Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Most British parents give their teenagers pocket money.Teenagers get betweenPS7 andPS20 a week.They spend it on fast food,designed clothes,the cinema,concert,magazines and mobile phones. 1)Lazy parents? 37%of parents pay teenagers to clean the living room,66%of parents pay teenagers to take the rubbish out. 2)Lazy teens? 51%of teenagers don't make their beds before they leave home. Only 1 3%of teenagers wash the car for money. Some parents even pay their teenagers to do their homework. 3)Equality?Not Yet! Boys get more money than girls for most odd jobs. For washing the dishes,boys get aboutPS4 and girls get aboutPS1. 4)And if you need some more money? Teens get an extraPS250 a year out of their parents on top of pocket money! About 50%of teens get gifts or money from their grandparents. Go to Mum if you need extra money! She gives more than Dad. 5)Where you live makes a difference! Parents in Scotland and the North of England give more pocket money. 6)Spending 51%of teenagers spend their money on clothes. 39%of teenagers buy cosmetics ,jewellery and toiletries . Less than 30%of teenagers save any money. 7)Earnings Here are some children who tell us about their pocket money: Emma:I getPS30 a month.I have to take the rubbish out and tidy my room. James:I getPS10 a week.But I have to clean the car,hoover the house and load and unload the dishwasher.I usually save the money. Lain:I getPS7.50 a week.I have to be"good"but I don't have to do any jobs for the money. Richard;I getPS5 a week.But our neighbors go away a lot and they give mePS25 a week for looking after their cats. Question: We can infer from the passage that _ . Options: A: boys earn more money at home than girls B: girls earn more money at home than boys C: only rich parents give children pocket money D: most children spend their pocket money
D

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Many scientists are now exploring the idea of going to live on Mars. Some other scientists from the MASA AMES Center have already started the creation of a "Mars town" and many others are in fact already experimenting with it. Of course, these experiments are done on Earth itself but this "Mars town" has an environment practically like that of Mars. The astronauts working in these towns wear their space suit and also do everything they would really have to carry out if they ever go to Mars in the future. But Mars would be like Earth, a temporary place for humans. When the Sun starts swallowing up the planets, Mars will disappear only hours after Earth. So Mars only seems to be the ideal place to spread the human beings. It is also a good location to send humans if ever there is a disaster on Earth. By saying disaster, I mean asteroids hitting and things like that. If we humans do not want to disappear when Earth or Mars gets swallowed up, we will have to go and live beyond the solar system. But are there any planets outside our solar system prepared to support life? Astronomers' answer is: "If Earth can support life, why can't other planets do the same too? Astronomers have already discovered a Jupiter - like planet _ a Sun-like star, so why not an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star? To achieve this goal though, many other problems have to be taken into consideration. How do we transform a dusty planet like Mars into one more or less like our Earth? How should we go on? There is still a long way to go. Question: Which of the following would be the best title for this passage? Options: A: Mars Town B: Living on Mars C: The Future of Earth D: Where to live in the Future
D

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Complete silence is found only in laboratories called anechoic rooms. The walls and ceilings, made of blocks of special sound-sucking materials, are more than three feet thick, while floor coverings are six-foot layers of feathers or cotton wool. Silence here can be as painful to the ears as the din(continuous loud noise) of a steelworks or a rocket blast-off, yet scientists get used to this and stay in these silent rooms for hours at a time, using microphones and electronic equipment to test the various materials being developed to make the world a less noisy place. Architects have used scientific discoveries to solve noise problem in a number of ways. Walls are hollowed (having empty space inside) and then filled with sound-sucking materials similar to cotton wool. Extra-thick carpets cover the floors, and thick woolen curtains cover the windows. Air conditioning and heating channels are made less noisy by having the air passing through hundreds of tiny holes in baffles made of sheets of soundsucking materials. Unfortunately, these techniques and others often work too well in some buildings. Noise-proof rooms become almost anechoic and people living in them are disturbed by the lack of sound. One way of handling this problem is to use what they call "sound perfume"--artificial (similarly produced, made by man) noise is piped to rooms through small loudspeakers. Question: People suffer in anechoic rooms probably because _ . Options: A: they are allowed to move and speak B: the greater air pressure hurts their ears C: there is a lack of air in anechoic rooms D: they are used to hearing noise around them
D