A drunken burglar in the Orrell Park area of Liverpool, ended up leaping out of a window after a 10-year-old girl asked him to prove he was a superhero. The drunken thief who pretended he was Superman to stop a child raising the alarm has been caught after he leapt from the apartment building in his pants to make the girl convinced. Theif Ethan Adamson, 25, told police that he had broken into a fifth-floor flat after a drinking session, believing it was empty. But he was horrified when the owner's 10-year-old daughter woke up while he was there. From his hospital bed, the thief told reporters, "To keep her quiet, I told her I was really Superman and I'd soon be flying off back to my secret headquarters." "She called my bluff (...) and told me, 'If you're Superman, show me you can fly or I'll scream'. "I had no choice so I stripped to my pants to look more like a superhero and went to the window. I saw another roof below and I thought _ but it turned out to be a lot further down than thought. I know it doesn't make sense but it did to me when I was drunk." Police later found him on the roof in just his yellow pants, covered in cuts and bruises after a baffled neighbor heard his cries of pain. He now faces seven years behind bars for burglary. Police spokesman Frank Armado said, " He was in quite a serious state and couldn't move until we got up there using ladders. He was treated for his injuries and we got him some fresh clothes, before taking him to hospital where he is being kept under guard until he is well enough to be arrested." What is the author's purpose of writing the passage? A) To report on a joking burglary B) To call our attention to the burglary. C) To explain how the burglar was caught. D) To look back on an adventure story.
A

When Tom finished his studies at the university , he began to look around for a job. He did not know what he would like to do, but one of his uncles had worked for the government for thirty years, and he advised Tom to try to get a job of the same kind, so he went for an exam one day. He was successful, and his first job was in a large government office in London. When Tom had been working there for a few weeks, his uncle came to visit the family one Saturday evening. He was pleased that his nephew had got a job working for the government, and he asked him a lot of questions about it. One of the questions he asked was, "How many people work in your department , Tom?" The young man thought for a few moments and then answered, "About half of them, Uncle Jim." In fact Tom's answer means that _ . A) the people working in the government office were in many groups and they worked in turn B) most of the government workers were not working hard C) only half of the government workers went to work on time D) the government office had more people than needed
D

We've heard about radiation from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan reaching American shores. Experts say so far there is no reason to worry, and point out that we meet radiation every day. Where and how? NPR's Renee Montagne posed that question to Peter Caracappa, a radiation safety officer and professor of nuclear engineering. MONTAGNE: How many things emit radiation? Dr CARACAPPA: Well, radiation and radioactive material is a part of nature. So everything that's living has some amount of radiation coming from it--a very small amout. Plus there's radiation in the ground and the air. So the extremes are uranium in the soil to bananas? Yes. By the way, why do bananas have radiation? Bananas have a lot of potassium . And a small amount of potassium naturally is called potassium 40, which is radioactive What's the difference between radiation that's harmful and not harmful? Well, the term radiation can apply to a lot of different things. But the harmful radiation is ionizing radiation. It has enough energy that it can make chemical changes in material. We could get ionizing radiation from an X-ray, for example. It's the kind of radiation that causes cancer. The broader definition of radiation includes a lot of things that we call non-ionizing radiation. That includes everything like radio waves and visible light and your microwave. So what then is the largest contributor of ionizing radiation? For the natural sources of ionizing radiation, actually the biggest chunk of that tends to come from radon , which is a radioactive material that is present in the air. It can become a concern when it builds up in low-lying areas of homes like basements. Would it be fair to say that most people do not need to worry about the danger of being exposed to radiation? I would say that the everyday exposure to radioation that we meet contributes an extremely tiny risk to our life or to our health compared to all of the other risks that we meet in our day-to-day life. The purpose of writing this passage is to _ . A) advise on how to protect us from radiation B) analyze what causes radiation in daily life C) warn people of the danger of radiation D) expect people not to fear everyday radiation
D