Day 1
Building futures (P3)
Choose the best answer:
1. What is special about the house built during the summer camp?
A. It was built by a 13-year-old boy from Annapolis alone.
B. It is one of the smallest houses in the world.
C. It has a unique water filtration system.
D. It was designed to be sustainable.

2. We can tell from the article that SustainaFest ______.
A. makes a lot of money by organizing summer camps
B. invites students to be community volunteers
C. shows students how to be friendly to the environment
D. teaches students how to design houses

3. What is Julia Branscombe’s attitude toward the future of the environment?
A. Optimistic (乐观的).
B. Indifferent (漠不关心的).
C. Doubtful.
D. Worried.


Day 2
English with an accent (P4)
Choose the best answer:
1. Why does the author think people have to “re-learn” English upon arriving? (No more than 10 words)
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2. How did the author feel when others praised her English? (No more than 5 words)
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3. Why did the author decide to speak with a bit of a Chinese “accent”? (No more than 10 words)
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4. Translate the following sentence into Chinese.
An accent is often taken to mean that you haven’t learned about a culture, when, in fact, it is a mark of one’s experience of different cultures.
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5. What is the article mainly about? (No more than 8 words)
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Day 3
Crows smarter ... (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. Why is Aesop’s Fables mentioned in the beginning of the article?
A. To show that fables about crows are wrong.
B. To introduce the idea that crows are smart.
C. To explain why crows can solve problems.
D. To prove that crows can be better than babies at problem solving.

2. What have Logan’s team found out from their recent experiments?
A. Crows prefer to get their food reward from wider tubes.
B. Crows can easily recognize the tubes with a food reward inside.
C. Crows are able to understand or learn cause and effect relationships.
D. Some crows even make use of road traffic to help them break nuts.

3. What can we learn from the experiment on crows and children?
A. Five of the six crows threw stones into the red tube.
B. Children aged 6 did better than children aged 4.
C. Some crows proved to be more clever than children aged 10.
D. One crow passed the test while the younger children didn’t.



Day 4
Say the right thing (P6)
Choose the best answer:
1. A “mainstream” school is probably where ______.
A. students with disabilities go to study
B. students can receive extra care
C. most students do not have disabilities
D. there are many wonderful teachers

2. What was the author’s school life like?
A. He got along very well with his classmates.
B. He could deal with his homework easily.
C. He kept up with others by working hard.
D. He felt ashamed of his performance in school.

3. When Mrs Jordan called on the author, ______.
A. he was so nervous that he forgot the answer
B. he didn’t expect to receive such encouraging praise
C. he was afraid that his classmates might laugh at him
D. he knew he would become an instant star afterwards

4. With his story, the author mainly intends to tell us that ______.
A. teachers should help their students build their confidence
B. the right words at the right time could make a difference
C. being disabled doesn’t mean being less important than others
D. you need to prove yourself when you are given the chance




Day 5
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。
Even people who don’t have much talent for acting or singing still dream of being discovered by a talent scout (星探). It seems just like 1 the lottery, but better 2 you get fame and money.
For me, the dream seemed likely to stay a dream. But everything 3 last week in Beijing.
I was eating dinner with some friends. As I was getting ready to pay, a young Chinese woman came running up to me. I was 4 that I must have done something horrible to offend her without 5 it.
“You are a white man,” she said 6 when she got to our table.
“Yes, I am a white man,” I replied.
“Can you speak 7 ?” she asked.
“Yes.”
“Oh good. Come with me now, please.”
I walked outside and saw that a movie was being shot in front of one of the street’s largest 8 .
The woman, a talent agent, had 9 a foreigner for this movie, but he had forgotten to 10 . She needed to find a white guy who spoke English, and I was the only one 11 . My part was to walk from one end of the street to the other, and then 12 the club. When I got to the club, I was supposed to 13 to my friend and say, “Forget about the girl, man. We are here to party!” It took me three tries to say the line  14 or walk without tripping, but 15 I got it right.
The talent scout ran to me afterward. “You are so 16 . I would like you to join my agency.” I know I am not going to be the next Jay Chou. 17 , it seems that my 18 “star” talents are being white and being able to speak English. 19 , next time you are watching a Chinese movie, look in the 20 . If you see a white guy stumbling (蹒跚) on his way into a nightclub, it might just be me on my way to stardom (星途)!

1. A. accepting B. bargaining C. predicting D. winning
2. A. although B. if
C. since D. unless
3. A. began B. changed
C. disappeared D. improved
4. A. amazed B. curious C. guilty D. worried
5. A. admitting B. imagining
C. pretending D. realizing
6. A. breathlessly B. cautiously
C. proudly D. surprisingly
7. A. Chinese B. English C. French D. Cantonese
8. A. cinemas B. nightclubs
C. schools D. restaurants
9. A. introduced B. needed C. persuaded D. signed
10. A. come across B. fit in C. show up D. make out
11. A. away B. around
C. beyond D. up
12. A. enter B. name
C. recognize D. search
13. A. find B. offer
C. turn D. stick
14. A. quickly B. simply C. properly D. reasonably
15. A. eventually B. hopefully C. obviously     D. unfortunately
16. A. brave B. interesting
C. strange D. talented
17. A. In return B. In brief
C. In turn D. In fact
18. A. best B. last
C. only D. other
19. A. Instead B. Besides C. However D. Otherwise
20. A. background B. connection
C. expression D. meaning

上期参考答案
D1 1. brightness 2. together 3. pet 4. cultures/countries
5. home 6. surface 7. continued 8. over
9. impossible 10. tourists
D2 DCCA D3 BDA
D4 DBB D5 CBDCD