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。

The number of international students in search     1     higher education in China has been increasing in the past ten years. For many foreign students they think highly of Wuhan University in Hubei province because of     2    (it)learning and social environment.

Goh Qianxuan from Singapore     3    (select)to be the president of the Wuhan University Singaporean Students Association and the Chinese Language and Literature Student Union during her four years of studying in Wuhan,     4     gave her the chance to work     5    (close)with students from other countries. "I didn't come to Wuhan just     6    (get)good grades," Goh says. "being part of the local student communities and seeing how things are done have really helped me to better understand Chinese people and China."

The university also offers various activities to them. Goh says she felt     7    (little) like a foreign student only after a year in the student union. "The environment is truly good for Chinese studies，" she says. "The four     8    (amaze)years I spent in Wuhan has helped to build    9     strong foundation for my life and career. This experience has proved many of my former ideas wrong as I now understand the main reasons behind the Chinese ways to deal with certain     10    (matter)."

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。

Tai Chi Chuan,     1     is famous as a kind of martial art, has been practiced China for centuries. It combines slow movements, deep breathing and thinking. Every movement in Tai Chi represents     2     important part of old Chinese philosophy—harmony.

Tai Chi is a term in the Chinese     3     (tradition)philosophy. It comes from The Book of Changes(《周易》). In the time of Song Dynasty, Zhou Dunyi     4     (write) the book Theory of the Tai Chi Pictures. The inventors of Tai Chi     5     (inspire)by this book and invented Tai Chi Chuan with the continuous movements of drawing circles in the air by     6     (guide) the breath with the willpower. They also absorbed the thoughts of the Taoist, such as the concept of Yin and Yang. Tai Chi provides the mental relaxation and physical     7     (fit).

Tai Chi is an unusual form of martial arts where we believe     8     building mental and physical strength. It is     9     (particular) different from western types of sports such as football where the harder and quicker are the better.

Today, Tai Chi is so popular in the west. Some health professionals have regarded Tai Chi as one of the     10     (benefit) forms of exercise.

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。

For many British, Temeraire was a powerful     1     (remind) of their nation’s long history of military success. In 1939, J. M. W. Turner began work on his painting,     2     title is The Fighting Temeraire.

It shows the old sailing ship, the Temeraire, on the River Thames near London. There’s asmall tugboat pulling the old ship.

The picture,     3    , is more than just a painting of two boats in the evening. The artist wanted to show the end of an era (时代). The time of the beautiful, old sailing ships is coming to     4     end. Rather than placing Temeraire in the middle of his canvas, Turner painted the warship near the left edge of the canvas. He used     5     (shade) of white, grey, and brown for the boat,     6     (make) it look almost like a ghost ship. The mighty warship is being pulled along by a tiny black tugboat, whose steam engine is more than strong enough     7     (control) its larger counterpart. That’s why we see this happening at sunset. In the little, brown tugboat we can see the new     8     (industry) era starting.

Turner     9     (paint) The Fighting Temeraire when he was quite old,     10     perhaps he wanted to show the sun setting on his own life, too. He loved the painting and he never sold it. You can see it today in the National Gallery in London.

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。

Why do many of us find     1     difficult or impossible to fall asleep in a bed other than our own? Is it because the bed is     2    (comfort)? According to a new study published in Current Biology, a significant reason is     3     the scientists call “first night effect”. They believe that one side of the brain acts as a “night watch” to warn us about potential dangers. It forces us     4    (stay) awake on the first night in a new environment.

For the study, 35 young volunteers     5    (ask) to sleep in a sleep lab for several days. Meanwhile, researchers watched their brain activities.

According to the researchers, on their first night, the left brains were     6    (active) than the right brains and people had a hard time sleeping. However, left-brain activity decreased as days went by,     7    (fall) even to the point of complete calm. In this process, the participants got an increasingly better sleep experience.

The     8    (finding) suggest that the different rhythms of the sides of the brain affect our sleep. When the two sides work     9    (different), the balance between them is broken. Thus, the brain can’t relax and is sensitive to anything strange in the surroundings, just     10     it is in the daytime.

5 . 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，并将答案填写在答题卡上。

Lasa Bailey took her gloves off when     1    （take）her dog for a long walk on a winter day and didn’t notice anything until that evening. She was shocked when she realized her beautiful anniversary ring was missing. She     2    （hurry）back to look for it but couldn’t find anything. Her husband kept going on a website where people sell jewelry,     3     never found it.

All that changed, however, thanks to a recent Facebook post     4    （write）on their local police department’s page. A woman police officer posted, “If anybody knows of anybody losing a diamond ring, please contact us.” One of her friends read it and wrote on it “Lisa Bailey”.

The police station happened to find some unidentified     5    （jewel）in a local pawn shop (当铺) and took them away. When Bailey learned from her friend that her ring might     6    (find), she couldn’t believe it.

The police called Bailey and asked her to describe it. She sent a picture of it to     7     and then they asked if she could come to the police station. When the police officer in the station     8     had written the Facebook post handed her the ring the next day, she was very thrilled and started to tear up. She could wear her anniversary ring home where it belongs     9       (final) after three years’ wait.

Bailey’s husband had offered to replace the ring after it went     10     (miss), but she refused because she thought it wouldn’t be the same.

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

Recently, an Internet slang word Foxi- or “Buddhist”- is becoming increasingly popular as it encourages people, especially     1     young to remain calm and peaceful and avoid conflicts as much as possible- in other words, to live like a Buddha.

The phrase       2     (create) for the first time in 2014 in Japan to describe young men who no longer bother to start relationships with women or follow someone else’s life path. They prefer to stay in their own peaceful world without     3     (disturb) and care little about passion and success.

In this fast-changing and     4     (compete) world, many people are     5     heavy pressure. It’s only natural that people are seeking for a spiritual bay. However, some would compare “foxi” with “demotivational (无动力的) culture” — a phrase     6     describes young people who feel aimless and powerless. They say that foxi actually reflects the reality that young people are losing their will to fight. They are pretending     7     (keep) a healthy and wise attitude towards failure simply     8     they are incapable(无能力的) of succeeding.

All in all, there is one thing that “Buddhist Youngsters” should     9     (basic) keep in mind: You may want to keep a calm mindset,     10     you should never stop fighting for yourselves!

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。

According to a review of evidence in a medical journal, runners live three years     1    (long) than non-runners. You don't have to run fast or for long    2    (see)the benefit. You may drink, smoke, be overweight and still reduce your risk of     3     (die) early by running. While running regularly can't make you live forever, the review says it     4     (be) more effective at lengthening life    5     walking, cycling or swimming. Two of the authors of the review also made a study published in 2014    6    showed a mere five to 10 minutes A day of running reduced the risk of heart disease and early deaths from all     7    (cause).

The best exercise is one that you enjoy and will do. But otherwise…   it's probably running. To avoid knee pain, you can run on soft surfaces, do exercises to    8    (strength)your leg muscles(肌肉),avoid hills and get good running shoes. Running is cheap, easy and it's always    9    (energy).If you are time poor, you need run for only half the time to get the same benefits as other sports, so perhaps we should all give    10    a try.

8 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（一个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family, Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. She studied at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before    1    (return) to her family’s house in Amherst where she lived    2    peaceful life. She kept in touch with her friends by writing letters and was     3    (willing) to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room.
Dickinson’s poems are unique(独一无二的) for the time she lived in; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use half rhyme. Many of her poems deal     4    themes(主题) of death and immortality(永生). Dickinson wrote about 1,800 poems during her lifetime, but few of     5    were published. Although most of her friends probably knew about Dickinson’s writing, they didn’t know     6    she had produced so many poems until after her death in 1886, when her younger sister Lavinia discovered the place where the poems were hidden.     7    her sister had not discovered them, the broadness of Dickinson’s work wouldn’t have become known.
Dickinson’s first collection of poetry was published in 1890, the content(内容) of     8    was heavily edited(编辑) by the publishers     9    (fit) the conventional poetic rules of the time. A complete and mostly unedited collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955. Now Dickinson     10    (consider) to be one of the most important American poets.