Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall is filled with a festive mood, featuring large-scale equipment, knit works and various activities, under the theme "kiss".

"Kissing is seldom taken as the theme of artworks because in oriental (東方的) culture, people restrain themselves from expressing their emotions," says Jiang Shan, who is in charge of the exhibition.

"Through the exhibition, we hope to encourage people to be confident and brave in expressing their love."

Inside the mall, which covers a large area from Zizhong Lu (Road) to Fuxingnan Lu (Road), dozens of colorful decorations, including balloons, lollipops and lip-shaped decorations are hung on the walls and from the ceiling.

Among the decorations, a bright-colored wool artwork attracts most eyeballs and brings about a feeling of warmth.

The designer, Gu Yeli, says the art piece, Kiss Forest, was inspired by US artist Andy Warhol's 1963 experimental film Kiss, which featured various couples kissing for three and a half minutes each. Gu also organizes a small workshop to teach knitting (編織) to children.

Artist Wang Xuejun sets up a stainless-steel mirror at the mall's gate leading to Zizhong Lu. Visitors, including men, are invited to put on lipstick and kiss the mirror, thus kissing themselves.

The Beast Floral Shop, a flower shop in Shanghai, contributes two walls of flowers that are made into the shape of a book, named Kiss Book. Artifacts (手工藝品) of bees and butterflies are fixed among the blossoms, kissing the flowers. The work represents love and harmony in nature.

Architect Ma Ke creates a Kiss Bridge with transparent (透明的) acrylic boards and ceramic（陶瓷的）fishbowls. Bridges are often spots for dating lovers in traditional Chinese folk stories and the goldfish in the bowls are witnesses of the lovers' kisses.

In the south plaza, an18-meter-high interactive tree-shaped light equipment encourages people to kiss. Each kiss turns a certain light on, reminding audiences of their sweet childhood memories of kisses.

At the side of the tree is a counter, in which each kiss is counted and represents a donation to charity organizations.         

46. What is the main idea of the article?

  A. It tells people how important kisses are to life.

  B. It describes what Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall looks like.

  C. It introduces an exhibition under the theme “kiss”.

  D. It introduces various activities in Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall.

47. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

  A. people encourage themselves to express their emotions.

  B. people discourage themselves from expressing their emotions.

 C. people teach themselves to express their emotions.

 D. people learn a lot from expressing their emotions.

48. What can we learn from the article?

  A. Most people are interested in Jiang Shan’s art-piece, which brings about a feeling of warmth.

  B. Most visitors will kiss each other in front of the stainless steel mirror at the gate.

 C. All the decorations in the mall are aimed at encouraging lovers to express their love bravely.

  D. The 18-meter-high interactive tree-shaped light equipment will be on for each kiss.

49. The article above probably is taken from a ____________.

  A. text book     B. science and technology magazine    C. news website    D. travel leaflet

Once there was a man who liked to eat mangoes. One day he decided to get the __(31)___ mango from the very top of the tree. Mangoes which are exposed to the sun the most are the sweetest.

So he climbed up to the __(32)___, where the branches were thin. He managed to pick up a few sweet reddish fruits, but, in a(n) __(33)___ to climb down, he slipped and started falling towards the ground. Fortunately, he caught the branch as he was falling and remained helplessly __(34)___ on the tree. Then he started to call nearby villagers for help. They immediately came with a ladder and sticks, __(35)___ could do little to help him.

Then after some time one calm and __(36)___ person arrived ---- a well-known sage (智者) who lived in a simple hut nearby. People were very __(37)___ to see what he would do, as he was famous in solving many people’s problems in the area and sometimes very __(38)___ ones.

He was __(39)___ for a minute and then picked up a stone and threw it at the hanging man.

Everybody was surprised. The hanging mango lover started to shout: What are you doing?! Are you crazy? Do you want me to break my neck?”  The sage was silent. Then he took another stone and threw it at the man. The man was very __(40)___: “If I could just come down, I would show you!”

That’s what everybody wanted ---- that he __(41)___. But how? Now everybody was nervous __(42)___ what would happen next! Some wanted to punish the sage, but they didn’t. The sage picked another stone and threw it again at the man, even more __(43)___. Now the man on the tree was hot under the collar and developed a great determination to come down and take revenge（報(bào)仇）.

He then used all his skill and strength and somehow reached the __(44)___ which were safe to start going down. And he made it! Everybody was amazed.

However, the rescued man found the sage gone. He stood there, realizing that the man really helped him because he __(45)___ him to try his best and save himself.

 “I should be thankful and not angry.”   

 ---- How do you find the environment in Yangzhou?

   ----_____________.

A. Sounds good       B. That’s all right      C. Superb        D. By chance

 After hearing the shocking news that a baby was murdered in a washing machine, I couldn’t ________ my tears.

A. hold up          B. hold on        C. hold back         D. hold out

 I wonder if your students will go to the New Year’s party. If your students _____, so _____ mine.

A. do, will          B. will, do        C. will, will        D. do, do

 By the time Alice returned home from America, her son _________ from university.

A. had graduated                   B. has graduated 

C. had been graduating              D. graduated 

 ---- Do you think the sweet potatoes cooked in bamboo leaves are delicious?

   ---- What? … Oh, I’m sorry. I ________ about Maoris’ ancient beliefs.

A. read      B. was reading       C. was going to read     D. am going to read

 What now worries me is how to save the village from ________, and particularly the damaged caused by modern construction.

A. abandoned     B. abandoning     C. being abandoned        D. having been abandoned

 It was _________ Lily studied in America _________ she made a decision ________ she wanted to be an environmentalist.

A. that; when; that                  B. when; that; that

C. when; that; when                 D. that; that; when

 This is actually an anti-pattern; one of those things that _________ seem like the right idea but often later turn out to be a terrible dream.

A. particularly          B. eventually           C. initially         D. regularly