历史与传统

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第一部分 语言基础

第一节 单句语法填空

1.The hotel has 80 ______(individual)designed bedrooms.

2.China is a country which ______(belong)to developing countries.

3.The monument is in honor of those soldiers who lost their lives in ______(defend) of their country.

4.The prince lives in a castle ______(surround)by mountains on three sides.

5.There's some evidence ______outdoor activities are good for us.

6.He enjoys his job,which gives him a sense of ______(achieve).

7.Tom volunteered to take charge ______the program.

8.The headmaster made an important ______(announce)last week.

9.Large ______(amount)of damage have been done to the village in a short time.

10.The little girl is eager ______knowledge.

11.Don't have the lights ______(burn)all the time.

12.With the problem ______(settle),the manager went out of his office happily.

13.People crowd ______big cities to seek more opportunities.

14.He greeted us ______a big smile.

15.It is ______(surprise)that you have learned Chinese so well in a short time.

第二节 完成句子

1.学生们被鼓励与坏习惯决裂。(break搭配)

The students were encouraged to __________________the bad habits.

2.这座岛由一座桥与大陆相连。(join搭配)

The island is ____________the mainland by a bridge.

3.这个男孩和他的爸爸都喜欢打篮球。(as搭配)

The boy __________________his father likes playing basketball.

4.留意那条小黑狗。(keep搭配)

______ ______ ____________that little black dog.

5.试着找出这两篇文章的不同点。如果有，请说出来。(if省略用法)

Please try to find out the differences between the two passages.____________, speak them out.

6.约翰去年负责这个部门。(charge搭配)

John was __________________the department last year.

7.据宣布，那个游乐园将被关闭。(announce用法)

______ ______ ____________the amusement park would be closed.

8.他们一到岛上就迫不及待地想去探索。(eager用法)

As soon as they arrived on the island,they __________________explore.

9.我不知道该选哪个。(idea搭配)

I__________________which one to choose.

10.这个周末去徒步旅行如何？

______ ______going hiking this weekend?

11.有那么多的工作要做，我没有时间去度假。(with的复合结构)

With so much work ____________,I have no time for a holiday.

12.汤姆这个周末可能会过来。(likely用法)

Tom is __________________this weekend.

13.你应该把你的车洗一下。(get sth done)

You should ________________________.

14.我不喜欢她跟你讲话的方式。(介词+which)

I don't like the way ____________she speaks to you.

15.你认为这部电影哪一部分最有趣？

Which part of this movie __________________is the most interesting?

第二部分 阅读

第一节

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

Four unusual festivals around the world

Wife Carrying Competition—Sonkajärvi,Finland

Although the exact origins of the tradition are unknown because of its long history,wife carrying is practiced around the world today.Participants (参与者) are allowed to carry their wives in various ways—including piggyback or fireman's carrying.The prize is awarded based on the wife's weight in beer.

Monkey Buffet(自助餐)Festival—Lopburi,Thailand

You may consider how a monkey would taste,but this is a buffet for monkeys.The local monkeys in Lopburi are gifted with a feast of tons of fruits, vegetables, cakes, and candies every November.After the monkeys are given their treat, youths dressed up as monkeys perform dances.The festival first occurred in 1989, run by a local businessman to drive up the tourism in Lopburi.Luckily for him and the monkeys,it worked.

Mud Festival—Boryeong,ROK

The festival is not historic by any means—the first one took place in 1998—and it was originally created as a marketing event for Boryeong mud cosmetics (化妆品).The mud from Boryeong is considered rich in natural minerals and is used to make beauty products.Popular activities include a mud pool,mud slides and mud skiing.

Tomato Festival—Bunol,Valencia,Spain

The festival has run annually in August during a week-long celebration in Bunol since 1945, when a noisy crowd took the tomatoes from a vegetable stall and started a tomato fight.The hour-long tomato fight used up about 145,000 kg of tomatoes in 2015.Since 2013,it has been a ticketed event to limit participants to just 20,000.

1.What will you get if you win the Wife Carrying Competition?

A.A wife.B.Lots of money.

C.A pig.D.Lots of beer.

2.What is the purpose of creating Monkey Buffet Festival?

A.To taste the monkeys.

B.To promote mud makeups.

C.To develop tourism.

D.To sell out tomatoes.

3.Which festival is likely to have the shortest history?

A.Wife Carrying Competition.B.Mud Festival.

C.Monkey Buffet Festival.D.Tomato Festival.

B

George Daniels lives in London.He is a watchmaker.His work continues the tradition of the English watchmakers of the 18th and 19th centuries.Today this tradition is almost dead.Daniels is the only man in the world who designs his own watches, makes all the parts himself and then puts them together.

A Daniels watch is the product of his hands alone.One of his watches which is now in an American museum took 3,500 hours to complete.He usually makes one watch a year.Each one is inscribed (刻) with“Daniels London”and costs about $10,000.Of course,these are not ordinary watches—they are very beautiful and will last three centuries.

George Daniels has always been attracted by clocks and watches.When he was five,he used to take his father's clock apart and put it back together again.At school,he used to repair his teachers'watches.

He is now internationally famous and many people would like him to make watches for them.But most of them will be disappointed.He chooses his customers very carefully indeed.“It must be someone who understands the subject, not someone who will leave the watch in the drawer and only show it to dinner guests,”he says.

4.How long can a Daniels watch keep working?

A.10,000 hours.B.300 years.C.200 years.D.3,500 hours.

5.Which of the following shows Daniels'early interest in watches?

A.He played with his father's clock.

B.He taught people how to repair watches.

C.He made a watch for an American museum.

D.He made beautiful and long-lasting watches.

6.For whom does George Daniels make watches?

A.Those who can afford his watches.

B.Those who want to show off their watches.

C.Those who appreciate his watches.

D.Those who enjoy his watch-making process.

7.What do we know about Daniels watches?

A.Only a few people like them.

B.They are kept in a museum.

C.Only a few people can get them.

D.They have a history of over 200 years.

C

World history has seen three ancient dramas: Greek tragedy and comedy, Indian Sanskrit drama and Chinese opera.The first two have become historical and only Chinese opera has survived.

Chinese opera took shape in the 12th century.After developing for more than 800 years, its abundant local styles of opera are still enjoying great popularity, of which Qinqiang is one of the most ancient operas.

Qingiang opera is a thousand-year-old local opera originating in China's inland northwestern region.It has established a unique tradition as an“opera shouted out”with its highpitched arias (高音咏叹调).Li Mei has won a reputation as one of the four greatest Qinqiang actresses.She's also known for her passionate commitment to exploring the theatrical possibilities offered by Qinqiang.

Li Mei and her workmates are halfway through an afternoon rehearsal (排练)and most have broken into a sweat.Singing in a near-whisper, the forty-year-old opera star performs the stylized movements for the leading role—the bitter dead lady Li Huiniang inGhost's Hate.

Little wonder that Li Mei is such a powerful presence on stage.She's the greatest contributory actress who's able to interpret a character so compellingly and tell a story so convincingly that European audiences warmly hug this unfamiliar art form.

Li Mei said,“We performed this opera in the Netherlands to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of Holland's National Theatre.We enjoyed a fifteen-minute curtain call and the audiences applauded wildly for a long time.The local press entitled me the‘Nemesis of the Orient’and the‘Chinese Venus’.Why is that so? Because they've fully understood what the opera implied—the loyalty towards love, and dead as she may be, her love persists.”

The reason why this opera was able to touch millions of hearts is that it has a beautiful story presented in a beautiful art form.

8.What can be inferred about Chinese opera from the text?

A.It made history with ancient Greek operas.

B.It consists of various dynamic local operas.

C.It has a shorter history than Indian Sanskrit drama.

D.It originated from the most ancient local Qingiang opera.

9.Why isGhost's Hatestarring Li Mei loved by foreigners?

A.Its story is easy to be fully understood by foreigners.

B.Its leading role Li Mei is famous as the“Chinese Venus”.

C.It conveys the popular message of loyalty towards love.

D.It is a perfect combination of touching plot and attractive form.

10.What might the underlined word“compellingly”mean in paragraph 5?

A.Persuasively.B.Boringly.

C.Incorrectly.D.Partly.

11.What was Li Mei's greatest contribution to Qinqiang opera?

A.She won a reputation as one of the four greatest Qingiang actresses.

B.She brought Li Huiniang,the bitter dead lady inGhost's Hate,to life.

C.She explored many theatrical possibilities offered by Qinqiang opera.

D.She spread one of traditional Chinese cultures to the other side of the world.

D

The Chinese fashion icon,qipao, was born a century ago in Shanghai.However, the dress made its way through history from the hands of old craftsmen and is deep-rooted in Chinese culture.

“Qipaoused to be so popular,”Leung Long-kong, 89, a well-knownqipaocraftsman,says, adding that the dress was an everyday outfit among women, from the less well-off to women at the highest levels of society.“Now, nobody is wearing them except on grand and happy occasions.”

To carry on the tradition, fashion designer Mary Yu, 41, who has been attending classes teaching knot button-making techniques, is trying to renew the design ofqipaoby taking symbols from Chinese history and literature.

“I feel I should look into Chinese culture and learn more about the past.People should have an in-depth understanding of their culture in order to move on.Fashion design requires a profound knowledge of one's culture before visualizing it.After a period of wearing foreign brands all the time, there will be a day when one looks back to traditional Chinese culture.It is about finding the stuff that exists in your genes and suits you best,”Yu says.

Yu set up her ownqipaobrand in 2016.Most of the clothes were made by tailors based in Shenzhen and Hangzhou,for their lower cost and more traditional work.

In the constantly evolving fashion industry,qipaois catching up with the times.Zippers,digital print patterns and new materials such as lace and denim have been introduced to a new generation.More daring ideas like 3D printedqipaohave also become a reality.Yu believed that with the help of these new technologies,qipaowill find its way back to the daily life of Chinese people in the near future.

12.Why does the author quote Leung Long-kong in paragraph 2?

A.To call on Chinese women to wearqipaoin everyday life.

B.To introduce the development ofqipaoin China.

C.To emphasize the importance ofqipaoin China nowadays.

D.To show thatqipaois no longer as popular as it was.

13.Which of the following best describes Mary Yu?

A.Creative.B.Conservative.

C.Cautious.D.Considerate.

14.What does the underlined word“evolving”in paragraph 6 probably mean?

A.Passing.B.Withdrawing.

C.Developing.D.Following.

15.What can we infer from the text aboutqipao?

A.Qipaois an iconic sign in the fashion industry.

B.Qipaois on its way back to the daily life of Chinese.

C.Qipaoenjoys a good reputation in the world.

D.Qipaois seen as a symbol of wealth in modern China.

第二节

阅读下面短文，从短文后面的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

The Beginning of Spring is the first solar term (节气) in the 24 solar terms of China.__16__The date for the Beginning of Spring usually comes on February 4 or February 5 in the solar calendar.

When a year comes to this period, people will easily find that the days are becoming longer and the weather is getting warmer.Temperature, sunshine hours and rainfall are all on the rise.__17__

In China, it's said that an egg can be set upright on the Beginning of Spring.It's believed that someone who can make the egg stand will have good luck in the future.__18__ And good luck is coming to you.

__19__On that day,villagers and the people in cities usually hold ceremonies to welcome the spring.Villagers usually make a clay sculpture of a cow, which people call“spring cow”.Women take their children to go around the cow three times.It's said that in this way the children can be kept away from diseases.

The tradition of eating special snacks on that day is calledyaochunin Chinese.It means“biting the spring”.People will wrap some vegetables with thin pancakes.__20__

A.Try to stand eggs on your own.

B.It is known as the Beginning of Spring.

C.So people believe that it can bring them warmth and hope.

D.There is a long history of eating them on the Beginning of Spring.

E.Chinese farmers celebrate the Beginning of Spring with special events.

F.The Beginning of Spring is celebrated in different ways throughout the world.

G.If you're going to grow a crop,make sure it's something you'll eat.

第三部分 语言运用

第一节

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

I believe even the smartest people have to work hard to achieve success, because there is no such person as a born winner.People make themselves into winners by their own__21__.

I learned this lesson from a(n)__22__many years ago.I took the head__23__job at a school in Baxley,Georgia.It was a small school with a weak football program.

It was a tradition for the school's old team to play against the new team at the end of spring practice.The old team had no coach and they didn't even practice to__24__the game.Being the coach of the new team,I was excited because I knew we were going to win,but to my disappointment we were defeated.I couldn't__25__I had got into such a situation.Thinking hard about it, I came to__26__that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were depending on me.I had to change my attitude toward their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little__27__.Most importantly,I began to treat them like__28__.That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their vacations,we met every day and__29__passing and kicking the football.

Six months after suffering our__30__on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to improve.Finally, we faced the number one team in the state.I felt that it would be a__31__for us even if we lost the game.But that wasn't what happened.My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me the greatest__32__of my life!

From the experience I learned a lot about how the attitude of the leader can__33__ the members of a team.Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and__34__them.I helped them see themselves__35__, and they built themselves into winners.Winners are made,not born.

21.A.tests B.luck C.efforts D.wealth

22.A.experiment B.experience C.visit D.show

23.A.operating B.editing C.consulting D.coaching

24.A.cheer for B.prepare for C.help with D.finish with

25.A.agree B.believe C.describe D.regret

26.A.realize B.claim C.permit D.demand

27.A.pride B.culture C.fortune D.relationship

28.A.leaders B.partners C.winners D.learners

29.A.risked B.missed C.considered D.practiced

30.A.defeat B.depress C.accident D.mistake

31.A.shame B.burden C.victory D.favor

32.A.chance B.joy C.concern D.offer

33.A.surprise B.relate C.interest D.affect

34.A.encouraged B.observed C.protected D.impressed

35.A.naturally B.individually C.calmly D.differently

第二节

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。

36.________(know) as the birthplace of kites, Weifang in Shandong Province has a long history of kite-making.According to local artisans (工匠), Weifang kite-making can date back to 2,000 years ago.At first, kites were used by the military for communicating and 37.________(measure)distances.

Using bamboo and featuring 38.________(tradition)Chinese paintings,Weifang kitemaking was included in the national-level intangible (非物质的) cultural heritage lists in 2006.An International Kite Festival 39.________(hold) in Weifang every year since 1984.

Yang Hongwei, aged 56, is an inheritor (继承者) of the Weifang kite-making technique.Yang, 40.________was born into a kite-making family, often saw kites with bright colors and different shapes in her grandfather's workshop.

Yang began learning the technique from her grandfather 41.________the age of 16 and after 10 years, she started her own shop in 1992.On Yang's kites, people can see not only common patterns like 42.________(butterfly) and swallows, but some prints telling Chinese myths,legends and history.

In her spare time,she also travels to different countries including 43.________(German), Australia and the US 44.________(tell) people about Chinese stories seen on kites and kite-making methods.“I'm an inheritor of the culture.It is also 45.________important job of mine to spread the heritage around the world and pass it down to the next generation,”she said.

第四部分 写作

第一节

假定你是一名导游，请你向游客简单介绍一处旅游景点，内容包括：

1.景点名称；

2.景点位置、面积、历史等。

注意：

1.词数80左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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第二节

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Maybe, we all need to treat others with more patience and understanding.Then we might be repaid in unexpected ways.

Fifteen years ago, I took a trip to Lecce in southern Italy.Lecce is an important place for art and culture lovers.Walking among churches and old buildings in the city center is a dive into the past.More importantly,it's an ideal place for photographing.

One morning, I got up early enough for a sweeping view of the sunrise, the blue sea,white buildings and green trees.After climbing up a hill,I paused to catch my breath.As I looked around,I was shocked by the breathtaking views in front of me.

When I positioned myself to take some pictures, a woman suddenly approached from behind, and planted herself right in front of my view.Like me, I thought, this woman was here to stop for a short break,and enjoy the scenery.Beyond my expectation,she stood still as if something caught her attention,not noticing anyone else's presence around her.

For about 10 minutes, I used my camera to scan the sun and review the shot I would eventually take.Patient as I was, I got bored finally.“Is it too much to ask her to move aside so that I can take just one picture of the landscape?”I asked myself.

Of course,I could have asked her,but something prevented me from doing so.

She seemed so absorbed in her observation that I didn't have the heart to mess with that.So I decided to wait.

Another 10 minutes passed.However, the woman was still there.I grew really impatient.I decided to take the photo anyway.With an unwilling touch of the shutter (快门), I left in low spirits.

注意：续写词数应为150左右。

Paragraph 1:

After the photos were printed,I tried to find the photo“ruined”by the woman.________

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Paragraph 2:

Now this photo hangs on a wall in my study.__________________________________

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