Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California.That could take several months.
So, in eighteen fifty-seven, D.C.Lawmakers in Congress(国会) in Washington wanted to make it possible to send mail all the way across the United States by land.Congress offered to help any company that would try to deliver mail overland to the West Coast. A man named John Butterfield accepted this offer. He developed plans for a company that would carry the mail—and passengers, too.
Congress gave John Butterfield six hundred thousand dollars to start his company. In return, he had to promise that the mail would travel from Saint Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, in twenty-five days or less.
It was not possible to travel straight through because of the Rocky Mountains and the deep snow that fell in winter. So the stagecoach(马车) would travel south from Saint Louis to El Paso, Texas, then over to southern California, then north to San Francisco. The distance was about four thousand five hundred kilometers.
Two hundred of these stations were built, each about thirty-two kilometers apart. The workers were to quickly change the horses or mules whenever a stagecoach reached the station. There could be no delay. Each stagecoach was to travel nearly two hundred kilometers a day.
One hundred stagecoaches were built and painted red or dark green. They were the most modern coaches that money could buy. They were designed to hold as many as nine passengers and twelve thousand pieces of mail. The seats inside could be folded down to make beds. Passengers either slept on them or on the bags of mail.
The cost would be one hundred fifty dollars to travel from Saint Louis to San Francisco. If a passenger was not going all the way, the cost was about ten cents a kilometer. The passengers had to buy their own food at the stations. The stagecoach would stop for forty minutes, two times a day.
The company warned passengers about the possible dangers. A poster said: “You will be traveling through Indian country and the safety of your person cannot by granted by anyone but God.”
1.What is the passage mainly about?
A.Different ways of sending mail in the United States.
B.The difficulty in sending mails across the USA by land.
C.The first stagecoaches that carried both passengers and mail.
D.The history of the first stagecoaches carrying mail to the American West.
2.The reason why Lawmakers wanted to send mail by land was that ________.
A.mail was usually carried west on ships
B.it was safer to travel to send mail by land
C.it would take less time to send mail by land
D.stagecoaches could carry passengers and mail
3.As is described in the passage, the stagecoach ________.
A.could only stop once a day
B.was modern with seats ,beds and cooking equipment
C.was a closed wagon operated only by skillful drivers.
D.had different horses or mules pulled all the way
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A.John Buttterfield got thousands of dollars for delivering mail in stagecoaches.
B.John Buttterfield kept his promise to deliver mail straight to the West Coast.
C.Passengers might be robbed by Indians when traveling through the West.
D.Passengers needed to pay one hundred dollars for their journey.
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Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California.That could take several months.
So, in eighteen fifty-seven, D.C.Lawmakers in Congress(国会) in Washington wanted to make it possible to send mail all the way across the United States by land.Congress offered to help any company that would try to deliver mail overland to the West Coast. A man named John Butterfield accepted this offer. He developed plans for a company that would carry the mail—and passengers, too.
Congress gave John Butterfield six hundred thousand dollars to start his company. In return, he had to promise that the mail would travel from Saint Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, in twenty-five days or less.
It was not possible to travel straight through because of the Rocky Mountains and the deep snow that fell in winter. So the stagecoach(马车) would travel south from Saint Louis to El Paso, Texas, then over to southern California, then north to San Francisco. The distance was about four thousand five hundred kilometers.
Two hundred of these stations were built, each about thirty-two kilometers apart. The workers were to quickly change the horses or mules whenever a stagecoach reached the station. There could be no delay. Each stagecoach was to travel nearly two hundred kilometers a day.
One hundred stagecoaches were built and painted red or dark green. They were the most modern coaches that money could buy. They were designed to hold as many as nine passengers and twelve thousand pieces of mail. The seats inside could be folded down to make beds. Passengers either slept on them or on the bags of mail.
The cost would be one hundred fifty dollars to travel from Saint Louis to San Francisco. If a passenger was not going all the way, the cost was about ten cents a kilometer. The passengers had to buy their own food at the stations. The stagecoach would stop for forty minutes, two times a day.
The company warned passengers about the possible dangers. A poster said: “You will be traveling through Indian country and the safety of your person cannot by granted by anyone but God.”
1.What is the passage mainly about?
A.Different ways of sending mail in the United States.
B.The difficulty in sending mails across the USA by land.
C.The first stagecoaches that carried both passengers and mail.
D.The history of the first stagecoaches carrying mail to the American West.
2.The reason why Lawmakers wanted to send mail by land was that ________.
A.mail was usually carried west on ships
B.it was safer to travel to send mail by land
C.it would take less time to send mail by land
D.stagecoaches could carry passengers and mail
3.As is described in the passage, the stagecoach ________.
A.could only stop once a day
B.was modern with seats ,beds and cooking equipment
C.was a closed wagon operated only by skillful drivers.
D.had different horses or mules pulled all the way
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A.John Buttterfield got thousands of dollars for delivering mail in stagecoaches.
B.John Buttterfield kept his promise to deliver mail straight to the West Coast.
C.Passengers might be robbed by Indians when traveling through the West.
D.Passengers needed to pay one hundred dollars for their journey.
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Cook was a strict but good captain, _________ who, usually, took care of the sailors on his ship.
A.the one | B.one | C.that | D.this |
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Cook was a strict but good captain, __________ usually took care of the sailors on his ship.
A. the one who B. one who
C. that D. he who
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It sounded like something was wrong with the car’s engine then, ______ they would have carried on their journey.
A. otherwise B. therefore C. meanwhile D. besides
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A man asked why an old lady was all alone on a cruise ship. He _______ that although she was alone, all the staff, ship’s officers, waiters and busboys, were very _______ with her. So he asked the waiters who the lady was, _______ to be told that she owned the shipping line, but all the waiters knew was that she had been on the last _______ cruises. One after the other.
As he left the dining room one evening the man _______ her eye and stopped to say hello. They chatted for a while and he asked _______ , “I heard that you’ve been on this ship for the last four cruises.” She replied, “Yes, that’s _______.”
He said, ”I don’t understand.” And she replied, without a pause, “It’s _______ than living in a nursing home. So there will be no nursing home in my future, I’m _______ on this cruise; the average ________ for a nursing home is $200 per day. Here, I can get a ________ discount and senior discount price of $135 per day. That ________ $65 a day for tips and extra cash. It works very well for me here.
I can have as many as ten meals a day of fantastic food or room ________ which means I can have breakfast in bed every day of the week. I get a free swimming pool, a workout room. Free washers and dryers, and showers every night. I get free toothpaste and free soap and shampoo. They will even ________ you like a customer, not a ________. An extra $5 worth of tips will have the entire staff hurrying to help you,
I get to ________ new people every seven or 14 days! TV broken? Light bulb needs changing? Need to have the flowers ________? No problem! They will fix everything and ________ for the inconvenience. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don’t ever have to ________ them to do so. There is always a doctor on board. This is ________ I want to live the end of my life.
1.A.wondered B.noticed C.searched D.guessed
2.A.familiar B.serious C.isolated D.cautious
3.A.whispering B.continuing C.pretending D.expecting
4.A.two B.three C.four D.five
5.A.caught B.avoided C.missed D.scared
6.A.excitedly B.anxiously C.seriously D.curiously
7.A.wrong B.strange C.true D.funny
8.A.easier B.nearer C.fresher D.cheaper
9.A.staying B.hanging C.playing D.working
10.A.discount B.salary C.bargain D.cost
11.A.full-time B.long-term C.large-scale D.first-rate
12.A.leaves B.remains C.spends D.loses
13.A.service B.cleaning C.inspection D.charge
14.A.cure B.treat C.please D.admire
15.A.passenger B.visitor C.guest D.patient
16.A.serve B.save C.meet D.help
17.A.completed B.located C.replaced D.cut
18.A.trouble B.answer C.prepare D.apologize
19.A.ask B.recommend C.encourage D.forbid
20.A.what B.why C.how D.when
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90. It is said that a ship was wrecked on the .
A.coast | B.coastline | C.seashore | D.Beach |
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It was reported that the ship sank three miles _____ the French coast.
A. on B. by C. across D. off
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It was reported that the ship sank three miles _____ the French coast.
A. on B. by C. across D. off
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The idea of sailing west to reach the riches of the East Indies and the Asian mainland was much in fashion with cultured Europeans during the late fifteenth century. Learned people agreed that the earth was round: their only questions were how long and how dangerous would be a trip to reach the Orient. Christopher Columbus, the son of an unknown weaver, and himself a weaver of ambitious dreams, made his historic voyage to the New World in 1492. He didn't go to school very much, but be learned to read and write Spanish during his travels. He also taught himself Latin because all the geography books were written in Latin. Sailing with a tiny fleet of three ships, the Santa Maria and two smaller ships, the Pinta and the Nina and a crew of ninety sailors, be found the thirty-three-day crossing easier than his nearly-decade-long effort to find royal sponsors willing to support it. The trip drew not only on his own skills as an expert ship's captain, but also on his ability to plan such an expedition, obtain governmental approval and financing, and finally, demonstrate its success so that such explorations could continue. He tried for years to get King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to supply him with ships and money. Finally they agreed, but he made more demands. He wanted to be made a knight, admiral of the Ocean Sea. He wanted to be the viceroy(总督)and governor general of all lands he would discover. Also he wanted one-tenth of everything he found of value in the new lands. The explorations that followed Columbus-those of Cabot, Verrazano, Cartier, and many others-benefited from a new maritime technology borrowed from Arab sailors and from a variety of new vessels (船,舰) such as the light-weight caravels employed by Columbus. Sailors also perfected sails and various types of riggings that gave ships added stability and greater maneuverability(可操作性)on the open seas. And when leaving sight of the coast, new navigational aids-charts, compasses, and astrolabes-permitted them to determine their position with some, though not perfect, accuracy. Columbus himself made a total of four voyages to the New World but he did not become rich as he had hoped. At the end of his life he only had a pension the king and queen had given him because he was the first to reach the New World. He spent the last few months of his life in bed because of the pain of arthritis(关). Columbus not only discovered a New World, but led the way for other explorers.
1.What was the dream destination of Europeans in the late fifteenth century?
A.The oriental countries. | B.The East Indonesia. |
C.The Old World. | D.The African mainland. . |
2.What preparations did Columbus make for his first voyage to the New World?
①He planned the expedition thoroughly.
②He spent almost ten years in looking for sponsors.
③He gathered a great many ships.
④He hired 90 sailors.
⑤He demonstrated his success of former far-reaching explorations.
A.①②③④⑤ | B.①②④ | C.①④⑤ | D.②④⑤ |
3.We can learn from the passage that ________.
A.Christopher Columbus was an ambitious explorer |
B.he was a geologist with ambitious dreams |
C.Columbus became extremely wealthy after making a total of four voyages |
D.he was an unsuccessful canvasser(游说者) |
4.What equipment aided the sailors in locating relatively more accurately?
A.A variety of new vessels. | B.The light-weighted caravels. |
C.Various types of riggings. | D.Charts, compasses and astrolabes. |
5.In the passage, the author mainly tells us ________.
A.the tragedy of Columbus's life as a whole |
B.Columbus's life story and his achievements |
C.Columbus's exploration to the East Indies and Asia |
D.how Columbus arrived in the New World . |
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At around 6:30pm local time on April 15th in France, Notre Dame in Paris was getting angry. According to the French newspaper Le Monde, the fire started in the attic (阁楼) of the monument and then_______to the roof. In the screams of people, the Gothic tower_______collapsed (倒塌) . ''Paris was beheaded!''_______the fall of the tower, the 32-year-old Frenchman, Pierre, sent such a_______to the New York Times.
Notre Dame de Paris, which_______on the bank of the Seine, has been there for 769 years. Not only does Notre Dame have a large collection of wonderful works, but the building itself is_______.As one of the most famous tourist _______ in the world, this church has 13 million visitors a year. When the fire was still burning, the spokesperson of Notre Dame de Paris pessimistically told the media that the _______ building of France _______''great destruction'' because the inside part of the church belonged to medieval wood structure, so this fire was almost a________. At9:30 that evening, the priceless colored glass ''Rose'' window in the cathedral was too hot and then broken. As the fire continued, a large number of people from Paris________around Notre Dame. Watching the fire destroy the monument, some people couldn't help________cry, and some sang prayer songs for Notre Dame. ''At this moment I feel very________, and a small part of each of us has been burned by the fire.'' After the fire, French President Mark Long________ canceled a speech on the ''Yellow Vest Movement'', and started the disaster report.
After the French firefighters________for five hours, the fire was________.The main structure of the church was ________, but the inside decoration was completely destroyed. ________a the broken Notre Dame de Paris, the French made a(n)________to rebuild. President Mark Long later said that they would recruit (组建) the best talents from around the world to repair the art treasures, because this is what the French expect and is what history________.
1.A.distribute B.directed C.spread D.transformed
2.A.anyhow B.immediately C.somehow D.suddenly
3.A.Admitting B.Witnessing C.Preventing D.Predicting
4.A.sigh B.word C.sign D.picture
5.A.wind B.exists C.sets D.stands
6.A.delicate B.worthless C.invaluable D.weak
7.A.points B.scenes C.views D.attractions
8.A.remaining B.historic C.accessible D.favorable
9.A.suffered B.resulted C.acquired D.obtained
10.A.decrease B.waste C.disaster D.trouble
11.A.marched B.gathered C.wandered D.settled
12.A.or B.and C.except D.but
13.A.angry B.confused C.sad D.amazed
14.A.urgently B.angrily C.cleverly D.cautiously
15.A.managed B.fought C.attempted D.repaired
16.A.put out B.taken out C.brought out D.pulled out
17.A.scarred B.destroyed C.remained D.saved
18.A.In time of B.In danger of C.In face of D.In memory of
19.A.announcement B.determination C.agreement D.preparation
20.A.deserves B.allows C.creates D.holds
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