The Forbidden City. also known as the Palace Museum, is long associated with images of century-old buildings and relics (文物). Now it is taking a surprising step into fashion. The Forbidden City isn’t so forbidden after all now. What has happened?

——The TV series Masters in the Forbidden City（《我在故宮修文物》） record the mysterious experts who work in the museum. Their job is to repair the relics within it. You may have imagined these workers to be old and boring, while they're actually quite young and interesting. Some are even in their 20s. They lead a peaceful career with great care, although it can sometimes be dull. The TV series are so popular that more and more college students are applying to work at the Palace Museum.

——The Palace Museum Cultural and Creative Store is the museum’s online store. In 2014, it started to offer daily items such as T-shirts and earphones with obvious cultural features. These products soon gained popularity on social media because they allowed people to wear a piece of history. In 2017, the online store launched a new product — a lipstick collection in six colors. The lipstick colors are quite attractive with their Chinese cultural meanings. They also have a high collection value.

——In November 2018, the TV programme New Products Released in the Palace Museum（《上新了故宫》）pushed people's interest on the palace to a new high. This program is helping the Palace Museum shaking off the image of being old-fashioned. Deng Lun and Zhou Yiwei act as the new product developers. They guide people around lots of the unopened areas in the palace to search for the inspiration (灵感). In this way, more fashion designs with a sense of history have come into being.

1.According to Masters in the Forbidden City, experts working in the museum _________.

A. must be careful with their work B. are mostly old but experienced

C. think their job is boring D. enjoy working with college students

2.Which one is WRONG about the products in the online store?

A. They are popular because people would like to wear a piece of history.

B. They add culture to everyday items together.

C. The lipstick collection has 6 attractive colors.

D. They were advertised on social media a lot.

3.What can we learn from the program New Products Released in the Palace Museum?

A. It has made people less interested in the palace.

B. It has been introduced to help attract visitors.

C. The ancient palace has encouraged people to design new cultural products.

D. The program has no use in helping shaking off the palace's old-fashioned image.

4.What's the article mainly about?

A. Interesting programmes about the Palace Museum.

B. Popular products related to ancient Chinese culture.

C. What the Palace Museum does to protect cultural relics.

D. The Palace Museum's efforts to change its image

What can we do whenever Earth faces a disaster? Is the only solution running away from the planet in spaceships? The latest Chinese sci-fi movie, The Wondering Earth, offers a different and more ambitious（有雄心的）idea.

The film is based on a short story by Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin. In the film, Earth is in danger of being destroyed by the dying sun. Humans around the world work together to build a giant engine system that will push Earth away from the sun. We're taking the Earth with us to run away.

What makes The Wandering Earth different from Hollywood-style space films? It's probably the special cultural background. For thousands of years, “homeland” has rooted in the hearts and minds of Chinese people. One old saying is luoyeguigen. It means returning to one’s homeland in old age, like fallen leaves returning to the roots of their tree. There are also many ancient poems about homeland. “The season called the White Dew begins tonight / Nowhere as in our native place is the moon so bright” (露从今夜白，月是故多明). These all show that Chinese people have the tight bond（情感纽带） with their homeland.

What is Chinese sci-fi? Guo Fan, the film’s director said: “Chinese sci-fi is a way to express our cultural and the spiritual core (精神内核). Otherwise, we’re just imitating（模仿）others and telling the same American stories.” And the film was released on February 5, 2019, the first day of Chinese New Year. It was a time when many people had just made the hard journey back to their hometowns. It seems the best time to tell this Chinese sci-fi story. Anyway, to us Chinese, Earth goes wherever humans go, because it's our home.

1.Why do people consider the film so ambitious?

A. Humans work together to build a giant engine system.

B. Humans are trying to take the Earth to run away together

C. The film story is written by the famous writer Liu Cixin

D. People have managed to run away from Earth in spaceships

2.Why does the writer use the old saying and ancient poems in this passage?

A. To tell the difference between Chinese and American.

B. To remind us of China's thousands of years of history.

C. To teach some Chinese traditional cultures and spirits.

D. To express Chinese people's love of their homeland.

3.What makes The Wandering Earth different from Hollywood-style sci-fi?

A. Its fantastic pictures and settings. B. Imitating foreign sci-fi films.

C. Its Chinese cultures and spirits. D. Its creative and brave idea.

4.What's the best title for the passage?

A. The Latest Chinese Sci-fi Film B. What is Chinese Sci-fi?

C. Chinese Sci-fi Sets a New Path D. Chinese Sci-fi VS Hollywood-style

语法填空：用所给单词的适当形式填空，未提供单词的限填一词。

One day, a teacher entered the classroom and gave the students an exam. To 1.(everyone)surprise, there were no questions on the papers, just a black dot in the center of the paper.

The teacher saw the 2.(express) on their faces and said, “I want you to write down 3. you see.” At the end of the class, the teacher took all the answer papers and started reading. All of them described the black dot and tried to give 4. explanation where it was and what it was like on the paper. At the end of the lesson, the classroom was 5. (complete) quiet.

The teacher began to explain, “I 6.(read) all your answer papers, but I am not going to grade you according to this. I just want you7.(think) about something. No one wrote about the white part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot. Our life is a gift filled8.love and care. We always have reasons to celebrate --- friends9.help us or jobs that support our lives. We fix too much on the dark spots --- the health problems, the lack of money or the bad relationship with a family member, etc. The dark dots are really10.(annoy), but they are small. Take your eyes away from them in your life.”

书面表达

初中三年，时光如流。在这段美好的时光里，你一定遇见过让你感动的人，经历过让你感动的事。请你以 The Person Touching Me为题，讲述发生在你身边最令你感动的故事。

内容包括：1．对主人公的基本描述；

2．事情发生的经过

3．你从故事中得到的感悟。

要求：1．80词以上，开头不计入字数；

2．条理清楚，意思连贯，语句通顺，标点正确；

3．文中不得使用真实的校名与姓名。

The Person Touching Me

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I study five days ____________ week and on Sundays I often play ____________ football.

A. /；the B. the；the C. the；a D. a；/

The ____________ of printing helped to spread the knowledge.

A. result B. experience C. invention D. reason

UNICEF was ______in 1946. It works to help children live a better life.

A. set up B. put up

C. picked up D. turned up

There are many magazines for us to read. We can choose ____________ to start.

A. it B. that C. each D. one

A lot of trees _____ around here every year, and we can enjoy fresher air now.

A. were planted B. are planted C. will plant D. are planting

My brother promises ____________ the room a mess again.

A. not to make B. not making

C. to make D. making