Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: People like to tell me rubbish. Not just friends, but strangers ,too. Once, at the airport, my husband stepped off an escalator before me. When he realized I wasn't with him, he looked back and saw me hugging ( ) a stranger. I'd asked the man behind me: "Did you have fun in Vegas?" His answer broke me heart. After 50 years away, I'd come to say goodbye to the lover of his life, _ was dying of cancer. "I should have married her 50 years ago," he said. I hugged him, and then he was gone. Moments later, my husband said: "He told you all that on the escalator?" I nodded. "Maybe he just needed to tell somebody, And I happened to ask." When someone wants to talk, you just need to ask a question. The words don't matter. It's the tone in your voice and the look in your eyes and the caring in your heart that count. Sometimes I think the whole world is crying out to be heard. And yet, we don't ask the question or say the things we need to say to those who matter most to us while there is still time, and a chance, to do so. Recently I heard from a reader who shared with me the eulogy she'd written after losing her mother. I wish her mother could have read it. I can only hope her mother knew all the things her daughter wrote about her--that she was known so well and loved so much. I like to think people will say a few nice things about me when I'm gone. But given a choice, I would rather hear those things before I go. Wouldn't we all? That started me thinking. I need to tell my children I am proud of them. They know it, but it can't hurt to say it again. I need to tell my sister I will forever in her debt . I was the one who left. She was the one who stayed, who's "been there" for our family--for our mother, our dad, our brothers and me. And to my husband, I need to say, well, he puts up with a lot. In fact, I need to say a lot of things to whole lot of people. Maybe you do, too. You can tell me, if you want. But maybe you should tell them first. Question: What happened to the writer at the airport in Los Vegas? Options: A: She developed a friendship with a stranger. B: She helped a stranger with cancer on the escalator. C: She listened to a stranger's story and hugged him. D: She told a stranger the story of her stay in Los Vegas
Answer: C

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Maybe you can not imagine what a hotel made of trash looks like. But in Rome, Italy, there is a campaign called Save the Beach that has created a hotel out of 12 tons of trash in order to raise awareness of our waste. Save the Beach is an environmental awareness campaign set up by the makers of Corona Beer. They collected all the trash from all the beaches all across Europe. Then they built the special hotel. It was reported that the hotel was fully booked . And it was open only for four days there in early June, the same time as World Environment Day. Next to the "trash hotel" was the slogan of Save the Beach. It said, we have built the first hotel made of trash in the world. This will be the future of our holidays if we do nothing to protect our beaches. The hotel was built just to show the _ we were causing to the sea and the coastline . We live in the time of trash and we are running the risk of becoming trash ourselves. Do we really want such a world? The trash hotel in Rome was just the beginning to support healthy, clean and trash-free beaches all across Europe by Save the Beach. Maybe there will be more surprising ideas in the future. Let's wait and see. Question: Where was the trash hotel built? Options: A: In Europe B: In Asia C: In America D: In Africa
Answer: A

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Look! There are thousands of people waiting to buy tickets home in the railway station. Each time when Spring Festival comes, buying tickets of train trip would be very hard. And things seem to be getting worse and worse, although we have greatly increased the mileage of railway network and speeded up trains. Why? It's because too many people want to go back home to spend Spring Festival with their family. Many people become angry with the Ministry of Railways. They wonder why it is hopeless for them to get the tickets from the railway station Instead, they sometimes can only buy them from ticket scalpers at much higher price. The Ministry of Railways estimated that about 188 million passengers would travel by train during the 40-day peak period surrounding the 2009 Spring Festival holiday. The number of travelers will be 8% higher than that of 2008. This problem even drew the President Hu Jintao's attention. He wrote a note to Liu Zhijun,Minister of the Ministry of Railways, asking him to take action to improve passenger convenience. Afterward, officials from the Ministry of Railways said they would try their best not to let any ticket-buyers spend Spring Festival at the railway station. Question: Many people can't buy the tickets from the railway station, and they sometimes can only buy them from the scalpers _ . Options: A: expensively B: happily C: dangerously D: hardly
Answer:
A