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TOEFL Reading Class Unit 1_Passage 7_Question 67-77
You have about 15 minutes to finish this passage.
First,use about 3-4 minutes to read the passage, try to understand the main idea of this passage.
Don't read it so slowly or try to remember all details.You need to do "fast reading",and "scan" the passage.
Second, read questions 1-11, and with questions you go back the passage again and look for correct answers.
Questions 67-77
Passage 7
Anasazi is the name given to the prehistoric people who inhabited the Four Corners area of what is now southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, southwestern Colorado, and northwestern New Mexico for a 2,000-year period from about 700 B.C . to the arrival of the Spanish in the Southwest in the 1500's. The Anasazi were the ancestors of the modern-day Pueblo people of the southwestern United States.
Five cultural signatures enable archaeologists to determine what is Anasazi. First is the kiva---a generally circular, underground structure used for gatherings of kin groups. The kiva belongs to the Anasazi and is not found anywhere else. Second is the unit pueblo. This building unit, made up of a room block of two to twelve rooms and a plaza or workplace containing a kiva, formed a modular unit of standardized design that was multiplied to form larger settlements---whether in the cliffs or in the open.
The third cultural signature is the orientation of kivas and unit pueblos facing toward the south and southeast. The fourth is the characteristic Anasazi gray-and-white pottery and the utility pottery with a corrugated exterior. The Anasazi fired the pottery in a nonoxidizing atmosphere (a fire smothered to reduce available oxygen), producing the gray-and-white-colored ceramics. Many Anasazi pots were decorated with black paint, producing the distinctive black-on-white pottery style.
Fifth, the Anasazi in all areas followed a characteristic pattern of burials. The bodies were buried lying on the side with legs flexed against the chest and heads oriented directionally --- often toward the east ---or parallel to the slope if the grave was on steep terrain.
These five characteristics are peculiarly Anasazi and were not shared by the other neighboring cultures. By matching these hallmarks to the discovered ruins, it has been possible to delineate prehistoric Anasaziland for some 2,000 years. A chronological framework has divided the history of the Anasazi into three Basket Maker stages and six Pueblo stages.
67. What does the passage primarily discuss?
a) Where prehistoric Anasazi settlements were located
b) How archaeologists can recognize prehistoric Anasazi sites
c) The architecture of the prehistoric Anasazi people
d) The modern-day descendants of the prehistoric Anasazi people
68. The word signatures in the passage is closest in meaning to
a) identifying characteristics
b) written messages
c) archaeological methods
d) designs painted on pottery
69. According to the passage, what was the Anasazi kiva primarily used for?
a) Food preparation
b) Tool storage
c) Family gatherings
d) Pottery making
70. The word standardized in the passage is closest in meaning to
a) closed
b) measured
c) ancient
d) uniform
71. The word orientation in the passage is closest in meaning to
a) arrangement
b) construction
c) expansion
d) preference
72. According to the passage, what was a characteristic of Anasazi pottery?
a) It was extremely difficult to break.
b) It was fired with a reduced amount of oxygen.
c) It was painted gray and white.
d) It was created with a special mixture of clay.
73. According to the passage, one of the characteristics of Anasazi burials was that bodies were buried
a) flat on the back
b) with the knees bent to the chest
c) in special burial grounds
d) parallel to each other
74. The word terrain in the passage is closest in meaning to
a) vegetation
b) climate
c) vicinity
d) ground
75. Which of the following, if it were found at an archaeological site in the southwestern United States, would strongly suggest that the Anasazi had lived there?
a) Brightly colored pottery
b) Buildings with windows facing east
c) An underground circular structure
d) Remains of ceremonial fires
76. The word delineate in the passage is closest in meaning to
a) discourage
b) outline
c) originate
d) succeed
77. The paragraph following the passage would most logically continue with a discussion of the
a) different stages of Anasazi history
b) influence of the Spanish on Anasazi culture
c) characteristics that made the Anasazi unique
d) problems encountered by the descendants of the Anasazi
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