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[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: It's a sure sign that summer is over and winter is on the way -- leaves that were once deep green turn red, yellow and bright orange. It happens every autumn. But did you ever wonder why? The leaves start changing color when the nights start getting longer and the temperature starts getting cooler. Some scientists think that as the number of daylight hours _ the leaves stop making chlorophyll which makes plants green. The reason is that the process of making chlorophyll requires sunlight. But according to horticulture educator Susan Rose from Colorado State University, it turns out leaves don't really change color at all. \"The fall colors are actually there all along,\" she said. \"But they are covered by the green chlorophyll. As the chlorophyll stops being produced, the other colors can shine through.\" The kind of color that the leaves are going to change to is determined by the plant's genetic background. In some places, the leaves start changing color in September -- before autumn even officially begins. In other places, they don't change until late October or even November. Some scientists say the leaves have been changing color later than usual in recent years. And they think global warming has something to do with that. In one study, researchers found that the growing season in the Northern Hemisphere was nearly a week longer, on average, in 2008 than it was in 1982. And a professor from Harvard University found that the leaves, west of Boston, Massachusetts, are changing color about three days later than they used to. However, other scientists disagree with the global warming theory. Susan Rose said the leaves in her part of Colorado are changing \"right on schedule.\" But the leaves in other parts of that state are running a little late. \"The lateness in the mountains may have something to do with the really warm late summer and early fall,\" she said. \"But I'm afraid that's just a guess.\" Question: Scientists guess leaves change color later than usual probably as a result of _ . - genetic background - dry weather - global warming - low temperature\nglobal warming\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: A study made by University of Sussex found that men and women who frequently used several types of technology at the same time had less grey matter in a key part of the brain . The researchers said : \" Simultaneously , using mobile phones , laptops and other media devices could change the structure of our brains . \" Worryingly , the part of the brain that shrinks is involved in processing emotion . The finding has linked multi-tasking with a shortened attention span , depression , anxiety and lower grades at school . The researchers began by asking 75 healthy men and women how often they divided their attention between different types of technology . This could mean sending a text message while listening to music and checking email , or speaking on the phone while watching TV and surfing the web . The volunteers were then given brain scans which showed they had less grey matter in a region called the anterior cingulated cortex ( ACC ) . The findings held even when differences in personality were taken into account . The study , published in the journal PLOS ONE , is the first to make a link between multi-tasking and the structure of the brain . Researcher KepKeeLoh said : \" Media multi-tasking is become more popular in our lives today and there is growing concern about its impacts on our cognition and social-emotional well-being . \" He added that more researches are needed to prove that multi-tasking shrinks the brain . This is because it is also possible that people with less grey matter in the ACC are more likely to use lots of devices simultaneously . Scientists have previously described brain structure can be altered on prolonged exposure to new environments and experience . Other studies have shown that training - such as learning magic or taxi drivers learning the map of London - can increase grey matter densities in certain parts . Question: What's the purpose of the passage ? - To inform people of the findings of a research . - To stress the importance of grey matter in our brain . - To advise people to do more training about our brain . - To warn people of the possible danger of media devices .\nTo inform people of the findings of a research .\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Dear Daughter, As we drove off from Columbia, I wanted to write to tell you all that is on my mind. First, I want to tell you how proud we are. Getting into Columbia is a real testament of what a great well-rounded student you are. You should be as proud of yourself as we are. Your college years will be the most important of your life. It is in college that you will discover what learning is about. This will be the period when you go from teacher taught to master inspired, after which you must become a self-learner. So do take each subject seriously, and even if what you learn is of no practical use in real life, the learning skills you get will be something you will value forever. Follow your passion in college. Take courses you think you will enjoy, don't be bothered by what others think or say, but make up your own mind. Most importantly, make true friends and be happy. Don't worry about their hobbies, grades, looks, or even personalities. Start planning early what you'd like to do. Where would you like to live? What would you like to learn? I think your plan to study fashion is good, and you should decide where you want to be, and get onto the right courses. I will always be there for you, but the time has come for you to be in the driver's seat--this is your life, and you need to be in control. Being in control feels great. Try it, and you'll love it! So please treasure your college years -- make the best use of your free time, become an independent thinker in control of your destiny, and learn through your successes and challenges. May your years at Columbia be the happiest of your life, and may you grow into just what you dream to be. Love Dad & Mom (Excerpt from Kai-Fu Lee's letter to his daughter) Question: We can read between the lines that _ . - Dad has a strong love for his daughter - Dad is very strict with his daughter - Dad always worries about his daughter - Dad is much concerned about his daughter's health\nDad has a strong love for his daughter\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: I was at the post office early that morning, hoping to post a letter at the start of a busy day. Instead, , I found myself standing in a queue that went all the way into the hallway.I had never seen so many people there on a weekday. The queue moved very slowly.My patience ran out and I got angry. When I got to the counter finally, I finished my business quickly and briefly, and then walked past the queue that was now extending past the front door. Thinking I was going to be late for my dentist appointment, I was scowling as I headed into the parking lot. A woman was coming across the lot in my direction.She was walking with determination, and each step sounded very heavy.I noticed that she had a scowling on her face. Her body language said that she was having a really terrible day.My anger disappeared.I wished I could wrap her in a hug but I was a stranger. So I did what I could in a minute before she hurried past me-I smiled.In a second everything changed.She was surprised. Then her face softened and her shoulders relaxed.I saw her take a deep breath.Her pace slowed and she smiled back at me as we passed each other. I continued to smile all the way to my car. Wow, it's amazing what a simple smile can do.From then on, I became aware of people's expressions and my own, the way we show our feelings.Now I use that awareness in my everyday life to let it remind me that when facing the world, I can try a smile. Question: What can be inferred from the text? - The woman is a friend of the writer's. - The woman's spirits lifted because of the writer's smile. - The writer is good at hiding her feelings. - The writer was in time for her appointment.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "The woman's spirits lifted because of the writer's smile.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: Maybe you are an average student. You probably think you will never be a top student. This is not necessarily so. Anyone can become a good student if he or she wants to. Here's how you can be a good student. Plan your time carefully. When planning your week, you should make a list of things that you have to do. After making this list, you should make a plan of your time. First, your time for eating, sleeping, dressing... Then decide a good, regular time for studying. Don't forget to set enough time for entertainment. A weekly plan may not work out all your problems, but it will push you to realize what is happening to your time. Find a good place to study. Look around the house for a good study place. Keep this space which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials. No game, radio, or TV! When you sit down to study, concentrate on your subjects. Make good use of your time. Listen to everything the teacher says. Listening carefully in class means less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says. Study regularly. When you get home from school, go over your notes. Review the important points that your teacher has mentioned in class. If you know what your teacher is going to discuss the next day, read that material. This will help you understand the next class. If you do these things regularly, the material will become more meaningful, and you will remember it longer. Develop a good attitude to tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. It helps you remember your new knowledge. The world won't end if you don't pass a test, so don't be worried. There are other ideas that might help you with your study. You will probably find many others after you have tried these. Question: Which following statement is NOT TRUE according to the passage? Yes or no, is the answer \"We don't have to find a good place to study.\"?\nNo\n\nArticle: Henry is from the USA. He is on holiday in London. One day he is not feeling very well. So he asks a waiter in the hotel, \"I want to see a doctor. Can you give me the name of a good one?\" The waiter looks in a book, and says, \"Dr. Green.\" \"Is he expensive?\" \"Well,\" the waiter answers, \"Usually, you need to pay 20 pounds for the first time, and 15 pounds for later visit.\" Henry wants to save 5 pounds. When he goes to see the doctor, he says, \"I've come again, doctor.\" For a few seconds, the doctor looks at his face carefully without say anything. Then he says, \"Oh, yes.\" He examines Henry and says, \"Everything's going fine. Just don't stop the medicine I gave you last time.\" Question: The first visit to the doctor costs _ later visit. Yes or no, is the answer \"5 more pounds than\"?\nYes\n\nQ: Article: Without flowers, many plants would not be able to reproduce and many insects would not be able to get enough food to live. Here are some interesting facts about flowers plants. * Most plants grow flowers each year, but some take much longer. The century plant grows only one flower and then it dies! Even more amazing is a plant from South America called Puya raimondii. It doesn't grow a flower until it is 150 years old, and after that it dies, too. * The smallest flowering plant in the world is thought to be the common watermeal . Its leaves are only 1mm across! * Bamboo has amazing flowering habits. There are many different kinds of bamboo in the world. And they have different flowering habits. A few flower each year, but most wait much longer. What is amazing is that all bamboo of the same kind will flower almost at the same time, where it is 6 growing! Nobody knows why. * The white flower of the Amazon water lily is the size of a football, and the flower turns purple after it has been pollinated . * The Caucasian lime can grow in Britain. Its flowers are _ to bees. If they touch the flowers, they will die. Question: The Amazon water lily's white flowers can _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"change color\"?\nA: No\n\nQuestion: Article: The Internet can show you lots of jobs all over the world. If you want to find a job on the Internet, use the words \"job search\" or \"employment \" to find the websites you need. You only need to type in what you want and where you want to work. In a few seconds, a list of jobs will appear on the screen. You can also type in the name of a company to learn about jobs there. Many websites list full-time and summer jobs. Job search websites can help you in other ways, too. They show you how to write a good resume and how to get ready for an interview . They also tell you what to say to an interviewer on the telephone. Some websites give you interview conversations to practice. One website even has a dictionary of interview words. A good employment website can be a big help in your job search. Good luck with your job-hunting. Question: What's the main idea of the passage? Yes or no, is the answer \"It's about how you can use the Internet to find a job.\"?\nAnswer: No\n\n*Question*\nArticle: Alexia Sloane is from Cambridge. She was told by the doctor she had a brain tumor when she was on holiday \"with her parents in France. After that the two-year-old girl became blind. Though the little girl can't see anything, she has great talent for languages and at the age of 10 she is already fluent in English, French, Spanish and Chinese-and is learning German. Now her dream of working as an interpreter has come true. East of England MEP Robert Sturdy invited her to the European Parliament . \"Usually a person who enters the European Parliament should be 14 at least. So it was amazing for Alexia to work there at the age of 10. \" said Alexia's mother Isabelle. Alexia can speak three languages since birth. As her mum is hah\" French and half Spanish and her dad Richard is English. \" She has always been very good at languages and shown an interest from a very young age. \" added Isabelle, who also has a four-year-old daughter Melissa. Alexia has dreamed of becoming an interpreter since she was six and chose to go to the European Parliament as her prize when she won the Young Achiever Community Award of the Year . She asked if she could learn from the interpreters and HEP Robert Sturdy agreed to take her along as his guest. \" It was fantastic and I decided to become an interpreter, \"said Alexia. \"Nothing can stop me. \" Question: What is right about Alexia Sloane? Yes or no, is the answer \"She is a talented language learner.\"?\n**Answer**\nNo\n\n(Q).\nArticle: My name is Li Li. I'm eleven. I'm from China. My mum and dad work in a big factory. They go to work every day but rest two days. I have a sister. We look like each other very much and we like to help each other. She is a middle school student and comes home in the afternoon. Everyone in my family likes to look after me. My sister and I are in the same school. I'm a good student in my class. There are forty-two students in our class, twenty boys and twenty-two girls. We have our lessons from eight o'clock in the morning to four o'clock in the afternoon. My teacher of English, Miss. Green is from England. She is a good teacher. We go to school from Monday to Friday .We have five English classes a week. Now we can say a hundred words, and play games in English. We like English. We like our English teacher. Question: Li Li's father and mother work _ a week. Yes or no, is the answer \"five days\"?\n(A).\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A habit is an action that we have acted so often that it becomes something we do almost without thinking. Some of them are not good habits. People spend countless hours and dollars each year trying to give up these bad habits but often fail. Why? Change is hard work and there is no shortcut to get it. However, there is still some advice for you to follow. First, look at why you do it. In other words, what's the result of doing this thing? If your bad habit is shouting at people when you are unhappy or under pressure , what do you get from it? It may make you feel a little better for the moment. Or maybe you have a bad habit of leaving your homework undone. The result could be that you get more time to spend on the Internet! Next, take a look on the other hand. What are you losing because of your habit? Shouting at other people is a bad habit because it makes people around you feel bad and unhappy. Leaving your homework undone is a bad habit because you may be punished by your teacher. Having more Internet time means that you are losing the chance to learn the things you need to learn. When you think that way, you'll find that it's not wise to keep your bad habit! Now it is time to make a decision . What will you choose? I'm sure you will choose to do something that is more important. Question: According to the passage, if you want to give up your habits, you have to _ . - talk to others - know why you do and what you do - finish your homework first - spend less time on the Internet\nknow why you do and what you do\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Why do you study? Many students would simply reply: \"To get good result in the college entrance examination .\" For several years, many have spoken out against the exams. Some say they have turned children into studying machines. Others think that one exam cannot possibly _ a student's true level of knowledge. So, should the exams be canceled? Minister of Education Yuan Guiren doesn't think so. \"Officials and the rich might take advantage if the college entrance examination were called off . And life would be more difficult for poor children. However, we do need to change the exams,\" Yuan said on March 7. He has put an exam reforms at the center of his fourth year in office. \"I think the exam is a fair way to choose talented people. But it should pay more attention to all-around personal qualities, not just grades,\" said Cui Shangyu, a Senior 3 student in Sichuan. The college entrance examination was restored in 1977. From then to 2007, 46.85 million people have entered higher education through the exam. According to survey by the Ministry of Education, 90 percent of people who participate believed the college entrance examination could in some way change a person's life, especially for poor students in the countryside. The college entrance examination is not the only way to become a successful person. However, the process of preparing for the exam is a good experience, said Shen Hui, a Math teacher at Gaoyou Middle School in Jiangsu. \"Through it students can learn many things, such as how to deal with stress and how to arrange a learning plan.\" Shen said. Question: The writer wrote the passage mainly to _ . - criticize the college entrance exam - discuss whether we should cancel the college entrance examination - encourage the improvement of the college entrance examination - introduce the history of the college entrance examination\nencourage the improvement of the college entrance examination\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: In the United States, people like going camping for vacation. They do everything for themselves to relax in the woods instead of staying at a modern hotel or a restaurant. They enjoy themselves far away from the noisy cities for a few days. What should you prepare if you want to go camping like them? When you are camping, you make all of your own food. Barbeques are very necessary while camping. You can bring bread, drinks, meat and vegetables to the camp. You'd better bring some wood and a lighter to _ . Remember to put stones around the fire to make sure it won't get too big and dangerous. When the fire is ready, you can cook food over it. Children really like this activity at night. The whole family sit around the fire, eat their favorite food. Certainly they can sing songs and dance together. What a pleasant and exciting moment. Camping is a fun activity for the family to do. Vacation does not have to mean going to visit a place far away. It could be as simple as setting up a tent in the nearby woods. Question: Where do people in the United States like to go camping according to the passage? - In big cities. - In a place of interest. - In a modern hotel or a restaurant. - In the woods.\nA: In the woods.\n\nQuestion: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Spain is famous for its tomato festival, called La Tomatina. It happens in a small town Hanoi on the last Wednesday of August every year. During the festival there are all kinds of activities, but the most exciting part is the tomato fight. It takes place at the end of long celebration . You are encouraged to throw tomatoes in the fight. There're many stories about how the festival began. One of the stories goes that during the 1940's, some friends started a tomato fight, while another story is about a local band. Anyway, everyone in Bunol seems to have a different story. Before the tomato fight, there are parades ,musical bands, street parties and so on. On the day of the fight, shopkeepers cover their windows and doors in order to keep away from the tomato fight. At the same time, thousands of tourists and local people come to the town square together. Then large trucks full of tomatoes arrive. From theback of the large trucks, a great town band start to throw tomatoes at others. Then the crowds fight back, throwing the tomatoes at anything and anyone. Soon the streets are in the sea of red tomato juice. Everyone is supposed to obey a small number of rules: You must squash the tomato before throwing it and you are allowed to throw nothing but tomatoes. It is usually over in less than half an hour. Everyone then sets off to the river to clearup. Sounds like fun! Question: The most exciting activity of the festival is _ . - parades - street parties - the tomato fight - the musical bands show\nAnswer: the tomato fight\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: In fact, at the time they seemed to be ordinary events, but now everything seems different. I had spent 10 years away from the place where I was born. Even though I made the decision to leave my country by myself, I miss a lot of things now. The person that brought me the happiest memories is my best friend. She is the greatest person in the world, and I am not exaggerating . She is kind, funny,polite,and always willing to listen,and has been a great friend. I always recall events from our childhood. I think about the school where we met in the first grade and went on until the 5thgrade. I think about the talks we had and the things we did together. If someone wants me to describe our friendship, I'd say we have been close friends for 17 years and we never got angry with each other. It's amazing, isn't it? I haven't been able to do that with anybody else. Sometimes I even feel guilty . I miss her more than my own brothers and sisters. And of course besides those memories, my kids are number one in my life. I have plenty of beautiful memories with them, especially when they were born, which also turned out to be a sad moment for both of them, because they were premature babies . Anyone, who has had an experience with a premature baby, can _ what I mean. Question: How does the writer feel about her best friend? - She is patient and fun - She is famous in the world - she is more important than her sons - They have been best friends and lived close.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "She is patient and fun", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "input question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Students often want to practice their English outside class. One of the best ways to practice your English is to speak to a foreigner. You may ask, \"Is it okay to try to talk to foreigners I see in the street?\" The answer is yes and no, but probably no! If you see a foreigner who looks lost, it is polite to ask him, \"May I help you?\" But, otherwise, you should probably let them get on with their business. Situations, however, do exist where it is quite all right to talk to foreigners. If a foreigner enters your school, classroom, office, shop or restaurant, for instance, feel free to ask him (for example): -- What is your name? -- Where do you come from? -- What do you think of Beijing? -- How long will you stay in Beijing? There are also situations where it's okay to talk to foreigners in public places. If you see a foreigner alone in a restaurant, bar or coffee shop, it may be appropriate to ask him or her: -- Is this seat free? -- Do you mind if I talk to you in English? You can probably help them if they are new in China and if they are alone, you may be able to make them feel more welcome. After a few such questions, you should know whether this person wants to talk to you or not. If they ask you similar questions, or if they give long, informative answers, you're in luck. If not, then give them their privacy. Talking to strangers is fun if you choose the right time and place. Options: A follow the foreigners when we meet them in the street B talk with a foreigner in an accepted way C have a meal with foreigners in a restaurant D move to a place where a foreigner lives Answer: B talk with a foreigner in an accepted way Question:???\noutput answer: The writer suggests to us that we should _ .\n\ninput question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Bluebirds looking secretly from nest boxes. Tadpoles swimming in a pond. Tiger swallowtails flying quickly around a butterfly bush. And over here, a class of students watching it all. A field trip to a nature center? No, it's a schoolyard. With some work on your part, it could even be your schoolyard. Interested in building a schoolyard habitat? Here's how to get started. Gather a Team Students can do a lot on their own, but you'll need adults for a project this big. Get teachers, parents, and even the headmaster interested. Don't forget the maintenance staff--they know more about your school's yard than anyone else and can give you lots of help. Also, ask around your neighborhood for gardeners, naturalists, and others willing to give advice. Map Your Site Which part of the schoolyard can you turn into a habitat? Is there an unused corner of the playground? Part of a lawn or field you could let go wild? You'll need to make a map of the area showing what's there now. Then you can figure out how you want to change it. For that, you need a plan. Plan a Habitat Here's what you'll need to make your area attractive to wildlife. Food: Plant flowers, bushes, and trees. These provide seeds, berries, leaves, flowers, and sweet liquids. And all of these feed birds, and insects. You can also add some feeders for squirrels and birds. Where possible, stick with native plants--wild plants that grow naturally in your area. They need less care, which means less work for you. Water: A small pond, birdbath, or even a shallow dish of clean water in the ground will attract birds. Other small animals like insects may visit as well. Shelter: Bushes and trees make great escapes for birds. Tall grass and \"weeds\" are home to grasshoppers, garter snakes, and some ground-nesting birds. You can also add stone piles and brush piles. Places to Raise Young: Butterflies need special plants to lay their eggs on. Frogs and toads lay eggs only in shallow water. Many birds... Options: A How to start a wildlife habitat. B Making a place where animals can hide. C How to gather food for a wildlife habitat. D Creating places for people to plant gardens. Answer: A How to start a wildlife habitat. Question:???\noutput answer: What is this article mostly about?\n\ninput question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: The World Health Organization(WHO)planned to study the relationship between the eating habits of the people and the disease.Two doctors were chosen to make the study. They flew to Africa south of the Sahara and during the next two months visited ten countries.They found that serious diseases of poor eating, often mistaken for other diseases, existed in all parts of Africa.The diseases were similar and could therefore all be named kwashiorkor .The diseased children are usually from one to four years old.As the illness progresses, the child's stomach becomes swollen by liquid collecting in the body.The skin changes colour and may break out in open sores.The hair changes colour and starts to fall out.The patient loses all interest in his surroundings and even in food, and becomes so weak that he wants to lie down all the time.Stomach liquids are no longer produced. The doctors reasoned that kwashiorkor was found in the young children of this age in many parts of Africa because of lack of milk or meat.Their mothers gave them foods full of starches instead of greatly needed proteins.They found that the addition of milk to the food of children suffering from kwashiorkor saved many lives. Options: A Taking a special medicine. B Avoiding any food containing starch. C Having more meat or milk. D Taking medicines full of proteins. Answer: C Having more meat or milk. Question:???\noutput answer: What is mentioned as a simple but reasonable way of curing this disease?\n\ninput question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: My husband had just bought a new washing machine for me. I decided to use it the other day and I washed a lot of things. Everything worked well, but I found one of my husband's socks missing. I looked everywhere for it, but I couldn't find it anywhere. The next morning, I got ready for school as usual. When the bell rang, the students came in, I greeted them and told them what we were going to do that day. When I turned around to write on the blackboard, the class burst out laughing. They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much, in fact, that I was afraid the headmaster would be in and see all this. I asked the class to stop, but the more I talked, the more they laughed. I decided to pay no attention to them and continued to write on the blackboard. When I did this, they laughed even more. Finally, the teacher who was in the next room came in to see what all the laughter was about. When he came in, he started laughing, too! \"Good heavens,\" I said. \"Will someone please tell me what is so funny?\" \"Oh, God,\" said the teacher. \"You have a brown sock stuck to the back of your skirt!\" So that's how I found my husband's missing sock. \"Oh, well,\" I said to the class,\" Let's just say you have had an unforgettable lesson on static electricity .\" Options: A A washer. B A student. C A teacher D A headmaster Answer: C A teacher Question:???\noutput answer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "What was the writer?", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "IN: What happens next?\n\nHow to have fun in the snow \nGo sledding or tubing. \nOne of the most popular wintertime activities is sledding and snow tubing. This activity is fun and easy, as you need little to no experience to begin.\n\nOPTIONS:\n- You can find ice tubing in park areas, around town, or even around your neighborhood. An easy way to do this is to simply turn off all lights, especially when walking.\n- You can learn how to do the activity yourself or purchase a sled and sled. Sledding is also a great activity for beginners because you don't need many friends to join you.\n- Find a good hill in your neighborhood and grab a tube or sled for hours of entertainment for the whole family. Sledding is fun for all ages, but young children should ride with a parent or older sibling for safety precautions.\n- This activity usually consists of 4 for 11 hours, with some time included in the learning sessions. If you haven't put a lot of time into doing this, you may think you should take the sledding into account.\n\nOUT: Find a good hill in your neighborhood and grab a tube or sled for hours of entertainment for the whole family. Sledding is fun for all ages, but young children should ride with a parent or older sibling for safety precautions.\n\nProblem: How does the next paragraph end?\n\nHow to learn the spelling of words quickly \nBreak down the word. \nWhen you think of a word you don't know how to spell, don't panic. Step back and break the word into parts, either in your head or with pen and paper.\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Even when the spelling doesn't match the sound, this method will teach you to recognize common spelling patterns. Example: break \" constraint \" into \" con-strain-t.\n- Some words are easier to spell at first, and easier after a while of practice. Practice word-to-word frequently.\n- This is the only way to read correctly. Be careful if you're studying with an unfamiliar partner, or someone you've never noticed before.\n- Repeat this step several times until you know the word and what it means. Write down all the letters the alphabet doesn't use (ie.\nA: Even when the spelling doesn't match the sound, this method will teach you to recognize common spelling patterns. Example: break \" constraint \" into \" con-strain-t.\n\nIN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:\nHow to search google \nOpen your web browser. \nIt's the icon that says \" internet \". \nType www.google.com into the address bar on top of the page.\nOPTIONS:\n- This will bring up a drop-down menu that lists websites within your network. Tap on a different country from the list.\n- This will bring you to the google homepage. You'll see a white screen with a search bar in the center with \" google \" written above it in colorful writing.\n- Select \" search...\" in the search bar on the right hand side of the page. You will be taken to a list of sites that you can search for.\n- This will show the results of more than one search engine. If you're having a hard time finding google and/or youtube results, maybe you just need to search the web without google.\n\nOUT: This will bring you to the google homepage. You'll see a white screen with a search bar in the center with \" google \" written above it in colorful writing.\n\nQuestion:\nMulti-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:\n\nHow to make a watercolor text effect in photoshop \nOpen a new photoshop document, file] new. \nFor this image i made a document that was 8 \" x2 \". \nType your text.\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Make sure you have at least 1 centimeter (0.8 in) of blank space on top of the line. If it doesn't, colour it in.\n- Copy] paste (be sure to use the correct text) into the image. Make a copy of what you want to show the photoshop text.\n- Use color code combinations that are very similar to those that are used for extensions and tabs. The bold sides line is where you will draw your text.\n- Click the text button (left side tool bar) and then use your mouse to click on the canvas and type your desired text. You can change your font face, size, and style with the tool bar that is along the top of the document.\n****\nAnswer:\nClick the text button (left side tool bar) and then use your mouse to click on the canvas and type your desired text. You can change your font face, size, and style with the tool bar that is along the top of the document.\n\nProblem: What happens next in this paragraph?\n\nA rodeo clown is running from a bull. the bull\nOPTIONS:\n- bats a person's hat.\n- is angry, chasing the clown.\n- charge him one after the other.\n- falls down on the arena floor.\nA: is angry, chasing the clown.\n\nHow to floor an attic \nCall professionals to determine if your ceiling can carry the load. \nYou must make sure that your ceiling trusses will be able to handle the load of the new floor and the weight from storage or people walking around. Call contractors in your area and get multiple quotes for adding a floor.\n\nOPTIONS:\n- This will give you an idea of whether you'll need to make structural changes before you can add the floor. Adding a new floor to weak attic trusses may interfere with the structural integrity of your house and can cause your ceiling to cave in.\n- If the ceiling trusses are incorrectly anchored or unsupported they may not do the job. Call building companies for advice or \" needs, \" instead of contractors who may require multiple quotes.\n- An excess of 4 by 6 inches drop from the ceiling, as well as correctly placed can be a significant and costly cost, reducing your costs. For example, if your only floor is 4 by 6 inches, then 4 by 4 feet may cost a buck.\n- Your contractor should be able to provide significant expertise and knowledge. It is impossible to know if your room ceiling is a fault unless looking at room maps and several measurements of walls, sinks, and rooms, respectively, see them as you measure.\n\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "This will give you an idea of whether you'll need to make structural changes before you can add the floor. Adding a new floor to weak attic trusses may interfere with the structural integrity of your house and can cause your ceiling to cave in.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "The world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, is back on our screens. The new BBC TV series of Sherlock was broadcast in the UK on Jan 1. But the history of Sherlock dates back 127 years. Since the creation of Holmes in 1887, he has been taking us on adventures one after another. The Sherlock series is a playful drama, covered in crimes and mystery. It gives us a modern Sherlock for a new generation, who solves cases with the help of the Internet, cell phones and GPS. People look to Sherlock for both adventure and inspiration . Each case sends us on a mysterious journey with Holmes. The stories give life and color to our imagination: as he checks the crime scene, we join him and become detectives too, looking out for hidden clues. Yet Holmes is no Superman. He cannot fly, or turn invisible . But his powers are within all of us: reason, logical thinking and paying attention to detail. While an artist's painting is his art, Sherlock's art is his intelligence . He is human, and this is what makes Holmes a true hero for all of us. In the new series of Sherlock, most people thought Holmes was dead. But he returns after two years of hiding in the shadows. Now the whole city of London is in danger. What can Holmes possibly do? Uncover the mystery yourself by watching the new series! The writer wrote the passage to _ . A) compare Sherlock Holmes with Superman B) explain how Holmes solves cases C) ask people to learn from Sherlock Holmes D) explain why Holmes is so popular\nD\n\n\nYour body is special - no two people in the world are alike , Although you are different from everyone else , you have exactly the same body parts as the people around you , doing different jobs that keep all of us alive . What is inside my head ? Your head _ the most valuable part of your body - your brain . As you are reading , your eyes send pictures to your brain which makes meaning from what you see . Your brain helps you to remember and think , and makes sure your body is doing what it should . What is my skin for ? Your skin covers your body . In most parts of your body , the skin is just as thick as half a centimeter . If you have your skin cut , it will have a quick cure and stop viruses from getting into your body . Your skin also helps you feel the heat and coldness of the environment around you . Hair grows from inside the skin . When you feel hot , extra heat comes out through your skin . As a result , your body temperature drops . How do I move ? Muscles are found in most parts of your body . They work with your bones to help you move - whenever you cry or smile , eat or speak , walk or dance , etc . Why do I breathe ? Your body needs to take in oxygen from the air and give out the unwanted carbon dioxide in the body . When you breathe , air comes through your nose and mouth into your lungs where oxygen flows to different parts of your body . What makes me sneeze ? When dust or a strong smell gets into your nose , you sneeze . This is the way your body cleans up the dust in your nose . Your lungs push out the air and try to clear your nose . What does my heart do ? Your heart is a very special muscle . It is slightly bigger than your fist and grows bigger as you do . If you place your hand on your heart , you will feel your heart beating which forces blood to move around your body . Which is the best title for this passage ? A) What Your Body Needs B) How Your Body Works C) Why Your Body Grows D) When Your Body Moves\nB\n\n\nQ: The death list in a school bus accident that happened on Wednesday morning in the northwest province of Gansu has risen to 20 following the death of one child later Wednesday. It's known that the accident happened around 9:40 a.m. in Yulinzi town of Zhengning county, according to a report from the police. The report said five people including four children and their bus driver died just at the moment that the accident happened. While 15 others, their teacher included, were sure to be dead by the afternoon. It's reported that another 44 children were injured in the accident and have been sent to hospital. Twelve of the injured are in badly hurt. The truck which caused the accident was carrying coal. Another reason for the accident was the bus itself. The police has blamed _ for the accident, saying that the bus -- a van with nine seats -- was carrying 64 people. Where did the accident happen on a Wednesday morning? A) In Yushu,Gansu B) In Yulinzi county,Gansu C) In Zhengning,Gansu D) In Zhengning town,Gansu\nA: C\n\n\nQuestion: He is quiet and shy. He likes to hide his eyes behind his hair. He doesn't smile very often. However, if you talk to him about music, he'll have a lot to say. This is Jay Chou,the 24-year-old Taiwanese pop king . His fans are so excited because he will sing songs in Beijing on September 12. Those songs are from his new album , \"Ye Huimei\", and the album was released in July and was named after his mother. Chou grew up just with his mother. He did not talk much and did badly in many school subjects. His mother noticed the boy's special interest in music and sent him to learn piano when he was only three years old. He loved it and kept on practicing. Chou is not very handsome. He does not speak clearly when he sings or talks. But the singer has huge crowds of fans. \"He is really good at music. It makes him attractive to me,\" said Liu Jiajun, a Junior 2 student in No.101 Middle School in Beijing. \"He is true to himself. He never follows others,\" said Zhang Yujie, a Junior 1 girl at Huaibei Middle School in Sihong,Jiangsu Province. ,. According to one of his fans,Jay _ . A) is a good student B) has long and beautiful hair C) is a well-known pianist D) is very attractive to them\nAnswer: D\n\n\n*Question*\nA new report shows what life might be like in 100 years from now. It describes skyscrapers that are much taller than today's buildings, underwater \"bubble\" cities and holidays in space. The report is from a company. It asked experts on space and architecture, as well as city planners, to give their ideas on the life in 2116. They said the way we live, work and play will be totally different to how we do these things today. The experts used the Internet as an example. They said that 25 years ago, people could not imagine how the Internet and smartphones would change our lives. The Internet has completely changed the way we communicate, learn and do daily things. The experts said the changes in the next century would be even more unbelievable. Researchers questioned 2,000 adults about the prediction they thought were most likely to happen in the future. They predicted that in the future, few people will go to an office but will work from home and have work meetings online. People will have highly developed 3-D printers that will let you download a design for furniture or a food recipe and then \"print\" the sofa, table or pizza at home. There will also be less need for visits to the doctor. We will all have a home health instrument that will tell us what the problem is and give us treatment. We will also be going into space for holidays and to get resources that we have used up on Earth. A prediction that is missing is whether people will still need to study English. ,A, B, C, D,. With the help of highly developed 3-D printers, a way to get a sofa in 2116 is to _ . A) buy one in a shop B) ask somebody to make one C) download a design and \"print\" one D) design and make one by oneself\n**Answer**\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: We often ask for information or help, especially when we visit a foreign country. So knowing how to ask for information politely is important. In English, \"Where are the restrooms?\" and \"Could you please tell me where the restrooms are?\" are correct English, but the first could sound rude . It's important to use correct language, but sometimes we need to learn how to be polite . In English, just like in Chinese, we change the way we speak when talking with different people. If you say to your teacher, \"Where is my book?\" This will sound rude. But if you say, \"Excuse me, Mr West. Do you know where my book is?\" Your question will sound much more polite. Of course it might be all right to say \"Where is my book?\" in some situations, perhaps with people you know well. \"Peter, lend me your pen.\" can sound rude in English. Usually in English, polite questions are longer such as \"Could you please...?\" or \"Can I ask...?\" It sounds more polite to say, \"Peter, could you please lend me your pen?\" Sometimes we might even need to spend some time when you stop a stranger in the street. We might first say, \"Excuse me. I wonder if you can help me\" or \"I'm sorry to trouble you but,\" before asking them for help. It might seem that speaking politely is more difficult than being direct . However, in order not to offend people, learning about language etiquette is just as important as learning grammar or vocabulary. And doing this will also help you become better at English, or any other language you wish to speak.\n\nA: Question: What is the polite way when you ask for help?Options:A Pass me the watch, Li Tao.B Where is the supermarket?C Tell me where I can find a bank.D Excuse me, how could I get to the book shop?Answer:D\n\nProblem: Given the question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Nat lived in a small town in England. He always stayed in England for his vacation, but last year he thought, \"I'm never outside this country. All my friends go to Spain , and they like it very much. So this year I'm going there, too.\" First he went to Madrid and stayed in a small hotel for a few days. On the first morning he went out for a walk. In England people drive on the left, but in Spain they drive on the right. Nat forgot about this and when he was crossing a busy street, a bike knocked him down. Nat lay on the ground for a few seconds and then he sat up and said, \"Where am I ?\" An old man was selling maps at the side of the street, and he at once came to Nat and said, \"Map of the city, sir ?\"\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nThe answer is:\nQuestion: The end of the story is _ .Options:A sadB happyC interestingD boringAnswer:C\n\ninput question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: One day in April, a special activity called\"Food Street\"was held on the playground at Railway No. 1 Middle School in Xi'an. This activity was part of the English Art Festival in the school. The students in each class were divided into some groups. Each group sold different kinds of foods. The students did the shopping and the cooking all by themselves. The students cooked delicious food such as fried chicken, potato chips and vegetables. They all worked hard and sold the food at low prices. The customers were all the students, teachers and parents. They were all pleased with the nice food. \"It's really hard work,\" said one of the students who took part in the activity. \"We must make a plan before the cooking. We must know how much we should spend on the things we need. Also, we must learn how to serve customers well.\" \"This activity is to give a chance to students to develop their practical abilities ,\" said one teacher, \"What's more, the students will not only learn how to make money by their own hands, but also know the meaning of life. \"???\noutput answer: Question: Before the activity, the students _ .Options:A had to be customersB made a plan about the cookingC asked their parents to do the shoppingD had to serve the customers wellAnswer:B\n\nWrite a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Many kids go to day camp during the summer. They can have a lot of fun, but the _ is almost the same. You start camp in the morning and go home in the afternoon. Sometimes, a bus takes you there or you might get a ride there. It might take you some time to like the place, the camp teacher, and the kids. But you go home every night, just like what you do during the school year. Sleepaway camp makes you feel more excited because you'll be there all day. It's a kind of holiday, but without your parents. You'll sleep in adormitory with other kids of the camp. You'll eat together in a large dining hall and you'll share the bathroom with other kids. Some sleepaway camps are coed. That means there are both boys and girls at the camp. Some camps are just for girls or just for boys, but often these all-girl and all-boy camps meet up for dances and parties.\n----\nAnswer: Question: The writer thinks _ .Options:A no kid likes going to day campB sleepaway camp is more excitingC day camp is a safer way to campD going to sleepaway camp is hardAnswer:B\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Thanksgiving Day Almost every culture in the world has held celebrations of thanks for a plentiful harvest. The American Thanksgiving holiday began as a festival of thanksgiving in the early days of the American colonies almost four hundred years ago. In 1620, a boat filled with more than one hundred people sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the New World. Their first winter in the New World was difficult. They had arrived too late to grow any crops, and without fresh food, half the _ died from disease. The following spring Indians taught then how to grow corn, a new food for the colonists. They showed them other crops to grow in the unfamiliar soil and how to hunt and fish. In the autumn of 1621, many crops of corn, beans and pumpkins were harvested. The colonists and much to be thankful for, so a festival was planned. They invited the local Indian chief and 90 Indians. The Indians brought deer to roast with the turkeys and other wild game offered by the colonists. To this first Thanksgiving, the Indians had even brought popcorn. In following years, many of the original colonists celebrated the autumn harvest with a festival of thanks. Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November, a different date every year. The Thanksgiving is a time for tradition and sharing. Even if they live far away, family members gather for a reunion at the house of an older relative. All give thanks together for the good things that they have.\n****\n[A]:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Question: Which of the following is right?Options:A In 1620, many crops of corn, beans and pumpkins were harvested.B The following winter the Indians taught them how to grow corn.C Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November.D With fresh food, half the colonists died from disease.Answer:C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: What is the difference between a college and a university? This is a good question for students who want to attend a college or a university in the United States. Colleges and universities have many things in common. Both provide a greater understanding of the world and its past. Both provide education in the arts and sciences. And both can help prepare young people to earn a living. Students who complete their undergraduate studies either at a four-year college or a university receive a bachelor's degree. One difference is that many colleges do not offer graduate studies. Universities are generally bigger, offer more programs and do more research. Modern universities developed from those of the Middle Ages in Europe. The word \"university\" comes from the Latin \"universitas\". This described a group of people organized for a common purpose. The word \"college\" comes from a Latin word with a similar meaning, \"collegium\". In England, colleges were formed to provide students with places to live in. Usually each group of students was studying the same thing. So college came to mean an area of study. But a college can also be a part of a university. The first American universities divided their studies into a number of areas and called each one a college. This is still true. Programs in higher learning may also be called schools. The University of Arizona in Tucson, for example, has 18 colleges and 10 schools. They include the colleges of pharmacy , education, engineering and law. They also include the schools of architecture, dance and public administration. College is also used as a general term for higher education. A news report might talk about \"college students\" even if they include students at universities. Or someone might ask, \"Where do you go to college?\" Today, most American colleges offer an area of study called liberal arts. These are subjects first developed and taught in ancient Greece. They include language, philosophy and mathematics. The purpose is to train a person's mind instead of teaching job skills. Question: The area of study called liberal arts is designed to _ . - get students ready to earn a living - teach students subjects from engineering to philosophy - help students achieve a stronger and clearer mind - encourage more students to begin the study of arts\nhelp students achieve a stronger and clearer mind\n\n\n(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: The Big Brother in the novel 1984 listens to everything and nothing can escape his ears . Now in reality , we have Facebook . The social media giant has never denied that it's keeping track of conversations you have near your phone ( if the Facebook app is open , that is ) , but not , one expert has told NBC that Mark Zuckerberg's empire may be keeping ears on you at a more regular basis . According to Professor Kelli Burns , who teaches mass communication at the University of South Florida , it may be listening more often than it lets on . To prove her point , Burns turned on the microphone feature on her phone , and said , \" I'm really interested in going on an African journey . I think it'd be wonderful to ride in one of those jeeps . \" Less than a minute later , when she checked her Facebook page , she was met by a story about a journey - the first post on her newsfeed . There was also a car ad on her page . While Facebook says that it's only keeping its ears open to help \" identify the music you're listening to and TV matches you're watching , \" Burns' little experiment suggests that there may be other motivations at play as well . But the social media company has denied claims that it records any conversations , and told The Independent , \" Facebook does not use microphone audio to inform advertising or News Feed stories in any way . Businesses are able to serve related ads based on people's interests and other statistic information , but not through audio collection . \" Whether you believe this statement or not , there are ways to stop Facebook from listening in at all . Simply turn off your phone's microphone by heading over into Settings ( if you're an iPhone user ) , going to the Privacy tab , then clicking on Microphone . From there , you can remove Facebook's mic privileges , and probably , stop the company from hearing your conversations . On Android , you can also go to Privacy under the Settings tab , and change Facebook's permissions . So the next time you're chatting with your friends about... Question: What might Facebook do if it is turned on ? - Chat with you like a real friend . - Turn on your phone's microphone . - Identify the movie you are watching . - Show ads based on your conversation .\n(Answer)\nShow ads based on your conversation .\n\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Technology helps people do everything from planning to meet for a movie to keeping in touch with a friend who lives in a different country. When planning to get together with friends, Julian said , \" If I want to go and see a movie with a few friends, I usually send them text messages. By telephone, you have to call every single friend one by one. But text messaging allows you to send the same message to as many people as you'd like, which saves a lot of time.\" Email, IM, and other low-cost methods of communication also help people keep long-distance friendships in ways they couldn't have even a few years ago. Mike told us, \"I had this friend when I was 8 or 9 , and then she moved away to the country. We promised to stay friends and to send letters, and at the start we did. Then the letters got fewer and fewer and we at last stopped writing to each other. I think if we had had email, we would still be in touch.\" James found out about cost the hard way. He said, \" I called my friend in New Zealand, which is halfway around the world, and it cost me over $200! So now I just stay up late to see if I can catch him on MSN or I write an email.\" Email, IM, and other low-cost ways of keeping in touch also allow people to develop brief acquaintances into long- lasting friendships. Andrea told us, \" I met this really cool girl. We've been in touch over half a year and it's nice to talk to her.\" Question: In Mike's opinion, he lost touch with his friend mainly because _ . - they lost interest in keeping in touch - their friendship was not strong enough - they were too busy to write to each other - they couldn't use email to keep in touch then\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "they couldn't use email to keep in touch then", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "input question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: There is a little story about an insurance salesman in Tokyo. Even though this man tried very hard to promote the insurance, nobody bought it. One day, he came to a small temple and began to brag about his insurance. After listening to his introduction, the monk said: \"Your recommendation of insurance can't arouse any of my interests! When you are communicating with others, you must have the charm to attract others, or you will be unpromising in the future. Young man, try to change yourself!\" The salesman thought deeply about each word. From then on, he invited all his friends to point out his weakness and kept on improving himself bit by bit for all his life. Thirty years later, he became a millionaire. And this man is the famous Yuan Yi Ping. His experience reflects one attitude: sometimes, we should change ourselves instead of changing the world.???\noutput answer: Question: The right title for this passage can be \" _ \".Options:A A story about a salesmanB Communicate more with othersC Attract othersD Change yourselfAnswer:D\n\nWrite a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: A king had a wonderful talent for growing flowers. He became old and didn't want to deal with big things anymore. So he began to look for someone to take his place. But who could he trust for the job? He thought for a while and got an idea. He would let the flowers decide. He gave everyone a little seed . The one who could grow the most beautiful flower from the seed would be the next leader. A girl called Serena was very beautiful and wanted to grow the most beautiful flower. She planted it in a nice pot and took great care of it, but nothing would grow. The next year she saw everyone come to the palace with pots full of beautiful flowers. She was disappointed but also went to the meeting with her empty pot. The king looked through all the flowerpots and then stopped at hers. \"Why is your pot empty?\" he asked. \"Your Majesty , I did everything to make it grow, but I have failed,\" she answered. \"No, you didn't,\" he said. \"You see, the seeds I've _ were all roasted , so nothing could come out of them. I have no idea where all these flowers come from. But you have been honest and by being so, you will become my successor .\"\n----\nAnswer: Question: From the story, we learn that _ is a good quality.Options:A KindnessB carefulnessC honestyD politenessAnswer:C\n\nQ: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: The purpose of students who come to school is to study.But studying needs right ways,or we would waste the time or the money.The followings are ways for studying. The best time for reading is morning.Because in the morning,the air is fresh and our minds are clear.For that reason,we can get good results. When we study we must be patient.If we don't understand a text well,we must read it again.We should not read the next until we have learned the first one well. When we are studying,we must put our hearts into the book.We cannot read absent-mindedly ,or we could get nothing from the book while we are reading. We must always ask\"why\".If we can't understand well,write it down and ask our teachers or parents,brothers or friends,in some possible ways.We must know it completely and then our knowledge can be used well. Though there are many ways for studying,however,the above mentioned will be helpful if we can keep them in heart.\nA: Question: The best title of this passage is _ .Options:A Right Ways of StudyingB Don't Waste TimeC Be PatientD Learn to Ask\"Why\"Answer:A\n\nQuestion: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Dear Tom, I go on a trip to Beijing with my father Rick. On the first day, we visit the Palace Museum. It is in the centre of Beijing. There are many rooms in it. You can see \"No photos!\" in some places. If so, you need to follow the instructions . On the second day, we visit the Summer Palace. It's great fun to boat there. I can swim, so I'm not afraid of water. Tomorrow we will go to the Great Wall. I also make a new friend Tony who comes from Australia. When he leaves, he gives me his e-mail address and telephone number. After the six-day trip, we can go back to New York by plane. I hope to see you soon. Bill\nAnswer: Question: We can know that _ .Options:A Bill comes to Beijing with his motherB Bill will go back to New York by shipC it's fun for Bill to boat in the Summer PalaceD Bill sees \"No talking!\" in the Palace MuseumAnswer:C\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: A Bite of China Season Two(<< >> ) is coming! The program is shown at 9 : 00 0n CCTV-1 every Friday night from April 18 to June 6, 2014. There are altogether eight episodes , all about history and culture of food, eating and cooking in China. The directors spent one year visiting more than 150 different parts of China. More than 300 types of food are covered in the documentary . As an old Chinese saying goes, food is what matters most to people. It plays an important role in our daily life, and the rich food culture is also one of the most important parts of Chinese culture. A Bite of China Season Two wants to show the joys and sadnesses of ordinary Chinese in changing times through food. A Bite of China Season One was shown on CCTV in 2012. It attracted more than 100 million viewers. It is all about food, while the second season cares more about the relationship between the people and the food. For example, the first episode shows a young man spent four hours climbing a 40-metre-high tree to get something nice for his brother. The show reminds viewers of their homes and the tastes of childhood. One Weibo user wrote, \"A Bite o f China Season Two makes me have so many words to say. It makes me think of my parents and my grandmother. I haven't been home for a long time, so I have decided to go back in a few days. \" The show uses food as a window to introduce China to the world. Viewers can see how Chinese people love life by loving food. Anyone who wants to know more about Chinese culture and Chinese society should have a bite of the program.\n****\n[A]: Question: How many types of food are covered in this program?Options:A 150.B More than 150.C 300.D More than 300.Answer:D\n\nProblem: Given the question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Teeth are important. Strong , healthy teeth help you chew foods that help you grow. They help you speak clearly. And yes ,they help you look best. Here are some tips for you to take care of you teeth: 1. Brush your teeth the right way. Brush your teeth at least twice a day - after breakfast and before bedtime. If you can, brush after lunch or after sweet snacks, too. Brush all of your teeth, not just the front ones. Spend time brushing teeth along the sides and back of your mouth. Spend at least three minutes each time you brush. Play a song you like to help pass the time. Get a new toothbrush every three months. When you buy toothbrush, be sure it has soft bristles . 2. Learn how to floss your teeth.. Flossing is a very important way to keep your teeth healthy. Food may hide between two teeth. Flossing can help get rid of it. You'll need to floss your teeth at least once a day. 3. Have good eating habits. You need to be careful about what you eat and drink. Eating sugar is a major cause of tooth decay . Eat lots of fruits and vegetables and drink water instead of soda .\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nThe answer is:\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Question: The bristles of the toothbrush must be _Options:A hardB softC expensiveD not mentionedAnswer:B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: A big, mighty tree stood in a forest. Its branches spread out and its roots went deep in the earth. A lot of people came here to have a rest under it. And a lot of birds stood on its branches to sing and dance. The big tree was very proud all the time. At the foot of the tree, there was a little plant. The plant was thin, and seemed to be blown down by any of a little wind. One day, the two neighbors were having a little chat. \"Well, little one,\" said the tree to the plant, \"why not put your feet deeply in the earth, and raise your head high in the air as I do?\" \"I see there is no need to do so,\" said the plant with a smile. \"In fact, I think I may be safer in this way.\" \"Safer?\" said the tree. \"Are you safer than I am? Do you know how deep my roots are in the earth and how strong my branches are? Who can possibly pull me out by the roots or bow my head to the ground?\" And the tree didn't want to say anything to the weak plant. But the tree was to regret its words very soon. One evening, a great hurricane came. It blew the trees off their roots and almost destroyed the forest completely. It uprooted(......)the mighty tree and blew it away with great force. When the storm had gone, the villagers living nearby came to check the damage. The mighty tree lay on the ground, but the little plant still stood there. Question: Why was the big tree proud before its neighbor? Yes or no, is the answer \"All of the above.\"?\nNo\n\nArticle: Jack is the name of a game. It is quite popular with children. To play jacks, you will need a small ball and ten small metal objects called jacks. The rules for this game are quite easy. To begin with, put the ten jacks on the floor or ground in front of you. Toss the ball high, pick up one jack and then catch the ball. Keep the jack in your hand and go on to pick up the other jack one at a time. You lose your turn if you do not catch the ball, or if you do not pick up a jack, or if you drop any of the jacks from your hand. When you finish all the ten jacks, you now try to do the same thing again but with two jacks at one time. This is more difficult, of course. You lose your turn if you make any of the above three mistakes or if you do not pick up two jacks each time. Question: To play jacks is _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"interesting for children\"?\nYes\n\nQ: Article: The world is not hungry, but it is thirsty. It seems strange that nearly 3/4 of the earth is covered with water while we say we are short of water. Why? Because about 97% of water on the earth is sea water which we can't drink or use for watering plants directly. Man can only drink and use the 3%--- the water that comes from rivers and lakes. And we can't even use all of that, because some of it has been polluted. Now more water is needed. The problem is: Can we avoid a serious water shortage later on? First we should all learn how to save water. Secondly, we should find out the ways to _ it. Scientists have always been making studies in the field. Today, in most large cities water is used only once and then runs to the sea or rivers. But it can be used again. Even if every large city reused its water, still there would not be enough. What could people turn to next? The sea seems to have the best answer. There is a lot of water in the sea. All that needs to be done is to get the salt out of the sea water. This is expensive, but it's already used in many parts of the world. Scientists are trying to find a cheaper way of doing it. So you see, if we can find a way out, we'll be in no danger of drying up. ,,. Question: The name of the passage would be _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"The Thirsty World\"?\nA: No\n\nQuestion: Article: My name is Tom. I like shopping, but I think shopping with young children is not an easy thing. I have to look after them while I am shopping. I don't think shopping with women is fun, either. I often go shopping with my friends. It is fun. If I think a kind of shirt is fit for me, I think it is also fit for my friends. So I'd like them to think about buying the same things. My name is Sandy. I like shopping too. But I never go shopping on Saturdays or Sundays. There are a lot of people in the shops. I like shopping with my friends. I usually spend a lot of time choosing things because I never buy the first thing I see. I always look around other shops to find the best price. I can find the best very well. I dislike buying food in small shops and street markets. I think food in the supermarket is very fresh and very cheap, so I like shopping there. Question: Sandy likes to buy food _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"in the supermarket\"?\nAnswer: Yes\n\n*Question*\nArticle: Lin Dehua, boy, 13 School should make our lunchtime longer. Now, our lunchtime is short. Many of my classmates have some homework to do after lunch . But if they do not get a good rest, they won't have enough energy for the afternoon. So I would like to have some time to take a nap after lunch . That way we will learn well in the afternoon. Zhang Huilin, girl,13 Food in our dining hall is not nice at all. There is always pork, fish, and cabbages. The soup is always cold. I think we should have different kinds of food every day. And why can't we have hot soup every day ? I am _ what we eat ! Zheng Chuyu, boy,14 We want more time for sports activities. Students all need time for ball games. But there are only two hours for us to play ball games a week. I think school should be over before 4.30 p.m. every day and then we can go to the playground. I like badminton. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ! Question: Lin Dehua thinks _ will help him learn well in the afternoon. Yes or no, is the answer \"having a nap\"?\n**Answer**\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Yes", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: There is a bar with the name \"The White Horse \". A picture of a white horse is on the door of the bar. It is Mr. Webster's. Few people go to the bar. One day, Mr. Wilson comes in, drinks a cup, watches the bar, and then says to Mr. Webster, \"Few people come here. Take down the picture of the white horse and put a picture of a black horse.\" \"But the name of the bar is 'The White Horse,'\" Mr. Webster says. \"Yes, but do it,\" says Mr. Wilson. After that, Mr. Webster goes to a store and says, \"I want a picture of a black horse.\" The next day, a picture of a black horse is on the door of the bar. The next morning, a man comes in and asks, \"The name is \"The White Horse\", but why do you put a picture of a black horse on the door of your bar?\" The man sits down and asks for a cup. Then a second man comes in and asks the same question, and then a third man .... Many people come in and say, \"The picture on your door is not right.\" After that, they all sit down and drink in Mr. Webster's bar. Question: The next day Mr. Webster _ . Options: A: buys a picture of a white horse in a store B: sells his picture of a white horse to a store C: puts a picture of a black horse on the door of his bar D: doesn't want to take down the picture of a white horse\nC\n------\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: If you want to travel with a partner, you may ask for one on the Internet. There are some tips about how to choose a right partner on the Internet: Unluckily, you can't ask a person if he has a good feeling. If you ask, everyone will tell you that they do! It is important that you have to get to know your travel partner to find out what kind of feeling he really has. You can tell a lot about a person's feeling by the words he uses. Ask him about his worst trip. Is he laughing about it now, or still unhappy? Does his worst trip sound like an _ to you? If so, he doesn't match you. Having a good feeling is important for having a good time. Talk about the hotel you would like to stay in. See if you have the same habit of spending holidays. This is such a quick way to find a partner. What's more? Always keep in contact with your travelling partner when travelling. Don't simply hang out without telling them, and don't let them do it to you, either. Question: The best title for the passage is _ . Options: A: Have A Happy Holiday B: Find a Right Partner for Traveling C: Don't Hang Out Alone D: Make Sure if Has Good Feeling\nB\n------\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Pure Brightness Festival, also known as Tomb-sweeping Day in China, falls on the 4thor 5thof April each year. It was started in the Han Dynasty. On this day, whole families, young and old, with flowers visit the graves of their ancestors to pay their respects. Following the custom, tomb sweepers clean and tidy the graves, decorate them with flowers. They burn paper money made for the dead, set off firecrackers and bow before their ancestors' tombstones. On this day, they don't cook. Only cold food is served. However, tomb sweeping is not the only activity during Pure Brightness Festival. This day is also a time for people to enjoy themselves. Other activities include spring outing, flying kites, planting trees, tasting tea and so on. In April, everything in nature takes on a new look. Trees turn green, flowers come out and the sun shines brightly. So it is a good time to be out to appreciate the beauty of nature. People fly kites not only in the daytime but at night. In the dark, some people fly kites with lanterns, which are called \"God's lanterns\". They plant trees because young trees which are planted during this period are easy to grow up. And they enjoy tea because the tea produced around the festival is said to have good quality. Question: According to the passage, Pure Brightness Festival is _ . Options: A: a day full of sadness B: Tree Planting Day C: a combination of sadness and happiness D: a time for people to have fun\nC\n------\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: You may not realize it, but you are doing much more than just studying when you are at school. School is also the place where you learn to get on well with people. But this is not always easy. What can you do if you just don't like one of your classmates? If you discover that you have problems getting on with your classmates or friends, the most important thing to learn is tolerance. Tolerance is the ability to realize and respect the differences in others. We can not change the way that other people do, so it is important to learn to live happily with them. Tolerance will make everyone get on better with each other. Getting to know someone may help you understand why they do things differently. Something different does not exactly mean that it is bad. Tolerance teaches us to keep a _ and open mind. You need to remember an old saying, \"Treat others how you want to be treated\". If you tolerate something, it does not mean that you have to like it. No one is asking you to change who you are or what you believe in. Tolerance just means that you should respect the differences in others and not try to make them change. It is important to practice tolerance, because it will make everyone's life easier. Learn to accept people for their different abilities and interests. The world is very different, and practicing tolerance in your own school and city can help make a difference. Question: This passage is trying to tell us _ . Options: A: what's important for a student B: what students should do at school C: how to treat people different from us D: how to get others to do things in the right way\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "C\n------", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: For centuries ,the only form of written correspondence was the letter .Letters were ,and are ,sent by some form of postal service ,the history of which goes back a long way. Indeed ,the Egyptians began sending letters from about 2000 BC, as did the Chinese a thousand years later. Of course ,modern postal services now are much more developed and faster ,depending as they do on cars and planes for delivery .Yet they are still too slow for some people to send urgent documents and letters. The invention of the fax machine increased the speed of delivering documents even more .When you send a fax ,you are sending a copy of a piece of correspondence to someone by telephone service .It was not until the early 1980s that such a service was developed enough for businesses to be able to fax documents to each other. The fax service is still very much in use when copies of documents require to be sent ,but ,as a way of fast correspondence, it has been largely taken the place of by email. Email is used to describe messages sent from one computer user to another. There are advantages and disadvantages with emails. If you send someone and email, then he will receive it extremely quickly. Normal postal services are rather slow as far as speed of delivery is concerned. However ,if you write something by email ,which you might later regret ,and send it immediately ,there is no chance for second thoughts. At least ,if you are posting a letter you have to address and seal the envelope and take it to the post box .There is plenty of time to change your mind. The message is think before you email!\nA: Question: The text mainly deals with_.Options:A the progress in correspondenceB the advantage of fax machinesC the advantage of emailsD the invention of fax machinesAnswer:D\n\nQ: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Until last summer I had a very comfortable life: winter vacations skiing and summer cruises. My parents spent a lot of money on a private school, so they could get me into a competitive middle school. Everything was about tomorrow, next year, my graduation. We never had to worry about today. Before last summer I never thought much about the people in the world who live day to day, every day, whose lives are controlled by poverty and hunger. Then I enrolled in a two-week intensive program. We lived in a \"Tribal Village,\" in a hot, dry open grassland in Arkansas, a state of the south-central United States. I am a tribal member in Mozambique, a country of southeast Africa. Every meal, I make the fire for my family, and feel the flames lick up my nostrils as I blow to keep the fuel alive. I cook mush with vegetables. This is all my family is ever given. I feed the hen and three rabbits their dinner. I grow attached to the rabbits, even though I know I shouldn't. I name them. I'm not getting enough to eat; it's time to decide whether or not to kill the rabbits. I feel pain but it's a privileged child's pain because I know I will soon be eating again. That's not true for a lot of other children around the world. Growing up comfortably in the U.S., I've never had to worry about my dinner, and even though this whole process was only a _ , it changed my life. Now I believe in doing whatever I can to help find practical ways to defeat hunger. So I've become president of Roots and Shoots, a group working to improve local environments for people and animals. I'm also working to create a program at my high school called the \"Safe Passage\" trip to help young people in the Guatemala City dump. And I've got plans to do more. I'm often thinking of laboring in the hot sun and the millions who still do. Now, I try to live for today and stop worrying so much about the future. When I eat or feel full, I am grateful for this fortunate life and want to extend the same feeling to others. I believe in offering help to those who need it.\nA: Question: The author feel pain because _ .Options:A she is a privileged childB she is not getting enough to eatC she doesn't want to kill the rabbitsD she can't go back to her regular lifeAnswer:C\n\nQ: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Crossing Texas and Mexico, the Big Bend region is high in biodiversity . It's a place so _ that if something doesn't bite, stick, or sting, it's probably a rock. You know you have arrived in the heart of the Chihuahuan Desert when it feels as if you have fallen off the edge of the earth and into the rabbit hole. Nothing is as it appears. Moths are the size of birds. Are those twin pillars of black rock (a landmark known as Mule Ear Peaks) ten miles (16 kilometers) away or fifty (80 kilometers)? Visibility reaches more than a hundred miles on a clear day, and since there are few roads or buildings to use as milestones, distance is difficult to judge. This is a place where water runs uphill, where rainbows have to wait for rain. The line between myth and reality is unclear. Stare long enough at the Chisos Mountains or the Sierra del Carmen, the two mountain ranges, known as sky islands, which lie on the land, and they rise and float above the plain. The vast Chihuahuan Desert is a land of no people. There is always the chance you'll die of thirst. The \"You Can Die\"possibilities are endless, and keep some visitors -- 350,000 a year to Big Bend National Park, built in 1944 -- from coming back. Those who do return are left to think of the remarkable courage of the brave few who have managed to survive in this terrible environment.\nA: Question: What is the passage mainly about?Options:A The natural wonders of the Chihuahuan Desert.B Everything you see is not what it seems in the Chihuahuan Desert.C The terrible environment of deserts in Texas and Mexico.D A special place where none who go can return.Answer:A\n\nQ: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Several times each year the Queen gives afternoon tea parties at which guests are served tiny cakes filled with cream from her own cows. Cakes and sandwiches are brought in by footmen, yet you never see the Queen touch a thing. She simply sits beside a big silver plate, pouring cups of tea for everyone and carefully avoiding the cakes. At cocktail parties the Queen moves from group to group, chatting informally, and manages to make one glass of diet drink to last an entire evening. Tours abroad are difficult because hosts seem to believe the warmth of their welcome must be shown with wonderful state banquets . But the Queen has perfected the art of appearing to enjoy her meal without actually eating much. During one visit to the Pacific islands ofprefix = st1 /Tonga, a specially-prepared dinner was arranged in a hut made of wood and bamboo leaves. Deep holes were dug in the ground, filled with hot stones and baby pigs, and the pigs were slowly baked over several days. The Queen looked uneasily at her plate when she discovered a whole roast pig was her serving. Then she became uneasy when a turkey, some meat, bananas and an apple were also carried in for each guest. So she depended on her old favorite trick of talking with her host., King Tupou IV, carrying on a warm conversation. At the same time she pushed her food around her plate and only ate a piece of turkey and some fruit. Reporters traveling with her have noted that the Queen will sometimes seem so carried away by a foreign leader's political chat that she simply never has time to finish a meal before it is time to get up and make her speech. She will lift her fork to swallow a mouthful, then put it down again to make another point, leaving almost all of her meal untouched.\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Question: The Queen talked with her host and carried on conversation with him. The purpose of doing this is _ .Options:A to show her politenessB not to eat muchC to show her great interest in foodD to hide her dislike to the foodAnswer:B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: No matter in China or in Canada among my friends, they all talk about the hot TV program \"Where are we going, Dad?\" at present. They all like the family education between fathers and children. They like to talk about the funny kids best. Of all the kids, I like Shitou best. Shitou is a boy from Beijing. He is brave and clever. He likes to make some New Year's plans with his father's help. He makes some New Year's plans for himself. He wants to start an exercise program, so he is going to take more exercise and eat less fast food. Making a soccer team is one of his dreams because he likes playing soccer with his friends. He also plans to improve his English. He is going to chat in English online with Kimi, the son of Lin Zhiying . Kimi is really good at _ Shitou also decides to take up a hobby. Can you guess what the hobby is ? It is to learn the shadow play ! He is so interested in it that he thinks it's really cool to play it. His father says that this plan may be too difficult to keep. However, Shitou promises to make it come true.\n\nA: Question: According to the writer's friends, the TV program\" Where are we going, Dad? \"is about _ .Options:A some friends from CanadaB traveling around the countriesC stories about Chinese and CanadiansD family education between children and fathersAnswer:D\n\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: If the only sports you do are dancing your fingers across your keyboard, you could be in serious danger of more than just becoming overweight and out of shape. Do you often feel sleepy, like something is weighing down on your head? Do you feel forgetful? Do you sometimes feel uncomfortable up and down your neck and lower back, and you can't explain why? Do you get sick often? It could be radiation from your computer causing it. If you spend three hours or more a day in front of a computer (and at this point, who doesn't?), you are more easily harmed by the _ . We have got so used to using computers that we often neglect to think of them as dangerous sources of harmful radiation. A safe amount of radiation is 25 V/m (Volts/meter). Do you want to guess how much our personal computers give off? Keyboard: 1000 V/m Mouse: 450 V/m Monitor: 218V/m CPU: 170V/m Notebook computers: 2,500 V/m Ways of Protect Yourself from Harmful Computer Radiation 1. Decorate your desk with cactus plants, they take in radiation. 2. Drink two to three cups of green tea a day and eat an orange daily. The vitamins in tea leaves and oranges protect us from radiation and keep our eyes healthy as well. 3. Use a screen filter for your monitor. 4. Avoid having metal objects nearby on your desk. 5. Put the back of the computer to the wall. Most of the radiation comes off the back. 6. Keep your monitor at least 50cm away from your face. 7. Keep your computer rooms ventilated . 8. Eat healthily-----especially fruits and vegetables. 9. Don't fall asleep on your computer. Turn it off if you have to rest nearby. The ways above are useful, why not have a try at once?\n\nA: Question: The best title of the passage is _ .Options:A Computer problemsB Computer radiation: a silent killerC Protect yourselfD Harmful radiationAnswer:B\n\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Mrs. Black lives on Second Street. New Year is coming. She wants to send a card to her friend in Toronto, but she doesn't know where the post office is. She asks her neighbor Linda, \" Is there a post office near here? I want to send a card.\" \"The post office is far from here,\" says Linda, \"but you don't need to go to the post office to post the card. There is a _ in front of the supermarket. You can put your card into the mailbox.\"\n\nA: Question: The post office is _ .Options:A next to Linda's houseB far from Mrs. Black's houseC across from the supermarketD in front of Mary's houseAnswer:B\n\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: In order to safeguard the education of all Hope Chinese Scholl(HCS)students and the normal running of the school, the following rules should be followed: Be quiet in classroom and hallways. Do not run or shout in classrooms or hallways. Do not drink or eat in classrooms or hallways. Stay in the school during school time as well as rest time. Do not leave the school or play out of the school area during school time. This includes rest time. Do not _ on any desks or walls. Be respectful to teachers and parents. Help teachers and other students to keep the classroom clean. Do not move desks, chairs, and other furniture in the classroom without the teacher's instructions.\n\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Question: Students in HCS can _ in classrooms.Options:A runB readC shoutD eatAnswer:B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: You do something about twenty times a minute without even thinking about it--you breathe! In fact, every day you take about twenty-thousand breaths. The organs of your body that allow you to breathe are called your lungs. You have two of them that work together, located in your chest inside the rib cage. The main purpose of your lungs is to breathe in good air and breathe out bad air. The good air contains oxygen, which your body needs. The bad air is a gas called carbon dioxide, which your body cannot use. When you breathe in through your nose or mouth, air travels down the back of your throat. It passes through your voice box and into your trachea, or windpipe. Your trachea is divided into two air passage tubes. One leads to your left lung. The other leads to your right lung. Inside your lungs, oxygen is removed from the air you breathe and pumped into blood cells. Your lungs also get rid of harmful carbon dioxide from these cells. This process takes place inside hundreds of millions of tiny air sacs. Each adult lung is about the size of a football. When they are healthy, your lungs feel a little like a sponge and are pinkish-gray. When lungs are damaged by smoking, they can appear gray or have black spots on them.One disease that is very common in children involves the lungs. It's asthma. Asthma narrows the breathing tubes, making it harder to breathe. You probably already know that your lungs are important when you swim. But you may not know this--your lungs are the only part of your body that can float on water!\n****\n[A]: Question: Where are your lungs?Options:A In the organs of your body.B inside the rib cage of your chest.C between your nose and mouth .D at the back of your throat.Answer:B\n\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: When international aid is given, steps must be taken to ensure that the aid reaches the people for whom it is intended. The way to achieve this may not be simple. It is very difficult for a nation to give help directly to people in another nation. The United Nations Organization (UNO) could undertake to direct the distribution of aid. Here however rises the problem of costs. Also tied with this is time. Perhaps the UNO could set up a body of devoted men and women in every country who can speedily distribute aid to victims of floods and earthquakes. More than the help that one nation can give to another during a disaster; it would be more effective to give other forms of help during normal times. A common proverb says, \" _ \" If we follow this wise saying, it would be right to teach people from less developed nations to take care of themselves. For example, a country could share its technology with another. This could be in simple areas like agriculture or in more complex areas like medical and health care or even in building satellites. Even small country is able to help less developed nations. Sometimes what is take for granted, like the setting up of a water purification plant or the administration of a school, could be useful for countries which are looking about to solve common problems. It does not cost much to share such simple things. Exchange students could be attached for a number of months or years and learn the required craft while on the site. They can then take their knowledge back to their homelands and if necessary come back form time to time to clear doubts or to update themselves. Such aid will be truly helpful and there is no chance of it being temporary or of it falling into the wrong hands. Many countries run extensive courses in all sorts of skills. It will not cost much to include deserving foreigners in these courses. Besides giving effective help to the countries concerned, there is also the build-up of friendships to consider. Giving direct help by giving materials may be effective in...\n****\n[A]: Question: Which aid is likely to fall into the wrong hands?Options:A A medical team.B An exchange program.C A water plant.D Financial support.Answer:D\n\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: \"I've changed my mind.I wanted to have a telescope,but now I want my daddy back .\" Lucien Lawrence's letter to Father Christmas written after his schoolteacher father had been knifed to death outside his school gate ,must have touched every heart.Lucien went on to say that without his father he couldn't see the stars in the sky.When those whom we love depart from us , we cannot see the stars for a while . But Lucien , the stars are still there, and one day, when you are older and your tears have gone , you will see them again. And in a strange way, I expect that you will find your father is there too , in you mind and in your heart .I find that my parents , long dead now , still figure in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than I ever did when they were alive . I still live to please them and I'm still surprised by their reactions.I remember that when I became a professor, I was so proud,or rather so pleased with myself ,that I couldn't wait to cable my parents . The reply was a long time in coming , but when it did , all Mother said was\"I hope this means that now you will have more time for the children!\" I haven't forgotten .The values of my parents still live on . It makes me pause and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care .Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence have been to face the aggressors , and to lay down my life for those in my care ? How many people would want me back for Christmas ? It's a serious thought , one to give me pause . I pray silently , something , in the dead of night , that ancient cry of a poet \" _ ), and my darling form the power of the dog .\"Yet I know that death comes to us all , and sometimes comes suddenly. We must therefore plan not to live forever , but live as if we will die tomorrow. We live on, I'm sure, in the lives of those we loved , and therefore we ought to have to care for what they will remember and what they will treasure . If more parents knew this in their hearts to be true...\n****\n[A]:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Question: In the author's opinion ,the value of a person's life is _ .Options:A to have a high sense of duty to the whole society.B to leave behind a precious memory to the people relatedC to care what others will remember and treasureD to share happiness and sadness with his familyAnswer:A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "IN: What happens next?\n\nHow to make rhubarb butter \nWash the rhubarb thoroughly. \nSlice off the broad green leaves and the ends of the stalks. Place the rhubarb stalks in a colander or grip a bunch loosely in one hand and run them under a stream of cool water.\n\nOPTIONS:\n- After rinsing and drying them, cut off the leaves and half of the stalk with a sharp knife. For a rustic sweet rhubarb butter, you can skip the cutting and chopping for a mature recipe.\n- Scrub off any visible dirt and remove damaged or discolored spots with a paring knife. Fresh rhubarb can be found seasonally (late spring to early summer) at most supermarkets and specialty food stores.\n- Sprinkle in some seeds and store them away from direct sunlight. Combine the butter and sugar in a small bowl.\n- You must also wash each stalk individually to remove all traces of rhubarb. Wash the rhubarb stalks.\n\nOUT: Scrub off any visible dirt and remove damaged or discolored spots with a paring knife. Fresh rhubarb can be found seasonally (late spring to early summer) at most supermarkets and specialty food stores.\n\nProblem: How does the next paragraph end?\n\nHow to convert from binary to decimal \nWrite down the binary number and list the powers of 2 from right to left. \nLet's say we want to convert the binary number 10011011 to decimal. First, write it down.\n\nOPTIONS:\n- It's good to quickly and accurately shift depending on if you're converting with binary or decimal. If this is the case, write down the binary number in white.\n- Then, write down the powers of two from right to left. Start at 2, evaluating it as \" 1 \".\n- Later, you can write down the powers of 1 without moving on to the next step. Next, write down the mode method of converting from binary to decimal.\n- Imagine you copied the binary number into a column and left it unchanged. Put the original number in the column and start writing down the powers of 2.\nA: Then, write down the powers of two from right to left. Start at 2, evaluating it as \" 1 \".\n\nIN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:\nThey finally get momentum and the kids go sliding down the long, wide and snowy hill, and various clips of other people are also shown riding down the hill. a woman\nOPTIONS:\n- wraps a book in chalk paper and holds it in her hand and begins to apply it and then decorates the ends with a piece of pink ribbon and other red ribbon.\n- is then shown on the screen and she's with other carters and they all end up down the snowy hill.\n- is walking with a baby in a stroller and starts swinging a baby in the stroller.\n- is shown sitting on a tube and looks like the camera is handed to her and the view changes from her point of view and shows her point going down the hill and anything she looks at.\n\nOUT: is shown sitting on a tube and looks like the camera is handed to her and the view changes from her point of view and shows her point going down the hill and anything she looks at.\n\nQuestion:\nMulti-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:\n\nA woman is dancing on a hardwood floor holding a baton. she\n\nOPTIONS:\n- does a belly dance routine on the floor.\n- starts twirling the baton.\n- is twirling around and back flipping on the floor.\n- spins around and throws it across the room.\n****\nAnswer:\nstarts twirling the baton.\n\nProblem: What happens next in this paragraph?\n\nHow to use meditation to treat ptsd \nChoose the best time of day to meditate. \nTo get the most out of the meditation experience, you should practice transcendental meditation twice a day. \nThe first time should be first thing in the morning.\nOPTIONS:\n- Meditating in the morning allows you to clear away any negative feelings you may have encountered through the nightmares or restless sleep common to many sufferers of ptsd. It cleans the slate for the rest of the day, allowing you to begin a new day with reduced stress levels.\n- The second time should be the day after that. Your peak meditation time should be between the hours of 10:00 and noon.\n- The next time you meditate, you will want to meditate every one to two hours, for daytime or afternoon meditation. You will probably have to do this multiple times throughout the day to see results.\n- The second is right after school and when your mind is rested and rested. Try to meditate two days before the start of the week, between 4 pm and 4 pm.\nA: Meditating in the morning allows you to clear away any negative feelings you may have encountered through the nightmares or restless sleep common to many sufferers of ptsd. It cleans the slate for the rest of the day, allowing you to begin a new day with reduced stress levels.\n\nHow to improve problem solving skills \nDefine the problem clearly. \nThis is an outwardly simple but vital step. If you don't properly understand the problem, your solutions may be ineffective or fail entirely.\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Give the problem a clear, defined, and challenging label so that the challenging factor can be dealt with quicker and easier. For example, maybe you are looking at the size of the animal that you want to keep.\n- There are many students in the social sciences world who struggle to understand the concept of problem solving. Understand the problem and clearly define it to the best of your ability.\n- To define the problem you will have to ask questions and look at different angles. For example, is there one problem or actually several? Can you restate the problem in your own words? By spending time with the problem you will better understand it and be equipped to generate solutions.\n- You should be able to define it by looking at it from the other side of the window. Does your problem have three parts? Make sure to make the answer clear and easy to understand.\n\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "To define the problem you will have to ask questions and look at different angles. For example, is there one problem or actually several? Can you restate the problem in your own words? By spending time with the problem you will better understand it and be equipped to generate solutions.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Although Americans are well known for getting down to business, Indians working in overseas teams, MNCs, and BPOs should know the importance of small talk. While Indians have a true interest in talking to Americans and getting to know them, they also hesitate to do so for some reasons. Americans engage in less personal small talk than Indians. And the topics and questions used in English vary widely based on language differences and cultural differences. Here are three things to keep in mind while you are trying to make small talk with your American clients and colleagues. Amencans love to ask about, and then complain about the weather. They may talk about how the weather prevented them from having fun or how the weather supported their outdoor events. You can talk about the weather with them to begin a conversation. While talking, they always try to follow up on their answer by asking another open-ended question or make a statement, such as \"Wow, that sounds like fun ! \" or \"You went to St. Louis. In which state is that?\" Be creative in your questions. Feel free to ask one or two, but not very personal ones about relations. Stick to the facts or events that were already referred to. Sometimes, some words used in India will totally confuse an American. For example, Americans use the word \"weekend\" instead of \"holiday\" for Saturdays and Sundays ( non-working days) , and use the word \" vacation\" or \" days off\" instead of \" out-of-station\" . Always be interested, optimistic and happy. Talk with a smile! Vary the sound of your voice. Do not sound like a computer. If you are unsure how you sound, a good tip is to record yourself and listen to it later. Doing this helps you know how your voice sounds, and if you don't sound as you want to be heard, it may be time to work on _ your voice. Question: For Indians, having small talk with American colleagues is _ . Options: A: boring B: useless C: important D: interesting\nC\n------\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: As we know, the concept of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is \"Green Olympics, High-tech Olympics and People's Olympics.\" _ . Among them \"Green Olympics\" embraces the essence of the 3000-year long Chinese philosophy, namely harmony and unity of nature and human existence. On the World Environment Day in 2003, Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Game began the Green Office Project. _ . On September 24, 2005, the logo of the Green Olympics was shown at the Beijing Young Palace. _ . It consists of the crown of a tree and the shape of a human being that are used to create the form of a large tree reaching the sky. The image represents harmony and unity between human beings and nature. Just like swinging color1ed strips that surround and cross each other, the green lines form a crown of tree and recall flowers in full bloom, expressing the sustainable development of environment protection. Question: Let's participate in green actions, such as beautifying the environment , protecting the environment and saving resources. _ . Options: A: No matter when it is , we need green space. B: This concept includes three themes. C: Let's carry the theme of Green Olympics through to the end. D: The logo uses a form of the traditional handwriting. E. The Beijing Olympic Games is a testimony of the fact that the world has its trust rested upon China. F. It covers such areas as saving energy and water, trash classification, and use of office equipment, paper recycling, paperless office work and the environmentally friendly behaviors of staff. G. The Beijing Olympic Games is a great success.\nB\n------\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Searching the Internet may help middle-aged and older adults keep their memories sharp,US researchers said. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles ,studied people doing web searches by recording their brain activity. \"What we saw was people who had Internet experience used more of their brain during the search,\"Dr.Gary Small, a UCLA expert on aging, said,\"This suggests that just searching on the Internet may train the brain and that it may keep it active and healthy.\" \"This is the first time anyone has simulated an Internet search task while scanning the brain,\"Small said. His team studied 24 normal volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76. Half were experienced at searching the Internet and the other half had no web experience. However, the two groups were similar in age, gender and education. Both groups were asked to do Internet searches and book reading tasks while their brain activity was monitored. \"We found that in the book reading task, the visual cortex-- the part of the brain that controls reading and language -- was activated,\"Small said,\"In doing the Internet search task, there was much greater activity, but only in the Internet-savvy group.\" He said it appears that people who are familiar with the Internet can engage in much deeper level of brain activity. Activities that keep the brain engaged can preserve brain health and thinking ability. Small thinks learning to do Internet searches may be one of those activities. Question: The two volunteer groups were _ . Options: A: similar in education B: of the same age C: good at the computer D: book lovers\nA\n------\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Michelle was a student at University of California, Los Angeles. She is here to tell us how she feels about the city. What were the best things about Los Angeles? One of my favorite things about Los Angeles is the weather. I hate the cold and it never really gets that cold there. Plus, most of the time it's usually sunny, which is good because I love going to the beach during the summer. There's so much to do at the beach, but my favorite thing in L.A. was having a picnic on the sand with my friends. What were the worst things about being there? I disliked having to drive everywhere to get around because the city is so spread out. Los Angeles has a lot of traffic and sometimes it takes a long time to get somewhere close by just because the streets are so crowded. Also, a lot of people complain about the pollution. Did you have any problems there? Just the normal problems of living in any city, like watching out for pickpockets . Some people think Los Angeles has a lot of crime, but I think it's as safe as any other city. Also, many people think driving is difficult because there is a lot of traffic and road rage , but it just takes a little practice and a lot of patience. What are the people like in Los Angeles? There are all types of people in Los Angeles since the city is pretty diverse. For the most part, though, most of the people are friendly, calm and relaxed. Some people say that everyone in Los Angeles is beautiful, but I think that's just a stereotype . Would you go back to Los Angeles? Certainly. Los Angeles is one of my favorite cities in the world. I love the fact that it has all the nightlife and shopping of a big city, but also has access to beaches, parks, mountains and other places you can't usually find in large cities. Between the weather and the beaches and all the fun things to do, it's a great place to be. Question: We can learn from the text that Michelle _ . Options: A: hates the heavy traffic in Los Angeles B: dislikes the cold weather in Los Angeles C: thinks Los Angeles is small and crowded D: enjoys driving everywhere in Los Angeles\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A\n------", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Health insurance is a great concern to Americans now. It's likely that many Americans lack health insurance with the economy having no sign of picking up. The National Academy of Sciences reported Thursday. \"Unless health insurance is made more affordable, the number of uninsured Americans is likely to continue growing over time,\" said Mary Sue Coleman, co-chairwoman of the committee that wrote the report. The report is the first six planned by the institute of Medicine over two years. The series is planned to find out who lacks health insurance and why, and determine what the consequences are and provide the groundwork for debate on how to correct the problem. The institute is part of the academy, a private organization supported by Congress to advise the government of scientific matters. This first report seeks to draw a picture of the millions who lack insurance. It does not offer any recommendations. \"Much of what Americans think they know about the uninsured is wrong,\" said Dr. Arthur Kellermann, a public health professor at Emory University Schools of Medicine in Atlanta, who also worked on the report. The Census Bureau reported last month that 38.7 million Americans went without coverage for all of 2000, compared with 39.3 million the year before, thanks to the booming economy. Experts say the trend is likely to reverse this year, given that the economy was slowing even before the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks. \"Unfortunately, the recent economic slowdown might have reversed the modest gains in coverage for shorter periods.\" The report said that with insurance costs rising, more employers and individuals may conclude they are unable to afford coverage. Premium increases were often absorbed by employers in the strong economy of the 1990s, but that may not continue as the economy softens, the report said. The panel found that about 13.6 million of the uninsured work for employers that do not offer health insurance. Individually purchased coverage may be prohibitively costly. Question: The chief objective of the first of the six reports is to _ . - explain why certain groups of people lack health insurance - find out who lack health insurance - determine the consequences from the lack of health insurance - provide suggestions to address the health insurance issue\nA: find out who lack health insurance\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Traveling can be a way to gain life experiences,especially during Spring Break--a week long school vacation in the United States. But what if you're a student and don't have enough money for a trip?Don't worry. Here are some useful suggestions. Save:This probably is the most important preparation for traveling. Cut expenses to fatten your wallet so you'll have more choices about where to go and how to get there. Plan ahead:Don't wait until the last minute to plan your trip. Tickets may cost more when bought on short notice. Giving yourself several months to get ready can mean security and savings. Do your homework:No matter where you go,research the places you will visit. Decide what to see. Travel books will provide information on the cheapest hotels and restaurants. Plan sensibly:Write down what you expect to spend for food and hotels. Stick to your plan or you may not have enough money to cover everything. Travel in groups:Find someone who is interested in visiting the same places. By traveling with others you can share costs and experiences. Work as you go:Need more money to support your trip?Look for work in the places you visit. Go off the beaten path:Tourist cities may be expensive. You may want to rethink your trip and go to a lesserknown area. Smaller towns can have many interesting activities and sights. Pack necessary things:The most important things to take are not always clothes. Remember medicine in case you get sick and snacks in case you cannot find a cheap restaurant. Use the Internet:The net can help to save money. Some useful websites include _ . By planning sensibly,even students can enjoy the travel. Your travel experiences will be remembered for a lifetime. Question: Before your trip,the first thing you should do is _ . - to make a plan of the route - to get information from the Internet - to save money by spending less - to buy tickets in advance\nA: to save money by spending less\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Lomography was first officially introduced to China when the Lomography World Congress was held in Beijing in July, 2004. The Lomography World Congress is the greatest annual event of the Lomographic Society. It has been held in Madrid, New York, Tokyo, Cologne and Vienna, etc. The 2004's _ took place in Beijing and ran a full week. The first non-official affair of Chinese Lomographers was held in August, 2005 and it attracted much attention. A lot of energetic young people got together under the banner of \"I Loma you\" which was the slogan of this big party. In China Lomo is more of a symbol of fashion and youth, and most of the Lomographers are stylish young people who work with or study art. The organizer told the editor that the oldest Lomographer who came here is in his forties while the youngest one is about nine years old, but most of the people who are into Lomo are about 20 years old. In China the concept of Lomography is not only about Lomographyer taking photos with Lomo camera, but also a kind of spirit. \"I think, generally, the Lomo spirit is everyone trying to love one's own life and discover the beauty of everyday life,\" the organizer said, \"what I think more important is the idea of freedom and creativity. The 10 th Golden Rule is 'don't worry about any rules', I think it introduces to us a concept: It's you who make the rules and it's you who break the rules. So free your mind and let your creativity work, and your life will be fantastic.\" Question: In China the concept of Lomo is _ . - to search for the beauty of life - to take photos with Lomo camera and a kind of spirit - to make your life wonderful and amazing - to free your mind and break rules\nA: to take photos with Lomo camera and a kind of spirit\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Loved and hated, but never boring. That is what people say of American writer Norman Mailer, who died late last year at the age of 84. He was the author of some of the greatest books of the 20th century. But Mailer will be remembered as much for his personality as for his writing. He was rude and bad-tempered. He violently attacked other authors and even wounded one of his six wives. However, this never stopped Mailer from being successful. People always wanted to read his books. His provocative writing style and willingness to deal with difficult subjects made his books bestsellers. \"He was willing to take risks with just about everything,\" says the author Gore Vidal. \"He had a radical imagination, a way of approaching subjects that was never boring.\" In a career that lasted six decades, Mailer wrote about a wide variety of subjects from history and politics to sport and celebrities. But he was most famous for writing novels and he twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His best book was The Naked and the Dead, a story about the tensions between American soldiers fighting Japan in World War II. Drawn on his own experiences as a soldier, it is a study of men at war examining their cruelty and bravery. Mailer's brilliance as an author was his ability to capture human behavior. He did so through interesting characters, realistic dialogue and rich descriptions. The author William F. Buckley said, \"He created the most beautiful metaphors in the English.\" Mailer leaves behind more than 40 books as his literary legacy . However, he never achieved his life's goal. He wanted to write what he called the \"big one\", the greatest novel ever written about America. Well, at least it wasn't for a lack of trying. Question: By saying \"Mailer will be remembered as much for his personality as for his writing\", the author means that_. - People will remember Mailer because he has a great personality - Mailer's personality is as impressing as his writing - People like his writing better - Mailer included many personalities in his writing\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: Mailer's personality is as impressing as his writing", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A science fiction flying car looks like a normal car, but it is an aircraft that anybody can fly directly from any place to another without using roads or runways. Science fiction writers have written about flying cars for a long time. But now flying cars will soon fly out of the world of science fiction into our real world. And the dream of the science fiction writers will soon come true. The first-known sky car is the FSC-1. The FSC-1 looks like an expensive sports car. You can drive the FSC-1 on the road like a normal car. If you touch a button, its wings and propeller fold out and then it can take off, fly and land as an airplane. The owners of the FSC-1 can choose if they want to drive or fly. Another flying car or sky car is the Moller Skycar M400. Although you can't drive it on the roads, it is small and easy to fly and can take off and land like a helicopter . Urban Aeronautics' X-Hawk is another type of sky car. It is expected to be available for about $3 million. Just like any new technology, flying cars have taken a long time to be developed. But some experts think the technology is far from what people imagine when they are sitting in traffic. It still needs to be improved. Question: _ kinds of flying cars are mentioned in the passage. - Two - Three - Four - Five\nTwo\n\n(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: One evening Mr. Green is driving his car in the country and looking for a small hotel. When he sees an old man on the side of the road, Mr. Green stops his car and says to the old man, 'I want to go to the Sun Hotel. Do you know how to get there?' 'Yes, of course,' the old man answers, 'I will show you the way. Please let me sit in your car. I can go with you and tell you where to turn.' He gets in Mr. Green's car. They drive about twelve miles . When they come to a small house, the old man says, 'Stop here.' Mr. Green stops his car and says, 'But this isn't a hotel.' 'No,' the old man answers. 'This is my house. Thank you very much for driving me home. And I'll show you the way to the Sun Hotel. Turn around and go back nine miles. Then you will get to the hotel.' Question: Mr. Green asks _ how to get to the Sun Hotel. - a young man - an old woman - a child - an old man\n(Answer)\nan old man\n\nQues: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Dear Dr. Know I am unhappy these days. I am a student in Grade 3 of a middle school. I want to be a policewoman in the future . But my mother doesn't like the job. She always says it is too dangerous for a girl to work as a policewoman. She thinks girls should work in the office. She hopes that I can work as a doctor. But I really dislike being a doctor. It's terrible for me to work in the hospital. When I talk with her about it, she is often angry. She always thinks she is right. I don't know what to do. Can you help me? Nancy, Chongqing Question: Which of the following is TRUE? - Nancy's mother is right. - Nancy needs Dr. Know's help. - Nancy thinks it's terrible to be a policewoman. - Nancy's mother likes to talk with Nancy about the job.\nAns: Nancy needs Dr. Know's help.\n\n(Q).\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Su Su is a 16-year-old Beijinger. She studies at the High School Affiliated to Renmin University. She has just published her first book, The Enigma of the Universe (<<>> ). The Enigma of the Universe tells a story of a girl called April. One day she meets an alien boy named Kaka. Kaka takes April on a journey into the universe. Later April finds out a big secret about Kaka... What's special about this book? It's a book written in both Chinese and English. Su wrote the book when she was 14 years old. She was influenced by the book Sophie's World (<<>> ) and the movie The Truman Show (<<>> ). Sophie is a girl who is interested in philosophy . Truman's life is run by television. These stories gave Su an idea for her own book. She decided to write it in English. \"My English teacher asked us to write something,\" says Su. \"I thought I'd write about my idea.\" Su spent a whole summer vacation writing the story. \"Sometimes I had to stop because I couldn't find the right words,\" says Su. \"I used the dictionary all the time.\" After finishing the English novel, Su had another idea. She decided to translate it into Chinese. The job took her just a few days. \"It was easy because Chinese is my native language ,\" she says. Su says her story is \"a mixture of philosophy and detective story and science fiction\". \"My classmates and I have turned it into a DV play,\" says Su. \"I wrote the play and I played April. We will show it in our school soon!\" Question: In Which language did Su Su write this book? - Chinese - English - French - Both Chinese and English\n(A).\nBoth Chinese and English\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: To write a great news story , you have to make sure it is correct , relevant and fresh.. For a start, all the information in a story must be correct. Not only the spelling and grammar, but also the facts. Any mistakes that appear in a story can get a newspaper into big trouble. For example, if a newspaper said that Yang Liwei was the first man to go into space, it would be wrong. He wasn't the first. The newspaper would probably lose lots of readers because of that mistake. A news story is not only correct ,but also relevant to its readers . People are mostly interested in news that happens near to them . That is why you care more about what happens at your school that at American schools. It is also why newspapers in Beijing don 't talk about much news in Shanghai or Hong Kong. Finally, news must always be fresh . When you pick up your evening newspaper, you want to read about news that happens that day. You don't want to read about news from last week ! So, now you know what makes a good news story . Have a good look at our newspaper and see if it is full of good news .you can try writing a news story for our newspaper like a real reporter. Question: According to the writer, newspaper in Zhejiang should talk much about news in _ - Zhejiang - Hong Kong. - Shanghai. - Beijing.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Zhejiang", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: After helping Barack Obama sweep to victory in the US election, the president-elects motto of \"change\" was Friday declared character of the year by a monk at one of Japan's most respected temples. Using a calligraphy brush to write the single character on a wooden platform as tourists looked on, Seihan Mori, chief monk at Kiyomizu temple in the ancient capital of Kyoto, declared \"change\" to be Japan's character of the year. The event was hosted by a Kyoto-based group that promotes the use of \"kanji,\" the Chinese characters used in the Japanese language. The public sent in 111,200 nominations for the kanji of the year. Of those, a majority 5.42 percent approved of \"change,\" followed by \"gold,\" suggesting the Beijing Olympics, and \"fall\" to show the global market decre.ase. \"I think it is an expression of the Japanese peoples wishes to see political, economic and societal changes, as they were impressed by Mr. Obama's message of change,\" Mori said. He added that climate change also drew people attention to the significance of \"change\". The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation(JKATF) has been conducting a poll on the year's kanii each year since 1995. Last year's top choice was 'Nise' (fake). Question: The aim of the event is to _ . Options: A: popularize standard Chinese B: promote the use of \"kanji\" C: practice Chinese handwriting D: strengthen the relationship between China and Japan\nB\n(Question)\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Request a teacher training workshop or school visit If you are interested in discovering new ways to supplement the materials you use in the classroom through the use of a daily newspaper, our Youth Outreach Specialist can come to your school and show you how to incorporate(... )the news into your curriculum. Armed with your newspapers and experience, she can conduct an activity with your class, making it fun and easy for you to bring real-world learning into your classroom. The Outreach Specialist is also available to run workshops with staff who are also looking for new ideas on how to use the newspaper as a learning tool. Please send us an e-mail at ghiten@seattletimes.com or give us a call at 206/652-6290. Once we have received your request, we will confirm the date, time, place and activity with you. Your request will be honored of a first-come, first-served basis. These services are FREE for current Newspapers In Education (NIE) subscribers . We recently visited Ridgecrest Elementary and conducted a class workshop. An overview of our time in the classroom, and our in-class lesson, can be read online. Schedule a tour Follow a newspaper from start to finish ... and get your copy that has just recently been printed. See how robots move giant paper rolls, how the press is \"prepared\" for printing and much more. Tours of our North Creek production facility in Bothell are offered Thursdays throughout the school year at either 10 am, 11 am or 4 pm. The tour lasts one hour. To make reservations contact: Kate Palmer 425/489-7000 kpalmer(r) seattletimes.com North Creek Facility is located at: prefix = st1 /19200 120th Avenue NE, Bothell. WA 98011-9506 Question: People who send an e-mail at ghiten@seattletimes.com earliest may _ . Options: A: be offered Newspapers In Education free B: be offered latest reading materials free C: become a good organizer in the classroom D: get the earliest service offered by the advertiser\n(Answer)\nD\nQues: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Not long ago, people could only buy organic food in small shops. Today it is common in most major supermarkets. The reason for the increase is that more and more people are demanding food grown without chemicals. Since the 1990s, organic farm production has gone up 20 percent every year. This pattern is expected to continue around the globe. Australia leads the world in land used for organic agriculture. It has four times as much land devoted to organic farming as all of Asia. However, most of the land is not very fertile, and it only produces a modest amount of food. Argentina is a distant second, followed by Brazil, the United States and China. In Africa, only a very small amount of land is registered for organic farming. That does not mean Africa relies on chemicals. In fact, many farmers do not use chemicals because they cannot afford them. Yet there are no programs for these farmers to prove they do not use chemicals. Without these programs their food can never be approved organic. India has had the most dramatic recent increase in organic farming. Like many other countries, India sees continual growth in organic food sales around the world. This, of course, leads to growth in profits. Sales of organic food were more than doubled from 2000 to 2005. Like India, many countries are trying to increase commercial organic farming to get a share of the sales. This has led to criticism. Some people believe that organic farming should not just be about making money. They think the goal is to help the environment. Others say organic farming will not continue if it is not profitable. They say that people should be able to make money while providing food that is healthy to mankind. Question: From the passage, it can be said that _ . Options: A: India uses the least land to farm organically B: the US is the fourth largest organic farming country C: Brazil uses less land to farm organically than China D: China and India have the same amount of organic farmland\nAns: B\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Just as some people think that certain numbers are lucky or unlucky, others believe that we can use numbers to understand our personalities, or predict what will happen to us in the future. Numerology is a way of using numbers to describe a person's character, and to make predictions about future life events. Numerologists use the numbers 1-9, 11 and 22 -- also known as the \"master\" numbers -- to help a person understand his or her personality, life goals, and destiny. Numerologists consider yourLife Path number to be the most significant because this number describes your character. To find this number, add together all the numbers in your date of birth. For example, a person born on April 25, 1985 would add the month (4), to the numbers of the date (2+5), plus the numbers of the birth year (1+9+8+5). In this case the total is 34, so this person's life path number is 7(3+4). Numerologists believe that people with this number are peaceful and affectionate but can also be very reserved. Your Expression numberdescribes your talents and predicts how you should use these to fulfill your destiny in life. Numerologists assign a number between 1 and 9 to each of the letters in your name. These numbers are then added together in the same way as before to find your Expression number. Numerologists can also do calculations to predict when the most challenging periods of your life will be. Numerologists also believe that the day a person is born is important. Each day of the month has a character description. People born on the fourth are said to be responsible, honest, and stubborn. People born on the fifteenth have very strong attachments to family and home. Those who celebrate their birthday on the thirtieth are artistic, creative, and imaginative, and often make good writers. If we calculate the numerical value of our name and birth date, numerologists believe that we can learn more about our personalities. They also believe that we can predict our destinies, how our lives will progress, and what challenges we may... Question: According to the passage, numerologists believe that _ . Options: A: Life Path number can be used to predict a person's most challenging life periods B: Expression number is the most meaningful for people to learn a person's character C: numbers can help people better understand themselves D: numbers can be used to change a person's future\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "input: OPTIONS:\n- They left McDonald's.\n- They shared the food.\n- They began to look for seats.\n- They began to order another one. Now, answer this question: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: A little old man and his wife walked slowly into McDonald's on a cold winter evening. They took a table near the back wall, and then the little old man walked to the cash register to order. After a while he got the food back and they began to open it. There was one hamburger, some French fries and one drink. The little old man carefully cut the hamburger in half and divided the French fries in two piles. Then he neatly put the half of the food in front of his wife. He took a sip of the drink and his wife _ . \"how poor the old people are!\" the people around them thought. As the man began to eat his hamburger and his French fries, his wife sat there watching him and took turns to drink. A young man came over and offered to buy another meal for them. But they refused politely and said that they got used to sharing everything. Then a young lady asked a question of the little old lady. \" Madam, why aren't you eating? You said that you share everything, then what are you waiting for?\" She answered, \"The teeth.\" Question: What did they do after they opened the food? Answer:\nA:\noutput: They shared the food.\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: Many people love going on a trip by plane , but an airport is usually far from the city . You have to arrive there and wait for hours for the plane to take off and it is often late . You can't open the window .You can't choose the food .Planes are fast ,but it takes hours to get out of the airport and into the city . I like travelling by train .I think trains are safe . Train stations are usually in cities . when you are late for a train , you can catch another one . You can walk around in the train and open the windows . You can see many interesing things on your way . I know it takes a little more time . I also like cars . You can start your trip when you want to . and you don't need to get to a station . You can carry many things with you too . But sometimes there are many cars on the road . Question: What is the disadvantge of the car ? Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- You needn't go to the station .\n- You can start your trip when you want to .\n- There are too many cars on the road .\n- You can see many interesting things .\n\nAnswer: There are too many cars on the road .\n\nProblem: OPTIONS:\n- they enjoy drinking a nice cup of tea\n- there is a lot of tea\n- they talk much about a nice cup of tea\n- there is a talk while drinking tea\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: There is a saying that the British like a nice cup of tea in the morning and a nice cup of tea at night. And at half past seven, their idea of heaven is a nice cup of tea. They like a nice cup of tea with their dinner and a nice cup of tea time, and before they go to bed, there is a lot to be said about a nice cup of tea! Sometime it seems that no one likes tea as much as the British does. But in fact, tea is liked in countries around the world. In China and Japan tea was first used as a medicine, many years later, people there drank tea as a beverage . People in the world like to drink different kinds of tea -- green, black or red as some people call it. It is served in different ways. But they all know that drinking tea is good for one's health. Question: The sentence \"there is a lot to be said about a nice cup of tea\" means _ . Answer:\nAnswer: they talk much about a nice cup of tea\n\nProblem:OPTIONS:\n- Mary\n- Mary's father\n- Mary's mother\n- Mary's friend\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: Dear Mary, I must go to see your grandparents now.I prepare these things for you.Your dictionary is in the bookcase.Your schoolbag is on the sofa.Your pencil box,notebooks and your school card are in the schoolbag.Your jacket is on the chair.Don't _ your watch.It's on the desk. Love you. Mom Question: Who writes the note ? Answer:\n****\nA: Mary's mother\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: I Don't Have to Be Like Them All students have to face their own problems when they are growing up. You may not think that having a good family is a problem. But for me , it was. I had to face the problem of being the youngest of the Smith girls. We live in a small town in Pennsylvania, US. There are three girls in the Smith family, Amanda, Theresa and me . People often say things to me , like \" Oh, the three of you , you're such nice girls. Your sisters are so pretty and so thin! You're really nothing like them . \" That made me sad. At school , all of my teachers had taught my sisters . On the first day of school , they said , \"Oh , the youngest of the three! I hope you're just like your sisters. They're such wonderful students.\" People always compared me with my sisters . So I couldn't help comparing myself with them , too. Theresa was smarter , Amanda was prettier . I began to work hard to be more like them . What my sisters did , I did , too. At last , I became drum major of our school 's marching band . Both Amanda and Theresa had been drum majors . I became editor of the school's newspaper . Theresa had been the editor two years before. But last year, Amanda went to college , and Theresa went to high school . Now I'm by myself at junior high . Everyone knows me , because I'm the drum major and the newspaper's editor . Now I don't feel like a Smith girl any more , I feel like myself . I'm proud of doing all of the same great things that my sisters did . But the best thing I did was to learn to stop comparing myself with them . Question: From the passage ,what does the author probably tel l us? Answer:\nOPTIONS:\n- To be yourself.\n- Stop working hard.\n- Learn from the older.\n- Do what others say.\n\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "To be yourself.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: When you are not happy, there are six ways to make you happy or feel good about yourself. (1) Look in the mirror and say to yourself, \"I'm a special person and there's no one in the world like me. I can do anything!\" It really works! (2) Do something nice for someone. Helping others always makes you feel good. (3) Smile! Be friendly to people around you. Look for the good things in your friends and family. (4) Learn something new! Do you always want to learn how to swim? Go for it! (5) Read and start a diary . Turn offthe TV and let your imagination fly! If you have any ideas or dreams, write them down! (6) Stay with your family. We all need our family time. Talk with your mum and dad or maybe even your cousin. Question: What should you do if you have any ideas or dreams according to the passage? Yes or no, is the answer \"Write them down.\"?\nYes\n\n(Question)\nArticle: Most middle school students find it boring to learn English. But students in Yat Sen middle school in New York, US, don't think so. Why? Because they are in the school of One Program, which asks students to work on their own or in small groups on computers to have math lessons. \"The program gives the students a new learning style. No traditional classroom can compare with it. We give each lesson according to the students' interest and their strong and weak points,\" said JoelI. Klein, the school's head teacher, \"we're looking for a new way that interest students children.\" Students enjoy these math lessons, especially lessons with video games. They must find out the answers to math problems to get through the game. One such game is Dimension M. As students move through mazes with their keyboards, some questions come up. Caleb Deng had to answer the question: What is 5+ (6x3)? He _ on paper quickly because there was just a minute left to play. \" I was right,\" said Deng, 14, as he ended the game with a high score . \"this really makes math lessons more exciting, since we are fighting to learn better.\" Question: Which is NOT true of the program? Yes or no, is the answer \"It is boring to most students.\"?\n(Answer)\nNo\n\nQues: Article: The teacher invited a little boy's mother to attend his elementary school's first parents' meeting. His mother said she would go but the boy was disappointed. This would be the first time that his classmates and teacher met his mother and he was embarrassed by her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar that covered nearly the whole right side of her face. The boy never wanted to talk about why or how she got the scar. At the meeting, the people were impressed by the kindness of his mother, but the little boy was still embarrassed and hid himself from everyone. However, he heard a conversation between his mother and his teacher. \"How did you get the scar on your face?\" the teacher asked. The mother replied, \" When my son was a baby, the room he was in caught fire. Everyone was too afraid to go in because the fire was out of control, but I rushed in at once. As I was running towards his crib , I saw a beam coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked down. But fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us. \" She touched the burned side of her face. \" This scar will be _ , but until today, I have never regretted doing what I did. \" At this point, the little boy came out running towards his mother with tears in his eyes. He hugged her and felt the love of his mother. ,. Question: What can be the best title for the passage? Yes or no, is the answer \"Mother's love\"?\nAns: No\n\n(Q).\nArticle: From the time we were babies we have been taught manners. We are taught how to hold a knife and fork and not to talk with our mouths full. We are taught how to shake hands and when to stand and when to sit and the way to introduce people. Sometimes good manners in one place are very bad manners somewhere else. Almost everywhere eating together means that people are very friendly to each other. But in parts of Polynesia it is bad manners to be seen eating beside each other. So they politely turn their backs to each other when they are taking food. Some East Africans spit four times as a kind of blessing .They do it to show that they want a sick person to get well,or to bless a new-born baby. In most other places,spitting means something completely different. It usually shows an unhealthy habit. In many countries,it may mean that you hate someone. When we go to visit someone we say \" Hello!\" Or \" How are you ? \" or things like that. But if you are visiting an East African village , everyone will be very careful not to pay attention to you, The polite thing there will be for you to go quietly,without speaking to anyone, and sit beside your friend. You should wait until he has finished what he is doing and then he will begin talking to you. In a village in Arab , a visitor will walk behind all the tents until he gets to the one he wants to visit. If he passes in front , he will be invited into each tent and asked to eat. It is rude to refuse. Question: From this passage we know _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"it's good manners not to talk with our mouths full\"?\n(A).\nYes\n\nQues:Article: One day, a teacher was giving a speech to his students. He held up a glass of water and asked the class, \"How heavy do you think this glass of water is?\" The students' answers ranged from 20 g to 500 g. \"It does not matter on the weight itself. It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you will have to call an ambulance . It is exactly the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes. \" If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on, the burden becoming increasingly heavier. \" \"What you have to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before holding it up again. \" We have to put down the burden sometimes, so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on. So before you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it back home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you are having now on your shoulders, let it down for a moment if you can. Question: The teacher brought a glass of water to the class because_. Yes or no, is the answer \"it was a good example\"?\n\nAns:No\n\nQues:Article: I' m Eric. Welcome to our classroom. You can see a nice classroom. A blackboard is on the wall. A map of China and a map of the world are on the wall, too. The map of China is old. But the map of the world is new. There is a teacher's desk. An eraser and a ruler are on it. There are two doors in the wall. Some brooms and a football are behind the door. Fifty desks and chairs are in our classroom. They are our desks and chairs. That is a bookcase. And some books are in it. The students can read them after class but can't _ any of them out. Some flowers are near the window. They are red. We like our classroom. We like our class, too. Question: Where is the eraser? Yes or no, is the answer \"On the teacher's desk.\"?\n\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Please answer this: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Every country has its heroes. The heroes are the people the nation and especially the young people admire. If you get a list of the heroes of a nation,it will tell you the potential of that nation. Today in prefix = st1 /America,if you ask the high school students to list their heroes,their choice would probably fall into three groups. The first group of heroes would be the rock stars--the people connected with rock music. There is no doubt that such people do have talent but one wonders if one should hold up rock stars as a model. The rock stars too often are mixed with drugs and their personal life is not all that good. The rock stars are rich and wear the latest fashion styles. However,one should seek more in a hero than such things as money and good clothes. A second type of hero for the American youth is the sports star. Again you have a person who has a great ability in one area-sports. However,too often the personal life of the sports star is a bit of a disorder. Too frequently drugs and drinking are a part of life of the sports star. A third type of hero is the TV or movie star. This person may have lots of acting talent and is quite handsome. However,the personal life of too many actors is quite sad and they should not be held up as a model of young people. Today,the rock star,the athlete,and the actor all have become the models of the youth in America. Really,do you hear a young person say that his hero is a doctor,a teacher,or a scientist?These people are not rich and do not wear fashionable clothes. However,they are talented people who work hard to make the world a better place for everyone. What is really sad is that the young try to imitate their heroes. They like to wear the same clothes and follow their styles. If the heroes of today for the American young people are limited only to rock stars,athletes and actors,the future does not look too bright. Options: A who are not bright but are good-looking B who are rich but are strict with themselves C who are talented for some area but lead an improper life D who are perfect in all areas Answer: C who are talented for some area but lead an improper life Question:\n++++++++\nAnswer: From the passage, we know that the heroes the American youth admire are those _ .\n\n\nPlease answer this: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Dear XXX, As we drove off from Columbia, I wanted to write a letter to you to tell you all that is on my mind. First, I want to tell you how proud we are. You have become a talented and accomplished young woman. You should be as proud of yourself as we are. College will be the most important years in your life. It is in college that you will truly discover what learning is about. You often question \"what good is this course\". I encourage you to be inquisitive , but I also want to tell you: \"Education is what you have left after all that is taught is forgotten.\" What I mean by that is -- the material taught isn't as important as you gaining the ability to learn a new subject, and the ability to analyze a new problem. Do your best in classes, but don't let pressure get to you. If you graduate and learn something in your four years, we would feel happy. Your Columbia degree will take you far, even if you don't graduate with honors. So please don't give yourself pressure. The only thing that matters is that you learned. The only measurement you should use is that you tried. Most importantly, make friends and be happy. College friends are often the best in life, because during college you are closer to them physically than to your family. Also, going through independence and adulthood is a natural bonding experience. Pick a few friends and become really close to them -- pick the ones who are genuine and sincere to you. Don't worry about their hobbies, grades, looks, or even personalities. If you think you like someone, tell her. You have very little to lose. People are not perfect, so as long as they are genuine and sincere, trust them and be good to them. They will give back. This is my secret of success -- that I am genuine with people and trust them (unless they do something to lose my trust). College is the four years where you have: *the greatest amount of free time *the first chance to be independentk%s5$u *the most flexibility to change *the lowest risk for making mistakes So please treasure... Options: A during which one may make mistakes B during which one has little free time C during which it is hard for one to change D during which one needs to learn to be independent Answer: D during which one needs to learn to be independent Question:\n++++++++\nAnswer: According to the writer of the letter, college is a time _ .\n\n\nPlease answer this: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: All of us love music; we just differ in the kind of music we like to play and listen to. Music plays a huge part in our life. Even when we were still inside our mother, we heard music. Babies easily fall asleep when they hear lullabies and most mothers believe that making their child listen to music at an early age can develop their musical skills. Aside from improving sleep quality and making us feel relaxed, music also helps develop our brain. Studies have proven that musical education or training helps develop the left side of the brain which is responsible for processing language. We easily remember things when we link them to a particular song and this can help them get good grades especially in math since they can link the songs they sing to the elements of math. Music can also cure people. These days music is used to help treat depression , high blood pressure, brain injuries and many other problems. Most of all, according to researchers, music can help improve people's memory, if not totally bring it back. Doctors play the favorite songs of their patients to help them recall things. Music is also used to reduce pain after a person receives a surgery. Music also affects the way we live and get along with other people. Creating music together with people in a band can help a person learn how to communicate well with other people. Music activities provide enjoyment for children and adults alike. They have fun making music together with friends and at the same time learn how to sing or play a musical instrument. Music really has amazing effects on us; it may be physical, emotional, social, or psychological . Make sure to enjoy life by listening to your favorite music along with your family and friends. Options: A The effects of music on us. B The importance of music teaching. C How to create music by ourselves. D How to teach children music. Answer: A The effects of music on us. Question:\n++++++++\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "What does the passage mainly talk about?", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "*Question*\nArticle: Durban -- Canada Monday became the first country to pull out of the historic Kyoto Protocol , inescapably scarring the global anticlimate change efforts. The Kyoto Protocol, which set different duties for all countries to cut emissions , states that different countries should reduce their collective greenhouse emissions accordingly. However, the United States refused to sign the protocol in 2001, and is the only developed country that has not agreed to sign it. The move has cast a shadow over the global community, and has made some other developed nations hesitate to cut their emissions. To add fuel to the fire, Canada, became the first to call it quits, with the deadline of the first commitment period (20082012) approaching. The biggest concern at this moment is whether other developed countries would follow suit. Over the past four years, a drama has unfolded among developed countries over the emissions cuts and offering support to their developing partners. The Umbrella Group, consisting of Japan, Canada, Australia, the United States and other developed countries, hesitated and even backed away from their positions under certain excuses. The first one quoted by Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent is that emission cuts damage the economy. Still another is requiring China and India to have the same duty of cutting emissions as developed countries. Actually, if emissions in developed countries could fall to the levels in developing countries, it would greatly help the fight against global climate change. In sum, any irresponsible action, in the anticlimate change campaign should be a cause for blame. It is widely hoped that the United States and Canada will see reason and join the rest of the world community in supporting the Kyoto Protocol. Question: People now are most worried _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"whether more developed countries will do the same as Canada\"?\n**Answer**\nYes\n\n*Question*\nArticle: Joker found one of the biggest diamonds in the world right in his own back yard. He sold the stone to a diamond dealer for over three hundred thousand dollars. In New York, the diamond was resold---this time for almost eight hundred thousand dollars. The true value of a diamond is never known until it has been cut. Once cut successfully, its value can increase a thousand times. It's easy to understand why the owner of Joker's diamond went to the best diamond cutter he knew, Kaplan. The cutter studied the diamond for twelve whole months. When he felt he was ready to start work, he discovered a flaw . He had to begin his calculations all over again, or he might have made the stone useless. Six months passed, and Kaplan finally said to the owner, \"I am ready to start my work. There will be one excellent diamond that will be comparable one excellent diamond of first-class quality \" Kaplan waited a few more days until he felt he was in the best physical and mental condition possible. He picked up his tools and held his breath as he made the diamond exactly as he promised. Question: Kaplan studied the diamond for _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"more than one and a half years\"?\n**Answer**\nNo\n\n*Question*\nArticle: Most schools forbid chewing gum, but in a few years they might consider changing that rule. Why? Scientists are finding evidence that gum chewing may be good for your health. It may even help improve your test scores. This exciting research is just beginning. And in the meantime, companies are also experimenting with adding vitamins, minerals, medicines, and other substances that could give gum the power to cure headaches and fight everything from serious diseases to bad breath. Other researchers are finding that gum might work better than a pill to deliver medicines and other substances into the bloodstream. That's because the lining of our cheeks can absorb certain substances more quickly than our stomachs and intestines can. That discovery could help other researchers develop medicine-containing gums that fight colds, ease headaches, battle nervousness, and more. Scientists might even create antimicrobial gums that cure bad breath. Those projects may take years, but gum scientists have already had at least one recent success: They've created a gum that could help us stay awake. Researchers have produced a gum called Stay Alert. Each stick has as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. It can take an hour for the caffeine in coffee to have its full effect, but the caffeine in Stay Alert _ in just a few minutes. The gum is easy to transport and it's stable in cold and hot climates. Unlike a pill, it doesn't require water to swallow. Those qualities make it easy for soldiers to use. For now, Stay Alert is available only to the military . The manufacturer may one day offer it for sale to the public. People who work at night, such as truck drivers and medical personnel who ride in ambulances, might benefit from a product like Stay Alert. Question: The passage mainly talks about _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"new research on chewing gum\"?\n**Answer**\nYes\n\n*Question*\nArticle: The direction of our lives is determined by the choices we make every day. They accumulate and lead to our final destination. Success in life is not a gift that just falls on people like a ripe pawpaw! It is a choice you have to make. The life you are going to live tomorrow is just a direct product of your choice today. It is pointless to waste our time today and hope for a successful tomorrow. Everything that happens in your life depends on what you are doing today. Your future begins with a choice. Here are some tips that help you create a life of fulfillment and prosperity in the future. Choose to be positive. A positive mental attitude will put you miles ahead of your peers . Never say never. Your attitude determines your altitude. It is more valuable than skills. Choose a positive attitude and things will start to work for you. Choose to always treat others right. We come across all sorts of people, many of whom will treat us poorly. We can choose to treat them right, no matter how they treat us. When they lie, we will tell the truth. When they cheat, we will play by the rules. We may get the short end of the stick sometimes, but in the long run we will win. Choose to sow more than you reap. There are many takers in this world, but our lives will be better as we become givers. Give away your time, your money and your love and you will most likely get it back sooner or later! Choose to break bad habit. Take the big ones first. Make every effort to break them. Forget about the others, as you will get to them later. Stop smoking, get out of debt and lose your extra weight. Exercise the power to choose! Choose to get home for dinner more often. The family is the most important group of people you will ever belong to. Make a decision today to develop your relationship with your family. This one choice you will never regret. You have a chance today to change your life forever. Make the right choices . Question: The purpose of writing this article is to _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"offer some tips on making choices\"?\n**Answer**\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Ques:I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: International students in Christine Rhodes' English class in Australia share theirimpressions of places they have visited in Australia. Canberra, the nicest city in Australia I went for a short holiday to Canberra. My uncle lives there. It's the nicest city in Australia, a little bit similar to Cairns. There're lots of big rivers and trees around the city. Siggi Siebold from Germany The small city of Mount Isa I went to Mount Isa six months ago. It's a long way from Brisbane -- about 2,000 km. It's a small city, with a population of 21,000, but it has all the basic _ such as a base hospital, six schools and supermarkets. Here the weather is hot and gets very little rain. There're two big lakes to keep rainwater for people in the city to drink. Indra Ekanayake Lake Moondarra and amine In Mount Isa, there's adam called Lake Moondarra. At weekends you can go there with your friends, and it is beautiful. On the lake, there is water skiing. Also, people can go fishing there. There's a big mine in Mount Isa. Many people go to work in the mine and earn a lot of money. Mount Isa isn't a beautiful green place, but many people love it. Ida Robb from Indonesia Question: Lake Moondarra is a _ . Options: A: city B: mountain C: mine D: dam\n\nAns:D\n-----\nQues:I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: My sister Sharon and I look very _ . She's tall, and I'm short. She has short curly dark (,) hair, and I have long straight blond hair. We both have dark eyes, but Sharon wears glasses, and I don't. And she always wears large earrings . I don't wear earring. Sharon and I do many things together . We watch movies together, and we often go shopping. We play tennis together every Saturday. Often, people don't know that Sharon and I are sisters, because we look so different. But we are also good friends. Question: The two sisters both _ . Options: A: wear glasses B: have blond hair C: like earrings D: have dark eyes\n\nAns:D\n-----\nQues:I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: \"Cool\" is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world changes, the word has many different meanings. \"Cool\" can be used to _ feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say \"It's cool.\" You may think, \"He's so cool,\" when you see your favorite footballer. We all maximize the meaning of \"cool\". You can use it instead of many words such as \"new\" or \"surprising\". Here's an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall. On one student's paper was just the one sentence, \"It's so cool\". Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt. But the story also shows a scarcity of words, it seems that some people have no words to show the same meaning without \"cool\" . Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word \"cool\"? Yes, I can. And I think they are also very cool. Question: In the passage, the writer suggests that the word \"cool\" _ . Options: A: can be used instead of many words B: may not be as cool as it seems C: can make your life colorful. D: may make your life cool\n\nAns:B\n-----\nQues:I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: The rapid growth of Smartphones and electronic tablets is making the Internet favourite for Americans reading news, a report said. News consumption online increased 17% last year from the year before. Television news, newspapers, radio and magazines all lost audience last year. For the first time, the number of people who get news online at least three times a week is larger than the number of people who get news from the newspapers. TV news has been the most popular since the 1960s. It has replaced the afternoon newspapers. But now the online news seems to be more popular than the TV news. People are used to having the Internet available on phones or small tablets. In December, 2010, 41% of Americans said they got most of their news on the Internet, more than double the 17% who said that a year earlier, the report said. In January, 2011, 7% of Americans owned electronic tablets, nearly double what it was three months earlier. It was the fastest-growing new digital technology, ahead of mobile phones when they were introduced. The online ad income was expected to surpass print newspaper ad income for the first time in 2010. The news business used to be the intermediary . You needed newspapers and TV stations to reach your customers. In this age of the computer, it's the software developers that you need. Question: The news business depends on _ today. Options: A: the reporters B: the readers C: the newspaper sellers D: the software developers\n\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D\n-----", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe did not know anything about tea. Some people heard about it, but very few of them know what to do with it. There is a story about an English sailor who went to countries in the east, the west and the south. He went to India and China. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to a \"tea party\". When her friends came to the \"tea party\", the old woman gave them brown tea-leaves. The old woman's friends began to eat them. Of course, nobody liked the tea-leaves. At that time the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said, \"Mother,what did you do with the tea?\" \"I boiled it,as you said.\" \"And what did you do with the water?\" \"I threw it away ,of course.\" answered the old woman. \"Now you may throw away the leaves,too,\" said her son.\n\nA: Question: At the \"tea party\", _ .Options:A all the woman's friends spoke highly of the tea.B nobody knew what to do with the teaC the woman didn't eat the tea-leavesD the woman gave her friends each a glass of tea waterAnswer:B\n\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: There are two mice. They are called Bill and Paul. They are good friends. One mouse lives in the country; the other mouse lives in the city. On a sunny day they meet in the street. Paul: Hi, Bill! Have a look at my house in the country. I'm sure you can enjoy yourself. Bill: I'd love to. But I hear that the food is not delicious, and your house is not good. Is it so? Paul: No, that's not true. Go and see! Then Bill goes to the countryside with Paul. Bill: Why do you live in a hole in the field? You should come and live in the city. You would live in a nice house made of stone. You would have better food to eat. You must come and see me at my house in the city. Paul: Thanks! Maybe you are right. I'll visit your house one day. _ days later Paul goes to Bill's house in the city. The house is big and beautiful. They are sitting in the sitting-room, having a big dinner comfortably. Suddenly, there a great noise. Bill: Run! Run! The cat is coming! Paul: Oh, no! It's terrible! Both the house and the food are nice, but I do not like living in the city. I enjoy living in my hole in the field, for it is nice to be poor but happy than to be rich but afraid.\n\nA: Question: Where does Bill live?Options:A In the hole.B In the country.C In the city.D In the field.Answer:C\n\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Do you feel a little sleepy after lunch? Well, that's normal . Your body slows down then. What should you do about it? Don't drink coffee! Instead, take a nap . It's good to have a daily nap. First of all, you are more energetic after napping. You remember things better and make fewer mistakes. Also, you can learn things more easily after taking a nap. A nap may improve your self-confidence and make you more active. It may even cheer you up. But, there are some rules you should think about taking a nap. First, take a nap in the middle of day. Next, a 20-minute nap is best. If you sleep longer, you may fall into a deep sleep. After waking from a deep sleep, you will feel worse. Also, you should set an alarm clock. That way, you can fully relax during your nap. You won't have to keep looking at the clock so you don't sleep too much. Now, the next time you feel sleepy after lunch, don't get stressed. Put your head down, close your eyes, and take a nap.\n\nA: Question: The proper time for taking a nap is _ .Options:A as long as you likeB eight hoursC about twenty minutesD all day and nightAnswer:C\n\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: When does music in public places become noise pollution? You may like at least some kind of music. But the problem is that, in lots of places, you're made to hear somebody else's choice in music. Say you've just landed at an airport. At the airport, the \"background\" music may be played loudly. When you are on the way to your hotel, there may be another kind of music played by the taxi driver. Then you finally reach your hotel. But when you are taking the elevator ,there is elevator music. You go out to dinner and end up in a place where the owner of the restaurant thinks music will help make you eat more and spend more. Then a person playing the violin comes around. This is called the \"music wallpaper\". It is to make you buy more and eat a lot. Even the government thinks this is \"noise pollution,\" especially when the music is too loud. Noise pollution may be bad for our hearing. It's also bad for some of our daily activities, such as sleeping, conversations and so on. The fact that you can't see, taste or smell it may help explain why it has not received as much attention as other kinds of pollution, such as air pollution or water pollution. The air around us is always filled with sounds, but most of us would not think we are surrounded by noise. This can be bad for our health. So many people like soft and quiet music in their house.\n\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Question: This passage doesn't talk about _ .Options:A food pollutionB water pollutionC air pollutionD noise pollutionAnswer:A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Many children love to play with snow in winter. But Long Chuan has come to hate it. This year his hometown suffered from snowstorms for nearly a month. The heavy snow stopped cars and trains, broke the electricity tower and turned tap water to ice. Every day Long Chuan had to walk several kilometers to carry drinking water. \"I couldn't ride a bike and it took me 3 hours to walk to school. I can't remember how many times I slipped on the hard ice, \" said Long Chuan. Long is not alone. This year millions of people in central and southern China had a freezing winter without enough water and electricity. The biggest snowstorms in 50 years killed more than 100 people. They also cost the country 111.1 billion yuan. Experts say a special type of climate condition , La Nina, caused the storms. During a La Nina, the water in the Pacific Ocean near the equator becomes colder than usual. It changes the weather around the world. Besides China, Canada, the US and Middle Eastern countries also met with heavy snowstorms this winter. The special climate caused the recent flooding in Australia, too. However, experts say that people have destroyed the environment . Global warming may be causing these terrible weather events to happen more and more often. During the snowstorms this year, Long Chuan _ . A) had to walk to carry drinking water B) had to ride a bike to school C) couldn't go to school on foot D) couldn't play with snow\nA\n\n\nWhen you get worried or stressed out about something, your heart beats faster, your stomach feels tight or you feel sick. Sometimes it is hard to get to sleep. Everything seems to go wrong at once. What should you do if you feel stressed? Here is some advice. 1Think about what it is that's making you feel bad. 2Talk over your problem with a friend or a trusted adult . 3Get help to do something with the problem if you need it. 4Plan your work if you are getting behind. Plan your time well so that you can fit everything in. 5Set yourself some goals to work your way through the problem. 6Make sure that you are getting enough exercise. 7Don't take on too much work. You don't have to do everything at once. 8Don't say \"yes\" when you'd like to say\"no\", and then you won't be worrying. 9Learn to relax. Soft, calming music can help you relax. Reading a book is a good way to relax, too. You should _ when you feel stressed. A) get less exercise B) talk with your friend C) work harder D) do everything at once\nB\n\n\nQ: My name is Jeff. I'm English. But now I live in China. I am a student. This is my classroom. Fifteen small desks and thirty chairs are in the classroom. They are for classmates and me. A big desk is in the classroom, too. It's for my teacher. A clock is on the back wall of the classroom. Next to the clock is a map. It's a map of China. My classroom is nice and clean. I like _ very much. Who is Jeff? A) An English schoolboy B) A Chinese schoolgirl C) A Chinese student D) An American boy\nA: A\n\n\nQuestion: Hello! My name is Bill. I am twelve years old. I am from America. Now I am in a junior high school in Xiamen. We have 20 boys and 25 girls in our class. My favorite teacher is Miss White. She is from Canada. She is 27 years old. She is tall. She has long brown hair. Her face is round and she has big eyes. She is a good teacher. She can speak English and Chinese. I have a good friend here. His name is Mike. He is an English boy. We have the same age. My classmates are kind to me. We often help each other. ,A, B, C, D. (5) They have _ students in their class. A) 20 B) 25 C) 45 D) 27\nAnswer: C\n\n\n*Question*\nWhile you are in trouble, what are you going to do? What? Cry? Or escape? Those are all the wrong way! Robinson Crusoe can tell you the right answer! It is an exciting story: Robinson Crusoe hated the comfortable life in his home town. So, he want to be a seaman and travelled around the world. But one day, a terrible thing happened. A great storm came and their boat crashed! No one was alive in this accident except Robinson. He was the luckiest man in the world--Because all his friends were dead but he was alive. However, at the same time he was the most _ man of all--He must face the fact .Alone on an island without food, water or gun!But, all roads lead to Rome!He just used his hands to work hard!Then, he made a cave, built a house, grew corn and kept goats. In the end, he could enjoy the life on the island. In his twenty-fourth year on the island, he saved a wild man, and gave him the name of \"Friday\". With Robinson's teaching, \"Friday\" became a good servant. Friday, they got a boat and escaped from the island. Surely, the writer of Robinson Crusoe is really a hero! It's too hard to describe Robinson with words. We could say that Robinson was very clever, and also he was brave,...Certainly, too many good words can describe him. But now, I think it isn't important. However, the most important thing is what we have learned from the story. That is, use our own hands to work hard with confidence! According to the author, _ is the most important thing we can learn from Robinson Crusoe. A) being brave and hard-working B) being brave and confident C) being hard-working and confident D) being brave, hard-working and confident\n**Answer**\nC\n\n\n*Question*\nFashion is a term commonly used to describe a style of clothing worn by most people of a country. A fashion usually keeps popular for 1-3 years and then is replaced by another fashion. Even though there are a lot of changes in fashion, most people do not easily hope for the changes. Nowadays more and more young people prefer following the fashion. On this phenomenon , different people have different opinions. It is held that one should follow the fashion so as not to be looked down or seem strange. But it is also held that one should have his or her own judgement . Those who hold the first opinion think that society is progessing and one should get used to the changes. In their opinions, if everyone always follows the old fashion, there won't be any change and naturally there won't be much progress. However, those who hold the second view think that one shouldn't follow the fashion without having his or her own judgement and characters. As for me, I agree with the second opinion. Of course, it's good for people to keep up with the fashion, but this is not to say that people should follow the fashion blindly . If all the people follow the same fashion, there will be no variety and the whole society will be boring. What is the best title for the passage? A) Hope For Fashion B) Have Your Own Judgement C) How to follow the fashion D) Two ideas about the fashion\n**Answer**\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Think stars don't move? Think again! When you look at the sky at night, the stars may appear to stay in the same place. But stars are always on the move--they are just so far away that the movement is hard to see. But some stars move in ways that appear to be strange to be real. In 2005, astronomer Warren Brown found one of these space oddities . It was located on the outer edge of the Milky Way, the galaxy we live in. The star was speeding away like nothing he'd ever seen. \"It seemed unbelievable. No star in the galaxy has a speed like that,\" Brown remembers. \"I thought, oh my goodness, I have something kind of special here.\" No one had ever seen a star like this one. What does a scientist do when the results don't make sense? Brown didn't give up. Instead, he kept looking. And he kept finding more of these strange and speedy stars, called _ stars. Hyper means \"above\" and velocity has to do with speed. He and his team just found six more of these \"above speed\" stars, bringing to the total of 16. And, he says, he's found even more, and is just waiting for the scientific community to confirm them. Question: In 2005, astronomer Warren Brown found _ . Options: A: a star was speeding away very fast. B: a stars was moving away very slowly. C: some stars were not real. D: some stars were not in the Milky Way.\nA\n\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: One Saturday, Bob decides to take a drive through the countryside. After a few hours, he sees a dog walking behind a man on the side of the road. As the car comes near them, the dog jumps into the road. Of course, the car hits the poor animal and kills it. Bob stops his car and walks up to the man. \"I'm very sorry,\" he says. \"Is there anything I can do? Will $10 help?\" \"Oh, but...,\" says the man. \"I should tell you...\" \"Stop! You're right. Maybe $10 isn't enough! That dog was your best friend!\" Bob then takes $30 out of his pocket and gives it to the man. Then he thanks the man and drives away. After Bob leaves, the man looks down at the dog and says: \"I wonder whose dog that is.\" Question: From the passage, we know that _ . Options: A: The dog is Bob's. B: The dog is the man's. C: The dog is the man's best friend. D: No one knows whose dog it is.\nD\n\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: A professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see and asked the students, \" How much do you think this glass weighs?\" \"50 grams ! \" \"100 grams ! \" \"125 grams ! \" the students answered. \"I really don't know unless I weigh it , \" said the professor, \" but , my question is : What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?\" \" Nothing , \" the students said. \"OK, what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?\" the professor asked. \"Your arm would begin to ache, \" said one of the students. \"You are right, now what would happen if I held it up for a day?\" \"Your arm could go numb , and you might have to go to hospital, \" another student said. \"Very good ! But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?\" asked the professor. \"NO\" \"Then what made the arm ache and the muscle( ) stress?\" The students were puzzled. \" Put the glass down\" said one of the students. \"Exactly ! \" said the professor. \" Life's problems are something like this. Hold them for minutes in your head and they seem OK. Think of them for a long time and they begin to ache. Hold them even longer and they begin to trouble you. You will not be able to do anything. It's important to think of the problems in your life, but even more important to ' put them down' at the end of every day before you go to sleep. That way, you are not stressed; you wake up every day fresh and strong and can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way ! \" ,. Question: What is the best title for the text? Options: A: Put the glass down B: Keep the glass in your hand C: Face the challenges D: Problems fill our life\nC\n\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: In China, safety education is becoming more and more important now. The last Monday in March is for students to learn it at school. It helps students learn more about what they should do to keep themselves safe. What are the accidents at school? Take a look. Stampedes , earthquakes and fires are the main accidents at school. A stampede always happens in crowded places. When students around you begin to push, just stand there and try to hold onto something. If you fall down in the crowd, move to one side and protect your head with your hands around. When earthquakes happen, you can get under a desk quickly and hold on. It'll protect you from falling things. If you are outdoors, find a place away from buildings, trees, and power lines. When there's a fire, leave the classroom quickly. It's better to put something wet over your mouth and nose. In this way, you won't breathe in smoke. Many people die in a fire, not because of the fire but smoke. It makes them cough and they can't breathe. That's very dangerous! So when you want to get out, you should make yourself close to the floor. Then you can breathe some fresh air. Question: Stampedes , earthquakes and fires are the main accidents _ . Options: A: at school . B: at home C: on the farm. D: in the open air.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Article: Each time I see a balloon, my mind flies back to a memory of when I was a six-year-old girl. It was a rainy Sunday and my father had recently died. I asked my mom if Dad had gone to heaven. \"Yes, honey. Of course.\" she said. \"Can we write him a letter?\" She paused, the longest pause of my short life, and answered, \"Yes.\" My heart jumped. \"How? Does the mailman go there?\" I asked. \"No, but I have an idea.\" Mom drove to a party store and returned with a red balloon. I asked her what it was for. \"Just wait, honey. You'll see.\" Mom told me to write my letter. Eagerly, I got my favorite pen, and poured out my six-year-old heart in the form of blue ink. I wrote about my day, what I learned at school, how Mom was doing, and even about what happened in a story I had read. For a few minutes it was as if Dad were still alive. I gave the letter to Mom. She read it over, and a smile crossed her face. She made a hole in the corner of the letter where she looped the balloon string. We went outside and she gave me the balloon. It was still raining. \"Okay, on the count of three, let go. One, two, three.\" The balloon, carrying my letter, darted upward against the rain. We watched until it was swallowed by the mass of clouds. Later I realized, like the balloon, that Dad had never let his sickness get him down. He was strong. No matter what he suffered, he'd persevere, dart up, and finally transcend this cold world and his sick body. He rose into sky and became something beautiful. I watched until the balloon disappeared into the gray and white and I prayed that his strength was hereditary. I prayed to be a balloon. Question: When the girl asked her mother if they could write to her father, her mother _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"felt it hard to answer\"?\nA: No\n\n\nQ: Article: When asked to point out one or two things that are most important to themselves, many put friends ahead of homes, jobs, clothes and cars. A true friendship carries a long history of experience that determines who we are and keeps us connected. It is a treasure we should protect. Unfortunately, the better friends you are, the more probably you'll have disagreements. And the result can be what you don't want--an end to the relationship. The good news is that most troubled friendships can be mended. First, don't let your pride get in your way. Most of us can forgive each other when differences are brought out in the open. Second, apologize when you're wrong -- even if you've been wronged. Over the course of a friendship, even the best people make mistakes. Sometimes, it may be best if the _ takes the lead and apologizes. When you apologize, give your friend a chance to admit that he has been wrong. Third, see things from your friend's point of view. And finally, accept that friendships change as our needs and lifestyle change. Making friends can sometimes seem easy. The hard part is keeping the connections strong during the natural ups and downs that have an effect on all relationships. My suggestion: consider friendship as an honor and a gift, and worth the effort to treasure and nurture . Question: According to the passage, a friendship can be long only if _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"we treat our disagreements wisely\"?\nA: No\n\n\nQ: Article: Why should you learn Sign Language? Do you want to improve your communication with a family member or friend who is deaf? Do you want to be able to communicate with deaf people in general? Would you like to advance in your career by being able to communicate in ASL? Do you want to be a Sign Language interpreter? Sign language is not just a random collection of gestures but a full-blown language in its own right, complete with its own grammatical rules. Each country or region has its own sign language, as different from each other as English is from Spanish. Each version of sign language is somewhat linked to the spoken language in its region. For example, American sign language does share similarities with English, even though it is its own language. The advantages of knowing sign language in addition to a spoken language are many. Communication becomes possible on many levels with the deaf community, with other people either hearing or not in any of the above situations, as well as many more. While other languages take years to learn, American Sign Language can be taught in a much shorter time period. It is one of the easiest languages to learn because most of the signs were developed to mimic the actual word or phrase it is representing. Even the alphabet signs look like the letters of the English alphabet. American Sign Language, or ASL, is the third most used language in the United States. Used by the deaf community, interpreters, and friends and family of the deaf. There are a lot of sites on the internet that not only shows you the sign with video, but will help you practice reading signs as well. Teaching even hearing babies sign language seems to be the fashion in recent years and for good reason. Communicating in sign language is fun and natural as babies naturally use body gestures in early communication. Teaching baby sign language actually appears to enhance the learning of verbal skills and brain development of the children involved. Question: Sign language _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"is a collection of gestures\"?\nA: No\n\n\nQ: Article: A Special Appointment Years ago I moved to Woodland Hills to take a job in a small hospital's emergency department.No one wanted to work on Christmas Eve, so the shift went to me.I kissed my family goodbye and went off to spend the night in the hospital.It was a thankless job. At 9 pm, the ambulance brought in a man in his 60s who was having a heart attack.His face was pale, and he was frightened. The whole night I did my best to save his life.Before I left in the morning to spend Christmas with my family, I stopped by to see how he was doing.It was still tough, but he had survived the night and was sleeping. The following year I got Christmas Eve duty again.At 9 pm sharp, the ward clerk told me there was a couple who wanted to speak with me.When I approached them, the man introduced himself as Mr.Lee and said, \"You probably don't remember me, but last Christmas Eve you saved my life.Thank you for the year you gave me.\" He and his wife hugged me, handed me a small gift, and left. The following year a new doctor had joined the group, but I wanted to see if Mr.and Mrs.Lee would return.This time, I volunteered for the shift.I kept an eye on the door.Once again, at exactly 9 pm, the Lees appeared, carrying a warmly wrapped bundle.It was their new grandchild. Mr.Lee, his family and I spent 13 Christmas Eves together.In the later years the staff all knew about the story and would work to give me time with him in the break room, where we spent a half-hour each Christmas Eve. The last year I saw him, he brought me a gift.I carefully opened the package and found a crystal bell inside.It was engraved with a single word: Friendship.Now, my family, friends and I ring that bell every Christmas Eve at exactly 9 pm and offer our best wishes to the man who we won't forget. Question: Why does the author ring the bell on Christmas Eve? Yes or no, is the answer \"To remember an old friend of hers.\"?\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: Write a positive (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive) yelp review.\nA: Today was one of those days where I look in the fridge at my frozen dinners.. Then I look in the cabinets at my cans of soup... and say f*ck it. I'm going to try something new. Enter Jimmy Johns. In GA, they just recently started opening shops, but none of them where near enough to where I lived and worked for me to actually try it. First off, the website is awesome. Their nutrition calculator lets you choose the toppings, add/subtract things from the sandwich, and even choose a lettuce wrap instead of bread. It gives you the complete nutrition info, instead of just calories. Yay! I got the country club unwich (lettuce wrap) with turkey and ham, and sat patiently waiting for the delivery boy. The delivery time said somewhere between 11 and 11:30; the boy showed up at 11:02. Nice! The sandwich was delicious, despite it's lack of bread, and super healthy.. because of the lack of bread. Oh, and it's cheap! 6.50 for the sandwich, plus whatever yout tip. Will definitely order from them again.\n\n\nQ: positive\n\nA: J.D. and Jordyn had an awesome time. This place has an awesome staff, friendly dogs, staff is aware of everything. I would recommend this place to anyone. We will continue to come back!!!\n\n\nProblem: What would be an example of an positive (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive) review?\n\nAnswer: Dan was just at our home taking a look at an apparent electrical issue with our pool pump. He was able to quickly identify where the problem was, and refer us to another business that deals with electric pool issues. I'm very please with Dan and Shimmering pools for a few reasons.. 1) He answered his phone one the first call! (that's always reassuring) 2) He came out less than 24 hours after we called, and was very flexible with our schedule. 3) Promptly identified the issue and gave us his recommendation 4) Asked for us to follow up if we needed another recommendation. Dan and Shimmering Waters will be our go to pool guy from now on. We previously would go directly through Leslie's but found the wait to be usually 4 days to a week or more. That's just too long when it's this hot outside and you pool need attention! Thanks Dan.\n\n\nInput: OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive.\nGenerate a positive review for a place\nOutput: When a glass of wine and beets can make my day. The food is unbelievably good for such a casual place. The French dip was absolutely amazing and you must order the cous cous as your side . We love this place and always go here for lunch when in the area\n\n\ninput: Write a positive yelp review (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive).\noutput: This is a sleek, clean and modern hotel. Location - downtown and close to shopping Parking - expensive, but to be expected from a downtown hotel. Rooms - large, clean and well decorated. The bathroom is huge with a separate tub and shower and two sinks. There is a bedroom, small living area and a kitchenette. The pull out sofa is not of the highest quality, but it was fine for my young son. The main bed in the bedroom is small yet comfortable. The tv at the base of the bed was a bit close for viewing, but it was nice to have a tv in the living area and the bedroom. Amenities - they have a great indoor pool good for some light swimming or for kids. There is a lifeguard on duty. There is some comfortable seating around and a coffee and water bar. The spa outside is a bit hot during the day but has a great view and is probably great at nighttime with the city view. The gym is decently equipped and includes a great view of the city while you work out. They keep a few bottles of water out for you along with towel. Overall I loved staying here. The only bad thing was their key maker was somehow broken so we only had one key to share - but the key was what got you to your floor or the pool/workout floor when inserted in the elevator AND had to be inserted in your room to turn the lights on - not a big deal if you do everything together, but we have to tag team our work outs since we have a young son. My husband inserted a credit card in to light up the room while one of us was out, and it worked for us, but it's not ideal since you don't want to accidentally leave your credit card in the room's slot when you leave for the day. But I'm sire this is not a normal issue that they have.\n\n\nProblem: Write a positive (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive) yelp review.\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Holy long john silver, Batman! There are a lot of old school pinball machines here! The Batman was pretty cool. There was thing crazy one and darnit I can't remember the name of it but it looked like the surface of a new planet or something. It was crazy. If you know what I'm talking about, let me know because I sound ridiculous. The Street Fighter was pretty rad. The picture of Chun Li and Ken are narly. Chun Li straight up looks Hispanic and Ken just straight up looks retarded. Horrible artwork but hilarious. The only downfall is no AC... that kind of sucked. There's only one chair in the whole place but don't make the mistake of sitting down on it like I did. I had like 3 people come up to me telling me there was trouble with their pinball machine. \"Uhh, I don't work here.\"", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Ques: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Cooks at the Qingfeng Steamed Bun Shop in west Beijing can't make the pork and scallion baozi (buns) fast enough since Xi Jinping visited for some traditional workers' food and ate it among the workers. The Chinese president's visit late last month went down a treat, while web commentators were enthusiastic in their praise for Xi's easy populism, after he left the government headquarters in nearby Zhongnanhai and ordered six steamed buns filled with pork and scallions, a bowl of stewed pig liver and a plate of green vegetables. The bill came to 21 yuan, about EUR2.50, and he sat and finished it at one of the restaurant tables, just like any other working Joe. While Xi is known as \"President Xi\" abroad, in China he is known as \"Chairman Xi\", in the same way as the country's late founding father Mao Zedong is known as \"chairman Mao\". The Chinese government is keen for its leaders to have the president title abroad, as it sounds, well, more presidential. But in Qingfeng, it's all about the chairman. \"Since Chairman Xi came here, the restaurant has had queues like this every day. We didn't know the chairman was coming beforehand. We only recognized him when he was at the window picking up his food because he also waited in the line,\" says a waitress. Xi is building up a reputation as a more approachable kind of leader, a man of the people - something people in Ireland got a taste of when they saw how he handled a hurley in Croke Park during his visit. There were rumours last year that Xi even took a taxi to ask the driver what was really going on in Beijing, although that may have been a _ . While his predecessor Hu Jintao was seen as a theorist, Xi's public profile is high. Question: According to the passage, President Xi is building up a reputation of _ . - frankness. - toughness. - plain work style. - indifference.\nAns: plain work style.\n\nQues: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Science is a major topic in our culture. Since it touches almost every field of our life, educated people need at least some knowledge with its structure and operation. They should also have an understanding of the scientific subculture in which scientists live and the kinds of people they are. An understanding of general characteristics of science as well as specific scientific ideas is easier to obtain if one knows something about the things that excite and discourage the scientist. This book is written for the person whose knowledge with science is not complete; for the person who has been presented with science as a musty storehouse of dried facts; for the person who sees the chief objective of science as the production of tricks; and for the person who views the scientists as some sort of magician. The book can be used to add to a course in any science, to come with any course that attempts to give an understanding of the modern world, or simply to provide a better understanding of science. We hope this book will lead readers to a broader view on scientific attitudes and a more realistic view of what science is, who scientists are, and what they do. It will give them an idea and understanding of the relationship between science and our culture and an appreciation of the roles science may play in our culture. Besides, readers may learn to appreciate the relationship between scientific views and some of the values and philosophies that are deep in our culture. We have tried to present in this book a correct and up-to-date picture of the scientific world and the people who populate it. That population has in recent years come to include more and more women. This increasing role of women is not just the only event but, rather, part of the trend obvious in all parts of society, as more women enter traditionally male-controlled fields and make influential contributions. We have also tried to make the book entertaining as well as informative. Our method is usually informal. We feel, as do many other... Question: The book mentioned in this passage is written for readers who _ . - are scientists making influential contributions - want to have a little understanding of science - want to break the male-controlled world - have a misunderstanding about science\nAns: have a misunderstanding about science\n\nQues: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Moving made easy ! Okay, this is how we do it. Send your suitcases, backpacks, souvenirs, books, guitars, surfboards, TV or other items with us and We'll provide you with: Free boxes & packing material. Free first delivery, pick-up & redelivery (subject to area) Multilingual customer service. However, if you have larger furniture items you could use a MoveCubeTM(MC). We deliver the MoveCube TM to your address for you to pack (4hrs packing time). When ready, we collect it & deliver it to your new address for you to unpack. We are the best when it comes to personal relocation, whether you're a part-time or full-time student or backpacking around the globe. Baggage Worldwide You can send bags, boxes, backpacks and many other items with us wherever you want them to go. Send by our sea &/ or air service, depending on how quickly you want them to get there. 30 kg per box Economy (by sea) First large box, from PS65 Express (by air) First large box, from PS97 Moving City-to-City For moving your belongings from your address in one major city to another, within the UK. 30 kg per box 2 large boxes minimum for PS84 Affordable Storage Pack the belongings you need to store & we will collect them. When you are ready to end the storage, we deliver your belongings back to you. 30 kg per box First standard box per week from PS1.25 MoveCubeTMUK & Worldwide If you're moving \"from\" or \"to\" university, we can help you move. From a single room up to a one bed flat including bags, bed, boxes, chairs, desks, sofa & kitchen appliances , you pack up & we collect & transfer the sealed MoveCubeTMto your new location. (Boxes are supplied at an additional cost). Small studio flat, 11sqft Small MC from PS199 Studio flat, 17sqft Medium MC from PS299 I bed flat, 35sqft Large MC from PS570 For an additional charge we can load & unload your MoveCubeTMfor you. Question: How much do you need to pay for a small MC and a large MC ? - PS498. - PS570. - PS769. - PS869.\nAns: PS769.\n\nQues: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: The journey to the moon had been the first step toward future exploration in space. The distance between the Moon and Earth is very short indeed when compared with the distances between Earth and the other planets. Mars, the nearest planet to Earth is millions of miles away. Traveling to the planets will be man's next aim. Such travels will be more challenging than the trip to the moon and certainly more adventurous. Recently, two American spaceships, Vikings 1 and 2, landed on Mars trying to discover whether that planet has any life on it. So far the signs of life on Mars has neither confirmed nor ruled out. Russians have discovered that the surface of Venus is so hot that it is almost certain that there is no life there. Also the atmosphere of Venus is extremely dense and the pressure is nearly a hundred times greater than that of the Earth's atmosphere. Scientists believe man may find planets which have the same conditions as those we have on Earth , but man should realize Earth will be his only home for a long time and begin to love and care for it. (www.ks5u.com) Question: According to the passage, traveling to the planets will be _ . - much easier and even more interesting - far more exciting and dangerous - man's final aim - man's first step\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "far more exciting and dangerous", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: We've all heard the quote, 'Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.' My husband and son died within two years of each other. From my personal experience, I believe that if we aren't careful, grief can become a rather self-involved process in which we can become so focused on our own suffering that we miss the opportunity to connect with, and possibly bring comfort to, someone else who may be going through a similar experience. Six months after my husband died, I was sinking in the quicksand of grief. I could not pull myself out of the misery. In that moment, I actually believed that my life was more difficult than anyone else around me. Life handed me a perfectly wrapped lesson that opened my eyes to the fact that through my suffering I had allowed myself to become blinded by my self-pity. The lesson presented itself in a health crisis. I had complications from a surgical procedure and ended up being hospitalized for four days. I was in an extreme amount of pain during this time. Between the physical pain and the emotional pain of grief, I was an mess. I should also tell you that I am a Registered Nurse. As a nurse, it is hard to be on the receiving end of medicine as the patient. The first three nights that I was in the hospital, the same nurse took care of me. She was young, maybe in her mid to late 20s, and she hardly interacted with me at all the first two nights, other than to give my medications as scheduled. She obviously had no idea how much emotional pain I was in. How hard is it to ask your patient how she's feeling? I wrote her off as a bad nurse who had little sympathy, and remained absorbed in my own emotional and physical pain. The third night the young nurse was a little more talkative. She asked me how I was feeling (finally!). I told her that I was struggling with depression and grief because my husband had died in an airplane accident. She looked at me and told me that her husband had died too, just two months earlier. I was stunned. Speechless. Shocked. Never, in any... Question: Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage? Options: A: Every bean has its black. B: Let bygones be bygones. C: Stand in others' shoes. D: Misfortunes never come singly.\nC\n\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: 1. What will I need to take a Test? You need a photo ID, your instructor's name, a pencil or pen, a calculator, etc. 2. How will I know about time limits? Students will be informed of any testing time limits, and _ when time is up. 3. If I have my books or backpack, does the Test Center have a place to store them while I'm testing? Yes. Students will be asked to leave all books, backpacks, purses and any other personal items in a lockable storage room. 4. The only time I can take a test is during lunch. Can I eat my lunch while I am testing? No food or drink are allowed in the Test Center. 5. I conduct business via a pager or cell phone. Will I be allowed to use them in the Test Center? No. all pagers and cell phones must be turned off before entering the Test Center. There are other students testing who may be distracted by these devices. 6. If I need to borrow more scratch paper am I allowed to borrow from another student in the Test Center? Ask the teacher and more material will be given. Talking is not permitted in the Test Center. You will give all scratch paper to the teacher at the end of the test. 7. If I start a test but don't finish it, can I come back the next day to finish it? If you have prior arrangements with your instructor you may continue a test the next day. Students are expected to complete their test before closing time of the Test Center. Depending on the test, most tests will not be given within one hour of closing time. Question: If you don't finish the test you _ . Options: A: must turn in the paper on time B: should get help from your instructor C: can continue it the next day by prior arrangement D: can take the paper out of the center\nC\n\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: It is obvious that television brings us not only advantages but also disadvantages . At first, television is both a convenient channel of amusement, and a ly cheap one. If we have a TV set in the family, we are not necessary to go to the cinema or theatre to enjoy programme with expensive tickets. All that they have to do is press a button with a finger, and they can watch all the programmes they like, such as TV talk shows , movies, opera and so on. But some people think of it as a danger. When we watch TV, we don't need to do anything . We do not even have to leave our sofa because we have a remote control in our hand. We don't need to make any judgment or statement about it. We are totally passive and don't use our head to think hard about some matters. As we all know, television keeps us informed about world events--including all the events in society, science and politics .We can get a good idea of the most remote countries and the strangest customs in their country. Of course the radio performs this service too, but the effect of the programme is not better than on the television. Everything we enjoy on the television is much more vivid and realistic. However, in turn there is a great danger. Usually we cannot resist the television screen, because it has a great harm for us. We have been so accustomed to enjoying the screen, so dependent on its pictures. But when our TV sets are out of order, we are surprised to find that we have much more time to do things. And at this time we actually begin to have a talk to each other again. It is really worth thinking. Of course the arguments about the advantages and disadvantages of television are on the go.We can not simply say television itself is good or bad. The truth is that how we use it determines its true value to our society. Question: What is the main idea of the passage? Options: A: How to make use of the television. B: The history of the television. C: The benefit of the television. D: The advantages and disadvantages of television.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Once, there was a beautiful girl who didn't like herself, because she was blind, she couldn't see anything. In fact, the girl loved nobody except her boyfriend, for he was always ready to help her. She used to tell her boyfriend, \"If I could see the world, I would marry you.\" One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to the girl. When the came off,she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend for the first time. He asked her, \"Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?\" The girl looked at her boyfriend and was greatly surprised to see that he was blind, too. She had never expected that, and she would not like to be with a blind husband for the rest of her life, so she refused to marry him. Her boyfriend left in tears and a few days later wrote a note to her, saying, \"My dear, take good care of your eyes. Before they are yours, they were mine.\" So, this is how the human brain often works when our situation changes. Only a very few remember what life was like before. And we often ask for more than we need. Life is a gift. Today, before you complain about the taste of your food,think of those who have nothing to eat. Before you complain about life,think of some ones who went to heaven too early. Before you complain about your old house, think of the people who are living in the streets. And when you are tired and complain about your job, think of those who have no jobs. In a word, enjoy the things you have and don't forget your past. ,. The girl liked _ before she was able to see. A) herself B) nobody C) her boyfriend D) everybody\nC\n\n\n(Question)\nHow do you go to school? Do you take a bus or ride a bike? For many students, it is easy to get to school. But for some children in one small village in Hunan, it is very difficult. There is no road between the village and the school. The children have to climb down ladders to get to school. Yu Xinxin is an 8-year-old girl. She climbs the ladders every day. \"My parents are good at it and _ tell me how to do it, and now I don't think too much about how _ it is,\" she says. It is hard for the villagers to get in and out of the village, too. Their dream is to have a road. . The students in the small village _ to get to school. A) cross a river B) cross a bridge C) go on a ropeway D) climb down ladders\n(Answer)\nD\n\n\nQues: \"Who needs a shopping mall if you have Taobao?\" says Wang Lin, 28, a writer in Beijing. Taobao, China's largest online shopping site, becomes an important part of Wang Lin's life. She spends lots of money on Taobao. Most online shoppers like Wang are students or young workers, More women shop on line than men. Clothing and home-use products are the most popular on line. It was reported that more than 250 billion yuan was spent on online shopping last year, 80% through Taobao. Taobao means\"Looking for treasure\" in Chinese .People can find almost everything they need on Taobao, from clothes to books, from candies to DVD players. You may question the _ of online shopping. Wang Lin says ,\"It's very safe and conveniet . If you don't like the products from the sellers, the seller can't get the money. You can also get your money back if you want to return the products. Taobao is _ . A) a shopping mall B) an online shopper C) a clothes store D) an online shopping site\nAns: D\n\n\n(Q).\nLi Qiang and Li Gang are brothers. But their living habits are different. Now let's go to Li Qiang's room. Li Qiang cleans his bedroom every day and puts his things away. Look! There is a computer on the desk. There are two balls under the bed. A guitar and a kite are on the wall. Some books are on the shelf. So he must be a careful boy. Now let's go to Li Gang's room. The room is not clean. Can we see his clothes on the desk? Oh, yes. We can see a football and a knife on the desk, too. Li Gang never does any cleaning on weekends. So his room is in a mess. What do you think of Li Qiang and Li Gang? Li Qiang is a good boy. Li Gang must learn from his brother. ,. How often does Li Qiang clean his bedroom? A) Every day. B) Every week. C) Twice a week. D) Every month.\n(A).\nA\n\n\nQues:Mr White works in an office. He's very busy and has no time to have a good rest. Every evening, when he comes back from his office, he's always tired and wants to go to bed early. But his wife often has a lot of interesting things to tell him after dinner. She doesn't stop talking until she falls asleep . But it's usually too late and Mr White has to get up early in the morning when she is still sleeping. One day Mr White felt terrible and couldn't go to work. He decided to go to see a doctor. Mrs White went to the hospital with him. Before her husband said what was the matter with him, the woman told the doctor all. The doctor wrote out a prescription . When Mrs White took the medicine to the doctor's room, the doctor said to her, \"The bottle of medicine is for your husband and the pills are for you. \" \"For me?\" the woman said in surprise. \"I'm fine. I don't need any medicine!\" \"I don't think so, madam,\" said the doctor. \"They are sleeping pills. Your husband will be all right soon if you take them. \" The sentence \"Your husband will be all right soon if you take them. \" means Mr White will soon be all right if _ . A) Mr White takes the pills B) Mr White takes the bottle of medicine C) Mrs White takes the pills D) Mrs White stops talking too much at night\n\nAns:C\n\n\nIn the sunny night, look up at the clear night sky. You can probably see thousands of stars. The biggest thing you'll see, of course, is the moon. For thousands of years, people have wondered about this big thing in the sky. Earth's moon is a satellite. A satellite is a body that orbits a planet. All moons are satellites, and many planets have them. Some have many moons. Earth, of course, only has one. It's a special moon, though. It's the fifth largest moon in the solar system! In fact, the moon is much smaller than the sun. But it's much closer to Earth, so it looks as big as the sun. The moon is so close that you can see its dark and light spots without a telescope. Men flew and landed on the moon's surface many times by spacecrafts in the 1960s and 1970s. Neil Armstrong was the first human to step on the moon. He walked on the moon on July 20th, 1969. The flights to the moon have helped us learn much about it. Astronauts even brought rocks home with them! There's still a lot to learn about the moon. Now people still can't live on the moon because it does not have oxygen or water like the Earth. But I'm sure that humans can live there one day in the future. ,. Who was the first human to walk on the moon? A) Lance Armstrong. B) Neil Armstrong. C) Wally Schirra. D) Neil Diamond.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: Given the question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: There are good Santas and there are bad Santas. The good Santas all realize one thing: In the mind of a child, Santa Claus is perfect. That's difficult. And so they come from around the world to attend the Charles W. Howard School in Midland, Mich. The school offers a three-day, 40-hour course for Santas hoping to be excellent. A former Macy's Santa named Charles Howard founded the Michigan school in 1937. \"Many people will think if you have a suit and you're a Santa,\" said Tom Valent, the school's current dean. \"It's more than that.\" The school teaches everything from breathing techniques for carol singing to the beard maintenance. There are lessons in child psychology, sign language and even media training for talk-show appearances and call-in shows. Santas also need to make sure they know all the names of the reindeer . What's harder to deal with, however, is children who ask for Christmas gifts like bringing daddy home or making mommy happy again. After spending time in the classroom, Weir went to the mall to test his training. However, at one point, his hat fell off, and he was unsure how to react. \"You're the real Santa,\" Valent said. \"Pick that hat up, slip it back on, keep smiling and do your job. You've got to stay on top of your game. Even the last one at night, when you're tired, you've got to remember: This one's forever, so do a good job.\" Options: A train the pet reindeer for the Santas B earned money from its students C train perfect Santas for the world D show the world's concern to the poor Answer: C train perfect Santas for the world Question:\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nThe answer is:\nThe Michigan school was founded by Charles Howard with the purpose to _ .\n\n\nProblem: Given the question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Speaking in public is most people's least favorite thing. The reason is that we're all afraid of making fools of ourselves. The more important the speech is the more frightened we become. But stop biting your finger-nails. Public speaking is easy. It's just plain talking, and you talk all the time. Public speaking is not a \"gift\" like musical talent or being able to draw. Anybody who can talk can speak in public. Here are some tips: Keep it simple. Your audience is going to learn one or two from your main ideas by heart. If you can't express, then your speech is not focused well enough. And if you don't have a clear idea of what you want to say, then your audience will have no interest in your speech. Get organized. No matter how long or short your speech is, you'd better get your materials in order: how you're going to start, what major points you want to make and how you're going to close. You may often write the last sentence first. When you know what your aim is, you can choose any ways to get there. A strong close is powerful. The last thing you say is what your audience will most likely remember. Keep it short. The standard length of a vaudeville act was 12 minutes. If all those troupers want to sing and dance, they may make the audience bored. So make your speech short. Options: A The more important the speech is, the easier it is. B Anybody who can talk is not frightened of public speaking. C The standard length of a speech is 12 minutes. D Public speaking is easy. Have a go, and you will make it. Answer: D Public speaking is easy. Have a go, and you will make it. Question:\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nThe answer is:\nWhich of the statements is TRUE according to the passage?\n\n\nProblem: Given the question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: One afternoon last week, I saw three tearful children from my son's school being comforted by teachers. That morning, my 11-year-old had stomach pains, retching into a bowl. Talking to other mothers later, I heard about other children with stomachache or difficult sleeping the night before. What caused so much pain? Sports day. Sports day might be necessary at a highly-competitive independent school, but not at a village primary school. For the children who can fly like the wind, sports day cause no problem. For those who are overweight or just not good at sport, it is nightmare . Even for those who enjoy running but fall halfway down the track in front of the entire school and their parents, it can prove a disease. Why do we put our children through this annual suffering? Some may say competition is character building; or it's taking part, not winning, that's important; or that's a tradition of school life. I just felt great pity for those children in tears or in pain. Team games at the end of sports day produced some close races, wild enthusiasm, lots of shouting -- and were fun to watch. More importantly, the children who were not so fast or quick at passing the ball were hidden a little from everyone's eyes. Some of them also had the thrill of being on the winning side. I wish that sports day could be abandoned and replaced with some other less competitive event. Perhaps an afternoon of team games, with a few races for those who want them, would be less stressful for the children and a lot more fun to watch. Options: A this is an independent school B it is a tradition of the school C it helps children lose weight D children enjoy watching sports Answer: B it is a tradition of the school Question:\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nThe answer is:\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Sports day is still an annul event in this school probably because _ .", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: \"It hurts me more than you,''and \"This is for your own good.''These are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin,clean my room,stay home and do homework. That was before we entered the permissive period in educafion in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school.The schools and the educators made it easy on us.They thought that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy. We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them calculators,turned on the television,left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation. Now teachers,faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years,are realizing we've made a terrible mistake.One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who says of her students-\"so passive\"-and-wonders what happened.Nothing was demanded of them,she believes. Television,says Klompus,contributes to children's passivity.\"We're not training kids to work any more,\" says Klompus.\"we're talking about a generation of kids who've never been hurt or hungry.They have learned somebody will always do it for them. Instead of saying 'go look it up',you tell them the answer.It takes greater energy to say no to a kid.\" Yes,it does.It takes energy and it takes work. It's time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work.It's time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it's for their own good.It's time to start telling them no again. Question: By \"permissive period in education''the author means a time _ . - when children are allowed to do what they wish to - when everything can be taught at school - when every child can be educated - when ehildren are permitted to receive education\nwhen children are allowed to do what they wish to\n\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: It's true to say that technology makes our lives easier. However, increasingly scientists are saying that we need to give ourselves a break-----otherwise we put ourselves at risk of developing hundreds of health problems. Over the summer the days are longer and sunnier. Why not put this free time to good use and do something away from technology? You could learn a new skill. There are hundreds of possibilities: cooking, a musical instrument or a new sport. Haven't you always wanted to learn how to knit ? You could use your free time to practice these new things, which might lead to an exciting opportunity in the future. If you just want to relax, why not head to a beach? Take along your favorite book and relax on the sand, or go for a walk along the coastline. If you don't live near a beach, you could go to your local park. Why not have a picnic, or try to explore some of the local wildlife? You could even get involved in the latest craze : adult coloring books! Coloring is a surprising thing to help you relax, and it can be a nice way to escape from the stress of modern life! Whatever you choose to do, try something new! You might surprise yourself and find a hidden gift within you; you might make new friends along the way. Next time you find yourself changing TV channels from one to another without a clear purpose, think about what else you could spend your time doing. Question: Which of the following might be the best title of the text? - Spending your free time away from technology. - The disadvantages of Watching TV. - The relationship between technology and health. - Finding the hidden gift in you.\nSpending your free time away from technology.\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Pacing and Pausing Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing. Conversation is a turn-taking game. When our habits are similar, there's no problem. But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm finished. That's what was happening with Betty and Sara. It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted by Sara. But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel. The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities. These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping . And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in -- and never found it. Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up. That's why slight differences in conversational style -- tiny little things like microseconds of pause -- can have a great effect on one's life. The result in this cause was a judgment of psychological problems -- even in the mind of... Question: We can learn from the passage that _ . - communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing - women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US - one's inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes - one should receive training to build up one's confidence\nA: one's inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes\n\n\n*Question*\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Prison Break is a huge hit thanks to its handsome star,Wentworth Miller. His actor, Michael Scofield, is the engine that drives the show. Michael Scofield is one of the most interesting personalities on television today. But what about the man behind the character? Miller,35,is a hard guy to figure out. He does not come from a normal background and has never lived his life in a typical way. Milier didn't take a direct path to fame and fortune. He graduated from Princeton University in 1995,not with a degree in theatre or film, but in English. He didn't even act when he was in college. His only performance experience was in his university's singing group. Yet, at graduation Miller still decided to make the move to prefix = st1 /Hollywood. Miller has always been different. Although he is American, he was born in Britainwhen his father was studying there. His family background is also a special mix of cultures. \"My father is black and my mother is white. That means I have always been caught in the middle. I could be either one, which can make you feel out of place,\" Miller says. Following his unusual path,Miller did not start trying out for films and TV shows when he first got to Hollywood. Instead, he worked as a lowly production assistant. Not what you would expect from a Princeton graduate. However, _ . In 2002,Miller played a role in the drama Dinotopia. He starred as a thoughtful and shy man. Producers remembered his performance when they were castingPrison Breaktwo years later. With a golden globe nomination and another season of Prison Breakon his resume ,Miller seems ready to take over all of Hollywood. Question: The author thinks \"Miller is a hard guy to figure out\" because_. - he is an unfriendly man to cooperate With - he is of a special family background - he has a different life experience from the others - both B and C\n**Answer**\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "both B and C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Question: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: If you have failed in the past to try to make big changes in life,try again now,one tiny step at a time. Every year it's the same.As December comes to an end,you think about the new year and all the ways you want to improve your life. But as you start to write down your hopes for the new year,you think about the last year.You excitedly write down all the changes you are going to make,but by the end of January those ideas get lost in your busy life. Here's a suggestion:Forget the too big,hard-to-achieve goals and just think about the small ones.\"We often think that we have to do everything in big steps, even though it's so hard for us to reach it.\" said Robert Maurer,who recently wrote the book One Small Step Can Change Your Life.\"What we try to do is to begin with such a small step that we can't find any excuse not to do it.\" \"Kaizen\",a Japanese word,is used to mean to change behavior and attitudes .During World War Il,American factory managers were able to increase productivity by trying small, continuous improvements instead of sudden changes.After the war,the idea was brought to a rebuilding Japan.It made Japan develop fast. The Japanese called it \"kaizen\", which means \"improvement\". Maurer studied the idea and did some experiments with it. \"Kaizen\" could possibly help people succeed in doing everything Question: Robert Maurer wrote a book to tell us _ . - we should do everything in big steps - how to change one's life with one small step - we should try a lot of sudden changes - how to find a small step without any excuse\nAnswer: how to change one's life with one small step\n\nQuestion: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: What will the weather be like? Some people say they can know the weather from animals. Some people look at seabirds. When they see seabirds fly high out to sea, they say it will be a nice day. When the weather is bad, the seabirds will stay on the shore . They don't like to fly and they sit in trees when rain is on the way. Other people look at different animals on a farm. Chickens make a big noise and run here and there when rain is on the way. Frogs can tell the weather, too. When rain is coming, they stay in water and make a lot of noise. But on a nice day they are quiet and will jump out of water. Question: The passage wants to tell us that _ . - only animals can tell the weather - we can know the weather from some animals - different animals like different weather - all animals can tell the weather\nAnswer: we can know the weather from some animals\n\nQuestion: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: New York is one of the last large American cities to have some of its policemen on horseback. The New York police have 170 horses working in certain parts of the city. The horses are expensive to feed, but it is even more expensive to look after them. Because the horses must walk on the streets, they need special horseshoes. In fact , they need more than 8,000 of them each year. Every police horse in New York gets new shoes every month. Keeping these shoes in good repair is the job of six blacksmiths. There are only about thirty-five of these blacksmiths in the whole United States. The cost of shoing a horse is between twenty dollars and thirty-five dollars, and it takes a good blacksmith two or three hours to do the job. A blacksmith's job is not an easy one. He must be able to shape a shoe from a piece of metal and then fit it to the horse's foot. The blacksmith must bend over all the time when he is fitting the shoe and must hold the weight of the horse's leg while he works. Clearly, a blacksmith must be very storng. But even more important, he must be able to deal with horses---for before the blacksmith can begin his work, he has to get the horse to lift its leg. One of the blacksmiths in New York is James Corbin. He came to the country from Ireland in 1948. He not only makes horseshoes for the police but also works for a group of horse owners near the city. Corbin became interested in blacksmithing because his father did it, and,as the puts it, \"It's a good way to make a living.\" Question: In the reading passage \"to shape a shoe\" is to _ . - fit it on the horse's foot - use it for two or three hours - make the from of a horseshoe from a piece of metal - draw a picture of the shoe\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "make the from of a horseshoe from a piece of metal", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Perhaps you have heard a lot about the Internet, but what is it? The Internet is many different networks around the world. A network is a group of computers put together. These networks joined together are called the Internet. Maybe that doesn't sound interesting. But when we've joined the Internet. There are lots of things we can do. We can have a lot of interest on the World Wide Web (www). We can use the internet instead of a library to find all kinds of information for our homework.. We can find information about our favorite sports or film stars and do shopping on the Internet. We can also send messages to other people by e-mail. It is much cheaper and quicker than calling our friends or sending letters. Thanks to the Internet, the world is becoming smaller and smaller. People can now work at home with a computer in front, getting and sending the information they need. They can buy or sell whatever they want by the Internet. But do you know 98%of the information is English? So what will English be like tomorrow? Question: The passage is mainly about _ . Options: A: the Internet B: information C: computers D: e-mail\nA\n\n(Question)\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: For years, children in the industrial areas of Europe and America seldom left their smoky cities to see the beauties of the countryside. This was not because the woods and fields were always far away, but because they were too far from the city to permit people to make a day trip between morning and nightfall. In 1907, a young German schoolmaster had an idea which changed this state of affairs. He decided to turn his little schoolhouse into a dormitory for the summer holidays. Anyone who brought his sleeping bag and cooking equipment along could stay there for a very small quantity of money. The idea was a success. A few years later, the schoolhouse was much too small to hold the many young people who wanted to stay there. As a result, a dormitory was set up in an old castle nearby. This was the first Youth Hostel. Today, young students and workers of every country can meet in the hostels and get to know each other. When young people arrive at a hostel, they have only to show their card of membership in a hostel organization in their own country. This card will permit them to use the facilities of hotels all over the world for a very low price. Often, at the evening meal, a group of boys and girls from various parts of the country or the world will happen to meet at the same hostel. They may put their food together and prepare a dinner with many kinds of dishes. Sometimes a program will be organized after the meal, with dances, songs, or short talks followed by a question period. One can learn a lot of things about other places, just by meeting people who come from those places. For this reason, a few weeks spent \"hosteling\" can be just as useful a part of one's education as classes in school. Question: The first youth hostel was opened in _ . Options: A: America B: Australia C: Europe D: Asia\n(Answer)\nC\n\nQues: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: My mother got divorced when I was 5 and was left to raise me and my two younger brothers. She didn't have a formal education, so she had to work two full-time jobs to make ends meet. One day several years later, I was determined to help. I told the manager of the Don Carlos Motel in Nana Point that I was 15, so I could get a work permit to work as a maid. Since then, I've started to work alongside some of America's top leaders, written books, and achieved financial independence. It took a lot of hard work and sacrifices. But what if I was 15 years old today? Would I be able to accomplish the same things in this new, highly competitive world with so many global challenges? It seems hard work and sacrifices aren't enough anymore. Today, you need to be extremely adaptable. To progress in your career, it's not enough to know one thing well. As my friend Sean Harvey, product manager at Google put it when we were speaking to students, \"Today, companies aren't hiring people for a specific position but rather people who are smart and flexible. The way you prove that is by showing you can do multiple things well.\" People need to take more risks to succeed now than ever. The combination of unemployment and slow wage growth means that we are not only at greater financial risk, but we have to take more risks to succeed. Luckily, the new Internet world of all-the-time connectedness means that anyone with a hot idea, product or service can create a business out of almost nothing. And success can be quick and big. But that success demands more \"out of the box\" thinking. And what about our kids? It makes me think a lot about the future that my 3-years-old daughter faces. But no matter what the future brings, I think the best message I'll give her is to believe in herself. Life won't get any easier, but the opportunities will come -- as they always have -- to those who work hard, adapt as they need to, and trust their abilities. Question: The author achieved financial independence when she was 15 largely due to _ . Options: A: her strong leadership B: her boss's help C: her hard work D: her competitive spirit\nAns: C\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: China's economy, the world's second largest,is showing signs of a rebound that could help it emerge from its worst economic period in l3 years. According to the latest government figures,growth picked up to 7.9%in the final three months of 2012.from 7.4%in the previous quarter.This was driven by state investment in infrastructure(,)projects and efforts to get consumers and companies to spend. Economic stability is seen as vital for China as its new leaders take over \"It is obvious that the slowdown in the Chinese economy has _ for the moment.\"said Fraser Howie,an economist and co-author of Red Capitalism. \"But one has to be mindful that any recovery will be limited in its scope,because of the various difficult and unexpected problems that China is facing,\"he added. \"The new leaders,who take charge in March,will now have to find the right balance between trying to prevent the formation of a property bubble and keeping a healthy growth rate going.\" That may prove tricky, especially because China's economic growth has slowed significantly from the highs of previous years,and analysts warn that state stimulus measures may decrease. On Friday,the statistical office reported that GDP...the Gross Domestic Product, the main measure of growth.increased by 7.8%in 2012, down from 9.3%in 2011.That was the slowest annual rate of growth since l 999.But it is still way above the weak growth rates experienced by most other major economies last year.Figures for the US,the world's largest economy,and Japan,the third largest.are expected to show growth of about 2%.The l7 members of the euro zone are collectively expected to contract by about 0.4% Question: Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage? Options: A: The economic recovery in the final three months of 2012 results from investment and consumption B: The economic growth in China is the strongest in the whole world C: Economic stability is seen especially important for China's new leaders D: China is still facing uncertain economic problems\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: A little knowledge can make a difference at a time of life or death. Do you know what to do if you find yourself in an earthquake? lf you are inside: Quickly move under a strong desk, a strong table or along a wall. You can also go into a small room like the bathroom. This will protect you from falling things. Do not get into a lift. Don't stand near windows, large mirrors, heavy furniture of fireplaces. If you're outside: Move away from buildings and streetlights. These could fall on you. Squat and protect your head until the shaking stops. After the earthquake: Check, take care of injuries and help make sure people around you are all right. Watch out for _ . Protect yourself by wearing long pants, a long-sleeved shirt and strong shoes. Listen to tile radio for the latest information. If you are in a tall building when an earthquake happens, you'd better _ . A) run into a lift B) not stay in the bathroom C) stand near large mirrors D) not stand near windows\nA: D\n\n\nQ: A farmer was put in prison . One day, he got a letter from his wife. \"I am worried about our farm,\" she wrote. \"It's time to plant potatoes, but I can't do all the digging by myself.\" The farmer thought over and then had an idea. He wrote to his wife, \"Don't dig the fields. This is where my gold is. Don't plant potatoes until I come home.\" A few days later, the farmer got another letter from his wife. It said, \"Two days ago, about ten prison guards came to our fields. It looked as if they were looking for something. They have dug our field.\" The farmer wrote to his wife at once. \"Now you can plant our potatoes,\" he wrote. The farmer was put in prison _ . A) because he had done something wrong B) because he had a lot of gold in the fields C) The writer didn't say anything about why the farmer was put in prison D) For nothing\nA: C\n\n\nQ: When we talk about instant messaging tool, which will be the first one jump into your mind? If your answer is QQ or MSN, I must say you're a bit old fashioned. Today, Wechat is becoming the most popular text and voice messaging tool all over the world. It has had 700 million registered users all over the world up to now. It has a Chinese name Weixin, it is necessary for the young people in China to have the communication tool. Actually, it is also a new product from Tencent ,so we can call it QQ's little brother. You can log in to Wechat with your Facebook account or _ with your phone number, and then add your friends' number in your contact list , by which you can chat with your family of friends in a brand new way by using your phone no matter when and where you are. It's just like using a walkie talkie (two way radio).But you don't need to worry about other things, such as basic fees. It won't cost you extra money to make conversations. You can also only need three steps to finish calling others through Wechat. It is free for ten minutes. If you want to make a phone call again, you need to pay for it through a credit card. Someone thinks the sound in the phone is not clear. There is some noise in it. It is not safe for the user. So you should pay attention to your personal information and not share it to others. Which of the following is NOT true about Wechat? A) It is a messaging tool. B) It is used in the phone. C) You can't do anything except making a call. D) You need to add your friends' number in your contact list before chatting with them.\nA: C\n\n\nQ: March 5 is Lei Feng Day. Lei Feng is one of the most famous role models in China. He is known for his warm heart and kind deeds . We should learn from him. In honor of this great person, we did lots of kind deeds on March 4. Take a look! Xu Hanchi, 13: I went to a square in a local university with my classmates to do cleaning. We swept off the fallen leaves and picked up rubbish. When we finished, the ground was very clean. Though no one came up to praise us, we still felt very happy. We learned that doing good things itself could make us happy. Zhu Lingyue, 14: My group cleaned the teachers' office that day. When we got there, we were surprised that the office was not as clean as we expected. How could teachers work in such an untidy place? We started cleaning quickly. Teachers work really hard and may not have the time to clean their offices. It's great that we can do something to help make them less tired. Tom Rui, 14: We helped clean the yard in the front of a hospital, but some patients there left us a very bad impression . They were very impolite and shouted at nurses and doctors. I think nurses and doctors' work is hard. They try their best to help us. We should give them more respect and understanding. The three children did lots of kind deeds _ A) on March 5 B) on March 8 C) on March 4 D) on March 3\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Arts and culture is lived and breathed in every corner of Canada.Due to a racial and immigrant population,the variety and richness of art and sports is very evident. Since World War II,Canada has produced an impressive amount of writing.From novels to poetry,the selection is wide.Native writers are also becoming better known across Canada in recent years. Musicians are reaching a higher level of recognition in the world music scene.Everything from country to pop,classical to heavy rock can be found across Canada and across the globe performed by Canadian artists. The National Film Board,a film crew in Canada,is the primary producer of movies in Canada.However,many Hollywood studios are turning to Canada as a source for locations and as an alternative to the more expensive US.Many wellknown actors,directors,screen writers and movies come from Canada and often scoop awards for their work. French art was the first to appear in Canada along the St Lawrence in and around Quebec.Since then the volume of art and artists has increased.Canadian photography as well as painting by Canadians is not wellknown outside of Canada but recognition is increasing. Sport is a major part of today's society in Canada.Hockey is the most popular spectator sport with more participants taking part in curling.American style football and baseball are also very popular and all of these sports are played across Canada. Question: Canada has many forms of art and culture because it has _ . Options: A: a long history B: a large area C: a large population D: a variety of immigrants\nD\n(Question)\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Spending time with your kids is the best way to give them you attention. No matter whether you stay at home or work outside the home, you can still give quality time to your kids. Quality time doesn't mean the whole family sitting for four hours watching TV. It means turning the TV off and playing games together, reading books, going for walks---anything! Giving kids your attention means listening to them when they talk. I don't mean half-way listening and saying \"uh huh\" like we do to our spouses when they're talking about their day at work. I mean sitting down, looking children in the eye, and listening. Ask questions. Be interested. It shows that you're paying attention, even if your question is just, \"So you say you painted the cat blue?\" Raising kids is not the time to be selfish with your time. You can be selfish later on when they're grown and having kids of their own. If you feel guilty about not being able to spend enough time with your kids, resist trying to buy their attention. You don't have to make every weekend a Disneyland day. And you don't have to continually buy them gifts as a means of letting them know you love them. The answer is \"time\". Time is what they want most from you. Your kids, no matter what age, are on some type of schedule. They get up, eat breakfast, eat lunch, eat dinner, etc. What do they do the rest of the time? Fill up some of the empty spots in their schedules with activities. Have them help you do something around the house or make them take part in a project with you. This is how day care workers are able to keep so many kids under control---they fill up the day with activities. Question: According to the author, spending quality time with kids means _ . Options: A: watching TV with them B: staying with them as long as possible C: doing meaningful things together with them D: giving up jobs to stay with them\n(Answer)\nC\nQues: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Dear Mom and Dad , I'm afraid I have some very bad news for you . I have been very naughty and the school master is very angry with me . She is going to write to you . You must come and take me away from here . She does not want me in the school any longer . The trouble started last night when I was smoking a cigarette in bed . As I was smoking , I heard footsteps coming towards the room .I did not want a teacher to catch me smoking , so I threw the cigarette away . Unfortunately , the cigarette fell into the waste--paper basket . It caught fire . There was a curtain near the waste --paper basket . It caught fire ,too . Soon the whole room was burning . The master phoned the fire brigade . The school is a long way from the town and before the fire brigade arrived , the whole school was on fire . The master said that the fire was all my fault and I must pay for the damage . She will send you a bill for about a million dollars . I'm very sorry for this . Much love Sarah Question: Why was the school master angry with him? Options: A: because he was too naughty B: because he was too lazy C: because he caused a big fire D: because he stole something from the school\nAns: C\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Fed up with huge mortgage payments, Simon Dale decided to take matters into his own hands. Armed with only a chisel, a chainsaw and a hammer, the 32-year-old moved his family to a hillside in Wales and started digging. The result is a wooden eco-home - constructed in four months and costing just PS3,000 - which would look perfectly at ease alongside the Hobbit houses in The Lord Of The Rings. Mr Dale, who has no experience in carpentry or architecture, created his sustainable family home using scrap wood for floors, materials scavenged from skips and by diverting water from a nearby spring. He said: \"Being your own have-a-go architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass-produced box designed for maximum profit and the convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers' profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings. The family struck lucky searching for a site for their dream project. In return for looking after the area, the owner of the woods gave them their plot for free. After digging into the hillside, Mr Dale - with the help of his father-in-law, a builder - first constructed the building's timber frame. The roof, which came next, has a layer of straw bales for insulation and is covered with sheets of plastic to make it waterproof. Finally it is covered with a layer of earth, which ensures the house blends perfectly into its surroundings. Once the outer shell was complete, the family made an interior wall from straw bales stacked on dry-stone walling and staked together with hazel sticks. As well as being made from sustainable material the Hobbit house, as it is dubbed by locals, has lime plaster on its walls instead of cement, a compost toilet, a fridge cooled by air from beneath the foundations and solar panels for power. Question: It can be inferred from the passage that the Hobbit houses _ Options: A: don't exist in the real world at all B: belong to the lord of The Kings. C: lie in a lonely area of Wales D: are a kind of environmental friendly houses created by Simon Dale\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: I was twenty years old, and my parents were looking forward to the day when I would be earning my own living. Unfortunately, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted my future occupation to be. The only thing I did know was that I did not want to spend the next 45 years teaching, being a nurse or sitting in an office. But that was before the postman delivered a catalogue of courses that were being offered at the local college. As I looked through it, I was attracted by a page that talked about the difficulties faced by deaf people in their everyday lives and how students could help by learning sign language. It went on to say that graduates of the course usually find work in different organizations, such as law companies, the Stock Exchange, insurance companies and banks. Then I saw something that really caught my eye: \"Singer\" are also needed for sporting events, concerts, theatrical performances and, believe it or not, circuses! By the time I got to the bottom of the page, I knew I had found the perfect occupation. I enrolled on the course, which to my parents' great delight was free of charge. The course was brilliant. My favourite part was the final lesson, when our teacher asked us to sign our favourite song. It was really difficult because not only did we have to sign the words, but we also had to find a way of showing whether the song was happy or sad and whether the beat was slow or fast. It was the hardest thing I have ever done--but also the most rewarding. Options: A A young woman who has found her ideal career. B A young deaf woman who wants to help the deaf. C A young woman who wants to be a businesswoman. D A young woman who wants to write songs for the deaf. Answer: A A young woman who has found her ideal career. Question:\n\nA: Which of the following best describes the writer?\nProblem: Given the question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Do you like playing soccer? If you do, you may want to join the school soccer team. Read on and see how to join the school soccer team. The first step is to know the information about the team. You can find more information by asking these questions. How many students are there in the soccer team? How many new players do they need? How often do they play soccer? The second step is to practice. Practice soccer with your friends or your family. Only good players can join the school soccer team. So you need to practice your \"skill.\" The third step is to study hard. If you always get bad grades in the exam, your teachers and parents won't let you join the soccer team. The last step is to relax. Don't be too nervous . You can take a deep breath and keep smiling. Believe in yourself and you can be the best player. Options: A your teachers and parents B your classmates and friends C your parents and friends D your teachers and your classmates Answer: A your teachers and parents Question:\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nThe answer is:\nIf you always get bad grades in the exam, _ won't let you join the soccer team.\ninput question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: A jobless man applied for the position of \"office boy\" at Microsoft, The HR manager interviewed him and then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. \"You are employed,\" he said. \"Give me your e-mail address and I'll send you the application form to fill in, as well as the date when you may start.\" The man replied, \"But I don't have a computer or an e-mail.\" \"I'm sorry,\"said the HR manager, \"If you don't have an e-mail, that mean you do not exist. And the one who doesn't exist cannot have the job.\" The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do. With only $10 in his pocket, he decided to go to the supermarket and buy 10kg tomatoes. He then sold the tomatoes from door to door . In less than two hours, he succeeded in making his money double. He repeated the operation three times, and returned home with $60. The man realized that he could survive in this way, and started earlier and returned late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled every day. Shortly, h e bought a cart, then a truck and then he had his own _ to send food . Five years later, he became one of the biggest food sellers in The US. He started to plan his family's future, so he called an insurance broker to Have a discussion. When the conversation was over, the broker asked him for his e-mail. The man replied again,\"I don't have an e-mail.\" The broker answered in surprise, \"You don't have an e-mail, and yet have succeeded building an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had had an e-mail?\" The man thought for a while and replied, \"Yes, I would be an office boy at Microsoft ,. Options: A I don't have an e-mail. B I used to be an office boy. C Having an e-mail is important D Insurance is important in one's life. Answer: A I don't have an e-mail. Question:???\noutput answer: What's the best tide of the passage?\nWrite a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Dear Susan, Today is Wednesday. I'm very happy because I have a history class in the morning. Our history teacher, Mr. Meng, always tells us some history stories. I think they're quite interesting. But my good friend, Chen Kun, doesn't like Wednesday. He doesn't like history. He thinks it's difficult. He can't understand our history teacher. He loves Chinese because he can read his favourite novels in this class. Lin Xiao's favourite day is Thursday. She likes music. She can sing and dance in the class. She loves the music teacher, Miss Zhang, because her class is quite relaxing . She thinks Miss Zhang is very beautiful. Yours, Jane Options: A write letters B read stories C read novels D write stories Answer: C read novels Question:\n----\nAnswer: Chen Kun can _ in Chinese class.\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Do you want to be healthy? Then you must eat well and get a lot of exercise. If you're healthy, your body works well and you also feel well. Here are some trips. Eat more fruit and vegetables. \"One apple a day, keep the doctor away!\"Fruit and vegetables have rich vitamins. They can help us to keep healthy. Remember to eat some fruit and vegetables every day. Drink water and milk often. When you are thirsty, water is the best choice. Try to limit soda drinks, such as Coca Cola, Sprite and Fanta. Milk is also very good for your body. Drink a cup of milk every day if possible. Listen to your body. You'd better notice how your body feels when you eat. That is to say you should stop eating when you're full. It can make you feel comfortable. Limit screen time. Don't spend too much time watching TV or DCDs, playing video games or using the computer. You should do some outdoor activities, such as playing basketball, going riding and swimming. If you follow the tips, I'm sure you'll have a healthy body. Options: A stop eating when you're full B eat too much C listen to your body D drink a little soda Answer: B eat too much Question:\n****\n[A]:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "If you _ , you'll feel uncomfortable.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and answer the question. Article: ARLANDA, Sweden (Reuters Life!) - Many people hate the idea of having to sleep on a plane. But Swedish entrepreneur Oscar Dios thinks they can be persuaded otherwise and he has created a new kind of hostel to prove it. Dios says it is the world's first jumbo (unusually large) jet hostel, an actual jet-plane at Sweden's main airport outside Stockholm which has been changed into a 25- room guesthouse that sleeps as many as 72 people. \"I learned about this plane that was standing deserted at Arlanda airport and I've been trying the concept of hostels in many different houses and buildings,\" he told Reuters. \"I thought, 'Why not a plane?'\" Jumbo Hostels opened for business on Thursday, giving customers the chance to check in and sleep in a room that can best be described as comfortable.\" \"The most challenging part with this project is trying to build something inside a metal hull - it's just really, really tight.\" The jet, which was originally produced for Singapore Airlines, was taken out of service in 2002. It is held on a concrete foundation with the landing gear secured in steel cradles. One feature of the hostel is its price - a room starts at 350 Swedish crowns (about $ 41), which is a lot less than hotel rooms outside of major airports. Another feature is that customers can get married on the wing of the plane and stay in the plane's more luxurious honeymoon suite . Instead of walking down the aisle in the church, lovebirds can take what Jumbo Hostels calls the \"wing walk,\" where they can be joined in great happiness at the wing tip. The hostel has someone ready to perform the ceremony. But in some respects this hostel remains a plane - most customers have to share the jet's nine bathrooms and the staff only wear air host and hostess outfits. The only room that has its own bathroom is the honeymoon suite. Question: The purpose of the passage is to _ . Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- describe a wonderful place for weddings\n- introduce a new kind of hostel\n- prove people can sleep on a plane\n- call on people to make use of the deserted things\n\nAnswer: introduce a new kind of hostel\n\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: One advantage of the Internet is shopping conveniently online for clothes; one disadvantage of the Internet is also shopping conveniently online for clothes. \"Nothing fits,\" said Lam Yuk Wong, a senior in electrical and computer engineering at Rice University. \"Everyone says this. They order clothes and they don't fit. People get very unhappy.\" Wong and her design partner, Xuaner \"Cecilia\" Zhang, are Team White Mirror, creators of what they call a \"virtual fitting room\". Their goal is simple and consumer-friendly: to let online clothing shoppers have a perfect fit and a perfect look when shopping every time. Both women are from China, Wong from Hong Kong and Zhang from Beijing. They both order most of their clothing online. They got the idea from their own experience as consumers and from listening to the complaints of friends and relatives. \"They say, 'The color is wrong' or 'I got the right size but it still does not fit.' We want to make it like you're in the store trying on the clothes,\" Zhang said. Using a Kinect developed by Microsoft for use with its Xbox 360 video game player, Zhang scans Wong and turns her image into, in effect, a virtual model, keeping Wong's dimensions , and even her skin and hair color. \"We put the clothes on the shopper's 3-D body models and show how they look when they are dressed,\" Wong said. So far, Wong and Zhang have adapted the software to show dresses and shirts, and they are now working on shorts. Asked if she thought men as well as women might be interested in using their virtual fitting room, Wong said, \"I think their wives will care about this, so it will also be important to men.\" Question: Which of the following shows the process of using the virtual fitting room? Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- scanning -- trying on clothes -- getting images\n- trying on clothes -- getting models -- scanning\n- scanning -- getting models --trying on clothes\n- trying on clothes -- getting images -- scanning\n\nAnswer: scanning -- getting models --trying on clothes\n\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: More than four out of five people admit to telling little white lies at least once a day and the preferred way of \" _ \" is to use technology such as cellphones, text messages and e-mails, a survey said last Thursday. The research found that \"techno-treachery \" was widespread with nearly 75 percent of people saying gadgets made it easier to fib . Just over half of the respondents said using gadgets made them feel less guilty when telling a lie than doing it face to face. The workplace was a favorite location for fibbing with 67 percent of the 1,487 respondents admitting they had lied at work. The top lie was pretending to be ill (43 percent), followed by saying work had been completed when it hadn't (23 percent). Worryingly for bosses 18 percent said they lied to hide a big mistake. But, employers were not the only ones on the receiving end of dishonest statements. Just over 40 percent of the respondents said they had lied to their families or partners. Key topics to lie about were: buying new clothes or the cost of them (37 percent), how good someone looked in something (35 percent), how much they had eaten (35 percent) and drunk (31 percent) and how much they weighed (32 percent). Question: Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage? Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Cell phones make people more likely to lie.\n- Some people might lie to their bosses when they are not doing their work well.\n- 40% of employers admit that they have lied to their families or partners.\n- Nearly 1,500 people were questioned in the survey.\n\nAnswer: 40% of employers admit that they have lied to their families or partners.\n\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: Losing a job is considered one of the five most stressful life changes you can experience. Those who have been there say it feels like being robbed of your identity and is as painful as the loss of a loved one. It may be hard to believe at first, but finally you can use this experience as your advantage--to find another, perhaps even better job, to strengthen your relationship with your family, and to make some much-needed changes in your life. Here are three essential steps. Step1 Get emotional support. Because it's easy to feel uneasy and vulnerable , turning to others is the key to making a smooth transition . You'll need people who will listen and provide a safe place for you to cry, or to express your fears and concerns. Don't go it alone. It takes courage to ask for help, and yet, help may be what you need most to move forward. Step2 Seek professional guidance. Getting assistance from a recruiter or career adviser will not only help you value your experience and improve your skills, it also will ensure that you put your best foot forward. Once again, your local unemployment office should have helpful resources. If possible, try not to let fear cause you to grab the first new job you're offered (unless it's the right one). Give yourself time to explore different choices. Step3 _ . Meet with family members to openly discuss your feelings. Listen carefully without interrupting one another, and give everyone a turn to speak. When a man I know did this with his family, his wife agreed to leave the job search planning to him and his outplacement adviser. In turn, he agreed to keep her informed about the process on a weekly basis. When you keep the lines of communication open, you can build stronger relationships. Once you've got a new job, create your own security. Keep your resume up-to-date, stay in touch with recruiters about the job market, and constantly improve your skills to stay marketable in your field. Although being laid-off can turn your life upside down, many people say that it gave them push... Question: We can infer from the passage that the author is most likely to _ . Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- be a life coach\n- be a keeper of family ties\n- memorize his or her loved one\n- work in an employment agency\n\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "be a life coach", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: \"If I had one million yuan, I would buy you a palace! Do I have one million yuan? No, I don't! so I only can spend ten fen on this short message, sending you my best wishes! \" Today, SMS--Short Message Service is popular, and China Mobile says that every second, there are 410 messages being sent. Look around you! People are watching their mobiles, smiling or laughing. Thumbs are pressing buttons, bring happiness to their friends. The humor of the words shows how beautiful language is! Through SMS, we know the weather report, share jokes and news, express love and friendship. \"Thumb Culture\" is becoming more and more popular. It is reported that 67% of young people like to \"Short\" to greet each other. Internet SMS will provide more convenience to people. I am grateful for the progress because SMS saves me much money. Just on the tip of thumb, so much joy can be found! Question: What can people do through SMS? Yes or no, is the answer \"Send messages.\"?\nNo\n\nArticle: Bicycles for rent could become as common as newspaper stands and mail boxes on prefix = st1 /Germany's street corners if a scheme launched by Deutsche Bahn is successful. The German rail operator has launched a bicycle-hire scheme designed for simple one-way trips. \"It's a new concept,\"said Andreas Knie, head of the project. Users must first register with Call-A-Bike at a cost of 15 euros(US$14.7). With a simple phone call, they can hire one of the many bikes parked outside stations, at a cost of 3 to 5 cents per minute. At the end of their journey, they ring a computer and tell it where the bike is parked. The bikes are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No one will be breaking speed records with Call-A-Bike bicycles. They weigh in at 25 kilograms, at least double the weight of a normal bicycle, though they do have eight gears . \"They are pretty heavy, but we don't want people taking them on the train or into the subway,\" Knie said. They are also designed with parts that do not fit a normal bicycle. Even the screws are irregular and the bike looks so odd that thieves would stand out. Vandalism and theft have led to the downfall of previous schemes which date back toAmsterdam's 1966\"White Bike\"scheme. In that short-lived experiment, anti-establishment groups painted bikes white and left them around the Dutch capital. However, many were taken permanently and repainted, while the police took away others on the basis that ownerless bikes were street rubbish. Copenhagen, Vienna and Helsinki also have free bike schemes, in which users deposit a coin in Copenhagen's case 20 crowns(US$2.50)--to free a bike from a rack. \"The advantage these schemes have is ease of use. But because they're so cheap, people tend to hold on to the bikes and then there are none on the streets,\"the person in charge said. Oslo is also planning a bike-hire system where users will pay a symbolic fee of 50 Norwegian crowns(US$6.50)for unlimited use in the city for a year. Users will buy an electronic... Question: What can be learned about Amsterdam's 1966\"White Bike\"scheme? Yes or no, is the answer \"Some bicycles were damaged or stolen and the scheme failed.\"?\nYes\n\nArticle: Have you ever wondered what a Degree in your job or career? It means a lot of Americans with an Associate Degree average nearly $10,000 more in yearly earnings than those with just a High School Diploma . Harcourt Learning Direct offers you a way to get a Specialized Associate Degree in 11 of today's growing fields--without having to go to college full-time. With Harcourt, you study at home, in your spare time, so you don't have to give up your present job while you train for a better one. 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Prepare for promotions , pay raises, even start a business of your own! Send today for FREE information about Harcourt at home training! Simply fill in your name and address on the coupon above. Then write in the name and number of the one program you're most interested in, and mail it today. We'll rush your free information about how you can take advantage of the opportunities. In the field you've chosen. Act today! Mail coupon today! Or call the number below 1-800-372-1589. Call any time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. www. Harcourt-learning.com E-mail:... Question: How can you get in touch with the Harcourt Learning Direct? Yes or no, is the answer \"By sending an e-mail.\"?\nYes\n\nArticle: New Education is the UK's first training company devoted to the development of leadership potential in cross-cultural environment, We provide high quality training services such as effective communication, public speaking, positive attitude, life planning, career skills, Chinese and Western cultural differences and traditional Chinese business wisdom. New Education was set up in April 2010, with headquarters in London, Our professional services are divided into personal training and corporate training.Personal training is mainly for students, professional and business managers.Corporate training is mainly for Chinese companies with branches in the UK and foreign companies interested in China. With our deep understanding of Chinese and Western environment and high-quality training techniques, we can provide excellent professional services.Our goal is to become the best learning partner for individuals and companies seeking for overseas success. Our training team is composed by the elites from various industries.In addition to our professional training skills and techniques, and our rich experience, we are willing to devote ourselves to helping others improve themselves and seek for success. Easterners and Westerners are very different in their ways and means to explain concepts and information, which is important in our personal trainings.Our main value lies in the combination of the western theories and practice in individual development and the Chinese people's habits, ways of thinking and the practical problems in cross-cultural background, to effectively help you in improving your overseas competitiveness and achieving your goals. Question: Which of the following would be most interested in New Education training program? Yes or no, is the answer \"A business student.\"?\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Article: Book into the new prefix = st1 /AucklandHospitalat a typical hour, say 11 on a Saturday night, and you will notice changes in the way you are treated. Let's start with the blood sample taken from your arm as you are wheeled in the door. By the time you are through the security doors and into the emergency area, that sample could have been sent through to the lab by vacuum tube and analysed by a machine which automatically feeds a preparative result into the clinical database. Less than a minute after the sample is processed, the doctors can see the results through the monitors beside every position in the emergency suites. As you are being wheeled in, you may notice cameras in the ceiling. The hospital has spent $4 million on its camera security system to protect staff and patients. When you come to in the neighbouring Admission and Planning Unit, the clinician may be looking at all your records, x-rays and even documents sent in by your GP on a Compaq tablet PC wirelessly connected to the network by an 802.11 \"WiFi\" card. It's not ideal for viewing images, but it should be good enough for a bedside consultation . If the clinician needs to consult a specialist or your GP, the other party can see the same records from home or office through a secure internet connection. Dr Nigel Murray, general manager of the hospital building programme, said about $30 million of the $500 million budget for the project had been spent on information technology. Question: In the new AucklandHospital, after you are through the security door, _ Yes or no, is the answer \"your blood sample will be sent through to the lab and analysed there\"?\nA: No\n\n\nQ: Article: An independent college claimed to have become the first school in England to make Chinese a compulsory subject for its pupils. Richard Cairns, the headmaster of Brighton College, said the move aims to recognize the importance of China as the world's fastest growing economy. Chinese will become one of the core subjects at the 1,200-pupil college from September. At present the school has only a \"handful\" of native Chinese students, but it hopes to attract more in the future. Mr Cairns, who made the announcement in his first week as head of the high-achieving college, said, \"One of my key tasks is to make sure that the pupils at Brighton College are equipped for the realities of the 21st century, and one of those realities is that China has the fastest growing economy in the world. \"China has replaced Britain as the world's fourth-largest economy. We in Britain need to face up to this challenge, see it for the trading opportunity that it is, and ensure that our nation's children are well-placed to thrive in this new global reality. \"A better understanding of the language and culture of China will be hugely important to the advantage of the children of Brighton College.\" Mr Cairns said he hoped the Chinese children already at the college would help and encourage their fellow pupils to learn their language. In order to lead the way, Mr Cairns, a historian from Oxford, plans to take part in the first Chinese class as a pupil. \"I have agreed to join the first Chinese class as a pupil. I think it is the best way for me to show the pupils here how important I regard this new addition to our core subjects.\" Question: The college makes its students learn Chinese mainly because _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"it realizes the importance of China as the world's fastest growing economy\"?\nA: No\n\n\nQ: Article: Generations of children who sat through endless lessons of \"chalk and talk\" in front of a bossy teacher can take some relief. But the \"chalk and talk\" method helped them achieve better exam results. Modern classroom techniques may make school days a good deal happier, but contentment is not the road to success in examinations, according to university researchers. Their three-year study, monitoring the progress of 2000 teenagers, tried to measure the influence of the \"boredom factor\" in 17 selected schools in the north of England. The researchers also found that the old-fashioned approach of teachers ordering pupils about is still alive and producing results. Their conclusions were welcomed yesterday by educationists who were worried by the shift to less formal lessons. The pupils in the latest study were asked to award teachers marks to measure how frequently they followed or ignored today's fashion for \"child-centred\" education. A five-point scale was given to spot the teachers who always told them what they should know and what to write down. \"It was significant and not anything you would get by chance or accident. Certainly, when you compare the pupil's interest and attitude to school, there is a quite definite and highly significant difference,\" one of the researchers said. But the rankings were turned upside down when the team of four researchers looked at how the children did in examination. The sort of methods now frowned upon actually improve the final grades. The researchers said,\"There is nothing wrong with old-fashioned, didactic teaching in the fight place, even if it isn't the flavor at the moment.\" However, he insisted the best teachers had always mixed the two techniques to match the needs of pupils, although certain examinations forced some to concentrate more on dictation and learning by rote . Question: The researchers suggest that _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"old and new methods be used together\"?\nA: Yes\n\n\nQ: Article: After a very busy afternoon,as I walked into my house,I heard the phone ringing. It was my friend Lydia,upset over an argument with her husband. My usual approach is to offer advice,but this time,exhausted from chores,I simply sat down in a chair and listened to my friend's frustration and sadness. Without the disturbance of judgment or the desire to comfort her,I stayed totally quiet while she talked. Eventually Lydia's depression eased and we said our goodbyes. The next day she phoned to thank me. \"I'm so grateful for the way you helped me through this,\"she said. At first I was surprised. After all,I had done nothing except be there for her. But after I had my own venting experience with another friend later that evening,I realized that my focused silence had some value. In fact,most relationship experts agree that talk is cheap;it's listening that's rare and valuable It allows you not only to hear what the other person is saying,but also to have a clear understanding of her thoughts and feelings. And for the speaker,that level of understanding translates into concern and respect. Unfortunately,listening isn't as easy as it sounds. Thanks to schedules filled with family and work,multitasking has become a barrier to listening. My tiredness may have been the only thing stopping me from folding laundry or checking my email while Lydia talked that afternoon. Another barrier to listening is our listening system:Most of us take in only about half of what's being said during a conversation,according to the International Listening Association. Research shows that we speak at 125 to 150 words per minute,yet think at 500 words a minute. Therefore,because we think much more quickly than we speak,it is easy for us to lose our concentration when listening to speakers. While it can be hard to focus at times,it's a skill worth developing. With a little practice (employing some techniques),you can become a better listener. Question: Why didn't the author give any advice to Lydia that afternoon? Yes or no, is the answer \"Because she was too tired to talk to Lydia.\"?\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: One of my fondest memories as a child is going by the river and sitting idly on the bank. There I would enjoy the peace and quiet, watch the water rush downstream and listen to the singing of birds and the rustling of leaves in the trees. I would also watch the bamboo trees bend under pressure from the wind and watch them return gracefully to their original position after the wind had died down. When I think about the bamboo trees' ability to bounce back or return to its original position, the word \" _ \" comes to my mind. When used in reference to a person, this word means the ability to readily recover from shock, depression or any other negative situation that stretches the limits of a person's emotions. Have you ever felt like you are about to lose control of your emotions? Have you ever felt like you are at your breaking point? Thankfully, you have survived the experience to live to talk about it. During the experience you probably felt a mix of emotions that threatened your health.You felt emotionally tired, mentally exhausted and you most likely bored unpleasant physical symptoms. Life is a mixture of good times and bad times, happy moments and unhappy moments. The next time you are experiencing one of those bad times or unhappy moments that take you close to your breaking point, bend, but don't break. Try your best not to let the situation get the best of you. A measure of hope will take you through the unpleasant moments. Will hope for a better tomorrow or a better situation, things may not be as bad as they seem to be. The unpleasant moment may be easier to deal with if the end result is worth having. If the situation gets tough and you are at your breaking point, show resilience. Like the bamboo trees, bend, but don't break! Options: A Life is like a bamboo tree that never breaks. B Whatever difficulties we may meet with in our life, we can bend, but can never break. C Life is a mixture of good times and bad times, happy moments and unhappy moments. D If you get over your breaking point, you can survive to live longer and more happily than others. Answer: B Whatever difficulties we may meet with in our life, we can bend, but can never break. Question:\n----\nAnswer: Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?\n\n\nWrite a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Hello, you guys! Do you want to make e-pals via the Internet and have fun? Here's some advice for you to follow. First take a look at . Click on international pen-pal sites to find some of our favorite international e-pal and pen-pal web sites. Don't forget: some e-pal services cost money and some are safer than others. Remember to read a web site safety warning before you join! KidFu ( m)says it is the safest place online for kids to chat, play games and make friends. Get your parents to help you register and then you can write things about yourself or read what other kids have written. There're also chat monitors that make sure that the online chat rooms are safe and friendly. KidFu costs money, but the first month is free. If you join e-PALS ( you can choose a pen-pal from over 65,000 kids from 191 countries. You can also find information about how teachers can get pen-pals for their pupils. Or if you want to start sending e-mails right now, go to Europe Pages( ). Lots of young people have written their names, interests, home countries and their e-mail addresses. Just click on a name and start writing! Well, however, there are tips that you should keep in mind: never be absorbed in the line for too long, so stay there not more than 2 hours once. Never go out with your pals without your parents' permissions. Let your parents know about what you are doing. Then, have fun! Options: A KidFu B Europe Pages C e-PALS D spoton. community Answer: C e-PALS Question:\n----\nAnswer: A teacher can visit _ to help his/her pupils to get pen-pals.\n\n\nWrite a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Dearest Clare, As I write this, I am sitting at my desk in the back bedroom looking out at your studio across the backyard full of blue evening snow, everything is smooth and crusty with ice, and it is very still. It's one of those winter evenings when the coldness of every single thing seems to slow down time, like the narrow center of an hourglass which time itself flows through, but slowly, slowly. I had a sudden urge, tonight, here in the house by myself to write you a letter. I suddenly wanted to leave something, for after. I think that time is short, now. I feel as though all my reserves, of energy, of pleasure, of duration, are thin, small. I don't feel capable of continuing very much longer. I know you know. If you are reading this, I am probably dead. But you know: you know that if I could have stayed, if I could have gone on, that I would have seized every second: whatever it was, this death, you know that it came and took me, like a child carried away by goblins . Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. But I hate to think of you waiting. I know that you have been waiting for me all your life, always uncertain of how long this patch of waiting would be. Ten minutes, ten days. A month. What an uncertain husband I have been, Clare, like a sailor. Please, Clare. When I am dead, stop waiting and be free. Of me--put me deep inside you and then go out in the world and live. Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though the world is your natural element. After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present. If I had to live on without you I know I could not do it. But I hope, I have this vision of you walking, with your shining hair in the sun. I have not seen this with my eyes, but only with my imagination, that makes pictures,... Options: A he hoped she would wait for him forever B his health was worsening step by step C she should stop waiting and be free to live D she would be more beautiful when she was old Answer: C she should stop waiting and be free to live Question:\n----\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "By describing what he found in Kendrick's waiting room, Henry intended to tell Clare that _ .", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Tony is Allen's classmate. One day,Tony comes to Allen's home. When he sees many books in Allen's study, he says to Allen, \"Allen, you have so many good books. Can I borrow a book from you?\" Allen doesn't want to lend a book to his classmate and he says, \"Why do you want to take my book home? You can read it here in my home. \" Tony sees that his classmate is very selfish , but he says nothing. The next day, Allen comes to Tony's house and says, \"Tony, you have a good garden-knife. I want to work in my garden tomorrow. Can I use it for two days?\" Tony answers, \"Why do you want to take my garden-knife home? You can work with it in my garden. \" Options: A a knife B a book C a garden-knife D money Answer: C a garden-knife Question:\nA: Allen wants to borrow _ from Tony.\n\nQ: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Your body is special - no two people in the world are alike , Although you are different from everyone else , you have exactly the same body parts as the people around you , doing different jobs that keep all of us alive . What is inside my head ? Your head _ the most valuable part of your body - your brain . As you are reading , your eyes send pictures to your brain which makes meaning from what you see . Your brain helps you to remember and think , and makes sure your body is doing what it should . What is my skin for ? Your skin covers your body . In most parts of your body , the skin is just as thick as half a centimeter . If you have your skin cut , it will have a quick cure and stop viruses from getting into your body . Your skin also helps you feel the heat and coldness of the environment around you . Hair grows from inside the skin . When you feel hot , extra heat comes out through your skin . As a result , your body temperature drops . How do I move ? Muscles are found in most parts of your body . They work with your bones to help you move - whenever you cry or smile , eat or speak , walk or dance , etc . Why do I breathe ? Your body needs to take in oxygen from the air and give out the unwanted carbon dioxide in the body . When you breathe , air comes through your nose and mouth into your lungs where oxygen flows to different parts of your body . What makes me sneeze ? When dust or a strong smell gets into your nose , you sneeze . This is the way your body cleans up the dust in your nose . Your lungs push out the air and try to clear your nose . What does my heart do ? Your heart is a very special muscle . It is slightly bigger than your fist and grows bigger as you do . If you place your hand on your heart , you will feel your heart beating which forces blood to move around your body . Options: A Extra heat can only stay inside our body . B Viruses can't get into our body easily . C We can't feel the changes in temperature . D Our body can be guarded by our hair . Answer: C We can't feel the changes in temperature . Question:\nA: If you have no skin covering your body , what would happen ?\n\nQ: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: \"You are what you eat,\" says the old saying. So how can we know what food is healthy? Unluckily, a lot of food that looks good may have pollution. Where is the pollution from? It has something to do with how people produce food: growing it on the farm, processing it in factories, and making it ready for you to eat. Here's what happens: Most farmers use chemicals to stop their crops from getting sick. Many of these chemicals remain in the food that you eat. Some people believe this may cause cancer. These chemicals may also pollute water and air, and kill animals and even people by accident. Most drinks are just flavored water . Every drink coming in plastic bottles which you then throw away means a waste. Sugary drinks make you fat. In the factories, much of what you eat and drink gets messed. Often things are put into food to make it delicious and look good but they might be harmful to people. And some food like meat often gets polluted by bacteria. What you can do: Try to get organic food. Organic food doesn't have any ingredients that are bad for the land, air or water. Don't eat processed food or drinks. Eat fresh food whenever you can and cook at home. Options: A To have processed drinks. B To grow vegetables by themselves. C To cook at home. D To visit farms. Answer: C To cook at home. Question:\nA: What does the writer advise people to do?\n\nQ: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Now throwing shoes at President Bush is a popular game on the Internet. It turns out that there are times when it's good to throw shoes. After leaving his office in the center of the city, a young man bought a new car and drove it from the city to his home. He was very happy and the car ran very fast. Suddenly, a shoe hit the car door . The man got very angry. He jumped out of the car and caught a boy who still had a shoe in his hand. \"Who are you? Why did you do that?\" the young man shouted at the boy. \"I'm sorry. But I don't know what else to do. My sister has been hurt. I cried for help but nobody stopped,\" the boy said. The man looked around and saw a girl by the road. Her leg was bleeding . \"She is my sister. She wanted to cross the road but fell out of her wheelchair. She is too heavy for me. I can't get her back into the _ . \"The man was moved. He helped the bleeding girl back into her wheelchair. \"Thank you. You're so kind,\" said the little boy. Life speaks to our hearts. Sometimes we don't have time to listen and it will throw a shoe at us. Options: A We should be kind and helpful. B We should drive slowly and safely. C Life always throws shoes at our cars. D Nobody wants to be hit by a shoe. Answer: A We should be kind and helpful. Question:\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "What can we learn from the story?", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: When he was 16, his father seriously said to him, \"I'll give you whatever you want before you are 18. But after that, I won't care much about you, and you should give me whatever I want.\" When his 18th birthday was coming, the young man began thinking about looking for a job. So he sent resumes to many companies he liked on the Internet. But, most got no reply, he said, \"Maybe they were surprised about my primary school education.\" By chance, one of his friends was looking for someone, who could work as an egg porter in the supermarket, for 0.5 Yuan a box. Facing lots of difficulties in getting a job, he said, \"I'll take this job. At least I can make some money for my petrol .\" Then every day, he drove his car, his 18th birthday gift, to work in the supermarket. He did that for three months. Later, he heard that a newspaper was looking for a network technician , so he asked for it. But they were also worried about his school education. He practiced his skill right in front of the computer, and showed the managers web pages he had designed. He started to work the next day, and became the director of network department in less than a year. And now, the 23-year-old man is a boss. In January 2005, he started a magazine for children, with himself as the editor in chief . And the only writer was his father. Question: The magazine the young man started was perhaps _ . Options: A: about network technicians B: about working for newspapers C: made of many funny stories D: sold only in supermarkets\nC\n\n(Question)\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: If you have dinner with people in the west, I think you must pay more attention to the table manners. Here are some good table manners for you. When you eat something, try not to make a noise or burp at the table. Because people think that is not polite. People will say \"Excuse me\" when they want to burp. Talking with food in the mouth is very rude. So you must eat the food quietly and slowly. If you eat too fast, people think you are rude too. Do not talk with others when you have food in your mouth. It is good to eat all the food on your plate. This means you like the food very much. Remember to say the food is nice. And this can make the host very happy. When you finish eating, you can place your knife and fork together. Question: The topic of this passage is _ in the west. Options: A: how to burp B: what to eat C: school rules D: table manners\n(Answer)\nD\n\nQues: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Barack Obama, a black man, is the president of the United States now. He was born on August 4th, 1961, in Hawaii and has lived in many places. His mother was from Kansas and his father was from Kenya. Obama went to Columbia University in New York and got a law degree at Harvard University in Massachusetts. His wife is Michelle Obama. She also worked as a lawyer and later worked for the University of Chicago. They have two young daughters. Obama wrote a bookDreams from My Father. \"I always live in the dream of my father and American people, \" Obama once said. He was born in a poor family. And he was taken good care of by his grandparents when he was young. He also lived and worked in Africa. Then he got good education in Harvard University. On November 4th, 2008, he became the president of America for the first time. Question: Which of the following is NOT true? Options: A: Obama's father was from Kenya. B: Obama has a son and a daughter. C: Obama once worked in Africa. D: Obama studied in Columbia University.\nAns: B\n\n(Q).\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Michael Rossi is the Internet favorite Dad right now. Mr. Rossi, a father from Philadelphia, recently took his kids, Jack and Victoria, to Boston for three days during the school term. But Rydal Elementary School, one of the oldest schools in Boston, doesn't accept family holidays as an excuse for their absence and give them a warming notice. So Mr. Rossi wrote a letter to the school, which has been shared by thousands of parents online. Dear Mrs. Marbyry, While I am thankful for your concern for our children and the best education our kids receive from you, I can promise you they've learned as much in the three days we were in Boston as they would in a whole year in school. Although they missed an important test, they learned about something more important for them, especially for their future. They experienced first -hand the love and support form thousands of other people with a common goal. At the marathon , which is known as the most difficult one in the world, they watched runners with disabilities work together to collect money for children in poor areas. In addition, our children walked the Freedom Trail, visited the site of the Boston Tea Party and the graves of several great pioneers of America. These are thing they WILL learn in school a year or more from now. We truly love our school and teachers. But I wouldn't hesitate to pull them out of school again for an experience like the one they had this time. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Michael Rossi Question: Why did the school get angry with Michael? Options: A: He let his kids join the Boston Tea Party. B: He didn't allow his kids to take an important test. C: He invited his young kids to watch a marathon race. D: He pulled his kids out of school during the school time.\n(A).\nD\n\nQues:I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Life in the future will be different from life today. The population is growing fast. There will be more people in the world and most of them will live longer. Computer will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in each home. And computer science will be one of the most important subjects in school then. People will work fewer hours than they do now, and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travel. Our food will be different, too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for people. So there will be less land for cows and sheep, and meat will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it one day. They will eat more fruits and vegetables. Work in the future will also be different. Robots will do dangerous and hard work. Because of this, many people will have no jobs to do. This will be a big problem in the future. ,. Question: In the future people don't have to _ . Options: A: work long hours B: walk to work C: eat fruits and vegetables D: work fast\n\nAns:A\n\nQuestion: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Look at the two posters about Sunshine Theatre and Moonlight Theatre: Welcome to Sunshine Party! Time: 1:30 p.m. -8:30p.m. , June 1st Happy Children's Day Place: Sunshine Theatre Activities: Singing, dancing, a magic show and a fashion show Welcome to Moonlight Party! Happy Children's D ay Time: 2:30 p.m. -10:30p.m. , June 1st Place: Moonlight Theatre Activities: 3 cartoon films and a fashion show Question: When does the celebration finish in Moonlight Theatre? Options: A: 10:30 a m. B: 10:30 p. m. C: 8:30 p. m. D: 2:30 p. M.\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "When I spent Christmas away from home in Europe for the first time, I was only 14 and it was absolutely terrible. I am now married and live in the US. So there is little possibility for me to go home for Christmas. Now I am able to get through Christmas with some moments of joy: First, you are advised to search your area for stores that carry items from your home country or town. Buy food, candles and some other things that mean something to you. Hold on to the traditions from your home that you think are important even if other people think they are stupid. But keep in mind to be open for new traditions from wherever you might be, because those traditions are as important to those people around you as yours are to you. For me that includes celebrating Christmas on the 24th. Call, write Christmas cards, buy gifts and mail them to loved ones, just as if you were there. If you try to pretend as if the holiday doesn't exist, you are just going to make it worse. Introduce your traditions to your loved ones, especially your kids. It will only enrich their celebration of the holiday to have some unique traditions in their home. Little by little it will become their tradition and it's fun for them to try something new. Find clubs, churches or organizations that are from your home country. Chances are that they will have some celebration with some of your traditions which you can join in. Food is one of the most important factors in any kind of tradition. Find the recipe of that cake your grandmother used and make it your tradition to bake that particular cake. Call up your parents and get them to send you some of your favorite childhood ornaments for your tree. Pay attention to new traditions, talk to your family about which ones you want to make your own and stick with them. If you are far away from home, Christmas can never be the same as you experienced it before, but it is important to remember these traditions while appreciating the new ones. Keep an open mind and find a compromise between old and new... The writer suggests giving a call to parents on Christmas mainly to _ . A) express love to them B) follow the tradition C) ask for some ornaments D) set an example for children\nC\n\n\n(Question)\nThe world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication means . Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it. Man has been polluting the earth. The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in a place, men moved to another place. But this is no longer true. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world. Air pollution is still the most serious. It's bad to all living things in the world, but it is not only one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills fish and pollutes drinking water. Noise pollution makes us become angry more easily. Many countries are making rules to fight against pollution. They stop the people from burning coal in houses and factories in the city, and from blowing dirty smoke into the air. The pollution of SO2 is now the most dangerous problem of air pollution. It is mostly caused by heavy traffic. It is certain that if there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution. The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means keeping the land, water and air clean. And we must try to control the growth of population at the same time. Thousands of years ago, life was it is today. A) much easier than B) as easy as C) as hard as D) much harder than\n(Answer)\nD\n\n\nQues: Hi, I'm Sam from New York. I have a brother called Tim. We are twins. We are both eleven this year. I am ten minutes older than him. In some ways, we look the same and in some ways, we look different. However, he is taller than me. I am shy, but he is outgoing. We both like playing sports and we often play football together after class. We are in the same school but we are not in the same class. I am in Class One and he is in Class Three. Last Monday, Tim was ill and couldn't go to school. The next day, when I was in the hallway, his English teacher, Miss White saw me and asked, \"Tim, are you feeling better now?\" Haha...she and she couldn't tell Tim from me. Who is Miss White? A) She is PE teacher. B) She is Sam's English teacher. C) She is Tim's English teacher. D) She is a Chinese teacher.\nAns: C\n\n\n(Q).\nMy name is Bill. I'm an English boy. I'm in a high school. Sam is my good friend. He comes from Canada. He is 13. I'm 13, too. But we don't look the same. Miss Zhang is my English teacher. We don't know her age, but she looks young. She is not Sam's teacher. Miss Zhou is Sam's English teacher. Now please look at my photo. In the photo, Sam, Miss Zhang and I are all happy. ,. Bill is _ . A) four B) eight C) thirteen D) fourteen\n(A).\nC\n\n\nQues:Tigers are strong and dangerous animals. But now they are in danger. In the past, there were eight kinds of tigers in the world. But during the 20th century, only five were left. The number of Siberian tigers was about 300, but now it is less than 22. They're in danger of dying out. If the government does nothing, we won't be able to see them in ten to twenty years. In order to stop people from hunting and killing wild tigers, and in order to make wild tigers more, the World Wildlife Fund has started a program recently . China and twelve other countries joined it. However, it's not enough. Remember that nature is a food chain . If we hurt and kill too many wild deer and pigs, wild tigers will die out because of hunger . So the most important thing is to save the animals that tigers eat. In order to protect the wild tigers, we need call on more people to stop eating, hunting and killing wild animals. ,. The number of the wild Siberian tigers reduced about _ . A) 5% B) 22 C) 93% D) 30%\n\nAns:C\n\n\nQues:Jack gets to the bus station very early. The bus for London leaves at twelve. He sees many people at the station. Some are waiting in line , and others are walking around. Jack looks around but there is no room for him to sit in. He walks into a restaurant. He looks up at the clock there. It's only 11:30. Then he finds a seat and sits down. At that time, Tom, one of his friends, comes in and sits in front of him. They talk and drink. After a while , Jack looks up at the clock again, \"oh, my god. It's still 11:30. The clock doesn't work at all.\" Jack becomes very sad because he misses the bus. Jack goes into the restaurant because _ . A) he wants to eat something B) he sees his old friend C) he can't find a seat at the station D) he is very tired\n\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: \"Cool\" is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world changes, the word has many different meanings. \"Cool\" can be used to _ feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say \"It's cool.\" You may think, \"He's so cool,\" when you see your favorite footballer. We all maximize the meaning of \"cool\". You can use it instead of many words such as \"new\" or \"surprising\". Here's an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall. On one student's paper was just the one sentence, \"It's so cool\". Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt. But the story also shows a scarcity of words, it seems that some people have no words to show the same meaning without \"cool\" . Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word \"cool\"? Yes, I can. And I think they are also very cool. Question: In the passage, the writer suggests that the word \"cool\" _ . Options: A: can be used instead of many words B: may not be as cool as it seems C: can make your life colorful. D: may make your life cool\nB\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Teeth are important. Strong , healthy teeth help you chew foods that help you grow. They help you speak clearly. And yes ,they help you look best. Here are some tips for you to take care of you teeth: 1. Brush your teeth the right way. Brush your teeth at least twice a day - after breakfast and before bedtime. If you can, brush after lunch or after sweet snacks, too. Brush all of your teeth, not just the front ones. Spend time brushing teeth along the sides and back of your mouth. Spend at least three minutes each time you brush. Play a song you like to help pass the time. Get a new toothbrush every three months. When you buy toothbrush, be sure it has soft bristles . 2. Learn how to floss your teeth.. Flossing is a very important way to keep your teeth healthy. Food may hide between two teeth. Flossing can help get rid of it. You'll need to floss your teeth at least once a day. 3. Have good eating habits. You need to be careful about what you eat and drink. Eating sugar is a major cause of tooth decay . Eat lots of fruits and vegetables and drink water instead of soda . Question: What is the major cause of tooth decay? _ Options: A: Not brushing teeth B: Not changing toothbrush C: Eating sugar D: Not flossing teeth\nC\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Huzhou, May 10 (Huzhou Daily)--A city eye examination has showed that Huzhou primary and high school children's eyesight has been getting worse. It showed test results were lower than those from the last examination in 2010. Only 10% of the tested students had good eyesight, but more than 30 percent in 2010. The examination covered 1,770 students from 54 classes. They were from primary and high schools in 5 districts. According to the test results of the junior high school group, children from Anji District scored an average of four, much lower than 4.8. Below four is classed as short-sightedness. None of the students from Deqing District tested above 4.8. Huzhou would adopt measures to improve children's eyesight. Most importantly, students should be freed from the burden of exams and relax their eyes more often every day. Question: Where were the tested students from? They were from _ . Options: A: primary and high schools in 54 districts B: primary and high schools in 5 districts C: primary and high schools in Anji District D: primary and high schools in Deqing District\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Question:\nMulti-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:\n\nThe person is shown bathing the dog with the detachable shower head. The camera then zooms in on the dog showing its tail, back, and head. next the dog\n\nOPTIONS:\n- is shown on the bark in a bathroom where a toothbrush is displayed on the dish.\n- is shown stepping out of the shower from the tub and rubbing its head with water.\n- is shown performing a shower in the sink before the television is still and showing stuff from different soap opera and what the dog has been doing.\n- gets a white towel wrapped around the bottom half of its body to get dried off.\n****\nAnswer:\ngets a white towel wrapped around the bottom half of its body to get dried off.\n\nProblem: What happens next in this paragraph?\n\nThe boy in the middle is standing in front of a woman who is tying the bandanna around his eyes so he can't see the pinata. as she\nOPTIONS:\n- wraps the pinata around his neck, she clips the ends to slits, then bows her body to secure the object.\n- is doing that, a man comes along and directs the kids to back up so they won't get hit.\n- stops, he begins to cry to try and reunite with his dog and the woman begins to take his leash.\n- is cutting the bandanna to fit around his eyes, the boy grabs a knife and bends down trying to free his eyes from the cloth so he can focus more on the pinata.\nA: is doing that, a man comes along and directs the kids to back up so they won't get hit.\n\nThe focus goes back to other clips where the elephant is swimming again, a still shot picture of the beach is displayed, and more clips from the water above. it\n\nOPTIONS:\n- cuts to a group of people dressed in rafts and paddling in the water.\n- continues on with varying varying changes very quickly.\n- ends with a picture of a large tree branch near the water and the words the andaman islands appear at the top and fades to an all black screen.\n- goes back to the cameraman and there are still clips in the end where the elephant is fully visible.\n\nends with a picture of a large tree branch near the water and the words the andaman islands appear at the top and fades to an all black screen.\n\nquestion: Complete the next sentence:\n\nHow to apologize after a dispute \nWait for the dispute to die down. \nLet a little time go by before you apologize. This will allow both of you to cool off some while giving you time to think about how to make the best apology that you can.\nOPTIONS:\n- After you have expressed your remorse, allow the person who injured you some time to apologize as well. Wait until your disagreements are settled before moving forward.\n- Try to wait for a period of time when you both can talk without becoming upset and you both have a clear head. Getting angry might help your colleagues or co-workers understand the situation as well.\n- Allowing the dispute to burn itself out is the right thing to do. You might resist apologizing to your ex or to your other lover in the future if you think an apology may help both of you.\n- Try to get a sense of whether the other person is upset still. Although you will probably recognize it when you see it, expressions of anger may involve clenching of the face or fists, yelling, throwing objects, etc.\n\nanswer: Try to get a sense of whether the other person is upset still. Although you will probably recognize it when you see it, expressions of anger may involve clenching of the face or fists, yelling, throwing objects, etc.\n\nProblem: Write the next sentence for:\nThe person stirs the liquid with a spoon. The person adds ice to the cup and stirs again. the person\n\nOPTIONS:\n- adds baby powder to the cup.\n- then pours liquid from a smaller glass into the glass.\n- pops a rose into the cup.\n- claps their hands..\n\nNext sentence: then pours liquid from a smaller glass into the glass.\n\nIN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:\nA game is in progress as the crowd watches. the people\nOPTIONS:\n- begin assembling a raft on top of larger sticks.\n- are playing a game of field hockey.\n- run and jump all along the field.\n- get in formation and move quickly around the court.\n\nOUT:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "are playing a game of field hockey.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: There are quite a few advantages of wearing school uniforms. The idea may seem disagreeable at first, but considering all the positive effective coming from wearing uniforms you would be more likely to enjoy them. Teachers love school uniforms because it helps provide an orderly learning environment. Having students dressed in uniforms may teach them how to present themselves in a neat and professional manner. It gives students the opportunity to learn how to dress like young ladies and gentleman. And they can focus their attention on academics rather than style. Purchasing school uniforms is easy and needs less hesitation and consideration. No matter what the school' s policy is, there are only specific essential pieces to the wardrobe that are necessary, so _ . A few wardrobe items can last a long time. Parents could also enjoy an easy morning, as it will take less time to choose a set of clothes for the school day. Students wearing uniforms will feel less pressure about what to wear or not to wear when their classmates are dressed similarly. Getting dressed before school becomes less of a chore when students are limited in their choices, so there shouldn't be any trouble about choosing an outfit for the day and getting ready quickly. Some students may not like the lack of individuality with a uniform, but some school dress code policies may offer them the opportunities to show their unique styles. Uniforms today are also becoming trendier and can be seen in many areas of pop culture. Celebrities and fashion designers are using uniforms as inspiration for new looks which also appeal to students. Question: Teachers think that wearing school uniforms _ . Options: A: is just a tradition that students should follow B: makes students feel less pressure in study C: helps students put more effort into their studies D: makes students lose their independence and identity\nC\n\n(Question)\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Time out Cover Price: PS2.35 Save up to 42% Time out -- London's arts and entertainment weekly. This magazine offers the best listings and reviews of arts, music, films and nightlife, and it is a necessary guide to the entertainment capital of the world. If you're not using Time out, you're losing out on London. School Sport Magazine Cover Price: PS4.40 School Sport Magazine is the only publication of its kind to celebrate the sporting achievements of schools, pupils and teachers in the UK. The purpose of the magazine is to report sporting news and record national and regional school sporting events as well as interviews with famous sport stars about their own sporting schooldays. Five issues a year. Time Cover Price: PS2.70 Save up to 76% Every week, Time keeps you well informed of world news, covering all the matters that affect your life, from political struggles to scientific progress, environmental problems, and what's new in business, fashion and arts. Its feature articles give you brief but true information and unique insights from world-leading journalists. Time is a great magazine, which can help you develop a truly global perspective. FourFourTwo Cover Price: PS3.90 Save up to 25% FourFourTwo is a monthly football magazine for grown-up readers. Feature articles and wonderful action photographs will keep you attracted. You can read interviews with big name football stars, from today, tomorrow and yesterday. You'll love it! Question: Which of the following magazines is suitable for a 13-year-old boy who wants to know about a famous football star's playing experiences at school? Options: A: Time Out. B: School Sport Magazine. C: Time D: School Sport Magazine or FourFourTwo.\n(Answer)\nB\n\nQues: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Some British and American people like to invite friends for a meal at home. You should not be upset if your English friends don't invite you home. It doesn't mean they don't like you! Dinner parties usually start between 7 p. m. and 8 p. m. and end at about 11 p. m. Ask your host what time you should arrive. It's polite to bring flowers, chocolates or a bottle of wine as a gift. Usually the evening starts with drinks and snacks. Do you want to be extrapolite? Say how much you like the room, or the pictures on the wall. But remember--it's not polite to ask how much things cost. In many families, the husband sits at one end of the table and the wife sits at the other side. They eat with their guests. You'll probably start the meal with soup or something small, then you'll have meat or fish with vegetables, and then dessert, followed by coffee. It's polite to finish everything on your plate and to take more if you want it. Did you enjoy the evening? Call your hosts the next day, or write them a short\"Thank you\"letter. British and American people like to say\"Thank you, thank you, thank you\"all the time! Question: In which order will you eat or drink the following things at a meal? Options: A: Snacks, vegetables, meat, coffee. B: Coffee, drinks, soup, fish, vegetables, dessert. C: Soup, meat with vegetables, dessert and coffee. D: Drinks, soup, something small, fish and vegetables.\nAns: C\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: How to make friends with people from a different culture? The rules are as follows: RULE 1: Appreciate the Person. Most Americans like to be recognized as individuals as someone special with unique characteristics and personalities. Therefore, never say, \" You're from America so I want to be your friend.\" Also don't imply that the reason why you approached them is because you wanted someone to practice your English with. That turns people off. Instead try saying,\" You seem like a real nice and interesting person and I would like to get to know you better.\" This way, they are much more inclined to be friendly because you see them as a three dimensional person and appreciate them for who they are in the inside. And by doing so, you not only learn about America and practice your English, but also gain a real friend in the process. RULE 2:Quit Calling Us Foreigners. Please refrain from calling a foreigner a foreigner especially in his face. The word makes people feel like an outsider, and even unwelcome, suggesting separation and insurmountable differences, widening an already existing gap in the situation. When Americans travel, they rarely say, \"I'm foreign to your place.\" They tend to say, \"I'm new in town. I'm new here.\" The reason is because new and unfamiliar things can become old and familiar. But can foreign things become native? Aha? You catch my drift. RULE 3: Just Do It. Some students like to be told about American culture but are less interested in spending the time and the effort to actually experience it. As Americans always say, \"Get your hands dirty.\" Until you have first hand and hands on experience, you'll never really know anything. Right? So whenever you have the opportunity to participate in American culture, don't just sit there and watch. Get up and get involved! RULE 4: Find that Common Language. Now I must stress the importance of finding a common language. By that I don't mean English, Chinese, German, French, etc. I mean finding something you have in common with... Question: According to the passage, which of the following is friendly? Options: A: I am longing to make friends with an American. B: This is my friend Tom, who is a foreigner. C: There must be a gap between us in many aspects. D: You've got a great personality.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: We don't have beds in the space shuttle, but we do have sleeping bags. During the day, when we are working, we leave the bags tied to the wall, out of the way. At bedtime we untie them and take them wherever we've chosen to sleep. On most space shuttle flights everyone sleeps at the same time. No one has to stay awake to watch over the space plane: the shuttle's computers and the enginers at the Control Office do that. If anything goes wrong. The computers ring a warning bell and the engineers call us on the radio. On the space shuttle, sleep-time doesn't mean nighttime. During each ninety-minute flight around the earth, the sun \"rises\" and shines through our windows for about fifty minutes: then it \"sets\" as our flight takes us around the dark side of the Earth. To keep the sun out of our eyes, we wear black sleep masks. It is surprisingly easy to get comfortable and fall asleep in space, and we sleep differently. Some sleep upside down, some sideways, some right side up. When it's time to sleep, I take my bag, my sleep mask, and my tape player with earphones and float up to the flight platform. Then I get into the bag, and float into a sitting position just above a seat, right next to a window. Before I pull the mask down over my eyes, I relax for a while, listening to music and watching the Earth go by under me. When I'm in space I don't need as much sleep as I do on Earth Maybe that's because when I am weightless, I don't feel as tired. Or maybe it's because I'm excited to be in space and don't want to waste time sleeping. Question: What do we know about people sleeping in the space shuttle? Options: A: They sleep while listening to music. B: They have difficulty falling asleep. C: They sleep in different positions. D: They go to sleep when it is dark.\nC\n\n(Question)\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: If you think about World Heritage Sites, you probably think of places associated with ancient art and culture, historical building and monuments. And of course, many of these are on the World Heritage List .But the WHL contains a lot of sites that are not so obvious. Let's look at a few of them. Robben Island in South Africa This island was used through the centuries as a prison, a hospital and a military base. But it's probably the most famous as a prison for political prisoners in the twentieth century. Nelson Mandela was one of its residents. The WHL says it represents \"the victory of democracy and freedom over oppression and racism \" The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in India This railway was opened in 1881 and is still operating today. It crossed a difficult area of mountain landscape and it is a great example of railway engineering. The WHL says that it is \"the first, and still the most outstanding example of a hill passenger railway.\" Borders of France and Spain This is an area of great natural beauty and the mountains have many interesting geological formations. But it is also an area of small farms. Surprisingly, people there still use a type of agriculture that used to be common in mountainous areas of Europe but has almost completely disappeared in modern times. Alto Douro, Portugal This is an area in the North of Portugal where wine has been produced for thousands of years. The WHL says that this long tradition of wine making \"has produced a cultural landscape of outstanding beauty that reflects its technological, social and economic evolution\". Rio Platano Reserve, Honduras The WHL says that this site is \"one of the few remains of a humid tropical forest in Central America\". It's a mountainous area on the Caribbean coast with many different species of plants and animals. The people who have always lived there still have the same traditional life-style. Simien National Park, Ethiopia Simien National Park was one of the first sites listed in 1978. It is one of the... Question: Which of the following sites was listed in WHL for political symbol? Options: A: Borders of France and Spain B: Simien National Park, Ethiopia C: The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in India D: Robben Island in South Africa\n(Answer)\nD\n\nQuestion: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Wanted, Someone for a Kiss We' re looking for producers to join us on the sound of London Kiss 100 FM. You' ll work on the station's music programmes. Music production experience in radio is necessary, along with rich knowledge of modern dance music. Please apply in writing to Producer Vacancies, Kiss 100. Father Christmas We're looking for a very special person, preferably over 40, to fill our Father Christmas suit. Working days: Every Saturday from November 24 to December 15 and every day from December 17 to December 24 except Sundays, l0:30 - 16:00. Excellent pay. Please contact the Enterprise Shopping Centre, Station Parade, Eastbourne. Accountants Assistant When you join the team in our Revenue Administration Unit, you will be providing assistance within all parts of the Revenue Division, dealing with post and other general duties. If you are educated to GCSE grade C level we would like to talk to you. This position is equally suitable for a school leaver or for somebody who has office experience. Wealden District Council Software Trainer If you are aged 24 -45 and have experience in teaching and training, you could be the person we are looking for. You should be good at the computer and have some experience in programme writing. You will be allowed to make your own decisions ,and to design courses as well as present them. Pay upwards of PS15,000 for the right person. Please apply by sending your CV to Mrs. R.. Oglivie, Palmlaee Limited. Question: We learn from the ads that the Enterprise Shopping Centre needs a person who Options: A: is aged between 24 and 40 B: may do some training work C: should deal with general duties D: can work for about a month\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:\nA woman is seated on a couch in a living room. she\nOPTIONS:\n- is with a male in a wrestling match.\n- is singing along to music in her hands.\n- is holding a cat in her lap.\n- is washing her feet in a dish towel the woman is holding.\n\nOUT: is holding a cat in her lap.\n\nQuestion:\nMulti-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:\n\nA young girl with a ponytail plays a drumkit, she appears to a trained musician. The girl focuses on one particular drum. the girl\n\nOPTIONS:\n- looks up and sits still.\n- continues to play different parts of the drumkit.\n- enters the stage to show her school uniform consisting of shorts, a hat and slippers.\n- continues playing the drum kit, the musician looks at her blankly.\n****\nAnswer:\ncontinues to play different parts of the drumkit.\n\nProblem: What happens next in this paragraph?\n\nHow to organize executive accommodations \nDetermine the primary meeting or work location for the trip. \nYou will want to find accommodations as close as possible to minimize travel delays. Reliable transportation is also an important consideration, whether you will work with a car service or transportation provided by the hotel or reserve a rental car.\nOPTIONS:\n- Decide how much space you will need. The palace of learning is located at the top of the tower of learning.\n- Provide contact information for people you work with. If you plan on traveling internationally, online reservations might help.\n- Find out whether the executive has a preferred hotel or hotel \" brand. \" consistency when traveling from city to city can help smooth the way for increased productivity.\n- That being said, some services will restrict vehicle use, probably due to something like heightened security or practically endless rides. Research the site beforehand to determine where and when to make available accommodations.\nA: Find out whether the executive has a preferred hotel or hotel \" brand. \" consistency when traveling from city to city can help smooth the way for increased productivity.\n\nHow to travel by car with a fearful dog \nIntroduce your dog to the car. \nIf your dog is particularly fearful of cars or if it has never been in one before, you'll need to do some basic desensitization work. This should entail getting your dog familiar with being in the vehicle, even if it is not yet comfortable being in there for prolonged periods of time.\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Open both rear doors so that your dog can see there is a way out. Seeing that it won't be trapped may help alleviate some of your dog's fears.\n- To do this, put the dog into the car with the windows down. Slowly angle the upper window closed, until your dog's paws are on the back of the seat.\n- Once you've acclimated your aggressive dog to being in the presence of an unknown entity, you can introduce your fearful dog to the car altogether. Approach your dog as quietly as possible at first.\n- Start by putting your dog in the vehicle and turning on the hazard lights. Your dog should then hiss in its mouth and let you know that \" i am the owner.\n\nOpen both rear doors so that your dog can see there is a way out. Seeing that it won't be trapped may help alleviate some of your dog's fears.\n\nquestion: Complete the next sentence:\n\nSeveral instances of men dressed in different kinds of armor and holding various shields are showing jousting against one another. ultimately\nOPTIONS:\n- , the men stand up and begin preparing for another jousting competition and each of those are shown arguing in heated video.\n- the jousters take a turn, moving into the ring and forward again.\n- , the man with the round shield is defeated when he tumbles to the ground and stabbed in the back.\n- a tournament a subscription is shown by two teams with team numbers on the back.\n\nanswer: , the man with the round shield is defeated when he tumbles to the ground and stabbed in the back.\n\nIN: What happens next?\n\nA man is talking inside a bathroom. He is using a rag to clean a sink. he\n\nOPTIONS:\n- then rinses the dishes and puts them in the dishwasher.\n- then vacuums the sink with the rag.\n- is mopping the floor as he talks.\n- lathers up and wipes it all back down.\n\nOUT:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "lathers up and wipes it all back down.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Do you know Shirley Temple? She is an American film and television actress. She was born on April 23, 1928. She is also good at singing and dancing. She becomes a child star in the 1930s. What does she look like? She has a round face with big eyes. Lost of people like her curly blonde hair very much. She is lovely and smart. At the age of 6, she makes her first film. Before she is 12, she plays over 40 films. She is also the first Award Oscar in the history of children. Her mother has no job and her father works in a bank. When she is very young, her mother asks her to learn to sing, dance and act. In September 1931, her mother takes her to Meglin's Dance School in Los Angeles. Shirley Temple passes away on February 10, 2014. President Franklin D. Roosevelt says, \"It is a great thing that for just fifteen cents, you can go to the movies and look at the nice face of a girl and forget your problems.\" Question: What is Shirley Temple? - A singer. - A musician. - A teacher. - An actress.\nAn actress.\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: DNA is the whole \"map\" of the human body. It is something that all humans have, and it tells the body what to do. DNA is the reason that we look like our parents, because we get some of their DNA to make our own. People have been trying to understand the human body for a long time. In 1860, Mr. Mendel discovered why we look the same as other people in our family. It is because of small things called \"genes\" in our body. In 1953, two scientists, Watson and Crick, found out that genes are really messages. They're written in the DNA with a special language. In 1961, another two scientists found the first \"word\" that they could understand in that language. It shows how DNA tells the cell to build its parts. So far, scientists have found all the words in the DNA map, but we still don't understand what they all do. By understanding what just one \"word\" means, we can help to save people from several illnesses. So the more we understand, the more doctors will be able to do. Most people hope that this will help to make better medicine and help sick people. Other people worry that when we learn more \"words\" and find out more information, we will use it in the wrong way. Just to make people more attractive , or stop sick people getting jobs. Question: When did Mr. Mendel discover why we look the same as other people in our family? - In 1680. - In 1860. - In 1953. - In 1961.\nIn 1860.\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: The brain receives information from the outside world through the sensory system.This information is collected through the eyes,the nose,the ears,the mouth and the surface of the body.It is then kept in the memory.In fact,scientists do not completely understand how the memory works but they are not sure how much information that the human brain can store.Also, it appears that the information is never lost.Very old people often remember things that happened in their childhood which have not come to their minds for sixty to seventy years.If we have kept something in our memory, it is here.But can we get it out again and use it? That is the difficulty. Some of the information we receive only goes into the Short Term Memory.We only keep this information for a minute or two,then we lose it.This temporary memory is very important in our thinking and understanding.It is used,for example,when you try to remember a name that someone told you a moment ago or a telephone number that you are going to dial .School children in class often seem to use the Short Term Memory if they are not interested in the subject.When school teachers describe this,they say that things go\"in one ear and out in the other\".But if a child is interested,he puts the information in his Long Term Memory, and he never loses it.Long Term Memory depends heavily on our understanding of the meaning of the information we receive. Question: If a school child is not interested in a subject, _ . - he forgets what he learns quickly - he memorizes what he learns quickly - he forgets what he learns slowly - he memorizes what he learns slowly\nA: he forgets what he learns quickly\n\nQuestion: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: November 9 is a time for us to learn a lot more about fire . This is what to do in a fire: 1.Shout out. Shout as loudly as you can, because people may be asleep. 2.Call 119. Never try to put out a fire yourself. Tell 119 where you are and what is on fire. 3.Keep down close to the floor. There is less smoke down there, so it's easier to breathe and see where you are going. 4.Test the door. If the door is cool, open it carefully. If the door is hot, do not open it! Try to find a different way out. 5.Get out. Do not stop to pick up anything. A fire can become very big in a few seconds! 6.Don't use the lift. Always use the stairs. The lift may go wrong and keep you inside. 7.Don't go back .Even if you have left your pet or favorite toy inside, do not go back for it. Animals have a very good sense of smell. They often get out of buildings before people. Question: According to the passage, when something is on fire, you must _ at once. - look for your pet - telephone 119 - call 120 - put out the fire yourself\nAnswer: telephone 119\n\n*Question*\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Dear Sammy, I'm sorry I can't go to the Sports Center with you today.I have to see a doctor. Here are the directions to the Sports Center. From our house, go right ahead on Main Avenue. Walk past the police station and the City Fountain. Then cross the bridge. At the other side of the river, turn right. The Sports Center is on your left. You can't miss it. The basketball game starts at 1:00 p.m. so don't be late. By the way, let's have some ice-cream after you finish playing. We can meet at Choco's Ice-Cream Shop. It's right around the corner from the Sports Center. Your game should be over at 3:00 p.m. so I'll meet you there 10 minutes later. Have fun! Mom Question: Where is Choco's Ice-Cream Shop? - It's on Main Avenue. - It's near the Sports Center. - It's near the City Fountain. - It's on the left of the police station.\n**Answer**\nIt's near the Sports Center.\n\n*Question*\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: We live in the computer age. People use computers to do much of their work. But few people know how to look after them. Remember the following when you use your computer: 1.Keep your computer in a cool, dry room. Too much or too little heat is bad for computers. Damp is also bad for them. 2.Do not let people smoke near your computer. Smoke of all kinds is very bad for many parts of a computer. 3.Do not eat or drink when you are near your computer. Pieces of food and a little water in the keyboard are also bad for a computer. 4.Keep your screen clean and do not have it too bright. They are bad for your eyes. Make sure the screen is not too far from or too near your eyes. Some people use different glasses to protect their eyes when they use a computer. Question: Smoke is not good for many parts of a computer, is it? - Yes,it is. - No,it isn't. - Yes,a little. - Not at all.\n**Answer**\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Yes,it is.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: When we buy a house, we all want to have nice neighbours, because most of us think that it is helpful to live with some good neighbours. But what kind of neighbour is good? The answers are different from people to people. Here are my answers. First, it is very important to respect each other. If our neighbours try to know more about our life, what will we feel? He or she may also talk with others about our life. Do you want to live with him or her any more? The answer is \"No\". We will feel very sad to have this kind of neighbour and move away quickly. Next, a good neighbour is always ready to give us a hand when we need him or her. For example, if we are not at home, our good neighbours will watch our house for us. Finally, a good neighbour should love the environment . He or she never puts rubbish here and there. Good neighbours should keep the place clean, because the good environment can make us comfortable and happy. I think we all should learn to be good neighbours, and I also hope everyone will have good neighbours and live a happy life. Question: What is the best title for this passage? - What kind of neighbour is good. - I have some good neighbours - How to have good neighbours - My neighbours\nA: What kind of neighbour is good.\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Choose the best answer (,): David Copperfield is one of the world's most famous magicians . He became the youngest member of the Society of American Magicians when he was 12. Now he is famous all over the world. In 1983, he made the Statue of Liberty in New York disappear for a few minutes. In 1986, Copperfield first came to China. He walked through the Great Wall in Beijing! During his second visit in 2002, lots of Chinese people were lucky enough to enjoy his shows. Copperfield's shows are not just magic. He also dances and does lots of interesting things to make his fans happy. He even asks his fans to help him do tricks ! One of Copperfield's greatest tricks is flying. In his shows in China, he even made some fans fly around the theatre! In another trick, an electric saw cut Copperfield's body into two halves. Copperfield's magic is different each time. What do you think he will do next time? It will be fun to wait and see! Question: When did Copperfield come to China first? - In 1983. - In 1986. - In 2002. - In 2011.\nA: In 1986.\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: The word \"shanzhai\" originally means \"mountain village\",but it means\"copy\"in Chinese now. I started to research this topic and found a whole new shanzhai world.There are shanzhai products and online games,even shanzhai culture.It is so popular that some people say to each other \"have you shanzhaied today\"?Like it or not,shanzhai has become part of our life in China. I even met a famous engineer recently who has just had his shanzhai mobile phone.He was so proud of it and would not stop talking about all the functions while showing off the look of his phone.I could hardly see the back cover as he had stuck fake logos \"iPhone\",\"No-kia\"&\"LG\"on it. But why has shanzhai become so popular in China? Why do over 50 percent of the people surveyed by CCTV support it? Firstly,many may not realize it but for Chinese people,the word \"shanzhai\" also reminds us of\" the heroes of Liangshan\".Secondly, there would be no shanzhai without the Internet.Shanzhai has caught the interest of millions of Chinese online. There are also shanzhai celebrities.Many shanzhai singers can be seen performing in some places where people cannot see performances by the actual\"real\"stars.These events are very successful,even though people know that they are not getting the\"real\"thing. Question: Shanzhai is a popular word in _ . - Japan - America - China - England\nA: China\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Have you ever complained that life is so tiring or that there is too much homework? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you look at the world with a warm heart, you will find that the whole world smiles at you. While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you noticed the happy smile on your teacher's face when you do a good job? If one day it is fine, but just before you go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather. Dear friends, why don't you sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature offers you? Also with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest. Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can't be avoided. I think failure is not terrible. The terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident of ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, \"Failure is the mother of the success.\" Attitude decides everything, with an _ attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let's smile at whatever we meet and the whole world will smiles at us. ,. Question: When we face failure, we _ . - mustn't be confident - should be afraid of everything - shouldn't give up hope - must lose heart\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: shouldn't give up hope", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: When you watch TV programs about wild animals, it is surprising to see how an antelope can escape a lion's attack. In the wilderness, everyone has a stunt. Even plants have their own ways of fighting off enemies. Over millions of years of evolution, plants have developed a unique defence system. Chemicals are wildly used for survival. By making their leaves, flowers, roots and fruits distasteful or poisonous to enemies, plants can fight back. One such plant is the Golden Wattle tree. The British scientist David Cameron has found when an animal eats the tree's leaves, the amount of poison increases in the other leaves. \"It's like the damaged leaves telephoning the others telling them to fight together against the enemy, \" he said. The tree also sends defence messages to neighboring plants by giving out a special smell. Golden Wattle trees in the surrounding 45 meters will get the message and produce more poison within 10 minutes. Now, if an enemy eats too many of the trees' leaves, it will die. Every species of plant or tree is good at the production of a particular set of chemicals. A _ that can safely eat the leaves of one tree may be poisoned by its neighbor. In this way, plants have developed not only individual defence system, but also shared it with others. This makes it impossible for a single animal to destroy even a small area of forest. Question: Which of the following can be the best title of the passage? Options: A: Plants Fight back with Poisons B: Plants Can Kill Animals C: Animals and Plants D: Lions and Antelopes\nA\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Sorry to say, our brains naturally start slowing down at the cruelly young age of 30. it used to be thought that this couldn't be helped, but new studies show that people of any age can train their brains to work faster . \"Your brain is a learning machine,\" says prefix = st1 /UniversityofCaliforniascientist Dr. Micha3el Merzenich. Given the right tools, we can train our brains to act like they did when we were younger. All that's required is the practice designed just for the purpose: a few exercises for the mind. Merzenich has developed a computer-based training method to speed up the process in which the brain deals with information (positence. com). Since much of the data we receive comes through speech, the Brain Fitness Program works with language and hearing to better speed and accuracy . Over the course of training, the program starts asking you to distinguish sounds (between \"dog\" and \"dog\", for example) at an increasingly faster speed. It's a bit like tennis instructor, says Merzenich, hitting balls at you faster and faster to keep you challenged . You may start out slow, but before long you're pretty quick. The biggest finding in brain research in the last ten years is that _ If you ask your brain to learn, it will learn. And it may even speed up while in the process. To keep your brain young and plastic you can do one of a million new activities that challenge and excite you: playing table tennis or bridge, doing crossword puzzles, learning a language....\"When it comes to preventing ageing, you really do 'use it or lose it\", says Barbara Sahakian, professor at CambridgeUniversity. Question: Dr. Merzenich's training method mainly depends on _ . Options: A: speech training B: computer languages C: the activities one joins in D: the information being dealt with\nA\n\nQ: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: If your family is thinking of getting a pet, consider adopting from an animal shelter. Animal shelters are full of dogs, cats, rabbits, and more animals, all in need of loving homes. Some may come with emotional or behavioral issues, but most are happy, healthy, and ready for a loving home. Here are some tips for you to find great animals. Make some decision. Think about what you want in a pet and remember that all pets have different personalities. Cats tend to be more independent and need less affection, but kittens need lots of attention. Cats don't need to be walked, but you need to clip their nails and play with them. Dogs need to be walked at the very least twice a day. However, they are usually great companions and love to spend time with their family. Visit the shelter. Set aside at least a few hours to visit shelters in your area--remember that you may need to visit more than one visit. Try to bring along everyone who will be living with a new pet. Ask the shelter staff lots of questions. And never adopt an animal because you feel sorry for it--be patient so you find a pet who is truly a good match for your family. Get everything ready. Buy all necessary supplies and food well before the animal comes home. Make sure that the entire household is in agreement about rules and responsibilities--will the dog be allowed on the couch? Who will clean the litter box? Put it in writing before the pet arrives. Bring your new friend home! You'll probably be excited when your new pet arrives, but be sure to give them space and time to get adjusted to a new home and a new family. The pet may act differently once they leave the shelter. Interact with your pet a lot and get them used to a routine, and soon you'll be one big happy family ! Question: The article is most likely intended for _ . Options: A: animal shelters B: shelter staff C: pet lovers D: pet protectors\nA: C\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: At the age of sixteen,I joined a volunteer group with my dad. I went on my first volunteer project in West Virginia. On the night we arrived, we discovered that \"our family\" was living in a trailer that was in poor condition. A crew had been working on it for two weeks,but every time they finished one problem,another surfaced(, ). We decided the only reasonable solution was to build a new house--something unusual but necessary under these circumstances. The family was overjoyed with their new house that was twenty by thirty feet with three bedrooms,a bath and a kitchen. On Tuesday of that week, while we were eating lunch together,I asked the family's three boys,Josh,Eric and Ryan,\"What do you want for your new room?\"Expecting toys and other gadgets that children usually ask for, we were astonished when Josh responded,\"I just want a bed.\" The boys had never slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats. That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect gift. On Thursday night, a few adults in our group drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding. When we saw the delivery truck coming,we told the family about the surprise. We could hardly control ourselves. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning. That afternoon, as we fitted the frames of the beds together, Eric ran into the house to watch us. Too dirty to enter his room,he observed with wideeyed enthusiasm from the doorway. As my father slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows,Eric asked,\"What is that?\" \"A pillow,\" he replied. \"What do you do with it?\" Eric continued to ask. \"When you go to sleep,you put your head on it,\" I answered softly. Tears came to my eyes as my father handed Eric the pillow. \"Oh...that's soft,\" he said,hugging it tightly. Now,when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems urgent,my dad gently asks, \"Doyouhaveapillow?\" We know exactly what he means. Question: On hearing Josh's answer, the writer was shocked because _ . Options: A: the family lived in a trailer B: he expected to get some toys C: he didn't know what a bed was D: the boys had no bed to sleep in\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Question:\nMulti-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:\n\nA man is shown speaking to several groups of people and leads them down a beach. The people are wearing scuba gear and are shown swimming around the ocean. the people\n\nOPTIONS:\n- then get into the water on inflatable boats and go under the water.\n- wave to the camera while continuing to swim and end by walking out of the water.\n- continue speaking while information is shown on the screen.\n- are surf boarding in the ocean while looking around and smiling to one another.\n****\nAnswer:\nwave to the camera while continuing to swim and end by walking out of the water.\n\nProblem: What happens next in this paragraph?\n\nHow to sneak reading books at night \nGet the supplies : \nA book and a flashlight, or just a kindle. \nAct natural, like you're going to sleep. \nHaving your own room helps.\nOPTIONS:\n- Don't get out your book/kindle just yet. Quietly, get out your book/kindle.\n- You can sometimes sneak reading all at once! Make a habit of getting out of bed at the same time every day. Always wake up at the same time the next day.\n- Whenever you're focused and won't be disturbed you will be less likely to get caught. Study : Go to a library where you won't be tempted to read your book so get a library textbook.\n- ( if possible, make sure that your parents or guardians can access your bedroom. ) In order to sneak reading in your bed, lie on your back, with your legs wide open, as if you're trying to open a book in front of you.\nA: Don't get out your book/kindle just yet. Quietly, get out your book/kindle.\n\nA man is showing a boy trying to solve a rubix cube. a timer\n\nOPTIONS:\n- is in the sky repeating the lesson while dave talks to him about it.\n- counts down from a top hat as he holds the cube.\n- is going to time the boy and other people around him are trying as well.\n- is blowing, the man solves the puzzle, and poses to the camera.\n\nis going to time the boy and other people around him are trying as well.\n\nquestion: Complete the next sentence:\n\nHow to set up an eclectus habitat \nBuy the largest aviary/cage possible. \nThe cage you use should be a minimum of 3 feet wide (. 91 m), 2 feet deep (. 6 m), and 4 feet high (1.22 m). Providing a large cage will ensure that your bird has the room it needs to thrive.\nOPTIONS:\n- For rabbits, you may need to provide 6-7 feet (1.2-1.8 m). For grubs, you may need to provide 12 feet (1.2 m).\n- It may not be possible to make 4 or more large aviaries from the same amount of space you have available. Think about modular aviaries when choosing habitats in your area.\n- You'll also want to remove any spots where birds may coo, perch, and dive for food. Space the aviary on higher ground so that it is positioned so that birds cannot reach beneath it.\n- The cage should be relatively wide so the eclectus can flap its wings. Bar/wire spacing should not be no more than ¾ of an inch (1.9 cm) wide.\n\nanswer: The cage should be relatively wide so the eclectus can flap its wings. Bar/wire spacing should not be no more than ¾ of an inch (1.9 cm) wide.\n\nProblem: Write the next sentence for:\nA group of team mates are inside a gym. They are playing a game of volleyball. they\n\nOPTIONS:\n- hit the ball back and forth over the net.\n- move to and fro, smiling to the camera.\n- hit the ball over and over again.\n- go back and forth, trying to keep the ball from hitting each other..\n\nNext sentence: hit the ball back and forth over the net.\n\nIN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:\nHow to play dogz on your gba \nGet your gba. \nIf your game is new, there probably won't be any saved data. Be careful if you have already played before a little, because you may delete that data.\nOPTIONS:\n- If you are starting over, make sure that you won't regret it. Only start a new game if you have decided that you want to start fresh or its the first time you're playing.\n- Save to your gba, to test it out and be sure you've set the correct file size and duration. You want to try to match its memory to the save duration.\n- When the puppy pees on the floor, it's all busy urinating on the ground! Learn about this puppy's natural pee pong. If you use one, you can play with both of these options : Puppy pee sounds better when used in tandem.\n- If your gba is not running, you can just skip this step. You can also play the game on your ios device.\n\nOUT:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "If you are starting over, make sure that you won't regret it. Only start a new game if you have decided that you want to start fresh or its the first time you're playing.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Finding the Real You Psychometric testing--personality testing--has been very popular nowadays as studies show their results to be three times more accurate in predicting your job performance. These tests are now included in almost all graduate recruitment and are widely used in the selection of managers. The most popular of these personality tests is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). It is based on the theory that we are born with a tendency to one personality type which stays more or less fixed throughout life. You answer 88 questions and are then given your \"type\", such as Outgoing or Quiet, Feeling or Thinking. Critics of personality testing raise doubts about \"social engineering\". Psychologist Dr. Colin Gill warns that the \"popular\" personality traits have their disadvantages. \"People who are extremely open to new experiences can be butterflies, going from one idea to the next without mastering any of them.\" However, the psychometric test is here to stay, which may be why a whole sub-industry on cheating personality tests has sprung up. \"It's possible to cheat,\" admits Gill, \"but having to pretend to be the person you are at work will be tiring and unhappy and probably short-lived.\" So can we change our personality? \"Your basic personality is fixed by the time you're 21,\"says Gill,\" but it can be affected by motivation and intelligence. If you didn't have the personality type to be a doctor but desperately wanted to be one and were intelligent enough to master the skills, you could still go ahead. But trying to go too much against type for too long requires much energy and is actually to be suffered for long. I think it's why we're seeing this trend for downshifting--too many people trying to fit in to a type that they aren't really suited for.\" Our interest in personality now exists in every part of our lives. If you ask an expert for advice on anything, you'll probably be quizzed about your personality. But if personality tests have any value to us, perhaps it is to free us from the idea that... Question: In Dr. Gill's view, how easy is it to change your personality? Options: A: It's possible in your adult life. B: It's easy if you have great motivation. C: It's difficult before the age of 21. D: It's unlikely because it requires much energy.\nA: D\n\n\nQ: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Bicycle Safety Operation Always ride your bike in a safe, controlled manner on campus . Obey rules and regulations. Watch out for walkers and other bicyclists, and always use your lights in dark conditions. Theft Prevention Always securely lock your bicycle to a bicycle rack -- even if you are only away for a minute. Register your bike with the University Department of Public Safety. It's fast, easy, and free. Registration permanently records your serial number, which is useful in the possible recovery of the bike stolen. Equipment Brakes Make sure that they are in good working order and adjusted properly. Helmet A necessity, make sure your helmet meets current safety standards and fits properly. Lights Always have a front headlight -- visible at least 500 feet in front of the bike. A taillight is a good idea. Rules of the Road Riding on Campus As a bicycle rider, you have a responsibility to ride only on streets and posted bicycle paths. Riding on sidewalks or other walkways can lead to a fine. The speed limit for bicycles on campus is 15 mph, unless otherwise posted. Always give the right of way to walkers. If you are involved in an accident, you are required to offer appropriate aid, call the Department of Public Safety and remain at the scene until the officer lets you go. Bicycle Parking Only park in areas reserved for bikes. Trees, handrails, hallways, and sign posts are not for bicycle parking, and parking in such spots can result in a fine. If Things Go Wrong If you break the rules, you will be fined. Besides violating rules while riding bicycles on campus, you could be fined for: No bicycle registration ............................................. $25 Bicycle parking banned .............................................$30 Blocking path with bicycle ........................................$40 Violation of bicycle equipment requirement ......................$35 Question: What is the passage mainly about? Options: A: Directions for bicycle tour on campus. B: Regulations of bicycle race on campus. C: Rules for riding motor vehicles on campus. D: A guide for safe bicycling on campus.\nA: D\n\n\nQ: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Life in 2060 Let us suppose it is now about A.D. 2060. Let's make believe(;) it is about sixty years from now. Of course, things have changed and life is very different. Voyages to the moon are being made every day. It is as easy to take a holiday on the moon today as it was for the people in 1960 to take a holiday in Europe. At a number of scenic spots on the moon, many hotels have been built. The hotels are air-conditioned, naturally. In order that everyone can enjoy the beautiful scenery on the moon, every room has at least one picture window. Everything imaginable is provided for entertainment of young and old. What are people eating now? People are still eating food. They haven't yet started to take on heir supply of energy directly as electrical current or as nuclear power. They may some day. But many foods now come in pill form, and the food that goes into the pill continues to come mainly from green plants. Since there are several times as many people in the world today as there were a hundred years ago, most of our planet's surface has to be filled. The deserts are irrigated with water and crops are no longer destroyed by pests. The harvest is always good. Farming, of course, is very highly developed. Very few people have to work on the farm. It is possible to run the farm by just pushing a few buttons now and then. People are now largely vegetarians . You see, as the number of people increases, the number of animals decreases. Therefore, the people have to be vegetarians and we are healthier both in our bodies and in our minds, and we know the causes and cure of disease and pain, and it is possible to get rid of diseases. No one has to be ill any more. Such would be our life in 2060. Question: The passage tells us that in 2060, _ on the earth than now. Options: A: there are fewer population B: there are more pests C: there is less water D: the crops are getting better\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Article: This Thursday, across the USA, kids are skipping school and going to work with their parents. They'll be making copies, sending faxes and sweeping floors. This is because April 28 is Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day all over the USA. This holiday shows kids what it means to be a grown-up in the working world. I still remember when this day started, I was very happy. Not only did I have the chance to miss school, but I also got to sit in my dad's taxi all day long and we would go to a restaurant for lunch. But after only 20 minutes of driving around the city, I was very bored. couldn't read my book in the car as I would get carsick and my dad didn't like to turn on the radio. I got hot and uncomfortable. People wouldn't get into his taxi because they thought he already had a passenger-me, so nothing happened. It seemed years before we went out for lunch. I actually started to miss school. While the point of the day is to give kids a chance to experience real-life jobs and give them an idea of the possibilities for their futures, I got something completely different from the day. I learned to appreciate school. Where else do you get to play with your friends, do science experiments, read great books and write stories all in one day? Just as you'll have to learn to love your job later in life, learn to love school now. If you don't already, try spending the day at work with your dad. Question: What did the writer learn that day? Yes or no, is the answer \"School life is much better.\"?\nA: Yes\n\n\nQ: Article: Choose the best answer (,) I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment , and sat down in my seat.Just before take-off,a line of soldiers came down the aisle and filled all the empty seats. After flying for about an hour,an announcement was made that sack lunch were available for $5.As I reached for my wallet to buy one,I overheard the soldier ask his buddy if he planned to buy lunch.\"No ,that seems like a lot of money for just a sack lunch.I'll wait till we get to Chicago.\"His friend agreed. I looked around at the other soldiers.None were buying lunch.I walked to the back of the plane,and handed the flight attendant a $50 bill.\" Take a lunch to all those soldiers.\" After we finished eating. I went again to the back of the plane,heading for the restroom.A man stopped me.\"I saw what you did.I want to be part of it.Here,take this.\"He handed me $25. Soon after I returned to my seat,I saw the Flight Captain coming down the aisle. When he got to my row,he stopped and said,\"I want to shake your hand.I was a soldier and I was a military pilot.Once,someone bought me a lunch. It was an act of kindness I never forgot.\"I was embarrassed when applause was heard from all of the passengers. Later I walked to the front of the plane so I could stretch my legs.A man who was seated about six rows in front of me reached out his hand,wanting to shake mine.He left another $25 in my hand. We landed in Chicago,I picked up my belongings.Waiting just inside the airplane door was a man who stopped me and put something in my shirt pocket.Another $25. Upon entering the terminal ,I saw the soldiers gathering for their trip to their base.I walked over to them and handed them $75.\"It will take you some time to reach the base.It will be about time for a sandwich.God Bless You.\"I said. These soldiers were giving their all for our country.I could only give them a couple of meals.It seemed so little. Question: The writer received from the other passengers in the end. Yes or no, is the answer \"$75\"?\nA: No\n\n\nQ: Article: This is a teacher's family . The father's name is Lake Smith . He's forty - four . The mother's name is Kate Smith . She's forty - two . The Smiths have a son , Jim , and a daughter , Ann . Jim is fourteen , and Ann is twelve . The son looks like his father , and the daughter looks like her mother . They are all in No.4 Middle School here . But the Smiths are teachers ; the son and daughter are students . Question: Ann's mother's name is _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"Kate Smith\"?\nA: No\n\n\nQ: Article: Roald Dahl was one of the most successful writers of children's books. He sold millions of books all over the world. Many of his books have been made into films and videos. He is so famous that there is even a Roald Dahl Museum you can visit. Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales, Britain. His father was rich but he died when Roald was very young. Roald and his mother lived a hard life. He had to leave school and went to Africa where he worked for an oil company. In 1939 Roald became a pilot, but he had a bad accident. It made him limp for the rest of his life. After this, Roald went to America where he wrote a story about his experience as a pilot. It was so good that it was put in a magazine. Roald married an American film star. They bought a house in England and had five children. From 1960 to 1965, _ : Theo, one of his children, was hit by a taxi and was seriously hurt. Olivia, one of Roald's daughters, died of a strange illness. Soon after this, his wife also had a serious illness. It took her years to get completely better. Gradually Roald became more and more successful. He always did his writing in an old shed at the back of his house. He always sat in the same old armchair with a wooden board on his lap. _ In 1983 Roald won a big prize for his book The BFG. During his life, Roald wrote many famous books, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Fantastic Mr. Fox. After he died in 1990, Roald left money to help people with serious illnesses and those with problems with reading and writing. Question: After Roald went to America, he _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"wrote a story about his pilot experience\"?\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "(Question)\nArticle: Students who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills. They are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol and tobacco use as their single classmates, according to new research from the University of Georgia. \"Romantic relationships are a trademark of adolescence, but very few studies have examined how adolescents differ in the development of these relationships,\" said Pamela Orpinas, study author and professor in the College of Public Health and head of the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior.[: _ Z _ X _ X _ K] Orpinas followed a group of 624 students over a seven-year period from 6th to 12th grade. Each year, the group of students completed a survey indicating whether they had dated and reported the frequency of different behaviors, including the use of drugs and alcohol. Their teachers completed questionnaires about the students' academic efforts. He found some students never or hardly ever reported dating from middle to high school, and these students had consistently the best study skills according to their teachers. Other students dated infrequently in middle school but increased the frequency of dating in high school. \"At all points in time, teachers rated the students who reported the lowest frequency of dating as having the best study skills and the students with the highest dating as having the worst study skills,\" according to the journal article. Study skills refer to behaviors that lead to academic success such as doing work for extra credit being well organized, finishing homework, working hard and reading assigned chapters. \"Dating a classmate may have the same emotional complications of dating a co-worker,\" Orpinas said, \"When the couple break up, they have to continue to see each other in class and perhaps witness the ex-partner dating someone else. It is reasonable to think this could be linked to depression and divert attention from studying.\" \"Dating should not be considered a ceremony of growth in middle school,\" Orpinas concluded. Question: Orpinas' attitude towards dating in middle school is _ Yes or no, is the answer \"negative\"?\n(Answer)\nNo\n\n\n(Question)\nArticle: The Internet will open up new vistas , create the global village----you can make new friends all around the world. That, at least, is what it promised us. The difficulty is that it did not take the human mind into account. The reality is that we cannot keep relationships with more than a limited number of people. No matter how hard the Internet tries to put you in communication, its best efforts will be defeated by your mind. The problem is twofold . First, there is a limit on the number of people we can hold in mind and have a meaningful relationship with. That number is about 150 and is set by the size of our brain. Second, the quality of your relationships depends on the amount of time you invest in then. We invest a lot in a small number of people and then distribute what's left among as many others as we can. The problem is that if we invest little time in a person, our _ with that person will decline until eventually it dies into \"someone I once knew\". This is not, of course, to say that the Internet doesn't serve a socially valuable function. Of course it does. But the question is not that it allows you to increase the size of your social circle to include the rest of the world, but that you can keep your relationships with your existing friends going even though you have to move to the other side of the world. In one sense, that's a good thing. But it also has a disadvantage. If you continue to invest in your old friends even though you can no longer see them, then certainly you aren't using your time to make new friends where you now live. And I suspect that probably isn't the best use of your time. Meaningful relationships are about being able to communicate with each other, face to face. The Internet will slow down the rate with which relationships end, but it won't stop that happening eventually. Question: The number of friends we can keep relationships with is decided by _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"the mind\"?\n(Answer)\nNo\n\n\n(Question)\nArticle: The best UK cottages for Christmas and New Year _ It's a solid little Victorian gatehouse outside Ballycastle. It has an association with Irish nationalist Roger Casement. Close to the Causeway Coast, the closest beach is five minutes' drive away. It is a good choice for those who want to avoid stairs, since all the main rooms are on the ground floor. Sleeps 2 adults + 2 children, PS730 a week at Christmas or New Year (three nights from PS389), 353 1 670 4733, irishlandmark.com _ It is located in a peaceful island, where a priory was built 1,400 years ago. Guests at Coastguard's Cottage, the latest addition to English Heritage's portfolio of holiday houses, can explore the priory ruins. The attractive whitewashed house is decorated with calming tones and contemporary furnishings and has views of Lindisfarne Castle. Sleeps 6, PS1,600 a week from 19 Dec, 0370 333 1187, english-heritage.org.uk _ It sits on a 350-acre private nature reserve. Surrounded by woodlands, wetlands and wild meadows, it's a heaven for wildlife. You might meet a few animals on a walk around the reserve. Built by local craftsmen using natural materials, it is a light-filled living space with huge windows, a woodburner and other essential for winter evenings -- a home cinema system. Sleeps 6, PS1,430 a week from 29 Dec, 01580 720770 kentandSussexcottages.co.uk _ In snowy winter, the quiet 16th-century cottage near Stowmarket is like a perfect picture on Christmas cards. The inside is also appealing, with a big farmhouse kitchen, antique furniture, comfortable carpets and an impressive fireplace. A good selection of films, music and books are provided. Approached via a single track lane, the cottage sits in three acres of wild meadow, surrounded by plenty of farmland. Sleeps 5, PS1,003 a week from 30 Dec (three nights PS725), 01787 211115, grove-cottages.co.uk Question: How much will be charged if a couple with two children stay in Victorian gatehouse for a week at Christmas? Yes or no, is the answer \"PS730.\"?\n(Answer)\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: A nickname is a shortened form of a person's name.A nickname can also be a descriptive name for a person,place or thing,Many American cities have nicknames.Nicknames can also be funny. Los Angeles,California is the second largest city in population,after New York City. Los Angeles has several nicknames.One is L.A.It is also called the City ofAngels because Los Angeles means\"the angels\"in Spanish. Los Angeles often has warm,sunny, weather.So another nickname is City of Flowers and Sunshine.New York is called The Big Apple.So Los Angeles is sometimes called The Big Orange because ofthe fruit that grows in that city's warm climate. Many films are made in the area of Los Angeles called Hollywood.Millions of people visit the area.So it is also called The Entertainment Capital of the World.No trip to Los Angeles is excellent without seeing the word\"Hollywood\"spelled out in huge letters on a hillside. Many movie stars live in Los Angeles.The city is sometimes called Tinseltown.This nickname comes from the shiny,bright and often unreal nature of Hollywood and the movie industry.Another nickname for Los Angeles is La--La Land,using the first letters of Los and Angeles. The city of Los Angeles is part of Los Angeles County .There are many smaller cities in the coBnty.A good place for watching unusual--looking people is Venice(after the Italian city of Venice),an area on the west side of Los Angeles. Many people love Los Angeles for its warm sunny weather,beautiful mountains and beaches,and movie stars. Question: Los Angeles is called City of Flowers and Sunshine because _ . Options: A: many movie stars live there B: it's very sunny and warm C: there are many angels D: there is a place called\"Venice\"\nB\n(Question)\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: When you're having a holiday, one of the main questions to ask is which hotel or apartment to choose. However, when it comes to France, you have another special choice: treehouses. In France, treehouses are offered to travelers as a new choice in many places. The price may be a little higher, but you do have a chance to _ your childhood memories. Alain Laurens, one of France's top treehouse designers, said, \"Most of the people might have the experience of building a den when they were young. And they like that feeling of freedom when they are children.\" Its fairy-tale style gives travelers a special feeling. It seems as if they are living as a forest king and enjoying the fresh air in the morning. Another kind of treehouse is the \"star cube\". It gives travelers the chance of looking at the stars shining in the sky when they are going to sleep. Each \"star cube\" not only offers all the comfortable things that a hotel provides for travelers, but also gives them a chance to look for stars by using a telescope. The glass roof allows you to look at the stars from your bed. ,. Question: What's the roof of the \"star cube\" made of? Options: A: Plastic. B: Glass. C: Paper. D: Stones.\n(Answer)\nB\nQues: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Venice is a great place in the world. People call it \"City of Water\" because it is built on the water just like some stone buildings floating on the water. There are more than 350 bridges in the city. It's in the southeast of Italy. You can hardly hear the sound of cars in the city. All transportation is by boat or on foot. And the most popular vehicle is gondola . You can see the beautiful sights and at the same time hear Italian operas on it. It's also a city of art and music. It played a very important role in the Renaissance . There are a lot of buildings there. Venice is a special and unique place in the world, so a lot of people come to visit it every year. It's better to visit the city in July, August, or September. And the people who come here will never forget this beautiful place. Question: When is better to visit Venice? Options: A: In June and July. B: In August and September. C: In September and October. D: In May and July.\nAns: B\n(Q).\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Do your parents ever say, \"act like a lady\" or \"be a gentleman\" to you? But in the eyes of today's teenagers , what should a lady or a gentleman be like? Let's take a look. What is a gentleman? The girls have their ideas: Huang Xiaoyu of Guizhou: A gentleman doesn't always get angry . He wants others to be well and happy. He is always ready to help. There is a boy in my class and I think he is a gentleman. If I don't do well in the English exam, he will say, \"You will do better next time.\" That makes me feel happy. Chen Tingting of Shenzhen: A gentleman always says, \"Ladies first\" When students clean up the classroom, he does the heavy work. He lets girls go into rooms first. There are no gentlemen in my class. When there is something to eat, the boys in my class always get them before girls! What is a lady? Boys tell us what they think a lady is: Wu Yifan of Dalian: A lady is quiet and kind, but she's not shy and she can talk about her ideas in front of others. To me, Dong Jie, a film star, is a lady. She is pretty and kind. She does a lot for others. Wang Lichao of Tianjin: A lady is not just beautiful but clever. She never says bad words. She is quiet and kind to others. I don't think there is a lady in my class. Most of the girls are \" \", I think. Question: What does Huang Xiaoyu think a gentleman will do if she doesn't do well in the English exam? Options: A: He will say \"You'll do better next time\". B: He will get angry. C: He will say \"You're so careless .\" D: He will laugh at her.\n(A).\nA\nQues: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: What would turkeys do if they could think like us? Maybe the first thing is to run away from our dinner! That's the idea of Reggie and Jake. They are two turkeys in the new movie Free Birds (<<>> ). On Thanksgiving Day, people in the United States eat turkeys. But why? Reggie and Jake want a change. In a time machine, they go back to the first Thanksgiving in 1621. Reggie liked to be alone . But this time, he learns to become part of a team to make a big change. Question: When do the US people usually eat turkey? Options: A: On Thanksgiving Day. B: At Halloween C: Any time D: At Easter\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Let us begin by saying what does not cause our dreams. Our dreams do not come from \"another world \". They are not messages from outside source. They are not a look into the future , either . All our dreams have something to do with our feelings, fears, longings, wishes, needs and memories. If a person is hungry , or tired or cold , his dreams may include a feeling of this kind .If the covers on your body , such as a quilt or a blanket have slipped off your bed , you may dream that you are sleeping on the ice and snow. The material for the dream you will have tonight is likely to come from the experience you have today. So the subject of your dream usually comes from something that has effect on you while you are sleeping (feeling of cold, a noise, a discomfort, etc.) and it may also use your past experiences and the wishes and the interests you have now.This is why children are likely to dream of fairies, older children of school examinations, hungry people of food, home-sick soldiers of their families and prisoners of freedom. To show you how this is happening while you are asleep and how your needs and wishes can all be joined together in a dream , here is the story of the experiment.A man was asleep and the back of his hand was rubbed with a piece of absorbed cotton.He would dream he was in hospital and his charming girlfriend was visiting him , sitting on the bed and feeling gently his hands! There are some scientists who have made a special study of why we dream, what we dream and what those dreams mean.Their explanations of dreams , though a bit reasonable, is not accepted by everyone but it offers an interesting approach to the problem.They believe that dreams are mostly expressions of wishes that do not come true.In other words, dreams are a way of having your wishes carried out. Question: What is the best title for this passage ? - Why People Dream ? - New Findings about Dreams - Dream Makes Hopes - What Dreams Mean ?\nWhy People Dream ?\n\n\n(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Vincent Van Gogh was an important painter of the 19thcentury. He was born in Holland, but he lived much of his life inprefix = st1 /France. He was a very emotional man, and there was much suffering in his life. His style of painting was very different from classical art. He painted pictures of sunny, hot regions ofFrance. He looked for interesting shapes and exciting colours. He liked to work freely and quickly. There is a fast movement in many of his paintings. Sometimes the trees look like fire. The sun, the moon, and stars move rapidly in the sky. He also painted pictures of people. Like his life, his art was always unusual and very emotional. Paul Gauguin was another 19-century painter. He was French and a friend of Van Gogh. Before he became an artist, Gauguin had been a businessman for many years. He made a lot of money, and he likes to buy modern paintings. At the age of 354, Gauguin decided to become a painter himself. Gauguin wanted to discover more important things about man. He went to a different part of Franceto live with the farmers. He painted pictures of French country people there. Two years later he went to live in a small place in the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles fromFrance. He wanted to learn about the simple life there. His most famous and interesting paintings were painted at that time. Question: Gauguin painted many pictures of _ . - country people - the sun - trees - landscape\n(Answer)\ncountry people\n\n\nQues: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Charlie works in a post office. His father lost his job five years ago and his mother is often ill. And he has two brothers and a sister. He works hard and tries his best to buy enough food for his family. Last month his family had to move to an old house outside the city. It's farther from the post office and he has to get up early in the morning in order to catch the 6:30 train. The head of his office is strict and everybody has to get there on time. He knows what it'll mean if he's late. A friend of his had pity on him and lent his old car to him. The young man was happy and from then on he could go to work by car. Last Saturday Charlie went to buy some medicine for his mother. Bad luck! When he came out of the shop, he couldn't find the car. He was quite worried and began to look for it in front of the shop but he didn't find it. Suddenly he saw a woman parked a car there and hurried into the shop. Charlie saw the car wasn't locked. He got on it and drove it at once. He was afraid the loser would run after him and drove fast. A truck hit it at a crossing and he lost consciousness. This morning the young man came back to life and saw there were a few policemen standing by his bed. He asked, \"Where am I?\" \"In Room 103.\" \"In hospital or in prison ?\" Question: There're _ people in Charlie's family. - four - five - six - seven\nAns: six\n\n\nQues: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Television, which made its first serious appearance in 1939, did not become common until the early 1950s. Since then, millions of children have grown up in front of the set, and many people now worry about the effect that TV has on the young, and on society in general. Educators, psychologists, and crime experts wonder if television should be abolished . Many ordinary parents wish it had never been invented. Why are they so afraid? Is television as harmful as they think it is? Like almost anything else, television has its good and its bad sides. One should surely thank its inventors for the joy and interest that they have brought into the lives of the old, the sick, and the lonely -- all those who, without it, would have no pleasure and no window on the world. In truth, television has opened windows in everybody's life. No newspaper has ever reached so many people and shown so clearly what was happening right now in their own country and everywhere else. TV not only gives the news instantly, it also shows it in pictures more powerful than words. It can be said that TV has brought reality to the public. Millions of people now have seen the effects of a battle, a flood, a fire, a crime, disasters of every sort on the screen. Unfortunately, television's influence has been extremely harmful to the young. Children do not have enough experience to realize that TV shows present an unreal world. They want to imitate what they see. They do believe that the violence they see is normal and acceptable. By the time they are out of high school, most young people have watched about 15,000 hours of television, and have seen about 18,000 killings or other acts of violence. All educators and psychologists agree that the \"television generations\" are more violent than their parents and grandparents, According to the same experts, the young are also less patient. Used to TV shows, where everything is quick and entertaining, they do not have the patience to read an article without pictures; to read a book that requires thinking;... Question: First TV set was made _ . - in 1939 - in the 1950s - in the 1940s - in 1919\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "in 1939", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: When kids at Archisha Singh's school in Loudoun County have a birthday, no parents buy them birthday cakes. Some schools are worried that children might become fat or eat unhealthy food, so they have banned cupcakes altogether. What do kids do? Birthday kids can donate a book. The headmaster of their school will then read it to their class. The headmaster also hands out birthday certificates , special pencils, and makes sure the kids' names are read out in the school's morning news. Parents can send stickers , pencils and other things to students. None of the things can be food. If a child donates jump ropes or other sports equipment, that child may get his or her name on a certificate. It will then be displayed at school. Archisha really misses cupcakes, especially those her mother used to make for her kindergarten class, but her school's way is fun, too. \"I like both ways,\" she said. The headmaster says it's important that the school should be not only teaching, but offering healthy choices to kids. \"There is a better life without cupcakes. If you eat a cupcake, then it's gone in two seconds, but a book lasts a lifetime. The sports equipment lasts, and the kids can use it day after day.\" Question: What do birthday kids do? - They can borrow a book. - They get birthday certificates. - They get special pens. - They eat birthday cakes.\nThey get birthday certificates.\n\n(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Air is always around us. It is around us when we walk and play. From the time we are born, air is around us. When we sit down, it is around us. When we go to bed, air is also around us. We live in air. All the animals and plants need air. Living things can't live without air. We can live without food or water for a few days, but we can not live for more than a few minutes without air. We breathe in air. When we are walking or running, we need more air. When we are asleep, we need less air. We live in air, but we can't see it. We can only feel it. We can feel it when it is moving. Moving air is called wind. How can we make air move? Here is one way. Hold and open a book in you hand in front of your face. Close it quickly! What you feel is the air. Question: _ need air. - Some of the animals - All the things - Some of the plants - All the animals and plants\n(Answer)\nAll the animals and plants\n\nQues: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Mr. Smith lives in Toronto. He is a doctor. His wife teaches English in a middle school. They have two children, one is a son called Mike and the other is a daughter. She is only three months. Mike loves the baby very much. He often shows her to the guests. He is young and doesn't go to school. He stays at home to help his mother look after the baby. One day Mike's aunt comes to see the baby. She works in another city and sees the baby foe the first time. Mike shows the baby to his aunt. \"Look at the baby, Aunt;\" says Mike, \"She's beautiful. I think she looks like me.\" \"Does she like playing with you?\" asks his aunt. \"I don't know,\" answers the boy, \"She can't speak yet.\" Question: Little Mike thinks _ . - he's beautiful ,too. - the baby is nice . - his aunt is friendly to him . - he loves the baby best.\nAns: he's beautiful ,too.\n\n(Q).\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Hi!I'm Lucy. I am a student in Class 5,Grade 7.I have a big schoolbag. It is blue and red. The price is Y=88.1.have a nice pencil box in it. It is Y=10.Its color is white. I bought it in a store. There are four pencils and one pen. Each pencil is Y=1 and the pen is Y=12.My eraser is yellow. The price is Y=2.My ruler is orange and very long. I like them very much. I study very hard. Question: I am in Grade _ . - One - Seven - Three - Five\n(A).\nSeven\n\nQues:Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: The Internet joins millions of computers all over the world, and it's used by people all over the world. It was invented in the 1960s in the USA. The American government needed a network of computers for its army. Then in the 1970s scientists and businesspeople also wanted to use the Internet to send and receive messages. For some years, they weren't allowed to use US network, and when they were allowed to, the messages were in very simple text without photos. The World Wide Web was invented by a British scientist named Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. He wanted to send documents to other scientists. So he developed the World Wide Web. This allowed him to send and receive scientific documents with text, drawings and photos. In the 1990s, more and more people began to use the Internet and the World Wide Web. So, what's the difference between Internet and the World Wide Web? The Internet is the hardware .It allows us to communicate with other people. The World Wide Web is the software. It allows us to create , see, and read multimedia documents. The web is made up of millions of documents called web pages. These pages are held in computers all over the world. Many people have a favourite website with a number of web pages on the same subject. Email is a way of using your computer to send and receive messages. It's cheaper and quicker to use email than send normal mail. New users call normal mail \"snail mail\" because it's so slow. It took 50 years for 100 million people to listen to the radio. It took 15 years for 100 million people to watch television. By the year 2000, it had taken only about three years for 100 million people to use the Internet. What will happen next on the Internet? Question: When was the Internet invented? - In the 1970s - In the 1960s - In the 1990s - In 1989\n\nAns:In the 1960s\n\nQuestion: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: If you go into the forest with friends, stay with them .If you don't , you may get lost , this is what you should do .Sit down and stay where you are .Don't try to find your friends -let them find you instead .You can help them find you by staying in one place. There is another way to help your friends or other people to find you .You can shout or whistle three times .Stop .Then shout or whistle three times again .Any signal given three times is a call for help . Keep up shouting or whistling . Always three times together. When people hear you ,they will know that you are not just making a noise for fun . They will let you know that they have heard your signal . They will give you two shouts or two whistles. When a signal is given twice ,it is an answer to a call for help. If you don't think that you will get help before night comes ,try to make a little house with branches Make yourself a bed with leaves and grass. When you need some water ,you have to leave your little branch house to look for it .Don't just walk away . _ When you are lost , the most important thing to do is to stay in one place . Question: If you get lost in the forest , you should _ . - try to find your friends - stay in one place and signals - walk around the forest - shout as loudly as possible\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "stay in one place and signals", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: QQ is one of the most popular chat tools among teenagers .We regard it as an important chat tool in our daily life because it has some advantages . First, we can make lots of e-friends on QQ.It is easy to find the person who has the same interest as us ,and we can talk with him or her happily .Second ,we can also join a QQ group to find the information we need .For example ,if we want to learn English well ,we can choose a group with many English lovers in it .Third ,we can also play games with our friends on QQ and always have fun . QQ brings us a lot of benefits ,but it can also cause some problems .It's dangerous to tell strangers on QQ our real personal information like telephone numbers , addresses and ID numbers .If we spend too much time chatting online ,it won't be good for our study and health .\nA: Question: QQ will be good for us if _ .Options:A we spend too much time chatting online .B we get some useful information we need .C we tell some strangers about our real telephone number .D we tell some strangers about our real address and ID number .Answer:B\n\nQuestion: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: I am Jerry. My family is in New York. We have got a big house. There are three bedrooms . One is for my parents. One is for my sister Betty. One is for my brother Tony and me. I haven't got any grandparents, aunts or uncles in my family. My father is forty-three years old. He is a hotel manager. My mother is forty. She is a secretary in a factory. Betty is sixteen years old. Tony is nine years old and I'm twelve years old. We are students. I love my family.\nAnswer: Question: Jerry's father works _ .Options:A in a hotelB in a schoolC in a factoryD in a libraryAnswer:A\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Many people go to church on Sunday, but others don't. Many people sleep late on Sunday morning, but others don't. Some people work on Sunday, but most don't. However, almost everyone reads the Sunday paper. Often the paper is waiting outside the door when the family gets up. The newspaper boy has put it there. The paper has many advertisements and many different parts. The parents in the family like the front page and the world news part. Many men also read the sports pages and the financial pages. Most men don't read the women's pages, but the mother of the family usually does. The women's pages have the news about parties and some good ideas about food, health and clothes. Most Sunday papers have interesting stories. Children enjoy them. Old people read the death notices. They tell about people who have died during the week. There is something for everyone in the Sunday paper.\n****\n[A]: Question: The Sunday papers are sent to people _ .Options:A after they get upB before they get upC as soon as they get upD if they get upAnswer:B\n\ninput: Please answer the following: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: On the way back from work every evening, more often than not there would be a homeless man standing at the exit of the freeway . He looked to be in his late 40s but was probably a lot younger. He had shoulder length straight black hair and a short beard. Every day after work I would remember to gather any spare change, and put it aside to give to him if I saw him. A feeling of joy would come over me every time I saw him, while coming off the ramp . So did he. Sometimes the red light would be on for a minute and we would ask each other about our day. His answer would always be the same, \"I'm blessed!\" Then one day I was called into my boss's office and was told that I was being laid off. For the rest of that day all I could think of was \"how am I going to provide for my kids as a mother, how am I going to pay rent?\" Needless to say that on my way home that day I was very sad and upset. I didn't remember to look for my spare change and keep it ready like I usually did. Yet there he was as always, as I turned the ramp. He set his eyes on me, while still smiling and waving at others as usual. While I was waiting for the red light to turn, he strolled over to my car. He had a big smile. He looked at me straight in the eyes and said, \"Today I will give you a dollar.\" He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a dollar bill. You see that day he taught me a valuable lesson more than a dollar bill. No matter what material things are taken from you, no one can take away your choice to be joyful. Every time I'm faced with challenges, I think of the homeless man's valuable lesson and remember that I am blessed.\n++++++++++\noutput: Question: Why did the writer feel sad and upset after out of the boss's office?Options:A Because she was criticized by the boss.B Because a new job was offered to her.C Because she was laid off by the boss.D Because there was something wrong with her job.Answer:C\n\nQuestion: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: If you're into sports , you 've seen it happen -----tennis players jump over the net to shake hands after a hard match ;football players exchange jerseys after 90 minutes of knocking each other around ;even boxer touch gloves at the beginning of each round .Players in every event ,from spelling _ to golf ,act in this way .It's all parts of sportsmanship , A great tradition in sports and competition .It means playing and being calm all through the match . Everyone feels great when they win .In the last few years ,your may see some players celebrate a goal with a long dance .However , it's always hard for people to say in public that they made a bad play .Good sportsmanship is what they really need .It's the golden rule of sports . Good sportsmanship means that you play by the rules ,talk politely to every during games and stay cool even when you lose the game .At the school sports meet, for example , it's more important for you to know how to work as part of a team and cheer your team on .hey may help you enjoy more success at your future work .In competition---as us in life--you may not always win ,but believe me ,sportsmanship will help you get through , and there is always the next match .\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Question: Why do you think good sportsmanship is really important ?Options:A It's all part of sports .B It's all part of celebration .C It's the golden rule of sports .D It's how to stay cool .Answer:C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: There was once a violinist who said he was not afraid of animals that are dangerous. He said in a proud way, \"Even a bear would be as quiet as the friendliest cat when hearing my music.\" But he had never played, and no one believed him. A chance to show his words arrived just when a circus came to the town. The musician came to the ringmaster and told what he could do. \"Wow, that's interesting.\" The ringmaster said. \"We just have three new lions and they haven't worked with the lion tamer yet. Let's see what you can do with them.\" The violinist agreed and the whole town crowded the hall to see what would happen. The violinist was standing quietly in the center of the ring with a smile. Then the ringmaster opened the door of the cage and jumped out angrily a huge lion, shouting and showing his teeth. Everyone was too nervous to breathe. Still with the smile , the violinist began to play. The beautiful music rose , then the lion sat down and began to enjoy the music. Everyone lost themselves in the music. The lion did, too. For the second lion, _ . Then it's the third lion's turn to appear and everyone there was waiting for the lion to be quiet just like the other two . But the lion ran up to the man and ate him. All the people were surprised. The other two lions asked angrily, \"What have you done ! We were enjoying the music!\" The third lion put his paw( ) to its ear and said, \"Sorry, I can't hear you. I have been deaf for 5 years.\" Question: Why did the third lion run to the man and eat him? Yes or no, is the answer \"Because he couldn't hear the music at all.\"?\nNo\n\nArticle: I was driving home on a very hot afternoon and about to near a crossing . One of the major traffic light had gone out , and a police officer was standing in the middle of around twenty lanes of very busy traffic . The fact was that he had no hat or shade to shield him from the burning sun but , he was upbeat and doing a fabulous job . I saw a drugstore on the comer , and while I was there , I wanted so badly to get some water for the officer ! I had some hesitation , though , as it was a little out of my comfort zone to communicate with a stranger in this way . I discussed , struggled , left , drove part-way home , turned around , went back to the drugstore , got water , and then found myself thinking about how to hand it to him in the busy crossing . I knew that he might not be able to take it - he wouldn't have hands to hold it since he was busy making motions to direct the traffic - but I had to try . I drove into the crossing , rolled down my windows as I passed the officer , and gave him the bottle of water . Though he wasn't able to take the bottle , he broke into a smile and said , \" Thank you . \" I drove home , feeling better for having persisted . And I was even inspired to call the station that afternoon to make sure they knew what a great job he did that day . It felt good to spread the positivity , and it was the least I could do . Question: What is the main idea of the passage ? Yes or no, is the answer \"Spreading the positivity can make the world more beautiful\"?\nYes\n\nQ: Article: Paper was not made in southern Europe until the year of 1100.Thouth Scandinavia now makes a great deal of the world's paper, it had not begun to make it until 1500. It was a German named Schaeffer who found out that one could make paper from wood. After that, forest countries, such as Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United States, became important in paper making. Today in Finland, for example, no industry is bigger than the forest industry. And the paper industry is the most important part of it. Modern paper-making machines are very big, and they make paper very fast. The biggest machines can make a piece of paper 750 meters long and six meters wide in one minute. When we think of paper, we think of newspapers, books, letters, envelopes , and writing paper. But there are many other uses. Each year, more and more things are made of paper. We have had paper cups, plates, and dishes for a long time. But now we hear that chairs, a tables and even beds can be made of paper. The newest thing made of paper in the world may be a paper house. It is not a small house for children to play in, but a real, big house for people to live in. it is not expensive. You can put up a paper house yourself in a few hours, and you can use it for about 5 years. ,. Question: How long can the biggest modern paper-making machines make a piece of paper 750 meters long and six meters wide? Yes or no, is the answer \"In a minute.\"?\nA: No\n\nQuestion: Article: Smile, how warm the word is! It can make anyone happy. It's not like anything else, but just warm, makes you feel warm. Mother's smile is like a spring wind. It is so gentle. When you are sad, _ can make you happy again. When you fail to do something, it can make you stand up and work again. When you give up doing something, it can make you try your best again... Smile, so easy, but also so useful. Let's learn to smile. Everyone needs others' smile. When we give others a smile, we will feel happy, too. And maybe next time, when you need a smile, the others will give it to you. Let's learn to smile often. I believe it can even make the whole world warm. Living with a smile, every day will be sunshine. Question: The last sentence \"every day will be sunshine\" means _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"we can live happily every day\"?\nAnswer: No\n\n(Question)\nArticle: One day a red rose blossomed in a forest. A pine tree not far away said, \"You're so beautiful! I wish I could be lovely like you. \" The rose said, \"I am the most beautiful plant in the forest. \" Then the rose looked at a cactus and said, \"Look at that ugly plant. It is full of thorns !\"Sometimes, the red rose would look at the cactus and say, \"This plant is useless. I'm sorry I am his neighbor. \" Summer came and the plants and animals needed water, but no rain fell. One day the rose saw some birds stick their beaks into the cactus and then fly away. The red rose asked what the birds were doing. The pine tree explained that the birds got water from the cactus. The pine tree told the red rose, \"You can also drink from it. The birds can bring water to you if you ask the cactus for help. \" The red rose felt _ , but she still asked the cactus for help. The cactus agreed kindly and the birds filled their beaks with water for the rose's roots. Later on, the rose never gave her opinion about anyone by look again. Question: What did the rose think of the cactus at the beginning of the story? Yes or no, is the answer \"He was ugly and useless.\"?\n(Answer)\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Out and about Use personal stereos and mobile telephones with care. If possible, walk in the direction of oncoming traffic, in the middle of the pavement. Look after your valuables; keep your house and car keys separate from your bag. Taxi and mini cabs Whenever possible pre-book a taxi. Use a reputable company; transport forprefix = st1 /Londonmaintains a list. When traveling alone sit in the back seat. In your car Have your keys ready so that you can get straight into your parked car. Consider locking your doors when traveling and when you leave your car to pay for your fuel. You may wish to take a mobile telephone but you must have a hands-free system to use it while driving. Children Don't dress children in clothing with their name on it. Teach them not to speak to people they do not know. Teach them an emergency contact number. Public transport Plan your journey; know the timetable. If possible, try not to travel alone. Avoid sitting upstairs on a double-decker bus. Be _ with your conversation; you never know who is listening. Home security Whenever you go out, always lock the doors and close the windows. Use European Standard locks on the front and back doors and on windows. Ensure you draw the curtains after dark. Avoid displaying identification. Do not put your name on the letterbox or bell. Confirm the identity of callers. Options: A sit on a back seat of a bus B keep close to the pavement C sit in the back of a taxi D sit upstairs on a double-decker bus Answer: C sit in the back of a taxi Question:\nAnswer: If you are traveling alone, you are advised to .\n\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Researchers have found a village that may have been home to the builders of Stonehenge. The village of small houses dates back to about 2600 BC. That's about the same time Stonehenge was built. \"Clearly, this is a place that was of great importance,\" said researcher Mike Parker Pearson. The ancient houses are at a site known as Durrington Walls. It is about 3.2 kilometers from Stonehenge. Researchers believe Stonehenge was a memorial site or cemetery for the villagers. The village also had a wooden version of the stone circle. It may have been used by people attending festivals at Stonehenge. Eight of the houses have been dug up. Researchers say there may be as many as 25 of them. The wooden houses were square and about 5 meters along each side. There are signs that there were beds along the walls. There are also signs of a storage unit. The houses also had fireplaces. Two of the houses were separate from the others. They may have been the homes of community leaders. Researchers say those didn't have the household rubbish that was found in the other homes. Stone tools, animal bones, arrowheads and other things were found throughout the village site. Stonehenge is a popular tourist spot in England. It is a huge circle made out of stones, which were placed in a grass field in southern England. The stone arches were made with two stones at the bottom and one across the top. All of the stones weigh a lot more than a big car. Scientists have long wondered not only how people built Stonehenge, but also why. Options: A The wooden version of the stone circle was a memorial. B Household rubbish can be found in all the houses. C People can still see beds and storage unit in the houses. D Each of the wooden houses is about 25 square meters. Answer: D Each of the wooden houses is about 25 square meters. Question:\n****\n[A]: What can we learn about the village site?\n\n\ninput: Please answer the following: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Coca-Cola has created a publicity stunt in Singapore -- a vending machine which gives out free cans of Coke in return for hugs. The _ idea is part of the company's Open Happiness campaign designed to attract young people in Singapore. Students at the National University of Singapore were surprised to find that the soft drinks company had placed the machine in the schoolyard. But instead of the drinks brand's logo , the words \"Hug Me\" are written across its red-and-white logo. Instead of paying money, customers have to hug the drinks machine to receive a free can of Coke. Public displays of affection are uncommon and have long been discouraged in Singapore, but are on the rise among young people. The move is part of a campaign created by the advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather, intended to let the youth to see the brand as a non-threatening friend. Leonardo O'Grady, leader of the campaign, said, \"Happiness is contagious . The Coca-Cola Hug Machine is a simple idea to spread some happiness. We want to spread happiness in an unexpected, creative way to attract not only the people present, but the audience at large.\" He hopes that it will encourage consumers to bring positivity, optimism and fun into their lives and to open a Coke, sharing a little happiness. The machines have been such a success that there are plans to roll them out across Asia. Mr. O'Grady added, \"The reaction was amazing -- at one point we had four to five people hugging the machine at the same time as well as each other! In fact, there was a long line of people looking to give hugs.\" Options: A The campaign has achieved good results. B The campaign has cost Coca-Cola much money. C The Coca-Cola Hug Machines will be seen worldwide. D Coca-Cola focuses more on sharing happiness than on sales. Answer: A The campaign has achieved good results. Question:\n++++++++++\noutput: What can we infer from the passage?\n\n\ninput: Please answer the following: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Charles Dickens was one of the most beloved storytellers in the English language. His novels made him famous in his own time, and continue as classics in ours. Dickens began his literary career with almost no formal education. He was born in Landport, on Feb. 7, 1812, the second of eight children. When he was 12, his father was sent to debtor's prison. Dickens was forced to quit school and work in a London blacking factory. He would rework that terrible experience into his fiction for the rest of his life. \"He was a social reformer,\" says actor Simon Callow, author of a new biography called Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World. \"He knew what poverty was. He knew what it was to be rejected, to be cast aside, to live in squalor .\" And so Dickens wrote with great sympathy for the suffering of innocent and vulnerable children - characters like David Copperfield, Little Dorrit and the orphan, Oliver Twist: With his slice of bread in his hand, and his little brown parish cap on his head, Oliver was now led away from the wretched home, where one kind word or look never lighted the gloom of his infant days. Yet he burst into an agony of childish grief as the cottage gate closed after him. Wretched as were the little companions in,misery he was now leaving behind him, they were the only friends he had ever had. His first book Sketches by Boz came out in 1836. With the appearance of Oliver Twist in London periodicals in 1837, the 25-year-old Dickens became the most popular writer in England. But his first love was theater, and he considered becoming an actor. \"When he was actually writing, he became his characters,\" says Peter Ackroyd, author of Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion. \"He would get up from his desk, go over to the mirror and mouth the words - do the expressions, grimaces , whatever, and then laugh, chuckle to himself, then go back to his desk and write it down.\" Dickens created 989 named characters, which increased his popularity.... Options: A His love for his family. B His childhood sufferings. C His desire for formal education. D His reason to choose literary career. Answer: B His childhood sufferings. Question:\n++++++++++\noutput:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "What can probably be reflected in Dickens' works?", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "(Q).\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: I Don't Have to Be Like Them All students have to face their own problems when they are growing up. You may not think that having a good family is a problem. But for me , it was. I had to face the problem of being the youngest of the Smith girls. We live in a small town in Pennsylvania, US. There are three girls in the Smith family, Amanda, Theresa and me . People often say things to me , like \" Oh, the three of you , you're such nice girls. Your sisters are so pretty and so thin! You're really nothing like them . \" That made me sad. At school , all of my teachers had taught my sisters . On the first day of school , they said , \"Oh , the youngest of the three! I hope you're just like your sisters. They're such wonderful students.\" People always compared me with my sisters . So I couldn't help comparing myself with them , too. Theresa was smarter , Amanda was prettier . I began to work hard to be more like them . What my sisters did , I did , too. At last , I became drum major of our school 's marching band . Both Amanda and Theresa had been drum majors . I became editor of the school's newspaper . Theresa had been the editor two years before. But last year, Amanda went to college , and Theresa went to high school . Now I'm by myself at junior high . Everyone knows me , because I'm the drum major and the newspaper's editor . Now I don't feel like a Smith girl any more , I feel like myself . I'm proud of doing all of the same great things that my sisters did . But the best thing I did was to learn to stop comparing myself with them . Question: When people compare the author with her sisters , she feels _ Options: A: happy B: nervous C: sad D: comfortable\n(A).\nC\n\n\n(Q).\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Do you know why people look the way they look? What inside our bodies makes us grow in a certain way? The answer is DNA. It was first discovered by a young Swiss doctor in 1868. DNA is like a computer program for your body. Almost every cell in your body includes DNA. The way DNA in the cell decides why you are the way you are. For example your friend might have larger ears than you. This is because their DNA is different from yours. DNA lives in the cell and is ordered in a structure called a \"double helix \". In each double helix there are links called as chromosomes . These chromosomes are made from four bases that arrange themselves in millions of different ways. The way these bases choose to line up is what makes the DNA code for that cell. DNA is also called a \"gene \". This is a very interesting thing. Genes are passed down from your parents. That is why you might have the same smile like your dad's or mom's! In February, scientists found the skeleton of Richard III, King of England from 1483-1485, under a car park in England. It seems unlikely that scientists could identify a 527-year-old skeleton. However, they matched the skeleton's DNA to a sample from one of his direct descendants . How amazing! Question: _ discovered DNA. Options: A: A Swiss scientist B: A Swiss doctor C: A young student D: A Swiss worker\n(A).\nB\n\n\n(Q).\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: The Chinese New Year is the most important festival for the Chinese people. It usually comes in January or February. It takes about 15 days to prepare for it. On the eve of the festival, people close the shops and stay at home. They all get together for a big dinner. They stay up late and enjoy dumplings at midnight for good luck. In the morning, people dress in their best clothes, and usually the old stay at home, the young go out to pay a New Year Call . It is an important time for the young. The young people bow to the old people. The Chinese call this \"Ke Tou\". This means \"touching the ground with the forehead \". Then the young people give their best wishes to the old people. The old people give children gifts or lucky money. They are very polite and do not use bad words on the Spring Festival Day. It,s the most important day of the year. Question: From this passage we can know that give children gifts or lucky money. Options: A: the teachers B: their friends C: the old people D: their brothers\n(A).\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Ques: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Most of the things around you will be replaced or thrown away someday. Where will they go when they are thrown out? What kinds of waste will they create, and how will it affect the environment Most of our crash goes to places called landfills. A LANDFILL is a low area of land that is filled with garbage .Most modern landfills are lined with a cover of plastic to keep dangerous liquids from polluting earth and ground water supply. The problem is that more than half of the states in this country are running out of places to landfill their garbage. Because of the unhealthy materials, landfills do not make good neighbors,and people don't want to live near them. Many landfills are set in poor neighborhoods. The Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, New York, was the largest garbage landfill in the world. For years, people who live nearby complained about air and water pollution caused by the enormous pile of trash. They say that the smoke have made people sick. The landfill closed in April 2001.Now can a harmful waste--material that can pollute air, land, and water -be disposed of in a safe way. Another way to get rid of trash is to burn it. Trash is burned in an _ Because incinerators in operation can get rid of almost all of the trash, some communities would rather use incinerators than landfills. There is a problem, though. Leftover ash and smoke from burning trash may have dangerous chemicals, and even make it hard for some people to breathe. They can harm plants, animals, and people. You can help reduce waste by reusing bottles, batteries, and paper. You can also recycle newspaper, glass, and plastics t to provide materials for making other products. From recycled materials, many things are made. For example, from recycled paper we can get newspapers, boxes and so on. From recycled plastic we can get soda bottles, tables, and backpacks. Question: Why don't landfills make good neighbors? Options: A: Because there are unhealthy materials in them. B: Because people prefer to live in the city center. C: Because landfills are not big enough for trash. D: Because most states are running out of places.\nAns: A\n\nQues: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Many people hurt their backs when they try to lift heavy things from the floor. It is easy to hurt your back muscle when you try to pick up a heavy thing. However, there is a correct way to lift things from the floor. If you pick up heavy things correctly, you probably will not hurt your back. To lift something from the floor correctly, first bend your knees and lower yourself. Keep your back straight. Do not bent over, from your waist keep your back and hips and waist in a line. If you bent over, the muscles in your lower back can became hurt very easily. If you keep your back and hips straight, the muscles are stronger, because they hold up together. The other muscles can then help the lower back muscles. As you lower yourself, try to get as close to thing as you can, put one knee on each side of the thing. Remember at all times to keep your back straight. Put your hand under the thing that is in front of you, between y our knees. To lift the thing, you should stand up slowly. Use your leg muscles in order to stand up. lift with your legs, not with your back. Question: The muscles are stronger if you _ . Options: A: keep your back, hips and waist in a line B: bend over from your waist C: lower yourself D: get down on your knees\nAns: A\n\nQues: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Once a baby cries, the parents will go to see what happened as soon as possible. According to a new study, a baby's cry can make adults react very quickly, even if they are not related. Oxford University researchers used the classic game whack-a-mole for the study. Whack-a-mole requires people to hit one of nine buttons . The players must react as quickly as they can to whichever of the buttons lights up at random . It is a game that requires speed and accuracy ( ). The study included 40 men and women volunteers aged 19 to 59. Some of them had sons or daughters but none had a baby at the time. They played whack-a-mole after listening to different sounds, including babies crying, the crying of adults in trouble and birdsong played at a similar pitch to the babies' cries. The volunteers' scores were higher after listening to the sound of crying babies. Men and women had similar scores overall. The results showed that a crying baby gets special attention. \"Few sounds make people react quite like the cry of a baby,\" said Morten Kringelbach of Oxford's psychiatry department, who led the study. \"For example, it's almost impossible to ignore(,) crying babies on planes. This is true even though there are so many other noises around.\" He added that a baby's cry can increase adults' heart rate and blood pressure. This is understandable, because in the course of human evolution , taking care of babies has always been an important job for adults. When a baby is hungry or feeling bored or unwell, it will cry. As a result, human brains and bodies develop a special reaction to a baby's cry. Question: According to the passage, a baby's cry _ . Options: A: has the same pitch as birdsong B: is the noisiest sound there is C: can increase adults' heart rate and blood pressure D: is good for its health\nAns: C\n\nQues: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: One year ago Bertha and Grace became close friends at a college in Dartmouth. One day, Bertha said that her aunt Margaret had invited her to spend the summer holiday with her. And they would have picnics and parties as well. But Grace told Bertha that she planned to stay in Clarkman's bookstore until the new term began. Grace had to do something to feed herself because her parents died many years ago. Bertha watched her friend's pale face. Just then she got a good idea. The next day when Grace came back, Bertha showed her an invitation letter from her aunt Margaret. \"Grace, would you like to spend your holiday with us? I will help you find a part-time job in our town.\" Grace cried after reading it. \"Grace, please spend the holiday with me, or Margaret will be disappointed . I want you to be happy,\" Bertha said. The holiday quickly passed by, and finally one letter from Margaret came to Bertha. \"Bertha, Grace is the sweetest girl in the world, and I am very grateful to you for sending her here.\" Question: Grace got _ from Margaret the next day. Options: A: a book B: an invitation letter C: some money D: a part-time job\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Most of us spend our lives seeking the natural world. To this end, we walk the dog, play golf, go fishing, sit in the garden, drink outside rather than inside the pub, have a picnic, live in the suburbs, go to the seaside, buy a weekend place in the country. The most popular free time activity in Britain is going for a walk. And when joggers jog, they don't run down the streets. Every one of them automatically heads to the park or the river. It is my firm belief that not only do we all need nature, but we all seek nature, whether we know we are doing so or not. But despite this, our children are growing up nature-deprived . I spent my boyhood climbing trees. These days, children are robbed of these ancient freedoms, due to problems like crime, traffic, the loss of the open spaces and strange new ideas about what is best for children, that is to say, things that can be bought, rather than things that can be found. The truth is to be found elsewhere. A study in the US: families had moved to better housing and the children were assessed for ADHD . Those whose housing had more natural views showed an improvement of 19%; those who had the same improvement in material surroundings but no nice view improved just 4%. A study in Sweden indicated that kindergarten children who could play in a natural environment had less illness and greater physical ability than children used only to a normal playground. A US study suggested that when a school gave children access to a natural environment, the entire school would do better in studies. Another study found that children play differently in a natural environment. In playgrounds, children create a hierarchy based on physical abilities, with the tough ones taking the lead. But when a grassy area was planted with bushes, the children got much more into fantasy play, and the social hierarchy was now based on imagination and creativity. Most bullying is found in schools where there is a tarmac playground; the least bullying is in a natural area that the children are... Question: What does the author say people prefer for their children nowadays? Options: A: Personal freedom. B: Things that are natural. C: Urban surroundings. D: Things that are purchased.\nD\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Many years ago in a small village, an old man was hired to clear the spring up on the mountain. He patrolled the spring every day, and swept away all the leaves and other things that would dirty the fresh flow of water. Soon, beautiful swans came to the clear spring, and the village became a popular attraction for visitors. Years passed. One evening the town leaders held a meeting. As they looked at the salary list, one of them said, \"Why do we keep this old man on year after year? I don't think we need him or his work.\" Later, the old man was asked to leave. For several weeks, nothing changed. By early autumn, the leaves began to fall off the trees, and the spring was covered with leaves. A few days later, the water was much darker. Only a few months after the old man left, all the swans left, as did the tourists. Disease reached deeply into the village. Quickly, the leaders held a special meeting. Realizing their mistake, they rehired the old man. Then within a few weeks, the spring began to clear up. Soon new life returned to the village. So, my friends, do you see? No matter how small your work or your life seems to be, never _ it. Anything we can do will make a difference. Question: How did the leaders feel a few months after the old man left? Options: A: Regretful. B: Moved. C: Excited. D: Calm.\nA\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: \"I Love My Neighborhood\" Poster Contest The \"I Love My Neighborhood\" Poster Contest was developed in l993.It aims to educate your students and their families about neighborhood pride and duty.Lessons and activities are provided in a teacher's guide.Students can learn about the sources of litter and pollution prevention. RULES All children in primary schools are invited to submit one piece of work. The Winning posters will be reproduced and handed out throughout the neighborhood. *Students are encouraged to bravely use different colors and to be as creative as possible! It is up to the student and you to decide which art tool to use such as crayons. Color pencils are not advised because they do not reproduce well. *The topic, \"I am part of my neighborhood!\" must be included in the design of each poster. The Committee requires that students include their mascot in each poster. *All work must be on normal-sized paper for winning posters reproduction purposes. Over-sized posters will have no chance of taking part in the final competition. *All work submitted must be the child's own work.Your students can be guided by you or their parents; we simply want to avoid poster not drawn by themselves. *Please review each poster before submitting. Each work to be submitted must include the student's name, grade level,your name and school name on the BACK of each poster. For more information or questions about the 2012 \"I Love My Neighborhood\" Poster Contest, contact Jaixen Webb at (818) 551-6933 or ' Question: To win the contest, students must _ . Options: A: use different-sized Paper B: design a mascot for the contest C: avoid using crayons and color pencils D: draw the posters by themselves\nD\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Big Ben Big Ben is not the name of a man. It is the name of a huge clock in London. London is the capital of England. This clock has four faces. So,no matter where you stand,you can read the time on the face of Big Ben. Each face is the size of a double decker bus. The hands are about four meters long. It is about the size of two people standing on top of each other. If you go to London,you may want to visit the Houses of Parliament. There you will find Big Ben sits at the top of the clock tower in the Houses of Parliament. Maybe you will hear it as well as see it. The huge clock makes such a loud noise. \"Ding dong,ding dong,\"it goes every quarter of an hour. The clock was named after a big man. He was Sir Benjamin Hall. This man did much building work in London many years ago. Question: Big Ben is _ . Options: A: a double decker bus B: a huge clock C: the name of Ben D: a building\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Recently I was asked,\"Are we anywhere near the day when you can climb into a car on Long Island, program it to take you to your niece's house in Chicago, hit enter, and after the first hundred yards, once you hit a main road, the car takes over automatically and you just sit back and enjoy the ride?\" It is a question I worry. But I had to answer truthfully:\"Absolutely. We are without a doubt near that day.\"Look, we're already doing it with airplanes. Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk takes off at an air base in the U.S., climbs to 50,000 feet, flies to Australia, and lands at an Australian air base, where there is a grandstand filled with military officials=with no human pilot. The necessary technology is already here. We have radar technology that can be tied to cruise control and brakes, which automatically adjusts your speed based on following distance and preprogrammed settings. It's still a little bit raw, but it does work great. The technology can allow cars and trucks to follow each other in very closely spaced roads. GPS can also change speed with location. Let's say you're in a state with a 75-mph limit and you cross into a state with a 65-mph limit. GPS knows that and adjust your speed accordingly. It's not out of the question to imagine that someday soon you'll be able to start the car, make proper settings, then turn the front seats around and play cards and eat lunch as if you're riding on a train. All in perfect comfort and safety, all the way to that niece's place inprefix = st1 /Chicago. If asked to estimate just how far time is, I'd say a working system is ten years out, practice maybe 20 years. Question: Which of the following may be the best title for this passage? Answer:\nA: Driving is dead?\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Many people think it is safe to use a cell phone while they are driving. Yet Scores of studies suggest that real multitaskers - those who can carry out multiple tasks equally well, make up just 2 per cent of the population. More surprisingly, the so-called \"supertaskers\" actually have differently structured brains to the other 98 percent. The brain areas that make supertaskers differ from the rest of the population are the same parts that are most different between humans and nonhuman primates , according to David Strayer, director of the applied cognition lab at the University of Utah. Scientists are unsure of the reason why some brains are different. In fact, we could all benefit from doing just one task at once. In most of us, scientists have located a \"bottleneck in the brain\" that may explain why we find it hard to do two things at once. The problem appears to be caused by a logjam of nerve messages. Faced with two almost simultaneous tasks less than 300 milliseconds apart, the brain's ability to deal with the second one slows down. The neural response to the second task was postponed until the response to the first was completed. This means that with e-mails, phone calls, text messages and online social media all competing for our attention, often against a background of television, radio or music, our brains can reach information overload. Scientists made the discovery after scanning the brains of volunteers attempting to multitask on a computer. The task was deliberately designed to involve the use of different senses and _ responses. Dr Rene Marois, one of the neuroscientists who carried out the experiment at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, said: \"Our research offers neurological evidence that the brain cannot effectively do two things at once.\" The next step, the neuroscientists say, is finding out \"why these areas cannot process two tasks at once.\" Question: How many people can drive equally well while using a cell phone? Answer:\nA: 2 in 100.\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Old-Fashioned Play--For Pay Kids !Come have a ball! Or 60,000 of them! There's a new type of business franchise that is appearing in shopping malls and neighborhoods acrossprefix = st1 /Americaoffering pay-per-use indoor playgrounds ,which feature toys ,games ,supervised fun and a workout that doesn't break the family bank. As public playgrounds grow increasingly worn and dirty, the for-profit centers offer clean, safe supervised activity as well as a variety of challenging exercises to develop youngsters' physical fitness, usually for a fee of around 5$ an hour. \"Playgrounds are dirty ,not supervised,\" says Dick Guggenheimer ,owner of the two-month-old Discovery Zone in Yonkers, N.Y., part of Kansas City-based chain, \"We are indoors; we are padded ;parents can feel their child is safe\". In order to satisfy the need of two-earner families ,the new franchise stayed open in the evenings ,long after traditional public playgrounds have grown dark and unusable .However these new playgrounds are not meant to be day-care centers .Parents are expected go stay and play with their kids rather than drop them off. But several also provide high-tech baby-sitting services. At some of the Discovery Zones, parents can register their children in special supervised programs, then leave them and slip away for a couple of hours to enjoy a movie or dinner. If there is a problem ,Mom and Dad are called. The most fun of all, though, is getting to do what parents used to do in the days before two-earner families and two-hour commutes; play with their kids. That ,at least ,is old-fashioned, even at per-hour rates. Question: What does the writer mean by saying \"old-fashioned\"? Answer:\nA: The new playground offers a fashion which is poplar in the past.\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: When we give our kids holiday gifts, many of us can't wait to hear their appreciative cries of\"thank you!\"once the wrapping gets ripped off. But here's a tip: You'd be wise not to expect much gratitude from them for what they receive. Gratitude can make us happier, healthier, and even fitter. But do the kids show their gratitude for the stuff we buy them? All the research I've done has convinced me that it won't happen. One mom told me that when she asked her 16-year-old son to thank her for buying him a cellphone, he said, \"But that's what moms should do.\" From a teenager's angle, it's a parent's responsibility to take care of the family. According to Dunham, Yale's assistant professor of psychology, \"When teenagers code it that way, a gift is no longer something given freely and voluntarily\"--it's just mom and dad living up to their obligation. Parents do have the right to demand good manners and children should thank sincerely whoever gives them something. But kids can't know how blessed they are unless they have a basis for comparison. And they don't learn that by a parent complaining that they're ungrateful. We need to give our children the gift of a wider world view. Show by example that gratitude isn't aboutstuff--which ultimately can't make any of us happy anyway.It's about realizing how lucky you are and paying your good fortune forward. You can collect all the charitable appeals and sit down together with the kids to go through them. You set the budget for giving and the kids decide how it's distributed. Once the conversation about gratitude gets started, it's much easier to continue all year. Also you can set up a family routine at bedtime where kids describe three things that have made them grateful. When kids go off to college, you can text them a picture each week of something that inspires your appreciation. Teaching children to focus on the positive and appreciate the good in their lives is perhaps the greatest gift we can give them. And we can all learn together that the things that really... Question: How do children respond when receiving gifts from their parents? Answer:\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: They take their parents' gifts for granted.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "In this task, you are given music product reviews in English language. The goal is to classify the review as \"POS\" if the overall sentiment of the review is positive or as \"NEG\" if the overall sentiment of the review is negative.\n\nInput: Consider Input: Disappointed Longtime Fan . Some of us have been through years where the Beastie Boys were always playing in at least one of the tape decks in our dual tape players (that's cassette tapes, in case you are too young to know). Anyway, I was hoping for another album that would stay (now in my 5-disc changer) for at least a full year without my having to swap it out. Unfortunately, this is not what I got in this album. While there are tracks on this album that capture the energy and passion of the Beastie Boys of old, too much of this record feels like preaching. Although I agree with much of what they have to say, they now do so in such a politically over-hyped fashion that it detracts from their music. Truly, there are some great songs on this record. But if you listen to this album and then to Paul's Boutique, Licensed to Ill or another great one, you will quickly realize that this is not the Beastie Boys who revolutionized music in the late 20th century\n\nOutput: NEG\n\n\nInput: Consider Input: One of Elton and Bernie's Best: A Complete Quality Album . \"Honky Chateau\" is an example of why Greatest Hits albums just do not work for great artists. This early Elton John effort is an example of when John and Taupin had some edge and grit to their songs with some western influence. The whole album seems interconnected with excellent music, vocals and words that bond to one of their greatest collaborations. \"Rocket Man\" was the big hit during the albums original debut but the many of the other songs were virtually bigger in quality and longevity. \"Honky Cat\" starts with a smart jazzy sound with Elton in a cocky voice talking about his \"redneck ways\" that jumps and hops but in the next song he steps down and eases into the song \"Mellow\", which slows up to a laid back story of love behind close doors with a lover that makes him sing in a tired but pleased voice \"You make me mellow, oh you make me mellow\" and the song does make you ease into feeling the mellow he sings about. I like the sound and lyrics of all the songs but the oddly up tempo song about a typical teenager being morose in \"I think I am going to Kill Myself\" is spritely entertaining sound of a youth complaining about small transgressions like not using the car then he downshifts suddenly down in a lyrical sound into a slowing middle eight of \"Get a little headline news, I'd like to see what the papers say, On the state of teenage blues\", particularly when Elton soulfully extends the word blues into a long bluesy wail that just puts this song in a unique category. Salvation is an almost gospel sounding song that starts off slow with \"I have to say my friends, this road goes a long, long way\" with great guitars and backing harmonies that is virtually uplifting in a sound that is optimistic in spite of the challenges exposed in the lyrics. \"Amy\" is just a fun tune that sounds like a young man teased by a wild and more mature woman and he sings with pain and but with optimism in his voice \"Amy I may not be James Dean, Amy I may not be nineteen, And I may still be in romper boots and jeans, But Amy you're the girl that wrecks my dreams\". One of the ultimate classics is \"Mona Lisa\" an up lifting song about a tough life in NY city that crosses the dimensions of different type of people, the poor and the affluent as Elton mournfully sings \"Until you've seen this trash can dream come true, You stand at the edge while people run you through, And I thank the Lord there's people out there like you, I thank the Lord there's people out there like you\" that in the end is uplifting, that he has found something and someone in a tough time and place. Finishing with a flourish, \"Hercules\" is a rollicking tune about being in love with a woman who is unfortunately in love with a muscleman, a \"cat named Hercules\". The song has John with an excellent vocal with backing vocals with a touch of beach boys' sound and although the song seems to end in defeat, it sounds like the man will persevere with a touch of humor. \"Rocket Man\" is the classic song that Elton used to sing for 20 minutes in concert and it is a great song about a man being a long way from home in a cold desolate environment but the whole album is full of great songs and perhaps this is the best John/Taupin collaboration. The additional alternate version of the western sounding \"Slave\" is more up tempo than the original and is very good but the core 10 songs are just wonderful and always memorable.\n\nOutput: POS\n\n\nInput: Consider Input: The start of a string of brilliant works . This is, perhaps, The Rolling Stones' masterpiece. After the disaster that was \"His Satanic Majesty's Request\" the band clearly decided to stop slavishly copying trends (and, one might add, following in The Beatles' footsteps). Brian Jones appears only sporadically, it's his last album with the band. The Stones brought in Jimmy Miller to produce, after having learned the hard way that they work best when they have someone besides Mick and Keith at the mixing board. Nicky Hopkins' contribution to this album can't be understated. Rumor has it that Ry Cooder participated in the sessions. \"Sympathy For The Devil\" kicks things off. For an inside look at the evolution of this iconic song see Jean Luc Godard's \"One Plus One\" (aka \"Sympathy For The Devil\"). This song was scary and groundbreaking back in 1967 - now that we've all heard it 1,000+ times it seems far too familiar. In my opinion this is one of Mick's best lyrics. \"No Expectations\" is a beautiful song, with lovely piano work by Hopkins. The lyric is a bit trite, but it works. Believe it or not this was the first single - it's perhaps the weakest song on the album. \"Dear Doctor\" is really, really funny. The Stones were fans of country music, but here they take on the form as a cliche. \"For the gal I'm to marry / Is a bow-legged sow / I've been soakin' up drink like a sponge.\" This is a hoot. \"Stray Cat Blues\" - another reviewer stated that this is a homage to fans of the band. Jeez, I hope not! This is very creepy stuff. Mick's growls in the intro are absolutely filthy (\"Yeah, just don't care...\"). He sings this like an utter pervert, which is the point. \"Well I can see that you're 15 years old / But I don't want your ID.\" By now it's obvious to the listener that The Stones have reinvented themselves - where did this sound come from? It's unlike anything we've heard on previous Stones albums. \"Jigsaw Puzzle\" - many fans don't care for this song. It's a bit of a throwback, somewhat reminiscent of \"Something Happened To Me Yesterday\" and a few others from the previous incarnations of the band. Mick's lyric is a bit overwritten, but the final verse in particular is quite good. The band jams out well here - Keith, Wyman and Hopkins play off one another brilliantly, particularly in the coda. It's a fine side-ender. \"Street Fighting Man\" - some of this was recorded in a living room. The basic drums are Charlie banging on telephone directory books. Some of the guitars were recorded on a cheap tape deck. The sitar is Brian; more amazing Hopkins piano here. This was, I believe, the start of Keith using the famous \"open G\" tuning he has employed since. A solid song, but I've always thought it a bit over-rated. \"Prodigal Son\" - country blues, based on the Bible story. Mick's lyric is perfect, as is his vocal delivery. No contemporary British band could sound as authentically American when doing this style of blues. \"Parachute Woman\" - more blues, but now we move from the Delta to the Big City. Bill Wyman has often referred to this is his all-time favorite Stones track. The sound is (purposefully?) muddy, and it feels perhaps a bit off-hand at first listen - but give it a chance. This is powerful stuff. \"Factory Girl\" - an underrated gem. It's a beautiful song with a lilting melody, a fun yet poignant lyric, and a wonderful performance by all. \"Waitin' for a girl who's got stains all down her dress / waitin' for a girl and my feet are gettin' wet / she ain't come out yet / waitin' for a factory girl\" - that's as fine a depiction of working class life as I've yet come across. \"Salt Of The Earth\" - the first verse is Keith Richard's first lead vocal on record. This is a stirring song, an apt followup to \"Factory Girl.\" I wasn't at all surprised that this was a song Mick and Keith chose to perform at \"The Concert For NYC.\" The vamp in the last 1/3 or so of this song is brilliant musicianship. If one is familiar with The Rolling Stones only as a \"hit\" group, this album could be disappointing - there's no obvious Top Ten hit here. But if you appreciate music, and if you know anything about the history of this group, you will appreciate the fact that this was a groundbreaking album. There isn't a bad track here. Each is brilliant in its own way. And, of course, this was the first of five great albums produced by The Stones - \"Beggar's Banquet,\" \"Let It Bleed,\" \"Get Yer Ya Ya's Out,\" \"Sticky Fingers,\" and \"Exile On Main Street.\" They had never before reached these heights - and never would again. The Rolling Stones are regarded by most fans and critics as contemporaries of The Beatles and Bob Dylan (\"The Holy Trinity\" of the 60's) on the strength of the five albums noted above. They had a lot of hits before \"Beggar's Banquet,\" but if that was all they'd done they would be regarded as equals to The Animals or The Yardbirds, etal. They became rock royalty when they produced \"Beggar's Banquet.\n\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Output: POS\n\n\n", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token \"|||||\". Your task is to summarize them.\n\nQ: Attorney General Loretta Lynch, right, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan listen to inmate Alphonso Coates, center foreground, talk about his experiences while enrolled in an education program at a prison on July, 31, 2015 in Jessup, Md. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) \n \n Education Secretary Arne Duncan thinks the chances that Congress will replace No Child Left Behind, the main K-12 federal education law now eight years overdue for revision, took a nosedive with House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to retire. \n \n Before Boehner announced that he will leave Congress at the end of October, the chances for passage of a new law were “maybe 50-50,” Duncan said Wednesday after delivering a speech at the National Press Club. “Now it’s probably worse, not better, very disappointing. I’d be happy to be proven wrong there. I hope we can get there. I think that task, that journey, just got harder in the past week.” \n \n [How John Boehner’s retirement complicates NCLB] \n \n His comments followed a speech in which Duncan called on states and localities to sharply reduce the incarceration of non-violent offenders and use an estimated $15 billion in savings to increase salaries for teachers, particularly those who teach in high poverty schools. \n \n [Duncan talks about criminal justice reform, race and poverty] \n \n Duncan spoke in personal terms about the country’s need to correct what he termed an unfair system that robs poor, minority children of the resources they need and then funnels a disproportionate number from classrooms into jail cells. \n \n “Our nation’s public schools are majority minority,” Duncan said after his speech. “It’s a watershed moment in our nation’s history and, guess what? We’re not going back the other way. This isn’t just the right thing to do for the black community ... this is the right thing to do for our country.” \n \n During the Q and A portion of his appearance, Duncan argued that much of the inequity in public schools stems from the way schools are funded. \n \n “Our K-12 system is basically funded at the local level,” he said, noting that the federal government pays about 8 percent to 10 percent of costs for primary and secondary education. “We are so property tax-based throughout the nation, in far too many places, the children of wealthy get far more spent on them than the children of the poor. Until we get uncomfortable with that, we’re going to continue to have huge disparities.” \n \n “As long as children in Ferguson (Mo.) are getting less than half the money as children in wealthier communties, we’re going to have a lot of challenges, and we’re going to leave a lot of talent on the sidelines,” he said. \n \n Money isn’t everything, Duncan said. “But it’s impossible to justify children in poor communities getting half the money of children in wealthy communities,” he said. “It’s criminal. ... And it’s not just a year. Think about the 13-year impact of having less.” \n \n Teacher salaries need to rise, especially in order to attract good educators to high poverty schools, he said. \n \n “Every teaching job is not created equally,” Duncan said. “A teacher in Anacostia is a very different job than teaching in Northwest D.C. ... No teaching job is ever easy, but there are very, very different degrees of difficulty.” \n \n Salaries in the most challenging schools should be high enough to reward the teachers who choose to work there, and attract others to come, he said. \n \n Duncan said the most extreme example he’d seen was on a Native American reservation, where all the teachers were either recruits from Teach for America or they had been imported from the Phillipines. \n \n “They could not find American teachers, American born, to work on that reservation,” Duncan said. “I think compensation has to be on the table in a different way.” \n \n Asked about the fact that during the most recent Republican presidential debate, there wasn’t a single mention of education during the three-hour event, Duncan said voters have to demand that politicians address the issue. \n \n “I would love the media to ask four questions: ‘What are you doing to increase investment in early childhood education? What are you doing to reduce high school dropout rates? What are you doing to increase high school graduation rates? What’s your plan to increase college graduation rates?” \n \n “We should vote on those things,” Duncan said. “Because we focus on the silly stuff, it gives politicians a pass. I don’t blame them. I blame us voters.” ||||| U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to step down from his Cabinet position by the end of the year, leaving the Obama administration more than a year before the president’s term will end. \n \n [Read Duncan’s e-mail to his staff, announcing his decision] \n \n “He’s done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else,” President Obama said as he announced Duncan’s resignation at the White House on Friday afternoon. “America will be better off for what he has done.” \n \n Obama has chosen John B. King Jr., who currently acts as deputy secretary of education, to replace Duncan. \n \n King is a Brooklyn native who often credits teachers with guiding him toward a successful path after he was orphaned at age 12. A former charter school leader in Boston and New York, he joined the Education Department in January after a turbulent tenure as commissioner of education for the state of New York. In that role, he was a key architect of new teacher evaluations tied to test scores and played a key role in pushing New York to adopt new tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards years before other states did the same. \n \n King defended those moves, favored by Duncan and the Obama administration, even as they made him the target of public outrage. Parents saw their children’s test scores fall and teachers unions called for his ouster. \n \n Duncan, 50, has been one of the longest-serving education secretaries and, by most accounts, the most influential. \n \n He took an agency long considered a quiet outpost in the power landscape of Washington, D.C., and – through luck and strategy – oversaw a vigorous expansion of the federal role in the nation’s 100,000 public schools. He largely bypassed Congress to induce states to adopt landmark changes that none of his predecessors attempted – policies such as teacher evaluations and higher academic standards. \n \n Duncan tried to straddle the deep national divide about the best way to improve public education, working between those who believe that competition, accountability and market forces are the best route and others who argue for heavier investment to address the many needs of poor children who increasingly fill public schools. \n \n To Duncan, that has meant a rapid expansion of public charter schools, promoting a national set of K-12 academic benchmarks known as the Common Core State Standards in math and reading, holding teachers accountable for student progress as measured in part by test scores; enrolling more low-income children in preschool; and advocating investment in “wraparound services” such as medical care, mentoring and family services. \n \n Duncan was able to cajole and convince states to adopt his favored policies by taking advantage of two powerful tools: competitive federal grants known as Race to the Top and waivers that excused states from the requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, a federal law widely disliked by states. In order to compete for a grant under Race to the Top, or to receive a waiver under No Child Left Behind, states had to adopt Duncan’s favored policies. Today, more than 40 states hold such waivers, leading some critics to accuse Duncan of acting as “the national school superintendent.” \n \n [How Duncan and Obama have changed America’s schools] \n \n One of those critics, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), couched his disagreements in gentle terms when reacting to Duncan’s news on Friday. “Arne Duncan was one of the president’s best appointments,” he said in a statement. “When we disagree, it is usually because he believes the path to effective teaching, higher standards and real accountability is through Washington, D.C., and I believe it should be in the hands of states, communities, parents and classroom teachers.” \n \n Duncan, who has been the longest-serving member of Obama’s Cabinet, has come under increasing criticism from both the right and the left. Congress, in pending legislation, has moved to strip his power, and in July 2014, delegates of the National Education Association called on Duncan to resign, citing policies they believed hurt teachers and unions. \n \n In a move that made a profound difference to schools across the country but has been little noticed in the larger debates about Duncan’s legacy, his agency directed $100 billion in stimulus funds to districts small and large that were otherwise facing severe job cuts in the wake of the 2008 recession. The move preserved an estimated 350,000 teaching jobs. He also oversaw a major expansion of the department’s Office of Civil Rights as the department investigated sexual assault on college campuses, and he pushed the nation’s schools to change discipline policies that resulted in the disproportionate suspension and expulsion of minority children. \n \n [Even as Congress moves to strip his power, Arne Duncan holds his ground] \n \n Duncan spoke often about the importance of early childhood education and pushed unsuccessfully for a major expansion of federally funded preschool programs. On Wednesday, early childhood education advocates expressed appreciation for the attention he helped bring to their work. \n \n “Secretary Duncan’s leadership and unwavering dedication to early childhood education has made an immeasurable difference in the lives of countless young learners,” said Kris Perry, executive director of the First Five Years Fund. “He has harnessed what all of the research shows about the benefits of investing in early learning, and successfully incorporated it into the everyday mission and policy goals of the Department of Education. We are incredibly grateful.” \n \n Progress for the nation’s K-12 students has been uneven during Duncan’s tenure. High school graduation rates are at an all-time high while dropout rates are down. But average math and reading scores for high school students have flat-lined since 2008 and only marginally improved among 9- and 13- year-old students during the same time period, according to tests administered by the federal government every two years. \n \n In higher education, Duncan has been the point man in chasing a goal Obama set early in his presidency: for the United States to become by 2020 the world leader in the share of young adults who have a college degree. The nation has made some progress but still trails several others on that measure. \n \n Duncan has championed several measures to widen access to college for disadvantaged students, including simpler financial aid forms and more funding for Pell grants. This year he even visited a prison in Maryland to announce an experiment that will enable some prisoners to receive Pell grants. \n \n The Education Department under Duncan has also taken steps to tighten oversight of colleges. Some of those steps have irritated college and university leaders. There has been more regulation of for-profit colleges, as well as a heightened level of financial scrutiny that led to the collapse of the Corinthian College for-profit chain. A lengthy effort to come up with a federal plan to rate colleges on measures of value and access was derailed, but Duncan last month unveiled an alternative: a Web site called College Scorecard that publishes information about graduation rates and average salaries of alumni at thousands of schools. \n \n Duncan’s move from Washington to Chicago — where he grew up and later was the head of the Chicago Public Schools — appears to have been in the making for some time. Duncan’s wife, Karen, and his two children, Claire and Ryan, moved back to Chicago earlier this year to restart life in the city where they lived before Obama, then president-elect, asked his old friend in 2008 to run the U.S. Education Department. \n \n Duncan did not hide his dislike for the nation’s capital, often criticizing Washington as a den of dysfunction filled with powerful people who lacked political courage to do what he believed was right. \n \n In an interview with The Washington Post in June, he recounted how one senator confided that he supported universal preschool — an idea Duncan had been promoting for two years — but would not publicly back any plan for the federal government to fund it. \n \n “That’s, like, my political lesson in Washington,” Duncan said. “Are you here to make a difference? . . . Or are you here to say you’re a fancy senator?” \n \n But Duncan said at the time that he planned to remain in Washington, serving out the Obama administration’s second term before rejoining his family in Chicago. Karen Duncan was seen at the private Lab Schools in Chicago in late January with her two children (who “shadowed” other students through a school day, which is commonly done by students preparing to attend a particular school). \n \n When the family’s move was announced in July, Dorie Nolt, Duncan’s spokeswoman, released this statement: \n \n After more than six years living just outside Washington, D.C., Secretary Duncan’s family moved back to Chicago recently. His wife, Karen, is ready to resume her full-time career in education and will work at her former employer, the University of Chicago Laboratory School, where their children will attend school. Secretary Duncan will continue to work and maintain a residence in D.C. but commute to spend weekends with his family, as many cabinet Secretaries have done. Secretary Duncan remains committed to his work in the Cabinet and will continue to serve at the pleasure of the President. \n \n In the June interview with The Post, Duncan said he planned to stay put in Washington because he felt he had a long list of unfinished business and felt an urgency to keep pushing toward unmet goals. He called his job the dream of a lifetime. “I still pinch myself some days,” he said. \n \n Duncan’s departure means President Obama is losing his closest friend in the Cabinet. The two men first met decades ago in Chicago and forged a friendship on the basketball courts through love of the game and an interest in education. \n \n Throughout much of his presidency, Obama regularly played basketball with Duncan at various federal facilities around Washington. Duncan, who had a brief stint in Australia as a professional player after college, still plays, while Obama has switched to golf. \n \n Duncan’s announcement came as a surprise even to some people who are close to him. Just two days ago, after a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, Duncan artfully declined to answer when he was asked whether he planned to stay until the end of the administration’s second term. \n \n “We’re working hard every day, and we have an amazing team,” Duncan said. “There is so much work we need to do.” \n \n Duncan at the time gave the impression that he would stay until the Obama administration ends in 14 months, talking about the importance of the work ahead “in the fourth quarter.” \n \n Asked what he planned to do after leaving office, he demurred. \n \n “I have no idea,” Duncan said, adding that he felt he had a great deal more work to do in his current job and felt great pressure to get as much done as he could in the remaining months. “I’ve always been very tunnel-visioned. … It’s absolutely the wrong thing to do to start thinking about other things right now.” \n \n Then he waited a beat. \n \n “But if anybody has any ideas, let me know,” he said to laughter. \n \n The following is a text of an internal e-mail Duncan sent to his staff today, according to a copy obtained by The Washington Post: \n \n Subject line: An inspiring new leader for our extraordinary team \n \n Dear colleagues, \n \n I’m writing to tell you two things. First, what is for me some bittersweet news: after several months of commuting between my family in Chicago and my job here in DC, I have made the decision to step down in December. Second, and very happily, President Obama has asked our delegated Deputy Secretary John King Jr. to step into my role when I leave. An announcement to that effect went out from the White House a few minutes ago. Serving the President in the work of expanding opportunity for students throughout this country has been the greatest honor of my life. Doing so alongside people of the brilliance, ability and moral conviction of the team here at ED has been nothing short of thrilling. We have been lucky to have an a amazing team here from Day One, but I honestly believe our team today is the strongest it’s ever been. So it’s with real sadness that have come to recognize that being apart from my family has become too much of a strain, and it is time for me to step aside and give a new leader a chance. I haven’t talked with anyone about what I’ll do next, and probably won’t for a little while – I’m simply returning to Chicago to live with my family. I imagine my next steps will continue to involve the work of expanding opportunity for children, but I have no idea what that will look like yet. What gives me peace with this decision, and I hope comes as a reassurance to everyone here, is the extraordinary talent of John and our leadership team. John comes to this role with a record of exceptional accomplishment as a lifelong educator – a teacher, a school leader, and a leader of school systems, most recently as Commissioner of Education in New York State before he joined our team. Over the years that I have known him, and especially in the months we have worked together here, I’ve come to recognize John as one of the most passionate, courageous, clear-headed leaders in our field. His talent is such that he will become one of the youngest Cabinet members in American history. (I encourage you to read his remarkable personal story, which he laid out in a Huffington Post article a few years ago.) The team here is extraordinary. Each of our offices is headed by a genuine national leader from whom I’ve learned enormously, and at the center of that team is a senior leadership I’ve depended upon daily – in addition to John, our Under Secretary Ted Mitchell, a visionary whose ideas and moral force are helping to change the landscape of opportunity in higher education; and my Chief of Staff, Emma Vadehra, who understands how to accomplish change in education as well as anyone else in this country. I’m hopeful that we’ll be able to announce a replacement for John to carry out the duties of Deputy Secretary soon, and I owe this team enormous thanks for their dedication and sacrifice. I owe a similarly profound thanks to each of you. The work of this Department is exceptionally ambitious – to ensure that every student in this country enjoys genuine opportunity to learn, to grow, to excel. As a comparatively small team, often under challenging conditions and timelines, our staff has continued to offer example after example of dedication beyond the call of duty. I’m honored to have led you, and delighted by what good hands this Department will be in. I ask each of you that you offer John and his team the same commitment I’ve witnessed from you. As I think about our shared work here, and about what it has meant to spend seven years serving the President and the country, I think about two students I’ve met in recent years. The first is Brandon, a young man I met at a round table discussion in Denver as part of My Brother’s Keeper. Brandon told a story I will never forget, about how his life had slipped off the tracks in elementary school. He had scrawled graffiti in a bathroom stall when he was 11 years old. His school, which had zero tolerance discipline policies, called the police, and he ended up being sentenced to pick up trash along the highway alongside adult criminals. He also ended up with a criminal record, and years later, when he tried to become a police officer, the department turned him away because of that record. For me, Brandon will always be a reminder of the distance we have to go as adults, to do right by our young people. The second person is Russhaun Johnson. Russhaun had the deck stacked against him growing up in Des Moines, Iowa. His dad wasn’t around; he lived with his mom, who was a drug addict, until she was incarcerated for more than four years while he was in middle and high school. No one in his family was there for him, and many nights, he slept on park benches. He described himself as “two steps behind” from the start in school. What got Russhaun on a track to success, he says, was his teachers and counselors, who helped him see himself as the brilliant young man he is. He’s now an accomplished poet, and the president of his senior class. A few weeks ago, the whole country had the opportunity to witness his brilliance, as he introduced President Obama to a cheering crowd on the first day of our bus tour. Russhaun told the audience he is planning to go to college to become a teacher, because he wants to offer a next generation of young people the possibility that the caring educators \n \n around him helped him see in himself. He is an example, to me, of what can go right for our children when our schools understand who they can become – and act on that knowledge. When I think about the life paths of these two young people, I know that no one will fight harder for students like them than John King and the team he will lead here. I thank you for being part of that team, and promise you that you are in good hands. \n \n –Arne \n \n Nick Anderson contributed to this report. \n \n Correction: An earlier version of this story mistakenly reported that Duncan is the longest-serving education secretary. In fact, Clinton administration Education Secretary Richard Riley served longer. ||||| WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Arne Duncan, one of the longest-serving members of President Barack Obama's Cabinet, will step down in December, officials said Friday. \n \n FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2015 file photo, Education Secretary Arne Duncan speaks during a town hall meeting in Des Moines, Iowa. Duncan is stepping down in December after 7 years in the Obama administration.... (Associated Press) \n \n FILE - In this April 10, 2014 file photo, John King, Jr. speaks to students at New York University's Wagner School in New York. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is stepping down in December after 7 years... (Associated Press) \n \n In an email to his staff, Duncan said he's returning to Chicago to live with his family. He said he isn't sure what he will do next, but that he hopes his future will \"continue to involve the work of expanding opportunity for children.\" \n \n Sidestepping a nomination fight in Congress, Obama has tapped John King Jr., a senior official at the Education Department, to run the department in an acting capacity for the remainder of his administration. Obama doesn't intend to nominate King or another candidate for education secretary before his presidency ends in early 2017, said a White House official, who wasn't authorized to comment by name and spoke on condition of anonymity. \n \n The unconventional approach will spare Obama a fight over a nominee in the Senate but is likely to draw resistance from Republicans in the Senate, which holds the power to confirm or reject nominees for Cabinet-level posts. \n \n \"John comes to this role with a record of exceptional accomplishment as a lifelong educator — a teacher, a school leader, and a leader of school systems,\" Duncan said in an email to department officials obtained by The Associated Press. \n \n Duncan is one of just a few remaining members of Obama's original cabinet. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Office of Management and Budget director Shaun Donovan have also served in the Cabinet since the first term. Donovan, however, first served as secretary of Housing and Urban Development. \n \n Duncan came to Washington from Chicago, where he ran the city's public school system. As part of the Chicago cohort that followed Obama to Washington, Duncan is one of few Cabinet members who has a personal relationship with the president. A basketball player at Harvard University who played professionally in Australia, Duncan was once a regular in Obama's weekend basketball games. \n \n As secretary, Duncan prioritized K-12 education and made his first signature initiative the Race to the Top program, in which states competed for federal grants. The program became a flashpoint in the fight over federal involvement in education. Critics argued it encouraged states to adopt the Common Core, a controversial set of curriculum guidelines that become symbolic of federal overreach. \n \n Duncan showed little patience for criticism of the program and the standards. In 2014, he cast critics as \"white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary.\" Duncan later said he regretted the \"clumsy phrasing.\" \n \n In his senior Education Department role with the peculiar title of delegated deputy secretary, King oversees preschool through high school education and manages the department's operations. He was previously state education commissioner in New York, running the state's public schools and universities. \n \n ___ \n \n Associated Press writer Kathleen Hennessey contributed to this report. \n \n ___ \n \n Reach Josh Lederman at http://twitter.com/joshledermanAP |||||\n\nA: At the end of the year, Arne Duncan is stepping down as Education Secretary after seven years. According to a letter to staff that was obtained by the AP and confirmed by a White House official, Duncan is going back to Chicago to be with his family. Duncan, 50, has been the longest-serving secretary of education, according to the Washington Post, which just days ago reported on a speech Duncan gave calling on the US to fix education inequality: \"Our K-12 system is basically funded at the local level. We are so property-tax-based throughout the nation, in far too many places, the children of wealthy get far more spent on them than the children of the poor. Until we get uncomfortable with that, we’re going to continue to have huge disparities.\" In his letter, Duncan calls his decision to retire in December \"bittersweet,\" writing, \"It’s with real sadness that have come to recognize that being apart from my family has become too much of a strain, and it is time for me to step aside and give a new leader a chance.\" That new leader will, at least for a time, be John King Jr., who is currently the deputy secretary. According to the AP, President Obama wants King to be the acting secretary for the rest of Obama's term, but is not planning to nominate King, or anyone else, to be secretary. That will allow the president to avoid \"a nomination fight in Congress,\" the AP notes, though Senate Republicans may resist the \"unconventional approach.\" An official announcement from the White House is expected Friday afternoon.\n****\nQ: The moral considerations associated with doping are as complicated as the lexical challenges of the term itself. What “doping” is, precisely, and under what conditions it should be allowed are questions the sports world may never totally resolve. Caffeine is a drug that enhances performance, but it’s OK. Amphetamine is also a drug that enhances performance, but it is not. \n \n It’s all a matter of where you draw the line. So if competitive cyclists want to gain an advantage by ingesting someone else’s poop, I say we all just go ahead and let them, for crying out loud. \n \n You think I am joking, but it’s right here in this Denver Post link, the URL of which ends with “poop-doping-cycling,” and the content of which concerns a powerful microbiome. \n \n The most important, perhaps, is Prevotella. Not typically found in American and European gut microbiomes, Prevotella is thought to play a role in enhancing muscle recovery. “In my sampling, only half of cyclists have Prevotella, but top racers always have it,” she told Bicycling. “It’s not even in 10 percent of non-athletes.” Peterson reports she hosts Prevotella in her own gut – but not naturally. In fact, she might be the first case of “poop doping,” thanks to a fecal transplant she administered herself three years ago. Her donor? Another elite athlete. \n \n That’s Lauren Peterson, a microbiologist and pro endurance mountain biker, who self-administered her first poop transplant from another elite athlete three years ago. She said she did it both to improve her athletic performance and to treat symptoms from the Lyme disease she contracted as a child. \n \n Fecal transplants are rare for reasons I assume are obvious, and some reasons that are not. In the U.S., they’re pretty much only done to treat extreme cases of a specific disease, Clostridium difficile, which causes chronic diarrhea. Peterson couldn’t find a doctor willing to do a poop transplant on her, so she did it herself. \n \n Sign up Like this article? Sign up for the The Big Lead email newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. Success Thanks for signing up. \n \n You'll be waking up a little more awesome tomorrow. Whoa! Something went wrong. Try again? \n \n “I just did it at home,” she said of the February 2014 procedure. “It’s not fun, but it’s pretty basic.” \n \n Of course, you know what happens next. It was a miracle cure, her energy went through the roof, she started winning races. \n \n “I had more energy than I knew what to do with,” she told the same podcast last year. “Like everything just changed.” \n \n All because of somebody else’s poop. \n \n Whatever is to become of “poop doping,” these are the early stages of it. Peterson is pretty sure it’s going to catch on in cycling, and given everything we’ve learned about cycling culture over the last, oh … let’s just say the whole modern history of the sport, this seems like a good bet. Peterson imagined a day when you could accomplish the same thing just by taking a pill. \n \n That would certainly be called a Prevotella pill, but we’d all know it by its street name: The Poop Pill. \n \n And if that’s what cyclists really want to do, I say go ahead. I’m not going to talk you out of eating poop. That’s what your parents are for. ||||| RELATED: Gut Science is the Future of Hydration \n \n “I couldn’t find a doctor who could help me,” remembers Petersen. An interest in finding her own solutions had already propelled her towards a career in science, and while she was in grad school she had her gut sequenced by the American Gut Project*. The results showed that her gut microbiome is 96% gram-negative bacteria. While American Gut is purely a research project and results cannot be used as a diagnostic or to inform treatment, Petersen worried that some of these bacteria might be pathogenic, and could get into her blood stream. “I had no microbes to help me break down food, and I had picked up bugs in the lab where I was working because my system was so weak and susceptible.” \n \n But a few months after her transplant, Petersen was training five days a week (up from her usual two). She started enduro racing, and was soon placing and even winning in the pro field. “I wondered if I had gotten my microbiome from a couch potato, not a racer, if I would I be doing so well,” remembers Petersen. \"Then it made me wonder what the best possible microbiome for a racer would be.” \n \n RELATED: How use of Probiotics Benefits Cyclists \n \n So, she started gathering stool samples from amateur and professional bike racers. She observed that Prevotella, a microorganism she received in her own transplant, is common amongst elite racers. “The more a person trains, the more likely they are to have Prevotella,” says Petersen. “In my sampling, only half of cyclists have Prevotella, but top racers always have it... it’s not even in 10% of non-athletes.” \n \n She is currently extracting Prevotella to understand what it is, and how to boost its abundance naturally or through a probiotic pill for athletes or aspiring athletes. What she already knows: Prevotella synthesize branch chain amino acids critical for muscle recovery. \n \n RELATED: How to Change Your Gut Bacteria to Lose Weight \n \n In addition to Prevotella, Petersen has identified an archeon named Methanobrevibacter smithii, or M. smithii, which she believes is also significant. Archeon are ancient microorganisms that have managed to survive for millions of years in hostile habitats like sulfur springs and deep in the ocean. They also live in the human digestive system, where they have specialized functions. Like Prevotella, Elite cyclists often have M. smithii, but it’s less common in amateur racers. That’s significant because M. smithii also appears to be a performance-enhancing microbe. \n \n What does it do? In science terms, it thrives on hydrogen and carbon dioxide and other bacterial waste products in the gut. In 12-year old boy terms, M. smithii eats the poop of bacteria. Yes, everybody poops, even bacteria, and it can have detrimental effects on your health. Namely: buildups of hydrogen and carbon dioxide can prevent the other bacteria in your gut from properly breaking down your food for fuel, which is bad news if you need calories for that sprint. \n \n So in 12-year-old boy terms, M. smithii is kind of like a bacterial pooper scooper. In science terms, it helps you turn the food you’re eating into energy more efficiently. For example, it boosts the ability of your gut bacteria to break down fiber from fruit into the short-chain fatty acids that are critical fuel for athletes. \n \n Petersen is still investigating how different foods can impact Prevotella, M. smithii, and the rest of the 120 species and 350 strains of microbes she’s identified in bike racers' guts. And she doesn’t know if those microorganisms need other ingredients to work. She also doesn’t know if Prevotella and M. smithii are differentiators for cyclists only, or also common in elite basketball players or gymnasts. So unfortunately it could be years, not months, before you’ll be able to buy performance-enhancing probiotics. (In the mean time, you can try top-rated Ultimate Flora for $29 on Amazon.) \n \n As for actual poop doping…. fecal transplants are available, but not in the U.S. And if you do find a clinic willing to do it, Petersen warns that \"you can’t choose your donor, and it’s a risky procedure. As with any transplant, your immune system could reject what you get. It’s not something you should take lightly. I did a lot of research, and I took a risk for sure.” To be clear, Petersen in no way supports 'at home' fecal transplants— she simply thinks there's room to improve our probiotic and prebiotic knowledge. \n \n RELATED: Pro Cyclist Habits to Follow— or Ignore \n \n With the data collected from the Athlete Microbiome Project, Petersen is diving into research not just on performance enhancing probiotics for cyclists, but whether cyclist-derived gut microorganisms could boost the health of athletes and non-athletes alike, providing greater long-term benefits than the probiotics currently available. \n \n “What we’re learning is going to change a lot for cyclists as well as the rest of the population,” says Petersen. “If you get tested and you’re missing something, maybe in three years you’ll be able to get it through a pill instead of a fecal transplant. We’ve got data that no one has ever seen before, and we’re learning a lot. And I think I can say with confidence that bacterial doping— call it poop doping, if you must— is coming soon.” \n \n Want to get involved? If you’re a Pro or Cat 1 cyclist and want to share what’s in your gut, contact Lauren. \n \n *The American Gut Project does not provide information that should be used for clinical decisions. |||||\n\nA: It probably won't ever become the focus of a hit sports movie—not even if they call it Poosiers—but \"poop doping\" is a real thing and could possibly give competitive cyclists an edge. That's according to microbiologist and mountain biker Lauren Petersen, who tells Bicycling magazine that after being sick for more than a decade with Lyme Disease, in 2014 she gave herself an at-home fecal transplant from somebody who happened to be another racer. Petersen says she not only felt much better after the stool transplant, she upped her training to five days a week and was winning races within months, though her experience proves correlation, not causation. \"I wondered if I had gotten my microbiome from a couch potato, not a racer, if I would I be doing so well,\" says Petersen. Petersen—who says the procedure was \"not fun\" but \"pretty basic\"—says she started collecting stool samples from top racers and found that a microorganism called Prevotella was found in almost all top racers but less than 10% of the general population. She is now doing more research into Prevotella, which is believed to help muscle recovery. Other experts, however, are skeptical, telling the Washington Post that it is far too early to draw conclusions—and warning that \"bacterial doping\" at home could be very dangerous. (Petersen herself acknowledges the risk and isn't endorsing it.) At the Big Lead blog, Tully Corcoran argues that if poop doping is what cyclists really want to do, we should \"all just go ahead and let them, for crying out loud.\" (Researchers believe fecal transplants could also help with weight loss.)\n****\nQ: Guinness World Records (GWR), the global authority in record breaking achievements, is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Mr Chandra Dangi, who held the title of shortest man in the world. \n \n GWR would like to express its sincere and heartfelt condolences to Mr Dangi’s family in this difficult time. \n \n He will be remembered forever as an iconic and extraordinary record holder. ||||| The shortest man in recorded history has died, three years after entering the Guinness world records and before which he had never left his village. \n \n Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a Nepalese man who stood 1ft 9\" tall (54.6 cm), has passed away on the Polynesian island of Samoa after being ill with pneumonia. \n \n The 75-year-old won his place in the record books on February 26 in 2012 after being found to be half an inch shorter than the previous holder, Gul Mohammed from India. \n \n Mr Dangi then travelled to London two years later to meet Sultan Kosen from Turkey, the world's tallest man at 8ft 2\" (2.48 metres). \n \n Guinness World Records said in a statement it was “deeply saddened” to hear of his passing. \n \n \"GWR would like to express its sincere and heartfelt condolences to Mr Dangi’s family in this difficult time. He will be remembered forever as an iconic and extraordinary record holder.\" \n \n Before winning his title, Mr Dangi had never left his remote village of Reemkholi in Dang district, more than 500 kilometres from the capital Kathmandu, according to ABC news. |||||\n\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Three years after being declared the world's shortest man, Chandra Dangi died Thursday at the age of 75. Standing just 21.5 inches tall, Dangi was named the world's shortest man by Guinness World Records in 2012, the Wall Street Journal of India reports. According to the Kathmandu Post, Dangi beat out the previous record holder by less than an inch. In addition to being the shortest living man, he was also the shortest man ever measured. Prior to being named the world's shortest man, Dangi had never left the remote village of Reemkholi in Nepal, the Independent reports. In the past three years, he moved more than 300 miles to Kathmandu, met the world's tallest man in London, saw the ocean for the first time in Australia, and toured the Pacific with Samoa's Magic Circus. After Dangi's death from illness in a hospital in American Samoa, Guinness World Records offered condolences to his family: \"He will be remembered forever as an iconic and extraordinary record holder.\" The Wall Street Journal has a photo tribute to Dangi here.\n****\n", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Making friends might seem to come easy for some persons, but it's maybe very hard for most persons. No matter how many friends you might already have, it is always a good idea to make new friends. Being shy keeps a lot of people from making friends. Also, making friends might need a person to step outside of their comfortable places, which are hard for a lot of people, whether they are shy or not. However, overcoming the shyness to step out of your box is an important step in making friends. There are lots of ways to meet new friends. First of all, remember that a good friendship is based on interests, so if you are ready to make friends, start to join clubs or go places where you have interest. For instance, if you like to play sports, join a sports team or after school sports club. If you have interests in music or writing, join clubs or organizations that you are interested in. When you see someone in a place like that, and you think that they look nice, it is always a good idea to go up to them and introduce yourself and ask interesting questions so that you can start a conversation. Don't put too much pressure on yourself, and remember that friendships don't always happen quickly. Some friendships happen right away, and you'll be able to tell if someone will be a great friend right after you meet them. Some friendships take a long time to develop. Anyway, the friends that you meet are going to be worth it. If a friendship develops quickly, it doesn't mean that it is extra valuable, and if a friendship takes a long time to develop, it doesn't mean that it isn't worth it because it's too hard. Making friends might be a bit difficult for you, and the friends you will make may not look anything like you. However, even though it might be scary to start conversations, you are worth doing it. All friendships start with a single hello. Options: A They'll do the same things as you. B They'll go to the same places. C They may not look anything like you. D They may give all you need Answer: C They may not look anything like you. Question:\n****\n[A]: What are the friends like after you have them?\ninput: Please answer the following: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth. The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth. You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long. The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the _ of the air. The world rushes on over the strings of the lingering heart making the music of sadness. We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. The mist, like love, plays upon the heart of the hills and brings out surprises of beauty. Your voice, my friend, wanders in my heart, like the muffled sound of the sea among these listening pines. What is this unseen flame of darkness whose sparks are the stars? Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves... Options: A music B film C need D value Answer: A music Question:\n++++++++++\noutput: Which of the following is the most suitable for _ ?\nPlease answer this: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: You are what you eat Keeping better eating habits can help you reduce disease. A healthy eating plan means choosing the right foods to eat and preparing foods in a healthy way. _ Do you often change your toothbrush? Maybe you think it is not necessary. A study shows old toothbrushes bring disease. You should often change your toothbrush. Exercise Swimming, running, skating, skiing, dancing, walking and some other activities can help you stay healthy. You should exercise at least three times a week and for twenty minutes or more each time. Do it. Plan out your life You should have breakfast before you go to school. Have a proper meal for lunch. Follow a healthy diet. ,. Options: A proper diet B exercise C sleep and exercise D A and B Answer: D A and B Question:\n++++++++\nAnswer: From the passage, we know _ can help us stay healthy.\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: The next time you look up at the sky and see a cloud that looks like Mickey Mouse or your favorite fruit, look again. It may not be a cloud, but a Flogo -- a logo that flies. It's a new form of advertising in the sky that's never been used before. It's a different way to market your products, logos, and events. These funny logos are made with soap bubbles mixed with a little helium gas ,which makes them lighter than air and float in the sky. Special machines are used to make these new funny Flogos. The machine, which can be rented for $ 2,500 a day, can make a Flogo every 15-25 seconds. Flogos can fly much higher or lower if needed. They can last from a few minutes to an hour anywhere in the sky, depending on the weather conditions. Though they can fly up to 20, 000 feet, they usually float around at 300- 500 feet. Flogos are only white now, but people hope to have more colorful Flogos in the near future. Flogos are Green, 100% environmentally safe, because the soap used to make the Flogo comes from plants and leaves. So this fun way of advertising is healthy and good for the environment. Options: A Machines -- Used for Flogos! B Flogos -- Logos that fly! C Advertising -- Made of Fruits! D Clouds -- Like Mickey Mouse! Answer: B Flogos -- Logos that fly! Question:\n\nA: Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?\nProblem: Given the question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: There are many kinds of ants in America.One kind of ants is very strong.People are afraid of them and the other animals are afraid of them,too. These ants are often in big groups .They eat all the animals on their way.They can kill and eat elephants.And they can eat horses,too.Sometimes they can even kill people and eat them.When the ants come near,people leave their homes.But people are sometimes happy after the ants pass by.Because they can see no insects or snakes. Options: A They are under the ground. B They go to other places before the ants come. C Ants kill and eat them. D People kill and eat them. Answer: C Ants kill and eat them. Question:\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nThe answer is:\nWhere are insects or snakes after the ants pass by?\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Everyone hopes to have a healthy lifestyle. But do you know what a healthy lifestyle is like? Here are some ways to have a healthy life. Get active This is the most important way of a healthy lifestyle. Walking, running, playing basketball and other sports will help you keep healthy. Keep clean Keep the places around you clean. Unclean and untidy places can not only make you angry but also (...) make you ill. Eat healthily Our health depends on our food, so everyone should remember to eat healthy food. The healthier food you eat, the healthier you will be. Live green This is the easiest way to live a healthy lifestyle. Plant trees around your house. Try your best to use less water. Stop using things if they are bad for environment . Options: A Sad. B Angry and ill. C Happy and healthy. D Excited. Answer: B Angry and ill. Question:\n\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "How will unclean places make people feel?", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "input: Please answer the following: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Once there lived a lion in the big mountain.He was very big and strong.He often ate the other animals.Every day he went out to look for food.The small animals in the mountain were all afraid of him.Near the mountain there were four bulls .They are friends, and they often worked and played together.The tiger tried many times to catch them, but he could not do so.Every time he came near, the four bulls stood together to fight him.So he could do nothing to them. One day, the four bulls had a quarrel .After that each of them went his own way.When the lion saw this, he was happy.He caught one bull and ate him up .Then he caught another.One by one he caught all the four bulls and ate them up. Options: A Four B One C Two D Five Answer: A Four Question:\n++++++++++\noutput: How many bulls were there in the story? _\n\n\ninput: Please answer the following: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: If you go to an American middle school on Wednesday morning, you will hear kids talking about the American idol show from the night before. Some have called it the most influential show in the history of television. American Idol has been extremely successful in the country since 2002. The show was number one for six years! The most popular episode had nearly 38 million _ . But why is the show so popular? The idea of the show is this: everyday people get a chance to show their singing talents to the world and become an \"American Idol\", a famous pop star. Anyone in the country(between the ages of 15 and 28) can have a try--a chance of becoming world famous. In fact, everyday people are the ones who are allowed on the show. If you are a professional singer--you cannot be an American Idol. The winners are regular people from small towns--people who sang in churches or bars but had bigger dreams. The winners of the contest don't get a prize of money. Instead, they get to record an album. Famous stars such as Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood gained fame from winning the show. So, it seems the contest really works. It is the idea that anyone can be a super star that draws people to this program. All those hours of practicing in front of the mirror could lead to fame and fortune .Even you could be the next \"American Idol\". ,. Options: A play ball games to keep fit B watch the American Idol show C talk about TV shows D perform on TV shows Answer: C talk about TV shows Question:\n++++++++++\noutput: On Wednesday morning, US middle school kids often _ .\n\n\ninput: Please answer the following: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Computers can injure you. Most other injuries happen suddenly. For example, if you fall off a bike and break your arms, it happens very quickly. But computer injuries slowly. You probably know how to ride a bike safely. Now learn to use a computer safely. Your eyes Too much light can injure your eyes, so never sit too close to a computer screen. Your eyes should be at least 50 centimeters from the screen. Remember to look away from it sometimes. This gives your eyes a rest. When you use a computer, the window should be on your left or your right. If it is behind you, the light will reflect on the screen. If the window is in front of you, the sun and the screen will both shine into your eyes. Your hands and wrists Hand and wrist injuries can happen because the hands and wrists are moved in the same way hundreds of times. If you use a keyboard for a long time, follow these three rules: 1) Rest your wrists on something. 2) Keep your elbows at the same height as the keyboard. 3) Stop something and exercise your hands, wrists and fingers in a different way. Your back Some people sit for many hours in front of a computer. If you sit in the wrong way, you can injure your back or your neck. So you should sit with your back straight. The top part of the screen should all be in front of your eyes. Your forearms, wrists, hands and the upper part of your legs should all be parallel to the floor. If you are sitting for a long time, get up every 30 minutes and exercise your arms, legs and necks. Enjoy your computer, but use it safely. Options: A How to protect your eyes. B How to protect your hands and wrists. C How to use a computer safely. D How to protect your back. Answer: C How to use a computer safely. Question:\n++++++++++\noutput: What would be the best title for the passage?\n\n\ninput: Please answer the following: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: When you walk into the small Australian town of Coober Pedy, you may be surprised by what you can see. It's just barren land there! So why even call it a town? There are more than 4,000 people of 48 nationalities. However, all of the people live underground! Coober Pedy was established in 1915, following the discovery of opals . The town is sometimes called the \"opal capital of the world,\" because it is the largest opal mining area in the world. Due to a desert climate , people came to realize that while working under the ground was easy, living above it was not. The solution was to move underground, by changing old mines into homes and establishing the world's first and most likely, only underground town. As years have gone by, the homes have become bigger. There are now also some hotels for tourists. They come from all over the world just to see this unusual town. Coober Pedy is probably best known for its unique style of underground living. While the structures may be located underground, they are in no way worse than those that lie above. Not only do their walls have the color of beautiful red, but also the structures have all the modern equipment like walk-in closets, modern kitchens and televisions. And the town also has gift shops selling opal jewelry, a couple of museums and even a church! Besides, Coober Pedy is also a favourite among filmmakers. And it has appeared in a series of movies such as Pitch Black, Red Planet and Opal Dream. Options: A there were large opal mines there B living above the ground was not easy C it was the opal capital of the world D it was the world's first underground town Answer: B living above the ground was not easy Question:\n++++++++++\noutput:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "People moved to live underground because _ .", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token \"|||||\". Your task is to summarize them.\nOne example: A photo series on the popular Humans of New York Facebook page may have went viral and captured the nation’s attention last Tuesday, but for Daniel Kang, the post really hit home. \n \n When Kang, a junior studying computer science at the University of Michigan, heard that the refugee pictured and his family were relocating to his hometown of Troy, Mich., he said he knew he had to help. \n \n “I was really inspired by how intelligent he was and I knew a lot of people wanted to welcome him, so I thought, why not it be me?” he said. \n \n On the Humans of New York Facebook page with over 16 million likes — including comments from President Obama — the seven-part picture series’ captions detail one Syrian scientist and his family’s tale of loss after a missile strike destroyed their home, forcing them to to flee to Turkey, now with plans of coming to the United States. \n \n “Everything ended for us that day. That was our destiny. That was our share in life,” the scientist said. Battling stomach cancer, the loss of a home, career and seven family members, the man, whose name remains confidential to protect his identity as a refugee, expressed his hope for a new life in the United States. \n \n “I learned today that I’m going to Troy, Michigan,” he said. “I know nothing about it. I just hope that it’s safe and that it’s a place where they respect science. I just want to get back to work. I want to be a person again. I don’t want the world to think I’m over. I’m still here.” \n \n Knowing that refugees come to the United States with little more than they can carry, Kang quickly organized a crowdfunding campaign to help establish the man in his new home. \n \n In four days, the GoFundMe page has raised over $16K in donations from over 700 people. On Saturday afternoon, actor Edward Norton also began a fundraiser for the scientist, raising even more for the refugee who says he “just wants to be a person again.” \n \n “The response has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Kang. “A lot of people thanked me for doing a nice thing but I really feel like I was doing what anyone else would have done.” \n \n Kang said he’s received many messages from people expressing their gratitude, those who want to reach out to the man personally, as well local companies interested in working with the scientist. This includes invitations to lecture at local colleges, research job opportunities and potential help from local medical facilities in treating the man’s stomach cancer. \n \n “There’s definitely a lot of interest in helping him out,” he said. \n \n The biggest concern, said Kang, are those skeptical of how the money will reach the man. \n \n Kang, who has successfully crowdfunded in the past, is working closely with GoFundMe, the local refugee relocation agency Lutheran Social Services of Michigan, and is in communication with the Humans of New York staff to make sure all funding goes to the scientist. \n \n In the end, Kang said he just hopes the scientist receives the welcome he deserves. \n \n “If I could talk to him right now, I’d just tell him how sorry I am for everything he’s been through and that he’s coming to a great place. One of the things he said that resonated with me the most is that ‘I hope Troy is a place that appreciates science.’ \n \n I’d say out of all the cities in Michigan, Troy is the best place to raise a family, be a scientist and we can’t wait to have him.” \n \n Oona Goodin-Smith is a student at Oakland University and a member of the USA TODAY College contributor network. ||||| I saw this story on one of my favorite sites, Humans of New York, and it moved me to tears. This man has suffered profound loss that would crush the spirit of many people and yet he still passionately wants a chance to contribute positively to the world. If we don’t welcome people like this into our communities and empower his dream of making an impact with his life, then we’re not the country we tell ourselves we are. Let’s reject the 'anti-human’ voices that tell us to fear refugees and show this man and his family what Americans are really made of. Let’s show that a country built by the energy and dreams of immigrants still believes in brave people who come here with hope for better life. \n \n Everything we raise here will go to help this family so that the father can get the medical treatment he needs to live and pursue his work, and his family can build a new stable life after their tragedy, and…as the Scientist beautifully expresses…to support his dream of contributing to the world. \n \n Thanks to Humans of New York for sharing these stories. Thanks to the team at CrowdRise for putting this together and figuring out how to get even the credit card transaction fees covered so we can get the maximum to the family. \n \n Thanks to everyone who rallies together to create the power of the crowd. If enough of us kick in the price of two frappucinos, we can probably transform the experience of this family and show them that life can deliver healing and kindness, not just heartbreak. \n \n Thanks to Benevolent, all donations are tax-deductible. We will work with Benevolent to use all donated funds to help this family and will seek to use any excess or unused funds to help the other 11 profiled in the HONY ‘Syrian American’ series. \n \n Edward Norton ||||| DETROIT, MI -- Moved to tears by a Humans of New York feature on a Syrian refugee fleeing to Metro Detroit, Hollywood actor Edward Norton launched an online fundraiser that had raised nearly $450,000 for the widower and his four children as of Thursday afternoon. \n \n \"I didn't hear about it, but I want to thank him very much from the humanity perspective,\" the man told NBC News after hearing about the fundraiser's success. \"There are people outside who need that money much more than me.\" \n \n The man asked NBC to refer to him as \"Abu Ammar,\" a fake named used to protect his relatives who remain in Syria. He's known to many on the Internet simply as \"The Scientist,\" which is also his profession. \n \n The refugee's family was scheduled to arrive in Troy, a Detroit suburb, Thursday. He and four surviving children spent the last two years in Instanbul, Turkey. They fled civil-war-torn Syria after the man's wife and one of his daughters were killed in a missile attack on April 6, 2013. \n \n His is one of 12 families featured by Humans of New York and cleared to resettle in the U.S. \n \n \"I learned today that I'm going to Troy, Michigan,\" the man told Humans of New York. \"I know nothing about it. I just hope that it's safe and that it's a place where they respect science. I just want to get back to work. I want to be a person again. I don't want the world to think I'm over. I'm still here.\" \n \n The story made rounds throughout the Internet and even garnered a response from President Barack Obama's official Facebook page: \n \n As a husband and a father, I cannot even begin to imagine the loss you've endured. You and your family are an inspiration. I know that the great people of Michigan will embrace you with the compassion and support you deserve. Yes, you can still make a difference in the world, and we're proud that you'll pursue your dreams here. Welcome to your new home. You're part of what makes America great. \n \n ,Norton, known for his roles in movies like \"Fight Club\" and \"Birdman,\" wrote in the description of his online fundraiser: \n \n If we don't welcome people like this into our communities and empower his dream of making an impact with his life, then we're not the country we tell ourselves we are. Let's reject the 'anti-human' voices that tell us to fear refugees and show this man and his family what Americans are really made of. Let's show that a country built by the energy and dreams of immigrants still believes in brave people who come here with hope for better life. \n \n (6/7) “I had no problems before the bombing. I think the cancer came from my sadness and my stress. It’s in my... Posted by Humans of New York on Tuesday, December 8, 2015 ||||| ISTANBUL — The grieving refugee who touched hearts as \"The Scientist\" on the Humans of New York blog only mustered a brief smile when told that a Hollywood star had helped raise $450,000 for him. \n \n Hours before flying to Michigan to start a new life in the U.S. on Thursday, the cancer-stricken Syrian civil engineer glanced down. \n \n \"I didn't hear about it, but I want to thank him very much from the humanity perspective,\" he said after NBC News revealed the crowdfunding appeal. Oscar-nominated actor Edward Norton was moved to tears after reading the refugee's biography on the photography site last week and launched the fundraiser. \n \n \"There are people outside who need that money much more than me,\" The Scientist said, displaying the sort of compassion and humility that helped his story go viral. \n \n The Scientist, who asked NBC News to refer to him as \"Abu Ammar\" to protect family in Syria, said his life was shattered by a bomb that killed his wife and daughter just under three years ago. \n \n He was later diagnosed with stomach cancer, and has had to care for five remaining children. \n \n They include a teenage son, who is still reeling after watching his mother die, and a daughter who carries inside of her shrapnel from the attack on April 6, 2013. \n \n \"When a bomb drops you don't know where it comes from,\" he said. \"There is no question our lives changed after that ... 180 degrees. I am mentally tired, in overwhelming sadness.\" \n \n “ As long as there are good people in the world … then we can stop this bloodshed” \n \n On Thursday, Abu Ammar and four of his children flew to Troy, Michigan, as part of a United Nations refugee resettlement program. \n \n For about two years, the family had been living close to destitution in Turkey. But the drive to succeed still lingers, Abu Ammar said. \n \n \"I've had ambitions since I was a child, and right now I'm still that same child with the same ambitions,\" he said. \"But I still have a message — sometimes when I'm talking to myself I say, 'No, I'm not supposed to die. I need to live long enough to realize my message to humanity.'\" \n \n Abu Ammar's story on Humans of New York, a popular blog started in 2010 that spawned a bestselling book, prompted an outpouring of compassion. Even President Barack Obama contributed, calling Abu Ammar and his family an \"inspirations\" on HONY's Facebook page. \n \n \"Yes, you can still make a difference in the world, and we're proud that you'll pursue your dreams here.\" Obama wrote. \"Welcome to your new home. You're part of what makes America great.\" \n \n Last night President @BarackObama wrote a very sweet welcome note to the scientist in Tuesday's story. pic.twitter.com/ZGrn3gOdR7 — Brandon Stanton (@humansofny) December 10, 2015 \n \n Norton, who starred in \"Birdman,\" \"Fight Club\" and \"American History X,\" set out to help pay The Scientist's medical expenses. \n \n \"This man has suffered profound loss that would crush the spirit of many people and yet he still passionately wants a chance to contribute positively to the world,\" Norton wrote. \n \n The resettlement of Syrian and Muslim refugees in the United States is controversial, especially in the aftermath of attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris and San Bernardino. Some politicians — notably GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump — have called for a ban on Muslims entering the country. \n \n Abu Ammar told NBC News he didn't know anything about the debate over Muslims and immigration raging in the U.S. He also didn't have a solution to the war raging in his home country. \n \n \"I don't like to get into politics because I am a man of science, and I can separate science and politics completely,\" he said. \"But as long as there are good people in the world, and everyone looks into his or her conscience, then we can stop this bloodshed.\" \n \n Abu Ammar added: \"No one benefits from people dying, and wars overall never benefit anybody — so let's hope God can help everyone and put out this fire.\" |||||\nSolution is here: A Syrian refugee whose moving story went viral earlier this month starts his new life in Troy, Michigan, on Thursday, NBC News reports. The refugee—who wants to keep his real name out of the media to protect family members still in Syria—is known as \"The Scientist\" on the blog Humans of New York, where he was first profiled. \"I learned today that I’m going to Troy, Michigan,\" The Scientist told HONY. \"I know nothing about it. I just hope that it’s safe and that it’s a place where they respect science.\" According to MLive, The Scientist left Syria in 2013 after a bomb killed his wife and one of his daughters. Since then, he's been diagnosed with stomach cancer and was barely scraping by in Turkey. Despite being \"in overwhelming sadness,\" he and his surviving children are hoping for a new start in the US, he tells NBC. Thanks to his story—which even got the attention of President Obama—The Scientist will have some help to get that new start. NBC reports actor Edward Norton was moved to tears after reading The Scientist's story and started a crowdfunding page that has raised nearly $450,000. \"I didn't hear about it, but I want to thank him very much from the humanity perspective,\" The Scientist says. \"There are people outside who need that money much more than me.\" A Michigan college student was also inspired to help after hearing The Scientist would be moving to his hometown, according to USA Today. His fundraising page has raised more than $16,000. \"I’d say out of all the cities in Michigan, Troy is the best place to raise a family, be a scientist, and we can’t wait to have him,\" Daniel Kang says.\nExplanation: This is a good example. The output correctly summarizes the articles.\n\nNow, solve this: FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 25, 2017 file photo, Britain's Prince Harry and his girlfriend Meghan Markle attend the wheelchair tennis competition during the Invictus Games in Toronto. Palace officials... (Associated Press) \n \n LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the engagement of Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (all times local): \n \n 2:10 p.m. \n \n Prince Harry and his future wife Meghan Markle made a brief appearance before photographers on the grounds of Kensington Palace hours after their engagement was announced. \n \n Harry, wearing a blue suit and tie, said he was \"thrilled\" and said details about his proposal will come out later. He was then asked if the proposal was romantic, and he replied: \"Of course!\" \n \n Markle, who said she was \"so happy,\" was wearing an engagement ring for the first time in public. She held Harry's hand and rubbed his arm. \n \n They left with their arms around each other. The couple plan to give their first interview later in the day. \n \n ___ \n \n 10:50 a.m. \n \n Senior British royals, political leaders and religious figures are congratulating Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on their engagement. \n \n Prince William and his wife Kate say they are excited for the couple. They say \"it has been wonderful getting to know Meghan and to see how happy she and Harry are together.\" \n \n Prime Minister Theresa May offered her \"very warmest congratulations,\" wishing the couple \"great happiness for the future.\" \n \n Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who heads the Church of England, said he was \"absolutely delighted to hear the news\" and wished the couple \"many years of love, happiness and fulfillment.\" \n \n ___ \n \n 10:30 a.m. \n \n Meghan Markle's parents say they are happy and excited about their daughter's engagement to Prince Harry. \n \n Thomas Markle and Doria Ragland say their daughter \"has always been a kind and loving person. To see her union with Harry, who shares the same qualities, is a source of great joy for us as parents.\" \n \n In a statement, Markle's parents say they wish the couple \"a lifetime of happiness and are very excited for their future together.\" \n \n Meghan Markle was raised in the Los Angeles area. Her father is a Hollywood lighting director, her mother a yoga instructor and psychotherapist. \n \n ___ \n \n 10:10 a.m. \n \n Britain's royal palace says Prince Harry and actress Meghan Markle are engaged and will marry in the spring of 2018. \n \n The announcement came Monday from the office of Harry's father, Prince Charles. \n \n The announcement says the couple became engaged earlier this month. It says 36-year-old Markle has met Queen Elizabeth II, and Harry also has received the blessing of Markle's parents. \n \n Harry, 33, is fifth in line to the British throne. ||||| 13:30 \n \n Here’s a quick dispatch from my colleague Robert Booth: \n \n Meghan Markle has described as “disheartening” and “discriminatory” some of the media coverage she received as Prince Harry’s girlfriend because it centred on her racial background. \n \n In an interview to mark their engagement announced on Monday, Harry also said the couple were “totally unprepared for what happened” in terms of the coverage, which forced him to take the rare step last year of attacking the British press for introducing “racial overtones” into the reporting of his relationship with an American actor. \n \n Markle, whose mother is African American and father is white, said the extent of media interest had been “a learning curve and said “I did not have any understanding of what it would be like”. \n \n “At the end of the day I am proud of who I am and where I have come from and we have never put any focus on that, we have just focused on who we are as a couple.” \n \n The couple, who will marry next spring in what a royal source said would be a “happy church wedding”, revealed how Prince Harry proposed at Nottingham Cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace on “a standard typical night in for us” while they were roasting a chicken for dinner. \n \n \n \n Markle said it was “just an amazing surprise, it was so sweet and natural and very romantic. He got on one knee . . . I could barely let you finish proposing. I said ‘can I say yes now?’” \n \n \n \n “Then there were hugs and I had the ring in my finger and I was like can I give you the ring? She goes – oh yes the ring.” \n \n |||||\nSolution:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Prince Harry and his future wife Meghan Markle made a brief appearance before photographers on the grounds of Kensington Palace hours after their engagement was announced. Harry, wearing a blue suit and tie, said he was \"thrilled\" and said details about his proposal will come out later, reports the AP. He was then asked if the proposal was romantic, and he replied: \"Of course!\" Markle, who said she was \"so happy,\" was wearing an engagement ring for the first time in public. The Guardian quotes ITV's royal editor as saying the 3-diamond ring contains two stones from Diana's collection and one from Botswana, where the two vacationed together. Markle held Harry's hand and rubbed his arm, and they left with their arms around each other. The couple plan to give their first interview later in the day.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Mrs Brown goes to see her son in London . Her son works in a music club there . Mrs Brown doesn't know London well . And she can't find her way . She sees a man at a bus stop . She wants to ask the man the way . \"Excuse me , but can you help me . please ?Which bus goes to Miller's shop ?\" Mrs Brown asked . The man is very friendly . He smiles . But he can't speak English .He can speak French . He is new in London . He puts his hand into his coat and takes out a small book . He opens it and reads something on it . \" I'm sorry , I can't speak English .\" Question: Mrs Brown can't find her way because _ . - she is old - she is new in London - she doesn't know London well - she can't see\nshe doesn't know London well\n\n(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Hi, boys and girls! Welcome to our museum. It's free. You don't have to pay any money. But we have some rules for you. Please remember them and do as I say. Firstly, don't have food or drink here. You may make our museum dirty. Secondly, you can take photos here, but don't touch the things here. Thirdly, keep quiet in the museum. Don't talk loudly. Fourthly, the museum is not open after five o'clock in the afternoon. Please leave before five. Have a good time here! Thank you. Question: There are some rules for a _ . - store - park - school - museum\n(Answer)\nmuseum\n\nQues: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A train stops at a station. Many people come out to buy food and fruits. A young man wants to come out, but it starts to rain. A boy stands under an umbrella. The young man says to the boy. \"Can you go and get us two hamburgers, one for you and one for me? Here are two dollars. Be quick!\" \"Great!\" says the boy and then he goes to buy hamburgers. After some time, the boy is back. He eats a hamburger. \"Where is my hamburger?\" asks the young man. \"Oh, there is only one hamburger left. So I eat my hamburger. Here is your dollar.\" Question: According to the passage, the boy is _ . - smart - friendly - sly - foolish\nAns: smart\n\n(Q).\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: \"BANG!\" the door caused a reverberation . It was just standing there, with Father standing on one side, and I on the other side. We were both in great anger. \"Never set foot in this house again!\" stormed Father. With tears welling up in my eyes, I rushed out of the flat and ran along the street. The street lights were shining, causing rather sad-feeling. I wandered aimlessly. A young father who held a child in his arms walked past me. I felt as if I saw my childhood from another space: happy and carefree. But now... I don't know whether it is because I have grown up or because Dad is getting old. We differ in our ways of thinking. He always puts his opinions and codes of behaviour on me. Whenever I do something wrong, he never admits it. We are just like two people coming from two different worlds. It feels like there is an iron door between us that can never be opened. I wandered in the streets, without a destination in mind. My heart was frozen on this hot summer night. As I walked on there were fewer and fewer people on the streets, until I had only the street lights to keep me company. When I finally reached the high-rise apartment block in which I lived, I saw that the light was still on. I thought to myself: \"Is Father waiting for me, or is he still angry with me?\" In fact, it was nothing. Perhaps, Dad was throwing away some of his old stamps. Perhaps he thought they were useless. I never had the courage to tell him that I liked collecting stamps. I can't stand his outrageous words: \"I can't throw you away, let alone these old papers?\" All the lights were off except Father's. Dad was always like this. Maybe he didn't know how to express himself. After shouting at me, he never showed any mercy or any moments of regret. After an argument he has the habit of creeping up in my sleep and then tucking me underneath the covers. This was how he always was. He has been a leader for so long that telling everyone else what to do has become his second nature. The light was still on. \"Am I wrong?\" I whispered,... Question: Why do you think the father often shouts at his son? - Perhaps the father is getting older and older. - Perhaps the son has already grown up. - Perhaps they never agree with each other. - Perhaps the father has got used to doing that.\n(A).\nPerhaps the father has got used to doing that.\n\nQues:Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: White bread is thought to have a long history.In ancient Egypt, people discovered white bread about 8,000 years ago. There is something interesting about white bread.In the old times,many cities in ancient Greece said they owned the best quality.In the middle ages,bakers in England carefully _ their secrets of making bread.Anyone who hoped to learn the art of making bread must spend seven years on it.In times of war and disasters ,bread and wheat were the first things to bekept closely. However,in the mid-1800s,an engineer from Switzerland invented a new kind mill to produce more white bread at a faster speed.Soon bread making became widely popular all over Europe.In 1928,America had the first company to produce and sell mountains of white bread. Question: Which of the following is true? - White bread has a history of about 800 years. - America had the first company to sell mountains of white bread. - Egypt produced the most white bread in the world. - It was easy to learn how to make white bread in ancient Britain.\n\nAns:America had the first company to sell mountains of white bread.\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: What would you do if you had an accident in your daily life? It is important for you to get some knowledge about first aid in your daily life. If a person has an accident, he / she needs medical care before a doctor can be found. When you give first aid, you must know three things: First, when a person stops breathing , open his / her mouth to see if there is food in his / her mouth. Second, if a person cannot breathe, try to start his / her breathing at once, using a mouth-to-mouth way. Third, if a person is hurt badly, try to stop the bleeding at once. And then take him / her to a doctor, because if a person loses one third of his / her blood, he / she may be in great danger. Many accidents may happen at home, and everyone should know some first aid to deal with common injuries. When a person _ by an animal, wash the wound with cold running water before he / she is taken to see a doctor. When a person is burnt, wash and cool the area of the skin under the cold tap for a while, then put a piece of dry clean cloth over the burn. If a person is badly burnt, take him / her to the doctor. If a person cuts his / her finger, clean it and put a piece of clean paper round the cut. In the future we should learn more about first aid and try to spread it. Question: If a person is hurt badly and bleeding, what should you do first? - Try to stop the bleeding at once. - Wash the wound with cold running water. - Try to start his / her breathing at once. - Open his / her mouth and see if there is food in his / her mouth.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Try to stop the bleeding at once.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "He continuously spins around doing flips and tricks on his hands and knees followed by several shots of his movements in slow motion. he\n\nOPTIONS:\n- then jumps after a flaming disc that lands in the pile of sticks and sticks on the ground and leaves a wide trail of smoke.\n- spins around using the palms towards the lens screen and the woman continues to watch him and finishes by putting her hands under her chin.\n- assists himself on the equipment by turning his body onto and sitting on top of the tool to try and get it in position.\n- performs several more tricks and the camera fades to black in the end.\n\nperforms several more tricks and the camera fades to black in the end.\n\nHow to make a butterfly cake \nCut the cake in half. \nThis will form the butterfly's wings. \nAssemble the cake on the serving plate.\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Place each marshmallow in a glass dish. Cut the ribbons at various locations in the cake.\n- You can use leftover strawberries, chopped peaches, bananas, blueberries, or any other brownie-like topping that you like. Allow the cake to cool for about 15 minutes in the fridge until firm.\n- It is easier to decorate the butterfly in position, as it can't be moved once made. Place the candy length down the center of the plate.\n- Place the butterfly cake in the center of a 13 x 13 inches baking pan. Place the remaining half of the frosting on top.\n\nIt is easier to decorate the butterfly in position, as it can't be moved once made. Place the candy length down the center of the plate.\n\nHow to write a famous blog \nChoose what type of blog you want to create. \nCarve out a niche and pick a catchy title that captures the essence of your blog. Remember that a blog, like your clothes, is an extension of you.\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Choosing the right topic for your blog gives you the freedom to act as a moderator, which helps others recognize your content and make changes. You could build your blog on a series of posts you create every day or spend 50% of your day writing so the blog you create will work well.\n- For most people, your blog site may be the only thing they identify you with and you want to be sure that who you are on the inside is reflected in your blog. Decide how often you are going to post.\n- Providing content that grabs your attention will make it harder for other bloggers to follow what you've written. Come up with your own unique personality and create a theme that will attract people who listen to it and capture memories.\n- Having good quality content helps you search online. If possible, choose something with at least a few paragraphs, although should not be less than one paragraph.\n\nFor most people, your blog site may be the only thing they identify you with and you want to be sure that who you are on the inside is reflected in your blog. Decide how often you are going to post.\n\nHow to make a mini pond \nFind a suitable waterproof container or basin. \nIt should measure about 20 centimeter (7.9 in) long and 20 centimeter (7.9 in) wide and 10 centimeter (3.9 in) deep. \nClean the container under the running water for 1 minute.\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Make sure to keep it from drying out. Also change the colour of the water also.\n- Before marking it down, check the surface for flaking or peeling. Use either a bit of gentle soap or a vacuum.\n- Pat dry with paper towels or your coat. Dig a small hole 1 in (2.5 cm) deep and 2 in (5.1 cm) wide.\n- Do not use soap as it might harm the fish. Dry it with a clean cloth, or air dry quickly.\n\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Do not use soap as it might harm the fish. Dry it with a clean cloth, or air dry quickly.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Do you have to be very smart to live a happy life? The character of McDull tells you that this is not true. He is famous for having a birthmark on his right eye. He is not very clever, but he has a heart of gold. He is also happy, with lots of dreams. McDull wanted to visit the Maldives . But his mother didn't have enough money for a trip there. So she lied to him and took him to a place called Hong Kong. The place has a sign that says, \"Go to the Maldives.\" It made McDull very happy. He thought he was really excited in the Maldives! McDull is just a common pig. He has many dreams, but they never come true. That doesn't stop him trying. McDull lives his life in a simple and happy way. His idea towards life is \"Never give up\". The cartoon pig character was created in Hong Kong by Alice Mark and Brian Tse. McDull first showed up as a character in the McMug comics. McMug is another cartoon pig. But McDull is more popular with a huge number of fans everywhere! Question: McDull is famous for _ . Options: A: having a birthmark on his left eye B: having a birthmark on his right eye C: his wonderful character D: visiting the Maldives\nA: B\n\n\nQ: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: A good way to pass the exam is to work hard every day. You may not pass an exam if you word hard all the time before the exam. If you are getting ready for an English exam, do not only learn grammar rulers . Try to read stories in Enlish and speak English _ you can. Before you start the exam, read the questions carefully. Try to understand the exact meaning of each question before you pick up your pen to write. When you finish you exam, read you answers once more, correct the mistake if there are any and make sure that you don't miss anything out. Question: Only learning rules of grammar _ to passs an English exam. Options: A: is enough B: is not enough C: is good D: is not good.\nA: B\n\n\nQ: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Once a clever man was crossing a turbulent river. He wished to amuse himself by talking to the boatman. \"Do you know mathematics?\" he asked. \"No sir.\" answered the boatman. \"Then you have lost one quarter of your life,\" said the wise man. \"Do you know history?\" \"No sir.\" answered the boatman. \"Then you have lost three quarters of your life.\" Just then a sudden gust of wind overturned the boat. \"Do you know how to swim?\" asked the boatman. \"No,\" answered the wise(=\"clever)\" man. \"Well then,\" replied the boatman, \"you have lost your whole life.\" Question: The clever man knew a lot of knowledge except _ . Options: A: mathematics B: philosophy C: history D: swimming\nA: D\n\n\nQ: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Now, there is a new-type school in New York, which has no everyday lessons, no class teachers and even no school buildings. It is called \"City-as-School\". The name just means the city itself is the place where students learn their lessons. They are from the age of 15 to 18. The students choose areas of work which interest them. Then they help to do that work. One girl spends her week in a government office helping the public with problems like housing. Then she goes to help in a theatre for a day and she spends a week for first-year courses at college. Well, students have to pass Maths and science exams before they enter the \"school\". These subjects are not easy to provide in\"City-as-School\". Teachers watch the progress of the students. The success rate is high. 80% of the students go to college after the \"City-as-School\". The students like the duty of their work. They have the sense of purpose. They know a lot about different kinds of work in the city. One of the students, Lizette Martinez, writes \" I want to say that I do not know where I would be right now if I had never become part of City-as-School. Leaving my regular high school and going to City-as-School was the best decision I have ever made. The way the school works to get you to go out there and learn different fields instead of sitting in a classroom is wonderful. For all those who are in between school and dropping out, go to CAS and it will change your life forever.\" City-as-School High School is the nation's leading external learning or experiential learning model for high school students. Question: What do students do in\"City-as-School\"most of the time? Options: A: They do whatever they like. B: They learn Maths and Science. C: They help with work in a certain area. D: They learn all the college courses.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Ques:Article: I used to live in a small town with trees all around. It is about thirty years since I left my hometown. But I still remember what it was exactly like. And I often \"see\" it in many of my dreams. My hometown is a beautiful place. It stands beside a wide river and is rich in fish and rice. But in the old days it was a poor and backward little town. Many people had no work. They lived a hard life. There was no tall building and the only street was narrow. But trees and flowers made the town beautiful. Just outside the town, there was a river. You could see different kinds of fish swimming in the clear water. People here lived a simple life. Since a new policy was taken by the government, great changes have taken place there. The streets have been widened. Factories, schools, hospitals, cinemas and theatres have been built one after another. People's life is greatly improved. You can see tall buildings, big department stores and factories everywhere. Different kinds of cars and buses are running in the wide streets. But with the development of the industry , we have fewer trees. Air and water pollution is becoming more and more serious. And there are also other problems. We should try our best to make it richer. At the same time, we must do something to stop pollution and make our town even more beautiful. Question: What is outside the town? Yes or no, is the answer \"a river\"?\n\nAns:No\n-----\nQues:Article: You may know the song Happy Birthday very well.But do you know about its writer?It was written by an American girl.And she became very rich after that. When she was a child,she was poor.Once,she was invited to her friend's birthday party.She was pleased but sad because she didn't have enough money to buy a gift for her. \"The party is coming soon,but now I have little money.\"Tears ran down her face. Later that night she was in bed,thinking about the gift when the door opened and her grandma came in.\"What happened?\"her grandma asked.Hearing the girl'story,she said,\"I think I can help you.How about singing a song together?Happy Birthday to....\"What a beautiful song!They sang and sang.Suddenly she woke up.It was a dream!She decided to write it down at once and sing it to her friends at the party. When she sang the song at the party the nest day,her friends were very happy.\"How wonderful you sing!We haven't heared such a beautiful song before.Thank you for giving me the special gift.\"said her friend.And they learn to sing it together.Later the girl became well-known in America. Question: What did her friends think of the song? Yes or no, is the answer \"beautiful\"?\n\nAns:No\n-----\nQues:Article: While we are still children ,most of us live at home with our parents, more or less peacefully . But as we become teenagers , things change ,and we begin to grow apart from our parents . This means we are almost ready to leave the house where we grew up and make a new home of our own . All humans must do this ,but they don't all do it in the same way . If ,for instance ,you belong to a primitive tribe ,then as you grew up ,you'd learn the skills you needed as an adult---how to catch fish ,how to keep the house and look after children . You would be ready to marry in your early teens and you would build a house and live near your family in the village. This seems a very old way of life , but it is what humans have been used to through hundreds of years. And it is what we are still used to in the 21stcentury ,for man hasn't changed in the short time since he became civilized . But could you leave home and look after yourself during the teen years ? Most people would not do very well . Why ? Because although man hasn't changed very much , the society he lives in has changed greatly ,which means that we have to learn more and more before we are ready to leave our parents' shelter( ) and live alone . However ,sometimes it is very frustrating to live at parents' home . Parents can be very upset about late nights ,criticizing friends and always saying that we are noisy and dirty . But we still need our emotional shelter till we finish our studies , and that is why we usually stay in our parents' home until we feel grown up enough to deal with living alone . Question: Why must we know more to be able to live alone ? Yes or no, is the answer \"Because our society has changed a lot .\"?\n\nAns:Yes\n-----\nQues:Article: Snowflakes! You can catch them on your tongue or use them to make a perfect snowball. But have you ever thought about taking pictures of them? Ken Libbrecht did. He is a physics professor from California. Although the weather in California is usually warm and sunny, Ken's hobby is taking pictures of snowflakes. He travels to cold areas like Alaska and Canada to find snowstorms and take pictures of the snowflakes. \"They are often beautiful, and every snowfall brings new surprises,\" says Ken. Ken takes pictures of snowflakes with a high-quality digital camera. He uses a microscope to make the tiny snowflakes larger. To get the best images, Ken built a special photo-microscope just for snowflakes. He collects flakes by letting them fall onto a piece of foam board . The pictures must be taken outdoors, so Ken wears lots of clothes to stay warm. But his fingers often get cold, because it's difficult for him to take pictures of a tiny snowflake with gloves. Each snowflake has shapes and patterns that make it as unique as a person's fingerprint. The hobby of snowflake photography is also unique. Next time a snowstorm blows through your town, take a closer look at the flakes before you gather them into a snowball. See if you can notice their unique patterns. Millions of snowflakes are waiting for you! ,. Question: Why do Ken's fingers often get cold? Yes or no, is the answer \"Because he doesn't wear gloves.\"?\n\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No\n-----", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: April Fool's Day is on April 1st. On this day, strange things may happen. Our friends will play jokes on us and try to fool us. People don't know the origin of April Fool's Day clearly. Some say April Fool's Day began many years ago in France. Long ago in France, the old New Year's festival was celebrated from March 25th to April 1st and ended with exchange of presents. Later the King changed the New Year to January 1st. some people still celebrated the New year in April. They were called April Fish and were given presents as a joke. But in many countries, April Fool's Day is not celebrated on April 1st but on other days. In Mexico( ), April Fool's Day is on the 28th of December. In ancient Rome , the day was on the 25th of March. In India, the day is on the 31st of March. In America, the day is mostly decided by young people and jokes who want to make fun of other people. But it is important to remember that your friends and you will be both happy. One must remember the difference between a good joke and a bad one. Question: When is April Fool's Day in France now? Options: A: April 1st B: March 25th C: December 28th D: March 31st\nA\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Nick is a student. He has four friends. They are Ben, Eric, Peter and Andy. But they are all very different. Nick is confident and kind. He is also a good listener. All of his friends like to talk to him about their problems. This is his best quality. Ben is the quietest friend of them. He is not energetic and active like Eric, or outgoing like Peter. But he is so patient and fair. When they have an argument, Ben is always there to listen to everyone and make sure that everybody stays friends. Andy is very clever and hard-working. He does the best in exams at school. It is really kind of Andy to help Peter with his homework when he is having trouble. They get along well with each other like brothers. Question: What is Nick's best quality? Options: A: He is confident. B: He is kind. C: He has good friends. D: He is a good listener.\nD\n\nQ: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: The Best Shopping In Sydney Sydney is one of the world's biggest cities and has something for everyone when it comes to shopping. You will find excellent Australian products alongside the best that the world has to offer. At the bottom of Sydney Tower, you can shop in 160 of Sydney's favorite stores including 16 jewelry stores and many gift and fashion shops. It's all at Westfield Centerpoint. Tel: 9231-9300 SOVEREIGN HILL This prize-winning living museum is where Australia's history comes alive! Visit daily or stay for the night and experience life of the Fold Rush days. A wonderful nightly sound and light show, Blood on the Southern Cross, tells the story of the famous Eureka Uprising. Enjoy shopping along with real life character and entertainment. 4-star hotel and breakfast. Tel: 5331-1944 ANCHORAGE RESTAURANT Come and enjoy our delicious Cantonese seafood right on the water's edge in the historic fishing port of Williamstown with views of the city center across Port Phillip Bay. Open 7 days a week. Lunch: Sunday to Friday11:00am--2:00pm Dinner: Monday to Saturday 5:00am--10:30pm Tel: 9397-6270 or 9397-7799 COOK'S COTTAGE Built by James and Grace Cook, parents of Captain James Cook, Cook's Cottage stands proud in the Fitzroy Gradens as a reminder of life in the eighteenth century, and as a celebration and commemoration of the life and travels of Captain James Cook. Open 9:00am--5:00pm daily, and until 5:30 pm during the summer. Information: 9419-4677 Question: Where can you spend the night in a tour? Options: A: Cook's cottage. B: Westfield Centerpoint C: Sydney Tower D: Sovereign Hill\nA: D\n\nQuestion: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Tigers are strong and dangerous animals. But now they are in danger. In the past, there were eight kinds of tigers in the world. But during the 20th century, only five were left. The number of Siberian tigers was about 300, but now it is less than 22. They're in danger of dying out. If the government does nothing, we won't be able to see them in ten to twenty years. In order to stop people from hunting and killing wild tigers, and in order to make wild tigers more, the World Wildlife Fund has started a program recently . China and twelve other countries joined it. However, it's not enough. Remember that nature is a food chain . If we hurt and kill too many wild deer and pigs, wild tigers will die out because of hunger . So the most important thing is to save the animals that tigers eat. In order to protect the wild tigers, we need call on more people to stop eating, hunting and killing wild animals. ,. Question: During the 20th century, _ kinds of wild tigers died out. Options: A: 3 B: 5 C: 8 D: 20\nAnswer: A\n\nQ: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: My name is Sabrina. I'm 23 years old. I come from London. Now I live in Beijing. I love teaching English. I think it's interesting. I can speak Chinese, too. I have experience in teaching English in China. My e-mail address is sabrina@sina.com. I'm Bill, an 18-year-old student. I live in Nanjing now. I can play the guitar well. I like to be a teacher. I have free time on weekends. Do you want to learn the guitar? Please call me at 15069606503. I'm June Smith. I'm 25. I can swim well. I want to be a swimming teacher. I love kids and I'm good with kids. I can help them learn to swim. If you need a teacher in your club, please e-mail me at june@sina.com. . Question: Bill lives in _ . Options: A: Nanjing B: Beijing C: Shanghai D: Hefei\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: It's so difficult to follow the _ of a 2-year-old. One moment he's beaming and friendly; the next he's sullen and weepy, often for no apparent reason. These mood swings, however, are just part of growing up. They are signs of the emotional changes taking place as your child struggles to take control of actions, impulses, feelings and his body. At this age, your child wants to explore the world and seek adventure. As a result, he'll spend most of his time testing limits, his own, yours and his environments. Unfortunately, he still lacks many of the skills required for the safe accomplishment of everything he needs to do, and he often will need you to protect him. When he oversteps a limit and is pulled back, he often reacts with anger and frustration, possibly with a temper tantrum . He may even strike back by hitting, biting and kicking. At this age, he doesn't have much control over his emotional impulse . So his anger and frustration tend to erupt suddenly in the form of crying, hitting or screaming. It's his only way of dealing with the difficult realities of life. He may even act out in ways that unintentionally harm himself or others. It's all part of being 2. It's not uncommon for toddlers to be angels when you're not around, because they don't trust people enough to test their limits. But with you, your toddler will be willing to try things that may be dangerous or difficult, because he knows you'll rescue him if he gets into trouble. Whatever protest pattern he has developed around the end of his first year will probably persist for some time. For instance, when you're about to leave him with a sitter, he may become angry and throw a tantrum in anticipation of the separation. Or he may cry and cling to you. Or he could simply become subdued and silent. Whatever his behavior, try not to overreact by scolding or punishing him. The best tactic is to reassure him before you leave that you will be back and, when you return, to praise him for being so patient while you are gone. Take comfort in the... Question: Which of the following is true? - A 2-year-old doesn't know how to express his anger and frustration. - A 2-year-old often intentionally harms himself or others. - A 2-year-old depends on his parents to do everything new and challenging. - A 2-year-old trusts his parents more than other people\nA 2-year-old trusts his parents more than other people\n\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Football is, I believe, the most popular game in England: one has only to go to one of the important matches to see this. Rich and poor, young and old, one can see them all there, shouting for their teams. One of the most surprising things about football in England is the great knowledge of the game which even the smallest boy seems to have. He can tell you the names of the players in most of the important teams. He has pictures of them and knows the results of large numbers of matches. He will tell you who he thinks will win such a match, and his opinion is usually as good as that of men three or four times of his age. Most schools in England take football seriously -- much more seriously than nearly all European schools, where lessons are all very important and games are left for the children themselves. In England it is believed that education is not only a matter of filling a boy's mind with facts in the classroom; education also means the training of character by means of games, especially team games, where the boy or girl has to learn to work with others for his or her team instead of working for himself or herself alone. _ the school plans games and matches for its students. Football is a good team game. It is good both for the body and the mind. That is why it is every school's game in England. Question: In England, a boy's opinion of a match is often _ . - three or four times better than that of a man - worse than that of a man - as good as that of a man - worth thinking three or four times\nas good as that of a man\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: More than 50 people have responded to an advertise for \"one of the most relaxing jobs on the market\" - a bathtub TESTER. Bathstore is seeking a Bathroom Executive Officer (BEO) to test their range of products. It is sure to give the perfect candidate a stress-free life and possibly some pruned fingers and toes. And 12 month contract role pays a yearly salary of PS6,000, plus bathroom installation worth PS6and products worth PS4,000 to trial. For those expecting an easy life, this job isn't all about splashing around in the suds or playing with a rubber duck. The successful applicant will be responsible for providing written reports and analysis on the overall bathing experience. However, all that boring stuff can be done from the comfort of your own home. That's because Bathstore will regularly install their new baths into the BEO's home \"ensuring that this is one job that can be taken lying down\". Before you apply, make sure you meet the criteria, which is to be laid back, relaxed and bubbly! Bathstore's chief marketing officer Claire Bayliss said: \"We are dedicated to making dream bathrooms easy, from design to installation, and this appointment demonstrates our commitment to deliver quality products and expert advice. \"We've already received some great applicants for the BEO position and will be looking to produce a short-list in the upcoming weeks. \"We're really looking forward to filling the role and won't rest until we find the right candidate\". Other possible best jobs in the world range from a chief funster to a taste master. Question: How much money will the successful candidate earn per year? - more thanPS6,000 - no more thanPS4,000 - less than PS6,000 - as much as PS4,000\nA: more thanPS6,000\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: She was born to wealth and power in a time when money and politics were left to the men. Later, as The Washington Post's publisher, Katharine Graham became one of America's most powerful women. Despite a privileged background, Katharine had to deal, while growing up, with the high demands her mother placed on her children.Katharine's love of journalism, which she shared with her father, led to her career after college at The Washington Post, the newspaper her father bought in 1933.At the Post, Katharine met Phil Graham, a young, charming lawyer who became her husband.When, in 1945, Katharine's father chose Phil over her to take over his struggling paper, Katharine didn't object and stayed at home as a wife and mother of four. While Phil's successful efforts to restore the Post to fame made the Grahams popular members of the Washington social scene, Katharine privately suffered great pain from her husband's increasingly harmful behavior caused by severe depression.When Phil committed suicide , the 46-year-old Katharine found herself thrown into a new job, that of newspaper publisher.But determined to save the family paper for her children, Katharine rose to the challenge of running the Post, attending meetings in every department, working endlessly to prove herself to her critics, and becoming the toast of Washington. In 1971, Katharine ordered the Post to print a copy of the Pentagon Papers, the top-secret documents telling the truth about the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.What's more, her courageous decision and support for her journalists prepared the Post to break the most important political story in modem history: Watergate , one of the greatest scandals in American political history.Katharine managed to keep control over the most disorganized situation when it was reported, all the time insisting the news stories be accurate and fair.Watergate made the Washington Post an internationally known paper and Katharine was considered as the most powerful woman in America. Question: When her husband was chosen to take charge of the newspaper, Katharine Graham _ . - was strongly against the idea - was not happy to be refused - was willing to take her share of responsibility - didn't believe her husband would do a good job\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: was willing to take her share of responsibility", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Susan Boyle was just an ordinary middle-aged British woman before she appeared on the reality show . She lives in a house with her cat Pebbles in a tiny Scottish town. Because of learning difficulties, she doesn't have much education. But what she does have is a very good voice. As a kid, she sang in church and school plays. For a living, she sang at local pubs. When she took the stage on April 10th, her hair was untidy and her clothes seemed _ rags .The audience laughed at her. But then she opened her mouth. A few bars into the song and the laughing audience went silent. A beautiful voice was singing I Dreamed a Dream from the musical Les Miserables. Everyone was amazed. At the end of the song, the audience jumped to their feet and applauded wildly. Almost overnight, Susan became a household name. She won fans and millions of admirers. Her online videos have drawn over 85.2 million hits. Susan's story proved the truth of an old saying: \"Never judge a book by its cover.\"\n****\n[A]: Question: The passage is mainly about _ .Options:A how to win fansB how to sing wellC a woman's sudden successD a woman's simple lifeAnswer:C\n\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: A gadget which makes water out of air could become the greatest household invention since the microwave.http://www.ks5u.com/gaokao/beijing/ Using the same technology as a dehumidifier ,the Water Mill is able to create a ready supply of drinking water because it can always get from an unlimited source--the air.http://www.ks5u.com/gaokao/beijing/ The company behind the machine says not only does it offer an alternative to bottled water inhttp://www.ks5u.com/gaokao/beijing/ developed countries, but it is a solution for the millions who face a daily water shortage.http://www.ks5u.com/gaokao/beijing/ The machine works by drawing in wet air through a filter and over a cooling instrument which changes it into water droplets.It can produce up to 12 liters a day.The Water Mill will also produce more water when storms pass over, as the amount of water which is contained in the air increases. In keeping with its eco-development, the machine uses the same amount of electricity as three lights. Inventor Jonathan Ritchey said, \"The demand for water is off the chart. So people are looking for freedom from water distribution systems that are shaky and unreliable.\" The machine, which is about 3 feet wide, is likely to cost PS800 when it goes on sale here in the spring. Its maker, Canadian Firm Element Four, roughly calculates that a liter of water costs around 20 pence to produce. Environmentalists state that half the world's population will face water shortage because of climate change by 2080. One in five is said to lack access to safe drinking. The Water Mill is not effective in areas where the amount of water contained in the air is below about 30 percent, but in Britain that won't be much of a problem.\n****\n[A]: Question: What's the best title for the passage?http://www.ks5u.com/gaokao/beijing/Options:A A New Way to Solve Water Problem.B A Machine to Make Water out of Air.C A Dehumidifier to Produce Water.D An Absolutely New InventionAnswer:B\n\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. The employer was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He did a bad job and used low quality materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career. When the carpenter finished his work, the employer came to inspect the house. The employer handed the front-door key to the carpenter. \"This is your house,\" he said, \"my gift to you.\" What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built, none too well. So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized it, we would have done it differently. Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think about your house. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or build a wall. Build wisely. It is the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for only one day more, that day deserves to be lived wonderfully and with dignity. The motto on the wall says, \"Life is a do-it-yourself project.\" Who could say it more clearly? Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past. Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and choices you make today.\n****\n[A]: Question: Why couldn't the carpenter focus on his work?Options:A Because he didn't put his heart into the work.B Because he was not satisfied with his employer.C Because he was an absent-minded and careless man.D Because he was anxious to enjoy family gatherings.Answer:A\n\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Teachers of Physics Needed for (be Middle School in Kent Start date: Sept. 1st,2014 Hours; Full Time Are you skilled in teaching physics? If yes, come and join us! This school follows the idea that learning is joyful. It offers a friendly and supportive environment for its teachers and students. The primary concern is to train students' creative ability. Students enjoy benefit from positive relationships with the staff. Requirements: Patience with students. --Ability to inspire students. --Experience in teaching physics. Excellent knowledge of physics. Please Note: What is basic for this post is a teacher's certificate ! To apply or find more information, please consult our secretary Helen Brown. Office Tel. 0800-22-829.\n****\n[A]:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Question: What can be inferred about this school?Options:A The teachers' main task is to train students'communicative abilities.B The teachers and students try their best to support the school.C The students are the center in the classroom teaching.D The students study in a harmonious environment.Answer:D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.\nIn this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token \"|||||\". Your task is to summarize them.\nExample: A photo series on the popular Humans of New York Facebook page may have went viral and captured the nation’s attention last Tuesday, but for Daniel Kang, the post really hit home. \n \n When Kang, a junior studying computer science at the University of Michigan, heard that the refugee pictured and his family were relocating to his hometown of Troy, Mich., he said he knew he had to help. \n \n “I was really inspired by how intelligent he was and I knew a lot of people wanted to welcome him, so I thought, why not it be me?” he said. \n \n On the Humans of New York Facebook page with over 16 million likes — including comments from President Obama — the seven-part picture series’ captions detail one Syrian scientist and his family’s tale of loss after a missile strike destroyed their home, forcing them to to flee to Turkey, now with plans of coming to the United States. \n \n “Everything ended for us that day. That was our destiny. That was our share in life,” the scientist said. Battling stomach cancer, the loss of a home, career and seven family members, the man, whose name remains confidential to protect his identity as a refugee, expressed his hope for a new life in the United States. \n \n “I learned today that I’m going to Troy, Michigan,” he said. “I know nothing about it. I just hope that it’s safe and that it’s a place where they respect science. I just want to get back to work. I want to be a person again. I don’t want the world to think I’m over. I’m still here.” \n \n Knowing that refugees come to the United States with little more than they can carry, Kang quickly organized a crowdfunding campaign to help establish the man in his new home. \n \n In four days, the GoFundMe page has raised over $16K in donations from over 700 people. On Saturday afternoon, actor Edward Norton also began a fundraiser for the scientist, raising even more for the refugee who says he “just wants to be a person again.” \n \n “The response has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Kang. “A lot of people thanked me for doing a nice thing but I really feel like I was doing what anyone else would have done.” \n \n Kang said he’s received many messages from people expressing their gratitude, those who want to reach out to the man personally, as well local companies interested in working with the scientist. This includes invitations to lecture at local colleges, research job opportunities and potential help from local medical facilities in treating the man’s stomach cancer. \n \n “There’s definitely a lot of interest in helping him out,” he said. \n \n The biggest concern, said Kang, are those skeptical of how the money will reach the man. \n \n Kang, who has successfully crowdfunded in the past, is working closely with GoFundMe, the local refugee relocation agency Lutheran Social Services of Michigan, and is in communication with the Humans of New York staff to make sure all funding goes to the scientist. \n \n In the end, Kang said he just hopes the scientist receives the welcome he deserves. \n \n “If I could talk to him right now, I’d just tell him how sorry I am for everything he’s been through and that he’s coming to a great place. One of the things he said that resonated with me the most is that ‘I hope Troy is a place that appreciates science.’ \n \n I’d say out of all the cities in Michigan, Troy is the best place to raise a family, be a scientist and we can’t wait to have him.” \n \n Oona Goodin-Smith is a student at Oakland University and a member of the USA TODAY College contributor network. ||||| I saw this story on one of my favorite sites, Humans of New York, and it moved me to tears. This man has suffered profound loss that would crush the spirit of many people and yet he still passionately wants a chance to contribute positively to the world. If we don’t welcome people like this into our communities and empower his dream of making an impact with his life, then we’re not the country we tell ourselves we are. Let’s reject the 'anti-human’ voices that tell us to fear refugees and show this man and his family what Americans are really made of. Let’s show that a country built by the energy and dreams of immigrants still believes in brave people who come here with hope for better life. \n \n Everything we raise here will go to help this family so that the father can get the medical treatment he needs to live and pursue his work, and his family can build a new stable life after their tragedy, and…as the Scientist beautifully expresses…to support his dream of contributing to the world. \n \n Thanks to Humans of New York for sharing these stories. Thanks to the team at CrowdRise for putting this together and figuring out how to get even the credit card transaction fees covered so we can get the maximum to the family. \n \n Thanks to everyone who rallies together to create the power of the crowd. If enough of us kick in the price of two frappucinos, we can probably transform the experience of this family and show them that life can deliver healing and kindness, not just heartbreak. \n \n Thanks to Benevolent, all donations are tax-deductible. We will work with Benevolent to use all donated funds to help this family and will seek to use any excess or unused funds to help the other 11 profiled in the HONY ‘Syrian American’ series. \n \n Edward Norton ||||| DETROIT, MI -- Moved to tears by a Humans of New York feature on a Syrian refugee fleeing to Metro Detroit, Hollywood actor Edward Norton launched an online fundraiser that had raised nearly $450,000 for the widower and his four children as of Thursday afternoon. \n \n \"I didn't hear about it, but I want to thank him very much from the humanity perspective,\" the man told NBC News after hearing about the fundraiser's success. \"There are people outside who need that money much more than me.\" \n \n The man asked NBC to refer to him as \"Abu Ammar,\" a fake named used to protect his relatives who remain in Syria. He's known to many on the Internet simply as \"The Scientist,\" which is also his profession. \n \n The refugee's family was scheduled to arrive in Troy, a Detroit suburb, Thursday. He and four surviving children spent the last two years in Instanbul, Turkey. They fled civil-war-torn Syria after the man's wife and one of his daughters were killed in a missile attack on April 6, 2013. \n \n His is one of 12 families featured by Humans of New York and cleared to resettle in the U.S. \n \n \"I learned today that I'm going to Troy, Michigan,\" the man told Humans of New York. \"I know nothing about it. I just hope that it's safe and that it's a place where they respect science. I just want to get back to work. I want to be a person again. I don't want the world to think I'm over. I'm still here.\" \n \n The story made rounds throughout the Internet and even garnered a response from President Barack Obama's official Facebook page: \n \n As a husband and a father, I cannot even begin to imagine the loss you've endured. You and your family are an inspiration. I know that the great people of Michigan will embrace you with the compassion and support you deserve. Yes, you can still make a difference in the world, and we're proud that you'll pursue your dreams here. Welcome to your new home. You're part of what makes America great. \n \n ,Norton, known for his roles in movies like \"Fight Club\" and \"Birdman,\" wrote in the description of his online fundraiser: \n \n If we don't welcome people like this into our communities and empower his dream of making an impact with his life, then we're not the country we tell ourselves we are. Let's reject the 'anti-human' voices that tell us to fear refugees and show this man and his family what Americans are really made of. Let's show that a country built by the energy and dreams of immigrants still believes in brave people who come here with hope for better life. \n \n (6/7) “I had no problems before the bombing. I think the cancer came from my sadness and my stress. It’s in my... Posted by Humans of New York on Tuesday, December 8, 2015 ||||| ISTANBUL — The grieving refugee who touched hearts as \"The Scientist\" on the Humans of New York blog only mustered a brief smile when told that a Hollywood star had helped raise $450,000 for him. \n \n Hours before flying to Michigan to start a new life in the U.S. on Thursday, the cancer-stricken Syrian civil engineer glanced down. \n \n \"I didn't hear about it, but I want to thank him very much from the humanity perspective,\" he said after NBC News revealed the crowdfunding appeal. Oscar-nominated actor Edward Norton was moved to tears after reading the refugee's biography on the photography site last week and launched the fundraiser. \n \n \"There are people outside who need that money much more than me,\" The Scientist said, displaying the sort of compassion and humility that helped his story go viral. \n \n The Scientist, who asked NBC News to refer to him as \"Abu Ammar\" to protect family in Syria, said his life was shattered by a bomb that killed his wife and daughter just under three years ago. \n \n He was later diagnosed with stomach cancer, and has had to care for five remaining children. \n \n They include a teenage son, who is still reeling after watching his mother die, and a daughter who carries inside of her shrapnel from the attack on April 6, 2013. \n \n \"When a bomb drops you don't know where it comes from,\" he said. \"There is no question our lives changed after that ... 180 degrees. I am mentally tired, in overwhelming sadness.\" \n \n “ As long as there are good people in the world … then we can stop this bloodshed” \n \n On Thursday, Abu Ammar and four of his children flew to Troy, Michigan, as part of a United Nations refugee resettlement program. \n \n For about two years, the family had been living close to destitution in Turkey. But the drive to succeed still lingers, Abu Ammar said. \n \n \"I've had ambitions since I was a child, and right now I'm still that same child with the same ambitions,\" he said. \"But I still have a message — sometimes when I'm talking to myself I say, 'No, I'm not supposed to die. I need to live long enough to realize my message to humanity.'\" \n \n Abu Ammar's story on Humans of New York, a popular blog started in 2010 that spawned a bestselling book, prompted an outpouring of compassion. Even President Barack Obama contributed, calling Abu Ammar and his family an \"inspirations\" on HONY's Facebook page. \n \n \"Yes, you can still make a difference in the world, and we're proud that you'll pursue your dreams here.\" Obama wrote. \"Welcome to your new home. You're part of what makes America great.\" \n \n Last night President @BarackObama wrote a very sweet welcome note to the scientist in Tuesday's story. pic.twitter.com/ZGrn3gOdR7 — Brandon Stanton (@humansofny) December 10, 2015 \n \n Norton, who starred in \"Birdman,\" \"Fight Club\" and \"American History X,\" set out to help pay The Scientist's medical expenses. \n \n \"This man has suffered profound loss that would crush the spirit of many people and yet he still passionately wants a chance to contribute positively to the world,\" Norton wrote. \n \n The resettlement of Syrian and Muslim refugees in the United States is controversial, especially in the aftermath of attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris and San Bernardino. Some politicians — notably GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump — have called for a ban on Muslims entering the country. \n \n Abu Ammar told NBC News he didn't know anything about the debate over Muslims and immigration raging in the U.S. He also didn't have a solution to the war raging in his home country. \n \n \"I don't like to get into politics because I am a man of science, and I can separate science and politics completely,\" he said. \"But as long as there are good people in the world, and everyone looks into his or her conscience, then we can stop this bloodshed.\" \n \n Abu Ammar added: \"No one benefits from people dying, and wars overall never benefit anybody — so let's hope God can help everyone and put out this fire.\" |||||\nOutput: A Syrian refugee whose moving story went viral earlier this month starts his new life in Troy, Michigan, on Thursday, NBC News reports. The refugee—who wants to keep his real name out of the media to protect family members still in Syria—is known as \"The Scientist\" on the blog Humans of New York, where he was first profiled. \"I learned today that I’m going to Troy, Michigan,\" The Scientist told HONY. \"I know nothing about it. I just hope that it’s safe and that it’s a place where they respect science.\" According to MLive, The Scientist left Syria in 2013 after a bomb killed his wife and one of his daughters. Since then, he's been diagnosed with stomach cancer and was barely scraping by in Turkey. Despite being \"in overwhelming sadness,\" he and his surviving children are hoping for a new start in the US, he tells NBC. Thanks to his story—which even got the attention of President Obama—The Scientist will have some help to get that new start. NBC reports actor Edward Norton was moved to tears after reading The Scientist's story and started a crowdfunding page that has raised nearly $450,000. \"I didn't hear about it, but I want to thank him very much from the humanity perspective,\" The Scientist says. \"There are people outside who need that money much more than me.\" A Michigan college student was also inspired to help after hearing The Scientist would be moving to his hometown, according to USA Today. His fundraising page has raised more than $16,000. \"I’d say out of all the cities in Michigan, Troy is the best place to raise a family, be a scientist, and we can’t wait to have him,\" Daniel Kang says.\nThis is a good example. The output correctly summarizes the articles.\n\nNew input case for you: UW researchers have conducted what is believed to be the first experiment to show that two brains can be directly linked, allowing one participant to guess correctly what the other is thinking. \n \n Brain scientists at the University of Washington have used an old-fashioned parlor game in a novel way to prove that two people’s brains can be linked across the Internet — an experiment that sounds like it was ripped from the pages of a science-fiction novel. \n \n The experiment is believed to be the first one to demonstrate that two brains can be directly linked to allow one participant to correctly guess what the other is thinking. \n \n Researchers say melding two minds has the potential for a vast range of applications. For example, it might allow for the transfer of information from a healthy one to a damaged one. Or it might allow an alert person to transmit that brain state to somebody who is sleepy, or struggling to pay attention. \n \n “What we wanted to establish is that it is possible to use this rudimentary brain-to-brain collaboration … to solve a common problem,” said Andrea Stocco, an assistant professor of psychology and a researcher at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences at the UW. \n \n The research was published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE. The brain-science investigations are funded by a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation. \n \n Researchers used “20 Questions,” a popular guessing game in which one person thinks of an object and the other tries to guess what it is with a series of 20 or fewer questions that can only be answered “yes” or “no.” \n \n In the experiment, two participants played the game in rooms a mile apart on campus. One participant wore an electrode-studded cap connected to an electroencephalography (EEG) machine to pick up signals from the brain. \n \n The other wore a cap with a magnetic coil positioned over the part of the brain that controls the visual cortex. \n \n The player wearing the electrode cap picked an object, and the player wearing the electric coil used a computer mouse to select from a list of questions to get more information about the object. The electrode-capped player signaled to the questioner whether the answer to the question was “yes” or “no” simply by looking at a flashing light that indicated the answer. A “yes” sent a signal to the questioner; a “no” sent no signal at all. The signal was transmitted via the Internet. \n \n If the answer was yes, the brain activity in the first player’s brain delivered a signal to the electric coil worn by the second player, which translated into a visual interruption or flash of light known as a “phosphene.” \n \n Stocco said it took trial-and-error to position the magnetic coil so that it reliably transmitted a signal to the player asking the questions. And not everyone saw the same visual interruption. \n \n “I consistently saw lines,” Stocco said. “Some saw lightning bolts, blobs or shapes.” \n \n Stocco said the success of the experiment took researchers by surprise. \n \n “We knew in theory it could work,” he said. “We wanted to know how well it could work.” \n \n Subjects arrived at the correct answer in the “20 Questions” game 72 percent of the time; to do that, they answered more than 90 percent of the questions correctly. In other words, they saw the visual interruption, and interpreted it as a “yes.” \n \n Five sets of participants played 20 rounds of the game — a mixture of 10 real games and 10 control games, in which no visual signal was sent at all. Participants guessed the correct answer only 18 percent of the time in the control games. \n \n It’s not the first time Stocco and his fellow researchers have delivered a brain-to-brain signal over the Internet. Two years ago, Stocco and computer-science professor Rajesh Rao conducted an experiment in which Rao transmitted signals from his brain to Stocco, causing his finger to twitch, involuntarily. \n \n At the time, researchers said they believed it was the first time two human brains had been directly connected in this manner. However, some neuroscientists dismissed the experiment as a publicity stunt. \n \n In the finger-twitch experiment, Stocco was not consciously moving his digits, said Chantel Prat, researcher and faculty member at the brain science center. In the new experiment, the questioner “can actually consciously experience the information transfer.” The new experiment advances the science because “two people work together to problem solve,” she said. \n \n Stocco said researchers hope they’ll eventually be able to transmit more complex signals, such as shapes rather than simple flashes of light. \n \n In the 20 Questions experiment, “the brain is trying to make sense of a signal that normally doesn’t exist,” he said. “The brain is saying, ‘I don’t know what this thing is, but I think it’s a line.’ If we can control that with more precision, we could make a shape, or an object.” \n \n If scientists could figure out how to transmit shapes between two brains, it might eventually allow people to collaborate on problem-solving in a completely novel way, he said. \n \n Stocco said there are other applications for the science, too. \n \n For example, researchers know how to measure patterns of brain activity to tell whether somebody is paying attention. One day, scientists may be able to capture those brain patterns and transmit them to a person whose mind wanders, such as a student trying to overcome Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. \n \n Or perhaps one day, you could record the electrical impulses that pulse through your brain when you are at the peak of performance, and use that to wake up your brain at a later state, when your attention is flagging. \n \n “It could be a new frontier of self-help,” Stocco said. ||||| UW team links two human brains for question-and-answer experiment \n \n Deborah Bach News and Information \n \n Imagine a question-and-answer game played by two people who are not in the same place and not talking to each other. Round after round, one player asks a series of questions and accurately guesses the object the other is thinking about. \n \n Sci-fi? Mind-reading superpowers? Not quite. \n \n University of Washington researchers recently used a direct brain-to-brain connection to enable pairs of participants to play a question-and-answer game by transmitting signals from one brain to the other over the Internet. The experiment, detailed today in PLOS ONE, is thought to be the first to show that two brains can be directly linked to allow one person to guess what’s on another person’s mind. \n \n “This is the most complex brain-to-brain experiment, I think, that’s been done to date in humans,” said lead author Andrea Stocco , an assistant professor of psychology and a researcher at UW’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences . \n \n “It uses conscious experiences through signals that are experienced visually, and it requires two people to collaborate,” Stocco said. \n \n \n \n Here’s how it works: The first participant, or “respondent,” wears a cap connected to an electroencephalography (EEG) machine that records electrical brain activity. The respondent is shown an object (for example, a dog) on a computer screen, and the second participant, or “inquirer,” sees a list of possible objects and associated questions. With the click of a mouse, the inquirer sends a question and the respondent answers “yes” or “no” by focusing on one of two flashing LED lights attached to the monitor, which flash at different frequencies. \n \n A “no” or “yes” answer both send a signal to the inquirer via the Internet and activate a magnetic coil positioned behind the inquirer’s head. But only a “yes” answer generates a response intense enough to stimulate the visual cortex and cause the inquirer to see a flash of light known as a “ phosphene .” The phosphene — which might look like a blob, waves or a thin line — is created through a brief disruption in the visual field and tells the inquirer the answer is yes. Through answers to these simple yes or no questions, the inquirer identifies the correct item. \n \n The experiment was carried out in dark rooms in two UW labs located almost a mile apart and involved five pairs of participants, who played 20 rounds of the question-and-answer game. Each game had eight objects and three questions that would solve the game if answered correctly. The sessions were a random mixture of 10 real games and 10 control games that were structured the same way. \n \n The researchers took steps to ensure participants couldn’t use clues other than direct brain communication to complete the game. Inquirers wore earplugs so they couldn’t hear the different sounds produced by the varying stimulation intensities of the “yes” and “no” responses. Since noise travels through the skull bone, the researchers also changed the stimulation intensities slightly from game to game and randomly used three different intensities each for “yes” and “no” answers to further reduce the chance that sound could provide clues. \n \n The researchers also repositioned the coil on the inquirer’s head at the start of each game, but for the control games, added a plastic spacer undetectable to the participant that weakened the magnetic field enough to prevent the generation of phosphenes. Inquirers were not told whether they had correctly identified the items, and only the researcher on the respondent end knew whether each game was real or a control round. \n \n “We took many steps to make sure that people were not cheating,” Stocco said. \n \n Participants were able to guess the correct object in 72 percent of the real games, compared with just 18 percent of the control rounds. Incorrect guesses in the real games could be caused by several factors, the most likely being uncertainty about whether a phosphene had appeared. \n \n “They have to interpret something they’re seeing with their brains,” said co-author Chantel Prat , a faculty member at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences and a UW associate professor of psychology. “It’s not something they’ve ever seen before.” \n \n Errors can also result from respondents not knowing the answers to questions or focusing on both answers, or by the brain signal transmission being interrupted by hardware problems. \n \n “While the flashing lights are signals that we’re putting into the brain, those parts of the brain are doing a million other things at any given time too,” Prat said. \n \n The study builds on the UW team’s initial experiment in 2013, when it was the first to demonstrate a direct brain-to-brain connection between humans. Other scientists have connected the brains of rats and monkeys, and transmitted brain signals from a human to a rat, using electrodes inserted into animals’ brains. In the 2013 experiment, the UW team used noninvasive technology to send a person’s brain signals over the Internet to control the hand motions of another person. \n \n The experiment evolved out of research by co-author Rajesh Rao , a UW professor of computer science and engineering, on brain-computer interfaces that enable people to activate devices with their minds. In 2011, Rao began collaborating with Stocco and Prat to determine how to link two human brains together. \n \n In 2014, the researchers received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation that allowed them to broaden their experiments to decode more complex interactions and brain processes. They are now exploring the possibility of “brain tutoring,” transferring signals directly from healthy brains to ones that are developmentally impaired or impacted by external factors such as a stroke or accident, or simply to transfer knowledge from teacher to pupil. \n \n The team is also working on transmitting brain states — for example, sending signals from an alert person to a sleepy one, or from a focused student to one who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. \n \n “Imagine having someone with ADHD and a neurotypical student,” Prat said. “When the non-ADHD student is paying attention, the ADHD student’s brain gets put into a state of greater attention automatically.” \n \n Many technological advancements over the past century, from the telegraph to the Internet, were created to facilitate communication between people. The UW team’s work takes a different approach, using technology to strip away the need for such intermediaries. \n \n “Evolution has spent a colossal amount of time to find ways for us and other animals to take information out of our brains and communicate it to other animals in the forms of behavior, speech and so on,” Stocco said. “But it requires a translation. We can only communicate part of whatever our brain processes. \n \n “What we are doing is kind of reversing the process a step at a time by opening up this box and taking signals from the brain and with minimal translation, putting them back in another person’s brain,” he said. \n \n Other co-authors are UW computer science and neurobiology undergraduate student Darby Losey , UW bioengineering doctoral student Jeneva Cronin, UW bioengineering doctoral student Joseph Wu, and Justin Abernethy , a research assistant at the UW Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences. ||||| Abstract We present, to our knowledge, the first demonstration that a non-invasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) can be used to allow one human to guess what is on the mind of another human through an interactive question-and-answering paradigm similar to the “20 Questions” game. As in previous non-invasive BBI studies in humans, our interface uses electroencephalography (EEG) to detect specific patterns of brain activity from one participant (the “respondent”), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to deliver functionally-relevant information to the brain of a second participant (the “inquirer”). Our results extend previous BBI research by (1) using stimulation of the visual cortex to convey visual stimuli that are privately experienced and consciously perceived by the inquirer; (2) exploiting real-time rather than off-line communication of information from one brain to another; and (3) employing an interactive task, in which the inquirer and respondent must exchange information bi-directionally to collaboratively solve the task. The results demonstrate that using the BBI, ten participants (five inquirer-respondent pairs) can successfully identify a “mystery item” using a true/false question-answering protocol similar to the “20 Questions” game, with high levels of accuracy that are significantly greater than a control condition in which participants were connected through a sham BBI. \n \n Citation: Stocco A, Prat CS, Losey DM, Cronin JA, Wu J, Abernethy JA, et al. (2015) Playing 20 Questions with the Mind: Collaborative Problem Solving by Humans Using a Brain-to-Brain Interface. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0137303. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137303 Editor: Marco Iacoboni, UCLA, UNITED STATES Received: April 30, 2015; Accepted: August 16, 2015; Published: September 23, 2015 Copyright: © 2015 Stocco et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited Data Availability: Data are available from Dryad: doi:10.5061/dryad.g15k7. Funding: This research was funded by an award of the W. M. Keck Foundation (http://www.wmkeck.org/) to AS, CSP, and RPNR. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. \n \n Introduction Direct brain-to-brain interfaces (BBIs) are technologies that combine neuroimaging and neurostimulation methods to exchange information between brains directly in neural code. In BBIs, specific content is extracted from the neural signals of a “sender” brain, digitized, and re-encoded in the form of induced neural activity in a “receiver” brain. BBIs have been recently demonstrated in both animal models [1–3] and humans [4–6]. While BBIs in humans offer advantages in terms of the range of tasks that can be accomplished and the complexity of information that can be transferred [7], constraints on the invasiveness of brain stimulation technologies in humans limit the possible BBI paradigms. As a result, all of the existing human BBIs have adopted two standard, non-invasive, and relatively safe technologies; electroencephalography (EEG [8]) to record brain activity, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS [9]) to modulate neural activity. Using these two technologies, Rao and colleagues [5] were able to detect the intention of moving the right hand in a sender, and induce the intended movement in the right hand of a receiver, thus allowing the pair to jointly cooperate to solve a visuo-motor task. Grau and colleagues [6], on the other hand, were able to transfer information between pairs of participants in the form of neurally modulated visual percepts, which could be decoded as words by the receiver through a pre-arranged code. While both experiments served as important proofs of concept, they were also subject to a number of limitations. For example, in Rao and colleagues’ study [5], the participant at the receiver end of the BBI received a stimulus to the motor cortex, which produced the intended motor action but was not consciously processed by the participant. In other words, the receiver did not experience the desire to move his or her hand. Therefore, while the BBI allowed two participants to collaborate to achieve a common goal, it did not take full advantage of the receiver’s capacity for processing information. In Grau and colleagues’ experiment [6], the information transmitted to the receiver through the stimulation of visual processing areas resulted in the conscious perception of “phosphenes,” which are temporary visual percepts in the form of lines or spots. The conscious experience of phosphenes was interpreted as a binary signal and used to encode simple words with a code akin to the Morse code. This approach takes full advantage of the human capacity to consciously process information, but because their BBI was not intended to achieve a common goal between the two participants, it lacked the collaborative nature of Rao and colleagues’ task [5]. Also, differently than Rao’s study, Grau and colleagues adopted an off-line delivery mode, where the same signals from a single sender participant were recorded and later broadcast to different receivers. Finally, none of the previous studies had the two participants engage in collaborative and interactive problem solving, in which the receiver can transmit information back to the sender. Such a “closed-loop” interaction could represent a significant advance for the potential applications of human BBI technologies. We report results from a new experiment that overcomes the limitations of these previous studies by increasing both the complexity of the tasks performed with a non-invasive BBI in humans, and the quantity of information transferred between two brains. In our experiment, five pairs of participants played a shortened version of the popular “20 Questions” parlor game, in which a participant can ask up to 20 yes/no questions in order to figure out what object a second participant is thinking of. We chose this paradigm because it presents several important features that test the utility of a BBI, including the fact that it is collaborative, potentially open-ended, operates in real-time, and requires conscious processing of incoming information. To better reflect their roles in the collaborative question-answering task, we refer to the BBI sender as “Respondent”, and the BBI receiver as “Inquirer.” As illustrated in Fig 1, the inquirer and the respondent (physically located about 1 mile apart) interact using a web interface in conjunction with the brain-to-brain interface. The respondent first thinks of an object belonging to a specific category (for example, an animal, e.g., “dog”); the inquirer then uses the web interface to select a question for the respondent (using a computer mouse) from a list shown on the computer screen. A non-invasive BBI (shown in red in Fig 1) decodes the answer directly from the respondent’s brain signals and conveys the answer to the inquirer through stimulation. PPT PowerPoint slide \n \n PowerPoint slide PNG larger image \n \n larger image TIFF original image Download: Fig 1. Architecture of the BBI and “20 Questions” Experiment. In the experiment, two participants (an “inquirer” and a “respondent”) played a question-answering game similar to “20 Questions.” The respondent is given an object (e.g., “dog”) that is unknown to the inquirer and that the inquirer has to guess. The inquirer asks a question about the object by selecting a question (using a mouse) from questions displayed on a screen. The question is then presented visually to the respondent through a web interface. The respondent answers “Yes” or “No” directly through their brain signals by paying attention to one of two flashing LEDs (“Yes” = 13 Hz; “No” = 12 Hz). The BBI uses EEG to decode the respondent’s answer, and a TMS apparatus to convey the answer to the inquirer by generating a visual percept through stimulation for “Yes” and the absence of a percept for “No.” In the figure, the BBI system is highlighted in red. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137303.g001 The BBI was designed to detect visual information from the respondent’s EEG activity (specifically, whether the respondent was attending to the “Yes”-labelled flashing LED or the “No”-labeled flashing LED), and elicit a corresponding visual percept in the inquirer through transcranial magnetic stimulation of the visual areas in the occipital cortex. A number of precautions (see below) were taken to ensure that the inquirer did not receive any information about the answer from any source other than the BBI itself. To ensure the validity of these precautions, each experimental session consisted of 10 experimental games and 10 “control” games; during the control games, the BBI sounded and felt similar to the experimental trials but it did not stimulate the occipital cortex. The order of experimental/control games was randomized prior to the beginning of the experiment. Participants were told in advance about the presence of two conditions, but were not told which condition each game belonged to. \n \n Results and Discussion The efficacy of the proposed BBI was quantified using several measures. The most straightforward is the number of games in which the inquirer was successfully able to identify the object that the respondent was thinking of. On average, our five pairs of subjects were able to successfully guess the correct object in 72% of the games in the experimental condition using information available from the BBI, in contrast to only 18% successfully guessed during the control conditions. Because the distributions of correct guesses in both the experimental and control conditions were Normal (as assessed by the Shapiro-Wilk Normality test: W > 0.91, p > 0.48) and the two distributions had equal variances (Levene’s test: F(1, 8) = 0.07, p = 0.79), the difference between conditions was tested with a paired T-test. he difference between the experimental and control conditions was highly significant (paired t(4) = 13.50, p = 0.0002, Cohen’s d = 9.55). When examining the control condition, it is important to measure chance performance. Chance performance can be estimated in two ways, either by assuming a random inquirer who classifies the respondent’s answers as “Yes” or “No” with equal probability, or assuming an ideal inquirer who always classifies the respondent’s answers as “No” because no cortical input is received in the control condition. Because of the specific ways in which our lists and questions were constructed, both estimates yield the same chance performance of 12.5%. Statistical analysis revealed that performances of all participants were above chance in the experimental condition (single-sample t(4) = 8.97, p = 0.0008), but not in the control condition (single-sample t(4) = 0.78, p = 0.50; Fig 4A). PPT PowerPoint slide \n \n PowerPoint slide PNG larger image \n \n larger image TIFF original image Download: Fig 4. Different Measures of BBI Performance Across Conditions and Subjects. (A) Mean number of objects correctly guessed by the inquirer over 10 experimental (red) and 10 control trials (black) across 5 pairs of subjects; chance performance is 0.125 (dotted line); (B) Mean area under the ROC curves (see Fig 5, below); chance performance is 0.5 (dotted line); (C) Mean number of bits transferred during the experimental and control conditions, using the mutual information criterion; chance performance corresponds to 0 bits (dotted line). In all figures, the grey lines represent the five pairs of participants. Note that in (A), two pairs near the center of the plot had identical performance, giving the appearance of only four lines. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137303.g004 A more detailed way to examine our results is to analyze a BBI using signal detection theory, or equivalently, to treat the BBI as a classification problem. In this analysis, the signal (or, in classification terms, the label) is the true response to each question, and the prediction (or the class) is the inquirer’s understanding of the respondent’s answer. The performance of each pair can then be described using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis [18]. In ROC analysis, performance is represented as a point in the coordinate space defined by two axes representing the true positives rate and the false positives rate. In this space, an ideal classifier will occupy the upper-left corner of the plot, corresponding to 0% false positives and 100% true positives. A random classifier, by contrast, would occupy any of the positions along the upwards diagonal line, where for each proportion of true positives an equal amount of false positives occurs. For each pair in our experiments, we expect performance in the experimental condition to be near to the upper-left corner, and performance in the control condition to be near the diagonal line. Each pair’s performance can be further broken down into separate data points, one for the respondent (considering the true response as the ground truth and the output of the EEG detection as the prediction) and one for the inquirer (considering the TMS pulse as the ground truth and the inquirer’s decision as the prediction). Fig 5 plots each of these ROC points separately for each pair (Fig 5A) and for each participant within each pair (Fig 5B and 5C). PPT PowerPoint slide \n \n PowerPoint slide PNG larger image \n \n larger image TIFF original image Download: Fig 5. Performance of Each Pair of Subjects. Each plot illustrates the performance of pairs of subjects in terms of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) for the experimental (red dots) and control (gray dots) games. The first plot (A) depicts the performance of each pair as whole while the other two plots represent the individual performances of respondents (B) and inquirers (C) in each pair. Overlapping points are indicated by darker shades of red or gray. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137303.g005 In the ROC plot, the performance associated with each point can be quantified as a single number, which represents the area of the polygon formed by connecting the point to the lower-left, lower-right, and upper-right corners of the plot, with coordinates (0, 0), (0, 1) and (1, 1), respectively [18]. This value is known as Area Under the Curve (AUC) and ranges from 1.0 (for an ideal classifier that recognizes all of the true positives without any false positives) to 0.5 (for a random classifier, where increasing the true positive rate produces an equivalent increase in the false positive rate [18]). Individual AUCs were calculated using ROCR package [19]. Since the distribution of AUC values was normally distributed (Shapiro-Wilk test, W > 0.84, p > 0.16) and had similar variance (Levene’s test, F(1, 8) = 0.05, p = 0.82) in both conditions, the data was analyzed with Student’s T-test. The mean raw AUC for the control condition was 0.54, a number that is not significantly different from that for chance (single-sample t(4) = 1.27, p = 0.27). On the other hand, the raw AUC for the experimental condition was 0.90, which is significantly larger than the AUCs for both the control condition (paired t(4) = 11.93, p = 0.0003, Cohen’s d = 8.44) and chance (single-sample t(4) = 13.43, p = 0.0001; see Fig 4B). In the ROC plot, the performance associated with each point can be quantified as a single number, which represents the area of the polygon formed by connecting the point to the lower-left, lower-right, and upper-right corners of the plot, with coordinates (0, 0), (0, 1) and (1, 1), respectively [18]. This value is known as Area Under the Curve (AUC) and ranges from 1.0 (for an ideal classifier that recognizes all of the true positives without any false positives) to 0.5 (for a random classifier, where increasing the true positive rate produces an equivalent increase in the false positive rate [18]). Individual AUCs were calculated using ROCR package [19]. Since the distribution of AUC values was normally distributed (Shapiro-Wilk test, W > 0.84, p > 0.16) and had similar variance (Levene’s test, F(1, 8) = 0.05, p = 0.82) in both conditions, the data was analyzed with Student’s T-test. The mean raw AUC for the control condition was 0.54, a number that is not significantly different from that for chance (single-sample t(4) = 1.27, p = 0.27). On the other hand, the raw AUC for the experimental condition was 0.90, which is significantly larger than the AUCs for both the control condition (paired t(4) = 11.93, p = 0.0003, Cohen’s d = 8.44) and chance (single-sample t(4) = 13.43, p = 0.0001; see Fig 4B). A final measure of interest is the number of bits that were successfully transferred between the respondent and the inquirer using the BBI. Because each answer of the respondent excludes half of the remaining options in the inquirer’s list, it theoretically conveys exactly one bit of information. Thus, information can be calculated as the sum of all the correct answers understood by the inquirer. This measure, however, might overestimate performance, as it does not account for the fact that negative answers are always correctly identified in the control conditions (that is, “0” bits are always transferred correctly), and that the distribution of the respondent’s answers might be skewed (i.e., there might be more negative answers than positive during the experimental conditions). A more conservative and precise measure is the Mutual Information (MI) between the ground-truth correct answers (considered as the input to the BBI) and the inquirer’s understanding of the received answers (the output of the BBI) [20]. MI can be calculated by first converting the set of correct answers and the inquirer’s responses into two binary vectors C and R, with every single answer c in C and r in R coded as 1 for “Yes” and “0” for “No”, and then using the following formula: MI was computed using the Infotheo package [21]. Because MI ranges between 0 and 1 and is calculated in natural logarithms, the actual number of bits transferred is calculated by first converting the MI value into the corresponding base two logarithm, and then multiplying it by the total number of answers given over the course of the experiment (in this case, 30). Because the distribution of MI values is inherently non-Normal (Shapiro-Wilk test, W = 0.78, p = 0.06), the raw data was square-root transformed before being analyzed. The transformed MI scores were more Normally distributed (Shapiro-Wilk test, W = 0.82, p = 0.12) and had comparable variances across conditions (Levene’s test, F(1,8) = 0.14, p = 0.71), thus fitting the requirements of Student’s T-test. In the experimental condition, the raw mean number of bits transferred was 16.02, which was significantly greater than the mean 1.16 bits transferred during the control condition (paired t(4) = 6.02, p = 0.004, Cohen’s d = 5.87 Fig 4C). The raw number of bits transferred in the experimental condition was also greater than chance, which, in the mutual information framework, corresponds to 0 bits (single-sample t(4) = 11.32, p = 0.0003). Contrastingly, the average of 1.16 bits transferred during the control condition was not significantly different than chance (single-sample t(4) = 1.88, p = 0.13). In summary, the different measures of BBI performance collectively demonstrate that the inquirers correctly identified the respondents’ answers during the experimental conditions, but performed at chance levels during the control games. These results have two implications. First, the success of the five pairs during the experimental condition confirms that the interactive BBI was successful and generalizable across different human subjects. Second, the fact that the pairs’ performance was at chance levels during the control condition implies that the communication between the two participants was relying specifically on the information provided by the direct brain-to-brain connection, rather than through other environmental or sensory cues. \n \n Conclusions This paper presents the successful demonstration of a new, non-invasive BBI in humans, which allowed pairs of participants to successfully collaborate and complete a series of question-and-answer games using information transferred between their brains. This BBI paradigm significantly extends and improves previous protocols in that (1) it involves the transfer of consciously perceived information in the form of phosphenes, (2) works in real-time, and (3) permits bidirectional information exchange between two participants. In this sense, this experiment represents a significant step forward towards the goal of creating BBIs with real-world applications. Because phosphenes are private to the receiver and can be perceived under a variety of conditions, or even while performing other actions, they represent a more versatile and interesting means of transferring information than the induced finger movements used in [5]. The amount of information transferred (as measured by the number of bits) in the current experiment is also significantly greater than that transferred in previous BBI experiments, e.g., close to 25 bits for one of the pairs (see Fig 4C) compared to a maximum of 13.4 bits in [5]. Finally, another strength of the current study is the enrollment of participants in terms of number and diversity. With ten total participants, this is the largest BBI experiment to date; while the number might seem small compared to more traditional EEG BCI studies, the reported effect sizes are considerable, with Cohen’s d values ranging from 5.87 to 9.55. As a comparison, these effect sizes would correspond to Pearson correlation coefficient values between 0.96 and 0.99. With such effect sizes, calculations suggest that between 3 and 4 pairs of subjects would already be sufficient to achieve a statistical power > 0.99 for significance thresholds of p < 0.05, therefore having less than 1% chance of incurring in Type II errors. Our sample size is therefore statistically adequate to support our conclusions. In addition, this is also the most diverse BBI experiment in terms of subject characteristics. For example, to our knowledge, this is the first human BBI experiment to include female participants. Thus, our results are encouraging in terms of their ability to demonstrate the generalizability of BBIs to the general population. The current experiment is not without limitations. The most obvious of these is that, as in previous BBI demonstrations, our paradigm does not transfer information better than would be expected with canonical means, such as when two individuals communicate verbally. For instance, it is reasonable to assume that any pair of our participants would be able to correctly guess the object in 100% of the games if they were given the possibility to communicate verbally. However, in circumstances including a non-verbal participant (e.g., an individual with Broca’s aphasia), or pairs of participants that do not speak the same language, it is highly likely that the BBI paradigm would outperform a canonical verbal protocol. Note that the count of correct final guesses greatly underestimates the performances of individual participants. This is for two reasons; first, all the answers in a game need to be correct for a correct guess of the chosen object; and second, the accuracy of a pair is the product of the accuracies of its two independent participants. When the accuracies of each respondent and inquirer in identifying each response are considered, the results are indeed impressive (93.5% and 94.0% accuracies, respectively), with two participants achieving a perfect score (Respondents 2 and 3, in the Experimental condition). These performances correspond to a decline of only about 6% from the levels assessed at the end of the training phase for the inquirers. This small decline can be explained by mental fatigue, which was likely induced by the length of the experimental sessions (approximately 2 hours for the respondents, and 2.5 hours for the inquirers) and the need for participants to fixate the screen for long periods of time. There is, in fact, experimental evidence suggesting that reduced attention has detrimental effects on both SSVEP detection [22] and phosphene perception [23]. A second limitation of our study is that, while the experimental paradigm as a whole allowed bi-directional transfer of information between the respondent and the inquirer, the BBI remained unidirectional, allowing only the transfer of information from the respondent to the inquirer. Fully bi-directional BBIs, if executed in real-time, require the integration of EEG and TMS technologies for each participant, and the development of tasks in which all of the relevant information can be transmitted solely using the BBI. A final limitation is that the code used herein to transmit information was relatively simple, essentially relying on the transmission of binary perceptual signals. None of these limitations is inherent to the technologies or paradigms we adopted for the BBI. For example, EEG and TMS [24], or alternately fMRI and TMS [25], can be used concurrently, thus enabling true bidirectional BBIs. We intend to investigate such BBIs in the future. Our current efforts are aimed at increasing the complexity of information transmitted through human BBIs, such as the transmission of affective states and other types of information that would be otherwise difficult to verbalize. Under these circumstances, larger amounts of information could potentially be transferred, and a BBI would confer a distinct advantage over canonical, symbolic means of communication. We see this as an exciting venue for future research. \n \n Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Devapratim Sarma for his help in designing the real-time EEG data processing interface. \n \n Author Contributions Conceived and designed the experiments: AS CSP DML JAA JAC RPNR. Performed the experiments: AS DML JAA JAC. Analyzed the data: AS DML JAC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS CSP RPNR. Wrote the paper: AS CSP DML JAC RPNR. Designed and implemented the experimental software: JW. |||||\nOutput:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "University of Washington scientists say they pulled off the amazing feat of linking two minds over the Internet—and they didn't have to stick electrodes into anybody's brain to do it. Instead, pairs of study participants a mile apart wore caps—one connected to an EEG machine monitoring brain activity, the other connected to a magnetic coil capable of stimulating the visual cortex—to play a game of \"20 Questions,\" the Seattle Times reports. The researchers, whose study is published in the journal PLoS One, say that when the player with the coil used selected questions about an object from a list using a mouse, the player with the EEG cap was able to communicate a \"yes\" or \"no\" by focusing on a light, causing the other player to see a flash of light when the answer was \"yes.\" The researchers say the subjects determined the correct object in 72% of the \"mind meld\" games and in just 18% of control rounds. \"This is the most complex brain-to-brain experiment, I think, that's been done to date in humans,\" the lead researcher says in a university press release. \"It uses conscious experiences through signals that are experienced visually, and it requires two people to collaborate.\" The researchers say the project could be a gigantic breakthrough for communications, and they're working on ways to transmit brain states, which could transform a weary or distracted brain into an alert one. (Another study found that climbing a tree is great for your brain, even if you're in your 50s.)", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: Tom is five years old . He has no brothers or sisters . He is a lovely boy . He doesn't go to school because he is too young . He likes to play with other children in the small park every day . The park is near his building . In the park there are interesting things to see and play with . Tom's parents love him very much . They often buy him nice things . This time , his mother buys some new clothes for him . The clothes are expensive and nice . Tom is very happy to wear them . \"Mum , can I go out and play with my friends ? I want them to see my new clothes ,\" asks Tom . \"All right , but please keep your clothes clean ,\" says Mum. \"I am going to do some cooking . We will have supper after your father comes back .\" At about six , his father comes back from work . And Tom goes home for supper. \"Why do you have much earth on your clothes ?\" asks his mother . \"Because I have some falls , \" answers Tom . \"You should not make the nice clothes dirty \" Mother says . \" I'm sorry , Mum \" says Tom , \"But I have no time to take off my clothes when I fall .\" Question: How do you know Tom's parents love him very much ? Yes or no, is the answer \"They often buys some nice things for him .\"?\nYes\n\n(Question)\nArticle: According to some predictions, human beings will die out in 2012. Nearly all people think it's impossible, but there are some more earthquakes in recent years. Animals can predict the weather or other natural events. It may sound strange, but farmers living in the countryside think so. For hundreds of years , they have observed animals. \"Animals ' behavior can be connected to future weather conditions or events.\" They say. For example, if cows lie down, a rainstorm is coming. There are many traditional stories connecting animals and natural events. Many people think that these stories don't have scientific evidence( ) at all. Scientists, however, are beginning to take another look at some of these ideas. A Japanese earthquake researcher named Kiyoshi Shimamura noticed an increase in dog bites a short time before earthquake hit. Then he did research on twelve public health centers in Kobe, Japan. These health centers treated people after the 1995 earthquake . He got some interesting information about the month before the big earthquake: treatment for animals' bites had increased . In fact, aggressive behavior in dogs, such as biting and barking loudly , jumped 60 percent. There are also other changes in animals' behavior before the earthquake. For example, fish began swimming together in large groups , but only in the middle of the water and not near the edges. Birds flew away from their nests for many days, leaving their eggs unprotected . These animals' behavior suggests that animals may be able to predict natural events better than people. Question: In Kiyoshi Shimamura's investigation ,before the big earthquake, treatment for animals' bites had _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"increased\"?\n(Answer)\nNo\n\nQues: Article: The Internet is becoming important in our life. How much do you know about it? The following questions and their answers will help you to know more about the Internet. What is the Internet? The Internet is a large, world-wide collection of computer networks . A network is a small group of computers put together. The Internet is many different kinds of networks from all over the world. These networks are called the Internet. If you have learned to use the Internet, you can have a lot of interest on the World Wide Web . What is the World Wide Web? The World Wide Web has been the most popular development of the Internet. It is like a big electronic book with millions of pages. These pages are called homepages. You can find information about almost anything in the world on these pages. For example, you can use the Internet instead of a library to find information for your homework. You can also find information about your favourite sport or film star, talk to your friends or even do some shopping on the pages. Most pages have words, pictures and even sound or music. What is e-mail? Electronic mail (e-mail) is a way of sending messages to other people. It's much quicker and cheaper than sending a letter. If you want to use e-mail, you must have an e-mail address. This address must have letters and dots and an @ (means \"at\"). For example: Lily @ Yahoo.com. Write a message, type a person's e-mail address, and then send the message across the Internet. People don't need to use stamps, envelopes or go to the post office because of the invention of the Internet. Quick, easy and interesting -- that's the Internet. Question: The sentence \"You can talk to your friends on the pages.\" means _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"you can type your words in the computer and send them to your friends across the Internet\"?\nAns: Yes\n\n(Q).\nArticle: Sam likes fish very much.He often buys fish in the shop and takes it home.But when his wife sees the fish,she says to herself,\"Good!Now I can ask my friends to have lunch,and we can eat this fish.They like fish very much.\" So when Sam comes home in the evening,the fish is not there and his wife always says,\"Oh,your cat ate it.\"And she gives Sam some bread for his supper.Sam gets very angry.He takes the cat and his wife to the shop near his house and weighs the cat.Then he turns to his wife and says,\"My fish weighs one kilo .This cat weighs one,too.My cat is here,you see.Then where's my fish?\" Question: How much does the cat weigh? Yes or no, is the answer \"One kilo.\"?\n(A).\nNo\n\nArticle: The Story of a Broken Bowl Henry is a boy of nine. Three years ago he began to go to school. He studied hard and does well in his lessons. His parents like him very much. Henry's grandpa is a single man. But once he lost a leg in a traffic accident. And now he can't work. He often tells the boy all kinds of interesting stories. Sometimes he makes a kite or a cage. And he teaches the boy how to catch the singing birds and how to give them food. The boy admires him very much and always stays with him when he's free. But Henry's mother didn't like the old man. She always thought him useless and dirty, and didn't let her son play with him but the boy didn't listen to her. When they sat at table, she put some food on another table and filled a broken bowl with rice and porridge. The old man was very sad but he dared not say anything. Henry was angry with his mother about it. One day he saw a broken bowl on his way home. He picked it up and put it into his bag. His mother found it and asked, \" Why have you brought a broken bowl home, dear?\" \" I keep it for you.\" said Henry, \"When you're old like my grandpa, I'll fill it with rice for you !\" Having heard this, the woman began to cry. Since then she's been good to the old man. Question: Henry admires his grandpa because _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"he's very able old man\"?\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "In this task, you're given an article and an answer. Your task is to generate the fill-in-the-blank question for this answer based on the given article. The blanks are always at the end of the question, and can be filled with more than one word or phrase.\n\n[EX Q]: Article: Hungry for Change is part of a growing movement of people who want to stop _ throughout the world . They want to make certain that people in famine areas can protect themselves from the effects of future droughts . They also want to make certain that enough help is quickly available for emergencies in all parts of the world . Hungry for Change has helped to raise millions of pounds for famine relief . It has attracted a great deal of newspaper publicity for its relief work . It has also been successful in persuading the government in prefix = st1 /Britainto increase its aid budget by several million pounds and carry out new research into improved crops . While Hungry for Change works in Britain for an end to poverty and famine in the world , Oxfam is helping to get over the fear of famine in such countries as Ethiopia and Sudan with long-term development projects . In North West Darfur , Sudan , Oxfam is helping to increase food production . In Nile Province,Sudan, Oxfam is planting trees in order to provide fuel and shelter , and to protect the soil . It is a faraway area , where rainfall is poor and conditions for agriculture and the forests are difficult . In Arba Minch,Ethiopia, Oxfam is supporting a project to supply clean water to villages . Clean water will reduce the risk of diseases, especially among children . \n Answer: organizations\n[EX A]: Hungry for Change and Oxfam are two_.\n\n[EX Q]: Article: I became a stand- up comic at 12:45 yesterday afternoon when I walked onto a comedy club stage and did a \"bit\". It was an audition in which people had exactly two minutes each to perform for a producer. I am not a comic, have never appeared onstage, am awkward before many people, and have no social skills. But I have written some funny things in the newspapers, and I figured that if you can write funny, you can be funny. That was my first mistake. Good stand - up comics improve their acts over months if not years, practicing before bathroom mirrors or their friends. I developed the key skill the morning I went on. I also brought a box of plastic beads , because I figured they could be useful. For the first few seconds, I was simply staring forward, mouth open, expressing the concept:\"Uuungh\". Finally I said, \"This is my first performance as a stand - up comic. It's a kind of a special moment for me. I'd like to take this opportunity to say something to my mother, who was an inspiration to me throughout my life. My mother passed away a few years ago, but I feel she is still with me. All the time, wherever I go, I feel her presence. Day in and day out. So I would like to say this to her. LEAVE ME ALONE, MA!\" Some people actually laughed. Then I said, \"Anyway, this really is my first time onstage, and I'm pretty nervous because I'm not all that funny and I have a really bad stage presence. But I've been working on the problem. A long time ago a Greek guy named Demosthenes had the same problem I have, and he became a great speaker by sticking pebbles in his mouth, so I thought I would (and here I began putting the beads in my mouth) try that. See, the idea is that if you can talk through the pebbles ( now I was putting them in by the handful) you can learn to talk better and wfnm fmuff frmphm grphnm . . .\" More laughter. I looked at my watch, said something that might have sounded like \"My time is up,\" and left to somewhat spirited applause. What the audience did not know was that I was quietly choking on a slippery bead. \n Answer: has had his stories published in the newspapers\n[EX A]: We can learn from the text that the author _ .\n\n[EX Q]: Article: Freedom and Responsibility Freedom's challenge in the Digital Age is a serious topic. We are facing today a strange new world and we are all wondering what we are going to do with it. Some 2,500 years ago Greece discovered freedom. Before that there was no freedom. There were great civilizations, splendid empires, but no freedom anywhere. Egypt and Babylon were both _ , one very powerful man ruling over helpless masses. In Greece, in Athens , a little city in a little country, there were no helpless masses. And Athenians willingly obeyed the written laws which they themselves passed, and the unwritten, which must be obeyed if free men live together. They must show each other kindness and pity and the many qualities without which life would be very painful unless one chose to live alone in the desert.The Athenians never thought that a man was free if he could do what he wanted. A man was free if he was self-controlled. To make yourself obey what you approved was freedom. They were saved from looking at their lives as their own private affair. Each one felt responsible for the welfare of Athens, not because it was forced on him from the outside, but because the city was his pride and his safety. The essential belief of the first free government in the world was liberty for all men who could control themselves and would take responsibility for the state. But discovering freedom is not like discovering computers. It cannot be discovered once for all. If people do not prize it, and work for it, it will go. Constant watch is its price. Athens changed. It was a change that took place without being noticed though it was of the extreme importance, a spiritual change which affected the whole state. It had been the Athenian' s pride and joy to give to their city. That they could get material benefits from her never entered their minds. There had to be a complete change of attitude before they could look at the city as an employer who paid her citizens for doing her work. Now instead of men giving to the state, the state was to give to them. What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them; and with this as the primary object, ideas of freedom and self-reliance and responsibility were neglected to the point of disappearing. Athens was more and more looked on as a cooperative business possessed of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share. Athens reached the point when the freedom she really wanted was freedom from responsibility. There could be only one result. If men insisted on being free from the burden of self-dependence and responsibility for the common good, they would cease to be free. Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom. It is to be had on no other terms. Athens, the Athens of Ancient Greece, refused responsibility; she reached the end of freedom and was never to have it again. But, \"the excellent becomes the permanent\", Aristotle said. Athens lost freedom forever, but freedom was not lost forever for the world. A great American, James Madison, referred to: \"The capacity of mankind for self-government.\" No doubt he had not an idea that he was speaking Greek. Athens was not in the farthest background of his mind, but once man has a great and good idea, it is never completely lost. The Digital Age cannot destroy it. Somehow in this or that man's thought such an idea lives though unconsidered by the world of action. One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking out into action only sure that it will do so sometime. \n Answer: treat others with kindness and pity\n[EX A]:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "People believing in freedom are those who _ .\n\n", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "More than 20 million kids in the United States live with one parent. Separation and divorce are the most common reasons for this. In other cases, the mom and dad may never have lived together, or one of them may have died. Living with one parent instead of two can bring about a lot of emotions. These feelings can be pretty strong, and they can be confusing, too. You might feel terribly sad and angry because your parents divorced. Single parents are often working parents because someone needs to earn money to buy food, clothing, and a place to live in. Having a job means your mom or dad is able to provide these things and more for you. People work for other reasons, too. A job can let a person use his or her special talents and skills. A job can be important because it helps people in the community. But even though you might understand why your mom or dad has to work, sometimes it can be hard to accept. This can be especially true during the summer or school vacations. _ It can be tough when you don't have enough time with your dad or mom. When you live with one parent, that person really has to do the work of two people. Besides a job, your mom or dad is responsible for caring for the kids, the house, the yard, the car and the pets. So what can you do ? One of the best ways is to hold a family meeting. Talk about everyone's schedule for work, school, and activities. You can also talk about what jobs around the house need to be done every day. You might want to help your parent cook dinner sometimes. That can be both fun and helpful to your parent. Maybe you can also schedule a weekly game or a movie at night. What is the best title for the passage? A) Living with a single parent B) Single parents and work C) How to work with a single parent D) Schedules for work\nA\n\n\n\"Can't hold a candle to\" is a popular expression. It is from the time before electricity, when people used candles for light. Someone who lived in a big house would have a servant light his way by holding a candle. The expression meant that the person who cannot hold a candle to you is not fit even to be your servant. \"Hold out\" is an expression one hears often in sports reports and labor news. It means refusing to play or work. Professional football and baseball players hold out if their team refuses to pay them what they think they are worth. Members of labor unions hold out and refuse to work until they get the work agreement they want. The expression \"hold up\" has several different meanings. One is a robbery. A man with a gun may say, \"This is a hold up. Give me your money.\" Another meaning is to delay. A driver late for work may tell his boss, \"I was held up by heavy traffic.\" Someone who was robbed on the way to work might say, \"Sorry, boss, I was held up by a hold up.\" Still another meaning of the expression is for a story to be considered true after an investigation. The same driver late for work could say, \"My boss did not believe a hold up held me up. But the police confirmed what I said so my story held up.\" \"Hold on\" is another expression. Often it means wait or stop. As you leave for school, your brother may say, \"Hold on, you forgot your book.\" Hold on is also used to ask a telephone caller to wait and not hang up his telephone. Which of the following is NOT one of the meanings of \"hold up\"? A) A robbery B) To delay C) To prove true D) Wait a moment.\nD\n\n\nQ: A school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids from my window as they played basketball. One day, among the children a girl attracted me. She seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys. Running circles around the other kids, she managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net with no one to stop her. Sometimes, I saw her play alone. She would practice dribbling and shooting over and over again until dark. One day I asked her why she practiced so much. Without hesitation, she said, \"I want to go to college. The only way I can go is that I get a scholarship. If I were good enough, I would get a scholarship. I like basketball. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.\" Then she smiled and ran towards the court to go on with practice. I watched her through junior high and into high school. Every week, she led her school team to victory. One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head cradled in her arms. I went over there and sat down beside her. The coach told her that as a player as tall as prefix = st1 /5'5\"she would probably never get to play for a top ranked college team -- much less offered a scholarship -- so she should stop dreaming about college. She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They did not understand the power of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to play for a good college and if she truly wanted a scholarship, nothing could stop her except one thing -- her own attitude. He told her again, \"If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.\" The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college recruiter , and was offered a full scholarship, to a NCAA women's basketball team. She was going to college, which she had dreamed of and worked toward for... The coach advised the girl to quit because he thought _ . A) she had lost confidence in her ability to play well B) she had been good enough to get a scholarship C) she couldn't get along well with her teammates D) she was too short to realize her dream\nA: D\n\n\nMy father' s response to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York city was immediate and definite: \"You won' t catch me putting my money in there!\" he declared, \"Not in that glass box. \" Of course, my father is a gentleman of the old school, a member of the generation to whom a good deal of modern architecture is upsetting, but I believe that his negative response was not so much to the architecture as to a violation of his concept of the nature of money. In his generation money was thought of as a real commodity that could be carried, or stolen. Therefore, to attract the custom of a sensible man, a bank had to have heavy walls, barred windows, and bronze doors, to make sure of the fact, however, untrue, that money would be safe inside. If a building' s design made it appear strong, the institution was necessarily reliable, and the meaning of the heavy wall as an architecture symbol showed the general attitude toward money. But the attitude toward money has, of course, changed. Except pocket money, cash of any kind is now rarely used; money as a tangible commodity has largely been replaced by credit. The banker no longer offers us a safe: he offers us a service in which the most valuable factor is the creativity for the invention of large numbers. It is in no way surprising, in view of this change in attitude, that we are witnessing the disappearance of the heavy-walled bank. Just as the older bank emphasized its strength, this bank by its architecture is proud of imaginative powers. According to this passage, a modern banker should be _ . A) ambitious and friendly B) reliable and powerful C) sensible and strong D) imaginative and creative\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: The popular Disneyland has some deep, dark, and sometimes amusing secrets that you probably don't know. Read on to learn them. General Main Street By using a special method of construction , Disneyland created an effect that you don't notice until your tired family leaves the park. The next time you enter Disneyland, make note of the distance that it appears you have to travel to get to the \"Partners\" statue. Then look at the exit of the park from the statue. That's correct. The distance appears to be shorter entering the park than going out. The purpose was to keep guests from wanting to take the long walk out. Birthday fun If you visit Disneyland on your birthday, be sure to tell the person at the gate that it's your big day. You'll be sent to City Hall where you'll be presented with a special sticker by cast members, letting everyone know it's your birthday. You may also be able to score special items from other cast members throughout the park, so it's certainly worth a try! The music never stops. Visitors like the music and sounds in the park.. Did you know the music never stops at the park? Even when the park was closed, the music and sounds are kept on going. Some believe it cost too much for Disney to keep turning off the music and then restarting it each day. But the truth is that it helps some workers clean up after 2 a.m! Club 33 \"Club 33\" is the only place in Disneyland that provides guests with alcoholic beverages . Club 33 members and their guests get free entrance to Disneyland so long as they have a meal at Club 33 on the day of their visit. Question: The purpose of this passage is to _ . Options: A: let the readers know the dark side of Disneyland Park. B: help the readers better enjoy their visits in Disneyland Park C: encourage the readers to go to visit Disneyland Park D: make the readers be aware of the importance of Disneyland Park\nB\n\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. His father was a painter and art teacher who gave his son the first lesson in drawing. He won a prize-- \"Science and Charity\" for his first important painting when he was only fifteen. He studied in several cities in Spain. But there was no one to teach him all that he wanted to know. When he was nineteen, he visited Paris. Paris was then the center of the world for artists. Everything that was new and exciting in the world of paintings seemed to happen there. When he was twenty-three, Picasso moved there to live and lived in France for the rest of his life. When he was over ninety, this great painter still lived his life like a young man. He was still looking for new ideas and new ways to use his artistic materials. When he died in 1973, he was ninety-one years old. . Question: How old was he when he moved to Paris and how old was he when he died? Options: A: Twenty-three and ninety. B: Twenty-three and ninety-one. C: Nineteen and ninety-one. D: Nineteen and ninety.\nB\n\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: The Internet is becoming important in our life. How much do you know about it? The following questions and their answers will help you to know more about the Internet. What is the Internet? The Internet is a large, world-wide collection of computer networks . A network is a small group of computers put together. The Internet is many different kinds of networks from all over the world. These networks are called the Internet. If you have learned to use the Internet, you can have a lot of interest on the World Wide Web . What is the World Wide Web? The World Wide Web has been the most popular development of the Internet. It is like a big electronic book with millions of pages. These pages are called homepages. You can find information about almost anything in the world on these pages. For example, you can use the Internet instead of a library to find information for your homework. You can also find information about your favourite sport or film star, talk to your friends or even do some shopping on the pages. Most pages have words, pictures and even sound or music. What is e-mail? Electronic mail (e-mail) is a way of sending messages to other people. It's much quicker and cheaper than sending a letter. If you want to use e-mail, you must have an e-mail address. This address must have letters and dots and an @ (means \"at\"). For example: Lily @ Yahoo.com. Write a message, type a person's e-mail address, and then send the message across the Internet. People don't need to use stamps, envelopes or go to the post office because of the invention of the Internet. Quick, easy and interesting -- that's the Internet. Question: The \"e\" in e-mail means _ . Options: A: easy B: entrance C: electronic D: enjoyable\nC\n\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: There are 5 channels on British television and each channel has several news programs all day long. Some programs are only for 3 minutes but some are one hour long. The people who read the news are called news presenters and because they appear on television every day, they are very famous. This is a popular news presenter in England called Trevor McDonald, in the news studio. He presents a program called \"News at Ten\"every Monday to Friday evenings. Another popular news presenter is Kirsty Young. She has a more modern style of reading the news, as you can see, she sits on the desk not on a chair! Television news presenters need to have worked as journalists because they have to write most of the news that they read. Sometimes an important new event happens after the program has started, so the presenter has to be able to read something without looking at it first. They must always keep calm even when there are many changes during the program. At the end of \"News at Ten\"Trevor McDonald says \"And finally...\". Then he reads an unusual or interesting item. It's a famous saying in England now. Question: Which is the best title of this passage? Options: A: Television News B: Trevor McDonald C: Evening News D: News at Ten\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: As we become richer and richer, we are producing more and more rubbish. The Asian Development Bank(ADB) says that our largest cities produce 760 000 tons of solid waste every day. It predicts that there will be an increase--to 1.8 million tons--by 2025. It seems too much to deal with. \"The growing waste is simply trying to cover our cities,\" says Michael Lindfield, a specialist of ADB in Manila. _ The World Bank says some governments are spending as much as half of their budgets dealing with rubbish. And even so, it is common that half of all the waste goes uncollected. Much of the added difficulty is packaging from consumer products and the products themselves--all of which need years, even centuries to decompose . Lindfield believes that four of every five products we buy are thrown away after a single use. It all makes the work to deal with solid waste much more expensive. The rubbish is more than just an environmental problem--it also influences national economies by disturbing the world market, discouraging tourism and slowing down industrial development. Lots of rubbish also influences the look of our cities. As he walks to work from his home in Bangkok every day, Chatchat Mutita, a 36-year-old advertising specialist, must pass a lot of ugly, smelly rubbish that isn't collected until late at night. He says things get worse when it rains because some yellow water will stream from the rubbish to the sidewalk. Modern technology can make the problems of open dumps less serious. But Chettiyappan Visvanathan, a professor at the Asian Institute of Technology in Pathumthal, Thailand, believes that there are no engineered facilities in nine of every ten dumps all over the country. Some countries depend on most solid waste to produce energy, but there's a growing problem of air pollution. Burning is far more dangerous than open dumps. The ADB says the growing rubbish must be dealt with by the \"3Rs\" --reducing the waste, reusing things that are being thrown away and recycling materials. Question: Which of the following is true, according to the passage? Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- There are both hope and difficulty in our future.\n- It's impossible for us to make our cities clean.\n- We may find some ways but things will be worse.\n- The problem is not serious if everyone knows it.\n\nA: There are both hope and difficulty in our future.\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Reading Oliver James'Affluenza, I thought about what often happens at home. My 12-year-old daughter is in tears.\"I have so take a test tomorrow. I don't understand any of it,\" she cries out. After shouting and shutting her door, she calms down enough to go through her notes. The following dry I ask her how the test went and the just says \"OK,I got a nine\". \"Wow. well done!\" I say, before she finishes with \"But I never get a ten!\" According to James, this _ with getting top marks has been a bad development, which encourages people to think of education in terms of work and money. To test this, I asked my daughter why she was so worried about her tests. She looked at me as if I was thick. \"Well, if I don't get good grades, I won't be able to afford nice things like a car and stuff.\" I was quite surprised, because I don't consider myself a pushy parent. But James suggests and it leaves students feeling failures even if they are very bright. He points to the Danish system of education as a better model. Creating happy citizens who have good social skills is seen as more important than high achievements at school or the needs of business. For me, I cannot remember the last time I had to work out the area of a circle, recite a Shakespeare poem or grammar rules, yet I have lived a happy life. What I really needed to learn at school was how to make polite conversations, or how to avoid getting into debt or how to develop good personality. This is in fact similar to what Oliver James really has in mind. And he is looking for schools where students are encouraged to find and follow their own interests, something more like Tongjon. Tongjon has been developed in some Korean private schools. It is quite different from the more rigid system of learning things by heart that is used in Korea, and indeed in many other school systems around the world. As the Russian poet Pushkin said,\" Inspiration is needed in geometry just as much as in poetry \",and inspiration does not come from endlessly revising for tests or getting... Question: What can we infer from the passage? Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Social skills are as important as high grades.\n- Interest in grades can shake self-confidence.\n- The writer regrets not having studied hard at school.\n- Danish educational system is for very smart students.\n\nA: Interest in grades can shake self-confidence.\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: How are you and your family going to celebrate Earth Day? It's great day to get outside and ride a bike, but there are other ways you could spend the day. Here are four books. You can learn more about the earth and the animals that make the world a special place to live. The Busy Beaver, by Nicholas Oldland Beaver is very busy, and he doesn't always think carefully. As a result, he makes a mess of the forest and ends up in hospital. Finally, he realizes how careless he's been and decides to make things right when he returns to the forest. Lessons from Mother Earth, by Elaine Mcleod Five-year-old Tess is visiting her grandmother and, for the first time, she visits the garden. Along the way, Tess's grandmother tells her the rules of the garden, \"You must always take good care of our garden. Never throw rubbish around. There is plenty for everyone to share if we don't destroy the earth.\" The story is beautifully told as a caring conversation between a child and her grandmother. Luz See the Light, by Claudia Davila When Luz's community experiences a series of black-outs , she quickly comes to understand the need to save energy and find other ways of doing things . With the help of her friends and neighbors, she creates a community garden and park that everyone can use. The book attracts many young readers. The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss A young boy learns of the role of the Lorax as protector of the trees, and how his home became polluted. The book contains memorable of forestry conservation . Question: Which of the following words can best describe Luz? Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Organized.\n- Creative.\n- Beautiful.\n- Unfriendly.\n\nA: Creative.\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Ted, my little brother, is in Grade One. Last Friday he came back from school with a letter. The letter was from his teacher. \"I got a red flower today. Could you please sign this note?\" he said to Mum. The note showed that he had been talking in class. Ted hardly gets top scores in his school work. The best he gets is \"OK\", but often he gets \"You can do better than this.\" Mum knows what it means. She tells me \"You can do better than this\" means \"Extremely bad\" in China. In the USA, teachers never say anything too bad about their students, even if the students are making trouble in class or not working hard enough. The worst they might say is \"Please be nicer tomorrow\". Many parents are satisfied with--- a B-grade for each subject. But things in Chinese schools are quite different. Parents have _ for their children. I sometimes felt that my second-grade cousin spent more time on homework than I did when I was a 6thgrader in the USA! Yet his parents and teachers didn't think he worked hard enough. Is it too strict in China? Or is it not strict enough in the USA? Maybe both are true. Question: American parents will be _ when their children get a B-grade in their school. Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- excited\n- sad\n- angry\n- happy\n\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "happy", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Dreaming is believing, claim researchers of a new study, who found that dreams have an effect on people's behavior, judgment and they might contain important hidden truths as well. \"Psychologists' explanations of the meaning of dreams vary widely. But our findings show that people believe their dreams provide meaningful insightinto themselves and their world,\" said a lead author of the study Carey Morewedge, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In six different studies, researchers surveyed nearly 1,100 people about their dreams. One of the studies focused on general beliefs about dreams and involved 149 university students. All students were asked to rate different theories about dreams. The experts found that a surprising majority of the participants supported the theory about dreams revealing the hidden truths about themselves and the rest of the world. In a second experiment, they surveyed 182 people at a Boston train station, and asked them to imagine one out of four possible situation that could have occurred the night before a scheduled airline trip. Most of the participants said that dreaming of a plane crash would be more likely to affect their travel plans than would just thinking about a crash, or being warned by the government of a terrorism risk. They said a dreamed crash would influence their travel plans just as much as learning about a real crash on their planned route would. Another experiment involved 270 men and women from across the United States. In a short online survey, they were asked to recall one of the dreams they had seen about any person they knew. The findings showed that people were more likely to remember and describe pleasant dreams about a person they liked, rather than a person they disliked. Meanwhile, in most cases they tended to consider an unpleasant dream as more meaningful if it was about a person they disliked. \"In other words,\" said Morewedge, \"people attribute meaning to dreams when it corresponds (......) with their pre-existing beliefs and... Question: . What can be concluded from the study? Options: A: Dreams can be a useful tool for learning and problem solving. B: Most people disagree that dreams help them better know themselves and the world. C: A majority of people believes that dreams can predict their future and try to find their meaning. D: When a dream conflicts with people's existing beliefs and desires, they tend to attribute less meaning to it.\nA: D\n\n\nQ: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: How often do you go on holiday? Going on holiday makes you feel good while you're there-you gain the health benefits for months, new research shows. Jetting off to exotic destinations such as the Maldives cuts your blood pressure, helps you sleep better and bounce back from stress, it found. The benefits last at least a fortnight longer than the vacation and can be felt for months in some cases where it is claimed. Experts say workers should always take their full holiday entitlement each year-as many as one in three don't-to get the benefits. The study compared key health markers in holidaymakers visiting Thailand, Peru or the Maldives, with people who stayed at home and continued working. The average blood pressure of those on holiday dropped by 6% while the workers saw their blood pressure rise by 2% over the same period. The sleep quality of holiday-makers improved by 17% while that of the non-holidaymakers _ by 14%. The study also found the ability of vacationers to recover from stress--known as the stress-resilience test-improved by 29%. There was a 71% fall in stress resilience scores among workers. Test showed a fall in blood glucose levels, reducing the risk of diabetes, trimmer waistlines and enhanced mood and energy levels, with the effects sustained for at least 2 weeks after returning home. The Holiday Health Experiment was conducted by tour operator Kuoni and Nuffield Health, the UK's largest healthcare charity. Question: According to the article, how many people go on holiday? Options: A: Two thirds B: 17% C: One third D: A quarter\nA: A\n\n\nQ: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Once, looking for stories on the back roads of Ohio, _ . A beekeeper we'd been told about was away from home when we called on him. An amusement park where we thought we might find a story had shut down for the season. We began to get a little discouraged. When passing a farmhouse, we found a banner in the front yard. The banner said in huge letters: WELCOME HOME, ROGER! We drove on for a mile or two. Somebody said, \" wonder who Roger is ?\" We turned around, went back and knocked on the door. Roger was a soldier on his way home from the Vietnam War. His family knew he was coming, but weren't sure what day he was going to arrive. We asked if they 'd mind if we brought the camera into the house. Roger's mother said it would be all right if we could give her a few minutes to fix her hair. We weren't there more than an hour, talking to those people who were all excited about Roger coming home. That afternooon I wrote a simple story letting Roger represent all the soldiers coming home from war. We sent the film with the story to New York, and the anchorman put it on the Evening News. Rarely has any of our stories caused such a reaction from viewers. There were dozens of calls from people moved by it, and hundreds of letters came in, some of them suggesting that the story be repeated. That hour with Roger's family made it a good trip to Ohio, after all. I had done a lot of careful planning for the week's work, but in vain. Then along came a banner in a farmhouse yard. Back at the office, people asked , \" How do you find these stories ?\" \"Well,\" I said,\" you do have to work at it.\" All you really have to do is look out of the window. Question: By saying \" we were suffering a week-long dry spell\", the author means that _ . Options: A: they were suffering dry weather for a week. B: they were getting nowhere with their work for a week. C: they were having a hard time finding their way for a week. D: they were having trouble in spelling for a week.\nA: B\n\n\nQ: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: How can you hear your friends' voices when they are far away and you can't make a long--distance call? Besides the web camera system with your computer, we have a new high-tech way to solve the problem and ease your pain of missing them. The Japanese company Combiwith created a system-- . It makes people in pictures speak! The \"talking picture\" has a special pen. It is actually a pen-shaped scanner. It can scan information in special--made pictures. A connected player will then play the information out loud. First, you need to take a picture and record what you want to say with the company. The company will then make special barcodes onto your picture(you can't see those codes). Those codes are your voice and your words. When you hold up the pen to scan your picture with barcodes, a player connected to the pen will start to play. It plays things you've recorded. That way the invention makes the \"you\" in the picture speak! Do you want your friends and families talking out of pictures? Have them make pictures like that, and you can hear them whenever you want, only with the \"talking picture\" system. The system can play messages for up to 12 minutes. \"The pictures would be useful for those who hope to hear the voice of someone living far away,\" said Mayumi Fuji, a spokeswoman for the company. \"Grandparents, for example, longing to know about their grandchildren, would be happy to hear their voice when they see the picture,\" Fuji said. But it is troublesome to go to the company for taking a special picture first. And, it is much more expensive than using a telephone. The photo with barcodes costs between 17,040 and 17,990 yen (160 and 169 dollars). The larger picture you want, the more you pay. Now, just raise a finger, lonely people can have their loved ones speak out of pictures. But, whether the \"talking picture\" is practical or not, let's wait and see. Question: What is the attitude of the author? Options: A: Optimistic. B: Uncertain. C: Positive. D: Pessimistic.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A few weeks ago, I went into Chase's class for help. I e-mailed Chase's teacher one evening and said, \"My son keeps telling me that the thing you're sending home is math -- but I'm not sure I believe him. Help, please.\" She e-mailed right back and said, \"No problem! I can help Chase after school anytime.\" And I said, \"No, not him. Me. Hegets it.Help me.\" And that's why I stayed with Chase's math teacher. We talked about teaching children. We agreed that subjects like math and reading are not the most important things that are learned in a classroom. We also talked about something else ---- kindness and bravery. And then she told me this. Every Friday afternoon Chase's teacher asks her students to take out a piece of paper and write down the names of four children with whom they'd like to sit the following week. She also asks the students to nominate one student who they think is the most popular student that week. They needn't write down their names on the paper. After the students go home, she takes out those pieces of paper, and studies them. In fact, Chase's teacher is not looking for a new seating chart or \"popular students.\" She is looking for lonely children. She's looking for the ones who are unwilling to connect with others. She is discovering whose gifts are not noticed by their classmates. Then she gets to know who needs help. After watching Columbine the wise woman realized that all violence comes from loneliness. So she decided to start fighting violence early and often, and what she is doing is SAVING LIVES. And she finds the lonely kids through those lists and tries to help them. It's math to her. All is love - evenmath. Question: The best title should be _ ? - Teaching math - Loneliness - Looking for the lonely - Popular students\nLooking for the lonely\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: I have a big family. My name is Tony Brown. I'm English. My father and mother are teachers. They teach English in No.1 Middle School. I have a sister. Her name is Mona. We are students in N0.1 Middle School. My grandfather's name is David, My grandmother's name is Sue. They are retired , they are at home. Paul is my uncle. He is a worker . Paul's wife --Jane, is a doctor . They have ason. His name is Jeff. He's only three. Question: Mona's aunt is _ . - Sue - Paul - Jane - Mona\nJane\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Some students think it difficult to learn English well. That's because they don't find the right way. I think reading is very important for students. The more you read, the better you'll understand. Reading is helpful to listening, speaking and writing. If you often read English aloud, you'll improve your listening. On the other hand, listening a lot can help you to read better. Reading English everywhere when you are free, if you wish. You can get a lot of knowledge when you read. Sometimes you need to express your ideas, you can either speak or write. That means you are using what you learned from reading. The same as Chinese, the more you read, the better you can write. If you want to remember something, you should read again and again. So from now on, you'd better do more reading. It's a good way to learn English well. Question: Some students think it difficult to learn English well because _ . - they don't work hard - they are afraid of English. - they don't find the right way - they aren't clever\nA: they don't find the right way\n\nQuestion: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: What's the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck. If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically and use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c..., you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=\"98,\" meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge: 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=\"96,\" while love: 12+15+22+5=\"54,\" and luck: 12+21+3+11=\"47,\" a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money? It can't , either. Then what else? Don't be worried. You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, or your attitude. Yes, attitude is the word. See for yourself: attitude:1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100,a full mark. Most times people hope for a better life. It is possible if you will have a change for the better after you have changed your attitude. When you change your manner and become friendly to others, you'll meet more smiling faces towards you. Question: In the writer's opinion, what is the most important thing in a person's life? - Hard-work. - Knowledge. - Money. - Attitude.\nAnswer: Attitude.\n\n(Q).\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Farmer Ed Rawlings smiles as he looks at his orange trees. The young oranges are growing well in Florida's weather. Warm sunshine and gentle rains, along with Ed Rawlings' expert care, will produce a good crop of oranges this year. However, Ed has to guard against Florida's changeable winter weather. In January and February, temperatures can destroy Ed's entire orange crop. Having farmed in Florida for the past 35 years, Ed is prepared for the frost . When temperatures drop below freezing, Ed tries to save his crop by watering his orange trees. The water freezes and forms a thin layer of ice around the trees. Strange as it may sound, this thin layer of ice actually keeps the fruit warm. What happens is simple. When the trees are watered, the water loses heat and becomes ice. The warmth of the heat it loses is taken in by the fruit and keeps its temperature at a safe level. Ed has effectively used this method to save many orange crops. But Ed still faces difficulties. The trees must be watered at the exact moment the temperature drops to the freezing point. Also, just the right quantity of water must be used. Too much water can form a thicker layer of ice that will break the tree's branches . Another difficulty is that wind blows away the heat, so Ed has to worry about not only when but also how often his trees should be watered, and how much water should be used. Computer technology may help Ed with some of these worries. With equipment , air and soil temperatures and wind speed can be measured. The information is fed into a computer which can calculate when the temperature will drop below freezing. The computer can correctly decide the quantity of water to be used and how frequently( ) the trees should be watered. Ed finds looking after his orange trees a lot easier with the help of a computer, and, his customers will have the benefits of computer--age oranges. Question: The passage is mainly about _ . - a farmer expert cares for his orange trees - the different uses of computers - growing oranges in Florida's changeable weather - different ways of frost protection\n(A).\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "a farmer expert cares for his orange trees", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Ques:Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: The Future Stars General introduction The Future Stars was set up in 1988 as a non-profit service center for child development devoted to providing quality childcare in a loving and educational environment for children 6 weeks to 6 years of age. Our funds mainly come from public donations. A healthy curiosity about learning is the most important quality for early childhood development. We aim at offering high quality developmentally age-appropriate activities for early childhood, the most Important time of child development, so that they can do better after they start formal schooling. Hours of operation Childcare will be provided for the child from 7:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday except for holidays. Children may not arrive before 7:00 am or remain after 6:00 pm. Should an emergency arise, the parent should immediately make us know in consideration of our work arrangements. A late charge of $ 1.00 per minute will be assessed if the child is not picked up by 6:05 pm. Charges for these services are to be paid directly to the staff person that has been looking after your child until your arrival, not to the center. Failure to pay late charges may affect continued services with the center. Tuition When it has been confirmed that a position is available for your child, you must pay a registration fee of $200 per child. The weekly tuition fee is $ 98.00. You can make payments either by credit card or in cash on Monday every week. If your payment is not made by Tuesday at 9:00 am, you will be charged a $ 25.00 late fee. For more information, please call 434-293-6110 or visit www.childdevelopmentcenter.com. Question: What is the purpose of the passage? - To attract public donations. - To promote early education. - To tell the benefits of childcare. - To introduce a child development center.\n\nAns:To introduce a child development center.\n-----\nQues:Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: What's delicious to eat and comes in a variety of colors? Eggplant! And no, it has nothing to do with chickens! This strangely named vegetable is, however, as versatile as an egg.It can be steamed, fried, and baked.It can be eaten by itself or combined with meats and other vegetables. Eggplant was first grown in India in the 5th century BC.Its popularity soon spread to China and then throughout Asia.Finally, during the Middle Ages the vegetable made its way to Europe.At that time, eggplant was not the shiny purple vegetable most people know today.Instead, it's like a white egg.Due to this egg - like appearance, eggplant got its name.In its early days, the vegetable was so bitter that people often called it a \"mad apple.\" This nickname started because people believed its bitterness was bad for one' s health.People actually thought eggplant could cause madness and cancer. Fortunately today people know that eggplant doesn't cause insanity or cancer.In fact eggplant is so healthy that it may prevent cancer.In addition, the brain and the heart benefit from this super vegetable.Since it's high in fibre, eggplant can improve digestion. Italy, Turkey, Egypt, China and Japan are the leading growers of eggplant in the world today.Depending on its location, eggplant may be purple, green, orange or yellow - white.And it can be as small as a tomato or as large as a cucumber.Dish varieties range from simple to complex, with all of them being delicious. Today, thousands of people gather in Loomis, Calif, for the annual Loomis Eggplant Festival.The main activity at the festival is eating delicious eggplant dishes.There is plenty more to do and see, though.Recipe contests, arts and crafts, performers, races and children's activities all \"egg - cite\" festival - goers.Most people at the festival would agree--eggplant is an \"egg--cellent\" vegetable. Question: Most people come to the Loomis Eggplant Festival to _ . - see arts and crafts - enjoy food with eggplants - take part in recipe contests - promote eggplant\n\nAns:enjoy food with eggplants\n-----\nQues:Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: The sun had gone behind a cloud. I was very tired and wanted nothing in the world so much as to be at home. At last I got to the gate of Hide Park. But this was worse than ever; there were buses there--high and terribly red cars, taxis and still more buses in an endless line. Everywhere there were people hurrying past or waiting to get into the buses, while I stood lost in the middle of them. I was ready to cry. In despair, I crossed the street on to an \"island\", where I found a policeman. I took my last bit of courage in both hands and said, \"Please, sir, where is Addison Road?\" He began to explain, but when he saw that I couldn't understand he became helpless, too. \"Are you French at school?\" A few minutes later, he smiled and raised his hand. How wonderful! The traffic stopped. Even the red buses stood still and waited until I had crossed the road. Question: In which country do you think the story happened? - Switzerland. - France. - England. - A certain non-English speaking country.\n\nAns:England.\n-----\nQues:Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Well, what a bonus! Lots of us are using technology to find rides, and not just to school. It's awkward to call a friend and ask for a ride, and half the time they'll say, \"Sorry,my car is full.\" But with Twitter and Facebook, you just tweet Ashleys Pool Party and look for other people heading the same way. It may sound risky, but many teens stay within their own social circles to find rides, and don't branch out beyond friends of friends when asking on Twitter. For me, I only rideshare with people I know, but to some young people, especially those taking longer trips, stranger danger is less of a concern. The sharing economy got big during the recession . It allows people to access more goods and services using technology, while also allowing them to share cost. And that, technology, for me, is what the car was for my mom, a gateway to more freedom. According to the researchers at the University of Michigan,30 years ago, eight in ten American 18-year-olds had a driver's license. Today it's six in ten. So it's not that surprising that on my 16th birthday I wasn't rushing to get a license. All I wanted was an IPhone, Juliet Schor (Sociology professor at Boston College) knows people of my age love being connected and for young people driving means they have to disconnect from their technology, and that's negative. So if they could sit in the passenger side and still be connected, that's going to be a plus. To me, another plus is ridesharing represents something much bigger than trying to save money. I see it as evidence that people still depend on each other. My generation shares their cars and apartments the way neighbors used to share cups of sugar. For the system to work, we still need our own cars. But until I get my own version of the silver Super Beetle, you can find me on twitter. Question: Which is the best title for the passage? - Teens use Twitter to share rides. - Tips on reducing risks in rideshare - Cars are no longer a gateway to freedom. - New generation knows how to save money\n\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Teens use Twitter to share rides.\n-----", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: DEAR AMY: We recently had to put our cat down. It came _ . We had no idea that he had health problems, and we woke up early one morning to the cat crying out painfully. We immediately rushed him to the vet's where the vet said that at best treatment might lengthen his life by two to three months. We did not want to see him suffer, so we chose to kill the cat in a painless way. I am having a rough time! I cry when I am alone. I cry when I see pet commercials on television. I put away everything that reminds me of the cat. But the last sight of seeing the cat in pain plays over and over in my head. My kids seem alright with what has happened, but why am I struggling? It has only been one week since his passing, so I hope things will get better. Do you have any suggestions? Yours, Sad DEAR SAD: There is no loss quite like the loss of a pet; these animals keep us company through important life passages and are beloved witnesses to our human lives. I understand your instinct to put away all of your cat's things, but it may help you now to memorialize your pet by using these things. Each family member can write down favorite things about him or memories of him; read their memories aloud and put the papers inside his bowl. The idea is to replace those painful last memories with much more lively memories taking place over the most of the animal's life. Time will then do its job, which is to affect your feelings. And then, when you're ready, I hope you will adopt another animal and give it the opportunity to[:Z-X-X-K]share your life. Yours, Amy Question: The author cried when seeing pet commercials on television because _ . - she was alone at home - she thought of her lovely cat - she didn't like to see the things of the cat - her children showed no feeling over the cat's death\nshe thought of her lovely cat\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Sports can help you keep fit and get in touch with nature. However, whether you are on the mountains, in the waves, or on the grassland, you should be aware that your sport of choice might have great influence on the environment. ks5u Some sports are resource-hungry. Golf, as you may know, eats up not only large areas of countryside, but also tons of water. Besides, all sorts of chemicals and huge amounts of energy are used to keep its courses in good condition. This causes major environmental effects. For example, in the dry regions of Portugal and Spain, golf is often held responsible for serious water shortage in some local areas. ks5u There are many environment-friendly sport. Power walking is one of them that you could take up today. You don't need any special equipment except a good pair of shoes;and you don't have to worry about resources and your purse. Simple and free, power walking can also keep you fit. If you walk regularly, it will be good for your heart and bones. Experts say that 20 minutes of power walking daily can make you feel less anxious, sleep well and have better weight control. ks5u Whatever sport you take up, you can make it greener by using environment-friendly equipment and buying products made from recycled materials. But the final goal should be \"green gyms\". They are better replacements for traditional health clubs and modern sports centers. Members of green gyms play sports outdoors, in the countryside or other open spaces. There is no special requirement for you to start your membership. And best of all, it's free. ks5u Question: What do we know about golf from the passage? ks5u - It is popular in Portugal and Spain. ks5u - It causes water shortages around the world. ks5u - It pollutes the earth with chemicals and wastes. ks5u - It needs water and electricity to keep its courses green. ks5u\nIt needs water and electricity to keep its courses green. ks5u\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: If you are sitting down listening to what I'm going to say, stand up. Move your legs. Touch your toes, if you can. Do anything but sit. If you cut down on the time you spend sitting, you might live longer. New research shows that sitting less than three hours a day might extend your life by two years. Just the opposite, says Peter Katzmarzyk. He is a scientist at the University of Louisiana in the southern United States. He says that sitting is _ in our lives. \"We sit while we're eating; we sit in the car; we sit while we watch TV. Many of us sit for many hours at work. \" But, he adds, that does not make sitting good for us. The human body is designed to move. But modern lifestyles and office jobs rarely give us the chance to move around. Exercise is important. So is not sitting. \"We can't throw away physical activity. It's extremely important. We have 60 years of research showing us that. Even if you exercise for 30 minutes a day, what goes on in the other 23-and-a-half hours a day is also very important.\" Mr. Katzmarzyk and his co-workers are part of a new generation of researchers studying how sitting all day affects length of life. This is a relatively new area of study--studies that have assessed the relationship between sitting and mortality or television viewing and mortality. Making uses of the few studies available to them, they found that cutting television time to less than two hours a day could add one-point four years to life. New desk designs are helping Change is already coming to some offices, especially in the design of desks. A \"standing desk\" lets people stand while they work. Another new design is called the \"treadmill desk.\" A treadmill is an exercise machine that lets you walk in one place. That's one of the strategies that many companies are using now. Some companies may equip their employees with a \"standing desk\" or a \"treadmill desk\". Other companies may not buy one for everybody, but they'll have a bank of these desks where people can go for an hour a day and answer their emails or... Question: The word \"ubiquitous \" (in Para. 3) means \" _ \". - common - normal - individual - specific\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "common", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: \nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Small talk is an essential part of our daily life, and is an essential skill to make you more popular as well to make other people happy. However it can be a big challenge. Here are some tips to improve small talk skills. Of course, making effective small talk means lots of practice, but keeping these tips in mind should improve overall conversational skills. Stay away from religious/ strong political beliefsks5u While you may firmly believe in something, beginning conversations and making small talk about your own personal beliefs may _ end the conversation. Keep it light, and don't try to convince the other person that you have the \"correct\" information about a higher being, political system or other belief system. Use the Internet to gain the specific vocabulary If you have a business meeting, or are meeting people who share a common interest, take advantage of the Internet to learn the specific vocabulary. Almost all business and interest groups have glossaries on the Internet. Find common interests Once you have a subject that interests both of you, keep to it! You can do this in a number of ways: talking about travel, talking about the school or friend you have in common, talking about the difference between your culture and the new culture(just be careful to make comparisons and not judgments) and so on. Listen This is very important. Listening carefully will help you understand and encourage those speaking to you. You might be nervous, but letting others state their opinion will improve the quality of the discussion and give you some time to think of an answer! Question: According to the passage, listening carefully is very important because _ . Answer:\nAnswer: it will make conversations go smoothly\nProblem: \nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in basic training in New Jersey and not sure if I could make it home for the holidays. Only on the afternoon of December 23 was the list of men who would have three-day passes posted. I was one of the lucky soldiers. It was Christmas Eve when I arrived, and a light snow had fallen. Mother opened the front door. I could see beyond her, into the corner of the living room where the tree had always stood. There were lights, all colors, and ornaments shining against the green of a pine. \"Where did it come from?\" I asked. \"I asked the Gates boy to cut it,\" my mother said. \"I wouldn't have had one just for myself, but when you called--- oh, such a rush! He just brought it in this afternoon...\" The pine reached to the proper height, almost to the ceiling, and the Tree Top Krystal Star was in its place. A few green branches reached about a little awkwardly at the side, I thought, and there was a bit of bare trunk showing in the middle. But the tree filled the room with warm light and the whole house with pleasant smell of Christmas. \"It's not like the ones you used to find,\" my mother went on. \"Yours were always in good shape. I suppose the Gates boy didn't know where to look. But I couldn't be picky.\" \"Don't worry, \" I told her. \"It's perfect.\" It wasn't, of course, but at the moment I realized something for the first time: all Christmas trees are perfect. Question: The best title for this passage would be \" _ \". Answer:\nAnswer: The Perfect Christmas Tree\nProblem: \nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: English is fast becoming the only language of a new generation of educated Arabs. This isn't a good thing for the region or the rest of the world. The journalism school at the AUD is the only modern program in the Middle East that allows students to study in Arabic. Still, many students arrive with poorly written Arabic and the formal spoken language and require refresher Arabic language courses. Literacy in the Gulf States is 98%, according to UNESCO. But that literacy is increasingly in English, not Arabic. This English bias starts early, with children in private \"model\" schools in the United Arab Emirates studying all their subjects, including math and science, in English. But the trend appears to be taking hold regionwide. In Saudi Arabia, many upper-middle-class families speak English at home -- not just at work . One Arabic official told me his own children do not speak Arabic fluently. He said he put them in English schools to help ensure they'd have great career prospects. But now he says he regrets that his children don't feel comfortable speaking the language of their forefathers. Why is there the anxiety among these elites? I am continually told that what I've experienced anecdotally is true: The wealthier the family, the less likely its members speak Arabic at home. If people in the same country don't speak the same language, how can they work across class lines to solve the problems of high unemployment that affect even oil-rich Saudi Arabia? For executives trying to build local businesses, the English bias is a challenge. The dean of the AUD's school of journalism, Ali Al Jaber, told me, \"If you can't address your own people, then you can't be successful.\" Sure, English is the world's business language. More Chinese are learning English right now than there are Americans in the U.S. But China has struck a bilingual balance. Its research universities teach some of the world's brightest minds in Chinese. Professor Wardeh finds much for Arab nations to admire in _ . Question: Many Arabic parents prefer their children to speak English because _ . 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[ { "content": "In this task, you're given an article and an answer. Your task is to generate the fill-in-the-blank question for this answer based on the given article. The blanks are always at the end of the question, and can be filled with more than one word or phrase.\n\nQ: Article: A high school history teacher once told us, \"If you make one close friend in school, you will be most fortunate. A true friend is someone who stays with you for life.\" Experience teaches that he was right. Good friendships are just not easily formed. Why? One reason is that it is easy to move around in our society. Mr. Darrell Sifford, a news reporter for the Washington Daily, has been studying and talking about friendships for a number of years. He reports what one woman thought about the effect of ease of movement on friendship: \"I was nine, and we'd just moved from South Carolina to New Jersey, and I didn't know anybody. _ and she said to me, 'Amelia, I know you're feeling bad because you don't have any friends. But you can fix that. Just walk across the street -- I know there's a girl about your age over there -- and knock on the door and ask her to be your friend.'\" \"As a 9-year-old, I could do that. I knocked on the door and said, 'Hi, my name is Amelia, and I'd like for us to be friends.' And to my surprise, she said that she would like that too--and we became friends.\" She added that going about it directly always worked when she was a child. But as she left childhood, she found that the simple direct approach was more and more difficult for her to follow. So, as an adult, Amelia longed to have friends but her hands were tied when it came to doing anything about it. The problem, according to her, is that society teaches us in a number of ways that direct action is not an acceptable way of doing things. We need to be less direct so that our feelings will not be hurt if our offer of friendship is refused. Mr. Sifford goes on to describe his own ideas on the subject: \"To most of us, friendship is very important, but we need to have clear in our own minds the kinds of friendships we want. Are they to be very close or kept at arm's length? Do we want to share ourselves or do we want to walk on the surface?\" \"For some people, an ordinary friendship is enough -- and that's all right. But at some point we need to make sure that what we expect from the friendship is the same as what our friends expect from it. If one wants more from the friendship than the other, and if this is not talked about, one is likely eventually to feel that he's not being given enough attention. \"The sharing of close secrets, including our fears as well as our dark dreams, is the surest way to deepen friendships. But the process must be gone through slowly and continued only if there are signs of interest and our efforts are answered.\" What are some of the problems in forming friendships? According to Mr. Sifford, the biggest problem is to expect too much too soon. Deep relationships take time. Another \"big difficulty\" is to think one \"possesses\" the other and that he should spend all his time only with you. Similarly, friendships require action from both sides. In short, you must give as much as you take. Finally there is a question of developing friendship. Unless you spend enough time together, talking on the phone, writing letters, doing things together, friendships will gradually fade away. Why is it so difficult to form friendships? Perhaps it is possible, as Mr. Sifford states, that we simply do not stay in one place long enough for a true friendship to develop. However, we all agree that each of us should think carefully about the kind of friendships we want. As in all interpersonal relationships, success depends on the kind of friendship we expect to have, openness to others, and a willingness to experiment. \n Answer: her mother was able to solve difficult problems\n\nA: By saying that \"My mother had a way of getting to the root of things...\" the author means that _ .\n****\nQ: Article: April Fool's Day , was a day of laughing and jokes. This day is kept in many countries, not only in Britain and the USA. This is a day to play jokes and make people laugh. Nobody knows when was the beginning of this custom. Some people connect it with the end of winter and the return of spring which make people merry and ready to play jokes. In Scotland young people were sent for hen's teeth or bird's milk and everybody laughed when they could find such things. In the USA and Britain some people could place a sign on a person's back with the words \"push me!\" Children often tell a grown-up that his sock is torn or he has something black on his face, and then shout \"April Fool!\" There is also the old purse trick. A purse is left lying in the street, but when someone wants to take it, it is quickly pulled back by a string which the hidden joker holds in his hand. Or the purse may be filled with stones. Sometimes invitations are sent to people, asking them to come and visit somebody, but when they come they see that nobody expects them. Some people like to telephone to the zoo on the day and ask for Mr. Fish, Miss Fox or Mrs. Cat. All these jokes are very old but still they make people laugh. \n Answer: Someone\n\nA: _ knows when the custom of April Fool's Day started.\n****\nQ: Article: Li Denghai, with his muddy boots and tanned face, may not look like he is one of China's famous agricultural pioneers. But the 61-year-old man from Shandong Province has made scientific breakthroughs , which made great contributions to China's food security . His main work has been in achieving the higher output of corn production. Li, who holds the world record for the highest output of summer corn, once says, \"Corn has a life; it sings and dances. If you listen clearly, it can speak to you.\" He started his research in 1969 when he was 20 and just dropped out of a high school. He then read an article which pointed that corn output per mu in the USA was six times higher than that in China. He was shocked and set out to work on just a small piece of land _ to see if he could increase the output. He often went to the field with a flashlight late at night, if he had been away during the day. By careful nurturing he managed to double the output. Li Denghai was awarded the \"China Award for Significant Contribution to the Maize Industry\" in 2005, and the same year the company named after his own name came into the market on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Li, however, is never happier than when he is in the middle of his cornfields. \"I can forget my tiredness when talking to my corns,\" he says. \n Answer: he was shocked that the corn output in China was so low\n\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "When Li Denghai began the study of corn, _ .\n****\n", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "\"Yes, and\" is a rule-of-thumb in improvisational comedy that suggests that a participant in a dialogue should accept what another participant has stated (\"Yes\") and then expand on that line of thought or context (\"and...\"). Given a prompt and two responses, identify which response is the type of \"yes, and\". Indicate your answer by 'Response 1' if the first response is correct, otherwise 'Response 2'. Note that a \"Yes, and\" does not require someone explicitly saying 'yes, and...' as part of a dialogue exchange.\n--------\nQuestion: Prompt: Shoot me instead! I just assumed that's where this is going. \n Response 1: That is a terrific idea. No other network will be able to top this. \n Response 2: Wait, I can't let you die. I just met you and you convinced to me to start eating ham again. So, you're basically my best friend. I'm looking at both of ya. So both of you can take my compliment.\n\nAnswer: Response 2\n\n\nQuestion: Prompt: You didn't notice that we are flying children? \n Response 1: I noticed it but thought what was really distinctive about these kids is their enthusiasm. \n Response 2: I'll tell you why you can't be a member of the board. It's because everyone in my family is on the board. It's a family own sport club and you're not part of the family, Evelyn.\n\nAnswer: Response 1\n\n\nQuestion: Prompt: A cave and a grave are two different things. \n Response 1: This woman is undermining the very reality that our existence is based on. \n Response 2: Hey look, I didn't ask for your whole life story. I just came up to tell you that if you plan to move back into the great seats in front of me, I'd like you to be quiet and respectful of Yngwie Malmsteen.\n\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Response 1\n\n\n", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Visitors to London often eat in restaurants. The owners and workers in them are all from other countries. The visitors say in these restaurants they don't feel they are in England. Most of English people eat at home as much as they can. Sometimes they themselves will think they are in another country when they are in restaurants. When an Englishman goes out of a restaurant, he may find that he doesn't understand why everything is written in French and Italian. Most of English people think it is better to eat at home, because it is cheaper. They don't want to spend much money on food and they like cooking at home. They like fast food. But for Christmas, they will spend two or three weeks getting ready for it, because they want to have good food. Question: Some of English people don't know _ . Answer:\n\nA: why people write everything in French and Italian\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Miss Li is my English teacher. She is from Shanghai. She has one English class every day. Oh, no! She has two English classes on Tuesday. Miss Li has two daughters. One is in our class, Class Two. Sally likes sports. She plays soccer every day. Her favorite soccer player is Ronaldo from Brazil . Sally's twin sister Susan is in Class One. She doesn't like any subjects. She doesn't like to do her homework. She only likes playing with her friend, Jeff. Jeff is a white cat. Question: Miss Li is from _ . Answer:\n\nA: China\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: \" To seek happiness is to look for it\" was once said by the famous French author Jules Renard. Look for it? Sure...but don't spend a lifetime trying, especially if it's well within your reach but you're just too blind to see it. Discover the three keys to happiness that you have already understood, but that you are just too afraid to find it. 1. Accepting Yourself The idea of happiness is difficult to understand if you are not at peace with yourself. Learn to accept yourself as you are. Your next step will be to improve your attitude for tomorrow, for the next day, for the day after that, and so forth. By beginning to accept reality, you will come to the final point of true happiness. Only when you are at peace with yourself, will you finally be able to admit that you are, in fact, a happy person. 2. Forgiving Others Forgiving others is a true show of humanity which also allows us to feel more at ease. When you learn to forgive, you also learn to keep a firm hold on your life. To forgive is to open the doors of personal satisfaction. Yet you simply open your mind to answer, \" Do I really want to allow my anger to grow and eat me from inside out?\" 3. Helping Your Neighbors When a friend seems to be suffering from a state of depression , it's quite easy to help him or her out of the trouble. The best attitude to have in this situation is to make him or her understand that he or she is not alone. If you come to save a friend in need, you'll feel a lot more at peace with yourself. You will feel high--spirited by knowing that someone is looking at life on the brighter side thanks to your kind words. ,. Question: According to the passage, a happy person is most probably Answer:\n\nA: a kind helper\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Do you like traveling? Have you traveled to Los Angeles? Have you traveled to the moon? A rich man plans to live on Mars. Is it the beginning of a science fiction novel? In fact, it happens in the real world. Elon Musk is the founder and CEO of a private spaceflight company. He has said his plan is to live on the planet. He says he plans to live on Mars with a group of fewer than ten people. He will take them on a rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane . Each one should pay $ 500,000 to fly there. However, these passengers are not going there to travel, but they are going to work. They need to carry tools to build houses and grow crops there. Musk believes one person out of every 100,000 people may be interested in making the journey. Then Mars will have sixty-three thousand people in the future. Question: A rich man plans to live on _ . Answer:\n\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Mars", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "input with options: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: I lost both of my parents in a tragic car accident when I was five. Fortunately, at that age a child doesn't understand the finality of such an event. Many years later, at the age of twenty-three, I was planning my wedding to Sheldon, who came from a complete loving family, the type I expect. Sheldon and I had already bought our first home with a large, beautifully landscaped yard. As the date grew closer and we took ownership of the home, we began to clean, arrange inside and out. The day before our wedding we were putting the final touches to the yard. We were so pleased with the neatness of it all. But one plant puzzled us. A rosebush located just outside our front door, was completely barren of leaves or buds. It looked liked it might be dead, but since neither of us could be sure, we reluctantly decided to keep it for the time being. That same evening, after the dinner, I was too excited to sleep. Instead I decided I needed some quiet time to reflect on the wedding the next day. I went to the backyard and sat in the warm, clear, star-filled night. It was there that I realized the only thing missing from my wedding day would be my parents. There had been no time to think of this until now and the thought filled me with sadness. After all, every girl dreams of having her father walk her down the aisle and her mother there to comfort her anxiety. Alone in the yard, I began speaking to my mom and dad, just as if I had known they were listening. \"Give me a sign on my wedding day to let me know you're with me.\" The next day Sheldon's excited voice repeatedly called my name. I rushed to join him at the front door. \"I can't believe what I'm about to show you!\" He stood aside. The barren rosebush had two huge roses in full bloom. There was no doubt in my mind that we were witnessing a miracle...a miracle of love. Question: The writer came to the yard that night to _ . Answer:\noutput: think about her wedding carefully\n\ninput with options: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: On a summer day, John was sitting on a beach in Hawaii with his parents. The six-year-old child suddenly said he was so lucky because he had so many toys to play with at home. His surprised parents replied that he was lucky, since a lot of kids didn't have any toys at all. \"How can that be?\" John said, confused, but then he said that he would like to get toys for those children. His parents naturally thought their son was just kidding. But as soon as they returned home, John began using his pocket money to buy toys for other kids and asking his friends to do the same. His parents responded by organizing pizza suppers for other families interested in helping other children that can't afford to buy toys. John thought that he just wanted to cheer those kids up. John's parents started to find a place that would allow children as young as six and seven to volunteer. They finally find a day care center for disabled children to let John and his friends visit. They went and played with these kids, playing around the room as if they belonged there. John and his friends named their work Kids Cheering Kids. John and his friends visited kids at some childcare centers, helping out with a party they organized. They also prepared a performance for children with disabilities. Their activities have drawn public concern. The spirit of helping is as fresh as it was that day in Hawaii. \"The whole purpose,\" John says, \"is to make the kids feel better.\" Question: What was John's parents' attitude towards his plan? Answer:\noutput: Positive.\n\ninput with options: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Talk to yourself It may be obvious, but the best way to get better at a language is to speak it. Even if there is no one around to speak to, talk to yourself. Name things as you pass them - chair, television, cat, tree, school. Learn basic phrases like - 'it is cold today' or 'it is sunny today' and use whichever is appropriate when you first look out of the window. This simple language learning tip will help this everyday vocabulary sink in and become second nature. Talk to friends Even if they don't speak the language, talk to the people you know in your new language. Warm them in advance that you are practicing your new knowledge and they will know what's coming. Even a simple 'good morning ' or 'see you later' in your new language will make those phrases more natural to you. Your friends may even start to pick up a few phrases as well. Listen to music Listen to music in your new language. You'll hear the language used in a real context and this will help you pick out the rhythm and the pronunciation even better. You will also come to further understand and better appreciate the culture behind the language. Make mistakes The easiest language learning tip to try! Go ahead and speak and write! Don't be afraid to make mistakes, because I guarantee you will! In fact, you will learn as much from your mistake as you will learn from your success .Never let the fear of making any mistakes hold you back. Without making any mistakes, how will you ever to be fluent or even comfortable with the language? Find a language club When you are ready, try to find a language club in your area. Speaking with other people who have already gone through or are still going through the process of learning the language can be extremely helpful. They will give you lots of language learning tips and helpful advice. Question: You will master the usage of your new language if you _ according to the material. Answer:\noutput: listen to music\n\ninput with options: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: For Lee Ann Laraway, polio has made almost everything in life just out of reach. But what her hands can't retrieve, her assistant can. Meet Jeannie, a three-year-old help, has become Lee Ann's arms and legs. Jeannie understands no fewer than 72 commands. To get a feel for what that means, Lee Ann takes us on a shopping trip in San Jose. First stop: The bank, where she got cash from the teller. From the bank, it's on to the drug store, where Jeannie got a candy bar for Lee Ann. Then Jeannie helped pay the cashier, and got change hack. \"When you have a really good working animal, they come and interact with you all the time,\" Lee Ann said. While there's no argument that Jeannie is an ordinary animal, she wasn't born that way. She was tutored and trained here at a facility that has become the final legacy of one of the Bay Area's most beloved figures. Canine Companions for Independence sits on twelve acres of land in Santa Rosa donated by late Peanuts cartoonist Charles Shultz, Here, handlers work with specially selected labs for hours a day-- but not every dog will make the cut. The work is serious Business. In the case of hearing dogs, the animals alert their disabled owners to everything from ringing telephones to doorbells. Other dogs will work with severely disabled patients like eight-year-old Noah Habib of Mountain View who communicates with a special computer. \"I like it when new people come up to ask me about my dog,\" he says. \"People are really interested in the dog and will come over and ask to pet her and ask to play with her, and ask about what she does, and these are people that normally might not approach us and want to talk to Noah,\" says his Dad. And back in San Jose Lee Ann is arriving home with Jeannie and her groceries. With just one chore left--opening her own door. \"You can train a dog to do a lot of things,\" said Lee Ann. \"You cannot give them the heart to do the job, and that is what a good working dog has.\" Question: According to Lee Ann, you cannot train an ordinary dog _ . Answer:\noutput:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "to love working", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Have you ever had travel problems because your airplane was late? It is a common problem and it is getting worse. Airport delays make people angry and cost the country billions in lost work time. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the government agency that oversees air travel. They studied the problem of airline delays. They found eleven major problems and suggested eleven ways to fix them. Some of the problems are caused because different regions of the country do things differently. The regions don't talk to each other enough. Some of them need new computers. Also, more planes are flying. A strong economy has more people using airplanes to get around. Airplanes are a form of mass transportation now, like trains and buses were in the past. More planes in the airport cause delays. The airport in San Francisco is a good example. It is growing fast. Many people go through San Francisco to get to other places around the world. Ron Wilson of the San Francisco International Airport says, \"If you've got 18 flights that all want to take off at 8:00 am and you're on the 18thplane in line, you're going to be 40 minutes late.\" Weather is another main reason for delays. Weather causes about 70% of delays. Fog or freezing rain can cause delays. The first thing the FAA wants to do is take control away from the regions during heavy traffic times and bad weather. A national center would make decisions on things that affect the whole country. The FAA also wants to put more distance between planes in the sky when the weather is bad. This rule could cause even more delays. The FAA knows that their solutions will not solve the problems with airport delays. But, they hope to make things better. There are just too many planes, too few traffic controllers, and not enough new technology.\nA: Question: Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a reason for airline delays?Options:A A growing number of flights.B Bad weather.C A growing population.D Lack of new technologyAnswer:C\n\nQuestion: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Valentine's Day, a day traditionally reserved for expressing romantic love, is observed practically all around the world. However, not many people are familiar with Sweetest Day. Actually it is a holiday, especially designed to express love and care for those who were routinely neglected by society. Sweetest Day was the idea of Herbert Birch Kingston, who worked for a company in Cleveland, Ohio. He felt that there were plenty of children, especially orphans and poor kids, who didn't necessarily get the attention they deserved. Thus in 1922, he launched the first Sweetest Day to give out boxes of candy to mainly poor children. Since the day picked was the third Saturday in October, this became the traditional time to celebrate Sweetest Day. The tradition was so enjoyed that people often looked beyond kindness to treating their own friends or family to treats on Sweetest Day. In the US, Sweetest Day is celebrated primarily in the Northeastern region of the US, still on the third Saturday of October. Yet news of the tradition, which began nearly 100 years ago, has spread to other parts of the country, especially as people who lived in those areas moved elsewhere. People may distribute candy or small gifts to those in patient homes, hospitals, foster homes, or mental institutions, and they may also treat friends and family to little gifts from the heart. In keeping with the original tradition, celebrating Sweetest Day should really be most focused on people who ordinarily don't have the good fortune of attention from friends or family, either due to difficult family circumstances or to poverty. This can be a great tradition to start if your community doesn't routinely celebrate the day, and there are many candy manufacturers that are willing to help donate or reduce costs on gifts intended for people in unfortunate circumstances.\nAnswer: Question: The original purpose of Sweetest Day is to _ .Options:A provide an occasion to know orphansB make those poor children happyC make your friends and family happyD distribute candy to those lovely childrenAnswer:B\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: These days, if you still think the cellphone is just for talking, you will get laughed at. Yes, it's true, voice-only handsets have become out of date. Today's do-it-all mobiles have a lot in common with the computer. The only difference may be that they fit in your pocket and you pay by the minutes to use them. Some of the things a cellphone can do for you will be available this year: Surf at speed Cellpones that let you use the Web have been around for years. So, what's new? Well, faster third-generation(3G) net works let you surf at anywhere. This then allows a carrier to send video, music, and games to your phone. Possible choices are from LG Electronic VX 8000 and Motorola V 1150. Listen as you go The problem with most cellphone MP3 players is that they hold only a handful of songs. But, that's about to change. Sony Ericsson's new W800i can hold around 150 songs in its 500 MB memory. And Sumsung's SPH-V5400 even comes with a 1.5 GB hard drive. Mobile phones may eventually replace mini-MP3 players, especially for teens. Say cheese Camera cellphones are not new either. But, most of them have limitations: around 1-megapixel . But new technology has made 2-megapixel units more common and 3-megapixel units are showing up soon. Some 2-megapixel models, like Sony Ericsson's K750i, offer limited zoom and focus controls. Others, like LG's recent MMA7110, can even capture 30 minutes of full- motion video. Portable TV You say you like \"watching TV\"? That's what Sumsung MM-A700 wants to give you. The new model lets users watch popular TV programs--for a fee. Other choices are Nokia's 6620, Sanyo's MM 7400 and NEC's N940.The NEC model lets you watch public TV--no fee. The above are just a handful of what you will see in the coming months. Further down the road, your mobile phone may play a host of other roles, such as mobile credit card, position locator... So what is there that a cellphone can't do?\n****\n[A]: Question: Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?Options:A All the functions of the models mentioned in the passage are completely newB Camera cellphones of 3-megapixel units will appear soon.C It is certain that a cellphone can do anything in the near futureD Today's do-it-all mobiles have nothing in common with the computerAnswer:B\n\nQuestion: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: On the night of May 9, 2011, musician Gao Xiaosong ran his car into three other cars in Beijing. But it wasn't just a car accident--he was drunk . Now, Gao has to go to prison for six months and pay a 4,000 yuan fine. Gao is the first star to be punished under China's new drunk driving law. From May 1 on, drunk drivers will pay a fine, and be banned from driving for five years or even forever. Drunk driving has become a serious social problem in China.According to the Ministry of Public Security , police caught more than half a million drunk drivers last year, a 68 % increase from 2009. The new law sees drunk driving as a crime. In the West, drunk driving is also a crime. In the US, for example, if the police catch a drunk driver, the driver will pay a fine, lose his or her license and even go to prison. If the driver wants to drive again, he or she must do public service, and take part in educational programs. You may think: drunk driving is a crime? Isn't this law too unkind? But experts say, \"Not at all.\" \"It is to protect people's rights to life and health,\" Li Gang, lawyer in Chengdu, told China Daily. \"Drunk driving is very dangerous. No matter what the results are, it should not be allowed.\"\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Question: Which of the following sentence is TRUE?Options:A Li Gang from Chengdu doesn't like the law.B In the US, drunk drivers will only lose their licenses.C There were more drunk drivers in 2010 than in 2009.D The law is to protect drivers' rights to life and health only.Answer:C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token \"|||||\". Your task is to summarize them.\nOne example is below.\nQ: A photo series on the popular Humans of New York Facebook page may have went viral and captured the nation’s attention last Tuesday, but for Daniel Kang, the post really hit home. \n \n When Kang, a junior studying computer science at the University of Michigan, heard that the refugee pictured and his family were relocating to his hometown of Troy, Mich., he said he knew he had to help. \n \n “I was really inspired by how intelligent he was and I knew a lot of people wanted to welcome him, so I thought, why not it be me?” he said. \n \n On the Humans of New York Facebook page with over 16 million likes — including comments from President Obama — the seven-part picture series’ captions detail one Syrian scientist and his family’s tale of loss after a missile strike destroyed their home, forcing them to to flee to Turkey, now with plans of coming to the United States. \n \n “Everything ended for us that day. That was our destiny. That was our share in life,” the scientist said. Battling stomach cancer, the loss of a home, career and seven family members, the man, whose name remains confidential to protect his identity as a refugee, expressed his hope for a new life in the United States. \n \n “I learned today that I’m going to Troy, Michigan,” he said. “I know nothing about it. I just hope that it’s safe and that it’s a place where they respect science. I just want to get back to work. I want to be a person again. I don’t want the world to think I’m over. I’m still here.” \n \n Knowing that refugees come to the United States with little more than they can carry, Kang quickly organized a crowdfunding campaign to help establish the man in his new home. \n \n In four days, the GoFundMe page has raised over $16K in donations from over 700 people. On Saturday afternoon, actor Edward Norton also began a fundraiser for the scientist, raising even more for the refugee who says he “just wants to be a person again.” \n \n “The response has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Kang. “A lot of people thanked me for doing a nice thing but I really feel like I was doing what anyone else would have done.” \n \n Kang said he’s received many messages from people expressing their gratitude, those who want to reach out to the man personally, as well local companies interested in working with the scientist. This includes invitations to lecture at local colleges, research job opportunities and potential help from local medical facilities in treating the man’s stomach cancer. \n \n “There’s definitely a lot of interest in helping him out,” he said. \n \n The biggest concern, said Kang, are those skeptical of how the money will reach the man. \n \n Kang, who has successfully crowdfunded in the past, is working closely with GoFundMe, the local refugee relocation agency Lutheran Social Services of Michigan, and is in communication with the Humans of New York staff to make sure all funding goes to the scientist. \n \n In the end, Kang said he just hopes the scientist receives the welcome he deserves. \n \n “If I could talk to him right now, I’d just tell him how sorry I am for everything he’s been through and that he’s coming to a great place. One of the things he said that resonated with me the most is that ‘I hope Troy is a place that appreciates science.’ \n \n I’d say out of all the cities in Michigan, Troy is the best place to raise a family, be a scientist and we can’t wait to have him.” \n \n Oona Goodin-Smith is a student at Oakland University and a member of the USA TODAY College contributor network. ||||| I saw this story on one of my favorite sites, Humans of New York, and it moved me to tears. This man has suffered profound loss that would crush the spirit of many people and yet he still passionately wants a chance to contribute positively to the world. If we don’t welcome people like this into our communities and empower his dream of making an impact with his life, then we’re not the country we tell ourselves we are. Let’s reject the 'anti-human’ voices that tell us to fear refugees and show this man and his family what Americans are really made of. Let’s show that a country built by the energy and dreams of immigrants still believes in brave people who come here with hope for better life. \n \n Everything we raise here will go to help this family so that the father can get the medical treatment he needs to live and pursue his work, and his family can build a new stable life after their tragedy, and…as the Scientist beautifully expresses…to support his dream of contributing to the world. \n \n Thanks to Humans of New York for sharing these stories. Thanks to the team at CrowdRise for putting this together and figuring out how to get even the credit card transaction fees covered so we can get the maximum to the family. \n \n Thanks to everyone who rallies together to create the power of the crowd. If enough of us kick in the price of two frappucinos, we can probably transform the experience of this family and show them that life can deliver healing and kindness, not just heartbreak. \n \n Thanks to Benevolent, all donations are tax-deductible. We will work with Benevolent to use all donated funds to help this family and will seek to use any excess or unused funds to help the other 11 profiled in the HONY ‘Syrian American’ series. \n \n Edward Norton ||||| DETROIT, MI -- Moved to tears by a Humans of New York feature on a Syrian refugee fleeing to Metro Detroit, Hollywood actor Edward Norton launched an online fundraiser that had raised nearly $450,000 for the widower and his four children as of Thursday afternoon. \n \n \"I didn't hear about it, but I want to thank him very much from the humanity perspective,\" the man told NBC News after hearing about the fundraiser's success. \"There are people outside who need that money much more than me.\" \n \n The man asked NBC to refer to him as \"Abu Ammar,\" a fake named used to protect his relatives who remain in Syria. He's known to many on the Internet simply as \"The Scientist,\" which is also his profession. \n \n The refugee's family was scheduled to arrive in Troy, a Detroit suburb, Thursday. He and four surviving children spent the last two years in Instanbul, Turkey. They fled civil-war-torn Syria after the man's wife and one of his daughters were killed in a missile attack on April 6, 2013. \n \n His is one of 12 families featured by Humans of New York and cleared to resettle in the U.S. \n \n \"I learned today that I'm going to Troy, Michigan,\" the man told Humans of New York. \"I know nothing about it. I just hope that it's safe and that it's a place where they respect science. I just want to get back to work. I want to be a person again. I don't want the world to think I'm over. I'm still here.\" \n \n The story made rounds throughout the Internet and even garnered a response from President Barack Obama's official Facebook page: \n \n As a husband and a father, I cannot even begin to imagine the loss you've endured. You and your family are an inspiration. I know that the great people of Michigan will embrace you with the compassion and support you deserve. Yes, you can still make a difference in the world, and we're proud that you'll pursue your dreams here. Welcome to your new home. You're part of what makes America great. \n \n ,Norton, known for his roles in movies like \"Fight Club\" and \"Birdman,\" wrote in the description of his online fundraiser: \n \n If we don't welcome people like this into our communities and empower his dream of making an impact with his life, then we're not the country we tell ourselves we are. Let's reject the 'anti-human' voices that tell us to fear refugees and show this man and his family what Americans are really made of. Let's show that a country built by the energy and dreams of immigrants still believes in brave people who come here with hope for better life. \n \n (6/7) “I had no problems before the bombing. I think the cancer came from my sadness and my stress. It’s in my... Posted by Humans of New York on Tuesday, December 8, 2015 ||||| ISTANBUL — The grieving refugee who touched hearts as \"The Scientist\" on the Humans of New York blog only mustered a brief smile when told that a Hollywood star had helped raise $450,000 for him. \n \n Hours before flying to Michigan to start a new life in the U.S. on Thursday, the cancer-stricken Syrian civil engineer glanced down. \n \n \"I didn't hear about it, but I want to thank him very much from the humanity perspective,\" he said after NBC News revealed the crowdfunding appeal. Oscar-nominated actor Edward Norton was moved to tears after reading the refugee's biography on the photography site last week and launched the fundraiser. \n \n \"There are people outside who need that money much more than me,\" The Scientist said, displaying the sort of compassion and humility that helped his story go viral. \n \n The Scientist, who asked NBC News to refer to him as \"Abu Ammar\" to protect family in Syria, said his life was shattered by a bomb that killed his wife and daughter just under three years ago. \n \n He was later diagnosed with stomach cancer, and has had to care for five remaining children. \n \n They include a teenage son, who is still reeling after watching his mother die, and a daughter who carries inside of her shrapnel from the attack on April 6, 2013. \n \n \"When a bomb drops you don't know where it comes from,\" he said. \"There is no question our lives changed after that ... 180 degrees. I am mentally tired, in overwhelming sadness.\" \n \n “ As long as there are good people in the world … then we can stop this bloodshed” \n \n On Thursday, Abu Ammar and four of his children flew to Troy, Michigan, as part of a United Nations refugee resettlement program. \n \n For about two years, the family had been living close to destitution in Turkey. But the drive to succeed still lingers, Abu Ammar said. \n \n \"I've had ambitions since I was a child, and right now I'm still that same child with the same ambitions,\" he said. \"But I still have a message — sometimes when I'm talking to myself I say, 'No, I'm not supposed to die. I need to live long enough to realize my message to humanity.'\" \n \n Abu Ammar's story on Humans of New York, a popular blog started in 2010 that spawned a bestselling book, prompted an outpouring of compassion. Even President Barack Obama contributed, calling Abu Ammar and his family an \"inspirations\" on HONY's Facebook page. \n \n \"Yes, you can still make a difference in the world, and we're proud that you'll pursue your dreams here.\" Obama wrote. \"Welcome to your new home. You're part of what makes America great.\" \n \n Last night President @BarackObama wrote a very sweet welcome note to the scientist in Tuesday's story. pic.twitter.com/ZGrn3gOdR7 — Brandon Stanton (@humansofny) December 10, 2015 \n \n Norton, who starred in \"Birdman,\" \"Fight Club\" and \"American History X,\" set out to help pay The Scientist's medical expenses. \n \n \"This man has suffered profound loss that would crush the spirit of many people and yet he still passionately wants a chance to contribute positively to the world,\" Norton wrote. \n \n The resettlement of Syrian and Muslim refugees in the United States is controversial, especially in the aftermath of attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris and San Bernardino. Some politicians — notably GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump — have called for a ban on Muslims entering the country. \n \n Abu Ammar told NBC News he didn't know anything about the debate over Muslims and immigration raging in the U.S. He also didn't have a solution to the war raging in his home country. \n \n \"I don't like to get into politics because I am a man of science, and I can separate science and politics completely,\" he said. \"But as long as there are good people in the world, and everyone looks into his or her conscience, then we can stop this bloodshed.\" \n \n Abu Ammar added: \"No one benefits from people dying, and wars overall never benefit anybody — so let's hope God can help everyone and put out this fire.\" |||||\nA: A Syrian refugee whose moving story went viral earlier this month starts his new life in Troy, Michigan, on Thursday, NBC News reports. The refugee—who wants to keep his real name out of the media to protect family members still in Syria—is known as \"The Scientist\" on the blog Humans of New York, where he was first profiled. \"I learned today that I’m going to Troy, Michigan,\" The Scientist told HONY. \"I know nothing about it. I just hope that it’s safe and that it’s a place where they respect science.\" According to MLive, The Scientist left Syria in 2013 after a bomb killed his wife and one of his daughters. Since then, he's been diagnosed with stomach cancer and was barely scraping by in Turkey. Despite being \"in overwhelming sadness,\" he and his surviving children are hoping for a new start in the US, he tells NBC. Thanks to his story—which even got the attention of President Obama—The Scientist will have some help to get that new start. NBC reports actor Edward Norton was moved to tears after reading The Scientist's story and started a crowdfunding page that has raised nearly $450,000. \"I didn't hear about it, but I want to thank him very much from the humanity perspective,\" The Scientist says. \"There are people outside who need that money much more than me.\" A Michigan college student was also inspired to help after hearing The Scientist would be moving to his hometown, according to USA Today. His fundraising page has raised more than $16,000. \"I’d say out of all the cities in Michigan, Troy is the best place to raise a family, be a scientist, and we can’t wait to have him,\" Daniel Kang says.\nRationale: This is a good example. The output correctly summarizes the articles.\nQ: Steve Brill, founder of CourtTV and American Lawyer magazine, found it rather humorous that the Daily Beast would feature Marcia Clark — the head prosecutor in the infamous case against O.J. Simpson — as an expert analyst of the Casey Anthony trial. \n \n True, as someone who finds herself in a place not terribly dissimilar from the prosecution in Anthony’s trial, Clark is in a unique position from which to offer insight and analysis. But it all is kind of… well, funny: \n \n Clark’s piece — titled “Worse Than O.J.!” — opines that the “not guilty” verdict in the Anthony case is even more surprising than in Simpson’s because Anthony is not a celebrity, at least not in the traditional sense that pro athlete O.J. Simpson was. And she ties the two cases together in another way, noting that, although she must accept the jury’s verdict, “I don’t have to agree with it.” \n \n h/t Daily Beast ||||| Sick, shaken, in disbelief. As I listened to the verdicts in the Casey Anthony case, acquitting her of the homicide of her baby girl, I relived what I felt back when court clerk Deirdre Robertson read the verdicts in the Simpson case. \n \n But this case is different. The verdict is far more shocking. Why? \n \n Because Casey Anthony was no celebrity. She never wowed the nation with her athletic prowess, shilled in countless car commercials, or entertained in film comedies. There were no racial issues, no violent Rodney King citywide riot just two years earlier. \n \n Because of those factors, many predicted from the very start in the Simpson case—in fact, long before we even began to pick a jury—that it would be impossible to secure a conviction. \n \n There was no such foreshadowing here, and few who predicted that a jury might completely acquit Casey Anthony of the killing of her daughter. \n \n The trial itself, despite bumps and turns, never introduced any unexpected bombshells that blew up in the prosecution’s face (à la detective Mark Fuhrman’s racially charged interview tapes with a novelist). All things considered, it went pretty smoothly. Judge Belvin Perry was fantastic—a model of even-tempered, no-nonsense control who kept the flow of evidence orderly and succinct, and who never let the lawyers run amok. He even jailed and fined a spectator for acting up in court. \n \n So there was no racist cop, no questions about evidence collection, and no endless cross-examination on irrelevancies like Colombian necklaces and drug cartels. And while there was significant media coverage before the trial, it didn’t come close to the storm that permeated the Simpson case for months prior to jury selection. \n \n As a matter of fact, the coverage we did see of the Casey Anthony case leaned heavily in favor of conviction. The photographs of a half-clothed Casey dancing in a Hot Body contest days after her daughter died, getting tattooed with the words “La Bella Vida” (Beautiful Life), Casey’s apparent celebration of freedom now that her baby was dead, the videotape of her spitting fury at her parents while in custody, and most important, her endless lies for a solid month about what had happened to her daughter. \n \n Those lies were—most people agreed (myself included)—the proverbial noose around her neck. What mother sees that her child has drowned in the pool and not only fails to call 911, but then duct tapes her mouth and nose, hides the body in the trunk for days, and then dumps it in the woods? And then goes out to party and lies for a whopping 31 days about where the baby is? Who but a killer mother does that? \n \n The defense had to come up with a plausible reason for that behavior. One that would persuade the jury that the death was accidental. One that would show the lies were not evidence that Casey was a psychopathic killer but would instead show that they were merely the irrational behavior of a troubled but ultimately innocent mother. \n \n And so her lawyer, Jose Baez, came up with a shocker—the twist that ensured this case a primetime spot on cable, and occasionally network, television: He claimed that Casey Anthony’s despicably callous behavior in the wake of her baby’s death could be explained by the fact that she’d been molested by both her father and her brother. \n \n I’m not so sure the logic follows. Even if it did, I never saw one shred of proof to back up the claim. Zilch. \n \n We got a bit of innuendo in one brief reference to the fact that the FBI gave paternity tests to both brother and father—the intended point being that Casey had made the molestation claims early on. But with no evidence as to when those tests were performed, the intended implication was all but lost. Certainly, it was too weak to support Baez’s claim. \n \n In the end, after all the incendiary bluster of his opening statement, Baez never even tried to sell that story in any real way. (And there was a chance he could have: If the judge allows it, an attorney can put on a psychologist to give a general discussion of child abuse accommodation syndrome, even if he doesn’t claim the defendant on trial suffers from the syndrome.) \n \n Nor did the defense make any serious inroads on the prosecution’s physical evidence. \n \n But then again, it didn’t need to. Because this case wasn’t really about the physical evidence. Caylee’s body was too decomposed to offer much information. Cause of death was undetermined. All the coroner could say was that it was a homicide, but that conclusion wasn’t based on science so much as logic: The body was found wrapped in plastic bags and dumped in the woods. In fact, the most compelling aspect of the medical examiner’s testimony (who was, by the way, a great witness) was not medical but merely logical: that when a baby drowns—and she said that’s a common cause of death for babies—the mother or father calls 911 every single time; and if the baby had merely died accidentally, then why put duct tape over the baby’s face? \n \n So it was a circumstantial case. Most cases are. But the circumstances were compelling. Maybe not sufficient to prove premeditated murder—and I never believed the jury would approve the death penalty—but certainly enough to find Casey Anthony guilty of manslaughter at the very least. \n \n Why didn’t they? My guess, since I’m writing this before the inevitable juror cameos, is that the jury didn’t necessarily believe Casey was innocent but weren’t convinced enough of her guilt to bring in a conviction. The thinking goes something like this: Sure, Casey’s behavior after her daughter's death looks bad—dancing, partying, lying—but that doesn’t mean she killed the baby. Sure, that duct tape was weird, but that could’ve been done after the baby was already dead—no way to know who or when that tape was put on the baby’s face. Sure, the chloroform computer search seems damning, but that may not even have been done by Casey (her mom took the fall for that one). \n \n And so, every bit of evidence presented by the prosecution could’ve been tinged with doubt. At the end of the day, the jury might have found that they just couldn’t convict her based on evidence that was reconcilable with an innocent explanation—even if the weight of logic favored the guilty one. \n \n Jury instructions are so numerous and complex, it’s a wonder jurors ever wade through them. And so it should come as no surprise that they can sometimes get stuck along the way. The instruction on circumstantial evidence is confusing even to lawyers. And reasonable doubt? That’s the hardest, most elusive one of all. And I think it’s where even the most fair-minded jurors can get derailed. \n \n How? By confusing reasonable doubt with a reason to doubt. Some believe that thinking was in play in the Simpson case. After the verdict was read in the Simpson case, as the jury was leaving, one of them, I was later told, said: “We think he probably did it. We just didn’t think they proved it beyond a reasonable doubt.” In every case, a defense attorney will do his or her best to give the jury a reason to doubt. \"Some other dude did it,\" or \"some other dude threatened him.\" But those reasons don’t necessarily equate with a reasonable doubt. A reason does not equal reasonable. Sometimes, that distinction can get lost. \n \n In Scotland, they have three verdicts: guilty, not guilty, and not proven. It’s one way of showing that even if the jury didn’t believe the evidence amounted to proof beyond a reasonable doubt, it didn’t find the defendant innocent either. There’s a difference. And maybe that’s what today’s not-guilty verdict really meant. Not innocent. Just not proven. The jurors will eventually speak out and tell us. \n \n Meanwhile, although I must accept their verdict, I don’t have to agree with it. Because I did follow this case, and I have to be honest: If I’d been in that jury room, the vote would’ve been 11 to 1. Forever. |||||\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "When she heard the Casey Anthony verdict, Marcia Clark flashed back to how she felt when OJ Simpson was acquitted. “But this case was different. The verdict was far more shocking,” the ex-prosecutor in the Simpson case writes in the Daily Beast. Casey wasn’t a beloved celebrity, nor was there a racial dimension to the case. “There was no racist cop, no questions about evidence collection, and no endless cross-examination on irrelevancies like Colombian necklaces and drug cartels.” Sure, the case against Anthony was circumstantial. “Most cases are. But the circumstances were compelling. Maybe not enough to prove premeditated murder,” but enough for manslaughter “at the very least.” Likely the jury got hung up on reasonable doubt, believing the prosecution hadn’t proven its case. “I must accept their verdict,” Clark writes, but “I did follow the case, and I have to be honest: If I’d been in that jury room, the vote would’ve been 11 to 1. Forever.” (The founder of CourtTV thinks the Beast's choice of Clark to opine on this is a bit weird, notes Mediaite.)", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "*Question*\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Let Children Roam Free Everyone agrees that playing outside keeps children thinner. The loss of opportunities for outdoor play is one of the main causes of childhood obesity. What is more remarkable is the growing evidence that children's mental health and emotional well-being are enhanced by contact with the outdoors, and that the restorative effect appears to be strongest in natural settings. Researchers are convinced of the depth of the connection between children's well-being and the environment, claiming that contact with nature may be as important to children as good nutrition and adequate sleep. But now children seem to get less touch with outdoor activities. The root causes of the dramatic loss of children's freedom lie in changes to the very fabric of their lives over the last 30 years or so. The growth in road traffic, alongside poor town planning and shifts in the make-up and daily rhythms of families and communities, have left children with fewer outdoor places to go. These changes coincided with the \"culture of fear\": a generalized anxiety about all imaginary kinds of threats, even though children are statistically safer from harm now than at any point in human history. These physical, economic and social changes and fears have been made use of by manufactures and advertisers, whose products and messages both reinforce the logic of keeping children virtual prisoners, and force us to compensate them in the only way our cash-rich, time-poor society seems to know: by spending money on them. Government must bear some of the blame for keeping children prisoners indoor, through their promotion of planning policies that favour cars over communities and profit over people. The real planning crimes lie in housing companies occupying attractive parks and green spaces, and in town plans that force families to depend largely on their cars. There is no doubt that traffic danger, unlike stranger danger, is a real threat to children and a constant worry for parents. Around 100 child pedestrians are killed... Question: Playing outside is just as important as _ . - dieting to lose weight - releasing emotions - getting enough sleep - exercising the mind\n**Answer**\ngetting enough sleep\n\n*Question*\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. Some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could have stayed in bed just a little bit longer this morning. But I'm here because I want to talk with you about your education and what's expected of all of you in this new school year. Every single one of you has something that you're good at. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide. Maybe you could be a great writer, but you might not know it until you write that English paper that's assigned to you. Maybe you could be an inventor, but you might not know it until you do your project for your science class. I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork. But the circumstances of your life---what you look like, where you come form, how much money you have---none of these is an excuses for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school. I know that sometimes you get that sense form TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work---that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star. Chances are you're not going to be any of those things. The truth is, being successful is hard. You won't lose every subject that you study. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute. And you won't necessarily succeed in everything the first time you try. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who have had the most failure. J. K. Rowling's first Harry potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published. So I expect all of you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. Question: The author uses the example of J. K. Rowling to show that _ . - sometimes failures are unavoidable on the way to success - she is good at writing science fiction - Harry Potter is the best seller in the world - the publication of Harry Potter went smoothly\n**Answer**\nsometimes failures are unavoidable on the way to success\n\n*Question*\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: I have to admit: I don't flush the toilet every time I go to the bathroom. In fact, I firmly believe \"If it's yellow, let it mellow; if it's brown, flush it down.\" I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the fact that I work at home. Alone (well, except for the cats and dog). All day. And I drink a lot of water, which makes for many trips to the bathroom. Another thing I have to admit: I also try to use very little toilet paper. I wash my hands after, though. Every time. (So maybe the water I don't use flushing makes up for the water used to wash my hands?) Ironically, my husband, who only uses toilet paper when necessary, always flushes. But he doesn't seem to mind that I don't flush every time. Or, at least not enough to file for divorce. Yet. Posted by Juliet Farmer Jun 14, 2010 at 10:21 PM _ When I'm at home alone I do not flush every time I pee . My husband hates that, though, so when he's home, I flush a little more often. I grew up doing that because I had a family that lived with huge tanks and you have to do it that way because it's easier on the system, so it doesn't bother me. I do flush when I'm out in public, at people's houses that don't have big tanks and when we have company! CherBearCM, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:21 PM Not always. But I have 4 children who are always hanging from the door knob while I pee anyway. So I'm lucky I have time to wash my hands after. The average toilet uses 8 gallons of water per flush! Much less than what it takes to wash my hands after. (just saying) luvbnmomnwife, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:32 PM Question: luvbnmomnwife seems to enjoy _ . - washing hands after using the toilet - taking care of her four children - peeing with her kids watching - flushing the toilet after peeing\n**Answer**\nwashing hands after using the toilet\n\n*Question*\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Since her husband died, Mrs. Jackson has lived alone in their big old suburban house, The house was bought by her husband almost fifty years ago. For the sake of safety , her son has tried hard to ask her to sell the house and buy a new and small one in the town , But Mrs. Jackson doesn't like the idea. She says that she has to look after her husband's old house. But recently she often hears stories about unknown people stealing things around here. That was a cold day before Christmas Eve. Around four o'clock in the afternoon, Mrs. Jackson was enjoying the Christmas music when someone knocked at the door. She heard the sound but didn't move. Another knock. Who could it be? Mrs. Jackson was a bit afraid. She decided not to answer the door but keep waiting. One minute another minute and yet another minute. Nothing happened and no more knocks , She walked quietly to the door, and listened. She heard nothing but the wind outside. She slowly unfastened the door and peeped through the crack . She then gave a surprised cry and threw the door wide open! At the door she saw a tall, beautiful Christmas tree! In the tree stood a Christmas card with these words: Merry Christmas! Your new neighbor Question: The house bought by Mr. Jackson is _ . - in the town - small but new - outside the town - fifty years old\n**Answer**\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "outside the town", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Ques: Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly while you are trying to work, or when your best friend does not wait for you after school? If you do, you need to take control of your feelings and stop getting angry so easily. Getting angry with people can cause you to lose friends. Gray Gerber, an American high school teacher, has written My Feelings Are Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells teens how to stay cool when bad things happen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can never make them better. Getting angry is not a natural way to act, the book says. It is just a bad habit, like smoking. The book says you can control your anger easily. All you have to do is tell yourself not to be angry. When a baby falls over, he only cries if people are watching him. Like a baby, you should only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do. The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily. Here are our tips: (1)Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. (2)Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry. (3)Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh. How do you control yourself when bad things happen? A) Write down why you are angry. B) Walk away from the problem. C) Try to laugh. D) All of the above.\nAns: D\n\nQues: The Black family often do housework together at the weekend. Pam often cleans bedrooms. Her father buys _ for the next week. Her mother washes the clothes. John, Pam's brother, helps to cut the grass in the garden. The Blacks often ride bikes to the park nearby. In the park, they can play basketball and football. They always have a good time there. They say they like working and playing together. The Blacks like to _ . A) go on a picnic B) go shopping C) have a rest D) go to the park\nAns: D\n\nQues: Report Card Name: James Stuart Time: January 24th, 2012 Subjects Grades Comments English B+: Your reading and writing are good. But you have a strong accent , so you are not good at speaking. And you do not put much effort into this subject. If you work hard, you can get a better grade in this subject. Physics A+:You are good at this subject. You are hard-working. I am glad that you do best in this subject Math C:You like this subject. But you are not good at this subject because you are a little bit lazy. It is disappointing. You can do better if you try your best. Music B:It is a happy thing to hear you play the piano. You are crazy about the music. Although you like this subject best, your accent has a bad influence on your singing. James's favorite subject is _ . A) English B) physics C) math D) music\nAns: D\n\nQues: A Bite of China Season Two(<< >> ) is coming! The program is shown at 9 : 00 0n CCTV-1 every Friday night from April 18 to June 6, 2014. There are altogether eight episodes , all about history and culture of food, eating and cooking in China. The directors spent one year visiting more than 150 different parts of China. More than 300 types of food are covered in the documentary . As an old Chinese saying goes, food is what matters most to people. It plays an important role in our daily life, and the rich food culture is also one of the most important parts of Chinese culture. A Bite of China Season Two wants to show the joys and sadnesses of ordinary Chinese in changing times through food. A Bite of China Season One was shown on CCTV in 2012. It attracted more than 100 million viewers. It is all about food, while the second season cares more about the relationship between the people and the food. For example, the first episode shows a young man spent four hours climbing a 40-metre-high tree to get something nice for his brother. The show reminds viewers of their homes and the tastes of childhood. One Weibo user wrote, \"A Bite o f China Season Two makes me have so many words to say. It makes me think of my parents and my grandmother. I haven't been home for a long time, so I have decided to go back in a few days. \" The show uses food as a window to introduce China to the world. Viewers can see how Chinese people love life by loving food. Anyone who wants to know more about Chinese culture and Chinese society should have a bite of the program. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage? A) The show explains to people why Chinese people love life. B) The show reminds viewers of their homes and the tastes of childhood. C) The show uses food as a window to introduce China to the world. D) The show tells people about history and culture of food in China.\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Question: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: True to their reputation as leisure-loving gourmets ,the French spend more time sleeping and eating than anyone else among the world's wealthy nations,according to a study published on Monday. The average French person sleeps almost nine hours every night,more than an hour longer than Japanese and Korean,who sleep the least in a survey of 18 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).Despite their siesta habit,Spaniards rank only third in the poll after Americans,who sleep more than 8.5 hours. And while more and more French people grab a bite at fast-food chains these days or,wolf down a sandwich at their desk,they still spend more than two hour's a day eating. That means their meals are twice as long as those of the average Mexican,who dedicates just over an hour a day to food,the OECD's \"Society at a Glance\" report on work,health and leisure in Asia,Europe and North and South America found.The Japanese,scrimping on sleep and burdened with long working hours,still manage to spend close to two hours a day eating and drinking,placing them third behind New Zealanders. Despite the limited amount of time Americans spend eating each day---about an hour and a quarter--U.S.obesity) rates are the highest in the 30 members of OECD. The Japanese like to spend what remains of their rare free time watching television or listening to the radio.This takes up 47 percent of leisure time in Japan.Norwegians spend the most time at leisure,just over a quarter of their day,while at the low end,Mexicans spend just 16 percent of their time having fun. The OECD has 30 members.The survey covers only the countries for which appropriate figures were available. Question: The main purpose of the text is _ . Options: A: to tell us the French is leisure-loving gourmets B: to show which country spends the least time on sleeping C: to show a survey about the time of leisure,sleeping,eating in some countries D: to make a comparison to find out the best living styles of OECD countries\nAnswer: C\n\nQuestion: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Welcome to Ontario Parks, a new body set up to manage Ontario's most treasured special places, the parks in our area. We are entering a very exciting year for Ontario Parks. Last season we asked some 15,000 visitors in 45 parks how we could improve our programs and services. We also looked at the thousands of comment cards we received. As a result, new comfort stations have been added, the number of campsites has been increased, and we've made other facility improvements. In addition, we'll be providing more educational programs. This year, for example, more than 40 parks will offer special day and evening activities to excite your curiosity about nature and history. Through the Internet, you'll be happy to know that you can now explore all 270 parks on line. Let your family plan your park vacation, study a map of canoe routes, listen to the call of a loon or find up-to-date information about programs, services and facilities. So come and discover what Ontario Parks has to offer. Our parks are places to go with families and friends, for relaxation and fun, or simply to get away from it all. They are places where we can enrich our souls and \"recharge our internal batteries\". They provide chances to explore nature, see wildlife, swim, canoe, camp, hike, picnic, ride a bike... You'll enjoy some of the best outdoor experiences available anywhere in the world. We urge you to make 2013 the year that you come out and have an Ontario Parks experience! Question: According to the text, we can safely say that _ . Options: A: some visitors suggested more campsites B: about 15,000 people visited 45 parks last season C: many more people will visit Ontario Parks in 2013 D: the manager of Ontario Parks worries they will have fewer visitors\nAnswer: A\n\nQuestion: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Why do people buy art? To answer this question, ask yourself what your reasons are for thinking of getting a piece of art. An artwork can cost a large amount of money, but if it meets your needs, it's worth every penny. People buy art for many reasons. Many people buy an artwork simply because they like it, even if it is by an unknown artist. Art, as long as you enjoy it, is never a waste of money. Art is for enjoyment. Art is meant to be shown. Don't ever feel pressured into buying something you won't enjoy looking at day after day, no matter what other people may say. Don't buy something that doesn't attract you just because it is trendy, or because the artist is famous, or because you have been advised that the artwork will make a good investment. If you don't like the artwork at all, don't buy it! Art improves your environment. Have you ever noticed that all beautiful homes have art as an integral part of the decoration? Art lends life and color to otherwise plain and ordinary walls. A well thought--out art collection will help create a unique atmosphere in your home and make it more attractive. Art makes a statement. The kind of art you surround yourself with says much about your personality tastes and values. _ . Art enriches your life. Love--even the love of a work of art--contributes to healthier living and a longer lifespan . Art should enrich your life. Otherwise, why do you spend precious time and resources on it? Just remember to select something which will appeal to your tastes, and keep to a sensible budget. Good art needn't cost an arm and a leg. Happy art collecting! Question: What's the purpose of the passage? Options: A: To advise us to buy an expensive artwork. B: To remind us to be sensible when buying an artwork. C: To teach us how to choose works of art. D: To explain the benefit of art to people.\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D", "role": "assistant" } ]