A(2025·南通市通州区兴仁中学模拟)
If you look around your city, you might see girls wearing Hanfu in subways or people wearing T-shirts with Chinese words on the streets. A new trend(趋势) called "guochao" is 1. p in China now. The trend not only means using things made in China, but also has been considered as the representation of Chinese 2. c and aesthetics(美学) coming from Chinese products.
Before 2018, many 3. f companies dominated(支配) the world market. From then on, many Chinese companies tried hard to win more market share from 4. W countries. For example, during the 2018 New York Fashion Week, a Chinese sportswear brand introduced its new collection. It not only had a fashionable look but also 5. i many elements(元素) of traditional Chinese culture. It drew attention at home and abroad at once. As a result, the revenue(收入) of the company 6. r by 20 percent in 2018.
Ever since, the trend to accept domestic products willingly has spread 7. r to different fields and products, from food and drinks to clothing, mobile phones, electric vehicles or even 8. m for patients in hospitals.
Now, the "guochao" trend is moving to the next stage. "No matter how the trend goes, there’s one thing that won’t 9. c : Behind the trend is people’s joy towards the country’s development, growing confidence in national culture and their deep 10. l of the country," said Yao Linqing, a university professor.

A. 1. popular 2. culture 3. foreign
4. Western 5. included 6. rised
7. rapidly 8. medicine 9. change
10. love

B(2025·天津)
Today the Earth is getting warmer and warmer. But hundreds of years 1. a, people had a different problem—a 400-year cold period! From the 1400s to the 1800s, winters in the northern half of the Earth were 2. c and longer than they are now. Scientists 3. c this time the "Little Ice Age(小冰期)".
The colder weather 4. b many serious problems. Plants died of cold and illness spread among people. People had to spend a lot more time collecting wood for fires to keep their houses warm. And sometimes, a 5. h piece of ice would slide down(滑落) a mountain and destroy(摧毁) some villages.
Scientists think the Little Ice Age was caused by forces(力量) that people could not control. One cause(起因), in their opinion, was the Sun. The Sun often has "storms" of energy called sunspots(太阳黑子). During the Little Ice Age, there were fewer sunspots than there are 6. t. With fewer sunspots, the sun was giving out less 7. e which made the Earth warm. The volcanic eruption(火山爆发) was probably 8. a natural cause. During the Little Ice Age, many volcanoes erupted. Their dust might stop the Sun’s 9. l and heat from reaching the Earth.
Today we are seeing the influences of rising temperature. Scientists think people are causing this change by 10. b a lot of coal and oil. So we need to change our way of living.

B. 1. ago 2. colder 3. call
4. brought 5. huge 6. today
7. energy 8. another 9. light
10. burning