Day1
Kids aim high for science (P3)
Choose the best answer:
1. Why was Joey Hudy so excited recently?
A. Because he had a face-to-face talk with President
Obama.
B. Because he invented a new kind of marshmallow.
C. Because President Obama liked his invention most.
D. Because he could visit the White House.

2. How long did President Obama spend at the science fair?
A. About 30 minutes.
B. About one hour.
C. A morning.
D. Nearly a week.

3. What can Ben Hylak’s invention do?
A. It can help elderly people clean computers.
B. It gives people a new way of dealing with trash.
C. It helps elderly people talk with others online.
D. It helps elderly people travel farther on wheels.

4. With Hayley Hoverter’s invention, you can _____.
A. eat the sugar packet and make less trash
B. re-use your trash before throwing it away
C. melt your trash into nothing easily
D. drink your coffee without sugar

Day2
It’s Chinese to me... (P4-5)
Choose the best answer:
1. If the world population is 7 billion, how many people speak Chinese?
A. 2 billion
B. 3.5 billion
C. 1.4 billion
D. 1.75 billion

2. We can tell from paragraph 3 that the earliest Chinese characters were written on _____.
A. leaves
B. paper
C. human bones
D. animal bones

3. Paragraphs 4 and 5 mainly tell us that _____.
A. China has developed quickly
B. Chinese is becoming more and more popular
C. people prefer to do surveys in Chinese
D. lots of Chinese words have died out
4. What does the article mainly talk about?
A. Characteristics of Chinese.
B. A general introduction to Chinese.
C. The trend of learning Chinese.
D. Chinese and the Confucius Institute.

Day3
Webs are stronger than steel (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. According to the passage, the spider web is strong
because ______.
a. the spider’s thread is sticky
b. the thread has a lot of strength
c. the web has a clever design
d. the web can keep the strength forever
A. ab B. ac
C. bc D. bd

2. In paragraph 4, the scientists’ tests show that _____.
A. the spider’s thread is stronger than the other three
materials
B. the spider’s thread is the strongest material in the world
C. the spider’s thread can be as soft or hard as it needs to be
D. taking away some spider thread makes the web weaker

3. From the last paragraph, we learn that _____.
A. people can use spider webs to build houses
B. the findings give people new ideas for buildings
C. there are many reasons why the spider web is so strong
D. Professor Buehler will make a new type of material

4. What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. Spiders have strong webs.
B. How spiders catch insects.
C. The strongest web in the world.
D. The secret of spider webs.

Day4
Stand tall like a sunflower (P6)
Choose the best answer:

1. Which of the following is TRUE about the sunflower?
A. The writer was curious about it at first.
B. The sunflower couldn’t get any sunshine.
C. The writer and his wife took good care of it.
D. The writer knew what it was from the beginning.
2. What does “something unusual” in the third paragraph mean?
A. The writer finally discovered who planted it.
B. The writer found that it was a sunflower.
C. The writer found more plants under the stone.
D. The sunflower’s stalk started to grow from under a
stone.

3. What does the writer mainly want to tell us?
A. Life is not what it seems to be.
B. We should be friendly to nature.
C. Never give up in the face of challenges.
D. We should let our lives give us more good ideas.

Day5
Cloze
Once, a king showed two men a large basket in the garden. He told them to fill it with water from a well (水井). After they _1_ their work, he left them, saying: “When the sun is down, I will come and see your work.”
At last one of them said: “What’s the use of doing this foolish (愚蠢的) work? We can _2_ fill the basket.” _3_ man answered: “Just do it.”
The first man said: “You may do as you like, but I am not going to work at _4_ so foolish.” He put down his bucket (桶) and _5_. The other man said nothing, and kept on carrying _6_. At last the well was almost _7_.
As he poured the last bucket of water into the basket, he saw something bright (发亮的) at the bottom of the well. He picked it up. It was a beautiful gold ring. Just then the king came. _8_ he saw the ring, he knew that he had found the kind of man he wanted. He told him to _9_ the ring for himself. “You have done so well in this little thing,” he said, “_10_ now I know I can trust you with many things.”

1. A. finished B. did C. began D. had
2. A. ever B. even C. either D. never
3. A. The other B. Another C. One D. A second
4. A. some B. anything C. nothing D. everything
5. A. picked up B. put away
C. took away D. went away
6. A. water B. basket C. well D. work
7. A. lost B. empty C. filled D. clean
8. A. While B. As soon as
C. Before D. As for
9. A. leave B. ask C. keep D. wait
10. A. what B. why C. when D. that

（参考答案见下期）
上期参考答案
Reading
【P2】BDDC 【P3】BACB 【P5】ACDC
【P6】CDCBD
【Cloze】1-5 DBCAD 6-10 CBADC
Word check 1-5 CBACB 6-8 BAB