Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members don't know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they will go to their friends for some ideas. It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking to them on the phone. This communication is very important in children's growing up, because friends can discuss special things. These things are difficult to say to their family members. However, parents often try to choose friends for their children. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their friends. Have you ever thought of the following questions? Who choose your friends? Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you? Have you got a good friend your parents don't like? Your answers are welcome? Question: Which of the following is the writer's attitude ? - Parents should choose friends for their children - Children should choose everything they like - Parents should understand their children better - Teenagers should only go to their friends for help
Parents should understand their children better
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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: About 3 months ago, my father was in hospital recovering from a major lung operation. My mother had recently passed away, and my father had taken the loss of his partner of 58 years very hard and had lost interest in life. It was quite difficult to try to get him to eat each day as he didn't want anything. The one thing, however, that he would ask us to bring him was ice cream. One evening, to our surprise, he refused to eat the ice cream, so I placed it in a staffroom refrigerator. A little while later, my son said he wanted it, so I fetched it for him. As I passed another ward  , a woman asked, "Are there more where that came from?" When I explained, she seemed very disappointed. She then said that she had cancer and could eat very little other than the occasional ice cream. The next evening, I decided to buy two ice creams. On the way to dad's room, I came into the sick woman's room, and offered her the ice cream I'd bought for her. She was totally astonished that I had thought of her, and accepted the gift with tears in her eyes. I spoke with her for a few minutes, explaining what was happening in my family and listened to her similar story of pain and suffering. It was _ that she did not have many visitors. I repeated the gesture a few days later, and this time I received a warm hug. I never even thought to ask her name and never saw her again, but it made me realize that a simple act of kindness can bring joy to a person's unfortunate life. ,. Question: Form this passage we can learn that  _  . - We should look after the old when they suffer some cancer - It is very easy to make someone happy when they are unlucky. - If we buy some present, we'll get a warm hug at last. - If someone has a cancer, he won't eat anything except ice cream.
It is very easy to make someone happy when they are unlucky.
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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: We can see ads  everywhere. Here are four ads. Please read them carefully. (1)WANTED Are you hard-working? Do you like to meet people? If your answer is "Yes", then we have a job for you as a waiter. Call AL Hotel at 8556779! (2)SUMMER JOB Do you like to talk with people? Do you like to write stories? If you want to work for our magazine as a _ , please call Karen at 85558366. (3)HELP WANTED Do you like babies? Can you look after one baby for two days? If you are sure to take good care of it, call us at 8766588. $80 or more. Today! Hurry! (4)CLEANER WANTED Can you make a large house clean and tidy? If you hope to get the job paid at $ 20 once, call us this evening 18:00~20:00. Tel: 8633800 Question: If the owner  of the large house asks a cleaner to clean his house once a day, how much will the cleaner get in a week? - $ 20. - $140. - $160. - $ 80.
$140.
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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Now, more and more cities are facing problems, such as high housing costs, pollution and crime. Let's see what people in Hyderabad, India and in Sao Paulo, Brazil do to solve   the problems. Hyderabad, India To improve people's lives, Hyderabad is planting more and more trees. The city is even creating _ buildings that use less water and less electricity for power. Adding green to a city has a number of advantages. For example, trees make the air cleaner. In Hyderabad, streets were grey and dirty in the past. However, today they are filled with trees and flowers, making the city cleaner and more colourful. Green areas also give people places to relax or exercise. A study in the USA shows an interesting thing: the greener a neighborhood is, the less crime there is. Sao Paulo, Brazil Many people work in the centre of Sao Paulo, but they don't live there. They've spread out to neighborhoods outside the city because housing is cheaper. Every day, these people travel into the city, and traffic is very heavy. City planners are using different ways to deal with   the problem. First, they are building better subways. Another goal is to make it cheaper for people to live in the downtown area  . Doing this will reduce traffic and pollution in the city. Question: Which advantage of making Hyderabad greener is NOT talked about in the passage? - It helps people work better. - It makes the city cleaner. - It reduces crime. - It makes it easier to exercise.
