Read the article and select the best answer. Article: I grew up in one of the poorest areas in Bradford. I live in a three-bedroom house with six brothers and sisters. I studied very hard . I got the best results in the history of the school. Other students would be happy with receiving such results. Their parents would give them an MP5 player as a prize or take them for a trip. What about me? In fact it made me sad. It was because my application to Imperial College London didn't pass. It is my dream to study medicine there. I know that nothing in life is easy. I won't give up. I will apply again the following year. While some students are traveling during the holiday, I am working hard. I help the doctors look after sick people in a hospital . I believe I must become a doctor one day. Question: How many brothers and sisters does the writer have? Options: A: Three. B: Four. C: Five. D: Six.
D

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: How much pocket money do you get from your parents every month--200 yuan? Some may need more to buy birthday presents, ice cream or cartoon books.But for Li Hong,30 yuan each month is enough. The only thing she buys is lunch--1.5yuan each day."My favorite is noodles and rice." Said Li."But meat is too expensive for me."Li,14,is a student of Grade Eight. Her parents are migrant workers .They first came to Chongqing from a village in Henan two years ago.Her father now works as a cleaner and gets 500 yuan every month. Her mother has no job.Every day,Li gets up at 5:30 am and walks 50 minutes to get to school. She studies hard ,and even reads books during breaks! Her favorite subject is computer."I'm learning typing now. I hope to be the fastest in my class,"said Li. Like many teens, Li has lots of homework--- usually at last one hour every day. But that is not all he work. During the week she helps her mum cook. On weekends, she helps wash clothes. "I could cook when I was eight. Father said sometimes I cooked better than mum." Li said she wanted to be a doctor when she grew up. "I wacth TV and find out There are many people with AIDS in Henan. Some are kids.I really want to help them."Said Li. But she is afraid of having to leave school.Li didn't go to school at the age of 12 one year because her family had no money to send her.This year, the school didn't ask her to pay the 600 yuan fees because her family is too poor."I hope I will always be in school,"said Li."Dad works hard to get money.I have promised him I will study hard to be a good student and a good doctor in the future." Question: What happened to her when she was 12? Options: A: She was ill seriously. B: She was lost in Chongqing. C: She went back to her hometown. D: She didn't go to school.
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D

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: In one way, it may be thought that failure is a part of life. In another, failure may be regarded as a step towards success. The "spider story" is often told as an example of this. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, was hiding in a hole on a hill from the English. He watched a spider making a web . Bruce is said to have got confidence from this and to have gone on to beat the English. Edison, too, the inventor of the light bulb , made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one. So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were you in high spirit then? What can you change so that things will go right the next time? Second, is the goal you are trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking about what your real goal may be. Think about this question: If I am successful in this, where will it get me?" This may help to prevent failure in the things you shouldn't be doing anyway. The third thing to remember about failure is that it's a part of life. Learn to "live with yourself!" even though you may have failed. Remember, "You can't live with them all." Question: Robert Bruce was mentioned in the passage to show that _ . Options: A: people who failed are not lonely B: animals can help people sometimes C: nature will help if we are hard--working D: confidence is important for one to be successful
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: When I was young, I liked to play jokes on people I knew, especially on my parents and friends. One day my mother was cooking in the kitchen and my younger brother was playing near the window. I ran to my mother and said,| " My brother has fallen from the open window!" She was very worried about my brother and then I said, "Don't worry. I'm just joking. " And my mother shouted at me, " If you do it again, I'll punish you. " One day I went swimming with my friends in the sea. I wanted to play a joke on my friends. In the beginning, I went swimming alone, and I called to my friends, " Help me!" All my friends came to help me, only to find out that I was joking. But the next time I wasn't joking. I swam in deep water and I was so careless that I was almost drowned . I tried my best to call my friends for help, but this time nobody came to saved my life. They took me to _ . From then on, I haven't joked on anyone. I think this is the best lesson in my life. Question: When the writer shouted "Help me!" for the first time, his friends _ . Options: A: didn't care about him B: stopped to look at him C: didn't hear the words D: came to help him
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D

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Many Chinese people who have been to the United States think that Americans pay a little part of their money for food each day. Yet, in the latest 13 years, food prices have gone up 30% for most American families. Everyone agrees that _ . But who is really responsible ? Many people say the farmers who produce the vegetables, fruit, meat, and eggs are responsible. But farmers say that the rise in food prices is very small compared to (...) the rise in their cost of living. Farmers think middlemen have got much more money than they do. Middlemen are those people who stand between the farmers and the people who buy and eat the food. For example, truck drivers, owners of food stores and so on. Are middlemen really responsible for higher food prices? Economists don't think so. They have found that the money that meat packers and food stores get is less than 1% in all. They say that food costs more now because modern housewives have jobs outside the home. They have less time for cooking after a day's work. They like to buy food which has already been prepared before it reaches the market. They want to buy many kinds of food that can be put on their dining tables easily and quickly. But of course they must be prepared to pay for the services of those who make their work easier. It seems that the answer to the question of rising prices is not an easy one. Quite a number of people share the responsibility for the sharp rise in food costs. Question: What's the writer's opinion ? Options: A: He agrees with the economists. B: He doesn't think farmers are responsible. C: He thinks the middlemen might get a lot of profit. D: He thinks all those people should be responsible.
D