假设你是李华，你的一位美国朋友Paul想在暑期来中国学习汉语。你帮他询问了暑期汉语班的情况。请根据下列要点写封回信。

    时间：7月初开始，4小时／天(周一至周五)

    程度：三个级别(初级到高级)

    授课教师经验丰富，小班上课

    注意：1．词数：100左右。

2．可根据要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Susan,

Fm very glad to hear you are coming to visit                                             1. _______

me the next Friday. Unfortunately, I won't be able to                                 2._______

meet you at the airport although I have classes in the                                  3.______

afternoon. You won't find difficult to get to the city                                                4._______

center. The airport bus leaves every 30 minute and                                     5._______

will take you rightly to the Friendship Hotel. My class                                6._______

will be over by then or I will pick you up there. I will                                 7._______

take you together to a hot-pot restaurant for dinner                                                8. _______

and we'll talk with our plan for the weekend over                                       9. _______

dinner. Having a pleasant trip and see you Friday.                                 10._______

                            Yours,

                            Zhang Ming

THE  BRONTE FAMILY

   Yorkshire, England was the setting for two great novels (小说) of the 19th century. These were Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.  The youngest sister, Anne, was also a gifted novelist, and her books have the same extmaordinary, quality as her sisters'.      

Their father was Patrick Bronte born in Ireland.  He moved with his wife, Maria Bronte, and their six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820. Soon after, Mrs. Bronte and the two eldest children died, leaving the father to care for the remaining three girls and a boy.      

Charlotte was born in 1816. Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820. Their brother Branwell was born in 1817. Left to themselves, the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills. They grew up largely self-educated. Branwell showed a great interest in drawing. The girls were determined to earn money for his art education.  They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes.                                

As children they had all written many stories.  Charlotte, as a young girl, alone wrote 22 books, each with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting. Therefore, they turned to writing for income. By 1847, Charlotte had written The Professor; Emily, Wuthering Heights; and Anne, Agnes Grey. After much difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher (出版商), but there was no interest shown in Charlotte's book.  (It was not published until 1869. ) However, one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her work. Jane Eyre was already started, and she hurriedly finished it.      

It was accepted at once； thus each of the sisters bad a book published in 1847.      

Jane Eyre was immediately successful； the other two, however, did not do. so well. people did not like Wuthering Heights. They said it was too wild, too animal-like.  But gradually it came to be considered one of the finest novels in the English language. Emily lived only a short while after the publication of her book, and Anne died in 1847.        

Charlotte published Shirley in 1849, and Villette in 1863. In 1854 she married Arthur Bell Nicholls. But only a  year later, she died of tuberculosis (肺结核) as her sisters had.       

1. What did the Bronte sisters want to do for Branwell Bronte?

A. Help him write stories.

B. Help him get trained in art.

C. Teach him how to draw well.

D. Teach him how to educate himself.

2. We know from the text that

A. Jane Eyre was published in 1847

B. Charlotte Bronte wrote 22 books in all

C. the Bronte sisters received good education

D. Patrick Bronte helped his daughters with their writing

3. Which of the following was published after the death of its writer?

A. Shirley.           B. Villette.

C. Agnes Grey.       D. The Professor.

4. The underlined words "the other two" in the 5th paragraph refer to

A. Shirley and Villette

B. The Professor and Agnes Grey

C. Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights

D. The Professor and Wuthering Heights

5. What do we know about the Bronte sisters from the text?

A. Their novels interested few publishers.

B. None of them had more than two books published.

C. None of them lived longer than 40 years old.

D. Emily was the least successful of the three. Dear Susan.

Houston, Texas (June 8, 2002) --In 2004, the Nation- al Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will send two robots (机器人) to separate places of Mars to seek out past or present signs of water. It is an exciting idea to send two robots driving over very different places of Mars at the same time; to be able to see what is on the other side of the hill.      

Last month, NASA announced it was sending one robot to Mars, but after two weeks, it decided there was enough money for two. The robots will be sent up within two weeks of each other in May and June of 2003 from Kennedy Space Center. If all goes well, the two spacecraft (宇宙飞船) will touch down on Mars, after a seven-and a-half-month space flight, on January 2 and 20, 2004.      

The robots, each weighing 160 kilograms, can cover 100 meters per day. They are designed to be able to examine the mineral content of the soil, and their special camera will take pictures of the lands and hills. Although they will be under control from Earth, the robots are able to move more freely compared to those sent up before them.      

The actual landing points have not been determined yet, but the scientists say it will be in areas where they hope to find water.     

1. According to the news report, scientists plan to send robots up to Mars to

A. find out whether there is water on Mars

B. see if robots can find minerals there

C. test how fast robots can drive there

D. prove that robots can work on Mars

2. How long in between will the two robots be sent to Mars?

A. 1 year.                 B. 7.5 months.

C. 2 months.               D. 2 weeks.

3 One of the important jobs for the robots on Mars is to

A. study the soil

B. walk everywhere

C. test the new camera

D. find a suitable landing point

4. We can infer from the last sentence that scientists

A. have changed the landing points many times

B. hope to land the robots on the surface of water

C. are still working on the plan

D. know where they can find water

Sitting is an art that isn't getting passed along. People these days feel as though they have to be doing something. If they are not working, they are jogging, or playing tennis or golf, or taking courses to improve their minds or bodies--or they are parked in front of the TV. Sitting in front of the TV isn't sitting--it's watching.      

People used to sit a whole lot. You would walk down the street or drive down the road, and there they would he, out on the doorsteps, sitting. You could go down to the store and sit on the bench out front in the summer or around the fire in the winter. There were sitting benches out in the town square. At the garage, there were straight backed chairs. There among the oilcans and tires and spare parts, you could kick back and sit.      

Houses used to have sitting rooms, where the grown ups would go after Sunday dinner. Mom and Dad, Grandpa and Aunt Ruby would sit and digest (消化) the fried chicken and talk about Aunt Ethel's illness, and how well the minister did today. Outside, the children would play, and the afternoon would pass by in a comfortable haze (悠闲的氛围).      

That sort of thing looks like doing nothing. A recharging battery (正充电的电池) doesn't look as if it's doing anything either. Sitting restores your soul. If you want to enjoy a truly full life, don't just do something--sit there.      

1. What message does the author try to get through to us?

A. People should make better use of their sitting room.

B. People should spend less time watching TV.

C. People should pass down their good habits.

D. People should take things easy for their own good.

2. We can learn from the second paragraph that

A. people lived a more restful life in the past

B. towns were built to make living convenient

C. small town garages had a lot to offer

D. people enjoyed going out for a drive

3. The sitting room mentioned in the text used to be a place for

A. eating food

B. watching TV

C. gathering together

D. playing with children

4. From the text we know the writer believes

A. sitting has a good spiritual effect

B. sitting helps people remember the past

C. a sitting room may have different purposes

D. a sitting room is important for the old