Read the article and select the best answer. Article: When I'm in trouble, I always take out a book and read quietly. I put my heart into it so that I'll forget all the troubles. I've formed the habit of reading in this way. When I was a little boy, I was interested in picture books and storybooks. When I was a middle school student, I began to read novels, plays, essays and so on. I found I could get much from them. Little by little I took great interest in literature and last term I won the first prize in the composition contest among middle school students in our city. Reading The Emperor's New Clothes, I had to let out a burst of laughter over his silly action. The Little Match Girl couldn't keep me from crying for her misery . Robinson Crusoe took me into a strange world full of danger. And I was also deeply impressed by Helen Keller's perseverance . Besides these, books also tell me other things -- how to be a brave man and how to tell the difference between the right and the wrong. In a word, good books can make me know what I didn't know before. So I think of good books as my best friends. I'll never forget this famous saying, "Good books are the best friends who never turn their backs upon us." Question: What does the passage mainly tell us? Options: A: How patient Helen Keller was. B: How brave Crusoe was. C: Why the writer likes good books. D: What the writer learns from a good book.
C

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Light travels at a speed which is about a million times faster than the speed of sound. You can get some idea of this difference by watching the start of a race. If you stand some distance away from the starter, you can see smoke from his gun before the sound reaches your ears. This great speed of light produces some strange facts. Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach us. If you look at the light of the moon tonight, remember that the light rays left the moon 1.3 seconds before they reached you. The nearest star is so far away that the light that you can see from it tonight started to travel towards you four years ago at a speed of nearly 2 million km. per minute. In some cases, the light from one of tonight's stars had started on its journey to you before you were born. Thus, if we want to be honest, we can't say, "The stars are shining tonight." We have to say instead, "The stars look pretty. They were shining four years ago, but their light has only just reached the earth." Question: If you stand 200 meters away from a man who is firing a gun to start a race, you will find out that _ . Options: A: you can hear the sound before you see the smoke B: the sound does not travel as fast as light C: the sound will reach you before the man fires D: sound travels about a million times faster than light
B

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: This is No. 2 Middle School. My friend, Wei Hua is in the school. She is fifteen. She is in Class Three, Grade Two. Wei Hua has two good friends. They are Kate and Lily. Kate is from England. She is fifteen, too. But She is in No. 3 Middle School. She is in Class One, Grade Two. Lily is an American girl. She is fifteen, too. She is in No. 2 Middle School, too. She is in Class Two, Grade Two. Lily's Chinese teacher is Miss Yang. Lily likes Chinese very much. She can speak Chinese very well. Question: Kate is _ girl. Options: A: an American B: an English C: a Chinese D: a Japanese
A: B

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: To protect the environment, we are on the way. Here are a few things we can do. Unwanted gifts? Give them away! Have you ever received a gift that you didn't like? Did you throw it away? If so, you can have another choice now. Two British companies hopes people will give away their unwanted gifts to them. And they will resell the gifts to raise money for the poor. In this way, the gifts can be refused and have a future life. And people can make a difference to the world. Wear the trousers that reduce pollution! A chemistry scientist and a fashion designer have created a new kind of trousers. The trousers are made of a new material which can help reduce air pollution around us. Scientists have tested the material. The result shows that it isn't harmful to human. This new kind of trousers may appear at the market in two years. Professor Ryan said, "If thousands of people wear the trousers, the air quality will be improved." Plant trees with Felix Felix Finkbeiner, a 14-year-old German boy, is not famous as a child actor but an environment hero. At the age of 9, Felix got the idea that children could do something to protect the environment. So he started a club. Felix soon got support from children all over the world. Some of them have become his good friends. The club has an aim of planting 212 million trees. They have planted over 3.5 million trees all around the world. Felix said, "The answer to controlling global warming is trees--lots of trees!" Question: The companies resell the unwanted gifts _ . Options: A: to make the unwanted gifts useful B: to help people learn to think carefully C: to save money from it D: to make money for themselves.
Answer: A

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: There was a famous church in London. It was 110 meters high. The center of the church was like a bell. The ceiling of the church was painted by a famous artist. They built a platform so that the artist could put up a ladder on it and paint the ceiling. The platform was about 70 meters over the ground. One day the artist was working hard and nearly finished one popular corner of the ceiling. Also on the platform was his assistant , who was mixing paints. The artist stepped back so that he could see how his work was doing. To have a better look at his painting, he stepped back again. _ "What do you think you are doing?" he shouted angrily. "Are you mad ?" His assistant replied, "I saw you walking backwards to have a better look at your painting. But you didn't notice that you reached the very edge of the platform. You were in great danger. I wanted to make you move forwards. If I had not made you run forwards, you would have fallen backwards off the edge of the platform." Question: Why did the artist step back again? Options: A: To have a better look at his painting. B: To see how his work was doing. C: To paint a bowl in his painting. D: To pour some paint on his painting.
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Mrs Green's telephone number was three-four-six-three, and the number of the cinema near her house was three-four-six-four, so people often made a mistake and telephoned her when they wanted the cinema. One evening the telephone rang and Mrs Green answered it. A tired man said, "At what time does your last film begin?" "I'm sorry", she said Mrs Green, "but you have the wrong number. T his is not the cinema." "Oh, it began twenty minutes ago," said the man." That's too bad. Goodbye." Question: People often made a mistake and telephone her when they wanted _ Options: A: the cinema B: the shop C: the factory D: the visit
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A