America’s national parks are like old friends. You may not see them for years, but just knowing they’re out there makes you feel better. Hearing the names of these famous old friends ---Yellowstone and Grand Canyon --- revives memories of past visits and promotes dreams of those still to come.

   Ancient fossil beds, Revolutionary War battlefields, mountain ranges, and monuments to heroic men and women who influenced this country are all a part of our National Park System (NPS). The care and preservation for future generations of these special places is entrusted to the National Park Service. Uniformed Rangers, the most visible representatives of the Service, not only offer park visitors a friendly wave, a helpful answer, or a history lesson, but also are rescuers, firefighters, and resource protection professionals. The National Park Service ranks also include historians, biologists and other experts who preserve and protect everything.

   Modern society has brought the National Park Service both challenges and opportunities. Satellite and computer technologies are expanding the educational possibilities of a national park. Cities are turning to the Park Service for expert assistance to preserve their cultural heritage, and are also working with the NPS to turn abandoned railroad tracks into bike and hiking trails.

To help meet these challenges and take advantage of these opportunities, the National Park Service had formed partnerships --- some dating back 100 years, some only months old --- with other agencies, state and local governments, community groups and individuals who share the National Park ethic.

1.Which of the following statements is TRUE about uniformed rangers?

A. They take tourists to national parks.      B. They always act as tourist guides.

C. They help set up new national parks.      D. They protect the National Park System.

2.The National Park Service does all the following EXCEPT _____________.

A. offering help to visitors                   

B. influencing the Nation

C. informing people of the National Park System   

D. helping preserve the cultural heritage

3.What is probably the best title for the passage?

A. American National Parks                         B. National Park Service

C. National Park Service Partnerships         D. Care and Preservation of American National Parks

4.What will the paragraph following this passage most probably discuss?

A. Cultural heritage of the National Park.

B. Educational possibilities of National Parks.

C. The work that has been done by the partners.

D. The preservation of national resources in America.

Can you imagine that you can save your own life during a heart attack(心脏病发作) by coughing(咳嗽)? Let’s see how…

A heart attack can happen to anyone. Let’s say it’s 4:17 p.m. and you’re driving home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. Not only was the workload(工作负担) extremely heavy, you also had a disagreement with your boss, and no matter how hard you tried, he just wouldn’t see your side of the situation. You’re really upset and the more you think about it, the more nervous you become.

All of a sudden you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to spread out into your arm and up into your jaw（下巴）. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home, unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.

What can you do? You’ve been trained in CPR but the guy who taught the course didn’t tell you how to perform it on yourself.

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seems in order. Without help the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel faint（晕眩的）has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very powerfully. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and last long, as when producing sputum（痰）from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without stopping until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs（肺）and coughing movements squeeze(挤压) the heart and keep the blood circulating.

The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm(节奏). In this way, heart attack victims can get to a phone and, between breaths, call for help.

Now, do you understand the whole matter? Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!

According to the passage, CPR is most probably something done to       .

A. regain someone’s breath and heart beat  

B. help someone treat a heart attack by himself

C. teach people how to stay in good state  

D. train people how to stay calm when facing dangers

According to Paragraph 5, coughing during a heart attack helps        .

A. to relax the heart                     B. to get oxygen into the lungs

C. to keep the blood circulating            D. to reduce the pain in the chest

We can learn from the passage that          .

A. a long day’s work usually results in heart attacks  

B. not only the chest aches when one suffers a heart attack  

C. people should attend a CPR course to survive heart attacks

D. one should cough loudly immediately one’s chest aches

In which section of a newspaper can you read this passage?

A. Health Care        B. Advertisement.        C. Family.         D. Teaching.

第二节语法填空 (共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31～40的相应位置上。
Child labor has been a problem for many years. Over a hundred years ago, Charles Dickens shocked many of his readers when he described the conditions ___31___ which young children worked in British factories. The conditions Dickens described continue, almost unchanged today, in many parts of the world. The only difference is ___32___ today’s employment of children is confined to small industries and family businesses, such as hotels, restaurants and ___33___ (particular) farms, rather than to large factories. The children not only receive nothing or very ___34___ for their long hours of work, but also they ___35___ (prevent) from attending school. Therefore, when they become older they are ___36___ (able) to do any other kind of work.
The solution ___37___ the problem of child labour is clearly better laws to protect young children greater supervision (监督) of industry and heavier fines for ___38___ who break the laws. Only in this way ___39___ young boys and girls be allowed to enjoy the most valuable time of ___40___ lives --- childhood.

There are many TV programs on Chinese cuisines(烹饪、美食)，but few are like A Bite of China（舌尖上的中国）. It tries to bring something new by introducing more cultural features related to dishes, such as eating habits and wonderful stories about food.

It’s said that more than 100 million Chinese people are watching the program. Most Chinese people see this program as more than just the regular food shows. They see it as an amazing documentary providing a special view of Chinese as well as the relations between people and food and between people and society.

On the other hand, the documentary also stimulates(刺激) Chinese people’s consumption(消费). Taobao, one of China’s biggest online shopping sites, reports that the search(搜索) on food items that were introduced by the documentary has increased to 4 million times within one week, and sales have increased to 5.82 million, or 20%.

To get enough good stories, the production team spent three months doing research and interviews in about 60 cities before they started making the documentary last July. Filming lasted about nine months.

Liu Wen, the director, says “As CCTV-9 serves as a window, allowing the world to better understand China, the documentary aims to help the world not only appreciate the beauty of Chinese cuisines, but also learn Chinese customs.”

1.A Bite of China is a     .

2.This program is quite different from other food shows because it has more features of     .

3.The main idea of the 3^rd paragraph is that the program brings a new opportunity on      .

4.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to this passage?

According to a new study by Israel researchers from University of Haifa, posting blogs to express feelings and emotions is therapeutic for children aged 13-17. Psychology professors Meyran Boniel-Nissim and Azy Barak have found that a teenager writing a publicly-viewed blog on the Internet is more effective for relieving stress rather than keeping a private diary. The study, published in the journal Psychological Services, supports that expressing oneself through writing can be therapeutic.
To conduct the research, Boniel-Nissim and Barak randomly selected Israeli high school students who displayed a certain degree of stress. The teenagers were then divided into six groups. Two groups were asked to post blogs twice a week about their social difficulties, but only one of them was asked to open the blogs for comments. The next set of groups were also asked to blog twice a week to post about whatever was going on in their mind, again with one group allowing comments. The two control groups were asked to keep an old-fashioned private diary.
The researchers then collected the blog posts and diaries to discuss the adolescents’ emotional and social position. From the research, they saw that the greatest improvement in mood was with the bloggers who wrote about their personal troubles and allowed people to interact with their posts. The research also noted that the comments were mostly positive and constructive. Boniel-Nissim and Barak said that the commentators’ interactions helped the bloggers while they were distressed. The conclusive research noted that expressing yourself on the Internet not only let others know what was personally going on with you, but also helped you figure out some things about yourself too.
【小题1】The underlined word “therapeutic” in Paragraph 1 can be best explained as “     ”.