1 . The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theatre, The Theatre, which had been built by Richard Burbage’s father, James Burbage, in Shoreditch in 1576. The first performance for which a firm record remains was Jonson’s Every Man out of His Humour — with its first scene welcoming the “gracious and kind spectators” — at the end of the year.

On 29^th June 1613, the Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance of Henry VIII. A theatrical gun, set off during the performance, misfired, burning the wooden beams and straws. According to one of the few surviving documents of the event, no one was hurt except a man whose burning breeches (炮后膛) were put out with a bottle of ale. It was rebuilt in the following year.

Like all the other theatres in London, the Globe was closed down by the Puritans in 1642. It was pulled down in 1644, or slightly later — the commonly cited document dating the act to 15 April 1644 has been identified as false — to make room for other buildings.

A modern reconstruction of the theatre, named “Shakespeare’s Globe”, opened in 1997, with a production of Henry V. It is an academic approximation of the original design, based on available evidence of the 1599 and 1614 buildings, and is located approximately 750 feet (230m) from the site of the original theatre.

1. How did the Globe Theatre begin to be on fire on 29 June 1613?

A．It was set fire to by a performer by design.

B．It caught fire by accident during a play.

C．A man put out breeches with a bottle of ale.

D．It was started by wooden beams and straws.

2. In what order is the text arranged?

A．Time

B．Space

C．Importance

D．Flashback

3. According to the passage all the plays were performed in the Globe Theatre EXCEPT ________.

A．James Burbage.	B．Every Man out of His Humour
C．Henry VIII.	D．Henry V

4. The passage is mainly about ________.

A．The popularity of the Globe Theatre.

B．The construction of the Globe Theatre.

C．The function of the Globe Theatre.

D．The history of the Globe Theatre.

2 . The name England comes from the words “Angle land”. The Angles were people who came from northern Germany in the 5th and 6th centuries, after the Romans had left. The French name for England is Angleterre, which also means “Angle land”. There were also invasions (侵略) of southern England by Saxons and Jutes (people from another part of northern Germany). English people are sometimes called Anglo－Saxons. The Celts who used to live in this area were forced to move back into Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall and into Western France (the area known as Brittany).

England at first became a series of kingdoms, the strongest of which was Wessex (the name comes from West－Saxon). The names of many of the areas in England come from this period—for example, the name Sussex comes from South－Saxon, Essex from East－Saxon, and East Anglia from East－Angle. The Vikings then came from Denmark, and later the Normans invaded from France. Eventually England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were united, forming the United Kingdom.

The English language is the main language spoken throughout England, although there are many different accents. It can be difficult to know how to spell or to pronounce some English words, because the language has been influenced by Latin and Greek (languages used at the time of the Romans, and used in religion and education until recent times), German (the language of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes), French(the language of the Normans), Gaelic/Scots (Celtic languages) and Danish (the language of the Vikings).

There are now many people throughout the United Kingdom who speak a foreign language either as their first or second language, mainly due to immigration (移民) from Europe or the Commonwealth (countries which used to be part of the British Empire).

1. What's the first paragraph mainly about?

A．The origin of the name England.

B．The Celts used to live in England but left for some reason.

C．Southern England once was attacked by Saxons and Jutes.

D．Angles and Saxons came from different parts of northern Germany.

2. In the history of England, ________ once was the strongest kingdom.

A．Sussex	B．Wessex
C．Essex	D．East Anglia

3. What can we learn from the third paragraph?

A．English words are hard to spell and to pronounce.

B．England had been invaded by most of the countries of Europe.

C．The English language was influenced by several foreign languages.

D．It's hard for people who have different English accents to communicate.

4. Why do many people in the UK speak a foreign language nowadays?

A．Because they are required to learn a foreign language at school.

B．Because they plan to live outside the UK in the future.

C．Because they have moved from other countries.

D．Because they have worked in other countries.

3 . The Double Seventh Festival, also known as the Qixi Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival. Here is a beautiful story _______ it.

Long，long ago, there was a young man named Niulang(Cowherd), One day, he_______a   beautiful girl- Zhinu( Weaver girl)， the Goddess s seventh daughter. She had just run away from the_______ heaven(天国) to look for fun on Earth. Zhini soon_______Niulang, and they got married without telling the Goddess. Niulang worked in the field and Zhinu wove(织布) at home. They_______a happy life and gave birth to a boy and a girl. Unluckily, the Goddess soon found out the fact and_______ Zhinii to return to heaven. After Zhini left， Niulang was _______upset. With the help of his magic cow,Niulang flew to heaven with his children to look for his wife. The Goddess discovered this and was very_______Taking out her hairpin(发簪), the Goddess created a wide river in the sky to separate(分开) the two_______. From then on, Niulang and Zhini had to live________ on the two sides of the river. However,their true love________ all the magpies(喜鹊) in the world, ________once a year tens of thousands of   magpies would fly up to heaven to make a bridge- the bridge of magpies for the couple to meet each other. At last, the Goddess allowed ________ to meet each   other on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month. That's________the Double Seventh Festival started. Today,   it is a great________for Chinese young people to express their love.

1.

A．through

B．behind

C．with

D．after

2.

A．met

B．told

C．thanked

D．missed

3.

A．boring

B．interesting

C．same

D．different

4.

A．looked forward to

B．parted with

C．turned down

D．fell in love with

5.

A．knew

B．lived

C．stayed

D．gave

6.

A．promised

B．waited

C．ordered

D．helped

7.

A．yet

B．ever

C．quite .

D．still

8.

A．angry

B．sorry

C．excited

D．satisfied

9.

A．friends

B．lovers .

C．parents

D．children

10.

A．back

B．away

C．halfway

D．apart

11.

A．surprised

B．changed

C．touched

D．protected

12.

A．so

B．but

C．though

D．because

13.

A．him

B．her

C．us

D．them

14.

A．how

B．when

C．what

D．where

15.

A．day

B．way

C．lesson

D．habit

4 . 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。

A great    1    (achieve) was made in 1953. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed to the top of Mount Everest    2    (successful) at 11: 30 am, on May 29. They became the first people    3    (reach)the peak of Mount Everest.

Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist, and Tenzing Norgay was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. Both of them were part of the    4    (nine) British expedition(探险)to Everest    5    (lead) by John Hunt in 1953. For this expedition, Hunt selected a group of people who were    6    (experience) in climbing mountains. In the group, Edmund Hillary    7    (select) from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay was actually from India where he lived. Before climbing, the expedition had been organized and planned for months. They made 9 camps on their way up, some of    8    have been still used by climbers up to now The first team made    9    to the place which was just 300 feet below the peak, and they left on May 26. They actually had already reached the point that no man had reached before. They were forced to leave because of the bad weather and besides, there were problems    10    their oxygen tank, too.

5 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word or phrase that best fits each blank.

During the early years of the settlement of the American continent, a highly distinctive form of English,    1    (speak)by the black population, was beginning to. develop in the islands of the West Indies and the southern part of the mainland. The beginning of the seventeenth century saw the emergence of the slave trade. Ships. from Europe traveled to the West African coast,    2     they exchanged cheap goods for black slaves. The slaves were shipped in terrible conditions to the Caribbean islands and the American coast, where they were in turn exchanged for such products    3     sugar and molasses. The ships then returned to England, completing an “Atlantic triangle” of journeys, and the process    4    (begin)again. Britain and the. United States had outlawed the slave trade by 1865, but by that time, nearly 200 years of trading    5    (take)place. By the middle of the nineteenth century, there were over four million black slaves in America.

The policy of the slave-traders was to bring people of different language backgrounds together in the ships, to make    6     difficult for groups to plan rebellion. The result was the growth of several pidgin(混杂)forms of communication, and in particular a pidgin between the slaves and the sailors, many of    7     spoke English. Once they arrived in the Caribbean, this pidgin English continued to act as    8     major means of communication between the black population and their new owners, and among the blacks themselves. Then, when children came to be born, the pidgin became their mother tongue, thus    9    (produce)the first black Creole(克里奥尔语)speech in the region. This Creole English rapidly came    10    (use)throughout the cotton plantations, and in the coastal towns and islands.

6 . In the Middle Ages，kings fought one another to gain control of lands. When a king won a victory，he sometimes gave lands to his favorite knights（骑士）. The knights had to protect the lands from enemies. To do that，a castle had to be built. The castle protected the knight and his army of men，and it was a place of safety for the townspeople. A castle also showed everyone how powerful the knight was.

Building a castle was a long job. During the Middle Ages，there were no power tools. All work was done by hand. Workers did not use steel or iron to build strong castle walls.

First，a special castle architect（建筑师）drew up plans for the castle. Did the knight want four towers or ten？Should the towers be round or square？Would there be big，open rooms or small rooms？When the knight liked what he saw，the plans were finished.

Then a call went out to all of the people in the land. Laborers from surrounding villages came to the construction site looking for work. There were masons（brick layers），stone cutters，carpenters，blacksmiths（铁匠）and diggers. A worker lucky enough to be hired knew he would have a job for as long as ten years！That was the length of time it could take to build one castle.

Building usually lasted from April to November. Even during those months，work got done only during good weather. A long rainy season could mean a whole year's work was lost. When the work was going on，there could be more than 2，000 workers living，eating，and sleeping at the site.

Building a castle cost a lot of money, too. Feeding, housing, and paying all of the workers and the cost of construction materials, added up. One castle might cost many millions of dollars in today's money.

1. Why did knights build castles in the Middle Ages?

A．To show off their richness.

B．To gain control of lands.

C．To protect the lands from enemies.

D．To offer more jobs to the townspeople.

2. What was the architects' main responsibility?

A．Collecting money and tools.

B．Finding workers to build the castle.

C．Producing the design for the castle.

D．Deciding how long it would take to build the castle.

3. What can we learn from the text?

A．The castles were built of wood, steel and iron.

B．Building a castle was stopped during bad weather.

C．Much equipment was used to build the castles.

D．Knights in the Middle Ages often fought against one another.

4. The author probably agrees that _______.

A．knights did not deserve the lands

B．building a castle needed much money

C．building a castle didn't take much time

D．townspeople did not benefit from a castle

5. What's the author's probable purpose of writing this text?

A．To describe how a castle was built.

B．To show how powerful kings were.

C．To call on us to protect ancient castles.

D．To show people's life in the Middle Ages.

7 . It is certain that when the eruption of Vesuvius started on the morning of 24 August, 79 AD, it caught the local population unprepared.It is mainly thanks to the account of the younger Pliny that we have some understanding of what happened.And it is through him that we can gain insight into the reactions and feelings of the people caught up in the drama of this natural disaster.Pliny's account leaves no doubt that everyone was caught unprepared.His uncle, known as the elder Pliny, was stationed in command of the imperial (帝国的) naval base at Misenum, on the north－west extremity of the Bay of Naples.He was not only the senior military officer in the district, but possibly the most well informed living Roman on matters of natural science.His 37－volume Natural History is the longest work on science in Latin that has survived from antiquity(古代)．

But for all his science and his seniority, his nephew told us that the elder Pliny was relaxing, after a bath and lunch, when Vesuvius started to erupt.And the sighting of a column of smoke “like an umbrella pine” on the far side of the Bay caused a response more of curiosity than of alarm in him.The same account showed, however, that the signs were there.But they didn't realize the danger because the phenomenon was frequent in Vesuvius then.

The eruption lasted for more than 24 hours from its start on the morning of 24 August.Those who fled at once had a chance of survival.It is clear that many, like the elder Pliny, thought their best chance was to take shelter and survived the storm.

The hundreds of refugees sheltering in the street at the seaside in Herculaneum, holding their jewellery and money, met their end quickly.It is impossible to tell how many citizens died.

The discovery of Pompeii is of huge importance for our modern－day understanding of the ancient Roman world.Its destruction left important questions unanswered, and made it impossible in many ways to gather a satisfactory understanding of the Roman world.

1. According to the passage, people nowadays have some understanding of the   eruption of Vesuvius   mainly through ____.

A．the elder Pliny's account

B．the younger Pliny's account

C．the science book Natural History

D．the account of the survivors

2. The elder Pliny was stationed at the naval base at Misenum ____.

A．to take charge of the base

B．to observe the eruption of Vesuvius

C．to rescue the refugees

D．to work on Natural History

3. Many people, including the elder Pliny, didn't realize the danger from the Vesuvius eruption because ___.

A．everything happened at night

B．they had no knowledge of volcanoes

C．such eruption was frequent in Vesuvius then

D．they had no chance to take shelter

4. All of the following are true EXCEPT ____.

A．the elder Pliny made a great contribution to the discovery of Pompeii

B．the eruption of Vesuvius took the local people by surprise

C．countless lives were lost in a flash during the Vesuvius eruption

D．the discovery of Pompeii is of great importance for our knowledge of the ancient Roman world

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

The study of the Silk Road actually became popular following the trips of the Swede Sven Hedin in 1895，    1    was a skilled mapmaker and linguist, and became one of the most well－known    2    (explore) of that time period.In his later trips，he found out a few    3    (destroy) cities in the south side of the desert, and his    4    (great)discovery of all, the city of Loulan, from which he took away many ancient handwritten documents.

Right after Hedin, the archaeological(考古学的) competition    5    (begin)．There followed a period of crazy digging around the edges of the Taklamakan Desert，to find out as many documents as possible    6    (concern) the old Buddhist culture. One of the most important discoveries was    7    walled－up“library”， the so－called “Library Cave”， inside the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang. This covered thousands of old documents, Buddhist paintings and silk temple banners.Among all these    8    (be) what is considered to be the world's earliest printed book.

The particular treasures of the ancient Silk Road are    9    (separate) stored in museums in a dozen countries.

The biggest collections are in the British Museum and in China.But the majority of the original handwritten documents are actually in the British Library, but not accessible    10    the public.

9 . 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（不多于3个单词）。

Plovdiv is situated in south-central Bulgaria on the two banks of the Maritsa River. The city has historically developed on seven hills, some of     1     are 250m (820.21 ft) high. Because of these hills, Plovdiv is     2    (typical) referred to in Bulgaria as “The city of the Seven Hills”. Plovdiv’s history     3    (date) back to 6000 BC. Though originally it was     4    Thracian city, Plovidiv has been ruled by many empires over centuries. Later it       5    (conquer) by the Romans. Only in 1885 did the city become part of Bulgaria. Nowadays it’s the second     6    (large) city in Bulgaria and it’s a significant economic, educational and cultural center.

Plovdiv remains a popular     7    (choose) for vacation travel. I have been obsessed with the city     8    years. Last summer I was lucky     9    (spend) a couple of days in this city and I just fell in love with its narrow paved streets and neat beautiful house! The Old Town is definitely worthy     10    (see). It is overwhelmed with restaurants, workshops and museums that were previously famous houses.

10 . Each Indian tribe had a different language. Many Indians never learned any language except their own. Do you know how Indians from different tribes talked to each other? They had two ways to talk without sound. One way was by sign language. Another way is by signals.

Sign language is a way of talking by using signs. Indians used sign language when they met strangers. In this way,　they could find out whether the stranger was a friend or an enemy. In Indian sign language, signs were made with the hands. One sign meant "man". Another meant "horse".

To tell the time of day when something happened, an Indian pointed to the sky. He showed where the sun had been at the time.

Indians usually used signals when they wanted to send messages to someone far away. To make signals, an Indian might use a pony. He might use a blanket. Or he might use smoke,　a mirror or fire arrows.

To signal that he had seen many animals, an Indian rode his pony in a large circle. Sometimes the Indian gave a signal like this and then went away to hide. This means that there was danger.

The blanket signal was visible from far away. An Indian held the corners of a blanket in his hands. Then he began to swing the blanket from side to side in front of him. An Indian could send many different signals with his blanket.

He could also send many signals with a mirror. He usually used the mirror to warn someone of danger. Or he attempted to get the attention of a person far away. But he also used it to send messages in code. Of course,　mirrors could be used only when the sun was shining. At night,　Indians used fire arrows for signaling.

Now you can see that Indians didn't need to learn each other's language. They could　talk to one another by using signals or sign language.

1. For signaling,　an Indian held .

A．a blanket in front of him by the corners

B．the corners of a blanket and swang it in front of him

C．one side of the blanket and let someone else hold the other side

D．the blanket corners and ran from one side to the other

2. An Indian used a mirror to        .

A．warn someone of danger	B．get the attention of someone far away
C．send messages in code	D．all of the above

3. The underlined word "pony" in the fourth paragraph probably means "       ".

A．camel	B．goat
C．horse	D．donkey