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[单项选择] Reaching new peaks of popularity in North America is Iceberg Water which is harvested from icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Arthur von Wiesenberger, who carries the title Water Master, is one of the few water critics in North America. As a boy, he spent time in the larger cities of Italy, France and Switzerland where bottled water is consumed daily. Even then, he kept a water journal, noting the brands he liked best. "My dog could tell the difference between bottled and tap water," he says.
But is plain tap water all that bad Not at all. In fact, New York’’s municipal water for more than a century was called the champagne of tap water and until recently considered among the best in the world in terms of both taste and purity. Similarly, a magazine in England found that tap water from the Thames River tasted better than several leading brands of bottled water that were 400 times more expensive.
Nevertheless, soft-drink companies view bottled water as
A. It is a kind of iced water.
B. It is just plain tap water.
C. It is a kind of bottled water.
D. It is a kind of mineral water.
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America has a new national park. It is the Great Basin. It is the first national park in the western state of Nevada. The new park is in the eastern part of Nevada, close to the border(边界) with Utah. It is far from any city.
An American explorer John Charles Fremont travelled through the area in the early 1800’s. He found the land shaped like a bowl. So he named it the Great Basin. It is a land of unusual beauty and sharp differences.
For example, you can climb a mountain covered with green forests, then cool yourself in a field of snow as you arrive at the top. Here and there, sharp rocks push out through the snow. Among the rocks you might see homes of the golden hawk (鹰), a bird that was once in danger of dying out.
You can camp in a campground on the edge of Lehman Caves. These caves are a group of large underground rooms made of limestone (石灰石). You can walk through them for about a kilometre. Before the park opened, the caves were the centre of
A. about a kilometre each
B. separated from each other
C. rooms made of limestone
D. what interest visitors most
[单项选择]A. Latin America. B. North America. C. South America. D. Central America.
[填空题]Bears are found in North America, South America, Europe, and Africa.
[填空题]Peoples occupied North America before the arrival of the (1)______
European in the 15th century have long been known as Indians because (2)______
of the belief prevalent at time of Columbus that the Americas were the (3)______
outer reaches of the Indies. Most scholars agree that Native Americans
came into the Western Hemisphere from Asia by the Bering Strait in a (4)______
series of migrations. From Alaska they spread to the east and south. (5)______
Several separate waves of migration are said to count for the many native (6)______
linguistic families, while the common origin used to explain the physical (7)______
characteristics that Native Americans have in common--Mongoloid
features, coarse, straight, black hair, dark eyes, sparse body hair, and
a skin colour range from yellow-brown to reddish brown. Many scholars (8)______
