Ques:Can you touch your belly button   by reaching behind your back and around your waist? A new social trend has started in China, with thousands of netizens facing the challenge and uploading photographs of themselves to show off their bodies. Popular among many young female users on Weibo, the top, which translate as "reaching your belly button from behind to show your good figure," was mentioned more than130 million times among Weibo users. It not only _ over 104,000 active discussions, but also led to concern about what means a healthy body image. "Look! It has taken me more than four hours but I've finally reached my belly button," said Weibo user GayleRabbit. Another user Lucky said, "Why does my belly button suddenly look and feel completely new?" While the trend was popular with many female users on Weibo, a photo uploaded by a male blogger caught people's eye. "Is this pose   really that difficult? I don't think so," Said Weibo user Sough Sa. His photo showing he was trying to touch his belly button was shared more than 8,452 times. It also drew over 2,000 comments from other users on Weibo. "Show the skinny girls how it's done," said one user. Weibo user MedicalCream Tang Zhao said, "Now you did it! So you don't have to lose weight and please stay the same." "I always support failures. Now I don't feel so bad about not being able to touch my belly button," said another user Jacket. "Do we need to have flexible arms or a skinny waist to pull this off?" asked Weibo user Chantilly623. But some experts argued that China's new belly button trend was actually distorting   society's standards of beauty. "These poses and pictures can be fun but sometimes they also become an expression of competitiveness," said Jolene Tan, Programmes and Communications Senior Manager in Singapore championing women's rights. She also told the BBC that the trend seemed to be a way of examining women's bodies to see whether they are good enough. However, experienced body trainers say the new trend is about flexibility of the arm... What can we learn from the above passage? A) Boys show no interest in this new trend. B) GayleRabbit reached her belly button on her first try. C) Sough Sa's photo of reaching his belly button was popular online. D) Jacket felt sorry for not being able to touch his belly button.

Ans:C
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Ques:The 2012 London Olympics had enough problems to worry about. But one more has just been added - a communications blackout caused by solar storms. After a period of calm within the Sun, scientists have detected the signs of a flesh cycle of sunspots that could peak in 2012, just in time for the arrival of the Olympic torch in London. Now scientists believe that this peak could result in vast solar explosions that could throw billions of tons of charged matter towards the Earth, causing strong solar storms that could jam the telecommunications satellites and interact links sending five Olympic broadcast from London. "The Sun's activity has a strong influence on the Earth. The Olympics could be in the middle of the next solar maximum which could affect the functions of communications satellites," said Professor Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. At the peak of the cycle, violent outbursts called coronalmass ejections  occur in the Sun's atmosphere, throwing out great quantities of electrically-charged matter. " A coronal mass ejection can carry a billion tons of solar material into space at over a million    kilometres per hour. Such events can expose astronauts to a deadly amount, can disable satellites, cause power failures on Earth and disturb communications," Professor Harrison added. The risk is greatest during a solar maximum when there is the greatest number of sunspots. Next week in America, NASA is scheduled to launch a satellite for monitoring solar activity called the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which will take images of the Sun that are 10 times clearer than the most advanced televisions available. The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory helped to make the high-tech cameras that will capture images of the solar flares   and explosions as they occur. Professor Richard Hold away, the lab's director, said that the SDO should be able to provide early warning of a solar flare or explosion big enough to affect satellite communications on Earth "If... What does the last sentence mean? A) So far scientists still don't know what caused the Solar Storms. B) When Solar Storm happens, you'd better turn off the electrical appliances. C) The risk is greatest during a solar maximum when there is the greatest number of sunspots. D) Early warming can help minimize the harm of the Solar Storms.

Ans:D
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Ques:Have you listened to music on an iPod? Used a computer at home? Those are just two of the ways your life was touched by the work of Steve Jobs. Jobs, one founder of Apple Computers, died on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at the age of 56. He had been fighting with cancer since 2004. Steven Jobs was born in Los Altos, California. He and his childhood friend, Steve Wozniak, designed and built the first Apple computer in his parents' garage in the 1970s. The Apple II, built when Jobs was just 21 years old, was the first personal computer to be widely sold to the public. Steven Jobs didn't stop there. He went on to invent more devices   that allowed people to bring their own creativity to computing: the Macintosh, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad. People found his products beautiful and easy to use. Jobs also changed the music and film industries. He started Pixar, a film production company in 1986. Toy Story was the world's first computer-animated feature film  . "Steve was among the greatest of American _ -- brave enough to think differently, confident enough to believe he could change the world, and clever enough to do it," said President Barack Obama. "By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only easy to reach, but fun ... And there may be no greater praise to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his death on a device he invented." All around the world, people are talking about the effects that Jobs' creations have had. By creating products that surprised people, he changed the way people worked and lived their everyday lives. Which of the following about Steve Jobs is NOT true? A) He was born in California in 1955. B) He built the Apple II in 1970. C) He set up a film production company at 31. D) He was found to suffer from cancer at 49.

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B
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