Q: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Hi 56degF/13degC 56degF/13degC 59degF/15degC 58degF/14degC 54degF/12degC Lo 42degF/6degC 47degF/8degC 50degF/10degC 46degF/8degC 45degF/7degC Mostly sunny Sunny to partly cloudy Some sunshine giving way to clouds A couple of morning showers Sun mixing with high clouds Other Locations Place Conditions Temperature Humidity Pressure Chicago Overcast 45degF/7degC 68% 30.12 in London Partly Sunny 55degF/13degC 58% 29.77 in Los Angeles Clear 52degF/11degC 25% 29.99 in San Francisco Clear 42degF/6degC 84% 30.1 in Tokyo Rain 50degF/10degC 87% 29.83 in Question: has the fourth lowest temperature on Monday. Options: A: Chicago B: New York C: Tokyo D: San Francisco
A: C

Q: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Before the grass has thickened on the roadside and leaves have started growing on the trees is a perfect time to look around and see just how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are stained with chewing gum that has been spat out. Years ago I remember travelling abroad and being saddened by the plastic bags and discarded bottles on every road. Nowadays, Britain seems to look at least as bad. What has gone wrong? The problem is that the rubbish created by our increasingly mobile lives lasts a lot longer than before. If it is not cleared up and properly thrown away, it stays in the undergrowth for years; a semi-permanent reminder of what a _ little country we have now. Firstly, it is estimated that 10 billion plastic bags have been given to shoppers. These will take anything from 100 to 1,000 years to rot. However, it is not as if there is no solution to this. A few years ago, the Irish government introduced a tax on non-recyclable carrier bags and in three months reduced their use by 90%. When he was a minister, Michael Meacher attempted to introduce a similar arrangement in Britain. The plastics industry protested, of course. However, they need not have bothered; the idea was killed before it could draw breath, leaving supermarkets free to give away plastic bags. What is clearly necessary right now is some sort of combined initiative before it is too late. The alternative is to continue sliding downhill until we have a country that looks like a vast rubbish tip. We may well be at the tipping point. Yet we know that people respond to their environment. If things around them are clean and tidy, people behave cleanly and tidily. If they are surrounded by squalor , they behave squalidly. Now, much of Britain looks pretty squalid. What will it look like in five years? Question: Michael Meacher _ . Options: A: followed the Irish example with a tax on plastic bags B: tried to follow the Irish example with a tax on plastic bags C: made no attempt to follow the Irish example with a tax on plastic bags D: had problems with the plastics industry who weren't bothered about the tax
A: B

Q: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: At the age of ten I could not figure out what this Elvis Presley guy had that the rest of us boys did not have.I mean,he had a head,two arms and two legs,just like the rest of us.About nine o'clock on Saturday morning I decided to ask Eugene Correthers,one of the older boys,what it was that made this Elvis guy so special.He told me that it was Elvis'wavy hair and the way he moved his body. About half an hour later all the boys in the orphanage were called to the main dining-room and told we were all going to downtown Jacksonville,Florida to get a new pair of Buster Brown shoes and a haircut. _ . If the Elvis hair cut was the big secret,then that's what I was going to get. A11 the way to town I told everybody, including the matron from the orphanage who was taking us to town,that I was going to look just like Elvis Presley and that I would learn to move around just like he did and that I would be rich and famous one day, just like him. When I got my new Buster Brown shoes, I could hardly wait for my new hair cut and now that I had my new Busier Brown shoes I would be very happy to go back to the orphanage and practice being like Elvis. We finally arrived at the big barber shop,where they cut our hair for free because we were orphans .I looked at the barber and said,"I want an Elvis hair cut. Can you make my hair like Elvis?"I asked him,with a big smile on my face."Let's just see what we can do for you,little man,"he said.I was so happy when he started to cut my hair.Just as he started to cut my hair, the matron signed for him to come over to where she was standing.She whispered something into his ear and then he shook his head,like he was telling her"No".Then he told me they were not allowed to give us Elvis hair cuts.Then I saw my hair falling onto the floor. Question: How would the boy probably feel when he walked out of the barber shop? Options: A: Delighted. B: Guilty. C: Self-satisfied. D: Depressed.
A: D

Q: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: With only a click of the mouse, rumours can be forwarded between microblogs very quickly. As an example, recently, sensitive netizens discovered that some photos displayed on microblogs describing Beijing's June rainstorm had actually been Sina.com is one of the major Internet portals in China with hundreds and thousands of users, and a majority of celebrities and famous citizens have their microblog accounts on this portal. As recently as six months ago, the website decided to establish a specialized team to prove rumours and provide accurate information for its users. Tan Chao is in charge of the team. " Before I took the job, I usually couldn't identify what information was real and what was fake. But during the process of identification, we discovered that a lot of information was false, including fake photos, fake news stories and rumours that had been spread through microblogs." It's not just website portals which are taking on fact-checking responsibilities, but also a number of civic-minded netizens, who recently set up a Rumour Identification Federation on Sina.com's microblog system to help netizens identify fake information online. Dian Zizheng is the team leader of the federation. He says they've publicized more than 150 pieces which contradict rumours, which attracted more than 10 thousand visitors within two months. "We live in an age of new media, so we can't use the old methods to prove rumours. We can't wait for the media to prove the facts with related administrative departments and then release a formal announcement. We can't allow rumours to run wild and then deal with it, we need to fight rumours while they're spreading. I think that this is the best way to deal with rumours nowadays." Some experts say this displays the advantages of the internet compared to other traditional media. The open platform allows information to be examined and clarified by netizens. But experts like Ding Wengguo,President of the Journalism and Communication College at the China University of Political Science... Question: Sina.com decided to found a specialized team to _ . Options: A: prevent the spread of rumours on the Internet B: advance the development of microblog C: limit the number of microblog D: urge the government to react quickly to the rumours
A: A