DAY1

Remember Chernobyl (P2)

阅读还原：将下列句子还原到文章中去，其中有一个是多余选项。

A. The accident killed 31 people right away.

B. Even now, 25 years later, the disaster is far from over.

C. They have never been back to their hometown.

D. People were scared and began to cry.

The explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (切尔诺贝利核电站) on April 26, 1986 80km away from her home, left its mark on Alcantara’s life and her family. They moved to another city farther from the polluted area. 1

The bell in Ukraine’s (乌克兰的) capital rang 25 times on April 26 that’s the number of years that have passed since the worst nuclear disaster in history.

2 It also polluted 60,000 square km of land. Hundreds of thousands of people, like Alcantara, were forced to leave their homes.

3 According to the World Health Organization, as many as 4,000 recent cancer deaths were caused by the accident. Now, a 30-km area around the plant remains a “ghost town”. It will be many years before people can live in the area again.

Some countries, such as Germany and Austria, held activities around April 26 calling for a reduction in the use of nuclear energy and a move towards new, safer energy sources.

DAY2

Your mother: she needs... (P4-5)

Fill in the blanks:

In order to honor the great and selfless mother love, people choose every second Sunday in May to say “thank you” to their mothers.

Mother’s Day b________ in the US in 1907, when an American girl named Anna Jarvis started a campaign to honor her mother. She b________ that mothers could help people get over the pain (痛苦) they e________ during the Civil War (美国内战). On May 12, 1907, Anna successfully held a c________ for her mother.

On Mother’s Day, children usually help their mothers do h________. They also make a card or buy gifts and flowers, like carnations (康乃馨), for their m________. In Western countries, a common part of the celebration is to treat mothers with b________ in bed. Kids often allow their mothers to s________ late while they are preparing her favorite breakfast.

DAY3

Blooms of a mother’s love (P6)

Choose the best answer:

1. After the writer turned 12, she began to receive _____ on her birthday every year.

A. a birthday card B. a birthday cake

C. a white gardenia D. a beautiful book

2. When the writer was 17, _____.

A. her father died of a heart attack

B. she lost her mother

C. a boy sent her some flowers

D. she broke up with a boy

3. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. The writer didn’t like the white gardenia.

B. The writer’s father didn’t love her.

C. The writer’s mother was very wise.

D. The writer sent a gardenia to her mother every year.

4. The story mainly tells us about _____.

A. a mother’s love

B. a beautiful flower

C. a girl’s growing pain

D. a girl’s birthday gift

DAY4

Mr Bean and the Brits (P8)

Choose the best answer:

1. The story mainly talks about British _____.

A. actors B. symbols

C. humor D. culture

2. What did Rowan Atkinson think of Mr Bean?

A. Mr Bean is a hopeless person.

B. Mr Bean behaves like a grown man.

C. Mr Bean likes playing with a Teddy.

D. Mr Bean is an adult with a kid’s mind.

3. We learn that the group Monty Python ____.

A. is a symbol of British humor

B. has great influence on music

C. had an unpopular TV series

D. couldn’t really make people laugh

4. With the dialogue from the TV series, the writer wants to show us _____.

A. the style of British humor

B. the actors of the group

C. how poor British people are

D. what happiness means for British people

DAY5

Cloze

Do you have the ability to live cheaply? Now here’s a true story of an American girl, Sarah.

1 Sarah left university, she began to live in New York City on her own. She 2 a job in a publishing house, but the salary (薪水) was 3 than $30,000 a year. Her parents thought her life would be hard, 4 Sarah could live on her salary and still saved $5,000 in a year. How was that 5 in one of the most expensive cities in the world?

Cheap living 6 starts with keeping the big costs small. For most people, that 7 housing. So Sarah chose to share a flat with three other friends. Her next biggest cost was 8 . When she ate out, she went to cheap 9 . Once she bought a $9.99 whole chicken at a local restaurant. She then 10 the chicken bones home and made soup out of them. Nowadays young people often 11 a lot of money on entertainment. But Sarah said: “I enjoy walking around in New York City. I love going to museums and parks.” Did Sarah feel poor by cheap living? Not really. She even managed to take two trips, one to the Netherlands, 12 to Portland.

“Don’t think of saving money as something hard. It’s a kind of game,” said Sarah.

1. A. Until B. Because C. After D. Unless

2. A. found B. tried C. looked D. needed

3. A. more B. less C. shorter D. higher

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

5. A. difficult B. possible C. useful D. different

6. A. already B. sometimes C. hardly D. always

7. A. helps B. becomes C. makes D. means

8. A. food B. rest C. studying D. playing

9. A. stores B. hotels

C. restaurants D. farms

10. A. prepared B. took C. caught D. picked

11. A. pay B. lend C. spend D. save

12. A. some B. the other

C. others D. the others

上期参考答案

【P3】 CDAB 【P4-5】CBAB 【P6 】 DCBD

【P8】 ADCD 【Cloze】 1-5 DBBAC 6-10 CBDDA 11-15 DDCBA Word check: ABACB CCB

本期参考答案

【P2】 CAB 【P4-5】 began, believed, experienced, ceremony, housework, mothers, breakfast, sleep

【P6】 CDCA 【P8】 CDAA

Cloze: 1-5 CABCB 6-10 DDACB 11-12 CB