Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Once upon a time, a man was walking on a mountain when he found an incredible cave with all kinds of treasure inside it. So he gave up his job, his home, and his friends, and spent all his time guarding the cave. He was so dedicated to it that he hardly ate or drank, and before long he fell ill. One day, when he could hardly move at all, he decided to share the treasure. He crawled into the cave to get a handful of jewels, but discovered, to his horror, that it was empty except for a small emerald . The man took it, and gave it to the first person he came by, a woman. Then an old man came by. "What bad luck!" the man said. "Just a moment ago I gave a woman the last of the treasure I was guarding." "Are you sure there is nothing left?" the old man asked. The man took him into the cave, where they found a chest with jewels and some bags of gold. The man was shocked, and the old man explained to him, "At last! At last someone has broken the spell of this cave. This is the Cave of Treasure, and you're the first to have passed its great test. Many have dedicated their lives to this cave, only to end up realizing there was nothing here..." "And why does this happen?" the man asked. "This magic cave has only as many riches as your own heart. When someone discovers it, the cave is filled with treasure, but later, when they have devoted themselves to guarding the treasure, their hearts empty, as does the cave. The only way to fill it is by filling your heart with all that is good, as you did by giving the woman that last jewel." From that day on, the man understood that it was better to share than to keep. Thanks to the cave and the old man, he became noble and generous. Question: What did the man find when he showed his cave to the old man? - A small emerald. - A handful of jewels. - All kinds of treasure. - A chest filled with jewels and some gold.
A: A chest filled with jewels and some gold.


Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: How many coins have you got in your pocket right now? Three? Two? or One? With a phonecard you can make up to 200 calls without any change at all. 1. _  Go to a telephone box marked "Phonecard". Put in your card to start, make your call and when you have finished, a screen tells you how much is left on your card. It costs no extra for the cards, and the calls cost 10p per unit, the same as any other pay-phone call. You can buy them in units of 10, 20, 40, 100 or 200. 2. _  Near each phonecard place you will find a shop where you can buy one. They're at bus, train and city tube stations. At many universities, hospitals and clubs, restaurants and gas stations on the highway and shopping centers. At airports and seaports. 3. _  Most broken payphones are like that because they've been damaged. There are no coins in a cardphone to excite thieves' interest in it. So you're not probably to find a broken one. Get a phonecard yourself and try it out. Or get a bigger wallet. Question: Which statement of the following is right by inference ? - Using a phonecard will cost you less money than payphone call. - Phonecards are easier to carry. - If a thief steals your phonecard, he can't use it any more. - When you finish your call, take out your card first and then you will see how many calls you can still make.
A: Phonecards are easier to carry.


Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: In today's world English is the most wildly used language. It is our duty to learn English in the new situation of the reform and opening  to the outside world. How can we master the English language? I'd like to give you some good advice.  First, get interested in it. I enjoy listening to foreign friends talking when I was a child. At the same time I watched the English programme Follow Meon TV. From then on, I kept on learning English. The more I learned, the more progress I made. Second, practice makes perfect. Many people study English very hard, but they are very shy to speak it in public, for they are afraid of making mistakes. Remember you have to make a mistake before you can correct it. A native English speaker makes mistakes sometimes, too.  Third, the beginners should be encouraged to pay attention to  _ The English language has many idioms. For example, you should say "He is as strong as a cow." Question: When learning English, we will   _  . - remember the mistakes and correct them - try not to make any mistakes - avoid mistakes before making them - not be afraid of making mistakes
A: not be afraid of making mistakes


Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Ashrita Furman loves breaking records. In fact over the last 30 years, he's broken almost  110 Guinness World Records. And be recently broke the Guinness World Record for "the most ecords held at the~time by an individual".    Ashrita broke his first record in 1979, doing 27,000 star jumps in one go. But since then,he 's set all sons of records: clapping non-stop for 50 hours, balance a lawn mowerp)on ds chin for almos two minutes... the list is endless. The 57-year-old New Yorker runs a health food shop but spends his free time training to break new records   How does he decide which records to attempt? Simple! Ashriba studies the Guinness Book if Records online database. "I used to stay up two or three in the morning, sifting through the 10,000 records and chose the ones I was interested in." he explained. But these days, to make tare he has overall fitness. he chooses records that work different pmt of his bod3   In his attempts to break records, Ashrita often navels abroad. In 2005. he set the record for he "fastest mile on a space hopper while jumping along the Great Wall of China. In 2003, he at the record for the "longest time balancing on a Swiss ball" at Stonehenge, England. And he ikes to make his record attempts as challenging as possible.   As a teenager, he met a gum(}and began studying meditation(] ." ;hanged my life... And I soon realized that limits are all in the mind." One day, his gum told him to go and "break records". So he did and he hasn't stopped since. He recently said, "The point is joy. The point is the challenge. It's something silly, but you are the best in the world at it" Question: The.Reason why Ashrita keeps breaking so many records is that - he followed his guru's advice, hoping.change his life - breaking records brings him much joy and challenge - he want to exercise different parts of his body - it provides him with the chance of traveling abroad
