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arc_easy_452 | Which of the following climates has cold winters and hot summers? | [
"polar",
"subtropical",
"temperate",
"tropical"
] | C. temperate | arc_easy |
mmlu_train_92348 | Mike has a sports collection . He has four basketballs, five volleyballs and four soccer balls. He has seven tennis rackets and eight tennis balls. He has eight ping-pong bats and nine ping-pong balls, too. Mike has some bags in his room: four yellow bags and two green bags. He puts the basketballs in a yellow bag, the volleyballs in a yellow bag, and the soccer balls in a yellow bag. He puts the tennis rackets in a yellow bag, the ping-pong bats in a green bag, and the tennis balls and the ping-pong balls in the last bag. Mike has seven _ . | [
"soccer balls",
"ping-pong bats",
"tennis rackets",
"volleyballs"
] | C. tennis rackets | mmlu_train |
arc_challenge_952 | A hydrologist is studying the acidity level of a city lake. She collects samples twice a week and takes them to her lab to test them. After testing the samples, she places the data on a graph. She tells the city engineers that her tests indicate that the pH level has been steadily dropping over the past few months. Which of the following steps is the best way to check the accuracy of her data? | [
"retest new samples",
"retest the original samples",
"show the graphs to the engineers",
"show the samples to the engineers"
] | B. retest the original samples | arc_challenge |
mmlu_train_41964 | Life has changed in Mexico City. Streets normally filled with people are empty. One of the most popular professional soccer teams recently played a game in an empty stadium that can seat more than100,000 people. It's swine flu that has made life in Mexico City grind to a halt . Seemingly out of nowhere, swine flu has caused confirmed deaths in 12 countries as of April 30. It has sent a wave of alarm around the world. Governments are trying to find ways to prevent further out-breaks. The World Health Organization has raised its swine flu global threat level to five out of six. People may be familiar with bird flu, but they know little about swine flu. Swine flu is a contagious respiratory disease in pigs. It is caused by a type-A influenza virus. Humans can also catch swine flu. The virus causes regular outbreaks in pigs, but people usually do not catch it. However, there have been cases of the virus spreading to people, and then from one person to another. The symptoms of swine flu are similar to the common flu. They include fever, lethargy , lack of appetite, coughing, runny nose, sore throat, nausea , and vomiting . The high proportion of young adults among the deaths is one of several mysteries about this virus. Most of the dead had lung damage. What caused it is not yet known. The virus spreads the same way the common flu does. When an infected person coughs or sneezes around another person, the latter is put at risk. People can get the disease by touching something with the flu virus on it and then touching their mouth, nose or eyes. There are medicines to treat swine flu. Doctors suggest using anti - viral drugs. They keep the virus from reproducing inside the body. Although there are no vaccines for it now, several everyday steps can help prevent the spread of the virus: washing hands frequently; avoiding close contact with people who are sick; and avoiding touching surfaces that might have the virus on it. People may worry that they will get swine flu from eating or preparing pork. In fact, you cannot catch the virus from pork products if they have been properly prepared and cooked. Cooking food at temperatures of 71degCkills the virus. The following tips can protect us from swine flu EXCEPT _ . | [
"keeping us away from other people",
"washing hands frequently",
"avoiding close contact with sick people",
"avoiding touching surfaces that might have the virus on them"
] | A. keeping us away from other people | mmlu_train |
aquarat_47582 | A woman started a business investing Rs. 70,000. Roja joined him after six months with an amount of Rs. 1,05,000 and Sachin joined them with Rs. 1.4 lakhs after another six months. The amount of profit earned should be distributed in what ratio among Akash, Roja and Sachin respectively, 3 years after Aman started the business ? | [
"7:6:10",
"12:15:16",
"42:45:56",
"None of these",
"Cannot be determined"
] | B. 12:15:16 | aquarat |
arc_challenge_216 | Which of the following is the best evidence that an area of land was once covered by a glacier? | [
"limestone caverns",
"marine fossils",
"abrasion of surface rocks",
"peeling slabs of rock"
] | C. abrasion of surface rocks | arc_challenge |
aquarat_20206 | A jogger running at 9 km/hr along side a railway track is 240 m ahead of the engine of a 120 m long train running at 45 km/hr in the same direction. In how much time will the train pass the jogger? | [
"88",
"27",
"36",
"88",
"12"
] | C. 36 | aquarat |
mmlu_train_59255 | Another thing an astronaut has to learn about is eating in space.Food is weightless, just as men are. Food for space has to be packed in special ways.Some of it goes into tubes that a man can squeeze into his mouth.Bite-sized cookies are packed in plastic. There is a good reason for covering each bite.The plastic keeps pieces of food from traveling in the spaceship.On the earth very small pieces of food would simply fall to the floor.But gravity doesn't pull them to the floor when they are out of the plastic in a spaceship.They move here and there and can get into a man's eyes or into the spaceship's instruments. If any of the instruments is blocked, the astronauts may have trouble getting safely home. As astronauts travel on longer space trips, they must take time to sleep. An astronaut can fit himself to his seat with a kind of seat belt. Or, if he wants to, he can sleep in a sleeping bag which is fixed in place under his seat.But be careful he must put his hands under the belt when he goes to sleep.This is because he is really afraid that he might touch one of controls that isn't supposed to be touched until later. In a spaceship, astronauts can _ . | [
"walk just as they do on the earth.",
"not eat anything because it's dangerous.",
"control the spaceship when they are sleeping.",
"not litter small things or it will make trouble."
] | D. not litter small things or it will make trouble. | mmlu_train |
aquarat_29192 | A thief is spotted by a policeman from a distance of 100 meters. When the policeman starts the chase, the thief also starts running. If the speed of the thief be 8km/hr and that of the policeman 10 km/hr, how far the thief will have run before he is overtaken? | [
"350m",
"200m",
"400m",
"500m",
"None of them"
] | C. 400m | aquarat |
mmlu_train_98657 | steam is a kind of water above | [
"the stove",
"373 kelvin",
"the moon",
"jupiter"
] | B. 373 kelvin | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_31686 | It's a time when school,homework,active social lives and pare-time jobs keep teenagers busy from early in the morning until late at night.They are likely to try to make up for a lack of sleep by "sleeping in" on the weekends.Unfortunately,this causes irregular sleep and actually makes the problem worse. Most teenagers are not able to fall asleep until late at night.Since many teens aren't sleepy until around 11 pm.but need to be at school by 7:30 or 8:00 am .They cannot get enough sleep .During puberty ,the biological clock in the brain naturally re-sets to a later time ,and this causes teens to fall asleep later.Then ,when it's time to get up ,a teen's body clock is likely to still be producing the night-time hormones .This makes it hard for them to feel active and energetic in the morning. A growing body of research suggests that starting high school later improves attendance,achievements and grades.A few years ago in an important study ,test scores on the SAT college entrance exams in Edina,Minnesota jumped more than 100 points on average,when the morning school bell rang an hour later.Unfortunately,most schools are not set up to start later and fail to satisfy teen's sleep needs. What effect does "sleeping in" on the weekends have on teenagers? | [
"Improving their health",
"Weakening their energy",
"Disturbing their biological clock",
"Making up for their hormone loss"
] | C. Disturbing their biological clock | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_8453 | Rare birds in the UK have been living far better than the more common birds over the last decade due to the efforts of conservation organisations, according to a new assessment. The research shows almost 60% of the 63 rare birds that live in the UK have increased over the last 10 years. By contrast, only about one third of common species have increased over the same period. Just 28% of rare birds have decreased over the same period, compared with four out of every 10 common birds. The rare birds described in the assessment with increasing populations include theosprey andcorncrake . All of these birds are subject to conservation action. The declining common birds include the nightingale,swift , house sparrow and redgrouse . These are suffering declines for a variety of reasons, including changes in farming practices. Dr David Noble, from the British Trust for Ornithology, said: "That some of our rarer birds have responded to targeted conservation action is great news. It shows just what can be achieved. What we need to do now is to continue the good work and use some of the lessons we have learned to help our more common birds." Dr Mark Avery, the conservation director of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), said: "Over the last decade we've enjoyed some great conservation successes, including removing some threatened species from the World Conservation Union's Red List of Thratened Animals and increasing the populations of red kite, osprey, etc. However, these successes arecountered by continued declines of some widespread species." The overview of 210 native birds has been produced by a group of conservation organisations, to mark the publication ofThe State of the UK's Birdsreport, which is in its l0th year. The report was published by the RSPB for a group of conservation organisations. We can learn from the passage that Dr David Noble _ . | [
"hopes that conservation organisations will change the way they work",
"is quite disappointed with the result of the new assessment",
"is losing confidence in conservation organizations' action",
"has high hopes for the increase in bird population in Britain"
] | D. has high hopes for the increase in bird population in Britain | mmlu_train |
arc_easy_1703 | From Earth, the Sun appears brighter than any other star because the Sun is the | [
"newest star.",
"largest star.",
"hottest star.",
"closest star."
] | D. closest star. | arc_easy |
mmlu_train_97447 | Gasoline is unable to exist without the addition of raw materials such as | [
"air",
"water",
"sand",
"fossilized matter"
] | D. fossilized matter | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_19821 | The first step in exercising for most people is determining whether or not they should. This is particularly true with anyone over thirty-five, especially if they have been heavy smokers. Likewise, young adults who have been very inactive should proceed slowly and with caution. A physical evaluation from a physician is recommended, preferably one that includes an exercise-stress test. While a person is exercising, a stress test detects cardiovascular problems that might not show up when the body is at rest. This is done by monitoring blood pressure, pulse rate, oxygen consumption, and the heart's electrical activity while exercising. Whatever exercise program is selected, it is important to start with warm-up periods. These should include stretching exercises, jumping jacks, or active walking. The idea is to increase heart rate and circulation slowly without placing a sudden strain on the heart or the muscles that are starting to work. The next phase in developing an exercise program is to determine the amount of exercise that is enough to condition the muscles and cardiovascular system without excessively exhausting the body. This involves taking one's pulse and finding one's target zone. This target zone, or safe-training pulse rate, is established by subtracting one's age from 220 and then taking 60 percent to 80 percent of that total. If you are just starting to exercise, 60 percent is recommended; 80 percent is recommended if you are already in good condition. In order not to place much strain on the body, if you are a beginner and at the age of 45, the safe training pulse rate suggested would be _ . | [
"105",
"220",
"140",
"175"
] | A. 105 | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_12730 | From the moment that an animal is born it has to make decisions. It has to decide which of the things around it are for eating, and which are to be avoided; when to attack and when to run away. The animal is, in fact, playing a complicated and potentially dangerous game with its environment, discomfort or destruction. This is a difficult and unpleasant business and few animals would survive if they had to start from the beginning and learn about the world wholly by trial and error, for there are too many possible decisions which would prove fatal. So we find, in practice, that the game is always arranged in favor of the young animal in one way or another. Either the animal is protected during the early stages of its learning about the world around it, or the knowledge of which way to respond is built into its nervous system from the start. The fact that animals behave sensibly can be attributed partly to what we might call genetic learning, to distinguish it from individual learning that an animal does in the cause of its own life time. Genetic learning is learning by a species as a whole, and it is achieved by selection of those members of each generation that happen to behave in the right way. However, genetic learning depends upon a prediction that the future will more or less exactly resemble the past. The more variable individual experience is likely to be, the less efficient is genetic learning as a means of getting over the problems of the survival game. It is not surprising to find that very few species indeed depend wholly upon genetic learning. In the great majority of animals, behavior is a compound of individual experience added to the action patterns animals are born with.That is why animals can survive. Genetic learning refers to _ . | [
"learning after an animal is born",
"learning obtained by some members of each generation who happen to behave properly",
"learning gained by all the members in a species",
"learning gained by young animals from their experience"
] | B. learning obtained by some members of each generation who happen to behave properly | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_61770 | In the rush to get to school, you drop a piece of toast on the floor. Do you throw it away or dec ide it' s still OK to eat? If you're like most people, you eat it. Maybe you follow the "5-second rule", which claims foods are safe to eat if you pick them up within 5 seconds after dropping them. But you might want to think again. Scientists now say that 5 seconds is all it takes for foods to become polluted with enough bacteria to make you sick. Bacteria can cause many kinds of illnesses. Some kinds of bacteria can grow on food. If you eat foods on which these bacteria are growing, you can become sick. One of these food-borne bacteria is Salmonella. It makes 1.4 million people sick every year. Salmonella is often found in raw eggs and chicken. Cooking kills these bacteria, which is why it is so important to cook eggs, chicken, and other foods thoroughly. But how long does it take these bacteria to pollute food? A team of scientists in South Carolina did an experiment. First, they placed an amount of Salmonella on three surfaces; wood, tile , and carpet. They placed a piece of bread and a piece of bologna on each surface for 5,30, or 60 seconds. After just 5 seconds, both the bread and the bologna picked up enough bacteria to make you sick. So forget the 5-second rule. If your toast drops on the floor, throw it away and get another piece of clean toast. This time, be careful not to drop it! What's the writer's attitude to the "5-second rule"? | [
"Positive",
"Negative",
"Neutral",
"Cautious"
] | B. Negative | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_19826 | Bamboo is one of the nature's most surprising plants. Many people call this plant a tree, but it is a kind of grass. Like other kinds of grass, a bamboo plant may be cut very low to the ground, but it will grow back very quickly. A Japanese scientist recorded one bamboo plant that grew almost 1.5 meters in 24 hours! Bamboo grows almost everywhere in the world except Europe . There are more than 1,000 kinds of bamboo that grow around the world on both mountains and plains. Not all bamboo looks the same. Some bamboo plants are very thin. They may only grow to be a few centimeters wide while others may grow to more than 30 centimeters across. This plant also comes in different colors, from yellow to black to green. Many Asian countries have been using bamboo for hundreds of years. They often use bamboo for building new buildings. As a matter of fact, the cables hold up the hanging bridge across the Min River in Sichuan are made of bamboo. The bridge has been in use for more than 1,000 years, and is still holding strong. In Africa, engineers are teaching poor farmers how to find water using bamboo. These African countries need cheap ways to find water because they have no money, and their fields often die from no rain and no water. It seems that bamboo is one of the best things they can use. Bamboo pipes and drills can help to make the poor thirsty fields be watered. Which of the following is NOT true? | [
"There are many different kinds of bamboo with different colors.",
"Cables made of bamboo can last for over a thousand years.",
"Bamboo can be used for buildings, bridges and watering projects .",
"Bamboo plants are able to grow well in any part of the world."
] | D. Bamboo plants are able to grow well in any part of the world. | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_78615 | Woodland High School is an international sch ool. We have students from all around the world. As an international student you can get first-class facilities with trained teachers to help. For further information: inf@woodland.uk Subjects We offer a wide choice of subjects for international students, which includes: Arts, IT, French, English, Spanish and other languages. Communication Studies, Social Sciences, etc. For further information: sub@woodland.uk Tuition Fees Tuition fees are different from subject to subject, from PS5,000 to PS6,000 a year. For further information: tui@woodland.uk Accommodation You can have a room in a 4-bedroom flat, which will cost about PS100 a month with other regular living costs of about PS150 a month for one person. For further information: acc@woodland.uk Health The Student Health Service provides excellent medical services for students. The Medical Centre is open five days a week, including student holidays with four doctors and nurses to meet your me dical needs. For further information: heal@woodland.uk Sports The Centre is a great place to have sports activities. Trained exercise teachers can help you work out a training plan and keep you active. The sports hall has volleyball, b asketball and indoor football counts and a swimming pool as well. There are also a large number of sports clubs at Woodland High School. For further information: sport@woodland.uk According to the text, what will you do if you are ill during Christmas holiday? | [
"Go to a hospital nearby.",
"Buy some medicine in a drug store.",
"See a doctor at the school medical centre.",
"Try to get help from your classmates."
] | C. See a doctor at the school medical centre. | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_57005 | When you think about math, you probably don't think about breaking the law, solving mysteries or finding criminals. But a mathematician in Maryland does, and he has come up with mathematical tools to help police find criminals. People who solve crimes look for patterns that might reveal the identity of the criminal. It's long been believed, for example, that criminals will break the law closer to where they live, simply because it's easier to get around in their own neighborhood. If police see a pattern of robberies in a certain area, they may look for a suspect who lives near the crime scenes. So, the farther away from the area a crime takes place, the less likely it is that the same criminal did it. But Mike O'Leary, a mathematician at Towson University in Maryland, says that this kind of approach may be too simple. He says that police may get better clues to the location of a criminal's home base by combining these patterns with a city's layout and historical crime records. The records of past crimes contain geographical information and can reveal easy targets -- that is, the kind of stores that might be less difficult to rob. Because these stores are along roads, the locations of past crimes contain information about where major streets and intersections are. O'Leary is writing a new computer program that will quickly provide this kind of information for a given city. His program also includes information about the people who live in the city, and information about how a criminal's patterns change with age. It's been shown, for example, that the younger the criminal, the closer to home the crime. Other computer programmers have worked on similar software, but O'Leary's uses more math. The mathematician plans to make his computer program available, free of charge, to police departments around the country. The program is just one way to use math to fight crime. O'Leary says that criminology -- the study of crime and criminals -- contains a lot of good math problems. "I feel like I'm in a gold mine and ," he says. "It's a lot of fun." To find criminals, police usually _ . | [
"focus on where crimes take place",
"seek help from local people",
"depend on new mathematical tools",
"check who are on the crime scene"
] | A. focus on where crimes take place | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_12896 | My grandson, Daniel, and I have always been very close. When Daniel's father remarried after a divorce, Daniel, who was eleven, and his little sister, Kristie, came to live with us. My husband and I were more than happy to have kids in the house again. Things were going along just fine until the diabetes I've lived with most of my adult life started affecting my eyes, and then more seriously, my kidneys . Then everything seemed to fall apart. Three times a week, I had to go to the hospital to be hooked up to a dialysis machine . I was living, but I couldn't really call it a life -- it was an existence. I had no energy. I dragged myself through daily chores and slept as much as I could. My sense of humor seemed to disappear. Daniel, seventeen by then, was really affected by the change in me. He tried as hard as he could to make me laugh, to bring back the grandma who loved to clown around with him. Even in my sorry state, Daniel could still bring a smile to my face. But things were not improving. After a year on dialysis, my condition was deteriorating and the doctors felt that if I didn't receive a kidney transplant within six months, I would surely die. No one told Daniel this, but he knew -- he said all he had to do was look after me. To top it off, as my condition worsened, there was a chance that I would become too weak to have the transplant surgery at all, and then there would be nothing they could do for me. So we started the tense and desperate wait for a kidney. I was adamant that I didn't want a kidney from anyone I knew. I would wait until an appropriate kidney became available, or I would literally die waiting. But Daniel had other plans. The time that he took me to my dialysis appointments, he did a little secret research on his own. Then he announced his intention to me. "Grandma, I'm giving you one of my kidneys. I'm young and I'm healthy ..." He paused. He could see I wasn't at all happy with his offer. He continued, almost in whisper, "And most of all, I couldn't stand it if you weren't around." His face wore an expression of appeal mixed with determination. He can be as stubborn as a mule once he decides on something -- but I've been told many times that I can out-stubborn any mule! We argued. I couldn't let him do it. We both knew that if he gave up his kidney, he would also give up his life's dream; to play football. It was all he ever talked about. And he was good, too. Daniel was co-captain and star defensive tackle of his high school team; he expected to apply for a football scholarship and was looking forward to playing college football. He just loved the sport. "How can I let you throw away the thing that means the most to you?" I pleaded with him. "Grandma," he said softly, "compared to your life, football means nothing to me." After that, I couldn't argue anymore. So we agreed to see if he was a good donor match, and then we'd discuss it further. When the tests came back, they showed Daniel was a perfect match. That was it. I knew I wasn't going to win that argument, so we scheduled the transplant. Both surgeries went smoothly. As soon as I came out of the anesthesia , I could tell things were different. I felt great! The nurses in the intensive care unit had to keep telling me to lie back and be quiet -- I wasn't supposed to be that lively! I was afraid to go to sleep, for fear I would break the spell and wake up the way I had been before. But the good feeling didn't go away, and I spent the evening joking and laughing with anyone who would listen. It was so wonderful to feel alive again. The next day they moved me out of ICU and onto the floor where Daniel was recuperating three doors away. His grandfather helped him walk down to see me as soon as I was moved into my room. When we saw each other, we did not know what to say. Holding hands, we just sat there and looked at each other for a long time, overwhelmed by the deep feeling of love that connected us. Finally, he spoke, "Was it worthwhile, grandma?" I laughed a little ruefully . "It was for me! But was it for you?" I asked him. He nodded and smiled at me. "I've got my grandma back." And I have my life back. It still amazes me. Every morning, when I wake up, I thank God --and Daniel -- for this miracle. A miracle born of the purest love. How did grandma feel when Daniel announced his intention to give her one of his kidneys? | [
"She was moved by his selfless decision.",
"She wasn't at all happy with his offer.",
"She felt relieved that an appropriate kidney was available.",
"She was enthusiastic about having a kidney of someone she loved."
] | B. She wasn't at all happy with his offer. | mmlu_train |
aquarat_6037 | In a certain archery competition, points were awarded as follows: the first place winner receives 11 points, the second place winner receives 7 points, the third place winner receives 5 points and the fourth place winner receives 2 points. No other points are awarded. John participated several times in the competition and finished first, second, third, or fourth each time. The product of all the points he received was 38500. How many times did he participate in the competition? | [
"6",
"7",
"8",
"9",
"10"
] | B. 7 | aquarat |
aquarat_8715 | How many seconds will a 500 meter long train take to cross a man walking with a speed of 3 km/hr in the direction of the moving train if the speed of the train is 63 km/hr? | [
"299",
"112",
"500",
"167",
"123"
] | C. 500 | aquarat |
aquarat_50384 | How many times in a day, are the hands of a clock in straight line but opposite in direction? | [
"22",
"23",
"24",
"25",
"26"
] | A. 22 | aquarat |
arc_challenge_1061 | Cindy learned that trees release gases into to the air during photosynthesis. What gas does a tree release? | [
"carbon dioxide",
"hydrogen",
"nitrogen",
"oxygen"
] | D. oxygen | arc_challenge |
aquarat_34466 | 28,14,15,22.5,24.5,61.25,64.25,? | [
"224.875",
"234.875",
"244.875",
"254.875",
"264.875"
] | A. 224.875 | aquarat |
arc_challenge_702 | A student notices that an inflated balloon gets larger when it is warmed by a lamp. Which best describes the mass of the balloon as a result of this change? | [
"The mass of the balloon increases because the size of the balloon has increased.",
"The mass of the balloon increases because the temperature of the balloon has increased.",
"The mass of the balloon stays the same because the gas inside the balloon still has the same mass after it warms up.",
"The mass of th... | C. The mass of the balloon stays the same because the gas inside the balloon still has the same mass after it warms up. | arc_challenge |
mmlu_train_10387 | The leftovers in the fridge smelled a little unusual, but you ate them. You were so hungry that you didn't even heat them up. Later, you started to feel sick. Powerful waves of pain rumbled through your stomach. They went away, but not for long, then you even threw up. That sounds like the case of food poisoning. No one put poison in your food, but bacteria probably grew in the food in the fridge and those bacteria made you sick. Food poisoning can be mild and last just a short time or can be more serious. Food poisoning comes from eating foods that contain germs like bad bacteria, which are poisonous substances. Bacteria are all around us, so mild cases of food poisoning are common. You may have had mild food poisoning with diarrhea and an upset stomach --- but your mom or dad just called it a stomach bug or stomach virus. You might think the solution is to get rid of all the bacteria, but it isn't possible and you wouldn't want to do it, even if you could. Bacteria are all around us, including food, and sometimes they can be good for you. It's confusing, but one thing is for sure ---- You can, however, learn how to avoid those bad germs in food. Foods from animals, raw foods, and unwashed vegetables all can contain germs that cause food poisoning. The most likely source is food from animals, eggs, milk, and shellfish. To avoid food poisoning, people need to prepare, cook, and store foods properly. We can infer from the passage? | [
"The solution to food poisoning is to get rid of all the bacteria.",
"You don't need to deal with all food poisoning seriously.",
"It's easy to find bacteria.",
"Sometimes your mom or dad don't care about you."
] | B. You don't need to deal with all food poisoning seriously. | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_63433 | This is a dangerous world we live in. The numbers of murders goes up every year;people are dying of cancer;more people contract HIV;more teens are using drugs;etc. You know this because you've heard all the statistics on the news. But do you really have an accurate idea what they mean? The numbers are going up, but how do they compare to the growth in population? Are more cases of these diseases being reported because of better testing techniques, or are the diseases more common? The fact is that without knowing the background, statistics mean very little. This growing trend of reporting only part of the information is becoming dangerous.For example, several years ago a high school student reported dangers of the chemical known as dihydrogen monoxide . This chemical, found in most cancerous tumors , is found in the blood of people drunk on alcohol, and causes complete physical and mental dependence for those who take the chemical even once. After reading his report, more than 75% of his Advanced Placement Chemistry class voted to forbid this dangerous chemical! Every one of the above statements is true, yet this chemical is necessary to all life on earth. The students made the mistake because they voted knowing only a few statements and statistics, rather than the chemical's full background. The point of this article is that one should be aware of what is and is not being said. When one finds a new fact or number, one should try to consider other important information before forming an opinion with only half-truths. Always remember that the author is trying to convince you of his or her own view, and will leave out information that is different to his view. For example, look again at the statistics that suggest skiing is safe. Only 32 people may die each year when skiing, while 897 die from lightning strikes, but which is really more dangerous? If you think about it, you will realize far fewer people go skiing each year than the number of people who are in danger of a lightening strike. When you think about it, skiing is more dangerous than you might at first think when looking at statistics. If we teenagers are to be left in this world, we had better be able to think critically, and form our own views, rather than be easily persuaded by another's. To be warned is to be prepared. Relative information is often left out because _ . | [
"relative information is not that important",
"the author is trying to show what he or she says is true",
"too much information will make readers feel confused",
"readers are not able to analyze so much information at once"
] | B. the author is trying to show what he or she says is true | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_62676 | On an elementary school playground, hundreds of children run and jump, smiling and laughing as they play. Watching sea otters playing in their own environment is like watching children at play. Sea otters, which are presently on the endangered species list, are experiencing an increase in population. Groups of sea otters live on the shores of the North Pacific Ocean. They are seldom found far from land but almost spend their entire lives at sea. The otter has been known to dive as deep as 180 feet and stay underwater as long as minutes. Each day the sea otter eats as much as one-fifth of its body weight in fish or shellfish. Not only are sea otters playful, they are also amazingly resourceful. Their favorite food, abalone , is protected by a thick shell that sea otters are unable to break with their teeth. Sea otters use stones from the ocean floor and break the abalone open on their bellies as they move slowly across the surface of the water on their backs, a behavior that makes them one of only a few animals on Earth, including human beings, to use tools! Their intelligence is also displayed while sleeping. In order not to move into dangerous waters, sea otters actually cover themselves with plants on the sea, which keep them in place before falling asleep. Because sea otters have a special means of keeping insulated , they can keep their body heat in their cold environment. They have unbelievably fine fur that traps tiny bubbles, and that keeps them comfortable when warmed by body heat. However, their fur loses this insulating quality if it becomes dirty. Sea otters have faced dangers from hunters in the past and from oil spills more recently. Fortunately, due to a 1911 agreement and to rescue and habitat protection efforts, the sea otter population has nearly recovered. The author mentioned playful children at the beginning in order to _ . | [
"show sea otters are fun to watch.",
"describe a scene where children play with sea otters.",
"compare children with sea otters.",
"discuss the problem faced by sea otters"
] | A. show sea otters are fun to watch. | mmlu_train |
aquarat_37634 | A person takes 20 minutes more to cover a certain distance by decreasing his speed by 20%. What is the time taken to cover the distance at his original speed? | [
"2 hour 20 minutes",
"1 hour 80 minutes",
"1 hour 20 minutes",
"8 hour 20 minutes",
"1 hour 50 minutes"
] | C. 1 hour 20 minutes | aquarat |
arc_challenge_222 | Read the description of the experiment below to answer the question. One hundred pea seeds were put in petri dishes and covered with wet paper towels. The petri dishes were then put inside black plastic bags. Half of them were placed in an incubator set to 10°C. The remaining half were placed in an incubator set to 30°C. This experiment was most likely designed to study the effect of which variable on the germination of pea seeds? | [
"temperature",
"water",
"light",
"seed type"
] | A. temperature | arc_challenge |
mmlu_train_98148 | An example of a chemical reaction might be | [
"a rusty knife",
"Water",
"Grass",
"Smiling"
] | A. a rusty knife | mmlu_train |
arc_easy_455 | An Earth year is the length of time it takes for | [
"Earth to rotate once on its axis",
"the Moon to revolve once around Earth",
"the Sun to revolve once around Earth",
"Earth to revolve once around the Sun"
] | D. Earth to revolve once around the Sun | arc_easy |
mmlu_train_25478 | How many hours do you spend sitting in a chair every day? Eight hours in the office plus three hours in front of the TV after work is the norm for many people. You probably don't need an expert to tell you that sitting too much is not good for your health--from an increased risk of heart disease and obesity in the long term,to reduced cholesterol maintenance in the short term,not to mention the strain on your neck and spine. To make matters worse,many researches show a good diet and regular exercise call't reduce the negative effects of sitting too much. A 2010 study of nearly 9,000 Australians found that for each additional hour of television a person watched per day,the risk of dying rose by 11 percent.Another study tracked the health of 123,000 Americans between 1992 and 2006.The death rate for men who spent six hours or more per day sitting was about 20 percent higher than for men who sat for three hours or less. So what can we do about it? Health experts suggest we break up those many hours spent sitting with more hours spent standing. The BBC conducted a simple experiment with a group of 10 volunteers who usually spent most of the day sitting.They were asked to stand for at least three hours a day.The researchers took measurements Oil days when the volunteers stood,and when they sat around.When they looked at the data there were some striking differences,the BBC reported. Blood sugar leveled off much quicker on the days when the study subjects stood compared with the days they spent in a chair.Standing also burned more calories----about 50 calories an hour.A member said although doing exercise offers many proven benefits,our bodies also need the increase in muscle activity that standing provides. The researchers believe that even small adjustments,like standing while talking on the phone,will help. What would be the best title for the text? | [
"Having regular exercise",
"Standing up for health",
"Watching less TV",
"Increasing muscle activity"
] | B. Standing up for health | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_68194 | Schools and parents in Shenzhen City have been asked to take better care of children's eyesight as 45 percent of them were found to be shortsighted. Too much reading, poor lighting and too much TV are blamed . Of the city's high school graduates who applied to study at colleges this summer, but now he gets up earlier. Generally speaking, high school students have _ eyesight than primary school students. | [
"poorer",
"better",
"brighter",
"good"
] | A. poorer | mmlu_train |
arc_easy_1115 | Which environmental problem was directly caused by the invention of the automobile? | [
"storage of nuclear waste",
"increase in air pollution",
"increased use of pesticides",
"flooding in the Midwest"
] | B. increase in air pollution | arc_easy |
mmlu_train_72461 | In our daily lives, Wechat is really hot now. Many people express themselves, exchange ideas and deliver information by Wechat. There are a number of reasons for Wechat to be popular. To begin with, Wechat is a cheap way of communication, which cuts down a great deal of the cost made by phone calls. Next, Wechat is to the taste of the most of people. Its attractive and lots of functions are loved widely. What's more, convenience also leads to its popularity. It is _ no matter where we are. However, it has problems, too. First of all, our IDs might be revealed when we use Wechat and we could be in danger. Secondly, we may spend more time on Wechat instead of with our family. As a result, relationship could break down. The last problem is that our attention might be drawn too much and sometimes we may find it difficult to focus on study. There is no doubt that Wechat will improve as time goes by. So let's look forward to the better Wechat and have more fun with it. What can't we do by Wechat ? | [
"Express ourselves.",
"Exchange ideas.",
"Make phone calls.",
"Deliver information."
] | C. Make phone calls. | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_20658 | Will you be playing some music at work? Music is particularly popular in the medical profession, especially among surgeons . A recent survey shows that 90% of surgeons in the UK put music on the sound system in the _ during operations. Plastic surgeons play the most music; it appears that ear, nose, and throat specialists the least. But it isn't only in surgeries where music is popular. In another recent survey, one-third of the 1,613 people said they listen to music while working. And 79% of them said that humming along improves their job satisfaction or productivity. Is listening to music at work a good idea? Yes, say the experts. Many surgeons say that music helps to create a "calm atmosphere", and a third of them added that it avoids getting bored! Also, listening to music raises the levels of a brain chemical that can help people focus. Office workers say it improves job satisfaction. Several studies suggest that it's also good for hospital patients. Those listening to music through headphones during surgery require less anesthetic , up to 50% less in some cases, and recover more quickly afterwards. "Sure, music reduces anxiety before surgery," says Zeev Kain, an anesthetist at Yale University. So, what type of music should we be listening to? Surgeons from the previous survey preferred rock, pop music and classical. And hip-hop is popular too. However, whatever the kind, it appears that self-selected music is the best choice. Pennsylvania State University research showed that when people chose their own music there was more stress reduction . And other researchers found that when listening to self-selected music, surgeons did the maths faster and more accurately than when they were listening to music chosen for them. The passage is mainly about _ . | [
"how to choose music wisely",
"where to find the best music",
"the popularity of music in hospitals",
"the benefits of listening to music at work"
] | D. the benefits of listening to music at work | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_20759 | The octopus's reputation as a human-killer isn't simply an exaggeration --it is a total myth. The octopus can indeed be a deadly hunter, but only of its natural victims. Some shellfish and an occasional sick or incautious fish have reason to be frightened of this multi-armed hunter, but a person is much too large to interest even the biggest octopus. Even the largest among octopi is much smaller than most people imagine. Far from being large enough to swallow a ship, as monster octopi in movies have been known to do, the largest octopus, found on the Pacific coast, weighs around 110 pounds and grows to no more than ten feet in width. The hard, parrot-like beak of an octopus is not used for attacking deep-sea divers, but for cutting open shellfish. Indeed, the octopus possesses such a tiny throat that it cannot swallow large pieces of meat. Instead, it feeds by pouring digestive juices into its victims, and then sucking up the soupy remains. A shellfish that finds itself in the grasp of an octopus has only a short time to live. But human beings are perfectly safe. Still, people rarely care to go close enough to these _ to get a good look at them. This passage is mainly about _ . | [
"the horrors of the octopus",
"the largest octopus in the world",
"octopi and their behavior",
"the octopus's deadly hunting method"
] | C. octopi and their behavior | mmlu_train |
arc_challenge_471 | After a soccer game, Brittany sat under a fan because she was hot. Under the fan, she felt cooler than before. Which explains why Brittany felt cooler under the fan? | [
"Air moving under the fan is cooler than air that is still.",
"The evaporation of sweat absorbs heat from the skin.",
"Water vapor from the fan condenses on the skin.",
"The fan speeds convection currents in the air."
] | B. The evaporation of sweat absorbs heat from the skin. | arc_challenge |
mmlu_train_98711 | In the food chain process an animal has the role of consumer which eats producers for what? | [
"grass",
"sea",
"water flow",
"sustenance"
] | D. sustenance | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_47307 | Britain's seed bank, the only one in the world aiming to collect all of the planet's wild plant species, has reached its goal of banking 10 percent by 2010. The Millennium Seed Bank Project, run by Kew Gardens--one of the oldest botanical gardens--will officially place the 24,200th species on Thursday, a pink, wild banana from China. More than 50 countries are now on board with Kew's giant task but vast places of the globe, including India and Brazil, still need to join in and donate seeds, director Paul Smith said. The seed bank is one of the largest and most diverse in the world with more than 1.5 billion seeds. Its goal is to help protect the planet's bio-diversity during a time of climate change. The wild banana seed is under threat of extinction in southwest China from agricultural development. It is a vital food source for Asian elephants and important for growing bananas for human eating. Stored at minus-20 degrees centigrade, so they can last for thousands of years, the seeds await the day that scientists hope never comes--when the species no longer exist in the wild. It is a race against time, Smith said, because in the last ten years alone, 20 plants held in the bank have already been wiped out in the wild. He estimates that between a third and a quarter will become extinct this century. "It is pressing and it is happening now. An area, the size of England, is cleared of primary vegetation every year." Smith said. Because most of the world's food and medicines come from nature, protecting wild plant species is quite important, scientists say. There are already many other seed banks safeguarding food crops, which only account for 0.6 percent of plant diversity. For Kew's next goal--to collect a quarter of wild varieties by 2020--the botanists need 10 million pounds a year, or a further 100 million pounds on top of the 40 million they have already been granted. We can learn from the passage that _ . | [
"the seeds in the bank can be used now and then all over the world",
"India and Brazil haven't joined in the Seed Bank Project at present",
"there is only one seed bank in the world at present",
"the wild plants in places like India and China will never die out"
] | B. India and Brazil haven't joined in the Seed Bank Project at present | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_83581 | How could we live without the Internet? That's how most of us keep in touch with friends, find homework support, research cool place to visit, or find out the latest news. You can use it to do research for school, find out what movie is on near you, check out a college you're thinking about, or find a job or volunteer opportunity. Almost anything you can think of has a website about it. You've probably heard stories about people who get into trouble in chat rooms. Because users can easily _ , you may be cheated in the chat room. Everyone in the chat room looks like wearing a mask . Chat rooms often attract people who are interested in more than just chatting. They will sometimes ask visitors for information about themselves. The information might be about their families, or where they live. It shouldn't be given away. Usually, the people who request personal information like home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses use the information to do some illegal things. This might harm a person's or family's well-being. Of course, the Internet is home to millions of places you can and should visit. However, remember to protect yourself while online. What can we learn from the passage? | [
"Internet users should wear a mask.",
"The Internet makes it difficult to use the computer.",
"We'd better not give away the personal information on the Internet.",
"It's difficult to get cheated on the Internet."
] | C. We'd better not give away the personal information on the Internet. | mmlu_train |
arc_easy_1639 | Generally, the deeper rock layers of Earth are older than shallower rock layers. How can the collision of two tectonic plates change the order of the rock layers? | [
"The rock layers contain pollutants that dissolve soil.",
"The rock layers lack water due to extended droughts.",
"The rock layers are compressed forming faults and folds.",
"The rock layers are moved closer to rivers which erode landforms."
] | C. The rock layers are compressed forming faults and folds. | arc_easy |
mmlu_train_53585 | As young Chinese increasingly forget how to write characters because they don't have to, using keyboards and touch screen technology on mobile phones is changing the trend. For Yin Liang, a 26-year-old purchasing agent at a company, his embarrassment over forgetting how to write characters has gradually disappeared since he started to use the handwriting input method on his iPhone 4 a month ago. "When you write on the touch screen, you use your finger, instead of a mouse or keyboard," Yin says. "Actually, your finger is like a pen, writing the complicated characters that have long been spelled by pinyin, an alphabet-based input system. Whether typing on computers or texting on phones, most users in China type by phonetically spelling out the sounds of the characters and the software then gives a menu of characters that fit the pronunciation, so users only need to recognize the character. Handwriting technology on a mobile phone touch screen has been around for years and became popular with the iPhone, which recognizes the input and offers a wide selection of characters. "It's efficient and accurate," Yin says. Chinese characters are the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world, but as pinyin-based typing has become more widespread, youths have started forgetting how to write out characters. This was one of the main topics for debate at the first Cross-Straits Chinese Character Art Festival, held recently in Beijing, which attracted experts from Taiwan and the mainland. According to Zhang Zikang, president of the Culture and Art Publishing House, writing with a pen on the touch screen brings handwriting into the digital age. It is even better when you write with your finger, feeling the flow of the cursive script and the grace and art of Chinese characters, he says. "Smart gadgets don't take life from the square-shaped characters, instead they offer a new and advanced platform to show the charm of Chinese characters, which are always evolving," Zhang says. What will happen to characters as smart gadgets appear? | [
"The writing of characters will be not important.",
"Characters will disappear sooner or later.",
"Characters can be only written with your finger.",
"Characters will be still attractive by evolving."
] | D. Characters will be still attractive by evolving. | mmlu_train |
arc_easy_69 | Which of the following is most consistent with the modern theory of evolution? | [
"Parents pass their physical traits to their offspring; those offspring with traits that help them survive in the environment are able to reproduce.",
"Parents change their physical traits in order to survive in the environment, then those parental traits are passed to their offspring.",
"Life on this planet ca... | A. Parents pass their physical traits to their offspring; those offspring with traits that help them survive in the environment are able to reproduce. | arc_easy |
mmlu_train_79718 | A recent survey showed that only 9 percent of teens in the United States smoke cigarettes.That's down from 23 percent in 2000.While this is good news for the US's overall health, tobacco use is still a problem. Cigarettes can cause many diseases, such as cancer ,lung cliscases and heart problems.Although they know about the health problems, teenagers still smoke.So the _ of the US Anti-smoking Organization is working to end teenage smoking.Their latest activity uses social media to remind teenagers of the dangers of smoking.And the activity also encourages teens to learn the facts and become the generation that ends smoking. However, anti-smoking campaigns may have a new problem to worry about.According to a 2013 report, the use of electronic cigarettes is on the rise.American high school students who reported having used an electronic cigarette rose from 4.7 percent in 2011 to 10 percent in 2012.The increased use of e-cigarettes by teens is deeply troubling.It may become lifelong addictied .Besides, we still don't yet understand the long-term effects of e-cigarettes. ,. (2,10) According to the survey, how many American teenagers smoked in 2000? | [
"9 percent",
"23 percent",
"4.7 percent",
"10 percent"
] | B. 23 percent | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_46549 | A new study published recently in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation: Heart Failure reveals that according to a new large study, women who consumed five or more servings of baked fish had a thirty percent lower risk of heart failure in comparison to women who consumed less than one serving a month. Researchers examined the diets of 84,493 women from 50 to 79 years old. The women who consumed a lot of baked fish like salmon received stronger benefits than those who consumed mostly tuna, grouper or white fish. The consumption of baked fish also appeared to provide protection against high blood pressure cardiovascular disease . It also found that those women who consumed more baked fish tended to have a lower body mass index , exercise more and consume more fruits and vegetables in comparison to those who consumed fried fish. Researchers note that past research has discovered that the fatty acids in fish probably decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease by decreasing inflammation and improving blood pressure along with heart and blood vessel functioning. This study does show the link between fish consumption and heart failure risk but it was not designed to show cause and effect. This study also showed that just by consuming one serving of fried fish a week was linked to a 49% greater risk of heart failure. It also found that the consumption of fried fish was linked to a lower fiber intake and a higher calorie intake. Dr Lloyd-Jones, associate professor with North-western's Feinberg School of Medicine, states frequent consumption of baked fish appears to be part of a suitable pattern that is greatly beneficial for numerous things. This advocates that fish is a very good source of lean protein that we should be increasing as a part of our diet. Recommendations from the American Heart Association suggest consuming a minimum of two 3.5 ounce servings of fish especially fatty each week. In which part of a website may this passage most likely appear? | [
"Cooking",
"Food",
"Health",
"Animal"
] | C. Health | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_11616 | Can you remember the day when you spoke your first word? If you can, you are unusual. Try to imagine what first few months of your life were like. I am sure you just spent most of your time eating, sleeping and crying. As you grow older, you were awake more of the time. It took your parents more time to play with you and talk to you. You watched and listened curiously. You began to know that people made certain sounds to go with certain things. Then you began to try making the sounds you heard. And step by step you were able to make the right sound for one thing.On that day you came to understand the secret of language. The secret is that a certain sound means a certain thing. One sound might be as good as another. But it is no good as a word unless everybody agrees on its meaning. Only when a group of people use the same set of sounds of things, can they understand each other. Then, and only then do these people have a LANGUAGE. After you found the secret of language, you learned words. Some of the words meant things, such as BOOKS, CHAIRS and SHOES. Some words meant doing things, such as GO and SWIM. And other words describe things, such as GOOD and DIRTY. Soon you learned to put words together to express one's idea, such as "I want to go out and play with my friends." This is language. By means of language people can communicate. So we say languages are means of communication. You could learn words _ . | [
"before you knew what the language was",
"after you knew what the language was",
"if you knew the secret of the language",
"when you were a baby"
] | B. after you knew what the language was | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_24222 | India was once part of the British Empire, but thanks to modern technology and a booming economy, it has turned the tables on its former colonial master. Indian tutors are helping to teach math to British children over high-speed Internet connections. Early results suggest the idea is improving exam results. But not everyone is happy at this "outsourcing" of tutoring. It's 3:30, and pupils at Raynham Primary School in London are gathering for their after-school maths lessons. Five time zones-- thousands of kilometers away--their math tutors are also arriving for class. High-speed Internet has made it possible for Indian tutors to teach British pupils in real time. Each pupil gets a dedicated one-to-one online tutor. The students work with activities on their computer screen and wear a headset and microphone to talk to their tutor. The class teacher, Altus Basson, says he has seen an improvement in results. "There are some children who've really rocketed in their results. Children who struggleto focus in class focus a lot better on the laptops. The real advantage is that each child gets a focused activity and a single tutor," he said. Such individualized teaching is the core idea of Brightspark Education, the company that provides the online tutoring, says founder Tom Hooper. "Children today feel very confident online; they feel very engaged; they feel very in control. And that's half the battle with education.Give them control, make them feel confident and enjoy their learning and you'll see them start to improve and embrace it," he said. Raynham Primary School is among the first in Europe to try online tutoring. At between $20 and $25 an hour, it's about half the cost of face-to-face coaching. But some people say an Internet connection is not enough of a connection for teaching and learning. Kevin Courtney is deputy General Secretary of Britain's National Union of Teachers. "We think, there's a really important emotional connection between a teacher and a child whether it's a whole class or whether it's one-to-one. You need that immediacy of feedback and we're not convinced that that can happen across an Internet connection. In one of the wealthiest.countries in the world, we think that we can afford to have teachers with genuine emotional connection there with the children," he said. Brightspark Education says the online tutoring is used only as an addition to supplement regular teaching. The company says its service does not represent a threat to teachers' jobs in Britain. Parents say they're very satisfied with the results they've seen. And what about the children?Children: "I love it!"I love it!"I hate maths!" So math--or, as the British call it, maths--is still not everyone's favorite subject even with the latest technology to teach it. What do we know about the online tutoring? | [
"Indian tutors are helping to teach math in Britain.",
"Tutors and students are in different places.",
"An online tutor helps several students at the same time.",
"Tutors and students communicate by telephone."
] | B. Tutors and students are in different places. | mmlu_train |
aquarat_28384 | Find the face value of 5 in 5432100 | [
"50",
"5",
"50000",
"500000",
"5000000"
] | B. 5 | aquarat |
mmlu_train_29943 | Phantom vibrations-the phenomenon where you think your phone is vibrating but it's not-have been around since the mobile age. Today, they're so common that researchers have devoted studies to them. For Valerie Kusler, who works on a cattle farm, the feeling is complicated by the cows"The cows'moo is very muffled, it kinda sounds like...errrr,"she says."So that's very similar to what my phone sounds like when it vibrates on my desk or in my purse." Other people may not confuse cows for their phones, but research shows phantom vibration symptom is a near-universal experience for people with smartphones. Nearly 90 percent of college undergraduates in a 2012 study said they felt phantom vibrations. The number was just as high for a survey of hospital workers, who reported feeling phantom vibrations on either a weekly or monthly basis. "Something in your brain is being triggered that's different than what was triggered just a few short years ago," says Dr Larry Rosen, a research psychologist who studies how technology affects our minds. "If you'd asked me 10 years ago, or maybe even five years ago if I- felt an itch beneath where my pocket of my jeans was, and asked me what I would do, I'd reach down and scratch it because it was probably a little itch caused by the neurons firing ,"he says. Now, of course, the itch triggers him to reach for his phone. Rosen says it's an example of how our devices are changing how our brains process information. "we're seeing a lot of what looks like obsessive behavior. People who are constantly picking up their phone look like they have an obsession. They don't look much different from someone who's constantly washing their hands. I'm not saying that it is an obsession, but I'm saying that it could turn into one, very easily," Rosen says. While 9 out of 10 participants in the study of college students said the vibration feeling bothered them only a little or not at all, Rosen still recommends backing away from our phones every once in a while to keep our anxiety levels down. "One of the things I'm really _ about in spite of being very pro-technology, is just away from the technology for short periods," Rosen says."And by short periods. I mean; maybe just 30 minutes or an hour." According to Larry Rosen, the most effective measure against phantom vibrations is to _ . | [
"move to a quieter neighborhood",
"stop using smartphones in poor condition",
"take a break from using smartphones occasionally",
"keep a close watch on your anxiety levels"
] | C. take a break from using smartphones occasionally | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_75060 | If you or someone near you is in danger, how will you do the first aid? Mr. Zhang, a doctor in Beijing First Aid Center has some useful suggestions. Check the environment. Watch the situation carefully. Is there anything that might do harm to you? Will you or the victim be hurt by fire, harmful smoke, a broken building, electrical wires or other dangerous situations? Do not rush into a place where you could be a victim yourself. If being close to the victim will put your life in danger, search for skilled help at once. Skilled people have received special training and know how to deal with these situations. First aid isn't helpful if you do it but hurt yourself. Call for help. Call the police or some other first-aid services immediately if you believe someone is seriously injured. If you are the only person on the scene, try to restart the patient's breath before calling for help. Do not leave the victim alone. Care for the person. Care for someone who has just gone through serious hardness. Remember to stay calm, encourage him (her) and you should be _ . Let the person know that help is on its way and that everything will be all right. Mr. Zhang _ . | [
"is a policeman",
"works in Beijing First Hospital",
"has some helpful first-aid advice",
"helps the writer out of danger"
] | C. has some helpful first-aid advice | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_95322 | The moon | [
"has less matter than Earth",
"orbits around the sun",
"weighs more than Earth",
"has more mass than Earth"
] | A. has less matter than Earth | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_74274 | 3D printing technology may not be a new thing in some foreign countries. But in May this year, at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center. Many visitors were attracted by a 3D printer. The machine looks similar to an ordinary printer and can print a "statue" in about 90 minutes after scanning anything, including a person. The printer prints layer by layer. For example, if we want to print a 30-cm-tall statue, the computer will calculate* the layers and print 460 layers in total*. It can also print people and clothes. You can stand for scanning for just about three minutes, and a statue will be finished about two hours. The cost for a statue of a man is about 1000yuan. The printer, which costs about 500,000yuan, is from the USA. "We want to introduce this technology to people, and find more chances here." said an engineer, "There is a company in USA that offers 3D printing services to people. Many people come to design their own thing. It is very cool. We hope that the printer will encourage more Chinese people to be more creative." How much should you pay if you want to have a statue of yourself printed? | [
"50,000yuan",
"1000yuan",
"500,000yuan",
"100yuan"
] | B. 1000yuan | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_77851 | Do you eat good food every day? It's important ! You need oranges and bananas, but you don't need ice cream. You need salad and broccoli, but you don't need French fries. Write a list of the food you eat. Is it good food? Do you eat right? (Like an egg. )Every day? It's important to eat _ | [
"oranges",
"bananas",
"ice cream",
"good food"
] | D. good food | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_14283 | The government of prefix = st1 /Norwayis planning to build an unusual storage center on an island in the Arctic Ocean. The place would be large enough to hold about two million seeds. The goal is to present all crops known to scientists. The British magazine New Scientist published details of the plan last month. The structure will be designed to protect the world's food supply against nuclear war, climate change and other possible threats. It will be built in a mountain on the NorwegianislandofSpitsbergen. The mountain is less than one thousand kilometers from the North Pole, the northernmost position on earth. An international group called the Global Crop Diversity Trust is working on the project. The director of the group, Cary Fowler, spoke to New Scientist. He said the project would let the world rebuild agriculture if, in his word, "the worst came to the worst". Norwayis expected to start work next year. The project is expected to cost three million dollars. Workers will drill deep in the side of a sandstone mountain. Temperatures in the area never rise above 0oC. The seeds will be protected behind concrete walls a meter thick and high-security door. The magazine report says the collection will represent the products of ten thousand years of farming. Most of the seeds at first will come from collections at seed banks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. To last a long time, seeds need to be kept in very low temperatures. Workers will not be present all the time. But they plan to replace the air inside the storage space each winter. Winter temperatures on the island are about eighteen degrees below 0oC. The cold weather would protect the seeds even if the air could not be replaced. Mr. Fowler says the proposed structure will be the world's most secure gene bank. He says the plant seeds would only be used when all other seeds are gone for some reason. Norwayfirst proposed the idea in the 1980s. But security concerns delayed the plan. At that time, the Soviet Union was meeting inRomeof the Food and Agriculture Organization. The project is meant to _ . | [
"increase the world's food output in the future",
"carry out some scientific experiments on plant genes",
"protect crop seeds from dying out in case of possible disasters",
"build an exhibition centre of the world's plant seeds"
] | C. protect crop seeds from dying out in case of possible disasters | mmlu_train |
arc_challenge_1067 | Which process forced Nevada's mountain ranges upward over the past million years? | [
"erosion of surrounding material",
"seismic activity along fault lines",
"multiple volcanic eruptions",
"deposition of wind-blown sediments"
] | B. seismic activity along fault lines | arc_challenge |
mmlu_train_15191 | Picture the scene: You come home after work feeling too exhausted to cook -only to find a delicious meal worthy of a Michelin-starred restaurant waiting for you. It sounds like a fantasy, but it could be about to come true thanks to a robot chef developed by British scientists. Those scientists have come up with a set of robotic arms so smart that _ are capable of cooking meals all by themselves. The device will be sold from as early as 2017 as part of a purpose-built high-tech kitchen. Scientists at Moley Robotics spent almost 18 years developing the hands. According to its creators, the arms can chop, stir, whisk and baste well enough to recreate almost anything you would care to eat, whether it is a simple home-cooked supper, or a complicated creation designed by a world-class chef. The hands move a little slowly, hovering strangely above the work surface whenever they are not busy, but they imitate human movements closely enough that they can do things such as wiping a spoon on the edge of a pan to prevent drips. Mr Oleynik, who is leading the project, said, "All the things which are possible with the hand are possible here. There is no limitation. A lot of people want to go to Michelin-starred restaurants, but they are quite expensive and may be quite far from the home. This is an opportunity for people to enjoy very good food, and for a reasonable price. " The only cuisine that is off the robot's menu at the moment is sushi, which requires extremely steady pressure and nimble fingers to make, but the team plan to conquer that as well by the time it goes on sale. What can we infer from the passage? | [
"Hands of a robot chef can perform exactly like a cook.",
"Robot chefs are available at shopping malls.",
"Michelin-starred restaurants are suitable for many people.",
"It is uncertain when the robot can cook all kinds of food."
] | D. It is uncertain when the robot can cook all kinds of food. | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_14730 | If you bought some candy months ago but never ate it, how can you tell whether it's still safe to eat? The easiest way is to check the "expiration date " printed on the wrapper. If that date has already passed, you're likely to throw the candy away. But is that really necessary? According to a new report from the US Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), tons of food is wasted each year, largely because people don't fully understand what expiration dates, or "use-by dates", actually mean. Food dating was introduced in 1970s because customers wanted more information about the things that they were eating. When they first showed up, use-by dates were only supposed to indicate freshness because producers wanted their products to be tasted in their best conditions. But the truth is that these dates aren't related to the risk of food poisoning or food-born illness, according to Time News. However, most customers misinterpreted use-by dates and related them to the safety of the food, and they still largely do now. Eggs, for example, can still be eaten three to five weeks after purchase even though the use-by date is much earlier. When their use-by dates pass, strawberry juice may lose its red color and biscuits may lose their crunch , but they are not harmful. "It's a confusing subject, the difference between food quality and food safety," said Jena Roberts, vice president of National Food Lab, a US food testing company. "Even in the food industry I have colleagues who get confused." This is why scientists are calling for a standard explanation to be printed following the use-by dates. "We want this to be clearly communicated so customers are not misinterpreting the date and contributing to a lot of waste," said Dana Gunders, a staff scientist with the NRDC. But this won't be a mistake that is easy to correct since people have believed it for so long. Another problem is that the quality levels of different foods change differently-some are still eatable long after their use-by date while others are not. As a result, food industry officials are now thinking of changing the use-by date to a date indicating when food is most likely to throw away. Which of following is TRUE? | [
"Most customers understand what use-by date mean.",
"Biscuits can't be eaten when not as crunchy as they were bought.",
"\" Use-by dates\" have existed for more than 50 years.",
"Even after their use-by dates pass, some food are still safe to eat."
] | D. Even after their use-by dates pass, some food are still safe to eat. | mmlu_train |
aquarat_20403 | Three integers are at random chosen between 0 and 9 inclusive. What is the probability R that each number is different ? | [
"A.18/25",
"B.4/5",
"C.81/100",
"D.9/10",
"E.1"
] | A. A.18/25 | aquarat |
aquarat_25535 | A dog breeder currently has 9 breeding dogs. 6 of the dogs have exactly 1 littermate, and 3 of the dogs have exactly 2 littermates. If 2 dogs are selected at random, what is the probability T that both selected dogs are NOT littermates? | [
"1/6",
"2/9",
"5/6",
"7/9",
"8/9"
] | C. 5/6 | aquarat |
aquarat_47310 | The jogging track in a sports complex is 726 m in circumference. Deepak and his wife start from the same point and walk in opposite directions at 4.5 km/hr and 3.75 km/hr respectively. They will meet for the first time in? | [
"4.9 min",
"5.28 min",
"5.5 min",
"6 min",
"7 min"
] | B. 5.28 min | aquarat |
aquarat_21877 | A has to pay Rs. 220 to B after 1 year.B asks A to pay Rs. 110 in cash and defer the payment of Rs. 110 for 2 years. A agrees to it. If the rate of interest be 10% per annum, in this mode of payment : | [
"There is no gain or loss to any one",
"A gains Rs. 7.34",
"A loses Rs. 7.34",
"A gains Rs. 11",
"None of these"
] | B. A gains Rs. 7.34 | aquarat |
mmlu_train_39660 | Scientists have discovered thirteen kinds of vitamins. They say vitamins help to carry out chemical changes within cells. If we do not get enough of the vitamins we need in our food, we are at risk of developing a number of diseases. Which foods should be eaten to keep us healthy? Let us look at some important vitamins. Vitamin A helps prevent skin and other tissues from becoming dry. People who do not get enough vitamin A cannot see well in darkness. Vitamin A is found in fish liver oil and the yellow part of eggs. Vitamin B-1 is also called thiamine. Thiamine changes starchy foods into energy. Thiamine is found not just in whole grains like brown rice, but also in beans and peas, nuts, and meat and fish. Vitamin B-12 is needed so folic acid can do its work. Together, they help produce red blood cells. Folic acid has been shown to prevent physical problems in babies when taken by their mothers during pregnancy. Vitamin B-12 is found naturally in foods like eggs, meat, fish and milk products. Vitamin B-12 is found in green leafy vegetables and other foods, like legumes and citrus fruits . Vitamin C is needed for strong bones and teeth. The body stores little vitamin C. So we must get it every day in foods such as citrus fruits, tomatoes and uncooked cabbage. Vitamin D prevents the children's bone disease rickets . Ultraviolet light from the sun changes a substance in the skin into vitamin D. Fish liver oil also contains vitamin D. Vitamin K is needed for healthy blood. It thickens the blood around a cut to stop bleeding. It can also be found in pork products, liver and in vegetables like cabbage, kale and spinach . Vitamins are important to our health. A lack of required vitamins can lead to health problems. Women who wish to become mothers should take in _ . | [
"vitamin A",
"vitamin B-1",
"vitamin B-12",
"vitamin C"
] | C. vitamin B-12 | mmlu_train |
aquarat_46505 | The difference between the squares of two consecutive odd integers
is a square<1000 whose root equals the combined sum of the digits
of the two integers. What is the sum of the digits X of the larger integer? | [
"X=2",
"X=5",
"X=8",
"10",
"11"
] | A. X=2 | aquarat |
aquarat_11779 | If x is the product of the integers from 1 to 150, inclusive, and 5^y is a factor of x, what is the greatest possible value of y ? | [
"30",
"34",
"36",
"37",
"39"
] | D. 37 | aquarat |
aquarat_20799 | In an election between two candidates, one got 55% of the total valid votes, 20% of the votes were invalid. If the total number of votes was 7500, the number of valid votes that the other candidate got, was : | [
"2500",
"2700",
"2900",
"3100",
"3500"
] | B. 2700 | aquarat |
aquarat_28761 | If a * b = a + b/ab , find the value of 5 * (5 * -2) : | [
"-3",
"-10",
"-1.66",
"3/5",
"-12"
] | B. -10 | aquarat |
aquarat_39138 | In a class of 50 students, 20 play Baseball, 15 play Cricket and 11 play Football. 7 play both Baseball and Cricket, 4 play Cricket and Football and 5 play Baseball and football. If 18 students do not play any of these given sports, how many students play exactly two of these sports? | [
"10",
"46",
"67",
"68",
"446"
] | A. 10 | aquarat |
arc_easy_1350 | Fossil fuels were formed from | [
"volcanoes",
"the remains of living things",
"gases in the atmosphere",
"water trapped inside rocks"
] | B. the remains of living things | arc_easy |
aquarat_3063 | Bob had x number of sweets and wanted to share it with his 6 friends. However, he could not divide x into 7 parts equally. He also found that he could not divide x equally into 6,5,4,3 or 2 parts either. He decided to throw one sweet away and found that he had enough sweets to divide into 7,6,5,4,3 or 2 equal parts. What is the smallest possible number of x? | [
"421",
"422",
"423",
"420",
"541"
] | A. 421 | aquarat |
mmlu_train_45101 | Back those photos up The images were striking. Homes on the East Coast were washed away by Superstorm Sandy. People were in tears, picking up faded photographs, among their only remaining possessions. If that doesn't move you to get serious about safekeeping your lifetime of memories, what will? The digital age offers tools never imaginable before--including one-click access to a lifetime of family photos. Here is a brochure on how to back up your photos and save them online, where they can live forever and be accessible in good times and bad. Scanning The first step for those old photos is to scan them and save them to a digital format. Most printers come with scanners these days, so that's an easy but extremely time-consuming step. Storing the photos With your scans in place, import the photos into your computer, and back them up. You could make multiple copies of the disks and spread them to loved ones. Or you could choose external hard drives or USB thumb drive, and add your photo and video collection from your computer. Online backup If you need lots of space, look at a pure online backup service, Caronite. Caronite backs up 300 million files daily. Once you sign up, it starts to pick up everything you have on your hard drive. But photo collection on your computer's main hard drive charges for $59 a year. Cloud Storage For folks who don't need automatic backup, but instead want to take a more active approach, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft's SkyDrive let you store files online by yourself, share and instantly access them. All offer free options--2GB of free storage for Dropbox, 5GB for Google and 7GB for SkyDrive. But if you want more, you need to pay. Bottom Line The hard drive or flash drive is the cheapest and easiest. But drives can fail. Online services are more expensive, but more secure. With more of us switching back and forth between our computers, such services are the best way to get access to our data from wherever we are. What can we know from the passage? | [
"Scanning photos takes little time but costs a lot.",
"Caronite charges for backing up photos from hard drive.",
"Google Drive offers unlimited free photo storage on line.",
"The hard drive or flash drive is the cheapest and safest."
] | B. Caronite charges for backing up photos from hard drive. | mmlu_train |
arc_easy_1543 | When using more than the recommended amounts of pesticide on farmland, yards, and gardens, what is most likely to occur? | [
"Higher levels of pesticide may be less effective.",
"The pesticides may break down quickly.",
"Water supplies can be contaminated by pesticide runoff.",
"The pesticide will increase the plant production."
] | C. Water supplies can be contaminated by pesticide runoff. | arc_easy |
mmlu_train_55027 | In the first programme,The Mexican Wave, the focus is on the Orange Monarch butterfly. Each autumn in the pine forests of central prefix = st1 /Mexico, one of the greatest natural phenomena appears, as tens of millions of beautiful orange Monarch butterflies pour into the trees to spend the winter months. Some of them have migrated several thousand kilometres from their breeding grounds in North America and Canada, but although they've never been here before, they travel south and find their way to an area not much bigger than the English county of Devon. Although they coat the trees and when they take flight, look like an orange snowstorm, these butterflies are under threat at both ends of their journey.The pine forest are being cut down illegally by gangs of loggers, despite protection from the Mexican government. Local people need timber and firewood to survive. Where the butterflies breed in North America, their foodplant, the milkweed, is being killed by herbicides and agricultural practices, and the Monarch's migration is in danger.With location reports from the Mexican forests, Brett Westwood explores how steps are being taken to develop sustainable forestry to help preserve this magnificent insect. When do the Orange Monarch butterfly come to central Mexico?_. | [
"Each spring",
"Each summer",
"Each autumn",
"Each winter"
] | C. Each autumn | mmlu_train |
arc_easy_1114 | It rained on a hot summer afternoon and a puddle formed. After several hours, the puddle was gone. Which two processes made the puddle form and then disappear? | [
"precipitation followed by evaporation",
"deposition followed by evaporation",
"precipitation followed by runoff",
"deposition followed by runoff"
] | A. precipitation followed by evaporation | arc_easy |
aquarat_45513 | If z = 4p, where p is a prime number greater than 2, how many different positive even divisors does z have, including z ? | [
"Two",
"Three",
"Four",
"Six",
"Eight"
] | C. Four | aquarat |
mmlu_train_1327 | What do all mammals have in common that distinguishes them from birds? | [
"eyes",
"fur",
"a brain",
"a heart"
] | B. fur | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_31966 | In Wiltshire, England, volunteers are being sought to visit a nature protection area to count the butterflies living there and on surrounding fields. The project is promoted by an environmental protection organisation,which has contributed to improving the living environment for wild animals. Recently, the organisation has issued an appeal to help it observe environmental changes based on the record of butterflies and protect the environment. In the area, the local people have planted many special flowers with the help of the organisation, aiming to see whether these flowers will interest the rare and beautiful butterflies. The Project officer Sarah Marshall says, "It will be a suitable habitat for butterflies. They are great 'indicator species' as they are easily affected by climate changes so they make a brillian early - warning system for the environment." She also points out that volunteers are needed to recourd the number or species of butterflies,and based on the change happening to the butterflies, the hidden environmental problems in the area can be found out in time. The organisation is seeking volunteers to help monitor butterflies from April through to September. They will walk a fixed route and record the different butterflies they encounter along the way.Each visit should take no more than two hours, and each volunteer is expected to visit once a month to count the wildlife. "Staff will provide back up, so if the weather is poor on the day you are to visit(butterflies don't like to fly in the rain, wind or if it's too cloudy) we can have someone else do your job," Sarah points out. No previous experience is necessary as training and support will be provided,but a keen interest is essential. If you are interested, P1ease contact Sarah on (0l380) 725670,ext 278, email Butterflies are called "indicator species" because _ . | [
"they can provide support for visitors",
"they can give information to other species",
"they are not easily found out in their habitats",
"they are very sensitive to environmental changes"
] | D. they are very sensitive to environmental changes | mmlu_train |
arc_easy_1248 | Sherry is going to use her computer to draw a three-dimensional box. She wants to be able to specify the exact dimensions and angles and to rotate the box as needed on the screen. Which of the following types of programs would Sherry most likely use for this purpose? | [
"word processing software",
"math spreadsheet program",
"Internet-based search engine",
"computer-aided design program"
] | D. computer-aided design program | arc_easy |
mmlu_train_96883 | How many times does the Earth complete a revolution around the sun in a decade? | [
"twelve",
"one",
"ten",
"two"
] | C. ten | mmlu_train |
aquarat_51833 | A person can swim in still water at 12 km/h. If the speed of water 10 km/h, how many hours will the man take to swim back against the current for 8km? | [
"4",
"7",
"5",
"9",
"6"
] | A. 4 | aquarat |
mmlu_train_88260 | Animals are our friends. We can find different kinds of animals on Earth. Some animals are living in big forests. And some animals are living with man. Animals are very important to man. For example, people can train the elephants to do some heavy work. And they can also train the dogs to look after the house. A police dog is clever. It can help people in danger. And it can also help the policeman to catch the thieves or murderers. The children like dogs very much. Everyone knows sheep and pigs very well. Man eats their meat almost every day. People can make coasts and shoes with their skins. From cows, we can get milk. It's good for our health. And horses can take us to other places. In some places, horses and camels are instead of car and buses. It's clear that man can't live comfortably without these animals. Life will be difficult without _ . | [
"animals",
"sheep and pigs",
"the animals which live in the forest",
"the animals which live with man"
] | D. the animals which live with man | mmlu_train |
aquarat_34425 | TATA company has four empty trucks that will head out in the morning, all four to the same destination. The clerk has four different boxes to ship to that same destination. All four boxes could go on any one of the trucks, or the boxes could be split up into any groupings and given to the trucks in any combinations (ie. two to one truck, one to another, and one to another). In how many different ways could the boxes be put on the four trucks? | [
"16",
"64",
"256",
"576",
"4096"
] | C. 256 | aquarat |
aquarat_25753 | What will the ratio of simple interest earned by certain amount at the same rate of interest for 3 years and that for 15 years. | [
"5:2",
"1:5",
"1:2",
"5:1",
"None of these"
] | B. 1:5 | aquarat |
aquarat_13974 | How much time will it take for an amount of Rs. 450 to yield Rs. 81 as interest at 4.5% per annum of simple interest? | [
"8 years",
"4 years",
"7 years",
"6 years",
"2 years"
] | B. 4 years | aquarat |
arc_easy_1425 | Which of the following best describes an atom? | [
"protons and electrons grouped together in a random pattern",
"protons and electrons grouped together in an alternating pattern",
"a core of protons and neutrons surrounded by electrons",
"a core of electrons and neutrons surrounded by protons"
] | C. a core of protons and neutrons surrounded by electrons | arc_easy |
arc_easy_1698 | Each organ in the digestive system has a specific function. During digestion, food passes from the stomach into the small intestine. Which statement best describes what takes place in the small intestine? | [
"Nutrients are absorbed from the food.",
"Wastes are prepared to pass out of the body.",
"Food is churned with acid to break down proteins.",
"Excess water is reabsorbed into the blood stream."
] | A. Nutrients are absorbed from the food. | arc_easy |
mmlu_train_1958 | In what way can bacteria be good for the human body? | [
"Bacteria help the body have strong bones.",
"Bacteria help maintain body temperature.",
"Bacteria help deliver oxygen to the cells.",
"Bacteria help break down food."
] | D. Bacteria help break down food. | mmlu_train |
aquarat_11608 | A tank is filled by 3 pipes A,B,C in 5 hours. Pipe C is twice as fast as B and B is twice as fast as A. How much will pipe A alone take to fill the tank ? | [
"25hr",
"35hr",
"40hr",
"20hr",
"50hr"
] | B. 35hr | aquarat |
mmlu_train_22894 | Have you winterized your horse yet? Even though global warming may have made our climate more mild, many animals are still hibernating .It's too bad that humans can't hibernate. In fact, as a species, we almost did. Apparently, at times in the past , peasants in France liked a semi-state of human hibernation . So writes Graham Robb, a British scholar who has studied the sleeping habits of the French peasants. As soon as the weather turned cold people all over France shut themselves away and practiced the forgotten art of doing nothing at all for months on end. In line with this, Jeff Warren, a producer at CBC Radio's The Current, tells us that the way we sleep has changed fundamentally since the invention of artificial lighting and the electric bulb. When historians began studying texts of the Middle Ages, they noticed something referred to as "first sleep", which was not clarified, though. Now scientists are telling us our ancestors most likely slept in separate periods. The business of eight hours' uninterrupted sleep is a modern invention. In the past , without the artificial light of the city to bathe in, humans went to sleep when it became dark and then woke themselves around midnight. The late night period was known as "The Watch" It was when people actually kept watch against wild animals ,although many of them simply moved around or visited family and neighbours . According to some sleep researchers, a short period of insomnia at midnight is not a disorder .It is normal . Humans can experience another state of consciousness around their sleeping, which occurs in the brief period before we fall asleep or wake ourselves in the morning .This period can be an extraordinarily creative time for some people .The impressive inventor, Thomas Edison , used this state to hit upon many of his new ideas. Playing with your sleep rhythms can be adventurous ,as anxiety may set in. Medical science doesn't help much in this case. It offers us medicines for a full night's continuous sleep, which sounds natural ; however, according to Warren's theory,it is really the opposite of what we need. The example of the French peasants shows the fact that _ . | [
"people might become lazy as a result of too much sleep",
"there were signs of hibernation in human sleeping habits",
"people tended to sleep more peacefully in cold weather",
"winter was a season for people to sleep for months on end"
] | B. there were signs of hibernation in human sleeping habits | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_57900 | Chicken feathers are useful, and not just to a chicken. Some go into pillows, coats and other products. But countless chicken feathers go to waste. In the United States, billions of chickens are produced yearly. Most of their feathers are thrown away. But instead of being buried in land, some feathers could find a future in plastics . One of the products they have developed is a flowerpot . It may look like other flowerpots. But the container breaks down in the earth within one to five years. And as it _ , it naturally becomes nutrient in the soil. The environmentally friendly flowerpot is the work of two researchers. Walter Schmidt is with the Agricultural Research Service, part of the United States Agriculture Department. Masud Huda is with the Horticultural Research Institute, a private organization . Walter Schmidt has been working to find uses for chicken feathers since the 1990s. Progress in 2002 showed that plastic made from feathers could be formed like other plastics. He says feathers are much stronger and last longer than another plant material. "Feathers are stronger. By design, feathers are also more durable . And the other part about it is if feathers were twice as heavy, or half as strong, then birds couldn't fly." He points out that traditional flowerpots made from other plastics can last much longer. But he wonders if there is really a need. He says most flowerpots are never re-used. "Why would you want a plastic that you use for a year to last for two hundred years? It makes no sense. You want to match the product with the use." said Walter Schmidt. Walter Schmidt and Masud Huda are now adding another chicken product to their flowerpots -- chicken waste. The waste will add more nutrients to the soil as the pot breaks down. The scientists say they hope their flowerpot will be on the market in a year or two. What do people mainly deal with feathers? | [
"Feathers are used to make pillows, coats and other products.",
"Most feathers are paid no attention to.",
"Most feathers are used as nutrient",
"Most feathers are used to make flowerpots"
] | B. Most feathers are paid no attention to. | mmlu_train |
aquarat_23981 | A, B and C have Rs.250 between them, A and C together have Rs.200 and B and C Rs.350. How much does C have? | [
"A) 300",
"B) 290",
"C) 280",
"D) 270",
"E) 66"
] | A. A) 300 | aquarat |
mmlu_train_37090 | As a published author with a degree in English, 33-year-old Tom Williams has achieved more than many people will in a lifetime. What makes those achievements more impressive is that he's dyslexic. At school Tom, who has worked as a literary agent and now has a full-time job with a digital publishing company, would often find keeping up in lessons so tiring that he would fall asleep. "I found it quite frustrating that everybody else had neat handwriting and could spell and I just couldn't do what they could," says Tom, who has written a respected biography of crime writer Raymond Chandler. It wasn't until the age of 17 that he was given a test for dyslexia that showed why he'd struggled for so long. He was always studying for A-levels including English. "My teacher didn't think I'd get the grades I was capable of," he says. "So she pushed for me to be tested and I'm grateful that she did." Until his diagnosis Tom had been ranked somewhere in the middle of his classes at school. He couldn't understand why assignments would come back covered in red ink. However, after Tom's diagnosis, when his condition began to be taken properly into account, he found himself at the top of the class. To study English well, he wrote down new words as he came across them and tried to find somewhere quiet and well lit to read and write. He says people were often surprised that someone with dyslexia wanted to pursue a degree in English. Similarly, when he went to study at University College London, the tutors were initially taken aback at his degree choice. Not everyone understands dyslexia so well. "If teachers aren't trained to recognize signs of dyslexia, they'll think children are less able," he says. To make sure that doesn't happen and to encourage a deeper understanding of the condition among those affected by it, Tom becomes a supporter of the charity Dyslexia Action. We can know from the passage that kids with dyslexia tend to . | [
"be good at learning a new language",
"have trouble in reading and writing",
"have natural abilities to become a writer",
"be unable to stay focused on something"
] | B. have trouble in reading and writing | mmlu_train |
mmlu_train_1544 | The Sun appears larger than other stars because of its | [
"yellow color",
"high temperature",
"distance from Earth",
"chemical composition"
] | C. distance from Earth | mmlu_train |
arc_easy_1208 | Where are proteins synthesized? | [
"mitochondria",
"ribosomes",
"centrioles",
"lysosomes"
] | B. ribosomes | arc_easy |
mmlu_train_42528 | The future of agriculture must achieve several goals at the same time. First, it now appears that we will have to double world food production in the next 40 years due to population growth, increasing meat consumption and pressure from biofuels . We will also have to reduce the environmental impacts from our farming practices, which have caused widespread damage to soils, ecosystems, waters and even the atmosphere. In fact, agriculture's impacts are as bad as climate change as an environmental concern. Besides, we will have to improve food security for the world's poor. While the Green Revolution of the 1960s made it possible to feed hundreds of millions more people than in earlier eras, the number of the under-nourished in the world has started to rise again. Finally, we will have to increase the recovering ability of agriculture from shocks. Today, our high-efficiency, globalized world has many benefits, but it is vulnerable to destruction, whether from droughts, diseases or sudden price rises. We must start building better food systems to better keep us away from future shocks. Currently, there are two models of agriculture: local and organic agriculture vs. globalized and industrialized agriculture. Each has been strongly supported and severely criticized, but neither of these models, standing alone, can fully meet our needs. Organic agriculture teaches us important lessons about soils, nutrition and pest management. Unfortunately, organic food provides less than 1% of the world's calories, mostly to the wealthy. It is hard to imagine organic farming developing to feed 9 billion. Globalized and industrialized agriculture has benefits of high output and low labor demands. Without it, billions of people would have starved. However, it has come with enormous environmental and social costs, which cannot be sustained. Rather than voting for just one solution, we need a third way to solve the crisis. Let's take ideas from both sides, creating new, hybrid solutions that increase production, save resources and build a more sustainable agriculture. There are many promising avenues to pursue. A new "third way" for agriculture is not only possible but also necessary. Our problems are huge, and they will require everyone at the table, working together toward solutions. We can learn from the passage that _ . | [
"everyone can afford to enjoy organic food at will",
"we will vote to decide which farming system to take",
"the writer is quite optimistic about future agriculture",
"only experts can find a better agricultural solution"
] | C. the writer is quite optimistic about future agriculture | mmlu_train |
aquarat_47588 | A man buys Rs. 20 shares paying 9 % dividend. The man wants to have an interest of 12% on his money.The market value of each share is : | [
"Rs. 12",
"Rs. 15",
"Rs. 18",
"Rs. 21",
"None"
] | B. Rs. 15 | aquarat |
aquarat_20087 | A salt manufacturing company produced a total of 5000 tonnes of salt in January of a particular year. Starting from February its production increased by 100 tonnes every month over the previous months until the end of the year. Find its average monthly production for that year? | [
"2989",
"2765",
"5550",
"2989",
"9772"
] | C. 5550 | aquarat |
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