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高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家 PAGE 1 - 版权所有@高考资源网 中山市高二级2018-2019学年度第二学期期末统一考试 英语试卷 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Culture: Festival starts to celebrate harvest Nadun Festival, celebrated by the Tu Nationality, falls between the 12th day of the seventh month and the 15th day of the ninth month on the lunar calendar. The annual festival is often described as the word’s longest carnival. Temple fairs are held during the two months to celebrate the harvest. It was included in the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2006. Video: Voyage along the Grand Canal The Grand Canal a UNESCO world Heritage site, is the longest artificial waterway in the world and a famous tourist destination. Starting Beijing, it passes through Tianjin and flows through the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and Hangzhou, linking the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. The oldest parts of the canal date back to the Sui Dynasty(581-618). Art: Qianlong vase to go under the hammer A porcelain vase from Emperor Qianlong’s(1735-96) collection will go under the hammer in Hong Kong in the fall Sotheby’s announced. The 40-cm antique was sold for an astonishing 43 million pounds($55.25 million) at the Bainbridge auction(拍卖）house in the United Kingdom in 2010. It was displayed at an exhibition in New York in 1905 and was purchased by a Japanese collector in 1924. It has remained in the private collection for almost a century. Travel: Chinese tourists are biggest spenders China maintained its leading role in the global tourism market with outbound(出境的) tourists spending $258 billion last year, accounting for one-fifth of the world’s total spending on tourism, according to a world tourism report. 1. How long does the Nadun Festival last? A. Three days. B. Two months. C. Seven months D. Nine months. 2. Which of the following should y