1 . Wu Ming, a young German born after 1995, is a big fan of Chinese culture. As he thought some diseases couldn’t be treated _______with Western medicine, he decided to _______Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). In 2015, Wu came to Henan Province, where a strong TCM culture can be _______. After a year of learning, he _______the language barrier and started to learn Chinese medicine. Wu always _______some Chinese herbal medicine by himself to know their flavors and effects, just like Shennong, a character in Chinese legend. In Wu’s opinion, TCM is one of the best-preserved _______of Chinese culture.

Studying TCM also _______Wu’s mind and lifestyle. He used to be _______to electronic devices, playing video games every night. Instead of being trapped in the fast-paced but unhealthy daily _______, he now lives a ________and peaceful life, practicing good habits like drinking tea and reading.

Wu ________what he has learned to help his family. He always provides his family members with some advice about staying fit after ________their skin or tongues online. Over time, his family gradually understands his ________for TCM.

Wu thinks there’s no big difference between China and Western countries. “________comes from being out of touch,” said Wu. He plans to run a traditional Chinese clinic in Germany, which can serve as a ________between the two countries and publicize TCM and its culture.

1.

A．immediately

B．gradually

C．entirely

D．regularly

2.

A．depend on

B．dig into

C．look up

D．work out

3.

A．created

B．enjoyed

C．advanced

D．recorded

4.

A．overcame

B．seized

C．divided

D．escaped

5.

A．raised

B．sorted

C．cooked

D．tasted

6.

A．aspects

B．standards

C．themes

D．means

7.

A．enriched

B．reflected

C．expanded

D．changed

8.

A．exposed

B．devoted

C．related

D．addicted

9.

A．businesses

B．tricks

C．routines

D．tasks

10.

A．normal

B．healthy

C．rewarding

D．diverse

11.

A．applies

B．promotes

C．summarizes

D．expresses

12.

A．predicting

B．checking

C．touching

D．comparing

13.

A．concern

B．wish

C．demand

D．love

14.

A．Misunderstanding

B．Difference

C．Stress

D．Failure

15.

A．source

B．basis

C．bridge

D．tool

2 . Heritage Education

China’s “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” falls on the second Saturday of June every year. Many celebrations are ___ on the day. There is no ___ that different kinds of celebrating ___ across the country will arouse(唤醒) public awareness of the importance of cultural heritage protection and ___ the young people to love the fine ___ culture of the motherland.

China faces a heavy task to protect and rescue its cultural ___. We need to consider seriously the harm of the lack of awareness about cultural heritage protection.___, heritage education is one of our main approaches (方法). People cannot ___ value cultural heritage if they do not know why it is important or how to protect it. Over the past several years, the protection centre has ___ over a hundred educational seminars (研究会) to different groups, such as schools, government offices, ____ the general public. Many people have attended the seminars. Typically, each seminar lasts two to three hours and ____ of an informative presentation,____ by a longer question-and-answer session and discussion. Each attender ____ limited knowledge of cultural heritage considered it to be just the Forbidden City and the Great Wall. People often think that the duty only ____ to the government. So “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” will be a welcome ____ to educate people on world heritage protection.

1.

A．forbidden

B．suggested

C．made

D．held

2.

A．need

B．doubt

C．wonder

D．reason

3.

A．parties

B．activities

C．actions

D．ways

4.

A．inform

B．advise

C．persuade

D．inspire

5.

A．natural

B．modern

C．traditional

D．ancient

6.

A．discoveries

B．treasures

C．relics

D．wonders

7.

A．So

B．Instead

C．And

D．Thus

8.

A．properly

B．simply

C．carefully

D．entirely

9.

A．thought

B．read

C．insisted

D．presented

10.

A．as well as

B．as much as

C．as good as

D．as long as

11.

A．consists

B．becomes

C．lies

D．forms

12.

A．recognised

B．asked

C．answered

D．followed

13.

A．of

B．with

C．for

D．at

14.

A．comes

B．stands

C．belongs

D．calls

15.

A．possibility

B．matter

C．opportunity

D．chance

6 . Traveling abroad is becoming increasingly popular these years. Some people are afraid of making linguistic (语言的) mistakes while traveling. Actually, cultural mistakes may be more serious, which can lead to serious misunderstanding.     1     .

●Touching Someone

    2     In Mediterranean countries, if you don’t touch someone’s arm when talking to him or if you don’t greet him with kisses or a warm hug, you’ll be considered cold. However, if you backslap (拍背) someone who isn’t a family member or a good friend in Korea, you’ll make him uncomfortable.

In Thailand, the head is considered sacred — never even pat a child on the head.

●Talking over Dinner

In some countries, like China, Japan and some African nations, food is important, so don’t start chatting about your day’s adventures while everyone else is digging into dinner.     3     It’s not because your group is unfriendly, but because mealtimes are for eating, not talking.

●Removing Your Shoes or Not

Take off your shoes when arriving at the door of a London dinner party and the hostess will find you rude, but fail to remove your shoes before entering a home in Asia, Hawaii, or the Pacific Islands and you’ll be considered disrespectful. So, if you see a row of shoes at the door, start undoing your shoelaces.     4    .

Once you are on the ground of a different country, remain highly sensitive to native behavior.     5     And don’t feel offended if something seems offensive — like queue-jumping. After all, this is a global village, and we are all very different.

A．If not, keep the shoes on.

B．You’ll be likely to meet with no response.

C．Never be completely surprised by anything.

D．Personal spaces are different among countries.

E．As the saying goes, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”

F．Watch out for the following cultural mistakes and try to avoid them.

G．The linguistic mistake means that someone is not fully expressing his idea.

7 . Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

The Greek myths are almost a myth themselves.

   

The great dramatists Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides drew on the myths,     1     did the Romans after them. Since then, poets, painters, sculptors, novelists — and later on, filmmakers and even comic strip authors —     2    (find) inspiration in them. Remember film Troy (2004) starring Brad Pitt? That movie remade The Iliad, Homer’s e t of the Trojan Wars.

Greek myths came from oral stories. In the beginning, people told these tales to     3    . They didn’t read them in books or watch them in the theater. It seems that     4     we write, paint or make films — or simply just enjoy these products — the Greek myths have a special resonance.

The names and the stories     5     be old, but the myths continue to be relevant. We can still be moved by beauty, like the story of Paris when he stole the gorgeous Helen away from her husband in Troy.

We feel pain in our hearts     6     we remember our family and friends back home. We can therefore readily understand Odysseus —     7    (separate) from his wife and son for a decade — and his desperation to get home.

The everyday life of western culture     8    (mark) by the Greek myths in all sorts of ways. Just look up into the night sky — names of the stars and constellations you see come from Greek characters.

In English, we say someone who makes money easily has “the Midas touch”. But often, character from Greek mythology, who turns     9     he touches into gold. Even the products we buy in supermarkets have names     10     (inspire) by the Greeks.

8 . 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。

Students at a primary school in Hangzhou had their first class    1    March 1st on movable type. This is    2    ancient Chinese printing system.

The West Lake Primary School in Zhejiang Province has introduced the course in the new term. An expert in Chinese characters culture has been invited to the campus，    3    major responsibility is to teach students how    4    (use) the ancient printing technology. Students attend lectures on the history of mova type along with    5    (interest) classes on typesetting and printing. They then print their own document，     6    (apply) the knowledge they’ve learned. One student printed her     7    (new) written essay “Whether the traditional red envelopes kids receive belong to them or their parents?”

    8    (know) as one of the four great inventions of ancient China， movable type printing    9    (invent) by Bi Sheng in the 1040s during the Song Dynasty， and it is the world’s first system of movable type printing.

The school said the course is aimed at improving the students’ awareness of Chinese characters and their    10    (appreciate) of Chinese culture.

9 . 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