Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Ever wonder how this season's celebrations affect the environment? Guest blogger Krista Fairles takes an amusing look at this very topic: The holidays are a wonderful, cheerful time when most people wait for Santa to bring them presents. But I'm not like most people. I spend my time wondering just what the environmental impacts of Santa Claus and his reindeer are, and more importantly, how I can calculate those impacts. Lately I've been particularly curious as to whether Santa's old sled is a clean green flying machine, or if he should be replacing his 8 reindeer with an environmentally-friendly car. I should mention that, surprisingly, I was unable to find statistics specific to Santa's magical flying reindeer, so these calculations use numbers from various sources and may not represent actual pollution caused by Santa and his animals. In other words, don't complain to the government about the damage Santa is causing the environment based on this article. Santa's yearly trip around the globe is 44,000km long, twice the average of a North American driver. If we assume that the magic provides the altitude for this trip, then reindeer power only needs to push Santa's sled forward. To complete the trip in 12 hours, I estimate they must travel at a speed of about 3100km/h. To travel at this speed, for this length of time, the reindeer need to eat an incredible 980 million calories each!! So the next question is: how much food is in 980 million calories? Well, if they're eating corn, they'd need to eat 16,500 lbs each -- or 1.6 acres of food. Growing 12.8 acres of corn has its own implications for the environment that we'll leave for another calculation. We now need to consider that during the global trip the reindeer are "letting out" some of that corn in the form of methane (,). A resting cow produces 110 kg of methane per year, so flying reindeer would each let out about 4.8 tons. With methane causing 20 times the global warming damage of CO2, and the altitude increasing that damage by 1000% that another 20... Question: Which of the following statements would the writer most probably agree with? Options: A: Christmas celebrations are really a waste of money. B: Vegetarians are more likely to survive than meat-eaters. C: Raising animals has a negative influence on environment. D: The car industry does less harm to environment than farming.
C

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Course A: Understanding computers 1. A twelve-hour course for people who do not know very much about computers but need to learn about them. You can learn what computers are, what computers can do and cannot do, and how to use them. 2. Course fee: $75, from June 1 to June 28, 9~12am every Sunday. 3. Equipment fee: $10. 4. Teacher: Joseph Saunders, professor of computer science at New Urban University, with twelve years of experience in computer field. Call 67801642 or 67801643 for more information. Course B: Learning to speak French 1. A course with a small class of less than 20 people, twice a week. Your French level is tested in the first class. Then you can begin practicing at one of eight different skill levels. This allows you to learn at your own speed, and prepares you to learn through situations of real life with a funny and easy method. 2. Course fee: $200, from June 1 to June 25, 4~7pm every Monday and Thursday. 3. Personal tutoring fee: $100. 4. Teacher: From the first day on you can have your own personal French teacher that corrects your exercises and assists you along the course, who has successfully taught French course before. Phone 67353019 for more information. Course C: Learning to swim 1. A course for people who have interest in swimming. We offer morning and afternoon classes, where swimming knowledge will be taught. Then you can gain swimming skills through practicing in water. 2. Course fee: $150, from June 9 to June 29, 10am~4pm every Tuesday and Friday.. 3. Personal tutoring Fee: $100 4. Teacher: Teachers from sports college and experienced swimming-loves. Very close to the Central Park. For further information call 67432308. Question: If you want to take Course A, you need to go _ learn something about computers. Options: A: twice every week B: three times a week C: four times altogether D: every Sunday afternoon
C

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: When John Milton, writer of "Paradise Lost", entered Cambridge University, in 1625, he was already skilled in Latin after seven years of studying it as his second language at St. Paul's School, prefix = st1 /London. Like all English boys who prepared for college in grammar schools, he had learned not only to read Latin but also to speak and write it smoothly and correctly. His pronunciation of Latin was English, however, and seemed to have sounded strange to his friends when he later visitedItaly. Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin in a bitter way. They kept in mind the rules to make learning by heart easier. They first made a word-for-word translation and then an idiomatic translation into English. As they increased their skill, they translated their English back into Latin without referring to the book and then compared their translation with the original. The schoolmaster was always at hand to encourage them. All schoolmasters believed _ . After several years of study, the boys began to write compositions in imitation of the Latin writers they read. And as they began to read Latin poems, they began to write poems in Latin. Because Miltonwas already a poet at ten, his poems were much better than those painfully put together by the other boys. During the seven yearsMiltonspent at university, he made regular use of his command of Latin. He wrote some excellent Latin poems, which he published among his works in 1645. Question: It can be inferred from the passage that _ . Options: A: Milton's classmates learned Latin harder but worse than Milton B: Milton hadn't learned any foreign language except Latin before going to college C: Milton's Italian friends helped him with Latin when talking D: Milton's training in Latin was similar to that of the other boys
A: D