Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: If you enjoy reading, don't miss Shakespeare and Company when you visit the city of Paris. It is a famous English-language bookstore on the left bank of the river Seine. The first Shakespeare and Company in history was opened in 1919 by an American, Sylvia Beach. Ms. Beach did more than sell books. Her bookstore was also a library, and she even prepared beds for writers visiting there. Ms. Beach was not only kind to people but also good at choosing books, so her bookstore was often visited by writers like Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce. But in 1941, after the Germans took power in Paris, Ms. Beach was told to close her bookstore. In 1951, another American, George Whitman, opened in Paris another English-language bookstore, Librairie Mistral. Since then, just as Ms. Beach did, Mr. Whitman has also made his bookstore a library for people to borrow books, and a free hotel for writers to stay in. To remember Ms. Beach, Mr. Whitman changed the name of his bookstore to Shakespeare and Company in 1964, two years after Ms. Beach died. Next time when you are in Paris, don't forget to visit this friendly bookstore, and see if you can spend a night there! Question: What do we know about Mr. Whitman? - He was Ms. Beach's neighbor. - He used to work at Ms. Beach's bookstore. - He opened a bookstore to remember Ms. Beach. - He has followed Ms. Beach's ways of doing business.
He has followed Ms. Beach's ways of doing business.

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Hello! Here is a UFO. And I am an alien .My name is Eric. Look!my jacket is nice. It's white. This is my pen. What color is it? It's red. And what's this in English? It's a ruler. It's a green ruler. What's that? It's an English CD. I like it. Do you like me? Question: Eric likes _ . - the pen - the ruler - me - the CD
the CD

Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: This is a beautiful park near my home. People like to go to the park after work. Some of them go to the park every day. Look! This is Mr. Smith. He is sitting on a chair and watching the children. Some children are playing the game of _ . Some boys are playing yo-yo. Lucy and Lily are standing under a tree. They are talking. There is a small river in the park. We can see some boats in the river. Some children are sitting in the boats with their fathers and mothers. Listen! A lot of birds are singing in the trees. This is really a nice park. I come here to read English after school every day. Question: Mr. Smith is _ . - playing hide-and-seek - playing yo-yo - is sitting and watching the children - is singing
A: is sitting and watching the children

Question: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Tom walked into a shop. It had a sign outside: " Second-hand clothes bought and sold. " He was carrying an old pair of trousers and asked the owner of the shop, " How much will you give me for these? " The owner looked at them and said " Two dollars. " " What? " Tom said, " I had guessed they were worth at least five dollars. " " No. " said the owner, " They weren't worth a cent more than two dollars." "Well," said Tom, taking two dollars out of his pocket. " Here is your money. These trousers were hanging outside your shop. The list price was six dollars and a half. But I thought that was too much money, so I wanted to find out how much they were really worth." Then he walked out of the shop with the pair of trousers and disappeared before the owner could think of anything to say. Question: At first, the owner thought that Tom _ . - wanted to steal the trousers - wanted to sell the trousers - wanted to fool him - wanted to buy the trousers
Answer: wanted to sell the trousers

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Years ago I worked at a factory in a small county.Every day I got up very early and often did much extra work at night.I was so tired and exhausted.My whole life was hopeless.Then one day I read the following article from a magazine: "A woman went to live with her husband in camp on the Mojave Desert during the war.She simply hated the place:the heat was almost _ ,125 degree in the shade,the wind blew incessantly,and there was sand--sand everywhere.Finally,in desperation she wrote her parents in Ohio that she couldn't stand it another minute and was coming home. Quickly came the reply by airmail from her father--just two lines: 'Two men looked out from prison bars.One saw the mud,and the other saw stars.' The daughter did some real thinking,not only with the intellect but also with her heart.She decided to stick to her post. She made friends with the natives,learned to love the country,and eventually wrote a book about it. The desert hadn't changed,but her attitude had.Because she listened with her heart to the words her father sent,a whole new world opened up to her." A change of attitude could change everything. After reading the article,I was deep in thought ... Question: The main idea of this passage is that _ . - a woman went to live with her husband in camp - the desert hadn't changed,but her attitude had - the daughter's parents wanted her to stay with her husband - a change of attitude could change everything
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a change of attitude could change everything

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: I don't have too many memories of my father because he was so sick in the last years of his life. But there aresome that I am often reminded of and which may have developed my love ofscience. When I was small, I was somewhatafraid of lightning and thunder . My father explained it. The explanation wasin words that a child could understand but was basically correct. I gained a betterunderstanding and learnt something from him. What he said was that there was electricity in the cloudsand it traveled to the ground like a spark . When it traveled through the air, it made the air so hot that it burned. Then there was nothing where the air had been and the air all around rushed in to fill the space. Saying this, he clapped his hands together very loudly, pretending to be the air rushing in, and said that makes the thunder. When I hear thunder, I can still hear that clap clearly. He also explained why a cloudy winter night was warmer than a clear one. When there were clouds, they were like blankets which kept the earth and us warm. He said that if there were no clouds, we had no blankets and were _ to the universe. Our warmth was going toheat the whole universe. Even today, I still feel on the edge of space on a very clear night. I am sure there were many other lessons that Itook but no longer remember most of them now. What I didlearn, in general, was that there were explanations and that the more I understood them, the more comfortable the world was to live in. I was not taught that there were mysteries but that there was understanding if you looked for it. This may be why I have always takenaninterest in science. Question: The writer's father explained that there was thunder because _ and made it. - his hands clapped loudly - rushing air filled the space - electricity traveled through the air - thick clouds knocked into each other
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rushing air filled the space