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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>:\nAttractions\nDo you:\n*love the National Park, value it and hope to safeguard its future?\n*Wish to see the beautiful landscape of the Park protected?\n*Like to enjoy peaceful, informal recreation within the Park?\nAims\nThe Friends organization aims to help protect and improve the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park for all to enjoy. We are a voluntary organization and registered charity without financial links to the National Park Authority.\nActivities\nWe encourage everyone to enjoy the National Park through regular talks and visits to interesting places in the Park with expert guides.\nWe keep an eye on planning applications, Park Authority policies and threats to the National Park such as massive leisure complexes. We work with like minded organizations such as the Campaign for National Parks to make our voice more effective.\nWe help children to understand the National Park by sponsoring publications such as an adventure booklet and projects in local schools.\nBenefits\n*Guided visits to places of interest which may not always be available to the general public.\n*All members receive our regular News and Views.\n*Talks by experts in their fields on current issues.\n*A discount is available on Friends items for sale.\n*Satisfaction of participation in work parties, for those willing and able to be involved.\nIf interested, please complete the Application Form at _\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following is discouraged by the Friends organization?\n\n<options>:\nA To sponsor publications and projects in local school.\nB To prevent possible damages to the National Park.\nC To help protect and improve the Park for all to enjoy.\nD To build massive complexes for public amusement.\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>:\nAttractions\nDo you:\n*love the National Park, value it and hope to safeguard its future?\n*Wish to see the beautiful landscape of the Park protected?\n*Like to enjoy peaceful, informal recreation within the Park?\nAims\nThe Friends organization aims to help protect and improve the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park for all to enjoy. We are a voluntary organization and registered charity without financial links to the National Park Authority.\nActivities\nWe encourage everyone to enjoy the National Park through regular talks and visits to interesting places in the Park with expert guides.\nWe keep an eye on planning applications, Park Authority policies and threats to the National Park such as massive leisure complexes. We work with like minded organizations such as the Campaign for National Parks to make our voice more effective.\nWe help children to understand the National Park by sponsoring publications such as an adventure booklet and projects in local schools.\nBenefits\n*Guided visits to places of interest which may not always be available to the general public.\n*All members receive our regular News and Views.\n*Talks by experts in their fields on current issues.\n*A discount is available on Friends items for sale.\n*Satisfaction of participation in work parties, for those willing and able to be involved.\nIf interested, please complete the Application Form at _\n\n<question>:\nOne of the benefits for members of Friends is to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA have Friends' goods free of charge\nB take part in work parties if they want to\nC visit any place not open to the public\nD give talks in their fields on current issues\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>:\nAttractions\nDo you:\n*love the National Park, value it and hope to safeguard its future?\n*Wish to see the beautiful landscape of the Park protected?\n*Like to enjoy peaceful, informal recreation within the Park?\nAims\nThe Friends organization aims to help protect and improve the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park for all to enjoy. We are a voluntary organization and registered charity without financial links to the National Park Authority.\nActivities\nWe encourage everyone to enjoy the National Park through regular talks and visits to interesting places in the Park with expert guides.\nWe keep an eye on planning applications, Park Authority policies and threats to the National Park such as massive leisure complexes. We work with like minded organizations such as the Campaign for National Parks to make our voice more effective.\nWe help children to understand the National Park by sponsoring publications such as an adventure booklet and projects in local schools.\nBenefits\n*Guided visits to places of interest which may not always be available to the general public.\n*All members receive our regular News and Views.\n*Talks by experts in their fields on current issues.\n*A discount is available on Friends items for sale.\n*Satisfaction of participation in work parties, for those willing and able to be involved.\nIf interested, please complete the Application Form at _\n\n<question>:\nThe purpose of this poster is to invite more people to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA raise money for the Friends organization\nB work as managers for Pembrokeshire National Park\nC join the Friends organization and be members of it\nD enjoy the landscape of Pembrokeshire National Park\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>:\nWhy should ear, nose, tongue and eyes be called special senses? The basic reason is that these are the channels through which we maintain contact with the surroundings. Though apparently it may feel like these are individual sensory organs, they do show some connections. Interestingly, our hearing is less sharp after we eat a heavy food. Isn't it good for a sound nap after a stomach-full meal? That does not mean we go deaf after a heavy meal, but the hearing pitch does change after that.\nWe usually owe it to our tongue that we have taste, but do you know that unless saliva dissolves something, our tongue cannot recognize the taste of the food eaten. Taste is nothing but the food chemicals dissolved in the saliva being sensed by the taste buds present on the tongue. Try to dry off your tongue and mouth with a tissue paper and then taste something.\nWoman are much better smellers than man. They are born with this characteristic ability and can correctly make out the exact fragrance of the sample. We all can store almost 50,000 different scents, which are strongly tied to the memories.\nPupils do not respond to light alone, but to the slightest bit of noise around too. Thus surgeons, watchmakers and those professionals who have to perform a very delicate job do prefer to have a sound-free environment. Even a small noise can enlarge their pupils, change the focus and make them see less clearly.\nEach and every one of us has an individualistic or characteristic smell, which is unique to us, except for the identical twins. This smell isn't very noticeable yet can be sensed even by a newborn. It may be due to this scent that the newborn recognizes the presence of his parents around. Many of us can point out the smell of our significant friends and colleagues. This is guided, to a great degree, by genetics but it is also influenced by the environment, diet and so on. This all together creates the unique chemistry that is individualistic for each person.\n\n<question>:\nWhat may happen after you have had a rich lunch?\n\n<options>:\nA Your eyes become weak and can't see well.\nB You may feel fresher and more energetic.\nC Your hearing pitch may be decreased.\nD Your tongue may lose the function of taste.\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>:\nWhy should ear, nose, tongue and eyes be called special senses? The basic reason is that these are the channels through which we maintain contact with the surroundings. Though apparently it may feel like these are individual sensory organs, they do show some connections. Interestingly, our hearing is less sharp after we eat a heavy food. Isn't it good for a sound nap after a stomach-full meal? That does not mean we go deaf after a heavy meal, but the hearing pitch does change after that.\nWe usually owe it to our tongue that we have taste, but do you know that unless saliva dissolves something, our tongue cannot recognize the taste of the food eaten. Taste is nothing but the food chemicals dissolved in the saliva being sensed by the taste buds present on the tongue. Try to dry off your tongue and mouth with a tissue paper and then taste something.\nWoman are much better smellers than man. They are born with this characteristic ability and can correctly make out the exact fragrance of the sample. We all can store almost 50,000 different scents, which are strongly tied to the memories.\nPupils do not respond to light alone, but to the slightest bit of noise around too. Thus surgeons, watchmakers and those professionals who have to perform a very delicate job do prefer to have a sound-free environment. Even a small noise can enlarge their pupils, change the focus and make them see less clearly.\nEach and every one of us has an individualistic or characteristic smell, which is unique to us, except for the identical twins. This smell isn't very noticeable yet can be sensed even by a newborn. It may be due to this scent that the newborn recognizes the presence of his parents around. Many of us can point out the smell of our significant friends and colleagues. This is guided, to a great degree, by genetics but it is also influenced by the environment, diet and so on. This all together creates the unique chemistry that is individualistic for each person.\n\n<question>:\nWhat makes each person different from anyone else except for twins according to the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA The particular smell of a person.\nB The characteristics of a person.\nC The style of one's behavior.\nD The ability to distinguish various scents.\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>:\nWhy should ear, nose, tongue and eyes be called special senses? The basic reason is that these are the channels through which we maintain contact with the surroundings. Though apparently it may feel like these are individual sensory organs, they do show some connections. Interestingly, our hearing is less sharp after we eat a heavy food. Isn't it good for a sound nap after a stomach-full meal? That does not mean we go deaf after a heavy meal, but the hearing pitch does change after that.\nWe usually owe it to our tongue that we have taste, but do you know that unless saliva dissolves something, our tongue cannot recognize the taste of the food eaten. Taste is nothing but the food chemicals dissolved in the saliva being sensed by the taste buds present on the tongue. Try to dry off your tongue and mouth with a tissue paper and then taste something.\nWoman are much better smellers than man. They are born with this characteristic ability and can correctly make out the exact fragrance of the sample. We all can store almost 50,000 different scents, which are strongly tied to the memories.\nPupils do not respond to light alone, but to the slightest bit of noise around too. Thus surgeons, watchmakers and those professionals who have to perform a very delicate job do prefer to have a sound-free environment. Even a small noise can enlarge their pupils, change the focus and make them see less clearly.\nEach and every one of us has an individualistic or characteristic smell, which is unique to us, except for the identical twins. This smell isn't very noticeable yet can be sensed even by a newborn. It may be due to this scent that the newborn recognizes the presence of his parents around. Many of us can point out the smell of our significant friends and colleagues. This is guided, to a great degree, by genetics but it is also influenced by the environment, diet and so on. This all together creates the unique chemistry that is individualistic for each person.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following may be the best title of this passage?\n\n<options>:\nA The Sensitivity of Sensory Organs\nB The Functions and Connections of Sensory Organs\nC A Newborn's Sensory Organs\nD Different Senses Between Men and Woman\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>:\nRead the advertisements, and then choose the right answer.\n1\nDriver Wanted\n(1) Clean driving license.\n(2) Must be of smart appearance.\n(3) Aged over 25.\nApply to: Capes Taxi,17 Palace Road, Boston.\n2\nAir Hostesses for International Flights Wanted\n(1)Applicants must be between 20 and 33 years old.\n(2) Height 1.6m to 1.75m.\n(3)Education to GCSE(General Certificate of Secondary Education)standard.\n(4)Two languages. Must be able to swim.\nApply to: Recruitment office, Southern Airline, Heathrow Airport West.HR37KK.\n3\nTeachers Needed\n(1For private language school. .\n(2)Teaching experience unnecessary.\nApply to: The Director of Studies. Instant Language Ltd,279 Canal street, Boston.\n\n<question>:\nWhat prevents Jack, an experienced taxi driver, working for Capes Taxis?\n\n<options>:\nA Fond of beer and wine.\nB Punished for speeding and wrong parking.\nC Unable to speak a foreign language.\nD Not having college education.\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>:\nRead the advertisements, and then choose the right answer.\n1\nDriver Wanted\n(1) Clean driving license.\n(2) Must be of smart appearance.\n(3) Aged over 25.\nApply to: Capes Taxi,17 Palace Road, Boston.\n2\nAir Hostesses for International Flights Wanted\n(1)Applicants must be between 20 and 33 years old.\n(2) Height 1.6m to 1.75m.\n(3)Education to GCSE(General Certificate of Secondary Education)standard.\n(4)Two languages. Must be able to swim.\nApply to: Recruitment office, Southern Airline, Heathrow Airport West.HR37KK.\n3\nTeachers Needed\n(1For private language school. .\n(2)Teaching experience unnecessary.\nApply to: The Director of Studies. Instant Language Ltd,279 Canal street, Boston.\n\n<question>:\nBen, aged 22, fond of swimming and driving, has just graduated from a college. Which job might be given to him?\n\n<options>:\nA Driving for Capes Taxis.\nB Working for Southern Airlines.\nC Teaching at Instant Language Ltd.\nD None of the three.\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>:\nRead the advertisements, and then choose the right answer.\n1\nDriver Wanted\n(1) Clean driving license.\n(2) Must be of smart appearance.\n(3) Aged over 25.\nApply to: Capes Taxi,17 Palace Road, Boston.\n2\nAir Hostesses for International Flights Wanted\n(1)Applicants must be between 20 and 33 years old.\n(2) Height 1.6m to 1.75m.\n(3)Education to GCSE(General Certificate of Secondary Education)standard.\n(4)Two languages. Must be able to swim.\nApply to: Recruitment office, Southern Airline, Heathrow Airport West.HR37KK.\n3\nTeachers Needed\n(1For private language school. .\n(2)Teaching experience unnecessary.\nApply to: The Director of Studies. Instant Language Ltd,279 Canal street, Boston.\n\n<question>:\nWhat prevents Mary, aged 25, becoming an air hostess?\n\n<options>:\nA She once broke a traffic law and was fined.\nB She can't speak Japanese very well.\nC She has never worked as an airhostess before.\nD She doesn't feel like working long hours flying abroad.\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>:\nRead the advertisements, and then choose the right answer.\n1\nDriver Wanted\n(1) Clean driving license.\n(2) Must be of smart appearance.\n(3) Aged over 25.\nApply to: Capes Taxi,17 Palace Road, Boston.\n2\nAir Hostesses for International Flights Wanted\n(1)Applicants must be between 20 and 33 years old.\n(2) Height 1.6m to 1.75m.\n(3)Education to GCSE(General Certificate of Secondary Education)standard.\n(4)Two languages. Must be able to swim.\nApply to: Recruitment office, Southern Airline, Heathrow Airport West.HR37KK.\n3\nTeachers Needed\n(1For private language school. .\n(2)Teaching experience unnecessary.\nApply to: The Director of Studies. Instant Language Ltd,279 Canal street, Boston.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following is not mentioned in the three advertisements?\n\n<options>:\nA Marriage .\nB Male or female.\nC Education.\nD Working experience.\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>:\nThey lived thousands of miles apart, and both died in 1616. This has led to a lot of studies comparing their works,which are still important to this day.\nTo mark the 400th anniversary of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare's deaths, an exhibition called Dialogue Across Time and Space: Homage to Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare is being held across 26 Chinese Cultural Centers in different countries from Sept 1 to December.\nShakespeare's plays are always found in the British school curriculum, while Tang's best-known opera, The Peony Pavilion , continues to be performed worldwide.\nBoth were \"great men in the circle of world drama', according to Aoki Masaru, who put the work of Shakespeare and Tang together in his 1943 book A History of Chinese Literary Thought.\nBoth shared a love for a journey of self-discovery. The difference is that Shakespeare's work shows people of all backgrounds and classes, while Tang's dramas come form a more aristocratic background. Tang's lines were sung mostly in family theaters. Shakespeare, however, had to sell tickets to whoever would buy them.\nThat probably affected their writing styles. Though few can touch Shakespeare's range and richness of work, there is one area in which Tang's work may have been better. That's in the use of dreams, not only to tell a story, but also to explore ideas.\nThe Peony Pavilion is set in the world of the characters' dreams, especially Du Liniang, the young lady who has not seen or gotten to know Liu Mengmei when she falls in love with him. After Liu has dreamed of her, he finds her portrait three years after her death and can't stop thinking about her.\nBut for Du, a dream is a path to the freedom that young women of ancient China normally didn't have - the freedom to love someone without their families getting in the way.\nShakespeare also famously used the stage to look at Philosophy in A Midsummer Night's Dream . But in a sense, the dream was Tang's stage.\n\n<question>:\nWe can conclude form the article that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Shakespeare's works are much more popular among students than people of other age groups\nB The difference in their writing styles is rooted in their living environments\nC Shakespeare never used the idea of dreams in his dramas\nD Tang's work is more about the lives of the upper class\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>:\nThey lived thousands of miles apart, and both died in 1616. This has led to a lot of studies comparing their works,which are still important to this day.\nTo mark the 400th anniversary of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare's deaths, an exhibition called Dialogue Across Time and Space: Homage to Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare is being held across 26 Chinese Cultural Centers in different countries from Sept 1 to December.\nShakespeare's plays are always found in the British school curriculum, while Tang's best-known opera, The Peony Pavilion , continues to be performed worldwide.\nBoth were \"great men in the circle of world drama', according to Aoki Masaru, who put the work of Shakespeare and Tang together in his 1943 book A History of Chinese Literary Thought.\nBoth shared a love for a journey of self-discovery. The difference is that Shakespeare's work shows people of all backgrounds and classes, while Tang's dramas come form a more aristocratic background. Tang's lines were sung mostly in family theaters. Shakespeare, however, had to sell tickets to whoever would buy them.\nThat probably affected their writing styles. Though few can touch Shakespeare's range and richness of work, there is one area in which Tang's work may have been better. That's in the use of dreams, not only to tell a story, but also to explore ideas.\nThe Peony Pavilion is set in the world of the characters' dreams, especially Du Liniang, the young lady who has not seen or gotten to know Liu Mengmei when she falls in love with him. After Liu has dreamed of her, he finds her portrait three years after her death and can't stop thinking about her.\nBut for Du, a dream is a path to the freedom that young women of ancient China normally didn't have - the freedom to love someone without their families getting in the way.\nShakespeare also famously used the stage to look at Philosophy in A Midsummer Night's Dream . But in a sense, the dream was Tang's stage.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the article, dreams in Tang's work _ .\n\n<options>:\nA represent Tang's love for freedom\nB are only used to express Tang's support for aristocratic families\nC make the characters seem mysterious and interesting\nD reflect problems young women in ancient China had to face\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>:\nThey lived thousands of miles apart, and both died in 1616. This has led to a lot of studies comparing their works,which are still important to this day.\nTo mark the 400th anniversary of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare's deaths, an exhibition called Dialogue Across Time and Space: Homage to Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare is being held across 26 Chinese Cultural Centers in different countries from Sept 1 to December.\nShakespeare's plays are always found in the British school curriculum, while Tang's best-known opera, The Peony Pavilion , continues to be performed worldwide.\nBoth were \"great men in the circle of world drama', according to Aoki Masaru, who put the work of Shakespeare and Tang together in his 1943 book A History of Chinese Literary Thought.\nBoth shared a love for a journey of self-discovery. The difference is that Shakespeare's work shows people of all backgrounds and classes, while Tang's dramas come form a more aristocratic background. Tang's lines were sung mostly in family theaters. Shakespeare, however, had to sell tickets to whoever would buy them.\nThat probably affected their writing styles. Though few can touch Shakespeare's range and richness of work, there is one area in which Tang's work may have been better. That's in the use of dreams, not only to tell a story, but also to explore ideas.\nThe Peony Pavilion is set in the world of the characters' dreams, especially Du Liniang, the young lady who has not seen or gotten to know Liu Mengmei when she falls in love with him. After Liu has dreamed of her, he finds her portrait three years after her death and can't stop thinking about her.\nBut for Du, a dream is a path to the freedom that young women of ancient China normally didn't have - the freedom to love someone without their families getting in the way.\nShakespeare also famously used the stage to look at Philosophy in A Midsummer Night's Dream . But in a sense, the dream was Tang's stage.\n\n<question>:\nThe writer wrote this article mainly to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA describe studies of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare\nB make a comparison between Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare\nC explain why Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare are still famous today\nD explore the use of dreams in Tang and Shakespeare's writings\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>:\nJames Cleveland Owens was the son of a farmer and the grandson of black slaves:His family moved to Cleveland when he was 9.There,a school teacher asked the youth his name.\n \"J.C.\"he replied.\n She thought he had said\"Jesse\",and he had a new name.\n Owens ran his first race at age 13.After high school,he went to Ohio State University.He had to work part time so as to pay for his education.As a second-year student, in the Big Ten games in 1935,he set even more records than he would in the Olympic Games a year later.\n A week before the Big Ten meet, Owens accidentally fell down a flight of stairs.His back hurt so much that he could not exercise all week,and he had to be helped in and out of the car that drove him to the meet.He refused to listen to the suggestions that he give up and said he would try, event by event.He did try, and the results are in the record book .\n The stage was set for Owens' victory at the Olympic Games in Berlin the next year, and his success would come to be regarded as not only athletic but also political.Hitler did not congratulate any of the African American winners.\n \"It was all right with me,\"he said years later.\"I didn't go to Berlin to shake hands with him,anyway.\" \n Having returned from Berlin,he received no telephone call from the president of his own country, either.In fact, he was not honored by the United States until 1976,four years before his death.\n Owens'Olympic victories made little difference to him.He earned his living by looking after a school playground,and accepted money to race against cars,trucks,motorcycles,and dogs.\n \"Sure,it bothered me,\" he said later.\"But at least it was an honest living.I had to eat.\"\n In time,however, his gold medals changed his life.\"They have kept me alive over the years,\" he once said,\"Time has stood still for me.That golden moment dies hard.\"\n\n<question>:\nOwens got his other name\"Jesse\"when_.\n\n<options>:\nA he went to prefix = st1 /OhioStateUniversity\nB his teacher made fun of him\nC \"for\"Jesse\"\nD he won gold medals in the Big Ten meet\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>:\nJames Cleveland Owens was the son of a farmer and the grandson of black slaves:His family moved to Cleveland when he was 9.There,a school teacher asked the youth his name.\n \"J.C.\"he replied.\n She thought he had said\"Jesse\",and he had a new name.\n Owens ran his first race at age 13.After high school,he went to Ohio State University.He had to work part time so as to pay for his education.As a second-year student, in the Big Ten games in 1935,he set even more records than he would in the Olympic Games a year later.\n A week before the Big Ten meet, Owens accidentally fell down a flight of stairs.His back hurt so much that he could not exercise all week,and he had to be helped in and out of the car that drove him to the meet.He refused to listen to the suggestions that he give up and said he would try, event by event.He did try, and the results are in the record book .\n The stage was set for Owens' victory at the Olympic Games in Berlin the next year, and his success would come to be regarded as not only athletic but also political.Hitler did not congratulate any of the African American winners.\n \"It was all right with me,\"he said years later.\"I didn't go to Berlin to shake hands with him,anyway.\" \n Having returned from Berlin,he received no telephone call from the president of his own country, either.In fact, he was not honored by the United States until 1976,four years before his death.\n Owens'Olympic victories made little difference to him.He earned his living by looking after a school playground,and accepted money to race against cars,trucks,motorcycles,and dogs.\n \"Sure,it bothered me,\" he said later.\"But at least it was an honest living.I had to eat.\"\n In time,however, his gold medals changed his life.\"They have kept me alive over the years,\" he once said,\"Time has stood still for me.That golden moment dies hard.\"\n\n<question>:\nIn the Big Ten meet, Owens_.\n\n<options>:\nA hurt himself in the back\nB succeeded in setting many records\nC tried every sports event but failed\nD had to give up some events\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>:\nJames Cleveland Owens was the son of a farmer and the grandson of black slaves:His family moved to Cleveland when he was 9.There,a school teacher asked the youth his name.\n \"J.C.\"he replied.\n She thought he had said\"Jesse\",and he had a new name.\n Owens ran his first race at age 13.After high school,he went to Ohio State University.He had to work part time so as to pay for his education.As a second-year student, in the Big Ten games in 1935,he set even more records than he would in the Olympic Games a year later.\n A week before the Big Ten meet, Owens accidentally fell down a flight of stairs.His back hurt so much that he could not exercise all week,and he had to be helped in and out of the car that drove him to the meet.He refused to listen to the suggestions that he give up and said he would try, event by event.He did try, and the results are in the record book .\n The stage was set for Owens' victory at the Olympic Games in Berlin the next year, and his success would come to be regarded as not only athletic but also political.Hitler did not congratulate any of the African American winners.\n \"It was all right with me,\"he said years later.\"I didn't go to Berlin to shake hands with him,anyway.\" \n Having returned from Berlin,he received no telephone call from the president of his own country, either.In fact, he was not honored by the United States until 1976,four years before his death.\n Owens'Olympic victories made little difference to him.He earned his living by looking after a school playground,and accepted money to race against cars,trucks,motorcycles,and dogs.\n \"Sure,it bothered me,\" he said later.\"But at least it was an honest living.I had to eat.\"\n In time,however, his gold medals changed his life.\"They have kept me alive over the years,\" he once said,\"Time has stood still for me.That golden moment dies hard.\"\n\n<question>:\nWe can infer from the text that Owens was treated unfairly in the US at that time because_.\n\n<options>:\nA he was not of the right race\nB he was the son of a poor farmer\nC he didn't shake hands with Hitler\nD he didn't talk to theUSpresident on the phone\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>:\nJames Cleveland Owens was the son of a farmer and the grandson of black slaves:His family moved to Cleveland when he was 9.There,a school teacher asked the youth his name.\n \"J.C.\"he replied.\n She thought he had said\"Jesse\",and he had a new name.\n Owens ran his first race at age 13.After high school,he went to Ohio State University.He had to work part time so as to pay for his education.As a second-year student, in the Big Ten games in 1935,he set even more records than he would in the Olympic Games a year later.\n A week before the Big Ten meet, Owens accidentally fell down a flight of stairs.His back hurt so much that he could not exercise all week,and he had to be helped in and out of the car that drove him to the meet.He refused to listen to the suggestions that he give up and said he would try, event by event.He did try, and the results are in the record book .\n The stage was set for Owens' victory at the Olympic Games in Berlin the next year, and his success would come to be regarded as not only athletic but also political.Hitler did not congratulate any of the African American winners.\n \"It was all right with me,\"he said years later.\"I didn't go to Berlin to shake hands with him,anyway.\" \n Having returned from Berlin,he received no telephone call from the president of his own country, either.In fact, he was not honored by the United States until 1976,four years before his death.\n Owens'Olympic victories made little difference to him.He earned his living by looking after a school playground,and accepted money to race against cars,trucks,motorcycles,and dogs.\n \"Sure,it bothered me,\" he said later.\"But at least it was an honest living.I had to eat.\"\n In time,however, his gold medals changed his life.\"They have kept me alive over the years,\" he once said,\"Time has stood still for me.That golden moment dies hard.\"\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following is the suitable title for the text?\n\n<options>:\nA Jesse Owens,a Great American Athlete\nB Golden Moment,a Life-time Struggle\nC Making a Living as a Sportsman\nD How to Be a Successful Athlete.\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>:\nOlivia and Jack are the most popular names in Britain for babies born in 2008, according to a survey made by the website\n. Jack has been top for 14 years since it took over from Thomas.\nGrace -- made famous by the Hollywood star Grace Kelly -- slipped back into third place behind Ruby, the name of singer Charlotte Church's daughter.\nSummer climbed 28 places from 44th to 16th. Ava -- the name of singer Myleene Klass's daughter -- also leapt 15 places to 19th.\nThe troubles of the singer Amy Winehouse perhaps had an effect on the popularity of the name. It dropped three places to 23rd. Rebecca is also on the wane\n , ranking 48th. So is Courtney, which ranked 88th.\nTheo, obviously inspired by England's teenage football hero Theo Walcott, is among the biggest climbers in the boy's list, rising from 70th to 58th.\nAn employee of\nsaid, \"Baby names have witnessed the biggest changes over the last decade as parents are increasingly influenced by celebrities. The Bounty baby name poll also shows parents are continuing to be creative and inspirational about the names they choose for their children. Some parents want a name that's totally unique, and names such as Zebedee, Selim and Zenon are now emerging and growing in popularity. Others are simply breaking with convention and becoming bolder in their choice of names.\"\n\"While politicians' names may be growing in popularity in America, British politicians don't influence our choice of names in the UK. Traditional royal names continue to be supreme\n in the boys' top 100,\" The employee said.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following girl names ranks the second?\n\n<options>:\nA Grace.\nB Ruby.\nC Kelly.\nD Charlotte.\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>:\nOlivia and Jack are the most popular names in Britain for babies born in 2008, according to a survey made by the website\n. Jack has been top for 14 years since it took over from Thomas.\nGrace -- made famous by the Hollywood star Grace Kelly -- slipped back into third place behind Ruby, the name of singer Charlotte Church's daughter.\nSummer climbed 28 places from 44th to 16th. Ava -- the name of singer Myleene Klass's daughter -- also leapt 15 places to 19th.\nThe troubles of the singer Amy Winehouse perhaps had an effect on the popularity of the name. It dropped three places to 23rd. Rebecca is also on the wane\n , ranking 48th. So is Courtney, which ranked 88th.\nTheo, obviously inspired by England's teenage football hero Theo Walcott, is among the biggest climbers in the boy's list, rising from 70th to 58th.\nAn employee of\nsaid, \"Baby names have witnessed the biggest changes over the last decade as parents are increasingly influenced by celebrities. The Bounty baby name poll also shows parents are continuing to be creative and inspirational about the names they choose for their children. Some parents want a name that's totally unique, and names such as Zebedee, Selim and Zenon are now emerging and growing in popularity. Others are simply breaking with convention and becoming bolder in their choice of names.\"\n\"While politicians' names may be growing in popularity in America, British politicians don't influence our choice of names in the UK. Traditional royal names continue to be supreme\n in the boys' top 100,\" The employee said.\n\n<question>:\nBaby names changed a lot mainly because of the influence of _ .\n\n<options>:\nA stars\nB parents\nC media\nD politicians\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>:\nNobody likes having to deal with an upset child. If your little one is hurt, scared or sad, your heart breaks for her. If she's mad, it can make you mad. You want to be there for her and comfort her, but the best way to do that will depend mainly on two things: why she's upset and how old she is. Be calm and open-minded when trying to comfort your upset child.\nTry to find out why your child is upset, because that affects how you should respond and what will be most effective in trying to comfort her. Take her aside and sit down to talk on her level, physically and emotionally. Be sure she knows she has your complete attention while she's telling you about the friend who wouldn't share her new toy and so on. Even if you've got 20 other things you need to get done, make yourself take a break and focus on her for a few minutes.\nListen carefully to what your child says, and also pay attention to what she's not saying. If she says she's upset because \"she hates her stupid school\", you must \"choose to accept it\" -- to read between the lines. Maybe she's struggling with her studies, or the teacher scolded her in front of everybody. Patiently listen and try to _ so you know what kind of problem you're dealing with.\nSometimes just knowing someone hears her pain goes a long way toward comforting an upset child. Don't make excuses or blame others, just let her know her feelings are natural and understandable. Give her permission to feel sad for a little bit or even cry a little, and give her a big hug. Then help her think of ways to get over the hurt and refocus her attention on another activity or friend.\n\n<question>:\nWhat is the purpose of the author in the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA To show an upset child is very tough.\nB To share his experience of keeping a child.\nC To tell how to comfort an upset child.\nD To get advice on how to raise a child.\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>:\nLighter and cheaper than high-quality video cameras, today's best smartphones can shoot and edit high-definition (HD) videos. With lower-quality lenses and image sensors, smartphones probably won't replace professional video cameras anytime soon. Still, some creative filmmakers are extending the borders of smartphone moviemaking by shooting professional-quality films using only smartphones.\nSoon after Apple's iPhone 4 was released, two filmmakers decided to make a short film using only their iPhone 4s. Michael Koerbel and Anna Elizabeth James shot and edited the one-and-a-half-minute film Apple of My Eye in only 48 hours. Audiences were fascinated with the film, in which a man and his grandfather connect emotionally while admiring a model train set in a store window. The filmmakers followed up their success with Goldilocks, an extraordinary spy novel told over nine, three-minute films.\nMany filmmakers are convinced that smartphone films are here to stay. One sign is their inclusion in major film festivals. In February 2012, organizers of the Berkshire International Film Festival staged the 10 X 10 On North Festival. Entries included Oliver by Hooman Khalili, an award-winning film about a girl whose special powers enable her to brighten the lives of three lonely people. Another entry was Yearlapse'11, a 365-second film by Zsolt Haraszti that describes an actual journey he made from New York to London.\nDuring the festival, which ran from February 16 to 26, these and many other smartphone films were shown at the Beacon Cinema in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Similar festivals in Canada and South Korea have given smartphone filmmakers opportunities to show off their creative work.\n\n<question>:\nWhat does the article imply about smartphone filmmakers?\n\n<options>:\nA Their efforts have gotten little attention.\nB Their biggest challenge is finding actors.\nC They've influenced famous movie studios\nD They must overcome equipment limitations.\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>:\nLighter and cheaper than high-quality video cameras, today's best smartphones can shoot and edit high-definition (HD) videos. With lower-quality lenses and image sensors, smartphones probably won't replace professional video cameras anytime soon. Still, some creative filmmakers are extending the borders of smartphone moviemaking by shooting professional-quality films using only smartphones.\nSoon after Apple's iPhone 4 was released, two filmmakers decided to make a short film using only their iPhone 4s. Michael Koerbel and Anna Elizabeth James shot and edited the one-and-a-half-minute film Apple of My Eye in only 48 hours. Audiences were fascinated with the film, in which a man and his grandfather connect emotionally while admiring a model train set in a store window. The filmmakers followed up their success with Goldilocks, an extraordinary spy novel told over nine, three-minute films.\nMany filmmakers are convinced that smartphone films are here to stay. One sign is their inclusion in major film festivals. In February 2012, organizers of the Berkshire International Film Festival staged the 10 X 10 On North Festival. Entries included Oliver by Hooman Khalili, an award-winning film about a girl whose special powers enable her to brighten the lives of three lonely people. Another entry was Yearlapse'11, a 365-second film by Zsolt Haraszti that describes an actual journey he made from New York to London.\nDuring the festival, which ran from February 16 to 26, these and many other smartphone films were shown at the Beacon Cinema in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Similar festivals in Canada and South Korea have given smartphone filmmakers opportunities to show off their creative work.\n\n<question>:\nWhat does the article point out about Haraszti's film?\n\n<options>:\nA It uses slow-motion effects.\nB It took just minutes to make.\nC Its cast was quite large.\nD It's based on true events.\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>:\nThough joke-lovers in many countries joyfully fool friends on April Fool's Day, no one knows exactly when or why, or even where, this tradition began.\n Practical joking seems to have coincided with the coming of Spring since the time of Ancient Romans and Celts, Some trace April Fool's Day back to Roman mythology , particularly the story of Ceres ,Goddess of the harvest, and her daughter, Proserpina. Pluto, God of the Dead, cheated Proserpina and took her to live with him in the underworld, The girl called out to her mother, but Ceres could only hear the echo of her daughter's voice. Such 'fool's errands ' became a popular practical joke in Europe in later centuries.\n The most widespread theory of the origin of April Fool's day the switch from the old Julian to the Gregorian calendar in the late 16thcentury. Under the Julian calendar, it was celebrated during the week between March 25 and April 1, but under the Gregorian calendar, it was moved to January1. Those who weren't informed of the change, or stubbornly kept to the old tradition, were often laughed at and had jokes played on them or around the old New Year.\n In France, this took the form of practical joker sticking fish on the backs of those who celebrated the old custom, earning the victims of the joke the name Poisson d' April, or April Fish. In Scotland, the butts of April Fool's jokes were known as April \"Gowks\", another name for a cuckoo bird.\n In more recent times, radio stations, TV programs and Web sites have set up gullible readers and listeners. One of the most famous jokes was a 1957 BBC program of the annual spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. Were so fooled they wanted to find out how to get a spaghetti bush of their own. Many listeners So while you're surfing the web or watching TV today, be aware of what you see and read, or you should end up an April Fool !\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following is TRUE of Proserpina?\n\n<options>:\nA She loved Pluto very much\nB she was an April Fool\nC She was Ceres' s daughter\nD are easy to be tricked\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>:\nScientists have found that human eyes are more likely to be damaged by UV rays while skiing in the snow-covered areas than sitting on the beach, according to a report by the UK newspaper The Telegraph.\nThe researchers at Kanazawa Medical University, Japan and American company Johnson conducted the study together. They looked at the effects of light reflection on newly fallen snow on a ski trail (a rough path) in Ishikawa District, northern Japan. They compared the results with the levels of UV rays on a sand beach in southern Japan's Okinawa District. They found that on the beach, eyes are exposed to a daily 260 kilojoules of UV a square meter compared to 658 kilojoules in snow-covered areas.\nThe findings are supported by the Japan Meteorological Agency. According to the agency, the reflection rate of UV light on beaches is often between 10 and 25 percent, compared to 80 percent in the new snow areas. The amount of light increased 4 percent with a 300-meter rise in height.\nMost of us know that UV rays can harm the skin. That's why we wear sunscreen on our skin before we get out in the sun. But many of us may not realize that UV rays are also harmful to the eyes.\nIf your eyes are exposed to large amounts of UV radiation over a short period of time, you may experience a kind of sunburn of the eye, which is harmful. Your eyes will become red and feel a strange feeling. They may be sensitive to light. Fortunately, this is usually temporary and seldom causes permanent damage to the eyes.\nLong-term exposure to UV radiation, however, can be more serious. Scientific studies and researches have shown that exposure to small amounts of UV radiation over a period of many years increases the chance of eye damage, which could lead to total blindness.\n\n<question>:\nWhat will the passage most probably talk about next?\n\n<options>:\nA Never ski on newly fallen snow in Japan.\nB Take some measures to protect your eyes while skiing in new snow areas.\nC Wearing a hat can provide protection while skiing in new snow areas.\nD Go to hospital to have your eyes examined.\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 was on the early afternoon of a mid-October day in 2012. Bismark Mensah, who came to America several months ago, was collecting carts outside a Walmart in Federal Way. It was a part-time job for him. He earned $9.05 an hour in charge of getting carts out of the parking lot.\nHe was used to finding stuff in carts that customers had somehow forgotten -- keys, credit cards, wallets. And he turned them into a customer service. But a particular item stood out. It was a white envelope with a clear window in the middle, and there was a lot of cash in it, around $20,000. Mensah turned them into customer services.\nBecause of what he did that afternoon, Mensah is now the winner of Walmart's national 2013 \"Integrity in Action Award\".\nBismark Mensah says that since the story ran, he has become the model the youth in Ghana (his native country).\nHe is now employed full-time at the Federal Way Walmart, earning $10.95 an hour, up from the $9.05 an hour he earned working part-time.\nMensah, 33, no longer collects carts and such. He is in the backroom, dealing with inventory . \"I want to learn everything about operating a store like Walmart store,\" he says. He plans to return to Ghana to run some shops owned by his family. He also plans to go to college and earn a degree in business administration.\n\n<question>:\nWhat can be inferred from the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Mensah comes from a poor family in Ghana.\nB Mensah can hardly make himself understood in America.\nC Mensah will help set up some Walmart branches in Ghana.\nD Mensah has set an example for the youth in his own country.\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 turned 16 on Friday, but the Driver's License Office in my small hometown was only open on Tuesday, so I had to wait through that extremely long weekend and an endless Monday before going in for my examination.\nI came to the Driver's License Office half an hour earlier _ , pacing back and forth on the worn porch waiting for the office to open at eight. I reviewed the driver's manual for the hundredth time. I was ready. I knew the manual backward and forward; I had made an \"A\" in my driver's training course, and I was a genius behind the wheel.\nFinally, the door opened and a weary-looking man in a brown uniform let me in.\n\"Let me guess. You want to take the driver's test.\" his voice was not enthusiastic.\n\"Yes!\" I answered in excitement.\n\"Ok, fill this out, and if you pass we'll go for a drive.\"\n _ . A quick check showed that my paper was perfect.\n\"Let's get in the car.\" He tossed me a set of keys, and I slid behind the wheel. Everything was going smoothly as we pulled out of the empty parking lot. I signaled a right hand turn, and we were on a deserted street. This was going to be easy.\n\"Turn left and go up Young Blood Hill,\" he ordered. My hometown is in the mountains, and Young Blood Hill was almost vertical . As I eased up the steep hill and came to a stop at the top, I heard the car's engine die. My heart sank. I would have to start it again without rolling back down the hill. I swallowed hard and turned the key; as I moved my foot from the brake, the car began to roll. I suppose I could have rolled all the way back to the bottom except for one thing. There was something behind me which stopped my roll with a rough shake and crash of glass--a police car.\nThe policeman wrote me a ticket as I looked over the damage, and the man from the Driver's License Office slid behind the wheel. I waited until we had parked before I asked how long a person had to wait before taking the test again.\n\n<question>:\nWhy didn't the car roll back to the bottom?\n\n<options>:\nA It hit a police car.\nB The engine died.\nC The writer braked it hard.\nD The man from the Driver's License Office helped make it stop.\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 was around 9 pm. Before heading to dinner in Jayanagar T Block, I was told by my wife that the rickshaw fare would be 40 rupees. Anyhow I had 150 rupees in my pocket. My wife said that if the drivers of rickshaws see out-of-town travelers, they'll scam them one way or another.\nAt a crowded stop, a young girl extended her hand through the iron bars on the side of our rickshaw to ask for some money. After we refused, or rickshaw driver started his remarks on giving.\n\"Giving is good. Every human should give. But we should know how to give.\" The rickshaw driver continued, \"Most of these kids are trained by some guy who keeps all the money. It's run like a business. All of us should give, but this is just not the right place to give.\"\nHe talked a bit more before we arrived. I asked about the fare. \"39 rupees,\" he said.\nNow, most people who get cheated end up saying, \"Well, you know, I don't mind paying extra if it is a good guy but I refuse to be cheated.\" I gave him 40 rupees, and he gave me a 1 rupee coin in return (Most folks would just round up). So I put the coin in my wallet, and took out a 100 rupee note.\n\"Can you do me a favor?\" \"Of course, sir,\" he replied politely. \"We were talking about art of giving. You seem to know how and where to give. Can you put the 100 rupees to good use somewhere?\"\n\"Give me your address and I'll make sure I get a receipt of where I gave,\" He replied without hesitation. I didn't understand him at first. Then I smiled and told him, \"I trust you.\"\nSo on the way back, instead of taking a bus to my place, I walked for the whole distance since I didn't have enough money. It was almost 1 a.m and I had to wake up at 6 a.m the next day. But I still walked.\n\n<question>:\nWhy did the author's wife tell him the rickshaw fare?\n\n<options>:\nA To remind him to go by rickshaw.\nB To warn him no to be cheated.\nC To tell him the convenience of taking a rickshaw.\nD To save some money for them.\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 was around 9 pm. Before heading to dinner in Jayanagar T Block, I was told by my wife that the rickshaw fare would be 40 rupees. Anyhow I had 150 rupees in my pocket. My wife said that if the drivers of rickshaws see out-of-town travelers, they'll scam them one way or another.\nAt a crowded stop, a young girl extended her hand through the iron bars on the side of our rickshaw to ask for some money. After we refused, or rickshaw driver started his remarks on giving.\n\"Giving is good. Every human should give. But we should know how to give.\" The rickshaw driver continued, \"Most of these kids are trained by some guy who keeps all the money. It's run like a business. All of us should give, but this is just not the right place to give.\"\nHe talked a bit more before we arrived. I asked about the fare. \"39 rupees,\" he said.\nNow, most people who get cheated end up saying, \"Well, you know, I don't mind paying extra if it is a good guy but I refuse to be cheated.\" I gave him 40 rupees, and he gave me a 1 rupee coin in return (Most folks would just round up). So I put the coin in my wallet, and took out a 100 rupee note.\n\"Can you do me a favor?\" \"Of course, sir,\" he replied politely. \"We were talking about art of giving. You seem to know how and where to give. Can you put the 100 rupees to good use somewhere?\"\n\"Give me your address and I'll make sure I get a receipt of where I gave,\" He replied without hesitation. I didn't understand him at first. Then I smiled and told him, \"I trust you.\"\nSo on the way back, instead of taking a bus to my place, I walked for the whole distance since I didn't have enough money. It was almost 1 a.m and I had to wake up at 6 a.m the next day. But I still walked.\n\n<question>:\nWhy did the rickshaw driver refuse when the young girl begged for money?\n\n<options>:\nA He knew money should not be given to her.\nB He had no spare money to give her.\nC He always cared for himself more than others.\nD He was afraid that he was attacked by her.\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 was around 9 pm. Before heading to dinner in Jayanagar T Block, I was told by my wife that the rickshaw fare would be 40 rupees. Anyhow I had 150 rupees in my pocket. My wife said that if the drivers of rickshaws see out-of-town travelers, they'll scam them one way or another.\nAt a crowded stop, a young girl extended her hand through the iron bars on the side of our rickshaw to ask for some money. After we refused, or rickshaw driver started his remarks on giving.\n\"Giving is good. Every human should give. But we should know how to give.\" The rickshaw driver continued, \"Most of these kids are trained by some guy who keeps all the money. It's run like a business. All of us should give, but this is just not the right place to give.\"\nHe talked a bit more before we arrived. I asked about the fare. \"39 rupees,\" he said.\nNow, most people who get cheated end up saying, \"Well, you know, I don't mind paying extra if it is a good guy but I refuse to be cheated.\" I gave him 40 rupees, and he gave me a 1 rupee coin in return (Most folks would just round up). So I put the coin in my wallet, and took out a 100 rupee note.\n\"Can you do me a favor?\" \"Of course, sir,\" he replied politely. \"We were talking about art of giving. You seem to know how and where to give. Can you put the 100 rupees to good use somewhere?\"\n\"Give me your address and I'll make sure I get a receipt of where I gave,\" He replied without hesitation. I didn't understand him at first. Then I smiled and told him, \"I trust you.\"\nSo on the way back, instead of taking a bus to my place, I walked for the whole distance since I didn't have enough money. It was almost 1 a.m and I had to wake up at 6 a.m the next day. But I still walked.\n\n<question>:\nFrom the talk, we can learn that the rickshaw driver was _ .\n\n<options>:\nA well-educated\nB generous\nC selfish\nD honest\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 was around 9 pm. Before heading to dinner in Jayanagar T Block, I was told by my wife that the rickshaw fare would be 40 rupees. Anyhow I had 150 rupees in my pocket. My wife said that if the drivers of rickshaws see out-of-town travelers, they'll scam them one way or another.\nAt a crowded stop, a young girl extended her hand through the iron bars on the side of our rickshaw to ask for some money. After we refused, or rickshaw driver started his remarks on giving.\n\"Giving is good. Every human should give. But we should know how to give.\" The rickshaw driver continued, \"Most of these kids are trained by some guy who keeps all the money. It's run like a business. All of us should give, but this is just not the right place to give.\"\nHe talked a bit more before we arrived. I asked about the fare. \"39 rupees,\" he said.\nNow, most people who get cheated end up saying, \"Well, you know, I don't mind paying extra if it is a good guy but I refuse to be cheated.\" I gave him 40 rupees, and he gave me a 1 rupee coin in return (Most folks would just round up). So I put the coin in my wallet, and took out a 100 rupee note.\n\"Can you do me a favor?\" \"Of course, sir,\" he replied politely. \"We were talking about art of giving. You seem to know how and where to give. Can you put the 100 rupees to good use somewhere?\"\n\"Give me your address and I'll make sure I get a receipt of where I gave,\" He replied without hesitation. I didn't understand him at first. Then I smiled and told him, \"I trust you.\"\nSo on the way back, instead of taking a bus to my place, I walked for the whole distance since I didn't have enough money. It was almost 1 a.m and I had to wake up at 6 a.m the next day. But I still walked.\n\n<question>:\nIt can be inferred from the passage that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA the author gave the driver 100 rupees for his kindness\nB the author walked home to save money\nC the driver would give away the 100 rupees instead of the author\nD the dinner which the author had was not free of charge\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 was around 9 pm. Before heading to dinner in Jayanagar T Block, I was told by my wife that the rickshaw fare would be 40 rupees. Anyhow I had 150 rupees in my pocket. My wife said that if the drivers of rickshaws see out-of-town travelers, they'll scam them one way or another.\nAt a crowded stop, a young girl extended her hand through the iron bars on the side of our rickshaw to ask for some money. After we refused, or rickshaw driver started his remarks on giving.\n\"Giving is good. Every human should give. But we should know how to give.\" The rickshaw driver continued, \"Most of these kids are trained by some guy who keeps all the money. It's run like a business. All of us should give, but this is just not the right place to give.\"\nHe talked a bit more before we arrived. I asked about the fare. \"39 rupees,\" he said.\nNow, most people who get cheated end up saying, \"Well, you know, I don't mind paying extra if it is a good guy but I refuse to be cheated.\" I gave him 40 rupees, and he gave me a 1 rupee coin in return (Most folks would just round up). So I put the coin in my wallet, and took out a 100 rupee note.\n\"Can you do me a favor?\" \"Of course, sir,\" he replied politely. \"We were talking about art of giving. You seem to know how and where to give. Can you put the 100 rupees to good use somewhere?\"\n\"Give me your address and I'll make sure I get a receipt of where I gave,\" He replied without hesitation. I didn't understand him at first. Then I smiled and told him, \"I trust you.\"\nSo on the way back, instead of taking a bus to my place, I walked for the whole distance since I didn't have enough money. It was almost 1 a.m and I had to wake up at 6 a.m the next day. But I still walked.\n\n<question>:\nWhat would be the best title for the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA To give or not\nB Take a rickshaw\nC Refuse to be cheated\nD One rupee in change\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>:\nSix years ago, a Miami woman walking through the hall of an office building casually noticed two men standing together. Several minutes after her leaving, the men murdered a person working in the building. Police investigators determined that the woman was the only witness who had seen the two suspects, and could possibly describe them. In an interview with police, her memory of the men proved disappointingly unclear.\nSeveral days later, psychologist Ronald P. Fisher was brought in to get a more complete description from the woman. Fisher's interview produced a breakthrough--the woman reported a clear picture of one of the suspects. She then recalled several details about his appearances. This information gave police important leads that enabled them to arrest the suspects and close the case. \nPolice investigators found the help from Fisher because of his rich knowledge in conducting the so-called cognitive interview, a kind of memory-rebuilding process. In its original form, the cognitive interview focuses on guiding witnesses through four general recalling techniques: thinking about physical surroundings and personal feelings that existed at the time of past events, reporting everything that comes to mind about those events no matter how broken or unconnected, retelling events in kinds of time orders, beginning to end, end to beginning, forward or backward, and accepting different views while recalling events.\nUsually, an interviewer begins the cognitive approach by encouraging the witness to take an active role in recalling information rather than giving answers only to someone else's questions. The witness first describes what happened in his or her own words, with no interviewer interruptions. The interviewer then goes further with specific techniques, such as having the witness tell the details of what happened from different aspects.\nExperiments with police detectives trained in this demanding interview method find that they get nearly 50% more information from witnesses than before training, while error rates remain about the same.\n\n<question>:\nWhat is the purpose of this passage?\n\n<options>:\nA To give an description of a murder case in an office.\nB To explain why Fisher was invited to a police interview.\nC To describe how cognitive method helps the woman to recall.\nD To give the readers an idea of cognitive interview.\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>:\nSix years ago, a Miami woman walking through the hall of an office building casually noticed two men standing together. Several minutes after her leaving, the men murdered a person working in the building. Police investigators determined that the woman was the only witness who had seen the two suspects, and could possibly describe them. In an interview with police, her memory of the men proved disappointingly unclear.\nSeveral days later, psychologist Ronald P. Fisher was brought in to get a more complete description from the woman. Fisher's interview produced a breakthrough--the woman reported a clear picture of one of the suspects. She then recalled several details about his appearances. This information gave police important leads that enabled them to arrest the suspects and close the case. \nPolice investigators found the help from Fisher because of his rich knowledge in conducting the so-called cognitive interview, a kind of memory-rebuilding process. In its original form, the cognitive interview focuses on guiding witnesses through four general recalling techniques: thinking about physical surroundings and personal feelings that existed at the time of past events, reporting everything that comes to mind about those events no matter how broken or unconnected, retelling events in kinds of time orders, beginning to end, end to beginning, forward or backward, and accepting different views while recalling events.\nUsually, an interviewer begins the cognitive approach by encouraging the witness to take an active role in recalling information rather than giving answers only to someone else's questions. The witness first describes what happened in his or her own words, with no interviewer interruptions. The interviewer then goes further with specific techniques, such as having the witness tell the details of what happened from different aspects.\nExperiments with police detectives trained in this demanding interview method find that they get nearly 50% more information from witnesses than before training, while error rates remain about the same.\n\n<question>:\nThe cognitive interview helped the woman to recall more by _ .\n\n<options>:\nA strengthening her memory\nB giving her encouragement\nC rebuilding her memory\nD giving her more time\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>:\nSix years ago, a Miami woman walking through the hall of an office building casually noticed two men standing together. Several minutes after her leaving, the men murdered a person working in the building. Police investigators determined that the woman was the only witness who had seen the two suspects, and could possibly describe them. In an interview with police, her memory of the men proved disappointingly unclear.\nSeveral days later, psychologist Ronald P. Fisher was brought in to get a more complete description from the woman. Fisher's interview produced a breakthrough--the woman reported a clear picture of one of the suspects. She then recalled several details about his appearances. This information gave police important leads that enabled them to arrest the suspects and close the case. \nPolice investigators found the help from Fisher because of his rich knowledge in conducting the so-called cognitive interview, a kind of memory-rebuilding process. In its original form, the cognitive interview focuses on guiding witnesses through four general recalling techniques: thinking about physical surroundings and personal feelings that existed at the time of past events, reporting everything that comes to mind about those events no matter how broken or unconnected, retelling events in kinds of time orders, beginning to end, end to beginning, forward or backward, and accepting different views while recalling events.\nUsually, an interviewer begins the cognitive approach by encouraging the witness to take an active role in recalling information rather than giving answers only to someone else's questions. The witness first describes what happened in his or her own words, with no interviewer interruptions. The interviewer then goes further with specific techniques, such as having the witness tell the details of what happened from different aspects.\nExperiments with police detectives trained in this demanding interview method find that they get nearly 50% more information from witnesses than before training, while error rates remain about the same.\n\n<question>:\nIt can be inferred from the passage that in a cognitive interview, the interviewer mainly plays a _ role.\n\n<options>:\nA directing\nB questioning\nC disappointing\nD interrupting\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>:\nSix years ago, a Miami woman walking through the hall of an office building casually noticed two men standing together. Several minutes after her leaving, the men murdered a person working in the building. Police investigators determined that the woman was the only witness who had seen the two suspects, and could possibly describe them. In an interview with police, her memory of the men proved disappointingly unclear.\nSeveral days later, psychologist Ronald P. Fisher was brought in to get a more complete description from the woman. Fisher's interview produced a breakthrough--the woman reported a clear picture of one of the suspects. She then recalled several details about his appearances. This information gave police important leads that enabled them to arrest the suspects and close the case. \nPolice investigators found the help from Fisher because of his rich knowledge in conducting the so-called cognitive interview, a kind of memory-rebuilding process. In its original form, the cognitive interview focuses on guiding witnesses through four general recalling techniques: thinking about physical surroundings and personal feelings that existed at the time of past events, reporting everything that comes to mind about those events no matter how broken or unconnected, retelling events in kinds of time orders, beginning to end, end to beginning, forward or backward, and accepting different views while recalling events.\nUsually, an interviewer begins the cognitive approach by encouraging the witness to take an active role in recalling information rather than giving answers only to someone else's questions. The witness first describes what happened in his or her own words, with no interviewer interruptions. The interviewer then goes further with specific techniques, such as having the witness tell the details of what happened from different aspects.\nExperiments with police detectives trained in this demanding interview method find that they get nearly 50% more information from witnesses than before training, while error rates remain about the same.\n\n<question>:\nWhat is the key point of the cognitive interview?\n\n<options>:\nA The interviewer should interrupt the witness from time to time.\nB The witness is encouraged to take an active role in recalling information.\nC The interview should take place outside the police station.\nD The witness should recall details at the scene of the event.\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>:\nSix years ago, a Miami woman walking through the hall of an office building casually noticed two men standing together. Several minutes after her leaving, the men murdered a person working in the building. Police investigators determined that the woman was the only witness who had seen the two suspects, and could possibly describe them. In an interview with police, her memory of the men proved disappointingly unclear.\nSeveral days later, psychologist Ronald P. Fisher was brought in to get a more complete description from the woman. Fisher's interview produced a breakthrough--the woman reported a clear picture of one of the suspects. She then recalled several details about his appearances. This information gave police important leads that enabled them to arrest the suspects and close the case. \nPolice investigators found the help from Fisher because of his rich knowledge in conducting the so-called cognitive interview, a kind of memory-rebuilding process. In its original form, the cognitive interview focuses on guiding witnesses through four general recalling techniques: thinking about physical surroundings and personal feelings that existed at the time of past events, reporting everything that comes to mind about those events no matter how broken or unconnected, retelling events in kinds of time orders, beginning to end, end to beginning, forward or backward, and accepting different views while recalling events.\nUsually, an interviewer begins the cognitive approach by encouraging the witness to take an active role in recalling information rather than giving answers only to someone else's questions. The witness first describes what happened in his or her own words, with no interviewer interruptions. The interviewer then goes further with specific techniques, such as having the witness tell the details of what happened from different aspects.\nExperiments with police detectives trained in this demanding interview method find that they get nearly 50% more information from witnesses than before training, while error rates remain about the same.\n\n<question>:\nPolice trained in the cognitive interview method can _ .\n\n<options>:\nA get more information from the witness than before\nB decrease the error rate\nC solve the cases more quickly\nD use the method more skillfully than the psychologists\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>:\nMost people know the feeling when you walk into a lift with other people. A study has found that where people stand is based on their social position on entering the lift.\nRebekah Rousi, a Ph.D. student, did a study of lift behavior in two of the tallest office buildings in Adelaide, Australia. As part of her research, she took a total of 30 lift rides in the two buildings, and discovered there was a fixed order about where people chose to stand.\nIn her research paper, she wrote that more senior men seemed to walk straight towards the back of the lift. She said , \"in front of them were younger men, and in front of them were women of all ages.\" She also noticed there was a difference in the direction where people look during the ride. \"Men watched the monitors, looked in the side mirrors (in one building) to see themselves, and in the door mirrors (in the other building) to watch others. Women would watch the monitors and avoid looking into others' eyes (unless in conversations) and the mirrors.\"\nRebekah Rousi concluded that shyer people stand toward the front, where they can't see other passengers, while fearless people stand in the back, where they have a good view of everyone else.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the study, where people stand in a lift is decided by _ .\n\n<options>:\nA their social position\nB the monitors\nC other passengers\nD others' position\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>:\nMost people know the feeling when you walk into a lift with other people. A study has found that where people stand is based on their social position on entering the lift.\nRebekah Rousi, a Ph.D. student, did a study of lift behavior in two of the tallest office buildings in Adelaide, Australia. As part of her research, she took a total of 30 lift rides in the two buildings, and discovered there was a fixed order about where people chose to stand.\nIn her research paper, she wrote that more senior men seemed to walk straight towards the back of the lift. She said , \"in front of them were younger men, and in front of them were women of all ages.\" She also noticed there was a difference in the direction where people look during the ride. \"Men watched the monitors, looked in the side mirrors (in one building) to see themselves, and in the door mirrors (in the other building) to watch others. Women would watch the monitors and avoid looking into others' eyes (unless in conversations) and the mirrors.\"\nRebekah Rousi concluded that shyer people stand toward the front, where they can't see other passengers, while fearless people stand in the back, where they have a good view of everyone else.\n\n<question>:\nWho are most likely to go to the back of the lift?\n\n<options>:\nA Shyer people.\nB Senior men.\nC Younger men.\nD Women.\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>:\nMost people know the feeling when you walk into a lift with other people. A study has found that where people stand is based on their social position on entering the lift.\nRebekah Rousi, a Ph.D. student, did a study of lift behavior in two of the tallest office buildings in Adelaide, Australia. As part of her research, she took a total of 30 lift rides in the two buildings, and discovered there was a fixed order about where people chose to stand.\nIn her research paper, she wrote that more senior men seemed to walk straight towards the back of the lift. She said , \"in front of them were younger men, and in front of them were women of all ages.\" She also noticed there was a difference in the direction where people look during the ride. \"Men watched the monitors, looked in the side mirrors (in one building) to see themselves, and in the door mirrors (in the other building) to watch others. Women would watch the monitors and avoid looking into others' eyes (unless in conversations) and the mirrors.\"\nRebekah Rousi concluded that shyer people stand toward the front, where they can't see other passengers, while fearless people stand in the back, where they have a good view of everyone else.\n\n<question>:\nWhich is true according to the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA The order in which people stand in a lift is fixed.\nB Few people feel embarrassed with strangers in a lift.\nC Women like watching themselves in the side mirrors.\nD Fearless people stand in the back to avoid seeing 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>:\nA house of cards? Sounds unbelievable, doesn't it? Not if the architect is 31-year-old Bryan Berg. He's made a career out of building fantastic card houses, stadiums, capitols, castles -- and the world's tallest card tower. How does he do it?\nBryan's structures are amazing because they are made entirely of perfectly balanced, freestanding playing cards. He never uses glue, tape, or anything else to hold the cards together. Nor does he fold the cards. He's discovered another way to make a strong house of cards, using a trick from nature.\nTo make plants strong, nature builds them with cells that have tough walls. Rows and rows of these cells form a grid that helps leaves and stems keep their shape. Bees use the same kind of repeating pattern to create strong honeycombs, where they live and store honey. Bryan designs similar grids, using cards to create a repeating pattern of cells.\nHe begins with a single cell made by balancing four cards against one another to form a box. Then he repeats the cell over and over, expanding outward to form the grid, which makes a good foundation for a strong card structure. The larger the grid, the more weight it can carry. Sometimes Bryan uses several cards, instead of just one, to construct the cell walls, making the grid even stronger. The trick, he tells kids when he speaks in classrooms, is to place your cards as tightly together as possible when laying out your grid, making sure the cards are not leaning at all.\nAfter building this solid base, Bryan lays cards across the top to make the floor for the next \"story\" of the building. He may add towers, columns, steeples, or domes. Using the principle of repeating cells, Bryan builds structures of amazing strength.\nIn the Cards\nNot surprisingly, Bryan has always been interested in building things. Growing up on a \"big, old farm\" in rural Iowa, he had plenty of room to play. \"We were in the middle of nowhere,\" Bryan remembers, \"with lots of space to do whatever we wanted. I was always making something, using things like sticks or bales of hay.\"\nBryan's grandfather taught him how to stack cards. Bryan's two interests -- building and card stacking -- soon combined. But stacking in his family's farmhouse was challenging. \"Our old house had wood floors that weren't all level,\" he reports. \"And they weren't very firm. When people walked around, it was like 'earthquake action.' It was a challenge to build something that wouldn't fall down immediately.\"\nBryan constructed tower after tower; he went through a lot of trial and error before he built anything taller than himself. When he placed a few decks of cards on top of his grid, he discovered how strong it was. Bryan's towers began to grow taller.\nHow Tall Is Too Tall?\nBryan's first Guinness World Record for the world's tallest card tower came in the spring of 1992, when he was in high school. Learning that the world record was 12 feet 10 inches, Bryan built a slim tower that topped out at 14 feet 6 inches. Done as a project for his geometry class, it took him 40 hours and 208 decks of cards. Since then he's gone on to win world records for even taller buildings. His latest winner measured 25 feet 3.5 inches and used about 2,400 decks of cards. _ \nWhy don't these towers fall down? The key is in a good solid base, a repeating pattern of stories, and a tapering top. Bryan likes to point out how card buildings resemble real ones. They are built cell by cell, story by story. The separate parts make one strong whole. The heavier the building, the stronger and more stable it is. But the weight can't all be at the top.\nAfter spending so much time building something so cool, Bryan admits it's sometimes painful to see his structures destroyed. But he compares his work to the building of a sandcastle or an ice sculpture.\n\"They wouldn't be as special if they were permanent,\" he points out. \"My buildings are like snowdrifts, or clouds in the sky. They can't last forever.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the article, which natural structure is a model for Bryan's card structures?\n\n<options>:\nA A sand dune.\nB A honeycomb.\nC A snowdrift.\nD A thundercloud.\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 house of cards? Sounds unbelievable, doesn't it? Not if the architect is 31-year-old Bryan Berg. He's made a career out of building fantastic card houses, stadiums, capitols, castles -- and the world's tallest card tower. How does he do it?\nBryan's structures are amazing because they are made entirely of perfectly balanced, freestanding playing cards. He never uses glue, tape, or anything else to hold the cards together. Nor does he fold the cards. He's discovered another way to make a strong house of cards, using a trick from nature.\nTo make plants strong, nature builds them with cells that have tough walls. Rows and rows of these cells form a grid that helps leaves and stems keep their shape. Bees use the same kind of repeating pattern to create strong honeycombs, where they live and store honey. Bryan designs similar grids, using cards to create a repeating pattern of cells.\nHe begins with a single cell made by balancing four cards against one another to form a box. Then he repeats the cell over and over, expanding outward to form the grid, which makes a good foundation for a strong card structure. The larger the grid, the more weight it can carry. Sometimes Bryan uses several cards, instead of just one, to construct the cell walls, making the grid even stronger. The trick, he tells kids when he speaks in classrooms, is to place your cards as tightly together as possible when laying out your grid, making sure the cards are not leaning at all.\nAfter building this solid base, Bryan lays cards across the top to make the floor for the next \"story\" of the building. He may add towers, columns, steeples, or domes. Using the principle of repeating cells, Bryan builds structures of amazing strength.\nIn the Cards\nNot surprisingly, Bryan has always been interested in building things. Growing up on a \"big, old farm\" in rural Iowa, he had plenty of room to play. \"We were in the middle of nowhere,\" Bryan remembers, \"with lots of space to do whatever we wanted. I was always making something, using things like sticks or bales of hay.\"\nBryan's grandfather taught him how to stack cards. Bryan's two interests -- building and card stacking -- soon combined. But stacking in his family's farmhouse was challenging. \"Our old house had wood floors that weren't all level,\" he reports. \"And they weren't very firm. When people walked around, it was like 'earthquake action.' It was a challenge to build something that wouldn't fall down immediately.\"\nBryan constructed tower after tower; he went through a lot of trial and error before he built anything taller than himself. When he placed a few decks of cards on top of his grid, he discovered how strong it was. Bryan's towers began to grow taller.\nHow Tall Is Too Tall?\nBryan's first Guinness World Record for the world's tallest card tower came in the spring of 1992, when he was in high school. Learning that the world record was 12 feet 10 inches, Bryan built a slim tower that topped out at 14 feet 6 inches. Done as a project for his geometry class, it took him 40 hours and 208 decks of cards. Since then he's gone on to win world records for even taller buildings. His latest winner measured 25 feet 3.5 inches and used about 2,400 decks of cards. _ \nWhy don't these towers fall down? The key is in a good solid base, a repeating pattern of stories, and a tapering top. Bryan likes to point out how card buildings resemble real ones. They are built cell by cell, story by story. The separate parts make one strong whole. The heavier the building, the stronger and more stable it is. But the weight can't all be at the top.\nAfter spending so much time building something so cool, Bryan admits it's sometimes painful to see his structures destroyed. But he compares his work to the building of a sandcastle or an ice sculpture.\n\"They wouldn't be as special if they were permanent,\" he points out. \"My buildings are like snowdrifts, or clouds in the sky. They can't last forever.\n\n<question>:\nWhat was Bryan's first world record?\n\n<options>:\nA The tallest card tower.\nB The widest card dome.\nC The heaviest card house.\nD The sturdiest card structure.\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 house of cards? Sounds unbelievable, doesn't it? Not if the architect is 31-year-old Bryan Berg. He's made a career out of building fantastic card houses, stadiums, capitols, castles -- and the world's tallest card tower. How does he do it?\nBryan's structures are amazing because they are made entirely of perfectly balanced, freestanding playing cards. He never uses glue, tape, or anything else to hold the cards together. Nor does he fold the cards. He's discovered another way to make a strong house of cards, using a trick from nature.\nTo make plants strong, nature builds them with cells that have tough walls. Rows and rows of these cells form a grid that helps leaves and stems keep their shape. Bees use the same kind of repeating pattern to create strong honeycombs, where they live and store honey. Bryan designs similar grids, using cards to create a repeating pattern of cells.\nHe begins with a single cell made by balancing four cards against one another to form a box. Then he repeats the cell over and over, expanding outward to form the grid, which makes a good foundation for a strong card structure. The larger the grid, the more weight it can carry. Sometimes Bryan uses several cards, instead of just one, to construct the cell walls, making the grid even stronger. The trick, he tells kids when he speaks in classrooms, is to place your cards as tightly together as possible when laying out your grid, making sure the cards are not leaning at all.\nAfter building this solid base, Bryan lays cards across the top to make the floor for the next \"story\" of the building. He may add towers, columns, steeples, or domes. Using the principle of repeating cells, Bryan builds structures of amazing strength.\nIn the Cards\nNot surprisingly, Bryan has always been interested in building things. Growing up on a \"big, old farm\" in rural Iowa, he had plenty of room to play. \"We were in the middle of nowhere,\" Bryan remembers, \"with lots of space to do whatever we wanted. I was always making something, using things like sticks or bales of hay.\"\nBryan's grandfather taught him how to stack cards. Bryan's two interests -- building and card stacking -- soon combined. But stacking in his family's farmhouse was challenging. \"Our old house had wood floors that weren't all level,\" he reports. \"And they weren't very firm. When people walked around, it was like 'earthquake action.' It was a challenge to build something that wouldn't fall down immediately.\"\nBryan constructed tower after tower; he went through a lot of trial and error before he built anything taller than himself. When he placed a few decks of cards on top of his grid, he discovered how strong it was. Bryan's towers began to grow taller.\nHow Tall Is Too Tall?\nBryan's first Guinness World Record for the world's tallest card tower came in the spring of 1992, when he was in high school. Learning that the world record was 12 feet 10 inches, Bryan built a slim tower that topped out at 14 feet 6 inches. Done as a project for his geometry class, it took him 40 hours and 208 decks of cards. Since then he's gone on to win world records for even taller buildings. His latest winner measured 25 feet 3.5 inches and used about 2,400 decks of cards. _ \nWhy don't these towers fall down? The key is in a good solid base, a repeating pattern of stories, and a tapering top. Bryan likes to point out how card buildings resemble real ones. They are built cell by cell, story by story. The separate parts make one strong whole. The heavier the building, the stronger and more stable it is. But the weight can't all be at the top.\nAfter spending so much time building something so cool, Bryan admits it's sometimes painful to see his structures destroyed. But he compares his work to the building of a sandcastle or an ice sculpture.\n\"They wouldn't be as special if they were permanent,\" he points out. \"My buildings are like snowdrifts, or clouds in the sky. They can't last forever.\n\n<question>:\nBryan's hobby is the result of combining which two boyhood interests?\n\n<options>:\nA Plant cells and honeycombs.\nB World records and geometry.\nC Building things and stacking cards.\nD Playing cards and designing houses.\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 house of cards? Sounds unbelievable, doesn't it? Not if the architect is 31-year-old Bryan Berg. He's made a career out of building fantastic card houses, stadiums, capitols, castles -- and the world's tallest card tower. How does he do it?\nBryan's structures are amazing because they are made entirely of perfectly balanced, freestanding playing cards. He never uses glue, tape, or anything else to hold the cards together. Nor does he fold the cards. He's discovered another way to make a strong house of cards, using a trick from nature.\nTo make plants strong, nature builds them with cells that have tough walls. Rows and rows of these cells form a grid that helps leaves and stems keep their shape. Bees use the same kind of repeating pattern to create strong honeycombs, where they live and store honey. Bryan designs similar grids, using cards to create a repeating pattern of cells.\nHe begins with a single cell made by balancing four cards against one another to form a box. Then he repeats the cell over and over, expanding outward to form the grid, which makes a good foundation for a strong card structure. The larger the grid, the more weight it can carry. Sometimes Bryan uses several cards, instead of just one, to construct the cell walls, making the grid even stronger. The trick, he tells kids when he speaks in classrooms, is to place your cards as tightly together as possible when laying out your grid, making sure the cards are not leaning at all.\nAfter building this solid base, Bryan lays cards across the top to make the floor for the next \"story\" of the building. He may add towers, columns, steeples, or domes. Using the principle of repeating cells, Bryan builds structures of amazing strength.\nIn the Cards\nNot surprisingly, Bryan has always been interested in building things. Growing up on a \"big, old farm\" in rural Iowa, he had plenty of room to play. \"We were in the middle of nowhere,\" Bryan remembers, \"with lots of space to do whatever we wanted. I was always making something, using things like sticks or bales of hay.\"\nBryan's grandfather taught him how to stack cards. Bryan's two interests -- building and card stacking -- soon combined. But stacking in his family's farmhouse was challenging. \"Our old house had wood floors that weren't all level,\" he reports. \"And they weren't very firm. When people walked around, it was like 'earthquake action.' It was a challenge to build something that wouldn't fall down immediately.\"\nBryan constructed tower after tower; he went through a lot of trial and error before he built anything taller than himself. When he placed a few decks of cards on top of his grid, he discovered how strong it was. Bryan's towers began to grow taller.\nHow Tall Is Too Tall?\nBryan's first Guinness World Record for the world's tallest card tower came in the spring of 1992, when he was in high school. Learning that the world record was 12 feet 10 inches, Bryan built a slim tower that topped out at 14 feet 6 inches. Done as a project for his geometry class, it took him 40 hours and 208 decks of cards. Since then he's gone on to win world records for even taller buildings. His latest winner measured 25 feet 3.5 inches and used about 2,400 decks of cards. _ \nWhy don't these towers fall down? The key is in a good solid base, a repeating pattern of stories, and a tapering top. Bryan likes to point out how card buildings resemble real ones. They are built cell by cell, story by story. The separate parts make one strong whole. The heavier the building, the stronger and more stable it is. But the weight can't all be at the top.\nAfter spending so much time building something so cool, Bryan admits it's sometimes painful to see his structures destroyed. But he compares his work to the building of a sandcastle or an ice sculpture.\n\"They wouldn't be as special if they were permanent,\" he points out. \"My buildings are like snowdrifts, or clouds in the sky. They can't last forever.\n\n<question>:\nWhy was it a challenge for Bryan to build card structures in his family's farmhouse?\n\n<options>:\nA The floors of the house were uneven.\nB The ceilings in the house were too low.\nC The floors of the house were slippery.\nD The windows in the house were windy.\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 bankers to factory staff, employees in the West face a cold _ of losing their jobs as a global recession starts to bite. For colleagues in the East, the pain is more likely to come through a pay cut.\nHuman resource experts say cultural differences explain why Asian companies try harder to preserve jobs in difficult times, which will prevent unemployment and may help Asian economies survive at a time of slowing exports. The East Asian attitude may also make it easier for companies to recover quickly from the economic downturn since they will not need to rehire or train new staff, but build up a more loyal and devoted group.\n\"In the Confucian mindset, the right thing to do is to share the burden, which is the sense of collective responsibility. While in the West, it's more about individual survival,\" said Michael Benoliel, associate professor of organizational behavior at Singapore Management University (SMU).\nIn contrast, local Western companies from General Motors to Goldman Sachs plan to lay off workers by the thousand, but at the Asian units of Western multinationals or western units of Asian groups, job cuts will probably be less severe.\nJapan's jobless rate was 4 percent in September, up from 3.8 percent in January, while Hong Kong's was flat at 3.4 percent. But US unemployment is expected to have jumped to 6.3 percent last month from below 5 percent in January.\nExperts say that while there are noticeable differences in labor practices in East and West, the gap will narrow as more firms become more multinational and competition forces firms to adopt the best practices of rivals from abroad.\n\n<question>:\nCompared with job cuts, pay cuts can bring the following benefits EXCEPT that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA it's helpful to the economy recovery\nB it costs the company less money to survive\nC it will keep the experienced and skilled workers\nD it can form a team working harder and more loyally\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>:\nStudies have shown that the fewer medicines a person has to take the more likely he or she will take them. Last week, a study was released about a new treatment that combines 5 medicines for heart disease in one pill. Salim Yusuf of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada was the lead investigator. He presented the findings at the American College of Cardiology Conference in Orlando, Florida.\nThe experimental drug is known as Polycap. It contains aspirin, a drug to lower cholesterol and three medicines to lower blood pressure. The study was carried out at 50 health centers across India. More than two thousand people between the ages of 45 and 80 took part in the study. All had at least one risk factor for heart disease. These include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes or being severely overweight.\nThe people were divided into 9 groups of about 200 people each. One group took Polycap. The other groups took either a single drug or different combinations of the medicines in the Polycap pill. The study showed that Polycap lowered blood pressure and cholesterol without many side effects. Doctor Yusuf said the single pill, taken once a day, could reduce the average person's risk of heart disease and stroke by about half. The maker of Polycap, Cadila Pharmaceuticals of India, paid for the study.\nCardiovascular diseases of the heart and blood vessels are the number one cause of death around the world. These diseases kill more than seventeen million people every year. 80 percent of them are in low and middle income countries. Doctor Yusuf said the single pill treatment could revolutionize heart disease prevention. People would be more likely to take one pill a day than many pills. And one pill would cost less than several pills.\nOther heart doctors say heart disease prevention is important but not necessarily with pills. They say patients might be able to get the same results with changes in diet and exercise.\nDoctors say that more research on Polycap is needed. They say the drug should be tested on thousands more people, including those in different risk, age and ethnic groups.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following about Doctor Ysisuf's experiment on Polycap in India is True?\n\n<options>:\nA Polycap was tested for its five different combinations.\nB Polycap was proved basically safe and effective.\nC All the participators had at least one symptom of heart disease.\nD Participators were required !o come from different ages and ethnic groups,\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>:\nStudies have shown that the fewer medicines a person has to take the more likely he or she will take them. Last week, a study was released about a new treatment that combines 5 medicines for heart disease in one pill. Salim Yusuf of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada was the lead investigator. He presented the findings at the American College of Cardiology Conference in Orlando, Florida.\nThe experimental drug is known as Polycap. It contains aspirin, a drug to lower cholesterol and three medicines to lower blood pressure. The study was carried out at 50 health centers across India. More than two thousand people between the ages of 45 and 80 took part in the study. All had at least one risk factor for heart disease. These include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes or being severely overweight.\nThe people were divided into 9 groups of about 200 people each. One group took Polycap. The other groups took either a single drug or different combinations of the medicines in the Polycap pill. The study showed that Polycap lowered blood pressure and cholesterol without many side effects. Doctor Yusuf said the single pill, taken once a day, could reduce the average person's risk of heart disease and stroke by about half. The maker of Polycap, Cadila Pharmaceuticals of India, paid for the study.\nCardiovascular diseases of the heart and blood vessels are the number one cause of death around the world. These diseases kill more than seventeen million people every year. 80 percent of them are in low and middle income countries. Doctor Yusuf said the single pill treatment could revolutionize heart disease prevention. People would be more likely to take one pill a day than many pills. And one pill would cost less than several pills.\nOther heart doctors say heart disease prevention is important but not necessarily with pills. They say patients might be able to get the same results with changes in diet and exercise.\nDoctors say that more research on Polycap is needed. They say the drug should be tested on thousands more people, including those in different risk, age and ethnic groups.\n\n<question>:\nFrom the passage, we can infer that Polycap _ .\n\n<options>:\nA is generally accepted by heart doctors\nB mainly consists of medicines to lower blood pressure\nC is certain to play important role in heart disease prevention\nD will be cheaper than other common medicines to treat heart disease\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>:\nStudies have shown that the fewer medicines a person has to take the more likely he or she will take them. Last week, a study was released about a new treatment that combines 5 medicines for heart disease in one pill. Salim Yusuf of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada was the lead investigator. He presented the findings at the American College of Cardiology Conference in Orlando, Florida.\nThe experimental drug is known as Polycap. It contains aspirin, a drug to lower cholesterol and three medicines to lower blood pressure. The study was carried out at 50 health centers across India. More than two thousand people between the ages of 45 and 80 took part in the study. All had at least one risk factor for heart disease. These include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes or being severely overweight.\nThe people were divided into 9 groups of about 200 people each. One group took Polycap. The other groups took either a single drug or different combinations of the medicines in the Polycap pill. The study showed that Polycap lowered blood pressure and cholesterol without many side effects. Doctor Yusuf said the single pill, taken once a day, could reduce the average person's risk of heart disease and stroke by about half. The maker of Polycap, Cadila Pharmaceuticals of India, paid for the study.\nCardiovascular diseases of the heart and blood vessels are the number one cause of death around the world. These diseases kill more than seventeen million people every year. 80 percent of them are in low and middle income countries. Doctor Yusuf said the single pill treatment could revolutionize heart disease prevention. People would be more likely to take one pill a day than many pills. And one pill would cost less than several pills.\nOther heart doctors say heart disease prevention is important but not necessarily with pills. They say patients might be able to get the same results with changes in diet and exercise.\nDoctors say that more research on Polycap is needed. They say the drug should be tested on thousands more people, including those in different risk, age and ethnic groups.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the passage, the following people are more likely to get Cardiovascular disease except _ .\n\n<options>:\nA old people\nB low - income people\nC overweight people\nD diabetic people\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 \"secret\" message, unseen for almost 150 years and making the start of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), has been uncovered in Abraham Lincoln's gold pocket watch, prefix = st1 /U.S.media reported on Wednesday.\n\"Lincolnnever knew of the message he carried in his pocket,\" Brent D. Glass, director of the National Museum of American History said in a statement.\nThe message, which was engraved by an Irish immigrant and watchmaker named Jonathan Dillon, is dated April 13, 1861, and reads in part: \"FortSumpter[sic] was attacked by the rebels\" and \"thank God we have a government.\"\n\"It's a personal side of history about an ordinary watchman being inspired to record something for _ ,\" Glass said.\nThe museum decided to open the watch after being contacted by the watchmaker's great-great-grandson, Doug Stiles, who had received a letter from a in Ireland. It said that the family had found a letter Dillon had written about the purported message in the watch.\nThen Stiles, a 57 -year-old real estate lawyer in Waukegan,Illinois, searched on the Internet and found a New York Times article from 1906, where Dillon told the story at the age of 84.\nDuring the interview, Dillon said that he unscrewed the dial of the watch and wrote on the metal as soon as he heard the news about the first shot of the Civil War. \"The first gun is fired. Slavery is dead. Thank God we have a President who at least will try.\"\nHowever, the actual message that the museum found is different from what Dillon recalled. It reads, \"Jonathan Dillon, April 13-1861, Fort Sumpter [sic] was attacked by the rebels on the above date J Dillon, April 13 -1861, Washington, thank God we have a government, Jonth Dillon.\"\n\n<question>:\nWho wrote the message in Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch?\n\n<options>:\nA Lincoln himself.\nB Brent\nC Jonathan Dillon.\nD Doug Stiles.\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 \"secret\" message, unseen for almost 150 years and making the start of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), has been uncovered in Abraham Lincoln's gold pocket watch, prefix = st1 /U.S.media reported on Wednesday.\n\"Lincolnnever knew of the message he carried in his pocket,\" Brent D. Glass, director of the National Museum of American History said in a statement.\nThe message, which was engraved by an Irish immigrant and watchmaker named Jonathan Dillon, is dated April 13, 1861, and reads in part: \"FortSumpter[sic] was attacked by the rebels\" and \"thank God we have a government.\"\n\"It's a personal side of history about an ordinary watchman being inspired to record something for _ ,\" Glass said.\nThe museum decided to open the watch after being contacted by the watchmaker's great-great-grandson, Doug Stiles, who had received a letter from a in Ireland. It said that the family had found a letter Dillon had written about the purported message in the watch.\nThen Stiles, a 57 -year-old real estate lawyer in Waukegan,Illinois, searched on the Internet and found a New York Times article from 1906, where Dillon told the story at the age of 84.\nDuring the interview, Dillon said that he unscrewed the dial of the watch and wrote on the metal as soon as he heard the news about the first shot of the Civil War. \"The first gun is fired. Slavery is dead. Thank God we have a President who at least will try.\"\nHowever, the actual message that the museum found is different from what Dillon recalled. It reads, \"Jonathan Dillon, April 13-1861, Fort Sumpter [sic] was attacked by the rebels on the above date J Dillon, April 13 -1861, Washington, thank God we have a government, Jonth Dillon.\"\n\n<question>:\nThe message was about _ .\n\n<options>:\nA the start of the U.S.Civil War\nB Abraham Lincoln's daily life\nC the slavery in the U.S.\nD the ending of the U.S.Civil 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>:\nParties, iPods, concerts, movies, TV shows, video games, traffic. All of these things of the modern world make life entertaining and enjoyable. But our 21st-century lifestyle is also loud and, if we don't take notice, it can have an effect on our hearing.\nMost teenagers don't think about hearing loss. But if you experience any of the followingsymptoms , you may already be hearing damaged: you make efforts to hear normal talk, you have to turn up the TV or radio so high that others complain, you watch other people's expressions to understand what they are saying, you ask people to repeat themselves, you misunderstand what people are saying or you hear ringing in your ears.\niPods and other MP3 players are as common as the clothes you wear, and just as fashionable. But if you turn up an iPod to more than 60 percent of itsmaximum volume , and listen to music for more than an hour, you are asking for trouble. And, it does not matter if the music you play is classical, rock or heavy metal.\nSome researchers find that young people who break the so-called 60-percent/60-minute rule in listening to iPods are at the risk of suffering hearing loss.\nWhy is an iPod dangerous? With ear buds placed directly in the ear canal and high-volume music played over a long period of time, it's like working in a loud factory all day, being amaintenance person under a jet airplane or using ajackhammer on a building site.\nSimilarly, iPod music can cause a short time orpermanent hearing damage. A loud iPod can cause aruptured eardrum and, over time, may cause permanent damage to the tiny hairs in the inner ear. If these tiny hairs are damaged, they cannot effectively send sounds to theauditory nerves that connect to the brain. If this happens, hearing loss becomes permanent.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following shows that you are suffering hearing loss?\n\n<options>:\nA You are interested to listen to others' talking.\nB You have to read others' expressions to understand them.\nC You can only understand others over the phone.\nD You always think you hear the ringing of the phone.\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>:\nDr. Wiseman started the \"laugh lab\" project in September 2001. It is the largest study of humor. Participants are invited to log on the laugh lab website, give a few personal details, tell their favorite jokes and judge the jokes told by other people.\nTheir project will last for a year, and the organizers hope to finally discover the world's funniest joke. But there is also a serious purpose. The researchers want to know what people from different nations and cultures find funny. And they want to find out the differences between male's and female's sense of humor. The idea is that if we want to understand each other, we have to find out what makes us laugh.\nThis is a subject that has long interested psychologists and philosophers . Most of the time, people are not completely honest. We do things that society expects us to and say things that help us get what we want. But laughing cannot be controlled. When we laugh, we tell the truth about ourselves.\nBy December 2001 over 10,000 jokes had been submitted . This gave the scientists enough evidence to make early conclusions. It seems that men and women do have different senses of humor, for example.\n\"Our findings show the major differences in the ways in which males and females use humor,\" said Dr Wiseman. \"Males use humor to appear superior (,) to others, while women are more skilled in languages and prefer word play.\"\nResearchers also found that there really is such a thing as a national sense of humor. The British enjoy what is usually called \"toilet humor\". But the French like their jokes short and sharp, \"You're a high priced lawyer. Will you answer two questions for $ 500?\" \"Yes. What's the second question?\"\nThe Germans are famous for not having a sense of humor. But the survey found that German participants were more likely to find submitted jokes funny than any other nationality. Perhaps that proves the point. Is this joke funny? I don't know, but let's say yes, just to be safe.\nDr Wiseman and his workmates also submitted jokes created by computer. But none of those who took part in the survey found any of them amusing. Perhaps this is relief . Computers already seem like they can do everything. But at least they should leave the funny things to us.\n\n<question>:\nThe scientist started the \"laugh lab\" project _ .\n\n<options>:\nA to find the funniest joke in European countries\nB to know what funny people are from different nations and cultures\nC to find out the differences between the male's and female's sense of humor\nD to get more personal details about participants\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>:\nMozart was a great man born with a given talent. He was writing songs at the age of five and performing before the queen by the time he was six years old. Early on, Mozart realized what his talents were, practiced or honed what he was born to do and used his natural abilities to create amazing pieces of music.\nMozart was not the first to be born with natural talents and he wasn't the last. We all have them. We only need to discover what they are and use them to the best of our abilities. You have been given amazing gifts that are meant to be shared with the world. Your job is to find out what those talents are and master them.\nFinding your natural talents may not be an easy task. Perhaps your parents except fewer wouldn't approve of your artistic ability to paint or sing, because they want you to be a successful doctor or lawyer. Maybe your gift wouldn't seem to have the ability to bring the kind of wealth you hope. These may be excuses; it's up to you. Have you ever noticed that when you engage in an activity in which you are naturally talented, you feel active and excited? That's a sign that these are the things you should do. Discover your brilliance in life and practice, practice, practice.\nLook at the world's greatest athletes. They practice what they're naturally good at, and what they love. You don't see Jordan sitting trying to study DNA. If that was something he was talented at, that's what he would be doing. But it's not. He's a brilliant athlete. He sticks to what he does best and he realizes his dream.\nThere are only two steps to success--discover your brilliance and perfect it.\n\n<question>:\nIn the writer's opinion Mozart's success lies in _ .\n\n<options>:\nA his great given talent\nB making good use of his natural talent\nC learning from others\nD his favorable 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>:\nMozart was a great man born with a given talent. He was writing songs at the age of five and performing before the queen by the time he was six years old. Early on, Mozart realized what his talents were, practiced or honed what he was born to do and used his natural abilities to create amazing pieces of music.\nMozart was not the first to be born with natural talents and he wasn't the last. We all have them. We only need to discover what they are and use them to the best of our abilities. You have been given amazing gifts that are meant to be shared with the world. Your job is to find out what those talents are and master them.\nFinding your natural talents may not be an easy task. Perhaps your parents except fewer wouldn't approve of your artistic ability to paint or sing, because they want you to be a successful doctor or lawyer. Maybe your gift wouldn't seem to have the ability to bring the kind of wealth you hope. These may be excuses; it's up to you. Have you ever noticed that when you engage in an activity in which you are naturally talented, you feel active and excited? That's a sign that these are the things you should do. Discover your brilliance in life and practice, practice, practice.\nLook at the world's greatest athletes. They practice what they're naturally good at, and what they love. You don't see Jordan sitting trying to study DNA. If that was something he was talented at, that's what he would be doing. But it's not. He's a brilliant athlete. He sticks to what he does best and he realizes his dream.\nThere are only two steps to success--discover your brilliance and perfect it.\n\n<question>:\nWe can infer from the passage that many parents want their children to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA be a teacher or a lawyer\nB be a singer or an artist\nC earn much money as a player\nD give up painting or singing\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>:\nFurther education is officially described as the\"post-secondary stage of education, comprising all vocational and non-vocational provision made for young people who have left school, or for adults\". Further education thus embraces the vast range of university, technical, commercial, and art education and the wide field of adult education. It is this sector of education, which is concerned with education beyond the normal school-leaving ages of 16 or 18, that has experienced the most astonishing growth in the number of students.\nIn the 19th century the dominance of Oxford and Cambridge was challenged by the rise of the civic universities, such as London, Manchester, and Birmingham. Following the lead of the 18th century German universities and responding to a public demand for increased opportunity for higher education, Britain's new civic universities quickly acquired recognition--not only in technological fields but also in the fine and liberal arts.\nMany new post-school technical colleges were founded in the early 20th century. The Fisher Act of 1918 empowered the local authorities to levy a rate (tax) to finance such colleges. The universities, on the other hand, received funds from the central government through the University Grants Committee, established in 1911 and recognized in 1920, after World War I.\nA new type of technical college was established in the 1960s--the polytechnic, which provides mainly technological courses of university level as well as courses of a general kind in the arts and sciences. Polytechnics are chartered to award degrees validated by a Council for National Academic Awards.\nThus, the third level in the United Kingdom is made up of colleges of further education, technical colleges, polytechnics, and universities. The colleges offer full-time and part-time courses beyond compulsory-school level. Polytechnics and universities are mainly responsible for degrees and research. The innovative Open University, with its flexible admission policy and study arrangements, opened in 1971. It uses various media to provide highly accessible and flexible higher education for working adults and other part-time students. It serves as an organizational model and provides course-materials for similar institutions in other countries.\nChanges in British education in the second half of the 20th century have, without changing the basic values in the system, extended education by population, level, and content. New areas for expansion include immigrant cultural groups and multicultural content, the accommodation of special needs, and the development of tools and content in the expanding fields of microelectronics.\n\n<question>:\nThe new civic universities in Britain _ .\n\n<options>:\nA replaced the dominance of Oxford and Cambridge\nB provided further education for all the people who need it\nC met the increased demand of the public for higher education\nD immediately followed the establishment of polytechnic colleges\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>:\nFurther education is officially described as the\"post-secondary stage of education, comprising all vocational and non-vocational provision made for young people who have left school, or for adults\". Further education thus embraces the vast range of university, technical, commercial, and art education and the wide field of adult education. It is this sector of education, which is concerned with education beyond the normal school-leaving ages of 16 or 18, that has experienced the most astonishing growth in the number of students.\nIn the 19th century the dominance of Oxford and Cambridge was challenged by the rise of the civic universities, such as London, Manchester, and Birmingham. Following the lead of the 18th century German universities and responding to a public demand for increased opportunity for higher education, Britain's new civic universities quickly acquired recognition--not only in technological fields but also in the fine and liberal arts.\nMany new post-school technical colleges were founded in the early 20th century. The Fisher Act of 1918 empowered the local authorities to levy a rate (tax) to finance such colleges. The universities, on the other hand, received funds from the central government through the University Grants Committee, established in 1911 and recognized in 1920, after World War I.\nA new type of technical college was established in the 1960s--the polytechnic, which provides mainly technological courses of university level as well as courses of a general kind in the arts and sciences. Polytechnics are chartered to award degrees validated by a Council for National Academic Awards.\nThus, the third level in the United Kingdom is made up of colleges of further education, technical colleges, polytechnics, and universities. The colleges offer full-time and part-time courses beyond compulsory-school level. Polytechnics and universities are mainly responsible for degrees and research. The innovative Open University, with its flexible admission policy and study arrangements, opened in 1971. It uses various media to provide highly accessible and flexible higher education for working adults and other part-time students. It serves as an organizational model and provides course-materials for similar institutions in other countries.\nChanges in British education in the second half of the 20th century have, without changing the basic values in the system, extended education by population, level, and content. New areas for expansion include immigrant cultural groups and multicultural content, the accommodation of special needs, and the development of tools and content in the expanding fields of microelectronics.\n\n<question>:\nPost-school technical colleges _ .\n\n<options>:\nA were completely free of charge\nB were usually financed by local taxes\nC depended mainly on students' tuition\nD received funds from the central government\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>:\nFurther education is officially described as the\"post-secondary stage of education, comprising all vocational and non-vocational provision made for young people who have left school, or for adults\". Further education thus embraces the vast range of university, technical, commercial, and art education and the wide field of adult education. It is this sector of education, which is concerned with education beyond the normal school-leaving ages of 16 or 18, that has experienced the most astonishing growth in the number of students.\nIn the 19th century the dominance of Oxford and Cambridge was challenged by the rise of the civic universities, such as London, Manchester, and Birmingham. Following the lead of the 18th century German universities and responding to a public demand for increased opportunity for higher education, Britain's new civic universities quickly acquired recognition--not only in technological fields but also in the fine and liberal arts.\nMany new post-school technical colleges were founded in the early 20th century. The Fisher Act of 1918 empowered the local authorities to levy a rate (tax) to finance such colleges. The universities, on the other hand, received funds from the central government through the University Grants Committee, established in 1911 and recognized in 1920, after World War I.\nA new type of technical college was established in the 1960s--the polytechnic, which provides mainly technological courses of university level as well as courses of a general kind in the arts and sciences. Polytechnics are chartered to award degrees validated by a Council for National Academic Awards.\nThus, the third level in the United Kingdom is made up of colleges of further education, technical colleges, polytechnics, and universities. The colleges offer full-time and part-time courses beyond compulsory-school level. Polytechnics and universities are mainly responsible for degrees and research. The innovative Open University, with its flexible admission policy and study arrangements, opened in 1971. It uses various media to provide highly accessible and flexible higher education for working adults and other part-time students. It serves as an organizational model and provides course-materials for similar institutions in other countries.\nChanges in British education in the second half of the 20th century have, without changing the basic values in the system, extended education by population, level, and content. New areas for expansion include immigrant cultural groups and multicultural content, the accommodation of special needs, and the development of tools and content in the expanding fields of microelectronics.\n\n<question>:\nFurther education is _ .\n\n<options>:\nA only for adult students\nB part-time rather than full-time\nC non-vocational rather than vocational\nD created for both young people and adults\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>:\nFurther education is officially described as the\"post-secondary stage of education, comprising all vocational and non-vocational provision made for young people who have left school, or for adults\". Further education thus embraces the vast range of university, technical, commercial, and art education and the wide field of adult education. It is this sector of education, which is concerned with education beyond the normal school-leaving ages of 16 or 18, that has experienced the most astonishing growth in the number of students.\nIn the 19th century the dominance of Oxford and Cambridge was challenged by the rise of the civic universities, such as London, Manchester, and Birmingham. Following the lead of the 18th century German universities and responding to a public demand for increased opportunity for higher education, Britain's new civic universities quickly acquired recognition--not only in technological fields but also in the fine and liberal arts.\nMany new post-school technical colleges were founded in the early 20th century. The Fisher Act of 1918 empowered the local authorities to levy a rate (tax) to finance such colleges. The universities, on the other hand, received funds from the central government through the University Grants Committee, established in 1911 and recognized in 1920, after World War I.\nA new type of technical college was established in the 1960s--the polytechnic, which provides mainly technological courses of university level as well as courses of a general kind in the arts and sciences. Polytechnics are chartered to award degrees validated by a Council for National Academic Awards.\nThus, the third level in the United Kingdom is made up of colleges of further education, technical colleges, polytechnics, and universities. The colleges offer full-time and part-time courses beyond compulsory-school level. Polytechnics and universities are mainly responsible for degrees and research. The innovative Open University, with its flexible admission policy and study arrangements, opened in 1971. It uses various media to provide highly accessible and flexible higher education for working adults and other part-time students. It serves as an organizational model and provides course-materials for similar institutions in other countries.\nChanges in British education in the second half of the 20th century have, without changing the basic values in the system, extended education by population, level, and content. New areas for expansion include immigrant cultural groups and multicultural content, the accommodation of special needs, and the development of tools and content in the expanding fields of microelectronics.\n\n<question>:\nThe proper title for this passage should be \" _ \".\n\n<options>:\nA British Further Education\nB Changes in British Education\nC Polytechnics and Universities in Britain\nD Less Opportunity for Higher Education\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>:\nNew technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. It's now a \"global village\" where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course, our ability to benefit from this high-tech communications equipment is greatly increased by foreign language skills.\nDeeply involved with this new technology is a kind of modern businesspeople who have a growing respect for the economic value of doing business abroad. In modern markets, success overseas often helps support domestic business efforts.\nOverseas assignments are becoming increasingly important to advancement within executive ranks. The executive stationed in another country no longer need fear being \"out of sight and out of mind.\" He or she can be sure that the overseas effort is central to the company's plan for success, and that promotions often follow or accompany an assignment abroad. If an employee can succeed in a difficult assignment overseas, superiors will have greater confidence in his or her ability to manage back in the United States where cross-cultural considerations and foreign language issues are becoming more and more common.\nThanks to a variety of relatively inexpensive communications devices with business applications, even small businesses in the United States are able to get into international markets.\nEnglish is still the international language of business. But there is an ever-growing need for people who can speak another language. A second language isn't generally required to get a job in business, but having language skills gives a candidate the edge when other qualifications appear to be equal.\nThe employee posted abroad who speaks the country's language has an opportunity to fast-forward certain negotiations, and can have the cultural insight to know when it is better to move more slowly. The employee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign customers over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset to the firm.\n\n<question>:\nWith the increased use of high-tech communications equipment, businesspeople _ .\n\n<options>:\nA are eager to work overseas\nB have to get familiar with modern technology\nC are gaining more economic benefits from domestic operations\nD are attaching more importance to their overseas business\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>:\nNew technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. It's now a \"global village\" where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course, our ability to benefit from this high-tech communications equipment is greatly increased by foreign language skills.\nDeeply involved with this new technology is a kind of modern businesspeople who have a growing respect for the economic value of doing business abroad. In modern markets, success overseas often helps support domestic business efforts.\nOverseas assignments are becoming increasingly important to advancement within executive ranks. The executive stationed in another country no longer need fear being \"out of sight and out of mind.\" He or she can be sure that the overseas effort is central to the company's plan for success, and that promotions often follow or accompany an assignment abroad. If an employee can succeed in a difficult assignment overseas, superiors will have greater confidence in his or her ability to manage back in the United States where cross-cultural considerations and foreign language issues are becoming more and more common.\nThanks to a variety of relatively inexpensive communications devices with business applications, even small businesses in the United States are able to get into international markets.\nEnglish is still the international language of business. But there is an ever-growing need for people who can speak another language. A second language isn't generally required to get a job in business, but having language skills gives a candidate the edge when other qualifications appear to be equal.\nThe employee posted abroad who speaks the country's language has an opportunity to fast-forward certain negotiations, and can have the cultural insight to know when it is better to move more slowly. The employee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign customers over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset to the firm.\n\n<question>:\nIn this passage, \"out of sight and out of mind\" (Line 3, Para. 3) probably means _ .\n\n<options>:\nA leaving all care and worry behind\nB being unable to think properly for lack of insight\nC being totally out of touch with business at home\nD missing opportunities for promotion when abroad\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>:\nNew technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. It's now a \"global village\" where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course, our ability to benefit from this high-tech communications equipment is greatly increased by foreign language skills.\nDeeply involved with this new technology is a kind of modern businesspeople who have a growing respect for the economic value of doing business abroad. In modern markets, success overseas often helps support domestic business efforts.\nOverseas assignments are becoming increasingly important to advancement within executive ranks. The executive stationed in another country no longer need fear being \"out of sight and out of mind.\" He or she can be sure that the overseas effort is central to the company's plan for success, and that promotions often follow or accompany an assignment abroad. If an employee can succeed in a difficult assignment overseas, superiors will have greater confidence in his or her ability to manage back in the United States where cross-cultural considerations and foreign language issues are becoming more and more common.\nThanks to a variety of relatively inexpensive communications devices with business applications, even small businesses in the United States are able to get into international markets.\nEnglish is still the international language of business. But there is an ever-growing need for people who can speak another language. A second language isn't generally required to get a job in business, but having language skills gives a candidate the edge when other qualifications appear to be equal.\nThe employee posted abroad who speaks the country's language has an opportunity to fast-forward certain negotiations, and can have the cultural insight to know when it is better to move more slowly. The employee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign customers over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset to the firm.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the passage, what is an important consideration of international corporations in employing people today?\n\n<options>:\nA Ability to speak the customer's language.\nB Connections with businesses overseas.\nC Technical know-how.\nD Business experience.\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>:\nNew technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. It's now a \"global village\" where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course, our ability to benefit from this high-tech communications equipment is greatly increased by foreign language skills.\nDeeply involved with this new technology is a kind of modern businesspeople who have a growing respect for the economic value of doing business abroad. In modern markets, success overseas often helps support domestic business efforts.\nOverseas assignments are becoming increasingly important to advancement within executive ranks. The executive stationed in another country no longer need fear being \"out of sight and out of mind.\" He or she can be sure that the overseas effort is central to the company's plan for success, and that promotions often follow or accompany an assignment abroad. If an employee can succeed in a difficult assignment overseas, superiors will have greater confidence in his or her ability to manage back in the United States where cross-cultural considerations and foreign language issues are becoming more and more common.\nThanks to a variety of relatively inexpensive communications devices with business applications, even small businesses in the United States are able to get into international markets.\nEnglish is still the international language of business. But there is an ever-growing need for people who can speak another language. A second language isn't generally required to get a job in business, but having language skills gives a candidate the edge when other qualifications appear to be equal.\nThe employee posted abroad who speaks the country's language has an opportunity to fast-forward certain negotiations, and can have the cultural insight to know when it is better to move more slowly. The employee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign customers over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset to the firm.\n\n<question>:\nThe advantage of employees having foreign language skills is that they can _ .\n\n<options>:\nA fast-forward their proposals to headquarters\nB better control the whole negotiation process\nC easily make friends with businesspeople abroad\nD easily find new approaches to meet market needs\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 language holiday is a combination of \"holiday\" and study abroad to learn or improve a foreign language. English language holidays are taken in English-speaking countries like England, the USA or Australia. While there, you study in a language school with students from many different countries. You live with local people, often staying with a host family. A language holiday can be of any length - from one week to one year - but most are two or three weeks.\nWhat are the Benefits of a Language Holiday?\nLanguage holidays have become a very popular method of learning English because they have many advantages:\nTotal Exposure Because you are in an English-speaking country, you are constantly exposed to English from the time you wake up and have breakfast with your host family until late evening and your last drink in a local pub. You have little or no opportunity to escape the English language. This is how you learn your own language - constant exposure.\nMixed Classes When you study in your own country, all the other students in your class speak your language, so you are not forced to use English. On a language holiday, students come from countries all over the world. It is possible that nobody in your class will speak your language, so you will just have to speak English!\nFreedom From Pressure On a language holiday you are away from home and can forget the everyday pressures of school or business. Your mind is more relaxed and you can learn more easily.\nCultural Understanding Learning a language is not only about learning words. Different nations have different cultures. People think and behave differently. Their language is closely associated with their culture. By visiting and living in a foreign country, you learn to understand the culture and the people - and so better understand the language.\nYou'll find schools offering language holidays at EnglishClub.com ESL World.\n\n<question>:\nWhy are mixed classes good for English learning?\n\n<options>:\nA Because you are forced to speak your language\nB Because students come from English countries.\nC Because nobody in your class speaks your language.\nD Because you have no choice but to speak English.\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 language holiday is a combination of \"holiday\" and study abroad to learn or improve a foreign language. English language holidays are taken in English-speaking countries like England, the USA or Australia. While there, you study in a language school with students from many different countries. You live with local people, often staying with a host family. A language holiday can be of any length - from one week to one year - but most are two or three weeks.\nWhat are the Benefits of a Language Holiday?\nLanguage holidays have become a very popular method of learning English because they have many advantages:\nTotal Exposure Because you are in an English-speaking country, you are constantly exposed to English from the time you wake up and have breakfast with your host family until late evening and your last drink in a local pub. You have little or no opportunity to escape the English language. This is how you learn your own language - constant exposure.\nMixed Classes When you study in your own country, all the other students in your class speak your language, so you are not forced to use English. On a language holiday, students come from countries all over the world. It is possible that nobody in your class will speak your language, so you will just have to speak English!\nFreedom From Pressure On a language holiday you are away from home and can forget the everyday pressures of school or business. Your mind is more relaxed and you can learn more easily.\nCultural Understanding Learning a language is not only about learning words. Different nations have different cultures. People think and behave differently. Their language is closely associated with their culture. By visiting and living in a foreign country, you learn to understand the culture and the people - and so better understand the language.\nYou'll find schools offering language holidays at EnglishClub.com ESL World.\n\n<question>:\nWhere can you probably find the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA On the Internet.\nB In a science textbook.\nC In a travel guide.\nD In a medical newspaper\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>:\nOur lives were supposed to be more flexible and family-friendly thanks to the technology at our fingertips. But in this age of BlackBerrys, recession pressures, working at home after hours and on weekends, family time may not be working out the way we thought.\nBusy parents who expected more time with the kids are Finding that more work hours at home don't necessarily translate into quality time with them.\nA new generation of parents needs to discover the meaning of \"quality time,\" researchers say. \"Personally, just given the life I lead, I think there is something to this idea of quality time- spending productive time with children vs. just being around,\" says Peter Brandon, a professor at Carleton College. He says engaging or interacting with a child in activities such as reading or playing counts as quality time rather than \"passive monitoring,\" such as washing the dishes while the child is watching TV.\n\" _ ,\" Brandon says. He notes that good parent-child relationships result in children being happier and more successful, including at school.\nAs parents struggle to be more available to their kids, new research on work and family schedules to be presented Friday at the meeting in Dallas includes a study that shows parents' availability is on the decline because more parents are in the workforce. Although parents today may be spending more time on child care, they are less available overall.\nWorking parents who spend less time with their children should try to make sure the time they do spend is communicating with them, vs. doing the dishes or spending more time on themselves, Brandon says \"The trade-off is not necessarily taking away time from your kid,\" he says \"You're taking away time from other things\"\n\n<question>:\nAccording to Brandon, the quality time means\n\n<options>:\nA just, being around with children\nB work time is separate from family time\nC spending instructive time with children\nD letting the children do whatever they want to 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>:\nOur lives were supposed to be more flexible and family-friendly thanks to the technology at our fingertips. But in this age of BlackBerrys, recession pressures, working at home after hours and on weekends, family time may not be working out the way we thought.\nBusy parents who expected more time with the kids are Finding that more work hours at home don't necessarily translate into quality time with them.\nA new generation of parents needs to discover the meaning of \"quality time,\" researchers say. \"Personally, just given the life I lead, I think there is something to this idea of quality time- spending productive time with children vs. just being around,\" says Peter Brandon, a professor at Carleton College. He says engaging or interacting with a child in activities such as reading or playing counts as quality time rather than \"passive monitoring,\" such as washing the dishes while the child is watching TV.\n\" _ ,\" Brandon says. He notes that good parent-child relationships result in children being happier and more successful, including at school.\nAs parents struggle to be more available to their kids, new research on work and family schedules to be presented Friday at the meeting in Dallas includes a study that shows parents' availability is on the decline because more parents are in the workforce. Although parents today may be spending more time on child care, they are less available overall.\nWorking parents who spend less time with their children should try to make sure the time they do spend is communicating with them, vs. doing the dishes or spending more time on themselves, Brandon says \"The trade-off is not necessarily taking away time from your kid,\" he says \"You're taking away time from other things\"\n\n<question>:\nWhat will the author most probably talk about in next part of the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA How to spend more time at home\nB How to do the dishes in a proper way.\nC How to spend more time on working at home.\nD How to take away time in a much proper way.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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