1 . 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法和上下文连贯的要求，在空格中填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的适当形式填空。

Although the modern picnic     1    (believe) to be a concept originating in Europe in the 1700s, China’s version of such excursions (短途旅行), commonly known     2    “spring outings” or “stepping on the green”, can be traced back to at     3    (little) the Wei and Jin dynasties (220-420) when people went on excursions or held banquets (宴会) by the water     4    (celebrate) the Shangsi Festival on the third day of the third lunar month. Scholars would drink and compose     5    (poem) by streams.

The activity became more common among women as well in the Tang dynasty (618-907). A special picnic for women, often daughters of officials and rich families,     6    (emerge). As recorded in the book A History of the Tang Under Emperor Xuanzong’s Reign, groups of ladies would compete on the value and beauty of the flowers they wrote     7    (normal) between the two spring solar terms “The Beginning of Spring” and “Rain Water”.

In the Song dynasty (960-1279), the Qingming Festival     8     Tomb Sweeping Festival included traditions of the Shangsi Festival and the Cold Food Festival,     9     cold food was eaten. At that time, people had a seven-day holiday for the festival, and would not only pay respect to     10     dead, but also enjoy scenery, food, and drinks on spring excursions.

2 . 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Since 2015, Shanghai Disney Resort (迪士尼度假区) has been carrying out monthly bird-watching activities in its Wishing Star Park. Over the past eight years, more than 120    1     (kind) of birds have been observed in this park. Such bird-watching activities have been held in Shanghai for more than 20 years. A team of hundreds of people    2     (regular) takes part in these activities. Many visitors also go to wetland parks in    3    they can take many pictures of birds.

3 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于三个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Interviewer: Dou you have     1     television in your home?
Boy: Sure! We’ve got two, one in the     2     (sit) room and a small one in the kitchen. We always watch news programmes in the morning in the kitchen     3     we eat our breakfast.
Interviewer: Really? How often do you watch it?
Boy: Watch the box? I watch it every night for about two hours. And sometimes, when my parents are out, I watch it nonstop all evening, I’m afraid     4     (say). I love it, and it’s the way I relax. My mum says I watch too much, but I     5     (agree). I think you can learn a lot from television.
Interviewer: Do you watch a lot of films on television?
Boy: I watch films all the time at the weekend.
Interviewer: I see! How     6     do you change channels in an evening?
Boy: Quite frequently (频繁的). If we are all watching, we often debate     7     which programme we want to watch. My parents like serious programmes (节目) like the news, but I prefer     8     (watch) comedy (喜剧) programmes.
Interviewer: Do you enjoy advertisements?
Boy: Yes, I do. I think     9     can be very interesting. I     10     (see) an excellent one yesterday.

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。

422 million people go on a tour during the National Day holiday,which    1    (mean) travel is back on the menu. Camping, featuring niche tourism with less human contact but keeping     2    (close)to nature, has become the height of fashion in vacationing since the outbreak of COVID-19. Ctrip data shows that during the National Day holiday, the orders within camping tourism increased    3    more than 10 times over the same period last year, of which local orders accounted for nearly 80%.

With such a camping tend, many white tents are protruding(突出)from suburban lawns(草地),    4    people sit around a table full of various cups, plates, dishes, drinks, and food nearby. Some campers even equip    5    (them) with a barbecue oven(烤炉). Children are chasing each other while adults are chatting and eating snacks.

Undoubtedly, camping has lots of benefits. Camping not only allows people to    6    (temporary) escape the city to enjoy nature, and build     7    (harmony)parent-child relationships via nature education, but it also makes people acquire    8    sense of ritual(传统的) social clock,     9    (compare) with the     10    (long) of vacation. Now there are impressive packages of camping that have been invented.

6 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单间的正确形式。

Children are spending an     1     (increase) amount of time indoors.    2     (compare) to their grandparents who would have spent most of their free time exploring the world outside their front doors, kids these days are more likely to     3     (find) at home. Computer games and television have replaced stick throwing, tree climbing and hole building as children spend more time indoors.

    4     (thank) to parental fear and a reduction in green spaces, the time     5     is spent outdoors tends to be parent-led nowadays. Parent led play is very     6     (difference) from unstructured play and does not offer the same benefits.

Both     7     (be) important for children’s growth, but many families are finding less time for unstructured play. As homework, clubs and groups and screens are competing for our kids’ time, unstructured fun is left out in the cold.

Unstructured play is just     8     important as outdoor play for child     9     (develop). It offers social, mental and physical benefits, as well as just being     10     fun way to kill time.

8 . 阅读下面句子，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Ice fishing is the practice of catching fish through an opening in the ice on a frozen body of water. For safety, it     1    (recommend) that ice fishermen should go out with 4 inches of good ice for walking. And walking on     2    (thin) ice than this can be dangerous sometimes.

There are two things common to all ice fishermen: patience and     3    (resist) to cold weather. Ice fishers may fish in the open or in shelters     4     there may be chairs, a heater and a television. However, even in shelters, ice fishing is surely not     5     comfortable sport when you’re fishing in     6     (terrible) freezing temperatures. When most fishermen have their fishing equipment     7    (store) in the basement for the winter, ice fishermen pull out their equipment for an adventure.

Ice fishing     8    (change) a lot over the years. Though it’s a fun time for ice fishermen to sit on a chair and wait for the fish to swim by, modern ice fishermen move around the lake quite a bit     9     search of the catch. Some ice fishermen have been known to drill over 100 holes per day,     10     (attempt) to locate the fish.

9 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个合适的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

I would like begin with a question. Are you tired     1     your quiet lifestyle? How about taking up an extreme sport?

You can ride a bike, right? Then you are halfway to becoming a mountain biker. All you have to do     2     (be) to take your bike off the road and try some hilly areas.

Not     3     (challenge) enough? Skydivers (跳伞运动员) jump from a plane at a     4     (high) from 1000 to 4000 metres. There’s no age limit with this sport.

Some adventurers have invented base jumping, in     5     people jump from tall structures, such as buildings and bridges, with a parachute. Dan Jackson has jumped off The Shard four     6     (time).

It seems there is no lack of     7     (imagine) when it comes to risking life to look cool and get the heart beating     8     (rapid). New extreme sports are created all     9     time. In the 1990s, Phil created extreme ironing (熨平衣服) — ironing clothes on top of a mountain. He invented this extreme sport     10     (add) fun to ironing.