1 . The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, has been officially listed as a UN floating holiday in its calendar of conferences from 2024, ___________ is welcomed by the UN’s member countries. (用适当的词填空)

2 . ___________ (push) her career further, Jia Ling, a well-known film director and actress, offered to her fans another masterpiece, YOLO, short for “You Only Live Once”. (所给词的适当形式填空)

3 . Every spring, tourists from all over the world come ___________ (flood) in to enjoy the sight of The Slender West Lake, the He Garden and the Ge Garden, which fully reveal the charm of Yangzhou. (所给词的适当形式填空)

4 . In Chinese culture, 2024 is the Year of the Dragon, or “loong”, the image of which appears on many cultural artifacts___________(pass) down through Chinese history. (所给词的适当形式填空)

5 . 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。

Biang Biang noodles, originated in Shaanxi Province, are well known for its traditional flavor and a funny name and interesting story.

The Chinese character for Biang is one of the most complex in the Chinese language,     1     (contain) 42 strokes (笔画) in simplified Chinese,     2     is far more than most characters.

Unlike other noodles that are named after how they’re made like pulled noodles, story has it that the name dates back to the Qing Dynasty. The noodles had already existed for long but didn’t have a nice name. One day, a hungry scholar, living a poor life, tried his luck for a free meal.     3     (attract) by the sound of making noodles, he stopped and made     4     proposal that the noodle shop owner give him free noodles, and in return he would come up     5     a name for it.

After     6     (enjoy) his delicious free lunch, the scholar got     7     (inspire) for the name when the noodle chef slammed the noodles on the counter. The repeated motion gives Biang Biang noodles the character to be thick and chewy (耐嚼).

Despite the fact that the scholar just wanted to give the noodle shop owner his money’s worth, the name he created was     8     (extreme) difficult. Since then, it     9     (regard) as one of the top 14     10     (difficult) characters to write in the entire language. Anyway, the noodle comes down with its super taste and unforgettable name.

6 . Still, practical problems remain __________ (solve), such as ensuring the trips are safe as many taxis will be flown without pilots. (所给词的适当形式填空)

7 . 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。

If you’re into ancient Chinese architecture, check out 73-year-old Wang Yongxian on Douyin,     1     Chinese version of TikTok. Wang has built a large following for his in-depth knowledge and live streams. A     2     (retire) architect in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, Wang makes sketches (草图) and models to illustrate structural concepts, and often streams     3     the spot at buildings he is lecturing about. One viewer told China Report that Wang’s video on bucket arches, also     4     (call) dougong — one of the most important     5     (element) in traditional Chinese architecture, helped them thoroughly understand this unique building method.     6     (show) its complex system of wooden interlocking brackets (托架), Wang used a model that he     7     (careful) separated into different parts as he lectured. Unlike many fashionable online celebrities, Wang wears an understated Zhongshan suit     8     has since become his signature. Fans told China Report that Wang’s courses have made understanding ancient Chinese architecture accessible, which     9     (be) his aim when he started live streaming. “An ancient building is much     10     (precious) than an ancient painting or porcelain (瓷器), because it shows China’s ancient culture in a comprehensive and three-dimensional way,” Wang told China Report.

8 . 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 use of bamboo in science and technology is really exciting. In the Warring States period, Li Bing     1     (lead) the local people to build the Dujiang Weir, the first irrigation network in the world,     2     bamboo played an important role. During the Han dynasty, the Sichuan people successfully sank     3     1,600-meter-deep well with thick bamboo ropes. This technology didn’t spread to Europe     4     the 19th century and in 1859 Americans sank the first oil well in Pennsylvania by     5     (employ) the technology.

Papermaking     6     (be) one of China’s four ancient great inventions. In the Han dynasty, people began to use bamboo     7     (make) paper, which was of excellent quality and fair price. Even now it is considered as one of the important materials in papermaking. Some of the Xuan paper for traditional Chinese painting is also made     8     bamboo.

In the Yuan dynasty, a man     9     (plan) to send a person on the chair to space tied a big bamboo tube filled with gunpowder onto each of the four legs of a chair. Although it appears amusing, it is regarded as the     10     (early) “manned rocket design”.

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。

Born in 1946 in New York, Claudia Goldin, professor at Harvard University,     1     (award) the Nobel Prize in economics for her work on women in the labor market in October, 2023. She found that women generally receive a     2     (low) pay than men. She looked at over 200 years of US data,     3     showed that much of the gender pay gap could     4     (historic) be explained by differences in education and jobs.

Female participation in the labor market follows     5     U-shaped form over the whole period, and the participation of     6     (marry) women decreased when society changed from farming to industry in the early 19th century, but then started to increase with the     7     (grow) of the service industry in the early 20th century, her research has shown.

“It is obvious that understanding women’s role in the labor market is important for society. Thanks to Goldin’s research, we are now equipped     8     a deeper understanding of the factors contributing to the gender pay gap     9     which challenges may need     10     (address) in the future,” Jakob Svensson, chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences, said in a statement.

10 . While the rest of the team were pushing eastwards from a general area ________had been searched, Bell had a feeling that the boy would be found in a westerly direction. (用适当的词填空)