1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Poetry(诗歌) is never far away from our daily lives. Many of us grew up reciting classic poems, learning to enjoy this beautiful art form that’s able to use just a few lines     1     (express) such rich meanings.

The Chinese Shijing, which dates back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, has a    2     (long) history than the Homeric epics(荷马史诗). Even today, classic poems    3    (appreciate) by a lot of people.

To recognize the special     4     (able) of poetry and get its creative spirit, World Poetry Day is held by the United Nations on March 21 each year to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression.

The Chinese Poetry Congress(中国诗词大会)showing classic poetry is    5     (extreme) popular. The competition saw over 100 hopeful participants taking part in    6    number of challenges. The participants,     7    ages range from 7 to 70, include students, farmers, teachers and foreign competitors with an interest     8     Chinese literature.

And even TV series involving poetry are very    9    (success). For example, in The Legend of Zhenhuan, one of the drama’s most moving songs was adapted from a poem     10     (write) by Wen Tingyun of the Tang Dynasty.

2 . 语法填空

American writer Theodore Seuss Geisel, better     1     (know) as“Dr. Seuss”, is one of the world's most famous authors of books for children.

March 2, 2018 was his 114th birthday. He was born in 1904 in Massachusetts and     2     die) in 1991.     3     his honor, March 2 is called both “Dr. Seuss Day” and, in many places,“World Book Day”. The aim of   the observance (纪念) is to celebrate literature and urge children around the world to read.

Dr. Seuss is famous for his fantastical and     4     (humor) books for young children. His books     5         (fill) with colorful pictures and fun rhymes. Dr. Seuss’     6     (work) include “The Cat in the Hat”,“Green Eggs and Ham”and“The Lorax”.

Dr. Seuss helped generations of children learn to read and to love reading. His books have been published in some 20 languages.

Many people used “World Book Day”     7     (express) thanks for Dr. Seuss' books. If you missed out on World Book Day, you will have     8     chance later this year to celebrate books and reading. The United Nations marks World Book and Copyright Day on April 23. That is the date on     9     several of the world's     10     (great) writers died. They include England's William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes of Spain.

3 . Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were two young men from Germany who loved a good story. As university students, they became interested in folktales—traditional stories that people memorized and told again and again. They began to collect traditional folktales from storytellers all over Germany. Many were similar to stories told in France, Italy, Japan, and other countries. Between 1812 and 1814, the brothers published two books in German.These included stories like "Hansel and Gretel" and "Little Red Riding Hood."

Despite the fact that Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are often associated with Snow White and Rapunzel, the brothers didn’t actually write any of those stories. In fact, the stories existed long before the two men were born in Germany in the mid 1780s. The fairy tales, in fact, were part of a rich oral tradition—passed down from generation to generation, often by women seeking to pass the time during household chores. In 1812, Jacob and Wilhelm published the stories as part of a collection titled Nursery and Household Tales, or what is now known as Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

The Grimm brothers’ tales were about traditional life and beliefs. For example, forests are common in Germany, and this image often appears in the Grimms’ stories. In the past, many people believed forests were dangerous places. In the Grimms’ stories, a forest is the home of evil witches, talking animals, and other magical beings.

Although most people today think of these stories as fairy tales for children, the brothers first wrote them for adults. Many of their early tales were dark and a little scary. Later, the brothers changed the text of some of the original stories. They "softened" many of the tales and added drawings. This made them more appropriate(合适的) for children. Like the early tales, though, each story still has a moral: work hard, be good, and listen to your parents.

Actually, university-trained philologists (语言学者) and librarians, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published more than fairy tales. They wrote books about mythology, and published scholarly works on linguistics and medieval studies.

1. What is the main purpose of the reading?

A．To compare the Grimms’ stories to modern children's stores.

B．To explain why storytelling is important in Germany.

C．To examine two of the Grimms' fairy tales.

D．To give information about the Grimm brothers and their stories.

2. Which of these statements is true about the Grimm brothers?

A．They invented the fairy tales in their books.

B．They wrote their books in different languages.

C．They became interested in folktales as students.

D．They traveled to many countries to collect stories.

3. Which of the following best explains “moral” underlined in Paragraph 4 ?

A．interest	B．text
C．story	D．message

4. What do we know about the Grimms' stories?

A．The later stories had morals, like the early ones.

B．The early stories were written for children.

C．The early stories had a lot of drawings.

D．The later stories reflected German life, but the early ones didn't.

4 . If he’d survived his sudden illness in 1990, Jim Henson might be turning 79 years old on September 24, 2015. He would probably still be at work. We can only guess where his imagination would have taken him — and us — in the 25 years we missed. There’s no doubt that he would have broken new ground, for Henson was a never­stopping innovator (创新者)．

His long career began far back in 1955, when he created Sam and Friends for a Washington D．C. television station. The programmes were just five minutes long and scheduled in the no­man’s­land between afternoon and evening programming. Yet the show won an Emmy for best local entertainment programme in 1958.

When it ended in 1961, Henson struggled to find work. He could only get brief appearances on other programmes like The Tonight Show and Saturday Night Live.   Only in 1976 did a British producer finally give Henson the green light to start a full­scale television show. The Muppet Show was produced and broadcast in Great Britain before finally arriving on prime time (黄金时间) US television. The network continued to identify it as a children’s programme, though the programme won a wide following of adult viewers.

One reason for its appeal to grown­ups was the obvious skill in catching the imagination. Henson’s talent was so great that it’s difficult to think of Kermit or Miss Piggy as nothing more than piles of cloth when they aren’t being operated. But Henson himself never forgot how much work went into creating his characters.

Way back in his early days, Henson created Kermit the Frog. His body was made from a green coat his mother had thrown away and his eyes were two halves of a ping­pong ball. Over the years, his shape became more expressive. “Kermit is the character through whose eyes the audience is viewing the show. He’s a nice guy，” Henson said.

1. Which of the following programmes marked the start of Jim Henson’s career?

A．The Tonight Show.	B．Sam and Friends.
C．Saturday Night Live.	D．The Muppet Show.

2. It can be inferred from the passage that Miss Piggy was ________.

A．a character Jim Henson created

B．Jim Henson’s close friend

C．a television programme

D．Kermit’s girlfriend

3. From the passage, we can infer that ________.

A．it was easy for Jim to create his characters

B．Jim Henson died of illness at the age of 54

C．the Muppet Show was broadcast in the US first

D．the programme Sam and Friends was not popular locally

5 . One day, my friend showed his favorite book to me. He also said it was     1     second part of the very famous book—Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

I borrowed the book from a young librarian and I enjoyed reading it     2     (immediate). I realized     3     wonderful books could be! Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is filled with adventures. The main character was Huckleberry Finn, a poor English boy,     4     father was a low class drunk, and wanted to get his son's fortune which Finn had gotten previously in another adventure with his friend, Tom Sawyer. Therefore, Finn ran away from his father and met another boy called Jim.     5     friends went to the sea and got on a ship. They also went to     6     (variety) islands in the sea and had many     7     (adventure). Eventually Finn returned home, only     8     (find) that his father had died. From then on he has no longer been in any danger. Jim also got his freedom     9     Finn's help.

This novel     10     (write) by the well­known American author Mark Twain who also wrote the famous book Tom Sawyer.

6 . 阅读下面课文缩写材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
     Some poems tell a story or describe something in a way that will give the reader     1     strong impression. Others try to express certain emotions. Poets use different forms of poetry to express     2     (they). For example，the language of nursery rhymes is concrete but     3     (imagine), and they delight small children because they have strong rhyme and a lot of     4     (repeat). And list poems have a flexible line     5     (long) and a rhythm to the poem. Another simple form of poem is the cinquain,     6     is made up of five lines and can convey strong     7     (feel) in just a few words. Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry that is made up of 17 syllables. And of course there are Tang poems from China which you may enjoy     8     particular. With so many different     9     (form) of poetry to choose from, students may     10     (eventual) want to write poems of their own.

7 . 书面表达
假如你是李华，你的英国笔友Bob来信说，他不明白为什么许多中国父母喜欢用古诗启蒙孩子，请你写一封回信解释其中的原因。内容要点如下：
1. 中国是一个历史悠久的国家，文化形式多样，尤其以古诗歌闻名于世。
2. 诗歌有一定的韵律，语言简洁，具有易学、易记的特点。
3. 诗歌富含感情色彩，且富有想象力，深受孩子们的喜爱。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Bob,
I was glad to hear from you. ________________________________________________
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Best wishes.
Yours,
Li Hua

8 . The Peales were a famous family of American artists. Charles Willson Peale is best remembered for his portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution. He painted portraits of Franklin and Jefferson and over a dozen of George Washington. His life-size portrait of his sons Raphaelle and Titian was so realistic that George Washington reportedly once tipped his hat to the figures in the picture.

Charles Willson Peale gave up painting in his middle age and devoted his life to the Peale museum, which he founded in Philadelphia. The world’s first popular museum of art and natural science mainly covered paintings by Peale and his family as well as displays of animals in their natural settings. Peale found the animals himself and found a method to make the exhibits more lifelike. The museum’s most popular display was the skeleton (骷髅) of a huge, extinct elephant, which Peale unearthed on a New York farm in 1801.

Three of Peale’s seventeen children were also famous artists. Raphaelle Peale often painted still lives of flowers, fruit, and cheese. His brother Rembrandt studied under his father and painted portraits of many noted people, including one of George Washington. Another brother, Rubens Peale, painted mostly landscapes and portraits.

James Peale, the brother of Charles Willson Peale, specialized in miniatures (小画像). His daughter Sarah Miriam Peale was probably the first professional female portrait painter in America.

1. What is the main topic of the passage?

A．The life of Charles Willson Peale.

B．Portraits in the 18th century.

C．The Peale Museum.

D．A family of artists.

2. The author mentions in Paragraph 1 that Washington tipped his hat to the figures in the painting to show that _______.

A．Charles Willson Peale’s painting was very lifelike

B．Washington respected Charles Willson Peale’s work

C．Washington was friendly with Raphaelle and Titian Peale

D．the painting of the two brothers was very large

3. Which of the following is NOT the child of Charles Willson Peale?

A．Titian Peale.	B．Rubens Peale.
C．Raphaelle Peale.	D．Sarah Miriam Peale.

4. The author’s attitude toward the Peales is in general _______.

A．puzzled

B．excited

C．admiring

D．disappointed