Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Tom and Mike are good friends. They are kind to children. They want to find summer jobs. One day Tom tells Mike that Beidaihe Kids Summer Camp needs help with sports, music and computers. They are both very glad to hear this. Tom can play basketball and volleyball, and he can swim, too. Mike can play the violin, the trumpet, the drums and the guitar. Tom and Mike like computers very much. Can they join the Summer Camp? . Question: Tom can play _ . - balls - computer games - music - violin
balls

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Basketball is still a young game. It's over a hundred years old . In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was bad and the students had to stay indoors . As they couldn't play outdoors , they were unhappy ,and some even got into fights from time to time . Some of the teachers at the college asked Dr Naismith to invent a game so that the students might have something to play with. It was ont easy to invent such a game, because it had to played indoors , and the court was not very large. Dr.Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game .It is a wonderful game with much moving and passing of the ball .It was played between two teams .To make a score, the ball had to be thrown into the basket ten feet above the floor on the wall. At each end of the court there was such a basket .At first, Dr.Naismith wanted to throw the ball into a box, As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets instead. That is how the game got its name . Question: How long is it since basketball was invented? - 1000years - Less than 100years - 1100years - More than 100years
More than 100years

Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Unlike other people, my Olympic heroes are not Olympic champions or the important people on the Olympic Committee . They are just the ordinary ones who do the everyday things. They work without the recognition the famous people get. They are the Olympic volunteers. These people aren't the great stars of sport. They just want to do their part for the Olympics by smiling and helping the Games go smoothly.The stars of the Games are like brightly colored sailboats on the sea, racing through the waves. How lovely to watch them! But the volunteers are the wind, which nobody sees. Without the wind the sailboats would not be able to move and no one would want to watch them. The volunteers breathe the wind of life into the athletes. The volunteers may never win medals, but they always do their best to encourage the _ , whether the athletes win or lose.Some might think what the volunteers do is boring, hardly worth mentioning . But in my eyes, they are as important as the champions and the stars. They are just as much heroes, despite not appearing in newspapers or on TV. I truly admire them and I will always cheer for them. They are my Olympic heroes. Question: What does the writer think of the volunteers' work? - boring - important - interesting - excellent
A: important

Question: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Today Chinese people can enjoy longer and more holidays, such as the two"Gold Week Holidays" -- the Spring Festival, National Day and Mid-autumn Festival and so on. They have more time to travel. Rising incomes also make it possible for ordinary Chinese people to travel abroad . Zhang Haitao, a middle school student in Shanghai will go to Japan with his parents during the Spring Festival. "Overseas touring has always been a dream of mine ,"Zhang Haitao said. " How will you go to Japan, by air or by ship?" I asked him. "By ship. Traveling by ship is more enjoyable than a rushed trip by air.""But a plane is much faster than a ship. ""Yes. but you can't see much during the flight while a sea trip will make you happier, because you can see waves, islands and even big fish." "Will you travel at your own expense ?" "Certainly. Though my father's job is to recycle rubbish, I'm very proud of him. He has saved lots of money in the last three years. What's more, he has made a contribution to protecting our environment." Question: Zhang Haitao is _ . - a middle school teacher - a Japanese student - a tour guide - a middle school student
Answer: a middle school student

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Tom grows the nicest vegetables and fruits, and the most beautiful flowers in his village. Plants grow in Tom's garden all through the year.Tom cuts some flowers for his sitting-room table and eats some fruits and vegetables, but he sells most of them in the market. His vegetables, fruits and flowers are so wonderful that they sell much more quickly in the market than those of other villages. How does Tom grow these beautiful plants? He is so lazy that he just sits under his orange tree with his radio. He listens to music all day. That is quite true. Tom plants things in spring, summer, autumn and winter. After that he sits with his radio. And everything grows. It is the music that does work. Tom knows more clearly that music makes the biggest vegetables and fruits and the most beautiful flowers. Plants love music as much as people. Question: Tom listens to the music in the garden because _ . - is very popular. - makes him relaxed. - makes his plants stop growing. - makes his plants grow better.
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makes his plants grow better.

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Mr. and Mrs. Wilson lived in a big city, and one summer they went to the country for their vacation. They enjoyed it very much, because it was a quiet, clean place. One day they went for a walk early in the morning and saw an old man. He was sitting alone in the warm sun in front of his house. Mr. Wilson asked him, "Do you like living in a quiet place?" The old man said, "Yes, I do." Mr. Wilson said," What are the good things about it?" The old man answered, "Well, everybody knows everybody. People often come and see me, and I often go and see them. And there are lots of children here. "Mr. Wilson said, "That's interesting. And what are the bad things?" The old man thought for a few minutes and said, " Well, the same things, really." Question: What did the old man think were the good things about the country? - Everybody knew each other. - Everybody didn't know each other. - It was clean and quiet. - It was nice.
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Everybody knew each other.