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【单选题】1 The 2,000-year-old complex of mounds occupying thirteen acres on the banks of the Scioto River in southwestern Ohio is one of the most important sites of the Hopewell Indian culture. Their mound construction was especially intensive in this are
A、It offers evidence that this society flourished in the Ohio Valley for five hundred years.
2 The 23 mounds are spaciously placed but with no overall pattern.Archaeologists have determined that the complex--called MoundCity--was apparently both a village and a burial site. Numerous artifacts have been found in excavations of the burial mounds. They include shell beads, bear and shark teeth, pottery, and ear spools of copper and silver.
A、number of pipes found in one mound--probably belonging to a chief or priest--are remarkable for their exquisite workmanship and stylized realism in the likenesses of animals and birds: wildcat, beaver, great blue heron, and raven.
The word flourished in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to

A、suffered
B、fished
C、lived
D、competed
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
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