I feel very excited at the thought that in another week I’ll be with you again on holiday．
I enjoy my stay in England very much indeed．My host and my fellow－students are all very nice to me, but as they say in England, “There’s no place like home”, and I think you will feel this above all at Christmas time．
I’m leaving here early on Thursday, the 23rd, and I will be arriving in Paris on Friday morning．So I will be home about lunch time Please meet me at the station．In some of my earlier letters I have told you all about the other students here．Well, I want to ask my Canadian friend, Ken, to come and spend Christmas, and he has no friends in England except me．He is a very nice boy．I know you will like him and I feel sure he will enjoy Christmas with us．But I haven’t invited him yet．Please let me know soon if that’s all right．I’ve got some Christmas presents for you all, but I’m not going to tell you what they are, so it will be a surprise．
How are you all at home?I hope you are keeping well．Make sure that father always puts on his big coat when he goes out so that he will not catch a cold．We don’t want him ill for Christmas．
(1)
The passage is part of a ________．
[ ]
A．
short story
B．
novel
C．
letter
D．
report
(2)
The writer is probably ________．
[ ]
A．
an English woman
B．
a French woman
C．
a Canadian
D．
an American
(3)
The writer feels very excited because ________．
[ ]
A．
she enjoys her stay in England very much
B．
She will have her friend spend Christmas with her family
C．
She will soon be with her family
D．
She has got some Christmas for her family
(4)
The saying “There’s no place like home” means ________．
[ ]
A．
There’s no place in the world which looks like home
B．
One feels best when one is at home with one’s own people
C．
Things at home are much better than things in other places
D．
Our own home is in every way better than anyone else’s home
(5)
The word“they”in the first paragraph means ________．
Yang Liwei circled the earth 14 times in 21 hours on October 15 and 16, 2003, landing on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia．Looking a little tired, Yang stepped out of Shenzhou V, smiling and waving at the waiting people “I feel very good” Yang said to premier Wen Jiabao on the phone．Yang said to a newspaper, “To our motherland and me, this is a great moment．”
China’s launch of Shenzhou V shows a higher starting point．It has two special systems(系统)to protect the spaceman, but neither Russian rockets(火箭)nor American ones have．
Yang didn’t know that he was chosen as China’s first spaceman until just before the launch．Although Yang was excited at the news, he still slept at 8p.m.as usual and was woken up at 2 a.m.the next morning．Before the launch, Yang ate Chinese traditional food－dumplings．We all know that travelers usually eat them before going on a journey for good luck．
A stamp Success of China’s First Manned Space Flight was issued(发行)on October 16,2003, making China the third country to send a spaceman into outer space．
(1)
It took Yang ________ to travel around the earth every circle．
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A．
6 hours
B．
90 minutes
C．
1.5 hours
D．
21 hours
(2)
How did Yang feel after he came back to the earth?
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A．
Quite tired．
B．
A little afraid．
C．
Tired but excited．
D．
A little nervous．
(3)
Which of the following statements(叙述)is right?
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A．
There is no difference between China’s spaceship and other countries．
B．
Yang knew he’d be China’s first spaceman long before．
