1 . Many of China’s ancient architectural treasures smashed to dust before Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng began documenting them in the 1930s. The husband and wife team were among the first preservationists to operate in China, and by far the bestknown. Their efforts have since inspired generations of people to speak out for architecture threatened by the rush toward development.
Becoming China’s best architectural historians was no easy accomplishment. The buildings they wanted to save were centuries old located in distant parts of the country.In many cases, they had to journey through dangerous conditions in the Chinese countryside to reach them. Exploring China’s remote areas during the 1930s meant traveling muddy, poorly maintained roads by mule（骡子）or on foot. Inns were often dirty food could be polluted, and there was always risk or violence from rebels, soldiers and robbers.
Their greatest discovery was the Temple of Buddha’s Light, in Wutai County, Shanxi Province. The breathtaking wooden temple was built in 857 A. D., making it the oldest building known in China at the time.
Liang and Lin crawled into the temple’s most forbidding, forgotten areas to determine itsage, including one hideaway inhibited by thousands or bats and millions of bedbugs, covered in dust and littered with dead bats. “In complete darkness andamong the awful smell, hardly breathing, with thick masks covering our nosesand mouths, we measured, drew, and photographed with flashlights for several hours. When at last we came out to take a breath of fresh air, we foundhundreds of bedbugs in our bag. We ourselves had been badly bitten. Yet the importance and unexpectedness of our find made those the happiest hours of myyears hunting for ancient architecture.” Liand wrote of the experience in anaccount included in “Liang and Lin; Partners in Exploring China’s ArchitectualPast.”
1. On their way to the ancient buildings in 1930s,Liang and Lin faced following risks EXCEPT ________.| A．accommodations | B．personal security |
| C．road conditions | D．vehicles |
| A．documenting smashed historical buildings |
| B．rebuilding historically valuablebuildings |
| C．saving the oldest temples in China |
| D．Protecting historical buildings. |
| A．Liang and Lin caught insects with awful smell. |
| B．Liang and Lin were forbidden to breathe inside |
| C．Liang and Lin were pleased at something unhoped for |
| D．Liang and Lin determined its age by studyingbedbug’s hideaway |
| A．Creativeness results in discovery | B．Difficulty produces achievement |
| C．Efforts contribute to happiness | D．Responsibilities make development |
1.中国茶文化历史悠久、茶叶种类丰富;
2.茶在中国人生活中的重要性;
3.希望世界上有更多的人品尝中国茶,了解中国文化。
注意:1.词数100左右;
2.可适当发挥想象,增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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Make traditional treasures come alive
The Palace Museum Director Shan Jixiang delivered a cultural heritage speech on Feb 27 in Beijing, which was co-organized by the Beijing Diplomatic Service Bureau and Beijing Housing Service Corporation for Diplomatic Missions.
On the theme The World of the Palace Museum and the Palace Museum of the World, the 64-year-old director shared his ideas about how to make traditional treasures come alive again. During the speech, which lasted two and a half hours, Shan touched on topics including upgrading museum infrastructure(基础设施), restoring cultural sites, digitalizing online museums, setting up restoration hospitals, providing better visitor experiences and promoting the Palace Museum’s cultural items.
“The abundant collection of cultural objects at the Palace Museum is the inspiration for the creative souvenirs and cultural items available,” Shan said. “
John Aquilina, Malta’s ambassador to China said that Shan’s speech showed a totally different Palace Museum to foreign people. “China enjoys a long and profound culture and many of the national treasures have been preserved at the Palace Museum. It is no easy task to preserve them well.
| A．I truly express my respect for Shan and his team for their contributions. |
| B．With regard to cultural heritage restoration, Shan said the museum opened a restoration hospital at the end of 2016. |
| C．A total of 600 people from all walks of life, including over 100 foreign guests, participated in the activity. |
| D．I will learn more about Chinese culture from the magnificent ancient objects. |
| E．Our design teams often study consumer demands and create cultural items that are nice to look at and practical to use. |
| F．Traditional craftsmanship is combined with modern methods, and the lives of ancient cultural objects will be lengthened by the so-called doctors. |
1.文化遗产的名称;
2.简要介绍;
3.你感到自豪的理由。
注意：1.词数100左右;
2.开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
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5 . As the world changes, our language changes with it. That's why Merriam-Webster recently added more than 250 new words to its online dictionary,
“These new words have been added to the dictionary because they have
Here our newspaper has chosen three of the dictionary’s new entries. Let’s take a look.
Froyo(冻酸奶)
While ice cream has been around for more than 100 years, froyo or frozen yogurt--is comparatively new. Even though it was first invented back in the 1970s, it only started to gain
Compared to ice cream, the main
Word salad(文字沙拉)
It was first used to refer to a series of words said by people with mental illness. Just like the vegetables in a salad bowl, each word makes perfect sense by itself, but when put together, they become hard to
Now the phrase is more often used to refer to the words of a politician, although this refers to the speaker's logic rather than their mental state. US President Donald Trump,'s interviews are often referred to as word salad.
Troll (网络喷子)
The
Other phrases and usage have also been
| A．overtaking | B．covering | C．engaging | D．experiencing |
| A．enjoyed | B．polished | C．established | D．trapped |
| A．release | B．congress | C．negotiation | D．demonstration |
| A．permission | B．package | C．popularity | D．patent |
| A．turning | B．cooling | C．starting | D．selling |
| A．guilt | B．taste | C．appetite | D．diet |
| A．resolution | B．revolution | C．recommendation | D．reservation |
| A．interrupt | B．indicate | C．interact | D．interpret |
| A．in a word | B．For instance | C．All in all | D．As a result |
| A．cultural | B．obvious | C．original | D．hidden |
| A．creature | B．giant | C．worm | D．ghost |
| A．dramatically | B．delicately | C．disorderly | D．deliberately |
| A．offensive | B．objective | C．progressive | D．productive |
| A．evolved | B．invented | C．expanded | D．transformed |
| A．civilian | B．fairy | C．victim | D．pedestrian |
In two days, it will be Christmas, children all over world
I have found memories of Christmas shopping with my family as a child. I enjoyed the challenge of keeping my parents’ gifts a secret. It was hard to buy gifts right.
Picking a great gift require
The best gifts are personal. Many Americans don’t feel money constitutes a good gift
Gift-giving reflects the reason
1. What is the main aim of the arts festival this year?
| A．To pick out great artists. |
| B．To support the creative industries. |
| C．To get more people into the creative arts. |
| A．School teachers. | B．Creative people. | C．Local artists. |
| A．Work with children. | B．Teach kids how to do sewing. | C．Learn how to write stories. |
| A．At 12:30 p.m. | B．At 5 p.m. | C．At 9 p.m. |
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
After the busy school life started again a month ago, the more exciting part of it came in September when my classmates and I attended the very Heritage Across Borders Program which took place at Zhejiang University. The program mainly focused at how heritage is valued and preserved.
As young activists in heritage protection, we felt it honored to meet the world’s leading group of researchers and professional in heritage .studies. We are deeply impressed by their skills. Besides, their anecdotes were extreme interesting.
China is highlighted what is known as cultural confidence nowadays, but we are proud of our efforts to preserve local heritage.
9 . The Harlem Renaissance
The word “renaissance” means “rebirth”. The Harlem Renaissance took place during the 1920s. It was a time when the African American artistic community grew and flourished, producing a ton of work in a short period of time. The work celebrated African American culture and spoke to their experiences as minorities---both the good parts and the bad parts.
After the Civil War, many African Americans left the South to escape unfair treatment and laws that discriminated against them. Between 1910 and 1920, massive numbers of black Southerners moved from the rural south into the urban North and West in the Great Migration. The African American population of Chicago more than doubled during that time! And in New York, African Americans flocked to uptown Manhattan, setting in a neighborhood called Harem. Forming a community within the big city let African Americans keep their cultural identity in a white-dominated society. It was a good thing, and a lot of important cultural issues were brought to light during the Harlem Renaissance. One of the most important figures of the time was the African American writer, W. E.B Du Bois. In his book, The Souls of Back Folk, in 1903, Du Bois wrote that African Americans suffered from something called “double consciousness”. They had their own self-image while they saw themselves through the eyes of white Americans. And performers like Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson brought African American culture to all New Yorkers. The Renaissance was so influential that “Harlem” grew into something of a brand name
African Americans were pushing boundaries across all aspects of society. Black businesses began to flourish, creating a growing middle class, like Madame C.J. Walker, who tuned her cosmetics line into a million dollar empire. All together, the artists, and thinkers of this period helped mobilize the larger black population. Young African-Americans took advantage of improved access to higher education. This opened up new career paths and opportunities to attain advanced degrees. Perhaps most importantly, people---black and white---began the push for racial integration, planting the seeds of what would eventually become the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
1. Why did many African Americans leave the South after the Civil War?| A．To escape slavery | B．To find jobs in agriculture |
| C．To avoid racial discrimination | D．To gain citizenship |
| A．He led to movement to return to Africa |
| B．He composed folk music based on African American theme |
| C．He wrote plays about the African-American experience |
| D．He wrote about the struggle for African-American identity |
| A．Nearly all were unemployed at that time |
| B．The vast majority were considered lower class |
| C．Most were regarded as middle class |
| D．A large percentage were recognized as wealthy |
| A．Spread of black businesses | B．Access to higher education |
| C．Shift from agriculture to industry | D．Push for unity among all Africans |
Nowadays Chinese are using the solar calendar. But at the same time, Chinese are also using their own lunar calendar. Each lunar year
Each Chinese month starts on the day of the new moon, and the full moon always comes on the
On the last day of each lunar year, the Chinese will hold
