1 . 假如你是李华,准备下月去英国某中学作交换生。你从网上看到该校附近从业多年的史密斯夫妇 愿意提供食宿,请给他们写封电子邮件。要点包括：
1.介绍个人情况；
2.询问注意事项；
3.表达寄宿期望。
注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯：

3.开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数。

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Smith,

I am a Chinese high school student.____________________________________________________________

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I am looking forward to your reply.

2 . 短文填空

There is a common fear of the number 13. It’s a number just like any other,     1     there are horror movies about it; some buildings     2     (intention) have no I3th floor; and plenty of couple avoid gating married on the13th of the month.

What makes this number so scary? Historians have pointed a few potential     3     (reason) about the origin of this fear, the most popular of which is that there were 13 diners at the Last Supper. The 13th lo arrive was Judas,       4     betrayed Jesus.

Actually, there are no problems with the number     5     (it). Maybe 13 is next to the number 12, and that makes it look bad. In many ancient cultures, 12     6     (consider) to be a perfect number. Most ancient civilizations based their systems of telling time around the number 12, There are 12 hours on a clock, and 12 months in a year. Twelve is also     7     largest number that also has one syllable (音节) in English. As the number immediately following this “perfect” one, 13 seemed imperfect,     8    (inspire) unease throughout the ancient world.

So far, both myth and math     9     (combine) to make this particular number scarier than any other. The uneasiness about the number,     10     ( date) bark to ancient times, has been developed over the years.

3 . Everyone knows that the French are romantic, the Italian are fashionable and the Germans are serious. Or do they? Are these just stereotypes or is there really such a thing as national character? And if there is, can it affect how a nation succeed or fail?

At least one group of people is certain that it can. A recent survey of the top 500 entrepreneurs (实业家) in the UK found that 70 percent felt that their efforts were not appreciated by the British public .

Britain is hostile to success, they said. It has a culture of jealousy (嫉妒). As a result, the survey said, entrepreneurs were “unloved, unwanted and misunderstood”. Jealousy is sometimes known as the “green-eyed monster” and the UK is its home. Scientists at Warwich University in the UK recently tested this idea. They gathered a group of people together and gave each an imaginary amount of money. Some were given a little, others a great deal. Those given a little money were given the chance to destroy the large amounts of money given to others—but at the cost of losing their own. Two thirds of the people tested agreed to do this.

This seems to prove the entrepreneurs were right to complain. But there is also conflicting evidence. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently reported that the UK was now the world’s fourth largest economy. That is not bad for people who are supposed to hate success. People in the UK also work longer hours than anyone else in Europe. So the British people are not lazy, either.

“It’s not really success that the British dislike,” says Carey Cooper, a Professor of management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. “It’s people using their success in a way that seems arrogant (傲慢) or unfair or which separates them from their roots.”

Perhaps it is the entrepreneurs who are the problem. They set out to do things in their way. They work long hours. By their own efforts they become millionaires. But instead of being happy they complain that nobody loves them. It hardly seems worth following their example. If they were more friendly, people would like them more. And more people want to be like them.

1. What does the underlined “it” in the second paragraph refer to?

A．One group of people	B．A great survey
C．National character	D．A nation

2. Most entrepreneurs surveyed believe that        

A．they are not popular simply because they are successful

B．the British public are hardworking

C．love of success is Britain’s national character

D．they are considered as “green-eyed monsters”

3. What does the result of the Warwich University test show?

A．Two thirds of the people tested didn’t love money

B．Most people would rather fail than see others succeed

C．An imaginary amount of money does not attract people

D．Most people are willing to enjoy success with others

4. The writer of the passage seems to suggest that         .

A．Jealousy is Britain’s national character

B．British entrepreneurs are not fairly treated

C．the scientists are Warwich University did a successful test

D．the British dislike the entrepreneurs because they do not behave properly