1 . Yosemite National Park, California

In 1890 Yosemite became a national park. It had been inhabited (居住) by Miwok people for some 4,000 years. Yet during the Gold Rush from 1849 to 1851, the land saw the coming of thousands of miners. In 1851 the Miwok people began to be removed by force from their homes. By 1910, just one in ten of the original inhabitants remained.

Sequoia National Park, California

This national park was established on 25 September 1890. It was created protect the towering sequoia trees. Today, the oldest tree in the 629-square mile park is the General Sherman Tree -it’s thought to be 2,300 to 2,700 years old. The park’s diverse landscape includes the Sierra Nevada mountains, as well as deep valleys, craggy foothills and impressive caves.

Deadwood, South Dakota

It might look like a western film but Deadwood is the real deal. After the discovery of gold in the nearby southern Black Hills in 1874, some 250,000 miners poured to the region and the city was founded in 1876. Owing its name to the dead trees filling the valley in which it was built, it quickly earned a reputation as a lawless outpost associated with gambling, gold seekers and Wild West legends (传奇).

Whitney Plantation, Louisiana

Whitney Plantation is a reminder of America’s history of slavery (奴隶制). Established in 1752, the site was home to more than 350 slaves, whose names can be seen carved onto the Wall of Honor today. A recording from 1819 reveals that 19 out of the 61 slaves on the plantation at the time were African -born survivors of an Atlantic crossing. Today, visitors can learn more about the lives of enslaved people during this period.

1. What do Yosemite National Park and Deadwood have in common?

A．They are famous movie sets.	B．They were founded in the 1870s.
C．They used to be flooded by gold miners.	D．They are inhabited by native Americans.

2. Which is a place to see towering old trees?

A．Yosemite National Park.	B．Sequoia National Park.
C．Deadwood.	D．Whitney Plantation.

3. What kind of places is the text about?

A．Places of natural beauty.	B．Places to learn about slavery.
C．Places located in deep valleys.	D．Places giving a sense of history.

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Two young Chinese athletes placed a torch in the center of a giant snowflake during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. One of the two athletes, Dinigeer Yilamujiang, was born in the Altay Prefecture,    1    (locate) in the northern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,    2    (wide) acknowledged as the birthplace of human skiing.

In earlier times, artifacts from Scandinavian and Russian archaeology proved the    3    (exist) of ancient skiing, with the oldest found in Russia    4    (date) back to 7,000-8,000 years ago. In 2005,the record    5    (break). A group of farmers in the Altay region went to a cave to hide from the rain,only    6    (find) cave paintings describing men stepping on twin snowboards    7    prey（猎物）carried on their backs. It turned out that， according to archaeologists’ analyses, the cave paintings were drawn 12,000 years ago, some 4,000 years     8     the artifacts from Russia that were believed to have been made.

After Beijing’s successful bid to host the Winter Olympics, experts from 18 countries including Norway and Russia paid a visit to Altay to study the “potential origin of human skiing activity, ” after    9    they jointly issued a declaration in 2015, recognizing Xinjiang's Altay as the    10    (early) skiing region in the world.