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Traveling through the Ecuadorian Amazon to gather material for his book Savages,author Joe Kane came across a determined priest, a Spaniard who had spent yearsteaching a tribe of hunter gatherers, the Huaorani, how to survive outside their rainforesthabitat. They have to learn this world, the priest insisted. The lessons are hard, but theymust be learned. “Why?” Kane asked, “For the petroleum companies will end their lifeas they know it. Of that there is no doubt.”Savages, published in the U.S., Canada and England last fall and soon to be releasedin Europe, is the story of how the Huaorani have fought to avoid that fate - to preservetheir land and ancient culture from destruction by oil companies rushing to extract theblack gold beneath the forest. As the reader quickly guesses in this compelling tale, it isnot the Indians that Kane regards as savages.Though he is obviously an environmentalist as well as a journalist, Kane has writtenmore than a save-the-rain-forest polemic. Rather, it is a sometimes comic adventure inwhich the author sets out to answer the question that has puzzled oil companies andecologists alike: Who are these Huaorani? In the course of finding out, Kane spent manydays being soaked by the constant jungle rains and bitten by countless insects. Hecontracted a rash of fungal infections and during one expedition nearly starved to death.He grew inured to Huaorani food, including smoked howler-monkey arm and the tribe’sversion of chicha – manioc that has been chewed, spat into a bowl and left to fermentinto an alcoholic drink.For all the hardships Kane endured, he found the Huaorani a charming people. Oncean extremely war-like people, they have fought off every effort to “civilize” them,beginning with incursions by the Incas. But modern opponents are craftier than any Incawarrior. They are the smooth-talking government officials and company executives whotry to convince the Huaorani that oil can be sucked from under the tribal homelandwithout doing any damage.Kane befriended half a dozen tribal leaders, and together they launched a protestcampaign to prevent the Maxus Energy Corp. of Texas from building a new oil roadthrough the heart of Huaorani territory – a cause that was taken up by environmentalgroups across Europe and the U.S. But with Ecuador deep in debt and dependent on oilrevenues for more than half its foreign exchange, the government could not be pressured.At the time of Kane’s last postscript, oil drilling was proceeding apace, and most of theHuaorani leaders had gone over to the other side; they were on the petroleum companies’payrolls.
41. According to the author, Kane went through all of the following hardshipsEXCEPT ?
(A) building roads
(B) starving
(C) catching disease
(D) eating strange food

參考答案

答案：A
難度：適中0.625
統計：A(10),B(1),C(3),D(1),E(0)

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