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: Ask a teacher to name the most annoying invention of recent years and they will often mention the mobile phone. Disturbed by the problems they create, many head teachers have ordered that pupils should keep their phones switched off at school. Others have told pupils to leave them at home. However, education researchers at The University of Nottingham believe it is time that phone bans were reassessed, because mobile phones can be a powerful learning aid, they say. Dr Elizabeth Hartnell-Young and her colleagues have reached this conclusion after studying the consequences of allowing pupils in five secondary schools to use either their own mobile phones or the new generation of 'smartphones' in lessons. During the nine-month experiment, 14- to-16-year-old pupils used the phones for a wide range of educational purposes, including creating short movies, setting homework reminders, recording a teacher reading a poem, and timing experiments with the phones' stopwatches. The smartphones, which could be connected to the Internet, also allowed pupils to access revision websites, log into the school email system, or transfer electronic files between school and home. The research involved 331 pupils in schools in Cambridgeshire, West Berkshire and Nottingham. "At the start of the study, even pupils were often surprised at the thought that mobile phones could be used for learning," Dr Hartnell-Young said. "After their hands-on experience, almost all pupils said they had enjoyed the project and felt more inspired." Some teachers found that pupils who lacked confidence gained most from the project. However, they recognized that greater use of mobile phones in schools could cause problems.
Question: When the students first used mobile phones for learning, they _ .
Options: (A) all enjoyed the project very much (B) didn't know what they were used for (C) didn't fully realize the learning functions of mobile phones (D) were surprised that they were allowed to use mobile phones in schools
Asnwer: C

SOLUTION: Yes

PROBLEM: Article: A HOLIDAY jet pilot said that he would land and call the police after a woman refused to stop smoking. He warned Maureen Harkavy, "Put that cigarette out, or I'll land the plane and have you arrested." Maureen, 47, was so shocked she wrote to the airline's chairman.But his reply was even ruder. "You seem to think you have a God-given right to pollute your neighbors' atmosphere," wrote John Ferriday of Paramount Airways. (a)Said Maureen, "I only found out about it when I was checking in.I'm a nervous flyer so I lit a cigarette during the flight.A stewardess asked me to put it out, but I said I wanted to carry on as there was no rule against smoking on the plane." She was just finishing her cigarette when the pilot arrived. (b) "I've never seen such an unpleasant letter." She said, "I don't think I'll ever fly again." But there was a funny side.Maureen explained, "We were offered duty-free cigarette from the stewardess on the plane!" (c) Mr.Ferriday went on: "Believe me, you haven't.Especially when you travel on my planes." Maureen and her husband Michael were moved to Paramount flight just before they left Portugal.But they were not told of the company's no smoking policy. (d) "He was loud and rude," said Maureen."He said if I lit another cigarette he would land the plane at Bordeaux and hand me to the French police." Later, from her home in Mosely, Birmingham, Maureen wrote to the company and received the rude reply.
Question: The second half of the story has been in wrong order.(Parts a-d) Choose the rearranged order which you think is right.
Options: (A) a, c, b, d (B) c, a, b, d (C) c, a, d, b (D) d, a, b, c
Asnwer: C

SOLUTION: Yes

PROBLEM: Article: Due to climate change, Arctic ice is breaking up earlier in the spring, and its area is decreasing. This is creating problems for polar bears that make their homes off northern Alaska and in Hudson Bay. Polar bears off Alaska normally hunt and raise their young on ice sheets that float on the ocean. But as the ice has melted, the polar bears have been forced to spend more time on land. There, they have begun to frequent beaches, feeding on the remains of whales caught by native hunters. For polar bears, this food is less nutritious than seals that they normally catch on ice sheets. The shrinking ice has also forced more polar bears into the ocean. In the past, they only had to swim short distances between ice sheets. But as the ice has shrunk, polar bears have been forced to swim longer and longer distances in the open ocean. This poses a severe danger during rough weather, and an increasing number of drowned polar bears have been observed. In Hudson Bay, the ice breaks up three weeks earlier in the spring now than it did 20 years ago. Polar bears on Hudson Bay fast during the summer, waiting for ice to form in the fall to hunt. Every year, the summer gets longer, and the bears get skinnier. Over the past 25 years, the average weight of the female bears has dropped 68 kg. This loss affects their ability to reproduce, and already the number of births has dropped 15 percent. Unless the bears can learn to survive these climate changes, these giants of the ice may one day disappear.
Question: What is Arctic ice doing earlier each year?
Options: (A) It's freezing. (B) It's hardening. (C) It's melting. (D) It's expanding.
Asnwer: C

SOLUTION:
Yes