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Yellowstone National Park is at lofty height. Height. Most of the park is above2,275meters.
Yellowstone's weather is unpredictable. In summer, it may be warm and sunny with temperatures in the high 70s. At night in any given month, the temperature may drop close to freezing. So it is best to come prepared for cold evenings and mornings,especially if you are camping or hiking. When you leave your campsite,please leave it prepared for possible thundershower and wind.
A sunny warm day may become fiercely stormy with wind, rain, sleet and sometimes snow. Without enough clothing, an easy day hike or boat trip can turn into a battle for survival.

（1）If you are planning to stay here in spring for a few days, what is necessary for you?
A.Enough clothing.
B.Weather report.
C.Umbrella.
D.Boiled water.
（2）Which season is generally pleasing?
A.Winter.
B.Fall.
C.Spring.
D.Summer.
（3）In winter the average snowfall is_____.
A.200inches
B.20inches
C.150inches
D.400inches.
（4）This passage is written probably for those who plan to______in Yellowstone National Park.
A.Do research work
B.Take a business trip
C.Have sports games
D.Spend their holidays or take a tour

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Liverpool, my hometown, is a special city. It is so unique that in 2004 it became a World Heritage（遗产）Site.
I recently returned to my home city and my first stop was at a museum on the River Mersey. Blanketed in mist（薄雾），Victorian architecture rose from the banks of the river, responded to the sounds of sea-birds, and appeared unbelievably charming. When I headed toward the centre, I found myself surrounded by buildings that mirror the best palaces of Europe. It is not hard to imagine why, on first seeing the city, most visitors would be overpowered by the beauty of the noble buildings, which are solid signs of Liverpool's history.
As if to stress its cultural role, Liverpool has more museums and galleries than most cities in Britain. At Walker Art Gallery, I was told that it has the best collections of Victorian paintings in the world, and is the home of modern art in the north of England. However, culture is more than galleries. Liverpool offers many music events. As Britain's No. 1 music city, it has the biggest city music festival in Europe, and its musicians are famous all over the world. Liverpool is also well-known for its football and other sports events. Every year, the Mersey River Festival attracts thousands of visitors, making the city a place of wonder.
As you would expect from such a city, there are restaurants serving food from around the world. When my trip was about to complete, I chose to rest my legs in Liverpool's famous Philharmonic pub（酒馆）. It is a monument to perfection, and a heritage attraction itself.
Being a World Heritage Site, my home city is certainly a place of “outstanding universal value”. It is a treasure house with plenty of secrets for the world to explore.
（1）Visitors who see the city for the first time would be deeply impressed by__________.
A.its charming banks
B.its famous museums
C.its wonderful palaces
D.its attractive buildings
（2）Liverpool has important cultural role because __________.
A.it has the best collections of Victorian paintings
B.it has museums, galleries, music festival and sports events
C.the Mersey River Festival attracts thousands of visitors
D.the best palaces of Europe are in Liverpool
（3）The author uses the Philharmonic pub to prove that__________.
A.Liverpool is a well-known city for its restaurants
B.Liverpool is an impressive place full of attraction
C.a pub is a wonderful place for visitors to relax themselves
D.a pub is a perfect choice for visitors to complete their journey

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Holidays

（1）What can you do if you like to go on holidays with pets?
A.Choose the holiday in Devon.
B.Go to the Snowdonia Centre.
C.Join the World Sea Trip of 2008.
D.Visit Acapulco and Hawaii.
（2）In what way is the Snowdonia Centre different from the other two holidays?
A.It provides chances of family gatherings.
B.It provides customers with good food.
C.It offers a sports lesson.
D.It offers comfortable rooms.
（3）What is special about the World Sea Trip of 2008?
A.You can have free meals on deck every day.
B.You can sleep on a ship and tour many places.
C.You will have chances to watch and act in a play.
D.You have to do your own packing and unpacking.

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Our room was on the second floor but you could still hear the roar of the ocean and see the stars at night. I used to take long walks along the water. The food in town was wonderful and the people were very friendly. The area was very quiet and peaceful, and fairly deserted.
The last evening of our vacation, however, we all heard strange footsteps following closely behind us as we were walking up to our room in the holiday centre. We turned around and noticed a fairly young man moving very rapidly across the beach and getting closer to us. He was tall and wore a baseball cap. We didn't have any cell phones on us. I never saw Dad as worried as he was then and knew that something was terribly wrong. The sense of fear started to overwhelm Mom and me. We had had such a good time in town. Now, the night was rapidly turning into a dangerous situation.
We could hear the man's footsteps getting closer. Dad's face was almost pale. The so-called intruder (侵入者) had moved nearer and nearer when all of a sudden, the nearby vending (自动贩卖) machine started going crazy and spitting out cans of soda! The noise actually scared the intruder and he ran out of sight. My parents were shaking, but we all turned around to see who had put money into the vending machine downstairs, and actually saved us, but no one was around at all.Not a soul.
It's one vacation I will never forget.
（1）Where did the author spend her vacation?
A.Near a lake.
B.In a village.
C.At the seaside.
D.In a mountain.
（2）What happened on the last evening of their vacation?
A.They lost their way.
B.Their cell phones were missing.
C.Their money was stolen.
D.They were followed by a stranger.
（3）The underlined word “overwhelm” in Paragraph 2 means ________.
A.move
B.control
C.excite
D.impress
（4）What helped them get out of the trouble?
A.Their quick action.
B.Other people's kind help.
C.The young man's warning.
D.The noise from the vending machine.

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The four theme parks below offer the most thrilling(刺激的)rides and attractions in the world.
Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Located(坐落)in Virginia, USA, this theme paprk has some of the highest-rated thrill rides in the world. The park's famous roller coasters include Apollo's Chariot, Alpengeist, Griffon, the Loch Ness Monster and Verbolten. The park also has thrilling water rides, rides for kids, other rides, shows, tours, animal exhibits and more. Divided into nine areas representing European countries, the park has won an award for the quality of its food.
Everland
One of the world's most popular theme parks, Everland is located in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do province, South Korea. The park has 40 thrill rides, including a world-famous wooden roller coaster, and many other attractions such as an hunting ride, a zoo, indoor and outdoor water parks, shows and more.
Blackpool Pleasure Beach
This Lancashire amusement park is one of the most visited theme parks in the United Kingdom. Among the park's 125 rides and attractions are the tallest and faster roller coaster in the U. K., a classic wooden roller coaster, a steel tower ride, the biggest indoor dark ride in the world, a host of rides for kids and more.
PortAventura World
Located on Spain's Costa Daurada, this park is divided into six themed areas. Five areas represent different locations including Polynesia, Mexico, the American West, China and the Mediterrancan. The sixth and newest area has a Sesame Street theme. The park has many rides and attractions suitable for visitors of all ages.
（1）What did Busch Gardens win an award for?
A.The highest thrill rides
B.Good quality of its food
C.A Sesame Street theme area
D.A host of thrilling water rides
（2）What will a visitor loving thrill and hunting rides probably choose?
A.Busch Gardens Williamsburg
B.Everland
C.Blackpool Pleasure Beach
D.PortAventura World
（3）What is unique to Blackpool Pleasure Beach?
A.It has a classic wooden roller coaster
B.It has the fastest roller coaster in the world
C.It has the biggest indoor dark ride in the world
D.It has attractions suitable for visitors of all ages
（4）Where is the theme park including a China area located in?
A.Virginia
B.Yongin
C.Lancashire
D.Costa Daurada

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Danger-junkie orangutans(猩猩) in Borneo climb dead trees and shake then until they begin to fall. They scream with excitement as they cling to the falling tree. Just before the tree hits the ground the orangutans leap to another tree or vine, narrowly escaping death. While no one cab ask orangutans if they enjoy it as a person playing an extreme sport, one animal behaviorist sees this monkey fun as a bit of harmless thrill-seeking.
A growing number of scientists agree that animals are conscious and capable of experiencing basic emotions(情感), such as happiness, sadness, boredom or depression. A few scientists even see the possibility for higher animal emotions like love, jealousy and spite.
Five years ago, behaviorist and animal-rights activist Dr. Jonathan Balcombe stood on a Virginia hotel balcony watching two crows intimately groom (清洁) each other in the comfort of an abandoned billboard. He felt that the birds liked what they were doing, even if engaged in a natural, beneficial act, such as picking parasites (寄生虫) off the other's feathers. That moment changed the way he would view animals forever and led to a book, “Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good”, which is filled with hundreds of examples of animals living it up thanks to developed senses of touch, taste, sight, sound and smell.
Balcombe recounts a favorite example of Kenyan hippos (河马) having high-end spa treatment in a fresh water spring. They splay their toes, open their mouths wide and wait for a school of cleaner fish to remove parasites and slough off dead skin, he recalls. Balcombe knows that the hippos and the fish both benefit from this arrangement. “My interpretation is that it is also enjoyable for them ,” he says.
（1）Danger-junkie orangutans shook the tree to ________.
A.get some fruits
B.enjoy themselves
C.train their escaping skills
D.frighten other animals
（2）The purpose of the first paragraph is to ________.
A.describe an unusual scene among animals
B.give an example that animals can experience pleasure
C.make a comparison between monkeys with humans
D.show that animals can avoid danger
（3）The passage leads us to the belief that _____.
A.animals can experience emotions
B.animals have a way to adapt to their environment
C.animals can copy what humans do
D.animals are only eat-or-be-eaten beasts
（4）We can conclude from the passage that ________.
A.only a few animals have emotions
B.Balcombe's theory is not supported by other scientists
C.Balcombe has watched a lot of animals showing emotions
D.Balcombe can understand animal language

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Today, the world's diversity (多样性) of food crops is quickly decreasing. But scientists around the world are taking action. They are building seed banks. At seed banks, scientists store the seeds of many different crops.
There are now 1,400 seed banks around the world. However, some banks are in warm countries. If the electricity fails, the seeds will get too hot and die. Other seed banks are in countries troubled by war. Sometimes people damage the seed banks. If this happens, valuable seeds can be lost forever!
The organization Global Crop Diversity Trust decided they wanted to deal with this problem. So, they decided to build a global seed bank. This seed bank would contain a back-up, or extra copy, of all the world's seeds. Smaller seed banks would still collect and keep local seeds. But they would also send copies of their seeds to the global bank.
Scientists from the Global Crop Diversity Trust chose the cold, snowy mountains of Svalbard, Norway to build the global seed bank — the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (斯瓦尔巴全球种子库). Organizations, farmers, or local seed banks store their extra seeds there. And the people who place their seeds in the vault are the only people who can take them out. They pay to ship their seeds to Norway, but it does not cost them any money to store their seeds. The Global Crop Diversity Trust pays for this.
Cary Fowler is a scientist who heads the Global Crop Diversity Trust. He said, “If the Seed Vault simply supplies seed banks with copies of seeds that those banks lost by accident, the Seed Vault will be worth more than it cost.”
（1）Seed banks are built to ______.
A.research on seeds
B.produce new seeds
C.protect crop diversity
D.increase the number of seeds
（2）Compared with other seed banks, the global seed bank ______.
A.was built by the government
B.is more welcomed by farmers
C.is mainly used by great scientists
D.can provide a good environment for seeds
（3）What can we learn about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault?
A.It helps to pay the shipping cost.
B.No one can take seeds out of there.
C.There are no fees to store seeds there.
D.It mainly receives seeds from farmers.
（4）What is Cary Fowler's attitude towards the Seed Vault?
A.He feels it is very important.
B.He is surprised at it.
C.He thinks it costs too much.
D.He is uncertain about it.

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On Saturday my Catalan friend invited me to come along to a Calotada. Being from the UK, I had no idea what this would need, but he promised me it was a fun Catalan (卡塔兰) tradition, and so I agreed to go. I wasn't disappointed!
First, we took a train out to a Small town near Tarragona, about an hour away from Barcelona centre. I was already amazed by how different everything looked from the city as the train rushed through small towns, all sitting on the coastline.
When we arrived, we were greeted by the sight of a small wind instrument band and about a dozen people dancing in a circle. While my friend later told me that it is a traditional Catalan dance called La Sardana, at the time I was totally confused at what I was seeing! It seemed so strange but yet so lovely that they were doing this dance completely for themselves.
Once we had been fully entertained by the dancers, we finally went inside for the Calatada and it was soon revealed to me what it actually was. We sat down at the table and a huge plate of leeks (大葱) was placed in front of us. It was explained to us that you have to peel the leeks with your fingers, dip them in a (delicious!) sauce and eat them. This sounds easier than it was.
My friend had been right in the end, it had been an extremely fun day and it felt great to get involved in a local tradition of a place I am temporarily calling home. It really inspired me to learn more about the Catalan culture, although hopefully next time it will be something less messy!
（1）What made the author accept his friend's invitation?
A.To experience a different tradition.
B.To get a further knowledge of his friend.
C.To free himself from the pressure of studies.
D.To make a record of Catalan traditions.
（2）How did they go to a small town near Tarragona?
A.By taxi.
B.By train.
C.By water.
D.By bike.
（3）What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?
A.The author was tired of eating leeks.
B.They participated in the local dancers.
C.The author doesn't think the Catalan culture is perfect.
D.The author had a thorough research on Italian traditions.
（4）What is the best title for the passage?
A.Traveling with a Friend Abroad
B.A Special Dish Astonished Me
C.A Day's Journey Changed Me
D.Taking Part in Traditions

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How to save money to visit Shanghai Disneyland?
The “happiest place on earth” is a top destination on many families' bucket lists. But taking a vacation to Disney World can be difficult to do on a budget. There are some considerations that you can make to reduce the cost of your Disney World vacation.
1）Buy Souvenirs in Advance
Disney has influenced practically every industry, which makes it easy to find Disney items anywhere, from Walmart, Target, and your local grocery store to department stores and Amazon. You can save a lot of money by purchasing items before your trip at these less-expensive places than at Disneyland.
2）Make an Autograph Book
An autograph (亲笔签名)book is seen as a must-have by many Disneyland enthusiasts and is a memory you can take home with you. These books can cost anywhere from $7.95 to $19.95 at the Disney Store and up to $30 for the latest-and-greatest autograph book at Disneyland, such as the park's 60th anniversary edition. Other choices can get the job done for under $5. For example, you can buy a small photo album; cute pads or notebooks.
3）Eat Breakfast Before You Arrive
Breakfast is almost as pricey as lunch or dinner if you eat inside the Disneyland parks. If you have a hotel with a free breakfast, take advantage of it. If you want to eat out, eat at a local restaurant that is inexpensive or has a kids' menu, such as McDonald's which is close to the park.
4）Take Advantage of Discounts Offered to Special Groups
Disney offers a wide variety of discounts, including for military service members, college students, teachers, and youth groups. If you think you might qualify for a special discount or group rate, call the Disneyland Resort to book tickets.
（1）It may take you more money to buy souvenirs at_____.
A.Disneyland
B.Department stores
C.Walmart
D.Amazon
（2）How much do you pay for the park's 60th anniversary edition?
A.$7.95
B.$19.95
C.$5
D.$30
（3）What is one piece of the author's advice on breakfast?
A.You had better eat at Disneyland.
B.You should prepare it well at home .
C.You can eat at a local restaurant.
D.You can ask the hotel to supply it for free.

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Given Australia's size and the fact that early settlements were far apart, Australian society is remarkably homogeneous (同种的). The way of life in the major cities and towns is much the same, however many miles divide them. It takes a sharp ear to tell the differences between regional accents.
However, there is some difference in lifestyle between people in the city and those in the countryside. Almost 90 per cent of the population lives in the fast-paced cities along the coast and has little more than a passing familiarity with the desert. The major cities keep some colonial (殖民的) heritage, but the overall impression is modern, with new buildings reflecting the country's youth. By comparison, the rural communities tend to be slow-moving. For many years, Australia was said to have “ridden on the sheep's back”, a reference to wool being the country's main money-earner. However, the wool industry is no longer dominant. Much of Australia's economy is now achieved from natural coal and wheat, and by being the largest diamond producer in the world. Newer industries such as tourism and wine making are also increasingly important. Australians are generally friendly and relaxed, with a self-deprecating sense of humor. On the whole, Australia is a society without hierarchies (等级制度), an attitude generally held to stem from its prisoner beginnings.
Yet, contrary to popular belief, very few Australians have true prisoner origins. Within only one generation of the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, Australia had become a nation of immigrants. Originally coming almost entirely from the British Isles, today one in three Australians comes from elsewhere. Australia's liberal postwar immigration policies (政策) led to a growing number of survivors from war-torn Europe, most notably Greeks, Italians, Poles and Germans.
The emphasis has changed in recent years and today most of the new immigrants are from Southeast Asia. Today Australia is a ‘blend of nations' and although some racial (种族的) problems exist, it has generally been a successful experiment and the country is proud to have one of the most harmonious multicultural communities in the world.
（1）What does the writer mean by saying “It takes a sharp ear to tell the differences between regional accents.” in the first paragraph?
A.Australians speak Standard English with no local accents whatsoever.
B.You have to practice a lot to learn to understand the different accents.
C.The Australian regional accents are very difficult to understand indeed.
D.There is not much difference between the accents in different areas of Australia.
（2）Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Most Australians have ancestors who were prisoners.
B.The Australian economy is dependent on sheep exports.
C.Most people living in Australia come from Europe.
D.The pace of life is different in the city and in the country.
（3）We can infer from the passage that _____.
A.there are no signs of Australia's colonial past in its modern cities
B.Australia's recent immigration policy encourages immigrants from Southeast Asia
C.immigrants from Southeast Asia have brought racial problems
D.“riding on sheep's back” resulted in slow development in rural communities
（4）This passage mainly focuses on Australia's ______.
A.society
B.economy
C.racial problems
D.history