[单项选择]The passage mentions that many people believe that if you don't eat breakfast, you will


A. not lose weight
B. be healthier
C. gain weight
D. lose weight

[单项选择]The passage mentions that many people believe that if you don't eat breakfast, you will______.
A. not lose weight
B. be healthier
C. gain weight
D. lose weight

[单项选择]According to the passage, people in Japan believe that a child is born______.
A. with two souls which are fighting with each other
B. basically good
C. evil
D. sinful

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Passage Two
Many people think a telephone is essential. But I think it is a pest and a time waster. Very often you find it impossible to escape from some idle or inquisitive chatter-box, or from somebody who wants something for nothing. If you have a telephone in your own house, you will admit that it tends to ring when you least want it to ring; when you are asleep, or in the middle of a meal or a conversation, or when you are just going out , or when you are in your bath. Are you strong-minded enough to ignore it, to say to yourself, "Ah, well it will all be the same in a hundred year’s time" You are not. You think there may be some important news or message for you. I can assure you that if a message is really important it will reach you sooner or later. Have you never rushed dripping from the bath, or chewing from the tab]e, or dazed from the bed, only to be told that you are a wrong number
But you will say, you need not have your
A. Harmful thing.
B. Insignificant thing.
C. Troublesome thing
D. Trivial thing

[单项选择]According to the passage, many people initially thought that E. L. Drake had made a mistake by ______.
A. going on a whaling expedition
B. moving to Pennsylvania
C. searching for oil
D. retiring from his job