1 . 假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Jamie来信说他对中国传统文学非常感兴趣，但在阅读时遇到了困难，比如很多汉字不认识，读不懂文章的意思等，希望得到你的帮助．请给他回信，内容包括：1．表示理解并给予安慰；2．提出建议．
注意：1．词数100左右；2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯．
参考词汇：中国传统文学 traditional Chinese literature；汉字Chinese character
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2 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当内容(不多于3个词汇)或括号中词汇的正确形式。

If you live in northeastern China, you expect long, cold winters. People     1    (live) in Harbin don’t just stand the cold, however, they welcome it. The city is home to the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival,    2    is considered to be the largest ice festival in the world. Even with temperatures usually close to zero, thousands of people head to city parks     3    (see) great ice sculptures, many bathed in colored lights.

The festival includes several thousand ice sculptures. Some of these works are the recreations of castles, historic landmarks and famous people, lit up at night in bright colors. There     4    (visitor) can climb ice stairways and go down ice slides (滑坡). They can also take part    5    sporting events, including skating, ice football     6    well as ice swimming.

The city started     7    (it) icy event in 1963 with the Ice Lantern Garden Party, a     8    (celebrate) of the tradition of creating lanterns out of blocks of ice. The larger festival     9    (begin) in 1985 and added sculptures, which have grown in number and size over the years. As it has gotten bigger, the festival has become popular outside the city.    10    (official), the festival starts on January 5th and lasts over one month.

3 . 根据课文内容填空

The Amber Room, made of several tons of amber and  decorated    1    gold and jewels, has a(n)     2     history. At first, it    3    for the palace of Frederick I. Then in 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great, and later, the Czar made it serve as a small    4    hall.

4 . 假定你是李华，你校英语俱乐部下周将举办主题为“保护历史文物”的英语演讲比赛。请你写一篇演讲稿参加此次活动，内容包括：
1. 文物保护的重要性；
2. 如何保护文物；
3. 呼吁人们共同保护文物。
注意：1. 词数100左右。（开头已给出，但不计入总词数）；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear teachers and classmates,
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5 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Chinese New Year also    1    (know) as the Spring Festival, is the most important traditional festival in China. It is also the important celebration for family members who can have 7 days off.

    2    there are many interesting stories and legends    3    (explain) the start of the Chinese New Year Festival, the main reason for the festival is to celebrate a year of hard work, have a good rest and relax with family.

Chinese people believe that a good start of the year will lead    4    a lucky year. The Chinese    5    (tradition) celebrated the start of a new year of farm work and wished for    6    good harvest. This has now changed into celebrating the start of a new business year and wishing for profits and success in    7    (difference) vacations.

Chinese New Year is a time for family members to get together. Wherever they are, they will come home    8    (celebrate) the festival with their families. The New Year’s Eve dinner    9    (call) reunion dinner,    10    is considered as the most important meal of the year. Families of several generations sit around the tables, and enjoy the happy time.

6 . Fictional British detective Sherlock Holmes is probably one of the most popular and intelligent detectives in literary history. Known for his brilliant analytical skills and ability to handle complex clues(线索), the detective holds the world record for the most described literary human character in film＆TV. Thus, it’s not surprising to hear that the Royal Mint, responsible for producing coins in Britain, has honored the detective with a commemorative(纪念性的)coin.

Shown in May, in honor of his creator Conan Doyles 160th birthday, the 50-pence coin gives an outline of Holmes, surrounding Holmes’picture are some of the related novels, like The Hound of the Baskervilles.

The tiny lettering of the books titles, which require a magnifying glass(放大镜) to read, may seem like a mistake caused by the attempt to put too much in a small space. However, the coin’s designer, Steve Raw, says he deliberately put them all there to bring out the “inside detective”in fans. He explains, “Naturally, the only way to deal with the unknown text is by using that important piece of equipment always carried by the detective: a magnifying glass.”

The Royal Mint plans to put the 50p coin in general circulation later this year. However, fans hoping to add a new one to their Sherlock Holmes collection can also get an uncirculated version for £10 from the Royal Mint’s website. What are also available are 600 limited edition Silver Proof coins for £55 each and 400 limited edition Gold Proof coins for £795 each.

Born in 1859, Conan Doyle was a trained doctor running a clinic, before showing his love for writing. Holmes’ character was based on Joseph Bell, an intelligent scientist good at observing and crime solving, whom Conan Doyle studied under. Following the success of A Study in Scarlet, Conan Doyle produced many other stories.

Britain’s fun tradition of putting fictional characters on currency began in 2016, when the Royal Mint celebrated Beatrix Potter’s 150th birthday with coins containing characters from the authors’ story. The Royal Mint thinks highly of the tradition. We wonder who will be next!

1. Why does the author give an introduction to Holmes in Paragraph 1?

A．To present the glory of British literature.

B．To show commemorative coins’ link to literature.

C．To state people’s affection for detective novels.

D．To analyze causes of Holmes being honored on a coin.

2. What leads to the lettering of the titles being so tiny?

A．The mistake made in the design.

B．The limitation of the coin’s space.

C．The aim to better present Holmes to people.

D．The wish to promote more of Conan’s novels.

3. What’s Paragraph 4 mainly about?

A．The Royal Mint’s plans for marketing the 50p coin.

B．Available versions of commemorative coins of Holmes.

C．The great value of the new commemorative coins

D．The commemorative coins’ popularity with the public

4. What will the Royal Mint’s future commemorative coins be about?

A．Some funny characters.

B．Characters from fictional stories.

C．Beatrix Potter.

D．Old British traditions.

7 . The Strangest Tradition in Some U.S. States

Alabama: The MoonPie Over Mobile

What's the better way to ring in the New Year than with a snack(小吃，点心 )? Mobile, a city of Alabama, has a tradition of watching a huge moon pie drop. The tradition is called the MoonPie Over Mobile, which shines the past and also the future. As the 12-foot, 600 pound moon pie drops during the midnight countdown, the crowd will cut the world’s largest moon pie to eat.

Florida: The Strawberry Festival

Other than The Beatles band’s song Strawberry Fields Forever,the annual Florida Strawberry Festival is an ode(颂歌 )to the fruit. The yearly celebration of the strawberry harvest occupies large farmland in Parkesdale Farms and Wish Farms. The festival has all the usual public festival attractions families love.What's unusual about the festival is its activity where people compete in eating strawberry noodles, strawberry-garlic potatoes, etc.

Kansas: The St. Lucia Festival

The town of Lindsborg is known as a Swedish capital in the United States. Because of the townspeople’s Swedish tradition, the St. Lucia Festival every year for Christmas. The eldest daughter of every family would be dressed up in an unusual way. They would wear white clothing, lights and an evergreen plant as a way to stand for light and hope in the darkness of winter.

Iowa: The Hobo Days

Nowadays, the word"hobo"leads to the picture of a homeless and extremely poor person. In the late 19th century, however, the term simply referred to the people who left their home to look for jobs in the remote places of America and took the train going to the west. In honor of the hobo tradition, Iowa hosts the Hobo Days every August，which contains competitions, parades, food， and arts on the streets. The lucky man and woman will get crowned (被加冕) as hobo king and queen each year.

1. What's the purpose of the MoonPie Over Mobile tradition?

A．To treat the unfortunate people.

B．To create the largest moon pie.

C．To attract tourists to Mobile.

D．To celebrate the New Year.

2. What's the unique part of the Florida Strawberry Festival?

A．The sharing of various foods.

B．The farmland sightseeing.

C．The eating competition.

D．The Beatles band’s performance.

3. What did the word“hobo” use to describe?

A．Poor people without homes.

B．People joining in some parades.

C．The crowned men and women.

D．People going out to make a living.

8 . China’s cultural relic protection has made progress, but many problems still exist and need to be solved. China has made over 30 _________ based on the law of cultural relic protection.

China has also __________ four international agreements concerning cultural relic protection and investment(投资) in cultural relic protection has also __________.

Statistics(数据) show __________ from 2000 to 2005 when China carried out its 10th Five­Year Development Plan, total investment in the field __________ 7.889 billion yuan. With financial support from government, China also started a nationwide campaign to search and __________ cultural relics in 2003.

China has so far included a total of 2,351 cultural relic __________ and 518 intangible (无形的) cultural relics on the __________ of national protected items. Recovery and protection have been carried out on important cultural relic sites __________ the Potala Palace in Tibet and the Palace Museum in Beijing.

Chinese museums have developed well in recent years. China has more than 2,300 museums that __________ about 150 million people annually.

However, cultural relics in China now face great __________. Many historic cities have been __________. Illegal trade and smuggling (走私) activities have not been forbidden, __________ has led to the loss of national treasures overseas. __________, many important cultural relic sites have disappeared __________ are hard to pass on because of too much exploration and improper use. And cultural relics __________ by minority ethnic groups (少数民族) have lost their character due to the __________ lifestyle of the people.

__________, we should keep our mind clear and take __________ to better protect cultural relics, and __________ the whole society to take part in this cause.

1.

A．ways

B．principles

C．measures

D．rules

2.

A．formed

B．organized

C．joined

D．built

3.

A．improved

B．increased

C．promoted

D．developed

4.

A．which

B．that

C．where

D．what

5.

A．arrived

B．expected

C．reached

D．jumped

6.

A．protect

B．develop

C．form

D．check

7.

A．spots

B．landscapes

C．addresses

D．sites

8.

A．list

B．record

C．file

D．case

9.

A．such as

B．except for

C．as well as

D．rather than

10.

A．make

B．attract

C．enjoy

D．satisfy

11.

A．chances

B．opportunities

C．pressures

D．challenges

12.

A．missed

B．disappeared

C．lost

D．destroyed

13.

A．what

B．where

C．which

D．that

14.

A．As a result

B．What’s worse

C．At last

D．At least

15.

A．or

B．and

C．but

D．while

16.

A．collected

B．bought

C．held

D．discovered

17.

A．decreasing

B．increasing

C．changing

D．widening

18.

A．Therefore

B．Besides

C．Moreover

D．However

19.

A．laws

B．rules

C．action

D．measures

20.

A．encourage

B．request

C．command

D．force

9 . What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．A festival.

B．Foods.

C．TV programs.

10 . 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。

Many people have the hobby of collecting things, e.g. stamps, postcards or antiques. In the 18th and 19th centuries,     1     (wealth) people travelled and collected plants, historical objects and works of art. They kept their collection at home until it got too big     2     until they died, and then it was given to a museum. The 80,000 objects collected by Sir Hans Sloane, for example,     3     (form) the core collection of the British Museum     4     opened in 1759.

The parts of a museum open to the public     5     (call) galleries or rooms. Often, only a small part of a museum’s collection     6     (be) on display. Most of it is stored away or used for research.

Many museums are lively places and they attract a lot of visitors. As well as looking at exhibits, visitors can play with computer simulations (模拟) and imagine     7     (they) living at a different time in history or     8    (walk)through a rainforest. At the Jorvik Centre in York, the city’s Viking settlement is recreated, and people experience the sights, sounds and smells of the old town. Historical     9     (accurate) is important but so is entertainment. Museums must compete     10    people’s spare time and money with other amusements. Most museums also welcome school groups and arrange special activities for children.