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The Indians have their rights, so the Americans who forced them off their land ______
A.mustn't
B.wouldn't
C.shouldn't
D.couldn't
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A.mustn't
B.wouldn't
C.shouldn't
D.couldn't
第1题
Which of the following statements is not correct?
A.The Indians have yellowish skin
B.The Indians have straight black hair
C.People of Japan have high cheekbones
D.The Indians have reddish brown skin
第2题
It seems that the writer is very critical of ______.
A.American Indians in a class-action.
B.officials who are in charge of the suit.
C.government agencies at all levels.
D.those who have the land over-developed.
第3题
When the author mentions the Indian fakir, he suggests that______.
A) Indians are not at all afraid of pain
B) people may be senseless of pain
C) some people are able to handle pain
D) fakirs have magic to put needles right through their arms
第4题
A.lies and defraud to which American Indians are exposed.
B.the strong confidence American Indians have in their government.
C.doubts about government as shown in the opinion polls.
D.the arrogance as displayed by government officials as a whole.
第5题
Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?
A.Trust funds have been placed in the hands of American Indians.
B.American Indians should become increasingly vocal for justice.
C.Payments owed to American Indian have been indefinitely delayed.
D.BIA reaped great rewards by deliberately destroying trust-fund records.
第6题
Indians had come from Asia thousands of years before Columbus saw them.
Thousands of years ago, the Earth was in an ice age. (76) People who lived in northeastern Asia found their homeland growing colder. Huge sheets of ice were spreading over the land and animals people hunted for food were being forced away. The people also had to move, to stay near the animals. Some groups of people crossed Bering Strait from Asia to North Pacific Ocean, which separates northeastern Asia from Alaska. (77) These people slowly traveled east and south, searching for areas where hunting was good. Their children and all those who came after them continued to spread throughout the New World.
The Indians do not have yellowish skin that many Asian people have. Their skin is reddish brown. But like the people of Japan and other countries of Asia, Indians usually have high cheekbones and straight black hair.
In 1492, Christopher Columbus ______.
A.found American Indians in Asia
B.thought he had reached India
C.landed in India
D.reached the continent of Asia
第7题
After having assured their return journey,
the writer and his companion could concentrate
on collecting and film animals. Deciding to 【M1】______
enlist the help the local Indians, they made
their way to a nearby village, in which proved 【M2】______
to be a few dilapidated huts in a pleasant
valley. The Indians they found there worn 【M3】______
remnants of European clothes and had
obviously abandoned their traditional way
of life. They kept a few disease chickens 【M4】______
and skinny cattle instead of hunting for
their meat. The writer' s companion explained
that they were looking for birds and mammals,
particular armadillos, for which they would 【M5】______
pay well. Anyone who could show them inhabited
nests and holes, they have said, would be 【M6】______
well rewarded. The Indians were apathetic
and uncooperative. Noticing the absence of
biting insects, the writer asked whether
they had ever troubled by them, to which 【M7】______
the Indians replied by slowly shaking their
heads. The writer recognized that he 【M8】______
considered that having to live in such a hot,
humid atmosphere would no doubt have 【M9】______
made him lethargic too. The headman explained
the inconvenience of the villagers had, for
severe weeks previously, been contemplating 【M10】______
cutting down a particular tree and until a
decision on this matter was reached, no other
activity could possibly be considered.
【M1】
第8题
Elouise Cobell, a banker who also happens to be a member of the Blackfeet tribe in Montana, is the leading plaintiff in a massive class-action suit against the government. At issue is up to $10 billion in trust payments owed to some 500,000 Indians. The suit revolves around Individual Indian Money (IIM) accounts that are administered by the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Back in the 1880s, the government divided more than 11m acres of tribal land into parcels of 80 to 160 acres that were assigned to individual Indians. Because these parcels were rarely occupied by their new owners, the government assumed responsibility for managing them. As the Indians' trustee, it leased the land out for grazing, logging, mining and oil drilling—but it was supposed to distribute the royalties to the Indian owners.
In fact, officials admit that royalties have been lost or stolen. Records were destroyed, and the government lost track of which Indians owned what land. The plaintiffs say that money is owing to 500,000 Indians, but even the government accepts a figure of about 300,000. For years, Cobell heard Indians complain of not getting payment from the government for the oil-drilling and ranching leases on their land. But nothing much got done. She returned to Washington and, after a brush-off from government lawyers, filed the suit.
Gale Norton, George Bushes interior secretary was charged with contempt in November because her department had failed to fix the problem. In December, Judge Lam berth ordered the interior Department to shut down all its computers for ten weeks because trustfund records were vulnerable to hackers. The system was partly restored last month and payments to some Indians, which had been interrupted, resumed.
And that is not the end of it. Ms. Norton has proposed the creation of a new Bureau of Indian Trust Management, separate from the BIA. Indians are cross that she suggested this without consulting them. Some want the trust funds to be placed in receivership, under a neutral supervisor. Others have called for Congress to establish an independent commission, including Indians, to draw up a plan for reforming the whole system. A messy injustice may at last be getting sorted out.
Elouise Cobell criticized the Interior Department's BIA for ______.
A.its leasing land out for exploitation.
B.its distribution of money collected.
C.its supposed misconduct of abuses.
D.its reaction to a massive action.
第9题
If the Dakota Access Pipeline (输油管) is completed, it will carry nearlyhalf a million barrels of oil across four states every day. Energy Transfer Partners(ETP), a Texas-based company behind the $ 8 billion project, hopes to finishconstruction this year. But the Standing Rock Sioux, an American Indian tribe (部落), is determined to stop the 1,172-mile pipeline from being built. (79) Both sidesshow no signs of backing down.
The Dakota Access Pipeline was announced in 2014. A section of it will runnear the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. A reservation is an area of land set asidefor American Indians. The tribe says the construction threatens to destroy historicalareas and ancient burial sites. They also say the pipeline could pollute their mainwater source, the Missouri River. In April, the Standing Rock Sioux began a protestagainst the project. They camped at the construction site. Since then, thousands ofpeople, including people from other American Indian tribes, have traveled to the siteto join the protest.
ETP says that the pipeline will have built-in safety measures to protectagainst oil leaks. Workers will also monitor it remotely, and will be able to closevalves (阀) within three minutes if leaks are detected.
American Indians have been staging a nonviolent protest for months. Theprotest took a turn last week when police were called to keep the peace betweenprotesters and armed security guards hired by the company.
(80) Twenty-eight people have been arrested since then and charged withinterfering with the pipeline construction.
Which of the following is the main idea of the passage?
A.The Dakota Access Pipeline will create more markets for oil and gas.
B.The Dakota Access Pipeline will create many job opportunities.
C.American Indians oppose the construction of an oil pipeline.
D.American Indians fight for equal voting rights.
ETP hopes to finish this project in ______.A.2016
B.2017
C.2018
D.2019
Why do American Indians protest against the construction of thispipeline?A.Because it will cost up to $ 3. 8 billion.
B.Because it threatens the region's water supply.
C.Because it will make many people lose their jobs.
D.Because it will force many people to leave their homes.
According to the passage, the workers can___________ in case ofpipeline leaks.A.report it to the local government
B.ask people to leave the leak affected areas
C.call 911
D.close valves
According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOTTRUE?A.This pipeline will cross four states.
B.This pipeline is 1, 172 miles long.
C.All the protesters are from the Standing Rock Sioux.
D.Neither side of the dispute is willing to compromise.
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第10题
There would have been "no chance" of that happening so fast without the internet, says Arun Vadehra, who runs a gallery in Delhi and is an adviser to Christie's, an international auction house. He expects worldwide sales of Indian art, worth $200million last year, to double in 2006. It is still a tiny fraction of the $30 billion global art market, but is sizeable for an emerging market.
For newly rich—often very rich—non-resident Indians, expensive art is a badge of success in a foreign land". Who you are, and what you have, are on your walls", says Lavesh Jagasia, an art dealer in Mumbai. Indian art may also beat other forms of investment. A painting by Mr. Mehta that fetched $1.58 million last September would have gone for little more than $100,000 just four years ago. And a $22 million art-investment fund launched in July by Osian's, a big Indian auction house, has grown by 4.1% in its first two months.
Scant attention was paid to modern Indian art until the end of the 1990s. Then wealthy Indians, particularly those living abroad, began to take an interest. Dinesh Vazirani, who runs Saffronart, a leading Indian auction site, says 60% of his sales go to buyers overseas.
The focus now is on six auctions this month. Two took place in India last week; work by younger artists such as Surendran Naif and Shibu Natesan beat estimates by more than 70%. Sotheby's and Christie's have auctions in New York next week, each with a Tyeb Mehta that is expected to fetch more than $1 million. The real question is the fate of other works, including some by Mr. Souza with estimates of up to $600,000. If they do well, it will demonstrate that there is strong demand and will pull up prices across the board. This looks like a market with a long way to run.
It can be inferred from the second paragraph that the recent rapid development of Indian modern art is closely associated with ______.
A.economic boom
B.real estate
C.electronic element
D.international action