Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Waiting anxiously to be reunited with the son he had not seen for 13 years, Phil Baker took a walk along the beach with his wife Lyn to relax himself. His boy Benji, 21, was finally back to Australia after living most of his life in the UK, half a world away from his dad. As he looked out at the ocean, wondering how his son might have changed over the years, Phil saw some people on the kayaks in trouble on the water. Without hesitation, he dived into the sea to help. And as he carried a stricken young man trembling and semi-conscious to the shore, he realized the young man was his long-lost son. "I looked at his face, and something occurred to me," says Phil. "Those brown eyes were very familiar." Although Phil had seen just a few photos of his son since the boy was eight years old, he recognized him at once. It would be reasonable to suppose it was a father's instinct that _ Phil to help ---- but at the moment he dived into the water to go to the aid of the struggling group, he only thought he was helping a stranger in trouble. He said, "Two people were desperately paddling on one of the kayaks and it seemed like someone fell into the water. I told Lyn, 'Something is not right; I'm going to help.' " "l took off my T-shirt and threw my keys on the sand. Diving into the water, I saw there were two instructors on board and a man lying in the water. He was shaking violently. Linking arms with one instructor, I helped to carry the man out of the water. He was drifting in and out of consciousness and his hands and feet were blue." Then Phil looked into the boy's eyes and wept as he realized the stricken stranger was his own son. Phil recalled, "I asked the instructor, 'what's his name?' " He replied, 'Benji'. In an instant, I knew that stranger was my boy. I checked his breathing and pulse and said, "It's me, your dad. You're going to be OK." Benji tells how it felt to be saved by his long-lost dad. "All I remember was waking up on the beach and seeing my dad there," he says, "And I recognized his face straight away." Question: What can we know about the Bakers? Options: A: Phil and his wife lived in Australia. B: Phil knew he was going to save his son. C: Benji was going to see off his son on the beach. D: Benji and Phil were separated because of Benji's education.
A

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Large wall posters for kids. Your kids will love these cool posters by artist Darla Daly--zebras boarding in the skateboard park, a group of jungle animals playing in the playground and two giraffes taking a drive in the city. Your kids will enjoy decorating their bedroom walls with these posters and their friends will think they are the coolest! Displaying 1 to 4 (of 4 products) Question: The passage is written for _ . Options: A: teachers B: students C: kids D: parents
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: More than half of the world's population live in cities. Traffic and pollution are becoming big problems in big cities all over the world. In cities like Mexico City, Shanghai or Cairo the quality of air is getting worse every day. In the United States, people spend more time sitting in traffic jams. Some of the world's cities have already found the answer to the problem. In Bogota, the capital of Columbia, the government has taken measures to improve the quality of life for the city's 8 million people. They created over a thousand new parks, a new public transport system, and built hundreds of cycling and walking paths. People who live in the city also joined in making their city one of the most livable places in South America. Today city planners around the world are looking for ways to provide more room for living and less room for cars. In America, public transport has increased over 2 % since the mid 1990s -- not much but a start. More and more people leave their cars at home and get on buses, trains or even ride a bike to work. Some cities are far better at planning than others. In Amsterdam, for example, only 40 % of the population use their cars to get to work, 35 % ride bikes while 25% use public transport. In Paris, about half of the city's workers drive their cars to work. For cities in developing countries, the problems have just started. Traffic is getting worse as more and more people can afford to buy a car. Question: The writer listed Mexico City, Shanghai and Cairo as examples of cities of _ . Options: A: heavy traffic B: air pollution C: rapid development D: large population
B

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Researchers claimed that waitresses who wear red get up to 26 percent extra in tips than they would wearing other colors. However, the team finds that the sexes tip very differently--with the bigger tips coming only from male customers. No matter what color they wear, female diners will give the same kind of amounts for service every time. Yet men, whether they realize it or not, add anything between 15 and 26 percent more to a waitress in red than they would if it was the same waitress wearing a different color. The test was simple. Take 11 waitresses in five restaurants over a six-week period and ask them to wear the same kind of T-shirt every day but change the colors. Previous research has suggested waitresses could earn more if they acted charmingly or wore more make-up than their colleagues. But this study, by the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, only changed the color of the T-shirt. Every other aspect from make-up to behavior remained the same. When wearing either black, white, green, blue or yellow T-shirts, the size of the tips from both male and female customers was almost _ . But when they wore red, the size of the tips went up by between 15 and 26 percent from male customers, yet stayed the same from female ones. A total of 272 restaurant customers were studied by researchers Nicolas Gueguen and Celine Jacob for the international journal of the tourism industry. Even as a T-shirt, it shows just how much the color red is thought, by men, to increase the physical and sexual attractiveness of woman, said the researchers. The researchers wrote: As red color has no negative effect on women customers, it could be in their interest to wear clothes at work. Question: What is the main idea of the passage? Options: A: People tip differently if waitresses wear different make-up. B: Waitresses who wear red get more tips than they would wearing other colors. C: Male customers are more interested in the red color. D: Red color has no negative effect on female customers.
B