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1、2022年6月英语四级阅读练习题：秘鲁的“印第安”总统多做英语四级阅读可以让你在做阅读理解的过程中，驾驭正确的阅读方法和阅读技巧，阅读速度大大提升。为了让大家能更好的备考，我四六级频道特殊整理了2022年6月英语四级阅读练习题：秘鲁的“印第安”总统，详情如下：2022年6月高校英语四级阅读200篇汇总 The President Of Indian Descent Peruvians elected a rags-to-riches2 economist as their next president in a vote that highlighted persisting racial d
2、ivisions in the land where Spanish conquistadors3 defeated the ancient Inca Empire .With 87 percent of the vote counted, Alejandro Toledo defeated Alan Garcia, 52 percent to 48 percent. International observers said this runoff election was Perus cleanest vote in years.Tonight Peruvians celebrate the
3、 triumph of democracy, Toledo told thousands gathered in front of the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Lima. I swear, brothers and sisters, I will never let you down. Toledo, a shoeshine boy who rose from poverty to become a World Bank economist before entering politics, will become Perus first freely ele
4、cted president of Indian descent and probably the first president ever in Latin America who made Indian pride a cornerstone of his campaign.Toledo capitalized on his dark, chiseled Indian features and short stature to mount a campaign replete with imagery of triumphant Inca4 emperors and with odes t
5、o Indian glory.Such rhetoric came as a shock in a country where Indians face discrimination in almost every walk of life and where two of the top television comedy acts are white men frolicking around as silly Indian women in colorful skirts.Garcia , a 6 -foot-3 Spanish-looking former president, use
6、d flowery language to overcome memories of his calamitous 11015-90 presidency, marred by corruption, guerrilla violence , food shortages and hyperinflation.He returned to Peru in January to seek re-election after nearly nine years in exile waiting for corruption charges against him to expire. Despit
7、e his loss, he emerges as Perus strongest opposition voice and a force to be reckoned with in the future.Garcia s campaign stumbled because it failed to reach the Indian and mixed -race population that makes up 80 percent of Perus 26 million people. Many of those voters found a new hope in Toledo.He
8、 will be a symbol for all of Peru, said Mariano de la Cruz, 62 , an Indian migrant from the highlands state of Ayacucho, after voting in a Lima slum. Its a source of pride that for the first time in my life Ill have someone of Indian race governing me .With partial regional results tallied, it was c
9、lear that the heavily Indian highlands voted largely for Toledo , while Garcia took coastal areas dominated by descendants of the Spanish conquistadors.Toledos campaign clearly targeted people with indigenous roots. Calling himself a stubborn Indian with a cause, he used symbols of the ancient Inca
10、Empire and dressed in pointy hats and multicolored tunics during campaign stops.This is a very racist society, Toledo said during his final campaign stop in the highlands city of Cuzco5 .The elitist leadership still has trouble digesting the possibility thatsomeone like us could come to govern.Anthr
11、opologist Juan Ossio said Toledo recognized the potential political force of Perus Indian population during his first presidential campaign i 11015 when his campaign slogan was a Peruvian like youand finally was able to capitalize on it this year.He has learned to play very well with the symbols of
12、Andean culture , Ossio said. Now President Toledo has the duty to build bridges so the two cultures can come together.Toledo acknowledged that responsibility in his victory speech, pledging to bea president for all Peruvians.But, he added:In me, youll have the same Alejandro who walks the streets, t
13、he same Alejandro who reaches out his hand to touch yours.Toledo campaigned largely on a populist platform. He has pledged to create 2.5 million jobs, raise salaries for public workers and lower taxes. He knows the poverty we endure, said Indian voter Primitiva Huaman, 58 .He knows all our suffering
14、.练习题：. Matching:1. feature A. child2. descendant B. basis3. cornerstone C. appear4. emerge D. end5. expire E. face6. indigenous F. native. Question :In the past, Peru is called .答案：. 1. E 2 . A 3 . B 4 . C 5 . D 6. F. Inca译文：秘鲁的“印第安”总统秘鲁人选了一位由贫致富的经济学家产他们的总统, 这次选举让人们又一次感受到了这片曾被西班牙人折服的古印加帝国土地上的种族差异。已统
15、计出的87% 选票中, 亚历杭德罗 托莱多以52% 对48% 击败了对手阿兰 加西亚。国际视察家称, 这次进行的秘鲁大选是近年来秘鲁最“ 干净”的一次大选。“ 今晚秘鲁人民要为民主政治的成功而庆祝, ”托莱多向聚集在利马市中心喜来登酒店门前的人群宣誓:“ 兄弟姐妹们, 我向你们发誓, 我绝不会让你们悲观。”托莱多出身贫寒, 做过擦鞋童, 在步入政坛之前是世界银行的经济学家, 如今, 他将成为秘鲁第一位通过自由选举产生的有着印第安人血统的总统, 同时也是拉丁美洲第一位以印第安人的骄傲感作为竞选基础并赢得大选的总统。托莱多利用自己印第安人特有的乌黑的皮肤, 轮廓分明的脸庞和不高的身材, 向此次大选
16、发起了冲击。他的竞选过程中到处可见获胜的印加帝国国王的肖像, 到处可闻颂扬印第安人荣耀的赞歌。这种竞选方式让这个印第安人到处受卑视的国家大为震惊, 在这个国家, 人气最旺的两位白人男性电视喜剧明星会装扮成穿着明丽裙子、傻乎乎的印第安妇女嬉闹取乐。托莱多的对手加西亚有六英尺三英寸高, 是一位有着西班牙人长相的秘鲁前总统。他巧言令色, 试图掩盖11015 年到11010 年任总统期间的种种灾难。那几年, 贪污盛行, 游击暴力频发, 食物短缺, 物价飞涨。加西亚在外流 亡九年直到对他的贪污指控失效后, 才于今年一月回国再次参选。尽管他没有赢得这次大选, 但已成为秘鲁的反对声, 一股不行等闲视之的力气。加西亚在这次竞选中落下马来, 主要
