1 . The Double Seventh Festival, also known as the Qixi Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival. Here is a beautiful story _______ it.

Long，long ago, there was a young man named Niulang(Cowherd), One day, he_______a   beautiful girl- Zhinu( Weaver girl)， the Goddess s seventh daughter. She had just run away from the_______ heaven(天国) to look for fun on Earth. Zhini soon_______Niulang, and they got married without telling the Goddess. Niulang worked in the field and Zhinu wove(织布) at home. They_______a happy life and gave birth to a boy and a girl. Unluckily, the Goddess soon found out the fact and_______ Zhinii to return to heaven. After Zhini left， Niulang was _______upset. With the help of his magic cow,Niulang flew to heaven with his children to look for his wife. The Goddess discovered this and was very_______Taking out her hairpin(发簪), the Goddess created a wide river in the sky to separate(分开) the two_______. From then on, Niulang and Zhini had to live________ on the two sides of the river. However,their true love________ all the magpies(喜鹊) in the world, ________once a year tens of thousands of   magpies would fly up to heaven to make a bridge- the bridge of magpies for the couple to meet each other. At last, the Goddess allowed ________ to meet each   other on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month. That's________the Double Seventh Festival started. Today,   it is a great________for Chinese young people to express their love.

1.

A．through

B．behind

C．with

D．after

2.

A．met

B．told

C．thanked

D．missed

3.

A．boring

B．interesting

C．same

D．different

4.

A．looked forward to

B．parted with

C．turned down

D．fell in love with

5.

A．knew

B．lived

C．stayed

D．gave

6.

A．promised

B．waited

C．ordered

D．helped

7.

A．yet

B．ever

C．quite .

D．still

8.

A．angry

B．sorry

C．excited

D．satisfied

9.

A．friends

B．lovers .

C．parents

D．children

10.

A．back

B．away

C．halfway

D．apart

11.

A．surprised

B．changed

C．touched

D．protected

12.

A．so

B．but

C．though

D．because

13.

A．him

B．her

C．us

D．them

14.

A．how

B．when

C．what

D．where

15.

A．day

B．way

C．lesson

D．habit

2 . Dr. James Naismith is known worldwide as the inventor of basketball, one of the world’s greatest sports ever.

James Naismith was born in 1861 in Ontario, Canada. After graduating from McGill University in Montreal, Naismith first _____ as Kansas Jayhawks’ athletic director. Then the young man _____ on to the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, the USA in 1891, where the sport of basketball was _____.   In Springfield, Naismith was faced with the _____ of finding a sport that was suitable to play inside during the Massachusetts _____ for the students, when it was too cold to go outside. Naismith _____ to create a game of skill for the students instead of one that only _____ strength. He needed a game that could be played _____ in a relatively (相对地) small space.

Naismith _____ to work. The first game ball was a soccer ball. The first baskets were peach baskets that Naismith cleverly thought of ______ on the wall. From there, the history of basketball began. ______, there were 9 men in each team, but the objective (目标) was still the ______ — to pass the ball to other ______ of your team and put the ball into the opposing team’s net, or basket. From there, basketball ______ rapidly like wildfire. During 1895, high schools and colleges began to play the game, and by 1898, the ______ Basketball League had been founded. After the first game was played, Naismith ______ 13 rules, but many more were yet to come.

______ the creation of basketball, James Naismith had ______ in other fields, mainly in sports physiology and what we would today ______ sports science. Naismith watched his sport, basketball, ______ to many nations and in 1936 basketball became an event at the Berlin Olympics. Today basketball has grown to become one of the world’s most popular sports.

1.

A．served

B．appeared

C．competed

D．remained

2.

A．rushed

B．escaped

C．moved

D．advanced

3.

A．developed

B．born

C．enjoyed

D．preferred

4.

A．fact

B．decision

C．plan

D．problem

5.

A．spring

B．summer

C．autumn

D．winter

6.

A．decided

B．pretended

C．refused

D．agreed

7.

A．cared about

B．hunted for

C．relied on

D．devoted to

8.

A．indoors

B．outdoors

C．upstairs

D．downstairs

9.

A．expected

B．hoped

C．began

D．offered

10.

A．tying

B．hanging

C．decorating

D．climbing

11.

A．Strangely

B．Originally

C．Surprisingly

D．Similarly

12.

A．different

B．uncertain

C．routine

D．same

13.

A．friends

B．players

C．students

D．relatives

14.

A．marched

B．increased

C．recovered

D．spread

15.

A．first

B．best

C．oldest

D．last

16.

A．broke

B．understood

C．created

D．followed

17.

A．Instead of

B．In addition to

C．Thanks to

D．In spite of

18.

A．experiments

B．preparations

C．hobbies

D．achievements

19.

A．call

B．study

C．discuss

D．examine

20.

A．devoted

B．related

C．introduced

D．added

3 . When Mt. Vesuvius (维苏威火山)erupted in 79A.D.，it _______ the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The first _______were the people of Pompeii, who, returning of their city when the eruption had eased, dug down through the_______ of their buried homes and salvaged what they could of their furniture and belongings. The _______ they drove through the solidified ash can still be seen in places. But a time came _______ Pompeii and Herculaneum were forgotten. Throughout the Middle Ages these two buried cities were not disturbed, and it was not until 1709 _______ an Austrian prince sank a shaft at Herculaneum and then, by _______ of underground tunnels, robbed the city of its treasures.

In 1729, systematic excavation began on the _______ site, but King Charles Ⅲ of Naples merely excavated the site to _______ archaeological specimens (考古标本) for his collection. A few years later, an accidental find at Pompeii led to excavations there; at first by tunneling, but afterwards by the actual uncovering of the city.

From the end of the ________ century to the present day, digging has gone on ________ continuously, though slowly, and often with ________ resources. Perhaps this slowness has not been entirely a(n) ________，since it has resulted in large, untouched sections of both cities being left ________ for modern, scientific excavation. ________ techniques have improved so much in the last fifty years that a site can now reveal far more archaeological ________ than before.

Today most of ________ and a substantial section of Herculaneum have been cleared. They are the best known archaeological sites ________， and the most wonderful. For here, and nowhere else on earth, are ancient cities in which life did not die out but was suddenly ________.

“Behind these walls,” as one writer has said, “lies an ________ Italian town, stilled in a moment of time. To enter the gates of this city is to walk 2, 000 years into the past.”

1.

A．destroyed

B．repaired

C．built

D．identified

2.

A．explanation

B．excavations

C．pronunciation

D．affection

3.

A．beliefs

B．relief

C．roofs

D．bottoms

4.

A．tunnel

B．room

C．area

D．top

5.

A．when

B．which

C．if

D．who

6.

A．it

B．those

C．this

D．that

7.

A．meaning

B．to mean

C．means

D．mean

8.

A．different

B．same

C．ample

D．alternative

9.

A．protect

B．sharpen

C．obtain

D．applaud

10.

A．eighteenth

B．eight

C．eighteen

D．eighth

11.

A．practically

B．finally

C．successfully

D．specially

12.

A．a few

B．few

C．little

D．less

13.

A．disadvantage

B．advantage

C．analysis

D．revision

14.

A．preserved

B．accelerated

C．assumed

D．faded

15.

A．Affectionate

B．Formal

C．Archaeological

D．Dizzy

16.

A．information

B．botany

C．category

D．significance

17.

A．London

B．Pompeii

C．New York

D．Egypt

18.

A．in Europe

B．in Asia

C．in Africa

D．in America

19.

A．overlooked

B．sobbed

C．interrupted

D．arrested

20.

A．skilful

B．ancient

C．patient

D．effective

4 .        The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish from each other a lot. This is because the culture systems are two separate systems __1__.
       The origin of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are gestated (孕育) by _2__. In China, the mother river is the Yellow River __3_ the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures were _4___ for several thousand years and formed their own styles. Then in the Tang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture _5___ went overseas to Japan, _6___ into the Japanese society and _7__ the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it __8__ to the same system.
       When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another famous culture was __9__ on the Mesopotamian Plain (美索不达米亚平原) — the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the cultures of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well­-known as the __10__ of the European culture. _11___ the Chinese culture, the European one also __12__ waters. When the colonists of England __13__ in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn’t __14_ from the European one a lot.
       At the same time, the __15__ of the language systems adds to the cultural differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic (象形文字的) languages while the Western languages are __16__ based on the Latin system, for example, the one I’m using to write this paper.
       Other factors like human race difference _17___ as well. However, _18__ the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom _19__ until recent centuries.__20__ they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference (干扰) from the other.1.

A．above all

B．on the whole

C．in all

D．in no case

2.

A．mountains

B．plains

C．lakes

D．rivers

3.

A．or

B．for

C．while

D．when

4.

A．developed

B．improved

C．created

D．protected

5.

A．suddenly

B．quietly

C．gradually

D．naturally

6.

A．mixed

B．changed

C．decided

D．forced

7.

A．expanded

B．interrupted

C．influenced

D．shaped

8.

A．comes

B．belongs

C．amounts

D．adds

9.

A．brought up

B．carried out

C．given out

D．picked up

10.

A．result

B．sign

C．base

D．content

11.

A．Via

B．Except

C．With

D．Like

12.

A．affected

B．spread

C．crossed

D．formed

13.

A．joined up

B．went up

C．broke down

D．settled down

14.

A．come

B．suffer

C．result

D．differ

15.

A．difference

B．development

C．appearance

D．feature

16.

A．properly

B．part

C．simply

D．mostly

17.

A．last

B．count

C．reduce

D．change

18.

A．in terms of

B．due to

C．as to

D．in case of

19.

A．transform

B．display

C．communicate

D．distinguish

20.

A．Furthermore

B．Meanwhile

C．Therefore

D．However