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。

Yu Rong, a Chinese artist, thinks of a new way to introduce     1     ancient story of Hua Mulan in her picture book. In the book, I Am Hua Mulan, she tells the story by     2     (combine) Chinese paper-cutting with international artistic styles. She places Shaanxi papercuts over western-style pencil sketches (素描)    3     (create) typical presentation of Chineseelements (要素), which turns out to be a     4     (success) and impressive breakthrough.

Hua Mulan,     5     story has been told by generations in China, was a fighter from the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534). As a devoted daughter, she dressed herself as a man to serve in the army     6     place of her father. Mulan’s character, such as courage, kindness and a disinterested attitude towards fame and fortune, made     7     (she) one of the most respected historical Chinese heroines. Mulan’s story has been adapted     8     (frequent) in modern media. For example, in 1998, Disney produced a film named Mulan, which     9     (consider) a great success by critics and the public right after its release.

To better tell the story, Yu Rong takes inspiration from her several     10     (visit) to sites of ancient battles and Henan Province’s Yu Opera. After years of preparation she finally makes this extraordinary work.

2 . John von Neumann was the oldest of 3 children of a banker, and his speed of learning new ideas and loving problems stood out early. At 17, his father tried to persuade him not to become a mathematician because he might lead a poor life being a mathematician, so von Neumann agreed to study chemistry as well. In 1926, at 23, he received a degree in chemical engineering and a Ph. D. in mathematics. From then on, mathematics provided well enough for him, and he never had to turn to chemistry.

In 1930, von Neumann visited Princeton University for a year and then became a professor there. His first book was published in 1932. In 1933, the Institute for Advanced Study was formed, and he became one of the 6 full-time people in the School of Mathematics (Einstein was one of the others).

World War Ⅱ hugely changed von Neumann’s areas of interest. Until 1940 he had been a great pure mathematician. During and after the war, he became one of the best mathematicians who put mathematical theories into practice. During the last part of the war, he became interested in computing machines and made several fundamental contributions. After the war, von Neumann continued his work with computers, and was generally very active in government service. He received many awards, was president of the American Mathematical Society and was a member of the Atomic Energy Commission. He died of cancer in 1957.

Von Neumann made several great contributions and any one of them would have been enough to earn him a firm place in history. He will be remembered as one of the greatest minds of the 20^th century.

Von Neumann really was a legend in his own time, and there are a number of stories about him. His driving abilities is a part of his legend. He reported one accident this way: “I was driving down the road. The trees on the right were passing me in an orderly fashion at 60 miles per hour. Suddenly one of them stepped in my path.”

1. According to the text, von Neumann’s father believed that _________.

A．a mathematician needed a good memory

B．von Neumann had the ability to learn two subjects at the same time

C．von Neumann had the gift for solving problems at a high speed

D．a mathematician couldn’t earn a lot of money

2. How old was von Neumann when he published his first book?

A．25.

B．26.

C．29.

D．32.

3. How did World War Ⅱ affect John von Neumann?

A．He lost interest in chemistry.

B．He began to research how to put mathematics into practice

C．He realized the importance of engineering.

D．He left college and served at the government department.

4. From the last paragraph, we can infer John von Neumann was __________.

A．humorous

B．intelligent

C．brave

D．calm

3 . Sara Hinesley, who is 10, doesn’t understand why it is so remarkable that she won a national handwriting competition.

Sara, a third-grade student at St. John Regional Catholie School in Frederick, Maryland, won the 2019 Nicholas Maxim award for her cursive (草书的) handwriting.

She paints and draws, and sculpts clay. She can write in English and some Chinese. When she learnt to write in cursive this year, Sara said, she thought it was “kind of easy”. This is all despite the fact that Sara was born without hands.

To write, Sara holds her pencil between her arms and then focuses on the shapes of letters, each point and curve. “Writing in cursive feels like creating art work,” Sara said. “I like the way the letters are formed. It’s kind of art.”

Sara has never worn a prosthesis (artificial arms), and when she is offered help or a tool that might ease some tasks — such as cutting paper with scissors — she rejects it, said her mother, Cathryn Hinesley She has this independent trend where she just knows that she can do it and she'll figure out her own way. She is beautiful and strong and mighty just the way she is, and she just lives that way. She really does. She moves through life in this way that you never really see her as having a disability because she has a “can do, I-can-solve-anything attitude”

“Sara is an evidence of strong will and the human spirit,” Cathryn said. “Every day I am amazed at the things she is capable to do and that she chooses to do. She doesn't attempt to find her way to avoid s difficulty. She finds a way to finish the task.”

Sara received her national award — a medal — at an award ceremony on June 13, where she was also given a $500 prize. She is the first student from St. John’s to ever receive the Nicholas Maxim award.

1. We can infer from the first sentence that              .

A．Sara makes every effort to win the award

B．Sara considers it easy to win the award

C．Sara doesn’t take the award seriously

D．Sara is excited at winning the award

2. Which of the following words can be used to describe Sara?

A．Brave.

B．Intelligent.

C．Generous.

D．Strong-minded.

3. What is implied in Cathryn’s words?

A．She expects Sara to be independent.	B．She is greatly proud of Sara.
C．She doesn’t think Sara has a disability.	D．She is concerned about Sara's future.

4. In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?

A．Health.

B．Education.

C．Science.

D．Entertainment.

5 . 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.

6 . 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。

As Dr Lin Qiaozhi said, “To a person nothing is     1    (precious) than their life…” These words of her give us a look into the heart of this amazing woman, and     2     carried her through a life of hard choices.

At age 18, she chose to study medicine instead of following the traditional path of     3    (marry) like the majority of girls. At age 26, she was hired as     4     resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital     5    (immediate) after she graduated. Within six months, she was assigned to a higher position     6     usually took four years to achieve. After working for a few years, she was sent to study abroad, where she     7    (reject) the offer from her foreign colleagues. She wanted to serve the women and children at home.

In 1941, she became the first Chinese woman ever     8    (appoint) director of the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital, but later, the department was closed because of the war. So she opened a private clinic to help the people in need and charged very low     9    (fee) and often reduced costs for poor patients.

The new People’s Republic of China saw Dr Lin Qiaozhi playing a key role. Though Lin Qiaozhi never married, she was known as the “mother of ten thousand babies”,     10    (deliver) over 50,000 babies in her lifetime.

7 . Leonardo da Vinci and Nature

In the modern world, art and science are two very separate activities, but in Leonardo’s time they were closely connected. Science meant mathematics and medical studies.     1     Mathematics included practical work like surveying land for making maps as well as measuring the movements of the stars in the sky. An artist might need to measure the different parts of the body. He could also use mathematics to place things in relationship to each other in a drawing or painting so the scene looked correct.     2    

Mathematics was also connected to music because musical sounds have a fixed relationship with each other that can be described in numbers.     3     More than this, though, Leonardo believed that numbers were a part of all things in the world including music, and he said that “without them nothing can be done”.  

“Nature has kindly given us things everywhere to copy,” wrote Leonardo. In all his activities, Leonardo was trying to discover the rules that control nature. In his search for those rules, he looked very carefully at a lot of examples and details. Actual experience was more important to him than the opinion, and he worked from facts to ideas.     4     His purpose was to examine the world so he could copy it in beautiful paintings and sculptures. He also wanted to learn from the clever solutions of nature.  

    5     His quick little sketches (素描), often done while wandering outside, helped him to catch a movement or a shape. More careful drawings would be done at a desk with a pen and a ruler. In July 2001, a small drawing by Leonardo was sold for $12 million. It was the most expensive drawing in the world.

A．Mathematicians and doctors worked to discover the unknown.

B．Leonardo’s ideas were vastly ahead of his time.

C．How could these be connected with art?

D．Leonardo was always drawing.

E．Above all, Leonardo wanted to understand how and why things worked.

F．Leonardo himself was a very good musician and liked to play an instrument and sing.

G．You will see a good example of such positioning in the painting of The Last Supper.

8 . 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。

“Du Fu: China’s Greatest Poet”, a 58-minute documentary released recently on BBC, introduces Du Fu to the Western world for the first time    1     the form of documentary. In the film, Michael Wood, one of BBC’s most popular hosts, visited a number of Chinese    2     (city) to retrace Du’s steps. The documentary invited well-known British actor Ian McKellen,     3     played Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings movies,     4     (read)15 of Du’s poems that have been translated into English.

Born in 712, Du Fu lived through the violent fall of China’s brilliant Tang Dynasty. He had the desire to serve his country, but his life    5    (destroy) by the An Lushan Rebellion of 755. Of all     6     poems he wrote, 500 have been preserved over the ages. For generations he     7     (be) the guardian of the moral conscience (良知) of the nation.

The documentary compared Du to Shakespeare to help audiences     8    (well) understand the poet’s great achievements in literature. It also highlighted Chinese poetry, noting that its 3000-year-old history makes     9    the oldest living tradition in the world.

During an interview, the director even quoted a line from Du to encourage the people    10     (suffer) from pandemics (流行病).

9 . We’ve all been there before. You’re driving down the road when suddenly a pothole(凹坑) seems to appear out of nowhere and sends the _________ bumping. Most people think potholes are _________, but artist Jim Bachor sees them as canvases (画布) for his artworks.

Bachor uses the _________ art form of mosaic(马赛克) to create eye-catching and colorful images of famous people or simple every day _________ like food. He even makes less-appealing visuals of insects.

Bachor was a graphic designer for 20 years before he began his _________ in mosaic. He regards an incidental trip to Europe as his motivation for changing his career. While _________ in Italy, Bachor fell in love with Pompeii, the preserved ancient Roman city. A tour guide pointed out a mosaic, mainly made of glass and marble, and told Bachor, “Glass and marble don’t _________. So, this looks essentially the same as the artist intended.” Bachor says, “That kind of staying power just _________ me so much.”

A year later Bachor returned to attend a mosaic class in Ravenna, Italy, to learn the proper way to _________ the ancient technique. Years after that, he mastered the technique. He __________ that mosaic could be just as significant today as the art form over 1,000 years ago. “I just saw that there was a(n) __________ to bring it into the new age as a contemporary subject,” he says.

So, Bachor decided to make a series of __________ for those potholes. He has __________ mosaic art around Chicago, Detroit and New York City.

While he may not get __________ from drivers or passengers, Bachor’s art is __________ a pleasant surprise to discover.

1.

A．body

B．rock

C．car

D．land

2.

A．challenging

B．interesting

C．discouraging

D．annoying

3.

A．modern

B．ancient

C．elegant

D．mysterious

4.

A．objects

B．ideas

C．routines

D．projects

5.

A．duty

B．career

C．belief

D．instruction

6.

A．traveling

B．living

C．working

D．studying

7.

A．last

B．connect

C．fade

D．break

8.

A．reminded

B．confused

C．troubled

D．impressed

9.

A．introduce

B．apply

C．promote

D．describe

10.

A．promised

B．imagined

C．remembered

D．realized

11.

A．offer

B．time

C．opportunity

D．voice

12.

A．artworks

B．articles

C．poems

D．videos

13.

A．discovered

B．created

C．improved

D．taught

14.

A．help

B．invitation

C．money

D．praise

15.

A．nearly

B．merely

C．certainly

D．personally

10 . 阅读下面材料, 在空白处填入适当的词(1个单词)或括号内单词的适当形式。

Videos of 77-year-old Xu Xiuzhen, who speaks different languages with foreigners while working at a scenic spot selling water, postcards and headdress flowers, have brought her instant fame.

Xu’s village is located at the base of Moon Hill,     1    popular tourist destination famous for a moon-shaped hole at the summit. She     2    (work) as a tour guide and vendor(小贩)in Yangshuo since 1998,     3    the area became popular with foreign backpackers and organized tours.

Xu said she would change words in any language into Chinese characters     4    (base) on their pronunciations and then memorize them. She added that she would repeat the words in her head     5    going to bed and after waking up, because it has given her     6    (fluent) in basic conversations with foreigners.

Over the past two decades, Xu has taught     7    (she) 11 foreign languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. In addition to making her     8    (incredible)popular, her great linguistic skill has made it easier for her     9    (communicate) with foreign tourists.

Xu has also become one of the busiest tour guides in Yangshuo,     10    (attract) a large crowd of tourists every day, especially foreign visitors, who come to meet the multilingual guide out of admiration.