Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Many people are so busy these days that they have no time to cook at home. This becomes a problem because most families love home cooking! The food tastes good and a family meal can bring everyone together. In some families, meals are often the only chance everyone gets to see each other at the same time during the day. Another reason people enjoy home cooking is that it is a way of showing love. A parent who makes some cookies is not just satisfying a child's sweet tooth. He or she is sending a message . The message says, "I care about you enough to spend an hour making cookies that you will eat up in 15 minutes if I let you." There is also something about the smell of home cooking. The smell of cooking makes people happy. It makes most of us feel good and loved--even if we're the ones doing the cooking! Next time you smell a cake making, stop for a moment and pay attention to your mood (,). Question: Home cooking is _ . - good and warm - a way of showing love - satisfying a child's tooth - Both A and B
Both A and B

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Jack is the name of a game. It is quite popular with children. To play jacks, you will need a small ball and ten small metal objects called jacks. The rules for this game are quite easy. To begin with, put the ten jacks on the floor or ground in front of you. Toss the ball high, pick up one jack and then catch the ball. Keep the jack in your hand and go on to pick up the other jack one at a time. You lose your turn if you do not catch the ball, or if you do not pick up a jack, or if you drop any of the jacks from your hand. When you finish all the ten jacks, you now try to do the same thing again but with two jacks at one time. This is more difficult, of course. You lose your turn if you make any of the above three mistakes or if you do not pick up two jacks each time. Question: To play jacks is _ . - difficult for boys - interesting for children - difficult for girls - interesting for old people
interesting for children

Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Where is Love? How can we find Love? Once a little boy wanted to meet Love. He knew it was a long trip to where Love lived, so he got his things ready with some pizzas and drinks and started off. When he passed three streets, he saw an old woman sitting in the park and watching some birds. She looked very hungry. The boy gave her a pizza. She took it and smiled at him. The smile was so beautiful that he wanted to see it again, so he gave her a Coke. She smiled once again. The boy was very happy. They sat there all the afternoon, eating and smiling, but they said nothing. When it grew dark, the boy decided to leave. But before he had gone more than a few steps, he turned around, ran back to the old woman and gave her a hug. The woman gave him her biggest smile ever. When the boy opened the door of his house, his mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face and asked what had made him so happy. "I had lunch with Love. She has got the most beautiful smile in the world." At the same time, the old woman,s son was also surprised at his mother,s pleasure and asked why. "I ate a pizza in the park with Love," she said, "and he is much younger than I expected." If the world is full of love, we can enjoy a better life. Question: The old woman gave the little boy the biggest smile _ . - after the little boy went home - before it grew dark - when she was drinking Coke - after the little boy hugged her
A: after the little boy hugged her

Question: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Tom and I are good friends. Tom is an English boy, but I am a Chinese girl. My name is Li Hua. He is 12 and I am 13. He is in Class One. I'm in Class One, too. Tom has a nice football. He can play it. I have a computer. I can play computer games, but I can't play football. It's difficult. Tom teaches me to play football, and I teach him to play computer games. Now I can play football and Tom can play computer games. Question: Which of the following is true (,)? - Tom has a football and Li Hua has a computer. - Li Hua can't play football now. - Tom can't play football. It's difficult . - Tom and Li Hua are teachers.
Answer: Tom has a football and Li Hua has a computer.

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Mr. Jenkins is fifty years old. He has taught math in a middle school for twenty-six years. He works hard and always come to his office on time. He hopes his students can be honest and is strict with them. Some of his students become famous persons,but they still remember him and often write to him. Of course the old man is proud of it. This term he began to teach Grade One. Some of the new students were told about him, but the others didn't know him well. He told them how to be an honest person. He gave them several examples and said,"I hate telling a lie most." Before class was over,he told all his students to finish Exercise 8 in Unit 1.The next morning,as soon as he came in the classroom,he asked,"Who's finished Exercise 8? " A few students put up their hands. He shook his head and said. "Open your workbooks and see if there's Exercise 8 in Unit 1 or not." The students had a look at their books and their faces turned red at once. Question: What is Mr. Jenkins proud of? - All his students have become honest. - All his students often write to him. - He's been a teacher for twenty-six years. - Some of his students become famous and often write to him.
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Some of his students become famous and often write to him.

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A smuggler drove to the border. When a soldier looked in the truck, he was surprised to find six big bags. "What's in them?" the soldier asked. "Dirt," the smuggler answered. "Take them out," the soldier said. "I want to check them." The smuggler opened the bags, and sure enough, each one of them was filled with dirt. So the soldier let him go. A week later, the smuggler came back, and once again, the soldier looked in the truck. "What's in the bags this time?" he asked. "Dirt, more dirt," said the smuggler. Not believing him, the soldier checked the bags and, once again, he found nothing but dirt. The same thing happened every week for six months, and the soldier finally became so frustrated that he left and worked as a waiter in a restaurant. Then one night, the smuggler went to the restaurant and had a drink. The waiter saw him and said, "Listen! Drinks are free tonight if you tell me what you were smuggling all that time." Slowly, the smuggler got close to the waiter and said, "Trucks." Question: When the smuggler came again a week later, the soldier _ . - let him go without checking - invited him to a restaurant - checked and found nothing but dirt - left and became a waiter in a restaurant
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checked and found nothing but dirt