2014年6月CET-4冲刺试题及答案(第五套)_第6页

　　Never forget where you come from

　　Many of us remember the touching television advertisement where the actor Iron Eyes Cody sheds a tear over litter. Such Native images are often used to convey the idea of saving mother earth. People who accept this image find it difficult to bring together what they have seen of some reservations—shabby homes, broken cars, underfed dogs, weeds in winds, and coal strip mines. Those who most romanticize American Indians are the quickest to be disappointed and discover that things are not as good as they have once believed. However, Indians’ relationship with the land is much more complicated(复杂的) than those two black and white images which appeared in the television.

　　Historically, tribal(部落的) people around the globe have had close ties with the earth. Lakota historian Vine Deloria, Jr., tells the story of the Ponca people who were taken from their range over a century ago and transported against their will to Oklahoma. Otherwise healthy, many Ponca wasted and died from no other clear cause than separation from their home. As Cheryl Crazy Bull says in this issue, “The land is our relative. Without land, tribal people lose their identity—the land along with language, spiritual beliefs, and social systems distinguishes tribal people from others.”

　　To many people in the United States, the Indian reservation is an embarrassment. It represents the American version of racial seperation—a prison without walls where the government confined Indians to keep them apart from other Americans. To Indian people the reservation is home, regardless of what it looks like. They have spiritual, emotional, and family ties. Many of their relatives still live there or are buried there, and their creation stories are centered there.

　　Americans tend to pull up roots and separate from their birthplace, moving from city to city many times. Many of us non—Indians have never visited the places where our ancestors are buried or the houses where our parents were born. Western nations use Earth in the same way, as if we can go to another planet when the air and water become too dirty. On the other hand, tribes are very familiar with the concept of limited resource. They cannot get another reservation if theirs becomes too polluted.

　　1.What does the writer mainly intend to state in this passage?

　　A. American Indians are disappointed with their living environment.

　　B.American Indians lead a miserable life now.

　　C.Television advertisements can have an unexpected effect on people.

　　D.Land is very important to people, especially tribal people.

　　2.The author included the story of the Ponca people in this article mainly to state .

　　A.the close relationship between tribal people and land

　　B.the poverty of the tribal people

　　C.the long history of the Ponca people

　　D.the great changes of the Ponca peoples life

　　3.Which of the following statements is true according to this passage?

　　A.Americans can use land as they like and then go to another place.

　　B.People in the west don’t like to travel from city to city.

　　C.Tribal people have the same concept of the resources as the non-Indians.

　　D.The reservations have both positive and negative(负面的)effects on Indian people’s life.

　　4.What topic does this article focus on?

　　A.Family life of the Indians.

　　B.People’s attitude towards land.

　　C.The history of tribal people.

　　D.Environmental pollution nowadays.