Day 1

Water’s drying up (P2)
阅读表达：1~2题判断正误；3题完成句子；4~5题简要回答问题。
1. _____ When Poyang Lake entered its dry season, people all over the country face water shortages.

2. _____ People living in two-thirds of China’s cities drink unhealthy water.

3. According to Ban Ki-moon, about ________ of the global population could be facing water shortages by 2030 and the best way to deal with the problem is to _______________________________________.

4. When and where was the Water Summit held?
_____________________________________
_____________________________________

5. What should we do to help deal with the water problem?
_____________________________________
_____________________________________

Day 2

Yoga proves a big hit in... (P3)
Choose the best answer:
1. PE classes at Aspire Middle School are
special because the students are asked
to _____.
A. run on the playground
B. do yoga
C. play ball games
D. jump

2. According to the passage, which of the
following picture is the mountain pose?

3. Doing yoga can help the students ____.
A. keep balance B. get excited
C. become focused D. control their breath

4. From the passage, we learn that _____.
A. doing yoga makes Shiveley feel tired
B. strength can hardly be trained in yoga
C. classical music is often played in yoga classes
D. warm-up exercise is not necessary in doing yoga

Day 3

Learning countries through... (P4)
Choose the best answer:
1. According to paragraphs 1-2, statistics
are used as _____.
A. a way to learn about a country
B. a symbol of the development of a country
C. a source of building a website
D. basic information for the world map
2. US comic website collected statistics to
_____.
A. update the world map
B. rank the countries in a fun way
C. work out how many hot dogs are eaten in
the US
D. make a guidebook for people

3. According to the website, Canada is the
leading country in _____.
A. sheep farming
B. making robots
C. working hard
D. producing maple syrup

4. The writer thinks the best way to
know about a country is to _____.
A. read books
B. surf the Internet
C. go there in person
D. watch a movie

Day 4

How every face is very... (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. The underlined word “unique” in the
first paragraph means “______”.
A. unchanged B. special
C. similar D. different

2. Our faces change over time because of
______.
A. the change in the DNA “switches”
B. the genes we get from our parents
C. the different shapes of our skull
D. the different personalities we have

3. The last paragraph tells us that it is
_____.
A. important to study DNA “switches”
B. impossible to control the DNA “switches”
C. hard to find how and why birth defects
happen
D. difficult to stop the development of
defects

4. We can learn something about _____
from the passage.
A. face development
B. DNA “switches”
C. birth defects
D. personality and appearance


Day 5

Cloze
Once there were several scientists in a forest. They were trying to _1_ the rarest animal in the world. No one had seen it, so everyone was _2_ and wanted to be the first one to photograph and study it.
The animal only came out at night, _3_ the scientists did some other studies in the day. _4_ them, there was a famous scientist named Walter. Every day, he would spend an hour sitting at the desk and putting all his equipment (设备) in the _5_ place. He did this carefully. But other scientists laughed at him because they thought Walter was just wasting _6 _ .
One night, the animal suddenly _ 7_ . The scientists heard its call. But the call didn’t last long. The animal was frightened by the _8_ made by the scientists while they were scrabbling (忙乱地找) for their cameras and notebooks.
On the next morning, the scientists _9 _ their findings. Some had tried to record its call, others had noted down how it moved, and the luckiest one had even photographed parts of its tail and legs. They all congratulated each other on _10_ they had found. However, when they saw what Walter had, they were very _ 11_ . He had taken several complete (完整的) photos, the record of the animal’s cry and notes about the animal.
They ran to congratulate Walter. They now understood the importance of keeping things _12_ . Because of that, Walter could find everything quickly in the dark.

1. A. feed B. study C. catch D. kill
2. A. relaxed B. tired
C. excited D. surprised
3. A. but B. or C. and D. so
4. A. Among B. Beside
C. Against D. Between
5. A. clean B. right C. safe D. public
6. A. space B. money C. food D. time
7. A. died B. slept C. appeared D. waved
8. A. plans B. noises C. recordsD. mistakes
9. A. compared B. counted
C. chose D. kept
10. A. how B. what C. why D. where
11. A. happy B. angry C. surprisedD. sad
12. A. in danger B. in trouble
C. in horror D. in order
（参考答案见下期）


上期参考答案
Reading
【P3】 DBBA 【P4】 ACB 【P5】 BBDA
【P6】 ADAB
Cloze: 1-5 DCBCB 6-10 CDADD 11-12 CA
6版日积月累：1-5 BABCD 6-10 CACBC