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I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: While assisted living centers have been available in the United States for many years, the growth and availability of assisted living has had a dramatic increase since the early 1990s. An assisted living center is a residential alternative that promotes maximum independence for each resident through a combination of supportive services and assistance. The definition of assisted living from one state to another may vary and so will the cost and types of services. Assisted living centers vary in size, style and the optional services they may offer. Small family style living or the larger complex of units can be found in the United States. Some facilities are operated by nonprofit organizations, while others are _ . In addition, some facilities may be co-located or affiliated with a hospital or nursing facility. An assisted living center is any institution, rest home, boarding home, place, building or agency that is maintained and operated to provide personal care and services which meet some need beyond basic provision of food, shelter and laundry in a free standing, physically separate facility which is not otherwise required to be licensed. In general terms, an assisted living center is required to provide assistance with daily living activities, including eating, bathing, dressing and personal hygiene; three meals a day; supervision (,) of self-administration of medications; laundry service including personal laundry, housekeeping, and 24-hour staffing. Question: An assisted living center offers the following services EXCEPT _ . Options: A: meals B: washing C: education D: housekeeping
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I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: After a fight and before forgiveness often comes an apology. But saying "I'm sorry" comes more easily for some people than doing that for others. A new study suggests that specific personality traits offer clues about whether a person is likely to offer a sincere apology. Psychologist Andrew Howell and his colleagues at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton designed a questionnaire to measure a person's willingness to beg someone's pardon. They asked participants to indicate their level of agreement with a series of statements, such as "My continued anger often gets in the way of me apologizing" or "If I think no one will know what I have done, I am not likely to apologize." The researchers then used the answers to determine every participant's "proclivity to apologize," and they cross-referenced these scores with results from a variety of personality assessments. From the beginning, Howell was confident that people with high marks on compassion and agreeability would be willing apologizers -- and the study results confirmed his hypothesis . But the experiment also turned up some surprising traits of the unrepentant . People with low self-esteem, for example, were less inclined to apologize, even though they probably feel bad after a conflict. Unlike people who experience guilt about a specific action and feel sorry for the person they have wronged, individuals who experience generalized shame may actually be feeling sorry for themselves. In contrast, "people who are sure of themselves have the capacity to confess to wrongdoing and admit it," Howell suggests. But just the right amount of self-esteem is the key. The study also found that narcissists -- people who, in Howell's words, "are very egocentric, with an overly grand view of themselves" -- were reluctant to offer an apology. The researchers were most surprised to find that a strong sense of justice was negatively correlated with a willingness to apologize, perhaps suggesting that contrition and an "eye for an eye" philosophy are incompatible .... Question: The study done by Andrew Howell and his colleagues reveals_. Options: A: what influences one to be a willing apologizer B: when people might apologize willingly C: what a willing apologizer is all about D: how to become a willing apologizer
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I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: A Japanese toy maker declares that they have developed a gadget that translates dog barks into human language and plans to begin selling the gadget----under the name of Bowlingual----in U. S. pet stores and gift shops this summer. Tokyo-based Takara Co. Ltd. says about 300, 000 of the dog translator gadgets have been sold since it was on sale in Japan late last year. It is forecasting far bigger sales once an English language translation for dogs comes to America in August. The United States is home to about 67 million dogs, more than six times the number in Japan. "We know that the Americans love their dogs so much, so we don't think they will mind spending $ 120 on this product, " the Takara marketing manager said during an interview at a recent pet products conference in Atlanta. Regarded as one of the coolest inventions of 2002 by Time magazine, Bowlingual is made up of a 3 - inch long wireless microphone that is fastened to a dog collar and sends out sounds to a small console that is connected to a database . The console divides each bark into six emotional types----happiness, sadness, disappointment, anger, threat and desire----and shows common phrases, such as "You're ticking me off," that fit the dog's emotional state. Takara says it has spent millions of dollars developing the gadget in cooperation with famous sound experts and animal behaviorists. One thing that does appear certain is that the markets for animal translation products will likely remain a dog's world since Takara has no plans to develop a similar gadget for cats. " _ are too unpredictable , " the marketing manager said. Question: From the passage, we can see that Takara Co. Ltd. is _ the sale of its new product. Options: A: proud of B: satisfied with C: confident of D: worried about
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