I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: There exist cruel wars, fighting and sadness in the world today, so it's not only necessary, but also essential to have a good sense of humor just to help us go through difficult times in our lives. Putting a smile on someone's face when you know they are feeling depressed, as the saying goes, makes me feel good and warms my heart. How would you feel if you could not joke around with your wife, husband, child, co-worker neighbor, close friend, or even just someone that you are standing in line with at your corner store? I am always saying things that make others smile or laugh, even if I don't know the person I'm joking around with. My Grandma always found humor in everything she did, even if it was the hardest job anyone could imagine. This not only relieves stress in any situation, but also is a common manner to speak to others that are around you. I know of a few people that don't have a funny bone in their bodies, as they say. Everyone around them could be rolling on the floor after hearing a great joke and they would sit there without the slightest smile on their face. They don't get the joke that makes others laugh. I am busting a gut while they just sit there, looking at me as if I were from outer space. How can people not get a really funny joke? Laughing is essential to keep your stress levels under control. Without humor we would find ourselves with a lot of psychological problems, or on a lot of medications to keep us from going crazy. There is too much sadness in this present world. It drives people crazy. We all need to find a way to avoid the sadness and bring a little light into our lives. Therefore, I believe our best medicine is to get together and tell some jokes and have some fun laughing together. Question: What is the author's attitude towards the present world? Options: A: Indifferent B: Positive C: Satisfied D: Critical
D
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I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Four years ago, English soccer player Jamie Vardy was a complete unknown. At age 24, he was a part-time player for the Stockbridge Park Steels, earning only PS30 (293 yuan) a week. Fast forward to 2015, Vardy is Leicester City's star striker and only the second player in the history of the Premier League to score in eleven matches in a row. Now 28, Vardy has gone from an underdog to a superstar. Even he is surprised by his sudden rise to fame. "I didn't expect it to happen in a million years, to be honest with you," he told The Telegraph. His career started with rejection. His local soccer club Sheffield Wednesday let Vardy go at age 16, believing him to be too small to play professionally. Then he found a part-time job at Stockbridge Park Steels, a soccer team in a lower league. He trained two evenings a week after working in a carbon fiber factory. Vardy lived like this until 2010. His story is an unusual one, especially because of the highly competitive nature of European soccer. It is often said that if a player can't get a professional contract by his early 20s, he will never be a star. Many of today's soccer stars were successful at a young age. Lionel Messi was named FIFA World Player of the Year at the age of 22. A 23-year-old, Neymar, is a star in the Barcelona team. But Vardy's late start didn't stop him from dreaming of greatness. "The secret's just lots and lots of hard work and the motivation that is exactly what I want to be doing," Vardy told The Telegraph. "It's putting it all into the practice on the training field." Question: Which word below can best describe Vardy? Options: A: Lucky. B: Ambitious. C: Unusual. D: Honest.
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Ques: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Clare is a third grader at Hoover Elementary School in Dubuque, Iowa. She often saw some!body outside during a class break, sitting alone and not having any friends to play with. When see!ing this scene,she felt bothered,for in her mind everybody in the world needed friends. That was why Clare came up with an idea -- "a buddy bench". Buddy benches have been tried at other schools. In 2012, a girl named Acacia came up with the idea of the friendship bench with her parents' help. The students found it was something that was badly needed. Many students went there and found their friends. Other students learnt the importance of social communication with the words,like"hope","respect","listen"and"dream",painted on the benches. The friendship bench was also praised by teachers there. Clare thinks her school also needs such benches. So she has been working on raising the mon!ey to pay for the benches and talking with school officials about getting them installed. "They are certainly something that I think will be great additions to our school, "said Claret principal , Kath!leen. ^Clare thinks that everybody needs friends, " said her mom, Tricia. "Moreover , she wants everybody to be her friends. Clare had been inspired by her elder sister who is disabled. ""Having seen her sister's struggles,she understood what other kids felt when they were struggling. Clare didn't want to see her sister or anybody else struggle." As the actor Will Rogers said,"A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet. "That's appar!ently how Clare sees people as well. "I hope that I can have thousands and thousands of friends, " Clare said. "Everybody needs friends. " Question: What is Kathleen's attitude towards buddy benches at his school? Options: A: Positive. B: Negative. C: Critical. D: Unconcerned.
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Ques: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: The word "sport" first meant something that people did in their free time. Later it often meant hunting wild animals and birds. About a hundred years ago the word was first used for organized games. This is the usual meaning of the word today. People spend a lot of their spare time playing football, basketball, tennis and many other sports. Such people play because they want to. A few people are paid for the sport they play. These people are called professional sportsmen. They may be sportsmen for only a few years, but during that time the best ones can earn a lot of money. For example, a professional footballer in England earns more than 30,000 dollars a year. The stars earn a lot more. International golf and tennis champions can make more than 500,000 dollars a year. Of course, only a few sportsmen can earn as much money as that. Perhaps the most surprising thing about sportsmen and money is that the stars can earn more money from advertising than from sports. An advertisement for sports equipment does not simply say "Buy our things". It says "Buy the same shirt and shoes as ...". Famous sportsmen can even advertise things like watches and food. They allow the companies to use their names or a photograph of them and they are paid for this. Sport is no longer just something for people's spare time. Question: According to the passage, an international golf champion can make _ in a year. Options: A: more than 500,000 dollars B: more than 30,000 dollars C: 500,000 dollars D: 30,000 dollars
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A