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The Friends of the Amazon is a nonprofit association helping to prerve the forest, its wildlife and its native cultures in the Peruvian Amazon.  We are located 3 degrees south of the equator in the Region of Loreto, which is roughly the size of Montana and is one of the richest areas in the world in terms of flora(植物群) and fauna（动物群）. Our team consists of lawyers, ecologists, sociologists, medical professionals and native Amazonians working together to protect the forest and its people from destruction. We u litigation（诉讼）, filing lawsuits against tho who ek to destroy the forest and its native cultures. In addition to legal process, we promote health, education, and the conrvation of native plants and animals. The Amazon Rainforest is commonly referred to as the "lungs of the planet" who trees are esntial for absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2, a greenhou gas that caus global warming) and converting it into oxygen, thereby mitigating the ri of global temperatures and climate change.  An estimated 120 billion tons of carbon dioxide is absorbed in the Amazon Rainforest and global emissions of carbon dioxide increa with every tree of the rainforest that is cut down. That is why the survival of the Amazon Rainforest is vital for the survival of our planet, without which rising global temperatures could melt the polar icecaps and cau flooding of our coastal cities.  Currently, the Amazon is under siege（围攻）, with an estimated 1000 hectares being destroyed everyday.  After harvesting old growth forests, corporations are often replacing the native forest with palm oil plantations instead of reforesting with native tree species.  Palm oil trees are native to Africa, not the Amazon, and due to high profits, their promotion by international aid agencies and recent legislation in Peru, palm oil plantations reprent perhaps the single greatest threat to the native Amazon Rainforest.  In addition to conventional logging and deforesting to make room for crops such as palm oil and soybeans, the Amazon forest faces a new threat in the form of REDD projects and “Carbon Cowboys”.  REDD refers to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation by using carbon offts (“carbon credits”).  Under the gui of REDD projects, scammers are tricking native communities into signing unjust contracts in English without legal reprentation which esntially give the so called Carbon Cowboys the forest for free. The cheaters are making fal promis of "billions of dollars in profits" from REDD and voluntary carbon offt （碳补偿）projects by lying that they are reprentatives of the United Nations and World Bank in order to trick vulnerable indigenous Amazonians into ceding their land by signing unjust contracts with hidden claus that give the Carbon Cowboys a power of attorney to do whatever they want with the forest for a period of 100 years.  Friends of the Amazon is actively filing lawsuits against the Carbon Cowboys and tho who support them. For further information on our programs and to find out how you can help prerve the Amazon Rainforest, plea contact: Friends of the Amazon153 Túpac Amaru StreetIquitos, PeruPhone: (+51) 985665374 For more specific information on supporting the goals of our nonprofit organization, plea contact us using the email address listed below.If you would like to learn how you can help prerve the Amazon Rainforest and its indigenous people, plea contact us for more information at: info(at)friendsoftheamazon 小题1:The Friends of the Amazon is the name of _________.A．your best friend B．a non-profit organizationC．a historic heroD．a famous carbon cowboy小题2:What does the underlined word “converting ” in the cond paragraph mean?A．changingB．increasingC．reducingD．burning小题3:Why is the survival of the Amazon Rainforest vital for the survival of our planet?A．Becau this forest absorbs a lot of carbon dioxide emitted by the worldB．Becau people rely on this forest to get enough wood to build hous and furnitureC．Becau people living here can get a large sum of compensation to offt carbon dioxide D．Becau the United Nations and the World Bank are helping prerving the land here小题4:We can learn from the passage that palm oil trees _____________.A．have produced much profit for the local people.B．are native to Amazon and fit in well with their surroundingsC．are native to Africa and may do great harm to the native Amazon trees D．are ud to replace the native forest becau the local people can profit from them小题5:The purpo of this article is _______.A．introduce the largest rain forest in the worldB．to appeal to the government to take some measures to get rid of Carbon CowboysC．to adverti the rain forest as a favourite tourist destination D．to arou the awareness of the public to help conrve the “lungs of our planet” 题型：未知难度：其他题型

答案

小题1:B小题2:A小题3:A小题4:C小题5:D

解析

本文讲述了亚马孙森林必须要受到保护的重要性，它能吸收大量的二氧化碳放出大量的氧气。同时，短文也给出它现在面临的危险，本篇文章在于呼吁人们要保护好森林，为它尽自己的一份力量。小题1:细节理解题。根据The Friends of the Amazon is a nonprofit association 它是一个非营利组织，故选B。小题2:细节理解题。根据absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2, a greenhou gas that caus global warming) and converting it into oxygen,吸收二氧化碳转化成氧气释放出来，故选A。小题3:细节理解题。根据The Amazon Rainforest is commonly referred to as the "lungs of the planet" who trees are esntial for absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2, a greenhou gas that caus global warming) and converting it into oxygen,故选A。小题4:细节理解题。根据Palm oil trees are native to Africa, not the Amazon, and due to high profits, their promotion by international aid agencies and recent legislation in Peru, palm oil plantations reprent perhaps the single greatest threat to the native Amazon Rainforest.非洲是棕榈油树的原产地，而对于亚麻孙森林却带来了危害，故选C。 小题5:写作意图题。纵观全文可以看出作者的目的是唤醒人们注意来保护亚马孙森林，故选D。点评：写作意图题指作者在文中表达的意思，也就是写作目的。只有掌握作者的写作意图， 我们才能了解文章的深层含义， 从而全面正确，深刻把握思想。作者的写作意图通常隐藏在字里行间， 所以需要从以下几个方面来看：熟悉文体；寻找 key word, topic ntence；善于把握讽刺，反语等常见修辞方法；把握作者的语气，严肃或轻松，幽默或讽刺，平和或激动，乐观或悲观。

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