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1、第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）A Welcome to Holker Hall&Garden Visitor Information How to Get to Holker By car:Follow brown signs on A590 from.J36,M6.Approximate travel times:Windermere-20 minutes,Kendal-25 minutes,Lancaster-45 minutes,Manchester-l hour 30minutes By rail:the nearest statio
2、n is Cark-in-Cartmel with trains to Carnforth.Lancaster and Preston for connections to major cities&airports.Opening times Sunday-Friday（closed on Saturday）11:00 am-4;00pm,30 March-2nd November.Admission Charges Hall&Gardens Gardens Adults:Gropes:Special Events Producers Market 13th April Join us to
3、 taste a variety of fresh local food and drinks.Meet the producers and get some excellent recipe ideas.Holker Garden Festival 30th May The event celebrates its 22nd anniversary with a great show of the very best of gardening,making it one of the most popular events in the gardening.National Garden D
4、ay 28th August Holker once again opens its gardens in aid of the disadvantaged.For just a small donation you can take a tour with our garden guide.Winter Market 8th November This is an event for all the family!Wander among a variety of shops selling gifts while enjoying a live music show and nice st
5、reet entertainment.21.How long does it probably take a tourist to drive to Holker from Manchester?minutes.B.25 minutes.minutes.D.90 minutes.22.How much should a member of a tour group pay a visit to Hall&Gardens?A.B.C.D.23.Which event will you go to if you want to see a live music show?A.Producers M
6、arket.B.Holker Garden Festival C.National Garden Day.D.Winter Market B Cities,usually have a good reason for being where they are,like a nearby port or river.People settle in these places because they are easy to get to and naturally suited to communications and trade.New York City,for example,is ne
7、ar a large harbour at the mouth of the Hudson River.Over 300 years its population grew gradually from 800 people to 8 million.But not all cities develop slowly over a long period of time.Boom towns grow from nothing almost overnight.In 1896,Dawson,Canada,was unmapped wilderness（荒 野）.But gold was dis
8、covered there in 1897,and two years later,it was one of the largest cities in the West,with a population of 30,000.Dawsondid not have any of the natural conveniences of cities like London or went there for gold.They travelled over snow-covered mountains are sailed hundreds of miles up icy rivers.The
9、 path to Dawsonwas covered with thirty feet of wet snow that could fall without warning.An avalanche（雪崩）once closed the path,killing 63 people.For many who made it to Dawson,however,the rewards were worth the difficult trip.Of the first20000 people who dug for gold,4,000 got rich.About 100 of these
10、stayed rich men for the rest of their lives.But no matter how rich they were,Dawson was never comfortable.Necessities like food and wood were very expensive.But soon,the gold that Dawson depended on had all been found.The city was crowded with disappointed people with no interest in setting down,and
11、 when they heard there were new gold discoveries in Alaska,they left Dawson City as quickly as they had come.Today,people still come and g01o sea where the Canadian gold rush happened.Tourism is now the chief industry of Dawson City-its present population is 762.24.What attracted the early settles N
12、ew York City?A.Its business culture.B.Its small population.C.Its geographical position.D.Its favourable climate 25.What do we know about those who first dug for gold in Dawson?A.Two-thirds of them stayed there.B.One out of five people got rich.C.Almost everyone gave up.D.Half of them died.26.What wa
13、s the main reason for many people to leave Dawson?A.They found the city too crowded.B.They wanted to try their luck elsewhere.C.They were unable to stand the winter.D.They were short of food.27.What is the text mainly about?A.The rise and fall of a city.B.The gold rush in Canada.C.Journeys into the
14、wilderness.D.Tourism in Dawson.C While famous foreign,architects are invited to lead the designs of landmark buildings in China such as the new CCTVtower and the National Center for the Performing Arts,many excellent Chinese architects are making great efforts to take the center stage.Their efforts
15、have been proven fruitful.Wang Shu a 49-year-old Chinese architect,won the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize-which is often referred to as the Nobel Prize in architecture-on February 28.Heis the first Chinese citizen to win this award.Wang serves as head of the Architecture Department at the China De
16、partment at the China Academyof Art（CAA）.His office is located at the Xiangshan campus（校园）of the university in Hangzhou,Zhejiang Province.Many buildings on the campus are his original creations.The style of the campus is quite different from that of most Chinese universities.Many visitors were amazed by the complex architectural space and abundant building types.The curves（曲 线）of the buildings perfectly match the rise and fall of hills,forming a unique view.Wangcollected more than 7 million aban
