24. The valley was _____ in sunlight, and the children were singing and jumping with joy
A.bathed B. covered C. swam D. Surrounded
科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:阅读理解
Millions of people visit Yosemite National Park every year to see the tall waterfalls and mountains. These mountains are a splendid sight when viewed form 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’s 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 pipes 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 a lack of money. The United States has 378 monuments, parks, and wilderness areas. Between three and four billion dollars are needed for repairs.
Yosemite is one national park that does have money for 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 crowded park.
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
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
The main problem of Yosemite National Park is its ______.
A. rundown water pipes B. overcrowdedness
C. lack of money D. narrow roads
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
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科目:高中英语 来源:2007年高考安徽卷英语试题 题型:完型填空
完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该将涂黑。
It was the night of the full moon,a time which always drives Java’s young people mad with excitement.
Fireworks were lit long before the moon_ 36 .The big noise brought people out 37
the warm night to enjoy the interesting scene.Everywhere,there were the paper remains of 38
fireworks lying on the ground.Little boys 39__more and covered their ears as they waited 40
for the explosions.
The moon appeared above the horizon(地平线):huge, 41 ball high above the city,and the 42__filled with people,as Java began to enjoy one of the year’s greatest 43 :‘the Night of the Full Moon’,a festival(节日)that is especially popular 44 young people.
More and more young Javanese 45 together and walked slowly through the 46 . Joking and chatting,they moved towards the mountain 47 the city.They continued to climb 48 they reached the old temple(寺庙)at the 49 of the mountain.
After they were 50 the temple,they drank their water and ate their moon-cakes—delicious home-made ones, 51 of dried fruit and nuts.Outside,on the mountain,young people
52 cross-legged in circles,chatting and telling each other jokes.And 53 ,in their hundreds,more young people continued to make their way up the mountain to 54 the brightly shining moon.
By midnight,the fireworks had stopped shooting up from the 55 city in the valley below them.But during the night,the sound continued to be heard from the distance.
36.A.let out B.gave out C.came out D.set out
37.A.into B.at C.of D.from
38.A.burning B.used C.exploding D.broken
39.A.lit B.bought C.piled D.removed
40.A.patiently B.calmly C.worriedly D.excitedly
41.A.silver B.new C.colorful D.gold
42.A.mountains B.valleys C.streets D.shops
43.A.games B.meetings C.sports D.events
44.A.for B.to C.with D.in
45.A.danced B.gathered C.drank D.shouted
46.A.village B.scene C.night D.ground
47.A.on the edge of B.on the way to
C.in the center of D.in the direction of
48.A.while B.until C.unless D.though
49.A.tip B.back C.top D.bottom
50.A.inside B.near C.off D.across
51.A.fond B.little C.full D.free
52.A.jumped B.sat C.stood D.bent
53.A.so B.even C.yet D.still
54.A.follow B.show C.notice D.admire
55.A.clean B.gray C.peaceful D.empty
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014届福建省高三上学期第二次质检英语试卷(解析版) 题型:单项填空
What a beautiful sight! Wild flowers of different colors spread all over the hills and around the lake, _______ to the beauty of the valley.
A. to add B. being added C. adding D. added
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科目:高中英语 来源:2013年全国普通高等学校招生统一考试英语(辽宁卷解析版) 题型:完型填空
A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill.Usually she 36 play in the small garden.She could see over the garden fence and across the valley a wonderful house with shining golden windows high on another hill.37 she loved her parents and her family, she desired to live in such a house and 38 all day about how wonderful and exciting 39 must feel to live there.
At the age when she gained some 40 skill and sensibility(识别力), she 41 her mother for a bike ride 42 the garden. Her mother finally allowed her to go, 43 her keeping close to the house and not 44 too far. The day was beautifu. The girl knew 45 where she was heading! 46 the hill and across the valley, she rode to the 47 of the golden house.
48 she got off her bike and put it against the gate post, she focused on the path 49 to the house and then on the house itself. She was very disappointed when she 50 that all the windows were 51 and rather dirty.
So 52 and heart-broken, she didn’t go any further. She 53, and all of a sudden she saw an amazing 54. There on the other side of the valley was a little house and its windows were golden. Looking at her little home, she 55 that she had been living n her golden house filled with love and care.Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her nose.
1. A.might B.should C.would D.must
2. A.Unless B.Although C.Since D.But
3. A.dreamed B.worried C.asked D.shouted
4. A.this B.that C.it D.which
5. A.different B.scientific C.musical D.basic
6. A.begged B.blamed C.invited D.paid
7. A.inside B.outside C.through D.along
8. A.insisting on B.relying on C.arguing about D.wondering about
9. A.travelling B.running C.riding D.walking
10. A.madly B.rapidly C.exactly D.possibly
11. A.Over B.Down C.Around D.Beside
12. A.windows B.steps C.center D.gate
13. A.Until B.As C.While D.Because
14. A.getting B.introducing C.leading D.moving
15. A.felt B.learned C.concluded D.found
16. A.transparent B.bright C.plain D.wide
17. A.anxious B.angry C.serious D.sad
18. A.turned around B.cheered up C.settled down D.dropped in
19. A.hill B.valley C.background D.sight
20. A.imagined B.decided C.realized D.guessed
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科目:高中英语 来源:2013届浙江省杭州市高二3月月考英语试题 题型:阅读理解
Here in the hills were buffaloes (野牛). I had even, in my very young days — when I could not live till I had killed one of each kind of African animal — shot a bull out there. Later on, when I was not so interested to shoot as to watch the wild animals, I had been out to see them again. But twice I had to go back without success.
But one afternoon as I was having tea with some friends outside the house, Denys came flying from Nairobi and went over our heads westwards; a little while after he turned and came back and landed on the farm. I drove down to the plane to bring him back, but he would not get out of his plane.
“The buffaloes are out feeding in the hills,” he said, “come out and have a look at them.”
“I cannot come,” I said. “I have got a tea-party up at the house.”
“But we will go and see them and be back in a quarter of an hour,” he said.
This sounded to me like the suggestions which people make to you in a dream. So I went up with him. It did not take us long to see the buffaloes from the air; we counted them as they peacefully mixed and separated on the open ground closed in by bushes. There was one very old big black bull, and a number of young ones; if a stranger had come near to them they would have heard or smelt him at once, but they were not prepared for something from the air. They heard the noise of our machine and stopped feeding, but they did not seem to be able to look up. In the end they realized that something very strange was about; the old bull first walked out in front of the others. Suddenly he began to go down the valley side and after a moment he broke into a run. The whole group now followed him, rushing hurriedly down into the buses. In a small wood of low trees they stopped and kept close together. Here they believed themselves to be out of sight. We flew up and away. It was like having been taken there by a secret unknown route.
When I came back to my tea-party the teapot on the stone was still so hot that I burned my fingers on it.
1.The writer drove to the plane ________.
A.to pick Denys up and take him back to the tea-party |
B.to have a talk with Denys |
C.to do some repairs for Denys |
D.because they wanted to go up in the plane |
2. Denys said it would only take a quarter of an hour to go and see the buffaloes ________.
A.but it took much longer than that |
B.and he was right |
C.if they went by a secret route |
D.but it wasn’t a serious suggestion |
3.When the buffaloes heard the noise of the plane, they ________.
A.looked up at it |
B.ran away immediately |
C.continued feeding |
D.were uncertain what to do |
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