1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)，或括号内单词的正确形式。

Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been     1     (find) 45 miles south of London, they were not taken     2     (serious) by experts from the zoo until enough evidence     3     (be) collected. The     4     (describe) given by people claiming (声称) to have seen the puma were similar. A woman     5     (pick) blackberries said she saw “a large cat”. And a businessman     6     a fishing trip also said he saw the puma up a tree. The experts fully     7     (believe) that the animal was a puma     8     was probably owned by a private collector. The hunt went on for several     9     (week) but no one could catch it.     10     is disturbing to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.

2 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

You know that the business of business is making money. What you may not realize is     1    simple that business is. You need two fundamental ingredients — a good product that customers want to own, and bright, charismatic people who will     2    sell it and, if necessary, defend it. And of the two —    3    (desire) product and competent people — good people are, in the long run, more important than good products.

You can’t expect to produce one popular product after another. You can, however, cover your bets by staffing your enterprise with superb employees who will continue to reflect the company’s strengths     4    the products are weak. It is your responsibility to keep those employees     5    (perform) as well as they can. They won’t remain superb     6    reliable leadership and, infact, there is a perfect time to address this issue. Most successful companies have a defining moment     7    profits are skyrocketing, and business     8    not be better. That is precisely the time to look closely at your customer service. That you are earning more money than ever before     9    (indicate) your product is terrific, but it doesn’t necessarily mean the same about your customer service. It is the ideal time to examine your reputation and expand the success you are earning from your product to include customer service.

Every business wants to be known for its customer service. Although even a slow but steady giant such as Radio Shack Corporation will often come up with a hot product, it is its customer service     10    keeps it in business year after year.

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。

The women’s national volleyball team    1    (be) the pride of the Chinese people since it first won the championship in 1981. It beat Serbia on September 28, right before    2    National Day holiday, defending its World Cup crown with a record of 11 wins.

“Leap”, a film    3    the Chinese women’s national volleyball team, is set to hit the big screens on January 25, 2020, the first day of the Chinese New Year.    4    (direct) by Peter Hosun Chan (陈可辛) and starring A-list actress Gong Li, the film is based on the volleyball team’s stories spread over    5    (many) than 40 years.

Gong Li plays the role of Lang Ping, the current head coach of the team. The film star has been shot with the players on a number of occasions in the past several     6    (month). More so, a picture of her in the film also amazed the audience due to     7    (she) striking resemblance (相似) to Lang.

“The first time I watched a game of the Chinese women’s national volleyball team was in 1978 in Bangkok-the Asian Games. It was 18-year-old Lang Ping’s first     8    (appear) in an international game, and I was 16 years old and sat by the court, feeling     9    (excite) all the time. Now I’m almost 60 years old, and am preparing for the film based on their story.    10     a wonderful life!”, Chan wrote in a post.

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个恰当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式填空。

With Tokyo Summer Olympics     1     (approach), reports indicate that facial recognition will be used as a security measure at those games. The Japan Times reported the technology would be used to “make the entry to the stadiums simple”.

While spectators (观众) won’t have to receive the     2     (treat), athletes, officials and journalists will be screened, according to the report of The Japan Times.    3     there were complaints of long waits, the organizing committee     4     (prove) the technology during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil quite     5     (success). They hope to sort out the wait and other issues ahead of the Tokyo Games     6     will start in late July 2021.

NEC, the company handling the technology, also tested out their equipment at two airports and is behind a number of other similar projects,    7     (include) software used by the Chicago Police. This technology is becoming far     8     (popular) and the Olympics are just the latest area to use them     9     security purposes. Other examples of planned or in use include robot police in China, bridges and tunnels in New York City, and more widespread uses by the FBI. Also, the technology allows you     10     (use) your fancy new phone and order fast food.

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。

Yesang village is regarded as the birthplace of Tibetan woodblock art, a tradition that     1     (pass) down for more than 340 years.

The village,     2     (locate) in Polo township of Joda county in Tibet, has more than 60 woodblock artists. It lies in a remote valley far from the county’s downtown.     3     takes more than three hours of driving on the mountainous roads to get there, and the journey requires both     4     (drive) skill and courage.

Yesang is near a historical printing house of Tibetan Buddhism scriptures. More than 80 percent of the printing house’s woodblocks were produced in Yesang, according to     5    (villager).

“Three-hundred years ago, a great master called Kolha Lugye     6     (begin) the tradition of woodblock art in our village, after     7     the tradition has been passed on for generations. Therefore, our village has contributed     8    (great) to Tibetan cultural preservation,” said Tashi Tsephel, an instructor of the Woodblock art in Yesang.

Tsultrim Darje, another woodblock artist in the village, works     9     average of 11 hours a day. Each year, he works more than eight months on the woodblocks. “I earn about 40,000 yuan ($5,800) every year from working on the woodblocks,” Tsultrim Darje said.

“Every woodblock costs between 400 yuan and 800 yuan based     10     its quality, and I can finish four per month.”

6 . Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Barry Jenkins: ‘When you climb the ladder, you send it back down’

“So, you saw the film?” Barry Jenkins is eager to ask the minute we are introduced. He gives good eye contact through those stylish thick-rimmed glasses – not the big-time, Oscar-winning writer-director speaking, but a nervous artist, anxious     1     the new work he is starting to screen. I love it, I tell him. If Beale Street Could Talk may be only Jenkins’ third feature-length film,     2     it has already been nominated for three Oscars (best adapted screenplay, best supporting actress, best score), just two years     3     his Moonlight walked away with the Academy Award for best film. A passionate film about race and love, it’s an     4     (add) pleasure to see black characters of such complexity on the big screen.

Adapted from James Baldwin’s 1974 novel, Beale Street tells the story in which the personal experiences of a young black couple     5     (interweave) with the big picture in 1970s Harlem. When Tish (KiKi Layne) becomes pregnant, they plan to marry – until her fiancé Fonny (Stephan James) is set up by a racist police officer for a rape he did not commit. The film explores the different reactions of their siblings (兄弟姐妹) and parents, led by Regina King in a standout performance as Tish’s mother, as they fight for Fonny’s freedom.

Baldwin has been dead for 30 years, but his depiction of the fight against a country’s powerful prejudice is a sad reminder     6     not enough has changed. Yet Jenkins turns a bleak story into a fascinating romance, as the young lovers strive     7     (regard) as human beings. With its lingering, saturated-colour photography – the director has cited Wong Kar-Wai’s In The Mood For Love as an influence – Beale Street is one of     8     (visually-arresting) films I’ve seen.

Beale Street     9     (film) on location in New York and the Dominican Republic – filling in for Puerto Rico, still devastated by 2017’s Hurricane Maria. It was shot on an Arri Alexa 65 camera. Throughout the film, as he did in Moonlight, the director lingers over often wordless scenes between his characters,     10     (present) them as a series of moving photographs.

7 . 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。

Traditional Chinese painting is highly regarded all over the world for its theory,     1     (express) and skill. It is also one of     2     oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. It is known in Chinese     3     guo hua, meaning “national or native painting”.

Traditional Chinese painting is done with a brush     4     is dipped in black or coloured ink. The most popular paintings are made of paper and silk. The     5     (finish) work can be put in albums or on walls.

Traditional Chinese painting has its own special tools, consisting of brushes, ink, xuan paper and so on. Chinese painting can     6     (divide) into figure paintings, landscapes and flower-and-bird paintings according to the subjects. Landscapes, mainly     7     (describe) the natural scenery of mountains and rivers, represent a major type of traditional Chinese painting.

In the 1980s, Chinese oil painting developed     8     (quick). Then folk painting became popular, such as Chinese New Year pictures. It is put up on doors, room walls and windows     9     (invite) blessings during the New Year. Woodcuts     10     (become) increasingly various in style, theme and artistic form since the 1980s.

8 . 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。

Freedom above snow

With the Tokyo Summer Olympics behind us, people are turning their eyes to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games,     1     will start in five months. Freestyle skier Gu Ailing, 18, looks to be one of the superstars of the event.

Born to an American father and a Chinese mother, Gu     2     (decide) to compete for China in the 2022 Winter Olympics in June 2019. Just two months later, she bagged her first gold medal for China at the Australia New Zealand Cup.     3     strength continued to grow as she won one bronze and two gold medals at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in March.

People say she is     4     (talent). But Gu says that talent counted for (占据) “only 1 percent” of her wins, adding that her hard work is     5     counts. While going to school in San Francisco, Gu could only practice on weekends. She spent eight hours    6     (go) to the ski hill and back, doing her homework on the way and making full use of her time at the hill     7     (practice) skiing.

Gu said she wants to encourage more girls in China to try skiing and other extreme sports , many of which have only been known there for 20 years, according to the Olympics website. She said skiing gives her “    8     (free) and creativity”, especially when she perfectly controls her body and does tricks that others cannot do.

Now she     9     (prepare) for the Winter Olympics as a full-time athlete. “Of course, I want to win medals and even golds,” Gu said. “But what’s     10     (important) is to bring out my own style, enjoy the game and love the sport.”

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。

Crosstalk, Xiangsheng in Chinese, is a     1    (tradition) Chinese comedic performing art and one of China's most popular cultural forms. It's     2    (general) believed that crosstalk developed sometime in the Qing Dynasty. After the People's Republic of China     3    (found) in 1949, this art became increasingly popular. Today, it is     4    important part in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and other countless shows in China.

There are four     5    (skill) in crosstalk: speaking, imitating, teasing and singing. Most of the time, it is performed by two actors-one serves as the leading actor while the other plays a supporting role. However, sometimes it is performed as a monologue (独白)，    6    is completed by one person mainly telling jokes, and at other times it is performed by more than two actors,     7     (call) group performance. Crosstalk is humorous and its language is lively and rich     8    puns (双关语).

Jump into a taxi in Beijing, and chances are that your driver will be listening to a radio broadcast of a crosstalk show. These days, more and more foreigners are becoming interested in     9     (study) the art of crosstalk. Crosstalk is a huge part of Chinese culture and it appears as if it's getting even     10    (big).

10 . 阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或所给单词的提示，在每个空格内填入1个适当的单词，要求所填的词意义准确、形式正确，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。

Square dancing has become more and more popular in recent times, especially for the middle-aged women. Square dancing is not     1     healthy, but also relaxing for them. However, in many cities, most people     2    (agree). They think square dancing is too noisy and they want to stop the activity. I have my     3    /əʊn/ opinion about this problem.

My grandmother falls in love with it, so she goes out to the big square to dance right after dinner. Now she dances very well. And her body becomes     4    (strong) and healthier. She also becomes very optimistic and makes a lot of     5    (friend). But some people     6    /ˈkʌvə/ their ears when they go through the big square. My friends in the school complain that because     7     the loud music, they can’t even sleep well or focus on their studies. Square dancing is a healthy way to relax, for either the old or the young. But they should     8    /əˈbeɪ/ some rules. First, pay attention     9     the time. When it’s too late, just stop     10    (dance). Second, don’t make the music too loud. And the most important thing is never to dance near a school or a campus. They should choose a proper place to dance, like a gym at the community center.