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     The mountain town of Canton is at an elevation(海拔) of
6,000 feet. It is   1   by thick underbrush and pine trees.
Because of six years of drought, thes   2   are a major fire
danger. Thousands of trees and tons of underbrush are going to
be   3   over the next five years at a minimum cost of $ 3
million. The   4   will be removed first,  then the trees will
be overturned and removed. A cleared nonflammable area will
then  5 surround the town of 4,000.
     Residents look forward to the work,   6   it will help
their town survive a future inferno(地狱). "But there are two
  7    ," said one resident. "All the extra trucks are going to
make traffic    8    bad. Once the area is cleared, we have to
make sure dirt bikers don't try to make the     9     area their
personal playground. "
    A recent fire burned 4,000 acres and destroyed 11 homes
in 10 Hamilton. The fire was raging(汹涌)toward Canton,
but a sudden rainstorm  11  the fire. Residents know that
they won't get lucky twice, so they are    12      this massive
clearing operation.
    Ninety percent of the cutting and clearing will be paid
  13   federal funds. Unfortunately, if the trees are on private
property, they must be paid for by the residents  14  . Prices
can range as high as $1,000 to cut and remove one tree.
  15     say that residents can apply for state and federal loans
if   16  .
     "Well, what good does that do me?" asked Thelma, a 65-
year-old widow. "I'm living on  17  security. I've got four
trees on my property. The government's not going to  18 
me money when they know there's no way I can pay it back.
  19  what am I supposed to do? These planners with all their
big ideas ought to think of the 20  people. "

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(     )3. A. planted      
(     )4. A. mountain    
(     )5. A. safely      
(     )6. A. for          
(     )7. A. causes      
(     )8. A. pretty      
(     )9. A. enlarged    
(     )10. A. nearby      
(     )11. A. start out  
(     )12. A. operating on
(     )13. A. with        
(     )14. A. them        
(     )15. A. Government  
(     )16. A. possible    
(     )17. A. social      
(     )18. A.loan        
(     )19. A. But        
(     )20. A.big          
B. circled            
B. animals            
B. refreshed          
B. brush              
B. dangerously        
B. when              
B. problems          
B. fairly            
B. enriched          
B. far                
B. put out            
B. looking forward to
B. by                
B. their own          
B. Officials          
B. important          
B. private            
B. borrow            
B. And                
B. large              
C. surrounded  
C. grasses    
C. cut        
C. town        
C. conveniently
C. because    
C. reasons    
C. so          
C. abandoned  
C. distant    
C. go out      
C. carrying out
C. about      
C. themselves  
C. Residents  
C. likely      
C. public      
C. lend        
C. So          
C. great        
D. covered      
D. trees        
D. removed      
D. village      
D. possibly      
D. whether      
D. matters      
D. that          
D. cleared      
D. near          
D. remove out    
D. working on    
D. from          
D. they          
D. Peasants      
D. necessary    
D. native        
D. pay          
D. Or            
D. little        

The Heritage(遗产) at Risk programme aims to understand the overall state of England’s heritage by assessing each of its different elements. In particular we need to indetify those that are facing the greatest pressures and threats. We will use thes information to work out how to reduce those pressures and in turn to calculate the resources needed to make our unique heritage of historic places safe.

You can search for sites on the register by entering a site name,location,street or educational block in the box below.

Conservation areas

   A nationwide survey of conservation areas indicates that approximately 1 in 7 is at risk  from neglect(疏忽),decay(腐烂)or unpitying change.

   Show your suport for our campaign go save conservation areas from unavoidable declineand receive a free campaign pack by registering. There are some 9,300 conservation areas across England, meaning that we all live in or near to one or visit one regularly for work, shopping or rest. They are the element of England’s heritage that is all around us and which touches all of our lives. But until now no one had a clear idea what condition they were in.

Buildings

The task of assessing condition and risk started with buildings. Following a survey of all grades of listed buildings in London, English Heritage published in 1991 the first annual register of those at risk there.

The success of this London work led to the national buildings at risk strategy in 1998, and publication of a register of buildings at risk covering all grade I and II listed buildings and structural scheduled monuments in the country, at risk and vulnerable(易受伤害的).

Parks&Gardens

There are 1,600 entries on the current English heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. Sites at risk have typically been adversely(不利地) affected by development and neglect; often they have been changed by development and are faced with major change. Sometimes development beyond the boundary of a registered landscape can be just as harmful as construction within its boundaries; this is especially true that development would influence designed viwes that extend beyond the chosen site itself.

1.the purpose of using the information to work out how to reduce pressures is to      .

A.assess each of English heritage’s different elements

B.identify those that are facing the greatest pressures and threats

C.calculate the resources needed to make heritage of historic sites safe

D.help you to search for sites at risk on the register

2.It can be inferred  from “Conservation areas” that conservationareas across Elngland      .

A.are almost all at risk from neglect, decay or unpityuing change

B.can be entered with a campaign pack free of charge

C.are in very close connection with our lives

D.are in whatever condition people are sure about

3.The text mainly talks about      .

A.English heritage at risk    B.historic places of interest

C.English heritage register   D.location of English heritage

4.According to the last paragraph, the bad effect development has on the sites at risk is that      .

A.it has changed the sites at risk with no intention

B.it can sometimes cause harm beyond the registered boundaies

C.it would affect  the designed views instead of the chosen sites

D.it has neglected the local people of special historic interest

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