DAY1
Grief community (P3)
Choose the best answer:
1. According to the article, the main reason why Genevieve Liu set up SLAP’D was to ______.
A. honor her father who sacrificed his life to save two kids
B. help fellow teenagers get over the pain of losing a parent
C. show the deep connection between her and her father
D. prepare herself for a future career as a counselor
2. Which of the following are included as duties of staff members at SLAP’D?
a. answering questions from young people who just lost their parents
b. teaching children who lost their parents to create tribute pages
c. writing personal stories about dealing with the loss of a parent
d. helping kids who lost a parent to express themselves through art
e. finding out where the users of the SLAP’D website come from
A. ab B. ac C. cd D. ce
3. We can learn from the last three paragraphs that Genevieve Liu ______.
A. regretted sharing her painful memories with others
B. preferred the Hands Together, Heart to Art Camp to SLAP’D
C. felt satisfied once she learned that her work was recognized by users of SLAP’D
D. got over the pain of losing her father by helping others with their trouble
4. What is the article mainly about?
A. How Genevieve Liu got over the pain of losing her father.
B. How Genevieve Liu was inspired by the Hands Together, Heart to Art Camp.
C. Genevieve Liu and the SLAP’D website she created.
D. Advice for young people who have lost a parent.


DAY2
British food problems (P4)
阅读短文并根据文章内容回答问题,注意答案不要超过题目要求的词数。
1. Why did the author mention Matthew Barzun’s comment on British food? (No more than 12 words)

2. How is Chicken Tikka Masala different from traditional British food? (No more than 8 words)

3. Translate the following sentence into Chinese:
What’s more, another of the UK’s most popular dishes is stir fry, a simple Cantonese dish involving noodles and fresh vegetables that most students in the UK learn how to cook when they are away from home for the first time.

4. What makes modern British food culture stand out according to the article? (No more than 10 words)

5. List three things that the author thinks are charming about Britain. (No more than 15 words)



DAY3
Self-driving cars arrive (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. Which of the following is TRUE about driverless cars?
A. They look completely different from normal cars.
B. It is illegal for them to drive on roads according to the United Nations Convention on road traffic.
C. The equipment on top of their roofs helps the cars to get a full view of the area around them.
D. The cars’ software analyzes the information it gets from the radars and then adjusts the radars’ directions.
2. According to the article, the current driverless cars stop when ______.
A. it is thundering
B. the traffic lights are red
C. there is an uncovered manhole ahead
D. a police officer suggests that they do so
3. What’s one of the “problems” facing driverless cars according to the article?
A. How to make them run faster.
B. How to improve their detection technology.
C. How to power the cars using greener energy.
D. How to guide the cars when the GPS fails to work.
4. What best describes Urmson’s attitude toward the development of driverless cars?
A. Excited.B. Worried.
C. Doubtful.D. Optimistic.


DAY4
Grandma’s plants (P6)
Choose the best answer:
1. The author liked gathering flowers with her grandmother mainly because ______.
A. her grandmother taught her everything about flowers
B. her grandmother would never let the flowers scratch her
C. spending time with her grandmother was good for her emotional needs
D. her grandmother let her decide where to put the flowers in the house
2. We can infer from the article that the author ______.
A. has always dreamed of a flower garden of her own
B. had great fun planting flowers with her own grandchildren
C. often helped with the farm work when she visited her grandmother
D. started to live with her grandmother after her parents got divorced
3. How did the author feel when she found out that she was a picker rather than a planter?
A. Angry.B. Disappointed.
C. Calm.D. Worried.
4. In the author’s eyes, her grandmother was mostly ______.
A. wise and humorous
B. inspiring and caring
C. hardworking and brave
D. tough and stubborn
5. What does the article mainly talk about?
A. The qualities that make the author different from her grandmother.
B. The wonderful time the author spent with her grandmother in her childhood.
C. The efforts the author made to become as great a gardener as her grandmother.
D. The author’s memories of her grandmother and how she influenced the author.


DAY5
从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1. We are at your service. Don’t ______ to turn to us if you have any further problems.   
A. beg B. hesitate C. desire D. seek 
2. In much of the animal world, night is the time ______ for sleep-pure and simple.
A. set aside B. set down C. set off D. set up
3. My good performance in the job interview left me ______ about my future and about what I can do here.
A. puzzledB. sensitive
C. optimisticD. embarrassed
4. John is very ______. If he promises to do something he’ll do it.
A. independent     B. confident      C. reliable       D. flexible 
5. Students should involve themselves in community activities  ______  they can gain experience for growth. 
A. who     B. when   
C. which  D. where

阅读下面的材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Being a veterinarian (兽医), I had to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their boy Shane, loved Belker very much.
I examined Belker and found he 6. ________ (die) of cancer. I told the family we couldn’t do 7. ________ for Belker, and offered to perform the euthanasia (安乐死) procedure in their home.
As we made arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me they thought 8. ________ would be good for six-year-old Shane to watch. They felt Shane might learn something.
The next day, Belker’s family surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, 9. ________ (pet) the old dog for the last time, that I wondered if he understood what was happening. Within a few minutes, Belker slipped 10. ________ (peaceful) away.
The little boy seemed to accept it 11. ________ any difficulty. We sat together after Belker’s death, wondering why animal lives are shorter than human lives.
Shane, who 12. ________ (listen) quietly, said, “I know 13. ________.”
14. ________ (surprise), we all turned to him. What he said next amazed me. It has changed my life.
He said, “People are born so that they can learn how to live a good life – like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?”
The six-year-old continued, “Well, dogs already know how to do that, 15. ________ they don’t have to stay as long.”


D1 1. Missing the three-day freshman trip and the opportunity to get to know her fellow students. 2. It is a place for students to chat, meet, and have fun. 3. Some use textbooks in class but most of them think it unnecessary to use them. 4. The quality of being right and honest. 5. She thinks people should take the good points from both systems and make learning more enjoyable. D2 1-4 CBBC D3 1-4 CBDB
D4 1-4 BDBB D5 1-5 ACBBA 6-10 CBABB
11-15 DBCCB 16-20 DDACD