California is a land of variety and contrast. Almost every type of physical land feature, sort of arctic ice fields and tropical jungles can be found within its borders. Sharply contrasting types of land often lie very close to one another.
People living in Bakersfield, for instance, can visit the Pacific Ocean and the coastal plain, the fertile San Joaquin Valley, the arid Mojave Desert, and the high Sierra Nevada, all within a radius of about 100 miles. In other areas it is possible to go snow skiing in the morning and surfing in the evening of the same day, without having to travel long distance.
Contrast abounds in California. The highest point in the United States (outside Alaska) is in California, and so is the lowest point (including Alaska). Mount Whitney, 14,494 feet above sea level, is separated from Death Valley, 282 feet below sea level, by a distance of only 100 miles. The two areas have a difference in altitude of almost three miles.
California has deep, clear mountain lakes like Lake Tahoe, the deepest in the country, but it also has shallow, salty desert lakes. It has Lake Tulainyo, 12,020 feet above sea level, and the lowest lake in the country, the Salton Sea, 236 feet below sea level. Some of its lakes, like Owens Lake in Death Valley, are not lakes at all: they are dried-up lake beds.
In addition to mountains, lakes, valleys, deserts, and plateaus, California has its Pacific coastline, stretching longer than the coastlines of Oregon and Washington combined.
Which of the following is the lowest point in the United States?
A.Lake Tulainyo.
B.Mojave desert.
C.Death Valley.
D.The Salton Sea.
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The reference datum used in determining the heights of land features on most charts is().
A . mean sea level
B . mean high water
C . mean low water
D . half-tide level
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A ship helicopter landing deck on which fueling operations are conducted must have a fire protection system that is capable of discharging at 100 psi pressure a foam spray of at least().
A . 30 gallons per minute
B . 40 gallons per minute
C . 50 gallons per minute
D . 60 gallons per minute
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What is the MINIMUM distance a vessel subject to the requirements of Annex V to MARPOL 73/78 must be located from nearest land to legally discharge paper trash?()
A . 5 nautical miles
B . 10 nautical miles
C . 12 nautical miles
D . 25 nautical mile
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A vessel to which Annex V to MARPOL 73/78 applies is located in a MARPOL designated special area,14 nautical miles from nearest land. What type of garbage is permitted to be discharged? ()
A . Paper products
B . Glass ground to less than 1
C . Metal ground to less than 1
D . Food waste
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()is the Maori name for New Zealand,meaning land of the long,white cloud.
A . Waitangi
B . Kiwi
C . Aotearoa
D . Maoritanga
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A vessel to which Annex V to MARPOL 73/78 applies is 24 nautical miles from the nearest land. Which type of garbage is prohibited from being discharged? ()
A . Glass
B . Crockery
C . Metal
D . Dunnage
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At the instant when a string of casing being run from a ship is landed in the well head,().
A . the total weight in air of the casing string is removed from the ship
B . the hook load (weight of the casing string) is removed from the ship
C . the weight of the casing inside the riser is removed from the ship
D . the weight of the casing string added to the weight of the fill-up mud is removed from the shi
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China is a country of varied topographical features with highlands in the west and plains in the east. Mountainous land and very rough terrains make up about 67% of Chinese territory, _________33%.
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If you say “bicycle riding is the ideal form of land transportation,” you are making a statement about a question of _____.
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Singapore is a land of immigrants, in which people from three distinct backgrounds, __________, __________, and __________.
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原文:The beauty of living in California is that the whether is so good. 译文:住在加利福尼亚的美人都觉得这里气候宜人。
A、正确
B、错误
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原文:The beauty of living in California is that the whether is so good. 译文:住在加利福尼亚的美人都觉得这里气候宜人。
A、头脑,心脏
B、理智,情感
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Scotland is known as “The Land of Green”.
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The protection of land is the responsibility of armymen; civilians don’t need to worry about it.
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The land is affected by a ________ and the cattle are dying fast for lack of drinking water.
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听力原文: Israel is speeding up construction of its controversial West Bank barrier. The Palestinians say it's a land grab.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered quicker work to complete construction of Israel's West Bank separation barrier, especially in the area of Jerusalem. Israel began building the nearly 700 kilometer long barrier two years ago, but only a third has been completed. Israeli officials say that's way too slow.
"Let's just get it done," said Cabinet Minister and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."This is a security fence, it is not a political border, it is not meant to keep people in like the Berlin Wall, it is meant to keep terrorists out."
It is not clear how the government will speed up construction of the barrier in light of previous rulings by the Israeli Supreme Court. In the past, the Court has ruled that the government is illegally confiscating West Bank land and creating hardship for Palestinians.
Israeli analyst Dan Schueftan told VOA that many Israelis believe the court is favoring the Palestinians over Israeli security.
"And the more they take decisions in this direction, the more Israelis will question the wisdom of the Supreme Court."
So by ordering rapid construction of the barrier, Mr. Sharon is responding to public opinion. But the Palestinians say it's a land grab.
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat: "The only thing that's growing on the ground now is more Israeli settlements, more walls, and more dictations and more harming of the Palestinian people."
The International Court of Justice in the Hague ruled last year that the barrier is illegal and must be torn down. But after more than a hundred suicide bombings during the past four-and-a-half years of conflict, Israel is determined to build the barrier as quickly as possible.
The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that ______.
A.building West Bank barrier is legal
B.building West Bank barrier is illegal
C.building West Bank barrier is reasonable
D.building West Bank barrier is welcomed
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听力原文:Los Angeles today is the second largest city in America, sprawling over 464 square miles along the southern California coast. It is the center of the entertainment industry, end it has a balmy climate of mostly sunny days.
But there was a time when Les Angeles was nothing more than a tiny Indian village. The Spanish expedition searching for Monterey Bay camped there the night of August 1,1769. Twelve years later, other Spaniards started a settlement at the village, which remained unchanged for decades. Yankee sea traders used the settlement as a port, and the California gold rush brought some new economic life to the village, but the town remained quite small. It was not until the completion of the transcontinental railroads in 1869, and the discovery of oil in the 1890s, that the population began to grow.
Later, during the two world wars, Los Angeles experienced move growth, in part because of the new airplane industry. At about the same time, the arrival of two New York motion picture producers in search of sunny weather marked the beginning of an entertainment industry that has become a multibillion-dollar industry today. In just the past 100 years, this tiny sea village has grown into the sprawling metropolis that we know today.
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A.European expeditions in the 1700s.
B.Famous sites in Los Angeles.
C.The growth of Los Angeles.
D.The entertainment industry.
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The land is affected by a ________ and the cattle are dying fast for lack of drinkin
A.A.flood
B.B.drought
C.C.premiere
D.D.misery
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37 Which of the following statements is true of public lands in the U.S.?
A Half of US energy is produced there.
B The majority of undiscovered natural gas is stored there.
C Most of coal was produced from there in 2000.
D Most energy resources are reserved there.
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Emergency landing is an occasion the aircraft is forced to make a landing, for example, because of the technical problems.
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The vireo's comeback may prove that habitat along streams in Southern California is recovering from the effects of pollution,______ indicator of environmental health in a state that has lost most of its ______ woodlands.
A.a leading ... superfluous
B.an apocryphal ... ecological
C.a partial ... surfeit
D.a telling ... riparian
E.an anecdotal ... arboreal
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A general has the two possible pure strategies, sending all of his troops by land or all of his troops by sea. An example of a mixed strategy is where he sends 1=4 of his troops by land and 3=4 of his troops by sea.
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To get a sense of how women have progressed in science, take a quick tour of the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley. This is a storied place, the 36 of some of the most important discoveries in modern science—starting with Ernest Lawrence’s invention of the cyclotron (回旋加速器) in 1931. A generation ago, female faces were 37 and, even today, visitors walking through the first floor of LeConte Hall will see a full corridor of exhibits 38 the many distinguished physicists who made history here, 39 all of them white males.
But climb up to the third floor and you’ll see a 40 display. There, among the photos of current faculty members and students, are portraits of the 41 head of the department, Marjorie Shapiro, and four other women whose research 42 everything from the mechanics of the universe to the smallest particles of matter. A sixth woman was hired just two weeks ago. Although they’re still only about 10 percent of the physics faculty, women are clearly a presence here. And the real 43 may be in the smaller photos to the right: graduate and undergraduate students, about 20 percent of them female. Every year Berkeley sends its fresh female physics PhDs to the country’s top universities. That makes Shapiro optimistic, but also 44 . “I believe things are getting better,” she says, “but they’re not getting better as 45 as I would like.”
A) circumstance
B) confidence
C) covers
D) current
E) deals
F) different
G) exposing
H) fast
I) honoring
J) hope
K) presently
L) rare
M) realistic
N) site
O) virtually
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Surely, the state of Hawaii is to the northwest of Canada, and the state of Alaska is in the Pacific Ocean, southwest of California..___()
是
否