2 . 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。

In order to hold a simple, safe and yet splendid Winter Games, the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games     1     (be) not lengthy or marked with a large-scale (大规模的) performance. The Olympic cauldron (主火炬) at the snowflake-themed ceremony was small,    2     the flames conveyed significant messages of greener Olympic Games.

The use of     3     (advance) technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine vision, 5G and cloud broadcasting added to the novelty of the opening ceremony. The performances,    4     carried forward the theme of global peace and shared future for humankind, focused on environmental     5     (protect), human health and physical fitness.

To reduce the carbon footprint of the Winter Games, all the Olympic venues were run on clean energy. For example, about 70 percent of the materials     6     (use) in the Games were obtained through renting, including new sporting equipment, furniture in the Olympic village, technical devices. Also, the medal platforms     7     (make) of recyclable and environmentally friendly materials.

More     8     (important), thrift (节约), a traditional Chinese virtue, can hep build a healthy social environment for China to realize     9     (it) targets of peaking carbon emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060. All this made the 2022 Winter Games an important Olympics to focus     10     achieving carbon neutrality.

3 . A smiling panda and a walking Chinese lantern will be the mascots (吉祥物) of the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing.

The mascots were known to the public on Sept.17, 2019 at a ceremony in Beijing. Beijing Mayor Chen Jining described them as lovely, unique, and awesome. He said they shows Chinese people’s longing for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in a visually attractive way and extends Chinese people’s hospitality to friends throughout the world.

The panda, named Bing Dwen Dwen, is the Olympic mascot. Colourful circles around its face symbolize skating tracks and 5G technology, according to the website of the Beijing organizing committee. “Bing, the Chinese word for “ice”, shows purity and strength, while Dwen Dwen means sincerity, liveliness, and health”, the website said. The choice of the iconic animal, considered the national treasure, is not a surprise to people in China. While many applaud Bing Dwen Dwen for its cuteness on social media, some are not favorably impressed by-the lack of creativity in choosing a panda. The giant panda was one of the five mascots of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, and it was also the symbol for the Asian Games in Beijing in 1990.

“Today is an important step on a milestone in Beijing’s journey to make history as the first ever, in Olympic history, to host both summer and winter editions of the Olympic Games,” International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said at the ceremony.

Based on a traditional red lantern, Paralympic mascot Shuey Rhon Rhon creates a cheerful atmosphere of the Chinese Lunar New Year, which will fall around the time of the Winter Games, the organizing committee said. It is sporting (穿戴) a yellow scarf, a circle of yellow doves around its head, and a traditional Chinese paper-cut. “Shuey” means snow in Chinese and “Rhon Rhon” means “inclusiveness” and “harmonization”, implying that the world civilizations communicate with each other and live in harmony, the committee said.

The two mascots were selected from more than 5800 submission from 35 countries.

1. What does Chen Jining think of Bing Dwen Dwen and Shuey Rhon Rhon?

A．They represent the IOC.	B．They have great artistic value.
C．They show Chinese people’s warmth.	D．They have much room for improvement.

2. Why are some people not satisfied with choosing Bing Dwen Dwen?

A．Because pandas are the national treasure.	B．Because it is too colourful for the Olympics.
C．Because its design is lacking in creativity.	D．Because a panda has ever been chosen as a mascot.

3. What can we learn about Shuey Rhon Rhon from the text?

A．It is symbol of Chinese culture.	B．It is designed by a foreign artist.
C．It is a representative of competition.	D．It is a mixture of 35 different cultures.

4. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．The Amazing Stories of a Panda and a Walking Chinese Lantern

B．The first Asian City to Host Two Editions of the Olympics

C．Beijing 2022 Mascots for Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

D．The comparisons of different official mascots for the Olympics

4 . Elsa Desmond knows she is not going to win a medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics, but she is ________ as the first women’s luge(无舵雪橇)Olympian from Ireland. She was the 26th to ________ the line in the first run of the women’s race on Monday night, ________ than none of the other athletes. However, that did not ________ to her and she celebrated with a large smile on her face.

Although she will not win in Beijing, she has already won some ________ . She had been given many reasons why she could not compete: she is too short, she did not start ________ at a young age, and she could not balance a(n) ________ job with competing in a sport. The biggest ________ simply might have been that Ireland did not have a luge organization. So, she ________ one herself; she had to self-fund.

Now, ________ , she is a luge Olympian. “I’m a doctor in general surgery, I have all these really ________ challenges, but I think everyone has worked as hard as they can to be here. ”She is expected to return to work on this Friday because she was given some time ________ to compete in the Olympics, and now she has ________ parts of her job.

Desmond has to balance these two ________ jobs—sliding a few months out of the year and living a life in medicine. There was a(n) ________ last season when she had to take important medical examinations in hotels in Germany where other sliders from different countries were staying. “I had to stick signs on my door saying ‘Do not disturb, exam in ________ , in about six different ________ .”

Desmond got the honor of ________ her country in Beijing, and being one of two people ________ Ireland’s flag during the opening ceremony on Friday. “I don’t think I can ________ words how excited I was to lead out the team. I really hope that I make my country proud.”

1.

A．visiting

B．studying

C．leading

D．competing

2.

A．break

B．cross

C．follow

D．draw

3.

A．slower

B．lower

C．faster

D．higher

4.

A．upset

B．respond

C．happen

D．matter

5.

A．potentials

B．challenges

C．operations

D．alternatives

6.

A．swimming

B．sliding

C．sailing

D．running

7.

A．financial

B．athletic

C．medical

D．educational

8.

A．expectation

B．achievement

C．difficulty

D．pleasure

9.

A．started

B．stopped

C．continued

D．joined

10.

A．privately

B．traditionally

C．similarly

D．officially

11.

A．visible

B．imaginary

C．absurd

D．dangerous

12.

A．off

B．up

C．out

D．away

13.

A．ruined

B．exceeded

C．covered

D．delayed

14.

A．frustrating

B．rewarding

C．demanding

D．embarrassing

15.

A．interview

B．time

C．vacation

D．chance

16.

A．peace

B．need

C．progress

D．public

17.

A．characters

B．approaches

C．styles

D．languages

18.

A．investigating

B．preserving

C．strengthening

D．representing

19.

A．holding

B．raising

C．preparing

D．storing

20.

A．set down

B．put into

C．pick up

D．get through

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。

In a bid to hold a simple, safe and yet splendid Winter Games, the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games     1     (be) not lengthy or marked with a large-scale performance. The Olympic cauldron (主火炬) at the snowflake-themed ceremony was small,     2     the flames conveyed significant messages of greener Olympic Games.

The use of     3     (advance) technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine vision, 5G and cloud broadcasting added to the novelty of the opening ceremony. The performances,     4     carried forward the theme of global peace and shared future for humankind, focused on environmental     5     (protect), human health and physical fitness.

To reduce the carbon footprint of the Winter Games, all the Olympic venues were run on clean energy. For example, about 70 percent of the materials     6     (use) in the Games were obtained through renting, including new sporting equipment furniture in the Olympic village, technical devices. Also, the medal platforms     7     (make) of recyclable and environmentally friendly materials.

More     8     (important), thrift, a traditional Chinese virtue, can help build a healthy social environment for China to realize     9     (it) targets of peaking carbon emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060. All this made the 2022 Winter Games     10     important Olympics to focus on achieving carbon neutrality.

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。

The 2022 Winter Paralympics mascot (冬残奥会吉祥物) Shuey Rhon Rhon has won global recognition since it made its first public     1    (appear). Created by a group of artists from Jilin University of Arts in northeast China’s Jilin Province,     2     lovely mascot went through a designing process of 32 versions in more than 300 days.

Shuey Rhon Rhon features the shape of a traditional Chinese lantern, and symbolizes the spirit of hospitality (热情好客) and peace, as the first “Rhon” in Chinese means“to include”, and the second means “to melt, to warm”. In ancient times, lanterns     3    (use) for lighting in China.

The joyful-looking mascot sends a     4    (hope) message to the world and symbolizes the fighting spirit of the disabled athletes     5     casts light on humanity. Shuey, meaning snow, suggests promising harvest seasons, while the Ruyi pattern on top     6    (carry) the meaning of happiness.

“One major task was to bring the unique lantern to life, as most Olympic and Paralympic mascots were based     7     animal figures, not objects. “Guo said.” It was the     8    (difficult) and most confusing task in the designing process. ”

The artists decided     9    (decorate) it with paper cutting of pigeons (鸽子) after experimenting with other animal figures, and then realized that the shapes of two pigeon tails could outline a famous landmark of Beijing, the Temple of Heaven, thus     10     (add) more cultural and historical characteristics to the design.

8 . 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。

Compared with the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games was different, yet spectacular. The audiences were treated     1     a pared-down (精简的) ceremony, without the large-scale artistic performances     2     marked the 2008 opening ceremony, but it was no less symbolic—symbolic of a shared future for humankind.

In an attempt     3     (hold) a simple, safe and yet spectacular Winter Games, the opening ceremony was not lengthy or marked with a large-scale performance. Even the number of     4     (perform) was down to 3,000, and the duration of the ceremony     5    (reduce) to about 100 minutes. The final touch at the snowflake themed ceremony was small, but the flames conveyed significant messages of     6     (green) Olympic Games. The performances,     7     (carry) forward the theme of global peace and shared future for humankind, focused on environmental protection and human health.

Through Friday’s opening ceremony people can clearly see China’s pursuit of building a peaceful world, its     8     (reflect) of the new Olympic motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger—Together”     9     the Beijing Winter Games’ motto of “Together for a Shared Future”. For China, holding     10     simple, safe and yet spectacular opening ceremony is not just a slogan; it’s a philosophy, a way of life in the true sense of term.

10 . Anyone watching the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China over the last few days has seen man-made snow. Since the area gets little natural snow, the Winter Olympics took place on almost 100% man-made snow for the first time. This year’s Winter Olympics were held in Beijing, China, and in two areas northwest of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou. The areas get cold in the winter, but they don’t get a lot of snow. That’s because they’re not far from the Gobi Desert, and are generally very dry.

China took water from a reservoir (水库) which helped supply Beijing’s drinking water and sent it to a nearby river. To carry the water to the mountains for making snow, China ran miles and miles of pipes. China says making the snow took about 49,000 gallons ( 185,500 liters ) of water. China hired a company called TechnoAlpin to create the snow. TechnoAlpin created man-made snow at several earlier Winter Olympics. For the snow in this year’s Olympics, TechnoAlpin laid over 40 miles ( 64 kilometers ) of pipes and brought in hundreds of snow-making machines. With all equipment, making the snow for this year’s Games took seven weeks.

Man-made snow isn’t the same as natural snow, which has more air and less water. Still, the advanced machines can make several different kinds of snow depending on what’s needed for each sport. China says that the snow at this year’s Winter Olympics was produced by using wind and solar energy.

Man-made snow was used in the Winter Olympics in 2010 and 2014 because of warm weather. In the 2018 Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, approximately 90% of the snow was also made by machine.

1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?

A．The classification of skiing.	B．The necessity of creating artificial snow.
C．The significance of the Olympics.	D．The characteristics of the Gobi Desert.

2. What is needed for transporting water?

A．Reservoirs.

B．Machines.

C．Equipment.

D．Pipes.

3. What can we infer about man-made snow?

A．Its types vary in every sport.

B．It has no difference from natural snow.

C．It became uncommon in winter sports events.

D．It can’t be made in environment-friendly ways.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．The Dry Conditions	B．Snow-making Methods
C．The Artificial Snow	D．China’s Winter Olympics