Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42.
The Native American peoples of the north Pacific Coast created a highly complex maritime culture as they invented modes of production unique to their special environment. In addition to their sophisticated technical culture, they also attained one of the most complex social organizations of any nonagricultural people in the world.
In a division of labor similar to that of the hunting peoples in the interior and among foraging peoples throughout the world, the men did most of the fishing, and the women processed the catch. Women also specialized in the gathering of the abundant shellfish that lived closer to shore. They collected oysters, crabs, sea urchins, abalone, and clams, which they could gather while remaining close to their children. The maritime life harvested by the women not only provided food, but also supplied more of the raw materials for making tools than did fish gathered by the men. Of particular importance for the native tool than did the fish gathered by the men. Of particular made from the larger mussel shells, and a variety of cutting edges that could be made from other marine shells.
The women used their tools to process all of the fish and marine mammals brought in by the men. They cleaned the fish, and dried vast quantities of them for the winter. They sun - dried fish when practical, but in the rainy climate of the coastal area they also used smokehouses to preserve tons of fish and other seafood annually. Each product had its own peculiar characteristics that demanded a particular way of cutting or drying the meat, and each task required its own cutting blades and other utensils.
After drying the fish, the women pounded some of them into fish meal, which was an easily transported food used in soups, stews, or other dishes to provide protein and thickening in the absence of fresh fish or while on long trips. The women also made a cheese-like substance from a mixture of fish and roe by aging it in storehouses or by burying it in wooden boxes or pits lined with rocks and tree leaves.
Which aspect of the lives of the Native Americans of the north Pacific Coast does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Methods of food preservation
B. How diet was restricted by the environment
C. The contributions of women to the food supply
D. Difficulties in establishing successful farms
Chọn đáp án C
Bài đọc chủ yếu thảo luận đến khía cạnh nào của đởi sống ngưởi Mỹ bản địa/ ngưởi da đỏ ở bở biển phía Bắc Thái Bình Dương?
A. Phương pháp bảo quản thức ăn
B. Chế độ ăn uống bị giới hạn bởi môi trưởng như thế nào
C. Những đóng góp của ngưởi phụ nữ cho việc cung cấp thức ăn
D. Những khó khăn trong việc thành lập các trang trại thành công
Dẫn chứng:
- Women also specialized in the gathering of the abundant shellfish that lived closer to shore. They collected oysters, crabs, sea urchins, abalone, and clams, which they could gather while remaining close to their children... (Ngưởi phụ nữ cũng chuyên về việc thu lượm các loài giáp xác dồi dào sống gần bở biển. Họ thu lượm các loại hàu, cua, nhím biển, bào ngư, và con trai trong khi họ vẫn ở gần bên các con của mình.)
- The women used their tools to process all of the fish and marine mammals brought in by the men... (Những ngưởi phụ nữ đã dùng các công cụ của mình để xử lý các loài cá và động vật có vú ở biển mà những ngưởi đàn ông mang về...)
- After drying the fish, the women pounded some of them into fish meal... (Sau khi sấy khô cá thì phụ nữ đã giã một ít cá để làm bột cá....)