Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881.His father was a painter and art teacher who gave his son the first lesson in drawing.He won a prize--"Science and Charity" for his first important painting when he was only fifteen.He studied in several cities in Spain.But there was no one to teach him all that he wanted to know.When he was nineteen,he visited Paris. Paris was then the center of the world for artists.Everything that was new and exciting in the world of paintings seemed to happen there.When he was twenty-three,Picasso moved there to live and lived in France for the rest of his life. When he was over ninety,this great painter still lived his life like a young man.He was still looking for new ideas and new ways to use his artistic materials. When he died in 1973,he was ninety-one years old. ,. Question: Where was he born and where did he visit when he was nineteen? Options: A: In Paris and Spain B: In London and Paris. C: In Spain and Paris. D: In London and Spain.
C

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: New York is one of the last large American cities to have some of its policemen on horseback. The New York police have 170 horses working in certain parts of the city. The horses are expensive to feed, but it is even more expensive to look after them. Because the horses must walk on the streets, they need special horseshoes. In fact , they need more than 8,000 of them each year. Every police horse in New York gets new shoes every month. Keeping these shoes in good repair is the job of six blacksmiths. There are only about thirty-five of these blacksmiths in the whole United States. The cost of shoing a horse is between twenty dollars and thirty-five dollars, and it takes a good blacksmith two or three hours to do the job. A blacksmith's job is not an easy one. He must be able to shape a shoe from a piece of metal and then fit it to the horse's foot. The blacksmith must bend over all the time when he is fitting the shoe and must hold the weight of the horse's leg while he works. Clearly, a blacksmith must be very storng. But even more important, he must be able to deal with horses---for before the blacksmith can begin his work, he has to get the horse to lift its leg. One of the blacksmiths in New York is James Corbin. He came to the country from Ireland in 1948. He not only makes horseshoes for the police but also works for a group of horse owners near the city. Corbin became interested in blacksmithing because his father did it, and,as the puts it, "It's a good way to make a living." Question: Which of the following is true? Options: A: Only a few large American cities have some policemen on horseback. B: New York is the only city in America to have some policemen on horseback. C: Policemen on horseback enjoy travelling around the United States. D: Policemen on horseback are less expensive than those in cars.
A

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: A good way to pass an examination is to work hard every day in the year. You may fail in the examination if you are lazy for most of the year and then work hard only a few days before the examination. If you are taking an English examination, don't learn only rules of grammar. Try to read stories in English and speak in English whenever you can. A few days before examination you should start going to bed early. Do not stay up late at night studying and learning things. Before you start the examination, read carefully over the examination paper. Try to understand the exact meaning of each question before you pick up your pen to write. When you have at last finished your examination, read your answers, correct any mistakes that you see and make sure that you have not _ anything _ . Question: What should you do if you want to learn English well according to the passage? Options: A: Speak more, listen less, never write. B: Speak less, write more, never listen. C: Read more, listen more, speak less. D: read and speak as much as possible.
A: D

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Some people like to get up early, but some do not. In fact, it is really good for us to get up early every day. Maybe those who don't like getting up early will not believe this, but it is true. Scientists made a survey in about one thousand people, and then they found that early rising people had less disease than late rising people, and early rising people also look healthier than late rising people, and so on. So we may know early rising is helpful in more than one way. First, it helps to keep us healthy. We all need fresh air. But air is never so fresh as early in the morning. Besides, it is useful to do morning exercises. Secondly, early rising helps us in our studies. In the morning we learn more quickly and find it easier to understand what we learn. Thirdly, early rising can give us a plan of our work for the day. We cannot work well without a good plan. Fourthly; early rising gives us enough time to get ready for our work, such as to wash our hands and faces and eat our breakfast. Late risers may find it difficult to form the habit of early rising. They have to make an effort to do so. As the English proverb says, "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. " Question: Early rising people are _ than late rising people. Options: A: fatter B: thinner C: healthier D: Cleverer
Answer: C

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: With a floor area larger than Beijing' Tian'anmen Square, the Guangdong Science Centre is known as the world's largest science and technology museum. The centre is located on Xiaoguwei Island and seen from a distance, it looks like a kapok flower of Guangzhou. It is one of the most famous "landmarks of Guangzhou". It cost the government about 1.9 billion yuan to build the centre over five years. On September 27, 2008, it was opened to the public. The centre shows China's newest fruits of science and technology. It is full of exciting small machines and amazing small invention, waiting to help you understand interesting aspects of the world of science. The centre offers eight exhibition areas, four science cinemas, two open labs and a digital "family experience" hall. Outside the main building, there is an 80,000-square-metre man-made lake for water-theme exhibitions and outdoor science square. Exhibition: Children's World, Experience and Discovery, Transportation World, Digital World, Green Home, Flight Dream, The Human Body and health, Perception and Thinking Opening hours: 9:30 am to 4:30 pm from Tuesday to Sunday; Closed on Monday (except public holidays and Golden Weeks) Ordinary ticket: 60 yuan/person Question: Which of the following statements is NOT true? Options: A: The Guangdong Science Museum Centre has a larger floor area than Tian'anmen Square. B: Three are four exhibition areas and eight science cinemas in the Guangdong Science Centre. C: The Science Centre is one of the most famous "new landmarks of Guangdong". D: Visitors have to pay 60 yuan for the ticket to the Guangdong Science Centre.
**Answer**
B