2 . 假设你是红星中学高二（1）班学生李华，你校将在下周五举办“校园文化节（Campus Culture Festival）”系列活动。请给你班留学生Jim写封邮件，邀请他参加。邮件的内容包括：
1.介绍活动内容；
2.询问是否愿意。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
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Yours,

Li Hua

3 . 假设你是红星中学高一学生李华。你的英国笔友Jim 给你的邮件中提到他对中国传统节日很感兴趣, 并请你介绍一个你喜欢的中国传统节日。请你给 Jim 回信, 内容包括：
1. 介绍哪个中国传统节日：
2. 中国人怎么庆祝这个节日：
3. 你为什么喜欢这个节日。
注意：1、词数100 左右；
2. 开头和结尾已给出, 不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,

I’m very delighted to know you are interested in traditional Chinese festivals.

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Yours

Li Hua

5 . In 1888 an Egyptian farmer digging in the sand near the village of Istabl Antar uncovered a mass tomb. The bodies weren’t human. They were feline—ancient cats that had been mummified and buried in holes in astonishing numbers. “Not one or two here and there”, reported English Illustrated Magazine, “but dozens, hundreds, hundreds of thousands, a layer of them, a layer thicker than most coal joints, ten to twenty cats deep.” Some of the linen-wrapped cats still looked presentable, and a few even had golden faces. Village children peddled the best ones to tourists for change; the rest were sold as fertilizer (肥料). One ship transported about 180,000, weighing some 38, 000 pounds, to Liverpool to be spread on the fields of England.

Those were the days of generously funded (资助的) explorations—that dragged through acres of desert in their quest for royal tombs, and for splendid gold and painted masks to decorate the museums of Europe and America. The many thousands of mummified animals that turned up at religious sites throughout Egypt were just things to be cleared away to get treasure. Few people studied them, and their importance was generally unrecognized.

In the century since then, archaeology (考古学) has become less of a treasure hunt and more of a science. Archaeologists now realize that much of their sites’ wealth lies in the majority of details about ordinary folks—what they did, what they thought, how they prayed. And animal mummies are a big part of that.

“They’re really displays of daily life,” says Egyptologist Salima Ikram. After looking beneath bandages with x-rays and cataloguing her findings, she created a gallery for the collection—a bridge between people today and those of long ago. “You look at these mummified animals, and suddenly you say, Oh, King So-and-So had a pet. I have a pet. And instead of being at a distance of 5,000-plus years, the ancient Egyptians become clearer and closer to us.”

1. The underlined word “peddled” in Paragraph 1 probably means        .

A．examined	B．displayed
C．replaced	D．shared

2. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．Treasure hunting explorations.	B．Egyptian Royal tombs in desert.
C．Mummified animals in museums.	D．Big archaeological discoveries.

3. From the last paragraph, we can learn that Salima Ikram        .

A．wishes to keep the continuity of pets over history

B．wants to identify the King’s personal belongings and classify them

C．believes that studying the remains can help modern society relate to the past

D．doubts if current society will understand the significance of Egyptian remains

4. The passage probably encourages the readers to        .

A．make full use of the remains the ancestors left behind

B．become more sensitive to the ancient lifestyle of the ancestors

C．pay more attention to the historical and cultural value of ancient remains

D．understand there are more the historical remains waiting for explorations

6 . Time talks. It speaks more plainly than words. Time communicates in many ways.

Consider the different parts of the day, for example. The time of the day when something is done can give a special meaning to the event. It is not customary to telephone someone every early in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day, the time of the call shows that the matter is very important and requires immediate attention. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he assumes it is a matter of life or death. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance.

In social life, time plays a very important part. In the United States, guests tend to feel they are not highly regarded if the invitation to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date. But this is not true in all countries. In other areas of the world, it may be considered foolish to make an appointment too far in advance because plans which are made for a date more than a week away tend to be forgotten.

The meaning of time differs in different parts of the world. Thus, misunderstandings often arise between people from cultures that treat time differently. Promptness(准时) is valued highly in American life, for example. If people are not prompt, they may be regarded as impolite or not fully responsible. In the U.S., no one would think of keeping a business partner waiting for an hour; it would be too impolite. A person who is five minutes late is expected to make a short apology.

This way of treating time is quite different from that of several other cultures. This helps to explain the unfortunate experience of a certain agriculturist from the United States, assigned to duty in another country. After a long delay, the agriculturist was finally agreed an appointment with the Minister of Agriculture. Arriving a little before the appointed hour, the agriculturist waited. The hour came and passed. At this point he suggested to the secretary that perhaps the minister did not know he was waiting in the outer office. This gave him the feeling of having done something to solve the problem, but he had not. Twenty minutes passed, then thirty, then forty-five. To an American, that is the beginning of the “insult period”. No matter what is said in apology, there is little that can remove the damage done by an hour’s wait in an outer office. Yet in the country where this story took place, a forty-five-minute waiting period was not unusual.

In the West, particularly in the United States, people tend to think of time as something fixed in nature. As a rule, Americans think of time as a road stretching into the future, along which one progresses. The road has many sections, which are to be kept separate— “one thing at a time”. People who cannot plan events are not highly regarded. Thus, an American may feel angry when he has made an appointment with someone and then finds a lot of other things happening at the same time.

Since time has such different meanings in different cultures, communication is often difficult. We will understand each other a little better if we can keep this fact in mind.

1. According to the passage, an announcement broadcast during class must be very important   because ________．

A．it is a customary time to make.	B．it makes everyone surprised.
C．it requires immediate attention.	D．it speaks more plainly than words.

2. The author mentions an agriculturist’s experience in order to show ________．

A．the value of promptness for Americans.

B．the cultural differences in treating time.

C．the bad manners of the Minister of Agriculture.

D．the importance of time in different parts of the day.

3. The underlined word “insult” in Paragraph5 probably means ________．

A．boring.	B．patient.
C．shameful.	D．hopeless.

4. We can learn from the passage that people will understand better if ________．

A．they are concerned with the value of time.

B．they know how to communicate with each other.

C．they escape dealing with many things at one appointed time.

D．they keep in mind that different cultures treat time differently.

7 . 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。

China is well known as the Kingdom of Bamboo. Bamboo culture has already been rooted     1     Chinese minds through the long history. To the Chinese people, bamboo is the symbol of virtue,     2     (reflect) people’s soul and emotion. Bamboo has the title of “the gentleman of plants”.     3     (it) deep root symbolizes determination and its straight and hollow pole represents straightness and modesty. Bamboo culture always     4     (play) a positive role in encouraging Chinese people to hold on when facing tough situations.

8 . 假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，写一篇英文周记，记述你们上周邀请京剧名家来你校参与“京剧进校园”主题活动的全过程。
注意：词数不少于 60。
提示词：京剧 Beijing opera；脸谱 facial makeup

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9 . A Doll from Santa

Alice‟s mother died when she was five years old. That year was 1925, and life was hard. Alice, who grew up to be my mother, told me that her family was too ________to even afford to give her a doll.

One afternoon in December 1982, I was decorating the tree to prepare for the Christmas season. A young lady ________me with a sample of her handiwork: beautiful handmade ______. She was taking orders for Christmas. I decided to get one for my daughter, Katie, who was almost five years old. Then I had an idea. I asked the lady if she could make me a _____doll for my mother — one with gray hair and a pair of glasses: a grandmother doll.

The doll maker felt that this idea was certainly ___and took it on as a creative challenge. So I placed my Christmas ___: two dolls, one blonde and one gray-haired for Christmas morning! Things really started to fall into place   ________a friend had told me that his dad, who played Santa Claus in my area, would be willing to make a visit on Christmas morning to our home to   __________my Katie her presents!

Christmas Day arrived and at the planned time, ___did Santa Claus. Katie was delighted that Santa had come to see her at her   ________house, the happiest I had ever seen her in her young life. My mother was enjoying watching her granddaughter‟s _______to the visit from this special guest. As Santa turned to leave, he looked once more into his bag and took out one more   _____. As he asked who Alice was, my mother, surprised by her name being called, ___that she in fact was Alice. Santa handed her the gift, which was accompanied by a message card that read: For Alice,

I was cleaning out my sleigh before my ________this year and came across this package that was supposed to be delivered on December 25, 1925. The present inside has _______, but I felt that you might   _________wish to have it. Many apologies for the_________of the gift.

Love, Santa Claus

My mother‟s reaction was one   of   the   greatest   deeply   ____scenes   I have   ever witnessed. She couldn‟t speak but only gazed at the doll she had          _________fifty-seven years as tears of joy running down her cheeks. That doll, given by “Santa”, made my mother the happiest “__________” alive.

1.

A．large

B．busy

C．poor

D．crowded

2.

A．approached

B．educated

C．helped

D．joined

3.

A．glasses

B．dolls

C．socks

D．bags

4.

A．special

B．live

C．cheap

D．baby

5.

A．fair

B．impractical

C．simple

D．unique

6.

A．wish

B．order

C．tree

D．collection

7.

A．because

B．though

C．when

D．if

8.

A．save

B．sell

C．find

D．deliver

9.

A．and

B．or

C．but

D．so

10.

A．own

B．new

C．former

D．small

11.

A．request

B．dream

C．reaction

D．panic

12.

A．letter

B．gift

C．candy

D．bell

13.

A．denied

B．indicated

C．pretended

D．explained

14.

A．trip

B．plan

C．try

D．term

15.

A．burnt

B．reappeared

C．gone

D．aged

16.

A．still

B．never

C．yet

D．almost

17.

A．weakness

B．carefulness

C．lateness

D．darkness

18.

A．lovely

B．emotional

C．beautiful

D．unpleasant

19.

A．chosen

B．wasted

C．waited

D．spent

20.

A．customer

B．daughter

C．seller

D．child

10 . Dough figurine(捏面人), also known as dough modelling, is a kind of Chinese folk art. It is     1    (simple) made but of high artistic value. It     2    (record) as early as the Han Dynasty. Dough craftsman draws materials based on the required. After a repetition of rubbing, twisting and lifting     3    hand, and poking, cutting, and carving by bamboo knife, the craftsman     4    (shape) the body and the face of the figurine gradually. Dressed up with hair accessories and clothes, all of a sudden, a vivid artistic figurine comes to life.