【美国精神】第92期

Explanation:

    Canada, which is just to the north of the United States, or immediately north of the  United States, shares a border (or separating line) with 13 U.S. states. The border is 5,522 miles (or 8,891 kilometers) long, which makes it the longest border between two countries in the world. It includes the long border on the southern end of Canada and also the border between Canada and the state of Alaska, in northwestern Canada.

    The U.S.-Canadian border is non-militarized, meaning that the U.S. and Canadian armies are not usually on the border. The border is also not normally patrolled¹, so people from the government are not usually watching the border to look for problems. However, there are 140 customs stations on the border, which are places where a government official (or a person who works for the government) asks people why they are entering the country and what they are bringing with them to make sure that they aren’t buying things in one country and selling them in the other country. Every year, the U.S.-Canadian border is crossed more than 100 million times.

    The U.S.-Canadian border has changed many times. The first border between the two countries was demarcated (or drawn² on a map) in 1783. The last time the border was changed was in 1903. Today there are no border disputes or disagreements about where one country ends and the other country begins.

 

问题：

Name one state that borders Canada.

Answer:

• Maine

• New Hampshire

• Vermont

• New York

• Pennsylvania

• Ohio

• Michigan

• Minnesota

• North Dakota

• Montana

• Idaho

• Washington

• Alaska

1 patrolled   

vt.& vi.巡逻，巡查（patrol的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• Troops patrolled the border day and night. 军队日夜在边境地区巡逻。
• Soldiers patrolled the castle ramparts. 士兵们在城堡城墙上巡逻。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。