1 . 你的学校将举行传统文化嘉年华（Traditional Culture Festival）。假如你是李华，请根据以下表格信息给你的好友Tony写一封邮件，介绍活动的相关内容及意义，并邀请他参与此次活动。

Time	next Friday
place	in the school playground
Activities	●watch… ●know about…
Meaning	educational…

注意：
1. 邮件必须包括表中所有内容，可适当增加细节；
2. 文中不得出现真实的姓名、校名等信息；
3. 词数：80—100词左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Tony,

Knowing that you like Chinese culture a lot, I’d like to tell you something about our Festival.

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Yours,

Li Hua

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中所给单词的适当形式。

Zong Qinghou, the founder of Hangzhou Wahaha Group, passed away on February 25th at the age of 79. In 1989, he     1     (set) up Hangzhou Wahaha Food Factory, which is known     2     Wahaha Group two years later. One of     3     (success) products is Wahaha AD calcium (钙) milk.

The company has nearly 30,000 workers and 81 production     4     (factory) in China now. Zong     5     (list) as the country’s richest person in 2010, 2012 and 2013 by business magazine Forbes.

    6     Zong was quite rich, he led a simple life. He once said, “I am     7     ordinary person, but luckily I was born in such a golden age.” He also said, “There will be no Wahaha without reform and opening-up. So it is     8     duty to shoulder the social responsibilities, and create more jobs for the people.”

Zong turned a small drinks business into a big company, and his down-to-earth style and creative spirit     9     (deep) influenced the public. Moreover, his courage to face difficulties and down-to earth spirit will encourage more people     10     (realize) their dreams step by step.

5 . A survey shows that the number of lonely adults is increasing. According to a research, loneliness can have harmful effects on health. So if you feel lonely at times, be sure to care about it. Here are some tips for you to avoid being lonely.

________

Maybe it seems that you don’t have time to meet new friends, but you need to consider your social life first. Go for a walk and chat with someone. You can even offer to take a neighbor’s dog for a walk. The neighbor will surely like to make friends with you.

________

Without doubt, it’s difficult for you to move to meet like-minded people. However, the Internet can easily bring people with the same interests together. So it is easy to build an online friend community. Try some safe meetup websites, bringing people with common interests together.

________

In order to find possible friends, try to know more about them. What do they like doing? Join one of their activities. What subject are they interested in? Find out more about it and discuss it with them. In this way, you can know each other much better.

________

Volunteering is good for both body and mind. It gives you the chance to communicate with people.

Helping at the local food store or in a charity (慈善) shop will give you a warm feeling and you’ll know other volunteers. It’ll also give you something to talk about with friends and families.

A. Build your community online.
B. Make time to meet people.
C. Plan ahead.
D. Work as volunteers.
E. Know more about your friends.
1. ________
2. ________
3. ________
4. ________
5. What else can we do to avoid being lonely? (No more than 20 words)
__________________________________________________________

6 . Recently, “college students going to Zibo for barbecue” and “taking a high-speed train to taste Zibo barbecue” have become hot topics on Chinese social platforms. Zibo barbecue offers a distinctive dining experience. On each table is a small stove. Customers can process skewers (肉串) themselves and then wrap them in a thin pancake, usually with a spring onion inside. The experience makes “Zibo barbecue” quite different from other kinds of barbecue.

Data (数据) from Meituan and Dazhong Dianping shows that booking volume (总量) for hotels in Zibo during the five-day May Day holiday is 800 percent higher than that in 2019. Local media in Zibo said the number of passengers arriving and leaving through Zibo railway station has reached 50,000 a day, setting a record in the past three years, with most of them being tourists who come to taste Zibo barbecue.

The local government has caught the chance brought by the sudden trend, to attract more tourists. As early as March 10, it has set up prizes for barbecue shops that are popular among tourists, set up a barbecue organization, and announced the opening of a barbecue festival during the May Day holiday. In order to encourage people to visit the city, Zibo set up a specially customized “barbecue map”, and added 21 new barbecue bus lines, so that tourists can “get on the bus to rest, get off to eat”.

“Barbecue and tourism may not have too much influence on stimulating the economy (刺激经济), but this is a chance for more people to get to know Zibo’s enthusiasm and business environment, which will attract more investment (投资) and create more jobs. This is what really matters,” Wang Dazhuang, a local Zibo citizen said. At present, the biggest problem is that the passenger flow is too big for this city so that many owners of barbecue restaurants are trying to expand (扩大) their barbecue business, according to an owner of a barbecue restaurant.

1. What does the underlined word “distinctive” mean?

A．delicious

B．special

C．great

D．relaxing

2. What does the data show in Paragraph 2?

A．Zibo has a huge tourism increase because of Zibo barbecue.

B．Zibo has always been popular during the May Day holiday.

C．Not many people went to Zibo until recently.

D．Barbecue has become the symbol of Zibo.

3. What does the third paragraph mainly tell us about?

A．Why Zibo becomes so popular on the Internet so quickly.

B．How Zibo has tried to develop the city tourism.

C．Where visitors can taste the most delicious barbecue in Zibo.

D．When is the best time to taste Zibo barbecue.

4. What is Wang Dazhuang’s attitude (态度) to the popularity of Zibo barbecue?

A．worried.

B．satisfied.

C．doubtful.

D．supportive

7 .

It’s a feeling you’ve almost experienced before—the fear of waiting for an exam to start. You worry about whether you’ve prepared well, and about the failure. Gerardo Ramirez and Sian Beilock have found that students do better in exams if they spend 10-minute writing about their anxieties (焦虑).

At first, scientists tested their assumption (假设) in the lab. They asked 20 college students to take two math tests. Before the first test, half of the students sat quietly and the other half wrote about feelings of the coming exam. It turned out that although both groups scored similar marks in the first test, the writing group did much better at the second test. Their scores improved; rising by an extra 5%. And the students who sat quietly actually did worse; their marks were 12% lower.

But did the act of writing itself ________? To answer that, scientists ran another experiment in a real setting. This time, they worked with 100 ninth-grade students and divided them into two groups, the students were asked for a 10-minute writing exercise. Half of them were required to write about their worries about the coming exam, while the other half wrote about an unrelated topic. Only then did they take the exam.

Their final scores showed that if the students wrote about unrelated topics, their scores were lower. If they wrote about their worries, their anxieties had no effect on their marks. And when Ramirez divided the students into two groups according to how anxious they were, only the high group benefited from the exercise.

Ramirez and Beilock’s study has obvious practical (实际的) effect. They’ve found a simple way of helping the anxious students to perform at their true level. They have also shown that the key to control our anxieties is not to push them aside, but to face them.

1. What do we know about Ramirez and Beilock’s testing in the lab?

A．100 college students got involved.

B．The writing group scored lower in the test.

C．The students were asked to take two tests.

D．The students scored the same during the testing.

2. Which of the following can be put in the “________” in paragraph 3?

A．told a joke	B．lowered the scores
C．produced the result	D．increased the worries

3. What did Ramirez and Beilock’s experiment in a real setting suggest?

A．How the students felt about writing made a big difference.

B．What the students wrote before the test influenced their scores.

C．The topics the students wrote about after the test mattered a lot.

D．Students with no worries performed at their best level in the test.

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

A．Writing about exam worries improves students’ results.

B．Writing exercises might lead working memory to do best.

C．Practising writing encourages students to score high in exams.

D．Developing writing skills helps students get out of their trouble.

8 .

①Tall buildings, criss-crossed roads, huge crowds...When we talk about cities, such words might come to mind. However, cities can be different. They can be sweet homes for both people and animals. Here are three exciting and creative examples.

②Vertical forests in Milan   In the centre of Milan city, there are “vertical (垂直的) forests”! Green plants cover two tall buildings. One is 110 metres tall, while the other is 76 metres. The area these plants cover is the same as 30,000 square metres of woodland. The forests opened in 2014.

③What makes the forests? The answer is 800 trees, 15,000 ground-cover plants and 5,000 shrubs. People plant them in big tubs on large balconies. They attract 1,600 kinds of birds and butterflies. Gardeners often trim the plants in order that people can see clearly out of the windows with them.

④Wuhan, the “sponge city”   Sponge (海绵) absorbs water. “Sponge city” absorbs rainwater. In 2015, Wuhan started to build a “sponge city”, one of the first cities to do so in China. In the city, water can pass through the pavements (人行道). There are also gardens, ponds and wetlands all over the city. When it rains, they can absorb water. So there will be less flooding.

⑤By the end of last year, 20 percent of the city’s area reached the standard of a “sponge city”. In 2030, the area will reach 80 percent.

⑥Living with caracals in Cape Town   Caracals live in many nature reserves, gardens and vineyards in Cape Town, South Africa. They are the last large predator (食肉动物) there. However, they live in danger. As much as 70 percent of their deaths are because they get hit by cars. To save caracals, people started a project. They catch and mark the cats, and give the cats radio collars to tell where they go. After locating roadkill places, people invite an artist to make artworks and put them nearby. The art helps people remember to drive slowly and take care of the cats. There are also caracal road signs. All of these have caught the interest of people in Cape Town.

1. Why do gardeners often trim the plants in Milan according to the passage?

A．To attract birds and butterflies.

B．To see clearly out of the windows.

C．To make their buildings more beautiful.

D．To stop the rain from getting into the house.

2. Which of the following do people in Cape Town do to save caracals? Check and choose the right answer.
①catch and mark the cats
②sleep outside to watch caracals
③give the cats radio collars
④take the pictures of the cats
⑤invite an artist to make artwork
⑥put up caracal road signs

A．①②④⑤

B．③④⑤⑥

C．②③④⑥

D．①③⑤⑥

3. What can we know from the passage?

A．Wuhan started to build a “sponge city” in 2014.

B．As much as 70 percent of caracals live in danger in Cape Town.

C．The green plants cover 30,000 square meters of woodland in Milan.

D．In 2030, 80 percent of Wuhan city’s area will reach the standard of a “sponge city”.

4. In which cup will the egg first sink to the bottom?

A．

B．

C．

D．

9 . 假设你是李华，以下是你的英国笔友Mike发给你的电子邮件。请你根据邮件内容，给Mike写一封回信。

TO	lihua@mail.com
SUBJECT	teamwork
Dear Li Hua, How are you doing? I’m busy making a model spaceship in a group of four. However, my group find it hard to work as a team. Sometimes, we have different ideas and can’t agree with each other. Have you met any problems when you do group work? How did you deal with the problem? And what do you think of teamwork? Looking forward to your reply. Mike

要求：(1)回信中不要出现真实的姓名、校名等相关信息；(2)词数80-100。回信的首尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Mike, Thank you for your e-mail! I’m sorry to hear that you have a hard time working as a team. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Good luck! Li Hua

10 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。

Martin Harris and his family live in an interesting house. It’s an eco home. Eco homes don’t harm     1     environment. They use clean energy instead of fossil fuels like coal or oil.

The eco home is in a hill in Wales and     2     (look) like a house in a film. Half of the house is underground. Martin and his family     3     (begin) to build the house in March and moved in at the end of July. The house was very cheap to build. It has wooden floors, stone     4     (wall) and a skylight in the roof (屋顶). The family gets water     5     a river and they burn wood to warm the house.

Martin and his wife, Lara, were working in a forest when they decided to build their eco home. They wanted to save energy and live a     6     (green) life than usual. They thought their old house in the town was boring     7     it was the same as everyone else’s house. They wanted to live somewhere different and they liked the idea of     8     (live) close to nature. Now they don’t want to live anywhere else. Martin’s family     9     (real) loves their home, because it helps the planet. They always say, “    10     wonderful our house is!”