Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Barak Obama(.), a black man, is the president  of the United States now. He was born on August 4th, 1961, in Hawaii  and has lived in many places. His mother was from Kansas  and his father was from Kenya . Obama went to Columbia University  in New York and got a law degree  at Harvard University  in Massachusetts . His wife is Michelle Obama(.). She also worked as a lawyer and later worked for the University of Chicago . They have two young daughters. Obama wrote a book Dreams from My Father.  " I always live in the dream of my father and American people, " Obama once said. He was born in a poor family. And his grandparents looked after him very well when Obama was young. He also lived and worked in Africa . Then he got good education  in Harvard University. On November 4th, 2008, he became the new president of America for the next four years. ,,. Question: Barack Obama became President at the age of  _ Options: A: 37. B: 57. C: 40. D: 47.
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881.His father was a painter and art teacher who gave his son the first lesson in drawing.He won a prize--"Science and Charity" for his first important painting when he was only fifteen.He studied in several cities in Spain.But there was no one to teach him all that he wanted to know.When he was nineteen,he visited Paris. Paris was then the center of the world for artists.Everything that was new and exciting in the world of paintings seemed to happen there.When he was twenty-three,Picasso moved there to live and lived in France for the rest of his life. When he was over ninety,this great painter still lived his life like a young man.He was still looking for new ideas and new ways to use his artistic materials. When he died in 1973,he was ninety-one years old. ,. Question: What did Pablo Picasso's father do? Options: A: A worker. B: A painter. C: An artist. D: A teacher.
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Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: One day ,a woman got on a bus with a child in her arms. The woman sat down next to _ The old woman took a look at the child and said in a low voice to her husband," Look at the child. He's so ugly ." The woman heard what the old woman said and began to cry. She cried and cried and no one could stop her. When the bus came to a stop, a young man got on the bus with some bananas and sat at the back of the bus. He saw the woman crying, so he went over and said to her," Oh, come, please don't cry any more. You look very ugly when you are crying." The woman didn't stop crying. Instead, she cried even harder. The young man didn't know what he could do. Suddenly he noticed the bananas in his hand and had a good idea. So he said again to the woman, "Well, if you stop crying, I will give your monkey some bananas to eat." Question: What the young man said at the end of the story shows that  _  . Options: A: the child became a monkey B: the child was very ugly C: the young man was very kind D: the woman loved her child
A: B


Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: In the morning Mr Smith comes into the garden at the back of his house. He sees much snow in the garden. Mr Smith wants to take his car out, so he asks a man to clean the road from his garage , to the gate. He says to the man, "Don't throw any snow on that side. It'll damage(, ) the flowers in the street, or policeman will come." Then he goes out. When he comes back, his road is clean. There is no snow on the flowers, on the wall or in the street. But when he opens the garage he sees the garage is full of snow, the snow from the road, and his car is under the snow! Question: In the morning Mr Smith finds there is a lot of snow in   _  . Options: A: his garden B: his garage C: his house D: his car
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Everyone has a family name. My name is Jane Armstrong. Armstrong is my family name. What does Armstrong mean  ? Does it mean my arms are strong? But I am a slim girl. I don't like strong arms. My best friend is Lucy Long. Is she a long or a tall girl? No, she isn't. She is short. But she has long hair. Some family names come from jobs. My cousin's name is James Cook. Does it mean he can cook? No, he can't. And he doesn't like cooking at all. He only likes eating nice food. And he likes the TV show A Bite Of China (<<>> ), because it is all about nice food. Some people get family names from places. Ann Hill is my classmate. Is there a hill  near her home? Yes, there is one behind her home. But her uncle, Tom Hill, lives 20 kilometers from a hill. Question: Jane Armstrong   _  . Options: A: is a girl with strong arms B: wants to have strong arms C: has very strong arms D: doesn't like strong arms
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Tom brought a box of biscuits  to a summer camp. He ate a few and placed the rest under his bed. After lunch, he found the box was gone. He went to tell his camp coach  about it. The next day, the coach saw a boy eating Tom's biscuits behind a tree. He came up with an idea to solve the problem. He found Tom and said to him, "I know who took away your biscuits. Will you help me to teach him a lesson?" "Well, yes... are you going to punish him, sir?" Tom asked. "No, I'm not," the coach explained patiently. "That would only make him hate you. I want you to write to your mother and ask for more gifts." Tom received another box of biscuits by mailing from his mother a few days later. "Now," said the coach, "go and share them with the boy who stole your biscuits." Tom didn't understand the coach's intention , but he still followed his suggestion. Half an hour later the coach saw the two boys come up the hill, arm in arm. The boy was trying to ask Tom to accept his toy robot in payment for  the stolen biscuits. And Tom was refusing the gift from his new friend. He said that a few biscuits were not so important. In some situations, forgiveness  is better than punishment. Question: From the story, we learn   _  . Options: A: the coach punished the boy at last B: the coach wrote to Tom's mother and asked for more gifts. C: Tom accepted the boy's robot in payment for the stolen biscuits. D: forgiveness is sometimes better than punishment
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D