Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Coffee is one of the world's most widely-enjoyed drinks. Now, a new research suggests that if you drink enough coffee, it might help you avoid certain kinds of cancer. Dr. Mia Hashibe of the University of Utah School of Medicine was interested in the connection between coffee drinking and certain cancers of the head and neck. Researchers have looked into this before, but without reaching any firm conclusions. She said, "So this finding from our new study was quite a surprise. We didn't really have any expectation of which direction it could go into." To sort out the confusion, Hashibe and her assistants used statistical ( ) techniques to, in effect, make one big study out of the earlier smaller studies. She explained,  "Thanks to the earlier studies, we have a lot more power than earlier studies that looked at this. And we included 4,000 cancer patients who have cancer of the mouth and throat. And then 9,000 controls, people who do not have cancer. ' Those studies--in Europe and the United States--found that people who drank a lot of coffee were less likely to develop cancers of the mouth and throat. "We saw a protective effect for drinking more than 4 cups of coffee per day," Hashibe said. "This was the 40 percent decrease in risk. We did not see the same effect for drinking three cups or less per day." Mia Hashibe said there was a weak connection between cancer risk and drinking coffee without caffeine. And she and her assistants found no proof that drinking tea provided the same protection as drinking Coffee. Their research is published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Hashibe says it is not clear how coffee might protect drinkers from certain cancers. "There are a few chemicals that are known to be antioxidants  in coffee. So we are thinking perhaps they are playing some sort of protective role against several cancers." Question: Which of the following might have something to do with the protection against mouth cancer? Options: A: Coffee without chemicals. B: Coffee without caffeine. C: Four cups of tea a day. D: Antioxidants in coffee.
A: D


Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: The fact that blind people can see things using other parts of their bodies apart from their eyes may help us understand our feeling about color1. If they sense color1 differences, then perhaps we, too, are affected by color1 without knowing it.        Salesmen have discovered by experience over a long period of time that sugar sells badly in greenwrappings , that blue foods are considered not agreeable to the taste, and that cosmetics  should never be packed in brown. Their discoveries have grown into a whole subject of color1 psychology . Some of our preferences  for color1s are clearly psychological. Dark blue is the color1 of the night sky and therefore connected with calm, while yellow is a day color1 connected with energy and encouragement. Experiments have shown that color1s, partly because they are connected with psychology, also have a direct effect on people's mind. People in bright red surroundings show an increase in breathing speed, heartbeat and blood pressure; red is exciting. Pure blue has exactly the opposite effect; it is a calming color1. Being exciting, red was chosen as the signal for danger, but a close study shows that a bright yellow can produce a more basic state of alarm, so fire engines in some advanced areas are now rushing around in bright yellow color1s that stop buses, trucks and cars. Question: Which of the following do you think is the best title of the passage? Options: A: Colors and sales B: Colors and feelings C: The blind and color1s D: Preferences for color1s
A: B


Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: He was an old man who fished alone in a boat in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff   and harpoon   and the sail that was furled around the mast  . The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.  The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.  Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color1 as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.  "Santiago," the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was pulled up. "I could go with you again. We've made some money."  The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.  "No," the old man said. "You're with a lucky boat. Stay with them."  "But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks."  "I remember," the old man said. "I know you did not leave me because you doubted."   "It was papa who made me leave. I am a boy and I must obey him."  "I know," the old man said. "It is quite normal."   "He hasn't much faith."  "No," the old man said. "But we have. Haven't we?"  "Yes," the boy said. "Can I offer you a beer on the Terrace and then we'll take the stuff home."  "Why... Question: After reading this passage, we may safely conclude that   _  . Options: A: the old man was insistent and not afraid of failure[ B: the boy's papa had confidence in everything C: the old man caught big fishes during eighty-seven days D: the boy obeyed his father because he had some doubts about the old man
A: A


Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Though the Web is becoming increasingly popular, the TV never fails to attract people. Do you know which television network is the largest in America? It is not ABC, CBS, or Fox. Nor is it one of the cable net-works such as CNN, which carries only news and news stories. It is not ESPN, the all-sports cable net-work, or even MTV, which is famous for its music videos. Rather it is PBS, Public Broadcasting System, a non-profit public broadcasting TV service. PBS has 349 member television stations in the U. S. and some member stations by cable in Canada. PBS only attracts a minority of all TV viewers, about 2 percent. The industry leader, NBC, however, attracts 11 percent of viewers. But the growth of public television in the past two decades has been dramatic. This is especially noteworthy  when one considers that public television stations must often survive on very limited budgets, on viewers' donations, and on private foundations and some governmental funding. The level of quality of PBS programs, whether in national and international news, entertainment, or education, is excellent. Almost a whole generation of children throughout the world is familiar with Sesame Street and the characters of The Muppet Show. PBS is especially well known for the quality of its many educational TV programs. Over 95 percent of all public television stations have tele-courses. These courses are accepted and supported by more than 1, 800 colleges and universities throughout the US. Each year, over a quarter of a million students take courses this way. Question: Which of the following has the highest percentage of viewers? Options: A: ABC B: PBS C: NBC D: Fox
