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2005年TOEFL考试模拟试题(1-2)

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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-baked brick plastered with mud. Their homes looked

remarkably like modem apartment houses. Some were four stories high and contained quarters

for perhaps thousand people, along with storerooms for grain and other goods. These buildings were usually put up

against cliffs, both to make construction easier and for defense against enemies. They were really villages in themselves,

as later Spanish explorers must have realized since they called them "pueblos", which is Spanish for town.

The people or the pueblos raised what are called "the three sisters" -- corn, beans, and squash. They made excellent pottery and wove marvelous baskets, some so fine that they could hold

water. The Southwest has always been a dry country, where water is scarce. The Hopi and Zuni brought water from

streams to their fields and gardens through irrigation ditches. Water was so important that it played a major role in their

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