You can go out,    you promise to be back before 10 o’clock.

   A. unless        B. as long as         C. because      D. since

-Would you please buy me a bright paper package when you go shopping?

   -    

   A. I’d rather you wouldn’t              B. It’s OK with me.

   C. What for?                              D. By all means.

-What’s the matter with John? He has been sitting there for hours.

   -A postcard from his father    an attack of home-sickness in him.

   A. took up         B. set off        C. brought in        D. built up

Had it been possible, I would have gone to attend Monica in the hospital, but I   fully occupied last month.

   A. had been         B. was           C. am               D. have been

-I didn’t go to the art show, because I lost my ticket.

  -You   have borrowed mine. I didn’t go to see it anyway.

  A. might            B. need           C. could             D. must

One dark stormy night, an elderly couple hurried into a hotel and asked whether they could be  36  for the night, “I’m very sorry,” the clerk on night shift said politely, “we are all  37 tonight.  38 ,you could stay in my room if you don’t mind. I’m  39 ,so I’ll be here.” The young man gave the sincere advice.

The elderly couple accepted his  40  with gratitude. They apologized for the  41  they had caused him. The next day, the rain stopped and it  42 . When the old gentleman went to pay his bill, the same clerk said, “The room you and your wife stayed in is not a proper   43  room in this hotel, so you don’t need to pay.”

The old gentleman nodded in  44  : “You are an employee that every boss in the hotel business would dream of . Perhaps someday I’ll build a hotel for you.” The clerk was  45  but, deciding that the guest must have been  46  , he gave the remark  47 thought.

Two years later, the young man received a letter from the old gentleman, in which he  48 the experience of that dark stormy night. The letter also  49 a formal invitation, asking that young man to pay a visit.

At a street corner in Manhattan, the young man met his  50  guest. The old gentleman, pointing to a magnificent new building  51  over the crossroads, “Look, that is the hotel I 52 to build for you. I hope you will  53  it for me .Remember what I said then? Well, I was  54  about it.”

The young man stammered, “But…will there be any   55 , sir? Why do you choose me? And who are you?”

“My name is William Aster.” This building was none other than the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a symbol of supreme status and honor in New York.

1.A. put up         B. put away             C. stay up      D. set up

2.A. preserved      B. conserved            C. booked       D. occupied

3.A. Meanwhile      B. Moreover         C. Otherwise        D. However

4.A. on duty            B. on display       C. on stage         D. on hand

5.A. service            B. view              C. offer       D. invitation

6.A. Instruction        B. consideration     C. Inconvenience D.interruption

7.A. cleared away       B. picked out   C. cleaned up       D. cleared up

8.A. living         B. double           C. admirable        D. luxury

9.A. appreciation       B. admiration       C. surprise D. excitement

10.A. excite            B. skeptical    C. annoyed          D. respectful

11.A. lacking           B. covering     C. joking           D. cheating

12.A. not more      B. no more           C. some            D. another

13.A. described     B. stated       C. recited              D. recalled

14.A. swapped           B. included         C. attached     D. added

15.A. former            B. original     C. formal           D. primitive

16.A. displaying        B. towering         C. flying           D. hovering

17.A. determined        B. promised         C. tended           D. intended

18.A. get               B. keep              C. manage          D. make

19.A. sensitive     B. concerned            C .curious      D. serious

20.A. Scene         B.situation         C.condition         D. occasion

In modern society, receiving systematic college education seems a necessary way for success as a graduate from first-class university may always get more opportunities than others. However, if it is gold, it will shine one day. In this article, we will get to know three most successful people in U.S. who never finished their college education. Following experiences of these successful dropouts may give you some inspiration.

1. Bill Gates

Harvard’s campus paper “Harvard Crimson” called Bill Gates “Harvard’s most successful dropout,” while the rest of the world preferred to name him “the world’s richest man” for more than a decade. Now, even not on the top, he is still among the list of the world’s wealthiest people. Gates entered Harvard in the fall of 1973. Two years later, he dropped out to found Microsoft with friend Paul Allen. And in 2007, he finally received an honorary doctorate from Harvard.

2. Steve Jobs

The iPad, even Buzz Lightyear probably wouldn’t have existed if Steve Jobs stayed in school. Because his family couldn’t afford his college education, Jobs had to drop out of Reed College just after entering for 6 months. Then he found Apple, NeXT Computer and Pixar, which had made great influences on development of modern technique and culture. However, this wizard thought that his brief college education was not worthless.

3. Frank Lloyd Wright

As the America’s most celebrated architect, Wright spent more time on designing colleges rather than attending classes in them. Once spent one year in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then he left for Chicago and started to learn from Louis Sullivan, the “father of modernism." Wright’ s splendid resume included more than 500 works, most famous of which are Fallingwater and New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

1.What does“dropouts”in Paragraph One mean?

   A. Hardworking students.

B. Very successful students.

   C. Students failing to finish their school education.

D. Students from poor families.

2.Which of the following is right according to Paragraph One?

   A. People graduating from famous universities are more likely to get jobs.

   B. Many successful people had the experience of giving up their school education.

   C. If one has a lot of gold, he will become very rich one day.

   D. We should stop our college education to follow in those successful people’s steps.

3.According to the writer, Bill Gates _________.

   A. is richer than any other man in the world

B. is well-known in Harvard University 

C. finally finished his study at Harvard and got a doctorate degree

   D. is the only founder of Microsoft

4.Which of the following statements can’t be learned from the last two paragraphs?

A. The reason for Jobs’ dropping his college education is that his parents couldn’t pay for it.

B. Jobs thought his six-month college education gave him no help.

C. Wright’s teacher was a very famous artist.

D. Wright is the designer of New York City’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

5.What does the author want to tell us in this passage?

A. Successful people often have unordinary life experience.

B. College education is not so important to one’s success.

C. People from poor families are more likely to give up their college education.

D. Even without college education, one can still achieve success with one’s hard work.

假如你是新华中学的学生李华，刚参加完“美国高校一周游”的夏令营活动，在离开之前，你想给新结交的美国朋友Monica写一封感谢信，内容应包括以下要点：

    1.表示感谢；

2.描述参加比次夏令营的收获；

3.邀请她参加明年在中国的夏令营。

注意：1.可适当添加细节使文章连贯；字数：120-150.

2.信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Monica,

— Excuse me, I am afraid your car is in          way．

—I am so sorry．I will give          way to your car right away．

—Can you keep an eye on my bag? I need to go to the rest room．

一____       ．It will be safe with me．