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

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.

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。

Once celebrated as “the sport of kings”, polo (马球), a unique sport with ancient roots,     1     (play) on horseback with a ball. Its exact origins remain uncertain,     2     one early version of this sport emerged in ancient Persia (modern Iran) around the 6th century BC.

Different cultures developed similar games and, over time, polo evolved     3     the sport we know today. It also has a deep historical connection with ancient China, as     4     (show) through the discovery of numerous artifacts, including murals (壁画), stone carvings, mirrors and paintings.

During the 1930s, the modern version of the sport enjoyed a period of     5     (popular) , with polo grounds established in cities with foreign populations like Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Qingdao.

Polo’s noble and warrior-like characteristics have won it many     6     (passion) players, and among them is Jackie Wang. She and her family     7     (spend) the past three years researching and writing Polo in China, a book that documents the lengthy history of the sport in China.

Published by the Cultural Relics Press, the book gives a detailed introduction to polo in China, with photos of artifacts and events, and an engaging storyline     8     brings the sport to life.

As     9     combination of historical reference and artistic representation, the book serves both as an academic work and a general interest publication,     10     (contribute) to the study of polo in China while sharing the sport’s charm through its design and presentation.

3 . 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In the spring of 1944, the Allied powers in World War Ⅱ took the fight against Nazi into the fifth year.     1    (plan) for months or even years, the D-Day called “Operation Overlord” was designed     2    (free) north-west Europe from German occupation. After waiting for the perfect combination of weather, moon and tides, the date for the start of Operation Overlord     3    (set) for June 6, 1944.

With General Eisenhower’s encouraging words     4    (ring) in their ears, Allied soldiers prepared for     5     would become known as D-Day. The Allied invasion     6    (stretch) across five beaches code-named “Utah”, “Omaha”, “Gold”, “Juno” and “Sword”. The fiercest fighting was at Omaha Beach. Countless Allied soldiers gave their lives on D-Day in violent attacks. Even though they were     7     the terrible cost of human life, the D-Day landings were     8     success and were considered     9    (wide) as the beginning of the end of World War Ⅱ. By the end of August 1944, the Allies had reached the River Seine. Paris was liberated.

Seventy years later, people including     10    (survive) came together for memorial ceremonies in honour of those who fought and died on D-Day.

5 . 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。

Tea drinking has been a traditional custom among native Beijingers. Teahouses formed in the Tang Dynasty,took off in the Song Dynasty and were recorded in YuanQu    1     ( write) in the Yuan Dynasty. As society developed,private teahouses, tea bars and teahouses with diverse features    2     ( create). Teahouses often served as centers of social interaction where people came to discuss personal affairs or even    3     ( politics) issues.

There are different types of teahouses including Pure Teahouses, Teahouses for Storytelling, Chess Teouses,etc. In Pure Teahouses, people do nothing but drink tea, most of    4    are unoccupied persons or the young from the rich family. Teahouses for Storyelling,    5    ( normal) in the afternoon and night, are welcomed by people with an interest in novels, pingshu and storytelling. Chess Teahouses are popular among those interested in playing chess.In the Qing Dynasty, there were also Chess Teahouses that served scholars and    6    (official) near Shichahai.

The tea culture has regained its popularity after a long term of dcline. In recent years teahouses with local characteristics    7     ( appear) in Beijing with the performance of Beijing Opera, or the combination of tea culture, folk customs    8    arts.

Laoshe Teahouse, for example, is widely famous in and beyond China    9    a cultural symbol in Beijing, where a large number of tea fans gather,    10    (enjoy) its rich tea culture.

6 . 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.

7 . 阅读下面短文, 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。

Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were believed to have been stolen from Cambridge University’s library have been returned, two decades     1     they disappeared.

The notebooks, the 19th-century scientist’s famous 1837 “Tree of Life” sketch(草图)     2     (include), went missing in 2001, though at that time staff were     3     (certain) whether they had been misplaced. After searches of the library’s collection of 10 million books failed to find them, they     4     (report) stolen to police in October 2020.

On March 9. 2022 the books reappeared,     5     (lie) in a public area of the building, outside the librarian’s office,     6     is not covered by security cameras. An attached note said: Librarian Happy Easter X.

The university’s director of library services Jessica Gardner said her feeling of     7     (relieve) at the books’ reappearance was “profound and almost impossible     8     (express). ”

The notebooks can now return to their place at Cambridge, next     9     the rest cultural and scientific heritage of the nation. The notebooks are set to go on public display from July as part of     10     Darwin exhibition at the library.

8 . When archaeologists examined a cave in Grotta dei Moscerini in 1949, they found 171 examples of tools made from clam shells. At that time, however, it wasn’t clear whether the shells had been picked up from a beach or sourced alive from the water.

A team of researchers led by Paola Villa, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, recently revisited the collection of shell tools and found new details. Most of the shell tools had worn surfaces, which one would expect were from dry shells picked off a beach. But nearly a quarter of the clam shells had shiny, smooth surfaces -typical of shells picked alive from the seafloor. Villa and her colleagues concluded that diving for clams might have been a routine part of Neanderthal life in this region. Fishing and using coastal resources were thought to be unique behaviors to modern humans, but Neanderthals could perfectly do that.

Archaeological evidence has changed our image of Neanderthals in the last couple of decades. Later, more researchers came to the place where the shell tools were found. But it was no longer accessible because it was buried under rocks that were blown from the side of the hill during the construction of a coastal highway in the early 1970s. “Re-excavating the site will not be easy at all,” said Villa. And right now the team has no plans to try.

The prejudice against Neanderthal abilities may simply be due to a lack of widespread archaeological evidence. Unfortunately, the coastal sites that might help support the case of Neanderthal beach activities are hardly seen, and many are now underwater. During the time that Neanderthals and humans shared the planet, the climate was much colder and ice sheets stretched over larger parts of the European continent. But at the end of the last ice age, from about 19,000 to about 6,000 years ago, sea levels rose around the world by about 400 feet, swallowing the once campsites of prehistory on the shores of the ocean.

1. What were archaeologists unsure of the shells for making tools?

A．Their value.

B．Their functions.

C．Their origin.

D．Their raw materials.

2. What is Paola and her colleagues’ new finding about Neanderthals?

A．They were skilled toolmakers.	B．They built their caves near water.
C．They were capable of using sea resources.	D．They lived on collecting clams on the beach.

3. What made the Grotta dei Moscerini site difficult to restore?

A．Natural disasters.	B．Careless human activities.
C．Preservation of the site.	D．Underdeveloped technology.

4. What’s the author’s purpose for writing the last paragraph?

A．To stress the long history of Neanderthals.

B．To tell Neanderthals’ close relation with modern humans.

C．To show the influence of climate change on Neanderthals.

D．To explain the cause of underestimating Neanderthals’ civilization.

10 . The modern garden has history going back many thousands of years. Early humans were hunters and gatherers, and didn’t usually stay in one place for a long time.     1     During the Neolithic period, humans started to remain in one place and grow their own food.

What plants did people grow?

Evidence of early agriculture in Europe includes not only eatable plants such as wheat, but also plants for decorative purposes. Plants for medicine were grown, as were plants for flavouring (调味) or preserving food.     2     They were not only grown because they were useful or eatable.

Why did people plant gardens?

Gardens today are places to go and relax, but have had many purposes over the years. In the past they were planted to honour the gods, or used in religious ceremonies such as funerals and weddings. They were also a way to show that their owners were rich or powerful.     3     In Roman times the garden became an extension of the house, representing the owner’s status (地位) in society.

What does paradise mean?

    4     The ancient Greeks believed growing food was a job for the poor, but gardens were places for enjoyment. The English word paradise comes from the ancient Persian word pairidaeza — meaning a walled space: a garden. The gardens of the Middle East were places of great beauty where people enjoyed the pleasures of life.

Are gardens artistic?

As gardens have developed over the years, design and beauty have become more and more important.     5     The gardens of Versailles, in France, are an excellent example of garden architecture — everything is pruned (修建) to fit in with the design.

A．Many cultures believed gardens were sacred.

B．Certain plants also had religious or spiritual value.

C．Pleasure and happiness are ideas linked with gardens.

D．Ancient rulers created huge gardens to show their wealth.

E．Instead, they travelled from place to place following the food.

F．Humans have learned to control nature and to design gardens carefully.

G．Carefully planned or not, gardens are still beautiful and relaxing places to visit.