Day 1
Scotland celebrates (P4)
Choose the best answer:
1. What is the article mainly about?
A. The origin of fortune-telling games in Scotland.
B. St Andrew’s Day traditions and its importance to Scotland.
C. Why the UK doesn’t have a national day.
D. Why Scottish people celebrate St Andrew’s Day.

2. How do people usually celebrate St Andrew’s Day?
a. By drinking whisky.
b. By playing bagpipe music.
c. By eating the traditional dish haggis.
d. By having fun ceilidh dancing.
A. a, b, cB. a, b, d
C. b, c, dD. a, b, c, d

3. Which of the following days is the national day for England?
A. St Andrew’s Day.
B. St David’s Day.
C. St Patrick’s Day.
D. St George’s Day.

4. Which flag is not included in the Union Jack?
A. The flag of Scotland.
B. The flag of Wales.
C. The flag of Northern Ireland.
D. The flag of England.


Day 2
Good deeds warm ... (P5)
Choose the best answer:
1. What did the scientists in the Netherlands find out from the experiment?
A. Those with higher carbon footprints usually took part in more daily activities.
B. Those with higher carbon footprints turned out to have lower skin temperatures.
C. Those with lower carbon footprints probably felt warmer.
D. Those with lower carbon footprints did better in guessing the temperature of the room.

2. The underlined word “boosts” in Paragraph 9 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. improves B. harms
C. lowers D. limits

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?
A. It’s the first time scientists have found that doing good deeds makes us feel warm.
B. When people are in a bad psychological state, they prefer to stay somewhere cool.
C. It’s a good idea to do some good green deeds the next time you feel down or cold.
D. People might feel warmer if they were told to turn off the lights to save money.


Day 3
Drink in a lesson (P6)
Choose the best answer:
1. When the students found they had different tea cups, they ______.
A. were satisfied with their own cup
B. were angry about the chipped cups they had been given
C. asked the teacher to get new cups for them
D. were curious about the difference between the cups

2. From the article, we can conclude that _____.
A. the teacher prepared different tea cups for each student
B. the teacher should have given the students the same tea cups
C. the chipped tea cups were actually made of better materials
D. each student took their time to choose a cup they liked

3. By comparing the cups to the physical circumstances of people’s lives, the teacher meant that people ______.
A. shouldn’t focus on the physical circumstances
B. can’t change their physical circumstances
C. should try different ways of life
D. should always be prepared for strange things in life

4. The teacher’s message to the students was that ______.
A. life is actually hard and boring for everyone
B. it is natural to be envious of the lives of others
C. everyone should learn to enjoy life
D. people act differently in different circumstances

Day 4
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出正确的填入空白处。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Are you left-handed? If you are, you make up just 10 percent of the world’s population. 1 Most people write and play musical instruments with their right hands.
Why are so few people left-handed? A new theory, called “cooperation (合作) vs competition” may have the answer. 2 When making tools for a right-handed person – like a knife – it was easier if everybody could use the same hand. But some humans wanted to compete instead. So to have an advantage over right-handed people, they would use their left hand to surprise competitors.
3 German born American scientist Albert Einstein, British physicist Isaac Newton and British biologist Charles Darwin are some famous “lefties”. At least six US presidents were left-handed, including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Harry Truman.
“Lefties” are also often linked with creativity and visual (视觉) skills.
How can this be? Well, the left side of our brain is where we solve problems. The right side of our brain is where we develop creativity. Right-handers tend to use the left side more than the right side. 4
“This is why there are more of them in creative areas, such as music, art and writing,” said Alan Searleman, PhD, from St. Lawrence University, New York.
5 They tend to have worse memories, often forgetting names and places.

A. While the body is symmetrical (对称的) in many ways, in some key areas, it’s decidedly one-sided.
B. As humans evolved (进化), we needed to work together to live.
C. This means we live in a right-handed world.
D. However, it’s not all good news for left-handers.
E. Which means that, lefties should celebrate their differences.
F. Yet left-handers tend to use both sides more evenly than right-handers.
G. Although there are few left-handed people, some of them are geniuses.

Day 5
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. ______ being the first Chinese team in the competition is certainly an honor, it’s going to be difficult, according to the team manager.
A. AsB. Although
C. Since D. Unless
2. To _________ your college time abroad, good preparation is necessary.
A. make the most ofB. get away from
C. make up for     D. catch up with
3. Health problems are closely connected with bad eating habits and a ________ of exercise.
A. limit B. demand
C. need D. lack
4. We’d better discuss everything _________ before we work out the plan.
A. in detail B. in general
C. on purpose D. on time
5. I can tell him anything because he is a(n) _______ friend.
A. confident B. inspiring
C. trustworthy D. independent

阅读下面材料，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。
April 26 is “Hug a Friend Day”. Can you guess how you celebrate 6. ______? That’s right … you hug a friend!
7. ______ (give) a hug can express love, support or acceptance. It can improve a person’s mood (情绪), or even their health, 8. ______ relieving (减轻) their stress.
However, it can also get you in trouble. Earlier this month, Ryan Blackmon, a middle school student in North Carolina, US, 9. ______ (fight) with another student when a teacher pulled them apart. When she had finished, Ryan said “thank you” and gave her a hug.
This did not relieve the teacher’s stress. Instead, she 10. ______ (angry) took him to an office, where school officials decided to suspend (停课) him from school.
11. ______ did she react so badly? First of all, Ryan is a boy and his teacher is a woman. In that situation, she may have thought that Ryan’s hug showed the wrong kind of affection. Also, a student hugging a teacher 12. ______ (send) a strange message: that they are 13. ______ (friend). Especially when she had just broken up a fight, a hug might have really threatened (威胁) the teacher’s sense of authority (权威).
So be 14. ______ (care) who you hug, and how you hug them! The best way to avoid misunderstandings is just to ask first, or to say: “Give me a hug!” From the person’s reaction, you’ll know 15. ______ to hug or not to hug.

上期参考答案
D1 BAC
D2 1. History 2. popular 3. dinner 4. types 5. secret
6. parties 7. wish 8. decorated 9. connection 10. comfort
D3 CDAD4 DCB
D5 1-5 DADAC 6-10 BDCAB
11-15 ABDBA 16-20 CAADC