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Death Valley is the lowest, hottest, driest area in North America. This California National Park has less than 5 cm of rainfall a year and temperature up to 53℃ in summer. That’s enough to keep Americans away during the hottest months from June to August. But it is the high temperature and terrible heat that draw their most crazy fans, the foreign tourists. From all over the world, they come to the valley floor in cars, carrying maps and water bottles, and fanning themselves with newspapers to keep cool.
About 1.3 million visitors enter the park each year, from June through August. 90% of them are foreigners. They go there to experience the summer heat that gives Death Valley its name. The average high in July is 53.2 ℃ and the low 30 ℃. For August, the average high is 52.2 ℃ and the low 29.4 ℃.
So what do Americans think of the foreign visitors who arrive for the heat, just when locals from the United States try to avoid it? Park manager Brenda Henson says, “ The foreigners want to experience the heat in Death Valley. We think it’s crazy.”
In fact, Death Valley is a series of salt flats (盐滩) 225 km long and 6 km to 26 km wide. Birds and animals are largely absent, and only the hardiest plants have some chance of existence in this extreme place.
One tourist from Paris concluded, “ We come to it because we can tell all our friends and family that we’ve been to the hottest place in the world.”
小题1:The real attraction of Death Valley for foreigners is that _____.

A．summer heat keeps Americans away

B．experiencing the heat in it is cool

C．it is a series of salt flats

D．it is a famous place in the world.

小题2:What does the underlined word “ hardiest” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Most difficult.

B．Most energetic.

C．Strongest.

D．Best.

小题3:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．The hottest time in Death Valley is from June to August.

B．Not all the visitors to Death Valley are foreigners.

C．The lowest temperature in Death Valley is 29.4 ℃.

D．Death Valley is made up of salt flats.

小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Crazy Fans of Death Valley.

B．Importance of Death Valley.

C．Beauty of California National Park.

D．The Best Tourist Attraction in North America.

答案

小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:C
小题4:A

解析

小题1:细节理解题。结合But it is the high temperature and terrible heat that draw their most crazy fans, the foreign tourists. From all over the world, they come to the valley floor in cars, carrying maps and water bottles, and fanning themselves with newspapers to keep cool可知答案。
小题2:词义理解题。死亡谷气温高，又是盐滩，所以在这生长的植物一定是生命力顽强的。
小题3:细节理解题。结合the average high is 52.2 ℃ and the low 29.4 ℃可知C项错误。
小题4:文章标题题。结合“ The foreigners want to experience the heat in Death Valley. We think it’s crazy.” 可知答案。

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Although the United States covers so much land and the land produces far more food than the present population needs，its people are by now almost entirely an urban society. Less than a tenth of the people are engaged in agriculture and forestry(林业), and most of the rest live in or around towns，small and large．Here the traditional picture is changing: every small town may still be very like other small towns，and the typical small town may represent a widely accepted view of the country，but most Americans do not live in small towns any more. Half the population now lives in some thirty metropolitan areas(1arge cities with their suburbs, of more than a million people each—a larger proportion than in Germany or England，let alone France). The statistics(统计)of urban and rural population should be treated with caution because so many people who live in areas classified as rural travel by car to work in a nearby town each day. As the rush to live out of town continues，rural areas within reach of towns are gradually filled with houses, so that it is hard to say at what moment a piece of country becomes a suburb. But more and more the typical American lives in a metropolitan rather than a small town environment．
小题1:If now America has 250 million people．how many of them are engaged in agriculture and forestry?

A．About 25 million

B．More than 25 million

C．Less than 25 million

D．Less than 225 million

小题2:Which of the following four countries has the smallest proportion of people living in metropolitan areas?

A．United States

B．Germany

C．France

D．England

小题3:What’s the meaning of the word“metropolitan”in the middle of the passage?

A．Of a large city with its suburbs	B．Of small and large towns
C．Of urban areas	D．Of rural areas

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What is your favorite color? Do you like yellow, orange, or red? If you do, you must be an active person who enjoys life. Do you like blue? Then you are probably quiet, shy, and would rather follow than lead.
Colors do influence our moods (情绪). A yellow room makes most people feel more cheerful and more relaxed than a dark green one; and a red dress brings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day. On the other hand, black is depressing(令人压抑的). There was a black bridge over the Thames River, near London. The number of people who killed themselves on that bridge used to be larger than on any other bridge in the area -- until it was repainted green.
Light and bright colors make people not only happier but also more active. In the factory, the workers will work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines are painted orange rather than black.
小题1:An active person may like ____

A．yellow, orange, or red	B．yellow, black, or red
C．orange, blue, or black	D．black, red, or orange

小题2:Most people feel more __ in a yellow room than in a dark green one.

A．tired

B．bored

C．worried

D．relaxed

小题3:More people killed themselves on the black bridge than on any other bridge probably because ____

A．the bridge was very tall

B．the bridge was too crowded

C．people didn"t like the bridge

D．the color of the bridge was depressing

小题4:In the factory, when the machines are painted orange, the workers will work __

A．worse

B．harder

C．more slowly

D．more angrily

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The customs in different countries are rather different. If I have dinner with a Chinese host, he always puts more food onto my plate as soon as I have emptied it. That often discomforts me greatly. I have to eat the food even if I do not want to, because it is considered bad manners in the west to leave one’s food on the plate. I have also noticed that when a Chinese sits at an American’s dinner party, he often refuses the offer of drink though he’s in fact still hungry or thirsty. This might be good manners in China but it is not in the west at all. In the United States, it is impolite to keep asking someone again and again or insist on his accepting something. Americans have a direct way of speaking. If they want something, they will ask for it. If not, they will say, “No, thanks.” When an American is served with beer by the host, for example, he might say, “No, thanks. I’ll take some orange juice if you have it.” That is what an American will do. So when you go to the United States, you’d better remember the famous saying: “when in Rome, do as the Romans do.”
小题1:From this passage we can see that the writer is .

A．a Chinese	B．a Roman
C．an American	D．a European

小题2:When a Chinese host kept putting more food onto his plate, the writer felt .

A．very happy

B．sad

C．angry

D．uneasy

小题3:In the west, people consider it bad manners .

A．to refuse an offer

B．to ask for something directly

C．to eat at a dinner party

D．to keep asking someone to accept something

小题4:A guest at an American’s dinner party should show his politeness by .

A．putting more food onto his plate as soon as he emptied it

B．refusing the offer of food or drink though he is still hungry or thirsty.

C．asking for things directly if he wants them

D．not eating all the food offered

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I would like to talk to you about one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. I was born and raised there and now I visit it from time to time. My family moved to the city, so I only go back to see friends or to camp and fish.
I grew up in a small town called Antonito Co. It is surrounded by mountains. So camping is a big source of happiness in the valley. There are so many beautiful places to hike.
The town itself is very small. It is said that if you blink when you’re going through it, you’ll miss it. This has some truth in it considering the size of the town. We have one grocery store, a tiny post office, and a tiny bank. There are also a few gas stations, bars, some excellent restaurants, a small hospital and of course several schools. However, for clothing and shoes, you have to drive thirty miles to Alamosa to shop there.
Everyone in the town is nice and we all know each other. The crime rate is zero unless you count some weekend fights that break out because some people drink too much. The classes in school are small, so you get a lot of attention from the teacher.
You’re probably wondering why I don’t live there. Well, I can’t get a job there. A lot of the businesses are family-owned. And they never fire their employees. So the employees work there usually until they retire. Most people have to go to other places to get a job .
小题1:What is this passage mainly about?

A．An introduction to the writer’s hometown.

B．A travel guide of the writer’s hometown .

C．The history of the writer’s hometown .

D．The scenery of the writer’s hometown .

小题2:By the underlined part in paragraph 3, the writer wants to show that the town is .

A．beautiful

B．small

C．exciting

D．faraway

小题3:What can you find in the writer’s hometown ?
a bank b. a post office c. some gas stations and bars d. a clothing store
e. a shoe shop f. some restaurants and a hospital

A．abce

B．bdef

C．abcf

D．cdef

小题4:What do we know about the classes given at the schools in the writer’s hometown ?

A．The classes are usually very short .

B．Students usually don’t get much attention .

C．One teacher has to teach many classes

D．Each class has just a small number of students .

小题5:We can learn from the last paragraph that in the writer’s hometown .

A．not many job opportunities are provided

B．employees don’t make much money

C．most people live a very hard life

D．only the old still live there

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The price of coffee beans hits a 12 – year high today. I thought there might
be some kind of coffee – market story, like we saw with cocoa earlier this summer.
But the main driver of coffee prices right now is simpler: Colombia has had
a few years of weak coffee harvests because of too much rain, which has reduced
the global supply. And coffee drinkers keep buying coffee, even as prices rise, in
other words, demand is unchanged.
The higher price of beans – up about 40 percent since March – means higher prices for the coffee you buy by the pound. But it probably won’t affect the coffee you buy by the cup.
Smuckers, which sells Folgers and Millstone coffees, recently said it was raising its prices because of the higher cost of beans. Starbucks, however, said it would absorb the higher cost of beans without raising prices.
“You see it much more in the grocery store because the raw materials are a big factor of cost,” Jose Sette of the International Coffee Organization told me. “In a coffee shop, your big expenses are rent and labor.”
While real – world supply and demand is the big driver of the price of beans, there may be some speculative action in coffee business in the future.
But futures (期货) of the high – grade Arabica beans are traded in the US, where regulations prevent speculators (投机商) from controlling the market, hoping such things won’t happen just as in London summer market. That suggests that prices should fall when supply improves – which may happen next year.
Some experts say that farmers in third world countries won’t actually benefit from higher prices in this case. When the price difference is due to supply and demand, the profit of the seller usually doesn’t go up.
小题1:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A．Why coffee is getting more expensive?

B．How farmer benefits from the high price?

C．Whether the US will control the coffee market?

D．What has caused the reduction of coffee?

小题2:From the second paragraph we can infer that _______________________.

A．Colombia is the coffee trading center of the world

B．Colombia coffee output contains a final share of the world

C．People need more and more coffee

D．Coffee sales will be getting less and less

小题3:In this summer’s coffee bean market, ____________________________.

A．the US made more rules about coffee prices

B．speculators once held the coffee bean market in London

C．coffee bean trading was seriously disorganized

D．coffee bean prices were very low in the US

小题4:Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

A．The price difference determines the profit of the seller.

B．Smuckers is a famous coffee manufacturer.

C．Real – world supply and demand decides the prices.

D．Coffee prices will become much higher next year.

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