Day1

Teenager sells safe... (P3)

Choose the best answer:

1. Phoebe Steinfeld started the business to _____.

A. get more money for her ill father

B. help save her father’s clinics

C. honor her father who had died

D. cure more people who had cancer

2. What made Steinfeld’s creation, Color Me Cured, so special?

A. It was a healthier product.

B. It had lots of chemicals.

C. It was her father’s last invention.

D. It could make one’s nails bright.

3. How much does Steinfeld earn for every bottle of nail polish?

A. $ 9 B. $ 7 C. $ 2 D. $ 16

4. What did Nancy mean with the last sentence in the last paragraph?

A. Even the acorn tree felt proud for Phoebe.

B. Phoebe’s father was not as great as Phoebe.

C. Phoebe lived not far away from her father.

D. Phoebe’s father was great and she would be like him.

Day2

Rice feeds the whole... (P4-5)

Choose the best answer:

1. What is the main staple food for two thirds of the population in the world?

A. Wheat. B. Rice.

C. Vegetables. D. Fruit.

2. When did China start growing rice?

A. 1000 years ago.

B. 2000 to 3000 years ago.

C. 3000 to 4000 years ago.

D. 5000 years ago.

3. Yuan Longping started the Super Rice program to ____.

A. deal with the rice shortage problem

B. help China consume less rice than other countries

C. lessen the global production of grain

D. produce more colorful rice

4. The following conditions (条件) are important for the harvest of rice EXCEPT____.

A. proper temperature B. good rainfall

C. fertilization D. useful insects

Day3

Send your love for stamps (P5)

Choose the best answer:

1. When was the Universal Postal Union set up?

A. In 1840. B. 3000 years ago.

C. In 1874. D. In 255 BC.

2. The first postage stamps were tiny pieces of paper with _____.

A. a picture of the queen on them

B. a picture of flowers on them

C. a picture of postmen on them

D. no pictures on them

3. Who paid for the letters before the invention of stamps?

A. People who sent the letters.

B. People who received the letters.

C. People who wrote letters.

D. People who posted letters.

Day4

Keep your eye on your goal (P6)

将下列打乱顺序的段落正确排序：

When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but fog. Her body was numb. She had been swimming for nearly 16 hours. At the age of 34, her goal was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast.

A. In one of the boats near Florence, her mother and her trainer encouraged her. They told her it wasn’t much farther. But all she could see was fog. They urged her not to give up. But, with only a half mile to go, she asked to be helped out of the water.

B. Two months later, she tried again. This time, through the same thick fog, she swam with her goal clear in her mind. She knew that somewhere behind that fog was land, and this time, she made it! Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel, in two hours less than the men’s record!

C. On the morning of July 4, 1952, the sea was like an ice bath and the fog was so thick that she could hardly see the boats that supported her. She tried to go on, hour after hour, while millions watched her on national television.

D. Still warming her cold body several hours later, she told a reporter: “If I could have seen land, I might have made it.” It was not tiredness or even the cold water that defeated her. It was the fog. She couldn’t see her goal.

Day5

Cloze

My dad was a fisherman. He worked hard and stayed out until he caught enough 1 to feed the family nearly every day. When the weather was bad he would 2 me to school. He had an old truck for his fishing business. When we got to the school, he would give me a big 3 on the face and tell me to be a good 4 . It was so embarrassing (尴尬的) for me. I was 12 years old, and my dad would still kiss me goodbye!

I remember the day when I decided I was too 5 for a goodbye kiss. When we got to the school and came to a stop, he had his usual big smile. He started to lean (倾斜) toward me, but I put my hand up and 6 : “No, Dad.” It was the first time I had ever talked to him that way. He had a surprised look on his face for a long time, and his 7 started to get wet. He turned and looked out of the windshield (挡风玻璃). “You’re 8 ,” he said. “You are a big boy — a man. I won’t kiss you anymore.”

It wasn’t long after that when my dad went out to 9 and never came back. It was a day when most of the fishermen stayed at home except Dad. He had a big family to feed.

How I wish I had been a man then. If I had been a man, I would 10 have told my dad I was too old for a goodbye kiss.

1. A. food B. birds C. animals D. fish

2. A. ride B. carry C. drive D. start

3. A. kiss B. laugh C. look D. hand

4. A. man B. boy

C. teacher D. fisherman

5. A. old B. young C. excited D. moved

6. A. spoke B. said

C. repeated D. answered

7. A. hands B. feet C. eyes D. face

8. A. kind B. clever C. wrong D. right

9. A. school B. sea C. boat D. river

10. A. still B. ever C. never D. only

（参考答案见下期）

上期参考答案

Reading

【P3】1. In the school garden behind the school’s library. 2. The program teaches about environmental issues — water, soil and energy — as well as leadership and team-building skills. 3. 27. 4. No, they didn’t. (Some gardening experts helped them.) 5. They learned how to be patient.

【P4-5】ABDC 【P5】 BDC 【P6】DDAC

【Cloze】1-5 ADBBD 6-10 ADCCA

Word check

1-5 BCCBB 6-10 ACCDB