Question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: 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. ,. Options: A Because his father died when Mencius was a child. B Because his father was ill in bed. C Because his mother cut the cloth. D Because the cloth his mother made was very cheap. Answer: A Because his father died when Mencius was a child. Question:
Answer: Why Mencius and his mother were quite poor?

Question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, "Look! There's a horseshoe, pick it up and put it in your bag." Thomas said, "It isn't worth the trouble." His father said nothing but he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries . The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn't a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost no time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth. And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him, "My dear son, if you had bent down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that he who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things." Options: A cherries are so delicious that most of us like to eat them B a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us a lot of money C if we want to eat cherries, we must pick up a horseshoe D if we don't worry about the little things we cannot do the great things Answer: D if we don't worry about the little things we cannot do the great things Question:
Answer: From the story, we can learn that _ .

Question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: It is autumn, and the Indians ask their new chief what the weather is going to be like this winter. The chief looks at the sky and says it's usually cold, and he tells the villagers to collect wood for the winter. As a good chief, he goes to call the weatherman and asks, "Is the coming winter going to be cold?" "It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold," the weatherman answers. So the chief goes back to his people and tells them to collect more food. A week later he calls the weatherman again. "Is it going to be a very cold winter?" "Yes," the weatherman answers again. "It's going to be a very cold winter." The chief again goes back to his people and tells them to collect every piece of wood they can find. Two weeks later he calls the weatherman again. "Are you sure that the winter is going to be very cold?" "Yes," the weatherman answers again. "It's going to be very very cold." "Why are you so sure?" asks the chief. The weatherman answers, "Because the Indians are collecting wood !" Options: A one B two C three D four Answer: C three Question:
Answer:
The chief calls the weatherman _ times.