When you walk into a room on the 17th floor of Copenhagen's Bella Sky Hotel, you'll be greeted by soft roses and other fresh flowers, fruits, fashion magazines, and a bathroom with beauty products. This is Europe's first hotel floor dedicated entirely to women--and according to the hotel's CEO Arne Bang Mikkelsen, it is designed by women, for women. "Women's hotel preferences are very different from men's with key priorities being to feel safe and comfortable. When men come into a hotel room, the first thing they do is check the view, turn on the TV, plug in their computer, and check out the fridge. Women, on the other hand, go straight to the bathroom. Does it smell nice? Is it clean? Does it have a nice bathtub and shower?" Unlike other hotels, it seemed like someone actually thought about what women wanted. To get it right, the hotel asked a number of women what they wanted, and added to their list of things like cleanliness, a nice bathroom, high-powered hairdryers, steam irons, cosmetic mirrors, healthy choices on the room service menus, and full-body mirrors. It seems that they are helped by the boom in female business travelers. Global numbers are hard to get, but a research report shows women account for about half of all business travelers in the US in 2010, up from approximately 25% in 1991. Places like the Naumi Hotel in Singapore, the Premier Hotel in New York, the London Dukes Hotel and the Georgian Court Hotel in Vancouver seem to be realizing the possibility in catering for women. At the London Dukes Hotel, the manager says bookings for their "Duchess Rooms",which are standard rooms with fresh flowers, fruit, and styling things, have increased 25% over the past year. What is the text mainly about? A) How to run hotels. B) A new practice in hotel service. C) Different hotels' service in the world. D) Differences between men and women hotel guests.
C
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The Hawaiian Islands are situated about two thousand miles away from North America, right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Despite the distance the islands actually make up the fiftieth state of the United States. The islands were all formed by volcanic eruption and on the largest of the islands, Hawaii, or the Big Island, there are still two active volcanoes, the Mauna Loa and the Kilauea, which still erupt every few years. On the Hawaiian islands the natives have a particularly strange way of indicating directions. They don't use the north, south, east and west system common to the rest of the world. They use the mauka andmakaisystem.Maukameans "mountain". The mountains in Hawaii are always at the center of the islands, as these are volcanic islands.Makaimeans "the sea". The islands are small and the system is simple. Wherever you want to visit, it can always be described in terms of where it lies in relation to the mountains and the sea. A typical conversation between a native Hawaiian and a tourist might go as follow. TOURIST: Excuse me! Could you tell me where the Sheraton Hotel is? HAWAIIAN: Well... Let me see! From here it's two blocks mauka, and then one blockmakai. You can't miss it! To find your way in Hawaii, you must _ . A) refer to geographical directions B) refer to well-known establishments C) refer to the earth and the sea D) refer to the location of the mountains and the sea
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D
Ques: Oh, boy! Time for a game now. The oldest brother is the seeker so I have to hide extra good because he's smart and will find me quickly. But where? Behind the garage won't work. The barn is too easy. Wait, I know. The door leading under the porch is perfect. No one would look for me under there. It smells unpleasant under this porch. Wish I had picked another place to hide. Smelly cats! Too late now, I can hear brother seeking everyone out. I'll just sit here quiet as a mouse. Hah hah hah! I can hear you out by the barn! You'll never find me over there! It's been a while and he hasn't found me yet. What's that I hear? Now all my brothers are looking for me. They've all been caught, but not me. They'll never trick me into coming out to catch me. Wait, is that Dad I hear calling my name? Oh no, now I hear someone going to call Grandpa to help look for me. I'm not coming out now because I'm in really big trouble. What to do? If I come out and say I heard them calling me, I'll be in big trouble. Think, think! How do I get out of trouble? I know what to do! I'll tell them I fell asleep while waiting. Is that Grandpa's voice? Heh heh heh! Now's my chance. I'll crawl out slowly and rub my eyes. Now that I see Grandpa go towards me quickly, I say. "I fell asleep." "Oh! You had us all worried!" says Grandpa. "You little devil, I'm just glad you're all right, but next time try not to fall asleep and scare us like that, okay?" says Dad. Whew! I pulled it off . Now to keep my mouth shut. And I did, for over 42 years. Once in a while, a kid pulls the wool over people's eyes. So that's one of my little secrets I've never revealed before. Don't tell anyone now! The place where the boy was hiding smelt terrible because it_. A) was too wet there B) was used as a barn C) was dirtied by animals D) was just under the garage
Ans: C
Question: Designed specifically for kids that live online, Discovery announced a new fun and interactive homework tool that uses the power of broadband and media to help achieve academic breakthroughs at home. It's COSMEO. With a click of a mouse, kids have instant access to the only online video destination for homework help, report research and learning games. COSMEO boasts more than 30,000 video clips from the top educational publishers and producers in the world, including Discovery. COSMEO also has 15,000 interactive quizzes and 200 subject-related Brain Games---making homework fun! And most importantly-----all the content is aligned by state curriculum standards and grade level----- COSMEO gives kids the tools they need to succeed and gives parents the reassurance that the content is not only safe, but powerfully engineered to help their kids with academic breakthroughs. COSMEO is built on the proven success of Discovery's in-school video streaming resource, which is available in 70,000 schools and reaches 30 million students in the United States. Students who were exposed to their service in the classroom have been scientifically proven to perform 12 to 15 percent better than those who were not. Now kids can access this proven content in their homes, and COSMEO presents the information in a way that is kid-friendly, interactive, appealing and fun. COSMEO is structured for use by multiple children in the same family. Parents simply select the grade level of the user for access to age-appropriate learning materials. COSMEO can help a third-grader with multiplication tables and an older student with algebra equations . COSMEO uses a multimedia, multi- sensory environment to let kids learn in the way they learn best----- in formats they know, use and, most importantly, enjoy! [ COSMEO pays much attention to _ when engineering the video learning materials. A) making them interesting and appealing B) making its content's safe C) making its knowledge accurate D) keeping its academic level
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A