高中英语 Module 5 The First Americans

角顿市安康阳光实验学校Module 5 The First

Americans SectionⅠ

Ⅰ.根据句意和单词首字母或括号内汉语，写出单词的正确形式

1Businesses across the state are ______(兴旺)．

2I ______(憎恨) having to work such long hours.

3Many people died of ______(饥饿) before liberation.

4The boy feels ______(怀有敌意) towards his father.

5In the severe winter of 1947，farmers had to dig their ______(牲畜) out of huge snowdrifts.

6He m______ his horse and rode on.

Ⅱ.用所给短语的适当形式填空

needless to say in peace make a treaty live on in turn make

peace

1All the villagers live together____________.

2____________，he came late as usual.

3That country ____________ with a neighboring country.

4All theories originate from practice and ____________ serve

practice. 5They ____________ vegetarian food.

6The leaders of the two nations decided to ____________.

Ⅲ.阅读理解

The Cherokee Nation

Long before the white man came to America，the land belonged to the

American Indian nations.The nation of the Cherokees 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 ing this own imagination

and an English spelling book，Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound.His

alphabet 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 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 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 4000 had died.It was indeed a march of death.

1The Cherokee Nation used to live______.

A．on the American continent

B．in the southeastern part of the US

C．beyond the Mississippi River

D．in the western territory

2One of the ways that Sequoyah copied from the white man is the way

of ______.

A．writing down the spoken language B．making word pictures

C．teaching his people reading

D．printing their own newspaper

3A law was passed in 1830 to ______.

A．allow the Cherokees to stay where they were

B．send the army to help the Cherokees

C．force the Cherokees to move westward

D．forbid the Cherokees to read their newspaper

4When the Cherokees began to leave their lands ______.

A．they went in carts

B．they went on horseback

C．they marched on foot

D．All of the above

5Many Cherokees died on their way to their new home mainly because

______.

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 参考答案

Ⅰ.1答案：prospering

2答案：resented

3答案：starvation

4答案：hostile

5答案：livestock

6答案：mounted

Ⅱ.1答案：in peace

2答案：Needless to say

3答案：made a treaty

4答案：in turn

5答案：live on

6答案：make peace

Ⅲ.1解析：细节题。由文章第一段中“The nation of the Cherokees lived

in what is now the southeastern part of the United States.”可知答案。

答案：B

2解析：由第二段中“One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important

reading and writing was to the white man...”和“He decided to invent

a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language”可知，Sequoyah根据西方文字自己创造了文字。一开始是“drew a picture”，但后来又“invented

a sign for each sound”。

答案：A

3解析：由第三段中“It allowed the government to remove Indians from

their lands.”可知答案。

答案：C

4解析：由最后一段中“The sick，the old and the small children went

in carts，along with their belongings.”可知A项正确；由“The rest of

the people marched on foot or rode on horseback.”可知B、C两项正确，故答案为D项。

答案：D

5解析：由最后一段中“Cold and hungry，the Cherokees were quickly

exhausted by the hardships of the journey.Many dropped dead and were

buried by the roadside.”可知C项正确。

答案：C