文章大意:本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了四个孩子在哥伦比亚的亚马逊森林中生存了40天的事情,其中,最大的孩子Lesly不仅保护自己,还确保她的弟弟妹妹们能够生存下去。
When four young children were found after 40 days in the Colombian Amazon forest, the rescuers noticed that the oldest, 13-year-old Lesly Mucutuy, had some seeds hidden between her teeth.
The seeds were from a native Amazon palm tree known as “milpesos” in Colombia. Its fruits are rich in fat and Amazon tribes use them to make a vegetable oil. “She was keeping them so that the warmth of her mouth would open up the seeds and she could feed the pulp (果肉) to her younger sisters and brothers,” said Eliecer Muñoz, one of the four guards who made the very first contact with the children. “That’s how they stayed alive.”
Survival experts have been trying to answer this question: How did the four children—the youngest just a baby—survive in the heart of the Amazon rainforest for so long? The stretch of the jungle they were found in is one of the most remote and difficult to reach in Colombia, where wild animals and poisonous insects are plentiful, rains can pour for over 15 hours a day and visibility is sometimes limited to 10 meters due to the thick vegetation. In more than a month without adults, they appear to have survived on wild fruits and three pounds of cassava flour, a high-protein traditional food of the Amazon diet, which they got from the wreckage (残骸) of the plane. When found, the children had bottles they used to collect water, either from streams or from the rain.
While their survival remains a marvel, it was no doubt facilitated by traditional knowledge of the forest they acquired from a remarkably young age. Lesly, in particular, is praised for not only staying alive herself, but also making sure her younger sisters and brothers would survive following the loss of their mother in the plane crash.
Nelly Kuiru, an activist, believes that her courage goes far beyond botanical skills: “Ancestral, traditional knowledge is more than that Lesly learnt to pick fruits, but there’s something much deeper there, a spiritual connection with the forest surrounding us.”
4. Eliecer Muñoz viewed Lesly’s keeping seeds in her mouth as____________.
A.a survival skill | B.a rescue technique |
C.an eating habit | D.a unique culture |
5. What does the third paragraph mainly talk about?
A.The exact cause of the plane crash. |
B.The detailed search and rescue operations. |
C.The food the children depended on to stay alive. |
D.The difficulty of surviving in the Amazon rainforest. |
6. Which words can best describe Lesly?
A.Talented and experienced. | B.Intelligent and responsible. |
C.Honest and knowledgeable. | D.Creative and open-minded. |
7. What does Nelly Kuiru mainly want to show in the last paragraph?
A.Botanical skills are more important than courage. |
B.Lesly learned to find food in the forest from her ancestors. |
C.Lesly is connected with her living environment spiritually. |
D.Picking fruits is the basic knowledge to survive in the forest. |