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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Be Thankful Be thankful when you don't already have everything you want. If you did, what would there be to look forward to? Be thankful when you don't know something, for it gives you the chance to learn. Be thankful for the difficult times During those times you grow. Be thankful for each new challenge , because it will build your strength and character . Be thankful for your mistakes. They will teach you important lessons Be thankful when you're tired, because it means you've made a difference. It's easy to be thankful for the good things A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are also thankful for the setbacks . Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive. Find a way to be thankful for your troubles, and they can become your . Question: According to the poem, _ make us grow. Options: A: difficult times B: good things C: challenges D: blessings
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A

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: I live in a small town near Xing'an in Guilin. You can't see it on the map of China, because it is too small. The air here is very fresh . There are not many tall buildings in our town. The tallest building is in our school. There are five hundred students and twenty-five teachers in our school. In the front of the school, there is a playground. I often play basketball with my classmates on it. There is a little garden behind our school. And we can grow beautiful flowers and plant trees there. Next to the garden, there is an orange orchard . You can hear birds singing everywhere. There is a river not far from our school. In summer, we usually go swimming with our teachers in it. We study Chinese, English, Maths and other subjects at school. The teachers are very nice. We love our school. Do you like my town? I hope you can come here to have a look. Question: Which of the following is TRUE? Options: A: There are many tall building in the town B: People can hear students singing everywhere. C: There is a river in the school D: Behind the school there is a garden
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D

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant . He and the servant loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that. One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, "Here are two bottles of poison and some nice food in the house. You must take good care of them." With these words, he went out. But the servant knew that the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn't find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. He was afraid to be punished , so he drank the poison to kill himself. Question: The rich told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because _ . Options: A: there was in fact poison in the bottles B: he did not want the servant to drink his wine C: he wanted to kill the cat D: he wanted to kill the servant
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B

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Try reading the following sentences as fast as you can. " She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells in the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells." Not very easy, was it? What you've just read is called a tongue twister . It is an exercise made up of sounds that are hard to pronounce in order to help people pronounce words faster and more correctly. Try the next example. "Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers, Did Peter Piper pick a peck of picked peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers, where's the peck of picked peppers Peter picked?" Tongue twisters usually do not have much meaning. They are just designed to improve people's _ to pronounce words. Although they may be very difficult, these exercises are very important to people who are trying to speak English correctly. This is because tongue twisters help people to tell the differences between similar sounds. So if you wish to pronounce words more smoothly, you'd better try picking out some tongue twisters and practicing them. Question: Tongue twisters are helpful in improving _ skills. Options: A: listening B: writing C: pronunciation D: communication
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C