【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 sad story. Today Death Valley has been called a National Monument (遺跡 ) and is crossed by several wellmarked roads where good services can be found easily. Luckily the change created by human settlement has scarcely (幾乎沒有 ) ruined the special beauty of this place. Here nature created a lot of surprising sights, almost like the sights on the moon, everchanging as the frequent (頻繁的 ) wind moves the sand about, showing the most unusual colors. One of the most astonishing and changeable parts of Death Valley is the Devil39。 s Golf Course, where it seems hard for one to tell reality from terrible dreams. Sand sculptures (沙雕 ) stand on a frightening ground as evening shadows move and lengthen. 60. According to the first paragraph, ______ is the lowest place in the United States. A. Tomesha B. Death Valley C. Nevada D. Badwater 61. It can be inferred from the passage that _______. A. no one had ever known the desert before the miners B. it39。s still not easy to travel across the desert C. people can now find gasstations, cafes and hotels in the desert D. people have greatly changed the natural sight of the desert 62. Devil Golf Course is famous for _______. A. the frequent wind B. the colors of the sand C. dreamlike sights D. the sand sculptures 63. From the passage we can see that the writer _______ the Death Valley. A. appreciates B. is fearful of C. dislikes D. is tired of Ｃ How much paper do you use every year? Perhaps you can39。t answer that question quickly. In 1900 the world39。s use of paper was about one kilogram for each person in a year. Now some countries use as much as 100 kilograms of paper for each person in a year. The amount of paper a country uses shows how far advanced the country is, some people say. It is difficult to say whether this is true: different people mean different things by the word “advanced”. But countries like the United States, England and Sweden certainly use more paper than other countries. Paper, like many other things that we use today, was first made in China. In Egypt and the West, paper was not very monly used before the year 1400. The Chinese first made paper about 2,000 years ago. China still has pieces of paper which were made as long ago as that. But Chinese paper was not made from the wood of trees. It was made from the hairlike parts of certain plants. Paper was not made in southern Europe until about the year 1100. Scandinavia — which now makes a great deal of the world39。s paper — did not begin to make it until 1500. It was a German named Schaeffer who found out that trees could be made into the best paper. After that, the forest countries of Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the United States became the most important in paper making. Today in Finland, which makes the best paper in the world, the paper industry is the biggest in the land. 64. The underlined word “advanced” in the first paragraph probably means ________. A. big B. small C. developed D. beautiful 65. Paper was first made in ________. A. China B. Egypt C. the West D. southern Europe 66. The man who first made paper from trees was a (an) ___. A. Chinese B. Egyptian C. Canadian D. German 67. Which country makes the best paper in the world today? A. Canada. B. Finland. C. Sweden. D. Norway. Ｄ “ After four days in hospital, a 35yearold woman died of bird flu in the western part of Indonesia on Tuesday, raising the country39。s deaths to 57, and the source of infection (傳染 ) was still unknown,” a senior health ministry official said. The H5N1 virus has killed at least 153 people worldwide since it began hitting Asian poultry (家禽 ) in late 2021, according to the World Healt