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Dear Diary,
This morning Hobo showed me two pieces of clothing. One was pink and the other was (1)blue. He asked me which I wanted to (2)wear. I thought blue was (3)better than pink. Pink is a (4)girls' colour while blue is for boys. I (5)chose the blue one. Hobo let me (6)try it on. He didn’t (7)agree with me. He thought there was (8)nothing wrong with pink. At that time, I didn’t know what he meant. He let me choose first and helped me try it on. How (9)kind Hobo was today! But when I (10)put on the blue one, I found it was a girl’s (11)dress! Hobo looked at me and (12)laughed out of breath. He said that he was not sure if blue looked (13)good on me. I was very angry! The pink one in his hand must be a (14)boys' style! What a bad e-dog Hobo is!

答案：
(1)blue
(2)wear
(3)better
(4)girls'
(5)chose
(6)try
(7)agree
(8)nothing
(9)kind
(10)put
(11)dress
(12)laughed
(13)good
(14)boys'

School bus yellow is a colour that was used on school buses in North America in 1939. The colour is now known in Canada and the USA as National School Bus Glossy Yellow and was called National School Bus Chrome.
The colour was chosen because it attracts attention and is noticed more easily than any other colour. Scientists describe this as follows: “Lateral peripheral vision (外侧周边视觉) for finding yellow is 1.24 times greater than for red.”
In April 1939, Dr Frank W. Cyr, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York, organized a conference that set up national school bus standards for the USA, including the standard colour of yellow for the school bus. It became known as “National School Bus Chrome”. The colour was chosen because black words on that were easiest to see in the darkness of early morning.
In Sweden, yellow buses were used as postbuses by the Swedish Postal Service in the areas where there were few people from 1923 to 1991, since before “school bus yellow” was created in 1939, with the colour chosen because it was the traditional colour of the Swedish Postal Service, and as such was the colour used on both post boxes and vehicles. Other national postal services in Europe, including in Germany and Switzerland, also used yellow buses for the same reason, since long before, 1939, and some still do.
School bus yellow is also the traditional colour of coaches and buses between cities in Hungary. North American-style yellow school buses are being introduced in some parts of the United Kingdom. A similar shade of yellow was used in Santiago, Chile’s bus lines between 1992 and 2007.
(B) 1. What is the meaning of the underlined sentence?
A. Yellow is much more difficult to be noticed than red.
B. Yellow is much easier to be noticed than red.
C. Yellow is better than red.
D. Yellow is bigger than red.
(B) 2. In which country/countries were yellow buses used as postbuses?
A. Sweden and the USA.
B. Germany and Switzerland.
C. Chile.
D. Hungary.
(C) 3. When was school bus yellow created?
A. In 1923.
B. In 1991.
C. In 1939.
D. Before 1993.
(A) 4. Which of the following sentences is NOT true?
A. School bus yellow is now used in all countries in the world.
B. Not all yellow buses are used as school buses.
C. Now school buses in some parts of the United Kingdom use the same yellow as those in Canada and the USA.
D. National school bus standards for the USA were set up in New York.
(B) 5. Why was yellow chosen for school buses in the USA?
A. Because yellow buses were used as postbuses, too.
B. Because black words on yellow can be seen easily on early morning.
C. Because countries in Europe chose yellow for their school buses.
D. Because it was known as “National School Bus Chrome”.

答案： 1. B
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. B