Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Signs in Chinese will be set up in public areas such as airports, to benefit Chinese travelers, the Italian Government announced in late February. _ . Despite the different languages, travel across Europe has never been so simple. Just five years ago, if you wanted to visit Germany in the north and Spain in the south in one trip, you had to wait for weeks to apply for different visas from the two countries. You also needed a calculator because both countries had different money. Today, with a Schengen Visa issued by any member country, you can travel across 15 European countries without stopping. Since 2002, within most of the EU, there is now just one type of money called the Euro. The Euro was designed to be the only money in the EU, and already makes it easier to shop around. If you drive, your driving license and car insurance policy are valid in the other European countries. And you can use your mobile phone everywhere. All the countries in the continent are melting into a united Europe under the EU. For Europeans and visitors, the result is that it is more convenient to travel back and forth between the different countries. Question: Compared to five years ago, traveling in Europe has become easier because _ . Answer:

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- you needn't drive a car
- you can use a calculator to exchange money
- applying for different visas is much simpler
- one visa is good enough for traveling in a number of countries

A: one visa is good enough for traveling in a number of countries

Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Barbara Morgan's lifelong dream has always been to travel into space. On August 8,2007,her wish came true. The former teacher was one of seven crew members on the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which flew into space from NASA's Kennedy Space Station in Florida. Morgan taught at a primary school in Boise from 19751998--with some time off for astronaut training. In 1985, she was chosen as a _ for Christa McAuliffe, who was to be the first teacher in space. On January 28,1986,the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after takeoff killing McAuliffe and the other six crewmembers. After the Challenger accident,Morgan continued to teach. In 1998, she was asked to become an astronaut. Morgan's mission aboard Endeavour includes overseeing the move of 5000 pounds of goods from the shuttle to the International Space Station and operating the shuttle's robotic arm. Morgan gave students an unusual class after she was in space. Morgan's outofthisworld class was broadcast live on NASA television. Her husband Clay Morgan said he couldn't help but smile as he watched her talk to students. "I'm just so proud of her and how she's going to do all this and do the work of an astronaut as well as a teacher," he said. "She just kept telling me how unbelievable it was to be in space and I think it's much better than she expected." One student asked Morgan how being a teacher compared to being an astronaut. "We explore, we discover and we share," she said. "The great thing about being a teacher is you get to do that with students, and the great thing about being an astronaut is you get to do it in space, these are both wonderful jobs." The 25minute questionandanswer meeting also included the astronauts entertaining students by swallowing floating juice bubbles and playing with Pingpong balls. Question: Which of the following is NOT included in Morgan's mission in space? Answer:

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- Operating the shuttle's robotic arm.
- Watch over the move of goods.
- Giving a class to the students.
- Teaching the other crew members.

A: Teaching the other crew members.

Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: In promising to fuse media as diverse as television, telephone communication, video games, music and data transmission, the era of digital convergence goes better than yesterday's celebrated "information superhighway." Yet achieving this single technology is far from straightforward. There are currently three major television broadcast standards, and they are all incompatible with each other. But this is nothing compared to the many technologies supporting the Internet, each with a different bandwidth and physical media. The problems faced in designing platforms and communication systems that will be accepted across the world can appear insuperable. Even once global standards are assured, however, a further obstacle lies in wait. The Internet is plagued by long, erratic (,) response times because it is a pull-technology, driven by patterns of user demands. Push-technology, on the other hand, reverses the relationship: servers simply send information to passive users, as in television and radio. But if some form of combination between one-way television flow and interactive Internet is to be the basis of our future media, it is hard to see how it could be operated. Moreover, the problem of fusing Internet with television is also one of defining the services offered. Information, entertainment and relaxation appear at first to be quite different needs. Serious doubts remain over whether consumers will be interested in having to make the sort of mental effort associated with computing while also settling down in front of a sitcom . Besides the issue of consumer habits, infrastructurecosts are set to be immense, and will have to be met by national states or the private sector before being passed on to users. Platforms do not necessarily have to be expensive. The mobile phone is a good example of how something that is technologically sophisticated can almost be given away, with its cost recovered through service charges. Users are then coercedthrough clever marketing to upgrade to newer phones with more... Question: By digital convergence, the author means _ . Answer:

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- diversification of the communication systems.
- .separating entertainment and communication.
- integrating the various means of media.
- straightforward transmission of data.

A: integrating the various means of media.

Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Getting too little sleep or not spending enough time in rapid eye movement(REM) sleep is connected with being overweight among children, according to a new study. For three nights, researchers studied the sleep patterns of 335 young people, aged 7 to 17. They looked at total sleep time, time spent in REM, time it took to fall asleep. Body-mass index was checked at the start of the study, and 45 persons in the research were overweight, while 49 were at risk of becoming overweight. Compared to normal-weight children, those who were overweight slept about 22 minutes less per night and didn't sleep as well as them, which means shorter REM sleep, less eye activity during REM sleep, and a longer wait before the first REM period. After more research, the researchers concluded that one hour less of total sleep was connected a double increased risk of being overweight. One hour less of REM sleep was connected with a three times increased risk. Although the reasons are still being researched, the relationship between short sleep duration and overweight may be the result of behavioral and biological changes, which are caused by sleep loss, wrote Dr. Xianchen Liu of the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh and his colleagues. They explained that sleep loss causes changes in hormone levels that may have an effect on hunger, and less sleep also means a person has more waking hours in which to eat. Sleep loss also leads to tiredness the following day, which may lead to less physical activity and fewer calories burned. Question: Which is NOT the reason why sleep loss causes the risk of being overweight? Answer:

OPTIONS:
- It changes levels of hormone, which may lead to hunger.
- It means more hours to work or study, so people have to eat more.
- It makes people feel tired, so they are unwilling to be physically active.
- It gives people more time to stay awake, during which they can eat more.

A:
It means more hours to work or study, so people have to eat more.