Day 1

Raising awareness (P3)
Choose the best answer:
1. The author mentioned one of Liah Kaminer’s shocking memories during her sophomore year to ______.
A. show how anti-Jewish most students at her school are
B. show that anti-Jewish feelings exist among some students in her school
C. complain about the poor management of her school
D. introduce a new trend in her school

2. The underlined phrase “seeing such comments swept under the rug” in Paragraph 3 probably means ______.
A. finding people stressing the importance of such comments
B. figuring out how these comments influence others
C. finding people trying to turn a blind eye to such comments
D. seeing such comments quickly spread throughout the school

3. According to Stephen Armstrong, Liah Kaminer ______ in the class on anti-Semitism.
A. did most of the teaching
B. taught her classmates about the Holocaust of World War II
C. used her personal experience to correct people’s stereotypes
D. mainly explained common misunderstandings about Jewish people

4. We can infer from the article that ______.
A. today’s American kids know little about the history of the Nazis and the Jewish people
B. Armstrong believed the special class succeeded in raising awareness of anti-Semitism at the school
C. peer-teaching methods will become popular at the school because of the success of the special class
D. Armstrong had already noticed the problem of anti-Semitism before Kaminer turned to him


Day 2

First days at UK unis (P4)
Choose the best answer:
1. What is the author’s purpose in writing the article?
A. To introduce how UK students prepare for college.
B. To show different challenges that college freshmen face in the UK and China.
C. To describe how UK colleges welcome newcomers at the beginning of a new semester.
D. To inform us about what the first day of going to college is like in the UK.

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?
A. On the first day of college, most UK freshmen don’t know each other.
B. When the new semester begins, most UK freshmen drive to college by themselves.
C. Most British parents choose to stay around their children’s colleges for a few days at the beginning of the semester.
D. For many freshmen, when they say goodbye to their parents, they are also saying goodbye to their childhood.
3. A similarity between college freshmen in the UK and China is that ______.
A. the approach roads to their colleges are packed with cars filled with nervous families
B. they have contacted their future roommates through social networking sites
C. once they get to the campus, they want to make sure that they have access to the Internet
D. they spend their first week getting to know their roommates and partying

4. From the article, we can conclude that Sean Coughlan’s report is ______.
A. critical B. descriptive
C. sympathetic D. bitter


Day 3

Cats eat fearless mice (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. What is the main purpose of the article?
A. To analyze why mice are afraid of cats.
B. To inform us of a harmful parasite called Toxoplasma gondii.
C. To introduce a new study on how a certain parasite affects mice.
D. To describe the evolution of Toxoplasma gondii.

2. The underlined word “hard-wired” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to _______.
A. deeply rooted
B. gradually changed
C. quickly moved
D. closely linked

3. It was found from the experiment that mice infected with Toxoplasma gondii _______.
A. stayed far away from cats’ urine
B. moved around freely and didn’t react to cats’ urine
C. became more sensitive to cats’ smell than normal mice
D. became more afraid of cats after recovering from the infection

4. What can we conclude from the article?
A. Harmful as it is to human beings, Toxoplasma gondii does no harm to mice or cats.
B. People who are infected by Toxoplasma gondii will have permanent brain damage.
C. Toxoplasma gondii causes people to develop strange and deadly diseases.
D. With certain infections, even after they have been cured by antibiotics, there may still be some effects from the bacteria that caused them.


Day 4

Missed meeting (P6)
Choose the best answer:
1. On Harry’s way to the station to meet May, he probably felt _______.
A. peaceful B. disappointed
C. excited D. hungry

2. When Harry failed to find May at the station, he _______.
A. phoned home to see if she had called
B. went to her workplace to find her
C. thought that he must have been cheated
D. decided to work inside the station

3. When May failed to find Harry at the station, she _______.
A. turned to the police for help
B. went to the railroad station to find him several times
C. made every effort to find him before deciding to work as a typist
D. believed she might one day meet Harry at the railroad station

4. Harry met May at the station three years later _______.
A. completely by accident
B. with the help of the police
C. because they liked to eat at the same place
D. when May went to buy a magazine at Harry’s stand


Day 5

从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1. Human bodies are the most complex machines in the world, ______ means they are constantly in danger of going wrong.
A. which B. that
C. it D. this
2. Studies have long shown that our heart rates and anxiety levels rise and fall ______ on the speeds of the music we hear.
A. depends B. depended
C. depending D. to depend
3. When your classmates turn to you for help, don’t ______ to share your wisdom.
A. prepare B. hesitate
C. ignore D. seek
4. To tell the truth, Lu Xun’s articles are ______ me, even with my teachers’ help.
A. within B. over
C. beside D. beyond
5. Eugene O’Neill’s impact on American theater was _______ William Shakespeare’s was on Britain’s.
A. that B. which
C. what D. one
6. After traveling all night, they were ______ for sleep.
A. scared B. desperate
C. beneficial D. reluctant
7. His efforts to raise money for his program were ______ because no one showed any intention of taking a cent out of their pockets.
A. in place B. in sight
C. in effect D. in vain
8. He’s not very ______. You can’t always count on him to do what he says he’ll do.
A. reliable B. sensitive
C. patient D. independent
9. We may ______ it for granted that we can see, but many people aren’t so lucky.
A. turn B. think
C. take D. make
10. It may be hard in modern times to imagine life without ______ to lights at night.
A. use  B. access
C. reference D. approach
（答案见下期）


上期参考答案
D1 1-4 BBDC D2 1-4 CBBC D3 1-4 DBCA
D4 1-4 DCBC D5 1-3 CBA