1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。

A slow train in Southwest China having     1     own study room has attracted much attention from netizens. Train No.5609/5610, which runs between Chongqing and Xiushan county,     2     (be) a public welfare “slow train”.

In some carriages, some     3     (seat) have been replaced with desks and chairs next to the windows to transform them into “study carriages” for passengers in need.

Students from nearby schools     4     (frequent) take the train between school and home. The trains are their “school buses”,     5     many passengers can complete their homework.

On train No.Z150, which runs between Guiyang and Beijing, a     6     (transform) “book bar” carriage has been welcomed by college students. There are nearly 400 universities and colleges in the cities along the line,     7     (make) train No.Z150 the first choice for most students on those campuses.

    8     2015, the train’s dining car has been open for free at night to provide returning students     9     a lending library, free tea and other services. These     10     (thought) measures by the railway department are a welcome comfort for passengers needing a relaxing place to continue their studies.

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 Wandering Earth is China’s biggest sci-fi film to date.    1    (direct) by Frant Gwo of My Old Classmate and starring Wu Jing of Wolf Warrior 1 and 2, The Wandering Earth was one of    2    most anticipated films of 2019. The film is based on a short story by Liu Cixin,    3     flagship work The Three Body Problem was     4    (original) supposed to receive the cinematic treatment before production issues shelved the movie.

The film    5     (release) on Feb. 5, 2019. It is set in a future Earth, whose inhabitants prepare to escape from the solar system as the sun expands into a red giant phase,    6    (threaten) to engulf (吞没) Earth in flames. As the expanding sun changes the climate of the earth, the governments of the world unite    7    the leadership of the UN Security Council to build massive engines to push the planet out of the solar system and towards nearby Proxima Centauri. At the same time, the    8     ( resident) of Earth move to underground cities for the thousands-year-long transit.

However, just as the Earth begins on    9     (it) journey across the galaxy, it gets trapped in the gravity well of Jupiter—after which it’s up to Wu Jing’s character Liu Peiqiang, his father, his son, his adopted daughter, and a number of Chinese soldiers and scientists    10     (save) the world.

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。

You may have heard about potato candy. Potato candy     1     (consider) to be a sweet food for those who couldn’t afford much in the past. But more people now find potato candy wonderful in reality.

    2     (actual), potato candy is easy to make. Boil a potato until a fork will easily cut into it. Then place the hot potato in     3     bowl and remove the potato skin in a     4     (care) way. After mashing (把……捣成糊状) the potato with hands, put sugar into the potato. When     5     (add) the sugar, you are advised     6     (move) the mashed potato around continually. Then turn it out onto the tablecloth     7     begin rolling the mashed potato out until it’s a quarter of an inch thick. Put peanut butter (花生酱) over the surface of the potato. Then cut the potato into small pieces. And put the potato candy into the refrigerator     8     an hour. After that, you can enjoy your candy,     9     taste can be very nice.

Certainly, when you make the potato candy, you can make some changes to the methods     10     (explain) above.

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个恰当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In the late 1980s and 1990s, parents in Singapore     1     (begin) noticing a worrying change in their children. More and more children were becoming short-sighted.

Nobody was able to stop this     2     (nation) eyesight crisis. Rates of short-sightedness—also known     3     near-sightedness or myopia—continued to rise and rise. Today, Singapore has a myopia rate of around 80% in young     4     (adult).

    5     happened in Singapore now appears to be happening all over the world. Countries with seemingly completely different lifestyles     6     (face) with the same phenomenon; rapid increasing rates of short-sightedness.

What explains this global eyesight crisis? Genetics play only     7     small part. Instead, lifestyle factors are thought to be more significant, in particular, a lack of time outdoors, and focusing on close objects for an extended period through an activity like reading. The way in     8     children obtain an education in the modern world, with the emphasis on long hours     9     (spend) in classrooms, appears to be consistently hurting     10     (they) eye health.

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内所给词的正确形式。

The car pulled up at Terminal 1 and I slid out of the car with luggage in hand. My mom hurriedly came out of the car and put an amulet(护身符) into my hand     1     she believed would bring safety to me. Though I was aware of my mom’s concerns, I felt more than confident in my ability     2    (navigate)the flight from San Francisco to Beijing alone, even after I landed in Beijing and got on the quarantine(隔离) buses waiting outside.

As the sky started to go dark, our bus finally began to move.     3    (like) my trip to the airport, this time I really wanted to see     4     was beyond the window. The harder I looked, the more I realized that the car was heading     5    (far) away from the city.

The bus came to     6     sudden stop. The front door of the bus opened and two people with white protection coats got onto the bus,     7    (shout) “Everyone line up here!” All the passengers got down from the bus and     8    (distribute) into different rooms. The lonely clicks of my shoes against the pavement were the only sounds I heard as I carried my luggage by myself to my room. In the dim light of my quarantine room, I felt the     9    (present) of my mother by holding the amulet     10    (tight), reminding me that I wasn’t alone after all. And that gave me a renewed sense of courage and hope as I began to embrace the unknown.

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。

Hahn, from Berlin, Germany, opened a cafe this June in Haikou, Hainan Province, starting his new career. In 2011, Hahn gave up his good job in Berlin    1    came to China. “It’s not what I wanted to do for my whole life,” he said.

In 2014, Hahn    2    (travel) by train all the way from Berlin to China’s Urumqi and then to Hainan. Originally, he learned Chinese at Hainan University until he could speak it    3    (fluent). He also pursued a master’s degree in tourism management there. Hahn was hard-working and won a Chinese government scholarship. “That was a very good chance and I’m very    4    (thank),” he said.

After his    5    (graduate) in 2020, Hahn decided to stay in Hainan. “I had an idea to open a cafe, because I love coffee and I want to share my love for coffee with other people,” he said.

Faced with so many    6    (challenge) in the beginning, he found it was not easy to transform the idea into reality. However, he finally made    7    to change his cafe into a place     8    (drink) coffee, enjoy and make friends. He said that the second floor of the cafe had the potential to host cultural exchange events or English courses

Hahn used to give free German lessons to those    9    wanted to learn at his home once a week. Now he is planning to do it twice a week in his cafe. “I’m not a teacher, but I enjoy    10    (share) my knowledge and I really like to share more about my cultural background,” he said.

7 . 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 sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth II has not only raked in a whopping box office, but also focused much attention     1     science and technologies that appeared in the movie,    2    (include) space elevators, quantum computers, and nuclear fusions. China’s movie box office revenue     3    (reach) nearly 6.76 billion yuan during the Spring Festival holiday from Jan 21 to 27. The Wandering Earth II ranked the    4    (two) among six domestic titles released during the holiday.

To escape the harm of a    5     (rapid) burning sun, humans in the movie try to build about 10,000 massive engines     6    power) by nuclear fusions to propel the earth to a place     7    the atmosphere is safe both for humans and the earth.     8    the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death.

Over the past week, topics related to The Wandering Earth II have been trending on Weibo,     9     popular Twitter-like social media platform in China, one after another. Many     10    (audience) show great interest in the details in the movie.

8 . He speaks highly of China Orbit as a unique science fiction novel ________ vividly shows a child’s real-life experience in a military camp of a specific era. （用适当的词填空）

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。

Porcelain(瓷器), one of ancient China’s oldest and greatest inventions, is of great significance in the history of Chinese civilization.

Around the first century, porcelain     1     (product) first emerged in China, and by the Song Dynasty, it had become mature. Song-Dynasty porcelain represented the peak of ancient Chinese porcelain technique. A variety of styles of porcelain appeared and it became a fashion     2     people showed great interest in purchasing and collecting certain wares     3     (suit) to their tastes. In the Yuan Dynasty, Jingdezhen became     4     center of the Chinese porcelain industry. In the 15th century Porcelain found     5     way to Europe,     6     (occupy) an important position in the exchanges between China and other countries. Porcelain gained a good reputation     7     its beauty and elegance, and     8     (play) an important role in the wave of the European idealization of China during the 17th     9     18th centuries. In the rococo(洛可可式)style popular in Europe of that time, one could sense the influence of “Chinese Fashion”     10     (represent) by China’s styles of porcelain and gardens.

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。

Last Thursday, the 18th-century Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired the 2013 horror movie The Conjuring     1     (sell) to a Boston house developer, Jacqueline Nunez, for $ 1. 525 million. Nunez and Jennifer Heinzen,     2    seller, jointly announced the sale on Facebook.

Nunez plans to continue the business     3     (start) by Heinzen. Guests will be able to continue the nightly explorations there. Day-time tours will resume (恢复) soon.

“This purchase is personal for me,” Nunez told The Boston Globe. “It’s around my own     4     (curious). Since I was a child, I     5     (be) in love with horror movies, like The Conjuring. I look forward to experiencing strange things in the house.”

However, one of the conditions in the contract is     6     the new owner will not live in the house year-round. “Because the energy is so powerful,” Heinzen told The Boston Globe later. “It is intended     7     (protect) the buyer.”

The Conjuring wasn’t filmed in the house but was based on the     8     (experience) of a few families that lived there in the 1970s.

“I’m not afraid     9     the house,” she said. “I don’t think the energy here is     10    (harm). Things that will happen here may frighten me, but will not hurt me.”