2 . More than 10 million Chinese cultural relics have been lost overseas, most of which were stolen and illegally shipped out of China during the times of war before 1949. About 1.67 million pieces are housed in more than 200 museums in 47 countries, which accounts for 10 percent of all lost Chinese cultural relics, and the rest are in the hands of private collectors.

Most of these treasures are owned by museums or private collectors in the United States, Europe, Japan and Southeast Asian countries. There are more than 23,000 pieces in the British Museum, most of which were stolen or bought for pennies more than 100 years ago.

The major method to recover these national treasures was to buy them back. In some cases, private collectors donated the relics to the government. Also the government can turn to official channels (渠道) to demand the return of relics.

In 2003, a priceless bronze pig's head dating from the Qing Dynasty was returned to its home in Beijing after it was removed by the Anglo-French Allied Army over 140 years ago. Macao entrepreneur (企业家) Stanley Ho donated 6 million yuan to buy it back from a US art collector and then donated it to the Poly Art Museum in Beijing.

Although buying-back is the most feasible way to recover the lost treasures, limited funding is always a big headache.

In recent years, the Chinese government has improved efforts to recover the precious cultural relics lost overseas. It has started a national project on the recovery of the treasures and has set up a database (数据库) collecting relevant information. It has signed several international agreements with many countries on this matter, and is also looking for international cooperation to recover the relics by working closely with several international organizations.

1. What is the passage mainly about?

A．The efforts to recover Chinese cultural relics.

B．How to recover cultural relics.

C．Stanley Ho donated a bronze pig's head to Beijing.

D．Chinese cultural relics were stolen by the Anglo-French Allied Army.

2. Which of the following statements about the bronze pig's head is NOT true?

A．It was made in the Qing Dynasty.

B．It is now in the Poly Art Museum in Beijing.

C．It was donated by the French government to China.

D．It was removed by the Anglo-French Allied Army over 140 years ago.

3. We can infer from the passage that ________.

A．the Chinese government has done a lot to recover the lost cultural relics

B．many countries have returned the lost cultural relics to China for free

C．China has enough money to buy all the cultural relics back

D．China is preparing to set up a database to collect information about the lost cultural relics

4. The underlined word “feasible” in Paragraph 5 can be replaced by “________”.

A．careful

B．difficult

C．popular

D．possible

3 . 假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Michael知道中国人很重视家风传承，他在给你的电子邮件中提到想了解你家的家风。请你给他回一封电子邮件，要点如下：
1.简单介绍你家的家风；
2.家风给你带来的影响。
注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：家风family spirit
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4 . Chinese culture is over 5,000 years old.     1    

The spirit of the tea ceremony

Xihu Longjing and Yunnan Pu’er have long been world famous.     2     The spirit of the Chinese tea ceremony captures the Chinese attitude toward life and spirituality. These are the things that people all over the world can benefit from.

A handful of good tea leaves with some boiling water and a set of lovely teaware is the perfect way to spend a sunny afternoon and gain some insight into the wisdom of this ancient civilisation.

    3    

During the 5,000 years of Chinese civilisation, many different flavours, styles, and cuisine (烹饪) have developed based on traditional philosophy and culture. This ancient food culture has had a direct impact on the countries, such as Japan, Mongolia, South Korea, Thailand, and Singapore. It has benefited billions of people around the world through such innovations as Chinese vegetarian culture, tea culture, vinegar, pasta, medicated diets, ceramic tableware, and the use of soybeans in the diet.

Confucianism(儒学)

Confucianism has flourished during the last 2,500 years of China’s 5,000-year history.     4     This school of thought has had the most profound and long-lasting influence in China’s history. Seventy-four Nobel Prize winners and many other highly respected scholars have stated that for the benefit of mankind’s livelihood and development into the next century, these teachings should be promoted and adopted worldwide.     5    

A．Chinese cuisine

B．Chinese culture

C．It has been the mainstay of this ancient civilisation.

D．They are pretty popular due to their superior colour and flavour.

E．The following three items of traditional Chinese culture have had a worldwide impact.

F．This would provide long lasting benefits for man, helping to ensure a peaceful and happy life.

G．This wonderfully rich food culture has also had an impact on Europe, America and Oceania.

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。

China’s Liangzhu Archaeological Site     1     (declare) a World Heritage Site on Saturday by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee during its 43rd session in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

The site,     2     is located in Yuhang District in Hangzhou City in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province, showcases the civilization of prehistoric rice agriculture between 3300 BC     3     2300 BC. The ruins of ancient Liangzhu city were discovered in 2007, and then large dam sites     4     (surround) the Liangzhu ancient city were unearthed continuously after 2009.It was     5     (official) submitted to UNESCO in 2019, hoping to win     6     (recognise) as a World Cultural Heritage Site. The site     7     (include) archaeological remains and unearthed cultural relics of the Liangzhu Ancient City as well as a wetland that covers     8     area of 908.89 hectares in a plain river network. It is also found that the Liangzhu ancestors started to use characters about 5,000 years ago, 1,000 years     9     (early) than previously thought, according to Colin Renfrew, a retired professor of archaeology at the University of Cambridge.

The World Heritage Committee added Liangzhu to the UNESCO list     10     (encourage) better protection of the site, which is considered to be of “outstanding universal value” to humanity.

9 . In order to reduce the risk of suffering from COVID-19, people are supposed to say no to a handshake, give up high fives, refuse kisses on the cheek and absolutely avoid hugging. So people all over the world are changing their daily habits at work and at home to prevent it from spreading.

In France, handshaking is regarded as daily greeting habits. And kissing on the cheek is often seen even between people who have only just met. Philippe Lichtfus, a lifestyle expert notes that handshaking is a relatively recent development in human history that began in the Middle Ages. Now, he says simply looking into a person’s eyes can serve as a greeting.

The Brazilian health ministry has recommended that citizens should not share the metal straws traditionally used to consume the caffeine-rich drink chimarrão. And a kiss—even if it is not on the mouth—is totally advised against.

One of Spain’s most treasured traditions is also affected by the outbreak—the kissing of sculptures of Virgin Mary in the week leading up to Easter. During the holy week, the faithful believers queue up to kiss the hands or feet of sculptures of Mary and the saints, seeking their protection.

Germany’s interior minister (内政部长) Horst Seehofer rebuffed Chancellor（总理）Angela Merkel’s attempt to shake hands with him, smiling and keeping both his hands to himself. They both laughed and Merkel threw her hand up in the air before taking a seat.

In Iran, a video has gone viral (走红) showing three friends meeting, hands in their pockets, two of whom are wearing masks, tapping their feet against each other as a greeting. A similar video in Lebanon shows singer Ragheb Alama and comedian Michel Abou Sleiman tapping their feet against each other while making kissing noises with their mouths.

The UAE (阿拉伯联合酋长国) is advising citizens to stop the traditional “nose to nose” greeting. The UAE also said that people shouldn’t shake hands anymore or kiss. Greet each other “by waving only”.

1. What can we learn from Philippe Lichtfus?

A．Handshaking has a long history.

B．People can continue to kiss on the cheek.

C．It is recommended that people look into other’s eyes as a greeting.

D．It is unusual for two people who have just met to kiss on the cheeks.

2. What does the underlined word “rebuffed” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A．Appreciated.

B．Refused.

C．Accepted.

D．Welcomed.

3. What can be inferred from the text?

A．Several traditional greeting habits are advised against in the UAE.

B．People who believe in Virgin Mary must be disappointed to cancel the ceremony.

C．Brazilians are crazy about consuming the caffeine-rich drink chimarrão.

D．Tapping feet against each other has already become a daily greeting in Iran.

4. What does the text mainly tell us?

A．Some old greeting styles are out of date.

B．Some new greeting styles become popular.

C．Different countries have different greeting styles.

D．People change their greeting styles to protect themselves.

10 . It may seem as if Mother's Day was invented by a company named Hallmark,   but   people have been taking time on the calendar to give a shout-out to Mom for a long time. The Greeks and Romans had mother goddess festivals — although their celebrations didn't involve the menfolk taking their underappreciated mothers out to dinner. A more recent tradition was   Mothering Sunday, which developed in the British Isles during the 16th century. On the fourth Sunday in April, young men and women who were living and working apart from their families were advised to return to their mothers’ houses.

Mother's Day as it is observed in the United States started in the 1850s with Ann Jarvis, a West Virginia woman who held “Mothers' Work Days” to promote health and hygiene(卫生 ) at home and in the workplace. During the Civil War, Jarvis organized women to improve sanitary conditions for soldiers on both sides, and after the war she became a peacemaker, furthering the cause by bringing together mothers of Union and Confederate                    soldiers and promoting a Mother's Day holiday.

Jarvis's work inspired another 19th-century woman, Julia Ward Howe. In 1870 Howe published her “Mother's Day Proclamation”, which envisioned(设想) the day not as appreciation of mothers by their children but as an opportunity for women to exercise their collective power for peace. Howe started holding annual Mother's Day celebrations in Boston, her hometown, but after about a decade she stopped footing the bill and the tradition faded away.

It was Jarvis's daughter Anna who succeeded in getting Mother’s Day recognized as a national holiday. After her mother died, in May 1905, Anna started holding yearly ceremony on   the anniversary and conducting a tireless PR campaign to have the day made a holiday. In 1908   she succeeded in enlisting the support of John Wanamaker, the Philadelphia department store magnate and advertising pioneer, and by 1912 West Virginia and a few other states had adopted Mother's Day. Two years later, President Woodrow Wilson signed a resolution   declaring   the second Sunday in May a national holiday.

It wasn't long, though, before whatever ideals the day was supposed to celebrate were buried under an amount of greeting cards and candy. By the 1920s Anna Jarvis was campaigning against the holiday she had been instrumental in creating. “I wanted it to be a day of emotionalism, not profit,” she said.

1. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that              .

A．mothers didn't get enough appreciation in the past

B．Mother's Day was invented by Hallmark

C．young people all returned to their mothers' houses

D．Greeks and Romans were the first to celebrate Mother's Day

2. Who plays the most significant role in creating Mother's Day?

A．Ann Jarvis.	B．Julia Ward Howe.
C．Woodrow Wilson.	D．Anna Jarvis.

3. Why did Anna Jarvis go against celebrating Mother's Day in the 1920s?

A．Because it was extremely emotional.

B．Because the festival was not profitable.

C．Because the celebrations went against the original spirit.

D．Because the day was celebrated in the form of exchanging greeting cards and candy.

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

A．The Definition of Mother’s Day

B．The Argument on Celebrating Mother's Day

C．The Story Behind the Creation of Mother's Day

D．Different Forms of Celebration on Mother's Day