1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Where was the Mary Celeste going?

A．The USA.

B．Italy.

C．England.

2. What did the ship look like when found in the eastern Atlantic?

A．Badly damaged.

B．In great danger.

C．In good condition.

3. What happened to the ten people on the ship?

A．They were dead.

B．They were missing.

C．They were injured.

4. What does the speaker think of the story about the Mary Celeste?

A．Boring.

B．Understandable.

C．Mysterious.

2 . 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 Titanic was the largest and most advanced passenger ship of its day. It was considered unsinkable. But on 14th April 1912, on    1    (it) maiden voyage ( 首 航 ) from England to New York, the ship    2    (strike) an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank     3     (short) after midnight. Of the 2,223 people on board, 1,517 drowned.

So why did so many people die in the tragedy? Firstly, the Titanic’s owners fitted the ship     4     only 20 lifeboats. They believed any more would spoil the     5     (appear) of the ship. But this meant there were only enough lifeboats for 1,178 passengers. Secondly, while     6     (load) the lifeboats, the crew observed the “women and children first” rule. This was     7     old custom that said women and children should be saved before men. Because at first men weren’t allowed in the lifeboats, many boats were lowered only half full.     8    the lifeboats had been full, another 500 people might have been saved. In the end, 74% of women passengers survived, but only 20% of men. And many of the men     9     survived were branded as cowards (懦夫) when they got home.

The wreck (残骸) of the Titanic     10     (find) in 1985. It lies about four kilometres below the surface of the water at the bottom of the ocean.

3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单同的正确形式。

In an afternoon of 1929, a farmer and his son in a village of China’s Sichuan Province accidentally discovered a true wonder of civilization when     1    (dig) a well. The farmer’s discovery of     2     (treasure) including bronze, gold and jade from the ancient Kingdom of Shu,     3    (provide) evidence for an ancient Chinese civilization that extended beyond China’s central plains 3,000-5,000 years ago. Sanxingdui demonstrated a civilization that had     4     (it) own customs and rituals (仪式), as well as remarkable innovation.

Sichuan Province and its capital Chengdu are a focal point for     5     discovery and research of ancient Chinese civilizations. So far some of China’s oldest historical relics, providing evidence of ancient Chinese crafts, customs and practices,     6    (find) here. Modern Chengdu and surrounding areas are a melting pot of culture and customs inherited from ancient times: taxi drivers recite Du Fu’s poems; performers show bianlian (face-changing) performance     7     they change masks faster than audiences can follow. Each has its roots in ancient Chinese civilization and demonstrates the strong effect ancient civilization has     8     contemporary Sichuanese culture.

Treasures     9    (discover) in Sichuan province play an important role in tracing the emergence of Chinese civilization. Being     10    (natural) fertile (富饶的), the area attracted early settlers, and from sites such as Sanxingdui, archeologists and historians can discover much about Chinese civilization.

4 . Did Tea and Beer Bring About Industrialization?

Professor Macfarlane has spent decades trying to understand the mystery of the Industrial Revolution. Why did it happen in Britain at the end of the 18th century?

Macfarlane compares the question as a puzzle. He ________ that there were about 20 different factors and all of them needed to be present before the revolution could happen. The chief ________ can be found in history textbooks. For industry to ________, there needed to be the technology and power to drive factories, large urban populations to provide cheap labor, a ________ economy, and a political system that allowed this to happen. All these factors must have been necessary but not sufficient to cause the revolution. Most historians, however, are ________ that one or two missing factors are needed to solve the puzzle. The missing factors, Macfarlane supposes, are tea and beer.

Historians had noticed one interesting factor around the mid-18th century that required the ________. Between 1650 and 1740, the population in Britain didn’t increase, but then it grew rapidly. The population burst seemed to happen at the right time to provide labor for the Industrial Revolution. But why? When it started, it was ________ efficient to have people living close together. People got diseases, particularly from human waste. Some historical records ________ that there was a change in the incidence (发病率）of waterborne disease at that time. Macfarlane thought whatever the British were drinking must have been important in ________ disease. The English drank beer for a long time, and they were protected by the strong antibacterial agent in hops (啤酒花), which were added to make beer. But in the late 17th century a tax was ________ on malt, a basic ingredient of beer. The poor turned to water and gin, and in the 1720s the death rate began to rise again. Then it suddenly dropped. What caused this?

Macfarlane looked to Japan, which was also developing large cities at the same time. Waterborne diseases were far fewer in Japan than in Britain. Could it be the ________ of tea in their culture? Macfarlane then noticed the history of tea in Britain provided an extraordinary ________ of dates. Tea was relatively expensive until Britain started direct trade with China in the early 18th century. By the 1740s, about the time the infant death rate was falling, and the drink was common. Macfarlane ________ the fact that water had to be boiled, together with the stomach-purifying properties of tea so clearly ________ in books, meant the breast milk provided by mothers was healthier than it had ever been. No other European nation drank tea so often as the British, which, by Macfarlane’s ________, pushed other nations out of the race for the Industrial Revolution.

1.

A．claims

B．rejects

C．proposes

D．suspects

2.

A．objections

B．arguments

C．complaints

D．conditions

3.

A．take off

B．keep up

C．look over

D．knock out

4.

A．task-based

B．self-centered

C．market-driven

D．man-made

5.

A．inferred

B．convinced

C．concerned

D．impressed

6.

A．intention

B．discussion

C．attention

D．explanation

7.

A．temporarily

B．deliberately

C．economically

D．doubtfully

8.

A．predicted

B．revealed

C．concluded

D．reviewed

9.

A．spreading

B．catching

C．discovering

D．controlling

10.

A．introduced

B．reduced

C．uncovered

D．avoided

11.

A．sacrifice

B．variety

C．quality

D．popularity

12.

A．arrangement

B．expectation

C．coincidence

D．suspension

13.

A．guesses

B．declares

C．boasts

D．modifies

14.

A．entitled

B．deleted

C．described

D．simplified

15.

A．guidance

B．observation

C．impression

D．logic

5 . The native Americans, the people we call the “Indians”, had been in America for many thousands of years before Columbus arrived in 1492. Columbus thought he had arrived in India, so he called the native people “Indians”.

The Indians were kind to the early settlers. They were not afraid of them and they wanted to help them. They showed the settlers the new world around them. They taught them about the local crops like sweet potatoes, corn and peanuts. They introduced the Europeans to chocolate and to the turkey and the Europeans did business with the Indians.

But soon the settlers wanted bigger farms and more land for themselves and their families. More and more immigrants were coming from Europe and all these people needed land. So the Europeans started to take the land from the Indians. Naturally, when the whites started taking all the Indians’ land, the Indians started fighting back.

But the whites were stronger and cleverer. Slowly they pushed the Indians into those parts of the continent that the whites didn’t want- the parts where it was too cold or too dry or too mountainous to live comfortably. By 1875 the Indians were living in special places called “reservations”. But even here the whites took land from them- perhaps the whites wanted the wood, or perhaps the land had important minerals in it, or they even wanted to make national parks there. So even on their reservations the Indians were not safe from the whites.

There are many Hollywood films about the fight between the Indians and the whites. Usually in these films the Indians are bad and the whites are good and brave. But was it really like that? What do you think? Do you think the Indians were right or wrong to fight against the whites?

1. Why did Columbus call the native people “Indians”?

A．Because he thought he had arrived in India.

B．Because he liked Indian culture very much.

C．Because he knew they were from India.

D．Because he was an Indian himself.

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The Indians gave up their land willingly.

B．The settlers wanted to buy land from the Indians.

C．The whites even wanted more land on Indians’ reservations.

D．The Indians were stronger and cleverer than the white settlers.

3. We can learn from the last paragraph that______.

A．the Indians are usually beautified in the films

B．the author is doubtful about what the films show to us

C．films about fights are the most popular ones in the market

D．films about the fight between the Indians and the whites are very limited

4. The passage is most probably taken from the ______ column of a newspaper.

A．entertainment

B．history

C．economy

D．industry

6 . 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。

Mount Vesuvius is an active volcano located just east of Naples, Italy. It is the only volcano on the continent of Europe that     1     (erupt) in the last one hundred years, though other volcanoes have erupted on islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Vesuvius's earliest     2     (record) eruption is now its most famous. In the year A. D. 79,     3     little or no warning, Vesuvius erupted and completely buried the ancient city of Pompeii. For two days the mountain shot     4     (volcano) material into the air, spreading     5     blanket of ash over the landscape. Pompeii, located seven kilometers from the volcano,     6     (bury) under five meters of ash. The destruction was so complete that it was not until sixteen hundred years later     7     the city was discovered. Evidence of the religion, culture, and everyday life of the Pompeiians, all     8     (leave) behind in the sudden panic of the volcano's catastrophe, are     9     (remarkable) well preserved. And everywhere there are     10     (remind) of its sudden eruption and the shadow of Vesuvius. Even the forms of the citizens remain. Their bodies lie much as they did on the day of their death almost twenty centuries ago.

7 . Crazy Horse grew up riding horses and hunting buffalo (野牛). But it was his being brave in the battle that earned him the name “Crazy Horse”. This was also his father’s name.Crazy Horse was one of the greatest Native American chiefs. When the United States government tried to force Native Americans to live on reservations, Crazy Horse fiercely defended his people’s land and their way of life.

Today, Crazy Horse is remembered mostly for a victory over United States Army troops. The loser in that battle was even more famous. His name was George Armstrong Custer. The battle in which Crazy Horse defeated Custer is often called “Custer’s Last Stand”. A monument to Crazy Horse is being carved out of a mountain in South Dakota. The statue of this hero will be 600 feet (180 metres) high. The head is finished. It alone is as tall as a nine-story building.

Crazy Horse was born in a Sioux Indian camp near present-day Rapid City, South Dakota, in about 1849. Even as a child, he was known as a hunter and fighter. Before he turned 12, he killed his first buffalo. Soon after, he made his first raid (袭击) on a Crow Indian Camp. In 1874, gold was discovered on Sioux land in South Dakota. People flooded in, despite a treaty that kept white settlers off this sacred Sioux land. Crazy Horse and another Sioux chief, Sitting Bull, decided to fight. On 25 June 1876, Lieutenant Colonel Custer and his troops advanced on Sitting Bull’s camp on the Little Bighorn River in Montana. Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse led their fighters in a fierce attack. Custer and his men were quickly wiped out in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. After the battle, government officials were determined to force the Sioux onto reservations. Most of the Sioux surrendered. However, Crazy Horse refused to abandon his independent way of life.

During the winter of 1876 and 1877, the Army chased Crazy Horse and his people over the Great Plains. By then, very few buffalo were left, and Crazy Horse could not feed his people. On 6 May 1877, he and his followers gave up their weapons and horses at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Crazy Horse was promised that his people could have their own reservation in Wyoming. This promise was broken. The enemy was afraid that Crazy Horse might try to fight again. Crazy Horse was arrested (逮捕). When he protested, a soldier killed him. Crazy Horse died shortly afterwards, on 5 September 1877.

1. The “loser” from the second paragraph refers to________.

A．Crazy Horse

B．George Armstrong Custer

C．Last Stand

D．Sitting Bull

2. A monument is being carved mainly to praise Crazy Horse’s ________.

A．bravery in the battle against the government	B．hardship in the battle against his enemy
C．contributions to the government	D．his independent way of life

3. Why was Crazy Horse arrested?

A．He and his men had found no food to eat.	B．He was unwilling to keep his promise.
C．His enemy thought he might make trouble.	D．He protested against the government.

4. The “reservations” in this passage must be ________.

A．places officially offered in big cities	B．places of the whites’ native home
C．new places kept as Indians’ schools	D．limited places left for the Native Americans

8 . 语法填空

It seems inhuman to care more about a building than about people. That the sight of the Notre Dame's     1    (go)up in flames has attracted more attention than floods in southern Africa which killed over 1,000 has aroused understandable feelings of guilt. Yet the widespread sorrow is     2    (definite)human—and in a particularly 21st-century way.

It is not just the economy that is       3    (globe)today, it is culture too. People wander the world in search not just of jobs and       4    (secure)but also of beauty and history. Familiarity breeds affection. A building     5     whose sunny steps you have rested or in front of which you       6    (take)a selfie with your loved one, becomes a warm part of your memory. That helps explain why the whole world is in deep sorrow.

However, the emotions are less about the building itself than about     7     losing it might mean. Notre Dame is an expression of humanity, having experienced 850 years of political turbulence(动荡)—through war, revolution and Nazi occupation.

And it will be rebuilt. It will never be the same, but that is as it should be.     8     Victor Hugo wrote in The Hunchback of Notre Dame,     9     three-volume love-letter to the cathedral: “Great buildings are the work of centuries. Art     10    (transform)as it is being made. Time is the architect; the nation is the builder.”