首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
He appears out of the jungle like an apparition—a man from the Wiwa tribe, one of four indigenous groups who call the Sierra Nev
He appears out of the jungle like an apparition—a man from the Wiwa tribe, one of four indigenous groups who call the Sierra Nev
admin
2016-03-10
35
问题
He appears out of the jungle like an apparition—a man from the Wiwa tribe, one of four indigenous groups who call the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains home. In his traditional outfit—white cotton shirt, pants, a wide-brimmed hat, and two colorful mochilas(马鞍袋)strung across one shoulder—he stands out against the dense foliage of ferns and wax palms.
It is my first day in the tropical rain forests of northeast Colombia and, along with about a dozen other hikers, I am on the trail to La Ciudad Perdida, or the Lost City. The pre-Colombian city was built around 800 A.D., making it some 650 years older than its Inca Empire counterpart, Machu Picchu, in Peru.
Our tour guide, 17-year-old Juan Daiza Gil, is to meet our group in the village of El Mamey. Like all Wiwa men, Juan wears his jet-black hair long and well past his shoulders, yet has exchanged white pants for jeans tucked into rubber boots.
As Juan leads us up steep muddy tracks and across swiftly flowing stream beds, I am aware that we are entering a world in which cars, electricity, and cell phones no longer exist—a world accessible only by foot or horse.
Birdsong fills the humid morning air: beside the path—and sometimes even directly on it— cows graze lazily, greeting us with unblinking gazes. Every step seems to bring a new discovery. But the discoveries take a cultural turn at the home of Manuel, Juan’s older brother and a fellow guide, whose home will be our campsite for the night. After dinner, Juan and another of his six brothers, Vicente, prepare a traditional tea for us made from coca leaves, cinnamon, and panela, an unrefined sugarcane product common in Colombia and throughout Latin America. As we sip the sweet steaming liquid, the brothers demonstrate how the leaves are dried—as much for the tea as for the men’s coca-chewing ritual, an essential part of Wiwa culture. Here in the heart of the Sierra Nevada, our journey is becoming as much a social voyage into the traditions of the Wiwa as it is a physical adventure.
That evening, I sit with Manuel’s 8-year-old son Francisco, back at the same campsite by their house that we stayed at nights earlier. He is barefoot and dressed in an oversized white T-shirt, hair still damp from the rain and not yet as long as his father’s. As steady showers beat a mesmerizing(催眠的)rhythm on the corrugated(起皱褶的)metal roof and mandarin and mango trees whisper in the wind outside, Francisco and I sit down at a table to draw by candlelight.
I make an attempt at sketching, but I’m too entranced by Francisco. He prefaces every picture with, "Now I’m going to draw"—his horse Lucero, his uncle Vicente, the banana trees and aloe plants in his family’s garden, the russet-colored chickens who peck at the soggy(潮湿)ground in their front yard.
As Francisco fills both sides of a page torn from my notebook, I realize that while I’d come to Colombia to find the Lost City, the greatest discovery may lies in the world of the Wiwa.
What can we learn about the Lost City?
选项
A、It locates in the northeast of Colombian tropical rain forests.
B、It is as well-known as Machu Picchu, the Inca city in Peru.
C、It existed even before the establishment of the current country.
D、It is remotely cut off from modern civilization and disturbance.
答案
C
解析
推断题。对Lost City的介绍主要在第二段和第四段。第二段第二句指出,这个城市建于哥伦比亚成立前的公元800年,故[C]符合文意。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/e9PK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Bothpartiespromisedto______theircontracttobesignedthefollowingday.
Childrenareinneedofadoptionbecausesomebirthparentsareunableorunavailabletoprovideadequatelyfortheneedsofthe
Allofthetechnologicaladvancesthathaveincreasedthequalityofmusichavenotchangedthefundamentalimpactofrecordedm
Intheearlydaysofartificialintelligenceresearch,itwascommonplaceforthewell-educatedacademicsinthefieldto(mistak
Please______yourselffromsmokingandspittinginpublicplaces,sincethelawforbidsthem.
Purchasingthenewproductionlinewillbea______dealforthecompany.
Thesunrisesintheeastandsetsinthewest,soitseemsasifthesun______roundtheearth.
Whatevidencedidinvestigatorsfailtofind?
HowtoApproachaDissertationI.WhatisadissertationA.Apieceofwritingwithargument:—analyzetheevidencetosupport
HowtoApproachaDissertationI.WhatisadissertationA.Apieceofwritingwithargument:—analyzetheevidencetosupport
随机试题
治疗气厥实证的最佳方剂为
在显微镜下观察真菌时,常用以下哪种物质处理标本
A.朱砂安神丸B.炙甘草汤C.真武汤D.天王补心丹E.知柏地黄丸阴虚火旺型心悸,若见虚烦咽燥,口干口苦等热象较著者,方宜选
治疗脾虚湿盛的水肿,宜选用
在木材加工的诸多危险因素中,木料反弹的危险性大,发生概率高。下列木材加工安全防护的措施中,不适于防止木料反弹的是()。
井点管的埋设深度H(不包括滤管长)满足()。
一、注意事项1.申论考试与传统的作文考试不同。是分析驾驭材料的能力与表达能力并重的考试。2.作答参考时限:阅读资料40分钟。作答110分钟。3.仔细阅读给定的资料。按照后面提出的“作答要求”依次作答在答题纸指定位置。4.答题时请认准题号。避免答错位
Peopleare,onthewhole,pooratconsideringbackgroundinformationwhenmakingindividualdecisions.Atfirstglancethismigh
以下关于V模型说法,不正确的是()。
Whatdidthepersondoeveryday?
最新回复
(
0
)