A. MAGNIFICENT B. MAUSOLEUM C. HARMONIOUS D. ASSOCIATE READ THE...

Câu 37: A. magnificent B. mausoleum C. harmonious D. associate

Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the

correct answer to the following questions 38 to 44.

The Native Americans of northern California were highly skilled at basketry, using the reeds, grasses,

barks, and roots they found around them to fashion articles of all sorts and sizes — not only trays,

containers, and cooking pots, but hats, boats, fish traps, baby carriers, and ceremonial objects. Of all

these experts, none excelled the Pomo — a group who lived on or near the coast during the 1800’s, and

whose descendants continue to live in parts of the same region to this day. They made baskets three feet

in diameter and others no bigger than a thimble. The Pomo people were masters of decoration. Some of

their baskets were completely covered with shell pendants; others with feathers that made the baskets’

surfaces as soft as the breasts of birds. Moreover, the Pomo people made use of more weaving techniques

than did their neighbors. Most groups made all their basketwork by twining — the twisting of a flexible

horizontal material, called a weft, around stiffer vertical strands of material, the warp. Others depended

primarily on coiling — a process in which a continuous coil of stiff material is held in the desired shape

with tight wrapping of flexible strands. Only the Pomo people used both processes with equal ease and

frequency. In addition, they made use of four distinct variations on the basic twining process, often

employing more than one of them in a single article. Although a wide variety of materials was available,

the Pomo people used only a few. The warp was always made of willow, and the most commonly used

weft was sedge root, a woody fiber that could easily be separated into strands no thicker than a thread. For

color, the Pomo people used the bark of redbud for their twined work and dyed bulrush root for black in

coiled work. Though other materials were sometimes used, these four were the staples in their finest

basketry. If the basketry materials used by the Pomo people were limited, the designs were amazingly

varied. Every Pomo basket maker knew how to produce from fifteen to twenty distinct patterns that could

be combined in a number of different ways.