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I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Two of the most dangerous storms which hit America are hurricanes and tornadoes. They are very much feared by anyone who may live in the path of their destruction and cause millions of dollars of damage to life and property every year. If one should travel inland across the Great Plains and the Prairie states of America, one will mostly not experience a hurricane, but there is another kind of storm in the Midwest which is equally feared. It is called a tornado. Tornados are violent low-pressured storms with an intense updraft near their center which is capable of lifting quite heavy objects from the ground. A tornado,therefore, is a dark, funnel-shaped cloud containing violently rotating air. It can pick up trees and cars right into the air and even uplift heavier objects such as homes and railway cars. Like a vacuum cleaner across a rug, it sucks up into anything which may lie in its path. These storms occur most often during the summer months and are noticeable by their strong wind and lack of rain. The sky turns black as dust is sucked up into the air. Tornadoes travel normally around 60 kilometers per hour and the winds can reach 800 kilometers per hour in the most violent storms. Tornados are most frequent in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains and especially in the central plains area of the Mississippi basin where about 150 occur each year. Tornados may also strike the southern states in winter and have even seen known to develop in the northeast. Both hurricanes and tornados cause millions of dollars worth of damage each year. Today they can be predicted more easily than in the past, but they cannot be stopped or ignored. When they come, they must be endured with the hope that one survives their fury and wraths. Question: According to the passage,a tornado _ . Options: A: is a violent low-pressured storm B: is often accompanied with heavy rain C: only occurs in summer and autumn D: is a square cloud containing very cold air
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I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: "Regardless of social class, race and age, men say they hate to shop," says Zukin, City University of New York sociology professor."Yet when you ask them deeper questions, it turns out that they like to shop.Men generally like to shop for books, music and hardware.But if you ask them about the shopping they do for books or music, they'll say, " Well, that's not shopping.That's research." In other words, what men and women call "buying things" and how they approach that task are different. Women will wander through several 1,000-square-meter stores in search of the perfect party dress.Men will wander through 100 Internet sites in search of the perfect digital camcorder .Women see shopping as a social event.Men see it as a special task or a game to be won. "Men are frequently shopping to win," says Ann, a marketing professor at Loyola University of Chicago."They want to get the best deal.They want to get the best one, the latest one and if they do that it makes them happy." When women shop, they're doing it in a way that they want everybody to be very happy," says Ann."They're kind of shopping for love." " Teenage girls learn to shop from their moms and older sisters, but they also learn to shop by examining articles in magazines like Seventeen," City University Zukin says. "And although men's magazines such as GQandEsquire have long had shopping articles, it's TV that has the eye of young male shoppers," say Ann and Zukin. "Television shows are used by young men in the same way Seventeenmagazine orLuckyis used by girls," says Zukin, "to help make clothing and toiletry choices." "Of course, there are men who love to shop and are proud of it," Loyola's Ann says.And that is important no matter whether you buy a car or a frying pan.All men love to buy but don't want to get cheated. Ann adds, "There actually are men who are interested, for example, in cooking or shopping or chinaware or things around the home-----they become kind of girl _ .Women like it." Question: As is shown in this passage, teenage girls go shopping _ . Options: A: only with their moms B: only with their sisters C: often following magazines D: often following TV shows
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I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Alice Walker makes her living by writing, and her poems, short stories, and novels have won many awards and fellowships for her. She was born in Eatonton, Georgia. She went to public schools there, and then to Spelman college in Atlanta before coming to New York to attend Sarah Lawrence college, from which she graduated in 1966. For a time she lived in Jackson, Mississippi, with her lawyer husband and a small daughter. About , , here first book for children, she says, "After my first meeting with Langston Hughes I vowed I would write a book about him for children someday. Why? Because I, at 22, knew next to nothing of his work , and he didn't scold me; he just gave me a stack of his books. And he was kind to me; I will always be grateful that in his absolute warmth and generosity he fulfilled my deepest dream ( and need) of what a poet should be.?" "To me he is not dead at all. Hardly a day goes by that I don't think of him or speak of him. Once, just before he died, when he was sick with the flu, I took him a sack full of oranges. The joy I felt in giving that simple gift is undiminished by time. He said he liked oranges, too." Question: It can be inferred from the passage that Alice Walker was 22 years old when _ . Options: A: she moved to Jackson, Mississippi B: she moved to New York C: she first met Langston Hughes D: Langston Hughes died
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