Day 1
NYC’s war on soda (P2)
Choose the best answer:
1. What would Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s law do?
A. It would ban fast food restaurants from selling soda drinks.
B. It would ban New Yorkers from buying soda drinks.
C. It would ban people from drinking soda at cinemas and delis.
D. It would set a limit on the size of soda drinks in some places.

2. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 3?
A. How many Americans are obese.
B. Why Americans are overweight.
C. What the aim of the new law is.
D. How terrible the obesity problem is.

3.Why don’t some New Yorkers agree with the law?
A. Because they don’t think soda drinks cause obesity.
B. Because they are not obese and love soda.
C. Because they think it’s their right to decide what they drink.
D. Because they don’t like the way the government treats babies.

4. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. Most Americans choose to drink soda at the cinema.
B. Over 42 percent of Americans are overweight.
C. Soda drinks are the only things that cause obesity in the US.
D. More than half of New Yorkers agree with the new law.

Day 2
Studying history the... (P3)
Choose the best answer:
1. Which subject did the writer NOT take an exam in earlier this month?
A. English.
B. History.
C. French.
D. Chinese.

2. What does the writer tell us about studying history in America?
A. History is a supplementary subject in America.
B. American teachers don’t think history is important.
C. Students must memorize many facts and make connections.
D. Students can bring textbooks to their history tests.

3. American teachers always connect history to current events because they think _____.
A. history can teach people how to solve modern problems
B. current events can explain what happened in history
C. history sometimes seems to repeat itself
D. studying history is the only way to understand religious problems

Day 3
Why do people sleepwalk? (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. What did scientists find in their recent study?
A. More and more people are starting to sleepwalk in the US.
B. Sleepwalking is more common in adults than in kids.
C. About one third of the people interviewed walked in their sleep.
D. Sleepwalking has become the biggest sleep problem in the US.

2. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Most people have only one sleep cycle all night.
B. Non-REM sleep lasts for 90 to 120 minutes.
C. People often sleepwalk during REM sleep.
D. People’s brains are more active during REM sleep.

3. What can’t we learn from Donna Arand’s words?
A. A sleepwalker’s brain is asleep while he or she sleepwalks.
B. A sleepwalker’s body is awake while he or she sleepwalks.
C. Tired people are more likely to sleepwalk.
D. People can do some difficult things while sleepwalking.

4. Which of the following can lead to sleepwalking, according to the study?
a. Lack of sleep.
b. Taking sleeping pills.
c. Feeling depressed.
d. Getting too excited before bed.
e. Going to sleep after a big meal.
f. Drinking a lot of wine before sleep.

A. abcd B. abcf
C. abde D. abef


Day 4
My mother’s loving hand (P6)
Choose the best answer:
1. The writer once got angry with her mother when ______.
A. her mother touched her face to say good night
B. her mother said she didn’t love her anymore
C. she found out her mother was in poor health
D. her mother worried about her too much

2.The writer missed her mother’s hands years later because ______.
A. she knew her mother was too old to support herself
B. she couldn’t cook food as well as her mother
C. her mother didn’t get angry at her impolite words
D. she was thankful for her mom’s love and hard work

3.The sentence, “Then a kiss, ever so gently, touched my brow,” shows us that the writer’s mother ______.
A. had never touched her brow before
B. still loved her, even after many years
C. didn’t love her as much as before
D. had very rough lips

4. We can infer from the story that ______.
A. the writer’s mother felt sorry for her behavior
B. the writer liked staying with her mother at night
C. the writer felt sorry for her attitude toward her mother
D. the writer was single and lived with her mother


Day 5
Cloze
Rosa loved making up stories. She was 1__ that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact, the whole class believed her! At first she thought it was 2__ . Then one day, as she got up to 3__ before the class, she learned that make-believe stories had some way of coming back to make you sad.
Rosa’s parents were separated (离异的). For nine months of the year, Rosa lived with her mother. But when summer 4 __ , she went to her father’s farm.
The farm was great! Rosa rode horses and 5__ out with some farm work. Her father, however, was so 6 __ that he couldn’t find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would 7__ her at the airport and take her out to eat. The day she went back to the 8__ , he would always buy her a present.
When summer came to a close, Rosa 9__ to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a 10__ to talk about.
Not long after 11 __ began, Rosa was looking through some travel magazines (杂志) in the school library. They talked about many exciting 12__ , like England and Germany. When Rosa’s friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was not 13 __ . Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to 14__ .
When the class began studying England, Rosa’s teacher, Mr Thomas, asked Rosa to tell all the things she could 15__ about her trip to England.

1. A. afraid B. worried C. sure D. happy
2. A. joke B. fun C. turn D. game
3. A. talk B. teach C. show D. travel
4. A. passed B. arrived C. lasted D. changed
5. A. made B. played C. helped D. did
6. A. weak B. pleased C. busy D. lonely
7. A. show B. visit C. meet D. send
8. A. farm B. city C. family D. school
9. A. wrote B. called C. moved D. returned
10. A. family B. school C. teacher D. farm
11. A. meeting B. school C. summer D. talk
12. A. people B. cities C. languages D. places
13. A. interesting B. true C. long D. same
14. A. England B. Germany C. farm D. home
15. A. think B. see C. remember D. read

上期参考答案
【P2】CDAD    【P3】CAD   【P5】CBDD
【P6】1-5 DABCB 6-10 DAAAC
【Cloze】1-5 CBADD     6-10 BBCAC
Wordcheck 1-5 DBCDC     6-8 ABD

本期参考答案
【P2】DCCA    【P3】DCA    【P5】CDCB
【P6】ADBC
【Cloze】1-5 CBABC     6-10 CCBDA
                11-15 BDBAC