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1. Strengthening your eye muscles through exercise is essential for maintaining clear and healthy vision. Below are a few easy exercises that can help you exercise your eyes. To start, try alternating between focusing on objects close to you and items that are far away. Additionally, rolling your eyes in different directions can also provide some benefit- roll them five times clockwise and then switch the direction. Writing very big letters with your eyes is also a good exercise as long as you do not move your head. All these exercises will keep your eyes healthy.

Which is NOT true about the eye exercises?

A. When you roll your eyeballs, roll them clockwise five times.

B. When you write with your eyes, you can move your head.

C. When you write with your eyes, you should write as big as you can.

D. The exercises will make your eye muscles stronger.

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2. A dragonfly's vision is incredibly impressive, boasting approximately 30,000 lenses that allow for a peripheral view of up to 360 degrees. Furthermore, due to their motion-sensing capabilities and ability to detect even the slightest of movements when in slow motion mode, they are able to efficiently catch prey while flying. ●

Howfar around can dragonflies see?

A. about 180 degrees

B. about 330 degrees

C. about 360 degrees

D. No specific degree is given

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3. The Emperor penguins are the largest of all living penguin species in the world. They are found all around the coasts of the Antarctic continent. Antarctica is very cold in winter. The temperature there once dropped to minus 89 degrees Celsius! Emperor penguins have their babies during the frosty winter months. They have a unique way of raising their young. After the mother lays one egg, she immediately goes to find food. Meanwhile, it's the father's responsibility to take care of the egg, keep it warm, and make sure that it is kept off the ice until it hatches. ●

Which is NOT true about emperor penguins?

A. They are the largest penguins on the earth.

B. They live in Antarctica.

C. They have babies in spring.

D. Father penguins work hard to have a baby

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4. Bobsled races are an exciting competition to watch. These teams consist of either two or four people, the driver and a brakeman being the essential members regardless. Constructed from strong, light metals, bobsleds zip down tracks that typically span 1,500 meters in length with fifteen or more curves along the way. At the Olympic Games, two-person teams race twice while four-person crews compete on the course four times with victory going to whichever team finishes first!

Which is true about bobsled tracks?

A. They are around 150 meters long.

B. They are covered with thin ice.

C. They have 15 or more curves.

D. They do not have curves.

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5. Homemade cottage cheese takes just three ordinary kitchen ingredients: milk, vinegar, and salt. You don't need cheesemaking experience to make homemade cottage cheese. Begin by pouring your milk into a pot, then add the vinegar and salt. After stirring everything together After 30 minutes, pour the mixture into a colander. The colander should be covered with a cheesecloth. Gather the cheesecloth and squeeze out the water. You will now see the curds inside! The curds are the cottage cheese!

Whatis the first step to making cottage cheese?

A. pour the vinegar into a bowl

B. pour the milk into a pot

C. mix the milk and salt

D. add vinegar and salt to the milk before heating it

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6. In the 1700s, French astronomer Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan noticed that the leaves of the mimosa plant opened towards the sun and closed at dusk. Intrigued by the behavior of the mimosa plant, he decided to conduct an experiment. Inquisitively, De Mairan thought that this was because of the sun. So, he put a mimosa plant in a cupboard. Amazingly, the plant still opened and closed its leaves in the dark! It was like the plant had an internal clock. ●

Which is NOT true about de Mairan?

A. He was aFrench astronomer.

B. He invented a special clock.

C. He tried an experiment on a mimosa plant.

D. He was curious

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7. It was not so long ago that methods to find missing children were scarce. The disappearance of Etan Patz in New York City in 1979 sparked a national movement to find missing children. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) started the Missing Children Milk Carton Program. Etan was the first missing child on a milk carton. As awareness began to spread, hundreds of dairies got involved with this innovative idea and they started placing pictures of these lost kids on the sides of their cartons. This was a revolutionary technique that had never been seen before, and it has become a lasting symbol for the fight against lost children ever since.

Which is NOT true about the milk carton program?

A. The New York City Police Department started the program.

B. Etan Patz was the first child shown on a milk carton.

C. Hundreds of dairies joined the program.

D. It helped find missing children

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8. The renowned artist, Salvadore Dali, is most widely known for his style of paintings which is called surrealism. Dali often painted things from his dreams. In his paintings, he creates odd objects and alters the appearance of everyday items in strange ways. One such painting is The Persistence of Memory which features a variety of objects including some melting clocks and a dead-looking tree on a table. Mysterious objects like these could be found in all of Dali’s paintings. It is indeed a strange style of art that viewers could appreciate!

Whichis NOTtrue about Dali’s paintings?

A. They are easy to understand.

B. The objects in them are usually very strange.

C. The objects in them are often from his dreams.

D. They are categorized under a style of art called surrealism.

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9. The ability to distinguish between colors relies heavily on the presence of light. White light is a blend of many different colors. When it is reflected off an object, it allows us to detect that object's color. A red apple, for instance, appears so because it reflects primarily red light and absorbs the other colors. To demonstrate this concept, the spectrum of colors within white light can be observed by performing a prism experiment. ●

Which is NOT true about how we see color?

A. Our eyes cannot see color when there is no light.

B. Ared apple looks red because it absorbs red light.

C. When light hits an object, some of the light is reflected.

D. If an object reflects all the colors of light, we see it as white.

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10.When light hits an object, some of it is absorbed by the object and the rest is reflected. The color of the reflected light is the color that the object appears to be. White light, such as sunlight, is composed of all the visible colors in the electromagnetic spectrum, a fact that can be easily proven through the use of a prism experiment. Shine white light through a prism. The prism will break it down into the seven colors of the rainbow! This not only shows that white light consists of many different colors. It also shows that we need white light in order to see the colorful world around us. ●

Whatis TRUE about white light?

A. Sunlight is not white light.

B. White light helps us see only certain colors.

C. White light is the reflected light from an object.

D. Aprism breaks down white light into the colors of a rainbow.

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