Day 1
Year’s driest holiday (P2)
Choose the best answer:

1. According to the passage, which of the following is not a reason for desertification?
A. Climate change.
B. Bad ways of farming.
C. No change in temperature.
D. Growing too much food on the same land.

2. When land becomes desert, it is _____.
a. full of water b. full of nutrients
c. dry d. unhealthy
A. ab B. ac C. bc D. cd

3. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. 18 years ago, the UN had already paid attention to
desertification.
B. Every year, 20,000 to 50,000 square kilometers of
land in China become desert.
C. Scientists think that two thirds of the Earth’s healthy
land will be lost by 2025.
D. China has reforested more than 61 billion square
kilometers of land.

4. What’s the main idea of the last two paragraphs?
A. Why desertification happens.
B. Good ways of farming.
C. The importance of plants.
D. Ways to stop desertification.


Day 2
US girl asks magazine... (P3)
Choose the best answer:

1. Why did Julia write to Seventeen?
A. To ask for the latest magazine for free.
B. To get them to put her picture on the magazine’s
cover.
C. To suggest publishing some pictures that aren’t
photoshopped.
D. To introduce some people with perfect skin and slim
bodies to them.

2. According to Julia, girls may feel _____ when they see pictures of perfect women in the magazine.
A. upset B. good
C. positive D. comfortable

3. From the story, we know that _____.
A. the magazine did a lot of surveys about Julia’s advice
B. the magazine’s editor-in-chief wouldn’t accept Julia’s idea
C. recent studies show that students don’t like perfect
pictures
D. magazine pictures influence young girls’ ideas of
beauty


Day 3
Don’t eat sweets...(P5)
Choose the best answer:

1. What did the first group of rats do?
a. Learn how to find the way out of a maze.
b. Drink water and eat food.
c. Put themselves into two groups.
d. Drink water with sugar.
e. Eat soil with a kind of acid.
f. Run through the maze.
A. abcd B. abde C. abdf D. dbef

2. According to the experiments, the rats that _____ could go through the maze fastest.
A. drank nothing
B. drank water
C. drank water with sugar
D. drank water with acid

3. Why is eating sugar bad for memory?
A. Because sugar makes synapses lose the ability to
change.
B. Because sugar makes the brain lose the ability to
learn.
C. Because sugar makes synapses and insulin in the
brain become less.
D. Because sugar causes problems with insulin in the
brain.

4. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. How sugar affects rats’ brains.
B. How sugar affects people’s brains.
C. Why rats are not good at mazes.
D. What people eat affects how they think.


Day 4
Cloze
The telephone rang and I answered it. “Hi, Steve,” said the voice on the other end. “I just wanted to 1 how you’re getting along.”
I had not heard from my old friend for many months. It was good to talk to him. I wondered (想知道) why we hadn’t kept in 2 . Toward the end of the conversation, he said: “If you need me in any way, I’ll be happy to 3 out.” And he meant it!
I hung up the phone feeling 4 . That day I re-learned something 5 about life: life is primarily (首要地) about 6 – not plans, not to-do lists and a million tasks left undone – it’s about people.
To love and to know that we are 7 is the greatest happiness. My friend reminds me that it is never enough just to love; we must also 8 it.
George William Childs put it like this… “Do not keep the box of your love and friendship sealed up (封闭) until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak nice words while their ears can 9 them and while their hearts can be made happier. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say 10 they go.”
Happiness may be just a phone call away.

1. A. wonder B. show C. mean D. see
2. A. touch B. trouble C. danger D. decision
3. A. take B. help C. get D. stand
4. A. upset B. nervous C. happy D. angry
5. A. strange B. important C. funny D. bright
6. A. friendship B. world C. money D. people
7. A. loved B. respected C. forgiven D. called
8. A. express B.find C. experience D. send
9. A. hear B. watch C. feel D. notice
10. A. after B. while C. before D. until


Day 5
Cloze
Who designed (设计) the first helicopter (直升飞机)? Who 1 the most famous pictures in the world? Who knew more about the human body than most 2 ? There is an answer 3 all these questions: Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo may have been the greatest genius (天才) people have ever known. He lived in Italy around the year 1500, but many of his inventions seem 4 to us today. For example, one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter in it. Of course, he couldn't 5 a helicopter with the things he had. But scientists say his idea would have 6 .
But Leonardo wasn’t 7 an inventor. He was also one of the greatest artists of his day. By the time he was twenty years old, he was called a master (大师) painter, and 8 he got older, he became even more famous. Sometimes he drew a hand ten different ways before he was 9 to paint.
Many of Leonardo’s wonderful paintings are still with us today. You may know one of his most famous 10 , the smiling woman known as the Mona Lisa.

1. A. took B. made C. painted D. invented
2. A. artists B. doctors C. painters D. teachers
3. A. to B. of C. for D. from
4. A. useless B. strange C. special D. modern
5. A. draw B. paint C. find D. build
6. A. lost B. worked C. made D. waited
7. A. always B. just C. ever D. even
8. A. until B. if C. as D. because
9. A. ready B. able C. willing D. likely
10. A. jobs B. job C. works D. work
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Word check
Choose the best answer:

1. It’s very friendly of him to help me out when I’m in ______.
A. style B. interest C. life D. trouble

2.Mary is tired of studying because her parents always _____ her to do better than she can.
A. think B. expect C. hope D. help

3. Jim works hard on his Chinese, and _____.
A. so Lucy does B. so is Lucy
C. so does Lucy D. so Lucy is

4. Yi Zhongtian’s simple and interesting explanations of history have _____ lots of TV viewers.
A. caused B. attacked C. tested D. attracted

5. Our monitor gets lots of exercise every day, because he believes the more he does, the _____ he’ll be.
A. weaker B. weak C. stronger D. strong

6. – What did the doctor say?
– He _____ me not to eat too much candy.
A. warned B. suggested C. stopped D. allowed

7. – Mr Johnson asked me to _____ you of the meeting this afternoon. Don’t forget it!
– I didn’t forget. Leave me alone!
A. advise B. remind
C. tell D. show

8. – Have you _____ your parents yet?
– Yes, they called me last night.
A. written to B. rung up
C. shown up D. heard from

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上期参考答案
Reading
【P2】CCBD 【P3】BCAD
【P5】BCC 【P6】BCB
【Cloze】1-5 BDACA 6-10 CBDAD 11-12 CB
Word check 1-5 DCBBA 6-8 CDA