Ques: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: About 500 years ago, the Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus proved the Earth was round. Now American author Thomas Friedman tells us the Earth is flat in his best seller: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. If he is not joking, then why is the world flat? Friedman says it is due to technological forces. Because of the Internet and the World Wide Web, he believes geographical barriers are disappearing. Individuals and companies around the world can cooperate or compete on the same level. Bill Gates explains the meaning of this transformation best. "Thirty years ago," he tells Friedman, "if you had to choose between being born a genius in Shanghai and an average person in Poughkeepsid (a city in southeast New York), you would have chosen Poughkeepsie because your chances of living a wonderful life were much greater there. "Now," Gates says, "I would rather be a genius born in China than an average person born in Poughkeepsie." This shows that success today is determined more by ability than by location. "Globalization 3.0", as he calls it, is driven by ambitious individuals: freelancers and creative new businesses all over the world, especially in India and China. They can compete not just for low-salary manufacturing industry but, increasingly, for the highest-end research and design work as well. Big companies have played another important role in this globalization process. They move their factories from one country to another to cut costs. It's usual now for an engineer in China to be working for an American company. The Internet keeps them in constant touch with their American partners. People everywhere, from the US to China, have procedures of the same standard for getting their work done. The Reuters news agency provides a good example. The company moved its operation offices from London and New York to India. The Indian employees have the necessary technical skills. But the salaries and office rents are less than one-fifth of what they would be in New York or London. Question: Friedman tells us that the Earth is flat _ . - to prove Columbus's idea is wrong - based on the wide use of the Internet - using some technological forces - because of the great change of the Earth itself
Ans: based on the wide use of the Internet

Ques: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature Rabindranath Tagore( 1913) Prize motivation: "because of his deep sensitive, fresh and beautiful poetry, with perfect skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West" William Faulkner (1949) Prize motivation: "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel" Ernest Miller Hemingway(1954) Prize motivation: "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea" John Steinbeck (1962) Prize motivation: "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception" Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1953) Prize motivation: "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant speech skills in defending noble human values" Claude Simon (1985) Prize motivation: "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the description of the human condition" Mo Yan (2012) Prize motivation: "he, with dreamlike realism, combines folk tales, history and the contemporary". Bob Dylan (2016) Prize motivation: "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" Question: Whose works will you turn to if you are interested in a song writing Nobel Prize winner? - Mo Yan's. - Bob Dylun's. - Claude Simon's. - Rabindranath Tagore's.
Ans: Bob Dylun's.

Ques: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Discover Nature Schools programs Becoming Bears (Kindergarten-2 grade) By becoming baby bears, children learn from their "parent" to survive the seasons. Kids will find safety in the spring and learn kinds of food bears eat during the summer, and then create a cave for winter hibernation . After learning the skills needed to survive, students will go out of the cave as an independent black bear able to care for themselves. (1.5-2 hours) Whose Clues? (3-5 grade) Kids will discover how plants and animals use their special structures to survive. Through outdoor study of plants and animals, kids will recognize their special structures and learn how they enable species to eat, avoid their enemies and survive. Using what they have learned, kids will choose one species and tell how they survive in their living places. (3-4 hours) Winged Wonders (3-5 grade) Birds add color and sound to our world and play an important ecological role. Students will learn the basics of birds, understand the role birds play in food chains and go bird watching using field guides and telescopes. Students will do hands-on activities. Students will use tools to build bird feeders, allowing them to attract birds at home.(3-4 hours) Exploring Your Watershed (6-8 grade) We all depend on clean water. Examining how our actions shape the waterways around us. Go on a hike to see first-hand some of the challenging water quality problems in a city. Students will test the water quality to determine the health of an ecosystem. * Each program is taught for a class with at least 10 students. * All programs include plenty of time outdoors. So please prepare proper clothing, sunscreen and insect killers for children. * To take part in a program , please email dcprograms@mdc.mo.gov. Question: According to the passage, all the four programs _ . - have the same teaching hours - have outdoor activities - are offered during summer holidays - are designed for primary school students
Ans: have outdoor activities

Ques: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: In recent years, there has been a steady attack on salt from the doctors: salt is bad for you--regardless of your health. Politicians also got aboard. "There is a direct relationship," US Congressman Neal Smith said, "between the amount of sodium a person consumes and heart disease, circulatory disorders, stroke and even early death." Frightening, if true! But many doctors and medical researchers are now beginning to feel the salt scare has gone too far. "All these remarks and cry about salt is unnecessary," Dr. Dustan insists. "For most of us it probably does not make much difference how much salt we eat." Dustan's most recent short-term study of 150 people showed that those with normal blood pressure experienced no change at all when placed on an extremely low-salt diet, or later when salt was reintroduced. Of the hypertensive patients, however, half of those on the low-salt diet did experience a drop in blood pressure, which returned to previous level when salt was reintroduced. "An adequate to somewhat excessive salt intake has probably saved many more lives than it has cost in the general population," said Dr. John H Laragh. "So an opinion that the whole population should avoid salt makes no sense." Medical experts agree that everyone should practice reasonable "moderation" in salt consumption. For the average person, a moderate amount might run from four to ten grams a day, or roughly 1/2 to 1/3 teaspoons. One to two grams of salt would come from the natural sodium in food. The rest would be added in processing, preparation or at the table. "Na is not your enemy," says Comek's Dr. Laragh. "Salt is the No.1 natural component of all human tissue, and the idea that you do not need it is wrong. Unless your doctor has proven that you have a salt-related health problem, there is no reason to give it up." Question: What is the experts' advice for average people on salt consumption? - They should increase salt intake through sodium pills. - They should avoid salt as often as possible. - They should consume 1/2 to 1/3 teaspoons of salt a day. - They needn't care about how much salt they consume.
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They should consume 1/2 to 1/3 teaspoons of salt a day.