Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Mr. Ellis is very old. He has seen many changes in his home town. He knows that things are different now. But he never forgets the old days. He likes to talk about them. He often talks about his favourite birds, the robins (----). "When I was a boy, these houses were not here. There were wide fields and tall trees. Every spring robins would come. Thousands of them would fly up to the north from the south. They spent the winter in the south. Some would build their nests in the trees near our houses. Then people started to cut down trees, and they built more houses. The robins stopped coming. They couldn't build their nests near our houses because there were no trees." "Now there are too many houses and too many roads. There are no places for the robins. They do come any more ." Question: Then people _ trees because they wanted to build more houses. - cut down - planted - bought - watered
cut down

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: With six NBA Championships and many more achievements, Michael Jordan is the greatest player the world of basketball has ever seen. Jordan's dream of becoming a basketball player began in his childhood. When he was 9 years old, Jordan finished watching a basketball game in the Munich Olympics on TV,and said to his mother:"One day, I will take part in the Olympic Games and win the gold medal for the US!" His father once told him that practice, confidence and determination were the things that would make a real basketball player. Since then, Jordan practiced very hard and became more and more confident and determined. At the University of North Carolina, Jordan was a familiar name. He made the game- winning shot in the 1982 NCAA Championship. He saw it as the turning point in his basketball career . In 1984, Jordan led the US Men's Basketball Team to win the gold medal in the Olympic Games and made his childhood dream come true. Jordan entered the NBA in 1984. During his 15 years there, he won every possible award. Jordan was also the greatest clutch player ever. On the basketball court, " _ " means making the last shot when time is almost up. The shooter needs to have great confidence to make the last shot and take away the win. Jordan had 28 clutches in his careerthe most in NBA history. Being confident is what makes Jordan the most famous basketball star ever. In his Hall of Fame Speech in 2009, Jordan announced confidently to the world: " There will never be another Michael Jordan." Question: Jordan's father advised him to do the following EXCEPT _ . - play in the national team - practice hard - always be confident in himself - have strong determination
play in the national team

Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Delia was a young pianist. Her husband, Joe, was a young artist. Each of them was taking lessons: Joe with a famous art teacher, and Delia with a great pianist from Germany. Their teachers were the very best, so lessons were expensive, more than they could really afford, but...when you love your art, nothing is too much. But soon the money began to run out, and they couldn't afford the lessons any more. Then one day Delia came back home and told Joe that she had met a man whose daughter, Sally, wanted to learn the piano, and he was going to pay her $ 50 an hour. "Delia," Joe said, "I'll be much happier if you keep up your lessons," Delia said it didn't matter. "When I've had some money, I'll continue." But Joe also decided to stop his lessons, to draw pictures and sell them. A few days later, Joe came home and proudly took $ 200 from his pocket. "I met a man from Vermont," he said, "who bought one of my pictures. And he wants to buy more!" _ .They didn't have to worry any more about money. Then, one day, Joe came home and saw that Delia's hand was wrapped in a bandage . He asked her what had happened. "Oh," said Delia. "My student, Sally, asked me to make some coffee for her. I dropped the coffee and burned my hand. Sally went straight to the drugstore and got this bandage for me. " "Delia, what have you been doing the last two weeks?" Joe asked. She tried not to tell him, but the tears came. "Oh Joe, I couldn't get any students, so I worked as a waitress in a restaurant. Today, I burned my hand with hot water. So I can't work any more. But we'll still have money from the man in Vermont, won't we?" Joe looked at her. "There's no man in Vermont, " he said. "I've been working in a drugstore, and today someone came in to buy bandages for a woman who's burned her hand. So when I saw you, well, I guessed." They both laughed. [A story by O. Henry--adapted ] Question: The best title for the passage can be _ . - Blind love - A pleasant gift - A service of love - An unforgettable lesson
A: A service of love

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Internet forum asking what "PK" meant. "My family has been watching the 'I Am the Singer' singing competition TV programme. My little daughter asked me what 'PK' meant, but I had no idea," explained the puzzled father. To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term. In such Internet games, "PK" is short for "Player Kill", in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other. In the case of the "I Am the Singer" singing competition, "PK" was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition raking. Like this father, Chinese teachers at Middle schools have also been finding their students using _ which are difficult to understand. A teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write the compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn't understand. "My 'GG' came back this summer from college. He told me I've grown up to be a 'PLMM'. I loved to 'FB' with him together; he always took me to the 'KPM'," went one composition. "GG" means Ge Ge (Chinese pinyin for brother). "PLMM" is Piao Liang Mei Mei (beautiful girl)."FB" means Fu Bai (corruption)."KPM" is short for KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonald's. Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language. If you do not even know what a Kong Long (dinosaur, meaning an ugly looking femal) or a Qing Wa (frog, meaning an ugly looking male ) is, you will possibly be regarded as a CaiNiao! Question: The example of the Beijing father and the Tianjin teacher are used to show that Internet jargons _ . - are used not only online - can be understood very well - are welcomed by all the people - cause trouble to our mother tongue
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cause trouble to our mother tongue