I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Almost every machine with moving parts has wheels, yet no one knows exactly when the first wheel was invented or what it was used for. We do know, however, that they existed over 5,500 years ago in ancient Asia. The oldest known transport wheel was discovered in 2002 in Slovenia. It is over 5,100 years old. Evidence suggests that wheels for transport didn't become popular for a while, though. This could be because animals did a perfectly good job of carrying farming tools and humans around. But it could also be because of a difficult situation. While wheels need to roll on smooth surfaces, roads with smooth surfaces weren't going to be constructed until there was plenty of demand for them. Eventually, road surfaces did become smoother, but this difficult situation appeared again a few centuries later. There had been no important changes in wheel and vehicle design before the arrival of modem road design. In the mid-1700s, a Frenchman came up with a new design of road--a base layer of large stones covered with a thin layer of smaller stones. A Scotsman improved on this design in the 1820s and a strong, lasting road surface became a reality. At around the same lime, metal hubs (the central part of a wheel) came into being, followed by the pneumatic tyre in 1846. Alloy wheels were invented in 1967, sixty years after the appearance of tarmacked roads . As wheel design took off, vehicles got faster and faster. Question: What do we know about road design from the passage? Options: A: It was easier than wheel design. B: It improved after big changes in vehicle design. C: It was promoted by fast-moving vehicles. D: It provided conditions for wheel design to develop.
D
I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Rosa Parks was an African-American woman who began the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus . She what she believed was right , and her courage inspired countless others to do the same. Born in Alabama in 1913 , Mrs. Parks grew up on a farm just outside Montgomery in a town called Pine Level . She was home-schooled until she was 11. She later attended the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. She briefly attended the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes , but had to drop out to take care of her mother and grandmother when they became ill. Mrs. Parks married Raymond Parks in 1932 . He encouraged her to finish her education . This was very uncommon at that time , especially for a woman. Less than 7 percent of African-Americans studied in a high school in the 1930s. Mrs. Parks also succeeded in gaining the right to vote, which was very difficult for blacks under the segregation laws( ) . In 1943, she began working as a secretary for the NAACP----National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Mrs. Parks made her historic decision on December 1,1955. She recalled in her autobiography : "When the driver saw me still sitting, he asked if I was going to stand up and I said , ' No, I'm not.' Then he said , ' Well , if you don't stand up , I'm going to have to call the police and have you arrested .' I said , ' You may do that.'" Mrs. Parks died on October 24,2005. " She sat down in order that we might stand up," said civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson. " Her imprisonment opened the doors for our long journey to freedom." Question: Rosa Parks didn't give up her seat to a white person because _ . Options: A: she was tired after a day's work B: there were empty seats on the bus C: she didn't want to stand on the bus D: she wanted to be treated equally
D
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I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952, educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge where, in 1974 he gained a BA (and later an MA) in English literature. He was the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(<<>> ), which started life as a BBC Radio 4 series in March 1978. Since then it has been transformed into a series of best-selling novels, a TV series, a record album, a computer game and several stage adaptations. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's success sent the book straight to Number One in the UK Bestseller List and in 1984 Douglas Adams became the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pan. He won a further two (a rare feat), and was nominated--though not selected - for the first Best of Young British Novelists awards. He followed this success with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980); Life, The Universe and Everything (1982); So Long and Thanks for all the Fish (1984); and Mostly Harmless (1992). The first two books in the Hitchhiker series were adapted into a 6-part television series, which was an immediate success when first showed in 1982. Other publications include Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul (1988). In 1984 Douglas teamed up with John Lloyd and wrote The Meaning of Life and their second huge success, The Deeper Meaning of Life followed in 1990. One of Douglas's personal favorites was written in 1990 when he teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine and wrote Last Chance to See an account of a world-wide search for rare and endangered species of animals. Douglas sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia. He was also a best seller in German, Swedish and many other languages. Douglas Adams died on Friday, May 11, 2001, in Santa Barbara, CA. He will be greatly missed by fans worldwide. Question: Which of the following statement is not true? Options: A: Douglas Adams died at the age of 49 and he was memorized by his fans. B: Douglas Adams was the youngest author to be selected as one of the first Best of Young British Novelists. C: John Lloyd was one of the authors of the two books, The Meaning of Lifeand The Deeper Meaning of Life. D: Douglas graduated from Essex and St John's College and gained a Master's Degree.
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B