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FreeRice.com—For Each Vocabulary Word You Get Right, We Donate Free Rice through the United Nations World Food Program to Help End World Hunger

       1 word = 20 grains;       5 words = 100 grains

       Play and feed hungry people  .                   

       How to play

Click on the answer that best defines the word.

If you get it right, you get a harder word. If wrong, you get an easier word.

For each word you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.

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       How does playing the vocabulary game at FreeRice help me?

Learning new vocabulary has tremendous benefits. It can help you:

★Present your ideas better

★Write better papers, emails and business letters

★Speak more accurately and influentially

★Read faster because you understand better

★Get better grades in high school, college and graduate school

★Perform better at job interviews and conferences

★Be more effective and successful at your job…

   After you have done FreeRice for a couple of days, you may notice an odd phenomenon. Words that you have never consciously used before will begin to pop into your head while you are speaking or writing. You will feel yourself using and knowing more words.

       How does the FreeRice vocabulary program work?

   FreeRice has a custom database(数据库) containing thousands of words at varying degrees of difficulty. There are words proper for people just learning English and words that will challenge the most learned professors. In between are thousands of words for students, business people,  doctors, truck drivers… everyone!

   FreeRice adjusts to your level of vocabulary. It starts by giving you words at different levels of difficulty and then, based on how you do, designs a proper starting level for you. When you get a word wrong, you go to an easier level. When you get three words in a row right, you go to a harder level.

   There are 60 levels in all, but it is rare for people to get above level 50.

1. Playing the vocabulary game at Freerice enables you to do the following EXCEPT______.

A. be admitted to a top university         B. perform better in a speech contest

C. help the needy people in the world      D. improve your performance at work

2. People of different levels of learning can surf FreeRice because_______.

A. it offers a large vocabulary

B. it adjusts to the player’s level of vocabulary

C. it is free of charge to play the game

D. it is designed to meet the needs of people in different fields

3. We can infer from the passage that the purpose of designing the game is to______.

A. supply more rice to feed the hungry people in poor countries

B. promote English learning in non-English speaking countries

C. attract more people to learn English to stop hunger

D. combine English learning with helping hungry people

4. Where is the passage likely to appear?

A. In a popular newspaper.             B. In a farming magazine.

C. On the website.                    D. In a document of the UN.

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Human beings have always been fascinated by twins. Romulus and Remus, Jacob and Esau, Mary-Kate and Ashley.

As children, many of us imagine having a twin: a permanent playmate, a partner in trouble, someone who’d love us unconditionally. Somewhere out there is someone who is exactly like us! What would it feel like to look into a face exactly like our own?

And what if she suddenly appears in my life? That’s essentially what happened to Brooklyn writer Paula Bernstein. I’d known Paula slightly for years; she wrote a lovely essay for Redbook many years ago refuting(驳斥) the persistent belief that all adoptees want to search for their birth parents. Her adoptive family was her family, she wrote; her adoptive mother was her mother. But then, out of the blue, an adoption agency called her and told her about the identical twin sister she didn’t know she had. Her sister, Elyse Schein, wanted to meet her.

I met them for coffee at Café Mogador, three years after their first meeting. Now 38, they have different haircuts, have made different choices in hair color, do their makeup differently. But they clearly look alike, with thick hair, upturned noses. They quickly discovered they had the same childhood habit of sucking their middle fingers, the same adult habit of forgetfully typing their thoughts on an invisible keyboard while thinking. Both edited their high school newspapers and studied film in college. Paula wrote film criticism; Elyse became a filmmaker. They both collected Alice in Wonderland dolls and kept them in the boxes.

They’re now regulars at Café Mogador. The women’s journey from strangers to sisters has clearly been rocky. But as they got to know each other, and struggled to piece together their history, their search united them.

“For me, the search began when I reached the age when my adoptive mother died,” Elyse said. “I realized that my birth mother could be dead. Time was passing. I was ready to solve the mystery that had shadowed my life.” Elyse had always felt a part of her was missing. “I’d felt so different from my adoptive family.” she said.

Paula was raised in a more typical Jewish intellectual family, and was at first a little threatened by Elyse’s appearance in her life. “My first response was both fear and excitement. The moment we met, I felt I was meeting my long-lost best friend. I could tell her anything. And then as that first excitement wore off, I thought, oh my God, I’ve committed to a long-term relationship with a stranger. I wished we hadn’t been separated, but also that I hadn’t been contacted. What would it mean to be in each other’s lives?”

5. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. We always hope to have twins for much good.   

B. We are often attracted by twins because of the mystery.

C. The long-lost twins, Paula and Elyse, were reunited.

D. Life with twins is always wonderful.

6. Which of the following can we infer is the least common names of twins according to the passage?

A. Romulus and Remus.                             B. Jacob and Esau.

C. Mary-Kate and Ashley.                          D. Paula and Elyse.

7. The underlined words “out of the blue” in the fourth paragraph can be replaced by ________.

A. unexpectedly        B. accidentally       C. oppositely             D. out of control 

8. It can be inferred that the following paragraph of the passage will talk about _________.

A. how Paula and Elyse found each other

B. how Paula and Elyse were separated when young

C. what their mothers were like

D. their mixed feelings when they saw each other

                                                   C

Tess still stood hesitating like a swimmer about to make his dive, hardly knowing whether to return or move forward, when a figure came out from the dark door of the tent. It was a tall young man, smoking.

He had an almost black face, though red and smooth. His moustache was black with curled points, though he could not be more than twenty three or—four. There was an unusual force in his face, and in his daring rolling eyes.

“Well, my beauty, what can I do for you?” said he, coming forward. And seeing that she was quite at a loss, “Never mind me. I am Mr. d’Urberville. Have you come to see me or my mother?”

This differed greatly from what Tess had expected. She had dreamed of an aged and dignified face. She tried to keep calm and answered— “I came to see your mother, sir.”

“I am afraid you cannot see her—she is ill in bed,” replied the representative of the house; for this was Mr. Alee, the only son of the noble family. “What is the business you wish to see her about?”

“It isn’t business—it is—I can hardly say what!”

“Pleasure?”

“Oh no. Why, sir, if I tell you, it will seem…”

Tess’s sense of a certain ridicule was now so strong that, despite her general discomfort at being here, her rosy lips curved(弯曲) towards a smile, much to the attraction of the young man.

“It is so foolish”, she stammered(急急巴巴地说). “I fear I can’t tell you!”

“Never mind; I like foolish things. Try again, my dear,” said he kindly.

“Mother asked me to come,” Tess continued; “and, indeed, I was in the mind to do so myself. But I did not think it would be like this. I came, sir, to tell you that we are of the same family as you.”

“Ho! Poor relations?”

“Yes.”

“Stokes?”

“No; d'Urbervilles.”

“Ay, ay; I mean d'Urbervilles.”

“Our names are worn away to Durbeyfield; but we have several proofs that we are d'Urbervilles. The local scholars hold the view that we are, and…and we have an old seal(印章) and a silver spoon marked with the same castle as yours. So mother said we ought to make ourselves known to you, as we’ve lost our horse by a bad accident; we can hardly make a living.”

   “Very kind of your mother, I’m sure.” Alec looked at Tess as he spoke, in a way that made her uneasy. “And so, my pretty girl, you’ve come on a friendly visit to us, as relations?”

“I suppose I have,” looking less confident and uncomfortable again.

“Well—there’s no harm in it. Where do you live? What are you?”

                                    —-Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy

9. How does Tess feel in the whole course of the meeting with Alec?

A. Excited and hopeful.                 B. Nervous and uncomfortable.

C. Surprised but comfortable.              D. Pleased but embarrassed.

10. In the eyes of Tess, Alec is _______________.

A. forceful and daring                  B. unfriendly and talkative

C. a gentle and reliable man              D. older than she had expected

11. Why does Tess pay the visit to the d'Urbervilles?

A. To see Alec himself.                  B. To see Alec’s mother.

C. To confirm that they are of the same family.

D. To make known their relationship and seek help.

12. Alec appears quite friendly to Tess mainly because __________.

     A. Tess is his distant relation                B. Tess looks polite to him

     C. Tess is a pretty girl                            D. Tess looks ridiculous

                                                        D

    Get a reward for every bug you bring to live in new science museum exhibit.

In a city with trillions of American cockroaches(蟑螂), the Houston Museum of Natural Science has agreed to pay a quarter per bug－up to 1,000－as it seeks to populate a new insect exhibit alongside its Cockrell Butterfly Center.

Nancy Greig, the museum’s director insists the public payday for roaches isn’t just a marketing ploy(炒作).

“Absolutely, this wasn’t devised as a joke,” Greig said. “We needed more roaches for the exhibit, so I sent this message out to everyone in the museum asking people to bring them in. Well, someone decided to tell the press, and all hell has broken loose.”

“But we really do need cockroaches.”

“One might be forgiven for never considering how to catch a live cockroach. But it’s simple enough to fool them,” Greig said, “and even easier to catch them.” American cockroaches are the most common kind in Texas, measuring up to 2 inches long and invading homes.

Despite their less-than-attractive reputation, cockroaches actually aren’t that dirty. Greig even went so far as to call them “fastidious” saying they don’t enjoy rooting(用嘴拱食) in waste. They’re only dirty if, say, they used a sewer(下水道)line to gain access into a home.

The roaches collected by the museum will become part of a display in a new exhibit that showcases insects such as cockroaches, dung beetles and termites.

There’s more to like about roaches, too. They don’t bite, and they don’t carry diseases like a mosquito, so they’re generally safe to handle.

13. For what does the museum pay for cockroaches?

A. For a marketing ploy.       B. It’s devised to make fun.

C. People really need them.     D. For a new exhibit.

14. The underlined word “fastidious” probably means extremely ________.

A. clean     B. dirty     C. unpleasant     D. fast                    

15. What do we know about American roaches?

A. It’s not easy for people in Houston to collect roaches.

B. They all measure 2 inches and are often found in homes

C. They don’t bite and they are free of disease.

D. We have reasons to like them.

16. Which of the following can serve as the best title for the passage?

A. The Houston Museum of Natural Science            B. A new exhibit

C. Quarters for cockroaches                        D. A cockroach is lovely

                                                        E

17. What does the underlined word “blending” in the first hook introduction mean_________.

A. ruin                         B. break                     C. combine                  D. attempt

18. What happened to the survivors on the life boat according to the introduction?

A. Pi managed to kill those animals and finally survived

B. They worked hand in hand to get through the sea

C. They had to fight against one another in order to survive

D. Richard Parker killed other animals but was killed by Pi.

19. Five People You Meet in Heaven tells an old man’s experience in Heaven in order to reveal___.

A. the existence of Heave B. the mystery of death

C. human’s future life D. the true meaning of life

20. Who is Grogan most probably according to the introduction?

A. The author of Marley＆Me             B. A friend of John and Jenny

C. An expert taming dogs.           D. The previous owner of the dog

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