1 . 假如你叫李华，你的美国笔友Tom给你发来一份电子邮件，表示对中国的传统节日非常感兴趣。他想请你介绍你最喜欢的一个节日，如端午节、中秋节、春节，你通常是怎么庆祝的，以及你喜欢这个节日的原因。请你根据他的问题回复邮件。
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Hi! Tom,

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2 . This week, we’re preparing for one of the newest     1     (tradition) events in our country: Black Friday. It’s that crazy gathering of retail (零售)-related violence, a time     2     stores offer once-a-year promotional sales to set off the customers’ greediness and jump-start the Christmas shopping season with a sudden activity in a     3     (crowd) space.

The general feeling has been set by the Hamleys Christmas Toy Parade in London, in which 800,000 people ran into Regent Street, apparently attracted by     4     possibility of a “meet-and-greet” with Peppa Pig that sadly     5     (have) to be cancelled at the last moment on safety grounds. As it was, a middle-aged woman     6     (report) had to be taken to hospital after     7     (knock) to the ground in a fight with another woman.

For the people who dislike shopping, such as me, any day with shopping in it is a black day, and Black Friday is the most worrying     8     all. However, I can see the reasoning for retailers. Why spend a lot of money on newspaper ads, when you can offer 50 iPhone Xs at £5 each to the first fifty     9     (consume)? The related media     10     (cover) of the resulting disorder is, as they say, priceless.

3 . Every week in China, millions of people will sit in front of their TVs watching teenagers compete for the title Character Hero, which is a Chinese­style spelling bee (拼写大赛). In this challenge, young competitors must write Chinese characters by hand. To prepare for the competition, the competitors usually spend months studying dictionaries.

Perhaps the show’s popularity should not be a surprise. Along with gunpowder and paper, many Chinese people consider the creation of Chinese calligraphy (书法) to be one of their primary contributions. Unfortunately, all over the country, Chinese people are forgetting how to write their own language without computerized help. Software on smart phones and computers allows users to type in the basic sound of the word using the Latin alphabet(字母). The correct character is chosen from a list. The result? It’s possible to recognize characters without remembering how to write them.

But there’s still hope for the paint brush. China’s Education Ministry wants children to spend more time learning how to write.

In one Beijing primary school we visited, students practice calligraphy every day inside a specially decorated classroom with traditional Chinese paintings hanging on the walls. Soft music plays as a group of six-­year-­old dip brush pens into black ink. They look up at the blackboard often to study their teacher’s examples before carefully trying to reproduce those characters on thin rice paper. “If adults can survive without using handwriting, why bother to teach it now? ”we ask the calligraphy teacher, Shen Bin. “The ability to write characters is part of Chinese tradition and culture”, she reasons. “Students must learn now so they don’t forget when they grow up.” says the teacher.

1. Which of the following is closest in meaning with the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2?

A．Every Chinese can write Chinese characters easily, especially with computers.

B．Only with the help of computers can some Chinese people write Chinese characters.

C．Despite the help of computers, Chinese people have forgotten how to write.

D．Computers are the only means to rely on to write Chinese characters for many people.

2. What can we learn about the Character Hero?

A．It draws great public attention across the country.

B．It’s the most viewed TV programs in China.

C．It means to spread Chinese culture to the world.

D．It’s open to people of all ages and all walks.

3. Why are Chinese people forgetting how to write the characters?

A．Chinese people don’t refer to dictionaries very often.

B．Chinese people no longer use brush pens or practice calligraphy.

C．Chinese people are using the Latin alphabet instead of the characters.

D．Chinese people needn’t write by hand as often with the help of technology.

4. According to Shen Bin, being able to write characters by hand is ____________.

A．necessary for adults to survive in China

B．a requirement made by the Education Ministry

C．helpful to keep Chinese tradition and culture alive

D．an ability to be developed only when you are students

4 . As less people choose to make sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a     1     (distance) memory in some ways. However, a 38-year-old craftsman, Li Jiangzhong, is committed to     2     (keep) the art of sugar painting alive.

Li worked as     3     miner for more than ten years. After the mine closed down, Li turned     4     housing decoration, until he     5     (force) to give that up due to a finger     6     (injure). Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really had an interest in.

Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by     7     (he) through large quantities of videos and information on the Internet. He soon mastered the skill and could make a variety of sugar paintings. A sugar painting is made with     8     (melt) brown or white sugar. Craftsman     9     (normal) paint animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup（糖浆）. When the sugar cools down,     10     appears is a piece of sugar craft.

5 . Antiquities are ancient objects and artworks. Museums acquire works to display from many different sources. Sometimes they purchase them. Other times they receive donations. Today there are strict rules forbidding art that has been stolen from other countries. However, antiquities that have been at museums for decades or even centuries may have arrived there by questionable means. Now, some countries claim that museums have a responsibility to return these antiquities to their original locations.

There are many examples of this debate. Perhaps the most famous is the argument between Greece and the UK over the Elgin marbles. In the early 19th century, the Earl (伯爵) of Elgin had numerous sculptures taken from Greece to the UK. When Elgin did this, Greece was still a part of the Ottoman Empire. He claimed that he had received a permit to export the sculptures. Today the marbles are on display in the British Museum^ However, Greece wants them to be returned to their original location.

Should museums return these antiquities? Experts disagree. Malcolm Bell III says yes. Bell is a retired professor of art at the University of Virginia. He says, “Many antiquities and artworks have special cultural value for a particular community or nation. When these works are removed from their original cultural setting they lose their context and the culture loses a part of its history.”

According to Bell, a country’s request for the return of an antiquity “usually has a strong legal basis.” It “was exported illegally, and is now stolen property.” He called the return of antiquities “an expression of justice.”

James Cuno says not always. Cuno is president of an art museum in Los Angeles. He is also the author of the book Who Owns Antiquity?. Cuno agrees that museums have “a social and legal responsibility” to return illegally exported antiquities. However, he doesn’t support the return of legally acquired works.

“An area of land held today by a given nation-state in the past likely belonged to a different political entity (实体). Even if one wanted to reunite scattered works of art, where would one do so? Which among the many countries, cities, and museums in possession of parts of a work of art should be the chosen ‘home’ of the reunited work?” Cuno believes that museums should collect art from the world’s diverse cultures. This should be done “through purchase or long-term loan and working in cooperation with museums and nations around the world.”

This debate is far from over. As a complex question with no easy answer, the issue requires more study.

1. The passage mainly discusses       .

A．the return of antiquities

B．the sources of ancient objects

C．the cultural value of artworks

D．the responsibility of museums

2. For the case of the marbles. Greece and the UK mainly argue over       .

A．the time of keeping them

B．the real country of origin

C．the identity of the exporter

D．the means of acquiring them

3. According to the passage, Cuno thinks       .

A．artworks become valueless away from their culture

B．there is no clear answer to giving back antiquities

C．museums are responsible for reuniting works of art

D．the request for recovering artworks aims to promote justice

4. As to the debate, we can learn that       .

A．the legality of antiquities seems a key factor

B．the opinions of experts are completely different

C．museums should look into the sources of antiquities they own

D．the return of antiquities is unlikely due to practical difficulties

6 . Different Cultures

The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish each other a lot.     1    .

The origin of the Eastern culture is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are developed by rivers—the Yellow River in China and the Hindu River in India.     2    .

When the two mother rivers gave birth to the Eastern culture, another famous culture was brought up on the Mesopotamian Plain—the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.     3    Like the Chinese culture, the European culture also crossed waters. When the British settled down in America, their culture went with them over the Atlanta Ocean. So the American culture doesn’t distinguish from the European culture a lot.

At the same time, some other differences add to the cultural differences. Take the language system for example. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic language while the Western languages are mostly based on the Latin system. Other causes like human race differences count as well. But what’s more, due to the far distance and the steep areas between the East and the West, the two cultures seldom communicate until recent centuries.     4    

The differences are everywhere.     5    But different cultures make the world of 21st century more colorful. The cultural gap should not be the obstacle to the civilization of human being. It ought to be the motivation of our going farther.

A．Let us work together to keep a variety of cultures.

B．And these two are well- known as the base of the European culture.

C．One important thing is to learn about other cultures.

D．This is because the culture systems are two separate systems on the whole.

E．They are obvious and affect people’s ways of thinking and their views of the world.

F．They helped the two cultures develop for centuries and form their own styles.

G．So they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference from the other.

7 . Thirteen-year-old American Jessica Goldstone wants to be a fashion designer when she finishes school. She thinks her designs would be more exciting than clothes bought from stores. But until this month, Jessica has never touched a sewing machine(缝纫机).

After her first class, Jessica and six other girls aged 9 to 13 said that sewing was fun, cool and challenging.

These students at Fabrics’ Sew Fun class show that the sewing machine is becoming popular again.

“There have been a lot of teens getting excited about sewing,” said a sewing company worker Donna Smith. “Some of them come from the Project Runway TV show,” she said. This TV show is an exciting weekly contest to make a great fashion designer. Every week one contestant (参赛者) fails the test and has to leave the contest.

The number of people who joined sewing class summer camps grew by 10 percent this year. That’s good news for companies that make sewing machines and publish sewing magazines. The Singer Sewing Company sold nearly 3 million sewing machines in the United States last year. This is about twice as many as in 1999.

Sewing machines have been around for more than 150 years, but they have changed a lot since your grandmother was a girl.

Spencer Carmel started sewing lessons after getting a sewing machine for her 11^th birthday. She has sewn a lot by hand, but she wants to make more difficult things. Spencer’s class recently made hats.

Another member of the class, Kelsey Oen, 9 years old, needed time to get used to her machine, but soon she could use it well. By the end of the class, Kelsey was happy and wearing her new hat.

1. The passage is written to       .

A．teach how to sew clothes

B．advertise a kind of sewing machine

C．describe a popular American children’s hobby

D．encourage more people to start sewing

2. What do Jessica and her friends think of sewing?

A．They don’t really care much for it.

B．They are very interested in it.

C．They think it’s too easy to learn.

D．They think it’s only for younger kids.

3. According to the passage, “ Project Runway” is a       .

A．sewing class

B．sewing machine

C．fashion design class

D．fashion design contest

8 . 假定你是张伟,你的英国笔友Peter来信问及你的寒假生活，请给他回一封电子邮件。80词左右
Dear Peter，

Thanks for your e-mail! Now let me tell you my winter holiday plan.

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Li Hua

9 . Most Americans don’t like to get advice from members of their family. They get advice from “strangers”. When they need advice, they don’t    1    (usual) go to people they know. Instead, many of    2    write letters to newspapers and magazines    3    give advice on many different subjects,    4    (include) family problems, the use of language, health, cooking, child care, clothes, and even    5    how to buy a house or a car.

Most newspapers regularly print letters from    6    (read) with problems. Along with the letters are answers    7    (write) by people who are supposed    8    (know) how to solve such problems. Some of these writers are doctors, and others are lawyers or educators.    9    two of the most famous writers of advice    10    (be) women without special training for this kind of work.

10 . Mr.and Mrs.Davies had left their Christmas shopping very late.There were only a few days left before Christmas,and of course the shops and street were terribly    1    （crowd）.But they had to get presents    2    their family and friends,so they started out early one morning for the big city,and spent several tiring hours    3    （buy）the things they wanted in the big shops,By suppertime,Mr.Davies    4    （load）down with parcels of all shapes and sizes.He could hardly see where he was going as they left the last shop on their way to the railway station.Outside the shop they had to cross a busy street, made even    5    （busy）than usual by the thousands of people    6    had come by car to do their last-minute Christmas shopping.Mr.and Mrs.Davies had to wait for the traffic lights to change,but as Mr.Davies could not see in front of him    7    （proper）,he moved forward into the road without realizing it.Mrs.Davies saw this and became worried.Several times she urged her husband to come back,but without    8    （succeed）.He could not hear her because of the noise of the traffic.Finally she shouted in    9    loud voice,“Henry!If    10    intend to stand in that dangerous position a moment longer,give me the parcels!”