1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the speaker?

A．A teacher.

B．A host.

C．A reporter.

2. What differences does the speaker mainly talk about?

A．Vocabulary.

B．Grammar.

C．Pronunciation.

3. What do we know about the differences between American and British English?

A．People needn’t pay attention to them.

B．They have little to do with daily life.

C．They may cause misunderstandings.

4. What does the speaker ask the listeners to do?

A．Study more English words.

B．Find more about language differences.

C．Learn about American and British cultures.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Why is Friday night the big supermarket night?

A．Friday is payday in many factories and businesses.

B．Most people don't need to work that day.

C．Supermarkets have special offers that night.

2. When would people stop buying in the early days?

A．When they had bought everything they wanted.

B．When they had no time to buy more things.

C．When they had their arms full of goods.

3. What helps women with babies buy more things in the supermarket?

A．The baskets.

B．The carts.

C．The plastic bags.

4. How often does the average American housewife go to the supermarket?

A．Once a week.

B．Twice a week.

C．Three times a week.

3 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What does the speaker talk about?

A．Different stories of Santa Claus.

B．Christmas traditions in warm places.

C．The importance of Christmas in western countries.

2. What does Santa Claus wear in Santa Cruz?

A．A ski jacket.

B．A red scarf.

C．A diving suit.

3. How do people spend Christmas in Australia?

A．By dancing together.

B．By doing some shopping.

C．By relaxing on the beach.

4. With whom do young people celebrate Christmas in cooler areas?

A．Their parents.

B．Their friends.

C．Their kids.

4 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is special about the MassKara Festival?

A．People perform changing faces.

B．People make faces at parties.

C．People wear smiling masks.

2. What did Bacolod heavily depend on in the past?

A．The fishing industry.

B．The tourism industry.

C．The sugar cane industry.

3. What is one of reasons for holding the first MassKara Festival?

A．To keep people away from sorrow.

B．To remember the death.

C．To celebrate the harvest of sugar cane.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．A Philippine sea accident.

B．A Philippine festival.

C．A Philippine custom

6 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What’s the woman?

A．A poetess.

B．A teacher.

C．A tourist.

2. What should you do on Friendship Day?

A．Express love to your friends.

B．Try to make new friends.

C．Give your friends valuable gifts.

3. Which country first proposed International Friendship Day?

A．India.

B．The US.

C．Paraguay.

4. When is Friendship Day celebrated in Ohio?

A．On April 8th.

B．On July 30th.

C．On August 1st.

8 . 用括号内单词的正确形式完成下面短文。

A few years ago, the Cutty Sark ship, one of London’s most popular tourist attractions, was destroyed by a fire. More than 40 firefighters     1     (call) to the old tea clipper ship in Greenwich. The police said the fire might       2     (start) on purpose rather than by accident.

A spokesman for the London fire service said the whole ship     3     (affect) by the massive fire but nobody     4    (hurt).

Chris Livett, from the group which looked after the ship, said the fire was a significant setback but they were determined to put the ship back together again.

He said the damage didn’t appear as bad as first feared. Half the planking (船壳外板), as well as many historic artifacts (人工制品 ) on board, escaped damage as they     5    (remove) for a special reason before the fire     6    (occur).

He added, “She’s been through storms and hurricanes. She’s been battling all her life. She’s not dead yet, far from it.”

The Cutty Sark     7     (use) to carry tea around the world in the 19th century. It now sits at a dry dock (码头) at Greenwich as a living museum.

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。

Chinese silk is well known all over the world. It is considered as     1     symbol of the origin of civilization. According to legend, a teenage girl in China,     2     saw metamorphosis (蜕变) of a special kind of caterpillars (毛毛虫), did something even more     3     (amaze) — she invented silk! She is Ancest or Lei.

One day, she noticed quite a few caterpillars taking small     4     (bite) of the leaves. A few of them had formed translucent cocoons (半透明的茧) around     5     (they). One by one the cocoons grew thicker so Lei couldn’t see through them. They were like eggshells, but smaller and even     6     (strong). She kept wondering     7     was going on inside. Lei started to open them and they turned into bundles of threads. Lei knew that the threads in spider (蜘蛛) webs were strong, but she wondered if the threads from these cocoons were strong enough     8     (make) into cloth. After testing, her doubt was removed.

Later, Lei concentrated     9     figuring out how to make cloth from the cocoon threads. Eventually, Lei invented silk, and the caterpillars     10     (call) silkworms since then.

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。

When visiting China in early April, French President Emmanuel Macron enjoyed a music performance during his trip to Guangdong, Chinese music “High Mountains and Flowing Water”     1     (play) with a 1,267-year-old Chinese instrument guqin.

The guqin is a seven-stringed plunked instrument, which     2     (pass) down for more than 3,000 years so far. On November 7, 2003, Chinese guqin art was listed by UNESCO as a master-piece of oral and intangible heritage of mankind,     3     (make) it an important spiritual treasure.

The guqin is divided     4     two parts: the physical instrument, which is a static material heritage, and the art of the gugin, a dynamic intangible cultural heritage. The key to learning to play the guqin is how     5     (express) the connotations of ancient music with your own emotions. Dong,     6     enthusiast of guqin, said that compared with other traditional instruments such as the pipa and guzheng, the guqin can make her       7     (happy) and improve her cultural knowledge.

Through playing the guqin, people have more knowledge and a better understanding of traditional culture. Because the guqin is     8     (close) linked to poetry, painting, calligraphy and history, these elements complement each other.

The gugin is the earliest plucked instrument and it has deep cultural     9     (root) in China. Unlike other musical instruments, the guqin is more about the dialogue between the player and the audience’s own soul. “The sound of the guqin can be integrated into my soul, and this is     10     I want,” Dong added.