is a time for growing food
D、winter comes early and goes late
答案D
解析 细节理解题。选项设计也比较巧妙，巧妙之处在于我们可能会根据自己的经验选择答案，而我们必须要根据原文来进行推理、确定答案。根据文章，春季和秋季很短(Spring and fall are almost too shorter to be noticed ，但这不等于没有春秋天，因此排除A 。文章中没有说夏天热，而是说很凉爽，据此可以排除B 。爱斯基摩人以捕鱼和狩猎为生，文章没有提到他们种植食物，因此可以排除C 。根据第二段第一句，冬季很长(a long，cold winter ，因此可以确定答案为D 。
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