The country has to import most of its raw materials.

I prefer to live in the countryside. Country life has a lot of()over city life.

A.character

B.qualities

C.advantages

D.ways

If a country has a trade surplus thenA.S >I and Y >C ＋ I ＋ G.B.S< I and Y &

If a country has a trade surplus then

A.S >I and Y >C + I + G.

B.S< i and y >C + I + G.

C.S >I and Y< c + i + g.

D.S< i and y< c + i + g.

I prefer to live in the countryside. Country life has a lot of（)over city life.

A.ways

B.qualities

C.character

D.advantages

harmony and peace for me.

Living in the country requires an active lifestyle. It involves activities like doing daily chores, preparing firewood for winter heating, feeding animals including pets and livestock, tending the garden, or securing fences, etc. For me, the most attractive activities are fishing, hunting and hiking. I enjoy seeing what nature has to offer everyday through a simple walk down the little trail, or a relaxing drive along the country road with patches of green grass ornamented with wildlife sightings of birds, moose, bears, deer, etc.

Living the country life helps us appreciate some of the simpler things, things that make us feel good about ourselves and the world. It may be just a get together on a Saturday at the local farmers market, or a project or a problem that the community might pull together to help solve. I have participated in a few community projects, like dealing with out-of-control grass fires, a roof that collapsed from a large snow fall, or even helping a recent widow with fire wood for the winter. Sometimes I am surprised by how much benefit we receive from helping others and as for this community I can’t say enough.

I really enjoy living the country life. I know it’s not for everyone, but I know it’s for me.

1.The author has lived in the countryside for more than a decade, and he/she loves living there.（）

2.Living in the country is not busy at all.（）

3.The author takes a walk or drives along country roads almost every day.（）

4.People living in the country usually go shopping every Saturday.（）

5.According to the author, nobody dislikes countryside life.（）

y, harmony and peace for me.

Living in the country requires an active lifestyle. It involves activities like doing daily chores, preparing firewood for winter heating, feeding animals including pets and livestock, tending the garden, or securing fences, etc. For me, the most attractive activities are fishing, hunting and hiking. I enjoy seeing what nature has to offer everyday through a simple walk down the little trail, or a relaxing drive along the country road with patches of green grass ornamented with wildlife sightings of birds, moose, bears, deer, etc.

Living the country life helps us appreciate some of the simpler things, things that make us feel good about ourselves and the world. It may be just a get together on a Saturday at the local farmers market, or a project or a problem that the community might pull together to help solve. I have participated in a few community projects, like dealing with out-of-control grass fires, a roof that collapsed from a large snow fall, or even helping a recent widow with fire wood for the winter. Sometimes I am surprised by how much benefit we receive from helping others and as for this community I can’t say enough.

I really enjoy living the country life. I know it’s not for everyone, but I know it's for me.

1. The author has lived in the countryside for more than a decade, and he/she loves living there.{T; F}

2. Living in the country is not busy at all.{T; F}

3. The author takes a walk or drives along country roads almost every day.{T; F}

4. People living in the country usually go shopping every Saturday.{T; F}

5. According to the author, nobody dislikes countryside life.{T; F}

ving to say goodbye as if it's the last time they' re ever going to see me is beginning to wear out my friends. Some of the more unfortunate must have said goodbye at least three or four times. Much to everyone' s delight, I will be setting off this Saturday, but getting all the necessary visas (签证) for the journey has been far from quick, cheap or straightforward.

Getting a Chinese visa was easy enough. The Mongolian embassy (大使馆) seemed a bit unprepared for me, or in fact any other tourist, wanting to visit the country in winter and it took half an hour of knocking at the door before I got an answer. The Mongolian visa, however, has a map of the country in the background that should come in handy if I get lost out on the grassland.

It was getting a Russian visa that had me wondering if I'd ever be able to leave. The requirements for the visa, especially for the trip that ! plan to take, were a mountain of paperwork. I was required to prove, for example, where and when I plan on staying in each city and what train I plan to catch between cities.

I've spent a lot of time preparing for this trip, but ! still have no idea what to expect on this journey. The planning and packing has taken my mind off any worries I have so now everything is ready and I just want to get going. I'm sure I will see some interesting people and see some wonderful sights, and the sense of the unknown makes it all the more exciting.

How do the writer's friends feel about the delay of his trip？

A．Grateful.

B．Impatient.

C．Delighted.

D．Worried.

ducts as tobacco, cotton and fruit, the country earns enough from "invisible earnings" to pay for its needed, growing imports. From the sending out of things the Greeks, earn only ＄285 million; from tourism, shipping and the remittances of Greeks abroad, the country takes in an additional ＄375 million and this washes out the almost ＄400 million by which imports exceed exports.

It has a balanced budget. Although more than one drachma out of four goes for defense, the government ended a recent year with a slight surplus—＄66 million. Greece has a decent reserve of almost a third of a billion dollars in gold and foreign exchange. It has a government not dependent on coalescing incompatible parties to obtain parliamentary majorities.

In thus summarizing a few happy highlights, I don't mean to minimize the vast extent of Greece's problems. It is the poorest country by a wide margin in Free Europe, and poverty is widespread. At best an annual income of ＄60 to ＄70 is the lot of many a peasant, and substantial unemployment plagues the countrysides, cities, and towns of Greece. There are few natural resources on which to build any substantial industrial base. Some years ago I wrote here:

"Greek statesmanship will have to create an atmosphere in which home and foreign savings will willingly seek investment opportunities in the back ward economy of Greece. So far, most American and other foreign attempt have bogged down in the Greek government's red tape and shrewdness about small points."

Great strides have been made. As far back as 1956, expanding tourism seemed a logical way to bring needed foreign currencies and additional jobs to Greece. At that time I talked with the Hilton Hotel people, who had been examining hotel possibilities, and to the Greek government division responsible for this area of the economy. They were hopelessly deadlocked in almost total differences of opinion and outlook.

Today most of the incredibly varied, beautiful, historical sights of Greece have new, if in many cases modest, tourist facilities, Tourism itself has jumped from approximately＄31 million to over ＄90 million. There is both a magnificent new Hilton Hotel in Athens and a completely modernized, greatly expanded Grande Bretagne, as well as other first-rate new hotels. And the advent of jets has made Athens as accessible as Paris or Rome—without the sky-high prices of traffic-choked streets of either.

The title below that best expresses the ideas of this passage is ______.

A．Greek income and expenditures

B．The improving economic situation in Greece

C．The value of tourism

D．Military expenditures

the best experiences I have ever had in my lifetime.In the last four months.I have learned more about foreign cultures than I expected before coming to the United States.

Living in a foreign country and going to school with people from various parts of the world has given me the opportunity to encounter and interact with people from different cultures.I would like to share some of my experiences and thoughts with you.When I first arrived.I knew no one and I needed all fingers to communicate what i said in English.All of the foreign students were in the same situation.When we could not find the right word we used strange movements and gestures to communicate our meaning.

Knowing some common phrases.such as How are you？ Fine.thank you.and what country are you from？was enough in the beginning for us to make friends with each other.The TV room in the dormitory became our meeting place every evening after dinner.but for the most part their words were just a strange mumble to us.

After a while, bored and a little sad, we slowly began to disappear to our rooms.I thought that all of us were experiencing some homesickness.However, despite my loneliness.I had a good feeling within myself because I was doing what I wanted to do for many years to live and study in a foreign country.

1.When I first arrived in the U.S().

A.I can speak English well

B.I have already had some friends there

C.I needed all my fingers to communicate in English

D.I could find the right word in speaking English

2.Why did we slowly begin to disappear to our room？()

A.Because we wanted to watched to watch television

B.Because we were bored and a little sad

C.Because we were experiencing homesickness

D.Because the TV room has become our meeting place

3.What is the thing I wanted to do for many years？ ()

A.To live and study in a foreign country

B.I had a good feeling within myself

C.To understand what the people appearing on the screen said

D.Not to be lovely

4.Which of the following sentence is wrong according to the passage？()

A.Studying in US is one of the best experiences I have ever had in my lifetime

B.I have learned more about foreign cultures than l expected

C.Some common phrases were enough in the beginning for us to make friends

D.Not all the foreign students were in the same situation

5.What is the author's attitude towards studying in a foreign country？()

A.He considered it a good experience

B.He dislike this experience

C.He didn't think it hard living in a foreign country

D.He felt sad when thinking of it