Question: Ice Hotel Quebec, located 30 minutes west of Downtown Quebec City, Canada, is only open during the winter season. The hotel is made entirely of ice. The two galleries at the Ice Hotel Quebec feature events such as ice painting and ice sculpture  competitions. Things to Do Guests have a choice of different winter vacation activities, including cross-country skiing, ice skating, dog sledding  , ice fishing and sliding . Ice Hotel Quebec has a sauna( ),so remember to pack your bathing suit. Rooms & Suites  The hotel offers 18 rooms and 14 theme suites built from 12,000 tons of snow and 400 tons of ice. The walls at Ice Hotel Quebec are four feet thick and allow the hotel to keep a temperature of -2degC to -5degC. The furniture at the hotel is made of snow and ice, including the beds. The beds are equipped with a thick foam mattress and an extra thick sleeping bag. That is enough to prevent you from catching a cold. Vacation Tip Ice Hotel Quebec offers 30-minute guided public tours daily from 10:30am to 4:30pm. It costs $15 CAD for adults, $7.5 for children (under eight), $13for students\seniors (above sixty), and $42 for families. Plan This Vacation Ice Hotel Quebec-Canada will be open for its sixth season from January 5thto April 1st. Costs for overnight stays start at $199CAD per person. If you're looking for something really different to do on your next trip, think creatively and plan to visit the truly unusual Ice Hotel Quebec! If Mr. Smith attends a 30-minute public tour with his wife and seven-year-old twin sons, he should pay at least  _  . A) $37.5 CAD B) $45 CAD C) $42CAD D) $199 CAD
Answer: C

Question: For the first time in modem history, less than half of theprefix = st1 /U.S.adult population now reads literature, according to a recent survey. Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading inAmericapresents a detailed review of the decline of reading's role in the nation's culture.      Readingat Risk is a survey of national fashion in adult literary reading. The data source for Reading at Risk is as reliable and objective   as any such survey can be. The key results of the survey are presented in the "Summary", but the report can be further explained as: literary reading in Americais not only declining rapidly among all groups, but the rate of decline has been speeded up, especially among the young.Readingat Risk merely shows a great _ that most Americans have already noted - our society's great turn to electronic media for entertainment and information.      Reading a book requires a degree of active attention and devotion. Indeed, reading itself is a progressive skill that depends on years of education and practice. On the contrary, most electronic media such as television, recordings, and radio make fewer demands on their audiences, and indeed often require no more than passive participation. While oral culture has a rich reality and electronic media offer the considerable advantages of variety, print culture affords irreplaceable forms of focused attention and thought that make various communications and views possible. The decline in reading, therefore, equals a larger retreat   from participation in public and cultural life.      What is to be done? There is surely no single solution to the present problem, just as there is no single cause. The important thing now is to understand thatAmericacan no longer take active and devoted reading for granted.      Readingis not a timeless, common ability. As more Americans lose this ability, our nation becomes less informed, active, and independent minded. These are not qualities that a free, inventive, or productive society can afford to lose. According to the passage, reading  _   . A) requires less attention and devotion B) demands no more than passive participation C) limits various communications and views D) means active participation in public and cultural life
Answer: D

Question: I have two sons. They are as different as night and day. My youngest is sweet, loveable, easy-going, and finds joy in everything. My oldest we've nicknamed the "Evil Genius" is ambitious, self-confident, and suffers no fools. Whenever we mentioned Santa my husband and I were rewarded with major eye rolling and deep sighs from my oldest. At first we both tried to ignore it. We both knew that our eldest had figured out the big secret. But I'd be damned  if he was going to ruin it for his six-year-old brother who had plenty of Santa-loving years ahead of him. I looked at my husband in the eye and said, "I'll handle this." to which he responded "Okay just be careful because I'm not sure he knows - he might just be acting like it." But I knew. And I had it in my mind that he was about to break his younger brothers spirit and break the news to him. I was afraid he was going to take the Christmas spirit away from my sweet innocent youngest and stamp all over it. I had to protect him. I needed to control this now before it got out of control. I rushed into the play room where my oldest was playing alone. I looked him dead in the eyes and said: "Well you know Santa isn't real, right?"  And as I stared at my eight-year-old son for what seemed like a long time of silence, his eyes started to fill with tears.  And a tear dropped down his cheek when he screamed out, "He's not?" "Um well it's not that he's not real (shut up you idiot  - stop saying he's not real), but he doesn't really make and deliver all the toys. Dad and I get some of them for you. So he's real. He's just got a little help from us."  _ . He just sat there looking at me with an expression of doubt. You know when you make a terrible mistake but you can't stop yourself from making it worse? That was me because I just had to know. I had to know why he had seemed to be over Santa. So I asked him why he rolled his eyes and sighed every time his father and I mentioned Santa. To which he replied that kids at school had been saying Santa wasn't real but that he... What did the writer conclude when "Evil Genius" rolled his eyes and sighed? A) "Evil Genius" had discovered Santa was not real. B) "Evil Genius" had broken the secret to his younger brother. C) Evil Genius" had passed his Santa-loving years. D) Evil Genius" had been influenced by his classmates.
Answer:
A