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。

The Silk Road was one of the most important arteries (干线) of trade and culture in the world history.     1     planes and trains brought our world close together, the Silk Road was the first link     2     ever connected the East and the West and the life blood of international trade in ancient time.

Many merchants     3     (travel) on this route between China and Mediterranean bank area for more than 2,000 years. The trading activity has brought culture exchange, religions spreading and contrasts to the connected regions and formed     4     remarkable culture tie featured by Asian, European and the Mediterranean bank.

Since the Chinese highly     5     (qualify) silk had made its fame to the western countries, the merchants    6     (seek) the opportunity of trading Chinese silk along this route and gained a great fortune. Few people would really finish the whole silk route journey, because they just traded certain local crafts such as silk, blanket and carpet, etc.     7     other merchants. Many people took part and numerous goods     8     (trade) in the great international trade at that time.

“The Silk Road is an invaluable world heritage to be celebrated for reminding the world of the importance of cultural     9     (diverse) and cross-cultural communication,” said Shahbaz Khan, director of UNESCO Beijing and Representative to China. “Cultural and artistic creations, no matter what their specific forms are, are all     10     (benefit) to innovation and sustainable development in a country.”

4 . It is likely that on American TV shows you at times will be attracted by rubber balls on people’s desks.     1     People can squeeze them when feeling stressed out. It’s believed that by concentrating on the act of squeezing, they can let go of the negative energy in their bodies.

Indeed, stress is a big problem for many people.     2     In fact, the rubber stress relief balls that are so popular today in the US are believed to date back to ancient China. Back in the Han Dynasty (206 BC–AD 220), soldiers used walnuts to get rid of stress. By squeezing them during moments of anxiety, soldiers were able to calm themselves down before going into battle. And in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), ordinary citizens—not just soldiers—developed the habit of rolling two walnuts, or balls made from iron or stone, around in their hands.     3     And today, we have many gadgets (器具) and toys that are designed to reduce stress in addition to stress relief balls. One example is the popular fidget spinner (指尖陀螺).     4     You have to spin the gadget around. There’s also the fidget cube, which features different “gimmicks (机关)” on each side of the cube. You can click, spin, pull, push and rotate different parts of the cube.

    5     But perhaps we should take them more seriously. “After all, the history of stress balls is a history of modern-day coping (应对),” reporter Nadia Berenstein wrote for Woolly magazine.

A．This helped them relax as well.

B．These gadgets may look like simple toys.

C．It keeps your hand busy with an easy task.

D．These balls are known as “stress relief balls”.

E．Fortunately, we have many ways to deal with it.

F．This was the perfect way to ease away your tension.

G．A focused activity helps take your mind off the problems of your day.

6 . Until recently, several lines of evidence — from fossils genetics, and archaeology — suggested that humans first moved from Africa into Eurasia (the land of Europe and Asia) about 60,000 years ago, quickly replacing other early human species, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, that they may have met along the way.

However, a series of recent discoveries, including 100,000-year-old human teeth found in a cave in China, have clouded this straightforward statement. And the latest find, a prehistoric jawbone at the Misliya Cave in Israel dating back to nearly 200,000 years ago, which is almost twice as old as any Homo sapiens (智人) remains discovered outside Africa, where our species was thought to have originated from, has added new and unexpected twist.

The find suggests that there were multiple waves of migration across Europe and Asia and could also mean that modern humans in the Middle East were interacting, and possibly mating, with other human species for tens of thousands of years. “Misliya breaks the mould (模式) of existing assumptions of the timing of the first known Homo sapiens in these regions,” said Chris Stringer, head of human origins at the Natural History Museum in London. “It’s important in removing long-lasting-constraint (限制) on our thinking.”

Prof. Hershkovitz, who led the work at Tel Aviv University said, “What Misliya tells us is that modern humans left Africa not 100,000 years ago, but 200,000 years ago. This is revolution in the way we understand the evolution of our own species.” He also added that the record now indicates that humans probably travelled beyond the African continent whenever the climate allowed it. “I don’t believe there was one big departure from Africa,” he said. “I think that throughout hundreds of thousands of years humans were coming in and out of Africa all the time.”

The discovery means that modern humans were potentially meeting and interacting during a longer period with other ancient human groups, providing more opportunity for cultural and biological exchanges. It also raises interesting questions about the fate of the earliest modern human pioneers. Genetic data from modern-day populations around the world strongly suggest that everyone outside Africa can trace their ancestors back to a group that left around 60,000 years ago. So, the inhabitants of the Misliya Cave are probably not the ancestors of anyone alive today, and scientists can only guess why their branch of the family tree came to an end.

1. What does the underlined word “they” refer to in Paragraph 1?

A．Early human species living in Europe.

B．Neanderthals and Denisovans.

C．People first moving from Africa into Eurasia.

D．Ancient people living in Africa all the time.

2. What does the Misliya discovery suggest?

A．Our ancestors were powerful and kind of aggressive.

B．Our ancestors left Africa much earlier than thought.

C．The origins of modern humans are from Europe.

D．Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans once lived together.

3. What can be learned from Prof Hershkovitz’s words?

A．Climate was a big factor in human migration from Africa.

B．There was a large-scale human migration from Africa.

C．Human migration was occasional in Africa 200,000 years ago.

D．The Misliya find is against our understanding of human evolution.

4. What can we infer about those living in Misliya 200, 000 years ago according to the last paragraph?

A．They were ancestors of people living in China.

B．They left evidence for their mysterious disappearance in history.

C．They probably contributed little to present-day people genetically.

D．They could be traced by their remains left on their travelling route.

7 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有 10 处语言错误，每句最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除和修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（ \ ）划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分

All the calculations were led to the same conclusion only if you put the sun there did the movements of the other planets make sense. The problem arises because astronomers had noticed that some planets appeared brighter at time and less bright at others. Between 1510 and 1514 Copernicus worked on his new theory, gradual improving it until it was complete. Then he showed it privately for his friends. They encouraged him to publish his ideas, and Copernicus was cautious. He published it as he lay died in 1543. Her theory is now the basis on what all the ideas of universe are built

8 . 概要写作

Before the 1830s, most newspapers were sold through yearly subscriptions(订阅) in America, usually $ 8 to $ 10 a year. Today $ 8 or $ 10 seems a small amount of money, but at that time the amounts were unaffordable to most citizens. Accordingly, newspapers were read almost only by rich people in politics or the trades. In addition, most newspapers had little in them that would appeal to a large audience. They were dull and visually unpleasant. But the revolution that was taking place in the 1830s would change all that.

The trend, then, was toward the “penny paper”---a term referring to papers made widely available to the public. It meant any inexpensive newspaper; perhaps more importantly it meant newspapers that could be bought in single copies on the street.

This development did not take place overnight. It had been possible（but not easy） to buy single copies of newspapers before 1830, but this usually meant the reader had to go down to the printer’s office to buy a copy. Street sales were almost unknown. However, within a few years street sales of newspapers would be commonplace in eastern cities. At first the price of single copy was seldom a penny ---usually two or three cents was charged --- and some of the older well-known papers charged five or six cents. But the phrase “penny paper” caught the public’s fancy soon there would be papers that did indeed sell for only a penny.

This new trend of newspapers for “the man on the street” did not begin well. Some of the early ventures（企业）were immediate failures. Publishers already in business, people who were owners of successful papers, had little desire to change the tradition. It took a few youthful and daring businessmen to get the ball rolling.

9 . 假定你是李华，你校交换生David对兵马俑十分着迷。请你写封邮件邀请他聆听一场有关兵马俑的讲座，要点包括:
1.时间、地点；
2.主讲人；
3.主题及内容。
注意：
1.词数80左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：兵马俑terracotta warriors
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10 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Where does Thomas Manning work?

A．In the Guinness Company.

B．At a radio station.

C．In a museum.

2. Where did the idea of a book of records come from?

A．A bird-shooting trip.

B．A visit to Europe.

C．A television talk show.

3. When did Sir Hugh’s first book of records appear?

A．In 1875.

B．In 1950.

C．In 1955.

4. What are the two speakers going to talk about next?

A．More records of unusual facts.

B．The founder of the company.

C．The oldest person in the world.