1 . For many, Labor Day weekend signals the end of summer and an opportunity to host a socially-distanced barbecue (an outdoor meal). But this national holiday—celebrated every year in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September—has revolutionary (革命性的) origins.

By the late 19th century, the Industrial Revolution had made working life miserable for people around the world. In many places, workers toiled for at least 12 hours a day six days a week in mines, factories, railroads, and mills. This holiday actually originated in the US on May 1, 1866, in what came to be known as the Haymarket Riot, workers flooded Chicago streets to demand an eight-hour workday.

It would take another conflict in the American Midwest to make Labor Day a national holiday. On May 11, 1894, workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company, a railroad car manufacturer near Chicago, went on strike to protest their low wages and 16-hour workdays. In August 1893, James Kyle introduced federal legislation (立法) to make Labor Day a public holiday, but for ten months the legislation was put on hold. To quiet the strikers and their supporters, the Senate quickly passed the bill on June 22. The bill passed the House four days later and President Grover Cleveland signed it into law on June 28, 1894.

The holiday is more information May Day labor celebrations. Many observers relax at home or head to outdoor recreational activities, such as boating, barbecues, and camping. It may also be marked with fireworks shows and other events. Labor Day has also become associated with retail sales, as many shop owners try to take advantage of the customers’ day off. It is one of the largest sales events of the year. meaning retail employees actually have to work more on this day. Parades are the most common model of celebration, which often feature processions of labor groups.

1. What do we know about the workers in the late 19th century?

A．They were paid well.	B．They had long workdays.
C．They often had a barbecue.	D．Their contributions were recognized.

2. Which can replace the underlined words “put on hold” in paragraph 3?

A．Put off.

B．Introduced.

C．Got through.

D．Protected.

3. When did Labor Day become an official holiday throughout America?

A．On May 1, 1886.

B．On August 22, 1893.

C．On May 11, 1894.

D．On June 28, 1894.

4. What’s the last paragraph mainly about?

A．The origins of Labor Day.	B．The labor groups achievements.
C．The ways to celebrate Labor Day.	D．The official activities on Labor Day.

2 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Now half way through her exchange year, Xielei feels much more at home in the UK.    1    seemed strange before now appears quite normal to her. “Engaging in British culture has helped,” she said. “As well as studying hard, I’ve been    2    (involve) in social activities. British people are fascinated by our culture and eager to learn more about it, so I’m keen to share my culture with them. While I'm learning about business, I’m also acting    3    a cultural messenger building a bridge between us.

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。

Every March 8th is International Women’s Day, which, in China,    1     (call) “Three Eight Women’s Day”. This day is a celebration of women’s contributions     2    the economic, political and social fields and their great achievements.

On the United Nations’ website     3     ( introduce) International Women’s Day, the origin of International Women’s Day on March 8th is attributed to a series of major events in the women’s movement in     4     early 20th century..

International Women’s Day     5     (be) a key point in the movement for women’s rights. In Chinese culture, it implies older women and women who aren’t     6    ( educate), so Chinese women     7     (general) reject being called “women”. Gradually, women’s day has got new names, such as “Girls’ Day”, “Goddesses’ Day” and “Queens’ Day”.

It is stated in the Chinese law that if March 8th is a working day, employers need to give female     8     (employ) half a day off. On March 8th every year,     9     in physical or online stores, merchants hold various promotions to stimulate consumption with the ads of “pampering (宠爱) women around them “or” women pampering     10     (they).”

4 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

World Health Day is celebrated every year on April 7, the founding day of the WHO.    1     (establish) in 1950, this event has a theme each year to draw attention to a current world health issue. The day is also used to highlight the     2     (important) of personal health. For common people, we can take some extra steps     3     (care) for our health like getting a gym membership (and going!) or starting a diet.

5 . Chinese painting, the flower of Chinese culture, is distinguished by a spirit and an atmosphere all of its own, entirely different from Western painting. It is as different from Western painting as Chinese poetry is different from Western poetry. That difference is hard to grasp and express. It has a certain tone and atmosphere, visible in Western painting, but essentially different and achieved by different means. It shows a certain economy of material, marked by the many blank spaces, an idea of composition determined by its own harmony and marked by a boldness and freedom of the brush which impresses the onlooker in an unforgettable manner.

Somehow the picture before us has undergone an inner process of transformation in the artists mind, giving us only a completely satisfying whole, so true to life and yet so different from it. The design is more obvious. The artist has presented it to us only as appears to him, and can be understood by others. It does not try to paint all before one’s eyes, and it leaves a great deal to the onlooker’s imagination. Sometimes only the tip of a plum branch is given in the whole picture and left there as perfect.

This artistic tradition did not come by chance. Its characteristics may be most conveniently summed up, I think, in the world lyricism, and this lyricism came from a certain type of human spirit and culture. For we must remember that Chinese painting is closely related, in spirit and technique, to Chinese calligraphy and Chinese poetry. Calligraphy gave it its technique, and Chinese poetry lent it its spirit.

It was Wang Wei, born in 699, a first-class landscape painter himself, who first introduced into painting the spirit and technique of Chinese poetry, with its impressionism, its lyricism, and its emphasis on atmosphere. Thus the “father of the southern school,” which makes Chinese painting and deservedly famous, was a man nurtured in the Chinese poetic spirit.

Later on, in the eleventh century, under the influence of Song scholars like Su Dongpo (1035--1101), Chinese painting reached still greater simplicity and subjectivity. Su Dongpo even painted a bamboo tree without its joints, and when someone protested, he replied by asking, “Did the bamboo grow by adding one joint to another?” Su, who was great writer and poet, specialized in painting bamboos, and his bamboo was like his “running script”, a splash of ink without colours.

The best way of understanding Chinese painting is to study these influences which went into the building of that peculiar tradition.

1. According to Para. 1, Chinese painting is different from Western painting because____________.

A．it leaves much space for poems	B．its painters enjoy great freedom
C．it presents simplicity to a degree	D．its tone and atmosphere is visible

2. From Para. 2, we know that Chinese painters____________.

A．tend to transform reality into puzzles	B．usually show how they view the subject
C．produce works beyond their imagination	D．guide people to perceive the world as a whole

3. From the examples of Wang Wei and Su Dongpo, we know____________.

A．influential poets are great painters	B．how Chinese culture has developed
C．what abilities are needed to create paintings	D．Chinese traditional art forms are linked tightly

4. Why does the author write the passage?

A．To trace the root of Chinese culture.	B．To introduce different painting techniques.
C．To show the features of traditional Chinese art.	D．To present how to appreciate Chinese painting