托福TPO24阅读真题及答案(三).doc

托福TPO24阅读真题及答案(三).doc以下，是这次环球托福为正在进行托福备考的考友们整理了托福TPO24阅读真题及答案 Lake Moving into Pueblos。我们建议考友们，先做真题，后看答案进行验证自己的正确率。 之后，环球托福还会进一步推出托福TPO24阅读真题的做题思路讲解分析，做完真题后， 更便于提高托福阅读能力。
托福 TPO24 阅读真题 Moving into Pueblos
Moving into Pueblos
In the Mesa Verde area of the ancient North American Southwest, living patterns changed in the thirteenth century, with large numbers of people moving into large communal dwellings called pueblos, often constructed at the edges of canyons, especially on the sides of cliffs. Abandoning small extended-family households to move into these large pueblos with dozens if not hundreds of other people was probably traumatic. Few of the cultural traditions and rules that today allow us to deal with dense populations existed for these people accustomed to household autonomy and the ability to move around the landscape almost at will. And besides the awkwardness of having to share walls with neighbors, living in aggregated pueblos introduced other problems. For people in cliff dwellings, hauling water, wood, and food to their homes was a major chore. The stress on local resources, especially in the firewood needed for daily cooking and warmth, was particularly intense, and conditions in aggregated pueblos were not very hygienic.
Given all the disadvantages of living in aggregated towns, why did people in the thirteenth century move into these closely packed quarters? For transitions of