Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Large population has caused many problems. For example, the traffic is very heavy in some big cities. During the last ten years, big cities like Beijing and Harbin were full of cars and buses. Now the streets are completely crowded and it's very difficult to drive a car along them. Drivers must stop at hundreds of traffic lights. What are our cities going to be like in the future? How can we solve the problem? There are some good ideas to reduce the use of private cars. In 1971, the officer in Rome began an interesting experiment: Passengers on the city buses didn't pay for their tickets. In Stockholm there was another experiment: People paid very little for a season ticket to travel on any bus, trolley bus and train all over the city. In many cities now some streets are closed to vehicles and _ are safe there. In London there is another experiment: Part of the streets is for buses only. So the buses can travel fast. There are no cars or taxis in front of them. , . Question: In many cities, pedestrians are much safer because _ . - no traffic is allowed in some streets - traffic is computer-controlled - cars move very slowly - only one-way streets are open to traffic
no traffic is allowed in some streets

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Two strangers were sitting together in a plane . They were on a long journey . One of the men was a teacher . The other was a farmer . They sat without talking for a while , then the farmer said , " Let's do something to pass the time ." " What do you want to do ?" the teacher asked . " We can ask each other riddles ( )," the farmer said, " You start." " Let's make the rules first ," the teacher said . " And to make the game more interesting , let's play it for money . If we don't know the answer to the riddle , we have to pay a dollar ." The farmer thought about this for a while , then he said , " That's not fair( . You are a teacher , an educated ( ) man . You know more things than I do . I am just a farmer ." " That's true ," the teacher said , " What do you think we should do ?" The farmer said , " If you don't know the answer to a riddle ,you pay me 100 dollars .If I don't know the answer to the riddle , I'll pay you 50 dollars." The teacher thought for a while , then he said , " OK. That's fair . Who'll go first ?" "I will ," the farmer said . " Here's my riddle . What has three legs when it walks , but only two legs when it flies ?" The teacher thought and thought , " What has three legs when it walks, but only two when it flies ?" Then he said , " That's a good one . I don't know the answer ." He gave the farmer 100 dollars and said , " Tell me the answer . What is it ?" " I don't know , either ." The farmer said , and gave him 50 dollars . Question: The teacher thought at first that the farmer _ . - would fail the game - knew more then he. - could answer any riddles . - would win the game .
would fail the game

Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A group of old classmates, who have succeeded in their work, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned to complaining about the stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and many cups-china , plastic and glass, some plain looking, some expensive and some lovely. The professor told them to help themselves to the coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, "Can you notice all the nice looking expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones? While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress." "What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups." "Now think about this: life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and do not change the quality of life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cups, we fail to enjoy the coffee. So don't let the cups drive you, enjoy the coffee instead." Question: What is the best title of this passage? - Life Is the Coffee - An Old University Professor - Stress in Your Life - Coffee and Coffee Cups
A: Life Is the Coffee

Question: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Several years ago Robert knew a girl at a party. He loved her at once. But he hadn't enough money to marry her. He went to another village and wanted to borrow five thousand dollars from Peter, one of his classmates. He said he was going to return the money in two years. Peter Black believed him and lent the money to him. And Robert thanked the young man very much. In the past four years Robert married the girl and she had a baby. They lived a happy life, but he didn't give the money back to Peter. One day Peter's mother was ill and needed an operation. He looked for Robert for a few times, but he never met him. One day Peter heard that the young man was in. He hurried there. He knocked at the door for a long time and Robert's wife came out to meet him. "I'm sorry, Mr. Black." said the woman. "My husband has just gone out." Peter thought for a while and said, "Yes, I met him on my way here. He told me that he had left all his money at home and let you return it to me." "Don't believe him, dear!" Robert came out in a hurry and called out. "I've never told him about it!" Question: Robert came out in a hurry because _ . - he was afraid Peter would beat his wife - he was afraid Peter would take his wife to the police - he decided to give the money back to Peter - he was afraid his wife would give the money to Peter
Answer: he was afraid his wife would give the money to Peter

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A man fell out of his plane and fell back into it again. Two people rowed a small boat from New York to England in 56 days. One person was so big that he wouldn't fit in any hospital room. Would you believe these stories? Well, they may sound strange, but they did happen. James Cornell has more strange but true stories like these in a book called Very Strange People. Here is part of the contents of Very Strange People. The contents lists the names of the chapters or parts of the book. It also tells on what page each chapter begins. Chapter Page One A Dog's Life ..........................................3 Two A Lucky Pilot ................... ..............14 Three High Wire Act .................... .............33 Four Fat Men ............................................... 41 Five Over the Falls .........................................43 Six A House without an end ................... .............53 Seven Row, Row, Row Your Boat ................. ..............60 Eight The Tower Builder ....................... ..............85 Question: In 1918, Captain Hedley fell off his plane in the sky, but soon he fell back into it again! You may read about this story in Chapter _ . - 2 - 3 - 4 - 6
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2