Read the following article and answer the question. Article: How does a young dog or cat get to know a new home? The animal uses its nose. Right away it smells its new places. Then it makes wider and wider circles, smelling all the time. Before long it can find its way home very well, even in the dark. It simply follows something it knows well. Stories happen about animals who found their way across land they had never smelled before. Take the case of Smoky, a small white cat. Smoky had some funny red hair around its right ear. One day Smoky and his owner began a long journey. They were moving from Oklahoma to Tennessee. When they were just eighteen miles from their Oklahoma home, Smoky jumped out of the car. Then he found his way back to the old house. There he _ around outside for many days. Finally he disappeared. A year later Smoky meowed at the door of a house in Tennessee. A man opened the door. "Is that you, Smoky?" he said in surprise. At first he couldn't believe it. Then he saw the red hair around its right ear. It was Smoky! Question: What is the best title of the passage? Answer:
OPTIONS:
- A Kind Owner
- A Humorours Cat
- A Surprising Journey
- An Excellent Memory
A Surprising Journey

Read the following article and answer the question. Article: When Mencius was a little boy, his father died. Mencius and his mother were quite poor. One day Mencius returned home from school and found his mother making some cloth. It was very beautiful and expensive. "How much of the book have you read today?" Mencius' mother asked him. "I haven't read any of it yet." Mencius replied, "I played with some friends of mine in the fields." When his mother heard this, she picked up a pair of scissors and cut the cloth. "Why did you cut your cloth?" Mencius asked, "It was beautiful but now you've wasted it." "You have wasted your time," his mother said, "now I have wasted mine. Look what terrible things we have done." Mencius learnt a lot from this lesson. After that, he always studied hard. ,. Question: The mother cut the cloth because _ . Answer:
OPTIONS:
- she thought making cloth was wasting time
- she wanted to give her son a lesson
- she wanted to use more beautiful and expensive cloth
- she wanted her son to do his lessons at once

Answer: she wanted to give her son a lesson

Question: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: A little stream ran down from a high mountain through many villages and forests. Then it reached a desert,"I went through so many difficulties. I should have no problem crossing the desert,"she thought. As she started, she found herself slowly disappearing into the sand. After many tries, she still failed. At this time, a deep voice said,"if a breeze can cross the desert, so can a river."It was the voice of the desert. But the little stream answered,"that's because a breeze can fly, but I can't." "That's because you can't give up what you are. Let yourself evaporate into the breeze, and _ can take you across,"said the desert. "Give up what I am now? No! No!"The little stream could not accept this idea. "The breeze can carry the vapor across the desert and let it leave as rain. The rain will form a river again,"said the desert."And whether you're a river or vapor, your nature never changes." Hearing this, the little stream went into the open arms of the breeze. It carried her to the next stage of her life. Question: What did the stream think when she reached a desert? Answer:
OPTIONS:
- She thought she couldn't cross the desert.
- She believed she could cross the desert.
- She thought she knew well about the desert.
- She started to worry about herself.
Answer: She believed she could cross the desert.

input with options: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Seven years ago, a small town in Changhua started to grow healthy rice. What surprised us was that the "farmers" were not really farmers. They were students from a small middle school. Now everything on the farm goes well. And there are stories behind rice, too. The idea of growing rice came from the school teachers decided to teach students how to grow healthy rice on the school land . They wanted the students to be close to(......) the land and learn to help each other outside the classroom. The students and the teachers ate the rice. The school made money by selling the rice and giving farming classes to the community. With the money, the school could help some students go to foreign countries some day. Today _ comes true--the students are flying to Japan to share their special farming stories, and have fun over there, of course! "We all feel very happy that even students from a small town can make themselves stars," said one of the teachers. Question: Which is NOT the reason for growing healthy rice? Answer:
OPTIONS:
- To make the farmers surprised.
- To make the students close to the land.
- To teach students how to grow healthy rice.
- To learn to help each other outside the classroom.
output: To make the farmers surprised.

Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Dream culture is an important part of ancient Chinese culture. Dream interpreting is popular in China, and the most famous reference for dream interpreting is the book of Duke of Zhou Interprets Dreams. Ancient Chinese people thought that dreams could suggest lucky and unlucky things. Since different dreams have different meanings, people can get meanings of good or bad luck by interpreting them. Actually, dream interpreting is not totally a _ . It does have some scientific value. * Dreams are the reflection of the facts. Many dreams are actually something about what happened in the daytime. This kind of dream can be easily understood without dream interpreting. * Dreams are the body's self-implication . Traditional Chinese medical science says that dreams are connected with the health condition of humans' bodies. When Yin and Yang are imbalanced, dreams come into being. If someone dreamt that he or she was roasted by a big fire, it shows he or she might easily get angry or nervous. * Dreams are usually different from the facts. It means that things will develop in the opposite direction when they become worse. To some degree, Duke of Zhou Interprets dreams is scientifically reasonable. Over thousands of years has passed, the book still has many secrets waiting for us to explore. Question: If you dream that you are roasted by a big fire, maybe you are Answer:

OPTIONS:
- excited
- relaxed
- nervous
- bored

A: nervous

Read the following article and answer the question. Article: A woman repeated a bit of gossip about a neighbour. Within a few days the whole neighbourhood knew the story. The neighbour was deeply hurt. Later the woman responsible for spreading the gossip learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise old man to find out what she could do to repair the harm. "Go to the marketplace," he said. "and buy a chicken, and have it killed, then on your way home, pluck its feathers and drop them one by one along the road. " Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told. The next day the wise man said, " Now, go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me. " The woman followed the same road, but she was so discouraged when she found the wind had blown all the feathers away. After searching for hours, she returned with only three in her hand. " You see, " said the old man, "it's easy to drop them, but it's impossible to get them back . So it is with gossip. It doesn't take much to spread a gossip, but once you do, you can never completely undo the wrong." Question: Which of the following statements is TURE? Answer:
OPTIONS:
- The gossip didn't hurt anyone at all.
- The wise man was not kind enough.
- The woman found all the feathers at last.
- The woman was given a lesson.
The woman was given a lesson.