1 . 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

Because this was Li Qiang's first trip, he was worried and     1    （settle）so that he suffered from "time lag".     2    （hit）by a lack of fresh air, his head ached. His guide gave him some green tablets and a mask which helped him solve the problems. However, he experienced something new.     3    （arrive）home, he was shown into a large, bright clean room     4     a wall of trees.     5    （exhaust）, he slide into bed and fell fast asleep.

Wales was linked to it in the thirteenth century. Now when people refer to England you find Wales     6    （include）as well. Next England and Wales     7    （join）to Scotland and the name was changed to "Great Britain".     8    （happy）this was accomplished without conflict. Finally the English government tried to form the United Kingdom by getting Ireland connected in the same peaceful way. However, the southern part of Ireland was     9    （willing）and broke     10     to form its own government.

2 . Life for miners on the goldfields in Victoria, Australia during the 1850s was quite difficult.The name to a miner at that time was “digger”.Few diggers actually found any gold and even fewer struck it rich.Mostly diggers struggled in poor conditions.They struggled with the weather and living conditions in an often poor environment and they were often ill-equipped.

The worst thing about being a digger was the requirement to pay for a mining licence（许可证）.This licence allowed a miner to search for gold.Without the licence a digger had to pay money as a punishment.The police always went to mining camps to check mining licences.Few miners could afford the money to get a licence and hated the law which they believed was unjust.In June 1854 Governor Hotham announced that the police would carry out mining licence checks twice a week.This made the miners outraged and set them towards armed rebellion（叛乱）against the police.

The rebellion at the Eureka diggings in 1854 is often referred to as the Eureka Stockade.Led by Peter Lalor, the diggers constructed a wall preventing people from going through and burned their unfair licences as a form of rebellion.The miners said, “We stand truly by each other to protect our rights.”

The diggers lost the battle of the Eureka Stockade but they won the legal battle that their rebellion led to.In 1855 the Victorian Government introduced a mining tax（税）, as a tax on gold found, to take the place of the unfair miner’s licence which had to be paid no matter whether the miner found gold or not.In Australia’s history the Eureka Rebellion is the only time armed rebellion has been used to                                 change unfair laws.

1. What is a digger in the next?

A．A gold miner.	B．A citizen in Victoria.
C．A machine for digging.	D．A rebellious Australian.

2. What was the miners’ biggest dissatisfaction?

A．The weather on the goldfields.

B．Having to pay a mining tax.

C．Having to pay for a licence.

D．Poor living conditions.

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

A．Angry.

B．Worried.

C．Doubtful.

D．Ashamed.

4. What was the result of the Eureka Stockade?

A．The miners won.	B．It resulted in a new tax.
C．The wall was brought down.	D．It led to the introduction of new licences.

3 . About 60,000 Pacific Islanders worked as indentured labourers (签订契约的劳工）on Queensland’s sugar cane（甘蔗）fields between 1863 and 1903.They were mainly males, aged 9 to 30, transported to Australia by ship.Some came freely, wanting the new life promised to them, some were tricked, and some were kidnapped（绑架）.

The practice of kidnapping people for labour was called “blackbirding”.“Blackbird” was a term used instead of slave, because slavery was actually illegal.Britain had passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833 and as a British colony (殖民地）,Queensland had to follow the Act It is said that a third of Pacific Islanders who worked as indentured labourers were either kidnapped or tricked into coming to Australia.Indentured labour was really just another name for slavery.

Indentured labourers had to work for a required period of time,usually three years,to pay back their passage to Australia and then they could earn money as free labourers.It was hard, dirty work in the Queensland countryside.Most indentured labourers were badly treated, many returning to their homelands as soon as their indentured period was finished.A small number married into local communities and stayed.Free labourers were also badly treated on the cane fields, working for low pay and living in very poor conditions.

Then the Australian Government’s White Australia Policy forced Pacific Islanders to leave Australia.Even people who were born in Australia to Pacific Islander parents were driven out of the country due to their colour.If they didn’t leave voluntarily, they were rounded up and driven away forcibly between 1906 and 1908.This practice destroyed many families.Some of the people had lived in Australia most, if not all, of their lives.Only a few who had married Australians were allowed to stay.A few managed to hide and avoid being driven away.

1. What happened from 1863 to 1903?

A．Australians had a new life.

B．Many Australians were kidnapped.

C．Australia was in want of labourers.

D．Australia’s sugar industry began to slow down.

2. What do we know about slavery in Queensland?

A．It was lawful before 1863.	B．It came to an end in 1833.
C．It was introduced by the British.	D．It replaced the word “blackbirding” .

3. Why did some indentured labourers go back to their homelands?

A．To escape mistreatment.	B．To get a better-paid job.
C．To avoid being kidnapped.	D．To be involved in local communities.

4. What’s the best title for the text?

A．Slaves for sugar	B．Laws in Australia
C．Pacific Islanders’ new home	D．Sugar cane industry's development

4 . 短文写作
利用下面所给的词语，写一篇50词左右的小短文。

civil war, suffer, bitterly, equality, civilian, altogether, in vain, endure, battlefield, slave, division, liberty

要求：至少使用其中的5个词语，并用下划线标出。
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5 . 语法填空（根据课文内容和语法规则完成短文）

On a grey afternoon on 19 November 1863, Abraham Lincoln mounted a platform in a field in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was there in memory of the    1    (die)soldiers. The place was the site of a recent battle     2    thousands of soldiers had died.

At that time, America was    3     (bitter) divided. For two years, its people had been deep in a civil war. The Union side won but    4    a great cost. Over 50,000 soldiers    5     (kill)or wounded, and people lost hope and purpose.

Lincoln understood the feelings of the civilian people. His speech gave them hope, belief and a reason     6     (look) to the future. He gave them    7    new vision of what the United States of America should be     8     (base)on the ideals set down by its Founding Fathers 87 years before. It was what the soldiers had died for. Now it was up to the    9     (live) to remove not only the divisions between North and South, but the boundaries between black and white, and work step by step towards the    10     (equal)of humankind.

6 . Dancing until you drop is a well­known saying, but would you really be able to dance until you dropped dead? In 1374, in some European towns, people did exactly that. They were struck by a dancing plague (瘟疫) that forced them to dance.

This phenomenon (现象) was reported to have happened throughout parts of Western Europe, affecting people from the 14th to the 17th century. Hardly stopping to eat or even sleep, they would dance, sometimes for days on end, making this one of the strangest sicknesses in Western history.

Over the next century, there were only a few outbreaks. However, in the summer of 1518, it reappeared in the city of Strasbourg, France. It all began with a woman called Mrs. Troffea, who started to dance crazily in the street.

She was soon joined by 34 people within a week; by the end of the month, the crowd had increased to 400, most of whom were women. Again, people were dancing until they could no longer continue, with some finally dying from heart attacks or exhaustion. One report shows that the plague was killing around 15 people per day.

As the plague worsened, concerned nobles (贵族) turned to the advice of local doctors, who said that the plague was a “natural disease” caused by “hot blood”. So the nobles encouraged more dancing.

The reason behind their actions was they believed the dancers could only recover if they danced continuously night and day. The nobles even paid for musicians to keep the moving.

Then, as before, it disappeared almost as suddenly as it had come.

While these events may sound highly unbelievable, there is clear written evidence that it did happen.

Now, historians and scientists are still trying to find out the true cause of this phenomenon.

1. What do we know about the plague?

A．It cost some people's lives.

B．It took place twice in history.

C．It affected people of all ages.

D．It stopped in the 16th century.

2. Why did the nobles encourage more dancing?

A．To see the hot blood.

B．To kill the dancing people.

C．To free people of the plague.

D．To prove the doctors' words.

3. How did the plague disappear?

A．For no reason.

B．With local doctors' help.

C．With Mrs. Troffea's help.

D．Because of some natural power.

4. What's the purpose of the text?

A．To show the history of dancing.

B．To introduce a well­known English saying.

C．To provide information on the dancing plague.

D．To explain the reason behind the dancing plague.

7 . 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。

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.

8 . 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.

LAS VEGAS - A gunman in a high-rise hotel overlooking the Las Vegas Strip opened fire on a country music festival late Sunday, killing at least 59 people and injuring hundreds of others in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

The gunman,     1     (identify) by police as Stephen Paddock, was later found dead by officers on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said during a news briefing Monday.

The massacre marked the nation’s    2     (late)   outbreak of gunfire and bloodshed to erupt in a public place, again    3     (spread)   terror in an American city transformed into a war zone. The carnage in Las Vegas surpassed the 49 people slain in June 2016 when a gunman   in   Orlando,     4     later said he was inspired by the Islamic State, opened fire inside a crowded nightclub.

Lombardo said investigators    5     not immediately identify a motive, leaving no clear answer as to     6    a gunman gunned down dozens of people. He also said    7     additional 527 people were injured,     8     he did not specify how many were wounded by gunfire or injured in the chaos that followed. Clark County Fire Chief Greg Cassell said officials were seeing a “wide range” of injuries including gunshot victims as well as people injured by shrapnel, trampling or getting hurt jumping fences attempting     9     (escape).

Paddock, 64,     10     (find) dead in his hotel room by Las Vegas SWAT officers, police said. They believe Paddock, who had checked in on Thursday and brought a cache of guns, took his own life in Room 135 before officers entered.

9 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处，每处仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

A fire attacked the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, one of the city's symbolic sight, which was built around 1260 AD. The fire begin at 6:50 p.m. local time Monday, and continued to burn hours late. It is reported the main structure of the cathedral has been saved and the two main towers as well as. Authorities were evacuating(疏散) people from buildings in the area--included homes close to the cathedral. "Everything is burning. Everything will remain from the flame," the spokesperson said. The fire may be connected to the recent restoration of the church, and a fire alarm test conducted last week went well, officials said. The roof has complete collapsed, witnesses said. French President Emmanuel Macron expressed sadness on the sight of the historic building's destruction, saying it catches the emotion of entire nation.

10 . 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。

Aspirin, invented in 1897, has its    1     (original) in a kind of tea    2    (possess) a chemical to relieve pains and fever and has the potential to reduce the risk of heart attacks by improving the     3     (circulate) of blood. It was in 1899 that it was tried out    4    patients. In 1900, aspirin took the shape of tablets, becoming the best selling medicine.

More effects of aspirin were discovered, such as reducing the risk of cancer, avoiding strokes,     5    (extend) people's lives and aiding people with diabetes.

Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Flemming in 1928, is considered to be the most vital medicine in contemporary society. It can    6    ( apply ) to the treatment of illnesses caused by bacteria. It was not until 1940 when penicillin was made pure enough to work as a medicine    7     it     8     ( produce) in large quantities, which led to its wide distribution in World War II with the acceleration of the government's approval. Thus many lives who    9     (die) were saved.

Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to the scientists devoted to the    10    (apply) of penicillin.