Read the article and select the best answer. Article: How often do you use your car? Can you use your car less often? Do you know the following facts in the UK? * About 50% of all car journeys are just for fun. * Over 80% people go to work by car. * 25% car journeys are under two miles. * 70% car journeys are under five miles. WALKING & CYCLING Instead of using the car for short journeys, why not walk or ride a bicycle? Walking is a most popular form of exercise--it's healthy and it can save you money. If you work nearby, try walking or cycling instead of driving. BUSES Bus companies are using new buses: some run on new fuels which produce less pollution; some have easier access for disabled and old people. There are special traffic lanes to make bus journeys easier and more reliable. So do something to help solve the pollution problem--let the bus take you to work and your children to school. TRAINS All car journeys, long or short, can be hard work. For some trips it is wiser to take the train. Leave your car at home and walk, cycle or take a bus to and from the station. Train travel is fast, safe and comfortable. Train tickets are not always expensive; some are quite cheap at discount. Question: What is the main purpose of this passage? Options: A: To teach people how to use the buses. B: To encourage people to travel by train. C: To advise people to use cars less often. D: To tell people to obey traffic rules.
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: The Saturday Evening Post 2015 Great American Fiction Contest is underway! In its nearly three centuries of existence, The Saturday Evening Post , a bimonthly magazine, has published short fiction by a who's who of American authors including F.Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Anne Tyler, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.Ray Bradbury, Louis L'Amour, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, and Edgar Allan Poe. You have the opportunity to join our excellent line - up by entering The Saturday Evening Post's Third Annual Create American Fiction Contest. The winning story will be published in the Jan/Feb 2015 edition of The Saturday Evening Post, and the author will receive a $ 500 payment.Five runners - up will each receive a $ 100 cash payment and will also have their stories published online. Submission Guidelines * Stories must be between l,500 and 5,000 words in length. * All stories must be submitted by the author, and previously unpublished(not including personal websites and blogs). * No extreme profanity or graphic sex scenes. * All stories must be submitted online in Microsoft Word format with the author's name, address, telephone number, and email address on the first page. *Entries should be character or plot - driven pieces in any genre of fiction. *Think local.The Post has historically played a role in defining what it means to be an American.Your story should in some way touch upon the publication' s mission: Celebrating; America, past, present, and future. * There is a $ 10 entry fee, which helps cover a portion of the cost of operating the contest. * All entries must be received electronically by July l, 2014. Click here to view the winners of the 2014 Great American Fiction Contest Click here to view the winners of the 2013 Great American Fiction Contest Question: According to the requirements, the entries Options: A: must reflect American society B: should be sent by post or email C: should have at least 5,000 words D: mustn't have ever appeared on blog
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Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Family traditions were important in our house, and one was more appreciated than our annual trip to the woods for the perfect Christmas tree. "Dad, can we watch when you trim it?" my eldest son ,John ,asked on the way home. "I won't be cutting this year," my husband said." You and your brother Dan are old enough to measure things, fit the tree to the stand and do it by yourselves. Think you boys can handle it?" They seemed to _ in their chairs at the thought of such an amazing responsibility. "We can handle it," Dan promised. We won't let you down." A few days before Christmas, Dan and John rushed in after school. They gathered the tools they'd need and brought them out of yard, where the tree waited. I left the older boys to their work and brought David inside for his early supper. A moment later I heard the happy sounds as the boys carried the trees into the living room. Then I heard the sound become dead silence. I hurried out to them. The tree was too short. John crossed his arm tight across his chest. His eyes were filled with angry tears. The tree was central to our holiday, but it was not what I worried about. I didn't want the boys to feel ashamed every time they looked at it. We had a terrible problem on our hands. I couldn't lower the ceiling, and I couldn't raise the floor either. There was no way to repair the damage. If I couldn't fix the problem, maybe I could get creative with it. A thought came to my mind, which turned to the solution. I followed them back into the living room.. "We can't make the tree taller," I said. "But we can put it on a higher position." Dan turned his head sideways, measuring the distance with his eyes . "We can put it on the coffee table and put the lights and decorations on before we lift it up . Thus, we won't need a ladder. It just might work! Let's try it!" When my husband got home and looked at the big tree on top of the coffee table, Dan and John held their breath. "What a good idea!" he declared, as if the boys had gone beyond all his expectations. "Why didn't... Question: Who trimmed the Christmas trees this year? Options: A: David B: The writer C: The children D: The writer's husband
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Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Four American college students learned last week that free music downloads can carry a hidden price tag --- US $ 12,000 to $ 17,500, to be exact. Major record companies accused the students of fueling music piracy by running file-sharing networks on campus allowing hundreds of songs to be downloaded for free. Last Thursday, the four promised not to violate the companies' copyrights. Although they did not admit any wrongdoing, they each agreed to pay thousands of dollars to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). "I don't believe that I did anything wrong," said Daniel Peng at prefix = st1 /PrincetonUniversity, one of the four. "I hope that for the sake of artists, the larger issues can soon be resolved." None appears to have made any money off the file-sharing systems they operated, which were confined to their campus's computer networks. The payments mark the first time record companies have recovered money from individuals in the USaccused of piracy on file-sharing networks. This may be a sign of things to come, as the industry starts taking its battle against online piracy directly to users. Many record-company executives blame the long slump in CD sales on file-sharing networks, which let users copy songs from each other's computers for free. Matt Oppenheim, senior vice president of business and legal affairs for the RIAA, said the settlements, although well below what the companies could have asked for, were "the right amount" given the situation. He also noted that since the four lawsuits were filed, at least 18 campus file-sharing networks have been taken down by their operators. Question: What's the main idea of the whole passage? Options: A: The students should be responsible for their behavior. B: It's too late for record companies to protect their rights. C: Record companies have taken action to protect their copyrights by accusing individuals of piracy on file-sharing networks. D: Some record companies wanted to earn money by accusing people of pirating music.
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