Introduction

Pear Lake is 1 kilometer west to Zhuwo Village, Yanchi Town, Mentougou District ,Beijing, its altitude is about 400 meters. In 1958 ,a reservoir was built, which was called as Zhuwo Reservoir at that time. Explored by Mentougou Tourism Office, the reservoir turned into a tour scenic spot and changed its name as “Zhenzhu lake”. Go upward along the lake, and you can experience the dam style, Xinghua Village,Sanxian Cave, Huxinshuangliu Island, 55 kilometers lake station, 24 Dongmingtielong, Asia’s first bridge ,Tongxin Islang,Shifang Bridge ,Hengliu Bay, Camping Island, Pearl Villas and Pear Lake.

Highlights

You can also visit an ago-old cave, “Gaibuyan” and frontier fortress ancient city, “Yanhe City”; ruins of the Great Wall “Seven Floor”, Xianren Cave, site of Boshan Temple and other attractions. At the same time, while viewing the sight-seeing, you can go fishing,play in the water, hunt, andtake leisure(空暇) and have a taste of delicious farm special disher. Water there is clear and as calm as a mirror; blue sky , white clouds , mountains and tree shadows are reflected in the water .It is known as Yanjing’s three small gorges (峡谷) of the north or Small Lijiang. It is surely a shining pearl of the valey of Yongding River of the western Beijing.

Traffic

Take bus 336 from Pingguoyuan Subway to Hetan; take Mid-size bus to Zhaitang and then transfer to small public bus to Zhenzhu Lake.

Pearl lake fee and opening hours

Admission 15yuan    Opening hours 8:00-17:30

Tips

① You had better use sun lotion (润肤霜) and sun glasses to avoid sun burn..

② Please bring enough memory card of your camera.

③ Please pay attention to climb mountain or walking in resort.

1.What can we know from the first paragraph?

A.Pearl Lake is one kilometers from Beijing.

B. Pearl Lake has been a reservoir nearly half a century.

C. Pearl Lake is surrounded by mountains.

D. Pearl Lake has a good place for picnics.

2.When we go to Pearl Lake ,we can ______.

A.enjoy scenes like those of South China	B.see it’s near a river of Western Beijing
C.get many delicious things to eat	D.drink the pure sweet water from the lake

3.What we should pay attention to if we go to visit Pearl Lake?

A.Traffic difficulties.	B.The weather.
C.Mountain view.	D.A tight schedule.

4.The passage must come from ______.

A.a text

B.a magazine

C.a newspaper

D.an advertisement

 

It was 1961 and I was in the fifth grade. My marks in school were miserable and, the thing was, I didn’t know enough to really care. My older bother and I lived with Mom in an ugly multi-family house in Detroit. We watched TV every night. The background noise of our lives was gunfire and horses’  hoofs(马蹄) from “Wagon Train” or “Cheyenne”, and laughter from “I Love Lucy”, or “Mister Ed”. After supper, we’d lie on Mom’s bed and stare for hours at the TV screen.

But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But, she was much brighter and smarter than we boys know at the time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses where she cleaned books. So she came home one day, switched off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. “You boys are going to read two books every week,” she said. “And you’re going to write a report on what you read.”

We moaned（不满,发牢骚） and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn’t have any books in the house other than Mom’s Bible. But she explained that we would go where the books were: “I’ll drive you to the library.”

So pretty soon there were these two peevish（坏脾气的）boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly（不情愿） among the children’s books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them.

The first book I read clear through was Chip the Dam Builder. It was about beavers（河狸）. For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my surroundings as did this virtue visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home.

It didn’t dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip（快速翻动）of a page.

Soon I began to look forward to visiting this quiet sanctuary form my other world. I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened: I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn’t wait to get home to my books.

Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery(儿童神经外科)at John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can’t believe my life’s journey, from a failing and indifferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform critical surgery.

But I know when the journey began the day Mom switched off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library.

1.We can learn from the beginning of the passage that ___________.

A．the author and his brother had done well in school

B．the author had been very concerned about his school work

C．the author had spent much time watching TV after school

D．the author had realized how important schooling was

2.Which of the following is not true about the author’s family?

A．He came from a middle-class family.

B．He came from a single-parent family.

C．His mother worked as a cleaner.

D．His mother had received little education.

3.How did the two boys feel about going to the library at first?

A．They were afraid	B．They were reluctant.
C．They were impatient.	D．They were eager to go.

4.The author began to love books for the following reasons EXCEPT that ___________.

A．he began to see something in his mind

B．he could visualize what he read in his mind

C．he could go back to read the books again

D．he realized that books offered him new experience

 

阅读理解

The Three Gorges (三峡) Dam, the largest dam in the world, is also the largest engineering project on the face of the earth. It aims to make the mother of all floods, the Changjiang River, into a tame river and it will be the largest power source for much of eastern and central China. It will create a huge, deep-water lake, and make it possible for 10 000 ton ocean-going ships to sail 1 500 miles inland from the Pacific to the city of Chongqing with its 30 million people, making it the world's largest river port.

    Construction has already started. The dam will be about 6 860 feet long and 611 feet high, at a spot called Sandouping near Yichang.

    After many years of investigation (调研) experts have drawn a conclusion that this grand project will do a great deal of good. The most important thing is flood control. By building a dam instead of new coal plants to meet its growing demand for electricity, China will give off much less poisonous gases into the air.

    However, some scientists don't agree to the project. They say that Chongqing and dozens of other cities along the river will put much waste into the reservoir (水库) which can do harm to people, fish and other living thing that depend on the river. Sedimentation (沉积) and damage of a breach(决口)are problems, too.

    The Three Gorges Dam could be considered, when it is finished in 2009, a new eighth wonder of the world as to the size alone.

1．Which is not the purpose to build such a huge dam?

    A. To make electricity.

    B. To prevent floods.

    C. To improve navigation (运输).

    D. To make it a wonder.

2．Where does the dam lie?

    A. Near Chongqing.

    B. Near Yichang.

    C. In the Three Gorges.

    D. In Wuhan.

3．Some scientists fear that ________.

    A. when the dam is built, the balance of nature may be destroyed

    B. sedimentation may occur

    C. a breach may cause millions of people to die or to be homeless

    D. electricity will not be as much as expected

4．According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT right?

    A. When finished, the dam will be one of the main bases of power source of China.

    B. People have different ideas about the setting up of the dam.

    C. It will take many years to build the dam because people want to see whether it will be safe and strong enough.

    D. Chongqing will become the largest river port in the world when the dam is finished.

 

句子翻译（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

1.扩大了的欧盟拥有五亿多人口， 该人口是美国的两倍。

The _________ European Union has a population of more than half a billion people, ________ ________ ________ as the population of the United States.

2.大坝将要生产相当于燃烧4,000万吨煤所产生的电量，但却不会造成那么严重的空气污染。

The dam will generate electricity _________ _________ about 40 million tons of coal _________ _________ so much air pollution.

3.平均来说，美国每年发生800次龙卷风，80人死亡、1,500 人受伤。

_________ _________, there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year, causing about 80 _________ and 1,500 _________.

4.孟子认为，人之所以不同于动物，是因为人性本善。

Mencius believed that the _________ _________ man is different from animals ________ _________ man is good.

5.英特网让全世界的人在任何时候的交流成为可能。

The Internet _________ _________ _________ for people in the world ________ communicate at any time.

 

The 30-mile road that runs through the mountains of Willie Valley makes most drivers′ hands sweat. But Andersen, a 46-year-old father of four, wasn’t expecting any trouble on the road last New Year’s Eve, when he set off for a ski trip to the Bear Mountains with nine-year-old daughter Mia, four-old son Baylor, and nine-year-old neighbor Kenya. Andersen had driven through the Valley hundreds of times over the years.

The weather was fine. But the higher they drove, the more slippery the road became. Rounding a sharp U-turn, Andersen saw a heavy truck off the road and immediately hit his brakes. In a minute, the car was going at 25 miles per hour down the mountain before falling down from a ten-foot dam into the extremely cold Logan River.

The crash had broken a few windows, and within seconds, the car was filled with water. “It was frightening that we were going fast into deep water,” remembers Andersen, a soft-spoken manager.

Having lost all sense of direction, Andersen began to search the freezing water for the kids. Mia had been right next to him in the front seat; now, in the blackness, he couldn’t find her. “I thought, if I don’t get out, maybe none of us are going to get out.” Andersen got out of his seat belt, swam through a broken window, and, deeply and quickly, breathed air at the surface. That’s when he saw a group of men, about ten in all, appear at the top of the dam. One after another, they rushed down into the water. Helping onto safety all the three children, they began to shout at the father, “Who else is in the car？”

Andersen says respectfully, “It was like the sight of angels.”

1. What might be the main cause of the car accident？

A. The bad weather.                        B. The high dam.

C. The sudden brake.                                D. The heavy truck.

2. Andersen didn’t expect any trouble on the road because _____.

A. he was familiar with the road

B. he was good at driving

C. his hands didn’t have sweat

D. the weather was fine

3. What can be learned from the last paragraph？

A. Andersen lost consciousness in the water.

B. Strangers helped Andersen out of the car.

C. Andersen liked Mia most among the children.

D. Strangers teamed together to save three children.

4.The underlined sentence is to express Andersen’s feeling of being _____.

A. tired                     B. excited                     C. doubtful                    D. thankful

5.Which of the following can be the best title of the text？

A. Stay calm when in trouble

B. Drive rounding a U-turn

C. Miracle rescue from a river

D. Mystery of the Bear Mountains