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1 . The Tuareg bride, Assalama, who has spent most of her time tending her family’s goats and sheep, sits silently as female relatives and helpers make sure that every hair is perfect for the wedding. The Tuareg are nomads, and it was only by chance that she was reunited with her 25-year-old cousin Mohamed a month earlier. Back from working in Libya, Mohamed spotted Assalama as she drew water from a well. “I knew from that moment that I wanted to marry her”, he says. He asked for her hand and she gave him a piece of jewelry to demonstrate her acceptance. Their families approved, and wedding plans began.

Following Tuareg traditions, the marriage ceremony is performed at a nearby mosque (清真寺) in the presence of only the couple’s parents. Assalama and Mohamed are absent. A few days later, the celebration approaches. For a week, some 500 guests enjoy camel races, sing, and eat rice, dates, and roasted meat in tents under the Saharan stars.

Mohamed wears an indigo tagelmust, a cloth that wraps his head and face. For the Tuareg, the tagelmust not only keeps out the desert sand and sun, it keeps evil creatures called jinns away, as does henna, a reddish-brown coloring used on Mohamed’s feet. It is also a symbol of purity, reserved for a man’s first marriage.

At the celebration, a tent called an ehan is prepared for Assalama and Mohamed. Women take down and put up the tent each day, making it larger each time to symbolize the progress of the celebration and of the couple’s relationship. Assalama stays inside the tent during the whole celebration, only showing her face or speaking to Mohamed, her best friend, her mother, and one special helper. During the celebration, neither Assalama nor Mohamed is ever left alone for fear they might be harmed by jealous jinns.

As the celebration ends, the couple prepares to spend the first year of their marriage with Assalama’s family. Mohamed must work hard to win his in-laws’ approval. Once he does that, he will take his bride back to his camp and start his nomad’s caravan moving again.

1. What is the passage mainly about?
A.The romantic love story of the two Tuareg cousins.
B.The marriage difficulties of a young Tuareg couple.
C.The description of the marriage of a Tuareg couple.
D.The changing wedding customs of the Tuareg people.
2. During their actual marriage ceremony, Assalama and Mohamed ________.
A.were forbidden to show up
B.visited the nearest mosque
C.showed respect to their parents
D.wore traditional Tuareg clothing
3. Henna is used on Mohamed’s feet because ________.
A.he is marrying his cousin
B.he is thought to be very pure
C.he is not wearing a Tagemust
D.he has not been married before
4. What does the underlined word “that” refer to?
A.Starting his caravan moving again.
B.Finishing the wedding celebration.
C.Working hard for Assalama’s family.
D.Obtaining permission from his in-laws.
2021-04-12更新 | 35次组卷 | 1卷引用:江苏省沛县中学2020-2021学年高二上学期期中考试(沛中-宿豫-矿附联考) 英语试题

2 . I am thrilled to welcome you to the 20th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival, a special event in partnership with the University of Illinois College of Media, the greater Champaign-Urbana community, and movie lovers everywhere. Little did we think, back in 1999, that our experiment in reinventing the film festival — to make a festival that celebrated overlooked films and the women and men who made those films — would become a landmark annual event in the life of our community and contribute to the repairs of the remarkable Virginia Theater.

In selecting the films for this year, Chaz Ebert and I looked to women filmmakers for our inspiration. Fully half of our films are either directed or co-directed by women, and several others have women in powerful producing roles. Films directed or co-directed by women include 13th , directed by Ava DuVernay9 Belle, directed by Amma Asante, and American Splendor, directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. And women producers include Lynda Obst and Emma Thomas winter stellar, and Ruth Ann Harnisch and Danielle Renfrew Behrens (Columbus).

Our opening night film is The Fugitive, directed by Andrew Davis, a graduate from University of Illinois. Our Saturday night film is the classic The Big Lebozvski. Our guest will be the Hollywood master Jeff Dowd. And of course The Alloy Orchestra will be back, this year with A Page of Madness, the classic Japanese silent film.

We would like to thank our sponsors, volunteers, festival pass holders, and individual ticket holders for their welcome participation. We look forward to your unwavering support to make our festival more successful each spring in central Illinois. We especially want to thank the University of Illinois for their loyal support year after year.

1. What was the purpose of reinventing Roger Ebert's Film Festival in 1999?
A.To enrich the life of residents.
B.To help rebuild Virginia Theater.
C.To work closely with the University of Illinois.
D.To honor people whose films were not box-office hits.
2. What is the focus of this year's film selection?
A.Hollywood classics.
B.Films produced or directed by women.
C.Diversity in themes.
D.Stories featuring female leading roles.
3. What does the underlined word “unwavering” in the last paragraph probably mean?
A.Consistent.B.Original.C.Legal.D.Conditional.
4. Who is most likely the author of the passage?
A.The President of the University of Illinois.
B.A movie critic who is a friend of the Eberts.
C.A member of the Festival's organizing committee.
D.A journalist who reports stories about the Festival.
2021-03-17更新 | 202次组卷 | 2卷引用:江苏省泰兴市第一高级中学2021-2022学年高二上学期期中考试英语试卷

3 . 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

4 . “WHAT IS CIVILIZATION?” asked Kenneth Clark 50 years ago in the BBC series on the subject. “I don’t know, and I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognize it when I see it, and I’m looking at it now.” And he turned to gesture behind him, at the soaring Gothic towers and flying buttresses of Notre Dame(巴黎圣母院).

It seems inhuman to care more about a building than about people. That the sight of Notre Dame going up in flames has attracted so much more attention than floods in southern Africa which killed over 1,000 arouses understandable feelings of guilt. Yet the widespread, intense grief at the sight of the cathedral’s collapsing tower is in fact profoundly human—and in a particularly 21st-century way.

It is not just the economy that is global today, it is culture too. People wander the world in search not just of jobs and security but also of beauty and history. Familiarity breeds affection. A building on whose sunny steps you have rested, in front of which you have taken a photo with your loved one, becomes a warm part of your memories and thus of yourself. That helps explain why China is in mourning—WeChat, young China’s principal means of talking to itself, has been throbbing with the story, and Xi Jinping, the country’s president, sent a message of condolence to Emmanuel Macron, his French counterpart—while India was largely indifferent. Tourism from India to the West is a trickle(细流) compared with the flood from China.

This visual age has endowed beauty with new power, and social media have turned great works of art into superstars. Only a few, though, have achieved this status. Just as there is only ever a handful of world-famous actors, so the pantheon(万神殿)of globally recognizable cultural symbols is tiny: the Mona Lisa, Michelangelo’s David, the Taj Mahal, the Great Pyramid—and Notre Dame. Disaster, too, is visual. In the 24 hours after the fire started videos on social media of the burning cathedral were viewed nearly a quarter of a billion times.

Yet the emotions the sight aroused were less about the building itself than about what losing it might mean. Notre Dame is an expression of humanity at its collective best. Nobody could look up into that ceiling without wondering at the genius of the thousands of anonymous craftsmen who, over a century and a half, realized a vision so grand in its structural ambition and so delicate in its   detail. Its survival through 850 years of political turbulence—through war, revolution and Nazi occupation—binds the present to the past.

The fire also binds people to each other. The outpouring of emotion it has brought forth is proof that, despite the dark forces of division now abroad, we are all in it together. When nationalism is a rising threat, shared sadness makes borders suddenly irrelevant. When politics is polarized, a love of culture has the power to unite. When extremism divides Muslim from Christian and religious people from atheists, those of all faiths and none are mourning together. An building built for the glory of God also represents the unity of the human spirit.

And it will be rebuilt. The morning after the fire, the many Parisians who went to the cathedral to mourn its destruction found comfort instead. Although the spire is gone, the towers are still standing and it seems likely that the whole building can be reconstructed. The effort to rebuild it, like the fire, will bring people together. Within 24 hours, €600m ($677m) had been raised from businesses and rich people, and a rash of crowd funding campaigns started. A high-resolution laser scan of the building, carried out recently, should help.

It will never be the same, but that is as it should be. As Victor Hugo wrote in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, a three-volume love-letter to the cathedral: “Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. Art is often transformed as it is being made…Time is the architect, the nation is the builder.”

1. The underlined word “condolence” in Paragraph 3 means __________.
A.sympathyB.complimentC.gratitudeD.suspicion
2. Why was India largely indifferent to the big fire of Notre Dame?
A.Because Indians care more about jobs and security.
B.Because Indians have no access to social media like WeChat.
C.Because Indians have less familiarity with Notre Dame.
D.Because Indians are not fond of travelling.
3. What can we learn from Paragraph 5?
A.People’s sadness at the misfortune mainly lies in the building itself.
B.People wondered who contributed to such an artistic achievement.
C.Notre Dame is a witness to Nazi invasion and French revolution.
D.Fortunately we are blessed with countless splendid works of art.
4. By saying “it will never be the same” in the last paragraph, the writer means that __________.
A.the high-resolution laser scan of the building helps but far from enough
B.it’s impossible to replicate (复制) it for lack of the genius of craftsmen
C.dark forces, nationalism and extremism are barriers to replicating it
D.time has changed and the rebuilding will change accordingly
5. What might be the best title of the passage?
A.What is civilization?
B.Why do people care about Notre Dame?
C.What binds people together?
D.How should we rebuild Notre Dame?
2021-02-27更新 | 61次组卷 | 1卷引用:江苏省前黄高级中学2020-2021学年高二上学期期中英语试题(含听力)

5 . Imagine that while walking through a park one day, you begin to notice strange things all around you. People in colorful clothes from centuries ago walk on the paths. A magician is doing amazing tricks. Musicians play strange music on strange instruments. Knights on horseback show their skills in riding competitions. The smell of roasting meat begins to make your mouth water. A pleasant voice shouts, “Good morrow!”

What is going on? Have you traveled back in time?   In a way, yes. You have found yourself in the midst of a Renaissance fair(文艺复兴节)!Since the 1960s, Renaissance fairs have grown in popularity in the US and Canada. Communities in at least 44 states and two Canadian provinces now hold annual Renaissance fairs. Over 200 fairs are held every year, with 40 in California alone. The first Renaissance fair was started in the 1960s by a school teacher in Southern California named Phyllis Patterson. She wanted to give her students a real-life history experience, so she created the “Renaissance Fair” in her backyard. The rest, as they say, is history.

Since Renaissance fairs are “living history”, you might think they are designed to be mainly educational. It’s true that some people try to make the fairs as genuine as possible. However, for many others, the key word is entertainment. With all the musicians and magicians walking about, you will definitely be entertained. A renaissance fair will be a feast for your eyes and your ears, not to mention your stomach.

You can enjoy sampling the food and drink while watching parades and live animal displays. Browse through the booths(摊位) and admire the artwork and handcrafts. You are sure to be both educated and entertained. If you’re wondering how to dress to attend a Renaissance fair, that’s up to you. Some people go all out and dress up in costumes. Others just go in their normal, everyday clothes. However you dress, you’re sure to be overwhelmed by the sights and sounds and smells of a Renaissance fair. And if you have ever wanted to travel back in time, here’s your chance.

1. What is the first paragraph about?
A.A chapter of a war novel.B.A sight of the local market.
C.A slow walking in the park.D.A scene of Renaissance fairs
2. Why did Phyllis start   Renaissance fair?
A.To help her students become the master of history.
B.To allow her students to pay in her backyard.
C.To make her students experience history.
D.To give her students an experience of life.
3. As well as educating, Renaissance fairs are intended for ______.
A.communicationB.fun
C.businessD.adventure
4. The last paragraph suggests that ______.
A.you are free to dress for the fairsB.you are taught to make art work
C.you have to look after live animalsD.you can enjoy food free of charge
5. The main idea of the passage is that ______.
A.Americans and Canadians like fairs more
B.Attending Renaissance fairs is to be educated
C.California is where modern fairs were born
D.Renaissance fairs are more popular than ever
2021-01-01更新 | 118次组卷 | 3卷引用:江苏省连云港市市区三星普通高中2020-2021学年高一上学期期中联考英语试题
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6 . March, April and May are months full of festivals and events all over the world. Here are some wonderful festivals around the world that happen in spring.
SongKran--Thailand
Dates: 13th-15th, April
In Thailand, it’s time to celebrate the coming monsoon season, which will bring the rain many people have been looking forward to. They celebrate it with a festival called Songkran, when people head out to the streets with water guns to spray(喷,洒)everyone who walks past. If you walk on the streets where the festival is celebrated, prepare to get soaked!
Naghol--Vanuatu
Dates: Every Saturday from April to May
Every year, villagers come together to celebrate the harvest of yams, an important part in the peopls’s diet in Vanuatu. The festival is most famous for its “land diving ceremony”. During the ceremony men and boys dive to the ground from high wooden towers with only two thin vines attached(附于)to their ankles(脚踝). The divers’ heads have to lightly touch the ground when they jump---something very dangerous if the vines are not measured(测量)properly.
Cherry Blossom Viewing ---Japan
Dates: The cherry blossom season is different from year to year depending on the weather forecast.
The cherry blossom season has huge importance to the people of Japan, who celebrate the days when the flowers finally blossom. Only a few days later, the petals(花瓣) fall to the ground, like pink snowflakes. This is one of the most beautiful things to see. In Japan, almost everyone has picnics in the parks to view the flowers.
Sinhalese New Year--Sri Lanka
Dates: 13th or 14th, April
Just like in many other countries in South an South East Asia, this is the time when the Sinhalese celebrate the traditional New Year, an ancient celebration which marks the end of the harvest season and is one of two times of the year when the sun is straight above Sri Lanka. There are a lot of delicious foods during the celebration.
1. . What does the underlined word “ soaked” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A.tiredB.wetC.crazyD.interested
2. The writer thinks that the “land diving ceremony” can be dangerous for the divers because ___________.
A.the divers may fall onto the ground if the thin vines break
B.the divers may bump into (撞在…上)the wooden tower on the way down
C.the divers’ ankles may get injured if the vines are tied too tightly
D.the divers may injure(伤害)their heads if the vines aren’t measured properly
3. We can learn from the passage that__________________.
A.the Cherry Blossom Celebration usually lasts a long time in Japan
B.the Cherry Blossom Celebration is the most important festival in Japan
C.the time for the Cherry Blossom Celebration in Japan can be different yearly
D.people usually stay at home for celebration during the cherry blossom season.
2020-09-19更新 | 178次组卷 | 3卷引用:2012-2013学年江苏省启东中学高一上学期期中考试英语试卷
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7 . Why Is 2020 Called a Leap Year?

February 29 comes up on the calendar only every four years. A year with a February 29 might be good news if you are paid by the day or the week. But it might be bad news if you were born on a February 29.    1    .

American English has a term for the unusual situation. February 29 is called a leap day. And the entire 12-month period with a February 29 in it is called a leap year. This year, 2020, is such a year.

In a leap year, the dates jump over one day of the week. Let me explain. In 2017, the last day of the year, December 31, fell on a Sunday. In 2018, it fell on a Monday. In 2019, it fell on a Tuesday. But in 2020, December 31 will fall on a Thursday.    2    .

The reason for a leap day or a leap year is because our calendar does not follow the Earth’s orbit around the sun exactly.    3    . So every four years, we put all that time together into an extra day — or, what is officially called an intercalary(闰) day.

“Leap” is also an important word for two other common American expressions.    4    . If you want someone to investigate a situation completely before taking action, you might say, “Look before you leap.” The other expression is a phrase of hope. Urging someone to “take a leap of faith” means inviting the person to take action, even if not everything about a situation is known. Interestingly, both phrases are completely reasonable to say to someone who is about to get married. On that note, some people choose to marry on February 29 because it is an unusual date.    5    . Leap years were believed to be difficult, and leap days unlucky and a bad time to begin anything new. Whatever you think about them, the change in the calendar will be gone soon enough. Then we can return to normal, and leap over February 29 as usual.

A.One is a kind of warning.
B.That’s why we called it a Leap Year
C.It just leaped right over Wednesday.
D.Each year, we have a little time left over.
E.You have to wait three years in between birthdays!
F.As a verb, the word “leap” means to jump, or to move quickly.
G.Some ancient peoples would likely tell couples not to do it, however.

8 . Myth was born in childhood of human being. It is a product of ancient imagination, which can conquer nature, dominate nature and make the power of nature have its own image. It is a cultural phenomenon in civilized society.

China and Greece are birthplaces of Orient and Western civilizations. Prime Minister Constantine Caramanlis of Greece once pointed out: '' The civilization of China brought light to the Far East and the whole of Asia, as Greece thought, the cornerstone of European civilization, brought light to the West. '' However, for some reasons, there are many differences between Chinese and Greek myth, which show their own unique national spirits and moral principles.

The ancestors of Chinese nation lived on land before one million and seven hundred thousand years. After long uncivilized times, ancient Chinese gradually created civilization. In prehistory, ancient Chinese lived and struggled. Most ancestors’ achievements of tribes have been passed down orally. This is old myth. According to some archaeological materials, single myth, which has the meaning of totem(图腾), had appeared in the Late Palaeolithic Age. As the mental belief, totem is the holiest and the most beautiful symbol in ancient tribes’ mind. It is their aesthetic conception(审美观). On the contrary, the history of Greece is shorter, and Greek myth produced later than Chinese myth. It produced in about eleventh century BC, and it was far from the age of totem worship. That was the Age of Heroes. Human wisdom had been more and more important and totem worship had tended to disappear. So ancient Greeks thought that human being was the most beautiful in the world. They gave their deities(神灵) the most beautiful images. Those are images of human beings.

China lies in an isolated pocket in East Asia, surrounded by impassable mountains, deserts, seas and valleys. This environment develops a continental culture where people are only looking inward, a farming culture centers on soil, discouraging any adventurous seefaring people. In addition, Chinese myth produced in the Yellow River and the Yangtze River Valley. In both zones, the volume of rain is abundant all the year round. Because the soil is fertile and the resources are rich, both areas are suitable for agriculture. It became the typical continental agriculture. They would not like to take their own lives to struggle with terrifying waves, but would rather work hard in gentle land. Just the ancient Chinese who lived in this continent created this unique myth, ancient Chinese myth.

Contrary to China, Greece is a poor country, barren and dry. Unlike the rich river valleys Yellow River and Yangtze River, its rivers are too small to be navigable, and they dry up in the heat of the mostly rainless summers. The Greek landscape is dominated by high mountains, which occupy about three quarters of the land. As rich land was limited in Greece, to survive, ancient Greeks had to look outward. Sea is the greatest Greek natural resource. It plays a central role in the life of Greeks. The Chinese seas don’t look navigable, but the Greek seas look like swimming pools. The Chinese sailor, if he happens to be, sails for days without any land in sight. In fact, he can easily get drowned before he has a chance to get anywhere. The Greek sailor, who is always fortunate, can spot islands in all directions on clear days. With these steppingstones, he can reach any part of the Mediterranean to trade, to stay, to conquer and to colonize. They like to learn advanced technique and cultures from other countries. This provided living space for independence of Greek myth. Frankly speaking, marine civilization created the great Greek myth.

1. What is the passage mainly about?
A.The differences between Chinese and Greek myth.
B.The definition of myths and why they came into existence.
C.The reasons for the differences between Chinese and Greek myth.
D.The factors resulting in Chinese myth being more advanced than Greek myth.
2. What can we know about the author according to what he writes in this passage?
A.He has a strong affection for his country’s civilizations.
B.He holds a positive attitude towards the study of myth.
C.He agrees with Constantine in terms of Greek myth.
D.He presents his main point of view in an objective tone.
3. What can we infer from the 3rd paragraph?
A.Chinese myth came into being 1.7 million years earlier than Greek myth.
B.The appearance of totem marked the birth of Chinese civilization.
C.Deities in Greek myth are wiser and more beautiful than Chinese ones.
D.The time when the myth produced has great influence on its images.
4. The author writes the 4th and 5th paragraphs mainly to _______.
A.display the geographical differences between China and Greece
B.compare the agriculture civilization and the marine civilization
C.show how environment causes the differences of the two myths
D.reveal why Chinese are more conservative than western people
5. What does the underlined word ''marine'' in the last sentence probably mean?
A.of advanced levelB.of or relating to the sea
C.independent of anythingD.willing to make adventures
6. The differences mainly talked about in the passage between Chinese and Greek myths are ______.
a. aesthetic conception       
b.surviving skills
c.independent spirits               
d.adventurous spirits          
e.forming process
A.aceB.bcd
C.adeD.abd
2020-04-14更新 | 98次组卷 | 1卷引用:江苏省锡山高级中学2018--2019学年高一下学期期中英语试题
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9 . This famous site features one of the largest and most representative collections of Buddhist architecture and art in China. It was rated as a 5A-class tourist attraction in 2010.

The Lingshan Grand Buddha is an 88-meter-high open-air bronze statue of Sakyamuni. It is 17 meters higher than the Grand Buddha at Leshan Mountain. It is part of the pattern of Five Buddhas in five directions together with the Big Buddha at Lantau Island in Hong Kong to the south, the Grand Buddha at Leshan Mountain to the west, the Grand Buddha in Yungang Caves to the north and the Grand Buddha at the Longmen Caves in the central area. At the feet of the Grand Buddha, you can feel the loftiness (雄伟)and dignity of Buddhism.

Tips:

Location: Lingshan Road, Mashan town, Binhu district, Wuxi

Tickets: Through ticket: 210 yuan ( $ 31. 85) , and free tickets for the performance of Ode to Auspiciousness for individual visitors

Opening hours for Lingshan Mountain: 7:00 17:00

Opening hours for Brahma Palace: 9:00 18:00

Recommendations:

The Nine-Dragon Fountain

The Nine-Dragon Fountain in front of the giant Buddha will start to play music and the song, The Birth of Buddha , at 10 am every day. A huge lotus(莲花)slowly blooms with six petals, and a 7-meter golden statue of Prince Buddha rises from the lotus, with one hand pointing to the sky and one hand at the earth, symbolizing Buddha's light shining on all things.


The Brahma Palace

The whole palace shows the mixture of traditional cultural elements with Western architectural features. Many cultural heritage items and art works can be found there. Its splendid design surprises every visitor.

1. What is the Lingshan Grand Buddha famous for?
A.Its typical collections of architecture and art.
B.Its special material.
C.Its geographical location.
D.Its long history.
2. What do we know about the performance of Ode to Auspiciousness?
A.It lasts 10 hours for visitors.B.It costs 210 yuan at least.
C.It's available only for group visitors.D.It's free if you get a through ticket.
3. Why does the writer recommend the Brahma Palace to us?
A.It’s in front of the giant Buddha.
B.Its design and collections are amazing.
C.Visitors can enjoy a huge lotus there.
D.Many traditional cultural items are on sale.
2020-03-30更新 | 536次组卷 | 17卷引用:江苏省无锡市江阴市四校联考2023-2024学年高二上学期11月期中英语试题(含听力)
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10 . A new course on world heritage, and its conservation offers a good opportunity for the young people to learn about the heritage(遗产) of humanity and gain a sense of responsibility to help protect the planet we live on.

According to a world heritage education programme jointly launched by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) and China’s Ministry of Education, the course will first be offered at several schools in Beijing before being included as a mandatory course(必修课) for high school students nationwide.

The new course covers photos slide shows and documentaries on the magnificence of the world heritage sites. The class aims to tell children what world heritage is and why and how it should be protected. A total of 171 nations, including China, have signed the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage Listed are 754 sites all over the world, of which 29 are in China—the third most after Spain and Italy. Currently, protection of the country’s cultural and natural resources leaves much to be desired. Education is undoubtedly the best way to cultivate people’s sense for protecting cultural and natural resources.

The introduction of such a programme in Chinese classrooms will certainly help our young people realize the significance of common heritage, learning about world heritage sites, the history and traditions of different cultures, ecology, and the importance of protecting biological and cultural diversity.

More importantly, it will help cultivate a sense of responsibility in the minds of young participants. This is critical in protecting these cultural and natural legacies, as well as our living environment and the limited resources for sustainable development.

1. Which of the statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A.The world heritage education programme was jointly launched by the United States and China’s Ministry of Education.
B.The course will first be offered at all the schools in Beijing.
C.Protection of the country’s cultural and natural resources has been perfect thanks to people’s efforts.
D.China ranks high among the countries with 29 sites listed on the list.
2. What can you expect to learn at the class?
A.What world heritage is.B.Why we should protect world heritage is.
C.How world heritage should be protected.D.All of the above.
3. The underlined word “cultivate” in the third paragraph probably means “_____”.
A.employB.affect
C.developD.appreciate
4. What’s the purpose of the passage?
A.To inform us of the reason for protecting the heritage.
B.To tell us the way to protect the heritage.
C.To tell us a new course.
D.To tell us heritage preservation starts with education.
2020-03-20更新 | 232次组卷 | 6卷引用:江苏省南京航空航天大学苏州附属中学2022-2023学年高二上学期期中调查英语试卷
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