Day 1

Give water, save lives (P2)

Choose the best answer:

1. What does a bottle of water mean to the drought-hit areas?

A. It can change the whole situation.

B. Even one bottle is important for them.

C. It won’t help with the drinking problem.

D. It means nothing because it’s not enough.

2. Why is there a drought in those provinces?

A. Because the sunshine is too strong there.

B. Because people there don’t save water.

C. Because it has not rained for a long time.

D. Because there’s no water in the rivers.

3. People are doing the following to help the drought-hit areas EXCEPT _____.

A. giving best wishes to encourage people there

B. traveling to the drought-hit area

C. using pocket money to buy water for people

D. raising money for the drought-hit area

4. What have the students learned from the drought?

A. The importance of water.

B. How to get along with others.

C. Never to waste food.

D. How to find clean water.

Day 2

You don’t need to win to have fun (P3)

Answer the questions:

5. Where did the writer’s swim club hold their swim meet?

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6. What does “a piece of cake” mean in the second paragraph?

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7. Why did some swimmers put their lane information on their arms?

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8. How did the writer remember his lane?

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9. How did the blind boy know he was getting near the end of the pool?

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10. What are the purposes of holding the swim meets? (List two)

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Day 3

Lesson from a penguin (P6)

Choose the best answer:

11. The author felt _____ on his business trips.

A. busy B. lonely C. excited D. disappointed

12. Jeanine gave the author a toy penguin to _____.

A. give him a surprise B. make fun of him

C. celebrate his birthday D. show her love for him

13. Jeanine got upset once because _____.

A. her father had to leave for a trip

B. she couldn’t find the toy penguin

C. she couldn’t go with her father

D. she had no money to buy a toy

14. The author traveled a long way to get the penguin because ______.

A. it was important to him B. it was expensive to buy

C. his daughter wanted it D. he enjoyed traveling

15. What can we learn from the story?

A. Toys play an important role in our lives.

B. Love can take away our loneliness.

C. Giving people gifts can bring us joy.

D. It’s tiring to go on business trips.

Day 4

US laughs at UK poem (P8)

Are the following statements true or false?

16. Americans have a low opinion of Brits.

17. Carol Ann Duffy wrote a poem for Achilles.

18. The British poet laureate is well respected in Britain.

19. Americans say things have changed because they think the UK has lost its culture.

20. Lerner thinks Americans are less cultured than the Euros.

21. Many British people told Lerner that the US has no culture.

22. The competitive spirit is strong between the US and UK.

Day 5

Cloze

We were going to play a team from a country school. They didn’t come until the game time arrived. They looked 23 than we had thought. They were wearing dirty blue jeans (仔裤) and looked like farm boys. We even thought that they had never seen a basketball before.

　We all sat down. We felt that we didn’t 24 any practice (训练) against a team like that.

　It was already so late that no 25 could be given to them for a warm-up.

　The game began.

　One of our boys 26 the ball and he shot (掷) a long pass to our forward (前锋). From out of nowhere a boy in a dirty T-shirt 27 the pass and with a beautiful form (姿势) he shot and got two points (分).

　They 28 us.

　Then they got another 29 of points in a minute.

　Soon it was all over. The country team 30 us.

　We certainly learned that even though a team is good, there is usually another 31 a little better. But the important lesson learned was: One can’t tell a man, or a team, by the 32 .

23. A. stronger B. younger C. worse D. le

24. A. get B. try C. use D. need

25. A. basket B. space C. ball D.time

26. A. got B. played C. missed D. carried

27. A. caught B. changed C. started D. stopped

28. A. surprised B. kept C. broke D. hit

29. A. half B. pair C. group D. double

30. A. won B. saved C. beat D. joined

31. A. jus B. already C. about D. almost

32. A. T-shirts B. clothes C. places D. point

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上期答案

reading：

1. English / British 2. Real name 3. 1832

4. a real girl called Alice Liddell 5. Chinese cinema

6. based on 7. 19 8. marry

9. follows 10. runs off 11. a deep hole

12. under the control of 13. can save Wonderland 14–21 FFTFFFTT 22–26 BDACC 27–30 DADB

31–34 CDBA 35–38 BDAC 39–42 DBCA

listening：

1–5 A C C A B 6–10 T F T T F