1 . 假设你是李华，春节(the Spring Festival)即将来临，你的澳大利亚笔友Peter写信给你询问有关春节的相关信息。请你写一封回信给他，回信要点：
1. 春节时间(农历lunar calendar 正月初一，通常在1月底至二月20日左右)
2. 春节期间主要活动 (如家人团聚family reunion、送祝福send greetings、走亲访友visit relatives and friends)
3. 春节的意义：象征反思(reflection)、更新(renewal)和复兴(rejuvenation)的时刻，强调(emphasize)家庭、团结(unity)和对繁荣(prosperous)的新的一年的希望。
注意：1. 词数80词左右; 2.可适当增加细节，使行文连贯
Dear Peter,
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Yours
Li Hua
1. 阐明写信事由；
2. 征求建议；
3. 表达感谢。
注意：
1·字数80左右；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Chris,
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
Zu Ti of the Jin Dynasty was a man who had with great ambition. When he was young, he had a good friend
One day, when they were sleeping. Zu Ti heard the rooster crowing (鸡鸣) . He woke up Liu Kun and said, “How about
The idiom “to rise with the rooster” teaches us that with ambition and hard work,
4 . In recent years, traditional Chinese culture and art has gained a foothold on short video platforms and attracted a large number of young followers thanks to the explosive growth of the short video industry. Relaxing, emotional and fragmented, these video contents perfectly match the demands of the users. With the application of new technologies such as social communication and immersive experiencing, short video platforms are seeing more users, becoming a shining spot of new Internet media.
Recently, Huangmei Opera Female Consort Prince became a hit on short video platforms as a lot of young users covered the aria (咏叹调) in their own way and showed great artistic talents. The interactive platforms are expanding the charm of the traditional opera among young people.
Peking Opera was also well-received on short video platforms thanks to a series of AR effects. Users love to film clips with a set of virtual facial makeup, headwear and costumes. Statistics indicate that these effects were applied by more than 18 million users, most of whom were young people.
In addition to Chinese operas, intangible cultural heritage items, such as embroidery, paper-cutting, printing and dyeing, shadow play works, oiled paper umbrella making, and bamboo weaving are also actively promoted on short video platforms. In a word, short video platforms are becoming an important channel to display China’s intangible cultural heritage.
Short video platforms, offering a fun, popular and easy way to explore the traditional art forms, are receiving a lot of positive feedbacks from China’s young generations. The seconds, or minutes long videos have produced remarkable achievements in promoting traditional Chinese culture.
1. What mainly made the inheritance of traditional drama difficult?| A．The slow growth of industry. | B．The insufficient coverage of drama. |
| C．The poorly-met demands of the users. | D．The severe shortage of the drama actors. |
| A．The social communication. | B．The set of virtual facial makeup. |
| C．The positive feedbacks from users. | D．The application of new technologies. |
| A．To expand the charm of Chinese culture. |
| B．To offer new channels to display China’s arts. |
| C．To show the current situation of cultural heritage. |
| D．To prove traditional art forms are actively promoted. |
| A．The Bright Future of Huangmei Opera |
| B．The Explosive Growth of the Short Video Industry |
| C．The Simple Way to Explore the Traditional Art Form |
| D．The Creative Combination of Culture and Technologies |
5 . Food festivals are a common occurrence in the UK and take place in all sorts of places and at all sorts of times. Whatever your taste, there’s a food festival to match — no matter how specialized.
1. Meatopia
This three-day, London-based festival takes place at the end of August and is a meat lover’s paradise. In addition to a range of legally sourced meat products, from juicy burgers to tender steaks, attendees can listen to live music, watch butchery demonstrations, and attend informal meat-based workshops.
2. The National Honey Show
If you have a sweet tooth, then it could be that the National Honey Show, which started in 1921 and is the largest event of its kind, is the place for you to be. This three-day event attracts many local entries who showcase their sweet golden honey, some of which is sold globally.
3. The Orange Sauce Festival
Have you heard about a festival that is devoted only to orange sauce? Held in Cumbria, this sweet, fragrant festival has been running for 3 years. What attracts people most is a competition to find the best homemade orange sauce. There are thousands of participants from over 30 different countries across the globe, bringing their local snacks to share here.
4. The Ginger and Spice Festival
If you’d prefer something with a little more kick to it, then you could attend The Ginger (姜) and Spice Festival held in Market Drayton. Unlike other food festivals, it celebrates its town’s historic connection to Robert Clive, who returned from India with ginger. Because of this, they specialize in baking gingerbread, but also sell a range of traditional spices from mild to hot.
1. What do Meatopia and the National Honey Show have in common?| A．Both of them last for three days. | B．Both of them hold workshops. |
| C．Both of them originated from London. | D．Both of them have a long history. |
| A．The Meatopia. | B．The Ginger and Spice Festival. |
| C．The National Honey Show. | D．The Orange Sauce Festival. |
| A．It has something to do with a historic figure. |
| B．The ginger used in the festival is from India. |
| C．It sells spicy food. |
| D．The food is cooked by Robert Clive. |
6 . October 15th is Global Handwashing Day. Activities are planned in more than twenty countries to get millions of people in the developing world to wash their hands with soap.
Experts say people around the world wash their hands but very few use soap at so-called critical moments. These include after using the toilet, after cleaning a baby and before touching food.
Global Handwashing Day is the idea of the Public-Private Partnership for hand washing with soap. The goal, they say, is to create a culture of hand washing with soap. The organizers say all soap is equally effective at removing disease-causing germs (细菌). They say the correct way to wash is to wet your hands with a small amount of water and cover them with soap. Rub it into all areas, including under the fingernails. Then, wash well under running water. Finally, dry your hands with a clean cloth.
The Partnership says soap is important because it increases the time that people spend washing. Soap also helps to break up the dirt that holds most of the germs. And it usually leaves a pleasant smell, which increases the chances that people will wash again.
It also says that washing hands with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any medicine. It could help reduce cases of diarrhea (痢疾), which is the second leading cause of child deaths, killing more than one and a half million children a year, by almost half.
1. What does the author intend to tell us in the passage?| A．To keep healthy by washing hands. |
| B．To wash hands with soap. |
| C．To take action to wash hands. |
| D．To wash hands often. |
a. Washing hands well.
b. Covering hands with soap.
c. Drying hands.
d. Rubbing hands with soap.
e. Wetting hands.
| A．a-c-b-e-d | B．e-d-a-b-c |
| C．a-c-b-d-e | D．e-b-d-a-c |
| A．It gives people a longer hand washing time. |
| B．It helps to remove a lot of germs from hands. |
| C．It attracts people to do more hand washing. |
| D．It gets all people into the habit of washing hands. |
| A．kills half of the kids in the developing countries a year |
| B．causes the greatest number of child deaths |
| C．can be prevented to some degree by washing hands with soap |
| D．can’t be cured without washing hands |
7 . Interested in different cultures? Take a look at these communities around the world, discover how they celebrate their traditional festivals, and see just how they like to throw a party.
Naadam Festival, Mongolia
Naadam Festival is an annual celebration in mid-summer that consists of the “Three Games of Man” strength, horsemanship and marksmanship. The festival is believed to have existed for centuries, first in the form of military and sporting displays that followed wedding and spiritual gatherings, and then as a way to train soldiers for battle. The festival begins as a colorful opening ceremony before the three sports.
Day of the Dead, Mexico
Taking place over two colorful days in Mexico and Latin America. this festival honors all things relating to the dead, and is not as scary as it sounds, as it focuses on people taking joy in lite, and showing love and respect for dead family members and friends. On November 1 and 2. participants dress up, hold parties and make offerings to the dead to welcome spirits back to the land of the living.
Zimei Festival, China
Every year, on the 15 day of the 3’d lunar month, the Miao people of South China celebrate the Zimei Festival, known as “Nong ga liang”. The festival is a good opportunity for young girls and boys to meet and fall in love. Wearing traditional costumes, people gather on the village square. Young women, singing and dancing, travel from village to village and offer Zimei rice to boys they like.
Holli, India
Holli is a Hindo (印度教的) festival that marks the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring and is also a time for people to meet, spend time together and repair broken relationships. On the first night people gather in front of a bonfire and pray for their inner evil to be destroyed. The next morning people take to streets and spray colored powder and water to each other.
1. What can we learn from the first two festivals?| A．Naadam Festival has a history of several thousand years. |
| B．Day of the Dead is celebrated in mid-summer every year. |
| C．The celebrations of Naadam Festival have changed over time. |
| D．On Day of the Dead, the dead will visit the land of the living. |
| A．People who like sports. | B．Young men who are unmarried. |
| C．People believing in Hindo. | D．Children enjoying playing with water. |
| A．A travel booklet. | B．A science magazine. |
| C．An academic article. | D．A geography book. |
8 . Born and raised in Dunhuang, Northwest China’s Gansu Province, YaoYanbei
In 2016, inspired by patterns in Dunhuang murals (壁画), Yao
In August 2017, Yao spent nearly a month inside grottoes (石窟) drawing the murals. “Staying in the grottoes from dawn to dusk, I felt
Thanks to the efforts of designers like Yao, the
Looking ahead at her
| A．returned | B．escaped | C．travelled | D．came |
| A．author | B．architect | C．designer | D．engineer |
| A．drew | B．created | C．imagined | D．bought |
| A．convey | B．test | C．obtain | D．comment |
| A．emotionally | B．spiritually | C．physically | D．materially |
| A．wrote | B．painted | C．displayed | D．watched |
| A．experience | B．memory | C．discovery | D．attempt |
| A．traditional | B．modern | C．ancient | D．cultural |
| A．held | B．showed | C．pooled | D．taken |
| A．change | B．strengthen | C．promote | D．enlarge |
| A．industry | B．products | C．environment | D．pictures |
| A．preparations | B．future | C．career | D．job |
| A．apply | B．touch | C．conduct | D．explore |
| A．commit | B．attract | C．appeal | D．devote |
| A．better | B．deeper | C．stronger | D．closer |
Christmas Day was coming. I was just a kid then, and my big sister told me there was no Santa Claus. I fled to my Grandma because she would be straight with me. I knew Grandma always told me the truth. Grandma was home, and I told her everything. “No Santa Claus?” She shouted. “Ridiculous! Don’t believe it. “Now, put on your coat, and let’s go.”
“Go where, Grandma?” I asked. “Where” turned out to be Kerby’s General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. “Take this money, and buy something for someone who needs it. I’ll wait for you in the car.” Then she turned and walked out of Kerby’s.
I was only eight years old. I’d often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded, full of people competing to finish their Christmas shopping. For a few moments I just stood there, confused, holding that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy and who to buy it for. I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker, who was a kid with bad breath and messy hair. He sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock’s grade-two class. Bobby Decker didn’t have a coat. I knew that because he never went out for break during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn’t have a cough, and he didn’t have a coat. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat! I chose a red one, which looked really warm, and he would like that.
“Is this a Christmas present for someone?” the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid ten dollars down. “Yes.”
The nice lady smiled at me, put the coat in a bag and wished me a Merry Christmas.
注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
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That evening, Grandma helped me wrap (包裹) the coat in Christmas paper.
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Grandma and I waited breathlessly for Bobby Decker’s front door to open.
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10 . Every month, Zhang Lingling holds a party with her friends in a KTV room. At the party, all the people wear hanfu — a
Like Zhang, there are many young people who have a
| A．traditional | B．extra | C．senior | D．informal |
| A．delivered | B．inspired | C．reminded | D．preferred |
| A．attracted | B．illustrated | C．approached | D．comforted |
| A．observe | B．exchange | C．satisfy | D．select |
| A．warned | B．told | C．whispered | D．detailed |
| A．passion | B．position | C．talent | D．option |
| A．Looking after | B．Looking for | C．Looking forward to | D．Looking through |
| A．so | B．why | C．because | D．but |
| A．ignore | B．earn | C．organize | D．recognize |
| A．While | B．Whether | C．Since | D．Before |
| A．different | B．acceptable | C．similar | D．former |
| A．volunteer | B．lawyer | C．designer | D．editor |
| A．bit | B．range | C．pack | D．slice |
| A．various | B．positive | C．amazing | D．fashionable |
| A．remind | B．seek | C．comment | D．know |
