15．　　I felt sad very much. I had studied English for 8 years, (1)       my spoken English was still terrible. I took an English class every night. I read different textbooks every day, but I didn't make any (2)       at all!
　　One night I got online. I found a(n) (3)       English learning system (体系). (4)      , I started using the system to learn English. I used the system every day. I was (5)       to find that learning English in this way was so easy and interesting. There were no boring grammar rules. The articles and stories were interesting.
　　Then (6)       amazing happened. One day I met an American named James in a coffee shop. Without thinking too much, I wasn't afraid to (7)       with him. My English words came out freely. It was hard for me to (8)       it. I didn't have any (9)       making James understand me. Then we exchanged e-mails.
　　My English has (10)       greatly now. I think there are many ways of learning English. We should find out what's helpful and suitable for us.

16．　　In a small town, there lived a doctor. He was good and kind. He was ready to go and help people. People always went to him when they were ill.
　　Many years later, the doctor began to forget things. The people were afraid and little by little, they stopped going to him. The doctor saw his business wasn't as good as before. He thought, "Well. if I were the patient. I'd be afraid to go to me too. Maybe it's time for me to stop being a doctor. But if this town has no doctor, what will the people do when they become ill?"
　　His wife heard him talking to himself and said, "Why don't you find a young doctor to take your place?Then people will have another good doctor to take care of them and I will get my husband back." The doctor did as what his wife said. He found a very good young doctor to help the people. The doctor and his wife then had time to take long walks together, go dancing, go traveling and spend the rest of their days together.

17．Interesting festivals in the world
　　Throwing tomatoes — Spain (西班牙)
　　Spain takes "tomatoes fights" to a whole new level. But the tomatoes are being thrown, not eaten. The festival takes place during the last Wednesday in August. Trucks (卡车) carry tomatoes into the square. People rush to the tomatoes and throw them into the crowd.
　　Rolling cheese — England
　　This festival is celebrated on the last Monday in May. It takes place on Cooper's Hill. A large wheel o cheese (奶酪) is rolled down Cooper's Hill. The festival is actually a race where people run down the hill after the rolling cheese. The first person to cross the finish line at the bottom of the hill wins the cheese.
　　Burning man — The United States
　　The Burning Man Festival lasts a week, it is from the Monday before Labor Day to Labor Day (which falls on the first Monday in September in America). The festival takes place in the Black Rock Desert. The best part of the festival is the burning of a large sculpture of a man.
　　Pouring water — Thailand
　　The Songkran Festival is the celebration of the New Year in Thailand. Rather than a single day, Thailand celebrates the New Year from April 13th to April 15th. Thai people run after each other, pouring water. Songkran is one of the most important reasons why foreigners travel to the beautiful land.

18．阅读短文, 并按要求完成 1﹣5 题．
　　Do you know how to be a wise English newspaper reader?
　　You'd better know what sections (部分) there are. Usually, 'there is international news, business, science and technology, entertainment or lifestyle, sports and cartoons. You can choose your favorite section to read carefully.
　　Then, you come to the article itself. If you don't have time to read the whole article, the headline (标题) and photo give you a general idea of the story.
　　Different kinds of articles
　　A news article includes body text and a photo with a short piece of text under it. It usually puts the most important information at the very beginning. If you don't have much time to read the story, just have a look at the first paragraph.
　　A feature article is an in-depth (深入的) report on an event or person. It usually has an interesting opening. You get to know the idea of the article as you read.
　　Another kind of article is an opinion article. Usually, some famous people give their own opinions about an important event in a fun way. Opinion is different from news stories that are all facts.
　　Be a critical (批判性的) reader There are advertisements in newspapers. They can provide useful information about products, places, food or jobs. Remember that people make advertisements to sell you things. You don't have to do everything advertisements tell you to do. You should be critical enough to judge which advertisements are useful and which me not.
(1)、(2)题完成句子;(3)题简略回答问题;(4)题找出并写下全文的主题句;(5)题将文中画线句子译成汉语．

19．　　"How are you?" is a usual question. It's a friendly way that people in America greet each other. (1)       "How are you?" is also a very unusual question. It's a question that often doesn't have an answer. The person who asks "How are you? " (2)       (expect) to hear the answer "Fine", even if the person's friend isn't fine. The reason is that "How are you?" isn't really a question and "Fine" isn't really an answer. They are just other (3)       of saying "Hello" or "Hi". Sometimes, people also don't say exactly what they (4)      (mean). For example, when someone asks "Do you agree?" the other person might think, "No, I disagree. I think you're wrong." But it is (5)       (polite) to disagree so strongly, so the (6)c      answer may be "I'm not sure." It's a nicer way to say that you don't agree with someone.
　　People also don't say exactly what they are thinking when they finish (7)       (talk) with other people. Many people talking on the phone finish the (8)       (谈论, 交谈) by saying "I've to go now." Often, the person who wants to hang up gives an excuse like "Someone's at the door." The excuses might be real, or it might not be (9)      (truth). Perhaps the person just doesn't want to keeping on talking. (10)H      , the polite excuse won't hurt the other person. All in all, it's an important way that people try to be nice to each other, and it's a part of the game of language.

25．假定你是李华, 你的英国笔友Peter的学校网站"中国文化"栏目拟刊登中国节日风俗及中学生生活的短文. 近期Peter给你写了e﹣mail约稿. 请你根据以下要点回一封邮件.
1. 对该栏目的评价;
2. 介绍中国的中秋节;
3. 你的建议和希望.
注意:
1. 词数100左右, 开头与结尾已给出, 不计入总词数;
2. 可适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯.
Dear Peter,
　　I'm very happy to receive you e-mail. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua.