Read the article and select the best answer. Article: HAVE you noticed that the moon is becoming rounder and brighter day after day? That's because Sept 8 is the Mid-Autumn Festival. For Chinese people, a full moon means that family members can get together on that day. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people get together and enjoy the round moon . They also send wishes for family members not with them. There are many stories about the moon to make the tradition more interesting. In China, Chang'e flying to the moon is a well-known legend . Hou Yi and Chang'e were husband and wife in old times. At the time, there were 10 suns in the sky. Hou yi, a brave man, shot down nine suns. People see Hou Yi as a great hero. Besides China, many other countries have beautiful stories about the moon. In Greek legend , Artemis is the goddess of the moon. She takes care of the hunt and wild animals. Artemis also looks after young children and women in childbirth . In India, the god of the moon is Soma. He has four hands and rides through the sky in a chariot . If a baby is born on a full moon day, Indian people believe he or she is lucky. Question: According to the article, Artemis _ . Options: A: is the goddess of the moon in Greek myth B: is the goddess of the moon in Indian myth C: has four hands and rides through the sky on a chariot D: had a baby who was born on a full moon day
A

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Many daily American expressions are based (......) on colours. Red is a hot colour. Americans often use it to represent heat. When they say "red-hot", that means they are very angry about something. Loud music is popular with many people. Some may say that such music is red-hot. Pink is a lighter kind of red. People sometimes say "I'm in the pink" when they are in good health. The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the 20th century. It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink colour that shows that they are in good health. Blue is a cool colour. The old Blues music in the United States is the opposite of red-hot music. Blues is slow and sad. Someone who is "blue" is very sad. The colour green is natural for trees and grass. But it is an unnatural colour for humans. A person who has an upset stomach may say "I'm feeling a bit green". A person on a boat who is feeling very sick from high waves can be said "look very green". Sometimes a person may be very jealous because he does not have anything as nice as someone has, like a fast new car. That person may say "I'm green with envy". Some people are green with envy because someone has more dollars or "greenbacks". Dollars are called greenbacks in American slangs because that is the colour of the bottom of their bank notes. The colour black is used often in expressions. People may say "it's a black day" when everything goes wrong on that day. In some cases, colours describe a situation. _ were common during the World War II. All the lights in a city were turned off at night to make it difficult for enemy planes to find their aims in the dark. Question: We describe a day on which everything goes wrong as _ . Options: A: a red day B: a green day C: a pink day D: a black day
D

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: In the mid 1990s, people started doing business on the Internet. At that time, there were two kinds of companies. First, there were traditional companies which sold things in stores. Then, there were Internet companies which didn't have stores, they sold things only over the Net. Traditional companies didn't want to lose any business. Quickly, they created their own websites and began selling things over the Net. These are the so-called "brick and click" companies. Many stores are made of brick, and you click on your mouse to buy things with your computer. That's where the name "brick and click" comes from. By the late 1990s, e-businesses like Amazon.com, Buy.com, and eToys.com were in trouble. Their profits were not very high, and there was a lot of competition. Many of these businesses lost a lot of money, and in 2000, many e-businesses were out of business. In the world of e-commerce , companies are fighting for every dollar and every customer. Will brick and click companies win the war? Only time will tell. Question: Which would be a brick and click company? Options: A: A clothing company with no website. B: A bookseller with five stores and an Internet site. C: A video seller with a big website but no stores. D: A restaurant.
A: B

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Donald was not very good at math. He could not understand the teacher's explanations . Even when the teacher explained something a second time, Donald still could not understand it. "Never mind," Donald told himself. "I am quite good at other subjects. I will cheat in the math exam, then I won't be in trouble." "I will sit next to the boy who is best at math," he thought, "and copy down his answers." The day of the exam came, and Donald sat next to Brain Smith, who always was at the top of the class in math. Donald carefully copied Brian's answers onto his own exam paper. At the end of the exam, the teacher collected the papers and graded them. Then she said, "well, boys and girls. I have decided to give a prize to the student who got the highest grade. It's difficult for me to decide who to give the prize to, however, because two students, Donald and Brian, got the same grade." "Let them share it," one of the other students said. "I thought about that," the teacher said, "but I decided to give the prize to Brian." Donald was angry when he heard this. He stood up and said. "That's not fair. I got the same grade as Brian." 'That's true." The teacher said." However, Brian's answer to Question 18 was "I don't know," yours was "Neither do I". Question: Why was he angry when Donald heard that the teacher would give a prize to Brian? Options: A: Because he got the same grade as Brian B: Because Brian copied him C: Because the teacher didn't know Donald's answers D: Because he cheated in the math exam.
Answer: D

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Kangkang's father is a doctor. When SARS, a kind of serious disease, spread in Beijing, he took an active part in the battle against it. He left his wife and his son to work in the Xiaotangshan Hospital. He cared for the patients day and night. He couldn't go home and he could only talk with family on the telephone. "Do you miss your family?" asked a reporter. "Yes, of course. It's my duty to save the patients," Doctor Lee answered. Question: Could Kangkang's father go home? Options: A: Yes, he couldn't. B: No, he didn't. C: Yes, he could. D: No, he couldn't.
A: D