Day 1
Memories to build on (P1)
Choose the best answer:
1. The phrase “highs and lows” in Paragraph 1 means ______.
A. happiness and joy
B. ups and downs
C. laughs and cries
D. good marks and bad marks

2. Which is TRUE according to the article?
A. Liu Anqing got on well with his parents in junior high.
B. Gu Xiaoli regrets that she wasted too much time.
C. Gu Xiaoli was Zhang Zihua’s teacher in Junior 3.
D. Zhang Zihua didn’t work hard enough during Junior 3.

3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the article?
A. Students wouldn’t like to tell their secrets to their parents.
B. Best friends are very important for junior high school students.
C. It’s not polite for students to quarrel with their teachers.
D. If you wasted time in the past, you can pick things up from now on.


Day 2
New glasses, Google style (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. What are Google glasses a lot like according to the story?
A. A pair of sunglasses. B. A smartphone.
C. A computer. D. An MP3 player.

2. You can look up your location by _____ when you get lost.
① talking to Google glasses through voice activation
② finding out the GPS system
③ using the computer screen on your Google glasses
④ pulling your smart phone out of your pocket
A. ①② B. ②③ C. ①③ D. ②④

3. We can tell from the story that _____.
A. Google glasses have been officially released
B. Google hopes to make the glasses more fashionable
C. volunteers are satisfied with Google glasses
D. it’s easy to find out who is using Google glasses


Day 3
Painting the perfect peace (P6)
Choose the best answer:
1. According to the story, the first painting gave people a feeling of ______.
A. warmth B. anger C. noise D. quietness

2. Which of the following describes the two paintings best?
A. The first painting had high mountains, but the second one had small ones.
B. It was sunny and the sky was blue with no clouds in the first painting.
C. In the second painting, a bird stayed calm in frightening surroundings.
D. In the second painting, the mother bird was
frightened by the heavy rain.

3. The king chose the second painting because ______.
A. it showed a new idea of peace
B. there was no noise in it
C. the artist worked hard on it
D. it was close to nature

4. We can learn from the story that ______.
A. silence means peace
B. real peace means struggling against difficult situations
C. real peace means keeping calm in a wild situation
D. peace only exists in your heart and in a quiet situation

Day 4

Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England on Jan 8, 1942. He went to school in St. Albans – a small city near London. Although he did well, he was never top of his class. After leaving school, Hawking went first to Oxford University where he studied physics, then he went to Cambridge University where he studied cosmology (宇宙天体学). As he himself admits, he didn’t work hard. He was a very lazy student, and did very little work. However, he still got good marks.
It was at the age of 20 that Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him. He started to bump (撞上) into things. When he visited his family at Christmas time, his mother was so worried that she made him see a doctor. Hawking was sent to hospital for tests. Finally, the result came back. Hawking had motor neurone disease, an incurable illness which would make him unable to speak, breathe or move without the help of a machine. Doctors said they had no way to help him. He would die before he was 23.
At first, Hawking became very sad. After a while, though, he began to see his life in a different way. As he later write, “Before my illness was diagnosed (诊断), I had been very bored with life. There had not seemed to be anything worth doing. But shortly after I came out of hospital, I suddenly realized that there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do.” Hawking married, found a job at Cambridge University, and had three children. He also went on to do some of the most important scientific research ever.
Today, Hawking still works at Cambridge University as a professor. He strongly believes that his story shows that nobody, no matter how bad their situation is, should lose hope. “Life is not fair,” he once said. “You just have to do the best you can in your own situation.”
1. As a university student, Stephen Hawking _______.
A. worked very hard
B. studied math and physics
C. was the best student in his class
D. was lazy and did very little work

2. Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him when ______.
A. he was sent to hospital for tests
B. his mother made him see a doctor
C. he was 20 years old
D. he visited his family at Christmas one year

3. When Hawking first learned about his motor neurone disease, he _____.
A. made up his mind to get married soon
B. began to see his life in a different way
C. thought that nothing in life was worth doing
D. became upset
4. What would be the best title for this story?
A. Motor neurone disease
B. Life is fair
C. Professor Stephen Hawking
D. A lazy boy

Day 5
Cloze
One British school is finding that allowing children to listen to music or even to have the TV on while studying is helping improve grades. Next time your teenager starts a family quarrel by __1__in an armchair listening to music while doing his homework, why not try a __2__ experiment? Rather than taking the heavy words of ordering him to his bedroom to get on with it quietly, let him do the homework the__3__ he wants. You might well find that his work is more wonderful than anything he’s done before.
According to research from Millfield prep school in the UK, around 20% of young people__4__ best with background music, 10% excel (突出)when they are allowed to__5__ their work with short walks around the room, while up to 80% can concentrate better if __6__ are allowed to play with a small object.
The research has advised the school to take a completely __7__ step, analyzing pupils to discover which learning style suits them best – then letting them do their work listening to music or __8__ lying down. Doubtful parents at first regarded the move as a lazybone’s (懒汉) deed but many are now applying it at __9__ where children are also allowed to do their work with the television on.
“I __10__ to work on the floor with the music on low,” admits Susan, 13. “At first my __11__ thought I was avoiding work, but my teacher persuaded them to __12__ my homework and when they saw it was okay, they agreed.”

1. A. standing B. sitting C. doing D. reading
2. A. simple B. quiet C. dangerous D. difficult
3. A. method B. means C. way D. page
4. A. relax B. think C. write D. work
5. A. break out B. break down C. break up D. break in
6. A. they B. she C. we D. you
7. A. new B. special C. common D. interesting
8. A. still B. even C. almost D. perhaps
9. A. school B. class C. home D. last
10. A. continue B. agree C. hate D. prefer
11. A. teachers B. classmates C. friends D. parents
12. A. find B. check C. take D. leave

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上期参考答案
Reading
P4: Jane Austen was an English novelist in the 18th century.
2. In Bath, England.
3. Austen is famous for her humorous words and clever ideas.
4. She thought that women should marry for love, not for money or social status.
5. Austen’s novels were about a small part of English country life, while many other novelists’ at that time preferred novels describing the whole picture of human life.
P4-5: CBBA P5: ACCD
P6:1. angry 2. distanced / far 3. love 4. close / near
5.他们越是生气，就越是大声地叫喊，以穿越这段距离让对方听见。
6. We shouldn’t say words that distance us from our friends.
Cloze: 1-5 BACDC 6-10 ACBBB 11-12 CD

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