1 . There is more of a connection between food and culture than you may think. On an individual level, we grow up eating the food of our culture. It becomes a part of who we are. Many associate food from our childhood with warm feelings and good memories and it ties us to our families, holding a special and personal value for us. Food from our families often becomes the comfort food we seek as adults in times of frustration and stress.

On a large scale, traditional food is an important part of culture. It also operates as an expression of cultural identity. Immigrants bring it wherever they go, and it is a symbol of pride in their culture and means of coping with homesickness.

Many immigrants open their own restaurants and serve traditional dishes. However, the food does not remain exactly the same. Some materials needed to make traditional dishes may not be readily available, so the taste and flavour can be different from what they would prepare in their home countries. Additionally, immigrants do not only sell dishes to people from the same countries as them, but to people from different countries. Therefore, they have to make small changes in the original dishes to cater to a wider range of customers. Those changes can create new flavours that still keep the cultural significance of the dishes.

We should not only embrace our heritage (传统) through our culture’s food, but also become more informed about other cultures by trying their food. It is important to remember that each dish has a special place in the culture to which it belongs, and is special to those who prepare it. Food is a window on culture, and it should be treated as such.

1. What’s the function of food mentioned in the text?

A．To help motivate homesickness.

B．To show cultural identity.

C．To reflect a country’s history.

D．To show a community’s superiority.

2. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．The specific traditional food.

B．The national culture.

C．A traditional expression of food.

D．The old-fashioned taste.

3. Why do some immigrants have to change the original dishes in their restaurants?

A．To attach cultural importance to their dishes.

B．To announce the beginning of their life on foreign soil.

C．To make the dishes popular among customers.

D．To present their own food culture in a new way.

4. What’s the author’s attitude towards different food cultures?

A．Negative.

B．Balanced.

C．Unfair.

D．Unchangeable.

2 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

It was raining pretty hard on Halloween, but that wasn’t going to stop my little sister Kate and me from trick-or-treating. We decided to start at Miss Parson's house. Miss Parson was loved by us kids who lived nearby because she often shared her self-made cookies with us. We usually finished them in a second, especially when we were hungry after class. Sometimes, when we visited her or did something for her, she always gave us surprise.

Kate and I wondered what kinds of treats she'd offer. As we walked down the street, I held an umbrella, a bag for candy, and my sister's hand. Jack-o-Lantems gave soft light along the street. Spider webs hung in all the windows. Parents who were dressed up like monsters (怪物) stood in doorways. After we had walked a few blocks, we were wet from head to toes, and I felt Kate was trembling with cold.

There was a light on at Miss Parson's house, but there were no ghosts,小妖精), or Jack-o-Lantems. We climbed up the steps and saw Miss Parson through a window. She was drinking a cup of hot tea.

"Maybe she doesn't celebrate Halloween," Kate said with a sigh, disappointedly.

"Well, even if she doesn't, she usually likes it when we visit her," I said and knocked on the door.

Miss Parson seemed surprised when she opened it and saw our dressing. " Is today Halloween?" she asked. "I completely forgot. I am so sorry!"

注意:
1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右;
2. 至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语;
3. 续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好;
4. 续写完成后,请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1

Miss Parson rushed us into her house.

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Paragraph 2

The next morning, a hot and sweet discussion about Miss Parson and Halloween spread among us kids.

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3 . 假如你是李华，你校交换生Eric对中国的购物狂欢节（Double 11 Shopping Carnival）很感兴趣，发来邮件询问相关信息。请根据以下内容给他写一封回信：
1.概况（时间、主要活动）；
2.风靡的原因；
3.你的看法。
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 Eric,
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

4 . 假定你是李华，你的英国朋友Linda很喜欢中国丝绸。正巧你市于4月20日至26日举行“中国丝绸文化节”，你想邀请她同去，请你给她写一封电子邮件，内容包括：
(1)写信目的；
(2)介绍文化节（主题、展览品、意义等）；
(3)约定见面时间、地点。
注意：(1)词数80左右；
(2)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Linda,
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

5 . My father , a soldier , was deployed(调度) again . The ukulele I had watched him play was _________ The musical instrument sat there lifeless .

It came as a ________ because we had just moved into the present duty station a few weeks before . It was the fourth time we’d moved to a new place in just two years . Still ,________ was the thing that connected my father with Hawaii , a _______of his home and culture . We learned about our   ancestors   and   family   traditions mostly through his music .

But this time , everything was ________ . We were finally “home” in Hawaii and expected to ________ a place that we’d only heard about in my parents’ stories. We were just arriving, but he was already prepared to leave again, this time without us._______ ,we were surrounded by cousins and aunties who grew up knowing each other and ________ a cultural tradition of which we only knew the surface. We were ________ in the family. The person who made us fit, our father ,was gone. That was when I noticed my father’s ukulele. As I plucked（弹拨） the strings tunelessly , I felt ________ to him and our Hawaiian roots . So I picked up an old song book , and I ________ myself to play . I would play and sing,   as if my father had been here. After my father eventually________ , he bought another ukulele, and we had a mini concert. He was________ that I had learned so much. But what I really gained knowledge of was that music has the________ to do truly extraordinary things ________ us to our culture and each other , our past and our present.

1.

A．polished

B．tidied

C．abandoned

D．sold

2.

A．surprise

B．puzzle

C．challenge

D．relief

3.

A．time

B．duty

C．music

D．distance

4.

A．symbol

B．reminder

C．memory

D．review

5.

A．terrible

B．wrong

C．different

D．similar

6.

A．look for

B．fit into

C．take in

D．catch at

7.

A．Suddenly

B．Fortunately

C．Occasionally

D．Gradually

8.

A．breaking in

B．consisting in

C．delighting in

D．participating in

9.

A．visitors

B．relatives

C．acquaintances

D．foreigners

10.

A．closer

B．stranger

C．familiar

D．superior

11.

A．persuaded

B．inspired

C．taught

D．told

12.

A．responded

B．succeeded

C．returned

D．compromised

13.

A．shocked

B．confident

C．curious

D．annoyed

14.

A．potential

B．sense

C．privilege

D．power

15.

A．exposing

B．tying

C．expressing

D．introducing

6 . If you learned about Thanksgiving in an American elementary school, chances are that the holiday is in honor of how the Pilgrim（清教徒）of Plymouth, Mass, celebrated the harvest by enjoying a dinner with their friendly Indian neighbors. This story is inspired by a real 1621 meal, which reflects neither the 17^th century nor the 21^st century understanding of it.

An 1889 novel that described Thanksgiving as an outdoor feast became a best-seller. The growing ad industry helped spread popular images of the tale. By the 1920s, Thanksgiving was the most talked-about holiday in U.S. classrooms. The parts that made the colonists（殖民者）look bad were left out.

However, many classrooms are beginning to change. And on a recent Saturday morning in Washington D.C., about two dozens teachers went to the National Museum of the American Indian to learn a better way to teach the Thanksgiving story. When Gokey, the museum’s teacher-services worker, explained that early Thanksgivings celebrated the burning of a Pequot village in 1637 and the killing of Wampanoag leader Massasoit’s son, listeners felt shocked.

“I look back now and realize I was teaching a lot of wrong facts and ideas,” Tonia Parker, a second-grade teacher told TIME.

Teachers like the ones at the workshop know that change is coming, and state social-studies standards increasingly encourage students to look at history from multiple angles. Moreover, teaching a better lesson about thankfulness is something anyone can support.

At the workshop in Washington, after learning something new, participants learned to say Wado. That Cherokee word means “Thank you”.

1. What did Americans learn about Thanksgiving from the elementary school?

A．It was first celebrated in 1889.

B．It was a family feast for the Pilgrims.

C．It reflected the real history of the 17th century.

D．It showed the friendship between the Pilgrims and Indians.

2. Why did some teachers go to the National Museum of the American Indian?

A．To confirm the importance of the holiday.

B．To prepare for the changing of the classroom.

C．To find a more appropriate way to teach Thanksgiving.

D．To correct their misunderstanding about Thanksgiving.

3. What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?

A．Wado means “Thank you ”in Cherokee.

B．Lessons about thankfulness are increasingly popular.

C．Participants at the workshop learned to support each other.

D．Students are encouraged to see history from different aspects.

4. What would be the best title of the text?

A．The Importance of Thanksgiving Education

B．Thanksgiving: a Holiday with a Hidden Truth

C．Thanksgiving: a Holiday Popularized by a Novel

D．The Reform of Education in American Classrooms

7 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Venice is suffering     1     worst flooding that the city has experienced in 50 years. “The city is ‘on its knees’”, Venetian Mayor Luigi Brugnaro tweeted(发推特) as water    2     (flood) much of the famous historical city by then.

    3     floods are a normal part of life there, they have never happened so often before. Experts say that climate change is     4     (like) to blame. But it has proven difficult     5     (take) effective measures.

Flooding is just one of the impacts from climate change that is being experienced with more     6     (frequent) and globally threatens many regions. There is a threat that is not often considered — the damage to the world’s heritage(遗产). Climate change will influence them in different ways. Some will     7     (hit) by flooding, like Venice, others by extreme weather events or     8     (rise) temperatures.

Meanwhile, changes in the ocean will also have a profound influence     9    many of these sites. Experts say that the solutions to saving them will be varied, but many will be very expensive.     10    , they suggest that countries should work together to protect heritage sites.

8 . My father, a soldier, was ordered to change his duty station again. His favorite musical instrument—the ukulele I had watched him play each day—was going to be ______ there lifeless.

It came as a ______ because we had just moved into the present duty station a few weeks before. It was the fourth time we'd moved to a ______ place in just two years. Far from his hometown for a long time though, music, a ______ of his home and Hawaii culture, was ______ in the whole life of my father. We learned about our ancestors and family traditions ______ through his music.

But this time, everything was ______. We were finally “home” in Hawaii and expected to ______ a place that we'd only heard about in my parents5 stories. We were just arriving, but he was already prepared to ______ again, this time without us. ______ we were surrounded by cousins and aunties who grew up knowing each other and ______ a cultural tradition of which we only knew one or two. We were ______ in the family, because the person we were only familiar with, our father, was gone. That was when I ______ my father's ukulele. As I plucked (弹拨) the strings tunelessly, I felt ______ to him and our Hawaiian roots. So I picked up an old song book, and I ______ myself to play. I would play and sing, as if my father had been here. After my father eventually ______ he bought another ukulele, and we had a mini concert. He was ______ that I had learned so much. After that, the ______ I really acquired was that music has the ______ to do the extraordinary things ______ us to our culture and each other, our past and our present.

1.

A．checked

B．buried

C．sold

D．abandoned

2.

A．challenge

B．puzzle

C．surprise

D．relief

3.

A．remote

B．coastal

C．dangerous

D．new

4.

A．reminder

B．thought

C．rule

D．review

5.

A．dropped

B．caught

C．rooted

D．joined

6.

A．mostly

B．casually

C．accidentally

D．secretly

7.

A．terrible

B．wrong

C．different

D．similar

8.

A．look for

B．fit into

C．take in

D．appeal to

9.

A．bother

B．leave

C．agree

D．choose

10.

A．Suddenly

B．Obviously

C．Occasionally

D．Gradually

11.

A．breaking into

B．consisting in

C．going against

D．passing down

12.

A．witnesses

B．foreigners

C．acquaintances

D．relatives

13.

A．received

B．noticed

C．recognized

D．moved

14.

A．closer

B．stranger

C．helpful

D．superior

15.

A．persuaded

B．inspired

C．taught

D．told

16.

A．responded

B．succeeded

C．returned

D．compromised

17.

A．shocked

B．confident

C．curious

D．annoyed

18.

A．method

B．possession

C．skill

D．knowledge

19.

A．desire

B．sense

C．privilege

D．power

20.

A．distributing

B．tying

C．expressing

D．introducing

9 . 语法填空

November 11 this year marks the eleventh "Double Eleven" online shopping festival that     1     (start) by E-commerce giant Alibaba in 2009. Hidden behind the large-scale individual     2     (consume), here is one question: Do the Double Eleven discounts really help you to save money?

Double eleven offers various discounts and customers' eyes are full of     3     (advertisement), which costs customers     4     great deal of patience in front of their computers to go through every price combination to work out which one is more     5     (benefit) than the rest. After the shopping madness ends,     6     customers just find is that they don't     7     (true) need these bargains. “I still remember that last year my friends and colleagues kept talking about what things were cheap.     8     (expose) to the atmosphere, I couldn't help     9     (shop) around online. Those goods arrived later, but I was     10     a loss as to how to use them. I suddenly realized the reason why I bought these things was that I was only attracted by the prices” a customer said.

10 . Earth Day was founded in 1970 as a day of education about environmental issues, and Earth Day 2020 occurs on Wednesday, April 22—the holiday’s 50^th anniversary. The holiday is now a global celebration that’s sometimes extended into Earth Week, a full seven days of events focused on green living.

By the early 1960s, Americans were becoming aware of the effects of pollution on the environment. Rachael Carson’s 1962 bestseller Silent Spring pointed out the dangerous effects of pesticides(杀虫剂) on the American countryside. Later in the decade, a 1969 fire on Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River shed light on the problem of chemical waste disposal. Until that time, protecting the planet’s natural resources was not part of the national political plan. Only a small portion of the American population was familiar with environmental issues—let alone practiced-recycling.

Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1962, Senator(参议员) Gaylord Nelson was determined to convince the federal government that the planet was at risk. In the fall of 1969, Nelson, considered one of the leaders of the modern environmental movement, announced the Earth Day concept at a conference in Seattle and invited the entire nation to get involved. He later recalled: “The response was electric. Telegrams, letters and telephone inquiries poured in from all across the country. The American people finally had an opportunity to express their concern about what was happening to the land, rivers, lakes and air.”

The first Earth Day was effective at raising awareness about environmental issues and changing public attitudes. According to the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), “Public opinions polls(投票) indicate that in May 1971, 25 percent of the U.S. public declared protecting the environment to be an important goal, a 2,500 percent increase over 1969.”

Earth Day kicked off the “environmental decade with a bang,” as Senator Nelson later put it. During the 1970s, a number of important environmental laws were passed, among them the Clean Air Act, the Water Quality Improvement Act and the Endangered Species Act, etc. Another key development was the establishment of the EPA in December 1970, which was tasked with protecting human health and safeguarding the natural environment—air, water and land.

1. What do we learn about the circumstances in America before Earth Day was founded?

A．The overuse of pesticides had little impact on the American countryside.

B．The fire on Cuyahoga River was caused by improper chemical waste disposal.

C．The government highly valued protecting the natural resources on this planet.

D．Only a few Americans were familiar with environmental issues and practiced-recycling.

2. It can be inferred from the third paragraph that ________.

A．Nelson convinced the federal government that the planet was at risk.

B．Nelson organized the modern environmental movement all by himself.

C．The Earth Day successfully aroused the public’s interest in environmental issues.

D．The electric power supply had been cut off due to numerous telephone inquiries poured in.

3. The EPA was set up to_______.

A．collect public opinions.	B．kick off the environmental decade.
C．change public attitudes.	D．protect human beings and nature.

4. What do you think the author will talk about later?

A．Earth Day celebrations have grown and spread around the globe.

B．EPA protect human health and our natural environment.

C．The environmental laws come into effect.

D．Senator Nelson’s remarkable achievements.