Question: When discussing about friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess  wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate   me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve  the glowing   hours, too good not to share.  When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and "too serious" about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say:" Let's start with a train whistle  today." We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.  When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend. He was in despair   and I was in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time.   We met  every Sunday for  five  weeks  and  found many excellent things. We  walked  until our  despairs disappeared and then we parted . We gave London to each other.  For almost four years I have had a remarkable  friend whose imagination illuminates mine. We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves. Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the other's dreams.  She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think:  "Yes, I must tell...."  We have never met.  It is such comforting companions  I wish to keep.  One bright hour with their kind  is worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist   , who will only fill up the healing   silence necessary to those darkest moments in  which  I would rather be my own best friend. In the darkest moments, the author would prefer to   _  . A) seek professional help B) stay with her best friend C) be left alone D) break the silence
Answer: C

Question: Chinese scientists have found a new way to use cells found in human urine  that could aid in the treatment of a range of nerve disorders.That is a new technique for reprogramming cells in human urine into nerve progenitor cells  that can grow into multi-functional nerve and brain cells. The technique is expected to be used in the study and treatment of nerve disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and other nerve disorders. Pei Duanqing, a professor at Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, said his research team has combined an episomal system to deliver reprogramming factors with a chemically defined culture medium to reprogram kidney epithelial  cells in urine into NPCs. These NPCs, normally only found in the human brain, were later proven to be transgene-free and self-renewing, he said. "These nerve and brain cells can survive for up to one month when transplanted into the brain of a newborn rat," said Pei. "My team is working hard to understand why our experimental condition allowed the urine cells to become NPCs, because we want to improve the technique and make it more efficient". Scientists have long searched to treat and study neural disorders by obtaining and transplanting neural stem cells. However, the previous method of getting and using cells from either fetal  or adult human tissue remains challenging due to ethical concerns and immune system rejections, he said. Pei hopes the discovery will be used to generate NPCs from patients with nerve disorders such as Parkinson's disease. "These NPCs from patients may help us discover new drugs for these diseases." "It is a remarkable advance in the stem cell field. The results and methods obtained from this study will be of great value and significance to the field, " said Fred Gage,a professor with the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Pei and his tean try their best to work hard in order to  _  . A) make more contributions to medical study B) discover another new technique C) make the technique more perfect D) treat more patients suffering from bad diseases
Answer: C

Question: Jeffery Deaver looks more like a brainy villain   in a James Bond movie than a "00" agent in Her Majesty's secret service.Best known for his thrillers starring criminalist   Lincoln Rhyme, Jeffery Deaver has a new mission: Bring Bond into the 21st century in a new 007 novel. The yet-to-be-named book is cryptically   referred to as "Project X" by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd., which owns the rights to Fleming's work.Most of the details surrounding Project X, to be published in May, are being kept under wraps, but under gentle coaxing   Deaver begins to spill his guts."The novel," he says, "is set in the present day, in 2011.Bond is a young agent for the British secret service.He's 29 or 30 years old, and he's an Afghan war vet." That in itself is big news.After all, if Bond were aging in real time -- he first appeared on the screen in 1953 -- the now doddering   007 would be nearly 90. But first up: a new stand-alone Deaver novel, Edge (Simon & Schuster, $26.99), to be published Tuesday.It's about a federal agent who risks his life to protect a Washington police detective from a man hired to extract information from him using any means at his disposal  . Sipping coffee while seated on a leather chair in a sitting room decorated with portraits of his dogs and show ribbons, the mild-mannered author who writes about murderers and serial killers talks about his career and the solid fan base that has allowed him to pursue writing full time since 1990."I may not sell as many books as John Grisham(although he has sold a cool 20 million), but I have a very loyal fan base," says Deaver, 60, who wrote some of his novels while working as a Wall Street lawyer.Deaver's initiation into the Bond family -- more than 100 million 007 novels have sold worldwide -- could significantly raise his profile  . Other novelists have written Bond novels since Ian Fleming's death in 1964 -- including Kingsley Amis, John Gardner and, most recently, Sebastian Faulks -- but they all took place in the original era.Deaver is taking a new... What do you know about the new 007 novel from the passage? A) The book to be published in May is named "Project X" by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.. B) The book is about a federal agent risking his life to protect a Washington police detective. C) The book features a young James Bond, an Afghan war vet working for the British secret service. D) The book features a young James Bond who fights Cold War.
Answer:
C