1 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

A trail of hot springs dot the northern Kapong District. For tree worshipers, it's a site best described as awesome. Visitors can enjoy the ancient hot springs,     1     (understand) their therapeutic properties from knowledge     2     (pass) down from one generation to another. Rain, drizzle and cloudy skies are typical in Phang Nga, making secluded places even more mesmerizing in scenery.

Visit Phang Nga for a few days and you will immediately realise that once     3     (overlook) things turn out to be hidden gems and one     4     have planned for more time to enjoy them all. The ever-famous Phang Nga bay is in fact best seen not from the middle of the bay, but instead from the     5     (elevate) shores of Samed Nang Chee. You can’t pick the best weather,     6     even on partly cloudy days, the magnificent natural limestone structures of the bay is simply spectacular.

If you've heard about the trading routes of the Thai south and the Malay peninsula, you will notice a remnant of this direct link between Phuket (普吉) and Phang Nga (攀牙).     7     the major trading hub of Phang Nga in the old days, the district of Takua Pa boasts a small but untainted stretch of an old Sino-English community. These original century-old shophouses are “so authentic” here a local told me, it can overwhelm Phuket people with nostalgia.

However, the town centre of Phang Nga is not Takua Pa, though. The story has it     8     back in 1809, the Siam-Burmese wars drove people down to Phang Nga bay，hence the new settlement that has now become the province's municipal seat. It's still small in size, but with newer natural charms. Mountains     9     (surround) Phang Nga with the most magnificent limestone peaks     10     create wonderfully amazing signature views. Driving through the town's small parallel streets and looking up, one can only marvel at Mother Nature. Perpetual rain and misty mornings to virtual greenness --- Phang Nga people will ensure you get all that.

2 . Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

The Greek myths are almost a myth themselves.

   

The great dramatists Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides drew on the myths,     1     did the Romans after them. Since then, poets, painters, sculptors, novelists — and later on, filmmakers and even comic strip authors —     2    (find) inspiration in them. Remember film Troy (2004) starring Brad Pitt? That movie remade The Iliad, Homer’s e t of the Trojan Wars.

Greek myths came from oral stories. In the beginning, people told these tales to     3    . They didn’t read them in books or watch them in the theater. It seems that     4     we write, paint or make films — or simply just enjoy these products — the Greek myths have a special resonance.

The names and the stories     5     be old, but the myths continue to be relevant. We can still be moved by beauty, like the story of Paris when he stole the gorgeous Helen away from her husband in Troy.

We feel pain in our hearts     6     we remember our family and friends back home. We can therefore readily understand Odysseus —     7    (separate) from his wife and son for a decade — and his desperation to get home.

The everyday life of western culture     8    (mark) by the Greek myths in all sorts of ways. Just look up into the night sky — names of the stars and constellations you see come from Greek characters.

In English, we say someone who makes money easily has “the Midas touch”. But often, character from Greek mythology, who turns     9     he touches into gold. Even the products we buy in supermarkets have names     10     (inspire) by the Greeks.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the woman doing?

A．Asking for advice.

B．Chairing a meeting.

C．Hosting a program.

2. When was Bergen founded?

A．In 1070.

B．In the 1200s.

C．In the 1830s.

3. What does Mr Wilson suggest people do in Bergen?

A．Read a fairy tale.

B．Walk around the city.

C．Buy a wooden house.

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。

It was the spring of 1943 during World War Ⅱ. Standing among hundreds of new     1    (soldier）at Camp Grant, Sam, just 18 years old, waited as a truck slowly drove by.     2     full field pack was randomly thrown to each soldier.

Sam received    3     (he) After he opened the pack and looked at the things in it, he was greatly    4    （astonish）. He found his last name, Litrenti, was marked on each thing in his pack. "How strange!" Sam thought. He didn' t think the one     5     threw the field pack to him knew who he was.

So why was Sam’s last name marked on the things? You may not believe it, but it was the field pack that his father     6    （use）during World War I .

Sam     7    （certain） didn’t know that when he received it. It wasn' t until after the war     8     he found out why.

After the war, he talked     9    that with his father. After     10    .（talk）for a while, Sam's father became sure that the pack once belonged to him.

Both the father and the son couldn't believe that ! What a coincidence!

5 . 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。

A terrible fire began to burn at France’s world-famous Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral (巴黎圣母院)    1    the evening of April 15. Flames could be seen rising through the top of the monument.     2    (it) tall, narrow top later fell down. It took 15 hours for 400 French firefighters     3    (put) out the fire.     4    (fortunate), the main stone structure, including the two bell towers, has been saved, but there is little information on the condition of the cathedral’s glass windows and paintings.

Notre-Dame     5    (date) back to the 12th century. French writer Victor Hugo used it as the setting of his famous story, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,    6    was first published in 1831. Sitting in the center of Paris, along the Seine River, Notre-Dame is one of the world’s most famous tourist     7    (site). About 12 million people visit it each year.

One man said, “Notre-Dame     8    (destroy) but the soul of France was not.” French President Emmanuel Macron promised that Notre-Dame would be rebuilt and asked for worldwide help repairing it. Many countries offered assistance, because Notre-Dame is part of the     9     (culture) heritage of mankind and     10    symbol for Europe.

6 . Before the 1830s, most newspapers were sold through annual subscriptions in America, usually $8 to $10 a year. Today $8 or $10 seems a small amount of money, but at that time these amounts were forbidding 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 mass audience. They were dull and visually forbidding. 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 purchase 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 copies 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, and 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.

1. Which of the following best describes newspapers in America before the 1830s?

A．Academic.

B．Unattractive.

C．Inexpensive.

D．Confidential.

2. What did street sales mean to newspapers?

A．They would be priced higher.	B．They would disappear from cities.
C．They could have more readers.	D．They could regain public trust.

3. Who were the newspapers of the new trend targeted at?

A．Local politicians.	B．Common people.
C．Young publishers.	D．Rich businessmen.

4. What can we say about the birth of the penny paper?

A．It was a difficult process.	B．It was a temporary success.
C．It was a robbery of the poor.	D．It was a disaster for printers.

7 . Scientists in Western Australia claim to have made a new discovery—they have found gold in the leaves and twigs of trees. The researchers believe that the trees suck up the gold from deep underground, over 30 metres down. The discovery has been described as the first of its kind in the world. Australian gold exploration companies are pleased because it will make finding gold cheaper. Rather than drilling deep holes to find gold, they have more ways to examine tree leaves and branches. There is only a tiny amount of gold in the leaves. It would take 500 trees to make one gold ring. The gold is found using a special X-ray machine owned by an Australian government agency. A pure X-ray and a powerful microscope scan the leaves and branches.

The claim that this is the first time that gold particles(微粒) have been found in living material might not be true, though. Ancient Chinese wisdom understood the connection between plants and the precious stones and minerals underneath them. They used plant life to find minerals and that was thousands of years ago. In the Zhou Dynasty, it was written in a book that a certain plant grew only near deposits of gold. Over the next 2,000 years, Chinese people wrote about different plants and how they grew, showed where minerals and precious stones such as jade, copper, lead, silver and gold were.

Even more importantly, in the 1,000s, Su Song described how copper, gold, silver, lead and tin were observed and taken from certain plants. These were amazing scientific discoveries. Meanwhile, this knowledge was unknown in the rest of the world until about 1,600. This was when a British man realised that oak trees grew larger and greener where there was alum(明矾) in the ground. Maybe ancient Chinese has more knowledge to teach modern scientists.

1. What can we know from Paragraph 1?

A．500 dead trees can make one gold ring.

B．The trees can absorb the gold from deep underground.

C．Scientist have found gold 30 meters below underground.

D．The companies find it hard to find gold.

2. How do scientists find gold in the leaves?

A．By observing the leaves carefully.	B．By drilling deep holes.
C．By using a special X-ray.	D．By referring to ancient books.

3. Who first discovered that there was connection between plants and minerals?

A．Ancient Chinese people.	B．Su Song.
C．Australian scientists.	D．A British man.

4. What is the purpose of the last paragraph?

A．To introduce two great scientists in ancient times.

B．To provide more evidence to support the writer’s opinion.

C．To show how ancient people got gold from certain plants.

D．To prove that ancient Chinese has more knowledge than modern scientists.

8 . 语篇语法填空

Qing Ming     1    (associate) with Jie Zitui, who lived in Shanxi province in 600 B.C. Legend goes that Jie saved his starving lord's life by serving a piece of his own leg. When the lord     2    (success) in becoming the ruler, he invited his     3    (faith) follower to join him. However, Jie turned down his invitation,     4    (prefer) to lead     5     simple life with his mother in the mountain.

Believing that he could force Jie out by burning the mountain, the lord ordered his men to set the forest     6     fire. To    7     astonishment, Jie chose to remain     8     he was and was burnt to death.     9    (remember) Jie, the lord ordered all fires in every home to be put out on the anniversary of Jie's death. Thus began the "cold food feast", a day when no food could be cooked since no fire could     10    (light).

9 . There was a time in the 1960’s and 1970’s when some people believed that coffee would replace tea as Britain’s favourite drink, but that did not happen, and today, tea remains Britain’s favourite drink.

To say that the British are fond of tea is something of an understatement. From the Royal(皇室的) Family down to the homeless and the out-of-work, tea is more than just a pleasure. It is an important part of life!

The popularity of tea in the United Kingdom has a long history. It was in 1657 that Thomas Garway, the owner of a coffee house, sold the first tea in London. The drink soon became popular as another choice besides coffee.

In those days, however, tea was not something for anyone. For a century and a half, it remained an expensive drink. Many bosses served a cup of it to their workers in the middle of the morning, thus inventing a lasting British tradition, the “tea break”. But as a social drink outside the workplace, tea was served for the nobility(贵族) and for the growing middle classes. Among those who had the money for tea, it became very popular as a drink to be enjoyed in cafés and “tea gardens”.

It was the 7th Duchess of Bedford who, in around 1800, started the popular “afternoon tea”, which took place at about four o'clock. At about the same time, the Earl of Sandwich popularized a new way of eating bread with something (e. g. jam) between them, and before long, a small meal at the end of the afternoon with tea and sandwiches had become part of a way of life.

As tea became much cheaper during the nineteenth century, its popularity spread right through British society. In working-class households, it was served with the main meal of the day, eaten when workers returned home after a day’s labour. This meal has become known as “high tea”.

Today, tea can be drunk at any time of day. Most people in Britain drink tea for breakfast. The mid-morning “tea break”is an institution in British offices and factories. Later in the day, “afternoon tea” is still a way of life in the south of England and among the middle classes, while “high tea”has remained a tradition in the north of Britain.

1. Who played an important part in the beginning of tea time in England?

A．Thomas Garway.	B．The Royal Family.
C．The Earl of Sandwich.	D．The Duchess of Bedford.

2. What can we learn from the passage?

A．The “tea break” kept the workers from being sleepy after lunch.

B．Workers could enjoy a cup of tea in “tea gardens”at their workplace.

C．“High tea”was usually served with the main meal for the middle classes.

D．The “afternoon tea” together with sandwiches became popular in around 1800.

3. What is the best title of the passage?

A．The Popularity of Tea	B．Tea and the British
C．Tea and the Middle Class	D．The History of Tea

10 . 语法填空

Tea is one of the most favored drinks in our life． However， the origin of tea is lost among history     1     tales． What can be roughly confirmed is that tea originated in the southwest of China． According to ancient stories， the first person     2    （ discover） the effects of tea is said to be Shennong - the father of agriculture and herbal medicine in China． It     3    （ say） that Shennong once tried 72different kinds of poisonous plants in a day and he     4    （ lie） on the ground， barely alive． At this moment， he noticed several rather fragrant leaves     5    （drop） from the tree beside him． Out of curiosity and habit， Shennong put the leaves    6     his mouth and chewed them slowly． After a little while， he felt well and     7    （ energy） again． So he picked more leaves to eat and thus cleared    8    （he） body from poison．

The ancient Chinese medical book     9    （ call） Shennong Bencaojing states that"Tea tastes bitter． Drinking it， one can think quicker， sleep less， move more swiftly， and see     10     clearly．"This then was the earliest book to record the medicinal effects of tea．