陕西省西安市高考英语冲刺选练4

2015西安市高考英语冲刺选练4

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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 me eting 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 br ing 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 Goiânia, 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 Goo gle 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.

【文章大意】本文主要讲了巴西土著居民正在利用因特网让世人知道他们的处境, 并开始保护他们的家园。

1. What caused the population of the Amazon tribe to reduce greatly?

A. The change of their lifestyles.

B. Deforestation.

C. Diseases.

D. Fighting.

【解析】选C。细节理解题。从文章第一段最后一句可知, 由外来者带来的疾病导致土著人口剧减。

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

【解析】选B。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。

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.

【解析】选C。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