Ques:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: A drunken burglar in the Orrell Park area of Liverpool, ended up leaping out of a window after a 10-year-old girl asked him to prove he was a superhero. The drunken thief who pretended he was Superman to stop a child raising the alarm has been caught after he leapt from the apartment building in his pants to make the girl convinced. Theif Ethan Adamson, 25, told police that he had broken into a fifth-floor flat after a drinking session, believing it was empty. But he was horrified when the owner's 10-year-old daughter woke up while he was there. From his hospital bed, the thief told reporters, "To keep her quiet, I told her I was really Superman and I'd soon be flying off back to my secret headquarters." "She called my bluff (...) and told me, 'If you're Superman, show me you can fly or I'll scream'. "I had no choice so I stripped to my pants to look more like a superhero and went to the window. I saw another roof below and I thought _ but it turned out to be a lot further down than thought. I know it doesn't make sense but it did to me when I was drunk." Police later found him on the roof in just his yellow pants, covered in cuts and bruises after a baffled neighbor heard his cries of pain. He now faces seven years behind bars for burglary. Police spokesman Frank Armado said, " He was in quite a serious state and couldn't move until we got up there using ladders. He was treated for his injuries and we got him some fresh clothes, before taking him to hospital where he is being kept under guard until he is well enough to be arrested." Question: What is the author's purpose of writing the passage? Options: A: To report on a joking burglary B: To call our attention to the burglary. C: To explain how the burglar was caught. D: To look back on an adventure story.

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Ques:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Nonverbal  Communication When you are in another country, it is important to know the language, but it is equally important to know how to communicate nonverbally. Before saying anything, people communicate nonverbally by making gestures. According to an investigation ,only 30 to 35 percent of our communication is verbal. When people don't know the language, the most common way to communicate is through gestures. However, many gestures have different meanings, or no meaning at all, in different parts of the world. In the United States, for example, nodding your head up and down means "yes". In some parts of Greece and Turkey, however, this motion can mean "no". In Southeast Asia, nodding your head is a polite way of saying "I've heard you." In ancient Rome, when the emperor wanted to spare someone's life, he would put his thumb up. Today in the United States, when someone puts his/her thumb up, it means "Everything is all right." However, in Sardinia and Greece, the gesture is insulting  and should not be used there. In the United States, raising your clasped  hands above your head means "I'm the champion" or "I'm the winner". It is the sign that prizefighters make when they win a fight. When a leading Russian statesman  made this gesture after a White House meeting, Americans misunderstood and thought he meant he was a winner. In Russia, however, it is a sign of friendship. There are other nonverbal signals that people should be aware of when they go to another country, such as the distance to maintain between speakers. Americans stand closer to each other than English people. English people don't like touching somebody or being touched. Now in America, touch is important. For example friends touch each other on the arm. They often put an arm around a friend when they say "hello" or "goodbye". Question: It is very important to know how to communicate nonverbally when you are in another country because  _  . Options: A: most people speak different languages B: much of our communication is nonverbal on many occasions C: people usually make gestures before saying anything D: it's easy to learn how to express oneself through gestures

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Ques:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: The man beside her looked familiar. She felt like she knew him. Then when he opened the book on his knees, she at once knew who he was.  "Now, if anyone ever has a doubt regarding factorisation , just once, read page number thirteen in your textbook. There would be no more doubt." She smiled at the memory, remembering his patient, cool face. She recalled one by one, all the memories of her middle school Math teacher.  He was a widower , always looking sad. He looked tailor-made for a librarian, silent as his books, or a romantic poet, but a mathematics teacher was the last guess anyone could make about him. Oh, how they used to make fun of him, play tricks on him and laugh behind his back! He never laughed but smiled politely at everybody. Sometimes he would make silly mistakes on the blackboard, and then apologize as he erased it out. He always gave in to the girls' demands of shortening his class. His correction was always careless and merciful , and the middle school girls relied on this fact to pass through the hardest of mathematics exam papers.  But she didn't remember him for this.  Long shiny hair and soulful big eyes. A tall, slim frame. His daughter. They had been best friends and always hung about together. She recalled eagerly all the fun they had in middle school, wild and carefree...until his daughter went down with pneumonia . She could never forget the suddenness and the meaninglessness of it, the feeling of emptiness. After that, he looked even sadder. But, life went on.  Now, after almost 25 years, sitting beside him, with a dirty city bus aisle between them, she gathered her courage and said, "Mr. Rao? I'm an old student of yours. You taught me in middle school."  He looked at her for a while. "I do not even seem to remember any student." She knew he was lying. "I am sorry about your daughter." There was a pause in their conversation, and it was filled with all kinds of noises. Then he spoke, looking away. "I do not need any sympathy. In fact, all my new students think I never had any... Question: According to the passage, when the woman was in middle school, Mr. Rao was probably_. Options: A: soft-hearted B: irresponsible C: indifferent D: strict

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