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。

There are various reasons why people write poetry. Some poems tell a story     1     describe something in a way that will give the reader a strong     2     (impress). Others try

    3     ( convey) certain emotions, Poets use many different     4     (form) of poems to express     5     (they). In this text, however, we will look     6     a few of the simpler forms. Some of the first poetry     7     (write) in English is nursery rhymes. Children learned these when they were very young. Nursery rhymes like     8     one on the right are still a common type of children’s poetry. They delight small children     9     they have strong rhythm, rhyme and a lot of repetition. This     10     (make) them easy to learn and recite. By playing with the words in nursery rhymes, children learn about language.

2 . 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(每空至多3词)。

The cave dwelling ( Yaodong in Chinese) in Xi’an , Shaanxi Province, is laid out in rows one atop the other, looking like buildings of multiple floors in the distance . It is a sort of distinctive cave house     1     (dig) into the mountains for dwelling of many laboring people on the Loess Plateau in northwest China.

A cave house is usually six meters deep and four meters wide. Stoneslabs (厚板)    2    (pile) up to form a semicircle at the entrance,     3     is decorated with beautiful wood or metal windows in a     4     (vary) of styles. The types of the cave dwelling can be divided into the earth cave dwelling , brick cave dwelling     5     stone dwelling. For centuries, they have been regarded     6    the symbol of the peasants in northern part of Shaanxi Province.

The beauty about the cave dwelling is     7    they help maintain local geography and save on farmlands by     8    (make) use of space that would have been otherwise left unused . They are warm in winter and cool in summer. The temperature inside is usually 13 degrees Celsius higher than in the open in winter and 10 degrees Celsius     9     (low) in summer. Statistics show that 40 million people live in cave dwellings that are scattered over an area of 600,000 square kilometers in     10     middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River.

3 . 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。

The Great Pyramid was built nearly 5,000 years ago for a king    1     (call) Khufu. It is on the west bank of the Nile River.    2    (actual), all the pyramids along the Nile River are on its west bank. The ancient Egyptians thought of the rising of the sun as the beginning of life and the    3    (set) of the sun as the end of life. This is why their bodies    4    (bury) on the west of the Nile.

    5     is very hard to realize how big the Great Pyramid is. It has over 2,300,000 pieces of stones, most of    6    weigh two and a half tons. Some even weigh fifteen tons. Without machinery, the ancient Egyptians cut, moved     7    lifted these stones. Almost all the stones came    8    the east bank of the Nile, and they were taken across the river in boats. It took more than 100,000 people twenty years    9    (build) the Great Pyramid.

The Great Pyramid is over 450 feet high today. Each of the    10    (side) of the Pyramid is 755 feet long. It is about twenty-minute walk all the way around it.

4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。（原创）

When the Lebanese director NadineLebaki was doing research for her filmCapernaum (何以为家), she interviewed many children    1    (struggle) for survival in Beirut and asked them one question    2    the end of the conversations.

The question was, “ Are you happy to be alive?” Sadly , the    3    (true) is that most of the answers were in the negative. The children from poverty-stricken    4    (family) talked about their miserable situations    5    they were abused (辱骂) and badly treated.

The 2-hour film begins with a story about Zain,    6    12-year-old boy who asks the parents why heis brought to the world with flashback shots about his sufferings appearing constantly. He is indeed a strong and wise character, although    7    (physical) smaller than his real age.

Besides, most of the other actorsfound it easy for them    8    (act) because similar experiences even happened in    9    (they) real life. So far, the film which premiered (首映) at the film festival    10    (receive) a lot of praise.

5 . 段落语法填空

Since an early age, I have developed an interest in art. I must admit that I am crazy about the paintings by Vincent van Gogh(1853-1890).

    1     (consider) as one of the greatest artists all the time, this Dutch Post-Impressionist artist had a great influence on the 20^th century art. His father was a church minister,     2     belief lay in God. Vincent spent his early adult life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief period as a teacher, he tried to be a minister too, but he was not     3     (success). Van Gogh had mental problems and was often emotional, which made     4     difficult for him to succeed. It is not until 1880     5     Vincent began his career as an artist. However, during the last ten years of his life, he produced more than 2,000 pieces, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings. Most of his best-known works     6     (produce) during his final two years, when he was     7     (serious) ill.

In 1890, at the age of 37, van Gogh shot himself in the chest. The only painting he sold during his lifetime, The Red Vineyard, was created in 1888. It is now     8     exhibition in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Russia. Several     9     (painting) by van Gogh rank among the most expensive in the world. On March 30, 1987, van Gogh’s painting Irises was sold for a record of $53.9 million. On May 15, 1990, his Portrait of Doctor Gachet was sold for $83.5 million, thus     10     (set) a new price record.

6 . 语法填空

Usually, people     1     (go) on holiday to relax when they don’t have to work. These days, a new kind of holiday is getting more and more popular—helping people in developing countries through volunteer projects. A volunteer holiday is a very     2     (meaning) way to see cultures of other countries. Volunteers often work with people of the country to help the poor. More and more people enjoy     3     (take) a volunteer holiday because it offers them a chance     4     (see) the country they are visiting in a different way.

7 . 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题纸相应位置上。

Ne Zha, China’s animated blockbuster hit of the summer, is ready     1     (hit) North American theaters later this month.

Well Go USA Entertainment,     2     distribution company specializing in bringing top Asian film titles to US cinemas, will release the film in select 3D IMAX theaters across North America on Aug 29,     3     (follow) by a nationwide expansion on Sept 6.

Written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Yang Yu, also known     4     Jiaozi, the film     5     (tell) of Ne Zha, a boy born as a social outcast (弃儿)because of a divine prophecy（神的预言）     6    he would destroy the world. He tries to change his predetermined fate and people’s views of him by choosing good over evil and     7     (become) their true hero.

Built on a successful    8     (adapt) of Chinese folk tale and excellent word-of-mouth, the film - the first Chinese animated film is proving to have long legs at the box office.    9     a total box office of 4.1 billion yuan ($582 million) and counting, Ne Zha is the best-received animated feature ever in China, and the fourth    10     (large) theatrical release in the country’s box office history.

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

On the afternoon of 11 March 2011, Tetsu Nozaki watched helplessly as a wall of water     1    (crash) into his boats in Onahama, a small fishing port on Japan's Pacific coast.

    2    (spend) the past eight years rebuilding, the Fukushima fishing fleet is now confronting yet another menace — the increasing likelihood     3     the nuclear plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), will dump huge quantities of radioactive water into the ocean.

"We strongly oppose any plans to discharge the water into the sea, " Nozaki, head of Fukushima prefecture's federation of fisheries cooperatives, told the Guardian.

Currently, just over one million tonnes of contaminated water is held in almost 1, 000 tanks at Fukushima Daiichi, but the utility has warned that it will run out of space by the summer of 2022.

    4    (release) the wastewater into the sea would also anger South Korea, adding to pressure on diplomatic ties.

Seoul, which has yet to lift an import ban on Fukushima seafood     5    (introduce) in 2013, claimed last week that discharging the water would pose a "grave threat"     6     the marine environment — a charge rejected by Japan.

Japanese Government officials say they won't make a decision     7     they have received a report from an expert panel, but there are strong indications that dumping is preferred over other options     8     vaporising, burying or storing the water indefinitely.

Critics say the government is reluctant     9    (support) the dumping option for fear of creating fresh controversy over Fukushima during the Rugby World Cup,    10     starts this week, and the buildup to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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

Swimming way to success

What does it take to graduate from a university? Many     1     say all you have to do is take classes and pass the exams. Well, it requires more than it if you’re a student at Tsinghua University.

Starting this September, freshmen at the university will have to take swimming courses. If they fail a swimming test at the beginning of their university course, they won’t receive their degree     2     they can pass the test successfully, according to an announcement by Tsinghua University president Qiu Yong.

Exceptions     3    (allow) for students with certain physical or mental conditions, if proved by medical staff.

Liu Bo, head of the Division of Sports Science and Physical Education, explained     4     the university is linking swimming ability with degrees.

“As a requisite(必要的) survival skill, swimming is beneficial for students in the long run, since swimming is helpful in improving students’ endurance and is     5    (harmful) to joints(关节) and muscles as a water sport,” he told China Daily.

Viewing the ability     6    (swim) as a must for students is not something new to this university - it was also a requirement in the early 20th century.

It was later dropped     7    a rising number of students and a lack of facilities. Besides Tsinghua University, Peking University and Xiamen University have also listed swimming as a compulsory course for students.

However, the announcement has caused a heated debate.

Some welcomed the new rule, saying it’s a necessary skill that can save lives. “Swimming is a fundamental(基本的) skill. It’s a way to stay healthy and is lifesaving in emergency situations. I believe making     8     mandatory(强制的) is necessary,” Yuan Jiaxiang, a junior in Tsinghua’s Department of Civil Engineering, told China Daily.

However, some said it has nothing to do with getting a degree. “It’s not reasonable to require people to be able to swim for them to graduate,” Zheng Xiaoyu, a high school student from the Middle School Affiliated to Northern Jiaotong University, told China Daily. “For a lot of people who grew up in inland cities, learning how to swim as an adult will be difficult.”

In fact, Chinese universities are not the only education organizations     9     encourage their students to swim. A few colleges in the United States - including Cornell, Columbia and MIT - offer swim classes to students. “Anything     10    (prevent) people from dying needlessly is a valuable skill,” Fred DeBruyn, director of aquatics(水上运动) at Cornell, told The New York Times.

10 . 阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内

Yuan Longping, one of China’s most famous     1    (scientist), works the land to do his research. He grows     2     is called super hybrid rice, which makes     3     possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.

    4     into a poor farmer’s family in 1930, Dr Yuan graduated from Southwest Agricultural college in 1953. Since then, finding ways to grow more rice     5    (be) his life goal. As a young man, he saw the great need     6     increasing the rice output. He searched for a way to achieve it without     7    (expand) the area of the fields. Thanks to his research, farmers are producing harvest twice as large as before and the UN has more tools in the battle     8    (rid) the world of hunger.

One dream is not always enough,     9    (especial) for a person who loves and cares for his people. Now Dr Yuan has another dream: to export his rice so that it can     10    (grow) around the globe.