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 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.

2 . 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.

3 . 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.

4 . 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).

5 . The Renaissance(文艺复兴)is generally considered to have started in Florence, Italy around the years 1350 to 1400. The start of the Renaissance also was the end of the Middle Ages.

Humanism

In the Middle Ages people thought that life was nothing but hard work and war. However, around the 1300s, the people in Florence , Italy started to think that people should be educated and that things like art, music, and science could make life better for everyone.

Florence, Italy

At the start of the Renaissance, Italy was divided up into a number of powerful city-states. One of the major city-states was Florence.

In the late 1300s, Florence had become a rich city. Wealthy businessmen had the money to hire artisans (工匠). This inspired competitions among artists and thinkers. Art began to flourish (繁荣)and new thoughts began to appear.

Petrarch and Humanism

Francesco Petrarch is often called the “Father of Humanism”. He studied poets and philosophers from Ancient Rome such as Cicero and Virgil. His ideas and poetry became an inspiration to many writers and poets throughout all of Europe as the Renaissance spread.

Giotto di Bondone

Giotto was a painter in Florence, Italy. He was the first painter to break away from the standard Byzantine style painting of the Middle Ages and try something new. Giotto is said to have started the Renaissance in art with his new style of realistic painting.

Dante

Another major contributor to the start of the Renaissance was Dante Alighieri.   He lived in Florence and wrote the Divine Comedy in the early 1300s. This book is considered to be the greatest literary work ever written in the Italian language.

New Ideas Spread

This new way of thinking and style of art quickly spread to other wealthy Italian city-states. This early part of the Renaissance is often called the Italian Renaissance. Italy would become wealthy through trade and their new ideas soon spread throughout all of Europe.

1. In the Middle Ages people thought that _________ .

A．life was really hard

B．life could be enjoyable

C．they could be educated

D．they should live differently

2. Which of the following was the first Renaissance painter ?

A．Francesco Petrarch

B．Giotto di Bondone

C．Dante Alighieri

D．Cicero

3. What would be the best title for the text ?

A．What does the Renaissance mean ?

B．How did the Renaissance begin?

C．The artists in the Renaissance

D．Literature in the Renaissance

4. The text is most probably taken from _________.

A．a book review

B．a history paper

C．a newspaper advertisement

D．a travel magazine

6 . 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

7 . Discoveries at the famous Sanxingdui ruins in Southwest China show that the region’s ancient Shu Kingdom Civilization shared similarities with the Maya.

The Sanxingdui ruins belonged to the Shu Kingdom that existed at least 4,800 years ago and lasted more than 2,000 years, while the Mayan civilization built its city-states around 200 AD.

The bronze-made remains of tress unearthed at the ruins of the Shu Kingdom resemble the sacred ceiba tree, which symbolized the union of heaven, earth and the underworld in the Mayan civilization. “They are very important similarities,” says Santos, a Mexican archaeologist (考古学家) stressing that “the representations of tress in both cultures provide a symbolism that is very similar”.

The findings at the Sanxingdui ruins, considered one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century, also show a new aspect of Bronze Age culture, indicating the ancient civilization already had technologies that were thought to have been developed much later.

While the lime span between the Shu kingdom and the Mayan culture is great, the findings highlight the closeness between the two civilizations. They developed in areas with comparable climates and reflected their worldview through related symbols. “In the end, man is still man, independent of time and space. What we have is that, at this latitude (纬度), both the Shu people and the Mayans looked at the same sky and had the same stars on the horizon,” the expert says.

One notable feature of the recent discoveries at Sanxingdui was the cross-subject work and technology applied by teams of Chinese archaeologists, which allowed the unearthing of artifacts as fragile as silk remains, which other types of less careful digging methods would not have been able to register.

Cooperation between Chinese and Mexican archaeologists could benefit projects in the Mayan world, where the rainy climate and humidity are problematic for the conservation of ruins.

“Every time our cultural knowledge increases, regardless of whether we speak one language or another, what it shows us is that we continue to be sister cultures and, therefore, the exchange of such knowledge is fundamental,” says Santos.

1. What is a similarity between the Shu Kingdom and Maya civilization?

A．Their starting time.

B．Their historical origins.

C．Their cultural symbols.

D．Their ceremony traditions.

2. The findings at the Sanxingdui ruins have proved that ______.

A．silk was a common clothing material then

B．some technologies were developed much earlier

C．the Bronze Age started earlier than previously assumed

D．the Shu Kingdom and the Mayan world had close contact

3. What is a common challenge for the conservation of both ruins?

A．Damp weather.	B．Positioning of ruins.
C．High latitude.	D．Language barriers.

4. What is the focus of Santos quote in the last paragraph?

A．The future of the China-Mexico cooperation.

B．The benefits of speaking a different language.

C．The importance of the exchange of cultural knowledge.

D．The increasing sisterhood in culture between China and Mexico.

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。

Mount Vesuvius is an active volcano located just east of Naples, Italy. It is the only volcano on the continent of Europe that     1     (erupt) in the last one hundred years, though other volcanoes have erupted on islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Vesuvius's earliest     2     (record) eruption is now its most famous. In the year A. D. 79,     3     little or no warning, Vesuvius erupted and completely buried the ancient city of Pompeii. For two days the mountain shot     4     (volcano) material into the air, spreading     5     blanket of ash over the landscape. Pompeii, located seven kilometers from the volcano,     6     (bury) under five meters of ash. The destruction was so complete that it was not until sixteen hundred years later     7     the city was discovered. Evidence of the religion, culture, and everyday life of the Pompeiians, all     8     (leave) behind in the sudden panic of the volcano's catastrophe, are     9     (remarkable) well preserved. And everywhere there are     10     (remind) of its sudden eruption and the shadow of Vesuvius. Even the forms of the citizens remain. Their bodies lie much as they did on the day of their death almost twenty centuries ago.