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.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 ________.
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A.
short
B.
novel
C.
letter
D.
report
(2)
The writer is probably ________.
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A.
an English woman
B.
a French woman
C.
an English woman
D.
an American
(3)
The writer feels very excited because ________.
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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 presents for her family
(4)
The saying “There’s no place like home” means ________.
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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 ________.
John lived in France with his mother.When he was twenty two, he said to his mother, “I’m going to fly to London tomorrow, because I’ve got a job there.”
“Where are you staying there?” his mother asked.
“Please send me your address from there in a telegram(电报),”his mother said.
“All right,” John answered.
He flew to London on March 2nd and found a nice hotel in the center of the city.He put his things in his room and then he sent his mother a telegram.He wrote the address of the hotel in it.
In the evening, he was free, so he went to a movie.He came out at ten o’clock and said,“Now I’m going to go back to the hotel and have a nice dinner.”
He stopped a taxi.The driver asked, “Sir, where do you want to go?” But John did not remember the name and address of the hotel.So John got out and decided to send his mother a telegram again.In it he wrote, “Please send me my address to this telegraph office.”
根据短文内容判断正(T)误(F)
(1)
John flew to London, because his home was there.
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(2)
John did not work that evening.
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(3)
John went to a movie at ten o’clock.
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(4)
John did not tell the hotel’s address to the driver of the taxi.
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(5)
John’s father will send him the name and address of his hotel.