Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: One day I was walking home along the street with my iPod on, when suddenly my headphones were knocked off my head and a man threw his arm around my neck, saying "Just be quiet." I was being attacked, and this man's arm was gripping onto me! I started screaming and tried to pull him off me, but failed. He was forcing me to walk towards the back of an auto repair shop and he just kept saying: "Be quiet." My mind froze with fear. Then I heard my great-grandmother's voice in my head. She was saying: "Come on now, I know you are stronger than that!" She was the rock in our family until she died four years ago. I have never had any self-defense training, but I went for it--I let out a loud scream as I kicked my leg back into his shin ! He let go of me and I ran off. When I looked back to see if he was running after me, I saw he was running in the opposite direction. Then I ran like crazy to a nearby drugstore. I asked the girl at the counter for the phone and called my mom. She picked me up five minutes later and I explained what happened through sobs. "I am calling the police!" She exclaimed. When we got home, two officers were waiting for us and I told them what had happened. After my experience, I was afraid to do anything. Things slowly got better, but I still don't like anyone going near my neck. The fear isn't totally gone--after all, the guy is still out there somewhere. But I had a new understanding of my own strength. I never expected to be able to fight off an attacker. I am stronger than I realized. Question: Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? - The accident left no influence on the author now. - The attack made the author more confident in a way. - The author Suddenly remembered some self-defense moves. - The author was so frightened that she did nothing to fight back.
The attack made the author more confident in a way.
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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: I had made up my mind a long time ago that I would not give a homeless person money, because I could never be sure what that money would be used for. Instead, I decided, I would buy them a sandwich, a cold drink on a hot day, a cup of coffee, whatever I could manage. I was out recently and saw a homeless man outside of a _ . I decided I would buy this man lunch. I bought a sandwich and soda. Just as I was leaving the store, two policemen were approaching the man. Obviously the shop owners had complained of his wandering and the police were there to draw him away from the storefronts. Just as they were about to wake him, I asked one of the officers if it was all right if I just gave the man something before he went. I was not sure why I asked the permission but the policeman said sure and I just left the bag in the man's cart, got in my car and drove off. As I was driving off I remember thinking "I hope people saw that". Then I had to seriously ask myself why I hoped people had seen me give the man a sandwich from Starbucks. Was it because I wanted people to think, "She's such a nice person!"? Why did I hope others had seen me do it? I continued to wonder this all evening. The next morning, it came to me that I wanted people to have witnessed that small act of kindness not so that I would receive credit and praise but so that they might be inspired to do the same and in so doing that others still would witness their acts of kindness. Thus the whole spirit of pity and giving would be lasting. Question: The author can be best described as _ . - bad-tempered - hard-working - kind-hearted - self-confident
kind-hearted
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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: My father' s response to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York city was immediate and definite: "You won' t catch me putting my money in there!" he declared, "Not in that glass box. " Of course, my father is a gentleman of the old school, a member of the generation to whom a good deal of modern architecture is upsetting, but I believe that his negative response was not so much to the architecture as to a violation of his concept of the nature of money. In his generation money was thought of as a real commodity that could be carried, or stolen. Therefore, to attract the custom of a sensible man, a bank had to have heavy walls, barred windows, and bronze doors, to make sure of the fact, however, untrue, that money would be safe inside. If a building' s design made it appear strong, the institution was necessarily reliable, and the meaning of the heavy wall as an architecture symbol showed the general attitude toward money. But the attitude toward money has, of course, changed. Except pocket money, cash of any kind is now rarely used; money as a tangible commodity has largely been replaced by credit. The banker no longer offers us a safe: he offers us a service in which the most valuable factor is the creativity for the invention of large numbers. It is in no way surprising, in view of this change in attitude, that we are witnessing the disappearance of the heavy-walled bank. Just as the older bank emphasized its strength, this bank by its architecture is proud of imaginative powers. Question: According to this passage, a modern banker should be _ . - ambitious and friendly - reliable and powerful - sensible and strong - imaginative and creative
imaginative and creative
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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: All of us eat every day, but most of us don't understand nutrition . How much do you know about good nutrition? Are the following statements true or false? 1. People who don't eat meat can stay healthy. True. As long as people eat enough milk, eggs and meat alternates , they can get enough protein. 2. Fresh vegetables cooked at home are always more nutritious than canned vegetables. False. The difference depends more on how vegetables are prepared than whether they are fresh or canned. Vegetables cooked in too much water can lose a large quantity of vitamins. 3. Food eaten between meals can be just as good for health as food eaten at regular meals. True. Nutritional value depends on what types of food you eat, not when you eat them. Eating an egg or an orange between meals can _ a good diet. 4. Taking extra vitamins beyond the recommended daily allowances won't give you more energy. True. It's widely believed that extra vitamins provide more energy. But taking more than the baby needs doesn't make it function better, just as overfilling your gas tank doesn't make your car run better. 5. Natural vitamins are better supplements for the diet than _ vitamins. False. There is no difference. A vitamin has the same properties and specific chemical structure whether made in a laboratory or taken from plant or animal parts. 6. Older people need the same amount of vitamins as younger people. True. Older people need the same quantity of vitamins as younger people although they need fewer calories. Certain illnesses raise the requirements for some vitamins, but that is true for the young as well as the old. 7. Food grown in poor soil is lower in vitamins than food grown in rich sold. False. The vitamins in our foods are made by the plants themselves. They don't come from the soil. However, the minerals in a plant depend on the minerals in the soil. If you have answered these questions correctly, you can say you know much about food and nutrition by today's standards. But remember that nutrition is a growing science and... Question: The main purpose of the passage is to _ . - list today's standards of some food and nutrition - introduce what should be eaten and what not - explain what is helpful to your health and what is not - test our nutrition IQ by judging the problems listed
list today's standards of some food and nutrition
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