小升初课外阅读周周练2（试题）-2023-2024学年外研版（三起）英语六年级下册

小升初课外阅读周周练 1 A bakery(面包店) in England made a big "fruitcake" to make money for a children's hospital. It took people about 400 hours to make it. The big "fruitcake" itself is a machine (机器). People put flour, eggs and sugar into the machine. Next little cakes come out one by one. Then people put the little cakes into another part (另一部分) of the machine. And they come out in little boxes. At the very end, people can take them home. The big "fruitcake" can feed 2,000 people. People will show the machine at the biggest sugar craft show (糖工艺展) in Birmingham this weekend. And people hope that this cake machine can make more people get ideas to bake for charity(慈善). 阅读短文，根据短文内容判断正(T)误(F)。 1. People made the big "fruitcake" for the old people. [ ] 2. It took people about 400 hours to make the big "fruitcake". [ ] 3. People can take little cakes in boxes home. [ ] 4. People won't show the cake machine anywhere. [ ] 5. Making this cake machine, people want to give others some ideas to bake for charity. [ ] 2 Chilean (智利的) swimmer Barbara Hernandez broke the world record. She swam between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in the south of Chile. Hernandez swam one sea mile, about 1.852 kilometers in fifteen minutes and three seconds(秒). The swim was very difficult because the water temperature(温度) was only between six and seven degrees. People had to make sure(确保) that Hernandez's temperature wasn't too low. Nobody ever swam one sea mile in such a bad place, and people call Hernandez the"lce Mermaid". She said that she was proud of her record. And she wanted all Chilean people to be happy like her. 1. Barbara Hernandez is from ( ). A. Canada B. Chile C. America D. Australia 2. Hernandez swam one sea mile in ( ). A. fifteen minutes and three seconds B. thirteen minutes and fifteen seconds C. three minutes and fifteen seconds D. five minutes and thirteen seconds 3. What was the temperature of the water? ( ) A. It was between six and ten degrees. B.