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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nStudents who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills. They are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol and tobacco use as their single classmates, according to new research from the University of Georgia.\n\"Romantic relationships are a trademark of adolescence, but very few studies have examined how adolescents differ in the development of these relationships,\" said Pamela Orpinas, study author and professor in the College of Public Health and head of the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior.[: _ Z _ X _ X _ K]\nOrpinas followed a group of 624 students over a seven-year period from 6th to 12th grade.\nEach year, the group of students completed a survey indicating whether they had dated and reported the frequency of different behaviors, including the use of drugs and alcohol. Their teachers completed questionnaires about the students' academic efforts. He found some students never or hardly ever reported dating from middle to high school, and these students had consistently the best study skills according to their teachers. Other students dated infrequently in middle school but increased the frequency of dating in high school.\n\"At all points in time, teachers rated the students who reported the lowest frequency of dating as having the best study skills and the students with the highest dating as having the worst study skills,\" according to the journal article. Study skills refer to behaviors that lead to academic success such as doing work for extra credit being well organized, finishing homework, working hard and reading assigned chapters.\n\"Dating a classmate may have the same emotional complications of dating a co-worker,\" Orpinas said, \"When the couple break up, they have to continue to see each other in class and perhaps witness the ex-partner dating someone else. It is reasonable to think this could be linked to depression and divert attention from studying.\"\n\"Dating should not be considered a ceremony of growth in middle school,\" Orpinas concluded.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to the passage, students who date in middle school may _\n\n<options>:\nA have poorer academic performances\nB be more likely to hurl others\nC enjoy better school lives\nD are less likely to use alcohol and tobacco\n\n<answer>:\n",
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"human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nAnimal experts in Croatia say a bear has learned how to trick people to let him in by knocking at the door.\nThey believe the 220- kilogram brown bear probably learned the trick while nudging a door to get it to open.\nExperts have a guess that the nudging was mistaken by the owners for knocking and that the bear, pleased by the result, repeated the trick.\nThe Loknar family from Gerovo in western Croatia said the bear had knocked at their door three times and they were now refusing to answer the door.\n''We jumped out of the window as he came in through the door and went into the kitchen to take some food for the first time.\" Mum Nevenka Loknar told a reporter from a local newspaper. \"I opened the door and saw him standing there and I didn't believe my eyes at first, then I ran for it as he walked in as if _ was the most normal- thing in the world.\"\nBears are a common thing in the woods around here, but no one has ever heard of a bear that knocks at the door.\nMum Nevenka Loknar said, \"The bear is so intelligent. It's incredible. We've tried to put up lots of obstacles to stop him coming in, like a wire fence but he still gets through. I wouldn't be surprised if he knew how to use wire cutters.\"\n\n<question>:\nAccording to experts in Croatia, how did the bear learn the trick?\n\n<options>:\nA By knocking at the door several times.\nB By accident.\nC By learning from the owner of a family.\nD By imitation.\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>:\nAnimal experts in Croatia say a bear has learned how to trick people to let him in by knocking at the door.\nThey believe the 220- kilogram brown bear probably learned the trick while nudging a door to get it to open.\nExperts have a guess that the nudging was mistaken by the owners for knocking and that the bear, pleased by the result, repeated the trick.\nThe Loknar family from Gerovo in western Croatia said the bear had knocked at their door three times and they were now refusing to answer the door.\n''We jumped out of the window as he came in through the door and went into the kitchen to take some food for the first time.\" Mum Nevenka Loknar told a reporter from a local newspaper. \"I opened the door and saw him standing there and I didn't believe my eyes at first, then I ran for it as he walked in as if _ was the most normal- thing in the world.\"\nBears are a common thing in the woods around here, but no one has ever heard of a bear that knocks at the door.\nMum Nevenka Loknar said, \"The bear is so intelligent. It's incredible. We've tried to put up lots of obstacles to stop him coming in, like a wire fence but he still gets through. I wouldn't be surprised if he knew how to use wire cutters.\"\n\n<question>:\nIt is _ in Gerovo that a bear knocks at the door.\n\n<options>:\nA unusual\nB a troubling problem\nC common\nD an exciting experience\n\n<answer>:\n",
"assistant": "A"
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