Read the article and select the best answer. Article: All boys and girls like good stories. I am sure that all children who read The Ugly Duckling will be glad to know something about the 'King of Story Tellers', who wrote it for them. Thousands and thousands of children have read this story, only to ask for it again and again. It has travelled the wide world over, and has been told in every country. Hans Christian Andersen, the author of "The Ugly Duckling," was born in Denmark. If you look on a map, you will see this little country in northern Europe. There, in the little village of Odense, he spent his boyhood. His father and mother were very poor. The family lived in two little rooms near the top of a house, where his father worked as a shoemaker. On the roof was a box filled with earth. In this box his mother planted her vegetables. Little Hans loved to walk with his father in the woods, where he could pick wild flowers and hear the birds sing. His father read to him when his work was done, or told him stories. What his father did helped him open up a new world. Once, when Hans was still a child, he went into a wheat field with his mother and a number of children, to pick the rest wheat which the reapers had left in the field. While they were busy picking only a small amount of wheat for each of them, an angry bailiff came rushing into the field, armed with a whip . All ran, as fast as they could, away from the angry man. _ and the sharp stalks of the wheat plants which had been cut down, cut his feet so that he could not get away. Unafraid, the boy faced the angry man and his upraised whip. "How dare you hit me when you know God sees you?" he cried, looking fearlessly into the face of the angry bailiff. The whip came down, but not on little Hans. The bailiff admired the boy's courage, and praised him for it. He sent him home with gifts, rather than punishments.[:] While Hans was still a boy, his kind father died. Then Hans and his mother were left alone, to care for each other. "What will you do, Hans?" the mother asked "Would you like to become a... Question: Why didn't the bailiff hit Hans? Options: A: Because he was afraid of Hans. B: Because he was too angry. C: Because Hans gave him some gifts. D: Because he admired Hans' courage.
D

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: One day a teacher told his students a story: There were three dogs chasing a woodchuck ,which ran into a hole in a tree. Soon from the tree out ran a white rabbit. The rabbit ran away very fast. _ and driven by the three dogs, the rabbit climbed up a tree. But it couldn't stand steadily, so it fell down to the ground. Before the dogs came to realize what had happened, the rabbit ran away quickly again... Finishing the story, the teacher asked, "Are there any problems with the story?" One student said, "Rabbit cannot climb trees." Another said, "It's impossible for three dogs not to catch a rabbit." When the students couldn't find any more problems with the story, the teacher said, "There is another problem. Where did the woodchuck go? The woodchuck was the goal that the dogs were chasing. But because of the rabbit's appearance, the dogs changed their direction, and our thoughts unknowingly changed, too. The woodchuck disappeared in our minds." Such is life. While holding on to our goals, we are sometimes fascinated by surrounding beauties or interrupted by minor details, so we forget our goals. Question: Which of the following is TRUE according to the article? Options: A: The woodchuck followed the rabbit quickly. B: A woodchuck was run after by three dogs. C: The rabbit jumped off a tree. D: The woodchuck fell off the tree and ran away.
B

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: A man liked shooting arrows . He studied it very hard for years. He thought he did it best and it was time for him to go out into the world. One day when he walked through a forest, he saw a target on a tree, with an arrow right in the center. He went on and found more and more trees with targets and arrows in the center. He was so surprised at this. He wanted to know who did it. Soon he came to a farmhouse. An old man told him that he could find the person he wanted by the river. When he got there, he saw a little girl playing with her dog on the bank. "Are you the person who shoots the arrows?" he asked the girl. "Yes, that's me," she replied. "But how can you do that?" he wondered. "That's easy," said the girl happily. "First shoot an arrow." Then draw a target." Question: _ shot an arrow first and then drew a target. Options: A: The girl B: The man C: The old man D: The farmer
A: A

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Hello, I am a box. I am big and I am green. I have many things. Look! This is a pencil box. It's white. It's Jack's. He likes white very much. What are in the pencil box? Three pens are in it. What is that? It's an orange. It's Linda's. Oranges are her favorite fruit. Some baseballs are in me, too. They are John's and Mary's. They lost them on the playground. Whose keys are these? They are Anna's. She lost them in the library. A boy found _ . You can see an English book in me, too. Whose book is it? I don't know. Who am I? I am the Lost and Found box. Question: What did John and Mary lose? Options: A: Some keys. B: An English book. C: A pencil box. D: Some baseballs.
Answer: D

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: James lives in the mountains with his parents.There are not any schools near the farm.He has to study in the _ from Monday to Friday.His father often takes him there in his car on Sunday afternoon.And he meets him on Friday afternoon. The boy likes animals.He can see some near his house and school.But he never visits a zoo.Some of his classmates have been to the zoo and they often talk about the elephants,dolphins,lions,tigers and pandas.He sees them on TV.So he can only listen to them. It's Friday today.James' father will go to the city tomorrow.There's a big zoo there.The boy asks him to take him there.He agrees.James is so happy that he can't sleep at night.He gets up early this morning and puts some food in his bag.Can you guess what he does that for? Question: His father takes James to school because _ . Options: A: he does not like to stay there B: he works there C: it is far from the farm D: he is very free
A: C