Choose the best topic sentence from the four options below. Write the corresponding letter of your choice in the blank provided.

A、Boston has been a leading American city in recent years.

B、Students are being required to take more academic courses.

C、Teachers' monthly salaries have risen to an average of 2,000.

D、The United States is making an effort to improve the quality of education.

Your choice: ________

Write a letter of job application according to the following situation: Professor Liu who once taught you at university resigned last year and became president of Chung Hwa Commercial Bank. As a banking major, write a letter to him in order to seek a position in the bank. Please sign your name as Li Ping-(150-200 words)

Each of the Russian manned space exploration projects had specific major goals. For example, the Vostok project was designed to test whether or not human beings could survive and function in outer space. For another example the Voshkhod project was intended to find out whether people could work in the weightless environment of space. One Voshkhod cosmonaut (苏联宇航员)experimented with weighdessness by taking a “spacewalk” That is, he floated in a spacesuit outside his Voshkhod spacecraft, connected to it by a tether (系绳，系链). The cosmonaut who did that was Alexei Leonov. Several weeks later, Leonov's spacewalk was followed by that of U.S. astronaut Ed White. Finally, the Soyuz project, with three cosmonauts, had goals of testing spacecraft and spaceflight skills so that people could fly long missions m Earth orbit, China's spaceflight skills are catching up.

A、Industries and government eontribute another 20 percent: the largest industrial polluters are petroleum refineries.

B、The air we breathe is about one-fifth oxygen and a little less than four-fifths nitrogen (氮), with traces of other gases,water vapor, and the waste products we put into it.

C、Homes, apartments, and offices use coal, gas and oil for heat.

D、Motor vehicles account for over 51 percent of the total polluting material sent into the atmosphere every year.

E、Heating is also a major source of pollution.

F、Most air pollution is caused by the gasoline-powered internal combustion(燃烧)engines of cars , trucks and buses.

G、Another source of pollution is the incineration (烧成灰烬)of garbage, trash,metal,glass, and other waste.

H、Electrical power plants also contribute about 20 percent of the total air pollutants by burning coal or oil for electrical power.

Read the following paragraph and choose the best topic sentence from the four options that follow. Write the corresponding letter of your choice in the blank provided.

First, there are always customers to be served. I work in a downtown McDonald's that gets lots of traffic, and as soon as I serve one customer, there is always another one ready to order. There is constant pressure because I can never step back for a few minutes and relax. Second, I have to put together ail of the orders myself To do that, I have to move all over the serving area: French fries on one side,drinks on the other, and burgers in the middle, I must always move at a fast pace. McDonald's has an image to upholds and its workers must scurry (小跑)about like ants. Finally, my manager really keeps the pressure on. He watches us like a hawk, and every time I do something wrong, he seems to catch it. He also has a reputation for firing people, and he never lets any of the workers feel that their jobs are safe. By the end of the day, I'm emotionally and physically drained, like everyone else, and we all head out the door grunbling.

A、Working at McDonald's is very tiring.

B、McDonald's offers French fries drinks and burgers.

C、Workers at McDonald's are expected to uphold its image.

D、McDonald's managers are all like hawks and keep the pressure on.

Your choice:_______

Choose the best topic sentence from the four options below. Write the corresponding letter of your choice in the blank provided.

A、Boston has been a leading American city in recent years.

B、Students are being required to take more academic courses.

C、Teachers' monthly salaries have risen to an average of 2,000.

D、The United States is making an effort to improve the quality of education.

Your choice: ________

Read the following paragraph and write the topic sentence on the answer sheet.

The tragic hero is typically on top of the wheel of fortune, half-way between human society on the ground and something greater in the sky. Prometheus, Adam, and Christ hang between heaven and earth, between a world of paradisal (天堂似的)freedom and a world of bondage. Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them，great trees more likely to be Struck by lightning than a clump of grass. Conductors may of course be instruments as well as victims of the divine lightning: Milton's Samson destroys the Philistine temple with himself, and Hamlet nearly extenninates (消灭) the Danish court in his own fall.

The dictionary is used to find the meaning of words, their pronunciation, and how to spell therm.

He had no choice but doing what he was told to do.

Helena's car being the only one that could carry all of our equipment to the lab.

He has lost his passport again. Which is especially annoying, for he is to attend a conference in Paris tomorrow.