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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAs motorways become more and more blocked up with traffic, a new generation on flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways. That is the conclusion of engineers from the US space agency and aeronautical firms, who _ future commuters traveling by \"skycar\".\nThese could look much like the concept skycar shown in the picture, designed by Boeing research and development. However, such vehicles could be some 25 years from appearing on the market. Efforts to build flying vehicles in the past have not been very successful. Such vehicles would not only be expensive and require the skills of a trained pilot to fly, but there are significant engineering challenges involved in developing them. \"When you try to combine them you get the worst of both worlds: a very heavy, slow, expensive vehicle that's hard to use,\" said Mark Moore, head of the personal air vehicle(PAV) division of the vehicle systems program at Nasa's Langley Research Center in Hampton, US. But Boeing is also considering how to police the airways and prevent total pandemonium -if thousands of flying cars enter the skies.\n\"The neat, gee-whiz part is thinking about what the vehicle itself would look like,\" said Dick Paul, a vice president with Phantom Works, Boeing's research and development arm. \"But we're trying to think through all the consequences of what it would take to deploy a fleet of these.\"\nPast proposals to solve this problem have included artificial intelligence systems to prevent collisions between air traffic. Nasa is working on flying vehicles with the initial goal of transforming small plane travel. Small planes are generally costly, loud, and require months of training and lots of money to operate, making flying to work impractical for most people. But within five years, Nasa researchers hope to develop technology for a small plane that can fly out of regional airports, costs less than $100,000(PS55,725), is as quiet as a motorcycle and as simple to operate as a car.\nAlthough it would not have any road-driving capabilities, it would bring this form of travel within the grasp of a wider section of people. The new technology would automate many of the pilot's functions. This Small Aircraft Transportation System(Sats) would divert pressure away from the \"hub-and-spoke \" model of air travel. Hub-and-spoke refers to the typically US model of passengers being processed through large \"hub\" airports and then on to secondary flights to \"spoke\" airports near their final destinations.\n\n<question>:\nWhen engineers develop the skycars, they have to deal with the following difficulties except _ .\n\n<options>:\nA how to fly out of regional airports\nB how to prevent the disorder of the airways\nC how to reduce expenses and the vehicle's weight\nD how to fly the skycars to enter skies\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAs motorways become more and more blocked up with traffic, a new generation on flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways. That is the conclusion of engineers from the US space agency and aeronautical firms, who _ future commuters traveling by \"skycar\".\nThese could look much like the concept skycar shown in the picture, designed by Boeing research and development. However, such vehicles could be some 25 years from appearing on the market. Efforts to build flying vehicles in the past have not been very successful. Such vehicles would not only be expensive and require the skills of a trained pilot to fly, but there are significant engineering challenges involved in developing them. \"When you try to combine them you get the worst of both worlds: a very heavy, slow, expensive vehicle that's hard to use,\" said Mark Moore, head of the personal air vehicle(PAV) division of the vehicle systems program at Nasa's Langley Research Center in Hampton, US. But Boeing is also considering how to police the airways and prevent total pandemonium -if thousands of flying cars enter the skies.\n\"The neat, gee-whiz part is thinking about what the vehicle itself would look like,\" said Dick Paul, a vice president with Phantom Works, Boeing's research and development arm. \"But we're trying to think through all the consequences of what it would take to deploy a fleet of these.\"\nPast proposals to solve this problem have included artificial intelligence systems to prevent collisions between air traffic. Nasa is working on flying vehicles with the initial goal of transforming small plane travel. Small planes are generally costly, loud, and require months of training and lots of money to operate, making flying to work impractical for most people. But within five years, Nasa researchers hope to develop technology for a small plane that can fly out of regional airports, costs less than $100,000(PS55,725), is as quiet as a motorcycle and as simple to operate as a car.\nAlthough it would not have any road-driving capabilities, it would bring this form of travel within the grasp of a wider section of people. The new technology would automate many of the pilot's functions. This Small Aircraft Transportation System(Sats) would divert pressure away from the \"hub-and-spoke \" model of air travel. Hub-and-spoke refers to the typically US model of passengers being processed through large \"hub\" airports and then on to secondary flights to \"spoke\" airports near their final destinations.\n\n<question>:\nNow Nasa researchers' aim is to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA make big flying cars\nB work out the plan---how to transform small plane travel\nC develop a new kind of small plane different from the traditional one\nD build a new kind of small plane with road-driving abilities\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nWashington -- The largest ozone hole ever observed has opened up over Antarctica, according to the scientists of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). They believe it is a sign that ozone -- destroying gases produced years ago are just now causing the largest quantities of ozone to disappear.\nThis year's South Pole ozone hole spreads over about 28.5 million square kilometers, an area three times larger than the landmass of the prefix = st1 /United States.\nPictures of the hole have been offered by NASA. The hole appears as a giant blue mass, totally covering Antarctica and stretching to the southern tip of South America.\n\"The last time the ozone hole was close to this size was in 1998, when it spread over about 27.2 million square kilometers,\" NASA said.\nPaul Newman, who works with NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument on a NASA satellite, said ozone watchers had expected a big hole this year, but not this big.\nThe Antarctica ozone hole, first observed in 1985, is caused by the depletion of Earth protecting ozone by human-made chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons, known as CFCs.\n\"Even though these chemicals were not allowed to use from the beginning of 1987, they remain in the atmosphere and will continue to do so for years,\" Newman said.\n\"This year's large hole may have been caused by a change in a swirling high-level air current over Antarctica, which circles the area and contains the zone hole,\" Newman said.\n\n<question>:\nThe text is mainly about _ .\n\n<options>:\nA the discovery of the largest ozone hole\nB the discovery of the Antarctica ozone hole\nC the history of the Antarctica ozone hole\nD the size of the largest ozone hole\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nWashington -- The largest ozone hole ever observed has opened up over Antarctica, according to the scientists of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). They believe it is a sign that ozone -- destroying gases produced years ago are just now causing the largest quantities of ozone to disappear.\nThis year's South Pole ozone hole spreads over about 28.5 million square kilometers, an area three times larger than the landmass of the prefix = st1 /United States.\nPictures of the hole have been offered by NASA. The hole appears as a giant blue mass, totally covering Antarctica and stretching to the southern tip of South America.\n\"The last time the ozone hole was close to this size was in 1998, when it spread over about 27.2 million square kilometers,\" NASA said.\nPaul Newman, who works with NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument on a NASA satellite, said ozone watchers had expected a big hole this year, but not this big.\nThe Antarctica ozone hole, first observed in 1985, is caused by the depletion of Earth protecting ozone by human-made chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons, known as CFCs.\n\"Even though these chemicals were not allowed to use from the beginning of 1987, they remain in the atmosphere and will continue to do so for years,\" Newman said.\n\"This year's large hole may have been caused by a change in a swirling high-level air current over Antarctica, which circles the area and contains the zone hole,\" Newman said.\n\n<question>:\nThe time 1985 was talked about in the text because it was when the Antarctica ozone hole _ .\n\n<options>:\nA was watched by Newman\nB was first closed\nC disappeared\nD was first watched\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nWho is there among us who hasn't dreamed of having his or her own small (maybe , several years later , even big )business , and having wonderful freedom , both from a boss and from the time clock ; the freedom to make up our own rules for our work , and our own plans --arranging our own hours of work ? That way work would be both painless and fun. Or, so we imagine.\nWell, in fact it isn't quite as simple as that. Yes , it is true that being the boss has its satisfactions and that you can arrange your working hours freely if you own your own small business . But in those early years of starting your own business, you shouldn't think of a free day, not to mention flying off for a month's vacation. It is not unusual for new business owners to work seventy or eighty hours a week , and if there is a day off , that day might need to be devoted to accounting .\nBut this negative picture doesn't destroy the beautiful hopes. The possibility of getting something wonderful in return--both material and mental--continues to drive that large number of people who start up small businesses each year in the United States.\n\n<question>:\nMost new business owners have to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA work more than 10 hours a day\nB devote himself to accounting\nC fly to some places in the world\nD have a day off in a week\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThere are stock markets in large cities in many countries. Stock markets in Paris,\nLondon, Tokyo, Shanghai and New York are among the largest and most well-known. The stock, also called stock exchange, is a place where people can buy or sell shares of a factory or company. And each share means certain ownership of a factory or company.\nDifferent people go to stock markets. Some are rich, who want to get more money than they\nhave. Others are not very rich, who buy stocks to try to become rich. Still others buy stocks as\npart of their plan to save money.\nOf course, investing money in the stock market is not the safest way to make money.\nNo one can tell exactly whether the shares will be doing well. The factory or company may\ndo badly. Then the stocks will go down, and the investors will lose money. The stock may go up or down for a number of untold reasons. Everyone wants the stock to go up, but sometimes even if a factory or company does a good job, the stock may still go down.\nGoing to the stock market is often like gambling . All want to make money by\n\"gambling' in the stock market. Factories and companies that need money are pleased that so many people are ready to \"gamble\". Indeed, the stock market is an attractive but\npart of the business world.\n\n<question>:\nIf you are a good investor, _ in the stock market.\n\n<options>:\nA you can always make money\nB you can tell exactly when the stock goes up or down\nC you may sometimes lose money\nD your gambling is always safe\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAnnie sometimes felt puzzled by the relationship between her parents.\nThey never seemed to show much love for each other. Annie believed that people who were in love would show it. They would hold hands, speak sweet words to each other and give each other nice gifts. Annie's parents did none of these things. So, she doubted whether they really loved each other.\nIt was Annie's plan to ask her parents about their feelings for each other. But it was hard to find the right moment. One Saturday afternoon, she noticed that her dad was in the garage, doing some work on the engine of his sports car.\nAnnie's dad was always in a good mood when he was near his sports car, so she decided to ask him the question that had been bothering her.\" Dad, do you and Mom really love each other?\"\n\"Of course,\" her father replied. \"Why do you ask?\"\n\"Well, you never seem to show it.\"\nAnnie's father was silent for a while, he spoke again. \"Look at the engine of this car,\" he said. \"It is oily and messy, and the car looks much better when the hood is down. Don't you agree?\" Without waiting for a reply, he went on. \"If I took out the engine and put the hood back down, the car would look just as beautiful, right? But it wouldn't be a car anymore. The engine is its beating heart. You don't usually see it, but it has to be there. It's the same with your Mom and me. Our love for each other is the beating heart of this family. Don't worry just because it isn't on show all the time. \"\nAbout six months later, Annie's father lost his job. The family had to cut back on many things to make ends meet. And he had to sell his beloved sports car. But Annie noticed another change. Because he had more free time, her father spent more of it with her mother. They seemed to grow closer together, and showed their love more often. Their love, which Annie had been afraid did not exist, was plain to see. Annie was sad that the sports car had gone, but at least she understood what her father had told her that day.\n\n<question>:\nWhat happened to the love between Annie's parents after her father lost his job?\n\n<options>:\nA It no longer existed.\nB It became easier to see.\nC It grew weaker.\nD It changed completely.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nNowadays, more and more teenagers use smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices more than ever before. And the amount of time they spend on these devices is only likely to increase in the future. But are all these changes good?\nWe sometimes call children who are able to use mobile devices and technology easily digital natives. They can text, email, get Wi-Fi, and download. Some experts say that long periods of time spent chatting to friends online, playing video games and listening to mp3s, for example, may possibly change how their brains work.\nThen there is the question of privacy. All this online activity creates a digital footprint. Every time we share a photo or a post on social media, and every time we search for something on the Internet, information about our activity is stored somewhere.\nOur inability to control what happens to our children's digital footprint and their personal privacy has big possibilities. It might become normal for companies to ask their employees for their social media qualifications. We are also becoming more aware that companies and governments may be able to 'listen in' on our communications. So it is important to make our children aware of the possible results of over sharing.\nAnother area where the digital world may have a big effect is in education. One worry is that kids who spend a lot of time online at home are sometimes unable to socialize properly with other children when they are at school. Other experts point out that, when it comes to children and technology, the children are the experts, not the teachers. They say that we should stop seeing online as 'bad' and offline as 'good' and there is evidence of innovative work in some schools.\nSo, do we really need to rescue our children from the dangers of the digital world?\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following can summarize the main idea of the text?\n\n<options>:\nA Do we need to rescue our kids from the digital world?\nB Should children learn to use digital technology?\nC Are there changes in children's school life?\nD Should teachers accept changes in our life?\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nCharles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth.Finances were a constant concern for his family.The expenses of having a large family were too much for his father's salary.In fact, when Charles was just four months old, the family moved to a smaller home to cut expenses.\nAt a very young age, despite his family's financial situation, Charles dreamed of becoming a gentleman.However, when he was 12, it seemed his dream would never come true.He suffered a lot.Charles' education was unplanned, but he supplemented it with constant reading, particularly of the eighteenthcentury novels in his father's small library.He was poorly clothed, ill fed, forced to live in the cheapest place.\nAlso,12yearold Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a factory to help support the family.Charles was deeply marked by these experiences.This childhood poverty, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would be a heavy influence on Dickens' later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.He knew those kinds of feelings.He was lost at that time when he worked hopelessly in the factory.That period was so bitter to the sensitive boy.When he was a successful, happy man, he could not look back upon it without tears in his eyes.\nLuckily the situation improved within a year.Charles was released from his duties at the factory.\n\n<question>:\nAs a boy, Charles Dickens' dream was _ .\n\n<options>:\nA to be a writer\nB to be a gentleman\nC to work in a factory\nD to support his family\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nCharles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth.Finances were a constant concern for his family.The expenses of having a large family were too much for his father's salary.In fact, when Charles was just four months old, the family moved to a smaller home to cut expenses.\nAt a very young age, despite his family's financial situation, Charles dreamed of becoming a gentleman.However, when he was 12, it seemed his dream would never come true.He suffered a lot.Charles' education was unplanned, but he supplemented it with constant reading, particularly of the eighteenthcentury novels in his father's small library.He was poorly clothed, ill fed, forced to live in the cheapest place.\nAlso,12yearold Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a factory to help support the family.Charles was deeply marked by these experiences.This childhood poverty, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would be a heavy influence on Dickens' later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.He knew those kinds of feelings.He was lost at that time when he worked hopelessly in the factory.That period was so bitter to the sensitive boy.When he was a successful, happy man, he could not look back upon it without tears in his eyes.\nLuckily the situation improved within a year.Charles was released from his duties at the factory.\n\n<question>:\nCharles Dickens was removed from school because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA he didn't like to go to school at all\nB he caused much trouble at school\nC he had to make money to support the family\nD he liked reading in his father's small library\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nCharles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth.Finances were a constant concern for his family.The expenses of having a large family were too much for his father's salary.In fact, when Charles was just four months old, the family moved to a smaller home to cut expenses.\nAt a very young age, despite his family's financial situation, Charles dreamed of becoming a gentleman.However, when he was 12, it seemed his dream would never come true.He suffered a lot.Charles' education was unplanned, but he supplemented it with constant reading, particularly of the eighteenthcentury novels in his father's small library.He was poorly clothed, ill fed, forced to live in the cheapest place.\nAlso,12yearold Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a factory to help support the family.Charles was deeply marked by these experiences.This childhood poverty, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would be a heavy influence on Dickens' later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.He knew those kinds of feelings.He was lost at that time when he worked hopelessly in the factory.That period was so bitter to the sensitive boy.When he was a successful, happy man, he could not look back upon it without tears in his eyes.\nLuckily the situation improved within a year.Charles was released from his duties at the factory.\n\n<question>:\nWhat greatly affected Charles Dickens when he was young?\n\n<options>:\nA His constant reading.\nB His family's frequent move.\nC His leaving school to work.\nD His father's salary.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nCharles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth.Finances were a constant concern for his family.The expenses of having a large family were too much for his father's salary.In fact, when Charles was just four months old, the family moved to a smaller home to cut expenses.\nAt a very young age, despite his family's financial situation, Charles dreamed of becoming a gentleman.However, when he was 12, it seemed his dream would never come true.He suffered a lot.Charles' education was unplanned, but he supplemented it with constant reading, particularly of the eighteenthcentury novels in his father's small library.He was poorly clothed, ill fed, forced to live in the cheapest place.\nAlso,12yearold Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a factory to help support the family.Charles was deeply marked by these experiences.This childhood poverty, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would be a heavy influence on Dickens' later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.He knew those kinds of feelings.He was lost at that time when he worked hopelessly in the factory.That period was so bitter to the sensitive boy.When he was a successful, happy man, he could not look back upon it without tears in his eyes.\nLuckily the situation improved within a year.Charles was released from his duties at the factory.\n\n<question>:\nWhat can we know about Charles Dickens?\n\n<options>:\nA He received a good education when young.\nB He felt confused when working in the factory.\nC He worked in the factory for many years.\nD He started to work in the factory in 1826.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIf you dream in color, you're not alone: the majority of people today claim to have colorful dreams. But it wasn't always thus. Research conducted in the early part of the last century consistently found that people reported dreaming most often in black and white.\nAccording to Eva Murzyn at the University of Dundee, there are at least two possible explanations for this strange situation.\nThe first is the methods used in the researches. The early studies tended to use questionnaires , while more modern studies use dream diaries (filled in upon rising in the morning) or so-called \"REM-awakening\", which involves interrupting people's dream-filled periods of sleep to find out what they were dreaming about. People's memories of their dreams are likely to be less accurate by using the questionnaire approach and they are more likely to reflect their beliefs about the form dreams generally take in an unclear way.\nThe second explanation has to do with black and white television and film. It's possible that the sudden increase in black and white film and television during the first half of the last century either affected the form of people's dreams at that time, or affected their beliefs about the form dreams generally take.\nAccording to Murzyn's findings, it's the explanation based on media exposure that _ . She used both questionnaire and diary methods to study the dreams of 30 older (average age 64) and 30 younger people (average age 21).\nThe methodological technique made no difference to the type of dreams people reported. However, the extremely important thing was that, across both questionnaires and diaries, the older participants (who had had significant early life exposure to black and white media) reported experiencing significantly more black and white dreams over the last ten days than the younger participants (22 per cent vs. 4 per cent).\nAnother finding was that older participants reported black and white dreams and colorful dreams to be of equal clearness. By contrast, the younger participants reported that the quality of black and white dreams was poorer. This raises the possibility that the younger participants didn't really have any black and white dreams at all, but were simply regarding poorly remembered dreams as black and white.\n\n<question>:\nWe learn from the text that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA people in the first half of the last century never had colorful dreams\nB older people are more likely to have black and white dreams\nC the dreams of younger people are always colorful\nD people today don't have white and black dreams any more\n\n<answer>:\n",
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