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The Yinxu Museum opens in Anyang, Henan province, to display the brilliance of the 3,000-year-old Shang civilization.

Nearly 4,000 unearthed cultural relics are displayed in the museum. More than three quarters of these have never been     1     (public) exhibited before. The 23 vehicles unearthed from Yinxu are the     2     (highlight) in the new galleries. Also on display     3     (be) Shang relics collected from across the rest of present-day China.

The Yinxu Ruins,     4     (list) as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006, hosted a later period Shang capital city. The site also produced rich findings of 3,300-year-old bones,     5     (reveal) the oldest-known established writing system of Chinese characters,     6     are extraordinary and serve as a vital link in the development of the Chinese nation.

Many key breakthroughs     7     (make) in recent years at the Yinxu site and its surrounding areas. For example,     8     urban road system and the remains of an artificial lake in the royal temple area were found.

These discoveries further displayed a grand picture of a capital city     9     carried forward the project of tracking the origins of the Chinese civilization. Through the exhibits, the public can comprehensively understand the achievements made by the Shang Dynasty in terms     10     politics, economy, agriculture, military affairs, among others.

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Anyone visiting Tibet and exploring its culture would visit the temples to view the colorful and educational Tibetan Thangka (唐卡) paintings. They are traditionally painted on either cotton or silk, with     1     (loose) woven cotton being the most common. The paintings usually show religious scenes, as indicated by their name, Thangka,     2     (mean) “recorded message” in Tibetan.

The Tibetan Thangka is     3     art form that originated in Nepal and was brought to Tibet later. The Thangka paintings were developed over the centuries from the early murals (壁画) that can be seen in     4     is titled “Library Caves”, such as the Ajanta Caves in India and the Mogao Caves in China.

The Mogao Caves were previously a storage place of many Tibetan paintings on cloth, including the earliest surviving Thangka dated to be from around 780-848 AD     5     the region was under Tibetan rule. Historians note that between the 14th and 15th century, Tibetan paintings     6     (integrate) many elements from the Chinese murals.

The Thangka painting is not a flat creation but consists of a painted picture panel, over which a fabric is mounted, and then over which     7     (lay) a cover, usually silk. It is the nature of     8     (delicate) that makes Thangkas prefer dry places     9     (prevent) the quality of the silk from being affected by wetness. When they are not in use, they remain rolled up, with coverings on the back and front to protect the painting.     10     (keep) in this way helps Thangkas last for a very long time.

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Wing Chun is a southern Chinese kung fu style descends from Shaolin Kung Fu. It has the distinction of having been founded by two women, Ng Mui and Yim Wing-chun.

The Wing Chun style is known for placing     1     (emphasize) on technique rather than strength. This style also calls for practitioners to stay relaxed while     2    (fight), allowing them to achieve a kind of softness or flexibility. This relaxed flexibility gives Wing Chun fighter     3     special kind of strength that allows them to bend, not break, just like bamboo.   

Legend has it that Wing Chun founder Ng Mui was living at Shaolin Temple     4     it was attacked and destroyed by Qing dynasty forcers. Surviving the attack, she escaped     5     the border area between Yunnan and Sichuan. There she met a young woman     6     (name)Yim Wing-chun, who     7     (final) became one of her top students. She taught Yim an improved version of Shaolin Kung Fu, known as Wing Chun now. This new martial art     8     (spread) and grown into different branches over the past two hundred years.

Ip Man, featured in the eponymous (同名的) hit films,     9    (be) a notable practitioner of Wing Chun style martial arts. He also taught the Wing Chun style to his student, Bruce Lee, who would go on to act in the beloved Hong Kong kung fu movies     10     helped make Chinese martial arts famous around the world.

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The Olympics are a series of international athletic competitions held in different countries. They’re     1     important multi-sport event that takes place every four years. For the Olympics, participants from all over the world train for years and try their best     2     (win).

Pierre Coubertin, a French man,     3     (found) the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894. He was once a teacher and historian. In his honor, French had the official status (地位) and     4     (prior) over other languages al the Olympics. According to the Olympic Charter, English and French are the official languages of the Olympics. Therefore, every participant needs to have their documents     5     (translate) in both languages. Besides, real-time interpretations in Arabic, German, Russian, and Spanish must be available for all sessions.

The IOC has a complete guide for those     6     want to apply to these contests. French has the status of being the first official language for Olympic events and it was the language of diplomacy (外交) in the beginning. But later, more countries considered     7     (participate) in this contest. The IOC then made French and English the official languages of the Olympics.

    8     (actual), more than 100 countries in the world speak English now. Besides, almost every country has made     9     a must that children learn English in schools and colleges. This     10     (influence) status has caused the IOC to make English one of the official languages.

7 . Crossing Phoenix, Arizona, are 180 miles of canals. In 1867, the city’s founding father, Jack Swilling saw the remains of irrigation (灌溉) channels wandering across the landscape. He realized that, centuries before, some society had farmed this desert. Soon after, Swilling began clearing the blocked canals to bring agriculture back to the region.

Three years later, Swilling and other pioneers met to consider names for their settlement. The top two were Pumpkinville and Stonewall. Luckily, English adventurer Darrell Duppa proposed a name inspired by the resurrection (复兴) of the canals. “A great race once lived here and another great race will live here in the future,” he considered. “I predict that a new city will spring, phoenix-like, from the ruins and ashes of the old.”

Gary Huckleberry, a researcher, said, “In the southwest, we have some serious issues to deal with in terms of water. The Colorado River is the main source of water for the southwest and it’s over distributed. We’ve got population growth and climate change. How are we going to deal with that? I think there’s something to be learned by looking at past societies who managed water for thousands of years.”

That great society was the Hohokam. Between 100 and 1450 AD, they constructed 1,000 miles of canals. As the Hohokam expanded their network, they constantly repaired, cleaned and diverted the canals. “It requires cooperation, because all the users of the water from that canal have to agree not only to construct it, but also to maintain it,” Henderson, a scientist, said. “Users would have to agree to certain conditions to keep the entire system going.” The Hohokam committed to sharing water and put themselves on timetables.

The Hohokam used canal irrigation for 3,000 years. “That, to me, is the definition of sustainable development,” Huckleberry said. “They learned how to sustainably farm, to manage water, to not destroy their soils in a way that is worthy and might give us insight into how we might deal with the current trouble. I think one of the key lessons is that you don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”

1. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．The reconstruction of canals.	B．The origin of the city’s name Phoenix.
C．The discovery of the irrigation channels.	D．The agricultural development in the settlement.

2. What does the underlined word “that” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．The source of water.	B．The climate change.
C．The population growth.	D．The over-distribution of water.

3. What does Henderson say about the Hohokam?

A．They were expert in farming.	B．They were poor at time management.
C．They had a strong sense of team spirit.	D．They fought for their rights to use water.

4. Which of the following would Huckleberry agree with?

A．Canal irrigation is out of date.	B．Sustainable development matters.
C．Farming can solve current trouble.	D．The loss of soils is worse than before.

8 . Great Smoky Mountains National Park lies on both sides of the border between North Carolina and Tennessee. Its highest peak is called “Clingmans Dome”. But before it got that name, the Cherokee people called the mountain “Kuwahi”. It sits on ancestral Cherokee homelands. Since the ancient times, the landscape, including mountains and streams, has shaped the history of Cherokee people. They used that name for hundreds of years. Now, tribal members are hoping to return to the Kuwahi name.

The Cherokee Nation once spread across what is now Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. In 1838, the tribe was forcibly relocated to present-day Oklahoma—in what was later known as the “Trail of Tears”. Through sickness and terrible travel conditions, nearly 4,000 Cherokee people died during the forced removal from their homeland. Some Cherokee managed to avoid relocation to Oklahoma by going into hiding, including on Kuwahi. “We’re here today because our ancestors hid in those mountains, specifically in Kuwahi,” Hill said.

The name change of the Cherokee’s mountain came in 1859, when geographer and professor Arnold Henry Guyot labeled Kuwahi “Clingmans Dome”. The peak was named after Thomas Lanier Clingman, who was a strong supporter of slavery. Clingman was not connected to the Cherokee people in any way. “Naming the mountain after Clingman erases everything that the Cherokee people are in order to rename it after someone with zero ties to our community. He didn’t even live here,” said Hill.

In June 2022, Yellowstone National Park’s Mount Doane was renamed to First Peoples Mountain. “That was a huge victory for our brothers and sisters,” Hill said. “I hope it’s just the beginning of accurately recognizing and honoring numerous historically significant sites for tribes and native people nationwide. There were so many places that were special and important to native people prior to colonization. I want to be the voice for my people, for my ancestors.”

1. What do the Cherokee people intend to do according to Paragraph 1?

A．Save their language.	B．Go back to their homeland Kuwahi.
C．Reshape their history.	D．Change the name back to “Kuwahi”.

2. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．The sad history of the Cherokee people.

B．The sheltering place for the Cherokee people.

C．The causes of the decrease of the Cherokee people.

D．The traveling route of the ancient Cherokee Nation.

3. What does Hill think of “Clingmans Dome”?

A．It is related to the culture of the Cherokee people.

B．It reminds the Cherokee people of their ancestors.

C．It removes everything about the Cherokee history.

D．It reflects the slave position of the Cherokee people.

4. What does Hill actually mean in the last paragraph?

A．To add great honor to her ancestors.	B．To make his homeland well-known.
C．To express the opinions of her people.	D．To name more historically significant sites.

9 .

[1] The first Chinese characters date from the late Shang Dynasty, some 3, 000 years ago, originally made for the purposes of divination (占卜). They were written on pieces of tortoiseshell and fragments of bone.

[2] During the Shang Dynasty, divination was very important. To those who knew how to read them, it was belief that exhibits of shell and bone could foretell the future, tell you when to sacrifice, when to harvest, and when illness would strike. So, it was these diviners seeking to unlock the future that accidentally provided us with a key to the past. These oracle bones (甲骨) offer us a precious glimpse of life in China some three thousand years ago.

[3] Of the four thousand characters used in these descriptions, so far 1500 have been deciphered. Through them, we can reconstruct a day in the life of a Shang Dynasty man.

[4] It was that by a combination of careful observation and incredible imagination, the people of the Shang dynasty turned what they saw, did, and felt into symbols that could be written on turtle shells and animal bones — the very first Chinese characters.

[5] In pictograph characters like “Tian”, meaning farm, simple lines were used to outline the shape of something. But more abstract concepts could be described, too. For example, a short horizontal stroke above a long one meant “above”, a short stroke below a long one meant “below”. By combining more than one character into one, even more complex ideas could be expressed. Take Jio, meaning wine, for example, a combination of the character for cup or container and water. Other characters would combine one character indicating a certain sound with another specifying meaning. Yang, for example, meaning wander.

[6] Thanks to the Chinese characters on the oracle bones, Chinese civilization could at last be recorded and passed down the generations. Strange as it may seem, the complex system of writing we use today began life thousands of years ago as scratches on bits of bone. Now they're rooted in hearts and minds of more than a billion people.

1. What were the first Chinese characters initially used for?

A．Serving the rulers.

B．Recording the past.

C．Showing natural power.

D．Unlocking the future.

2. What does the underlined word mean in Paragraph 3?

A．Identified.

B．Destroyed.

C．Discovered.

D．Simplified.

3. What does Paragraph 5 focus on about the first Chinese characters?

A．The evolution.

B．The formation.

C．The connection.

D．The meaning.

4. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To introduce oracle bone script.	B．To stress the value of Chinese characters.
C．To highlight the birth of Chinese culture.	D．To offer a glimpse of life in Shang Dynasty.

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There was to be a legendary (传奇的) family responsible for the construction of imperial (皇家的) buildings,     1     (include) many of the China’s current UNESCO world heritage sites for over 200 years. Their family name was Lei,     2     (respectful) called “Yangshi Lei”, a term for the emperor’s head architect.

The story of Lei family started in the early days of the Qing Dynasty     3     Lei Fada and his relatives from Nanjing were ordered     4     (rebuild) Taihe Palace in the Forbidden City. With his     5     (significance) skills, his reputation began to spread widely. Lei Jinyu, his son, also made great     6     (achieve) like Yuanmingyuan.

From 1736 to 1796, the     7     (four) generation of Lei family designed many buildings from that time. Until the last architect of the family     8     (take) office in the 20th century, they had completed famous buildings such as the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace, and the Chengde Mountain Resort.

In 2007, UNESCO added “Yangshi Lei” into     9     list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Humanity, for its influence     10     Chinese traditional architecture. The architecture of the family will be shining through the age.