Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Teeth are important.Strong,healthy teeth help you chew foods that help you grow.They help you speak clearly.And,they help you look your best.Here are some _ for you to take care of your teeth. 1.Brush your teeth in the right way. Brush your teeth at least twice a day--after breakfast and lunch or after sweet snacks,too. Brush all of your teeth,not just the front ones,Spend time brushing teeth along the sides and back of your mouth.Brush away from your gums,too. Spend at least three minutes each time you brush.Play a song you like to help pass the time.Get a new toothbrush every three months.When you buy your toothbrush,be sure it has soft bristles. 2.Learn how to floss your teeth. Flossing is a very important way to keep your teeth healthy.Food may hide in places where a toothbrush cannot get to,like the space between two teeth.Flossing can help get rid of it.Carefully move floss between two teeth.Up and down.You'll need to floss your teeth at least once a day. 3.Have good eating habits. You need to be careful about what you eat and drink. Eating sugar is a major of tooth decay.Eating sugar before you go to bed can make things even worse,eat lots of fruit and vegetables and drink water instead of soda. Question: Which of the following statements is NOT true according to this article? - We should brush our teeth at least twice a day. - Flossing can help to get rid of the food hidden between two teeth. - One of the major causes of tooth decay is eating sugar. - We don't have to brush our teeth if we eat a lot of fruit and vegetables.
We don't have to brush our teeth if we eat a lot of fruit and vegetables.

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: This year, a very sweet old lady that I cared for, Alice, had gone through a difficult time. She got _ and so she had been in the hospital twice. In November I was finally able to get her back to her "home". Alice had thought her daughter was coming to visit her on Christmas day and that they were going to have the whole family together like the old days. When she finally realized that that happy moment was not going to happen, she was very sad. Knowing that her daughter was coming after Christmas was not enough to make her feel happy, I hated the idea of her being alone on the holiday! On Christmas Eve, I gave her a surprise by asking if she would like to go to a candlelight service at church that night. Instead of taking her to my church, I took her to her old neighborhood church where all her friends were. We got there early and I got her a seat where her friends could see her as they came in. God and his angels had a hand in the plan and it worked out perfectly. Then soon some of her friends came to the church and they rushed over to greet her and sit with her. The candlelight service was beautiful and Alice got a lot of love from her old and new friends there. The truth of the story is that I am the one who got the best gift: the smile on Alice's face. The smile on Alice's face shows that I made a difference. Question: From the passage we can learn that Alice _ . - didn't like living in the nursing home - was thrown out by her daughter - returned to her home after leaving the hospital - expected to spend Christmas with her daughter
expected to spend Christmas with her daughter

Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Music notes fly through my ears. Soft sounds float in the air, as if they are floating on water. Music is like a paintbrush, painting sounds in the sky. A warm sun shining bright, clouds drifting far away in the night, to the sounds of music. Music is nature's friend, as one paints our earth, and the other fills our hearts. Question: The writer associates music with the following EXCEPT _ . - sounds floating on water - a paintbrush painting sounds in the sky - one friend of nature - a person who plays music
A: a person who plays music

Question: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Complete silence is found only in laboratories called anechoic rooms. The walls and ceilings, made of blocks of special sound-sucking materials, are more than three feet thick, while floor coverings are six-foot layers of feathers or cotton wool. Silence here can be as painful to the ears as the din(continuous loud noise) of a steelworks or a rocket blast-off, yet scientists get used to this and stay in these silent rooms for hours at a time, using microphones and electronic equipment to test the various materials being developed to make the world a less noisy place. Architects have used scientific discoveries to solve noise problem in a number of ways. Walls are hollowed (having empty space inside) and then filled with sound-sucking materials similar to cotton wool. Extra-thick carpets cover the floors, and thick woolen curtains cover the windows. Air conditioning and heating channels are made less noisy by having the air passing through hundreds of tiny holes in baffles made of sheets of soundsucking materials. Unfortunately, these techniques and others often work too well in some buildings. Noise-proof rooms become almost anechoic and people living in them are disturbed by the lack of sound. One way of handling this problem is to use what they call "sound perfume"--artificial (similarly produced, made by man) noise is piped to rooms through small loudspeakers. Question: People suffer in anechoic rooms probably because _ . - they are allowed to move and speak - the greater air pressure hurts their ears - there is a lack of air in anechoic rooms - they are used to hearing noise around them
Answer: they are used to hearing noise around them

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: One period of our lives when better results are demanded of us is, strangely enough, childhood. Despite being young we are expected to achieve good grades, stay out of trouble, make friends at school, do well on tests, perform chores at home and so on. It's not easy. Likeable children enjoy many advantages, including the ability to deal more easily with stresses of growing up.In her bookUnderstanding Child Stress, Dr. Carolyn Leonard states that children who are likeable and optimistic are able to gain support from others. This leads to focus and resilience , the ability to recover from or adjust early to life stress. Much research shows that resilience has enabled children to succeed in school, avoid drug abuse, and develop a healthy self-awareness . Why does a likeable child more easily handle stress and do better in his or her life? Because likeability helps create what's known as a positive feedback loop . The positive feelings you want to see in other people are returned to you, creating constant encouragement and motivation to deal with the daily stress of life. This feedback loop continues into adulthood. To return once again to the example of teaching, learning becomes easier with a likeable personality. Michael Delucchi of the University of Hawaii reviewed dozens of studies to determine if likeable teachers received good ratings because of their likeability or because they in fact taught well. Delucchi found that "Students who perceive a teacher as likeable, in contrast to those who do not, may be more attentive to the information that the teacher delivers and they'll work harder on assignments, and they will learn more." You may have noticed this pattern in your own life when you try to give some advice. The more positive your relationship with that person, the more he or she seems to listen, and the more you feel certain that that person has heard you and intends to act on your words. Question: The main purpose of the studies done by Michael Delucchi is to find _ . - how a likeable teacher's teaching style is formed - how a teacher's likeability gains popularity - if a likeable teacher draws more attention - if a likeable teacher has a positive personality
if a likeable teacher draws more attention