Two men were traveling in a very wild and lonely part of America. For days they had not even seen a  1  , only a few huts（木棚子）made of wood, or tents made of skins. Then one day they met an old   2  who earned his living by trapping animals for their fur. They  3  that he knew their language and they had a little  4  with him. One of them  5  him whether he could tell them what the weather would be like within the   6  few days.

“Oh yes,” he said. “Snow is coming, and wind. Then there will be snow for two days, but after that  there will be  7  sunshine.”

“Isn’t that wonderful?” said one man to his friend. “These Indians could  8  the weather. They know more of the secrets of   9  than we do with all our science. They have not been puzzled by modern civilization.” Then he turned to the old Indian.

“Tell me,” he said, “how you knew all that?”

The Indian replied, “I heard it on the   10  .”

1．A．house                   B．tree                       C．town                  D．village

2．A．hunter                  B．Indian                   C．American           D．farmer

3．A．imagined              B．found                    C．showed              D．proved

4．A．concern               B．speech                  C．interest               D．conversation

5．A．told                      B．advised                 C．ordered              D．asked

6．A．last                      B．next                      C．past                   D．recent

7．A．thin                      B．thick                     C．dark                   D．bright

8．A．control                 B．solve                     C．foretell               D．change

9．A．science                B．nature                   C．man                   D．sky

10．A．way                B．mountain                 C．radio               D．satellite