Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Trip1  The Green Mountain Bring your strong shoes for the hiking in a beautiful area of the Green Mountain. You can also find many kinds of wild animals living in this area. Time: May 8--May 14                Tel: 64639818 Adult: $110.00                     Child: $55.00 Trip 2  The Heaven Garden This is a beautiful garden with different kinds of flowers. Take your camera and enjoy the wonderful sight here. It is also a good place for fishing. Time: May 20--May 22                   Tel: 63986432 Adult: $ 50.00                      Child: $ 25.00 Trip 3  The Dungog Valley Put on your warm clothes, and come for a night walk along the Dungog Valley. Many of the plants you will see on this trip can only be seen at night. Time: May 16--May 18                   Tel: 63875629 Adult: $ 30.00                      Not for children Trip 4  By the sea Wear your sun hat and enjoy wonderful sunshine all the time from morning to evening. You can also take a boat to different places for swimming. Time: May 23--May 27                   Tel: 67538293 Adult: $ 80.00                      Child: $ 40.00 Question: Mr. and Mrs. Smith want to stay in the Heaven Garden with their five-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter. They need to pay   _   for the trip. Options: A: $50 B: $ 100 C: $240 D: $150
Ans: D

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Some days, don't you think, "Wouldn't it be nice if the laundry would just do itself?" Self-cleaning clothes may sound crazy. But Australian researchers have found a way to make something like this possible! A team at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, found a way to put special nanostructures   into clothing, which can then clean the clothes. When sunlight hits the nanostructures, they break down the dirt and stains   that don't belong on your clothes. The nanostructures don't break down the actual clothing because cotton and the other clothing materials are too strong to be broken down. According to CNN, the researchers cover the clothing in a solution made of silver and copper   nanostructures. All it takes is 40 minutes of sunlight and your clothes will look as good as new. So if you spill on yourself during lunch, you can step outside for a walk, and it will be clean by the time you go inside. It not only makes your life easier, but it can also be good for the environment. According to the US Department of Energy, the average load of laundry uses about 25 gallons (about 94 liters) of water. Water is a very important resource, so using less of it to wash clothes is better for the environment. But one of the scientists at RMIT University knows more needs to be done. "There's more work to do before we can start throwing out our washing machines," said Dr Rajesh Ramanathan, "but this is a strong foundation  ." So what's the next step? Ramanathan wants to either start selling the solution by itself or convincing   clothing makers to treat the clothing with the solution while clothes are being made. Question: What can we learn from the passage? Options: A: Silver and copper sell well. B: The solution is not put into practice. C: Clothing makes certainly like the solution. D: We don't need washing machines any more.
Ans: B

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible  for social progress. Others say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people. I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth depended on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs . The development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten. However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the common players, they are strongly against competition. Most of them are young people who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these youngsters, I often observe  in them a desire to fail. They seem to find failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: " I may have lost, but it doesn't matter because I really didn't try." What is not usually accepted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure  of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one's self-worth depends on how well one performs in the competition. Both are afraid of not being valued. We can discover a new meaning in competition only as this kind of fear begins to disappear. Question: What is the similar belief of the true competitors and those with a desire to fail? Options: A: One's worth lies in his performance in the competition. B: One's success in competition needs great efforts. C: One's achievement is decided by his special skills. D: One's success is based on how hard he has tried.
Ans: A

Ques: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Why do people smoke? One reason is that people become addicted  to cigarettes. The addictive substance in cigarettes is nicotine . When people smoke, the nicotine goes right into the blood stream and makes people feel comfortable. A smoker's body gets used to the nicotine, and if he stops smoking, he feels nervous. Many smokers try to stop smoking but because of the addiction to nicotine they feel so uncomfortable that they often find it too difficult _ . Another reason is that people simply enjoy smoking. Having a cigarette for many people means taking a break. For some people smoking becomes part of certain social rituals  , for example, sending the cigarette after dinner. Many people enjoy smoking because it gives them something to do with their hands. Reaching for a cigarette, lighting it and flicking   the ashes are special comfort in a situation where they feel nervous. Many people also like the taste of tar   in cigarettes. However, it is the tar that causes cancer. While governments and health experts have tried to get people to give up smoking completely, cigarette manufacturers   have tried to keep selling them by producing cigarettes with less tar. Many people in western countries have welcomed these cigarettes since they found it hard to stop smoking and wanted to reduce the danger to their health. Question: Which of the following sentences is TRUE, according to the passage? Options: A: Smokers continue smoking because smoking is very interesting. B: Tar in cigarettes causes cancer. C: In order to look cool, many people enjoy smoking. D: Many people in western countries welcome the cigarettes with more tar.
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