Read the article and select the best answer. Article: All boys and girls like good stories. I am sure that all children who read The Ugly Duckling will be glad to know something about the 'King of Story Tellers', who wrote it for them. Thousands and thousands of children have read this story, only to ask for it again and again. It has travelled the wide world over, and has been told in every country. Hans Christian Andersen, the author of "The Ugly Duckling," was born in Denmark. If you look on a map, you will see this little country in northern Europe. There, in the little village of Odense, he spent his boyhood. His father and mother were very poor. The family lived in two little rooms near the top of a house, where his father worked as a shoemaker. On the roof was a box filled with earth. In this box his mother planted her vegetables. Little Hans loved to walk with his father in the woods, where he could pick wild flowers and hear the birds sing. His father read to him when his work was done, or told him stories. What his father did helped him open up a new world. Once, when Hans was still a child, he went into a wheat field with his mother and a number of children, to pick the rest wheat which the reapers had left in the field. While they were busy picking only a small amount of wheat for each of them, an angry bailiff came rushing into the field, armed with a whip . All ran, as fast as they could, away from the angry man. _ and the sharp stalks of the wheat plants which had been cut down, cut his feet so that he could not get away. Unafraid, the boy faced the angry man and his upraised whip. "How dare you hit me when you know God sees you?" he cried, looking fearlessly into the face of the angry bailiff. The whip came down, but not on little Hans. The bailiff admired the boy's courage, and praised him for it. He sent him home with gifts, rather than punishments.[:] While Hans was still a boy, his kind father died. Then Hans and his mother were left alone, to care for each other. "What will you do, Hans?" the mother asked "Would you like to become a... Question: What do you think the meaning of the underline sentence " _ " is? Options: A: There was something wrong with Little Hans' feet. B: Little Hans did not wear shoes. C: Little Hans was a disabled boy. D: Little Hans' feet were cut by a sharp knife.
B

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Where do you think people will live in the future? Can you predict people will work and live in the sea? But how will people go to work then? By submarine! Some scientists believe that some day submarines will be as many as today's cars. A famous French driver says, " One day, man will work on the ocean floor as they do on the street!" If people want to live in the sea, they have to solve a lot of problems first. Some of these problems, similar to those of living on the moon, are lack of oxygen and weightlessness . Many questions are hard to answer. For example, what will happen to our bodies if we live in the sea for a very long time? Scientists are looking for answers. Maybe in 50 years man will be able to live in the sea, away from the crowded and noisy cities on land. Man will find it fun and interesting to live in the sea. And life in the sea is more comfortable. Don't you think so? Question: Maybe people in the future will _ to work on the ocean floor. Options: A: drive a car B: take a bus C: take a submarine D: swim
C

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: August 14, 2002 #The biggest shopping center KRF will open on August 18. Everyone with Today's newspaper will get a small gift. You are welcome. Address: No. 6 Bridge Street #English Newspaper, is looking for good English speakers as editors. He should study news in college. He will get $8,000 a year. Please send you application form in 10 days. Tel: 3898766 Address: No 5 Longway Street Email: englishnewspaper@yahoo.com #Traditional Chinese doctor treatment. RMB 200/hourI'll go to your home. Mobile: 137629390 #New York VS Chinese Dragon Team Time: 7 PM Sunday, August 17 Place: Star Stadium Price: RMB 300, RMB 280, RMB 180, RMB 80, Question: If a person wants three cheapest tickets to watch the match, he will pay RMB _ Yuan. Options: A: 160 B: 80 C: 240 D: 350
A: C

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Harry is eight years old. He goes to school near his home. He always goes there and comes home on foot. One day he came home from school late. His mother saw him and asked him, "Why were you late, Harry?" "My teacher was very angry and asked you to go to her office tomorrow." "To her office? Why?" his mother asked. "Because she asked a question in the class." said Harry. "Nobody could answer it, but I could. " "You are so clever, my son. " his mother said with a smile." What is her question?". Her question is "Who put the tomato on my chair and made my trousers dirty?" said Harry. Question: The teacher's trousers were dirty because _ . Options: A: she sat on the ground B: it was raining hard . C: she sat on the tomato D: she had it for a long time
Answer: C

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Mr. Jones opened a shop in Aston to sell writing-paper, pencils and things like that. During the first month, very few people visited his shop. He sold little,and he could see that he was going to lose money. One night,Mr.Jones sat bay the fire and was worried after another very bad day. Suddenly he got an idea. He found a piece of wood and wrote to the following notice on it in big letters: "WHAT DO YOU THINK I GIVE AWAY PENCILS AND PAPER AND INK" He put up the notice in front of the shop window before he went to bed. He slept better than usual that night. The following day, many people came to the shop. Mr. Jones said good morning to them all with a bright smile and asked the frist woman what she wanted. She chose some writing paper and a pencil. As soon as he put them on her hands, she turned to leave the shop. "That will be thirty cents ,please," he said. "Why?" she asked in surprise. "That's the price of the paper and the pencil." "But your notice says it's free," she replied. "Oh no," he said, "how can I make any money if everything is free?" She took him outside and showed him the notice "It is wrong,too,"she said. "where is the question mark after the word 'think'?" "There isn't a question mark,"he said. "But there should be one ." "I'm afraid you've made a mistake," Mr.Jones said."You have read my notice in the wrong way." "Not at all," said the woman. "It is quite easy to read. It says: What do you think? I give away pencils and paper and ink!" "No," Mr.Jones said. "You should read it like this: _ And the answer to the question is: Certainly not! So you really have to pay me thirty cents, you see." Question: How did Mr.Jones most probably fell that night.? Options: A: Confident. B: Guilty. C: Nervous. D: Worried.
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A