1 . 假设你是星光中学的李华,接受了你校校报的一项写作任务，要为校报写一篇有关百慕大三角未解之谜的文章。要点如下：
1.位置：位于大西洋,靠近佛罗里达州
2.事件：1995年,一组日本科学家前往考查,后来杳无音信
3.原因：奇特的海水和突如其来的风暴,被称为“死亡三角”
注意:词数80左右
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2 . One of America’s best-known artist colonies, the MacDowell Colony, will turn 110 next year. It is a place where artists of all types can sweep away distractions(分神之事) and just create.

MacDowell’s operations are funded by foundations, corporations and individuals. Writers, composers, photographers, filmmakers and sculptors—both famous and unknown—compete for the 32 free studios at the place. Once accepted, an artist can stay for as little as a couple of weeks, or as long as a couple of months.

When they arrive, artists find a kind of isolation(隔绝)hard to find in our world. There’s no phone. No fax. No friends. No family. It’s just a cabin in the snowy woods.

Writer Emily Raboteau lives in New York City. She came to MacDowell to work on a novel. She received a desk, chairs, pencils and paper—and ice grippers. The walk from one isolated, one-room studio to another is icy, so colony residents fasten the ice grippers to the bottom of their shoes.

Another colony resident, Belfast composer Elaine Agnew, play a piece called “To a Wild Rose, ” written by Edward MacDowell. She says it’s so famous that every pianist in the world has played the tune. A hundred years ago, MacDowell owned the land where the colony now sits. He liked its isolation and his ability to get work done there. After his death, his wife, Marion, encouraged other artists to come.

And for the last century, artists have accepted the invitation, coming to step outside of their daily lives for a short time. Privacy is respected, but cooperation and discussion is common.

Screenwriter Kit Carson—who wrote Texas Chainsaw Massacre Ⅱ and the film adaption of Sam Shepherd’s play Paris, Texas—has visited MacDowell twice. He says that the interdisciplinary(学科间的) discussion there is valuable.

“You sit around at dinner, talking, and then somebody runs off and brings you back some stuff and shows it to you. ”He says. “That, I didn’t realize, was part of the magic here, because people are really open to showing their opinions here. ”

1. Who sponsored MacDowell’s operations?

A．Artists of all types.

B．The government and individuals.

C．Foundations, corporations and individuals.

D．Writers, composers, filmmakers and sculptors.

2. What can we learn about colony residents?

A．They find it hard to survive the loneliness.

B．They usually stay in the colony for months.

C．They are already famous in their own field.

D．They are nearly cut off from the outside world.

3. Why is Elaine Agnew mentioned in the text?

A．To show respect for MacDowell.

B．To admire her great musical talent.

C．To introduce the origin of the colony.

D．To tell us the wide range of the residents.

4. What would be the best title for the text?

A．Artists and Their Dream

B．Wonderland for Artists

C．Creativity at Work

D．Power of Silence

3 . The ruins of a Maya city have been discovered in Guatemala with the help of the remote sensing technique LiDAR. This lost city envelops sites like Tikal, Holmul, and Witzna, but shows that these famous areas are a small part of this lost urban network.

Hidden under the jungles of the Maya Biosphere Reserve site, more than 60,000 human-made features — homes, canals, highways, and more — have been identified in aerial (从飞机上的)images collected by some international researchers headed by the PAGUNAM Foundation, a Maya cultural and natural heritage organization. Those have experts rethinking the outlines and complexity of the Maya Empire.

These ancient peoples obviously created these imaginative cultures based on their known relics (遗迹), but the new research has suggested that the size of this lost society is far beyond what experts imagined. The findings will be explored in a one-hour documentary called “Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings”, to be broadcast on the National Geographic Channel.

This breakthrough was possible thanks to LiDAR sensors, which can survey lands in 3D by bouncing pulses off the ground from unmanned air vehicles and others. LiDAR is exceptionally useful for detecting archeological(考古的)sites, as it gets through jungles and other features that hold up exploration on the ground. The technique has made many discoveries become a reality in recent years. For instance, major finds at Angkor, Cambodia and Caracol, Belize can explain what it did. The final goal is to survey Guatemala’s lowlands with it.

“There are entire cities we didn't know about now showing up in the survey data,” Francisco Estrada-Belli, one of the lead archeologists on the project, said in Nat Geo's coming documentary. “There are 20,000 square kilometres more to be explored and there are going to be hundreds of cities about the mysterious people who built this urban network there that we don’t know about, and we will push back the frontiers with the technology,” he added.

1. What does the underlined word "Those" in paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Jungles.	B．Human-made features.
C．Researchers.	D．Aerial images.

2. What does the author want to convey in paragraph 4?

A．The working principle of LiDAR sensors.

B．The process of researching Maya civilization.

C．Great importance of Guatemalans lowlands.

D．LiDAR’s contribution to discovering the relics.

3. Which words can best describe the lost Maya city?

A．Small and hidden.	B．Famous and high-tech.
C．Vast and complex.	D．Fully-explored and imaginative.

4. What will the archeologists do next?

A．Continue to explore the unknown.	B．Upgrade the LiDAR technology.
C．Study the documentary carefully.	D．Build a massive urban network,

4 . The Silk Road was a historical network of trade routes that connected China and the Mediterranean Sea, allowing cultural and economic interaction between the East and the West. Begun in the 2nd Century B C” the Silk Road carried goods, ideas, and even illness for thousands of miles between great civilizations for more than a thousand years.     1     It was the creation of Germany’s Ferdinand von Richthofen, who traveled to China several times in the second half of the 19th Century.

China’s powerful Han Dynasty began expanding its trade routes towards the West in the years around 100 B.C.     2     Some shipments made it through to Europe and to northern and eastern Africa, through the port of Alexandria.

As its name suggests, the Silk Road was home to large amount of silk, which made its way from China to the Mediterranean and, to Rome. It wasn’t only silk, however, that was carried along the Silk Road       3     Chinese traders brought delicate porcelain plates and thin but durable paper money. Romans brought delicately carved pottery (陶器）and jewelry to China.

    4     Merchants carried shipments from major center, and then others carried the foods farther on the route. Many merchants traveled in groups, called carvans (商队). Many carvans and individual merchants traveled with bodyguards because theft along the routes was not uncommon.

Several cities along the Silk Road became major trading centers. Some of the more famous of these were Alexandria, Karakorum, Antioch, Constantinople, and Persepolis. Local taxes placed on goods traveling along the route were quite common.     5    

A．The name, however, is a modem idea.

B．Diseases also spread along the Silk Road.

C．It sent silk and other goods to other civilizations.

D．Merchants would prepare some supplies in advance.

E．Goods did not travel with the same person all along the route.

F．As a result, many goods traveled only part of the way due to the high cost

G．Many other things made their way from the East to the West, or from the West to the East.

5 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

On Aug 13, four Chinese irrigation sites won global     1    (recognize) and were added to the 2018 list of Heritage Irrigation Structures, among     2     Dujiangyan is the oldest and only surviving damless irrigation system in the world.

Built over 2,000 years ago in     3     is now Sichuan Province in Southwest China，this amazing engineering achievement is still playing a crucial role in irrigating farms and providing water resources for more than 50 cities in the province.

In ancient times, the region in which Dujiangyan now stands     4    (threaten) by frequent flooding from the Minjiang River. Li Bing, a local official of Sichuan Province at that time, together with his son, decided to construct an irrigation system on the Minjiang River     5    (prevent) flooding. After many studies, they found the     6     (simple) solution was to build a dam, but this would have ruined the Minjiang River. So instead Li designed a series of     7    (channel) built at different levels along Mount Yulei that would take away the floodwater while leaving the river flowing     8    (natural). Better still, the extra water could be directed to the dry Chengdu Plain,     9    (make) it suitable for farming.

Ever since the great Dujiangyan Irrigation System was completed, the Chengdu Plain has been free     10     flooding and the people there have been living peacefully.