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。

Visitors to Chengdu will find many tea houses scattering(分布于) throughout the city. Drinking tea has become     1     essential part of Chengdu people’s daily life. Because of this, Chengdu has formed a special tea culture of its own.

For the     2    (local), the best place to have the proper atmosphere is a tea house,     3     they spend their leisure time while sipping their favorite tea. What often appeals to visitors is the brass teapot with a three foot-long spout(壶嘴), from which the tea can     4    (shoot) at a very long distance. Visitors who have the opportunity     5    (witness) this performance of pouring tea never forget it. Apart from being experts in the art of tea, the tea doctors are also very familiar     6     the local culture and are the perfect source to find out Chengdu’s local lifestyle.

The design of the tea houses varies according to the owner’s tastes. Besides tea, tea houses in Chengdu also have a     7    (various) of local snacks on the menu. Since many people in Chengdu spend many hours in the tea houses, food is a necessity.

The most unique part of Chengdu’s tea houses is the community atmosphere. Everyone comes to the tea houses to relax, do business     8     just drink tea. There are also people     9    (wander) the tea houses offering to clean out customers’ ears or cut their fingernails.

Chengdu is one of the few remaining places with true teahouse culture left in China. The only way we can     10     (true) understand it is to experience it.

4 . 汉译英

很难有人能抵挡得住制作精良的美食纪录片的诱惑。纪录片《舌尖上的中国》一经播出，就获得了广泛的赞誉，因为它成功地唤起了人们探索各种中国食物及其背后的故事的兴趣。决定美食纪录片是否能对观众产生巨大吸引力的因素包括影片是否具备讲故事的能力以及画面与文字的契合度等。人们津津乐道的纪录片，总让人深思人与食物的关系。味道总是连接着一座城又或是一个人，因此每当品尝到某种食物，熟悉的画面便会涌上心头。

A well-made food documentary has a     1         2     for us. The documentary, A Bite of China, once released, has received widespread praise. It has successfully     3         4         5         6     people to explore all kinds of Chinese foods and the stories behind it. The determining factors of extraordinary food documentaries include whether the film is     7         8     telling stories as well as whether the picture goes well with the description. The documentary that people love to talk about gives us an opportunity to     9         10     the relationship between food and people. Just as taste is always associated with one city or one person, good memories of that unforgettable place or person will come flooding back whenever a certain food is tasted.

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。

Summer Solstice(夏至),    1    (establish) in ancient China, generally falls on June 21st or 22nd. On the very day of Summer Solstice, daylight lasts for the    2    (long) during the whole year in the northern hemisphere(半球). After this day, daylight hours get shorter and shorter, and    3    (temperature) become higher in the northern hemisphere.

In ancient China, Summer Solstice was not only a solar term,    4    also an important festival. As early as the Han Dynasty, Summer Solstice    5    (celebrate). Before the Qing Dynasty, people even had a one-day holiday on Summer Solstice.

As the proverb    6    (go), Winter Solstice is a time to eat dumplings and Summer Solstice noodles. Eating noodles on Summer Solstice is an important custom in many parts of China. Around Summer Solstice, wheat is harvested and new flour comes into    7    market. People eat noodles on Summer Solstice,    8    means “taste new” and “celebrate the harvest”.

Ancient Chinese had the custom    9    worshipping(祭拜) the earth on the day of Summer Solstice. On Summer Solstice, emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties would lead their ministers to worship the earth,    10    (pray) for good weather and peace for the country and the people. The folk custom of worshiping ancestors on Summer Solstice is popular in many cities.

6 . The famous Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.     1    , a Chinese writer known for his love for his country and poetry who finally became a great hero.

Qu Yuan supported fighting to protect his country. Though what he did led to his being forced to leave it, he wrote poetry to show his love for it.     2    . After finishing his final poem, he jumped into the Miluo River in today’s Hunan Province to show that he was angry with the corruption (腐败) around him.

Upon hearing the news, villagers took boats and carried dumplings to the middle of the river to try and save Qu Yuan.     3    . They turned to beating drums (鼓), hitting water with wood and throwing the rice dumplings into the water. They believed these were ways to keep fish away from Qu Yuan’s body.     4    , while the search for Qu Yuan’s body became the dragon boat races.

Now, dragon boat races are held every year in China, attracting thousands of supporters to participate.     5    . They are often painted in very bright colors. The teams on board will work together to get the boats to the finish line as fast as possible, while a team member sits at the front and beats a drum to raise morale (士气) and make sure everyone keeps pace (节奏) and time.

A．He finally became a national hero

B．It is to remember the death of Qu Yuan

C．However, their efforts were not successful

D．Everyone is fighting hard to get the first place

E．The boats take the form of a traditional Chinese dragon

F．The rice dumplings became the zongzi we know today

G．It’s said that Qu Yuan felt great sadness after part of his own country was taken over

7 . China has named the nation’s first Mars rover (火星车) Zhu Rong. For all of us, Zhu Rong is a well-suited name.

In an ancient Chinese story, Zhu Rong had the face of a man and the body of an animal. H rode on two dragons.

When he had a big fight with Gong Gong, the god of water, Zhu Rong won. But after the fight, the human world came into complete darkness. Then he brought fire from heaven to the world.

“Zhu Rong is regarded as the earliest god of fire in traditional Chinese culture,” a space official said. “The first Mars rover was named Zhu Rong. The name symbolizes light and hope for space exploration in our country, and means to guide humans to continue exploration.”

After leaving the earth last summer, Zhu Rong circled Mars for several months and landed on it in May. In recent years, our country has sent up the world’s first quantum satellite (量子卫星), and Chang’e-4 has made a soft landing on the moon. We have made great progress in space technology and will soon start building our own space station.

1. What Zhu Rong brought from heaven to the world was ________.

A．fire

B．wars

C．water

D．animals

2. For China’s space exploration, the name Zhu Rong symbolizes ________.

A．a big fight

B．complete darkness

C．light and hope

D．Chinese culture

3. The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to “________”.

A．the earth

B．Mars

C．the moon

D．the sun

4. According to the passage, we can infer that ________.

A．Zhu Rong is a bad person in an ancient Chinese story

B．China has made great progress in space technology

C．the writer is proud of China’s space technology

D．the official doesn’t like the name Zhu Rong

10 . The Lunar Calendar (农历) Modern Chinese use the solar calendar (阳历) as English people do. But at the same time, they use their own lunar calendar. Each lunar year is given the name of one of these animals: the rat, the ox, the tiger, the hare, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the goat, the monkey, the chicken, the dog and the pig. This list lasts for 12 years and then starts again.

Each Chinese month starts on the day of the new moon. And the full moon comes on the 15th day of the month. The New Year always starts between January 21 and February 20. On the last day of the lunar year, there is a big family dinner. All members of the family except married daughters try to be present at this meal, even they have to travel many miles to reach the home of their parents. Old quarrels are forgotten, and everybody is happy. After the dinner, the children keep awake to welcome the New Year.

The New Year celebrations last for 15 days, from the new moon to the full moon. On the first day , children and unmarried people go to visit their elders.

1. If next year is the year of the goat, what was the name of last year?

A．It was the year of tiger.	B．It was the year of the hare.
C．It was the year of snake.	D．It was the year of the ox.

2. Suppose that next Chinese New Year’s Day is on 15th February, when will people have their big family dinner ?

A．On February 15.

B．On February 16.

C．On February 14.

D．On February 17.

3. The family usually have their big family dinner at the home of ________ .

A．the married son

B．the married daughter

C．the unmarried son

D．the parents

4. From this selection we know that______.

A．old Chinese use the solar calendar (阳历) as English people do

B．each Chinese month starts on the day of the new sun

C．on the first day, children and married people go to visit their elders

D．each lunar year is given the name of animals