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Questions 29-39The Native American peoples of the north Pacific Coast created a highly complexmaritime culture as they invented modes of production unique to their specialenvironment. In addition to their sophisticated technical culture, they also attained one ofthe most complex social organizations of any nonagricultural people in the wold.In a division of labor similar to that of the hunting peoples in the interior and amongforaging peoples throughout the world, the men did most of the fishing, and the womenprocessed the catch. Women also specialized in the gathering of the abundant shellfishthat lived closer to shore. They collected oysters, crabs, sea urchins, mussels, abalone,and clams, which they could gather while remaining close to their children. The maritimelife harvested by the women not only provided food, but also supplied more of the rawmaterials for making tools than did fish gathered by the men. Of particularimportance for the native tool than did the fish gathered by the men. Of particularmade from the larger mussel shells, and a variety of cutting edges that could be madefrom other marine shells.The women used their tools to process all of the fish and marine mammals brought inby the men. They cleaned the fish, and dried vast quantities of them for the winter. Theysun-dried fish when practical, but in the rainy climate of the coastal area they also usedsmokehouses to preserve tons of fish and other seafood annually. Each product had itsown peculiar characteristics that demanded a particular way of cutting or drying the meat,(20) 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 aneasily transported food used in soups, stews, or other dishes to provide protein andthickening in the absence of fresh fish or while on long trips. The women also made acheese-like substance from a mixture of fish and roe by aging it in storehouses or by(25) burying it in wooden boxes or pits lined with rocks and tree leaves.
29. Which aspect of the lives of the NativeAmericans of the north Pacific Coast does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) Methods of food preservation
(B) How diet was restricted by theenvironment
(C) The contributions of women to the food supply
(D) Difficulties in establishing successfulfarms

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答案：C
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(1),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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