The four theme parks below offer the most thrilling (刺激的) rides and attractions in the world.
Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Located (位于) in Virginia, USA, this theme park has some of the highest-rated thrill rides in the world. The park’s famous roller coasters include Apollo’s Chariot, Alpengeist, Griffon, the Loch Ness Monster and Verbolten. The park also has thrilling water rides, rides for kids, other rides, shows, tours, animal exhibits and more. Divided into nine areas representing European countries, the park has won an award for the quality of its food.
Everland
One of the world’s most popular theme parks, Everland is located in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do Province, Korea. The park has 40 thrill rides, including a world- famous wooden roller coaster, and many other attractions such as a hunting ride, a zoo, indoor and outdoor water parks, shows and more.
Blackpool Pleasure Beach
This Lancashire amusement park is one of the most visited theme parks in the United Kingdom. Among the park’s 125 rides and attractions are the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the UK, a classic wooden roller coaster, a steel tower ride, the biggest indoor dark ride in the world，a host of rides for kids and more.
PortAventura World
Located on Spain’s Costa Daurada, this park is divided into six themed areas. Five areas represent different locations including Polynesia, Mexico, Far West, China and the Mediterranean. The sixth and newest area has a Sesame Street theme. The park has many rides and attractions suitable for visitors of all ages.
1.What did Busch Gardens Williamsburg win an award for?
A. The highest thrill rides. B. Good quality of its food.
C. A Sesame Street theme area. D. A host of thrilling water rides.
2.What will a visitor loving thrill and hunting rides probably choose?
A. Busch Gardens Williamsburg. B. Everland.
C. Blackpool Pleasure Beach. D. PortAventura World.
3.What is unique to Blackpool Pleasure Beach?
A. It has a classic wooden roller coaster.
B. It has the fastest roller coaster in the world.
C. It has the biggest indoor dark ride in the world.
D. It has attractions suitable for visitors of all ages.
4.Where is the theme park including a China area located?
A. In Virginia. B. In Yongin.
C. In Lancashire. D. On the Costa Daurada.
假如你是李华，最近收到了你的美国朋友Jenny的来信。他在信中说：由于刚进入高中还不能适应新环境，不知道如何去结交新朋友，因而情绪低落。请你给他回信，内容如下：
1.向Jenny表示问候和安慰（你的同学和你面临同样的问题，所以不必过于担心）；
2.针对他的问题提出以下建议：
⑴放学后邀请同学一起参加活动，这有助于你们互相更好地了解；
⑵你的同学遇到麻烦时，你去帮助他们。你遇到困难时向同学求助；
⑶你对友谊的理解。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.信的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
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短文中共有10处错误，错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧)，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线( \ )划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词的下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
I had a interesting dream last night. I dreamed that I took part in a race in the sports meeting. At first, I could not to run very fast and fell behind. So I didn’t lose heart and kept running. All the student on the playground cheered me on, “Come on!” I was so encouraging that I ran faster and faster until I caught up all the other runners. I felt like a superman. In the end, I got to the finishing line first. I won the race. I felt very proudly of myself. Many of my classmates throw me up into the air. Just at that moment I woke up and found me still lying in bed ! What interesting the dream was!
阅读下面材料，在标有61~70 的空格处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Michael: Hello, Mrs. Smith. I’m Michael for The Daily Mirror and I’m carrying out a survey into public opinions1.the city bus service.
Mrs. Smith: The bus service? I don’t use it2.I have to go shopping.
Michael: How do you think the bus service could be3.(improve)?
Mrs. Smith: Well, buses must turn up on4. I mean, you look at the timetable and you think, “Oh, well. Five minutes to wait. But it turns out to be an hour. ”
Michael: Do5.other people in your family use the bus service?
Mrs. Smith: My husband. He uses it more often . 6., when he does need to use it, he’s often angry at it. Once he waited up to 50 minutes at the station for a bus. As a result, he was 7. for work. Fortunately, a neighbor8.works in his office often gives him a lift.
Michael: That would be nice.
Mrs. Smith: So I think there should be some ways of9.(warn) people when a bus is not going to arrive and certainly you’d better provide much10.(much) bus service.
When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to ________ and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the ________ side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the ________ to keep in good health, or advice about how to behave and conduct oneself in ________. If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to suffer ________, leaving out half of it or keeping the ________ without the title. Therefore, the scissors would ________ before they start, or halfway done when I find out the regretful ________.
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both ________ your attention. You can only take up one of them, ________ has to wait or be given up. But you know the ________ is unpredictable—the changed situation may not allow you to do what is ________ behind. Thus you are caught in a difficult ________ and feel sad. How ________ that nice changes and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life changes greatly on your ________ of one choice to the other.
In fact that is what ________ is like: we are often faced with the two opposite ________ of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is ________ to one thing only after we get into another. The former may be more important than the ________ and give rise to a divided mind. I still remember a philosopher’s remarks: “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual ________ may not be a bad one.
1.A. cut B. collect C. buy D. print
2.A. other B. opposite C. front D. back
3.A. way B. situation C. manner D. attitude
4.A. class B. society C. play D. designing
5.A. pain B. damage C. wound D. injury
6.A. test B. word C. paper D. text
7.A. use B. cut C. stay D. continue
8.A. condition B. result C. pain D. trouble
9.A. value B. worth C. means D. favourite
10.A. another B. one C. the other D. the rest
11.A. future B. past C. force D. dream
12.A. remained B. left C. worried D. interested
13.A. position B. surrounding C. ground D. part
14.A. dares B. comes C. deals D. happens
15.A. dislike B. job C. feeling D. preference
16.A. cutting B. life C. weather D. friendship
17.A. methods B. conditions C. sides D. opening
18.A. drawn B. placed C. paid D. put
19.A. head B. latter C. above D. below
20.A. action B. remark C. movement D. choice
Big cats have existed on the earth for millions of years, though scientists aren’t sure exactly how long. But a new study indicates that a skull (颅骨) of a snow leopard (豹) relative that was recently unearthed is 4.4 million years old. That makes it the oldest big cat fossil (化石) ever found.
A team of US and Chinese scientists unearthed the skull in Tibet. This creature is not a direct ancestor to big cats, but it is closely related to the snow leopard, study leader Jack Tseng told the Associated Press. The fossil lends evidence to the belief that big cats existed in Asia and spread out from there.
Big cats are at the top of the food chain and have few predators of their own. Big cats include snow leopards, clouded leopards, tigers and lions. Based on genetic judgements, most scientists believe they first existed in Central Asia. But previously, the oldest known big cat fossil was 3.6 million years old and found in Africa.
The new fossil findings were published in the November 13 issue of the science journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Tseng and his team were fossil hunting in the Himalayas in 2010 when they discovered some bones, including the buried cat skull. The researchers were able to determine its age by studying the surrounding rocks and soil. The skull indicates that the animal was about the size of a clouded leopard, which can grow up to 50 pounds. In 2012, the team returned to unearth more cat bones.
David Polly from Indiana University told the Associated Press that the fossil is “convincingly older than the current record holder”. He added that there could be even older big cat fossils in the Tibetan plateau to uncover.
1.What does the newly unearthed skull prove?
A. Big cats might have their origins in Asia.
B. The oldest fossil is 4.4 million years old.
C. The snow leopard is the oldest big cat.
D. The skull is of big cats’ direct ancestor.
2.What does the underlined word in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. relatives. B. enemies.
C. partners. D. protectors
3.How do the researchers know the skull’s age?
A. By measuring its size and forehead.
B. By examining other bones around it.
C. By studying its chemical composition.
D. By exploring the rocks and soil around it.
4.Where was “the current record holder” in the last paragraph found?
A. Asia. B. Africa.
C. America. D. Australia.
