1 . 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。

Think of Carnival,     1     you think of crowds, costumes and confusion. “Carnival” comes from two Latin words,    2     (mean) “no more meat”. People saw Carnival as a last chance to have fun at the end of the winter season.

The    3     (much) famous carnival in Europe was in Venice. For weeks on end, people wearing masks did     4     they wanted without being recognized, so that many crimes     5     (go) unpunished.

The government realized this problem and made laws     6     (solve) it. Masks were banned     7     (complete). But in     8     late 1970s the tradition was revived by students.

Today, carnival in Venice     9     (celebrate) for five days in February. As you wander through the streets, you see thousands of     10     (mask). However, nobody takes them off. If they come off, the magic is lost.

2 . Edinburgh is the world’s festival city with twelve festivals throughout the year. Here are some of the events you can enjoy.

The Edinburgh International Festival

This is the original Edinburgh festival which began in 1947. Actors, musicians, dancers and opera singers from all over the world perform to huge audiences. You need tickets for most events which take place in theaters around the city.

The Edinburgh Art Festival

This festival is modern and has been celebrated for around ten years. It is a fantastic opportunity to see some of the city’s best visual art in art galleries and museums. Most events are free and include events such as fashion shows and art exhibitions.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe

This is the largest arts festival in the world with thousands of shows which take place across the city. Anyone can perform in the festival and over 20,000 artists take part, so there is always a huge variety of acts to choose from. Go to the Royal Mile to watch performers such as magicians and comedians for free. However, it can get very busy as thousands of tourists and local people fill the city streets to enjoy the shows.

The Edinburgh International Book Festival

The largest book festival in the world began in 1983 and takes place every year in Charlotte Square Gardens in the centre of Edinburgh. There are over 700 events for children and adults who love books. You can meet many authors, talk to them, ask them to sign a book or listen to them talk about their stories.

1. Which Festival has the longest history?

A．The Edinburgh Art Festival.

B．The Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

C．The Edinburgh International Festival.

D．The Edinburgh International Book Festival.

2. What can tourists do in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe?

A．Ask authors to sign books.

B．Perform with artists together.

C．Go to theaters to watch plays.

D．See the best visual art in galleries.

3. Where does the passage come from?

A．A story book.	B．A science fiction.
C．A news report.	D．A travel magazine.

3 . 假定你是李华。美国交流生Tom即将离开你校回国，离别之际，你送了一个小礼物给他，并附一张卡片。请在卡片上写以下内容：
1. 礼物是什么？（比如国画、茶、剪纸等）；
2. 礼物的意义（至少两点）；
3. 祝福。
注意：（1）词数100左右；
（2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
（3）开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：国画 Chinese painting 剪纸 paper cutting
Dear Tom,
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Yours,

Li Hua

4 . The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms (节气). Start of Summer (立夏), the 7th term of the year, begins on May 6 and ends on May 21 this year. Start of Summer signals the change of seasons. On this day, the sun’s rays reach an angle of 45 degrees to the earth. The temperature will rise quickly during this period.

Here are four traditions to learn about the Start of Summer.

Greeting Start of Summer

The term Start of Summer was originated at the end of the Warring States Period (239BC). Since it is a key time for the harvest of summer crops, ancient Chinese emperors in different dynasties attached great importance to the Start of Summer. They encouraged people to seize the key time to do farm work. It’s said that most of the decorations were arranged in the color red in order to show respect for the god of summer and pray for a good harvest.

Checking one’s weight

The custom of weighing people at the Start of Summer originated from the Three Kingdoms Period (220-180) and is still popular in South China today. It was believed this practice would bring health and good luck to the people weighted.

After lunch on this day, people would hang a basket from a beam (房梁). The young and old took turns to get weighed while the person calculating the weight would offer good wishes. It is said that those who were weighed would stay healthy in the hot summer and those who weren’t would suffer illness.

Eating eggs

In ancient China, people believed a round egg symbolized a happy life and eating eggs on the day of Start of Summer was a prayer for good health. They put leftover tea into boiled water together with eggs and the original “tea egg” was created. Later people improved cooking methods and added spices (香料) to the eggs to make them taste delicious. Today tea egg has become a traditional snack in China.

Egg Competitions

As an old Chinese saying goes “hanging an egg on children’s chest can prevent them from getting summer diseases”, parents will prepare boiled eggs and put them in a bag before hanging them on their child’s chest. When at school, children gather together to play egg competitions by hitting each other’s eggs in pairs and the one whose egg is not broken wins.

1. People believe that if one is weighed on Start of Summer, he or she will ________.

A．have a good harvest	B．have respect for god
C．be fortunate	D．suffer illness

2. Which tradition is particularly designed for children?

A．Greeting Start of Summer	B．Checking one’s weight
C．Eating eggs	D．Egg Competitions

3. What is the difference between the tradition “Greeting Start of Summer” and the other three?

A．It is very old.	B．It has nothing to do with health.
C．It was only popular in Zhou Dynasty.	D．It is organized by the emperor.

5 . Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about it. People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.

Tea remained scarce (稀少的) and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it directly from China early in the 17th century. During the next few year so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.

At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea. Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added. She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. She was such a great lady that her friends thought they must copy everything she did, so they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.

At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening. No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o'clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, teatime was born.

1. What do we know about the introduction of tea into Britain?

A．Tea reached Britain from Holland.

B．The Britons got expensive tea from India.

C．The Britons were the first people in Europe who drank tea.

D．It was not until the 17th century that the Britons had tea.

2. When did tea become a popular drink in Britain?

A．In the late 19th century.	B．In the 18th century.
C．In the 17th century.	D．In the 16th century.

3. The underlined words “this habit” in Paragraph 3 refers to ________.

A．drinking tea with milk in it	B．drinking tea without milk in it
C．drinking tea after dinner	D．drinking tea in the afternoon

4. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A．The history of tea.	B．The ways of making tea.
C．The birth of teatime.	D．The habit of drinking tea.

6 . With the commercialization of so many holidays, we often forget the true meaning of the day we are celebrating. The National Retail Federation estimated that in 2018, the average person spent more than $180 on Mother’s Day with a total forecast at over $23 billion spent on the day. Mother’s Day, the day to honor the special women in our lives, was initially created as something very different.

The origins of Mother’s Day can date back to ancient Greek and Roman times when festivals honored the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele. Later, 16th century England celebrated Mothering Sunday with celebrations on the fourth Sunday of Lent. In America, our tradition began in 1908 with a woman named Anna Jarvis. While not a mother herself, she established the day to honor her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, who had passed away three years before.

This commitment to pay honor to and help other women ran in the Jarvis family. Living in West Virginia before the Civil War, Ann had an idea for a community-service based program to help mothers in need of assistance. This concept developed into the Mother’s Day Work Clubs, a program that taught women how to care for their children.

In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared Mother’s Day an official holiday. The yearly celebration would take place on the second Sunday in May. Anna’s original idea of Mother’s Day was a day to honor her mother Ann, but once it became a nationally recognized day, things changed dramatically. The idea of celebrating mom on Mother’s Day caught on quickly and became heavily commercialized with cards and flowers.

After seeing a Mother’s Day Salad on the menu in the John Wanamaker tearoom(茶馆) in Philadelphia in the early 1900s, Anna realized the day had become nothing but a marketing scheme. She then began to hold protests, and demand face-to-face meetings with the president.

In the end, she spent decades fighting a no-win battle to claim back the day as her own using every penny of hers. She died at age 84 in 1948, blind and alone in a hospital.

1. Which is the correct order of the following events?
① Mother’s Day became an official holiday
② England celebrated Mothering Sunday
③ Mother’s Day became heavily commercialized
④ Anna Jarvis established Mother’s Day

A．④①②③	B．④②③①
C．②④①③	D．②④③①

2. Why did Anna hold protests?

A．Because she hoped to meet with the president.

B．Because Mother’s Day had been heavily commercialized.

C．Because Mother’s Day Salad appeared on the menu without her permission.

D．Because she would fight a no-win battle to claim back the day as her own.

3. How does the passage mainly develop?

A．By providing examples.

B．By making comparisons.

C．By following the order of time.

D．By following the order of space.

4. Which is the best title for this passage?

A．Why the Founder of Mother’s Day Came to Regret Her Invention?

B．How Mother’s Day Commercialized?

C．How We Deal with the Commercialization of Mother’s Day Correctly?

D．Why Mother’s Day Commercialized?

7 . 假定你是李华，10月14至16日成都将在城市广场举办第五届国际中国美食节(the Fifth International Chinese Food Festival)，请你给美国朋友Jack发一封电子邮件邀请他一同前往。内容要点如下：
1.美食节的时间、地点
2.活动的主要内容
3.交通方式
注意：1.词数100左右；开头已为你写好，不计入总词数；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Jack,
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

How are you doing recently?

Yours,

Li Hua

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the woman need help with?

A．Clearing the sidewalk.

B．Hanging Christmas lights.

C．Getting her car out of the snow.

2. Who will visit the man this weekend?

A．His friends.

B．His grandkids.

C．His students.

3. Who is the woman talking to?

A．Her neighbors.

B．Her co-worker.

C．Her husband.

9 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下 作文。文中共有5处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误仅涉及一个单词的增 加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(Λ)),并在其下面写出该加的词；
删除:把多余的词用(\)划掉；
修改:在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:
1 .每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改5处，多者(从第6处起)不计分。
World Laughter Day was first starting in Mumbai, India in 1998 by Madan Kataria. He was family doctor and the founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement. World Laughter Day celebrates world peace and encouraged people to make friends with each other It is celebrated on the first Sunday of May every year. Laughing makes everybody feels good, and it is also a good way to help people get along with better.

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。

On February 5, 2019, all the people in China and millions around the world celebrated the most important Chinese festival, the Spring Festival. The ancient tradition，    1    is determined by the lunar calendar and falls somewhere between January 21and February 20 each year, is the    2    (long) and most important of all Chinese festivals.

The preparations will    3    (official) begin with Little Year on January 17, 2020. It is observed with a day of memorial and prayer ceremonies. Other Little Year activities include cleaning the house    4    (sweep) away bad luck and hanging spring couplets on doorways for wealth. Since red    5    (believe) to keep misfortune and evil spirits away, it can be noticed in everything from clothing to    6    (lantern) used to decorate houses.

Often    7    (consider) the most important meal of the year, the reunion dinner is both delicious    8    rooted in Chinese tradition. A whole chicken symbolizes family togetherness, while long uncut noodles show a long life. Children receive red envelopes filled    9    money and inspiring messages from elders and are allowed to stay up late to watch the    10    (amaze) fireworks shows.