Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: I have many teachers now and I love them all, but I think I love my English teacher, Sophia, best. Sophia is from the UK. But she loves Chongqing very much. She thinks Chongqing is great. She loves Chongqing food. Do you know what she likes for breakfast? Bread and milk? No, she doesn't. She only has noodles . Hot pot is her favorite and she always eats it on Saturday and Sunday. Sophia has a daughter and a son. Her daughter's name is May. Her son's name is Jack. They are 8 years old. They go to the same school. They like hot pot, too. They are all in Chongqing now. We have English from Monday to Friday. So Sophia is very busy. But she is always nice and happy. All my classmates like her and her classes very much. She often plays English games and sings English songs with us. When we have questions, we like to ask her for help. Now I think I can do well in English because I have the best English teacher, Sophia. Question: _ like(s) hot pot very much. Options: A: May B: Jack C: Sophia D: May, Jack and Sophia
Ans: D

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Nora, a 17-year-old American, notices that when she has to do a paper for school and researches it on the Internet, she rarely reads a whole page and does deep reading. "I'll read the beginning of a paragraph and then I'll skip the rest," she says. While Nora's mother, Martha, loves sitting down with a good book and reading carefully, her daughter may be the wave of the future. "Deep reading", or slow reading, is a process in which people think carefully while they read. With most, that means slowing down --- even stopping and rereading a page or paragraph to really understand what the author is trying to say. Last summer, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he was concerned about what he sees as a decline in slow reading. Instant messages and 140-character tweets appear to be reducing out ability to concentrate on a single idea or theme of a book, he told Foreign Policy Magazine. It's easy to forget the benefits of deep reading in an age when anything worth doing is done fast. Experts warn that without deep reading, it is impossible to be an educated person of the world, a knowledgeable voter or even an imaginative thinker. "If you want to have a deep relationship with a text and understand a complex idea, then slow reading is a preferred style. It is good for pleasure, too. It is not a rushed experience and you can lose yourself in a text," said Canadian writer John Miedema, the author of the book Slow Reading. US' Ohlone College English professor Cynthia Lee Katona says reading is a highly social activity that builds the mind and social connections. If you read, she says, you simply know more and have more to talk about with friends, partners and people you know. Deep reading can also take a reader on a trip around the world even if they are sitting in a living room armchair, Katona says. Also, deep reading helps people develop thinking, writing and conversation skills. "If you like beautiful things, authors put words together that are really beautiful and expressive," she says. "If you want to write well--- and... Question: What is the main point of the article? Options: A: The importance of deep reading. B: How to improve reading skills. C: The benefits of different reading styles. D: The secrets of a knowledgeable person
Ans: A

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: How much sleep do we need? We are all different. Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Americans sleep an average of seven to eight hours a night. After the age of fifty the average sleep time goes down to 6.5 hours a night. Most people have a bad night when they can not sleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people can not fall sleep. This problem is called insomnia. This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people had special ideas to another to make them sleep. Benjaming Franklin, the famous stateman and inventor ,had four beds. He moved from one to another to fall asleep. King Lousis XIV of France had 13 beds and hoped that he could fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous American writer, had a different way. He lay on his side on the end of the bed! Question: Mark Twain lay on his side on the end of the bed because he _ . Options: A: was an old man B: thought it was easy to go sleep C: was a famous writer D: didn't have much room to sleep in
Ans: B

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: The students are talking about their weekend plans. Mavish: What are you going to do at the weekend, Amy? Amy: I'm going to do my homework on Sunday. I've got a lot of homework. I didn't do in the week. Mavish: Then we could all do something on Saturday? Tom: I'm going swimming in the morning. But I'm not doing anything in the afternoon or evening. Milly: I'm not doing anything then, either. Lu: Raj and I are going to the news film in the afternoon. Let's all go out in the evening. Let's go to the club with a snooker table. I like playing snooker. I'm getting better at it. Milly: Good idea. What about you, Ben? Can you come? Ben: Yes, I can. That's a great idea. I like snooker too. Amy: I don't like snooker that much, but I'm not going to stay home if you are all going out! I'm going to come too. Mavish: OK, so we will meet in the town center and go to the club. What time does the film finish, Raj? Raj: The film finishes at about five. We are going to have a burger and a drink after the film. Let's all meet and eat and then go to the club. Ben: Good idea. Let's meet at about five and eat. Milly, Tom, Mavish and Amy: OK. Question: Who is going to the new film? Options: A: Raj and Lu. B: Raj , Amy and Lu. C: Ben and Tom. D: Mavish, Ben and Tom.
Ans:
A