Read the article and select the best answer. Article: I have seven bags. Three bags are big, and the other four bags are small. I have some basketballs and volleyballs. I put two volleyballs in each small bag. And I put two basketballs and two volleyballs in each big bag. The number of the volleyballs is my age. Question: Where are the basketballs? Options: A: In the big bags. B: In the small bags. C: In a big bag. D: In a small bag.
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Dear Earthmen , I enjoy my stay on your interesting planet . I think I know the life on Earth now and I would like to tell you my ideas. First of all you live in boxes. Every morning you leave your boxes and get into smaller boxes on wheels . All these small boxes run around and around, and finally stop to rest. You leave these boxes on wheels and go to very large tall boxes. After resting all day, you get back in your little boxes. There you sit and look at very small _ boxes with moving pictures in them. There is only one thing I don't know. Some angry boys fought for a little round ball. Everyone shouted but they kept fighting. They were angry, because they had to stay in boxes all day, I think. Thank you for this chance to get to know you. Yours, The man from Mars Question: What's the main idea of the letter? Options: A: To say goodbye to the Earthmen B: To tell the Earthmen what the Earth is like. C: To tell the Earthmen he doesn't like the Earth. D: To tell the Earthmen he is leaving the Earth soon.
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B

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Chicago On a Budget How to have fun in Chicago without spending a lot of money? Sightseeing * The Art Institute of Chicago has a fine collection of photos and paintings. The ticket is $10.00,but go on Tuesdays and you'll get in free . * The Sears Tower is the world's third tallest building. By going to the 103rd floor, you can get a great view of the whole city! All for only $8.50. * There are free concerts in Grant Park in summer. They are held Wednesday through Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. * Attend the taping of a TV show for free. The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Jenny Jones Show both offer tourists free tickets. For The Oprah Winfrey Show you'll have to book tickets at least a month before. Places to stay You can get a hotel for $100 to $ 300 a day. However, you can get a room in the dormitory at Roosevelt University for $215 for a whole week! But you have to stay for 30 days to get this great rate . Question: You may go to _ if you like to get a great view of the whole city. Options: A: the Art Institute B: the Sears Tower C: Roosevelt University D: Grant Park
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Do you see many signs around you? Do you know the signs are an important part of our daily life? They can be in pictures or in words to give people information. What do people think are good signs? If you are thinking about making signs for others, what should you know? The most important thing is that signs should be simple and easy to understand. It is important to use clear language. On the other hand, the words should be easy to write and you just need to write down what you want to do. "Keep off the grass" is a very good example. It means "Don't touch or walk on the grass". Nowadays, there is a saying that "A picture paints a thousand words". Perhaps that's why we are seeing more and more signs in pictures, or a combination of pictures and words. However, that's the difficult part, because picture signs may have different meanings in different countries. Question: The writer uses "A picture paints a thousand words" to show that _ . Options: A: a word sign is as easy as a picture sign to make B: a picture sign often has more information than a word sign C: a word sign has more information than a picture sign D: a word sign and a picture sign have the same information
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Ques:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: "Reading makes a full man" (Bacon, 1597). Novels written by the writers like Jane Austen, Victor Hugo and Ernest Hemingway help us to know more about our history, culture and many other things. Jane Austen(.) was one of the most well-known women writers of the world. She was born in England in 1775. Jane loved reading and writing. She wrote a number of famous novels in her life. Among them, Pride and Prejudice<<>> written in 1779 was the most popular. Victor Hugo(.), born in 1802 in France, was one of the best writers in the19th century. The talent in writing and hard work brought great success to Hugo at an early age. His most popular novel, theHunchback of Notre-Dame<>, was written in 1831. The book was so successful that it was quickly translated into many other languages across Europe. Ernest Hemingway(.), an outstanding American writer and reporter, was born in 1899. His life experience had a great influence on his writing style. Hemingway lived in France and Italy between the 1920s and 1950s. Most of his books such as The Sun Also Rises were written at that time. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954 mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea. Question: Where was Victor Hugo from? Options: A: England. B: America. C: Italy. D: France.

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Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: It's so beautiful outside that spending the day in the office would be very boring. So why not take the vacations off? A new survey found that 31%of U.S workers don't always take all of their vacation days. Americans have 12 vacation days on average each year, but they give back an average of 3 vacation days each year. So why don't they use up their vacation days? Some say they would rather get money back for their unused days; some busy workers say they just can't leave their work. Americans have fewer vacation days than workers in any other country surveyed. The French take their vacations seriously. French workers get an average of 39 vacation days, and 40% plan to take at least one there-to-four-week vacation. Workers in Sweden receive an average of 25 vacation days a year, but they can't find time to use them all. More workers there return vacation days than any other country surveyed. British workers have the longest working week in Europe ,with 23 vacation days --the shortest vacation. So they feel overworked.75% say their weekends or vacations are too short and 40% would _ a day's pay for one more vacation day. Question: Which of the following is true? Options: A: Some American workers are too busy to leave their work. B: French workers can take one Three-to-four week days. C: Swedish workers can enjoy all of their vacation days. D: British workers have the shortest vacation days of all the countries surveyed.
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B