Day 1
Experimental design (P3)
Choose the best answer:
1. What is the author’s purpose in writing the article?
A. To point out problems with China’s education system.
B. To introduce what he thinks is the right way to learn physics.
C. To reflect on his experience of doing a physics project in the US.
D. To discuss how he managed to adapt to studying physics in the US.
2. According to the article, when it comes to learning physics, Chinese students ______.
A. don’t work as hard as Americans do
B. don’t get as high scores as Americans do
C. are more interested in basic knowledge than doing experiments
D. are usually not involved in designing experiments
3. When the author started to do the project that he was assigned, _____.
A. he was at a loss for what he should do
B. he was confident that he would do it well
C. he turned to a South Korean student for help
D. he felt as confused as all of his other teammates did
4. Through doing the experiment, the author found that ______.
A. physics is not as easy to learn as he had thought
B. American students love to make fun of others
C. doing experiments is the most interesting part of learning science
D. in some contexts, Asian students do not solve problems as well as American students do


Day 2
Longer lives for... (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. What is the text mainly about?
A. The functions of white blood cells.
B. Reasons why women live longer than men do.
C. What factors affect human’s immune systems.
D. What a bad lifestyle does to your life span.
2. What did scientists discover from their new study?
A. The more white blood cells in a person’s body, the healthier he or she is.
B. Men are more likely to get sick because their immune systems are usually weaker than those of women.
C. The number of two special types of white blood cells decreases faster in men than in women as both groups age.
D. The total number of white blood cells fell with age both in men and women, but they fell faster in men than in women.
3. Which of the following might Hirokawa agree with?
A. Men usually deal with their stress better than women do.
B. A healthy lifestyle makes a difference for people’s life spans.
C. Women are more likely to pick up cardiovascular diseases than men.
D. Certain genes and hormones in women determine the speed at which their immune systems age.
4. Which of the following best shows the structure of the text?
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Day 3

Time well-spent (P6)
Choose the best answer:
1. How did the author feel when he heard laughter on the train to the terminal?
A. Bored. B. Excited.
C. Surprised. D. Delighted.
2. When the son asked for another ride, the father ______.
A. was so tired that he refused
B. decided to ignore him
C. pretended not to want to, but still accepted
D. encouraged him to see more pilots
3. With this story, the author mainly intends to tell us that ______.
A. it’s unnecessary to buy expensive items for children
B. parents should spend quality time with their children
C. parents should take kids on different and special journeys
D. it’s easy to find something worth cherishing in daily life


Day 4

根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。
In April 2007, a 16-year-old British boy named Charlie McDonnell was studying for his exams. Being bored, he turned on his laptop computer, found a video-sharing website called YouTube and watched a video of another teenager like him. __1__ “I can do better than that!” thought Charlie. So he used his laptop and webcam (网络摄像头) to make his first video, and posted it on YouTube.
Two days later he had 150 subscribers (订阅者), so he decided to make more videos. Oprah Winfrey, the famous American television host, showed one of them on her program. In How to be English, Charlie wears a suit and tie, talks in a funny accent and shows viewers how to make a cup of tea. __2__ To say thank you to all his fans he made Challenge Charlie, asking people to suggest funny or difficult things for him to do. Challenges included drinking tomato ketchup (番茄酱), wearing all of his clothes at once and painting himself purple!
__3__ His most popular videos are of him singing and playing the ukelele (四弦琴). In Duet with Myself, he uses special effects to sing about what a boring person he is. This has now been watched over 7 million times!
With more than one and a half million subscribers, Charlie is the most popular video blogger in the UK. He has now made enough money to buy a house with his friend Alex. __4__ “I make the kind of videos that I want to watch,” he says. How has fame affected him? Charlie says: “I still sit in my bedroom talking to my camera, and that’s what I want to do.”
__5__ Well, he passed with nine A grades and one B! He said he wanted to go to university, but decided to try and make a career on YouTube before that. So far, it has been going very well!

A. But what is the secret of his success?
B. Charlie is also a singer and songwriter.
C. And what is Charlie’s plan after he becomes famous?
D. Charlie suddenly became very famous in the US too.
E. And how did Charlie do in his exams back in 2007?
F. Charlie is a typical example of teenagers who are bored with school life.
G. The teenager was sitting in his bedroom and talking about how bored he was.




Day 5

从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。
1. If the problem is too serious to solve, we can ______ our teacher for help.
A. turn for B. turn to
C. turn down D. turn up
2. ______ acting, Stevens also has a passion for writing.
A. In terms of B. Regardless of
C. According to D. In addition to
3. Because it was the first time she ______ on the stage, she felt very nervous.
A. had sung B. has sung
C. sang D. sings
4. School is like a small society ______ boys and girls meet and study together.
A. which B. that
C. where D. as
5. It’s great to see that all of our hard work has finally ______.
A. paid off B. ended up
C. went on D. got through
6. At school, some students are active ______ some are shy, yet they can still be good friends with one another.
A. while B. although
C. so D. as
7. The top leaders of the two countries are holding talks in a friendly ______.
A. neighborhood B. phenomenon
C. atmosphere D. fire
8. We are at your service. Don’t ______ to tell us if you have any further problems.
A. beg B. hesitate
C. desire D. seek
9. When teenagers played with their friends ______, they took more chances and drove more carelessly.
A. watches B. to watch
C. watched D. watching
10. – I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of this weather.
– _________. I can’t stand all this rain.
A. I don’t care B. It’s hard to say
C. So am I D. I hope not


上期参考答案
D1
1. The fashion show and art classes at McLane High School.
2. They were very excited about their classmates’ designs and performance.
3. It was difficult but interesting.
4. Germain has high expectations for his students.
5. Their passion for the arts.
D2 CCDB D3 CDB
D4 CACB
D5 1-5 BCACD 6-10 ABABD
11-15 CDABC 16-20 BCDAB