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高考题型重组练(一)
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Seventy years ago, on the day Wenceslaus and Denicia Billiot got married, their wedding party danced along a road that ran from one end of Isle de Jean Charles to the other.
Today, that road is nearly gone. Isle de Jean Charles, lying 80 miles from New Orleans, has been sinking slowly. Since 1955, it has lost 98% of its land to rising sea levels, terrible hurricanes, and the construction of oil and gas canals.
The latest research shows that, if the current rate of global warming continues, sea levels have the potential to rise more than three feet by the end of this century. That would certainly mean the end of Isle de Jean Charles. Today, only half a square mile of land remains above water.
Recognizing the danger, the US government awarded $48 million to the state of Louisiana in 2016 to relocate(迁移)the community to higher ground. The deadline for spending the money is set for September 2022, and the state is hoping to resettle the community by then.
The island’s people have had mixed reactions to it. Most of them are members of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Native American tribes(部落)or United Houma Nation, which can go back to the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Billiots, the oldest living people of the island, have lived there their whole lives. “We were born and raised over here. So that’s why we’re going to stay over here as long as we can, ” Billiot says.
But there are dangers to living on an island cut off from the rest of the world. Last year, the 90-year-old Billiot fell and hit his head, and the nearest hospital was more than half an hour away.
【文章大意】本文属于环保类阅读。主要介绍了杰查尔斯岛(Isle de Jean Charles)由于受到气候等因素的影响, 陆地面积越来越小, 目前只有半平方英里的土地还在海平面上, 岛上的居民不得不搬迁。
1. Why does the writer mention Wenceslaus and Billiot’s wedding party?
A. To inform they are the earliest people living on the island.
B. To show then-and-now differences of the island.
C. To tell readers not to visit the island a