—____ the workers are very tired, _____they keep on working.

?? — They are great. We must learn from them.

A. Because; /??????? B. Though; /????????? C. Because; so?????? D. Though; but

Hotels can make a person’s stay away from home as restful as possible. Hotels provide warm beds to allow guests a peaceful night’s rest. Besides, some hotels offer guests special services such as newspapers to read in the morning, fresh coffee, and even breakfast. Hotel workers want their guests to feel warm and welcome when they stay in their hotel.
One hotel near the Arctic Circle, however, is different. This hotel gives its guests a cold welcome. The Ice Hotel, in Sweden, is all made of ice. The Ice Hotel might sound strange, but in some ways it is a special hotel. It has a front lobby where guests check into the hotel, plenty of rooms to sleep in, and even room service, which guests can use to have food delivered to their rooms. The Ice Hotel is different, though, because most of the items are made from ice.
It takes more than 30 tons of ice and snow to build the Ice Hotel. It melts(融化) in the summer and is rebuilt each winter. Different builders and artists create the Ice Hotel, so each winter this famous hotel has a new shape and design.
The effort of building the Ice Hotel is worth it, however. Walking into the Ice Hotel is like walking into a diamond. The walls reflect even the smallest bits of light. Ice pillars（柱子）support the roof. The floor below shines like glass. Almost every inch of this hotel sparkles inside. Visiting the Ice Hotel is truly an unusual experience.
Temperatures inside the Ice Hotel are usually below freezing. Guests wear warm jackets, hats, gloves, and thick boots. Even the owners of the Ice Hotel know that staying in a building with walls of ice four feet thick can be a bit cold. They have a solution though. The Ice Hotel has a sauna for its guests. A sauna is a room filled with steam, where guests can warm themselves. In a way, then, one could say that the Ice Hotel does give their guests a warm welcome after all.
【小题1】Why must the Ice Hotel be rebuilt each year ?

One terribly cold day, a snowstorm hit our area. Needing firewood, I quickly set out with my best friend, Bruce, to look for a tree to cut down. Cutting down a tree in a snowstorm can be dangerous. (1) So to have a friend who could warn me of dangerso was important.
When I chose a big 23-meter-tall tree and prepared to cut it down, Bruce suddenly warned me, “Don’t cut down that tree! It’s too close to the power line!” I wasn’t sure about it. So I decided to disregard his warning. I couldn’t wait to finish the job and go back home. I began cutting down the tree. (2) When the tree fell, there was no longer any doubt whether my friend was right.
The tree caught the power line, bringing it to the ground. I considered cutting the tree off the line. After all, electricity can’t travel through wood. As I reached out my finger to touch the tree, pain ran up my arm and through my head. I had been shocked!
After I returned home and told my mother what happened, she quickly called the power company. Workers from the power company soon arrived. One of them asked if I had touched the tree, and when I told him I had, his face turned pale. “You should have been killed,” he said. It was my boots that saved my life.
(3)Within two hours, the workers removed the tree. Soon the snowstorm calmed down——but not my mother. Even though she was glad that I wasn’t hurt, my mother was still serious with me. After all（毕竟）, I shouldn’t have brushed off my friend’s warning.
【小题1】将①处改成同义句。
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【小题2】将②处翻译成汉语。
【小题3】将③处用It takes sb. some time to do sth. 句型改为同义句。
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Have you ever planted trees before?   Every year, millions of people, both   1   ,   plant many trees. But this may not be the best way to make your home a    2   place.
Last week we visited a park in Hebei. We were     3    to  find most of the trees had been burned. The workers told us that the trees    4    soon after they were planted because they weren’t watered well enough.    5    workers burned them and cleaned the place for     6   trees to be planted this year.     7    a card found in one of the dead trees, a student wrote, "I hope this tree will grow up with me to     8    the backbone(栋梁) of our country.”The workers said that the survival of the trees was really more    9   than the number of the trees that were planted.
Some people in Beijing now have a  new idea that they can donate(贡献) some  money and let professionals (专业人员)  plant and  10  the trees.
1. A. boys and girls
B. the old and the young
C. mother and father
D. students and teachers
2. A. larger        B. warmer     C. greener     D. smaller
3. A. surprised      B. pleased     C. happy       D. interesting
4. A. planted        B. grew      C. bought      D. died
5. A. When          B. So        C. Because     D. Though
6. A. new          B. old        C. dead        D. few
7. A. From          B. Over      C. Above       D. On
8. A. hold          B. need      C. be          D. plant
9. A. interesting                  B. beautiful
C. impossible                 D. important
10. A. takeaway                   B. take down
C. take care of                D. take out

It was reported that a fire broke out in a tall building in Beijing on Thursday afternoon. No one was killed in the fire. The building, which caught fire, is near the three-tower shopping and office complex(综合体) named Xihuan Plaza. One of the three towers was in heavy smoke because of the polyfoam（泡沫塑料）outside. The fire was put out at about 3:34 pm, 16 minutes after the firemen received alarms（报警）.

Witnesses said the fire broke out at about 3:15 pm. The shopping center had people inside evacuated（疏散）shortly after the fire. By 4:50 pm, all the workers from the center returned.

1. The fire happened on a    ▲    , when people were working in the office.

2. When the firemen put out the fire, the fire lasted for     ▲     minutes.

3. The workers went back to work     ▲     an hour after the fire was put out.

4. Though the fire frightened people there, it killed     ▲    .

5. The fire didn’t     ▲     until it was 3:34.