[单项选择]According to the passage, when small children were asked to count a pile of red and blue pencils they______.
A. counted the number of pencils of each color
B. guessed at the total number of pencils
C. counted only the pencils of their favorite color
D. subtracted the number of red pencils from the number of blue pencils

[单项选择]According to the passage, when small children were asked to count a pile of red and blue pencils they ______.
A. counted the number of pencils of each color
B. guessed at the total number of pencils
C. counted only the pencils of their favorite color
D. subtracted the number of red pencils from the number of blue pencils

[单项选择]According to the passage, when stamps were used, the postage would be ______ that in the early 19th century.

[单项选择]According to the passage, children suffering from autism are unable to _______.
A. play musical instrument.
B. interact with other people.
C. recognize their parents.
D. be invited to birthday parties.

[单项选择]According to politicians, when children commit crimes, they should be treated in the same way as
A. murderers.
B. criminals.
C. victims.
D. adults.

[单项选择]According to the passage, children today expect their parents to ______.
A. give them more independence
B. choose a good job for them
C. live together with them
D. make more money

[单项选择]According to the passage, children tend to give more logical, complete and creative answers if adults ________.
A. encourage them to ask questions of their own
B. urge them to think and give immediate answers
C. give them more than three seconds to think after a question
D. give them time to have a fierce discussion

[单项选择]According to the passage, children who tended to generally progress academically were
A. those whose mothers gave them the most affection.
B. those whose fathers worked the night shift.
C. those who had no brothers or sisters.
D. from one-parent families.

[单项选择]According to the passage, we give school children difficult problems to solve in order to ________.
A. encourage them to learn
B. teach them to fear the pain of solving the problem
C. help them learn to deal with pain
D. teach them how to respect from the problem

[单项选择]According to the passage, where were large deposits of iron uncovered
A. In Pittsburgh.
B. In the Mesabi Range.
C. Near Lake Michigan.
D. Near Lake Erie.

[单项选择]According to the passage, trees were initially needed by the Nebraskan settlers for ______.
A. shade
B. the prevention of soil erosion
C. the creation of parks
D. construction

[单项选择]We can infer from the passage that there were some women scientists ______.
A. on board Sky Lab before 1962
B. on board Sky Lab before 1965
C. on board Sky Lab after 1962
D. on board Sky Lab after 1965

[单项选择]According to the passage, why were the remains of organisms trapped in swamps better preserved for the fossil record than those that were not
A. The swamp environment reduced the amount of bacterial decay
B. Swamp waters contained higher amounts of materials such as calcium carbonate
C. There were fewer sediments in swamps than in other bodies of water
D. Swamp vegetation accelerated the decomposition of organisms

[单项选择]According to the passage, why were doctors in the West sometimes unable to help their patients ( )
A. They did not know how to treat the unfamiliar illnesses.
B. They were more interested in establishing practices in the cities.
C. They were more concerned with doing research than with treating patients.
D. They were often overcome by diseases caught from their patients.

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Passage Five When a teacher or lecturer recommends a student to read a book, it is usually for a particular purpose. In many eases, the teacher doesn’ t suggest that the whole book should be read. In fact, he may just refer to a few pages which have a direct bearing on the matter being discussed. Unfortunately, when many students pick up a book to read they tend to have no particular purpose in mind other than simply to "read the book". Often they open the book and start reading, page by page, line by line, word by word; in other words, slowly and in great detail. The result is that students frequently don’ t have an overall view of what they are reading; also, they tend to forget fairly soon what they’ ye been reading. Students can make their reading much more effective by adopting a strategy (策略) aimed at helping them to understand and to remember what they read. Firstly, they should decide precisely why they’ re reading the book: perhap
A. to recommend a whole book for students to read
B. to require students to read carefully
C. to assign reading with a certain purpose
D. to locate, books for students to find