Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: When doctors urge overweight kids to pick up more activities,reading probably isn't what they have in mind. Yet a new study by fatness researchers at Duke University finds that the simple act of reading--depending on the choice of material--can cause weight loss in teenage girls. The study's experimental group included 31 fat girls aged 9 to 13,who took part in the Healthy Lifestyles Program at Duke Children's Hospital. The girls read a novel called Lake Rescue,whose protagonist is an overweight teenager who struggles with low selfesteem,feelings of loneliness and teasing because of her size. A group of 33 girls read a different book called Charlotte in Paris,which did not have an overweight character,and another group of 17 girls read neither book. At the end of the sixmonth experiment,all the girls who read books had lost weight,but the girls who read Lake Rescue lost more. They lowered their body mass index (BMI) by 0.71,compared with 0.33 in the Charlotte group,an average 0.05 increase among the nonreaders. The idea behind the study,says Dr Sarah Armstrong,director of Healthy Lifestyles,was to find a way to encourage the girls without adopting the restrictive and often authoritative voice of so many other nutrition and diet programs. Lake Rescue was the perfect instrument,says Armstrong;it presents a likable character to whom the girls could relate and whom they could learn from. As the book progresses,its protagonist learns to make healthier lifestyle choices and finds an adviser to help keep her on track. Armstrong says," _ learns that she can become healthier,and the 'I can do it' feeling resonates with the teenage girls." Question: How many girls took part in the experiment? - 31. - 33. - 64. - 81.
81.

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Weleome to Chatsworth *Times and dates for the year 2008 Open 2nd April to 21st December,House open daily 1l:00 a.m.to 5:30 P,m,last admission 4:30 p.m.,closes 5:30 p.m.Last entry to Scots Rooms.open 4;00p.m.gardens open 11:00a.m.to 6:00p.1111.,last admission 5:00 p,m,(open 10:30 a.m.June-August),closes 6:00 p.m.Farmyard and Adventureplayground 10:30 a.m.to 5:30 p.in.last admission 4'30 p.m.,closes 5:30 p.m. *Admission Adults:PS6.50 Senior citizens&students:PS5.25 Children:PS3.00 Children under three:Free Family Ticket:PSl 6.75 Car Park:PS1 00 *Shopping Two Gift Shops,w11 h many items based on designs from tbe House arid Garden. Christmas shopping available at weekends from November to Christmas. *Eating Restaurant servmg home made food.Bar serving drinks and cakes *Special Events in 2007 Angling Fair Weekend 8th and 9th May.One of the fairs in the Country for game and sea fishing funs. Flower and Garden Show Weekend 26th and 27th in June.Tbe second year of this event,with flower shows and sales and gardening advice. Guided Tours[:**Z*X*X*K] Gulded tours for children and students it:English and French at an exlra eharge.Further details from the Booking Office after 10:30 a.m. The 1000 acre Park in the banks of the River Derwent is open,free,throughout the year. Question: What are on sale on 26th and 27th June? - Fishes. - Gardens. - Fairs. - Flowers.
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Flowers.

Ques: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: "You're going to the United States to live? How wonderful! You're really lucky!" Does this sound familiar? Perhaps your family and friends said similar things to you when you left home. But does it seem true all the time? Is your life in this new country always wonderful and exciting? A great many facts show that it's not easy for newcomers to adjust to life in a new culture. They have to experience culture shock. What causes culture shock? Maybe the weather is unpleasant. Perhaps the customs are different. Perhaps the public service systems such as the telephone, post office, or transportation are difficult to figure out and you make mistakes. The simplest things seem difficult. The language may be difficult. The food may seem strange to you. If you don't look similar to the natives, you may feel strange. You may feel as if everyone is watching you. In fact, you are always watching yourself. Everyone experiences culture shock in some form or another. But culture shock comes as a surprise to most people. A lot of the time, the people with the worst culture shock are the people who never had any difficulties in their own countries. They were active and successful in their community. They had hobbies or pastimes which they enjoyed. When they come to a new country, they do not have the same positions or hobbies as they already had in their countries. They find themselves without a role, almost without an identity. They have to build a new self-image. Culture shock produces a feeling of disorientation , which may be homesickness, imagined illness, or even paranoia . When people feel the disorientation of culture shock, they sometimes feel like staying inside all the time. They want to protect themselves from the unfamiliar environment. They want to create an escape within their room to give themselves a sense of security. This escape does solve the problem of culture shock for the short term, but it does nothing to familiarize the person more with the culture. Familiarity and experience are the long-term ways to... Question: Who is the passage mainly for? - The family and friends of those who came to the US. - Those who have got rid of culture shock. - People who can easily adjust their life in the US. - People who have just moved to a foreign country.
Ans: People who have just moved to a foreign country.

Question: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Anchors on China Central Television(CCTV) will need to do some fast talking to replace the popular English acronyms they are now banned from using. Shanghai Dailyreports that "anchors at China Central Television have been banned from saying the English acronyms NBA, CBA, GDP, and the like in their programs." The replacement for those handy acronyms? Chinese presenters must use the full Chinese name, standardized by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. Although CCTV(oops, we mean China Central Television) presenters must already have a score of at least 94 in their government-rated oral mandarin proficiency exam, saying the full name of organizations like the CBA and WTO---10 and 6 characters' long respectively---is sure to challenge even the most skillful anchors. CCTV sports anchor Sun Zhengping tells Shanghai Daily, "A full Chinese explanation of the English initials must be followed if my tongue slips. It is a little troublesome but a necessary one because not every member of the audience can understand the initials." Although the government isn't giving any official explanation for the shift, it is believed to have something to do with a proposal by Huang Youyi, director of the China International Publishing Group, at March's NPC meeting. In his speech, Huang said, "With more and more publications mixing Chinese with English, measures and regulations should be adopted to avoid English invading Chinese. If we don't pay attention and don't take measures to stop the expansion of mixing Chinese with English, Chinese won't be a pure language in a couple of years." Although China is far from the first country to take measures to protect local languages, acronyms are more about saving time than they are about corrupting a language, we would think. Good luck to the CCTV anchors. Question: What's Huang Youyi's purpose? - Using full English names instead of short forms. - Translating Chinese terms into proper English. - Avoiding Chinese words being mixed into English. - Keeping our mother tongue a pure language.
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Keeping our mother tongue a pure language.