1 . This important agricultural festival takes place after all the crops have been ________ (聚集，收集) in. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

2 . She was once described as the most ________ (有智慧的) student in her class. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

3 . That was the ________ (时刻) I started to understand why people say “Horses are at the heart of Mongolian culture” （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

4 . These disasters made everyone sad and ________ (失望的) . （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

5 . They have a wide ________ (一系列) of origins. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

6 . If I have made any mistakes, I am ready to ________ (道歉). （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

7 . To a person nothing is more ________ (珍贵的) than their life. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

8 . I selected a Cantonese restaurant that served its food on beautiful ________ (瓷器) plates. （根据汉语提示单词拼写）

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

I have to admit that it     1    (definite) feels good to come back to San Francisco again. What a city — a city that was able to rebuild itself after the earthquake     2     occurred in 1906.

My hotel is in the Mission District and many people     3    (live) here are from Mexico or Central America. An art movement    4    (call) the “Mission School” started here and it was     5    ( influence) by graffiti art and comic art. I walked around looking at the street art     6     a few hours.

In the afternoon, I headed to a local museum that showed the    7    (history) changes in California. I learnt that many people rushed to San Francisco    8    (seek) fortune when gold was discovered near here. Many Chinese came and did various jobs to earn     9    living. The museum did a really good job of showing how America was built by immigrants from different countries and     10     (culture).   

This evening, I went to Chinatown. There were so many cafés and restaurants to choose from.

I can’t wait to go to a jazz bar tomorrow evening.

10 . Standing on the top of Mount Tai, I watched the sun rising through the cloud and taking its place in the sky. I haven’t seen many _________, but I can feel that seeing one from the top of Mount Tai must be one of the best ways to _________ the beauty of nature.

When I left for China, the _________ of climbing Mount Tai had not even _________ me. I was going to China to _________ its language, history and culture and gain a better understanding of international agricultural trade between my country and China.

Now I have stayed in China for a few weeks. In Beijing, my group have _________ friendship with many Chinese students. Through our broken Chinese and their _________ English, we are still able to teach each other about our cultures. We _________ that we are all just students working towards the same _________ of having careers, families and lives and trying to make the world better. Cultural differences seem __________—even the language almost completely differs from our own. But their daily lives are similar to our own routines(常规). __________, people worry about the same things we do here. They are __________ food safety, pay close attention to the government and feel the effects of the economic markets.

This __________ makes me realize how many cultures my country has in common with other countries around the world. More importantly it makes me have a __________ for travel, and I am looking forward to having more __________ to engage in cross-cultural communication and learning.

1.

A．clouds

B．sunrises

C．mountains

D．tops

2.

A．describe

B．select

C．imagine

D．experience

3.

A．thought

B．aim

C．mission

D．origin

4.

A．belonged to

B．occurred to

C．fallen to

D．turned to

5.

A．discover

B．study

C．spread

D．update

6.

A．developed

B．sought

C．kept

D．showed

7.

A．spoken

B．brief

C．poor

D．unique

8.

A．assume

B．claim

C．realize

D．expect

9.

A．chance

B．reason

C．function

D．goal

10.

A．amazing

B．striking

C．powerful

D．terrible

11.

A．Besides

B．Therefore

C．However

D．Anyhow

12.

A．addicted to

B．confused about

C．attracted to

D．concerned about

13.

A．adventure

B．course

C．climbing

D．journey

14.

A．desire

B．strategy

C．selection

D．responsibility

15.

A．guidelines

B．measures

C．opportunities

D．applications