TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: M: Hello and welcome to our program, Working Abroad. Our guest this evening is a Londoner, who lives and works in Italy. Her name's Susan Hill. Susan, welcome to the program. You live in Florence. How long have you been living there? ,F: since nineteen eighty two, but when I went there in nineteen eighty two, I plan to stay for only 6 months. ,M: Why did you change your mind? ,F: Well, soon after I arrived in Florence, I got a job with one of Italy's Top companies, Ferragamo, so I decided to stay. ,M: Oh, lucky. Do you still work for Ferragamo now? ,F: No, I left there in nineteen eighty eight. I've been a free designer since then. I've designed for some Italian companies as well as to American companies and in the last 5 years I've also been designing for the British company Burberry. ,M: What have you been designing for them? ,F: Mostly handbags and sometimes shoes and leather jackets.
(A) M: That's really cool. Most of your design are shoes. (B) M: Yeah. I can see that you designed mostly handbags for these companies. (C) M: I am sorry. You spoke so rapidly that I did not catch the meaning of what you said. Could you repeat that? (D) M: Wonderful. I also bought some jackets which you designed mostly.

SOLUTION: B

PROBLEM: M: Shirly, I'm working on our class diary for next week. Would you please give me the information? ,F: Sure. First is the deadline for after class activity application. The deadline is next Monday, June fourteenth. ,M: Monday, June fourteenth. ,F: Yes, then on Wednesday, that's the sixteenth, all classmates have to hand in three student photos. ,M: Three student photos. ,F: OK. Next is the basketball club meeting. It's on the seventeenth. ,M: The basketball club meeting on the seventeenth, and where will they meet? ,F: At the stadium. ,M: And at what time? ,F: From 12:45 to 1:30 PM. ,M: Right. ,F: Then the last thing is about filling in a form with up-to-date personal data. Our class needs to go to the computer room during the morning break on the eighteenth. ,M: OK. The morning break on the eighteenth. ,F: Ah, wait a minute. I made a mistake. It should be during the lunch break.
(A) M: It's OK. You just made a mistake about the place. (B) M: It's fine. You are wrong about the event on the eighteenth. (C) M: I’m sorry, I don’t understand. Could you say it again? (D) M: It's fine. You are just wrong about the time of filling in the form.

SOLUTION: D

PROBLEM: F: Let's go to that Mexican restaurant where we used to eat. It has the best soup. ,M: I'd rather go to that Salvadoran restaurant. It has good soup, too, but the specialist corn pancakes with melted cheese inside. ,F: What kind of restaurant is that? ,M: It serves food that people eat in El Salvador. ,F: Where is El Salvador? ,M: It's the smallest country in Central America, south of Mexico. The food there is very tasty. Wanna try it out? ,F: Sure. Let's go.
(A) M: Just a minute! I do not quite follow what you are saying, would you mind repeating that? (B) M: Yeah, El Salvador is in Central America, south of Mexico. The food there is very tasty. Let's go to this restaurant now. (C) M: Yeah, El Salvador is the biggest country in Central America, south of Mexico. The food there is very tasty. (D) M: Yeah,  El Salvador is the smallest country in the north of Mexico. The fruit there is very tasty. Let's go to there now.

SOLUTION:
B