1 . 你校英文网站向学生征文介绍中国传统节日，请你写一篇介绍中秋节的短文投稿。
1. 词数应为80左右；
2. 参考词汇 中秋节：Mid-Autumn Festival 农历：lunar calendar
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3 . 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。

As the most     1     (wide) recognized type of Chinese opera in the world, Beijing Opera is regarded as the quintessence of Chinese culture. When performing Beijing Opera, artists follow the     2     (establish) types of singing, reciting, acting and martial arts,     3     are the four main elements and skills of Beijing Opera. Usually, performers start practicing these four skills from     4     early age. Perseverance is the key to the lively characters     5     stage.

Beijing Opera combines wonderful performance with fine costumes and makeup. The unique     6     (face) makeup art is called “Lianpu”. It uses a form of exaggeration    7     (show)the nature, psychological and physical features of the characters.

Color patterns are painted on the performers’ faces, especially on their eyebrows, eye sockets and the corners of their mouths. The face colors are connected with the characters’     8     (personality). For example, red means loyalty and hospitality; black shows     9     (fair)and justice; white indicates doubtfulness; blue suggests bravery; gold and silver create a sense of grandness.

Up to now, the art of Beijing Opera “Lianpu”     10     (apply) to many creative cultural products. Special stationary, clothing and skincare masks are getting more and more popular around the world.

4 . 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。

The Chinese couplet (对联) refers to two poetic lines obeying certain rules, often     1     (write) on red paper for     2     (appreciate).

As a form of Chinese literature, the couplet     3     (vary) in content and style. Some express people’s love to their motherland, some describe the beauty of nature,     4     some convey best wishes for the coming year.

Chinese couplets originated in the Five Dynasties, and since then they     5     (become) commonplace everywhere in China. It was the custom for people     6     (hang) peach wood charms to drive away evil spirits during the Spring Festival. Nowadays, couplets are used in a similar way.

It was said that the     7     (early) couplet was created by Meng Chang, king of Later Shu and it was     8     (wide) popular in the Northern Song Dynasty. At present, writing couplets     9     (regard) as a mark of the cultured life of scholars.

The couplet has two equal-length lines. However,     10     number of characters in each line can be from four to seven or more. The first and the second lines have opposite tone patterns. The last character of the first line is of an oblique tone, and its opposite in the second line, is of a level tone.

5 . People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in telling different facial expressions — and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.

Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than looking at the whole face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes only.

“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, while Easterners prefer the eyes and ignore the mouth.”

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

The researchers studied cultural differences in facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and sort them into different groups: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, or angry. They compared how correctly people read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement plans.

It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more mistakes 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 study suggests that Westerners use the whole face to express emotion while Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less.”

In short, facial expressions are not universal to show human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have made a difference to these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. When it comes to talking about emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in communication.

1. The discovery shows that Westerners ________.

A．pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth

B．consider facial expressions universally reliable

C．observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways

D．have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions

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

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

3. It turns out that Easterners are likely to ________.

A．understand the emotion more successfully	B．study the mouth more frequently
C．focus on the eyes more attentively	D．read facial expressions more correctly

4. What can be the best title for the passage?

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

6 . 假定你是学生李华，你的英国朋友Tom对中国古代四大名著很感兴趣，希望宁给他推荐其中的一部。请你给Tom回信，内容包括：
1. 简要介绍一本名著；
2. 说明推荐的理由。
参考词汇：
三国演义 Romance of the Three Kingdoms水浒传 Water Margin
西游记 Journey to the West红楼梦 A Dream of Red Mansions
Dear Tom,
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Yours,

Li Hua

7 . 假设你是明启中学高三学生李华，你的英国朋友Michael来信说他打算参加所在城市伦敦举办的中国文化节活动，并在活动中用汉语介绍中国文化，但他似乎信心不足，且就主题的选择犹豫不决。请你从下列主题中推荐一项：中国传统节日、中国文字发展、中国民族音乐。请你给他回信，内容需包括：

1. 帮助他树立信心；

2. 你的推荐及理由。

注意：写作词数应为80左右，可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯。

Dear Michael,

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Yours,

Li Hua

8 . 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

9 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In Southwest China, a group of grandmothers sit in front of a traditional -style house, skillfully sewing colored thread into a piece of blue cloth and     1     (occasion) bursting into waves of laughter.

Such is the scene in Hejiayan Village, Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing. These women learned the craft (手艺) as children,     2     they never expected that it     3     (bring) them together in old age, injecting some fun into their later years.

This local     4     (recover) of the craft started in 2013 when Chen Guotao, opened     5     Miao embroidery (刺绣) shop in Youyang.     6     (raise) in a rural area, Chen was keen to help fuel China’s rural boom, and in 2016, she set up the first of several embroidery workshops. They offered job opportunities to     7     (employ) female villagers who had stayed behind     8     (care) for the family while their relatives sought higher salaries elsewhere.

But the workshops are more than just workplaces. They are also social clubs for local senior citizens, most of     9     would lead rather dull lives otherwise,     10     (sit) at home with little social interaction. Sitting in the warm sunshine and enjoying the peace of embroidery, these senior citizens are now an established feature in the village.

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。

Chinese painting is one of the     1    (old) continuous artistic traditions in the world. The materials     2    ( use) in Chinese paintings, the brush, ink or pigment, paper or silk, etc, have determined     3    (it) character and development over thousands of years.

Chinese paintings are     4    (close) related to Zen(禅宗) and Taoist ideals of total concentration on the act of the very moment,    5    the harmony between man and nature. They do not attempt to get the actual physical appearance of a     6    subject, but rather its essential nature. A Chinese appearance of painting has different perspectives (视角); every area of it is interesting. Landscapes are often painted from a viewpoint above the scene, so that many     7    (area) can be seen at once. In large scenes or landscapes, your eyes are meant     8    (travel) along a visual path     9    one area to another.

There are three main subjects of Chinese paintings: human figures, landscapes, and birds and flowers. After Chinese painters     10    (expose) to Western art during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they began to develop new styles, which combined traditional Chinese painting with Western impressionism.