DAY1

China’s happiest cities (P2)

Choose the best answer:

1. The criteria for choosing the happiest cities include _____.

a. there are more job opportunities (机会)

b. there are more cars and buses on the streets

c. there is a lot of delicious food

d. people can get better treatment in hospitals

e. children can get better education

f. the average housing prices are the highest

A. abd B. cdf C. ade D. bde

2. Chongqing started the “red” song movement to _____.

A. develop the city

B. lift people’s spirits

C. teach people how to fight

D. forget the worries of the past

3. What’s Chongqing like nowadays according to Han Kailiang?

A. Old people have more free time.

B. Young people can get better jobs.

C. The city is much safer than before.

D. There’re more bus and train stations.

DAY2

Middle school... (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.

DAY3

The secret to true... (P6)

Choose the best answer:

1. What did the king do to make his little son happy?

A. He gave the boy a lot of money.

B. He bought the boy everything he could.

C. He didn’t give the boy what he asked for.

D. He asked a magician to play with the boy.

2. What’s the correct order of the following events?

a. The blue words read: “Do one kind thing for someone every day.”

b. The magician asked the boy to light a candle, hold it under the paper, and then see what he could read.

c. The magician and the boy went into a secret room.

d. The boy did as the magician had said, and the white letters turned into a beautiful blue.

e. The magician wrote something with white ink on a piece of paper.

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

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

3. The magician taught the boy that _____.

A. happiness comes from giving help to others

B. one shouldn’t ask for too much

C. nobody can always be happy

D. one can never get everything he / she wants

4. From the story we know the boy became ______ when he grew up.

A. poor and sad

B. successful but unhappy

C. helpful and happy

D. honest and smart

DAY4

Tofu tops world menus (P8)

Answer the following questions:

1. Is tofu a common dish at restaurants in China?

____________________________________________

2. Why can tofu be made into many different foods?

____________________________________________

3. When was tofu invented?

____________________________________________

4. How did the first person invent tofu?

____________________________________________

5. What do Western people sometimes call tofu?

____________________________________________

DAY5

Cloze

Nasreddin woke up in the middle of the 1 and saw something white in his garden. It seemed to be 2 towards the house.

“That is a thief (小偷)!” he thought. Then he 3 his gun and shot (开枪) at the thing. He went back to bed quickly, 4 he was too frightened (害怕) to go out of the house in the dark.

The next morning, Nasreddin went out and 5 one of his white shirts hanging on the clothesline in the garden. His wife had 6 it the day before and hung it out to dry. Now it had a bullet-hole right 7 the middle of it.

“My God,” said Nasreddin. “I was 8 last night. If I had been wearing that 9 , the bullet would have killed me!” And he called his neighbors together and asked them to thank God for 10 him.

1. A. work B. sun C. night D. car

2. A. leaving B. moving C. acting D. talking

3. A. made B. called C. visited D. took

4. A. because B. so C. or D. but

5. A. looked B. heard C. saw D. held

6. A. borrowed B. washed C. thrown D. carried

7. A. on B. from C. across D. through

8. A. lucky B. rich C. brave D. kind

9. A. gun B. hat C. shirt D. trousers

10. A. caring B. saving C. building D. frightening

上期参考答案

Reading

【P2】1-4 DADC

【P3】1-4 DBCA

【P6】1-4 BDBC

【P8】1. No, they don’t.

2. They want to help them keep their dignity. (They try to save their face.)

3. The person himself or herself is responsible for saving his or her own face.

4. They will go on walking.

5. An American kid who fell down probably would not want help; a Chinese kid who fell would probably not want others to laugh at them.

【Cloze】1-5 BADBA 6-10 DBCDA

Word check

1-5 BBACD 6-10 CBACD