Q: The Boston Opera House In Person * The Boston Opera House Box Office is open Monday - Friday from 10 am - pm. We provide a direct and customer-friendly service that allows our customers to choose their seats and purchase their tickets at face value without service charges or delivery fees. The savings and confidence associated with an in-person purchase at our box office can make the trip very worthwhile. While you're in the neighborhood, check out our dining and parking choices when you attend your favorite shows. * The Boston Ballet Box Office operates year-round at their 19 Clarendon Street headquarters in Boston's South End. Boston Ballet sells tickets at the Boston Opera House box office during Boston Ballet performance weeks. Online * Tickets for all Broadway in Boston shows and other concerts and cultural presentations are sold online at www.ticketmaster.com. * Tickets for all Boston Ballet performances are sold online at www.bostoneballet.org. By Phone * Tickets for all Broadway in Boston shows and other concerts and cultural presentations can be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 1. 800. 982. 2787. * Tickets for all Boston Ballet performances can be purchased by calling 617. 695. 6955. Refund Policy No refunds or exchanges. The Boston Opera House Policies * Some shows may not be appropriate for children of all ages. Please enquire at 617. 259. 3400. * Regardless of age, everyone must have a ticket. No "babies in arms" will be allowed. * Parents may be asked to remove restless children from the auditorium . The parent and child will be able to wait in a comfortable lounge while the rest of the family enjoys the show. We appreciate your cooperation. Tips for Theatergoers: * Leave yourself enough time for traffic. * Check the date and time of the performance on tickets purchased. * If you arrive late to your performance you may have to wait to be seated at appropriate breaks in the performance. Please arrive on time, no less than 15 minutes before curtain. If you are attending a show at the Opera House,   _  . A) You can take your infant with you. B) you don't have to buy a ticket for your child C) you are allowed to enter the auditorium immediately even if you are late D) you are advised to arrive 15 minutes before the performance begins
A: D


Q: They sit by the door waiting for me. And while I may speak more about the narrowness of my very limited life than their real worth, just the fact that they're sitting there, waiting for me, makes me happy. I speak, of course, of my wonderful, brilliant, intelligently designed, calf-high rubber boots. They are a piece of industrial genius  . They are real and vibrant  , and make my life more worth living. My rubber boots are real and they do not fail me. I slip them on over my socks at a moment's notice. They go on easily. My feet feel joyful like the wagging   tail of a dog waiting for its walk. My feet know they are safe. I step outside the house and nothing can stop me--the late season snowstorm, the pool of standing water at the bottom of my doorsteps that will never give off, the mud and dirt this season brings. My feet are warm and dry and happy. And so am I. My boots are modest. They make no promise they can't keep. I found them at one-third the price of the long boots I looked at longingly for years. Mine are American-made and inexpensive and unattractive and brown and solid. They are now three years old and still look new. I know I will have them forever. I will die with them on. They are homely and they are wonderful. My rubber boots make me braver and kinder and more generous. Yes, I will get the mail. Yes, I will get the newspaper. Yes, I will walk the dog. Yes to the garbage. Yes. Yes. Yes. I have rubber boots, good strong rubber boots--and I am not afraid. We can infer from the passage that   _  . A) the writer has a small life circle B) it must be very cold in winter where the writer lives C) the writer enjoys the dog wagging its tail D) the boots are designed by an industrial talent
A: B


Q: Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends.They believe that their family members, especially their parents.Don't know them as well as their friends do.In large families.it is often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for advice. It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or many friends.Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone.This communication is very important in children's growing up, because friends can discuss something difficult to say to their family members. However, parents often try to choose their children's friends for them.Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends. The question of "choice" is an interesting one.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 good friend your parents don't like? The passage suggests that  _  . A) Parents cannot choose friends for their children successfully. B) Perhaps some children's friends are chosen by their parents. C) Children won't let their parents choose friends for them. D) Parents often try to choose their children's friends for them.
A: B


Q: Everybody cheats. Whether it's the taxi driver who tricks a visitor and takes them the long way round, or the shop assistant who doesn't give the correct change, or the police officer who accepts a bribe   - everybody's at it. Cheats in the nest include the scientist whose research was based on fake data, the game show competitors who worked with a friend in the audience or win a million pounds, and the doctor who made up his qualifications and wasn't really a doctor at all. Everybody cheats; nobody's playing the game. Is cheating acceptable, a natural way of surviving and being successful? Or is it something that should _ , and young people discouraged from doing? If it's the latter how can we explain to children why so many bend the rules? Take sport for example. The Word Cup was filled with cheating. Whether diving, pretending to be hurt or denying a handball, footballers will do anything for a free - kick or a penalty shot. France striker Henry denied cheating to win the free - kick which led to his side's second goal in their 3 - 1 victory over Spain. Many footballers, however, are often putting it on. Whatever the nationality there's one common ploy: the player rolls over holding their leg, ankle or head seeming to be in great pain. As a result a yellow card and / or free - kick is given for the foul and then, a few seconds later, the player is up and about as if nothing had happened ! The ref   may be taken in by it but youngsters watching the game aren't. they also see their heroes getting away with it. Of course it's not just football. In 1998 the Tour de France, the world's greatest cycling event, was hit by a drug - taking scandal  . The 40 bottles of forbidden drugs found with the Fustian team caused a massive investigation that almost caused the Tour to be abandoned. One rider, Veronique, was banned for 9 months. He claimed: "You have cheats in sport, just as you do in business - there will always be people trying to take a short cut. At least we're not turning a blind eye to the problem, which... According to the passage, in which way can a game show player cheat? A) By taking an indirect way. B) By gaining aid from a friend. C) By taking forbidden drugs. D) By selling fake products.

A: B