All Eskimos live most of their lives close to sea 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 on the rocks, and where there is enough soil, grass, flowers, and even small bushes manage to live. No trees can grow on Eskimo land, so geographers sometimes call it the Arctic plains. There are some animals in Eskimo land, such as rabbits, which eat the plants. Other animals, like the white fox and the gray wolf, eat the rabbits. 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 best time, as food is usually plentiful. But it is also the time when 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 21st the sun never sets in Northern Greenland. But in midwinter the Far North is a land with no sunshine at all. Around Oct. 21st the Eskimos of Northern Greenland see the sun set directly 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-black. 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.
【小题1】Which of the following statements is NOT true?A．Eskimos do not usually eat wolves. B．Eskimos like to chase one another.C．Eskimos depend heavily on water.D．Eskimos are meat-eaters.【小题2】What’s the meaning of the underlined words “pitch-black” in Paragraph 4?A．Dark with a little light.B．A little dark.C．Not dark at all.D．Extremely dark.【小题3】From the passage, we can infer all of the following EXCEPT that .A．Eskimos are more likely to eat wolves in summerB．Eskimo women are responsible for houseworkC．meat is the main source of food for the EskimoD．hunting is an important part of Eskimo lifeB
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(答案→)B
解析：文章介绍 了爱斯基摩人的生活和所居住地区的一些情况。
【小题1】推理题。爱斯基摩人所住的地方由于气候特殊，夏天很短，食物丰富，他们忙于捕猎，冬天经常没有阳光。故B的可能性很小。
【小题2】猜测词义题。根据下文可知月亮和星星还能有点光亮，故Far North并不是完全漆黑的，仍然有些光亮。
【小题3】推理题。文章第一段提及在夏天食物丰富，也提及只有在特别寒冷或者饥饿的时候爱斯基摩人人才吃狼。故夏天吃狼的可能性很小！故A符合要求。