Reading

Choose the best answer:

The best policy (P3)

1. The first paragraph may suggest that the author ______.

A. was punished by her father for a bad grade

B. never expected teachers to give her bad grade

C. usually got a higher grade

D. was bad at math

2. The author lied to her father because ______.

A. she thought her father would believe her story

B. she didn’t want to let her father down

C. her father wouldn’t get her grade report

D. her father got angry whenever she got a poor grade

3. Why did her father stay silent after his daughter told him that she had lied?

A. He didn’t understand what his daughter had said.

B. He was angry that his daughter lied to him again.

C. He was unhappy with his daughter’s bad score.

D. He was hurt that his daughter had lied to him.

4. The purpose of the article is to tell us that ______.

A. dishonesty may work sometimes, but there is a price to pay

B. sometimes a lie can make things easier

C. we should study hard to make our parents happy

D. we should accept the fact that we are not perfect

Short but sweet (P4)

根据短文内容填空，每空不超过3词。

Chris Paul
Personal information	1.83m in _____ (5), 24 years old. Winning _____ (6) while playing for the US team in the Beijing Olympics. One of the best point guards in the league.
His secrets ______ (7) success	______ (8) personal goals	As a rookie, it was to be Rookie of the Year, ______ (9) the rookie All-Star game.
	Being a team ______ (10)	Paul gets his teammates _____ (11) in the offense, gets them ______ (12), and lets them ______ (13) for winning. Mike Moreau said he "Could ______(14) the team to score if he wanted to."

The missing link? (P6)

15. The article is mainly about ______.

A. when and where Ardi’s bone fossils were found

B. the discovery of Ardi and why it is important

C. what life was like when Ardi was living

D. the way scientists studied Ardi’s bone fossil

16. C. Owen Lovejoy thought Ardi might be the most important specimen in the history of evolution because ______.

A. Ardi helps us learn about the origin of chimpanzee

B. Ardi has a lot in common with chimpanzee

C. Ardi helps prove that chimpanzees and humans have the same origin

D. Ardi helps us understand what life was like 6 million years ago

17. What can people tell from the finding of Ardi’s bones?

A. Ardi was male, about 1.2m tall.

B. Ardi probably only ate plants.

C. Ardi could swing from branches the way chimps do.

D. Ardi lived in the woodlands more than four million years ago.

18. The scientists studied Ardi by ______.

A. using computers to make 3-D pictures of its bone fossil

B. going to Afar to collect wood and seed fossils from around where its bones were found

C. making a jigsaw puzzle with its fossil

D. experimenting on it together with the fossil hunter

Saying ‘yes’ to life (P8)

19. When the writer said she was “the poster child”, she meant that ______.

A. her picture often appeared on the poster

B. she once advertised for a certain product

C. nothing could be finished by her alone

D. she was a typical example of some kind

20. What helped the writer to change her life?

A. A simple poem by Marlo Thomas.

B. An article by Marlo Thomas.

C. Her experience of reciting a poem.

D. Her mother being a good example.

21. How did the words “I can” take root in the writer’s heart?

A. By repeating the line over and over.

B. By telling people “I can” whenever there is a problem.

C. By analyzing the meaning behind the poem.

D. By following her mother’s advice to believe in that.

21. From the text we can learn that ______ is important.

A. learning B. confidence

C. example D. ambition

Listening

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Topic: School life

(一) 听下面三段独白，然后根据所听的内容判断下面句子的正误。每段独白仅读一遍。

（正确√，错误×）

a. ( ) The cameras the students made cannot take photos.

( ) The cameras can see buildings 300m away.

b. ( ) Pingjiang is a big city in Hunan Province.

( ) Zhu Zhizhong is the only teacher in the small school.

c. ( ) Students in Hangzhou have a one-week spring break.

( ) Students in Hangzhou now have four holidays every year.

(二) 听下面一段独白，然后根据所听的内容补全下面的句子，该段独白读两遍。

Students' life in Singapore
___ School Day	Multi-culture	___ Pressure
School Time: ___ am- ___ pm Length of Class: ___ minutes	Students: _____ _____ Malays _____	Reasons: Taking extra courses ____ school Facing an entrance ____ in Grade ____.

Key:

Reading

1—4 CBDA

5. height

6. a gold medal

7. to

8. setting aside

9. make

10. player

11. involved

12. shot

13. take the credit

14. lead

15-18 BCDA

19-22 DCAB

Listening

I. a. T F b. F T c. F T

II. Shorter, Same, 8:00, 1:50, 30, Chinese, Indians, Westerners, after, exam, 6

听力原文：M: Listening comprehension

Topic four: School life

Text 1

M: HAVE you ever made a camera? Students in a Hong Kong middle school have. The cameras they made can't really take photos. But with them, students can see a building that is about 200 meters away clearly.

Text 2

W: EVERYDAY Xiao Zhang studies poems written in ancient China at a small school in Pingjiang, a little town in Hunan Province. The school is a one-room house with only one teacher called Zhu Zhizhong, an 87-year-old man with gray hair.

Text 3

M: STUDENTS in Hangzhou are lucky. That’s because Hangzhou schools have a 2-week spring break every year, which begins at the end of April and lasts about two weeks. Students now have four holidays each year: a two-week spring break, a one-week autumn break, and the summer and winter holidays.

Text 4

W: LAST month, some Singaporean students visited our school and studied with us for a week. As a result, I got the chance to find out what school life is like in Singapore.

Students have a shorter school day there. In Singapore, school begins at 8:00am and ends at 1:50pm. Each class only lasts half an hour. Students have no breaks between classes, but they have a 30-minute tea break after 3 or 4 classes. After school, most students attend extra classes, such as dance and painting classes.

Singapore is multicultural. In schools, students include Chinese, Indians, Malays and Westerners, and teachers teach in English. It's the official language in Singapore.

Singaporean students have the same pressure as we have. They also have some pressure from the entrance exam. After school, they take different extra courses. When they are in Grade 6, they face the pressure of the middle school entrance exam.