Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Bicycle Tour and Race A bike tour and race will be held on August 26 and 27 (Sat. & Sun. ) at 5:30 a.m. The riders will leave Tian'anmen Square and ride the first 35 kilometers as a training leg. Then the next 55 kilometers leg, from Yanjiao to Jixian, will be the first competitive part of the tour. The riders will be taken from Jixian to Changli. The second racing _ of the tour will be from Changli to the seaside of Nandaihe, covering about 20 kilometers. On Saturday night the riders will stay at Nandaihe for supper. Sunday morning is free for playing at the seaside. At noon all the people and their bikes will be taken back to Beijing. Cost: Y=200 Telephone: 010--60875678 Question: What places will you ride in the first part of the competition? Answer:

OPTIONS:
- From Beijing to Yanjiao.
- From Yanjiao to Jixian.
- From Tian anmen Square to Changli.
- From Tian'anmen Square to Nandaihe.

Answer: From Yanjiao to Jixian.

Read the following article and answer the question. Article: One windy spring day, I noticed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Colorful creations of different shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds flying and dancing. As the strong winds blew against the kites, a string kept them in control. Instead of blowing away with the wind, they rose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the restraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in control, facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled against the string, they seemed to say, "Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!" They rose beautifully even when they fought the _ of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose . "Free at last," it seemed to say. "Free to fly with the wind." Yet freedom simply put it in the control of an unkind wind. It fell down to the ground and landed in a mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. "Free at last", free to lie powerlessly in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to stop lifelessly against the first obstacle . How much like kites we sometimes are. The Heaven gives us adversity and rules, rules to follow from which we can grow and get strength. Some of us break away from the rules so hard that we never reach the heights we might get to. We keep part of the rules and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground. Let us each rise to the great heights, knowing that some of the rules that we may be angry about are in fact the strong force that helps us achieve. Question: In the writer's opinion, _ . Answer:

OPTIONS:
- without restrictions and rules we can make endless progress
- kites are good examples to those who want to get freedom
- restrictions are necessary for us human beings
- we don't need any freedom at all

Answer: kites are good examples to those who want to get freedom

Read the following article and answer the question. Article: My teachers suggested that I see a speech specialist in school. I never really gave much thought to my speech. If other people understood what I was saying, then that was good enough. I didn't mind repeating myself many times. Before testing me, the speech specialist asked me what I thought of having good speech. I told her I thought it was not important. "Well, when you are in an interview for a job, and they don't know what you are saying, what are they going to say to you? Nice meeting you, bye," she said. Maybe good speech was important. I took part in 20-minute classes each week with the specialist. After she tested me, she told me that I spoke too fast, and didn't give enough eye contact . I learned that when I made eye contact with someone, it meant that I was talking to that person, and I could also see what he or she thought about what I was saying. When my first speech class started, I found that I had been speaking too fast to be understood. Every time I spoke too fast, the specialist stopped me and told me to start again. At first, I got stopped after almost every other sentence. After a while, I felt my speech slow down. I wasn't sure if people could understand me better, but my friends stopped asking me to repeat myself. Speech is an important skill to have. If you do have good speech, that's a good thing, but if you don't have it, it is never too late to improve. Question: Through the passage, the writer wants to tell us that _ . Answer:

OPTIONS:
- seeing a speech specialist is necessary
- speech is an important skill to have
- good speech can help you make friends
- good speech gets good affect

Answer: speech is an important skill to have

Read the following article and answer the question. Article: It was a sunny Saturday afternoon. My friend Bobby Lewis was taking his two little boys to play golf. He walked up to the young man at the ticket counter and said,''How much is it to get in?" The young man answered,''$3.00 for you , $3.00 for any kid who is older than six. We let them in free if they are six or younger. How old are they?" Bobby said,''Sam's three and Henry's seven, so I think I should pay $6.00." The man at the ticket counter said, "Hey, you are too honest. You can save yourself three dollars if you tell me that _ is six. I don't know the differences." Bobby said, "Yes, that may be true, but the kids know the difference." When ethics are more important than ever before, make sure you set a good example for everyone you work and live with. Question: Which of the following is TRUE? Answer:

OPTIONS:
- Bobby Lewis wanted to save three dollars.
- Bobby Lewis should pay $3.00 for him and his sons to get in.
- The man at the ticket counter wanted Bobby Lewis to pay $9.00.
- We should set a good example for our children.

Answer:
We should set a good example for our children.