Read the article and select the best answer. Article: In the English language, there are many expressions using the word "mouth". For example, if you say bad things about a person, the person might protest and say "Do not bad mouth me." Sometimes, people say something to a friend or family member that they later regret because it hurts that person's feelings. Or they tell the person something they were not supposed to tell. The speaker might say :"I really put my foot in my mouth this time." If this should happen, the speaker might feel down in the mouth. In other words, he might feel sad for saying the wrong thing. Information is often spread through word of mouth. This is general communication between people, like friends talking to each other. "How did you hear about that new movie?" someone might ask. "Oh, by word of mouth." Sometimes when one person is speaking ,he says the same thing that his friend was going to say . When this happens, the friend might say "You took the words right out of my mouth." Sometimes a person has a bad or unpleasant experience with another person ,he might say "I had my heart in my mouth." Some people have lots of money because they were born into a very rich family. You might say such a person "was born with a silver spoon in his mouth ." This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives from hand to mouth. This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life. Parents might sometimes keep sweet food from a child ad punishment for saying bad things, For example , if a child says things she should not say to her parents , she might be described as a mouthy child. The parents might even tell the child to stop mouthing off. Question: We can infer from the text that _ . Options: A: English language is color1ful B: he that talks much regrets much C: "mouth" is the word most frequently used D: expressions with "mouth " are of low opinion
A

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Small talk is part of everyday life, but it's the deep conversations that may make you happy. That's one possibility suggested in a new study which examined how conversation is related to happiness. Researchers, led by Matthias Mehl at the University of Arizona, looked at the different types of conversation that happy and unhappy people participate in. The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, was somewhat small, involving 79 undergraduates, but meshes well with established ideas that happiness and social life are connected. Experts found that the happiest people in the study engaged in 33% more small talk than the unhappiest participants . Happy people tended to have twice as many deep conversations, and spent 25 percent less time alone than the unhappiest participants. These insights fit with what psychologists have seen previously: that loneliness leads to depression , and that feelings of social connectedness are important for happiness, said Susan Turk Charles, a psychologist at the University of California, who was not involved in the study. Deep conversations create a feeling of belonging that leads to happiness, she said. On the contrary, people who suffer from depression tend to withdraw from others. The method that the researchers used was creative, Charles said. Instead of bringing people into a lab, as is traditionally done in these sorts of studies, they had participants wear a recording device for four days, picking up conversations that they had. The recorder sampled 30 seconds of sound every 12.5 minutes, giving researchers a broad range of conversations to examine in terms of "small talk" vs. "deep conversation". The bottom line is that maintaining friendships can help with emotional well-being(,). Friends buffer the effects of negative events and provide support, Charles said. Don't be too busy to have a deep conversation, she said. "It really is important. It should be something that you should pay just as much attention to as your career," she said. Question: What can we learn from the text? Options: A: The journal Psychological Science provided financial support for the study B: The study was creative and different from traditional studies C: The participants of the study needed to be well educated D: The participants took off the recorder every 12.5 minute.
B

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: One day, my friend Jimmy told me a story. Farmer Joe was in his cart when he was hit by a truck. He decided his injuries from the accident were serious enough to take the trucking company (which caused the accident)to court. In court the trucking company's lawyer was questioning Farmer Joe. "Didn't you say, at the same scene of the accident, 'I'm fine'?" said the lawyer. Farmer Joe responded, "Well, I will tell you what happened. I had just loaded my favorite mule Bessie into the..." "I didn't ask for any details," the lawyer interrupted, "Just answer the question.Did you not say, at the scene of the accident, 'I'm fine? ' " Farmer Joe said, "Well, I had just got Bessie into the cart and I was driving down the road..." The lawyer interrupted again and said, "Judge, I am trying to make clear the fact that, at the scene of the accident, this man told the police on the scene that he was just fine. Now several weeks after the accident he is trying to cover the fact. I believe he is telling lies. Please tell him to simply answer the question." By this time the Judge was fairly interested in Farmer Joe's answer and said to the lawyer, "I'd like to hear what he has to say about his favorite mule Bessie." Joe thanked the Judge and went on, "Well, as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie, my favorite mule, into the cart and was driving her down the road when this huge truck ran into the stop sign and pushed my cart right in the side. I was thrown into one side and Bessie was thrown into the other." "I was hurt so badly that I didn't want to move. However, I could hear old Bessie breathing loudly and groaning . I knew she was in great pain. Shortly after the accident a traffic policeman came to the scene. He could hear Bessie groaning so he went over to her. After he looked at her, he took out his gun and shot her between the eyes. Then the patrolman came across the road with his gun and looked at me. He said, "Your mule was in such pain that I had to shoot her. How are you feeling?" Question: _ , the patrolman shot the mule. Options: A: In order to let Farmer Joe keep silent about the accident B: As the mule's groan was too loud C: Thinking it was the best way to stop the mule from suffering D: To make Farmer Joe feel better
C