---Why not join us in the game?

   --- ________.

A．Sure，please do                       B．No，you do the same

C．Oh，that’s all right                     D．OK，coming

 

—May I have the honor of dancing with you?

—______.

A. With pleasure  B. Thank you just the same   C. That’s a good idea        D. Oh, it’s kind of you

 

Probably you have seen photos of the Grand Canyon（峡谷）, the great valley in the desert country of Arizona. But you must go there yourself to feel its true size and beauty. The Grand Canyon is one of the greatest natural wonders of the world

The Colorado River formed the Grand Canyon over millions of years. Slowly, the river cut down through hard rock. At the same time, the land was rising. Today the canyon is 1.5 kilometers and 445 kilometers long. The oldest rocks at the bottom of the canyon are more than 1 billion years old. The width varies from about 200 meters to 29 kilometers across. The rim or top of the canyon is about 2,300 meters above sea level on the South Rim, and about 3,000 meters on the other side. As a result, there are different kinds of plants and animals on opposite sides of the canyon. The South Rim is dry desert country. The North Rim has tall forests.

The canyon looks different at different times of day, and in different seasons and weather. At sunrise and sunset the red, gold, brown and orange colors of the rocks are especially clear and bright. In winter, the canyon is partly covered with snow.

The view from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon is the best. Most visitors come here and stay in campgrounds or hotels. Every point along the canyon’s edge offers a different view.

The North rim of the Canyon is quieter. It takes all day to drive there from the South Rim because there is only one bridge across the Colorado River. On the way, you go through Navado Indian lands, and a colorful pink desert called “The Painted Desert”.

1.The best way to feel the true beauty of the Grand Canyon is to________.

A．see its photographs	B．listen to the report about it
C．watch its introduction on TV	D．go there yourself and visit it

2. The scene of the canyon is ________.

A．various depending on different time and places

B．almost the same

C．various depending on different time

D．various depending on different places

3. If you want to visit the North Rim from the South Rim, you________.

A．can go there in many direction	B．won’t spend much time on the way
C．can visit The Painted Desert on the way	D．needn’t go across any bridges

4. If you want to have a visit to the Grand Canyon, you’d better go to _______.

A．the North Rim

B．the South Rim

C．the bottom

D．Navado Indian Lands

 

I came to India a year ago to find a village in which I could live and write but it was many months before I settled down happily in this Himalayan community.

    I wasted a lot of time looking for the “typical” village. Yet no such thing exists. Conditions are quite different from village to village. But the villages I stayed in had much in common---poor, dirty and backward. Often the villagers themselves were puzzled and doubtful. Why had I come? I had put aside my work as a political journalist because my ideas had changed. I had come to believe that what was happening in the Third World was more important than anything else. But to understand how three—quarters of the world population live, and what effect their future might have on ours, I felt that I first had to try and share their way of life.

   In the end I chose a mountain village because it was little cooler than those in the plains. I took the bus from town along a rocky road. Then came a rough walk down a steep path to the river. After this I began the climb into the hills. Whenever I stopped to catch my breath, there was a beautiful scene. After several hours’ walk the village came into sight.

1.After the writer had arrived in India,________.

A.he spent a year writing about the place he lived in

B.he spent quite some time looking for a suitable place to live in

C.he stayed in an Indian village working for the poor

D.he lived in a Himalayan community for many months.

2.While looking for a typical village, the writer found__________.

A.he was searching for the impossible

B.all the villages were exactly the same

C.he was doing something enjoyable

D.the villagers were curious about him

3.Before coming to India, the writer________.

A.had been a successful politician

B.had made a decision to work for India

C.had studied India culture for some months

D.had worked for newspapers and magazines

4.The write decided to change his way of life because__________.

A.he no longer found his work interesting

B.he hoped to live a peaceful life in the countryside

C.he wanted to find out more about the Third World

D.he wanted to try his luck in a foreign country

5.The village the writer finally chose to live in_________.

A.lay at the end of a rocky road

B.had a beautiful sight of the river

C.was a short walk from the river

D.had better weather than those in the plains.

 

The Eskimos believed that a human being is made up of a body, a soul, and a name, and it is not ___1___ unless it has all three. This ___2___ has a great ___3___ on the Eskimos daily life and runs like a golden ___4___ through the Eskimos culture.

As for the soul of man, the Eskimos do not claim to know exactly what it is… but, who does? They see it, however, as the beginning of life, and the energy ___5___ which life cannot continue.

An Eskimo’s name is ___6___ to give life of ___7___. It has in it all the good qualities of all the persons who have been called by it. Many Eskimos believe that a newborn baby ___8___ because it wants ___9___ name and will not complete until it gets it. 

Immediately after a birth, some wise elders ___10___ to ___11___ the child. The name that is ___12___ must be ___13___ of someone who has died ___14___. When my son was born, everyone realized that ___15___ was great-grandfather, Mequsaq(who had died a few months ___16___,) who had been reborn in him. The newborn baby had a slight squint(看一眼) in ___17___ eye that old Mequsaq had ___18___ to the enemy ride in the battle. This was taken as a ___19___ from the name spirit that the baby ___20___ be called Mequsaq.

1. A. separate  B. complete    C. serious       D scientific

2. A. thought  B. idea    C. belief  D. theory

3. A. result     B. effect  C. control       D. touch

4. A. thread    B. line     C. way    D. rope

5. A. with       B. without      C. by      D. along

6. A. believed B. taken  C. held    D. regarded

7. A. his own  B. its own       C. own    D. itself

8. A. sobs       B. laughs C. weeps D. cries

9. A. it    B. his      C. her     D. its

10. A. run       B. discuss       C. gather D. appear

11. A. name    B. call     C. hold    D. dress

12. A. decided B. selected      C. elected       D. demanded

13. A. this      B. these   C. those   D. that

14. A. recently       B. long ago     C. just now     D. meanwhile

15. A. this      B. that     C. it D. who

16. A. since    B. later    C. ago     D. before

17. A. the other      B. the same     C. the different      D. other

18. A. hurt      B. wounded    C. lost     D. injured

19. A. choice  B. decision     C. notice D. sign

20. A. could    B. might  C. would D. should