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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: The summer vacation is over. It's true that time flies. In the vacation, the weather was very hot, but I enjoyed myself. I did my homework in the morning. I got up at 6:30a.m. and took a walk in the garden for half an hour. After breakfast I began reading English and Chinese and did some math exercises. It usually took me three hours or more. I worked quite hard and I made great progress . I spent the afternoon outside. I went swimming and it was fun. I would not go home until it was about five or six o'clock. Sometimes my friends came to see me and we spent some time listening to music. In this way I spent my vacation happily. I not only studied hard, but also became a good swimmer. Now I'm in good health and high spirits . Question: The writer spent most of the afternoon  _  . - listening to music - visiting his friends - walking in the garden - swimming
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swimming


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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A man punished his 5-year-old daughter for wasting some expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was little and he became more upset when the child used the gold paper to decorate a box and put it under a Christmas tree. However, the little girl brought the gift box to her father the next morning and said, " This is for you, daddy." The father was embarrassed by his earlier anger, but he got angry again when he found the box empty. He spoke to her in a serious manner, "Don't you know young lady, when you give someone a present, there's supposed to be something inside the package?" The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said, "Oh Daddy, it is not empty.I blew kisses into it until it was full." The father was moved. He fell on his knees and put his arms around his little girl and he begged her to forgive his unnecessary anger. An accident took the life of the child away only a short time later and it is told that the father kept the gold box by his bed for all the years of his life. Whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems, he would open the box and take out an imaginary kiss and remember the child who had put it there. Question: What was in the box in the daughter's opinion? - She put something into the box - She had no money to buy gifts - She didn't know how to send gifts - She forgot to put gifts in the box
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She put something into the box


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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Anybody can learn to count fast if he knows the secret of following trick. Ask your friend to write any five-figure   number on the blackboard. Then you write your five-figure number under it. You choose your figures so that each one with the figure above it will  make nine. Tell your friend to put a third five-figure number under your number. Then you write a fourth number in the same way. After he has written the fifth number, you draw a line under it and quickly write the sum. . You may even write it from left to right.. How do you do it ? You take away two from the fifth number and put two in front of your answer. Is it interesting? Question: If the fifth number is 49834, the sum will be  _  . - 249834 - 298344 - 298342 - 249832
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