Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Look at the car. It is Mr Black's car. It doesn't work now. Mr Black is under it. He is repairing it. Mrs Black is near the car. She is helping Mr Black. A girl is in the car. She is Kate, Mr Black's daughter. Who is the boy in the car? He is Jim, Kate's brother. It is Saturday today. They don't work. They want to go to Zhongshan Park. They all look worried. Question: Mr Black is _ his car. Options: A: washing B: driving C: repairing D: cleaning
C

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Now, there is a growing movement to pay the students in American schools---in some cases, even just for coming to class. Students at one school in New Mexico can earn up to three hundred dollars a year for good attendance. In Baltimore, Maryland, high scores in state graduation tests can be worth more than one hundred dollars. And a New Jersey school system plans to pay students fifty dollars a week to attend after---school tutoring programs. Schools that pay students can be found in more than one---fourth of the fifty states. Other schools pay students with food or other rewards. Robert Schaefer is a public education director. He says paying students may improve performance in the short term, but students develop false expectations for the future. He sees a lack of long term planning in these programs because of the pressure on schools to raise test scores. Public schools need to show improvement under the education reform law. Low---performing schools may lose their federal money; teachers and administrators may lose their jobs. Often these schools are in poor neighborhoods where getting students to go to school can be a continual problem. Critics say paying students sends a message that money is the only valuable reward. But some students say it makes school more exciting. And some teachers have reported getting more requests for extra help. In two thousand four, the city schools in Coshocton, Ohio, launched a program. They wanted to see if paying elementary school students as much as one hundred dollars would help in passing the state exams. Now, Eric Bettinger of Case Western Reserve University (EUCWRU) has reported mixed results. Math scores increased, but only white students were able to get paid. And there was no evidence of higher scores in reading, social studies and science. Official will decide later this year whether to continue the program. Question: According to the text, Robert Schaefer _ . Options: A: is a very excellent teacher B: thinks highly of paying students C: thinks students will show improvement in study in the future D: thinks people should make a careful plan for the paying program
D

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Elizabeth and I are 18 now, and about to graduate. I think about our elementary-school friendship, but some memories have blurred .What happened that day in the fifth grade when Beth suddenly stopped speaking to me? Does she know that I've been thinking about her for seven years? If only we could go back, discover what ended our relationship. I have to speak with Beth. I see her sometimes, and find out school is "fine". It's not the same. It never will be. Someone says that she's Liz now. What happened to Beth? I can't call her. Should I write? What if she doesn't answer me? How will I know what she's thinking? Yes, I'll write her a letter. These things are easier to express in writing. " Dear Be,"no, "Dear Li," no, "Dear Elizabeth," I begin. The words flow freely, as seven-year old memories are reborn. I ask her all the questions that have been left unanswered in my mind, and pray she will answer. I seal my thoughts in the perfect white envelope, and imagine Beth looking into her mailbox. Will she know why I'm writing? Maybe she once thought of writing the same letter. As the mailman takes my envelope from me forever, I wonder if I've made the right decision. Do I have the right to force myself into Beth's life again? Am I simply part of the past? I have taken the first step. Beth has control of the situation now. One day has passed. Are my words lying on the bottom of the post office floor? Two days are gone. I'm lost in thought and don't even hear the phone ring. "Hello? It's Elizabeth." Question: Why does the author decide to write a letter instead of calling? Options: A: She is sure that Beth will not answer. B: She's afraid that they'll quarrel on the phone. C: She doesn't know Beth's telephone number. D: It is easier to express her feelings in writing.
D

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Every country tends to accept its own way of life as being the normal one and to praise or criticize others, as they are similar to or different from it. And unfortunately, our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted one. Here is a great argument in favor of foreign travel and learning foreign languages. It is only by traveling in a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language that one can find out what a country and its people are really like. And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the second-hand information gathered from other sources! How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different at all! Differences between peoples do, of course, exist and, one hopes, will always continue to do so. The world will be a dull place indeed when all the different nationalities behave exactly alike, and some people might say that we are rapidly approaching this state of affairs. With the much greater rapidity and ease of travel, there might seem to be some truth in this at least as far as Europe is concerned. However this may be, at least the greater ease of travel today has revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German is not some different kind of animal from themselves. Question: In this passage, the author wants to say _ . Options: A: differences between people will gradually disappear because of easy of travel B: differences between people do exist even though different nationalities behave exactly alike C: differences between people will always continue to exist and the world will be a dull place D: differences between people will not exist as one hopes
A