TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given an article, a question which often contains a blank, four options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D") and the answer to that question. Your task is to classify whether the given answer is correct or not by providing "Yes" or "No", based on the article.
PROBLEM: Article: Nuclear weapons were first developed in the United States during the Second World War to be used against Germany.However, by the time the first bombs were ready for use, the war with Germany had ended and, as a result, the decision was made to use the weapons against Japan instead. The real reasons why bombs were dropped on two heavily populated cities are not altogether clear.A number of people in 1944 and early 1945 argued that the use of nuclear weapons would be unnecessary, since American Intelligence was aware that some of the most powerful and influential people in Japan had already realised that the war was lost, and wanted to discuss a Japanese surrender .It was also argued that, since Japan has few natural resources, a blockade by the American navy would force it to surrender within a few Weeks, and the use of nuclear weapons would prove unnecessary.If a demonstration of force was required to end the war, a bomb could be dropped over an unpopulated area like a desert, in front of Japanese observers, or over an area of low population inside Japan, such as a forest.Choosing this course of action might decrease the loss of further lives on all sides, while the power of nuclear weapons would still be adequately demonstrated . All of these arguments were turned down, however, and the general agreement was that the quickest way to end the fighting would be to use nuclear weapons against the centres of population inside Japan.In fact, two of the more likely reasons why the decision was reached seem quite shocking to us now.
Question: According to Paragraph 2, a blockade would have been successful because
Options: (A) Japan had to import most of its natural resources (B) Japan would not be powerful enough to beat a blockade (C) an attack would probably destroy Japanese resources within a few weeks (D) the Americans could defeat Japan's navy since it was short of resources
Asnwer: D

SOLUTION: No

PROBLEM: Article: After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program,her mother recalled,Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices."Everyone else was already admitted to college," her mother,Rosemarie Colvin,said from the family home."So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said,' _ '" "Impressed--she was a National Merit finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil--Yale did, admitting her to the class of 1978,where she started writing for the Yale Daily News and decided to be a journalist," her mother said. On Wednesday,Marie Colvin,56,an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London,was killed as Syrian forces shelled the city of Homs.She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack. "She was supposed to leave Syria on Wednesday",Mrs.Colvin said."Her editor told me he called her yesterday and said it was getting too dangerous and they wanted to take her out.She said she was doing a story and she wanted to finish it." Mrs.Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict zones."If you knew my daughter," she said,"it would have been such a waste of words.She was determined,she was enthusiastic about what she did,it was her life.There was no saying 'Don't do this.' This is who she was,absolutely who she was and what she believed in:cover the story,not just have pictures of it,but bring it to life in the deepest way you could.""So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism," her mother said.
Question: Marie Colvin's story suggests some of the best qualities of being a journalist are _ .
Options: (A) patience and confidence (B) honesty and curiosity (C) flexibility and creativity (D) determination and courage
Asnwer: B

SOLUTION: No

PROBLEM: Article: My first experience of modern city life was quite impressive. I was very curious when I arrived in London. First, I noticed so many people were on a trip in a busy way. When I first saw the machine on the underground where you are expected to feed your ticket in and have to run through moving barriers , I was completely fascinated at it. Flashing with the light, the little green man, telling you when to cross the road, was also quite interesting, and so were those street advertisements which kept changing subjects as you look. In my native place, my life is so different from people's here. I am a market gardener from Makono, a village which is led by a market-managing group. People there usually walk two hours a day to get water from a well. What's more, I am used to going, for many hours, without drinking , so it was strange to be offered cups of tea all the time here in London. In my native place, on market days, I usually walk for several hours with my basket full of fruits and vegetables on my head, carrying them to the market for sale, to earn PS1per basket. Without the produce from my garden, I could not pay for education or healthcare for my children. Gardening is not a hobby for me - it's _ . But here people are planting something only to kill their leisure time. During our visiting-time in Britain, we visited some local government agencies, schools, churches and farms in Sussex, Scotland, Yorshire, Loncolnshire and Cambridgeshire, meeting people who were of the same profession as we are. Children in Burley-in-Wharfedale, Yorkshire, prepared a special get-together to greet us and we were also asked a lot about our life which was quite fascinating to them. For example, how we make our houses out of mud and how we get our water for our daily necessities, as well as for our garden.
Question: The most disadvantage in the writer's native place should be that _ .
Options: (A) there are many market-managing groups for gardeners (B) the lack of water makes the life there even harder (C) people there like to travel about on foot for enjoyment (D) people support themselves using the garden produce
Asnwer: A

SOLUTION:
No