Article: If you planning to study in the United States, you need to consider several factors . Everyone has different opinions about where is the best place to live in. Also, the best places to live in are not always home to the best schools. What's more, many schools specialize in different areas of study. They Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, is a great school for computer science. And if you want to study oceanography, your interests may be better served by attending school in a place which is near the ocean. Now I will tell you about which states I believe are the best to live in. California is a nice state. Northern California especially has very good weather. As for me, I enjoyed the time I spent in Massachusetts, Virginia and Mary land. These states have a lot of history and culture. The weather is not so perfect as that in California, but is still quite nice. My favourite of America is the Midwest. Middle America, I think, is home to the true American sense of values. Besides, there are many good universities, too. Also you need to think about your likes and dislikes and then research the different areas. You like sunshine and hate snow? Then you probably won't like the Midwest or even the Northeast. Open space, nature, peace and quiet? Then you'd better stay away from America's larger cities. Are you interested in government? Then Washington D.C. is the only place for you. Whatever you decide, put some thought into it. Question: The passage mainly _ Yes or no, is the answer "gives us some advice on studying in America"?
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Article: John was waiting for the girl whose heart he knew,but whose face he didn't,the girl with the rose.Thirteen months ago,in a Florida library he took a book off the shell and found himself interested in the notes in the margin .The soft handwriting showed a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. In front of the book,he discovered the name,Miss Hollis Maynell. With time and effort he got her address.He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to keep in touch. During the next year and one month the two grew to know each other through the mail.A romance started.John requested a photograph,but she refused.She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn't matter what she looked like.Later they agreed on their first meeting--7:00 pm at Grand Central Station in New York. "You'll recognize me," she wrote,"by the red rose I'll be wearing my coat." So at 7:00 he was in the station looking for the girl with the red rose. A girl in a green suit was coming toward him,her figure long and slim and her eyes were blue as flowers.Almost uncontrollably he came to her,and just at this moment he saw Hollis Maynell--a woman well past 40.The girl was walking quickly away. He did not hesitate ,saying,"I'm John,and you must be Miss Maynell.I am so glad you could meet me. May I take you to dinner?" The woman smiled, "I don't know what this is about,son," she answered,"but the young lady in the green suit begged me to wear this rose on my coat.And she said if you were to ask me out to dinner,I should tell you that she is waiting for you in the restaurant across the street.She said it was some kind of test!" It's not difficult to admire Miss Maynell's wisdom. The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive. Question: John was attracted by Miss Hollis Maynell because _ . Yes or no, is the answer "John thought her a considerate and thinking lady"?
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Article: Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker You may not play poker yourself but for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the fate of the free world has been determined by men who do. So this recommendation is not for those who already play the game - if you do, you needn't bother reading the rest of this review, just go off and buy the book - as to the non-player, this is seriously worth their attention. Although it began as poque, a French game that developed in New Orleans and headed up the Mississippi steamboats, by the mid-19th century poker was the most popular American amusement; the national game, in effect. So the history of America can be viewed through the history of poker, as James McManus quietly demonstrates. In this book you watch America grow up over a card table, from the wild west games which could either leave you broke, or dead, or both to the more polite early 20th-century scenes of respectable games. And it is possible to argue, after reading this book, that history would be different if there were no such game which combined luck, intelligence, dishonesty, courage, skill and character. (There's a very good chapter which tries to work out how much luck is involved in the game.) Few over here have read or will read Shelby Foote's 2,836-page history of the American civil war, so we can be grateful that McManus provides us with a clear and elegant outline which tells how it was "the first work of history to explore how the game's wisdom and logic fit into the whole scheme of _ ". Not only, for instance, was Ulysses S Grant a good poker player, but as a student at West Point he'd learned the betting strategies of many of his contemporaries who would go on to become rebel generals. Nixon's poker game has already been analysed by Garry Wills in his Nixon Agonistes; Oskar Morgenstern, one of Eisenhower's advisers, pointed out that chess was Russians' national game and poker was the Americans'. This is not, though, the history of poker, but, as the subtitle tells us, the story... Question: The purpose of the writing is _ . Yes or no, is the answer "to recommend a book"?
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