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In this task you are given a small conversation between two persons and 4 options on how the conversation should continue. Your job is to choose the most reasonable option. The conversation and the options are separated by a newline character. Each dialogue in the conversation are separated by a comma. F and M indicate female and male, respectively.
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F: Eddie, you've got to come over and see my parrot. It's learning so many words now. ,M: Really? Last time I saw him all he could say was something that sounded like hello. ,F: Well, now, he can a sing a song too. ,M: Which song did you teach him? ,F: Calorie. You know that popular song by a group of girls right? Actually I didn't teach Goby the words. I was dancing to the song on the radio and he just picked it up. ,M: That's a pretty smart bird. I'll come over after school today. Let's take a video of him and put it on line.
(A) F: I’m sorry, I don’t understand. Could you say it again? (B) F: I will send you the link, so you can watch the video online after school today. (C) F: Come to my house after school, I will take videos of you. (D) F: My bird would be waiting for you to teach him more words after school today.
answer:
A


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M: Let's start again tomorrow. ,F: But the game was going so well, don't quit now.
(A) M: Shall we watch the TV show later today? (B) M: How about we continue to read this book tomorrow? (C) M: Shall we play this game tomorrow, please? I am really tired now. (D) M: I’m sorry, I didn’t catch that. Would you mind speaking more slowly?
answer:
C


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F: Have you heard the news? Jim's office caught fire last night. ,M: What happened? Did someone forget to cut off the electricity? ,F: I heard that someone threw a cigarette button into the garbage bin last night. ,M: That's terrible. Did anyone catch the fire before it caused a lot of damage? ,F: It was late at night, so no one was around. ,M: But there's a smoke alarm in every office, didn't it go off? ,F: I don't know. Maybe it worked, but no one heard it. Fortunately, nobody was injured in the fire, but some important papers and some computers are completely damaged.
(A) M: If the smoke alarm works well, there may not be a fire. (B) M: Although the fire was small, you should catch the fire in time. (C) M: I didn’t hear you. Please could you tell me again? (D) M: Since it happened late at night, it's normal that no one caught the fire.
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D