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Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: With its 190 million inhabitants, Brazil has the largest population in Latin America and ranks fifth in the world.  However, Brazil's population growth rate has dropped greatly and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. This achievement really becomes the envy of many other Third World countries. Brazil has become one of the developing world's great successes at reducing population growth-----but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had a better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard. Martine  _ , among other things, soap operas(TV series) and installment  plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world's biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil's most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most TV series are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities. "Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction , they describe middle and upper class values-----not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working," says Martine. "They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior and other values, which were put into a very attractive package." Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers. "This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and showed that consumption was in contradiction with unlimited reproduction," says Martine. Question: The phrase "puts it down to"(Line1, Para. 3) is closest in meaning to "  _  ". Options: A: attributes it to B: finds it a reason for C: sums it up as D: compares it to

Answer: A
Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: When I was 16 years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn't the first time I had been abroad. Like most English children, I learnt French at school and I had often been to France, so I was used to speaking a foreign language to people who didn't understand English. But when I went to America I was really looking forward to having a nice easy holiday without any language problems. How wrong I was! The misunderstanding began at the airport. I was looking for a public telephone to give my American friend Danny a ring and tell her that I had arrived. A friendly old man saw me looking like being lost and asked if he could help me. "Yes,"I said."I want to give my friend a ring." "Well, that's  nice,"he exclaimed  ."Are you getting married? But aren't you a bit young?" "Who is talking about marriage?" I replied. "I just want to give my friend a ring to tell her I've arrived. Can you tell me where there's a phone box?" "Oh!"he said."There's a phone downstairs." When at last we did meet up, Danny explained the misunderstanding to me."Don't worry," she said to me."I had many difficulties at first. There are lots of words which the Americans use differently in meaning from us British. You'll soon get used to all the funny things they say. But most of the time British and American people can understand each other!" Question: From the passage we can see that "give somebody a ring "  _ Options: A: has two different meanings B: means "call somebody" for the old man C: means "be going to get married "in England D: has the same meaning in American as in England
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Answer: A
Question: Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: I attended a birthday party in 1991. My teacher was then 59 years old. But her fellow teacher said that we were celebrating her 39thbirthday! We were all surprised and puzzled. After the party I was told by the fellow teacher that American women have a special saying about birthdays. If a woman is over 40, or even if she is 80, her birthday is always the 39th. If she is in her thirties, her birthday will be the 29th. And in her twenties, it's the 19th. They usually have their "real" birthday when they are below 20. This shows that American women, especially elderly women, are very sensitive  about their ages. But my teacher always says, "We want to be younger," so about the age of Western women, my advice is that if you don't know it, don't ask about it; if you really know it, don't mention it. Question: In order to please an old Western woman , you can say to her,"  _  " Options: A: You are so old that you shouldn't do that. B: How old are you? C: You look so young and beautiful. D: Can I help you, granny?
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Answer: C
Question: Please answer the following question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Smart job-seekers need to rid themselves of several standard myths about interviewing before they start looking for a job. What follows is a list of some of these untruths and some tips to help you do your best at your next interview. Myth 1: The aim of interviewing is to obtain (means "get") a job offer. Only half true. The real aim of an interview is to obtain the job you want. That often means rejecting job offers you don't want! So before you please an employer, be sure you want the job. Myth 2: Always please the interviewer Not true. Try to please yourself. Of course, don't be hostile--nobody wants to hire someone disagreeable. But there is plainly a muddle ground between being too ingratiating and being hostile. Myth 3: Try to control the interview Nobody "controls" an interview. When someone tries to control us, we resent it. When we try to control others, they resent us. Remember you can't control what an employer thinks of you, just as he can't control what you think of him. So he is ready to give and take when being interviewed; never control the interview. Myth 4: Never interrupt the interviewer Study the style of the effective conversationalists: they interrupt and are interrupted! An exciting conversation always makes us feel free--free to interrupt, to disagree, to agree enthusiastically. Just _ Try being yourself for a change. Employers will either like or dislike you, but at least you'll have made an impression. Leaving an employer indifferent is the worst impression you can make. Question: The right attitude to a job interviewer is to be   _  . Options: A: obedient B: hostile C: pleasing D: agreeable
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Answer: D
Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: You do not need every word to understand the meaning of what you read. In fact, too much emphasis   on separate words both slows your speed and reduces your comprehension. First, any habit which slows down your silent reading to the speed at which you speak or read aloud, is inefficient. If you point to each word as you read, or move your head, or form the words with your lips, you read poorly. Less obvious habits also hold back reading efficiency  . One is "saying" each word silently by moving your tongue or throat; another is "hearing" each word as you read. These are habits which should have been outgrown long ago. The beginning reader is learning how letters can make words, how written words are pronounced, and how sentences are put together. Your reading purpose is quite different, which is to understand meaning. It has been supposed that up to 75% of the words in English sentences are not really necessary for expressing the meaning. The secret of silent reading is to find out those key words and phrases which carry the thought, and to pay less attention to words which exist only for grammatical completeness. An efficient reader can grasp the meaning from a page at least twice as fast as he can read the page aloud. He takes in a whole phrase or thought unit at a time. If he "says" or "hears" words to himself, they are selected ones, said for emphasis. Question: This passage is mainly about   _  . Options: A: improving eye movement B: reading more widely C: changing poor reading habits D: reading as fast as you can
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Answer: D
Question: Given the question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Traffic problems are an everyday concern in many cities,including Washington,DC.A growing number of Washingtonians are turning to bicycles to get to and from work.In fact,the number of commuters who use bicycles has doubled in the city since 2007. Ralph Buehler teaches urban planning at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,popularly known as Virginia Tech.He has written a book about urban biking,called "City Cycling". He says there is a reason why urban bike tiding is now becoming more popular. "Over the last 60 to 70 years.cities in the U.S.have been adapted to the automobile." "Most cities took advantage of the money coming for the interstate highway system,from the federal government,starting in 1956.There was a 90 percent federal match so the cities only had to put up 10%.It was very tempting." In the years after World War Two,many Americans moved to suburban communities,just outside major cities,They decided to travel great distances to and from work in exchange for a home in the suburbs.Their cars became a symbol of freedom.  But today,many people believe they can save money by living in the city.  Greg Billing is with the Washington Area Bicyclist Association."When a person makes a change from 04 using a car to using a bike,they are saving anywhere between 8 or$9,000 a year."  Ralph Buehler says governments save money when people use bicycles."Building bicycling facilities is much cheaper than building and maintaining road facilities or public transport." Washington,DC has also taken steps to protect bike riders.It approved a safe passing law and created areas on the road between cars and bikes. The United States Census Bureau says 4%of the city's workers ride to work by bike.The only city on the East Coast with more bike commuters is New York. Question: What can we know from Ralph Buehler's statement? Options: A: The federal government supported building public transport. B: Government invested a lot to build bicycling facilities. C: Cities didn't use the money from the government wisely. D: Urban biking has been popular in the last 60 to 70 years.
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Answer: A
Question: Please answer the following question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Ocean animals have been getting bigger over the last half-billion years. Not a little bigger. Not even a lot bigger. They have _ gigantically, scientists now conclude. Their new finding lends support for something known as "Cope's rule." It holds that animals tend to evolve into species that are much larger than their distant ancestors. This hypothesis takes its name from the 19thcentury paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope. While studying fossils , he was the first to notice this trend. Noel Heim is a paleontologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. He also is a co-author of the new study. His team compared the body size of animals between the Cambrian Period and modern times. This was a span of 542 million years. The animals studied included species from more than 17,000 genera. They ranged from ancient trilobites, plesiosaurs (extinct reptiles with a long neck and flippers) and many less familiar creatures to today's whales and clams. Ocean animals today are an average of 150 times larger than they were during the Cambrian, Heim's group reports. The smallest animals alive today -- tiny crustaceans called ostracods -- are only about one-tenth the size of the Cambrian's tiniest animals. But today's largest ocean animals -- whales -- are more than 100,000 times bigger than the biggest in the Cambrian. "Classes of animals that were already big ... tended to live longer," Heim says. They also tended to change more than classes of animals that were small did. The size gains in ocean animals are much larger than would be expected by chance, saysJonathan Payne. He's a co-author who also works at Stanford. The scientists don't know what drives the trend. One possibility is an arms race between predators and prey. The idea here is that larger animals are less likely to become some other animals' meal. Another possibility has to do with oxygen. Land animals evolved from species that started in the ocean. Some of these land animals eventually returned to the ocean. And they kept the ability to breathe... Question: The ocean animals' change in size   _  . Options: A: is determined by environment B: cannot be predicted by any factor C: is fully explained by the new study D: relates to the size of their ancestors
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Answer: D
Question: Given the question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: The law says women should have the chance of doing the same jobs as men and earn the same as them. The reality is very different. Women lose because, 25 years after the Equal Pay Act, many of them still get paid less than men. They lose because they do lower-paid jobs which men just won't consider. And they lose because they are the ones who interrupt a career to have children.  All this is reported in an independent study ordered by the Government's women's unit. The biggest problem isn't equal pay in workplaces such as factories. It is the sort of work women do. Make a list of low-paid-jobs, then consider who does them. Try nurses, secretaries, cleaners, clerks, teachers in primary schools, dinner ladies and child-care helpers. Not a lot of men among that group, are there? Yet some of those jobs are really important. Surely no one would deny that about nurses and teachers, for a start. So why do we reward the people who do them so poorly? There can be only one answer--because they are women. This is not going to be put right overnight. But the government, which employs a lot of them, and other bosses have to make a start. It is disgraceful   that we have gone into the 21st century still treating women like second-class citizens. Question: Women should have the chance of doing the same jobs and getting the same pay as men   _  . Options: A: after 25 years B: according to the law C: as a result of those important jobs D: because women are as strong as men
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Answer: B
Question: Answer the following question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: I once did a year of voluntary service in a residential home for people with learning disabilities. was set in an English village deep in the countryside, quite different from my home in Sweden. One of my fellow volunteers, a girl from Tanzania, seemed a little unhappy, so I asked what the problem was. She told me she had a friend back home who had financial difficulties and maybe it was impossible for her to complete her university courses. So this friend of mine had sent all her money to Tanzania to support her friend! This meant that she didn't have much food to eat and no money to go anywhere outside the village. I was so touched and I felt I had to do something. So, during my next trip to one of the nearby towns I walked into a shop. I didn't have much money left myself but I thought I'd buy her an extra box of chocolate we both liked and some rice. I started talking to the woman(also a volunteer)working in the shop and eventually told her about my friend. The woman looked at me, amazed. "Does she eat pasta?" she asked. "Yes," I replied. She immediately started loading a bag with pasta, cookies, and other things until the bag was full. "Give her this for me. It's my treat!'' I couldn't believe it but accepted with happiness. As I left the shop to go home with my unexpected bag of food, I asked the woman her name. "Just Gloria," she said. Imagine my friend's face when I arranged the gifts on my kitchen table and fetched her from her room to see! I had never seen her so happy! A few weeks later she found Gloria in the shop and thanked her in person. These two extraordinary women really showed me what true kindness and compassion are, and the impression will stay with me for the rest of my life! Question: From the text, we know that    _    . Options: A: the writer was from England B: the writer was a university student from Tanzania C: Gloria was from Sweden and was very kind to the writer D: the writer volunteered to help people with learning disabilities
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Answer: D
Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: As soon as I saw her, I understood I was in trouble. The tiny 10-year-old girl was staring at me with that specific facial expression which probably only dentists have to enjoy all day long! Whatever question I asked, whatever activity I suggested, her reaction was pretty much the same -- she was frozen with horror. She was sent to our private language school after having been the worst in English at her key school with a pretty strict ELT syllabus , with her peers  teasing her for her mistakes in English. Moreover, her state school teacher called her name. To make things worse, she was under pressure from her family for getting bad marks in English. She was definitely expecting me to carry on the same way with her. I have to admit that I had been staring at her with probably the same expression for a while before eventually she handed in an absolutely incredible  composition which I had previously asked the class to write. It was written in perfect handwriting, was full of clever ideas and had correct paragraphing. The girl got her first excellent mark in English, and I praised her generously and from then on I started using her writing skills to support the others. Before doing an oral retelling of a story, she wrote it down. Before presenting her oral project, she was allowed to do the same thing. The day she first put up her hand to orally answer my question addressed to the class I was incredibly  happy. She taught me how to approach withdrawn students -- find the skill which they can excel  at, in her case writing, and help the student use it to develop other skills! Question: The writer's first impression of the little girl was that she was  _  . Options: A: incredibly dull B: hard to cope with C: far too lovely D: pretty confident
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Answer: B
Question: Read the bio below and try to give details on putthinan wannasri 's:    - caps     - nationalyears       - birth date     - clubs     - nationalcaps     - currentclub     - height     - nationalgoals     - name     - nationalteam     - birth place     - position     - fullname     - image size     - years     - clubnumber     - pcupdate     - goals     Bio: putthinan wannasri -lrb- thai พุทธินันท์ วรรณศรี -rrb- , is a thai footballer who currently plays for bangkok united in thai premier league .
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Answer: - caps is 6 22 13 8- nationalyears is 2010 2013-2015 2013 -- birth date is 5 september 1992- clubs is → army united -lrb- loan -rrb- suphanburi bangkok united- nationalcaps is 2 5 4- currentclub is bangkok united- height is 1.72- nationalgoals is 0 1 0- name is putthinan wannasri- nationalteam is thailand u19 thailand u23 thailand- birth place is phitsanulok , thailand- position is right back , centre back- fullname is putthinan wannasri- image size is 250px- years is 2013 2014 2015 -- clubnumber is 5- pcupdate is 12 january 2013- goals is 0 0 1 0


Read the bio below and try to give details on guillermo heredia -lrb- baseball -rrb- 's:    - position     - throws     - bats       - birth date     - name     - birth place     Bio: guillermo heredia molina -lrb- born january 31 , 1991 -rrb- is a cuban professional baseball outfielder . he played for the cuba national baseball team at the 2013 world baseball classic . he has played for matanzas in the cuban national series since 2009 . he defected from cuba in january 2015 , to pursue a contract with a major league baseball team .
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Answer: - position is outfielder- throws is left- bats is right- birth date is 31 january 1991- name is guillermo heredia- birth place is matanzas , matanzas , cuba


Read the bio below and try to give details on romola remus 's:    - alt     - caption     - death date       - birth date     - image     - occupation     Bio: romola remus dunlap -lrb- april 7 , 1900 -- february 17 , 1987 -rrb- was an american actress who was the first to play dorothy gale in film , in the 1908 multimedia stage/film production `` the fairylogue and radio-plays '' . she worked directly with author l. frank baum , the creator of the character .
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Answer: - alt is a . at the rear , a young girl . in colour-tinted front of her , the iron man and scarecrow from monochrome ` the wizard of oz ' ; in front of photograph them , people dressed as a lion and another animal of . a group of actors- caption is romola members in 1908 remus -lrb- rear center -rrb- and other cast- death date is 17 february 1987- birth date is 7 april 1900- image is fairylogue.jpg- occupation is stage and film actress
Question: Question: Read the bio below and try to give details on lionel vivian bond 's:    - battles     - death date     - commands       - awards     - birth date     - serviceyears     - name     - branch     - unit     - image     - rank     Bio: lieutenant-general sir lionel vivian bond , kbe , cb -lrb- 1884 -- 1961 -rrb- was a senior officer in the british army .
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Answer: - battles is zakka mesopotamia , world war i world war ii khel and mohmand , india -lrb- 1908 -rrb-- death date is 1961 -lrb- aged 76 or 77 -rrb-- commands is commanding of military engineering inspector of royal engineers , war office officer malaya command , chatham area commandant , royal school- awards is kbe , cb- birth date is 1884- serviceyears is 1903 - 1941- name is sir lionel vivian bond- branch is british army- unit is royal engineers- image is bond.jpg- rank is lieutenant-general
Question: Question: Read the bio below and try to give details on carolina colorado henao 's:    - height       - strokes     - birth date     - fullname     - weight     - birth place     Bio: carolina colorado henao -lrb- born september 7 , 1987 in caldas , antioquia , colombia -rrb- is an olympic and national record-holding swimmer from colombia . she swam for colombia at the 2008 and 2012 olympics .
Answer: - height is 1.70 0- strokes is backstroke , butterfly- birth date is 7 september 1987- fullname is carolina colorado henao- weight is 64 kg lb on- birth place is caldas , colombia

Question: Read the bio below and try to give details on louis gordon 's:    - instrument     - website     - years active     - origin     - genre       - birth date     - name     - background     - label     - associated acts     Bio: louis gordon -lrb- born 1965 -rrb- is an english musician notable for his collaboration with john foxx . he has worked with foxx on a number of albums since 1995 . his solo work has also been released on the toffeetones record label .
Answer: - instrument is keyboards- website is -lsb- http://www.metamatic.com/ metamatic.com -rsb-- years active is 1973 -- present- origin is manchester- genre is synthpop , electronic- birth date is 1965- name is louis gordon- background is solo_singer- label is metamatic records toffeetones- associated acts is john foxx gordon & gunn

Question: Read the bio below and try to give details on thomas diethart 's:    - personalbest     - fhtitles     - seasons     - teampodiums     - updated     - totalpodiums     - teamwins       - birth date     - fullname     - name     - nationality     - image     - birth place     - wins     Bio: thomas diethart -lrb- born 25 february 1992 -rrb- is an austrian ski jumper .
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Answer: - personalbest is 192.5 mar 2014 m -lrb- 632 ft -rrb- harrachov , 13- fhtitles is 1 -lrb- 2014 -rrb-- seasons is 2011 2014 -- present- teampodiums is 4- updated is 30 mar 2015- totalpodiums is 3- teamwins is 2- birth date is 25 february 1992- fullname is thomas diethart- name is thomas diethart- nationality is aut austria- image is fis 20141220 - thomas diethart 2.jpg ski jumping world cup 2014 - engelberg -- birth place is tulln an der donau , austria- wins is 2