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[单项选择]1 The Pacific Northwest coast of North America is a temperate rain forest, where trees like the red cedar grow straight trunks more than two meters thick at the base and sixty meters high. Western red cedar is often called the canoe cedar because it supplied the native people of the region with the raw material for their seagoing dugout canoes. These extraordinary crafts, as large as twenty meters in length, were fashioned from a single tree trunk and carried as many as forty people on fishing and whaling expeditions into the open ocean.
2 The Haida people from the Queen Charlotte Islands off British Columbia were noted for their skill in canoe building. After felling a giant tree with controlled burning, the canoe makers split the log into lengthwise sections with stone wedges. They burned away some of the heartwood, leaving a rough but strong cedar shell. They then carved away wood from the inside, keeping the sections below the waterline thickest and heavi
A. thrown
B. lowered
C. made
D. decorated
[单项选择]The glaciers that reached the Pacific Coast were valley glaciers, and between those tongues of ice ______ that allowed the original forests to survive.
A. that many sanctuaries were
B. were many sanctuaries
C. were there many sanctuaries
D. there the many sanctuaries
[单项选择]Which of the following is NOT a Pacific coast state（ ）.
A. Washington State.
B. Oregon.
C. California.
D. Rhode Island.
[单项选择]In 1885, Canada was linked from coast to coast because ______.
A. a canal was constructed
B. many expressways were built
C. a national highway was finished
D. the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed
[填空题]The Coast-to-Coast Rock Highway was finished in 1930s.
[单项选择]What happened in Northwest Pakistan（ ）
A. A fierce fighting between the security forces and Afghans.
B. A battle between the tribesmen and the Afghans.
C. A communal fighting between the Already tribesmen and the security forces.
D. A battle between the security forces and the Already tribesmen.
[简答题]At the international terminal for Northwest Airlines at John F．Kennedy International Airport in New York，passengers waited up to 30 minutes longer than usual Their bags were sent through giant screening machines and workers tore open taped boxes and searched through their contents before closing them up again．
[填空题] Coast Travel Agency
Booking Form
Customer Name: (1) ______________
Company: D & B
Destination: (2) ______________
Time of Departure: (3) ______________
Transfer at: San Francisco
Class of ticket: (4) ______________
Cost (return flight): $1,024
Method of payment: cash
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Set 1
NORTH AMERICAN GRASSLANDS
1.In North America, native grasslands occur primarily in the Great Plains in the middle of the continent. The North American prairie biome is one of the most extensive grasslands in the world, extending from the edge of the Rocky Mountains in the west to the deciduous forest in the east, and from northern Mexico in the south to Canada in the north. Average annual rainfall ranges from about 40 cm (16 inches) in the west to 80 cm (31 inches) in the east. Average annual temperatures range between 10 degrees and 20 degrees Celsius (50 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit). In the moist regions of the North American grasslands, especially in the northern Great Plains, rainfall is distinctly seasonal, and temperatures can vary widely from very hot in summer to bitter cold in winter.
2.One hundred years ago, the Great Plains grasslands were one vast, unbroken prairie. Much of the prairie is now farmland, the m
A. It depends on the land not being disturbed by agriculture.
B. It creates a beneficial habitat for many species of birds.
C. It is a leading cause of the warming of the atmosphere.
D. It exceeds the amount of carbon captured anywhere else.
