storms; lives; rises; mountain; top; freezing; tourists; dangerous; are

Alaska Range(阿拉斯加山脉)is famous for its valleys and glaciers(冰川). It has many thick forests and big glaciers which are over millions of years old. It has more than a million 【1】 from all over the world. It is also one of the most【2】places on the earth.

Of all the peaks, Mount McKinley【3】the highest. It’s one of the most popular places to go for mountain climbing. It’s very difficult to climb because the

【4】of the mountain is covered by thick snow all year round, and there are many other difficulties like the【5】weather conditions, avalanches(雪崩), the heavy 【6】 and so on.

For these climbers it is an extremely dangerous climbing, many people have lost their 【7】on this mountain. However, the mountain climbers have never given up climbing it, and they enjoy the great challenges in climbing the mountain.

(1) One of the world’s 【1】(danger) sports is mountain climbing, and one of the most popular places for this is the Himalayas. The Himalayas run along the southwestern part of China. Of all the mountains, Qomolangma rises the highest and is the most famous. It’s 8844.43 meters high and so is very dangerous 【2】(climb). Thick clouds cover the top and snow can fall very hard. Even more serious difficulties 【3】 (include) freezing weather conditions and heavy storms. It is also very hard to take in air as you get near the top.

(2) The first people 【4】(reach) the top were Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary 【5】 May 29, 1953. The first Chinese team did so in 1960, while the first woman to 【6】(success) was Junko Tabei from Japan in 1975. Why do so many 【7】(climb) risk their lives? One of the main reasons is because people want 【8】 (challenge) themselves in the face of difficulties. The spirit of these climbers shows us that we should never give up 【9】(try) to achieve our dreams. It also shows that humans can sometimes be 【10】(strong) than the forces of nature.

A.城市的分布对于气候和水源等自然因素存在要求，对地形则不存在要求

B.城市都分布于交通不便且受严寒和酷暑侵袭而干扰较少的地方

C.聚落多分布在降水较多的热带雨林地区

D.乡村大多依山傍水，沿河流、山麓或公路分布

【1】这两句口诀中，不是省级行政区简称的有（ ）

A. 两个B. 三个C. 四个D. 五个

【2】对口诀的解释，正确的是（ ）

A. 京，指北京，行政中心为通州B. 黑，指黑龙江，地处我国最东和最北

C. 贵，指广西，行政中心为南宁D. 宁，指宁夏，为我国特别行政区之一

【3】以下地区少数民族种类最多的是（ ）

A. 京津冀B. 云贵川C. 黑吉辽D. 宁陕甘

of; long; keep; enough; but; for; call; and; when

The Great Wall of China has a history of over two thousand years. It runs from the east to the west in North China. It is about 6,300 kilometers 【1】 . Sometimes we also 【2】 it "Ten-thousand-Li Great Wall". It is one of the “Seven Wonders” of the ancient world.

The Great Wall is wide 【3】 for ten men to walk side by side. Horses can also run along it, too. The Great Wall was made 【4】 stones and bricks（砖）. There are huge stones on each side and on the highest part. 【5】 now some sections of it are worn out(受损).

There are tall watchtowers alone the Great Wall. Once upon a time, the soldiers kept watching the enemies（敌人） in the watch-towers day and night. They made fire on the towers to tell each other 【6】 the enemies came.

Nowadays we don’t use the Great Wall to 【7】 away the enemies any more. It is a famous place of interest to all the people in the world. Every year thousands of people come to visit it form all over the world

【1】该国2016年的人口自然增长率为（　　）

A. 20.1%B. ﹣0.07%C. ﹣0.7%D. 9.7%

【2】目前该国面临的人口问题可能是（　　）

A. 人口增长过快，就业压力过大

B. 环境恶化，住房紧张

C. 劳动力短缺

D. 劳动力过剩

A. 山地与丘陵的共同点是海拔多在500米以上

B. 平原与高原的共同特点是地面起伏小

C. 盆地中部一定是平原

D. 相对高度小，而绝对高度大的地形是平原

A. 10°SB. 20°NC. 40°ND. 60°S

It’s 8:30 a.m. at the Chengdu Research Base. Lin Wei and the other panda 【1】(keep) are preparing the milk for the baby pandas’ breakfast. At 9:00 a.m., they find that most of the babies are already 【2】(wake) and hungry. When the babies see the keepers, they run over with 【3】(excite) and some of them even walk 【4】 their friends and fall over.

Pandas do not have many babies, maybe only one every two years. The babies often die from 【5】(ill) and do not live very long. Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day 【6】(eat) about 10 kilos of bamboo. Many years ago, there were a lot more bamboo forests and pandas in China, but then humans started to cut down the forests. Scientists say there are now 【7】(few) than 2,000 pandas 【8】(live) in the remaining forests. Another 200 or so live in zoos or research centers in China and other countries.

An education program in Chengdu 【9】(teach) children in cities about pandas and other endangered animals. The Chinese government is also planting more bamboo trees so there will be more forests for pandas to live in. We all hope that in the future there 【10】(be) a lot more pandas than now.

A. 比例尺B. 方向C. 图例D. 经纬网