Day1

US girl is going to Harvard... (P3)

Choose the best answer:

1. How many points did Ibraheem lose on the math section of the SAT?

A. 60. B. 50.

C. 10. D. 0.

2. According to Ibraheem, what is most important for her success?

A. Her interest in exams.

B. Her strong belief.

C. Her skipping a grade.

D. Her love of challenges.

3. Which of the following does Ibraheem NOT do at school?

A. Play soccer.

B. Swim for the school team.

C. Teach her classmates instead of teachers.

D. Serve as president of the school’s investment club.

4. What do we know about Ibraheem?

A. She is not really 15 years old.

B. All 14 schools accepted her.

C. She is interested in neuroscience.

D. She is good at making money.

Day2

Money makes the world... (P4-5)

Choose the best answer:

1. According to the story, _____ may appear on the front of most banknotes.

A. a country’s leader

B. a great athlete

C. some well-known scenes

D. a famous building

2. The White House appears on the back of the _____ bill.

A. one-dollar B. 10-dollar

C. 20-dollar D. 100-dollar

3. How many countries of the EU use the euro as their official currency?

A. 12 B. 17

C. 27 D. 30

4. The story mainly tells us about _____.

A. the importance of banknotes

B. the pictures on banknotes

C. the reason we use banknotes

D. the different kinds of banknotes

Day3

Scariest night of the year (P5)

Choose the best answer:

1. According to the legend, ghosts can get free only ______.

A. when someone catches their murderers

B. on Halloween day every year

C. when living people get scared

D. when they get enough candy

2. Some people make their houses “haunted” to______.

A. get some candy from people

B. scare their friends and neighbors

C. make some money

D. find the murderers of the ghosts

3. Where are those screams coming from on Halloween?

A. They are from some kids.

B. They are from some ghosts.

C. They are from some monsters.

D. They are from recordings.

4. Which of the following is TRUE about Halloween?

A. People try to catch some murderers on that day.

B. It is the scariest and most fun day of the year.

C. You will see monsters on that day.

D. You will see ghosts on that day.

Day4

Love makes a family strong (P6)

Choose the best answer:

1. Why does the writer think there may be no love between her parents?

A. Because they never say: “I love you”, to each other.

B. Because they don’t look after each other.

C. Because they don’t go for walks together.

D. Because they don’t like to watch TV together.

2. What can we learn from the passage?

A. The writer’s parents don’t love the writer.

B. The writer’s parents love each other in their own way.

C. The writer’s father didn’t like to walk with his wife.

D. The writer’s mother often says: “I love you”, to her.

3. With the story of the quilt and the thread, the writer’s mother wanted to _____.

A. teach the writer how to make a quilt

B. show she was very good at making quilts

C. move away from the writer’s question

D. tell the writer what love was

4. Now, the writer thinks love ______.

A. means flowers and gifts

B. means romance

C. means holding each other

D. is like a quilt

Day5

Cloze

MCT

As we all know, Charles Dickens is considered to be a great English writer. He’s very famous not only in Britain, but also in many other 1 in the world. He was born in 1812 and he lived in London. He wrote lots of books, and he also liked 2 . He was an actor.

Maybe that’s 3 his books were so good. He gave public readings of his stories that were very popular. His stories first appeared in a magazine in parts. People always wanted 4 part. He wrote a lot, and most of what he wrote was popular. There are films and plays of his stories 5 . Oliver Twist became a famous musical, and Great Expectations was a wonderful 6 .

Dickens’ early life was very hard. His family was poor, and his mother sent him out to work in a factory when he was 12. He 7 it, but he used his experiences in his writing. He married Catherine Hogarth and they had a big family. He continued to write 8 he died. When he died in 1870, he was 9 a story. But what a pity! We’ll never know 10 it ended.

1. A. cities B. countries C. towns D. villages

2. A. reading B. writing C. acting D. playing

3. A. what B. how C. when D. why

4. A. the next B. next C. next to D. next time

5. A. too B. as well C. as well as D. also

6. A. book B. story C. magazine D. film

7. A. hated B. enjoyed C. wanted D. shamed

8. A. as B. while C. until D. since

9. A. drawing B. singing C. writing D. making

10. A. what B. how C. who D. which

（参考答案见下期）

上期参考答案

Reading

【P3】CAB

【P4-5】1. Manchester United, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Barcelona 2. easy, inexpensive/ cheap, exercise, kicking, outside

3. sport, requires, watch, between/with

【P5】DDBC

【P6】BADB

【Cloze】1-5 ACDAC 6-10 BDCCD 11-15 BDDCB

Word check: 1-5 DABBB 6-10 CABDC