Over a century ago, Walter McClintock captured rare images of Native Americans and their culture. McClintock was the son of a wealthy businessman from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He developed an interest in the American West after he went there in 1895 to recover from typhoid（伤寒） fever.

A year later, he returned to the West. This time he went as a photographer. His job was to take pictures for a federal investigation of national forests. While there, he came into contact with the Blackfoot community in northwestern Montana, and began a life-long interest in them.

Over the next 20 years, he took several thousand photographs of the Blackfoot Indians. The name Blackfoot is thought to have come from the color of their footwear, which were painted or darkened with ash.

Walter McClintock worried that the expanding American West would wipe out the Blackfoot. Fearful that their traditional culture would be lost, he recorded their way of life before it disappeared.

McClintock wrote books and spoke in public about his experiences with the Blackfoot people.

During the early 1800s, the Blackfoot had about 20,000 members. However, their population was reduced to fewer than 5,000 by the early 20th Century. Starvation, war, and disease brought by white settlers had killed them.

Today, there are about 16,000 registered Blackfoot Indians living on the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.

Sherry L. Smith, a writer and historian, says one of McClintock's favorite images was of a Blackfoot lodge（小屋）. The structure gives off "a warm, bright light" from within. She noted that the photographer "tried his best to enter that lodge and explain its inside life to other Americans".

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1.What did Walter McClintock want to do in American West in 1895?

A To record the life of Native Americans.

B To capture the image of Native Americans.

C To develop his interest in American West.

D To recover from an illness.

解析：选D。细节理解题。由第一段最后一句…he went there in 1895 to recover from typhoid fever.可知D是正确选项。

2.Why did he take pictures of the Blackfoot Indians ?

A Because this was his job.

B Because he was a photographer.

C Because this was out of his interest.

D Because their footwear were black.

解析：选C。推理判断题。由第二段…began a life-long interest in them.可知虽然他第二次去美国西部是作为国家联邦森林调查的工作人员而去的，但他是出于个人的兴趣（C选项）开始与Blackfoot Indians 接触并拍摄他们的。

3.He recorded the life of the Blackfoot______ .

A to help the White to wipe out the Blackfoot

B because he knew their culture would soon disappear

C by hand-painting the lantern slide of the Blackfoot

D for fear that their culture would be lost

解析：选D。细节理解题。由第四段可知，因为美国向西部的扩张，使McClintock感到了Blackfoot部落的危机，所以他决定要把他们的文化保留下来。

4.Which of the following was not what the White Settlers had brought to the Blackfoot?

A War.

B Disease.

C Starvation.

D Peace.

解析：选D。细节理解题。由第六段Starvation, war, and disease brought by white settlers had killed them.可知，白人给Blackfoot Indians带来的是战争，疾病和饥饿，因此答案为D。

5.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that_______.

A now historians value what Walter McClintock did

B Sherry L. Smith has found the real meaning of Walter McClintock’s work

C Walter McClintock once entered the inside of a Blackfoot lodge

D There was a lantern inside the Blackfoot lodge when Walter McClintock took the picture

解析：选A。推理判断题。由最后一段Sherry L. Smith的话语中，我们可以看出，她从McClintock的摄影中看到了当时的文化特征，所以可以推知历史学家们是看重McClintock的工作的。