MEDINA, Saudi Arabia: 3 people were killed when Saudi special forces stormed a Russian airliner and freed more than 100 passengers from hijackers on Friday. The hijackers admitted to be Chechens and threatened to blow up the plane. They seized the airliner on Thursday after it took off from Istanbul and forced it to fly to prefix = st1 /Saudi Arabia. There they demanded that Russiatake back its army in the Muslim district of Chechnya, which goes against the Russian government for its independence. SAN FRANCISCO: California's officials warned on Tuesday that tight electricity supplies could lead to a second following day of statewide power failure. "If we can get some more resources from outside the state of Californiaand if people can save a great deal, that would certainly help. " Said a local official. JAKARTA: 4 teenage girls were pressed to death in a shopping center in the Indonesian capital on Sunday. The accident happened when the British boy band ALwas performing. Hundreds had gathered to the popular shopping center in Jakartato hear the group perform. Foreign bands nowadays seldom come to Indonesia. KABUL: Afghanistan's ruling Taliban killed 100 cows at the presidential palace inKabulon March 19. The Taliban carried out the cruel deed to make up for not acting earlier to destroy all the country's statues. The world has found fault with the destruction of the valuable fortune of the world. In the third piece of news the writer just wants to _ . A) tell people that the British boy band ALwas not welcomed B) show his or her anger that foreign bands seldom come to Indonesia C) show Indonesialove music so much D) tell the fact that 4 girls were pressed to death
D
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Q: They sit by the door waiting for me. And while I may speak more about the narrowness of my very limited life than their real worth, just the fact that they're sitting there, waiting for me, makes me happy. I speak, of course, of my wonderful, brilliant, intelligently designed, calf-high rubber boots. They are a piece of industrial genius . They are real and vibrant , and make my life more worth living. My rubber boots are real and they do not fail me. I slip them on over my socks at a moment's notice. They go on easily. My feet feel joyful like the wagging tail of a dog waiting for its walk. My feet know they are safe. I step outside the house and nothing can stop me--the late season snowstorm, the pool of standing water at the bottom of my doorsteps that will never give off, the mud and dirt this season brings. My feet are warm and dry and happy. And so am I. My boots are modest. They make no promise they can't keep. I found them at one-third the price of the long boots I looked at longingly for years. Mine are American-made and inexpensive and unattractive and brown and solid. They are now three years old and still look new. I know I will have them forever. I will die with them on. They are homely and they are wonderful. My rubber boots make me braver and kinder and more generous. Yes, I will get the mail. Yes, I will get the newspaper. Yes, I will walk the dog. Yes to the garbage. Yes. Yes. Yes. I have rubber boots, good strong rubber boots--and I am not afraid. The writer writes the passage in order to _ . A) tell his daily life B) advertise rubber boots C) praise the objects ordinary but reliable D) attach the importance to happiness and safety
A: C
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In the 1700s, a scientist was someone who thought about the way things work and tried to find out ways to make things work better. Today. that definition is still true. Every time Ben Franklin saw a question and tried to answer it. he was a scientist. Ben is most famous for his questions about electricity, hut he also experimented with many other ideas in nature. In 1743. Ben observed that northeast storms begin in the southwest. He thought it was strange that storms travel in an opposite direction to their winds. He predicted that a storm's course could be charted . Ben rode a horse through a storm and chased a whirlwind three-quarters of a mile in order to learn more about storms. So, in a way, Ben was a weatherman too! Since Ben spent so much time sailing go Europe across the Atlantic Ocean, he became very interested in both ocean currents and shipbuilding .Ben was actually one of the first people to chart the Gulf Stream. In November of 1783. Ben happened to be in Paris, France, working on a peace tre"0' to end the American war against England. From his hotel window. he was able to watch the world's first known hot-air balloon flight. The balloon lifted the Montgolfier brothers off the ground as the first human beings ever known to fly. Ben ,vas very interested in the idea of flight, predicting that one day balloons would be used for milita0 ( ) spy flights and dropping bombs during battle. Soon. balloons were actually being used for entertainment. military, and scientific purposes. Even though they could not yet be steered, many people volunteered to take a ride just for fun! Sadly, Ben Franklin died three years before the first American hot-air balloon voyage. In 1793, Jean-Pierre Blanchard lifted off from the Walnut Street Prison Yard in Philadelphia, beginning the hot-air balloon craze in America. Ben Franklin went to Paris in November of 1783 to----. A) sign a treaty B) have a talk with Britain C) seek support from France D) experiment with hot-air balloons
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A