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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 am my mother's third girl. When I was born, the doctor gently explained to my mother that my left arm was missing, below the elbow(,). Then he gave her some advice, \"Don't treat her any differently from other girls.\" And she did!\nThere were five girls in our family and we all had to help out. Once when I was about seven, I came out of the kitchen, \"Mum, I can't peel potatoes. I only have one hand.\" \"You get back to peel potatoes, and don't ever use that as an excuse for anything again!\"\nOf course I could peel potatoes--with my good hand and my other arm. \"Jenny, if you try hard enough,\" she said, \"you can do anything.\"\nOnce in the second grade, our teacher had each of us race across the monkey bar . When it was my turn, I said no. some kids laughed. I went home crying.\nThe next afternoon Mum took me back to the school playground. \"Now, pull up with your right arm,\" she advised. She praised me when I made progress. I'll never forget when I was crossing the bar, the kids were standing there with their mouths open.\nIt was the way with everything. Mum had the courage to face anything. and she taught me I could, too.\n\n<question>:\nWhat's the best title of the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA My bad-tempered mother\nB Different mother love\nC A doctor's advice\nD My childhood\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThere was one thing that I found rather strange on my first day as housekeeper at Monk'S House.The floors in the house were very thin.The bathroom was right above the kitchen,and when Mrs.Woolf was having her bath before breakfast,I could hear her talking to herself.on and on she went,talk,talk,and talk,asking questions and giving herself the answers.I thought there must be two or three people there with her.When Mr.Woolf saw that I looked surprised,he told me that Mrs.Woolf always said out loud the sentences that she had written during the night.She needed to know if they sounded fight and the bath was a good place for trying them out*\nI was not allowed to make coffee at Monk'S House--Mr.and Mrs.Woolf were very particular\n about coffee and always made it themselves--so Mr.Woolf came into the kitchen at eight o'clock every morning to make it.When we carried the breakfast to Mrs.Woolf's room,I noticed that she had always been working during the night.There were pencil and paper beside her bed so that when she woke up,she could work,and sometimes it seemed as though she had had very little sleep.\nMrs.Woolf's bedroom was outside the house in the garden.I used to think how inconvenient it must be to have to go out in the rain to go to bed.Her bedroom had been connected to the back of the house:the door faced the garden and a window at the side opened out on to a field.Because the writing-room was small,Mr.Woolf had built a large one for her at the end of the garden against the church wall.\nI can always remember her coming to the house each day from the writing-room when I rang the bell for lunch at One O'clock.She used to come in,smoking one of her favourite cigarettes,which were bought by Mr.Woolf for her in London.She was tall and thin and very pretty.She had large eyes and a wide mouth.She wore long skirts-usually blue or brown-in the fashion of the day ,and silk jackets of the same colour Mrs.Woolf wore clothes that suited for her well.I ironed them for her and did any sewing that was necessary-She was not able to sew ,although sometimes she liked to try.There was one thing in the kitchen that Mrs.Woolf was very good at doing:she could make beautiful bread.\n\n<question>:\nWhat was very unusual about Monk's House?\n\n<options>:\nA Mrs.Woolf's bedroom door opened on to the garden.\nB The kitchen window looked out over fields.\nC The breakfast room was upstairs.\nD The bathroom was fight above the kitchen.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThere was one thing that I found rather strange on my first day as housekeeper at Monk'S House.The floors in the house were very thin.The bathroom was right above the kitchen,and when Mrs.Woolf was having her bath before breakfast,I could hear her talking to herself.on and on she went,talk,talk,and talk,asking questions and giving herself the answers.I thought there must be two or three people there with her.When Mr.Woolf saw that I looked surprised,he told me that Mrs.Woolf always said out loud the sentences that she had written during the night.She needed to know if they sounded fight and the bath was a good place for trying them out*\nI was not allowed to make coffee at Monk'S House--Mr.and Mrs.Woolf were very particular\n about coffee and always made it themselves--so Mr.Woolf came into the kitchen at eight o'clock every morning to make it.When we carried the breakfast to Mrs.Woolf's room,I noticed that she had always been working during the night.There were pencil and paper beside her bed so that when she woke up,she could work,and sometimes it seemed as though she had had very little sleep.\nMrs.Woolf's bedroom was outside the house in the garden.I used to think how inconvenient it must be to have to go out in the rain to go to bed.Her bedroom had been connected to the back of the house:the door faced the garden and a window at the side opened out on to a field.Because the writing-room was small,Mr.Woolf had built a large one for her at the end of the garden against the church wall.\nI can always remember her coming to the house each day from the writing-room when I rang the bell for lunch at One O'clock.She used to come in,smoking one of her favourite cigarettes,which were bought by Mr.Woolf for her in London.She was tall and thin and very pretty.She had large eyes and a wide mouth.She wore long skirts-usually blue or brown-in the fashion of the day ,and silk jackets of the same colour Mrs.Woolf wore clothes that suited for her well.I ironed them for her and did any sewing that was necessary-She was not able to sew ,although sometimes she liked to try.There was one thing in the kitchen that Mrs.Woolf was very good at doing:she could make beautiful bread.\n\n<question>:\nMrs.Woolf wore clothes which were _ *\n\n<options>:\nA designed for her personally\nB suitable for country life\nC in matching colours\nD very ugly and unattractive\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThere was one thing that I found rather strange on my first day as housekeeper at Monk'S House.The floors in the house were very thin.The bathroom was right above the kitchen,and when Mrs.Woolf was having her bath before breakfast,I could hear her talking to herself.on and on she went,talk,talk,and talk,asking questions and giving herself the answers.I thought there must be two or three people there with her.When Mr.Woolf saw that I looked surprised,he told me that Mrs.Woolf always said out loud the sentences that she had written during the night.She needed to know if they sounded fight and the bath was a good place for trying them out*\nI was not allowed to make coffee at Monk'S House--Mr.and Mrs.Woolf were very particular\n about coffee and always made it themselves--so Mr.Woolf came into the kitchen at eight o'clock every morning to make it.When we carried the breakfast to Mrs.Woolf's room,I noticed that she had always been working during the night.There were pencil and paper beside her bed so that when she woke up,she could work,and sometimes it seemed as though she had had very little sleep.\nMrs.Woolf's bedroom was outside the house in the garden.I used to think how inconvenient it must be to have to go out in the rain to go to bed.Her bedroom had been connected to the back of the house:the door faced the garden and a window at the side opened out on to a field.Because the writing-room was small,Mr.Woolf had built a large one for her at the end of the garden against the church wall.\nI can always remember her coming to the house each day from the writing-room when I rang the bell for lunch at One O'clock.She used to come in,smoking one of her favourite cigarettes,which were bought by Mr.Woolf for her in London.She was tall and thin and very pretty.She had large eyes and a wide mouth.She wore long skirts-usually blue or brown-in the fashion of the day ,and silk jackets of the same colour Mrs.Woolf wore clothes that suited for her well.I ironed them for her and did any sewing that was necessary-She was not able to sew ,although sometimes she liked to try.There was one thing in the kitchen that Mrs.Woolf was very good at doing:she could make beautiful bread.\n\n<question>:\nMr.Woolf seemed to be that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA he found her strange ways difficult to accept\nB he lived a very different life\nC he watched over her all the time\nD he did what he could for her\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThere was one thing that I found rather strange on my first day as housekeeper at Monk'S House.The floors in the house were very thin.The bathroom was right above the kitchen,and when Mrs.Woolf was having her bath before breakfast,I could hear her talking to herself.on and on she went,talk,talk,and talk,asking questions and giving herself the answers.I thought there must be two or three people there with her.When Mr.Woolf saw that I looked surprised,he told me that Mrs.Woolf always said out loud the sentences that she had written during the night.She needed to know if they sounded fight and the bath was a good place for trying them out*\nI was not allowed to make coffee at Monk'S House--Mr.and Mrs.Woolf were very particular\n about coffee and always made it themselves--so Mr.Woolf came into the kitchen at eight o'clock every morning to make it.When we carried the breakfast to Mrs.Woolf's room,I noticed that she had always been working during the night.There were pencil and paper beside her bed so that when she woke up,she could work,and sometimes it seemed as though she had had very little sleep.\nMrs.Woolf's bedroom was outside the house in the garden.I used to think how inconvenient it must be to have to go out in the rain to go to bed.Her bedroom had been connected to the back of the house:the door faced the garden and a window at the side opened out on to a field.Because the writing-room was small,Mr.Woolf had built a large one for her at the end of the garden against the church wall.\nI can always remember her coming to the house each day from the writing-room when I rang the bell for lunch at One O'clock.She used to come in,smoking one of her favourite cigarettes,which were bought by Mr.Woolf for her in London.She was tall and thin and very pretty.She had large eyes and a wide mouth.She wore long skirts-usually blue or brown-in the fashion of the day ,and silk jackets of the same colour Mrs.Woolf wore clothes that suited for her well.I ironed them for her and did any sewing that was necessary-She was not able to sew ,although sometimes she liked to try.There was one thing in the kitchen that Mrs.Woolf was very good at doing:she could make beautiful bread.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the article,Mrs.Woolf _ .\n\n<options>:\nA was much too busy to do any housework\nB showed no interest in doing any housework\nC was really bad at doing housework\nD liked a couple of particular housework tasks\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nDo you know Eskimos? Let me tell you something about their lives.\nEskimos live near the North Pole .There are only two seasons there, winter and summer.\nThere is no spring or autumn there. The winter nights are long. You can't see the sun for more than two months, even at midday. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never goes down and there's no night.\nEskimos have warm clothes. They make their clothes from the skins of animals. From skins they make coats, caps and shoes.\nNear the North Pole trees can't grow, for it is too cold there. The Eskimos have to make their houses from skins, snow or stone. When they got out in storms and can't get back home, they make houses of snow. They leave these houses when the storm is over.\nLife is hard for the Eskimos, but they still like to live there.\n\n<question>:\nNear the North Pole there are _ in a year.\n\n<options>:\nA two seasons--winter and summer\nB two seasons - spring and autumn\nC four seasons\nD two seasons sometimes and four seasons sometimes\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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>:\nDo you know Eskimos? Let me tell you something about their lives.\nEskimos live near the North Pole .There are only two seasons there, winter and summer.\nThere is no spring or autumn there. The winter nights are long. You can't see the sun for more than two months, even at midday. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never goes down and there's no night.\nEskimos have warm clothes. They make their clothes from the skins of animals. From skins they make coats, caps and shoes.\nNear the North Pole trees can't grow, for it is too cold there. The Eskimos have to make their houses from skins, snow or stone. When they got out in storms and can't get back home, they make houses of snow. They leave these houses when the storm is over.\nLife is hard for the Eskimos, but they still like to live there.\n\n<question>:\nHow long does the longest day or night last near the North Pole?\n\n<options>:\nA 24 hours\nB Over a week\nC A month\nD Over two months\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nDo you know Eskimos? Let me tell you something about their lives.\nEskimos live near the North Pole .There are only two seasons there, winter and summer.\nThere is no spring or autumn there. The winter nights are long. You can't see the sun for more than two months, even at midday. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never goes down and there's no night.\nEskimos have warm clothes. They make their clothes from the skins of animals. From skins they make coats, caps and shoes.\nNear the North Pole trees can't grow, for it is too cold there. The Eskimos have to make their houses from skins, snow or stone. When they got out in storms and can't get back home, they make houses of snow. They leave these houses when the storm is over.\nLife is hard for the Eskimos, but they still like to live there.\n\n<question>:\nEskimos use skins to make _ .\n\n<options>:\nA clothes\nB houses\nC trees\nD both A and B\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nDo you know Eskimos? Let me tell you something about their lives.\nEskimos live near the North Pole .There are only two seasons there, winter and summer.\nThere is no spring or autumn there. The winter nights are long. You can't see the sun for more than two months, even at midday. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never goes down and there's no night.\nEskimos have warm clothes. They make their clothes from the skins of animals. From skins they make coats, caps and shoes.\nNear the North Pole trees can't grow, for it is too cold there. The Eskimos have to make their houses from skins, snow or stone. When they got out in storms and can't get back home, they make houses of snow. They leave these houses when the storm is over.\nLife is hard for the Eskimos, but they still like to live there.\n\n<question>:\nThere are no _ near the North Pole.\n\n<options>:\nA days\nB nights\nC trees\nD animals\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nDo you know Eskimos? Let me tell you something about their lives.\nEskimos live near the North Pole .There are only two seasons there, winter and summer.\nThere is no spring or autumn there. The winter nights are long. You can't see the sun for more than two months, even at midday. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never goes down and there's no night.\nEskimos have warm clothes. They make their clothes from the skins of animals. From skins they make coats, caps and shoes.\nNear the North Pole trees can't grow, for it is too cold there. The Eskimos have to make their houses from skins, snow or stone. When they got out in storms and can't get back home, they make houses of snow. They leave these houses when the storm is over.\nLife is hard for the Eskimos, but they still like to live there.\n\n<question>:\nEskimos make houses of snow to protect themselves from _ .\n\n<options>:\nA animals\nB storms\nC snow\nD rain\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nOnce a circle lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete ,it could only roll very slowly. It enjoyed the flowers and the sunshine along the way. It talked with insects . It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fitted. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on looking for the missing piece. Then one day the circle found a piece that fitted perfectly, it put the missing piece into itself. It could be whole, with nothing missing. It was so happy and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to see flowers or talk to insects. It realized how different the world was when it rolled so quickly. It felt so sad that it stopped, left the piece it found by the side of the road and rolled away slowly.\nSometimes, we are perfect when we lose something. A man who has everything is a poor man in some ways. He will never have hopes, dreams or something better.\nWe couldn't be perfect, but we must be brave enough to love, kind enough to share happiness with others and clever enough to know there is enough love around us.\n\n<question>:\nThe circle rolled very slowly because it _ .\n\n<options>:\nA spent much time talking with insects\nB wanted to enjoy the sunshine\nC was looking for its missing piece\nD lost a piece of its own\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nOnce a circle lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete ,it could only roll very slowly. It enjoyed the flowers and the sunshine along the way. It talked with insects . It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fitted. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on looking for the missing piece. Then one day the circle found a piece that fitted perfectly, it put the missing piece into itself. It could be whole, with nothing missing. It was so happy and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to see flowers or talk to insects. It realized how different the world was when it rolled so quickly. It felt so sad that it stopped, left the piece it found by the side of the road and rolled away slowly.\nSometimes, we are perfect when we lose something. A man who has everything is a poor man in some ways. He will never have hopes, dreams or something better.\nWe couldn't be perfect, but we must be brave enough to love, kind enough to share happiness with others and clever enough to know there is enough love around us.\n\n<question>:\nAfter it was whole again and rolled fast, the circle _ .\n\n<options>:\nA felt unhappy\nB could see more beautiful flowers\nC was too proud to talk with any insect\nD would go anywhere\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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>:\nOnce a circle lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete ,it could only roll very slowly. It enjoyed the flowers and the sunshine along the way. It talked with insects . It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fitted. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on looking for the missing piece. Then one day the circle found a piece that fitted perfectly, it put the missing piece into itself. It could be whole, with nothing missing. It was so happy and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to see flowers or talk to insects. It realized how different the world was when it rolled so quickly. It felt so sad that it stopped, left the piece it found by the side of the road and rolled away slowly.\nSometimes, we are perfect when we lose something. A man who has everything is a poor man in some ways. He will never have hopes, dreams or something better.\nWe couldn't be perfect, but we must be brave enough to love, kind enough to share happiness with others and clever enough to know there is enough love around us.\n\n<question>:\nwhy did the circle stop when it rolled quickly?\n\n<options>:\nA Because it found a different world\nB Because it wanted to look for a better piece\nC Because it wanted to enjoy the world as before\nD Because it felt tired.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nOnce a circle lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete ,it could only roll very slowly. It enjoyed the flowers and the sunshine along the way. It talked with insects . It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fitted. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on looking for the missing piece. Then one day the circle found a piece that fitted perfectly, it put the missing piece into itself. It could be whole, with nothing missing. It was so happy and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to see flowers or talk to insects. It realized how different the world was when it rolled so quickly. It felt so sad that it stopped, left the piece it found by the side of the road and rolled away slowly.\nSometimes, we are perfect when we lose something. A man who has everything is a poor man in some ways. He will never have hopes, dreams or something better.\nWe couldn't be perfect, but we must be brave enough to love, kind enough to share happiness with others and clever enough to know there is enough love around us.\n\n<question>:\nIf a man owns everything, he'll _ .\n\n<options>:\nA be perfect in every way\nB have other trouble\nC share happiness with others\nD have enough love around him\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nOnce a circle lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete ,it could only roll very slowly. It enjoyed the flowers and the sunshine along the way. It talked with insects . It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fitted. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on looking for the missing piece. Then one day the circle found a piece that fitted perfectly, it put the missing piece into itself. It could be whole, with nothing missing. It was so happy and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to see flowers or talk to insects. It realized how different the world was when it rolled so quickly. It felt so sad that it stopped, left the piece it found by the side of the road and rolled away slowly.\nSometimes, we are perfect when we lose something. A man who has everything is a poor man in some ways. He will never have hopes, dreams or something better.\nWe couldn't be perfect, but we must be brave enough to love, kind enough to share happiness with others and clever enough to know there is enough love around us.\n\n<question>:\nThe story mainly tells us that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA nobody loves us if we give nothing\nB a man who has everything is the happiest\nC losing something may not be a bad thing sometimes\nD we are not whole when we lose something\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nMrs. Black lives on Second Street. New Year is coming. She wants to send \na card to her friend in Toronto, but she doesn't know where the post office is. She\nasks her neighbor Linda, \" Is there a post office near here? I want to send a\ncard.\"\n\"The post office is far from here,\" says Linda, \"but you don't need to go to the\npost office to post the card. There is a _ in front of the supermarket. You can\nput your card into the mailbox.\"\n\n<question>:\nWhat does Mrs. Black want to do?\n\n<options>:\nA She wants to go to the post office.\nB She wants to go to the supermarket.\nC She wants to send a card to Linda.\nD She wants to visit her friend.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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>:\nMrs. Black lives on Second Street. New Year is coming. She wants to send \na card to her friend in Toronto, but she doesn't know where the post office is. She\nasks her neighbor Linda, \" Is there a post office near here? I want to send a\ncard.\"\n\"The post office is far from here,\" says Linda, \"but you don't need to go to the\npost office to post the card. There is a _ in front of the supermarket. You can\nput your card into the mailbox.\"\n\n<question>:\nThe post office is _ .\n\n<options>:\nA next to Linda's house\nB far from Mrs. Black's house\nC across from the supermarket\nD in front of Mary's house\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nMrs. Black lives on Second Street. New Year is coming. She wants to send \na card to her friend in Toronto, but she doesn't know where the post office is. She\nasks her neighbor Linda, \" Is there a post office near here? I want to send a\ncard.\"\n\"The post office is far from here,\" says Linda, \"but you don't need to go to the\npost office to post the card. There is a _ in front of the supermarket. You can\nput your card into the mailbox.\"\n\n<question>:\nMrs Black and Linda are _ .\n\n<options>:\nA friends\nB sisters\nC mother and daughter\nD neighbors\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nWelcome to the zoo\nOpening time: Price:\nFrom Monday to Friday Adults:Y=20\n8:30 a.m.--5:30 p.m. Childen:Y=10\nOn Saturday & Sunday\n8:30 a.m.--6:00 p.m.\nLocation:Xiaohe Street, ChangchunDistrict ,Binhai City\n.\n\n<question>:\nThe zoo opens _ a week.\n\n<options>:\nA two days\nB five days\nC six days\nD seven days\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nWelcome to the zoo\nOpening time: Price:\nFrom Monday to Friday Adults:Y=20\n8:30 a.m.--5:30 p.m. Childen:Y=10\nOn Saturday & Sunday\n8:30 a.m.--6:00 p.m.\nLocation:Xiaohe Street, ChangchunDistrict ,Binhai City\n.\n\n<question>:\nOn Tuesday,the zoo closes at _ .\n\n<options>:\nA 5: 30 p.m.\nB 6:00 p.m.\nC 6:30 a.m.\nD 8: 30 a.m.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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>:\nWelcome to the zoo\nOpening time: Price:\nFrom Monday to Friday Adults:Y=20\n8:30 a.m.--5:30 p.m. Childen:Y=10\nOn Saturday & Sunday\n8:30 a.m.--6:00 p.m.\nLocation:Xiaohe Street, ChangchunDistrict ,Binhai City\n.\n\n<question>:\nOn Wednesday,the zoo is open for\n\n<options>:\nA 8 hours\nB 8.5 hours\nC 9 hours\nD 9.5 hours\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nWelcome to the zoo\nOpening time: Price:\nFrom Monday to Friday Adults:Y=20\n8:30 a.m.--5:30 p.m. Childen:Y=10\nOn Saturday & Sunday\n8:30 a.m.--6:00 p.m.\nLocation:Xiaohe Street, ChangchunDistrict ,Binhai City\n.\n\n<question>:\nThe zoo is in the city called _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Xiaohe\nB Binhai\nC Changchun\nD Beibei\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nWelcome to the zoo\nOpening time: Price:\nFrom Monday to Friday Adults:Y=20\n8:30 a.m.--5:30 p.m. Childen:Y=10\nOn Saturday & Sunday\n8:30 a.m.--6:00 p.m.\nLocation:Xiaohe Street, ChangchunDistrict ,Binhai City\n.\n\n<question>:\nBeibei is 11 years old,and this Sunday she wants to visit the zoo with her parents.How much should they pay for the tickets?\n\n<options>:\nA Y=20.\nB Y=30.\nC Y=40.\nD Y=50.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nWhat do you think of celebrating Christmas Day in China? Christmas Day is very popular in China, especially for young people. Should Chinese people celebrate Christmas Day? 60% people think that we should not take Christmas so seriously, 10% think everyone should celebrate Christmas.\nSome people think celebrating Christmas Day can help them understand western culture better. Some people think it is a great holiday to have a good time with their families and friends. During Christmas Day, they can meet friends, go shopping, watch movies and go to different parties.\nBut I have different ideas. Most of us celebrate Christmas just because we see many people around us do it.\nChina has its own holidays, such as the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Day, so we don't have to celebrate holidays from other countries. Some people spend a lot of money celebrating Christmas Day. People buy lots of gifts for their friends and families, but this is not the best way to show their love.\n\n<question>:\n_ like Christmas Day better in China?\n\n<options>:\nA Young people\nB Old people\nC Children\nD Students\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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>:\nWhat do you think of celebrating Christmas Day in China? Christmas Day is very popular in China, especially for young people. Should Chinese people celebrate Christmas Day? 60% people think that we should not take Christmas so seriously, 10% think everyone should celebrate Christmas.\nSome people think celebrating Christmas Day can help them understand western culture better. Some people think it is a great holiday to have a good time with their families and friends. During Christmas Day, they can meet friends, go shopping, watch movies and go to different parties.\nBut I have different ideas. Most of us celebrate Christmas just because we see many people around us do it.\nChina has its own holidays, such as the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Day, so we don't have to celebrate holidays from other countries. Some people spend a lot of money celebrating Christmas Day. People buy lots of gifts for their friends and families, but this is not the best way to show their love.\n\n<question>:\nHow many people think each one should celebrate Christmas Day?\n\n<options>:\nA 60%\nB 30%\nC 10%\nD 20%\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nWhat do you think of celebrating Christmas Day in China? Christmas Day is very popular in China, especially for young people. Should Chinese people celebrate Christmas Day? 60% people think that we should not take Christmas so seriously, 10% think everyone should celebrate Christmas.\nSome people think celebrating Christmas Day can help them understand western culture better. Some people think it is a great holiday to have a good time with their families and friends. During Christmas Day, they can meet friends, go shopping, watch movies and go to different parties.\nBut I have different ideas. Most of us celebrate Christmas just because we see many people around us do it.\nChina has its own holidays, such as the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Day, so we don't have to celebrate holidays from other countries. Some people spend a lot of money celebrating Christmas Day. People buy lots of gifts for their friends and families, but this is not the best way to show their love.\n\n<question>:\nThe writer thinks some people celebrate Christmas Day by _ .\n\n<options>:\nA having a good rest\nB getting many gifts\nC spending much money\nD making more friends\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nWhat do you think of celebrating Christmas Day in China? Christmas Day is very popular in China, especially for young people. Should Chinese people celebrate Christmas Day? 60% people think that we should not take Christmas so seriously, 10% think everyone should celebrate Christmas.\nSome people think celebrating Christmas Day can help them understand western culture better. Some people think it is a great holiday to have a good time with their families and friends. During Christmas Day, they can meet friends, go shopping, watch movies and go to different parties.\nBut I have different ideas. Most of us celebrate Christmas just because we see many people around us do it.\nChina has its own holidays, such as the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Day, so we don't have to celebrate holidays from other countries. Some people spend a lot of money celebrating Christmas Day. People buy lots of gifts for their friends and families, but this is not the best way to show their love.\n\n<question>:\nWhat's the best title of the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Christmas Day is popular for young people\nB Whether we should celebrate Christmas Day\nC We should only celebrate Chinese holidays\nD What can we do on Christmas Day?\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nKindergartens( ) may teach you very important things you need to know.Dancy, a 5-year-old boy, saved his father's life with the skills he learned.\nThe boy's father became seriously ill on the way home from a father-son shopping.He couldn't speak and could hardly move, but he tried hard to stop the car safely.At that point, Dancy used his father's phone to call his mother for help.The 5-year-old boy tried his best to give her useful information and he was able to tell where they were.Just as he had learned in the kindergarten, Dancy read the letters he saw on a nearby store sign: \"F,U,R,N,I,T,U,R,E.\" But that wasn't enough for his mother to find them.Then he added that they were near a bridge.Finally, his mother understood he was talking about a store called Furniture 22 on New Jersey's Route22.The mother called 911 and the father was saved in time.\n\"He just thought his dad needed help,\" Dancy's mother told the reporter.She also pointed out that her husband was a hero, too.\" It is surprising for him to get off the highway ( ) and get himself and his child to safety even when he was so sick,\" she said.\nShine, head of the kindergarten, felt proud of his pupil.\" Dancy's spelling skills helped him _ the moment,\" he said.\"And that's the real value of education.\"\n\n<question>:\nWhen the father became seriously ill, he and his son were _ .\n\n<options>:\nA on the highway\nB at home\nC in a shopping center\nD in a hospital\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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>:\nKindergartens( ) may teach you very important things you need to know.Dancy, a 5-year-old boy, saved his father's life with the skills he learned.\nThe boy's father became seriously ill on the way home from a father-son shopping.He couldn't speak and could hardly move, but he tried hard to stop the car safely.At that point, Dancy used his father's phone to call his mother for help.The 5-year-old boy tried his best to give her useful information and he was able to tell where they were.Just as he had learned in the kindergarten, Dancy read the letters he saw on a nearby store sign: \"F,U,R,N,I,T,U,R,E.\" But that wasn't enough for his mother to find them.Then he added that they were near a bridge.Finally, his mother understood he was talking about a store called Furniture 22 on New Jersey's Route22.The mother called 911 and the father was saved in time.\n\"He just thought his dad needed help,\" Dancy's mother told the reporter.She also pointed out that her husband was a hero, too.\" It is surprising for him to get off the highway ( ) and get himself and his child to safety even when he was so sick,\" she said.\nShine, head of the kindergarten, felt proud of his pupil.\" Dancy's spelling skills helped him _ the moment,\" he said.\"And that's the real value of education.\"\n\n<question>:\nDancy called _ for help when his father couldn't speak.\n\n<options>:\nA his mother\nB 911\nC Shine\nD the reporter\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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>:\nKindergartens( ) may teach you very important things you need to know.Dancy, a 5-year-old boy, saved his father's life with the skills he learned.\nThe boy's father became seriously ill on the way home from a father-son shopping.He couldn't speak and could hardly move, but he tried hard to stop the car safely.At that point, Dancy used his father's phone to call his mother for help.The 5-year-old boy tried his best to give her useful information and he was able to tell where they were.Just as he had learned in the kindergarten, Dancy read the letters he saw on a nearby store sign: \"F,U,R,N,I,T,U,R,E.\" But that wasn't enough for his mother to find them.Then he added that they were near a bridge.Finally, his mother understood he was talking about a store called Furniture 22 on New Jersey's Route22.The mother called 911 and the father was saved in time.\n\"He just thought his dad needed help,\" Dancy's mother told the reporter.She also pointed out that her husband was a hero, too.\" It is surprising for him to get off the highway ( ) and get himself and his child to safety even when he was so sick,\" she said.\nShine, head of the kindergarten, felt proud of his pupil.\" Dancy's spelling skills helped him _ the moment,\" he said.\"And that's the real value of education.\"\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following is TRUE according to the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Dancy drove his father home\nB The reporter was really a hero.\nC Shine sent Dancy's father to hospital\nD Dancy saved his father with his spelling skills.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIf you had a chance to prepare dinner for your mother, would you choose to make it right now or some day in the future? Watch the video Paradise Dinner by Liu Xiaoyu, a junior at[Hebei Institute of Communications, and you will find a right answer.\nRecently the six-minute film Paradise Dinner won a great success on the Internet. It told the story of a son who made a big lunch for his mother, but he can only send the dinner to paradise, because his mother has been dead.\n\"If you do not show your _ to your mother right now, you might never have the opportunity in the future, because your mother is growing older and older day by day-this is the main theme of my film, \" said the 21-year-old Liu.\nLiu conceived the story for Paradise Dinner over his 2010 summer vacation.\nOne day during that holiday, Liu found his parents were not young any more. \" So I decided to write a story for Paradise Dinner to call for all people, especially young people, to show more filial piety to their parents,\" he said.\nWith the help of his teachers and his schoolmates, he found actors, Zhang who played the mother and Yuan Zhen who played the son. At last he finished the film.\nMany Web users said they liked the film very much and most of them cried like Liu's parents when they watched it.\n\n<question>:\nFrom the passage, we know Liu Xiaoyu _ .\n\n<options>:\nA made a big dinner for his mother\nB made a short video on the Intemet\nC has graduated from a university\nD sent a dinner to paradise himself\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIf you had a chance to prepare dinner for your mother, would you choose to make it right now or some day in the future? Watch the video Paradise Dinner by Liu Xiaoyu, a junior at[Hebei Institute of Communications, and you will find a right answer.\nRecently the six-minute film Paradise Dinner won a great success on the Internet. It told the story of a son who made a big lunch for his mother, but he can only send the dinner to paradise, because his mother has been dead.\n\"If you do not show your _ to your mother right now, you might never have the opportunity in the future, because your mother is growing older and older day by day-this is the main theme of my film, \" said the 21-year-old Liu.\nLiu conceived the story for Paradise Dinner over his 2010 summer vacation.\nOne day during that holiday, Liu found his parents were not young any more. \" So I decided to write a story for Paradise Dinner to call for all people, especially young people, to show more filial piety to their parents,\" he said.\nWith the help of his teachers and his schoolmates, he found actors, Zhang who played the mother and Yuan Zhen who played the son. At last he finished the film.\nMany Web users said they liked the film very much and most of them cried like Liu's parents when they watched it.\n\n<question>:\nWhat have you known about Liu Xiaoyu's mother?\n\n<options>:\nA She didn't know the film.\nB She didn't feel moved.\nC She couldn't help crying when she saw the film.\nD She acted the mother in the film.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIf you had a chance to prepare dinner for your mother, would you choose to make it right now or some day in the future? Watch the video Paradise Dinner by Liu Xiaoyu, a junior at[Hebei Institute of Communications, and you will find a right answer.\nRecently the six-minute film Paradise Dinner won a great success on the Internet. It told the story of a son who made a big lunch for his mother, but he can only send the dinner to paradise, because his mother has been dead.\n\"If you do not show your _ to your mother right now, you might never have the opportunity in the future, because your mother is growing older and older day by day-this is the main theme of my film, \" said the 21-year-old Liu.\nLiu conceived the story for Paradise Dinner over his 2010 summer vacation.\nOne day during that holiday, Liu found his parents were not young any more. \" So I decided to write a story for Paradise Dinner to call for all people, especially young people, to show more filial piety to their parents,\" he said.\nWith the help of his teachers and his schoolmates, he found actors, Zhang who played the mother and Yuan Zhen who played the son. At last he finished the film.\nMany Web users said they liked the film very much and most of them cried like Liu's parents when they watched it.\n\n<question>:\nThe writer wrote this article to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA encourage p.eople to care more about their parents\nB introduce a short video\nC think highly of the talent of Liu Xiaoyu\nD show the kind heart of most people\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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>:\nHip-pop Dancing\nHip-pop dancing is popular with many young people today. They like it because they can invent their own moves. They use this dance to show their love for life. It also shows that they feel good about life, that they just want to be themselves and enjoy life, and that they are not afraid of problems.\nHip-hop dancing has a history of more than 30 years. It first began in the 1980s in the US. In early times, it was seen in New York and Los Angeles. At that time, many young black people often danced to music in the streets. They used their legs, arms, heads and even shoulders to dance. Many young people still use most of these moves today.\nHip-pop dancing became popular all over the world because of the 1983 movie Flash Dance. Some people performed Hip-hop dancing in the movie. People enjoyed their performances. They began to dance like them. Then it became popular. There are two kinds of Hip-pop dancing: the new school and the old school. More and more young people are learning Hip-pop dancing. People believe that it is a good way to exercise their bodies, and that it is good for their health.\n,. ( 5 )\n\n<question>:\nYoung people like Hip-pop dancing because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA it has a history of more than 30 years\nB it first began in the US\nC they can invent their own moves\nD many young black people often dance it\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nHip-pop Dancing\nHip-pop dancing is popular with many young people today. They like it because they can invent their own moves. They use this dance to show their love for life. It also shows that they feel good about life, that they just want to be themselves and enjoy life, and that they are not afraid of problems.\nHip-hop dancing has a history of more than 30 years. It first began in the 1980s in the US. In early times, it was seen in New York and Los Angeles. At that time, many young black people often danced to music in the streets. They used their legs, arms, heads and even shoulders to dance. Many young people still use most of these moves today.\nHip-pop dancing became popular all over the world because of the 1983 movie Flash Dance. Some people performed Hip-hop dancing in the movie. People enjoyed their performances. They began to dance like them. Then it became popular. There are two kinds of Hip-pop dancing: the new school and the old school. More and more young people are learning Hip-pop dancing. People believe that it is a good way to exercise their bodies, and that it is good for their health.\n,. ( 5 )\n\n<question>:\nAt first Hip-pop dancing was seen _ .\n\n<options>:\nA in the movies\nB in the streets\nC in the old schools\nD in the new schools\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nHip-pop Dancing\nHip-pop dancing is popular with many young people today. They like it because they can invent their own moves. They use this dance to show their love for life. It also shows that they feel good about life, that they just want to be themselves and enjoy life, and that they are not afraid of problems.\nHip-hop dancing has a history of more than 30 years. It first began in the 1980s in the US. In early times, it was seen in New York and Los Angeles. At that time, many young black people often danced to music in the streets. They used their legs, arms, heads and even shoulders to dance. Many young people still use most of these moves today.\nHip-pop dancing became popular all over the world because of the 1983 movie Flash Dance. Some people performed Hip-hop dancing in the movie. People enjoyed their performances. They began to dance like them. Then it became popular. There are two kinds of Hip-pop dancing: the new school and the old school. More and more young people are learning Hip-pop dancing. People believe that it is a good way to exercise their bodies, and that it is good for their health.\n,. ( 5 )\n\n<question>:\nThe young black people used their _ to dance at that time.\n\n<options>:\nA legs\nB heads\nC arms and shoulders\nD A, B and C\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nHip-pop Dancing\nHip-pop dancing is popular with many young people today. They like it because they can invent their own moves. They use this dance to show their love for life. It also shows that they feel good about life, that they just want to be themselves and enjoy life, and that they are not afraid of problems.\nHip-hop dancing has a history of more than 30 years. It first began in the 1980s in the US. In early times, it was seen in New York and Los Angeles. At that time, many young black people often danced to music in the streets. They used their legs, arms, heads and even shoulders to dance. Many young people still use most of these moves today.\nHip-pop dancing became popular all over the world because of the 1983 movie Flash Dance. Some people performed Hip-hop dancing in the movie. People enjoyed their performances. They began to dance like them. Then it became popular. There are two kinds of Hip-pop dancing: the new school and the old school. More and more young people are learning Hip-pop dancing. People believe that it is a good way to exercise their bodies, and that it is good for their health.\n,. ( 5 )\n\n<question>:\nHip-pop dancing became popular all over the world _ .\n\n<options>:\nA in the 1980s\nB in 1983\nC 20 years ago\nD in early times\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nHip-pop Dancing\nHip-pop dancing is popular with many young people today. They like it because they can invent their own moves. They use this dance to show their love for life. It also shows that they feel good about life, that they just want to be themselves and enjoy life, and that they are not afraid of problems.\nHip-hop dancing has a history of more than 30 years. It first began in the 1980s in the US. In early times, it was seen in New York and Los Angeles. At that time, many young black people often danced to music in the streets. They used their legs, arms, heads and even shoulders to dance. Many young people still use most of these moves today.\nHip-pop dancing became popular all over the world because of the 1983 movie Flash Dance. Some people performed Hip-hop dancing in the movie. People enjoyed their performances. They began to dance like them. Then it became popular. There are two kinds of Hip-pop dancing: the new school and the old school. More and more young people are learning Hip-pop dancing. People believe that it is a good way to exercise their bodies, and that it is good for their health.\n,. ( 5 )\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following is TRUE about Hip-pop dancing?\n\n<options>:\nA It's not a good way to exercise.\nB It shows that young people feel bad about life.\nC Young people use this dance to show their love for life.\nD It shows that young people are afraid of problems.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThe largest animal ever to live on Earth is the blue whale . It weighs about 80 tons-more than 24 big elephants. It is more than 30 metres long. A new baby whale weighs as much as a big elephant. Cats won't die if they fall off very high places because they can turn themselves up the right way so as to keep their bodies safe. One cat fell off 32 floors onto the street, but it was just hurt a little. A bear can run as fast as a horse. A new-born panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about 100 grams. Elephants are the most careful animals in their love. A male elephant may show his lady love for up to three years until the female elephant takes his love. They often show their love by touching each other's body. Usually, wolves do not hurt people. For years a Canadian newspaper says that they would give anyone a lot of money if he or she could show that a wolf could hurt a person. But nobody could do that. Wolves do not usually go together though they may do this in winter and they only hurt people at an unusual time.\n\n<question>:\nHow much does a new-born blue whale weigh?\n\n<options>:\nA About 10 tons\nB As much as a baby elephant\nC About 80 tons\nD About 3 tons\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThe largest animal ever to live on Earth is the blue whale . It weighs about 80 tons-more than 24 big elephants. It is more than 30 metres long. A new baby whale weighs as much as a big elephant. Cats won't die if they fall off very high places because they can turn themselves up the right way so as to keep their bodies safe. One cat fell off 32 floors onto the street, but it was just hurt a little. A bear can run as fast as a horse. A new-born panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about 100 grams. Elephants are the most careful animals in their love. A male elephant may show his lady love for up to three years until the female elephant takes his love. They often show their love by touching each other's body. Usually, wolves do not hurt people. For years a Canadian newspaper says that they would give anyone a lot of money if he or she could show that a wolf could hurt a person. But nobody could do that. Wolves do not usually go together though they may do this in winter and they only hurt people at an unusual time.\n\n<question>:\nA bear can run _ people think they can.\n\n<options>:\nA faster than\nB slower than\nC as fast as\nD as slowly as\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThe largest animal ever to live on Earth is the blue whale . It weighs about 80 tons-more than 24 big elephants. It is more than 30 metres long. A new baby whale weighs as much as a big elephant. Cats won't die if they fall off very high places because they can turn themselves up the right way so as to keep their bodies safe. One cat fell off 32 floors onto the street, but it was just hurt a little. A bear can run as fast as a horse. A new-born panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about 100 grams. Elephants are the most careful animals in their love. A male elephant may show his lady love for up to three years until the female elephant takes his love. They often show their love by touching each other's body. Usually, wolves do not hurt people. For years a Canadian newspaper says that they would give anyone a lot of money if he or she could show that a wolf could hurt a person. But nobody could do that. Wolves do not usually go together though they may do this in winter and they only hurt people at an unusual time.\n\n<question>:\nHow many kinds of animals are mentioned in this passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Five\nB Six\nC Seven\nD Eight\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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 primary school bus driver stopped the bus in a gas station in Ohio because he had to use the bathroom. Instead of turning off the engine and taking the key with him, the driver left the bus running. And he forgot to set the brake because he was in a hurry. \"It was cold outside, and I didn't want the kids to get cold while I was using the bathroom,\" he told a police officer.\nThe bus slowly started moving away from the gas station. As the bus picked up speed, the kids began shouting and crying. Ten-year-old Jake ran forward to the driver's seat and held the steering wheel . He pressed hard on the brake pedal and managed to stop the bus as it came nearer to a river bed. Jake turned off the engine at last. After the police arrived at the scene, they praised Jake for his great effort.\n\"That is one cool kid,\" said the police officer. \"I told him he would make a great police officer when he grew up.\"\nJake wasn't impressed with what he had done. \"Stopping the bus,\" he said, \"was easy compared to playing Grand Theft Auto III,\" his favorite action video game. The bus driver was taken to the police station. He was at first charged with \"leaving a child alone while motor is running.\" The lawyer said he hoped to _ the charge because of the number of children (twenty) on the bus.\n\"Whatever he is charged with,\" the police officer said, \"I will see that he never drives a bus again.\"\n\n<question>:\nWhy didn't the driver turn off the engine when he went to the bathroom? Because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA he was in a hurry\nB he forgot to do it\nC he didn't want the kids to get cold\nD he thought he would be back in a minute\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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 primary school bus driver stopped the bus in a gas station in Ohio because he had to use the bathroom. Instead of turning off the engine and taking the key with him, the driver left the bus running. And he forgot to set the brake because he was in a hurry. \"It was cold outside, and I didn't want the kids to get cold while I was using the bathroom,\" he told a police officer.\nThe bus slowly started moving away from the gas station. As the bus picked up speed, the kids began shouting and crying. Ten-year-old Jake ran forward to the driver's seat and held the steering wheel . He pressed hard on the brake pedal and managed to stop the bus as it came nearer to a river bed. Jake turned off the engine at last. After the police arrived at the scene, they praised Jake for his great effort.\n\"That is one cool kid,\" said the police officer. \"I told him he would make a great police officer when he grew up.\"\nJake wasn't impressed with what he had done. \"Stopping the bus,\" he said, \"was easy compared to playing Grand Theft Auto III,\" his favorite action video game. The bus driver was taken to the police station. He was at first charged with \"leaving a child alone while motor is running.\" The lawyer said he hoped to _ the charge because of the number of children (twenty) on the bus.\n\"Whatever he is charged with,\" the police officer said, \"I will see that he never drives a bus again.\"\n\n<question>:\nWhat do we know about Jake? _\n\n<options>:\nA He could drive.\nB He was eleven years old.\nC He wanted to be a police officer.\nD He liked playing Grand Theft Auto III.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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 primary school bus driver stopped the bus in a gas station in Ohio because he had to use the bathroom. Instead of turning off the engine and taking the key with him, the driver left the bus running. And he forgot to set the brake because he was in a hurry. \"It was cold outside, and I didn't want the kids to get cold while I was using the bathroom,\" he told a police officer.\nThe bus slowly started moving away from the gas station. As the bus picked up speed, the kids began shouting and crying. Ten-year-old Jake ran forward to the driver's seat and held the steering wheel . He pressed hard on the brake pedal and managed to stop the bus as it came nearer to a river bed. Jake turned off the engine at last. After the police arrived at the scene, they praised Jake for his great effort.\n\"That is one cool kid,\" said the police officer. \"I told him he would make a great police officer when he grew up.\"\nJake wasn't impressed with what he had done. \"Stopping the bus,\" he said, \"was easy compared to playing Grand Theft Auto III,\" his favorite action video game. The bus driver was taken to the police station. He was at first charged with \"leaving a child alone while motor is running.\" The lawyer said he hoped to _ the charge because of the number of children (twenty) on the bus.\n\"Whatever he is charged with,\" the police officer said, \"I will see that he never drives a bus again.\"\n\n<question>:\nWhat will most probably happen to the bus driver? He will _ .\n\n<options>:\nA not be charged\nB face the most serious charge\nC not be allowed to drive a bus again\nD only be charged with \"leaving a child alone while motor is running\"\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nAn American called Simon goes to London to see his friend, Rick. Rick tells him that his flat is on the first floor. When he gets there, Simon goes straight to the first floor of the building. But people there tells him that there is no Rick on that floor. Do you know why?\nIn fact, English people call the first floor of a building the ground floor. The floor above the ground floor is the first floor, but Americans call it the second floor.\nThe story shows that there are a few culture differences between English and America, though they both speak English.\nEnglish people usually hide their feelings. They seldom start a dialogue with strangers . For example, on the train they often spend their time reading newspapers or books. But Americans are quite different. They're more active and easier to talk with.\nEnglish people and Americans use different _ for many things. English people usually use football, eraser and mail, but Americans use soccer, rubber and post.\n\n<question>:\nWhat's the best title for the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Differences in culture\nB Simon's funny story\nC different floors\nD Hiding the feelings\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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>:\nTraveling by train is usually not easy in China. It can be hard to get a ticket. When you're traveling to the railway station, you look at your watch, for you are afraid you will miss your train.\nBut there is good news for people traveling between Beijing and Shanghai. Construction on the express railway between the two cities started just before the Spring Festival of 2008. When it is finished by 2013, taking a train will be as easy as taking a bus.\n\"There will be trains every several minutes. Buying a ticket, getting through the checkpoint and taking your seat, will take just 10 minutes,\" said an engineer.\nThere may be high-speed trains running at 350 kilometers an hour. The travel time between the two cities will _ from 10 to about 5 hours. The trains will carry twice the present number of passengers.\nThe new line will be 1,318 kilometers long and go across specially built bridges. It will run along side the present line. There will be 21 stations in Hebei, Tianjin, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu.\n\"The cost of traveling by the express railway may be around 800 yuan. That will be more expensive than an ordinary train, but cheaper than by air.\" Said Zhang Xiaoling, a Jiangsu government official.\nAccording to Zhang, the higher price is caused by the large cost of the railway project. At about 200 billion yuan, the project may be even more expensive than the Three Gorges Project .\n\n<question>:\nThe express railway between Beijing and Shanghai will be finished _ .\n\n<options>:\nA at the end of this year\nB before the Spring Festival of 2008\nC by 2013\nD in about 5 years\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nTraveling by train is usually not easy in China. It can be hard to get a ticket. When you're traveling to the railway station, you look at your watch, for you are afraid you will miss your train.\nBut there is good news for people traveling between Beijing and Shanghai. Construction on the express railway between the two cities started just before the Spring Festival of 2008. When it is finished by 2013, taking a train will be as easy as taking a bus.\n\"There will be trains every several minutes. Buying a ticket, getting through the checkpoint and taking your seat, will take just 10 minutes,\" said an engineer.\nThere may be high-speed trains running at 350 kilometers an hour. The travel time between the two cities will _ from 10 to about 5 hours. The trains will carry twice the present number of passengers.\nThe new line will be 1,318 kilometers long and go across specially built bridges. It will run along side the present line. There will be 21 stations in Hebei, Tianjin, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu.\n\"The cost of traveling by the express railway may be around 800 yuan. That will be more expensive than an ordinary train, but cheaper than by air.\" Said Zhang Xiaoling, a Jiangsu government official.\nAccording to Zhang, the higher price is caused by the large cost of the railway project. At about 200 billion yuan, the project may be even more expensive than the Three Gorges Project .\n\n<question>:\nBefore taking your seat, you should _ with your ticket.\n\n<options>:\nA buy a ticket\nB get through the checkpoint\nC pack your things\nD make some friends\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nTraveling by train is usually not easy in China. It can be hard to get a ticket. When you're traveling to the railway station, you look at your watch, for you are afraid you will miss your train.\nBut there is good news for people traveling between Beijing and Shanghai. Construction on the express railway between the two cities started just before the Spring Festival of 2008. When it is finished by 2013, taking a train will be as easy as taking a bus.\n\"There will be trains every several minutes. Buying a ticket, getting through the checkpoint and taking your seat, will take just 10 minutes,\" said an engineer.\nThere may be high-speed trains running at 350 kilometers an hour. The travel time between the two cities will _ from 10 to about 5 hours. The trains will carry twice the present number of passengers.\nThe new line will be 1,318 kilometers long and go across specially built bridges. It will run along side the present line. There will be 21 stations in Hebei, Tianjin, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu.\n\"The cost of traveling by the express railway may be around 800 yuan. That will be more expensive than an ordinary train, but cheaper than by air.\" Said Zhang Xiaoling, a Jiangsu government official.\nAccording to Zhang, the higher price is caused by the large cost of the railway project. At about 200 billion yuan, the project may be even more expensive than the Three Gorges Project .\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Traveling by train is usually difficult in China because tickets are too expensive.\nB The high-speed trains will have 21 stations in Shanghai, Shandong, Hunan and Jiangsu.\nC Tickets for the high-speed trains will be cheaper than those for planes.\nD The cost of the express railway project is as high as that of the Three Gorges Project.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nTraveling by train is usually not easy in China. It can be hard to get a ticket. When you're traveling to the railway station, you look at your watch, for you are afraid you will miss your train.\nBut there is good news for people traveling between Beijing and Shanghai. Construction on the express railway between the two cities started just before the Spring Festival of 2008. When it is finished by 2013, taking a train will be as easy as taking a bus.\n\"There will be trains every several minutes. Buying a ticket, getting through the checkpoint and taking your seat, will take just 10 minutes,\" said an engineer.\nThere may be high-speed trains running at 350 kilometers an hour. The travel time between the two cities will _ from 10 to about 5 hours. The trains will carry twice the present number of passengers.\nThe new line will be 1,318 kilometers long and go across specially built bridges. It will run along side the present line. There will be 21 stations in Hebei, Tianjin, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu.\n\"The cost of traveling by the express railway may be around 800 yuan. That will be more expensive than an ordinary train, but cheaper than by air.\" Said Zhang Xiaoling, a Jiangsu government official.\nAccording to Zhang, the higher price is caused by the large cost of the railway project. At about 200 billion yuan, the project may be even more expensive than the Three Gorges Project .\n\n<question>:\nWhat can be the best title of the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA An enormous project.\nB Train tickets will get more expensive\nC Specially built bridges\nD Beijing--Shanghai express railway\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nPeople in Australia love koalas and take care of them. They have set up places for them to live safely. No one can kill them for their pretty fur . When a koala is born, he has no fur. And he is not as big as your little toe ! The mother koala has a pocket in the front of her body. The baby goes into this warm pocket. There he stays for six months. The koala could not live without a special kind of tree. The tree gives him both his home and his food. For most of the day the koala sleeps in the tree. At night the koala looks for food. He may go miles to find it. He likes only the _ and the leaves of the tree. He eats nothing else. And he eats more than two pounds each night!How lovely the koalas really are!\n\n<question>:\nPeople in Australia _ .\n\n<options>:\nA keep koalas in their homes\nB put koalas in the tree\nC set up places for koalas to live safely\nD raise baby koalas in their pockets\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nPeople in Australia love koalas and take care of them. They have set up places for them to live safely. No one can kill them for their pretty fur . When a koala is born, he has no fur. And he is not as big as your little toe ! The mother koala has a pocket in the front of her body. The baby goes into this warm pocket. There he stays for six months. The koala could not live without a special kind of tree. The tree gives him both his home and his food. For most of the day the koala sleeps in the tree. At night the koala looks for food. He may go miles to find it. He likes only the _ and the leaves of the tree. He eats nothing else. And he eats more than two pounds each night!How lovely the koalas really are!\n\n<question>:\nAfter he is born, the baby koala lives in his mother' s pocket _ .\n\n<options>:\nA for six days\nB for six months\nC for a night\nD all his life\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nPeople in Australia love koalas and take care of them. They have set up places for them to live safely. No one can kill them for their pretty fur . When a koala is born, he has no fur. And he is not as big as your little toe ! The mother koala has a pocket in the front of her body. The baby goes into this warm pocket. There he stays for six months. The koala could not live without a special kind of tree. The tree gives him both his home and his food. For most of the day the koala sleeps in the tree. At night the koala looks for food. He may go miles to find it. He likes only the _ and the leaves of the tree. He eats nothing else. And he eats more than two pounds each night!How lovely the koalas really are!\n\n<question>:\nKoalas cannot live without a special kind of tree because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA they have to keep cool under the tree\nB they eat the fruit on the tree\nC they stay in the tree all the time\nD they live in the tree and get food from it\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nPeople in Australia love koalas and take care of them. They have set up places for them to live safely. No one can kill them for their pretty fur . When a koala is born, he has no fur. And he is not as big as your little toe ! The mother koala has a pocket in the front of her body. The baby goes into this warm pocket. There he stays for six months. The koala could not live without a special kind of tree. The tree gives him both his home and his food. For most of the day the koala sleeps in the tree. At night the koala looks for food. He may go miles to find it. He likes only the _ and the leaves of the tree. He eats nothing else. And he eats more than two pounds each night!How lovely the koalas really are!\n\n<question>:\nWhat is the text mainly about?\n\n<options>:\nA Lovely koalas in Australia.\nB How people in Australia protect koalas.\nC Koalas cannot live without a special kind of tree.\nD The way mother koalas take care of their babies.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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>:\nWhen we look at the moon through a telescope , we can see lines and circles . People used to think that this was the moon's face and that there was a man in the moon! This is not true. There is no man in the moon.\nWhat do we know about the moon? First of all, the moon is much smaller than the earth. Days and nights on the moon are very long. One day on the moon is as long as two weeks on the earth. One night is also as long as two weeks on the earth. In the daytime the moon is very hot and at night is very cold.\n\n<question>:\nOn the moon _ .\n\n<options>:\nA there is a man\nB there is a woman\nC there are a lot of people\nD there is no man\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nWhen we look at the moon through a telescope , we can see lines and circles . People used to think that this was the moon's face and that there was a man in the moon! This is not true. There is no man in the moon.\nWhat do we know about the moon? First of all, the moon is much smaller than the earth. Days and nights on the moon are very long. One day on the moon is as long as two weeks on the earth. One night is also as long as two weeks on the earth. In the daytime the moon is very hot and at night is very cold.\n\n<question>:\nNow we know _ .\n\n<options>:\nA some facts about the moon\nB nothing about the moon\nC little about the moon\nD few facts about the moon\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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>:\nWhen we look at the moon through a telescope , we can see lines and circles . People used to think that this was the moon's face and that there was a man in the moon! This is not true. There is no man in the moon.\nWhat do we know about the moon? First of all, the moon is much smaller than the earth. Days and nights on the moon are very long. One day on the moon is as long as two weeks on the earth. One night is also as long as two weeks on the earth. In the daytime the moon is very hot and at night is very cold.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following is true?\n\n<options>:\nA The moon is bigger than the earth.\nB The earth is much bigger than the moon.\nC The moon is as big as the earth.\nD The earth isn't as big as the moon.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nWhen we look at the moon through a telescope , we can see lines and circles . People used to think that this was the moon's face and that there was a man in the moon! This is not true. There is no man in the moon.\nWhat do we know about the moon? First of all, the moon is much smaller than the earth. Days and nights on the moon are very long. One day on the moon is as long as two weeks on the earth. One night is also as long as two weeks on the earth. In the daytime the moon is very hot and at night is very cold.\n\n<question>:\nOne day on the moon is as long as _ .\n\n<options>:\nA seven days on the earth\nB fourteen days on the earth.\nC 240 hours on the earth\nD two years on the earth\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nWhen we look at the moon through a telescope , we can see lines and circles . People used to think that this was the moon's face and that there was a man in the moon! This is not true. There is no man in the moon.\nWhat do we know about the moon? First of all, the moon is much smaller than the earth. Days and nights on the moon are very long. One day on the moon is as long as two weeks on the earth. One night is also as long as two weeks on the earth. In the daytime the moon is very hot and at night is very cold.\n\n<question>:\nThe moon is very hot _ .\n\n<options>:\nA all the time\nB during the night\nC in the daytime\nD at night and in the daytime\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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 was being interviewed by a senior manager for a major insurance company. I told him honestly why I wanted the job----I needed to keep my family in Boston. My wife recently died of a heart attack. A job in Boston would help me reduce some of the extreme trauma and pain of the loss for my 16-year-old daughter. It was important for me to keep her in her high school. I could still hardly talk about the loss of my wife.\nBruce, the interviewer, was politely empathetic, but he didn't probe any further. He admitted my loss and with great respect, moved on to another subject. After the next round of the interview, Bruce took me to lunch with another person. Then he asked me to take a walk with him. He told me that he, too, had lost his wife. And, like me, he had also been married 20 years and had three children.\nIn his sharing, I realized that he had experienced the same pain as I had -----a pain that was almost impossible to explain to someone who had not lost a beloved one. He offered his business card and home phone number and suggested that, if I need help or just want someone to talk to, I should feel free to give him a call.\nWhether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that he was there if I ever needed help. When he had no idea if we would ever see each other again, he helped our family deal with one of the greatest losses. He turned the normally cold business interview into a caring support for another person in need.\n\n<question>:\nThe writer took part in the interview because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA hehad lost his job and wanted to find a new one.\nB he had to support his family in Boston.\nC his wife had recently died of a heart attack.\nD his daughter needed money for schooling.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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 was being interviewed by a senior manager for a major insurance company. I told him honestly why I wanted the job----I needed to keep my family in Boston. My wife recently died of a heart attack. A job in Boston would help me reduce some of the extreme trauma and pain of the loss for my 16-year-old daughter. It was important for me to keep her in her high school. I could still hardly talk about the loss of my wife.\nBruce, the interviewer, was politely empathetic, but he didn't probe any further. He admitted my loss and with great respect, moved on to another subject. After the next round of the interview, Bruce took me to lunch with another person. Then he asked me to take a walk with him. He told me that he, too, had lost his wife. And, like me, he had also been married 20 years and had three children.\nIn his sharing, I realized that he had experienced the same pain as I had -----a pain that was almost impossible to explain to someone who had not lost a beloved one. He offered his business card and home phone number and suggested that, if I need help or just want someone to talk to, I should feel free to give him a call.\nWhether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that he was there if I ever needed help. When he had no idea if we would ever see each other again, he helped our family deal with one of the greatest losses. He turned the normally cold business interview into a caring support for another person in need.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA Bruce invited the writer to lunch later.\nB Bruce shared his life experience with the writer.\nC Bruce was willing to help the writer.\nD Bruce finally gave the job to the writer.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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 was being interviewed by a senior manager for a major insurance company. I told him honestly why I wanted the job----I needed to keep my family in Boston. My wife recently died of a heart attack. A job in Boston would help me reduce some of the extreme trauma and pain of the loss for my 16-year-old daughter. It was important for me to keep her in her high school. I could still hardly talk about the loss of my wife.\nBruce, the interviewer, was politely empathetic, but he didn't probe any further. He admitted my loss and with great respect, moved on to another subject. After the next round of the interview, Bruce took me to lunch with another person. Then he asked me to take a walk with him. He told me that he, too, had lost his wife. And, like me, he had also been married 20 years and had three children.\nIn his sharing, I realized that he had experienced the same pain as I had -----a pain that was almost impossible to explain to someone who had not lost a beloved one. He offered his business card and home phone number and suggested that, if I need help or just want someone to talk to, I should feel free to give him a call.\nWhether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that he was there if I ever needed help. When he had no idea if we would ever see each other again, he helped our family deal with one of the greatest losses. He turned the normally cold business interview into a caring support for another person in need.\n\n<question>:\nWe can infer from the passage that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Bruce and the writer saw each other often.\nB the writer got little help from Bruce.\nC the writer learned much from the job interview.\nD the writer had a better life afterwards.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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 was being interviewed by a senior manager for a major insurance company. I told him honestly why I wanted the job----I needed to keep my family in Boston. My wife recently died of a heart attack. A job in Boston would help me reduce some of the extreme trauma and pain of the loss for my 16-year-old daughter. It was important for me to keep her in her high school. I could still hardly talk about the loss of my wife.\nBruce, the interviewer, was politely empathetic, but he didn't probe any further. He admitted my loss and with great respect, moved on to another subject. After the next round of the interview, Bruce took me to lunch with another person. Then he asked me to take a walk with him. He told me that he, too, had lost his wife. And, like me, he had also been married 20 years and had three children.\nIn his sharing, I realized that he had experienced the same pain as I had -----a pain that was almost impossible to explain to someone who had not lost a beloved one. He offered his business card and home phone number and suggested that, if I need help or just want someone to talk to, I should feel free to give him a call.\nWhether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that he was there if I ever needed help. When he had no idea if we would ever see each other again, he helped our family deal with one of the greatest losses. He turned the normally cold business interview into a caring support for another person in need.\n\n<question>:\nWhat is the best title for the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA An Act of Kindness\nB A Pleasant Interview\nC The Same Experience\nD An Important Lesson\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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 was in the park with my elder sister, Cathy, on Friday. My sister left her jacket on a chair while we talked to some friends. When we went back to the chair, a girl in a red T-shirt was sitting there. She had some money in her hand. When she saw us, she stood up and walked away.\nI asked my sister, \"Did you have any money in your jacket?\"\nShe said, \"Yes, Anna, I did.\"\nI said, \"Look in your jacket quickly.\"\nCathy looked in her jacket, but her money was not there.\n\"That girl stole it!\" I said, and we both ran after her. We caught her quickly.\nMy sister was very angry and she said, \"Give me the money.\" The girl gave the money to Cathy and ran away. We both ran after her, but we lost her.\nThen we went home. But before we could tell our parents, my mother said to Cathy, \"You left your money at home. It's on the table in the sitting room. You must be more careful with money.\"\nSo the girl in the red T-shirt was not a thief! She probably thought we were thieves! We felt terrible.\nPlease telephone us if you know this girl! We are very sorry for our mistake. We would like to say sorry to her and give the money back to her.\nOur number is 512667. My name is Anna.\n\n<question>:\nCathy thought the money in the girl's hand was _\n\n<options>:\nA from her jacket\nB the girl's own money\nC from their home\nD from the chair\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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 was in the park with my elder sister, Cathy, on Friday. My sister left her jacket on a chair while we talked to some friends. When we went back to the chair, a girl in a red T-shirt was sitting there. She had some money in her hand. When she saw us, she stood up and walked away.\nI asked my sister, \"Did you have any money in your jacket?\"\nShe said, \"Yes, Anna, I did.\"\nI said, \"Look in your jacket quickly.\"\nCathy looked in her jacket, but her money was not there.\n\"That girl stole it!\" I said, and we both ran after her. We caught her quickly.\nMy sister was very angry and she said, \"Give me the money.\" The girl gave the money to Cathy and ran away. We both ran after her, but we lost her.\nThen we went home. But before we could tell our parents, my mother said to Cathy, \"You left your money at home. It's on the table in the sitting room. You must be more careful with money.\"\nSo the girl in the red T-shirt was not a thief! She probably thought we were thieves! We felt terrible.\nPlease telephone us if you know this girl! We are very sorry for our mistake. We would like to say sorry to her and give the money back to her.\nOur number is 512667. My name is Anna.\n\n<question>:\nThe girl gave the money to Cathy because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA she was afraid\nB Cathy asked her nicely\nC it was Cathy's money\nD she wanted to help them\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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 was in the park with my elder sister, Cathy, on Friday. My sister left her jacket on a chair while we talked to some friends. When we went back to the chair, a girl in a red T-shirt was sitting there. She had some money in her hand. When she saw us, she stood up and walked away.\nI asked my sister, \"Did you have any money in your jacket?\"\nShe said, \"Yes, Anna, I did.\"\nI said, \"Look in your jacket quickly.\"\nCathy looked in her jacket, but her money was not there.\n\"That girl stole it!\" I said, and we both ran after her. We caught her quickly.\nMy sister was very angry and she said, \"Give me the money.\" The girl gave the money to Cathy and ran away. We both ran after her, but we lost her.\nThen we went home. But before we could tell our parents, my mother said to Cathy, \"You left your money at home. It's on the table in the sitting room. You must be more careful with money.\"\nSo the girl in the red T-shirt was not a thief! She probably thought we were thieves! We felt terrible.\nPlease telephone us if you know this girl! We are very sorry for our mistake. We would like to say sorry to her and give the money back to her.\nOur number is 512667. My name is Anna.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the reading, Cathy's money was really _ .\n\n<options>:\nA in her jacket\nB in the girl's hand\nC at home\nD on the chair\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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 was in the park with my elder sister, Cathy, on Friday. My sister left her jacket on a chair while we talked to some friends. When we went back to the chair, a girl in a red T-shirt was sitting there. She had some money in her hand. When she saw us, she stood up and walked away.\nI asked my sister, \"Did you have any money in your jacket?\"\nShe said, \"Yes, Anna, I did.\"\nI said, \"Look in your jacket quickly.\"\nCathy looked in her jacket, but her money was not there.\n\"That girl stole it!\" I said, and we both ran after her. We caught her quickly.\nMy sister was very angry and she said, \"Give me the money.\" The girl gave the money to Cathy and ran away. We both ran after her, but we lost her.\nThen we went home. But before we could tell our parents, my mother said to Cathy, \"You left your money at home. It's on the table in the sitting room. You must be more careful with money.\"\nSo the girl in the red T-shirt was not a thief! She probably thought we were thieves! We felt terrible.\nPlease telephone us if you know this girl! We are very sorry for our mistake. We would like to say sorry to her and give the money back to her.\nOur number is 512667. My name is Anna.\n\n<question>:\nThe two sisters found that the money wasn't Cathy's _ .\n\n<options>:\nA when the girl ran away from them\nB after they heard their mother's words\nC when the girl came to ask for it\nD when they caught her\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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 was in the park with my elder sister, Cathy, on Friday. My sister left her jacket on a chair while we talked to some friends. When we went back to the chair, a girl in a red T-shirt was sitting there. She had some money in her hand. When she saw us, she stood up and walked away.\nI asked my sister, \"Did you have any money in your jacket?\"\nShe said, \"Yes, Anna, I did.\"\nI said, \"Look in your jacket quickly.\"\nCathy looked in her jacket, but her money was not there.\n\"That girl stole it!\" I said, and we both ran after her. We caught her quickly.\nMy sister was very angry and she said, \"Give me the money.\" The girl gave the money to Cathy and ran away. We both ran after her, but we lost her.\nThen we went home. But before we could tell our parents, my mother said to Cathy, \"You left your money at home. It's on the table in the sitting room. You must be more careful with money.\"\nSo the girl in the red T-shirt was not a thief! She probably thought we were thieves! We felt terrible.\nPlease telephone us if you know this girl! We are very sorry for our mistake. We would like to say sorry to her and give the money back to her.\nOur number is 512667. My name is Anna.\n\n<question>:\nThe writer writes the passage to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA telephone the girl\nB say thanks to the girl\nC say good-bye to the girl\nD return the money to the girl\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThere are many kinds of ants in America.One kind of ants is very strong.People are afraid of them and the other animals are afraid of them,too.\nThese ants are often in big groups .They eat all the animals on their way.They can kill and eat elephants.And they can eat horses,too.Sometimes they can even kill people and eat them.When the ants come near,people leave their homes.But people are sometimes happy after the ants pass by.Because they can see no insects or snakes.\n\n<question>:\nSome ants in America can be very _ .\n\n<options>:\nA ugly\nB strong\nC friendly\nD shy\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThere are many kinds of ants in America.One kind of ants is very strong.People are afraid of them and the other animals are afraid of them,too.\nThese ants are often in big groups .They eat all the animals on their way.They can kill and eat elephants.And they can eat horses,too.Sometimes they can even kill people and eat them.When the ants come near,people leave their homes.But people are sometimes happy after the ants pass by.Because they can see no insects or snakes.\n\n<question>:\nPeople and animals are afraid of _ .\n\n<options>:\nA a kind of ants\nB all kinds of ants\nC small ants\nD big ants\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThere are many kinds of ants in America.One kind of ants is very strong.People are afraid of them and the other animals are afraid of them,too.\nThese ants are often in big groups .They eat all the animals on their way.They can kill and eat elephants.And they can eat horses,too.Sometimes they can even kill people and eat them.When the ants come near,people leave their homes.But people are sometimes happy after the ants pass by.Because they can see no insects or snakes.\n\n<question>:\nPeople are afraid of the ants because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA they can eat and kill elephants\nB they can eat horses\nC they are often in big groups\nD they can kill people\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThere are many kinds of ants in America.One kind of ants is very strong.People are afraid of them and the other animals are afraid of them,too.\nThese ants are often in big groups .They eat all the animals on their way.They can kill and eat elephants.And they can eat horses,too.Sometimes they can even kill people and eat them.When the ants come near,people leave their homes.But people are sometimes happy after the ants pass by.Because they can see no insects or snakes.\n\n<question>:\nWhere are insects or snakes after the ants pass by?\n\n<options>:\nA They are under the ground.\nB They go to other places before the ants come.\nC Ants kill and eat them.\nD People kill and eat them.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThere are many kinds of ants in America.One kind of ants is very strong.People are afraid of them and the other animals are afraid of them,too.\nThese ants are often in big groups .They eat all the animals on their way.They can kill and eat elephants.And they can eat horses,too.Sometimes they can even kill people and eat them.When the ants come near,people leave their homes.But people are sometimes happy after the ants pass by.Because they can see no insects or snakes.\n\n<question>:\nWhich is the best title for the story?\n\n<options>:\nA Ants\nB American Ants\nC Big Ants\nD Strong Ants\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nFound:\nA black pen is in the library. Is it yours? I am Lucy. E-mail me at lucy556@hotmail.com.\nLost:\nI am Anna. I lost my computer game. It is blue. My telephone number is 471-4295. Call me! Thanks!\nLisa,\nIs this your dictionary? Your name is on it. I found it in Classroom 6A.\nTom\nFound:\nI found a ring. It is nice. Please e-mail me at frank996@gmail.com.\nFrank\n\n<question>:\nLucy found a _ in the library.\n\n<options>:\nA pen\nB computer game\nC dictionary\nD ring\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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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>:\nFound:\nA black pen is in the library. Is it yours? I am Lucy. E-mail me at lucy556@hotmail.com.\nLost:\nI am Anna. I lost my computer game. It is blue. My telephone number is 471-4295. Call me! Thanks!\nLisa,\nIs this your dictionary? Your name is on it. I found it in Classroom 6A.\nTom\nFound:\nI found a ring. It is nice. Please e-mail me at frank996@gmail.com.\nFrank\n\n<question>:\nWhat color is Anna's computer game?\n\n<options>:\nA Black.\nB Blue.\nC Red.\nD Yellow.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nFound:\nA black pen is in the library. Is it yours? I am Lucy. E-mail me at lucy556@hotmail.com.\nLost:\nI am Anna. I lost my computer game. It is blue. My telephone number is 471-4295. Call me! Thanks!\nLisa,\nIs this your dictionary? Your name is on it. I found it in Classroom 6A.\nTom\nFound:\nI found a ring. It is nice. Please e-mail me at frank996@gmail.com.\nFrank\n\n<question>:\nWhat is Anna's telephone number?\n\n<options>:\nA It's 470-4294.\nB It's 471-4295.\nC It's 471-4394.\nD It is 470-4293.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nFound:\nA black pen is in the library. Is it yours? I am Lucy. E-mail me at lucy556@hotmail.com.\nLost:\nI am Anna. I lost my computer game. It is blue. My telephone number is 471-4295. Call me! Thanks!\nLisa,\nIs this your dictionary? Your name is on it. I found it in Classroom 6A.\nTom\nFound:\nI found a ring. It is nice. Please e-mail me at frank996@gmail.com.\nFrank\n\n<question>:\nTom found a dictionary in _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Classroom 9A\nB Classroom 8A\nC Classroom 7A\nD Classroom 6A\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nFound:\nA black pen is in the library. Is it yours? I am Lucy. E-mail me at lucy556@hotmail.com.\nLost:\nI am Anna. I lost my computer game. It is blue. My telephone number is 471-4295. Call me! Thanks!\nLisa,\nIs this your dictionary? Your name is on it. I found it in Classroom 6A.\nTom\nFound:\nI found a ring. It is nice. Please e-mail me at frank996@gmail.com.\nFrank\n\n<question>:\nThe dictionary may be _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Lucy's\nB Anna's\nC Lisa's\nD Frank's\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nWhen you walk into the small Australian town of Coober Pedy, you may be surprised by what you can see. It's just barren land there!\nSo why even call it a town? There are more than 4,000 people of 48 nationalities. However, all of the people live underground!\nCoober Pedy was established in 1915, following the discovery of opals . The town is sometimes called the \"opal capital of the world,\" because it is the largest opal mining area in the world.\nDue to a desert climate , people came to realize that while working under the ground was easy, living above it was not. The solution was to move underground, by changing old mines into homes and establishing the world's first and most likely, only underground town.\nAs years have gone by, the homes have become bigger. There are now also some hotels for tourists. They come from all over the world just to see this unusual town. Coober Pedy is probably best known for its unique style of underground living.\nWhile the structures may be located underground, they are in no way worse than those that lie above. Not only do their walls have the color of beautiful red, but also the structures have all the modern equipment like walk-in closets, modern kitchens and televisions. And the town also has gift shops selling opal jewelry, a couple of museums and even a church!\nBesides, Coober Pedy is also a favourite among filmmakers. And it has appeared in a series of movies such as Pitch Black, Red Planet and Opal Dream.\n\n<question>:\nThis passage tells us that Coober Pedy is a(an) _ .\n\n<options>:\nA world famous person\nB underground town\nC film-making company\nD precious stone\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nWhen you walk into the small Australian town of Coober Pedy, you may be surprised by what you can see. It's just barren land there!\nSo why even call it a town? There are more than 4,000 people of 48 nationalities. However, all of the people live underground!\nCoober Pedy was established in 1915, following the discovery of opals . The town is sometimes called the \"opal capital of the world,\" because it is the largest opal mining area in the world.\nDue to a desert climate , people came to realize that while working under the ground was easy, living above it was not. The solution was to move underground, by changing old mines into homes and establishing the world's first and most likely, only underground town.\nAs years have gone by, the homes have become bigger. There are now also some hotels for tourists. They come from all over the world just to see this unusual town. Coober Pedy is probably best known for its unique style of underground living.\nWhile the structures may be located underground, they are in no way worse than those that lie above. Not only do their walls have the color of beautiful red, but also the structures have all the modern equipment like walk-in closets, modern kitchens and televisions. And the town also has gift shops selling opal jewelry, a couple of museums and even a church!\nBesides, Coober Pedy is also a favourite among filmmakers. And it has appeared in a series of movies such as Pitch Black, Red Planet and Opal Dream.\n\n<question>:\nWe know from the passage that Coober Pedy _ .\n\n<options>:\nA is a small town with 400 people\nB was established before the year 1915\nC is famous for its desert climate\nD was established after opals were discovered\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nWhen you walk into the small Australian town of Coober Pedy, you may be surprised by what you can see. It's just barren land there!\nSo why even call it a town? There are more than 4,000 people of 48 nationalities. However, all of the people live underground!\nCoober Pedy was established in 1915, following the discovery of opals . The town is sometimes called the \"opal capital of the world,\" because it is the largest opal mining area in the world.\nDue to a desert climate , people came to realize that while working under the ground was easy, living above it was not. The solution was to move underground, by changing old mines into homes and establishing the world's first and most likely, only underground town.\nAs years have gone by, the homes have become bigger. There are now also some hotels for tourists. They come from all over the world just to see this unusual town. Coober Pedy is probably best known for its unique style of underground living.\nWhile the structures may be located underground, they are in no way worse than those that lie above. Not only do their walls have the color of beautiful red, but also the structures have all the modern equipment like walk-in closets, modern kitchens and televisions. And the town also has gift shops selling opal jewelry, a couple of museums and even a church!\nBesides, Coober Pedy is also a favourite among filmmakers. And it has appeared in a series of movies such as Pitch Black, Red Planet and Opal Dream.\n\n<question>:\nPeople moved to live underground because _ .\n\n<options>:\nA there were large opal mines there\nB living above the ground was not easy\nC it was the opal capital of the world\nD it was the world's first underground town\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nWhen you walk into the small Australian town of Coober Pedy, you may be surprised by what you can see. It's just barren land there!\nSo why even call it a town? There are more than 4,000 people of 48 nationalities. However, all of the people live underground!\nCoober Pedy was established in 1915, following the discovery of opals . The town is sometimes called the \"opal capital of the world,\" because it is the largest opal mining area in the world.\nDue to a desert climate , people came to realize that while working under the ground was easy, living above it was not. The solution was to move underground, by changing old mines into homes and establishing the world's first and most likely, only underground town.\nAs years have gone by, the homes have become bigger. There are now also some hotels for tourists. They come from all over the world just to see this unusual town. Coober Pedy is probably best known for its unique style of underground living.\nWhile the structures may be located underground, they are in no way worse than those that lie above. Not only do their walls have the color of beautiful red, but also the structures have all the modern equipment like walk-in closets, modern kitchens and televisions. And the town also has gift shops selling opal jewelry, a couple of museums and even a church!\nBesides, Coober Pedy is also a favourite among filmmakers. And it has appeared in a series of movies such as Pitch Black, Red Planet and Opal Dream.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?\n\n<options>:\nA People in Coober Pedy changed old mines into homes.\nB The underground homes have all the modern equipment.\nC Tourists come to Coober Pedy just to buy opal jewelry.\nD The underground homes are as good as those that lie above.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nWhen you walk into the small Australian town of Coober Pedy, you may be surprised by what you can see. It's just barren land there!\nSo why even call it a town? There are more than 4,000 people of 48 nationalities. However, all of the people live underground!\nCoober Pedy was established in 1915, following the discovery of opals . The town is sometimes called the \"opal capital of the world,\" because it is the largest opal mining area in the world.\nDue to a desert climate , people came to realize that while working under the ground was easy, living above it was not. The solution was to move underground, by changing old mines into homes and establishing the world's first and most likely, only underground town.\nAs years have gone by, the homes have become bigger. There are now also some hotels for tourists. They come from all over the world just to see this unusual town. Coober Pedy is probably best known for its unique style of underground living.\nWhile the structures may be located underground, they are in no way worse than those that lie above. Not only do their walls have the color of beautiful red, but also the structures have all the modern equipment like walk-in closets, modern kitchens and televisions. And the town also has gift shops selling opal jewelry, a couple of museums and even a church!\nBesides, Coober Pedy is also a favourite among filmmakers. And it has appeared in a series of movies such as Pitch Black, Red Planet and Opal Dream.\n\n<question>:\nThe best title for this passage might be _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Opal Mining in Australia\nB The Desert Climate in Coober Pedy\nC Gift shops in Coober Pedy\nD World's First Underground Town\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nColors play an important role in our world. They have different meanings to people of different cultures. Here are some colors and what they _ to various people of the world.\nRed is the favorite color of brides in Vietnam. In this country, red represents fortune, success, and good luck. In China red is a symbol of luck and is used for many celebrations such as weddings and the beginning of the new year. In India red is a symbol of purity and commitment, and it is used in wedding clothing. In the United States red represents love and is used during Christmas and Valentine's Day. Red also represents speed and power in the west, which is why it is a popular color for race cars and toy rockets.\nIn Paris, all garbage collectors are clothed in green. They drive green trucks and dispose of waste in green bins. In many parts of the world, green has become a symbol of kindness to the earth. In Ireland, green symbolizes Catholicism, and in India it is the color of Islam.\nYellow is the color that symbolizes the sun. Yellow can make people feel happy and excited, but at the same time can make people feel angrier or more frustrated. In the United States, school buses and taxicabs are often yellow, because you can see this color ruore easily. In Japan, yellow is the color of bravery.\nTo the Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and Koreans, white symbolizes death. To people of India and in the west white is a color of purity.\n,.\n\n<question>:\nHow many colors are mentioned in the article?\n\n<options>:\nA Three\nB Four\nC Five\nD Six\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nColors play an important role in our world. They have different meanings to people of different cultures. Here are some colors and what they _ to various people of the world.\nRed is the favorite color of brides in Vietnam. In this country, red represents fortune, success, and good luck. In China red is a symbol of luck and is used for many celebrations such as weddings and the beginning of the new year. In India red is a symbol of purity and commitment, and it is used in wedding clothing. In the United States red represents love and is used during Christmas and Valentine's Day. Red also represents speed and power in the west, which is why it is a popular color for race cars and toy rockets.\nIn Paris, all garbage collectors are clothed in green. They drive green trucks and dispose of waste in green bins. In many parts of the world, green has become a symbol of kindness to the earth. In Ireland, green symbolizes Catholicism, and in India it is the color of Islam.\nYellow is the color that symbolizes the sun. Yellow can make people feel happy and excited, but at the same time can make people feel angrier or more frustrated. In the United States, school buses and taxicabs are often yellow, because you can see this color ruore easily. In Japan, yellow is the color of bravery.\nTo the Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and Koreans, white symbolizes death. To people of India and in the west white is a color of purity.\n,.\n\n<question>:\nWho regards red as a symbol of luck?\n\n<options>:\nA The Indians\nB The Japaness\nC The Chinese\nD The Americans\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nColors play an important role in our world. They have different meanings to people of different cultures. Here are some colors and what they _ to various people of the world.\nRed is the favorite color of brides in Vietnam. In this country, red represents fortune, success, and good luck. In China red is a symbol of luck and is used for many celebrations such as weddings and the beginning of the new year. In India red is a symbol of purity and commitment, and it is used in wedding clothing. In the United States red represents love and is used during Christmas and Valentine's Day. Red also represents speed and power in the west, which is why it is a popular color for race cars and toy rockets.\nIn Paris, all garbage collectors are clothed in green. They drive green trucks and dispose of waste in green bins. In many parts of the world, green has become a symbol of kindness to the earth. In Ireland, green symbolizes Catholicism, and in India it is the color of Islam.\nYellow is the color that symbolizes the sun. Yellow can make people feel happy and excited, but at the same time can make people feel angrier or more frustrated. In the United States, school buses and taxicabs are often yellow, because you can see this color ruore easily. In Japan, yellow is the color of bravery.\nTo the Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and Koreans, white symbolizes death. To people of India and in the west white is a color of purity.\n,.\n\n<question>:\nA person will be even angrier when he sees _\n\n<options>:\nA red\nB green\nC yellow\nD white\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nColors play an important role in our world. They have different meanings to people of different cultures. Here are some colors and what they _ to various people of the world.\nRed is the favorite color of brides in Vietnam. In this country, red represents fortune, success, and good luck. In China red is a symbol of luck and is used for many celebrations such as weddings and the beginning of the new year. In India red is a symbol of purity and commitment, and it is used in wedding clothing. In the United States red represents love and is used during Christmas and Valentine's Day. Red also represents speed and power in the west, which is why it is a popular color for race cars and toy rockets.\nIn Paris, all garbage collectors are clothed in green. They drive green trucks and dispose of waste in green bins. In many parts of the world, green has become a symbol of kindness to the earth. In Ireland, green symbolizes Catholicism, and in India it is the color of Islam.\nYellow is the color that symbolizes the sun. Yellow can make people feel happy and excited, but at the same time can make people feel angrier or more frustrated. In the United States, school buses and taxicabs are often yellow, because you can see this color ruore easily. In Japan, yellow is the color of bravery.\nTo the Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and Koreans, white symbolizes death. To people of India and in the west white is a color of purity.\n,.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the flowing is true?\n\n<options>:\nA Red symbolizes the sun in most countries.\nB In the USA,school bus and taxis are often yellow.\nC In Ireland,all garbage collectos were green clothes.\nD Tothe Koreans,white is a color of purity.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nJenny was a five-year-old girl. One day, while she was shopping with her mother, she saw a plastic pearl necklace and loved it so much. So she asked her mother to buy it for her.\nEvery night, before Jenny went to bed, her dad would read stories to her. One night, when he finished the story, he asked, \"Jenny, do you love me?\"\n\"Dad, you know I love you,\" Jenny answered.\n\"Well, give me your necklace,\" Dad said.\n\"No, Dad. But you can have my favorite doll.\"\nSeveral times, when her father asked her to give him the plastic necklace, Jenny would give him something else instead. One evening, after Jenny's father read her a story, Jenny said, \"Here, Dad.\" She put her plastic pearl necklace into her father's hand.\nHer father hold the necklace in one hand and opened the other hand. There was a real pearl necklace in it. He had had it for a long time, and waited for Jenny to give up the cheap one so that he could give her the real one.\nSo, don't be _ . If we are generous , maybe we will get something better.\n\n<question>:\nWhat did Jenny's father do every night?\n\n<options>:\nA Asked for the plastic necklace.\nB Talked with Jenny.\nC Read stories to Jenny.\nD Played dolls with Jenny.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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>:\nJenny was a five-year-old girl. One day, while she was shopping with her mother, she saw a plastic pearl necklace and loved it so much. So she asked her mother to buy it for her.\nEvery night, before Jenny went to bed, her dad would read stories to her. One night, when he finished the story, he asked, \"Jenny, do you love me?\"\n\"Dad, you know I love you,\" Jenny answered.\n\"Well, give me your necklace,\" Dad said.\n\"No, Dad. But you can have my favorite doll.\"\nSeveral times, when her father asked her to give him the plastic necklace, Jenny would give him something else instead. One evening, after Jenny's father read her a story, Jenny said, \"Here, Dad.\" She put her plastic pearl necklace into her father's hand.\nHer father hold the necklace in one hand and opened the other hand. There was a real pearl necklace in it. He had had it for a long time, and waited for Jenny to give up the cheap one so that he could give her the real one.\nSo, don't be _ . If we are generous , maybe we will get something better.\n\n<question>:\nWhat did Jenny do when her father asked her for the necklace for the first time?\n\n<options>:\nA She asked him to buy a doll for her.\nB She gave him her favorite doll.\nC She said she didn't love him at all.\nD She gave the necklace to him.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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>:\nJenny was a five-year-old girl. One day, while she was shopping with her mother, she saw a plastic pearl necklace and loved it so much. So she asked her mother to buy it for her.\nEvery night, before Jenny went to bed, her dad would read stories to her. One night, when he finished the story, he asked, \"Jenny, do you love me?\"\n\"Dad, you know I love you,\" Jenny answered.\n\"Well, give me your necklace,\" Dad said.\n\"No, Dad. But you can have my favorite doll.\"\nSeveral times, when her father asked her to give him the plastic necklace, Jenny would give him something else instead. One evening, after Jenny's father read her a story, Jenny said, \"Here, Dad.\" She put her plastic pearl necklace into her father's hand.\nHer father hold the necklace in one hand and opened the other hand. There was a real pearl necklace in it. He had had it for a long time, and waited for Jenny to give up the cheap one so that he could give her the real one.\nSo, don't be _ . If we are generous , maybe we will get something better.\n\n<question>:\nFrom the passage, we know that _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Jenny's father bought the plastic necklace for her\nB Jenny didn't love the plastic pearl necklace later\nC Jenny knew her father bought her a real pearl necklace\nD Jenny's father gave her a real pearl necklace\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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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>:\nJenny was a five-year-old girl. One day, while she was shopping with her mother, she saw a plastic pearl necklace and loved it so much. So she asked her mother to buy it for her.\nEvery night, before Jenny went to bed, her dad would read stories to her. One night, when he finished the story, he asked, \"Jenny, do you love me?\"\n\"Dad, you know I love you,\" Jenny answered.\n\"Well, give me your necklace,\" Dad said.\n\"No, Dad. But you can have my favorite doll.\"\nSeveral times, when her father asked her to give him the plastic necklace, Jenny would give him something else instead. One evening, after Jenny's father read her a story, Jenny said, \"Here, Dad.\" She put her plastic pearl necklace into her father's hand.\nHer father hold the necklace in one hand and opened the other hand. There was a real pearl necklace in it. He had had it for a long time, and waited for Jenny to give up the cheap one so that he could give her the real one.\nSo, don't be _ . If we are generous , maybe we will get something better.\n\n<question>:\nWhat does the writer want to tell us?\n\n<options>:\nA We should put our things in a safe place.\nB We often lose our favorite things.\nC We should learn to be generous.\nD We should love our parents.\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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 \"Timeline of Education\" shows highlights of learning and education (especially related to Western education), going back to the very first education:\nIn the beginning: Adam got the very first lesson, from God: break the law and you pay the price.\n3000 B.C. :Priests teach religion, writing, sciences.\n0 B.C./A.D.: Jesus teaches in Jerusalem.\n105 A.D.: Paper is invented in China.\n1150-1250 : \"Modern\" universities founded.\n1620s: Slide rule is invented, math is made easier.\n1918 : All U.S. states require free education\nEarly 1980s: Television in the classroom. The availability of cheap VCRs makes video learning common.\nLate 1990s: The Internet changes everything. E-learning courses develop.\nhttp://www.worldwidelearn.com/education-timeline/education-timeline.htm#3000BC\n\n<question>:\nAdam got the very first lesson from _ .\n\n<options>:\nA his teacher\nB God\nC religion\nD himself\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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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 \"Timeline of Education\" shows highlights of learning and education (especially related to Western education), going back to the very first education:\nIn the beginning: Adam got the very first lesson, from God: break the law and you pay the price.\n3000 B.C. :Priests teach religion, writing, sciences.\n0 B.C./A.D.: Jesus teaches in Jerusalem.\n105 A.D.: Paper is invented in China.\n1150-1250 : \"Modern\" universities founded.\n1620s: Slide rule is invented, math is made easier.\n1918 : All U.S. states require free education\nEarly 1980s: Television in the classroom. The availability of cheap VCRs makes video learning common.\nLate 1990s: The Internet changes everything. E-learning courses develop.\nhttp://www.worldwidelearn.com/education-timeline/education-timeline.htm#3000BC\n\n<question>:\nTelevision appears in the classroom and helps the teacher and students in _ .\n\n<options>:\nA late 1990s\nB early 1980s\nC 1918\nD 1620\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]
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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 \"Timeline of Education\" shows highlights of learning and education (especially related to Western education), going back to the very first education:\nIn the beginning: Adam got the very first lesson, from God: break the law and you pay the price.\n3000 B.C. :Priests teach religion, writing, sciences.\n0 B.C./A.D.: Jesus teaches in Jerusalem.\n105 A.D.: Paper is invented in China.\n1150-1250 : \"Modern\" universities founded.\n1620s: Slide rule is invented, math is made easier.\n1918 : All U.S. states require free education\nEarly 1980s: Television in the classroom. The availability of cheap VCRs makes video learning common.\nLate 1990s: The Internet changes everything. E-learning courses develop.\nhttp://www.worldwidelearn.com/education-timeline/education-timeline.htm#3000BC\n\n<question>:\nIt took about _ years from the television to Internet.\n\n<options>:\nA 50\nB 40\nC 20\nD 10\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nMany teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members don't know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they will go to their friends for some ideas.\nIt is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking to them on the phone. This communication is very important in children's growing up, because friends can discuss special things. These things are difficult to say to their family members.\nHowever, parents often try to choose friends for their children. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their friends. Have you ever thought of the following questions?\nWho choose your friends?\nDo you choose your friends or your friends choose you?\nHave you got a good friend your parents don't like?\nYour answers are welcome?\n\n<question>:\nMany teenagers think that _ will understand them better.\n\n<options>:\nA brothers\nB sisters\nC friends\nD parents\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nMany teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members don't know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they will go to their friends for some ideas.\nIt is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking to them on the phone. This communication is very important in children's growing up, because friends can discuss special things. These things are difficult to say to their family members.\nHowever, parents often try to choose friends for their children. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their friends. Have you ever thought of the following questions?\nWho choose your friends?\nDo you choose your friends or your friends choose you?\nHave you got a good friend your parents don't like?\nYour answers are welcome?\n\n<question>:\n_ is very important to teenagers.\n\n<options>:\nA Making friends\nB Communication\nC To stop meeting friends\nD Both A and B\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nMany teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members don't know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they will go to their friends for some ideas.\nIt is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking to them on the phone. This communication is very important in children's growing up, because friends can discuss special things. These things are difficult to say to their family members.\nHowever, parents often try to choose friends for their children. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their friends. Have you ever thought of the following questions?\nWho choose your friends?\nDo you choose your friends or your friends choose you?\nHave you got a good friend your parents don't like?\nYour answers are welcome?\n\n<question>:\nWhen teenagers have something difficult to say, they usually _ .\n\n<options>:\nA stay alone at home\nB fight with their parents\nC discuss it with their friends\nD go to their brothers or sisters for help\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nMany teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members don't know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they will go to their friends for some ideas.\nIt is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking to them on the phone. This communication is very important in children's growing up, because friends can discuss special things. These things are difficult to say to their family members.\nHowever, parents often try to choose friends for their children. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their friends. Have you ever thought of the following questions?\nWho choose your friends?\nDo you choose your friends or your friends choose you?\nHave you got a good friend your parents don't like?\nYour answers are welcome?\n\n<question>:\nThe sentence \"Your answers are welcome.\" Means \" _ \".\n\n<options>:\nA You are welcome to discuss questions with us\nB We've got no idea, so your answer are welcome\nC Your answers are always right\nD You can give us all the right answers\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "A" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nMany teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members don't know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they will go to their friends for some ideas.\nIt is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking to them on the phone. This communication is very important in children's growing up, because friends can discuss special things. These things are difficult to say to their family members.\nHowever, parents often try to choose friends for their children. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their friends. Have you ever thought of the following questions?\nWho choose your friends?\nDo you choose your friends or your friends choose you?\nHave you got a good friend your parents don't like?\nYour answers are welcome?\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following is the writer's attitude ?\n\n<options>:\nA Parents should choose friends for their children\nB Children should choose everything they like\nC Parents should understand their children better\nD Teenagers should only go to their friends for help\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "C" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nYou should eat well, get lots of exercise if you want to be a healthy kid. If you're healthy, you can study well and can do all the things you want to do, like running around with your friends.\nIf you're a kid who wants to be healthy, here are some rules for you.\nEat different kinds of foods If you eat different kinds of foods, you can get the nutrients your body needs. Eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.\nDrink milk often Water is the best drink when you're thirsty. But kids need calcium to grow, and there is enough calcium in the milk. If you are younger than 9 years old, drink 2 cups of milk a day. Children who are over nine years old should drink 3 cups of milk per day.\nLimit screen time The more time you spend on the sitting-down activities, like basketball, bike riding, swimming and so on. Try to spend no more than 2 hours a day on the screen.\nBe active For a kid, you should know which activity you like best. Not everyone loves baseball or soccer. Ask your parents to help you do your favorite activities regularly. Find ways to be active every day.\n\n<question>:\nIf you eat well and get lots of exercise, _ .\n\n<options>:\nA you'll be unhealthy\nB you'll be lazy\nC you can have lots of friends\nD you can study and play well\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "D" } ]
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nYou should eat well, get lots of exercise if you want to be a healthy kid. If you're healthy, you can study well and can do all the things you want to do, like running around with your friends.\nIf you're a kid who wants to be healthy, here are some rules for you.\nEat different kinds of foods If you eat different kinds of foods, you can get the nutrients your body needs. Eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.\nDrink milk often Water is the best drink when you're thirsty. But kids need calcium to grow, and there is enough calcium in the milk. If you are younger than 9 years old, drink 2 cups of milk a day. Children who are over nine years old should drink 3 cups of milk per day.\nLimit screen time The more time you spend on the sitting-down activities, like basketball, bike riding, swimming and so on. Try to spend no more than 2 hours a day on the screen.\nBe active For a kid, you should know which activity you like best. Not everyone loves baseball or soccer. Ask your parents to help you do your favorite activities regularly. Find ways to be active every day.\n\n<question>:\nIf you spend more time on computer games you will _ .\n\n<options>:\nA be more active\nB have less time for sports\nC have more time for reading\nD do your favorite activities regularly\n\n<answer>:\n", "assistant": "B" } ]