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。

The ancient town of Fenghuang is a place with beautiful village life in rural China. Having travelled directly from the busy city, I regard Fenghuang as a better     1     (choose) to have a breath of the fresh air.

When I paid     2     visit to Fenghuang, it was July. My friend and I     3    (excited) explored, walking along the ancient wall and crossing the beautiful, old bridges. People there were very     4    (relax). They were neither troubled by the hot weather nor by the tourists, walking, eating and playing outdoors.     5     the first evening we bought spicy, cold noodles and ate on the riverbank as we watched the sunset.

We stayed in a small hotel     6     was similar to many of the traditional     7     (building) in the village. Our room was built on high stilts(桩子) over the banks of the river. From our window we could hear the rush of the water and the sounds of of excited tourists     8     (travel) in small boats downstream. We saw people at work busy catching fish and young children playing in shallow waters.

Although there     9     (be) many visitors to Fenghuang, we did not see any other foreigner during our stay. After several days, I was still unwilling     10    ( leave).

2 . 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。

From the first day I arrived in Kunming, I had my understanding of China     1    (change). Far from being narrow-minded and hostile to     2    (foreign) ，people came up to talk to me the first time I went out on the street. It happened to be all in Chinese, so I didn’t understand much,     3    it did cause me to rethink my assumptions.

As my Chinese improved, this continued throughout my stay, from my landlord introducing me to people who could help us learn Chinese to     4    (get) to know the couple who ran a noodle restaurant nearby.

If you’re interested in other people, their culture, and their language, they’ll be    5    (friend) to you. China isn’t     6    exception.

Don’t judge a country by its media coverage,     7    (especial) some Western media, which have much prejudice.

I saw a very different kind of China with my own eyes. Kunming,     8     I lived for most of my stay, wasn’t much polluted. I had frank conversations with Chinese people about almost everything.

Still China     9    (develop) ，but the economic growth means that most people     10     (see) their living standards improve rapidly in the last 20 years. People I spoke with were generally optimistic about the future.

3 . 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。

A college student who shows great courage in fighting severe kidney (肾脏) disease while following his dreams in scientific    1    (invent) has inspired many people.

Zou Yongsong, 27, is a student at Changsha University of Science &Technology in Changsha, Hunan Province. At     2    age of four, Zou caught a high fever, and poor medical treatment in the village left his kidneys    3    (serious) damaged. Since then he has suffered kidney problems and has had to take medicine daily    4     (fight) the disease.

Though he suffered the pain    5    (bring)   by the disease, he didn't give up attending school. After years of hard work, Zou    6    (admit) to Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology. In 2017 his condition became    7    (bad) and he had to receive dialysis (透析) treatment. However, the physical suffering did not stop him    8    (dream) of a career in science. Even during his stay in hospital, he insisted    9    working on patent (专利权) applications. Over the last two years, six of his patents and copyrights have been approved.

    10    he shows courage and optimism when facing difficulty and misfortune, Zou was awarded the Touching Hunan award in November.

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。

Thirty years ago, an elderly Canadian couple undertook a unique project with the purpose of     1     (help) Canadians have a better understanding of China based on how the Chinese view themselves and the issues they face.

Their efforts resulted     2     the birth of a 1985 book, Understanding China Through Cartoons. They     3     (official) donated it to China on June 10, 2019.     4     (promote) knowledge about China among Canadians, they     5     (found) the Society for a Better Understanding of China in the early 1970s,     6     is now noted as the Canada-China Friendship Society”

The elderly couple     7     (be) determined to gift China with it as their admiration for Chinese culture-a role dating back thousands of years.

“China is the only nation that has been able to maintain its cultural     8     (grow) for thousands of years,” the husband said.

In fact, communication has been     9     best way to promote each other’s understanding and trust. We need     10     (many) people like the elderly Canadian couple as well as more institutions like the Canada-China Friendship Society.

6 . 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 young man, while traveling through a desert, came across a spring of clear water.    1    water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder    2    had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man    3    ( present ) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled    4    ( warm ), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home    5    a happy heart.

After the student left, the teacher let    6    student taste the water. He spat it out,    7    (say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, "Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like    8    ?"

The teacher replied,“You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be    9    (sweet).”

We understand this lesson best    10    we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is a cheap pipe or a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.

7 . A test of values learned

My girlfriend and I were at the grocery store recently, and her wallet     1     (steal) from our cart. Of course, we were both very upset at the time, for she worked in a pizza shop     2     I had dropped most of my savings into buying our own house. A few     3     (hour) after we got back home, the grocery store     4     (manage) called and told us that the wallet had been turned in. Her cash was of course not there. At least they left her Social Security card and license. About five days     5     (late). I was delivering to a grocery store for my job. I happened to glance over a cart beside where I parked my truck. And there sat a woman’s wallet in the back of it. I picked it up, of course     6     (think) of what had happened to my girlfriend’s wallet. A quick thought of just taking     7     thing flew across my mind. My parent’s and grandparent’s voices popped（出现）in my head and told me otherwise. In fact, the wallet belonged     8     a single mother who came back in the grocery store looking for it. I’m not telling this story to praise myself. I would just like other parents     9     (know) that the examples you set for children can     10     (real) make a difference.

8 . 语法填空
阅读下面材料， 在空白处填入适当的内容（一个单词）或括号内单词的适当形式(不多于三词)。
Praise can change a person. It is true that    1    (encourage) words can turn our lives around. Praise is really     2    (magic). Perhaps many of us have such experiences. Take myself     3    an example. I was very naughty in the primary school. Most of the teachers and even my parents were     4    (disappoint) in me. But it     5    (happen) that I once got a very high mark in     6    examination and the head teacher     7    (report) this to my parents. My parents praised me and told neighbors about it. I felt really happy     8    became polite to others. Every time I heard others talk to me about my excellent examination result, I thought to     9    (I) that I would work even    10    (hard) and make greater progress. Just as Shakespeare said, “Our praises are our wages.”