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。

Chinese kung fu, also known as wushu or Chinese martial arts, is one of the most well-known examples of traditional Chinese culture. It is probably one of the     1    (early) and longest     2    (last) sports which uses both muscles and brain.

The theory of kung fu is based     3     classical Chinese philosophy(哲学). Over its long history it     4    (develop) as a unique combination of exercise, practical self-defense, self-discipline, and art.

It is estimated that Chinese kung fu dates back to primitive society. At that time people used sticks     5    (fight) against wild beasts.     6    (gradual) they accumulated experience in self-defense.

Chinese kung fu is a large system of theory and practice. It combines     7    (technique) of self-defense and health-keeping.

In Chinese kung fu, however, a     8    (different) is made between “external(外部的)” and “internal” kung fu.     9     is said that “In external kung fu, you exercise your tendons(筋), bones, and skin; in internal kung fu, you train your spirit, your qi, and your mind.” And so internal kung fu can continue later in life,     10     the external body weakens.

2 . 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。

Jingxi Taiping Drum is a traditional form of dancing. With its display of profound cultural elements, it     1     (include) in the first batch (批次) of China’s national intangible cultural heritage (非物质文化遗产) items in 2006.

The     2     (early) historical references of this art date back to the Spring and Autumn Period. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it started to gain     3     (popular) in and around the capital, and then it was introduced to Mentougou District of Beijing.

In ancient times, the drums were played     4     New Year’s Eve at the imperial palace to bring peace. As a result, the performance also became known as the “New Year Drum” by Beijingers. This type of drum dance is     5     (common) seen performed during the last and first month of the lunar year in many local festive activities, thus expressing     6     (people) hope of a peaceful and prosperous year     7     (come) .

During a given performance, drummers perform various dance moves while     8     (hold) the drum in their left hands and a mallet in their right hands. Traditional Chinese aesthetic (美学的) concepts are reflected in the drum playing, all of     9     represent distinctive local features.

In the past decades, efforts have been made by Mentougou District to preserve this signature folk dance culture. Today, the time-honored folk art of the Jingxi Taiping Drum is being taken up by the young people     10     is presenting its lively artistic charm on a global stage.

5 . The Double Ninth Festival falls on the ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. According to tradition, we should celebrate the festival by going mountain climbing. How many people today still keep this tradition?    1    However, they are an important part of Chinese culture, and we must protect and maintain them.

    2    The Dragon Boat Festival, for example, is celebrated in honour of Qu Yuan. By celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival with rice dumplings and dragon boat races, the story of Qu Yuan is passed down from generation to generation. Promoting traditional festivals helps spread knowledge about the past of our country. Moreover, traditional festivals enable us to learn more about fine Chinese values. Many festivals, such as the Mid-Autumn Festival, have a family-centred message at their heart.    3    With the celebrations of these festivals, younger generations learn to honour fine Chinese values.

Finally, traditional festivals area source of national pride and help shape (塑造) our national identity. For example, we celebrate the Hanshi Festival and the Lab a Festival with unique customs, and these shared experiences bring us together as a people.    4    

Traditional festivals have been passed down to us from previous generations. It is the duty of every one of us to protect them for generations to come.    5    We may even lose the festivals which belong to us.

A．Many young people celebrate western festivals.

B．Traditional festivals can help develop our economy.

C．Traditional festivals teach us a lot about our nation’s history.

D．People will come back home even if they live very far away.

E．Traditional festivals tell us who we are and fill us with pride in being Chinese.

F．In modern society, many traditional Chinese festivals are becoming less and less popular.

G．If we don’t pay much attention to these traditional festivals, some customs may fade away.

6 . 课文语法填空

In the 1950s, the Egyptian government wanted     1     (build) a new dam across the Nile,     2     led to protests. Faced with the big challenge, the government had to turn     3     the United Nations for help.

A committee     4     (establish) to prevent the loss of cultural relics. They asked for contributions from different     5     (department) and raised funds within the international community. After investigating the issue and     6     (conduct) several tests, they made a proposal that temples and other cultural sites     7     (take) down piece by piece, and then moved and put back together in a place where they were safe from the water.

Over the next 20 years, thousands of engineers and workers rescued 22 temples and     8     (count) cultural relics and fifty countries donated nearly $80 million to the project. The project was     9     great success, and proved that big challenges can sometimes lead to great solutions. The countries learnt that     10     was possible for them to work together to build a better tomorrow.

7 . What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you think of wheat straw? Most people would probably just see it as a pile of waste in a farmer’s field. However, Wu Cui, an intangible cultural inheritor, can turn the straw left over from harvested wheat into beautiful and eye-catching functional artworks.

The earliest straw-weaving (草编的) products were discovered at Hemudu Cultural Ruins, a Neolithic cultural site located in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. The Book of Rites, one of the classical works of Confucianism, also records that there were already mats made of cattail grass and professional straw-weaving craftsmen during the Zhou Dynasty (c.11th century-256 BC).

Straw weaving is a method of manufacturing daily items or artworks. It was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.

Wu explains the process of straw weaving: selection of materials is the first step of a complicated, time-consuming and labor-intensive process that can take weeks, or even months, to complete. You need to sketch (素描) the piece on paper, which requires drawing skills. Next comes weaving, shaping and preserving of the work. Even by finishing that process, it does not mean that you will always create a good piece of work, and the hardest part is to make it vivid.

In the past, woven straw items could be found almost in every household in the countryside, such as straw hats and straw shoes, because they were practical in everyday life. But due to the impact of industrialization, manufactured goods have replaced such products, which produce low profits, and there are only about 100 individuals engaging in the work across the country. “The world has changed, and craftsmen need to transcend practicality and seek the beauty and artistry of straw culture to help the craft survive and develop,” Wu says.

As far as she is concerned, straw weaving should respond to people’s needs and preferences, while still drawing inspiration from traditional culture. “Craftspeople should make a great effort to grasp the trends and opportunities of the times to create new and relevant products,” she says. When asked about her plans, Wu says she wants to dig deeper into local traditional culture and create cultural creative products by developing the straw-weaving technique.

1. What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about straw-weaving products?

A．Their major uses.	B．Their cultural value.
C．Their historic origins.	D．Their manufacturing process.

2. Which is the most difficult part for straw-weaving craftsmen according to Wu Cui?

A．Making the artworks lifelike.	B．Drawing sketches on paper.
C．Selecting suitable materials.	D．Preserving finished products.

3. What does the underlined word “transcend” in paragraph 5 probably mean?

A．Rely on.

B．Turn to.

C．Throw away.

D．Go beyond.

4. What can we learn from Wu Cui’s opinion according to the last paragraph?

A．Straw-weaving products are out of favor with customers.

B．Seeking fashion should be the first task for craftspeople.

C．Local people benefit a lot from the straw-weaving techniques.

D．Craftsmen should create the craft based on traditional culture.

8 . There is more of a connection between food and culture than you may think. On an individual level, we grow up eating the food of our culture. It becomes a part of who we are. Many associate food from our childhood with warm feelings and good memories and it ties us to our families, holding a special and personal value for us. Food from our families often becomes the comfort food we seek as adults in times of frustration and stress.

On a large scale, traditional food is an important part of culture. It also operates as an expression of cultural identity. Immigrants bring it wherever they go, and it is a symbol of pride in their culture and means of coping with homesickness.

Many immigrants open their own restaurants and serve traditional dishes. However, the food does not remain exactly the same. Some materials needed to make traditional dishes may not be readily available, so the taste and flavour can be different from what they would prepare in their home countries. Additionally, immigrants do not only sell dishes to people from the same countries as them, but to people from different countries. Therefore, they have to make small changes in the original dishes to cater to a wider range of customers. Those changes can create new flavours that still keep the cultural significance of the dishes.

We should not only embrace our heritage (传统) through our culture’s food, but also become more informed about other cultures by trying their food. It is important to remember that each dish has a special place in the culture to which it belongs, and is special to those who prepare it. Food is a window on culture, and it should be treated as such.

1. What’s the function of food mentioned in the text?

A．To help motivate homesickness.

B．To show cultural identity.

C．To reflect a country’s history.

D．To show a community’s superiority.

2. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．The specific traditional food.

B．The national culture.

C．A traditional expression of food.

D．The old-fashioned taste.

3. Why do some immigrants have to change the original dishes in their restaurants?

A．To attach cultural importance to their dishes.

B．To announce the beginning of their life on foreign soil.

C．To make the dishes popular among customers.

D．To present their own food culture in a new way.

4. What’s the author’s attitude towards different food cultures?

A．Negative.

B．Balanced.

C．Unfair.

D．Unchangeable.

9 . My interest in Chinese Kunqu opera began when I was eleven. It is the age when one can first ______ its words and start collecting them. I copied the great words into a notebook because I enjoyed the imaginative ______. Then, I ______ to notice the tones(腔调)and appreciate the melody. I understand that Kunqu opera is not only what’s written-—it is also the ______, the dance moves and the headdress(头饰).

I grew up in a northern town with no Kunqu opera performances. Thus, I never ______ I could learn and perform it myself ______ I attended Saturday classes. At that time I was ______ and often got up before 5 am to go to class. My training ______ basics, like walking onstage. I realized that the many requirements on the form are the only way to artistic ______. Performers put in so much effort to show how ______ effortless(不费力的) they are onstage.

I continue to ______ Kunqu opera after moving to the US for college. This ancient art form has been ______ with my studies and creations in modern ______ and poetry. When people ask me why Kunqu opera is connected with my ______ and with the Western art world today, I say that, its ______ and influences(影响) will never disappear.

Kunqu opera has a magical power, which means I’m willing to step into different art forms. Thanks to this cultural heritage(遗产), I know I have la home within myself.

1.

A．depend on

B．watch out for

C．live up to

D．fall in love with

2.

A．plan

B．process

C．language

D．result

3.

A．tried

B．failed

C．pretended

D．agreed

4.

A．recipe

B．music

C．ranking

D．lifestyle

5.

A．imagined

B．forgot

C．remembered

D．worried

6.

A．if

B．while

C．until

D．unless

7.

A．warm-hearted

B．discouraged

C．confused

D．determined

8.

A．left behind

B．started with

C．wondered at

D．broke down

9.

A．markets

B．perfection

C．judgement

D．behaviors

10.

A．seemingly

B．strangely

C．lazily

D．badly

11.

A．introduce

B．teach

C．practice

D．direct

12.

A．mixed

B．covered

C．filled

D．treated

13.

A．business

B．art

C．science

D．sport

14.

A．manners

B．power

C．qualities

D．life

15.

A．plot

B．value

C．arrangement

D．request

10 . The Double Seventh Festival, also known as the Qixi Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival. Here is a beautiful story _______ it.

Long，long ago, there was a young man named Niulang(Cowherd), One day, he_______a   beautiful girl- Zhinu( Weaver girl)， the Goddess s seventh daughter. She had just run away from the_______ heaven(天国) to look for fun on Earth. Zhini soon_______Niulang, and they got married without telling the Goddess. Niulang worked in the field and Zhinu wove(织布) at home. They_______a happy life and gave birth to a boy and a girl. Unluckily, the Goddess soon found out the fact and_______ Zhinii to return to heaven. After Zhini left， Niulang was _______upset. With the help of his magic cow,Niulang flew to heaven with his children to look for his wife. The Goddess discovered this and was very_______Taking out her hairpin(发簪), the Goddess created a wide river in the sky to separate(分开) the two_______. From then on, Niulang and Zhini had to live________ on the two sides of the river. However,their true love________ all the magpies(喜鹊) in the world, ________once a year tens of thousands of   magpies would fly up to heaven to make a bridge- the bridge of magpies for the couple to meet each other. At last, the Goddess allowed ________ to meet each   other on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month. That's________the Double Seventh Festival started. Today,   it is a great________for Chinese young people to express their love.

1.

A．through

B．behind

C．with

D．after

2.

A．met

B．told

C．thanked

D．missed

3.

A．boring

B．interesting

C．same

D．different

4.

A．looked forward to

B．parted with

C．turned down

D．fell in love with

5.

A．knew

B．lived

C．stayed

D．gave

6.

A．promised

B．waited

C．ordered

D．helped

7.

A．yet

B．ever

C．quite .

D．still

8.

A．angry

B．sorry

C．excited

D．satisfied

9.

A．friends

B．lovers .

C．parents

D．children

10.

A．back

B．away

C．halfway

D．apart

11.

A．surprised

B．changed

C．touched

D．protected

12.

A．so

B．but

C．though

D．because

13.

A．him

B．her

C．us

D．them

14.

A．how

B．when

C．what

D．where

15.

A．day

B．way

C．lesson

D．habit