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
When Shelton Johnson was 5, his family took him to Berchtesgaden National Park in the Bavarian Alps. Now 52, he still remembers
When Shelton Johnson was 5, his family took him to Berchtesgaden National Park in the Bavarian Alps. Now 52, he still remembers
admin
2015-01-02
58
问题
When Shelton Johnson was 5, his family took him to Berchtesgaden National Park in the Bavarian Alps. Now 52, he still remembers his sense of awe. "The mountains, the sky being so close—it affected me profoundly," said Mr. Johnson, who now works as a ranger at Yosemite National Park in California.
In 23 years on the job, Mr. Johnson has been equally struck by how few of his fellow African-Americans visit the national parks. So a few years ago, he decided to write Oprah Winfrey, the American entertainment icon. "Every year, America is becoming increasingly diverse, but that diversity is not reflected in the national parks, even though African-Americans and other groups played a vital role in the founding of national parks," he wrote. "If the national parks are America’s playground, then why are we not playing in the most beautiful places in America?"
"The Oprah Winfrey Show" recently aired two episodes from Yosemite in response to Mr. Johnson’s appeal.
The National Park Service is expanding its efforts to diversify both its guests and its work force as the agency prepares to celebrate its centennial in 2016.
Surveys show that visitors to America’s 393 national parks—there were 285. 5 million of them in 2009—are mainly non-Hispanic whites, with blacks the least likely to visit. The Park Service now says the problem is linked to the parks’ very survival. "If the American public doesn’t know that we exist or doesn’t care, our mission is potentially in jeopardy," said Jonathan B. Jarvis, who took over as director of the Park Service last year.
In a Park Service survey it commissioned in 2000, only 13 percent of black respondents reported visiting a national park in the previous two years.
Jim Gramann, a visiting social scientist with the Park Service who is overseeing a review of a follow-up survey in 2008 and 2009 that is to be released early next year, said the gap persisted. "The demographic face of America is not reflected in national park visitation, with a few exceptions," Mr. Gramann said.
But some officials acknowledge that the parks may not seem welcoming to specific ethnic groups. They cited rules that limit the number of people in picnic areas or the number of tents that can be pitched at specific sites, which can clash with the vacation style of extended Latino families. But no group avoids national parks as much as African-Americans. The 2000 survey found that blacks were three times as likely as whites to believe that park employees gave them poor service and that parks were "uncomfortable places. "
Attendance tends to be more homogenously white at wilderness parks like Yosemite, where a 2009 survey found that 77 percent of the visitors were white, 11 percent Latino, 11 percent Asian and 1 percent black.
Mr. Johnson said he was more likely to meet someone from Finland or Israel in the park than from an African-American neighborhood in the United States. "It’s something that’s pervasive in the culture—it doesn’t matter whether you’re Oprah or a postal worker," Mr. Johnson said.
According to the passage, the National Park Service______.
选项
A、faces the survival problem for lack of funds
B、has a history of about one hundred years
C、does not care about the number of visitors to the parks
D、does not survey the groups of visitors to the parks
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/r4cO777K
本试题收录于:
NAETI中级口译笔试题库外语翻译证书(NAETI)分类
0
NAETI中级口译笔试
外语翻译证书(NAETI)
相关试题推荐
ConsumerslikeLihave______manyafeveredfantasyamonginternationalautoexecutivesonaquestforgreatuntappedmarkets.
Itismostlythatarespectablefamilyusuallyproducesarespectableperson.
Chinaisthetopsourcecountryofinternationalstudentsintheworld.Recentstatisticshaveshowna【C1】______trendforChine
Indonesiaisfrequentlystrickenbytsunamis.AdisastrousearthquakeandtsunamionOctober1causedthousandsofcasualties.
OneofthemostdisturbingstatisticsI’vereadforalongtimewaspublishedthisweek.TheWorkFoundationclaimsthatjobsat
A、Wewouldliketogototheballetmorefrequentlythanwedonow.B、Ourballetcompanyhasrecentlybeenappearingatthatmov
A、Apersonneedstogobackhomefrequently.B、Apersonneedsadjustmentinanewenvironment.C、Apersonneedstoexperienceso
A、Thefigureonthecheckexceedsthebalanceinthebankaccount,soit’sworthless.B、Ifyoucashthecheckintheamountof1
随机试题
下列属于财务分析主体的有【】
呼吸衰竭病人必定有动脉血PaCO2的升高。
某患儿以肠梗阻入院手术。术中医师将膀胱认作囊肿切除,造成患儿储尿、排尿功能严重受损。该事件中,医师的行为属
A.健康牙周B.牙龈炎C.慢性成人牙周炎D.Down综合征E.局部型青少年牙周炎优势菌是伴放线放线杆菌的牙周疾病是()
已知,在标准状态下能自发进行的反应是()。
当水电站上游压力水管较长时,为了减小水压力,应在压力管道上设()。
实际控制人是指虽不是公司股东,但通过投资关系、协议或其他安排,能够实际支配公司行为的人。()
发行额度是发行债券的面值总额。()
曾经有一个流行的看法,认为菠菜的含铁量极高。但是最近有检测表明,实际上菠菜的含铁量并没有那么高。可以断定,当这一检测结果一旦为大众所知晓,菠菜的销量将大幅度减少。以下哪项如果为真,最能支持上述断定?
设函数f(x)=(x-t)2dt,则df(x)=()。
最新回复
(
0
)