假如你是来自美国威尔斯中学的交换学生Simon，即将回校开始高中学业。学校要求高一学生必须修满9个学分（Credit）的课程，除学校规定的6个学分的必修课（Required Course）外，你还得自选3个学分的选修课（Elective Course）。请从学校提供的选修科目中，选择几门课程，修满3个学分。给学校写一封信，陈述你所选择的选修科目及选择的理由。

注意：1．信中不能出现你的真实姓名和学校名称。

2．内容充实，结构完整，语意连贯。

3．词数80左右。信的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Sir／Madam，

I am pleased to return to the school next term．I will choose                        

Are you tired after studying hard? American country music(美国乡村音乐) will take you away for a while. The guitars and songs will take you to the mountains and fields there.

Country is simple music. It talks of everyday life and feelings (情感). It's the "spirit (精神) of America", easy to understand, slow and basic (基本的).
  Country music developed in the Southern United States. It was the folk music of the American countryside. Many of the songs tell about the lives of farmers. They talk about love, crops (庄稼) or death.
  _Rural_ life can be hard, so the words are often sad. At first, people played the music only at family parties. But it became more popular. In the 1920s, country songs were played on the radio and were made into records (唱片).
  When people moved to towns and cities to look for work, they took their music with them. Country music continued to change and became popular across America.
  John Denver was one of America's most famous country singers in the 1970s. His song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is well-known and people still play it today.

1. Which of the following is NOT true about country music?

A. It's fast and loud.      

B. It's usually about everyday life.
C. It started in the south of the US.

D. The words about rural life are often sad.

2. The underlined word "rural" probably means "_____".

A. of the city       B. of the countryside 

C. about work      D. about school
3. Country music is often played by ___.

A. the guitar  B. the piano  C. the violin   D. drum(鼓)

4. When were country songs made into records?

  A. In the 1920s.    B. In 1920.    C. In the 1970s.    D. In 1970.

1．世界其他各地与美国不同。

Other parts of the world are ________ ________ the United States．

2．你认为肥皂剧怎么样？

What do you ________ ________ Soap operas?

3．上个学期他们学说英语很有乐趣。

Last term，they had great ________ ________ and speaking English．

4．你认为每个人周末都过得愉快吗？

Do you think everyone ________ their ________．

5．我们不能永远依赖我们的父母。

We can't ________ ________ our parents forever．

(完成下列句子)你的姐姐去过美国吗？

_______ your sister_______ to the United States?