1 . A British friend told me he couldn’t understand why Chinese people love eating sunflower seeds(嗑瓜子) as a snack so much.“I’ve met a lot of older Chinese and many have a crack in their front teeth, I believe that’s from cracking the seeds,”he said.

I had never noticed the habit, but once he mentioned it, I suddenly became more aware, I realized that whenever I’m watching TV or typing a report, I always start mindlessly cracking sunflower seeds. My friend doesn’t like sunflower seeds, and, to him, it seems unnecessary to work so much just to get one small seed.

When we were young, the whole family would usually get together for Chinese New Year. Then, we all lived close to one another, usually in a small city, and sometimes even neighbors would go door-to-door on Chinese New Year’s Eve to check out what every household was making.

I remember my parents would be in the kitchen cooking. Out in the living room, a large table would already be laid out, complete with fancy tablecloth, ready-made dumpling fillings, and dishes full of candy, fruits and sunflower seeds. Some of the dishes were to be offered to our ancestors later, while others were for neighbors and children to eat before the evening feast. I must have learned how to crack sunflower seeds back then.

I don’t think it’s right to criticize one’s choice in food or eating habits, no matter how strange they may seem.

It’s not only in China. When I went abroad, I found people had all sorts of strange habits when it came to food. In Denmark, they put salted red fish on bread and eat it for dinner, no matter how much it ruins your breath. They think it’s a delicacy(美味佳肴), and it’s connected to their certain culture. I think it’s a wonderful tradition.

1. What did the writer become aware of?

A．She had ever typed a report about seeds.

B．She had various snacks while watching TV.

C．She had a habit of cracking sunflower seeds.

D．She damaged her teeth by eating sunflower seeds.

2. What does the writer prove by mentioning Chinese New Year?

A．The families get together for it.	B．Eating sunflower seeds is related to it.
C．The traditions of celebrating it disappear.	D．Children can eat delicious food on that day.

3. What’s the writer’s attitude to Denmark’s way of eating bread?

A．Indifferent.

B．Critical.

C．Understandable.

D．Doubtful.

4. What idea does the writer want to express in this passage?

A．It is good to form healthy eating habits.

B．Eating habits come from a certain culture.

C．Changing your eating habits will change your life.

D．One kind of food doesn’t necessarily suit everyone.

2 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

It is clear that April Fool's Day is one of the most widely recognized     1     (holiday )in the Western world. Children play tricks on parents and many people     2    (fool). How did April Fool's Day begin, and how did it become     3    international phenomenon(现象)? Nobody    4     (real) knows.

There are quite a few historians who believe that the origin of April Fools Day started much     5    (early)than 1582. Some have connected April Fool's Day with festivals such as Hilaria,     6    was celebrated in ancient Rome. During the festival, people dressed up in disguise (伪装) at the end of March. It’s hard    7    (say)whether this ancient festival's similarity to modern April Fool's Day is    8    accident or not, as the first mention of April Fool's Day didn't appear until several hundred years later.

April Fool's Day spread throughout Britain during the 18th century. In Scotland, the tradition    9    (become)a two-day event long ago, starting with "hunting the gowk"(gowk is a word for cuckoo birds, a symbol for fools ). People play tricks on others, such as sending others to do fake things or    10    (stick)"kick me "signs on the back of others.

3 . Chinese Culture Shown to the World with Love Li Ziqi, a short video blogger specializing in traditional Chinese cooking and handicrafts has gained worldwide popularity.

Li has about 20 million followers on Sina Weibo, China's equivalent to Twitter，plus 7 million followers on overseas social media networks. Many foreigners say they have got to know traditional Chinese food culture via her channel.

It is the spirit of craftsmanship（技艺） behind her works that makes Li's video clips attractive. She strictly follows the authentic traditional steps and procedures in making traditional Chinese food and handicrafts, such as peach flower wine and silk, and goes to great lengths to ensure her videos are accurate. Sometimes she spends several months producing one of her videos.

Li has been inheriting（继承） traditional Chinese culture in a rather creative way. A closer look at her videos will show that they are never with any "analysis" that makes people feel bored. They just show the audience each and every detail of traditional Chinese culture so that the latter knows how Chinese live their beautiful and elegant lives. It is that universal appeal that makes her works so attractive. Thanks to Li's efforts, many intangible cultural heritages that only existed in memories and written records now appear before our eyes. Via her short videos, Li presents the image of a beautiful and friendly China.

With the growth of the Chinese economy, people overseas are showing more interest in traditional Chinese culture. Li has shown how to satisfy that interest in a good way, namely showing the best parts of traditional Chinese culture with her heart.

To effectively present the beauty of Chinese culture to the world, we need more Li Zigi.

1. What can we learn about Li Zigi's video clips?

A．They promote the sales of Chinese food and handicrafts.

B．They attract a large number of foreigners to visit her online shop.

C．They aim to introduce traditional Chinese food culture and handicrafts worldwide.

D．They are based on her family's recipes of making traditional Chinese food.

2. What could be inferred from Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 4？

A．Analysis of Chinese culture in Li's videos makes people bored.

B．Details and accuracy play significant roles in the success of Li's videos.

C．Li makes sure all of her video clips are short enough to be downloaded.

D．Cultural heritages usually exist in memories and written records.

3. What does the underlined word "intangible" in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．nonphysical

B．inaccessible

C．invaluable

D．unnoticeable

4. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A．To provide guidance on cooking and making handicrafts.

B．To suggest a way of attracting more followers on Sina Weibo.

C．To give an example of how to gain worldwide popularity as a short video blogger.

D．To encourage more people to make efforts to bring Chinese culture to the world.

4 . 阅读下面短文,根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。

While you are traveling abroad, cultural mistakes are more serious than language mistakes, which can lead to serious misunderstanding and even ill-feeling between people. Look out for the following cultural mistakes and try to avoid them.

Touching Someone

Personal space varies as you travel around the globe. In Mediterranean countries, if you don't touch someone's arm when talking to them or if you don't greet them with kisses or a warm hug, you'll be considered cold. But backslap(拍背)someone who isn't a family member or a good friend in Korea, and you'll make them uncomfortable. In Thailand, the head is considered sacred(神圣的)-never even pat a child on the head.

Talking Over Dinner

In some countries, like China, Japan and some African nations, the food's the thing, so don't start chatting about your day's adventures while everyone else is digging into dinner. You'll be likely to meet with silence. It's not because your group is unfriendly, but because meal times are for eating, not talking.

 Removing Your Shoes or Not

Take off your shoes when arriving at the door of a London dinner party and the hostess will find you rude, but fail to remove your shoes before entering a home in Asia, Hawaii, or the Pacific Islands and you'll be considered disrespectful. So, if you see a row of shoes at the door, start undoing your laces(解开鞋带). If not, keep the shoes on.

Once you are on the ground of a different country, remain highly sensitive to native behavior. Never be completely surprised by anything. And don't feel hurt or upset if something seems offensive(冒犯的)-like queue jumping. After all, this is a global village, and we are all very different.

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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 World Read Aloud Day,     1     (start) by the LitWorld.org website in 2010, is celebrated each year on the first Wednesday of March and has now reached 65 countries.       2     (it) aim is to encourage people worldwide who cannot read to enjoy the     3     (benefit) of a book. The website asks everyone to celebrate the day by taking a book, finding     4     audience, and reading out aloud. It is about taking action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people.

6 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．Chinese tea culture.

B．Famous places in China.

C．Different kinds of tea in the world.

2. How does black tea taste according to the woman?

A．Sweet.

B．Heavy.

C．Light.

7 . What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the word “culture”？ Do you think of different groups of people across the world with various ____and clothing? What about animals?

Sam Williams,executive director of the Macaw(金刚鹦鹉）Recovery Network in Costa Rica, helps to ___the impact of the decline of macaw populations by taking birds that were born____and releasing them into the wild. But this process is very___

＂In a cage,you can't____them to know where,when and how to find that food, or about trees with good nest sites," Williams told ecologist and writer Carl Safina for the Guardian. In the wild, the parents would be the ones to teach them this important __

This type of knowledge is known as cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge can be___ from the older generation to the newer one. For many species,cultural knowledge is necessary for ___

Culture helps animals to____different habitats.For example,some crows(乌鸦）have learned to put nuts in the middle of the road for cars to drive over. And in other areas, they have learned to do this at intersections so they can____get the food when the cars stop at red lights.

Other important parts of cultural knowledge include things like group identity, using different tools,taking different____routes and using different socializing methods.

These traditions can especially be seen in chimpanzee communities. Cat Hobaiter,who studies chimpanzees in Uganda,said:"It's not just the____of populations of chimps that worries me.I find____the possibility of losing each population's unique culture. That's permanent.”

Culture isn't just for____.Culture is also an important part of life in the wild from using tools to____.

1.

A．communities

B．zones

C．traditions

D．divisions

2.

A．squeeze

B．reduce

C．wrestle

D．delete

3.

A．encaged

B．enlarged

C．encouraged

D．ensured

4.

A．tentative

B．slow

C．lame

D．abrupt

5.

A．elect

B．swap

C．assess

D．train

6.

A．brochure

B．seminar

C．framework

D．information

7.

A．passed down

B．taken up

C．followed up

D．put together

8.

A．management

B．survival

C．currency

D．cooperation

9.

A．cater to

B．push for

C．adapt to

D．dive in

10.

A．safely

B．desperately

C．surprisingly

D．hopefully

11.

A．irrigation

B．migration

C．suspension

D．collision

12.

A．loss

B．dilemma

C．adjustment

D．prevention

13.

A．enterprising

B．flexible

C．artificial

D．terrifying

14.

A．animals

B．plants

C．humans

D．nails

15.

A．refreshing

B．weeping

C．negotiating

D．socializing

8 . 语法填空

If you get stuck in a heavy rain, what would you do? You may be worried and want to find shelter immediately. But Song Dynasty poet Su Shi behaves     1    (different) in Tune: Calming the Waves.

Tune: Calming the Waves is one of Su’s ci (词),     2     type of poetry that was popular during the Song Dynasty. The ci begins by telling the reader that     3    (catch) in the sudden rain, Su has nothing but sandals and a cane. This shows that his journey is     4    (challenge). Su     5    (he) was no stranger to facing challenges. At that time, Su was charged     6     going against the emperor through his literary     7    (work) and therefore was banished (贬谪) to Hangzhou. But even so, he always stayed positive. Just     8     he described in the ci, instead of being upset, Su chose to “slowly walk and chant at     9    (easy)”. After the rain, he looked at “the dreary beaten track” again, and found everything was the same as it     10    (be) before. A small rain shower is just a brief part of the day, just as his political setbacks are but a small part of his life.

9 . One morning I looked out of my study window and saw it was a fine day: not even a single cloud. But later on, hard at work at my desk, I heard a loud drumming noise. Turning to the window, I saw the sky was now the color of charcoal (木炭). Rain began to fall; two minutes later the rain became hail (冰雹); at some point, the hail became snow.

    1    It’s extremely variable. Go ahead with your picnic in the local park by all means, but don’t assume that because the sun is shining now, it will be when you open your pack of sandwiches.    2    

The weather in Britain is by no means always bad. It can just seem a lot like a person who has a lot of mood swings.

This is one of the biggest reasons why the British talk so often about the weather: it’s handy. Wherever there are strangers standing or sitting close together, and talk cannot be avoided, the conversation focuses on the weather: “    3    ” or “What shocking weather we’ve been having!” The unreliability of the weather is something that every Brit can agree on.     4    

Thus, the weather’s unpredictability is actually a plus for the British. Even those with different opinions on everything else in the world, such as the current argument in the UK about membership of the European Union, can talk about the weather without it leading to a shouting match.     5    

A．Long live rainstorms in mid-July!

B．The English often talks about weather.

C．Yes, the weather has been good, hasn’t it?

D．That makes it a safe topic of conversation.

E．You’d better take an umbrella, just in case.

F．This story will give you some idea about weather in Britain.

G．Strangers will choose to talk about the weather to break the ice.

10 . 假如你是Mary, 在刚刚过去的中秋节里，你应邀和厦门的笔友一起欢度中秋。请你根据以下内容要求，写一篇日记记录这一段难忘的经历和感受。内容：1. 活动内容。2. 谈谈你的感受。
注意：1. 词数100左右。2. 可以适当发挥，以使行文连贯。提示：博饼(mooncake gambling)