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辽宁省铁岭市西丰振兴中学2024年中考一模英语试题
Mesa Verde National Park, in Colorado, America, has many "cliff dwellings"— places that are built into the cliffs(悬崖)where people once lived. They look almost impossible to get to. Who lived in them, and why did they live there?
People lived there about 800 years ago. Americans call them the Ancestral Puebloans(古普韦布洛人的祖先). They grew food on the mesa (平顶山), the flat land on top of the cliffs. They kept animals on the mesa too. They travelled over the mesa to trade with each other. Why didn't they build homes on the mesa?
One reason was the weather. Winters were getting colder and colder. The mesa was flat and open. There was no protection from the cold winds. Most of the cliff dwellings face south or south-west from the cold north wind. Another reason people did not live on the mesa is that there were more and more people to feed. Homes on the mesa would use land that was needed to grow food. Some people say a third reason was for safety. They say different groups of Ancestral Puebloans were fighting each other. The cliff dwellings were hard to get into. so they kept the people who lived there safe. Other people don't believe it. They say the groups tract ed too much to have seen fighting. Everyone agrees that these people were the skillful builders, who used every bit of space in the cliffs to make their homes.
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