Welcome to Shawnee Mountain, a great place for skiing! All people can have a wonderful time here. For more information, you can visit www.shawneemt.com or call 570-421-7231.

【小题1】 Shawnee Mountain is a wonderful place for___________.

根据对话内容，从下面方框中选择适当的单词或短语填空，使对话内容完整正确，并将答案填写在答题卡标的相应位置上。

A:  Hey! I met a student from a green school in Dalian.

B:  A green school?     1.   is it?

A:  It is a school which supports the protection of the environment. In fact,    there are  2.  green schools in China. It’s wasteful to throw away glass,   paper and metal,  3.   every class in such schools collects waste that can be used again and then sells it for recycling（再利用）。

B:  Great! What else do they do?

A:  They also save energy and tricycle things at home, such as  4.  lights and saving water.

B:  If everyone tries to protect the environment, we will make the world much better.

A:  I agree. If we don’t, the future is   5.  .

B:  Anyway, public concern over the environment has greatly increased. There is hope for the future.

I often go to a shopping center with my mother. The shopping center is new and__1__. There are lots of great things there.  There are __2__and food. There are many people there. ___3__do many people come here to buy things? Do you know? Let me tell you. The things there are good and at a very great price. The ____4__there are nice and friendly. So I buy a T-shirt ___5__ red for only 2 dollars.
My sister Mary has a yellow sweater. It’s very nice. But it’s too small. She ___6____a new one. She goes to the shopping center with us on Sunday. Because she doesn’t go to __7____ that day. There are many clothes on__8____. They are very nice. They are in all___9___. There are red, black, red and blue ones. She likes a blue sweater very much. __10____it’s too big. At last, she takes a green sweater for only 0 dollars.

Welcome to Shawnee Mountain, a great place for skiing! All people can have a wonderful time here. For more information, you can visit www.shawneemt.com or call 570-421-7231.

1. Shawnee Mountain is a wonderful place for___________.

A. staying B. skiing C. climbing D. visiting

2. Two parents and a child of 45cm tall will pay ___________for the lifts on weekend,

A. $100 B. $86 C. $50 D. $43

3.If a soldier goes to the mountain, ___________should be shown for a lift ticket.

A. the proof of age B. the college ID

C. the phone number D. the active duty ID

4.It is known that people can go to Shawnee Mountain___________.

A. with expensive tickets at night   B. for 6 hours on Christmas Day

C. from Mid December to March        D. just from Monday to Friday

5.Which is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A. There are 2 holiday periods during a winter.

B. The prices now are not the same as last year.

C. People over 70 are also welcome to be there.

D. People can go to the mountain in the afternoon.

In Chicago, a computerized system has been developed that controls(管理)traffic on the city’s 235 miles of seven expressways. Now one—a controller—can follow the movement of Chicago’s traffic by looking at a set of lights. The system uses electric sensors(感应器) that are built into each expressway, every half a mile. Several times a second, the computer receives information from each sensor and translates it into green, yellow or red lights on a map in the control room. A green light means traffic is moving forty-five miles an hour, yellow means thirty to forty-five miles an hour, and red means heavy traffic—cars standing still or moving less than thirty miles an hour.

  “See that red light near Austin Avenue?”the controller asked a visitor.“That’s a repair truck fixing the road, and the traffic has to go around it.”At the Roosevelt Road entrance to the expressway, the light kept changing from green to red and back to green again.“A lot of trucks get on the expressway there,”the controller explained.“They can’t speed up as fast as cars.”The sensors show immediately where an accident or a stopped car is blocking the traffic, and a truck is sent by radio to clear the road. The system has lowered the number of accidents by 18 percent. There are now 1.4 deaths on Chicago’s expressway for each one hundred million miles traveled, while in other parts of the county there are 2.6.

  Traffic experts say that the Chicago system is the “coming thing”.Systems like Chicago’s are already in use on some expressways in Los Angeles and Houston.“Chicago has taken the lead,”said New York City’s traffic director and he added,“Chicago’s a good example.”

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案，并在答题卡上按要求作答。

1.The passage is mainly about ________ on expressways in Chicago.

  A. the traffic control system                  B. the movement of the traffic

  C. the electric sensors                       D. the traffic lights

2.When the cars move under 30 miles an hour, ________ on the map in the control room.

A. the red light appears                      B. the red light turns yellow

C. the yellow light appears                   D. the green light turns red

3. According to the passage, we may learn __________.

  A. some visitors are traveling on the expressway

  B. there is no heavy traffic on Chicago’s expressways

  C. the traffic on Chicago’s expressways is well managed

  D. the number of accidents in the US has dropped by 18%

4.In Paragraph 2 the underlined word “it” refers to ___________.

  A. the red light                       B. the truck that needs repairing

  C. the traffic                         D. the truck that is fixing the road

5.The writer writes the article mainly by _________.

  A. giving reasons and results           B. giving examples and explaining them

  C. describing what he thinks          D. asking and answering questions