TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given an article, a question which often contains a blank and four options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D"). Your task is to find the correct answer (from the given options) for the question from the given article and return one of the options from "A", "B", "C", and "D". Do not generate anything else apart from one of the following characters: "A", "B", "C", "D". There is only one correct answer for each question.
PROBLEM: Article: All plant cells are capable of taking up water. Even dead ones do to a certain degree. Absorption of water by dead cell walls makes wood become larger. In common land plants, the living cells of roots take upmost of the water. Land plants without roots do exist, however. Those greenish-yellow lichens you see on rocks in the high mountains have no roots. Half a billion years ago, when water plants started to enter the land, the first land plants did not have roots. Even among the flowering plants, one finds rootless forms. These flowering plants are "the higher plants" because they evolved recently and are thus considered higher on the evolutionary scale . In the Peruvian desert, there grows one of these rootless higher plants, a bromeliad. It is a relative of the pineapple. Even if this plant had roots, they would be of no use, because where the plant grows, it never rains. The plant gets its water only from the dew it collects at night, when its leaves cool off. Such rootless plants, of course, can be moved with ease, but they will only grow when they are placed out in the open. If they are placed too near a house, the radiation from the heat of the house prevents the leaves from cooling and so prevents dew from forming, and the plant dies. In the southern United States and in Puerto Rico, one sees growing high above the streets on the insulation of electric wires. These plants get their water from rain, and the only soil they ever come in contact with is the dust that may blow on their leaves.
Question: Wood becomes larger because of _ .
Options: (A) dead cell walls (B) water entering dead cells (C) the growth of cells (D) the death of cells

SOLUTION: B

PROBLEM: Article: The following is the information about plays which will be on these days. Big and Little It is a play written by Botho Strauss and directed by Laurence Strangio, featuring (......) second-year Performing Arts students. It is about a lonely woman living in a big city. From the play, we can learn how to get along well with our friends, our family, our lovers, ... and with ourselves. A dreamlike journey in search of identity ... When:15-17 March, 7:30 pm Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5 You can get the tickets at the door. Love Play It is written by Moira Buffini and directed by Trent Baker, featuring Performing Arts students. First-year Performing Arts students present Love Play. It follows a series of unexpected meetings that have taken place in the same place in London across 2,000 years, through the centuries from the Romans to the Elizabethans to the present day. Love Play is a comedy that challenges the reasons and ways we want love. When:17-19 April, 8 pm Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5 You can get the tickets at the door. Smashed It is a play written by Lally Katz and directed by Suzanne Chaundy, featuring second-year Performing Arts students. Smashed is about friendship, time travel and death. Writing for TheAge, Helen Thomson calls the play "a wonderful memory of childhood on the edge of adulthood."Smashedp raises invention, imagination and girl power. When: 24-26 April, 8 pm Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5 You can get the tickets at the door.
Question: We can know from the passage that Moira Buffini _ .
Options: (A) is a character in Big and Little (B) is the director of Smashed (C) wrote the play Love Play (D) once wrote for The Age

SOLUTION: C

PROBLEM: Article: The world's earliest known fish hooks show that humans fished in the open sea for much longer than previously thought. Past studies have shown that early humans were able to cross the open ocean as far back as 50,000 years ago, but evidence that they could fish while in the open sea dated back only to 12,000 years ago. "In most areas of the world, evidence for our early ancestors' coastal exploitation was drowned by rising sea level," said researcher Sue O'Connor. Now O'Connor and her colleagues have found evidence of prehistoric fishing tools and the remains of large fish such as tuna at a cave shelter known as Jerimalai, located in the Southeast Asian island nation of East Timor. Their discovery uncovered fishing hooks made from bone that dated back to about 42,000 years ago. "It's possible that people caught the tuna in the deep channel that lies off the coast of the Jerimalai shelter," O'Connor said. The site, first uncovered in 2005, also included bone points, shell beads, the remains of fish, turtles, bats and birds, and nearly 10,000 stone tools. The island of Timor has very few land animals overall and only small birds call the island home, perhaps explaining why the ancient people here went fishing. About half the fish remains at the site came from fish such as tuna. Catching such fast-moving fish requires much planning and complex technology, suggesting that early humans developed these skills earlier than previously thought. Some other scientists might say that most of the fish bones seen are from young fish, and thus might have been caught more easily off the coast as opposed to in open waters. While this may be the case, it's still not easy to catch tuna -- it requires nets set in deep water.
Question: According to Sue O'Connor, evidence for our early ancestors' coastal exploitation _ .
Options: (A) indicated tuna was a common dish for our early ancestors (B) showed the trend of sea movement (C) was difficult to find (D) was buried in cave shelters

SOLUTION:
C