Day 1
Cooking for charity (P3)
Choose the best answer:
1. How is Lanster’s life different from other teenagers’ lives?
A. He stays up late to finish homework.
B. He plays baseball every day after school.
C. He goes to a cooking school in his spare time.
D. He holds dinner parties to collect money for charity.
2. After each dinner party, Lanster and Moran ______.
A. receive thank-you cards from the guests
B. cover the food costs with the money they have collected
C. ask their guests to donate money to charity
D. visit the poor children at Common Threads
3. Which of the following about Lanster and Moran is TRUE?
A. They received formal cooking training before starting their dinner parties.
B. They hate going to school and trying to do something different.
C. They’ve made up their minds to become professional chefs.
D. Their way of giving to charity is different from others.
4. Which of the following words best describe Lanster and Moran?
A. Creative and helpful.
B. Humorous and optimistic (乐观的).
C. Outgoing and patient.
D. Confident and cautious (谨慎的).

Day 2
Picasso museum ... (P5)
阅读短文并根据文章内容完成表格，每空一词。
 

Day 3
Why sadness often ... (P5)
1. What is the study mainly about?
A. How long different emotions last.
B. How to get rid of negative emotions.
C. The benefits of different emotions.
D. The causes of different emotions.
2. Which of the following emotions lasts the longest according to the study?
A. Boredom. B. Hatred.
C. Joy. D. Hope.
3. Why does it take so long for sadness to disappear according to the study?
A. Other negative emotions come along with sadness.
B. When people feel sad, they are likely to refuse help.
C. People consider sadness the most important human emotion.
D. People need more time to deal with emotions linked to important events.
4. What are you advised to do when you feel bad?
A. Wait until your sadness disappears.
B. Turn to your friends for help.
C. Find something funny to cheer you up.
D. Take medicine to help you recover.

Day 4
All kids can learn (P6)
1. By saying “I believe all children can learn”, the author means that ______.
A. all children can succeed if they are well-educated
B. children with problems can also learn if you can excite them
C. every child should enjoy the same opportunities to learn
D. a good educational support system is important to children’s growth
2. What happened at the end of the summer camp?
A. The campers were able to learn like other children.
B. The campers were able to make delicious biscuits on their own.
C. The parents of the campers decided to give up on their children.
D. The parents of the campers were moved by the progress their children had made.
3. Which of the following statements about the author is TRUE?
A. He grew up in a poor family and never went to school.
B. He would have ended up in jail without his mother’s help.
C. He is thankful to the teachers who offered him books to read.
D. He has decided to devote his life to helping children with disabilities.

Day 5
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。
Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn’t think there would be any difficulty in getting it (1) , as there are a whole lot of antique shops near my home. (2) I left home one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into the first (3) expecting a friendly reception. I was quite (4) . The man wouldn’t even look at my chair.
The second shop, though slightly more (5) , was just the same, and the third and the fourth, so I decided that my (6) must be wrong.
I entered the fifth shop with a(n) (7) in my mind. I placed the chair on the floor and said to the shopkeeper: “Would you like to (8) a chair?”
He looked it over (9) and said: “Yes, not a bad chair. How much do you want for it, sir?”
“20 pounds,” I said.
“OK,” he said. “I’ll give you 20 pounds.”
“It’s got a slightly broken leg,” I said.
“Yes, I saw that, it’s (10) .”
Everything was going according to plan and I was getting (11) . “What will you do with it?” I asked.
“Oh, it will be easy to sell (12) the repair is done.”
“I’ll buy it,” I said.
“What do you mean? You’ve just (13) it to me,” he said.
“Yes, I know but I’ve (14) my mind. I am sorry. I’ll give you 27 pounds for it.”
“You must be (15) ,” he said. Then, (16) the penny dropped. “I know what you want. You want me to repair your chair.”
“You’re (17) ,” I said. “And what would you have done if I had walked in and said, ‘Would you mend this chair for me?’
“I wouldn’t have (18) to do it,” he said. “We don’t do repairs, not enough money in it and too much (19) . But I’ll mend this for you, shall we say for five pounds?”
He was a very nice man and was greatly (20) by the whole thing.
1. A. sold B. returned C. cleaned D. repaired
2. A. And B. Yet C. Still D. So
3. A. club B. shop C. restaurant D. station
4. A. confident B. polite C. careless D. wrong
5. A. eager B. different C. polite D. strange
6. A. approach B. appearance
C. decision D. manners
7. A. question B. plan C. belief D. excuse
8. A. check B. buy C. repair D. see
9. A. carefully B. hurriedly C. unhappily D. excitedly
10. A. nothing B. everything C. anything D. something
11. A. worried B. patient C. confused D. excited
12. A. since B. once C. unless D. while
13. A. lent B. sent C. sold D. returned
14. A. spoken B. changed C. settled D. lost
15. A. anxious B. disappointed C. sick D. crazy
16. A. constantly B. eventually C. suddenly D. naturally
17. A. lucky B. wrong C. right D. wise
18. A. expected B. agreed C. managed D. refused
19. A. loss B. damage C. trouble D. pressure
20. A. amused B. disturbed C. inspired D. warned

上期参考答案
D1 1. Because she was attracted by the excellence of her school’s classics department.
2. She struggled and felt gloomy.
3. She feels like she’s solving a big puzzle when she is able to translate ancient texts.
4.尽管你可能有更多的自由来选择你所喜欢的科目，但留学海外也迫使你在选择课程时做出艰难的决定，是选择有挑战性的还是更容易的。
D2 DCB D3 BDC
D4 CDB D5 DACB