I feel very excited at the thought that in another week I shall be with you again on holiday. I have enjoyed my stay in England very much indeed. Mr Brown and classmates are nice to me, but, as they say in England, “There’s no place like home.” and I think you feel this above all at Christmas time.

I am leaving here early on Thursday, the 23rd, and I shall arrive in Basle on Friday morning, so I shall be home somewhere about lunchtime. Can you meet me at the station, as I shall have a lot of luggage?

In some of my earlier letters I have told you all about the other students here. Well, I want to ask my Polish friend Jan to come and spend Christmas with us. Will that be all right? His father and mother died last year, he can go home for Christmas, and he has no friend in England except the Browns. He is a nice boy. I know you all like him, and I feel sure he will enjoy Christmas with us. It is very short notice, but you are always pleased, I know, if we bring our friends home. however, I have not yet invited him, as I thought it was better to ask you first. Please let me know as soon as possible if it will be all right.

小题1:The writer was very excited at the thought that ________.

A．she would be back home with her new friend

B．she would be with her parents in another week

C．her parents wanted to see her very much

D．she would go on staying in England小题2:She wanted some one to meet her because ________.

A．she was told to do so

B．she would be tired out after the trip

C．she would carry a pile of things

D．she didn’t know where the station was小题3:The underlined sentence “There’s no place like home” means ________.

A．There is not a place that the writer likes

B．There is no place that the writer can live in

C．The writer’s home is not in London in fact

D．East and west, home is best小题4:These paragraphs are taken out of a ________.

A．magazine

B．letter

C．book

D．newspaper