Day1
A bite of culture (P3)
Choose the best answer:
1. By saying “Culture, like chicken feet, is something to swallow”, the author wants to tell us that ______.
A. food is a good way for people to understand different cultures
B. American society is a mixture of different cultures
C. you have to analyze and absorb cultural differences
D. you may not understand another culture straight away; sometimes you just need to accept it
2. The author knew his host family felt worried about the chicken feet at first because ______.
A. Americans don’t eat chicken at all
B. Americans only eat some parts of a chicken
C. Americans don’t like Chinese food
D. Americans consider chicken feet to be bad luck
3. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?
A. The author’s host family often tried non-American foods.
B. The author’s host father felt strange directly after swallowing the chicken bones.
C. The Taiwanese family urged the author’s host family to taste the chicken feet.
D. The author felt her host father was both polite and brave to try chicken feet.
4. We can learn from the last paragraph that ______.
A. it is impossible to make comparisons between different cultures
B. deep down, whatever their culture, people have a lot in common
C. the author is positive about the role cultures play in human society
D. there are advantages and disadvantages to there being many different cultures

Day2
Taste Australia,...(P4)
阅读短文并根据文章内容回答问题,注意答案不要超过题目要求的词数。
1. What is the main idea of the article? (No more than 7 words)
____________________________________
2. What foods do Australians usually eat, according to the author? (No more than 15 words)
____________________________________
3. What is a funny characteristic of popular Australian-Chinese dishes, according to the author? (No more than 6 words)
____________________________________
4. Which food has a unique Australian flavor, according to the article? (No more than 2 words)
____________________________________
5. Translate the following sentence into Chinese:
These migrants contributed to the melting pot that is Australian food.
____________________________________
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Day3
Don’t make me www.ait (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. Why are website companies trying to get faster and faster?
A. Because many companies offer the same services.
B. Because they are trying to prevent digital traffic jams.
C. Because people have higher expectations of Internet speeds.
D. Because people have different expectations for different websites.
2. Which of the following have helped speed up the Internet, according to the article?
a. improved transmission
b. widened transmission cables
c. more computer servers
d. more advanced software
A. cd B. ac
C. abc D. acd
3. We can conclude from the article that ______.
A. most video websites value loading times over picture quality
B. Google and Bing have reached their speed limit for finding search results
C. pursuing a higher speed is still an important task for technology companies
D. the Internet is making more and more people lose patience in other aspects of life

Day4
Box of memories (P6)
Choose the best answer:
1. Which of the following is TRUE according to the article?
A. The author liked to collect records of her kids growing up.
B. The author was surprised to find a letter written by her son.
C. The author didn’t like unpacking so it took her almost a year to unpack all the boxes.
D. The author liked to write her children letters and enjoyed their surprise when reading them.
2. Why did the author write this letter to Nick?
A. To express her love.
B. To thank him for the birthday present.
C. To encourage him to continue to be generous in the future.
D. To write down her feelings so she could share them with him later.
3. Which of the following is TRUE about Nick?
A. He is generous to others and good at sports.
B. He is independent and is now getting married.
C. He packed the box with things to remember him by.
D. He lives far away and seldom goes back home now.

Day5
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
As a high school coach, I did all I could to help my boys win their games. I was as 1 as they were for victory.
A dramatic incident, 2 , following a game in which I worked as a referee, 3 my views on victories and 4 . I was refereeing a league championship basketball game in New Rochelle, New York, 5 New Rochelle and Yonkers High. New Rochelle was coached by Dan O’Brien, Yonkers by Les Beck.
The gym was 6 with audience, and the noise made it 7 to hear. The game was well played and closely contested. Yonkers was 8 by one point as I glanced at the clock and 9 there were but 30 seconds left to play. Yonkers, in 10 of the ball, passed off – shot – missed. New Rochelle recovered – pushed the ball up court – shot. The ball rolled around the rim (篮筐) and off. The fans 11 .
New Rochelle, the home team, 12 the ball, and tapped it in for what looked like victory. I glanced at the clock and saw that the game was over. I hadn’t heard the final buzzer (终场哨声) because of the noise. I 13 with the other official, 14 he could not help me, so I approached the timekeeper, a young man of 17 or so. He said, “Mr Covino, the buzzer 15 as the ball rolled off the rim, before the final tap-in was made.”
I was in the unpleasant position of having to tell Coach O’Brien the 16 news. “Dan,” I said, “Time ran out before the final basket was tapped in. Yonkers 17 the game.” His face clouded over. The young timekeeper came up. He said, “I’m sorry, Dad. The time was 18 before the final basket.”
Suddenly, like the sun coming out from behind a cloud, Coach O’Brien’s face 19 . He said, “That’s okay, Joe. You did what you had to do. I’m proud of you.”
Turning to me, he said, “Al, I want you to meet my 20 , Joe.”
The two of them then walked off the court together, shoulder to shoulder.
1. A. ready B. thankful
C. eager D. responsible
2. A. however B. therefore
C. as a result D. in fact
3. A. held B. changed
C. developed D. improved
4. A. coaching B. success
C. challenges D. defeats
5. A. with B. besides
C. between D. among
6. A. connected B. provided
C. covered D. crowded
7. A. impossible B. necessary
C. unclear D. uncomfortable
8. A. scoring B. leading
C. falling D. losing
9. A. understood B. recognized
C. discovered D. announced
10. A. advance B. place
C. search D. possession
11. A. screamed B. fought
C. relaxed D. followed
12. A. controlled B. recovered
C. threw D. passed
13. A. argued B. communicated
C. checked D. shared
14. A. but B. since
C. when D. because
15. A. broke out B. broke down
C. went down D. went off
16. A. exciting B. sad
C. interesting D. boring
17. A. won B. lost
C. achieved D. overcame
18. A. away B. on
C. out D. up
19. A. turned up B. cleared up
C. lit up D. made up
20. A. son B. friend
C. brother D. player

上期参考答案：
D1 1-4 DACB
D2 1. Because they had little access to books.
2. The invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg.
3. Man is free to enjoy life. / Life is full of beauty, waiting to be enjoyed.
4. 然后他们回归到对《圣经》原著的解读，并对教会一直以来使用《圣经》进行的说教提出了质疑。
5. Instead of only pictures of Jesus or religious scenes, Renaissance art used human and animal models.
D3 1-4 CDCC D4 1-4 BCDD
D5 1-5 CCACA 6-10 CACCD