I hate to admit it, _____ I think I was wrong.
A. and B. but C. or D. so
最近，某中学生英文报开设了“After-class Activities”的栏目，请你根据以下提示，为该栏目写一篇英文稿件，并鼓励同学们积极参加课外活动。
你校开展课外活动的情况；
你参加过的课外活动及给你带来的益处
为同学选择课外活动提出建议
为学校开展课外活动提出建议
注意：
词数100左右；
文中不得提及人名、校名及地名
稿件的开头以为你写好（不计入总词数）
After-class Activities
Nowadays, after-class activities are becoming more and more popular in high schools.
单句改错 (共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分)
此题要求改正所给句子中的错误。
每句只有一个错误。若该句多一个词，把多余的词用（﹨）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并用斜线划掉。若该句缺一个词，在缺词处用一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。若该句错一个词，在错词的下面划一横线，在该行右边的横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：不要改动原句的意思。
1.Learning to paint well take a long time.
2.More and more Chinese teenagers are addicted to play games on the Internet.
3.My English teacher explains grammar so clearly that I feel I can make a great progress with her.
4.When Zhou Kai’s mother saw him heading the front door without a jacket on , she eyed him anxiously.
5.Eating well and you will always be healthy.
A: Advance Reservations．Can I help you?
B: 1.
A: Yes, we do have a single room available for those dates．
B: What is the rate, please?
A: The current rate is $50 per night．
B: 2. ．
A: For $50 you will have a radio, a color television, a telephone and a major international newspaper delivered to your room every day．
B: That sounds not bad at all．I’ll take it．
A: 3. ．
B: Yes, it is Charlson．
A: How do you spell it, please?
B: It’s C-H-A-R-L-S-O-N．
A: C-H-A-R-L-S-O-N． 4. ．
B: （010）888-1000．By the way, I’d like a quiet room away from the street if that is possible．
A: 5. ．OK．We look forward to your visit．
B: Thank you and good-bye．
A: Good-bye．
A.What services come with that?
B.A quiet room away from the street is preferred．
C.Do you have a single room with a bath for October 5?
D.What about your telephone number?
E.Yes, I’d like to book a single room with a bath from the afternoon of October 4 to the morning of October 10．
F.Sorry, I forgot your telephone number．
G.Very good．Could you tell me your name, sir, please?
In the United States, friends can be close, constant, intense, generous, and real, yet fade away in a short time if circumstances（环境）change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship where it left out and are delighted.
In the States, you can feel free to visit people’s homes, share their holidays, enjoy their children and their lies without fear that you taking on a lasting obligation（负担）. Do not hesitate to accept hospitality（款待）because you can’t give it in return. No one will expect you to do so for they know you are far from home. Americans will enjoy welcoming you and be pleased if you accept their hospitality easily.
Once you arrive there, the welcome will be full, warm and real. Most visitors find themselves readily invited into many homes there. In some countries it is considered inhospitable to entertain (招待) at home, offering what is felt as only home-cooked food, not " doing something for your guest". It is felt that restaurant entertaining shows more respect and welcome. Or for other different reasons, such as crowded space, language difficulties, or family custom, outsiders are not invited into homes.
In the United States both methods are used, but it is often considered more friendly to invite a person to one’s home than to go to a public place, except in purely business relationships. So, if your host or hostess brings you home, do not feel that you are being shown inferior（次的）treatment.
Don’t feel neglected( 被轻视的) if you do not find flowers awaiting you in your hotel room either. Flowers are very expensive there, hotel delivery is uncertain, arrival times are delayed, changed, or canceled so flowers are not customarily sent as a welcoming touch. Please do not feel unwanted! Outward signs vary in different lands, the inward welcome is what matters, and this will be real.
1.In the United States, you will find friendships if circumstances change.
A．disappear gradually B．pass away
C．die suddenly D．last forever
2.Americans their foreign friends to make a return for their hospitality.
A．ask B．wish
C．don’t expect D．never allow
3.In some other counties, giving a dinner party at home is considered than in a restaurant.
A．less hospitable B．less hot
C．more natural D．more popular
4.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? .
A．Flowers are signs of outward welcome
B．Flowers are expensive in some places
C．Flowers are available at all time
D．Flowers are not necessarily sent to guests
5..Which of the following is the best title for this passage? .
A．American Hospitality B．American Welcome
C．American Invitation D．American Friendships
“The Lord of the Rings”, one of the best sellers in the new millennium（千年）, was made up of three parts——“The Fellowship of the Ring”, “Two Towers”, and “The Return of the King”. Millions upon millions of people have read it in over 25 different languages, but fewer know about the author and the history of the composition of the creative masterwork.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in South Africa in 1892. His parents died when he was a child. Living in England with his aunt, Tolkien and his cousins made up his mind to play languages, a hobby that led to Tolkien’s becoming skilled in Welsh, Greek, Gothic, Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon.
After graduating from Oxford, Tolkien served in World War I. In 1917, while recovering from trench fever, he began composing the mythology（神话） for The Rings. As a professor of Anglo-Saxon in 1930s at Oxford, Tolkien was part of an informal discussion group called the Inklings, which included several writers. The group was soon listening to chapters of Tolkien’s imaginative work “The Hobbit”.
Hobbit was a name Tolkien created for a local people that could best be described as half-sized members of the English rural（乡村的）class. Hobbits live in hillside holes. One of them, Bilbo Baggins, looks for treasures with a group of dwarves（侏儒）. On the way, he meets the twisted, pitiful creature Gollum, from whom he sees a golden ring that makes the holder invisible.
One of Tolkien’s students persuaded her employer, publisher Allen & Unwin, to look at a draft（草稿）. The chairman of the firm, Stanley Unwin, thought that the best judge for a children’s book would be his ten-year-old son. The boy earned a shilling for reporting back that the adventure was exciting, and “The Hobbit” was published in 1937.
It sold so well that Unwin asked for a continuation. Over a dozen years later, in 1954, Tolkien produced “The Lord of the Rings”, a series of books so creative that they hold readers—new and old —after their publication.
1.What can we learn from the text?
A．Tolkien was quite familiar with Old English.
B．People know better about Tolkien himself than about his works.
C．“The Lord of the Rings” didn’t sell well in the last millennium.
D.Tolkien knew very well about different kinds of local languages in Africa.
2.What can we learn about “Hobbit” that Tolkien created in his works?
A．Hobbit was a race living in English downtown areas.
B．Hobbit was a group of people who were mostly dwarves.
C．Hobbit was a social group of people who lived in old castles.
D．Hobbit was a local people who were very tall and strong.
3.Which of the following helped most in making “The Hobbit” published?
A．One of Tolkien’s students. B．Allen & Unwin.
C．Stanley Unwin’s son. D．Bilbo Baggins.
4.What is mainly discussed in the text?
A．a famous professor at Oxford University.
B．A completely new masterwork in the new millennium.
C．“The Lord of the Rings” and its writer.
D．The power of the magic ring.
5.Which of the following shows the right order of Mr J.R.R.Tolkien’s life experience?
a．He had his “The Hobbit” published.
b．He became a member of the lnklings.
c．He served in World WarⅠ
d．He became an undergraduate at Oxford.
e．His work “The Lord of the Rings” came to the world.
f．He moved to England to live with his aunt.
A．f-d-b-c-a-e B．d-f-c-a-b-e
C．f-c-d-b-e-a D．f-d-c-b-a-e
