1 . 假如你是李华，你校计划举办介绍中国传统文化的主题班会，并在英文网站上展示。请你给外国友人Chris写封信，向他了解哪些中国传统文化更吸引外国朋友。内容包括：
1. 阐明写信事由；
2. 征求建议；
3. 表达感谢。
注意：
1·字数80左右；2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Chris,
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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

2 . People from East Asia tend to have more difficulties than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.

Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly (均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

“We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions,” Jack said. “Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and overlook the mouth.”

According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.

The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.

It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than Westerners did. “The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions,” Jack said. “Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion. Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less.”

In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

1. What does the discovery show about Westerners?

A．They pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth.

B．They consider facial expressions universally reliable.

C．They observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways.

D．They have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions.

2. What were the people asked to do in the study?

A．To get their faces impressive.	B．To make a face at each other.
C．To classify some face pictures.	D．To observe the researchers’ faces.

3. In companion with Westerners, what are Easterners likely to do?

A．They do translation more successfully.	B．They study the mouth more frequently.
C．They examine the eyes more attentively.	D．They read facial expressions more correctly.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．The Eye as the Window to the Soul	B．Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions
C．Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills	D．How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding

3 . 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落的开头语续写两段话，使之构成一个完整的故事。

Christmas Day was coming. I was just a kid then, and my big sister told me there was no Santa Claus. I fled to my Grandma because she would be straight with me. I knew Grandma always told me the truth. Grandma was home, and I told her everything. “No Santa Claus?” She shouted. “Ridiculous! Don’t believe it. “Now, put on your coat, and let’s go.”

“Go where, Grandma?” I asked. “Where” turned out to be Kerby’s General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. “Take this money, and buy something for someone who needs it. I’ll wait for you in the car.” Then she turned and walked out of Kerby’s.

I was only eight years old. I’d often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded, full of people competing to finish their Christmas shopping. For a few moments I just stood there, confused, holding that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy and who to buy it for. I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker, who was a kid with bad breath and messy hair. He sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock’s grade-two class. Bobby Decker didn’t have a coat. I knew that because he never went out for break during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn’t have a cough, and he didn’t have a coat. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat! I chose a red one, which looked really warm, and he would like that.

“Is this a Christmas present for someone?” the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid ten dollars down. “Yes.”

The nice lady smiled at me, put the coat in a bag and wished me a Merry Christmas.

注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
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That evening, Grandma helped me wrap (包裹) the coat in Christmas paper.

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Paragraph2:

Grandma and I waited breathlessly for Bobby Decker’s front door to open.

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4 . 假定你是李华，一个高中生。知道你的英国朋友Leslie对中国传统文化很感兴趣，你邀请他与你全家共度春节，写一封邮件告知他相关事宜。内容包括：
1.表示邀请；2.简要介绍春节；3.你家过节安排（贴春联、放鞭炮等）。

注意：1. 词数100左右；   
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Lesile,

How is everything going?

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Yours,

LiHua

7 . Crosstalk, a traditional form of comic storytelling, is making a comeback in China’s tea houses and theaters.

Audiences can laugh the night away every Saturday at the Qianxiangyi Teahouse in Tianjin, entertained by the apprentices(徒弟) of Hou Baolin, Ma Sanli or Yin Shoushan—all leading crosstalk artists of years past—for only 20 yuan.

The success in Tianjin has also caused the rejuvenation（复活）of crosstalk in Beijing and other places.

Although the art form originated in Beijing in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Tianjin became a place where rising stars formed their styles and new pieces were tried out. The city was well-known nationwide for the quality of its crosstalk performances.

Known in Chinese as xiangsheng (literally, “face and voice”), crosstalk was the chief form of comedy throughout most of the 20^th century. In the old days in Tianjin and elsewhere, temple fairs and market were the main places for crosstalkers to perform, although they occasionally also appeared in teahouses or theaters.

Crosstalk pieces draw on every aspect of Chinese culture, from history and folk tales to social issues of the time. Although there’re hundreds of traditional pieces, they’re constantly rewritten to suit the times and the audience, while new works are written as well. It’s one of the features that have made crosstalk a public art form throughout its history.

“Crosstalk was in the doldrums（萎靡不振）with competition from other art forms, especially TV,” said Wang Xiaochun, headmaster of the Northern Storytelling Arts School of China (NSAS). “But it has regained its status with crosstalk fans, especially young people, growing aware of its rare qualities.”

“More and more students are coming to NSAS to study crosstalk, including some girl students,” said Wang. “We’re sure that crosstalk will have a strong market.”

1. What does crosstalk mean in Chinese?

A．Storytelling.

B．Face and voice.

C．Folk tale.

D．Dialogue.

2. What can we learn from the text?

A．Crosstalk first arose in Tianjin.

B．Crosstalk was mainly performed at teahouses in the past.

C．Crosstalk was the most popular art form in the 20th century.

D．Crosstalk didn’t appear until the Qing Dynasty.

3. Crosstalk has been a public art form partly because_________.

A．it is a popular traditional art after all

B．the pieces contain some famous folk tales

C．the crosstalkers make it return to teahouses

D．the pieces are made to suit the times and the audience

4. What is Wang Xiaochun’s attitude towards the future of crosstalk?

A．Negative.

B．Doubtful.

C．Optimistic.

D．Cautious.

8 . 假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Michael知道中国人很重视家风传承，他在给你的电子邮件中提到想了解你家的家风。请你给他回一封电子邮件，要点如下：
1.简单介绍你家的家风；
2.家风给你带来的影响。
注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：家风family spirit
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9 . 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。

Craftsmen paint animals, flowers or others on a stone board with the syrup (糖浆). When the sugar     1    (cool) down, what appears is a piece of sugar art.     2    (luckily), as fewer people choose     3    (make) sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a memory in some ways. However, a 38-year-old man,     4    (name) Li Jianzhong, devotes himself to     5    (keep) the art of sugar painting alive.

Li worked as a miner for more than ten years. After the mine closed down, Li turned to housing decoration until he     6    (force) to give that up because of a finger injury. Then he discovered sugar painting,     7     he really had an interest in.

Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by     8    (he) through videos and information on the Internet. Li loved painting when he was young, and he found     9     easy to learn the skill in sugar painting. He soon mastered the skill and could make many different sugar paintings, and they attract more and more people. And now his story and paintings encourage some young people to follow     10     example of him.