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【題目】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(濫伐), 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】【改編】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.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】C

【4】B

【解析】

試題分析：生活在熱帶雨林的土著人，曾經(jīng)因為外來者的帶來的疾病而近乎滅絕，現(xiàn)在他們的長矛、弓箭改成了因特網(wǎng)來捍衛(wèi)自己的家園了。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。從文章第二段倒數(shù)第二句可知,大肆地對他們所住的雨林地區(qū)亂砍濫伐是繼多年前外來者帶來的疾病災害之后的又一個毀滅性的威脅。選C。

【2】細節(jié)理解題。從文章倒數(shù)第二段可知, 酋長逃離家鄉(xiāng)的原因是伐木者懸賞捉拿他并置他于死地。選B。

【3】推理判斷題。聯(lián)系文章最后兩段可知, 酋長從美國回來, 開始用“谷歌”搜索和全球定位技術來引發(fā)世人關注, 從而利用社會輿論來保護自己的家園, 由此可知C項正確。

【4】推理判斷題。文章最后一段說明, 酋長的美國之行獲得了成功, 現(xiàn)在土著民族正運用高科技來測量自己的領地, 由此推斷, 他們的努力正在獲得回報。選B。