A. R    
B. P    
C. I    
D. K

       假如你叫刘成，是一名中学生，经常收听音乐节目。请你用英语给节目主持人写一封信。
要点如下：
      ①你很喜欢这个节目，特别是英语歌曲；
      ②学习很忙，疲劳的你会打开收音机收听这个节目；
      ③你希望能从歌曲中接触一些新词；
      ④你最喜欢My Heart Will Go On这首歌，希望能得到这首歌的歌词(words of the song)。 
      写作时应注意：书信格式要正确，并且要有委婉的表示请求的句子，如：Could you please?／
Would you please...?等。(60--80词)
                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                 

    It is sometimes said that the English are polite people. This can make life difficult for foreigners. Suppose a
foreign boy asks an English girl to go out with him and she says, "If I finish my work, I'll meet you in the cafe
at 7 o'clock." Is she saying "yes" or "no" to his invitation? 
    In grammatical terms, she is using the conditional structure (表示条件的句式). By using the conditional,
speakers of English can avoid (避免) giving a "yes" or "no" answer to a question. It enables people to be
diplomatic(婉转的). If the girl doesn't want to go out with the boy, she won't appear at the cafe. She will let him
understand she is still working. If she wants to go out with him, but doesn't want to appear too easy to catch,
she has achieved (达到) that with her reply. Here she uses the first conditional which shows probability, it seems
that she will go to the cafe. Being polite can make life very difficult!
    The conditional is often used by people like politicians (政客), for example--who wish to avoid speaking out
their ideas. This is very important if they are on their way to discuss an agreement. No one wants to give away
his or her points before he or she starts. A government spokesman might say to a group of workers, "If we
could pay you more, we would." The use of the conditional here makes room for argument although the speaker
is using the second conditional form, which shows improbability. So it is unlikely the workers will get their rise.
    "If " is a small word, which often appears in the English language. It can show politeness, reported speech
and conditionals such as the First—probability—if I can come to your party, I will; the Second—improbability—
if I saw you tomorrow, I'd give you the book; and the Third—impossibility (meaning it is too late to change
something that has happened)—if you have told me, I would have helped you.

1. The using of the conditional can make a speech ______.

A. clearer
B. quicker
C. more polite
D. more exciting

2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Language used in the news should make room to argue.
B. Usually English girls are not easy to catch.
C. English people never speak out their ideas in public.
D. The word "if" can show different meanings.

3. According to the passage, "If it doesn't rain tomorrow, I will go with you" means ______.

A. I will go with you tomorrow.
B. I won't go with you until it rains tomorrow.
C. I may go with you tomorrow.
D. I won't go with you tomorrow.

4. In the passage, "If we could pay you more, we would." probably means _______.

A. the workers will make more money
B. the spokesman doesn't give any promise (答应)
C. the spokesman keeps his word (食言)
D. the workers' problems aren't difficult

5. This passage is mainly talking about ______.

A. the conditional in communication
B. how to invite a girl in Britain
C. British people and their life
D. some language points in daily English

    Pearl S．Buck (赛珍珠·巴克) was a very popular American writer of her day. She was famous
for her books about China. Pearl S.Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (诺贝尔文学奖)
in 1938. The writer was born in West Virginia, America. She spent almost half of her long life in China.
Her youth was spent in Jiangsu Province, China. She learned to speak Chinese before she could speak
English. Her mother had traveled widely in her youth and liked literature very much. After being educated
by her mother and by a Chinese teacher, Pearl S. Buck went to school in Shanghai at the age of fifteen.
She continued her education in the United States at a Woman's College to study psychology (心理学).
After graduating in 1914, she returned to China as a teacher. In the 1920s her family moved to Nanjing.
There she taught English and American literature at a university. As a writer, Buck's book, The Good Earth,
appeared in 1931 and sold quite well in its first year. It has been translated into over thirty languages.
In 1938 she became the third American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. By the time of her death,
Pearl had published (出版) more than seventy books. Pearl S.Buck died in March, 1973, just two months
before her 81^st birthday.
(      )1. Before she went to school in Shanghai, Pearl S.Buck studied all by herself.
(      )2. Pearl S.Buck was known to many people for her books about China．
(      )3. In 1914, Pearl S.Buck worked as a literature teacher at.a university in Nanjing.
(      )4. Pearl S.Buck went to study literature at a Woman's College in America.
(      )5. Pearl S.Buck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938 and published over seventy books in her life.

     Sally was fourteen. She studied in a middle school. She liked dancing and singing and spent a lot of time
on them. But she hated maths and even decided to give it up. Her father was anxious (焦虑) about it.
     It was Sunday. Sally's father gave a call to his sister who taught maths in another school. He hoped she
would come and tell his daughter how to learn maths. The woman came and said,"You are a clever girl, Sally.
I' m sure you will soon learn maths well if you do your best"
     "I'm afraid I can't, Aunt," said Sally. "Girls can't be good at maths."
     "I don't think so," said the woman. "I was good at it when I was a girl. You must do more exercises and
try different ways to practice doing maths problems until you work them out or at least understand them
better. Here is a maths problem. Please think it over and see if you can work it out."
     "OK," said the girl. "Let me try."
     About an hour later Sally took the exercise book to her aunt and said, "I've tried several times and worked
out the problem at last!"
     "Well done!" her aunt looked at her answer and said happily, "Now you see, maths is not as difficult as
you thought."

(     )1. Sally tried her best to learn maths but could not learn it well.
(     )2. Sally spent much more time in singing and dancing than in learning maths.
(     )3. Her aunt didn't think that girls could be good at maths.
(     )4. The father asked his sister to teach his daughter how to learn maths.
(     )5. Sally worked out the problem at last