Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Have you ever walked down a city street and suddenly seen a bright garden full of vegetables and flowers? It may be a community garden. The community gardens are planted by the people in the community. They are not just pretty places. They improve the neighborhoods. People first started planting these gardens during the 1970s. At that time, the price of vegetables and fruits was rising. In many city neighborhoods, crime was increasing. There were also many other problems. People decided to get together to plant gardens to fight against these problems. The gardeners thought they might make the area more beautiful and improve people's life. These gardeners were right! Community gardens have many benefits. They improve their neighbourhoods. They also make people feel they belong to the community. When people work together in a garden, they feel they are connected with each other. People work on a small area within the garden. They grow vegetables or fruits. Each person decides what he or she is going to grow. However, they also work together to help each other. Some members have gardening experience. They can help those who are just learning how to grow vegetables and fruits. Sometimes, garden members pay for supplies. The supplies usually include small plants and tools. Many community gardens have sponsors . They pay for the supplies for the gardens. It helps to keep the gardens going every year. Sponsors may be parks, schools and local companies. Some groups want to be a part of the community. They help clean up and beautify a neighborhood. They also pay for the supplies. Community gardens give people a chance to work together. They can make the community stable . There are many programs of community gardens. Some gardens provide programs for children and elder people. They may provide classes. They may give the vegetables and fruits to poor people. Community gardens also improve air. Today there are about 10,000 community gardens in cities in the US. They have become popular because of their benefits. People... Question: People started to plant community gardens because _ . Options: A: it was a good way to learn gardening B: they liked fresh vegetables and flowers C: it helped them get more experience D: they wanted to solve the problems
Answer: D

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: If you had a chance to prepare dinner for your mother, would you choose to make it right now or some day in the future? Watch the video Paradise Dinner by Liu Xiaoyu, a junior at[Hebei Institute of Communications, and you will find a right answer. Recently the six-minute film Paradise Dinner won a great success on the Internet. It told the story of a son who made a big lunch for his mother, but he can only send the dinner to paradise, because his mother has been dead. "If you do not show your _ to your mother right now, you might never have the opportunity in the future, because your mother is growing older and older day by day-this is the main theme of my film, " said the 21-year-old Liu. Liu conceived the story for Paradise Dinner over his 2010 summer vacation. One day during that holiday, Liu found his parents were not young any more. " So I decided to write a story for Paradise Dinner to call for all people, especially young people, to show more filial piety to their parents," he said. With the help of his teachers and his schoolmates, he found actors, Zhang who played the mother and Yuan Zhen who played the son. At last he finished the film. Many Web users said they liked the film very much and most of them cried like Liu's parents when they watched it. Question: What have you known about Liu Xiaoyu's mother? Options: A: She didn't know the film. B: She didn't feel moved. C: She couldn't help crying when she saw the film. D: She acted the mother in the film.
Answer: C

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: China Youth says that more and more girl students have entered colleges to study in recent few years. As we know, once the number of boys was larger than that of girls, and the boys did much better than girls in our country for a long time. Now things have changed a lot. In recent years, the proportion of girl students is growing fast. In 1998, about 39.7% of college students were girls. In 2000, it was 41.07% and in 2001, the number was 42.14%. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, there is little difference between boys and girls in their intelligence . That's to say, girls are as clever as boys. And boys have more interests than girls, so they may not do well in their study. Secondly, girls are more careful and more sensible than boys. They work harder at school and they do better in all exams. Another reason is that with the development of society, people pay more and more attention to girls' education. Question: 42.14% refers to the number of _ Options: A: girls at schools at schools in 1998 B: girls in colleges in 2001 C: boys at schools in 2001 D: boys in colleges in 1998
Answer:
B