Quiz﹕Local and world news
【明報專訊】◆Local news
1. Happy new Year of the Dog! Circle the word that is not a synonym of "dog". (photo.01)
A. puppy
B. wolf
C. pup
D. hound
2. Before the school closures during Chinese New Year, there were 331 schools that had reported case(s) of infection after the outbreak of _________ .
A. H5N1
B. swine flu
C. SARS
D. seasonal flu
3. On 6 February, Joshua Wong Chi-fung (黃之鋒), secretary-general of Demosisto (香港眾志), commented that the sentence handed by the Court of Final Appeal seemed resonable but was in fact harsh. He described it as:
A. warm-hearted
C. sugar-coated
B. well-intentioned
D. cold-blooded
4. Jao Tsung-I(饒宗頤), a well-versed scholar on poetry, art history and paleography(古文字學) etc. passed away early this month at the age of 100. He was deemed "the last polymath (通才) in China". There is an academy named after him in ________, Hong Kong.
A. Central
C. Kwun Tong
B. Lai Chi Kok
D. Wan Chai
◆World news
5. Who is the government leader that was called "Auntie May" during her China visit?
(see photo.05)
6. The 2018 Winter Olympics was held in ____________________.
A. PyeongChang
B. Seoul
C. Busan
D. Pyongyang
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[Smarties' Power English 第209期]
