1 . The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Major Cold, or da han in Chinese, is the last solar term in the annual solar calendar. Here are some things about Major Cold.
Cold currentDuring Major Cold, as the cold current moves southward, the weather is often cold to the extreme. Though the related data in China show that the lowest temperature in a year is usually recorded during the Major Cold period, it may not be as cold as Minor Cold in most areas on the whole since spring is approaching.
Dispelling (驱散) coldDuring Major Cold, the freezing weather has a big influence on Chinese people’s lives. Rather than take up outdoor activities, people tend to reduce movements and choose to stay at home to keep fit in various ways. For example, to stay warm, people in Beijing have a habit of eating dispelling cold cake, a kind of rice cake that is thought good to warm and nourish. Besides, in Chinese, “rice cake” has the same pronunciation with the words “higher in a new year”, which symbolizes good luck and continual promotion. For another example, residents in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province like to drink nourishing chicken soup during Major Cold.
The ending and the beginningMajor Cold often coincides with the end of the year, so the folk customs of this period have an added sense of farewell to the old and welcoming the new. With the traditional Spring Festival around the corner, people are busy making preparations for it, like stocking up delicacies, sweeping and decorating. The cheerfulness of the reunion adds warmth to the cold winter days.
1. What is the feature of Major Cold?A.Lasting much longer than Minor Cold. |
B.Being colder than Minor Cold on average. |
C.Resulting from cold current moving southward. |
D.Dropping to the lowest temperature of the year. |
A.By eating specific food to keep warm. | B.By expressing new year’s resolution. |
C.By doing exercise to keep healthy. | D.By decorating their houses to dispel cold. |
A.Diet. | B.News. | C.Culture. | D.Art. |
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(\)划掉。
修改: 在错的词下画一横线, 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。
Recently our class have had a debate. Its topic focuses on if it is necessary to use high technology to beautify the Palace Museum. As for this, different students hold different opinion.
Some are in favor of the creative idea because of the use of high technology can add beauty to the Palace Museum, thus make it more attractive to visitors. Therefore, those who are against the idea thinks that this technology will destroy the original appearance of the Palace Museum. More important, it is extremely essential to respect the history and tradition.
From me point of view, other measures can be taken attract more visitors. And it’s our duty to provide the complete and genuine ancient palace for the world.
3 . It’s been nearly two decades since the traditional clothing style Hanfu first started to reemerge in China. Since then it has gone from a small cultural movement celebrating an ancient fashion to a trend that is booming on social media, having been adopted by China’s Generation Z as a means of connecting with their past. Instead of following other cultures blindly, Generation Z now have different opinions about what trend is by promoting local culture while having an objective view of exotic cultural products.
The new tastes of Generation Z—young people born after 1995—are well represented on Bilibili. In the recent New Year’s Eve gala presented by Bilibili, it attracted more than 100 million views within 48 hours with a colourful set of programmes ranging from Peking Opera to classical Chinese cartoons. The same is also true of movie industry. Last year, for the first time, the top 10 most viewed films in China were all domestic films, while the ticket sales for imported films have dropped to only 16.28 percent.
”Generation Z grew up with the rapid development of China and under good economic conditions. With the development of the Chinese Internet industry, they have more access to diverse international information and culture, which bring them a much broader vision and makes them more open and confident in analyzing foreign culture. Apart from taking pride in China’s rapid development, this generation also pursues individuality and values devotion to the country,“ Professor Zhang Yiwu said.
He also noted that the popular rock and punk culture pursued by the 70s and 80s generation is more of a challenge against real life and local culture. Some people who were born in the 1970s and 1980s did not grow up in the Internet age—they experienced the transformation of China going from poor to rich first-hand. This kind of longing and admiration of the West came from a lack of confidence.
However, Generation Z now have the confidence to look at Western culture with equal status. This kind of cultural confidence will result in China being more active and creative in its development on the international stage in the future.
1. What does the underlined word ”exotic“ in Paragraph 1 mean?A.Foreign. | B.Fashionable. | C.Traditional. | D.Elegant. |
A.To confirm the rise of new media. |
B.To promote Chinese Internet industry. |
C.To highlight the popularity of domestic art. |
D.To show the popularity of New Year’s Eve gala. |
A.They have a stronger cultural identity. |
B.They are longing for cultural diversity. |
C.They have made China develop rapidly. |
D.They are more fond of foreign culture. |
A.Confident China, Better Future |
B.China’s Progress Results in Cultural Confidence |
C.China’s New Generation Redefine Local Culture as Trendy |
D.Hanfu Style, Connector of Ancient Fashion and Modern Trend |
4 . When cultural heritage sites disappear, they’re gone forever. However, they are being endangered at an alarming rate by rising seas (Venice), pollution (the Taj Mahal) and overtourism (Angkor Wat). Just to name a few.
But when we try to protect these heritage sites, we also have to face such thorny questions as “What part of the past is worth preserving and passing on to the next generations? What duty do we owe to the creations of our ancestors? What strength do we draw from their presence — and when, on the contrary, do they become a lead weight, preventing us from projecting ourselves into the future?”
Humankind has answered these difficult questions differently in different places. In Dresden, Germany, the Frauenkirche was an 18th-century church whose bell-shaped top was a landmark. In February, 1945, one of the most destructive bombing attacks of World War II killed more than 25,000 people and reduced the city to ruins. With Dresden slowly rebuilt after the war, the Frauenkirche was left in ruins. But after German reunification, the church was reconstructed using many of its original materials, as a statement of peace and harmony.
Like the Frauenkirche, Notre Dame, a landmark in Paris, which was destroyed by fire in 2019, is being rebuilt as close as possible to how it was before, including using the original and poisonous metal-lead-for the roof. That choice was controversial, as future choices are bound to be in the debate about how to restore and preserve historic buildings.
Perhaps, no one can claim to have the right answers on preservation. There may not even be right answers. What we will do is to continue to take care of important cultural heritage sites, as a matter of significance to humanity’s past, present and future.
1. Which heritage site is overcrowded?A.Venice. | B.Dresden. | C.The Taj Mahal. | D.Angkor Wat. |
A.Tough. | B.Smart. | C.Interesting. | D.Important. |
A.The high rebuilding costs. | B.The timing of reconstruction. |
C.The choice of certain material. | D.The significance of preservation |
A.We should protect as many heritage sites as possible. |
B.It is better to leave the damaged historic buildings alone. |
C.Historic buildings should be rebuilt with the same materials. |
D.Heritage sites serve as an important link among human beings. |
5 . If art preserves the culture of the Crow people, then Crow women are the keepers of that culture, cultivating it to reflect the modern day.
Fashion designer Bethany Yellowtail grew up riding horses and running in the fields and swimming in the river and being around her people in the Crow Nation and Northern Cheyenne Indian reservations in southeastern Montana. She knows first-hand the importance of art to maintaining native traditions. In 2015 she turned that knowledge into her own brand: B. Yellowtail. A year later, she created the B. Yellowtail Collective, made up of native artists, to foster economic opportunities for their communities. Many of those artists are women from different tribes but all of them preserve their culture and move it forward through their medium of choice.
Yellowtail and her team work for the native-owned business that’s rooted in community. Artists within the Collective typically receive 70% of profit from retail sales, and for a portion of the pandemic (流行病) the brand has upped that to 100%. The extra money has, of course, increased artists’ income in the past year, but the relationship is interdependent: without the work of those artists, B. Yellowtail wouldn’t exist and native culture would feel the loss.
Dewanda Little Coyote is Yellowtail’s mother. Family is deeply important to their tribe. So is art, which often runs in the family — and along the matriarchal (母系的) side. Little Coyote picked up her entrepreneurial spirit from her parents, who owned a gift shop. “My parents said, ‘If you have hands, create something. Do something, and make a living off of that,’” she said. After her parents passed away, the artist began learning beading (串珠) earrings herself. Dentalium, a tusk shell often used in native jewelry, caught her eye in particular. “I love it, because back in the day, our Cheyenne women wore a lot of dentalium,” she said. “So I wanted to give a contemporary look to that — to what our ancestors wore.”
Yellowtail herself learned sewing from her aunts and grandmothers before moving to Los Angeles in 2007 to study fashion design. Now, native women support native women — and matriarchal art evolves.
1. Why did Bethany Yellowtail set up B. Yellowtail?A.To make their culture continue. | B.To become rich as soon as possible. |
C.To reflect the modern fashions. | D.To inspire more women to work. |
A.Native-owned businesses make money more easily. |
B.The profit from the Collective has fallen sharply. |
C.Local artists love to work in their community. |
D.Artists, income is related to the development of native culture. |
A.To prove she loves her daughter deeply. |
B.To show how native culture is handed down. |
C.To praise her efforts to help the young. |
D.To appeal to more women to join in jewelry design. |
A.Humorous, modest and cooperative. | B.Traditional, cautious and outgoing. |
C.Independent, competitive and creative. | D.Creative, determined and selfless. |
6 . The exhibit, Digital Dunhuang — Tales of Heaven and Earth, which was held at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, brought to Hong Kong more than 100 exhibits including the visual murals and other related programs that could allow visitors to learn about the art and history of the Mogao Caves in a fun way.
“Dunhuang was an international city, a place where East met West, on the old Silk Road. So the Mogao Caves, which were completed in a period of over 1,000 years, record the ways of life and beliefs of the different peoples that crossed paths there,” explained Fion Lin of Hong Kong Heritage Museum.
Visitors can now get up close and personal with these faraway treasures without having to step into the caves, thanks to the digitization project of the Dunhuang Academy, a pioneer that has made great progress in the digitization and 3D scanning of the Dunhuang treasures.
“Studies have shown that in a cave, both temperature and CO2 concentration level can rise with 15 tourists inside for ten minutes. As a result, the wall paintings are going to eventually fade. Digital technology has helped to strike a balance between sharing the treasures and protecting them,” said Lin.
However, digitization of the caves faces many challenges such as poor lighting and rough wall surfaces. On average, 40,000 pictures have to be taken to cover 300 m2. Great amount of efforts have been made to piece the pictures together. What the exhibition presented is the result of years of hard work.
During the exhibition period, a mini display on Dunhuang music culture was also being held at the Museum for public participation.
1. What could visitors see at the Digital Dunhuang exhibit?A.The Mogao Caves. | B.About 40,000 Dunhuang pictures. |
C.Digital Dunhuang wall paintings. | D.Ancient records of Dunhuang. |
A.It helps Dunhuang become an international city. |
B.It lets people better appreciate the Dunhuang art. |
C.It is effective in cutting the CO₂ level in the caves. |
D.It attracts more tourists from East and West to Hong Kong. |
A.They are brightly lit. | B.They are very rough. |
C.It is very hard to protect them. | D.It is impossible for the tourists to see them. |
A.In paragraph 2. | B.In paragraph 3. |
C.In paragraph 4. | D.In paragraph 5. |
7 . From grand museum openings to music, art and theatre, these are the coolest new things happening anywhere this year.
Look around an odd star's living room
Paris, France
This townhouse, where the controversial French singer Serge Gainsbourg spent the last 20 years of his life, has been completely closed off to the public since Gainsbourg's death in 1991, but next spring it'll finally open as a museum. The main attraction will be Serge's famously odd living area, with its huge collection of sculptures.
Get lost in the world of Hans Christian Andersen
Odense, Denmark
Just 90 minutes by train from Copenhagen, Odense is best known as the birthplace of Christian Andersen, and it's now home to the new HCA Museum. With its biographical exhibits and inanimate projects that come alive, this thoroughly fun museum would have delighted the “Little Mermaid” and “Snow Queen” author himself.
Check out King Tut's enormous new pad
Giza, Egypt
When it finally opens in November 2022, the Grand Egypt Museum will be the biggest museum in the world for a single civilization. Costing $1 billion, this museum will be about the size of the Louvre in Paris. Most importantly, this will be the first time that all 5,000 pieces of King Tut's treasure will be displayed in the same place.
Discover a cultural jewel at the heart of Europe
Novi Sad, Serbia
Serbia's second-largest city will wear the crown of European Capital of Culture for the year. Ever fancied checking out of an exhibition in an abandoned pasta factory? The Mlin Cultural Station awaits. Novi Sad's unique architecture and history have long made it a major destination.
1. Which place can you go to take a dip into literature?A.Paris in France. | B.Giza in Egypt. |
C.Odense in Denmark. | D.Novi Sad in Serbia. |
A.It will be the biggest museum worldwide. |
B.It will be bigger than the Louvre in France. |
C.It will be open again since its close in 1991. |
D.It will exhibit 5,000 pieces of King Tut's wealth. |
A.The Mlin Cultural Station. | B.The HCA Museum. |
C.The Grand Egypt Museum. | D.Serge Gainsbourg's Museum. |
Before coming to China to teach, I wrongly assumed that there would be much
Making friends was my big concern
In China, teachers
When it comes to my favourite Chinese food, how can I possibly choose?! Every meal was a feast, especially with the low cost of living which meant eating out wasn’t just something
Overall, it can't be
9 . Every year on the third Sunday in June, Father’s Day is celebrated by families all around the world. We celebrate and honor fathers and their influence in our lives. Apart from your biological father, you can also celebrate grandfathers, stepfathers, and others you consider father figures.
The history of Father’s Day goes back to 1908, when a church in West Virginia honored 362 men killed the previous year in a coal mining explosion. The following year, a woman named Dodd started her quest to establish Father’s Day as a national holiday.
A.Dodd was one of six children raised by their single father. |
B.Therefore, the history of Father’s Day isn’t straightly accepted. |
C.A lot happened to threaten the parent-celebrating holidays then. |
D.We have the answers to your wonder about this dad-centered day. |
E.Give them a nice dad gift to show how much you appreciate them! |
F.Dodd’s home state of Washington celebrated Father’s Day in 1910. |
G.The Great Depression and World War II helped boost the idea of Father’s Day. |
End of Heat (处暑) implies that most parts in China
In China, regions beyond the Great Wall will enter autumn in early September. People can enjoy the scenery as it changes gradually
It is a tradition