Reading

Choose the best answer:

Family lessons (P3)

1. The passage is mainly about _______.

A. the cultural differences Yuxin experienced in America

B. how Yuxin learned to get along with younger kids in America

C. how much Yuxin's caring host family in America changed her

D. various difficulties Yuxin met in America

2. From Paragraph 2, we can see that _______.

A. the host mom was good at decorating room

B. Yuxin was fond of American doll

C. the host mom tried hard to make Yuxin feel at home

D. Yuxin kept busy with a lot of hobbie

3. What led Yuxin to feel like she was really part of the family?

A. Yuxin's talks with her host parents.

B. Having to join in sports with the family.

C. The host mom's rule about playing with the kids.

D. Enjoying weekends with the host family.

4. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Yuxin's life with her American host family went very smoothly from the beginning.

B. The host mom cared about Yuxin's overall development.

C. The host family's two children didn't like Yuxin at all.

D. Yuxin didn't notice what the host family did for her.

5. How did the host mom influence Yuxin gradually?

A. By words and by force. B. By words and by actions.

C. By force and by behavior. D. By talking and by force.

Fighting in a dangerous... (P4)

6. The purpose of writing this passage is mainly to ____.

A. give us an example of how to survive in the wild

B. introduce to us a New York Times best-seller

C. teach us how to win The Hunger Game

D. tell us what might happen in the future North America

7. Which is TRUE according to the text?

A. "The Hunger Games" is a televised competition held every two years.

B. Katniss takes her sister's place to compete because she loves adventures.

C. The new country Panem is divided into 12 parts altogether.

D. The young competitors in the Hunger Games are forced to kill or be killed.

8. The word "complicated" in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ______.

A. difficult B. hopeless C. advantageous D. impossible

9. In the The Hunger Games, Katniss faces more challenges because she has to think about ______.

A. who can support her family instead of her

B. what is the most important in life

C. how she can defeat her opponent

D. why she has to compete in such a violent game

Reality and more (P6)

10. 根据文章内容填空，每空不超过三个词。

Principles of augmented reality	Using information from(1)to work with pictures of places in the real world
(2) of augmented reality	Helping people get information about a place simply by focusing the phone's camera on it
(3)of augmented reality	GPS, 3G mobile Internet(4)and other programs in a cellphone	Making augmented reality (5)
	(6)	Showing information based on where the user points the phone's camera
	Layar	Connecting real-world images to_(7) _about nearby cafes and restaurants
	(8)	Bringing up details of people's (9) , or even their business card with a phone's camera focused on (10)

The cost of fitting in (P8)

11. The writer felt she fit in when _______.

A. she smiled and joked with her classmate

B. she went to sit with a group of students at the lunch table

C. she became a leader of a student club

D. others cheered for her after she treated Mary Lou badly

12. The writer never again hurt someone for her own gain because she ______.

A. realized it was shameful to make fun of Mary Lou

B. was afraid to be beaten by Mary Lou's father

C. was impressed by Mary Lou's calmne

D. was sorry that she had hurt Mary Lou's knee

13. After he saw what happened to his daughter, Mary Lou's father _______.

A. felt shame and anger because she was treated unfairly

B. felt sad and proud because she faced it bravely

C. felt it necessary to teach the writer a lesson

D. felt it a pity that his daughter didn't fight back

14. From the text, we can see that the writer is probably ______.

A. a rude girl who enjoys treating others badly

B. a shy girl who has trouble communicating with other

C. a brave girl who is willing to admit and correct her mistake

D. a cold girl who doesn't care about others' feeling

Listening




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Topic: Time and place

听下面一段独白，然后填上文章中所缺的内容。该段独白读两遍。

Hello, everyone. My name is Cathy. I am ______ years old. I come from ______. I like traveling very much.

When I was only eight, I went to ______ with my mom and dad. We took a lot of pictures there. If you come to my room, I can show you more than ______ pictures we took at that time. In ______, I spent my winter holiday in ______. That's a really nice place. I had a good time there with my classmates.

The summer holiday is coming. I am planning to go on an outing with ______ friends. The trip will begin from ______. It will last about one week. We are going to visit some farms in the countryside. If you want to join us, please call me at ______ or you can send me an email before ______ this Sunday to the following address: apple21@gmail.com. Hope to have good news from you.

Key:Reading

1—5 CCCBB

6—9 BDAB

10. (1)-(5) the Internet/ the Web; Advantage; Applications; access; possible (6)-(10) Wikitude; reviews and comments; Augmented ID; social networking profiles; their face

11—14 DABC

Listening：

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