Day1
Save China’s water (P2)
Choose the best answer:

1. What is the problem in Sun’s village?
A. They lack food.
B. They don’t have enough water.
C. They have to walk far away to go to school.
D. There are fewer and fewer villagers.

2. According to the report by the Ministry of Water Recourses, _____.
A. China has just 28 percent of the world’s available water
B. each Chinese person can use more water than the world’s average person
C. there is not enough water in two thirds of China’s cities
D. there are about 300 million people in China’s cities who lack water

3. Which of the following would lead to a waste of water?
A. Using low-flow shower heads and taps.
B. Collecting shower water while waiting for it to warm up.
C. Taking a quick shower.
D. Keeping the water running while brushing one’s teeth.


Day2
Holmes: a detective... (P4-5)
Choose the best answer:

1. What kind of man is Sherlock Homes?
A. Lazy. B. Smart.
C. Small-minded. D. Shy.

2. Which of the following is the correct order of the story?
a. Sherlock Holmes solved many crimes.
b. Arthur Conan Doyle created the character Sherlock Holmes.
c. Holmes came back in the story.
d. Holmes died and his fans were angry.
A. a-b-d-c B. a-b-c-d
C. b-a-d-c C. b-d-a-c

3. What do we know about Sherlock Holmes from the passage?
A. He is not a real person but a fictional character.
B. He is a good friend of Arthur Conan Doyle’s.
C. He is a writer who first wrote detective stories .
D. He is a character Doctor John Watson created.

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. There is a statue of Doctor John Watson in Baker Street.
B. 221B Baker Street in London is not a real address.
C. Holmes was given the title of Knight by the British Queen.
D. Detective Conan has a statue on Baker Street.

Day3
2012 dangers come true? (P5)
Choose the best answer:

1. The writer says something about the movie 2012 in Paragraph 1 to ______.
A. remind readers that 2012 is coming
B. advertise the movie
C. attract readers’ interest in the movie
D. introduce the topic of volcanoes

2. According to Paragraph 2, a volcano will probably erupt if ______.
A. it has a history of about 640,000 years
B. its floor has been rising for a few years
C. it has erupted three times in history
D. its floor goes down three inches each year

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed ancient Rome.
B. The 2010 eruption of the Iceland Volcano caused the greatest losses in history.
C. An active volcano may not have erupted in the last 10,000 years.
D. Volcanic eruptions helped form the sea floor, some mountains and the atmosphere.

4. According to the last paragraph, what is magma?
A. hot liquid rock B. an active volcano
C. volcanic ash D. gases

Day4
Fishing with Grandpa (P6)
Choose the best answer:

1. The writer went fishing with his grandfather on a _____ day.
A. hot B. fine C. rainy D. cloudy

2. Which of these is NOT what the writer learned from his grandfather?
A. To respect elders. B. To value friendship.
C. How to laugh and love. D. How to read and write.

3. From the passage, we can infer that _____.
A. the writer’s grandfather felt happy because he got some fish
B. the writer’s grandfather made a lot of money by working hard
C. this was the first time that the writer’s grandfather taught him to fish
D. the writer and his grandfather often went fishing together

4. The passage mainly tells us that _____.
A. we should value what we have
B. rich people don’t live a happy life
C. going fishing is good for people’s minds
D. we shouldn’t believe in others as easily as we bait a hook

Day5
Cloze
Nasreddin was a poor man, so he tried to grow as 1 vegetables as he could in his own garden, 2 he would not have to buy so many at the market.
One evening, he heard a 3 in his garden and looked out the window. A white ox (公牛) had gotten into the garden and was 4 his vegetables. Nasreddin at once took his stick (棍), ran out and 5 the ox, but he was too old to catch it. When he got back to his garden, he found that the ox had destroyed 6 of his vegetables.
The next morning, while he was walking on the street near his house, he saw a cart (车) with two 7 oxen that looked very much like the one that had eaten his vegetables. He was 8 his stick with him, so he at once began to beat the two oxen with it. Because 9 of them looked more like the ox that had eaten his vegetables than the other, he 10 both of them equally (平等地) hard.
The owner of the ox and cart was drinking coffee in a 11 coffee-house. When he saw what Nasreddin was doing to his 12 , he ran out and shouted: “What are you doing? What have those 13 animals done to you to make you beat them like that?”
“You 14 this!” Nasreddin shouted back. “This is a 15 between me and one of these two oxen. He knows very well why I am beating him!”
1. A. much B. more C. large D. many
2. A. even if B. ever since C. so that D. if only
3. A. light B. noise C. drumbeat D. alarm
4. A. stealing B. cutting C. watering D. eating
5. A. chased B. rode C. walked D. called
6. A. hardly B. hard C. mostly D. most
7. A. yellow B. grey C. white D. black
8. A. catching B. carrying
C. comparing D. competing
9. A. both B. either C. neither D. all
10. A. knock B. hurt C. won D. beat
11. A. faraway B. nearby C. far D. near
12. A. animals B. vegetables C. children D. sticks
13. A. little B. lucky C. strong D. poor
14. A. work out B. look into
C. keep out D. care about
15. A. job B. matter C. lesson D. trip
（参考答案见下期）
上期参考答案
Reading
【P3】BCCB
【P4-5】CDBB
【P5】CDCA
【P6】BDAC
【Cloze】1-5 BABCA 6-10 DBBCB
11-12 DB