1 .         
法国一家拍卖公司于2009年2月25日在巴黎公开拍卖从中国掠夺的鼠首和兔首铜像，此举激起中国人民的强烈愤慨。请你根据下表提示，用英语写一篇短文。文物背景：　　
1. 鼠首和兔首铜像制作于清代，是圆明园诸多装饰品之一；　
2. 1860年, 英法联军火烧圆明园, 抢走包括鼠首和兔首铜像等在内的大量文物；
3. 今年二月在巴黎公开拍卖；　
4. 中国政府坚决反对，要求按国际法无偿归还；文物事件；
5. 法国公司一意孤行；
6. 中国人民积极行动，采取措施阻止拍卖。
7. 你的感想（请考生谈谈对此事的看法，列举两至三条）。
注意：
1. 对所给要点，逐一陈述，可适当增加细节，使其连贯， 不简单翻译。
2. 词数：150左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数。
3. 参考词汇：auction n. & vt. 拍卖 relic [C] n.文物，遗物
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2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

This year marks the 92nd anniversary of the September 18 Incident.

On September 18, 1931, Japanese troops     1    (blow) up a section of the railway in Shenyang and accused the Chinese military of doing     2    . Using the explosion as a pretext (借口), Japanese forces attacked the Beidaying garrison (卫戍部队)and bombarded (轰炸) Shenyang on the same night,     3    (launch) a full-scale invasion (侵略) of northeast China. During the incident, Chinese troops at the Beidaying garrison were given a no-resistance order and withdrew     4     fighting.

The incident marked     5     beginning of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and was a prelude to the world’s anti-fascist war. This Monday, a bell-tolling ceremony is being held at the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang to pay tribute to the people       6     lost their life in the 14-year war.

The 14-year Japanese invasion resulted in over 35 million victims among Chinese troops and civilians. By commemorating the September 18 Incident, the Chinese people reaffirm (重申) their     7    (commit) to never forget this dark chapter in history and prevent it being repeated.

The commemorations serve as a reminder for the Chinese people     8    (keep) dark days in mind. History has    9     (repeat) shown that invasions and wars are rarely     10    (success), and although evidence might be covered up, justice eventually prevails (占上风).

3 . 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In the spring of 1944, the Allied powers in World War Ⅱ took the fight against Nazi into the fifth year.     1    (plan) for months or even years, the D-Day called “Operation Overlord” was designed     2    (free) north-west Europe from German occupation. After waiting for the perfect combination of weather, moon and tides, the date for the start of Operation Overlord     3    (set) for June 6, 1944.

With General Eisenhower’s encouraging words     4    (ring) in their ears, Allied soldiers prepared for     5     would become known as D-Day. The Allied invasion     6    (stretch) across five beaches code-named “Utah”, “Omaha”, “Gold”, “Juno” and “Sword”. The fiercest fighting was at Omaha Beach. Countless Allied soldiers gave their lives on D-Day in violent attacks. Even though they were     7     the terrible cost of human life, the D-Day landings were     8     success and were considered     9    (wide) as the beginning of the end of World War Ⅱ. By the end of August 1944, the Allies had reached the River Seine. Paris was liberated.

Seventy years later, people including     10    (survive) came together for memorial ceremonies in honour of those who fought and died on D-Day.

4 . 根据提示用本单元所学词汇及语法知识完成下列短文。（每空一词）

A decade after America     1     (退出) from Vietnam, the seeds of the often heart-breaking history, A Piece of My Heart, were sown when writer and filmmaker Keith Walker met a woman who had been an emergency room nurse in Cu Chi and Da Nang. She and 25 others       2     (回想) the time they spent in Vietnam as part of the 15,000 American women who volunteered or served as nurses in the military. After working on too many mutilated (截肢的) young     3     (士兵), one nurse talked of wanting to ask her mother to “check around and see if she could find one whole eighteen-year-old”.

Many returned with post-traumatic stress disorder (创伤后精神紧张性障碍). They still felt     4     (惊恐) rising within them. “The one thing Vietnam did for me was that I felt like I could walk on water,” said a nurse.

5 . In 1961, President John F. Kennedy Jr. set a goal: he wanted to land a man on the moon to show America’s_________ in the Space Race.

_________ a decade later, Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon on Sunday, July 20, 1969. Aldrin later joined him on the moon’s surface and they_________a US flag, took photographs, and_________ the first samples from our satellite.

The Apollo crew of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins travelled 240,000 miles in 76 hours to reach the moon. During the mission, the food items the astronauts ate on the surface of the moon in the lunar module_________ the following: beef stew, bacon squares, date fruit cake, and grape punch.

Over 400,000 people supported the_________, including people from the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Armstrong’s famous first words “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”_________ on television channels and through newspapers around the world.

After World War Ⅱ_________ on September 2, 1945, a new conflict began between the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States and the Soviet Union had_________ ideologies(意识形态): the United States was capitalist,__________ the Soviet Union was socialist.

The Space Race started when a Soviet missile launched Sputnik(Russian for “traveller”), the world’s first artificial satellite on October 4, 1957. Sputnik became the first man-made__________ to orbit Earth. The US decided to act quickly in order to prove __________. From 1961 to 1964, NASA’s budget __________ by 500 percent. When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, America was declared the__________ of the Space Race. The US had spent about $25 billion on the program, over $100 billion in today’s dollars.

More than 50 years after Apollo, NASA vows to land the first woman on the moon with the Artemis program and with the help of an increase in NASA’s budget by $1.6 billion by former President Trump. The new mission,__________ the twin sister of Apollo and Greek Goddess of the moon, will be headed to the moon’s south pole where the craters(火山口)hold large deposits of water ice.

1.

A．dominance

B．rule

C．regulation

D．management

2.

A．More than

B．No more than

C．No less than

D．Less than

3.

A．grew

B．rose

C．planted

D．carried

4.

A．brought up

B．brought back

C．brought in

D．brought about

5.

A．persisted in

B．consisted of

C．made up

D．insisted on

6.

A．task

B．landing

C．contest

D．mission

7.

A．were showed

B．were printed

C．echoed

D．expressed

8.

A．stopped

B．ended

C．paused

D．suspended

9.

A．similar

B．special

C．political

D．conflicting

10.

A．where

B．while

C．so

D．when

11.

A．machine

B．facility

C．object

D．equipment

12.

A．superiority

B．ability

C．position

D．influence

13.

A．decreased

B．dropped

C．shrank

D．increased

14.

A．amateur

B．winner

C．competitor

D．loser

15.

A．taken after

B．taking on

C．named after

D．looking after

6 . Complete the personal account with the correct form of the verbs below.

tell   shout   reply   greet   weep   speak

We were in Rome when World War Ⅱ ended. The first we knew of it was when we heard bells ringing and people running into the streets. Everyone was     1     with joy and excitement. “What’s going on?” I asked. “It seems like the war is over,”     2     one of the soldiers. Everyone started     3     at once. Some people began     4     with joy and relief. Others were     5     each other that it was a day that they would go down in history. Later that day we     6     the allied tanks as they rolled into the square. It was a day of great joy and one I will never forget!

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。

It was Sunday December 7, 1941. It looked like it would be a normal day     1     board the ship. Suddenly, with a huge crashing sound from above, hundreds of Japanese planes dropped bombs on Pearl Harbor. In great horror, Russell     2     (suffer) serious burns and watched many of his friends die. After receiving the order to abandon ship, Louis still saved more men from the water,     3     (drag) them into the lifeboat. Because of his     4     (remark) actions, Louis was acknowledged as a hero, but he thought the ones giving their lives that day were real heroes.     5     (fortune), Russel survived after the treatment in hospital, but he was     6     (willing) to talk about the attack, describing it simply as “hell”.

The terrible scene of the attack, which was hatched by Japan and caused great loss, left a deep impression on Louis Russell. In response to the surprise attack and the famous address     7     (deliver) by President Roosevelt, the United States joined the Second World War.

Today, the USS Arizona lies     8     it sank: in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. A memorial shaped like a bridge     9     (cross) the ship’s sunken remains. Each year, more than two million people visit the memorial in memory of those victims and pray for world peace. Although almost eight decades has passed, the attack on Pearl Harbor, one of the     10     (dark) episodes in American history, will never be forgotten.

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。

The Oscars are held every March in the city of Los Angeles. Many of Hollywood’s biggest     1     (celebrity) attend this event,    2     (hope) to win an Oscar award. Since the first ceremony in 1929,    3     only fifteen awards were given out, the Oscars have grown in size and popularity. Now, more than fifty of the gold-plated statues are made every year in the city of Chicago. They then     4     (transport) to Los Angeles for the awards show.

However, on March 8, 2000, someone stole the fifty-five Oscar statues that were made for that year’s ceremony. Soon after, the trucking company     5     (responsibility) for transporting the statues offered a $50,000 reward for them.

A few days later, Willie Fulgear was looking for some boxes in a garbage can near his home in the Koreatown district of Los Angeles. Willie was moving out of his apartment and he needed boxes     6     (pack) his things in. Searching through the can, he found some white boxes. He opened one of them and found an Oscar inside. He had the other boxes     7     (tear) open and got fifty-two Oscars, all     8     perfect condition. He immediately called the police.

Finally Willie Fulgear received     9     $50,000 reward and an invitation to the Oscar ceremony. He didn’t receive an award for his honesty     10     he did go from litter to glitter (闪光) in just one week.

9 . I'm Victor Bobra from Belarus. When I was three years old, a nuclear explosion (核爆炸) blew up in Chernobyl, Ukraine. At the time, I was living on the border with Ukraine.When the explosion happened, my dad, was looking after the trucks at the station. When he heard about the disaster, he took us to Brest on the truck. After that, my family moved to Minsk.

Many years have passed since the explosion. Different places were affected differently. If you live in an area like Minsk, it's not as polluted as other areas. Kids there were born normally. Maybe they were underweight or something, but this was because of the problems of the economic situation. If kids were born around the Brest area, they were, born almost perfectly, because it's the cleanest area in Belarus. But if kids were born around the area to the east of Belarus,most of the kids were born deformed (畸形的).

I don't know much about how it has affected my health. But what happened was that everybody had a medical check-up after the disaster. The doctors found that I had got some protein inside me: So they thought there was something wrong with me, and suggested I should be treated.

My mum set up 'a charity, Chernobyl Children Lifeline, which raised some money for me. I've stayed here for treatment since then. The reason I can't go to Belarus is because of the radiation (辐射). If I go back, I might get radiation and get ill. Certainly there isn't any medical care, because the country is very poor. At the moment I can't even see my parents for a holiday. My parents probably miss me. I think the fault (过失) that Chernobyl blew up is the government's.

1. What can we learn from the second paragraph?

A．People in Minsk were rich before the disaster.

B．Victor Bobra lived in the cleanest area in Belarus.

C．The east of Belarus was seriously affected by the disaster.

D．Kids born in Minsk were underweight because of the disaster.

2. The author's mother built a charity in order to________.

A．provide home for the homeless

B．collect money for his treatment

C．raise money for deformed kids

D．help those suffering from radiation

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

A．The author's father didn't survive the disaster.

B．The author lived in Minsk when the disaster happened.

C．The author was given good treatment with the help of the government.

D．The author thought the government should take responsibility for the disaster.

4. From the passage, we can know that________.

A．everybody had a medical examination after the nuclear explosion

B．the doctors did not think it necessary to have the author treated

C．the author's country can afford to provide medical care

D．the author is living with his parents now

5. What is the author's main purpose in writing the text?

A．To prove the great force of the nuclear explosion.

B．To tell readers the nuclear explosion in Chernobyl.

C．To show the bad effects of the nuclear explosion.

D．To find out the truth of the nuclear explosion.

10 . 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。

It was Sunday, December 7, 1941. It looked like it was going to be a normal day     1     board. Just then there was a huge crashing sound from above. The ship shook     2     (violent) and the crew looked at each other in horror. Above their heads, hundreds of Japanese planes circled like eagles. They were diving down to drop bombs on Pearl Harbor. Moments later, a bomb     3     (hit) the USS Arizona.

The surprise attack came as     4     great shock to the whole nation. The next day, President Roosevelt made his famous Pearl Harbor Speech,     5     (ask) the US Congress to declare war on Japan. In response to the attack and the president's address, the US joined World War II. Today, the USS Arizona lies     6     it sank: in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.     7     (it) location is marked with a memorial shaped like a bridge, which crosses the ship's     8     (sink) remains. Nearly 80 years has passed,     9     the attack on Pearl Harbor, one of the darkest episodes in American history, will never     10     (forget).