Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: The days of the sneak thief who stole a couple of apples or a packet of sweets from a chain store are actually over. I had a chance to say this to a young offender the other day, "Sweets from a chain store?" He said, "You must be joking. That's what kids do." I may add that he was aged 11. In other words, today's young criminals would find it laughable to risk being caught for petty theft of this description. They've got enough money in their pockets to buy the sweets they want, anyway. I think it's all too easy to put the blame on anyone but ourselves. Faced as they are with a society that frequently gives them up on the grounds of color1, race or low learning ability, these children turn to crime as a means of showing off their self-respect. Nurtured on films and TV glamorizing the role of the criminal, they are quick to copy these anti-heroes. It is a matter of increasing concern to the police and government that the Children and Young Persons Act, 1969, is becoming improper to deal with the rise in young criminals. Because the emphasis has been placed on the cause and gentle treatment of their crimes, rather than on old-fashioned methods of punishment, the children themselves know well that there is very little that can be done to prevent them continuing to steal, damage and in some case even cause the death of those they choose to terrorize . I don't like the look of this situation any more than you do. In our own interests and in those of our children and grandchildren, we cannot continue to take the "it's nothing to do with me" attitude we have used for so long. We must unite in a common demand for harder and stricter methods against these young criminals. Question: By raising the question "Sweets from the chain store?", the writer was asking the boy whether _ . - he wanted some sweets from a chain store - stealing sweets from a chain store was illegal - he was caught while stealing from a chain store - the days of stealing sweets from a chain store were over
he was caught while stealing from a chain store

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature Rabindranath Tagore( 1913) Prize motivation: "because of his deep sensitive, fresh and beautiful poetry, with perfect skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West" William Faulkner (1949) Prize motivation: "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel" Ernest Miller Hemingway(1954) Prize motivation: "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea" John Steinbeck (1962) Prize motivation: "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception" Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1953) Prize motivation: "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant speech skills in defending noble human values" Claude Simon (1985) Prize motivation: "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the description of the human condition" Mo Yan (2012) Prize motivation: "he, with dreamlike realism, combines folk tales, history and the contemporary". Bob Dylan (2016) Prize motivation: "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" Question: Whose works will you turn to if you are interested in a song writing Nobel Prize winner? - Mo Yan's. - Bob Dylun's. - Claude Simon's. - Rabindranath Tagore's.
Bob Dylun's.

Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Although mobile phones have brought a lot of convenience to people,they have also brought troubles. Besides endless spam text messages( ),another problem seems even more annoying.That is the so-called "one ring"call.It is a phone call that only rings one time and stops before the receivers is able to pick it up .When the receiver calls back,the other side is usually a recorded advertisement.And by the time people realize that they have been _ they've already paid for the call. An article in the China Youth Dailysays that these terrible calls trouble many mobile users day and night.But up till now,the government hasn't taken any steps to solve the problem. It seems that if someone chooses to use a cellphone,he must bear( )the trouble. The number of mobile phone users in China has risen to more than 570 million.Thanks to news reports,many people have come to understand the harm of the "one ring"call.Some users say they won't call back if it is an unknown number.But the article points out that this doesn't mean the related government departments should turn a blind eye to it. According to an online survey of more than 200,000 Chinese netizens ( ), nearly 70 percent believed telecommunication( )operators make money from these annoying phone calls.The article argues that "one ring"calls not only take away people's money,but also trouble their lives. New technology should not do harm to society.Instead,people should enjoy the convenience of information technology. Thus, the article advises that laws should be set up to protect people's legal rights. Question: It can be inferred from the passage that _ . - mobile users can't do anything about the "one ring"call - "one ring"calls and spam text messages are from the same people - "one ring"calls will be got rid of in the near future - telecommunication operators hate "one ring"calls too
A: mobile users can't do anything about the "one ring"call

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Up to 90% of school leavers in major Asian cities are suffering from myopia ---short-sightedness, a study suggests. Researchers say the "extraordinary rise" in the problem is being caused by students working very hard in school and missing out on outdoor light. Eye experts say that you are short-sighted if your vision is blurred beyond 2m. It is often caused by an elongation of the eyeball that happens when people are young. According to the research, the problem is being caused by a combination of factors - a commitment to education and lack of outdoor light. Professor Morgan who led this study argues that many children in South East Asia spend long hours studying at school and doing their homework. This in itself puts pressure on the eyes, but exposure to between two and three hours of daylight helps maintain healthy eyes. Cultural factors also seem to play a part. Across many parts of South East Asia, children often have a lunchtime nap. According to Professor Morgan they are missing out on natural light to prevent short-sightedness. A big concern is the numbers of the students suffering from "high" myopia. One in five of these students could experience severe visual impairment and even blindness. These people are at considerable risk--sometimes people are not told about it and are just given more powerful glasses--they need to be warned about the risk and given some self-testing measures so they can get to an ophthalmologist and get some help. For decades, researchers believed there was a strong genetic component to the condition. But this study strongly suggests an alternative view. "Any type of simple genetic explanation just doesn't fit with that speed of change; gene pools just don't change in two generations. Whether it's a purely environmental effect or an environmental effect playing a sensitive genome, it really doesn't matter, the thing that's changed is not the gene pool---it's the environment." Question: As is mentioned above, which factor mainly results in students' myopia in South East Asia? - Genetic faults of the people. - Elongation of the eyeball. - The shortage of outdoor light. - Lack of research into the problem.
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The shortage of outdoor light.