2 . 假定你是李华，你在加拿大的好友Tom所在的学校将举办中国文化日活动(Chinese Culture Day)，活动项目有书法、剪纸和京剧，Tom不知道选择参加哪个项目，写邮件询问你的建议，请给他回一封英文邮件。内容包括：
1.建议Tom参加的活动项目及推荐理由；
2.对该活动项目的介绍；
3.参加该活动项目的建议。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.邮件开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Tom,

I am writing to give you my recommendation on your activity on Chinese Culture Day.

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Yours,

Li Hua

3 . The fact that touch can be highly influential in successful sales has led researchers to call the phenomenon the Midas Touch, named after King Midas in Greek mythology (神话) who was said to turn everything he touched into gold.

While touching a product is clearly not going to make it golden, it can make the person connect so strongly with the item that they take psychological ownership of it. This means that the consumer is much more likely to purchase it as they feel as if it already belongs to them. Partially, this will be caused by the emotions that they experience when they engage in interaction, as there is a close relationship in our brains between touch and emotions.

In a world where online shopping is almost unavoidable, and people can’t touch what they buy, it begs the question of how touch can work in consuming.

The reality is that many consumers have a high need for touch, and when they can’t touch, they become upset and often feel dissatisfied. This will, at least partially, contribute to the high online return rates, as people don’t feel satisfied with the products when they arrive.

Presenting shoppers (直播带货者) with visually-based concrete signs can help overcome the lack of touch. For example, if the goods are clearly described, it helps the purchaser know the product more accurately. However, such descriptions only work if they are specific.

Furthermore, using moving imagery, such as a brief film of a model moving around in a clothing item, also helps with touch-related visualization (形象化) as it becomes a mental understanding of touch. Actual textures (质地) of products can also help provide signs for what the products are like.

In fact, it appears that concrete input is primarily processed subconsciously, meaning that it is not something you can necessarily ask consumers about, as they simply don’t know that it affects them. Thus, the examples mentioned here are the kind of research findings that online sellers should take note of. With some creative input, they can be used to create more satisfied customers when touch is absent.

1. What is the purpose of Paragraph 1?

A．To inform people of a story.	B．To introduce the subject.
C．To provide the background.	D．To give a definition.

2. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．Touching and consuming.	B．The process of touching.
C．Brains and emotion.	D．The problem of selling.

3. What causes the high online return rates?

A．Products’ arriving late.	B．Customers’ thinking little of products.
C．Products’ not meeting the requirements.	D．Customers’ no describing products.

4. How can online buyers overcome the lack of touch?

A．By knowing specific descriptions visually.	B．By making brief films of moving models.
C．By making notes of the research findings.	D．By asking consumers something necessary.

4 . Zibo city in Shandong has unexpectedly become famous on Chinese social media since late February for its local barbecue specialty, and this trend continues as the local government takes the opportunity to promote tourism and spending.

The latest promotion gives visitors free admission to 10 scenic spots in the city with their train tickets as long as their final destination is Zibo. This move followed another on March 31 under which the Jinan bureau of China Railway added a weekend special round-trip “barbecue tour” train between Jinan.

Passengers who get on the train are greeted by a banner reading “Welcome to the Special BBQ Train”at the entrance of the train. Many also took videos and posted them on social media, drawing more visitors.

Barbecue is popular in China, and Zibo’s barbecue has its own local features: it’s made on a stove, and is served with flatbread and dressings. The food is 70-80 percent cooked before it is brought to the table, where diners can finish cooking it on their own stoves. Diners are served with flatbreads, scallions and other dressings at the table so they are able to assemble their own barbecue parcels, in much the same way Peking Duck is eaten.

The barbecue suddenly became famous after a group of college students shot videos of themselves enjoying a meal in Zibo and posted them on social media in late February. Since then, many people, mostly young, have come to the city from all over the country to try the dish.

On several streets, lines can be seen outside barbecue restaurants, which stretch for more than 100 meters on the weekend.

“Zibo barbecue is bringing more and more people to the city, and the local government needs to think about how to promote the city as a whole, its culture and tourism, as well as its living and business environment,” said Sun Xiaorong, an expert of tourism marketing and promotion. The trend will eventually end if the local government doesn’t take proper follow-up measures, he added.

1. What does paragraph 1 mainly talk about?

A．Zibo city’s snacks.

B．Zibo city’s places of interest.

C．The reasons why Zibo is famous recently.

D．The challenges Zibo meets with at present.

2. What can we know about Zibo’s barbecue from paragraph 4?

A．It is usually paired with flatbread and dressings.

B．It is as delicious as Peking Duck.

C．It is totally toasted by the cook on the stove.

D．It is very cheap and various.

3. What made Zibo’s barbecue suddenly well-known?

A．Young people’s dreams.

B．Local government’s measures.

C．Barbecue restaurants in Zibo city.

D．Some college students’ promotion.

4. Which word can describe Sun Xiaorong’s attitude towards the popularity of Zibo barbecue?

A．Objective.	B．Negative.
C．Curious	D．Doubtful.

5 . 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。

Nowadays, our classrooms, neighborhoods and communities become     1     (much) diverse (多样化的) than ever before. People from different     2     (country) and cultures continue to spread out around the world. Different skin colors, languages, physical abilities and clothing     3     (be) some of the types of diversity that we experience every day.

How we respond to this diversity will decide not only our future as a person but also our future as a society. As Maya Angelou said, “In diversity there is beauty and     4     (strong)”. Tolerance (宽容) means openness to the differences that exist among us all. It means respecting and learning from others,     5     (value) our differences and discovering what we have     6     common.

The opposite of tolerance is closed-mindedness. Arguments, fights and wars     7     (cause) by closed- mindedness from time to time. In contrast, humans     8     are open to differences will create a more peaceful world and have better opportunities in life whether through education, work or friendships. So having tolerance will change our life for the better, and make the world     9     better place. Difference is of the spirit of humans and we should learn     10     (respect) it.

7 . Scientists are excited by the rediscovery of the giant lacewing. It is an insect which looks like a cross between a fly and a moth. It has spotted wings with a span of roughly 50 millimeters, holding the wings over its body like a tent.

Giant lacewings have been around since the Jurassic era, a period of time about 150 to 200 million years ago. In the 1950s, scientists thought giant lacewings had disappeared from eastern North America. However, scientists recently confirmed that one had been spotted.

Michael Skvarla works for Penn State University, who is the director of its insect identification lab. Skvarla found the giant lacewing in 2012. He remembers it clearly, “I was walking into Walmart to get milk and I saw this huge insect on the side of the building,” Skvarla said. “I thought it looked interesting, so I put it in my hand and did the rest of my shopping with it between my fingers. I got home, mounted it and promptly forgot about it for almost a decade.”

Then, in late 2020, Skvarla was teaching biodiversity in a Zoom class during the pandemic lockdown. During the class, Skvarla showed his students microscopic images of the insect he had seen at Walmart. Together, they stared at the images. They studied the insect closely. Then, they realized that the insect had been wrongly labeled. Many scientists are stirred by this discovery. Now they have started wondering if there may be entire populations hiding out, which requires for further investigation.

And the causes of the supposed disappearance of the insect have long been a mystery. With a deeper research, there are some possible explanations. One is light pollution, which is the brightening of the night sky from man-made light sources such as street lights. Light pollution can disrupt the natural cycles of living things. Another cause could be the introduction of non-native insects such as ground beetles. They can cause harm to the environment. Ground beetles prey on giant lacewings. People’s stopping forest fires may also play a part in the disappearance of the lacewing. This is because giant lacewings need ecosystems that rely on natural fires.

1. What can we know about the appearance of the giant lacewing?

A．It looks like a mix of a fly and a moth.

B．Its body length is about 50 millimeters.

C．Its wings are tiny and rough.

D．Its body shape is like a tent.

2. Which of the following correctly describes the process of the rediscovery?

A．The researcher accurately recognized it at first sight.

B．It was spotted at Walmart during the pandemic.

C．It had been incorrectly labeled initially.

D．Researchers closely studied the insect for nearly a decade.

3. Why did the giant lacewing disappear according to Paragraph 5?

A．The lengthening of natural sunlight time.

B．The increase in the number of native attackers.

C．The frequent occurrence of forest fires.

D．The biological rhythms were messed up by man-made light.

4. Where is the passage most probably taken from?

A．A biology magazine.	B．A science fiction.
C．A research plan.	D．A medical report.

9 . 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。

Du Wei, co-founder of Zeblaze, a company     1     a variety of smartwatches are made in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, sent a new batch of these products to the warehouses (仓库) before Spring Festiyal.

“We prepared 10,000 watches in advance for Chinese New Year. To my surprise, all of them sold out via online marketplaces during the weeklong holiday, and our sales increased     2     more than 200 percent year-on-year,” Du said, adding that most of the company’s customers come from Europe, North America, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

Increasing sales were also reported by Chinese home appliance giant Midea Group for itsfloor cleaning robots, with orders     3     (receive) more often this year from Spain, France and Russia through AliExpress, Alibaba Group’s business-to-customer platform.

Like Zeblaze and Midea, tens of thousands of vendors (供应商) based in China now sell their products     4     (global) through cross-border e-commerce platforms. Meanwhile, more Chinese     5     (brand) are gaining popularity among overseas consumers, which experts said is an affirmation (肯定) of the country’s manufacturing and supply chain capabilities.

Cui Lili, director of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics’ Institute of E-commerce, said the popularity in overseas markets of products made in China shows these cost-effective commodities have gained wide     6     (recognize) and raised brand reputationabroad in recent years. “In the past Chinese consumers usually     7     (tend) to buy imported and foreign-branded products, but nowadays, China’s major online shopping festivals have become more international,     8     (have) a greater influence on overseas shoppers who are increasingly willing to buy Chinese brands via cross-border e-commerce platforms,” Cui said. Faced with emerging opportunities, Cui said Chinese companies should make full use of cross-border e-commerce platforms to quickly grasp demands from overseas markets, learn more about closely     9     (relevance) laws, regulations and quality standards in these countries, and adjust supply chains to make products that meet local requirements.

Amazon Global Selling, which helps Chinese merchants sell their products abroad, said that     10     nation’s vendors are paying more attention to building brands and expanding their presence in overseas markets, given the rapid growth of cross-border e-commerce.