1 . 阅读下面材料，在空格处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或使用括号中单词的正确形式。

Zenghouyi chimes (编钟) are the most magnificent set of chimes ever     1     (discover) in China. It represents the     2     (high) achievement of pre-Qin ritual and music     3     (civilize) and bronze casting technology in ancient China.

It is 273 cm high, 335 cm wide, and 748 cm long. The total weight of the bells is about 2567 kg.     4     the copper part of the wooden frame (including hooks), the complete set of chimes     5     (weigh) about 5 tons.

This huge chime was still standing in the coffin when it was unearthed. Its heavy weight     6     (support) only by six bronze warriors and eight small bronze columns. Because of the scientific design, these six bronze     7     (warrior) can easily support the whole chimes still under the ground for more than two thousand years.

Chinese culture places special emphasis on the attitude of handling complicated matters with ease. Zhuangzi’s story of dismembering (肢解) an ox as     8     (skill) as a butcher and Laozi’s “Governing a big country is like cooking small fish”     9     (be) all about the manners of being at ease when     10     (solve) tough problems

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。

The Columbian Exchange,     1     (name) so in 1972 by professor Alfred Crosby in the University of Texas at Austin, was the exchange of crops, animals, ideas and foods between the New World (the Americas) and the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia) following the journeys of explorers, conquerors and traders. When     2     (return) to the Old World, they took plants     3     are native to the Americas such as com, potatoes, tomatoes, chili peppers and tobacco (烟草), along with valuable gems (宝石) and minerals. Explorers and traders in turn     4     (bring) to the New World apples, bananas, grapes, cattle, chicken and garlic.

The exchange of these foods and animals had a(n)     5    (power) impact on the eating patterns of peoples around the world. Elizabeth Lambert Ortiz wrote in her book The Food of Spain and Portugal, “    6     cannot be stressed too strongly that the importing of foods by Spain and Portugal from the Americas was     7     most significant     8     (develop) in cuisine in the 16th and 17th centuries.” The impact wasn’t just felt in Spain, Portugal and other European     9     (country). The New World foods also traveled with traders to Asia,     10     (actual) making the impacts truly global.

3 . The olive (橄榄) tree probably first grew in southern Asia. And then it spread to Mediterranean countries about 6,000 years ago. Since then, it has been important in Mediterranean people’s lives.

The olive tree grows in rocky places and it doesn’t need much water. Its fruit can be made into olive oil. People have used olive oil to cook dishes for centuries. But they haven’t only used it for cooking. Some ancient cultures believed that it was useful as medicine. In modern times, people still use olive oil both for its taste and its health advantages.

Olive oil has also been an important product in the business and culture of Mediterranean countries. In ancient Greece, for example, anyone who cut down an olive tree was heavily punished. Winners at the Olympic Games wore wreaths (花环). They were made of olive branches (树枝). Sometimes winners were also given a prize of olive oil. People from Greece built ships so that they could use olive oil for trade. But it was the Romans who grew the olive tree in the rest of southern Europe and northern Africa.

Today, olive oil is still a very valuable product, and many different kinds of olive oil are sold in countries all over the world.

1. Where did the olive tree probably first grow?

A．In Asia.

B．In Africa.

C．In Europe.

D．In America.

2. What can we learn about olive oil?

A．People started to cook with it recently.	B．It is made from olive branches.
C．People used it to build ships in Greece.	D．It can be good for health.

3. In ancient Greece, people who cut down an olive tree ________.

A．wore wreaths	B．were heavily punished
C．got a prize of olive oil	D．were regarded as heroes

4. The passage is mainly about ________.

A．the method of cooking	B．the trade of Greece
C．the history of the Olympic Games	D．the story of olive oil

4 . Walled Cities Of The World

There are numerous historical walled cities across the world, whose walls date back several centuries. These walls were fortification (碉堡), a necessity throughout medieval eras for defense. They have been preserved as historical monuments and popular tourist attractions in the modern time.

York, England

The city of York is a medieval city situated in the north of England. Historically, the city was ruled by the Romans, Angles, and the Vikings before being incorporated as part of the Kingdom of England in 954. Located in the city are walls built in 71 AD which have been restored and extended with time.

Xi’an, China

The city of Xian is one of the oldest cities in China. It prospered economically as the eastern last station of the Silk Road. The existing walls were originally built in 770 BC and reconstructed in the 14th century under the Ming Dynasty. The walls are well preserved and are a major tourist attraction in the city.

Quebec City, Canada

Quebec City was a colonial (殖民地的) town which was fortified by the settling Europeans. The walls began to be built in 1608 under both British and French regimes (政权). A fort was constructed by the British as an additional defensive measure and remains undamaged to date. The city’s fortifications were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985.

Mexico City, Mexico

Historically, the City of Mexico gained importance as the Aztec Capital. The Spanish then drove out the Aztecs and rebuilt it as the Spanish Capital. The walls protecting the city were built in 1521. Mexico City is also home to numerous colonial-era buildings which together with the walls are major tourist attractions in the city.

1. Which city has walls of the longest history?

A．York, England.	B．Xi’an, China.
C．Quebec City, Canada.	D．Mexico City, Mexico.

2. What do Quebec city and Mexico city have in common?

A．They were once colonies of other countries.

B．They were once the capital of the Aztec empire.

C．Their walls were once built under British regime.

D．Their walls were once damaged after construction.

3. In which section of a magazine may this text appear?

A．Culture.

B．Entertainment.

C．Science.

D．Society

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，并填在答题卡的相应位置。

A book on China’ s war survivors    1    (release) capturing the tales from witnesses in World War II in 2015. Li Genzhi, the author of the book entitled “Wartime Civilian Workers in Tengchong”, said it is a race    2     time before they are all gone.

The book draws its interviews from Tengchong,    3     county-level city in southwest China’ s Yunnan Province, which was home to one of the    4    (bad) battlefields in the Chinese People’ s War of Resistance Against   Japanese Aggression seventy years ago.

The book tells stories of civilians     5    voluntarily transported rice and other supplies along a dangerous mountain path for the Chinese Expeditionary Force (中国远征军) in 1944 as    6    planned to reclaim the China-Myanmar border town     7     (occupy)by invading Japanese troops during the war.     8    (continue) rain made it impossible    9    (deliver) food to the Chinese troops by air. So almost 30,000 local people, mostly women,     10     (old) and children, served as porters and took around 300, 000 kilograms of rice from a village on the other side of the mountain, which is 3,000 meters high.

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词的正确形式。

Chinese book culture has a long history. Its roots can be traced back thousands of years, to the earliest known     1    (write) records in China. Over the centuries, books    2    (be) an essential part of Chinese culture, playing a vital role in preserving knowledge and    3    (provide) a source of inspiration for generations.

The first major development in Chinese book culture was the invention of woodblock printing by Bi Sheng in the 11th century. This revolutionized book production, making it much    4    (easy) to produce and distribute books. During China’s Ming Dynasty there was a great booming of books and it    5    (see) the birth of China’s best-known book, Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en, which is still    6    (wide) read and studied today.

In modern times, new genres such as science fiction and fantasy have grown in    7    (popular), while electronic books are becoming increasingly popular. The development of book culture has had a profound impact     8    Chinese society, with many books becoming cultural touchstones and inspiring people to think about their lives and the world around them.

With its rich history and diverse genres, Chinese book culture provides a window into Chinese society. From ancient classics to modern bestsellers, Chinese books can open up    9    new world of ideas and knowledge for readers around the globe. As such, it is an important part of our collective global culture, and one    10    should be learned more about.

7 . Like reading? Interested in Chinese classical novels? Have a look at the following four books which are we known to most Chinese as Four Masterpieces.

The Water Margin

The Water Margin, also known as All Men Are Brothers in Pearl Buck’s translation, Shui Hu Zhuan in Chinese, is along chapter novel with the Song Jiang Uprising in the late Northern Song Dynasty as the main background and type of heroic legend. It is an immortal (不朽的) novel and has inspired many storytellers. The author of the novel is generally regarded as Shi Nai’an (1296~1371).

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the first full-length historical romance novel in China. Its author is Luo Guan zhong (about 1330~1400), a famous novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty. Characters such as Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhuge Liang have become household names among the Chinese.

Journey to the West

Journey to the West is the first romantic chapter novel about gods and devils in ancient China. There are 100 copies of Journey to the Westin the existing Ming Publications without the author’s signature. Wu Yuxuan, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, first proposed that the author of Journey to the West was Wu Cheng’en (1500~1582) of the Ming Dynasty.

The Dream of the Red Chamber

The Dream of the Red Chamber, also called The Story of the Stone, is said to be the greatest masterpiece of Chinese fiction. It is generally believed to be written by Cao Xueqin (about 1715~1763), a writer of the Qing Dynasty. With hundreds of persons and their stories, the story is very complex but also very interesting for its encyclopedic character(百科全书式的人物).

1. Which book should people read if they want to know something about the character Song Jiang?

A．The Water Margin.	B．Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
C．Journey to the West.	D．The Dream of the Red Chamber.

2. Who lived in the 16th century?

A．Shi Nai’an.

B．Luo Guanzhong.

C．Wu Cheng’en.

D．Cao Xueqin.

3. What column (专栏) in a magazine might the passage come from?

A．Health.

B．Literature.

C．Sports.

D．Science.

8 . 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。

For centuries London has been the center of the United Kingdom, but it was     1     (actual) an army outpost (前哨) nearly 2,000 years ago.

There     2     (be) more than six million Londoners at the very     3     (begin) of the 20th century. It was lucky     4     them that their hometown would become the largest and wealthiest city on the earth in the new century. However, wars     5     (fight) from World War Ⅰ to World War Ⅱ. Luckily, this city survived and their country became a country of “freedom and glory for mankind”, as Winston Churchill once said.

London, though badly ruined, remained a good choice for people     6     were looking for chances. In     7     1950s, a new wave of immigrants (移民) changed the face of the city. Millions of people went there in hope of     8     (find) better jobs and higher pay. Now, London is an international capital of commerce, an     9     (attract) tourist destination (目的地), a center of culture, and one of the most lively     10     (city) under the sun.

9 . When ice cream maker Adrienne Borlongan first experimented with a White Rabbit flavor, she thought it tasted like “cheap vanilla (香草)”. A few weeks after she added it to her Los Angeles shop, Wanderlust Creamery, visitors showed little interest. But when Borlongan posted a photo of an ice cream cone wrapped in White Rabbit-branded paper, word quickly spread on social media.

The candy, first produced in Shanghai in the 1940s, is known for its red-white-and-blue packaging and is beloved by kids all over China. And when Chinese people began to live in other countries, their love for the white, creamy candy went with them.

Soon after Borlongan posted that photo, people were driving to Wanderlust from all over California. Since then, White Rabbit has been the mainstay of Wanderlust’s ice cream lineup and is regularly sold out in their webshop.

But the story of the ice cream is about way more than taste — it’s about the power of nostalgia (怀旧) and eye-catching branding. White Rabbit’s origins date back to a business called the ABC Company, founded in Shanghai in 1943. It was later sold to the state-owned Guan Sheng Yuan Food Group, which owns it to this day.

The mix of colorful wrappers and the sweet milky taste proved a winner. Kids from Beijing to Hong Kong grew up on the sweets, and it also became a national symbol of the country — most famously, US President Richard Nixon was given some when he made his historic visit to China in 1972.

As for the flavor? The creamy consistency (黏稠度) actually comes from milk, and there’s a piece of rice paper between the candy and the wrapper to prevent melting. Over the years, White Rabbit has tried out other flavors, including red bean and peanut. But it’s the first version that has the most nostalgia connected to it.

1. What can we learn about the White Rabbit ice cream?

A．It used to be popular in China.	B．It is available online.
C．It is shaped like a white rabbit.	D．It was first produced in Shanghai.

2. What does the underlined word “mainstay” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Fanciest design.	B．Newest brand.
C．Cheapest goods.	D．Bestselling product.

3. Why is US President Nixon mentioned in Paragraph 5?

A．To look back on the historic visit.

B．To show Chinese people’s hospitality.

C．To prove White Rabbit’s popularity.

D．To indicate Nixon’s interest in White Rabbit.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．The story behind the success of the White Rabbit ice cream.

B．Childhood memories carried with White Rabbit.

C．The international reputation of the ABC Company.

D．The history of the White Rabbit candy.

10 . 听下面一段独白, 回答小题。
1. When was the building opened?

A．In 1869.

B．In 1859.

C．In 1865.

2. What was special about this building?

A．It was one of the first of its kind in the world.

B．It quickly controlled cholera outbreaks.

C．It was a house of worship.

3. What was the function of this building?

A．It produced ironwork for decoration.

B．It dealt with London’s waste water.

C．It presented engines of different eras.

4. What does the building serve as now?

A．A research center.

B．A museum.

C．A church.