阅读理解 You might think that“sodbusters are tools that bust sod. You'd be almost ri

阅读理解

You might think that“sodbusters”are tools that bust sod. You'd be almost right. Sodbusters, however, were actually people.

In the late 1800s, many people moved to the Midwest to settle on land that the United States government had offered for free. Upon arriving, the settlers found that there were no trees for building shelters. The ground, however, had a thick layer of knotted, matted roots below the grassy surface. This kind of soil is called sod.

The early settlers' cut the sod into large cubes. Then they used the cubes of sod to build their shelters. The settlers also had to break up the vast areas of hard sod so that they could farm the land

For these reasons, settlers in the Midwest became known as “sodbusters.”

1．The best title is ________.

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A．Who the Sodbusters wereB．Farming in the MidwestC．Building a ShelterD．How to Cut Sod

2．People moved to the Midwest to ________.

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A．find goldB．look for waterC．settle the landD．find adventure

3．Before they could farm the land, the settlers ________.

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A．broke up sodB．built barnsC．dug up rootsD．cut down trees

4．The settlers in the Midwest must have ________.

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A．wanted to huntB．been lazyC．wanted to stayD．been bored

5．The word “matted” in line six means ________.

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A．grassyB．tightly tangledC．curlyD．soft

试题答案

答案：A;C;A;C;B