Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Joe is a taxi driver. Now, after working for a long time, he is very tired. So he lies down on the chair in his car, and wants to have a sleep. But a man comes up to his car, and asks, "Excuse me, what's the time, please?" Joe is a little unhappy ,but he looks at his watch ,and says, "It's 10:15." The man thanks Joe and goes away. Joe says to himself, "Now I can go back to sleep again." But at 10:20,another man comes up and asks the same question, " Excuse me, sir, what's the time, please?" Joe can't sleep again. He has to tell his man the time. In ten minutes, four people come to his car and ask the time. He is very friendly, but he wants to sleep. So he writes "I don't know the time." on a piece of paper and puts the paper outside the window of his car."Now no one will come and ask me the time." But he is wrong! Look, another man is coming up to his car. He is knocking loudly at the window of Joe's car. Joe wakes up. The man says, "It's 10:50 now, sir!" Question: Joe puts the paper outside his car, because _ . Options: A: he wants to know the time. B: he doesn't want people to ask him the time. C: he knows someone will tell him the time. D: he has no watch .
B

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Suzhou is an old city with a long history. The city is very clean and has fresh air. There are a lot of nice gardens in Suzhou and Suzhou gardens are famous in the world. When you enjoy the beauty in the gardens, you will feel very peaceful and happy. Besides (......) the gardens, Suzhou silk is also very famous. On the streets, you can see many silk shops. You should buy some beautiful silk scarves because they are really beautiful. Suzhou food is so sweet and some people may not like it. But you can have different kinds of foods here. Suzhou is close to Shanghai. It takes about only one hour from Suzhou to Shanghai by bus. The traffic is very convenient here. Welcome to Suzhou! You will have a good time here. Question: How far is it from Suzhou to Shanghai? Options: A: Two hours' bus ride. B: Two hours' ride on the train. C: One hour's bus ride. D: One hour's ride on the underground.
C

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Museum of Transport at Boylet St , Cheetham, Manchester Enjoy a trip to the Museum of Transport, a working museum showing the development of road public transport in Manchester. There are over 80 buses from 1890 to 1980. Over 100 shows, from hours-bus to modern train. The museum has small shows describing the history of bus, coach and train. If you are interested in it, welcome to click here and you can see some pictures of them on the screen and get more information about them. Opening hours and ticket prices Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays 9:00 a.m. ~ 4:00 p.m. (Nov. ~ Feb. ) 10:00 a.m. ~ 5:00 p.m. (Mar. ~ Oct.) Adults $3. 00, Students $1.75, Children under 5 free. Family ticket ( up to two adults and three children) $ 9.00 E-mail : www. gmts. co. uk Question: If you and your elder brother are both middle school students, your parents take both of you to visit the museum, you should pay at least _ in all. Options: A: $6 B: $9 C: $9.5 D: $12
B

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Life in the 2100s will be very different from life today. Between then and now many changes will take place. What will the changes be? The population is growing fast. There will be more people in the world and most of them will live longer than people do now. Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then. People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and traveling. Traveling will be much easier and cheaper. More people will go to other countries on holiday. There will be changes in our food, too. Maybe no one will eat meat every day. Instead, they eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier. Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work canl be done by robots, because of this, many people will not have work to do. This will be a problem. Question: The robots will _ in the future. Options: A: do the dangerous work B: do all the work C: do only housework D: do the easy work for people
A