1 . 随着经济的发展，越来越多的文化遗产遭到破坏。假设你是红星中学高中生李华，请给当地报社写一封信，谈谈你对保护文化遗产的建议。内容包括：

1.文化遗产的重要性；

2.如何保护文化遗产。

注意:

1.词数80左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。

Dear Editor,

I am Li Hua, a senior student from Hong Xing High School.

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Sincerely,

Li Hu

2 . Although English is not as old as Chinese, it is spoken by many people around the world every day. English speakers are always creating new words, and we are often able to know where most words come from.

Sometimes, however, no one may really know where a word comes from. Did you ever think about why hamburgers (汉堡包) are called hamburgers, especially when they are not made with ham (火腿)? About a hundred years ago, some men went to America from Europe. They came from a big city in Germany called Hamburg. They did not speak good English, but they ate good food. When some Americans saw them eating round pieces of beef, they asked the Germans what it was. The Germans did not understand the question and answered, “We come from Hamburg.” One of these Americans owned a restaurant, and had an idea. He cooked some round pieces of beef like those which the men from Hamburg ate. Then he put each between two pieces of bread and started selling them. Such bread came to be called “hamburgers”. Today “hamburgers” are sold in many countries around the world.

Whether this story is true or not, it certainly is interesting. Knowing why any word has a certain meaning is interesting, too. This reason, for most English words, can be found in any large English dictionary.

1. About a hundred years ago, Hamburg was        .

A．An American city	B．a Chinese city
C．the name of a village	D．a city in Germany

2. Hamburgers are mainly made with        .

A．beef, bread	B．only made with beef
C．bread, potato	D．only made with bread

3. According to the writer, which of the following can often be found in any large English dictionary?

A．Where all the new words come from

B．Where those Germans came from

C．The reason why an English word has a certain meaning

D．The reason why English is spoken around the world

4. According to the story, the word “hamburger” comes from         .

A．China because it has a long history

B．England because Germans don’t speak good English

C．the round pieces of beef which those people from Hamburg were eating

D．English speakers because they always create new words

3 . Confucius Institute

The Confucius Institute at the University of Minnesota offers several short classes on Chinese language and culture.

★ Class Fees

The cost of classes is $225 ($170 for Chinese Rehab)

★ Class Calendar

The Confucius Institute follows the University of Minnesota semester schedule. The Confucius Institute classes start a few weeks after the start of the University semester and last for ten class sessions. Classes are not held on University holidays.

The upcoming class sessions will be:

Spring 2018: February 1-April 7

Summer 2018: June 13-August 25

Tentative class calendar:

The schedule may change due to teacher availability.

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY
Beginning I, Section A 6:00 a.m. 〜7:30 p.m.	Beginning I, Section B 6:00 a.m.〜7:30 p.m.	Beginning II 6:00 a.m. 〜7:30 p.m.	Intermediate II 6:00 a.m. 〜7:00 p.m.
Chinese Rehab 6:30 a.m. 〜7:00 p.m.	Intermediate I 6:00 a.m. 〜7:30 p.m.	Beginning III 6:00 a.m. 〜7:30 p.m.	Intermediate III 6:00 a.m. 〜7:30 p.m.

★ Class Cancellations

Any class not meeting minimum enrollment by four business days before the class start date will be cancelled and you will be contacted. If we must cancel a class due to insufficient enrollment or any other circumstance beyond our control, we will offer a full refund or issue credit towards another class.

★ Contact Information

The Confucius Institute is located within the University International Center on the east bank of the Twin Cities campus. The University International Center is located in the Keeler Apartment building. Enter at the comer of 17th Avenue S. E. and 4th Street through the doors located near the “University International Center” sign.

Office hours

The office is generally open Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

The office is closed daily from 12:00 noon until 1:00 p.m. and is closed on all University holidays.

Office Address

160 University International Center, 331-17th Ave. S. E., Minneapolis, MN 55414

Phone: 612625-5080

Fax: 612-625-5158

Email: confucius@umn.edu

1. Chinese Rehab ________.

A．costs more money	B．lasts one and a half hours
C．is held on Monday	D．has four classes a week

2. To get information about the classes, you can visit the office ________.

A．on Monday noon	B．at 12:30 a.m., Tuesday
C．on Wednesday evening	D．at 1:30 p.m., Friday

3. What can we learn about the classes?

A．They can be one-to-one instruction.

B．The schedule may be changeable.

C．They are held on University holidays.

D．They start at the beginning of the University semester.

5 . 阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给的段落开头语续写一段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数60左右

All the housewives who went to the new supermarket had one great ambition: to be the lucky customer who did not have to pay for her shopping. For this was what the notice just inside the entrance promised. It said: “Remember, once a week, one of our customers gets free goods. This may be your lucky day.”

For several weeks Mrs. Emerson hoped, like many of her friends, to be the lucky customer. Unlike her friends, she never gave up hope. Her kitchen were full of things which she did not need. Her husband tried to dissuade(劝阻) her but failed. She dreamed of the day when the manager of the supermarket would approach her and say, “Madam, this is your lucky day. Everything in your basket is free.”

One morning, after she had finished her shopping and had taken it to her car she found that she forgot to buy any tea. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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6 . There are various reasons why people travel. Some tourists go to see battlefields or other historic remains. Others are looking for culture, or simply want to have their pictures taken in front of famous places. Most European tourists are looking for a sunny beach to lie on.

Northern Europeans are willing to pay a lot of money for the sun because they have so little of it. People of cities like London, Copenhagen and Amsterdam spend much of their winter in the dark because the days are so short, and much of the rest of the year in the rain. This is the reason why the Mediterrancan has always attracted them.

Every summer many people travel to Mediterranean resorts and beaches for their vacation. They all come for the same reason: sun! The huge crowds mean lots of money for the economics of Mediterranean countries. Italy’s 30,000 hotels are booked without a break every summer. And 13 million people camp on French beaches, parks and roadsides. About 37 million tourists visit there yearly, or one tourist for each person living in Spain.

But there are signs that the area is getting more tourism than it can deal with. The Mediterrancan is already one of the most polluted seas on earth. None of these, however, is ruining anyone’s fun. Obviously, they don’t go there for clean water. They allow traffic jams and seem to like crowded beaches. They don’t even mind the pollution. No matter how dirty the water is, the coastline still looks beautiful. And as long as the sun shines, ifs still better than sitting in the cold rain in Berlin, London, or Olso.

1. Europeans travel mostly for the reason that ___________.

A．they are interested in different cultural and social customs

B．they want to see some famous historic sites

C．they would1 like to take pictures in front of famous places

D．they wish to escape from the cold and darkness

2. The underlined part in paragraph 3, “one tourist for each person living in Spain” suggests________.

A．all the 37 million people living in Spain are tourists

B．there are a large number of tourists visiting Spain

C．every person living in Spain has to take care of a tourist

D．every family in Spain is visited by a tourist every year

3. According to the text, which of the following might ruin the tourists’ fun at Mediterranean resorts and beaches?

A．Polluted water.

B．Crowded buses.

C．Rainy weather.

D．Traffic jams.

4. What is the main idea of the text?

A．People travel for different reasons.	B．Travelling causes a lot of problems.
C．Northern Europeans travel for sun.	D．Europeans are fond of travelling.

7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填人1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic (残奥会)Games brought the world's attention to sport like never before. It was admirable    1    (see) a small nation like the UK organize the Olympic for    2    third time in modern history.

Britain probably    3    (invent) quite a few modern sports. One is cricket (板球),    4    is now played at international level in a dozen countries. Tennis also first became popular here and Wimbledon is one of the four big tournaments every year. Golf    5    (suppose) to be Scottish in origin (起源)from a school of the same name.

Every town in Britain has football, rugby or cricket club (sometimes all three) and at least one swimming pool. Schools have a gymnasium and playing fields with a running track. As British is an island, there are lots of opportunities for practising water sports    6    well.

"Fair play" in British society is as important as    7    (win) or losing. Teamwork is also necessary in many areas of professional life. Even so, individualism (个性)and competitiveness make sporting champions. Steve Redgrave, winner of five gold    8    (medal) at five Olympic Games, says: "Being    9    (confidence)in yourself is the most important in sporting success.    10    (personal), it is the iron in the mind not the supplements (增补物）that wins medals."

8 . Many people enjoy taking trips by themselves. Unluckily, they do not always have the best_________. Instead, people should consider group tours. Taking a group tour is a wise choice for people to __________themselves.

First, group tours plan travelers’ routes, so people don’t have to_______where they are going next or how they are getting there. They can just_______and enjoy their trip._______, my family once took a group tour to China. The travel agency (旅行社)_______everything for us. We just looked at the schedule the travel agency had_______and followed it. Thanks to the travel agency, we had a _______trip. This made things _______on my father since he didn’t have to worry about where we would go next and ________at night.

Another________of group tours is that they allow people to communicate with one another while traveling. Travelers are able to develop________with people they would never have met________they are traveling together for a number of days. As I know, my parents ________Russia on a group tour for their honeymoon (蜜月). They________another couple on that trip, and everyone had a great time together. Even after many years, they still________together from time to time. If my parents had traveled by themselves, it would have been________for them to get to know this couple.

In short, there is ________better than a group tour when traveling. Group tours schedule everything on the trip, and they give us the________to meet others and make friends with them. Group tours are the ________way to travel when taking a trip.

1.

A．maps

B．cars

C．places

D．vacations

2.

A．help

B．enjoy

C．praise

D．encourage

3.

A．guess

B．prove

C．worry about

D．talk about

4.

A．relax

B．stop

C．walk

D．show

5.

A．In all

B．So far

C．As usual

D．For example

6.

A．made use of

B．took care of

C．ran out of

D．caught sight of

7.

A．provided

B．found

C．changed

D．bought

8.

A．short

B．strange

C．pleasant

D．terrible

9.

A．earlier

B．easier

C．slower

D．worse

10.

A．work

B．practice

C．stay

D．perform

11.

A．rule

B．question

C．purpose

D．advantage

12.

A．skills

B．programs

C．friendships

D．treatments

13.

A．because

B．unless

C．while

D．although

14.

A．1eft

B．visited

C．forgot

D．missed

15.

A．met

B．invited

C．followed

D．recognized

16.

A．dance

B．learn

C．cook

D．travel

17.

A．certain

B．important

C．impossible

D．unnecessary

18.

A．something

B．nothing

C．somebody

D．nobody

19.

A．gift

B．hope

C．method

D．chance

20.

A．best

B．last

C．only

D．new

9 . Earthquakes are something that people fear. There are some places that have few or no earthquakes. Most places in the world, however, have them regularly. Countries that have a lot of earthquakes are usually quite mountainous.

The most talked about earthquake in the United States was in San Francisco in 1906. Over 700 people died in it. The strongest one in North America was in 1964. It happened in Alaska.

Strong earthquakes are not always the ones that kill the most people. In 1755, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded was felt in Portugal. Around 2,000 people died.

In 1923, a very strong earthquake hit Tokyo, Yokohama area of Japan. A hundred and forty thousand people died. Most of them died in fires which followed the earthquake.

One of the worst earthquakes ever was in China in 2008. It killed a large number of people. The worst earthquake ever reported was also in China, in which 400,000 people were killed or injured. This earthquake happened in 1556.

Earthquakes worry people a lot. The reason is that we often do not know when they are coming. People cannot prepare for earthquakes.

1. Earthquakes happen ________.

A．in all the places in the world

B．only in the countries that have a lot of mountains

C．regularly in most places in the world

D．only in a few places along the coast

2. When and where was the worst earthquake ever reported?

A．In 1964 in Alaska.	B．In 1556 in China.
C．In 1923 in Japan.	D．In 2008 in China.

3. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A．The stronger the earthquake is, the more people are killed.

B．Earthquakes often come unexpectedly.

C．Earthquakes can cause fires.

D．People still don't know how to tell when an earthquake will come.

4. What may be talked about in the seventh paragraph?

A．How do earthquakes worry people?

B．What will people do to prepare for earthquakes?

C．How can we save people when earthquakes happen?

D．How do earthquakes happen?

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B．$100.

C．$150.

D．$350.

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A．Anecdotes and Jokes	B．Smart Animals
C．Power of Love	D．My Story

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A．juliet@sws.com	B．susan@sws.com
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A．describe strange behaviour	B．contain less than 800 words
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