The Yanomami of the Amazon

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What made miners come to where the Yanomami live?

What are the Yanomami doing to protect their traditions?

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The Yanomami of the Amazon

The Yanomami people live near the Amazon River in Venezuela and Brazil. They live in the tropical forest far away from other people. There are now perhaps 27,000 Yanomami in this area. Before 3.1 first visited them, they knew nothing about other people in South America, about the government, or about modern life. They did not know that they lived in Brazil or Venezuela. They lived in their own world.

The Yanomami are hunters and farmers. They hunt over a large area. They grow their own crops and medicine in large gardens. The Yanomami are also deeply 3.2. For them, the natural world and the 3.3 world are one. 

In the 1980s, 3.4 found gold on Yanomami land. Soon thousands of miners, loggers, and cattle farmers were using the land. The noise from the outsiders' machines and airplanes 3.5 the Yanomami. The mining companies 3.6 the water in the rivers. The loggers cut down the forests. The outsiders also brought new diseases to the area. In just seven years, 20% of the Yanomami people died. 

In 1992, Brazil and Venezuela made the Yanomami land into a park. No one can mine for gold or cut trees on this land. The government said that the land was for the Yanomami people, not for the miners and loggers. Unfortunately, it was difficult to keep the miners and loggers out of the Yanomami land. In 1993, some gold miners tried to 3.7 a Yanomami village, and they killed 16 people. 

Today the Yanomami are working to 3.8 their land and traditions. They have their own school. They are recording their language and history. They also want to study and learn good ways to use their land. They do not want to live without trees and clean water. They say they want progress, but without 3.9.

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The Yanomami of the Amazon

The Yanomami people live near the Amazon River in Venezuela and Brazil. They live in the tropical forest far away from other people. There are now perhaps 27,000 Yanomami in this area. Before outsiders first visited them, they knew nothing about other people in South America, about the government, or about modern life. They did not know that they lived in Brazil or Venezuela. They lived in their own world.

The Yanomami are hunters and farmers. They hunt over a large area. They grow their own crops and medicine in large gardens. The Yanomami are also deeply religious. For them, the natural world and the spiritual world are one. 

In the 1980s, miners found gold on Yanomami land. Soon thousands of miners, loggers, and cattle farmers were using the land. The noise from the outsiders' machines and airplanes frightened the Yanomami. The mining companies polluted the water in the rivers. The loggers cut down the forests. The outsiders also brought new diseases to the area. In just seven years, 20% of the Yanomami people died. 

In 1992, Brazil and Venezuela made the Yanomami land into a park. No one can mine for gold or cut trees on this land. The government said that the land was for the Yanomami people, not for the miners and loggers. Unfortunately, it was difficult to keep the miners and loggers out of the Yanomami land. In 1993, some gold miners tried to destroy a Yanomami village, and they killed 16 people. 

Today the Yanomami are working to protect their land and traditions. They have their own school. They are recording their language and history. They also want to study and learn good ways to use their land. They do not want to live without trees and clean water. They say they want progress, but without destruction.

Before the appearance of outsiders, the Yanomami _____.

Which of the following is NOT true about the Yanomami?

What is the passage mainly about?

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1. Before 7.1 first visited them, they knew nothing about other people in South America, about the government, or about modern life.
2. The noise from the outsiders' machines and airplanes 7.2 the Yanomami. 
3. In 1993, some gold miners tried to 7.3 a Yanomami village, and they killed 16 people.
4. They grow their own crops and medicine in large gardens. The Yanomami are also deeply 7.4.
5. For them, the natural world and the 7.5 world are one.
6. In the 1980s, 7.6 found gold on Yanomami land.
7. They do not want to live without trees and clean water. They say they want progress, but without 7.7.
8. The mining companies 7.8 the water in the rivers.
9. Today the Yanomami are working to 7.9 their land and traditions.

Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text.

1. We won't invest in any company that 8.1 the environment.
2. For the first few months in a new city, she felt like an 8.2.­ Then she began to make some friends.
3. Religion focuses on the 8.3 side of life.
4. Be quiet or you’ll 8.4 the owl.
5. 8.5 is a person whose job is to obtain coal or other minerals from a mine.
6. Their barn was 8.6 by a fire.
7. Her mother was a 8.7 woman who prayed daily.
8. A fence 8.8 us from our neighbor's vicious dog.
9. The tornado left behind a trail of 8.9.