1 . 阅读下面小短文，根据上下文语境，选择合适的单词填入空白处，每个单词只使用一次，方框里有一个是多余的单词。

A. create   B. defence   C. conquered   D. currency   E. legal   F. identify

Studying the history of UK will make your visit much more enjoyable. In the 16th century, the nearby Wales was joined to the Kingdom of England. Later, the country Scotland was joined to     1     the Kingdom of Great Britain. Finally, the southern part of Ireland broke away from the UK, which resulted in the full name. They use the same flag, as well as share the same     2     and military     3    . However, they also have some differences. The Normans     4     England after the well-known Battle of Hastings and made changes to the     5     system. So many French words slowly entered into the English language.

2 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

take part in        be familiar with        fall in love with          date back to    in part             break out            break down             stand out        to some extent       transform…from…       bring people together        take place

You must     1     common sports such as football and ping pong, whose purpose is exercising your body and mind, as well as     2     walls. These common sports     3     all around the world since their origins. However, there are people     4     rather unusual sports like sandboarding just for the adventure, whereas other sports are even regarded as a performance art. So, can you imagine combining the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt with the thrill of outdoor extreme activities? Extreme ironing can be this weird sport that     5     in mid-air, underwater, on a ski slope or in a forest. You may wonder whether it is merely invented to seek attention     6    .

There is a particular amusing event called wife-carrying that     7     for its long history. The inspiration came from an event that once a Finnish man     8     a lady and carried her away. This sporting tradition     9     several hundred years ago and its modern version which is     10     two dry obstacles and a wet obstacle into a running course of 254 meters for the heavy lifting contestants.

3 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. spread       B. predicted       C. boomed       D. redefined       E. agricultural        F. trade G. accelerated       H. continued       I. exchanging       J. seeking       K. continents

Globalization is term used to describe how     1     and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place.

When did globalization begin? Many scholars say it started with Columbus’s voyage 10 the New World in 1492. People traveled to nearby and faraway places well before Columbus’s voyage,     2     their ideas, products, and customs along the way. The Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes across China, Central Asia, and the Mediterranean used between 50 B. C. E. and 250 C. E. is perhaps the most well-known early example. As globalization     3    , new technologies played a key role in the Silk Road trade. Advances in metallurgy (冶金术) led to the creation of coins; advances in transportation led to the building of roads connecting the major empires of the day; and increased     4     production meant more food could be trafficked between locales. Along with Chinese silk, Roman glass, and Arabian spices, ideas such as Buddhist beliefs and the secrets of paper-making also     5     via these tendrils of trade.

Unquestionably, these types of exchanges were     6     in the Age of Exploration, when European explorers were     7     new sea routes to the spices and silks of Asia. Again, technology played an important role in the maritime trade routes that flourished between old and newly discovered     8     Trade and idea exchange now extended to a previously unconnected part of the world, where ships carrying plants, animals, and Spanish silver between the Old World and the New also carried Christian missionaries.

The web of globalization     9     to spread out through the Age of Revolution, when ideas about liberty and equality spread like fire from America to France to Latin America and beyond. It rode the waves of industrialization, colonization, and war through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, powered by the invention of factories, railways, steamboats, cars, and planes.

With the Information Age, globalization went into overdrive. Advances in computer and communications technology launched a new global era and     10     what it meant to be “connected.”