Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Here is a true story about a famous man who worked in the White House and a criminal. They once faced the same thing: their mother gave them apples when they were young. The criminal said: one day, my mother brought some apples and asked my brother and me: "Which do you want?" "The reddest and biggest one," my little brother said. My mother stared at him and said to him angrily: "You should learn to give the good things to others; you shouldn't always think of yourself." Seeing this, I suddenly changed my idea and then said to my mother: "Mum, please give me the smaller one and give the bigger one to my little brother." Hearing my words, my mother was very happy. She kissed me on my face and gave the reddest and biggest apple to me as a prize. From then on, I learned to tell lies, fight, steal and rob. In order to get what I wanted, I played hard. As a result, I was sent into prison. The famous man from the White House said: One day, my mother brought some apples. She said to my brother and me: "You all want the reddest and biggest one, right? Well, let's have a competition. Now I divide the grassland in front of the gate into two and I will give one to each of you and you must shear it well. And I will give the reddest and biggest apple to him who does it the most quickly and best." After the competition, I won and I got the biggest apple. In our family, as long as you want to get the best things, you must take part in competition. I think it is fair. No matter what you want, you must pay lots of efforts. Question: We can conclude from the passage that _ . - it's important to make children aware that no matter what they want, they must pay work - it's wrong to ask children to choose apples when they are not old enough - it's wrong to ask children not to always think of themselves - it's always necessary to have a competition when we give children apple
it's important to make children aware that no matter what they want, they must pay work

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A team led by Professor Theoder Berger, from the University of Southern California, can now manipulate brain cells in rats so that memories stored in the hippocampus, a brain area crucial for memory formation, are activated or suppressed . It's said that _ could one day have medical applications. In the study, researcher first trained rats to remember which of two levers they pressed first, then to press the other lever. As the rats performed the task, the scientists carefully monitored the electrical activity in each creature's hippocampus to find the pattern of nerve-cell activity involved in making a solid memory. Using the same glass needles they had used to record the nerve activity, they stimulated nerves in the same pattern and found that the animals' performance in the task got even better. The rats made fewer errors and were able to remember which lever was the"correct"one for a longer period of time. The scientists went a step further and suppressed the rats' memories with a drug called Mk801, which caused them to forget their task. When the animals' brain cells were later stimulated with the"correct"pattern, they remembered again which lever to press. "What's really exciting about this study is that when they played back the'good' patterns--the patterns when the animal got the task right--it did appear to improve memory,"said Dean Buonomano, an associate professor at the University of California. The final goal, Berger said, is to help people with stroke and epilepsy and the like strengthen memories and to help doctors treat them. The technology might even help sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder. But first, researchers would have to show that they can stimulate or suppress far more complex memories than the ones in the rat experiment. "Here ,it's a simple task,"Buonomano said. In contrast, humans' memories are very rich and specific... "We have very many steps to go before this can be achieved,"he said. Question: When their nerves were stimulated, the rats _ . - forgot their task - completed the task better - made no errors in their task - remembered which lever they had pressed for a shorter time
completed the task better

Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A good joke can be the hardest thing to understand when studying a foreign language. As a recent article in The Guardian newspaper noted, "There's more to understanding a joke in a foreign language than understanding vocabulary and grammar." Being able to understand local jokes is often seen as an incredible ice-breaker for a language learner eager to form friendships with native speakers. "I always felt that humor was a ceiling that I could never break through," Hannah Ashley, a public relations account manager in London, who once studied Spanish in Madrid. Told The Guardian, "I could never speak to people on the same level as I would speak to a native English speaker. I almost came across as quite a boring person because all I could talk about was facts." In fact, most of the time, jokes are only funny for people who share a cultural background or understand humor in the same way. Chinese-American comedian Joe Wong found this out first-hand. He had achieved huge success in the US, but when he returned to China in 2008 for his first live show in Beijing, he discovered that people didn't think his. Chinese jokes were as funny as his English ones. In Australia, meanwhile many foreigners find understanding jokes about sports to be the biggest headache. "The hardest jokes are related to rugby because I know nothing about rugby," said Melody Cao, who was once a student in Australia. "When I heard jokes I didn't get, I just laughed along." In the other two major English-speaking countries, the sense of humor is also different. British comedian Simon Pegg believes that while Britons use irony-basically, saying something they don't mean to make a joke-every day, people in the US don't see the point of using it so often. "British jokes tend to be more subtle and dark, while American jokes are more obvious with their meanings, a bit like Americans themselves," he wrote in The Guardian. Question: What can we guess about Hannah Ashley? - She feels confident in using Spanish. - She believes that one had better rely on facts when speaking a foreign language. - She thinks that Spanish people do not have much of a sense of humor. - She feels that not being able to share their humor makes her seem boring to Spanish people.
She feels that not being able to share their humor makes her seem boring to Spanish people.