Day 1
Clean your plate (P2)
Choose the best answer:
1. What did the 11 students do in the winter vacation?
A. The helped each other with homework.
B. They opened a restaurant together.
C. They volunteered for a campaign.
D. They collected money from customers in restaurants.

2. The Clean Your Plate Campaign calls on people to _____.
A. do volunteer work
B. work part time in restaurants
C. cut down on food waste
D. wash your plates after dinner

3. From Paragraphs 4-5, we learn that _____.
A. wasting food is a serious problem in China
B. Chinese people waste the most food in the world
C. Chinese people want to show off that they are rich
D. most Chinese people are afraid of losing face at the table

4. What did the restaurant in Xinjiang do to support the campaign?
A. The owner would have dinner with those who had eaten up their food.
B. It offered a free meal to the guests who had finished all their food ten times.
C. It gave stickers to the guests who ordered small dishes.
D. It encouraged customers to take leftovers home.

Day 2
Staying behind to learn... (P3)
Finish the following tasks:
1. What do students at the Alaska school do after school?
_____________________________________
_____________________________________

2. Why does the local community organization offer these activities?
_____________________________________
_____________________________________

3. What did Potter think of archery?
_____________________________________
_____________________________________

4. 翻译下面的句子：
So it’s a good chance for them to know more
in an activity that they’ll enjoy for perhaps
the rest of their lives.
_____________________________________
_____________________________________

5. What did Johnson usually do at home before?
_____________________________________
_____________________________________

Day 3
Why do wet fingers get... (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. The test shows that _____.
A. people can carry dry things more easily than wet ones
B. people can carry wet things more easily than dry ones
C. people with dry hands can carry wet things easily
D. people with wet hands can carry wet things easily

2. Tom Smulders believed that the wrinkling of our fingers _____.
A. is something nature has built into our bodies
B. does great harm to our health
C. has great advantages for people in wet conditions
D. happens when there is something wrong with blood vessels

3. From the last paragraph, we learn that _____.
A. having wrinkled skin helped people keep warm in winter
B. human beings lived on fish a long time ago
C. humans with wrinkled skin had an advantage over those without
D. humans with wrinkled skin lived longer than those without

4. The article mainly talks about _____.
A. the advantages of the wrinkling of our fingers
B. the reasons for wrinkling of our fingers
C. some physical changes of people through history
D. problems of people with wrinkled skin

Day 4
Returning a father’s love (P6)
Choose the best answer:
1. The father was often worried about his son, because the son _____.
A. was hard to get along with
B. had no friends to play with
C. didn’t listen to his father’s words
D. didn’t have a mother from a young age

2. From Paragraph 2, we learn that the father _____.
A. didn’t like his work
B. didn’t believe in his son
C. paid a lot of attention to his son
D. couldn’t afford to pay for food

3. Why did the boy put a bowl of noodles under the quilt?
A. Because he didn’t want his father to find them.
B. Because he wanted to keep them hot for his father.
C. Because he overturned them on the bed by mistake.
D. Because he wanted to save them for the next day.

4. When the father heard the boy’s explanations, he went from being _____ to _____.
A. angry; moved B. angry; calm
C. calm; angry D. sorry; moved

Day 5
(A)
阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Several days ago, some students from the US visited our school. When we talked, I discovered 1 differences in school life between the US and China. For example, each class 2 50 minutes in the US. It is a little 3 than that in China. We usually have 45 minutes in each class. Another difference is that they have less break time between 4 . Besides, although most schools in both countries finish their 5 classes at 12 o’clock, the students in the US only have an hour-long break, 6 they need to eat lunch quickly. Their afternoon classes begin at 1:00 pm and school is over 7 3:00 pm. Then they take part in club activities or play sports.
Many Chinese students don’t work during their high school years, while the US students like to find a part-time job in 8 free time. They don’t have a dream job in mind. They think 9 is no difference between jobs. Working is a useful 10 for them and they can make money at the same time. Some of them even take one-year full-time jobs after they leave high school and then go to college.

1. A. no B. few C. little D. some
2. A. lasts B. finishes C. starts D. stays
3. A. shorter B. longer C. earlier D. later
4. A. schools B. classes
C. meals D. students
5. A. day B. night
C. morning D. afternoon
6. A. or B. for C. so D. but
7. A. in B. for C. during D. around
8. A. my B. his C. their D. your
9. A. it B. there C. that D. this
10. A. experience B. time
C. knowledge D. interest

(B)

根据短文内容及首字母提示，补全所缺单词，使短文意思完整。每空限填一词。
In the modern world, advertising (广告) is everywhere! Some people think that ads are great. Others h 1 ads, saying that they make our cities and countryside look ugly. Many ads are for teenagers, and some y 2 people see more than 100 ads a day. It’s true that some ads can be very u 3 ! For example, they can help you to compare (比较) two d 4 products so that you can buy the one you really need. They can also help you s 5 money. When prices are clearly shown, you can go to the store with the lowest price.

1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________
4. __________ 5. __________

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