Dear Lan Lan,

I’m now writing to you at Hartsop, a village in the Lake District, a place to have most beautiful scenery（景色）in English couple here to spend Christmas with them. This was planned for overseas students to know British way of life by living with British families.

We came two days before Christmas and during our stay, we have had everything we expected. Christmas turkey, Christmas cake, Christmas puddings, Christmas parties and Christmas gifts under the Christmas tree. All are exciting and amusing（有趣的）, but above all these, we are deeply touched by the hospitality（好客）of the family, Roger and Anne Marie.

Anne Marie was a nurse and all these days, she had been busy cooking meals, washing dishes and showing us around. Roger, who was a doctor, knows a lot about China and still wants to know more. He plays us Chinese music and it seems to me he does better in that than we do. In the evenings, we all sit around the fireplace with Tim, a lovely dog, by our side. Like long-time-no-see friends, we talk about all the things that have happened or we hope to happen in our lives. There is always so much to tell and to know.

After three months away from home, we are again feeling how sweet a home can be. Roger and Anne Marrie are not like most of the other people we have met who always make us feel we are foreigners in a foreign country. They show such kindness to us that they bring us a person-to-person feeling, instead of a British-to-Chinese feeling. They make us believe that though there are differences of languages and cultures, one may always expect to find in every corner of the world the feeling of love and being loved.

How I wish Mum and Dad could meet them! How I wish you were here with me! How strange it is that the more I feel at home here, the more I miss my real home and all of you. We always talk about “when we go back home next year…” and soon we will turn this into “when we go back home THIS year…” for the New Year’s Day is coming. Miss you.

                                                                   Love

Cao Wen

61. The writer is        now in England.

  A. a Chinese visitor to an English family        B. a Chinese student studying

  C. a Chinese teacher working                       D. a Chinese student living

62. In Hartsop, Cao Wen felt       .

  A. rather at home       

  B. the English home better than her home

  C. she was a foreigner in a foreign country

  D. she was one member of the family

63. It seems that Roger       .

  A. can speak Chinese very well

  B. knows something about Chinese for a long time

  C. once lived in China for a long time

  D. can do everything better than the Chinese

64. When you are away from home, it is good for you to have the feeling       .

  A. of being alone                              B. of going home soon

  C. of love and being loved                 D. as a foreigner

65. In the writer’s opinion, the best home is       .

  A. the home they stayed in England

  B. the home that you left behind

  C. Chinese home

  D. one’s own home

Dearest Mom and Dad,

 I'm afraid I have some very bad news for you. I have been very naughty and the school principal is very angry with me. She is going to write to you. You must come and take me away from here. She does not want me in the school any longer.

 The trouble started last night when I was smoking a cigarette in bed. This is against the rules, of course. We are not supposed to smoke at all.

 As I was smoking, I heard footsteps coming towards the room. I did not want a teacher to catch me smoking, so I threw the cigarette away.

 Unfortunately, the cigarette fell into the waste-paper basket, which caught fire. There was a curtain near the waste-paper basket which caught fire, too. Soon the whole room was burning.

The principal phoned for the fire department. The school is a long way from the town and by the time the fire department arrived, the whole school was in flames. Many of the girls are in the hospital.

The principal says the fire was my fault and you must pay for the damage. She will send you a bill for about a million dollars.

I am very sorry about this.

 Much love, Sarah

P.S.

 None of the above is true, but I have failed my exams. I just want you to know how bad things could have been!

Sarah wrote to her parent______

A.    to inform them about an accident

B.    to ask them for money

C.    to them wonderful news

D.    to tell then she had failed her exams

Sarah told her parents the story about the fire because______

 A. she wanted to make them worried

 B. she wanted them to have some fun

 C. she wanted to make them less angry at the real news

 D. she wanted to make them even more angry

The main body of the letter was_____

 A. mostly true          B. partly true

 C. all true             D. completely untrue

Sarah said the principal was angry because____

 A. she had failed her exams

 B. it was her fault that the fire had broken out

 C. she not make the phone call in time

 D. she had caught her smoking in bed

Dearest Mom and Dad,
I'm afraid I have some very bad news for you. I have been very naughty and the school principal is very angry with me. She is going to write to you. You must come and take me away from here. She does not want me in the school any longer.
The trouble started last night when I was smoking a cigarette in bed. This is against the rules, of course. We are not supposed to smoke at all.
As I was smoking, I heard footsteps coming towards the room. I did not want a teacher to catch me smoking, so I threw the cigarette away.
Unfortunately, the cigarette fell into the waste-paper basket, which caught fire. There was a curtain near the waste-paper basket which caught fire, too. Soon the whole room was burning.
The principal phoned for the fire department. The school is a long way from the town and by the time the fire department arrived, the whole school was in flames. Many of the girls are in the hospital.
The principal says the fire was my fault and you must pay for the damage. She will send you a bill for about a million dollars.
I am very sorry about this.
Much love, Sarah
P.S.
None of the above is true, but I have failed my exams. I just want you to know how bad things could have been!

1. 1.

   Sarah wrote to her parent______

   1. A.
      to inform them about an accident
   2. B.
      to ask them for money
   3. C.
      to them wonderful news
   4. D.
      to tell then she had failed her exams
2. 2.

   Sarah told her parents the story about the fire because______

   1. A.
      she wanted to make them worried
   2. B.
      she wanted them to have some fun
   3. C.
      she wanted to make them less angry at the real news
   4. D.
      she wanted to make them even more angry
3. 3.

   The main body of the letter was_____

   1. A.
      mostly true
   2. B.
      partly true
   3. C.
      all true
   4. D.
      completely untrue
4. 4.

   Sarah said the principal was angry because____

   1. A.
      she had failed her exams
   2. B.
      it was her fault that the fire had broken out
   3. C.
      she not make the phone call in time
   4. D.
      she had caught her smoking in bed

Two years ago my grandmother was going to turn 75. My family discussed what the best way to celebrate was. Should we throw her a party? Should we take her on a trip? We remembered that she had touched so many people's lives, and there were so many people for her to consider. Then someone got the idea that we should include everyone in the celebration by turning it into a tribute(献礼) to my grandmother.x k b 1 . co m  We secretly sent out letters to the people in Grandmother's address book and asked them to send a letter with a memory that they had shared with her. People sent us letters with poems, stories and pictures. The deep feeling that was shared through the response surprised us. We compiled(编辑)these letters into a memory book and amazed her with it on the morning of her birthday.
The unusual thing about my grandmother's friends was not the number that she had, but the connection they shared. In many ways this book of friendship was the greatest achievement of my grandmother's life.
I believe that developing true friendships is one of the most important things that anyone can do in one's lifetime. It is not a matter of the number of friends one has, but the quality of the bonds. If one has had at least one true friendship before dying, then one can say one has lived a successful life. I have made many friends and I believe I have begun to develop the same types of friendships my grandmother kept up over her lifetime. I only hope that I will be as successful as she has been.
【小题1】How did the author's family celebrate Grandmother's birthday ?