Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Dear Hamilton, We are fortunate that in such a large, high-pressure office we all get along so well. You are one of the people who keep the social temperature at such a comfortable setting. I don't know anyone in the office who is better liked than you. You can perhaps help with this. The collection of _ towards gifts for employees' personal-life events is becoming a little troubling. Certainly, the group sending of a gift is reasonable now and then. In the past month, however, there have been collections for two baby shower gifts, one wedding shower gift, two wedding gifts, one funeral remembrance, four birthday gifts, and three graduation gifts. It's not only the collected-from who are growing uncomfortable (and poor), but the collected-for feel uneasy receiving gifts from people who don't know them outside the office, who wouldn't even recognize their graduating children, their marrying daughters and sons, or their dead relatives. This is basically a kind gesture (and one that people think well of you for), but the practice seems to have become too wide-ranging and feels improper in today's office setting. Thank you for understanding. Question: Hamilton is expected to _ . Options: A: show more kindness. B: discontinue the present practice C: quit being the organizer for gift giving D: know more about co-workers' families
B

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: What science fiction once told of other worlds far away is now a fact. Astronomers prove the existence of another solar system like ours with some planets in the constellation Andromeda . Geoffrey Marcy is a professor of astronomy and physics at San Francisco State University and says, "What we have found now, for the first time ever, is indeed a fully-grown system of planets around the star Upsilon Andromeda, in which there are three planets, one close in, one at a middle distance, and one farther out." The star is slightly larger than our sun. The planets are huge, like our Jupiter . Marcy's partner in this research, Debra Fischer, describes the solar system, "Here's the inner planet that goes around every 46 days, the middle planet that goes around every 242 days, and then the outer planet that goes around every three and a half to four years." Astronomically, it's not far away, 44 light years. The sun of that solar system, Upsilon Andromeda, is so near and bright that it can be seen by using no equipment during summer and fall. For twelve years astronomers searched the skies in the belief that if our sun has planets around it, surely others do, too. Geoffrey Marcy says, "And then starting three and a half years ago, we began finding for the first time planets singly, one planet here around one star." "When I look up at the stars now at night, I can imagine easily that every one of them has planets around them," says Debra Fischer. It was the tremble in the star that led Marcy to discover the planets. "The star rocks around due to the gravity of the planet much like a dog owner gets pulled around by a little dog." Can they support life? We don't know, because present technology is not advanced enough to determine what the planets are made of. That, Marcy says, is astronomy's next challenge. Question: We can infer from the text that scientists are _ . Options: A: to find means to travel to the planets B: to find means to communicate with the living beings on the planets C: to find out whether the planets can support life D: soon to be able to find another planet for life to live on
C

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Mrs Turner's telephone number was 3463, and the number of he cinema in town was 3464. People often made mistakes and telephoned her when they actually wanted the cinema. One evening the telephone rang and Mrs Turner answered it. A tired man's voice came over the phone, "At what time does your last film begin?""I'm sorry," said Mrs Turner, "but you have the wrong number. This is not the cinema." "Oh, it began twenty minutes ago?" said the man. "I'm sorry about that. Well, good-bye." Mrs Turner was very surprised, so she told her husband. He laughed and said, "No, that wasn't a mistake. The man's wife wanted to go to the cinema, but he was feeling tired, so he telephoned the cinema. His wife heard him, but she didn't hear you. Now they will stay at home this evening, and the husband will be happy." Question: Mrs Turner was surprised because the tired man _ . Options: A: wanted the cinema but called a wrong number. B: said something that had nothing to do with her answer. C: asked her silly questions that she didn't know how to answer. D: was angry with himself for having made the mistake.
B