[单项选择]Admission: ADULTS 20p, CHILDREN FREE.

[单项选择]Admission: ADULTS20p, CHILDREN FREE.

[单项选择]Admission: ADULTS 20p, CHILDREN FREE. A. Children will be free. B. Adults have to pay 20 pence to get in. C. Children don't have to pay adults to get out.

[单项选择]Children are more likely than adults to suffer the negative effects of pesticides because ______.


A. children absorb more pesticides than adults, proportionally
B. pesticides are used more in areas with children
C. the pesticides used in schools are more dangerous than other pesticides
D. adults know more about pesticides than children

[单项选择]Both adults and children help to make the islanders' clothes.

[单项选择]According to the writer, adults and children differ ______.
A. in the body
B. in the mind
C. in the clothes
D. in the body and the mind

[单项选择]Adults sometimes envy children who play all the time （） they themselves have to work, rain or shine.
A. while
B. once
C. since
D. though

[单项选择]Adults learn a foreign language（）children acquire their mother tongues.
A. with the much same way as
B. in much the same way like
C. using the much same way of
D. in much the same way that

[单项选择]A family with 2 adults and '2 children and with clothes washer and dishwasher should purchase a water heater with a capacity of ______ gallon.


A. 66
B. 52
C. 80 (two tanks with 40 each)
D. 82

[单项选择]Compared with adults, children are ______.


A. more susceptible to colds and flu
B. more likely to touch their faces and noses
C. more careful about their appearances
D. washing their hands more frequently

[单项选择]Children's needs are as varied as those of adults.（）
A. 儿童的需求也像成人的需求一样是多种多样的。
B. 儿童需求有必要像成人的需求一样。
C. 儿童需求成人多种多样的照顾。
D. 儿童的需求像成人的需求一样。

[单项选择]The correlations between two college admission tests and academic success in college are limited for the reason that ______.


A. many students drop out of schools
B. students are not adequately motivated
C. intellectual factors are more important for students than when they were in primary and middle schools
D. measures of college achievement are unreliable like those in primary and middle schools

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Passage Two
As the competition for admission to Canada’s post-secondary institutions heats up, parents are searching for new ways to give their kids an edge (优势). Growing numbers are finding the solution in a long-standing educational method--boarding schools.
Canada’s almost 10,000 boarding school students are exposed to richer and more varied programming than the public system can offer. Moreover, their days axe quite structured and students are kept busy with academics, athletics (运动) and other activities. Many boarding schools develop specialties: for instance, Brentwood College School in Mill Bay, specializes in fine arts, while Athol Murray College Notre Dame in Wilcox, has nationally recognized hockey programs for boys and girls.
Susan Hazell, who spent more than 20 years teaching in Canadian boarding schools, says that boarding schools foster (培养，鼓励) independence in students.
"They provide a safe, positive environmen
A. academics
B. sport games
C. various activities
D. computer games