【推荐1】Swimming across the English Channel is no easy feat. In addition to the strong ocean currents, swimmers also have to endure extremely cold temperatures. However, don't tell that to Sarah Thomas. The 37-year-oki American recently became the first person ever to swim across it not once, hut four times non-stop!

"I just can't believe I did it/' Thomas told the BBC after the swim. "I'm really just pretty numb. There was a lot of people on the beach to meet me and wish me well, and it was really nice of them, but I feel just mostly stunned."

What makes Thomas's achievement even more remarkable is that just a year ago, in 2018, she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer. She said that fighting the strong currents was hard. But even worse was “dealing with the saltwater... it really hurts your throat your mouth and your tongue”, she said. “I got stung(蛰)in the face by a jellyfish. The water wasn't as cold as I thought it might be, but it was still very cold."

Thomas’s record-breaking journey began just past midnight on Sunday, September 15, 2019, when she dove into the waters off the shore of Dover, England. Though the swim was initially meant to be about 80 miles, strong currents forced the athlete to change course several times, lengthening the total distance by about 50 miles. By the time she appeared from the water at 6:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday, September 17, 2019, she had been in the water for 54 hours and 13 minutes and swum a total of 133 miles! Even more impressive, Thomas achieved the astonishing feat in a regular swimsuit. Her only aids were swim goggles, one cap, a nose clip, and earplugs。.

This is not the first time Thomas has swum across the English Channel. She has done it twice before, in 2012 and 2016. She told filmmaker Jon Washer, who is making a documentary about her swim, “As I was doing 20 mile swims, it occurred to me that I could do more and I wanted to see what that more was." The swimmer, who is being praised “an absolute legend" by the CS&PF, has indeed shown the world what she is capable of However, we have a feeling she is not done yet!

1. By mentioning “Swimming across the English Channel is no easy feat", the writer aims to

A．warn people not to swim across it

B．arouse people' interest in swimming

C．set off Sa rah Thomas's achievements

D．stress the difficulties swimmers have to conquer

2. What does the underlined word “stunned" mean in Paragraph 2?

A．Surprised.

B．Satisfied.

C．Doubtful.

D．Regretful.

3. What troubled Thomas most during swimming?

A．Strong currents.	B．Sea water.
C．Jellyfish.	D．Water temperature.

4. What does Paragraph 4 mainly focus on?

A．The long distance she covered.

B．The ordinary equipment she possessed.

C．The record-breaking time she stayed in water.

D．The impressive determination she displayed.

5. What can we infer from the last Paragraph?

A．A documentary is being made about her achievements.

B．She has swum across the Channel more than once.

C．She will probably plan to swim the Channel in the future.

D．She is capable of doing everything she wants to achieve.

【推荐2】After a car crash left 14-year-old Collin Smith paralyzed, doctors told him he had a 20 percent chance of finishing high school. The opportunity to attend college seemed even slimmer. Yet eight years later, Collin earned a bachelor of arts degree. He achieved the nearly impossible--with the help of a kind and generous man five decades his senior.

Emest Greene and his wife attended the same church as Collin and his parents did. The Creenes had moved to the area just nine months earlier. But when Emest heard about Collin' s accident and the fact that his parents would not be able to care full-time for him, he approached Collin's parents with the idea that he looked after the boy while they were at work. The Smiths gratefully accepted.

Emest sought training to care for Collin and then began arriving early on weekday mornings. He would help Collin get out of bed, wash, dress and have breakfast. Then he' d drive Collin to and from school. Then, while the two waited for one of Collin's parents to get home, "We played lot of Monopoly," says Emest with a laugh. At first, the age difference was a challenge but they learned to compromise. "Older folks are just older versions of you," says Collin. "Same people. great stories."

Some days were better than others. "He can't do for himself, so he can be demanding," says Emest. But he attests that Collin's strong will got him through tough times.

After graduation, Collin was accepted to nearby High Point University. Emest accompanied him to every class. On graduation day, Emest received an honorary degree in humanities.

"I was floored, "he says.

Collin wasn't surprised, however. "Emest is a godly example of the way a man should live-calm, modest," he says.

1. What do we know about Emest Greene?

A．He took care of Collin at his parents' request.

B．He was an old family friend of the Smiths.

C．He was a witness to Collin's car accident.

D．He overcame difficulties to tend Collin.

2. How did Ermest help Collin?

A．By providing training for him

B．By playing Monopoly with him

C．By completing the same course.

D．By accompanying him in life and study.

3. Which of the following best explains "attests" underlined in paragraph 4?

A．Evidences.	B．Expects.
C．Guesses	D．Clarifies.

4. What is the author's purpose in writing the text?

A．To share a special friendship.

B．To describe an act of kindness.

C．To stress the importance of determination.

D．To appeal for helping the disabled.

【推荐3】In 1959, when Jean Harper was in the third grade, her teacher gave the class an assignment to write a report on what they wanted to be when they grew up. She poured her heart into her report and expressed her dream of becoming an airline pilot. Her paper came back with an "F" on it. The teacher told her it was a "fairy tale". Jean was heartbroken and ashamed. As the years went by, Jean was beaten down by the discouragement and negativity she encountered whenever she talked about her dream. "Girls can't become airline pilots; never have, never will. You're crazy. That's impossible. "Finally Jean gave up.
In her senior year of high school, her English teacher was a Mrs. Dorothy Slaton, a demanding teacher with high standards. One day Mrs. Slaton asked this question: "If you had unlimited finances, unlimited access to the finest schools, unlimited talents and abilities, what would you do?" Jean felt a rush of the old enthusiasm, and with excitement she wrote down the very old dream.
The next thing that Mrs. Slaton said changed the course of Jean's life. The teacher leaned forward over her desk and said, "I have a little secret for you. You do have unlimited abilities and talents. When you leave school, if you don't go for your dreams, no one will do it for you. You can have what you want if you want it enough."
The hurt and fear of years of discouragement disappeared all of a sudden. Jean felt thrilled and told her about her dream of becoming a pilot. Mrs. Slaton slapped the desk top. "Then do it!" she said.
So Jean did. It didn't happen overnight. In her l0 years of hard work, even facing varieties of laugh, frustration and opposition, she never gave up her dream. Instead, she went on doing everything her third-grade teacher said was fairy-tale.
Eventually, Jean Harper became a Boeing 737 captain for the United Airline Company.
1. Jean’s third-grade teacher thought her dream to be ____________.

A．great	B．impossible
C．challenging	D．reasonable

2. Mrs. Slaton may hold the view that _____________.

A．only some of her students have great potential

B．her students are good enough to be admitted to the best schools

C．belief contributes to realizing a dream

D．Jean was to have her dream realized

3. According to the passage, we can infer that___________.

A．Jean’s dream was always in her deep heart

B．Jean owed her success to all her teachers

C．most people around Jean approved of her dream

D．Jean achieved her dream with ease

4. Which is the best title of the passage?

A．A Respectable Teacher	B．How to Realize a Dream
C．Hard Work Pays off	D．Reach for the Sky

【推荐1】Youth is a stressful time from friends to school to families, stressful situations become common. The body can respond (反应) with faster breathing, a fast bating heart, tense (绷紧的) muscles and drop of sweat. And teens who breathe polluted air appear to respond most strongly to stress, a new study shows.

Jonas Miller, a psychologist working at Stanford University ,studied whether or how air pollution might affect the body’s response to stress. Miller’s team invited 144 teens to participate in a stressful test. Most of the kids lived in or near San Francisco,which has the worst air quality.

Before the test, the researchers used sensors(感测器) to record heart rates and sweat levels for five minutes as the kids rested. Then as the test began, a researcher read aloud the beginning of a story and the kids had five minutes to make up an exciting ending to the story. They would have to memorize their ending and present it aloud to a judge. After fishing this task. the kids were asked to do math problems, which obviously was a harder task. If he or she made a mistake, the judge let the student start over. The whole time, sensors recorded heart rates and sweat levels.

Miller found all the students had similar heart rates and sweat levels at rest. But as the test got difficult, differences began to appear Kids from places with more air pollution responded more strongly to stress and their heartbeats became irregular. They sweated more than teens who lived in cleaner places.

"The teens' bodies were preparing to deal with possible challenges in the environment and such bodily responses to stress were linked to negative feelings", Miller concludes. Over time, he says, "these responses can contribute to both physical and mental health problems."

This study has proved the negative health effects of air pollution among teenagers. Therefore, teenagers should try to avoid their exposure (暴露) to air pollution They should consider limiting their time outside during rush hour, especially on days when air pollution is particularly strong.

1. What happened to teens in stressful situations?

A．Their bodies react strongly.

B．Their muscles cause pain.

C．They become seriously sick.

D．They have trouble in breathing.

2. What can we learn about the test?

A．The judge of the test was strict with the kids.

B．The kids enjoyed making up endings of stories.

C．The kids gradually felt more stress in the process.

D．The researchers wanted the kids to keep peaceful.

3. What does the test find about the kids?

A．They are having more rest now.

B．They responds differently to stress.

C．Those from cleaner places have stronger bodies.

D．Those polluted doesn’t have more stress in life.

4. From the study we can infer that tens should.

A．solve their mental health problems

B．learn to deal with stressful situations

C．spend less time outside in heavy traffic

D．enjoy more outside activities in good weather

5. Where is the passage probably from?

A．A report on pollution.

B．A geography book.

C．A psychologist's diary.

D．A science magazine.

【推荐2】Student loans are based on a simple idea: that a graduate’s future flow of earnings will more than cover the costs of doing a degree. But with unemployment rates in parts of the rich world at post-war highs, that may no longer hold true for many people. The consequences will be felt by everybody.

All over the world student indebtedness is causing problems. In Britain, rising university fees mean that student debt is likely to treble (变成三倍) to £70 billion. But, partly because higher education there is so expensive, the scale of the problem is far greater in America. When the next official estimates of outstanding student debt there are published, it is expected to be close to $1 trillion.

Student-loan systems in America and elsewhere are often badly designed for an extended period of high unemployment. In contrast to the housing crash, the risk from student debt is not of a sudden explosion in losses but of gradual financial suffocation (窒息). The pressure needs to be eased.

One option is to change the bankruptcy laws. In America, Britain and elsewhere, these treat student debt as a special case: unlike other forms of debt, it cannot be wiped out. If student debt is not to bind existing graduates and put off future ones, the rules could be changed so that it is dischargeable (可解除的) in bankruptcy. Yet some worry that graduates would rush to declare bankruptcy, handing losses to taxpayers.

So a second option is preferable. Many countries, America included, have designed student debt primarily as a mortgage (抵押)-like obligation: it is repaid to a fixed schedule. Other places, like Britain and Australia, make student-loan repayments income- based so that the prospect of taking on debt is more acceptable to people from poorer backgrounds. That approach makes sense, especially when jobs are scarce.

Both changes would lead to a repricing of student debt. That would be a bad thing for taxpayers, but a good thing overall. Just as borrowers need to understand the risks they are exposing themselves to, voters need to understand the duties that governments are taking on when they subsidize (资助) students.

1. The idea supporting student loans _________.

A．illustrates the way the money serves graduates

B．shows the difficulty of paying off the debts

C．correctly estimates graduates future earnings

D．fails to expect the current condition of indebted students

2. Which of the following may be the reason for the heavy student debt?

A．High unemployment among graduates.	B．The loose student-loan systems.
C．The housing crash.	D．The rapid increase of student loans.

3. The pressure of student debt can be eased by _________ .

A．new bankruptcy rules	B．income-based repayment policy
C．clear student obligation	D．a better tax system

4. What might be the most suitable title of the passage?

A．The Serious Tax Problems	B．Graduates Unemployment
C．The Indebted Graduates	D．Ways to cancel Students Debts

【推荐3】Four years ago my sweet mom went to be with her Lord. She did it her way.
I got the call at work, and I headed home quickly. Mom and Dad lived on a small farm that they had owned since I was seven. I hated going there every weekend. There was nothing for a young girl to do but watch the one station on the old TV set, if the weather allowed reception.
My mom, on the other hand, loved the peace and quiet of the land. The place was rustic, with no indoor plumbing or heat. We had a big wood stove in the kitchen that did its best to heat the little farmhouse, but it always seemed cold and too quiet to me.
In the evenings, my mom and I would sit for hours singing in the little kitchen. I sang the melody and Mom harmonized. Her favorite song was "Moon River" and we sang it over and over. Mom told me stories about how when I was a little girl, I could sing before I could talk.
As time passed, I had my own children and went to visit them every week or two. The kids loved the farm and the tractor rides with my dad. Me, well, I still hated the silence of the farm. While my mom loved to sit at her kitchen table and look out at her garden and flowers and retell all the old stories, I missed the hustle and bustle(喧闹) of my life at home. But I sat there listening quietly as she reminisced.
Now, I sat back in the silence and the silence was deafening so I finally leaned over to turn on an old radio. Music always comforted me.
My heart skipped a beat. “Moon River” was playing on the radio. I sat there stunned, with a tear running down my cheek, as I listened to every familiar note.
Then the radio announcer came on. “Here’s one we haven’t heard in a while,” and an unfamiliar song began. I began to cry harder as I heard the words sung over the airwaves. “Come down, come down from your Ivory Tower…”
1. The writer didn’t like staying in the farm for the following reasons Except that ________.

A．it was too cold and quiet

B．she could only sing one song in the small farm

C．there was nothing more that could make her excited

D．the place was rustic, with no indoor plumbing or heat

2. From the first paragraph, we know that the writer’s mother ________.

A．left the small farm with Lord

B．passed away four years ago

C．left for Lord to live her own way

D．preferred to be with Lord

3. What does the underlined word refer to?

A．shouted	B．comforted
C．recalled	D．sighed

4. Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A．Mom’s music	B．Cherish(珍惜) life
C．My happy childhood	D．Our small farmhouse

【推荐1】Pleasingly, a new study supports one of my favourite insights about writing, or getting any creative work done-though I’m pretty sure that wasn’t intentional, since the researchers were actually studying traffic jams. Jonathan Boreyko, an American engineering professor, was crawling along in his car one day, observing how drivers naturally bunch up at red lights, leaving mere inches between vehicles. Their motivation isn’t a mystery: the closer you are to the car ahead, you’d assume, the better your chances of squeezing through before the light goes back to red, and the sooner you’ll reach your destination, even if you also increase the risk of collisions.

But you’d assume wrong. When Boreyko and a colleague recreated the traffic-light scenario (场景) on a special test track, they found that drivers who bunched up made no swifter progress. True, they stopped slightly closer to the light. But it also took them longer to resume (继续) moving safely, and these two factors canceled each other out. “There’s no point in getting closer to the car in front of you when traffic comes to a stop.” Boreyko concluded.

This is true of writing or similar work. People never rest in urgent pursuit of their goals. Yes, it all looks impressively productive. But as the psychologist Robert Boice argues, racing to get a task completed generally brings a cost that outweighs the benefit. You tire yourself out, so you can’t shine the next day. Or you neglect so many other duties that you’re forced to take an extra day to catch up. Or you start damaging work you already produced — which is why the novelist Cabriel Carcfa Marqucz said he gave up writing in the afternoon: he wrote more, but he had to redo it the next morning, so the overall effect was to slow him down. That’s also why Boice insists that when you’re writing on a schedule, it’s as important to be disciplined about stopping as starting, even if you’re on a roll.

Clearly, this is all a convenient way to feel superior to people who put in more hours. But that doesn’t mean it’s untrue. Indeed, it’s scary to ask what role impatience play in your life in general: how much of each day we spend leaning into the future, trying to get tasks “out of the way”, always focused on the destination, metaphorically (隐喻地) inching closer and closer to the bumper of the car ahead. None of it gets us anywhere faster. It’s also no way to live.

1. Which of the following best summarizes the finding of Boreyko’s study?

A．The sooner, the better.	B．More haste, no extra speed.
C．The early bird catches the worm.	D．Chances favour the prepared mind.

2. The author wants to tell us that in creative work____.

A．tight planning avoids chaos	B．overwork polishes our images
C．impatience almost never pays	D．afternoon time is less productive

3. The author writes the passage to______.

A．advise people to stop racing	B．instruct people to write skillfully
C．persuade people to treasure time	D．warn people to obey traffic rules

【推荐2】The human face is a remarkable piece of work. The astonishing variety of facial features helps people recognize each other and is important to the formation of complex societies. So is the face’s ability to send emotional signals, whether through an unconscious reddening of face or a false smile. People spend much of their waking lives, in the office and the courtroom as well as the bar and the bedroom, reading faces, for signs of attraction, trust and cheat. They also spend plenty of time trying to dissimulate.

Technology is rapidly catching up with the human ability to read faces. In America, facial recognition is used by churches to track prayers’ attendance; in Britain, by shopkeepers to spot past thieves. This year Welsh police used it to arrest a suspect outside a football game. In China, it verifies the identities of ride-hailing (网约车) drivers, permits tourists to enter attractions and lets people pay for things with a smile. Apple’s new iPhone is expected to use it to unlock the home screen.

Compared with human skills, such applications might expand steadily in scale. Some breakthroughs, such as flight or the Internet, obviously transform human abilities; facial recognition seems merely to encode them. Although faces are peculiar to individuals, they are also public, so technology does not, at first sight, intrude on something that is private. And yet the ability to record, store and analyse images of faces cheaply, quickly and on a vast scale promises one day to bring about major changes to our understanding of privacy, fairness and trust.

Start with privacy. One big difference between faces and other biometric (计量生物学的) data, such as fingerprints, is that they work at a distance. Anyone with a phone can take a picture for facial-recognition programs to use. FindFace, an app in Russia, compares snaps of strangers with pictures on VKontakte, a social network, and can identify people with a 70% accuracy rate. Even if private firms are unable to join the dots between images and identity, the state often can. Photographs of half of America’s adult population are stored in databases that can be used by the FBI. Law-enforcement agencies now have a powerful weapon in their ability to track criminals, but at enormous potential cost to citizens’ privacy.

1. What does the underlined word “dissimulate” in Paragraph 1 mean?

A．Hide emotions from others.

B．Make known to the public.

C．Act in disregard of laws.

D．Become friends with others.

2. What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Applications.

B．Breakthroughs.

C．Human abilities.

D．Human skills.

3. What kind of changes might be discussed in the following paragraphs?

A．Safety and first aid.

B．Social services.

C．Finance and trade.

D．Fairness and trust.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．Benefits resulting from facial breakthrough

B．Facial Recognition: nowhere to hide

C．The power of human faces

D．Technologies concerning facial recognition

【推荐3】Most of the 500 whales stranded (搁浅)off Tasmania have now died. Dozens more stricken whales have been found in Australia’s largest ever mass stranding.The estimated total now stands at around 500, with the majority of that number dead and a tenth rescued by authorities on the Island state of Tasmania. Experts believe all of the animals would have been part of one large group. Officials began working to rescue survivors among an estimated 270 whales found on Monday on a beach and two sandbars near the remote coastal town of Strahan. Then another 200 whales were spotted from a helicopter on Wednesday less than 10 kilometres (six miles) to the south.All 200 had been confirmed dead by late afternoon. They were among the 380 whales that have died overall, with estimates from earlier today suggesting that 30 that were alive but stranded and 50 had been rescued since Tuesday, Mr Deka, Wildlife Service manager explained. He added,“We’ll continue to work to free as many of the animals as we can.We’ll continue working as long as there are live animals.”

It is not known what caused the animals to run aground. While stranding events are not unheard of, they are very rare in such large numbers. About 30 whales in the original stranding were moved from the sandbars to open ocean on Tuesday, but several got stranded again. About a third of the first group had died by Monday evening.

Australia’s largest mass stranding had previously been 320 pilot whales near the Western Australian town of Dunsborough in 1996.This week’s incident is the first involving more than 500 whales in Tasmania since 2009.Marine Conservation Programme wildlife biologist Kris Carlyon said the latest mass stranding was the biggest in Australia in terms of numbers stranded and died.

Marine scientist Vanessa Pirotta said there were a number of potential reasons why whales might become beached, including navigational errors.She explained, “They do have a very strong social system; these animals are closely bonded and that’s why we have seen so many in this case unfortunately in this situation.Rescuing them does not always work, because they are wanting to return back to the group, they might hear the sounds that the others are making, or they’re just disoriented and, in this case, extremely stressed, and just probably so exhausted that they in some cases don’t know where they are.” she added.

1. What can be inferred from the first paragraph?

A．270 whales were rescued on Monday.

B．380 whales were found dead on Tuesday.

C．500 whales were found stranded and dead.

D．200 whales spotted from a helicopter were dead.

2. Why did Kris Carlyon say this event is the biggest in Australia?

A．Rescue work is not done in time.

B．The number of the death is large.

C．The cause of the event is still a mystery.

D．There was no other similar event in recent years.

3. Which of the following is Not the cause of the stranding of the whales?

A．Navigational errors.

B．Overhunting of the human beings.

C．Whales’ group living style.

D．Whales’ confusion and exhaustion.

4. Where does this passage possibly come from?

A．A newspaper.

B．A magazine.

C．A textbook.

D．A travel brochure.

【推荐1】Founded in 2010, Wall Street Daily is an independent, honest publisher of news and opinions regarding global financial markets. Its writing staff consists of gifted journalists and investment(投资) professionals. They provide original, practical ideas based on superior insights into value and where and how to find it. They learn facts others don’t, they see things differently, and they do a better job to earn money. The following experts are most outstanding of them.

	Robert Williams is the Publisher and Founder of Wall Street Daily. Before launching Wall Street Daily, he was the lead financial analyst for Forbes Top 50 private corporation and an analyst to one of the largest academic donations on Earth. Williams has worked alongside venture capitalists(风险投资商), bestselling authors, multi-million-dollar hedge fund(对冲基金)manager, and even billionaire owners of major professional sports merchants. Since launching Wall Street Daily, it’s estimated that Williams has helped unlock $26 million in new investor wealth.
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1. According to the text, who made the greatest contribution to launching Wall Street Daily?

A．Martin Hutchinson	B．Louis Basenese
C．Robert Williams	D．Morgan Stanley

2. From the text, we can know that Louis Basenses is good at_______.

A．helping people to seize investment opportunities

B．choosing a better job to make money from world-famous firms

C．inventing new drugs and making technological breakthroughs

D．hosting programs on frontline media as a pop star.

3. Which of the following is true to Martin Hutchinson?

A．He used to be an international merchant banker in Tokyo.

B．He started two trading platforms in Canada.

C．He managed the frozen Croation foreign currency saving accounts.

D．He worked for the companies in Europe, America and Asia

4. From the text, we can infer that Wall Street Daily can ______

A．keep you informed of important news in the world

B．help you preserve and manage wealth effectively

C．help you contact many outstanding financial experts

D．let you know the political situation of the world

【推荐2】Roger Federer, who recently became the oldest man to hold the No. 1 ranking in men’s tennis at the age 36, will bring a 12-match winning streak (连胜) to the BNP Paribas Open, which starts this week at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

Federer, a five-time winner of the hard-court event and a 20-time Grand Slam singles champion, on Tuesday was seeded No. 1 in a field that has been given up by injuries to several excellent players. Among those missing are world No. 2 Rafael Nadal (hip injury), Stan Wawrinka (knee), who lost to Federer in the 2017 final, David Goffin (eye) and Andy Murray (hip surgery).

Federer, who has spent 305 weeks of his career at the top the Assn of Tennis Professional world rankings, must reach the semifinals (半决赛) at Indian Wells to keep his No. 1 status. If he exits sooner than that, Nadal would regain the top spot. Federer has a first-round bye (轮空) and a seemingly easy projected route to the quarterfinals, where he likely would face No. 5 seed Dominic Thiem of Austria.

Five-time Indian Wells champion Novak Djokovic, who had a small medical intervention (干预) on his troublesome right elbow earlier this year, was seeded 10th in the tournament. Djokovic has played only four matches this year because of his elbow problems and hasn’t played a tournament since he lost to Hyeon Chung of South Korea in the round of 16 at the Australian Open in January.

Maria Sharapova of Russia will face Naomi Osaka of Japan on Wednesday with their match scheduled for not before 5:00 p.m.

On Thursday, Serena Williams will play Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus will play Heather Watson of the United Kingdom during the evening session (7 p.m. start).

1. Why does Federer have a seemingly easy projected route to the quarterfinals?

A．Because he is seeded No. 1

B．Because many excellent players are missing.

C．Because he has a first-round bye.

D．Because he is well enough to beat any player.

2. Who is most likely to be the seed next to Federer among the players who can play in the BNP Paribas Open?

A．Rafael Nadal.	B．Dominic Thiem.
C．Novak Djokovic.	D．Maria Sharapova.

3. What is the trouble with Novak Djokovic, which stopped him playing the tournament?

A．He has elbow problems.	B．He has played fewest matches.
C．He lost to Hyeon Chung.	D．He was seeded 10th in the tournament.

4. Why does the author use most words to talk about Federer?

A．Because he is seeded No. 1.

B．Because will bring a 12-match winning streak.

C．Because the author believes he can beat anyone in the tournament.

D．Because he is the oldest to hold the No. 1 ranking and was seeded No. 1.