1 . 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。

Recently, Ma Xiaohui, a famous Chinese erhu     1     (perform) and composer with the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, held     2     erhu concert with the theme of “Erhu Holding Hands with the World, New Music Trend, New Cultural Tour” in the Delegates’ Room at the UN headquarters in New York City.

Attendees from different backgrounds and participants in the World Madam Global Awards Ceremony were     3     (deep) moved by the unique charm of traditional Chinese musical instruments     4     (display) during the concert.

The concert began     5     the song “Woman Flower”. In the first movement, “Seven Colors of Erhu, Walking with Beauty, Colorful Silk Road,” melodies from Chinese and Western songs created an “ink painting” of the Silk Road.

In the next three     6     (movement), a classical repertoire (曲目) including “Butterfly Lovers”, “Thoughts on a Silent Night”     7     “The Spirit of My Erhu” attracted the audience. Next     8     (come) the theme song from the movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”,     9     beautifully celebrated the classic dialogue between erhu and cello (大提琴).

“This beautiful and     10     (inspire) concert wonderfully mixed classical, Chinese, and cross-cultural themes. It was a feast (盛宴) for the ears and souls,” multimedia artist Ranjit Bhatnagar said.

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Over the past month, Jiang Kedong has amassed (积累) over 2.7 million followers on Douyin, China's version of TikTok. The 38-year- old is better known as "Bingcheng Zuoyouge" or "Brother Left and Right in Ice City", and has transitioned from being a local entertainer to a widely recognized Internet celebrity, whose fame has coincided (相符) with the tourism boom this winter in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.

2012 was the year     1     Jiang became host of the Dream Stage at Harbin Ice and Snow World, which is celebrating its 25th year of operation this year. His famous "Rabbit Danc"; marked by its playful left and right foot movements, has captured his followers' hearts with its catchy simplicity. "In the winter, temperatures can get to as low as -30℃ in Harbin," he said. "My original     2     (intend) was to help tourists feel warmer in a world of ice and snow by following our instructions and pace to join the game in an     3     (order) manner."

In 2017, Jiang began posting some short dance videos on the Internet and livestreaming (网络直播) his performances at the park. His humorous style made the videos popular, and by the beginning of 2019, he had amassed 600,000 followers on Douyin.

"The popularity of Harbin is no accident. Since the beginning of 2023, we     4    (promote) Heilon giang in a multidimensional way on new media platforms, establishing numerous     5     (destination) considered by netizens     6     (be) must-visit attractions," He Jing, director of Heilongjiang's culture and tourism department, told China Central Television. "Moreover, we are also paying more attention to comments     7     (make) on online videos. "We will do our best to meet tourists' needs." she said." Some visitors said it would be better if the moon was shining when they took photos at Saint Sophia Cathedral.    8     (subsequent), we sent a drone to lift an artificial moon over the landmark. Others said it was too cold in Harbin, so we immediately built a number of small prefabricated (预制构件的) houses to warm them up. "All these details can make tourists feel comfortable and respected, and they post news of them on the Internet, receiving     9     warm response," she said. The local tourism department is also focusing on new media platforms, which play an important role     10     the development of the tourist industry.

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词的正确形式。

Multiple brands (品牌) have canceled their partnership agreement with Li Yifeng after the     1     (disturb) news of his scandal (丑事) came out. It was reported that he     2     (spot) having improper relations with females and even after the affair was exposed (曝光), he issued an announcement on his Weibo that he didn’t do anything     3     (consider) illegal and refused to make an     4     (apologize) to the public. As a celebrity(名人), there is no doubt that Li Yifeng is a nationawide phenomenon in showbiz (娱乐圈), and so far he     5     (succeess) in winning many awards in more than fifty TV and film festivals, and his tremendous succuess obtains many fans’ appreciation and gains him a     6     (globe) influence around the world.

    7     (measure) should be taken now for the government     8     (recover) public confidence about these public figures. Meanwhile, celebrities also need to maintain their own images by     9     (pursue) their acting careers. Now it’s time to do something     10     can change the current situation and win the fans’ support back.

4 . 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。

Xu Xiake was a(n)     1     (influence) travel writer and geographer of the Ming Dynasty. For more than three decades, Xu traveled the     2     (long) and breadth of China. The records of his journeys were compiled(汇编) in Xu Xiake’s Travels, providing us     3     a comprehensive guide to 17th-century China.

    4     (bear) in 1587 in Jiangsu Province, Xu Xiake, both of     5     parents were keen readers and book collectors, took a completely different path. He never studied for examinations,     6     (choose) instead to depart and visit the many place she had read about.

Xu’s journeys were noteworthy. He wrote     7     (extensive) during his travels, capturing (捕捉) the reality of travel more than other writers had.

His longest journey was one of his last: four years traveling in the southwest of China. In spite of the fact     8     he had always included observations on the natural scenery, during the four-year journey, he     9     (focus) especially on geology, flora and fauna (动植物群). Besides a travel guide, Xu’s writings became a valuable source for scientific observation and surveying.

Xu fell ill during his last journey. He never fully recovered and died in 1641. His journals were then sorted out and published unedited, offering     10     rare informal record of the Ming Dynasty.

5 . 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。

Tu You you,     1     84 year-old scientist, became the first female Chinese     2     (win) a Nobel Prize in science on Oct, 5. She was born     3     30 December, 1930 in Zhejiang Province. In 1969, she     4     (choose) to establish a team to find a cure for malaria, but the lab     5     they worked in had poor air quality.

She first tried the medicine on herself, because she     6     (want) to make sure that it was safe. “As the head of the group, I had the responsibility.” The scientist spoke to CCTV about her work. Artemisinin is a gift for the world people. It has saved many people’s     7     (life). It comes from Chinese traditional medicine and now is a good way to treat malaria. Tu Youyou     8     (expect) Chinese medicine to help more people all over the world.

We can learn a lot from Tu Youyou. We should do something useful for people. If we want to be     9     (success), we should keep on     10     (work) hard with our group and never give up.

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。

Walking into Wei Lamei's home in Xi'an, one can hardly imagine that the room belongs to a 74-year-old granny, with all kinds of dolls     1    (fill) every corner. She     2    (make) at least 700 large cartoon dolls and countless small ones over the past 26 years.

Wei developed a    3     (fascinate) for making dolls at the age of eight     4    she saw a Russian girl with a blond doll in her arms."After retirement, I began to think about following my childhood dream," said Wei.

    5    (drive) by the dream, in her late 50s, Wei headed to Beijing on her own     6    (seek) better opportunities. After 13 years of hard work in Beijing, she developed her unique design concept and     7    (remark) sewing(缝纫)skills.

In 2010, she returned to Xi'an and turned her home into a workshop.She has ten pairs of glasses and keeps them in different places in the house,so she can browse fashion applications on her smartphone anytime. At     8    same time, she often draws inspiration from Xi'an, the ancient city with a long history, and adds traditional cultural elements to her works. She also     9    (active) participates in live-streaming activities, sharing her daily work and attracting many young fans.

There is no certain way to live our lives. The most important thing is     10    we can do what we love.

7 . 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.

The last time a female British scientist won the Nobel Prize for chemistry was in1964. Her name was Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin.     1     her, only two women had won the Chemistry prize: Marie Curie in 1911, and her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie in 1935.

Hodgkin was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1910, as the eldest of four daughters of John Crowfoot and his wife Molly. The girls were sent back to England when the First World War broke out. By the time she was 11 years old, Dorothy’s schooling had been a bit hit and miss. But she had spent a term     2     (learn) to grow crystals (晶体), and chemistry had enthralled her. At the Sir John Leman School, she had to fight to be allowed to take chemistry, which was seen as a “boys’ subject.” But she did well, and in 1928 she entered Somerville College, Oxford Universiy, to do a chemistry degree.

At every stage her parents, particularly her mother, encouraged her ambitions. No one ever said to her, as they did to other clever girls at the time, that     3     she was too brainy she’d never get a husband. It was in a book her mother gave her     4     Dorothy learned about the technique of X-ray crystallography (X射线晶体学). It’s a way of working out     5     a complex molecule is arranged in three dimensions. She immediately decided that was       6     she wanted to do.

Hodgkin was the most important leader and innovator in her field. The impact of her work led to her becoming the only female British scientist     7     (win) a Nobel Prize so far. The 1964 award recognised her work in discovering the 3D shapes of penicillin (盘尼西林) and vitamin B12.

Accurate knowledge of the shape of penicillin was very important in understanding how it     8     overcome bacterial infections. Her work is still of great significance in the development of new antibiotics. They are currently badly needed as some bacteria     9     (develop) resistance to existing drugs.

Hodgkin’s work also had a huge impact on the treatment of diabetes. In 1969, after 35 years of hard work, she figured out the 3D shape of the insulin (胰岛素) molecule. Insulin is an important hormone (激素) used by the body to process sugars in food. Understanding     10     structure is significant for human diabetes control.

Hodgkin was not only an exceptional scientist but also was, and continues to be, an inspirational role model to generations of researchers, both male and female.

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。

People associate deafness, blindness, and other disabilities as weaknesses but that is not often the case, it     1     (certain) wasn’t the case for the famous American author Helen Keller. When she was a child, she was described     2     a “Monster” by her family members. That was because of her bad habits, temper tantrums, and     3     she behaved. However, all of that changed within a year and she transformed fully. She became one of the     4     (great) inspirations that the world has ever seen. She didn’t just change     5    (she) but she changed others.

Helen Keller was born on June 27th, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, America. She was born normal, with normal sight and hearing abilities. All was good until Helen submitted to a rare disease,     6     the doctors referred to as “Scarlet Fever”. She recovered from     7     disease but at the cost of her sight and hearing abilities.

This did not stop her from pursuing the amazing     8    (accomplish) she would achieve. Her teacher, Anne Sullivan helped her and made her get the ability     9    (communicate) properly. Helen graduated from college in 1904 and was the recipient of many awards and honors. She became one of the best humanitarians the world has seen, along with     10    (become) the founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

9 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。

At the age of 73, Chen Shaoqin from Beijing has shown the world    1     life should be lived. Despite having only a middle school education, Chen began studying English at the age of 40 and passed a college entrance exam,     2     (transform) herself from a factory worker to a white-collar employee in    3     international trade company. Chen continued to pursue learning after    4     (retire), studying art and eventually becoming an art guide at the age of 67. Over the past five years, she    5    (guide) visitors at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art for three days a week    6    average, totaling 3,500 hours. From a retiree     7     knew nothing about contemporary art to a dedicated volunteer guide, Chen’s hard work and love for learning have inspired many. She said that it is     8    (precise) because she does not understand that she must continue to learn. As a guide, she is able to attend professional training sessions and has the opportunity    9     (learn) from curators and artists, giving her     10     (motivate) to continue.

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。

Since 1981, Pat Sajak has been the host of Wheel of Fortune. And the show     1     (it)has been around since 1975. With four     2     (decade) under his belt, Pat Sajak and his co-host Vanna White have become the faces of the popular show.

“It’s     3     honor to have been in people’s living rooms for that long. People were out there welcoming us. We’re happy and     4     (pride),”Pat Sajak shared. “In most television shows, by this time, you would have said, ‘That’s     5     (probable) enough.’ But this show will not die.”

With Pat Sajak being 75 years old and Vanna White being 65, he shares that their time on the show will not be for much longer.

“Years go by fast,” Pat Sajak acknowledged. “We     6     (get) near the end. It’s been a long time. We’re not gonna do this for another 40 years. The end is near.”

In all his time hosting Wheel of Fortune, Pat has only stepped away once, and that was     7     he needed a surgery.     8     that time, Vanna White was the host of the show.

Back in December 2021, when this     9     (respect) host celebrated his 40-year hosting anniversary, his fans shared a     10     (touch) speech to him online.