DAY1

Your shoes are his business (P3)

Choose the right words or phrases to finish the following text:

be good at, come from, turn it into, from then on,

more than, spend, become yellow, get into

Jon Zobel is 13 years old. He 1. ________ Florida, US. He 2. ________ making money.

When he was 12, Zobel made some money from washing cars. With the money, he bought his first pair of sneakers. 3. ________, it has been his hobby. He saves his birthday money to buy an unusual pair, and then sells it online.

He is a good dealer. He once took $500 to buy a pair of limited-edition shoes and 4. ________ $2,000. Then he used that to buy a golf cart that was worth $6,000.

Every day, Zobel 5. _______ time on his shoes. He uses special soap to clean the laces and whiten the midsoles. Zobel’s most expensive pair, a “What the Dunks” released in 2007 by Nike, is worth 6. _______ $1,000. He even put the shoes in special bags, so they won’t 7. _______.

“He goes all out. If he 8. _______ something, he doesn’t just give 100 percent, he gives 250 percent,” his mother said.

DAY2

Watch the world from... (P4-5)

True or false:

_____ 1. World Television Day is to celebrate the invention of television.

_____ 2. There are more than 2 billion people who watch television today.

_____ 3. In some villages, there is no electricity but people can still watch TV .

_____ 4. People can learn a lot and relax by watching TV.

_____ 5. Kids may be overweight if they watch too much TV.

_____ 6. Kids show violent behavior only because they learn it on TV.

DAY3

Celebrate World Toilet Day (P5)

Choose the best answer:

1. World Toilet Day is a day to _____.

A. remind people to build more toilets

B. remind us how lucky we are to have toilets

C. ask people to go to clean toilets

D. bring people’s attention to health problems

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

A. Toilets look the same around the world.

B. An average person spends two years of their life on the toilet.

C. Squatting toilets are very common in the US.

D. In some rural places, toilets are outdoors in “outhouses”.

3. Some machines in the toilet play the sound of running water to ____.

A. cover your noises

B. make you happy

C. ask you to leave quickly

D. help you with your listening

4. What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?

A. How toilets were invented.

B. The history of toilets.

C. Different kinds of toilets.

D. The best toilets in the world.

DAY4

Strength from weakness (P6)

Choose the best answer:

1. Why did the referee want to stop the final match?

A. Because the boy was not ready for the final match yet.

B. Because the boy’s opponent was much stronger than him.

C. Because the boy was too tired to fight in the match.

D. Because the boy’s teacher asked the referee to stop it.

2. What’s the correct order of the following events?

a. The boy won the final match.

b. The boy began to learn judo.

c. The boy lost his left arm in an accident.

d. The boy won the first three matches.

e. The boy learned why he won the matches.

A. c-b-d-e-a B. c-b-d-a-e

C. b-c-d-e-a D. b-c-d-a-e

3. The boy won the final match because of the following reasons EXCEPT ____.

A. the boy acted in a different way this time

B. his opponent couldn’t grab the boy’s left arm

C. the boy pinned his opponent at the right moment

D. the boy mastered the most difficult throw in judo

4. What can we learn from the passage?

A. We shouldn’t look down on disabled people.

B. We can win a match if we know ourselves well.

C. Our disadvantages can be advantages sometimes.

D. Disabled people can be successful, too.

DAY5

Cloze

Michelangelo lived in Florence. He was 1 _____ all over Italy for his beautiful work. The governor (州长) of Florence asked Michelangelo to make a statue (雕像) out of a large piece of marble (大理石). He worked for two years, and at last he 2 _____ the beautiful statue, which he called David.

When the statue was ready, many people came to see it. The governor came, 3_____ . He stood for a long time looking at it and said that he didn’t like it 4_____ David’s nose was too long. Michelangelo didn’t want to change the statue. So he went up to the statue 5_____ a handful of marble dust (灰). He 6 _____ to be changing the shape of the nose and at the same time 7 _____ some of the marble dust which he had taken with him. The governor thought that this was marble dust from the 8 _____ of the statue, so he said: “That’s 9_____ ! Now you have given more life to the face.”

The people, who 10 _____ what Michelangelo had done, secretly laughed. How foolish the governor was!

1. A. common B. perfect C. loving D. famous

2. A. ended B. finished C. worked D. wrote

3. A. either B. also C. even D. too

4. A. so B. when C. because D. if

5. A. with B. on C. in D. from

6. A. planned B. focused C. wanted D. pretended

7. A. watered B. carried C. dropped D. caught

8. A. hands B. nose C. eye D. mouth

9. A. bad B. easy C. difficult D. excellent

10. A. doubted B. wondered C. understood D. hated

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Reading

【P3】1-4 CBDC

【P4-5】 1-e 2-d 3-c 4-h 5-a 6-g 7-f 8-b

【P5】DACA

【P6】BDDB

【Cloze】1-5 CDCAB 6-10 ADBCA

Word check: 1-5 BCABC 6-10 DBBBA