民族的凝聚力，已成为综合国力竞争的决定性因素。[]

根据对话内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出最佳选项，将其答案的序号写在方框下面的横线上,选项中有两项为多余项。
A: You must be really excited about leaving for America tomorrow, Li Ping!
B: Yeah.小题1:______
A: Nervous about what?
B: I don’t know many of the customs and manners in the USA.小题2:______
A: Sure.
B: 小题3:______
A: Well, it’s important to be on time when you’re invited for dinner.小题4:______ Americans expect their guests to be on time.
B: Then how long may I stay there?
A: 小题5:______ Or you seem to have come only for the meal.When your friends seem to be getting tired and running out of things, it’s time to leave.The next day, call or write a thank-you note to say how much you enjoyed the evening.

A.It’s good to stay at home for you. B.After the meal, don’t leave at once. C.Could you give me a hand? D.What rules do they have in America? E.But I’m a bit nervous. F.You’re supposed to leave before the meal. G.It’s impolite to arrive late.

 

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was ____36____ and when I was 14 years old, he predicted, “You are never to be ____37____ but a failure.”
After 5 years of poor jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best thing ____38____ could have happened to me. I ____39____ I should do something positive with my life because I wanted to prove ___40___ her that what people said about me had gone ___41___, especially her mother, who once said to me, “Let’s ____42____ it. You’ve failed every thing you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my ____43____ and went to ____44____. My first novel ____45____ while I was still a college student.
After college, I taught during the day in high schools and attended ____46____ classes at London University, where I ____47____ a degree in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of ____48____ that job to write full time when I was ____49____ a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself---here was a working-class boy who’d ___50___ school early, now teaching at the university.
My writing career ____51____ when I discovered my own writing ____52____. Now I’m rich and famous, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. _____53____ what does it mean? I just wish that all those people who have ____54____ me down had just said, “I believe in you and you will be ____55____.”

小题1:	A．naughty B．lazy C．useless D．raggy

小题2:A. nothing         B. something        C everything        D. anything

小题3:	A．when B．that C．which D．as

小题4:	A．thought B．promised C．decided D．expected

小题5:	A．to B．for C．with D．at

小题6:	A．ridiculous B．acceptable C．believable D．wrong

小题7:	A．see B．face C．treat D．react

小题8:	A．writing B．experiment C．practice D．composition

小题9:	A．school B．college C．club D．company

小题10:

A．went across B．put aside C．came out D．set off

小题11:

A．lecture B．writing C．teaching D．evening

小题12:

A．received B．accepted C．gave D．offered

小题13:

A．giving up B．paying for C．signing up D．ridding of

小题14:

A．paid B．made C．offered D．tried

小题15:

A．finished B．gone C．delayed D．left

小题16:

A．made off B．took off C．gave off D．moved off

小题17:

A．style B．habit C．idea D．skill

小题18:

A．Therefore B．But C．Though D．For

小题19:

A．written B．turned C．torn D．put

小题20:

A．cheerful B．enjoyable C．successful D．forgettable