1.— I've been promoted to the director of sales department and I'm wondering whether I can ask for a big pay rise. —__________.After all,the economy is struggling these days.( )
21.When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines,Iowa,he told me about the only time he had been there.It was in the 1930s,when he was an editor of the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas,Texas.He also worked as a professor at SMU,and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease.She couldn't afford the operation because her family was poor. Her mother ran a boarding house in Galveston,a seaside town near Houston,Texas.She was cleaning out the attic (閣樓) one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript (手稿).On its top page were the words, "By O.Henry".It was a nice story,and she sent it to her daughter at SMU,who showed it to my father.My father had never read the story before,but it sounded like O.Henry,and he knew that O.Henry had once lived in Houston.So,it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boarding house,and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident.My father visited an O.Henry expert at Columbia University in New York,who authenticated the story as O.Henry's. My father then set out to sell it.Eventually,he found himself in Des Moines,meeting with Gardner Cowles,a top editor at the Des Moines Register.Cowles loved the story and bought it on the spot.My father took the money to the girl.It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed. My father never told me what the O.Henry story was about.But I doubt that it could have been better than his own story.
(1)What did the author's father do at SMU? (no more than 12 words)
(2)Why was O.Henry's manuscript found in the attic? (no more than 20 words)
(3)What does the underlined word "authenticated" in Paragraph 2 mean? (1 word)
(4)Why did the author's father set out to sell the manuscript? (no more than 10 words)
(5)What do you think of the author's intention of writing such a story of his father?Please explain. (no more than 25 words)
22.假如你是晨光中學(xué)的李津,你最近收到英國好友Chris的郵件。信中提到他將于4月中旬隨學(xué)訪團(tuán)到天津交流學(xué)習(xí),希望你給他推薦一下最值得去的景點(diǎn)。請你給他回一封郵件,內(nèi)容包括: (1)表示歡迎; (2)簡單介紹天津; (3)推薦一處旅游景點(diǎn)并給出理由。 注意: (1)詞數(shù)不少于100; (2)可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié),以使行文連貫; (3)開頭和結(jié)尾已為你寫好,不計入總詞數(shù)。 Dear Chris, I'm so glad to receive your email and______ I hope this is helpful.Can't wait to meet you! Yours, Li Jin