Hawaii’s native minority is demanding a greater degree of sovereignty over its own affairs. But much of the archipelago’s political establishment, which includes the White Americans who dominated until the Second World War and people of Japanese, Chinese mint Filipino origin, is opposed to the idea.
The islands were annexed by the US in 1898 and since then Hawaii’s native people have fared worse than any of its other ethnic groups. They make up over 60 percent of the state’s homeless, suffer higher levels of unemployment and their life span is five years less than the average Hawaiians. They are the only major US native group without some degree of autonomy.
But a sovereignty advisory committee set up by Hawaii’s first native governor, John Waihee, has given the natives’ cause a major boost by recommending that the Hawaiian natives decide by themselves whether to re-establish a sovereign Hawaiian nation.
However, the Hawaiian natives are not united in their demands. Some just want greater autonomy within the state— as enjoyed by many American Indian natives over matters such as education. This is a position supported by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), a state agency set up in 1978 to represent the natives’ interests and which has now become the moderate face of the native sovereignty movement. More ambitious is the Ka Lahui group, which declared itself a new nation in 1987 and wants full, official independence from the US.
But if Hawaiian natives are given greater autonomy, it is far from dear how many people this will apply to. The state authorities only count as native those people with more than 50 percent Hawaiian blood.
Native demands are not just based on political grievances, though. They also want their claim on 660,000 hectares of Hawaiian crown land to be accepted. It is on this issue that native groups are facing most opposition from the state authorities. In 1993, the state government paid the OHA US $136 million in back rent on the crown land and many officials say that by accepting this payment the agency has given up its claims to legally own the land. The OHA has vigorously disputed this.
Hawaii’s native minority refers to ________.
本题考查文中多处信息，需在原文中一一定位排除。文章第一段指出夏威夷的土著少数民族想要得到 更多的自治权，但是包括Filipino origin在内的一些种族反对这一主张，所以排除B。第二段指出从1898年夏 威夷岛被美国吞并开始，夏威夷土著少数民族的生存状况比其他族群都恶劣，再结合第一段中提到的美国 白人及日本、中国和菲律宾后裔可知，夏威夷岛岛民构成成分很复杂，即夏威夷有很多ethnic groups，所以 排除A。根据第五段可知，官方认为夏威夷土著居民指的是那些拥有50%以上夏威夷血统的人，由此可以 排除D。故C项为正确答案。
Which of the following statements is TRUE of the Hawaiian natives?
文章第二段第二句“They make up over 60 percent of the state’s homeless, suffer higher levels unemployment and their life span is five years less than the average Hawaiians.”其中They指的是native peoples， 即“夏威夷土著占全国无家可归者的60%以上，失业率高，寿命比其他夏威夷人短5年。”由此排除A和B， 确定答案是C。另外D“他们是唯一没有主权的土著民族”同作者在第二段最后一句话所传达的信息不一致。
Which of the following is NOT true of John Waihee?
由John Waihee定位于文章第三段，可知他是Hawaii’s first native governor，而且他成立了a sovereignty advisory committee并recommending that the Hawaiian natives decide by themselves whether to re-establish a sovereign Hawaiian nation，由此排除A、B和C三项。只有D在文章中没有提到，故D项为正确答案。
Which of the following groups holds a less radical attitude on the matter of sovereignty?
根据第四段的第三句提到“OHA已经成为土著人主权运动中比较温和的组织”，文中的“moderate”与题 干中的“less radical”是同义表达。故B项为正确答案。
Various native Hawaiians demand all the following EXCEPT ________.
夏威夷存在着各种不同的对权利的要求。比如像OHA一类的组织就要求在州内拥有更多的自治权， 排除A项。Ka Lahui group一类的组织就要求完全的独立和自由，排除D项。另外还有一部分土著人要求王 国的一部分土地归属于他们，排除C项。而B项是州政府为了安抚当地人要回土地的要求采取的政策。故B 项为正确答案。