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。

A Festival for the Dead is held once a year in Japan. This festival is     1     cheerful occasion, for on this day, the dead are said to return to their homes and they are welcomed by the living. As they are expected to be hungry after     2    (they) long journey, food is laid out for them. Lanterns     3    (special) made for the festival are hung outside each house     4    (help) the dead to find their way. All night long, people dance and sing. In the early morning, the food that had been laid out for the dead     5    (throw) into a river or into the sea as it is considered     6    (lucky) for anyone living to eat it. In towns that are near the sea, the tiny lanterns,     7     had been hung in the streets the night before, are placed into the water when the festival is over.     8    (thousand) of lanterns slowly drift out to sea guiding the dead on their return journey     9     the other world. This is a moving scene, for crowds of people     10    (stand) on the shore watch the lanterns drifting away until they can be seen no more.

2 . Everyone, at one time or another, has experienced some challenges in friendships and relationships with family members. We might find ourselves upset or angry with other people, or even find that we argue with them. The reality is that nobody is perfect and we need to realize that we should find ways to live happier and less stressful lives.     1    .

Respect other people and accept them

This is the most important point.     2    . Everyone is unique with different experiences and lives. By always remembering this, we will be able to develop and maintain strong relationships.

    3    

We might have friends who are crazy about sports, while we prefer reading. Or perhaps a parent’s hobby seems boring to us but it is something they love. If we want to keep our relationships strong and positive, we should at least take time to listen to them and talk about what matters to them. By doing this, we show them that we care about them and their interests.

Apologize when you make a mistake

This is the hardest thing for most of us to do, yet a simple “I’m sorry” can undo a lot of tension. By being honest when you make a mistake, you can fix any problem you may have caused and show that you are an adult.     4    .

So, try and follow the advice from now on, and you will find that you have happier and stronger relationships with your friends and loved ones.     5    .

A．Be interested in others’ interests

B．Making an apology to someone shows you are frank

C．When you are in trouble, your friends are always there to help you

D．Respecting your friends’ parents is more important than your friends

E．Here are some tips on how to make relationships happier and healthier

F．And there is little doubt that you can live and work in harmony with others

G．If we want to show someone we love them, we need to first respect who they are and show them we accept them for who they are

3 . Researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) published their latest report. When men expressed their opinions with anger, people considered them more believable. But when women expressed anger, they were viewed as more emotional (情绪化) and, thus, less trustable. In other words, a man could benefit from using anger in power and persuasion. A woman, however, could be ignored or hurt by her group if she expressed anger.

The study was based on the responses of 210 students. They were shown evidence online from a murder (谋杀) trial. A man was said to have murdered his wife. The students were asked to decide if the man was guilty or not. Before making their decisions, the students discussed the case online with five jurors (陪审员). But these jurors were computers responses and comments. Some of the jurors had male identities. Others had female identities.

Some male jurors were angry about the verdict (裁决). When this happened, the students reacted by doubting their own decisions about the case. Confidence in their responses on the verdict dropped. However, when female jurors seemed angry, the students became more confident in their original verdicts.

Jessica Salerno, a psychologist and co-author of the study, said, “Our results provide something important for any woman who is trying to have an influence on a decision in her workplace and everyday life.”

In a political debate, a female candidate might have less influence if she shows anger. In the entertainment world, actor Jennifer Lawrence recently wrote that women and men in Hollywood get the opposite reactions when expressing their opinions angrily. “All I hear and see are men speaking their opinions,” she wrote. “When I give mine in the quite similar manner, you would have thought I said something annoying”.

1. What’s the new finding from the ASU report?

A．Men usually do harm to angry women.

B．Women are more likely to become angry.

C．People prefer to believe the angry women.

D．Angry men appear to gain influence in a group.

2. When would the students be sure about their decisions in the study?

A．Male jurors agreed with them.

B．They became angry with the jurors.

C．Angry female jurors didn’t agree with them.

D．Angry male jurors showed opposite opinions.

3. What does Jessica Salerno think the study?

A．It helps women avoid losing influence.

B．It asks men to get away from angry women.

C．It causes men to change their attitude to women.

D．It shows men and women should be treated equally.

4. How does the author support Jessica Salerno?

A．By showing differences.	B．By giving examples.
C．By presenting research findings.	D．By setting down general rules.

4 . Do you like Chinese traditional painting and dance? They are two important parts of the traditional Chinese art. But what about when they meet each other?

This year, a dance drama titled Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting (《只此青绿》) was staged on CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala and became popular.

According to CCTV, this poetic dance program was inspired by the 900-year-old Chinese painting A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains (《千里江山图》), created by Song Dynasty painter Wang Ximeng at about 18. The painting is amazing in its sweeping size, rich coloration and the expressive details, reported by CCTV. It shows a Chinese blue-green landscape: mountains and groupings of infinite (无限的) rise and fall between cloudless sky and rippling (涟漪的) water.

When the dancers moved elegantly, audiences seemed to be looking at the moving mountains and rivers. “It brings me a pure experience of beauty. It is not only a drama but also an exhibition. Vast mountains and rivers are coming to life!” Internet user Mo Weisha wrote in a review. “More than a thousand years later, green mountains and rivers still impress people as they did long ago.” Some people even decided to watch the dance again when it was staged in the theaters later. In fact, in recent years, more and more modern shows have featured Chinese traditional culture and received warm welcome. As for the reason, it is due to people’s great love for traditional culture.

“The younger generations have grown up with a more open mind. They accept Chinese culture and are proud of it,” Yao Wei, director of Henan TV Station’s Innovation Center, told China Daily.

1. What’s the writing purpose of paragraph 1?

A．To raise a question.	B．To introduce the topic.
C．To describe the art world.	D．To show a doubtful thought.

2. What pushed the poetic dance?

A．CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala.	B．A Chinese blue-green landscape.
C．Song Dynasty painter Wang Ximeng.	D．An old Chinese traditional painting.

3. Why did this poetic dance enjoy welcome?

A．Traditional culture is accepted and loved by people.

B．Green mountains and rivers greatly impress people.

C．The poetic dance can be staged in the theaters later.

D．Increasing modern shows feature Chinese traditional culture.

4. What’s the main idea of the whole text?

A．It explains why Chinese art enjoys popularity.

B．It shows us art can come to life through dance.

C．It highlights the beauty of Chinese traditional art.

D．It tells us the love for Chinese traditional painting.

7 . A new study has found that all dogs have different personalities—even dogs of the same breed(品种).

Elinor Karlsson studies genetics at the University of Massachusetts. She co-wrote a report about the study, which appeared recently in the publication Science.

Karlsson said, “Every dog really is an individual,” noting that there is “a huge amount of difference” even between dogs that look the same.

At a New York dog park, dog owners talked about the different characteristics of their pets. Elizabeth Kelly owns an English springer spaniel. She called her dog friendly, but also “kind of the queen bee.” In other words, her dog likes to act like it is in charge of other dogs. Suly described her yellow Labrador as “calm, lazy and shy.”

The idea of dog breeds is quite recent. Around 160 years ago, humans began to breed dogs to have certain physical qualities, such as fur, color and ear shape.

Karlsson said her aim was to learn how much a dog’s breed affects their behavior. The answer? Breed does not decide an individual dog’s personality.

Karlsson’s team gathered information from 18,000 dog owners and studied the genetic code of over 2,000 dogs. The researchers found that some qualities are based on genetics. However, it is not sure that two dogs of the same breed will behave in the same way.

For example, huskies and beagles, may be more likely to howl—or make a long, loud barking sound. But many of these dogs do not howl, as owner observations showed.

1. What do we know about Karlsson’s report?

A．She wrote it by herself.

B．It was published in Science.

C．She finished it after graduation.

D．It is of little value to her study.

2. What does the underlined “the queen bee” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．A bee that behaves busily.

B．A dog whose name is Queen.

C．A bee that serves the whole group.

D．A dog acting as if it is the most important.

3. What is the purpose of Elinor Karlsson’s study?

A．To help dog owners learn about their dogs better.

B．To prove dog breeds determine their personalities.

C．To study the relationship between dog breeds and behaviors.

D．To show different dogs have different personalities.

4. What does the author want to tell us in the last paragraph?

A．All the dogs can make a long, loud barking.

B．Dogs of the same breed can behave differently.

C．Dogs’ owners may observe their pets carelessly.

D．Huskies and beagles are not the same dog breed.

8 . Have you ever had the urge to open a book and stick your nose straight into the pages? The smell of old books can refresh any book lovers. We don’t know why, but it is just pleasant to us.

Describing the smell can be a challenge. And mere adjectives will likely be of little use to future generations of historians trying to document, understand or reproduce the scent of slowly decaying books. Now, that task may have just gotten easier thanks to the Historic Book Odor Wheel.

In one experiment, researchers asked visitors at the historic library to characterize the scents they smelled. All the visitors selected words like “woody”, “smoky” and “earthy” from the list, and described the smell’s intensity and perceived pleasantness. In another experiment, the study authors presented visitors to the Birmingham Museum with eight smells — one of which was an unlabeled historic book scent and seven were non-bookish, such as coffee, chocolate, fish market and dirty clothes. The researchers then had those museum goers describe the historic book smell.

The top two responses? Chocolate and coffee. “You tend to use familiar associations to describe smells when they are unlabeled,” study author Cecilia Bembibre says.

The team even analyzed the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) (挥发性有机化合物) in the book and the library. Using the data from the chemical analysis and visitors’ smell descriptions, the researchers created the Historic Book Odor Wheel to document the “historic library smell”. Main categories, such as “sweet/spicy”, fill the inner circle of the wheel; descriptors, such as “chocolate/cream”, fill the middle; and the chemical compounds likely to be the smelly source, like furfural, fill the outer circle. The researchers want the book odor wheel to be a tool that “untrained noses” can use to identify smells and the compounds causing them, which could address conservators’ concerns about material composition and historic paper conservation. And hopefully, smells of the past can be reproduced in the lab someday and museums and historians can use it to reconstruct a past we can no longer smell.

1. What is mainly talked about in the first paragraph?

A．An strange reading habit.	B．Fascination for smells of books.
C．Addiction to reading books.	D．A dislike for smelling books.

2. How do people usually describe unlabeled smells?

A．By referring to familiar items.	B．By using adjectives to label them.
C．By analysing chemical compounds.	D．By connecting them with food smells.

3. Which is NOT the purpose of using the “Historic Book Odor Wheel”?

A．To record historic library smells.	B．To identify smells and compounds.
C．To remove the conservators’ worries.	D．To put different scents into different libraries.

4. What might the study be used for in the future?

A．Creating a whole new scent.	B．Improving the people’s sense of smell.
C．Restoring smells of historic documents.	D．Extracting components of “old book smell”.

9 . My husband Adlai and I often went camping to celebrate special occasions. In fact, our anniversary (周年纪念日) was coming up. But this time I felt a sense of _________ . I couldn’t help thinking about my journal (日记本).

For birthdays and anniversaries, _________ giving each other cards that we were not interested in, Adlai and I wrote letters. For nine years, I’d written almost all of mine in a journal. For our eighteenth anniversary, we had gone camping. After a hike, we returned to _________ our letters. But the campsite was _________ by a bear. Our tent fell down. Worst of all, my journal was _________. We searched for hours, but it was _________.

I never _________ . I always wanted to have back those nine years of letters! One day, I came home to find a car in our driveway. Two _________ stood in the yard with Adlai. Adlai held up a weather-beaten book. My journal! The woman and her husband had _________ it weeks earlier in the underbrush. She was __________ when reading my love letters. “We only have your first names, so it is a bit __________ to find you. Luckily, we make it,” the woman said.

As a result of their their__________, I could hug my journal again. I just couldn’t thank them more. There are always people in the world who show__________ to others. What the couple did doesn’t __________ change our lives, but it can certainly change the way we __________ about life.

1.

A．duty

B．excitement

C．loss

D．fear

2.

A．except for

B．instead of

C．with regard to

D．as for

3.

A．send

B．discuss

C．spread

D．exchange

4.

A．destroyed

B．watched

C．locked

D．examined

5.

A．waiting

B．missing

C．appearing

D．dropping

6.

A．hopeless

B．successful

C．dangerous

D．safe

7.

A．got away

B．set out

C．gave up

D．came back

8.

A．friends

B．customers

C．relatives

D．strangers

9.

A．discovered

B．hidden

C．returned

D．passed

10.

A．satisfied

B．moved

C．tired

D．frightened

11.

A．easy

B．interesting

C．boring

D．difficult

12.

A．needs

B．experiments

C．projects

D．efforts

13.

A．kindness

B．understanding

C．encouragement

D．protection

14.

A．partly

B．luckily

C．necessarily

D．secretly

15.

A．talk

B．feel

C．plan

D．hate