1 . Since I became a teenager, I have thought a lot about my own future job and set goal for it. It’s very necessary and important for me now to decide what I want to become. In the past, I used to want to be an engineer because I’m good at drawing and building stuff, but my thought has changed through time. I end up all of my choices as a manager who manages the whole system in the service hotel. I have planned that I will study hard in high school, then finish IGCSE and IB with a high score. After that, I will move to a good school in USA to learn about business and the economy in my country.

During my life in university, I properly will apply to work for some small stores and hotels to have the feeling of how things work in the real life. Firstly, the reason I like to be a hotel manager is I find it interesting to use techniques to persuade more people to stay at the hotel. Secondly, I see that the development in business is the fastest growing in sectors of industry besides the primary and the secondary, so I can make a lot of money. Thirdly, it’s the range of community; it has a very high range to meet different people with different nationalities.

Fourthly, I want to have more confidence and become a good leader with skill, for example, I still can’ t control and persuade people to listen to me sometimes when I’ m in charge of PE’s lesson. The last reason why I strongly chose to be a hotel manager is because of my pressure from my family. They are the second generation of successful 3 stars hotels’ managers. They like me to become what I’m going to do when I become a manager.

1. Why did the author want to be an engineer at first?

A．Because he wanted to follow his parents’ expectation.

B．Because he was good at silence subjects at school.

C．Because he thought being an engineer was respected.

D．Because he did very well in drawing and building staff.

2. The advantages in a hotel business are many except ________.

A．earning a lot of money

B．coming across different people

C．learning the special culture in the USA

D．using techniques to persuade more people to stay

3. What does the text mainly talk about?

A．My future job.	B．My college life
C．My family business.	D．My experience in a hotel.

3 . In America, it is not polite to telephone someone very early in the morning. The time of the call shows that the matter is very ______ and requires quick reply. It is the same to ______ telephone calls after 11 p. m. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he thinks its a matter of life and ______. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance.

In social life, time ______ a very important part. In America, guests may ______ that they are not highly respected (尊重) if they get the invitation to a dinner party only three or four days before the party date. But it is not the ______ in a countries. In other parts of the world, it maybe ______ foolish to make an appointment too early because it is easy to be forgotten.

The ______ of time is different in different parts of the world. So misunderstandings happen between people from cultures that treat time differently. To be on time is valued ______ in American life. For example, if people are not on time, others may think they are impolite. In the United States, no one would keep a business partner ______ an hour because it would be too impolite. A person who is five minutes late will say a few words of explanation to show his apology.

1.

A．relaxing

B．important

C．slow

D．save

2.

A．make

B．reply

C．get

D．repeat

3.

A．love

B．anger

C．death

D．happiness

4.

A．turns

B．leads

C．treats

D．plays

5.

A．touch

B．feel

C．smell

D．hear

6.

A．simple

B．good

C．same

D．wrong

7.

A．chosen

B．valued

C．requested

D．thought

8.

A．color

B．symbol

C．meaning

D．difference

9.

A．highly

B．quickly

C．mainly

D．luckily

10.

A．staying up

B．waiting for

C．going with

D．learning about

8 . 假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Jamie来信说他对中国传统文学非常感兴趣，但在阅读时遇到了困难，比如，很多汉字不认识，读不懂文章等，希望得到你的帮助。请给他回信，内容包括：
1. 表示理解并给予安慰；
2. 提出建议。
注意: 1. 写作词数应为80个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Jamie,
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Best wishes!

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

9 . A boy walked into a candy store with his father and since he was just 6 years old, he was surprised by so many candies on offer. “It’s amazing. What should I ________?” he asked himself.

“Come on, son, we don’t have much ________. I have to attend an important meeting,” his dad said.

“These are all my ________ and I don’t know what to choose.” He picked up some bags and then put them back . He couldn’t make up his mind. “ Hurry up, son, we have no time. I’m very ________,” his dad said. So the boy ran around the store _______ again. His eyes moved from one bag to another, ________   all of the sweets looked so good and he couldn’t make up his mind. ________, the dad had enough. He caught his son by the hand and they walked out the store empty-handed (两手空空). The boy_________. He wanted them all, but ended up with __________ because he couldn’t choose just one.

Some of us are that boy. The __________ is that candy store. We have a great number of choices available to us, but if we don’t make a(n) _________ about our jobs, education, relationships, marriage or other __________ things, we will end up empty-handed. Sometimes we worry about making the __________choice. What if we _________ the direction that we take and it’s too late to go back? We don’t have to worry about this. How do we know whether it is good or not if we don’t make a choice? The bigger __________ is that we make no decision at all and end up going nowhere and doing nothing.

1.

A．think

B．choose

C．say

D．make

2.

A．time

B．money

C．interest

D．power

3.

A．secrets

B．ideas

C．favorites

D．away

4.

A．busy

B．tired

C．fair

D．patient

5.

A．carefully

B．quickly

C．quietly

D．nervously

6.

A．and

B．or

C．though

D．but

7.

A．Luckily

B．Finally

C．Certainly

D．Hopefully

8.

A．returned

B．waited

C．cried

D．understood

9.

A．nothing

B．fear

C．peace

D．fun

10.

A．sky

B．school

C．world

D．company

11.

A．decision

B．plan

C．guess

D．ending

12.

A．simple

B．important

C．common

D．good

13.

A．right

B．great

C．wrong

D．difficult

14.

A．regret

B．change

C．accept

D．face

15.

A．difference

B．game

C．danger

D．fact