1 . 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。

The Amazon is key to the health of the entire planet. It is the largest rainforest in the world,     1     (rough) half the size of the United States. Statistics show that nearly 20% of the oxygen     2     (produce) by the Earth’s land comes from the Amazon rainforest. It also puts an enormous amount of water into the atmosphere at a time     3     cities are drying up. The Amazon is sucking in carbon and greenhouse gases while slowing the rising temperatures.     4     it’s now burning at a record rate - with images from space     5     (show) the smoke covering much of Brazil.

It’s not the only major forest in danger Nearly half of the world’s forests that     6     (stand) when humans started farming are now gone. The chief reason is the expansion     7     agriculture into forested areas. In Brazil it’s cattle ranching, soy production and logging, according to Nigel Sizer, tropical forest ecologist. “It is responsible for 80% to 90% of     8     loss of tropical forests around the world.” Environmental groups say these activities can     9     (slow) in a much more sustainable way.

However, you can help reforest parts of the world through the Rainforest Trust and Rainforest Alliance. The Rainforest Trust allows you to restrict your donations to a specific project. The Rainforest Alliance says 100% of your     10     (contribute) will help stop deforestation in Brazil right now.

2 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Chocolate was first used as a drink over 3,500 years ago in     1     (center) America. It was very popular with the Mayans and the Aztecs. In fact, cocoa beans were very important to people there. That was     2     they were used as money. In the beginning, cocoa     3     (plant) in Ecuador, which was, for a long time, the world’s number-one producer of cocoa beans. It is still one of the top producers of the beans, but nowadays more than 70 per cent of cocoa beans come from West Africa.

3 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Buildings around the world will go dark for 60 minutes this evening in a voluntary event     1     (know) as Earth Hour. This grassroots effort started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, and since then it     2     (grow) into a global movement     3     (raise) awareness of our energy consumption and the effects of climate change on our planet. Anyone can participate in this movement by switching     4     the lights at 8:30 PM local time. Last year close to 18,000 landmark buildings switched off their lights in 188 countries. Will you dim your lights tonight?

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。

The Dragon Boat Festival has been marked by eating zongzi and racing dragon boats for thousands of years. It     1     (fall) on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese lunar calendar in honor of Qu yuan,     2     is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself.

Qu was minister of the state of Chu     3     (locate) in the present-day Hunan and Hebei provinces during the Warring States period. He was upright, loyal and     4     (high) respected.     5    , he was fired from office due to his suggestion to fight against Qin in cooperation with other states. During his stay in other states, he wrote many poems to express his strong love for his country. When Chu     6     (defeat) by Qin. He realized     7     he could do about it was nothing. Qu jumped into Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month.

After the     8     (dead) of Qu Yuan, people of Chu went to Miluo River to mourn (悼念) over the great poet they loved so much. People threw eggs and rice wrapped in leaves     9     the river to feed the fish to keep them away from Qu Yuan. Now the Dragon Boat Festival has become a       10    ( tradition) festival for the Chinese people.

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。

Known as the "Vegas of China”,Macao, while filled with luxury and world-class entertainment, also    1    (offer) many landmarks that define the city's unique and fascinating history. The first episode of "Landmarks of Macao” takes you to arguably Macao's most famous landmark-the Ruins of St. Paul's,    2    both the city's Chinese tradition and the Portuguese culture have been greatly preserved.

No trip to Macao could be complete    3    visiting the Ruins of St. Paul's. The Ruins of St. Paul's refer to the facade(外墙)of    4    was initially the Church of Mater Dei(圣母大教堂). First    5    (build) in 1580, the Ruins of St. Paul's is the iconic site of Macao. Originally made of wood, the structure    6    (burn) down in a fire during a typhoon in 1835, with only the beautiful granite (花岗岩)facade remaining and the grand stairs of 68 stone steps    7    (lead) up to it. A steel stairway allows    8    (tourist) to climb up to the top of the facade where you can enjoy a panoramic(全景的)view of    9    whole city as well as the delicate stone carvings.

In 2005, the Ruins of St. Paul's was    10    (official) listed as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Today, the facade of the Ruins of St. Paul's functions symbolically as the Holy Land to the city and the site is noted as one of the “eight new scenic spots” of Macao.

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。

Poetry is never far away from our daily lives. Many of us grew up reciting classic poems, learning to enjoy this beautiful art form that's able to use just a few lines     1    (express) such rich meanings.

The Chinese Shijing, which dates back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, has a     2    ( long) history than the Homeric Epics(荷马史诗). Even today, classic poems     3    (love)by a lot of people.

To recognize the special     4    (able)of poetry and get its creative spirit, World Poetry Day is held by the United Nations on March 21 each year to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression.

The Chinese Poetry Congress(中国诗词大会) showing classic poetry is     5    (extreme)popular. The competition saw over 100 hopeful participants taking part in     6    number of challenges. The participants,     7    ages range from 7 to 70, include students,farmers, teachers and foreign competitors with an interest     8    Chinese literature.

And even TV series involving poetry are very     9    (success). For example, in The Legend of Zhenhuan, one of the drama's most moving songs was adapted from a poem     10    ( write)by Wen Tingyun of the Tang Dynasty.

7 . 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。

Astronomy is the oldest science     1    （know）to man. Thousands of years ago man looked at the stars and wondered about the heavens. But man was     2    （limit）by the six planets that he could see only     3     his eyes alone. The Greeks studied astronomy over 2,000 years ago. They could see the size colour, and     4    （bright）of a star. They could see its place in the sky. They watched the stars     5    （move ）as the seasons changed. But the Greeks had no tools to help themselves study the heavens. Each new tool added to the field of astronomy helped man reach out into space. Man knew a little about the moon     6     there were telescopes.

He did not know that the planet called Saturn had     7    （ring）around it. His sight was     8     limited that he could not see all the planets. In the early 1700s, people thought there were only six planets. Before the spectroscope, man did not know what kind of gases     9    （be）around the sun or other stars. Without the radio-telescope, we did not know that radio noises came from far in space. Today, astronomy is a     10    （grow）science. We have learned more in the last fifty years than in the whole history of astronomy.

8 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word or phrase that best fits each blank.

During the early years of the settlement of the American continent, a highly distinctive form of English,    1    (speak)by the black population, was beginning to. develop in the islands of the West Indies and the southern part of the mainland. The beginning of the seventeenth century saw the emergence of the slave trade. Ships. from Europe traveled to the West African coast,    2     they exchanged cheap goods for black slaves. The slaves were shipped in terrible conditions to the Caribbean islands and the American coast, where they were in turn exchanged for such products    3     sugar and molasses. The ships then returned to England, completing an “Atlantic triangle” of journeys, and the process    4    (begin)again. Britain and the. United States had outlawed the slave trade by 1865, but by that time, nearly 200 years of trading    5    (take)place. By the middle of the nineteenth century, there were over four million black slaves in America.

The policy of the slave-traders was to bring people of different language backgrounds together in the ships, to make    6     difficult for groups to plan rebellion. The result was the growth of several pidgin(混杂)forms of communication, and in particular a pidgin between the slaves and the sailors, many of    7     spoke English. Once they arrived in the Caribbean, this pidgin English continued to act as    8     major means of communication between the black population and their new owners, and among the blacks themselves. Then, when children came to be born, the pidgin became their mother tongue, thus    9    (produce)the first black Creole(克里奥尔语)speech in the region. This Creole English rapidly came    10    (use)throughout the cotton plantations, and in the coastal towns and islands.

9 . 语法填空(在空白出填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。)

Cultural TV programs experienced a come-back at     1     start of the Chinese New year in 2017. Since its broadcast, the program, Readers,    2     (become) a hit. Broadcast on China Central Television (CCTV) over the weekend, it is bringing fresh     3     (enthusiastic) for literature in China. Readers set out to interpret the power and values behind     4     (tradition) Chinese culture. The weekly talk show, produced and hosted by the famous TV personality Dong Qing, invites people from all walks of life to read poems, essays and books they like or wrote. Readers has brought the almost-lost habit     5     reading aloud back into the public spotlight,     6     allows the audience     7     (appreciate) the beauty of language. The participants also     8     (active) share stories from their own life,     9     (explain) reasons why particular pieces touched their hearts or shaped their lives. In the show, poems can     10     (adapt) into songs. So far this program has been considered one of the most popular shows in China.

10 . 语法填空

You may love going to the beach, having fun in the waves，surfing and enjoying the sun and the sand. But what do you know about beaches?

    1     (actual), a beach is made up of small loose rocks,     2     turn into sand and they all get together at the shore of a body of water. But how are they made? Well, they     3     (create) by waves or currents (洋流). A current is like a large river inside the ocean that often     4     (flow) from one place to the next. These currents are caused by changes in temperature as well as the wind.

The shape of the beach depends on how the waves move around. Some waves move things up the beach and others move things down the beach. On       5     (sand) beaches, the waves move sand away from the beach,     6     (make) gentle slopes (斜坡). If a wave is not strong enough     7     (move) sand away, you will get a steeper beach.

Today, with the     8     (appear) of beach towns, more and more people prefer to spend their holidays on the beach. If you want to have     9     wonderful time at the beach, then look for a beach that has a Blue Flag status because it is usually safe and has a high standard     10     water quality.