Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Bean and other seed shoots are also known as sprouts . The dry bean seeds contain a store of nutrients just waiting to be released when they sprout. Under the right conditions they will germinate . As they grow, the food value of the seeds is multiplied into vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. This happens almost overnight! It is easy to grow your own sprouts, but you need to buy your seeds from supermarkets or health food stores. Seeds for planting in the garden are often powdered with chemicals, so when becoming sprouts they are not safe to eat. Try growing sprouts from a variety of beans and seeds. You will find different sprouts at different stages. Bean sprouts are best when they are about three centimeters long. Wheat and sunflower sprouts taste best when the sprouts and the seeds are of the same length. If the sunflower sprout is too long it leaves a funny stinging feeling in the throat after eating. Alfalfa sprouts are best when their small leaves are well developed. Pea and soybean sprouts are good long or short. If you leave your sprouts in filtered sunlight for a few hours, the leaves will turn green as chlorophyll is added. Eating sprouts with green leaves benefits your blood, cells, and the digestive system. Question: As sprouts grow, the food value of the seeds will _ . Options: A: increase B: decrease C: remain the same D: lose
A

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: The right to pursue happiness is issued to us all with our birth, but no one seems quite sure what it is. A holy man in India may think that happiness is in himself. It is in needing nothing from outside himself. In wanting nothing, he lacks nothing. We westerners, however, are taught that the more we have from outside ourselves, the happier we will be, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. Advertising, one of our major industries, exists not to satisfy these desires but to create them--and to create them faster than any man's money in his pocket can satisfy them. Here, obviously someone is trying to buy the dream of happiness and spending millions upon millions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers. I doubt the holy man's idea of happiness, and I doubt the dreams of the happiness-market, too. Whatever happiness may be, I believe, it is neither in having nothing nor in having more, but in changing--in changing the world and mankind into pure states. To change is to make efforts to deal with difficulties. As Yeats, a great Irish poet once put it, happiness we get for a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties. Robert Frost, a great American poet, was thinking in almost the stone terms when he spoke of "the pleasure of taking pains." It is easy to understand. We even demand difficulty for the fun in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. And a game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it. The rules of the game are man-made difficulties. When the player ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the roles. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to cast away all the rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules. The same is true to happiness. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market seem to have lost their sense of the pleasure of difficulty. Heaven knows what they are playing, but it seems a dull game. And the... Question: Who shares the same idea of happiness with the author.? Options: A: The Indian holy man. B: The great Irish poet Yeats. C: Advertisers. D: The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market.
B

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: As every computer owner knows, when their machines run a complex program they get pretty hot. In fact, cooling the processors can be expensive, especially when you're dealing with huge banks of computer servers. But what if that energy could heat private homes? A Dutch energy firm aims to do just that. Data centers of large Internet firms, such as Google, Apple, Microsoft and others, contain thousands of computer servers. As they process information they generate enormous amounts of heat requiring cooling towers that dissipate it into the atmosphere. A Dutch firm thinks paying for electricity to run the servers and then paying again to cool them is a waste of energy. Boaz Leupe, CEO of the start-up Nerdalize, says it's actually quite simple."We don't actually have to build the data center, which saves a lot of costs in infrastructure and we don't have the cooling overhead, plus that you have the environmental benefit, that the kilowatt hour you are using is used twice, once to heat the home and once to compute the clients task without the cooling overhead," says Leupe. The company developed what it calls an e-Radiator, a computer server that also works as an alternative heating source. Leupe says that five Dutch homeowners are experimentally using them in their homes. "We reimburse the electricity the server uses, and that we can do because of the computer clients on the other side, and, in that way, home owners actually get heating for free, and computer users don't have to pay for the overhead of the data center," says Leupe. One of the participants in the year-long experiment, Jan Visser, says the amount of heat produced by e-Radiator depends on the work being done by the server's processors so it cannot be used as the primary source. But he is ready to try it. "If it gives good enough warmth, you can use less of your existing central heating, and there is the chance for a home owner to pay less bills." Nerdalize says e-Radiators generate temperature of up to 55 degrees Celsius and could save up to $440 in... Question: What is NOT true about e-Radiator according to the passage? Options: A: It is a computer server used as an alternative heating source. B: It has been launched onto the market. C: It is environmentally friendly. D: It can save users' money.
A: B

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Upcoming Audition(,) The Musical Sweeney Todd Executive Director: Paul German Director: Calvin Remsberg Artistic Director : Steven Glaudini Musical Director: JohnGlaudini Opening: 1 January 2011 To 14 January 2011 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Long Beach Road Audition Location: Musical Theater West ----- Reiner Rehearsal Hall 4350 East 7thStreet Long Beach Road 5(908046) Audition Date and Time: Monday,9 November 2010 11:00 a.m---5:40 p.m * by appointment only * call (65)856-1999 to make an appointment. Selected cast will be informed by 12 December 2010 upon the Director's confirmation. Preparation for the Audition: Sing the most promising and melodious song. Opera in English is acceptable. The score will be provided. Characters: Nellie Lovett: She is a comical and humorous lady in her forties with a strong high voice. Anthony Hope: He is an earnest young man in his mid-twenties with a medium voice range. Tobias Ragg: He is a teenager with a sweet and protective soul. He has high powerful singing voice. Johanna: She is an elegant beautiful young lady with a youthful sweet high voice. We are also selecting male and female supporting roles with powerful high or low singing voices, from the age of 18 and above. Note: The character Sweeney Todd has been selected. Question: The aim of the advertisement is to _ . Options: A: tell the public about the story of Sweeney Todd B: promote the love for watching a musical performance C: inform those interested to audition for a musical D: encourage the public to watch the musical Sweeney Todd
C