内容包括：
1.节日的名称、时间：重阳节也被称为老人节，在每年农历九月九日；
2.节日的庆祝方式：登山、赏花等；你的庆祝方式：给家里老人做一件有意义的事情；
3.邀请他亲自体验。
注意:
1.写作词数应为80左右：
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Tom,
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Yours,
Li Hua
1. 立春基本情况（2月初；24节气中首个节气）；
2. 立春习俗（贴迎春字画、吃春卷、春游等）；
3. 立春在人们心中的寓意。
注意：
1. 词数：100词左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 文章开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：立春 Start of Spring; 节气 solar term；春卷 spring rolls.
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Six months ago, Xie Lei boarded a plane for London. It was the first time that she
At first, Xie Lei had to adapt to in different country. She chose to live with a host family, who can help with her
Now halfway through her exchange year, Xie Lei felt much more at home in the UK. She said
4 . China is one of the first countries to breed a medical culture. In comparison with Western methods, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) adopts a vastly different approach. For thousands of years, Chinese people have accumulated rich experience in fighting all sorts of diseases, therefore forming a unique medical theory under the guidance of ancient Chinese philosophies (哲学).
The core behind TCM is that the human body's life is the consequence (结果) of the balance between Yin and Yang. Yang functions to safeguard us against outer harm, and Yin is the inner base to store and provide energy. When the balance between the two aspects is disturbed, people fall ill.
One of the traditional techniques of TCM, acupuncture (针刺疗法) means insertion of needles into superficial (表面的) structures of the body—usually at acupoints (穴位)—to restore the Yin Yang balance. It is often accompanied by moxibustion (艾灸疗法), which involves burning mugwort on or near the skin at an acupoint.
The first known text that clearly talks about something like acupuncture and moxibustion as it is practiced today is The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon. It is the earliest and most important written work of TCM and is considered the fundamental and most representative medical text in China.
Acupuncture and moxibustion have aroused the interest of international medical science circles. And TCM is gradually gaining worldwide recognition. The WHO issued a document in 2002 that appealed to more than 180 countries to adopt TCM as an alternative in their medical policies. In 2010, acupuncture and moxibustion of traditional Chinese medicine were added to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the UNESCO. Presently, TCM has been back in the news for its effectiveness in improving the cure rate of the COVID-19 since its outbreak in January 2020.
1. What is the key feature of TCM?| A．It adopts different medical approaches. | B．It's based on ancient Chinese philosophies. |
| C．It helps to restore body's self-balance. | D．It's gained experience through rich practice. |
| A．It distinguishes acupuncture from moxibustion. |
| B．It's a foundation of world medical research. |
| C．it stresses the importance of using acupoints. |
| D．It greatly contributes to the development of TCM. |
| A．To review the development of TCM. | B．To introduce TCM to the world. |
| C．To tell TCM and Western medicine apart. | D．To argue for TCM in fighting COVID-19. |
| A．How TCM helps in the current situation. | B．Why TCM is gaining popularity. |
| C．Why TCM gets recognition from WHO. | D．How other countries adopt TCM. |
1. 80%的学生认为重要及其理由。
2. 20%的学生认为不重要及其理由。
注意: 1. 词数80左右;
2. 可适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
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6 . Nowadays, more and more young people have the chance to go to another country to study. Studying abroad will enable you to have various experiences. The best recommendation I'd like to give you is to be open to the experiences and the culture shock. Several common new experiences are around food, locations, culture, and language.
Food: The food in a foreign country will not only be different from American food, but the cooking style will also be different. For example, while most American vegetables are usually boiled, in China, where I studied, vegetables are often fried, which, as far as I'm concerned, is terrible! China actually helped me like my former enemy, vegetables. So, have an open mind, and try the local food.
Locations: In terms of locations, I mean that your study abroad location differs from your home location or college location. For example, coming from San Francisco and going to school at Mount Holyoke. College in South Hadley, Masschusetts, was a location shock for me. I was not used to the very slow public transport and the need. to drive.
Culture: Having an open mind will benefit you the most. In a global education program, we had Chinese roommates, and my Mount Holyoke Class was mainly made up of Chinese graduate students. Therefore, hanging out with them was not too much trouble, but if finding local friends is not that easy, join clubs, sit at coffee shops, or start conversations at a gathering or party. Being interested in flea markets and art galleries, I looked online for those types of events and went to them. At these events, I met expatriates(侨民)and locals alike and became good friends with them. Another way to fit in with the culture is to find people who will go to cultural events and places with you. I would walk around Shanghai, taking in the Chinese culture everywhere I went.
1. We can infer from the passage that the writer .| A．made only Chinese friends when in Shanghai |
| B．kept an open mind when studying in China |
| C．disliked his study experience in Masschusetts |
| D．experienced Chinese culture by traveling everywhere |
| A．Parents at home and abroad. |
| B．Teachers teaching foreign languages. |
| C．Students studying or to study abroad. |
| D．Workers in service agencies. |
| A．Friends. | B．Language. |
| C．Study. | D．Chinese culture. |
| A．Make the Most of Your Experience when Studying Abroad |
| B．Get Familiar with Chinese Culture |
| C．Be Open to the Chinese Culture Shock |
| D．My Wonderful Experience when Studying Abroad |
7 . America is well known for being a melting pot of different ethnic groups and cultures, but nowhere is this diversity more pronounced than in Queens, New York.
Here, second-generation Puerto Ricans live alongside third-generation Greeks and first-generation Koreans, all united by a common feeling of pride in their American identity. However, they are also proud and curious about their ancestral roots. National Geographic’s Genographic Project, also known as the Human Family Tree, set out to trace the origins by examining their genetic makeup using a simple DNA test. What interested them more was something that intrigues us all: the history of our recent ancestry. One recurring theme among immigrants seems to be the hard work and sacrifices that went into building a new life, and how their descendants now feel a duty to honor that effort by working hard too. Here is one Queens resident’s story.
Richard, 38
My great-grandfather Tomas came to America from Poland when he was fifteen. His mother had died, and his father remarried. Tomas didn’t like his stepmother, so he ran away to Belgium, where he boarded a ship to America—without a ticket. Arriving in America with nothing, he got a job on the railroads in California. Then one day he saw an announcement in a newspaper that was read by immigrants. It was from his brother in New York who was also seeking his fortune in America and was looking for him. Tomas got in touch and they had an emotional reunion in New York, where Tomas subsequently settled. This is the story that my grandmother has passed down to us, to my parents, and all my aunts and uncles. She is an amazing woman and I suppose: the one who holds us all together. She’s actually quite forgetful now, but she never forgets family details. What that has meant is that all of us have a strong family bond and a strong sense of belonging to a group that has struggled and fought together to steered here.
1. What is special about Queens?| A．Conflicting ethnic minorities live here. |
| B．Many foreigners like to travel to this place. |
| C．The pronunciation varies from person to person. |
| D．Many different people and cultures are gathering here. |
| A．A sad experience. | B．A common subject. |
| C．An unknown topic. | D．An unusual quality. |
| A．Brave and independent. | B．Tough and honest. |
| C．Talented and persistent. | D．Kind and hard-working. |
| A．They are ashamed of their roots. |
| B．They feel attached to their family. |
| C．They can’t fit in with the new surroundings. |
| D．They are less interested in recent generations. |
8 . With all the attention Thanksgiving and Christmas get from travellers, it’s easy to overlook Halloween as a destination holiday. While a few cities provide a ghostly atmosphere all year round, annual festivals, theme park pop-up events and other haunted happenings elsewhere have helped make the holiday a travel mini-season all its own.
New Orleans
Home to year-round cemetery walks, New Orleans is among the cities that naturally harmonize with Halloween. Worth noting every October is the family-friendly Halloween parade, happening this year on Oct. 21, with floats devoted to themes like werewolves and vampires. Float riders throw locally made candies to the crowd. New Orleans hosts plenty of after-event-parties, but the procession itself draws all ages in costume.
Whitby, England
This picturesque town on England’s Yorkshire coast is considered to be the home of Dracula, though in a different way. Bram Stoker spent just a month in Whitby, but those four weeks in July and August 1890 were important in the creation of his most famous book, “Dracula”, which was published in 1897. Whitby celebrated the 125th anniversary of Stoker’s visit in 2015, but this year you can see the skeletal remains of Whitby Abbey illuminated throughout the final week of October.
Salem, Massachusetts
Home to the infamous witch trials of the early 1690s, it should come as no surprise that this town is a hotbed for Halloween activity. One way Salem builds on its spectral past is with the nearly month-long festival of the Dead. Events starting from mid-October this year include psychic readings, mourning-themed tea and on Halloween night, a witches gathering.
Orlando, Florida
The home of Disney World and Universal Studios goes all-out with huge Halloween events. Universal this year will hold its 27th Halloween Horror Night on Oct. 30, a seasonal pop-up featuring haunted houses and “scareactors” employed to frighten visitors. Plus, there are many other activities like trick-or-treating, Disney character encounters, a Halloween ball and fireworks.
1. Which of the following is most recommended for a family going together?| A．New Orleans. | B．Whitby, England. |
| C．Salem, Massachusetts. | D．Orlando, Florida. |
| A．New Orleans. | B．Whitby, England. |
| C．Salem, Massachusetts. | D．Orlando, Florida. |
| A．Have mourning-themed tea. | B．Enjoy dancing. |
| C．Watch Disney movies. | D．See skeletal remains. |
9 . English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet. One in every seven human beings can speak it. More than half of the world’s books and three quarters of international mail are in English. Of all languages, English has the largest vocabulary — perhaps as many as two million words.
However, let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in an eggplant, neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger. Sweet-meats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But when we explore its paradoxes (探讨它的矛盾), we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths in them.
And why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese — so one moose, two meese?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects (反映) the creativity of human beings. That’s why, when stars are out, they are visible (能看见的); but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it; but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
1. According to the passage ______.| A．sweet-meats and sweetbreads are different things | B．there should be egg in an eggplant |
| C．pineapples are the apples on the pine tree | D．boxing rings should be round |
| A．Beeth. | B．Geese. |
| C．Meese. | D．Tooth. |
| A．A wise man and a wise guy. | B．Overlook and oversee. |
| C．Quite a lot and quite a few. | D．Hot as hell and cold as hell. |
| A．blow | B．roll up |
| C．get hurt | D．finish |
10 . I was reading these interesting stories behind a group of great logos（商标） in the world. Personally Nike is my favorite one﹣it's so simple. And I liked the stories behind them, which made me forget all other things. McDonald's, Apple, and Mercedes Benz own great logos as well, and they are among my favorites.
Nike
In the Greek myth, Nike is the goddess of victory and the source of inspiration for soldiers. This logo represents the wing in the famous statue of the Greek goddess. Nike's logo was designed by Carolyn Davidson in 1971 for﹩35, and was registered as a trademark in 1995.
McDonald's
The logo was designed in 1962 by Jim Schindler to resemble the arch shaped （拱形的） signs on the side of the company's then walk﹣up hamburger stand. Later on, the two golden arches were combined together to form the M. The McDonald's name was added to the logo in 1968.
Apple
There are different stories behind Apple's logo. The first logo was a reference to the religious story of Adam and Eve, in which the apple represented the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. One year later, the second logo was designed in 1977 by Steven Jobs and Ronald Wayne, and it described Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. This logo didn't stay long. One year later it was replaced almost immediately by graphic designer Rob Janoff's "rainbow apple", a rainbow﹣colored silhouette （轮廓） of an apple with a bite taken out of it. And then the rainbow﹣colored apple was replaced by the one﹣colored logo in 1998. It has not been changed so far.
Mercedes Benz
The Mercedes Benz logo, which was originally created by Gottlieb Daimler in 1909, consists of a simple description of a three﹣pointed star that represents its rule of the land, the sea and the air. The company was founded by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach. Mercedes is the name of Maybach's elder daughter, while Benz came as a result of a combination with Benz Cie and DMG in 1926.
1. What does the author think of the stories of the great logos?| A．They are boring. | B．They are attractive. |
| C．They are out of date. | D．They are practical. |
| A．a bitten apple with only one color | B．Newton's sitting under an apple tree |
| C．the religious story of Adam and Eve | D．the rainbow﹣colored bitten apple |
| A．Nike ﹣ McDonald's ﹣ Apple ﹣ Mercedes Benz． |
| B．Mercedes Benz ﹣ Apple ﹣ Nike ﹣ McDonald's． |
| C．Mercedes Benz ﹣ McDonald's ﹣ Nike ﹣ Apple． |
| D．Nike ﹣ Mercedes Benz ﹣ McDonald's ﹣ Apple． |
