Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Introduction to Piano No matter what you do in life, it's always important to start with the basics. Taught by experienced musician Dennis Dykstra, this class will give beginning piano learners an introduction to the keyboard, keys, scales, chords, melodies, and note reading. This class is combined with adult class. Brinton ( Beg. , Ages 8-17 )...# 487919 Sat. , Apr. 13---Jun 1, 10:30 AM---12 PM $56 Residents / $112 Non-residents Guitar Lesson Learn basic chords, notes, and different strumming techniques. Strum your way to fun. Bring your own guitar. Classes are combined with youth guitar classes. Brinton ( Beg./ Int. , Ages 12-17 ) ...# 37623 Sat. , Apr. 13 --- Jun.1, 2 PM --- 3:30 PM $110 Residents / $220 Non-residents Hip Hop Culture & Modern Dance Hip hop is a dance form that has origins in New York's folk culture and has become popularized by the entertainment industry. The steps _ from tap, jazz & belly dance. The class will consist of clean hip hop music techniques, steps and a routine. Hamilton( Ages 6-12 )...# 38475 Tue. , Apr, 16---Jun 4, 7 PM --- 8 PM $18 Residents / $36 Non-residents Science of Magic and Fantastic Fliers This super science sampler introduces participants to two hot topics: magic and flight! In science of magic, participants learn the science behind illusions, mind reading and perform a magic escape! Amaze and amuse friends. In fantastic fliers, participants will fly through flight and aerodynamics ( ) basics. Discover the four forces that affect flight. Make and test various plane designs to see these forces in action! Not suitable for free or reduced fees. Jueau ( Ages 4-12 )... #370956 Mon. , Feb. 4, 5:30 PM --- 7:30 PM $80 Residents / $160 Non-residents Question: If Mary's son is 5 years old, she may choose _ for him. Options: A: Guitar Lesson B: Science of Magic and Fantastic Fliers C: Hip Hop Culture & Modern Dance D: Introduction to Piano
B

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Plants are very important living things. Life could not go if there were no plants. This is because plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals. So animals and man need plants in order to live. This is why we find that there are so many plants around us. If you look carefully at the plants around you, you will find that there are two kinds of plants: flowering plants and _ plants. Flowering plants can make seeds. The seeds are protected by the fruits. Some fruits have one seed, some have two, three or four, and some have many seeds. But a few fruits have no seeds at all. An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit. Most non-flowering plants don't grow from seeds. They grow from spores. Spores are so small and light that they can float in the air. We may say that spores are quite the same as the seeds. When these spores fall on wet and _ , they usually grow into new plants. Question: The main idea of the passage is that _ . Options: A: plants are important for life B: plants cannot grow without air C: there are many plants around us D: we cannot live without water
A

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered _ to me at my house. No card or note came with it. Calls to the florist were always in vain ---- it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender's identity. But I never stopped imagining who the anonymous sender might be. My mother often contributed to these imaginings. She'd ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness who might be showing appreciation. Perhaps the neighbor I'd help when she was unloading a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man across the street whose mail I retrieved during the winter so he wouldn't have to venture down his icy steps. When I was 17, a boy broke my heart. The night he called for me the last time, I cried myself to sleep. When I awoke in the morning, there was a message scribbled on my mirror in red lipstick: "Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive." I thought about that quotation from Emerson for a long time, and I left it where my mother had written it. When I finally went to get the glass cleaner, my mother knew everything was all right again. I don't remember ever slamming my door in anger at her and shouting, "You just don't understand!" because she did understand. One month before my high-school graduation, my father died suddenly of a heart attack. My feelings ranged from grief to abandonment, fear and over-whelming anger that my dad was missing some of the most important events in my life. I became completely uninterested in my upcoming graduation, the senior-class play and the prom-events that I had worked on and looked forward to. But my mother, in the midst of her own grief, would not hear of my missing out any of those things. The day before my father died, she and I had gone shopping for a prom dress and found a spectacular one. Wearing it made me feel like a princess, but it was the wrong size, and when my father died the next day, I forgot all about the dress. My mother didn't. The... Question: Why did Mother try to arouse the author's imagination about the gardenia sender? Options: A: Because she wanted her child to feel cherished and loved not just by her but by the world. B: Because she had a great curiosity like a child. C: Because she was romantic and she once experienced such the same thing at her young age. D: Because she wanted to give her child some tips about the gardenia sender.
A

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: "It hurts me more than you," and "This is for your own good." These are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy to us. They thought that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation. Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we've made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who says of her students - "so passive" - and wonders what happened. Nothing was demanded of them, she believes. "Television," says Klompus, "contributes to children's passivity. We're not training kids to work any more. We're talking about a generation of kids who've never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them. Instead of saying 'go look it up', you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say no to a kid." Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It's time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It's time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it's for their own good. It's time to start telling them "no" again. Question: Why are children becoming more inactive in study? Options: A: Because teachers are too strict with them. B: Because they have to perform too many duties. C: Because they have done too much homework. D: Because they spend too much time watching TV.
D