Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentence.

My political opponent has not kept any of his promises to the voters. He said he would not raise taxes, and he did. He said he would not oppose our municipal bond issue, and he did. Furthermore, he said he would not increase the salary of his personal staff, and he has. On the other hand, there were two things he did not do that desperately needed doing. He did not repair the potholes in our city streets, and he did not build an extension onto our local retirement home. He obviously cannot be trusted.

Research scientists at the institute note that babies are strongly influenced by their environment. They say a baby will smile if its mother does something the baby likes. A baby learns to get the best care possible by smiling to please its mother or other caregivers(照料者). Its mother or other caregivers then understand(s) its information. This is how babies learn to connect and communicate people. The American researchers say this ability to learn exists in a baby even before birth. They say newborn babies can recognize and understand sounds they heard while they were still developing inside their mothers. A study last month from the Netherlands found evidence that unborn babies can remember sounds. This study was very valuable indeed. Dutch researchers studied almost one hundred pregnant(怀孕的) women. They played sounds to the growing fetus(胎儿) and watched its movements with ultrasound(超声) devices. They found that by thirty weeks of development the fetus could remember a sound for ten minutes. By the thirty-fourth week, the fetus could remember the sound for four weeks.

Write a letter according to the following situation: You are Zhu Liang. You are a student of Henan University, doing research on the frequency with which welfare recipients use prescription drugs. To complete the paper, you need some specific information concerning medical aid payments and the number of prescriptions issued to people on public assistance. Write a letter to the director of Province Welfare Office, asking them to provide the necessary information. (150-200 words)

19.Some people are not afraid of stress, and such characters are obviously prime material for managerial responsibilities.

20.In fact, we make choices between “fight” and “flight” and in more primitive days the choices made the difference between life and death.

21.Since we cannot remove stress from our lives (it would be unwise to do so even if we could), we need to find ways to deal with it.

22.The amount of stress a person can withstand depends very much on the individual.

23.When exposed to stress in whatever form, we react both chemically and physically.

24.It is when such reaction lasts long, through continual exposure to stress, that health becomes endangered.

25.Such serious conditions as high blood pressure and heart disease have established links with stress.

26.The crises we meet today are unlikely to be so extreme, but however little the stress, it involves the same response.

27.Others lose heart at the first signs of unusual difficulties.

Read the following paragraph carefully and choose the best topic sentence from the four possible answers that follow the paragraph by writing A, B, C or D.

Topic Sentence:__________

These memories of mine have been collected slowly, over a period of years. Some readers, finding them in a magazine, have taken them for stories. The assumption that I have “made them up”is surprisingly prevalent(流行的), even among people who know me. I do not understand the reason for these doubts. Can it be that the public takes for granted that anything written by a professional writer is necessarily untrue? The professional writer is looked on perhaps as “story- teller”, like a child who has fallen into that habit and is mechanically scolded by his parents even when he protests that this time he is telling the truth.

A. I am essentially a story-teller.

B. I am often accused of telling lies.

C. The fact that I am a professional writer is often doubted by my readers.

D. The memories of mine are often taken as stories by some of my readers.

Choose the best topic sentence from the group below by writing A, B, C or D.

A. Music is an important part of my life.

B. When I feel low, music cheers me up.

C. I studied music at primary school for six years.

D. I am a member of the pop music club of my college.

Answer:__________

Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentence.

My political opponent has not kept any of his promises to the voters. He said he would not raise taxes, and he did. He said he would not oppose our municipal bond issue, and he did. Furthermore, he said he would not increase the salary of his personal staff, and he has. On the other hand, there were two things he did not do that desperately needed doing. He did not repair the potholes in our city streets, and he did not build an extension onto our local retirement home. He obviously cannot be trusted.

Failure turns out to be a valuable learning experience for those. Who may be successful the second or the third time.

He walks slowly behind me. As if he does not see me walking a few metres ahead.

Small businesses grow into bigger ones. Adding to the economic vitality.

They have been engaged in the work all day long. Without a rest.