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In a recent press release, the Brazilian government confirmed the existence of another isolated tribe of about 200 people living in the Vale do Javari reservation. The 200 people living in the Vale do Javari reservation. The reservation, located near the Peruvian border, is about the size of Portugal. At least another 14 isolated tribes, with a total population of about 2000, call the area home.
The newly observed group lives on four large straw-roofed buildings and grows corn, peanut and other crops.
Brazil’s National Indian Foundation (BNTF) first noticed the reservation in the forest using satellite maps, but it wasn’t until April that an airplane expedition was able to confirm the tribe’s existence. “The work of finding and protecting isolated groups is part of Brazilian public policy,” said the BNIF officer for Vale do Javari, Fabricio Amorim. “To confirm something like this takes years of hard work.”
BNIF estimates there are 68 isolated tribes living in the Amazon. The organization uses airplanes to avoid disturbing the tribes through personal contact, but that doesn’t mean others are so respectful of their right to privacy.
Illegal fishing, woodcutting and hunting bring people into the protected area. Oil exploration on the Peruvian side of the border is another threat. All kinds of criminals also invade the lands of the local groups, said Amorim. The outsiders can damage the land and influence the cultures of indigenous(土著的)peoples. They can also bring diseases which can wipe out the whole population that still lack even basic antibiotics(抗生素).
Brazil’s indigenous peoples won the legal right to their traditional lands in Brazil’s 1988 Constitution, which stated that all indigenous lands shall be divided and turned over to tribes within five years. Indigenous groups now control 11 percent of Brazil’s territory, including 22 percent of the Amazon.
Allowing indigenous groups the right homelands is not just a matter of human rights. The rest of the world can benefit from their knowledge. Mark Plotkin has spent years living with the people of the Amazon and learning from their traditional healers. In his lecture, he pointed out that many useful materials and knowledge, including numerous drugs, can be gained from listening to the indigenous groups of the Amazon. Besides this, they are also more effective at protecting the land, and less expensive, than hired rangers(护林人).
小题1:The underlined word in the first paragraph probably means “a state of ”.
A.separation | B.interaction |
C.satisfaction | D.excitement |
A.only live on a reservation designated for them |
B.prefer straw-roofed buildings to wooden ones |
C.keep contact with the outside world through airplanes |
D.have the legal right to the land they live on |
A.Privacy violation is common among the Amazon tribes. |
B.The laws dividing the lands of the tribes are far from enough. |
C.Modern civilization endangers the tribes and their cultures. |
D.It is hard to make public policy to protect primitive tribes. |
A.the lost human rights of the indigenous peoples |
B.the benefits of protecting the primitive tribes |
C.the value of traditional healing |
D.the indigenous peoples as guardians of the Amazon forest |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:B
解析
试题分析:
小题1:A 推理题。根据本句Deep in the Amazon forest, thousands of people still live in isolation from the rest of the world.说明这些人住在亚马逊雨林的深处,与世隔绝。故该词指隔开,故A正确。
小题2:D 细节题。根据倒数第二段第1,2行Brazil’s indigenous peoples won the legal right to their traditional lands in Brazil’s 1988 Constitution,说明这些人有合法权利住在他们生活的土地上。
小题3:C 推理题。根据文章倒数第三段Illegal fishing, woodcutting and hunting bring people into the protected area. Oil exploration on the Peruvian side of the border is another threat. All kinds of criminals also invade the lands of the local groups, said Amorim. The outsiders can damage the land and influence the cultures of indigenous(土著的)peoples说明新世界的文明正在慢慢侵蚀这些土著居民的生活和文化。
小题4:B 主旨大意题。文章主要讲述的是要保护那些原始的土著居民。特别在最后一段中还提出了这样做很多的好处。
点评:文章讲述了在巴西的亚马逊雨林中的原始土著居民的生活正受到现代文明的侵蚀,我们要保护这些原始的居民保护他们的文化。文章内容较为新颖,要求考生根据文章内容和题干,迅速定位,做出准确判断和推理。
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试题【Deep in the Amazon forest, thousands of people still live in isolation from the 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Jesse’s uncle, Vance Folsenzier, ran back into the sea and found the shark that had attacked his nephew. He picked the shark up and threw it onto the beach. A coastguard shot the fish four times and although this did not kill it, the shark’s jaws relaxed so that they could open them, and reach down into its stomach, and pull out the boys’ arm.
At the Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, Dr Ian Rogers spent eleven hours reattaching Jesse’s arm. “It was a complicated operation,” he said, “but we were lucky. If the arm hadn’t been recovered in time, we wouldn’t have been able to do the operation at all. What I mean is that if they hadn’t found the shark, we wouldn’t have had a chance.”
According to the local park ranger Jack Tomosvic, shark attacks are not that common. “Jesse was just unlucky,” he says, “evening is the shark’s feeding time. And Jesse was in an area without lifeguards. This would never have happened if he had been in an area where swimming is allowed.”
When reporters asked Jesse’s uncle how he had had the courage to fight against a shark, he replied, “I was mad and you do some strange things when you’re mad.”
小题1:What was the boy doing when the accident happened?
A.Feeding a hungry shark. |
B.Jumping into the rough sea. |
C.Dragging a boy to the shore. |
D.Swimming in a dangerous area. |
A.By finding his lost arm. |
B.By making a phone call. |
C.By flying him to hospital. |
D.By blowing into his mouth. |
A.Careful. | B.Brave. | C.Optimistic. | D.Patient. |
A.people are often attacked by sharks |
B.sharks never attack people |
C.Jesse was unlucky to have been attacked by a shark |
D.Jesse was swimming in a safe area at the moment |
The price meant its value had risen more than 2,000 per cent in six years . The work , Eagle standing on pine tree with four-character coupleti(对联), measures about 2.6 metres by 1 metre . It was the second highest price paid for an artwork on the mainland . A Song dynasty work by Huang Tingjian was sold for 436.8 million yuan in 2010 . Qi’s painting was finished in 1946 when Qi was 86 , and was his largest work . With a starting price of 88 million yuan , it attracted nearly 50 bids(出价)in half an hour . Shanghai businessman Liu Yiqian said that the work had belonged to him and had cost less than 20 million yuan in 2005 . The auction company said the work was brought back to the mainland after being bought from a private owner in San Francisco six years ago .
China ranked first in global art sales last year , ahead of the United States and Britain . Four Chinese artists were among the top 10 in worldwide sales : Qi Baishi , Zhang Daqian , Xu Beihong and Fu Baoshi . Qi’s works ranked second in sales to Pablo Picasso’s last year . Qi was born into a peasant family in Hunan in 1864 . He taught himself to paint and focused on nature including plants , insects , birds and fish . He is mostly well-known for his paintings of shrimps . In 1953 , he was elected president of the Association of Chinese Artists . He died in Beijing in 1957 .
小题1:What’s the best title of the text ?
A.Qi Baishi’s Painting Was Discovered . |
B.Qi Baishi’s Painting Was Brought Back . |
C.Qi Baishi’s Painting Sets an Auction Record . |
D.The Value of Qi Baishi’s Paintings Is on the Increase . |
A.Qi Baishi’s . | B.Huang Tingjian’s . |
C.Xu Beihong’s . | D.Zhang Daqian’s . |
A.337.5 . | B.348.8 . | C.50 . | D.11.3 . |
A.Qi finished the painting when he was young . |
B.The painting was once stolen by an American . |
C.The owner of this painting Liu Yiqian gained a lot of money . |
D.Pablo Picasso’s works ranked second in sales to Qi’s last year . |
A.computer book | B.library guide |
C.technology magazine | D.newspaper report |
Americans in the millions are returning to their love affair with the movies. Motion picture industry experts see two main factors responsible for this: an increased need by Americans to escape from economic worries and a large number of new movies with broad audience appeal.
Movie makers admit that their rising popularity is partly the result of poor economic conditions, which traditionally bring an increase in theater attendance. “When people are fearful about the future, they look for escape,” comments Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. “In a shaded theater, with a 65-foot screen, you lose yourself for two and a half hours and people find this beneficial.”
小题1:What did movie makers worry about before?
A.That people preferred watching TV to seeing films. |
B.That movies couldn’t be a business any more. |
C.That their movies might be played on television. |
D.That no one would go to the cinema. |
A.Because people now have much more money. |
B.Because people wanted to escape from real life. |
C.Because people have troubles. |
D.Because watching movies is now much cheaper than watching TV. |
A.become attractive | B.become amazing |
C.become bad | D.become popular |
A.economy | B.love | C.tradition | D.not mentioned |
Although they are now depending on the Internet more often than before to communicate with others who have the same professions, hobbies and interests, online shopping still remains unpopular in China. Three-quarters of users surveyed have never bought anything over the Internet, and 10 percent do shopping even once a month.Among those who do buy online.most pay for entertainment while others buy phone cards, or computer hardwares or so of iwares.
"Many people don"t trust the quality of goods bought online," the researcher said. "If they buy something in a store and don"t like it, they can easily bring it back."
The survey was done in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Changsha. There-
sults do not necessarily show the situation countrywide because internet use in the countryside is lower than in cities. The study showed that the typical netizensc网民) in the five cities are richer and more highly educated. Males make up two-thirds of the group, and more than 80 percent of users are under 24. As the age increases, the percentage of netizens decreases.
China has more than 20 million people online, however, forty-two percent say they do not use search engines.Others seek entertainment news, as well as information useful for work or study online. Baidu.com is used by half of those surveyed, compared with a quarter for Go-ogle, the leading search engine in the United States.
小题1:The passage is mainly about .
A.shopping online | B.Internet use in China |
C.the typical Chinese netizens | D.popular search engines |
A.likes to send e-mails | B.likes to buy goods online |
C.likes to pay for entertainment | D.likes the games sites |
A.it is more difficult to return the goods |
B.most people haven"t got computers |
C.people can"t have a look at the goods |
D.goods bought online are of good quality |
A.Well educated. | B.Richer. | C.Female. | D.Young. |
In one study, researchers in the United States examined information on more than 1000 people. The people had taken part in a long-term study of sleep disorders.
Some people slept less than five hours a night. They had 15 percent higher blood levels of a hormone called ghrelin than people who slept eight hours. And they had 15 percent less of the hormone leptin. Experts say ghrelin helps make people feel hungry; leptin makes you feel full.
The scientists say these hormonal changes may be a cause of obesity in Western societies. They note the combination that sleep limitation is common and food is widely available.
The results were not affected by how much people exercised. People who are awake longer have more time to burn energy. But the researchers say loss of sleep may increase hunger especially for high-calorie foods, so people gain weight. It seems that, for survival, the body may be designed to store more fat during times with less sleep.
Researchers from Stanford University in California and the University of Wisconsin did the study. They found that the best amount of sleep for weight control is 7.7 hours a night.
The Public Library of Science published the findings in its journal Medicine . Internet users can read the full study, free of charge, at plos. org.
小题1:Not enough sleep can cause obesity by ______.
A.burning more of your energy |
B.making you want to eat more food |
C.keeping you from doing exercise |
D.helping you feel great without food |
The more you sleep, the farther away you are from obesity.
Those who don’t sleep at all are the most likely to put on weight.
Sleeping contributes more to obesity than eating.
It’s not wise to use sleep hours for exercise.
小题3:When you sleep 7.7 hours a night, you will ______ .
have your ghrelin level rise and leptin level drop
have your leptin level rise and ghrelin level drop
have your ghretin and leptin levels properly balanced
have your hunger increase and your weight decrease
小题4:The writer wrote this passage to _______ .
A.make a news report |
B.offer a piece of medical advice |
C.make an advertisement |
D.keep a record of the old findings |
A.Only on the Internet |
B.only in Medicine |
C.Both on the Internet and in Medicine |
D.Neither on the Internet nor in Medicine |
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