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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>:\nBook reports and book reviews are similar. Book reports tend to be a little more descriptive (What is this book about?) and book reviews are usually more persuasive (Why a reader should or shouldn't read this book?). They are both a way to think more deeply about a book you've read and to present your understanding.\n Most teachers have their own requirements they expect you to meet, so be sure to check, but the following general elements of a book report should be helpful.\nIntroduction\nHere you want to provide basic information about the book, and a sense of what your report will be about. You should include:\nTitle /Author\nPublication Information: publisher, year, number of pages\nWriting style\nA brief introduction to the book and the report.\nBody\nThere are two main sections for this part. The first is an explanation of what the book is about. The second is your opinions about the book and how successful it is. There are some differences between reports on fiction or other imaginative writing and reports on non-fiction books. But for both, a good place to start is to explain the author's purpose and/or the main themes of the book. Then you can summarize.\nFor fiction or other creative writing:\nProvide brief descriptions of the setting, the point of view, the leading character, and other major characters. If there is an obvious mood or tone, discuss that as well. Give a brief plot summary. Along with the order of major events, you may want to discuss the book's climax . \nFor non-fiction:\nProvide a general overview of the author's topic, main points, and argument. What is the argument? What are the important conclusions?\nDon't try to summarize each chapter. Choose the ones that are most important and interesting to you.\nAnalysis and comment\nIn this second section you analyze the book. You can write about your own opinions; just be sure that you explain and support them with examples. Some questions you might want to consider: Did the author achieve his or her purpose? Is the writing effective, powerful or beautiful? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the book? For non-fiction, do you agree with the author's arguments and conclusions? What is your general response to the book? Did you find it interesting, moving or dull? Would you recommend it to others? Why or why not?\nConclusion\nBriefly conclude by pulling your thoughts together. You may want to say what impression the book left you with, or emphasize what you want your reader to know about it.\n\n<question>:\nFor a book report on non-fiction, it's not advised to _ .\n\n<options>:\nA explain the author's purpose of writing\nB summarize every chapter in full length\nC provide the conclusions that are of importance\nD give a general description of the writer's topic\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>:\nStandard English is that variety of English which is usually used in print,and which is normally taught in schools and to non-native speakers learning the language.It is also the variety which is normally spoken by educated people and used in news broadcasts and other similar situations.The difference between standard and non-standard,it should be noted,has nothing in principle to do with differences between formal and informal language:Standard English has informal as well as formal variants.\nHistorically the standard variety of English is based on the London Dialect of English that developed after the Norman Conquest resulted in the removal of the Court from Winchester to London.This dialect became the one preferred by the educated,and it was developed and promoted as a model,or norm,for wider and wider parts of society.It was also the norm that was carried overseas.But not one unaffected by such export.Today,standard English is codified to the degree that the grammar and vocabulary of English are much the same everywhere in the world where English is used:difference among the local standards is really quite minor,so that the Singapore,South Africa,and Irish varieties are really very little different from one another so far as grammar and vocabulary are concerned.Indeed,standard English is so powerful that it puts a tremendous pressure on all local varieties,to the degree that many of the long-established dialects of England have lost much of their vigor and there is much pressure on them to converge towards the standard.This latter situation is not unique to English:it is also in other countries where processes of standardization are under way.But it sometimes creates problems for speakers who try to strike some kind of compromise between local norms and national,even super-national ones.\n\n<question>:\nThe main topic of the text is\n\n<options>:\nA the difference between standard English and non-standard English.\nB the influence between standard English and non-standard English.\nC the origin and development of standard English used nowadays.\nD the difference between standard English and the London dialects.\n\n<answer>:\n",
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