1 . Here is a great way for you to explore the beautiful countryside and colorful Chinese minority culture of southwest Guizhou during three days. Here is a suggested plan of a journey.

Day 1 Arrive in Zhaoxing Dong Village

Your personal guide will meet you at Congjiang train station and then drive you to Zhaoxing Dong Village. Your guide will walk around with you, explaining the style of the Dong wooden buildings, local customs, and the Dong people’s lifestyle. You can try a popular local snack: oil tea and sticky rice cakes with roast pork. The Dong people’s dancing and singing evening show is very enjoyable, too.

Day 2 Zhaoxing Rice Terraced Fields Hike and Villages

On the way to Huanggang Dong Village in the morning, you will stop to walk around the terraced fields and enjoy great views of the rice terraces and the villages on the mountain slopes. You will see more of the culture of the Dong people. They still live their traditional lives there, which have not been touched by tourism. In the afternoon, you will visit Biasha Miao Village and enjoy their traditional dancing and ceremony with guns.

Day 3 Zhaoxing Departure (离开)

In the morning, your guide will take you to visit a batik (蜡染) workshop. There, you can learn and experience making batik in the Dong style and appreciate the Dong people’s taste in art. You may even make a unique souvenir (纪念品) on your own. After that, your guide will send you to Congjiang Train Station for your departure.

1. When can people enjoy the Dong people’s dancing and singing during the journey?

A．On the first night.	B．On the third night.
C．On the first morning.	D．On the second morning.

2. What will visitors do on the third day?

A．Try oil tea.	B．Make batik.
C．Go around the terraced fields.	D．Visit Biasha Miao Village.

3. In which part of a newspaper may this text come from?

A．Entertainment.

B．Health.

C．Travel.

D．Business.

4 . How will the speakers go to work?

A．By taxi.

B．By bus.

C．By subway.

5 . Where is the Teen Eye Building?

A．On Madison Street.

B．Opposite a museum.

C．At the end of 7th Street.

8 . Why does the woman prefer the car?

A．It is swift.

B．It is cheap.

C．It is convenient.

9 . 某中学讨论是否应该骑自行车上学。假定你是该校学生会主席，请你用英语写一封倡议书，号召同学们骑自行车上学。内容包括：
1. 建议骑自行车上学；
2. 骑自行车的一些好处。
注意：
1．写作词数应为80左右；
2．可适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
3．开头和结尾已给出, 不计入总词数。
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10 . A Canadian addicted to Chinese ink wash painting

Canadian Brandon Collins-Green calls himself a Chinese culture “addict”. He has lived in China for over six years, spending his time in painting in the Chinese ink wash style and translating Chinese classics into English.

Collins-Green, 37, is a doctoral candidate in classical Chinese literature at Jiangxi Normal University in Nanchang. About 15 years ago, his first encounter with a stage adaption of the classic Chinese novel The Dream of the Red Chamber in Singapore inspired him to study Chinese in the following years. Learning Chinese as a second language, Collins-Green found it was not easy to understand a novel written in Chinese. “Besides the stories, I am interested in the poems, dialogues and lantern riddles in the book,” he said, “Because of The Dream of the Red Chamber, I wanted to get a closer look at China.”

His strong curiosity about China and Chinese culture prompted Collins-Green to travel to the city of Nanchang in 2015, in the hope of learning what the real China was like. During a visit to Badashanren Memorial Hall in Nanchang, where paintings of a famous Chinese artist were on exhibition, Collins-Green was interested in how a tiny brush could depict (描画) the curves of hills, shade and light on paper.

In his years spent translating The Dream of the Red Chamber into English, he has gradually found his way of combining Chinese and foreign cultures into his paintings, writing poems in English as the backdrops of his figures. As of this year, Collins-Green has completed over 2,500 works, including translations of The Dream of the Red Chamber, landscape paintings and portraits.

He lives a life greatly influenced by The Dream of the Red Chamber, renting a loft of about 9 square meters beside his university as a studio. Since this March, his paintings have been exhibited at art festivals in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Xi’an, bringing him a group of fans. Some have sent him emails, asking about the meanings of the poems in his paintings.

“We can see from Collins-Green that traditional Chinese culture is becoming more attractive to people in other countries,” said Li Shunchen, Collins-Green’s mentor at Jiangxi Normal University. “I really recommend that more people come to China to see how fast it is changing and to enjoy the charm of its culture,” Collins-Green said.

1. What first inspired Collins-Green to study Chinese according to the passage?

A．His love for Chinese paintings.	B．The stage version of a classic Chinese novel.
C．The need of his translation work.	D．His second language learning.

2. Which of the following words can best describe Collins-Green’s feeling on the exhibition in Nanchang?

A．amazed.

B．disappointed.

C．relaxed.

D．frightened.

3. What can we mainly learn about Collins-Green from paragraph 4 and 5?

A．His strong curiosity about China gradually faded away.

B．He studied Chinese well in China.

C．He made great achievements as an addict to Chinese culture.

D．His works produced some negative reactions in viewers.