1 . 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。

Today, pork is the No. 1 meat product in China, which even     1     (have) symbolic meanings in Chinese culture. In some places, a pig’s head still must be served on the second day of the second month in the lunar calendar     2     (please) the dragons that are awaking from     3     (they) winter sleep.

However, before the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907), it was     4     (rare) seen on dining tables. Ancient Chinese doctors even doubted its nutritional value. For example, Sun Simiao (Tang Dynasty) considered     5     (eat) pork for long period of time made people more likely to get sick.

The turning point for pork came in the Song Dynasty (AD 960-1279) when     6     not-so-wealthy poet, Su Shi (1037-1101), found his simple ways to cook it. Back then pork was much     7     (cheap) than lamb and beef because it     8     (dislike) by the rich while the poor didn’t know how to cook it properly. Unable to afford either beef     9     lamb, the poet just stewed (炖) pork with radish and shared it with friends. They wrote beautiful poems about the so-called “Dongpo pork”, which instantly gained popularity in southern China     10     the environment was ideal to raise pigs.

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。

In China, the use and cultivation (种植) of green tea goes back thousands of years. While there is no precise way to know     1    (exact) when green tea was first cultivated, the following is     2    we know from historical records.

Legend assigns the discovery of tea to mythological emperor Shennong, who is said     3    (discover) tea in the 28th century BC. Shennong was sitting under a tea tree boiling a pot of water to drink. Some     4    (leaf) fell from the tree into the boiling water, creating the first ever pot of tea. During the Han Dynasty, written records referred     5    the cultivation of green tea. However, this wasn`t green tea for drinking     6    for medical purposes. The Tang Dynasty     7    (consider) by most to be the golden age of Chinese arts and culture. It was during this time that green tea became a popular drink and an important part of     8    (tradition) Chinese culture.

    9    first written account of tea culture, Cha jing or The Classic of Tea, was published by Lu Yu. This short but comprehensive work,     10    (cover) ten chapters, discusses everything from the mythological of tea, history, cultivation, preparation to tea culture.

6 . “A lot of early archaeology(考古学)was about finding things that are beautiful and museum-worthy,” says archaeologist Sarah Graff. Bits of broken artifacts or boring-looking items from the field of food preparation were sometimes thrown aside with the dirt that wasn’t being analyzed, she says, and scholars used to be more excited by the lives of kings. “They didn’t really think that things that had to do with domestic labor would have anything to do with politics or economics.”

But researchers are now finding more of those connections and trying to mine ancient pots to learn about the foods once prepared in them.

Biogeochemist Richard Evershed made his first identification of fat from foods in the walls of medieval(中世纪的)pots dating from 950 to 1450 at a site in England. With signs of fat, probably from making cheese, those pots are thought to have been used for baking bread. The scientists also discovered the leaf wax(蜡)of cabbage, which was likely cooked with meat. Consuming meat, cheese, butter and bread, the medieval peasants weren’t doing too badly, says archaeologist Julie Dunne, Evershed’s teammate.

Since 2014, some researchers have dived into experimental archaeology by cooking various recipes in store-bought pots. They used the same pot to cook the same recipe 50 times, and finally switched to a new recipe, cooking four meals. After a year, the pots’ outer layers held signs of all the recipes but contained more remaining parts of the last meals. But the fatty substances within the inner layers of the pots built up over many times of cooking, which left obvious proof of the former recipes. The latest cooking events, however, was not the case, as archeologist Melanie Miller and her teammates reported in 2020 in Scientific Reports.

Miller and her team will continue cooking their tasteless meals. Cooking is “one of the most common things that humans have across time and space,” she says. Food and food practices signify traditions, politics, status, identities, upbringings and more. Food preparation reveals much. “It’s a daily practice…usually representative of all these much larger questions about our place in the world.”

1. What does Graff say about early archaeologists?

A．They realized the significance of domestic labor.

B．They ignored cooking artifacts every now and then.

C．They showed some interest in unimportant items.

D．They studied pots with wrong analytical methods.

2. What can be inferred about the owners of the medieval pots?

A．They disliked eating vegetables.	B．They could not make bread.
C．They had little milk to drink.	D．They might not be poor.

3. What did Miller find about the inner layers of the pots?

A．Not all the recipes left clear signs within them.

B．They had a lot of remaining parts from the latest cooking.

C．More fatty substances from the last meals were contained.

D．They displayed as much evidence as the outer layers did.

4. Which statement might Miller most probably agree with?

A．It is difficult to know how ancient people cooked.

B．Cooking reveals various aspects of human culture.

C．Studying ancient pots helps improve modern people’s cooking.

D．Food practices were very similar among different ancient groups.

7 . Dreams of world peace are as old as wars. But as the women of Wales were recovering from World War I, they demanded peace in droves.

Still sorrowing the husbands, sons, and loved ones who fought in the war, in 1923 the Welsh League of Nations United (WLNU) drafted a petition (请愿书) at Aberystwyth University calling for a warless world.

The petition was signed by roughly three quarters of all the women in Wales and was said to be seven miles long. The document was then packed in a large oak chest and sent across the Atlantic.

It was the WLNU’s hope that America would join in their mission for peace, and so they toured with the petition across the country before President Calvin Coolidge gave it to the Smithsonian for preservation.

As the centennial anniversary of World War I approached, a plaque was found in the archives at the Temple of Peace in Cardiff mentioning the petition, but nobody knew what it was, says Mererid Hopwood, chair of the Women’s Peace Petition Partnership.

So in 2017, an email was sent to the Smithsonian inquiring about the status and location of the chest and its petition.

Having arrived at the National Library of Wales on March 29 this year, Hopwood received it along with other members of the Peace Petition Partnership and described opening the chest and finally getting to see its contents (内容) as an emotional moment.

Hopwood is hoping more Welsh citizens will have similar experiences now that the petition has returned to its original home. The petition will be digitized, along with all signatures and addresses, so the public can view it online and see if their grandmothers or previous tenants of their homes signed 100 years ago.

Clearly the world has not yet achieved the petition’s great goals, but Hopwood said the signatures gave her hope.

1. What was the petition meant for?

A．A thirst for peace.	B．An end to WWI.
C．A fight for Wales.	D．A call for apology.

2. What can we infer about the petition from Paragraph 3?

A．Most Welsh signed on the petition.	B．Welsh asked for Americans’ help.
C．Welsh women wished for peace.	D．Welsh women honored the war.

3. How did Hopwood like the reappearance of the petition?

A．She could lead the petition.	B．Her hope for peace is on fire.
C．Welsh could be free of wars.	D．It would cause a big storm.

4. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A．To memorise World War I.	B．To remind to value peace.
C．To prove Welsh bravery.	D．To inform reappearance of a petition.

8 . 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 Grand Canal of China was first dug in 486 BC, and well developed through the late 6th to early 10th century. From the late 13th until 19th century, with the highest section built and the overall length     1    (shorten), the Canal was turned into a main passage between northern     2     southern China as well as the economic lifeline of the country. Consisting of the Sui and Tang Grand Canal, the Jing-Hang Grand Canal and the Zhedong Canal, the Canal     3    (stretch) over 2, 700 kilometers, crossing eight provincial-level administrative regions and     4    (link) five major water systems. The Grand Canal also connects with the Eurasian Silk Road to the west and extends the water trade route to the east.

The Grand Canal was     5     notable achievement of the ancient Chinese people. Its connection of the political and economic centers played a     6    (centre) role in the political unity, economic     7    (grow) and cultural prosperity of China, and contributed to the livelihood, exchanges and integration of the population along its route.

The Grand Canal     8    (announce) by the State Council as one of the seventh batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level in March, 2013 and registered     9     the UNSECO World Heritage List in June, 2014. This large-scale, living cultural heritage spreads like a huge dragon across the vast territory of China,     10    (it) ripples shining golden scales (鳞片) in the new age.

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。

The archaeological ruins of Liangzhu in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, which date back 5,300 years, were included onto the UNESCO World Heritage list     1     a cultural site on July 9, 2019,     2     (bring) the total number of the Asian country’s sites on the list to 55.

The ruins,     3     core area covers 14.3 square kilometers in the northwest of Hangzhou, are considered as important representation of early urban civilization, with rice-growing agriculture as the     4     (economy) foundation.

The heritage site includes city ruins with palace remains, 11 early-stage dams,     5     high-level cemetery sites. The site is also known for its abundance of ceremonial jade, which shows     6     complicated ritual system and indicates a kingdom with a combined authority of god and kingship.

For example, cong — the jade piece that forms a rectangle tube with a circular inner section — is     7     (type) of artifact unearthed in Liangzhu. In 1986, the biggest known item of this kind, which weighs 6.5 kilograms and     8     (refer) to as the “King of Cong”, was discovered in Fanshan Cemetery in the city ruins.

    9     (find) in 2007, walls of the ruins and the surrounding water conservation system combined to display a massive infrastructure base, construction of which is estimated     10     (take) 4, 000 people a decade to accomplish.

10 . Icehouse and ice ticket

As early as Pre-Qin Dynasty, people used natural ice to keep food fresh and make cold drinks. The Zhou royal court had a specialized department called “ice administration”. They collected natural ice blocks each December to store in the icehouse. During the Qing Dynasty, “ice tickets” were used and they were available only to officials and the rich.

Ice container

The most commonly used cooling tool is called “Jian”, which is a big container filled with ice. It was made of clay in early Chinese history, and was later made of copper (铜). The “Jian” can be seen as an ancient refrigerator, which can be used to make cold drinks.

Hiding food in the well

During the Qin and Han dynasties, for common people, the most common way to cool off is by using their wells. Some families put a pot in the well as a cold closet, or put food in a basket and lowered the basket into the well with a rope.

Herbal drinks

During the Qing Dynasty, taking Chinese herbal medicine was popular in Beijing. In hot summer, some people preferred to drink ice water, some boiled perilla leaves, and liquorice as summer soup to keep off the heat. Ancient people also loved to make lotus seed soup in summer for the benefit of strengthening the body.

1. What does “Jian” have the same function as?

A．Container.

B．Refrigerator.

C．Clay.

D．Copper.

2. Which of the following is unavailable to common people?

A．Ice tickets.

B．Ice container.

C．Hiding food in the well.

D．Herbal drinks.

3. What’s the common purpose of the above four ways?

A．To strengthen the body.	B．To keep food fresh.
C．To escape the summer heat.	D．To make cold drinks.