Question

【题目】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
Death Valley is a huge place. It is more than 225 kilometers across the southern part of the state of California, and across the border (边界) with the state of Nevada.
It can be dangerously cold during the winter months. The air temperature during the summer can be as high as 57℃. The heat of Death Valley has killed people in the past. It will continue to kill those who do not honor the climate. Death Valley does not forgive (原谅) those who are not careful.
Death Valley was named by a woman in 1849. Thousands of people from other parts of the country traveled to the gold mining (开采) areas in California. They were in a hurry to get there before other people did.
Many people were not careful. They made bad choices or wrong decisions. One group of people had reached Death Valley by December. They avoided the terrible heat of summer, but there was not enough water. There were few plants for their work animals to eat. The people could not find a pass through the tall mountains to the west of the valley. They had to kill their work animals for food and began to walk out of the valley.
As they left, one woman looked back and said, “Good-bye, death valley.”
A. Slowly, they ran out of food.
B. Death Valley has a long history.
C. The name has never been changed.
D. Death Valley is a beautiful but dangerous place.
E. That was the year after gold was discovered in California.

Answer 1

【答案】D；E；A；C
【解析】文章大意：本文介绍了死亡之谷的危险以及它的名字由来。这里冬季非常冷，夏季非常热。在很多人去加利福尼亚州的黄金开采区淘金时，他们在12月份进入这个山谷，没有足够的食物，他们杀了工作的动物作为食物。当他们走出山谷时，一位妇女说：“再见了，死亡之谷”，这样死亡之谷的名字再也不改变。

A. Slowly, they ran out of food. 句意：慢慢地，他们没有了食物。

B. Death Valley has a long history. 句意：死亡之谷有很长的历史。

C. The name has never been changed. 句意：名字从没有变过。

D. Death Valley is a beautiful but dangerous place. 句意：死亡之谷是一个美丽但又危险的地方。

E. That was the year after gold was discovered in California. 句意：那是在加利福尼亚发现金子之后的一年。

（1）根据It can be dangerously cold during the winter months.“它在冬季的月份期间很危险”故此处介绍死亡之谷很危险，故选D。
（2）根据Thousands of people from other parts of the country traveled to the gold mining (开采) areas in California. “成千上万的人们来自其他地区去加利福尼亚州黄金开采区”可知此处这里发现了黄金，故选E。
（3）根据They had to kill their work animals for food and began to walk out of the valley. “他们不得不杀了工作的动物作为食物”因此他们吃光了事食物。故选A。
（4）根据As they left, one woman looked back and said, “Good-bye, death valley.”可知死亡之谷的名字产生了，流传下来了，故选C。