In American schools there is something called Homecoming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming game. This can be the most important event of the year except graduation day. Students plan Homecoming Day for many weeks in advance.
Several days before Homecoming Day,students start to decorate the school. There are signs to wish luck to the team,and many other signs to welcome all the graduates. Many people still come to Homecoming Day twenty or thirty years after their graduation.
The members of school clubs build booths and sell lemonade,apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors.
During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.
Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over,the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Homecoming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student Homecoming Queen or King. It is great honor to be chosen.
Homecoming Day is a happy day,but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game. Even if the team loses,the students still enjoy Homecoming Day. Some stay at the school to dance,and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering. (240 words)
11. What do many high schools and colleges with a football team have?
A. A Homecoming game.
B. A Homecoming party.
C. A Homecoming dance
D. A Homecoming concert
12. When do students begin to plan the Homecoming Day?
A. Two weeks in advance.
B. One week in advance
C. Many weeks in advance
D. Two or three days in advance
13. What do students start to do several days before the Homecoming Day?
A. Stop classes for parties
B. Decorate the school
C. Set up welcoming groups
D. Hold all kinds of parties
14. Which is NOT mentioned about the things they do before the football game?
A. Look for teachers
B. See old friends
C. Talk together.
D. Order tickets
15. When does the band play school songs?
A. While the game is going on
B. After the game
C. When the game is half over
D. Before the game
Directions: Read the following passage and the statements that follow. Choose the best answer for each statement from the three choices marked A, B and C.
Welcome to the Telfort Business Institute’s E280 Conversational English Class. The object of this course is to learn how to converse fluently and effectively in English. For the next eight weeks we will finely turn your skills in the act of debating and role-playing. We will also practice speech rhythm and diction with an emphasis on enunciation and specific speech problems encountered by those who are studying English as a foreign language.
Numerous discussions on a wide variety of subjects will be held, including topics of business, fiction, travel, differences between Western and Chinese culture, education and life experiences.
You will have ample opportunities to give oral presentations and voice your opinions on the various topics that we plan to cover. It is very important that you talk as much as you can. Don’t wait for your instructor to ask you to speak. If you have a question to ask, additionally, if you have any questions about anything your fellow students say, please feel free to ask.
1. The course of E280 is a conversational one().
A.True
B.False
C.Not Mentioned
2.Each boy and girl () given a gift on Christmas Day.
A.Is
B.Are
C.Were
D.was
A. I want to talk to you
B. I was wondering to talk about
C. I’d like to discuss with you
D. I like to discuss about
A.say
B.speak
C.tell
D.talk
A.have a link with
B.connect with
C.communicate with
D.get hold of
A、to talk
B、to talking
C、talking
D、being talked
A.so that
B.that
C.who
D.whom