Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: It is probably the strangest sport anyone has ever invented. And at first sight, it looks like the easiest. Competitors have to do two things. The first is to stand still. The second is to place their hand anywhere on the body of a car, and keep it there. This is where things start getting difficult. Lots of other people are doing the same thing. And the winner of the "handathon" contest is the person who can carry on doing it for the longest time. That person gets to own the car. It still seems to be an easy thing to do. At the beginning it is. Anyone can stand still. But when the contest has been going for four or five days, standing still seems like the most difficult job in the world. And keeping the hand in place over this time becomes an act of serious attention. After a few days, the hand seems to belong to someone else--someone who wants to go home and get some sleep. Competitors are allowed to take a five-minute break every hour to eat, drink or do whatever else is necessary. No one is allowed to lean on the car for support. Winners need to be able to show great powers of attention. They also need to be able to develop special skills. Maybe the popularity of the handathon is due to the fact that it is not necessary to be a trained athlete to enter. Entrants in the Longview handathon certainly don't seem to do much preparation. Most say they will prepare by "getting lots of sleep". Others say they will "eat healthy food" or "pray for success". The whole event gives ordinary people the chance to do something interesting and win something at the end. Handathons are competitions, but there is little rivalry between the competitors. They help each other out and keep each other's spirits up. People who drop out early return with food, drink and encouragement for those still standing. Question: The reason why the sport is called "handathon" is probably that _ in the competition. - people cover a long distance - people keep hands in place long - people wave hands as long as possible - people do the same thing as in marathon
people keep hands in place long

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Proverbs are popular around the world. Many proverbs give advice on how to live. Some proverbs are hundreds of years old, but they are still used today. For example, my son is just like his father in many ways. We often say the two of them prove the proverb that the apple does not fall far from the tree. My daughter is very short. She would like to be taller. But I tell her that good things come in small packages. Some valuable things are very small, like diamonds and other jewels. But I also tell my children that all that glitters is not gold. Something may look valuable, but may not really be valuable. Also, I tell them do not judge a book by its cover. You should not judge something only by its appearance. Sometimes I tell my children to cooperate to solve a problem. After all, two heads are better than one. But another proverb says too many cooks spoil the soup. If too many people try to do something, then the job will not be done well. I also tell my children that two wrongs do not make a right. You should not do something bad just because someone did the same to you. Some people are pessimists while other people are optimists. Pessimists always think about how bad things are or will be; optimists might say that every cloud has a silver lining and they always look on the bright side. Other people are both pessimists and optimists. They hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Some people often worry about what they will do in a situation that might happen in the future. We could tell them do not cross that bridge until you come to it. It is usually much better to prevent a problem from happening than it is to find ways to solve it.So we say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Question: Why does the author mention so many proverbs? - Proverbs are very useful in our life. - She wants to tell us how well she used the proverbs in her life. - We should not believe in proverbs. - Some proverbs are contradictory.
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Proverbs are very useful in our life.

Ques: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: "You'll have to take care of the baby today," a woman told her husband . " I'm not feeling well." "Then you must stay in bed and rest, dear. " her husband said. "I'll be pleased to look after our baby. " "Thank you. I'll have a quiet day and I'll soon get better. " his wife told him. "Shall I do the shopping for you as well?" her husband asked. She was very pleased and said, "That will help me very much. I'll give you a list of things to buy. " She wrote out the list and gave it to him. "You can get all these things at the supermarket," she said. "You can put the baby in the shopping cart, then you won't have to leave him outside." The man took the baby to the supermarket and put him in the shopping cart. Then he pushed the shopping cart along the rows of things to buy and looked for those that were on his list. At first all was well, but then the baby began to cry. Then he started to scream. And scream! And SCREAM! "Keep calm ,George, " the man said. "Don't get excited. Don't shout, George. Don't lose your temper, George." A woman in the supermarket heard him saying these things. She walked up to him. "I think you are wonderful ,"she said. "You are so patient with your little George. " "Madam, "" the man said, "I'm George. He's Edward." Question: Why did the man take care of the baby? - it was his turn. - His wife was not well. - His wife was not at home. - He always looked after it.
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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: The English language started about 1500 years ago in England.Three groups of people came to the country.They were the Angles,the Saxons,and the Jutes.These three groups brought their languages with them to England.After some time,the three languages became one new languageEnglish.The name "English" comes from the Angles.They lived in most of England."England" means "Angle Land" or "Country of the Angles". The language that we speak todayModern Englishis not the same as the English that people used 1500 years ago,including Old English(before 1150)and Middle English(up till 1500).That languageOld Englishsounds different,and it has some different rules of grammar. There were only a few thousand words in Old English.But Modern English does come from Old English,and it is still like it in many important ways. Question: Which of the following is TRUE? - Modern English has nothing to do with Old English. - Modern English has more words than Old English. - Modern English has a vocabulary twice as large as old English. - There is no difference between Old English and Middle English.
Modern English has more words than Old English.