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"human": "Read the 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 piano on which Mozart wrote all of his late works returned home to Vienna for the first time since his death in 1791.The piano will stand in his former Vienna home, now a museum, for two weeks, ending in a concert of the works by Mozart.\nMozart bought the instrument from Anton Walter, the most famous piano maker of his time, in 1782.He wrote more than 50 works for the piano on it, many of them in the apartment in Vienna.After Mozart's death, Constanze, Mozart's wife, gave the instrument to their elder surviving son, Carl Thomas, who donated it to the Mozarteum Salzburg on what would have been the composer's 100th birthday.The piano is now part of the permanent exhibition in the Austrian city of Salzburg.\n\" It was very hard to let it go,\" said Matthias Schulz, director of the Mozarteum Salzburg.\" If we didn' t know it was in the best hands, we wouldn' t have done it.\" The piano is much smaller and lighter than modern concert ones.Its sound is fresher and brighter than that of a modern piano, with lighter action and hammers .\nPiano restorer Josef Meingast, who has looked after the Mozart piano since 1975, said it was superior to any of its surviving copies.Meingast said he had to fight to replace the existing strings , dating from a 1973 restoration, with softer ones that produce a rounder sound thought to be more similar to what Mozart would have produced.\nRussian pianist Alexander Melnikov, who planned to give a concert of Mozart' s music on the piano on November 7, said he was privileged to play such an instrument.It's easily the biggest day of a musician' s life.\"\n\n<question>:\nHow will Alexander Melnikov feel when playing that piano?\n\n<options>:\nA Upset\nB Honored\nC Frightened\nD Creative\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>:\nToday, we send millions of Christmas cards every year. But in fact the Christmas card is a ly modern invention.\nIn the Middle Ages, European wood engravers produced prints with religious themes. But the first real Christmas card, as we understand the term today, was designed in London, England in 1840. It went on sale in 1843. The designer was John Callott Horsley, a well- known British painter and member of the Royal Academy. He designed the card at the suggestion of his friend Sir Henry Cole, who was the first director of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Horsley produced 1,000 cards and offered them for sale at 1s (one shilling) each. They were printed on stiff card and coloured by hand, with the greeting: \"A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You\". The card shows three pictures: in the center, a family party; to one side the hungry receiving food; to the other side the poor being clothed. Puritans immediately _ the card, since it showed people drinking in the family party. But with most people the idea was a great success and the Christmas card quickly became very popular.\nChristmas cards were not the first greetings cards. Since 1796, with improvements in printing, merchants had been sending cards to their customers offering \"best wishes\" for the new year. In many countries, Christmas cards gradually became even more popular than New Year's cards.\n As Christmas is the birthday of Jesus Christ, cards often show scenes of His nativity. Others show images connected with Christmas such as wintry scenes of snow-laden pine, Father Christmas card is \"Merry Christmas\", but many other greetings are also used, such as \"Happy Xmas\" or \"Happy Noel\".\n\n<question>:\nThe text is written to introduce to us _ .\n\n<options>:\nA Father Christmas and John Horsley\nB the greeting cards\nC the Christmas cards\nD the New Year's cards\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>:\nBEIJING--Family planning officers will handle the illegal birth case of film director Zhang Yimou by following legal procedures, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, December 10, 2013.\nWhen asked to comment on Zhang's case at a press conference, Yao Hongwen, spokesman for the National Health and Family Planning Commission(NHFPC), said \"Every citizen is equal before the law and nobody is allowed to have privileges to give birth to more children than allowed.\"\nYao's comment came after media stories claimed that Zhang had remarried and fathered a total of seven children: one with his former wife, three with his present wife, Chen Ting, and another three from two lovers.\n\"The NHFPC's attitude towards citizens' birth violations is consistent and clear...Every Chinese citizen should obey and safeguard the seriousness of laws and regulations.\" NHFPC spokesman Yao Hongwen said.\nChina's family planning policy, introduced in the late 1970s to slow down the country's growing population, limits most urban couples to one child and most rural couples to two. The policy was recently relaxed, allowing couples to have two children if one of them is an only child.\nThose who break the policy face severe fines. The amount of the fine is generally several times the yearly annual income of the two spouses . Some media calculations put the fine that Zhang may face at as much as 160 million yuan(over $26 million).\nZhang's birth case has caused criticism online about famous people who have more children than the policy allows.\nIn an open letter on December 1, Zhang admitted that the couple has two sons and daughter and they are willing to accept investigation and punishment according to China's laws and regulations. He apologized to the public.\nHowever, the letter denied that Zhang had lovers and was father to as many as seven children from various mothers.\nZhang, one of the \"fifth generation\" of Chinese filmmakers, made his first directorial work in 1987 with \"Red Sorghum\" and has won a number of award worldwide. He was chief director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games.\n\n<question>:\nAccording to Yao Hongwen, which of the following statements is true?\n\n<options>:\nA Every Chinese citizen should obey and safeguard laws and regulations.\nB Few people have the privileges to give birth to more children than allowed.\nC China's family planning policy has never been relaxed since introduced.\nD Zhang will be fined as much as 160 million yuan for his violations.\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>:\nBEIJING--Family planning officers will handle the illegal birth case of film director Zhang Yimou by following legal procedures, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, December 10, 2013.\nWhen asked to comment on Zhang's case at a press conference, Yao Hongwen, spokesman for the National Health and Family Planning Commission(NHFPC), said \"Every citizen is equal before the law and nobody is allowed to have privileges to give birth to more children than allowed.\"\nYao's comment came after media stories claimed that Zhang had remarried and fathered a total of seven children: one with his former wife, three with his present wife, Chen Ting, and another three from two lovers.\n\"The NHFPC's attitude towards citizens' birth violations is consistent and clear...Every Chinese citizen should obey and safeguard the seriousness of laws and regulations.\" NHFPC spokesman Yao Hongwen said.\nChina's family planning policy, introduced in the late 1970s to slow down the country's growing population, limits most urban couples to one child and most rural couples to two. The policy was recently relaxed, allowing couples to have two children if one of them is an only child.\nThose who break the policy face severe fines. The amount of the fine is generally several times the yearly annual income of the two spouses . Some media calculations put the fine that Zhang may face at as much as 160 million yuan(over $26 million).\nZhang's birth case has caused criticism online about famous people who have more children than the policy allows.\nIn an open letter on December 1, Zhang admitted that the couple has two sons and daughter and they are willing to accept investigation and punishment according to China's laws and regulations. He apologized to the public.\nHowever, the letter denied that Zhang had lovers and was father to as many as seven children from various mothers.\nZhang, one of the \"fifth generation\" of Chinese filmmakers, made his first directorial work in 1987 with \"Red Sorghum\" and has won a number of award worldwide. He was chief director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games.\n\n<question>:\nJudging from the recent relaxed policy, a couple _\n\n<options>:\nA can have as many as three children if they live in a rural area\nB will definitely be fined if they have two children nowadays\nC can give birth to two children if one of them is an only child\nD can only give birth to two children if they live in an urban area\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>:\nHelen Keller was born in America in June, 1880. Everything was all right when she was born. But when she was 19 months old, an attack of fever left her blind and deaf for the rest of her life. She was so young when she became blind that as she grew older she did not remember being able to see; and she became deaf before she had any idea of the importance of human speech. She lived in darkness and silence.\nAs she grew older, she, too, wanted to express her ideas and feelings. But she realized she was cut off from others. Her parents were greatly worried. How could anyone make touch with Helen's mind and intelligence in darkness and silence without speech? Helen was nearly seven before a teacher was found. Her name was Miss Sullivan.\nMiss Sullivan had a lot of difficulties in teaching Helen Keller. As the child could neither see nor hear, she had to use manual alphabet. But Helen's energy and intelligence and strong spirit as well as Miss Sullivan's skill and patience, overcame all the difficulties. As Helen grew up, she became an able student, passed examination and finally took a university degree in English literature. She then devoted all herself to helping the blind and the deaf. Her personal success, together with the work she had done for others, made her one of the greatest women in modern times. She wrote many books and \"The Story of My Life\"is a wonderful one.\n\n<question>:\nWhich of the following statements is NOT TRUE?\n\n<options>:\nA Helen became blind and deaf because she suffered from a high fever.\nB Helen became blind before she could see anything.\nC Helen became deaf before she realized how important it was to be able to hear and speak.\nD Helen, too, wanted to touch with others with speech.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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