Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Mum gives little Tom ten yuan. Then little Tom goes shopping. He gets on the bus and sits down next to an old woman. Then he sees the old woman's bag is open. There is ten yuan in it. He quickly looks into his pocket. The money isn't there now! Little Tom is sure that the old woman is a thief . He decides to take back the money from the old woman's bag. So he carefully puts his hand into the old woman's bag,takes the money and says nothing. Suddenly the old woman shouts,"Where is my money? I can't find it. There is a thief in the bus." Little Tom feels strange . Then he sees his own ten yuan under his seat. Little Tom is thinking a question now,"Am I a thief ?" Question: Little Tom sees _ in the old woman's bag. Answer:

OPTIONS:
- a wallet
- a packet
- ten yuan
- ten dollars

Answer: ten yuan

Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Presents For Children's Day Charles M. Schulz was born in 1922 in Minneapolis, the only child of a housewife and a barber. His interest in comics was encouraged by his father, who loved the funny pages. Charles M. Schulz sold seventeen cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post from 1948 to 1950 and Li'l Folks to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Peanuts debuted on October 2, 1950, and ran without interruption for the next fifty years. Charles M. Schulz died in 2000. *IT'S A DOG'S LIFE SNOOPY It's a Dog's Life, Snoopy brings all your familiar friends together for great times and fun. *IT'S A BIG WORLD CHARLIE BROWN Charlie Brown faces some of life's little challenges with the help of Snoopy, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Linus, and the rest of the gang in It's a Big World, Charlie Brown. *PEANUTS 2000 The last one is the special edition Peanuts 2000, which includes all the last year's Peanuts comic strip and Charles M. Schulz's famous farewell strip. Come and visit our website at www.ballantinebooks.com or come to Ballantine Bookshop, you'll have a big surprise. Question: Why did young Charles become interested in comics? Answer:

OPTIONS:
- He wanted to sell cartoons
- His mother encouraged him.
- Cartoons brought him great times and fun
- His father's love for the funny pages influenced him.

Answer: His father's love for the funny pages influenced him.

Read the following article and answer the question. Article: U.S. billionaire Bill Gates went to watch a game of his friend, U.S. teen player Ariel Hsing, at the ExCel Centre while the girl was playing against Chinese Li Xiaoxia. Gates wore an orange jacket and dark blue baseball cap. He sat in the front row of thespectators' stand andapplauded for every point Hsing scored. "I'm wishing her the best of luck, but the opposite player is really great," Gates said. Hsing was in her third match at London 2012. She had already beaten Mexico's Yadira Silva and Luxembourg's Ni Xia Lian. Hsing is known in the U.S. as a close friend with billionaires Warren Buffett and Gates. She is close enough to call them "Uncle Warren" and "Uncle Bill". Buffett met Hsing when she was only 9. Two years later, he invited her to play against his friends. She has returned several times after that. Earlier this year after winning a position on the U.S. team, she took a few points off Buffett and Gates. When asked whether he has won a point off Hsing, Gates said, "She beat me when she was nine. She has been nice to me." Question: What's the best title for the passage? Answer:

OPTIONS:
- Bill Gates cheered for Li Xiaoxia in London
- How Ariel Hsing made friends with Buffett and Gates
- An excellent teen player -- Ariel Hsing
- An interesting visit in London

Answer: An excellent teen player -- Ariel Hsing

Read the following article and answer the question. Article: A men went into a shop to buy a parrot.There were three parrots in the shop.One was $1000; another one, $2000; and the third one, $3000. The man asked the owner, "Is this brid really $1000?That's so expensive for this kind of parrot."The owner said, "Because I have trained him and he can talk." Then the man asked him, "How about this one?What can he do that makes him so expensive?" The owner said, "Well, he can not only talk but also do some amusing actions,like dancing and so on.That"s why he's so expensive?" Then the man asked, "How about the third one? What can he do that makes him so expensive" The owner of the shop said, "I don't know.Usually,I have never heard him talk, nor dance, nor say, nor sing, nothing at all! But the other two call him The Boss . Question: What kind of the shop did the man go into? Answer:

OPTIONS:
- A food shop.
- A flower shop.
- A pet shop.
- A goldfish shop.

Answer:
A pet shop.