Read the article and select the best answer. Article: In two days, I will be turning 30. And I was not looking forward to a new decade . I was afraid that the best years of my life were behind me. One day, I met with my friend Nicholas. He was a 79-year-old man. He noticed something was different about me and asked if anything was wrong. I told him what I was anxious about and asked him: "What was the best time of your life?" Without hesitation, Nicholas replied: "Well, Joe, when I was a child in Austria and everything was taken care of for me, that was the best time of my life." "When I was going to school and learning the things I know today, that was the best time of my life." "When I got my first job and got paid for my work, that was the best time of my life." "When I met my wife and fell in love, that was the best time of my life." "World War IIcame, and my wife and I had to leave Austria to save our lives. When we were together and safe on a ship, that was the best time of my life." "When I became a young father and watched my children grow up, that was the best time of my life." "And now, Joe, I am 79 years old. I have my health, I feel good and I am just as in love with my wife as I was the day we met. This is the best time of my life." Question: From the passage, we can learn that _ . Options: A: the writer didn't know how to spend the rest of his life B: the writer was an easy-going person C: the old man was not in good condition D: the old man has a very happy family
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Chinese New Year is next week in January this year. Do you need great furniture for your room? Come and buy things at our great sale at Helen's Furniture Store. Look! Here are some nice tape players in white, blue and red for mothers. We sell them for only $20. For students, we have desks and chairs for $25 a set. You can buy big tables for $50 and small tables for $40. What color do you like? Sofas in all colors are only $100 each. One interesting thing: You can buy great vegetables here, too. The vegetables are from Yunnan and Taiwan. Come to our store. You will like it. Question: This article is _ . Options: A: a letter B: a notice C: an e-mail D: an ad
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Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Miss Wang asks her students about their future jobs. Let's look at their answers. Bob: I'm going to be a cool spy like James Bond. I know it is difficult and dangerous. I will work hard and I look forward to studying in America one day. Mike: I'm going to be a mathematician , because maths is my favourite subject. I think it's very interesting. Meimei: I'm going to become a singer in the future. I love singing. I hope one day I can become famous. Lisa: I want to be a charitarian . I will make a lot of money and help the poor children in the future. Question: What is Mike's favourite subject? Options: A: English. B: Chinese. C: Maths. D: Music.
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Mr Smith had a week's vacation, so he said,"I'm going to the seaside by train. "He put on his best clothes, took a small bag, went to the railway station and got into the train. He wore a beautiful hat, and he often put his head out of the window during the trip and looked at the beautiful scenery. Suddenly, the wind pulled his hat off. Mr Smith quickly threw his old bag out of the window, too. The other people in the train laughed,"Is your bag going to bring back your beautiful hat?" they asked. "No," Mr Smith answered."But My name and address are on the bag. If someone finds both of them, he or she will send me the bag and the hat." Question: Mr Smith went to take a vacation for _ . Options: A: nine years B: half a month C: seven days D: eight days
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Ques:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: A new word is becoming more and more popular on the Internet in China - but no one knows quite what it means.The word "duang" is so new that you can't even find it in the Chinese dictionary. But it has already spread like fire on the Chinese Internet , appearing more than 8,000,000 times on Weibo, where 15,000 users had more than 312,000 discussions. On Baidu, it has been looked up almost 600,000 times. But what does it mean? "Everyone's duang-ing and I still don't know what it means! Looks like I'd better go back to school now," said Weibo user Fahmida. Another user asked: "Have you duang-ed today? My mind is full of duang duang duang." "To duang or not to duang, that is the question," wrote user Beatrice. "Duang" seems to be imitating a sound. It all seems to have started with Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan, who in 2004 appeared in a shampoo ad where he used the sound "duang" to describe his soft and black hair. The word came to people again recently after Chan posted it on his Weibo page. Thousands of users then began to visit Chan's Weibo page with comments . The word seems to have many different meanings, and there's no perfect Chinese meaning for it, but you could use it to give emphasis to the word that follows it. A kid might be "duang cute", for example. Question: Mary got a gift from her old friend and said "I am duang surprised". She might mean that she was _ according to the passage. Options: A: not surprised at all B: a little surprised C: quite surprised D: no longer surprised

Ans:C

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: At a supermarket in County Durham, England, the workers are getting ready for some lessons in sign language . They are excited to meet their teacher -- two-year-old Diana Graham. The little girl will teach them how to communicate with deaf customers . Diana is a wonder child. She began to use sign language to "speak" to her deaf mother before she said her first word. So whenever the phone rings or there's a knock at the door, her mother can be quickly told by her. Diana understands the sign language well. Her mother even reads story books to her in sign language. Her grandmother said, "Diana started signing at about five months. She is so clever for her age."The supermarket officials couldn't think of a better sign language teacher for their workers. So they asked Diana to give some lessons to the workers. They hoped that her lessons would help the workers communicate better with deaf customers during their shopping. Question: When did Diana begin to use sign language? Options: A: At the age of two B: When she was born C: Before she said her first word D: When she was five months
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C