input: Please answer the following: W: Um, what do you want for dinner tonight? M: How about chicken? W: We had chicken last night. M: Yeah, that was really good. I want some more of that. W: I'll make more next week. How about beef? M: I've got sick of that. W: What about noodles for tonight? M: Sure, I'd like that. I'll get some noodles and some mushrooms and onions. W: Sounds good. Oh, and get some potatoes and tomatoes for a salad. M: Do we have dessert? W: No, we don't. Why don't you get a melon? What was said before this conversation?
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output: M: I'm going to the store. What do we need?
Please answer this: W: Well, I thought we should go traveling by ship for a change, so I booked two ship tickets instead. M: You should have told me or discussed it with me. W: I wanted to give you a surprise. Don't you like the idea? M: I like it all right, but it takes much more time to travel by ship than by plane. W: We have time, don't we? Every time we went on a trip, we were always tied down by schedules. This time will be different. We don't have to rush. M: You're right. This is our first trip since you retired. We can travel as long as we like. W: We'll have an easy trip and enjoy every minute. M: Have you bought traveler's cheques yet? W: Not yet. I'll go to the bank tomorrow. M: I'll go with you. What was said before this conversation?
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Answer: M: Have you booked the airplane tickets to spain yet?
Problem: M: It's half past seven. I think we will be late for the film. W: Don't worry. There is still twenty minutes to go. M: But it's three kilometers from here to the cinema. How can we get there in such a short time? W: I think we can walk there in twenty minutes. M: But I am afraid I can't walk that far. W: If you don't feel like walking, we can take a taxi. M: Hey, taxi! What was said before this conversation?

A: W: What time is it now?
Problem: Given the question: M: Calm down, Franny. He can't make you stay after five. Finish what you can, and leave the rest for Mary. W: But they're important letters, Joe. They should go out tonight. M: That's not your worry. If they're important, he should have given them to you earlier. What was said before this conversation?
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W: If that man gives me any more letters to type, I'll scream. He's given me ten already today, and there'll be more when I get back from coffee break. I'll be here till midnight.
input question: Roger: Well, I suppose any one who moves to the country wants their life to be different in some way. I mean, if you have always lived in a city, as I had, then something must happen to make you want to move. In my case I was made redundant, and, when it came to looking around for a new job, I just couldn't face going back into an office again. So I sat down and thought about what I'd really like to do. Interviewer: And that, I suppose, turned out to be something in the country? Roger: No, initially I didn't think of moving, but just of getting a different kind of job, you know social work with kids or old people, that kind of tiring. Interviewer: So what happened, why didn't you? Roger: Well, I hadn't got any of the right qualifications, and it would have taken me two years to get qualified and I certainly didn't want to go back to formal education again. Interviewer: Couldn't you have learned while on the job sort of picked it up as you went along? Roger: No, you have to have a diploma. Anyway, after talking it over with friends who had moved out I thought I'd like to give it a try--after all, a change of scene... Interviewer: Is better than.., yes, we all know that. So, where did you go when you did decide to move? Roger: I went right out to Shropshire. After all I thought if you're going to go rural you might as well do it properly. The first problem though was how I was going to make a living. There are fewer jobs in the country, so I decided to start up on my own. Interviewer: That's pretty ambitious, a townie moving off to the depths of the country and setting up his own business. How did you start, had you got any skills? Roger: I'd always had a garden and grown some vegetables and flowers, you know, usual things, salad stuff, carrots, peas, beans, a bit of fruit, some roses.., so I thought of a small holding, a kind of small farm. But when I looked at the prices to buy, I changed my mind; I didn't have that kind of money. Interviewer: OK, a farm's out--so what's next? Roger: I settled on... What was said before this conversation????
output answer: Interviewer: Right then, Roger, what made you take off to the country in the first place?
input question: W: What do the Romans do? M: They live in Rome, of course, and go to work by car or bus. But sometimes it takes too long that way because of the traffic jams, so they walk. W: In other words, the Romans do what everyone else does. M: Yes, but they do it differently. Everything is different. W: What do you mean? M: Well, the climate is different for a start. It doesn't rain so much as it does in England. The sun shines more often. W: I envy them for the sun. M: I Know. You hate the rain, don't you? W: I certainly do. M: And a Roman really loves life. They always eat spaghetti and drink wine. W: Not always, but they like a good meal. Lots of tourists go to Rome just for food. M: Sure. What was said before this conversation????
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M: When in Rome, do as the Romans do, they say.