By the year 1869 when the first transcontinen...

By the year 1869 when the first transcontinental railroad was finished, over 350,000 pioneers had taken the Oregon Trail to head west and start a new life, which is known as the Gold Rush Period in American history. Many of these were women and most were accompanied by children.

Before heading west, many women often spent their day doing nothing more than visiting, needlework, and the occasional gardening of flowers. Others were not from as wealthy families and had to work alongside their men as laborers. Neither type was in most cases prepared for the hardships that lay ahead.

Once they did reach their destination, the work was far from over. A house would need to be built. Women quickly learned to use all kinds of tools right alongside their husbands. At the first sign of spring, a garden would need to be planted. Pioneer women also had to deal with dangerous wild animals, including bears and lions. Indians were also a concern, and some did fall to their deaths by the Indians’ hand. Where were the men when all this was being done? Working the fields and mining were the two most usual occupations. Their remaining work, which there was plenty of, fell to the women and the oldest children if there were any.

Women who headed west learned quickly that there was much more to life than teas and visiting. They had no choice but to struggle for survival. This was their life.

1.What is the passage mainly about?

A. Changes in the Gold Rush Period.

B. New life in the West.

C. Great people in American history.

D. Pioneer women to the West.

2.By mentioning women’s life before heading west in paragraph 2, the author implies (暗示) that ________.

A. it was a real struggle for women to adapt to the hard life in the West

B. it was not reasonable for women to give up their comfortable life

C. it was a better choice for women to experience a new and hard life

D. it was necessary for women to change their lifestyle completely

3.According to the passage, which was NOT the problem women faced when heading west?

A. They had no choice but to throw away many of their beloved things.

B. They could not take their children along because of the hard journey.

C. It was common that they lost their husbands in some accidents.

D. They suffered from diseases or even lost their lives.

4.Women were kept busy with all the following work EXCEPT _________.

A. building a house

B. planting a garden

C. driving wild animals away

D. caring for the Indians

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America’s first transcontinental railroad, completed 150 years ago today at Promontory Summit in Utah, connected the vast United States and brought America into the modern age. Chinese immigrants contributed greatly to this notable achievement, but the historical accounts that followed often ignored their role.

Between 1863 and 1869, as many as 20,000 Chinese workers helped build the dangerous western part of the railroad, a winding ribbon of track known as the Central Pacific. At first, the Central Pacific Railroad’s directors wanted a whites-only workforce. When not enough white men signed up, the railroad began hiring Chinese men for the backbreaking labor. Company leaders were skeptical of the new recruits’ ability to do the work, but they proved themselves not only capable but even superior to the other workers.

Chinese workers cut through dense forests, filled deep narrow steep-sided valley, constructed long trestles(高架桥) and built enormous retaining walls(防护墙) -- some of which remain complete and undamaged today. All work was done by hand using carts, shovels and picks but no machinery. However, progress came at great cost: an estimated 1,200 Chinese laborers died along the Central Pacific route.

Despite these facts, Chinese workers were often left out of the official story because of their identity of foreigners. On the transcontinental railroad's 100th birthday, the Chinese workers were still not honored. It was another fifty years later that their role was gradually highlighted. To celebrate the railroad’s 150th anniversary in 2019, the California assembly passed a resolution in 2017 to recognize and honor the Chinese railroad workers by designating May 10, 2017, and every May 10 thereafter, as California Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial Day.

1.What might be the best title for the text?

A.The Birth of the Central Pacific Cost Dearly

B.May 10--A Special Day for Chinese Immigrants

C.Chinese Workers’ Contributions Gained Recognition

D.The 150th anniversary of the Central Pacific Railroad

2.What does “they” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A.Chinese laborers. B.White workers.

C.Company leaders. D.Railroad directors.

3.Why does the author make such detailed descriptions in Paragraph 3?

A.To prove Chinese workers’ superior skills.

B.To stress the danger and difficulty of the work.

C.To describe the grand scenery along the railroad.

D.To show notable achievements made by Chinese workers.

4.What does the text intend to tell us?

A.None so blind as those who won’t see. B.No pains, no gains.

C.Truth will come to light sooner or later. D.Doing is better than saying.

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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词) 或括号内单词的正确形式。

A 19-year-old girl posing for a photo on the railroad tracks was hit and killed by a train on Saturday afternoon. The girl, _1.__ name has yet to be released, was __2.__(report) posing for a selfie on a track in a village, Guangdong province. The section of the railway is famous for its beautiful rose blossoms.

Witnesses said that the girl did not realize a train was approaching. There were many visitors _3.(take) photos alongside the tracks, and some people shouted warnings, __4.__ no one succeeded in getting the girl’s attention. __5.__ employee got off the train to examine the girl and called the police immediately _6.__ the accident occurred. __7.__(late), she was sent to a nearby hospital by ambulance. According to the nurse on duty that day, the victim showed no sign of life upon her arrival at the hospital.

This is not the first time that a visitor __8.__(kill) by a train on that section of the tracks, said one of the villagers. More and more visitors, especially young people, are finding their way onto the train lines, especially those near flowerbeds and spring blossoms. They like to photograph __9._(they) in the scenic spots.

Local police warned people that the new trend of taking selfies while standing on train tracks puts many people’s lives __10._ risk.

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I still keep the photo taken by my mom and treasure it as my life. That was many years ago when I was taking summer ______ in college and was moving into an apartment. I was carrying two ______ with everything that I was going to need to ______ the 6 weeks of classes. It is the last time I can remember ever traveling that ______.

Since then my possessions have ______. Though most of them like my furniture are ______, there are occasions when I feel ______ down by all of them. I am sure that I will need two trucks rather than two suitcases if I ever ______ again.

One thought, however, brings me ______. It is the knowledge that when I make my ______ journey from this world-I am dead, I won’t ______ any of those things with me. The only things I will take with me will be what I have packed in the suitcase of my ______. I will be carrying with me every ______ thing I ever did, every loving thought I ever shared, and every bit of ______ I ever brought into this world to make others laugh. I will be carrying all the goodness I gave to others, all the______ I was able to share, and all the joy I created. These things won't be weighing me down. Instead, I will be surely ______.

As you are ______ for your own final trip-completely prepared, make sure that you should not make your ______ heavy. Make sure that the belongings in your home ______ take second place to the love in your heart. When you ______ it in Heaven, God and all His angels will smile.

1.A. journeys B. holidays C. lectures D. classes

2.A. trucks B. suitcases C. books D. computers

3.A. bring out B. take away C. get through D. pay for

4.A. hard B. light C. unforgettably D. happily

5.A. gone B. appeared C. lessened D. grown

6.A. expensive B. useful C. beautiful D. enjoyable

7.A. weighed B. put C. turned D. calmed

8.A. treasure B. possess C. move D. demand

9.A. confusion B. matter C. hate D. comfort

10.A. final B. pleasant C. tiring D. latest

11.A. compare B. take C. fill D. stand

12.A. soul B. body C. home D. college

13.A. strange B. little C. kind D. smart

14.A. knowledge B. hope C. thought D. laughter

15.A. love B. information C. time D. money

16.A. burst out B. worn out C. given up D. lifted up

17.A. ready B. eager C. fit D. responsible

18.A. world B. weight C. travel D. heart

19.A. hardly B. always C. rather D. never

20.A. cover B. wrap C. unpack D. untie

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When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, dogs were by their sides, according to a study published in the journal Science.

Robert Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jennifer Leonard of the Smithsonian Institute, used DNA material—some of it unearthed by miners in Alaska—to conclude that today’s domestic dog originated in Asia and accompanied the first humans to the New World about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. Wayne suggests that man’s best friend may have enabled the tough journey from Asia into North America. “Dogs may have been the reason people made it across the land bridge,” said Wayne. “They can pull things, carry things, defend you from fierce animals, and they’re useful to eat.”

Researchers have agreed that today’s dog is the result of the domestication(驯化) of wolves thousands of years ago. Before this recent study, a common thought about the precise origin of North America’s domestic dog was that Natives domesticated local wolves, the descendents(后代) of which now live with people in Alaska, Canada, and the Lower 48.

Dog remains from a Fairbanks-area gold mine helped the scientists reach their conclusion. Leonard, an evolutionary biologist, collected DNA from 11 bones of ancient dogs that were locked in permafrost(永冻层) until Fairbanks miners uncovered them in the 1920s. The miners donated the preserved bones to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where they remained untouched for more than 70 years. After borrowing the bones from the museum, Leonard and her colleagues used radiocarbon techniques to find the age of the Alaska dogs. They found the dogs all lived between the years of 1450 and 1675 A.D., before Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov who were the first known Europeans to view Alaska in 1741. The bones of dogs that wandered the Fairbanks area centuries ago should therefore be the remains of “pure native American dogs,” Leonard said. The DNA of the Fairbanks dogs would also expose whether they were the descendents of wolves from North America.

Along with the Fairbanks samples, the researchers collected DNA from bones of 37 dog specimens(标本) from Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia that existed before the arrival of Columbus. In the case of both the Alaska dogs and the dogs from Latin America, the researchers found that they shared the most genetic material with gray wolves of Europe and Asia. This supports the idea of domestic dogs entering the New World with the first human explorers who wandered east over the land bridge.

Leonard and Wayne’s study suggests that dogs joined the first humans that made the adventure across the Bering Land Bridge to slowly populate the Americas. Wayne thinks the dogs that made the trip must have provided some excellent service to their human companions or they would not have been brought along. “Dogs must have been useful because they were expensive to keep,” Wayne said. “They didn’t feed on mice; they fed on meat, which was a very guarded resource.”

1. The underlined word “remains” is closed in meaning to ______.

A. leftover food     B. animal waste

C. dead bodies    D. living environment

2. According to the study described in Paragraph 4, we can learn that ______.

A. ancient dogs entered North America between 1450 and 1675 AD

B. the 11 bones of ancient dogs are not from native American dogs

C. the bones discovered by the gold miners were from North American wolves

D. the bones studied were not from dogs brought into North America by Europeans

3. What can we know from the passage?

A. Native Americans domesticated local wolves into dogs.

B. Scientists discovered some ancient dog remains in 1920s.

C. Latin America’s dogs are different from North America’s in genes.

D. Ancient dogs entered North America across the Bering Land Bridge.

4. The first humans into the New World brought dogs along with them because ______.

A. dogs fed on mice                    B. dogs were easy to keep

C. dogs helped protect their resources      D. dogs could provide excellent service

5.What does the passage mainly talk about ______.

A. the origin of the North American dogs

B. the DNA study of ancient dogs in America

C. the reasons why early people entered America

D. the difference between Asian and American dogs

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Louise was 72 years old and she lived by herself. The first thing she noticed when she came downstairs that Sunday morning was that her __36____ window was open. In fact, it was so wide open that she had ___37___ closing it. Then she realized that things were not in their proper __38____. Finally, when she found her empty ___39___ on the kitchen table, she realized the awful __40____. At first, she didn’t know what to do. Then she decided to ___41___ her son, Derek.

Derek’s wife Sybil answered the phone, “It’s your mother,” she _42___him, coldly. Louise told Derek about the open window, about things being in the wrong places and about the ____43__ missing from her purse.

“ All right,” said Derek, “Don’t __44___ anything. I’ll be __45___ in half an hour.

Louise ___46__ and made herself a pot of tea and some toast. Then she went from room to room wondering __47___ anything else was missing.

When Derek arrived, he was content to __48___ her looking so calm. “Have you rung the ___49___?”he asked. “No? Then I’ll do that straight away.” So he rang the police.

As it was Sunday，__50____ the only detectives were out. However, the police were polite, but vague(含糊的) . “ We’ll send __51__ round as soon as possible.” They said.

Derek telephoned his wife. “I’m not sure when I’ll be home, love,” he told her. “I’ve got to ___52__ for the police.” While Derek and his mother waited, Derek _53___ the catches （挂钩） on the windows and locks on the doors. All of them were old and some of the catches hardly__54___ at all. Derek felt __55___. His mother was an old woman, after all. “I’ll have to change all these.” he told her.

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Three years ago, when I entered my school for the first time, I was welcomed by students wearing white shirts with a badge (徽章) saying “Prefect” on them, who greeted me with the ______, “Welcome to Huaxia Middle School”. I was immediately impressed and ______ I could be one of them. Then next year, in the summer of 2016, my wish ______ when I was selected to be a prefect. Just like the ones ______ me, I was to stand at the school gate and ______ new freshmen.

So, you may wonder, what ______ is a prefect? Prefects are student leaders in our school. They’re usually top students ______ from higher grades to help teachers run the school ______ of the classroom.______ you’re chosen to be a prefect, you need to be a nearly perfect student. Becoming a prefect wasn’t ______ for me. I used to be sensitive and ______, caring too much about what others thought of me. But since I was ______ to become a prefect, I tried my best to be more brave and hardworking, making rapid ______ in a year.

The biggest benefit of being a prefect is that it teaches me to be ______ and set an example for lower grade students. I was a member of the school soccer team, but I wasn’t a good ______ and felt embarrassed about my poor ______. After having some students from lower grades join our team, however, I knew that I had to set a good example. So, I kept practicing my skills and ______ greatly.

Being a prefect doesn’t ______ mean I have a badge on my shirt. It also means that I have a hardworking attitude deep in my ______. “You can make it,” I always remind myself. Becoming a prefect has ______ me to work harder and become an even better person.

1.A. sentences　　 B. remarks　　 C. words　　 D. sayings

2.A. wished　　 B. hoped　　 C. promised　　 D. decided

3.A. turned out　　 B. worked out　　 C. came out　　 D. came true

4.A. behind　　 B. before　　 C. from　　 D. about

5.A. admit　　 B. observe　　 C. guard　　 D. welcome

6.A. vividly　　 B. perfectly　　 C. exactly　　 D. eventually

7.A. selected　　 B. offered　　 C. provided　　 D. presented

8.A. properly　　 B. outside　　 C. within　　 D. badly

9.A. If　　 B. Since　　 C. Although　　 D. As

10.A. popular　　 B. easy　　 C. quick　　 D. strange

11.A. abnormal　　 B. independent　　 C. dishonest　　 D. unconfident

12.A. refreshed　　 B. accumulated　　 C. motivated　　 D. discouraged

13.A. success　　 B. achievement　　 C. progress　　 D. mistake

14.A. energetic　　 B. responsible　　 C. loyal　　 D. challenging

15.A. player　　 B. teacher　　 C. tutor　　 D. coach

16.A. promise　　 B. patience　　 C. efforts　　 D. skills

17.A. contributed　　 B. affected　　 C. improved　　 D. sped

18.A. yet　　 B. still　　 C. even　　 D. just

19.A. lesson　　 B. heart　　 C. imagination　　 D. memory

20.A. pushed　　 B. sought　　 C. attached　　 D. allowed

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An agreement was made in June when both sides met for the first time in 21 years, ______ by another meeting for further cooperation.

A．following          B．to follow          C．having followed     D．followed

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Three years ago，I participated in Model United Nations(MUN)held by the Education Department，which was a mock(模拟的)UN activity. During the two days，students are separated in different groups which ____different countries to debate and try to solve problems. MUN has ____ awards：best delegates(代表)，honorary mentions，and verbal mentions.

Each time I participate in MUN，I made good ____ and undoubtedly got a few awards. But I often felt as if I’d ___ because I had never won the best delegate award. I ___those who didn’t deserve to win the award but won it various times，and I was just filled with __ at their success. But later I realized that it was also ___ not to get the award because I could actually ____ something，and that I shouldn’t __ the best delegate award until I was the best delegate I could be.

Failures are completely subjective—we can look at a result as a failure or a __. Any failure can be regarded as a(n) __ because you can always learn something from it and do __ next time. This is supported by John Locke’s theory that we are born with blank views：knowledge and ability are learned from our __. That’s true. If I make a mistake in the life practice，then I probably won’t __ that next time. I believe this is __ the best way to become better.

1.A.strengthen B.condemn C.inspire D.represent

2.A.identical B.temporary C.various D.false

3.A.preparations B.predictions C.appointments D.explanations

4.A.accelerated B.failed C.exited D.succeeded

5.A.approached B.trained C.expected D.witnessed

6.A.relief B.envy C.satisfaction D.delight

7.A.annoyed B.ashamed C.good D.terrible

8.A.desert B.1earn C.delete D.display

9.A.win B.miss C.deliver D.value

10.A.bond B.bet C.victory D.1oss

11.A.aim B.benefit C.burden D.1imit

12.A.funnier B.worse C.better D.slower

13.A.decisions B.attitudes C.positions D.experiences

14.A.repeat B.admit C.accept D.notice

15.A.wrongly B.scarcely C.truly D.narrowly

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First opened to the public in 1976,the California State Railroad Museum is one of Sacramento's largest and most popular visitor destinations.Over 500,000 people visit the museum every year,with guests traveling from throughout the world to experience this world-famous place.

The museum consists of six original buildings.The main exhibit building,the Railroad History Museum,totals 100,000 square feet.Completed at a cost of US $16.1 million,it opened in May 1981.

Hours: The museum is open daily (except on Thanksgiving,Christmas and New Year's Day) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. From May 28 to September 3,the museum will be open until eight o'clock in the evening.

Admission: US $10 for adults,US $5 for youths aged six to seventeen;Children aged five and under are free; Cash,personal checks,traveler's checks and credit cards are accepted for payment.

Location: The California State Railroad Museum is located at the corner of Second and “I” street in Old Sacramento.

Parking: A limited number of spaces are available for parking on the streets near the museum.However,these spaces are not suitable for guests visiting longer than 90 minutes.All-day parking is available in the large public garage at the “I” Street entrance to Old Sacramento,for a small fee.

Food Service: Many restaurants are located near the museum.These range from reasonably priced, family-friendly places to some of the finest dining restaurants in the city.

Accessibility: The museum is fully accessible to people with disabilities.Certain exhibits and programs have limited accessibility,due to factors such as narrow and historic stairways.

Photography: We welcome photography for personal use.Hand-held cameras are allowed;however,tripods are not permitted for safety reasons.A Morning for Photographers at the museum is a special event.Tripods are allowed during this event.

1.When can visitors visit the museum?

A. At any time on Christmas Day.　　 B. At noon on Thanksgiving Day.

C. At 5 p.m.on August 10.　　 D. At 6 p.m.on October 3.

2.How much should a couple pay if they visit the museum with two children aged three and eight?

A. US $20.　　 B. US $30.

C. US $25.　　 D. US $40.

3.Which of the following cannot visitors do?

A. Take a disabled person to view the museum.

B. Eat a high-quality dinner near the museum.

C. Take pictures in the museum with a hand-held camera.

D. Take tripods into the museum on a normal day.

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