Day1

Students raise their own... (P3)

Answer the questions:

1. Where did the students grow vegetables?

_____________________________________________

2. What does the school’s garden project teach students?

_____________________________________________

3. How many students took part in the project?

_____________________________________________

4. Did the students do all the work by themselves?

_____________________________________________

5. What did Laura’s children learn after a summer’s hard work?

_____________________________________________

Day2

Are you healthy enough... (P4-5)

Choose the best answer:

1. What is the Presidential Fitness Test for in the US?

A. It is to check kids’ fitness levels.

B. It helps students get awards outside the classroom.

C. It helps Americans remember their traditions.

D. It’s good for improving student grades.

2. Students who get scores at or above _____ percent on all the test’s activities can get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award.

A. 80 B. 85 C. 90 D. 95

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Chinese students begin to prepare for the PE test in Junior 1.

B. American students take the PE test once a year.

C. Chinese students have a completely different test from US students.

D. The PE test encourages students to live a healthy and active life.

4. Why is the PE test so important for Chinese junior school students?

A. Because the government wants to know how healthy they are.

B. Because they can get awards if they do well in the test.

C. Because it is worth 30 to 40 points in the entrance exam for senior high school.

D. Because it can prove that they are stronger and healthier than before.

Day3

Bloody bullfights banned (P5)

Choose the best answer:

1. Bullfighting has been popular in _____.

A. Spain, France and Japan

B. Spain, Portugal and Latin America

C. Portugal, France and the US

D. Spain, Portugal and North America

2. How do people play the game of bullfighting? Put the activities in order.

a. The bullfighter kills the exhausted bull with his sword.

b. People put a bull into a ring.

c. Men on horses enter the ring and throw darts at the bull.

d. A bullfighter waves his cape in the air to anger the bull.

A. c-d-b-a B. b-c-a-d C. b-c-d-a D. b-d-c-a

3. Why do many people say bullfighting isn’t a contest?

A. Because they think bullfighting is art.

B. Because they think the bullfighter is trained well.

C. Because they think the bull nearly never wins.

D. Because they think no people die in the game.

Day4

Differences make beauty (P6)

Choose the best answer:

1. How did the cracked pot feel about itself at first?

A. Proud. B. Happy.

C. Excited. D. Ashamed.

2. Where were the flowers growing?

A. On both sides of the path.

B. In the woman’s house.

C. On the perfect pot’s side.

D. On the cracked pot’s side.

3. Which is the correct order of the following events?

① The woman picked the flowers and decorated the table.

② The woman told the truth to the cracked pot.

③ The cracked pot talked to the woman about its crack.

④ The woman found a crack on one pot.

⑤ The woman planted some flower seeds.

A. ④⑤①③②

B. ⑤④③②①

C. ④③①②⑤

D. ④⑤③①②

4. What does the passage want to tell us?

A. Don’t use a cracked pot to carry water.

B. Try your best to be perfect in life.

C. Imperfection makes life meaningful.

D. Never laugh at others.

Day5

Cloze

Some time ago, my wife and I traveled to visit my sister. We had taken more clothes than we needed and had a hard time carrying our things on the train.

In front of us, on two benches, _1_ six young men in their early 20s. They were big and _2_ , and I disliked them immediately (即刻). They were laughing loudly, obviously (明显) _3_ themselves, and they _4_ a foreign language.

As we went quickly _5_ the countryside, I kept an eye on them as they joked around. Sometimes they took a look in our direction. When two of them got _6_ , I relaxed a little. The rest of them _7_ to laugh and joke in their own language.

When we finally arrived at our _8_ , only one of them was left on the train. He was obviously _9_ too. As I struggled towards him with my heavy luggage (行李), he reached out and asked in English: “Want a hand with that, mate?”

He _10_ the heavier bag up the station steps for us. We were pleasantly surprised and very thankful.

1. A. sat B. stood C. lay D. lived

2. A. polite B. quiet C. lazy D. noisy

3. A. helping B. enjoying C. teaching D. devoting

4. A. told B. spoke C. said D. talked

5. A. above B. onto C. over D. through

6. A. off B. up C. along D. on

7. A. wanted B. started C. stopped D. continued

8. A. house B. hotel C. station D. shelter

9. A. bored B. worried C. excited D. frightened

10. A. carried B. left C. brought D. bought

（参考答案见下期）

上期参考答案

Reading

Reading

【P1】 DCAB

【P2】 1-h 2-d 3-g 4-f 5-b 6-a 7-c 8-e

【P4-5】 DBAC

【P6】 1-4 CDAB

【Cloze】 1-5 DCADB 6-10 DCBAD 11-12 BD

Word check:

1-5 BCCAB 6-10AACBA