Day 1

Cheering champs (P1)

阅读短文，从下列所给的五个句子中，选四句还原到短文中，使短文意思通顺、结构完整。

A. Do they feel nervous?

B. She didn’t ask for any leave, either.

C. Be sure to enjoy their performance at the games!

D. How do they feel about being cheerleaders?

E. To prepare for the Asian Games, the students practiced hard after school.


What makes a sports game more exciting? Cheerleading (啦啦队)! During the 16th Guangzhou Asian Games, 16 cheerleading teams will help bring up the energy of all people. The team from Zhengzhou is the only high school team among the 16. The other 15 teams all come from colleges.

____1______ They often practiced for three to four hours every day. They ran 2,000 meters every morning and did hundreds of splits and push-ups. Almost everyone got injured.

Jiang Fan, 14, hurt her ankle a few days ago, but didn’t miss one practice. Yang Xue, 14, suffered the same injury as Jiang. ____2______ Both the girls joined the team this summer.

_____3_____ “To be frank, a little,” said Yang. “But we mostly feel excited and honored.”

According to Gong Fan, the team’s head coach, they prepared eight sets of dance movements for the Guangzhou Games. The team will dance for basketball, volleyball, badminton and football games. ____4____


Day 2

What’s in your cookies? (P2)

Choose the best answer:

1. What is margarine?

A. It’s a kind of cookie.

B. It’s a food ingredient.

C. It’s a special illness.

D. It’s a delicious food.


2. Why did people use margarine in the past?

A. It tasted better than animal fat.

B. It didn’t go bad as quickly as animal fat.

C. They didn’t have enough animal fat.

D. It was cheaper than animal fat.


3. Why have many countries controlled the use of margarine?

A. The price of trans fat has risen.

B. No factories want to produce it.

C. There is enough animal fat now.

D. It may be bad for people’s health.


4. We can tell from the story that _____.

A. many foreign countries realized the harm of Margarine earlier than China

B. China is now checking the danger of trans fats in food but won’t take action

C. China won’t control the use of margarine since we eat trans fats below the maximum level

D. eating margarine has caused millions of people to suffer diabetes


Day 3

Middle school leadership... (P3)

Choose the best answer:

1. What is “WEB” in the passage?

A. A program to help new students.

B. A system on the Internet.

C. An organization for poor people.

D. A middle school’s name.


2. How long is the training all of the WEB leaders have received?

A. Five hours. B. Ten hours.

C. A day. D. A week.


3. Alfonso got help from “WEB” when he and his classmates _____.

A. were lost in school

B. were having lunch

C. wanted a school tour

D. were doing their homework



4. What do parents think of “WEB”?

A. It is very helpful for their children.

B. It encourages their children to work hard.

C. They show no interest in it.

D. They don’t want their kids to join it.


Day 4

The new American dream (P8)

Answer the following questions:

1. Does the “American Dream” change with every generation?

____________________________________________

2. What was the “American Dream” originally about?

____________________________________________

3. Why can’t many Americans “live like an American”?

____________________________________________

4. Nowadays, do college graduates prefer to work on farms or for big companies?

____________________________________________

5. What is the meaning of “success” for American youth today?

____________________________________________


Day 5

Cloze test:

About 70,000,000 Americans are trying to lose weight. That is almost one out of every three people in the United States. Some people eat 1 food and they hardly have any fats or sweets. Others run, exercise with machines, take medicine, or even have operations. 2 , you can see that losing weight is 3 work, and it will also cost a lot of money. But 4 do so many people in the US want to lose weight?

Many people in the US worry about the way their bodies look. For many people, looking nice also means being 5 . Other people worry about their health as many doctors 6 being overweight is not good.

Most people want to find an easier way to take off 7 , and books about this topic are very popular. These books tell people how to lose weight. Each year a lot of new books like these are 8 . Each one says it can easily help people lose weight.

Losing weight can be 9 . Some overweight people go to health centers, like La Costa in California. Men and women 10 several hundred dollars a day at these health centers. People live there for one week or two, 11 exercise and eating healthy food. Meals there may be very small. All these work for losing weight. 12 four days in the program, one woman named Mrs Warren lost five pounds (2.27kg). At $400 a day, she spent $320 to lose each pound. But she said she was still 13 to do so.

Health centers, books, medicine, operations, exercise machines all cost a lot of money. So in the US, losing weight may mean losing 14 , too.

1. A. less B. more C. nice D. fast

2. A. For B. So C. Or D. And

3. A. good B. useful C. hard D. simple

4. A. why B. what C. how D. when

5. A. high B. different C. thin D. pretty

6. A. talk B. say C. speak D. tell

7. A. lose B. butter C. clothes D. weight

8. A. taken B. given C. written D. sent

9. A. cheap B. expensive C. easy D. safe

10. A. pay B. cost C. take D. have

11. A. making B. doing C. playing D. using

12. A. Before B. In C. After D. At

13. A. sorry B. angry C. sad D. glad

14. A. health B. time C. food D. money



Word check

Choose the best answer:

1. It’s raining hard; _____, I think we should go out.

A. when B. then C. so D. however

2. Please _____ the soup and see if it has enough salt.

A. feel B. smell C. taste D. watch


3. — Excuse me, what’s this for?

— It’s a cleaner and it _____ to pick up dirt.

A. uses B. is used C. is using D. has used

4. Don’t worry about it; you will _____ in the singing competition.

A. finish B. fail

C. achieve D. succeed

5. He always agrees with his friends about everything. In fact, he has no thoughts _____.

A. by himself B. by his own

C. of his own D. for his own

6. We would rather buy some books _____ some food and drinks.

A. in B. since C. of D. than

7. Luckily, the boy didn’t hurt his legs in the _____ so he can walk as usual.

A. situation B. accident C. outdoors D. injury

8. Simon ____ his fingers when he was cooking dinner.

A. burnt B. was burning C. has burnt D. burns

9. — Nancy, don’t always _____ that old jacket. It looks terrible.

— But I think it’s cool, Mom.

A. wear B. dress C. put on D. take off


10. Don’t _____ all the soap. Leave me some to wash with.

A. put up B. fix up C. use up D. look up


上期参考答案

Reading

【P2】1. For 184 days. 2. 189 countries. 3. More than 73 million people. 4. Only 5. 5. The Chinese Pavilion. 6. stay at the Expo site, auctioned off, move (be moved) to other cities, or torn down【P3】CCDB 【P6】DDA 【P8】1-6 fbcade 7-9 BAA 【Cloze】1-5 CCABD 6-10 ABABB 11-15 DCDBB

Word check

1-5 BDABC 6-10 ADCBC