六、句子改错:

1. Generally, taboos can include eat certain foods, contact between people and body language.

2. When you are in contact to people from different cultures, it is important to understand what you can and cannot do.

3. Remember that you consider normal probably seems equally strange to others.

4. You can see examples of culture differences in the traditions that Americans and the British have.

5. I suppose Waled has already told you about the British teacher who opened the present as soon as he was given at the end-of term ceremony?

6. Going to a wedding in Italy is different from going to that in the UK.

7. It’s quite funny watching the new foreign teacher trying to adjust to point with their thumb.

8. People get used to celebrate the wedding for hours—sometimes all night.

9. Japanese people may bow and even give up their business cards to greet others.

10. When Dutch people meet, they kiss each other on one face and then the other.

When you p___________ an item from the gift catalogue, we will send you an attractive card for you to send to your special person.

　Today millions of people enjoy the game of bowling throughout the world, in which they roll the bowling ball down the wooden lane （通道） and try to knock down ten wooden pins （木瓶）．

　People have played and enjoyed bowling for thousands of years．It is believed that during the Stone Age the aboriginal (原来的) communities had already started to play a kind of bowling game．They rolled large rocks or pebbles (卵石) at bones or pointed stones and tried to knock them down．The ancient Egyptians played about 7,000 years ago．

　During the Middle Ages, bowling was the favorite game for many people in Germany．There, the players rolled or threw stones at the wooden clubs(棒)．The game became popular in village gatherings and on festivals．

　Bowling spread to England later．In the 1300s, it was so popular that King Edward III became worried．He was afraid that the game would keep men from practising archery (射箭术)，which was important in time of war．So it was outlawed(禁止)．But the sport did not die out．Instead, it was even played by the nobles．In 1530, King Henry VIII had bowling lanes built in one of his palaces．

　Through the years, different forms of bowling were played in different countries in Europe．In Holland, the Dutch played a kind of bowling called“skittles”, or ninepins．When Dutch settlers came to America, they began to play skittles there．It was the skittles that led to our modern game of bowling．

(1) Aboriginal men played a kind of bowling game______．

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A．with pebbles or rocks

B．together with their dear wives

C．with wooden bottle-like clubs

D．all the year round

(2) The story does not say so, but it makes you think that______．

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A．the Egyptians were the first to bowl

B．bowling game made some European kings and emperors deeply worried

C．no one knows exactly when bowling first began

D．King Edward III built bowling lanes in his palace

(3) On the whole, the story is about______．

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A．life in the Middle Ages

B．the long history of bowling

C．when and how the game spread to England

D．how bowling ball is played

(4) Edward III, the king of England, outlawed bowling because______．

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A．he himself was too old and weak to play it

B．he could hardly stand the noise made by the balls and pins

C．he thought his men were spending too much money on it

D．he was afraid that archery would be neglected

(5) Which statement does the story lead you to believe?

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A．The Germans are the first to play bowling．

B．Men in England did not like bowling at all．

C．The primitive men played a game called“ninepins”．

D．Bowling did not begin in America．

Throughout the history of the arts,the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists.No matter what objects they select,artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change—to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.

Landscape(风景) is another unchanging element of art.It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists.In the 1970s Alfred Leslie,one of the new American realists,continued this practice.Leslie sought out the same place where Toomas Cole,a romanticist,had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before.Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature,Lealie paints what he actually sees.In his paintings,there is no particular change in emotion,and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background.He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography(摄影术) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.

Besides,all art begs the age-old question:What is real?Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another.The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects,the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes,and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient Forests.To sum up,understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods.

Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant.Past or present,Eastern or Western,the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience.Many and different are the faces of art,and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.

1.The underlined word “poetry” most probably means ______.

A.an object for artistic creation

B.a collection of poems

C.an unusual quality

D.a natural scene

2.Leslie’s paintings are extraordinary because ______.

A.they are close in style to works in ancient times

B.they look like works by 19th-century painters

C.they draw attention to common things in life

D.they depend heavily on color photography

3.What is the author’s opinion of artistic reality?

A.It will not be found in future works of art.

B.It does not have a long-lasting standard.

C.It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.

D.It is lacking in modern words of art.

4.What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph?

A.They express people’s curiosity about the past.

B.They make people interested in everyday experience.

C.They are considered important for variety in form.

D.They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.

5.Which of the following is the main topic of the passage?

A.History of the arts.

B.Basic questions of the arts.

C.New developments in the arts.

D.Use of modern technology in the arts.四、写作(共两节，满分35分)