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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: When I was almost six and Jem nearly ten,our summertime boundaries were Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose's house two doors to the north of us,and the Radley Place three doors to the south.The Radley Place was said to be a ghostly house That was the summer Dill came to us. Early one morning Jem and I heard something next door in Miss Rachel Haverford's baekyard.We looked to the right and found someone looking at us. "Hey." "Hey yourself.How old are you?"asked Jem. "Goin' on seven.'' "You look right puny for goin' on seven."said Jem. "I'm little but I'm old."he said. Jem looked at him,"Charles Baker Harris? Lord, what a name!" "Folks call me Dill,"said Dill,struggling under the fence "Do better if you go over it instead of under it,"I said"Where'd you come from? " Dill,from Meridian,Mississippi,was spending the summer with his aunt,Miss Rachel.His family was from Maycomb County originally;his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian,had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars.She gave the money to Dill,who went to the picture show twenty times on it. "Don't have any picture shows here."said Jem."Ever see anything good?" Dill had seen Dracula,a revelation that moved Jem to envy him."Tell it to us." Dill was a curiosity He was a year my senior but I towered over him. When Dill reduced Dracula to dust,and Jem said the show sounded better than the book ,I asked Dill where his father was,"You ain't said anything about him." "I haven't got one." "Is he dead?" "No'' "Then if he's not dead you've got one,haven't you? " Seeing Dill uneasy, Jem told me to hush,a sure sign that Dill had been studied and found acceptable.Thereafter the summer passed in drama sharing.Dill played the character parts before us-the ape in Tarzan, Mr. Crabtree in The Rover Boys.Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin,whose head was full of strange plans and fancies But by the end of August Dill gave us the idea of making Boo Radley... Question: From the passage we can learn that Dill _ . Options: A: was a year senior to Jem and had a wide knowledge of dramas B: was a dull boy and unwilling to talk about his father C: left for Maycomb County for another Beautiful Child contest D: gained much knowledge from the picture shows
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Hu Li's heart sank due to the color of the air.Driving 140 kilometers from Tianjin City to Beijing last week,she held her breath as the air became a charcoal grey haze .The 39yearold businesswoman has lived in Beijing for a decade,and this past month,she said,brought the worst air pollution she has ever seen.It gave her husband a cough and left her sevenyearold daughter housebound ."My husband as well as I is working here,so we have no choice," she said."But if we had a choice,we'd like to escape from Beijing." The extended heavy pollution over the last month,which caused punishment in return for a day last week-called the "airpocalypse" by internet users- has largely changed the way that Chinese think about the country's air.On one day,pollution levels were 30 times higher than levels considered safe by the World Health Organization (WHO).Flights were cancelled.Roads were closed.One hospital in east Beijing reported they had treated more than 900 children for breathing issues.Bloomberg found that for most of January,Beijing's air was worse than that of an airport smoking area. The smog's most threatening aspect is its high concentration of PM 2.5 - particulate matter that is small enough to breathe deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstream,causing breathing infections,lung cancer and possibly damaging children's development.The WHO has estimated that outdoor air pollution accounts for two million deaths per year,65% of them in Asia. Question: From the passage we know high concentration of PM 2.5 _ . Options: A: can lead to choke B: can cause heart cancer C: will damage children's development D: will damage people's organ
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: American teenager Thomas Cheatham had planned to study Latin during his sophomore year at Hebron High School in Texas. But when he learned that the school district was going to offer a Mandarin class, he quickly changed his mind. "I thought it (Mandarin) would be more beneficial than Latin," said Cheatham, who is now in his second year of studying the language. He speaks Mandarin to order food at Chinese restaurants and can read Face book posts from his Chinese-speaking friends. While it'a difficult language to master, the high school junior, who plans to study computer engineering, thinks it will be a valuable thing in his career. "Chinese is a good language to know, especially with China becoming a growing power," he said. Many experts agree that proficiency in a language spoken by a billion people worldwide will give American students an edge in the global economy. "People are looking at China as our next economic competitor, and interest in Mandarin is growing,'' said Marty Abbott, executive director of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. ''We're seeing it in all parts of the country." The number of students studying Mandarin in public schools nationwide in grades 7 through 12 grew from 20,000 in 2004-2005 to 60,000 three years later, according to the council's most recent survey. Abbott estimates that as many as 100,000 students are now studying Mandarin, in public and private schools, throughout the nation. She said the US government has considered Mandarin to be an "important needs" language and provides professional development programs for teachers. "Our government wants to increase our language ability for national security and economic competitiveness," Abbott said. At the same time, the Chinese government is spreading knowledge of the Chinese language and culture through Confucius Institutes established in many states. The Confucius Institute at the University of Texas in Dallas, founded in 2007, opens Confucius Classrooms at 11 local public and private schools where more... Question: Why does the writer mention Thomas in the passage? Options: A: To tell us how changeable he is. B: To introduce the topic of the passage. C: To introduce his college life. D: To tell us Latin is less popular now.
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B