英语阅读理解：For 170 years,members of a tiny American

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英语阅读理解：For 170 years,members of a tiny American
For 170 years,members of a tiny American native tribe have lived and celebrated their traditions on a
small piece of land off the Louisiana coast called Isle de Jean Charles.They fished and they farmed,making living by hard work amid the bays and marshes（沼泽）.But now the waters that have supported them are threatening to overwhelm（淹没）them.
“I don’t think we’re going to have any other choice except to leave because we’re getting washed away by every storm that comes by,” said Albert Naquin,chief of the Biloxi-Chitimacha tribe.“We have lost more and more land,and it keeps happening.”
Surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico on one side and the marsh on the other,Isle de Jean Charles sits at the southern tip of Louisiana’s rapidly disappearing wetlands,an area that is 3 to 4 miles long and about a mile wide.The tribe has been living here since 1840.but about a football field worth of land in the region is lost every half hour because

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For 170 years,members of a tiny American native tribe have lived and celebrated their traditions on a small piece of land off the Louisiana coast called Isle de Jean Charles.They fished and they farme...