Read the article and select the best answer. Article: There is a big supermarket near my home. Its name is Pricelow. It has lots of things. You can buy school things, like notebooks, pens, rulers, pencils, erasers and pencil boxes. You can buy vegetables, fruit and all kinds of food. You can also buy clothes. Some of the things there are cheap, and anybody can afford the price. But some of them are _ . The supermarket is open every day from 7:00 a.m.to 8:00 p.m. The workers there are very good. They work hard all day. They are happy to answer your questions. They help you if you want to buy anything. There are many people on weekends. They buy lots of things. Sometimes they have breakfast, lunch or dinner there. Question: The supermarket near my home is _ . Options: A: old B: new C: big D: small
C

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: One bright and sunny day, I felt like fishing.So I packed what I needed...fishing stick, hooks , and worms for bait .When I reached the lake, I put a worm on the hook and threw the line in and waited for the fish to bite.I was disappointed when I did not catch anything after waiting for three hours.I pulled in the line.To my surprise, there was a small fish at the end of the line.The fish was so small that I did not feel any pulling on the line.I was even more surprised when the fish started to talk, "Let me go or I will turn you into a frog!" I was so worried that I just looked at it.The next moment, I was already a frog... "Help! Help!" I shouted loudly.When I woke up, I found I fell down the ground. Question: When I went to fish, the weather is _ . Options: A: rainy B: cloudy C: nice D: windy
C

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: When someone who is in good health dies suddenly ,there is usually an inquest .A coroner will do it.His job is to find out exactly how a person died. If there is nothing suspicious about the death,he will decide that the person died from natural causes or an accident.if, however ,he is suspicious,he may decide that the person's death was caused by a person or persons unknown. One day the coroner was trying to find out exactly what had caused the death of a local businessman,Henry Watson. The man's wife was explaining something.She was very sad and had to stop from time to time.The coroner did not want to make her sadder than necessary ,but he had to find out the truth.There were questions he had to ask. "Mrs.Watson,I know this is painful for you,"he said,"but i want you to think very carefully and then answer my questions.You and your husband were having dinner at home.Is that correct? " "Yes." ''Suddenly he fell to the floor? " "Yes." "You stood up and hurried to him ?You knelt beside him ?His stomach was in great pain? " "Yes." "Did he say anything? " The wife kept her head down. "Please,Mrs.Watson,you must answer the question.What were his last words? " The wife took a deep breath and then spoke."He said,"She replied in a very low voice,"I'm not surprised that seafood we had for dinner cost you only 50 cents," Question: According to the story ,what would probably happen to the wife after this inquest? Options: A: She would become a bad woman. B: She would never buy any seafood. C: She would be much healthier. D: She would ask the coroner to keep the secret.
A: B

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: One year, a college in the Unites States announced that it would offer a lot of money for the pure white marigold . The high reward attracted so many people, but in the nature, besides golden, the marigold is brown, and it is not easy to get the white one. So after they were excited for a time, many people had forgotten the announcement. One normal day after 20 years, the college received a letter and 100 seeds of pure white marigold. It turned out to be an old woman of over 70 years old. Some experts in the college doubted it , but in order not to let her down, those seeds finally took root in the earth. The miracle appeared after one year: the field was covered by pure white marigold. Therefore, the old woman who was always unknown to the public became a new _ . The old woman was a flower-lover. When she read the announcement 20 years ago, she got very excited like others. But her right children were totally against her decision. After all, a woman who never knew the seed genetics couldn't complete what the experts could never do, so her thought was only a day dream. Still, the old woman didn't change her mind and went on working. She planted some of the most common seeds and took good care of them. A year later, when the marigold came out, she chose one faintest from those golden and brown flowers and get the best seed. The next year, she again grew them and chose.... Day after day, year after year, through many seasons, the old woman's husband died, her children flew far and high, a lot of things happened in her life, but only the desire to grow the pure white marigold took root in her heart. Finally, after 20 years on the day we all know, in the garden she saw a marigold which was not nearly white, but as white as sliver or snow. A problem even experts couldn't deal with was solved by an old woman who didn't understand genetics. Wasn't it a miracle? To take root in the heart, even the most common seed can grow into a miracle! Question: The passage mainly talks about _ . Options: A: the difficulties B: the possibility of going beyond experts C: the unforgettable development of marigold D: the importance of holding on to dreams
Answer: D

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Edison often said, "1 will discover what the world needs, then I will try to invent it." It is true that he did more than any other man of his time in inventing things. He made more than one thousand inventions in his life and all these have changed our way of living. Edison was one of the greatest inventors in the world. When Edison died in 1931, someone said people should turn off all the lights in their homes, streets and factories for several minutes in honor of this great man. Of course it was impossible to do so. And this shows what Edison's inventions mean to people's life. Question: Edison was dead for nearly _ years. Options: A: fifty B: severity-six C: sixty D: eighty
A: D