假如你叫李华，暑假期间要去英国Embassy English Language School （EELS） 进行短期学习。以下是英方学校寄给你的课程安排选择表。请你仔细阅读课程表，按要求给校方回一封信。

注意： 1. 信的开头和结尾签名已为你写好（不记入总词数）；  2. 词数：100 左右。

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your offer of inviting me to the summer English course in your school.

  How _______（焦急） we are to know the result of the examinations!

W: Well, I’d like to think about the chair. But it’s not exactly what I had in mind.

M: I can assure（担保） you that you won’t find anything more reasonable … or more comfortable. ___61____

W: I’m worried about the color. ___62____

M: Oh, it washes very easily. A little soap and water will remove any spots.

W: Well …

M: Look, a few weeks ago another customer had his doubts when I suggested that he buy one of these chairs. ___63____ No way! In fact, he called me up and ordered another one.

W: It is comfortable.

M: There is no doubt about it … But the decision is up to you. If you’d like, ___64____ Of course, I can’t guarantee（保证） that chairs will still be here.

W: Oh, ___65____

M: The last one in stock. They’ve been selling like hot cakes …

A. is this the only one you have?

B. you can look around and come back.

C. What about red? It looks very nice.

D. It’s very important that your chairs be comfortable.

E. Whites get dirty so quickly.

F. He took it away happily.

G. But do you think he bought it back?

Like many lovers of books, Mary and her husband, Richard Goldman, seldom walked past a bookstore without stopping to look inside. They often talked of opening their own store one day.

When Mary was hospitalized with heart trouble in 1989, they decided it was time to get serious. Richard, who worked for a business company, was eager to work for himself, and Mary needed to slow down from her demanding job.

They started by talking to bookstore owners and researching the industry. “We knew it had to be a speciality store because we couldn’t match the big chains dollar for dollar,” says Mary. One figure caught her attention: She’d read somewhere that roughly 20 percent of books sold were mysterious, and many buyers spent more than $300 a year on books. She and Richard were themselves mystery readers.

On Halloween 1992, they opened the Mystery Lovers Bookstore and Café near their home. With three children in college, the couple could not spend all the family’s money to start a shop. To cover the $100,000 cost, they drew some of their savings, borrowed from relatives and from a bank.

The store merely broke even in its first year, with only $120,000 in sales. But Mary was always coming up with new ways to attract consumers. The shop had a coffee bar and it offered gifts to mystery lovers and served dinners for book clubs that met in the store. She also invited dozens of writers to discuss their stories.

Today Mystery Lovers makes sales of about $420,000 a year. After paying taxes, business costs and the six part-time sales clerks, Richard and Mary together earn about $34,000.

“The job you love may not go hand in hand with a million-dollar income,” says Richard. “This has always been about an enjoyable life for ourselves, not about making a lot of money.”

57. When Mary was in hospital, the couple realized that____.

A. they had to put their plan into practice   B. health was more important than wealth

C. heart trouble was a serious illness         D. they both needed to stop working

58. After Mary got well from her illness they began ____.

A. to study industrial management    

B. to buy and read more mystery books

C. to do market research on book business

D. to work harder to save money for the bookstore

59. How did their bookstore do in the first year?

A. They had to borrow money to keep it going. 

B. They made just enough to cover all the costs.

C. They succeeded in earning a lot of money.   

D. They failed though they worked hard.

60. According to Richard, the main purpose of running the bookstore is ____.

A. to pay for their children’s education     B. to get to know more writers

C. to set up more bookstores                     D. to do what they like to do

It seems that some people go out of their way to get into trouble. That’s more or less what happened the night when Nashville Police Officer Floyd Hyde was on duty.

“I was on the way to a personal-injury accident in west Nashville. As I got onto Highway 40, blue lights and sirens （警笛） going，I fell in behind a gold Pontiac Firebird that suddenly seemed to take off quickly down the highway. The driver somehow panicked at the sight of me. He was going more than a hundred miles an hour and began passing cars on the shoulder.”

But Hyde couldn’t go after him. Taking care of injured people is always more important than worrying about speeders, so the officer had to stay on his way to the accident. But he did try to keep the Firebird in sight as he drove, hoping another nearby unit would be able to step in and stop the speeding car. As it turned out, keeping the Firebird in sight was not that difficult. Every turn the Pontiac made was the very turn the officer needed to get to the accident scene.

Hyde followed the Pontiac all the way to his destination. At that point he found another unit had already arrived at the accident scene. His help wasn’t needed. Now he was free to try to stop the driver of the Firebird, who by this time had developed something new to panic about.

“Just about this time,” Hyde said, “I saw fire coming out from under that car, with blue smoke and oil going everywhere. He’d blown his engine. Now he had to stop.”

“After I arrested him, I asked him why he was running. He told me he didn’t have a driver’s license （执照）.”

That accident cost the driver of the Firebird plenty a thousand dollars for a new engine not to mention the charge for driving without a license, attempting to run away, and dangerous driving.

48. The meaning of “panicked” in Paragraph 2 is related to ____.

A. shame    B. hate    C. anger    D. fear

49. Why did the driver of the Firebird suddenly speed down the highway?

A. Because he was racing with another driver on the road.

B. Because he realized he had to hurry to the accident scene.

C. Because he thought the police officer wanted to stop him.

D. Because he wanted to overtake other cars on the shoulder.

50. Which of the following statements is true?

A. Someone else was taking care of the injured person.

B. The Pontiac reached its destination at the accident scene.

C. Hyde knew where he was going by following the right car.

D. The policeman was running after a speeder on Highway 40.

51. The driver of the Firebird _____.

A. took a wrong turn on the way        B. had some trouble with his car

C. was stopped by the police officer    D. paid for the expenses of that accident

52. What is probably the best title for the article?

A. Losing His Way  B. Going My Way  C. Fun All the Way  D. Help on the Way

Since many of you are planning to study at college or university in this country, you may be curious to know what you usually do in a typical week, how you can get along with your fellow students, and so on. These are the questions I want to discuss with you today.

First, let’s talk about what your weekly schedule will look like. No matter what your major may be, you can expect to spend between four and six hours a week for each class attending lectures. Lectures are usually in very large rooms because some courses such as introduction to sociology or economics often have as many as two or three hundred students, especially at large universities. In lectures, it’s very important for you to take notes on what the professor says because the information in a lecture is often different from the information in your textbooks. Also, you can expect to have exam questions based on the lectures. So it isn’t enough to just read your text books; you have to attend lectures as well. In a typical week, you will also have a couple of hours of discussion for every class you take. The discussion section is a small group meeting usually with fewer than thirty students where you can ask questions about the lectures, the reading, and the homework. In large universities, graduate students, called teaching assistants, usually direct discussion sections.

If your major is chemistry, or physics, or another science, you’ll also have to spend several hours a week in the lab, or laboratory, doing experiments. This means that science majors spend more time in the classroom than non-science majors do. On the other hand, people who major in subjects like literature or history usually have to read and write more than science majors do.

44. The main purpose of this text is ____.

A. to help the students to learn about university life

B. to persuade the students to attend lectures

C. to encourage the students to take part in discussions

D. to advise the students to choose proper majors

45. We can learn from the passage that university professors _____.

A. spend about 5 hours on lectures each week

B. must join the students in the discussion sections

C. prefer to use textbooks in their lectures

D. require the students to read beyond the textbooks

46. A discussion section does NOT include ____.

A. working under the guidance of university professors

B. talking over what the students have read about the courses

C. discussing the problems related to the students’ homework

D. raising questions about what a professor has said in a lecture

47. According to the author, science majors ____.

A. have to work harder than non-science majors

B. spend less time on their studies than non-science majors

C. consider experiments more important than discussions

D. read and write less than non-science majors         

Geneva（日内瓦） is situated between the Jura Range and the Alps on the western end of Lake Geneva. Capital of Peace is one of its names―the European headquarters of the United Nations lies here in Palais des Nations. Another worthy names for this city with a humanitarian tradition （人道主义传统） and international character is the World’s Smallest Metropolis. Parks, splendid stores and lively streets in the old part of town and its 2000-year history wait to be discovered.

The Jet d’Eau together with the Flower Watch are the main attractions every year for the tourists visiting Geneva. The Jet d’Eau has become the symbol of Geneva for a long time. This is a 140-meter-high water projectors which light the grand column （圆柱） of the fountain in the evening, from early March until the second Sunday of October. The Flower Watch, which was created at the edge of the English Garden in 1955, reminds us that Geneva is the birthplace of the Swiss clock and watch making, and that this industry has become internationally famous, as well through the quality of the watches as through their beautiful appearance.

Sails on Lake Geneva are also enjoyable. The Lake of Geneva, lying among the Alps, is a true inland sea, making possible a wide range of pleasant boat trips. You can relax and watch the beautiful scenes pass by.

41. Which of the following is NOT suitable for describing Geneva?

A. Capital of Peace.  

 B. Palais des Nations.  

C. The world’s Smallest Metropolis.

D. The birthplace of the Swiss clock and watch making.

42. The Jet d’Eau in the second paragraph refers to ____.

A. the water fountain         

 B. the English Garden

C. a new scene with electric lighting   

D. the name of a famous watch making

43. What do we learn about the Lake of Geneva from the text?

A. It is the symbol of Geneva.       

B. It lies in the Jura Range.

C. It has a direct passage to the ocean.    

D. It is a large body of water of tourist interest.

It was the district sports meet. My foot still hadn’t healed（治愈） from a（n） 21 injury.

I had 22 whether or not I should attend the meet. But there I was, 23 for the 3000-meter run.

“Ready … set …” The gun popped（砰） and we were off. The other girls rushed 24 me. I felt 25 as I fell farther and farther behind.

“Hooray!” shouted the crowd. It was the loudest 26 I had ever heard at a meet. The fast-place runner was two laps ahead of me when she crossed the finish line.

“Maybe I should 27 ,” I thought as I moved on. 28 , I decided to keep going. During the last two laps, I ran 29 and decided not to 30 in track next year. It wouldn’t be worth it, 31 my foot did heal.

When I finished, I heard a cheer 32 than the one I’d heard earlier. I turned around and 33 , the boys were preparing for their race. “They must be cheering for the boys.”

I was leaving 34 several girls came up to me. “Wow, you’ve got courage!” one of them told me.

“Courage?” I just 35 a race!” I thought.

“I would have given up on the first lap,” said another girl. “We were cheering for you. Did you hear us?”

Suddenly I regained 36 . I decided to 37 track next year. I realized strength and courage aren’t always 38 in medals and victories, but in the 39 we overcome. The strongest people are not always the people who win, 40 the people who don’t give up when they lose.

____ does he watch TV since he goes to that key middle school.

A. Sometimes   B. Seldom     C. How      D. How often