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Alaska, which was called Russian America before it was sold to the United States, joined the Unions as the forty-ninth state in 1959 .
Alaska is now the largest of all the 50 states of the U.S.A. It was in 1867 that President A. Johnson's Secretary of State (国务卿) , Seward , bought Alaska from the Russians at a cost of 7.2million. The buying of the huge northern land seemed at first something foolishly done. Not only was Alaska difficult to reach, but it was also hard to live in and it appeared to have no importance in time of war. Besides, there are volcanoes (火山) there as Alaska lies on the Pacific “ring of fire”. In Alaska large treeless areas are covered. with snow all the year. For these reasons the buying of Alaska was called “Seward's Folly (愚蠢) ”at that time.
However, in 1886, gold was found in Alaska, and people poured into this land. Since then other important natural resources were discovered, including oil. But most people visit Alaska in order to see the endless beauty of nature that northern land shows to them. For example, there are about 11,000 islands in Alaska. And in a certain area of Alaska the sun does not set for eighty - two days every year.
(1)Alaska is now ______ of the Union .
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(2)Alaska joined the Union as a state ______.
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A.92 years after Seward bought it
B.92 years before Seward bought it
C.as soon as it was sold to the U.S.
D.as soon as gold was found there
(3)The buying of Alaska was called “Seward's Folly” at that time because ______.
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A.it was difficult to reach and hard to live in
B.it appeared to have no importance in time of war
C.people only knew there were volcanoes there but didn't know it was rich in natural resources
D.of all the above reasons
(4)Now most people come to Alaska in order to ______.
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(5)In Alaska ______ for eighty - two days.
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阅读下列短文,从所给的四个选项中,选出最佳答案。
In the last 500 years, nothing about people--not their clothes, ideas, or languages--has changed as much as what they eat. The original(最初) chocolate drink was made from the seeds of a certain kind of tree by South American Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the World during the 1500's, and although it was very expensive, it quickly became popular. In London,shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today.
The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people died from hunger when the crop failed during the"Potato Famine"of 1845-1846.
There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction.Brazil (巴西)is now the world's largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in many other countries of South America. But it is native to Ethiopia(埃塞俄比亚), It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400's.
1. According to the author,which of the following has changed greatly since the 1400's?
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A. People's clothes.
B. People's food.
C. Chocolate drinks
D. People's languages.
2. What is true according to the passage?
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A. Chocolate drinks were served in shops in London during the 1500's.
B. Centuries ago, people often gathered in shops where chocolate drinks were served.
C. The best drinks sold in shops in London were chocolate drinks in the shop.
D. Some of the original chocolate drinks still exist today.
3. From the passage we learned that Peru is a country in________.
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A. the New World
B. the Old World
C. the Arab World
D. Europe
4. The word"Famine"probably means_______.
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A. fast growth
B. good harvest
C. serious need of food
D. rise in price
5. The main idea of the passage is that______.
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A. South America produces many new kinds of food.
B. shops became important meeting places in Londonafter the 1500's
C. foods travel from place to place
D. the Old World and the New World have differentkinds of food.
Writing
Directions:Read the following passage.Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information from the passage.Write NO
MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
A bicycle helmet is a helmet intended to be worn while riding a bicycle.They are designed to reduce impacts to the skull of a cyclist in falls.However, there is a debate on whether helmets are useful for road cyclists.
The World Health Organization promote the use of helmets as a strategy for preventing people' s heads from being injured by bicycle crashes or falls.Use of cycling helmets is supported by numerous groups in the United States.U.S.-based cycling activist John Forester suggests that helmet wearing could prevent 300 deaths a year in the U.S.out of a total of 1530 preventable deaths.Public Health Law Research reports that there is enough evidence to establish that bicycle helmet laws are an effective public health intervention(干涉)aimed to reduce the number of head-related deaths.Received opinion in some countries is that bicycle helmets are useful and that every cyclist should wear one.Professional bodies elsewhere have agreed, such as the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention.
Mayer Hillman, a transport and road safety analyst from the UK, does not support the use of helmets, reasoning that they are of very limited value in the event of a collision with a car.He compares it to drawing conclusions on whether it is worthwhile to buy lottery tickets.Cyclists' representative groups complain that focus on helmets diverts attention from other issues which are much more important for improving bicycle safety, such as road danger reduction.The UK's largest cyclists' organization, the CTC, believes that the "overall health effects of compulsory helmets are negative." The same report estimated that universal helmet use would save the life of one child aged 0 to 15 each year.
Up to now, the debate is with no consensus, but an organization has published a review of studies in 2011, saying there is a good deal of evidence that those wearing a helmet are more likely to crash than bareheaded cyclists.
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