Day 1

It’s party time

阅读短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

 

Day 2

Will slow Yaxi stay ...

Choose the best answer:

1. Why has Gaochun been attracting international attention?

A. Life there is a little dull.

B. There are no nightclubs in the city.

C. Life there is slow.

D. It is not a modern city like Beijing.

2. Which of the following statements about Yaxi is TRUE?

A. It is the first “slow city” to be named by Cittaslow.

B. People there feel honored to lead a sustainable lives.

C. People there are actually fed up with their unchanging lives.

D. Experts fear the publicity will harm the village.

3. According to the article, Cittaslow ________.

A. began in Italy 24 years ago

B. aims to improve quality of life

C. is a part of the slow food movement

D. was a protest against the opening of a McDonald’s in Rome

4. What is the main point of the article?

A. To attract more tourists to Yaxi.

B. To encourage people to live life more slowly.

C. To inform readers of “slow city” movement and Cittaslow’s award to Yaxi.

D. To warn Yaxi people of the need to protect their way of life.

Day 3

Crops we need to store

1. Why do scientists want to create a gene library?

A. They want to find solutions to plant diseases.

B. They need the library to help breed new crops in case of species extinction.

C. They need to study the wild relatives of important food crops.

D. They want to keep the plant samples in places all around the world.

2. What influence is climate change having on crops according to the article?

A. One-fifth of the world’s plants are dying out.

B. Plants are no longer flowering and producing.

C. There are longer periods of hot weather.

D. Plants are not producing as much as they once did.

3. According to the article, the crop-gathering program _______.

A. saves the genes of wild crops

B. only involves certain types of fruits

C. will last only for 10 years

D. began last year

4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Most modern rice plants flower at 5:00 in the morning.

B. Heat has a great influence on the flowering and producing of crops.

C. Scientists will have to study 1,000 types of plants to build the gene library.

D. In the 1970s, a virus that prevents rice from producing after flowering damaged rice crops in Asia.

Day 4

Look for the inspiration

1. The boy clerk seemed to be ______ his job.

A. tired of B. disappointed with

C. experienced in D. proud of

2. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 2 suggest?

A. Too great an enthusiasm for one’s job will kill a career.

B. It’s difficult to stay enthusiastic about something for long.

C. A person needs to look for the novelty in a job.

D. Staying enthusiastic about a job will lead to success.

3. According to the author, many shop clerks ______.

A. frequently try to inspire themselves to be creative

B. do not think they need to present the goods they sell in an attractive way

C. show no or little pleasure in serving their customers

D. become mechanical in their work because they don’t see a way to improve

4. What was the author’s aim in writing this article?

A. To share an interesting shopping experience.

B. To tell the story of a successful young salesperson.

C. To inspire the young to go about their work with zeal.

D. To call upon sales people to become more creative in their work.

Day 5

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

When I was twelve years old, my family were the first black people to move into an all-white part of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Many of our new 1 weren’t very welcoming. Some of the adults said 2 that we should return where we came from. The 3 sometimes threw stones at me or drove me home from 4 .

Most of my teachers 5 took no notice of me, but not Dorothy Bean, my history teacher, Miss Bean was angry at how badly I was being 6 , but she didn’t say this to me. Miss Bean showed her 7 for me by teaching me just like 8 else. Instead of being unnoticed, I was given a 9 to show that I was smart. Miss Bean was the first teacher who ever made me 10 myself. She insisted on knowing what I thought about difficult questions. Was Thomas Jefferson 11 to buy Louisiana from France? Why? She 12 me to have an opinion and to be able to 13 it up. Miss Bean was teaching me that thinking for yourself was the real key to 14 .

One day, when I was not paying attention in class, Miss bean suddenly 15 an eraser at me. Unbelievably, the eraser hit me right on the hand and 16 my pencil flying. The whole class was 17 at first, then started laughing. This incident became famous in the school and, 18 it happened to me, the students wanted to get to 19 me. So that’s the story of how Dorothy Bean made me her target, and how I became just another 20 in school.

1. A. friends B. relatives

C. fellows D. neighbours

2. A. kindly B. happily

C. angrily D. carefully

3. A. seniors B. children

C. enemies D. elders

4. A. school B. street

C. office D. downtown

5. A. hardly B. simply

C. never D. not only

6. A. taught B. considered

C. welcomed D. treated

7. A. wishes B. honour

C. respect D. gifts

8. A. anyone B. anywhere

C. whatever D. wherever

9. A. question B. chance

C. test D. place

10. A. worry about B. look about

C. work for D. think for

11. A. necessary B. probable

C. right D. famous

12. A. supported B. developed

C. practiced D. expected

13. A. back B. set

C. put D. give

14. A. respect B. education

C. friendship D. value

15. A. aimed B. threw

C. passed D. seized

16. A.sent B. found

C. made D. knocked

17. A. excited B. frightened

C. worried D. shocked

18. A.when B. once

C. because D. whether

19. A. ask B. know

C. help D. teach

20. A.kid B. problem

C. teacher D. example