input with options: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: When Mencius was a little boy, his father died. Mencius and his mother were quite poor. One day Mencius returned home from school and found his mother making some cloth. It was very beautiful and expensive. "How much of the book have you read today?" Mencius' mother asked him. "I haven't read any of it yet." Mencius replied, "I played with some friends of mine in the fields." When his mother heard this, she picked up a pair of scissors and cut the cloth. "Why did you cut your cloth?" Mencius asked, "It was beautiful but now you've wasted it." "You have wasted your time," his mother said, "now I have wasted mine. Look what terrible things we have done." Mencius learnt a lot from this lesson. After that, he always studied hard. ,. Question: The mother cut the cloth because _ . Answer:
OPTIONS:
- she thought making cloth was wasting time
- she wanted to give her son a lesson
- she wanted to use more beautiful and expensive cloth
- she wanted her son to do his lessons at once
output: she wanted to give her son a lesson

input with options: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Sigmund Freud was a world-famous doctor of Vienna . He was also a man full of humour. Once, at his 70th birthday party, a friend asked Freud if he could put his work into several words."Well,"said Freud, "we take the sick out of their trouble and return them to the common suffering." As a devoted son, Freud often visited his old mother. His mother usually spent her summer in a small mountain town in Austria. The King Josef usually spent his summer there, too. One day in the summer, a band was playing a lively tune when Freud's mother was sitting at the window and watching the people singing and dancing on Main Street. The old woman had a poor memory. She heard the band playing, but forgot it was the King's birthday. Freud was visiting his mother on her 95th birthday. He told his mother, "Mama, the band is playing for your birthday."She believed him and had a wonderful day. Question: Freud's mother felt very happy on her 95th birthday because _ . Answer:
OPTIONS:
- the King Josef himself came to celebrate her birthday
- the people of the town came out to celebrate her birthday
- she believed that the band was playing for her birthday
- she heard the band playing a lively tune so wonderfully
output: she believed that the band was playing for her birthday

input with options: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Peter is a sixth-grader at Woodland Primary School. He is only 12 years old but has been smoking for three years. John, 15, is a Junior 2 student at Woodland Secondary School. He began smoking four years ago. "Smoking is part of my life," John said. Peter and John are not those boys' real names. But their problem, smoking, is a very real problem. In many countries, smoking is becoming a bigger problem for young people. Most smokers start in their teens or earlier. A study of 8,000 London students shows that smoking is a problem for many British kids. More than 21% of middle school students and 6% of primary school pupils said they smoked. "If young people start smoking early, it will be very hard for them to give up later on," said a professor. Every year, about four million people die because of smoking. And if people keep smoking that number will go up to about ten million a year by 2030 the World Health Organization (WTO) says. So we have to learn and tell others about dangers of smoking. ,. Question: The main idea of this passage is that _ Answer:
OPTIONS:
- smoking is becoming a bigger problem for young people
- more and more people die because of smoking every year
- who asks young people to give up smoking
- we needn't worry about the student smokers
output: smoking is becoming a bigger problem for young people

input with options: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: If you go into the forest with friends, stay with them. If you don't, you may get lost. Sit down and stay where you are. Don't try to find your friends, but let them find you instead . You can help them find you by staying in one place. There is another way to help your friends or other people to find you. You can shout or whistle three times. Stop for a while. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal given three times is a help. Keep up shouting or whistling. Always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making a noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They will give you two shouts or two whistles. When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help. If you don't think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house with branches . Make yourself a bed with leaves and grass. When you need some water, you have to leave your little branch house to look for it. Don't just walk away. _ When you are lost, the most important thing to do is stay in one place. Question: Which signal is a call for help? Answer:
OPTIONS:
- Shouting here and there.
- Crying and shouting twice.
- Shouting or whistling three times together.
- Whistling everywhere in the forest.
output:
Shouting or whistling three times together.