I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: "Ordinary" was the worst word my mother could find for anything. Whenever she took me out for shopping, I found she wouldn't take any notice of the shop assistants when they suggested that some dresses were popular. She would say, "We're not interested in that. Haven't you got anything a little unusual?" And then the assistants would bring out all the strange colours no one else would buy. And later she and I would argue because I wanted to be ordinary but my mother wanted to be unusual. "I can't stand that hairdo ," she said to me when I was in a boy hairstyle, " _ 's so terribly ordinary... Not ugly, not unsuitable. But ordinary ..." "Couldn't you please wear something else?" I asked one day when she was dressing for Parents' Day in tight trousers and a bright pink sweater. "What't wrong with it!" "It's just that I wish you'd wear something ordinary." I said, "People won't laugh at." She looked at me angrily, "Are you ashamed of your mother? If you are, Mary, I feel sorry for you." Question: What does her mother mean by "ordinary"? Options: A: Unusual. B: Ugly. C: Common. D: Popular.
C
I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Have you ever dreamed about sending a letter to yourself or your friends in the future? While express mail is a fast way to send your letters, there is another type of mail appearing in China as a new business--future mail. "The letter should be sent next Mother's Day and not a day earlier!" Lin Xiaofan, a college student in Shanghai, tells one of the companies offering the service. Lin Xiaofan wrote the letter to her mother nearly a year earlier to express her love to her mother for next Mother's Day. "Offering this service makes people slow down and lets them understand the meaning of 'time' in another way," said Zheng Zhimin, manager at a "future mail" company. Zheng thinks "future mail" letters help remind us of care, friendship and love. While "future mail" is becoming more and more popular, some people are wondering what will happen if the postal address changes or if the company goes broken before the letters arrive. Zheng said customers are glad to sign a contract to make sure that they can be _ if their letters are lost or damaged. Most of the customers are college students and young white-collar workers. Psychologists said that young Chinese might have a new way to express their feelings through this service. Most people put their hopes and wishes in the letter so that they can experience the connection between the past and the present when they receive the letter. Question: "Future mail" is a/an _ way to send your letter. Options: A: fast B: old C: new D: cheap
C
Q: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Sleep is very important. A person who does not sleep dies faster than a person who does not eat. We spend about a third (1/3) of our lives sleeping. That's about 121 days a year! How much sleep do we need? We are all different. A baby needs 16 hours of sleep every day. Children 6 to 12 years old need an average of 10 to 12 hours of sleep. Teenagers need 9 to 10 hours of sleep. An adult needs an average of 7 to 8 hours a night. There are some people who need only 3 hours of sleep. Others need 10 hours of sleep. After the age of 50, the average sleep time goes down to 6.5 hours a night. We need less sleep as we get older. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people can't fall asleep. The name of this problem is _ . Some people say, "I didn't sleep all night." But that's not really true. They may sleep lightly and wake up several times. In the morning, they only remember the times they were awake , so they think they were awake all night. This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people had special ideas to make them sleep. Benjamin Franklin had four beds. He moved from one to another to fall asleep. Mark Twain had a different way. He lay on his side across the end of the bed! Question: Which of the following is true according to the passage? Options: A: We will die soon if we don't sleep well. B: The older we get, the less sleep we need. C: We can't tell a person's age from his sleep time. D: Famous people move from one bed to another to fall asleep.
A: B
Question: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Since last year, Where Are We Going, Dad? has become one of the most popular TV shows. On the show, the five fathers and their children traveled around China, riding camels through the western desserts , fishing on the east coast, and selling vegetables for their bus fare( )home in southwestern Yunnan Province. One dad doesn't know how to do his daughter's hair, so some people try to help him. Another one must survive with his son for three days in the desert. Because the father can't cook, they only eat instant noodles . Why is Where Are We Going, Dad? so popular? Because it is about how Chinese parents look after their kids. The show makes modern parents think about what they should do with their kids. "In traditional Chinese culture, the father is strict and the mother is kind. But on the show, we see fathers who are much kinder on their kids and more involved in their upbringing ."said Li Minyi, a professor of early childhood education. In the past, children were taught to follow their parents' wishes and look after _ in their old age. But today Chinese parents start to realize that respecting their children's choices may be a better way to be ready for modern society. As they raise their children, parents are growing up at the same time. Question: One father and his son only eat instant noodles because _ . Options: A: there aren't any vegetables in the desert B: the father can't cook C: they think instant noodles are delicious D: they have no money to buy something to eat
Answer: B
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I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Jack sells books at a bookstore. He needs to sell books for 10 hours every day and 6 days every week. But Jack doesn' t think it's a long time, because books are his favorite things. When Jack is not busy, he likes reading books at the bookstore. His favorite book is Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Every week Jack can take one book home and read it. Jack loves selling books also because he can meet book lovers there. Jack recommends good books to them and they do the same to Jack. Jack gets about 300 dollars every two weeks. Now he has about 2, 400 dollars. He wants to buy a car . After about 3 months, Jack can buy his first car. Question: What does Jack want to have after 3 months? Options: A: Books. B: Foods. C: A car. D: A store.
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C