是2016年江苏省高三上英语期中考试试题吗？eep in the western Amazon rainforest, live butterflies that drink turtle tears. That
sounds like a line straight out of a fantasy novel, but it's one hundred percent real life! It's an
unusual sight--a crowd of butterflies flying around the eyes of yellow-spotted river turtles,
trying to get a little tear.s. The poor turtles try to avoid them, hut the butterflies insist
drinking their tears until they've had their fill.
The butterflies are likely attracted to the turtles' tears because the liquid drops contain
salt, specifically sodium, an important mineral that is rare in the western Amazon rainforest,
said Phil Torres, a scientist who does much of his research at the Tambopata Research Center
in Peru and is associated with Rice Univtrsity. Turtles get plenty of sodium(钠) through their
largely carnivorous(食肉的) diet. Meat contains significant levels of the salt, Torres told
LiveScience. But herbivores(食草的) butterflies sometimes .struggle to get this extra mineral
source, he added.
Torres explained the western Amazon rainforest is lower in sodium than many places on
earth, because it t is over l,000 miles away from the Atlantic Ocean---a main source of salt.
The region is also cut off from the mineral dirt blown towards the west from the Andes
Mountains. Most of these windblown minerals are removed from the air by the rain before
they have a chance to reach the western Amazon.
In fact, the butterflies have other sources to get sodium besides turtles' tears, which
include animal urine(尿), muddy river banks, sweaty clothes and so on.
People can't help wondering if the process is painful for turtles. Torres said it's not
completely clear, but the teary effort probably has little effect on the turtles, other than
perhaps making them more vulnerable to their enemies like big cats, since the butterflies can
block out their vision.
32. The butterflies drink turtle tears to _
A. help the turtles get sodium
' B. get a mineral from turtle tears
C. ridwaste from the turtles' bodies
D. take turtles to the best water source .
33. The third paragraph mainly tells us
A. what leads to the extremely low levels of sodium in the region
B. why sodium is very important for butterflies in the region
. C. what takes away the sodium of the surface of the region
D. why the region is badly short of the mineral dirt
34. We can conclude from the passage _
A. the butterflies like eating meat for getting salt .
B. the turtles like the butterflies drinking their tears
C. turtle tears are the only source of salt for the butterflies
D. the Andes Mountains lies east of the western Amazon rainforest
35. What is the best title of the passage
A. Turtles' enemy or turtles' fiends
B. A line straight out of a fantasy novel
C. The western Amazon rainforest's turtles
D. Amazonian butterflies drinking turtle tears
In a recent press release, the Brazilian government confirmed the existence of another isolated tribe of about 200 people living in the Vale do Javari reservation. The 200 people living in the Vale do Javari reservation. The reservation, located near the Peruvian border, is about the size of Portugal. At least another 14 isolated tribes, with a total population of about 2000, call the area home.
The newly observed group lives on four large straw-roofed buildings and grows corn, peanut and other crops.
Brazil’s National Indian Foundation (BNTF) first noticed the reservation in the forest using satellite maps, but it wasn’t until April that an airplane expedition was able to confirm the tribe’s existence. “The work of finding and protecting isolated groups is part of Brazilian public policy,” said the BNIF officer for Vale do Javari, Fabricio Amorim. “To confirm something like this takes years of hard work.”
BNIF estimates there are 68 isolated tribes living in the Amazon. The organization uses airplanes to avoid disturbing the tribes through personal contact, but that doesn’t mean others are so respectful of their right to privacy.
Illegal fishing, woodcutting and hunting bring people into the protected area. Oil exploration on the Peruvian side of the border is another threat. All kinds of criminals also invade the lands of the local groups, said Amorim. The outsiders can damage the land and influence the cultures of indigenous(土著的)peoples. They can also bring diseases which can wipe out the whole population that still lack even basic antibiotics(抗生素).
Brazil’s indigenous peoples won the legal right to their traditional lands in Brazil’s 1988 Constitution, which stated that all indigenous lands shall be divided and turned over to tribes within five years. Indigenous groups now control 11 percent of Brazil’s territory, including 22 percent of the Amazon.
Allowing indigenous groups the right homelands is not just a matter of human rights. The rest of the world can benefit from their knowledge. Mark Plotkin has spent years living with the people of the Amazon and learning from their traditional healers. In his lecture, he pointed out that many useful materials and knowledge, including numerous drugs, can be gained from listening to the indigenous groups of the Amazon. Besides this, they are also more effective at protecting the land, and less expensive, than hired rangers(护林人).
1.The underlined word in the first paragraph probably means “a state of ”.
A．separation
B．interaction
C．satisfaction
D．excitement
2.From the passage we can learn that the tribes in the Amazon forest .
A．only live on a reservation designated for them
B．prefer straw-roofed buildings to wooden ones
C．keep contact with the outside world through airplanes
D．have the legal right to the land they live on
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to Amorim?
A．Privacy violation is common among the Amazon tribes.
B．The laws dividing the lands of the tribes are far from enough.
C．Modern civilization endangers the tribes and their cultures.
D．It is hard to make public policy to protect primitive tribes.
4.The last paragraph is mainly about .
A．the lost human rights of the indigenous peoples
B．the benefits of protecting the primitive tribes
C．the value of traditional healing
D．the indigenous peoples as guardians of the Amazon forest
1.A
2.D
3.C
4.B
【解析】
试题分析：
1.A 推理题。根据本句Deep in the Amazon forest, thousands of people still live in isolation from the rest of the world.说明这些人住在亚马逊雨林的深处，与世隔绝。故该词指隔开，故A正确。
2.D 细节题。根据倒数第二段第1,2行Brazil’s indigenous peoples won the legal right to their traditional lands in Brazil’s 1988 Constitution,说明这些人有合法权利住在他们生活的土地上。
3.C 推理题。根据文章倒数第三段Illegal fishing, woodcutting and hunting bring people into the protected area. Oil exploration on the Peruvian side of the border is another threat. All kinds of criminals also invade the lands of the local groups, said Amorim. The outsiders can damage the land and influence the cultures of indigenous(土著的)peoples说明新世界的文明正在慢慢侵蚀这些土著居民的生活和文化。
4.B 主旨大意题。文章主要讲述的是要保护那些原始的土著居民。特别在最后一段中还提出了这样做很多的好处。
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