2 . 语法填空

I attended the Naadam Festival in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region this year. The festival,     1     includes horse racing, wrestling and archery, falls on the     2     (four) day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, usually     3     (last) for three days.

I went to the games early with my friend   and found that many people     4     (make) preparations for the events. I was told that the festival had been popular with Mongolians for     5     (century). After the opening ceremony, the wrestling competition began,     6     (follow) by the archery and my favourite horse races.     7     my surprise, the riders were all children and I was concerned about their     8     (safe). My friend told me not     9     (worry) as they had been riding horses all their lives. Then I began to understand what “Horses are at the heart of Mongolian culture” meant.

Having been back home, I felt really tired,     10    it was worthwhile to celebrate the festival with my friend.

4 . In America, we have a thing called stand-up comedy. This popular form of entertainment consists of a comedian standing up at the front of a club, holding a microphone, and telling jokes. Of course, comedy is popular in Chinese culture as well, but the performances are quite different from the style in the US. In China, it’s called cross-talk, which usually involves two guys engaging in an entertaining dialogue.

It’s believed that cross-talk came into being in the Qing Dynasty as a bit of a by-product of the imitation shows that were a popular form of entertainment in the Song Dynasty. After the PRC was established in 1949, this comedic art became more and more popular. Today, it’s still heavily featured in the CCTV New Year’s Gala programmes in China. The 1990s was the golden age of cross-talk; even foreigners studied the art of cross-talk. Mark Roswell, a Canadian named Da Shan in Chinese was relatively unknown in his native land but was a superstar in China. At the turn of the century, cross-talk began to decline, and many well-known actors left the stage.

There are four skills that are essential in cross-talk: speaking, imitating, teasing, and singing. Most of the time, it is performed with two actors—one serves as the lead actor while the other plays a support role. However, sometimes it is performed simply as a one-man show, and at other times there are several actors. In order to criticize something, the humor involved in cross-talk is satirical.

1. What’s the difference between American stand-up comedy and Chinese cross-talk?

A．Chinese cross-talk actors don’t use a microphone.

B．American stand-up comedy actors are all men.

C．Chinese cross-talk is more liked by Canadians.

D．American stand-up comedy is only a one-man show.

2. Which word can best summarize Paragraph 2?

A．History.

B．Future.

C．Features.

D．Difference.

3. What can we know about Mark Roswell?

A．He was an American stand-up comedian.

B．He was very popular with Canadians.

C．He was a famous cross-talker in China.

D．He left the stage in the early 1990s.

4. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “satirical” in Paragraph 3?

A．Acid-tongued.	B．Good-tempered.
C．Warm-hearted.	D．Smooth-tongued.

5 . 根据下列提示，介绍一下中国的端午节。要求60-80 词。
1. 端午节在农历五月初五。(fall on)
2. 和其他传统的中国节日一样，端午节也有自己的起源和特点。(in common，origin，feature)
3. 人们庆祝这个节日是为了纪念屈原，屈原是中国著名的历史人物。(figure)
4. 家人们也利用这个节日聚在一起。(take advantage of，gather)
5. 人们也会举办各种各样的活动，最常见的就是赛龙舟和吃粽子。
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7 . 教材续写语料
1. 情感描写
romantic adj.浪漫的；爱情的；浪漫主义的merry adj.愉快的，高兴的 tear n．眼泪，泪珠
2. 动作描写
decorate vt.& vi.装饰；点缀；粉刷，油漆 twist vi.& vt.扭转，转动；使弯曲；曲折 clap vi.& vt.鼓掌，拍手be caught up in被卷入，陷入 hunt vi.& vt.寻找，搜寻；打猎，猎杀；追捕observe vt.遵守；注意到；观察；庆祝 select vt.选择，挑选
3. 环境描写
occasion n．特殊场合，盛会；时刻；时机apartment n．公寓套房 midnight n．午夜，子夜
续写语料运用
请从以上语料中选择合适的词汇，并用适当的过渡词完成以下语段。
(改编自2021·新高考全国Ⅰ，读后续写)
母亲节终于到了。双胞胎和他们的父亲计划给母亲一个惊喜。一大早，父亲开始装饰他们的房子，试图营造一种浪漫的氛围。与此同时，双胞胎做早餐。他们把早餐带到楼上，叫醒了母亲，喊道：“母亲节快乐！”接着父亲带着两瓶啤酒进来了。眼泪涌了出来，母亲搂住他们。她从来没有像现在这样快乐和骄傲过。
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8 . 假定你是校新闻社的一名记者，你得知有一群年轻人成立了一个组织采取行动保护文化遗产，请用英语写一篇有关他们的新闻报道。内容包括：
1. 寻找文物并拍照；
2. 把照片展示给公众并筹集资金；
3. 把资金用来帮助修复古建筑。
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 文章应包括以上要点，可适当发挥。
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9 . 语法填空

International Friendship Day

International Friendship Day is a day for friends and friendship on     1     we appreciate our friends, renew our friendship ties and reach out to make new friends. It takes place on the first Sunday of August every year.

The first Sunday of August was     2    (recognize) as a holiday in honor of friends in America. With Friendship Day becoming popular and successful in the US, more and more countries accepted the holiday,     3    it has become an international festival.

International Friendship Day is    4    (much) popular among young people especially at school and college. It is celebrated by giving friends gifts and cards, calling them or     5    (send) them short text messages. Some friends celebrate the day by dining out     6     some choose to invite their friends for a meal at home.

Friendship Day     7    (celebrate) have come a long way, but the basic idea behind the day has never changed. People express love for their friends, and bear     8     mind their presence in life.

10 . 语法填空

I have never liked my English name. My parents didn’t know that Cindy was short for Cynthia, or that Cindy Brady was the Cindy of the moment. They     1    (choose) it because it sounds like my Chinese name, Shin-tzer.

My name isn’t full of flowers like most Chinese girls’ names. My grandfather wanted me to have     2     (strong) of character, not mere physical beauty. “Cindy” seems colourless by comparison. It’s just a couple of syllables that sound good together.

I grew up     3     (speak) English and eating with a fork. Yet the customs about names are extremely     4     (tradition), down to our use of an ancient naming poem.

Most Chinese names are ones of a kind, a coupling of two words out of thousands of possibilities expressing     5     family’s hopes for the child. It was March when my brother and his wife     6     (expect) their second boy.The emails began to fly as we conferred about the baby’s Chinese name. My brother’s wife is a Korean, so the name had to sound good     7     Korean, too. One thing was certain—his name would contain the word “shi”, or “world”,     8     can also mean “generation”. We are on the     9     (six) word of a couplet that my family has used to name its     10     (son) for generations.