xx年12月英语六级阅读理解专项试题(含答案)
张骞出使西域的意义
The moden world only recently reached the Yanomano, a native people of the Amazon basin. Sheltered by thick rainforest,the Yanomano lived a lf-contained existence until gold was discovered in their jungle homeland. Miners flocked into the forests, cutting down trees and bringing dia and shot tho Yanomano who would not get out of the way. In just ven years from the early 1980s, the population fell 20 per cent.
Hands Around the World, a native American cultural association, says the Yanomano are believed to be the most culturally intact people in the world. They wear loin cloths, u fire sticks and decorate their bodies with dye from a red berry(桨果). They don’t u the wheel and the only metal they u is what has been traded to them by outsiders. When a Yanomano dies, the body is burned and the remaining bones crushed into a powder and turned into a drink that is later consumed by mourners in memory of the dead.
A Hands Around the World report says that in South America not only are the cultures and traditions in danger of disappearing, but some tribes are in danger of extinction. “The Yanomano is a well-known tribe that is rapidly losing its members through the destruction of Western dia,” the report says. Before illegal gold
钢琴王子李云迪miners entered their rainforest, the Yanomano were isolated from modern sociaty.
They oupy den jungle north of the Amazon River between Venezuela and Brazil and are catalogued by anthropologists(人类学家) as neo-indians with cultural characteristics that date back more than 8,000 years. Each munity lives in a circular munal hou, some of which sleep up to 400, built around a central square.
Though many Yanomano men are monogamous, it is not unusual for them to have two or more wives. Anthropologists from the University of Wisconsin say polygamy is a way to increa one’s wealth becau having a large family increas help with hunting and cultivating the land. The marriages result in a shortage of women for other men to marry, which has led to inter-tribal wars.
Each Yanomano man is responsible for clearing his land for gardening, using slash-and-hum farming methods. They grow plantains, a type of banana eaten cooked, and hunt game animals, fish and anaconda(南美热带蟒蛇) using bows and arrows.
芥川龙之介鼻子1. Miners flocked into the forest and shot tho Yanomano who .
A. sheltered in thick rainforest
科技创新作文素材B. would not leave their jungle homeland义务教育均衡发展
C. lived a lf-contained existence
D. would stand in their way
2. The organization called Hands Around the World believes that culturally, the Yanomano is the world’s.
A. most primitive people
B. most backward people
C. most advanced people
D. oldest people
3. Which of the following is NOT true aording to an American cultural association report?
A. In South America, the cultures are on the verge of extinction.
B. In South America, the traditions are on the verge of extinction.
C. In South America, the Yanomano can survive extinction.
D. In South America, some tribes are on the verge of extinction.
4. caud the Yanomano to have inter-tribal wars.
A. The shortage of women resulting from polygamy
B. The difference in wealth resulting from polygamy
C. The shortage of women resulting from monogamy
D. The difference in wealth resulting from monogamy
个人房屋转让合同5. We can infer from the passage that it is imperative for us to protect the Yanomano becau.
A. it is a clturally most intact people
B. it is a primitive people deep in jungle
C. it is a native people of the Amazon basin
D. it is primitive people in danger of disappearing
天津饭店【答案】： DACCD
芒种的诗句It is a curious paradox that we think of the physical sciences as “hard”, the social sciences as “soft,” and the biological sciences as somewhere in between. This is interpreted to mean that our knowledge of physical system is more certain than our knowledge of biological systems, and the in turn are more certain than our knowledge of social systems. In terms of our capacity of sample the relevant univers, however, and the probability that our images of the univers are at least approximately correct, one suspects that a rever order is more reasonable. We are able to sample earth’s social systems with some degree of confidence that we have a reasonable sample of the total univer being investigated. Our knowledge of social systems, therefore, while it is in many ways extremely inaurate, is not likely to be riously overturned by new discoveries. Even the folk knowledge in social systems on which ordinary life is bad in earning, spending, organizing, marrying, taking part in political activities, fighting and so on, is not very dissimilar from the more sophisticated images of the social system derived form the social sciences, even though it is built upon the very imperfect samples of personal experience. In contrast,
our image of the astronomical univer, or even if earth’s geological history, ca easily be subject to revolutionary changes as new data e in and new theories are worked out.
If we define the “curity” of o ur image of various parts of the total system as the probability of their suffering significant changes, then we would rever the order for hardness and as the most cure, the physical sciences as the least cure, and again the biological sciences as somewhere in between. Our image of the astronomical univer is the least cure of all simply becau we obrve such a fantastically small sample of it and its record-keeping is trivial records of biological systems. Records of the astronomical univer, despite the fact that we learnt things as they were long age, are limited in the extreme. Even in regard to such a clo neighbor as the moon, which we have actually visited, theories about its origin and history are extremely different, contradictory, and hard to choo among. Our knowledge of physical evolution is inplete and incure.
1.The word “paradox” (Line 1, Para. 1) means “”.
A.implication
C.interpretation
2.Aroding to the author, we should rever our
classific ation of the physical sciences as “hard” and the social sciences as “soft” becau .
