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。

More than 500 pieces of relics     1     (discover) at the Sanxingdui Ruins site last year. The relics include golden masks, jade and ivory artifacts and bronze wares     2     were exquisitely (精美地) built and     3     (unique) shaped, said the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Heritage Administration on Sept 9, 2021.

Tang Fei, chief of the Research Institute, said, “The new discoveries demonstrate once again that the imagination and     4     (create) of the ancient Chinese far surpassed     5     people today had expected.”

Tang     6     (add) that the excavation of the new pits entered a critical stage,     7     more items yet to be unearthed. He also anticipated that the items found would challenge the     8     (convention) wisdom of archaeologists.

    9     (locate) in the city of Guanghan, around 60 km from Chengdu, the ruins covering an area of 12 square km are believed to be the relics of the Shu Kingdom,     10     (date) back some 4,500 to 3,000 years.

3 . Black Friday refers to the day after Thanksgiving. On this day, crowds of shoppers flood into stores all over the country to take advantage of the season’s biggest holiday bargains. But the real story behind Black Friday is a bit complicated.

The most commonly repeated story behind the post-Thanksgiving shopping-related Black Friday tradition links it to retailers (零售商). As the story goes, after an entire year of operating at a loss, recorded in red ink, stores would supposedly earn a profit, marked in black ink, on the day after Thanksgiving, because holiday shoppers blew so much money on discounted products. Though it’s true that retail companies used to record losses in red and profits in black when doing their accounting, this version of Black Friday’s origin is not an accurate story behind the tradition.

The true story behind Black Friday, however, is not as sunny as retailers might have you believe. Back in the 1950s, police in the city of Philadelphia used the term to describe the chaos that happened on the day after Thanksgiving, when tens of thousands of suburban shoppers and tourists flooded into the city in advance of the big Army-Navy football game held on that Saturday every year. Not only would the police not be able to take the day off, but also they would have to work extra-long shifts dealing with the additional crowds and traffic.

The term didn’t spread to the rest of the country until much later, however, and as recently as 1985 it wasn’t in common use nationwide. Sometime in the late 1980s, however, retailers found a way to reinvent Black Friday and turn it into something that reflected positively on them and their customers. The result was the “red to black” concept mentioned earlier. The Black Friday story stuck, and pretty soon the term’s darker roots in Philadelphia were largely forgotten.

1. What is usually believed to be the origin of Black Friday?

A．The great profit retailers may gain.	B．The way retailers do their accounting.
C．The much money shoppers spend.	D．The biggest bargains on this day.

2. Why did police in Philadelphia refer to the day after Thanksgiving as Black Friday?

A．They had to compete with more shoppers for bargains.

B．They had to give up the big Army-Navy football game.

C．They had to work more hours to deal with the chaos.

D．They had to advance to suburb to fight against floods.

3. The retailers reinvent Black Friday in the late 1980s ________.

A．to attract more customers to shop	B．to create the “red to black” concept
C．to make profits by this special event	D．to change people’s impression of it

4. What is the purpose of writing the passage?

A．To introduce the real history of Black Friday.

B．To explain a term with various meanings.

C．To show the biggest shopping holiday in US.

D．To remind readers of a forgotten truth of red and black.