Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Tom was nine years old and he went to a school near his house. He went there on foot and came back home usually at 4 o'clock. But last Monday he was very late. His mother asked, "Why are you so late today, Tom?" "Because my teacher asked me to stay behind " Tom answered. "Why did the teacher make you stay behind?" the mother asked again. "Because no one could answer the teacher's question except me," Tom said. "What was the question?" his mother asked. "The question was 'Who broke the window of the classroom?'" Tom said. Question: His mother might be very _ when she heard about that. Options: A: hungry B: pleased C: happy D: angry
D

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: She is a cute ,quiet girl. As a daughter, she has no secrets from her mother, who is very pleased with her. But these days she has become not so open as before. She has diary that she keeps under lock and key. Her mother cannot help worrying about her: what if she falls in love, which is too early for her age. After all, she is reaching the "dangerous time". These thoughts have caused trouble in the mother's mind. One weekend the girl came to tell her mother that she was going to the cinema with her schoolmate and would return late. This was the first time her mother agreed, and she couldn't help worrying because her daughter had never been away at night before. The mother waited till nine. She decided to go out to meet her daughter. Just at that time the noise of a car pulling up drew her to the window and---there was her daughter, waving goodbye to a boy. Her heart missed a beat. When the girl came in, the mother was watching TV, just like nothing had happened. "Mum, I'm back." "Yeah." "Sorry to be late. Still sitting up?" "Yes. Oh, that ... Who's that boy? " The daughter fell silent for some time. "Ah. It's my monitor . He gave me a lift on his way home. Mum, I'm going to bed." "All right. Go to sleep early." The next morning when the mother went to the daughter's room to do some cleaning, she found her diary left on the bed. After a few minutes' thinking, she at last opened it to the page of the night before. It reads: Mum, It's love that made you ask, but it would show your understanding of me if you hadn't. Question: Which of the following is True according to the story ? Options: A: The girl knew her mother would ask her about the boy. B: What the daughter did these days worried her mother. C: The mother knew the boy who saw the film with her daughter. D: The girl's diary was always on the bed.
B

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Three kids have been learning chemistry for only a few months. But they have already begun to challenge a world famous scientist! Li Weichi, Huang Runling, and Xiao Yan are from Zhongshan Huaqiao Middle School in Guangdong. They have just found a red cabbage that could be a new kind of acid-base indicator . They want it to take the place of litmus paper. "We've learnt to think of and ask questions about life by ourselves," said Li, "We work well with each other." British scientist Robert Boyle discovered the use of litmus paper over 300 years ago. Now it is used widely in experiments all over the world. But when the kids did some experiments in class last winter, they saw that the litmus paper didn't turn very blue with base matter. It's hard to get a clear result. Will there be a better indicator than litmus paper? The three kids decided to try and find out! How? They went to collect over 40 plants in parks, gardens and markets. Then they ground leaves, flowers and stems to get the pigments from them. The kids mixed pigments with acid and base. They spent months watching carefully to see which paper showed the best colour change. They decided it was the litmus paper! "It's our first scientific journey, Huang said, "But it makes me want to try harder." Question: The story mainly tells us _ . Options: A: how to make litmus paper B: about the three kids' spirit C: scientists were wrong D: the kids are heroes
A: B

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: A woman repeated a bit of gossip about a neighbor. Within a few days, the whole village knew the story. The person she talked about was deeply hurt and angry. Later, the woman spreading the rumor learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise man to find out what she could do to repair the harm. "Go to the marketplace," he said, "buy a chicken, and have it killed. Then on your way home, pick its feathers and drop them one by one along the road." Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told. The next day the wise man said, "Now, go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me." The woman followed the same road, but she was so _ when she found the wind had blown the feathers all away. After searching for hours, she returned with only three in her hand. "You see," said the wise man, "it's easy to drop them, but it is impossible to get them all back. So it is the same with gossip. It doesn't take much to spread a rumor, but once you do, you can never completely undo( ) the wrong." Question: Which of the following statements is true? Options: A: The gossip didn't hurt anyone at all. B: The wise man was not kind enough. C: All the feathers had been blown away. D: The woman was given a lesson.
Answer: D

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: There was a bookseller .He did not like to pay for anything.One day a big box of books fell on his foot. "Go to the doctor," said his wife,"and show that foot to him." "No,"he said,"I'll wait until the doctor comes to our shop next time.Then I'll ask him about my foot.If I go to see him,I will have to pay." The next day the doctor came to the shop to buy some books.The bookseller told the doctor about his bad foot.The doctor looked at it and promised to help.He took out a piece of paper and wrote something on it."Buy this medicine and put it on the foot before you go to bed every night,"he said. "Thank you,"said the bookseller,"And now,sir,here are your books." "How much?" asked the doctor. "Two pounds."" Oh,good,"said the doctor."I won't have to pay you anything today." "Why?" asked the bookseller. "I look over your foot.I will not pay two pounds for that.If people come to my house,l ask them to pay only one pound for a small thing like that.But when I go to their house,I usually charge two pounds.And I came here today,didn't I? Bye--bye!" Question: Which of the following is right? Options: A: The bookseller liked to pay everything. B: The bookseller's wife didn't want him to go to the doctor. C: The doctor was cleverer than the bookseller. D: The doctor didn't go to the shop to buy anything.
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C