Question: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Singapore: A City Singapore welcomes tourists. When you come to visit Singapore, please keep the laws of this country. Here are some points that you must remember. SMOKING: Cigarette smoking is a danger to health. It is not allowed in lifts, cinemas, theaters, all government offices and on buses. If you break it, you have to pay fines of up to $ 1,000. LITTER: Singapore is the Garden City of Asia---clean and green. Dropping litter in public places is not allowed. You can be fined up to $ 500 for dropping litter ---even if it only a piece of waste paper or a cigarette end. EATING OR DRINKING: In Singapore, when you take a subway or a bus, you are not supposed to eat or drink anything, or you'll be fined up to $ 500. RIDING: When you ride a bike across an underpass , please push your bike across the underpass, or you have to pay $ 1,000 for riding your bike. JAYWALKING*: You must always use the pedestrian(, )crossing. You can be fined $ 50 for crossing the street less than 50 meters from a crossing. These laws are also for children who are old enough to be in the street on their own. Question: Singapore is a city with _ according to the passage. Answer:
OPTIONS:
- cigarettes
- green plants
- litter
- bikes
Answer: green plants

input with options: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Don't you want to go to school? You could tell your parents you're ill. But last Monday, students from Shanghai and Zhejiang had an even better excuse: a typhoon ! Typhoon Khanun hit East China on September 11. In Shanghai, all the school were closed the next day, Monday. It was the first time that Shanghai had to close schools because of bad weather. But some students still came to school that day. " I didn't get the notice that the school was closing," said Shen Sheng, a Junior 2 student from Shanghai Aiguo School. " But it was nice that we could play in school rather than study." The school kept Shen and other 20 students safe inside and let them play sports like table tennis. But the storm wasn't all fun games. Typhoon Khanun killed 14 people. In Zhejiang, it _ about 8,000 houses. More than one million people had to be taken to safer places. Every year, typhoons hit different places around the world. Most happen in July, August and September. This year 15 typhoons hit China. Khanun was the strongest. Typhoons bring strong winds and rains. The winds can blow away houses and cars. The rains are bad for farmers' fields. Typhoon also kills people. Earlier this month, Typhoon Talim hit East and Central China. It killed at least 124 people. Question: What did Shanghai Aiguo School do with Shen Sheng and some other students when they still came to school that day? Answer:
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- They were kept safe inside and played sports like table tennis.
- They were asked to go back home as quickly as possible.
- They were sent back home by their teachers at once.
- They still had classed in the classroom as usual.
output: They were kept safe inside and played sports like table tennis.

Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: In two days, I will be turning 30. And I was not looking forward to a new decade . I was afraid that the best years of my life were behind me. One day, I met with my friend Nicholas. He was a 79-year-old man. He noticed something was different about me and asked if anything was wrong. I told him what I was anxious about and asked him: "What was the best time of your life?" Without hesitation, Nicholas replied: "Well, Joe, when I was a child in Austria and everything was taken care of for me, that was the best time of my life." "When I was going to school and learning the things I know today, that was the best time of my life." "When I got my first job and got paid for my work, that was the best time of my life." "When I met my wife and fell in love, that was the best time of my life." "World War IIcame, and my wife and I had to leave Austria to save our lives. When we were together and safe on a ship, that was the best time of my life." "When I became a young father and watched my children grow up, that was the best time of my life." "And now, Joe, I am 79 years old. I have my health, I feel good and I am just as in love with my wife as I was the day we met. This is the best time of my life." Question: From the passage, we can learn that _ . Answer:

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- it's never too old to learn
- believing in yourself is the key to success
- be thankful for what you have today
- time and tide wait for no man

A: be thankful for what you have today

input: OPTIONS:
- She changed the story with the people in the books
- She read aloud, so the students could remember the stories.
- She read only the thick books to her students.
- She drew pictures as she read. Now, answer this question: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Dear Mrs. Smith, I was a students of yours in Grade Six, and I hope you still remember me. I'm writing this letter because I want to let you know that the school year with you was important and special to me. It made a big contribution to my life. I know I was very quiet in your class, and you never said much to me. But you did something that made a big difference in my life. You see, all through my first year in school, I hated to read. Books were just words that had very little to do with me, and I was bored by them. I'll never forget the first day of Grade Six when you took out a thick book and began to read the story to our class. Your voice seemed to change with the people in the story, I couldn't wait until after lunch when you would read to the class. You read us all kinds of wonderful books. During the summer after my year in your class, I missed hearing the stories you would read. So one day I picked up a book and read it all on my own. I found out that I could make the words interesting, too. I love to read! Thank you for opening the world of books for me. Yours, Jenny Question: How did Mrs. Smith teach reading? Answer:
A:
output: She read aloud, so the students could remember the stories.

Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: A pretty, well-dressed young lady stopped a taxi in a big square, and said to the driver, "Can you see that young man at the other side of the square?" "Yes," said the taxi-driver. The young man was standing outside a restaurant and looking impatiently at his watch every few seconds. "Take me over there." said the young lady. There were a lot of cars and buses and trucks in the square, so the taxi- driver asked, "Are you afraid to cross the street." 'Oh, no !" said the young lady. "But I said that I would meet that young man for dinner at one o'c1ock, and it is now a quarter to two. If I arrive in a taxi, it will at least seem as if I have tried not to be too late." Question: The young lady was _ . Answer:

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- 45 minutes late
- not late at all
- l5 minutes late
- one hour 1ate

A:
45 minutes late