Hawaii's native minority is demanding a greater degree of sovereignty over its own affairs

第1题

1 Hawaii's native minority is demanding a greater degree of sovereignty over its own affa

irs. But much of the archipelago's political establishment, which includes the White Americans who dominated until the second world war and people of Japanese, Chinese and Filipino origin, is opposed to the idea.

2 The islands were annexed by the US in 1898 and since then Hawaii's native peoples have fared worse than any of its other ethnic groups. They make up over 60 per cent of the state's homeless, suffer higher levels of unemployment and their life span is five years less than the average Hawaiians. They are the only major US native group without some degree of autonomy.

3 But a sovereignty advisory committee set up by Hawaii's first native governor, John Waihee, has given the natives' cause a major boost by recommending that the Hawaiian natives decide by themselves whether to re-establish a sovereign Hawaiian nation.

4 However, the Hawaiian natives are not united in their demands. Some just want greater autonomy within the state -- as enjoyed by many American Indian natives over matters such as education. This is a position supported by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), a state agency set up in 1978 to represent the natives' interests and which has now become the moderate face of the native sovereignty movement. More ambitious is the Ka Lahui group, which declared itself a new nation in 1987 and wants full, official independence from the US.

5 But if Hawaiian natives are given greater autonomy, it is far from clear how many people this will apply to. The state authorities only count as native those people with more than 50 per cent Hawaiian blood.

6 Native demands are not just based on political grievances, though. They also want their claim on 660,000 hectares of Hawaiian crown land to be accepted. It is on this issue that native groups are facing most opposition from the state authorities. In 1993, the state government paid the OHA US $136 million in back rent on the crown land and many officials say that by accepting this payment the agency has given up its claims to legally own the land. The OHA has vigorously disputed this.

Hawaii's native minority refers to______.

A．Hawaii's ethnic groups.

B．people of Filipino origin.

C．the Ka Lahui group.

D．people with 50% Hawaiian blood.

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第2题

The changes in language will continue forever, but no one knows sure 【M1】______who does th

The changes in language will continue forever, but no one knows sure 【M1】______

who does the changing. One possibility is that children are responsible. A

professor of linguistic at the University of Hawaii, explores this in one of his 【M2】______

recent books. Sometimes around 1880, a language catastrophe occurred in 【M3】______

Hawaii when thousands of emigrant workers were brought to the islands to 【M4】______

work for the new sugar industry. These people speaking different languages

were unable to communicate with each other or with the native Hawaiians or

the dominant English-speaking owners of the plantations. So they first spoke

in Pidgin English-- the sort of thing such mixed language populations have 【M5】______

always done. A pidgin is not really a language at all. It is more like a set of

verbal signals used to name objects and without the grammatical rules needed

for expressing thoughts and ideas. And then, within a single generation, the 【M6】______

whole mass of mixed people began speaking a totally new tongue: Hawaiian 【M7】______

Creole. The new speech was contained ready-made words borrowed from all 【M8】______

the original tongues, but beared little or no resemblance to the predecessors in 【M9】______

the rules used for stringing the words together. Although generally regarded as 【M10】______

primitive language, Hawaiian Creole had a highly sophisticated grammar.

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第3题

The island’s _______ is similar to Hawaii’s, which attracts more and more tourists eve

A.people

B.area

C.custom

D.landscape

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第4题

—I’m going to Hawaii with my aunt this month for my holiday.—_____!（）

A.Have a good time

B.Best wishes to them

C.Thand you very much

D.It’s OK

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第5题

What are the beauties of Hawaii？ Let’s start with four.The beach, famous for its water

What are the beauties of Hawaii？ Let’s start with four.

The beach, famous for its water temperature, air temperature and waves, is the first beauty.There are hundreds of miles of beaches on the twenty islands of Hawaii.They are thought to be among the finest beaches in the world.

Then, what do you think would be the second beautiful thing？ It is volcanoes (火山), of course.These volcanoes are not just a part of the islands; they made the islands in the first place.Because of them the islands are still growing.

What would be the third thing of beauty that the first visitor to Hawaii would notice？ It probably wouldn’t be just one thing, but many things: all the wonderful fruits and flower s of the islands.Sugar cane, bananas and pineapples are Hawaii’s biggest exports.Sugar cane has been growing in Hawaii for a thousand years.As for pineapples, the islands produce more than any other places in the world, which has made Dole Company the b iggest fruit-packing company in the world.

The fourth and most beautiful thing about Hawaii is the people who live there.The Hawaiians never rush, and perhaps this is because they care more for human life than they care for the machine.There is an old H awaiian law that a man can go to sleep in the middle of the road if he wants to.What makes the people of Hawaii so beautiful is their feeling about people.There are 64 different combinations of races on the islands, and they all live in peace.They belie ve “Above all nations is humanity.” That is the most beautiful thing of all.

1.According to the passage, Hawaii is made up of().

A.one island

B.twenty islands

C.sixty-four islands

D.hundreds of islands

2.Why are the volcanoes so special to the islands？()

A.They are not a part of the islands

B.They actually made the islands

C.They are the first in the world

D.They are growing

3.What has made Dole Company the biggest fruit-packing company in the world？()

A.Sugar

B.Sugar cane

C.Bananas

D.Pineapples

4.The people in Hawaii are the most beautiful thing because().

A.they had a peaceful history

B.they can sleep in the middle of the road

C.there are 64 different races on the islands

D.they care more for people than anything else

5.According to the passage, “above all nations is humanity” might mean ().

A.not all nations have humanity

B.humanity is as important as a nation

C.humanity has no national boundaries

D.all human being s should live in peace

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第6题

What is the author's attitude toward Native American literature？A．Admiring of its form.B．C

What is the author's attitude toward Native American literature？

A．Admiring of its form.

B．Critical of the cost of its production.

C．Amused by its content.

D．Skeptical about its origins.

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第7题

Although the colonists ______ to some extent with the native Americans, the latter's influ

ence on American culture and language was not extensive.

A．migrated

B．matched

C．mingled

D．melted

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第8题

What does the author say about people's native and foreign languages？A．Foreign language sk

What does the author say about people's native and foreign languages？

A．Foreign language skills are of vital importance.

B．It's easier nowadays to learn a foreign language.

C．People today are not proud of their native language.

D．People's language skills are better than in the past.

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第9题

The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story but whose name in unknown to us.

A. Native Son

B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

C. Invisible Man

D. Go Tell It on the Mountains

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第10题

The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how the society is responsible for the murder.

A. Native Son

B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

C. Invisible Man

D. Go Tell It on the Mountains

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