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 Silk Road first    1    (emerge) more than 2,100 years ago during the Han Dynasty after Zhang Qian (164-114 BC) twice visited Central Asia. It became    2    bridge between East and West,    3    (open) the door to friendly engagement between China and Central Asia. For two thousand years,    4    (count) tales of everlasting friendship between peoples have been woven into this ancient network.

The Silk Road Economic Belt is called “One Belt”. It is a regional economic cooperation strategy     5    (propose) by President Xi, when making a speech at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan    6    2013.This economic belt is considered as the longest economic corridor in the world.

One Belt aims to develop the economic    7    (partner) between China and countries along the land silk road. It also aims to     8    (strong) the infrastructure (基础设施) construction along the road and promote the development of China’s western region.

There are two main trends for One Belt,    9    starts from China and ends in Europe. One    10    (go) to Europe via central Asia and Russia. The second route is through central Asia and west Asia to the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean countries.

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。并将答案填写在答题卡上。

The history of Chinese cinema dates back to late 1905. The film Shadow Magic (2000) trains its lens on this     1     (impress) time and the nation’s first crop of filmmakers. Over the past century, Chinese cinema     2     (experience) distinct periods of development. The first “golden period” came in the 1930s and 40s, when progressive films focusing on people’s lives were produced, which managed     3     (mirror) the pulse (脉搏) of the society

In 1931, Sing-Song Girl Red Peony marked the first sound movie in China. The horror film made its first public     4     (appear) in 1937 in the form of Song at Midnight. Street Angel,     5     (release) the same year, is considered a pioneer of the neo-realism (新现实主义) trend in filmmaking. In the early 1950s, the Shanghai Film Studio produced a Shaoxing opera version     6     Butterfly Lovers, which is the first color film produced in China.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, China enjoyed another golden age of cinema     7     the rise of the so-called “fifth-generation” Chinese directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige won popular acclaim (赞扬)     8     (global). In the year 2000, the multinational production Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon proved     9     immediate hit. Two years later, Zhang Yimou’s Hero was another phenomenal hit,     10     (top) the US box office for two weeks. In recent years, sci-fi films, such as The Wandering Earth series, further accelerate the growth of China’s film industry.

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。

My family have been involved in agriculture business since the late 1800s when my great-grandfather     1     (start) the family farm. Over the years, the operation has developed from growing crops into selling farm equipment today — our primary focus has become the technology used in farming.

Agriculture,     2     general, has undergone a similar     3     (develop). Technology has become an indispensable part of doing business for every farmer, and agriculture retailer. In fact, a recent study by Hexa Reports suggests precision agriculture     4     (expect) to grow to $ 43.4 billion by 2025. It is a concept that was born in the 1990s and that was quite     5     (impress).

The increasing adoption rate of technology in agriculture shouldn’t be     6     (surprise) to anyone. Farming is     7     (high) land-intensive and labor-intensive. Farmers are driven to use technology to increase efficiency and manage costs.

But what exactly does the precision agriculture mean? Precision agriculture is also known as precision farming. Perhaps the easiest way     8     (understand) precision farming is to think of it as everything     9     makes the practice of farming more accurate and controlled when it comes to the growing of crops. A key component of this farm management approach is     10     use of information technology and a wide range of items such as sensors, drones, and GPS-based soil sampling.

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。

With roots     1     (date) back thousands of years, Chinese seals (印章) are more than just a unique image; they are symbolic of identity, status, and culture. A Chinese seal is a seal or stamp used to mark important documents, pieces of art, contracts, or any other item that     2    (require) a signature.

The seal was first created in 221 BC. The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, ordered his first imperial (皇帝的) seal to be carved using beautiful white jade (玉).     3     (call) the“Xi”, the imperial seal was only used by those in power. It wasn’t until the Ming and Qing dynasties     4     the seal’s usage moved from the imperial to the personal, due to the     5     (expand) of arts. Artists began using a stylized seal carving of their names to mark ownership of their works.     6     (individual) also began using a personalized stamp for important documents. These non-official stamps were called “Yin”.

    7    (typical), the seals are carved into stone, but they can also     8     (make) of wood, bamboo, or bone. Seals are carved in one of two ways: the material is carved away from the character, leaving a red ink outline when used on paper,     9     the character is carved into the material, leaving the character     10    white among a red background.

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。

The Chinese couplet (对联) refers to two poetic lines obeying certain rules, often written on red paper for     1     (appreciate).

As a form of Chinese literature, the couplet     2     (vary) in content and style. Some express people’s love to their motherland, some describe the beauty of nature,     3     some convey best wishes for the coming year.

Chinese couplets originated in the Five Dynasties, and     4     (become) ubiquitous (无处不在) in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was a custom for people     5     (hang) peach wood charms to drive away evil spirits during the Spring Festival. Nowadays, couplets are used     6     a similar way.

It was said that the     7     (early) couplet was written by Meng Xu, king of Houshu State and it was     8     (extreme) popular in the Northern Song Dynasty. Since the Ming Dynasty, to write couplets     9     (regard) as a mark of the cultured life of scholars.

The couplet has two equal-length lines. However,     10       number of characters in each line can be from four to seven or more. The first and the second lines have opposite tone patterns. The last character of the first line is of an oblique tone (仄声), and its opposite in the second line, of a level tone (平声).

10 . Stonehenge is a giant 4,000 to 5,000 year-old stone monument located in what today is known as Salisbury, England. Robert Phillips, 90, of Miami-Dade, was so fond of it that back in 1958, he took a piece of it home with him. That’s true, Phillips took a thin, meter long piece of Stonehenge when he left.

Back in 1958, Phillips was employed by a diamond cutting company named Van Moppes. The company was brought in to restore something on this Neolithic monument. Cracks had appeared in one of the giant stones. They needed to make holes and put metal rods (杆) into those holes to provide extra support. At some point during that job, Phillips left secretly with a piece of the famous stone. For years he even displayed it in his office. Later, when he moved to the United States, he brought it with him.

But on the eve of his 90th birthday, Phillips, who now lives in Florida, decided to return the stone to the care of English Heritage and, last year, his two sons traveled to Stonehenge to deliver it to Sebire, head of English Heritage, the caretaker organization for Stonehenge.

Sebire said, “The last thing we ever expected was to get a call from someone in America telling us they had a piece of Stonehenge. We finally could get this valuable piece of Stonehenge back home.” Researchers say the discovery could hopefully tell us where the different stones of Stonehenge came from, which dates back to 3000 BC.

1. Why did Phillips go to Stonehenge?

A．To pay a visit.

B．To cut diamond.

C．To do repair work.

D．To polish the stone.

2. How did Phillips deal with the stone he took away?

A．He kept it to himself.	B．He sold it to America.
C．He passed it on to his sons.	D．He displayed it in the museum.

3. What did Sebire think of the call from America?

A．It disappointed him.	B．It came as no surprise.
C．It was none of his business.	D．It was beyond his expectation.

4. What is the suitable title for the text?

A．Repair Work of Stonehenge	B．Search for the Lost Stonehenge
C．Missing Piece of Stonehenge Returned	D．Origin of Stones of Stonehenge Discovered