1 . 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。

When Beethoven was only four, his father decided to make him a musician. Beethoven was made to practice     1     (play) different musical instruments hour after hour. Whenever he did not put his heart into his practice, his father would be strict     2     him.

    3     (fortune), the boy loved music very much and learnt so fast that he was able to go around and give     4     (concert) when he was only 11. When he was 17, he received high praise from Mozart,     5     great Austrian composer. A few years later, Beethoven went to Vienna     6     ( study) under Haydn, another great Austrian composer. Then he     7     (write) a great deal of music, even at his most difficult time. But after one illness, he suddenly found     8     (him) deaf at the age of 31.

However, this didn’t stop Beethoven. During his life, he composed about 30 pieces of music. It is     9     (amaze) that he wrote some of his best pieces after he became deaf, many of     10     are well known and loved all over the world.

2 . Jack London, one of America's famous writers, was born in California in 1876. During his life, London worked at many jobs. His broad life experiences would become the background for his writing.

London loved to read. As a teenager, he spent many hours educating himself at the Oakland, California, public library. He studied in the University of California at Berkeley, but he stayed for only six months. He thought Berkeley was "not lively enough" and wanted to do something more exciting.

London wrote stories about working people and the hard times they had making a living. He worked as a sailor, farmer, factory employee, railroad worker, and gold prospector, to name just a few of his many jobs.

London grew up near the waterfront in Oakland. He loved the water. When he was fifteen years old, he bought a small sailboat. Later he sailed to Japan. Like many people of the time, London caught the Klondike Gold Rush. In 1897, he headed for Alaska. He didn't find gold, but he discovered something even more valuable. He discovered that people enjoyed listening to the stories he made up with his imagination. London made the miners laugh with story after story. Later, using his experiences during the Gold Rush, he created many more colorful stories.

London decided to live a full, exciting life. He once said, "I would rather be a superb meteor(流星) than a sleepy and permanent(永恒的) planet.”Each day, he pushed himself. Once London decided that he was going to be a writer, nothing could stop him. His goal was to write at least one thousand words every day. He refused to stop even when he was sick. In eighteen years, the writer published fifty-one books and hundreds of articles. He was the best-selling and highest-paid author of his day. Many people also considered him to be the best writer. White Fang and The Call of the Wild are his most famous stories and are about surviving in the Alaskan wilderness. Readers can enjoy Jack London's energy and his talent for telling wonderful stories each time they open one of his novels.

1. Why was Jack London able to write on many topics?

A．He pushed himself to reach goals.

B．He had a great number of experiences and jobs.

C．He was drawn to the Klondike Gold Rush.

D．He was the best-selling and highest-paid author.

2. What prevented Jack London from finishing college?

A．That he sailed to Japan.

B．That he traveled to Alaska in 1897.

C．That he spent much of his time writing.

D．That he was not interested in college life enough.

3. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph shows that Jack London ________.

A．was expert at the stars	B．aimed high and wanted to succeed
C．was interested in life	D．faced a choice between life and death

4. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A．To tell London was the "best writer".

B．To describe life during the Klondike Gold Rush.

C．To provide information on Jack's life.

D．To introduce books written by Jack London.

3 . 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。

Edison was one of the greatest       1    (scientist) that greatly shaped modern society. When he was seven, Edison's family moved from Ohio to Michigan after his father got a job there. Because of hearing problems, he had difficulty     2     (follow) the lessons and often ran away from school.

However, he used the time     3     (read) books and set up a lab in his home. But the smell from his lab was often so strong that his mother had to stop     4     (he) from carrying out any more experiments at home.

At the age of twelve, Edison got a job on the Grand Trunk Railway. There, he made use     5       an abandoned (被抛弃的) car as his lab. During that time, he     6    (success) developed a device (设备) that could send messages. By 1869, Edison's inventions in telegraphy were widely accepted,     7     made him decide to leave the job and become a fl-time inventor. Edison's most "well-known" inventions included the electric light bulb, microphones and so on. When     8     (ask) to explain how he could come up with so many inventions, Edison said "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration (汗水)."

Edison     9     (die) at the age of 84 on October 18, 1931. At the time of his death, he was still doing experiments in his lab in West Orange, New Jersey. He clearly enjoyed his work and lived life to     10     fullest.

4 . As the saying goes, "Without music, life would be a mistake. "Music is very important in our lives and here are four of the greatest musicians in history.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Born in Bonn, Germany, Beethoven never held an official position in Vienna. He supported himself by giving concerts, teaching piano, and the sale of his compositions（作品）. The last 30 years of Beethoven's life were filled with a lot of hard times, the first of which was his deafness. Beethoven's music greatly influenced the next generation of musicians.

Johann Sebastian Bach(1685-1750)

Bach, "the father of modern music", was born in Eisenach, Germany. His parents died when he was nine years old, and in 1695 he went to live with his brother Johann Christophe, who was an organist（风琴手）in Ohrdruf. He stayed there until 1700. Eight years later, he moved back to Weimar, where he served as court organist for nine years. His music greatly influenced classical music.

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

Chopin was born in Warsaw, Poland. He showed a talent for the piano at a very young age. Chopin began composing when he was still a child, but some of his early works have been lost. He gave his first public concert in 1818. Chopin was considered as the leading musician of his time.

Franz Schubert(1797-1828)

Schubert was born and died in Viena. Unlike most of his predecessors, Schubert was not a great performer. He never had much money but he was very productive. He wrote his first masterpiece when he was only sixteen. However, he died young, before his talents had even been known.

1. Beethoven did not make a living by ________.

A．teaching students.

B．giving concerts

C．selling his works

D．doing business

2. Bach worked as an organist in Weimar until ________.

A．1765

B．1717

C．1750

D．1707

3. Who is called "the father or modern music?"

A．Chopin.

B．Beeboven.

C．Bach.

D．Schuber.

4. What do we know about the four musicians?

A．They all lived a hard life at their old age.

B．They were all good at playing the piano.

C．They became famous at a young age.

D．They were all talented musicians.

5 . 下面短文中有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。没出错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意： 1. 每句不超过两个错误；   
2. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
3. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Henry Royce did not like his car who ran badly and often broke up. So he decided to make better car himself, and in 1904 he produced her first new model. Charles Rolls, a car maker, was very interesting in Royce’s car, and soon Rolls and Royce go into business together. One of their first model was the Silver Ghost. In 1907, a Silver Ghost broke the world’s record by drive 14,371 miles without breaking down once. After the drive, it was cost just over ￡2 to put the car back into perfect condition. This is not surprising that the Silver Ghost was regarded as “ the better car in the world”.

6 . When it comes to the most famous 20th century painters of the United States, Grandma Moses should be mentioned, although she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As she once said to herself:"I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me." No one could have had a more active old age.

She was born on a farm in New York State, one of five boys and five girls. At 12 she left home and was in domestic service until at 27 she married Thomas Moses, the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State, at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children, of whom five survived; her husband died in 1927.

Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery(刺绣) pictures as a hobby, but only changed to oils in old age because her hands became too stiff(僵硬的) to sew and she still wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at the local drugstore and at a market and were soon noticed by a businessman who bought all that she painted. Three of the pictures were exhibited(展览) in the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930's and her death, she produced some 2,000 pictures:careful and lively portrayals of the country life she had known for so long, with a wonderful sense of color and form. "I think really hard till I think of something really pretty, and then I paint it" she said.

1. What does Para 2 mainly talk about?

A．Moses and her children	B．Moses and her childhood
C．An introduction to Moses’ life	D．An introduction to Moses’ marriage

2. What did Grandma Moses spent most of her life doing?

A．embroidering

B．painting

C．nursing

D．farming

3. The underlined word “portrayals” in last paragraph means________.

A．performances

B．descriptions

C．achievements

D．stages

4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage？

A．Grandma Moses and Her Pictures.

B．Grandma Moses and Her Family.

C．Grandma Moses and Her Exhibition.

D．Grandma Moses:The Best Painter of 20th century

7 . The death of soccer legend Diego Maradona has shocked fans worldwide and drawn an outpouring of grief. Maradona, 60, died of a heart attack on Nov 25,2020.

Argentina's president, Alberto Fernandez, declared three days of national mourning upon Maradona's death. "You took us to the top of the world," he wrote on the social networking platform Twitter, "and you were the greatest of Indeed, Maradona lived a life that showed that soccer at its peak can have passions that move entire nations. He was a man who was deified (奉若神明)in Argentina and the Italian city of Naples.

Maradona reached legendary position during the 1986 World Cup in Mexico after scoring two winning goals against England in the quarterfinal. That was a redemption (救赎)for the nation, which was defeated in a war over territory (领土)conflict by the UK just four years earlier. But his magic didn't stop there. At a time when teams were largely domestic, Maradona became the first truly global soccer superstar. Before his arrival in Napoli in 1984 they never won the Serie A title. The city took him in, regarding him as the man to bring back pride and respect to Naples. The club won the championship for the first time ever in the 1986-87 season.

Magician though Maradona may have been, he was deeply human, thus deeply flawed. He appeared in newspapers more for his drug habit than for his soccer skills in the late 1990s. After he played his goodbye game in 2001, Maradona stated, "The ball does not show the dirt."

As a symbol and idol he shone brighter than any other athlete in the last century. Argentina and Barcelona star Lionel Messi wrote, "He leaves us but does not leave, because Diego is eternal (不朽的)

1. Why was Maradona regarded as "the greatest of all"?

A．Because he was an international superstar.

B．Because he played soccer to the death of his life.

C．Because he lit the passion that moved the country with his soccer life.

D．Because he won back the territory tor the country after the 1986 World Cup.

2. What does the underlined word "flawed" in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Imperfect.

B．Athletic.

C．Noted.

D．Influential.

3. What do we know about Maradona from the passage?

A．He was a perfect human respected by people.

B．He built his legendary status in soccer in his 20s.

C．He was a great soccer player as well as a magician.

D．He was the brightest soccer star in the 19th century.

4. Which could be the best title for the text?

A．The Rise of a Superstar.	B．The Biography of a Soccer Player.
C．An Intense Soccer Match.	D．Passing of a Legend.

8 . 假定你是李华。你校英语节组织了“A hero in my heart—Hua Mulan”英语征文评选。请根据以下提示写一篇短文参加评选：
1.简述木兰替父从军的故事；
2.你喜欢这一人物的理由；
3.对你的影响。
注意：1.词数100左右；2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：disguise herself as a man女扮男装, character人物

A hero in my heart—Hua Mulan

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9 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(划掉。   
修改:在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。

I like Li Ziqi, which has inspired many people all over the world. Over the years, she had transformed from a village girl into food and lifestyle expert. She has become worldwide famous by making videos introduced the beauty of traditional Chinese culture. Therefore, Li’s success did not come easily. Her father’s death left her living with her grandparents in a poor village after she went to work in the city on the age of 14. In 2012, Li returned to home and opened an online shop to sell locally products. In 2016, she began to display Chinese culture by filming how his products were created.

10 . 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。

Charlie Chaplin is absolutely a master of nonverbal humor, who made people happy. However, his life was anything but easy. He was born in a poor family in 1889. His parents were both poor    1    (perform), and    2    is astonishing that Charlie was taught to sing as soon as he could speak and dance as soon as he could walk.    3    (fortunate), his father died，    4    (leave) the family even worse off. By his teens，Charlie had become one of the most popular child actors in England.

As time went by, he began making films. His    5    (fun) performance made the audience laugh at a time    6    they felt depressed. He brightened the lives of Americans and British through two world wars and the hard years in between. Charlie Chaplin wrote，directed and    7    (produce) the films he played a leading role    8    . Because of his outstanding performance，in 1972 he    9    (award) a special Oscar and remembered forever. To this day, Charlie Chaplin is still considered as one of the    10    (great) actors in the history of the cinema.