Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Do you feel tired sometimes? Nowadays, stress is everywhere in our daily life. Not just men, women and young people also suffer from stress. There are many causes, such as: death, marriage, money, moving house, changing jobs, ending relationships. So how do you know if you suffer from stress? Do the Stress Test and find out! Stress Test Do you ...? Yes No 1. often sleep badly? 2. get headaches a lot? 3. find it difficult to relax? 4. need alcohol or cigarettes to keep calm? 5. usually hide your feeling? 6. find it difficult to put your heart into something? 7. take sleeping pills? 8. get angry when things go wrong? If you have more than two "Yes" among these questions, you are suffering from stress. So what can you do about it? Doing yoga , chewing gum and playing with worry beads are all common ways of relieving stress. However, doctors now say that there are simpler ways. They say that people should laugh and smile more often. When you laugh and smile, your body relaxes. They also say that people--and especially men--ought to cry more often, because cry ing is the natural way of relieving stress. Question: Which of the following is NOT a way to relieve stress? Options: A: Doing yoga. B: Taking sleeping pills. C: Laughing and crying. D: Playing with worry beads.
B

Read the article and select the best answer. Article: A boy who was cleaning shoes in the street said to a young man passing by, "Let me clean your shoes." The young man said, "No, thank you." "You may pay me only a pound, sir," said the boy. But the young man refused again. Then the boy told him that he would clean his shoes for nothing. The young man agreed to this, and soon one of his shoes was shining brightly. The man put the other shoe on the boy, but the boy refused to clean it unless he was paid two pounds for his work. The young man refused to pay anything and went away. But the dirty one looked so bad that he couldn't walk away. He had to turn back and gave the boy two pounds. In a very short time his shoes shone brightly. Question: What do you think of the boy? Options: A: Generous. B: Hard-working. C: Polite. D: Smart.
D

Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Mr. Hunt was living in a village and he wanted to go to an office one day. He got into his car and drove to the city. He went there without any trouble and stopped in front of the door. He locked his car and started to go into the office, but then he turned around and went back to his car. "I've left my keys in it!" he said to himself. Then he called his wife and said, "Excuse me, but I've locked my keys in my car, please bring your keys to me." Mrs. Hunt got into their second car and drove thirty kilometers to her husband. But while Mr. Hunt was waiting, he walked around his car and tried the other door. It was not locked. He locked it quickly before his wife arrived. ,. Question: When Mrs. Hunt arrived, she would find Mr. Hunt _ . Options: A: needed her help very much B: had already got his keys C: had already gone into the office D: had already sat in the car
A: A

Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: My name is Tom. I like shopping, but I think shopping with young children is not an easy thing. I have to look after them while I am shopping. I don't think shopping with women is fun, either. I often go shopping with my friends. It is fun. If I think a kind of shirt is fit for me, I think it is also fit for my friends. So I'd like them to think about buying the same things. My name is Sandy. I like shopping too. But I never go shopping on Saturdays or Sundays. There are a lot of people in the shops. I like shopping with my friends. I usually spend a lot of time choosing things because I never buy the first thing I see. I always look around other shops to find the best price. I can find the best very well. I dislike buying food in small shops and street markets. I think food in the supermarket is very fresh and very cheap, so I like shopping there. Question: Tom and Sandy both like shopping _ . Options: A: with friends B: at weekends C: with their family D: on the Internet
Answer: A

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Joe:What do you do on weekends? David:Well, I usually have to study on Saturdays. Joe:And how about Sundays? David:Well, we have lunch together. You know, all of the members of my family. Then after lunch, I go to the park and meet my friends. Joe:Oh? What do you do there? David:We play football. After that I usually go to see a film outside the city. Joe:Do you often go out of the city? David:About once a month. My uncle has a small farm. Joe:It's nice. Do you go alone? David:No, my mum, my two sisters and some of my friends go there, too. Joe:But why do you go there? David:Many things: green trees, clean air, and there are few people. Question: Who has lunch with David on Sundays? Options: A: No one. B: The whole family. C: His friends. D: His uncle.
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B

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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: In learning English, one should first pay attention to listening and speaking.It is the groundwork of reading and writing.You'd better try your best to speak while you do much listening.Don't be afraid of making mistakes.But be careful not to let them stop you from improving your English.While you are doing this, a good way is to write---keep a diary, write notes or letters, and then if you can, ask someone else to go through what you have written and tell you what is wrong.Many mistakes in your speaking will be easily found when you write.Through correcting the mistakes, you can do better in learning English. If you are slow in speaking, don't worry.One of the helpful ways is reading, either aloud or to yourself.The important thing is to choose something interesting to read.It mustn't be too difficult for you.When you are reading in this way, don't stop to look up the words if you can guess their meanings, or they have nothing important to do with the sentence.You can look them up later. Question: When you are speaking, _ . Options: A: you shouldn't make any mistakes B: you must speak slowly C: it doesn't matter if you make any mistakes D: you had better take a dictionary with you
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C