1 . For Western designers, China and its rich culture have long been an inspiration for Western creative.

“It’s no secret that China has always been a source(来源) of inspiration for designers,” says Amanda Hill, chief creative officer at A+E Networks, a global media company and home to some of the biggest fashion(时尚) shows.

Earlier this year, the China Through A Looking Glass exhibition in New York exhibited 140 pieces of China-inspired fashionable clothing alongside Chinese works of art, with the aim of exploring the influence of Chinese aesthetics(美学) on Western fashion and how China has fueled the fashionable imagination for centuries. The exhibition had record attendance, showing that there is huge interest in Chinese influences.

“China is impossible to overlook,” says Hill. “Chinese models are the faces of beauty and fashion campaigns that sell dreams to women all over the world, which means Chinese women are not just consumers of fashion — they are central to its movement.” Of course, not only are today’s top Western designers being influenced by China—some of the best designers of contemporary fashion are themselves Chinese. “Vera Wang, Alexander Wang, Jason Wu are taking on Galliano, Albaz, Marc Jacobs—and beating them hands down in design and sales,” adds Hill.

For Hill, it is impossible not to talk about China as the leading player when discussing fashion. “The most famous designers are Chinese, so are the models, and so are the consumers,” she says. “China is no longer just another market; in many senses it has become the market. If you talk about fashion today, you are talking about China—its influences, its direction, its breathtaking clothes, and how young designers and models are finally acknowledging that in many ways.”

1. What can we learn about the exhibition in New York?

A．It promoted the sales of artworks.	B．It attracted a large number of visitors.
C．It showed ancient Chinese clothes.	D．It aimed to introduce Chinese models.

2. What does Hill say about Chinese women?

A．They are setting the fashion.	B．They start many fashion campaigns.
C．They admire super models.	D．They do business all over the world.

3. What do the underlined words “taking on” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．learning from

B．looking down on

C．working with

D．competing against

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Young Models Selling Dreams to the World

B．A Chinese Art Exhibition Held in New York

C．Differences Between Eastern and Western Aesthetics

D．Chinese Culture Fueling International Fashion Trends

2 . 假定你是李华。你的澳大利亚朋友Mike写信告诉你,他将参加他所在城市举行的“我所了解的中国传统节日”的演讲比赛,请求你为他推荐一个中国传统节日。请你给他回信,要点包括：
1. 收信时的感想；
2. 推荐并介绍中国节日；
3. 预祝对方取得好成绩。
注意：1.词数100左右

2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

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3 . Differences in time zones complicate international phone calls. But even more important are different concepts of time and approaches to time in different cultures.

People from the USA as well as other North Americans believe “Time is money”. This value of time is rooted in their ancestors. Early in the 17th century, their ancestors arrived on the Atlantic coast, a new, undeveloped land. To survive in the tough environment, they had to struggle day and night. Time meant so much to them that they had not even one second to waste. After decades of struggle, they developed the value of efficient use of time and passed it down. Thus far, the Americans are still eager to finish things quickly and are impatient with too reflective(深思熟虑的) people.

In some countries, the American work style of speeding everything up will have no significance. In the Arab East, the more important you are, the faster service you get. Close relatives take absolute priority; non-relatives are kept waiting. In the Middle East, a deadline, which is often established to show the degree of urgency or importance of work, will do nothing but stop the Middle Easterners from working, because they consider it rude and overly demanding.

Another aspect reflecting different concepts of time is the classification of monochronic-time and polychronic-time by Edward T Hall. People from monchronic(共时性的) cultures, such as the Germans, the Austrians, the Swiss and the Americans, do only one important thing at a time. In polychromic(多元时间模式的) cultures, people such as Arab, Asians and Latin Americans take an entirely opposite approach. They do several things at once. Time commitments, e.g. deadlines, schedules, are taken rather casually and changed often and easily. Miscommuication will arise when people from two cultures contact. Charlies Hawkins, a U.S. teacher, told me that many a time his appointments with Indians were interrupted constantly, not only by private phone calls, but also by long conversations with other people and even the neighbor’s children, which displeased and even annoyed him.

1. Why did the ancestors of the North Americans believe “Time is money”?

A．They had to work efficiently to survive.	B．They got the idea from their past generations.
C．They didn’t like to deal with reflective people.	D．They formed the habit of finishing work ahead of time.

2. What can be concluded from Paragraph 3?

A．Deadlines will make American people angry.

B．In the Arab East, you’d better speed everything up.

C．Middle Easterners can’t deal with demanding work.

D．People from the Arab East attach importance to relationship.

3. What can we learn about people from monochronic cultures?

A．They tend to interrupt others constantly.

B．They can’t tolerate lateness or interruptions.

C．They are more likely to change their schedules.

D．They like to schedule several activities at the same time.

4. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

A．The importance of the diversity of culture

B．The relationship between efficiency and culture

C．Different time values in different cultures

D．Monochronic culture and polychronic culture

4 . 阅读下列材料在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确行使。

Spring Festival is the most celebrated festival in China. On that day and over the following two weeks, people greet each other. Streets and houses     1    (decorate)by many things of red color.

Spring Festival is a time for expressing gratefulness. Gratefulness is a Chinese virtue. A regular activity is offering sacrifice to the heaven and to the earth, and to ancestors. It is meant    2    (show)gratefulness to the origin of life.

Spring Festival is also a salute     3     another Chinese virtue, diligence(勤劳).We Chinese people believe that only with     4     (we) own hands can we create a happy and beautiful life. Some activities staged during Spring Festival     5     (most) reflect daily working scenes such as harvesting and fishing.

Spring Festival also calls for sharing,    6    value long kept by Chinese. As the old saying goes, good fortune should be shared, and misfortune be faced together. In some areas, people bring foods to a public place and have fun together by having games or    7     (perform).

As ware celebrating Spring Festival，the festival is getting more popular in the west.     8     (tradition)Chinese activities，such as the dragon dance and the Peking Opera, are performed as a fixed program，    9    (add) diversity to local culture. It indicates the trends of mutual (相互的)learning and harmonious coexistence(共存) between civilizations,     10     are expected to contribute to the building of a shared future for humankind.

5 . 假定你是李华，正在美国交流学习。你的美国老师Amy邀请你下周五下午3点到她的班里为美国小学生上一节课，介绍中国传统艺术——国画。请给她回复一封电子邮件，要点如下：
1. 接受邀请，表示感谢；
2. 国画简介（如艺术地位、绘画内容、著名画家等）；
3. 课前学生需做的绘画用具上的准备。
注意：1. 词数：100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

Dear Amy,
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Yours,

Li Hua

6 . I had just arrived in this Asian country for a one-year teaching position. One day, I took the subway to visit some ancient palaces and temples in the downtown. The following account of what happened to me has taught me much about culture _____

Since all the ______ were taken, I stood. Suddenly, I felt someone pulling on my bag._______ I probably was in someone’s way, I moved over slightly. _______ in one quick motion(动作), I felt my bag removed from my back, and in a flash it was______. I turned around to see who the thief was. I looked at the people standing behind me, but didn’t see my bag or any ______.My heart sank and I began to______.

I glanced around the car only to find directly across from me was an elderly lady, and sitting on her lap was my ______. I tried to get it back from her lap. But as I began to ______ it up, she quickly grabbed it back and held onto it. I looked around at the people standing beside me, and those sitting beside her, but no one took any ______ of the situation. Trying not to cause a(n)_______, I tried to communicate through gestures. I used my hands as best as I could, but she ______ my requests for my bag and pointed to my back. She picked up my bag, showing how ______ it was. I finally began to understand. She was holding my bag to ______ me.

As the subway ______ the main downtown station and I was getting ready to get off, the woman ______ handed me back my bag. But ______ I had a chance to thank her, she had disappeared into the crowd.

Sadly, this ______ custom was more surprising to me than pleasing. Everyone back home had heard of being robbed—that was ______ city behavior—but having a stranger hold onto someone’s bag out of ______, in a city of twelve million people—that was truly unusual.

1.

A．background

B．difference

C．communication

D．form

2.

A．subways

B．posts

C．seats

D．stations

3.

A．Regarding

B．Thinking

C．Pretending

D．Wondering

4.

A．But

B．So

C．Because

D．Instead

5.

A．broken

B．emptied

C．opened

D．gone

6.

A．suspect

B．theft

C．liar

D．criminal

7.

A．hesitate

B．scream

C．panic

D．revenge

8.

A．burden

B．bag

C．money

D．shawl

9.

A．pull

B．bring

C．check

D．wrap

10.

A．advantage

B．charge

C．possession

D．notice

11.

A．attack

B．quarrel

C．alarm

D．loss

12.

A．received

B．handled

C．spotted

D．ignored

13.

A．alike

B．heavy

C．appealing

D．magical

14.

A．help

B．tease

C．remind

D．violate

15.

A．set out

B．drew upon

C．pulled into

D．turned away

16.

A．angrily

B．gratefully

C．modestly

D．gently

17.

A．until

B．once

C．before

D．while

18.

A．considerate

B．cautious

C．invisible

D．symbolic

19.

A．messy

B．usual

C．practical

D．awkward

20.

A．curiosity

B．pity

C．kindness

D．relief

7 . "Indeed，" George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785， "some kind of fly， or bug， had begun to eat the leaves before I left home．" But the father of America was not the father of bug． When Washington wrote that， Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century， and Americans had already created lightning-bug（萤火虫）． But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language， leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries．

The American bug could also be a person， referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity． Although fan became the usual term， sports fans used to be called racing bugs， baseball bugs， and the like．

Or the bug could be a small machine or object， for example， a bug-shaped car． The bug could also be a burglar alarm， from which comes the expression to bug， that is， "to install （安装） an alarm"． Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others' conversation． Since the 1840s， to bug has long meant "to cheat"， and since the 1940s it has been annoying．

We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design． That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison． In 1878 he explained bugs as "little problems and difficulties" that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product． In 1889 it was recorded that Edison "had been up the two previous nights discovering ‘a bug' in his invented record player．"

1. We learn from Paragraph 1that ______ ．

A．Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bug

B．George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bug

C．the word bug was still popularly used in English in the nineteenth century

D．both Englishman and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century

2. What does the word "flaw" in the last paragraph probably mean？ ______

A．Evolution．	B．Finding．
C．Origin．	D．Fault．

3. "BUG" can referred to the following except ______ ．

A．A man who is crazy about sports	B．A man who installs an alarm
C．An insect in natural world	D．A device for listening secretly

4. The passage is mainly concerned with ______ ．

A．the misunderstanding of the word bug

B．the development of the word bug

C．the public views of the word bug

D．the special characteristics of the word bug

8 . 语法填空

Local     1     (official) in Beijing promised to further protect the city’s cultural heritage (遗产), in particular the narrow streets known as hutongs.

Hutongs are     2     (common) found in the cities of North China, but they are in danger. Beijing is nowadays believed to have fewer than 1,000 hutongs, most of     3     are near the Forbidden City. Only _60_ years ago, the number of the hutong     4     (be) 3,250.

“Usually more than 100,000 people visit the Forbidden City during the National Day holidays. The visits put pressure on the     5     (protect) of cultural relics,” said Huang Yan, director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning,     6     (add) that hutongs should be protected from human damage.

The government concentrated     7     how the protection plans were carried out. Wang Shaofeng, head of the Xicheng District Government, said the area has 182 cultural relics,     8     many of them were built as far back as the Yuan Dynasty. The district of Xicheng has 1.28 million residents in its 50.7 square kilometers of land. “The most efficient way is to decrease the local population to reduce the possibility of causing harm to the heritage,” Wang said. “Each community has been required     9     (report) the status of its cultural heritage.”

No one knows for sure how many hutongs     10     (leave) in the coming 100 years.

9 . 假如你是李华，今年暑假参加了“美国七日游”的夏令营活动。活动期间，新结识的美国朋友David给了你很多帮助。请你根据以下提示，给David写一封信，内容包括:
1. 对他的帮助表示感谢；
2. 参加夏令营的感受和收获；
3. 邀请他参加明年在中国举办的夏令营。
注意:1.词数100左右；
2.适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.信的开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。
参考词汇:夏令营the summer camp
Dear David，
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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

10 . Teachers’ Day is, interestingly, not celebrated on the same day all over the world. In some countries it is marked by a holiday; in others it is a working day.

International Teachers’ Day is celebrated on October 5. Being held ever since 1994, it is in honor of teachers’ organizations worldwide. Its aim is to encourage supports for teachers and to meet the needs of students.

China——In 1939, Teachers’ Day was set for August 27, Confucius’ birthday. In 1951, the celebration was stopped. However, it was founded again in 1985, and the day was changed to September 10.

India—— Teachers’ Day is celebrated on September 5 in honor of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the second president of India, whose birthday falls on that day.

Russia——In Russia, Teachers’ Day was celebrated on the first Sunday of October between 1965 and 1994. Since 1994, the day is observed on October 5, just the same day as World Teachers’ Day.

The US—— In the US, Teachers’ Day is non-official holiday. It is celebrated on the Tuesday of the first full week of May. A number of activities are organized in schools to honor teachers. The celebrations can continue for the whole week of May.

Thailand ——In Thailand, National Teachers’ Day is celebrated every year on January 16. The first Teachers’ Day was held in 1957. The day is a holiday in schools.

1. Which country celebrates Teachers’ Day in October?

A．India	B．The US.
C．China	D．Russia

2. Which of the following has the same meaning as the underlined word “observed”?

A．stopped	B．celebrated
C．held	D．fell

3. Which of the following is true?

A．China has celebrated Teachers’ Day since the year 1931.

B．Teachers’ Day is an official holiday in the United States.

C．Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s birthday is in September.

D．Teachers’ Day is a working day in schools of Thailand.

4. From the passage we can learn that ________.

A．The first Teachers’ Day was held in 1965 in Thailand

B．Teachers’ Day falls on Confucius’ birthday in China

C．International Teachers’ Day aims to attract supports for teachers and benefit students

D．A lot of activities are held on Teachers’ Day across the world