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THE VALLEY OF THE SUN
Phoenix City and the Arizona Deserts
Reading Comprehension: True or False? Listening: A Pima Tale
Read the article and decide whether the following statements are Track 13
true or false. Listen to a version of a traditional tale of
the native Pima people connected with
1 The Valley of the Sun is 6 The Chihuahuan Desert is the Superstition Mountains in Arizona. For each
one of the nicknames home to the Grand Canyon. question, choose the correct option A, B, C or D.
for the Phoenix T 
metropolitan area.   F 
1 What did Cherwit Make, the father of all
T  7 In the Sonoran Desert you
  F  can find colourful flowers.
men, make people from?
2 Most indoor places have A earth
T    F 
air-conditioning in Phoenix. B clouds
T  8 People go skiing in C sweat
  F  the Superstition Mountains. D butterflies
3 The original inhabitants of T 
the region left because of   F  2 Why did Cherwit Make want to drown all
drought. 9 Indigenous legend tells of people?
a hidden source of gold in Because...
T    F  the Superstition Mountains. A they got too rich
4 The region’s main economic T  B they behaved in evil ways
activity is agriculture.   F 
C they multiplied too much
T  10 About 170,000 Native
  F  Americans live in Arizona. D they were disgusted with each other
5 The state of Arizona T  3 Cherwit Make decided to give people a last
includes at least parts of   F 
warning before destroying them. What
four deserts. voice did they finally listen to?
T    F  The voice of...
A the east wind
Puzzle: A Navajo House B the north wind
The Navajo, or Diné, traditionally build houses with logs and mud, C the devil Hauk
often partially underground to protect against the heat. But what D the prophet* Suha
is this kind of house
called? To find out, 1 4 After Suha’s daughter was stolen by
complete the puzzle and the devil Hauk, which of the following
2
reveal the hidden word. things did Suha not do?
3 A killed Hauk
1 The gold digger
was ein deutscher
4 B drugged Hauk
Mann. Not, as 5 C served Hauk wine
he was known, D followed Hauk unnoticed
“the  ”!
5 What did Suha do with his people later?
2 The unique kind of tall, thin rock known as a  A taught them to fight wars
can also be called tent rock, fairy chimney or earth pyramid.
B invited them to live in the sun
3 The Hokoham canals have been ruins for centuries, but Arizona C criticised them for their greed
still uses a complex system for growing crops D told them that they would
such as citrus fruits and cotton. be drowned one day
4 The  can grow to over 20 metres and weigh * prophet [ˈprɒfɪt] – a person believed to have a special power that
as much as six tons. The name is believed to come from allows them to say what a god wishes to tell people
a Uto‑Aztecan language that no longer exists.

5 Arizona’s most distinctive desert, the  desert,

is home to the US’s only venomous lizard, the Gila monster.

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