Millions of people visit Yosemite National Park every year to see the tall waterfalls and mountains. These mountains are a splendid sight when viewed from the valley floor. Lots of stores, hotels, and restaurants are needed to handle the crowds. Also, water, roads, and other service systems are part of the infrastructure( 基础设施)that must be maintained.

Unfortunately, these systems are starting to break down. It is not just in Yosemite but in national parks around the nation.

Yosemite is thirty years old according to Dennis Galvin, a National Park Service worker. The park is not only old but worn out. Two or three times as many visitors come every year. That is too many visitors for the park to deal with.

Four years ago a storm washed out a water pipeline in the Grand Canyon. The National Park Service had to send water trucks to provide water for the visitors. Last month pipe almost broke again and roads had to be closed for a while.

Why hasn’t the National Park Service kept up the park repairs? There is lack of money. The United States has 378 mountains, parks, and wilderness areas. Between three and four billion dollars are needed for repairs.

Yosemite is one national park that does have money fro repairs. It has two hundred million dollars but cannot spend it any way it chooses. When the park workers started widening the road, they were forced to stop by the Sierra Club. The club claimed that the road work was damaging the Merced River that runs through the park. 

A Sierra Club lawyer, Julia Olson, feels that the infrastructure needs to be moved out of Yosemite. That way less pressure will be put on the already crowed park.

1. According to the text, the mountains in Yosemite look most splendid when

they are appreciated from _______ .

A.the bottom of the valleys

B.the top of the mountains

C.the side of the mountains

D.the edge of the valleys

2.National parks like Yosemite in the U.S. find it increasingly difficult to

meet the need of visitors because _______ .

A.their transport management needs improving

B.they spend too much on their service systems

C.their service systems frequently go out of order

D.they need help from environmental organizations

3.The main problem of Yosemite Park is its ________ .

A.modern water pipes

B.overcrowdedness

C.lack of water

D.narrow roads

4. According to the text, the Sierra Club is most likely to be _______ .  

A.an environmental group

B.an information center

C.a travel service

D.a law firm

 

 

 Texting is a great way to communicate and teenagers are doing just that. New research shows that on average, teens are sending 2,000 text messages a month, and doctors say it’s causing injuries.

13-year-old Bailey Baker keeps using her thumbs, sending text messages to her friends again and again. The past March may have been her best month ever, texting 8,000 times. Now, she says she’s feeling the pain. “Just mainly back and neck problems and thumb numbness,” she says.

Baylor-Garland Dr. Jane Sadler is seeing more and more teens who simply text until it hurts. She says parents, including Bailey’s mom, have no idea how much their kids are texting. “I was thinking she was texting about 25 texts a day,” says Lisa Baker. “Wrong! We’ve uncovered a problem.” It didn’t take Dr. Sadler long to find the problem. She gave Bailey the once-over and learnt that Bailey had developed Texting Teen Tendinitis(肌腱炎)

“A lot of them report pain in their thumbs, back and neck,” says Dr. Sadler. “When we look into it and examine a little bit further, we see texting is the main cause of the problem.” Dr. Sadler says back pain is caused by poor posture while texting. Bailey often texts for up to 2 hours a day; that’s a lot of wear and tear on the thumbs which over time, can break down. Dr. Sadler tells over-texting teens to look into the future. “What I tell them is ‘Hey, you might be normal now, but when you are 40 or 50, you can get arthritis (关节炎).’”

Dr. Sadler recommends limiting texting to 50 a day, and keeping good posture. Dr. Sadler also says touch screens are easier on the thumbs than keyboards and hand exercises are great to build up those muscles, making it easier to text.

68.Because of texting, Bailey Baker suffers from the following problems EXCEPT ______.

A.back pain                B.neck pain                C.  headache         D.thumb numbness

69.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 3 mean?

A.She gave Bailey Baker a quick examination.

B.She solved Bailey Baker’s problem at once.

C.  She gave Bailey Baker a piece of advice.

D.She let Bailey Baker send a text message again.

70.What can we conclude from Paragraph 4?

A.Teenagers won’t get hurt if they stop texting right now.

B.Poor posture while texting is the main cause of injuries.

C.  Thumbs won’t ache if teens text for no more than 2 hours a day.

D.Over-texting may have a bad effect on people in the near future. 

 

Mr.and Mrs. Gordon were sitting on the sand, reading their magazines. Mr. Gordon was too stingy(吝啬)to rent a chair. Their twelve-year-old daughter,Sandra, was playing at the water's edge. Suddenly a huge wave


lifted  Sandra up and carried her out to sea. Fortunately,


a lifeguard was on duty and he saw the wave carry Sandra away.

He ran along the beach and dived into the sea. He swam quickly to where


the girl, with her head only just above the water, was shouting for help. She was very frightened. When the lifeguard reached her,? she struggled(挣扎) with him, as drowning people often do. However, he was a skilful lifeguard and quickly took hold of her and swam with her back to the beach. By the time he reached it, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon had realized what had happened. They had run down to the water's edge. Neither of them could swim. They just stood in the shallow water, and worried about their daughter. Had the lifeguard reached her in time? Fortunately, he had. “That was quick work,young man,”Mr. Gordon said. He turned to his wife, “Give the lifeguard a dollar.” “A dollar!” Sandra cried. “Dad,how can you give him a dollar! He saved my life. I was half dead.” “Quite right, girl?” Mr. Gordon said, pleased by his daughter's awareness(知道) of the value of money. He turned to his wife again and said, “She's right. She was only half dead. Give him fifty cents. ”

36. What happened to Sandra?

     A. She ran into the sea.   

 B. Her life was saved by a lifeguard.

     C. She was drowned.    

  D. She died.

37. What did Mr. and Mrs. Gordon do when Sandra was carried out to sea by the wave?

      A. They shouted to the lifeguard.         

B. They dived into the water.

      C. Perhaps they were reading magazines.

      D. They offered the lifeguard money to save Sandra.

 38. Why was Sandra angry with her father?

      A. He did not give the lifeguard any money.   

B. He did not swim out to save her.

      C. He did not show the lifeguard hearty thankfulness.

      D. He gave the lifeguard too much money.

 39. Why was Mr. Gordon pleased with her daughter?

    A. She was safe again.      

    B. She was polite to the lifeguard.

C. He thought she did not want him to give the life-guard too much money.

    D. She gave the lifeguard fifty cents.

 

 

第二部分 阅读理解(共25小题。第一节每小题2分,第二节每小题1分;满分45分)

第一节 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When students think of learning a foreign language, the first thought is of books, exercises, and audio cassettes.Those are important to learning but sometimes a little bit boring.Therefore, it is time for us to spice things up a bit.

Things like a cellphone can keep your interest level high.It’s a perfect study material.You have it with you day after day, you are familiar with how it works and you can use it to practice whenever you have time.You don’t need to have your books by your side or stay in your room to listen to tapes.

Let’s take a look at how to add your cellphone to your study tools.

Set up your cellphone to use the language you want to study.Go to the menu, find settings, locate language and change it to English or Spanish, which benefits your language learning.

Look at the buttons and connect those items with the new vocabulary.This enables you to master simple words and phrases with little effort.For example, each time you open up your cellphone you’ll see “messages”, “games” and “calls made”.These words begin to take root if you see them again and again.

When you have time, take out your cellphone and start hitting buttons.You’ll be surprised at all the vocabulary you can learn by playing with the different menu items.Some things you’ll recognize immediately and others you can guess just by where you find them.

It can keep your learning fresh and interesting.And that’s important because boredom is a big problem with language learners.You need variety and a cellphone is one way to get it.

1.The underlined part “spice things up” in the first paragraph means “______”.

     A.make things interesting         B.make things realistic

         C.make things helpful             D.make things obvious

2.Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using a cellphone as a study material?

     A.We can study with it at any moment.

         B.It keeps our learning interest high.

         C.We can use it to practice freely.

         D.It offers the chance to practice learning.

3.By playing with a cellphone, you can ______.

     A.learn the words in the menu

         B.remember the messages sent by others

         C.improve the techniques of playing games

         D.become familiar with different kinds of languages

4.Why did the author write the passage?

     A.To stress the importance of language learning.

         B.To introduce the latest ways of language learning.

         C.To inform how to keep your learning fresh.

         D.To explain how to use cellphones to learn language.

 

 

第三部分:阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)

                                       A

    The desire to make exploration is born with man. Wherever his imagination goes, man also has a strong wish to go. A large part of human history is connected with the exploration of the world in which we live. Again and angina people have set out with surprising courage and patience to look into unknown regions and lands to see what had not yet been seen, to make known the unknown. With kites, balloons and aircraft they left the ground to pass through the lower atmosphere. Now the outer space receives their attention.

    Why should man take the trouble of conquering space? It is hard to list the specific practical benefits that will result in. But one knows, form past experience in other areas, that man will surely see and discover new thing s in space that will increase or scientific knowledge, and this new knowledge will find its way into valuable practical uses. What we learn about man himself, from his experience in space, and from the effects of space and the space flight environment on him, will be extremely valuable. The new techniques developed to carry out the exploration of space, and to keep man alive in space, will certainly find practical uses in everyday life in some way. The areas that will benefit are manifold. They include communication, generation of power, transportation and travel, food production, materials, fuels and many others. But to say definitely just what the practical results will be is almost impossible.

56. The main idea of the first paragraph is that        .

    A. man desire to explore what is unknown

    B. man often goes wherever his dreams to go

    C. man is no longer interested in the study of the land and sea now

    D. man’s history is his exploration of the world

57. The underlined word “manifold” in the second paragraph probably means        .

    A. vast           B. various        C. valuable       D. practical

58. The author seems to be in favor of        .

    A. doubting the necessity of the space exploration

    B. the exploration of space

    C. exploring more in space than in sea

    D. his experience in space

59. The underlined phrase “practical results” refers to the results        .

    A. that are obtained from experience

    B. that can be learned as knowledge

    C. that can be made use of

    D. helping us make further exploration

 

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