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Li Bai and his romantic poetry

Li Bai's love of reading and travelling from an early age contributed to his romantic style. He started studying the classics     1     he was only five years old, and was reading ancient philosophers of different schools at the age of ten, including Confucianism and Taoism. By reading books of all kinds, from legends to historical stories, he     2     (familiar) himself with classical Chinese culture, and more     3    (important), he acquired the wisdom of previous generations.

    4     (drive) by a burning desire for adventure and travel, Li Bai left home and started to travel around in his early twenties. His footsteps covered almost     5     whole country. During his travels, he visited famous mountains and great rivers,     6     (encounter) different customs and practices. These travelling experiences also nourished his love of nature and inspired him     7     (write) numerous poems in the romantic style.

Li Bai's romantic style was also deeply rooted in the social and historical context in which he lived. Li Bai grew up in the most     8     (glory) period of the Tang Dynasty, a time of economic boom and social     9    (stable). This open and tolerant atmosphere allowed Li Bai the liberty to develop a free and unconstrained personality,     10    , in turn, had a huge impact on his poetic production.

2 . 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。

I once found that helping someone could get you into a lot of trouble.

I was in the     1    (nine) grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl     2    (sit) next to me whispered something, but I didn’t understand. Finally I found that she was trying to ask me     3    I had an extra pen. She showed me that     4    (her) was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I put it on her desk.  

Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher     5    (ask) me to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed. As soon as we were alone she began to talk to me about how important it was     6    (stand) on my own two     7    (foot) and be responsible for my own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized the fact that     8    people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me promise that I would think     9    (serious) about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had chosen to talk to me     10    all those things.

Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated in the test.

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。

One day, I was waiting for my train in the waiting room, in     1     I saw large crowds of people. Among the crowds was a little boy     2     (carry) some pairs of sunglasses in his hands.

The boy was about 10 years old. He was selling sunglasses. He tried from one person to another, but     3     (sad), nobody seemed interested in his sunglasses. Judging from the     4     (express) on his face, the boy was very     5     (disappoint).

Out of sympathy for the poor boy, I gave him 20 dollars,     6     (say) that I was not in need of the sunglasses.     7     my surprise, he became angry. I didn’t know     8     to say next. Then the boy said to me, “Either you buy a pair of sunglasses or you take back your money. I don’t need your pity. I want to earn money with my own hands.” I apologized to the boy, and I told him that I would buy two pairs.

The boy     9     (manage) to keep his self-respect and chose to make a living on his own. I couldn’t help     10     (show) respect for the boy.

4 . 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。

Even if all goes well for you in high school, that time of life still can be tough. After all, there's so much for you    1    ( learn) academically and socially, like getting along with classmates, and dealing with teachers. But of all the    2    (challenge), making good friends might be the most important.

According to a new study published in the journal Child Development, best friends likely had a    3    ( significance) influence on how you behave in your 20s. Researchers found that those with strong. close bonds with their friends at age fifteen were more likely to be healthy and happy later. Importantly,     4     ( popular), defined as lots of people liking you generally but not closely, wasn't found to have the same benefit as close friends.

The University of Virginia researchers     5    ran the study followed 169 subjects aged 15 to 25 every year for a decade. Then the researchers     6    ( analyze) the 10 years of data to understand how people handled stress over time. They found that, compared to people with strong high school friendships, those who were merely popular did much     7    ( bad) on several measures of mental health, such as self-worth, social acceptance and relaxation.

“     8    (like) by a large group of people cannot take    9    place of building deep, supportive friendships. So trying to build close connections    10    a few people should be a priority(优先考虑的事情)，”wrote Joseph Allen, who coauthored the study.

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号单词的正确形式。

The hardships involved in building the Great Wall are beyond imagination. Large numbers of people had to leave their homes and families to go to the north,    1    they worked hard for years. Of the legends about the Great Wall, the story of Lady Meng Jiang is the most    2     (move). Lady Meng Jiang lived during the reign of the First Emperor of Qin. After her husband     3     ( call) up to build the Great Wall, she missed him so much    4    she traveled many miles to see him but only    5     (tell) that her husband had died and was buried under the Wall. She was    6     ( extreme) sad and cried for three days and nights until the Great Wall fell down one section after another.

Over the past centuries, the Great Wall    7     (become) a symbol of unity and    8     (strong) for Chinese people. It symbolizes that the great achievement can be made with    9    common will and joined effort. For example, the national anthem, composed during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, called on people to "build our new Great Wall    10    our flesh and blood".

6 . Directions: After reading the passage below, 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.

Are you on a diet? Then maybe you should consider     1    (sit) by the window the next time you eat out.

A new book claims that     2     you sit in a restaurant can affect how much you consume.

A new research found that people sitting farthest from the front door ate the fewest salads and were 73 percent     3    (likely) to order dessert.

Those seated at a dark table ate heavier food and ordered more of it     4     diners seated at bright bar tables ordered more salads and fewer desserts.

According to the researchers, the darker it is, the more invisible you     5     feel, the less easy it is to see how much you’re eating and the less guilty you are when you eat more.

In contrast,     6    (see) the sunlight, people or trees outside might make you more conscious of     7     you look, might make you think about walking or might make you   want a green salad.

The researchers also noted that slim diners chewed around 15 times per mouthful, three chews more than heavier diners. By eating more slowly, the diner consumes less in the time    8     takes for the brain to register satisfaction.

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In 1608, Thomas Coryate, an Englishman, visited Italy. He liked the country and noted down every interesting thing    1     he had found. But there was one thing he found more interesting than the others. In his diary, Thomas wrote, “When the Italians eat meat, they use small forks instead    2    their hands. As they say, people do not always have cleaned hands.”

Before    3    (leave)for England, Thomas bought a few forks. At home he gave a dinner party     4     (show) the invention to his friends. When the servants brought the steak, he took out a fork and began to eat as people did in Italy.

Everybody looked at him in surprise. When he told his friends what it was, they all wanted     5    (take) a good look at the strange thing. They said that the Italians were very strange people, for the fork was not very    6    (convenience)．

Thomas tried to prove the opposite. He said     7     was not nice to eat meat with one's hand     8     they were not always clean. He wanted to show how easy it was to use the fork. But the first piece of meat he took with the fork     9    (fall) to the floor. His friends began to laugh and he had to take the fork away.

Only fifty years     10       (late) did people in England begin to use forks.

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。

Many people may think the Forbidden City, or the Palace Museum, is     1     outstanding and old-fashioned museum. But, in recent years, the museum has been working hard     2    (promote) Chinese cultural heritage among young people.

The museum’s online store now offers special cultural and     3    (create) products. For example, in 2014,it started to make T-shirts that look like an emperor’s coat. It also     4    (sell) earphones that look like the necklaces worn by ancient officials, which brought     5     about 1 billion yuan in sales in 2016,reported China Youth Daily.

Last year, a documentary(纪录片)       6     (title) Masters in Forbidden City became popular online. The documentary is about the people     7     job is to repair the relics in the museum. Many of these workers are young, and some are even in their     8    (twenty).

Some other     9    (museum) across the country, such as the National Museum of China,     10     (inspire) by the Palace Museum’s efforts and are working on similar projects of their own.

9 . Directions: After reading the passage below, 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.

Some people believe that a Robin Hood (罗宾汉) is at work while others say that a wealthy person simply wants to distribute his or her fortune before dying. But the donor     1     started sending envelopes with cash to deserving causes, accompanied by an article from the local paper, has made a northern German city believe in fairytales (童话).

The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained € 10, 000 with a cutting from the Braunschweig Zeitung about how the group supported a woman who     2     (rob) of her handbag; similar plain white anonymous (匿名) envelopes, each containing € 10, 000, then     3     (arrive) at a kindergarten and a church.

The envelopes keep coming, and so far at least € 190, 000     4     (distribute). Last month, one of them was sent to the newspaper’s own office. It came after a story it published about Tom, a 14-year-old boy who was severely disabled in a swimming accident. The receptionist at the Braunschweig Zeitung opened an anonymous white envelope to find 20 notes of € 500, inside     5     there was a copy of the article. The name of the family was underlined.

“I     6     (drive) when I heard the news,” Claudia Neumann, the boy’s mother, told DerSpiegel magazine. “I had to park on the side of the road; I was speechless.”

The money will be used to make the entrance to their house wheelchair-accessible and for a course of treatment their insurance company refused to pay for.

“For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society     7     everyone thinks of himself, was astonishing,” Mrs. Neumann said. Her family wonder whether the donor is a Robin Hood character, taking from banks to give to the needy.

Henning Noske, the editor of the Braunschweig Zeitung, said: “Maybe it is an old person who is about to die. We just do not know.” However, he has told his reporters not to look for the city’s hero for fear that discovery may stop the donations.

10 . 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.

The Goosehead guide to life

Ashley Powers mother bought a computer for her when she was eight. When she was thirteen, she was surfing the Internet regularly, but she     1    not find anywhere for teenagers to meet and talk. And one day she thought, "If I had my own website, I'd make it a really interesting site for teenagers."

So, when Ashley was sixteen, she launched her own website, called Goosehead. She had no idea how big a success it     2     (be), but three years later, the site was the most successful teen site in the USA! It was getting 100,000 hits every day, and Ashley had about 30 employees.

After a few years, the website closed down. Then Ashley, who lives in Los Angeles,    3    (ask) to write a book called The Goosehead Guide to Life. The book is about     4    to design a website and start a business. It begins with a section called All About Ashley,     5    Ashley tells readers what it's like     6    (be) the boss of a company when you're only sixteen - not always easy! "I was so happy. But it was crazy in a lot of ways. I got very stressed. I mean. I was only sixteen - I didn't even have a car! If you were sixteen and you had your own company, you'd be stressed too!"

In her book, Ashley talks about the problems facing teenagers today, and about the importance of friendship, but also about being independent. "Learn to love your friends but not rely on them. I did that by     7     (create) Goosehead on my own."

Ashley says that The Goosehead Guide o Life is not a book of teenage advice. "It isn't a book that's going to tell you what to do. I hope you can work that out for     8    ,”she says.“I just want to provide a little inspiration to teenagers. Maybe    9     reading my story, you'll launch your own website. But perhaps you've got a better idea? Well, if I were you, I'd just do it,     10    it is. Maybe it won't work-but maybe it will!"