Read the article and select the best answer. Article: You can't remember who sings a certain song from the 90s. You Google it. You're arguing with a friend about who played Mickey in The Goonies. You solve the problem by Googling it. You don't know the way to that new restaurant. You Google Maps it. We hold the answers to about all of life's questions in our hands today. But that means our brains are feeling free to take some rest. According to the Daily Mail, our growing reliance on the Internet for fact checking is making our memories worse. Scientists at Harvard University found people now regard Google and other search engines as an outside part of their own brains, rather than a tool. Writing in the Journal Scientific American, Harvard psychologists Daniel Wegner and Adrian Ward warn that people who believe their memorable facts that are saved online are much worse at remembering them. "The Internet is also unlike a human memory partner; it knows more and can produce the information more quickly, You can find almost all information today easily through a quick Internet search. It may be that the Internet is taking the place of people's memory." In a series of tests, researchers found it was easy for people to remember information well if they believed it would be deleted. Those who thought it was stored on a computer were more forgetful, even if they were asked to keep the information in mind. Question: When people want to check a fact, probably they will _ . Options: A: look up in a book B: ask friends C: use the Internet D: go to teachers for help
C

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Jane is only four years o1d and she doesn't go to school. But she is very clever and learns a lot from her grandpa--an old teacher. One day, Jane's mother, Mrs John takes her to a party. The guests all praise a rich woman's son. Mrs John asks him a few questions, but his answers are wrong. Jane begins to laugh. The rich woman is angry. She te11s her friend--a teacher to ask Jane some questions, but the little girl answers all. Then she asks, ''There are three birds in a tree. How many will be left if I kill one?" "One" answers Jane. "You're wrong!" calls out the rich woman. "All of them will fly away","Do you think a dead bird can fly?"asks the little girl. The guests begin to 1augh and the woman's face turns red. Question: How many teachers are there in the story? Options: A: One. B: Two. C: Three. D: Four.
B

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: In Germany , more than 70% of people like reading. They often read. They read in their homes. They read in libraries. They read in parks. They even read in hospitals. Parents often read books for kids . It is easy to buy books in Germany. There are many bookshops in Germany. They are in big cities and small towns . A bookshop can sell many books every day. Germans also like to buy books on the Internet. More and more people buy books on the Internet. In Germany, people often have reading parties. They are happy at the parties. Question: According to the passage, we can know Germans _ . Options: A: have much money B: have good education C: have good jobs D: Have little knowledge
A: B

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Today Newtown is a very clean place. But many years ago, there were millions of rats in Newtown. They attacked the cats and dogs. Sometimes a lot of them knocked down a man or woman walking home at night. The rats were very big in size and they hurt many people. The government ordered everybody to kill rats. Most people were lazy, so they did not kill many. Then the government decided to pay some money for each dead rat. That made the people very happy. They killed thousands of rats every day. A government officer put all the dead rats in a big pile . Sometimes a man brought hundreds in one day. After two weeks there were not many rats in the city, but people still brought many rats to the government office. The government officer thought that people were stealing dead rats from the pile. He ordered his men to dig a deep hole and put the rats in it. Soon there were no more rats, and the government did not pay any more money. Question: From the passage we can see that the government officer _ . Options: A: was a very rich man B: was clever C: was afraid of rats D: liked to live in a clean house
Answer: B

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: According to the studies from the UN, the increase of CO2in the air is responsible for 85% of the temperature increase. CO2goes into the air when we burn fossil fuels to run our industries, cars and so on. Luckily, half of the CO2that we produced is taken in by plants, trees, land and the oceans. The rest gases are still large to cause worry. At the same time, we are cutting down forests that take in carbon from the air. To solve the problem is not an easy job. Developed nations such as the USA, Germany and Australia will have to promise to cut down greenhouse gases by as much as 25-40%. Countries such as India and China that have a large population and growing industry, have to leave a smaller greenhouse gas footprint. Everybody must be active and stick to it. Question: How many countries are mentioned in this passage? Options: A: 2 B: 3 C: 5 D: 6
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C

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: When I was in the second grade,my teacher gave all her students some seeds . She told us to watch the magic of the seeds once we planted them. Excitedly,I put a few seeds in my pot. I watered them for a few days and purple flowers came out. In class,I reported back to my teacher that the magic was the purple flowers. My classmates reported back with the red,white or yellow ones. I was wondering why we didn't have green flowers. When the bell rang,we drew a conclusion" a flower garden is beautiful",and this was my first gardening experience. Years later,one day,when we drone by Naperville downtown in a summer. Mom pointed out a big land." Look,this is the community garden land." she told me." What is a community garden land?" I asked." When people live in apartments or town homes,they don't have much land. People pay a little money to rent a piece of land from the city. They can grow anything." Why don't we rent one?" I curiously asked." We don't need to. We have a house,so we have a small piece of land." A few years ago,an older couple moved in next door. They gave us some tomatoes from their garden. They grew the best tomatoes I had ever tasted. I asked my mom to buy some tomatoes just like our neighbors'. Mon said it was impossible to buy those tomatoes from the supermarket. So,last year,I decided to try. I had my dad dig out a small land in the back yard of our house,put it some peat moss and mushroom compost . For the start,I only planted some tomatoes and cucumbers. Day by day,I looked after my garden and took out weeds .I was surprised to see that cucumbers actually grow on the vine,and my tomatoes had a special kind of earthly smell. At the same time,I found myself suddenly having an interest in weather. I always wished rain to water my little garden. My brother Alex _ me." You are an old farmer now." One day,I found some tomatoes gone in one plant. I was a little sad. Who dared to steal my ttomatoes? It was a few rabbits. When I was about to drive them away,my dad stopped me and said," Alice,the... Question: Alice learned to share things with others _ . Options: A: when she began to plant seeds in the second grade B: when she asked her mother to rent a piece of land C: after the couple next door gave her some tomatoes D: after her father stopped her driving the rabbits away
A: D