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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>:\nStrictly Shakespeare is a creative writing community and monthly competition site. Its aim is to encourage, stimulate and promote authors, poets and wordsmiths by offering fun challenges, a targeted and friendly community and contact network and an interactive forum for critiques, advice, opportunities and self advertising in a fun and informative manner. The website currently receives one thousand visitors a month but with some amazing work being submitted and shared regularly its workers want to increase that number to highlight the talents of aspiring and creative writers across the globe.\nCalling all writers: Are you a poet, aspiring author or lover of words? Strictly Shakespeare invites you to join it now. You don't have to write like Shakespeare to enter it. Every month they hold creative writing contests in both poetry and prose based on a theme or prompt and then the TOP TEN finalists are revealed and public voting is open to determine the cash prize winners.\nMission: It is to challenge and stimulate enthusiasts from all over the world and provide a forum to share and create. With thousands of visitors to the website, it is also great advertising for those who take part to earn the recognition they deserve and make contacts and new friends. \nEntries and prizes: It costs only PS1.00 to enter our monthly trysts. It would prefer not to charge at all as they work out of passion as opposed to profit but by charging this minimal fee they can gather all the entry funds, which go into a cash jackpot prize for the winners at the end of each month. Rewards are therefore based upon the number of entries but they give away a minimum of PS20.00 regardless.\nHow to join: Simply visit the website www.strictlyshakespeare.com today, where you can browse through the amazing submissions of previous winners, take part in the forum or enter into the monthly competitions.\nMonthly timeline:\n 1st of the Month: Prompts/Themes are posted their \"News\" page and the contests OPEN!\n 14th of the Month: Competitions close at midnight.\n 17th of the Month: Top TEN finalists are revealed and public voting OPENS.\n 26th of the Month: Winners revealed and prizes distributed.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following is TRUE about Strictly Shakespeare?\n\n<options>:\nA About one thousand people visit it every year.\nB Award-winning works will be shown on the website.\nC It is only open to American literature lovers.\nD A writing contest is held publicly every 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>:\nThe German city of Hamburg has announced plans to become car-free within the next two decades. It is an ambitious idea, but city officials obviously feel that the personal motorcar does not fulfill a function that walking, biking and taking public transport cannot. The goal of Hamburg's project is to replace roads with a green network, which will allow people to navigate through the city without the use of cars.\n Banishing the car from urban areas is becoming a common trend in many European cities. London imposes a \"congestion charge\" on private vehicles entering the city centre during rush hours. Copenhagen is building bicycle superhighways radiating out from the city centre. These developments combined may make worrying reading for driving enthusiasts. Is the time of the personal car over?\n In the century since the Ford Model T was introduced in 1908, global vehicle numbers have swollen to well over a billion. But according to recent research, the growth may have stopped.\n According to Professor Michael Sivak, at the University of Michigan, \"motorization\" in the US might have reached a peak in 2008, and that the figures have been on the decline since.\n \"New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, each have more than thirty percent of households without a light duty vehicle,\" says Sivak. In fact, the figures show that fifty-six percent of households in New York (which top the list) don't have a car. \"I think that will be surprising to most people. It was surprising to me, and I am in the business. \"\n Sivak thinks a number of factors could be contributing to the trend, including workingfrom home and the movement of populations back to city centers. In China, Beijing and Shanghai are looking at plans to limit the number of new vehicles being registered to control prouth. It's a movement more cities are looking towards, particularly in the US.\n\n<question>:\nWhy does Hamburg launch the \"car-free\" program?\n\n<options>:\nA To build a greener environment.\nB To fix a worldwide road network.\nC To call on people to take exercise.\nD To replace the public transport.\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>:\nLiz Parle,24,a Birmingham--bom eare owner,cannot drive.\"I did try to learm,but I failed my test a few times,\" Parle told the Guardian.Then she moved to London,where running a car coil be a nightmare ,so now she cycles everywhere.\nParle is by no means an exception.According to the Guardian,in the UK,the percentage of 17 to 20--year--olds with driving licenses fell from 48 percent in the early 1990s to 35 percent last year.Meanwhile,road traffic figures for cars and taxis,which have risen more or less every year since 1949.have continued to since 2007.\nMotoring groups put it down to oil prices and the economy.Others offer a more fundamental explanation: the golden age of motoring is over.\n\"The way We run cars is changing fast,\"Tim Pollard,associate editor at Car magazine,told the Telegraph,\"Car makers are worried that younger people in particular don't desire to own cars as we used to in the 70s,80s,or even the 90s.Designers commonly say that teenagers today de--sire to own the latest smart phone mote than a ear.\" \n\"The digital generation don't care about owning things.Possession is a burden.and a car is a big investment for-most people--not just the vehicle,but the permits,the parking space,\"Da--vid Metz. professor at the University College London's Center for Transport Studies,told the Guardian.\n\"It's not just about the cost.\"'Metz said.\"Other factors are likely that there are more peo-pie in higher education,which typically takes place in city centers where the car isn't the neces-sary part.\"\nMetz added there's nothing wrong if you want a little house in the country,and a car to get you to and from it.Yet there is something earelessin limiting new buildings to a particular form of transport,especially if that form of transport shows signs of decline.\n\n<question>:\nLiz Parle now cycles mainly because\n\n<options>:\nA cycling is good to her health\nB she doesn't like driving at all\nC driving in London is terrible\nD it is a fashion to cycle in London\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>:\nLiz Parle,24,a Birmingham--bom eare owner,cannot drive.\"I did try to learm,but I failed my test a few times,\" Parle told the Guardian.Then she moved to London,where running a car coil be a nightmare ,so now she cycles everywhere.\nParle is by no means an exception.According to the Guardian,in the UK,the percentage of 17 to 20--year--olds with driving licenses fell from 48 percent in the early 1990s to 35 percent last year.Meanwhile,road traffic figures for cars and taxis,which have risen more or less every year since 1949.have continued to since 2007.\nMotoring groups put it down to oil prices and the economy.Others offer a more fundamental explanation: the golden age of motoring is over.\n\"The way We run cars is changing fast,\"Tim Pollard,associate editor at Car magazine,told the Telegraph,\"Car makers are worried that younger people in particular don't desire to own cars as we used to in the 70s,80s,or even the 90s.Designers commonly say that teenagers today de--sire to own the latest smart phone mote than a ear.\" \n\"The digital generation don't care about owning things.Possession is a burden.and a car is a big investment for-most people--not just the vehicle,but the permits,the parking space,\"Da--vid Metz. professor at the University College London's Center for Transport Studies,told the Guardian.\n\"It's not just about the cost.\"'Metz said.\"Other factors are likely that there are more peo-pie in higher education,which typically takes place in city centers where the car isn't the neces-sary part.\"\nMetz added there's nothing wrong if you want a little house in the country,and a car to get you to and from it.Yet there is something earelessin limiting new buildings to a particular form of transport,especially if that form of transport shows signs of decline.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the text,the digital generation _ .\n\n<options>:\nA prefer ears to phones\nB are more careful with money\nC change their ideas of owing things\nD don't take anything seriously\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>:\nLiz Parle,24,a Birmingham--bom eare owner,cannot drive.\"I did try to learm,but I failed my test a few times,\" Parle told the Guardian.Then she moved to London,where running a car coil be a nightmare ,so now she cycles everywhere.\nParle is by no means an exception.According to the Guardian,in the UK,the percentage of 17 to 20--year--olds with driving licenses fell from 48 percent in the early 1990s to 35 percent last year.Meanwhile,road traffic figures for cars and taxis,which have risen more or less every year since 1949.have continued to since 2007.\nMotoring groups put it down to oil prices and the economy.Others offer a more fundamental explanation: the golden age of motoring is over.\n\"The way We run cars is changing fast,\"Tim Pollard,associate editor at Car magazine,told the Telegraph,\"Car makers are worried that younger people in particular don't desire to own cars as we used to in the 70s,80s,or even the 90s.Designers commonly say that teenagers today de--sire to own the latest smart phone mote than a ear.\" \n\"The digital generation don't care about owning things.Possession is a burden.and a car is a big investment for-most people--not just the vehicle,but the permits,the parking space,\"Da--vid Metz. professor at the University College London's Center for Transport Studies,told the Guardian.\n\"It's not just about the cost.\"'Metz said.\"Other factors are likely that there are more peo-pie in higher education,which typically takes place in city centers where the car isn't the neces-sary part.\"\nMetz added there's nothing wrong if you want a little house in the country,and a car to get you to and from it.Yet there is something earelessin limiting new buildings to a particular form of transport,especially if that form of transport shows signs of decline.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following might NOT be the cause of car decline?\n\n<options>:\nA High oil prices.\nB Bad economy situation.\nC High cost of owning a car,\nD Poor quality of car.\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>:\nLiz Parle,24,a Birmingham--bom eare owner,cannot drive.\"I did try to learm,but I failed my test a few times,\" Parle told the Guardian.Then she moved to London,where running a car coil be a nightmare ,so now she cycles everywhere.\nParle is by no means an exception.According to the Guardian,in the UK,the percentage of 17 to 20--year--olds with driving licenses fell from 48 percent in the early 1990s to 35 percent last year.Meanwhile,road traffic figures for cars and taxis,which have risen more or less every year since 1949.have continued to since 2007.\nMotoring groups put it down to oil prices and the economy.Others offer a more fundamental explanation: the golden age of motoring is over.\n\"The way We run cars is changing fast,\"Tim Pollard,associate editor at Car magazine,told the Telegraph,\"Car makers are worried that younger people in particular don't desire to own cars as we used to in the 70s,80s,or even the 90s.Designers commonly say that teenagers today de--sire to own the latest smart phone mote than a ear.\" \n\"The digital generation don't care about owning things.Possession is a burden.and a car is a big investment for-most people--not just the vehicle,but the permits,the parking space,\"Da--vid Metz. professor at the University College London's Center for Transport Studies,told the Guardian.\n\"It's not just about the cost.\"'Metz said.\"Other factors are likely that there are more peo-pie in higher education,which typically takes place in city centers where the car isn't the neces-sary part.\"\nMetz added there's nothing wrong if you want a little house in the country,and a car to get you to and from it.Yet there is something earelessin limiting new buildings to a particular form of transport,especially if that form of transport shows signs of decline.\n\n<question>:\nIn Metz'S opinion. _ .\n\n<options>:\nA it's necessary to own cars in big cities\nB cars are only useful in the countryside\nC where you live doesn't mean to own a car\nD it's careless to limit the number of cars\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>:\nPassword strength has been a topic about the Internet lately. I have seen lots of clever methods for generating and remembering strong passwords. Some are better than others, but in my opinion , none are adequate . Here's the problem : it doesn't matter how strong your passwords are if you use the same one on multiple sites. All it takes is for a site to get hacked , like Gawker media, or even Sony did , and now your super-strong password has been stolen , and every site on which you used that password has been accessed .\nSo, the bottom line is that no matter how strong your passwords are , and no matter what clever tricks you use to help you remember them , if you surf the Internet often , the only truly secure password system is what you need .\nEnter LastPass. It's not the only password manager out there, but I like it the best. You create ONE strong password that you have to memorize and use it to access your LastPass database . The LastPass database is stored online, on LastPass's servers. LastPass recognizes the site you're on and automatically logs you in (after , optionally , asking you to re-enter your master password). LastPass also has automatic form fill and automatic password generation. This means that you can have a different , unique , very strong password for every site you log into , but you only have to remember one master password . It's the best of both worlds.\nOne argument against LastPass is that if their database is attacked , then all of your sites are in danger, and that's true, but given that their entire line of work is keeping that information safe , I'm willing to take that chance. The alternative is rolling dice or picking phrase to create passwords, writing all of them down on a piece of paper or something , and then having to manually type them in when I go to a site . A terrible mess.\nThere is a free version of LastPass , with additional features unlocked if you pay $ 12 for a year's subscription .\n----Joshua Bardwell\n\n<question>:\nWhen using LastPass , users have to remember _ .\n\n<options>:\nA all passwords used\nB the last password\nC unique password each time\nD the master password only\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>:\nPassword strength has been a topic about the Internet lately. I have seen lots of clever methods for generating and remembering strong passwords. Some are better than others, but in my opinion , none are adequate . Here's the problem : it doesn't matter how strong your passwords are if you use the same one on multiple sites. All it takes is for a site to get hacked , like Gawker media, or even Sony did , and now your super-strong password has been stolen , and every site on which you used that password has been accessed .\nSo, the bottom line is that no matter how strong your passwords are , and no matter what clever tricks you use to help you remember them , if you surf the Internet often , the only truly secure password system is what you need .\nEnter LastPass. It's not the only password manager out there, but I like it the best. You create ONE strong password that you have to memorize and use it to access your LastPass database . The LastPass database is stored online, on LastPass's servers. LastPass recognizes the site you're on and automatically logs you in (after , optionally , asking you to re-enter your master password). LastPass also has automatic form fill and automatic password generation. This means that you can have a different , unique , very strong password for every site you log into , but you only have to remember one master password . It's the best of both worlds.\nOne argument against LastPass is that if their database is attacked , then all of your sites are in danger, and that's true, but given that their entire line of work is keeping that information safe , I'm willing to take that chance. The alternative is rolling dice or picking phrase to create passwords, writing all of them down on a piece of paper or something , and then having to manually type them in when I go to a site . A terrible mess.\nThere is a free version of LastPass , with additional features unlocked if you pay $ 12 for a year's subscription .\n----Joshua Bardwell\n\n<question>:\nJoshua Bardwell writes the passage to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA share his experience\nB introduce a product of good quality\nC advertise his product\nD teach how to use a new product\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>:\nIn a society where lung and breast cancers are leading causes of cancer death worldwide, early detection of the disease is highly desirable. In a new scientific study, researchers present astonishing new evidence that man's best friend, the dog, may have the ability to contribute to early cancer detection.\nResearchers show scientific evidence that a dog's extraordinary smelling ability can distinguish people with both early and late stage lung and breast cancers from healthy people. Researchers first discovered this in the case report of a dog warning its owner to the presence of a melanoma by constantly sniffing the skin lesion . Later studies published in major medical magazines proved the ability of trained dogs to detect both melanomas and bladder cancers. The new study is the first to test whether dogs can detect cancers only by sniffing the breath of cancer patients.\nIn this study, five household dogs were trained within a short 3-week period to detect lung or breast cancer by sniffing the breath of cancer patients. The experiment consisted of 86 cancer patients (55 with lung cancer and 31 with breast cancer) and 83 healthy people. All cancer patients had recently been diagnosed with cancer and had not yet undergone any chemotherapy treatment . The dogs were presented with breath samples from the cancer patients and the healthy ones, captured in a special tube. Dogs were trained to give a positive identification of a cancer patient by sitting or lying down directly in front of a test station containing a cancer patient sample, while ignoring healthy samples.\nThe results of the study showed that dogs can detect breast and lung cancer between 88% and 97%. Moreover, the study also proved that the trained dogs could even detect the early stages of lung cancer, as well as early breast cancer. The researchers concluded that breath analysis might become a potential of cancer diagnosis.\n\n<question>:\nWhat's the best title of the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Can dogs smell cancer?\nB Dogs and treatment\nC A new research on breast cancer\nD An interesting experiment on lung cancer\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>:\nIn a society where lung and breast cancers are leading causes of cancer death worldwide, early detection of the disease is highly desirable. In a new scientific study, researchers present astonishing new evidence that man's best friend, the dog, may have the ability to contribute to early cancer detection.\nResearchers show scientific evidence that a dog's extraordinary smelling ability can distinguish people with both early and late stage lung and breast cancers from healthy people. Researchers first discovered this in the case report of a dog warning its owner to the presence of a melanoma by constantly sniffing the skin lesion . Later studies published in major medical magazines proved the ability of trained dogs to detect both melanomas and bladder cancers. The new study is the first to test whether dogs can detect cancers only by sniffing the breath of cancer patients.\nIn this study, five household dogs were trained within a short 3-week period to detect lung or breast cancer by sniffing the breath of cancer patients. The experiment consisted of 86 cancer patients (55 with lung cancer and 31 with breast cancer) and 83 healthy people. All cancer patients had recently been diagnosed with cancer and had not yet undergone any chemotherapy treatment . The dogs were presented with breath samples from the cancer patients and the healthy ones, captured in a special tube. Dogs were trained to give a positive identification of a cancer patient by sitting or lying down directly in front of a test station containing a cancer patient sample, while ignoring healthy samples.\nThe results of the study showed that dogs can detect breast and lung cancer between 88% and 97%. Moreover, the study also proved that the trained dogs could even detect the early stages of lung cancer, as well as early breast cancer. The researchers concluded that breath analysis might become a potential of cancer diagnosis.\n\n<question>:\nIn this scientific study, five household dogs, _ lung cancer patients and healthy people are involved.\n\n<options>:\nA 86; 88\nB 31; 97\nC 55; 83\nD 86; 83\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>:\nThe Wal-Mart in Cleburne, Texas, was crowded. People were waiting in long lines at checkout counters to pay for small things that would be next-morning treasures under someone's Christmas tree.\nThe woman standing in cashier Jeffrey Kandt's line seemed to be living on the edge of subsistence . Her clothes were worn and her hands were those of a person who'd worked hard for what she had. She held a single item in her arms as she patiently waited to move to the front of the line -- a Sony CD player. She had saved all year for this. With tax, the total would be close to $ 220.\nAs the woman got close to the cashier, she suddenly shouted, \"Where's my money? All of my money fro my son's gift! Oh no!\"\n\"Why my line?\" Kandt thought as he watched the poor woman searching through her clothes. He was going to have to call his manager to avoid the sale but it would mean a long wait for the customers behind her. \"I am going to go home late tonight,\" Kandt thought.\nThen an amazing thing happened. At the back of the line, a man took out his wallet, pulled out $100 and passed it forward. As the cash moved up the line, a twen5ty-dollar bill was added here, and a ten-dollar bill was added there. When the collection finally reached the registewr, Kandt counted $ 220.\nStrangers had fulfilled a poor woman's Christmas wish.\nThe poor in his line at the Wal-Mart in Cleburne, Texas, had come together on Christmas Eve, 2002.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the passage, the woman's Christmas wish was to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA collect $ 220 for her family\nB buy her son a CD player as a gift\nC buy enough food for her family\nD organize a big party for her son\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>:\nMom's birthday present? It may be a difficult thing for some people, but for me, it is an easy thing. Mom loved flowers, so every year I sent her flowers. Actually she had a bed of irises in the backyard of her small, Indiana farm. They were beautiful. \"Take some,\" she said, \"Dig some up and plant them on the side of your own house.\"\nBut in my yard they became lacking in energy. A year passed, then two, but not one flower appeared. I cut back all their green leaves. I was tired of seeing them so lonely. Finally, I dug the irises up and threw them away.\nAbout that time Mom died unexpectedly. My sister and I sold the farm. I never went back to see the irises. I just couldn't bear seeing another family living in our home--Mom's home. Autumn came, then winter. The following spring, as Mom's birthday approached, I struggled with the question of how to remember her. I stared out the window and saw a few stubborn irises in my side yard sprouting , --tall, thin but flowerless. Because of seeing them, I decided to order flowers as I always did on Mom's birthday, and send them to my sister. I wished so badly I could still send flowers to Mom. But that was impossible.\nIn the morning of Mom's birthday, I was in my car ready to work. Something in the yard caught my eye. The irises! One had bloomed with flowers, big, showy and purple, as lovely as they ever had been on Mom's farm. I smiled and turned my eyes upward. I could no longer send flowers to Mom. But somehow, she'd been able to send them to me.\n\n<question>:\nAt first, the irises in the author's yard _ .\n\n<options>:\nA all died quickly\nB didn't bloom at all\nC grew as well as on Mom's farm\nD grew better than those on Mom's farm\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>:\nMom's birthday present? It may be a difficult thing for some people, but for me, it is an easy thing. Mom loved flowers, so every year I sent her flowers. Actually she had a bed of irises in the backyard of her small, Indiana farm. They were beautiful. \"Take some,\" she said, \"Dig some up and plant them on the side of your own house.\"\nBut in my yard they became lacking in energy. A year passed, then two, but not one flower appeared. I cut back all their green leaves. I was tired of seeing them so lonely. Finally, I dug the irises up and threw them away.\nAbout that time Mom died unexpectedly. My sister and I sold the farm. I never went back to see the irises. I just couldn't bear seeing another family living in our home--Mom's home. Autumn came, then winter. The following spring, as Mom's birthday approached, I struggled with the question of how to remember her. I stared out the window and saw a few stubborn irises in my side yard sprouting , --tall, thin but flowerless. Because of seeing them, I decided to order flowers as I always did on Mom's birthday, and send them to my sister. I wished so badly I could still send flowers to Mom. But that was impossible.\nIn the morning of Mom's birthday, I was in my car ready to work. Something in the yard caught my eye. The irises! One had bloomed with flowers, big, showy and purple, as lovely as they ever had been on Mom's farm. I smiled and turned my eyes upward. I could no longer send flowers to Mom. But somehow, she'd been able to send them to me.\n\n<question>:\nWhat troubled the author?\n\n<options>:\nA She didn't know how to grow irises.\nB She regretted they had sold Mom's farm.\nC She didn't know what to do in memory of Mom.\nD She couldn't bear others living in Mom's home.\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>:\nMom's birthday present? It may be a difficult thing for some people, but for me, it is an easy thing. Mom loved flowers, so every year I sent her flowers. Actually she had a bed of irises in the backyard of her small, Indiana farm. They were beautiful. \"Take some,\" she said, \"Dig some up and plant them on the side of your own house.\"\nBut in my yard they became lacking in energy. A year passed, then two, but not one flower appeared. I cut back all their green leaves. I was tired of seeing them so lonely. Finally, I dug the irises up and threw them away.\nAbout that time Mom died unexpectedly. My sister and I sold the farm. I never went back to see the irises. I just couldn't bear seeing another family living in our home--Mom's home. Autumn came, then winter. The following spring, as Mom's birthday approached, I struggled with the question of how to remember her. I stared out the window and saw a few stubborn irises in my side yard sprouting , --tall, thin but flowerless. Because of seeing them, I decided to order flowers as I always did on Mom's birthday, and send them to my sister. I wished so badly I could still send flowers to Mom. But that was impossible.\nIn the morning of Mom's birthday, I was in my car ready to work. Something in the yard caught my eye. The irises! One had bloomed with flowers, big, showy and purple, as lovely as they ever had been on Mom's farm. I smiled and turned my eyes upward. I could no longer send flowers to Mom. But somehow, she'd been able to send them to me.\n\n<question>:\nAfter seeing the irises sprouting, the author _ .\n\n<options>:\nA decided to send flowers to her sister on Mom's birthday\nB dug them out because they were flowerless\nC decided to send them to Mom after they bloom\nD ordered flowers for the people living in Mom's home\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>:\nI don't think I can recall a time when I wasn't aware of the beauty of the ocean. Growing up in Australia, I had the good fortune of having the sea at my side. The first time I went to Half moon Bay. _ .\nFor my 10thbirthday, my sister and I were taken out to the Great Barrier Reef. There were fish in different colors, caves and layers of coral. They made such an impression on me. When I learned that only 1 percent of Australia's Coral Sea was protected, I was shocked. Australian marine life is particularly important because the reef shave more marine species than any other country on earth. But sadly, only 45% of the world's reefs are considered healthy.\nThis statistic is depressing, so it's important to do everything to protect them. The hope that the Coral Sea remains a complete eco-system has led me to take action. I've become involved with the Protect Our Coral Sea activity, which aims to create the largest marine park in the world. It would serve as a place where the ocean's species will all have a safe place forever.\nTogether, Angus and I created a little video and we hope it will inspire people to be a part of the movement. Angus also shares many beautiful childhood memories of the ocean as a young boy, who grew up sailing, admiring the beauty of the ocean, and trying to find the secrets of ocean species.\n\n<question>:\nThe Protect Our Coral Sea activity is intended to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA contribute to a complete eco-system\nB prevent more marine species being endangered\nC set up a large nature reserve for reefs\nD raise more teenagers' environmental awareness\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>:\nI don't think I can recall a time when I wasn't aware of the beauty of the ocean. Growing up in Australia, I had the good fortune of having the sea at my side. The first time I went to Half moon Bay. _ .\nFor my 10thbirthday, my sister and I were taken out to the Great Barrier Reef. There were fish in different colors, caves and layers of coral. They made such an impression on me. When I learned that only 1 percent of Australia's Coral Sea was protected, I was shocked. Australian marine life is particularly important because the reef shave more marine species than any other country on earth. But sadly, only 45% of the world's reefs are considered healthy.\nThis statistic is depressing, so it's important to do everything to protect them. The hope that the Coral Sea remains a complete eco-system has led me to take action. I've become involved with the Protect Our Coral Sea activity, which aims to create the largest marine park in the world. It would serve as a place where the ocean's species will all have a safe place forever.\nTogether, Angus and I created a little video and we hope it will inspire people to be a part of the movement. Angus also shares many beautiful childhood memories of the ocean as a young boy, who grew up sailing, admiring the beauty of the ocean, and trying to find the secrets of ocean species.\n\n<question>:\nAngus and the author created a little video to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA urge more people to take action to protect the marine species\nB inspire more people to explore the secret of the ocean\nC share their childhood experiences about the ocean\nD bring back to people their memory of ocean species\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>:\nDrawings of human colonies on other planets often picture the entire community under a glass or plastic bubble. The bubble is intended to create an atmosphere with adequate oxygen and other essential elements. But similar bubble-like structures have also been constructed on earth. One of the most famous, and controversial, is a site in the Arizona desert.\nBiosphere 2, as it is called, was built not far from Tucson in 1984 and is now run by Columbia University. This huge(7,200,000-cubic-foot)glass and steel construction contains several separate ecosystems, including a desert, a rain forest, and a 900,000-gallon \"ocean.\" The climatic conditions-humidity, temperature, air quality-are regulated by sensors and can be adjusted as needed or desired. For example, a rainstorm can be created to increase the humidity. The adjustable features of Biosphere 2 make it an ideal location to perform experiments to help determine the effects of such climatic changes as global warming.\nThe current conditions at Biosphere 2 are vastly different from those in 1993, when eight people who had moved into the environment with great fanfare two years earlier moved out in failure. Though promising to be self-sufficient , these \"colonists\" had so much trouble regulating the environment that they reportedly had food smuggled into them. Oxygen levels became dangerously low; most plants and animals died. In taking over the unsuccessful site, Columbia hopes to erase its notorious past by focusing on small research projects that gradually answer some of Biosphere 1's -- that is, Earth's most basic environment questions.\n\n<question>:\nThis passage primarily deals with _ .\n\n<options>:\nA conditions of life in Biosphere 2\nB building controlled environments on other planets\nC why Biosphere 2 failed in the past\nD what makes a good biosphere colonist\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>:\nDrawings of human colonies on other planets often picture the entire community under a glass or plastic bubble. The bubble is intended to create an atmosphere with adequate oxygen and other essential elements. But similar bubble-like structures have also been constructed on earth. One of the most famous, and controversial, is a site in the Arizona desert.\nBiosphere 2, as it is called, was built not far from Tucson in 1984 and is now run by Columbia University. This huge(7,200,000-cubic-foot)glass and steel construction contains several separate ecosystems, including a desert, a rain forest, and a 900,000-gallon \"ocean.\" The climatic conditions-humidity, temperature, air quality-are regulated by sensors and can be adjusted as needed or desired. For example, a rainstorm can be created to increase the humidity. The adjustable features of Biosphere 2 make it an ideal location to perform experiments to help determine the effects of such climatic changes as global warming.\nThe current conditions at Biosphere 2 are vastly different from those in 1993, when eight people who had moved into the environment with great fanfare two years earlier moved out in failure. Though promising to be self-sufficient , these \"colonists\" had so much trouble regulating the environment that they reportedly had food smuggled into them. Oxygen levels became dangerously low; most plants and animals died. In taking over the unsuccessful site, Columbia hopes to erase its notorious past by focusing on small research projects that gradually answer some of Biosphere 1's -- that is, Earth's most basic environment questions.\n\n<question>:\nBiosphere 2 is now run by _ .\n\n<options>:\nA a group of eight colonists\nB Columbia University\nC the city of Tucson\nD scientists who hope to establish Biosphere 3\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>:\nDrawings of human colonies on other planets often picture the entire community under a glass or plastic bubble. The bubble is intended to create an atmosphere with adequate oxygen and other essential elements. But similar bubble-like structures have also been constructed on earth. One of the most famous, and controversial, is a site in the Arizona desert.\nBiosphere 2, as it is called, was built not far from Tucson in 1984 and is now run by Columbia University. This huge(7,200,000-cubic-foot)glass and steel construction contains several separate ecosystems, including a desert, a rain forest, and a 900,000-gallon \"ocean.\" The climatic conditions-humidity, temperature, air quality-are regulated by sensors and can be adjusted as needed or desired. For example, a rainstorm can be created to increase the humidity. The adjustable features of Biosphere 2 make it an ideal location to perform experiments to help determine the effects of such climatic changes as global warming.\nThe current conditions at Biosphere 2 are vastly different from those in 1993, when eight people who had moved into the environment with great fanfare two years earlier moved out in failure. Though promising to be self-sufficient , these \"colonists\" had so much trouble regulating the environment that they reportedly had food smuggled into them. Oxygen levels became dangerously low; most plants and animals died. In taking over the unsuccessful site, Columbia hopes to erase its notorious past by focusing on small research projects that gradually answer some of Biosphere 1's -- that is, Earth's most basic environment questions.\n\n<question>:\nThe writer helps you understand what Biosphere 2 is like by _ .\n\n<options>:\nA comparing its features with those of an outer space biosphere\nB explaining the process by which it was constructed\nC referring to an interview with one of former inhabitants\nD describing its appearance and conditions\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>:\nYou have a nice salary, but you still feel short of money. At the end of each month, you often ask yourself, \"Where has all my money gone\"? To help you better run your salary, here come some money-saving tips.\nFirst, you need to set goals to encourage yourself to save money. For example, you plan to have a good dress in one year, to have a car in two years' time or to buy a house in five years.\nSecond, form money-saving habits and stay away from the ones that waste money. Learn to keep a diary of how much you spend and what it's for. Think twice before using money on expensive skin care products . The best way to keep your skin in good condition is enough sleep.\nThird, pay attention to your daily things. Leave no more than one light on when you leave home. Buy vegetables from a market where vegetables are less expensive and fresher, not a supermarket. When going to a supermarket, take a notebook with you. Write down what you want to buy.\nFourth, save your social life. Take the dishes that haven't been eaten up away for next day when you have dinner in a restaurant. When it's your turn to offer a meal, invite your friends to your home, and cook the dinner yourself. If you are to attend a party and an expensive present is needed, ask several friends to go together to share a present.\n\n<question>:\nThe passage is mainly about _ .\n\n<options>:\nA four ways to save money\nB how to set goals to save money\nC where to keep money\nD how to live well with little money\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>:\nYou have a nice salary, but you still feel short of money. At the end of each month, you often ask yourself, \"Where has all my money gone\"? To help you better run your salary, here come some money-saving tips.\nFirst, you need to set goals to encourage yourself to save money. For example, you plan to have a good dress in one year, to have a car in two years' time or to buy a house in five years.\nSecond, form money-saving habits and stay away from the ones that waste money. Learn to keep a diary of how much you spend and what it's for. Think twice before using money on expensive skin care products . The best way to keep your skin in good condition is enough sleep.\nThird, pay attention to your daily things. Leave no more than one light on when you leave home. Buy vegetables from a market where vegetables are less expensive and fresher, not a supermarket. When going to a supermarket, take a notebook with you. Write down what you want to buy.\nFourth, save your social life. Take the dishes that haven't been eaten up away for next day when you have dinner in a restaurant. When it's your turn to offer a meal, invite your friends to your home, and cook the dinner yourself. If you are to attend a party and an expensive present is needed, ask several friends to go together to share a present.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following does the author favor?\n\n<options>:\nA Have some good skin care products.\nB Enough sleep does good to skin.\nC All things in supermarkets are expensive.\nD Vegetables in a market taste good.\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>:\nYou have a nice salary, but you still feel short of money. At the end of each month, you often ask yourself, \"Where has all my money gone\"? To help you better run your salary, here come some money-saving tips.\nFirst, you need to set goals to encourage yourself to save money. For example, you plan to have a good dress in one year, to have a car in two years' time or to buy a house in five years.\nSecond, form money-saving habits and stay away from the ones that waste money. Learn to keep a diary of how much you spend and what it's for. Think twice before using money on expensive skin care products . The best way to keep your skin in good condition is enough sleep.\nThird, pay attention to your daily things. Leave no more than one light on when you leave home. Buy vegetables from a market where vegetables are less expensive and fresher, not a supermarket. When going to a supermarket, take a notebook with you. Write down what you want to buy.\nFourth, save your social life. Take the dishes that haven't been eaten up away for next day when you have dinner in a restaurant. When it's your turn to offer a meal, invite your friends to your home, and cook the dinner yourself. If you are to attend a party and an expensive present is needed, ask several friends to go together to share a present.\n\n<question>:\nIf you want to save money, you should _ .\n\n<options>:\nA have dinner in a restaurant\nB buy dishes in a restaurant and eat at home\nC invite friends home and cook yourself\nD attend a party alone\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>:\nYou have a nice salary, but you still feel short of money. At the end of each month, you often ask yourself, \"Where has all my money gone\"? To help you better run your salary, here come some money-saving tips.\nFirst, you need to set goals to encourage yourself to save money. For example, you plan to have a good dress in one year, to have a car in two years' time or to buy a house in five years.\nSecond, form money-saving habits and stay away from the ones that waste money. Learn to keep a diary of how much you spend and what it's for. Think twice before using money on expensive skin care products . The best way to keep your skin in good condition is enough sleep.\nThird, pay attention to your daily things. Leave no more than one light on when you leave home. Buy vegetables from a market where vegetables are less expensive and fresher, not a supermarket. When going to a supermarket, take a notebook with you. Write down what you want to buy.\nFourth, save your social life. Take the dishes that haven't been eaten up away for next day when you have dinner in a restaurant. When it's your turn to offer a meal, invite your friends to your home, and cook the dinner yourself. If you are to attend a party and an expensive present is needed, ask several friends to go together to share a present.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following is NOT suggested by the author?\n\n<options>:\nA Making a plan saving money.\nB Forming habits of saving money.\nC Cutting down the prices when buying things.\nD Leaving few lights on when you leave home.\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>:\nI clearly remember the day when my little brother was born: January 1, 1994. One of my favorite family photos shows me lying with my mother in the hospital bed, happy but un-aware of the small, sleeping baby in the background.\nI stayed with my grandparents for the weekend of my brother's birth, excited about my new brother but not yet aware of what having a little brother would mean. I didn't truly realize what was going on until we were in the hospital room at Duke University----\ncoincidentally , the same room in which I had been born two years earlier.\nWhen I looked at my brother for the first time, I felt a mixture of fear and interest. Little did know that small, pink creature would grow up to be one of my favorite people in the world.\nIn reality, though I am two years older than my brother, I am more often than not the real baby in the family. I am very lacking when it comes to common sense. Instructions constantly confuse me and I frequently find myself totally puzzled by things like knowing how to start the washing machine or manage the storage settings on my iPhone.\nThat's where Gibson comes in. The poor kid has had to guide me through more tasks than I would care to admit, but he never complains. Though I should probably be told to figure it out myself, he always comes through.\nI'm envious of his ability to readily answer the ever-present, \"What do you want to do with your life?\" question at family gatherings. \"Be a doctor,\" he says----a solid answer, completely opposite to my shaky one, \"Well, I'm an English major, so...\"\nMy brother truly is my best friend. No one understands me better, and there isn't anyone else I would want to be stuck with in our family. I may not have a clear idea of where I'm headed, but he is stuck with me.\n\n<question>:\nHow did the author feel when he saw his brother for the first time?\n\n<options>:\nA Angry and sad.\nB Excited and moved.\nC Curious and scared.\nD Happy and interested.\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>:\nI clearly remember the day when my little brother was born: January 1, 1994. One of my favorite family photos shows me lying with my mother in the hospital bed, happy but un-aware of the small, sleeping baby in the background.\nI stayed with my grandparents for the weekend of my brother's birth, excited about my new brother but not yet aware of what having a little brother would mean. I didn't truly realize what was going on until we were in the hospital room at Duke University----\ncoincidentally , the same room in which I had been born two years earlier.\nWhen I looked at my brother for the first time, I felt a mixture of fear and interest. Little did know that small, pink creature would grow up to be one of my favorite people in the world.\nIn reality, though I am two years older than my brother, I am more often than not the real baby in the family. I am very lacking when it comes to common sense. Instructions constantly confuse me and I frequently find myself totally puzzled by things like knowing how to start the washing machine or manage the storage settings on my iPhone.\nThat's where Gibson comes in. The poor kid has had to guide me through more tasks than I would care to admit, but he never complains. Though I should probably be told to figure it out myself, he always comes through.\nI'm envious of his ability to readily answer the ever-present, \"What do you want to do with your life?\" question at family gatherings. \"Be a doctor,\" he says----a solid answer, completely opposite to my shaky one, \"Well, I'm an English major, so...\"\nMy brother truly is my best friend. No one understands me better, and there isn't anyone else I would want to be stuck with in our family. I may not have a clear idea of where I'm headed, but he is stuck with me.\n\n<question>:\nWhat does the brother often help the author do?\n\n<options>:\nA Help him deal with many daily tasks.\nB Help him with his studies.\nC Give him advice on how to choose a major.\nD Comfort him when he is in a bad mood.\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>:\nI used to think education was the most important thing in my life. Recently my attitude has begun to change, although I still hold that it is _ for everyone in the world today. As a top junior student in my college, I was asked to make a speech on how to learn English well. Standing in front of the audience and facing so many freshmen, I was trembling. I didn' t remember any word that I had prepared. I ran out of the conference room without finishing my speech, leaving everyone puzzled. I cried that night in my room, feeling that I was a loser. Studying takes up so much of my time that I feel unable to really develop myself. I am just storing knowledge, yet I fail to communicate with others. I have received many awards in school, but they don't necessarily reflect anything about me. I don't know how to socialize. When I leave school I fear I will be of no use to society.\nI realize that everyone has his own way of living. I want to change my lifestyle. Of course I will keep studying. Yet I plan to look for a part-time job, which might turn out to be a good chance to get to know society. I still believe that working my hardest makes me happy. I will still stay on in college. But I will not allow it to shelter me from the real world.\n\n<question>:\nThe author believes the awards she has received _ .\n\n<options>:\nA show that she is a top student\nB show how much time she has spent in learning\nC only mean that she knows how to learn, but she doesn't know how to socialize\nD don't necessarily reflect her real self\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>:\nLike my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it \"tap-dancing to work\". My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, but what makes me \"tap-dance to work\" is when we show people something new, like a computer that can recognize your handwriting or your speech, or one that can store a lifetime's worth of photos, and they say, \"I didn't know you could do that with a PC!\" \nBut for all the cool things that a person can do with a PC, there are lots of other ways we can put our creativity and intelligence to work to improve our world. There are still far too many people in the world whose most basic needs go unmet. I believe that my own good fortune brings with it a responsibility to give back to the world. My wife, Melinda, and I have committed to improving health and education in a way that can help as many people as possible. As a father, I believe that the death of a child in Africa is no less poignant or tragic than the death of a child anywhere else. And that it doesn't take much to make an immense difference in these children's lives. \nI'm still very much an optimist, and I believe that progress on even the world's toughest problems is possible -- and it's happening every day. We're seeing new drugs for deadly diseases, new diagnostic tools, and new attention paid to the health problems in the developing world. I'm excited by the possibilities I see for medicine, for education and, of course, for technology. And I believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough problems, we're going to make some amazing achievements in all these areas in my lifetime.\n\n<question>:\nWhen a person \"tap-dances to work\", he _ .\n\n<options>:\nA seldom treats his work seriously\nB takes delight in doing his job\nC compares his work to dancing lesson\nD regards work as a great challenge\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>:\nThe concept of Emotional Intelligence(EQ or EI)was first given by Peter Salovey and John Mayer.but it became widely popular after the publication of Daniel Coleman's best seller\"Emotional Intelligence\"in 1995.The meaning of emotional intelligence is\"Knowing how you and others feel and what to do about it.\"\n The control center of our emotions is a small part of oily brain called the amygdala,,which scans incoming signals from our sensory organs(eyes,ears...)and acts as the emotional alarm center of our bed.When it detects a condition that we hate,that we fear,or that could hurt us,it sends an immediate signal to the other parts of our brain that controls our actions.\n The amygdala's widespread web of neural connections allows it,during an emotional emergency.to take control of much of the rest of the brain including the mind.This explains why we sometimes do things \"without thinking'' like closing our eyes just before a flying insect hits our face or losing control during the course of a heated argument.\n Emotions are important for good decision-making and to keep friendly relationships with others around us.We admire people with determination when have the ability to control their emotions when they face pressure,arguments or aggression(attack).We also enjoy being with people who can express co-operation and forgiveness.We need these emotions to be happy in our professional life as much as we need them in our private life.\n The majority of problems at work are caused by unmet emotional needs.The emotional-intelligent manager knows bow to make out and manage the emotional needs of both the customers and his team.He or she.wants to help others feel respected,supported,helped,trusted,important,special,useful,needed and valued.\n When our emotional needs are satisfled, we feel better,and when we feel better,we are more productive,patient,creative,open-minded,and caring.\n Emotional intelligence requires that we develop our abilities in four main areas:\n 1) self-awareness\n being aware of our emotions as they happen;\n 2) managing emotions\n keeping a healthy balance of emotion and thinking;\n 3) recognizing emotions in others\n it's a great communicating skill;\n 4) handling relationships\n managing emotions in others increases our popularity.our leadership ability and our\n communication effectiveness.\n\n<question>:\nwhen did EQ become popular?\n\n<options>:\nA After Peter Salovey and John Mayer defined the term.\nB After computers became widely spread in our life.\nC After Daniel Coleman published his book on EQ.\nD After an expert said it was quite important.\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>:\nIt is bad to have food stuck between your teeth for long periods of time. This is because food attracts germs; germs produce acid, and acid hurts your teeth and gums. Flossing helps to remove the food that gets stuck between your teeth. This explains why flossing helps to keep your mouth healthy, but some doctors say that flossing can also be good for your heart.\nIt may seem strange that something you do for your teeth can have any effect on your heart. Doctors have come up with a few ideas about how flossing works to keep your heart healthy. One idea is that the germs that hurt your teeth can leave the mouth and travel into your blood.Germs that get into the blood can then attack your heart. Another idea is based on the fact that when there are too many germs in your mouth, the body tries to fight against there germs. For some reason, the way the body fights these mouth germs may end up weakening the heart overtime.\n _ . Some doctors think that the link between good flossing habits and good heart health is only a coincidence. The incidence of two or more events is completely random, as they do not admit of any reliable cause and effect relationship between them. For example, every time I wash my car, it rains. This does not mean that when I wash my car, I somehow change the weather. This is only a coincidence. Similarly, some doctors think that people who have bad flossing habits just happen to also have heart problems, and people who have good flossing habits just happen to have healthy hearts.\nThe theory that flossing your teeth helps to keep your heart healthy might not be true. But every doctor agrees that flossing is a great way to keep your teeth healthy. So even if flossing does not help your heart, it is true to help your teeth. This is enough of a reason for everyone to floss their teeth every day.\n\n<question>:\nFrom the passage, we know that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA food stuck between your teeth may hurt your teeth\nB all of the doctors agree that flossing is good for your heart\nC doctors' judgment about flossing is based on medical research\nD not every doctor thinks flossing helps to keep your teeth healthy\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>:\nIt is bad to have food stuck between your teeth for long periods of time. This is because food attracts germs; germs produce acid, and acid hurts your teeth and gums. Flossing helps to remove the food that gets stuck between your teeth. This explains why flossing helps to keep your mouth healthy, but some doctors say that flossing can also be good for your heart.\nIt may seem strange that something you do for your teeth can have any effect on your heart. Doctors have come up with a few ideas about how flossing works to keep your heart healthy. One idea is that the germs that hurt your teeth can leave the mouth and travel into your blood.Germs that get into the blood can then attack your heart. Another idea is based on the fact that when there are too many germs in your mouth, the body tries to fight against there germs. For some reason, the way the body fights these mouth germs may end up weakening the heart overtime.\n _ . Some doctors think that the link between good flossing habits and good heart health is only a coincidence. The incidence of two or more events is completely random, as they do not admit of any reliable cause and effect relationship between them. For example, every time I wash my car, it rains. This does not mean that when I wash my car, I somehow change the weather. This is only a coincidence. Similarly, some doctors think that people who have bad flossing habits just happen to also have heart problems, and people who have good flossing habits just happen to have healthy hearts.\nThe theory that flossing your teeth helps to keep your heart healthy might not be true. But every doctor agrees that flossing is a great way to keep your teeth healthy. So even if flossing does not help your heart, it is true to help your teeth. This is enough of a reason for everyone to floss their teeth every day.\n\n<question>:\nWhich is the best title for the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Flossing by Coincidence\nB How to Keep Your Teeth Healthy\nC Flossing Habits and Healthy Hearts\nD Why Doctors Disagree About Flossing\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>:\nIn the summer of 1999, a small town called Golcuk was shaken by a big earthquake in north-western Turkey. It destroyed the whole town and other nearby places. Soon enough, help from other countries flew there for one purpose, \"saving lives\". Nowadays wherever an earthquake strikes, other countries are ready to send help. That is really something that, as human beings, we should be proud of.\n When the earthquake struck, I was living in my hometown of Ankara, capital of the Turkey. Despite the 220-mile distance between the two locations, we still were able to feel the shakes.\n I had a chance to visit Golcuk a couple times when I was a kid. My uncle who lives in Germany has a summer house there, and every summer they stay in Golcuk for their yearly vacation. After the quake struck, we couldn't contact them, so we didn't know if they were in Golcuk or in Germany during the quake. Our unsuccessful attempts worried us, and the only thing we wanted to hear was that they were OK. Without wasting any more time, my brother, my sister's husband, and I decided to drive there to check on them by ourselves.\n When we were driving, the damage of the earthquake started to show itself right away. Big, wide, tall trees were laid down on the side of the road. Getting closer to Golcuk, we found the impact of the earthquake was getting worse. Inside the town was total destruction.\n It wasn't easy to figure out the streets among the ruins. Finally, we were able to find my uncle's apartment and thank God, it was still standing, but nobody was there. Later on we found that they hadn't yet visited Golcuk that year. What luck!\n Earthquakes are natural disasters and there is no way to avoid them, especially as earthquakes never give a warning in advance. They just strike mercilessly in the middle of the night when people are asleep in their beds. We cannot stop disasters but we can prepare ourselves for their consequences.\n\n<question>:\nWhat is the best title of the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Memory of an Earthquake in Golcuk\nB My Uncle's Yearly Vacation in Golck\nC An Unforgettable Experience\nD Our Unsuccessful Attempts\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>:\nIn the summer of 1999, a small town called Golcuk was shaken by a big earthquake in north-western Turkey. It destroyed the whole town and other nearby places. Soon enough, help from other countries flew there for one purpose, \"saving lives\". Nowadays wherever an earthquake strikes, other countries are ready to send help. That is really something that, as human beings, we should be proud of.\n When the earthquake struck, I was living in my hometown of Ankara, capital of the Turkey. Despite the 220-mile distance between the two locations, we still were able to feel the shakes.\n I had a chance to visit Golcuk a couple times when I was a kid. My uncle who lives in Germany has a summer house there, and every summer they stay in Golcuk for their yearly vacation. After the quake struck, we couldn't contact them, so we didn't know if they were in Golcuk or in Germany during the quake. Our unsuccessful attempts worried us, and the only thing we wanted to hear was that they were OK. Without wasting any more time, my brother, my sister's husband, and I decided to drive there to check on them by ourselves.\n When we were driving, the damage of the earthquake started to show itself right away. Big, wide, tall trees were laid down on the side of the road. Getting closer to Golcuk, we found the impact of the earthquake was getting worse. Inside the town was total destruction.\n It wasn't easy to figure out the streets among the ruins. Finally, we were able to find my uncle's apartment and thank God, it was still standing, but nobody was there. Later on we found that they hadn't yet visited Golcuk that year. What luck!\n Earthquakes are natural disasters and there is no way to avoid them, especially as earthquakes never give a warning in advance. They just strike mercilessly in the middle of the night when people are asleep in their beds. We cannot stop disasters but we can prepare ourselves for their consequences.\n\n<question>:\nOn their way to search for their uncle, they found _ .\n\n<options>:\nA their uncle spent their yearly vacation in Golcuk every year\nB it was not difficult to find their uncle's house\nC the damage of the earthquake was worse than expected\nD their uncle hadn't visited Golcuk that year\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>:\nIn the summer of 1999, a small town called Golcuk was shaken by a big earthquake in north-western Turkey. It destroyed the whole town and other nearby places. Soon enough, help from other countries flew there for one purpose, \"saving lives\". Nowadays wherever an earthquake strikes, other countries are ready to send help. That is really something that, as human beings, we should be proud of.\n When the earthquake struck, I was living in my hometown of Ankara, capital of the Turkey. Despite the 220-mile distance between the two locations, we still were able to feel the shakes.\n I had a chance to visit Golcuk a couple times when I was a kid. My uncle who lives in Germany has a summer house there, and every summer they stay in Golcuk for their yearly vacation. After the quake struck, we couldn't contact them, so we didn't know if they were in Golcuk or in Germany during the quake. Our unsuccessful attempts worried us, and the only thing we wanted to hear was that they were OK. Without wasting any more time, my brother, my sister's husband, and I decided to drive there to check on them by ourselves.\n When we were driving, the damage of the earthquake started to show itself right away. Big, wide, tall trees were laid down on the side of the road. Getting closer to Golcuk, we found the impact of the earthquake was getting worse. Inside the town was total destruction.\n It wasn't easy to figure out the streets among the ruins. Finally, we were able to find my uncle's apartment and thank God, it was still standing, but nobody was there. Later on we found that they hadn't yet visited Golcuk that year. What luck!\n Earthquakes are natural disasters and there is no way to avoid them, especially as earthquakes never give a warning in advance. They just strike mercilessly in the middle of the night when people are asleep in their beds. We cannot stop disasters but we can prepare ourselves for their consequences.\n\n<question>:\nFrom this passage, we can learn that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA help from other countries will come to the quake-hit country\nB people know how to get rid of earthquakes\nC they went to Golcuk immediately the quake happened\nD the author has never seen his uncle before\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>:\nLOS ANGELES--The advice offered from any other 82-year-olds might have made young people yawn and roll their eyes.\n But when former South African President Nelson Mandela advised two dozenprefix = st1 /Los Angelesto take education seriously, his audience was listening.\n The famed old man said to the young people that if they expected to improve the lives of others in the future, they must work at improving their own lives now. \"Education is one of the most important weapons you have,\" Mandela advised, \"it will place you in a far better position to serve yourself and your community.\"\n \"The point is, he was young once and rebellious once and he kept his dream alive, just as you each have dreams.\" ExplainedSouth Africa's ambassador to theUnited States, Sheita Sisulu, as she introduced Mandela to the young crowd.\n Asked for specific advice about changing society by 21-year-old Ahmed Younis, Mandela suggested that somehow helping arouse more American interest in foreign affairs might be a start.\n \"There is an impression that Americans, in general, have not followed international developments properly,\" Mandela said, \"I'm not making that statement myself, but there are serious political analysts who say Americans are not well informed as to what has happened in the world.\"\n 22-year-old Omari Trice said Mandela left him full of passion. \"He's a person who set the tone for an entire nation.\" said Trice.\n \"You go away feeling you need to be Superman in order to get things done.\" Trice said.\n\n<question>:\nFrom the passage, we can conclude that American youth _ .\n\n<options>:\nA are willing to accept the advice from world-famous leaders\nB usually think that advice from old people is not worth considering\nC have a good understanding of the old\nD have no intention to improve the lives of others\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>:\nLOS ANGELES--The advice offered from any other 82-year-olds might have made young people yawn and roll their eyes.\n But when former South African President Nelson Mandela advised two dozenprefix = st1 /Los Angelesto take education seriously, his audience was listening.\n The famed old man said to the young people that if they expected to improve the lives of others in the future, they must work at improving their own lives now. \"Education is one of the most important weapons you have,\" Mandela advised, \"it will place you in a far better position to serve yourself and your community.\"\n \"The point is, he was young once and rebellious once and he kept his dream alive, just as you each have dreams.\" ExplainedSouth Africa's ambassador to theUnited States, Sheita Sisulu, as she introduced Mandela to the young crowd.\n Asked for specific advice about changing society by 21-year-old Ahmed Younis, Mandela suggested that somehow helping arouse more American interest in foreign affairs might be a start.\n \"There is an impression that Americans, in general, have not followed international developments properly,\" Mandela said, \"I'm not making that statement myself, but there are serious political analysts who say Americans are not well informed as to what has happened in the world.\"\n 22-year-old Omari Trice said Mandela left him full of passion. \"He's a person who set the tone for an entire nation.\" said Trice.\n \"You go away feeling you need to be Superman in order to get things done.\" Trice said.\n\n<question>:\nNelson Mandela makes the point in his speech that American youth leaders should _ .\n\n<options>:\nA improve their own lives\nB go to college for better education\nC put more importance on education\nD become interested in foreign affairs\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>:\nLOS ANGELES--The advice offered from any other 82-year-olds might have made young people yawn and roll their eyes.\n But when former South African President Nelson Mandela advised two dozenprefix = st1 /Los Angelesto take education seriously, his audience was listening.\n The famed old man said to the young people that if they expected to improve the lives of others in the future, they must work at improving their own lives now. \"Education is one of the most important weapons you have,\" Mandela advised, \"it will place you in a far better position to serve yourself and your community.\"\n \"The point is, he was young once and rebellious once and he kept his dream alive, just as you each have dreams.\" ExplainedSouth Africa's ambassador to theUnited States, Sheita Sisulu, as she introduced Mandela to the young crowd.\n Asked for specific advice about changing society by 21-year-old Ahmed Younis, Mandela suggested that somehow helping arouse more American interest in foreign affairs might be a start.\n \"There is an impression that Americans, in general, have not followed international developments properly,\" Mandela said, \"I'm not making that statement myself, but there are serious political analysts who say Americans are not well informed as to what has happened in the world.\"\n 22-year-old Omari Trice said Mandela left him full of passion. \"He's a person who set the tone for an entire nation.\" said Trice.\n \"You go away feeling you need to be Superman in order to get things done.\" Trice said.\n\n<question>:\nWhat Sheila Sisulu said suggested that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Nelson Mandela never lost hope in his life\nB was especially troublesome when young\nC Nelson Mandela was quite different from American youth when young\nD American youth should be no more rebellious\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>:\nLOS ANGELES--The advice offered from any other 82-year-olds might have made young people yawn and roll their eyes.\n But when former South African President Nelson Mandela advised two dozenprefix = st1 /Los Angelesto take education seriously, his audience was listening.\n The famed old man said to the young people that if they expected to improve the lives of others in the future, they must work at improving their own lives now. \"Education is one of the most important weapons you have,\" Mandela advised, \"it will place you in a far better position to serve yourself and your community.\"\n \"The point is, he was young once and rebellious once and he kept his dream alive, just as you each have dreams.\" ExplainedSouth Africa's ambassador to theUnited States, Sheita Sisulu, as she introduced Mandela to the young crowd.\n Asked for specific advice about changing society by 21-year-old Ahmed Younis, Mandela suggested that somehow helping arouse more American interest in foreign affairs might be a start.\n \"There is an impression that Americans, in general, have not followed international developments properly,\" Mandela said, \"I'm not making that statement myself, but there are serious political analysts who say Americans are not well informed as to what has happened in the world.\"\n 22-year-old Omari Trice said Mandela left him full of passion. \"He's a person who set the tone for an entire nation.\" said Trice.\n \"You go away feeling you need to be Superman in order to get things done.\" Trice said.\n\n<question>:\nFrom what Trice said, we can know that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA he was greatly impressed and encouraged by Mandela's speech\nB he thought little of Mandela's speech\nC he must be a superman in order to change society\nD he'll be more interested in international development\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>:\nOne Tuesday, we got up, had breakfast and got ready for school. We picked up our school bags and went to school. I opened my school bag to get my homework after I went into the classroom and sat down. My school homework needed to be handed in. But it was not there! I remembered I had put it in my school bag.\nI thought back to Monday afternoon. I finished my school homework, put it in my school bag, and went out to play softball with the neighbor kids. My sister Sara was not out playing as usual. She read a book inside the house. She must have taken my homework while I was playing softball outside as no kids came inside our house on Monday.\n After school I ran to the place where my sister and I usually meet. There was Sara. She didn't seem to be laughing at me. She is good at giving false information. \"Sara, what have you done with my homework?\" I asked. She said she hadn't seen it! \"What should I do?\" I thought. I waited for a chance to talk to Mom.\nIn Mom ' s room, I cried and shouted: I couldn't help shaking. I told her about my missing school homework. Hearing this, Mom left the room, went into the kitchen hurriedly and started looking in the trash. She pulled my school homework out of the trash! Mom said, \"I' m sorry, Teri. I saw that your school bag was too heavy, so I cleaned it out for you. Your homework didn't look any different from the waste paper which I threw away.\"\n I realized that I had misunderstood my sister. I apologized to her. And I learnt a good lesson from this experience.\n\n<question>:\nWhy did the writer think it was her sister who had taken her homework?\n\n<options>:\nA Because her sister had done that before.\nB Because her sister needed the homework.\nC Because her sister didn't get along well with her.\nD Because her sister was in the house while she was out.\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>:\nOne Tuesday, we got up, had breakfast and got ready for school. We picked up our school bags and went to school. I opened my school bag to get my homework after I went into the classroom and sat down. My school homework needed to be handed in. But it was not there! I remembered I had put it in my school bag.\nI thought back to Monday afternoon. I finished my school homework, put it in my school bag, and went out to play softball with the neighbor kids. My sister Sara was not out playing as usual. She read a book inside the house. She must have taken my homework while I was playing softball outside as no kids came inside our house on Monday.\n After school I ran to the place where my sister and I usually meet. There was Sara. She didn't seem to be laughing at me. She is good at giving false information. \"Sara, what have you done with my homework?\" I asked. She said she hadn't seen it! \"What should I do?\" I thought. I waited for a chance to talk to Mom.\nIn Mom ' s room, I cried and shouted: I couldn't help shaking. I told her about my missing school homework. Hearing this, Mom left the room, went into the kitchen hurriedly and started looking in the trash. She pulled my school homework out of the trash! Mom said, \"I' m sorry, Teri. I saw that your school bag was too heavy, so I cleaned it out for you. Your homework didn't look any different from the waste paper which I threw away.\"\n I realized that I had misunderstood my sister. I apologized to her. And I learnt a good lesson from this experience.\n\n<question>:\nWhen the writer saw her sister Sara after school, she _ .\n\n<options>:\nA realized she had misunderstood Sara\nB thought Sara was making a joke\nC believed Sara would apologize to her\nD thought: Sara pretended not to have taken her homework\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>:\nOne Tuesday, we got up, had breakfast and got ready for school. We picked up our school bags and went to school. I opened my school bag to get my homework after I went into the classroom and sat down. My school homework needed to be handed in. But it was not there! I remembered I had put it in my school bag.\nI thought back to Monday afternoon. I finished my school homework, put it in my school bag, and went out to play softball with the neighbor kids. My sister Sara was not out playing as usual. She read a book inside the house. She must have taken my homework while I was playing softball outside as no kids came inside our house on Monday.\n After school I ran to the place where my sister and I usually meet. There was Sara. She didn't seem to be laughing at me. She is good at giving false information. \"Sara, what have you done with my homework?\" I asked. She said she hadn't seen it! \"What should I do?\" I thought. I waited for a chance to talk to Mom.\nIn Mom ' s room, I cried and shouted: I couldn't help shaking. I told her about my missing school homework. Hearing this, Mom left the room, went into the kitchen hurriedly and started looking in the trash. She pulled my school homework out of the trash! Mom said, \"I' m sorry, Teri. I saw that your school bag was too heavy, so I cleaned it out for you. Your homework didn't look any different from the waste paper which I threw away.\"\n I realized that I had misunderstood my sister. I apologized to her. And I learnt a good lesson from this experience.\n\n<question>:\nThe writer's mother threw away her homework because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA she found it in some waste paper\nB the homework was too poorly don e\nC the homework looked like waste paper\nD she wanted to teach her a good lesson\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>:\nOne Tuesday, we got up, had breakfast and got ready for school. We picked up our school bags and went to school. I opened my school bag to get my homework after I went into the classroom and sat down. My school homework needed to be handed in. But it was not there! I remembered I had put it in my school bag.\nI thought back to Monday afternoon. I finished my school homework, put it in my school bag, and went out to play softball with the neighbor kids. My sister Sara was not out playing as usual. She read a book inside the house. She must have taken my homework while I was playing softball outside as no kids came inside our house on Monday.\n After school I ran to the place where my sister and I usually meet. There was Sara. She didn't seem to be laughing at me. She is good at giving false information. \"Sara, what have you done with my homework?\" I asked. She said she hadn't seen it! \"What should I do?\" I thought. I waited for a chance to talk to Mom.\nIn Mom ' s room, I cried and shouted: I couldn't help shaking. I told her about my missing school homework. Hearing this, Mom left the room, went into the kitchen hurriedly and started looking in the trash. She pulled my school homework out of the trash! Mom said, \"I' m sorry, Teri. I saw that your school bag was too heavy, so I cleaned it out for you. Your homework didn't look any different from the waste paper which I threw away.\"\n I realized that I had misunderstood my sister. I apologized to her. And I learnt a good lesson from this experience.\n\n<question>:\nWhat did the writer most probably learn from the experience'\n\n<options>:\nA Apology is very important in our life.\nB It feels terrible to be wronged by others.\nC It 's wrong to doubt others without facts.\nD It is unlucky to have poorly-educated parents.\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>:\nAava Whistler Hotel\nStar Ratings: Location: Whistler\nRooms:192\nStay at the Aava Whistler Hotel (formerly Coast Whistler Hotel) and experience a great vacation. The Aava Whistler Hotel is within minutes from over a hundred shopping malls and restaurants. It also has a great number of recreational facilities, including swimming, diving and even skiing. Hotel services include 24-hour reception, laundry and room service. Guests can stay in cozy rooms equipped with air-conditioning, bathroom and television. From CNY=496 per night.\nBest Western Cairn Croft Hotel\nStar Ratings: Location: East Lundy's Lane\nRoom:l66\nRelax and unwind at the Best Western Cairn Hotel. This resort-style hotel is located just minutes from the airport. At the Best Western Cairn Croft, guests can enjoy a large number of recreational facilities, including children's activities, sightseeing and a swimming pool. Business travelers can also take advantage of spacious meeting and banqueting facilities for hosting corporate events. All rooms come with basic amenities . From CNY=439 per night.\nClarion Hotel&Suites Downtown Montreal\nStar Ratings: Location:Montreal\nRooms:266\nConveniently located just 20 minutes from the airport, the Clarion Hotel&Suite Downtown Montreal is a moderately-priced three-star hotel that provides services to both business and leisure travelers. The Clarion has spacious meeting facilities and modern business centers for business travelers. It also has a sauna and whirlpool where guest can relax. All rooms come with basic amenities, including cable TV and a kitchenette. From CNY=553 per night.\nDelta Bow Valley Hotel\nStar Ratings: Location:Calgary\nRooms:398\nThe Delta Bow Valley Hotel is located a couple of blocks north of Olympic Plaza, east of James Short Park, and north-east of the Petro-Canada Centre. Apart from business and recreational services such as a business centre, fitness centre and restaurant, all rooms in the Delta come with a mini-bar and in-house movies. From CNY=l, 227 per night.\n\n<question>:\nWhat do all four of the hotels have in common?\n\n<options>:\nA They all provide a room with a mini bar.\nB They all have the same number of rooms\nC They are all close to the airport\nD They all have a three star ratings.\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>:\nAava Whistler Hotel\nStar Ratings: Location: Whistler\nRooms:192\nStay at the Aava Whistler Hotel (formerly Coast Whistler Hotel) and experience a great vacation. The Aava Whistler Hotel is within minutes from over a hundred shopping malls and restaurants. It also has a great number of recreational facilities, including swimming, diving and even skiing. Hotel services include 24-hour reception, laundry and room service. Guests can stay in cozy rooms equipped with air-conditioning, bathroom and television. From CNY=496 per night.\nBest Western Cairn Croft Hotel\nStar Ratings: Location: East Lundy's Lane\nRoom:l66\nRelax and unwind at the Best Western Cairn Hotel. This resort-style hotel is located just minutes from the airport. At the Best Western Cairn Croft, guests can enjoy a large number of recreational facilities, including children's activities, sightseeing and a swimming pool. Business travelers can also take advantage of spacious meeting and banqueting facilities for hosting corporate events. All rooms come with basic amenities . From CNY=439 per night.\nClarion Hotel&Suites Downtown Montreal\nStar Ratings: Location:Montreal\nRooms:266\nConveniently located just 20 minutes from the airport, the Clarion Hotel&Suite Downtown Montreal is a moderately-priced three-star hotel that provides services to both business and leisure travelers. The Clarion has spacious meeting facilities and modern business centers for business travelers. It also has a sauna and whirlpool where guest can relax. All rooms come with basic amenities, including cable TV and a kitchenette. From CNY=553 per night.\nDelta Bow Valley Hotel\nStar Ratings: Location:Calgary\nRooms:398\nThe Delta Bow Valley Hotel is located a couple of blocks north of Olympic Plaza, east of James Short Park, and north-east of the Petro-Canada Centre. Apart from business and recreational services such as a business centre, fitness centre and restaurant, all rooms in the Delta come with a mini-bar and in-house movies. From CNY=l, 227 per night.\n\n<question>:\nWhich hotel offers facilities for children's activities?\n\n<options>:\nA Clarion Hotel&Suites Downtown Montreal\nB Best Western Cairn Croft Hotel\nC Aava Whistler Hotel\nD Delta Bow Valley Hotel\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>:\nAava Whistler Hotel\nStar Ratings: Location: Whistler\nRooms:192\nStay at the Aava Whistler Hotel (formerly Coast Whistler Hotel) and experience a great vacation. The Aava Whistler Hotel is within minutes from over a hundred shopping malls and restaurants. It also has a great number of recreational facilities, including swimming, diving and even skiing. Hotel services include 24-hour reception, laundry and room service. Guests can stay in cozy rooms equipped with air-conditioning, bathroom and television. From CNY=496 per night.\nBest Western Cairn Croft Hotel\nStar Ratings: Location: East Lundy's Lane\nRoom:l66\nRelax and unwind at the Best Western Cairn Hotel. This resort-style hotel is located just minutes from the airport. At the Best Western Cairn Croft, guests can enjoy a large number of recreational facilities, including children's activities, sightseeing and a swimming pool. Business travelers can also take advantage of spacious meeting and banqueting facilities for hosting corporate events. All rooms come with basic amenities . From CNY=439 per night.\nClarion Hotel&Suites Downtown Montreal\nStar Ratings: Location:Montreal\nRooms:266\nConveniently located just 20 minutes from the airport, the Clarion Hotel&Suite Downtown Montreal is a moderately-priced three-star hotel that provides services to both business and leisure travelers. The Clarion has spacious meeting facilities and modern business centers for business travelers. It also has a sauna and whirlpool where guest can relax. All rooms come with basic amenities, including cable TV and a kitchenette. From CNY=553 per night.\nDelta Bow Valley Hotel\nStar Ratings: Location:Calgary\nRooms:398\nThe Delta Bow Valley Hotel is located a couple of blocks north of Olympic Plaza, east of James Short Park, and north-east of the Petro-Canada Centre. Apart from business and recreational services such as a business centre, fitness centre and restaurant, all rooms in the Delta come with a mini-bar and in-house movies. From CNY=l, 227 per night.\n\n<question>:\nIf you want to check in to a hotel at three o'clock in the morning you can stay at _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Aava Whistler Hotel\nB Best Western Cairn Croft Hotel\nC Clarion Hotel&Suites Downtown Montreal\nD Delta Bow Valley Hotel\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>:\nLast summer, two nineteenth-century cottages were rescued from remote farm fields in Montana, to be moved to an Art Deco building in San Francisco. The houses were made of wood. These cottages once housed early settlers as they worked the dry Montana soil; now they hold Twitter engineers.\nThe cottages could be an example of the industry' s odd love affair with \"low technology,\" a concept associated with the natural world, and with old-school craftsmanship that exists long before the Internet era. Low technology is not virtual --so, to take advantage of it, Internet companies have had to get creative. The rescued wood cottages, fitted by hand in the late eighteen-hundreds, are an obvious example, but Twitter's designs lie on the extreme end. Other companies are using a broader interpretation of low technology that focuses on nature.\nAmazon is building three glass spheres filled with trees, so that employees can \"work and socialize in a more natural, park-like setting.\" At Google's office, an entire floor is carpeted in glass. Facebook's second Menlo Park campus will have a rooftop park with a walking trail.\nOlle Lundberg, the founder of Lundberg Design, has worked with many tech companies over the years. \"We have lost the connection to the maker in our lives, and our tech engineers are the ones who feel impoverished , because they're surrounded by the digital world,\" he says. \"They're looking for a way to regain their individual identity, and we've found that introducing real crafts is one way to do that.\"\nThis craft based theory is rooted in history, William Morris, the English artist and writer, turned back to pre-industrial arts in the eighteen-sixties, just after the Industrial Revolution. The Arts and Crafts movement defined itself against machines. \"Without creative human occupation, people became disconnected from life,\" Morris said.\nResearch has shown that natural environments can restore our mental capacities. In Japan, patients are encouraged to \"forest-bathe,\" taking walks through woods to lower their blood pressure.\nThese health benefits apply to the workplace as well. Rachel Kaplvin, a professor of environmental psychology, has spent years researching the restorative effects of natural environment. Her research found that workers with access to nature at the office--even simple views of trees and flowers--felt their jobs were less stressful and more satisfying. If low-tech offices can potentially nourish the brains and improve the mental health of employees then, fine, bring on the cottages.\n\n<question>:\nThe writer mentions the two nineteenth-century cottages to show that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Twitter is having a hard time\nB old cottages are in need of protection\nC early settlers once suffered from a dry climate in Montana\nD Internet companies have rediscovered the benefits of low technology\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>:\nLast summer, two nineteenth-century cottages were rescued from remote farm fields in Montana, to be moved to an Art Deco building in San Francisco. The houses were made of wood. These cottages once housed early settlers as they worked the dry Montana soil; now they hold Twitter engineers.\nThe cottages could be an example of the industry' s odd love affair with \"low technology,\" a concept associated with the natural world, and with old-school craftsmanship that exists long before the Internet era. Low technology is not virtual --so, to take advantage of it, Internet companies have had to get creative. The rescued wood cottages, fitted by hand in the late eighteen-hundreds, are an obvious example, but Twitter's designs lie on the extreme end. Other companies are using a broader interpretation of low technology that focuses on nature.\nAmazon is building three glass spheres filled with trees, so that employees can \"work and socialize in a more natural, park-like setting.\" At Google's office, an entire floor is carpeted in glass. Facebook's second Menlo Park campus will have a rooftop park with a walking trail.\nOlle Lundberg, the founder of Lundberg Design, has worked with many tech companies over the years. \"We have lost the connection to the maker in our lives, and our tech engineers are the ones who feel impoverished , because they're surrounded by the digital world,\" he says. \"They're looking for a way to regain their individual identity, and we've found that introducing real crafts is one way to do that.\"\nThis craft based theory is rooted in history, William Morris, the English artist and writer, turned back to pre-industrial arts in the eighteen-sixties, just after the Industrial Revolution. The Arts and Crafts movement defined itself against machines. \"Without creative human occupation, people became disconnected from life,\" Morris said.\nResearch has shown that natural environments can restore our mental capacities. In Japan, patients are encouraged to \"forest-bathe,\" taking walks through woods to lower their blood pressure.\nThese health benefits apply to the workplace as well. Rachel Kaplvin, a professor of environmental psychology, has spent years researching the restorative effects of natural environment. Her research found that workers with access to nature at the office--even simple views of trees and flowers--felt their jobs were less stressful and more satisfying. If low-tech offices can potentially nourish the brains and improve the mental health of employees then, fine, bring on the cottages.\n\n<question>:\nLow technology is regarded as something that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA is related to nature\nB is out of date today\nC consumes too much energy\nD exists in the virtual world\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>:\nLast summer, two nineteenth-century cottages were rescued from remote farm fields in Montana, to be moved to an Art Deco building in San Francisco. The houses were made of wood. These cottages once housed early settlers as they worked the dry Montana soil; now they hold Twitter engineers.\nThe cottages could be an example of the industry' s odd love affair with \"low technology,\" a concept associated with the natural world, and with old-school craftsmanship that exists long before the Internet era. Low technology is not virtual --so, to take advantage of it, Internet companies have had to get creative. The rescued wood cottages, fitted by hand in the late eighteen-hundreds, are an obvious example, but Twitter's designs lie on the extreme end. Other companies are using a broader interpretation of low technology that focuses on nature.\nAmazon is building three glass spheres filled with trees, so that employees can \"work and socialize in a more natural, park-like setting.\" At Google's office, an entire floor is carpeted in glass. Facebook's second Menlo Park campus will have a rooftop park with a walking trail.\nOlle Lundberg, the founder of Lundberg Design, has worked with many tech companies over the years. \"We have lost the connection to the maker in our lives, and our tech engineers are the ones who feel impoverished , because they're surrounded by the digital world,\" he says. \"They're looking for a way to regain their individual identity, and we've found that introducing real crafts is one way to do that.\"\nThis craft based theory is rooted in history, William Morris, the English artist and writer, turned back to pre-industrial arts in the eighteen-sixties, just after the Industrial Revolution. The Arts and Crafts movement defined itself against machines. \"Without creative human occupation, people became disconnected from life,\" Morris said.\nResearch has shown that natural environments can restore our mental capacities. In Japan, patients are encouraged to \"forest-bathe,\" taking walks through woods to lower their blood pressure.\nThese health benefits apply to the workplace as well. Rachel Kaplvin, a professor of environmental psychology, has spent years researching the restorative effects of natural environment. Her research found that workers with access to nature at the office--even simple views of trees and flowers--felt their jobs were less stressful and more satisfying. If low-tech offices can potentially nourish the brains and improve the mental health of employees then, fine, bring on the cottages.\n\n<question>:\nThe writer's attitude to \"low technology\" can best be described as _ .\n\n<options>:\nA positive\nB defensive\nC cautious\nD doubtful\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>:\nLast summer, two nineteenth-century cottages were rescued from remote farm fields in Montana, to be moved to an Art Deco building in San Francisco. The houses were made of wood. These cottages once housed early settlers as they worked the dry Montana soil; now they hold Twitter engineers.\nThe cottages could be an example of the industry' s odd love affair with \"low technology,\" a concept associated with the natural world, and with old-school craftsmanship that exists long before the Internet era. Low technology is not virtual --so, to take advantage of it, Internet companies have had to get creative. The rescued wood cottages, fitted by hand in the late eighteen-hundreds, are an obvious example, but Twitter's designs lie on the extreme end. Other companies are using a broader interpretation of low technology that focuses on nature.\nAmazon is building three glass spheres filled with trees, so that employees can \"work and socialize in a more natural, park-like setting.\" At Google's office, an entire floor is carpeted in glass. Facebook's second Menlo Park campus will have a rooftop park with a walking trail.\nOlle Lundberg, the founder of Lundberg Design, has worked with many tech companies over the years. \"We have lost the connection to the maker in our lives, and our tech engineers are the ones who feel impoverished , because they're surrounded by the digital world,\" he says. \"They're looking for a way to regain their individual identity, and we've found that introducing real crafts is one way to do that.\"\nThis craft based theory is rooted in history, William Morris, the English artist and writer, turned back to pre-industrial arts in the eighteen-sixties, just after the Industrial Revolution. The Arts and Crafts movement defined itself against machines. \"Without creative human occupation, people became disconnected from life,\" Morris said.\nResearch has shown that natural environments can restore our mental capacities. In Japan, patients are encouraged to \"forest-bathe,\" taking walks through woods to lower their blood pressure.\nThese health benefits apply to the workplace as well. Rachel Kaplvin, a professor of environmental psychology, has spent years researching the restorative effects of natural environment. Her research found that workers with access to nature at the office--even simple views of trees and flowers--felt their jobs were less stressful and more satisfying. If low-tech offices can potentially nourish the brains and improve the mental health of employees then, fine, bring on the cottages.\n\n<question>:\nWhat might be the best title for the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Past Glories, Future Dreams\nB The Virtual World, the Real Challenge\nC High-tech Companies, Low-tech Offices\nD The More Craftsmanship, the Less Creativity\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 Oakley was born in 1860 in Darke County, Ohio. Her family was very poor. She decided to help her family even when she was very young, so she learned to use a gun, and began hunting animals for food. She could shoot them without losing the important parts of the meat.\nSoon her shooting ability became well known. When she was sixteen, she was invited to a competition with a famous marksman , Frank Butler. Annie surprised everyone by winning the competition. Later that year she and Frank married.\nIn 1882, Annie Oakley and Frank Butler started putting on shows together. Frank Butler was the star of the show and she was his assistant. The famous Native American leader, Sitting Bull, thought so highly of her shooting ability that he called her \"Little Sure Shot\". Later Annie Oakley became the star of the show and Frank Butler was her assistant. Posters for the show called her the \"Champion Markswoman\".\nDuring World War One, Annie Oakley wanted to train a group of women volunteers for the army, but the United States did not accept it. She gave American soldiers shooting lessons, and traveled across the country visiting many training camps. She gave shooting performances and raised money to support the American soldiers.\nAnnie Oakley died on November 3, 1926. Eighteen days later, Frank Butler died too.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the passage, Annie Oakley _ .\n\n<options>:\nA lived a hard life as a child\nB often went hunting with her family\nC joined the army during World War One\nD trained women soldiers during the war\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 Oakley was born in 1860 in Darke County, Ohio. Her family was very poor. She decided to help her family even when she was very young, so she learned to use a gun, and began hunting animals for food. She could shoot them without losing the important parts of the meat.\nSoon her shooting ability became well known. When she was sixteen, she was invited to a competition with a famous marksman , Frank Butler. Annie surprised everyone by winning the competition. Later that year she and Frank married.\nIn 1882, Annie Oakley and Frank Butler started putting on shows together. Frank Butler was the star of the show and she was his assistant. The famous Native American leader, Sitting Bull, thought so highly of her shooting ability that he called her \"Little Sure Shot\". Later Annie Oakley became the star of the show and Frank Butler was her assistant. Posters for the show called her the \"Champion Markswoman\".\nDuring World War One, Annie Oakley wanted to train a group of women volunteers for the army, but the United States did not accept it. She gave American soldiers shooting lessons, and traveled across the country visiting many training camps. She gave shooting performances and raised money to support the American soldiers.\nAnnie Oakley died on November 3, 1926. Eighteen days later, Frank Butler died too.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following names was given by Sitting Bull?\n\n<options>:\nA Annie Oakley.\nB Frank Butler.\nC Little Sure Shot.\nD Champion Markswoman.\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 Oakley was born in 1860 in Darke County, Ohio. Her family was very poor. She decided to help her family even when she was very young, so she learned to use a gun, and began hunting animals for food. She could shoot them without losing the important parts of the meat.\nSoon her shooting ability became well known. When she was sixteen, she was invited to a competition with a famous marksman , Frank Butler. Annie surprised everyone by winning the competition. Later that year she and Frank married.\nIn 1882, Annie Oakley and Frank Butler started putting on shows together. Frank Butler was the star of the show and she was his assistant. The famous Native American leader, Sitting Bull, thought so highly of her shooting ability that he called her \"Little Sure Shot\". Later Annie Oakley became the star of the show and Frank Butler was her assistant. Posters for the show called her the \"Champion Markswoman\".\nDuring World War One, Annie Oakley wanted to train a group of women volunteers for the army, but the United States did not accept it. She gave American soldiers shooting lessons, and traveled across the country visiting many training camps. She gave shooting performances and raised money to support the American soldiers.\nAnnie Oakley died on November 3, 1926. Eighteen days later, Frank Butler died too.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following shows best that Annie was skilled at shooting?\n\n<options>:\nA She could shoot animals without harming the important parts of the meat.\nB She offered to help the army by training women to be soldiers.\nC She put on shows as her husband's assistant.\nD She raised money to support the American soldiers.\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>:\nA young man named Matt Vongsykeo, 14-year-old, has saved a baby from the wreckage of a car. The four-month-old baby boy, found hanging in his capsule when Vongsykeo climbed into the car in Melbourne's Springvale, escaped serious injury and was taken to hospital.\n But the child's 33-year-old mother, from Endeavour Hills, died in hospital following last night's high speed crash, which left three other people injured.\n A car on the wrong side of the road is thought to have been traveling at over 100 kph when it hit three other vehicles. Vongsykeo said he heard the crash from his house and found a _ rushed against a wall. He heard a baby crying.\n \"There were two adults standing outside the car and they couldn't get in, so I had to climbed in and get the baby out,\" he said. \"I had to do it quickly because there was a window below me and I was afraid that was going to break.\"\n Vongsykeo told how he took out the baby in his arms and called to see if there was anyone else in the car. He found the baby's mother unconscious .\n \"I thought she was dead so I just rushed out.\" he said. \"She entered consciousness later on and I went around and started talking to her and getting her to talk to me and stay with me.\"\n He said he comforted the mother and told her baby was safe.\n Vongsykeo refused the idea that he was a hero.\n \"I've lived for 14 years. If something had happened to me ... I've lived for 14 years. That baby hasn't and I wanted to give him a chance.\"\n\n<question>:\nWhat would be the best title for the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA A woman lost her life in a car crash\nB A traffic accident in Springvale\nC A young man saved a baby after car crash\nD A young man did what he should do\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>:\nA young man named Matt Vongsykeo, 14-year-old, has saved a baby from the wreckage of a car. The four-month-old baby boy, found hanging in his capsule when Vongsykeo climbed into the car in Melbourne's Springvale, escaped serious injury and was taken to hospital.\n But the child's 33-year-old mother, from Endeavour Hills, died in hospital following last night's high speed crash, which left three other people injured.\n A car on the wrong side of the road is thought to have been traveling at over 100 kph when it hit three other vehicles. Vongsykeo said he heard the crash from his house and found a _ rushed against a wall. He heard a baby crying.\n \"There were two adults standing outside the car and they couldn't get in, so I had to climbed in and get the baby out,\" he said. \"I had to do it quickly because there was a window below me and I was afraid that was going to break.\"\n Vongsykeo told how he took out the baby in his arms and called to see if there was anyone else in the car. He found the baby's mother unconscious .\n \"I thought she was dead so I just rushed out.\" he said. \"She entered consciousness later on and I went around and started talking to her and getting her to talk to me and stay with me.\"\n He said he comforted the mother and told her baby was safe.\n Vongsykeo refused the idea that he was a hero.\n \"I've lived for 14 years. If something had happened to me ... I've lived for 14 years. That baby hasn't and I wanted to give him a chance.\"\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the passage, we know that Matt Vongsykeo was _ .\n\n<options>:\nA shy\nB brave\nC proud\nD worried\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>:\nAt a psychology conference in England years ago, a woman said to me: \"I'll knock you up in the morning.\" I was taken aback by her strange suggestion, but it occurred to me that I might not have understood what she really meant. As it turned out, what she had meant was, \"I'll knock on your door in the morning so that we can meet for breakfast to discuss the panel we're on.\"\nThis example of the difference in the meaning of \"knock you up\" in British and American English shows the complicated situations that can result from cultural misunderstandings. A cultural misunderstanding occurs when something -- a word, gesture, object, social context, or almost anything you can think of -- has a different meaning in two cultures. Sometimes the misunderstandings get _ , sometimes they lead nowhere, and sometimes they can become the starting point of something much more extreme, from love to war.\nRace is one area where cultural misunderstandings are common. We Americans tend to assume that racial categories are biological rather than social, so it may not occur to us that people from other cultures have a different set of racial concepts and classify themselves and us differently. Some African Americans complain that certain immigrants from other countries, such as Haiti or Jamaica, \"act as if they aren't black.\" The cultural misunderstanding is that, in the immigrants' countries of origin, they would never describe themselves as \"black\". This doesn't mean that they think they are white. It just means that their cultures have more categories, like marabou or grimaud in Haiti, or fair or brown in Jamaica, than are used in the United States. Meanwhile, white people in America, unaware of this cultural diversity, sometimes refer to all darker-skinned people as \"black\" without realizing that an issue exists.\nResolving cultural misunderstandings can clear the air or even lead to laughter. Sometimes, though, when it comes to race, unidentified cultural misunderstandings can create tension, unhappiness and distrust.\n\n<question>:\nWe can learn from the passage that cultural misunderstandings _ .\n\n<options>:\nA mostly come from body language\nB are the most serious social problem in the US\nC can cause negative feelings among people\nD can be cleared up with laughter\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>:\nAt a psychology conference in England years ago, a woman said to me: \"I'll knock you up in the morning.\" I was taken aback by her strange suggestion, but it occurred to me that I might not have understood what she really meant. As it turned out, what she had meant was, \"I'll knock on your door in the morning so that we can meet for breakfast to discuss the panel we're on.\"\nThis example of the difference in the meaning of \"knock you up\" in British and American English shows the complicated situations that can result from cultural misunderstandings. A cultural misunderstanding occurs when something -- a word, gesture, object, social context, or almost anything you can think of -- has a different meaning in two cultures. Sometimes the misunderstandings get _ , sometimes they lead nowhere, and sometimes they can become the starting point of something much more extreme, from love to war.\nRace is one area where cultural misunderstandings are common. We Americans tend to assume that racial categories are biological rather than social, so it may not occur to us that people from other cultures have a different set of racial concepts and classify themselves and us differently. Some African Americans complain that certain immigrants from other countries, such as Haiti or Jamaica, \"act as if they aren't black.\" The cultural misunderstanding is that, in the immigrants' countries of origin, they would never describe themselves as \"black\". This doesn't mean that they think they are white. It just means that their cultures have more categories, like marabou or grimaud in Haiti, or fair or brown in Jamaica, than are used in the United States. Meanwhile, white people in America, unaware of this cultural diversity, sometimes refer to all darker-skinned people as \"black\" without realizing that an issue exists.\nResolving cultural misunderstandings can clear the air or even lead to laughter. Sometimes, though, when it comes to race, unidentified cultural misunderstandings can create tension, unhappiness and distrust.\n\n<question>:\nWhat is the author's opinion about cultural misunderstandings?\n\n<options>:\nA There's no need to notice racial differences.\nB Haitians prefer to be described as fair or brown.\nC Cultural misunderstandings based on racial categories may be difficult to spot.\nD Americans are especially likely to misunderstand people from other cultures.\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>:\nNow AIDS has become one of the most dangerous killers for human beings. The whole world is in danger of AIDS. But the situation in rich countries is not the same as that in poor countries. According to a research, the most serious area is Africa.\nThroughout Africa, whole communities are being _ by AIDS. Mothers, fathers, teachers and farmers are dying in thousands, day after day.\nWhy is it that most people with HIV live in the world's poorest countries? Lack of education and health care makes people easy to be infected ; poverty and the constant search for work and food keep them on the move; casual work and casual sex leave women particularly easy to be infected. As a result, the disease spreads to even more people. Those who are already malnourished very soon become sick. Parents die, leaving children who are infected. It's a dangerous circle.\nWhen Pep Bonet visited Nchelenge in northern Zambia in 2003, he found one person in four was HIVpositive(HIV). There was a closed and fearful atmosphere. No one wanted to admit to their HIV identity, and women who were HIV positives were often beaten or driven out of their home. Mothers left home and children became orphans. People lost hope, and the light went out of their eyes.\nIn rich countries, anti-HIV drug treatments can keep people with HIV healthy for many years; in poor countries where 95% of people with HIV live, only a few can afford to get these drugs. Do you think that's fair?\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following statements is NOT true?\n\n<options>:\nA Most people with HIV live in poor countries of the world.\nB People with HIV in rich countries need not worry about anything.\nC Lack of education is one of the causes of AIDS spread.\nD In Africa women with HIV are especially looked down upon.\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>:\nNow AIDS has become one of the most dangerous killers for human beings. The whole world is in danger of AIDS. But the situation in rich countries is not the same as that in poor countries. According to a research, the most serious area is Africa.\nThroughout Africa, whole communities are being _ by AIDS. Mothers, fathers, teachers and farmers are dying in thousands, day after day.\nWhy is it that most people with HIV live in the world's poorest countries? Lack of education and health care makes people easy to be infected ; poverty and the constant search for work and food keep them on the move; casual work and casual sex leave women particularly easy to be infected. As a result, the disease spreads to even more people. Those who are already malnourished very soon become sick. Parents die, leaving children who are infected. It's a dangerous circle.\nWhen Pep Bonet visited Nchelenge in northern Zambia in 2003, he found one person in four was HIVpositive(HIV). There was a closed and fearful atmosphere. No one wanted to admit to their HIV identity, and women who were HIV positives were often beaten or driven out of their home. Mothers left home and children became orphans. People lost hope, and the light went out of their eyes.\nIn rich countries, anti-HIV drug treatments can keep people with HIV healthy for many years; in poor countries where 95% of people with HIV live, only a few can afford to get these drugs. Do you think that's fair?\n\n<question>:\nWhen talking about the different situation of HIV between rich and poor countries, the author thinks it is _ .\n\n<options>:\nA regretful\nB reasonable\nC understandable\nD unfair\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>:\nIn the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.\nMy grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to leave college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.\nThen I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic--and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed Son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.\nYou can imagine how busy I became, raising four boys under the age of 8! Our home was a complete zoo--a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each term.\nThe hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to give up, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.\nIn 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!\nI am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you're looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you're in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won't arrive in your life on one day. It's a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.\n\n<question>:\nWhen the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be _ .\n\n<options>:\nA a writer\nB a teacher\nC a judge\nD a doctor\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>:\nIn the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.\nMy grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to leave college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.\nThen I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic--and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed Son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.\nYou can imagine how busy I became, raising four boys under the age of 8! Our home was a complete zoo--a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each term.\nThe hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to give up, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.\nIn 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!\nI am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you're looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you're in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won't arrive in your life on one day. It's a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.\n\n<question>:\nThe author quit school in her second year of college because she _ .\n\n<options>:\nA wanted to study by herself\nB fell in love and got married\nC suffered from a serious illness\nD decided to look after her grandma\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>:\nIn the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.\nMy grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to leave college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.\nThen I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic--and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed Son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.\nYou can imagine how busy I became, raising four boys under the age of 8! Our home was a complete zoo--a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each term.\nThe hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to give up, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.\nIn 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!\nI am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you're looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you're in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won't arrive in your life on one day. It's a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following can best describe the author ?\n\n<options>:\nA Caring and determined.\nB Honest and responsible.\nC Ambitious and sensitive.\nD Innocent and single-minded.\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>:\nMoving should be an exciting time -- you're off to a new home, maybe moving up to a larger home. But for many people, moving turns into a stressful experience. It doesn't have to be that way. Some planning and a little research can make your next move the best one ever.\n Organization is the key to a successful move, so list your friends. Write down all the details that you need, especially things that might be lost during the move.\n Once you decide to move, start packing things immediately. You can find all the supplies you need, such as boxes, packing tape and more at truck rental outlets like Budget Truck Rental. The experts there can help you figure out how many and what types of boxes you'll need.\n About a month before your moving date, reserve your moving truck. The company you choose makes a big difference. Budget Truck Rental has 30,000 trucks nationwide for you to choose.\n Take care of your mail. Stop by your local post office and write the new address where your mail should be sent. You'll also want to change the address on any magazine subscriptions or other services you receive by mail.\n Make sure you have a group of friends to help you move. If you still have some boxes to pack, your friends can help you put the boxes into the truck while you finish up.\n\n<question>:\nThe passage is mainly written for those who _ .\n\n<options>:\nA help others move to a new home\nB offer rental services to others\nC prepare to move to a new home\nD like outside activities\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>:\nMoving should be an exciting time -- you're off to a new home, maybe moving up to a larger home. But for many people, moving turns into a stressful experience. It doesn't have to be that way. Some planning and a little research can make your next move the best one ever.\n Organization is the key to a successful move, so list your friends. Write down all the details that you need, especially things that might be lost during the move.\n Once you decide to move, start packing things immediately. You can find all the supplies you need, such as boxes, packing tape and more at truck rental outlets like Budget Truck Rental. The experts there can help you figure out how many and what types of boxes you'll need.\n About a month before your moving date, reserve your moving truck. The company you choose makes a big difference. Budget Truck Rental has 30,000 trucks nationwide for you to choose.\n Take care of your mail. Stop by your local post office and write the new address where your mail should be sent. You'll also want to change the address on any magazine subscriptions or other services you receive by mail.\n Make sure you have a group of friends to help you move. If you still have some boxes to pack, your friends can help you put the boxes into the truck while you finish up.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the passage, which of the following is necessary before the moving?\n\n<options>:\nA Plan your move well in advance.\nB Make sure everything is clean.\nC Pay your friends enough money.\nD Buy lots of magazines on moving.\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>:\nMANY of us enjoy doing it: you turn on the camera on your mobile phone and hold it at a high angle , making your eyes look bigger and your cheekbones more marked out. You turn to your best side and click.\nThere it is - your selfie.\nOver the past year, \"selfie\" has become a well-known term across the globe. This August the Oxford dictionary added the word to their online dictionary and defined it as: \"A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.\"\nToday it's not difficult to find social networking pages full of photos people have taken of themselves and their friends. And selfie culture has become especially related to young people. As many as 91 percent of teenagers have posted photos of themselves online, according to a recent survey by the US Pew Research Center.\nSo what are the reasons for the rise of selfie culture?\n\"The cult of the selfie celebrates regular people,\" Pamela Rutledge, a professor at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, told Vogue magazine. \"There are many more photographs available now of real people than models.\"\nPosting selfies also allows you to control your image online. \"I like having the power to choose how I look, even if I'm making a funny face,\" Samantha Barks, 19, a high school student in the US, told Vogue.\nIn addition to self-expression and documentation , selfies \"allow for an close friendship for long-distance friends, because you can see each other's faces every day\", wrote Casey Miller at The Huffington Post.\nBut US psychologist Jill Weber is concerned that selfies might lead to social problems. \"There's a danger that your self-esteem may start to be tied to the comments and 'likes' you get when you post a selfie, and they aren't based on who you are - they're based on what you look like,\" Weber told Vogue. \"When you get nothing or a negative response, your confidence can\n\"\n\n<question>:\nHow many reasons for the rise of selfie culture are mentioned in the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Two\nB Three\nC Four\nD Five\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>:\nMANY of us enjoy doing it: you turn on the camera on your mobile phone and hold it at a high angle , making your eyes look bigger and your cheekbones more marked out. You turn to your best side and click.\nThere it is - your selfie.\nOver the past year, \"selfie\" has become a well-known term across the globe. This August the Oxford dictionary added the word to their online dictionary and defined it as: \"A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.\"\nToday it's not difficult to find social networking pages full of photos people have taken of themselves and their friends. And selfie culture has become especially related to young people. As many as 91 percent of teenagers have posted photos of themselves online, according to a recent survey by the US Pew Research Center.\nSo what are the reasons for the rise of selfie culture?\n\"The cult of the selfie celebrates regular people,\" Pamela Rutledge, a professor at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, told Vogue magazine. \"There are many more photographs available now of real people than models.\"\nPosting selfies also allows you to control your image online. \"I like having the power to choose how I look, even if I'm making a funny face,\" Samantha Barks, 19, a high school student in the US, told Vogue.\nIn addition to self-expression and documentation , selfies \"allow for an close friendship for long-distance friends, because you can see each other's faces every day\", wrote Casey Miller at The Huffington Post.\nBut US psychologist Jill Weber is concerned that selfies might lead to social problems. \"There's a danger that your self-esteem may start to be tied to the comments and 'likes' you get when you post a selfie, and they aren't based on who you are - they're based on what you look like,\" Weber told Vogue. \"When you get nothing or a negative response, your confidence can\n\"\n\n<question>:\nWhat is Jill Weber's opinion about selfies?\n\n<options>:\nA Comments on selfie are based on who you are.\nB Selfies have more disadvantages than advantages.\nC Others' response to selfies might affect one's self-esteem.\nD Selfies shouldn't be encouraged for they lead to social problems.\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>:\nTeenagers are often a difficult group. With all those hormones flooding their bodies, they can be moody, unpredictable, and tend to make uncertain choices. But however confusing their teenage years are, kids can still be generally happy, depending on their lifestyle choices. According to a new research by British scientists, teens who don't smoke, drink only moderately or not at all, and who don't eat much junk food are likely to be happier than other teens.\nThe study looked at 40,000 British families and came up with some interesting findings. For example, kids who never drank alcohol were up to six times more likely to report higher levels of happiness than kids who drank. And teens who smoked were five times less likely to rate high on happiness charts compared to kids who don't smoke. Same goes for diet and physical activity. The more fruits and vegetables kids eat, and the more hours they spend playing sports, the happier they are.\nNow, of course this doesn't mean that not smoking or drinking, and playing sports guarantees happiness. It could be that kids who have happy character tend to be more active and less addicted to drinking or smoking. And it could equally be the case that kids who are unhappy are more related to drinking and smoking and eating junk food.\nOther studies have shown that exercise is a proven way to treat anxiety and depression. Future studies may support the idea that other healthful behaviors, including refraining from smoking, drinking, and eating too much junk, can avoid sadness and increase happiness, too.\n\n<question>:\nWhat can we learn from the text?\n\n<options>:\nA Not smoking or drinking guarantees happiness.\nB Teens with flooding hormones can not be happy.\nC Playing sports can decrease teen's unhappiness.\nD Unhappiness can certainly result in smoking and drinking.\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>:\nTeenagers are often a difficult group. With all those hormones flooding their bodies, they can be moody, unpredictable, and tend to make uncertain choices. But however confusing their teenage years are, kids can still be generally happy, depending on their lifestyle choices. According to a new research by British scientists, teens who don't smoke, drink only moderately or not at all, and who don't eat much junk food are likely to be happier than other teens.\nThe study looked at 40,000 British families and came up with some interesting findings. For example, kids who never drank alcohol were up to six times more likely to report higher levels of happiness than kids who drank. And teens who smoked were five times less likely to rate high on happiness charts compared to kids who don't smoke. Same goes for diet and physical activity. The more fruits and vegetables kids eat, and the more hours they spend playing sports, the happier they are.\nNow, of course this doesn't mean that not smoking or drinking, and playing sports guarantees happiness. It could be that kids who have happy character tend to be more active and less addicted to drinking or smoking. And it could equally be the case that kids who are unhappy are more related to drinking and smoking and eating junk food.\nOther studies have shown that exercise is a proven way to treat anxiety and depression. Future studies may support the idea that other healthful behaviors, including refraining from smoking, drinking, and eating too much junk, can avoid sadness and increase happiness, too.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following might help teens quit anxiety?\n\n<options>:\nA Smoking and drinking.\nB Taking exercise.\nC Eating junk food.\nD Going on a diet.\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>:\nTeenagers are often a difficult group. With all those hormones flooding their bodies, they can be moody, unpredictable, and tend to make uncertain choices. But however confusing their teenage years are, kids can still be generally happy, depending on their lifestyle choices. According to a new research by British scientists, teens who don't smoke, drink only moderately or not at all, and who don't eat much junk food are likely to be happier than other teens.\nThe study looked at 40,000 British families and came up with some interesting findings. For example, kids who never drank alcohol were up to six times more likely to report higher levels of happiness than kids who drank. And teens who smoked were five times less likely to rate high on happiness charts compared to kids who don't smoke. Same goes for diet and physical activity. The more fruits and vegetables kids eat, and the more hours they spend playing sports, the happier they are.\nNow, of course this doesn't mean that not smoking or drinking, and playing sports guarantees happiness. It could be that kids who have happy character tend to be more active and less addicted to drinking or smoking. And it could equally be the case that kids who are unhappy are more related to drinking and smoking and eating junk food.\nOther studies have shown that exercise is a proven way to treat anxiety and depression. Future studies may support the idea that other healthful behaviors, including refraining from smoking, drinking, and eating too much junk, can avoid sadness and increase happiness, too.\n\n<question>:\nWhich can be the best title for the text?\n\n<options>:\nA Ways to treat anxiety and depression.\nB Exercise and teenagers' health.\nC Teenagers shouldn't drink or smoke.\nD Teenagers' lifestyle and their happiness.\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>:\nA man wakes up with a big hangover the morning after attending his company's annual Summer Party. He can't even remember how he got home from the party, let alone how he got so drunk and is deathly afraid of what he may have done or said the night before to make his wife angry.\nThe man forces his eyes open and the first things he sees are two headache tablets next to a glass of water on his table, and, next to them, a single red rose! He sits up with difficulty and sees his clothing hung on the back of his chair all clean and pressed and the rest of the house all in perfect order.\nIncredulous , the man takes the tablets and sees a black eye looking back at him from the bathroom mirror. Then he finds a note next to the red rose on the table, \"Sweetie, breakfast is waiting for you on the stove. I left early to buy the cooking materials to make your favorite dinner tonight. I love you, darling! \" The note was signed, \"Your loving wife.\"\nThe man then walks into the kitchen. His daughter Jessie is at the table, eating. \"Jessie...what happened last night?\" The man asks, with great fear.\n\"Well, you came home around four o'clock in the morning, drunk and out of your mind. You tripped and fell onto the coffee table and broke it, and got this black eye when you crashed into the table's edge.\"\nPuzzled, the man asks Jessie, \"Then why is there a rose on my table and breakfast on the stove waiting for me?\"\n\"Oh that,\" Jessie replies, \"well, Mom pulled you into your bedroom, and when she tried to undress you, you yelled, 'Leave me alone; I'm married and I love my wife!'\"\n\n<question>:\nWhy did the man have a black eye?\n\n<options>:\nA He had a terrible headache.\nB He didn't sleep well the night before.\nC He was hit in the eye by his wife.\nD He fell over and crashed into the table.\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>:\nA man wakes up with a big hangover the morning after attending his company's annual Summer Party. He can't even remember how he got home from the party, let alone how he got so drunk and is deathly afraid of what he may have done or said the night before to make his wife angry.\nThe man forces his eyes open and the first things he sees are two headache tablets next to a glass of water on his table, and, next to them, a single red rose! He sits up with difficulty and sees his clothing hung on the back of his chair all clean and pressed and the rest of the house all in perfect order.\nIncredulous , the man takes the tablets and sees a black eye looking back at him from the bathroom mirror. Then he finds a note next to the red rose on the table, \"Sweetie, breakfast is waiting for you on the stove. I left early to buy the cooking materials to make your favorite dinner tonight. I love you, darling! \" The note was signed, \"Your loving wife.\"\nThe man then walks into the kitchen. His daughter Jessie is at the table, eating. \"Jessie...what happened last night?\" The man asks, with great fear.\n\"Well, you came home around four o'clock in the morning, drunk and out of your mind. You tripped and fell onto the coffee table and broke it, and got this black eye when you crashed into the table's edge.\"\nPuzzled, the man asks Jessie, \"Then why is there a rose on my table and breakfast on the stove waiting for me?\"\n\"Oh that,\" Jessie replies, \"well, Mom pulled you into your bedroom, and when she tried to undress you, you yelled, 'Leave me alone; I'm married and I love my wife!'\"\n\n<question>:\nThe wife did so much for her husband that morning probably because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA she took it for granted\nB her husband got drunk\nC she was moved by his words\nD she wanted to give her husband a surprise\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>:\nA man wakes up with a big hangover the morning after attending his company's annual Summer Party. He can't even remember how he got home from the party, let alone how he got so drunk and is deathly afraid of what he may have done or said the night before to make his wife angry.\nThe man forces his eyes open and the first things he sees are two headache tablets next to a glass of water on his table, and, next to them, a single red rose! He sits up with difficulty and sees his clothing hung on the back of his chair all clean and pressed and the rest of the house all in perfect order.\nIncredulous , the man takes the tablets and sees a black eye looking back at him from the bathroom mirror. Then he finds a note next to the red rose on the table, \"Sweetie, breakfast is waiting for you on the stove. I left early to buy the cooking materials to make your favorite dinner tonight. I love you, darling! \" The note was signed, \"Your loving wife.\"\nThe man then walks into the kitchen. His daughter Jessie is at the table, eating. \"Jessie...what happened last night?\" The man asks, with great fear.\n\"Well, you came home around four o'clock in the morning, drunk and out of your mind. You tripped and fell onto the coffee table and broke it, and got this black eye when you crashed into the table's edge.\"\nPuzzled, the man asks Jessie, \"Then why is there a rose on my table and breakfast on the stove waiting for me?\"\n\"Oh that,\" Jessie replies, \"well, Mom pulled you into your bedroom, and when she tried to undress you, you yelled, 'Leave me alone; I'm married and I love my wife!'\"\n\n<question>:\nThe passage is intended to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA tell us a funny story\nB show us how to take care of a person who is drunk\nC tell us how bad it is to be drunk\nD suggest we shouldn't get drunk\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>:\nPeople Born in Autumn Live Longer\nPeople born in the autumn live longer than those born in the spring and are less likely to fall chronically ill when they are older, according to an Austrian scientist.\nUsing census data for more than one million people in Austria, Denmark and Australia, scientists at the Max Planck Institute in the northern German town of Rostock found the month of birth was related to life expectancy over the age of 50. Seasonal differences in what mothers ate during pregnancy, and infections occurring at different times of the year could both have an impact on the health of a new-born baby and could influence its life expectancy in older age. \"A mother giving birth in spring spends the last phase of her pregnancy in winter, when she will eat less vitamins than in summer,\" said Gabriele Doblhammer, one of a team of scientists who carried out the research. \"When she stops breast-feeding and starts giving her baby normal food, it's in the hot weeks of summer when babies are prone to infections of the digestive system.\" In Austria, adults born in autumn (October-December) lived about seven months longer than those born in spring (April-June), and in Denmark adults with birthdays in autumn outlived those born in spring by about four months. In the southern hemisphere, the picture was similar. Adults born in the Australian autumn--the European spring--lived about four months longer than those born in the Australian spring. The study focused on people born at the beginning of the 20th century, using death certificates and census data. Although nutrition at all times of the year has improved since then, the seasonal pattern persists, Doblhammer said.\nBut on the other hand, according to a study of more 40,000 people, those born in spring and summer report themselves luckier than those born in autumn or winter. Professor Richard Wise-man who led the research explained that the temperature at the time of birth might influence the development of the brain and seasonal factors make a difference as well.\n\n<question>:\nThe census data of the following countries is used for research EXCEPT _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Germany.\nB Denmark.\nC Australia.\nD Austria.\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>:\nPeople Born in Autumn Live Longer\nPeople born in the autumn live longer than those born in the spring and are less likely to fall chronically ill when they are older, according to an Austrian scientist.\nUsing census data for more than one million people in Austria, Denmark and Australia, scientists at the Max Planck Institute in the northern German town of Rostock found the month of birth was related to life expectancy over the age of 50. Seasonal differences in what mothers ate during pregnancy, and infections occurring at different times of the year could both have an impact on the health of a new-born baby and could influence its life expectancy in older age. \"A mother giving birth in spring spends the last phase of her pregnancy in winter, when she will eat less vitamins than in summer,\" said Gabriele Doblhammer, one of a team of scientists who carried out the research. \"When she stops breast-feeding and starts giving her baby normal food, it's in the hot weeks of summer when babies are prone to infections of the digestive system.\" In Austria, adults born in autumn (October-December) lived about seven months longer than those born in spring (April-June), and in Denmark adults with birthdays in autumn outlived those born in spring by about four months. In the southern hemisphere, the picture was similar. Adults born in the Australian autumn--the European spring--lived about four months longer than those born in the Australian spring. The study focused on people born at the beginning of the 20th century, using death certificates and census data. Although nutrition at all times of the year has improved since then, the seasonal pattern persists, Doblhammer said.\nBut on the other hand, according to a study of more 40,000 people, those born in spring and summer report themselves luckier than those born in autumn or winter. Professor Richard Wise-man who led the research explained that the temperature at the time of birth might influence the development of the brain and seasonal factors make a difference as well.\n\n<question>:\nWhat's the main idea of this text?\n\n<options>:\nA Nutrition at all times of the year has improved since the beginning of the 20th century.\nB In Austria, adults born in autumn (October--December) lived about seven months longer than those born in spring (April--June).\nC People born in autumn live longer than those born in spring and are less likely to fall ill when they are older.\nD Babies are prone to infections of the digestive system.\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>:\nPeople Born in Autumn Live Longer\nPeople born in the autumn live longer than those born in the spring and are less likely to fall chronically ill when they are older, according to an Austrian scientist.\nUsing census data for more than one million people in Austria, Denmark and Australia, scientists at the Max Planck Institute in the northern German town of Rostock found the month of birth was related to life expectancy over the age of 50. Seasonal differences in what mothers ate during pregnancy, and infections occurring at different times of the year could both have an impact on the health of a new-born baby and could influence its life expectancy in older age. \"A mother giving birth in spring spends the last phase of her pregnancy in winter, when she will eat less vitamins than in summer,\" said Gabriele Doblhammer, one of a team of scientists who carried out the research. \"When she stops breast-feeding and starts giving her baby normal food, it's in the hot weeks of summer when babies are prone to infections of the digestive system.\" In Austria, adults born in autumn (October-December) lived about seven months longer than those born in spring (April-June), and in Denmark adults with birthdays in autumn outlived those born in spring by about four months. In the southern hemisphere, the picture was similar. Adults born in the Australian autumn--the European spring--lived about four months longer than those born in the Australian spring. The study focused on people born at the beginning of the 20th century, using death certificates and census data. Although nutrition at all times of the year has improved since then, the seasonal pattern persists, Doblhammer said.\nBut on the other hand, according to a study of more 40,000 people, those born in spring and summer report themselves luckier than those born in autumn or winter. Professor Richard Wise-man who led the research explained that the temperature at the time of birth might influence the development of the brain and seasonal factors make a difference as well.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following is NOT true according to the text?\n\n<options>:\nA Infections occurring at different times of the year influence the health of a new-born baby.\nB The study focused on people born in the late 20th century.\nC A mother giving birth in spring eats less vitamins during the last phase of her pregnancy in winter.\nD What mothers ate during pregnancy could have an impact on the babies' life expectancy in older age.\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>:\nPeople Born in Autumn Live Longer\nPeople born in the autumn live longer than those born in the spring and are less likely to fall chronically ill when they are older, according to an Austrian scientist.\nUsing census data for more than one million people in Austria, Denmark and Australia, scientists at the Max Planck Institute in the northern German town of Rostock found the month of birth was related to life expectancy over the age of 50. Seasonal differences in what mothers ate during pregnancy, and infections occurring at different times of the year could both have an impact on the health of a new-born baby and could influence its life expectancy in older age. \"A mother giving birth in spring spends the last phase of her pregnancy in winter, when she will eat less vitamins than in summer,\" said Gabriele Doblhammer, one of a team of scientists who carried out the research. \"When she stops breast-feeding and starts giving her baby normal food, it's in the hot weeks of summer when babies are prone to infections of the digestive system.\" In Austria, adults born in autumn (October-December) lived about seven months longer than those born in spring (April-June), and in Denmark adults with birthdays in autumn outlived those born in spring by about four months. In the southern hemisphere, the picture was similar. Adults born in the Australian autumn--the European spring--lived about four months longer than those born in the Australian spring. The study focused on people born at the beginning of the 20th century, using death certificates and census data. Although nutrition at all times of the year has improved since then, the seasonal pattern persists, Doblhammer said.\nBut on the other hand, according to a study of more 40,000 people, those born in spring and summer report themselves luckier than those born in autumn or winter. Professor Richard Wise-man who led the research explained that the temperature at the time of birth might influence the development of the brain and seasonal factors make a difference as well.\n\n<question>:\nThe right sentence of the following is _ .\n\n<options>:\nA The month of birth was not related to life expectancy over the age of 50.\nB A mother giving birth in spring spends the last phase of her pregnancy in winter, eating more vitamins than in summer.\nC Stopping breast-feeding and starting giving babies normal food must make babies prone to get infected with the digestive system in the hot weeks of summer.\nD Adults born in the Australian autumn--the European spring--lived about four months longer than those born in the Australian spring.\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>:\nLast year we visited Stratford the place where Shakespeare was born on the 23rdof April, 1564.\n Stratford is a very interesting town, right in the center of England. The countryside around Stratford is pleasant, with its beautiful woods, green fields and quiet rivers.\n The first place we visited was the house in the center of Stratford where Shakespeare was born. We saw the small desk that Shakespeare sat at when he went to school. One of the things we like best was the garden behind the house, because we could see there many of the flowers, trees and plants that Shakespeare wrote about in his plays.\n After we visited Shakespeare's birthplace, we went to see the church where he was buried.\n We had lunch in a very old hotel that was probably there in Shakespeare's time. Every room of the hotel had the name of one of Shakespeare's plays on the door--the\"Hamlet\"room, the \"Romeo and Juliet\"room and so on.\n After lunch we walked across the fields to the old cottage, about a mile out of Stratford, where Shakespeare spent most of his married life. The cottage is just as it was in Shakespeare's days. We saw the chairs where Shakespeare perhaps sat and thought about ideas for new plays, and we saw the plates from which he probably ate his dinner.\n When we got back to our school in the evening, we were very tired, but we had enjoyed a wonderful day.\n\n<question>:\nStratford is _ .\n\n<options>:\nA a big interesting city of England\nB in the center of England\nC full of woods, green fields and quiet rivers\nD where Shakespeare used to put on his plays\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>:\nLast year we visited Stratford the place where Shakespeare was born on the 23rdof April, 1564.\n Stratford is a very interesting town, right in the center of England. The countryside around Stratford is pleasant, with its beautiful woods, green fields and quiet rivers.\n The first place we visited was the house in the center of Stratford where Shakespeare was born. We saw the small desk that Shakespeare sat at when he went to school. One of the things we like best was the garden behind the house, because we could see there many of the flowers, trees and plants that Shakespeare wrote about in his plays.\n After we visited Shakespeare's birthplace, we went to see the church where he was buried.\n We had lunch in a very old hotel that was probably there in Shakespeare's time. Every room of the hotel had the name of one of Shakespeare's plays on the door--the\"Hamlet\"room, the \"Romeo and Juliet\"room and so on.\n After lunch we walked across the fields to the old cottage, about a mile out of Stratford, where Shakespeare spent most of his married life. The cottage is just as it was in Shakespeare's days. We saw the chairs where Shakespeare perhaps sat and thought about ideas for new plays, and we saw the plates from which he probably ate his dinner.\n When we got back to our school in the evening, we were very tired, but we had enjoyed a wonderful day.\n\n<question>:\nStrafford is a very interesting place because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA it's where Shakespeare was born\nB it's just in the center of England\nC it has beautiful scenery\nD there stands a beautiful church in it\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>:\nLast year we visited Stratford the place where Shakespeare was born on the 23rdof April, 1564.\n Stratford is a very interesting town, right in the center of England. The countryside around Stratford is pleasant, with its beautiful woods, green fields and quiet rivers.\n The first place we visited was the house in the center of Stratford where Shakespeare was born. We saw the small desk that Shakespeare sat at when he went to school. One of the things we like best was the garden behind the house, because we could see there many of the flowers, trees and plants that Shakespeare wrote about in his plays.\n After we visited Shakespeare's birthplace, we went to see the church where he was buried.\n We had lunch in a very old hotel that was probably there in Shakespeare's time. Every room of the hotel had the name of one of Shakespeare's plays on the door--the\"Hamlet\"room, the \"Romeo and Juliet\"room and so on.\n After lunch we walked across the fields to the old cottage, about a mile out of Stratford, where Shakespeare spent most of his married life. The cottage is just as it was in Shakespeare's days. We saw the chairs where Shakespeare perhaps sat and thought about ideas for new plays, and we saw the plates from which he probably ate his dinner.\n When we got back to our school in the evening, we were very tired, but we had enjoyed a wonderful day.\n\n<question>:\nWhere did Shakespeare write\"Hamlet\"and\"Romeo and Juliet?\"\n\n<options>:\nA In a very old hotel.\nB In a house in the center of Stratford.\nC In the old cottage about a mile out of Stratford.\nD The passage doesn't say where.\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>:\nLast year we visited Stratford the place where Shakespeare was born on the 23rdof April, 1564.\n Stratford is a very interesting town, right in the center of England. The countryside around Stratford is pleasant, with its beautiful woods, green fields and quiet rivers.\n The first place we visited was the house in the center of Stratford where Shakespeare was born. We saw the small desk that Shakespeare sat at when he went to school. One of the things we like best was the garden behind the house, because we could see there many of the flowers, trees and plants that Shakespeare wrote about in his plays.\n After we visited Shakespeare's birthplace, we went to see the church where he was buried.\n We had lunch in a very old hotel that was probably there in Shakespeare's time. Every room of the hotel had the name of one of Shakespeare's plays on the door--the\"Hamlet\"room, the \"Romeo and Juliet\"room and so on.\n After lunch we walked across the fields to the old cottage, about a mile out of Stratford, where Shakespeare spent most of his married life. The cottage is just as it was in Shakespeare's days. We saw the chairs where Shakespeare perhaps sat and thought about ideas for new plays, and we saw the plates from which he probably ate his dinner.\n When we got back to our school in the evening, we were very tired, but we had enjoyed a wonderful day.\n\n<question>:\nShakespeare was born in _ and buried in _ .\n\n<options>:\nA a house in the center of Stratford; church\nB an old cottage; church\nC a church; the countryside\nD a house in the center of Stratford; the fields near an old cottage.\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>:\nAmerican researchers found females are the more talkative sex because of a special \"language protein \" in the brain.\nThe study, conducted by neuroscientists and psychologist from the University of Maryland, concluded that women talked more because they had more of the Foxp2 protein. The research, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, found that higher levels were found among humans that were women but in rats that were males. Their findings came after it was previously claimed that ladies speak about 20,000 words a day - over 13,000 more than men. \"This study is one of the first to report a sex difference in the expression of a language-associated protein in humans or animals,\" said Prof Margaret McCarthy, who led the study. In their study, the researchers attempted to determine what might make male rats more vocal than their female friends.\nThey separated four-day-old rats from their mothers and then counted the number of times they cried out in the \"ultrasonic range\", the frequencies higher than humans can hear, over five minutes. While both sexes called out hundreds of cries, the males called out twice as often, they found. But when the pups were returned to their mother's cage, she _ her sons first. Tests conducted on the parts of the brain known to be associated with vocalcalls showed the male pups have up to twice as much Foxp2 protein as the females. The researchers then increased the production in the brains of female pups and reduced it in males. This led to the female rats crying out more often and their mothers showing more interest to them. In contrast, males became less \"talkative\".\nThe researchers then tested samples from ten children, aged between three and five, which showed that females had up to 30 per cent more of the Foxp2 protein than males, in a brain area key to language in humans.\n\"Based on our observations, we assume higher levels of Foxp2 in girls and higher levels of Foxp2 in male rats is an indication that Foxp2 protein levels are associated with the more communicative sex,\" said Prof McCarthy.\n\"Our results imply Foxp2 as a component of the neurobiological basis of sex differences in vocal communication in mammals. \"\n\n<question>:\nThe researchers carried out the experiments on rats in order to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA test which part of the brain is key to language in rats and humans\nB prove the levels of Foxp2 protein in humans and rats are different\nC determine the reason why female rats are more talkative than male rats\nD discover the association between Foxp2protein and vocal communication\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>:\nAmerican researchers found females are the more talkative sex because of a special \"language protein \" in the brain.\nThe study, conducted by neuroscientists and psychologist from the University of Maryland, concluded that women talked more because they had more of the Foxp2 protein. The research, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, found that higher levels were found among humans that were women but in rats that were males. Their findings came after it was previously claimed that ladies speak about 20,000 words a day - over 13,000 more than men. \"This study is one of the first to report a sex difference in the expression of a language-associated protein in humans or animals,\" said Prof Margaret McCarthy, who led the study. In their study, the researchers attempted to determine what might make male rats more vocal than their female friends.\nThey separated four-day-old rats from their mothers and then counted the number of times they cried out in the \"ultrasonic range\", the frequencies higher than humans can hear, over five minutes. While both sexes called out hundreds of cries, the males called out twice as often, they found. But when the pups were returned to their mother's cage, she _ her sons first. Tests conducted on the parts of the brain known to be associated with vocalcalls showed the male pups have up to twice as much Foxp2 protein as the females. The researchers then increased the production in the brains of female pups and reduced it in males. This led to the female rats crying out more often and their mothers showing more interest to them. In contrast, males became less \"talkative\".\nThe researchers then tested samples from ten children, aged between three and five, which showed that females had up to 30 per cent more of the Foxp2 protein than males, in a brain area key to language in humans.\n\"Based on our observations, we assume higher levels of Foxp2 in girls and higher levels of Foxp2 in male rats is an indication that Foxp2 protein levels are associated with the more communicative sex,\" said Prof McCarthy.\n\"Our results imply Foxp2 as a component of the neurobiological basis of sex differences in vocal communication in mammals. \"\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following can be the best title for the passage ?\n\n<options>:\nA Tests on humans and rats\nB Why women are the talkative sex\nC Sex differences in Foxp2 protein\nD Foxp2 protein determines oral ability\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>:\nFrom the first use of the rocket to carry satellites into space to the setting up of space stations,human beings have been putting great effort into space research. And so far,we have achieved many successes. But there are still numerous tasks in front of us and we should not cease trying to progress.\nThe international space station is an important step we should take in space exploration. It is not only helpful but also essential. It provides a proper space environment for many experiments that we have wanted to do for a long time. It is also a base for the observations of the earth and the universe. It could also be an important base for later travel to the moon and Mars. In a word,if we want to explore space more,the first thing we should do is to set up a space station.\nAs the space station costs a lot of money,it is hard for one country alone to establish one. The USA seems to be the only country that has the ability to build a space station alone,and it has tried to do so,but not very successful. So it _ many other countries to work on it together. Though it is still extremely expensive,it is much cheaper than doing it alone. It is really a job that needs everyone's effort and will benefit everyone.\nBut even so, the funds needed are still a big problem. As for the USA,it seems that it has too many things to spend its money on. Although it is the richest country in the world,it has much debt every year. It has to make arrangements about its finance,and try to find a balance in all these issues.\n\n<question>:\nWhat is the author's attitude towards building and developing the international space station?\n\n<options>:\nA Supportive.\nB Doubtful.\nC Critical.\nD Dissatisfied.\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>:\nFrom the first use of the rocket to carry satellites into space to the setting up of space stations,human beings have been putting great effort into space research. And so far,we have achieved many successes. But there are still numerous tasks in front of us and we should not cease trying to progress.\nThe international space station is an important step we should take in space exploration. It is not only helpful but also essential. It provides a proper space environment for many experiments that we have wanted to do for a long time. It is also a base for the observations of the earth and the universe. It could also be an important base for later travel to the moon and Mars. In a word,if we want to explore space more,the first thing we should do is to set up a space station.\nAs the space station costs a lot of money,it is hard for one country alone to establish one. The USA seems to be the only country that has the ability to build a space station alone,and it has tried to do so,but not very successful. So it _ many other countries to work on it together. Though it is still extremely expensive,it is much cheaper than doing it alone. It is really a job that needs everyone's effort and will benefit everyone.\nBut even so, the funds needed are still a big problem. As for the USA,it seems that it has too many things to spend its money on. Although it is the richest country in the world,it has much debt every year. It has to make arrangements about its finance,and try to find a balance in all these issues.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following is NOT a reason for countries' cooperation in building the international space station?\n\n<options>:\nA That it requires a lot of money.\nB That it needs everyone's effort.\nC That it will benefit every participating country.\nD That it is too far away from the earth.\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>:\nFrom the first use of the rocket to carry satellites into space to the setting up of space stations,human beings have been putting great effort into space research. And so far,we have achieved many successes. But there are still numerous tasks in front of us and we should not cease trying to progress.\nThe international space station is an important step we should take in space exploration. It is not only helpful but also essential. It provides a proper space environment for many experiments that we have wanted to do for a long time. It is also a base for the observations of the earth and the universe. It could also be an important base for later travel to the moon and Mars. In a word,if we want to explore space more,the first thing we should do is to set up a space station.\nAs the space station costs a lot of money,it is hard for one country alone to establish one. The USA seems to be the only country that has the ability to build a space station alone,and it has tried to do so,but not very successful. So it _ many other countries to work on it together. Though it is still extremely expensive,it is much cheaper than doing it alone. It is really a job that needs everyone's effort and will benefit everyone.\nBut even so, the funds needed are still a big problem. As for the USA,it seems that it has too many things to spend its money on. Although it is the richest country in the world,it has much debt every year. It has to make arrangements about its finance,and try to find a balance in all these issues.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following aspects about building the international space station is NOT mentioned in the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Difficulties.\nB Cooperation.\nC Significance.\nD Specific arrangements.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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