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。

Almost all the ice covering the Bering Sea has melted(融化), scientists have confirmed,     1    (throw) communities living around     2    (it) shores into disorder. The region’s ice cover     3    (normal) lasts for at least another month, and this year it has disappeared earlier than any other year except 2017.

Living in     4     northern Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Russia, the Bering Sea is experiencing the climate change and has drawn attention this year for record-breaking levels of winter melting. In February, rising Arctic temperatures     5    (lead) to around half the region’s disappearing in the space of two weeks.

A report     6    (send) by the International Arctic Research Centre at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has outlined the real-world effects of these surprising environmental     7    (change) on the many communities     8     live in the Bering Sea region.

In their report, the International Arctic Research Centre scientists wrote that while not every year will be as bad as this one, ice     9    (form) is likely to remain low if the Bering Sea’s waters remain warm. They also warn that communities will need to “prepare for more winters     10     low sea ice and stormy conditions”.

2 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Awe-inspiring Shanghai

Shanghai’s unforgettable skyline greets you with flashing lights and the     1    (impress) that you’re in the future. Shanghai is the home of the 2nd tallest skyscraper(摩天大楼), and its architecture will keep you     2    (amaze). The city is full of hidden pockets of culture that I was lucky enough     3    (explore). Art galleries and shops     4    (elegant) fill the streets such as Tianzifang, 50 Moganshan Road and 1933 Shanghai. My     5    (adventure) ranged from rooftop hopping, shopping, people watching, to getting lost amongst the culture shock     6    modern society and Chinese history.

One of my favorite parts of Shanghai was learning about the food. A good way of     7    (gain) knowledge of the insider cooking tips is to take a foodie(美食家) tour of the city. My local guide taught us     8    to eat the local dish xiaolongbao. He told us to take     9    small bite of the dumpling to suck out the soup, and then enjoy the entirety of the dumpling. This kind of local knowledge I     10    (provide) with just topped off the incredible cultural experience in Shanghai.

3 . Sydney is Australia’s most exciting city. The history of Australia began here. It is the biggest city in Australia,     1    one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Its warm summer climate and cool winter have made it a favorite city. There are three things     2    make Sydney famous: its beautiful harbor, the Sydney Harbor Bridge and the Sydney Opera House.

But there are many more interesting things in Sydney such as beautiful shops and restaurants and rows of interesting old houses     3    (build) in the 9th century.

White sandy beaches     4    (locate) only within a short walk from hotels. You will find beach barbecues, surfing, and diving under the sea very     5    (enjoy). There are also public street festivals such as the Chinese New Year between January and February. At this time, you need     6    (book) hotels     7    advance.

Some Americans think it is very British. Some British visitors think it is like America. There is some     8    (true) in both these opinions, because Sydney combines both the Old World Europe and the New World America, which     9    (make) itself into something that is     10    British nor American but truly Australia.

4 . I recently visited Beijing with my parents and younger brother. We had a     1    (wonder) time on the two-day tour we arranged through     2    travel agency.

    3    the morning of July 11th, the day after we arrived in Beijing, our guide Miss Wu took us to visit the Ming Tombs. We spent about an hour     4    (look) around the tombs. Then we were taken to a factory that produced traditional cloth shoes.     5    were really beautiful, and it was fun to see how the products     6    (make). My mother even bought two pairs of cloth shoes. After leaving the factory, we were taken to a restaurant     7    we enjoyed some Peking Ducks. Then we headed for the Badaling Great Wall. The walking on the Badaling Great Wall took about two hours. The views from the wall were just     8    (amaze). This was my favorite part of the tour.

On the morning of the next day, we were taken to see the Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube, the main Olympic stadiums     9    (build) for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In the afternoon, we were taken to see the Forbidden City, which was one of the most famous     10    (attract). It was huge, so we spent the whole afternoon there.

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。

The Forbidden City in Beijing, home to the Palace Museum, houses more than 1.8 million cultural relics and is one of the world’s most visited tourist attractions.

    1     (mark) the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City, the Palace Museum will hold a series of events throughout 2020. Over 20 exhibitions will be held,     2     (cover) different areas such as history, art, festivals, and so on. For the special occasion, Along the River during the Qingming Festival, one of China’s most     3     (wide) known masterpieces, will go on display in September 2020. For     4     (it) best preservation, this treasured artwork is seldom fully exhibited. The painting     5     (display) for the first time back in 2005 to celebrate the museum’s 80th anniversary. Such     6     rare sight is expected to draw huge crowds.  In addition, the museum will also display exhibits from other     7     (country).

During the past few years, the Palace Museum has been working hard to get the public familiar     8     the history and culture of the Forbidden City. And it seems that these efforts have been paying off, with its     9     (popular) reaching a new height. Over 17 million people visited the museum in 2018, of     10     40 percent were under 30 years old.

6 . 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。

If you are interested in both China’s ancient finance and architecture, Pingyao is a place you can’t miss.

Pingyao Ancient City,     1     (locate) in the central Shanxi Province. China, is a well-preserved example of a traditional Han Chinese city. When it was founded in the 1.4th century, its walls are ten metres high, 6, 163 metres around, and three to five meters wide at the top. The western and eastern sides of walls have two gates     2     the southern and northern walls each have one gate only.

From the 19^th century to the early 20^th century, Pingyao,     3     (control) almost half of the economy of the country at its booming period, was a financial center for the whole of China. There     4     (be) once over twenty draft bank’s head offices,     5     branches were distributed     6     (wide) around the whole country, even in some western and southeastern countries.

Today when other Chinese     7     (city) have been more than happy to bury their history under skyscrapers, this     8     (origin) Chinese Wall Street chooses not to Ordinary people still live     9     the city’s hundreds of Ming and Qing Dynasty courtyards as they did in the past. This city is helping Chinese rediscover the value of preserving what little       10     (leave) of the country’s ancient buildings.

7 . While visiting the North Pole in winter may not be at the top of your list, the ever-changing ICEHOTEL, which opened its doors to visitors on December 14 this year, may change your mind. Lying 200 km north of the Arctic Circle in Jukkasjärvi, the hotel, which is carved entirely from ice, is rebuilt annually, with each getting increasingly beautiful and impressive.

The 29-year-old tradition began accidentally in 1989, after Jukkasjärvi residents organized an art show in a 5.5-square-meter ice house to try to call tourists’ attention to the remote village during the freezing winter months. The exhibition was a huge success, attracting many day visitors. However, it was not until a group of adventurous souls arrived with sleeping bags, announcing their intention to spend the night inside the house, that the idea of the frozen hotel was born.

The ICEHOTEL has come a long way since its beginnings. It covers an area of over 5,500 square meters. The planning begins months earlier in March when about 5,000 tons of ice are harvested from the river and transferred to cold storage, where they sit till the beginning of winter. Construction begins in earnest in November, when about 100 workers come to the region. By December, the unique frozen accommodation is ready to open for business.

Regardless of whether visitors select the luxury carved suites or the basic ice rooms, the temperature is always set to a bone-chilling -5°C! That is why guests are advised to lie close inside warm sleeping bags and wear gloves and winter hats all night. Not surprisingly, most end up spending just a single night at this unique hotel before moving on to the conventional, and warmer, cabins nearby.

In addition to the unique rooms, the hotel also offers guests fun activities like snowshoeing, or dog sledding, and for those brave enough to suffer through the below freezing temperatures — overnight wilderness camping! The hotel’s single restaurant serves food, while the drinks are always chilled to perfection in the world-famous ICEBAR!

1. Why did Jukkasjärvi residents organize an art show in 1989?

A．To attract tourists.	B．To follow a tradition.
C．To excite adventurers.	D．To experience cold.

2. How to deal with tons of ice harvested from the river in March?

A．Carve them roughly.	B．Keep them with cold storage.
C．Design unique forms.	D．Construct them slowly.

3. Which of the following characteristics is necessary for those going camping all night?

A．Wealth.	B．Good health.
C．Near distance.	D．Braveness.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．ICEHOTEL, a Wise Choice

B．ICEHOTEL Is in the Arctic Circle

C．ICEHOTEL Has a Unique Scenery

D．ICEHOTEL Opens for the 29th Year

8 . 语法填空

Thousands of hiking lovers gathered at Huangshan Mountain to attend the 13th International Mountaineering Festival on Sunday.

Huangshan Mountain is famous for     1    four unique scenes: strangely-shaped rocks, ancient pines, seas of clouds, and hot springs.     2    (base) on their unique appearances, over 120 rocks in Huangshan     3    (give) creative and artistic names such as “flying-over rock” and “monkey watching the sea.” The Huangshan pines are a uniquely classified tree species,     4    don’t grow in the earth, but root on steep cliffs(悬崖). As the clouds are often lower than the peaks of the mountains, the mountaintops look as though they were islands     5    (float) in a sea of mist.     6    best time to appreciate this phenomenon is from November to May, especially after rainy days, as well as at sunrise or sunset. Regularly, Huangshan’s     7    (nature) hot springs are used by visitors to relax     8    the tiredness of climbing.

Among the most popular tourist     9    (destination) in China, Huangshan Mountain, with breathtaking scenery and rich culture, holds this year’s mountaineering festival to encourage the     10    (develop) of recreational sports and national fitness.

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。

Having at least 140 sections open to visitors, Huangshan Mountain is     1     major tourist destination in China. Huangshan City     2    (change) its name from Tunxi in 1987 in order to promote Huangshan     3    (tour). In 2007, for instance, more than 1.5 million tourists visited the mountain. The foot of the mountain is linked by rail     4     by air to Shanghai, and also is accessible from cities such as Hangzhou and Wuhu.

Since 1990, there were more than 50 kilometers of footpaths     5    (provide) access to scenic areas for visitors and staffers of the facilities. Today there are also cable cars that tourists may use to ride     6    (direct) from the base to one of the summits. Throughout the area there are hotels and guest houses that accommodate overnight visitors, many of     7     hike up the mountains, spend the night at one of the peaks     8    (view) the sunrise, and then go down by a     9    (difference) route the next day. The area is classified as a AAAAA scenic area by the China National Tourism Administration.

The hotels, restaurants, and other facilities(设施) at the top of the mountain are serviced and kept     10    (supply) in store by porters who carry resources up the mountain on foot, hanging their goods from long poles balanced over their shoulders or backs.

10 . The first thing that struck me about Hossa was the pure, total silence. It’s almost as if time stands still here, with nothing so much as a light wind disturbing the mirror-like lakes and trees that extend as far as the eye can see.

This is undoubtedly the reward for those who drive into this wilderness off the main E63 highway 750km northeast of Helsinki. Even by Finnish standards, Hossa is remote. You’re more likely to come across a reindeer(驯鹿)than a fellow hiker along most of the 90km of marked trails through the forest that make up one of the oldest hiking areas in Finland.

It’s this sense of escapism that will no doubt attract far more visitors to Hossa. The long-standing relationship between man and nature in Hossa dates back thousands of years. The first settlers arrived after the last ice age, following the wild reindeer that populated the north of Finland as the climate warmed. The Värikallio rock wall, which rises more than 10mperpendicular(垂直的)from Lake Somerjärvi, reveals evidence of early life here: Stone Age paintings on the rock’s face are estimated to be up to 4,500 years old, though they weren’t discovered until 1977. It’s not surprising that the Värikallio paintings remained hidden for so long given that they could only be reached by boat or on foot (or ski) when the lake froze over in each winter. Today, the rock wall and its new viewing platform are accessible by a picturesque 4.5km footpath from the Lihapyörre parking area, a short drive from the Hossa Visitor Centre.

There’s still an air of mystery surrounding the exact age and meaning of the 60 painted figures on the rock’s face. The most attractive are four human shapes with triangular heads, a horned(长角的) figure thought to describe a dancing shaman(通灵大师) and about 30 detailed reindeer drawings.

1. From the first paragraph we know ________.

A．nothing made an impression on the writer

B．there is a light wind

C．the writer felt sad

D．there are only a few wonderful trees

2. From the passage, we can infer that______.

A．the 60 painted figures on the rock’s face is meaningless

B．people used to drive to visit the Värikallio paintings

C．people sometimes visit Hossa in order to hide from their enemy

D．few people are visiting Hossa

3. Which of the following tells us there was life there long time ago?

A．The Värikallio rock wall.	B．The wild reindeer.
C．The warm climate.	D．The new viewing platform.

4. Which of the following statements is wrong according to the passage?

A．The lakes there are clear.

B．The wild reindeer populated the north of Finland

C．Stone Age paintings were discovered 4, 500 years ago

D．The weather there is very cold in winter.