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【题目】Once, the Paiter-Surui tribe(部落)lived a happy life in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. But after the tribe’s first meeting with Westerners several decades ago, they were nearly wiped out; diseases brought by outsiders reduced the Surui’s numbers from 5, 000 to about 250.

Today, some 1, 300 tribe people live in 23 villages across 600, 000 acres. Though they are as likely to wear T-shirts and jeans as feathered headdresses, the Surui are determined to preserve and protect the tribal culture of their homeland. Now they are under threat again, from illegal logging and deforestation(滥伐), but this time it’s different. The Surui have put aside their bows and arrows and taken up a new weapon: the Internet.

The tribe people learned to use the Web from their leader, Chief Almir Narayamoga. “We decided to use computers and technology to bring attention to our situation, ”says Narayamoga, 36. The first in his tribe to attend college, Chief Narayamoga learned how to use computers at the Federal University of Goiás in Goinia, a city of 1. 2 million. In 2007, he fled the Surui homeland after his fight against loggers who placed a $100, 000 reward on his head. He traveled to the United States and paid a visit to Google headquarters in California. He came armed with a big idea.

Narayamoga’s visit to Google was considered a great success. And Google sent teams to the Amazon to train the Surui in using computers, cameras, and smart phones to photograph logging sites, which could be pinpointed using GPS technology and then uploaded to Google Earth. The Surui have now mapped the entire reserve and recorded the biodiversity and the rainforest within it.

【1】改编Why are the Surui under threat again ?

A. The population were reduced greatly by diseases from outsiders.

B. They want to preserve and protect their tribal culture.

C. The rainforest where they are living are suffering from wildly illegal logging and deforestation.

D. Chief Narayamoga fled the Surui homeland.

【2】Chief Narayamoga fled his homeland because .

A. he owed a large debt

B. the loggers wanted to kill him

C. he wanted to learn computers

D. he failed to fight against logging

【3】What kind of idea did Chief Narayamoga have after he returned to his homeland?

A. He could ask the US government for help.

B. He could negotiate with the loggers.

C. He could save their land with the Internet.

D. He could make a map of their land.

【4】What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Deforestation has been stopped in Amazon.

B. Narayamoga’s efforts are paying off.

C. The Internet is still something new to the tribe people.

D. Logging has been stopped due to the use of GPS technology.

答案

【1】C

【2】B

【3】C

【4】B

【解析】

试题分析:生活在热带雨林的土著人,曾经因为外来者的带来的疾病而近乎灭绝,现在他们的长矛、弓箭改成了因特网来捍卫自己的家园了。

【1】细节理解题。从文章第倒数第二句可知,大肆地对他们所住的雨林地区乱砍滥伐是继多年前外来者带来的疾病灾害之后的又一个毁灭性的威胁。选C。

【2】细节理解题。从文章倒数第二段可知, 酋长逃离家乡的原因是伐木者悬赏捉拿他并置他于死地。选B。

【3】推理判断题。联系文章最后两段可知, 酋长从美国回来, 开始用“谷歌”搜索和全球定位技术来引发世人关注, 从而利用社会舆论来保护自己的家园, 由此可知C项正确。

【4】推理判断题。文章最后一段说明, 酋长的美国之行获得了成功, 现在土著民族正运用高科技来测量自己的领地, 由此推断, 他们的努力正在获得回报。选B。

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