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。

The Yellow Crane Tower is one of the Four Great Towers of China.     1     (seat) at the top of Snake Hill, on the banks of the Yangtze River, this symbolic building is one of the     2     (great) landmarks in Wuhan. There are a number of legends which tell     3     the Yellow Crane Tower came into being. One of them is the story of a wine merchant named Xin. It is believed that one day,     4     immortal being (神仙) pretended he was a poor man and got into Xin’s wine store. Xin, showing no judgement,     5     (offer) the man some free wine. The poor man came back day after day for several years and Xin always welcomed him with the same     6     (warm). One day, as the poor man left the store, he took some orange peel and drew a picture of a crane upon the wall. He said if he clapped his hands, the crane would come down from the wall and dance for him.     7     (surprise), what the poor man said was true. The dancing crane brought     8     much business to Xin that he soon became a very wealthy man. About ten years     9     (late), the immortal being came back to Xin’s store, called out the crane and left with it.     10     (honor) him and the crane, Xin built the Yellow Crane Tower.

2 . In the winter of 1664-65, a bitter cold fell on London in the days before Christmas. Above the city, an unusually bright comet (彗星) shot across the sky, exciting much prediction of a snow storm, Outside the city wall, a woman was announced dead of a disease that was spreading in that area. Her house was locked up and the phrase “Lord Have Mercy On Us” was painted on the door in red.

By the following Christmas, the virus that had killed the woman would go on to kill nearly 100,000 people living in and around London—almost a third of those who did not flee.

In The Great Plague (瘟疫), historian A.Lloyd Moote and microbiologist Dorothy C.Moote provide a deeply informed account of this plague year. Reading the book, readers are taken from the palaces of the city’s wealthiest citizens to the poor areas where the vast majority of Londoners were living, and to the surrounding countryside with those who fled. The Mootes point out that, even at the height of the plague, the city did not fall into chaos. Doctors, nurses and the church staff remained in the city to care for the sick; city officials tried their best to fight the crisis with all the legal tools; commerce continued even as businesses shut down.

To describe life and death in and around London, the authors focus on the experiences of nine individuals. Through their letters and diaries, the Mootes offer fresh descriptions of key issues in the history of the Great Plague: how different communities understood and experienced the disease; how medical, religious, and government bodies reacted; how well the social order held together; the economic and moral dilemmas people faced when debating whether to flee the city; and the nature of the material, social, and spiritual resources supporting those who remained. Based on humanity, the authors offer a masterful portrait of a city and its residents attacked by—and daringly resisting -unimaginable horror.

1. What can we learn from Paragraph 1?

A．A comet always follows a storm.	B．London was prepared for the disease.
C．London was under an approaching threat.	D．The woman was the beginning of the disease.

2. What do the Mootes say about London during the Great Plague?

A．The cit remained organized.	B．The people tried a lo in vain.
C．The plague spared the rich areas.	D．The majority fled and thus survived.

3. Why do the Mootes focus on the nine individuals?

A．They were famous people in history.	B．They all managed to survive the plague.
C．They united by thinking and acting as one.	D．They provided vivid stories of humanity in the disaster.

4. What’s the purpose of this text?

A．To record an epidemic.	B．To introduce a book.
C．To report a new survey.	D．To correct a misunderstanding.

3 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误、每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（/\），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

An American and a Frenchman decided to cross the sea between France and England in the balloon in 1784. High over the water, they discover a hole in the balloon. The hole became bigger and bigger. The air keeps the balloon up was escaping quickly and the balloon was coming up. The two men threw all their equipments into the water to make the balloon light. It started to rise higher again. So it was still too close to the water. Finally, the men threw away most of his clothes to save themselves. The crowd waiting for to greet them in England were very surprised see this that the balloon landed in front of them.

5 . Once upon a time, there was a man from the State of Chu who loved his sword very much. One day, he was sitting in a boat preparing to cross a river     1     he accidentally dropped his sword into the water.     2      the ship moving fast on and the water running, the people on board reminded that he should go into the water to find his beloved sword back. The man felt in great      3     (anxious) too. However, he turned a deaf ear to that and instead, he     4      (immediate) took out a knife and made a notch (刻痕) on the side of the boat     5      his dear sword fell. The people wondered why he did so. He said proudly the notch could help     6     (get) his sword back. Shortly after the     7      (arrive) at the shore, he entered the water just beneath the notch he made. Though      8      (spend) rather a long time, he returned empty-handed. Without doubt, he was laughed at in public and his story became     9     well-known joke in China.

Today the idiom      10      (relate) to the story is used to describe a person who stick to rigid rules without considering a changing environment or describes an action made pointless by changing circumstances.