Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Is reading better than watching TV? I believe it is. Is reading better than playing video games? I'm not so sure if it is. If learning is important to you, but not necessary so,and if pleasure is what you want,these activities can be pleasant in their own way. Reading might be better than many activities if you want to educate yourself and improve your chances of succeeding in your work. If you're serious about creating the habit of reading,what's important is finding a time you can read every day--often that's early morning or late at night,or both. For others, it might be during their lunch break. You only need to read for 10 to 20 minutes a day to form the habit. Then, you need to find a place that's comfortable. Make sure it has good lighting, the temperature is nice and you're in a good chair. Or you can find some place that you can relax in without falling asleep, although there's nothing wrong with sleep. Next,be sure to shut off the TV,Internet,cell phone,radio, or other music. Let reading be a quiet time. Mark an "x" on your calendar every day you read, and try to keep your unbroken "x"es going as long as possible. A habit is much easier to form if it's something you enjoy, not something you are made to do. So make the time, you spend reading a joy. I've been a lifelong reader, so the pleasure of a good book is one of my favorite things in the world. I love to lose myself in the world of a book. Question: If you want to create a habit of reading, the first thing to do is to _ . - ask the writer for some advice - find a comfortable place - make a proper time plan - mark an "x" on the new calendar
make a proper time plan

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Have you ever heard of the saying, "If you want a friend, be one."? What does it mean? There are many different things that you can do to make friends. You may find out what they are if you watch someone make friends. Here is how one new teacher made friends with the students in her class on the first day of the school. When the bell rang, the teacher smiled at all the students. Then she said, " Good morning! How nice it is to have all of you in my class this year! I want to know each of you very much. I am sure we will enjoy working together." The teacher smiled, used a pleasant voice, and acted in a friendly way. She told the students her name and wrote it on the blackboard. Then she told them something she liked to do and hoped to do with them during the year. The students knew that she liked many of the same things they liked. _ Each of them wanted to know her better and be her friends. Then she let the students tell something about themselves. So they felt that the teacher knew them. Could you make friends as the teacher did? How do you know and like your classmates? One way is to find out more about them. During the break you can talk to them. You may ask them their names and the names of the schools they went to last year. They want to know about you, too. You may tell them about your interests or your holiday experiences. It is often easy to be friends with people who have the same interests and play the same games. As you talk, the others may be thinking, " I like to do the same things you do. It should be fun to be friends with you." Remember! Just talking together in a friendly way is one good way to make friends. Question: The saying " If you want a friend, be one." means " _ ". - if you want to make friends with others, you should be one of them - you can make friends by doing the things that a friend does - you can easily make friends with one of the others - you can make one good friend, if you want to
you can make friends by doing the things that a friend does

Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Learning English grammar and English vocabulary can be hard enough, but trying to understand English sayings can be more difficult. Some are just hard to figure out and others don't make any sense at all. Here are four funny English sayings that you can use every day. I'm happy as a clam . Think of a clam. It doesn't have to do anything. It just sits on a beach or on the bottom of the ocean all day doing nothing. It never has to work. That sounds like happiness, doesn't it? If someone asks, "How are you today?" you can answer "I am happy as a clam" to let him or her know what a great mood you are in. I wouldn't touch that (or him/her) with a ten-foot pole. Maybe there is a person who you don't want to be friends with or even talk to. Well, this saying means that you dislike him or her so much that you don't want to touch or go near him or her, even within ten feet! You don't have a leg to stand on. This saying doesn't mean that the person you're talking to has no legs. It means that his or her argument is incorrect. He or she doesn't have a leg to stand on because he or she has no facts to support what he or she is saying. This saying is a good way to tell people that you think they're wrong. Break a leg! This saying actually means the opposite of what it sounds like. If you tell this to a person, you're wishing him or her good luck!The saying comes from a superstition that whatever you say aloud, the opposite will come true. Question: We can learn from the passage that _ . - the saying "You don't have a leg to stand on" means someone loses his legs - the saying "Break a leg" means someone hurts his or her leg - if we say "Break a leg" to someone, we give him or her a good wish - if we say "I am ill" aloud, we will become healthy
A: if we say "Break a leg" to someone, we give him or her a good wish

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Green tea is the best choice for office workers. People who always work in places with air conditioning may face skin problems such as easily dry skin. Among all the drinks, green tea is the best choice. Because there are important things in green tea and they are often called catechins . Moreover, drinking more green tea can prevent computer radiation . Winter is the season to drink black tea. Chinese medicine believes that different people should drink different tea based on the different characteristics and tastes of each kind of tea. Black tea can warm the stomach and quicken digestion . Therefore, drinking warm black tea in the cold winter is a most _ choice. Do not drink strong tea. Strong tea may make the body far too excited and can badly affect the cardiovascular as well as the nervous system . For a person who has problem with these parts, to drink overly strong tea may cause heart and blood pressure illness, or even make the old illnesses much worse. Do not drink too much tea when you are eating. Drinking too much tea or strong thick tea may not be good for taking in many constant elements and trace elements . Also, people should not drink tea with milk or other milky food. ,. Question: Which of the following is NOT true? - If you have a stomachache, you should drink black tea. - Strong tea may make the body far too excited. - When we choose tea, we should know the characteristic and tastes of each kind of tea. - At tables, we should drink tea as much as possible because it's good for our health.
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At tables, we should drink tea as much as possible because it's good for our health.