Death Valley is a land of beautiful yet dangerous extremes. Death Valley can be dangerously cold during the winter months. Storms in the mountains can produce sudden flooding on the floor of the Valley.

The air temperature during the summer has been as high as fifty- seven degrees Celsius. The sun can heat the ground so that the temperature of the rocks and soil can be as high as seventy -four degrees Celsius.

Death Valley contains evidence of several ancient volcanoes that caused huge explosions. Evidence of one of these explosions is called Ubehebe Crater. The explosion left a huge hole in the ground almost a kilometer and a half wide. In many areas of Death Valley it is easy to see where the ground has been pushed up violently by movement deep in the Earth. This movement has created unusual and beautiful rock formations. Some are red. Others are dark brown, gray, yellow or black.

The area was named by a woman in 1849. Thousands of people from other parts of the ountry traveled to the gold mining areas in California. They were in a hurry to get there before other people did. One group trying to reach California decided to take a path called the Old Spanish Trail. By December they had reached Death Valley.  They did not have to survive the terrible heat of summer, but there was still an extreme lack of 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, Slowly, they began co suffer from a lack of food. To survive, they killed 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. ” The name has never been changed.

Almost everyone who visits Death Valley visits a huge house called Scotty' s Castle. The building design is Spanish, with high thick walls to provide protection from the fierce heat.

The castle is named for Walter Scott , called Scotty. by his friends. He was a gold miner. He told everyone that he built the house with money he made from his gold mine. Many people believed him. But it was not really the truth.

1. The first two paragraphs discuss Death Valley' s ________.

2.The volcanoes mentioned in the third paragraph proved ________.

3.The woman who named Death Valley intended to ________.

4.If the passage continues, it will be about ________.

5.The main idea of the passage is about ________.

Allan, James，Brown, Della and Edward 正在查找网站来帮助他们解决问题。阅读第46至50题中的各人情况说明和A至F六家网站的介绍，并从所给的（A、 B、 C、 D、 E、 F）中选出符合各人情况的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。

1.Allan: The weather report said that a hurricane would hit the city. Tom wants to find information on how to protect his family from being destroyed during the hurricane.

2.James: Before learning about a butterfly, James was asked by his biology teacher to learn more about a butterfly in the process of doing research and then write a letter to humankind.

3.Brown: Thousands of animals around the world face extinction. Many more are threatened each year. Brown focuses on the situation of endangered animals and tried to understand how all living things are connected.

4.Della: Modern technology makes fishing easier. Yet overfishing has caused a lot of problems. China has taken some measures to solve the problem. Della wants to gain a deeper understanding of the effects of overfishing on some threatened species and tried to find out effective solutions.

5.Edward: Great leaders changed our lives. Edward, who studies politics, wants to find out detailed information about some famous political leaders of foreign countries.

Here you will find definitions of more than 3,200 terms used in discussing visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and cross-references.

E. http://www.fema.gov/kids/

This visually appealing government site teaches kids how to be prepared for disasters and prevent disaster damage. The site also tells teachers and parents what to do to help children after a disaster. It is appropriate for all ages.

F. http://www.nwf.org/

Find information on wildlife protection programs and wild animals through the articles, photos, quizzes, and games at this site. Learn how you can help protect wildlife which has close relationship to human beings.

根据以下提示，用5句话写一篇英语短文介绍微博，包括以下内容：

1.      微博的基本信息；

2.      微博的主要影响。

*微博  microblog     ** 隐私 privacy      ***误导性  misleading

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句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章连贯。

When I was in college twenty-five years ago, I spent four summers working as a maid in housekeeping at a grand hotel in downtown Chicago. I did not enter the world of housekeeping enthusiastically. I had been hoping to get a job as an office assistant. When that failed, I had no choice but to work as a maid.

It was tiring work, cleaning up to eighteen rooms a day. My poor attitude reflected my disdain(蔑视) for cleaning toilets, changing bed sheets, dusting, and vacuuming eight hours a day for the comfort of total strangers who rarely left a tip. My maid work was just so-so until the day I was assigned to the eighteenth floor.

That was Lorena’s regular floor. The only time another maid set foot on it was on Lorena’s day off. If you left a little rubbish on the floor, a small tissue under the bed, or a pillow uncleaned, Lorena would hunt you down when she returned. She’d ended her lecture to me with, “Take some pride in your work.”

She did. And so did Rosalie, Helen, Annette, Pearlie, Earline, and all the other career maids with more than one hundred years of experience among them. Their commitment to doing a good job and their belief that their work was a reflection of their character stuck with me throughout my professional career. I learned a lot from them those four summers.

[写作内容]

1以约30词概括上文的主要内容。

2以约120词谈谈暑假生活，内容包括：

(1) 你是否做过暑期工；

(2) 你打算如何度过高考后的暑假；

(3) 你认为怎样过暑假才有意义。

[写作要求]

1作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事．也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。

2作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

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概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，语篇连贯。

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In _____ eyes of the duke, Shylock’s life should be at _____ mercy of the people living near _______ River Thames.

______the Internet is of great help, I don’t think it’s a good idea to spend too much time on it.

The red light above the elevator ______ that he was at the tenth floor then.

In fact, it is not so helpful to give one some bread as it to teach him how to _____.

The way_____ he did it was contradictory _______  he had said earlier in the same week.

I am sorry, sir, but that kind of digital camera is no longer _______.