1 . It was December 25, 1914, only 5 months into World War Ⅰ. German, British, and French soldiers already sick and tired of the senseless killing, disobeyed their superiors and fraternized (打得火热) with “the enemy” along two-thirds of the Western Front. German troops held Christmas trees up out of the trenches (战壕) with signs, “Merry Christmas.”

“You no shoot, we no shoot.” Thousands of troops streamed across a no-man’s land filled with dead bodies. They sang Christmas carols, exchanged photographs of loved ones back home, shared rations, played football, and even roasted some pigs. Soldiers embraced (拥抱) men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before. They agreed to warn each other if the Generals (将军) forced them to fire their weapons, and to aim high.

It shocked the high command on either side. Here was disaster in the making: soldiers declaring their brotherhood with each other and refusing to fight. Generals on both sides declared this peacemaking to be wrong. Fifteen million would be killed.

Not many people have heard the story of the Christmas Truce. On Christmas Day, 1988, a story in the Boston Globe mentioned that a local FM radio host played “Christmas in the Trenches” several times and was surprised by the effect. The song became the most requested recording during the holidays in Boston on several FM stations. “Some callers even telephone the host deeply moved, sometimes in tears, asking, ‘What the hell did I just hear?’”

You can probably guess why the callers were in tears. The Christmas Truce story goes against most of what we have been taught about people. It gives us a glimpse of the world as we wish it could be and says, “This really happened once.” It reminds us of those thoughts we keep hidden away, ou of range of the TV and newspaper stories that tell us how trivial (微不足道的) and mean human life is. It is like hearing that our deepest wishes really are true: the world really could be different.

1. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

A．Troops celebrated their victories.	B．Generals forced their army to fight back.
C．Soldiers made peace with their enemies.	D．Soldiers decided to give in to their enemies.

2. What would the soldiers’ actions result in according to the passage?

A．A fierce war.

B．Many deaths.

C．A peaceful world.

D．Many heroes.

3. Why were the callers in tears?

A．They experienced the war.	B．They lost loved ones in the war.
C．They valued the life in peace.	D．They desired to protect their motherland.

4. What do the TV and newspaper stories probably convey?

A．Being against wars.	B．Cherishing today’s happiness.
C．Remembering heroes.	D．Showing no respect for life.

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Six “sacrificial pits” (献祭深坑)，    1    （date）back to 3,200 to 4,000 years, were discovered in Sangxingdui site on March 20th. Over 500 artifacts     2     (unearth) from the site. Among them was a gold mark, found at the No.5 pit, with     3     area of about three square meters,     4     was the smallest pit, according to archaeologists.

Sangxingdui site, first found in 1929, is generally considered as one of the     5     (value) archaeological sites along the Yangtze River. However, the large-scale excavation (挖掘) on the site only began in 1986, when two pits widely     6    (believe) for sacrificial ceremonies were accidentally discovered.

    7     the digging process, archaeologists made full use of modern scientific and technological means     8     (build) an archaeological excavation cabin.

So far, archaeologists have dug out     9     (variety) of cultural items from four of the pits. The rest of the     10     (new) discovered pits are still under excavation.

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At 3:42 a.m. everything began to shake.     1     seemed as if the world was at an end! Eleven kilometers directly below the city one of the greatest     2     (earthquake) of the 20^th century had begun. It was felt in Beijing,     3     is more than two hundred kilometers away. One–third of the nation felt it. A huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty metres wide cut across houses, roads and canals. Steam burst from holes in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of     4     (dirty). In 15 terrible seconds a large city     5     (lie) in ruins. The     6     (suffer) of the people was extreme. Two-thirds of the people died or     7     (injure) during the earthquake. Thousands of families were killed and many children were left     8     parents. The number of people     9     were killed or     10     (serious) injured reached more than 400,000.

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One important early rail line was the Beijing-Zhangjiakou line,     1     (complete) in 1909. Other rail lines then under development used Western financing and assistance,     2       Zhangjiakou was an important trading post with Russia and the Chinese government felt the line was a high priority, so it decided that construction should be all Chinese. Hence, Zhan Tianyou     3     (give) this important job. When he was 12, he was sent by the government to study in the US,     4     he graduated from high school and Yale University. On his return to China, he gained experience     5     (work) on the railroad between Beijing and Shenyang, before being given the    6     (responsible) of building the Beijing-Zhangjiakou line. Through his skill, the railroad was finished two years ahead of schedule.

    7     (unfortunate), development of the Chinese rail networks     8     (be) soon stalled by war.

In the 1950s, the government began    9     renewed push to develop the networks, repairing damaged lines, filling in the gaps and lengthening lines still     10     (far) so that most of the major cities would be connected.

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In the second half of the eighteenth century, there was     1    important change in society. This change    2    (call)the“Industrial Revolution”. With the Industrial Revolution, factories appeared and mass production became possible because of     3     (invent) such as the steam engine,     4    was invented by James Watt in 1769. At first the steam engine was used in mines,     5    soon it was used in factories and on the railways.

Thousands of people left the countryside    6     (work)in the city and the population of towns and cities     7    (great)increased. Factory owners became    8    (power) than land owners. From 1830    9    the early 20th century, the Industrial Revolution     10     (spread) through Europe and the US and then to other countries.

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In the closing ceremony of the 2018 0lympic Winter Games. China put on "See You in Beijing in 2022", directed by Zhang Yimou. The show centered on the talents of a team of 24 roller-skating     1    (perform) from Beijing Sport University. Two of them    2    (dress) as "Panda Captains" led the performance. The performance reviewed China's ancient times,     3    (show) the country's rich cultural heritage (遗产)and singing about the present. as well as the future that     4    (lie) ahead.

In addition to traditional symbols including the Great Wall and lucky animals    5    the Chinese dragon and the Chinese phoenix, the performance also showed China's recent engineering and    6    (technology) achievements. Towards the end of the performance, the Olympic rings     7    (rise) on the stage, as well as images of a global village, children's smiling faces, olive branches and plum blossoms(梅花),    8    stood for China's promise to promote global peace and building a better future for mankind. Finally, the skaters travelled a path on ice     9    (draw) the “Winter Dream" sign of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. The performance     10    (successful) sent Chinese people's goodwill and invitations to the world for Beijing 2022.

9 . Three days before the Christmas in 1968, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders had adventured out to the moon, becoming the first human beings to reach and orbit our closest neighbor in the space. On the Christmas Eve, they pointed a TV camera out of the window of Apollo 8 and showed a global audience (观众) of 1 billion the ancient moon moving slowly below their spaceship. As that movie played, Anders began reading, “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth...”

“I didn’t choose it,” he said last October, when all three astronauts met to mark the 50th anniversary (周年) of their moon flight, at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, where their spaceship is displayed.

When the three men returned to earth on December 27, they were surrounded by a sea of joy. That kind of collective (集体的) joy—born of collective effort—can seem beyond us now. From the factory floor to the three men in the spaceship, an estimated (估计) 400,000 people had a hand in making the moon flight possible. Behind the joy there was also a dark danger Apollo 8 might face. If the astronauts made it into the moon orbit but their engine failed to fire when it was time to return, rescue would be impossible. They would circle the moon forever. But the astronauts did come home, and in the process they gave the world another gift: the celebrated photograph that came to be known as Earthrise.

Even fifty years later, Borman and Lovell continued to play jokes on Anders, 85 then.

“I’m still trying to figure out who did it,” said Borman, with a wink (眨眼睛).

“You did it, I think,” Lovell answered.

“Bill did it,” Borman admits.

He didn’t want me to take it at first,” Anders said.

“I have never said it before publicly,” said Borman, “but I’m just proud that I was able to fly with these two talented guys. You did a really good job.”

1. The men pointed a camera out of the window of Apollo 8 ________.

A．to show the moon to the world

B．to read some sentences to the audience

C．to do some research into the ancient moon

D．to record what they were doing in the spacecraft

2. What danger might the Apollo 8 astronauts face?

A．Their engine might explode in the orbit.

B．They wouldn’t land on the moon successfully.

C．They might have no chance to return to the earth.

D．Their spaceship might catch fire in the returning journey.

3. How old was Bill Anders when he reached the space?

A．27.	B．30.
C．35.	D．50.

4. What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 5 refer to?

A．The flight.	B．The earth.
C．The reading.	D．The picture.

10 . It is sometimes thought that the longing for material goods, the need to buy things, is a relatively modern invention.     1     Trade or shopping is certainly an ancient desire, and existed before our ancestors invented writing, laws, cities or farming, even before they used metal to make tools.

Humans are born to trade.     2     Evidence from hunter-gatherers suggests that the exchange of food and other necessary things comes naturally, as well as the ability to keep a record of the credits involved. And once trade begins, the benefits are hard to resist.

Ancient local coastal people in northern Australia traded fish hooks, along a chain of trading partners, with people living 400 miles inland, who cut and polished local stone to make axes (斧子).     3     Finally, both groups of “producers”, by concentrating on things they could produce and exchanging them for other things they needed, benefited as a result.

Trade in the necessities of life, such as food and simple tools, is not really surprising, considering the link between these basic items and survival. What is surprising, though, is that our taste for unnecessary expensive objects also goes back a long way.

In South Africa, 100,000-year-old decorative dyes (染料) have been found in an area where none were produced.     4     Small round pieces of glass 76,000 years old were also found at the same place. The earliest jewellery known to us were not just random findings — they were grouped together in size and had holes like those used for threading onto a necklace.

Archaeologists argue that trade prepared the way for the complex societies in which we live today.     5     However, their modern equivalents — fast cars and expensive clothes — hold the same attraction for us as “trade goods” did for people 100,000 years ago.

A．And we don’t need shops or money to do it.

B．These are powerful evidence for cash purchase.

C．In fact, its roots go back to the beginning of humanity.

D．However, first trade began from the exchange of objects.

E．Modern-day shoppers may not be impressed by ancient glass pieces.

F．It is thought that these goods were bought at least 30   kilometres   away.

G．Every individual along the chain made a profit, even if he produced neither himself.