Read the article and select the best answer. Article: How much sleep do we need? We are all different. Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Americans sleep an average of seven to eight hours a night. After the age of fifty the average sleep time goes down to 6.5 hours a night. Most people have a bad night when they can not sleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people can not fall sleep. This problem is called insomnia. This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people had special ideas to another to make them sleep. Benjaming Franklin, the famous stateman and inventor ,had four beds. He moved from one to another to fall asleep. King Lousis XIV of France had 13 beds and hoped that he could fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous American writer, had a different way. He lay on his side on the end of the bed! Question: "The problem is called insomnia." Here "insomnia" means _ . Options: A: going to sleep easily B: sleep at daytime C: the ways of sleep D: not being able to go to sleep
D

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Hi! My name's Frank. Look! This is my schoolbag. It's black and red. My pens, my ruler and my books are in it. I have 2 pens, they are blue. My ruler is yellow and white. My books are purple and brown. Look! What's this? It's a map. It's red, yellow and green. I like them very much. Question: I have _ pens. Options: A: three B: two C: four D: one
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B

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: I love collecting old paving bricks ( ). It is my favourite hobby. I started it last year when I needed to help our teacher to hold a fair display ( ) for our school. A few years earlier, I read an article about paving bricks in a fashion magazine. I found it was very interesting, so I decided to do the display on the bricks. But we didn't have so many bricks for a good display. Then I decided to go out and look for them. Now I have collected hundreds of bricks. Most of them are from Ohio ( ). Actually , there are more than one thousand different kinds of bricks in Ohio. Sometimes, I bought some old but special bricks on the Internet. The price is from 5 to 10 dollars for one brick. Sometimes, people can't understand why I buy bricks. I must say that it's my favourite hobby. Question: I came to know paving bricks _ . Options: A: in the library B: on the Internet C: in a newspaper D: in a magazine
Ans: D

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Most people in America live in small family groups. More than a quarter of homes in America have only got one person in them. Some of these are old people but some are people of twenty or thirty years old who would like to live alone. 35% of homes have two people in them, and another 17% have three people. 15%have four people in them, and the other homes have five or more. The families in America are small. It is unusual for parents to have more than two children. When children are about eighteen or nineteen years old, they leave their parents' homes, and they often go to different cities. Sometimes they only visit their parents two or three times a year. Question: At what age do children in America usually go away from. heir parents' homes? Options: A: About 30 or 31 B: About 20 or 21 C: About I ? or less D: About 18 or 19
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D

Ques:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: It's seven thirty in the morning. The students are coming into the classroom. A girl is opening the windows. Some of the students are laughing and talking. Some others are listening to them. Some are reading books. Some are doing their homework. Miss Zhao is standing behind the teacher's desks. She is writing on the blackboard. Sue and Lily are wearing their new dresses today. Ann is cleaning her desk. Mike is helping her. They all look happy. What are Bill and Jim doing? Oh, dear! They are still playing basketball on the playground. Question: What are the students Not doing? Options: A: Doing their homework B: Laughing or talking C: Writing on the blackboard D: Reading books

Ans:C

Ques:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: John lived with her mother when he was young. He didn't know who his father was. The woman did some washing for the rich and could buy only some bread for her son. So the boy was short and thin. One cold morning there was much snow in the streets. A car knocked the woman down and the policemen took her to the hospital. She didn't tell John that his father deserted her before he was born until she died. She left her son the name and address of his father. John found his father, Mr. Brown, in another city. He was one of the richest shopkeepers and he had to receive his son. From then on the boy lived a rich life. He ate all kinds of delicious food and wore beautiful clothes. But he didn't go to school and could not read or write. Once his father took him to a party. He saw a newspaper lying on the floor and picked it up while others were talking about a film. He had a look at it and found a car's wheels were upward .He called out," Oh, dear! An accident happened!" All the people were surprised and began to read the newspaper. But soon they all began to laugh. Do you know why? Question: After John found his father, _ . Options: A: he was angry with the man B: he started a rich life C: he wouldn't live with him D: the man was bad to him

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B