1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

The very ancient poetry that     1     (write) a thousand or more years ago was simpler and about common things like love, romance and nature that people appreciate. Though much poetry was created in the eras following the Song dynasty, it is thought that the poets became increasingly     2     (academy) and hard to understand so that modern Chinese can’t appreciate the style and meaning.

For foreigners, ancient Chinese poetry     3     (be) more difficult     4     (comprehend). One of the reasons is the nature of Chinese characters     5     (they).Often one character has many meanings,     6     makes the translation of Chinese into English a key part of reading and understanding Chinese poetry. Put simply, good translation is essential to     7     (full) understand Chinese poems.

Another point worth     8     (notice) about ancient Chinese poetry is that itis influenced by Confucian and Taoist thinking. Ancient Chinese poetry has a focus of friendship besides love or being     9     lover. Friendships, to the village, the community, the country or your drinking friends are dominant themes. The poets’ main task seems to be just writing poetry, because a life as a poet is an important thing. In this respect, Chinese poetry is all     10     the poet, the “meaning” for the poet and not what is happening around the poet.

2 . 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 Shenzhou XVI crew returned to Earth on Tuesday morning, concluding a     1     (history), five-month mission     2     also involved China’s first civilian astronaut.

The spaceship’s reentry capsule,     3     (contain) mission commander Major General Jing Haipeng, Colonel Zhu Yangzhu and Professor Gui Haichao, touched down at 8:11 am at the Dongfeng Landing Site in the Gobi Desert in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region     4     flying nearly 12 hours on   its return journey.

    5     (follow) safety checks outside, the ground recovery team opened the hatch of the bell-shaped capsule     6     conducted a preliminary examination of the astronauts’ health. Sitting   inside the capsule, Jing told ground controllers in Beijing via radio that his team had landed     7     (safe) and was “feeling pretty good”.

The astronauts     8     (carry) out and placed on chairs in front of the capsule, and they shared their experiences with a reporter in a     9     (live) program.

The Shenzhou XVI crew members had arrived at Tiangong on May 30. Their journey was China’s 11th manned spaceflight and the fifth crewed mission to the space station. For the next six months, Tiangong will be manned by the Shenzhou XVII crew, who     10     (arrive) at the space station on Thursday evening.

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。

Saturday afternoon at the Main Media Center, six front-line workers of the Hangzhou Asian Games     1     (invite) to talk about their work experience during the event.

The spotlight may not shine as     2     (bright)on them as it does on the     3     (compete) in the race course, but most of them have been offering support and help to the 12,000 athletes, nearly 5,000 technical officials and thousands of media personnel, making     4     (they) own extraordinary contributions (贡献) to the Games.

At the conference, Asiad Daily’s very own Shi Futian, a sports reporter and new media personality at English-language newspaper China Daily, shared the inspiration     5     he had drawn from people he had interviewed, including Uzbekistan’s artistic gymnast Oksana Chusovitina and Chinese swimmer Wang Shun. “I feel very lucky     6     (take) part in such a huge event as a reporter,” he said. “I also hope that through our media coverage,     7     (many) people will get to know the athletes and understand their stories.”

Lyu Shuyi, a security staff member at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, has been responsible     8     the protection of rifle and pistol ammunition for events such as     9     (shoot) and modern pentathlon (五项运动). As of Friday, the security team had ensured the safety of ammunition in 139 batches, and not a single piece was lost or damaged. “Due to the varied gun control policies in different countries, we worried that athletes might not understand the local rules     10    , those concerns were reduced when everyone showed understanding and cooperation.”

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。

“Hello”,     1     always makes a point about the importance of how we greet (问候) others, is a very common word in our daily life. The word we choose sets the     2     (begin) for the whole communication, and in turn, shapes the future of     3     (we) relationship with others. At times we may use something like a formal “good day” in certain situations, and a more informal “hey” or “hi” in others. Knowing how     4     (say) hello in different languages is always the first step when it     5     (come) to becoming more communicative with the rest of the world. “Hello” is     6     (important) than any other word for you to remember when you’re learning a new language. Now let’s learn some different     7     (form) of “hello” in different languages around the world: in English— Hello; in Chinese— Nin ho; in French— Bonjour; in Spanish— Hola. Isn’t it     8     (interest) to get you ready for some situations? There are even more ways to say hello in every language. The way of greeting someone can change depending     9     the time of the day, or your relationship with the person you’re saying hello to. Beyond the words, people also use a mixture of body language and physical (身体的) touch to greet each other, from handshakes to hugs or cheek kisses. Learning to greet someone is all about making a connection, so have     10     try and do your best.

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。

Backlight 226 is a rare bookstore in Shanghai, as it offers books by visually impaired （损伤） people to those with visual impairments.     1     (locate) in the city’s leafy Nanchang Street, the store has been a fixture in the area since 2022, providing much-needed reading materials to the blind community.

“People may only know about the famous Helen Keller, but there are famous blind Chinese     2     (writer) as well,” said Han Ying, the manager of Backlight 226, referring to the American author and activist     3     lost her sight and hearing at an early age.

Han partially lost her vision after an accident aged 21 and     4     (become) completely blind five years later. She said she had to give up     5     (teach) calligraphy, and the way she read was also affected.

Now, aged 43, she relies     6     special apps designed for the visually impaired and spends most of her time at the bookstore. There, she promotes reading among visually impaired people and the bookstore     7     (equip) with facilities that allow the visually impaired     8     (read) more comfortably.

“Backlight 226 is a start,” Han said. “There will     9     (definite) be more like it across the country so that we can make the public know more about the special groups     10     their world.”

6 . 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。

In recent years, many Chinese museums have opened online stores to sell cultural and creative products. Among them, the Palace Museum stands     1     Collectively more than 500 Palace Museum products are available for purchase online.

According to the Vice President of the Palace Museum, sales of the museum’s cultural and creative products     2     (total) 1 billion yuan last year. The museum has developed nearly 10,000 different cultural and creative products either     3     (independent), through IP authorization, or in     4     (cooperate) with other companies, with partners such as LKK,     5     creative design company, having designed over 800 categories of products across 17 themes for the Palace Museum.

Among the Palace Museum’s most popular cultural and creative products     6     (be) sticky tape inspired by beautiful     7     (pattern) from ancient bowls, plates or clothes. Many customers have used the tape to customize the casing of     8     (person) items, with the posting of finished goods     9     (become) a popular trend online.

“When developing cultural and creative products, we study people’s daily needs     10     that our products perform some sort of function. We hope users use our products to spread our culture,” the Vice President said.

7 . 语法填空

Special free health kits for COVID-19 control are being provided to children, seniors and those    1    are in need in major cities as the country optimizes its policies to fight the pandemic.

The health kits include medicines, antigen reagents, disinfectants, face masks and thermometers, and are expected to help reduce     2     number of infections in communities, authorities said.

Zhang Chunhong, a senior doctor at the Jiangxia district health bureau in Wuhan, Hubei province, said the health kits     3    (allocate) in Jiangxia mainly include honeysuckle throat syrup, traditional Chinese medicine Lianhua Qingwen, alcohol wipes, masks and antigen tests.

“Masks and alcohol spray and wipes are used for     4    (prevent) while Lianhua Qingwen and honeysuckle can help relieve symptoms,” he said.

According to Zhang, more than 21,000 health kits    5     (distribute) so far to front-line medical staff, elderly people and those     6     chronic diseases in the district.

Yu Meixia, a staff member at Hubei Jiaotou Wuhuang Expressway Operation Management, said she     7    (give) a health kit at work last week.

“For our front-line workers,     8     is necessary to wear masks and gloves at work, and medicines are effective in avoiding becoming infected, so the kit is    9     (time),” she said.

“The company asked us to maintain good personal protection every day and immediately report to the company and rest at home    10    we feel unwell or develop relevant symptoms,” said Yu.

8 . 语法填空

The Chinese painting is one of the oldest artistic traditions in the world. The painting in the traditional style is known today in Chinese as guohua,     1    (mean) the “national” or “native” painting. It is different from Western styles of art which     2    (become) popular in China in the 20th century.

One technique of the traditional Chinese painting is ink and wash painting and in Chinese it is called shuimo. In fact this was an art form     3    (practise) by gentlemen from the Song Dynasty. This style is also referred to     4     xieyi or the freehand style.

    5    (traditional), the Chinese painting is done on rice paper or thin silk. There     6     (be) broadly three subjects for traditional Chinese paintings — portraits, landscapes, and flowers and birds — of     7     the landscape is the most familiar to people. Therefore the Chinese painting is often known as the landscape painting, or shanshui painting.

The landscape painting was regarded as     8     highest form of the Chinese painting, and generally still is. In the north, artists such as Jing Hao painted     9     (picture) of towering mountains and in the south, Dong Yuan, Juran, and other artists painted the rolling hills and rivers of their native countryside in     10     (peace) scenes.

9 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

China’s courier sector    1    (see) rapid growth in the last five-day May Day holiday, with parcels    2    (collect) and delivered both surpassing 1 billion pieces, People’s Daily reported. A total of 1.1 billion parcels were collected during the period, up 41.8 percent year-on-year, while 1.04 billion parcels were delivered, up 38.93 percent from a year    3    (early), the State Post Bureau said Wednesday. China’s express    4    (deliver) business rebounded from a low level in January, and experienced positive growth in February. At present, the growth remained    5    a high level of over 30 percent.

The online shopping festival,    6    runs from April 28 to May 10 and is jointly launched by the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Post Bureau and the China Consumers Association,    7     (promote) express deliveries in the near term,    8    official from the bureau said. The booming online sales of food, daily    9    (necessary) and electronic devices has stimulated small and medium-sized enterprises to resume work, the bureau said,    10    (add) that online sales of agricultural products also maintained fast growth thanks to sufficient supply and demand.

10 . But the solar term culture is still useful today to guide people’s lives through special foods, cultural ________ (ceremony), gardening and even healthy living tips that correspond with each solar term.（所给词的适当形式填空）