Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Tom's tenth birthday is on this Sunday. His parents give him a birthday party on Saturday. They help him invite Mike, Simon and two other friends. The party is at Tom's home. Tom's father buys nice food on the morning of Saturday. Mike brings Tom some interesting books. Simon buys a volleyball for Tom. Others give Tom some CDs. They have lunch at twelve thirty in the afternoon. After lunch, the boys and girls sing and dance happily. The party is over at four o'clock in the afternoon. Question: Tom does NOT receive _ from his friends. Options: A: books B: a volleyball C: CDs D: pens
D

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Many people use their mobile phones as the alarm clock and are more used to checking e-mails before sleeping. However, these habits are becoming sleeping problems. Several years ago, my boss used to stay up working on her mobile phone and got badly ill because of _ . Now she always leaves her phone in another room at night. And she encourages friends to do so. "I sent each of my friends the same christmas gift - an alarm clock so that they could stop using their phones as the alarm clock," she said. If your mobile phone wakes you up in the morning, it may also be keeping you up at night. A study in 2008 showed that people in mobile phone radiation mostly had sleeping problems. And according to a Swedish study, a quarter of young people in this country feel like there must be phones around them. Most of them feel sorry for not returning messages. So they even have to reply to their friends before sleeping. So what kind of people prefer to use mobile phones in their bedrooms? A recent study has shown that three-quarter people aged between 18 and 34 prefer to sleep with their phones near them. That number falls off a little in middle age, but only people aged 65 and older are used to leaving the phone in another room while sleeping. Question: According to the Swedish study, _ of young people in Sweden always put phones around them while sleeping. Options: A: 25% B: 50% C: 75% D: 100%
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A

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: The King lived a small house near New York with their child . Sometimes Mr King came back from work very late. When his wife and the child were asleep, he opened the front door of his house with his key and came in very quietly. But one night when he was coming home late, he lost his key. So when he reached his house , he rang the bell. Nothing happened. He rang it again. Again nothing happened. Nobody moved inside the house. Mr King knocked at the bedroom window. He spoke to his wife, he shouted, but she didn't wake up. At last he stopped and thought for a minute. Then he began to speak like a small child. "Mum," he said, "I want to go to the toilet." He spoke quietly, but at once Mrs King woke up. Then he spoke to her, and she opened the door for him. Question: When Mr King came back very late from work and his wife was asleep, he usually came into his house _ . Options: A: with his wife's help B: by knocking at the door C: with his child's help D: by opening the door with his key
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: "The British government will offer PS1,000,000 to anyone who can solve the world's biggest problem--whatever it might be," said Prime Minister David Cameron at a science conference. In an unusual competition, the Government will ask people to find out the greatest challenge today, such as finding a replacement for oil, producing low cost food or curing AIDS/HIV. When the toughest problem has been decided, the Prime Minister will give away PS1,000,000 to the person who successfully works out the answer. The competition follows the example of the Longitude Prize started by the government in 1714, which offered PS20,000 (worth PS6,000,000 today) to anyone who could discover how far east or west ships had sailed. Sailors could work out their location north and south, and were able to decide their local time from the sun. However, they needed to know the time at a reference point in order to find out how far they had travelled east or west. Many people thought the problem was impossible to solve, but the prize was finally won by John Harrison, an ordinary worker. He did this by designing a clock that kept accurate time at sea and made it possible for sailors to work out their location. Almost exactly 300 years on, Mr Cameron will have a group of scientists collect suggestions and draw up a short list of problems facing the world. He will then start a race to solve the most difficult problem. A government officer said, "We want people to think big: what does the world need and how can we achieve that? We are looking for the next penicillin , airplane or World Wide Web. Something that is going to really change what we do and how we live our lives--sending us ahead in the global race. "According to Mr Cameron, it is important to "encourage new ideas" and "attract back the best and the brightest" to Britain. Question: The Longitude Prize is mentioned mainly to . Options: A: explain why the government set up the prize in 1714 B: show John Harrison was a great success as an inventor C: show that the government is very grateful to John Harrison D: explain what gave Mr Cameron the idea of starting the competition
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Ques:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: In the 1500s, South American fishermen said that the sea became warmer every few years. They gave this special event a Spanish name 'El Nino', meaning 'the baby'. It is called 'the baby' because it arrives around Christmas. El Nino is a huge area of warm water in the middle of cold water in the Pacific Ocean. It happens every two to seven years. It moves around the ocean and becomes bigger and smaller at different times. This warm water affects the weather. It is always raining over El Nino. El Nino contains a lot of energy. Scientists think this energy is formed when wind comes from the northern half of the world. The winds blow across warm sea water in the south. When the strong wind hits the warm water, violent weather happens. Scientists think that El Nino existed for many thousands of years. El Nino affects every person in the world because it affects the entire world's weather. It can bring the rain that farmers need. It can bring storms that destroy homes. It can mean that fishermen cannot catch fish, and it can bring floods. There is nothing we can do about El Nino. It is an event of nature. We can help the world's weather by trying to stop the greenhouse effect and air pollution. The most important job for scientists is to learn how to predict when El Nino is going to bring dangerous weather. Then, people can try to prepare for storms, floods and droughts. New technology like satellite pictures and temperature measuring equipment can help. Still, it is very hard to say when or where El Nino will cause damage. Question: El Nino is _ . Options: A: a storm that hits every two years B: a huge area of warm water C: a wind from the south D: some cold water in the Pacific Ocean

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: School Open Day Dear students, We have some interesting and fun things for you this term. On September 9th 2014, we have a School Open Day. It begins at 9:00 a.m. and finishes at 4:00 p.m. All parents can come to our school, have a cup of coffee, and meet our teachers and other parents. Your parents can go to your children's classrooms, have a talk with the principal , have a look at the clubs and ask any questions. From 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m, the parents can go to Room 106 for lunch. If you have any questions about the School Open Day, you can call John Smith --- the principal. The telephone number is 021-4899688. Welcome to our school and join us. School: Apple Tree Middle School Question: Where do parents have lunch? Options: A: In a park. B: In their children's classrooms. C: In Room 106. D: At home.
C