Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: When Mencius was a little boy, his father died. Mencius and his mother were quite poor. One day Mencius returned home from school and found his mother making some cloth. It was very beautiful and expensive. "How much of the book have you read today?" Mencius' mother asked him. "I haven't read any of it yet." Mencius replied, "I played with some friends of mine in the fields." When his mother heard this, she picked up a pair of scissors and cut the cloth. "Why did you cut your cloth?" Mencius asked, "It was beautiful but now you've wasted it." "You have wasted your time," his mother said, "now I have wasted mine. Look what terrible things we have done." Mencius learnt a lot from this lesson. After that, he always studied hard. ,. Question: When did this story happen? - Not long before liberation . - More than 2000 years ago. - About 400 years ago. - In the 18th century.
More than 2000 years ago.

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A man liked shooting arrows . He studied it very hard for years. He thought he did it best and it was time for him to go out into the world. One day when he walked through a forest, he saw a target on a tree, with an arrow right in the center. He went on and found more and more trees with targets and arrows in the center. He was so surprised at this. He wanted to know who did it. Soon he came to a farmhouse. An old man told him that he could find the person he wanted by the river. When he got there, he saw a little girl playing with her dog on the bank. "Are you the person who shoots the arrows?" he asked the girl. "Yes, that's me," she replied. "But how can you do that?" he wondered. "That's easy," said the girl happily. "First shoot an arrow." Then draw a target." Question: The man liked _ and studied it hard for years. - fishing - jumping - shooting - drawing
shooting

Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Mr. and Mrs. Green come from Australia. They are in Beijing now. Mr. Green is a teacher in a high school. He teaches English. He likes reading and running. He isn't good at cooking. His son, Jim, is a student. He is on the school football team. He likes playing football very much. He is the best football player in his class. He likes school, too. He does his homework every day. Mrs. Green is a teacher, too. She can speak a little Chinese. She likes Chinese food. She doesn't like doing housework at all, but she likes cooking. They all like China a lot. , . Question: Mrs. Green doesn't like _ at all. - Chinese food - teaching - doing housework - cooking
A: doing housework

Question: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: When July comes, children know they'll have the final exams and the school year will end soon. Boys and girls will have a nearly two months' holiday, and they'll leave school by train or by car to return home to see their fathers and mothers. The summer holiday is the best time of the year for most students. The weather is good, so they can spend most of their time playing outside .If one lives in the country, he can go on a trip into the woods or in the fields. If one lives in a big city, he can go to a park to play. The best place for a summer holiday is the seaside. Some children are lucky enough to live near the sea. But for the others who do not, if they have the chance to stay at one of the big seaside towns for a week or two, they will talk about it all the following school year. Now, what makes children like the seaside so much? I think it is the sand, the sea and the sun, not anything else. Of course, there are lots of new things to see, nice things to eat and interesting things to do. But the feeling of the sand under their feet, the salt water on their skin, and the warm sun on their backs make them happier. Question: According to the passage, if a child comes from a big city, he can often _ in the summer holidays. - stay at home - go on a trip to the woods - go on a trip in the fields - go to a park to play
Answer: go to a park to play

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Mr. Smith is telling two funny stories of his police work. Story A I remember catching a "thief" in a clothes shop once. It was strange. The man was hiding a yellow sweater inside his coat. I thought he had stolen it, so I caught him. We found later that his wife gave him the sweater for his birthday, but he hated it. He just wanted to return it to the shop for money, but he didn't want his wife to see him! We soon let him go. Story B Another day, a man called Bob went into a bank on Sixth Street. He wrote on the back of an envelope, "Give me the money! Or I'll kill you." and gave it to the bank clerk. She gave him $100,000 and the man ran away. Then we received a phone call from the bank clerk. She told us to go to the man's house in Candy Town and get him. We caught him as soon as he got out of the elevator. He couldn't believe that we found him so quickly. We told him that the front of the envelope he used his name and address on it! Question: Mr. Smith caught the man in the clothes shop _ . - by exchange - by mistake - by accident - with the help of others'
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by mistake

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida, a little boy decided to go for a swim in the lake behind his house. He ran out of the back door, leaving behind shoes, socks and shirt as he went. He flew into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, an alligator was getting close. The mother in the house was looking out of the window and saw the two as they got closer and closer together. In great fear, she ran toward the water, shouting to her son as loudly as she could. Hearing her voice, the little boy made a U--turn to swim to his mother. It was too late. Just as he reached her, the alligator reached him. The mother caught her little boy by the arms just as the alligator pulled his legs. That began an unbelievable tug-of-war between _ . The alligator was much stronger than the mother, but the mother did her best not to let go. A farmer happened to drive by, heard their screams, rushed from his truck and helped them. Luckily, after weeks and weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived. His legs were seriously scarred by the terrible attack of the animal. And on his arms, were deep scars where his mother's fingernails dug into his arms in her effort to pull the son she loved. The newspaper reporter, who interviewed the boy, asked if he would show him his scars. The boy lifted the legs. And then, he said to the reporter, "Look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms, too. I have them because my mum wouldn't let go." Question: From the passage we can infer _ . - the son was proud of his scars on his legs - the son was proud of his scars on his arms - the mother was unwilling to let the alligator go - the mother was stronger than the alligator in fact
the son was proud of his scars on his arms