Ques: Helping your children to read and write at home will improve their skills and confidence  --it will also make them get ready for learning in the classroom environment.  _  are needed by every child in every subject in every year of their life in or outside school. Students who improve their reading and writing skills will increase their vocabulary and their ability to use the English language correctly. As parents, you can play an important role in improving your children's literacy . You can make a difference by listening, asking questions, giving information, and reading with your children outside school hours. Here are 8 tips on how to help your children to read and write: ^having everyday conversations with your children ^trying to ask more "wh-" questions instead of easy "yes" or "no" questions ^encouraging your children to talk about events you don't know ^reading to your children each night ^listening to your children read ^teaching your children how to use dictionaries ^talking about your children's writings ^practicing filling in forms, writing letters, sending cards or emails You can also encourage your children to join the Reading Challenge Club and discuss the books they are reading together. In the club, children must read 15 books from the Challenge book list and 5 more books chosen by themselves. There are over 1,000 books on the list. The reading must be done in one year. What's more, it is a wonderful way to help your children to write. For example, you can encourage  them to write diaries or book reviews. Remember to make positive(,) comments as much as possible. In the Reading Challenge Club, children have to read   _   in one year. A) 5 books B) 10 books C) 15 books D) 20 books
Ans: D

Ques: A science fiction flying car looks like a normal car, but it is an aircraft   that anybody can fly directly from any place to another without using roads or runways. Science fiction writers have written about flying cars for a long time. But now flying cars will soon fly out of the world of science fiction into our real world. And the dream of the science fiction writers will soon come true. The first-known sky car is the FSC-1. The FSC-1 looks like an expensive sports car. You can drive the FSC-1 on the road like a normal car. If you touch a button, its wings and propeller   fold out and then it can take off, fly and land as an airplane. The owners of the FSC-1 can choose if they want to drive or fly. Another flying car or sky car is the Moller Skycar M400. Although you can't drive it on the roads, it is small and easy to fly and can take off and land like a helicopter  . Urban Aeronautics' X-Hawk is another type of sky car. It is expected to be available for about $3 million. Just like any new technology, flying cars have taken a long time to be developed. But some experts think the technology is far from what people imagine when they are sitting in traffic. It still needs to be improved. The writer thinks that flying cars will be no longer a dream because   _  . A) science fiction writers' ideas are stupid B) they are too expensive to make C) they will soon be available D) they are only in science fiction
Ans: C

Ques: Chinese space trainer Wang Yuan has been chosen as one of the volunteers for the Mars-500 test project. He was very happy to be chosen and will accept the meaningful challenge  Another five volunteers are all space lovers., including three Russians, an Italy-Colombian and a Frenchman. They are about to feel what it's like to travel to Mars, only without leaving the earth. They are locked up together for a year and a half under a similar condition to the red planet during the whole process. So the experiment is called Mars-500. When reporters asked what they would miss most during the 520-day special life, French trainer Charles said:"For me, it will be mainly my family, the sun and fresh air." The Mars-500 test will be in a special building in Moscow, Russia. Although the people won't leave the building, they will fell as if they are on a real trip to the Mars. The most difficult thing will be to be separated  from the people that they used to live with. The trainer won't see sunsets, sunrises, won't feel rain for 18 months. That will be hard. The main task is to study the "Man and environment". It'll care about the astronauts' getting experience and physical effects. The 520-day-test is divided into three parts,the first 250days to Mars, the middle 30days of landing on Mars, the last 240 days to return to the earth. Everyone will stay there alone for a long time and will work lonely. They will have to make decisions themselves and only then report to the earth, and the earth will tell them whether they do the right thing or not. Each astronaut is preparing for the great challenge. It is learned that they will be launched early in June. And the experiment will end in November 2011. Mars-500 test will be done in   _ A) Moscow B) a red planet C) November D) Xichang
Ans: A

Ques: An old Japanese man kept a sparrow   and he really liked it. But one day the bird flew away. He became sad and went out to look for it. At last, he met the bird on a mountain. [:Zxxk.Com] He asked excitedly, "Will you please go home with me, my bird?" Though the bird was also happy to see the old man, it shook its head. "Take me to your home and let me see how you live," the old man said. The bird led the old man to its new home. And he found it lived well with many other birds. So he decided to go back. Before he was leaving, the bird gave him a basket. When he returned home, he told his wife what had happened. She opened the basket and saw a lot of gold. The old woman was very greedy and she wanted to get more baskets. So she set out for the sparrow's home. "Hello, sparrow. I miss you very much," cried the woman falsely  . The bird said nothing. It gave her two baskets, a light one and a heavy one. The bird asked her to choose one and she could only open it after she reached home. Of course, she chose the heavy one and took it home with great difficult. However, when she opened the basket, she found it was full of stones! Why did the old man go back home alone when he found the sparrow? A) Because the bird didn't like him. B) Because he found the bird lived well. C) Because the bird gave him much gold. D) Because his wife stopped him taking it home.
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