Choose the best topic sentence from the group below. Write the letter of your choice in the blank provided. A. As a freshman I felt all the difficulties of managing money. B. Most college students are economically dependent on their parents. C. Doing a part-time job can increase the sense of financial responsibility for college students. D. Manipulating money wisely is an absolute necessity for everyone, especially for college students.

19. The reason was never explained to us. 20. My father had taught me, on his lap, before I started school - A Child’s, Garden of Verses, and Eugene Field, his favorite poet. 21. I remember a storybook, which soon disappeared, about some Belgian children along a canal escaping from Germans. 22. At any rate, these are all the books I recall from my childhood household. 00:35:37 23. From an early time, I had been a great reader. 24. A few volumes had come with us, I think, from Seattle to Minneapolis, but they were for looking at the pictures on the living-room floor while a grown-up watched, not for reading. 25. But after our parents’ death, almost no books were permitted. 26. Was it to save electricity, or because books could give “ideas” that would make us too big for our boots? ___ ___ ___ 26 19 24 ___ ___

It was mid-June the morning we graduated, and I fainted in the huge hall for the Commencement （毕业典礼） from the heat. Afterwards Frani’s parents took several of us to lunch at the Silver Swan. My grandparents had not come for the occasion, but sent me a check for a trip to Europe — that was a graduation present, and a wedding present as well, he wrote. Yes, the decision of marriage had eventually been made. We had already had an interview with the curate （牧师助理）, and it was exactly one week after the Commencement and my twenty-first birthday when we “stood up” together in the chapel. John told me that I would never become a good actress. We had a one-night honeymoon at an inn in Briarcliff, and there all of a sudden I had an attack of panic. As we climbed into the big bed, I knew, too late, that I had done the wrong thing. To marry a man without loving him, which was what I had just done, not really perceiving it, was a wicked action, I saw. Stiff with remorse and terror, I lay under the thin blanket through a good part of the night.

Write a letter according to the following situation: you came across a piece of news from China Daily that Zhaoyang High School in Gansu Province is recruiting English teachers. You （Li Ming）, an English major going to graduate next summer, decide to apply for it. In the letter, make sure to include your devotion to education, your enthusiasm to work in the Northwest of our country, and your qualifications for the job. Don’t forget to leave your phone number （555-5555） for further contact. （150-200 words）

Hockey is a sport which is popular in many countries around the world.（simple sentence）

Not until he crossed the line and felt the tape snap against his chest did Johnson know he had won the race.（loose sentence）

I have checked my documents several times. I still can’t find the problem.（compound sentence）

We lived in a small town when I was a small child. We moved to Shanghai later. My father landed a better job there.（compound-complex sentence）

At the international museum, you can find ancient Egyptian art. You can explore African artifacts there. You can discover beautiful textiles from around the world there.（parallel structure）

We slipped on the road when we could see no lights in the heavy rain that night.（periodic sentence）