DAY1

Best be careful of ... (P4)

Choose the best answer:

1. Which of the following statements about the 18-year-old high school student is TRUE?

A. He exposed himself on a Yahoo Japan website.

B. He leaked exam questions for Kyoto University on a website.

C. He published his friend’s personal information on a website.

D. He used someone’s account name on a social networking site.

2. What effect did the incident have on the 18-year-old high school student?

A. He was driven out of Kyoto University.

B. His personal information was widely spread online.

C. He was arrested for the wrongdoing.

D. He was made fun of in his school.

3. The teacher quoted in the last paragraph meant that ______.

A. the Internet helps young people find out more about the world

B. young people should make the most of the Internet

C. young people should be cautious while surfing online

D. young people should not surf on the Internet

4. What is the article mainly about?

A. The trouble caused by thoughtless postings.

B. How to protect one’s online privacy.

C. The punishment of wrongdoing online.

D. The use of another’s account name online.

DAY2

Why we feel an insult (P5)

Choose the best answer:

1. The underlined word “sting” in Para. 1 probably means ______.

A. bite B. hurt

C. power D. cause

2. According to the article, which of the following statements could Nathan DeWall agree with?

A. Physical and emotional pain share the same neural circuitry in the brain.

B. The brain responds to social hurt and physical hurt in different ways.

C. The brain has to find new resources to respond to social pain.

D. The brain treats social hurt in a more complicated way than physical hurt.

3. According to the research, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Social pain definitely leads to physical pain.

B. It is better for people to avoid rejection socially.

C. Social pain signals the need to improve social behavior.

D. The brain can tell emotional pain from physical pain.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A. The difference between social pain and physical pain.

B. How the human brain processes different kinds of pain.

C. The connection between physical and social pain.

D. The significance of pain to humans.

DAY3

A public spirited man (P6)

Choose the best answer:

1. The author wrote the article _______.

A. to express sadness at how frail (脆弱的) life is

B. to tell how he developed a friendship with Matt

C. to show how Matt fought with his illness

D. to honor the memory of his co-worker Matt

2. Which of the following statements about Matt is TRUE according to the article?

A. He worked in the newspaper business for 50 years.

B. He suffered from acute leukemia for about two years before he died.

C. He remained optimistic and cheerful when he was receiving treatment in hospital.

D. He was regarded as a superhero ready to help those in need since childhood.

3. The underlined phrase “get past” probably means _______.

A. get over B. get through

C. get across D. get off

4. Matt was _______ at the author’s call.

A. annoyed B. sad

C. surprised D. thankful

5. What message does Matt’s e-mail mainly convey?

A. It’s important for people to keep fit.

B. Be grateful for what others have done for us.

C. Be a positive influence on people around you.

D. Everybody should be responsible for his/her own life.

DAY4

根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Are books as physical objects, with paper pages and soft and hard-backed covers, on their way out? Are they doomed (注定灭亡), in the same way as the dinosaur was doomed? 1. _______

For as long as I can remember I have read books. My childhood home, being quite a poor one, had few books, but my parents, book lovers themselves, took me along to the public library where I could borrow them for free.

2. _______ I have a hoard (大堆) locked away in a garage in the UK and several hundred in China that it will certainly be a challenge to transport to Britain when eventually I return.

Of course I buy books to read, but there is also the appeal of the physical object. 3. _______ Each time I pick one of them up I am taken back to a particular time and place in my life: My first year in college; a memorable Christmas. Another book will remind me of a friend or family member. So many books; so many memories!

4. _______ I must have spent months of my life in bookshops – especially second hand bookshops – looking for titles that, I said to myself, needed to be “rescued,” that is, taken home, cleaned, read, and found a suitable home on a bookshelf.

The world may be moving away from me, but I fear I am too old now to run after it. I will remain at home with my books, watching them pile up in ever increasing numbers in my apartment until the place is so crowded I can barely move for them. 5. _______

A. Some of my favorites have a special significance for me.

B. The smell of old, dusty books reminds me of my father.

C. And then for me there has always been the pleasure of buying books.

D. From then on, reading became my passion and I could usually be found glued to a book.

E. As a life-long lover of these increasingly old-fashioned objects, I fear so, and I fear I will never get over it.

F. Later, as a teenager with a Saturday job, I was able to afford to buy books for the first time.

G. I will not mind the constriction (狭窄) of space, since books have always been the best of friends to me.

DAY5

从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

1. He grew up ______ the NBA and practicing how to dunk, ______ this skill at just 13 years old.

A. watching; mastered B. watching; mastering

B. watched; mastered D. watching; to master

2. China currently ______ 6 percent of revenue from global tourism.

A. accounts for B. belongs to

C. takes on D. makes up for

3. Do parents ask too much ______ children?

A. of B. to C. on D. for

4. Everyone talks about saving energy, but ______ really take action.

A. many B. most C. few D. little

5. The alternative spring break program has grown so fast that this year three students were _________ for every one accepted.

A. turned away B. turned out

C. turned over D. turned up

6. – I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have been so rude to you.

– You ______ your temper but that’s OK.

A. have lost     B. had lost     

C. did lose    D. were losing

7. Just ______ about the book that has made it so popular?

A. where was it B. what was it

C. how was it D. why was it

8. When ______ other raw materials, these fibers can make plastic stronger.

A. being mixed with B. mixing with

C. to mix with D. mixed with

9. The dancing shoes did not fit me, ______.

A. the dress did neither

B. the dress did either

C. either did the dress

D. neither did the dress

10. The country life he was used to _____ greatly since 1992.

A. change B. has changed

C. changing D. have changed







P6 写作兵法Key:

1. She has had her eyes on that house for a long time

2. steal the show in most romantic films

3. The question is on many people’s lips/never far away from many people’s lips

4. get anywhere in this company

上期参考答案

D1 1-4 DCAB

D2 1. Tips for being who we are./ How to be ourselves.

2. Because we are always influenced by others. /Because others will always influence us.

3. Fitting in is not only a major part of middle school and high school, but it also is crucial throughout life.

4. 1) Be courageous 2) Don’t compare yourself to others. 3) Be confident.

5. 梦想成为某“小圈子”的一员——光告诉自己不要拥有这种渴望是远远不够的，更得要努力避免有这种想法。

D3 1-4 BDDD D4 1-5 DBBAC

D5 听力1-5 CABCC 6-10 CBBAB

11-15 BACAB 16-20 CABAB