Want to come to Beijing in 2008?

Beijing is the hosting city for the Olympic Games in 2008．

Choose homestay（寄宿家庭）for your accommodation（住宿）!

Beijing does not have enough hotels available to accommodate all people that will visit the city for the 2008 Olympics．

Homestay Beijing 2008 now has almost 450 different homestay accommodation available．We have made arrangements with people who would like to share their living fiats for a few days／weeks with visitors．

All hosts speak English!

Beijing has a large number of expats from English—speaking countries，so it is possible that all hosts speak English．

Much cheaper than a hotel!

Hotel prices will become 10 times（倍）higher than usual．

More space than In a hotel!

A hotel room is just that a room．At Homestay Beijing 2008，you can choose what kind of accommodation you want．

More experience than in a hotel!

We think that staying with people who live here can add much more to your experience．

More Information

Read our introduction on the about page．If you have any questions，please have a look at our Frequent Asked Questions page for answers!

Contact（联系）us

If you want to contact us for more information，you can find a contact form on the Frequent Asked Questions page．

If you are interested to stay at one of our flats．please visit the pages Rent Homestay．

1．According to（依据）the advertisement，one of the advantages of homestay is         ．

A．being comfortable with larger space

B．being easier to visit places of interest

C．being able to make more Chinese friends

D．being closer to the Olympic stadiums（场馆）

2．We can infer（推断）from the advertisement that          during the 2008 Olympics．

A．a present 400-dollar room may cost as much as 2000 dollars

B．there will be more visitors to Beijing than hotels can take in

C．most visitors will choose the fiats of Homestay Beijing 2008

D．homestay will help visitors to learn to speak good English

3．The underlined word “expats” in Paragraph 4 refers to（指的是）foreigners         ．

A．staying in hotels                                       B．helping others

C．watching games                                         D．living in Beijing

4．If you want to learn more about homestay，you'd better          first．

A．read “the about page”                                  B．contact hotels in Beijing

C．visit “Rent Homestay”                                 D．call Homestay Beijing 2008

5．The advertisement is made for          during the 2008 Olympics．

A．those who will work as Olympic volunteers

B．those who will provide accommodation for visitors

C．those who will come to Beijing from foreign countries

D．those who will come to Beijing from different parts of China

If a foreigner wants to come to China to study, he or she will have to pass an exam. Beijing Language and Culture University has given a test called HSK to see how well a foreigner has learned Chinese. Overseas Chinese and students from Chinese national minorities（少数名族）learning Chinese will also have to take part in the exam.

Persons who take the exam are tested orally(口头)and tested on their grammar, reading ability and comprehension in the three-hour exam.

　 HSK is very hot among foreigners. It is said that there are a large number of foreigners taking part in the exam throughout China on the exam day.

It is reported that the number of foreigners who come to China to learn Chinese each year has risen by 35％ since 1997， and most come from Japan, Korea and Southeast Asian countries.

China’s entering the WTO and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing have made the number grow faster. Most people are from Europe and North America. More than 50％ of those from Japan and Korea say that they are learning Chinese so that they can find jobs more easily.

400,000 people from more than 100 countries have taken part in HSK in China since it start in 1990. Such examination centers have been set up in 24 countries in the world, including Japan, Korea, Canada,the United States, Britain, France and Germany.

( ) 46.Who will have to have HSK among the following four persons?

A.Jeff, a young man from Canada, who wants to study in China.

　 B.Su Min, a college student from Tianjin, who wants to study in Japan.

C.Mr.Smith, a French teacher from Paris, who wants to travel to China.

D.Linda, a student from America, who wants to visit her friend in China.

( )47.More and more people are taking part in HSK because 　　 according to the passage.

A.China has the largest population in the world

B.China is a great country for foreigners to visit

C.China has entered the WTO and hosted the 2008 Olympic Games

D.Chia is the third largest country in the world

( )48.Many Japanese and Korean people take the exam in order to 　　.

A.travel in China　　　　　 B.find jobs more easily

C.live in China　　　　　　 D.build their confidence

( ) 49.HSK has been on for 　　　　　 years.

A.13　　　　　　 B.15　　　　　　 C.17　　　　　 D.21

( ) 50.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A.People who take HSK needn't have an oral test.

B.Most of the people who take part in HSK are from Africa.

C.There are HSK examination centers in some foreign countries.

D.An HSK exam lasts for two hours.