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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and preparing for the worst, Australian adventurer Peter Seiter wrote a farewell note to his family, put it in a bottle and threw it overboard. With a sense of bad feeling he wrote: "The ocean has a personality of its own. The place can be such a peaceful environment to be in, yet it can be frightfully violent. I've experienced both." Fearing he wouldn't make it home, he placed the note -- dated June 11, 1998 -- in a wine bottle and covered the bottle. "I included my geographical coordinates, so if anything happened to me, they'd know my last place when I threw the bottle into the ocean," says Peter, who was then sailing from the Azores in Portugal to New York and knew the Atlantic could be dangerous. He also included some money with his message, asking whoever found it to use the money to post the letter to his family. Seventeen days later he reached his destination, having survived the dangerous seas, but he assumed his message in the bottle had not -- until it was found on shore, 11 years later! Recently, American woman Katherine Ginn and her friend came across the bottle on a deserted beach in the Bahamas. "Alongside it they'd found a life jacket and, assuming the worst, opened the bottle and spent 24 hours drying it out so they could read my story and write to my family as I requested," says Peter, 44. "I couldn't believe it -- that after all these years my bottle had turned up with its contents, still undamaged." Overjoyed, he wrote to the pair, saying he was alive and living in Australia with his family. Katherine posted him his letter, money and some broken glass of his bottle placed in a tiny box as a special souvenir. These special items now share pride of place among photos of Peter's Atlantic voyage. "I can't express what this old letter means to me," Peter says. "It gives me a sense of hope and belief. It's something special to share with my children as they grow up." Question: Why did Peter have the idea of a message bottle? - He missed his family very much then. - He hoped to share his experience with his family. - He regretted taking a risk on the ocean. - He thought he might lose his life on the voyage.
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He thought he might lose his life on the voyage.

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what , in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better. A change made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered. There also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar that I don't know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend. No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was. Question: The author's mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _ . - fairy stories are still being made up - people try to modernize old fairy stories - there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales - There is more concern for children's fears nowadays
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there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Richard Rodriguez from the United States is a great roller coaster fan. Recently he broke his 15th world record after he spent 104 days riding the world's largest roller coaster. "It got more difficult to ride and ride because of the muscle tiredness," Rodriguez, a teacher at the University of Chicago, said as he stepped down from the ride in a German park. He spent 10 hours a day on the roller coaster. Rodriguez tried to keep himself busy during the rides on the big roller coaster in a southwestern town in Germany. "I read the newspapers...I have a walkman, I have my cellphone, so I try to talk to people and message people during the day," he said. Although the 42yearold said he felt sick on the first few days, he said he soon got over the problem. "My face hurts sharply and I have a little backache, but I am good." The "Expedition GeForce" is one of the world's biggest roller coasters. It measures 62 meters at its highest point. On his 95th day on the coaster, after travelling over 25,000 kilometers, Rodriguez had a toothache and was treated by a local dentist. He went on after that and succeeded in breaking the record. Rodriguez celebrated with members of the park staff and his supporters, who had sent him postcards and emails encouraging him not to give up. Question: What do we know about Expedition GeForce? - It once ran for 104 days nonstop. - It is the one most difficult to ride. - It is most modernly equipped. - It is in a German town.
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It is in a German town.