单选题Scarcely twenty miles divide Zanzibar from the African mainland, and on a clear day you can ______ see the island from the coast.A plainlyB obviouslyC evidentlyD apparently

From here you can see the city's landscape of high barren mountains.

A:hairless
B:bare
C:empty
D:dead

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The Sahara

The name Sahara derives from the Arabic word for"desert"or"steppe".At 3.5 million square miles,
an area roughly the size of the United States,the Sahara Desert in northern Africa is the largest desert in the
world.It spans the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.Daytime temperatures can reach as high
as 130°F.The humidity sometimes gets into the teens.But it can also be as low as 2.5 percent,the lowest in
the world.Most of the Sahara receives less than five inches of rain per year,while large areas sometimes have
no rainfall at all for years.
At the heart of the Sahara is the landlocked north African country of Niger. Here the sand dunes can be
100 feet tall and several miles long.Here sand plains stretch over an area larger than Germany where there is
neither water nor towns.Yet sitting in the midst of the surrounding desert is the town of Bilma. Suddenly there
are pools of clear water. Surprisingly,there are groves of date palms.Underground water resources,or oases,
sufficient to support irrigated agriculture are found in dry stream beds and depressions.Irrigation ditches run
off a creek to water fields.Corn,cassava,tea,peanuts,hot peppers,and orange,lime,and grapefruit trees grow
in these fields.Donkeys and goats graze on green grass.
The Sahara of Niger is still a region where you can see a camel caravan of 500 camels tied together in
loose lines as long as a mile,traveling toward such oasis towns.There a caravan will collect life-sustaining
salt,which is mined from watery basins,and transport it up to 400 miles back to settlements on the edges of
the desert.The round trip across the vast sands takes one month.

Rainfall in most of the Sahara is_______.
A:iess than five inches per year
B:less than ten inches per year
C:less than twenty inches per year
D:zero

Very few of our birds stay with us the year round.Some come to us in the winter from the cold?north.Others come from the south to spend the summer with us.How do they know the way?Suppose?you were told to find your way to a place hundreds of miles away,do you think you could do it?
Yet birds travel over mountains,forests,lakes and even across the oceans,and do not stray from?the path.They find their way back in the spring to the same orchard（果园）and the very trees where?they nested the summer before.
It is wonderful how quickly birds travel such long distances from their summer homes to their?winter ones.Some birds have been known to fly hundreds of miles in a day.But others travel much?more slowly.
Why do birds undertake these long journeys twice a year?Perhaps cold weather and lack of?food drive them from us in the autumn,but we cannot tell why they leave the sunny south to come?back to us in the spring.We know only that many of them like to make their nests and rear their?young in the north.
We are sorry to see them go,but we know that when winter is over they will come back to us.

The underlined part"stray from the path"means__________.

A.lose its way
B.stay on the path
C.keep away from the path
D.fly along the path

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Mt. Desert Island

The coast of the State of Maine is one of the most irregular in the world.A straight line running from the
southernmost coastal city to the northernmost coastal city would measure about 225 miles.If you followed the
coastline between these points,you would travel more than ten times as far. This irregularity is the result of
what is called a drowned coastline._________(46)At that time,the whole area that is now Maine was part of
a mountain range that towered above the sea. As the glacier（冰川）descended , however , it expended
enormous force on those mountains,and they sank into the sea.
As the mountains sank,ocean water charged over the lowest parts of the remaining land,forming a series
of twisting inlets and lagoons（咸水湖）.The highest parts of the former mountain range,nearest the shore,
remained as islands._________(47)Marine fossils found here were 225 feet above sea level,indicating the
level of the shoreline prior to the glacier.
The 2,500-mile-long rocky coastline of Maine keeps watch over nearly two thousand islands. Many of
these islands are tiny and uninhabited,but many are home to thriving communities.Mt. Desert Island is one
of the largest,most beautiful of the Maine coast islands.Measuring 16 miles by 12 miles.Mt.Desert was
essentially formed as two distinct islands._________(48)
For years,Mt. Desert Island,particularly its major settlement,Bar Harbor,afforded summer homes for the
wealthy.Recently though,Bar Harbor has become a rapidly growing arts community as well.But,the best part
of the island is the unspoiled forest land known as Acadia National Park.Because the island sits on the
boundary line between the temperate（温带）and sub-Arctic zones , the island supports the plants and ani-
mals of both zones as well as beach , inland , and alpine（高山的）plants. _________( 49 ) The establishment
of Acadia National Park in 1916 means that this natural reserve will be perpetually available to all people,not
just the wealthy.Visitors to Acadia may receive nature instruction from the park naturalists as well as enjoy
camping,cycling,and boating. Or they may choose to spend time at the archeological museum,learning about
the Stone Age inhabitants of the island.
The best view on Mt.Desert Island is from the top of Cadillac Mountain._________(50)From the sum-
mit,you can gaze back toward the mainland or out over the Atlantic Ocean and contemplate the beauty
created by a retreating glacier.

_________(49)
A:This mountain rises 1,532 feet,making it the highest mountain on the Atlantic seaboard.
B:It is split almost in half by Somes Sound,a deep and narrow stretch of water,seven miles long.
C:The wealthy residents of Mt.Desert Island selfishly kept it to themselves.
D:Mt. Desert Island is one of the most famous of all the islands left behind by the glacier.
E:The term comes from the activity of the ice age.
F: It also lies in a major bird migration lane and is a resting spot for many birds.

The weather was crisp and clear and you could see the mountains fifty miles away.

A: hot
B: heavy
C: fresh
D: windy

Very few of our birds stay with us the year round.Some come to us in the winter from the cold?north.Others come from the south to spend the summer with us.How do they know the way?Suppose?you were told to find your way to a place hundreds of miles away,do you think you could do it?
Yet birds travel over mountains,forests,lakes and even across the oceans,and do not stray from?the path.They find their way back in the spring to the same orchard（果园）and the very trees where?they nested the summer before.
It is wonderful how quickly birds travel such long distances from their summer homes to their?winter ones.Some birds have been known to fly hundreds of miles in a day.But others travel much?more slowly.
Why do birds undertake these long journeys twice a year?Perhaps cold weather and lack of?food drive them from us in the autumn,but we cannot tell why they leave the sunny south to come?back to us in the spring.We know only that many of them like to make their nests and rear their?young in the north.
We are sorry to see them go,but we know that when winter is over they will come back to us.

How far do birds usually travel from their summer homes to their winter ones?

A.About hundreds of miles.
B.About thousands of miles.
C.The distance that takes a bird to fly the whole morning.
D.The passage does not tell us.