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travel in America and distances between major cities are far, a common way of
getting around the country is by hitchhiking. Although it is not illegal, law
enforcers(执行者) and ’most people in authority, especially school administrators,
try to discourage people, especially the young, from traveling this way. Most
people, however, are aware of the dangers which one can encounter by hitchhiking
but the money saved by doing so is often just a compensation for the risk
involved. The hitchhiker usually stands at the entrance ramps(坡道) of highways or along the road itself with fingers clenched and the thumb of the right hand extended and pointing to the direction of the traffic. This is called "thumbing a ride", an expression coined(创造)in the late 1930s, which is also another name for hitchh A. Talk with the driver all along the road. B. Show his identification. C. Not smoke in the car. D. Help the cost of gas and tolls. [填空题]Anthropologists have divided prehistoric North America Indian societies into three categories: bands, tribes, and chiefdoms. Bands were the earliest and most common form of social organization. However, it is unlikely that the first people who came to North America about forty thousand years ago traveled in bands. The climate in the Bering Strait region was so severe and food was so scarce that large groups of people, such as the bands, would have had great difficulty in making such a journey successfully. The earliest people probably traveled in single family units. Some of the units, however, may have gathered together periodically for social reasons.
(66) Whatever the beginning of the bands in the New World, this form of organization was very common after the initial settlement of the continent. Bands flourished throughout North America until the time of European colonization. In many areas, they survived long after the arrival of the Europeans. When English 我来回答: 提交
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