1 . There are many interesting stories about Chinese fans in historical records, novels, and legends.    1    He was a famous military strategist（军事战略家）during the Three Kingdoms Period, and the banana leaf fan belonging to Princess Iron Fan, a fictional character in the classic novel Journey to the West.

    2    For example, men of letters preferred folding fans； military strategists preferred feather fans; girls of noble families liked circular fans while ordinary people usually used palm leaf fans.

The reason why fans evolved into artwork was largely related to men of letters, who liked to paint or write poetry on fans, and gave them to their friends as gifts.    3    That eventually led to fans becoming artwork.

It has been popular to draw fans or write poems about fans, and paint or write on paper fans. There is a story about Wang Xizhi, known for his Chinese calligraphy（书法）. Wang once saw an elderly lady selling fans. The business was not so good. She looked very upset, so Wang decided to help her.     4    One seeing Wang's calligraphy on those fans, people all competed to buy them, which sold out very quickly.

It has been popular to paint on fans since Tang Dynasty, and it became even more popular during the Song and Yuan dynasties.    5    

For thousands of years, Chinese people never stopped innovating fan design, and adopted different materials such as bamboo, palm tree leaves, wood, paper, feathers, silk and bones. They made fans of many shapes, such as circular and square shapes.

A．They asked for better decoration of fans.

B．Feather fans are famous because of Zhu Geliang

C．Wang Xizhi taught the old woman to draw on fans

D．In ancient times， fans also served as the symbol of status.

E．Artwork on fans is also a unique type of Chinese painting.

F．Some famous ones are the goose feather fan held by Zhu Geliang.

G．He wrote a few characters on each fan and told the old woman to raise the price.

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。

Have you ever watched a scene unfold before your eyes? That's    1    happens when you look at a form of Chinese arts. The image is painted on a roll of paper or silk and unrolled for viewing.

There     2     (be) two types of scroll (卷轴)painting： hand scrolls and hanging or landscape scrolls.

Hand scrolls are usually long and continuous. Each scroll is mounted on a wooden roller with a silk     3     (cover) around the outside, and stored in a special wooden box. The image, which often involves a scene or story, unfolds before you. Think of it    4     a book with pictures that tells a story as the pages are turned.

Unlike hand scrolls, hanging or landscape scrolls are vertical. They are unrolled, and can be hung on a wall and viewed     5     (complete) at one time.

Chinese scroll painting is a very old art. The    6    (early) known works were done thousands of years ago. Common themes include landscapes, people and birds.

A great hand scroll painted by Ma Yuan titled The Four Sages of Shangshan     7     (create) between 1220 and 1230 of the Southern Song Dynasty. It's    8     example of people combined with landscape as a subject.

The most famous one is the 12th-century work Along the River during the Qingming Festival by Song Dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan.    9     (know) as “China's Mona Lisa”， this work pictures the     10    (beauty) natural scenery of the city of Bianjing, today's Kaifeng, and the busy and lively life of people.

3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填写1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

On April 16, a fire     1     (destroy) the spire (尖塔) and roof of the 580-year-old cathedral Notre Dame (巴黎圣母院). Citizens of Paris gathered around the giant church,     2     (sing) hymns (圣诗) and praying. The church,     3     was built in 1163, is a historical and     4     (art) treasure. It combined Gothic art with Christian architecture     5     it led to taller and     6     (awesome) churches throughout Europe. Notre Dame is also home     7     many religious artifacts (手工艺品), paintings and sculptures.     8     (fortune), its world-famous stained glass rose windows survived the fire. Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel, the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, brought the church to the world’s attention. French President Emmanuel Macron promised     9     (reconstruct) the building. “ Notre Dame is our history, it’s our literature, it’s our imagery,” he said in     10     public speech.

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。

Jingdezhen porcelain(瓷器)is Chinese porcelain produced in or near Jingdezhen in southern China. Jingdezhen has produced porcelain     1     (century)ago. And the town     2    was named Jingdezhen by Emperor Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty became a major kiln(窑)site around 1004.During the period, the     3    (produce)of porcelain in this area first became     4    (know).By the 14th century it had become the largest centre of producing Chinese porcelain, which remained in the following times. In the Ming Dynasty, official kilns in Jingdezhen     5    (control)by the emperor, making quality porcelain in large quantities for the emperor to give abroad as gifts. As a result, the town was     6    (close)linked to the world.

Although being a remote town in a hilly area, Jingdezhen is near the quality porcelain stone and forests which can provide plenty of wood for the kilns. It also has     7    river flowing from north to south,     8    (benefit)the transport of the fragile objects.

Jingdezhen has produced a great variety of     9     (value) porcelain. As a result, the town is famous     10     the “Porcelain Capital”. One type of its well-known high quality porcelain object is the blue and white porcelain from the 1330s.

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。

Yueyang Tower is     1     ancient Chinese tower on the shore of Lake Dongting. It is one of the Three Great Towers of Jiangnan. Yueyang Tower became famous for Memorial to Yueyang Tower (《岳阳楼记》)     2     (write) by Fan Zhongyan, who was an excellent minister of the northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)in China.

    3     (lie) on the city wall of the west gate of the ancient city in Yueyang City, Hunan province, China, Yueyang Tower faces Junshan Island and overlooks Dongting Lake, being extremely beautiful and     4     (impress). Since ancient times, it     5     (enjoy) the good reputation that Dongting Lake is the     6     (good)among lakes, and Yueyang Tower is incomparable among towers. Yueyang Tower’s roof covered with yellow glazed tiles (黄色琉璃瓦)looks like a general’s helmet in ancient China. It is the only ancient     7     (build) with a helmet roof structure (构造) in China.

Before the Tang Dynasty (618-907), Yueyang Tower was mainly used     8     the military purpose. After the Tang Dynasty, it     9     (gradual) became a famous scenic spot in     10     men of letters chanted poetry and wrote fu.

6 . Long, long ago people couldn’t write and they had no books. But they had stories. People learned the stories by heart and taught new ones to one another. Sometimes it was hard to remember them all.     1    

The ancient Egyptians wrote their stories on something made from papyrus (纸沙草) plants. People in other places wanted to learn from the Egyptians to use papyrus.

    2     So, parchment (羊皮纸), made from goatskin, later took its place.

In ancient China books looked a little different. People there used ink to write on bamboo or silk. And then they invented paper. Made of trees, paper was easier and cheaper to make than papyrus or parchment.    3     Paper-making later spread to the West, but there was a big problem with these early books. Every single one had to be copied and written by hand.

    4     They carved (雕刻) a page of words into a piece of wood or stone. They could then print the page by spreading ink on the wood or stone and putting it against paper. But it wasn’t until a German printer invented movable, metal letters that books became fast and easy to make. The letters could be used to print copy after copy, and the letters put together again and again to print different pages of words.

    5     Once a luxury (奢侈品) only the rich could buy, they soon became a treasure everyone could enjoy.

A．It took years to finish making just one book.

B．But papyrus grew mainly in Egypt.

C．Things grew a little easier when writing was invented.

D．Finally books could be printed by the thousands.

E．The Chinese were the first to think of a way to speed things up a little.

F．Books in the West didn’t change for a long time after that.

G．Its surface was smoother and better for writing on too.

7 . Lost cities that have been found

The White City

In 2015, a team of explorers to Honduras in search of"the Lost City of the Monke God"led to the discovery of the White City. They found the ruins in the Mosquitia region of the Central American country which is known for poisonous snakes, vicious jaguars and deadly insects. It is believed that local people hid here when the Spanish conquerors(征服者) occupied their homeland in the16th century.

Canopus and Heracleion

Modern researchers were teased by the ancient writings about the Egyptian cities Canopus and Heracleion- where Queen Cleopatra often visited. But the cities weren’t found until 1992, when a search in Alexandria waters found that the two cities had been flooded for centuries. Artifacts(史前器物) showed that the cities once highly developed as a trade network, which helped researchers piece together more about the last queen of Egypt.

Machu Picchu

A Yale professor discovered "the Lost City in the Clouds"in 1911. A combination of palaces, plazas, temples and homes, Machu Picchu displays the Inca Empire at the height of its rule. The city, which was abandoned in the 16th century for unknown reasons,was hidden by the local people from the Spanish conquerors for centuries keeping it so well preserved.

Troy

The ancient city of Troy in homer's The Iliad was considered a fictional setting for his characters to run wild. But in 1871, explorations in northwestern Turkey exposed nine ancient cities layered (层叠) on top of each other, the earliest dating back to about 5,000 years before. It was later determined that the sixth or seventh layer contained the lost city of Troy and that it was actually destroyed by an earthquake, not a wooden horse.

1. Why did people hide in the White City in the 16th century?

A．To survive the war

B．To search for a lost city.

C．To protect their country.

D．To avoid dangerous animals

2. Which of the following was related to a royal family member?

A．The White City

B．Canopus and Heracleion

C．Machu Picchu

D．Troy

3. What can we learn about Troy?

A．It was built by Homer.

B．It consisted of nine cities

C．It had a history of 5,000 years

D．It was ruined by a natural disaster.

8 . Today there are policemen everywhere, but in 1700, London had no policemen at all. A few old men used to protect the city streets at night and they were not paid.

About 300 years ago, London was starting to get bigger and more and more people began to live there. The city was very dirty and many people were poor. There were so many thieves who stole money in the streets that people stayed in their homes as much as possible.

In 1750,Henry Fielding started to pay a group of people to stop thieves. They were like policemen and were called “Bow Street Runners” because they worked near Bow Street.

Fifty years later, there were 120 “Bow Street Runners”, but London had become very big and needed more policemen. So in 1829 , the first Metropolitan(or London)Police Force was started with 3,000 officers. Most of the men worked on foot, but a few rode horses. Until 1920 all the police in London were men.

Today, London police are quite well paid and for the few police officers who still ride horses, the pay is even better than for the others.

1. In 1700, the men who protected the streets were paid __________ .

A．a few	B．nothing
C．a little	D．a lot

2. About 300 years ago, many people __________.

A．wanted to leave London	B．had big houses in London
C．became policemen	D．came to live in London

3. People didn’t leave their houses because __________ .

A．they had no money	B．they were afraid of losing money
C．the city was not clean	D．they liked homes

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。

In much of Asia, especially the so-called “rice bowl” cultures of China, Japan, Korea,     1     Vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks.

Chopsticks are usually two long, thin pieces of wood or bamboo. They can also be made of plastic, animal bone or metal. Sometimes chopsticks are quite artistic. Truly elegant chopsticks might     2     (make) of gold and silver with Chinese characters. Skilled workers also combine various hardwoods and metal     3     (create) special designs.

The Chinese have used chopsticks for five thousand years. People probably cooked their food in large pots,     4     (use) twigs (树枝) to remove it. Over time,     5     the population grew, people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly.

Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which     6    (gradual) turned into chopsticks.

Some people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius,     7     lived from roughly 551 to 479 B.C., influenced the     8     (develop) of chopsticks. Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and     9     (be) too violent for use at the table.

Chopsticks are not used everywhere in Asia. In India, for example, most people traditionally eat     10     their hands.

10 .     1    People use money to buy food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of other things they need or want. When they work, they usually get paid in money.

Most of the money today is made of metal or paper.    2    One of the first kinds of money was shells.

Shells were not the only things used as money. In China, cloth and knives were used. In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money for a long time. Elephant tusks, monkey tails and salt were used as money in parts of Africa.

The first metal coins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the centre.    3    

Different countries have used different metals and designs for their money.    4    Sweden and Russia used copper (铜) to make their money. Later some countries began to make coins of gold and silver.

But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive. Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money.    5    The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money used today.

Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money until today.

A．The first coins in England were made of tin (锡).

B．But people used to use all kinds of things as money.

C．No one knows for certain when people began to use money.

D．People strung (串连) them together and carried them from place to place.

E．Money, as we know, is all made of paper.

F．They began to use paper money.

G．Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services.