2 . 阅读短文，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给的词的正确形式填空。

The United Kingdom, Great Britain, Britain, England--many people are     1     (confuse) by what these different names mean. From the 16^th century on, the nearby countries were joined to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and lreland. However, in the20th century the southern part of Ireland broke away,     2     resulted in the full name we have today. However, most people just use the     3     (shorten) name: the UK.

The UK has a long and interesting history     4     (explore). Studying the history of the country will make your visit much more     5     (enjoy). The capital city London is     6     ancient port city that has a history dating back to Roman times.

4 . Ancient Chinese folk paintings and many other art styles have been passed down from generation to generation, and are still practiced in different parts of China. Here's a look at four unique Chinese folk-art forms.

Chinese Opera is the traditional form of Chinese drama. According to incomplete statistics, in China's various ethnic regions there are about more than 360 kinds of operas. The most famous ones include Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Yueju Opera, Yuju Opera, Sichuan Opera, Fujian Opera, Hebei opera, Huangmei Opera arid so on, in total more than 50, among which Peking Opera is the most popular in China.

Shadow Play (皮影戏) dates back to Western Han Dynasty in Shaanxi more than 1,000 years ago. The moving figures, usually carved out from leather, are operated by folk artists, accompanied by music and singing. It is the world's first dubbed (配音的) motion picture art form, thus considered the “ancestor” of modern film. Today this art form is still popular in northern China.

Paper-cutting is one of the most popular traditional decorative arts in China with a long history. Paper-cutting can be seen across China and it has even developed into different local genres (流派). They are usually used to decorate gates and windows during festivals.

The Kite was invented by Chinese people. According to legend the earliest kite in China was a wooden bird by Mo Di in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Later his student Lu Ban improved the tech and used bamboo as material to make a kite. Today, various kite-flying activities can be found in different regions of China. Shandong Weifang Kite Festival is held every year and attracts lots of kite lovers and travelers.

1. Which Chinese Opera is the most popular in China?

A．Peking Opera	B．Kunqu Opera
C．Yueju Opera	D．Yuju Opera

2. Why is Shadow Play considered the ancestor of modern film?

A．It has a history of more than 1,000 years.

B．It was operated by ancient folk artists.

C．It is accompanied by music and dances on the stage.

D．It is the world's first dubbed motion picture art form.

3. What was the earliest kite made of in China?

A．Paper	B．Wood
C．Bamboo	D．Leather

4. What is the main topic of this article?

A．Chinese folk art	B．Chinese folk paintings
C．Chinese operas	D．Chinese folk plays

7 . Why should I teach my children history? That sounds like a stupid question to even ask. But, as I hear different home schooling teachers discuss history, I get the idea that there may be different reasons for teaching history. Let me briefly explain the three good reasons for studying history and two bad reasons for studying history.

The major reason I see for studying history is that we can learn from the past. I am convinced that the world would be a much better place if more people understood the successes and failures of the past and the things that made these successes and failures. However, as the unfortunately true statement goes “the one thing we seem to learn from history is that we don’t seem to learn from history.” Perhaps at least in teaching history, to my children I can do a small part in changing this.

A second major reason for studying history is that it is hard to understand the current political climate in the absence of an understanding of its historical context. We can not even understand why we are and where we are without history, much less (更不必说) try to figure out where we are going or how we should get where we want to be.

I teach my children history, for one more reason. I purchased a set of historical audio (录音机) tapes for our children. My seven-year-old son listened to them over and over. It was my hope that he would become inspired by the accomplishments of people like the Wright brothers to accomplish things by himself. I think that it is good that we celebrate the accomplishments of people like Martin Luther King Jr. In doing so, young people are called on to stand for the principles that he stood for and accomplish what he accomplished. I also think that by studying people like Adolph Hitler, people can learn to stand against the things that he stood for.

1. What’s the meaning of the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2?

A．Many people aren’t clever enough to learn well from the past.

B．Many people fail to make good use of history and make the same mistakes.

C．Many people feel it hard to understand history.

D．Many people have no interest in studying history.

2. In Paragraph 3, the auther shows that history is useful because ________.

A．it makes the current political situation go smoothly.

B．it helps us realize the importance of historical events.

C．it helps us understand why things are the way they are.

D．it helps people accept the present situation where they live.

3. Some positive historical figures are mentioned in the last paragraph to show ________.

A．people can be inspired to do good, while also learning to fight against evil

B．people may also learn from bad historical figures

C．more celebrations should be held to honor their achievements

D．today’s people can also achieve what they achieved

4. What would be talked about in the following paragraph?

A．How to teach history effectively.

B．Some negative reasons for studying history.

C．How to get more people to study history.

D．Some bad historical figures.

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。

A comforting cup of tea is an essential part of the day for hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Worldwide, three cups of tea     1     (consume) for every cup of coffee. To     2     (full) appreciate the ancient roots of the herbal drink, people can pay a visit to the China National Tea Museum, which has a long history.

    3     (locate) in Hangzhou, the museum occupies a park-like setting. Inside, various halls demonstrate the story of tea, its ceremonies and its tools Records of tea drinking date as far back as to the     4     (ten) century B.C. in China. Originally the leaves were baked into a brick, a part of     5     could be broken off and made into a powder. Tea spread into northern China during the Tang Dynasty; by the Song Dynasty it had acquired a lose-leaf production as well as the ceremonies that made its consumption    6     art form.

The art of tea extended to its fancy containers, which are    7     display at the museum. You can see a gracefully rounded kettle that     8     (date) back 5,000 years and a bowl from the Tang Dynasty with a beautiful simplicity. Today     9     (visit) can observe a tea ceremony that might be enough     10     (change) even the most passionate coffee drinker.

9 . To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians ever cooked up. For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil (邪恶的). So when Columbus brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be Eden, everyone jumped to the too obvious conclusion. Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans.

What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was thought to have come from Hell (地狱). What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits. Though the tomato and the mandrake were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population considered them one and the same, too terrible to touch.

Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the Western people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known farmer wrote that the most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her father’s house had been the “introduction of this wonderful new fruit---or is it a vegetable?” As late as the twentieth century, some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an “evil fruit”.

But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of the tomato was an American named Robert Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead. “What are you afraid of ?” he shouted. “I’ll show you fools that these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato. Some people fainted. But he survived and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory.

1. The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________.

A．it was religiously unacceptable	B．it was the apple of Eden
C．it came from a forbidden land	D．it made Christian evil

2. What can we infer from the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

A．The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down.

B．The tomato was still refused in most western countries.

C．There was little progress in the study of the tomato.

D．Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato.

3. What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato publicly?

A．To make himself a hero.

B．To persuade people to buy products from his factory.

C．To speed up the popularity of the tomato.

D．To remove people’s fear of the tomato.

4. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A．To present the change of people’s attitudes to the tomato.

B．To give an explanation to people’s dislike of the tomato.

C．To challenge people’s fixed concepts of the tomato.

D．To show the popularity of the tomato in Europe