1 . 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。

The Chinese war film The Battle at Changjin     1     (arouse) enthusiastic discussion on Chinese social media since it debuted around the country on September 30.

The film tells the story about how Chinese People’s Volunteer soldiers held their ground during fierce cold and the enemy’s more advanced weapons. However, the real battlefield is far     2     (impressive). Changjin Lake     3     (locate) in North Korea. The war was     4     in severely cold winter with temperature of around minus 40℃. CPV soldiers did not only need to fight against enemies,     5     had to battle over the nature with their strong will. Chinese People’s Volunteer Army won the battle by     6     (fight) against impossible odds. The Battle of Changjin Lake became a critical moment in the war. It is not the film itself but the     7     (hero) of the war years who fought     8     (blood) for our country and the people     9     make people moved.

Song Zhongping,     10     military expert and TV commentator, emphasized that the film shows that the Chinese people don’t provoke troubles, but never flinch (退缩) when troubles come their way and are able to defeat provocation (挑衅).

4 . Rosie the Riveter was a World War II nickname for women who worked in factories and shipyards all across the country. The two women talked about here were not like Rosie. They, and four others, were working on a machine at the University of Pennsylvania, called ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer). It was designed to do difficult calculations related to ballistics (弹道), but the war ended before ENIAC was put into use.

Work on it continued, though. The room-sized computer was completely electronic, so it should have been far faster than the other big war-time calculator, the Mark I, developed by IBM. The Mark I, driven by electricity, had moving parts that slowed it down but its instructions could be stored on a paper tape, which gave it a big advantage. In ENIAC, however, every calculation involved putting cables (电缆) into a board.

To program ENIAC, the women had to first analyze hundreds of equations (公式) involved in a particular calculation. Then, they determined which cables should go where, so the machine would do the right steps in the right order. They understood both mathematics and the machine.

Programming was in its early stage in the 1940s; in fact, the term, “to program95 came from the ENIAC team. Women held many of these early jobs. The six ENIAC programmers had been selected from a group of women with degrees in mathematics who worked on other big war-time calculators. Today, computer jobs are controlled by men. Women hold only a quarter of the tech jobs in the United States, though they account for half the workforce. Only 18 percent of computer science graduates today are women. Often the explanation is that girls don't like math, or don't do well in it, but the experience of these earlier women proves otherwise.

1. What can we learn about ENIAC from the first two paragraphs?

A．It was much more advanced than the Mark I.

B．It could do calculations of ballistics all by itself.

C．It was invented by the University of Pennsylvania.

D．It never served its original purpose during the war.

2. What did the women programmers do when working with ENIAC?

A．They stored instructions on a paper tape.

B．They corrected errors of a particular board.

C．They learned hundreds of equations by heart.

D．They decided where to put cables in calculations.

3. Which of the following will the author probably agree with?

A．Women were not so interested in computer science.

B．Women are good at computer programming like men.

C．Women are always in the minority of the workforce in US.

D．Women were not as well-accepted as men in programming jobs.

5 . 阅读下面短文，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。

Several days before July 28,1976, many strange things happened in Tangshan. The water in the village wells     1    (rise) and fell. In the city, the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst. They were     2    (sign)for the earthquake. But people in the city didn't think much     3     these events. At 3:42 am that day, the earth began to shake,     4     destroyed the city. Many people,     5     (include) rescue workers and doctors, came to rescue those     6     (trap) under the ruins.     7     (late) that afternoon, another big quake struck Tangshan. More people     8     (kill) or injured and     9     (many) buildings fell down. Soldiers were called in to help the rescue workers. Team were organized to dig out     10     trapped and to bury the dead.

6 . TRADITIONAL belief has always had it that a not-so-clear-thinking---Vincent Van Gogh cut off his own ear after a fight with the French artist Paul Gauguin in 1888.Van Gogh is said to have handed the ear to a woman named Rachel. Then, doing what any person who had just lost an ear might do, he went home to take a nap.

But a new book titled In Van Gogh’s Ear argues that it was Gauguin who cut off the Dutch painter’s ear. Authors Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans explained inconsistencies(矛盾) in Gauguin’s description of the event and his ability as an expert swordsman(剑客). “Vincent might have attacked him; Gauguin wanted to defend himself and to get rid of this “madman’,……

They believe that Gauguin and Van Gogh agreed to hide the incident. But that doesn’t mean Gogh never dropped a hint about the “real” story. He once told his brother Theo in a letter, “Luckily, Gauguin is not yet armed with machine guns and other dangerous war weapons”.

1. It is widely accepted by people that         cut off his ear.

A．Hans Kaufmann

B．Gauguin

C．Rachel

D．Van Gogh himself

2. Which statement is WRONG according to the passage ?

A．Van Gogh is a Dutch painter

B．Gauguin didn’t use a machine gun to cut off Van Gogh’s ear

C．Theo is van Gogh’s brother

D．Van Gogh had slept for a long time after his ear was cut off

3. We can infer from the passage that ______________.

A．Van Gogh cut off his own ears.

B．It’s not possible Gauguin who cut off Van Gogh’s ear

C．Kaufmann and Wildegans wrote the book called In Van Gogh’s Ear

D．Van Gogh never dropped a hint about his ear

4. what does last sentence mean in Van Gogh’s letter to his brother?

A．Gauguin wanted to kill him

B．He was lucky not to be killed by Gauguin

C．He hated Gauguin

D．He wanted to tell his brother it was who cut off his ear

5. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Who cut off Van Gogh’s ear?

B．The introduction of Van Gogh

C．A new book titled In Van Gogh’s Ear

D．A   Swordsman

7 . Tired from a full day’s work, Rosa Parks got on a Montgomery bus on December 1, 1955 and forever became one of the inspirational people who _______ the world. She sat down among several white passengers, along with three _______ African-Americans, in the middle of the bus.

At a later stop, after Parks had _______   her seat, a white passenger _______ the full bus. By the then-current Montgomery laws, the black passengers were _______ obligated to leave their seats and give them over to _______white passengers.

It seemed a _______ situation as the white passenger _______ his way down the aisle(过道). The bus driver, James F. Blake, left the driver’s _______ and moved directly up to the four black passengers. His ________ was to get the black passengers to move to the ________ of the bus-basically, it was standard operating procedure.

While the other three black passengers ________ Blake and moved on, Rosa Parks refused to do this. Blake eventually contacted the ________ police and they arrested her.

This ________ is considered one of the moments in the history of the Civil Rights movement in the United States. It ________ a year-long bus boycott in the city of Montgomery, ________ by Martin Luther King, Jr. That movement changed civil rights in the United States ________.

Parks lived to the age of 92, dying in 2005. She was ________ a posthumous statue in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. She was also granted the ________ of “lying in honor” at the Capitol Rotunda, only the third ________ citizen to be so honored.

1.

A．respected

B．changed

C．accepted

D．broke

2.

A．other

B．rest

C．ugly

D．poor

3.

A．got down

B．occupied with

C．came along

D．settled into

4.

A．drove

B．avoided

C．found

D．boarded

5.

A．legally

B．finally

C．originally

D．classically

6.

A．crying

B．standing

C．quarreling

D．drinking

7.

A．routine

B．proper

C．ordinary

D．reasonable

8.

A．took

B．fought

C．made

D．wound

9.

A．door

B．window

C．wheel

D．seat

10.

A．action

B．behavior

C．intention

D．hope

11.

A．back

B．outside

C．center

D．front

12.

A．scolded

B．obeyed

C．beat

D．pleased

13.

A．clever

B．national

C．local

D．strict

14.

A．affair

B．accident

C．conflict

D．incident

15.

A．sparked

B．sent

C．promoted

D．heated

16.

A．moved

B．found

C．held

D．led

17.

A．forever

B．deeply

C．either

D．just

18.

A．offered

B．rewarded

C．presented

D．passed

19.

A．fame

B．honor

C．name

D．title

20.

A．well-known

B．private

C．special

D．amazing

8 . 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 great    1    (achieve) was made in 1953. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed to the top of Mount Everest    2    (successful) at 11: 30 am, on May 29. They became the first people    3    (reach)the peak of Mount Everest.

Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist, and Tenzing Norgay was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. Both of them were part of the    4    (nine) British expedition(探险)to Everest    5    (lead) by John Hunt in 1953. For this expedition, Hunt selected a group of people who were    6    (experience) in climbing mountains. In the group, Edmund Hillary    7    (select) from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay was actually from India where he lived. Before climbing, the expedition had been organized and planned for months. They made 9 camps on their way up, some of    8    have been still used by climbers up to now The first team made    9    to the place which was just 300 feet below the peak, and they left on May 26. They actually had already reached the point that no man had reached before. They were forced to leave because of the bad weather and besides, there were problems    10    their oxygen tank, too.

9 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Today the Statue of Liberty is a beloved landmark. It     1    (tower) above of the harbor of New York and is lovingly cared for by the National Park Service. Many thousands of visitors who visit Liberty Island each year might never suspect that getting the statue     2    (build) was a long slow struggle. More than a century ago, it     3    (be) the celebration of freedom and the commemoration of the friendship between America and France that inspired sculptor Auguste Bartholdi and finally he went forward with designing the potential statue and promoting the idea of building it. However, money was so big a problem     4    was haunting the two governments from the beginning to the end.

Donations for the building of the statue first began coming in throughout France in 1875.Numerous people gave donations. A copper company donated the copper sheets that would be used to fashion the skin of the statue. Various donations were helpful,     5     the cost of the statue kept riding.     6    (face) with a short fall of money, the French-American Union held a lottery. Merchants in Paris donated prizes, and tickets were sold. The lottery was a success, but more money was still needed. The sculptor Bartholdi eventually sold miniature versions of the statue,     7     the name of the buyer engraved on them.Finally, in July 1880 the French-American Union announced that enough money had been raised to complete the building of the statue.

While the French had announced that the funds for the statues were in place in 1880, by late 1882 the American donations, which would be needed to build the pedestal, were sadly lagging. The sculptor Bartholdi had travelled to America in 1871 top romote the idea of the statue. Despite Bartholdi’s efforts, the idea of the statue was difficult     8    (sell). some newspapers, most notably the New York Times, often criticized the statue as folly, and vehemently opposed     9    (spend) any money on it. The newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who had purchased a New York City daily, The World, in the early1880s, took us the cause of the statue’s pedestal. He mounted an energetic fund drive, promising to print the name of each donor,     10     small the donation, Pulitzer’s audacious plan worked, and millions of people around the country began donating whatever they could.

In August1885, that final $100,000 for the statue;s pedestal had been raised.Construction work on the stone structure continued, and the next year the Statue of Liberty, which had arrived from France packed in crated, was erectedon top.

10 . During his years, American author Mark Twain noted that "life would be surely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18". Twain's words were only one of many complaints about aging that have been recorded for as long as humans have feared the downside of a long life. The ancient Greek poet Homer called old age"hateful", and William Shakespeare termed it "terrible winter".

Alexander the Great, who conquered most of the known world before he died around 323 BC, may have been looking for a river that treated the damage of age. During the 12th century AD, a king known as Prester John ruled a land that had a river of gold and a fountain of youth.

But the name linked most closely to the search for a fountain of youth is 16th-century Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, who thought it would be found in Florida. In St. Augustine, the oldest city in the US, there's a tourist attraction that purports(标榜) to be the fountain of youth that Ponce de León discovered soon after he arrived in what is now Florida in 1513. However,elderly visitors who drink the spring's water don't turn into teenagers.

But the tale of the search for a fountain of youth is so attracting that it survives anyway, says Ryan K. Smith, a professor of history. "People are more interested by the story of looking and not finding it than they are by the idea that the fountain might be out there somewhere."

Still, a few grains of truth have helped the story. Kathleen Deagan, a professor,says a cemetery(墓地) and the remains of a Spanish mission dating back to St. Augustine's founding in 1565 have been discovered near the so-called fountain of youth. Michelle Reyna, a spokesperson for the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park in St. Augustine, says the fountain has been a tourist attraction since at least the 1900s and may have been attracting visitors since the 1860s.

1. Who is the most famous to look for the fountain of youth?

A．A king known as Prester John.

B．Ryan K. Smith,a professor of history.

C．Alexander the Great.

D．Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León.

2. What is the attitude of people towards the fountain of youth?

A．People find much pleasure in looking for it.

B．People believe the existence of it.

C．People have no interest in searching for it.

D．People consider the idea of the fountain of youth to be absurd.

3. The earliest city was built in America in _____.

A．1901	B．1565
C．1860	D．1513

4. The passage is mainly about ______.

A．where the fountain of youth comes from

B．why some famous people hate becoming old

C．how people can remain young forever

D．whether the fountain of youth exists