四级段落信息匹配题练习题

四级段落信息匹配题练习题

：Endangered Peoples

A Today, it is not distance, but culture that separates the peoples of the

world. The central question of our time may be how to deal with cultural

differences. So begins the book, Endangered Peoples, by Art Davidson. It is an

attempt to provide understanding of the issues affecting the world's native

peoples. This book tells the stories of 21 tribes, cultures, and cultural

areas that are struggling to survive. It tells each story through the voice of

a member of the tribe .Mr. Davidson recorded their words. Art Wolfe and John

Isaac took pictures of them. The organization called the Sierra Club published

the book.

B The native groups live far apart in North America or South America,

Africa or Asia. Yet their situations are similar. They are fighting the march

of progress in an effort to keep themselves and their cultures alive. Some of

them follow ancient ways most of the time. Some follow modern ways most of the

time. They have one foot in ancient world and one foot in modern world. They

hope to continue to balance between these two worlds. Yet the pressures to

forget their traditions and join the modern world may be too great.

C Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1992,

offers her thoughts in the beginning of the book Endangered Peoples. She notes

that many people claim that native people are like stories from the past. They

are ruins that have died. She disagrees strongly. She says native communities

are not remains of the past. They have a future, and they have much wisdom and

richness to offer the rest of the world.

D Art Davidson traveled thousands of miles around the world while working

on the book. He talked to many people to gather their thoughts and feelings.

Mr. Davidson notes that their desires are the same. People want to remain

themselves~ he says. They want to raise their children the way they were

raised. They want their children to speak their mother tongue, their own

language. They want them to have their parents' values and customs. Mr.

Davidson says the people's cries are the same: "Does our culture have to die?

Do we have to disappear as a people?"

E Art Davidson lived for more than 25 years among native people in the

American state of Alaska. He says his interest in native peoples began his

boyhood when he found an ancient stone arrowhead. The arrowhead was used as a weapon to hunt food. The hunter was an American Indian, long dead. Mr.

Davidson realized then that Indians had lived in the state of Colorado, right

where he was standing. And it was then, he says, that he first wondered:

"Where are they? Where did they go? "He found answers to his early question.

Many of the native peoples had disappeared. They were forced off their lands.

Or they were killed in battle. Or they died from diseases brought by new

settlers. Other native peoples remained, but they had to fight to survive the

pressures of the modern world.

F The Gwich'in are an example of the survivors. They have lived in what is

now Alaska and Canada for 10,000 years. Now about 5,000 Gwich'in remain. They

are mainly hunters. They hunt the caribou, a large deer with big horns that

travels across the huge spaces of the far north. For centuries, they have used

all parts of the caribou: the meat for food, the skins for clothes, the bones

for tools. Hunting caribou is the way of life of the Gwich'in.

G One Gwich'in told Art Davidson of memories from his childhood. It was a

time when the tribe lived quietly in its own corner of the world. He spoke to

Mr. Davidson in these words: "As long as I can remember, someone would sit by

a fire on the hilltop every spring and autumn. His job was to look for caribou.

If he saw a caribou, he would wave his arms or he would make his fire to give

off more smoke. Then the village would come to life! People ran up to the

hilltop. The tribes seemed to be at its best at these gatherings. We were all

filled with happiness and sharing!"

H About ten years ago, the modern world invaded the quiet world of the

Gwich' in. Oil companies wanted to drill for oil in the Arctic National

Wildlife Preserve. This area was the please where the caribou gave birth to

their young. The Gwich'in feared the caribou would disappear. One Gwich' in

woman describes the situation in these words: "Oil development threatens the

caribou. If the caribou are threatened, then the people are threatened. Oil

company official and American lawmakers do not seem to understand. They do not

come into our homes and share our food. They have never tried to understand