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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: What can I do for you? ,M: I want to check out these books. ,F: Your library card, please? Oh, you have late fees. It comes to $4. You have to pay it off before you can check out more books. ,M: OK, no problem.
(A) F: Sorry, our bookstore is closing now. (B) F: You can apply for a library card over there. (C) F: Just a minute! I do not quite follow what you are saying, would you mind repeating that? (D) F: Besides, may I see your ticket to the museum? I need to check it out.
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C


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F: Where are you going, Les? ,M: To the pet shop. I want to buy some cat food for Grace's birthday. She loves her cats and I'm sure she'd like to get some cat food. ,F: But it's Grace's birthday, not her cats'. She enjoys reading. Let's get her a book. ,M: OK. Let's go to the book shop then. ,F: I prefer shopping online. It's easier.
(A) M: I’m sorry, I didn’t catch that. Would you mind speaking more slowly? (B) M: Really? You don't prefer shopping online although you think it's easy? (C) M: Really? You think shopping online is easy? Can we buy books online as well? (D) M: OK. Let's get her a pen and we can buy it online as you think shopping online is interesting.
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C


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M: Are you going to start university in September two? ,F: Yes, but my school starts in August. Where did you get accepted? ,M: Oh, to a few places, like Boston University in the US and National University of Singapore. I chose LSE, London School of Economics, you know. I wanted to go abroad, but not as far as America. ,F: I have a friend there, I'll give you his number. ,M: Great, thanks, I don't know anyone in London, yet. Where did you decide to go to school? ,F: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ,M: Wow, you got accepted there, do you want to be an engineer? ,F: Well, sort of, I want to be a computer scientist. ,M: What kind of work would you do afterward? ,F: I want to work at a big company for a while, like Oracle. That's my first choice. Microsoft would be ok, too.
(A) M: So you want to work for a company first after graduation, don't you? (B) M: I’m sorry, I don’t understand. Could you say it again? (C) M: Since you want to work for a company first after graduation, so you don't want to be a computer scientist, do you? (D) M: So you don't want to be a computer scientist because you want to teach at a university, right?
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A