Xiao Shenyang will present a comedy in mid-May. You'll enjoy Errenzhuan ,a local folk dance from Northeast China. Time: 8 p. m. May 10 Tickets: 280-800 Yuan Venue:Shenzhen Sports Center Booking: 11185 Rubina Ali,the young actress who played Lakita in "Slumdog Millionaire" ,is performing in a musical named "Sleeping Beauty". Time: 7:30 p. m. June 1 Tickets: 280 Yuan Venue:Shenzhen Poly Theater Booking: 86371698 LiuQian, a well-known magician from Taiwan, is performing wonderful magic, tricks. Time:3 p. m. June 20 Tickets:500 Yuan (5% off if you buy on-line) Venue:Shenzhen Children's Palace Booking:89812344 Britain's singing sensation Susan Boyle is coming! You may enjoy her angelic voice in her concert. Time:8 p. m. July 25 Tickets:380-700 Yuan Venue:Shenzhen Grand Theater Booking:82337625 How much can you save if you buy two tickets to Liu Qian's magic show online? " A) 950 Yuan B) 10 Yuan C) 25 Yuan D) 50 Yuan
D
Bean and other seed shoots are also known as sprouts . The dry bean seeds contain a store of nutrients just waiting to be released when they sprout. Under the right conditions they will germinate . As they grow, the food value of the seeds is multiplied into vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. This happens almost overnight! It is easy to grow your own sprouts, but you need to buy your seeds from supermarkets or health food stores. Seeds for planting in the garden are often powdered with chemicals, so when becoming sprouts they are not safe to eat. Try growing sprouts from a variety of beans and seeds. You will find different sprouts at different stages. Bean sprouts are best when they are about three centimeters long. Wheat and sunflower sprouts taste best when the sprouts and the seeds are of the same length. If the sunflower sprout is too long it leaves a funny stinging feeling in the throat after eating. Alfalfa sprouts are best when their small leaves are well developed. Pea and soybean sprouts are good long or short. If you leave your sprouts in filtered sunlight for a few hours, the leaves will turn green as chlorophyll is added. Eating sprouts with green leaves benefits your blood, cells, and the digestive system. Which of the following sprouts taste good whether they are long or short? A) Soybean sprouts B) Sunflower sprouts C) Alfalfa sprouts D) Wheat sprouts
A
Q: Ray's wedding had gone off smoothly. Everyone seemed to have had a good time. A few people had too good a time; they went home with designated drivers. All evening, the gift table remained unguarded. Who would steal anything, Ray thought. He had never heard of such a thing happening at a wedding. But his best friend Aaron said there was a first time for everything. He walked out regularly from the inside festivities to check on the gift table, making sure no one doubtful was hanging around it. Ray and Julia went on a 3-week honeymoon to Italy right after the wedding. When they got back, they opened all the gifts and sent out thank-you notes. But there was one problem. A married couple that used to be good friends had obviously given nothing. This surprised Julia, because Walt and Mary said they were excited to be invited. And, they actually seemed to have had a great time at the wedding. Frankly, Ray didn't even care if they hadn't given a gift. He just needed to know whether to send a thank-you note. Ray called Aaron. Aaron said maybe Walt had left an envelope on the gift table like Aaron had. "Yes, but we got your envelope with the cash inside," Ray said. "Maybe my envelope looked too thin, and some thief thought Walt's envelope looked nice and fat." Aaron asked Ray if he had looked everywhere for Walt's gift. Had he called up the wedding site to see if anything had been left behind? Ray said that he had looked everywhere and made a lot of calls that were fruitless. Ray didn't know what to do. If he sent Walt and Mary a thank-you note for a gift they hadn't given, they would be _ . If he didn't send them a thank-you note for a gift they had given, they would get angry. "What would you do?" Ray asked. Aaron said he would call Walt up and tell him the problem. "You can't go wrong with simply being honest," Aaron said. "Oh, yes, you can," Ray contradicted him. "Sometimes it's best to let sleeping dogs lie." But he thought about it, and finally decided that Aaron was right. He called Walt and told him the... Which of the following is true according to the passage? A) Aaron looked on honesty as the best policy. B) Walt had surely gotten a fat raise early that year. C) Stealing had never happened at a wedding. D) Nobody checked on the gift table all evening.
A: A
Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg,distance of about eighty miles. It was late. Several times I got stuck behind a slow-moving truck on a narrow road with a solid white line on my left, and I became increasingly impatient. At one point along an open road, I came to a crossing with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but as I drove near the light, it turned red and I made a stop. I looked left, right and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of car lamps, but there I sat, waiting for the light to change, the only human being for at least a mile in any direction. I started wondering why I refused to run the light I was not afraid of being caught, because there was clearly no policeman around, and there certainly would have been no danger in going through it. Much later that night, the question of why I'd stopped for that light came back to me. I think I stopped because it's part of a contract we all have with each other. It's not only the law, but it is an agreement we have, and we trust each other to honor it: we don't go through red lights. Trust is our first inclination .Doubting others does not seem to be natural to us. The whole construction of our society depends on mutual trust, not distrust. We do what we say we'll do; we show up when we say we'll show up; and we pay when we say we'll pay. We trust each other in these matters, and we're angry or disappointed with the person or organization that breaks the trust we have in them. I was so proud of myself for stopping for the red light that night. Why did the author get impatient while driving? A) He was lonely on the road. B) He was slowed down by a truck. C) He got tired of driving too long. D) He came across too many traffic lights.
B