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【文章內容簡介】 n only discover some amazing facts about it. Let us find out what some of them are. On September 13, 1922 El Azizia, a place in Libya, recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit. This was the highest temperature ever measured (測量 ) on the pla Earth. The highest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls in Venezuela, which drops from an amazing height of 3,212 feet. The waterfall drops over the edge of Auyantepui in the Canaima National Park. The gravitational pull (萬有引力 ) of the Earth can be escaped if someone moves at a speed of miles per second. At such a speed, one could travel from New York to Philadelphia in just 20 seconds. If the entire water in the world’s oceans evaporated, the salt we got from these oceans could cover the entire pla with a 500foot deep layer of salt. The deepest lake on Earth is Lake Baikal in Russia. Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world, containing about 20% of the world’s unfrozen surface fresh water. The Andes in South America spreads over 4,525 miles. This is the longest mountain range (山脈 ) in the world. Did you know that the biggest valley in the world is the Grand Valley in Mesa County, Colorado and Grand County, Utah? It is about 30 miles (48 km) long and 5 miles (8 km) wide, along the Colorado River. The amazing facts about the earth are too many to be told pletely above. 34. The underlined word ―evaporated‖ in Paragraph 2 most probably means―_____‖. A. became salt gradually B. became clear slowly C. changed into warmer water D. changed into gas or disappeared 35. Where is the longest mountain range in the world? A. In Russia. B. In Libya. C. In South America. D. At the OregonIdaho border. can learn from this passage that _____. A. Lake Baikal is the biggest lake in the world B. the highest temperature ever measured was 136 ℃ C. the Angel Falls drops from a height of 3,212 meters D. one end of the Grand Valley is in Colorado and the other in Utah D An international group of coffee experts has considered Ethiopia’s coffee as the best in the world. Coffee is a top export ( 出口物 ) of the country. But at home, it is seen as national pride. Ethiopians feel good about their coffee, and enjoying a drink with friends is a long tradition. Some people say the climate produces quality beans. Morton Wennersgarrd is a coffee importer. He said,―Ethiopia has different ancient types of coffee. They are planted in places with perfect soil, perfect altitude ( 海拔 ), and climates that are really suitable for coffee processing.‖ Finding the best quality beans is often an issue of taste. The process is known as cupping — tasting and paring coffee from different roasted beans, grading and then pricing them. But before international experts e to taste, coffee beans are studied in small coffee laboratories. Helen Assefa, a lab technician, describes the process, ―When the coffee es to the lab, we assess ( 評價 ) its quality first by recording the details. Then we weigh the moisture (水分 ) level and we examine the beans for analysis. After that we grind ( 磨碎 ) the coffee beans and taste the samples. At the end we check for defective (有瑕疵的 ) beans.‖ Mubarik Abaoli is a lab worker. He says that testing is a very difficult and long process. ―We select out the defects by hand. And we select out the defect according to the defect types.‖ Ethiopia has got a lot of money by exporting coffee to more than 120 countries. The country has an export revenue ( 稅收 ) of more than $840 million a year. But not all the best coffee leaves Ethiopia.