Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Do you play a musical instrument? If so, you may be getting smarter. A recent study shows that taking music lessons can raise a person's IQ. Scientists studied 132 children in Canadian schools. At the beginning of the school year, these children took an IQ test. Then they were divided into four groups. One group took singing lessons. Another group took weekly piano lessons. The third group took classes in drams . And the last group did no special activities at all. At the end of the school year, the 132 children took an IQ test again. In all four groups, the average score went up. However, the piano players'IQs went up 7.0 points on average. The average increase for the other three groups was only 4.3 points. The researchers say that the difference is small and it may not result in better grades for the piano players. However, _ still consider the results important. Learning an instrument helps kids becomes better at concentrating and at memorizing things. Therefore, the researchers say, it may be good for brain development in young people. If you have a chance to learn to play a musical instrument, never miss it. Remember it can make you smarter. Question: What's the main idea of the passage? Options: A: It's good for us to listen to music. B: Everyone should learn to play the piano. C: Take an IQ test before you learn instruments. D: Learning instruments may make kids smarter.
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Your body is special - no two people in the world are alike , Although you are different from everyone else , you have exactly the same body parts as the people around you , doing different jobs that keep all of us alive . What is inside my head ? Your head _ the most valuable part of your body - your brain . As you are reading , your eyes send pictures to your brain which makes meaning from what you see . Your brain helps you to remember and think , and makes sure your body is doing what it should . What is my skin for ? Your skin covers your body . In most parts of your body , the skin is just as thick as half a centimeter . If you have your skin cut , it will have a quick cure and stop viruses from getting into your body . Your skin also helps you feel the heat and coldness of the environment around you . Hair grows from inside the skin . When you feel hot , extra heat comes out through your skin . As a result , your body temperature drops . How do I move ? Muscles are found in most parts of your body . They work with your bones to help you move - whenever you cry or smile , eat or speak , walk or dance , etc . Why do I breathe ? Your body needs to take in oxygen from the air and give out the unwanted carbon dioxide in the body . When you breathe , air comes through your nose and mouth into your lungs where oxygen flows to different parts of your body . What makes me sneeze ? When dust or a strong smell gets into your nose , you sneeze . This is the way your body cleans up the dust in your nose . Your lungs push out the air and try to clear your nose . What does my heart do ? Your heart is a very special muscle . It is slightly bigger than your fist and grows bigger as you do . If you place your hand on your heart , you will feel your heart beating which forces blood to move around your body . Question: If you have no skin covering your body , what would happen ? Options: A: Extra heat can only stay inside our body . B: Viruses can't get into our body easily . C: We can't feel the changes in temperature . D: Our body can be guarded by our hair .
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Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: A bag is useful and the word "bag" is useful, too. Here is an interesting phrase , "to let the cat out of the bag". In meaning it is the same as "to tell the secret ". And there is an old interesting story about _ . Long ago, when farmers wanted to sell chickens at the market, they would usually just throw the chickens in cloth bags. But cats were cheaper than chickens at that time, so many farmers would put cats into the cloth bags but not chickens. One day, a woman asked a man for a chicken. The man gave her a cloth bag in which there was a cat. _ When the man opened the cloth bag, a big black cat ran out. Not a chicken! The man's secret was out and everyone knew it. Now when we say someone gives away a secret, we say "he lets the cat out of the bag". And that is the story where the interesting phrase came from. Question: The farmers put cats but not chickens in the bags to _ when they sold chickens. Options: A: tell the secret B: sell the cats C: get more money D: keep the cats quiet
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: We each have a memory. That's why we can still remember things after a long time. Some people have very good memories and they can easily learn many things by heart, but some people can only remember things when they say or do them again and again. Many of the great men of the world have got surprising memories. A good memory is a great help in learning languages. Everybody learns his mother language when he is a small child. He hears the sounds, remembers them and then he learns to speak. Some children are living with their parents in foreign countries. They can learn two languages as easily as one because they hear, remember and speak two languages every day. In school it is not so easy to learn a foreign language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects, too. But your memory will become better and better when you do more and more exercises Question: Everybody learns his mother language _ . Options: A: after he goes to school B: when he is a small child C: at the age of six D: when he can write and read
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Ques:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: More and more people are trying to learn English than any other language in the world. English is the world language of politics and international business. It becomes the international language of science, medicine, sports, travel and so on. In most schools in Asia, English is taught as the main foreign language. School children in China and Japan begin to learn English at an early age. English is the official language of more than seventy-five countries including Britain, Canada, the United States and Australia. Many different languages are spoken in some countries. However, English is often used as an official language to help people communicate with each other. India is a good example. English is the common language in this country, but at least twenty-four languages are spoken there. Do you know the history of English? Old English took many words from the French language. Most English words came from French, especially those words used for describing the law and the government, such as "damage"," prison "and " marriage". Then, English became what language experts called Middle English. The history of English continues as Middle English, and then it becomes Modern English, and it is spoken today. ,. Question: What can we learn from the passage? Options: A: Students in Japan begin to learn English when they are young. B: English is the official language of all the countries in the world. C: English is used as an official language in many countries but not in India. D: Some words in English are only used for describing those people in prison and in marriage.

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