Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: It's Sunday morning. My family are all at home. My father is sitting near the window. He's reading newspapers. He wants to know what h appens all over the world. My mother is watering the flowers in the small garden. My brother is a worker. He's watching TV. He's a basketball fanAnd he is good at p laying basketball. Now he is watching NBA on TV. Where are my twin sisters? Oh, look! Lily is listening to music. She likes popular music very much. Lucy is surfing the Internet in her room. She often writes emails to her friends. What am I doing? I am doing my homework . ,A, B, C, D Question: The brother is _ . - watchingWNBAnow - goodatplayingbaseball - watchingafootballmatch - abasketballfan
abasketballfan

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Are you a TV lover? Can you imagine living without TV? Well, you could give it a try. A group of Americans, TV-Turnoff Networks , have an idea. From April 19 to 25, they are asking children all over the world to turn off their TVs for one week. They hope children will find more interesting things to do. Maybe they can read some books, or learn to swim, or paint a picture. Since 1995, about 24 million people in America have taken part in TV-Turnoff Week. TV-Turnoff Network says watching TV too much can bring children big problems; with school, health and family. They want kids to watch less TV. What do you think? Bad for your studies American scientists did a study of 1300 children .They watched the children for four years .They say that if children watch lots of TV, they don't do well in school. Bad for your health Studies show that when children watch lots of TV , they eat more unhealthy food . Most children are getting overweight .overweight children become ill more easily .Watching too much TV is also bad for their eyes . Bad for family life About 40%of America families watch TV at dinner time .That means that they don't talk very much when they eat together . Also ,too many violent things An American study says that before a child turns 18 years old ,the child will see 20 000 violent things on TV .Some kids become violent in real life . If you want to learn more about this unusual week ,you can go to this Website, www.tvturnoff. org . ,. (10) Question: A group of Americans have the idea about TV-Turnoff Week because they _ . - think watching TV too much is bad. - think watching TV is a waste of time. - think the children should study harder. - want to know what else children will do if they don't watch TV.
think watching TV too much is bad.

Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: I have returned to my hometown after I was away ten years ago. So many things have changed around here. It has become better and better. When I left here, there was a small pool on the right of my house. Now the pool has gone and people have built a large shopping mall there. The biggest changes have taken place in the center of the city. There are sidewalks on both sides of the street. You can see a street center with so many tall buildings around. You can't drive there any more because no vehicle is allowed to pass there. A European-style fountain has been built in the street center garden. There used to be an old school near my house. I spent my five years studying there. There was a small payground in front of the school. But now what I can see are five tall buildings standing there. There are two big classroom buildings and a library. A new post office has also been built just across from the new school. Question: I have been away from my hometown for _ . - ten months - one year - five years - ten years
A: ten years

Question: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Chinese people call the Spring Festival"Nian". But do you know that Nian was once the name of a monster ? A long time ago, the monster Nian lived in the mountains. It ate animals. But in winter, it could not find food. So it came to villages and ate a lot of people. People were so afraid of Nian that they locked their doors before evening came during the winter. One day, an old man came to a village. He told people there that Nian was afraid of three things----the color red, fire and noise. He told people to play drums and gongs, make big fires and set off fireworks to make Nian go away. On a moonless, cold night, Nian went to the village again. As soon as it opened its big mouth, people made loud noises and made fires. Nian was really afraid and ran away. wherever it went, there was noise and fire. When Nian was tired and could not run anymore, people killed the monster. After that, on the coldest day of winter, people beat drums and gongs, and set off fireworks to celebrate the death of the monster of Nian. They put up red lanterns and have a big dinner without sleeping during the night. In the morning people greet each other happily. So now we have the Spring Festival. Question: The monster Nian wasn't killed until _ . - it had eaten all the animals - the old man came to a village - it was too tired to run away - people knew what it was afraid of
Answer: it was too tired to run away

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A short Chinese man is one of the biggest men in the world right now. He is Jack Ma(Ma Yun),the Chair-man of Alibaba Group. On Sept. 19,2014,Alibaba went public and raised$25billion . Ma,a former English teacher,has become the richest man in China. Born in 1964 in Hangzhou,Zhejiang. Ma grew up as a happy kid. When he was a teenager he wanted to learn English. Every morning,he got up at 5 a.m., rode his bike for 40 minutes to a hotel near the West Lake and talked with foreign tourists in English. He did it for nine years , rainy or shine. The experience made him an excellent English speaker and opened his eyes to the outside world. In 1994,Ma Yun heard about the Internet. And on a 1995 trip to the US ,Ma was shown the Internet for the first time. He searched the word "beer" on Yahoo,and found that there was nothing there about China. Seeing the chance,Ma returned to China and set up a website called China Pages without even knowing much about computers. Four years later,Ma,his wife and his friends set up Alibaba in HangZhou. He believed in the Internet business potential when few other Chinese did.15 year later,Alibaba has developed into the world's largest e-commerce company ,owning popular shopping websites like Taobao and Tmall. Question: What does the passage mainly tell us ? - How Ma Yun made history. - The history of Alibaba Group. - How Ma Yun learned English - The development of e-commerce in China.
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How Ma Yun made history.