At this selection of five museums, more French will be heard and visitors might feel a sense of satisfaction when knowing they have arrived at a place that native Parisians also enjoy when going on a trip.

Museum of Natural History

Being a must-see spot in the museum at present, the Grand Gallery of Evolution dates back to the 1880s. Originally playing as a zoology building, it reopened to the public in 1994 after decades of ignorance. The entire museum displays more than 9,000 preserved animals and insects.

Museum of Music

The museum’s collection covers centuries of European classical music and instruments, with decorated pianos and hundreds of horns and string instruments. Live performances take place in the galleries of the museum every day. The museum provides two versions of its English-language audio guide, one for children and the other for adults.

Fairground Art Museum

At this museum, guides describe the history of Europe’s traveling fairs and explain signs that identify the origin of the country with a carousel horse. Reserve your tickets in advance on the museum’s website. Tours in French are offered several days a week all year round, and English-language tours are offered in the summer months.

Museum of Arts and Crafts

It was founded during the French Revolution to show its advanced science and technologies and has since received constant updates. Early planes, including the first to cross the English Channel, hang from the ceiling of one building. The collection has a huge range, with antique cars, early engines and elements (元素) used in the construction of the Statue of Liberty.

Museum of Magic

Each visit to this museum begins with a short performance of simple tricks, followed by a guided tour of the magic tools and objects on display in those 16th-century basements. This tour currently takes place in French, so English-speaking visitors may want to explore on their own with the help of English-language guidebooks available at the entrance.

1. What do we know about the Grand Gallery of Evolution?

A．It was once inaccessible to the public.

B．It was first built around 30 years ago.

C．It studies all kinds of wildlife in nature.

D．It shows several thousand plant species.

2. What suggestion is given to visitors to the Fairground Art Museum?

A．Choose a proper guide for your travel.

B．Learn some French before your travel.

C．Know the history of France in advance.

D．Book tickets beforehand at proper time.

3. What can we infer about the Museum of Arts and Crafts?

A．It keeps many old collections.

B．It still keeps its original look.

C．It only provides French-speaking guides.

D．It’s a museum about magic tools and objects.

For centuries, people in Baltic nations have used ancient amber (琥珀) for medical purposes. Even today, babies are given amber necklaces to help relieve teething pain, and people put the amber powder in some medicines for its special effects.

Now, scientists have found substances (物质) that help explain amber’s medical effects and that could lead to new medicines to fight antibiotic-resistant (耐抗生素的) diseases. Each year in the US, at least 2.8 million people get antibiotic-resistant diseases, leading to around 35,000deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We knew from previous research that there were substances in Baltic amber that might lead to new antibiotics, but they had not been systematically explored,” says Elizabeth Ambrose, the main investigator of the project. “We have now identified several substances in Baltic amber that show activity against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.”

Ambrose’s interest originally came from her Baltic heritage. While visiting her family in Lithuania, she collected some amber and heard stories about its medical uses. Ambrose and a graduate student Connor McDermott, who is at the University of Minnesota, analyzed commercially available Baltic amber samples, in addition to some that Ambrose had collected.

“One major challenge was getting a fine powder from the amber,” McDermott explains. Through trial and error, he finally got it. Then some substances were identified. Because these .substances are difficult to deal with, the researchers bought pure samples and sent them to a company that tested their activity against nine bacterial species, some of which are known to be antibiotic-resistant. “The most important finding is that these substances are active against gram-positive bacteria,” McDermott says.

“Moving forward with these results makes us elated,” Ambrose says. “Some newly discovered substances are probably the source of new medicines, especially for treating diseases caused by gram-positive bacteria, which are increasingly becoming resistant to known antibiotics.” As scientists study the active properties of other traditional medicines from around the world, it’ll be great to see other findings.

8. What’s the finding of the new study?

A．Medical effects of amber lack scientific bases.

B．Amber can be used for curing some mental illnesses.

C．Antibiotic-resistant diseases have caused many deaths.

D．Substances in amber can help fight drug-resistant bacteria.

9. What caused Ambrose to conduct the research on amber?

A．A cultural exchange program at college.

B．The success of former amber researchers.

C．The traditional belief in its medical value.

D．Her determination to contribute to medicine.

10. Why did the researchers turn to a company?

A．To acquire better amber.

B．To seek technical support.

C．To raise funds for their research.

D．To mass-produce their new medicine.

11. What does the underlined word “elated” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A．Confused.

B．Anxious.

C．Excited.

D．Disappointed.

Tsunamis are one of the most terrifying natural phenomena that the world suffers. The series of waves generated by the displacement (位移) of a large volume of water can be caused by several events, including earthquakes, underwater explosions and landslides. Once triggered (引发), a tsunami can hit the coast within minutes and its destructive power can be enormous.

At present, early warning systems rely on measuring the movement of dart buoys (浮标), which record changes in the sea level, or assessing the bottom water pressure of the developing tsunami. But they require the tsunami to physically reach the measurement location. The buoys could be fixed in the deep ocean, but this requires an unrealistically big number of buoys. Or people can fix the buoys along the shoreline, but due to the high speed of the tsunami, this method may leave no warning time for people on the land.

Instead, there is a new system — using sound waves to predict tsunamis. Sound waves caused by an earthquake can travel much faster than the tsunami that has been triggered. Using standard underwater microphones, we can record these sound waves long before the tsunami arrives regardless of the direction in which the tsunami will travel. The sound signals come from changes in pressure, so what we actually analyze is a series of data on how the pressure is changing over time. Though buoys also show changes in pressure, the tsunami front must actually reach the buoys to inform us that there is an increase in the water surface. By using underwater microphones, however, we only need to catch the sound signals.

Though the idea of using sound waves to predict tsunamis has been put forward previously, the key to our idea is a new mathematical method that can be used to analyze these recorded sound signals in near real-time. Once this is worked out, we can not only warn people of a tsunami but also more accurately estimate its size long before it reaches the shoreline.

12. From Paragraph 1, we know ______.

A．what can trigger off tsunamis

B．how to predict tsunamis effectively

C．why tsunamis are the worst natural disaster

D．how to protect the coastal areas from tsunamis

13. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．The dart buoys.	B．The changes in the sea level.
C．The changes in water pressure.	D．The present early warning systems.

14. What can we infer about the new warning system from Paragraph 3?

A．It has high accuracy.	B．It can increase warning time.
C．It can monitor changeable sea levels.	D．It can adapt to various water wave conditions.

15. In which column of a newspaper may the passage appear?

A．Survival Stories.	B．Disaster Rescue.
C．Scientific Invention.	D．Natural Environment.

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Nowadays, more and more countries around the world     36     (hold) celebrations for Chinese Spring Festival. What’s more, not only are these attended and enjoyed by Chinese citizens     37     (live) abroad, but by many other nationalities, too.

Shopping centres have been organising     38     (activity) to celebrate Chinese Spring Festival for years, while concerts and other performances are also proving     39     big success. Tickets for the Grand Chinese New Year Concert in St Petersburg sold out     40     90% of the audience were local Russians. People are also discovering the fun of interacting with the celebrations, rather than     41     (simple) watching as part of an audience.     42     (celebrate) the festival, over 1,000 Ghanaian junior high school students got up on stage to perform Chinese songs and dances. Students in New York City, meanwhile, have since 2016 been able to enjoy an     43     (office) day’s holiday for Chinese Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is far     44     (charming) than any other festival in the world,     45     is becoming a global celebration of joy and love. What do you think of this phenomenon?

46. 假如你是李华，你校学生会计划本周六组织学生到市中心商业区进行卫生清理，你打算邀请你校交换生Jane参加，请你给她写一封电子邮件。内容如下：
1.活动的目的；2.活动的具体安排；3.发出邀请。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为 80左右：
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Jane,
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Yours,

Li Hua