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At 5 o’clock every morning, while most people are sleeping, 16-year-old Libby Larson is already up. She mops the floor, gets the mail and the newspapers, and gets ready for visitors to Rolling Acres. Libby’s grandparents started Rolling Acres in 1970, and since then all of the Larson family have been working there. Rolling Acres used to be just a sheep farm, but now, with its fruit trees, vegetable gardens, and many other kinds of animals, it has become a popular place for families to go on vacation. Visitors can pick fruits, collect eggs, and feed the animals. It is one of Libby’s jobs to show kids how to feed the baby sheep.
What is Rolling Acres?
(A) A zoo.
(B) A campground.
(C) A vacation farm.
(D) A family restaurant.

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What do we learn from the first paragraph?
(A) What Libby does at Rolling Acres.
(B) What visitors think of Rolling Acres.
(C) Why Libby’s grandparents started Rolling Acres.
(D) What the Larson family’s plans are for Rolling Acres.

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What do the comics tell us?
(A) Enjoy life while we can.
(B) Follow the old ways of life.
(C) Save our planet before it’s too late.
(D) Treat others the way we want to be treated.

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The IKEA Effect
Many years ago, Dan Ariely bought a cabinet from IKEA. IKEA is a famous furniture store that sells boxes of furniture parts. People who buy them have to put all the parts together themselves. It took Ariely hours to build his cabinet. Ariely didn’t really enjoy himself when he was trying to put all the parts together. However, after he finished, he felt quite good about himself and his cabinet. Later, he found that he loved his cabinet more than any of his other furniture.
Ariely wanted to know if anyone shared his feelings, so he did a fun origami study. He invited two groups of people to join his study. He called one group “builders” and the other group “buyers.”
Builders were told to make origami, like paper frogs or paper birds. When they finished, they were asked how much they would spend on their works. Ariely then showed the origami to buyers and asked them how much they would pay for them. The two groups gave very different answers. Though buyers would pay only five cents for builders’ origami, builders would spend 25 cents! Interestingly, builders believed others would think their works were good enough to cost that much money!
Ariely’s study showed that he was not alone in his IKEA experience—we just love things more, sometimes blindly, when we make them ourselves. Ariely called it “the IKEA effect.”
What did Ariely try to find out in the origami study?
(A) If he could stop the IKEA effect.
(B) Why people love making origami.
(C) Why IKEA furniture is so famous.
(D) If anyone shared his IKEA experience.