1 . This is a story about two wise men in ancient China - Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu.

One day, Zhou Yu gave Zhuge Liang     1     impossible task--to make 100,000 arrows within ten days. “No problem,” Zhuge Liang said     2     (confident). He promised     3     (bring) Zhou Yu 100,000 arrows within 3 days.

Zhuge Liang asked his soldiers to fill 20 large boats     4     many straw men(稻草人). In the early morning of the     5     (three) day, Zhuge Liang’s soldiers sailed the boats towards the camps of Cao Cao’s army on the other side of the river. The soldiers shouted and beat their     6     (drum) loudly. When Cao Cao’s soldiers heard the sounds, they thought they were under attack.     7    , the fog is so thick on the river     8    they could not see through. Cao Cao ordered his soldiers to shoot towards the sounds. Zhuge Liang’s boats were soon full of arrows. Zhuge Liang’s soldiers then turned the boats around and shouted，“Thank you for your arrows, Cao Cao.” Zhuge Liang took all these arrows back. Zhou Yu was very amazed by     9     (he) wisdom.

Since then, Chinese people     10     (tell) the story to their children for many many years.

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。

Abraham Lincoln’s position on slavery is one of    1    most discussed aspects of his life.     2    (start)in 1831, a growing group of abolitionists(废奴主义者) called for total, immediate abolition of slavery.

Lincoln never called for this, and focused instead     3    the less politically challenging goal of preventing the    4    (create)of new slave states. Lincoln’s activism on that issue started in reaction io the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act    5    (design) by his great rival(对手) Stephen A. Douglas. The act allowed the settlers    6    (decide) on slavery in their territory.

Lincoln, with partial compensation to owners, did end slavery in the District of Columbia in l862. During 186l-1862 Lincoln tried unsuccessfully to get Kentucky and Maryland to do likewise. He     7    (repeated) stated that his goal was the preservation of the Union, not ending slavery in the states    8    it existed. In 1862, Lincoln used his role as commander-in-chief to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. It made all     9    (slave)in Confederate areas forever free under the U.S. law as soon as the U.S. army reached and controlled them and it controlled all of them by 1865. Final abolition in the border states     10    (achieve) later that year.

3 . Each year, 150,000 people hike Scotland’s Ben Nevis — Britain’s highest mountain. Many choose to take the so-called tourist trail, the rocky path which winds its way to the peak. Few realise that this path was initially carved out in 1883 for a very unique scientific expedition.

In the late 19th century, a key question of science was how depressions, storms and other severe climatic events form in the atmosphere. By 1875 mountain observatories were being established across the US, Mexico, India, France, Germany and Russia. Keen to gather similar data for Britain, the Scottish Meteorological Society decided to build a weather station at the top of Ben Nevis.

And so began a remarkable experiment. From 1883 to 1904, a few hardy individuals lived year-round in a small stone hut, surviving on tinned food and making hourly recordings of everything from atmospheric temperature to humidity (湿度), wind speed to rainfall. In total they made almost 1.5 million observations.

“They were living in very severe weather conditions: 100mph winds were not uncommon, and the temperature would drop to -15°C at times. The main danger they faced was that they were very close to the edge of the cliff (悬崖). If you weren’t careful, you would disappear off the cliff completely,” says Ed Hawkins, professor of climate science at the University of Reading.

However, by 1904, the Scottish Meteorological Society could no longer afford the observatory’s running costs. It was closed down and the data largely has remained hidden in the dusty pages of archives (档案馆) ever since.

Today, plans are underfoot to build a new modern observatory on the ruins on the former site — with automatic measuring devices rather than human data collectors. “We haven’t had any long-term observations up there for a long time now, and this would give us information straight away on how the climate at the top of the mountain has changed,” Hawkins says. “We think that the high altitude regions are some of the places where we’ve seen the largest changes in temperature. This could tell us a lot.”

1. Why was the weather station at the top of Ben Nevis built?

A．To attract visitors to Ben Nevis.

B．To study the formation of extreme weather events.

C．To provide weather forecasts for the whole Britain.

D．To compete with weather stations in other countries.

2. What do Hawkins’ words in Paragraph 4 mainly focus on?

A．The geographical features of Ben Nevis.

B．The extreme climate on top of Ben Nevis.

C．The achievements made by the weather station.

D．The bad working conditions of the station workers.

3. What does Hawkins say about the new observatory?

A．It will take a long time to build.

B．It will need many human data collectors.

C．It will have archives for the old weather station.

D．It will detect climate change at Ben Nevis’ peak quickly.

4. Why does the author write the text?

A．To argue.	B．To inform.
C．To advertise.	D．To appeal.

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。

The horse-head bronze statue lost from Yuanmingyuan in 1860     1     (return) to the site of the former royal resort last Tuesday.

The statue was one of 12 Chinese zodiac animals(生肖). But they     2     (rob) by the invading English and French forces in 1860. Yuanmingyuan was also destroyed at that time.

The horse-head statue is so far the first animal-head statue     3     (come ) back to Yuanmingyuan,     4     was donated by the late Macau businessman Stanley Ho to the country last year, and the National Cultural Heritage Administration recently handed it over     5     the administration of Yuanmingyuan ruins.

The statue will be     6     (regular) displayed in the Zhengjue Temple area. The temple is one of a few     7     (site) that generally remain complete to date. More than 10 million yuan ($1.52 million) was spent by the Haidian district government to improve facilities to ensure its     8     (safe).

Seven of the 12 statues     9     (include) the horse have returned to China, and the rest six are now housed in     10     National Museum of China.