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。
New Year in Chinese eyes is a family reunion. However, in foreigners' eyes, it is not only a kind of homesickness, but a spring migration（迁徙）．Every year 1 (see) the largest annual mass migration on the planet 2 0ne sixth of the world's population travel home to celebrate 3 their families. That is around a billion people 4 (make) 3.5 billion journeys in a 40-day period. Meanwhile, over 250 million rail journeys are made across China during the festival. Last year, 5.6 million rail tickets 5 (sell） in a single day. Every new year in the heartland of industrial China thousands upon thousands of motorcyclists brave the weather and hit the road, determined to
make 6 home. The Chinese New Year 7 (celebrate) is also known as the Spring Festival. It lasts 15 days. It is the main holiday of the Chinese calendar. In modem China, 8 (search) for work, many people have to move away from home. And they will travel home to be with the loved ones during the Spring Festival. In Chinese New Year, modem and 9 (tradition) customs are brought together when the Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival. Nowadays, not only does China have the 10 (fast) growing modem cities in the world, but the landscapes are also truly diverse。
2、The Amber Room got this name because it was made of several tons of amber. ①__________(it) design was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure ②__________(decorate) with gold and jewels. Prussia’s best artists spent about ten years ③__________(make) it.
The room was first designed for the palace of Frederick I. However, the next king, Frederick William I , to ④__________the amber room belonged, gave it to Peter the Great in 1716. ⑤__________retu rn, Peter the Great sent him a troop of his best soldiers.
Later, Catherine II had the amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. And more ⑥__________(detail) were added to the room. The room ⑦__________(complete) the way she wanted in 1770.
During World War II, some of the Nazis ⑧__________(secret) stole the room itself. On the way to Konisberg, the room was missing. After that, what happened to the Amber Room remains ⑨__________mystery.
Recently, a new Amber Room has been built by the Russians
and ⑩__________(Germany) to celebrate the 300th birthday of St Petersburg.
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。
China Daily website is inviting foreigner readers to share yourChinaStory!
It has been ①__________seems like s ix long years since I have been back here in the North Capital of the Middle Kingdom. Beijing,China! I am very excited about my life adventure! The Olympic Games definitely has given Beijing a face lift and the city looks ②__________(total) different.
I came back right on the coming of the ③__________(China) Lunar New Year. The streets were lined with red lanterns and trees ④__________(decorate) with colorful lights from root to tip. The Christmas holiday has definitely become both
⑤__________economic a ctivity and a welcome mat to many foreigners.
⑥__________(shine)Chinese characters, large and colored, boldly mark the roof tops of high rises and glass sky scrapers. Beijing in the winter is known to be one of the ⑦__________(cold)places and amazingly I have gotten adjusted ⑧__________the cold very quickly that most times I never notice it.
China is definitely pushing forward to make ⑨__________(it) mark on the world and to obtain the highest position it can achieve. With business on an all-time height in the newest Economic Power, there are many new ⑩__________(opportunity) for people from all over the world.
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。
In less than fifty years, English ①__________(develop) into the language most ②__________(wide) spoke n and used in the world. English is the working language of most international organizations, international trade and tourism. Businessmen and tourists often come to China without being able to speak
③__________.
Chinese businessmen, taxi drivers and students talk with them using English. English is also the language of ④__________(globe) culture, such as popular music and the Internet. You can listen to English songs ⑤__________the
radio ⑥__________use English to communicate ⑦__________people around the world through the Internet. With so many people ⑧__________(communicate) in English every day, it will become more and ⑨__________important to
have ⑩__________good knowledge of English.
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。
English and its history
English has many difficult ①__________(rule) that confuse people. Before the middle of the ②__________(five) century, people in Britain all spoke Celtic. Then ③__________Germanic groups from the ④__________(Europe) mainland — the Angles and the Saxon — and the Vikings from northern countries invaded Britain. They brought with them their languages,⑤__________also mixed with Old English . By the 10th century, Old English ⑥__________(become) the official language of England. After the Normans conquered England, French was spoken in this country together with English, ⑦__________(result) in even more words with similar meanings.
Modern English includes many Latin and Greek words. Pronunciation also went ⑧__________huge changes. ⑨__________is certain that th e process will continue, and people will keep ⑩__________( invent ) new words and new ways of saying things.
6、Many people say that they are working too many hours. They don’t have enough time with ①__________(they)family. They can’t take care of thi ngs at home. They don’t have time ②__________(relax).
Work hours are different from one country ③__________another. In France, people spend about 1,646 hours a year on work. In Japan, ④__________,people work about 2,159 hours a year. That ⑤__________(m ean) a Japanese employee works 513 more hours a year than a French employee. That is more than 12 weeks, or three months, of extra work!
⑥__________do people work so many hours? Some people work extra hours because they want to earn more money. However, many companies don’t pay for overtime. Their employees don’t get extra pay for extra work. These people
⑦__________work extra hours think it’s their duty. Some think are afraid that they will lose their jobs if they don’t work extra hours.
Many peopl e say that their ⑧__________(vacation) are too short. In France, people get five weeks of paid vacation a year. In ⑨__________(German), they get six weeks. In the United States, two weeks of vacation is the average. Many people don’t even use all of their vacation days. In a study in Great Britain, fewer than half of workers used all their vacation days. People often say, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” If that is true, there ⑩__________(be) a lot of dull people in the world.
7、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。
More than 400 years ago, Galileo Galilei built a telescope. He was an
①__________(Italy)scientist. He used ②__________telescope to study space. Since then,scientists have used telescopes to make big ③__________(discover). ne Hubble Space Telescope was sent to space in 1990. It has sent back more than a million pictures. Soon, a new telescope will replace Hubble. It is the James Webb Space Telescope(JWST).
In 2018. a rocket will take JWST into space.‘The new telescope will ex plore ④__________(far)into space than Humble.“Hubble
Previously ⑤__________(rewrite)astronomy textbooks.”Maggie Masetti tells Times, ⑥__________works on the JWST project-“JWST is going to do the same thing.”
Like Hubble. JWST will 1ook for galaxies far away ⑦__________(hunt)for planets like Earth. It will do this by looking for light. JWST’s mirror will collect light from objects in space. ⑧__________(it) special camera and tools will be able to find light that the human eyes cannot see. In the future, there will be more telescopes like JWST.⑨__________the time kids grow up,” says Masetti, the things they learn about the universe will be ⑩__________(whole)different from the things we think we know now.
8、阅读下面材料,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Facebook fo under Mark Zuckerberg ①__________(recent) surprised Chinese students when he spoke to ②__________in Chinese. In a talk at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Zuckerberg spoke Chinese for about 30 minutes. ③__________his Chinese was far from perfect, students and faculty cheered his effort.
Clayton Dube is the head of the U.S.China Institute at the University of Southern California. He praises Zuckerberg's effort and thinks more American CEOs should learn foreign ④__________(language).
“To speak Chinese⑤__________(mean) you begin to think as Chinese people do. You begin to understand how Chinese speakers have the world
⑥__________(organize), and how they understand things. And that is a vital step if you're going to be culturally qualified.”
Zuckerberg's talk raises a larger question: Is Chinese the language of the future? Could it replace English ⑦__________the world's international language? Chinese already has the most native speakers of any language. And, China may soon pass the United States as the world's ⑧__________(large) economy.
The study of ⑨__________Chinese language is increasing in the United States and around the world. In 2009, about 60,000⑩__________(America) college students were studying Chinese. That is three times as many as in 1990.
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