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: I was on vacation, and in my mind, vacation does not mean setting my hotel room alarm clock for 6 am. But when you're in Aruba and hoping to reserve a beachside palapa , that's exactly what you do. Tourists begin lining up at the crack of dawn to secure these umbrella-like wood structures that are covered with dried and woven palm leaves. They then place towels on chairs and call them theirs for the day, whether they remain there or not. I knew nothing of _ on my first day in Aruba. I saw an empty chair covered with a towel and took it. It was a big mistake. For many visitors, a week bathing in the sun is the only activity they wish to pursue. It sounded good to my girlfriend, Barbara, and me after Boston's awful winter. Six more inches of snow was predicted on the day we left. The sun, the sand, and the beach seemed just about right. Aruba's slogan is "One Happy Island", and it doesn't take long to understand why. Aruba is said to be on "island time". Translation: No one is in a rush to do anything. When in Aruba, you go with the flow, however slow and lazy that might be. Cooling trade winds, white sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and dazzling sunsets are all good reasons to visit. But this 20-mile island offers more than lazy days walking on the beach. There is amazing night life, casinos, golf, scuba diving , fine dining, shopping, and a great national park. But our first day was spent as you'd expect, swimming in the sea and enjoying cool drinks. Our drink of choice quickly became the Coco Loco. It's as refreshing as it sounds.
Question: Tourists get up at 6 am because they _ .
Options: (A) want to see the sunrise early (B) need to check out early (C) want to have fun longer (D) need to reserve a beachside palapa

SOLUTION: D

PROBLEM: Article: A survey reveals that employees in China say they are not engaged in their jobs. Judging by the survey data, many Chinese workplaces are black holes of misery and despair. Only 6% of Chinese employees said they are "engaged" in their jobs, according to a global Gallup survey released this month. China's numbers equal the numbers out of war-weary Iraq. Workers across all income levels and industries were surveyed by Gallup in China, defined by Gallup to mean they were "psychologically committed to their jobs and likely to be making positive contributions to their organizations". Out of 94 countries polled, only six countries scored lower rates of job engagement than China, including Tunisia, Israel and Syria. Unsurprisingly, 0% of Syrians admitted to being engaged at work. In a related survey, China ranked near the bottom in a poll measuring job satisfaction among 22 Asian countries. Only 49% of Chinese respondents said they were happy in their jobs. Part of the problem, I suspect, is that very few in China have the _ to pursue a career that truly interests them. Even university graduates often feel they have no choice but to choose the positions with the government or state-run enterprises, since those jobs are thought to be stable. That makes those who are happy at work in China a rare find indeed.
Question: According to the author, why most Chinese dislike their jobs?
Options: (A) Because they don't take the jobs they really like (B) Because many Chinese workplaces are full of misery and despair. (C) Because they have no choice but to choose the stable jobs. (D) Because they are not psychologically committed to their jobs.

SOLUTION: A

PROBLEM: Article: In Greek mythology , the gods punished Sisyphus by forcing him to roll a rock up a steep hill for eternity . But he was probably better off than if they'd forced him to sit and stare into space until the end of time, conclude the authors of a new study on keeping busy. They found that people who have something to do, even something pointless, are happier than people who sit around. "The general phenomenon I'm interested in is why people are too busy doing what they are doing in modern society," says Christopher K. Hsee, of the University of Chicago. "People are running around, working hard, the way beyond the basic level." Sure, there are reasons, like making a living, earning money, and so on. But, Hsee says, "I think there's something deeper: We have extra energy and we want to avoid idleness." In a study 98 students were asked to complete two surveys. After they had completed the first they were made to wait 15 minutes to receive the next one. They were given a choice of either handing in the first survey nearby or at a more distant location they had to walk to. Whichever option they chose, they received a chocolate bar. Not everyone chose to go to the faraway location. Two-thirds chose the lazy option. Yet those who chose to stay busy by going to the faraway location were found to be happier than those who had _ . But if the chocolate bars offered at the two locations were different, they were more likely to choose the far location--because they could make up a good and acceptable reason for the trip, Hsee and his colleagues say. Hsee thinks it may be possible to use this principle--people like being busy, and they like being able to show being busy right or reasonable--to benefit society. "If we can find a way for idle people to engage in activity that is at least not harmful, I think it is better than destructive business," he says. Hsee himself has been known to give a research assistant a useless task when he doesn't have anything to do, so he isn't sitting around the office getting bored and depressed.
Question: The author starts the passage with the Greek mythology story to _ .
Options: (A) make it easier to understand the passage (B) draw readers' attention to Greek culture (C) show Greek people enjoyed being busy (D) bring about the subject of the passage

SOLUTION:
D