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[ { "content": "Q: Patch's mother was named Silver, because high summer sun made her fur shine that colour. She had a marvellous drey high up a spruce tree, carved out long ago by a woodpecker, and since extended into a two-chambered home full of bright things. The journey along the sky-road to her drey did not take long. When Patch looked inside, he saw a hundred colours glittering in the sunlight, shining from bits of metal and glass set into Silver's walls and floor. But his mother was not there. He could tell by the faintness of her smell that no squirrel had been here in some time. There were two faint traces of scent, several days old; that of Silver, and that of another squirrel, a musky scent that Patch did not recognize. A scent that made his tail stiffen as if danger was near. Patch stared into his mother's empty drey for a moment. It wasn't normal for a squirrel to abandon her drey for days, not in the middle of winter. And he hadn't seen Silver for three days. Not since all the acorns had disappeared from the earth. Patch ran back to his own tree, and then to the maple tree next door, to his brother Tuft's drey. He ran very fast. He was hungrier than ever, and he was beginning to be very worried. He was relieved when he looked into Tuft's drey and found it occupied. Tuft himself was not present, but Brighteyes was, and their babies, and it was clear from the smells that Tuft had only just departed. \"Hello, Patch,\" Brighteyes said weakly. \"Would you like to come in?\" Patch entered. Brighteyes was curled up with her babies in the drey's deepest, warmest corner. The last time Patch had visited, a week ago, this had been a den of noise and chaos, with all Brighteyes' four babies running and jumping and playfighting. Today they lay weakly beside Brighteyes, and the once-shining eyes from which their mother had taken her name were dim and clouded. Question: Who abandoned their drey? === The answer to the above question is\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Brighteyes\n- not enough information\n- Patch\n- Patch's mother\n\nA: Patch's mother\n\n\ninput: OPTIONS:\n- When you meet the realtor\n- After finding a realtor\n- not enough information\n- Before finding a realtor Now, answer this question: Moving can either be out of necessity or an act of desire. Whatever the case, moving rarely comes at a convenient time and involves so many variables that it is difficult to exhale until all of the documents are signed. Even then, that point in the process instantaneously starts a whole new chapter in the book of moving. No matter how long it takes to sell (or not sell) your previous home, whether you’re able to find your dream kitchen or settle for less, if you’re moving down the street, across the country, or around the world, the act of moving can be completely overwhelming. Long story short: Moving is a process. In the midst of all the uncertainties, there are a few ways to stay organized while moving. This short list is meant to guide you through steps to keep you on track during a stressful time. The largest piece of advice I can give you is to start by decluttering your current living space. Having less to deal with will help you feel more in control of the situation. Finding a realtor that you trust and feel comfortable working with will put your mind at ease (most of the time) about the process of listing your house and finding a buyer. Let your realtor do the work for you so you can concentrate on keeping your home “show ready” and begin to look at options on the other side of the move, like where you’ll be working, spending your time, and researching schools or neighborhoods. Make a list of people you’ll need to update contact information with once you leave. This should include any and all businesses you frequent or subscribe to, like pest control services, lawn maintenance, even all of your neighborhood loyal buyer programs you participate in. Do not overlook your banks, investment companies, retirement funds, healthcare providers for you and your family members, and even you pets. And, of course, family and friends. Question: When do you make a list of contact people === The answer to the above question is\nA:\noutput: After finding a realtor\n\n\nProblem:OPTIONS:\n- He loves his job\n- not enough information\n- He is married with three kids\n- He is lazy\n\nMy then-teenage daughter and I went to a new restaurant. It was empty apart from the manager. We were told to find ourselves a table, so we sat in an attractive area sort of like a small stage. No waitress came by for 10 minutes, so we decided to visit the restroom; there was just one, with one toilet. But a woman rushed in ahead of us, carrying a bundle of clothes. Several minutes later, when she reappeared, we realized this was our waitress—arriving late and pushing us customers out of the way so she could change. OK… We each used the restroom and returned to our table. But it was not our table anymore. Along came the manager to explain she needed to set aside the stage-like area for a very special group. My daughter and I had already been debating whether to stay or leave. We stayed only because we were very hungry and worried that we’d have to start waiting all over again if we tried a different place. We were led to our new table: a lonely little table in the hall leading to the toilet. I was ready to get out of there, pronto, but my daughter spotted her favorite meal on the menu. But after another 15 minutes, with the lone waitress not appearing, we both shook our heads and got up… Oh, here’s the waitress! We ordered. Fifteen minutes later, no food. We got up again and exited past the stage-like area, which was just as empty as it had been when we were ejected. The very special people had not arrived—so (had we been served) we could have enjoyed our meal right there. We did find food elsewhere. The first place closed in less than a month. Good riddance! Question: What is probably true about the restaraunt manager? === The answer to the above question is\n****\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "He is lazy", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: A Two-day Trip to Beijing If you want to know about China. Please come to Beijing. You can visit the Great Wall and other places of interest and enjoy Beijing Duck. Time: May 6~May 7 Price: 480 yuan per person Tel: 78456895 A Four- day Trip to Qinhuangdao If you like warm weather and clean city, Qinhuangdao is a good place for you. You can climb mountains, enjoy beautiful beaches and go to the zoo. Time: May 1~May 4 Tel: 56478445 Adult: 780 yuan per person Child: 550 yuan per person E-mail: 126yc@sina.com A Seven-day Trip to Sanya There are many beautiful places in Sanya. You can walk along the beaches, go fishing and go boating. Time: May 10~May 17 Price: 1 person: 650 yuan per person 2-5 persons: 600 yuan per person 6-9 persons: 550 yuan per person Call us at 800-820-8199. Question: If you want to go on a trip on Saturday and Sunday, you can choose a trip to _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"Beijing\"?\nYes\n\nArticle: An atlas is a book of maps. Atlases are made with different kinds of information about different parts and areas of a country or the world. They are prepared for desk use or travel use. Desk atlases are made for different groups of people with different needs. For example, students may use desk atlases to help learn geography, and other people may use desk atlases to study a place. A popular type of the latest atlas shows the recent fact of the world. New atlases are often carefully produced to help people learn about the changes, such as the name changes, boundary changes and other important new information. A desk atlas can also have some different maps of the same place. For example, an atlas may include maps showing population and important products of a place. Travel atlases usually show the information about both natural and man-made features . So it is not surprising to find universities, airports, forests, rivers, roads as well as cities, towns and villages in them. A travel atlas is often the first thing people need when they want to start a trip in a strange place. It often has a map of a whole country, and a map with more special information of each important place in the country. Take the atlas of the United States as an example, it often has a map of the whole country and then a map of each of the fifty states. A travel atlas may also point out the beautiful natural places. In the US, the atlas may include national parks such as the Yellow Stone Park and some others to show the beauty of nature and interesting places to tourists. Question: How many kinds of atlases are mentioned in the passage? Yes or no, is the answer \"Two\"?\nNo\n\nQ: Article: The question whether there is life on Mars has made the public think a lot for more than a century. The closest look showed Mars to be a dusty, cold world, covered by air too thin to breathe. A British spaceship and Europe's Mars spaceship plan to land on Mars or enter orbit around it. One of the NASA's spaceships is expected to land on January 3, the other is going to land on the opposite side of Mars on January 24. Since 1960, over twenty spaceships sent to Mars have failed. Most have been lost on flying up or landing because those are the most difficult times of any flights. Scientists wanted to find out whether there was water in Mars. In October, a team of scientists reported that Mars had been a dry wasteland. But weeks later, a second team reported differently that they had found some marks showed clearly that they were made by the rivers. Such marks told us that Mars was a warmer place billions of years ago -- just as life first appeared here on Earth. Scientists at once raise a question: if what they said is true, what happened on Mars? Then what about the earth? Question: What are scientists worried about when they raise the question? Yes or no, is the answer \"The earth might be changed like Mars\"?\nA: No\n\nQuestion: Article: That warm day was the only day of the week without rain. I opened the door, took a seat and began to enjoy the wonderful sunshine. Suddenly, I noticed that the house near mine had been sold. An elderly lady was in front of the door, with some beautiful flowers beside her. I walked to her. She looked to be in her early eighties and had the prettiest white hair. \"Hi! My name is Karmen,\" I said smiling brightly at the old lady. She smiled back and said, \"Hello, Karmen. I'm Henrietta.\" Her voice was very strong for someone at her age. Later, I learned she was alone and had no family or relatives to help her. From that day on, I often visited her and helped her with her housework and sometimes she gave me some delicious food. A year passed, and I considered Henrietta to be one of my best friends. One day, I walked over for my morning visit and knocked on the door, but there was no answer. I knocked again, and she still didn' t _ . So I let myself in, using the key she had given me. I checked her living room and then her kitchen. I finally went into her bedroom, and she was lying peacefully on her bed. Beside her there were two notes. One was her will, which said all that she had would be given to me. The other was a thank-you note. I went to her bedside and cried sadly. Though several years have gone by, I still miss her deeply. Whenever I look at the beautiful flowers in front of her house, I remember the wonderful friendship we had. Question: In order to thank the writer, the old lady decided to _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"leave all that she had to the writer.\"?\nAnswer: No\n\nArticle: Fishing is a popular activity and every fisherman knows the rule: Keep the big ones, throw the smaller ones back. The idea behind Lt is simple - the larger fish are probably older. If you keep the smaller ones, they won't be able to reproduce, and the fish population is in danger. But fishing out the largest fish from a population has an unwanted effect: Over time, fewer adult fish get really big. If only the smaller fish reproduce , then future generations become smaller. This is an example of evolution in action. One scientist, Dr David Conover has spent the last decade studying the effects of the \"keep the big ones\" rule and if they can be reversed . To set up his experiment, Conover and his team caught hundreds of silverside fish and divided them into six groups. For two groups, Conover followed the \"keep the large ones\" rule and took out the biggest fish. For two other groups, he removed only the small fish. For the last two groups, he removed fish at random . After five years, he measured the fish in each group. In the two groups where the largest fish were regularly removed, the average fish size was smaller than the average size in the other groups. Here was evolution in action: If only small fish survive to reproduce, then future generations of fish will also tend to be small. For the second five years of his experiment, Conover changed the rules and took fish randomly from each group. At the end of the experiment, he found that the fish that were in the \"keep the large ones\" group for the first five years had started to get larger again, although he calculated it would take at least 12 years for the fish in that group to return to their original size. In other words, it takes less time to shrink than it does to recover. Question: What did Conover find after the first five years of his experiment? Yes or no, is the answer \"The \"keep the big ones\" rule made fish smaller on average.\"?\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Last year The Voice of China, the most popular TV talent show became a popular topic in people's chatting and media information from both home and abroad. It began on July 13, 2012 and ended on September 30, 2012. Liang Bo, a handsome boy from Changchun, Jilin was the champion of The Voice of China in 2012. Before the competition Liang Bo was just an ordinary college student studying music. He captured the hearts of audience with his passionate rock'n'roll performance at the show. Fans described Liang's voice as \"natural, clear and touching''. Although he seemed cool on stage, he could quickly turn on the power once he started singing. \"His performances make you imagine things. When I listen to his singing, I see pictures and think of stories.\" said Na Ying, one of the four judges on the show. She was also Liang's tutor for the competition. Liang Bo, like many young Chinese, he fell in love with music through playing the guitar. Liang got his first guitar as a birthday gift when he was in middle school. He would spend days and nights practicing. \" I can't live without my guitar.\" he said. \" I don't like talking much but I carry great passion inside me,\" Liang said. \" There is no better way to let it out than through music like rock'n'roll. Many people compare Liang to famous Chinese rockers including Xu Wei, Wang Feng and Zheng Jun. But the young man doesn't want to stand in others' shadow. \" I respect those rockers, but I'm not going to copy them. I will be who I am,\" he said.\n\nA: Question: According to the passage, which of the following is Not true?Options:A Liang Bo fell in love with music.B Liang Bo was a college teacher.C Liang Bo was a quiet man.D Liang Bo played the guitar well.Answer:B\n\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: One morning, Bill said he was ill. His mother called a taxi and took him to the doctor. The doctor asked Bill, \"What's the matter, young man?\" Bill answered, \"I'm feeling sick. I'm coughing and having a headache . I won't be able to go to school today, I'm afraid.\" The doctor looked him over carefully, and then asked his mother, \"What did he have for breakfast?\" His mother said, \"He had four pieces of dread, two eggs, a bottle of milk and an orange.\" The doctor smiled, \"Don't worry. It's nothing serious. The boy will be all right after the football match.\" The mother said, \"I don't understand, Doctor.\" The doctor smiled again,\" This afternoon, the biggest football game of the year will be on TV. Your boy doesn't want to miss it. I think he will be fine after the game. You wait and see.\"\n\nA: Question: In fact , _ .Options:A there was something serious with BillB Bill liked watching football matches better than going to schoolC Bill was an honest boyD Bill's mother was a doctor and she knew Bill was not illAnswer:B\n\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Is there a difference in meaning between \"It's too late to telephone. Mary is asleep now.\" and \"It's too late to telephone. Mary will be asleep now.\"? Yes. The difference is in the reason given for it being too late to telephone. In the first sentence \"Mary is asleep now\", the speaker is stating a fact. In the second sentence \"Mary will be asleep now\", the speaker is saying what Mary usually does. In fact, it's possible that Mary isn't asleep, but she is usually asleep at this time. So let's take two situations. In the first case, imagine Mary's mother answers the telephone. You: \"May I speak to Mary, please?\" Mother: \"No. It's too late. Mary is asleep now.\" You: \"Are you sure? It's only 10 0'clock.\" Mother: \"Yes. I went to her room and she was asleep.\" The mother knows that Mary is asleep because she went into her room and saw her. Here is another case. Two friends decide to telephone Mary. Jack: \"Let's telephone Mary. It's 10 0'clock.\" Jill: \"No. It's too late. She will be asleep now.\" Jill knows that Mary always goes to bed before 10 o'clock, so now she'll probably be asleep. But it is also possible that she is staying up late.\n\nA: Question: In the second situation, Jill _ .Options:A knows that Mary has gone to bedB doesn't know whether Mary is asleepC is sure that Mary cannot answer the telephoneD thinks it's possible that Mary cannot answer the telephoneAnswer:D\n\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Students learn their lessons in class. In class teachers teach them. Students sit in the classroom listening to the teacher. This is a way of learning. Is this the only way for students to learn something? Of course not. There is another way to learn: students can teach themselves. For example, if you can't remember something when you are doing your homework, you can look at your book to find the answer. This is a way to teach yourself. And it is not a difficult thing. We can do this at any place and at any time. How do you teach yourself? The first thing you must do is reading. Read something you are interested in. or you have to read. The second is that you must ask yourself questions. The question is something you don't understand, or you want to know more about. You can write down these questions. A clever student is usually good at asking questions. The third is to answer the question yourself by thinking hard, by reading the passage or other books, and sometimes by asking other people. This is the way of teaching yourself. And you must do this all by yourself. If you keep doing like for a long time, you are sure to succeed in your study.\n\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Question: A clever student usually likes _ .Options:A asking questionsB answering questionsC finding answersD teaching othersAnswer:A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Having good etiquette at the workplace is very important to be a favorite in an office.However,it's observed that many people aren't aware of the workplace etiquette and this creates a very bad impression in the office.So it's important to know some workplace etiquette tips. Among all the workplace etiquette guidelines,the most important is to be punctual to your office.Though going late due to an emergency is okay,habitual late comers are never appreciated in any organization.By arriving at your office on time,you show that you're aware of your responsibilities and have respect for the organization.In case you feel that you would be late,call the concerned authority and report the matter to him or her. Also,a proper knowledge of the workplace email etiquette is a must.In the official emails,you need to mention the subject concisely,while at the same time include all the important details which are to be shared.You should use good and grammatically correct language while writing emails. A knowledge of telephone etiquette in the workplace is very important as well.While talking on the telephone,be polite and listen to what they're saying carefully.Only then should you say what you feel.Speak in a voice which would be heard clearly at the other end. The workplace guidelines are important even while you're dining or celebrating with your coworkers.If you get a call in between,receive it after you're permitted by the others by saying \"excuse me\".Don't talk loudly while eating.Greet people well and try to make them feel comfortable while being in your company. These guidelines will help you become the best employee of a company.All the best! Question: Which of the following is considered NOT acceptable about making phone calls in the workplace? - Using polite language. - Listening with patience and care. - Speaking clearly. - Answering a call whenever it comes in.\n(Answer)\nAnswering a call whenever it comes in.\n\n\n(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: The Come-back Coffeehouse The sign in the window read\"Carl's Coffee Shoppe,\"spelled the old-fashioned way.Hallie shook her head and wondered how many times she had suggested an alternative.She entered the shop and saw only one person. \"I could help with the books,Dad\",Hallie offered,\"There's not much you could do.\"Her father signed.\"How about if you clean the counters instead?\"His statement made her feel like a little girl instead of a senior in high school.Hallie sprayed some cleanser and ran a cloth over the worn countertops,After she had washed a few of the old eggshell-color1ed cups,she began her homework.At closing time,Hallie's parents sat beside her.\"You know the shop has not been profitable lately,\"Mr.Rhodes began.\"We need to decide if it is even worth keeping it open.\"\"We're going to visit Uncle Harold over spring vacation.\"Mrs,Rhodes continued.\"He can look over the books and tell us what our options are.You and Aunt Tess will run the shop for the week.\" By spring vacation Hallie was ready for an adventure.Hllie's parents gave some instructions,and said good-bye.Hallie stared absently out the window at the passersby:young people on their way to work,and kids on their school vacation.They were not the same people that her grandpa Carl had served.Suddenly Hallie had an idea.She confided in Aunt Tess,who approved.The two eagerly set to work. At the end of the week,Hallie was coming out from the kitchen when she saw her parents standing in the shop,confused.She smiled as her parents staredat the teens around the counter and the young families seated at the tables. \"Welcome back!\"Hallie swept her arms to present the restaurant'scheerful new decoration.Bright,attractive coverings spread over the tables,and modern posters hung on the walls,while,color1ful mismatched dishes contributed to the pleasant atmosphere.\" I brought board games from home,\"Hallie added excitedly,\"and the bookstore down the street donated the posters.When we talked to our friendsabout what we were doing,they were happy to give us some... Question: What did Hallie do after her parents left? - She advertised for the shop. - She made the shop more attractive. - She invited her friends to the shop. - She turned the shop into an activity center.\n(Answer)\nShe made the shop more attractive.\n\n\n(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: I had in my hand a sheet of paper with handwritten instructions on it for some sort of editorial task.It occurred at first that I did not recognize the handwriting,and then I realized whose it must be.I finally became aware of the fact that I had been working with this colleague for at least a year,maybe two,and yet I did not recognize her handwriting at that point. It was a very important event in the computerization of life--a sign that the informal.friendly communication of people working together in an office had changed from notes in pen to instant messages and emails.There was a time when our workdays were filled with little letters,and we recognized one another's handwriting the way we knew voices or faces. As a child visiting my father's office,I was pleased to recognize,in little notes on the desks of his staff,the same handwriting I would see at home in the notes he would leave on the fridge-- except that those notes were signed\"dad\"instead of\"RFW\". All this has been on my mind because of the talk aboutThe Rise and Fall of Handwriting,a book by Florey.She shows in her book a deep concern about the fall of handwriting and the failure of schools to teach children to write well,but many others argue that people in a digital age can't be expected to learn to hold a pen. I don't buy it. I don't want to see anyone cut off from the expressive,personal associations that a pen still promotes better than a digital keyboard does.For many a biographer,part of really getting to know their subjects is learning to read their handwriting. What some people advocate is teaching one of the many attractive handwritings based on the handwriting of 16th--century Italy.That may sound impossibly grand--as if they want kids to learn to draw by copying classical paintings.However,they have worked in many school systems. Question: The author's father wrote notes in pen _ . - to both his family and his staff - to his family in small letters - to his family on the fridge - to his staff on the desk\n(Answer)\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "to both his family and his staff", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Do you have any friends? What do you think of friendship ? Here are some opinions from Ann,Pedro,Crystal and Roy. Ann comes from Japan!She likes to have friends who really care about her. She thinks a true friend won't leave her alone when she is in trouble. Besides,she hopes they can teach her English. Pedro is from Canada. He thinks that friendship means giving. If you want others to care about you,you must care about them first. Crystal was born in China. She has the same opinion with Pedro. The real meaning of friendship is giving others something instead of thinking about taking anything back. What about Roy from Japan? He doesn't care about the looks of his friends. In his opinion,a sincere heart is more important than looks. If you are in the same country with Roy,you can write emails to him. Question: What are the people above talking about? Answer:\n\nAnswer: The meaning of friendship.\n\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: In the summer of 2011 my friend and I decided to go to Italy for a holiday and we decided to travel there without going through a travel agency. You know, you would not be seen among the tourists and lose lots of chances to get familiar with the country more closely. We started to think over our trip and tried to come up with a free tour to Italy. The trip was not very long but it was so exciting that we never forgot. We look forward to going there again! Of course, we spent lots of time arranging the trip, but it was well worth it! Of course I was afraid that something would go wrong and I was especially worried about my visa, but everything went quite well in the end. The most difficult part was getting a visa without an invitation. In the Italian consulate , one must hand in some official paper proving that one has a hotel booked for oneself in order to get the visa. Then we had to solve the ticket problem. Airlines often sell cheap tickets and we bought ours far earlier. The next step was to book a hotel. We finally booked a hotel about 30 km away from the centre of Rome and it was the perfect choice for our trip. Every day we took a train that carried us to the centre of Rome. Our big house was among the forest. The beautiful views, nice hosts, comfortable living conditions made us happy to no end. Besides this, we were very lucky that our hostess was Russian. She gave us a lot of advice that was of great use. She told us what transport to choose and where the best places to go. Don't be afraid to arrange your trip by yourself. It's not difficult! The only thing I'll say right now is that we really enjoy travelling by ourselves. We walked with a map and a guide-book wherever we wanted to go and we even met some of our countrymen on the way just two or three times. So, if you're also planning a \"single\" trip, don't forget to take a Russian-Italian phrasebook as people in Italy prefer to speak in their local language. Question: The hardest thing in preparing for his Italian trip was _ . Answer:\n\nAnswer: getting a visa from the Italian consulate without an invitation\n\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: If we are driving a car or crossing a street, we will stop when the traffic lights turn red. Why do we use red rather than other colors? As we know, scattering happens when light goes through the air. For the same media, if the wavelength is long, the scattering will be short. If the wavelength is short, then the scattering will be long. Of all light we can see red has the longest wavelength, so the scattering is the weakest. That means the red light travels far. In fact, it travels farther on rainy days. Using the red light can help drivers in farther areas see the lights. It helps drivers slow down or stop in time. If drivers don't see the red light until they are close, they may not be able to stop the car in time. An accident may happen. Red can also excite people. We can act more quickly when we see the color red. In a word, red light helps drivers stop in time and help prevent accidents. Question: The passage mainly tells us _ . Answer:\n\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "why we use red traffic lights", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: America is the world's largest food exporter . But the worst drought in half a century is hitting corn and wheat harvests. By twenty-fifty, the world will have to produce at least sixty percent more food to feed more and more people. China, a major food importer , is looking to producers around the world to make sure it can get enough food in the future. The serious drought in the United States is adding to care about world food and prices. China has invested in food production in Australia and New Zealand. A new source of food is Ukraine. Ukraine was known as the breadbasket of Europe because of rich corn and wheat harvests a century ago. Galyna Kovtok is chief manager of Ukraine's largest agricultural business, ULF. She says that within a few months her company will export corn to China. That will make Ukraine the first country outside the Americas to do so. Across the Black Sea area -- in Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan -- drought this year is pushing harvests down by fifteen to twenty percent. Traditionally, the Black Sea area is the main source of wheat for North Africa and the Middle East. But this year, Russia may have to _ exports. However, Africa and the Middle East are now having competition with China. Question: We can know from the passage that America _ . Options: A: has a good wheat harvest this summer B: will import wheat from other countries C: suffers a lot from the drought D: won't be the world's largest food exporter any more\nC\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: If you think GM food sounds far away from you, you are totally wrong. In fact, you may eat GM food every day. Four of every five people in the world are eating GM food, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. According to Xinhua News Agency, in China, the only GM plants that are grown for sale are cotton and papaya. Also, China buys some GM plants from other countries, such as soybeans and corn. The GM plants are used to make other products. A reporter once said, \"In China, more than half of cooking oil is soybean oil. And 90 percent of that oil is made from GM soybeans.\" So it's possible that we eat GM food every day! Scientists have changed GM plants' DNA in a laboratory. Scientists usually do this to protect plants against bugs and diseases and have more _ . Many people think it's against nature. Also, they worry that eating such food might be bad for their health. Is GM food safe? There's no agreement. Some people say that GM food causes tumors. But there are no long-term safety studies about GM food. If you want to stay away from GM food, you can start by checking the cooking oil in your home. Question: Which of the following is NOT TURE according to the passage? Options: A: In fact, GM food isn't far away from us. B: People use the GM plants to make other products. C: In China, about a quarter of cooking oil is soybean oil. D: Some people say that the GM food causes tumors.\nC\n\nQ: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: This year I am very busy doing my Christmas shopping. I really never find what I want, and many things my daughter wants are not in shops or their price is too high. You know children don't think about the price much. So I have to buy some online . I never think about online shopping before now. I have a few friends and they do online present shopping every year. So I ask them for help. First, they tell me to start shopping early. And then you need to be careful with the delivery charge because they can be very different. My friends also tell me that online shopping is easy, but I should get into good _ . And last but important, they tell me that if I feel good about a site, there may be a good reason. So they say I need find the reason before I buy things on it. Question: We can learn _ from the passage. Options: A: the writer feels free for buying presents B: the writer's daughter likes things online C: the writer is good at buying things online D: people should start Christmas online shopping early\nA: D\n\nQuestion: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Young people can have problems with their minds.Some students become worried because they have to study very hard.Others have trouble getting on well with people like their parents and classmates. Liu Wei,a junior 2 student from Hefei,could not understand his teacher and was doing badly in his lessons.He became so worried about it that he started to cut his finger with a knife. Another student,14-year-old Yan Fang from Guangzhou,was afraid of exams.She got very worried when she looked at the exam paper.She couldn't think of anything to write. A recent report from Jiefang Daily says about 18% of Shanghai teenagers have mental problems.Their troubles include being worried and very unhappy.And they have problems in learning and getting on with people.Many students who have problems won't ask others for advice or help.Some think they will look stupid if they go to see a doctor.Others don't want to talk about their secret. Liang Yuezhu,an expert on teenagers from Beijing Anding Hospital has the following advice for teenagers: * Talk to your parents or teachers often * Take part in group activities and play sports * Go to see a doctor if you feel unhappy or unwell Question: Yang Fang's problems happened whenever _ . Options: A: she studied very hard B: she had exams C: she talked with her parents D: she thought of something\nAnswer: B\n\n(Q).\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: It was the first day of class. Two of her new ESL (English as a Second Language) classmates wanted to know where Tara was from. They were both from Korea. Because Tara looked Korean, one of the women asked Tara, in English, if she was from Korea. Tara replied, \"No, I'm not.\" Then the women took turns asking Tara if she was from Japan, or Thailand, or China. To each question, Tara answered them a simple no. Laughing, one woman said to the other, \"She's not from anywhere!\" The two went to their desks, talking to each other in Korean. The next day, the teacher divided the students into groups of four. The students in each group asked introductory questions of each other. A student in Tara's group asked her, \"Where are you from?\" Tara answered that she was from Korea. The two women who had questioned Tara the day before were sitting only a few feet away. Both of them heard Tara's answer. \"Aha!\" they both _ , \"You ARE from Korea!\" Tara smiled and said yes. Then she apologized to both of them for lying the day before. She told them that she had not wanted to get into a Korean conversation with them. It had been her experience that many ESL students continued to speak their mother language in ESL class, and Tara had not come to ESL class to practice her Korean. In her opinion, ESL students should try to speak English only. \"I agree.\" said Rose. \"You're 100 percent right.\" agreed Jenny, \"Rose and I must stop speaking Korean to each other. Right,Rose?\" Rose nodded,and then said something in Korean. All three women laughed. The next half a year, Tara became friendly with both women, although she never spoke a word of Korean to them during class or break. Question: From the passage, we can infer that _ . Options: A: Tara said she was from Korea because she knew the student in her group was also from Korea B: Tara said she was from Korea because she wanted to make friends with the student in her group C: Tara said she wasn't from Korea because she didn't want Rose and Jenny to speak Korean with her the following days D: Tara said she wasn't from Korea because she didn't like Rose and Jenny and wasn't willing to speak Korean with them\n(A).\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Please answer this: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Nearly 300 miles long, up to 18 miles across and 4000 vertical feet down, the 8th new wonder: the splendid Grand Canyon . Viewing its glory, President Theodore Roosevelt called the Grand Canyon \"a natural wonder, ly unparalleled throughout the rest of the world\". He urged Americans to preserve what he described as the \"wonderful greatness, the nobleness, the great loneliness and the beauty of the canyon\". More than a hundred years later, it's still easy to see why almost 5 million annual visitors call the Grand Canyon a wonder. The canyon stretches as far as the eye can see. Some 5 or 6 million years ago, the Colorado River rushed through this land, carving out the massive canyon we see today, exposing even older layers of rock previously buried. Geologists say some are 2,000 million years old. Native Americans were the first people to make these rocky walls as their homes about 12,000 years ago. Today the Hualapi and Havasupai Indians live deep in the canyon, balancing age-old traditions with modernity. There are no roads to this village; mules carry the mail here. But at the same time, the tribes are designing a skywalk that promises an excellent view over the canyon early next year. The bald eagle, wild and endangered American icon is another longtime resident of the Grand Canyon. Options: A Bush B Clinton C Roosevelt D Washington Answer: C Roosevelt Question:\n++++++++\nAnswer: President _ sang high praise for the Grand Canyon.\n\n\nPlease answer this: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: The sound of the rain hitting the windows wakes me up and it sounds just exactly as it did 15 years ago, which reminded me of my girlhood. It was my second day of school and it was raining heavily. I could not resist the habit I had at home, so I fell asleep right at my desk. I woke up to find myself not in the classroom but carried on Dad's back. We were halfway home. It was the last time I felt close to him. After that, he never carried me or hugged me as other fathers did to their children. I was not bothered much by this thought. I was proud of it, for I felt independent and \"grown up.\" However, there were times when I felt depressed by not having sought comfort from him. One day, I was writing Chinese characters as homework. I hated doing this more than anything. Dad came and stood behind me for a moment, watching me scratching the paper. Then he said, \"This kind of writing needs patience. Your writing is not strong enough. Press harder.\" I follow his advice for the next two words, but as I could see little improvement, I followed my own method----the fast way. His advice did not improve my writing but our relationship. As I grew older, I found out that he had finished his schooling in Grade 6, which was the highest grade in the town then, so he was considered to be a scholar. People used to ask him to write something to put on the walls, but he never felt very useful. He often said to me, \"As you can see, this family is going to count on you. We are useless to improve you anything for your future.You have to get an education to change the life for yourself.\" As a result of his expectation, I have made it through high school and through college. Options: A to introduce her father. B to demonstrate people her attitude toward life. C to encourage people to follow their fathers' suggestions. D to show what matters to her personal development. Answer: D to show what matters to her personal development. Question:\n++++++++\nAnswer: What was the author's purpose in writing this passage?\n\n\nPlease answer this: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Well-known lines by Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu describe a sad scene in early April: \"The ceaseless drizzle drips all the dismal day. So broken-hearted fares the traveler on the way.(,)\". In China, Qingming Day, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, falls every April. People visit their ancestors' graves to clean away the dirt. Schools sometimes organize a trip to a local martyr's park where students show their respect for those who lost their lives in revolutionary wars. In most Western countries there is no equivalent of tomb-sweeping day, but people still value the opportunity to remember loved ones. On the anniversary of a death, s visit the cemetery. Often they will leave flowers. In the US, the last Monday of May is Memorial Day. It is a holiday to show respect for those who died defending the country. The most common way to recognize the day is to wear a small piece of yellow ribbon on the chest. People also fly their own American flags. Sometimes they put a small flag on their car, tied to the antenna .Flags are also flown in yards. In the morning, all flags should be flown at half-mast in honor of fallen soldiers. In Britain, people wear red paper replica poppies in November in remembrance of those who died or were injured in all fighting, but most particularly in World War I. Why the poppy? It goes back to a poem written by John McCrae in 1915. He saw the fragile flowers growing on the graves of soldiers. McCrae wrote: \"In Flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row.\" The poppies make people think of fields of blood. The flowers also live only briefly, like the soldiers who fell in the war. Options: A People don't go to work. B In the morning, all flags should be flown at half-mast in honor of fallen soldiers. C People fly their own American flags; sometimes they put a small flag on the car, tied to the antenna. D People wear a small piece of yellow ribbon on the chest. Answer: A People don't go to work. Question:\n++++++++\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "What has nothing to do with Memorial Day in the US?", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Ques:Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Common sense would tell us that physically active children may be more likely to become active and healthy adults. In the United States, elementary and middle schools are advised to give students two and a half hours of physical activity a week. That is what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Heart Association recommend. They say high schools should provide about four hours of physical activity each week. Yet many schools across the country have reduced their physical education programs. Just this week, a study reported that life _ has fallen or is no longer increasing in some parts of the United States. The situation is worst among poor people in the southern states, and especially women. Public health researchers say it is largely the result of increases in fatness, smoking and high blood pressure. They also blame differences in health services around the country. In 2006, a study found that only four percent of primary schools provided daily physical education all year for all grades. This was true of eight percent of middle schools and two percent of high schools. The study also found that twenty-two percent of all schools did not require students to take any P.E. Charlene Burgeson , a health expert says one problem for P.E. teachers is that schools are under pressure to put more time into academic subjects. Also, parents may agree that children need exercise in school. Yet many parents today still have bad memories of being chosen last for teams because teachers favored the good athletes in class. But experts say P.E. classes have changed. They say the goal has moved away from competition and toward personal performance, as a way to build a lifetime of activity. These days, teachers often lead activities like weight training and yoga. Some parents like the idea of avoiding competitive sports in P.E. class. Yet others surely dislike that idea. In the end, schools may find themselves in a no-win situation. Question: What is the main idea about this passage? - P.E. is the most important subject for all students. - P.E has changed its goal for some reasons in America. - It introduces us the present situation of P.E in American schools and its cause. - P.E can help students improve their academic subjects.\n\nAns:It introduces us the present situation of P.E in American schools and its cause.\n-----\nQues:Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: It just may be the world's most costly vacuum cleaner ( ). The price of CleanSpace One is eleven million dollars. But yet, it has a big job to do. Recently, researchers in Switzerland said they planned to build this new cleaning machine. CleanSpace One will not be for use in homes or businesses. It will be shot into space to help remove thousands of pieces of space junk floating around up there. Last year, we reported on the problem of space junk. Over time, many unused spacecraft have hit each other far above the Earth. Big pieces break into thousands of small pieces. Sometimes they fall back into the atmosphere and burn up. But when they do not, it creates big problems. Scientists fear that if something is not done to remove these objects, it may soon become too dangerous to send people and machines into space. There is a large chance that they might hit some of this junk. So that is why the Swiss researchers are developing the new machine. CleanSpace One is not really a vacuum cleaner. It will not be used to take away space junk. But scientists plan to move it close to an old satellite that is no longer being used. Then a claw-like instrument will catch the satellite, and force it back through the atmosphere. There, the satellite will be destroyed by the heat of friction with the air. Researchers say that all they need to do is slow down the speed of some of these unwanted objects. Once they begin to move more slowly, they will fall back to the Earth. There is little chance that they will fall through the atmosphere and harm the people or things below. Question: Space junk is created when _ . - unused spacecraft hit each other - people in space throw away rubbish - a new spaceship is sent up - an old spaceship creates friction with the air\n\nAns:unused spacecraft hit each other\n-----\nQues:Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: The British Museum Description: The British Museum is a museum in London, which is one of the world's greatest museums of human history and culture. Its collections, which number more than 13 million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present. The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions. Until 1997, when the British Library (previously centered on the Round Reading Room)moved to a new site, the British Museum housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Since 2002 the director of the museum has been Neil MacGregor. Admission and opening hours: The museum is open every day from 10am to 6pm (Fridays 10am to 5:30pm)and it charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions. How to get there: By train: 7:00-18:30 every day. By Underground: 8:00-18:30 every day. By bus: 7:30-18:30 every day. By coach: 7:00--19:30 every day. Nearest underground stations: Tottenham Court Road (500m) Holborn (500m) Russell Square (800m) Question: You are at the Museum at seven in the evening and you want to go back to Oxford. Which means of transportation will you choose? - By coach. - By bus. - By train. - By underground.\n\nAns:By coach.\n-----\nQues:Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: The federal government is about to make a huge investment in high school. As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Congress has put aside more than $100 billion, including a competitive \"Race to the Top\" fund that encourages innovation in public schools. But the real revolution, hidden in the Race to the Top guidelines released by the Department of Education last month, is that high school has a new mission. No longer is it enough just for senior graduate students, or even prepare them for college. Schools must now show how they increase both college enrollment and the number of students who complete at least a year of college. In other words, high schools must now focus on grade 13. Some states, school districts and nonprofit educational organizations have begun to gather data about how freshmen get along in college after graduation, but they haven't made fast progress. Florida has one of the best systems, but even it can't explain a high school graduate who enrolls in college in another state. The nation is asking principals to deliver students who can succeed in college, without ensuring they know whether what they're doing is working. The Department of Education has begun to solve this problem by instructing states on how to keep good records of its graduates' progress in college. This gives high schools the two pieces of information they most need: their college enrollment rate and \"college proficiency\" rate (the speed with which graduates complete a year of college-level coursework). Race to the Top has finally established a realistic purpose for high school in the 21st century. If principals can now get the support they need to fulfill that purpose, high schools can once again be top producers of American potential . Question: Why does the Congress set up the \"Race to the Top\" fund? - Because the Congress wants to keep it in case of emergency. - Because the Congress wants to use it to support the poor students. - Because the Congress wants to encourage the students to create something. - Because the Congress wants to keep it for election.\n\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Because the Congress wants to encourage the students to create something.\n-----", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: A sense of humor is just one of the many things shared by Alfred and Anthony Melillo, 64-year-old twin brothers from East Haven who made history in February 2002. On Christmas Eve, 1992, Anthony had a heart transplant from a 21-year-old donor. Two days before Valentine's Day in 2002, Alfred received a 19-year-old heart, marking the first time on record that twin adults each received heart transplants. \"I'm 15 minutes older than him, but now I'm younger because of my heart and I'm not going to respect him,\" Alfred said with a big smile, pointing to his brother while talking to a roomful of reporters, who laughed frequently at their jokes. While the twins knew that genetics might have played a role in their condition, they recognized that their eating habits might have also contributed to their heart problems. \"We'd put half a pound of butter on a steak. I overdid it on all the food that tasted good, so I guess I deserved what I got for not dieting properly.\" The discussion moved to Anthony's recovery. In the five years since his heart transplant, he had been on an exercise program where he regularly rode a bicycle for five miles, swam each day, and walked a couple of miles. He was still on medication, but not nearly as much as Alfred, who was just in the early stage of his recovery. \"Right now I feel pretty young and I'm doing very well,\" Anthony said. \"I feel like a new person.\" Alfred said his goal, of course, was to feel even better than his brother. But, he added, \"I love my brother very much. We're very close and I'm sure we'll do just fine.\" Options: A he had a more successful heart transplant B he recovered faster from the transplant C he was born 15 minutes earlier than Anthony D his new heart was younger than Anthony's Answer: D his new heart was younger than Anthony's Question:\n****\n[A]: Alfred said he was younger than Anthony because _ .\n\n\ninput: Please answer the following: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Ellen Parker was worried about her health. She couldn't walk very quickly and it was difficult for her to climb stairs,she was soon out of breath. \"I suppose I had better go to the doctor,\" she thought. She went to the doctor and told him her problem. \"I'm not at all surprised,\" he said. \"It's clear what your problem is.\" He examined her and then gave her some advice. \"If you don't do what I say,Mrs Parker,\" he said,\"then you will have a heart attack. It could kill you. \" Ellen was very worried as she left the doctor's. She knew that she had to take his advice but that it would not be easy and that it would take time. The next day she went shopping.The first shop she went into was a butcher's shop. \"I'd like ten pounds of steak,please,\" she said. \"Certainly,madam,\" the butcher replied and went into the cold storage room and found a large piece of steak. He brought the huge piece of meat back into the shop and placed it on the scale . \"That's just under ten pounds,\" he said. The butcher worked out the price. \"At $4.99 a pound that will be $45.50 please. Shall I cut it up into small pieces for you?\" \"Oh,I don't want to buy the meat,\" Mrs Parker said. \"If you don't want to buy it,\" the butcher replied,\"why did you ask me to get it for you?\" \"I just wanted to see what 10 pounds of meat looked like. \" Options: A she had had a heart attack B she was unhappy about her weight C she had a problem with her health D she couldn't sleep well Answer: C she had a problem with her health Question:\n++++++++++\noutput: Mrs Ellen Parker visited her doctor because _ .\n\n\nPlease answer this: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most loved children's books of all time, and many adults enjoy it as well. It tells the story of a young girl named Alice, who follows a rabbit entering a magical world called Wonderland: she has many experiences which seem to change the rules of reasoning or common sense. The popularity of the book comes from its imagination, interesting story, and art work. The writer of the book is Lewis Carroll. In fact, Lewis Carroll was not the writer's real name. His real name was Charles Dodgson. One day, he took a boat ride down the Thames River to have a picnic with three little girls who were friends of the family. To keep them entertained on the ride, he told them a story in which Alice, the middle child, was the main character. They enjoyed the story very much. Charles later wrote the story down under the name Alice's Adventures under Ground and gave it to Alice as a Christmas present. Later, he gave a copy to his friend George MacDonald. George read it to his children and they loved it. George suggested to Charles that he make a book from his story. Charles then wrote more parts to the story until it was around 35,000 words. It was first printed in 1866, with art work by John Tenniel, under the name Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book was an immediate success. One of its first fans was Queen Victoria. She immediately requested a collection of all of Lewis Carroll's works. She was surprised to find that they included many works on math. In fact, Charles Dodgson was a highly respected mathematician. This can be seen in many puzzles and plays on reasoning that appear in his books and poems. Since the story was first printed, it has kept selling up to the present day. It has been translated into over fifty languages and has had several movies based on it. The story is even mentioned in the popular 1999 film The Matrix by the character Morpheus. Options: A The writer published his works under his real name. B The character Alice was based on from George's child. C John contributed partly to the popularity of the book. D Charles offered a copy to George as a present. Answer: C John contributed partly to the popularity of the book. Question:\n++++++++\nAnswer: Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?\n\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: When Tom finished his studies at the university , he began to look around for a job. He did not know what he would like to do, but one of his uncles had worked for the government for thirty years, and he advised Tom to try to get a job of the same kind, so he went for an exam one day. He was successful, and his first job was in a large government office in London. When Tom had been working there for a few weeks, his uncle came to visit the family one Saturday evening. He was pleased that his nephew had got a job working for the government, and he asked him a lot of questions about it. One of the questions he asked was, \"How many people work in your department , Tom?\" The young man thought for a few moments and then answered, \"About half of them, Uncle Jim.\" Options: A what his nephew was doing B how his nephew was getting on with his job C whether his nephew could understand him or not D what his nephew had expected Answer: B how his nephew was getting on with his job Question:\n\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "The uncle wanted to find out _ .", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: It was a very foggy day in London. The fog was so thick that it was impossible to see more than a foot or so. Buses, cars and taxis were not able to run and were standing by the side of the road. People were trying to find their way about on foot but were losing their way in the fog. Mr. Smith had a very important meeting at the House of Commons and had to get there but no one could take him. He tried to walk there but found he was quite lost. Suddenly he bumped into a stranger. The stranger asked if he could help him. Mr. Smith said he wanted to get to the Houses of Parliament. The stranger told him he would take him there. Mr. Smith thanked him and they started to walk there. The fog was getting thicker every minute but the stranger had no difficulty in finding the way. He went along one street, turned down another, crossed a square and at last after about half an hour's walk they arrived at the Houses of Parliament. Mr. Smith couldn't understand how the stranger found his way. \"It is wonderful,\" he said. \"How do you find the way in the fog?\" \"It is no trouble at all to me,\" said the stranger, \"I am blind.\" Question: Which of the following statements are NOT true? Answer: | OPTIONS:\n- The stranger has a better sight than Mr. Smith.\n- Heavy fog can cause traffic accidents.\n- It's easy to get lost in a foggy day.\n- The fog was getting thicker and thicker.\nA: The stranger has a better sight than Mr. Smith.\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Dinner, for the English people, is the richest meal of a day and is, different from Chinese dinner, a very formal meal. Many people even wear special clothes for dinner. So if you are asked out to dinner, you must find out whether you are expected to wear a formal suit. You would feel upset if, when you got there, you were the only person in ordinary clothes. Dinner is generally served at about half past seven. All the members of the family sit down together and are on their best behavior. The guest of honor will sit on the right of the lady of the house. There are two schools of thought as to the seating of the hostess. One is that she sits at the foot of the table but this may mess up the man-woman-man setting order. The other way is for the guest of honor to sit at the foot and the hostess to sit on his right. The wife of the guest of honor will sit on the right of the host. This is subject to change according to the wishes of your employer. During the meal when conversation is carried on, you should try to get into conversation with the person on your right or left, but you should not try to talk to someone who is a long way from you. Don't forget to drop your hosts a thank-you note or make a brief phone call. Question: Your wearing a special clothes for dinner shows that _ . Answer: | OPTIONS:\n- you are a special person\n- you are a rich person\n- you are a person with good manners\n- you are the most important guest\nA: you are a person with good manners\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: There is one thing that everyone wants more than anything else. Some people try to get it by making money. They think that when they have enough money to buy such things as houses, farms, and cars, they will have the one thing that everyone wants. Other people believe that if they know enough they will find this thing. They study all their lives in search of it. Still others think that if they have power,they will find this thing. They keep telling themselves:When I am a boss,I will no longer have to search for this thing. What is it that everyone wants more than anything else?What is it that all of us keep working and striving for each day?It is happiness.Happiness is a strange thing. It does not mean the same to all men. What _ will _ make _ one _ man _ happy _ may _ not _ make _ another _ man _ happy. Some men say that happiness comes from helping others;other men say that happiness comes from making life more pleasant for everyone. What do you mean when you say: \"That makes me happy.\" Read what different people have said about happiness. Perhaps you will learn something that will bring you peace of mind, comfort, money or it may be what you search for--happiness. Question: When I am a boss,I will no longer have to search for this thing. This sentence means \" _ \". Answer: | OPTIONS:\n- When I have power,I will have happiness\n- Being a boss is more important than feeling happy\n- When I become a boss,I will never search for happiness\n- Boss and this thing mean the same to boss and I\nA: When I have power,I will have happiness\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Over the holidays, I took my three young children into a fancy chocolate shop to buy gifts. Halfway home, I noticed my 7-year-old son playing with a plastic noisemaker. Long story short: He had stolen the toy. I kept my cool -- even when he said, \"but it was only $1.50, Mom!\" --and explained why it was unacceptable to take things we didn't buy. A few hours later, I marched my son back to the store with two dollars from his piggy bank. He walked embarrassedly to the counter and told the clerk that he had taken something without paying for it, that he was sorry to break it and that he would pay for it now. I know exactly how terrible he was feeling. Returning to the scene of the crime is the same shame-causing punishment I received when I was five and stole something from a store. 1 remember my dad sending me back to return the item. It remains one of my clearest child- hood memories. After that day, I never stole again. My dad taught me such an important lesson 30 years ago and I saw an opportunity to do the same for my son. But now I wonder if it was the fight thing to do. \"Returning to the store is absolutely the right thing to do,\" Laura Markham, Ph.D., a child psychologist and author of Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids, says. \"Many children steal -- they' re not born knowing the rules so it' s our job to teach them.\" And stay calm when you set them. \"If you overreact or yell, you might create a fascination with the behavior and a willful child will be more likely to fight against you,\" she says. Having a child physically return the stolen item helps him or her grasp the situation -- and the consequence. But don't talk about it for too long. \"lf you continuously bring up the incident, the child will believe they' re a thief and that they' re bad,\" she says. Only time will tell if this experience will have the same powerful effect on my son as it had on me, but at the same time I can rest if I haven' t dealt with the situation badly. Question: When the author' s son was caught playing with a stolen toy, he _ . Answer: | OPTIONS:\n- responded calmly\n- felt very ashamed\n- didn't think it was a big deal\n- didn't admit stealing the toy\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: didn't think it was a big deal", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: John is a good boy. He studies hard and is never late for school. He has a lot of friends. And he often helps them and they like him. But he always thinks himself the cleverest in his class and looks down upon others. This term a new student, Fred, comes to his class. He's thin and short and never talks with the boys. So no children know him well. And John laugh at him.But he doesn't mind it at all. One day John goes to Mike's birthday party. He sings, dance and show all his talents to the children. After that he says to Fred, \"What are you going to show us, my friend?\" \"I'm not clever,\" says Fred.\"Can you guess some of my riddles ?\" \"Certainly, I can,\"says John. Fred tells some riddles, but John can't guess any.At last the boy says,\"Now I'll tell the easiest riddle. Listen to me carefully. You'll guess it this time. An animal has two heads, six legs, a long nose and a short nose. Can you tell me what it is?\" John thinks hard and hard, but can't guess it. His face turn red and says,\"What's it?\" \"It's a man riding an elephant!\" John doesn't say anything any longer at the party. Question: No children know Fred well because _ . Options: A: he doesn't answer any questions in class B: he comes from a village C: he's often late for class D: he never talks with others\nD\n\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: The red phone box in Britain is a perfect example of the British traditional culture. However, with the fast development of mobile phones, it has lost its place in people's everyday life. In order to save their loved red phone boxes, people have come up with many ideas, for example, to turn them into toilets or art houses. In a village in Somerset, a place in South West England, villagers have found a new way to save their red phone box. They turned it into a mini library to deal with the shortage of libraries in their area. The idea was given by a local villager, Janet Fisher, who lives opposite the phone box. Villagers got together to set up the book box. Over 100 books and a lot of movies and music CDs are available at this mini library. The books are of different kinds, including from cooking books to the classics and children's books. People can put the books that they have read inside the phone box, and take away the books that they'd like to read. The books are always changing. There is a regular check on the books to keep the phone box collection fresh. Anyone is free to come to read books there. The phone box library is open every day around the clock and is lit (the past form of \"light\") at night. \" It's very pleasing that the red phone box has been saved. More importantly, it can continue providing a service for us,\" said one of the villagers. Question: The red phone box has been a symbol of _ . Options: A: the British culture B: the European art of building C: the development of mobile phones D: British people's daily life\nA\n\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Do you want to be in good health? Try to do the following things! You can become strong. Drink eight cups of water every day. Water helps your body in many ways. If you feel......,have a cup of water. Don't forget to eat your breakfast. Breakfast gives you everything your body needs for the morning. So do not forget your breakfast. Calcium . Your bones need it. Milk has more calcium. You may also drink orange juice with calcium in it. Go for a walk every day after meals. Walking is a good exercise, and people need exercise for good health, It's better to walk after meals. Stretch for five minutes after sitting for one or two hours. Stretching your arms and legs is good for your body. Use your brain every day. For example, you can do crossword puzzles or read a new book. Have a rest about twenty minutes when you are tired. You may do something different to have a break. For example,get up and walk. Or sit down to listen to music. Question: It's better to take a walk after meals, isn't it? Options: A: NO, it isn't B: Yes, it is C: No, it doesn't D: Yes, it was\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: One morning , Mr. Black is driving in the country and looking for the Sun Hotel. When he sees an old woman on the side of the road, he stops his car and says to the woman, \"Excuse me, I want to go to the Sun Hotel, do you know it?\" \"Yes, \"the woman says, \"I'll show you the way. \"She gets into Mr. Black's car, and they drive about twelve kilometers. When they come to a small house, the old woman says, \"stop here. \"Mr. Black stops, and looks at house. \"But this is not a hotel. \"He says to the old woman. \"No, \"the old woman answers, \"This is my house. And I'll show you the way to the hotel. Turn round and go back nine kilometers. Then you'll see the hotel!\" Question: Which is right? - The woman doesn't know the way to the hotel - The old woman doesn't get off and goes back to the hotel with Mr. Black - Mr. Black drives twenty-four kilometers all together - Mr. Black drives more than eighteen kilometers than fact .\nMr. Black drives more than eighteen kilometers than fact .\n\n(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Many people take trains for their trips in China, because the train is fast and cheap. But there are many problems when people take trains. It's not easy to take trains when it is a festival. Lots of people hope someone can solve the problems. Then, the CRH trains come out. The first CRH train from Beijing to Tianjin runs in August, 2008. CRH1 and CRH2 can go up to 200 km/h, and CRH3 can run 300 km/h. Taking CRH trains is more expensive than taking a traditional train, but cheaper than taking a plane. Some people think the CRH trains and their workers are good, and they enjoy the trips by CRH train. China starts to make a CRH train, 350 kilometres an hour from Beijing to Shanghai. It can save people more time than taking the traditional trains. Can CRH trains solve the problems? \"Of course not. There is still a long way to go,\" about 80% of the people answer. Question: The first CRH train runs _ . - in August, 2009 - in May, 2008 - in August, 2008 - in June, 2010\n(Answer)\nin August, 2008\n\nQues: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Mr. Green once worked in a big company. He was so busy that he couldn't do any reading. So he gave up his job and opened a bookshop in the center of the town. It wasn't big but all the books were nice and most people liked to buy some there. When the shop was closed, he could read at home. He knew a lot and many learned people were glad to make friends with him. It was Sunday and it was cold outside. Mr. Green was very busy. At nine in the evening al! the buyers left but a woman was still there. She was dressed up and seemed to be waiting for somebody there. Standing by the shelves, she looked over the books one after another, and made them in a terrible mess . Mr. Green came up to her and asked, \"Excuse me, madam. What can I do for you?\" \"Your books are not interesting at all,\" said the woman, \"I want a delicious one.\" \"That's easy,\" Mr. Green smiled. He brought out a cookbook and said, \"Here you are, madam.\" Question: Most people liked to buy books in the shop because _ . - the bookshop was in the center of the town - all the books were nice cookbooks - it was very large - the books there were all good for people\nAns: the books there were all good for people\n\n(Q).\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: How do most students spend their free time? Do they have time to do the things they like? Let's see what some students do during their free time. Ben is eleven. He has a sister, Kate. Both of them like going to the cinema. Every Sunday morning, they go to the town by train and then they go to the cinema because they live in the country and there is no cinema there. They arrive in the town at noon. They usually have a big lunch in their favourite restaurant first, and then they buy some food in the supermarket before they go to their favourite cinema called Star Cinema. They like it because the seats there are comfortable and the films shown in the cinema are always the newest. They always have a good time on Sundays, but when the weather is bad or they are busy with their homework, they can't go. Question: They can't go to the cinema when _ . - it is fine - they want to watch TV - they have little homework - the weather is bad or they get too much homework\n(A).\nthe weather is bad or they get too much homework\n\nQues:Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Turn on the radio. A program will come out from a broadcasting station miles and miles away. We know that sounds and music themselves couldn't travel that distance through space .There must be something that brings the program from the station. But what is this silent carrier ( ) ? This is known as radio waves. However, we can't see them or even hear them. In fact, nobody knows exactly what they are. Nevertheless( ) ,we know that they are made by electricity . At the broadcasting station, people talk, sing, play musical instruments or make many other sounds. These sounds are changed into electricity. Then from the broadcasting aerial of a tall tower , electricity sends out radio waves which travel in all directions .And some of them reach your radio aerial. What happens next is a magical thing. The radio waves start an electric current ( ) in your aerial like the one that was first made in the broadcasting station . Finally, the loudspeaker in your radio set changes the electricity into sound .Therefore, you hear the program. ,. Question: The electricity is changed into sound by _ . - the radio waves - the aerial - the radio program - the loudspeaker\n\nAns:the loudspeaker\n\nQues:Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Mrs. Smith is Jim's mother. She loves her family very much. She goes to the store every day. She often buys food, fruit and clothes for Jim and her husband . Now many clothes are on sale at Renmin Clothes Store. They are very cheap. Mrs. Smith comes to the store and she wants to buy some clothes for her family. There they have sweaters in all colors for Y=15 each and sports shoes for only Y=28. Mrs Smith likes the red sweater and she buys one for herself. She buys a pair of sports shoes for her son. The great T-shirts in the store are just Y=18! She buys a white one for Mr Smith. And that's not all. The socks, in all colors, are Y=2 each. She buys the socks in many colors for her family. She is really a Rood mother and a good wife Question: She buys _ for Mr Smith. - a pair of shoes - a pair of shorts - a T-shirt - a white sweater\n\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "a T-shirt", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: A lot of people are afraid of spiders . One would even avoid walking in grass . And if he thought the spider was in the room or house, he would have to leave the house for days. In fact, fear of spiders is a type of disorder called specific phobia , one of the most common anxiety disorders, which annoys about 7% of the population, a study says. Common specific phobias also include fear of blood, needles, snakes, flying and enclosed spaces. The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine tried the \"exposure Therapy \", which was small, done on 12 adults, but all of them held or petted the spider afterward. One participant celebrated by getting a spider tattoo after having been unable to even look at photos of spiders. This is the first study to document the immediate and long-term brain changes after treatment and to illustrate how the brain recognizes long-term to reduce fear as a result of the therapy. Every one would come in thinking: I am going to be the one who can't do this . There is no way ,\"Haunter ,author of the study ,says \"They were impressed by the end.\" In therapy lasting two or three hours, which is different for each person, the participants were taught that troublesome thoughts about spiders were untrue.\" \"They thought the spiders might be capable of jumping out of the cage and on to them,\" Hauner says. Exposure therapy gets its name from exposing a patient to what he fears, says Todd, research assistant professor: \"A lot of it about dispelling people's beliefs. You can get significant changes in a short period of time\". Question: Which of the following is true about the people with \"specific phobia?\" Options: A: They don't dare to walk in grass B: They are afraid of spiders by nature C: 7% of them need medical treatment. D: They have a sense of scare about something.\nD\n\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: An increasing number of people are being allowed to finish the working week early during the summer months. Does your boss trust you to spend an afternoon in the sun? Each year the number of companies which offer employees the choice of an early finish to the working week grows. Or, perhaps, each year,more people who work on ordinary Fridays hear about people playing on summer Fridays. When the sun is shining,it makes sense that you should be given Friday afternoons off,right? Sadly,not all managers agree with the policy. Companies that offer employees Friday afternoons off usually expect the hours to be made up. UK publishers Pan Macmillan and Penguin Random House (PRH) are among those offering summer hours. At PRH, those who wish to take off Friday afternoons are expected to work an extra 45 minutes a day from Monday to Thursday. On Fridays, a rota ensures each team has been covered. \"Most of us don't leave at exactly lpm,\"Editor Anderson says. Depending on your workload,you might just leave an hour or so early,but it's still nice to do. \" Simon Hayward, CEO of Cirrus, says that the \"Summer Fridays\" policy requires trust, and that managers need to be seen to take advantage of the offer too. \"If a manager offers summer Fridays and then obviously expects employees to work on Friday afternoons, there is a risk associated with it that reduces the sense of well-being .I think there's a genuine fear in some organizations about flexible working hours. Do you trust your employees to do their best for the buti- ness as well as for themselves and their families,or do you fundamentally mistrust them?\" Managers in the former camp tend to be comfortable with summer hours. Those in the latter worry that summer Fridays will lead to late Mondays and long-lunch Tuesdays. Question: Usually in companies, this policy causes the employees to_. Options: A: work extra time from Monday to Thursday B: actually work on Friday afternoons C: have a short lunch on Tuesdays D: start work early on Friday mornings\nA\n\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: In the early days of nuclear power, the United States make money on it. But today opponents have so complicated its development that no nuclear plants have been ordered or built here in 12 years. The greatest fear of nuclear power opponents has always been a reactor \"meltdown\". Today, the chances of a meltdown that would threaten U.S. public health are very little. But to even further reduce the possibility, engineers are testing new reactors that rely not on human judgment to shut them down but on the laws of nature. Now General Electric is already building two advanced reactors in Japan. But don't expect them even on U.S. shores unless things change in Washington. The procedure for licensing nuclear power plants is a bad dream. Any time during, or even after, construction, an objection by any group or individual can bring everything to a stop while the matter is investigated or taken to court. Meanwhile, the builder must add nice-but-not-necessary improvements, some of which force him to knock down walls and start over. In every case when a plant has been opposed, the Nuclear Regulation Commission has ultimately granted a license to construct or operate. But the victory often costs so much that the utility ends up abandoning the plant anyway. A case in point is the Shoreham plant on New York's Long Island. Shoreham was a virtual twin to the Millstone plant in Connecticut, both ordered in the mid-60s. Millstone, completed for $101 million, has been generating electricity for two decades. Shoreham, however, was singled out by antinuclear activists who, by sending in endless protests, drove the cost over $5 billion and delayed its use for many years. Shoreham finally won its operation license. But the plant has never produced a watt power. Governor Mario Cuomo, an opponent of a Shoreham start-up, used his power to force New York's public-utilities commission to accept the following settlement: the power company could pass the cost of Shoreham along to its consumers only if it agreed not to operate the... Question: Governor Mario Cuomo's chief intention in proposing the settlement was to _ . Options: A: stop the Shoreham plant from going into operation B: urge the power company to further increase its power supply C: permit the Shoreham plant to operate under certain conditions D: help the power company to solve its financial problems\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: They may make us scared, but somehow we just can't get enough of our favorite monsters.From literature to movies, TV shows to Halloween costumes , we want more of these blood-drinking, walking-dead, scary creatures! Here's a look at a few of them. Mummy : All you'll need is a generous supply of toilet paper of make this instantly recognizable costume.The concept of mummies dates back thousands of years and across many cultures.Mummies are constantly seen in books, movies, and of course, on every Halloween night. Werewolf : The werewolf is known for its superhuman strength and shape-shifting powers.Examples of the werewolf date back to ancient Greek and Roman stories, which were about humans changing into animals and animals changing into humans.With television shows and movies, werewolves are once again having a strong influence on popular culture. Frankenstein: Mary Shelley created the monster in her 1818 novel.Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who is curious about life and death, uses different body parts to create his works.Shocked by his new scientific creation, however, Victor ran away, leaving the creature to leave the laboratory and go out into the human world.Whether in books, movies, or onstage, this monster is still a costume favorite for people of all ages. Zombie : Halloween activities would incomplete without zombies to really give people a fright.The zombie earned its title as one of Halloween's most terrifying creatures after popular films.Zombies still frighten audiences as undead monsters that return to feast on the living. Dracula : This classic vampire has terrified audiences for decades, but first appeared as a character in Irish writer Bram Stoker's 1897 novel.In horror films, Dracula remains the most popular character.He is known for his pale skin, sharp teeth, red lips and son on. Question: According to the article, monsters _ . Options: A: are scary but at the same time fascinating B: provide excitement for people who lead dull lives C: are mysterious and have supernatural powers D: can change into humans\nA\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Before we send humans into deep space, we'll have to find out just how long the human body can survive in a weightless environment. One problem is that in space there's no physical sensation to let you know when you're upside down and astronauts have to rely on possible clues from their surroundings. A few hours after reaching orbit , one in three of all astronauts will experience space sickness--a feeling rather like carsickness. There is also the problem of protection from the extreme hazards of space such as constant meteorite bombardment and radiation. It is going to take some clever technology to keep rockets and astronauts from these dangers. Even with a well-protected spaceship, space travel isn't going to be easy. No matter what you travel in, it is going to be a long flight in space! Science fiction writers often imagine using suspended animation , a kind of forced long-term sleep, as a way for astronauts to escape the boredom of long missions. An even stronger measure might be to freeze the astronauts. We already use cryogenic techniques to preserve dead bodies and store human embryos . Freezing living adults may not be so far away, but perhaps we don't have to do that. Perhaps we should use our existing technology and send frozen embryos to the far corners of universe. Hundreds of years from now, billions and billions of miles away, the embryos will be thawed and their hearts will start beating. These astronauts of the future will not grow inside a mother's body but will be produced in a machine. They will be brought up by robot. It may seem strange but one day it might just happen. Question: In the future astronauts for extreme long journeys will grow up _ . Options: A: before they go into space B: during the space trip C: when they are inside mother's body D: after they return from space\nB\nQ: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: If you have a chance to go to Taiwan, there's one place you should not miss-- the Taipei Palace Museum. The museum has around 650,000 pieces of ancient Chinese treasures. These treasures were originally in the Palace Museum in Beijing. But how did they get to Taiwan? In 1931, the Japanese invaded the northeast part of China. To protect the national treasures from the Japanese, the government of the Republic of China decided to move some important pieces to Nanjing. However, they did not stay long in Nanjing. In 1949, the people's Liberation Army won in the Liberation War. The Guomindang government went from Nanjing to Taiwan. Along with them they took the art pieces. The Taipei Palace Museum was set up in 1965 to hold the national treasures. Taiwan people are very proud of the Taipei Palace Museum. Some of the collections are world famous. One of the most visited art pieces in the museum is the \"Jade Cabbage\". It is made from a single piece of jade . If you take a close look, you can see two grasshoppers on the leaves, a large one and a small one, which were the symbol of many children in a family. If you are interested in the treasures, you could take a look at a TV programme called Taipei Palace Museum. It gives a picture of the treasures of the Taipei Palace Museum. There are also interviews with over a hundred experts about the stories behind some of the pieces. Question: The treasures stayed in Nanjing for about _ years. Options: A: 10 B: 16 C: 18 D: 34\nA: C\n(Question)\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: I stood outside New York's Madison Square Garden and just stared, almost speechless. I was a farm boy from County Kilkenny, a child who some thought would never walk, let alone go as far as I had in the world. From the day I was born, there was a problem. The doctors at the Dublin hospital told my parents I had phocomelia, a _ that affected both legs below the knee, which were outward and shorter than normal and each foot had just three toes. Life was tough. I couldn't stand, much less walk. I rarely, left the farmhouse---and then only in someone's arms. Mam bundled me up whenever she took me to town, no matter the season. \"The world will see him when he can walk,\" she told Dad. \"And he will walk.\" Mam devoted herself to helping me. She tried everything to get me on my feet. When I was three, she and Dad took me to a clinic in Dublin. A few weeks later we returned to Dublin with my artificial limbs . Back home I practiced walking with my new limbs. \"There's nothing anyone can do but you can't,\" Mam said. \"You and I are going to walk through town.\" The next day Mam dressed me in my finest clothes. She wore a summer dress and fixed her hair and makeup. Dad drove us to the church. We stepped out of the car. Mam took my hand. \"Hold your head up high, now, Ronan,\" she said. We walked 300 meters to the post office. It was the farthest I'd walked, and I was sweating from the effort. Then we left the post office and continued down the street, Mam's eyes shining with a mother's pride. That night, back on our farm, I lay exhausted on my bed. It meant nothing, though, compared to what I'd done on my walk. Then I began to pursue my dream of singing. And at every step Mam's words came back to me--Ronan, you can do anything anyone else can do--and the faith she had in God, who would help me do it. I've sung from the grandest stages in Europe, to music played by the world's finest musicians. That night, I stood at the Madison Square Garden, with Mam's words chiming in my ears. Then I began singing. I couldn't feel the... Question: According to the writer, what mattered most in his success? Options: A: His consistent effort. B: His talent for music. C: His countless failures. D: His mother's promise.\n(Answer)\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Do women's minds work the same as men's? Absolutely not. At least, that is what most men are convinced of. Psychologists view the subject either as a matter or frustration or a joke. Now the biologists have moved into this minefield, and some of them have found that there are real differences between the brains of men and women. But being different, they point out hurriedly, is not the same as being better or worse. There is, however, a definite structural variation between the male and female brain. The difference is in a part of the brain that is used in the most complex intellectual processes-the link between the two halves of the brain. The two halves are linked by a trunkline of between 200 and 300 million nerves, the corpus callosum. Scientists have found quite recently that the corpus callosum in women is always larger and probably richer in nerve fibres than it is in men. This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance. The question is \"What?\", and, if this difference exists, are there others? Research shows that present-day women think differently and behave differently from men. Are some of these differences biological and inborn, a result of evolution? We tend to think that is the influence of society that produces these differences. But could we be wrong? Research showed that these two halves of the brain had different functions, and that the corpus callosum enabled them to work together. For most people, the left half is used for word handing, analytical and logical activities; the right half works on pictures, patterns and forms. We need both halves working together. And the better the connections, the more harmoniously the two halves work. And, according to research findings, women have the better connections. But it isn't all that easy to explain the actual differences between skills of men and women on this basis. In schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at \"language subjects\"... Question: The corpus callosum functions in _ . Answer:\nOPTIONS:\n- forming the nerve fibers.\n- differing man from woman.\n- enabling the brain to work.\n- processing the most complex intellectuality.\nprocessing the most complex intellectuality.\n\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: Back in the days when I wrote my first songs, I hated my voice. I saw myself as a songwriter and guitarist but never a singer! I continued to write songs, and to search for the perfect singer. After a few years I did discover a singer, so we started a project together. We held a few concerts, and put a lot of work into it. She forces me to sing some songs at concerts myself, so I started going to a bar to practice them. This was my first, small breakthrough. One day she came round to my flat and informed me that she could no longer work with me, and also that the bar owner at the open mic venue had replaced us at short notice because some New York jazz star happened to be in town, and was available that evening to perform. The first bit of news made me sad and disappointed, but the second made me angry. However, that same evening, with as much determination as I could muster , I resolved to play three new songs at the bar, just as I had planned before. I was quite nervous, but I dragged myself down to the bar and sang those songs! I never felt so liberated . That night I couldn't get to sleep. I was simply astonished, hardly believing that I was a person who acted so courageously, and that I'd been able to sing my songs myself. Since then I've begun to encourage others to adopt a similar approach when they aren't able to see their own potential. One example is an amateur fiddler who could barely bring herself to lift her instrument to play in front of people. I forced her to ignore her fear, and simply get on with it. Now, a year or two later, she is a passionate, happy performer in front of any crowd! Once you get the ball rolling in yourself, you can start inspiring those around you. Question: What's the passage mainly about? Answer:\nOPTIONS:\n- How to work with other singers.\n- The story of the author and an amateur fiddler.\n- How the author became a singer through her fighting spirit.\n- How to write beautiful songs.\n\nAnswer: How the author became a singer through her fighting spirit.\n\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: JK Rowling, the Harry Potter author, has signed a deal with Little, Brown and Company, to publish her first ever novel for adults, which is set to become one of the most anticipated book in years. The deal means that Rowling's long-standing relationship with Bloomsbury, the London-based publisher that launched the Harry Potter books, has come to an end, at least in terms of new works by the author. Rowling is keeping her fans guessing about the characters and plot of her new book. She only said that the new novel will be nothing like the Harry Potter series, which was sold over 30 million copies in the UK alone. She thought that with the move from children's to adult fiction, a switch to a new publisher seemed like a natural and reasonable step. She said, \"Although I've enjoyed writing it every bit as much, this book will be very different from the Harry Potter series. The freedom to explore a new field is a gift that Harry's success has brought me.\" Ian Rankin, the Edinburgh-based author whose highly-successful detective novels are also set in the city, suggested Rowling's book will be a crime novel. \"Wouldn't it be funny if JK Rowling's first novel for adults turned out to be a crime story set in Edinburgh?\" he said. Industry insiders guessed that the deal is worth more than PS5 million and the new book is expected to come out later this year. A spokesman said, \"JK Rowling's audience is vast and her position is unique. Harry Potter books were a global success and her fans are very loyal. Children that were eight, nine, or ten when the books first came out in the 1990s are now in their 20s. Plenty of adults, loved the books regardless of whether they had children, so the potential market for her is huge.\" Question: JK Rowling's new book for adults _ . Answer:\nOPTIONS:\n- has been sold 30 million copies in the UK alone\n- is poorly thought of by the London-based publisher Bloomsbury\n- has nothing in common with the Harry Potter series\n- is expected to bring her more money than the Harry Potter series\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "has nothing in common with the Harry Potter series", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "U.S. President Donald Trump attempted to reset his relationship with Africa on Monday, as he hosted Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari is the first sub-Saharan African leader to have a White House summit with Trump, who has been criticized for reportedly making derogatory comments about Africa. During his public remarks with Buhari, Trump focused mostly on common goals and shared interests, such as fighting terrorism and expanding trade. \"We love helicopters — he loves them more than I do,\" joked Trump, referring to his administration's decision to approve a $600 million military sales deal to Nigeria. Buhari thanked Trump for approving the deal, which the administration of former President Barack Obama had suspended over allegations of human rights abuses. \"I worked it out so that now you can buy the helicopters that you want,\" Trump said, adding, \"We make the best military equipment in the world, and our friends can now buy it.\" Human rights groups have accused the Nigerian military of torture, rape and extrajudicial killing in its almost decade-long campaign against the Boko Haram extremist group. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the insurgency, and hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped, as the group gained notoriety and spread to neighboring countries, posing one of the most severe threats to West Africa's Sahel region in recent years. Although Nigeria has been a major partner in the U.S. fight against Islamist extremists in Africa, relations have faced challenges over the past year. In January, Nigeria joined a list of outraged African countries demanding an explanation from the U.S. ambassador after Trump's reported vulgar comments referring to African countries. Asked whether those comments came up during his private meeting with Trump, Buhari declined to comment. \"I'm very careful with what the press says about other than myself. I'm not sure about, you know, the validity or whether that allegation was true or not. So, the best thing for me is to keep quiet,\" Buhari said. Question: Where is the location of the Boko Haram? Options: - Nigeria - West Africa - United States - not enough information === The correct answer is\nNigeria\n\n\n(Question)\nIn this confessional age, TV, radio and print rely for much of their content on the sad stories of those 'victims' of life. The story goes something like this: There is the future 'victim' getting on with their quotidian activities and whoosh, they are whisked into a life of gambling, drugs, sex or junk food addiction. After years of struggle, they finally find redemption and become good people again. As in any good tale of redemption, there has to be a 'reason' for why our 'victim' fell off the rails. Take your pick: they were molested, their parents ran away from home, they were denied desserts except on Sundays. Just thinking about it brings a tear to my stony face. How can you not be moved by tales such as these. What is the precipitating cause of the misery in my life? Well, my mother was French and my father was English. And to make things worse, I was brought up Catholic! Yes folks, in today's shorthand of grievance, I'm a half-breed straddling Canada's great language divide and a religious bigot. My hometown was a mixture of French and English-speaking people and the results of their miscenagation. You could never tell by someone's last name who spoke your language (For instance, my good friend P. Arsenault spoke the Queen's English and my cousin Sean Doyle wouldn't have recognized an Oxford Dictionary if you shoved up his nose). As children, we were segregated by language; all the French-speaking kids went to one side of the school where they spoke French all the time. I was fortunate enough to be sent to the English side of the school and got to speak my native tongue. My parents decided my brother and sister wouldn't be quite so lucky. In an effort to bridge the great language divide, they both spent six years learning everything in French and mingling with the French people (My parents did this because it was the firm belief of all forward-thinking families that whatever road you took would be much smoother if you could speak both of Canada's official languages. As it turns out for my siblings and... Question: who is telling the story? Options: - not enough information - the author's child - the author's wife - the author === The correct answer is\n(Answer)\nthe author\n\n\nQues:I'm not good at sticking to the rules, not even the ones I set myself. I'm really terrible with the rules set by others, especially companies. Even as a child, I could never stay inside the lines in colouring books. Some of you might put this down to poor hand-eye coordination, but I maintain that I was a rule-breaker right from the beginning. One of my roles as an engineer with a multiplicity of companies was to set up projects, define the scope of the work, contract the work out and manage the project. I was setting up a robot-based manufacturing cell for the company in the business of making early cellphones. The cell design required some equipment to be designed and built from scratch, so I got a local designer, Fergus, to give me a quote and got him started on the work. Now, any project will run over budget and take longer than planned and the contractor may come back for more money. And so it was with this designer; he wasn't really vocal about it, but he indicated that the work did take a lot more time and expense than he's originally budgeted. My usual reaction to these things is that this is not my problem. Most of the companies I've work for have lost money, so why should I give a rat's ass if some other company comes up a little short? In this case though, I liked Fergus and, as he was really a one-man operation, I decided to cut him some slack. But first, I had to get permission from my boss to drop another few grand into Fergus's jeans. My boss refused. Having someone tell me I can't do something really brings out my dark side; especially around the time of the full moon. Not long before, we had just waved a fond(-ish) farewell to our president as he was going on to greener fields. As a parting gift, the company bought him either a boat or a motor home, I forget which, and equipped it with three of their cell phones. Question: Why the author asked for more money: Options: - not enough information - he needed the extra money - he wanted to be rich - he wanted to pay more to get the job done === The correct answer is\n\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "he wanted to pay more to get the job done", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Bicycle tour and race A bike tour and race will be held on August 26 and 27(Sat. & Sun. ). At 5:30am, the riders will leave Tian'anmen Square and ride the first 35 kilometres as a training leg. Then the next 55 kilometre leg, from Yanjiao to Jixian, will be the first competitive part of the tour. The riders and their bikes will then be taken from Jixian to Changli. The second racing leg of the tour will be from Changli to the seaside of Nandaibe, covering a distance of 20 kilometres. Saturday night includes the stay at Nandaihe and supper. Sunday morning is free for play at the seaside. At noon all the people and their bikes will be taken back to Beijing. Cost: 200 yuan Telephone: 4675027 Brazilian footballers The Brazilian Football Club will play Beijing Guo'an Team at the Workers Stadium on August 26. The club has four national team players. Also coming is 1994 US World Cup star Romario ho has promised to play for at least 45 minutes. Ticket prices: 60,100,150 yuan Time/Date: 4:30 pm, August 26(Sat. ) Telephone: 5012372 Rock climbing The Third National Rock Climbing Competition will be held on August 26-27 at the Huairou Mountain-climbing Training Base. More than 10 teams from Beijing, Wuhan, Dalian, Jilin and other places will take part in it. A Japanese team will give an exhibition climbing. Free for spectators . Take a long-distance bus from Dongzhimen to Huairou. Time/Dates: 9-12 am, August 26 and 27 Telephone: 7143177, 7144850, Wang Zhenghua Options: A A foreign team takes part in it. B You can watch it without paying. C You don 't have to be a sportsman to take part. D The bus trip to the place of the competition is free. Answer: B You can watch it without paying. Question:\n----\nAnswer: What is special about the Rock climbing competition?\n\n\nQ: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: The emotions of the athletes in the prize-awarding moments are often some of the most unforgettable images of the Olympics.Yet, a number of people have noticed some strange things.Yes, the gold medal winner is filled with pride and excitement, which is to be expected.Yet often, it seems the bronze medal winner is happier than the silver medalist.It is strange that the 3rd place contestant might be happier than someone who did better (the 2nd place).How can this be so? \"What if reasoning can help to explain this interesting effect. In order to understand our world and our choices, we often imagine how things could have been different.A wife may ask, \" Would I be happier today if I had married someone else?\" Likewise, a student may think, \"If 1 had chosen another major, maybe I would have a better shot at getting into graduate school.\" In short, \" what if thinking allows us to mentally create alternative to our reality. In the Olympics, the \"what ifs\" of the winners are different.Clearly, the \"what ifs\" for the gold medalist involve not being No.1--this thought makes this athlete realize how fortunate he or she is.For the bronze medalist, the \"what ifs\" involve not being on the medal list at all, producing positive feelings.However, for the silver medalist, the \"what ifs\" can easily make the athlete ponder how things could have been different if he or she has won the gold medal (e.g.what if I practiced harder, and what if I had not made the small error in my routine).Thus, the \"what ifs\" that come to mind of the 1st and 3rd place finishers are positive, but the 2nd place finishers have a number of dissatisfying alternatives to reality that can make them feel less happy. Options: A who the happiest among the Olympics medal winners is B why the prize-awarding moments are unforgettable C what to pay attention to when watching the Olympic Games D why bronze medal winners are happier than silver medalists Answer: D why bronze medal winners are happier than silver medalists Question:\nA: This passage is mainly about _ .\n\n\nWrite a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change for I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forbears (ancestors) prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago. The world is very different now, for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forbears fought are still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe (enemy) alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. This much we pledge (promise solemny) and more. In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility. I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it and the glow from that fire can truly light the... Options: A How America can help them. B If America plans to invade their country. C What they can do for freedom. D What they can do for America. Answer: C What they can do for freedom. Question:\n----\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "What should citizens of the world ask of America?", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Please answer this: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: When most of us look at our hands, we might notice that we need to clean, or stop biting our fingernails, and that's about it. But if you ask a doctor, he can see a whole lot more. Everything from poor diet and stress to serious kidney problems can be revealed by a glance at your fingernails. There are about 30 different nail signs that can be associated with medical issues, though may indicate more than one problem, according to Dr.Amy Derick, a clinical instructor of dermatology at Northwestern University. Here are five of the things a doctor can tell about your health based on your fingernails. 1. People who aren't eating well and lack vitamin or dietary may have thinner than normal nails, which are more likely to break. 2.Horizontal lines are associated with serious physical stress. They frequently occur in people who have gone through chemotherapy .They can also occur after some illnesses, injuries, or with severe malnourishment .Interestingly, there may be an altitude connection too. They've also been found in people who dove 1,000 feet and others who participated in an Everest exploration. 3. Vertical lines, however, are generally not such a big deal. Some people are more genetically prone to them than others, but they're commonly associated with aging. 4. When people lack iron, their nails can turn spoon-like. Instead of curving down and covering the finger normally, they 'll start to rise up on the sides and front, like the part of a spoon that holds liquid. 5. Kidney and liver problems can create \"half-and-half nails\", where one part of the nail is white and the other part dark or pink, according to Derick. Doctors note that because disease diagnosis is complex and some symptoms can be associated with different diseases, you should always see a medical professional if you are concerned about something you notice.\n++++++++\nAnswer: Question: Who will have horizontal lines on the nails ?Options:A A cancer patient who has received normal treatment.B Hungry African children suffering from severe malnourishment.C An explorer who had reached Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province.D A patient with serious illness, like kidney and liver problems.Answer:B\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Attention STARBUCKS Owners of Stainless Steel Travel Mug Mug lid Recall---16 oz Stainless Steel Travel Mug We've recognized a fault at the cup. The fault might cause some lids to lift slightly from the body of the mug, and could possibly result in injury from hot liquid leaking. So, we have given a lid recall notice immediately. The notice is only related to STARBUCKS 16 oz Stainless Steel Travel Mugs which were sold between November 2012 and February 2013. The bottom of the mug is stamped with \"ThermoSServ\", the distributor's name. There is not any printing on the mug handle. At STARBUCKS, customers' safety is valued above anything else. Therefore, no matter whether your lid is leaking , in the interest of your safety, we request you bring your mug to your nearest STARBUCKS (excluding Esso STARBUCKS), where they are sure exchange the lid for a new lid that fits well and safely. The new lids are going to be available March 1, 2013. Don't use your mug until you exchange the lid, please. Here's what you do: * Please do not use your mug until you have exchanged the lid for a new one. * New lids will be available March 1, 2013. * Return your travel mug to a STARBUCKS store. * Your lid will be exchanged for a new lid. If you'd like to return the entire mug, bring it back at any time for a full repayment. If you have any questions regarding this recall, please don't hesitate to us at: Toll Free Number: 1-999-701-1717 9:30 am - 6:00 pm Eastern Standard Time STARBUCKS\n\nA: Question: The passage is most likely taken from a(n) _ .Options:A news reportB advertisementC tour-guide bookD novelAnswer:B\n\nProblem: Given the question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Chinese President Hu Holds Telephone Talks With Bush Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday spoke over phone with George W. Bush about international cooperation to cope with the ongoing global financial turmoil . The leaders exchanged ideas about the planned international financial summits and strengthening international cooperation to stabilize the financial markets. Bush said the prefix = st1 /United Stateshopes to make joint efforts with the international community to seek measures to overcome the crisis and maintain the stability of the world economy. Hu, for his part, said Chinahas noted the measures taken by theU.S.government to stabilize the domestic financial market. The measures are conducive to the stability of the world economy and financial markets, Hu said. The Chinese government has taken a series of important measures to _ the financial crisis and maintain the stability of financial and capital markets, as well as ensure steady economic growth, he added. The government of Chinawill continue to assume a responsible attitude toward the Chinese people and people of other countries, and to work closely with the international community to maintain the stability of the global economy and financial markets, President Hu said. (Xinhua News Agency October 21, 2008)\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nThe answer is:\nQuestion: Which of the following is NOT true?Options:A Hu approves of the measures taken by theUS.B China has made a great effort to stabilize the economic growth.C Bush wishesChinato take the lead in coping with the present crisis.D The crisis has caused international concern.Answer:C\n\nQ: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Nonverbal Communication When you are in another country, it is important to know the language, but it is equally important to know how to communicate nonverbally. Before saying anything, people communicate nonverbally by making gestures. According to an investigation ,only 30 to 35 percent of our communication is verbal. When people don't know the language, the most common way to communicate is through gestures. However, many gestures have different meanings, or no meaning at all, in different parts of the world. In the United States, for example, nodding your head up and down means \"yes\". In some parts of Greece and Turkey, however, this motion can mean \"no\". In Southeast Asia, nodding your head is a polite way of saying \"I've heard you.\" In ancient Rome, when the emperor wanted to spare someone's life, he would put his thumb up. Today in the United States, when someone puts his/her thumb up, it means \"Everything is all right.\" However, in Sardinia and Greece, the gesture is insulting and should not be used there. In the United States, raising your clasped hands above your head means \"I'm the champion\" or \"I'm the winner\". It is the sign that prizefighters make when they win a fight. When a leading Russian statesman made this gesture after a White House meeting, Americans misunderstood and thought he meant he was a winner. In Russia, however, it is a sign of friendship. There are other nonverbal signals that people should be aware of when they go to another country, such as the distance to maintain between speakers. Americans stand closer to each other than English people. English people don't like touching somebody or being touched. Now in America, touch is important. For example friends touch each other on the arm. They often put an arm around a friend when they say \"hello\" or \"goodbye\".\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Question: The gesture of putting one's thumb up should not be used when you are travelling in _ .Options:A ChinaB the United StatesC GreeceD Southeast AsiaAnswer:C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: \"But what if I break my arm again?\" my 5-year-old daughter asked. I knew how much she wanted to learn to ride. Yet ever since she'd fallen off her bike and broken her arm, she'd been afraid. \"Oh honey,\" I said. \"I don't think you'll break another arm.\" \"But I could, couldn't I?\" \"Yes,\" I admitted, and found myself struggling for the right thing to say. \"I don't think I want to ride,\" she said and got off her bike. We walked away and sat down beside a tree. \"Don't you want to ride with your friends?\" I asked. \"And I thought you were hoping to start riding your bike to school next year,\" I added. \"I was,\" she said in a low voice. \"You know, honey,\" I said. \"Most everything you do comes with dangers. You could break your arm at gymnastics. Do you want to stop going to the gym?\" \"No, of course not!\" she replied. And with a determined spirit, she stood up and agreed to try again. I held on to the back of her bike until she found the courage to say, \"Let's go!\" I spent the rest of the afternoon at the park watching a very brave little girl overcome a fear, and congratulating myself for being an independent single parent. As we walked home, pushing the bike as we made our way along the sidewalk, she asked me about a conversation she'd overheard me having with my mother the night before. \"Why were you and Grandma arguing last night?\" \"It's nothing.\" I told her. She shrugged . \"Grandma said she just wanted you to find someone to love.\" \"What Grandma wants is for some guy to break my heart again,\" I snapped. \"But Mom ...\" \"You're too young to understand.\" I told her. She was quiet for the next few minutes. Then she looked up and in a small voice said, \"So I guess love isn't like a broken arm.\" Unable to answer, we walked the rest of the way in silence. When I got home, I let go and agreed to meet a man called Steve. Steve was the man for me. We married less than a year later. It turned out my mother and my daughter were right. Question: What does the story want to tell? - Mother is the best teacher to the children. - Life is full of adventures as well as choices. - Parents' divorces are harmful to young children. - Don't be upset about the past unpleasant experiences.\nDon't be upset about the past unpleasant experiences.\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Juanito Estrella has been a housekeeping manager on the US-based large passenger ship Carnival Spirit for 18 months and feels he has found the suitable position in his career .He has always wanted to travel. \"I guess I am a really restless spirit. I like traveling, so when the chance came, I jumped at it,\" he says. The chance came in the form of a newspaper advertisement for work on cruise ships .At the time Estrella was the housekeeping manager at a Melbourne hotel. He applied and, after two interviews, a medical check and police clearance, the job was his. Estrella is responsible for the cleanliness of the ship, making sure that 160 crew work properly. \"I enjoy it because there is no other work-you wake up each day in a different place and a different culture. It's exciting when you go to the next country and you don't understand the language,\" he says. Estrella likes being busy and getting to know people from all over the world. The 1,000 crew come from 94 countries, and Estrella has learnt Spanish and a little Croatian. But there is a downside .\"You cannot get really drunk...because you have safety responsibilities to yourself and others,\" he says. \"You don't really think about home. You start to think about home only when you get closer to your vacation and wonder what you'll be doing.\" Life on the ship is anything but cruising. Estrella and his fellows work at least 10 hours a day, seven days a week. He warns the job is not for everybody. \"You have to love being busy and be prepared to work every day-and to give up drinking too much alcohol.\" In his spare time, if the ship sails into a port, Estrella explores it, otherwise he works out in the crew's gym, goes on the internet or calls home. Question: What do we know about Estrella? - He is very fond of traveling. - He doesn't drink wine now. - He cannot speak a foreign language. - He used to be a housekeeping manager.\nHe is very fond of traveling.\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: This is a true story that happened in Japan.In order to _ the house, a Japanese tore open the walls. Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls. When tearing down the walls, he found that there was a lizard stuck there because a nail from outside was hammered into one of its feet. He saw this, feeling pity and curious.When he checked the nail, he found ti was nailed 10 years ago when the house was first built. What happened? The lizard had survived in such a position for 10 years! It has been in a dark wall partition for 10 years without moving! Then he wondered how this lizard survived for 10 years without moving a single step......since its foot was nailed! So he stopped his work and observed the lizard: what has it been doing?what and how has it been eating? Later, he didn't know from where another lizard appeared, with food in its mouch.Ah! He was astonished and touched deeply. The free lizard had been feeding the stuck one for the past 10 years...... Such love, a beautiful love! Such love happened with this tiny creature... What can love do? It can do wonders! Just think about it: one lizard had been feeding the other one untiringly for 10 long years, without giving up hope on its partner. If a small creature like a lizard can love like this... just imagine how we can love if we try. Question: How did the Japanese feel when seeing the stuck lizard? - Frightened - Enjoyable - Confused - Usual\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Confused", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Simon hardly listened to his teachers or worked hard in class. For him, talking was so much better. He never stopped talking. He wanted to be heard. \"If you listen carefully, you'll learn something.\" Mrs. Jacobs told him many times, but it didn't work. Last Sunday, Simon had a sore throat and he lost his voice the next morning. \"Can I stay home?\" he tried to ask, but words didn't come out. His mother thought he could go to school. He felt upset. When he got to school, he didn't say anything to his friends or teachers. Everyone started talking at once. They were excited, worried and surprised. Mrs. Jacobs seemed happy. Simon was bored because he couldn't talk. But it wasn't so bad. He could do his homework. The next day, even though his voice was coming back, he stayed quiet again. He listened and put up his hand to speak. What a great difference! ,. Question: What happened to Simon on Monday? Options: A: He lost his dog. B: He had the flu. C: He had a fight with his friend. D: He lost his voice.\nA: D\n\n\nQ: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: A new camera made by a company named Netatmo has facial recognition software that can tell parents at work that their children have returned from school, or that a package has been taken to their home. It can also tell them if a stranger has entered their home. Janina Mattausch is a product marketing manager for Netatmo. \"The common security cameras at present are not that smart. So, they can tell you if something is moving but they don't necessarily know if it's a human being or, ah, if it's your kids --they don't know the difference, so they will warn you all the time. \" When family members enter a home, the new camera \"recognizes\" ( ) them and sends information to the owner's smartphone. The owner can choose to see the video then or latcr. But if an unknown person enters a home, the camera will send the owner a warning that will cause an alarm to sound on the owner's smartphone. That is what happened recently to a smart home camera owncr named Darrmen. He lives in Paris. \"On a Friday I was at work,atending a big monthly meeting when my phone warned. At first I told myself 'Oh, it must be a mistake, maybe I have to set the systcm again. ' -but the notice on my phone was telling me that there was a movement in my flat and also a face that the software did not recognize. \" He watched the video and was very surprised by what he saw. \"I saw a person I did not know with his shoes on. I was watching it live on vidco. So I felt totaly unbelievable, frozen. I asked a workmate to take me back home as fast as possible and I callcd the police on the way. \" With the help of the video, the police found the intruder later that day. Question: We can learn from the passage that Damien _ . Options: A: found the warning was a mistake B: was too busy to notice the warning C: felt shocked to see a stranger in his flat D: caught the intruder by himself that day\nA: C\n\n\nQ: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: In the city of Chicago I met a man I will never forget. He drove a bus that ran from downtown to the edge of the city. Each night I watched him. As the passengers got on the bus, he smiled at each one. It was fun to see how many passengers forgot their troubles and smiled back. There was one passenger, I noticed, that had never smiled back. He usually coughed roughly through his mustache as he got on the bus. And he never covered his mouth. But that wasn't enough to stop the bus driver's smile. He gave the man with the mustache and the rough cough his biggest smile. The man with the mustache never seemed to see that smile. He would sit on the edge of his seat and complained about the way that the bus driver was driving. He only complained for a short time, but he spoke loudly enough so everybody could hear. It was enough to make me sick. But the driver never said a word. He just went on smiling at passengers as they got on the bus. I wanted to get to know this bus driver better. One night I stayed on the bus to the end of the line. I asked the driver, \"Why don't you throw that man with the mustache out of the bus?\" The bus driver looked at me and gave me one of his famous smiles. \"I don't care about that,\" he said. \"Let me tell you about my friend's dog. The man next door to me has a dog. Every time the moon shines, the dog barks and barks all night.\" \"Well, what about the dog and the moon?\" I asked. \"Oh, the moon keeps on shining,\" he said. Question: What does the passage imply ? Options: A: Bus drivers should smile at passengers. B: It's no good to be rough to others. C: We should learn to be polite. D: We should learn to be generous .\nA: D\n\n\nQ: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: These days, more and more students in the UK are taking a \"gap year\"between their graduation from school and their university studies. This means they can take a year off to do something else, before they start their studies. For most students, spending time in foreign countries is the favorite activity --- and Australia is the favorite place to go. Many parents, teachers and business people agree that travelling can teach important values. \"After a year of travelling, I felt I'd grown up. I had learnt the importance of relationships with people, on all kinds of levels.\" There are many companies around the world that welcome these students on their projects---helping people in poorer countries, or even in your home country. Although you don't get paid for your work, this kind of work can teach important skills---decision making and finding answers to problems, for example---that will help many students in a job one day. Finally, getting some knowledge and experience in an area you hope to study or work in one day will always be very useful. If several university graduates are applying for the same job, gar year work experience allows you to say, \" I've already had some experience of this kind of work.\" And that can get your job. Question: is their favorite activity for most students in the UK. Options: A: Spending time in Australia B: Spending time in the UK C: Spending time with their teachers D: Spending time with their parents\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: It was a Saturday in May. When Mrs. Black opened the door and looked out, she smiled and said, \"It's a beautiful day.\" She woke her small son up at eight thirty and said to him, \" Get up, Tod. Let's go to the zoo today. Wash your hands and face, brush your teeth and eat your breakfast quickly. We are going to New York by train.\" Tod was six years old. He was very happy now, because he liked going to the zoo very much, and he also liked going by train. He said, \"I dreamed about the zoo last night, Mummy.\"[:++Z+X+X+K] His mother was busy, but she stopped and smiled at her little son, \"And what did you do in the zoo in your dream?\" Tod laughed and answered, \"You know, Mummy! You were there in my dream, too.\" Question: What did Mrs Black say when she look out of the window? _ Yes or no, is the answer \"It's a fine day\"?\nNo\n\nArticle: Mr Clark goes to a dinner party in old clothes. He comes into the room, but the people in the room don't look at him. They don't ask him to sit at the table. Mr Clark goes home and puts on his good clothes. He goes back to the party. People in the room stands up and smiles at him. They give him very good food to eat. Mr Clark _ his clothes, and puts them in the food and say, \"Eat, clothes!\" The other people ask, \"What are you doing?\" He answers, \"I'm asking my coat to eat food. When I am wearing my old clothes, you don't look at me. You don't ask me to sit down. Now I am in these clothes. And you give me very good food. Now I know, you give the food to my clothes, not to me!\" ,. Question: How does Mr Clark goes to the party at first? Yes or no, is the answer \"In old clothes.\"?\nNo\n\nArticle: There is an old saying in English, \"Laughter is the best medicine\". Until recently, few people took the saying very seriously. Now however, doctors have begun to study laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They have found evidence that laughter really can improve people's health. Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart rate and the rate of breathing. It also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be helpful. Other tests have shown that laughter appears to make the effect of pain on the body less. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group which could bear the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can make pain less seems to be that it helps to produce endorphins in the brain. These are natural chemicals which make both stress and pain less. There is also some evidence to suggest that laughter helps the body's immune system that is the system which fights infection . In an experiment, one group of students watched a funny video while another group served as the control group -- in other words, a group with which to compare the first group. Doctors checked the blood of the students in both groups and found that the people in the group that watched the video had an increase in the activity of their white blood cells that is the cells which fight infection. As a result of these discoveries, some doctors and psychiatrists in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they try to improve their patients' condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is... Question: Which of the following statements is NOT true of laughter according to the passage? Yes or no, is the answer \"It can cure cancer.\"?\nNo\n\nArticle: We can see ads everywhere. Here are four ads. Please read them carefully. (1)WANTED Are you hard-working? Do you like to meet people? If your answer is \"Yes\", then we have a job for you as a waiter. Call AL Hotel at 8556779! (2)SUMMER JOB Do you like to talk with people? Do you like to write stories? If you want to work for our magazine as a _ , please call Karen at 85558366. (3)HELP WANTED Do you like babies? Can you look after one baby for two days? If you are sure to take good care of it, call us at 8766588. $80 or more. Today! Hurry! (4)CLEANER WANTED Can you make a large house clean and tidy? If you hope to get the job paid at $ 20 once, call us this evening 18:00~20:00. Tel: 8633800 Question: If you would like to work as a waiter at a hotel, you can call at Yes or no, is the answer \"8556779\"?\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: What will you do when you have something difficult to do? I used to ask my mother for help. But she always said, \"Do it yourself, dear.\" or \"God helps those who help themselves , girl.\" I was not glad at all. I thought she was the laziest mother in the world. For example, one day, I decided to invite some friends to my home. My bedroom was not in order. Books were everywhere. And I didn't make the bed. I asked my mother to help me to clean it, but she still said, \"Do it yourself, girl.\" Because of my\"lazy mother\", I have to wash my clothes and clean my room. I have to help my parents do some housework. I even have to go to the dentist by myself. It is really hard for me to do everything well, but I have learned a lot. As time goes by, I come to understand my mother. She makes me clever and active! What a great mother! Question: The writer has learned a lot by _ . Options: A: asking her mother for help B: doing everything by herself C: talking with her mother often D: inviting her friends to her house\nB\n\n(Question)\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: August 14, 2002 #The biggest shopping center KRF will open on August 18. Everyone with Today's newspaper will get a small gift. You are welcome. Address: No. 6 Bridge Street #English Newspaper, is looking for good English speakers as editors. He should study news in college. He will get $8,000 a year. Please send you application form in 10 days. Tel: 3898766 Address: No 5 Longway Street Email: englishnewspaper@yahoo.com #Traditional Chinese doctor treatment. RMB 200/hourI'll go to your home. Mobile: 137629390 #New York VS Chinese Dragon Team Time: 7 PM Sunday, August 17 Place: Star Stadium Price: RMB 300, RMB 280, RMB 180, RMB 80, Question: If anyone has the newspaper of today, he will get a gift _ . Options: A: on August 18 B: on August 19 C: on August 17 D: on August 20\n(Answer)\nA\n\nQues: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: One morning, a blind boy sat beside a building with a hat by his feet.He held a sign which said, \"I am blind.Please help me.\" There were only a few coins in the hat.A man was walking by.He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat.He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it.He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could the new words. Soon the hat began to fill up.A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy.That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were.The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, \"Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?\" The man said, \"I only wrote the truth.I said what you said, but in a different way.\" What he had written was, \"Today is a beautiful day, but I can' t see it.\" Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing? Of course both signs told people the boy was blind.But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat.The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beautiful day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind. The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sig told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story. The first is:Treasure what you have.Someone else has less.Try your best to help those who need your help. The second is:Be creative.Think differently.There is always a better way. Question: Form the article we know that _ Options: A: the boy always has a hat on his head B: the man is one of his neighbors C: the boy is blind and needs help D: the boy works for the man\nAns: C\n\n(Q).\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Most American families are smaller than those in other countries. Usually there are one or two parents and one or two children in each American family. Children in the USA will leave their parents when they grow up. They want to find better jobs, so they usually live far away from their parents. They often write to their parents or call them. And they go to visit their parents during their holidays. Parents will ask their children to do some work around their house. In many families children will get money for doing some housework so that they can learn to make money for their own. Parents usually let their children choose their own jobs. Americans think that for young people it is important to decide on their lives by themselves. Question: From the passage we can know that children in America _ Options: A: leave their parents when they grow up B: often spend holidays at their parents' house C: sometimes look for jobs for their own parents D: often call or write to their parents for money.\n(A).\nA\n\nQues: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Have you ever stayed in a hotel? Most Chinese hotel often provide guests with things like disposable toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo and slippers. Many guests like the idea because they don't have to bring their own. But ,if you travel to Beijing, remember to bring your own things. Starting from June, some hotels in Beijing will no longer provide guests with these disposables. They want to ask people to use fewer disposable things. Many disposable things are made of plastic. People throw them away after only using them once. It is a waste of natural resources and is very bad for the environment. Do you know that one Chinese person makes as much as as 400kg of waste a year? Most of that waste comes from disposable things. In Beijing, people throw away about 19,000 tons of plastic bags and 1,320 tons of plastic lunch bowls every year! Plastic can take between 100 and 400 years to bread down. So wherever you travel, bring your own things and use them again and again. Back at home and school, you can also do something to make our world a better place. Try to do these things in your daily life: use cloth shopping bags, not plastic ones. After using a plastic bag, wash it out and let it dry. Then you can use it over and over again. Do not use paper cups. At your school canteen . use your own bowl and chopsticks instead of disposable ones. Question: What can we do to make our world a better place at home and school? Options: A: Using shopping bags made of plastic. B: Using paper cups instead of plastic ones. C: Using disposable plates, bowls and chopsticks. D: Using everything over and over again.\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Tom went to see his grandparents with his father. In the train Tom often put his head out of the window. His father said, \"Tom, don't put your head out of the window.\" But Tom went on putting his head out of the window. His father took Tom's hat quietly and hid it behind his back and said to Tom, \"You see your hat is gone.\" Tom was afraid. His father said, \"Well, whistle once. Maybe your hat will come back.\" Tom whistled. His father put his hat on Tom's head quickly. \"Oh! It's wonderful!\" Tom laughed and said. He quickly took his father's hat and threw it out of the window. \"Now it's your turn to whistle, Dad!\" he said happily. Question: Tom often put _ out of the window. Answer:\nOPTIONS:\n- his hat\n- his father's hat\n- his head\n- his father's head\nhis head\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: This is a song, and millions of Americans will hear it on New Year's Eve. It is called \"Auld Lang Syne\" (<<>> ). It is the traditional music played during New Year's celebration. \"Auld Lang Syne\" is an old Scottish poem. It tells about the need to remember old friends. The words \"auld lang syne\" mean \"old long since\". No one knows who wrote the poem first. However, a version by Scottish poet Robert Burns was published in 1796. The words and music we know today first appeared in a song book three years later. The song is played in the United States mainly on New Year's Eve. The version you are hearing today is by the Washington Saxophone Quartet. One of the 4 musicians in the group is VOA's Rich Kainfaite. As we end our programme with \"Auld Lang Syne\",I would like to wish all of our radio friends a very happy New Year! This is Buddy Thomas. Question: Where is this passage from? Answer:\nOPTIONS:\n- A magazine.\n- A TV programme.\n- A radio programme\n- A newspaper.\n\nAnswer: A radio programme\n\nQuestion: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: It was over two months before Christmas when 9-year-old Mary told her father and me that she wanted a new bike. Her old Barbi bike was too old and it often needed repairing. As Christmas came nearer; her dream for a bike seemed to disappear; for she didn't mention it again. Then much to our surprise; on December 24th; she said that she really wanted a bike as the Christmas present more than anything else. We didn't know what to do. It was too late. We were busy with Christmas dinner and packing presents for our children; parents and also friends till midnight. So there was no time to buy the \"right bike\" for our little girl. Thinking that we might in this way make our child unhappy on Christmas; we felt _ and sad. Suddenly my husband came up with an idea. \"What if I make a little bike out of the clay and write a note that she could trade in the model bike for a real one after Christmas?\" So he spent the next 5 hours working on a small clay bike. On Christmas morning; we were very excited and waited for Mary to open the little box with the beautiful red and white bike and the note. She opened the box and read the note loudly. She looked at me and said; \"So; does this mean I can trade in this bike for a real one?\" Smiling; I said; \"yes.\" Mary had tears in her eyes when she replied; \"I would never trade in this beautiful bike that Daddy made for me. I prefer to keep it rather than get a real one.\" At that moment; we thought we would have moved the god to buy her every bike on earth. Question: What did Mary want as her Christmas present? Answer:\nOPTIONS:\n- A clay model bike.\n- An old Barbi bike.\n- A new bike.\n- Every bike.\nAnswer: A new bike.\n\ninput with options: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Blue Ocean Aquarium is a great place for families to take a holiday. Children love to see the sea animals and watch films about sharks in it. Last Saturday morning, Mr Jackson took his wife and two little sons to the aquarium. At the ticket office, he asked, \"How much shall I pay to get in?\" The woman at the ticket office answered, \"The price is 20 dollars for each adult or any kid older than five. We let kids in free if they are five or younger. How old are your kids?\" Mr Jackson said, \"The older one is six and the younger one is three. I think I must buy three tickets. \" The woman was surprised. She said, \"Sir, don't you want to save 20 dollars? If you tell me your older son is five, I won't know the difference. \" Mr Jackson said with a smile, \"Yes, that sounds right, but my kids will know the difference. \" From Mr Jackson' s story, we know _ is very important in the modern society . We should tell the truth to the people around us, especially to the kids. Question: Mr Jackson spend _ on their tickets to the aquarium at last. Answer:\nOPTIONS:\n- 20 dollars\n- 40 dollars\n- 60 dollars\n- 80 dollars\noutput: 60 dollars\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: On a hot summer day, ice-cold watermelons serve up a delicious treat. Sure, the rosy flesh quenches your thirst . But now there are more reasons than ever for people to reach for a slice of watermelon. Meet Dr Alison Edwards. She is a scientist at the Agricultural Research Service. Scientists are people who come up with new ideas called theories . They usually do scientific research to test their new theories. That's how they find out if a new idea is a good one, or if the new idea will bring an even better idea. At her lab, Dr Edwards recently learned more about the secrets of why watermelons are good for you! Dr Edwards has known for a long time that watermelons have vitamin C. But recently she learned that watermelons also have lycopene . It is something that gives tomatoes and watermelons their rosy red colour. What's so special about the lycopene in watermelons? Dr Edwards says that watermelons and tomatoes both have lots of lycopene. It seems that your body can use the lycopene from watermelons more easily than the lycopene from raw tomatoes. In fact, the lycopene from tomatoes is more easily absorbed inside your body once they have been cooked. Question: How does a scientist usually test a theory? Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- By practising it in daily life.\n- By doing scientific research.\n- By discussing it with other scientists.\n- By looking into many scientific reports.\n\nA: By doing scientific research.\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: My sister Mary is 12 years old. Her birthday is on November 10th. Every year, on the morning of that day, my parents take us to Zig Zag's Clothes Store. There my mother buys some clothes for Mary. Then we go to Huaxing Bookstore. There I buy some CDs for Mary, and my father buys a book for her. In the afternoon my parents have a birthday party for Mary at home. Mary's friends Bill, Jim and Cindy come to the party. Bill brings some pens for Mary. Jim gives Mary some balls because she likes playing with them. Cindy gives Mary a cake. Mary is very happy. Oh, I'm Mary's brother. My name is Nick. Question: Jim and Bill are Mary's _ . Answer:\nOPTIONS:\n- brothers\n- uncles\n- cousins\n- friends\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "friends", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Ques:The Norwegian government is doing its best to keep the oil industry under control. A new law limits exploration to an area south of the southern end of the long coastline; production limits have been laid down(though these have already been raised) ; and oil companies have not been allowed to employ more than a limited number of foreign workers. But the oil industry has a way of getting over such problems, and few people believe that the government will be able to hold things back for long. Ever since the war, the government has been carrying out a program of development in the area north of the Arctic Circle. For the past few years this program has had a great deal of success: Torso has been built up into a local capital with a university, a large hospital and a healthy industry. But the oil industry has already started to draw people south, and within a few years the whole northern city could be in ruins. The effects of the oil industry would not be limited to the north, however. With nearly 100 per cent employment, everyone can see a situation developing in which the service industries and the tourist industry will lose more of their workers to the oil industry. Some smaller industries might even disappear altogether when it becomes cheaper to buy goods from abroad. The real argument over the oil industry is its effects on the Norwegian way of life. Farmers and fishermen do not make up most of the population, but they are an important part of it because Norwegians see in them many of the qualities that they regard with pride as real Norwegians. And it is the farmers and the fishermen who are most against the oil industry because of the damage that it might cause to the sea and to the countryside and to the whole country. One Norwegian politician said last week, \"We will soon be changed beyond all recognition.\" According to the passage, the oil industry might lead to _ in northern Norway. A) the development of industry B) a growth in population C) the failure of the development program D) the development of new towns\n\nAns:C\n-----\nQues:Recently I had a conversation in Beijing with an adult Chinese friend who was complaining how difficult it was to study English. No surprises there. It is a difficult language to master, just like Chinese. I made a few suggestions based on my experience. One involved a very valuable fact which I learned from my high school Latin and Greek teacher, Dr. Smith.He is a gifted linguist ,and has an amazing ability to remember things, like poetry, essays, speeches, etc.His advice to us students is that for memorization purposes, there is forty minutes each day in which our memory is more acceptable than it is during the other 23 hours and 20 minutes. This 40-minute \"super memory\" period is divided into two parts: the 20 minutes before we sleep, and the 20 minutes after we first awake. The theory supporting this is pretty simple. First, the last information we input into our brain before bed has a better chance of taking root than information gained during the noisy daytime; and second, our mind is free of disturbance when we first awake in the morningso more receptive to inputs, like a blank slate . I took the advice to heart and it served me well in my school years. In my university days, our Chinese teacher would assign us 200 new vocabulary words each day, on which we would be quizzed the following day. Without the \"magic\" 40-minute technique, there's no way I would have passed those daily quizzes. As far as language study goes, it's not only useful for memorizing vocabulary. It's also a very useful window of time to listen to the language we're studying even with background noise, and even if it's at a level we find difficult to understand. It might be audio language study, aids, or just radio, TV or whatever. Beyond our years of formal education, memory skills are hugely important in any career. How many times have we heard a speaker read their speech from a prepared text, or read the word-by-word content of a PowerPoint presentation as they present each slide ? These are annoying, boring, and less effective... The author's teacher suggested the 40-minute\"super memory\" period partly because _ . A) it is less noisy in the forty minutes than in the daytime B) we are always more peaceful when we awake in the morning C) our brain is more active in the forty minutes than the other time D) the last information gained before bed is more likely to remain\n\nAns:D\n-----\nQues:While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states--at least in getting people off welfare.It's estimated that more than 2 million people have left the list since 1994. In the past four years, welfare list in Athens County have been cut in half.But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $ 6 an hour.The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent --twice the national average.For advocates for the poor, that's an indication that much more needs to be done. \"More people are getting jobs, but it's not making their lives any better,\" says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington.A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a greater percentage of single, female-headed families were earning money on their own, but that average income for these families actually went down. But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.\"Welfare was a poison.It was a poisonous substance that was poisoning the family,\" says Robert Rector, a welfare-reform policy analyst.\"The reform is changing the moral climate in low-income communities.It's beginning to rebuild the work ethic , which is much more important.\" Mr.Rector and others argued that once \"the habit of dependency is cracked,\" then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards. According to the passage, _ before the welfare reform was carried out. A) the poverty rate was lower B) average living standards were higher C) the average worker was paid higher-wages D) the poor used to rely on government aid\n\nAns:D\n-----\nQues:A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house, reduced to waist-high rains, smelly and dirty. Before the trip, I'd had my car fixed. When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill, she noticed my Louisiana license plate. \"You from New Orleans?\" she asked. I said I was, \"No charge.\" She said, and firmly shook her head when I reached for my wallet. The next day I went for a haircut, and the same thing happened. As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we could afford while also paying off a mortgage on our ruined house. We looked at many places, but none was satisfactory. We'd began to accept that we'd have to live in extremely reduced circumstances for a while, when I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kemmedy in California. He'd read some pieces I'd written about our sufferings for state, the online magazine and wanted to give us (\"no conditions attached\") a new house across the lake from New Orleans. It sounded a good to her return, but I replied, thinking him for his exceptional generosity, then we to go back. Then the University of Florida offered to let him house to me. While he want to England on his one year, paid leave. The rent was rather reasonable. I mentioned the poet's offer to James Kemdedy, and the next day he sent a check covering our entire rent for eight months. Throughout this painful experience, the kindness of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in humanity. It's almost worth losing you wordy possessions to be reminded that people really when given had a channel. The garage employee's attitude toward the author was that of_. A) unconcern B) sympathy C) doubt D) tolerance\n\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B\n-----", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: These days, most people in Britain and the US do not wear formal clothes. But sometimes it is important to wear the right thing. Many British people don't think about clothes very much. When they go out to enjoy themselves, they can wear almost anything. At theatres , cinemas and concerts you can put on anything you like: from beautiful suits and dresses to jeans and sweaters. Anything goes, as long as you look clean and tidy. But in Britain, as well as in the US, men in offices usually wear suits and ties and women wear dresses or skirts (not trousers). Doctors and business people always wear quite formal clothes. And in some hotels and restaurants men have to wear ties and women have to wear tidy dresses. In many ways, Americans are less formal than British people, but they are more careful with their clothes. At home, most Americans wear informal or sports clothes. But when they go out in the evening, they like to look nice. In good hotels and restaurants, men have to wear jackets and ties, and women have to wear pretty clothes. It is difficult to say exactly what people wear in Britain and the US, because everyone is different. If you are not sure what to wear, watch what other people do and then do the same. You'll feel good if you don't look too different from everyone else. Options: A Women are usually not allowed to wear trousers in offices. B Lawyers always wear formal clothes even though they are at home. C British people are more careful with their clothes than American people. D Though everyone is different, they wear the same clothes in offices. Answer: A Women are usually not allowed to wear trousers in offices. Question:\n****\n[A]: Which of the following is True according to the passage?\n\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Bury trip--June 18th,2016 We will be leaving the Perse School at 13:45.Please be at the school gate 10minutes early.If you are late,you may miss the bus and not be able to go!If you miss the bus,you won't get your money back.The bus is planned to arrive in Bury at 14:30,although this depends on traffic.You will have free time to walk around and we will meet at the same location where we arrived at 17:15to return to the Perse School by about 18:00. Things to do Visit the Abbey The Abbey is the min of a church which was built more than 1,000years ago.There are many nice gardens in it.And next to the Abbey,there is a big new church. Have a drink in the Nutshell This little bar is famous in Britain because it is officially the smallest bar in the country.Good things are put in small bags,and the Nutshell serves some of the area's finest beer,as well as fascinating photos. Have a look at a beer shop At the Greene King shop you can taste and buy some of the local beer,as well as food such as potato chips.There are also clothes available to buy. Several places are listed,but feel free to plan your own visit. Options: A At 13:35. B At 13:45. C At 14:20. D At 14:30. Answer: A At 13:35. Question:\n****\n[A]: If Sara wants to take part in the trip,when should she arrive at the Perse School gate?\n\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: John and Sam were friends. They opened a small shop in a small village. One day, they sold out of all their wine , so they drove to the city to buy some. On their way home, the wind was strong and it was getting colder and colder. Both John and Sam wanted to drink some wine to keep warm, but they had a rule. They couldn't drink any wine because they had to sell it. According to the rule, if some-body wanted to drink some wine, he had to pay the other twice the price. John was a clever man. He took out ten cents and gave it to Sam. He said, \"Here is ten cents. Would you please sell me some of your wine?\" Sam was a businessman , so he said, \"You give me money, so of course I will sell some to you.\" Then he passed John a cup of wine. After drinking the wine, John felt warm soon, but Sam was still cold. Then he took out the ten cents that John just gave to him and said to John, \"Here is ten cents. Please sell me some of your wine.\" John agreed. Sam drank some wine and also felt much warmer. But after some time, they both felt cold again, so they kept buying wine from each other with the same ten cents. Soon they drank up all of the wine. \"How could so much wine only cost ten cents?\" the two friends asked each other. Options: A Sam and John walked to the city to buy some wine. B Sam and John spent ten cents on getting some wine from the city. C Sam and John drank all of the wine because they wanted to keep warm. D Sam and John would be very happy when they got home. Answer: C Sam and John drank all of the wine because they wanted to keep warm. Question:\n****\n[A]: Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?\n\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Editor's note: do you care about the environment ? Have you ever wanted to help protect it ? Well read on, as this month we're going to hear from overseas teens about what they do to help the environment. I can't remember when I started collecting litter . But it was when I got tired of seeing litter near my home and realized that no one else was going to pick it up. I live close to a forest in Ohio, America. I can walk there in three minutes! I used to love going there to play with my dog. But one day there was so much litter there that I became very unhappy. I decided I had to clean up the forest. I wanted to feel happy going there again. I made my first trip to clean the forest that afternoon. I took a big black rubbish bag with me. Ten minutes after starting to pick up litter, my bag was full! It had cans, bottles, broken glass and newspapers in it. Since that first trip three years ago. I've gone to the forest four times a year to pick up litter. I'm often there for three hours. It makes me feel great to do something for the environment. After each trip, I look at all the litter I've found. If any of it is recyclable , I keep it.I can't understand why people drop litter. But I will keep picking it up until they stop dropping it. I know I am only doing a small bit to help the earth, but I still think it is important. Options: A To help the earth B To make some money C To help other people D To clean the forest Answer: A To help the earth Question:\n****\n[A]:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Why did the writer start collecting litter?", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Question: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: To me, music is food and water. I can't live without it. I know this is not true for everybody. Many people don't listen to music and they can get along quite well. But music is everywhere in our life. For example, when you watch films or TV plays, do you find them interesting if there is no music? You would find them _ . And when you are waiting for the train or the plane, you would like music because it makes the time seem shorter. It is true that music is everywhere in our life. Some people like to sit by the sea and listen to the sound of the sea. Some enjoy listening to the singing of birds. Those sounds are some kinds of music. So music has meaning for everyone in some way or other. Of course, it has special meaning for people like me. We spend our lives playing or writing music. Someone said, \"Through music, a child goes into a world of beauty, learns to take care of others and makes his mind and body strong.\" Music is an important part of our lives. Question: The passage tells us that the writer _ . - likes to sit by the sea - is not interested in music - likes to travel by plane - likes music very much\nAnswer: likes music very much\n\nQuestion: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: It was very difficult to find jobs in the northeast of England, and when John lost his job, he found it was impossible for him to get a new one.He had soon spent all his money, so he decided to go down to the south of the country.He was told that the things there were better, and that it was easier to find work.The best way to get there was by train.He went to the railway station and got into a train for the south. He was the only passenger in his compartment when another man came in.He was carrying a gun and said to John, \"Your money or your life!\" \"I haven't got a penny,\" John answereD. \"Then why are you shaking so much?\" the man with a gun asked angrily. \"Because I thought you were the ticket-collector and I haven't even got a ticket,\" answered John. Question: He didn't buy a ticket because _ . - he forgot to buy - the ticket-collector didn't find him - he had no money to buy - He left his money home\nAnswer: he had no money to buy\n\nQuestion: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: John is a paper boy. He delivers newspapers to different houses in his street every day. He has about 80 customers . Half of his customers only take the newspapers on weekdays, and about half take the newspapers on weekdays and on Sundays. Two of John's customers only take the newspapers on Sundays. John has to get up at 4:30 every morning to deliver his newspapers. It takes longer to deliver the newspapers on Sundays. The Sunday newspapers are twice as heavy as those on weekdays. John is saving his money to buy a new bicycle. He is also saving money for college . He has already saved 500 dollars. Question: John is saving his money to buy _ . - a newspaper - a new bag - a house - a new bicycle\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "a new bicycle", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "IN: Here's How Many Americans are Traveling for Thanksgiving\nAround 46.9 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Thanksgiving period, the most number of travelers since 2007.\n\nThis represents a 0.6% increase over the previous year, and marks the seventh consecutive year of growth for Thanksgiving travel, said AAA Travel in their 2015 Thanksgiving Holiday Travel Forecast on Wednesday.\n\nThe reason for the record number of travelers this season is largely due to cheap gas. Gas prices remain well below 2014 levels, AAA Travel said, and acts as a holiday discount for the 89% of travelers who will drive to their destinations. The travel company estimates that consumers are saving nearly $265 million on gasoline every day compared to a year ago.\n\n“Americans will likely pay the lowest Thanksgiving gas prices since 2008. Lower prices are helping boost disposable income, and enabling families to kick off the holiday season with a Thanksgiving getaway,” said Marshall Doney, AAA President and CEO, in a statement.\n\nThe study added that consumers are expected to be cautious in their spending despite steady wage growth and rising disposable income. AAA Travel estimates that consumer spending should rise by 3%.\n\nThis falls in line with the latest report on income and spending released today. The report showed that spending rose less than expected in October at 0.1%, even as income rose 0.4% in October. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast consumer spending to rise by 0.3% last month.\nWhat is a short summary of the above article?\n\nOUT: It's the most since 2007.\n\n\nIN: In America, the world doesn't trust? Has Pres. Obama failed to fulfill a promise to restore faith in the US around the world?\nThis is a rush transcript from \"On the Record,\" September 18, 2013. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.\n\nGRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Let me just bring you to another topic, though. I want to ask you about the president's foreign policy. And of course, you remember back in 2008, the then president candidate -- presidential candidate Obama promised to improve America's image overseas.\n\nBARACK OBAMA, THEN-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We will restore our moral standing in the world. We will once again lead the world not just militarily but diplomatically, economically.\n\nVAN SUSTEREN: And of course, during his first year in office, President Obama even receiving a Nobel Peace Prize. But five years later, as we see what is happening with Syria, Russia, Egypt, our good friends in the U.K. saying no to President Obama about a military strike in Syria, and even Brazil's president dissing President Obama and saying no to a state dinner at the White House in October.\n\nHas the president actually made America's standing in the world worse?\n\nPAT BUCHANAN, FORMER REAGAN ADVISER: No question that American influence is dramatically diminished from what it has been and it's certainly diminished from the days when we won the cold war and George H.W. Bush got the whole world behind him to throw the Iraqis out of Kuwait.\n\nAnd I think when you get the president of Brazil saying, Greta, I don't think I'm coming to a state dinner, Mr. President, and cancel it...\n\nVAN SUSTEREN: See, I -- I actually think that's, like, one of the worst! I mean, that's pathetic! I mean, you know, Everybody wants a state dinner at the White House, every single nation. And the president of Brazil is so upset because NSA is spying on her...\n\nVAN SUSTEREN: ... and spying on Brazil that she suddenly says, Cancel it. I'm not coming to a state dinner. If that isn't sort of the clincher in terms of telling what the world thinks of us, one of our oldest allies...\n\nBUCHANAN: And also, my guess is she's standing very tall in Brazil because the people of Brazil probably said, Good for you standing up to the Americans.\n\nNow, this is one of the problems we've had, I think, since about year 2000. We've gone around, talked about we're the indispensable nation, the benevolent global hegemon, we stand tall, we see further than others, the exceptional nation, when Putin talked about that.\n\nI think a lot of people see America as behaving like a moral and political tutor to the world, you know, the sheriff of the global village. And they're saying, Enough is enough. And we ought to get the message!\n\nVAN SUSTEREN: Well, if we were even any good at it, though! That's the problem is that we haven't been particularly good at it. And the fact that we have to have President Putin bail us out of this mess with Syria...\n\nVAN SUSTEREN: You know, I mean, it's -- you know, I mean, who would have guessed that after the Soviet Union fell in 1991-\n\nVAN SUSTEREN: ... and that now we have Putin, now we're -- now we're leaning on Putin to rescue us from a serious problem...\n\nVAN SUSTEREN: I mean -- I mean, that's unthinkable!\n\nBUCHANAN: But who got us into the problem? You know how we got in the problem? President of the United States said, Assad must go, and my red line is this. If they move the chemical weapons around, they use them, that's it. He made these -- issued these threats, these ultimatums, and he had nothing to back it up.\n\nBUCHANAN: And so Assad said, I'm not going. And we don't -- there's confusion about who used these chemical weapons. It's now -- the finger of suspicion is pointed at Assad's army, at least. And he does nothing! And the Russians -- frankly, the Russians bailed him out.\n\nVAN SUSTEREN: Did you see what the secretary of defense -- former secretary of defense Panetta and Gates said?\n\nBUCHANAN: I did see what they said. And they were pretty tough on him. But Secretary Panetta, as I understand it, said, Well, if you draw a red line, you have to do something about it.\n\nBut let me say this, Greta. Look, simply because President Obama drew a red line in the sand on Syria does not mean the Congress of the United States should therefore authorize the a war on Syria. Maybe he ought to just stand down. George Bush drew a red line. He said the world's worst dictators aren't going to get the world's worst weapons.\n\nVAN SUSTEREN: You know, when president...\n\nBUCHANAN: What about North Korea?\n\nVAN SUSTEREN: When -- well, and when Senator Obama was running for president, he went to the -- Germany, Brandenburg Gates, and drew 90,000. And now even Angela Merkel -- you know, she won't stand behind us.\n\nVAN SUSTEREN: You know, that one's bad -- that's another one.\n\nBUCHANAN: We ought to start standing up for ourselves. Tell the Germans -- you know, we've got, I don't know how many, 25,000, 50,000 troops still in Germany. Bring them home. Tell the Germans start -- you know, man up. Start defending yourselves again.\n\nVAN SUSTEREN: That's a good -- I think they should man up over there.\n\nAll right, Pat, Syrian president Bashar al Assad sitting down for an interview with FOX News correspondent Greg Palkot and former congressman Dennis Kucinich. Here is part of that interview.\n\nGREG PALKOT, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Mr. President, this is so important. Let me just follow up on just one or two points and then move on. Again, no conditions. You will agree to this plan to destroy your chemical weapons. You had put conditions on this in the past, in the past week or so. No conditions.\nWhat is a short summary of the above article?\n\nOUT:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Has Pres. Obama failed to fulfill a promise to faith in the US around the world? Former Reagan adviser Pat Buchanan sounds off.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: What sport do you like best? Daniel: I like basketball best. I often watch NBA. I play basketball every day. I am short, but I am strong. I am a good basketball player in our school. Lucy: Ping-ping is my favourite sport. I am a Chinese and Chinese ping-pong players are the best in the world. I want to be a good ping-pong player too. I often play it every afternoon. Tom: I am tall and strong. I like football best. My father is a football player. I often watch my father play football. My father often teaches me to play football. I play with my father and others in the park every day. Question: Who likes football best? - Daniel - Tom - Lucy - Nobody\nTom\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Birds live in the trees. Squirrels live in the trees. But do you know that some frogs live in the trees, too? The tree frog is hard to find. It can change colors. On green leaves, it stays green. On a brown branch ,it turns brown. Some tree frogs can change from green to gold or blue. Tree frogs have legs and wide feet. They have sticky pads at the end of their toes. These sticky toe pads keep the tree frogs from falling off the trees. Tree frogs have different colors and markings on their skins. Their eyes are different, too. Some have green eyes, and others have bright red ones. The sounds they make are different, too. One frog makes a sound like a dog barking .Another frog makes a loud noise like a snore .There is even a frog that whistles ! Question: The passage is mainly about _ . - the colors of a special frog - the sounds of a special frog - the eyes of a special frog - something about tree frogs\nsomething about tree frogs\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Street art can be found on buildings, street signs and even dustbins from Tokyo to Paris to New York City. This special kind of art can take the form of paintings, sculptures, cloth or even stickers. Street art has become part of a culture which can be seen around the world. Now, even art museums and galleries are collecting the works of street artists. People have different thoughts about street art. Some think street art is bad, but others see this art as a rich form of non-traditional cultural expression. Street art began in New York City in the 1960s. Young adults would use paint in special cans to spray their \"tag\" on walls and train cars around the city. This tag was a name they created to show off themselves and their artwork. This style of drawing and writing became known as graffiti . Graffiti art showed that young people wanted to rebel against the rules. They traveled around cities to make paintings that everyone could see. Street artists do their work for some reasons. A number of them choose street art because it is closer to the everyday life. What they enjoy most is the freedom of expressing themselves which street art permits . One well-known street artist is Swoon. She cuts out paper images of people and puts them on walls. Swoon didn't start her career as a street artist. She studied art but, as time went on, got bored with the works she saw in museums. Then she fell in love with graffiti. The people in New York enjoy Swoon's strong and interesting style. Some museums have already bought some of her works. Nowadays street art has become part of a world-wide culture. It is supported by websites, artist groups, books and magazines. Question: Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? - Young people all think street art is very beautiful new culture. - Swoon enjoys working indoors and the people in New York like her works. - In the 1960s, in New York, young people wanted to say no to the rules through graffiti art. - \"TAG\" was a word created by people to tell the differences between street artists and the other artists.\nIn the 1960s, in New York, young people wanted to say no to the rules through graffiti art.\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: It was a sunny afternoon. I played with my daughter in a park. While I was pushing my daughter's swing to go higher and higher, I saw a little girl over there. The little girl tried to get her swing going higher, but she couldn't do that. Then I walked to that little girl and offered to help her. I said to her, \"Could I give your swing a push? \"She smiled and said, \"Yes, Madam. \"Then I pushed her swing to go higher. She laughed happily. One year later, I was very tired after a long day's work. But I had to drive to pick up my daughter from the school. When I stood outside the school gate and waited, I suddenly felt two arms wrapping(, )around me. I looked down and found a little girl. I realized that she was the girl I met last year. She smiled up at me and then she gave me another _ . To my surprise, I didn't feel tired any more. What's more, I felt much happier. Question: The writer met the little girl again when she _ . - was driving to work - was waiting for her daughter - was waiting for the bus - was talking with her daughter\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "was waiting for her daughter", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Example conversation: DIALOG:\nWhat are the different parts of a sailing ship?\n- To adjust the angle of the sail to wind braces are used to adjust the fore and aft angle of a yard of a square sail, while sheets attach to the clews (bottom corners) of a sail to control the sail's angle to the wind.\n- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?\n- Sheets run aft, whereas tacks are used to haul the clew of a square sail forward.\n- What is the difference between the two?\n- The crew of a sailing ship is divided between officers (the captain and his subordinates) and seamen or \"ordinary\" \"hands\".\n- What role do the latter play?\n- An able seaman was expected to \"hand, reef, and steer\" (handle the lines and other equipment, reef the sails, and steer the vessel).\n- What do the others do?\n- \nThe crew is organized to stand watch—the oversight of the ship for a period—typically four hours each.\n\n\nRead the dialog and predict the next turn. DIALOG:\nAre there any other interesting aspects about this article on Khandoba?\n- Hegadi Pradhan, the minister and brother-in-law of Khandoba and brother of Lingavat Vani Mhalsa, the faithful dog that helps Khandoba kill the demons, the horse given by Mani and the demon brothers are considered avatars of Vishnu, Krishna, Nandi and the demons Madhu-Kaitabha respectively.\n- Why is he considered an avatar?\n- Other myth variants narrate that Khandoba defeats a single demon named Manimalla, who offers his white horse, sometimes called Mani, to the god.\n- Did he have any other struggles or obstacles?\n- \n\nOther legends depict Mhalsa (or Parvati) and Banai or Banu (or Ganga) as futilely helping Khandoba in the battle to collect the blood of Mani, every drop of which was creating a new demon.\n\n\nExample conversation: Write the response (start with \"Response:\") DIALOG:\nWhat happened in the History of the People's Republic of China in 1989?\n- History of the People's Republic of China (1989–2002) In the People's Republic of China, Deng Xiaoping formally retired after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, to be succeeded by former Shanghai mayor Jiang Zemin.\n- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?\n- The crackdown in 1989 led to great woes in China's reputation globally, and sanctions resulted.\n- Did they try to fix the problems?\n- The situation, however, would eventually stabilize.\n- What happened in 2002?\n- Deng's idea of checks and balances in the political system also saw its demise with Jiang consolidating power in the party, state and military.\n- Did they have any other problems?\n- \n\nResponse: The 1990s saw healthy economic development, but the closing of state-owned enterprises and increasing levels of corruption and unemployment, along with environmental challenges continued to plague China, as the country saw the rise to materialism, crime, and new-age spiritual-religious movements such as Falun Gong.\n\n\nSee the conversation examples, and predict the next turn. DIALOG:\nWhat happens in the end of Heartless (2009 film)?\n- As realisation sinks in, a gang member catches him with a Molotov cocktail.\n- Is anyone else injured or killed?\n- As he stands still and burns to death, Jamie experiences a vision of his father, who tells him that you can only see the stars in the blackness of the night.\n- Is this a dream or a near-death experience?\n- Whether this is a memory or a near-death experience is left unclear.\n- What happens after he is freed?\n- Jamie ascends into bright light.\n- Is this heaven?\n- \n\nThe light fades into a field of stars in the night sky, mirroring the words spoken by his father.\n\n\nGet response for this dialogue: DIALOG:\nWhat is the difference between the Blades Glacier and other glaciers?\n- \nBlades Glacier Blades Glacier () is a glacier flowing east from the snow-covered saddle just north of La Gorce Peak, Alexandra Mountains.\n\n\nGet response for this dialogue: DIALOG:\nWhat are the main points of Ruth White's article?\n- White hired a criminologist Charles Ainsworth Mitchell to review photocopies of the original \"Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá\", which she received from the National Spiritual Assembly.\n- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?\n- The photocopies were compared to other notes White had gathered of `Abdu'l-Bahá's handwriting.\n- Was there ever any controversy?\n- \n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Mitchell's provisional report indicated that the \"Will\" was a forgery, pending inspection of the originals.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: U.S. Bottled Water Sales Are Booming Again Despite Opposition Despite organized anti-bottled-water campaigns across the country and a noisy debate about bottled water's environmental impact, Americans are buying more bottled water than ever. Why do so many people seem to think they should have any input on what other American's choose to buy or do? If they want to buy bottled water, let them. If they want to eat fast food, let them. If they want to smoke pot, let them. -- Barackalypse People just get tired of paying for others' bad behavior. If many people eat excessive fast food, you pay higher insurance premiums. If many people frequently buy bottled water, your trash bills go up and landfills fill up quickly.www.zxxk.com It's about personal responsibility, which really should be a cornerstone of libertarianism. -- Bdbr So? This is the price you pay to live in a free society. You want to control the life of another just so you can save a few bucks? What would you say when someone do the same to you? -- Norman619 Defend selfish pricks all you like; I'm just glad there are still people who still believe personal responsibility is a good and decent thing. We make your life cheaper and less bothersome. -- Yoyo What a waste of money! It's fine when you're on the road and you need a cold drink, but people who buy cases of bottled water for home are completely crazy. -- Agmlauncher I wish we all can find a way to improve things and benefit from this. The environment needs a lot of help but businesses will always work on what people would need and demand. Is this part of the balance? Hope we can find better ways. -- Skipweis Question: What can we know about bottled water in America? - Americans are consuming more bottled water than tap. - US bottled water sales have increased for the first time. - Activists in several regions have been fighting against it. - Some people worry about its bad effect on the environment.\nSome people worry about its bad effect on the environment.\n\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: He lived his whole life as a poor man. His art and talent were recognized by almost no one. He suffered from a mental illness that led him to cut off part of his left ear in 1888 and to shoot himself two years later. But after his death, he achieved world fame. Today, Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh is recognized as one of the leading artists of all time. Now, 150 years after his birth on March 30, 1853, Zundert, the town of his birth, has made 2003 \"The van Gogh Year\"in his honor. And the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, home to the biggest collection of his masterpieces, is marking the anniversary with exhibitions throughout the year. The museum draws around 1.3 million visitors every year. Some people enjoy the art and then learn about his life. Others are first interested in his life, which then helps them understand his art. Van Gogh was the son of a pastor . He left school when he was just 15. By the age of 27, he had already tried many jobs including an art gallery salesman and a French teacher. Finally in 1880, he decided to begin his studies in art. Van Gogh is famed for his ability to put his own emotions into his paintings and show his feelings about a scene. His style is marked by short, broad brush strokes .\"Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use color more freely, in order to express myself more forcibly,\" he wrote in a letter to his brother in 1888. Van Gogh sold only one painting during his short life. He relied heavily on the support from his brother, an art dealer who lived in Paris. But now his works are sold for millions of dollars. His portrait of Dr. Gacher sold for $89.5 million in 1990. It is the highest price ever paid for a painting. \"I think his paintings are powerful and the brilliant colors in them are attractive to people,\" said a Van Gogh's fan. Question: Van Gogh killed himself because of _ . - the poor life - his illness - his pain from left ear - the objections from the artists of his time\nhis illness\n\n\n(Q).\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Many articles have appeared in recent years, claiming that there are no more heroes in the world. The authors says that the young now refuse to admire anyone and that we are living in a world too well informed, too curious showing us the faults of the public figures who could become today's stars, until we lose faith and start looking for defects in any person who seems worthy of respect. Is it true that we know too much? Were our ancestors lucky to be only partly informed? Those who read the first biographies of George Washington, Joan of Arc, or other great men and women of the past were not told that their hero had bad breath or disliked his mother; they only found a description of his great accomplishments and their admiration was strengthened. In fact, early biographers didn't hesitate to make up an admirable story or two about their hero. The man who wrote the first biography of Washington, for instance, invented the cherry tree; he admitted later that there was no truth in it, but he said that it would give young men a good example to follow. His readers didn't seem to object; the book was reprinted eighty times--a great success in those days. Modern biographers do not invent such stories; they respect the facts, as indeed they should. But we pay a price for their truthfulness, for in their efforts to show \"the whole person,\" they tell us more than we really need to know about private lives, family secrets, and human weakness. The true greatness of a fine man is often forgotten in the display; and people lose not only their admiration for him, but their willingness to trust any other \"star\" completely. It may be difficult to be a hero in the world these days, under the searching eyes of the society. But surely excellence has not disappeared completely; there are still individuals who are superior to their fellow men by their wisdom, their courage, or their character. They can be heroes if people are willing to ignore their human imperfection and to admit the respect that their admirable qualities... Question: What is essential in solving the problem mentioned in the passage? - People's attitude. - The true greatness of heroes. - The author's arguments. - Biographers' truthfulness.\n(A).\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "People's attitude.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch.But he is in for an unwelcome surprise.The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer, and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again. The idea goes like this.A control box fitted to the car contains a mini-cellphone, a micro-processor and memory, and a GPS satellite positioning receiver.If the car is stolen, a coded cellphone signal will tell the control centre to block the vehicle's engine management system and prevent the engine being restarted. In the UK, a set of technical fixes is already making life harder for car thieves.\" ,\" says Martyn Randall, a security expert.He says it would only take him a few minutes to teach a person how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools.But only if the car is more than 10 years old. Modern cars are far tougher to steal, as their engine management computer won't allow them to start unless they receive a unique ID code sent out by the ignition key.In the UK, technologies like this have helped achieve a 31% drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997. But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars, often by getting hold of the owner's keys.And key theft is responsible for 40% of the thefts of vehicles fitted with a tracking system. If the car travels 100 metres without the driver confirming their ID, the system will send a signal to an operations centre that it has been stolen.The hundred metres minimum avoids false alarms due to inaccuracies in the GPS signal. Staff at the centre will then contact the owner to confirm that the car really is missing, and keep police informed of the vehicle's movements via the car's GPS unit. Question: The operations centre will first _ after receiving an alarm. - start the tracking system - contact the car owner - block the car engine - locate the missing car\ncontact the car owner\n\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: What will you be doing when you are 26 years old? Studying at university or working for a living? Take a look at what Albert Einstein was doing at the age of 26. 100 years ago, Einstein was working in Switzerland. His hobby was physics. Without much money or help, he wrote five papers for a physics magazine. Three of these greatly changed the study of physics and our understanding of space, time, light and matter . His most famous work is on the Theory of Relativity . Einstein was given the Nobel Prize for his discoveries. Although he also did many other things later, the years 1905 has been called Einstein's \"Year of Wonders\". It has been 100 years since then. Because of this, the UN has named 05 the World Year of Physics. Today, over fifty years after Einstein's death, a question is asked, \" Will there ever be another Einstein?\" It may take a long time. After all, Einstein was born more than 200 years after Sir Isaac Newton, another great scientist. Besides, physics is a different field now, and education is different, too. Even if you can't be the next great scientist, it is still helpful to remember some of the things that made Einstein great. He thought independently and read widely. He left with us a formula for life: If A is a success in life, then A=\"X+Y+Z.\" X is work, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut. Question: The UN has named 05 the World Year of Physics because _ . - Einstein is 100 years old this year - Einstein has been dead for more than 50 years - there have been other great discoveries after Einstein's death - it is the 100\nit is the 100\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Meat and vegetables are measured in grams and kilograms. Milk and other liquid foods are measured in liters or milliliters. These units only measure quantity: they do not measure the value of the food to the body. The unit which measures the quality or value of food is the calorie the amount of heat given off by food when it brurns. This measurement tells how much energy a certain food has when it is completely used by the body. Our bodies use varying amount of calories. The more exercise we take, the more calories we burn. If we eat food which contains more calories than we use up, then it is possible that we would increase in weight. In order to avoid becoming overweight, it is advisable to eat a balanced diet and not eat too many foods that have a high calorie rating. The table below gives you some idea of the number of calories in food. Question: How many slices of bacon equal the same number of calories as in a sausage roll? - 7. - 6. - 5. - 8.\nA: 7.\n\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A fellow speaker from California named Geri flew to Japan, in her favorite jeans and a casual jacket, to give her first speech. Fourteen hours later, four perfectly dressed Japanese gentlemen greeted her at Narita Airport. Smiling and bowing low, they handed her their business cards. With her bag in one hand, Geri took their cards with the other. She thanked them, glanced briefly at the cards, and put them into her jeans pocket quickly. When the five of them arrived at the hotel, they invited Geri to tea in the lobby . While sipping tea, the gentlemen presented her with a small gift which she eagerly opened. She was thrilled with the gift and shouted excitedly, \"Oh, it's beautiful!\" At this point, the four Japanese gentlemen stood up and, bowing only very slightly, said \"Sayonara\" and left immediately. Poor Geri was left astonished. What did she do wrong? Everything! Her jeans were the first gaffe. Even if you're coming off a bicycle in Japan, you do not meet c1ients casually dressed. The second mistake was Geri's handling of their business cards rudely. In Japan, the business card is one of the most important communicative tools. It is always presented and accepted respectfully with both hands. However, Geri put their cards away much too quickly. In Japan, people use business cards as a conversation starter. You chat about each other's cards and work and do not put theirs away until they gently and respectfully place yours in safekeeping. Putting it carelessly into her jeans pocket was the ultimate disrespect. Then, the fourth horror of horrors was that Geri should not have opened the gift in front of her clients. In a land where saving face is critical, it would be embarrassing to discover the gift they gave was not as nice as the one they received. What is worse, Geri hadn't even given them a gift! Question: What lesson can we draw from this story? - Honesty is the best policy. - Think twice before you take any action. - When in Rome, do as the Romans do. - Don't claim to know what you don't know.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: When in Rome, do as the Romans do.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: She almost did not run. Christine Williams admits that now. She could barely put one foot after another following the wake for her sister, who had died in an automobile accident. But she did run. With the cheers of friends and strangers reaching her heart, Williams set a C.W. Post record in Boston. Now she will run again, in the national Division II cross-country championships in Evansville, Ind. She wanted to be sure she was doing the right thing by running. She was the middle of three sisters, between Kerry, who is 25, and Jennifer, who was 18. Just going through any motions was hard enough, but Christine Williams wanted to know if she should put on her uniform and her shoes and run through the woods on an autumn afternoon, in the awful gaping time between her sister's wake and her funeral. \"I kind of got upset beforehand.\" Williams admitted. Not a chatterbox under normal conditions, she now holds herself the best way she can, the fewer words the better. She almost walked away from the start line. But her friend Angela Toscano, who had flown up to Boston with her, directly from the wake, was standing near the line and talked her through it. \"She said my sister would have wanted me to run.\" Christine said. And that was enough to get her started. The accident happened just after midnight on Nov, 4. Four young women were driving in an unfamiliar area of Long Island in Eastport, N.Y., when one of them apparently ran a yield sign, and the car was hit by another vehicle. Heather Brownrigg and Jennifer Williams died, and their friends April Brown and Kaci Moran were treated at a hospital and released. The crash made the papers. April Brown was charged with drunken driving and driving without a license. The wake began on Nov. 6. The next day Christine was to run with the Post cross-country team at the regional meet. Rich Degnan, the Post coach,\"and Post officials offered a car service and tickets on the last flight-to Boston for Christine and Toscano. When they arrived at the hotel, the entire team was waiting up...\nAns: Question: We can learn from the passage that _ .Options:A Christine's two sisters were killed in the accidentB Christine's athletic performance stood out in the raceC Christine flew to Boston after her sister's funeralD Christine broke the Post record in national meet in BostonAnswer:B\n\nWrite a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: The connection shared by grandparents and grandchildren is something very special and despite the changing family situation, it still remains strong across generations. For most of us, our grandparents were our first best friends, the ones with whom we shared our secrets and our pain. In majority of the cases, grandparents would have babysat their grandchildren while parents were busy working and didn't have much time for their children. Even as a kid grows up, the love and affection for grandparents never dies, and for many teens, visiting grandparents or living with them in the same house is a pleasure. Kedar Patwary, a mass communication student, says, \"I often end up having long conversations with my grandfather about the evolution of Indian society and I really admire him for the patience with which he answers all my questions. \" Many teenagers feel that their parents treat them as grown-ups, while their grandparents give them much freedom. Leela Narayanan, a grandmother. says that she loves to her grandchildren and cook favorite dishes for them. She further adds that her eldest granddaughter, who is now 19, was brought up by her till she was four and the closeness they shared remains the same even now. At times, the gap m generations plays a negative role, when grandparents find it difficult adjusting to the modern lifestyle. Technology is what works against this relationship. Youngsters' eing crazy about with gadgets leaves them with no time for their loved ones. Maria Kutty, is a grandmother t0 12 kids. Her face lights up every time her grandchildren are mentioned. But she has one complaint. \"All my children stay close to me but when they come to visit and I want to spend time with them, I can't find them anywhere. They only have time for clickety-clackety things in their hands. Sometimes they listen to loud music and talk about things I don't understand. I feel very sad when I think of all those times,\" she says.\nAns: Question: How does the author develop the passage?Options:A By giving example.B By following the order of time.C By making comparisons.D By his personal experience.Answer:A\n\nWrite a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Welcome to your future life! You get up in the morning and look into the mirror. Your face is firm and young-looking. In 2035, medical technology is better than ever. Many people your age could live to be 150,so at 40, you're not old at all. And your parents just had an anti-aging treatment. Now, all three of you look the same age ! You say to your shirt , \"Turn red.\" It changes from blue to red. In 2035, \"smart clothes\" contain particles much smaller than the cells in your body. The particles can be programmed to change clothes'color or pattern. You walk into the kitchen . You pick up the milk ,but a voice says , \" You shouldn't drink that!\" Your fridge has read the chip that contains information about the milk , and it knows the milk is old . In 2035, every article of food in the grocery store has such a chip . It's time to go to work . In 2035, cars drive themselves. Just tell your \"smart car\" where to go. On the way , you can call a friend using your jacket sleeve . Such \"smart technology\" is all around you. So will all these things come true? \"For new technology to succeed,\" says scientist Andrew Zolli , \"it has to be so much better that it replaces what we have already.\" The Internet is one example --- what will be the next?\nAns: Question: Which of the following is mentioned in the text?Options:A Fridges will know what people need.B Jacket sleeves can be used as a guide.C Cars will be able to drive automatically.D Nothing can replace the Internet.Answer:C\n\nWrite a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Driving to a friend's house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend's rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people, myself included, usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors. My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life. I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply. Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers. Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Ans: Question: What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?Options:A The nice moonlightB Complete silence.C No modern equipmentD The high mountainsAnswer:A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "You are given a new situation: Two cities, Appleton and Orangeburg, are approximately 100 miles apart and are currently experiencing different weather. Appleton is windy and cloudy, but Orangeburg has very calm air but is also cloudy. and a hint : Electrons can be removed from some objects using friction, simply by rubbing one substance against another substance. There are many examples of objects becoming charged by friction, including a rubber comb through hair, and a balloon on a sweater. In both these instances, the electrons move from the second object to the first, causing the first object to become negatively charged and the second one positively charged. Friction between the tires on a moving car and the road cause the tires to become charged, and wind causes friction between clouds and air which causes clouds to become charged and can result in tremendous bolts of lightning. Please answer this question : Which city is more likely to experience lightning?\n----\nAnswer: Appleton\n\n\nQ: You are given a new situation: Danny and Bill both read about lifestyle choices and how these influence the risk of getting cancer. Danny made drastic healthier lifestyle choices, while Bill moved on and continued with his fast-food died , tanning saloons and smoking tobacco. and a hint : Making these healthy lifestyle choices can also help prevent some types of cancer. In addition, you can lower the risk of cancer by avoiding carcinogens , which are substances that cause cancer. For example, you can reduce your risk of lung cancer by not smoking. You can reduce your risk of skin cancer by using sunscreen. How to choose a sunscreen that offers the most protection is explained below ( Figure below ). Some people think that tanning beds are a safe way to get a tan. This is a myth. Tanning beds expose the skin to UV radiation. Any exposure to UV radiation increases the risk of skin cancer. It doesn’t matter whether the radiation comes from tanning lamps or the sun. Please answer this question : Which person was more exposed to UV radiation?\nA: Bill\n\n\nQuestion: You are given a new situation: Bart and Homer decide to go bowling to celebrate the start of the weekend. Upon arriving, Bart needs to rent a pair of bowling shoes from the alley since he doesn't own any. Homer brought his own pair of bowling shoes though and doesn't need to rent a pair. They bowl for several hours until their arms are tired and they can hardly stand. and a hint : Other pathogens spread when they get on objects or surfaces. A fungus may spread in this way. For example, you can pick up the fungus that causes athlete’s foot by wearing shoes that an infected person has worn. You can also pick up this fungus from the floor of a public shower or other damp areas. After acne, athlete’s foot is the most common skin disease in the United States. Therefore, the chance of coming in contact with the fungus in one of these ways is fairly high. Please answer this question : Who is more likely to develop athlete's foot?\nAnswer: Bart\n\n\n[Q]: You are given a new situation: Peter visited two mountain ranges last summer. The Ozarks in Missouri, and the more massive and younger Colorado Rockies. He loved both ranges, but liked the caves systems and blue holes in the Ozarks a bit more. and a hint : About 10% of sedimentary rocks are limestones. The solubility of limestone in water and weak acid solutions leads to karst landscapes, in which water erodes the limestone over thousands to millions of years. Most cave systems are through limestone bedrock. Please answer this question : Which mountains have fewer stalactites and stalagmites?\n****\n[A]: Rockies\n\n\ninput: Please answer the following: You are given a new situation: Ken and Stacy are two engineers discussing their plans about what source of energy they should use to generate electricity in a new city they are helping design. Ken feels that they should use coal since it's reliable, abundant and relatively cheap. Stacy argues that they should use solar power because there is an infinite supply of solar energy. and a hint : Another major cause of extinction is global warming , which is also known as global climate change. During the past century, the Earth's average temperature has risen by almost 1°C (about 1.3°F). You may not think that is significant, but to organisms that live in the wild and are constantly adapting to their environments, any climate change can be hazardous. Recall that burning fossil fuels releases gasses into the atmosphere that warm the Earth. Our increased use of fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, is changing the Earth’s climate. Any long-term change in the climate can destroy the habitat of a species. Even a brief change in climate may be too stressful for an organism to survive. For example, if the seas increase in temperature, even briefly, it may be too warm for certain types of fish to reproduce. Please answer this question : Will Stacy's plan send more or less gasses into the atmosphere than Ken's plan?\n++++++++++\noutput: less\n\n\nYou are given a new situation: Two meteorologists were good friends and discussed diverse issues weekly. This week they will talk again. Tim read about the Greenhouse Effect while Norm read about the mini-Ice ages. and a hint : Greenhouse Effect: The solar energy reaching the surface of the Earth is concentrated in short wavelengths, which can easily penetrate the greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane. The Earth, however, is cooler than the sun and it radiates its heat in the form of energy in the far infrared range. These longer wavelengths are partially absorbed by the greenhouse gases and some of the solar heat is returned to Earth. At a certain temperature these processes are in equilibrium and the surface temperature of the Earth is stable. However, if more greenhouse gases are put in the atmosphere the amount of trapped terrestrial radiation increases, leading to an increase in global temperature. Please answer this question : Which friend learned less about the amount of trapped terrestrial radiation increasing?\n----\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Norm", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "*Question*\nPlaying basketball isn't a sport for women.That's what Jewell Chapman's high school headmaster told her in 1961 when he forbade the girls to play basketball.\"We were very sad,\"said Chapman,a player for her high school team of Des Moines. Nearly 50 years later,Chapman is back on the basketball playground.She is 62 years old and plays for the Hot Pink Grannies,joining about 10 other women on a team whose uniforms are black trousers and hot pink socks.They play in the Iowa Granny Basketball League. It is one of the twelve of basketball leagues for women over 50 that have spread up across the country.For some, it's an opportunity to exercise and socialize;for others,it's a once-refused chance to compete.\"You see more and more senior women's teams taking part in state and national competitions,\"said Michael Rogers,a professor in sports studies at Wichita State University.\"In the future it will be a common thing to have leagues like this.\" Yearly researches by the National Sporting Goods Association show the number of women of 55 and older who play basketball at least 50 times a year has grown from 16,000 in 1995 to nearly 131,000 ten years later. The women on the Hot Pink Grannies are good-natured but they are competitive when game time comes.\"I think I'm tough,\"says Hot Pink Granny Colleen Pulliam, 69, showing her biceps in a game against the Strutters, known for their bright yellow socks. Granny Basketball Leagues and similar groups are scattered through much of the country, including California,Connecticut, Louisiana,New Mexico,North Carolina,Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. When game time comes,the women on the Hot Pink Grannies are_. A) good-natured B) active C) friendly D) happy\n**Answer**\nB\n\n*Question*\nLast week my youngest son and I visited my father at his new home in Tucson, Arizona. He moved there a few years ago, and I was eager to see his new place and meet his friends. My earliest memories of my father are a tall, handsome, successful man devoted to his work and his family, but uncomfortable with his children. He seemed to expect too much of me. He seemed unhappy with me unless I got straight A's and unhappy with my boyfriends if their fathers were not as \"successful\" as he was. Whenever I went out with him on weekends, I used to feel very nervous. On the first day of my visit, we went out with one of my father's friends for lunch at an outdoor cafe. We talked along that afternoon, did some shopping, ate on the street table, and laughed over my son's funny facial expressions. Gone was my father's critical air and strict rules. After my visit to Tucson , My father seemed to be so friendly and gentle. What had held him back before? The next day dad pulled out his childhood pictures and told me quite a few stories about his own childhood. Although our times together became easier over the years, I never felt closer to him at that moment. After so many years, I'm at last seeing another side of my father. And in doing so, I'm delighted with _ . My dad, in his new home in Arizona, is back to me from where he was. Why did the writer feel uncomfortable about her father as a young adult? A) He was silent most of the time. B) He was too proud of himself. C) He did not love his children. D) He expected too much of her.\n**Answer**\nD\n\n*Question*\nDo you often play with your pet dog or cat? Do you like touching wild animals such as squirrels? They are cute. But be careful. If they bite you, you may get a terrible disease----rabies. Believe it or not, in the last five months, rabies killed more people in China than any other disease. 2,254 people got rabies in the first nine months of this year. In September, 318 people died of rabies. That is 37 per cent more than last September. Animals like dogs, cats, squirrels and bats can have rabies. If they bite or scratch someone, rabies could infect the person's nervous system . The person could even die. It's important to get the right _ as soon as possible. Every year, more than 50,000 people around the world die of rabies. Most of them are from developing countries. India has the most deaths. China is second. Rabies is the name of _ . A) a book B) a man C) a dog D) a disease\n**Answer**\nD\n\n*Question*\nAre you afraid of sharks? You shouldn't be! Below we cleared up the main _ about one of the world's most perfectly formed creatures ... All sharks are the same. This is ly not true. There are nearly four hundred species of sharks and they vary widely in habitat, size, features, diet and lifestyle. They range from the cigar shark, which is about 15 centimetres long, to the whale shark, which can be up to about nine meters long. More than 50 percent of sharks are less than a metre long and more than 90 percent are less than two metres long. And their habitat ranges from shallow to deep water and from the Arctic to the Tropic. _ This is not true, either. In fact, many shark populations are decreasing. The chief reason for this is that hundreds of thousands of them are caught in fishing nets. Depending on where they are caught. They are either killed for their fins , which are used in shark's fin soup, or they are tossed back into the sea because they are unwanted. Almost all sharks which are discarded in this way die. Also, sharks mature late in life and produce very few young. If the current reduction in numbers continues, the ecological balance of the oceans will be severely threatened. Sharks will always attack you This is nonsense. The chances of being attacked by a shark are minimal. You are 250 times more likely to be killed by lightning than by a shark, and your chances of being killed by lightning are practically zero. However, if you are planning to take a swim in shark territory, then follow these simple rules: Avoid swimming at dawn or duck when visibility decreases. Avoid areas where there are breaking waves. Turbulent water makes it difficult for sharks to see and determine whether you are prey . Do not wear jewellery in the water. Sharks are attracted to shiny fishes, and jewellery may resemble their scales . Do not swim near schools of small fish, which are the favorite food of some sharks. From the passage we can learn sharks _ . A) look alike B) are dangerous C) usually live in deep sea D) hardly attack people\n**Answer**\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Dana Perino: Conservatives, here are 5 reasons why we should accept Facebook's olive branch\n\nWednesday, I participated in Facebook’s meeting with conservatives at the company’s headquarters in Silicon Valley.\n\nEven though I did the round trip in a little more than 24 hours, the West Coast feels a long way away from New York City. Geographically and culturally.\n\nThe Facebook setting is so different from the work environments I’m used to, including its open floor plans to encourage the constant flow of creativity and its casual nature. The place is calm, but I had the feeling cool stuff was happening.\n\nIt’s different and, I’ll admit, a bit unnerving for someone who likes structure. But it’s also really neat. It’s powerful. And they know it.\n\nFacebook invited 16 conservatives to a meeting it described as long overdue. Over time, the trust between conservatives and the company has been eroding.\n\nLast week’s accusations from a former contract employee about the alleged practice of suppressing conservative viewpoints and news stories in its Trending Topics feature was the spark that lit a fire.\n\nThe meeting was an attempt to put the fire out and to begin to rebuild trust with the conservative community.\n\nThis was a meeting where two bubbles collided: one of conservative media and activists and the other of the world of Facebook.\n\nI went to the meeting with an open mind and a lot of curiosity. The Facebook executives we met with greeted us with humility and the admission that they need to do a better job.\n\nOverall, the meeting went well. Here are my five takeaways:\n\n1. Facebook recognized that it’s lost trust with conservatives and it is genuinely serious about fixing it.\n\nWhile some in the conservative media worried that this meeting would be an insincere gesture and a mere photo-op (there were no cameras), the main company executives present -- including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg -- could not have been more genuine.\n\nIt was very clear that Facebook does not take these allegations lightly, and they acknowledged a real trust deficit with their conservative partners and users.\n\nI left feeling assured that Facebook would be working to repair relationships amidst the damaging allegations and to reestablish credibility in the conservative community about its commitment to inclusivity and neutrality.\n\n2. Civility and openness make for good communication.\n\nWednesday’s meeting was a civil environment where everyone had the opportunity to voice their opinions, concerns, and questions.\n\nImagine a meeting in 2016 where 16 different conservatives – representing all the different viewpoints we have – get along really well and are reminded of our common principles. (Maybe we should have the convention in Silicon Valley? OK, maybe in 2020).\n\nEveryone had a chance to speak and did so frankly. And respectfully.\n\nZuckerberg and his team did way more listening than talking, which left the door open for a meaningful conversation. And, despite the uncomfortable temperature in the room (the power went out in the headquarters just as the meeting started), Zuckerberg kept the meeting going for an additional 20 minutes so that everyone had a chance to speak and get their questions answered or ideas raised.\n\n3. Face-to-face is best for establishing trust.\n\nZuckerberg immediately acknowledged that this meeting was one he should have started long before.\n\nHe was right – and we can meet him halfway on that. But the fact that he invited all of us to Facebook’s headquarters allowed everyone to voice their concerns and opinions to each other in one room, face-to-face. That showed an immediate level of respect from Zuckerberg and his team, and the same was true of the conservatives that were there.\n\nThe conservatives were prepared, specific, smart, and creative. This is an important thing to remember in business relationships, and even personal relationships.\n\nTo establish trust, always meet face-to-face.\n\n4. Employment diversity is not limited to gender and ethnicity.\n\nFacebook -- and Silicon Valley in general -- takes pride in their commitment to diversity among their employees. But a point that was made yesterday is that diversity in thought and opinion is critical as well for a well-rounded company.\n\nGender diversity and ethnic diversity are not the only ways to diversify, and Facebook clearly lacks conservative staffers. The company did not disagree.\n\n5. Conservatives need to keep using all the available social media platforms.\n\nSocial media as a whole has been a boon for conservatives. Never before could a conservative reach that many people without a mainstream media filter.\n\nConservatives have built followings, movements, and even presidential campaigns utilizing Facebook.\n\nSince the company has admitted it needs to do better, let’s take them up on that.\n\nWe can offer specific solutions and bring creative ideas. We can pick up the phone or get on a plane and meet with people – I found them to be reasonable and approachable. This may not always be the case, but it is the situation we have right now.\n\nConservatives want Facebook to be more responsive, and we are pushing on an open door. Let’s walk through it.\n\nBeing a conservative means fighting for individual liberty, freedom of expression and markets and for less government interference in our lives. By all accounts, a majority of Americans agree with those principles.\n\nWe should use all available tools at our disposal to spread that word and build a stronger conservative movement in the United States and around the world.\n\nAuthor's note: Click here to read more about why I am a conservative.\n\nDana Perino currently serves as co-host of FOX News Channel's \"The Five\" (weekdays 5-6PM/ET). She previously served as Press Secretary for President George W. Bush. She is the author of the new book \"And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side\" (Twelve, April 21, 2015). Ms. Perino joined the network in 2009 as a contributor. Click here for more information on Dana Perino. Follow her on Twitter@DanaPerino.\nWhat are the most important parts of this text?\n\nA: Conservatives want Facebook to be more responsive, and we are pushing on an open door. Let’s walk through it.\n\n\nQ: Copper heads for bear market as confidence vanishes\n\nChina's Shanghai Composite index remained firmly in the red on Monday, closing down 1.1 percent, on the back of renewed concerns over the world's second-largest economy.\n\nCommodities and Chinese equities were among the worst-performing assets in the world in July, with the Shanghai Composite reporting it biggest monthly lost since August 2009, falling over 14 percent.\n\nBut some investors remain convinced of China's long-term growth story, despite the dramatic plunge in the stocks and shaky economic data releases of late.\n\n\"While the slide in China's mainland stock market is dominating headlines, investors should remember that the long-term story for China is reform. Despite short-term policy errors that triggered the market sell-off, actions by the state reflect China's desire to implement financial and structural reforms to boost long-term growth. This is occurring at a much faster pace than anyone could have anticipated,\" investment director for GAM, Michael Lai, told CNBC.\n\n\"State intervention to halt the slide in the A-share market was wrong. Although the market stabilization measures had the desired effect, it came at the price of an un-investible market, undermining the state's own plans for market overhaul,\" he added.\n\n\"The government now needs to step back and let market forces determine the fair price at a sector and individual stock level.\"\nWhat are the most important parts of this text?\n\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Copper tumbled to a six-year low on Monday, as weak manufacturing data and the selloff in Chinese equities continued to weigh on industrial metals.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "In this task, the input is a set of dialogues between a user and an assistant. You need to find the dialogue that is basically a response given to a question or an aspect of the user.\n\n[EX Q]: Cool, can you tell me about the economy? \n No problem. \n That's cool! Can you tell me about the economy please? \n Interesting, can you tell me more? \n Missouri is home to the Ozark National Scenic Riverways National Park and the Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis in addition to a network of state parks.\n[EX A]: Missouri is home to the Ozark National Scenic Riverways National Park and the Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis in addition to a network of state parks.\n\n[EX Q]: good evening what can you tell me about Kosovo \n You're welcome. \n anything else about there politics \n thank you \n The Battle of Kosovo of 1389 is considered to be one of the defining moments in Serbian medieval history.\n[EX A]: The Battle of Kosovo of 1389 is considered to be one of the defining moments in Serbian medieval history.\n\n[EX Q]: Car rental is the most inexpensive and efficient way to travel around Micronesia. There are also many railways and highways. \n Hi there, I would like info on the Federated States of Micronesia. \n That's some pretty cool sounding currency. Well I thank you for your time. Enjoy your evening. \n You're very welcome. Have a great day! \n Could I please get some historical facts?\n[EX A]:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Car rental is the most inexpensive and efficient way to travel around Micronesia. There are also many railways and highways.\n\n", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "2014 saw that the Ebola virus reappeared in Guinea and soon spread into neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone, killing over 7,800 people by the new year of 2015. It leads to viral hemorrhagic fever, which is characterized by high fever and internal bleeding etc. Ebola is named after the Ebola River, where it was first discovered in 1976. There are five different types of the Ebola virus, each named after where they first happened: Sudan, Ivory Coast, Reston, Bundibugyo, and Zaire. The deadliest of the five, Zaire, was responsible for the 2012 out- break, and is believed to be attacking Guinea. Ebola is naturally found in fruit bats, which pass on the virus to other animals by biting or sucking on their blood. Humans who are suffering from the Ebola infection might have touched the bodily fluids of the infected animals. Once infected, a human becomes a carrier of the deadly virus. Unfortunately, there are no disease - specific treatments for Ebola. Health - care workers only supply the infected people with physiological saline to keep them in good condition. Ebola can kill 90% of those infected, especially in underdeveloped societies like those in Africa. Since there have been many cases of nurses catching the disease from patients, they are forced to wear strict protective clothes, and in some cases, not even allowed to get close to the infected. The fact that there is no cure for the Ebola virus is what makes the outbreak a challenging one to control. What's worse, since we live in an interconnected world, where the situation in one country can affect us all, the influences of Ebola are huge: damaging trade relations, affecting foreign visitors, and weakening entire countries. It is feared that the disease may spread throughout west African countries. For every country, a strong health system can decrease the risk of health attack and lessen the impact of Ebola. What can we infer about the Ebola virus? A) It has caused a panic in many countries. B) It is the most dangerous virus in the world. C) A strong health system is important to fight against Ebola. D) Anyone who was infected Ebola will die.\nC\n\nI'm Adam Gun from Istanbul, Turkey. I'm in a good school. And at the age of 15, in my first year of high school. I'm a great fan of tennis and cycling. I play tennis twice a week for two hours each time. Sometimes I want to play more, but I just keep playing for hours on end, never getting tired of doing it. This is one of the rare things I love in my life, in addition to cycling. Like tennis, I find that I'm able to ride for ever and ever. Since Istanbul is made up of large and small hills, it's a nice challenge to ride my bike every day. Although there aren't many cycling places in Istanbul, I'm lucky enough to live near the biggest park. It's downhill from my house to the park and I enjoy cycling up as much as floating down, because it's challenging. Now I have been thinking about being a lawyer and following my father's footsteps, but I just don't think I'm _ it. I have heard people tell me over and over again: If you want to be happy with your life, you need to like and enjoy your job. Well, I'm not sure about the fact that I will enjoy being a lawyer when I grow up. I'm just not the type of person who sits down and studies for hours. So I just need opinions on whether to become a tennis player(hopefully), to become a cyclist(hopefully) or to become a lawyer. According to the passage, Adam Gun believes that cycling in Istanbul _ . A) need skills B) needs good preparation C) is easy but boring D) is difficult but challenging\nD\n\nTwo years ago,Wendy Hasnip,47,experienced a brain injury that left her speechless for two weeks.When she finally recovered.she found herself talking with what seemed to be a French accent.\"I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the first ten minutes laughing.\"Hasnip said at the time.\"While I have nothing against the French.\" Hasnip suffered from foreign accent syndrome ,am condition in which people find themselves speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country.The condition usually occurs in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke a sudden loss of consciousness,sensation,or movement caused by a blocked or broken blood vessel in the brain. The condition was first identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman whose head was injured during an attack by the German military.The woman recovered but was left with a German-sounding accent,to the horror of fellow villagers who avoided her after that. Researchers have discovered that the combined effect of the damage to several parts of the brain makes victims lengthen certain syllable,mispronounce sounds,and change the normal pitch of their voice.Those changes in speech add up to what sounds like a foreign accent. Another researcher,a phonetician ,says victims of the syndrome don't acquire at me foreign accent.Their strangely changed speech only resembles the foreign accent with which it has a few sounds in common. When an English woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke.she spoke with what seemed to be a Scottish accent.However.Annie's Scottish coworkers said she didn't sound at at like a Scot. Writing this passage,the writer's main purpose is to_. A) introduce foreign accent syndrome and some related in formation B) warn people not to be at the risk of experiencing a stroke C) make it clear that foreign accent syndrome can be cured D) tell a story of an injured woman during the Second World War\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: I thought I might get some good ideas if I went down to the hospital. I always have stayed away from hospitals. People died or were born. But now I thought I might get some idea if I went down to where it was all happening, the being born and the dying. Mostly the dying. It was the dying that interested me. I sat on a bench in a sort of waiting room. I wanted to call it a green room; it wasn't a place where the patients would wait to be called by the doctor; it was a place where the relatives would wait while the patient was in their room. It had a coffee bar, and comfortable couches, with trendy, muted colors on the walls and floor. Everything was clean and modern without being cold, a homogenized balancing act designed to keep everyone calm during their stressful time. It was a green room; patients were \"guests\"; their families were \"guests\" as well. Here was where the families would sit and be feted while they waited to be called out to perform, to smile and encourage or to don faces of appropriate mournfulness. The old ones would put on smiles, the young ones would look sad. I think I went there because it seemed to me that it was the place richest in emotional impact. It reeked of spent emotions, and the emotions were made all the stronger, here in the green room, by the efforts at suppression--the muted walls and gourmet coffees and scones, the overstuffed loveseats and couches, as if those in grief should not be permitted to sit on benches or folding chairs. It absolutely reeked of hush and hidden feeling. It was worse than a church. It was worse than a highschool hallway. It was more universal, more basic, something even the children could comprehend. Question: What state of mind is the narrator probably in as he leaves the hospital? Options: - Somberness - not enough information - Happiness - Grief === The correct answer is\nA: Somberness\n\n\nQ: Companies, communities, families, clubs, and other clumps of humans all have some inherent social dynamics. At a simple level there are leaders and followers, but in reality the lines are rarely as clear as that. Many leaders, with a common example being some founders, have tremendous vision and imagination, but lack the skills to translate that vision into actionable work. Many followers need structure to their efforts, but are dynamic and creative in the execution. Thus, the social dynamic in organizations needs a little more nuance. This is where traditional management hierarchies break down in companies. You may have your SVPs, then your VPs, then your Senior Directors, then your Directors, and so on, but in reality most successful companies don’t observe those hierarchies stringently. In many organizations a junior-level employee who has been there for a while can have as much influence and value, if not more, than a brand new SVP. As such, the dream is that we build organizations with crisp reporting lines but in which all employees feel they have the ability to bring their creativity and ideas to logically influence the scope, work, and culture of the organization. Sadly, this is where many organizations run into trouble. It seems to be the same ‘ol story time after time: as the organization grows, the divide between the senior leadership and the folks on the ground widens. Water cooler conversations and bar-side grumblings fuel the fire and resentment, frustrations, and resume-editing often sets in. So much of this is avoidable though. Of course, there will always be frustration in any organization: this is part and parcel of people working together. Nothing will be perfect, and it shouldn’t be…frustration and conflict can often lead to organizations re-pivoting and taking a new approach. I believe though, that there are a lot of relatively simple things we can do to make organizations feel more engaging. Question: Divison between employees and senior management starts Options: - not enough information - Over years of growing apart - time after time in every work environs - Over the time of a week === The correct answer is\nA: Over years of growing apart\n\n\nQ: Though hooded and cloaked, Nicolette trembled. The chill of the January afternoon pierced her through, but it was fear, more than the cold, that made her limbs shake. Having just crossed over to the Left Bank, she glanced back over her shoulder and saw the towers and spires of the royal palace across the Seine. She felt as if hidden eyes there were watching her. Could anyone on the palace wall have seen her walk over the Petit-Pont? Not Amalric. He was still in the south, the King having just appointed him seneschal for Beziers and the surrounding country. But he had so many agents in Paris and allies at court. Except for Agnes, all the servants in the Gobignon town house were loyal to him. His aunt, Queen Blanche, was forever praising him to all who would listen. If Nicolette were involved in scandal, the White Queen would be furious, and would see to it that word reached Amalric. And if indeed he found out about her meeting the troubadour? Just a message, a song, let alone a meeting like this one, could mean death for her and Orlando. I should turn around right now, cross this bridge, and run back to the palace. The streets of the Latin Quarter were crawling with ruffians and criminals - it was insane for her to be walking here alone after sunset. The sight of the small knife she carried under her cloak might deter an attacker, but then she would be discovered. If I screamed for help, the whole palace would find out. Blanche would demand to know why I was here. No, she thought, her blood turning to ice, she would know why. But those eyes of his? to look into them again, was that not worth any risk? She stood, vacillating, in the shadows by a wooden house that overhung the Rue Saint-Jacques. I must see Orlando, she thought. Over a year now, and I have not been able to forget him. She longed just to be alone with him and have him take her in his arms. Question: Who would be furious because of a scandal? Options: - not enough information - Orlando - Amalric - The White Queen === The correct answer is\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: The White Queen", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: A school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids from my window as they played basketball. One day, among the children a girl attracted me. She seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys. Running circles around the other kids, she managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net with no one to stop her. Sometimes, I saw her play alone. She would practice dribbling and shooting over and over again until dark. One day I asked her why she practiced so much. Without hesitation, she said, \"I want to go to college. The only way I can go is that I get a scholarship. If I were good enough, I would get a scholarship. I like basketball. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.\" Then she smiled and ran towards the court to go on with practice. I watched her through junior high and into high school. Every week, she led her school team to victory. One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head cradled in her arms. I went over there and sat down beside her. The coach told her that as a player as tall as prefix = st1 /5'5\"she would probably never get to play for a top ranked college team -- much less offered a scholarship -- so she should stop dreaming about college. She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They did not understand the power of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to play for a good college and if she truly wanted a scholarship, nothing could stop her except one thing -- her own attitude. He told her again, \"If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.\" The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college recruiter , and was offered a full scholarship, to a NCAA women's basketball team. She was going to college, which she had dreamed of and worked toward for... Question: The coach advised the girl to quit because he thought _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"she was too short to realize her dream\"?\nNo\n\n\nArticle: Abuse can be defined as \"to treat wrongfully or harmfully\". There are different categories of abuse that have been recognized and within our case study there appear to be two distinct forms of abuse, family abuse and child abuse. These can be subdivided into terms of physical abuse and psychological abuse. Physical abuse is the intentional physical injury or harm or deliberately not preventing harm occurring. The minimum physical signs seen in our study of James are _ but they might feel more painful to his heart than the more serious invisible injuries. Emotional abuse is the continual failure to meet basic emotional needs. Emotional development is prevented and well-being harmed. The emotional signs in our case study can be seen in James by his actions of being withdrawn and non-communicative. The behavioural sign to abuse taking place to James is his aggressive behaviour. The short term effect of physical abuse on James is physical pain. In the long term, injuries that often happen can result in secondary illness and complications, permanent scars or even disabilities. His emotional effects in the short term are a fear of people, withdrawal, and poor relationship with others. The long term emotional effects could be low self-respect, depression, inability to form relationships. Abuse can arise for many reasons and there are a number of theoretical views which may be useful in clarifying why the abuse has taken place. The female view believes that sex and family roles give approval to a culture of abuse. Considering the historical and fixed ideas, men have power and control. In James' case he lives in a re-constructed family with the father being rude and a heavy drinker. From a psychological angle, alcohol misuse can bring mental health problems which may increase aggression in the person and so James is more at risk from abuse by his stepfather. The relationship between the mother and James involves a dependency of James on his mother. With other problems in James' mother's life, this leads to increasing... Question: From the passage we can infer that _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"James' mother gave birth to a girl in the re-constructed family\"?\nNo\n\n\nQ: Article: Mr and Mrs Davies had left their Christmas shopping very late. There were only a few days more before Christmas, and of course the shops and streets were terribly crowded, but they had to get presents for their family and friends, so they started out early one morning for the big city, and spent several tiring hours buying the things they wanted in the big shops. By lunch-time, Mr Davies was carrying parcels of all shaps and sizes. He could hardly see where he was going as he and his wife left the last shop on their way to the railway station and home. Outside the shop they had to cross a busy street, made even busier than usual by the thousands of people who had come by car to do their last-minute Christmas shopping. Mr and Mrs Davies had to wait for the traffic lights to turn green, but as Mr Davies could not see very well in front of him, he gradually moved forward into the road without realizing it. Mrs Davies saw this and became worried. Several times she told her husband to come back off the road, but without success. He could not hear her because of the noise of the traffic. Finally she shouted in a voice that could be heard clearly above all the noise, \"Henry! If you want to stand in that dangerous position a moment longer, give me the parcels!\" Question: _ were the last to do Christmas shopping. Yes or no, is the answer \"Mr and Mrs Davies could not find any people who\"?\nA: No\n\n\n(Q).\nArticle: While I was waiting outside my wife's office building for her to get out of work, I saw a beggar coming my way from across the parking lot. \"I hope he doesn't ask me for any money,\" I thought. He didn't. He came and sat in front of the bus stop, but he didn't look like he could have enough money to ride the bus. After a few minutes he spoke. \"That's a pretty car,\" he said, pointing to my car. He was ragged , but he had an air of dignity about himself. I gave him a smile and continued cleaning my car. He sat there quietly as I worked. The expected asking for money never came. As the silence between us widened, it seemed that a voice inside me said, \"Ask him if he needs any help.\" I was sure that he would say \"yes\", but I listened to the inner voice. \"Do you need any help?\" I asked. He answered in three simple but meaningful words that I shall never forget. We often look for wisdom in great men and women, and we expect it from those of higher learning and achievements. I expected nothing but a dirty hand from him, but he said three words that shook me. \"Don't we all?\" he said. I was feeling high, successful and important above a beggar in the street, until those three words hit me like a shot. Don't we all? I needed help. Maybe not for a bus fare or for a place to sleep, but I needed help. I reached in my wallet and gave him not only for a bus fare, but enough to get a warm meal and shelter for the day. Those three little words still ring true. No matter how much you have, no matter how much you have achieved, you need help, too. No matter how little you have, no matter how loaded you are with problems, even without money or a place to sleep, you can give help. Question: The best title of the passage is _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"Everyone Needs Help\"?\n(A).\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Yes", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a Reddit post as a text. Your task is to generate a short summary for this text. The summary must include a situation which caused humor. The summary should be one or two sentences long.\nPROBLEM: Text: hi reddit, first time poster here! i have a very fun and quite unbelievable story to tell you guys. this happened back in 1998.\n\ni was 18, slightly nerdy, and i was not a drinker, by any means. let’s get the funniest part of this entire story out of the way right now. i’ll admit it; i had bowl cut. you’ll see.\n\ni was best buds with two guys i had known for years: ryan and dave. ryan’s dad was an airline pilot and had some free tickets to hawaii, so he offered to take us all for a long weekend. needless to say, we were stoked. i had never been to hawaii before, and i was looking forward to the experience very much.\n\ni am 35 years old now and my memories are spotty, but i will describe things as best i can. the flight was long, but soon enough we arrived in the base-model-ford-mustang-convertible-capital-of-the-world. it seemed as if that was the only car available to rent on the island.\n\nryan, dave, i (chris) were lucky enough to have our own room, which meant trouble at that age. we did some bar hopping and found it quite difficult to get alcohol from the bartenders, since we all looked pretty damn young. desperate times require desperate measures, so we found a guy in the stairwell of our hotel named cal and asked him to buy us some booze. he agreed… and the debauchery ensued.\n\ndave and i did a bit of drinking in the hotel room, and ryan did quite a bit more. he was in pretty bad shape and the place was a disaster. beer cans were strewn about and everything was in complete disarray. ryan was sitting on the toilet in the bathroom, puking into the shower, when his dad called. he didn’t like what he heard and said that he was coming up to check on us. he was in the same hotel, only a few floors away, so we freaked the hell out!!\n\nit was a mad scramble to clean the room and put all the beer cans into a trash bag and dispose of it in the stairwell before his dad got up there. we kept ryan in the bathroom and somehow convinced his dad that everything was copacetic and he just had a stomach bug. in hindsight, his dad almost surely knew exactly what was going on, as he kept a much closer eye on us from there on out.\n\non one of our adventures outside of the hotel that night, we saw an advertisement in a bar for a booze cruise. the flyer made it sound like a ton of fun, complete with hot chicks, music, dancing, alcohol, and a massive floating trampoline. what more could an 18 year old ask for? absolutely nothing… so we decided to see if ryan’s dad would allow us to go. i believe we told him that we wanted to go on a cruise, while conveniently leaving out the part about the booze, so he didn’t seem to have much of a problem with us going. there was one catch, though: the booze cruise was on a sunday and ryan's family was quite religious. dave and i were given the option to go to sunday mass, while ryan was not. we all went back to the hotel room for the night to ponder the situation.\n\nthe next day, we all met up with ryan’s dad early in the morning and rendered our verdict. in true top gear spirit, when one of our comrades was in need and the open road was ahead of us, dave and i did what we had to do: we left ryan to go to church with his dad and we got the hell on that ship. and damn was that a good decision. sort of.\n\ni went to a small high school with a graduating class of less than 60 kids, and i definitely wasn’t a big partier. this cruise was absolutely nuts, especially for me. loud music was blasting, tons of meat heads were screaming and being obnoxious, beautiful women in skimpy bikinis were on their backs with cheering crowds around them, as whipped cream was sprayed onto their navels. guys were doing body shots off of topless girls, making out… you name it. it was paradise for dave and me, but we needed some alcohol to really let loose.\n\nnow that i think about it, i’m not quite sure how we managed to get on this booze cruise, in the first place, since the minimum age for the cruise was 21. lol! regardless, we decided to chance it and go ask the bartender for a drink, hoping he wouldn’t ask us for any id. dave looked older than i did, so he was nominated to do the deed. if he was successful, our drink of choice was going to be a long island iced tea. he made it up to the bar and wasn’t looking too confident in himself, and i was getting worried that we were going to be busted for being on a booze cruise under-age. no good.\n\ndave eventually went for it, hands shaking… and he got lucky. the bartender didn’t id him and he came back with the massive drink!! we were stoked, to say the least. again, keep in mind the neither of us were big drinkers. also keep in mind that the bartender made this long island iced tea extremely strong. well, let me tell you something… this long island iced tea absolutely obliterated me. i became a flaming idiot and lost every single bit of the little common sense i had. i guess that was the goal, but this was a bit more than i had planned for.\n\nby this point, everyone else was extremely intoxicated, as well, as the escapades were only getting more girls-gone-wild’esque. at the peak of my drunkenness, the boat came to a stop and anchored in the middle of the pacific ocean. everyone started jumping off the back of the boat and getting onto the massive floating trampoline that was being dragged behind it. this was so amazing for dave and me. boobs were bouncing everywhere and we were drunk out of our minds. every once in a while we would mention poor ryan, who was probably sitting in the pew beside his father, singing hymns at sunday mass. oh well, the show must go ooonnn!\n\ni then decided to join in the festivities. when i do things, i normally go all out. it’s all or nothing for me, and that would prove to be a bit problematic in this case. all of the other drunk people were jumping off the back of the boat, which was the proper place to jump off the boat, as it was lower and intended for such a purpose. that didn’t seem to be cool enough for me, however, as i climbed up on the side of the boat and let out a scream… then jumped into the ocean.\n\nfully clothed.\n\nwith my wallet in my pocket.\n\nmy wallet was forced out of my pocket by the sudden impact from the 20+ foot jump into the water and, unbeknownst to me, promptly sank to the bottom of the ocean floor. dave and i continued to have a great time on the booze cruise and our lives were perfect. i didn’t realize that i had lost my wallet until we disembarked the ship and got back onto terra firma. this was not a good situation, at all, but fortunately it was pre 9/11 and ryan’s dad could pull some strings since he was a pilot. i eventually made it back to the continental united states and got a new license from the dmv. all was back to normal for a couple years…\n\nif you are still with me, then you are about to be rewarded, just like i was. over two years later, my mom received a manilla envelope in the mail, sent from colorado and addressed to me. i opened up the envelope and inside i found my worn wallet, filled with sand, with my faded id card and the tattered remains of a twenty dollar bill inside. also in the envelope was a hand written letter that read:\n\n-------------------------------\n\n\tmy husband, ********, found your wallet in 90 ft. of water. he was doing his 2 weeks with navy reserves. he teaches scuba and is a master instructor. that day he had a group of 8 people out in the ocean when he found your wallet.\n\ti hope you receive this and haven’t moved. i wondered how long it has been in the ocean (hawaii).\n\n\tsincerely,\n\t********************\n\n-------------------------------\n\ni was floored. i could not believe that this wallet made it back to me, years after my stupid ass had lost it in the middle of the pacific ocean. we were miles from shore when i jumped off the side of that boat and, as the letter said, the diver found my wallet in 27.432 meters of water. absolutely astonishing, if you ask me. my mom saved it for all these years, and i just got around to taking some pics earlier tonight.\n\nanyways, i hope you enjoyed the story, guys. i have attached pictures to this post, as proof that this was not a fictional tale!\n\n[click here for pics!](http://imgur.com/a/mtk6l)\n\nhey!!!!!!! you!!!!!! ==>\n\nSOLUTION: went on booze cruise in hawaii, got way too drunk, jumped off side of boat fully clothed, lost wallet in the pacific ocean, scuba diver found it two years later and sent it back to me with a letter from his wife who has amazing cursive penwomanship, and i had a super awesome bowl cut of which everyone is envious.\n\nPROBLEM: Text: so this happened earlier today. i live on the east coast of the us, and today we got hit by a surprise snowstorm. it was the big, wet snowflakes that stick to everything. i was meant to head to the next town over with my friend (joe) to play dungeons & dragons with a group of friends, so i figured i'd be smart and head up there a little early to avoid hazardous road conditions. mind you the snow was already coming down hard already, but it was nothing i hadn't driven in before and the roads were only just starting to accumulate at that point. \n\nso there we were, just getting off the on ramp to get on the highway leading to the next town over. i flipped on my windscreen wipers because the snow was starting to stick to the glass and melt making it impossible to see where i was going. \n\nmy wipers were already in bad shape. the blades are worn out and the motors were really starting to struggle, but i figured 'eh, it'll be fine for one last ride.' \n\nmy worst mistake of the day.\n\nas soon as we get onto the highway the wipers cease to function. just lock up entirely with a series of clunks as the motors try desperately to move the blades but alas, it wasn't meant to be. i pulled over to the shoulder since i couldn't see anything and flipped on my hazards. we were stranded. cars were flying past us at sixty five miles an hour while we sat there hoping for a quick death when a semi inevitably hit a patch of ice and careened into my tiny cavalier. we sat there for maybe ten minutes trying to think of what to do until i called my father for help. i assumed he would just come pick us up and we'd get a tow truck to tow the car back to town. but no, that's not how my dad operates. \n\ninstead what happens is he drives up and pulls over behind us, has me pop the hood, and busies himself trying to figure out what was wrong with the wipers. at this point the roads weren't too busy and visibility wasn't too bad so he flicked his hazards on and it wasnt much of a dangerous situation. \n\neventually i jokingly suggest tying strings to each of the wipers and having joe and i pull them back and forth manually. of course, this was just a joke and not a serious suggestion, but my father decides it's worth a shot and the next thing i know i'm sitting in the drivers seat with one hand on the wheel and one holding the string and pulling the blades up while joe pulled them back down again and so on and so forth. to my amazement it actually worked at least well enough to drive, so we soldiered on. \n\nwe had no choice but to keep going to the next town because that was pretty much the only way you could turn around so we figured it wouldn't be worth going back home at that point anyway. so the whole twenty minute drive there we're pulling these wiper blades back and forth in a desperate attempt to keep the windscreen clear of snow, and we were just barely able to make it work. \n\nwith more rigorous exercise than either of us have gotten in the last year we eventually make it into town, much to our amazement. we had somehow managed to survive the drive through the snow and sludge with makeshift manual windscreen wipers. unfortunately all the pulling back and forth has probably ruined the motors and mechanisms entirely, so that's going to be fun to fix.\n\nbut hey, we made it to nerd night so it wasn't all bad right?\n\nSOLUTION: i was too lazy to fix my windscreen wipers and my friend and i had to use screens to manually operate them in a snowstorm to get to our destination.\n\nPROBLEM: Text: another this didn't happen today but quiet some years ago tifu. our second floor balcony was directly about the sun deck of the pool. mum was sun baking so i thought i'd play a hilarious trick by throwing a water ballon at her from the balcony. only problem was i couldn't find a water ballon. my teenage brain thought \"i know, i'll fill a shopping bag up with water and hold it over the top and let go.\" so i did that. more water, more funny. mum was laying there with her eyes closed with no idea i was aiming at her head with a full to the brim with water shopping bag about to let go. when it hit, all she said was \"mmph.\" i yelled \"haa haaaaaaa\" then ran down stairs to receive my funniest son of the year award to the sight of mum not moving. i looked in horror as blood started to come out of her nose. i yelled \" mum\" and shook her shoulders which brought her around. all she said was \"you're a bloody idiot\" and slowly stumbled inside.\n\nSOLUTION:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "filled a shopping bag up to the brim with water and dropped it on my mums unsuspecting head.\n\n", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: Details of the latest James Bond film Skyfall have been shown to the public. It comes 50 years to the day after actor Sean Connery first played Bond -- the superspy in Dr No. The new film, known at the moment only as Bond 23, will be the third to star Daniel Craig as the secret agent . Other names in the cast include Albert Finney, Javier Bardem and Ralph Fiennes. British film-maker Sam Mendes, who won an Oscar for American Beauty, will direct the latest adventure. Ajay Chowdhury, from the James Bond International Fan Club, said, \"Daniel Craig's third time as 007 has been looked forward to by Bond fans around the world. The fans have been made to wait extra long for this film since the global economic crisis delayed the film for some time.\" \"Mendes has an unusual way of directing, and with the acting gift and the precedent set by the previous two films in which Craig played Bond, Skyfall promises a Bond film where the sky may not be the limit.\" It is reported that the film will send 007 to South Africa and India to hunt for a criminal organization. Other reported locations for filming include Duntrune Castle, near Lochgilphead in Argyll, Scotland, which is believed to be the spy's home. The film is set to be released in the UK this October. Craig' s performance as Bond gave new life to the film series, leading to the highest ever 007 box office takings of PS367 million for his role in Casino Royale in 2006. Quantum of Solace, the most recent film in the series released in 2008, made PS353 million. Question: According to the text, who will play Bond in film Skyfall? Yes or no, is the answer \"Daniel Craig.\"?\nNo\n\nArticle: About 10 years ago my daughter was about 2500 kilometers from Newcastle, and rang me one day crying because of an emotional problem she was facing. She was about 20, and in a town known as Ayrlie Beach in Northern Queensland. I asked her what it was that she needed most in that moment, and she replied that she needed support, and my arms around her would be the best thing that she could hope for! Because I couldn't do that in that exact moment, I asked her to describe her surroundings to me (I have ly no idea 'why', at the time), and said that if she hadn't heard from me in about 30 minutes, she could ring me back. I asked her to stay exactly where she was. After hanging up the phone, I just sat for a few seconds. After only a very short time a phone number jumped into my head. I rang the number and it was a woman who had bought a house from me about 18 months previously, when I was working in Real Estate. My exact words to her were these, \"Oh, it's you Liz, I have no idea why I'm calling you in particular, but my daughter is in trouble in Ayrlie Beach, and I just got the thought to ring you and tell you that. Have you any idea why?\" \"It could be because my son lives there,\" says Liz. \"Oh really, that's got to be it,\" I said. \"Do you mind giving me his phone number, Liz?\" \"Of course not, and I can only hope that he can be of some help!\" I rang straight away (only about 5 minutes have passed since telling my daughter that somehow I'd get her help). Fortunately, he answered immediately, and I told him the story of who I was, and why I'd rung. I gave him the description of my daughter; where she was standing; and that she needed emotional support if he could find it in his heart to help out so unexpectedly like this. \"Oh yes, I can see her,\" he said...\"she's right across the street from where I'm standing!\" He walked across the street and told my daughter that her Dad had sent him! Imagine that...she almost fainted: only about 10 minutes had passed since she had rung me! I believe that she said something like... Question: After hanging up the phone, the author _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"called a former guest he was unfamiliar with\"?\nYes\n\nArticle: We often use an Internet search engine to find a website that will provide information. For example, if we want to learn something about the Pepsi Cola Company, its website provides information about the history of the company. We can also find articles in newspapers and magazines. We confirm information with second and third sources to make sure the information is correct. Sometimes we also use an encyclopedia --- a set of books containing information on almost any subject. Encyclopedias are written by experts and have been a trust --- worthy source of information for years. Now there is also a free online encyclopedia called Wikipedia, which is written by people around the world. Anyone can edit or add to an article, but this has caused problems. Last year, a former editor of the paper USA Today discovered wrong information about him on Wikipedia. Someone had written an article that falsely linked him to a political assassination . This wrong information was quickly corrected. According to a recent study by the publication Nature, Wikipedia has more mistakes, compared with Britannica --- a well-known printed encyclopedia. It found an average of four mistakes in a Wikipedia article, and three in an article of Britannica's. But Wikipedia supporters note that they are able to correct information when they find a mistake while written publications are not able to do this. Wikipedia started in 2001. The word \"wiki\" comes from \"wiki wiki\", which means \"quickly\" in the Hawaiian language. It is said that it is the largest single source of information in history. It is also one of the fastest growing sites on the Internet. It offers more than three million articles in more than two hundred languages. Each month, it records more than two billion page visits. Jimmy Wales, who helped start Wikipedia, says that its purpose is to provide everyone with a free encyclopedia written in their native language. You can find information on nearly every subject on Wikipedia. However, some experts warn people not to believe... Question: From the passage, it can be inferred that _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"it is necessary to confirm information on Wikipedia.\"?\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "input question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: I was an only child up until the age of eight.Every time I saw other girls playing or sharing their secrets with their sisters or brothers,I would feel sad for myself .At Christmas I found out that I was soon to be a big sister.I had no idea how I would deal with a baby in our house.The little experience I had with kids taught me that I didn't really like them.They were always making trouble. My parents set off to the hospital one evening and planned to have the rest of my family and I come to the hospital later .To this day, I don't think I have gone through a more nerve-wracking experience than sitting in the hospital's waiting room.I was sleepless all night .When I was finally allowed to see my new baby sister , I was so scared.I reached out and when I got a hold of her,I fell in love with her. For the first time,holding my sister had an effect on whom I want to be and because of her,rather than my parents' frequent requests.I have set out goals to improve my future.I want to be her role model,someone she can respect.The past two years has seemed to go by very fast.I've watched her grow older;I have seen her learn to walk and learn to talk.The fear that she held over me seems so small now. Now you can see that the family is such an important part of my life:it has influenced who I am and who I want to be in my future. Options: A Her parents' requests. B Her school education. C Her hope to have a bright future D Her parents and sister. Answer: D Her parents and sister. Question:???\noutput answer: What played the biggest part in the changes of the writer according to the passage?\n\ninput question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: The average British 22 year-old has more than 1,000 online friends on sites like Facebook, compared to those in their fifties who have fewer than 20, according to a new study. The \"Facebookgeneration gap\" has been highlighted in a new piece of research which shows that the average 22 year-old claims to have 1,000 or more friends on sites like Facebook. People in their twenties have more than 50 times as many digital friends as those who are over 50 years old, despite the popularity of sites like Facebook with the older generations, says a study conducted by consumer research group Intersperience. The news comes during the same week Facebook's second-in command, Sheryl Sandberg, is visiting the UK to deliver a speech at the London School of Economics. Facebook's chief operating officer is going to speak about how the social web has transformed people's friendships and relationships. The survey found that there was a clear link between people's age and the number of online friends they have.The researchers found that those aged 13 to 16, have an average of 450 friends on social networks, with girls having slightly more friends that boys.People in their thirties tend to have between 100 and 200 friends, while those in their forties have between 50 and 100. However, those using sites such as Facebook over the age of 50, tended to have 20 or less friends.The oldest person surveyed was 70 years old. Paul Hudson, Intersperience's chief executive, said: \"Our research underlines fundamental changes taking place in British society as a result of finally entering the digital age.Half of the UK population are on Facebook now.In a social media context, a 'friend' means something different to a 20 year old than to a 50 year old.\" He added: \"Social networking activity is just one example of how different groups are adapting to the digital age at different paces.In this case, age is the determining factor - however in other instances it is not.\" Options: A Social networking activity B The digital age C \"Facebook generation gap\"--Facebook generation has more than 1,000 friends D Changes taking place in British society Answer: C \"Facebook generation gap\"--Facebook generation has more than 1,000 friends Question:???\noutput answer: What's the main idea of the passage?\n\ninput question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: An Australian inventor has designed and built an environmentally friendly ferry that uses solar and wind power to transport people around Sydney Harbor. Robert Dane and his Solar Sailor were given the top prize at the Australian Design Awards recently. The Solar Sailor has been in use for six months. It uses four sources of energy for its power -- solar, wind, battery power with stored solar energy and a fuel generator in store all controlled by computers. The ferry can travel up to 7.5 knots on just wind and solar power. It's solar wings and fiberglass solar panels which not only take in sunlight and store it in batteries, but also act as sails. \"We angle our solar panels to the sun in two planes , which increases the amount of energy we get from the sun by 40 percent,\" Dane says. \"And also we can use that same structure to do another job, which is also the sail, and so these wing sails actually push the ferry forward just like a soft sail does.\" Computers check the sun and wind and angle the solar wings to take in the most sunlight. If there isn't much wind or it is a cloudy day, energy stored in the batteries runs the electric motor for up to five hours. \"If the batteries are too low, then the computer turns the generator on so the boat is always able to meet a commercial schedule, or get from point A to point B no matter what,\" Dan explains. Dane got his idea for the Solar Sailor from a book on insects. He was amazed how insects use their wings to collect solar energy to warm themselves. \"When I read that, I realized there was a good example in nature for what we were going to do, which was to use a solar wing to collect solar energy and also to sail,\" he says. Options: A the ferry sails at a speed of 7.5 kilometers an hour B the ferry is good for the environment C four sources of energy for the ferry are controlled by Dane D solar energy needn't be stored in case of good weather Answer: B the ferry is good for the environment Question:???\noutput answer: We can learn from the passage _ .\n\ninput question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Discover Newsmagazine of science devoted to the wonders an stories of modern science, written for the educated general reader. Published by Disney Magazine Publishing Co., Discover tells many of the same stories professionals read in Scientific American. A truly delightful family science magazine, each issue brings to light new and newsworthy topics to make dinnertime and water-cooler conversations interesting. Cover Price: $59.88 Price: $19.95($1.66/issue) You Save: $39.93(67%) Issues: 12 issues/12 months Self Published by Conde Nast Publications Inc., Self is a handbook devoted to women's overall physical and mental health. Every issue contains usable articles such as \"Style Lab\", in which wearable clothes are mixed and matched on non-models and the \"Eat-right Road Map\", with tips on how to eat properly. Cover Price: $35.86 Price: $15.00($2.5/issue) You Save: $20.86(58%) Issues: 10 issues/12 months Instyle Instyle is a guide to the lives and lifestyles of the world's famous people. The magazine covers the choices people make about their homes, their clothes and their free time activities. With photos and articles, it opens the door to these people's homes, families, parties and weddings, offering ideas about beauty, fitness and in general, lifestyles. Publisher: The Time Inc.Magazine Company. Cover Price: $47.88 Price: $23.88($2.38/issue) You Save: $24.00(50%) Issues: 10 issues/12 months Wired This magazine is designed for leaders in the field of information engineering including top managers and professionals in the computer, business, design and education industries. Published by Conde Nast Publications Inc., Wired often carries articles on how technology changes people's lives. Cover Price: $59.40 Price: $10.00($1.00/issue) You save: $49.40(83%) Issues: 10 issues/12months Options: A Wired and Instyle B Discover and Instyle C Self and Discover D Self and Wired Answer: D Self and Wired Question:???\noutput answer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Which two magazines are published by the same publisher?", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Dear Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, Most people don't really know what pressures a typical teenager has to go through. Sure, our parents and grandparents were once teens, but things are so different now. It has never been to tougher to a teenager. It had never been more important to be in the \"right group\" or to have the \"right brand\" of shoes. And those are the easy things to deal with. We also face problems with family, friends, relationships and school pressures. When it gets to be too much, I turn to my friends. One friend I could not live without is Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. Your books have been so inspiring to me and have helped me to deal with and understand the problems I go through. For example, I went through a confusing time with my friends when we got to junior high. I had known these friends since kindergarten, and when we began junior high it seemed like some of them began to change. We started hanging out with different groups, and we slowly grew so far apart that it seemed as if we had never been friends. I felt confused and hurt. Sometime during this period I read the story Friends Forever in Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II.I felt so much better after reading it. It was like a weight had been lifted from me when I realized that many friendships went through changes and that we weren't the only friends to experience _ People change, but that doesn't mean we have to lose the friendships we once shared. My friends and I still spend time together when we can and care about each other a lot. That things are different doesn't mean I have to forget about all the good times we had. I will always keep the memories in a safe place in my heart. Sincerely, Peter According to the author, parents and grandparents A) didn't have to overcome difficulties when in their teens. B) don't fully understand the pressures of being a teenager now C) can easily deal with things such as choosing friends and shoes. D) don't need to give help to teenagers with pressures and problems\nB\n\nDear Santa Claus, My name is Amy. I am 17 years old. I have a problem at school. Can you help me, Santa? Kids laugh at me because of the way I walk and run and talk. I have cerebral palsy. I just want one day when no one laughs at me or makes fun of me. Love, Amy At radio station WJLT in Fort Wayne, Indiana, letters poured in for the Christmas Wish Content. When Amy's letter arrived at the radio station, Manager Lee Tobin read it carefully. He thought it wound be good for the people in Fort Wayne to hear about this special girl and her unusual wish. Mr. Tobin called up the local newspaper. The next day, a picture of Amy and her letter to Santa made the front page of the \"News Sentinel\". The story spread quickly. All across the country, newspapers and radio and television stations reported the story of the girl in Fort Wayne, Indiana, who asked for such a simple, yet remarkable Christmas gift--just one day without teasing. Suddenly the postman was a regular at the Hagadorn house. Envelopes of all sizes addressed to Amy arrived daily from children and adults all across the nation. They came filled with holiday greetings and words of encouragement. Some of the writers had disabilities; some had been teased as children. Each writer had a special message for Amy. Through the cards and letters from strangers, Amy saw a world full of people who truly cared about each other. Many people thanked Amy for being brave enough to speak up. Others encouraged her to ignore teasing and to hold her head high. Amy did get her wish of a special day without teasing at South Wayne High School. Teachers and students talked together about how bad teasing can make others feel. That year, the Fort Wayne mayor officially declared December 21stas Amy Jo Hagadorn Day throughout the city. The mayor explained that by daring to make such a simple wish, Amy taught a universal lesson. \"Everyone,\" he said, \"wants to and should be treated with respect, dignity and warmth.\" The postman was a regular at the Hagadorn house because _ . A) he went to encourage Amy frequently B) he was quite curious about Amy C) he had to send letters to Amy daily D) he was moved by Amy's story\nC\n\nThere are records of fingerprints taken many centuries ago. The ancient Babylonians pressed the tips of their fingerprints into clay to record business trade. The Chinese used ink-on-paper finger impressions for business. However, fingerprinting wasn't used as a method for identifying criminals until the 19th century. In 1858, Sir William Herschel was working as an official of the Hooghly district in Jungipoor, India.In order to reduce fraud , he had people living in the district record their fingerprints when signing business documents. A few years later, Scottish doctor Henry Faulds was working in Japan when he discovered fingerprints left by artists on ancient pieces of clay.This finding inspired him to begin investigating fingerprints.In 1880, Faulds wrote to his cousin, the famous naturalist Charles Darwin, and asked for help with developing a fingerprint classification system.Darwin refused, but sent the letter to his cousin, Sir Francis Gallon, who was an eugenicist . Gallon began collecting fingerprints and eventually gathered some 8, 000 different samples to analyze. In 1892, he published a book called \"Fingerprints\", in which he outlined a fingerprint classification system--the first existence. Around the same time, Juan Vucetich, a police officer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was developing his own version of a fingerprinting system.In 1892, Vucetich was called in to assist with the investigation of the two boys murdered in Necoche, a village near Buenos Aires. Their mother, Francisca Rojas, accused a neighbour named Velasquez. But when Vucetich compared the fingerprints found at the murder scene to those of both Velasquez and Rojas, _ matched Rojas' exactly.She admitted her crime. This was the first time fingerprints had been used in a criminal investigation.Vucetich called his system comparative dactyloscopy . It's still used in many Spanish-speaking countries. Sir Edward Henry, in charge of the Metropolitan Police of London, soon became interested in using fingerprints to catch criminals. In... What is the text mainly about? A) Different uses of fingerprints. B) The history of fingerprinting. C) Countries that first used fingerprints. D) The way to collect and analyze fingerprints.\nB\n\nFirst direct coal liquefaction line produces (Xinhua) HOHHOT - China's first direct coal-to-oil project, operated by the country's leading coal producer, Shenhua Group, produced 866,000 tons of oil products last year. The direct coal liquefaction line is located in Ejin Horo Banner , Ordos city, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. It produces 3,000 tons of oil products by using nearly 10,000 tons of coal per day, said Shenhua Coal Liquefaction and Chemical Co.,Ltd. With an investment of 12.6 billion yuan ($2.06 billion), Shenhua Group began construction of the project in 2004, using self-developed technologies. The project began trial production at the end of 2009 with a designed annual capacity of 1.08 million tons of diesel , naphtha and liquefied petroleum gas . Proven coal reserves around Ordos are estimated at 160 billion tons, or 11.4 percent of the country's total coal reserves. As part of its clean energy strategy, China has begun a number of direct or indirect coal liquefaction and coal gasification projects in Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Xinjiang and Liaoning in the past three years. What's mainly talked about in the passage? A) The way to change coal to oil. B) China's leading coal producer, Shenhua Group. C) China's first direct coal-to-oil project. D) The proven coal reserves around Ordos.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Question: Article: In the Caucasus region , nearly 50 out of every 100,000 people live to celebrate their 100thbirthday, and many don't stop at 100! By comparison, in America only 3 people in 100,000 reach 100. But these Caucasus people aren't alone. The Pakistani Hunzas, who live high in the Himalaya Mountains, and the Vilcabambans of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador seem to share the secret of long life too. These peoples remain healthy in body and spirit despite the passage of time. While many older persons in industrial societies become weak and ill in their 60s and 70s, some Caucasus people aged 110-140, work in the fields beside their great-great-grandchildren. Even the idea of aging is foreign to them. When asked, \"At what age does youth end?\" most of these old people had no answer. Several replied, \"Well, perhaps at age 80.\" The very youngest estimate was age 60. What accounts for this ability to survive (live) to such old age, and to survive so well? First of all, hard physical work is a way of life for all of these long-lived peoples. They began their long days of physical labor as children and never seem to stop. For example, Mr. Rustam is 142 years of age. He remembers his life experience: the Crimean War of 1854; the Turkish War of 1878; the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. His wife is 116 years old. They have been married for 90 years. Mr. Rustam has no plan of retiring from his life as a farmer. \"Why? What else would I do?\" he asks. Oh, he's slowed down a bit. Now he might quit (stop working) for the day after 6 hours in the field instead of 10. All these people get healthful rewards from the environment in which they work. They all come from mountainous regions. They live and work at elevations of 5,000 to 12, 000 feet(1,660 to 4,000meters) above sea level. The air has less oxygen and is pollution-free. This reduced oxygen environment makes the heart and blood vessel system stronger. Another factor that may lead to the good health of these people is their isolation. To a great extent, they are separated from the... Question: How do you think the writer feels about these long-lived people? Yes or no, is the answer \"He is much impressed with them.\"?\nAnswer: No\n\nQuestion: Article: Sydney Tower Address: 100 Market St, Sydney Phone: 02 9333 9222 Fax: 02 9333 9203 Open time: 9:00am to 10:30pm ( Saturday to 11:30 pm) Ticket: $ 60 (for an adult) $ 30 (for a child) Website: www. Sydneytower .com. au How to get there: train to Town Hall Station and a short walk along Market Street. How to book tickets: by phone/ fax or through the web Attraction: Sydney's best views are just the beginning ! Sydney Tower takes you to the highest point above Sydney for exciting 360degviews of our beautiful city. Question: S ydney Tower is _ in Sydney, Australia. Yes or no, is the answer \"the highest point\"?\nAnswer: Yes\n\nQuestion: Article: Taiwan island, the biggest island of China, is between the South and East China Seas. Almost two-thirds of the island is covered by mountains. Traveling in Taiwan, you can do lots of things. In Taipei, you can taste all kinds of delicious food . Standing at the top of Taipei 101, the world's tallest building until now, you can get a view of the whole city. Taiwan has nice natural _ as well. Sun and Moon Lake is a beautiful lake. On one side of the island it looks like the sun, on the other side it looks like the moon. That is why people call the lake the Sun and Moon Lake. Ali Mountain is the nearest mountain around Sun and Moon Lake. You can enjoy a nice experience with Gaoshan people. It's a wonderful place to see a very beautiful sunrise. If you enjoy swimming, fishing, boating and eating delicious fruit and fresh fish, Peng Lake must be a good place to visit. Everywehere in Taiwan, you can see mountains, valleys , and hot springs, together with fields of rice, oranges and tea. Question: What is \"Taipei 101\" in the passage? Yes or no, is the answer \"A tall building.\"?\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Given a document, an entity and its sentiment towards the entity, verify if it is the correct sentiment towards the entity. Answer should be yes or no. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].\n--------\nQuestion: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Boko Haram is Negative . Soldiers will stop and check all motorists passing through Maiduguri and nearby villages throughout the night while police will take over manning checkpoints during the day authorities said. The soldiers arrived late Tuesday night the first sign of a federal government intervention in a city beset by targeted killings by Boko Haram for weeks.\n Zarewa also said police found the unexploded bombs after an alleged Boko Haram bomb attack on a police station in Gamboru a building destroyed by rioting sect members in July 2009. The rioting as well as a subsequent security crackdown left more than 700 people dead.\n Followers of Boko Haram which means \"Western education is sacrilege\" in the local Hausa language went into hiding after the July 2009 riot as police began arresting anyone caught listening to or holding a sermon by the sect. However officials now fear the group has rearmed. A video recording released in late June showed a Boko Haram leader calling for new violence as the one-year anniversary of their attack neared.\n Boko Haram has said it wants a stricter version of Islam's Shariah law in place across Nigeria. Nigeria a nation of 150 million people is divided between the Christian-dominated south and the Muslim north. A dozen states across Nigeria's north already have Shariah law in place though the area remains under the control of secular state governments.\na Boko Haram leader calling for new violence as the one-year anniversary of their attack neared.\n\nAnswer: yes\n\n\nQuestion: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Elliott Smith is Positive . Elliott Smith lives at the collision of three different neighborhoods in Brooklyn but the noise of the traffic and the blare of the salsa rock and rap that battle for airspace on the street are being kept at bay. It's midafternoon and Smith is tucked inside his favorite neighborhood bar the kind of dark place where every patron sits alone and says little the kind of place where Smith spends most of his days.\nIt's been a year and a half since Smith left Portland Oregon where his work with the band Heatmiser and his haunted solo albums had made him a star on the local music scene. In the spring of 1997 Heatmiser disbanded and Smith left for New York. He 'd hoped the move would give him a sense of anonymity but that goal was hampered when his song \"Miss Misery\" appeared on the Good Will Hunting soundtrack and was nominated for an Oscar. Soon he will have to contend with the attention brought by his new album XO which is his major-label debut and a lush departure from his usually spare offerings.\nBut as today can attest in New York you can always be alone in a crowd. Smith spend most of his days in coffee shops and bars reading ( he just finished Tolstoy's Resurrection) and composing songs in his head. \"I write almost exclusively in public places \" says Smith 29. \"I just think of stuff chord changes and words. I know the bartenders and they don't think it's weird if I ask to borrow a pen. \"\nSmith smiles. He is shy but his manner is sweet not distant. Because his solo albums have been quiet singer-songwriter fare there is a presumption that Smith 's life is an open book. That is not the case. Smith 's songs have always been less confession than collage – beautifully rendered glimpses of ugly realities pieced together with little more than voice and guitar.\nSo when you ask Smith to tell his story he hesitates. When he finally begins he speaks as softly as he sings. As in his songs Smith is intelligent direct unsparing. But while his voice on record gives even his darkest lyrics a quiet strength in conversation his tone betrays a sense of uncertainty. When grim details are spoken not sung there is nothing to cushion their impact.\n\"Most of the people I knew their parents were divorced \" says Smith of his childhood spent outside Dallas. \"Or else their dad beat them with a pool cue. There was a guy in the neighborhood who shot my cat for getting into the garbage. He beat up on his kid and then he shot my cat.\"\n Smith 's own parents divorced when he was a year old. His mother remarried when he was four and his new home life was not happy. \"There were family problems \" says Smith succinctly. \"It wasn't a good situation.\"\nOutside the house Smith spent most of his time getting into fights. As he talks about them he touches his nose instinctively. \"It's probably been broken more than once \" says Smith . \"I have a bunch of scars. But I don't get into fights anymore.\" He shifts in his seat – his jeans too baggy small T-shirt drooping off him – and it's impossible not to notice that Smith is more frail than anyone you'd expect to see in a bar fight.\n\"But sometimes it's the little guy who'll kick your ass \" says Smith . \"Because he 's been picked on to the point where he knows what to do.\" He pauses. \"It's probably pretty easy to put together why somebody who grew up in Texas getting in fights a lot would not want to get up on the stage and start belting out songs at the top of their lungs. I've had enough of people yelling.\"\nIt's early evening in Manhattan and Smith is polishing off another pint. It's a different day a different borough but the scene is familiar: a dark bar twilight the last drink before one too many. These are the things in Smith 's life that' remain constant. Many' others have changed.\nThe strangest changes are that \"Miss Misery\" was nominated for an Oscar; that on February 10th Smith performed the whispered tale of a broken relationship in front of 1 billion people; that he took a bow standing between Trisha Yearwood and Celine Dion.\n\"I had fully armored myself against having to be crushed by the presence of Celine Dion \" .says Smith . \"But she was the nicest person I've met in a while. Afterward I'd get these indie-rock kids saying 'I can't believe you had to hold Celine Dion's hand.' I said 'I liked holding her hand because she's a nice person. In fact right now you're being much more narrow-minded and shallow than she is. You're in a very backward position here. You should rethink it.'\"\n Smith gives his head a bewildered shake then takes a long drink. Of all the transformations that he has been through lately the most obvious is the level of scrutiny he is subjected to. And it's clear he is learning on the fly.\nSmith's musical heroes are the Beatles the Clash Hank Williams and the Kinks. His greatest inspiration for the breadth of his work is Elvis Costello. On XO for the first time in Smith 's career you can hear it all: the graceful folk he's perfected elaborate orchestrations an a cappella song piano ballads years of anger released in lilting harmony and a newfound. hopefulness couched in energized pop tunes. At times it sounds like a lost follow-up to Revolver.\n\"I love the Beatles – they're my favorite band – but I don't have any desire to cop the Beatles \" says Smith . \"The reason they're my favorite band is because they went further with melody than any other band that I've ever come across.\"\n Smith turns to his beer to escape the conversation for a moment then smiles apologetically as if he is the last person who should assess his work. Only recently did Smith even realize that people perceived his songs as bleak. \"I didn't think of them that way \" he says. \"They made me happier. But now I would agree. The second record especially was really dark.\"\n\nAnswer: yes\n\n\nQuestion: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Tom Perez is Negative . In a Saturday blogpost Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez vowed to enact reforms to the party’s presidential nominating process aimed at ensuring that “the new DNC will work to rebuild trust with the people we represent.”\n“I am more committed than ever before to restoring voters’ faith in our democratic process because even the perception of impartiality or an unfair advantage undermines our ability to win ” Perez said. “That is unacceptable.”\nThe “principles” Perez plans to employ include deciding the presidential primary debate schedule well before voting in the contests begins and making transparent to the public any joint fundraising agreements the DNC makes.\n He also promised to support the work of the Unity Reform Commission a panel formed in July 2016 as a compromise with delegates who backed Sanders at the Democratic National Convention.\n“We will work with the Unity Reform Commission to implement their collective recommendations for meaningful change in our party ” Perez said.\n George Frey/Getty Images DNC Chairman Tom Perez has had to address a lingering divide in the Democratic Party between skeptical progressives and more establishment-minded party figures.\nNomiki Konst one of eight Sanders appointees on the commission expressed disappointment that Perez did not explicitly address DNC budget transparency and prohibiting the committee’s voting members from having business with the organization or other conflicts of interest that could jade their ability to act impartially.\n\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "no\n\n\n", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: \"The British government will offer PS1,000,000 to anyone who can solve the world's biggest problem--whatever it might be,\" said Prime Minister David Cameron at a science conference. In an unusual competition, the Government will ask people to find out the greatest challenge today, such as finding a replacement for oil, producing low cost food or curing AIDS/HIV. When the toughest problem has been decided, the Prime Minister will give away PS1,000,000 to the person who successfully works out the answer. The competition follows the example of the Longitude Prize started by the government in 1714, which offered PS20,000 (worth PS6,000,000 today) to anyone who could discover how far east or west ships had sailed. Sailors could work out their location north and south, and were able to decide their local time from the sun. However, they needed to know the time at a reference point in order to find out how far they had travelled east or west. Many people thought the problem was impossible to solve, but the prize was finally won by John Harrison, an ordinary worker. He did this by designing a clock that kept accurate time at sea and made it possible for sailors to work out their location. Almost exactly 300 years on, Mr Cameron will have a group of scientists collect suggestions and draw up a short list of problems facing the world. He will then start a race to solve the most difficult problem. A government officer said, \"We want people to think big: what does the world need and how can we achieve that? We are looking for the next penicillin , airplane or World Wide Web. Something that is going to really change what we do and how we live our lives--sending us ahead in the global race. \"According to Mr Cameron, it is important to \"encourage new ideas\" and \"attract back the best and the brightest\" to Britain. Question: Which of the following is true according to the text? - John Harrison was sure that he would win the prize. - The million pound prize will go to a British scientist. - The British government pays special attention to the nation's creativity. - A replacement for oil is considered as the toughest problem by the scientists.\n(Answer)\nThe British government pays special attention to the nation's creativity.\n\n\n(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: This Thursday, across the USA, kids are skipping school and going to work with their parents. They'll be making copies, sending faxes and sweeping floors. This is because April 28 is Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day all over the USA. This holiday shows kids what it means to be a grown-up in the working world. I still remember when this day started, I was very happy. Not only did I have the chance to miss school, but I also got to sit in my dad's taxi all day long and we would go to a restaurant for lunch. But after only 20 minutes of driving around the city, I was very bored. couldn't read my book in the car as I would get carsick and my dad didn't like to turn on the radio. I got hot and uncomfortable. People wouldn't get into his taxi because they thought he already had a passenger-me, so nothing happened. It seemed years before we went out for lunch. I actually started to miss school. While the point of the day is to give kids a chance to experience real-life jobs and give them an idea of the possibilities for their futures, I got something completely different from the day. I learned to appreciate school. Where else do you get to play with your friends, do science experiments, read great books and write stories all in one day? Just as you'll have to learn to love your job later in life, learn to love school now. If you don't already, try spending the day at work with your dad. Question: Which of the following is NOT the purpose of 'Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day'? - To teach kids to appreciate school. - To give kids a chance to experience real-life jobs. - To give kids an idea of the possibilities for their futures. - To show kids what it means to be adults in the working world.\n(Answer)\nTo teach kids to appreciate school.\n\n\n(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Carbon monoxide poisoning causes death and injuries around the world. This gas is a problem in all parts of the world that experience cold weather. A few years ago, America's Centers for Disease Control (C. D. C.) studied deaths linked with carbon monoxide poisoning. It found that the number of carbon monoxide deaths in the United States was greatest in January. The C.D.C. also found that carbon monoxide kills more than four hundred Americans each year. And, it said more than twenty thousand people are taken to hospital for treatment of health problems linked with the gas. Carbon monoxide is called the silent killer because people do not know it is in the air. The gas has no color, no taste and no smell. It does not cause burning eyes. And it does not cause people to cough. Yet, carbon monoxide gas is very deadly . It steals the body's ability to use oxygen. Carbon monoxide makes it difficult for the blood to carry oxygen to body tissues . It does this by linking with the blood. When the gas links with the blood, the blood is no longer able to carry oxygen to the tissues that need it. Damage to the body can begin very quickly from large amounts of carbon monoxide. How quickly this can happen depend on how long a person is breathing the gas and how much gas he or she breathes in. Carbon monoxide poisoning has warning signs . But people have to be awake to realize them. Small amounts of the gas will cause a person's head to hurt. He or she may begin to feel tired. Their stomachs may feel sick. The room may appear to be turning around. The person may have trouble thinking clearly. People develop serious headache as the amount of the gas continues to enter their blood. They will begin to feel very tired and sleepy. They may have terrible stomachache. Doctors say carbon monoxide influences people differently. For example a small child will experience health problems or die much sooner than an adult. The general health of the person or his or her age can also be important. Question: What does the passage mainly talk about? - Warning signs that carbon monoxide poisoning has. - Reasons why carbon monoxide can cause person's death. - The damage of carbon monoxide and how it works. - Influences of carbon monoxide on children and adults.\n(Answer)\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "The damage of carbon monoxide and how it works.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: After my brother died in an accident, my mother was in deep sadness. I was only a four-year-old girl at the time, but I still understood the sudden shift in my mom's attitude towards safety. Suddenly everything around us was potentially dangerous. Overnight, the world had gone from a playground to a dangerous zone. I grew up with a lot of limits and rules. I couldn't walk home from school by myself, even though everyone I knew already did. I couldn't go to summer camp because what if something happened to me? As I got older, the list of things of fear got longer. My whole life was divided into \"things you should avoid\", and \"things you needed to do in order to have a good, long life.\" I became a natural worrier. I worry about things like getting cancer, losing my wallet, car accidents, earthquakes, and losing my job -- disasters big and small, real and imagined. The funny part is that you'd never know it by looking at my life. In fact, I've developed a rule for myself: If it scares me, then I have to do it at least once. I've done lots of things that my mom would have worried about: I've ridden a motorcycle; I've traveled --a lot. I've performed stand-up comedy, and I'm planning my second wedding. There's something else I don't usually talk about, but it's a cornerstone in my belief: When I was 14, my mother died suddenly in a car accident. At my mom's funeral I remember making a choice. I could either live out the rest of my life trying to be \"safe\" or I could be brave enough to live out a fulfilling, exciting and, yes, sometimes dangerous life. I worry that I may have betrayed my mother by writing her in this light, but she has been a driving force in my life and, in the end I think she would have been proud of me. Courage isn't a natural character of human beings. I believe that using courage is like developing a muscle. The more often I do things that scare me or that make me uncomfortable, the more I realize that I can do a lot more than I originally thought I could do. Even though I inherited my... How does the writer deal with the things that frighten her? A) She just ignores them. B) She faces up to them. C) She turns to her mother for help. D) She does them with her friends.\nA: B\n\n\nQ: We all long for friendship, but how to make a friend? \"The best time to make a friend is before you need one.\" Joy Steven said. The following are some tips for you. People equal friends Friends usually begin with strangers. Getting in touch with other people is the first step to make a friend. Friends can't be made in empty air. Best friends take time to make. Friends understand friends Friends understand each other when talking. Many unpleasant personal quarrels can be avoided if you will take the time to understand others' feelings and points of view. Friends touch friends Touching is a warm from of communication between friends. When you see best friends communicating, you will notice them stand close together, touch each other comfortably and listen to each other. Sometimes a friendly touch is more powerful than words. Friends praise friends Praise is a powerful tool to make a friend. Honest praise can affect your friends' lives. So try to praise your friends, including your general ones. Friends can loyal and trustworthy Trust and loyalty go hand in hand for friends. Friends can share secrets with you, because good friends never break confidence and are loyal forever. The passage mainly tells us _ . A) how to communicate with a friend B) how to develop friendship C) when to make a friend D) how to praise a friend\nA: B\n\n\nQ: The first time that I had heard the term\"EQ\"was in the fall of 1995 when the book Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman, was widely covered by the American press. The widespread research presented in the book supported my own observations and doubts about life and emotions, and told me that I was on the right track to go after happiness. The research continues to confirm what I had concluded on my own: These feelings are extremely important to individual health, happiness, and social harmony. This might seem a bit obvious, but it was not always obvious to me. I grew up in a family where we didn't talk about feelings. We talked about ideas, concepts and principles. As a result, I could tell you what I thought about everything, but I couldn't tell you how I felt about anything. After several failed relationships, I took time off to reflect on my life and realized I had made many decisions which resulted in unhappiness for myself and others. After studying the literature on emotions and feelings, I concluded that most of my poor decisions could be directly due to what is now called low emotional intelligence, or low EQ, for short. Previously, I struggled to find happiness through the traditional routes--material success. Now, however, I realize that: There's not much point having either wealth or relationships if you aren't happy. It is hard to be happy with others if you aren't happy yourself. It is hard to be happy alone if you don't feel good about yourself, i.e. have high selfesteem and selfconfidence. It is hard to have good feelings about yourself if you don't have good emotional management skills. Emotional management skills, the main subject of EQ, are, therefore, one of the most basic elements of happiness. A person who can't feel happy himself _ . A) will feel happy with lots of friends B) will not get on well with others C) has no selfesteem at all D) should read the new book on EQ\nA: B\n\n\nQ: Many people believe the glare from snow causes snowblindness. Yet, with dark glasses or not, they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes, and even snowblindness ,when exposed to several hours of\" snow light\". The United States army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snowblindness in troops in a snow -covered country. Rather ,a man's eyes frequently find nothing to focus on in a broad space of snow- covered without- grass land. So his gaze continually moves and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of something to look at. Finding something, hour after hour, the eyes never stop searching and the eyeballs become tired and the eye muscles ache. Nature makes up for this discomfort by producing more and more fluid which covers the eyeball. The fluid covers the eyeball in increasing quantity until it makes eyes difficult to see dearly, and the result is total, even though for a short time, snowblindness. Experiments led the Army to a simple method of overcoming this problem. Scouts ahead of the troops are trained to shake snow from evergreen bushes, creating a dotted line as they cross completely snow - covered landscape. Even the scouts themselves throw lightweight, dark - colored objects ahead on which they can focus too. The men following can then see something. Their gaze is arrested. Their eyes focus on a bush and having found something to see, stop searching the snow -blanketed landscape. By focusing their attention on one object at a time. the men can cross the snow without becoming hopelessly snowblind or lost. In this way the problem of crossing a continuous white land is overcome. When the eyes are tired, tears flow out _ . A) to clear the vision B) to make the eyes stop searching C) to make the vision unclear D) to produce more and more liquid\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "input: Now, answer this question: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Spiderman is one of the most famous comic book heroes of all time. He was created by Stan Lee in 1963 and was first introduced to the world in the pages of Marvel Comic Books. Spiderman's story is the story of Peter Parker, a child who lost his parents and lives with his aunt and uncle. Peter is a shy, quiet boy wearing glasses and has few friends. One day, on a high school class trip to a science lab, he gets bitten by a special spider. Soon Peter realizes he has amazing powers: he is as strong and quick as a spider and also has a type of sixth sense. He no longer needs his glasses and he can use his super power to fly through the city streets! Remembering something his Uncle Ben has told him _ ,Peter decides to use his powers to fight against enemies who do cruel things to people. And so, Spiderman is born. Life is not easy for Peter even though he is a superhero. He is in love with Mary Jane but he can't tell her about his amazing powers. Besides, his best friend Harry hates Spiderman! Peter is also short of money and time. He has to sell photos of Spiderman (himself!) to a newspaper and he keeps losing his other jobs because he's so busy saving people! Yet he has to fight against different kinds of cruel enemies. Question: Who created spiderman ? Answer:\nA:\noutput: Stan Lee.\n\ninput: Now, answer this question: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: It's six forty in the morning. The children are coming into the classroom. A girl is opening the windows. Some are laughing and talking. Some are listening to them. Some are reading books. Some are doing their homework. Miss Lin is standing behind the teacher's desk. She is writing on the blackboard. Sue and Anna are wearing their new dresses today. Ann is cleaning her desk. Mike is helping her. They all look happy. What are Bill and Bob doing? Oh, dear! They are still playing basketball. Question: The teacher is _ . Answer:\nA:\noutput: Miss Lin\n\ninput: Now, answer this question: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: It's over three years since I began to learn English. I'm glad that I am getting on well with it. I find English quite difficult, but very interesting. When I first started, I thought I had only to remember the new words and learn some grammar I knew little about English idioms .I thought each English word had the same meaning in Chinese. When I learn to say\"I see a book on the desk,\" I thought the English word \"see \" was just like the Chinese word \" kan \",So one day when my teacher asked me,\" what are you doing?\", I answered, \"I'm seeing a book.\" \"That's wrong .\" the teacher said, \"you don't see a book, You read a book. You can't use English word like a Chinese one.. Be sure not to make the same mistake again.\" After that I began to pay more attention to the differences between Chinese and English. For example, in English we say a\" high mountain\", but a\" tall man. \" In Chinese we use the same word \"gao \" for both.. Again in English we say\" take part in the sports meeting \", \" attend the meeting \" and\" join the army,\" while in Chinese we can use \"can jia \" for all three. Interesting ,isn't? So to study English doesn't only mean hard wok, it can be great fun, too! We not only have to pay attention to pronunciation, grammar spelling and handwriting, we also have to understand English idioms. We can learn English well only in the way! But all this is only a beginning and I still have a long way to go. I'll try my best and work even harder than before. I must speak and listen to English more both in and out of class. I must learn English well so that I can work well when I grow up. Question: When I first started English I _ . Answer:\nA:\noutput:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "used an English word like a Chinese one", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Information: - Electricity is a physical phenomenon associated with the presence of electric charge. Although initially considered a phenomenon separate to magnetism, since the development of Maxwell's Equations both are recognized as part of a single phenomenon:electromagnetism. Various common phenomena are related to electricity, including lightning, static electricity, electric heating, electric discharges and many others. In addition, electricity is at the heart of many modern technologies. - Geography (from Greek , \"geographia\", literally \"earth description\") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth. The first person to use the word \"\" was Eratosthenes (276194 BC). Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of the Earth and its human and natural complexitiesnot merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be. It is often defined in terms of the two branches of human geography and physical geography. The four historical traditions in geographical research are: spatial analyses of natural and the human phenomena, area studies of places and regions, studies of human-land relationships, and the Earth sciences. Geography has been called \"the world discipline\" and \"the bridge between the human and the physical sciences\". - The term export means shipping in the goods and services out of the jurisdiction of a country. The seller of such goods and services is referred to as an \"exporter\" and is based in the country of export whereas the overseas based buyer is referred to as an \"importer\". In international trade, \"exports\" refers to selling goods and services produced in the home country to other markets. - Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge that occurs during an electrical storm. This discharge occurs between electrically charged regions of a cloud (called intra-cloud lightning or IC), between two clouds (CC lightning), or between a cloud and the ground (CG lightning). The charged regions in the atmosphere temporarily equalize themselves through this discharge referred to as a \"strike\" if it hits an object on the ground, and a flash, if it occurs within a cloud. Lightning causes light in the form of plasma, and sound in the form of thunder. Lightning may be seen and not heard when it occurs at a distance too great for the sound to carry as far as the light from the strike or flash. - An economy (From Greek \"household\" and o \"manage\") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents in a given geographical location. Understood in its broadest sense, 'The economy is defined as a social domain that emphasizes the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the production, use and management of resources'. Economic agents can be individuals, businesses, organizations, or governments. Economic transactions occur when two parties agree to the value or price of the transacted good or service, commonly expressed in a certain currency, but monetary transactions are only a small part of the economic domain. - The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT). As one of the principal members of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the President and Cabinet. - The military, also called the armed forces, are forces authorized to use deadly force, and weapons, to support the interests of the state and some or all of its citizens. The task of the military is usually defined as defense of the state and its citizens, and the prosecution of war against another state. The military may also have additional sanctioned and non-sanctioned functions within a society, including, the promotion of a political agenda, protecting corporate economic interests, internal population control, construction, emergency services, social ceremonies, and guarding important areas. The military can also function as a discrete subculture within a larger civil society, through the development of separate infrastructures, which may include housing, schools, utilities, food production and banking. - ALMANAC is the name of a major breast cancer trial. The acronym stands for \"Axillary Lymphatic Mapping Against Nodal Axillary Clearance.\" This major randomized trial performed in several centres in the UK produced clear evidence that sentinel node biopsy (SNB), used to stage axillary spread of disease, can be used with low failed localization and false negative rates, provided both radioisotope and blue dye are used to locate the sentinel nodes. - The World Factbook (also known as the CIA World Factbook) is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official print version is available from the National Technical Information Service and the Government Printing Office. Other companiessuch as Skyhorse Publishingalso print a paper edition. \"The Factbook\" is available in the form of a website that is partially updated every week. It is also available for download for use off-line. It provides a two- to three-page summary of the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of each of 267 international entities including U.S.-recognized countries, dependencies, and other areas in the world. - This is a list of countries by electricity exports mostly based on The World Factbook . - Electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field. There are two types of electric charges: positive and negative. Like charges repel and unlike attract. An object is negatively charged if it has an excess of electrons, and is otherwise positively charged or uncharged. The SI derived unit of electric charge is the coulomb (C). In electrical engineering, it is also common to use the ampere-hour (Ah), and, in chemistry, it is common to use the elementary charge (\"e\") as a unit. The symbol \"Q\" often denotes charge. Early knowledge of how charged substances interact is now called classical electrodynamics, and is still accurate for problems that don't require consideration of quantum effects. - Communication (from Latin \"commnicre\", meaning \"to share\") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules. - The world is the planet Earth and all life upon it, including human civilization. In a philosophical context, the world is the whole of the physical Universe, or an ontological world. In a theological context, the \"world\" is the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred. The \"end of the world\" refers to scenarios of the final end of human history, often in religious contexts. - Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. is an American independent book publishing company founded in 2006. Headquartered in New York City, its distributor is Perseus Book Group. After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'list of countries by electricity exports' with the relationship of 'is a list of'. Choices: - book - bridge - city - country - entity - food - human - line - location - name - object - person - president - single - state - strike - war - website\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "country", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Dear Bill, I'm glad to receive your letter,thank you for your caring for the weather and my health.But I am sorry to tell you that I have to stay at home because of the heavy fog and haze . Since the winter last year,the fog and haze has appeared a lot of times.it has done great harm to our daily life.Many traffic accidents happened just because of the heavy fog and haze weather,more and more people have to go to see the doctor because the serious disease caused by the fog and haze ,quite a lot of flights have to be put off,a great number of people have to stay at home for fear of the poisonous air caused by the fog and haze. According to the Chinese Academy of Science,driving car and burning coal are two main reasons.People have been told : Don't do outdoor sports;If you have to go out,wear a _ ; wash your face and clean your nose as soon as you get home. People have realized the great harm caused by the fog and haze and the importance of protecting the environment.People all over the country are taking measures to reduce the fog and haze weather.The government suggests people go to work or school with the public traffic, such as the bus and the underground.Also we should plant more trees. According to me, I will go to school by bike or on foot, and I won't throw the waste anywhere.In addition, I will tell the people I meet to protect the environment as possible as they can.Would you like to tell me some good ideas?I'm looking forward to your reply. Yours, Li Hua Question: Which is not mentioned about the harm of fog and haze? Answer:\nA: Many people have been dead\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: A teacher stood in front of his history class of twenty students just before handing out the final exam. His students sat quietly and waited for him to speak. \"It's been a pleasure teaching you this term,\" he said. \"You've all worked very hard, so I have a pleasant surprise for you. Everyone who chooses not to take the final exam will get a \"B\" for the course.\" Most of the students jumped out of their seats. They thanked the teacher happily, and walked out of the classroom. Only a few students stayed. The teacher looked at them. \"This is your last chance,\" he said. \"Does anyone else want to leave?\" All the students there stayed in their seats and took out their pencils. The teacher smiled. \"Congratulations ,\" he said. \"I'm glad to see you believe in yourselves. You all get 'A's.\" Question: Why did some students stay in their seats? Answer:\nA: Because they wanted to take the exam.\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Now throwing shoes at President Bush is a popular game on the Internet. It turns out that there are times when it's good to throw shoes. After leaving his office in the center of the city, a young man bought a new car and drove it from the city to his home. He was very happy and the car ran very fast. Suddenly, a shoe hit the car door . The man got very angry. He jumped out of the car and caught a boy who still had a shoe in his hand. \"Who are you? Why did you do that?\" the young man shouted at the boy. \"I'm sorry. But I don't know what else to do. My sister has been hurt. I cried for help but nobody stopped,\" the boy said. The man looked around and saw a girl by the road. Her leg was bleeding . \"She is my sister. She wanted to cross the road but fell out of her wheelchair. She is too heavy for me. I can't get her back into the _ . \"The man was moved. He helped the bleeding girl back into her wheelchair. \"Thank you. You're so kind,\" said the little boy. Life speaks to our hearts. Sometimes we don't have time to listen and it will throw a shoe at us. Question: Why did the boy throw the shoe? Answer:\nA: Because her sister was hurt.\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Dear Frank, Thank you for your email. I'm very glad you are having a good trip now. Ottawa is very beautiful in May. I hope I can have a chance to go there one day. Our summer holiday will start next month. I like my summer holiday, although it's hot at that time in America. In summer holiday, I can swim in the sea and go fishing. It's so cool. And I am going to our hometown near Chicago with my sister, Linda, and my parents agree .Our uncle lives there, so Linda and I can stay with him. We are not going to take a plane. We are going there by train. I am going to fish there. And Linda likes painting. She is going to do some painting there. I'm sure we'll have a good time. Sincerely, Jack Question: Frank is _ now. Answer:\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: having a good time in Ottawa", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: You may think that inventions are far away from your everyday life. But in fact, almost everyone can invent. It's just that they do not recognize that their idea could be the start of an invention. Once inventors see their ideas have some practical value, they don't let them slip away. For example, the inventor of the dishwasher, American Josephine Cochrane, loved to give dinner parties. But she found it took too long to wash her dishes by hand and too many of them broke. She decided that a machine could do the job faster and with fewer mistakes. So, in 1886, she set out to make one for herself. Like Cochrane's, most inventions are created to solve a problem. So, the first and most important step is to find the problem. You can start by looking at what is wrong with things you use now. You can ask grandparents or neighbours if they remember ever saying: \"I wish someone would invent something for...\" Or you can look at people in different areas such as on the street, or at school. Then you might notice situations or things in need of improvement. Remember to record your ideas and work. This will help you develop your invention and protect it when it is completed. The next step is to think about possible solutions. An invention is a new way of solving a problem. So think of many, varied, and unusual ways. You can often come up with a solution for a problem by looking at it from a different angle or thinking about it in a new way. Example 1 -- instead of thinking of shoes as protecting your feet from the ground, think of using something to protect the ground from your feet. Example 2 -- instead of thinking about how you can carry oranges home from a store, think of how they can come to you by delivery or growing your own. Example 3 -- instead of experimenting with only one solution, can you put two or three solutions together, or arrange them in different orders? And if one solution doesn't work, can it be put to other uses? That was how yellow post-it... Question: The main idea of this story is _ . - how to put your ideas to other uses - that you can invent and how you will be able to do so - problem-solving technique - how inventors invent\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "that you can invent and how you will be able to do so", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: I still clearly remember that day. I was on the side of the road for close to four hours with my big Jeep. I put signs in the windows that said, \"NEED A JACK \". Right as I was about to give up, a truck stopped and a man got off. He sized up the situation and went back to take a jack. After about two hours, we finished the job with sweats. We were both dirty. His wife produced a large water jug for us to wash our hands in. I tried to put $20 in the man's hand, but he wouldn't take it, so instead I went up and gave it to his wife as quietly as I could. I thanked them up one side and down the other. I asked the little girl, their daughter, where they lived, thinking maybe I'd send them a gift. She said they lived in Mexico. They were in Oregon now so Mommy and Daddy could pick cherries for the next few weeks. After that, they were going to pick peaches, and then go back home. After I said my goodbyes and started walking back to the Jeep, the girl called out and asked if I'd had lunch. When I told her no, she ran up and handed me a tamale . I thanked them again and walked back to my car. When I opened the tamale, what did I find inside? My $20 bill! I ran to the van and the guy rolled down his window. He saw the $20 in my hand, started shaking his head smiling, and with what looked like great concentration said in English: \"Today you, tomorrow me.\" Then he rolled up his window and drove away, with his daughter waving to me from the back. This family, working on a seasonal basis where time is money, took a couple of hours to help a stranger while others passed by quietly. Since then I've helped many people like the Mexican family. I didn't accept money. But every time I was able to help, I felt as if I was putting something in the bank. Question: Why did the author give the money quietly to the man's wife? Options: A: Because the man had refused to accept it. B: Because the man's wife needn't wash her hands. C: Because the author thought the Mexican family was poor. D: Because the author thought the man's wife would take it.\nA\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Many countries have passed safety laws that require seat belts in vehicles. A modern three-point seat belt, also called a safety belt, is a harness to prevent the driver or a passenger from flying forward and hitting hard against the interior of a vehicle during a collision. A modern seat belt will help to position you properly to gain maximum benefit from your car's airbags that will inflate during a collision. Using a seat belt also prevents you from being ejected from a car into the path of oncoming traffic. Research shows that when you wear a modern seat belt, you reduce the risk of death or serious injury by 70% or more during an auto accident. Seat belts have existed in different forms since the early days of automobiles, and they have changed from a single lap belt to the three-point seat belt we use today. In 1911 the first airplane seat belt was installed. Then, in the 1920's they were used in racecars. By the 1930s, a group of American physicians created lap belts for their own vehicles and urged vehicle manufacturers to provide seat belts on all vehicles. Dr. C. Hunter Shelden made a major contribution to our safety with his article in the November 5, 1955 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). He strongly encouraged the manufacture and use of door locks, airbags, and retractable seat belts, like the ones we use today. The modern three-point seat belt, including a lap belt and a shoulder belt, was introduced as standard equipment on Volvo cars in 1959. In 1970, the state of Victoria in Australia made the wearing of a seat belt compulsory for every car driver and front-seat passenger. Today many countries have also mandated the use of five-point safety harnesses for carefully designed child safety seats that can protect a child during a serious car accident. An airbag is a Supplemental Restraint System, or SRS, and consists of a rapidly inflatable restraint cushion that works together with a seat belt to protect you during a collision. Modern cars often contain several airbags in... Question: Which of the following statements is true? Options: A: Seat belts were first used in airplanes and then applied to vehicles. B: Airbags, door locks, and seat belts were all designed at the same time. C: The lap belt is more modern than the 3-point safety belt. D: Buying the latest seat belts is an essential driving skill.\nA\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: To become a doctor in the United States, students usually attend four years of medical school after they complete college. Then these young doctors work in hospitals for several years to complete a training program called a residency . These medical residents provide hospitals with needed services in return for not much pay. They work under the supervision of medical professors and more experienced doctors. Medical residents treat patients . they carry out tests. They perform operations. They complete records. In hospitals with few nurses, residents also do work formerly done by nurses. Some medical residents work one-hundred or more hours in a single week. _ Critics of this system say medical residents work too long and do not get enough res. They say these young doctors may be too tired to perform their medical duties effectively. Now, the government will limit the number of hours of work that residents can work. Most doctors in training will be limited to eighty-four hours of work each week. They will have work periods of no more than twenty-four hours at one time. They will have ten hours of rest between work periods. Medical residents will have one day each week when they do not have to work. Any work they accept outside their hospitals will be limited.Experienced doctors and medical professors will closely supervise the residents to make sure they are not too tired to work. Many medical residents welcomed the work limits. Others, however, said the new policy may interfere with patient care and their own medical education. Question: Medical residents are not responsible for _ . Options: A: supervising students B: treating patients C: carrying patients D: doing operations\nA\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: The market is a concept. If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbor and some to the local manager of the supermarket. But in either case, you are producing for the market. Your efforts are being directed by the market. If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them. If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing for the market. If your father is a steel worker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or service for the market. When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market. You may spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas stations and restaurants. Still you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck, he is buying your labor in the labor market. The market may be something abstract . But for each person or business that is making and selling something, it is very _ . If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won't be long before you get the message. The market is telling you something. It is telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn't want you to do. Question: You are buying from the market when you _ . Options: A: borrow a book from the library B: drive to the seaside for a holiday C: look after your children D: dine at restaurant\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Ques:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Let's Go See Papa is a lovely children's book. In this book, a little girl tells about her life while her dad is working far away from her. \"I haven't seen my dad for one year, eight months and twenty-two days,\" the girl writes in her journal. She writes everything she has done so that her father will never miss a day. Sunday is the cheapest day for long-distance phone calls, so that day is special to the girl and her mother. One Sunday phone call brings surprising news. Dad tells his daughter that she and Mom will finally be able to come and live with him in the United States. The girl feels happy, because she can see her father again. But she has to leave her dog and her best friend Rocio behind. A few days later, Mom and the little girl go to the airport. They have to say goodbye to the happy days they spent here. Question: What can we learn from the passage? Options: A: The girl keeps a pet cat. B: The girl doesn't want to go to America. C: The girl's father has been in the United States for nearly two years. D: The girl feels sad about her leaving because she has no friend to say goodbye to.\n\nAns:C\n-----\nQues:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: One of the easiest ways to keep healthy is to do jogging. Jogging is the name for a very gentle running--it is just a little faster than walking. Start slow jog 20 meters, then walk 20 meters. Little by little, if you are not feeling very tired, you may do more jogging and less walking. Finally, jog the whole way. It will be easy for you to start jogging for 15 minutes twice a week, slowly, increase this to 20~30minutes every day. The longer you join in jogging, the more you enjoy it and the healthier you will become. Some people like jogging alone, and others enjoy doing it with friends. Jogging in groups makes more people keener , because you just can not stay in bed while there is a group of friends waiting outside. If you want to start jogging, prepare a pair of comfortable shoes and _ mind. Question: If you are not feeling very tired, _ . Options: A: you may do more jogging B: you may do more running C: you are very healthy and needn't do more jogging D: you may just do more walking\n\nAns:A\n-----\nQues:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: There is a big supermarket near Mrs. Green's home. She usually goes there to buy food. The shop assistants are polite and helpful. The things are cheap, too. One day, Mrs. Green goes to the supermarket. She buys some noodles. Biscuits are also their children's favorite food. And she buys some milk. Her children always have milk for breakfast. Mimi likes fish and Tim likes hot dogs. She buys some fish and sausages for them, too. Mrs. Green doesn't have any rice at home. So she buys a bag of rice, but she can't take it. It is very heavy. Her husband, Mr. Green is coming to the supermarket and carry the rice. Question: . Who likes biscuits? Options: A: Mrs. Green and Mr. Green. B: Mrs. Green and Tim. C: Mrs. Green and Mimi. D: Tim and Mimi.\n\nAns:D\n-----\nQues:Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Trip 1 One week in the Mountains Bring your strong shoes and warm clothes for this walk in a beautiful area of the Green Mountains. You may go hiking or have a try of rock climbing. This is also a protection area for wild animals. You can find many kinds of animals living in this area. Time: May 8--May 14 Tel: 64639818 Adult: $110 Trip 2 Three days in the country There are many beautiful gardens. Take your camera and enjoy the wonderful sight in Hunter Valley. It is a good place for fishing and horse riding. Bird lovers can also enjoy a great walk. Time: May 20--May 22 Tel: 63986423 Adult: $50 Child: $25 Trip 3 Flashlight adventure Put on your warm clothes, bring a torch, and come for a night walk along the Dungog Valley. It's a trip full of adventure. A guide will lead the tour. Many of the plants you will see on this trip can only be seen at night. Time: May 16--May 18 Tel: 63875629 Adult: $30 Not for children Trip 4 Five days by the sea Wear your sun hat and enjoy wonderful sunshine all the time from morning to evening. Our hotel is next to the sea. We have our own boats, too. You can swim in the sea or in the swimming pool. Every day our boat will take you to different places for swimming. Time: May 23--May 27 Tel: 67538293 Adult: $80 Child: $40 Question: David can take part in _ for _ days from May 16 to May 18. Options: A: hiking in the mountains; 7 B: fishing in the country; 5 C: swimming in the sea; 3 D: walking at night with a torch; 3\n\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D\n-----", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Ling Tao is a student in Class 6, Grade 1. He has a good friend in the school, and his name is Tony. Tony is not a student. He is Ling Tao's English teacher. He is from England. He is only twenty-three years old, and he is a tall boy. He likes to wear blue clothes. He likes eating healthy food. Tony is good at singing. He often teaches the students to sing English songs and plays games with them. The students all love him and he loves them, too. ,. Question: Tony often teaches the students to sing _ songs. Options: A: English B: Chinese C: American D: Japanese\nA\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: When this story happened, they were working around a very large house. Their job was to do the cleaning. It was not a difficult job, but sometimes it was a little dangerous, because they had to walk below where workmen were working. Often these workmen dropped something from the top of the house many meters high to the ground. One morning Joe was working near the house with a cigarette behind one of his ears. Suddenly somebody on the top shouted, \"Look out!\" But Joe did not \"look out\". He looked up. And as he did so, a long knife missed Joe's head, but it cut off one of his ears. At once he put his hand to one side of his head and cried out, \"I've lost an ear. Help! Help!\" Jeff ran up to help his friend. \"Look for my ear,\" Joe told him. \"It must be on the ground somewhere.\" Jeff looked everywhere for the missing ear. At last he found an ear on the ground. He picked it up and carried it to Joe. \"Here you are,\" he said, \"I've found it.\" Joe looked at it. \"No, that's not my ear.\" he said, \"Mine had a cigarette behind it.\" Question: Which is the most possible title for this passage? Options: A: A Lost Ear B: A Busy Cleaner C: A Falling Knife D: A forgetful Man\nA\nQ: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Hello,everyone!I'm Belinda.Welcome to Yiwu. Yiwu is my hometown . It's a big and beautiful international city. There are more than 2,000,000 people in Yiwu.There are four seasons here,spring, summer,autumn and winter.Spring is warm.Summer is hot. Autumn is cool and winter is cold. I like autumn because it's cool .And in autumn I can eat many fruits like bananas, apples oranges and so on .Bananas are my favourite fruit. Question: Where is Belinda from? Options: A: Dongyang B: Fujiang C: Jinhua D: Yiwu\nA: D\nQuestion: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small town not far from our home in Rome. I wondered why. \"Look down, Elsa,\" Father said. I gathered all my courage and looked down. I saw the square in the center of the village, And I saw the criss-cross of streets leading to the square. \"See, my dear,\" Father said gently, \"There is more than one way to the square. Life is like that. If you can't get to the place where you want to go by one road. try another.\" Now I understood why I was there, Earlier that day I had begged my mother to do something about the awful lunches that were served at school. But she refused because she didn't believe the lunches were as bad as I said. When I turned to Father for help, he would not interfere . Instead, he brought me to this high tower to give me a lesson. By the time we reached home, I had a plan. At school the next day, I secretly poured my lunch soup into a bottle and brought it home. Then I asked our cook to serve it to Mother at dinner. _ She swallowed one spoonful and sputtered, \"The cook must have gone bad!\" Quickly I told what I had done, and Mother stated firmly that she would deal with the matter of lunches at school the next day! In the following years I often remembered the lesson Father taught me. I began to work as a fashion designer two years ago. I wouldn't stop working until I tried every possible means to my goal. Father's wise words always remind me that there is more than one way to the square, Question: The author's father took her to the top of a church tower to _ . Options: A: enjoy the beautiful scenery of the whole town B: encourage her to find out another way to solve her problem C: find out how many ways lead to the square D: help her forget some unpleasant things earlier that day\nAnswer: B\n*Question*\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: My name is Paul Miller. Sometimes I am too fat, but lately I do not have this problem. My doctor tells me to jog. So early every morning I run for two miles. I do not run fast, but I do not stop to rest. I jog before breakfast. People call me a jogger. There are many joggers on my street. We often run together in the park or along the road. Jogging helps to keep us strong and healthy. Jogging is very popular in the United States. People like to feel well and look nice. When my neighbors and I jog, we help to keep our hearts and legs strong. Many people do not jog, but they do not get fat. They work hard on their jobs and they do not need to run before they go to work. Diets are also popular. People on diets do not eat many foods that will make them fat. They learn to eat fruits and vegetables instead of candy or cakes. My doctor tells me to eat only three meals a day. A diet is not necessary if I do not eat between meals. Some people like to eat many times a day. This is called snacking. I feel healthy and my doctor is happy because I jog every day and I do not snack in the evening or after breakfast. Question: If you snack, you will surely eat something _ . Options: A: full of meat B: with fruits and vegetables C: quickly D: in the evening or after breakfast\n**Answer**\nB\n*Question*\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Driving a car at a high speed along a highway seems to be fun. You need only to follow the bright traffic signs beside the highways and they will take you to where you wish. But to a London taxi driver, driving is not an easy job. A taxi driver has to have not only skills but also a good knowledge of the city of London, from the smaller road to the most popular bar .He has to be at the service of all kinds of people at all times. He usually goes home between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning. There are times he has to stay longer and try to _ London taxi drivers not only \"take\" but also \"give\". Every summer hundreds of children from London will go for a day at the sea by taxi! Their rides are paid by the taxi drivers. At the sea, they are met by the mayor , and the lunch party is also held for the drivers and children. After a happy day running around the beaches and visiting the markets, the children go home again by taxi, and free of charge , of course! Question: The passage is mainly about _ . Options: A: traffic in London B: taxi drivers' job in London C: children in London D: a driver in London\n**Answer**\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: FOR thousands of years, Stonehenge has confused visitors with a seemingly unanswerable question: Why would anyone carry so many huge stones across Britain and put them in a ring? It seems even stranger when you think of the fact that it was done by prehistoric people working without modern technology, not even a wheel. Stonehenge has started endless debates over the centuries. Experts have said at different times that it was a temple, a calendar or a graveyard . Yet \"all the ideas to date could be mistaken,\" said Julian Spalding, a famous art critic and former director of some of the UK's leading museums. \"We've been looking at Stonehenge the wrong way: from the earth, which is very much a 20th century viewpoint,\" he told The Guardian. Spalding has put forward a new theory about Stonehenge in his latest book, Realisation: From Seeing to Understanding. \"The current theories about Stonehenge are based on looking across the ground, which is a modern idea,\" he writes in his new book. He told The Guardian that in ancient times, spiritual ceremonies didn't happen on the ground. Prehistoric people believed that in this way they could get closer to the heavens. So Spalding says that \"rituals at Stonehenge were performed in the same way - not among the stones, but on top of them,\" reported The Washington Post. He re-imagines a scene in his book, explaining how the mysterious site was used: Stonehenge held up a large, circular platform . It was a raised altar reached by stairs, and thousands of people might have worshipped there. To support his theory, Spalding lists examples from ancient civilizations worldwide. In China, Peru and Turkey, such sacred monuments were built high up, whether on man-made or natural sites. In an interview with The Washington Post, Spalding said the wood that would have been used for the platform had long since rotted away , leaving only the stone pillars that supported it behind. So far scholars have had \"a fair degree of skepticism \" about these ideas, according to The...\nA: Question: We can infer from the article that Cunliffe is _ Spalding's theory.Options:A supportive ofB amazed atC worried aboutD doubtful aboutAnswer:D\n\nQuestion: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Stepfamilies are commonplace in the United States and their number continues to grow.While stepfamilies differ widely in their make-up, they all consist of a parenting couple and children, one or more of whom is of a previous union.Such combinations of his kids, her kids, and then, possibly, kids of the new union make for complicated and often trying difficulties, more challenging than those of traditional families. Since stepfamilies involve more people and, consequently, more potential problems from the start than do childless new marriage, it is wise for the couple to do some careful planning prior to (=before) marriage.Not only do the prospective marital partners need agreement about their own carriers, life goals, finance and special interests, they must also prepare for new relationship with their children and attempt to accommodate their individual needs and feelings.Furthermore, there are often the rights of other relatives to consider. As for any family, the basic ingredient of a successful stepfamily are affection, kindness and mutual respect.However, love alone is not enough.Certainly love is the cornerstone upon which the foundation of any family is built, but there are also many other important ingredients involved in building a successful stepfamily. Surveys reveal that successful families regard the ability to communicate openly as the most important factor in their success.Communication is what keeps families on track and functioning as a unit.Although healthy communication is easier for some people than for others, this skill can be learned and improved.Healthy communication involves speaking clearly and listening carefully. By their very nature, stepfamilies often are complicated by past events that give rise to ambivalent loyalties, lingering hurts, fears,feelings of guilt and unrealistic dreams.The difficulties that arise within the stepfamilies are human and understandable.However, there are ways to confront and resolve them.For example, support groups and professional counselors ...\nAnswer: Question: It is natural for a stepfamily to be .Options:A unrealisticB complicatedC ambivalentD guiltyAnswer:B\n\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Early risers are most likely to be healthy, wealthy and wise, according to the old saying. But those who are early to bed and early to rise do not always have advantages, researchers say. They have found that night owls are generally brighter and wealthier than those who are able to get up early in the morning. Experts from the University of Madrid carried out tests on around 1,000 teenagers and found that those who preferred to stay up late showed the kind of intelligence to find good jobs and earn much money. Larks or \"morning people\", however, often get better exam results, possibly because lessons are held at the wrong time of day for night owls. The researchers examined the habits and body clocks of the young people to determine whether they liked to stay up late and sleep later in the morning, or preferred to go to bed early and were at their best state in the morning. School performance and problem solving ability, were judged and test grades in the major subjects were also taken into consideration. Jim Horne, professor of psychophysiology at Loughborough University, said: \"Evening types tend to be the more creative types, the poets, artists and inventors, while the morning types are considered to be civil servants and accountants . \"\n****\n[A]: Question: Early risers often do well in exams possibly because _ .Options:A they go to bed by 10p.m. regularlyB they make full preparations before examC lessons are held at the right time for themD they have longer time to prepare for their lessonsAnswer:C\n\nQuestion: Write a multi-choice question for the following article: Article: Father Christmas We're looking for a very special person,preferably over 40,to fill our Father Christmas suit. Working days:Every Saturday from November 24 to December 15 and every day from December 17 to December 24 except Sundays,10:30--16:00. Excellent pay. Please contact the Enterprise Shopping Centre,Station Parade,Eastbourne. Accountants Assistant When you join the team in our Revenue Administration Unit,you will be providing assistance within all parts of the Revenue Division,dealing with post and other general duties.If you are educated to GCSE grade C level we would like to talk to you.This position is equally suitable for a school leaver or for somebody who has office experience. Wealden District Council Software Trainer If you are aged 24--45 and have experience in teaching and training,you could be the person we are looking for. You should be good at the computer and have some experience in programme writing. You will be allowed to make your own decisions,and to design courses as well as present them. Pay upwards of PS15,000 for the right person.Please apply by sending your CV to Mrs R. Oglivie,Palmlace Limited.\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Question: We learn from the ads that the Enterprise Shopping Centre needs a person who _ .Options:A is aged between 24 and 40B may do some training workC can work for about a monthD should deal with general dutiesAnswer:C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: It's interesting that the arrival of snow has a different effect on people in different countries. For some countries it is an important happening to celebrate each year, while for others it is a catastrophe or even a wonder. There are countries between these two extremes that normally expect snow some time over the winter months, but never receive snow regularly or in the same quantities every year. Britain is one such country, for which the arrival of snow quite simply creates problems. Within hours of the first snowfall, however light, roads are blocked, trains and buses stop in the middle of traffic. Normal communications are affected as well, telephone calls become difficult and the post immediately takes more time than usual. Almost within hours, there are also shortages -- bread, vegetables and other things -- not because all these things can no longer be produced or sent to shops, but mainly because people are frightened, and go out to store up these commodities , \"just for fear that something bad should happen.\" Why then does snow have this effect? After all, the Swiss, Austrians and Canadians don't have such problems. It is simply because there is not enough planning and preparation. We need money to buy equipment to deal with snow and ice. To keep the roads clear, for example, requires snow ploughs and machines to spread salt. The reason why a country like Britain does not buy some ploughs is that they are only used for a few days in any one year, and the money could be more useful in other things such as hospitals, education or helping the old. Question: The first reason that the British don't buy snow ploughs is that _ - spreading salt is good enough - old people need more money - snow ploughs are not used often - the hospital is more important\nsnow ploughs are not used often\n\n(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: He was 11 years old and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his family's cabin on an island in the middle of a New Hampshire lake. On the day before the bass season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening, catching sunfish and perch with worms. Then he tied on a small silver lure and practiced casting. The lure struck the water and caused colored ripples in the sunset, then silver ripples as the moon rose over the lake. When his pole doubled over, he knew something huge was on the other end. Finally, he very gingerly lifted the exhausted fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen, but it was a perch . The boy and his father looked at the handsome fish. Then the father lit a match and looked at his watch. It was 10 P.M.--- two hours before the season opened. He looked at the fish, then at the boy. \"You'll have to put it back, son,\" he said. \"Dad!\" cried the boy. \"There will be other fish,\" said his father. \"Not as big as this one,\" cried the boy. He looked around the lake. No other fishermen or boats were anywhere around in the moonlight. He looked again at his father. Even though no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish, the boy could know everything by his father's clear voice that the decision could not be changed. He slowly worked the hook out of the lip of the huge bass and lowered it into the black water. The creature swished its powerful body and disappeared. The boy suspected that he would never again see such a great fish. That was 34 years ago. Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City. His father's cabin is still there on the island in the middle of the lake. He takes his own son and daughters fishing from the same dock. He was right. He has never again caught such a magnificent fish as the one he landed that night long ago. But he does see that same fish---again and again---every time he comes up against a question of ethics . Question: Why did the father ask his son to put the perch back? - Because the father disliked the perch. - Because the father was afraid of being fined. - Because the ethics must be observed. - Because the son was more experience in fishing than his father.\n(Answer)\nBecause the ethics must be observed.\n\nQues: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: A professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see and asked the students, \" How much do you think this glass weighs?\" \"50 grams ! \" \"100 grams ! \" \"125 grams ! \" the students answered. \"I really don't know unless I weigh it , \" said the professor, \" but , my question is : What would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?\" \" Nothing , \" the students said. \"OK, what would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?\" the professor asked. \"Your arm would begin to ache, \" said one of the students. \"You are right, now what would happen if I held it up for a day?\" \"Your arm could go numb , and you might have to go to hospital, \" another student said. \"Very good ! But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?\" asked the professor. \"NO\" \"Then what made the arm ache and the muscle( ) stress?\" The students were puzzled. \" Put the glass down\" said one of the students. \"Exactly ! \" said the professor. \" Life's problems are something like this. Hold them for minutes in your head and they seem OK. Think of them for a long time and they begin to ache. Hold them even longer and they begin to trouble you. You will not be able to do anything. It's important to think of the problems in your life, but even more important to ' put them down' at the end of every day before you go to sleep. That way, you are not stressed; you wake up every day fresh and strong and can handle any issue, any challenge that comes your way ! \" ,. Question: Which of the following is true? - The professor wanted to show the students how heavy the glass was. - The weight of the glass would change if you held it longer. - The glass itself made the arm ache and the muscle stress. - The professor's arm would ache if he held the glass for a long time.\nAns: The professor's arm would ache if he held the glass for a long time.\n\nQues:Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: John is a paper boy. He delivers newspapers to different houses in his street every day. He has about 80 customers . Half of his customers only take the newspapers on weekdays, and about half take the newspapers on weekdays and on Sundays. Two of John's customers only take the newspapers on Sundays. John has to get up at 4:30 every morning to deliver his newspapers. It takes longer to deliver the newspapers on Sundays. The Sunday newspapers are twice as heavy as those on weekdays. John is saving his money to buy a new bicycle. He is also saving money for college . He has already saved 500 dollars. Question: _ of his customers only take the newspapers on Sundays. - Two - Eighty - Forty - Twenty\n\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Two", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "*Question*\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Some English words are made up of the same part and have different beginnings and different endings, such as import, export, report and transport. All these words, you can see, have the same \"port\", which comes from the Latin word, meaning \"to carry\" or \"to move\" from one place to another. And according to the bit at the beginning, which we call the prefix, the meaning changes. \"Import\" means \"to carry in\" or \"to bring into a country\"; \"export\", \"ex\" means \"out of\", so this word means \"to carry out of the country\"; \"re\" means \"back\", so the \"report\" means \"to tell somebody, to bring back information to somebody\"; \"transport\", \"trans\" means \"across\" and it means \"to carry across one place to another\". Let's look at the following words: supporter, reporter, importer and exporter. You can see that in this case these words are nouns which are made up of the verbs plus a suffix, thus meaning a person who does this thing. So \"supporter\" means somebody who supports. A \"reporter\" is somebody who reports. \"Importer\" is somebody who imports and \"exporter\" is somebody who exports, and so on. Question: According to the passage, if we talk about a man of refinement, you may guess that he must be _ . Options: A: a man having good manners and education B: a person who should be educated C: somebody having bad manners D: a person punished by somebody else\n**Answer**\nA\n\n*Question*\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Here are four pieces of news from China Daily: SHANGHAI---The Huachen Group, which has put 83 million yuan in the development of the commerce market since its official registration late last year, recently held a meeting in Shanghai to show the use of its newly opened tourism business payment network. The network aims to serve tourists from all over the world, but especially from Europe and the United States where credit cards are popularly used. After opening the www.ehinaeonet.com website, netizens can get information about hotels and tourism services on tourism page. Hotels and services can be reserved and payment made through credit cards. The network opened in February in Beijing. SYDNEY---The Sydney Olympic flame will travel underwater on Australia's Great Barrier Reef during the torch relay following a successful test. Scuba diver Wendy Craig, a marine biologist, will carry the torch on three-to-four-minute underwater journey at Agincourt Reef on June 27, creating Olympic history, organizers said yesterday. Burning at 2,000 degrees, the torch is expected to remain alight three meters underwater because of a special kind of technology which creates a \"fierce flame\"--- too powerful to be drowned out by water. Charles Tegner, managing director of torch creator, said the flame would burn like a flame from oxygen-producing chemicals. BEIJING---The election of a new leader in Taiwan cannot change the fact that Taiwan is part of China. \"Taiwan Independence\" in whatever form will never be allowed, according to a statesman of China's central government. \"We should listen to what the new leader in Taiwan says and watch what he does. We will observe where he will lead Cross-Straits relations. We are willing to exchange views on Cross-Straits relations and peaceful reunification with all parties, organizations and people in Taiwan who favor the one-China principle,\" says the statesman, from Taiwan Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee. HAIKOU---Customs officers in Haikou, capital of South China's Hainan... Question: Which is the best title for the third piece of news? Options: A: Ready to Fight B: No Good End C: Wait and See D: Peace Comes First\n**Answer**\nC\n\n*Question*\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Ellen Parker was worried about her health. She could not walk very quickly and it was difficult for her to climb stairs. She was soon out of breath. \"I suppose I had better go to the doctor,\" she thought. She went to the doctor and told him her problem. \"I'm not at all surprised, \"he said. \"It's clear what your problem is.\" He examined her and then gave her some advice. \"If you don't do what I say, Mrs. Parker,\" he said, \"you will have a heart attack. It could kill you.\" Ellen was very worried as she left the doctor's. She knew that she had to take his advice but that it would not be easy and it would take time. The next day she went shopping. The first shop she went into was a butcher's shop . \"I'd like ten pounds of steak , please,\" she said. \"Certainly, madam,\" the butcher replied and went into the cold room and found a large piece of steak. He brought the huge piece of meat back into the shop and placed it on the scale . \"That's just under ten pounds,\" he said. \"That's big enough,\" Mrs. Parker said. The butcher worked out the price. \"At $4. 99 a pound that will$49. 50, please. Would you like me to cut it up into smaller pieces for you?\" \"Oh, I don't want to buy the meat,\" Mrs. Parker said. \"If you don't want to buy it,\" the butcher replied angrily, \"why did you ask me to get it for you?\" \"My doctor told me that I am overweight and have to lose ten pounds. I wanted to see what ten pounds of flesh looked like.\" Question: What was Ellen Parker's real problem? Options: A: She ate too much steak. B: She weighed too much. C: The doctor did not know. D: She could not walk very quickly.\n**Answer**\nB\n\n*Question*\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Say you forgot about Valentine's Day, and it's too late to send someone some roses. Someday, you'll at least be able to send their odors . A Paris lab under the direction of David Edwards, Michigan Technological University alumnus, has created the oPhone, which will allow odors to be sent, by Bluetooth and smart phone attachments, to oPhones across the state, country or ocean, where the person who receive it can enjoy American Beauties or any other kinds of rose. It can be sent by email, tweet, or text. Edwards says the idea started with student designers in his class at Harvard, where he is a professor. Normally, he says, there's a clear end in sight, but with their project no one had a clue who was going to pay for the research or if there was even a market. With the early major buzz produced -- Wired Magazine, National Public Radio, and the British press -- Edwards is sure the market will come. \"We create odor profiles ,\" says Blake Armstrong, director of business communications at Vapor Communications, an organization operating out of Le Lab in Paris. \"We put that into the oChip that gives away that smell.\" Edwards said that the original four chips that will come with the first oPhones can be combined into thousands of different odors -- produced for 20 to 30 seconds. In fact, Le Lab is working with Cafe Coutume, the premier coffee shop in Paris, using oPhones to create nice experiences. \"Imagine you are online and want to know what a particular brand of coffee would smell like,\" Edwards says. \"Or, you are in an actual long line waiting to order. You just tap on the oPhone and get the experience.\" And there are other benefits. \"Fragrance houses, of course, culinary, travel, but also healthcare. \"A patient with brain damage had lost memory, and the oPhone can help bring that memory back. Improvements are already planned at the end of year--give phone to audience in 2015. \"The oPhone will finally be smaller. \" according to Armstrong. Question: Which word best describes people's attitude to oPhone's market in the future? Options: A: cold B: confident C: doubtful D: concerned\n**Answer**\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "(Q).\nArticle: The Brown Bear My wife Laura and I were on the beach, with three of our children, taking pictures of shore birds near our home in Alaska when we spotted a bear. The bear was thin and small, moving aimlessly. Just a few minutes later, I heard my daughter shouting, \"Dad! The bear is right behind us!\" An agreesive bear will usually rush forward to frighten away its enemy but would suddenly stop at the last minute. This one was silent and its ears pinned back---- the sign of an animal that is going in for the kill. And it was a cold April day. The bear behaved abnormally, probably because of hunger. I held my camera tripod in both hands to form a barrier as the bear rushed into me. Its huge head was level with my chest and shoulders, and the tripod stuck across its mouth. It bit down and I found myself supporting its weight. I knew I would not be able to hold it for long. Even so, this was a fight I had to win: I was all that stood between the bear and my family, who would stand little chance of running faster than a brown bear. The bear hit at the camera, cutting it off the tripod. I raised my left arm to protect my face; the beast held tightly on the tripod and pressed it into my side. My arm could not move, and I sensed that my bones were going to break. Drawing back my free hand, I struck the bear as hard as I could for five to six times. The bear opened its mouth and I grasped its fur, trying to push it away. I was actually wrestling with the bear at this point. Then, as suddenly as it had begun, the fight ended. The bear moved back toward the forest, before returning for another attack----- The first time I felf panic. Apparently satisfied that we caused no further threat, the bear moved off, destroying a fence as it went. My arm was injured, but the outcome for us could hardly have been better. I'm proud that my family reminded clear-headed when panic could have led to a very different outcome. Question: The writer and his family survived mainly due to their _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"calmness\"?\n(A).\nNo\n\n\n(Q).\nArticle: World Book Day is a celebration of all things wonderful about books for all ages, with author events, school fancy-dress parades and a PS1 book token given to all school children under 18. It is a yearly event on 23rd April, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) to promote reading. In the United Kingdom, the day is recognized on the first Thursday in March. On 3rd March 2016 children of all ages in the UK will come together to appreciate reading. Sometimes, reading a modern novel can be tough ( Booker Prize winner The Luminaries runs to 832 pages! ), especially if reading is not your strong suit. In fact, one in six people in the UK never pick up a book because they've experienced difficulties or are out of the habit of reading for pleasure. The Galaxy Quick Reads series are designed to introduce reluctant readers to bestselling short funny novels, which bring the joy of reading without demanding hours of concentrated time. They cover a range of subjects, from romance to comedy. Jojo Moyes's Paris For One is a romantic adventure in which 26-year-old Nell books a weekend away to Paris with her lazy, neglectful boyfriend. When he fails to turn up, she is alone in the city. That is, until she meets Fabien, who shows her the charms of the French capital -- in more ways than one. Adele Geras's moving story Out In The Dark was set in World War I, in which young Rob came back from the battlefields. Determined to find the officer's widow to return the photo of her and their daughter that the captain kept with him, he traveled several thousand miles but never gave up. Dead Man Talking is a fantastic tale of Pat, who had a terrible fight with his best friend, Joe, ten years ago -- but now hears that Joe is dead, and he must attend his funeral. But Joe is not going quietly that very night -- he's lying in his coffin being very chatty indeed. Question: If you lack confidence in your reading skills, you will probably avoid reading _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"The Luminaries\"?\n(A).\nNo\n\n\n(Q).\nArticle: Recently, I learned firsthand why it's a bad idea to judge people prematurely . I'm a nursing supervisor, and my job is to evaluate workers' performances at the hospital. Kenny was a new employee. After weeks' probation , I had to admit that he was clean, punctual and efficient. But he had this self-assured and energetic presence. He was a large man, both physically and socially -- he was independent and strong. I worried that our hospital, which demanded teamwork, was not right for such a personality. We had a patient named Mary. At 94 years old, Mary was weak. She had outlived her husband and sisters. Mary had an obsessive belief that someone had taken her purse. She searched for it all the time. Unless tied to her wheelchair, she would go through the door onto the street mindlessly searching and never giving up. She was often sitting in her wheelchair in the hallway, where she stopped everyone who came near. \"Can you lend me a comb?\" she would ask. \"I've lost mine. It was in my red purse. Where is my purse?\" Every day it was the same. We all knew Mary didn't have a purse, but we would answer: \"Sure, if I see your purse I'll bring it back.\" One afternoon, I saw Kenny walking down the hall with a grocery bag. He walked toward Mary in her wheelchair. He pulled out a red purse. Mary's old hands flew up to her face in a gesture of wonder and joy, and then flew out hungrily like a starved child taking bread. Mary grabbed the red purse. She held it for a moment, and then pressed it to her breast, rocking it like a baby. Kenny leaned over, unzipped the purse open and showed Mary a comb inside. Tears of joy poured down Mary's face. Instead of paying lip service like the rest of us, Kenny had made Mary's problem his problem. I had been wrong about Kenny. Question: The author was worried that Kenny would not be fit for his job because _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"he had a strong, confident and independent character\"?\n(A).\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: I have tried many ways to be ill. I don't wear a sweater when I should, and two days ago I walked in the rain without my shoes. But so far nothing has happened. Debbie once told me about a boy in her class who liked being away from school. He would rub the end of the thermometer until it went up to 39degC. Then he'd put it in his mouth and his mother would think he was really ill. This morning I tried doing that but it never went above 35degC and I rubbed it for ten minutes. So I held the thermometer next to the light on my desk and it went up to 40degC. I thought I'd put it in my mouth and walk downstairs like that. Then my mother would take it out and she would be worried when she saw that I was rather ill. The only trouble was I didn't know the thermometer would be so hot. As soon as I put it into my mouth, it burnt my tongue! I spit the thermometer out. It fell on the floor but it didn't break. I will have to think of a better way to get my mother and father back together. Question: Why did the writer spit the thermometer out? Options: A: Because it smelled terrible. B: Because it was too hot. C: Because it was too long. D: Because it was broken.\nB\n------\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: We live in an amazing world, reading the following news and you will find it yourself. News 1: Bao Xishun is the tallest man in the world. He is 2.36 metres tall. He Pingping is the shortest man in the world. He is only 0.73 metres tall. They are Chinese. On July 13th, Bao Xishun married a girl and He Pingping took part in their wedding ceremony . News 2: In the USA, a seventh-grader, Aidan Murray Medley went fishing in the sea one morning. The 12-year-old boy caught a 250-kilogram shark! It took Aidan 28 minutes to catch the shark. It was so hard that his body lost all feeling. Aidan now has the Florida record . He beat a 232-kilogram catch from 1981. News 3: A young sheep climbs a tree to feed on leaves in a park in the southern Swedish town of Lund. The sheep climbed to a height of seven metres and spent an hour and a half in the tree before returning to the ground. Question: Which can be the best title? Options: A: The Tallest Man's Wedding Ceremony B: The Amazing World C: A Boy Caught the Biggest Fish D: A Sheep Climbed a Tree\nB\n------\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Little stream ran down from a high mountain through many villages and forests. Then it reached a desert. \"I went through so many difficulties.I should have no problem crossing the desert,\" she thought. As she started, she found herself slowly disappearing into the sand. After many tries, she still failed. \"Maybe I can't reach the ocean,\" she said sadly to herself. At this time, a deep voice said, \"If a breeze can cross the desert,so can a river.\" It was the voice of the desert. But the little stream answered, \"That's because a breeze can fly, but I cannot.\" \"That's because you _ what you are. Let yourself evaporate into the breeze, and it can take you across,\" said the desert. \"Give up what I am now? No!No!\" The little stream could not accept this idea. \"The breeze can carry the vapor across the desert and let it leave as rain. The rain will form a river again,\" said the desert. \"And whether you're a river or vapor, your nature never changes.\" Hearing this,the little stream went into the open arms of breeze. It carried her to the next stage of her life. The course of our lives is like the experience of the little stream. If you want to go through difficulties in your life to head for success, you should also change the way you are sometimes. Question: Before the stream reached the desert, she didn't _ . Options: A: believe in herself B: meet any difficulties C: want to cross the desert D: worry about the journey to the ocean\nD\n------\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Life in the future is different from now. There are not any paper money in the future. People use their _ when they go shopping. There are not so many stores. At weekends, people needn't go out. They usually do some shopping at home on the Internet. Children don't get up early to go to school. They have lessons at home on the Internet, too. Teachers teach their students and give them homework on the Internet. Children give the homework to their teachers on the Internet, too. People don't need to do much work. There are more robots . Robots do hard work for people. Parents don't cook or wash clothes. A cooking robot cooks breakfast. In fact, robots do all the housework for us. There are more holidays. Parents spend much time with their children. They spend a lot of time travelling around the world. I think life in the future is very interesting. Do you think so? Question: Teachers teach their students _ in the future. Options: A: in the classroom B: over the radio C: on TV D: on the Internet\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D\n------", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labor. Men worked outside the home and earned the income to support their families, while women cooked the meals and took care of the home and the children. These roles were firmly fixed for most people, and there was not much opportunity for women to exchange their roles. But by the middle of last century, men's and women's roles were becoming less firmly fixed. In the 1950s, economic and social success was the goal of the typical American. But in the 1960s a new force developed called the counterculture. The people involved in this movement did not value the middle-class American goals. The counterculture presented men and women with new role choices. Taking more interest in childcare, men began to share child-raising tasks with their wives. In fact, some young men and women moved to communal homes or farms where the economic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both sexes. In addition, many Americans did not value the traditional male role of soldier. Some young men refused to be drafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Vietnam. In terms of numbers, the counterculture was not a very large group of people. But its influence spread to many parts of American society. Working men of all classes began to change their economic and social patterns. Industrial workers and business executives alike cut down on \"overtime\" work so that they could spend more leisure time with their families. Some doctors, lawyers, and teachers turned away from high paying situations to practice their professions in poorer neighborhoods. In the 1970s, the feminist movement, or women's liberation, produced additional economic and social changes. Women of all ages and at all levels of society were entering the work force in greater numbers. Most of them still took traditional women's jobs as public school teaching, nursing, and secretarial work. But some women began to enter traditionally male occupations: police work, banking,... Question: In the passage the author proposes that the counterculture _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"transformed some American values.\"?\nNo\n\n\nArticle: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote the story of the detective Sherlock Holmes, was having a trip in Europe. One day he got out of the railway station and climbed into a taxi. Before he could say a word, the driver turned to him and asked, \"Where can I take you, Mr. Doyle?\" Doyle was rather surprised. He asked the driver if he had ever seen him before. \"No, sir,\" the driver replied, \"I have never seen you before.\" Then he explained, \"This morning's newspaper had a story about your being on vacation in Marseilles. This is the taxi stop where people who return from Marseilles always come. Your skin color tells me you have been on vacation. The ink spot on your right fingers suggests to me that you are a writer. Your clothes are very English, not French. Adding up all those pieces of information, I conclude that you are Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.\" \"This is truly surprising!\" the writer cried out. \"You are a real-life copy to my fictional story, Sherlock Holmes!\" \"And there is one other thing,\" the driver added, with a smile on his face. \"What's that?\" \"Your name is on the front of your suitcase.\" Question: Doyle was rather surprised because _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"the driver could call him by his name\"?\nNo\n\n\nQ: Article: The first day of school always goes wrong. For many students in the United States, however, this year it was even more so. It was all due to one extra school policy - they are now required to follow a new standardized dress code. According to the handbooks of all high schools in Allentown, Pennsylvania, students must wear short- or long-sleeve polo shirts and khaki or black pants. Skinny jeans, leggings and open-toe shoes are not allowed. Allentown schools are not alone. At Edgewater High School in Florida, shirts must have collars or sleeves, and pants must not sag and reach at least mid-thigh . No see-through shirts or T- shirts with references to sex on them are allowed. Overall, more than half of US public schools now enforce dress codes, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. About 57 percent of schools now have a \"strict dress code\", up from more than 47 percent a decade earlier, USA Today said. Among young people, there are mixed emotions. Some don't mind wearing similar clothes every day while others aren't happy. Despite dress codes in many school districts, some students still come to school - even on their first day - in skirts that are too short, necklines that are too low and sagging pants that don't stay up on their hips. But there are punishments. If they are out of dress code, students can be removed from the classroom until they fix the problem. In Florida, wearing sagging pants is illegal for youths according to a state law issued in 2011. Breaking the rule results in not being able to do after-school activities, and even being forbidden to attend class. Some US schools go further and require students to wear uniforms. Many say that they simplify their jobs, saving teachers from having to punish students for wearing skirts or shorts that are too short, for instance. They can also prevent feelings of competition and envy among students. \"It takes away the daily fashion show and helps level the playing field a little bit with the haves and have-nots,\" longtime school... Question: Students in some US schools are required to wear uniforms Not to _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"bring out the best in students\"?\nA: No\n\n\n(Question)\nArticle: This year's World Food Prize will honor two leaders of hunger-fighting groups based in the United States. The winners are David Beckmann of Bread for the World and Jo Luck of Heifer International. They will share the prize of 250,000 dollars. The World Food Prize usually goes to researchers or top policy officials. This is the first time it will recognize the work of nongovernmental groups. Heifer International provides donated animals and training to farmers in 50 countries. Jo Luck remains president until next year. Under her leadership, the group's budget grew from less than 10,000,000 dollars to more than 130,000,000 dollars. Jo Luck, \"People pass on their gifts of not just animals but also gifts of training and leadership. We have seen cases where we have been gone 5 and 10 years and we go back and they have developed roads and built schools, and they have other communities receiving the animals and the training. You just give them those resources and that training and opportunity, and you cannot hold them back.\" She told the story of a woman from a poor village in Zimbabwe. A family member helped send her to school in the United States with earnings from a donated milk goat. She received a doctoral degree. Jo Luck, \"That is what a goat did. That is one example. The animal is only the catalyst . That is the beginning of many other things that follow.\" David Beckmann became president of Bread for the World in 1991. He is an economist and a Christian clergyman . Bread for the World organizes people from religious and non-religious groups to write, call and visit members of Congress . The purpose is to support measures to improve the lives of the poor. David Beckmann points to big increase in American development assistance. He said, \"I think that would not have happened without the support of hundreds of thousands of people and churches that are part of Bread for the World and that keep the pressure on their members of Congress.\" The prize committee also credited his efforts with helping to increase aid... Question: Why does Jo Luck receive the prize? Yes or no, is the answer \"Under her leadership, Heifer International helps farmers in 50 countries.\"?\n(Answer)\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Yes", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "input: Please answer the following: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Each Sunday, people can hear the music of the Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco. The Spanish missionaries built the church in 1791. It was the start of a special kind of neighborhood: the Mission District. The area is a place with a long and varied history. One community member says that it's important for people to understand the many levels of history in the neighborhood. He feels that _ is a big part of understanding what it means to be a real San Franciscan. One of the most interesting parts of the district is its people. Over the years, immigrants have come to the area from Ireland, Germany, and Italy. But the most recent immigrants are mainly from Latin America. It's easy to see the style that these recent additions give to the neighborhood. You can see it in the art on the walls, taste it in the food, and hear it in the music! Juan Pedro Gaffney, the director of the Spanish Choir of San Francisco, says that the people there share the pain and the happiness of their friends and family members and that music has always been a basic part of cultural identity in the district. He feels that the music of the district is colorful and lively. But it isn't just its music that's colorful and lively. Its art is full of life as well. The local art community stays close to the area's culture and tradition. A local arts organization often leads people on walks through the district. They visit streets like Balmy Alley, which is famous for its murals . Even though the meanings behind the murals are always changing, they are still very powerful. One artist explains that they are fighting for fairness in the community and to help the environment through murals. Apparently, they're something the community likes. Many of these artists feel that the district is a successful neighborhood where new immigrants are welcome. \"People see that they're not so different from each other,\" says one artist. \"There are a lot of things that bind the immigrants through culture and tradition.\" Options: A literature and sports B music and murals C buildings and clothes D customs and festivals Answer: B music and murals Question:\n++++++++++\noutput: The author shows the multi-culture of the Mission District from the aspects of _ .\n\n\ninput: Please answer the following: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: There is an interesting festival in China. On that special day, people in Hunan province always have a dragon boat match. The dragon boat is quite long, like a dragon. There are pictures of dragons on each side. The front of the boat is like the head of a dragon. During the match, about twenty men in the boat make it move as fast as it can. Among them stands another man. He beats a drum to make the others boat in the same rhythm . It's an exciting match, especially when they are reaching the end. The audience along the lake shout for their favourite team. From this match, we have the name of the festival--the Dragon Boat Festival. This special day has another name---Duanwu Festival. In it we have a story. Long, long ago, there was a famous poet called Qu Yuan. He was famous not only for his poems, but also for thinking a lot for the people. After he died, people eat rice dumplings in memory of him on this special day. Options: A shout for them B help them boat C carry a dragon for them D beat a drum for them Answer: D beat a drum for them Question:\n++++++++++\noutput: In the match, there is always a man standing in the middle to _ .\n\n\ninput: Please answer the following: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: It is surprising that eating three meals a day--breakfast,lunch and dinner-has been a custom only since 1890. Before this time,people only had two meals a day--breakfast and dinner. In the 16th century,breakfast was only to break one's fast . But 200 years later it had become a large meal,not just for family,but for numbers of guests as well. It was a social event. It began at 10 a.m. and lasted until 1 p.m. Then breakfast began to be less popular. It became,instead,a lighter meal and was taken at a much earlier hour. By 1850 it had been pushed back to 8 a.m. and became a family meal. Dinner,however,went to the other way. In the 16th century it was eaten at 11 a.m. Years later,it had moved to the early afternoon,then to 5 p.m. By 1850 dinner time had reached 7 p.m. Lunch is a recent idea. It first appeared as a snack to fill the gap between breakfast and dinner. Options: A 17th B 19th C 16th D 18th Answer: B 19th Question:\n++++++++++\noutput: Breakfast became a family meal since the _ century.\n\n\ninput: Please answer the following: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: It is not unusual for people to speak two or three languages; they're known as bilinguals or trilinguals. Speakers of more than three languages are known as polyglots. And when we refer to people who speak many languages, perhaps a dozen or more, we use the term hyper-polyglot. The most famous hyper-polyglot was Giuseppe Mezzofanti, a 19thcentury Italian cardinal, who was said to speak 72 languages. This claim sounds absurd. _ But Mezzofanti was tested by critics, and they were all impressed. Did Mezzofanti have an extraordinary brain? Or are hyper-polyglots just ordinary people with ordinary brains who manage to do something extraordinary through hard work? U.S. linguist Stephen Drashen believes that outstanding language learners just work harder at it and then they acquire unusually strong language ability. As an example, he mentions a Hungarian woman who worked as an interpreter during the 20thcentury. When she was 86, she could speak 16 languages and was still working on learning new languages. She said she learned them mostly on her own, reading fiction or working through dictionaries or textbooks. Some researchers argue to the contrary. They believe that there is such a thing as a talent for learning languages. In the 1930s, a German scientist examined parts of the preserved brain of a hyper-polyglot named Emil Krebs, who could speak 60 languages fluently. The scientist found that the area of Krebs's brain called Broca's area, which is associated with language, looked different from the Broca's area in the brains of men who speak only one language. However, we still don't know if Krebs was born with a brain ready to learn dozens of languages or if his brain adapted to the demands he put on it. Although it is still not clear whether the ability to learn many languages is in born, there's no doubt that just about all of us can acquire skills in a second, third, or even fourth language by putting our mind to it. Options: A good memory B hard work C unique brain D learning methods Answer: B hard work Question:\n++++++++++\noutput:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "The Hungarian woman became a hyper-polyglot mainly because of her _ .", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "(Question)\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: It's time for school! But on May 14th, 170 students at Duncanville High School in Texas, US, were told to go back home.Why? Because they were wearing the wrong clothes to school. Schools in the US don't always ask students to wear uniforms. But they have dress codes . For example, Duncanville High School tells students to wear belts, shirts without logos .Schools' most-hated clothes are different. In 2011, the saggy ( ) trousers law was passed in Florida. It stops students from wearing trousers that show body parts. Now, \"the favourite new target ( ) of the school dress code\" is leggings( ), reported the Associated Press. Some schools don't allow leggings. Other schools ask students to wear a shirt or a skirt over leggings. Some students complain that schools are going too far. But schools say dress codes help protect students' safety and make sure they grow up with good taste.\"We want to teach them that they must meet the expectations not only here in school, but also outside school,\" said Andre Smith. Question: In Duncanville High School, students are allowed to wear _ . Options: A: thewrongclothes B: belts,shirtswithoutlogos C: theirfavouriteclothes D: schools'most-hatedclothes\n(Answer)\nB\n\n\n(Question)\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Do your parents ever say, \"act like a lady\" or \"be a gentleman\" to you? But in the eyes of today's teenagers , what should a lady or a gentleman be like? Let's take a look. What is a gentleman? The girls have their ideas: Huang Xiaoyu of Guizhou: A gentleman doesn't always get angry . He wants others to be well and happy. He is always ready to help. There is a boy in my class and I think he is a gentleman. If I don't do well in the English exam, he will say, \"You will do better next time.\" That makes me feel happy. Chen Tingting of Shenzhen: A gentleman always says, \"Ladies first\" When students clean up the classroom, he does the heavy work. He lets girls go into rooms first. There are no gentlemen in my class. When there is something to eat, the boys in my class always get them before girls! What is a lady? Boys tell us what they think a lady is: Wu Yifan of Dalian: A lady is quiet and kind, but she's not shy and she can talk about her ideas in front of others. To me, Dong Jie, a film star, is a lady. She is pretty and kind. She does a lot for others. Wang Lichao of Tianjin: A lady is not just beautiful but clever. She never says bad words. She is quiet and kind to others. I don't think there is a lady in my class. Most of the girls are \" \", I think. Question: A gentleman doesn't _ . Options: A: think about others B: always say \"ladies first\" C: do the heavy work D: get angry easily\n(Answer)\nD\n\n\n(Question)\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: This is my first day in our new school. In the morning, I help my new teacher Mr. Hu put some new English textbooks into a big box. And then I carry it to the classroom. The box is very heavy. I walk very slowly with the big heavy box in my arms. A boy runs very fast to me. He can't stop . Oh, dear! My box drops on the floor and there are books everywhere on the floor. 'I'm very sorry.' The boy says again and again. He helps me to pick up all the books. He then helps me to carry the books to our classroom. Who is he? He is my classmate. His name is Jim. He comes to China with his father. He comes from England. Question: Jim and I are _ . Options: A: the same age B: in the same bedroom C: in the same class D: Mr. Hu's workmates\n(Answer)\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Ques: Article: A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small child, and some children, like boys and girls who live abroad with their parents, seem to learn two languages almost as easily as one. In school it is not easy to learn a second language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects, too. A man's mind is rather like a camera, but it takes photos not only of what we see but of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photo with a camera, there is much to do before the photo is finished and ready to show to our friends. In the same way there is much work to be done before we can keep a picture forever in our mind. Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. Question: The children who live abroad with their parents can learn two languages more easily, because _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"they have more chances to use these languages\"?\nAns: Yes\n\nQues: Article: The Commonwealth games have meant that the eyes of the world have been focused on our fair city--Melbourne. And it would look pretty good, wouldn't it? And what better way to regain our title as world's most liveable city? I'm told that we recently lost the right to say this to foreign friends proudly when the international list was re-examined and we slipped to the fourth place. It's hard to see how Melbourne could have lost its crown when you look at what it has to offer. 24 hours Coles, free transport for drunks on New Year's Eve, a new freeway, it's all here. The first focus for the international press will obviously be the endless stadiums dotted around the city. But as well as being full every other weekend, these great places often play host to slightly older kids. At Rod Laver, even the olds get a look-in as the Christian evangelical road show rolls into town once a year for a night of stadium worship . Another pleasure Melbourne enjoys is that it's very easy to get around. There's a bit of a squeeze during rush hour for sure, but nothing like Bangkok, where the journey home can take longer than growing a beard and parking is barely distinguishable from the drive itself. Driving here is a piece of cake. It must be because the wise people who hand out the taxis seem to actively encourage a career behind the wheel within 24 hours of landing in the country as an educational tool for getting to know the city. No slowing down for learning bends, just go, go, go! As for the social life, with over 40 million bars in Melbourne's CBD alone, we have plenty of places for spectators to celebrate national victory, making this town as good as any and it happens 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. _ . But the rest of the world will know that this is the place to be. The most liveable city in the world. By far the easiest place on earth to cheat death, which is essentially what we're talking about. Question: What does the author mainly want to show in the passage? Yes or no, is the answer \"The competitive advantages of Melbourne.\"?\nAns: No\n\nQues: Article: Down on the beach of Dover,56-year-old Channel swimmer Jackie Cobell bravely set off for Calais.The time was 6:40 am.28 hours and 44 minutes later the exhausted,successful mother from Kent crawled to the shore and walked proudly into the record books.After five years in training,Mrs.Cobell became the slowest person to cross the Channel under her own steam.The previous record for the slowest crossing,set by Henry Sullivan at 26 hours and 50 minutes,has stood for 87 years before Mrs.Cobell started at Dover Saturday morning. She had struggled through changing tides that swept her first one way,then the other.It turned the 21-mile crossing into a 65-mile one.She declared,\"Time and tide wait for no man--and they certainly didn't wait for me.I was fully expecting it to get dark before I got to Calais but I never imagined I'd also see the dawn again.But I wasn't going to give up.\" Her feat raised more than $2,000 in charity sponsorship for research into Huntingdon's disease,a sum that was continuing to grow as news of her achievement spread.That was why she did it.\"I don't really know myself,\" she said.\"I just kept thinking of all the people I'd be letting down if I stopped.\" Mrs.Cobell took to the water so well at school.But after bringing up two daughters,she started to gain weight.Five years ago she took up swimming again and decided to prepare for the Channel challenge to lose weight.She became much fitter.Then came the big swim.\"I practiced on Windermere Lake,\" she said.\"it's about half the distance of the Channel so I just doubled it,added some extra time,and worked out I could probably get to Calais in about 16 hours.\" Her husband David,trainer,official observer and friend sailed alongside her on a boat.She said,\"I sang to keep myself going.When they told me I was a record breaker I thought they were just having a joke--until I realized it was the record for the slowest crossing.But maybe next time I might be a bit quicker.\" Question: How did Mrs.Cobell feel about the record she set? Yes or no, is the answer \"Dissatisfied\"?\nAns: No\n\nQues: Article: NEW YORK (Reuters)-- The average number of monthly visitors to U. S. newspaper websites rose by nearly a third in the first half of 2006,a study released on Wednesday said,though print readership at some larger papers fell. The study, released by the Newspaper Association of America, underlines the internet' s importance to papers beset by failing circulation and advertising income in their print editions. The average number of unique visitors to online newspaper sites in the first half was more than 55.5 million a month ,the study said. That compares with 42.2 million a year earlier. \"Newspaper websites have become a significant addition to the print product, and are driving large audience growth, \" said John Kimball9the association' s chief marketing officer. The number of page views at newspaper sites rose by about 52 percent in the first half, the association added. US Newspaper publishers have been fighting to hold on to advertisers as many of them lose readers to other media, including the Internet, Key to the latest report is the finding that websites are bringing in more younger readers, the association said. The Washington Post, s website increased its audience reachamong readers aged25 to 34 by more than 60 percent, the report said. Audience reach^combines the average weekly print audience and the net 30 - day website audience. Overall, newspaper websites helped drive a 15 percent increase in the total newspaper audience for 25 - to - 34 - year olds and a 10 - percent increase for 18 - to 24 - year olds, the association said. It did not provide comparisons to the same period last year for total print newspaper readership. Readership numbers, which were provided by Scarborough Research, include circulation, shared copies and any other way that someone could end up reading a newspaper. Print readership fell, according to a comparison of figures from the two periods conducted by Renter,. ' The New York Times readership dropped 5. 8 percent, while the largest U. S. paper, USA Today, fell 3 percent.... Question: Which would be the best title for the passage? Yes or no, is the answer \"Online Newspaper Readership Grows\"?\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Early in the 18th century, Captain Cook, a famous explorer of Australia, unexpectedly caught sight of an unusual animal during his first visit to Australia. The animal had a large mouse like head and jumped along on its large legs. To his great surprise, the unusual animal carried its young in a special pocket of flesh. Captain Cook pointed to the animal which was eating grass in the distance and asked his native guide what the animal was referred to. The guide seemed not to know that he was pointing at and finally said \"Kang-a-roo\", but their requests were met with puzzled looks of the native people. Before long they got to discover that the native guide who made the answer to Cook's question really meant, \"I don't know what you pointing at. \" Funny enough, the name \" Kang-a-roo\", stuck and it is still in use today. Options: A Ah, it is a special kind of animal B I wonder what you have said C What do you mean by pointing at that animal? D I have no idea of what you are referring to. Answer: D I have no idea of what you are referring to. Question:\n\nA: When the native guide said \"Kang-a-roo \", he really meant \" _ \"\n\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves.One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community.Both had died \"full of years\", as the Bible would say.Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence calls on the two families on the same afternoon. At the first home, the son of the deceased woman said to me, \"If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today.It's my fault that she died.\" At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, \"If only I hadn't insisted on my mother's going to Florida, she would be alive today.That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take.It's my fault that she's dead.\" You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty.Because the course of action they took turned out badly, they believe that the opposite course -- keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation -- would have turned out better.After all, how could it have turned out any worse? There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. _ .That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds. The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen.It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault.The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood. A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it.He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks.He cries, and someone comes to attend to him.When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him.Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen. Options: A they couldn't find a better way to express their sorrow B they believe that they were responsible C they had neglected the natural course of events D they didn't know things often turn out in the opposite direction Answer: B they believe that they were responsible Question:\n\nA: People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because _ .\n\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: A recent trend in Californian restaurants shows new eating habits among those people out to have an interesting dining experience. Appetizers seem to be the name of the games as diners turn away from the more traditional three-course meal in favor of smaller snacks served in various types of restaurants, bars and cafes. In this way, in the course of an evening out, you might go to a restaurant for a tasty dish to eat at one end of town, to a bar with some live music at the other end, then for a coffee, and finally back to the restaurant for a further appetizer. Reasons for this trend are the fact that so many different types of restaurants have been set up recently, each with their own particular type of food and special atmosphere, together with the increased specialty in the type of snacks being offered. Gone are the cheese sticks of the old days, when appetizers were not really taken seriously. Some favorite snacks of the moment are slices of hot pizza, creamy fish-based dishes and crispy cakes and so on. Prices for appetizers are not equal to a full meal; however, their new popularity has meant that they are by no means as cheap as they used to be. Certainly, for that special occasion, a meal in a nice restaurant, complete with the piano performance, is hard to beat. However, if we see this trend for \"butterfly eating\"---moving around several different places in one evening continues, then all the traditional style restaurants may well have to provide their own appetizer bars as well! Options: A People are dining out less. B Californian restaurants are becoming less popular. C Most people eat less than they used to. D A full restaurant meal is less popular. Answer: D A full restaurant meal is less popular. Question:\n\nA: How are the eating habits of the Californians changing?\n\n\nProblem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Tech-Camp No.6 Devon Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong a technology day camp for students 12-17 About Tech-Camp Tech-Camp is a day camp with a focus on computers and electronics technology. We offer 2-week summer programmes for students of 12 to 17 years of age. We have a computer lab with the latest and fastest equipment, an electronics lab, and a video production studio. Our staff are special, too. They are experts in computers and electronics, of course, but they are also people who care about children and enjoy working with them. The benefits of Tech-Camp In all of our programmes, we show students how to work in teams and how to solve problems by themselves. We encourage them to think creatively. What students will do at Tech-Camp Each day Tech-camp is filled with useful, interesting and challenging activities. For example, in the Computer Programme, students learn the basic computer programming, and how to use the Internet. In the Tech-Camp Programme, they make radio-controlled model cars and produce their own short videos. Programme Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Computer Programme 15 June-26 June 15 June-26 June 15 June-26 June High-tech Programme 29 June-10 July 27 July-7 August 15 June-26 June Fee: HK $2,000 per student (10% discount available for groups of 10 or more students.) For more information about Tech-Camp, please contact Director of Summer Programmes, Ms Julia Brown, by phone, fax or e-mail. Telephone: 26548898 Fax: 26948850 E-mail: juliab@techcamp.com.hk Options: A The activities the students will have. B The fee each attendant should pay. C The e-mail address of Tech-Camp. D The deadline for application. Answer: D The deadline for application. Question:\n\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "What would you probably like to ask about if you phone Ms Julia Brown after reading the brochure?", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "input: Please answer the following: Information: - Vietnamese people in the Czech Republic , including residents and citizens , form the largest immigrant community in the country ( and 3rd largest ethnic minority at all , after Slovaks and Romanies ) , numbering more than 83,000 people according to 2011 census . According to the 2001 census , there were 17,462 ethnic Vietnamese in the Czech Republic . The Vietnamese population has grown very rapidly since then , with the Czech Statistics Office estimating that there were 61,012 Vietnamese residing in the Czech Republic in October 2009 . Nguyen , the most common Vietnamese surname , is now the 9th most common surname in the entire country . - Slovak (, or \"slovenina\" ; not to be confused with \"slovenski jezik\" or \"slovenšina\", the native names of the Slovene language) is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages (together with Czech, Polish, Silesian, Kashubian, and Sorbian). - Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. Slovakia's territory spans about and is mostly mountainous. The population is over 5 million and comprises mostly ethnic Slovaks. The capital and largest city is Bratislava. The official language is Slovak, a member of the Slavic language family. - The Slovaks or Slovak people (singular \"Slovák\", feminine \"Slovenka\", plural \"Slovenky\") are a nation and West Slavic ethnic group native to Slovakia who speak the Slovak language. Given the paragraphs above, decide what entity has the relation 'instance of' with 'ethnic group'.\n++++++++++\noutput: vietnamese people in the czech republic\n\n\ninput: Please answer the following: Information: - The McGovern Institute for Brain Research is a research institute within Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its mission is to understand how the brain works and to discover new ways to prevent or treat brain disorders. The institute was founded in 2000 by Patrick McGovern and Lore Harp McGovern with a gift to MIT that is expected to total $350M over 20 years. - Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain. A radar system consists of a transmitter producing electromagnetic waves in the radio or microwaves domain, a transmitting antenna, a receiving antenna (often the same antenna is used for transmitting and receiving) and a receiver and processor to determine properties of the object(s). Radio waves (pulsed or continuous) from the transmitter reflect off the object and return to the receiver, giving information about the object's location and speed. Radar was developed secretly for military use by several nations in the period before and during World War II. The term \"RADAR\" was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging or RAdio Direction And Ranging. The term \"radar\" has since entered English and other languages as a common noun, losing all capitalization. - A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialized knowledge in the field of neuroscience, the branch of biology, that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons and neural circuits and especially their association with behavior and learning. - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. Researchers worked on computers, radar, and inertial guidance during World War II and the Cold War. Post-war defense research contributed to the rapid expansion of the faculty and campus under James Killian. The current campus opened in 1916 and extends over along the northern bank of the Charles River basin. - The Charles River (sometimes called the River Charles or simply the Charles) is an long river in eastern Massachusetts. From its source in Hopkinton the river flows in a northeasterly direction (after first coursing due south through Milford), traveling through 23 cities and towns before reaching the Atlantic Ocean at Boston. - Martha Constantine - Paton is a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She is a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and a professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences . Prior to joining MIT in 1999 she held faculty appointments at Yale and Princeton . She is an expert on synaptic plasticity and brain development , particularly visual development . She is known for her studies on three - eyed frogs , a demonstration of neural plasticity in which a third eye grafted into a developing tadpole produces a pattern of overlapping connections that resemble mammalian ocular dominance columns . Using this system , she and her colleagues demonstrated the importance of NMDA receptors in development plasticity . She currently studies the molecular mechanisms that underlie the brain 's response to visual experience . Her work is also relevant to understanding the mechanisms of schizophrenia and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ( Lou Gehrig 's disease ) . - Molecular biology concerns the molecular basis of biological activity between biomolecules in the various systems of a cell, including the interactions between DNA, RNA, and proteins and their biosynthesis, as well as the regulation of these interactions. Writing in \"Nature\" in 1961, William Astbury described molecular biology as: - World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nationsincluding all of the great powerseventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of \"total war\", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres (in which approximately one million were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history. - The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others). Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but a common timeframe is the period (the second half of the 20th century) between 1947, the year the Truman Doctrine (a U.S. policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism) was announced, and 1991, the year the Soviet Union collapsed. Given the paragraphs above, decide what entity has the relation 'date of birth' with '1947'.\n++++++++++\noutput:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "martha constantine-paton", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Worst Studio in Vegas for sure. I have been doing yoga in this town for several years now & this is the one that continues to find a way to irk me almost everytime. It's not the instructors, they are amazing. However, the management in these studios seems more intent on greedily making money than actually providing a quality yoga experience for their communities. I wrote this studio off awhile ago, but then last year decided to give them a second chance & join a friend for a \"community\" class which was supposed to be $10. When I went to pay with a credit card, they informed me I would have to pay $17 if I was not going to pay with cash. So you want to penalize me for not paying in cash? Um, a bit ridiculous don't you think? After driving all the way to the other side of town, I paid it & enjoyed my class. But I thought I'd never return. Then this year, Groupon had an 8 class pckg available for a significant reduction in price. One of my favorite instructors teaches there right now & so I decided to give the \"Sanctuary\" a third try. I was not informed that I only had 30 days from redeeming the groupon with the first class to use all 8 classes, I was under the impression I had until the Groupon expiration date. So when I showed up for my third class I was told my Groupon had already expired. They were completely unwilling to work with me. So I left, drove down the street to Bodyheat Yoga & Pilates (an amazing studio btw) & paid even more than $17 for one of their classes. For a studio like Yoga Sanctuary to charge what they do when they do not provide adequate space for changing, showering, etc... is ridiculous. Also, if you work at night, you don't have much choice of day classes, they have a limited number available, & nothing in the afternoons on any day except Saturday. Most importantly, the spirit of yoga is one of giving, one of a generous spirit. I do not begrudge a studio trying to make a profit & run a business. But if that's all you're concerned about, you will not profit for long. And I, for one, will never go back after all this. Strike 3, you out!\n\nA: negative\n\nQ: Great, organic food that you can't get anywhere else. I wasn't sure what to expect the first time I went in a Trader Joe's based on a couple of close friends acting like young teenagers. I didn't even know it was a grocery store. Once I looked around at a high level and then started paying attention to the individual items, my wife and I tried a few things that looked unique to this store they we've never seen in other stores. We then figured out what the hype was all about. This place is great!!! The peanut buttercups, mild fresh salsa, and the French berry lemonade soda is all off the chain!\n\nA: positive\n\nQ: best chai in the city and some good coffee\n\nA: positive\n\nQ: My mother and I went on this tour, looking forward to learning more about how residents lived during the time of the plague. We were pretty disappointed. They take you in to about five underground rooms that had been abandoned and built on top of as the city expanded. The tour guide was so hokey and I think he was the one enjoying the tour the most, getting to practice is over-acting. He kept stopping for overly long \"dramatic pauses.\" There were seriously times that I wanted to be like, come on, get on with it. The underground rooms, which have been refurbished since the days where people actually lived here, have been decorated with cheesy, plastic people figures to show historical scences. It was pretty pathetic. Don't waste your money. If you're looking to learn about the haunted history and actually LEARN something about the city, go on the City of the Dead tour that meets outside of St. Giles Cathedral- it's ten times better than this nonsense.\n\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "negative", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: If you are sitting at a table with people you don't know, it is impolite to smoke without first asking if it will disturb them. At American restaurants and coffee shops, cold water is usually served before you order. You may find the bread and the butter are free, and if you order coffee, you may get a free refill. Most cities and towns have no rules about opening and closing time for stores and restaurants, though they usually do make rules for bars. Especially in big cities, stores may be open 24 hours a day. Serving in restaurants are often large. If you can't finish the meal but would like to enjoy the food later, ask the waiter or the waitress for a \"doggie bag\" . It may have a picture of a dog on it, but everybody knows you are taking the food for yourself. Tips are not usually added to check. You should leave a tip of about 15% on the table when you leave. In some restaurants, a waiter or waitress often brings your check on a plate, and you can put your money there. Then the waiter or the waitress brings you your changes. Question: Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? Yes or no, is the answer \"It's bad manners to smoke if the people who sit at the same table mind it.\"?\nNo\n\n(Question)\nArticle: I am a boy from the USA. Now I go to school in China. I have Chinese food now, I like it. I usually have porridge and milk for breakfast at home with my parents. Sometimes I have some small cakes, too. But I don't have lunch at home. I have it at school with my classmates . I usually have meat or fish, rice and vegetables for lunch. After lunch I have some fruit. I get home at half past four in the afternoon. So I have supper with my parents again. Sometimes we go out for supper. My mother often cooks supper. Sometimes my sister does it. We usually have rice, fish, meat, vegetables and fruit juice for supper. We sometimes have noodles and dumplings. After supper, I often have some fruit. I like apples very much. ,. Question: Where is the boy from? Yes or no, is the answer \"America.\"?\n(Answer)\nYes\n\nQues: Article: Long long ago, a young man found a spring of delicious clean water while he was going through the desert. He brought some back to the oldest man in his village, who had been his teacher before. After a four-day journey he sent the water to the old man who took a deep drink, smiled warmly and thanked his student for the sweet water. The young man returned to his village happily. The next day, the teacher let another student taste the water. He spat it out, saying it was awful. It went bad because it had stayed in the old leather container for so many days in such hot weather. The student asked his teacher why he pretended to like the awful water. The teacher _ , \"You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for love and kindness. And nothing could be sweeter than these.\" I think we understand this lesson best when we receive small gifts of love from very young kids. Whether it's a slice of bread or a piece of colored paper, the natural and right response is to show our thanks and happiness because we get love from the gift. To show our thanks doesn't always come naturally. Unfortunately, most children and many adults only see the thing itself. They never feel the meaning of the thing. We should tell ourselves and teach our children about showing thanks and happiness to the persons who give the gifts from their hearts because gifts from the heart are really gifts of the heart. Question: What does the writer want to tell us? Yes or no, is the answer \"We should show thanks and happiness when we get the gifts from the heart.\"?\nAns: Yes\n\n(Q).\nArticle: Would you like to go to Beijing, our capital? It's far away from Guangdong. It's 2313 kilometers from Beijing to Guangdong. The city of Kunming is 2216 kilometers away from Guangdong. It's always very warm there. But it's very hot in summer in Wuhan. It's 1084 kilometers from Guangdong to Wuhan. Changsha is near Guangdong. It's 726 kilometers from Changsha to Guangdong. Do you know which city is the biggest in China? It's Shanghai. It's 1811 kilometers from Guangdong to Shanghai. If you travel by air, you'll find it very interesting and fast enough to fly from Guangdong to Beijing. It only takes you about four hours and you'll get there easily, safely and unhurriedly .But traveling by train is quite different. You have to stay on the train for over thirty hours to arrive in Beijing. More and more people like to travel by air. You can see why, can't you? Question: From the passage, we know _ has the longest way to Guangdong except Beijing. Yes or no, is the answer \"Kunming\"?\n(A).\nNo\n\nQues:Article: The sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west. When the sun rises, It is morning. When the sun sets, it is evening. When the sun is shining, it is day. Morning is the time between sunrise and twelve o'clock, or between sunrise and lunch. At twelve o'clock, the sun is the highest in the sky over our heads. The sun is overhead at noon. The sun shines during(......)the day. The moon and the stars shine during the night. When the sun rises, it is light. It's light during the day. During the night, if the moon is not shining, it is dark. What are the days and nights like in summer? In summer the days are longer and the nights are shorter. What about in winter? In winter, the days are shorter and the nights are longer. Question: Morning is the time between sunrise and _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"lunch\"?\n\nAns:No\n\nQues:Article: In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible for social progress. Others say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people. I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth depended on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs . The development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten. However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the common players, they are strongly against competition. Most of them are young people who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these youngsters, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to find failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: \" I may have lost, but it doesn't matter because I really didn't try.\" What is not usually accepted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one's self-worth depends on how well one performs in the competition. Both are afraid of not being valued. We can discover a new meaning in competition only as this kind of fear begins to disappear. Question: What is the similar belief of the true competitors and those with a desire to fail? Yes or no, is the answer \"One's worth lies in his performance in the competition.\"?\n\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Experts recently suggested that teens should start adopting early bedtimes. Before you dismiss it as a habit suited only for young kids, consider that there are serious advantages in being well-rested. And now, even more research suggests that putting phones away before going to sleep is important to teens' well-being. A new study from Seton Hall University School of Health and Medicine Science found that 62 percent of kids used their smart phones before bed, and it's causing less sleep and poor performance in school. Those teens who text before bedtime tend to go to sleep later, and get up later in the morning. Such behavior can be associated with mental health issues like depression or anxiety. Besides, once teens do receive a text, experts found, they tend to respond right away. Then the text conversation continues -- resulting in an even later bedtime. The study's co-author Dr. Peter Polos says this leads to excessive stimulation at night. Light from electronic devices can block the secretion of melatonin -- a hormone that promotes sleep, which makes sleep difficult in the face of overuse of smart phones at night. It's true! More screen time means less sleep time; other studies have suggested the same idea. As for a final piece of advice, Dr. Sushanth Bhat says, since getting the proper amount of sleep is very important for brain development and learning in the teenage years, our study should encourage parents and guardians to limit adolescent smart phone usage at night. Keep in mind that teens aren't the only ones addicted to their phones! Adults can also benefit from setting a tech curfew for themselves. After all, kids learn by example! Question: Melatonin can _ . - make sleep difficult - lead to later bedtimes - help people fall asleep - wake people from a sleep\nhelp people fall asleep\n\n\n(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: Hello! The University of Hawaii is located just outside of downtown Honolulu in green Manoa valley.We invite you to visit and want to let you know about our learning programs, the richness of our culture, the beauty of our environment, the spirit of our students and teachers, advanced equipment and modern buildings.We look forward to seeing you come.The following information is given so that your visit will be as easy as possible. You should get in touch with us ahead of time.You may directly contact the office of the College to schedule appointment service at 1--877-447-3233. To arrange a campus tour, please hand in a request through our Online Campus Visit Request Form. Tours are on weekdays: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 9:00a.m.--9:30a.m.: Meet with a University Representative 9:30a.m.--11:30a.m.: General Campus Tour with a UHM (The University of Hawaii Manoa ) student Tuesday & Thursday 1:00p.m.--l:30p.m.: Meet with a University Representative l:30p.m.--3:30p.m.: General Campus Tour with a UHM student You also can get in touch with us by: Phone Number: 1 (877) 447-3233, or 1 (808) 956-6524 E-mail: visituhm@hawaii.edu How do you get to UHM? It is in Honolulu less than 3 miles away from Waikiki and about 9 miles from Honolul International Airport. By car: From Waikiki and from Honolulu International Airport Taxi: Taxi fare to UHM is about $25.00, except baggage charges and a tip of 10 to 15percent. Public bus: Luggage is allowed on city buses. Bus stops are on the second floor of the airport.A one-way fare is $2.00(in exact change). Question: If you are only free in the afternoon, you can visit the campus _ . - at l:00p.m.on Mondays - at l:30p.m.on Tuesdays - at 2:00p.m.on Wednesdays - at 4:00p.m.on Thursdays\n(Answer)\nat l:30p.m.on Tuesdays\n\n\nQues: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: You may have heard the term \"the American Dream\".In 1848, James W.Marshall found gold in California and people began having golden dreams.That 19th century \"American Dream\" motivated the Gold Rush and gave California its nickname of the \"Golden State\". The American Dream drove not only 1800s gold-rush prospectors but also waves of immigrants throughout that century and the next.People from Europe, and a large number of Chinese, arrived in the US in the 19th century hoping that in America they would find gold in the streets.But most.instead, worked as railroad laborers.They created the oldest Chinatown, in San Francisco, and gave the city a Chinese name \"the old gold hill\". In the 20th century, some critics said that it was no longer possible to become prosperous through determination and hard work. Unfair education for students from poor families and racial discrimination almost made the American Dream a nightmare . Then, in the 1990s, California saw a new wave of dreamers in Silicon Valley.People poured their energy into the Internet. This new chapter of the American Dream attracted many business people and young talents from China and India to form start-ups and seek fortune in America. Better pay, a nice house, and a rising standard of living will always be attractive.However, the new American Dream .is no longer just about money.It encourages Americans to consume wisely to protect the environment, improve the quality of life, and promote social justice(,). The Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger has become the model of the new American Dream.After years of hard work, he grew from a poor young man from Austria into a super movie star and then a governor. Many people and give California a brighter future. Question: It can be inferred that _ . - America' s golden dream could never be realized - America's golden dream had bought great fortune to Chinese immigrants - different times have different themes of the American dream - determination and hard work are the best way to realize the American dream\nAns: different times have different themes of the American dream\n\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: \"Ladies and gentlemen,we got him!\" With those words,Paul Bremer,the US's top administrator in Iraq,told the world that Saddam Hussein had been caught. Saddam was found last Saturday night hiding in a hole on the land of his former cook.He had a gun with him when he was found by US soldiers,but did not use it.He also had US $750 000.\"He was quite cooperative .Not one shot was fired,\"said Richardo Sanchez,the US's top army official in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was the leader of Iraq from 1979 to April 2003.In 1990,he went to war with Kuwait ,one of Iraq's neighbours.Iraq's army killed many Kurds living there.The US and other countries went to war with Iraq in 1991 to get the Iraq army out of Kuwait.The war was won quickly by the American-led army.But Saddam was left to lead Iraq. In 2003,America said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and decided to go to war with Saddam again. The US-led army occupied Iraq in April.But they could not find Saddam.Saddam had around 30 hiding places in the country and he moved among them every four hours.The US-led army only found him after being told where he was by one of his former workers. America and Britain now want to put Saddam on trial for \"war crimes \",such as killing Kurds in the 1990s. George W.Bush,the US President,wants Saddam to \"pay the ultimate penalty \" for such crimes.By that,he means the death penalty.The UN and European countries,though,do not want Saddam to be put to death. Question: Richardo Sanchez is _ . - the US top administrator - the leader of Iraq - the US's top army official in Iraq - the US president\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "the US's top army official in Iraq", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: OPTIONS:\n- The writer kept telling lies.\n- Her sister told the truth.\n- The writer's father punished the children.\n- None of the children told the truth.\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: I stood there listening to my father shout at top of his voice. The look on his face said that one of us had done something wrong. \"Which one of you did this?\" We all looked down at the step. There was child's handwriting in chalk there. I was very frightened. I hope no one could see it. Would he guess it was me? I was so scared. When he asked me, I lied, \"Not me, dad.\" The other denied it as well. Of course, we all knew that one of us must have done it. But as the youngest and smallest of the three, I just couldn't find courage to tell the truth. To find out who had written on the step, Father gave us each a piece of paper and a pencil. \"I want each of you to write exactly what you see on the step.\" I tried my best to write the words differently. I didn't want dad to be able to tell it was me. He gathered up our paper and looked at them. \"Since none of you will say yes, then I will punish you all.\" I stood there and said nothing. The last thing I wanted was for Dad to punish me! \"I did it.\" My sister walked forward and said she had done something she hadn't. she was punished for a month. We didn't talk about that day for many years. Not until we were all older and I knew it was safe to finally tell my dad it was really me. I always felt sorry because of it. That was the last time I let anyone _ for me. I told myself, \"One must see to what he or she has done.\" Question: Which of the following statements is true? Answer:\nAnswer: None of the children told the truth.\nProblem: OPTIONS:\n- her parents\n- her teacher\n- Mrs. Gu\n- Dr. Peter Calafiura\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: We have to accept the truth: Sometimes, we just want to shout out loud. For example, we all have days like this: our dog has made a mess on the floor we just cleaned, or our friend called to tell us he or she couldn't come at the last minute when we had cooked dinner for him or her. We may be really angry but we tried to bear things like those. According to ancient Chinese wisdom, we should shout in a loud voice instead of keeping silent. In fact, it's good for our health. \"Chinese people have passed on the practice from ancient times to now as a part of traditional medicine,\" said Mrs. Li, a 60-year-old woman from Hangzhou. \"My parents taught me to do this. It's a part of our folk culture. \" Mrs. Li is a member of a group of people who love shouting. Each morning, she and some of her friends climb to the top of a hill and let out loud shouts before starting their daily exercise. They believe that shouting is good exercise for their lungs and it brings them a lot of fun. \"Sometimes I shout out and other shout back,\" said Mrs. Gu, another shouting lover. \"It makes you happy. You laugh and then you feel very comfortable. \" Dr. Peter Calafiura, an American doctor, agrees that shouting can have a positive influence on people's health. So, next time you start your morning run, why not try to shout out first? It will make you healthier. Question: Mrs. Li learnt to shout to make herself feel better from _ . Answer:\nAnswer: her parents\nProblem: OPTIONS:\n- there are too many people who want to make friends\n- they don't know friendship is something serious\n- those who give others friendships receive friendships from others\n- they don't return friendship to each other.\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Too many people want others to be their friends, but they don't give friendship back. That is why some friendships don't last very long. To have a friend, you must learn to treat your friend the way you want your friend to treat you. Learning to be a good friend means learning three rules: be honest; be generous;be understanding. Honesty means being honest. It is where a good friendship starts. Friends must be able to trust one another. If you don't tell the truth, people usually find out. If a friend finds out that you haven't been honest, you may lose your friend's trust. Good friends always count on one another to speak and act honestly. Generosity means sharing and sharing makes a friendship grow. You don't have to give your friend your lunch money or your clothes, or enjoy your hobbies and interests together. Naturally you will want to share your ideas and feelings. These can be very valuable to a friend. They tell your friend what is important to you. By sharing them, you help your friend know you better. Sooner or later everyone needs understanding and help with a problem. Something may go wrong at school. Talking about the problem can make it easier to solve . Turning to a friend can be a first step in solving the problem. So to be a friend, you must listen and understand. You must try to put yourself in your friend's place, so you can understand the problem better. No two friendships are ever exactly alike . But all true friendships have three things in common . If you plan to keep your friendships, you must practice honesty,Generosity and understanding. Question: Some friendships don't last very long because _ . Answer:\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "they don't return friendship to each other.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Input: Backers of Legal Aid services for the poor are pushing a measure that would increase court filing fees in Kentucky to raise money for the program, which faces steep funding cuts. The proposed bill, sponsored by Rep. Charles Geveden, D-Wickliffe, would double the portion of the fee that goes to Legal Aid -- in district court to $10 from $5 and in circuit court to $20 from $10. Kentucky's current fee for filing a case in district court is $50.50, and in circuit court $108. The increase still would leave Kentucky's filing fee costs below those of surrounding states and would raise about $1.3 million a year -- almost enough to replace what Legal Aid is losing from federal and other sources, said Jamie Hamon, executive director of the Access to Justice Foundation, a state poverty law resource center in Lexington. Geveden said his measure appears to be the only potential source of money for the program, which is being forced to lay off workers and close offices around the state. Geveden said he's concerned because federal funding hasn't increased in recent years, and states with increased poverty are taking a greater share of the money. ''If you don't come up with the money somewhere, legal services to people in need will diminish or go away,'' he said. Hamon said the proposed bill has attracted a number of co-sponsors, and Legal Aid backers are hoping to get it passed in the upcoming legislative session. Hamon said she knows fee increases aren't popular with lawmakers but hopes they realize the crisis Legal Aid is facing. ''A lot of poor people are not going to get served,'' she said. The measure has the endorsement of the Kentucky Bar Association. The association's board of governors voted unanimously last month to back the bill, said KBA President Stephen Catron, a Bowling Green lawyer. Legal Aid ''has been a godsend to a great number of people in this state,'' Catron said. ''We simply must find a way to provide those services to the public.'' Larry York, executive director of Appalachian Regional Defense Fund, which provides Legal Aid services in 37 Eastern Kentucky counties and is a KBA board member, said he hopes the measure is approved. ''It would really offset the current cuts,'' he said. \n\nDoes the response \"Gevden\" correctly answer the question \"Who said legal services will go away if funding is not increase?\"?\n\nOPTIONS:\n- no\n- yes\n***\nOutput: yes\n\n\n We were cornered in a sort of way already. But these butchers up the cavern had been surprised, they were probably scared, and they had no special weapons, only those little hatchets of theirs. And that way lay escape. Their sturdy little forms--ever so much shorter and thicker than the mooncalf herds--were scattered up the slope in a way that was eloquent of indecision. I had the moral advantage of a mad bull in a street. But for all that, there seemed a tremendous crowd of them. Very probably there was. Those Selenites down the cleft had certainly some infernally long spears. It might be they had other surprises for us.... But, confound it! if we charged up the cave we should let them up behind us, and if we didn't those little brutes up the cave would probably get reinforced. Heaven alone knew what tremendous engines of warfare--guns, bombs, terrestrial torpedoes--this unknown world below our feet, this vaster world of which we had only pricked the outer cuticle, might not presently send up to our destruction. It became clear the only thing to do was to charge! It became clearer as the legs of a number of fresh Selenites appeared running down the cavern towards us. \n\nQuestion: \"Where are the Selenites in relation to the narrator?\"\n\nOPTIONS:\n- no\n- yes\n\nAnswer: \"President\"\n\nResponse: no\n\n\nThe inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c. , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake. During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline. The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next 200 centuries. The glaciers feeding the lake melted away and the lake evaporated. Fossils tell an obscure story of man's slow and sporadic development. Around 3000 b.c. , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture. By this time, the valley was in much the same geographic state as it exists in today, with one exception — the presence of artesian springs that bubbled to the surface in several areas. These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River. The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife. Many springs lay in areas that would eventually become the center of the modern Las Vegas metropolis. For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization. Signs of even more advancement appeared halfway through the first millennium a.d. , when the Anasazi Indians inhabited the valley. Far more progressive than the Archaics, the Anasazi utilized such formal agricultural techniques as irrigation to assist their harvest. This permitted the Anasazi to achieve a benchmark of advanced society — the ability to live in permanent shelters year-round without need to follow wildlife. Mysteriously, the Anasazi vanished from the valley around a.d. \n\nQuestion: \"Where did the people live and what happened to the landscape over the years?\"\n\nResponse: \"In permanent shelters, utilized for formal agriculture\"\nOPTIONS:\n- no\n- yes\n\nA: no\n\n\n{ { Plot } } Tom plays pool in a deserted pool hall , pocketing two balls by lowdown means and then wakes Jerry up by shooting the 10-ball into the pocket where he is sleeping . Jerry awakes just in time to avoid the 10-ball and is carried out to the ball return , where the 10 and the 13 smash the mouse between each other . Jerry is mad and walks up through the pocket , first sees nothing , but after a few steps back to the pocket , he spots Tom perched behind it . Jerry tries to jump into another corner pocket , but Tom aims a cue ball with so much force that it roll's into the pocket , and spins back out of it and it rolls Jerry backwards to Tom , who has made a ramp with his cue stick for the mouse to slide up . Jerry stops at the top of the stick and is then blown down by Tom , who then shoots a stream of balls to make the mouse flat . The whole train rebounds back towards the cat and the balls stack up at Tom's end of the table . Tom shoots all the balls in succession with his cue , and then tries to shoot Jerry , but the mouse hangs onto the cue tip . The cat , as if he were saying `` Have it your way '' , chalks up and shoots the 8-ball using Jerry . The mouse drops off the cue tip and then is upended by the 8-ball rolling in circles , and Tom forces Jerry to jump through the ball rack as if he were a circus performer . Tom then sets it on fire to add an additional level of torment , and when Jerry accomplishes this with poise , Tom discards the flaming rack and shoots the 8-ball across the table and back . \n\nQuestion: \"What does Tom do when Jerry spots him and tries to Jump?\"\n\nResponse: \"Tries to hit him with the stick\"\nOPTIONS:\n- no\n- yes\n\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "no", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "(Q).\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Sue is a middle school student.Here are her holiday's diaries. Tuesday July 15 Sunny I can't believe my trip is over.I arrived in Egypt two weeks ago!I was with a group from a university .We went to the desert and learned a lot.I was tired,but I loved every minute of my trip. Saturday August 5 Windy My Hawaiian vacation just ended,and I was very relaxed!I spent five days on traveling there.Every day I took a walk,played basketball and ate good food.I also went swimming and snorkeling .I felt fantastic! Sunday August 14 Sunny Alaska is terrific!I was on a trip in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.There were six people on the trip.We hiked for six days.Then we took rafts to the Arctic Ocean.I saw a lot of wildlife .After ten days,I went home. Question: Where did Sue learn a lot about desert? Options: A: In Egypt. B: In Hawaii. C: In Alaska. D: In the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.\n(A).\nA\n\n\n(Q).\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: You may have known several kinds of police --- traffic police, fire police and street police. But have you ever heard of energy-saving policeman? A group of 22 energy-saving policemen went to work last week in Beijing. They go around the city to see the use of energy in hotels, office buildings, shopping centers and other public places. One of their aims is to make sure that these places have set their air conditioning no cooler than 26degC. They also set up a special phone line so that people can tell them which buildings fail to follow the rule. \"If everyone sets their air conditioning at 26degC, Beijing will save 400 million kilowatthour of electricity in one summer. That's one-third of all the usages of the city in the season,\" said a TV advertisement. Other Chinese cities, like Wuhan in Hubei Province and Yangzhou in Jiansu Province, are going to follow Beijing's steps in setting up a similar police team. As one of the fastest developing countries, China is using a lot of energy. This has a great effect on the country's environment and limited energy. From 1986 to 2005, the country experienced 20 warm winters continuously . Numbers show that Chinese cities have to spend billions of yuan solving environmental problems every year. At the beginning of this month, China made its first action plan to fight pollution. It aims to reduce energy usage by 20% and increase renewable energy up to 10% from 7% by 2010. To introduce the public to a green life, last week Beijing held a show on energy-saving technology and productions. Environment-friendly machines, such as a vending machine that helps collect used bottles, have attracted lots of attention. \"We want to tell people that there are certain ways to protect the environment. Each of us can find effective ways to do it on our daily lives,\" said Liu Qianguang, an environmental engineer in Beijing. Question: According to Liu Qianguang, _ . Options: A: there are few ways to protect the environment B: it's difficult to find good ways to save energy C: it's easy for one to do something good for the environment D: it's difficult for one to do something good for the environment\n(A).\nC\n\n\n(Q).\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Hello, I'm Frank. I'm twenty-four years old. I live in Shanghai now. There are many tall buildings, big houses and busy streets in this city. My flat is on the eighth floor of a ten-floor building. There is a nice park. In the morning, there are many people doing exercise in it. My flat is small. It has no kitchen. There is only one bedroom. It looks nice and tidy. My favorite place is the balcony . I often sit on the balcony to have a rest . I work in a restaurant on a busy street. It is a good place to meet friends and taste nice food. I'm always busy cooking food and making coffee for the customers . When I'm free, I'll help the waiters clean the chairs and tables. Sometimes I feel a little tired, but I'm happy here. Question: What is Frank's flat like? Options: A: It's small and busy. B: It's big and tidy. C: It's small and tidy. D: It's big and busy.\n(A).\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: Lucy is a nice girl. She is twenty-six. She opens a clothes store. Its name is Lovely Clothes Store. The store is for girls, not for boys. The store has clothes in many colors. Do you want to have a look at the store? Clothes Colors Price T-shirts blue, green and white Y=25 Skirts red, green, yellow and black Y=45 \\ Y=65 Sweaters yellow, blue and red Y=35 \\ Y=55 Trousers orange, white and green Y=54 \\ Y=84 \\ Y=104 ,. Question: Serena can buy _ skirt(s) for 130 yuan at the store. Yes or no, is the answer \"four\"?\nNo\n------\nArticle: A: Good afternoon. Are you Zhang Li? B: Yes, I am. A: Is Li your family name? B: No, Li is my given name. My family name is Zhang. What's your name? A: My name is Alice. I'm from the USA. B: Nice to meet you, Alice. A: Nice to meet you, too! I'm a student in Sunny Middle School. B: Oh, great! We are in the _ school. I'm in Class Three, Grade Seven. What class are you in? A: I'm in Class Four, Grade Seven. B: My English teacher is Mr. Miller. He is from the USA, too. Is he your English teacher? A: No, he isn't. He's my father. B: Oh? That's good. My QQ number is 2521786. Do you use QQ? A: No, I don't . But you can call me at 789-0765. B: OK, my phone number is 675-4721. A:OK! See you! B: Bye! Question: Zhang Li's QQ number is _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"2521786\"?\nNo\n------\nArticle: The death list in a school bus accident that happened on Wednesday morning in the northwest province of Gansu has risen to 20 following the death of one child later Wednesday. It's known that the accident happened around 9:40 a.m. in Yulinzi town of Zhengning county, according to a report from the police. The report said five people including four children and their bus driver died just at the moment that the accident happened. While 15 others, their teacher included, were sure to be dead by the afternoon. It's reported that another 44 children were injured in the accident and have been sent to hospital. Twelve of the injured are in badly hurt. The truck which caused the accident was carrying coal. Another reason for the accident was the bus itself. The police has blamed _ for the accident, saying that the bus -- a van with nine seats -- was carrying 64 people. Question: Where did the accident happen on a Wednesday morning? Yes or no, is the answer \"In Zhengning,Gansu\"?\nNo\n------\nArticle: Even in early time, people could realize the important of dreams and knew that dreams gave meaning to life. Every great achievement has been the result of years of dreaming. If a person has a dream and holds fast to it, he or she will find a way to bring it into reality . Children do not have much experience or knowledge. However, they are natural dreamers. We should not laugh at them for being _ . Many great men were dreamers when they were children. One such dreamer was Thomas Edison. He used to be ostracized when he was in primary school, but his achievements were greater than everyone else's in his time. Teenagers and young people should also be encouraged to dream. The world is full of successful teenagers and young people. They dreamt big and their dreams changed their lives and even the world. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are the good examples. They have developed technology and brought great progress to human besides making money for themselves. Older people should believe that it is never too late to dream and that human mind is never too old to make dreams turn into reality. Colonel Saunders realized his dreams at the age of 67 and set up the biggest fried chicken company (KFC) in the world. To dream is a wonderful ability which can lead to wonderful results. Olympic records were broken by players who were brave enough to dream. No one is too young or too old to dream and to make dreams come true. Question: What does the example of Colonel Saunders show us? Yes or no, is the answer \"Even older people can make their dreams come true.\"?\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No\n------", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked Deluca about his plan for the future. \"I'm going to college, but I need a way to pay for it,\" Deluca recalls saying. \"Buck said, 'you should open a sandwich shop.'\" That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $1,000. Deluca rented a storefront in Connecticut, and when they couldn't cover their startup costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000. But business didn't go smoothly as they expected. Deluca says, \"After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn't know how badly, because we didn't have any financial controls.\" All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs. Deluca was managing the store and to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They'd meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. \"We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, 'We are so successful; we are opening a second store.'\" And they did--in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error. But the partners' learnasyougo approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, Deluca would drive around and handdeliver the checks to pay their supplies. \"It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn't necessary but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships established really helped out,\" Deluca says. And having a goal was also important. \"There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have to keep working toward your goal,\" Deluca adds. Deluca ended up founding Subways Sandwich, the multimilliondollar restaurant chain. Deluca opened the first sandwich shop in order to _ . A) support his family B) do some research C) help his partner expand business D) pay for his college education\nD\n\n\n(Question)\nLittle Lopsy fluttered into our home and our hearts one Saturday morning this summer. My husband went out to do something, and when he opened the door there was a great flutter on the ground and something came into the living room. It was clear that whatever it was was hurt. I was in a bit of a shock and didn't know what to do next. Fortunately it calmed down and tried to hide itself in a corner. I realized it was a sparrow chick . There are a few sparrow nests under the roof of our apartment, and this little fellow must have fallen out and hurt itself. It was also very young, and obviously far from ready to leave the safety of the nest. I ran to the place and found a box. Having read somewhere that one shouldn't touch a baby bird with one's hands, I picked the chick up with a hand towel and put it in the box. I placed the box outside the front door in the hope that the parents would try to feed it. They never came near it and I brought it inside. I placed the box on a table and it slept for about twenty hours. We later learned that it is quite normal for a hurt bird to sleep so much after undergoing such a hurt experience. When it finally woke up we carefully examined it for wounds, but fortunately there wasn't any. It had hurt its right wing and leg, which meant it must have landed on its right side when it fell out of the nest. We named it Lopsy. After doing some research we felt there was a chance that it might survive, but we weren't sure that it would ever be able to fly. A hurt bird doesn't stand much of a chance of survival and could fall easy pray to cats, other animals. Was it fair to allow it to live if it meant keeping it in a cage its whole life? It was a hard decision, but we decided to give it a go. We started off by dripping drops of water into its mouth. It was very thirsty and drank quite a bit. Next we fed it with bread soaked in water. Our household routine soon revolved around Lopsy who needed to be fed about every three hours during the day. Fortunately we live on campus and my... The author placed the box holding the bird outside the front door so that _ . A) her parents could take care of the bird for her B) the bird could get some food outside by itself C) the bird's parents could find it and bring it food D) the bird could recover faster from its sickness\n(Answer)\nC\n\n\nQuestion: Hello! The University of Hawaii is located just outside of downtown Honolulu in green Manoa valley. We invite you to visit and want to let you know about our learning programs, the richness of our culture, the beauty of our environment, the spirit of our students and teachers, advanced equipment and modern buildings. We look forward to seeing you come. The following information is given so that your visit will be as easy as possible. You should get in touch with us ahead of time. You may directly contact the office of the College to schedule appointment service at 1-877-447-3233. To arrange a campus tour please hand in a request through our Online Campus Visit Request Form. Tours are on weekdays: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 9:00a.m. -- 9:30a.m.: Meet with a University Representative 9:30a.m. -- 11:30a.m.: General Campus Tour with a UHM (The University of Hawaii at Manoa) student Tuesday & Thursday 1:00p.m. -- 1:30p.m.: Meet with a University Representative 1:30p.m. -- 3:30p.m.: General Campus Tour with a UHM student You also can get in touch with us by: Phone Number: 1 (877) 447-3233, or 1 (808) 956-6524 E-mail: visituhm@hawaii.edu How do you get to UHM? It is in Honolulu less than 3 miles away from Waikiki and about 9 miles from Honolulu International Airport. By car: From Waikiki and from Honolulu International Airport Taxi: Taxi fare to UHM is about $25.00, except baggage charges and a tip of 10 to 15 percent. Public bus: Luggage is allowed on city buses. Bus stops are on the second floor of the airport. A one-way fare is $2.00 (in exact change). The author writes the passage so that readers can _ . A) know about the beauty of the campus B) know about the learning programs C) know more about the university D) visit the campus as easily as possible\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: Write a positive (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive) yelp review.\nA: This is probably my favorite place to eat in Vegas. I usually eat on the grill side of the restaurant, and I've only been on the sushi side once, so this review is mostly about the plates they have. I usually get a 2-item combo which is a dollar more than highest priced item... Usually it's garlic chicken and and the chicken or pork with eggplant. The garlic chicken is just perfect. It's fried, and I want to drink the garlicky soy sauce that it's smothered in. The eggplant is also really good and they can make it spicy for you. I'm usually pretty sensitive to spicy food, but the spicyness isn't overwhelming and provides a tiny kick to your muth. Your plate is really full of the food you order with two scoops of rice and a mac salad. I've also tried the kalua pig and mochicko chicken. I'm not from Hawaii, so I don't know how the kalua pig compares, but it's alright... The mochicko chicken is really similar to the garlic chicken, but it's good in its own way. There isn't much to say about the service since the grill side is more of a help yourself out, but the guys behind the register are all really cool, and if they were servers, I'm sure they'd be really good. Also, the malasadas are great especially if they're fresh, and you can get them filled with custard, chocolate, or haupia cream. They also have a ton of desserts displayed when you first walked in, and somehow I've managed to avoid them (usually because I'm too full to think of dessert when I'm done), but from the way they look, I'm sure they're great. As for the sushi side, I've only gone once and didn't do the AYCE since back then they had a special for 50% off sushi on Mondays (I'm not sure if it's still there, but I doubt it). It's been a while, but I think I really enjoyed the Hawaiian roll. And the food and service on the sushi side is just as good as the grill side... I can't wait to come back here and am always willing to drive across town to come here.\n\nProblem: Write a positive (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive) yelp review.\nA: I'm strictly reviewing my experience here attending a wedding ceremony and reception. Which was really just all kinds of adorable and kind of makes me wish I could have my hypothetical wedding here. The wedding wasn't a massive one (perhaps 75-100 people, probably less, but I'm not so hot as estimating body count), which is perhaps why the festivities executed so seamlessly at Mint. The ceremony itself was brief on the second or third floor? The reception occurred at the uppermost floor, which seemed designed specifically for special events. Mint did an awesome job of arranging the tables, and buffet to naturally direct our focus onto the project screen and band. The only slight inconvenience was the isolated restroom located all the way down the long hallway. Maybe there's a sanitation or schematic reason for this, but it just seemed super odd. Anyway, perfect site for a wedding and somewhat in close proximity to a few after party bars/spots down the street.\n\nProblem: Write a positive (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive) yelp review.\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Ce petit caf\\u00e9 est une perle! L'ambiance y est tr\\u00e8s chaleureuse, le propri\\u00e9taire sympathique et surtout le caf\\u00e9 d\\u00e9licieux ! Le wifi marche tr\\u00e8s bien et l'endroit est suffisamment calme pour y faire ses devoirs ou travailler. C'est sur, Lili & Oli va devenir mon spot !", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: Write a negative (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive) yelp review.\nA: First time visiting the restaurant last night. Can also say it will probably be my last. My complaint with this place involved the service, the prices and the quality of the food. We had some family in town and had just finished with an event nearby. Someone suggested we try El Encanto for dinner. After arriving we waited about 20 minutes for our table for 10 which is understandable on a Saturday night. When we were brought to our table we were promptly brought waters and chips & salsa by the bussers. But we had to wait at least 10 minutes for the server to take our drink order and wait an additional 15 minutes before our drinks were delivered. We ordered our food, it came out in a reasonable amount of time, but my entree was cold. I ordered the pollo con mole enchiladas which though they tasted ok, they were cold. This entree was $14.99 My boyfriend had the \"special\" 5 jumbo shrimp swimming in some chipotle sauce served with veggies and rice. $17.99 Thank god we waited so long for our drinks we filled up on chips and dip. Then the server had a difficult time splitting our check. We were told the computer wouldn't allow him to split the check any further and everyone's tickets were messed up. He probably should have suspected or at least asked at the beginning if the check was to be split. On top of it all he added a 20% gratuity. All in all, I felt that this place was over priced, the service was slow, the food was served cold and the portions did not equal the pricetag. Also, not very accommodating to large party's. One positive thing I can report is that the house margarita was quite tasty - though it was mostly ice.\n\n\nQ: negative\n\nA: THIS PLACE SHOULD BE CALLED SCORPION CITY. The bugs are out of control! Crickets and scorpions are literally all over the grounds. Just last night we found 4 scorpions in our house.The floor plans are great, views are nice, however the amount of bugs and how poorly these aparments were constructed is ridiculous. The noise is awful...we hear every single step our neighbors take. Worst experience I have ever had renting in my life.\n\n\nProblem: What would be an example of an negative (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive) review?\n\nAnswer: We went here bc it was so highly rated on TripAdvisor. Should've listened to you, YELP. So many buffets to choose from, and at a comparable price ($40) to Como's (Wicked Spoon) and Encore's -- this one pales in comparison. - The line to get in seems to always be really long, except at random hours that aren't usually when people eat - We went after reading all about the crab, but this is where we were most disappointed (and entire Yelp Star off) for the crab (snow, king): they served it cut in half (length wise) which means you're getting little shards of meat, not those heavenly huge chunks you can get when you crack it yourself. They also serve it cold (read: it's completely frozen) and steamed (limp, soggy, gross) - Huge selection, so if your goal is to stuff your face you're all set and you'll be in heaven -- but if your goal is to taste really well-done versions of international foods-- then this is not your place - Sushi/sashimi are terrible\n\n\nInput: OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive.\nGenerate a positive review for a place\nOutput: I definitely enjoyed a couple of hours at SideBar. I have been tired of the same places I always go, and have been wanting to check this bar out. Right when i walked up the stairs, my eyes were entranced. One of the first things that caught my attention was the awesome white bar stools, and lucky for me there was room at the bar, so I sat, directly facing beautiful champagne flutes. Immediately I was smiling because its not every Saturday I go to a beautiful spot, and get to sip on champagne by the glass, instead of by the bottle. The bartender was super nice and the young lady behind the bar had a great style, and also very helpful. There was a movie playing, with the volume off, kinda like at the Roosevelt, except futuristic, not western. We got there around 8 or 8:30 and it was not especially busy but by 10ish it was crowded. The bar stools don't have backs, so if you don't have a strong back, you might get uncomfortable by the end of the night. And I cant imagine if you were overweight being comfortable in them either. Like Amy D. said, mints in the bathroom, ya gotta love that. Close to home? Yes, love it. And the super cool lighting. It made me happy! I have to add this, from my husbands point, no beer on tap, but they have a vast selection. They even have Four Peaks, Kiltlifter, and 8th Street. My husband said the prices were decent, but i told him \"it's not just the beer you're paying for, you're paying for the ambiance.\" I gotta say, I loved the scene, and we will definitely go back, and soon. One more thing! My husband really enjoyed the music, a reggae ska, sound, Sublime.\n\n\ninput: Write a positive yelp review (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive).\noutput: I grew up in this neighborhood but didn't really discover Uncky Sam's until I was ready to go away to college 35 years ago. I'm 85 years old and my taste buds have over the years been replaced with the desire for the youth I once took for granted. But if there's one culinary recollection that brings a little flutter to this old man's heart it's the phantom taste of a Cheese Hoagie, that phallic masterpiece of untold proportions from Uncle Sam's. It's huge. They don't let me drive anymore but once in a while I want to jump in a cab and order one for old time's sake with with an extra side of the hoagie dressing. And eat it over the course of six days. It's that good. And that big. The hoagies are cold. The grinders are hot. The ingredients are slightly different for each but good god is this place good. The fountain drinks taste like they are mixed with really gross water but I gladly put up with it because the sandwiches are soooooo good. I've never really ordered anything else and can't speak to the rest of their menu but if you want a really really really good sub try Uncle Sam's.\n\n\nInput: OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive.\nGenerate a positive review for a place\nOutput:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Quick service, excellent value for money.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "As we know, it is common for people to catch a cold in winter and most people believe they know the reason for colds. However, scientists say people have some wrong beliefs about the cause of colds. Many people think that once you get infected by colds, you will not be easy to be attacked by colds for the rest of your life. That's not the case. There are about 200 different viruses that cause the common cold. You catch a cold because of one kind of them this time, but you might catch a cold next time because of another. Others believe that people get sick just because of the cold weather in winter. That is also wrong. It's because people tend to stay closer in winter and the cold virus is _ from one person to another through handshakes, sneezing, or coughing. While there is no actual cure for the common cold, scientists say there are still a few things you can do to help you. Some experts say honey and chicken soup are effective against colds. Especially honey. There is increasing evidence that it helps shorten the duration of the common cold sometimes even by two to three days particularly in children. Chicken soup also helps reduce the duration of the cold. In addition, if you do have a cold and you don't feel like eating anything, it's not going to hurt you but you have to drink a lot and you can drink water or tea because doctors say the water cycle in your bodies helps to cure colds. That's very important. Though there is more than one way to deal with colds, doctors say the best advice is to continue using whatever works best for you. It can be inferred from the passage that _ . A) now scientists have found out practical treatment for colds B) different people may have different ways to fight against colds C) working in freezing weather is the main reason for colds D) colds can be passed from animals to human beings\nB\n\n\n(Question)\nWith winter fast approaching, flu season is here. People can easily catch the flu bug and they try to fight it with western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine or some homemade secret recipes. Yet some of these strategies are ineffective or even harmful, the best way to counter the flu is to protect us from contracting it. So here are some good habits to protect people from contracting flu from the very beginning. *During the day, keep the bedroom window open to let fresh air in. *Wash your face with cold water in the morning and wash your feet with hot water in the evening. This practice can help boost blood circulation and improve the body's resistance. *Do some exercises in the morning. such as jogging or shadowboxing for 10 minutes. *Rinse your mouth with salt water or tea every morning and every evening. This can help kill flu bacteria, clear phlegm and keep the mouth fresh. *Wear more clothes when it's cold and take some off when it's warm *Get a bottle of vinegar or Chinese white wine at hand and smell it now and then. Their pungent smell can help people get refreshed and improve their body's resistance. * Drink two kinds of beverages before going to bed, which can help people stay away from the flu: soup made of radish and vinegar, and tea made of fresh ginger . *Close the doors and windows and put a pot of boiling vinegar in the room Vinegar steam is a good way to kill flu bacteria in the air. According to the passage, we can know that the best way to fight the flu is to _ . A) take western medicine or traditional Chinese medicine B) avoid getting it at the very beginning C) use some homemade secret recipes D) drink two kinds of beverages before going to bed in winter\n(Answer)\nB\n\n\nQues: Expo 2010 Shanghai China Duration: May 1 to Oct 31, 2010 Welcome to the World Expo 2010 Shanghai China. In order to ensure a safe and orderly visit, the organizer of Expo 2010 has formulated these rules. Operation Time The operation time of the Expo Site shall be 9:00~24:00. The opening hours of the pavilions shall be 9:30 ~ 22:30. Visitors shall enter the Expo Site before 21:00 and leave before 24:00 on the day of admission. Those with evening admission tickets may enter the Expo Site between 17:00 and 21:00. Orderly Entry Visitors shall go through ticket check and security check before entering the Expo Site. Those who refuse to cooperate may be denied entry. Children eligible for free admission and other visitors with walking difficulties may only enter the Expo Site when accompanied by adults. Codes of Conduct Visitors are required to observe public order within the Expo Site, and shall queue up to enter the pavilions or event venues . In the Expo Site, visitors are prohibited from: (1) damaging any buildings, facilities or exhibits. (2) climbing over any buildings or fences (3) conducting any exhibitions or promotional or fundraising activities without permission. Special Management Measures In case of bad weather, too many visitors and technical problems, the organizer may restrict the entry of visitors into the Expo Site, pavilions or event venues. _ Visitors Service Centers are available in the Expo Site, providing visitors with such services as inquiries, rental, lost and found, first aid, mother-baby service, and assistance for lost persons. The centers also accept and process visitors' complaints. Free rental of wheelchairs are available for the disabled. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE? A) The 2010 Shanghai World Expo is expected to last about half a year. B) The disabled people will be forbidden to enter the Expo Site. C) Visitors without tickets can enter the Expo Site if they accept security check. D) Children and people with walking difficulties will be banned from entering the Expo Site.\nAns: A\n\n\nQues: One of the greatest sources of unhappiness, in my experience, is the difficulty we have in accepting things as they are. When we see something we don't like, we wish it could be different. We cry out for something better. That may be human nature,or perhaps it's something ingrained in our culture. The root of the unhappiness isn't necessarily that we want things to be different.However, it's that we decided we didn't like it in the first place. We've judged it as bad,rather than saying, \"It's not bad or good, and it just is it.\" In one of my books, I said, \"You should expect people to mess up and expect things to go differently than you planned\". Some readers said it's too sorrowful to expect things to go wrong.However, it's only negative if you see it as negative and judge it as bad. Instead,you could accept it as the way the world works and try to understand why that is. This can be applied to whatever you do:how other people act at work,how politics works and how depressing the news media can be.Accept these things as they are,and try to understand why they're that way. _ will save you a lot of sadness,because you'll no longer say, \"Oh, I wish bad things didn't happen!'' Does it mean you can never change things? Not at all. But change things not because you can't accept things as they are, but because you enjoy the process of changing, learning and growing. Can we make this world a better place? You can say that you'll continue to try to do things to help others, to grow as a person, to make a difference in this world. That's the correct path you choose to take,because you enjoy that path. Therefore, when you find yourself judging and wishing for difference, try a different approach: accept, and understand. It might lead to some interesting results. The author believes that we feel unhappy maybe because _ . A) it is our natural emotion in the life B) culture asks us to be different from others C) everyone has their own opinions on things D) we dislike something in the beginning\nAns:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "D", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Hello, boys and girls. I have a photo. Let's have a look at it. This is me. My name is Jack. I'm in No.1 Middle School. This is my mother. She is a Chinese teacher. And this is my father. He is tall and strong. He is an English teacher. My mother and my father are not in my school. Look at the girl. She is my sister, Mary. She is clever. Mary has a dog. It's Spotty. Spotty is my good friend too. All of us are very happy. Question: Mary is Jack's _ . Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- classmate\n- cousin\n- sister\n- teacher\n\nA: sister\n\ninput: OPTIONS:\n- not all the elephants follow their leader\n- the youngest elephant leads them\n- there is a leader\n- None of the above. Now, answer this question: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Elephants have very strong legs.Their legs are like trees.They usually walk slowly because they are so big,but they walk very quietly. Wild elephants living in the jungle usually stay together in big families.Usually one old elephant leads them.The others follow their leader.They usually move about at night,looking for food.In the hot daytime,they go to sleep in the cool shade of the trees.Elephants are kind animals.When one of them is hurt and cannot pull itself to its feet,the other elephants lift it up and help it to walk. Some people say that elephants never forget.They remember people who are kind or bad to them.There are many about this. Question: When elephants stay together, _ . Answer:\nA:\noutput: there is a leader\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: A young mother thought that it was very wrong to waste any food when there were so many hungry people in the world. One evening, she was giving her small daughter her tea before putting her to bed. First she gave her a piece of bread and butter, but the child said that she did not want it like that. She asked for some jam on her bread as well. Her mother looked at her for a few seconds and then said, \"When I was a small girl like you. I was always given either bread and butter, or bread and jam, but never bread with butter and jam.\" Lucy looked at her mother for a few moments with pity in her eyes and said to her kindly, \"Aren't you pleased to live a happy life this now?\" Question: When she was young, Lucy's mother could only eat _ . Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- both bread with butter and bread with jam\n- either bread and butter or bread and jam\n- bread and butter\n- bread and jam\n\nAnswer: either bread and butter or bread and jam\n\nProblem: OPTIONS:\n- two\n- three\n- four\n- five\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: There are three photos of my good friends on my desk. In the first photo you can see Jerry. He is a tall and cool boy with short and straight hair. He is the captain of our basketball team. He is very popular. All my classmates like him very much. In the second photo, you can see the boy with glasses. His name is Jack. He is short and a little bit heavy. But he is very smart and funny. He often tells us funny stories and makes us happy. In the third photo, you can see two girls. They are drinking water. The girl on the left is Lucy. She is a beautiful girl from London. She has long blond hair and big eyes. She can sing very well, and she can also speak a little Chinese. The girl on the right is Li Yun. She is a Chinese girl with beautiful black hair. She studies very hard. She says she wants to be a scientist when she grows up. Question: The writer has _ good friends. Answer:\nAnswer: four\n\nProblem:OPTIONS:\n- He was always lucky to win the championship.\n- He was the youngest player ever to be number one in the world's tennis rankings.\n- He took part in Wimbledon in 1987.\n- His wife is a dancer.\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: When thirty-two-year-old tennis player Andre Agassi made to the final of the U.S. Clay Court Championship in April 2003, he set a new world record: he became the oldest player ever to be number one in the world's tennis rankings. It was one of the greatest achievements in Agassi's long and successful career. Andre Agassi turned professional in 1986 at the age of sixteen. His career soon took off, and in 1990, Agassi was famous around the world, though never having won an important tennis championship. Many people thought he was famous more for his long blond hair and colorful tennis shirts than for his tennis skills. They wondered if he could really win an important tournament. In 1992, Agassi proved _ wrong by winning one of the greatest prizes in world tennis--the Wimbledon singles final. His first attempt to win this tournament had been in 1987, but he lost his opening game. He then refused to take part in Wimbledon for the next three years. He said his reason for not playing was that the officials refused to allow him to wear his colorful shirts, but some people said it was because he was afraid to lose. After several more championship victories, Agassi's luck began to run out. By 1997, the year of his marriage to a movie actress--- Brooke Shields, Agassi's ranking had dropped to 141stin the world. Many people thought his career was over. Agassi and Shields divorced two years later, and Agassi made a comeback with a new trainer, a new hairstyle, and new determination. In 1999, he won both the French Open and the U.S. Open and ended the year back as the world's number one. By 2003, he had earned more than $27 million in prize money, making him one of the most successful tennis players of all times. Question: Which statement is right about Agassi? Answer:\n****\nA: He took part in Wimbledon in 1987.\n\nProblem:OPTIONS:\n- 1986\n- 1988\n- 1992\n- 1997\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: A concert under the theme of the 28-year-old charity song Let the World Be Filled with Love is set to bring 100 celebrated singers to perform in Quanzhou in southeast China's Fujian Province next month. The concert is set to cover 10 cities including Beijing. Quanzhou is the first stop of the touring schedule. The song Let the World Be Filled with Love was written by famous Chinese singer and songwriter Guo Feng. It was performed by a chorus of 100 singers during a concert for world peace that year. The song also made Guo Feng famous. The concert is organized by China TV Artists Association. It aims to improve local charity programmes. The concert has so far received positive feedback from some of the biggest names from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, including Hollywood actor Jackie Chan. It is well known that Jackie Chan has made great contributions to the music scene for years with songs like A Hero Never Dies and Don't Go Home. He sang the theme song to the film Fairy Tale with Kim Hee Sun. Between shooting films and joining in public activities all over the world, it took Chan about a year to finish an album. By joining in charity activities, Jackie Chan has provided scholarships for needy students and helped injured performers and their families. So far, he has been involved in over 100 public welfare projects in 52 cities in over 30 countries. Question: The charity song Let the World Be Filled with Love was written in _ . Answer:\n****\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "1986", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: In the year 1986 there was a terrible explosion. The explosion was at a nuclear power plant in another country called Ukraine. The radiation caused a lot of damage. It polluted the soil and other things. People lived in the area when the explosion happened. Twenty years later those people are still suffering. Effects from the explosion will go on for a long time. Over two million people still live in the polluted areas. Only 56 people died from the explosion but many other problems have been caused because of it. Some types of cancer are more than 200 times above world average. Many children have cancer now and birth defects have doubled since the accident. Some people in the United States are worried about the children living there. One group has been trying to raise money. They are called the Chernobyl Children's Project. They want to bring children from the Ukraine to the U.S. each summer. A spokesperson for the group says that radiation is the highest in the summertime, so it is a good time to get the children out of the country. They want to help the children get away for a little while. The Project wants them to be safe from radiation. It costs $1,500 to bring each child to the United States for six weeks. The group raised enough money to bring 28 children to the United States. The children were able to do lots of fun things. They enjoyed clean air, healthy food, and plenty of outdoor fun. One little nine-year-old girl who got to come to the United States said that she likes America. A spokesperson for the Project said that the children that come to America during the summer miss less school when they return home. Question: What's the aim of the Chernobyl Children's Project? Options: A: To make the children get away from explosion. B: To cure the cancer of many children. C: To bring the children to America. D: To make the children safe from radiation.\nD\n------\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: For many years, I was convinced that my suffering was due to my size. I believed that when the weight disappeared, it would take old wounds, hurts and rejections with it. Many weight-conscious people also mistakenly believe that changing our bodies will fix _ . Perhaps our mistake is believing that being thin equals being loved, being special, and being cherished. We fantasize about what it will be like when we reach the long-awaited goal .We work very hard to realize this dream. Then, at last, we find ourselves there. But we often gain back what we have lost. Even so, we continue to believe that next time it will be different. Next time, we will keep it off. Next time, being thin will finally fulfill its promise of everlasting happiness, self-worth, and, of course, love. It took me a long time to realize that there was something more for me to learn about beauty. Beauty standards vary with culture. In Samoa a woman is not considered attractive unless she weighs more than 200 pounds. More importantly, if it's happiness that we want, why not put our energy there rather than on the size of our body? Why not look inside? Many of us strive hard to change our body, but in vain. We have to find a way to live comfortably inside our body and make friends with and cherish ourselves. When we change our attitudes towards ourselves, the whole world changes. Question: What can be inferred about the author? Options: A: The author is a Samoan. B: The author succeeded in losing weight. C: The author probably got wounded in wars or accidents. D: The author has been troubled by her/his weight.\nD\n------\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: The breaking news of Mo Yan's Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday evening soon aroused public curiosity of the 57-year-old Chinese writer: Why was he favored by the Swedish Academy? Less than half an hour after the announcement from Stockholm, Mo's works turned to \"sold out\" status at China's major online book sellers. One lucky buyer wrote in an online comment: \"Rushed to purchase, but to my shame, I have not read any of his novels.\" Although Mo was entitled one of the top China's literature awards before the Nobel Prize, he is not the most popular novelist in China, in either the book market or in reputation. Chinese media seemed to be shocked as some journalists were reported to be on their way overnight to Gaomi City of East China's Shandong Province, Mo's birthplace where he stayed with his family. Born in 1955 into a rural family, Mo dropped out of school and became a farmer when he was a teenager. He joined the army and devoted himself to writing. Mo's novels were translated into several languages. For more than a century, Nobel Prize has been regarded by the world as recognition to an individual or even a nation's cultural and scientific advances. \"I think the reason why I could win the prize is that my works present lives with unique Chinese characteristics, and they also tell stones from a viewpoint of common human beings, which transcends differences of nations and races,\" Mo said on Thursday evening to Chinese journalists. Mo also said many folk arts originated from his hometown, such as paper cuts and traditional new year paintings, have inspired and influenced his novels. Mo's prize may give powerful encouragement to the country's writers as the more reflective of Chinese lives their works are, the more possible they arise as world literature. Question: What can we infer from this passage? Options: A: Mo Yan will win another Nobel Prize in the near future. B: Folk arts originated from Mo Yan's hometown will also be awarded Nobel Prize. C: Nobel Prize will no longer regarded by the world as recognition to an individual. D: Mo Yan's success will encourage the Chinese writers to win more Nobel Prizes.\nB\n------\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: In Yemen, you always see one type of vehicle on the road: the water truck.They travel mountain roads and cross deserts to bring Yemenis the goods more valuable than oil.It is one that only the rich can afford, with the supply regularly being cut off.Others must rely on scarce rain or charity to fight thirst. Experts say Yemen is going to be the first country in the world to run out of water.The capital, Sanaa, will run out of drinking water as early as 2025,says a report by the World Bank. Hannan, an 18yearold from Lahej, said that only the rich could prepare for cuts in supply.\"In a good week we'll have a water supply all week but then the following week there will be water only for a day or two, \" she said. She and her husband, a factory worker, pay 3,000 riyals (99yuan) for a week's supply of water from a touring water truck when the taps run dry.With an income of only 20,000 riyals (660yuan) a month,this means the family often spend half their money on water. \"There are a lot of people who can't afford it and they have to rely on their neighbors to help,\" she said. The average person in Yemen survives on onefifth of what the World Health Organization considers to be enough water. In Taiz, in the south,tap water is available only once every 45 days.In the mountainous Malhan district in the north,women and children climb a 1,500m mountain to collect water from a spring, often in the small hours to avoid long queues. Yemen is located in Southwest Asia,bordering the Arabian and Red Sea.Yemeni people have lived on scarce water supplies for thousands of years but that problem has been made serious by conflict in the area,the fastgrowing population and the use of water to grow a drug called qat.With one of the world's highest rates of population growth--3.46 percent, Yemen is the poorest Arab country. The government is considering desalinating seawater,but this would be expensive and it may now be too late.The only other solution is to cut down on farming, but that means importing even more food. Question: The passage aims to _ . Options: A: analyze the reasons why Yemen lacks water B: suggest some solutions to the water issue in Yemen C: present how serious the water problem is in Yemen D: encourage the world to help Yemenis who are suffering from water shortages\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B\n------", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Last month the manager of a jewelry shop received a letter. As he was very busy then, the letter lay on his desk till tea-time. He opened it and a 10-pound note fell out onto the desk. Within the note was a letter which said: Dear sir: In 1935 I got engaged . But unfortunately I lost my job. At the time a lot of people were out of work. Six months later I got a job again, but of course I was very short of money. I came to your shop to buy a wedding ring . The assistant took out some rings for me to look at, but she was called away for a moment, and I put one of the rings in my pocket. When she came back, I said I didn't know the size of my girl's finger. So I left the shop without buying a ring. My wife died a short while ago and the fact that I never paid for the ring has been heavy in my heart all these years. At that time, the ring cost 2 pounds so I think it is 10 pounds at today's price and I'm sending 10 pounds. Yours truly, A customer Options: A The jewelry shop lost some rings. B The customer married a girl. C The customer stole a ring for his wife. D The customer stole a ring for his girl friend. Answer: D The customer stole a ring for his girl friend. Question:\n\nA: What happened in 1935?\nProblem: Given the question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: 3D printers are certainly the superstar today---they are being put to all kinds of uses, including creating model cars for movies. However, none of these ideas are as crazy as the one suggested by Anjan Contractor, who believes that they will be the key to ending world hunger . If you think that sounds a little crazy, you are not the only one, but after hearing scientists, the idea seems to become true. According to scientists, food will become _ expensive and possibly, even out of reach, for billions of people in the future. It means billions of people won't have enough food. This is where 3D printers may save the day. Anjan, an engineer says that the only way to support the large population will be to provide every kitchen with a 3D printer and print out meals. More importantly, it would be to make the basic food from things that we now do not think can be eaten. Anjan thinks that we could easily get the meat protein from insects . Similarly, the vegetable nutrition could be made from greens like grass. Would you want to try 3D printed food? Options: A people will have enough food to eat in the future. B scientists can use 3D printers to print food now. C 3D printers are being put to many uses D people can get any food and vegetables without planting Answer: C 3D printers are being put to many uses Question:\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nThe answer is:\nFrom the passage we know that _ .\ninput question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Little Peter is a boy of nine. He began to go to school the year before last and now he's in Grade Three. He lives not far from the school but he is often late for class. He likes watching TV in the evening and goes to bed late, so he can't get up on time in the morning. This term, Mrs. Black, Peter's aunt, works in Peter's school. She teaches Grade Three math. She's strict with Peter and often tells the boy to obey the school rules and come to school on time. Yesterday morning Peter got up late. When he hurried to school, it was half past eight. His aunt was waiting for him at the school gate. \"You're ten minutes late for the first class, Peter,\" Mrs. Black said angrily. \"Why are you often late for class?\" \"Every time I get to the street corner, I see a guidepost . It says: \"SCHOOL--GO SLOW!'\" Options: A worker B teacher C farmer D policewoman Answer: B teacher Question:???\noutput answer: Mrs. Black is a _ .\nWrite a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Tom and Fred are talking about the year 2020. \"What will our world be like in the year 2020?\" asks Tom. \"I don't know,\" says Fred. \"What do you think?\" asks Tom. \"Well, no one knows, but it's interesting to guess,\" says Fred. \"In the year 2020 everyone will carry a pocket computer. The computer will give people the answer to all their problem. We will have telephones in our pockets, too, and we will be able to talk to our friends,\" says Tom. \"A lot of people will live and work under the sea. Machines will do most of the work, and so people will have more holidays. They will be able to fly to the moon by spaceship and spend their holidays there,\" says Fred. \"And I hope I will be able to live under the sea,\" says Tom. \"Won't that be very interesting? Just like a fish.\" Options: A pocket computers B more holidays C pocket telephones D go on sale Answer: C pocket telephones Question:\n----\nAnswer: In 2020, we'll talk to friends at all times and everywhere, because we'll have _ .\n[Q]: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Have you ever thought of taking fishing as a hobby? If not, it's time to think about it. Fishing is relaxing and it makes you go out to enjoy the beautiful nature. There are many wonderful websites about fishing. For example, www. Bigfish.com has a lot of forums. There you can share your knowledge about fishing and get helpful advice from other fishermen. Http://fishingforbeginners.com is also a good website. It teaches how to fish. I think there are many advantages of going fishing on the bank of a river under some green trees. You can forget the sad things when you are fishing. If you don't try fishing, you will never know what you are missing. Imagine standing on the bank of a river and catching a lot of fish. Allow the fish to bite the hook before pulling it up. When you catch the fish, you will feel quite happy and excited. You will never have this feeling until you give fishing a try. Now that your interest is motivated, you may be thinking that you don't have a clue about how to fish. If that's the case, these tips will help. If you'd like to learn how to fish, there are a few things you can do. Research the place of fishing. Read a book about fishing. Research online. There are hundreds of websites that give instructions on fishing. Options: A will have a lot of trouble B will lose a lot of pleasure of fishing C will never enjoy the green trees D will never know fishermen's trouble Answer: B will lose a lot of pleasure of fishing Question:\n****\n[A]:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "The writer thinks if you never fish, you _ .", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "(Q).\nArticle: I have a lot of friends. My best friend is Mai. She is 16 years old. She is 2 years older than me. We live in the same town and we began to know each other when we were very young. Now we are classmates. Mai is tall and thin, with long black hair. She has an oval face with big eyes, a high nose and a small mouth. Mai is helpful . When her friends have difficulties, she always tries her best to help them. Mai is one of the best students in our class. I like studying with her. She always helps me with my studies. Although we have the same hobbies and interests, we also have some differences. I am sociable and enjoy telling jokes. Mai, however, is serious and quiet. We believe in each other, so we are good friends. I hope we can keep our friendship forever . Question: The writer and Mai can be friends because they _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"believe in each other\"?\n(A).\nNo\n\n\n(Q).\nArticle: We are learning English, but how can we learn English well? A student can know a lot about English, but maybe he can't speak English. If you want to know how to swim, you must get into the river. And if you want to be a football player, you must play football. So, you see, you can learn by using it. You must listen to your teacher carefully in class. You must speak English to your classmates every day and also you must write something in English. Then one day you may find your English is very good. Question: You know a lot about English, but maybe _ it. Yes or no, is the answer \"you can't speak\"?\n(A).\nNo\n\n\n(Q).\nArticle: This is not a diet. It's a simple way to lose weight~ And you don' t even have to give up the food you love or join a gym. You just follow some habits that thin people have. Keep them, and you'll become thin. ( 1 ) Wake - up When you wake up in the morning, sit up slowly without using your hands. With legs straight out, bend( ) forward until you feel sore in your back. It will burn about 10 calories (,). (2) Start with soup When you have a meal, order a clear soup, and have it before having the main food. In this way, you'll feel fuller, so you'll eat less when the main food comes. (3) An apple (or more) a day Apples are full of fiber and water, so your stomach will want less. The study shows that people who eat at least three, apples a day lose weight. (4) Stand up and walk around Every time you use the mobile phone, stand up and walk around. Heavy people sit on average two and a half hours more each day than thin people. This skill is very important as standing up and walking around will burn 50 or more calories. Use these skills, and you will have a big weight loss. ,A, B, C, D,. (5,2,10) Question: Eating apples make one's stomach want less food _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"Because apples are full of fiber and water.\"?\n(A).\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: Given the question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Barack Obama, a black man, is the president of the United States now. He was born on August 4th, 1961, in Hawaii and has lived in many places. His mother was from Kansas and his father was from Kenya. Obama went to Columbia University in New York and got a law degree at Harvard University in Massachusetts. His wife is Michelle Obama. She also worked as a lawyer and later worked for the University of Chicago. They have two young daughters. Obama wrote a bookDreams from My Father. \"I always live in the dream of my father and American people, \" Obama once said. He was born in a poor family. And he was taken good care of by his grandparents when he was young. He also lived and worked in Africa. Then he got good education in Harvard University. On November 4th, 2008, he became the president of America for the first time. Options: A In Massachusetts. B In Kansas. C In Hawaii. D In New York. Answer: C In Hawaii. Question:\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nThe answer is:\nWhere was Barack Obama born?\ninput question: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Spring cleaning is a tradition in America. People clean up and tidy up their houses in springtime. Before the invention of the electricity ,people used a lot of coal and wood in winter to heat their houses. Those things left behind a lot of dust on everything in the rooms. At that time,people always welcomed spring because when the weather started getting warmer, they could stop using coal and wood and get everything cleaned up. Later spring cleaning became a tradition. Nowadays we don't use coal and wood so at the end of winter our houses are not dirtier than they were in the past. People don't need to remove a lot of dust.However, they have a new problem--- _ . Today the spring cleaning for most family is mainly about tidying up some useless things at home. Truly, the importance of the tradition of spring cleaning today is different from it was in the past, but it is as important as it was in the past . Now, in springtime,people clean up their houses, yards and gardens. At the same time, they spend much time in looking for the things that they don't love any more or they don't use any more. They collect old clothes,old toys, old books and some other useless or old things and then throw away or donate them.This helps people enjoy what they have and their homes more. So people nowadays should not give up this tradition. Always follow the tradition. Options: A cooking meals B lighting the rooms C making electricity D making the houses warm Answer: D making the houses warm Question:???\noutput answer: In the past,during the process of _ ,a lot of dust appeared in people's houses.\nWrite a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Jim is my good friend. We are in the same school. He is an American. We are good friends. This is Jim's bedroom. It's not big, but new. A black desk is in the room. Some English books are on the desk. Jim's backpack is on it. The backpack is yellow, but old. What's under the red chair? It's a white cat. It's a Chinese cat. Its name is Mimi. Jim's father is in the living room. He is about fifty years old. Where is his mother? She is in the bedroom. She is a teacher. Options: A black B white C blue D yellow Answer: A black Question:\n----\nAnswer: The desk in the room is _ .\nQ: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: It's seven fifty in the morning . The students are coming into the classroom. A boy is opening the window. Some of the students are laughing and talking. Some others are laughing to them. Some are reading books.Some are doing their homework. Miss White is standing behind the teacher's desk. She is writing on the blackboard. Lucy and Lily are wearing their new dresses today. Mary is cleaning her desk. Jim is helping her. They all look happy. What are John and Tom doing? Oh, dear! They are still playing football on the playground. Options: A Doing their homework. B Laughing and talking C Writing on the blackboard D Reading books. Answer: C Writing on the blackboard Question:\nA: What are the students Not doing?\nQuestion: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Grandmother's Favourite Doll A little girl had a doll. She loved it so much that she would treat it with great care, even though her friends would laugh at her for being so careful. As time passed, the girl grew up, moved houses, became an adult, married, had children, and finally became a lovely little old woman with many grandchildren. One day, she returned to her hometown, found her _ house, and went in. Among hundreds of old things, the now-old little girl found her doll. It was as well looked after as before. She took it home with her and gave it to her granddaughter. Her granddaughter loved it. Each time the old woman saw her granddaughter playing with the doll, tears of joy would roll down her cheeks . She was so glad to see now it was in the hands of her granddaughter. Options: A it looked old and terrible B she threw it away C it was as well looked after as before D she took it home and kept it herself Answer: C it was as well looked after as before Question:\nAnswer: When the old woman found her doll, _ .\nPlease answer this: Write a multi-choice question for the following article, with the given choices and answer: Article: Here is an examination notice . Mrs. Dickson gave it to her students last week. To the students of Class 3 * Examinations start on January 22 and end on June 23. * The time for each of the subject is: English June 22 9:30 A.M.- 10:30 A.M. Math June 22 11:00 A.M.- 12:00 A.M. History June 22 2:30 P.M.-3:30 P.M. PE June 23 8:00 A.M.-10:00 A.M. Music June 23 1:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M. * For the PE test? go to the playground. For the music test, go to the Piano Room. All else are written tests. They will be held in Classroom 3. * No student can get into the examination room more than 15 minutes after the exam starts. * No food or drink during ANY test. * No dictionaries during the English exam. * Wear pants and sports shoes for the PE exam. * If you have questions, go to the Teacher's Office before the tests. Options: A In the playground. B In their classroom C In the Piano Room. D At the Teacher's Office. Answer: A In the playground. Question:\n++++++++\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Where were the students of Class 3 at 8:30 A.M., June 23?", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Input: .\nGenerate a positive review for a place\nOutput: I love this market. After checking out a couple of other markets, I have come to the realization that this market is the best! Asian markets usually feel dirty or dingy. This one always feels so clean to me. They do have a food court area with yummy food. The fried rice and noodles are kind of bland, but their actual entrees are pretty tasty. I do think it's strange that the workers always wear gloves when handling cash, but maybe they don't want to touch the dirty money. They always have fresh vegetables. It is smaller than SF Market, but I always manage to find everything that I need.\n\nInput: .\nGenerate a negative review for a place\nOutput: Went a Thursday night with a friend, was the last night for our groupon coupon. I don't even know where to start. The restaurant seems to be very confused what tapas. Being server raw veggies and some sort of sour cream dip IS NOT a tapas!! Something so amateurish to serve. That last dish some potato cake that I guess is suppose to be a spin on a Spanish torta, was cold, mushy and left the worst after taste. My friend left with such a bad case of heartburn, they use canned tomatoes for all their dishes and out of the 11 tapas there must have been 7!! However the service was great! Our waitress was amazing, super attentive.\n\nInput: .\nGenerate a negative review for a place\nOutput: Staying at this hotel is a major gamble... We checked in Friday 2/15/13 at midnight. Stood in a 15 minute line to get checked in. Drove around the building to valet parking. There appeared to be one person working so we decided it would be faster to park in self parking. We found a spot on the top of the ramp, level 5. Unfortunately, the parking garage elevator was broken so we had to roll our baggage down all the stairs to get back to the lobby, than take a different elevator to get to our room on the 9th floor of the south tower. Those pictures the Plaza uses on their website of cute green throw pillows and spreads do not really exist. I was told by front desk staff those are just for Internet pictures. Good to know. So your room will be bare minimum basic with no decorator frills even if paying $98 or more a night. We left the room early Saturday morning for a 5K run. Before leaving we noticed that the sink was not draining. We really didnt have time to do anything about it so we made a note to talk to the front desk later. Upon returning to the hotel around 12:30 we saw the maid had come but had only made one of the beds. Apparently, if you leave ANYTHING on the beds the maids are not allowed to touch the bed. Since we just did a run we decided to shower. Gross!!! Not only is the actual bathroom unit only a teeny bit bigger than a public restroom stall, the water in the tub did not drain either! This means you are standing in the soapy water up past your ankles while you are showering!!! Meanwhile, my son sits at the tar in the room and the leg falls off. It was only supported by three legs as it was so it really needed that leg. Goodbye drinks on the table, hello mess. Did I mention by this point the towel rid in the dunk area has fallen on my foot twice? Calling the front desk to talk to a manager got me to Mitchell who I \"accidentally\" got disconnected from 4 times. On my 5th call down he did not even answer any longer. An operator named Shamane did. She said she would have to leave a message for a manager as they were all too busy to speak to me. An hour plus into trying to get ahold of someone brings me to a conversation with a hotel manager named Kim. By this time engineering has been sent to our room to fix the table and the plumbing. Table is fixed, tub is draining better but if you leave the sink on for too long you're going to be staring at your toothpaste floating around in the basin. Kim says she is busy and having a bad day herself so she is glad our problems are fixed and she'll give us $30 off our room. End of conversation. She says she doesn't think there is anything wrong with the garage elevator because nobody has told her anything about it. End of conversation. I decided to let it go and took a nap. Upon waking up in the late afternoon, my friend that was traveling with us said she really thought this room is gross and is not happy with the plumbing issues we were still having. On our way out to dinner we stopped by to speak to a new manager, Rosa, who at least was kind and caring and took 10 minutes out of her schedule to listen to us. We really wanted a new room with working plumbing, but Rosa said they were completely booked and could not switch us to a different room. She did give us another $30 off our stay which was nice. If you're staying here at a $29 rate and you don't have much reason to be in the room much (we had kids with us) than this place is a great find. If you are going to stay at the higher $89+ rate, there are WAY better places to stay for not that much more money.\n\nInput: .\nGenerate a positive review for a place\nOutput:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Good food, great prices, nice people... Overall I liked the experience and would return. I only had one meal here so my comments are limited, but the Churrasco chicken leg meal I had was delicious, simple, affordable, and the portion was good as well.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Lots of people make it as their aim to get to the top of Mount Everest. Mark is one of them. The difference between Mark and other climbers is that he lost both his legs when climbing. New Zealand's highest mountain, Mount Cook. He was caught in a big ice hole and he had to have his legs cut below the knees after he was saved. But that couldn't make Mark lose heart, who has become the first person with man-made legs to reach the top of Mount Everest. From the top of the world's highest mountain, Mark called his wife to say he made it. His wife, Anne got the phone when she was sleeping. She couldn't hear him clearly on the phone. She was unable to say when he reached the top but thought it was around mid-day. She also said his \"legs\" didn't work well sometimes, so her husband was carrying a spare leg and repair tools. Mark used to be a mountain guide before his accident. He said it was not important that no one like him had ever reached the 8850-meter mountain. \"I'm not doing this to be the first. I have been climbing most of my life and I just feel Mount Everest is really a great aim. I want to send a message that I can do-anything better.\" Question: Mark's wife thought is was _ on Mount Everest when Mark reached its top. Options: A: noon B: morning C: mid-night D: evening\nA\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: A man had a little dog, and he was very fond of it. He would pat its head, and take it on his knee, and talk to it. Then he would give it little bits of food from his own plate. A donkey looked in at the window and saw the man and the dog. \"Why does he not make a pet of me?\" said the donkey. \"It is not fair. I work hard, and the dog only wags its tail, and barks, and jumps on its master's knee. It is not fair.\" Then the donkey said to himself, \"If I do what the dog does, he may make a pet of me.\" So the donkey ran into the room. It brayed as loudly as it could. It wagged its tail so hard that it knocked over a jar on the table. Then it tried to jump on to its master's knee. The master thought the donkey was mad, and he shouted, \"Help! Help!\" Men came running in with sticks, and they beat the donkey till it ran out of the house, and they drove it back to the field. \"I only did what the dog does,\" said the donkey,\" and yet they make a pet of the dog, and they beat me with sticks. It is not fair.\" Question: The man liked the dog. He did a lot except _ . Options: A: patting the dog's head B: sleeping with the dog C: talking to the dog D: taking the dog on his knee\nB\nQ: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Did you hear of the supercomputer? Recently, China's Tianhe-1 was ranked as the world's fastest supercomputer, according to a new list of world's TOP 500 supercomputers. It took 200 Chinese scientists two years to build the fastest supercomputer. It can do 2,507 trillion calculations in a second! That means it will take a personal computer 600 years to finish the work that a supercomputer does in a day! The US now leads the world in the area of supercomputers. It is home to more than half of the world's top 500 supercomputers. Japan also has advanced technology. China is developing its supercomputer technology quickly. But experts say it will take years before China's total computing power can catch up with that of the US. Supercomputers can work on many different things. They can solve problems in areas like national defense , energy and science. In business, you can also use supercomputers. Oil companies use them to find oil and gas. Banks use them for quick trades. Food companies even use supercomputers to make sure that they put potato chips into cans without breaking them. To make a supercomputer, scientists first need to link thousands of small computers together. Then they use software to turn them into one supercomputer. In fact, any person with enough knowledge about computers can make a supercomputer. But you need the top technology to make a supercomputer run fast. Question: Which of the following is true? Options: A: A personal computer needs 300 years to finish the work that a supercomputer does in a day. B: Japan now leads the world in the area of supercomputers. C: Supercomputer can be used by food companies. D: Scientists needn't use software to turn small companies into one supercomputer.\nA: C\nQuestion: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Hello, everyone! My name is Bob. I have a good friend. His name is Paul. He is a yellow dog. I like him very much. Every morning Paul runs with me, and we play in the park every afternoon. Paul is very fat. He likes eating beef hamburgers for breakfast. For dinner, he likes fish. Paul likes red. He has two red hats. Look! They are on my bed. But Paul is lost now. Please help me. My telephone number is 312-3216. My E-mail address is _ . Thanks. Question: Which of the following is NOT true?(?) Options: A: Paul is Bob's friend. B: Paul has two red hats. C: Bob's telephone number is 312-3216. D: Bob likes eating beef hamburgers and fish.\nAnswer: D\n*Question*\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: Food is colorful. Some food is green, some food is red, and some is black. Now more and more people like to have black food--black rice, black beans, black grapes. Why do they like black food? * Black food can make grey hair into black hair. * Black food is good for the heart. * Black food can help children become smart. * Black food can also help women look young. Black food is very good, but we need food with different colors. Doctors say that it isn't good to be _ about food. So we had better eat all kinds of food. Question: Black food is good for _ . Options: A: eyes B: ears C: nose D: heart\n**Answer**\nD\n*Question*\nRead the article and select the best answer. Article: John is six years old. He can read and write well. But he can't tell the time. His mother, Mrs Brown teaches him many times, but he still can't tell. He would say \"breakfast time\" \"lunchtime\" and \"teatime\" instead of saying eight o'clock, twelve o'clock and four o'clock in the afternoon. His mother doesn't know how to help him One day, John's aunt, Mary, comes to see his mother. His mother tells her about that. His aunt says, \"Let me help you. I think I can help him.\" When John comes home after school, Mary begins to teach him. \"Can you _ , John?\" she asks. \"Yes. One, two, three, four...\" John says. \"That's fine. Now I put the long hand on twelve and the short hand on one-that is one o'clock If I put the short hand on two, what is the time?\" \"Two o'clock \" \"Good. And on three?\" \"Three o'clock. \" Then it is four o'clock in the afternoon, and John's aunt asks him, \"What time is it now, John?\" \"Teatime, Aunt, and I am very hungry ,\" John looks at the clock and answers. Question: John's mother can teach him to _ . Options: A: read B: write C: tell the time D: speak\n**Answer**\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: Do you think there is too much noise in our city? If you live near an airport,you will be unhappy because of a plane often make a loud noise.The sound of planes or heavy vehicles is likely to cause deafness if heard continuously . However, most people in our city do not seem to mind noise. They like to enjoy music when they are doing uninteresting jobs.It is a new danger because pop music,when played through powerful amplifiers ,can reach 120 decibels(120)at a distance of five feet.A continuous noise of over 85 decibels can cause deafness.It was discovered that many young people in America could hear no better than 65-year-old people. In the past we used to think that only workers in very noisy places would become deaf.For example,when newspapers and books are being printed,the noise level is over 85 decibels,and some of the workers become deaf.Today,however,scientists believe that 10 percent of the workers in Britain are being deafened by the noise. Sometimes noise of less than 85 decibels can make some people tired and stressed.We all know that too much noise makes life difficult and unpleasant.It can do great harm to people's health and prevent people from working well.Workers in noisy offices are not as efficient as those in quiet offices.Noise makes people less efficient.Can anything be done to reduce or control noise? In Britain the government has made several laws to reduce noise.Though the government has spent a lot of money in making airports and main roads quieter,many people think that there are still not enough laws.For example,there are no laws to control the noise of machines.In Japan,America and Norway there are such laws.As a result,workers can be given compensation if they become deaf. Question: Who can be given compensation if they become deaf? Yes or no, is the answer \"American workers.\"?\nNo\n\nArticle: There are four hats. They are red, yellow, green and white. They are Mike's, Bill's, Tom's and John's. Tom's hat is not yellow, green or red. John's hat is not green. And Mike's hat is not yellow or green. What color are their hats? ,. Question: Is Tom's hat white or green? Yes or no, is the answer \"It's white.\"?\nNo\n\nQ: Article: Can animals do work for us? Some scientists think that animals may do a lot of jobs. They say that we may see many elephants, monkeys, dogs, bears and other animals do a lot of things. Animals can get something to eat if they do some work for people. Some scientists say that many different animals may do lots of jobs if they know they will get something to eat. Of course, dogs can guard a house, and elephants can do some heavy jobs. And we can also teach animals to work in factories. In America apes can help people make cars. Scientists believe that these big monkeys may drive cars. Question: Which of the following is true? Yes or no, is the answer \"Apes may drive cars\"?\nA: Yes\n\nQuestion: Article: Each year, up to six young inventors, grade K-12, in America can receive the nation's most excellent young inventors' honor, \"The Thomas Edison Innovation Award ,\" for their invention ideas. They can receive the following honors: * Thomas Edison Innovation Award, \"The Tommy\", a handmade trophy * US$1,000--US$ 5,000 in prize money * All-expenses-paid trip for the inventor and one parent to the ceremony. * Chances in the future to connect with universities and industries to further the inventors' ideas * A place in history! The inventors' names and ideas can be preserved at the National Museum of Education Question: Which of the following is NOT true? Yes or no, is the answer \"Winners and their teachers can have free trip.\"?\nAnswer: No\n\n*Question*\nArticle: Most parents hope that their children can be happy and successful. But do you know the most powerful way to encourage them to be so? The answer is to allow them to make their own decisions. Different people have different ideas about children's decision making. Unfortunately , most parents make decisions for their children--what they wear, what they eat and what movies they watch. In fact, it's not good for children's growing. Children should be allowed to make decisions when they are very young. But this doesn't mean they are allowed to do everything. For example, you shouldn't take your children into a convenience store and tell them they can have anything they want. They would be overwhelmed by the choices. But you can give them a choice among snacks. When children get older, expand the number of choices you give them. For example, allow them to decide the activities they want to take part in or when they decide to go to bed. The next step is to get your children to think before they act. Ask themselves several important questions. First, why do I want to do this? Second, what are my choices? Third, what are the results of the actions? After the three questions, they are sure to have right decisions. Question: From the passage we can learn _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"the kids can learn about how to make decisions\"?\n**Answer**\nNo\n\nArticle: Bob was a gardener and he had no work for a few months. One day he went out to look for a job. While he was walking in the street, he saw a poster at the gate of a big restaurant. It said the restaurant needed to hire a man who could grow flowers and trees well. Bob was so pleased that he went straight to answer it. There Bob was told to go back and get his old working clothes to the office. Bob did so. The boss looked over his working clothes carefully and then decided to let Bob have the job. Bob asked the boss why his working clothes were so important. The boss answered with a smile, \"Oh, young man, your working clothes are all with patches on the knees. You know, I have dismissed two men these days. They had working clothes with patches on the buttocks . They were too lazy.\" Question: When the boss saw Bob, he _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"asked Bob to go home to get his working clothes\"?\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "'Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock' unleashes the nerd\n\n\"They're not cool. They're all nerds. They all love Monty Python, 'Star Wars' and Rush. Everybody from Cannibal Corpse to Metallica, they are all nerds. We are all nerds.\"\n\nThe game, released September 28 and available on PS3, Wii and XBox360, likes Rush, too.\n\nIt includes all seven parts of the Canadian progressive rock band's \"2112\" suite and even weaves the legendary rockers into the fabric of the game.\n\nThe members of Rush worked on the \"2112\" game sequence, helping create in-game venues based on scenes from the liner notes of their original album.\n\nThe band gave suggestions for imagery and recorded voice-overs for the scenes, said Brian Bright, \"Warriors of Rock\" project leader for game creator Neversoft. He said the story of \"2112\" parallels the story in the game.\n\n\"The songs tell the story of a man who discovers a guitar, something he has never been exposed to, as the world he lives in is very Orwellian and controlling,\" Bright said. \"In the game, the player is in search of the Demi-God's legendary guitar as it is the source of his power.\"\n\nSmall acknowledges that including 21 minutes worth of Rush on a game known for mainstream appeal is a nod toward rock's inner nerd.\n\n\"Absolutely!\" he said. \"Without a doubt, yeah! Oh man, but they picked the right Rush. That's certainly my favorite, and it's got amazing guitar moments, too.\"\n\nIt also has what Small calls the nerdiest thing of all in music: odd time signatures, which could mean difficult play in Warriors of Rock.\n\n\"When people start counting odd times like 7/4 instead of 4/4, [they're trying to] be different and make a new groove, and that is a nerdy, nerdy thing. But Rush gets away with it because they're good,\" said Small.\n\nSummary: In an otherworldly landscape, with controllers in hand, players must conquer the Beast in order to release a powerful demigod.No, this isn't \"World of Warcraft.\" It's \"Guitar Hero.\"And with a\n\n\nMelania Trump Gives GOP Convention Speech, Praises Husband's Kindness : People.com\n\nThe wife of presumptive GOP nominee\n\ntook a rare step into the spotlight at the Republican convention in Cleveland Monday night.\n\nThe billionaire businessman introduced his wife after making a dramatic entrance across a darkened stage, with Queen's \"We Are the Champions\" blaring and the crowd cheering wildly. He said only, \"We're going to win. We're going to win so big.\" And with that, he called his wife on stage, gave her a kiss and turned over the lectern to her.\n\n\"I'm so proud of your choice for president of the United States – my husband, Donald J. Trump!\" Melania began to cheers from the crowd. \"When it comes to my husband ... I will say that I'm definitely biased.\"\n\n\"With all of my heart I know he will make a great and lasting difference. He does not give up. If you want someone to fight for you and your country, I can assure you, he's the guy,\" she said. \"He will never, ever give up, and most importantly, he will never, ever let you down. Donald is and always has been an amazing leader. Now he will go to work for you.\"\n\nEmphasizing her husband's softer side, Melania continued, \"He's tough when he has to be but he's also kind and fair and caring. This kindness is not always noted but it is there for all to see. That is one reason I fell in love with him to begin with.\"\n\nMelania added that her husband \"offers a new direction welcoming change, prosperity and greater cooperation between people and nations.\"\n\n\"Donald intends to represent all of the people, not just some of the people,\" she added, as applause from the audience mounted.\n\nShe went on to call her American citizenship \"the greatest privilege on planet Earth\" and said, \"If I'm honored to serve as first lady, I will use that wonderful privilege to help people in our country who need it the most.\" She added that her agenda in the White House would be to work on women's and children's issues – to help \"every child live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.\"\n\n\"As a citizen of this great nation, it is kindness, love and compassion that will bring us together and keep us together. These are the values Donald and I will bring to the White House,\" she added.\n\nAfter concluding her speech, Melania's husband joined her on stage again, giving her a kiss and a hug and flashing the crowd a thumbs up. Trump's newly announced vice presidential running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, cheered them both on from the crowd.\n\nHowever, not everyone was a fan, as CNN reported that some people pointed out similarities between Melania's speech and Michelle Obama's speech in 2008.\n\nJon Favreau, President Obama's former speechwriter, took to Twitter to comment on the resemblance, but later added that their were bigger issues to focus on.\n\n\"Holy s---. They're nearly identical. Someone is seriously fired,\" he tweeted, adding, \"Tbh, I was more offended by just about every other speech than Melania's plagiarized paragraphs.\"\n\nThe speech marked one of only a handful of remarks Melania has delivered on the campaign trail (she typically stays at home with her son, Barron, 10, while her husband campaigns) and, according to\n\n, she worked with a speechwriter the past five to six weeks on the text of the address.\n\npreviously reported that the would-be first lady has kept a low profile since May, \"when she said a certain journalist\n\nMeanwhile, the GOP nominee's daughter\n\nseems to have stepped in to serve as a \"surrogate political spouse,\" according to\n\n' Jonathan Mahler, who wrote in April that Melania was \"less than comfortable on stage.\"\n\npiece titled \"Melania Trump speaks to a nation that's rarely heard her voice,\" published hours before her speech on Monday night, the outlet wrote, \"A presidential candidate's spouse is supposed to be 'a secret weapon,' like George W. Bush's wife, Laura, in his White House campaigns. But as political secrets go, Melania Trump is unusually well kept. On the campaign trail, the presumptive GOP nominee's wife has been more seen than heard – and heard at only a handful of public events. She's overshadowed not only by her Democratic counterpart, Bill Clinton, the 42nd president, but by her own stepdaughter.\"\n\nEarlier in Monday night's prime-time program, whose theme was \"Making America Safe Again,\" celebrities from\n\nto TV stars of decades past, Antonio Sabato Jr. and Scott Baio, gave Trump the \"showbiz\" he had earlier\n\nfor his convention. Baio called Trump \"a man that I trust with the lives of my family\" and accused Hillary Clinton and President Obama of promoting \"division.\"\n\nBaio was followed on the Cleveland convention center podium by Pat Smith, whose son Sean Smith was a Foreign Service officer stationed in Benghazi, Libya, and killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate there during Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. \"I blame Hillary Clinton – personally – for the death of my son,\" Smith said to raucous applause from the GOP delegates. Catching sight of one man's \"Hillary in Prison\" sign, Smith said, \"Hillary in prison. That's right. She deserves to be in stripes.\"\n\nFormer New York City Mayor\n\nalso spoke at the event, where he praised Trump as \"a man with a big heart\" and said, \"What I did for New York, Donald Trump will do for America.\"\n\n\"This is a man with a big heart,\" he added. \"Every time New York suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help.\"\n\nSummary:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "\"He will never, ever give up, and most importantly, he will never, ever let you down,\" Melania Trump said of her husband", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.\n\n[Q]: it happens every year -- the days get longer , the weather gets warmer and the studios start releasing their big - budget blockbusters .\nthis year 's crop already seems inferior to that of past summers , even 1997 's lackluster trio of batman & robin , the fifth element and the lost world .\nthe marketing blitz in 1998 has been centered on godzilla ( \" heeere , lee - zerd , lee - zerd . . . \" ) , which does n't make me optimistic about future summers .\ngodzilla is , of course , based on a series of cult movies ( translation : really bad movies only a few people can tolerate ) from japan that turn up really late at night on ted turner - owned cable stations .\nthat this big - budget remake wo n't rise above its roots is fairly obvious .\nthe credits show us the origin of godzilla .\nin five words : nuclear explosion creates giant lizard .\nsounds like an enquirer headline , does n't it ?\nthe mushroom cloud is followed by the inevitable \" discovery \" sequence .\nthis time , a japanese guy is eating noodles with chopsticks while watching sumo wrestling ( if that ai n't a stereotype . . . )\nwhen he discovers the telltale radar blip .\npeople die .\ncut to our protagonist , played by matthew broderick .\nhe makes his first appearance wearing headphones , warbling along to \" singin ' in the rain .\n\"\nit 's a none - too - subtle sign that he wishes he were in a classier movie .\nno dice , bueller .\nfrom the beginning , poor matthew has to do embarassing things like fondle giant earthworms and stand in godzilla 's enormous footprint .\nevery disaster movie has to have a know - it - all scientist , and this time broderick is it .\nas the world 's leading expert on radiated earthworms ( and would n't you love to have that printed on your business card ? ) , broderick is invaluable to the government .\nhe immediately dispels vicki lewis ' theory that godzilla is a dinosaur because , hey , you ca n't take seriously the intellectual arguments of \" newsradio \" cast members .\nbroderick instead hits the nail on the head , announcing godzilla is a radiated lizard .\n\"\nthe radiation is n't an anamoly , \" he announces , and lightning strikes .\n\"\ni believe this is a mutated abberation , \" he continues , and lightning strikes again .\nit 's vocabulary lightning , you see ,\nactivated by words of four syllables or more .\nmeanwhile , we 're introduced to our new york cast , headed by an ambitious broadcast journalist ( maria patillo ) , broderick 's former love .\ngee , what are the odds their paths will cross again at a dramatically important time ?\npoor patillo has been trying to get ahead in the news business for years but has been held down by heartless anchorman harry shearer .\nitalian cameraman hank azaria tells her she 's not ruthless enough : \" nice does n't get you anywhere in this town .\nit 's dog eat dog .\n\"\nactually , it 's lizard eat city , as godzilla emerges from the atlantic to begin a rampage on the big apple 's core .\nthe filmmakers provide us with a one - note drunk fisherman who hooks godzilla .\n\"\ni think i 've got a bite , \" he announces as a gigantic tidal wave begins rushing toward him .\nyou can guess what happens next .\nsimilar reactions spring forth as the monster prowls the city .\nhearing the rumble of approaching footsteps , one new yorker remarks , \" please do n't tell me that 's another parade .\n\" please do n't tell me that 's the best line you could come up with .\nmayor ebert is not pleased . played by the principal from \" head of the class , \" he continually makes the wrong decision when given an option , and bickers with his assistant gene .\ni guess the filmmakers knew they 'd be getting two thumbs down from the critics and did n't even bother to kiss ass .\nthe problem is , if you 're going to attack siskel and ebert , you should at least make it funny .\ndialogue like , \" did n't we agree that we were n't going to have any sweets until after the election ?\n\" followed by , \" back off , gene , \" just does n't work for me .\nother lame running jokes include everyone mispronouncing the broderick character 's last name and frenchman jean reno 's inability to find a good cup of coffee in new york .\nthere 's even more fun to be had as godzilla progresses .\nas the beast heads back into hiding , broderick suggests the military lure it out with food .\ncue twelve dump trucks , all dropping fish into a new york intersection .\n( broderick :\nthat 's a lot of fish . )\nthat ambush fails , but broderick soon figures out why godzilla came to new york by buying $ 50 worth of home pregnancy tests and running lizard blood through them .\nyep , godzilla 's with children , which makes you wonder just what kind of creature would be horny enough to have sex with godzilla .\nthat 's until broderick explains that godzilla reproduces asexually , like linda tripp .\ngodzilla comes to us from the makers of independence day , so\nit has a lot of dumb action scenes , destructive special effects and shallow subplots .\nlook no further than patillo 's betrayal of broderick\n( patillo : what have i done , animal ?\nwhat have i become ? ) and the climactic \" godzilla 's nest \" sequence in madison square garden .\nthe main difference is , independence day was about the experience .\nit had a real global , patriotic element to it , and some genuinely fun characters .\ngodzilla has lots of rain and lightning , reptilian action ripped off from jurassic park and endless product placement from the likes of kodak , blockbuster , juicy fruit , swatch , sprint and bumble bee tuna .\nyes , bumble bee actually paid to be known as the official tuna of godzilla .\nthat fact alone is twice as interesting as anything in the movie .\n[A]: N\n\n\n[Q]: when i first heard that disney 's next animated feature was going to be tarzan , i was almost horrified .\ni was worried that disney was going to make another hercules ( sorry , jerk - ules ) .\nthat effort was too overloaded with comedy ( and the hero was too boastful and pompous to be considered a sympathetic hero ) , and , after viewing it to this day , i find it a disgrace for disney animation .\nwhen i saw the trailers , i was thinking \" hmm . . .\nthis is n't bad at all .\nthis just might have potential .\n\"\nwhen i bought the soundtrack , i was really quite surprised at how different it sounded from most disney features .\ni have never really heard of phil collins , nor have i heard of mark mancina , so i was wondering , how would these two make this disney flick spin ?\ni was pleasantly surprised : the music is top - notch .\nphil collins ' songs are terrific , percussion - heavy pieces of work that seem to break the formula for typical disney songs .\nthe score from mark mancina was also neat\n; it reminded me a bit of the lion king , but it was more original .\nso , the soundtrack was n't bad at all , considering it was by two people i am not familiar with .\nthis film could be good . . .\nbut will it be ?\nwhen i finally went to see it ( on opening day , as i tend to do with most disney animated features ) , my question was answered , in a complete turnabout of expectations for me : disney 's tarzan is surprisingly decent .\nthe story starts out with tarzan 's parents surviving a shipwreck and finding a home on an island where apes live in peace .\nhowever , one day , a vicious leopard , sabor , attacks and kills tarzan 's parents , leaving him ( at this time , a baby ) alone - until kala of the apes rescues him .\nkala wants to raise the child as her own ( she lost hers previously to sabor ) , but her mate , kerchak is not too sure .\n\"\nit 's not our kind , \" he says .\nhe agrees , though , to let her take care of little tarzan , but \" that does n't make him my son .\n\" tarzan grows up , vowing to be \" the best ape ever \" , but no matter how hard he tries or what he does ( at the guidance of his hilarious ape friend , terk ) , he just ca n't convince kerchak that he is one of the apes , even when he defeats sabor in a battle .\none day , a new animal shows up : humans .\nthis is where jane comes into the picture .\nshe is on an expedition with her father ( professor porter ) , and a despicable hunter ( clayton ) searching for gorillas .\ntarzan rescues her when she is chased by baboons , and soon they get to know each other .\neven though tarzan falls in love with jane , this causes things to go wrong .\nclayton tricks tarzan into taking him , jane , and porter to see the apes , who are convinced that he has betrayed them .\nworse , clayton has plotted to send the gorillas to london for money .\nwill tarzan find out which family he belongs to and save the apes ?\ni 'm not gon na tell you , sorry .\nyou 're gon na have to see for yourself .\nand see it you should ; the animation is , as always ,\ntop notch , particularly when tarzan goes soaring through the trees\n( read that , skateboarding ) .\nthe deep canvas computer generated effect adds an authentic feeling to the jungle which tarzan lives in .\nin fact , it seems similar to the computer imagery / cel animation combination in rival disney animted films , such as fox 's anastasia and dreamworks ' prince of egypt .\ncould it be that disney was actually taking ideas from their rivals ?\nthe casting is fairly good .\ntony goldwyn is emotionally believeable as tarzan ( and to my relief , the animators have succeeded in not making him another hercules .\nnicely done ) , and glenn close is wonderful as kala ( she has a beautiful singing voice , too , by the way ) .\nlance henrikson as kerchak somewhat reminds me of robby benson 's beast voice , which makes him all the more ferocious and gripping .\nminnie driver had me a little worried at first as the voice of jane .\ni thought she had the most annoying voice in the whole film ( when i first saw the trailers ) , but when i saw the film , i did n't have a problem with her .\ni take back my insult on driver .\nit 's nice to hear nigel hawthorne do another voice for a disney animated feature\n( he was fflewdurr flamm in disney 's most underrated classic , the black cauldron ) ; he is funny and delightful as professor porter .\non the villiany side of the voices , brian blessed ( the guy who did boss nass in star wars : episode i - the phantom menace ) brings a pompous , and later on vicious , voice to the sinister clayton .\nhe might not be the strongest character in the film\n( he 's just a plain bad guy , nothing else ) , but blessed 's vocal work contributes greatly .\nbut if there is any voice that i think steals the whole show , it should be rosie o'donnell , who is hilariously funny as terk .\nshe also has a fiesty attitude\n( \" i 'm gon na kill ya !\n\"\nshe says , more than once ) .\ni almost sung along with her during one of the film 's best moments , where the apes make a mess of the human 's camp , via song , er , scatting \" shoo - be - doo , da - be - dah \" .\ni can see why she wanted to have a rock song for the film\n, she 's a good singer .\nnot that she was the only funny character in the film , though .\nwayne knight ( who played stan in space jam ) gives a whimsically funny style to tantor , an elephant who is especially worried about stepping into \" un - sanitary \" water .\n( thankfully , there is no real sound of flatuence -\nthat would have killed the picture ) .\nthe songs , as i said before , are decent , mostly sung by collins .\nthis sets a new standard for disney animated films because for the first time , the characters do not sing .\ni tolerate musical numbers from characters a lot more than some other guys would , but i found this to be a nice change of pace .\nthe story does have elements of comedy in it , but they also load it with strong dramatic touches , which makes this film far better than the unbelieveably uninspired hercules .\nif there is anything disappointing about tarzan , it might be the omission of the ' n sync version of \" trashing the camp \" from the film .\ni heard it on the soundtrack , and wondered where it was going to be .\ni was upset that it was n't , because i had thought of taking a few friends of mine who like ' n sync to see tarzan .\noh , well . . .\noverall , i was enthralled with tarzan .\ni would n't hold it high the way i do with mulan or the hunchback of notre dame ( my all - time favorite disney classics ) , but this film deserves a high place among disney 's greatest achievements .\ni give a nod to disney for following up their spectacular\n*\n*\n*\n* * masterpiece , mulan , with this great animated adaption of egar rice burrough 's tarzan .\n[A]: P\n\n\n[Q]: vampires starts out almost in the style of a spaghetti western with an attack on a small homestead in new mexico .\nthe house has a nest of vampires and jack crow ( james woods ) is leading a team of vampire hunters in to clean them out .\nwhile the initial imagery is a little over - dramatic , it gives way to what is a fairly decent action sequence .\nthat is enough action to last us a while\nand we could , director john carpenter would let us , get to a story line .\nbut it is not very long and there is not much plot until the next big action scene .\nthen there is only a bit more of plot before the next action scene after that .\nthe plot is kept to a minimum and the interesting ideas in the plot really get the short end .\nand that is something of a pity because the film , based on the book vampire$ by john steakley , gives us a myth for the origins of vampires and explains why vampires are so intertwined with religious imagery .\nthis could be an interesting departure from the standard vampire film , but carpenter decides to tell us about it rather than to show it .\nwhat carpenter saves his serious screen time for a sequence of spectacular fights between hunters and vampires .\nthere is a lot of fighting and lots of gore .\nanything intriguing is kept to a minimum to so it does not get in the way of pleasing the action film fans .\nthis has not always been carpenter 's style .\nhis 1981 version of the thing has action but also challenges the viewer to do a little thinking about the film 's central science fictional question .\njack crow heads a vampire swat team , cleaning up nests of vampires with high - tech spears and crossbows .\nin the early part of the film his team is wiped out by a particularly mean vampire valek ( thomas ian griffith ) who has been tipped off to who crow is .\nnow crow team is gone and he is down to himself and his sidekick tony montoya ( daniel baldwin ) . to make matters worse\n, he does not know the people on his own side , tony and his backers , he can trust .\nmeanwhile jack is sure the vampires are looking for something that must be hidden somewhere here in new mexico .\nif this is sounding like a very tired police corruption plot with a few obvious substitutions , that 's exactly what it is .\nthe same story looks just as well with two partner cops looking for a gang of hood who are themselves looking for a packet of heroin .\nbut carpenter goes against a familiar principle of film : show people , do n't tell them .\njust about everything in the plot other than the fights we are told about in the dialog and not shown .\nfundamental questions in the plot like where does crow get his funding\n, why are the vampires in new mexico -- what do they want and why do they want it\n, what is the connection of the vampires and the catholic church , how did crow come to be a vampire hunter and why devote his life to it ?\nthe answers to any of these questions could have been dramatized , but instead are revealed through dialog .\nnow if all this was not bad enough , carpenter misuses the james wood persona .\nwoods plays a particular sort of cool lowlife very well .\nbut carpenter leads off the film by having woods do some sergio - leone- style mythic posturing .\nwhile his crew prepares for an attack he stands staring fixedly through shades at the house that will be his target .\nwoods does not work as a larger than life mythic hero .\nthat is not his style and it just does not work very well .\nthere are some simple things that carpenter should be looking for as director that he misses .\nin one scene we are looking at a motel room with dead people on the floor .\none female corpse is on the floor in front of a chair so that there is about an inch of daylight between her and the chair .\nas the actress breathes the gap widening and narrowing makes it obvious her arm is moving up and down .\none also wonders how the existence of vampires is kept secret .\nthese vampires do not maintain a low profile .\nthere are arguably logical flaws in the film .\nthere is some question in my mind whether carpenter has a consistent policy on what effect bullets have on vampires .\nit would take some rationalization to explain why in some scenes sunlight has a dramatic effect on vampires , yet in a scene toward the end a vampire can walk under a burned roof that lets him be swept by beams of sunlight .\ni suspect that the book on which this film was based was better thought out .\nwhile i might recommend this film to an action audience i would say that what i look for in a vampire film vampires rates a 4 on the 0 to 10 scale and a 0 on the -4 to +4 scale .\nperhaps i will read the book .\n[A]:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "N\n\n\n", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: One often hears it said that travel broadens the mind.But does this always happen? When an acquaintance of mine returned from France, I asked him how he liked it.\"The breakfasts were terrible.\" he said, \"No bacon or kippers.I had fried eggs and chips, but it was quiet a business getting them to make them.\" Obviously travel had not broadened his mind.He had judged it entirely from his own English viewpoints. All nationalities, in all foreign countries, can be found judging what they see, hear, taste and smell according to their own habits and customs.People who are better educated and who have read a lot about foreign countries tend to adapt and tolerate all easily.That is because their minds have already been broadened before they start travelling. Physical differences are not so difficult to be adapted to as mental ones.In Indonesia, the left hand is considered unclean.When a foreigner offers or takes something with his left hand, the Indonesian may explain this action as arising from a difference in custom, but the deep prejudice against the use of the left hand will not be so easily _ . There are some travelers who adapt themselves so successfully to foreign customs and habits that they get the severe criticisms of their more stubborn fellow-countrymen.If they are Asians, they are accused of having become \"Westernized\", and if they are Europeans, people say they have \"gone native\". Perhaps the ideal would be if travel could succeed m making people tolerate the habits and customs of others without abandoning their own.The criterion for judging a foreigner could be \"Does he try to be polite and considerate to others?\" instead of \"Is he like me? Question: The better educated people _ . Options: A: are adapted easily to foreign customs and habits B: always judge things from their own viewpoints C: never have an open mind to different cultures D: tend to compare two kinds of habits and customs\nA\n\n(Question)\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: The aims of the Illustrators Exhibition,staged as part of the Bologna Children's Book Fair,organized by BolognaFiere and held from 19 to 22.March 2012,are to bring illustrators and publishers together and to promote illustrators and their works among publishers. QUALIFICATIONS *Individual illustrators or groups of illustrators of any nationality, if they were born before 31st December l994,whose artwork is intended for use in children's books,are qualified to enter the Exhibition, either directly or through publishing houses or schools. *Please state in the application form whether you are entering work for the Fiction or Non-fiction Category.Illustrators may only enter one category. *Artwork previously presented to the Exhibition may not be re-entered. *The confirmation form must be filled in and a photograph attached, then presented together with illustrations no later than 26 September 2011. SHIPMENT Entries may be delivered by post,express delivery service or by hand.From abroad,please use the following forms:Form \"A\" for registered mail or post by air;Form \"B\" if using an international forwarding agent or airline. To avoid deiays, material should not be sent by normal post.Material should be sent \"carriage paid\",including any customs and delivery costs. BolognaFiere may not be held responsible for the non-arrival or late arrival of artwork.All published works must be accompanied by a declaration bearing the ISBN number,publisher's name and address. REQUIREMENTS The illustrations (i.e. the size of the sheet) must not exceed the following dimensions: Fiction:32*42cm(or 42*32cm) Non-fiction:50*70cm(70*50cm) Illustrations in larger formats will not be considered,nor will they be returned by BolognaFiere.The illustrations must be on paper or flexible board,maximum thickness 2mm(for scanner separation purposes). SELECTIONPROCESS All artwork received by the stated deadtine and meeting the specified requirements will be examined and selected by an international group(whose decision is final),inclnding five... Question: According to the text,the Illustrators Exhibitions _ Options: A: will last five days in all in July every other year B: is intended for college students who are good at painting C: is held by the Bologna Children's Book Fair D: can strengthen the relationship between illustrators and publishers\n(Answer)\nD\n\nI'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: You may not pay much attention to your daily lift ride. Many of us use a lift several times during the day without really thinking about it. But Lee Gray, PhD, of the University of North Carolina, the US, has made it his business to examine this overlooked form of public transport. He is known as the \"Lift Guy\". \"The lift becomes this interesting social space where etiquette is sort of odd ,\" Gray told the BBC. \"They (Lifts) are socially very interesting but often very awkward places.\" We walk in and usually turn around to face the door. If someone else comes in, we may have to move. And here, according to Gray, lift users unthinkingly go through a set pattern of movements. He told the BBC what he had observed. He explained that when you are the only one inside a lift, you can do whatever you want--it's your own little box. If there are two of you, you go into different corners, standing diagonally across from each other to create distance. When a third person enters, you will unconsciously form a triangle. And when there is a fourth person, it becomes a square, with someone in every corner. A fifth person is probably going to have to stand in the middle. New entrants to the lift will need to size up the situation when the doors slide open and then act decisively. Once in, for most people the rule is simple--look down, or look at their phones. Why are we so awkward in lifts? \"You don't have enough space,\" Professor Babette Renneberg, a clinical psychologist at the Free University of Berlin, told the BBC. \"Usually when we meet other people, we have about an arm's length of distance between us. And that's not possible in most lifts.\" In such a small, enclosed space it becomes very important to act in a way that cannot be construed as threatening or odd. \"The easiest way to do this is to avoid eye contact,\"she said. Question: The main purpose of the article is to _ . Options: A: remind us to enjoy ourselves in the lift B: tell us some unwritten rules of lift etiquette C: share an interesting but awkward lift ride D: analyze what makes people feel awkward in a lift\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "input with options: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: A group of frogs were travelling through the woods. Two of them, Nick and Jack, fell into a deep pit . All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told Nick and Jack that they were as good as dead. Nick and Jack ignored what the other frogs said and tried to jump up out of the pit with all of their strength. The other frogs went on telling them to stop, and that they were as good as dead. Nick listened to them and gave up. Finally, he fell down and died. Jack continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the frogs around the pit shouted at him to stop the pain and just die. Jack jumped even harder and finally got out. When he was out, the other frogs asked, \"Did not you hear us?\" Jack explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him all the time. Question: The other frogs told Nick and Jack to stop because they thought the pit was too _ . Answer:\nOPTIONS:\n- big\n- strange\n- small\n- deep\noutput: deep\n\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: The great Zen teacher, Benzei had many pupils. One day, one of them was caught because of stealing things by other students. And they reported him to Benzei, but he took no action against the boy. A few days later, the same boy stole another student's things and was again caught. And again Benzei did nothing. _ made the other students angry, and they wrote a petition to ask the teacher to send away the thief from school. They all threatened to leave if the boy was allowed to stay. The teacher called a meeting of the students. When they had arrived, he said to them, \"You are good boys who know what is right and what is wrong. If you leave, you will have no trouble in joining any other school. But what about your brother who does not even know the difference between right and wrong? Who will teach him if I don't? No, I cannot ask him to go even if it means losing all of you. \" Tears coursed down the cheeks of the boy who had stolen. From then on, he never stole again and became an honest man. Question: In order to ask the teacher to send away the boy from school, what did the students do? Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- They didn't have classes\n- They all left the school.\n- They wrote a petition.\n- They all threatened the thief.\n\nA: They wrote a petition.\n\ninput: OPTIONS:\n- became disappointed\n- didn't know what to say\n- lost his interest\n- got angry Now, answer this question: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: One day, I heard an American boy say to a Chinese student of English, \"You speak very good English.\" But the student answered, \"NO, no. My English is very poor.\" The foreigner was quite surprised at the answer. Thinking he had not made himself understood or the Chinese student had not heard him clearly, he said, \"Yes, indeed, you speak very well.\" But the Chinese student sill kept saying \"No.\" In the end the American boy could not understand and didn't know what to say. What's wrong with the student's answer? He didn't accept a compliment in the same way as the American people do. He should answer \"thank you\" instead of \"no\". He really understood what the American boy had said, but he thought he should be modest .In the west, people will feel proud and confident when they are praised. So if someone says the dishes you have cooked are very delicious, you should say \"Thank you\". If someone says to a woman \"You look so beautiful with the new clothes on.\" She must be very happy and answer \"Thank you\". In our country we think being modest is a virtue and being proud is a bad thing, but in my opinion, being confident does not mean being proud, so sometimes you should be confident instead of being modest. If you are modest and say, \"No, I'm afraid I can't do it well\" while working in a western country, the others may think that you really cannot do it. If you often say \"No\", you will certainly be looked down upon by others. If asking for a job, one says something like \"Yes, I can certainly do it\" instead of \"Let me have a try\", he or she will expect to get it. So in the west, you should be brave to show your self-confidence! Question: As the student kept saying \"No\", the American boy _ . Answer:\nA:\noutput: didn't know what to say\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: A teacher showed three toys to his students and asked them to find out the differences. All the three toys seemed to have the same shape, size and material. After looking at them carefully, the students discovered holes in the toys. The first toy had holes in the ears. The second toy had holes in its ear and mouth. The third toy had only one hole in one of its ears. Then the teacher put a needle in one ear hole of the first toy. The needle came out of the other ear. For the second toy, when the needle was put in its ear , it came out of its mouth. And for the third toy, when the needle was put in, it did not come out. So the teacher explained to his students,\" The first toy represent those people who seem to be listening to you and caring for you. But they are just pretending to do so. After listening, as the needle comes out from the next ear, the things you said to them are gone. In fact, they don't care for you at all.\" \"The second toy represents those people who listen to you and care for you. But as in the toy, the needle comes out from mouth, these people will use what you tell them to fight against you. They tell others what you said and tell your secrets for their purposes.\" \"As for the third toy, the needle does not come out. It represents those people who will keep the trust you put in them. They are the ones that you can believe.\" Question: Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- All the toys had two holes and had no differences.\n- All the toys were made by the teacher and the students.\n- The third toy represents the people who you can believe.\n- The first two toys represent the people who don't really listen to you.\n\nAnswer: The third toy represents the people who you can believe.\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: Charlotte's Web is a popular American children's book about the friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte. The writer, E.B. White, shows that a real friend will help you even though he or she has nothing to get from doing so. In the book, Charlotte is always helping Wilbur. She spins words into her web to save Wilbur's life, even though spinning the words is tiring and difficult for her. Charlotte is a true friend. She helps Wilbur for only one reason - she cares about him. Templeton, the rat, on the other hand, is not a real friend to Wilbur. Templeton only helps others when there is something in it for him. When he is asked to help save Wilbur's life, he says \"no\" at first. Later on, he agrees to help, but only because he wants to keep eating Wilbur's meals. At the end of the book, Wilbur learns the true meaning of friendship. He helps Charlotte to save her babies. He does this not for other reasons, but because he cares about his friend. Reading this book lets me know how important it is to help others. Being a good friend means being there when you are needed. Question: How does Charlotte feel when she is spinning the words? Answer:\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Tired.\n- Excited.\n- Bored.\n- Frightened.\n\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Tired.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "The task is about reading the given story and question, then finding an answer to the given question. Based on the passage provided and the given question, you should identify the shortest continuous text span from the passage that serves as an answer to the given question. Avoid answers that are incorrect or provides incomplete justification for the question.\n\nExample input: story : Honolulu is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is an unincorporated part of and the county seat of the City and County of Honolulu on the island of Oahu. The city is the main gateway to Hawaii and a major portal into the United States. The city is also a major hub for international business, military defense, as well as famously being host to a diverse variety of east-west and Pacific culture, cuisine, and traditions. \n\nHonolulu is the most remote city of its size in the world and is the westernmost major U.S. city. For statistical purposes, the U.S. Census Bureau recognizes the approximate area commonly referred to as \"City of Honolulu\" (not to be confused with the \"City and County\") as a census county division (CCD). Honolulu is a major financial center of the islands and of the Pacific Ocean. The population of the city of Honolulu was 337,256 as of the 2010 census, while the Honolulu CCD was 390,738 and the population of the consolidated city and county was 953,207. \n\n\"Honolulu\" means \"sheltered harbor\" or \"calm port\". The old name is said to be Kou, a district roughly encompassing the area from Nuuanu Avenue to Alakea Street and from Hotel Street to Queen Street which is the heart of the present downtown district. The city has been the capital of the Hawaiian Islands since 1845 and gained historical recognition following the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan near the city on December 7, 1941. question: What does Honolulu mean?\nExample output: sheltered harbor\nExample explanation: This answer for the given question is based on the following sentence from the passage - \"Honolulu\" means \"sheltered harbor\" or \"calm port\" and this is answerable from the passage. So, it is a good answer.\nQ: story: I'm writing this letter slowly because I know you can't read fast. We don't live where we did when you left home. Your dad read in the newspaper that most accidents happened within 20 miles from our home, so we moved. \n\nI won't be able to send you the address because the last family that lived here took the house numbers when they moved so that they wouldn't have to change their address. This place is really nice. It even has a washing machine. I'm not sure it works so well though: last week I put a load in and pulled the chain and haven't seen them since. The weather isn't bad here. It only rained twice last week; the first time for three days and the second time for four days. About that coat you wanted me to send you, your uncle Stanley said it would be too heavy to send in the mail with the buttons on so we cut them off and put them in the pockets. \n\nJohn locked his keys in the car yesterday. We were really worried because it took him two hours to get me and your father out. Your sister had a baby this morning, but I haven't found out what _ is yet. The baby looks just like your brother. \n\nUncle Ted fell in a whiskey vat last week. Some men tried to pull him out, but he fought them off playfully and drowned. We had him cremated and he burned for three days. \n\nThree of your friends went off a bridge in a pick-up trunk. Ralph was driving. He rolled down the window and swam to safety. You other two friends were in back. They drowned because they couldn't get the tail gate down. \n\nThere isn't much more news at this time. Nothing much has happened. \n\nLove, \n\nMom \n\nP.S. I was going to send you some money but the envelope was already sealed., question: What happened to Uncle Ted?\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "fell in a whiskey vat", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: We all know about this famous Kitty. She has no mouth,and she wasn't born out of a TV show or a video game. So how did this cute character become popular? How did she change the world? Hello Kitty was created in Japan in 1974.Sanrio,a company in Japan,was working for a new character to put on their new purse. The first picture of Hello Kitty was introduced on November 1.She was so cute that it became popular soon in Japan and all over the world. Hello Kitty is only a character,but she has a story of her own. Her full name is Kitty White,and she's even not a Japanese. She lives in the countryside outside London with her family--George White,Mary White and her twin sister Mimmy. Hello Kitty wears a red bow on her left ear while Mimmy wears a yellow bow on her right ear. Kitty loves goldfish and baking cookies,but her favourite thing is to eat her mum's apple pie! She also loves stars and candies too.She is in the 3rd grade and she weighs as much as three apples but is five apples tall.She even had a blood (.) type,which is A. Hello Kitty's appearance hasn't changed much,though she turned 40 on November 1,2014. Question: From the passage,we can see _ . - she wears a yellow bow on her right ear - she has a twin sister - her favourite food is cookies - she is as tall as three apples\nshe has a twin sister\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: A small man goes to the cinema. He buys a ticket and goes in. But after two or three minutes he comes out. He buys a second ticket and goes in again. After a few minutes he comes out again and buys a third ticket. Two or three minutes after that he comes out a third time and asks for another ticket. But the girl says to him, \"Why are you buying all these? Are you meeting friends in the cinema all the time?\" \"No, I'm not doing that.\" the small man says, \"But a big woman always stops me at the door and tears( ) my tickets up.\" Question: The small man goes to the cinema to _ . - see a film - watch TV - meet his friends - have a rest\nsee a film\n\nQ: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Dear Jenny, I am in Beijing, China now, but my parents are in the USA. I live with my brother Peter. Beijing is big and great. There are many beautiful places and much delicious food here. I like Beijing very much. Peter and I are in the same grade, but we are in different classes. We live far from the school and it takes us a long time to go to school. We have to get up at 6:20 in the morning, and then at 6:30 we ride bikes to the bus stop. It takes us about 20 minutes. At about 7:00, we take the bus to school. We get to school at about 7:30. We have four classes in the morning and two in the afternoon. I think Chinese is too difficult, but Peter thinks it is easy. He can speak Chinese very well and he often helps me with it. How is everything going with you in the USA? Write to me soon. Love, Kate ,. Question: It takes Kate about _ to get to school from her home. - 80 minutes. - an hour - 50 minutes - half an hour\nA: an hour\n\nQuestion: Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Are you looking for a fun vacation spot? Do you like to sleep in a hotel, go shopping, and eat fancy meals? If so, Mona Island might Not be the place for you! That's because Mona Island has no hotels, no museums, no shops, and no restaurants. None at all! But if you like nature , Mona Island is an amazing place to take a vacation. Some of the animals living there are not found anywhere else in the world. There are beautiful beaches and caves to explore. The sea around the island has colorful fish. There are many things that make Mona Island an unusual place. Mona Island is very small, On a map it looks like a tiny green lima bean floating in the big blue ocean. the only way to get there is by taking a long boat ride from the island of Puerto Rico. The government of Puerto Rico takes care of the island and has made it a natural reserve. That means the island's animals and plants are protected from being harmed by people. Mona Island is different from most places because people are not allowed to live there. Only a few park rangers are able to stay. The park ranger's job is to keep Mona Island safe and beautiful. They insist that rules be followed. One rule is that only 100 people at a time can visit the island. That way, the park rangers can make sure the land and animals remain safe. B. Question: How can we get to Mona Island from the island of Puerto Rico? - By air - By underground - By train - By ship\nAnswer: By ship\n\n*Question*\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: In England, traffic keeps on the left.Cars, buses and bikes all move on the left side of the road.But the traffic keeps on the right in China.So when you are in England, you must be very careful in the street.Before you cross a street you must stop and look both ways.Look right and look left and look right again.If the traffic lights are red, the traffic must stop.Then the people on foot can cross the road.If the traffic lights are green, the traffic can go.People on foot mustn't cross. In the morning and in the evening, when people go to or come back from work, the streets are very busy.Traffic is very dangerous . When you go by bus in England, you have to be careful, too.Always remember the traffic moves on the left.If you don't have a look first, you will go the wrong way. In many English cities, there are big buses with two floors.You can sit on the second floor.From there you can see the city very well.It's very interesting. ,. Question: When the traffic lights are _ , the traffic must stop. - red - yellow - green - we don't know\n**Answer**\nred\n\n(Question)\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: He was a single father, raising a 5-year-old boy alone. He worried about his son growing up without a mother to care for him. One day he went away on business, leaving the child alone. He was worried about the child all the way, not knowing if he had eaten. But his child always told him not to worry. He went home quickly after finishing his work. When he got home, the child was deep asleep. He was tired out. When he was about to sleep himself, he was surprised to find an overturned bowl of noodles under the quilt. He spanked his sleeping son angrily:\"Why are you so naughty, making the quilt dirty? Who will wash it?\" It was the first time that he had hit his boy after his wife's death. \"I haven't,\" the boy explained with tears in his eyes. \"This is your supper, Daddy.\" In order to let his father eat dinner as soon as he got home, the boy cooked two bowls of noodles: one for himself, the other one for his father. He was afraid his father's noodles would get cold, so he placed them under the quilt to keep them hot. Hearing this, the father hugged his boy tightly without saying a word. Question: When the father knew the truth, _ . - He hit his son - He was very upset. - He hugged his son tightly. - He went outside.\n(Answer)\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "He hugged his son tightly.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "In this task, you're given an article, a question which often contains a blank and four options (associated with \"A\", \"B\", \"C\", \"D\"). Your task is to find the correct answer (from the given options) for the question from the given article and return one of the options from \"A\", \"B\", \"C\", and \"D\". Do not generate anything else apart from one of the following characters: \"A\", \"B\", \"C\", \"D\". There is only one correct answer for each question.\nQ: Article: A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspaper. \"Last week, \" he said, \"my umbrella was stolen from a London church. As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn't get it back. \" \"How did you write your advertisement? \" asked one of the listeners, a merchant. \"Here it is, \" said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper. The other man took it and read, \"Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella. The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No. 10 Broad Street. \" \"Now, \" said the merchant, \"I often advertise, and find that it pays me well. But the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of extreme importance. Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it fails, I'll buy you a new one. \" The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote: \"If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn't wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No. 10 Broad Street. He is well known. \" This appeared in the newspaper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door. In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors, and his own was among them. Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter. \n Question: The result of the first advertisement was that _ . \n Options: (A) the man got his umbrella back (B) the man wasted some money advertising (C) nobody found the missing umbrella (D) the umbrella was found somewhere near the church\nA: ", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Article: Andrew Carneigie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and, in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted partly from his ability to sell the product and partly from his policy of expanding during periods of economic decline, when most of his competitors were reducing their investments. Carnegie believed that individuals should progress through hard work, but he also felt strongly that the wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of society. He opposed charity, preferring instead to provide educational opportunities that would allow others to help themselves. \"He who dies rich, dies disgraced\", he often said. Among his more noteworthy contributions to society are those that bear his name, including the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, which has a library, a museum of fine arts, and a museum of national history. He also founded a school of technology that is now part of Carnegie-Mellon University. Other philanthropic gifts are the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote understanding between nations, the Carnegie Institute of Washington to fund scientific research, and Carnegie Hall to provide a center for the arts. _ . His contributions of more than five million dollars established 2,500 libraries in small communities throughout the country and formed the nucleus of the public library system that we all enjoy today. Question: The author quoted \"he who dies rich, dies disgraced\" in the passage to show _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"He felt strongly that the wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of society.\"?\nNo\n\n\nArticle: A young and handsome executive was driving down a neighborhood street. He thought he saw something. Then he slowed down, watching out for children rushing out from between parked cars. As his car passed, no kids appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into his door! He slammed on the brakes (make his car stop). The angry driver then jumped out of his car, caught the nearest child and pushed him up against a parked car, shouting, \"Who are you and what was that all about?\" The little boy was full of apology, \"Please,Mister... Please, I'm sorry...I didn't know what else I could do. I threw the brick because no one else would stop.\" With tears dripping down his face, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car. \"It's my brother,\" he said. \"He fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up.\" Now weeping, the boy asked the executive, \"Would you please help me to get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me.\" Touched beyond words, the executive tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the boy back into the wheelchair, then took out his fancy handkerchief and dabbed (a light touch) at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay. \"Thank you and may God bless you.\" The grateful child told the stranger. Shaken up for words, the man simply watched the little boy push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home. God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when we don't have time to listen, he has to throw a brick at us. Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention! Question: The boy threw the brick to the car in order to _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"stop someone to help him\"?\nNo\n\n\nQ: Article: When Xia Min started drinking alcohol(,) with her classmates at a friend's birthday, she didn't realize what would happen to her. She drank a lot and fell into a coma . The 15year-old girl from Chongqing never recovered. Xia's death is warning to other students. A new rule went into effect on January 1, 2006. Teens are not allowed to buy or drink alcohol. Shops are not allowed to sell it to them. A 1999 Chinese law forbade shops to sell alcohol to youths under 18. But _ is not taken seriously by shopkeepers because it doesn't have specific rules. People hope the new rule will work. \"I tasted alcohol when having the dinner of the last New Year's Eve,\" said Lian Yuqi, a 16-year-old girl in Xiamen. She believes that the new rule will stop teens from drinking and help them grow in a healthy way. \"Although it may be a little disappointing not to have beer at parties, I think we can have soft drinks instead,\" she said. Question: According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE? Yes or no, is the answer \"Shopkeepers can sell alcohol to teens above 18.\"?\nA: No\n\n\n(Q).\nArticle: \"Lizzie, there's a letter for you!\" Emily called up the stairs to her sister. Elizabeth looked down. \"Is it from Harvard? They refused my application once.\" Emily answered, \"No, it's from Yale.\" Quickly, Elizabeth walked downstairs. She took the letter and opened it. \"Rejected again,\" Elizabeth said unhappily. \"Who says women can't be doctors?\" \"They are fools not to accept you. You can't let them stop you, Lizzie,\" Emily said. \"I won't. I'll apply to Geneva Medical College,\" Elizabeth told her sister. As it turned out, the professors at Geneva Medical College were not fools. They allowed Elizabeth Blackwell to study medicine. In 1848, a year before Elizabeth would graduate, a typhoid epidemic broke out in New York. Elizabeth wrote to Emily. \"There's an outbreak of typhoid, and I am going to help. It is dangerous, so if I should not survive, please do me the honor of studying medicine yourself.\" Emily replied, \"Encouraged by your dream and success, I have decided to study in medical school, as well.\" Having survived the disease, Elizabeth tried to set up a private medical practice. \"I graduated first in my class but no one believes a woman can be a good doctor,\" she said to Emily one day. \"All I hear is that doctors should be men, while women should stay home to cook and clean.\" Emily said worriedly, \"I will graduate in June with my medical degree. What shall we do?\" Elizabeth thought for a while and replied, \"There's a big house in the poor part of our town. We can practice medicine there for people who couldn't afford care.\" Soon with the help of some friends, Elizabeth and Emily bought the house and opened a hospital for poor women and children. \"We'll have an all-women staff ,\" Elizabeth said. \"And later, we'll add a medical college for women!\" Emily added. At last, Elizabeth realized her dream of being a doctor. Question: We can learn from the text that Elizabeth _ . Yes or no, is the answer \"received strong support from her sister\"?\n(A).\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "No", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Question: According to a national study, in the summer of 2013, the long-term warm weather in the UK has made the number of butterflies increase. Around 46,000 volunteers took part in the year's Big Butterfly Count , and they found 830,000 butterflies.Volunteers were asked to make a record.They would record how many times they found one of 21 different kinds of butterflies. Later, the scientists used the records to find out how many butterflies of different kinds were found across the country.Then, they compared the results to the year before.They found that there was a rise in the number of 15 kinds of butterflies, and some of them went up by 50% compared to recent years.They said the increase in butterfly numbers was a result of warm weather. However, scientists also said that the number of butterflies was in decline as a whole, and that we might not see _ the next year. Richard Fox, who works for Butterfly Conservation, said, \"UK butterflies are in long-term decline.Studies have been done since the 1970s.They show that UK butterflies have declined in type and number.\" He added, \"We must _ the long-term decline of these beautiful creatures .The only way is by stopping the damage that has been done to the butterflies' habitats across the UK.\" The volunteers were asked to _ . A) study 830,000 butterflies B) help scientists take notes C) record the number of each kind of butterfly D) find how many kinds of butterflies there are\nAnswer: C\n\nQuestion: One day an Australian farmer,Joe,saw a bright light in the sky.The light came nearer and nearer and suddenly Joe saw that it was a spaceship landed in a field nearby. The door of the spaceship opened and two strange beings climbed out.They seemed to be half man and half bird.Joe was afraid of them.He tried to run away.But the spacemen walked towards him,picked him up and carried him into the spaceship. They asked him questions about Each.\"We're from Venus ,\"they said,\"but it is getting very hot there.A lot of our people are dying and we haven't much time left.We ale trying to find a new home.\" After some time they freed Joe and at last the spaceship took off and could not be seen. Joe told his friends about the spacemen,but no one believed his story. \"You will believe me one day\".Joe told them.\"The spacemen will come back...\" The bright light in the sky was _ . A) the sun B) Venus C) a machine D) a spaceship\nAnswer: D\n\nQuestion: One day a great general asks his soldiers , \"What is the strongest power in the world?\" Four of his soldiers put up their hands. They want to answer the question. The general asks the first man to speak. The first man is youngerst, and he is not strong. He says, \"My gun is the strongest . It can kill anyone.\" \"Thank you. Next, please.\" The second man is very strong. He says, \"I don't think so. Soldiers use guns. So the soldier is the strongest.\" The third man says, \"Soldiers use guns, but our general gives orders . So I think our general is the strongest.\" The fourth man is the oldest. He says, \"Love is the strongest. For love, people don't use guns.\" The general says noting. He takes out a medal and gives it to him. The fourth man _ . A) doesn't want to use his gun B) wants to be a general C) wants that all people love each other D) wants the general to give him a medal\nAnswer:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "C", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Chemicals used for industrial processes often create dangerous forms of waste. The amount of these chemicals has risen heavily in the past few years, as more areas of the world industrialize and new products are produced. Over 80,000 different chemicals are used in industries world wide. Around the world hundreds of millions of tons of harmful waste are produced each year. Often, it is difficult and expensive to get rid of these chemicals or to store them in a way that does not endanger human life and the environment. Every year, major health problems result from harmful waste. Sadly, it is often when someone has died or, become seriously ill that governments will take action and reduce levels of dumped harmful waste. In 1989, a school inprefix = st1 /New Jerseyhad to be closed because students there had suffered too much exposure to chromium. It was later learned that large amounts of chromium had been dumped nearby and blown over to the school area. Research has been done to provide information on the effects of every chemical. Because waste chemicals often mix together, it will also be necessary to learn how the combinations of these chemicals affect human health. Some governments have realized how serous the problem is and are making laws to get rid of harmful waste. They are also trying to limit the amount of waste industries are allowed to produce. Not only governments but the public as well must form part of the solution. They can choose not to buy those products which require the production of harmful waste, attempt to affect policymakers, and produce less harmful waste themselves. Many scientists think that waste production can be cut. The waste can be reduced by at least one-third using existing technologies and methods. Question: From the text we know that _ . - chromium can poison people when there is a wind - chromium pollution makes the local government close the school - Some governments don't realize how serious the problems are until people suffer a lot from harmful waste - about two-thirds of the waste can pollute the environment\nSome governments don't realize how serious the problems are until people suffer a lot from harmful waste\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: A Concussion happens when the brain is shaken, often in a car crash or a fall or a strike on; the head in sports.Concussions can be mild, but doctors may order a CT scan to look for a more serious injury.But a recent study warned that more children than necessary are being exposed to radiation this way. A national team led by two doctors at the University of California, Davis, studied hospital records from thousands of children with head injuries. They found that in many cases, the risk of developing cancer from the radiation outweighed the risk of a serious brain injury. The study found that one in five children over age two had a low risk of serious injury but received CT scans anyway. The same was true of almost one in four children under two years of age. The researchers have developed rules to predict if a head injury is serious enough for a scan. For children under two, doctors are advised against it if there is: *Normal mental activity. *No swelling in the back of the head. *No feeling of a broken bone in the skull. *And no loss of consciousness for more than five seconds. Doctors should also consider how the child was injured and whether the parents say the child is acting normally. For patients from two to eighteen, the guidelines are similar ---- except there should be no l vomiting and no severe headache. Earlier this year, the British Journal of Sports Medicine published new guidelines for concussions in children and teens. International experts said they should not return to sports or school until fully recovered. The brain also needs a \"cognitive rest,\" they say, by restricting activities like video games, texting and watching TV. It often take longer than adults to recover from a concussion than adults. The experts say individual progress and not a set time period should always guide a decision to return to play. Question: The researchers at the -University of California found that children who received CT scans - were likely to suffer brain injuries - wouldn't have normal mental activity - would lose consciousness now and then - were likely to develop canter\nwere likely to develop canter\n\nRead the following article and select the best answer. Article: John Blanchard was studying the crowd making their way through the station. He was looking for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn' t, the girl with the rose. When reading a book in a Florida library a year before, John became interested not in the contents of the book, but in the notes penciled in the margin . The handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and beautiful mind. He discovered the former owner' s name in the front of the book: Miss Hollis Maynell. He located her address and wrote a letter introducing himself. The next day he was shipped overseas to serve in the army. During the next year, they grew to know each other through the mail and their friendship developed. John requested a photograph, but she refused, saying if he really cared, it wouldn' t matter what she looked like. When the day finally came for him to return home, their first meeting was suggested--7:00 pm. at the Grand Central Station in New York. She wrote,\" You' ll recognize me by the red rose I wear on my coat. \"So now John was in the station to meet the girl with a rose. As a pretty and slim girl in green came over, John noticed her blue eyes like flowers in spring. He walked directly towards her , entirely forgetting she was not wearing a rose. As John came closer to her, he saw another woman with a red rose stood nearby. Well past 40, this woman had graying hair done under a worn hat. Seeing the girl in green walk quickly away, John felt as if he were split in two. He desired to follow that girl, but longed for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned and supported him. The woman looked gentle and sensible. John went to her, saying, \"1' m Captain John Blanchard. You must be Miss Maynell. I am glad to meet you here. May I take you to dinner?\" She replied with a smile, I don' t know what this is about. But the lady in green who just went by, begged me to wear this rose on my coat. She said if you asked me out to dinner, l' d tell you she is waiting for you in the big restaurant across the street. She said it... Question: What happened to John after getting in touch with Miss Hollis Maynell? - He began to serve the army abroad. - He was seriously wounded in the war. - He went on a business tour in Europe. - He asked Miss Maynell for a photo.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "He began to serve the army abroad.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "As we all know, bikes are mainly made of steel . But can you imagine that they can be made of bamboo? Do you want to know how a bamboo bike is produced? Do you want to make your own bike with bamboo? You can do it at the Bamboo Bike Studio in New York. People there can teach you how to make your own bamboo bike. The studio is also helping build factories in Ghana , which is a country in western Africa. The factories will make cheap bamboo bikes. Bamboo is as good as steel for building a good bike. Marty Odlin works at the studio. He says a bamboo bike is the wonderful everyday bike. In Ghana, bikes are very popular. Few people have money to buy a car. And people like to use bikes to carry most of the country's food and other goods. The people of Ghana are also too poor and they can't build factories to make traditional steel bikes. But making bamboo bikes is cheap. Odlin is planning to show the Ghanaian workers how to quickly make bamboo bikes now. He hopes that more and more Ghanaian people can have bamboo bikes. Why are bikes very popular in Ghana? A) Because Ghanaian people don't like cars. B) Because most Ghanaian people are very rich. C) Because Ghanaian people have to use bikes to carry food and goods. D) Because a bike is cheaper and people like to use bikes to carry things.\nD\n\n\n(Question)\nRunning a marathon Have you ever taken part in a marathon? A marathon is 42km long. It is the longest race in the world. To make the runner's body work, harder training is quite necessary. A runner should start to prepare for a marathon at least three months before. Preparation may have races, many hours of running at different speeds and changes in diet . During the training time the runner must eat a fit diet. The diet should have lots of things needed in training the players. In the early days of training, runners run 80km per week. The running is increased every two or three weeks and at least two long runs per week are needed. Two weeks before the marathon, the training programme becomes less, from 100km per week down to 60km and then to 30km in the final week. On the last two days they may not run at all. Breakfast should be eaten at least three hours before the race. Easily digested food such as cereal , toast and scrambled egg is best, with as much fluid as possible. Runners should drink water about half an hour before the race to keep up the body fluid. Players must have _ in order to run better in a marathon. A) training at different speeds and changes in diet B) much water C) lessons before the race D) many fruits\n(Answer)\nA\n\n\nQues: I am a mother of two children. Like many other parents, I worry that my children watch too much TV. Why? First, there are lots of bad programmes on TV. They may learn from them. Second, watching too much TV is bad for their eyes. Many students wear glasses because they watch TV for long hours. Third, watching too much TV makes children think little . I think it is very important for children to read some books. Reading books makes children think more. When I tell this to my children, they just don't listen to me. So I decide to sell the television set. Maybe it is a good idea. Where are there a lot of bad programmes that the woman worries? A) In films. B) On the Internet. C) On TV. D) On books.\nAns: C\n\n\n(Q).\nAccording to scientists' research, the month in which babies are born could affect them in some ways. Babies born in spring get sick easily. Children born under Aquarius may be less clever than those born in other seasons. They may also have shorter lives than those born in autumn Scientists believe many of the differences can be explained by the mother's exposure to sunlight in pregnancy . Sunlight helps lead to the production of Vitamin D in the body. The lack of this in the first months of life may have a bad effect on mental and physical health. Vitamin D, called the \"sunshine vitamin\", is known to help regulate thousands of genes during development, according to a study of more than two million people. So Vitamin D has a good effect on health This study showed that people born from April to June had slightly shorter lives than those born in October, November or December. Similar studies in the USA showed that people born in autumn lived about 160 days longer than those born in spring. Professor Russell Foster, an Oxford University neuroscientist on seasonal biology, said the conclusions were surprising and interesting. He added, \"These are small effects but they are very, very clear. I am not giving voice to star signs and they are just for fun. But it is true that we are affected by our season of birth.\" Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A) People born in spring may not be in good health. B) Children born under Aquarius are cleverer than those born under Libra. C) Professor Russell Foster is interested in star signs and believes in them D) People born in May will live longer than those born in October.\n(A).\nA\n\n\nQues:The greatest saleswoman in the world today doesn't mind if you call her a girl. That's because Markita Andrews has got more than eight thousand dollars selling Girl Scout cookies since she was seven years old. Going door-to-door after school, the terribly shy Markita changed herself into the cookie-selling dynamo . It starts with great wish. For Markita and her mother, whose husband left them when Markita was eight years old, their dream was to travel the world. \"I'll work hard to make enough money to send you to college,\" her mother said one day. \"When you leave college, you'll make enough money to take you and me around the world. Okay?\" So at the age of 13 when Markita read in her Girl Scout magazine that the Scout who sold the most cookies would win a free trip for two around the world, she decided to sell all the Girl Scout cookies she could--more Girl Scout cookies than anyone in the world, ever. Wish, however, alone is not enough. To make her dream come true, Markita knew she needed a plan. \"When you are doing business, wear your Girl Scout clothes when you go up to people in their building, \" her aunt told her. \"Always smile, whether they buy something or not and always be nice.\" Lots of other Scouts may have wanted that trip around the world, but only Markita went off in her own uniform each day after school, ready to ask--and keep asking--people to help in her dream. Markita sold 3,526 boxes of Girl Scout cookies that year and won her trip around the world. Since then, she has sold more than 42,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Markita is no cleverer than thousands of other people, with dreams of their own. The difference is that many people fail before they even begin. They fear that they will be refused. This fear leads many of us to refuse ourselves and prevents us from getting where we have set off for long before anyone else ever has the chance--no matter what we are selling. \"It takes courage to ask for what you want,\" she said. \"Courage is not that you don't have fear. It means doing what it... The main reason for Markita's success is that _ . A) she asks for what she wants before she is refused B) she isn't afraid to be refused C) her aunt has told her how to sell things D) she has a good wish\n\nAns:B\n\n\nThis is a photo of Ben's family. He has a big family. Look! Ben's grandparents are on the sofa. They are workers. They are old, so they don't work now. Ben's father is a doctor. He works in a hospital. He often drives his car to work. Ben's mother is a teacher. She teaches English in our school. The man in white is Ben's uncle. The young woman in red is Ben's aunt. They are office workers. Ben's family live in Beijing now. Ben and I are classmates. We are good friends. ,. Where do Ben's family live now? A) In Canada. B) In China. C) In England. D) In America.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "B", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: Write a negative (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive) yelp review.\nA: The woman that approached my daughter and I was rude and condescending. Even making a comment that the designer dress we seek is not carried by them because they are high end, and most likely to be found over in the \"hispanic area of town\". Just moving here from Miami, Florida where there is a melting pot of people, I was mortified by her snobby comment. Ironically, the majority of the dresses that we were told could only be found at her shop (for homecoming/prom teens) can be found at Dillards for half the price.\n\n\nQ: positive\n\nA: Love the same day appointment idea. Called this morning and was able to get in this evening with Dr Chang. Staff was very efficient and friendly. This was my first time seeing Dr Chang and he was great. I normally see Dr Herrera, both providers are excellent. Made me feel at ease and comfortable.\n\n\nProblem: What would be an example of an positive (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive) review?\n\nAnswer: Red Owl, on the southeast corner of Price Road and University Drive, offers two rooms -- the second room is known as Club Red -- where music fans can catch up-and-coming Valley bands as well as national and regional talent. Local talent such as Shelby James and Violet Wild have performed at the bar along with a local Bon Jovi tribute band who recently packed the place. The Club Red side is more of a lounge with a sofa, comfy chairs, a pool table and candlelit tables along with a stage. Think Peach Pit After Dark. The Red Owl side is more of a dive bar with cracked peanut shells littering the floor and a small stage for live music. The bar will probably see it's biggest crowd on Wednesday, Aug. 15 when C.C. DeVille of Poison hosts a Poison afterpary at the venue following the band's show at the Dodge Theatre.\n\n\nInput: OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive.\nGenerate a negative review for a place\nOutput: I stumbled in here on the Saturday after Black Friday and was immediately impressed by the lack of shoppers and overwhelming number of staff. Shelves were full of \"specials\" that had not yet been looted and based on the number of blue shirts I saw, I knew service would be easily found. I came in because this was the nearest store to my home that offered the SiriusXM radio kit with car adapter for $29. Having been a previous subscriber, this looked like a good deal and my past radio was idiot-proof installation. I found the kiosk and begin looking at the options. There were 3 or 4 different choices, all varying steps up from the $29 version. After about 30 seconds I am greeted by two employees. One girl, one guy (Sean). I pick up a radio and ask \"is this a complete kit? plug and play plus a radio?\" The girl responds \"Uhmm... I think so\" and Sean, god bless him \"No, its just a box\". Ok f#$%3er... comedy hour, huh?? So I ignore him, trying to ignore both of them and keep looking. The girl volunteers what little (and clearly wrong) knowledge she has and I just kinda give her a head nod like 'i got this' and say \"thanks\". They take the hint and both walk away. Sean, my new found friend in skinny pants loudly says \"You're Welcome!\" as he walks away with his back to me. Congratulations, Sir... you just earned a phone call to Corporate. No less than a minute later a kid comes up in a geek squad shirt. I can see the other two being seasonal hires but HE SHOULD KNOW SOMETHING!! I am looking at the box trying to figure out all of the wires that are included and I ask the simple question: Can I plug this into my car radio's aux port? His response: \"No, you have to pull the radio and install from the rear. It is kind of complicated, we offer it for $79\". In spite of the Best Buy employees, I bought the sale item I came in for, walk to my car, and no less than 5 minutes later, IN THE PARKING LOT, I am listening to SiriusXM. No $79 install, just 3 wires. Idiot-proof! They need to make the instructions a little clearer on the box so they can take it to the next level down... Best Buy Employee-proof. I will only be back if they are cheaper than everyone else. There is no value to any of their services as far as I am concerned.\n\n\ninput: Write a negative yelp review (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive).\noutput: Too loud........loudest club on the strip. $8,000 later, people were in our VIP booth uninvited. Need better security in VIP. Id rather have a root canal than go back, this club is worse than the halocaust.\n\n\nProblem: Write a negative (OPTIONS:\n- negative\n- positive) yelp review.\nA:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "The Pittsburgh Improv is unfortunately another great idea hamstrung by the details of mediocre execution (some specific examples at the end). The setup is nice, a delightful--if a bit sterile--reproduction of what you'd think a comedy club should like if you watch enough TV. The interior is clean; the seats are comfortable; and it's an OK atmosphere to see a show and laugh. It's too small, however, to attract many of the best acts, which limits its ability to ever become the central hub for Pittsburgh comedy. Most of the big names that have recently come through Pittsburgh--Jim Gaffigan, Louis CK, Second City--all perform elsewhere (though they managed to get Bob Saget, to their credit). But the biggest problem is the food and drink. They're very up front about their mandatory two item minimum, but the forced service requires that you spend extra money and get interrupted by waitstaff at least several times during the show. The prices are well above what I'd consider reasonable given the quality, and I'd begrudgingly--or even happily--just shrug off the cost the same way I would a stadium concession stand markup...but the food is bad. You're forced to either (a) buy extremely overpriced drinks (3.50 for a soda, for example, with no refills--or ten dollars for one with refills), or (b) buy moderately overpriced food which you wouldn't want in the first place. I thought the ten dollar chicken sandwich looked reasonable, until a few bites in I decided I'd rather just throw away the money than keep eating it. Still, I think this place has a lot of potential; the core idea is very workable; and they do attract some really good comedians. Two stars for now, with high hopes for improvements. A few specific drawbacks which could be VERY easily fixed: 1 - A lot of the drinks didn't have prices on them. I know this isn't uncommon, but at a venue where every question you ask interrupts not only your own show-viewing experience as well as the experiences of your neighbors, it's an incredibly poor decision here. Make everything on the menu exceptionally clear. It's not that hard. 2 - Put the drink prices on the website too. An Improv representative has personally responded to many of these Yelp reviews, and she once said \"Our menus and pricing are listed on our website, which makes for easy planning!\" I'm calling shenanigans. Not all the prices are on the website, which makes for difficult planning. 3 - Reminding me to tip my server during the show AND adding an automatic gratuity to the check makes me feel like you're trying to trick me. It's kind of an unprofessional way to say goodbye to one's customers. 4 - Since the $3.50 soft drinks don't come with free refills, the servers shouldn't ask \"would you like a refill on that?\" or anything of the sort. They should ask \"would you like another one?\" instead. They should also respond to requests for refills by saying \"we don't offer refills, but I'd be happy to get you another one.\" Just because there's a 10 dollar refillable soda option on the menu doesn't mean people all figure it out. Most patrons don't even bother reading the beverage section of the menu if all they want is a standard beverage offered almost everywhere (like a cola or diet cola), and the reading difficulties imposed by the darkness make them even less likely to browse the offerings.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "DIALOG:\nhow do you feel about guam being the 51st state\n- \"We are hopeful that this might indicate a shift in [United States] policy to its Non-Self-Governing Territories such as Guam, where they will be more willing to engage in discussions about our future and offer true support to help push us towards true self-governances and self-determination.\" The U.S. Virgin Islands explored the possibility of statehood in 1984, and most recently in a 1993 referendum, while American Samoa explored the possibility of statehood in 2005 and 2017.\n- what is the next likely candidate\n- The District of Columbia is often mentioned as a candidate for statehood.\n- why is the capital important to the nation\n- \nNext turn: In Federalist No. 43 of \"The Federalist Papers\", James Madison considered the implications of the definition of the \"seat of government\" found in the United States Constitution.\n\n\nProblem: What could be the response? DIALOG:\nWhat is meant by a truss in Engineering?\n- One engineering definition is: \"A truss is a single plane framework of individual structural member [sic] connected at their ends of forms a series of triangle [sic] to span a large distance\".\n- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?\n- A truss consists of typically (but not necessarily) straight members connected at joints, traditionally termed \"panel points\".\n- Why is it typically straight?\n- Trusses are typically (but not necessarily) composed of triangles because of the structural stability of that shape and design.\n- Why is it composed of triangles?\n- A triangle is the simplest geometric figure that will not change shape when the lengths of the sides are fixed.\n- What is the difference between a triangle and other geometric figures?\n- \nA: In comparison, both the angles and the lengths of a four-sided figure must be fixed for it to retain its shape.\n\n\nQUESTION: Write another turn of this conversation. DIALOG:\nWhat awards did John Keells Holdings win?\n- JKH was ranked number one in LMD Magazine's “Most Respected Entities in Sri Lanka” survey for 2012 and also ranked number one in Business Today Magazine's “Top 20” rankings.\n- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?\n- In 2013 The market capitalisation of JKH exceeded USD 2 billion for the first time in history.\n- What other firsts did they achieve?\n- JKH announced the development of the luxury mixed use integrated resort project, “Waterfront”.\n- Did they receive any other awards or accolades?\n- \nANS: JKH was ranked first in the LMD Magazine's “Most Respected Entities in Sri Lanka” for the eighth consecutive time and Business Today Magazine's list of Sri Lanka's Top 25 companies and was also recognized as one of the 15 great places to work in Sri Lanka through a survey conducted by the Great Place to Work Institute.\n\n\nquestion: Write a response. DIALOG:\nWhat was the reception of Super Mario Bros. 2?\n- Utilizing its considerable regional autonomy in order to avoid risking the franchise's popularity in this nascent market, Nintendo of America declined the Japanese sequel's localization to America and instead requested a newer and more player-friendly \"Super Mario Bros.\" sequel for release outside Japan.\n- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?\n- What was to eventually become this new game had originated as a prototype directed by Kensuke Tanabe, designed by a team led by Shigeru Miyamoto, and programmed by Nintendo's frequent partner, SRD.\n- What were some of the features of the game?\n- \nresponse: The first prototype's gameplay emphasizes vertically scrolling levels with two-player cooperative action: lifting, carrying, and throwing each other; lifting, carrying, throwing, stacking, and climbing objects; and incrementally scrolling the screen upward when reaching the top.\n\n\nQ: See the conversation. DIALOG:\nWhat was the main event of the Siege of Mangalore?\n- \n****\nNext: Siege of Mangalore The Siege of Mangalore was conducted during the Second Anglo-Mysore War by Tipu Sultan and forces of the Kingdom of Mysore against a British East India Company garrison led by Colonel Campbell.\n\n\nQ: See the conversation. DIALOG:\nWhat is the Grand Teton's summit elevation?\n- A short section of the route is highly exposed and previous alpine climbing experience is recommended before attempting an ascent; nonetheless, athletes with no prior climbing experience regularly reach the summit.\n- What is the most common route of ascent?\n- The Owen-Spalding route is named for the climbers who claim to have made the first ascent: William Owen, Franklin Spalding, Frank Peterson, and John Shive.\n- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?\n- There is some debate as to which group made the first ascent; see that discussion.\n- What is the most common route of ascent?\n- Notwithstanding the first-ascent controversy, this climbing route has been firmly named after William Owen and Franklin Spalding.\n- What is the length of the route?\n- The Owen-Spalding route begins at the Lower Saddle which is reached by walking from the Lupine Meadows Trailhead to Garnet Canyon and then up to the Lower Saddle on a trail that's fairly well defined.\n- What is the difficulty of the route?\n- \n****\nNext:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "The more technical & exposed part of the climb begins at the Upper Saddle.", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "DIALOG:\nWhat is known about Miller theorem in terms of applications?\n- But Miller theorem is not only an effective tool for creating equivalent circuits; it is also a powerful tool for designing and understanding circuits based on \"modifying impedance by additional voltage\".\n- what are the different applications of Miller theorem?\n- \nNext turn: Depending on the polarity of the output voltage versus the input voltage and the proportion between their magnitudes, there are six groups of typical situations.\n\n\nProblem: What could be the response? DIALOG:\nWhat was Uranium (Caria)?\n- Uranium (Caria) Uranium or Ouranion () was a town of ancient Caria, on the Bodrum Peninsula.\n- What was special about it?\n- \nA: Uranium was a \"polis\" (city-state) and a member of the Delian League.\n\n\nQUESTION: Write another turn of this conversation. DIALOG:\nWhat home consoles did Double Dragon come out on?\n- Double Dragon (video game) Originally an arcade game, home versions were released for the NES, Master System, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari ST, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Game Boy, Genesis/Mega Drive and Atari Lynx, among other platforms during the series's height of popularity.\n- What were some of the later consoles?\n- A remake titled \"Double Dragon Advance\" was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2003.\n- What was the game play?\n- The player takes control of martial artist Billy Lee, or his twin brother Jimmy (also known as Hammer and Spike in the supplementary materials for the American arcade release), as they fight their way into the turf of the Black Warriors gang in order to rescue Billy's love interest, Marian.\n- What did the characters do?\n- The player character has a repertoire of martial arts techniques which they can perform by using the joystick and three action buttons (kick, jump, and punch) individually or in combination.\n- What were some of the techniques?\n- Techniques range from basic punches and kicks to more elaborate attacks such as throws and elbow strikes.\n- Was there a way to play with two players?\n- \nANS: When playing with another player, one can grab an opponent from behind, allowing the other to attack unimpeded.\n\n\nquestion: Write a response. DIALOG:\nWhat are the different species of Holocraspedon?\n- Holocraspedon Holocraspedon is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae first described by George Hampson in 1893.\n- What are the similarities between the species?\n- Palpi porrect (extending forward) and reaching beyond the frons.\n- What are the differences between the species?\n- \nresponse: Antennae ciliated in male.\n\n\nQ: See the conversation. DIALOG:\nWhat is meant by potential energy?\n- Potential Potential generally refers to a currently unrealized ability.\n- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?\n- The term is used in a wide variety of fields, from physics to the social sciences to indicate things that are in a state where they are able to change in ways ranging from the simple release of energy by objects to the realization of abilities in people.\n- What in the article is a highlight of the social sciences?\n- The philosopher Aristotle incorporated this concept into his theory of potentiality and actuality, a pair of closely connected principles which he used to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology in his \"Physics\", \"Metaphysics\", \"Nicomachean Ethics\" and \"De Anima\", which is about the human psyche.\n- What is the difference between potential and actual energy?\n- \n****\nNext: That which is potential can theoretically be made actual by taking the right action; for example, a boulder on the edge of a cliff has potential energy that could be actualized by a push forcing it over the edge of the cliff, and a person whose natural aptitudes give them the potential to be a great pianist can actualize that potential by diligently practicing playing the piano.\n\n\nQ: See the conversation. DIALOG:\nWhat is your connection between Bromfield and the broader world?\n- \n****\nNext:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Bromfield Bromfield may refer to:", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Q: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Two new whale sharks arrived at the world's largest aquarium on Friday. Both whale sharks, the world's largest fish, arrived at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta after 6 a.m. The pair had been flown 8,000 miles from Taipei, Taiwan. They will join the aquarium's three whale sharks--the only ones on display outside of Asia. \" We re the only people in the world that can claim three times, \" aquarium director Jeff Swanagan said, \" Each time we learn more and more.\" The two young males were given Asian names. One is Taroko, named after Taroko Gorge, a national park in Taiwan. The other is Yushan, which means \"Jade Mountain\", and is named after a mountain in Taiwan. The sharks were flown from Taiwan on a plane in 20-foot-long tanks with oxygen machines and other equipment to keep the water suitable for them. They arrived at about 3:30 a.m. in Atlanta, where their tanks were moved to two trucks and driven to the aquarium surrounded by some of Atlanta police cars with their blue lights flashing. They were lowered into their new home--as Norton and two females, Alice and Trixie, circled nearby, seemingly curious about the new arrivals. It is difficult to tell the age of the whale sharks, but at least one of the new arrivals is believed to be the smallest the aquarium has got. They are believed to be the aquarium's youngest whale sharks yet. Question: The passage makes us believe that _ . Options: A: the author helped ship the sharks B: the author loves sharks too much C: the two new sharks are younger than the former ones D: Sharks are widely seen across the world\nA: C\n\n\nQ: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: \"Old wives' tales\" are beliefs passed down from one generation to another. For example,most of us remember our parents' telling us to eat more of certain foods or not to do certain things. Is there any truth in these teachings? Some of them agree with present medical thinking,but others have not passed the test of time. Did your mother ever tell you to eat your carrots because they are good for your eyes? Scientists now report that eating carrots can help prevent a serious eye disease called macular degeneration. Eating just one carrot a day can reduce the possibility of getting this disease by 40%. Garlic is good for you,too. It can kill the type of virus that causes colds. Unfortunately, not all of Mom's advice passed the test of medical studies. For example, generations of children have been told not to go swimming within an hour after eating. But research suggests that there is no danger in doing so. Do sweets cause tooth problems?Well, yes and no. Sticky sweets made with grains tend to cause more problems than sweets made with simple sugars. Even though science can tell us that some of our traditional beliefs don't _ there is still a lot of truth in the old wives' tales. After all, much of this knowledge has been accumulated from thousands of years of experience in family health care. We should respect this body of knowledge even as we search for clear scientific support to prove it true or false. Question: Which of the following is TRUE according to the text? Options: A: Sticky sweets are damaging to our teeth. B: Eating garlic is good for our eyes. C: Swimming after a meal is dangerous. D: Carrots prevent people from catching colds.\nA: A\n\n\nQ: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Recently, a young man saw a beggar at a street in Chongqing. \"I know you. Let me take a picture of you.\" With the words, the young man took a picture and then gave him ten yuan. The beggar is named Xia Haibo, born in Hubei Province. Being 25 years old, he is quite a special beggar in some ways---he doesn't beg on his knees, as other beggars do when begging. Rather, he often stands in a crowded street , either reading a book or thinking over something. As a beggar, he has opened his blog on the Internet and his blog has been clicked more than 500,000 times now. He likes reading---he has read a lot of poems written by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. He has also read many old Chinese poems. He has kept writing and recently, he planned to publicize his writings. As a beggar, he is so special that many people call him \"the greatest beggar in history\". In 1998,Xia was enrolled by Tianmen Middle School as the best student in town. However , a year before he took the national college entrance exam ,he was diagnosed as having rheumatoid arthritis . In order to cure his disease, his father borrowed 60,000 yuan. However, with this money , he didn't recover from the disease. He did not want to become a burden for his family any more. So he went to Wuhan , making a living by begging. So far Haibo has been to Beijing, Guangzhou, Haikou, Fuzhou, Xiamen ,Changsha and Kunming. \"Begging has become a job. I earn about 2,000 yuan every month,\" Xia said. However, he doesn't plan to go on living like this . \"By July 24 in 2009, when I have been begging for two years, I will stop my begging life. I promise ,\"he said. Question: Which of the following is NOT the reason why Xia Haibo is considered a special beggar? Options: A: He kneels down while begging. B: He often stands in a crowded street, thinking over something. C: He is fond of reading and has read many poems. D: He has his own blog which is well received by readers.\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "A: A", "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Problem: OPTIONS:\n- Day care is safe, otherwise there wouldn't be so many nursery schools.\n- Parents find the immediate effects of early day care difficult to deal with.\n- Many studies show that day care has a positive effect on children's development.\n- Separation from parent for very young children is common in some traditional societies.\nQ: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: The British psychoanalyst John Bowlby maintains that separation from the parents during the sensitive \"attachment\" period from birth to three may scar a child's personality and lead to emotional problems in later life. Some people have drawn the conclusion from Bowlby's work that children should not be subjected to day care before the age of three because of the parental separation it causes, and many people do believe this. But there are also arguments against such a strong conclusion. Firstly, anthropologists point out that the insulated love affair between children and parents found in modern societies does not usually exist in traditional societies. For example, in some tribal societies, such as the Ngoni, the father and mother of a child did not bring up their infant alone - far from it. Secondly, common sense tells us that day care would not be so widespread today if parents, care-takers found children had problems with it. Statistical studies of this kind have not yet been carried out, and even if they were, the results would be certain to be complicated and controversial. Thirdly, in the last decade, there have been a number of careful American studies of children in day care, and they have uniformly reported that day care had a neutral or slightly positive effect on children's development. But tests that have had to be used to measure this development are not widely enough accepted to settle the issue. But Bowlby's analysis raises the possibility that early day care has delayed effects. The possibility that such care might lead to, say, more mental illness or crime 15 or 20 years later can only be explored by the use of statistics. Whatever the long-term effects, parents sometimes find the immediate effects difficult to deal with. Children under three are likely to protest at leaving their parents and show unhappiness. At the age of three or three and a half almost all children find the transition to nursery easy, and this is undoubtedly why more and more parents make use of child care at this time.... Question: Which of the following statements is NOT against Bowlby's theory? Answer:\nAnswer: Parents find the immediate effects of early day care difficult to deal with.\n\n\nProblem:OPTIONS:\n- remain the same\n- go on to rise sharply\n- begin to drop obviously\n- rise a little\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: South Asia heatwave kills nearly 100 DHAKA - A heat wave sweeping India, Bangladesh and Nepal has killed nearly 100 people over the past two weeks, officials said on June 3, 2005. A third of the people died in northern Bangladesh, mostly women and children from dehydration , heat stroke and diarrhoea . \"We are getting reports of several deaths due to heat wave and related diseases almost every day,\" an official said, as temperatures touched 43degC . The weather office in Dhaka said the hot weather will persist for another week until the monsoon rains which are normally due by the middle of June. Severe heat conditions in the southern Indian have killed at least 55 people, officials in the two states said. While temperatures have fallen from a high of 45degC in Andhra Pradesh to around 40degC, giving a respite to people, they are still on the rise in Orissa with Talcher town registering 48.5deg C, a weather official said. At least five people have died in prefix = st1 /Nepalfrom extreme heat, the government said. Question: When the monsoon rains come, the temperature will _ . Answer:\n****\nA: begin to drop obviously\n\n\nRead the following article and answer the question. Article: Robots have proved to be valuable tools for soldiers,surgeons and homeowners hoping to keep the carpet clean. But in each case,they are designed and built specifically for the job. Now there is a movement under way to build multipurpose machines-robots that can move about in changing environments such as offices or living rooms and work with their hands. All-purpose robots are not,of course,a new idea.\"It's been five or 10 years from happening for about 50 years,\"says Eric Berger,co-director of the Personal Robotics Program at Willow Garage,a Silicon Valley organization. The delay is in part because even simple tasks require a huge set of capabilities. For a robot to fetch a mug,for example,it needs to make sense of data gathered by a variety of sensors-laser scanners identifying potential blocking objects,cameras searching for the target,force feedback in the fingers that grasp the mug,and more. Yet Berger and other experts are confident that real progress could be made in the next decade. The problem,according to Willow Garage,is the lack of a common platform for all that computational effort. Instead of enlarging the capabilities of a single machine,everyone is designing robots and the software to control them,from the ground up. To help change this,Willow Garage is currently producing 25 copies of its model PR2 (for\"Personal Robot 2\"),a two-armed,wheeled machine that can switch off the electricity,open doors and move through a room. Ten of the robots will stay in-house,but 10 more will go t o outside research groups,and everyone will share their advances. This way,Berger says,if you want to build the robotic equivalent of a Twitter ,you won't start by constructing a computer.\"You build the thing that's new.\" Question: According to Willow Garage,we will make real progress in building all-purpose robots if . Answer:\nOPTIONS:\n- everyone is designing robots and the software to control them\n- they can produce 25 copies of its model PR2\n- people can enlarge the capabilities of a single machine\n- people can start by constructing a computer\neveryone is designing robots and the software to control them\n\n\ninput: OPTIONS:\n- will soon be possible for common people\n- has attracted the attention of some people\n- will make a large profit for the tourist industry\n- is considered an industry with a huge future by many people Now, answer this question: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: The Barcelonabased architects of the Galactic Suite Space Resort say it will cost $4.4 million for a threenight stay at the hotel. This price also includes an eightweek training course on an island. During their stay, guests would see the sunrise 15 times a day and travel around the world every 80 minutes. Galactic Suite Ltd's CEO Xavier Claramunt says the project will put his company in a leading position of a new industry with a huge future ahead of it, and forecasts space travel will become common in the future. \"It's very normal to think that your children, possibly within 15 years, could spend a weekend in space\" he told Reuters Television. A promising space tourism industry is beginning to take shape with construction in progress in New Mexico of Spaceport America, the world's first facility built specifically for passengers. British industrialist Richard Branson's space tours firm, Virgin Galactic, will use the facility to send tourists to space at a cost of $200,000 a ride. Galactic Suite Ltd, set up in 2007, hopes to start its project with a single pod in orbit 280 miles above the earth. \"It will take a day and a half to reach the pod, and the passengers will join it for three days,\" Claramunt said. More than 200 people have expressed an interest in traveling to the space hotel and at least 43 people have already reserved it. The numbers are similar for Virgin Galactic with 300 people already paid or signed up for the trip, but unlike Branson, Galactic Suite says they will use Russian rockets to transport their guests into space from a spaceport to be built on an island in the Caribbean. But critics have questioned the project, saying the length of time that will be used is unreasonable and also where the money is coming from to support the project. Question: According to the passage, traveling to the space hotel _ . Answer:\nA:\noutput:", "role": "user" }, { "content": "has attracted the attention of some people", "role": "assistant" } ]