Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: "Well, we're in our new house. Let's get a new pet," Mrs. Brown says to her husband. "That sounds like a very good idea," he answers. "Do you want to see the ads in the newspaper?" "Let's go to the animal _ . Many pets there need homes. Tomorrow is Saturday, so we can both go," Mrs. Brown says. The next morning, the Browns (Mr. Brown and Ms. Brown) meet Mr. Snow at the animal shelter. "We want to be sure that the pets here go to good homes," Mr. Snow says, "So I need to ask you some questions." After they talk for a while, the Browns decide to get a small dog. It will not need a big house. A small dog will bark and warn ( ) them if someone tries to go into their house. After Mr. Snow gives the Browns a book on pet care, they choose one and want to take her home right away. But the animal doctor hasn't checked her yet. So Mr. Snow tells them to come back on Sunday. On Sunday afternoon the Browns go to the animal shelter. The animal doctor said, "Coco has got all of her shots . She is healthy." The Browns thank the doctor and take Coco home. Question: Mr. Snow asks the Browns some questions because _ . - the Browns want to get a small dog - the Browns don't have money to get a pet - he wants to be sure the Browns has a big house - he wants to be sure the Browns will be friendly to pets
he wants to be sure the Browns will be friendly to pets

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Millions of stars are travelling about in space. A few form groups which travel together, but most of them travel alone. And they travel through a universe which is so large that one star seldom comes near to another. For the most important part each star makes its journey in complete loneliness, like a ship on an empty ocean. The ship will be well over a million miles from its nearest neighbour. From this it is easy to understand why a star seldom finds another anywhere near it. We believe, however, that some two thousand million years ago, another star wandering through space, happened to come near our sun just as the sun and the moon raised its tides on the earth, so this star must have raised tides on the surface of the sun. But they were very different from the small tides that are raised in our oceans; A large tidal wave must have travelled over the surface of the sun, at last forming a mountain so high that we cannot imagine it. As the cause of the disturbance came nearer, so the mountain rose higher and higher. And before the star began to move away again, its tidal pull had become so powerful that this mountain was torn to pieces and thrown off small parts of itself into space. These small pieces have been going round the sun ever since. They are the planets. Question: The article suggests that _ . - how space formed - our earth exists before the sun - no one knows where the earth comes from - our earth used to be a high mountain in the sun
our earth used to be a high mountain in the sun

Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Jenny was a five-year-old girl. One day, while she was shopping with her mother, she saw a plastic pearl necklace and loved it so much. So she asked her mother to buy it for her. Every night, before Jenny went to bed, her dad would read stories to her. One night, when he finished the story, he asked, "Jenny, do you love me?" "Dad, you know I love you," Jenny answered. "Well, give me your necklace," Dad said. "No, Dad. But you can have my favorite doll." Several times, when her father asked her to give him the plastic necklace, Jenny would give him something else instead. One evening, after Jenny's father read her a story, Jenny said, "Here, Dad." She put her plastic pearl necklace into her father's hand. Her father hold the necklace in one hand and opened the other hand. There was a real pearl necklace in it. He had had it for a long time, and waited for Jenny to give up the cheap one so that he could give her the real one. So, don't be _ . If we are generous , maybe we will get something better. Question: What does the writer want to tell us? - We should put our things in a safe place. - We often lose our favorite things. - We should learn to be generous. - We should love our parents.
A: We should learn to be generous.

Question: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Jack Brown, an office worker, lives in Washington. He inherited a million dollars when he was 23, but he wasn't happy at all.When his college friends were looking for their jobs, he didn't have to. Jack decided to keep living a simple life like everyone else. He gave $ 10,000 of his money to a charity to help poor children live a happy life. Today he is 36. He still wears cheap shoes and clothes and drives a small car only, but he is very happy. Up to now Jack has helped some children from poor countries all over the world, by sending them each $200 a month. The money is used for the children's study, food, medicine and clothing. Jack receives a report each year on the children's progress They can write to each other, but usually the children do not speak English. When Jack first heard about these children, he wanted to help them. "It was nothing special,"he said."Until I went to these countries and met the children I was helping, I didn't know anything about their life." Once Jack went to meet a little girl in Africa, he said that the meeting was very exciting. "When I met her, I felt very,very happy,"he said."And I saw that the money was _ . It brought me happiness. I want to do everything I can to go on helping these children." Question: Jack has sent some poor children _ each $200 a month to help them. - only in Washington - only in England - only in Africa - around the world
Answer: around the world

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Are people less happy or happier when they get older? If your answer is"happier", then you are right,based on a study published seven years ago.It found that people become happier and experience less worry after age fifty.In fact,it found that by the age of eighty-five,people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen. The finding came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred and forty thousand adults in the United States in 2008.At that time,people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five. Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study.His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five.Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties. Levels of happiness were the highest among the kids and those in their early seventies. The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older.However, women at all ages reported more sadness,stress and worry than men did. So why would happiness increase with age? One theory is that,as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions.They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences. Question: Why does happiness increase with age? - People aren't able to control their emotions better. - It takes them less time to think about bad experiences. - People become less thankful for what they have. - Women feel sadder, more stressed and worried than men.
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It takes them less time to think about bad experiences.