三、完型填空(每小题1分，共15分)

Dear Connie，

Thanks for your last letter. Everything is OK here now. I am __41__ to know that everything is going well with you. __42__also for the photos. Linda looks healthier and __43__ than before.

It is very hot here now, but it sometimes __44__. We love the rains very much. We are __45__ our stay here. I am now studying in a __46__ school. There are more __47__ and students in this school than in my school in England. My teachers and classmates are all very __48__ to me.

Time goes so quickly. I am having new experience all the time. It is difficult to __49__ Chinese. But I am making progress __50__ the help of my teachers and classmates.

The summer holiday is __51__. Here in Jinan the summer holiday usually __52__ about two months. So I'II be free for over sixty days. I hope you and Linda could __53__ to Jinan for a __54__. Then I can show you __55__ the famous “Spring City” in China.

Love to you and Linda.

Yours,

Mike

( ) 41. A. glad　　 B. angry　　 C. surprised　　 D. sad

( ) 42. A. Thanks　　 B. Ask　　 C. Hope　　 D. Wish

( ) 43. A. slower　　 B. taller　　 C. shorter　　 D. smaller

( ) 44. A. floods　　 B. winds　　 C. snows　　 D. rains

( ) 45. A. fond　　 B. disliking　 C. enjoying　　 D. hating

( ) 46. A. shorter　　 B. taller　　 C. smaller　　 D. bigger

( ) 47. A. libraries　 B. teachers　　 C. buildings　 D. classrooms

( ) 48. A. rough　　 B. friendly　　 C. unfriendly　 D. rude

( ) 49. A. know　　 B. find　　 C. learn　　 D. see

( ) 50. A. as　　 B. under　　 C. by　　 D. with

( ) 51. A. finished　 B. coming　 C. going　 D. over

( ) 52. A. takes　　 B. spends　 C. lasts　　 D. costs

( ) 53. A. run　　 B. walk　 C. go　　 D. come

( ) 54. A. sight　 B. visit　 C. job　　 D. work

( ) 55. A. around　 B. to 　 C. for　　 D. visit

四、阅读理解(每小题2分，共30分)

A

A man was selling medicine at a fair(集市). At first he sold bottles of a cure(药剂) for colds for just a dollar a bottle.

Many people wanted to buy it and the man’s young assistant moved quickly through the crowd collecting money and handing out bottles of the cure.

Then, when he had a bid crowd, the man stood up, held up a very small bottle and said, “And now, ladies and gentleman, I am not going to charge you a hundred dollars a bottle for this wonderful medicine. I am not going to charge you fifty dollars a bottle. I am not going to charge you twenty-five dollars a bottle. Now, ladies and gentleman. I am not going to charge you ten dollars, and you can live forever.

Most of the people in the crowd did not believe this. One person shouted, “ If you can make you live forever, why don’t you drink it?” Then the other man cried, “ Yes, you look as if you are at least sixty years.”

“ Thank you, sir, thank you,” the man answered, “ I am so glad you said that. My real age is three hundred and twenty-nine.” The crowd laughed at this but there were still some people who wanted to believe the man. One of them spoke to the man’s assistant as he passed by, “ Is that true?” he asked. “ Is he three hundred and twenty-nine?

“ Don’t ask me, ” the assistant said, “ I have only worked for him for a hundred and fifty years.”

( ) 56. What did the man sell at first? He sold ________.

A. a cure for colds B. bottles

C. a cure for old age D. a medicine that made people live forever

( ) 57. The people didn’t believe that the man’s medicine could cure old age because _______.

A. the medicine was too cheap

B. the medicine was too expensive

C. he looked quite old himself

D. he didn’t look honest