1 . 假设你叫李华，你的朋友Jack来信，说他打算下个月来中山游玩。请你用英文给也回信，内容包括：
1. 表示欢迎；
2. 推荐中山景点和文化特色等；
3. 表达祝愿。
注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当加入细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Jack,
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Yours,

Li Hua

6 . 语法填空

The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the whole year into 24 solar terms. “Cold Dew”, also     1     (know) as “Han Lu”in Chinese, falls on October 8 or October 9 each year. Temperatures are much lower and the dew (露水) is     2     (great) at this time.

Here are three things you should know about Cold Dew. Firstly,     3     (eat) pomegranates (石榴) and hawthorns (山楂) that are both ripe during Cold Dew is a tradition. Pomegranates     4     (treasure) for their health benefits while hawthorns are thought to improve blood flow. Besides, Chrysanthemum (菊花) is the symbolic flower of Cold Dew.     5     (prevent) autumn dryness, people in China have the custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine. This is also a tradition of the Double Ninth Festival,     6     often falls around Cold Dew. Finally, it is     7     great time for fishing.     8     the Cold Dew period, temperatures decrease quickly and sunshine doesn’t reach deep water entirely. So fish usually swim to the area where the water is not deep and the temperature is     9     (relative) high. That is why people always say that fishing in shallow water areas in autumn     10     (make) sense.

7 . Wang Fang, a Suzhou native, has given her heart and soul to Kunqu Opera. Wang, who has twice won the Plum Performance Award—China’s top award for theater and opera performances—started to learn the traditional art form in 1977.

Born with a melodic voice, Wang loved to sing and dance when she was little. She performed frequently, and was recruited by the Suzhou Kunqu Opera Troupe (剧团) when she was in middle school. However, her parents refused the troupe’s invitation, insisting that she should concentrate on her studies and not drop out of school. After members of the troupe visited the parents repeatedly and showed great sincerity, Wang’s parents finally agreed.

Learning the traditional art form was never easy. She started to learn how to pronounce words, sing them lyrically and make gestures gently. As an actress playing martial artists roles at first, she had to spend extra time practicing kungqu movements. Years later, Wang used the word “unimaginable” to describe how hard the days were when she first learned Kunqu. She was soaked in sweat when practicing movements in summer, while in winter she often had chilblains (冻疮) on her hands when training in shabby classrooms with broken windows. “But I was young and determined at the time. No matter how difficult, I always got up early the next morning to practice,” Wang recalls.

Wang says she did not love Kunqu at first, but in her early 20s, when she watched the show Peony Pavilion performed by Zhang Jiqing, a master of the art form, it clicked. “I was shocked,” Wang says. “Her every movement was full of elegance and delicacy. Each of her lines and songs was perfect. I was overwhelmed (难以禁受) by the beauty of Kunqu for the first time in my life, and it has stayed with me since. ” Now, Wang has herself become a master of Kunqu. Her performances have impressed generations of audiences and helped to promote the art form among young people.

1. Why did Wang fail to receive the troupe’s invitation at first?

A．Her parents regarded the members of troupe as insincere.

B．Her parents didn’t want her to ignore her studies.

C．She saw no future in learning Kunqu Opera.

D．She didn’t have artistic talent.

2. What is the main idea of the third paragraph?

A．Artists deserve more attention and care.

B．Traditional culture needs further promotion.

C．Wang has devoted herself to learn Kunqu well.

D．Wang has made a great contribution to the development of Kunqu.

3. What made Wang change her attitude towards Kunqu Opera?

A．Joining her ideal troupe.	B．Winning the Plum Performance Award.
C．Being greatly admired by the audience.	D．Being touched by Zhang’s masterly performance.

4. What can we learn from Wang’s story?

A．Doing is better than saying.	B．Don’t judge a book by its cover.
C．It is never too late to learn.	D．Rome was not built in a day.

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9 . Jack London, one of America’s major writers of adventure tales, was born in California in 1876. During his life, London worked at many jobs. His broad life experiences would become the background for his writing.

London, loved to read. As a teenager, he spent many hours educating himself at the Oakland, California, public library. He attended college at the University of California at Berkeley, but he stayed for only six months. He though Berkeley was “not lively enough” and wanted to do something more exciting.

London wrote stories about working people and the hard times they had making a living. He knew their problems first hand. He worked as a sailor, farmer, factory employee, railroad worker, and gold prospector, to name just a few of his many jobs.

London grew up near the waterfront in Oakland. He loved the water. When he was fifteen years old, he bought a small sailboat called a sloop. Later he sailed to Japan on a schooner, which is much large sailing boat. Like many people of the time, London caught the Klondike Gold Rush Fever. In 1897, he headed for Alaska. He didn’t find gold, but he discovered something even more valuable. He discovered that people enjoyed listening to the stories he made up with his vivid imagination. London entertained the miners with story after story. Later, using his experiences during the Gold Rush, he created many more colorful stories.

London resolved to live a full, exciting life. He once said, “I would rather be a superb meteor (流星), every atom of me in magnificent glow,than a sleepy and permanent planet.” Each day, he pushed himself. Once London determined that he was going to be a writer,nothing could stop him. His goal was to write at least one thousand words everyday. He refused to stop even when he was sick. In eighteen years, the writer published fifty-one books and hundreds of articles. He was the best-selling and highest-paid author of his day. Many people also considered him to be the best writer. White Fang and The Call of the Wild are his most famous stories and are about surviving in the Alaskan wilderness. Readers can enjoy Jack London’s energy and his talent for telling wonderful stories each time they open one of his novels.

1. Why was Jack London able to write on many topics?

A．He pushed himself to reach goals.

B．He had a variety of experiences and jobs.

C．He was drawn to the Klondike Gold Rush.

D．He was the best-selling and highest-paid author.

2. What prevented Jack London from finishing college?

A．That he was hired to sail to Japan.

B．That he traveled to Alaska in 1897.

C．That he spent much of his time writing.

D．That he was not interested in college life enough.

3. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph indicates that Jack London________.

A．is expert at universe.

B．aims high and strive to succeed.

C．is excited about life of the wildness.

D．face a choice between life and death.

4. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A．To support the statement that London was the “best writer”.

B．To describe life during the Klondike Gold Rush.

C．To provide information on Jack’ s life.

D．To identify books written by Jack London.