The railroads【C1】______ a key role in the settlement of the West. They provi

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问题     The railroads【C1】______ a key role in the settlement of the West. They provided relatively easy【C2】______ to the region for the first time, and they also actively received farmers to settle there. The railroads are criticized【C3】______ their part in settling the West too rapidly.【C4】______ , there were abuses【C5】______ with building and operating the railroads, but it must be pointed out that they performed a useful service in【C6】______ the frontier and helping to achieve national【C7】______ .
    The real tragedy of the rapid settlement of the Great Plains 【C8】______ the shameful way in which the American Indians were treated. Threatened with the destruction of their whole【C9】______   of life, the Indians fought back savagely【C10】______ the white man’s final thrust(强行推进). Justice was almost entirely  【C11】______ the Indians’ side. The land was clearly theirs; frequently their title was legally【C12】______ by a treaty negotiated with the federal government. The Indians,【C13】______ , lacked the military force and political power to protect this right. Not only did white men encroached 【C14】______ the Indians’ hunting ground, but they rapidly destroyed the Indians’ principal【C15】______ of existence--the buffalo. It has been【C16】______ that some 15 million buffalo roamed the plains in the 1860s. By 1869 the railroads【C17】______ the herd in half, and by 1875 the southern herd was 【C18】______ eliminated. By the middle of the 1880s the northern herd was also a thing of the past. Particularly irritating to the Indians was the fact【C19】______  the white man frequently killed the buffalo merely for sport, leaving the valuable animal to rot【C20】______ . [br] 【C10】

选项 A、against
B、for
C、down
D、off

答案 A

解析 考查动词和介词的搭配。fight against sth.表示“反对,对抗”,如:From the beginning,men have been fighting against nature for their existence.(从一开始,人类就为了生存和大自然作斗争。)fight for表示“为……而战”,如:He died fighting for his country. (他为国战死。)fight down表示“克服,抑制”,如:The villagers fought down the
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