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1、xx年公共英语考试四级阅读强化训练题 引导语：xx年考试四级阅读强化训练题，由培训网而成，谢谢您的阅读，祝您阅读愉快。 Hawaiis native minority is demanding a greater degree of sovereignty over its own affairs. But much of the archipelagos political establishment, which includes the White Americans who dominated until the second world war and people of Japan
2、ese, Chinese and Filipino origins, is opposed to the idea. The islands were annexed by the US in 1898 and since then Hawaiis native peoples have fared worse than any of its other ethnic groups. They make up over 60 percent of the states homeless, suffer higher levels of unemployment and their life s
3、pan is five years less than the average Hawaiians. They are the only major US native group without some degree of autonomy. But a sovereignty advisory mittee set up by Hawaiis first native governor, Joahn Waihee, has given the natives cause a major boost by remending that the Hawaiian natives decide
4、 by themselves whether to reestablish a sovereign Hawaiian nation. 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 o
5、f Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), a state agency set up in 1978 to represent the natives interests and which has now bee 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. B
6、ut 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 percent Hawaiian blood. Native demands are not just based on political grievances, though. They also want their claim
7、on 660,000 hectares of Hawaiian crown land to be aepted. It is on this issue that native groups are facing most opposition from the state authorities. In 1933, the state government paid the OHA US 136 million in back rent on the crown land and many officials say that by aepting this payment the agen
8、cy has given up its claims to legally own the land. The OHA has vigorously disputed this. 1. Hawaiis native minority refers to _. A. Hawaiis ethnic groups B. people of Filipino origin C. the Ka Lahui group D. people with more than 50% Hawaiian blood 2. Which of the following statements is true of th
9、e Hawaiian natives? A. Sixty percent of them are homeless or unemployed. B. their life span is 5 years shorter than average Americans. C. Their life is worse than that of other ethnic groups in Hawaii. D. They are the only native group without sovereignty. 3. Which of the following is NOT true of Jo
10、hn Waihee? A. He is Hawaiis first native governor. B. He has set up a sovereignty advisory mittee. C. He suggested the native people decide for themselves. D. He is leading the local independence movement. 4. Which of the following groups holds a less radical attitude on the matter of sovereignty? A
11、. American Indian natives. B. Office of Hawaiian Affairs. C. The Ka Lahui group. D. The Hawaiian natives. 5. Various native Hawaiians demand all the following EXCEPT _. A. a greater autonomy within the state B. more back rent on the crown land C. a claim on the Hawaiian crown land D. full independen
12、ce from the US 参考答案：CDABD Early in the age of affluence (富裕) that followed World War ，an American retailing analyst named Victor Lebow proclaimed, “Our enormously productive economy.demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we se
13、ek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption. We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever increasing rate. ? Americans have responded to Lebows call, and much of the world has followed. Consumption has bee a central pillar of life in industr
14、ial lands and is even embedded in social values. Opinion surveys in the worlds two largest economics-Japan and the United States-show consumerist definitions of suess being ever more prevalent.? Overconsumption by the worlds fortunate is an environmental problem unmatched in severity by anything but
15、 perhaps population growth. Their surging exploitation of resources threatens to exhaust or unalterably spoil forests, soils, water, air and climate.? Ironically, high consumption may be a mixed blessing in human terms, too. The time-honored values of integrity of character, good work, friendship, f
16、amily and munity have often been sacrificed in the rush to riches.? Thus many in the industrial lands have a sense that their world of plenty is somehow hollow, that misled by a consumerist culture, they have been fruitlessly attempting to satisfy what are essentially social, psychological and spiritual needs with ma
