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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: People have strange ideas about food. In the 18th century, Americans never ate tomatoes. They grew them in their gardens because tomato plants are so pretty. But they thought the vegetable was poisonous . They called tomatoes "poison apples." President Thomas Jefferson, however, knew that tomatoes were good to eat. He was a learned man. He had been to Paris, where he learned to love the taste of tomatoes. He grew many kinds of tomatoes in his garden. The President taught his cook a way, for a cream of tomato soup . This beautiful pink soup was served at the President's next dinner party. The guests thought the soup tasted really good. They never thought their President would sever his dinner guests poison apples. Jefferson never spoke to his guests about the fact. Question: Jefferson learned that tomatoes were good to eat _ . Options: A: even when he was a little boy B: because his parents told him so C: from books D: while he was in Paris
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D

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: When it rains, do your shoes get wet? Of course they do! But you can buy these pretty red and white "Umbrella for Shoes". They keep the rain off wet. Who sweeps the floor at your home? Do you do it yourself? Perhaps your mother does it. Well, now you just need a cat. Get a cat and buy these four "Dusters for Cats ". You talk too long on the phone, don't you? Most teenagers do! Save time - buy the "Telephone Dumb-bell "! It weighs five kilos. Then your calls will be less than five minutes. Do your friends sometimes come up behind you and make you jump? Do cars come around the corner when you try to cross the road? Well, you can solve that problem with these modern "Forward - backward Glasses." Look forward with the right eye and back with the left. Question: The text seems to tell us that we can solve some problems with the four _ . Options: A: drawings B: inventions C: animals D: shoes
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B

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: There are five people in my family. We all like watching TV, but we like different TV shows . My grandpa is a great fan of Beijing Opera . He likes watching it very much. Now he is in a Beijing Opera club . There he talks about Beijing Opera and acts in it with other Beijing Opera fans. My grandma likes cross talk , and she often watches it on TV. Her favorite cross talker is Guo Degang. My father is a reporter from a TV station . He watches all kinds of TV shows, but his favorite TV show is news. My mother is a teacher. Her favorite TV shows are soap operas . She thinks they are very interesting. But I think they are very boring. I like playing basketball, so my favorite TV shows are sports shows. I like watching basketball games best on TV. What kind of TV shows do your family like? Question: What does the writer think of soap operas? Options: A: Exciting B: Boring C: Interesting D: Relaxing
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B