Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Nobody knows who invented the pencil or when it was invented. A Swiss described a pencil in a book in 1565. He said it was a piece of wood with lead inside it . Pencils weren't popular, and people continued to write with pens. In 1795,someone started making pencils from graphite and they became very popular. Today, people make pencils in the same way. They make the graphite into the shape of a stick, and then they put it inside a piece of wood. One pencil can make a line as long as 55 kilometers. When people first wrote with pens , they had to put the penpoint into ink after every few letters. Later someone invented a fountain pen and this kind of pen could hold ink inside. A fountain pen can write several pages before you have to fill it again. Two brothers, Ladislao and Georg Biro, invented the ballpoint pen that we use today. They left their country Hungary and started producing ballpoint pens in England in 1943 during World War II. Later, a French company called Bic bought the Biro's company. Someone calls ballpoint pens bics. Australians call them biros. Whatever we call them, we use them every day. Question: Where were Ladislao and Georg Biro from? Options: A: America. B: Australia. C: England. D: Hungary.
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Ling Tao is a student in Class 6, Grade 1. He has a good friend in the school, and his name is Tony. Tony is not a student. He is Ling Tao's English teacher. He is from England. He is only twenty-three years old, and he is a tall boy. He likes to wear blue clothes. He likes eating healthy food. Tony is good at singing. He often teaches the students to sing English songs and plays games with them. The students all love him and he loves them, too. ,. Question: Tony is Ling Tao's _ . Options: A: sister B: teacher C: mum D: father
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B

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: A man stopped his car at the door of a flower shop. He planned to order flowers and asked the shopkeeper to deliver them to his mother, who was far away in the man's hometown. The man saw a little girl crying on the road when he was about to enter the shop. The man asked her: "Why are you crying?" "I want to buy a rose for my mother, but I haven't got enough money," said the girl. The man took the girl's hand and entered the flower shop. He first ordered the bouquet for his mother and bought a rose for the girl. Walking out of the shop, the man asked the girl if she would like a ride home. "Will you really drive me home?" she asked. "Of course," the man replied. "Then drive me to my mother. But the place where my mother lives is very far." The man drove along the mountain road and finally came to the cemetery . The little girl put the flower onto a new grave. In order to present a rose to her mother who had passed away a month before, she had gone on a very long journey. The man drove the girl to her home and then returned to the flower shop. He cancelled the bouquet and bought a big bunch of fresh flowers instead. He drove directly to his mother's home, a five-hour drive from where he was. He would present the flowers to his mother in person. Question: What changed the man's mind? Options: A: Roses in the shop. B: The girl's behavior. C: The girl's mother. D: The shopkeeper.
Ans: B

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Life is like the four seasons. Now I am very old, but when I was young, it was the spring of my life. After I was born, I played a lot, and then I started school. I learned many new things. Like a flower, I grew bigger every day. There were happy days and _ ldays: some days the sun shone, and some days it didn't. In my twenties, I had a good job. I was strong and happy. Then I married and had a child. In those days, I didn't have much time to think. Every day I was busy and worked very hard. And so, I started to get some white hairs. The summer of my life passed quickly. Then the days got shorter. Leaves fell from the trees. My child was a university student, and then an engineer. My home was much quieter. I started walking more slowly. One day I stopped working. I had more time. I understood this was my autumn, a beautiful time when the trees change color and give us delicious fruits. But the days kept getting shorter and colder. Winter has come. I am older and weaker. I know I do not have many days left, but I will enjoy them to the end. Question: The writer started walking more slowly in the _ of his life. Options: A: spring B: summer C: autumn D: winter
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C

Ques:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: A farmer had a faithful horse who was old and couldn't do much work. So the farmer no longer wanted to give him anything to eat and said, " If you can bring me a lion here, I will keep you." The horse was sad, and went to the forest. There he met a fox. After the fox heard the story, he said. "I will help you. Just lie down, as if you were dead, and do not move.'' The horse did what the fox asked, and then the fox went to the lion and said, "A dead horse is lying out there. Just come with me, and you have a rich meal." The lion went with him, and they were both standing by the horse, the fox said, "Now let me tie the horse to your tail and you can take it home and eat it." The fox's words made the lion very happy. But the fox tied the lion's legs together with the horse's tail. When the fox finished his work, he said to the horse, "Pull the lion to the farmer." Then the horse pulled the lion away with him at once. The lion was very angry but he couldn't do anything. When the farmer saw the lion, he was in a good mood , and said to the horse, " You can stay with me.'' And he give him enough food to eat until the horse died. Question: Which of the following is TRUE? Options: A: The farmer was angry with the fox. B: The fox helped the lion eat the horse. C: The farmer accepted the horse at last. D: At last the horse left the farmer.

Ans:C

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: BASEBALL. It's just a word, but for millions of Americans it brings much more than a word. Hot dogs. Cold beers. Sunny afternoons. Baseball is the game of fathers and sons. Fathers and sons catch with each other on lawns in the US. A father's favorite team becomes his son's. Grandfathers talk to their grandsons about games played long ago. Many American kids collect baseball cards. The cards have pictures of their favorite players on them. In school, friends trade baseball cards just like they trade their lunches. Players are known as "the boys of summer" because people often play the sport mostly in warm months. You don't need to be of a certain size or shape to play baseball. You don't have to be tall like a basketball player or strong like an American footballer. You just need to want to have fun. Baseball is not as fast-paced a game as basketball. But when you go to see a game, there's time to relax, talk and get to know other people. Baseball may not be the most popular sport in the US, but it is the most traditional. It's not just a game any more, but an important part of American culture, like apple pie and grandma's house. Question: People like to play baseball in _ . Options: A: wet months B: cool months C: warm months D: cold months
C