Reading

Follow your dreams (P2)

Choose the best answer:

1. Kai-fu Lee likes to ___.

A. make phone calls B. read report

C. take interview

D. do two things at the same time

2. Lee started Innovation Works to ___.

A. help Chinese youth B. show how bold he i

C. make more money D. draw public attention

3. We can infer that Lee’s dream is to ___.

A. travel around the world B. change the world

C. bring peace to the world D. become famou

4. According to the story, Lee ___.

A. enjoys helping others B. is kind and funny

C. often challenges himself D. is busy and happy

5. Put the following events in the right order:

a. Lee started his own company, Innovation Works.

b. Lee worked as the president of Google.

c. Lee became a computer engineer at Apple Inc.

d. Lee published his autobiography.

e. Lee taught at Carnegie Mellon University.

f. Lee quit Google.

g. Lee was the vice president of Microsoft Research Asia.

A. e-c-g-b-f-a-d B. a-d-c-e-f-g-b

C. e-g-c-b-a-d-f D. a-c-d-e-b-g-f

American history outside the class (P3)

完成下列任务：

6. Answer the following questions:

1) What does the summer program teach?

_____________________________________

2) What does Crole think of the program? Why?

______________________________________

3) In what ways did the students learn?

______________________________________

7. Translate the following sentence into Chinese:

As well as learning about history in the classroom, students also take field trips to historical sites.

_______________________________________

8. What’s the main idea of the passage?

_______________________________________

9. Find words from the story to fill in the blanks:

James is a n_____ of London who studies in the US. He attended a summer p______ to learn about American history. There are a t______ of 111 high school students from a______ the US. They go to lectures, read essays and take field trips to h______ sites. They found it great and they learned a lot.

Hard way to success (P5)

Choose the best answer:

10. What’s Obama’s main point in this passage?

A. Success is no big deal.

B. Success takes hard work.

C. It’s easier for a basketball player to succeed.

D. Grades matter if someone wants to succeed.

11. The phrase “click with" in the second paragraph probably means “_____".

A. fight with B. be satisfied with

C. run into D. be popular with

12. Obama mentioned JK Rowling and Michael Jordan to ______.

A. teach the importance of succe

B. show that failures are everywhere

C. explain different ways to succe

D. show that success doesn’t come easily

13. How should we treat failures, according to Obama?

A. We should forget about them.

B. We should let them define us.

C. We should learn from them.

D. We should stop them happening.

Life isn’t so bad for short people after all (P8)

Fill in the table with information from the story.

	short people	tall people
good sides	move more 14. ____ react 15. ______ less likely to get some kinds of 16. ______ may live 17. ______	earn more 18. ______ get more 19. ______ have more 20. ______ jobs
bad sides	21. ______ happy with their lives don't get as much 22. ______ It's 23. ______ being a short celebrity.
conclusion (结论)	24. ____________________________

Listening

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第一节：听下面两段对话，选择正确答案。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. How did the boy go to school today?

A. By bike. B. By bus. C. On foot.

2. The boy likes _________ movies best.

A. fantasy B. cartoon C. action

第二节：听下面一段长对话，选择正确答案。该对话读两遍。

3. What happened to Jerry?

A. He fell ill. B. He lost his job.

C. He failed his exam.

4. What is Jerry going to do?

A. Start a company. B. Find a new job.

C. Take a vacation.

5. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?

A. Friends. B. Teacher and student.

C. Mother and son.

Key: Reading:

1—5 DABCA

6. 1) It teaches students early American history.

2) Crole thinks the program was great but they had to work hard as well. He had not been taught about American history in England, soeverything was new to him.

3) The students went to lectures and read essays. They also took field trips.

7. 除了在课堂上学习历史，学生们还去参观名胜古迹。

8. Some students went to a summer camp in the US and learned about early American history.

9. native, program, total, across, historical

10-13 BDDC

14. quickly

15. faster

16. disease

17. longer

18. money

19. respect

20. important

21. le

22. respect

23. hard

24. It doesn’t matter whether a person is tall or short.

Listening:

1—2 BA

3—5 BAA