instruction:
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.
question:
F: Can I sit here and wait for the doctor please? ,M: Sure but you may have to wait for a while. ,F: When will the doctor return? ,M: He said he'd be back around 4:30 PM, so an hour from now.
(A) F: I am afraid I did not quite catch what you were saying. Please repeat it. (B) F: You said he will back at 3:30 pm? (C) F: Okay, now is 3:30 pm and I will go to the mall first and be back one hour later. (D) F: He must be back as it's 4:30 pm now.
answer:
C


question:
F: Hi, my name is Catherine. ,M: I'm John. It's nice to meet you. ,F: Do you know what this professor is like? ,M: I have no idea. This is my first year. ,F: You are a freshman? Me too. Where are you from? ,M: I'm from San Francisco.
(A) F: I've been there a few times. Now we are schoolmates, I can go there more often. (B) F: Oh, yeah, we met there and became friends since then. (C) F: Oh, yeah, I asked you the same question last year. (D) F: I’m sorry, I don’t understand. Could you say it again?
answer:
A


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F: Why don't you get another job for a change? ,M: But I like my job, you know, I like fresh air, and the pay is not bad. ,F: Look, digging gardens is not a job for a University graduate, if I were you I'd take some kind of direction lawyer teaching. ,M: Teaching? Anything but that. It's so boring. ,F: Come on, you really must think of the future. ,M: I'll tell you what. I'd like to be a doctor.
(A) F: A gardener? That's why you do the current job despite the low pay. (B) F: So you are teaching medicine as a preparation for being a doctor. (C) F: I am sorry. You spoke so rapidly that I did not catch the meaning of what you said. Could you repeat that? (D) F: You find teaching interesting, because you dream of being a teacher.
answer:

C