三、信息还原(10 分)
Who is the greatest English writer? 1.______William Shakespeare was born in a small town in England in 1564. 2.______By 1594, he had become an important playwright (剧作家) in London.
Whether comedies or tragedies (悲剧), Shakespeare's plays always catch people's hearts. 3.______His tragedies, however, can be very dark.
Shakespeare's works also have a big influence on the English language. 4.______Of course, Shakespeare wrote his plays 400 years ago and his English was very different from that of today. 5.______There are over 400 films and TV plays adapted (改编) from his works. Shakespeare is not of an age, but for all the time.
| A. He didn't achieve success all his life. | B. But it doesn't influence his popularity. |
| C. Many people will answer "William Shakespeare". | D. So few people can understand his stories nowadays. |
| E. When he was young, he moved to London and began to write plays. | F. His comedies make a joke on human weakness. |
| G. He created about 1 700 English words. |

四、词汇检测(12 分)
1. She always (鼓励) me to keep trying and make more wonderful pictures.
2. Sometimes colours can change the weight of an (东西) in one's mind.
3. I didn't hear the (铃) because the classroom was full of noise.
4. The 1990 Nobel Prize for Medicine was won by two (美国人).
5. You can see many people dressed in (传统的) Chinese clothes in this old town.
6. Jinyong's wuxia novels have a (持久的) influence on Chinese people.
7. Have you seen manidui? Those are piles of (石头) people made to make wishes.
8. Kun opera holds high (价值) as you can learn many ancient poetries from it.
9. Lee has a g for acting. And we all think that he should enter the film industry.
10. In the end, the little boy climbed to the top of the mountain s.
11. The special-shaped plants are used for making a musical i, hulusi.
12. The skater that reaches the finishing line first is the w of the game.

五、从方框中选择适当的单词或短语,在横线上填入其正确形式。每个单词或短语仅用一次(5 分)
| about | usual | get used to | instead | prefer |
In the early Song dynasty, ci composers 1.______ wrote about love and court (宫廷) life. But Fan Zhongyan 2.______ to write the life of soldiers (士兵). "Pride of Fishermen" is an example.
It is based on the writer's own experiences and shows the hard life that soldiers lived and their homesickness (思乡). As he grew up in Suzhou, much further south, he had difficulty 3.______ the weather. That's why the first line of the piece uses the word "drear (阴沉的)". However, his ci isn't only 4.______ homesickness. 5.______, it mixes patriotic (爱国的) love with homesickness, creating a sad but poetic atmosphere (氛围).
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

六、短文填空(10 分)
We know many musical instruments well, such as pianos, violins and drums. What about the erhu? The erhu is a 1.______ () Chinese instrument. It is the most popular of the huqin family, and it 2.______ () a long history.
The modern erhu develops from the xiqin, which was played 3.______ () by many ethnic minorities (少数民族) during the Tang dynasty. In the Song dynasty, some musicians enjoyed 4.______ () the erhu to play different kinds of music, and it became quite a popular instrument. With the rise of some 5.______ () of folk art, the art of the erhu developed quickly in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It became 6.______ () important accompanying (伴奏) instrument in different folk music. At present, it is used in both traditional 7.______ () modern music, such as in pop, rock and jazz. It has even become a solo (独奏) instrument. One of the 8.______ () musical pieces played on the erhu is "Erquan Yingyue". As the erhu was mainly played by common people and the playing skills were passed down orally (口头地), few written records about the erhu can be 9.______ () to study the history and its development. So historians usually turn to ancient paintings. The earliest pictures of this instrument were found in Yulin Caves and Eastern Thousand Buddha (佛) Caves 10.______ () Gansu Province, where five erhu pictures were discovered on murals (壁画).