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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: On school nights, lots of kids have to do their reading before they are allowed to watch TV. Pretty soon, you might get to do both at the same time, in true Harry Potter style. Several companies are racing to produce electronic paper and ink, complete with colors and moving imagines . One idea would be to create a newspaper like The Daily Project in the Harry Potter books. Its pages would hold video clips of baseball games instead of just black-and-white photos. Electronic paper is not a new idea. A company in Massachusetts called E ink, for example, has been working for years on such a technology. Little electricity determines whether each microsphere looks black or white at any given time. Together, microspheres make up words and imagines. The techniques seems promising for creating still imagines that can be changed when needed, but the process is too slow for good videos. Scientists in the Netherlands now report a new type of e-paper technology. By using layers of oil, the requirements. They can also make images which change fast enough to meet standard video requirements. They can also make brilliant colors,. So far, however, each image is smaller than the fingernail. For now, reading and watching TV will have to return two separate activities. Keep your eyes open, though, in the future, TV watching and reading might be part of the same work. Question: Several companies are racing to _ . Options: A: Make the Harry Potte _ TV program B: create a newspaper like the The Daily Project C: provide baseball games for kids D: produce electronic paper with colors and moving images
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D

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Antarctica is in the most southern part of the world. It is like nowhere else on the earth. It is much larger than Europe, and nearly twice the size of Australia. Antarctica is the coldest and windiest place in the world, even colder and windier than the North Pole. In summer, the sun shines for twenty-four hours a day, but in winter it's completely dark for about three months. Very few plants grow there, but there is some wildlife, including whales, seals and penguins. When Captain James Cook traveled around Antarctica in the 1770s by ship, he found no one living there. Today, a few scientists work in Antarctica, but they only spend a short time there. Many scientists are studying the _ , which is getting thinner and thinner worldwide. The biggest "hole" is above Antarctica, and weather there is getting warmer. Scientists think that this cold and lonely place can teach us a lot about the earth and how to keep the earth safe. Question: Why is the weather in Antarctica getting warmer and warmer? Options: A: Because there are more and more people living there. B: Because the ozone layer is being destroyed. C: Because the sun shines a long time every day there. D: Because the weather in other places is getting warmer.
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B

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Here's how you can take the taxi in Japan *From train station or airports , go to the _ and wait there. *In the street, look for a taxi that has a red light in the front window. It means the taxi has no passengers . ( If the light is green, the taxi has passengers. ) *When you see an empty taxi, wave your hand and call it. *The back door opens automatically , so stand back and wait until the door opens. *Get in the taxi and tell the driver where you want to go. *Before you get out of the taxi, pay it. *Wait until the door opens and get out of the taxi. Question: After you get in the taxi, _ . Options: A: tell the driver where you want to go B: tell the driver your family address C: tell the driver what you are D: tell the driver your name
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A

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Franklin's ships had everything they needed . They had enough food in tins for three years and thousands of litres of lemon juice to stop disease. They also had two libraries with 3,000 books , excellent maps , scientific instruments , musical instruments and a new invention: a camera. Franklin and his men left Engand on May 19th , 1845 and they sailed without problems across the Atlantic towards Canada . When Franklin arrived at Baffin Bay in July 1845, things were going very well for the expedition . On July 26th , some sailors saw Franklin's ships when they were entering the bay . That was the last time that anyone saw Franklin and his men alive . The British government became very worried when they heard nothing from Framklin . They sent expeditions to 1ook for him , but the expeditions all returned without any news . The government offered PS20,000 to anybody who could help Franklin or anybody who had information about Frailklin . Nobody came with information . Then, in August 1850 some sailors found the first signs of the Franklin Expedition while they were searching on Devon Island: some old food tins , some papers , and , something very strange , the graves of three men . The men all died in January 1846 while Franklin was waiting in Baffin Bay for the ice to melt . But why did they die? The three men were all young and three deaths in the first months of the expedition were very strange . What happened to them ? And where were the ships and all the other sailors? The mystery of the Franklin Expedition was growing stronger... Question: Franklin's ship was last seen by some sailors when_. Options: A: reaching in Atlantic on May 19th , 1845 B: entering a bay on July 19th , 1846 C: arriving at Baffin Bay in July 1845 D: coming into Baffin Bay on July 26th , 1845
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D