Opening Hours

High season (April to September): 9:00- 18:00 every day

Low season(October to March): 9:00- 17:00 every day

Ticket Prices

Route A(.. .. . →): $20 each person

Route B(-----,→): $18 each person

Things You Should Know

·Buses for both routes leave every hour from Central Station.

·Route A takes one hour. Route B takes 50 minutes.

·If you take your pet with you, please buy a ticket for it at half price.

· Save 10% if you buy tickets on the Internet.

· Save 10% if you buy tickets for both routes.

Go to www. citysighubus. org for more information.

16. Which bus station is on Route A?

A．King Henry’s Garden.

B．Farmers’ Bridge.

C．East-End Temple.

D．Starlight Garden.

17. If Mrs Green takes Route B with her dog, how much should she pay?

A．$16.

B．$18.

C．$30.

D．$27.

18. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Tickets are more expensive in high season.

B．People must buy tickets at full price for their pets.

C．It costs less to buy tickets on the Internet.

D．People will save 10% if they buy two tickets for the same route.

Because of the outbreak (疫情), many people look for fun online. Watching livestreaming (直播的)shows has become part of their lives. At the same time, traditional culture has found a bigger stage (舞台) online. Many traditional artists are starting to livestream, like Douyin and Bilibili. Some of them sing Peking Opera, some show their folk handcrafts(民间手工艺), while others perform Chinese classical music. A growing number of young people are starting to become more interested in traditional culture because of livestreaming.

Li Jun is a Peking Opera performer with the Shanghai Jingju Theater Company. After the outbreak, the 59-year-old took up his smartphone and started livestreaming. Unlike performing on a formal stage, Li uses ordinary places as his stage, including his backyard and study room. Apart from singing, Li also teaches viewers (观看者)about Peking Opera. People can ask him questions and get answers directly,

“Livestreaming has brought this elegant (高雅的)art down to earth.” one viewer said. “It gives young people an easier access to this traditional art and learn more about it.” Li has more than 6000 fans on Douyin, while one of his videos got 42,000 views on Bilibili.

On March 26th, 2020, Bilibili livestreamed a huafu show on the third China Huafu Day (中国华服日). Performers presented clothes in traditional Chinese styles, including those from Wei, Tang and Ming dynasties. During the show, viewers not only enjoyed looking at the clothes, but also watched how performers used ancient styles of make-up(古代化妆术).

As Guangming Daily noted, livestreaming has come to a new stage through which traditional culture can be kept alive.

19. In the second paragraph, the writer mentioned Li Jun in order to ________

A．tell young people to learn Peking Opera

B．give an example of traditional culture livestreaming

C．ask young people to learn from Li Jun

D．ask young people to enjoy Li Jun's livestreaming

20. Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

A．Besides dancing, Li also teaches viewers about Peking Opera.

B．Li has over 6000 fans on Bilibili, while one of his videos got 42,000 views on Douyin.

C．Li used his computer to livestream.

D．Li performed Peking Opera in ordinary places as his stage, like his backyard and study room.

21. Which picture shows the structure(结构) of the passage?

A．

B．

C．

D．

22. Livestreaming is a new stage to ________ according to this passage.

A．look for fun during the outbreak

B．ask questions and get answers directly

C．keep traditional culture from disappearing

D．sing and watch easily and freely

Bertie was sad for weeks, months after the lion died. There was nothing I could do to cheer him or even console(安慰) him. He would sit for hours in his room, or go off on long walks all on his own. He seemed to shut away inside himself, so distant. Try as I did, I could not reach him.

①Then one day I was in the kitchen here, when I saw him hurrying down the hill, waving his stick and shouting for me. “I’ve got it,” he cried. as he came in, “I’ve got it at last.” He showed me the end of his stick. It was white. “See that, Millie?” “Chalk! It’s chalk underneath, isn’t it?”

“So?” I said.

“You know the famous White Horse on the hillside at Uffington, the one they carved out of the chalk a thousand years ago? That horse never died, did it? It’s still alive, isn’t it? Well, that’s what we’re going to do, so he will never be forgotten. We’ll carve The White Prince out on the hillside—he’ll be there forever, and he’ll be white forever too.”

“It’ll take a bit of time, won’t it?” I said.

“We’ve got plenty, haven’t we?” he replied, with the same smile he had smiled at me when he was a ten-year-old boy asking me if he could come back and mend my kite for me.

② Every spare hour we had, we were up there scraping(刨土) away with spades(铲子), and we had buckets(桶) to carry away the earth. It was hard, back-breaking work, but it was a labour of love. We did it, Bertie and I, we did it together-paws, claws, tail, mane, until he was complete and perfect in every detail.

③It was just after we’d finished that the butterflies first came. We noticed that when the sun comes out after the rain, in the summer, the butterflies-Adonis Blues, they are, I looked them up-come out to drink on the chalk face. Then The White Prince becomes a butterfly lion, and breathes again like a living creature.

④So now you know how Bertie’s white lion became The White Prince and how The White Prince became our butterfly lion.

(Adapted from The Butterfly Lion)

23. The sentence “It took the next twenty years to do it. ” should be put at the beginning of one paragraph. Where should we put it?

A．①

B．②

C．③

D．④

24. The underlined word “he” in Paragraph 4 refers to(指代) ________.

A．Bertie

B．butterfly

C．the white lion

D．the White Horse

25. The correct time order of the events about the story is ________
a.       The lion died and Bertie was sad.
b.       Butterflies flew to the chalk face.
c.       Bertie decided to carve the lion on the hillside.
d.       Bertie and Millie spent all the spare time carving.

A．a-c-d-b

B．a-d-b-c

C．d-a-b-c

D．c-b-a-d

26. Millie told the story to express ________.

A．how Bertie carved the lion

B．how Bertie cheered up

C．how much Bertie loved the lion

D．how Bertie found the White Horse