Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Volunteers are people who do a job for the satisfaction of helping others. Volunteers do many different types of jobs.Some volunteers read books onto tapes so that people with poor eyesight can listen. Some volunteers deliver meals to elderly or sick people. Some volunteers help tourists who visit a city during a major event like the Olympic Games or the Commonwealth Games. Volunteers help whenever a community is hit by a natural disaster . Volunteers assist(,)in putting out bush fires.They might also help to evacuate people from areas that have been flooded or hit by an earthquake or tsunami . A community may not recover without the help of volunteers. Some communities require volunteers more than others. Communities that don't have much money require a great deal of help from volunteers. Communities with a large number of elderly people might require more help from volunteers than communities with more young people.Without volunteers, some communities couldn't operate. Question: Why do some communities require volunteers more than others? Because _ . Options: A: they have more money B: they have more elderly people C: they have more young people D: they have more children.
B

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Today is November 8th. It's Gina's birthday. She is twelve. Jim, Kate and Bill are her friends. They want to buy some presents for Gina. They go to the store near the school. There are lots of things in the store. They buy a big cake , two boxes of color pencils, a pencil case and some nice books. They want to buy two dolls for Gina, but the dolls are too dear . Question: They buy _ for Gina. Options: A: a big cake B: two boxes of color pencils C: a pencil case and some nice books D: A, B and C
D

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Fishing is a popular activity and every fisherman knows the rule: Keep the big ones, throw the smaller ones back. The idea behind Lt is simple - the larger fish are probably older. If you keep the smaller ones, they won't be able to reproduce, and the fish population is in danger. But fishing out the largest fish from a population has an unwanted effect: Over time, fewer adult fish get really big. If only the smaller fish reproduce , then future generations become smaller. This is an example of evolution in action. One scientist, Dr David Conover has spent the last decade studying the effects of the "keep the big ones" rule and if they can be reversed . To set up his experiment, Conover and his team caught hundreds of silverside fish and divided them into six groups. For two groups, Conover followed the "keep the large ones" rule and took out the biggest fish. For two other groups, he removed only the small fish. For the last two groups, he removed fish at random . After five years, he measured the fish in each group. In the two groups where the largest fish were regularly removed, the average fish size was smaller than the average size in the other groups. Here was evolution in action: If only small fish survive to reproduce, then future generations of fish will also tend to be small. For the second five years of his experiment, Conover changed the rules and took fish randomly from each group. At the end of the experiment, he found that the fish that were in the "keep the large ones" group for the first five years had started to get larger again, although he calculated it would take at least 12 years for the fish in that group to return to their original size. In other words, it takes less time to shrink than it does to recover. Question: What is the author's intention in writing this article? Options: A: To encourage people to fish more carefully. B: To urge governments to change the rules of fishing. C: To describe the results of a scientific experiment. D: To introduce the rules of fishing to readers.
A: C

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: To Jim, Hi, Jim. I'm a Chinese girl .My English name is Betty. I'm a student. I live in Nanjing with my parents. Nanjing is a big city in China. I like playing table tennis and running. I like listening to music, too . My favourite food is rice and fish. My dad is a doctor and my mum is a worker. To Betty, Hi, Betty. I'm a boy. My name is Jim Hand. I'm a student, too. I live in London with my parents and my sister. London is big , too. It's in England. My sister likes reading books, but I like watching TV. She can type and write Chinese. I can draw and sing very well. My parents are both teachers. Question: Jim's mother is a _ . Options: A: worker B: doctor C: secretary D: teacher
Answer: D

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: One day a man found a cocoon of a butterfly in the forest.He sat there for several hours and watched the butterfly.Suddenly, a small opening appeared and the butterfly made its great effort to force its body through that little hole.Then it seemed to stop making any progress.It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no further.(, ). So the man decided to help the butterfly.He cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon so that the butterfly would come out easily.But to his surprise, the butterfly got a heavy body and very small wings when it came out of the cocoon. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that the body would grow smaller at any moment and the wings would become larger and be able to fly.But neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a heavy body and small wings.It was never able to fly. The man was in his kindness, but he didn't understand the nature rules.Before the butterfly came out of the cocoon, fluid from its body must be forced into its wings, and then would be ready for flying.It must have a hard struggle to get through the small opening to get its freedom from the cocoon. Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life.If God allowed us to go through our life without any difficulties, it would make us fail.We would not be as strong as we could have been, we could never fly. Question: The man cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon in order to _ . Options: A: take the butterfly home B: help the butterfly come out easily C: kill the butterfly D: stop the butterfly growing bigger
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B

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Uncle Lee is coming to have dinner with us. Mom and I go shopping. We don't have any meat. We need to buy some. It's ten yuan a kilo before. But now two kilos are sixty yuan. I say, "Mom, let's buy some fish." Mom answers, "OK." Fish is Uncle Lee's favorite food. We buy one kilo and a half. We also buy some vegetables and some chicken, but we don't buy any hamburgers. Uncle Lee doesn't like them at all. Mom also wants to buy some apples for me. You know, I like bananas, oranges and peaches, but I like apples best. But we can't find any. We go home at a quarter to five in the afternoon. Question: What time do they go home? Options: A: At 5:15. B: At 4:45. C: At 5:45. D: At 6:00.
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B