Day1
Students of society (P2)
Choose the best answer:
1. Which of the following statement about the proposed compulsory classes on moral and national education in Hong Kong is TRUE?
A. The classes will begin in primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong in two years.
B. The classes aim to make students love Hong Kong.
C. Students have to sit essay tests for the course according to the subject guidelines.
D. The classes are intended to develop students’ moral qualities and sense of nationalism.
2. We can learn from the article that civic education ______.
A. is much more common than national education
B. has a long history in most countries
C. can be carried out both inside and outside the classroom
D. focuses on teaching politics to students
3. What is the main point of the article?
A. Reform of moral and national education in Hong Kong.
B. An introduction to national and civic education.
C. How to get students to become responsible citizens.
D. The increasing influence of nationalism in modern education.

Day2
Price of painted pain (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 does the first paragraph mean? (No more than 15 words)
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2. What is special about the auctioned piece of The Scream according to the second paragraph? (No more than 15 words)
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3. What is the significance of the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch? (No more than 10 words)
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4. Translate the following sentence into Chinese:
“It provides an analogy for both individual and collective experiences of loss, pain, grief, modernity, the body out of control, and existential struggle,” he said.
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5. What does Michael Frahm think is similar between The Scream by Edvard Munch and The Mona Lisa? (No more than 12 words)

Day3
Look at this picture... (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. What does Michael Bach tell us in the third paragraph?
A. Optical illusions cause people a lot of problems.
B. The brain sometimes imagines what enters our eyes.
C. What we see does not always reflect the actual properties of an object.
D. Optical illusions are likely to happen when there is something wrong with our eyes.
2. What did the Japanese researchers at Ritsumeikan University find?
A. Optical illusions are not simply eye puzzles.
B. Optical illusions are caused by people’s imaginations.
C. The brain is fooled into believing the circles are moving.
D. Eye movements sometimes cannot match our motion perceptions.
3. What is the main idea of the article?
A. Our brain can be wrong sometimes.
B. Different theories about optical illusions.
C. The cause and use of optical illusions.
D. An important finding about optical illusions.

Day4
In a few words (P6)
Choose the best answer:
1. What does the author think of her mother’s quotation collection?
A. It’s a habit the author shares and she appreciates her mother’s quotations.
B. She thinks their common habit brings her mother and her closer together.
C. She dislikes the way her mother collects quotations and has a different taste in quotations.
D. Some of the quotations in her mother’s collection make the author confused and she wonders why her mother likes collecting quotations.
2. The author hasn’t told her mother she also likes collecting quotations because ______.
A. she feels embarrassed about her collection
B. she prefers to keep certain things to herself
C. she knows her mom will not like her collection
D. she has not had the appropriate chance to tell her
3. Which of the following is TRUE about the phone conversations between the author and her mother?
A. They talk about everything on the phone.
B. They deliberately avoid upsetting topics.
C. The conversations have nothing to do with their real feelings.
D. They do not enjoy their chats on the phone because they can’t talk about things that really matter to them.
4. What is the poem that the author emailed to her mother about?
A. Children, however old, are still kids in parents’ eyes.
B. Children can feel annoyed by the way parents treat them.
C. When children grow up, they start to care about their parents more.
D. Parents’ natural love for their children and the way they rely on their children when they are old.

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，选出最佳答案。
Teenagers can help solve some big problems in our world. Renée Haggerty is a(n) 1 . The 13-year-old American girl won the Gloria Barron Prize this month for her two years of hard work collecting 2 that had been thrown away and recycling them.
In 2003 Haggerty went on a field trip to the Great Lakes Science Center in Ohio. There, she saw an exhibit about how poisonous chemicals were 3 plants and animals in Lake Erie. She felt she had to 4 . “The number of fish that were 5 scared me,” she said.
Haggerty learnt that discarded batteries 6 poisons into the environment and that 7 was an easy solution. “I think everybody can do it, 8 everyone uses batteries, and it can make a big 9 .” With these words, she began a campaign to increase 10 in her area.
She talked to her county government and school board. She got 11 to start a recycling program in schools 12 the public library, hospital, and churches. 13 help from her family, friends, and local waste-management officials, she gathered containers, arranged transportation, and made an educational video.
Over the past two years, four tons of batteries have been 14 . They are sent for recycling on the annual dangerous waste collection day.
When asked 15 she feels like a hero because of her work, Haggerty is quite 16 . “Not really. Well, maybe for the 17 I saved!” she said.
Every year the Gloria Barron Prize 18 young Americans aged 8 to 18 who have shown leadership and courage in 19 the public and the planet. National Geographic helps fund the award. Each year 10 winners 20 US$2,000 each, to help with their education costs or their public service work.

1. A. angel B. success
C. example D. wonder
2. A. wastepaper B. chemicals
C. cans D. batteries
3. A. affecting B. reducing
C. suffering D. interrupting
4. A. act B. refuse
C. wander D. offer
5. A. starving B. dying
C. eating D. increasing
6. A. set off B. put up
C. give off D. give up
7. A. protecting B. recycling
C. pouring D. burying
8. A. but B. though
C. so D. because
9. A. problem B. role C. difference D. influence
10. A. awareness B. fame C. advertisement D. information
11. A. explanation B. permission
C. response D. knowledge
12. A. instead of B. along with
C. rather than D. as well as
13. A. With B. By
C. For D. Under
14. A. earned B. used
C. collected D. produced
15. A. why B. if
C. what D. unless
16. A. modest B. curious
C. stressful D. terrified
17. A. batteries B. people
C. fish D. plants
18. A. gathers B. honors
C. provides D. supports
19. A. combining B. trusting
C. betraying D. serving
20. A. accept B. devote
C. receive D. raise
（答案见下期）
D1 1-4 BBBA
D2 1. self-governing 2. treasures 3. Architecture
4. greatest 5. imagination 6. Museums 7. recreate
8. Reconstructions 9. culture 10. Christmas
D3
1. 1) People riding on kangaroos. 2) Everyone greeting each other with “G’day mate”. 3) People keeping Koala bears as pets.
2. Because she had never spent Christmas in summer before.
3. 我心目中的圣诞老人是穿着短裤和凉鞋，在五彩的遮阳伞下一边晒太阳一边品尝果汁。
4. She felt a bit disappointed.
D4 1-4 DADC D5 1-3 CBD