Day1
Can you hear me now? (P3)
Choose the best answer:
1. What did the writer think of having good speech before the classes?
A. It was very useful.
B. It was nothing important.
C. It was impossible.
D. It was good for interviewing.

2. What were the writer’s problems when he was speaking?
a. He spoke too quickly.
b. He never stopped once he started talking.
c. He seldom kept eye contact with people.
d. He didn’t give others time to ask questions.
A. ab B. bc C. ac D. bd

3. From the sentence “but my friends stopped asking me to repeat myself,” we know that _____.
A. the writer’s friends couldn’t understand him
B. the writer still couldn’t make eye contact
C. the writer improved a lot
D. the writer didn’t slow down

4. Through the passage, the writer wants to tell us that _____.
A. seeing a speech specialist is necessary
B. speech is an important skill to have
C. good speech can help you make friends
D. good speech gets good reactions

Day2
The words that make... (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 4 that the earliest
Chinese characters were written on _____.
A. leaves B. paper
C. human bones D. turtle shells

3. Paragraph 6 mainly tells 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
This man is really heartless (P5)
Choose the best answer:

1. It can be learned from paragraph 1 that ______.
A. the heart is more important to humans than to other animals
B. the heart is the most important part in the human body
C. Lewis is the world’s first man living without a heart
D. the heart is a place for animals to think about things

2. The underlined word “it” in paragraph 2 means ______.
A. a heart disease
B. the device
C. a human heart
D. blood

3. Put the following events in the right order: ______.
①The two doctors did experiments on nearly 50 cows.
② Lewis received the operation.
③The device was developed.
④Abigail was tested.
A. ①②③④
B.④①③②
C. ③④①②
D.③①④②

4. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. Lewis is living without a heartbeat or pulse.
B. Lewis couldn’t speak for two days after the operation.
C. Abigail became weak after the operation.
D. The device can work better than a heart does.


Day4
A place in my sister’s heart (P6)
Choose the best answer:

1. In paragraph 1, the writer’s blood ran from her face because ______.
A. the writer became angry with her sister’s diary
B. the writer felt ashamed of herself
C. the writer was afraid of being found reading her sister’s diary
D. her sister thought of her as a bad person

2. What was NOT in the diary?
A. A short description of the girl.
B. The girl’s goals and dreams.
C. A mention of her hero who encouraged her.
D. Something bad about the writer.

3. The writer wouldn’t _____ again after reading the diary.
A. fight with her sister
B. talk with her sister
C. welcome her sister
D. like her sister

4. Through the story, the writer wants to tell us that _____.
A. reading others’ diaries is bad behavior
B. reading others’ words can warm one’s heart
C. we should trust others and be friendly to them
D. we should forgive others when they make mistakes

Day5
Cloze
Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and math. Others go to school to learn a skill _1_ they can make a living. School education is very important and useful, but no one can learn _2_ from school. A teacher, no matter how much he _3_, can’t teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students how to read and _4_ to think. So much more is to be learned out of school _5_ the students themselves.
It is always more important to know how to study by oneself than to memorize some _6_ or formulas (公式). It is actually quite _7_ to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in _8_ a math problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo, didn’t learn many things from school, but they were all _9_ and invented many things for mankind.
The _10_ for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not _11_ at school. They worked hard all their lives, _12_ not a single
moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of experiments.
1. A. even if B. so that C. because D. once
2. A. everything B. something C. anything D. nothing
3. A. teaches B. knows C. learns D. practices
4. A. what B. which C. how D. why
5. A. by B. with C. on D. in
6. A. meanings B. books C. history D. facts
7. A. necessary B. easy C. different D. common
8. A. setting about B. working out
C. making up D. doing with
9. A. criminals B. popular C. successful D. patient
10. A. experiment B. reason
C. result D. way
11. A. kept B. shown C. expressed D. taught
12. A. spending B. wasting C. costing D. taking
(参考单见下期)
上期参考答案
上期参考答案
Reading
【P3】BCDA
【P4-5】
Across: 2. kingdom 4. castle
6. director 9. giant 10. express
Down: 1. worry 3. imagine 5. strange
7. amazed 8. face
【P5】BACB
【P6】 DACD
【Cloze】1-5 ABACD 6-10 DBDCA
11-15 CAABD
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