1 . 72 hours in Beijing

Traveling to China is no longer a luxury for many foreign passport holders. The Chinese government has permitted a 72-hour visa free policy that offers access to visitors from 53 countries including the US, France and Austria. Let’s start with the capital of China, Beijing. Here’s a pick of the best in Beijing.

Mutianyu Great Wall

Your trip to Beijing isn’t really complete without seeing one of the “New Seven Wonders of the World” — the Great Wall of China. The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall is by far the most well-preserved of all. Taking a one-hour bus ride, Mutianyu would be your ideal location for a half-day of hiking away from the large crowds in the city. Also, the authorities have allowed tourists to paint graffiti on a specific section of the Great Wall since 2014. The Great Wall was designated (把……定名为) a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987.

Summer Palace

Located in northwestern Beijing, the Summer Palace is by far the city’s most well-preserved royal park. With its huge lake and hilltop views, the palace offers you a pastoral escape into the landscape of traditional Chinese paintings. The Summer Palace was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998.

798 Art Zone

This would be on the top of my list! Named after the 798 factory that was built in the 1950s, the art zone is home to various galleries, design studios, art exhibition spaces, fashionable shops and bars. You could easily spend half your day wandering around the complex, feeling the contrast of the present and the past.

Sichuan Provincial Restaurant

While in Beijing, apart from trying the city’s best-known Peking duck, the Sichuan provincial restaurant is one of places where you can enjoy regional delicious food. It offers one of China’s eight great cuisines, Sichuan Cuisine, which ranges from Mapo tofu to spicy chicken.

1. When was the Summer Palace added to the UNESCO World Heritage List?

A．In 1950.	B．In 1987.
C．In 1998.	D．In 2014.

2. Which place is the author’s first choice when visiting Beijing?

A．Mutianyu Great Wall.	B．798 Art Zone.
C．Summer Palace.	D．Sichuan Provincial Restaurant.

3. Who is the passage intended for?

A．The tourists who prefer to travel for free.

B．The foreigners to stay in Beijing for 4 days.

C．The visitors coming from every corner of China.

D．The foreigners coming to Beijing for the first time.

2 . A team of researchers from several institutions in the UK and one in Estonia has created a type of buoy(浮标)that has proven to be effective at frightening seabirds, thus preventing them from getting caught in gillnets - a type of vertical fishing net that is made of a material that makes it nearly invisible underwater.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of seabirds die when they get caught in gillnets. Some estimates suggest that up to a half-million birds are caught in them each year. Over the years, researchers have created devices to prevent the birds from trying to catch fish near or in gillnets, but those didn’t work well.

To find a way that would work for all seabirds, the researchers first studied seabirds in a general sense, looking to find things that they would avoid. They noted that seabirds avoided eye contact with other creatures. Then the researchers came up with a simple idea - they put a small pole to a regular buoy and then attached a pair of googly eyes(金鱼眼) to the top of it. They made the eyes big enough so that even birds with poor eyesight, such as geese, would see them. Adding to the effectiveness of the device, waves made the eyes move back and forth. And the wind made the buoy spin very slowly, making sure that birds from every direction would get a good look at the eyes.

To test their idea, the researchers selected several sites near gillnets and counted how many birds approached and how many attempted to catch fish near the nets. They then set up their googly-eyed buoys and once again counted birds. Over the course of 62 days, they found the number of birds that tried to catch fish near the gillnets dropped by approximately 25% for a distance of up to 50 meters. They also found that the birds were less likely to fish near where the buoys had been for up to three weeks after they had been removed.

1. What is the function of Paragraph 2?

A．Introducing a new topic to discuss.

B．Providing background information.

C．Summarizing the previous paragraph.

D．Pointing out the main idea of the text.

2. Why did the researchers make the googly eyes big?

A．To clearly observe seabirds’ eye contact.

B．To ensure all the seabirds can see them.

C．To effectively identify the right direction.

D．To allow them to survive the strong wind.

3. What does the researchers’ test result mainly suggest?

A．The new device still needs improving.

B．Gillnets are a death valley for seabirds.

C．The googly-eyed buoy proves effective.

D．Seabirds hardly catch fish near the nets.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．A device keeping seabirds safe from gillnets.

B．A way to help seabirds catch fish effectively.

C．A googly-eyed buoy guiding seabirds to hunt.

D．A group of researchers interested in seabirds.

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.

Jingxi Taiping Drum is a traditional form of dancing. With its display of profound cultural elements, it     1    (include) in the first batch (批次) of China’s national intangible cultural heritage (非物质文化遗产) items in 2006.

The     2    (early) historical references of this art date back to the Spring and Autumn Period. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it started to gain     3    (popular) in and around the capital, and then it was introduced to Mentougou District of Beijing.

In ancient times, the drums were played     4     New Year’s Eve at the imperial palace to bring peace. As a result, the performance also became known as the “New Year Drum” by Beijingers. This type of drum dance is     5    (common) seen performed during the last and first month of the lunar year in many local festive activities, thus expressing     6    (people) hope of a peaceful and prosperous year to come.

During a given performance, drummers perform various dance moves while     7    (hold) the drum in their left hands and a mallet in their right hands. Traditional Chinese aesthetic (美学的) concepts are reflected in the drum playing, all of     8     represent distinctive local features.

In the past decades, efforts     9    (make) by Mentougou District to preserve this signature folk dance culture. Today, the time-honored folk art of the Jingxi Taiping Drum is being taken up by the young people     10     is presenting its lively artistic charm (魅力) on a global stage.

4 . A new study suggests that some homemade soups — made of chicken, beef or vegetables — might help fight malaria.

Jake Baum of the Imperial College London led the research. He asked children at a London school to bring in homemade clear soups that their families would make to treat a fever. The soups were then exposed to the parasite (寄生虫) that creates 99.7 percent of malaria cases in Africa, the World Health Organization explained.

Of the 56 soups tested, five were more than 50 percent effective in containing the growth of the parasite. Two were as effective as one drug now used to treat malaria. And four soups were more than 50 percent effective at preventing parasites from aging to the point that they could infect mosquitoes that spread the disease. Baum also noted that it was unclear which foods made the soups effective against malaria.

The soups came from families from different ethnic histories, including Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. They had several main ingredients, including chicken, beef and green vegetables. Baum said the vegetarian soups showed similar results to the soups with meat.

Baum said his aim was in part to show children that scientific research can turn a herbal (草本的) cure into a man-made medicine. He noted the research of Dr. Tu Youyou from China. In the 1970s, she found that the herb qinghao was an effective antimalarial (抗疟疾的) treatment. The herb has been used in Eastern medicine for two thousand years. Tu’s research led to the man-made drug artemisinin (青蒿素), a drug now widely used to treat malaria.

More and more people are becoming resistant (耐受的) to the drugs that treat the disease, which kills nearly 400,000 people a year. That means scientists will have to “look beyond chemistry” and find new drugs, Baum adds.

1. Why did children at a London school bring in homemade soups?

A．To taste its favour.	B．To have for lunch.
C．To compete with others.	D．To take part in an experiment.

2. What do we know about the research led by Jake Baum?

A．All the soups are not effective in killing the parasite.

B．What in the soups works is still unknown.

C．The soups have no effect on mosquitoes from spreading malaria.

D．The vegetarian soups are more delicious than the soups with meat.

3. Why does Baum take Dr. Tu Youyou as an example?

A．To emphasize her great achievement in treating malaria.

B．To express his respect for Dr. Tu Youyou.

C．To note a herbal cure can come into a man-made medicine.

D．To show qinghao has been discovered for a long time.

4. What is scientists’ task next?

A．To expand their studies to find new medicines.	B．To collect more soups for scientific study.
C．To improve the taste of the soups.	D．To find out why malaria exists in many countries.

5 . One of the most important things of the U. S. government’s routine in 2020 is to raise the federal (联邦) legal age for buying tobacco from age 18 to 21.

Beginning in the summer of 2020, it will be against the law to sell tobacco to anyone under the age of 21. Since 1990, the legal age permitted to buy cigarette is at least 18. The law also includes e-cigarette, not just traditional tobacco products like cigarettes and cigars, adding regulation to this industry, which has developed largely unchecked.

The use of E-cigarette has increased sharply among U. S. teenagers. According to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, 27.5% of U. S. high school students have used e-cigarette in the past month. Raising the age one can buy tobacco is intended to avoid what many people are calling an epidemic, which is doing great harm to the health of American teenagers.

A recent outbreak of the disease related to e-cigarette has raised even more concern about e-cigarette products , although the disease is largely linked to cartridges (药筒) filled with addictive Vitamin E acetate sold in black market.

In a statement to TIME, the American Lung Association considered raising the age one can buy tobacco as an easy way to protect children’s health and prevent them from getting addicted to nicotine.

Those in favor of e-cigarette have made it clear that they support raising the legal age permission for buying and using tobacco, arguing that e-cigarette products are never designed for young people. Some anti-cigarette (反对吸烟) people have expressed their doubt of this opinion.

At present, twenty states have already raised the legal age to buy cigarette to 21.

1. What can we learn about the new law for buying tobacco?

A．It’s good for the tobacco market.	B．It also works for e-cigarette.
C．It aims to stop selling cigarette.	D．It’ll be illegal to buy cigarette.

2. What does the underlined word “epidemic” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Crime.

B．Shoplifting.

C．Disease.

D．Burglary.

3. Which of the following may an anti-cigarette people agree?

A．E-cigarette products are aimed at young people.

B．Cigarettes only do harm to young people.

C．E-cigarette should not be allowed.

D．People don’t have to obey the legal law.

4. In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?

A．Science.

B．Culture.

C．Health.

D．Economy.

6 . Music just like sunshine, it can always touch our heart no matter when we are happy or sad. It’s evident that musicians are great in our mind no matter they are alive or they have been dead for years.

Montreux, Lake Geneva, Switzerland

After passing away in 1991, Freddie Mercury’s body was burned and his ashes spread around in Lake Geneva. A statue of the lead singer of Queen was unveiled (揭幕) on November 25,1996, and overlooked the lake.

Nine Mile, Jamaica

In the village of Nine Mile lies a statue built just feet away from Bob Marley’s childhood home, where the Reggae singer was buried after his death in 1981. In 1991, the Jamaican government declared Marley’s birthday, February 6, a national holiday, and Nine Mile held an annual music festival in honor of the singer.

Joshua Tree National Park, Joshua Tree, Calif.

Gram Parsons was a regular visitor to Joshua Tree National Park until his death in 1973, and he and his friend Phil Kaufman made an agreement that whoever died first, the survivor would take the other guy’s body to Joshua Tree and burn it. This agreement would be the foundation for one of the greatest stories in rock and roll history. Today, there is a Gram Parsons statue in Joshua Tree National Park.

Stone Mountain, Ga.

After one of the most unfortunate deaths in hip hop history, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation was developed by Tupac’s mother in 1997. The foundation began a center for the arts in 2005 as a youth arts training program. Located in Stone Mountain, the center has a garden with a statue of the late rapper.

1. Who was buried near where he was born?

A．Freddie Mercury.	B．Gram Parsons.
C．Bob Marley.	D．Tupac Amaru Shakur.

2. What did Phil Kaufman do for his friend Gram Parsons?

A．He put up a statue of Parsons in the park.

B．He kept the agreement after Parsons’s death.

C．He started a youth arts training program.

D．He drafted a passage for Gram Parsons.

3. What is the text mainly about?

A．The famous national parks around the world.

B．The famous singers and their interesting stories.

C．The famous places can be visited.

D．The memorial sites of well-known late musicians.

7 . When amputee (被截肢者) runner Jacky Hunt-Broersma says her motto is, “I can do hard things,” she is not joking. She has completed 104 marathons in 104 days,________ a prosthetic (假体的) leg.

Hunt-Broersma, 46, ________ her 104th marathon on April 30, near her home in Phoenix, Arizona, breaking an unofficial world record along the way. Brick Runners, an organization that supports ________ who raise money for ________, even designed one of her favorite T-shirts, which reads, “Strong Has Many Forms.”

Hunt-Broersma, who is from South Africa, lost her leg ________ the knee to cancer when she was 26 years old.

She ran the first of her 104 marathons on January 17, 2022. ________, 100 in as many days, to________ non-disabled runner Alysa Amos Clark’s 2020 record of 95. But in March, ________ non-disabled British runner Kate Jayden unofficially broke Clark’s record with 101 marathons in 101 days, Hunt-Broersma knew she’d ________ to run at least 101.

As she did her_________ 42.2-kilometer runs, Hunt-Brocrsma’s social media_________ grew, and she raised over US $67,000 to help other amputee runners________ the prosthetic arms and legs they need. These can cost over US $10,000, and_________ insurance companies don’t usually_________ them.

Hunt-Broersma said she hoped to________ people everywhere to push themselves to do________ things even if they have ________.

Guinness World Records said it_________ Hunt-Broersma’s 104 marathons, and that it would take 12 to 15 weeks to look at the_________ before the record can be_________ by it.

1.

A．damaging

B．using

C．holding

D．adjusting

2.

A．finished

B．scheduled

C．considered

D．abandoned

3.

A．coaches

B．employers

C．athletes

D．doctors

4.

A．bookstores

B．universities

C．hospitals

D．charities

5.

A．beside

B．inside

C．toward

D．below

6.

A．Occasionally

B．Suddenly

C．Initially

D．Strangely

7.

A．beat

B．adore

C．keep

D．memorize

8.

A．before

B．after

C．though

D．unless

9.

A．fail

B．refuse

C．need

D．pretend

10.

A．monthly

B．daily

C．weekly

D．yearly

11.

A．popularity

B．anxiety

C．judgement

D．security

12.

A．repair

B．design

C．produce

D．buy

13.

A．traffic

B．property

C．unemployment

D．health

14.

A．pay for

B．take over

C．appeal to

D．adapt to

15.

A．permit

B．force

C．warn

D．inspire

16.

A．thrilling

B．challenging

C．puzzling

D．shocking

17.

A．ambitions

B．potentials

C．disabilities

D．mistakes

18.

A．knew about

B．turned down

C．applied for

D．set aside

19.

A．adventure

B．attitude

C．display

D．evidence

20.

A．made

B．improved

C．confirmed

D．broken

9 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear Jim,

Knowing that you are interesting in China’s four great new inventions, I’d like to brief introduce one of them to you—high-speed rail. China’s high-speed trains ran at a speed of 250-350 km per hour. The country’s advanced transportation network has surprised at the world.

Since it takes only little hours to travel from north China to south China, high-speed rail has given the public a convenient transport alternative. It has also attracted globe attention. As the result, many countries have imported Chinese high-speed rail technology to upgrade them own rail transport systems. I hope that the above informations will be helpful to you. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate contact me.

Yours,

Li Hua