Passage 1

 

* Barbican Card Discount (折扣):

20％ off 3 tickets

Choose the best answer:

1. You may watch A Dream Play at _____ on May 30.

A. 10 am B. 5 pm

C. 7 pm D. 7:15 pm

2. If you want to watch Swan Lake, you can go to Barbican Theater on _____.

A. May 29 B. June 5

C. June 15 D. June 16

3. If you and your parents go to see Swan Lake on weekends with a Barbican Card Discount, you will have to pay ______.

A. $41.6 B. $72

C. $62.4 D. $78

Passage 2

Can dolphins talk? Maybe they can’t talk with words, but they talk with sounds. They show their feelings with sounds.

Dolphins travel in a group. We call this group a “school”. They don’t study, but they travel together.

Dolphins talk to the other dolphins in the school. They give information about when they are happy or sad or afraid. They say “welcome” when a dolphin comes back to the school. They talk when they play.

They make a few sounds above water. They also make many more sounds under water, but people can’t hear these sounds. These sounds are on a high frequency (频率). It means they are out of the hearing range (范围) of people. Scientists make tapes of the sounds with special equipment

(仪器) and study them.

Sometimes, people catch a dolphin for a large aquarium. People can watch the dolphins in a show. Dolphins don’t like to be away from their school in an aquarium. They are sad and lonely.

There are many stories about dolphins. They help people. Sometimes a dolphin will save somebody’s life. Dolphin meat is good, but people don’t like to kill them. They say that dolphins bring good luck. Many people believe this.

Choose the best answer:

1. Dolphins show their feelings with _____.

A. their eyes B. words

C. water D. sounds

2. People can’t hear dolphin’s sounds under water because _____.

A. they are on a low frequency

B. there is no sound underwater

C. they are out of the hearing range of people

D. dolphins don’t make sounds under water

3. According to the story, we know that _____.

A. dolphins have their own schools for studying

B. dolphins always travel in a group

C. many people kill dolphins for their meat

D. many people believe dolphins bring bad luck

Passage 3

阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项（有一项为多余选项）。

1._____ Then they leave the notes in obvious

(明显的) places, such as on the table or on the floor in the middle of the living room.

I don’t like to write notes to myself. Most of the time I lose them or forget to look at them until it’s too late. 2._____ I have ten alarm clocks in my house. They tell me about things. For example, if I have to make a telephone call at a certain time,

I’ll set an alarm clock to go off a few minutes earlier and put the clock by the telephone. 3._____ I can remember almost anything if I use my clocks.

4._____ I always remember setting it, but not why I set it. If the clock is by the telephone, I know I may have set it to tell me to call someone, but I can’t be sure. I might have set it to tell myself that somebody was to call me at a certain time.

A. It’s important to take notes about setting an alarm clock.

B. However, sometimes an alarm clock goes off and I don’t know what it means.

C. Some people remember things by writing notes to themselves.

D. Or, if I want to watch a certain television program, I’ll set an alarm clock at the right time and put the clock on top of the TV set.

E. I prefer to use an alarm clock to tell me what I should do.

Passage 4

What do you want to be when you grow up? An astronaut (宇航员)? It is not an easy thing. An astronaut needs a strong body and mind. You still have a long way to go.

Astronauts can live upside down. They do this not only during sleep, but also while eating and going to the washroom. Before they fly into space, they have lots of practice being upside down.

Astronauts can’t get dizzy (晕眩的). A spaceship (太空船) is not a plane. When it goes up, the gravity (重力) can break people’s bones. So astronauts must have strong bodies for this. They can’t get a headache or be sick.

In some spaceships, astronauts don’t just drive, they also repair machines (修理机器) and work as scientists. They have to know every part of the spaceship and how it works. If something breaks, they have to know how to repair it. Sometimes they do some scientific experiments

(科学实验) in space.

Astronauts need to know how to live in the wild. They take a knife and a gun into space. If they land in forests on the Earth when they come back, they can survive.

Answer the following questions:

1. What does an astronaut need?

________________________________________

2. What special training do astronauts have before flying into space?

________________________________________

3. Why must astronauts have strong bodies?

________________________________________

4. Do astronauts have to know how to repair spaceships?

________________________________________

5. Why do astronauts take a knife and a gun into space?

________________________________________

本期参考答案



【P7】Passage 1: 1-3 DDC

Passage 2: 1-3 DCB Passage 3: 1-4 CEDB

Passage 4:

1. An astronaut needs a strong body and mind.

2. They need to have lots of upside-down training.

3. Because they can’t get dizzy, get a headache or be sick in space.

4. Yes, they do.

5. Because they need to use them to survive if they land in forests on the Earth when they come back.

上期参考答案

Reading

【P2】1-3 CBC

【P3】1-4 ABCA

【P6】1-4 BCAC

【P8】1. Yes, it is.

2. Because it has a mild taste and can easily take on nearly any flavor.

3. It was invented over 2,000 years ago.

4. A Chinese cook invented tofu by accident when he added nigari to a pot of soybean milk and the result was tofu.

5. Westerners sometimes call tofu “the cheese of Asia”.

【Cloze】1-5 CBDAC 6-10 BDACB

Word check

1-5 CBCAB 6-10 DADBD