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。

Multiple brands (品牌) have canceled their partnership agreement with Li Yifeng after the     1     (disturb) news of his scandal (丑事) came out. It was reported that he     2     (spot) having improper relations with females and even after the affair was exposed (曝光), he issued an announcement on his Weibo that he didn’t do anything     3     (consider) illegal and refused to make an     4     (apologize) to the public. As a celebrity(名人), there is no doubt that Li Yifeng is a nationawide phenomenon in showbiz (娱乐圈), and so far he     5     (succeess) in winning many awards in more than fifty TV and film festivals, and his tremendous succuess obtains many fans’ appreciation and gains him a     6     (globe) influence around the world.

    7     (measure) should be taken now for the government     8     (recover) public confidence about these public figures. Meanwhile, celebrities also need to maintain their own images by     9     (pursue) their acting careers. Now it’s time to do something     10     can change the current situation and win the fans’ support back.

2 . Write a composition of 100-150 words, including the following content:
1. In your opinion, is Yang Liwei a hero? Why, or why not?
2. What do you think a true hero should be like?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3 . Time magazine named its choice of the 100 “Most Influential (有影响力的) People in the World” on Wednesday. On the _________ were Barack Obama; Mitt Romney; Hillary Clinton; Warren Buffett; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; Pippa Middleton; Tim Tebow; Jeremy Lin and Matt Lauer.

Jeremy Lin, New York Knicks starting point guard, is a person that many _________ can take as an example, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan who _________ the ball player for being one of the world’s most _________ persons. In the article, the secretary of education said kids can learn a great _________ from the injured Knicks point guard who is a _________ of Harvard University.

“Jeremy Lin’s story is a great lesson for kids everywhere. In life, there are many prejudices (偏见) that _________ hold children back. However, Lin’s success can show that these prejudices are _________. For example, in the past, many people didn’t believe an Asian-American could _________ in the NBA, but Lin has proved them wrong - and he’s shown that it’s ______________ to be a world-class athlete on the court as well as a(n) ______________ student off the court.” Duncan wrote.

“It’s great to see good values and the right attitude ______________ in professional sports because that doesn’t always happen,” Duncan said in the Time report. “Often it’s the selfish sportsman that gets celebrated - not people who play for the ______________ and work together to achieve a goal bigger than themselves.”

We spoke to Lin’s ______________, and they seemed to be proud of the young basketball star and praised the amazing effect he’d had on their team, but Lin stayed ______________ about the recognition, and reacted on Twitter by saying “Now I’m blushing (脸红).”

1.

A．road

B．way

C．world

D．list

2.

A．children

B．stars

C．athletes

D．players

3.

A．criticised

B．praised

C．attacked

D．disliked

4.

A．influential

B．skilful

C．talented

D．selfless

5.

A．lesson

B．skill

C．move

D．knowledge

6.

A．graduate

B．professor

C．student

D．coach

7.

A．fortunately

B．surprisingly

C．amazingly

D．unfairly

8.

A．common

B．untrue

C．necessary

D．useful

9.

A．coach

B．work

C．succeed

D．fail

10.

A．useful

B．possible

C．easy

D．difficult

11.

A．poor

B．lazy

C．excellent

D．normal

12.

A．rewarded

B．forgotten

C．replaced

D．covered

13.

A．country

B．fame

C．money

D．team

14.

A．family

B．teammates

C．friends

D．parents

15.

A．modest

B．optimistic

C．excited

D．happy

4 . 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。

Mi Fu, also known as Mi Fei, was a Chinese painter, poet, and calligrapher born in Taiyuan, Shanxi during the Song dynasty. In painting he gained     1     (recognize) for his style of painting misty landscapes. This style was considered as the “Mi Fu” style and involved the use of large wet dots of ink     2     (apply) with a flat brush. His poetry followed the style of Li Bai and his calligraphy that of Wang Xizhi.

He is best known for his calligraphy,     3     he is regarded as one of the four     4     (great) calligraphers in the Song dynasty. His style arises from that of calligraphers in earlier dynasties, but with a unique mark     5     his own.

As     6     famous calligrapher, Mi Fu was also noted as an eccentric (怪人). At times he    7     (call) “Madman Mi” because he was     8     (true) crazy about collecting stones. He even declared one stone to be his brother. He would bow to his “brother” rock     9     (show) the devotion given to older brothers. His son, Mi Youren, was also a famous painter in his father’s artistic style. Unlike his father, Mi Youren lived to be quite elderly,     10     (die) at the age of 79.

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。

Walking into Wei Lamei's home in Xi'an, one can hardly imagine that the room belongs to a 74-year-old granny, with all kinds of dolls     1    (fill) every corner. She     2    (make) at least 700 large cartoon dolls and countless small ones over the past 26 years.

Wei developed a    3     (fascinate) for making dolls at the age of eight     4    she saw a Russian girl with a blond doll in her arms."After retirement, I began to think about following my childhood dream," said Wei.

    5    (drive) by the dream, in her late 50s, Wei headed to Beijing on her own     6    (seek) better opportunities. After 13 years of hard work in Beijing, she developed her unique design concept and     7    (remark) sewing(缝纫)skills.

In 2010, she returned to Xi'an and turned her home into a workshop.She has ten pairs of glasses and keeps them in different places in the house,so she can browse fashion applications on her smartphone anytime. At     8    same time, she often draws inspiration from Xi'an, the ancient city with a long history, and adds traditional cultural elements to her works. She also     9    (active) participates in live-streaming activities, sharing her daily work and attracting many young fans.

There is no certain way to live our lives. The most important thing is     10    we can do what we love.

6 . Despite an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of students in large lecture hall, Tatiana Erukhimova, who teaches physics at Texas A&M University, has managed to get her students, as well as future generations, excited about the science.

Known as “Dr. Tatiana”, the professor performs physics tricks with boundless energy and enthusiasm in her videos. A range of everyday objects are used in her experiments, from pingpong balls and toilet paper to marshmallows, bicycle wheels and hair dryers. Videos of her dramatic demonstrations have received hundreds of millions of views across social media platforms.

However, things aren’t always easy. When she first started teaching college freshman classes two decades ago, she also struggled to grab the attention of her students. “I did not grab their attention on the first day-that was my mistake.” she says. “I missed this opportunity to bond with them from the very beginning, and then it took me a while to find my voice.”

By the second semester, she found her footing, adjusting her approach to get her students engaged. The key, she says, has been to make herself approachable and her instruction personal. And, of course, add showy demonstrations. “These demonstrations often help students to connect these abstract concepts with real life.” she says.

Physics department head Grigory Rogachev says Erukhimova’s work has helped bring visibility to the department, with about 2. 5 million subscribers on its department’s YouTube page, which has translated to a boost in research funds and physics major applicants.

As a leader in a STEM field in which women are underrepresented, she’s become a role model for some. Afiya Dhanani attended Texas A&M University after seeing Erukhimova’s videos online. “Watching Dr. Tatiana do the experiments online, especially since she was a female leader. Was more inspiring for me to even go into physics.” Dhanani said in an interview with CBS Mornings. That’s all Erakhimova says she can hope for -making physics less forbidding and more exciting.

1. What does Erukhimova’s online videos feature?

A．Rare materials.	B．Energetic presentation.
C．Plain demonstration.	D．Professional explanation.

2. Which saying explains Erukhimova’s initial failure to grab students’ attention 20 years ago?

A．All that glitters is not gold.

B．Sharp tools make good work.

C．First impressions are make or break.

D．A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.

3. How does Erukhimova’s work contribute to the physics department?

A．It leads more students to change their majors.

B．It makes more people to know about the department.

C．It helps the department translate more research papers.

D．It attracts more physics professors to join the department.

4. Which word best describes Erukhimova as a leader in a STEM field?

A．Inspirational.

B．Underestimated.

C．Cooperative.

D．Ambitious.

7 . 阅读以下短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Travels of Xu Xiake is a travel note     1     (create) by Xu Xiake,     2     geographer in the Ming Dynasty. After 34 years of travel, Xu Xiake left more than 600,000 Chinese words of travel notes. After his death, the materials were collected into Xu Xiake’s Travels by others.

This book is the first work to systematically investigate China’s geomorphology (水文地质学) and geology (地理学). In addition, the beautiful words also make it a masterpiece of literature,     3     is of great value in geography and literature.

The fresh and beautiful writing style used to describe things in The Travels of Xu Xiake     4     (make) readers love it. The     5     (describe) of the scenery is not only close to reality, but also very accurate. Modern science and technology has also confirmed the accuracy of Xu Xiake’s records of geological landform and rock landscape.

The historical value of The Travels of Xu Xiake covers a wide range     6     levels. Apart from the observation of mountain landform, he also has     7     (detail) records on hydrological (水文学) distribution, river source exploration and the experience of the relationship between landscape and climate.

From these rich     8     (content), this travel note can leave a name in history. It is considered to be a work     9     (cover) literature and Science in the late Ming Dynasty.

The day of the first chapter of The Travels of Xu Xiake (May 19) is     10     (official) named as China’s Tourism Day.

8 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个恰当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Is it by luck or     1     (strong) that Jackson Yee, who has been an actor for a few years, has achieved such eye-catching results? The answer     2     this question can be found in The Battle at Lake Changjin.

The entire film took more than 180 days to shoot. Jackson Yee was just 20 years old when he entered the set and never left for a single day during filming. The 176 minutes of The Battle at Lake Changjin are just the period of time during     3     we sit in the cinema,     4     they are the 180 days he spent groping around in the snow and ice, and half of the blazing year when he was twenty.     5     from taking time off to attend the Spring Festival Gala, not once     6     he take time off to shoot another film or attend a show.

Thus, we see Wu Wanli change from a coward holding a knife with his hands     7     (tremble) on the battlefield and not daring to stab the enemy, into a     8     (fear) soldier shooting enemies on the battlefield. From a brash boy to an outstanding soldier who can kill enemies bravely, Jackson Yee makes us perceive the words he said, “How can a teenager grow old fast? It is living through a war     9     can make a teenager become thirty years older than he is quickly.” Even when competing with a group of veteran actors who have spent most of their lives in the acting world, Jackson Yee, a new actor in his early 20s, received the     10     (favor) comments.

9 . Kafka was hired in an Italian insurance company on November 1, 1907. He worked there for a year, during which period his letter witnessed that he was unhappy with his working time schedule — from 8 pm until 6 am — as it made it extremely difficult for him to concentrate on his writing. On July 15, 1908, he resigned, and two weeks later he got employed by the Worker’s Accident Insurance Institute. Both in his letter and his diaries, Kafka frequently complained about his life at work.

Though Kafka despaired of his twelve-hour shifts that left no time for writing, he was promoted to the position of chief clerk at the Workers’ Accident Insurance Institute, and he worked from 8:30 am until 2:30 pm. Then he had lunch around 3:00 pm, slept until 7:30 pm, did some exercise and had a family dinner, after which he started work around 11:00 pm (the letter-and diary-writing took up at least one hour a day, and more usually two). “Depending on my strength, inclination and luck, until one, two, or three o’clock, once even till six in the morning.” This routine left him permanently on the verge of collapse. It would be wrong, however, to consider him a long-suffering official depressed by his work or even found it detestable. On the contrary, he was a model official, precise and efficient, who successfully climbed the career ladder.

Kafka is one of the highest regarded writers of the German language, although he achieved little to no fame during his own lifetime. During his lifetime, Franze Kafka burned an estimated 90 percent of his work. After his death at age 41, in 1924, a letter was discovered in his desk, addressed to his friend Max Brod. “Dearest Max,” it began. “My last request: Everything I leave behind me... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others’), sketches and so on, to be burned unread.” Less than two months later, Brod, disregarding Kafka’s request, signed an agreement to prepare a posthumous edition of Kafka’s unpublished novels. Thanks largely to Brod’s efforts, Kafka’s slim, mysterious works were gradually recognized as one of the great monuments of 20th century literature.

1. Why did Kafka quit the job on July 15, 1908?

A．Because he had to work ten hours a day.	B．Because he found a better job.
C．Because he found it affected his writing.	D．Because he hated the job.

2. Which of the following best explains “detestable” in Paragraph 2?

A．Boring

B．Hateful

C．Enjoyable

D．Satisfying

3. What can we learn about Kafka?

A．He had a preference for writing.	B．He did poorly in his work.
C．He was famous when he was alive.	D．He got his works published.

4. What contributed to Kafka’s fame according to the passage?

A．His talent.

B．His luck.

C．His diligence.

D．His friend’s efforts.

10 . A winner of the highest honor in the field of translation, Xu Yuanchong was best known for his translations of ancient Chinese poems into English and French. Xu _________ himself to translation for more than 60 years. For him, translated literature is “a beautiful _________ for the whole world.”

His academic _________ began during his college years in Kunming. In the late 1940s, he spent a few years in France studying French literature. Then he _________ China after graduation and devoted himself to translation ever since. Xu was the first Chinese to _________ Chinese poetry into English and French in rhyme. He was _________ the “Lifetime achievements in translation” in 2010. He was also the first Asian translator to _________ the Aurora Borealis Prize (北极光奖) — one of the highest _________ among international translators — and gained _________ recognition.

Throughout his academic research, Xu __________ the beauty of language and was __________ in creating literary ties between Chinese, English and French speakers. His works have served __________ a cultural bridge linking the East to the West, which __________ English and French-speaking people to better understand the beauty of Chinese literature and the Chinese __________ within. Chinese readers, __________, can appreciate foreign works in the same way they would read novels and poems written in their mother tongue.

1.

A．occupied

B．addicted

C．exposed

D．committed

2.

A．art

B．dream

C．guideline

D．tradition

3.

A．search

B．career

C．performance

D．procedure

4.

A．transferred to

B．adapted to

C．returned to

D．traveled to

5.

A．turn

B．introduce

C．separate

D．force

6.

A．recommended

B．denied

C．called

D．awarded

7.

A．accept

B．acquire

C．access

D．abandon

8.

A．rewards

B．qualifications

C．honors

D．standards

9.

A．worldwide

B．national

C．everlasting

D．lifelong

10.

A．shared

B．pictured

C．enhanced

D．pursued

11.

A．composed

B．absorbed

C．glued

D．stuck

12.

A．in

B．with

C．as

D．for

13.

A．enables

B．persuades

C．urges

D．makes

14.

A．courage

B．poetry

C．discipline

D．wisdom

15.

A．however

B．meanwhile

C．anyway

D．though