三、完形填空
Of all the foreign countries, Singapore and Thailand may be 1 winners after China recently announced the exemption of visas(免签) with these two countries.
"It's good news and it will be more convenient for us to travel to these Southeast Asian countries in the future. I've booked a four-day trip to Singapore this Spring Festival holiday with my family members and we will leave 2 Feb. 13—the fourth day of the holiday—after we finish visiting relatives," said Liu Lei from Huangshan, Anhui Province. "I did some research online and found Singapore will organize some celebration events during the Spring Festival holiday like music shows, lantern shows and flower shows. I can't 3 to experience the views and culture there," she added.
Fan Dongxiao, director of travel department, said that Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia are popular among Chinese travellers. She said that tour products connected with these places, 4 five-day tours to Singapore and Malaysia for the Spring Festival holiday, are hot online. Some European countries are also rising as popular 5 for Chinese travellers thanks to the increasing numbers of flights.
Hotel bookings to Russia, Spain, Italy and France for the holiday have also seen growth. North European countries with beautiful snow views including Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland are seeing high popularity online 6 people's growing interest in winter travel. 7 tickets to these popular places were sold out within seconds after becoming available to travellers.
8 the tourists that went to Sanya on vacation has doubled, compared with that of last year. Kunming, with its spring weather around the year, has also attracted plenty of tourists this winter. 9 these cities, Harbin is also a new rising star because it is especially popular among the people from the south of China. Some people in social media called 10 "small southern potatoes" since they look shorter than the local people in Harbin.
() 1. A. big
B. bigger
C. biggest
D. the biggest
() 2. A. at
B. on
C. in
D. about
() 3. A. wait
B. dream
C. expect
D. hope
() 4. A. such as
B. likes
C. for example
D. liking
() 5. A. choices
B. books
C. tickets
D. cities
() 6. A. because
B. because of
C. thanks for
D. thanks
() 7. A. Flight
B. Bus
C. Subway
D. Bike
() 8. A. The number of
B. A number of
C. A lot of
D. Lots of
() 9. A. Except
B. Except for
C. Besides
D. Including
() 10. A. they
B. them
C. theirs
D. their

D；B；A；A；A；B；A；A；C；B

1. 本题考查形容词最高级。题干中有“Of all the foreign countries”这一范围，故用最高级，且最高级前要加定冠词the。选项D符合题意。
2. 本题考查时间介词。在具体的某一天前用介词on，Feb. 13是具体的一天，故用on。选项B符合题意。
3. 本题考查动词词义辨析。can't wait to do sth.是固定搭配，意为“迫不及待做某事”。选项A符合题意。
4. 本题考查短语辨析。such as意为“例如”，用于列举事物，符合题意。for example也表示“例如”，但通常用逗号隔开，且举事例时通常只举一个。likes是动词第三人称单数形式，意为“喜欢”，liking是动名词形式，均不符合题意。
5. 本题考查名词词义辨析。choices意为“选择”，符合题意。books意为“书”，tickets意为“票”，cities意为“城市”，均不符合题意。
6. 本题考查连词和短语辨析。because后接从句，because of后接名词或名词短语，表示原因。thanks for意为“因……而感谢”，thanks意为“谢谢”，均不符合题意。此处“people's growing interest in winter travel”是名词短语，故用because of。选项B符合题意。
7. 本题考查名词词义辨析。根据上文提到的“Some European countries are also rising as popular...for Chinese travellers thanks to the increasing numbers of flights.”可知，此处指的是航班票，故用Flight。选项A符合题意。
8. 本题考查短语辨析。the number of意为“……的数量”，a number of和lots of以及a lot of都表示“许多”，但此处指的是去三亚度假的游客数量翻倍，故用the number of。选项A符合题意。
9. 本题考查介词词义辨析。except意为“除……之外（不包括）”，except for意为“除……之外（不包括，通常用于不同类事物）”，besides意为“除……之外（还包括）”，including意为“包括”。此处指的是除了昆明和三亚，哈尔滨也是一个新兴的旅游城市，即包括昆明、三亚和哈尔滨，故用besides。但考虑到题目中的选项，应理解为在昆明和三亚的基础上，哈尔滨也是一个受欢迎的城市，所以用besides更符合题意，表示“除……之外还有”。选项C符合题意，尽管except for在语法上也可接受，但语义上besides更贴切。
10. 本题考查代词。called是动词，后接宾格代词作宾语。them是宾格代词，符合题意。

四、阅读填空
As 2020 went underway, a folk musician named Fang Jinlong suddenly became the biggest star on the Chinese internet. The reason was the 57-year-old's appearance on "Last Night of 2019".
The excellent performance was a show titled "Rhythm World", featuring Fang performing with a 100-strong orchestra. It didn't just present classical pieces; it also b 1 together elements(元素) from Chinese wuxia culture, American folk music, and Japanese anime(动漫).
In the days f 2 the show, people painted Fang as a star. But he has been a fixture of China's folk music scene s 3 1987, when he won the gold prize at the first China Art Festival at just 25 years old. Besides, he is also k 4 for playing over 100 different instruments. How did he learn so many? He e 5 that learning a musical instrument is a lot like learning a foreign language. Picking up the first language can be quite difficult, but as you learn more, it gets much e 6 .
Many people say they enjoyed Fang's show online because they s 7 thought it was fun. And that's exactly what Fang was hoping to achieve. "The best way to help folk music reach a wider audience is to make it f 8 ," he said. According to Fang, folk music today isn't quite popular in China. He is t 9 to come up with new ways to let more people get interested in it. For example, Fang used a pipa to reproduce(再现) the s 10 of different instruments in a performance, which attracted more than one million views on the internet.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

1. brought
2. following
3. since
4. known
5. explained
6. easier
7. simply
8. fun
9. trying
10. sounds

1. 根据上下文，这里表示将中国武侠文化、美国民间音乐和日本动漫的元素结合在一起，用“brought”（bring的过去式，表示“带来，结合”）。
2. “In the days following the show”表示“在演出之后的几天里”，符合语境。
3. “since 1987”表示“自从1987年以来”，用于描述从过去某一时间点持续到现在的动作或状态，符合语境。
4. “be known for”表示“因…而闻名”，这里表示他也因演奏100多种不同的乐器而闻名。
5. 根据上下文，这里表示他解释学习乐器就像学习外语，用“explained”（解释）。
6. 根据语境，学习第一种语言可能很难，但随着你学得更多，它就变得容易多了，用“easier”（更容易的）。
7. 根据语境，许多人表示他们喜欢Fang的在线表演，因为他们只是觉得它很有趣，用“simply”（仅仅，只是）。
8. 根据语境，帮助民间音乐接触更广泛受众的最好方法是让它变得有趣，用“fun”（有趣的）。
9. “be trying to do sth.”表示“正在努力做某事”，这里表示他正在努力想出新方法让更多人对它感兴趣。
10. 根据语境，Fang用琵琶再现了不同乐器的声音，用“sounds”（声音）。