1 . International tourism is becoming interestingly popular, and large numbers of people from all over the world come to visit famous places such as the Great Wall of China and the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.     1     They've thrown rubbish everywhere, brought more traffic and even done serious damage to ancient relics.

As for the damage, there are many different causes. For example, the paintings in the Sistine Chapel are being damaged by people breathing onto them when they visit.     2     That may raise the humidity (湿气) of the air and damage the paintings. Damage in other places such as the Great Wall is because of tourists climbing on delicate (脆弱的) areas. Besides, roads have also been built to help visitors climb the Wall easily. These activities can cause a lot of damage to the area.

    3     Firstly, we have to cut down tourist numbers, because fewer visitors will result in less damage. Secondly, we should make strict rules about which areas people can visit and what they can do when they get there.     4     People will not be allowed to walk off the paths. Visitors to indoor places can be asked to wear masks to protect the paintings.

In short, it is necessary to control tourism at famous places.     5     And people who live hundreds of years later will have no chance to see these great places.

A．For example, special paths can be built.

B．What can we do to deal with these problems?

C．The Great Wall was built over 2,000 years ago.

D．However, these visitors have caused many problems.

E．Traveling is the best way for us to get to know the world.

F．If we do not do this, these places will disappear from our planet.

G．Their breath contains very small drops of water that are present in the air.

2 . As students head to their Thanksgiving break, here comes a big homework assignment: StoryCorps wants tens of thousands of teenagers across America to interview their grandparents this Thanksgiving and upload their recordings to the Library of Congress.

The nonprofit oral history organization is asking high school history teachers to have their students record the interviews with StoryCorps free smartphone application. Recordings sent to the library will be shared with the public.

"The Great Thanksgiving Listen is an assignment that will last for generations," StoryCorps founder Dave Isay says. "When young people do these interviews and they hit 'send' at end of the interview to the library they know that their great-great-great-great-great-grand kids are going to listen to these conversations someday and get to understand where they come from and who their ancestors are."

He hopes it becomes an annual tradition that brings families closer together by using modern technology to preserve the wisdom of elders. The students could tap into memories of events dating back to the 1920s, but Isay says the stories are less important than the fact that two people are talking." The purpose of StoryCorps is to have the two people who have this conversation feel more connected with each other and give the person who is being interviewed the chance to be heard," he says.

Brandon Clarke, an administrator at the private Berkeley Carroll School, in Brooklyn, New York, is enthusiastic about tbc project. He says StoryCorps, which is headquartered near the school, has interviewed some of his teachers while developing an instructional guide for the Thanksgiving project. A couple weeks before the holiday, Berkeley Carroll students may get some classroom exercises aimed at sharpening their interview skills.

"How do you develop good questions? How do you go about conducting an interview? How do you build off of a really interesting response?"

But Isay says interviewing isn't hard. He says he has learned from listening to some of the 60,000 conversations StoryCorps has collected since 2003 that people are naturally good at it. "It's just a matter of concentrating, being present and making sure you're in a quiet place," he says. "I think people understand the importance of the moment and that they treat it very seriously."

About 13 million radio listeners hear edited versions of StoryCorps interviews every Friday on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition". StoryCorps also shares excerpts（节录）of recordings through animated videos, podcasts and its website.

Isay says the Thanksgiving project will help spread the idea that history comes from the bottom up. Clarice agrees. "This is a really great example of how oral history is really history, "he says. "For it to be legitimate（正统的）history, it doesn't have to appear in print in a carefully-edited book. Individual stories and individual perspectives are also part of history."

1. How does StoryCorps collect the stories for its project?

A．It asks grandparents to tell their children stories.

B．It asks teenagers to record their grandparents' stories.

C．It asks students to interview their grandparents in a library

D．It asks teachers to teach their students how to make recordings

2. For Save Isay the purpose of the Thanksgiving project is to ______

A．create a new family tradition.

B．pay attention to taking care of the elders.

C．make family members have a close relationship.

D．help a family's history be remembered by its later generations.

3. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that       .

A．sharing oral stories is a fresh idea for most Americans,

B．oral history plays a more important role in people's daily life.

C．there are many mediums and tools available for recording history.

D．oral history is currently not considered to be as credible printed history.

4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A．Interview between teenagers and their grandparents.

B．Descriptions of the story collection process.

C．Opinions of the elders who have shared their stories.

D．Information on how the recordings are shared and used.

3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的词，如有括号提示，请以提示词的正确形式填空。

The Mid-Autumn Day is a very important traditional festival in China.It takes its name from the fact that it     1    (celebrate) in the middle of the autumn season. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. The day is known as the Moon Festival, as at the time of the year the moon is at its roundest and     2    (bright). It is an evening celebration in     3     families gather together and eat moon cakes. Besides,     4    (make) the house more beautiful, people will hang red lanterns in front of it. On that day, people look back on the past and look forward to the future together. Children will play with their own     5    (toy) and enjoy themselves.

The Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations date back     6    more than 2,000 years. The word “Mid-Autumn” first     7    (appear) in the famous ancient book Zhou Li. However, it was not     8    the early Tang Dynasty that people celebrated the day as a traditional festival. It became an     9    (official) established festival during the Song Dynasty, and has become as popular as the Spring Festival since the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Celebrations have continued ever since and more customs for     10    (mark) this occasion have been formed.

4 . One of the most recognizable symbols of Scotland is the kilt (百褶裙). Resembling knee-length skirts, kilts originated in the 16th century as a common form of clothing for men and boys living in an area of northern Scotland known as the Scottish Highlands. A special feature of kilts, even to this day, is the plaid (格子呢) patterns. These patterns were historically related to specific clans, which are family groups that share a relationship through ancestry or some other connections. Known as tartans (方格花纹), the plaid patterns are of various colors. Because of their popularity in the Scottish Highlands, the wearing of kilts and any tartan pattern in general was banned from 1746 to 1782 to try to control clans from that region that were opposed to the king at the time. After clans were no longer considered a threat to the king, the clothing ban was removed.

Although the removal of the ban meant people could once again wear kilts with their clan’s tartan, they did not become the regular dress of males there. Instead, they came to represent a traditional form of clothing, and be symbolic of national pride. Tartans of all types can be seen on show all over the world on April 6, Tartan Day, when people of Scottish ancestry celebrate their cultural treasure. Tartan Day originated in Canada in the mid-1980s. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s.

Nowadays, tartans have been specifically created for individuals, families, institutions, and companies. Perhaps the best-known example of a tartan used by a company is that of the British company Burberry. Burberry has used tartans on a variety of products, including scarves, handbags, clothing, and other accessories. Although in 2019, Burberry announced it would reduce the number of products it produced to focus more on handbags as a way to increase profits, their iconic tartan continues to be a symbol of high fashion.

1. In which aspect are kilts special?

A．People show respect for the king by wearing them.	B．They are of the same color in Scotland.
C．Plaid patterns are used in the kilts.	D．They are designed for adult men.

2. Why do Scottish people exhibit different tartans in April?

A．To celebrate a tradition.	B．To spread this culture to the world.
C．To honor the end of the ban on tartans.	D．To express tartans shouldn’t be ignored.

3. Why does the author mention the company Burberry?

A．To prove the popularity of tartans.

B．To stress tartans’ wide range of daily uses.

C．To show the reduced number of tartan products.

D．To explain reasons for Burberry’s favoring tartans.

4. What is the best title for this passage?

A．Popularity of Scottish Kilts	B．Special Scottish Clothing
C．History of Scottish Kilts	D．The Kilt and the Tartan

5 . 请阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。
In 2019, China Daily carried out a survey about where people would go in the Spring Festival. Left chart below is its result. In February 2020, they repeated this survey. Some obvious changes can be spotted.

【写作内容】
1. 用约 30个单词概述上述信息的主要内容；
2. 结合上述信息；简要分析目前人们回家过春节的意愿变化的原因；(不少于两点)
3. 结合自己的例子，谈谈人们是否应该回家过春节？说明原因。
【写作要求】
（1）写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
（2）作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
（3）不必写标题。
【评分标准】 内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
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6 . 阅读下面材料．在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为61—70的相应位置上。

Different counties and cultures celebrate the New Year in different ways. Many countries still follow the lunar calendar,     1    (mean) that their new year often starts in late January or in February. New Year     2     (celebrate) for some countries (like China, Vietnam, and Korea) last not one day, but up to two weeks!

In the US, many people attend or throw New Year parties. They drink champagne, dance and cheer at the stroke of midnight. Fireworks, which in ancient times     3    (scare) away evil spirits, are very popular throughout the US like many other countries. Americans often make one or more New Year’s decisions, such as promising to quit     4    (smoke), lose weight, or stop drinking, most of     5    last little longer than a month.

In Scotland, homeowners open the front door at midnight to let in the New Year, and open the back door to let     6     the old year. In Japan, people ring a bell 108 times     7     (get) rid of the 108 bad desires people have. In Spain, people eat 12 grapes—one per chime— as the clock chimes midnight. In Korea, people ring a bell 33 times with the     8     (intend) of memorizing 33 ancient soldiers.

In Colombia, families make     9    rag doll called “Mr. Old Year.” They fill it with     10     the family doesn’t want anymore and then set it on fire to rid themselves of all the bad things of the previous year.

7 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Over 1600 years ago,a man named Nicholas became the bishop of Myra in Turkey.After he died,     1     (mercy)Nicholas became the saint of children,butchers,merchants and makers of perfume.

One day when Nicholas was walking past a cottage,he overheard a man talking to    2    (he) that there was not enough money for each of his daughters to find a husband. Late that night, Nicholas went back to the house    3    threw a small bag of gold down the chimney.He did the   same hing the following two nights,One of the bags of gold fell into a stocking that was hanging up    4       (dry) over the fireplace    5    , people say Father Christmas comes down the chimney and children hang stockings over the fireplace for Father Christmas to put presents in.

In the traditional picture of St Nicholas,He is usually shown as a tall,thin man    6    a beard or moustache,unlike Father Christmas     7    has a fat belly and a lot of facial hair. St Nicholas   is also presented as    8    (wear)the neat,traditional clothes of a religious leader,not a red woolen suit with a black belt like Father Christmas’s

Over the years, many things    9    (add) to the story of St Nicholas,changing him to the Father Christmas we know of today, For example, he Is said to live near the North Pole with his wife and lots of elves,who help make toys.He also has deer that    10    (help)him deliver presents on Christmas Eve.

8 . 假定你是班级英语课代表李华，请参照以下提示，用英文写一份倡议书，提倡全班同学学会用英语传播中国文化。
要点提示：
1.提出倡议：
2.用英语传播中国文化的意义：
3.用英语传播中国文化的方法。
注意：
1.写作字数应为80左右：
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答，答题卡中不用再写已给开头和结尾。
Dear fellow students,
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Li Hua

9 . Dining in France: Culture Shock

On my first weekend abroad, I attended a dinner party with my host family to celebrate the New Year. It was everything I had imagined a French dinner party would be --- multiple courses, a variety of cheeses, bottles of champagne, and slices of fresh bread. Then, at the end of the meal, the host called out. “Okay, everyone, get under the table!”

What? An earthquake broke out? I watched as the children came running into the dining room and hid under the table. As it turns out, in the days after the New Year, the French celebrate with the galette des rois, or the “king cake”, a special cake with its own set of traditions. There is a small toy hidden inside the cake, and whoever finds it in their serving is the winner. Before it is sliced, all the children hide under the table so that they cannot see who will get the slice with the toy.

I’ve learned that many French traditions focus on food, and often they’ve taken me by surprise! From time to time, I’ve experienced a sense of culture shock, the feeling of confusion in a new country when you’re adjusting to things that maybe unfamiliar to you. Thankfully, I haven’t run into anything too difficult to manage. Before leaving for France, I learned strategies from the International Programs Office, a facility which helps prepare students to deal with these kinds of ups and downs.

They explained the phenomenon with a line graph to illustrate the highs and lows of the experience. You may experience a “honeymoon” phase, where you find everything new and exciting or even better than your home country. You may also experience low points, where all these little differences may seem frustrating and overwhelming.

I encountered a new fun, food-related culture differences while in France. For example, the French eat with both wrists resting on the table, while many Americans tend to keep their left hands in their laps. I hadn’t even noticed the difference until my five-year-old host brother pointed it out! Moreover, on formal occasions, people tend to straighten their back. And it is also common to use bread as a utensil, holding it in your hand like a knife, or using it to clean up the plate at the end of the meal. Finally, I love hearing “Bon Appétit!” (Good appetite!”) before eating, whether I am seated at the table with my host family, or just grabbing a coffee at a nearby café!

1. The reason why the host asked children to get under the table was that she wanted to ______ .

A．hide something in the cake

B．protect children from the earthquake

C．give the author, the guest, a big surprise

D．prevent children from slicing the cake

2. Why does the author mention the word “honeymoon” in the fourth paragraph?

A．He wants to help students get prepared to deal with emotional changes.

B．He wants to tell readers how thrilling it is when we encounter novel things.

C．He uses it to help with the explanation of ups and downs in face of a new culture.

D．He uses it to prove that we may come across something disappointing abroad.

3. Which of the following picture shows the American way of dining?

A．	B．
C．	D．

10 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或给出括号内单词的正确形式.

Right now， most people's attention is on the COVID﹣19 pandemic. In     1    way， this pandemic is also warning us to protect our planet Earth.

World Earth Day， the international movement aiming     2    protecting and improving Earth's environment， is celebrating its 50th anniversary on April 22. For Earth Day 2020， the theme is climate action.    3    （celebrate） this， the Earth Day Network organized the Great Global Clean﹣up event. The network hoped that this would be the largest volunteer event in history， with people from all over the world    4    （set） up events to remove billions of pieces of trash from green spaces， urban communities and waterways. But due to the current ban on public gatherings and lockdown measures in many affected countries， clean﹣up events     5    （postpone）.

That said， the occasion will still continue in a digital way. "    6    it be coronavirus or our global climate crisis， we cannot shut down.    7    ， we must shift our energies and efforts to new ways to mobilize （动员） the world to action. " said Earth Day Network President Kathleen Rogers.

While the event may not reach its originally     8    （plan） grandeur（宏大）， Earth Day 2020 could play a role in helping us sustain     9    （environment） friendly changes， such as practices like teleworking and video conferencing     10    have become more prevalent （普遍的） in this time.