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In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
what is the first type of structure mentioned?, Context: The palace measures 108 metres (354 ft) by 120 metres (390 ft), is 24 metres (79 ft) high and contains over 77,000 m2 (830,000 sq ft) of floorspace. The floor area is smaller than the Royal Palace of Madrid, the Papal Palace in Rome, the Louvre in Paris, the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, or the Forbidden City. There are 775 rooms, including 19 state rooms, 52 principal bedrooms, 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices, and 78 bathrooms. The principal rooms are contained on the piano nobile behind the west-facing garden façade at the rear of the palace. The centre of this ornate suite of state rooms is the Music Room, its large bow the dominant feature of the façade. Flanking the Music Room are the Blue and the White Drawing Rooms. At the centre of the suite, serving as a corridor to link the state rooms, is the Picture Gallery, which is top-lit and 55 yards (50 m) long. The Gallery is hung with numerous works including some by Rembrandt, van Dyck, Rubens and Vermeer; other rooms leading from the Picture Gallery are the Throne Room and the Green Drawing Room. The Green Drawing Room serves as a huge anteroom to the Throne Room, and is part of the ceremonial route to the throne from the Guard Room at the top of the Grand Staircase. The Guard Room contains white marble statues of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, in Roman costume, set in a tribune lined with tapestries. These very formal rooms are used only for ceremonial and official entertaining, but are open to the public every summer.
Output: | palace |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Problem:Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump signed off on press secretary Sean Spicer's decision to check aides' cell phones to make certain they weren't communicating with reporters by text message or through encrypted apps, multiple sources confirmed to CNN on Monday. The decision sent a signal across the administration that Trump is furious at leaks from inside the White House. The sources also said the President gave his blessing before Spicer blocked reporters from the briefing last Friday. When reached by CNN, Spicer denied that Trump was involved in either decision. "(Trump) did not sign off or even know what I did. That is not accurate," he said, later adding, "I don't believe he even knew there was a gaggle and in no way was it discussed with him or any other staffer."Spicer recently did a check of White House staffers' phonesSpicer denies that Trump signed off
Question:One person close to the situation described _ as the "enforcer."
Solution: | Sean Spicer |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
One example: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
Solution is here: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Explanation: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Now, solve this: Lake of the Woods is over 70 miles (110 km) long and wide, and contains more than 14,552 islands and 65,000 miles (105,000 km) of shoreline. It would amount to the longest coastline of any Canadian lake, except that the lake is not entirely within Canada. Lake of the Woods is also the sixth largest freshwater lake located (at least partially) in the United States, after the five Great Lakes.
Solution: | how many acres is lake of the woods |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Example: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
Example solution: Russian Revolution
Example explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Problem: What was a growing problem for the overlords?, Context: Following years of mistreatment, the Taínos began to adopt suicidal behaviors, with women aborting or killing their infants and men jumping from the cliffs or ingesting untreated cassava, a violent poison. Eventually, a Taíno Cacique named Enriquillo managed to hold out in the Baoruco Mountain Range for thirteen years, causing serious damage to the Spanish, Carib-held plantations and their Indian auxiliaries. Hearing of the seriousness of the revolt, Emperor Charles V (also King of Spain) sent captain Francisco Barrionuevo to negotiate a peace treaty with the ever-increasing number of rebels. Two months later, after consultation with the Audencia of Santo Domingo, Enriquillo was offered any part of the island to live in peace.
| Solution: serious damage to the Spanish, Carib-held plantations and their Indian auxiliaries |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
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Question: If you need to know how to do a certain skill where will you likely learn how?, Context: Canada's Armed forces operate out of 27 Canadian Forces bases (CFB) across the country, including NDHQ. This number has been gradually reduced since the 1970s with bases either being closed or merged. Both officers and non-commissioned members receive their basic training at the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. Officers will generally either directly enter the Canadian Armed Forces with a degree from a civilian university, or receive their commission upon graduation from the Royal Military College of Canada. Specific element and trade training is conducted at a variety of institutions throughout Canada, and to a lesser extent, the world.
Answer: at a variety of institutions throughout Canada
Question: Were more soldiers or vehicles evacuated to Pusan?, Context: During the Hungnam evacuation, about 193 shiploads of UN Command forces and matériel (approximately 105,000 soldiers, 98,000 civilians, 17,500 vehicles, and 350,000 tons of supplies) were evacuated to Pusan. The SS Meredith Victory was noted for evacuating 14,000 refugees, the largest rescue operation by a single ship, even though it was designed to hold 12 passengers. Before escaping, the UN Command forces razed most of Hungnam city, especially the port facilities; and on 16 December 1950, President Truman declared a national emergency with Presidential Proclamation No. 2914, 3 C.F.R. 99 (1953), which remained in force until 14 September 1978.[b] The next day (17 December 1950) Kim Il-sung was deprived of the right of command of KPA by China. After that, the leading part of the war became the Chinese army. Following that, on 1 February 1951, United Nations General Assembly adopted a draft resolution condemning China as an aggressor in the Korean War.
Answer: soldiers
Question: An object that is fixed in place and cannot move is said to be also what?, Context: The normal force is due to repulsive forces of interaction between atoms at close contact. When their electron clouds overlap, Pauli repulsion (due to fermionic nature of electrons) follows resulting in the force that acts in a direction normal to the surface interface between two objects.:93 The normal force, for example, is responsible for the structural integrity of tables and floors as well as being the force that responds whenever an external force pushes on a solid object. An example of the normal force in action is the impact force on an object crashing into an immobile surface.
Answer: | immobile
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Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
Two men are seen walking out of frame followed by a band following police bikes. the band
OPTIONS:
- performs dancing around one another while grabbing autographs and interviews follow.
- does tricks all around a track while people watch on the sidelines.
- then rides away singing under their breath loudly and leads into more clips of them performing.
- plays instruments as people walk around.
A: plays instruments as people walk around.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to make oreo cheesecake
Preheat the oven to 350 ° f (177 ° c).
If you are using a dark, nonstick pan, lower the oven temperature to 325 ° f (162 ° c).
Mix together the 26 crushed oreo cookies and melted butter in a food processor.
OPTIONS:
- Don't have fluffy oreo cookies? Quick! Add the butter, muffin mix and vanilla essence and blend in the cream until you get a glossy, unrefined mixture. Make sure there are no white spots.
- This recipe requires ½ of a cookie cutter and 1 cup of crushed oreo cookies. Do not mince the cookies since doing so may create clumps.
- Pulse the oreo cookies in the food processor until you get fine crumbs first. Add the melted butter and blend again until smooth.
- Place each cookie onto a large, nonstick plate. Put the mixture in the freezer.
A: Pulse the oreo cookies in the food processor until you get fine crumbs first. Add the melted butter and blend again until smooth.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
A woman is parasailing in the ocean. she
OPTIONS:
- slows down and points at a display.
- goes through tough waves.
- climbs on the board as the waves hit her.
- maneuvers through the waves on her board.
A: goes through tough waves.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to grow a plumeria
Choose a warm location.
Plumerias require temperatures of at least 65 to 80 degrees fahrenheit (about 18 to 27 degrees celsius). They will not survive in temperatures below 55 degrees fahrenheit (about 13 degrees celsius).
OPTIONS:
- Plant 1 to 3 plumerias per pot. You can plant them in pots outdoors or at the base of a tree in colder climates.
- Do not plant the plumeria indoors in a pot. When the weather permits, always plant plumerias in pots that can withstand the sun's rays.
- Just about any tropical location should be plenty warm. If you're planning to plant your plumeria in your backyard, try it in an area that receives indirect heat, such as around your house or garden.
- Any parts of the plant exposed to freezing temperatures will die. Therefore, it is important to choose the right location.
A: | Any parts of the plant exposed to freezing temperatures will die. Therefore, it is important to choose the right location. |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:
Venus and Mars is the fourth studio album by Wings. Released in 1975 as the follow-up to the successful "Band on the Run", "Venus and Mars" continued Wings' string of success and would prove a springboard for a year-long worldwide tour. It was Paul McCartney's first post-Beatles album to be released worldwide on the Capitol Records label.
Sentence: Wings released 3 studio albums before Venus and Mars. | Yes |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
The streets of New Hampton were relatively quiet on Saturday evening as New Hampton Police Officer Chad McGee patrolled the city.It wasn't a typical Saturday evening; after all, it was Christmas Eve.Still, McGee knew at any time he could be called."I've done enough Christmases to know that things happen," he said. "You have families together in close quarters, sometimes there's alcohol involved and yes, we've dealt with domestics ... even on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day."For the complete story see the 12/27/2016 New Hampton Tribune.
Hypothesis: Chad McGee is avid supporter of: animal rights, putting a stop to human trafficking, the global legalization of marijuana, and racial equality. | It's impossible to say |
Ques: Cats are creatures of habit. They like to go to sleep about the same time every day and for a certain length of time. They seem to have a natural clock inside them that tells them when to sleep. Cats increase their regular sleep with occasional cat naps . Some experts feel that humans could also benefit from this habit. Cat naps help to build up energy in the body. They are also a good way to get rid of trouble! Since cats have the same moods as humans, some experts believe that people can improve their moods. People might become happier. A number of famous people have copied cats by taking cat naps during the day. The naps would usually last from 15 to 30 minutes. Winston Churchill took cat naps. So did Presidents Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. These famous men were known for their energy. They were also able to work long hours, often into the night. Napping was their secret. Taking cat naps _ . A) will make a person lazy and tried B) is a bad habit C) will make people feel better D) can help people to become famous
Ans: C
Ques: Every human being has a unique arrangement of the skin on his fingers and this arrangement is unchangeable. Scientists and experts have proved the uniqueness of finger-prints and discovered that no exactly similar pattern is passed on from parents to children, though nobody knows why this is the case. The ridge structure on a person's fingers does not change with growth and is not affected by surface injuries. Burns, cuts and other damage to the outer part of the skin will be replaced in time by new one which bears a reproduction of the original pattern. It is only when the inner skin is injured that the arrangement will be destroyed. Some criminals make use of this fact to remove their own finger-prints but this is a dangerous and rare step to take. Finger-prints can be made very easily with printer's ink. They can be recorded easily. With special methods, identification can be achieved successfully within a short time. Because of the simplicity and economy of this system, finger-prints have often been used as a method of solving criminal case. A suspected man may deny a charge but this may be in vain. His finger-prints can prove who he is even if his appearance has been changed by age or accident. When a suspect leaves finger-prints behind at the scene of a crime, they are difficult to detect with the naked eye. Special techniques are used to "develop" them. Some of the marks found are incomplete but identification is possible if a print of a quarter of an inch square can be obtained. Finger-prints have often been used as a method of solving criminal case because it _ . A) is complicated but reliable B) is simple and not expensive C) is expensive but easy to do D) can bring a lot of money
Ans: B
Ques: In 1933 an unknown American called Clarence Nash went to see the film-maker Walter Disney. He had an unusual voice and he wanted to work in Disney's cartoon film for children. When Walter Disney heard Nash's voice, he said, "Stop! That's our duck!" The duck was the now-famous Donald Duck, who first appeared in 1934 in the film, The Wise Little Hen. Donald lived in an old houseboat and worn his sailor jacket and hat. Later that year he became a star after an eight minute Mickey Mouse film. The cinema audiences liked him because he was lazy and greedy, and because he lost his temper very easily. And they loved his voice when he became angry with Mickey's eight nephews. Soon Donald was more popular than Mickey Mouse himself, probably because he wasn't a goody-goody, like Mickey. In the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Donald and his friends Mickey, Goofy and Pluto made hundreds of Disney cartoons. He also made educational film about the place of the USA in the world, and safety in the home. Then in 1966 Donald Duck and his voice disappeared--there were no more new cartoons. Clarence Nash died in February, 1985. But today's Children can still see the old cartoons on the television and hear that famous voice. Who made Donald Duck cartoons? A) Mickey Mouse. B) Clarence Nash. C) Walter Disney. D) Pluto.
Ans: C
Ques: Kids love the all-knowing Google. Your kids likely use Google to help them find everything from information for homework assignments, to funny cat videos, and everything in between. Sometimes kids can take a "wrong turn" on Google and end up in a dark part of the Internet where they shouldn't be. Thankfully, Google has some parental control features that parents can implement to at least help reduce the volume of crap that ends up in search results,which can enable you to help keep your curious kids from ending up on the wrong side of the tracks. What is Google SafeSearch? Google SafeSearch is one of the primary parental control options offered by Google to help parents police search results. SafeSearch helps to filter explicit content out of search results. It is mainly designed to target sexually explicit material (images and videos) and not violent content. How to Enable Google SafeSearch?1. From the "Search Settings" preferences page, place a check in the box with the label "Filter explicit results". 2. To lock this setting so that your child can't change it, click the "Lock SafeSearch" link. If you are not already logged into your Google account, you will need to do so in order to lock SafeSearch to the "on" position. Enable SafeSearch on Mobile Devices. In addition to your computer, you will probably also want to enable SafeSearch on any mobile device that your child uses regularly. For instructions on how to enable SafeSearch on a variety of mobile devices, check out Google's SafeSearch Mobile support page. As we all know, kids are going to be kids and try to test their boundaries. We put up one roadblock and they go around it. It's a constant cat and mouse game and there will always be some internet door that we as parents forget to lock, and that will be the one that the kids get through, but we do the best we can. What's the best title of the passage? A) How to use Google to help kids find everything. B) What is the meaning of Google SafeSearch. C) How to make Google safer for your kids. D) How to set Google SafeSearch for your kids.
Ans: | C |
How many coins have you got in your pocket right now? Three? Two? or One? With a phonecard you can make up to 200 calls without any change at all. 1. _ Go to a telephone box marked "Phonecard". Put in your card to start, make your call and when you have finished, a screen tells you how much is left on your card. It costs no extra for the cards, and the calls cost 10p per unit, the same as any other pay-phone call. You can buy them in units of 10, 20, 40, 100 or 200. 2. _ Near each phonecard place you will find a shop where you can buy one. They're at bus, train and city tube stations. At many universities, hospitals and clubs, restaurants and gas stations on the highway and shopping centers. At airports and seaports. 3. _ Most broken payphones are like that because they've been damaged. There are no coins in a cardphone to excite thieves' interest in it. So you're not probably to find a broken one. Get a phonecard yourself and try it out. Or get a bigger wallet. There are three sections in the passage. Which one do you think is about why phonecards are good? A) Section 1 B) Section 2. C) Section 3. D) none.
C
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Cooking programs and classes for children seem to positively influence children's food preferences and behaviors, according to a recent review. And, although the review didn't look at long-term effects of such programs, the findings suggest that such programs might help children develop long-lasting healthy habits. This research comes at a time when childhood obesity rates have been rising rapidly. More than one-third of adolescents in the United States were obese in 2012, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This trend has been caused, at least in part, by a significant decrease in the amount of meals that people consume at home since the 1980s, according to background information in the study. Cooking education programs, such as Food Explorers, teach children about new healthy foods and how to prepare them. They also stress the importance of eating five fruits and vegetables every day. A volunteer parent explains a new food to the group, and the kids make something based on the lesson, such as fruit or vegetable salad. Depending on the program, kids may be sent home with information about healthy foods to bring to their parents, the review explained. The study team reviewed eight other studies that tested different types of cooking education programs. Children in these classes were between 5 and 12 years old, according to the review. The goal of the study team was to learn more about developing an efficient program to encourage healthy food choices that last a lifetime. The study found that it is particularly important to expose kids to healthy foods on a number of occasions. This makes them feel comfortable with the new foods, which helps them build healthy habits. The study stressed the importance of getting parents involved in their children's eating habits. Parents who are unable to enroll their kids in a cooking class can achieve similar benefits by having their kids help them while they prepare meals at home. Children are more comfortable at home, which makes them... On cooking education programs, _ . A) children learn how to prepare foods from their parents B) children will learn how to cook in the company of their parents C) children may learn information unknown to their parents D) children focus more on cooking skills than on information about healthy foods
C
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AFRICAN MANGO FAQs Q : How do I use AFRICAN MANGO? A : It's simple... Just take one rapid - release capsule , 3 times daily before meals (i.e., 30 minutes before breakfast, lunch, and dinner.) Q : Is it safe? A : Yes. Unlike other diet pills, Pure African Mango Extract (lrvingia gabonensis) does not contain any natural or artificial stimulants. Clinical studies have shown this nutrient to be both safe and well-tolerated. It's easy on your system and helps you lose body fat naturally. Q : Who uses AFRICAN MANGO? A : Everybody from A-List Hollywood movie stars to everyday men and women who want to lose pounds and inches of excess body fat. It's currently popular in Hollywood today because many of today's movie scripts call for actors and actresses to be in their absolute best shape. Q : Do I have to exercise and diet in order to see results? A : Research shows 100% Pure African Mango Extract helped people lose weight and belly fat without additional diet or exercise. However, in order to achieve your best weight-loss results, we highly recommend incorporating fun lifestyle exercises (like walking, tennis, etc.) and replacing high-calorie foods with healthy nutrient-dense foods like fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and lean proteins. Also, drinking more water daily speeds weight loss, according to a new study from Viginia Tech University. Q : When I place my order, it's a one-time-only transaction , right? A : Yes. Rest assured. When you shop with us, you can shop with confidence and peace of mind. Every order placed with us is 100% safe and secure. Our site is scanned and tested daily by McAfee SECURE. "The McAfee SECURE" trust mark (see the upper-left corner of our website) only appears when the website has passed their intensive, daily security scan. What's more, our customers never have to worry about being enrolled in auto-reship or auto-rebilling scams . Each and every order placed with us is a one-time-only transaction. CONSUMER TIP: Beware of sites that offer "free trials", which claim to... What does the word FAQs in the title of the article mean? A) Fully accepted qualities. B) Fantastic African qualities. C) Face - to - face associated quotations. D) Frequently asked questions.
D
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Oscars organizers promised a new progress to this month's Academy Awards to greet this year's nominees . After years of falling view that ended in last year's 80th Oscars recording low view rate,the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has to make a fresh start for Hollywood's yearly show. The coproducers of the February 22 show,Bill Condon and Laurence Mark,have so far kept full details of their planned changes to the Oscars' triedandtested method secret. Oscars organizers have already made sure of one change by announcing Australian actor Hugh Jackman as the host of the show. Among the changes reported to be considered are the decision to leave out the ceremony's opening monologue . The names of the invited on the awards night have also been kept secret while in earlier years the Academy made presenters to the ceremony public before weeks. TheNewYorkTimesreported on Monday that the producers are trying to improve the show by asking studios to provide scenes from films. At the same time Ganis also advised nominees to give some thought to make their acceptance speeches memorable-and short. "As for the acceptance speeches-you know what's required," Ganis said."Be brief,be personal and be heartfelt. _ " This year's Oscars are expected to be a great event. Many films will touch you,"Slumdog Millionaire"has 10 nominations,and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" with 13.In the past the film with the most Oscar nominations is the one that has succeeded in box office. Oscars organizers want to improve the ceremony of Academy Awards because _ . A) the view rate of it is falling B) the nominees don't like to attend C) people in Hollywood are against it D) the 80th Oscars was best organized
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Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A woman demonstrates how to do sit ups, in a gym room, using a woman who is simulating the exercise as an example. A woman kneels on the hardwood floors of a gym room and talks to the camera. the camera
Possible answers:
A). shows a man on a rowing machine onto a pink mat in a carpeted gym room.
B). pans around the room in a closeup while the woman moves down next to the door and continues doing sit ups.
C). quickly zooms in on the woman, and focuses on the muscles it boyfriend should be exercising with.
D). pans out and another woman is revealed lying on her back on a gym mat as the woman kneeling above her continues to talk. | D). |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Manchester United paid a 'premium' for Monaco's Anthony Martial in a bid to beat off competition for the teenager's services from Barcelona, Paris St Germain, Chelsea and Manchester City. A source at the club likened the situation, which saw United shell out a highly-criticised fee for the 19-year-old of £36million, to that of the capture of Cristiano Ronaldo from Sporting Lisbon 12 years ago. The Portugese, then 18, cost United £12.24m in 2003 - a sum which raised eyebrows across the world of football. But after six glittering years at Old Trafford Ronaldo was sold to Real Madrid for a staggering £80m.French striker Anthony Martial joined Manchester United for £36millionBut clauses and add-ons in the deal could see it rise as high as £58mSource says the fee was needed to beat rivals across Europe to transfer
Question:But the club are adamant that _ was a long-term target and they are happy with the business. | Anthony Martial |
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is a 1994 live-action American adventure film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Edward S. Feldman and Raju Patel, from a story by Ronald Yanover and Mark Geldman. It is the second film adaptation by The Walt Disney Company of the Mowgli stories from "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling.
Sentence: The Jungle Book movie has been produced at least twice by The Walt Disney Company.
Output: Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
The Sandlot is a 1993 American coming-of-age baseball film co-written and directed by David M. Evans, which tells the story of a group of young baseball players during the summer of 1962. It stars Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Karen Allen, Denis Leary and James Earl Jones. The filming locations were in Glendale, Midvale, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, Utah.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: The sandlot was co-written and directed by the same guy.
****
Answer:
Yes
[Q]: Unlike a charitable foundation, a private foundation does not generally solicit funds from the public. And a private foundation does not have the legal requirements and reporting responsibilities of a registered, non-profit or charitable foundation. Not all foundations engage in philanthropy: some private foundations are used for estate planning purposes. Private foundations don't usually solicit funds from the public. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: Yes
Problem: Clarendon is an urbanized, upper-class neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia, located between the Rosslyn area and the Ballston area. It was named after Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, a leading statesman and historian of the English Civil War. The main thoroughfares are Wilson Boulevard (one-way westbound) and Clarendon Boulevard (one-way eastbound).
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Edward Hyde was born in seventeen hundred eighty six."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Greatest Hits Volume 1 was bought by Earl.
Greatest Hits Volume 1 is a greatest hits compilation album by The Beatles which was exclusive to Australia and New Zealand. The album was compiled by EMI Australia to fill in the gap between "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" (much like "A Collection of Beatles Oldies" would in 1966 in between "Revolver" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band").
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Batalha dos Confeiteiros aired outside of Brazil.
Batalha dos Confeiteiros (English: "Battle of the Bakers"), also known as Batalha dos Confeiteiros Brasil, is a Brazilian television series based on "Next Great Baker", hosted by Buddy Valastro, the star of his own reality series, "Cake Boss". The series premiered Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 10:30 p.m. on Record.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:
Say Anything is a board game designed by Dominic Crapuchettes and Satish Pillalamarri. It was released by North Star Games in 2008 as a follow up to the award-winning Wits & Wagers. Say Anything is very similar to Wits & Wagers except players answer open-ended subjective questions instead of trivia questions. The goal of Say Anything is to get people talking about interesting things and laughing.
Sentence: North Star Games released a board game in 2008. | Yes |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Same-sex marriage campaigners and volunteers cheer as they call on politicians to pass marriage equality legislation during rally outside Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017.... (Associated Press)
Same-sex marriage campaigners and volunteers cheer as they call on politicians to pass marriage equality legislation during rally outside Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017.... (Associated Press)
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian Parliament voted on Thursday to allow same-sex marriage across the nation, following a bitter and divisive debate settled by the government polling voters in a much-criticized ballot survey that strongly endorsed change.
The public gallery of the House of Representatives erupted with applause when the bill passed to change the definition of marriage from solely between a man and a woman to "a union of two people" excluding all others. The legislation passed with a majority that wasn't challenged, although five lawmakers registered their opposition to the bill.
The Senate passed the same legislation last week 43 votes to 12. After royal assent and other formalities, the law will likely take effect in about a month, with the first weddings expected about a month later.
Amendments meant to safeguard freedoms of speech and religion for gay-marriage opponents were all rejected, though those issues may be considered later. The government has appointed a panel to examine how to safeguard religious freedoms once gay marriage is a reality in Australia.
Lawmakers advocating marriage equality had argued that the national postal survey in November mandated a change of the marriage definition alone, so changing the law should not be delayed by other considerations.
"It is now our job as members of Parliament to pass a fair bill that does not extend or create any new discriminations," an emotional government lawmaker Warren Entsch, who helped draft the bill, told Parliament. "It is a strong bill that already strikes the right balance between equality and freedom of religion."
"It's an historic day for Australia today and I think the celebrations around the country when we finally ... achieve marriage equality are going to be immense," Janet Rice said before the vote. Rice is a minor Greens party senator who was only able to remain married to her transgender wife of 31 years, Penny, because Penny remained listed as male on her birth certificate.
Penny Wong, an opposition Labor Party senator who has two children with her lesbian partner, said: "I am feeling happy."
Gay marriage was endorsed by 62 percent of Australian voters who responded to the government-commissioned postal ballot.
Most gay rights advocates believed the government should have allowed marriages years ago and saw various ideas for a public survey as a delaying tactic. The U.N. Human Rights Committee had called the ballot survey "an unnecessary and divisive public opinion poll."
The current bill allows churches and religious organizations to boycott gay weddings without violating Australian anti-discrimination laws.
Existing civil celebrants can also refuse to officiate at gay weddings, but celebrants registered after gay marriage becomes law would not be exempt from the anti-discrimination laws.
One of the rejected amendments would have ensured Australians could speak freely about their traditional views of marriage without fear of legal action. It was proposed by Attorney-General George Brandis and supported by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, both gay marriage supporters.
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who was a high-profile advocate for traditional marriage, told Parliament that Turnbull and opposition leader Bill Shorten had failed to deliver detailed protections for freedoms of speech, conscience and religion in the bill.
"A promise was made by the leaders of this Parliament and the promise has not adequately been delivered on," Abbott said.
Abbott pointed to an Australian teenager who lost her job for advocating against gay marriage on social media and an Australian Catholic bishop who was taken before a state anti-discrimination tribunal over a pamphlet he published extolling traditional marriage. The complaint against the bishop was dropped.
"The last thing we should want to do is to subject Australians to new forms of discrimination in place of old ones that are rightly gone," he said.
Government lawmaker Trevor Evans ruled out an Australian equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court case in which a baker who refused to provide a wedding cake for a gay couple argued he was exercising artistic freedom and was exempt from Colorado anti-discrimination laws.
"Let's be honest here, for a case like that to arise in Australia, it would require a gay couple who care more about activism than about the success of their own wedding, to find a business operator who cares more about religious doctrine than the commercial success of their own small business, and for both of them to commit to having a fight," Evans told Parliament.
"Typical Australians would genuinely question the bona fides of the players in a case like that and the slim prospects of that occurring doesn't warrant the pages and pages of commentary and debate that have been dedicated to it," he added.
Several gay marriage opponents in Turnbull's conservative coalition have regarded marriage equality as inevitable and have welcomed an end to an issue that has long divided the government ranks.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann, a same-sex marriage opponent who oversaw the postal ballot, said he felt "great satisfaction" that the issue was resolved.
"It was a polarizing issue on which good Australians had strongly and sincerely held views on both sides of the argument," Cormann said.
"I and my colleagues on the coalition side always took the view that the best way to resolve a disagreement in the community like this is by giving the Australian people which we did, we kept faith with it, the Australian people embraced the process and the result was emphatic," he said.
The result is a political win for Turnbull, who became prime minister after deposing Abbott in 2015 in an internal government leadership ballot.
Abbott was head-butted by a gay rights advocate during the postal survey campaign in September. Kevin Rudd, a center-left Labor Party prime minister whom Abbott defeated in elections in 2013, blamed the postal ballot for an assault on his godson Sean Foster, 19, as he campaigned for marriage equality a week earlier.
Veteran gay rights campaigner Rodney Croome said he expected the first same-sex weddings in Australia would not take place until February.
The law will likely take effect after a month. State laws then require couples to give 28 days' notice of their intention to marry, Croome said. ||||| Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says: "Australia, we are going to make marriage equality a reality in minutes. The Australia of tomorrow begins with what we do today. At long last, LGBTIQ
Australians will be equal under the law."
"And those of in Parliament privileged to serve, we understand that we do so with humility. The humility to recognise that the passage of this law does not in essence belong to us, but the credit for the passage of this law belongs to all Australians and I say to those who voted no, I recognise that now is the time for healing, to put this debate behind us."
"And when this law is passed, we should declare that we are no longer a nation of people who voted no. Or people who voted yes. We are simply Australians one and all. And I said to LGBTIQ Australians in particular, you have given us a gift. This Parliament, when we passed the marriage equality law, is not a gift from us to LGBTIQ Australians,equality is never a gift to be given. Equality isn't in our legal birthright of every Australian and this equality is long overdue."
"I say the gift that LGBTIQ Australians have given all of us is that we are a nation who includes all of our people, who values all relationships and all families, that we are a better nation altogether. So, as it is written that there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens, it is now time to heal. A time to build, a time to love, a time to love, and is now at last a time for marriage equality." |||||
| The Australian Parliament voted on Thursday to allow same-sex marriage across the nation, following a bitter and divisive debate settled by the government polling voters in a much-criticized ballot survey that strongly endorsed change. The public gallery of the House of Representatives erupted with applause when the bill passed to change the definition of marriage from solely between a man and a woman to "a union of two people" excluding all others. The legislation passed with a majority that wasn't challenged, although five lawmakers registered their opposition to the bill, the AP reports. The Senate passed the same legislation last week 43 votes to 12. After royal assent and other formalities, the law will likely take effect in about a month, with the first weddings expected about a month later. The move, which makes Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage, resulted in a massive party in Parliament House, with people hugging and kissing each other and champagne flowing freely, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. "About bloody time," said Greens Sen. Janet Rice, who was previously only able to remain married to her transgender wife of 31 years, Penny Whetton, because Whetton remained listed as male on her birth certificate. |
TASK DEFINITION: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
PROBLEM: Charlie Cox stars as Murdock, with Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, and Vincent D'Onofrio also returning from previous seasons; Wilson Bethel and Jay Ali join them. The season was ordered in July 2016, with Oleson announced as new showrunner for the season in October 2017. Filming began the following month and ended by June 2018, with the season adapting elements from the ``Born Again'' comic storyline.
SOLUTION: is there gonna be a daredevil season 3?
PROBLEM: On February 10, 2017, ABC renewed Grey's Anatomy for a fourteenth season.
SOLUTION: is season 13 of grey's anatomy the last?
PROBLEM: No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
SOLUTION: | is there a age limit to be president?
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Q: Pregnancy and childbirth kill more than 536,000 women a year. More than half of the cases happened in Africa, according to the World Health Organization. In fact, most of the deaths are preventable with basic medical care. The five leading causes are bleeding, infection, high blood pressure, longtime labor and bad abortions . Mothers' deaths from such causes were largely reduced nearly a century ago in developed countries. Experts say that what kill many women are "the three delays"-- the woman's delay in deciding to go to the hospital, the time she loses traveling there and the hospital's delay in starting treatment. Only about 15 percent of births have dangerous complications . Women lack education and information about birth control. Husbands and inlaws, may decide where a woman gives birth and insist that she stay at home to save money. However, there is no single solution to a problem with so many factors--shortages of doctors, nurses, drugs, equipment, roads and transportation--though hospital officials are trying many things now. One _ measure to solve the problem for the present has been to train assistant medical officers, to perform certain operations. Some African countries are now struggling to train more assistants and midwives , and provide places for pregnant women to stay near hospitals. But there is a long way to go. Only 20 percent of women in the continent give birth at the hospital. More than 50 percent stay at home to give birth, and the rest go to local clinics that cannot handle emergencies. What is the author's attitude towards the future of preventing women's deaths during pregnancy and childbirth? A) Positive. B) Negative. C) Objective. D) Subjective.
A: C
Q: A new report says promising children money to pass exams does not help exam grades. The report says parents could be wasting their money by using cash to get their kids to study more. However, the promise of a trip somewhere nice could encourage students to try harder and do better at school. Researchers from the University of Bristol (in England) and the University of Chicago (in the USA) looked at how promises of cash and tickets to events affected students' studying and learning. Over 10,000 pupils took part in the research throughout the year 2012. There was an improvement in classwork and homework, but this did not result in better test scores. Lead researcher Dr Simon Burgess suggested the research looked at the wrong areas. He said it had not looked at the things that really got students to increase their effort. He added that: "Clearly, some pupils have a lot of goals and believe that education is a way of getting what they want out of life, but there are kids who think that working hard doesn't make a difference." He said these children think exam success is "all in your genes" because of their family background. Education expert Dr Kevan Collins said good teachers were better than promises of rewards to get children to study, especially for children from low-income families. He wrote: "What really makes the difference is how students are taught." What can encourage students to study more? A) music B) trips C) an iPad D) money
A: B
Q: Few of us make money by losing sleep.But three graduate students at Brown University in Providence built a company around sleep deprivation . Jason Donahue, Ben Rubin and Eric Shashoua were working late nights in Brown's business and engineering schools.They began thinking about ways to sleep better.They discovered they weren't alone in burning the midnight oil.Around 20% of Americans get less than six hours of rest a night. The friends imagined a smart alarm clock that could track how much time people spend in the most restorative stages of the sleep cycle: REM (rapid eye movement) and deep sleep.What would it cost to design such a thing? Five years of research, 20 employees, $14 million and a whole lot of doubting from investors and scientists. Their company, Zeo, based in Newton, Mass, launched its product in June, 2009.The Zeo device uses a headband with tiny sensors that scan your brain for signs of four sleep states- REM, light, deep and waking sleep.The smart alarm clock displays a graph of your sleep pattern and wakes you as you're not in REM sleep (which is when you're least groggy).In the morning you can upload the data to the company's Web site, and so track your sleep over time.Most of the feedback comes in the form of Zeo's ZQ score showing how well you've slept. "Zeo allows people to unlock this black box of sleep," says Dave Dickinson, a health-care CEO. Whether any of this actually improves sleep is up to the consumer, who will also need to make lifestyle changes like cutting out alcohol before bedtime or caffeine after 3 pm. For now the company is selling Zeo online only.Dickinson also plans to spread it to countries such as Australia, where sleep deprivation approaches US levels. What can we know from the passage? A) Zeo has a direct effect on users' lifestyles. B) It needs more personal efforts to make Zeo function better. C) A large quantity of Zeo devices have been sold in Australia. D) Consumers can go to the Zeo company to purchase Zeo in person.
A: B
Q: I was 18 when Tim and I began to date. Shy and quiet, I'd met his parents once before but hadn't ventured to say more than " Hello". This particular evening, however, we were taking them out to dinner for their anniversary and I wanted to make a good impression. Tim and his parents arrived and I was out the door in a flash. My good impression began with " punctual". I sat in the backseat beside Tim nervously watching his father's eyes glance into the rearview mirror to examine me. Tim and his parents had already decided on their favorite Mexican restaurant and that was fine with me; the dim lighting would hide the rising flush of my cheeks, and if anyone noticed, I could blame it on the peppers. With proper table manners I managed to survive halfway through dinner without making any unforgivable mistakes. However, in the midst of conversation I reached for my iced tea, raised the glass to my lips and very quickly discovered I had picked up the wrong glass. I quickly lowered the glass and set it back but it was too late; I had burnt my eyebrows, the hair in my nose, and curl over my forehead! I looked up slowly, praying no one had seen me, but all eyes at the table had seen and each face stared at me in shocked silence. Excusing myself, I ran to the restroom. I would have hidden there forever but I'd barely gotten in the door when Tim's mother arrived. " Ah, honey," she said, holding out her arms to me. " Everything will be just fine." Tim and I eventually married. We had a small ceremony and a family reception afterwards held at the very restaurant where this incident occurred. This time, however, I didn't drink any candles... only a Margarita ; they were served in different glasses. It can be inferred from the passage that _ . A) the author had never met her parents-in-law before dinning together B) Tim and the author took the bus to get to the restaurant C) Tim's father was curious to know about the author D) Tim's mother was not satisfied with the author's behavior
| A: C |
Q: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Guinea pigs are " Cavia porcellus " , a kind of rodent .
A: | The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig ( " Cavia porcellus " ) , also known as cavy or domestic cavy , is a species of rodent belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus " Cavia " . |
Definition: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Input: On September 22, 2016, NBC renewed the series for a second season, set in various European and African countries, which premiered on January 1, 2018. A special preview aired on December 11, 2017. On July 16, 2018, the series was cancelled after two seasons.
Output: | is tv show better late than never coming back? |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump is using three women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct -- as well as one woman who accused a man Hillary Clinton defended in court of raping her when she was 12 years old -- to attack the Democratic nominee. In a stunning event 90 minutes before the second presidential debate, Trump made a surprise appearance alongside Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Kathy Shelton. The man accused of raping Shelton was convicted of a lesser charge and served 10 months in jail. The event came with Trump under fire himself over his sexually aggressive comments in a 2005 "Access Hollywood" video.Nearly two decades after Bill Clinton's administration was rocked by sexual scandal, the stories are back in the newsClinton himself wouldn't address his transgressions
Questions:Trump has repeatedly used Clinton's sex allegations to hit Democratic rival _, raising them occasionally throughout 2016. (A) Washington (B) CNN (C) Donald Trump (D) Bill Clinton (E) Hillary Clinton (F) Democratic (G) Trump (H) Juanita Broaddrick (I) Paula Jones (J) Kathleen Willey (K) Kathy Shelton (L) Shelton (M) Access Hollywood
| (E) |
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: So, even though statistics come out every week telling us what a total fiasco the employment insurance plan is, how it does not serve the interests of the unemployed in Quebec and Canada, the Liberals say the Quebeckers and Canadians who appeared before the Standing Committee on Finance do not understand the plan when it is the plan that makes no sense at all.
Hypothesis: The employment insurance plan is very clearly stated and in place to help unemployed canadians in Quebec and Canada.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: Speech to Text for Tennessee Double Homicide Arrest Below is the closed-captioning text associated with this video. Since this uses automated speech to text spelling and grammar may not be accurate. next year. this morning, a man accused of having some involvement in the death of two teenagers is in jail. the tennessee bureau of investigation charged jarvis grant with unlawful possession of a weapon and tampering with evidence. grant is being held without bond after police say he was at the scene during the
Hypothesis: The speech to text service recorded the context correctly
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: Give a little, get a little<br>Sue was a very strict teacher. One child in her class was too scared to speak because of Sue. Although she knew she was strict, Sue didn't want people to be scared. On the last day of school, Sue threw a party for the kids. The next year, the kids were less naughty and much nicer to Sue.
Hypothesis: The party meant that the kids were less scared
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: | Context: How to be active before work<br>Decide on an exercise. When changing your routine to include morning workouts, you will need to decide on a type of exercise that you enjoy and will motivate you to wake up earlier than you are used to. You will be more likely to wake up at an earlier time to squeeze in a workout if you are looking forward to what you are about to do.
Hypothesis: You'll wake up later if you have a morning workout you love |
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A woman is kneeling down on a blue mat. She grabs a while bar and holds it next to her. she
OPTIONS:
- then twists it and steps back on it before letting it go.
- puts the bar down and picks up a kettle bell.
- releases it, drops it and does another barbell.
- then flips up onto the bar.
OUT: puts the bar down and picks up a kettle bell.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to use iorgsoft video converter
Install and iorgsoft video converter software.
Add your video file.
Click play in the main menu to enter the play window.
OPTIONS:
- Your video file will automatically be added to the converted media. After it is added you can click stop to start the conversion.
- Select save as location tool: if your video file is not saved, choose save location tool] save as location] ok. Right click name of your video file and select save location.
- Click the add icon to browse your hard disc. Select the format and then add the file you want to convert.
- Click play in the bar, select the file you just added to your portable dvd tray, and hit " add ". Check to see that add iorgsoft video converter software is installed.
****
Answer:
Click the add icon to browse your hard disc. Select the format and then add the file you want to convert.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to volunteer overseas
Consider a short-term volunteer program.
These usually last from one week to three months, and almost everyone is invited to apply. These positions often charge a fee for the trip.
OPTIONS:
- Short-term programs usually attack one specific project, so you will get to see the results of your labors when you leave. Decide what type of work you want to do.
- Working year-round, these jobs will require members of the military to work 50 hours per week on regular basis. Consider registering for one of these positions before finding out if this is the best situation for you.
- They might be fun while you stay at home, while you are out sick, or during the summer months. If you're fresh out of school, a full time volunteering program might be worth considering.
- Doing a short-term job should bring you some experience but not of course the type of experience you would hope to gain in foreign roles. Get a start by committing to at least one short-term program you can take part in.
A: Short-term programs usually attack one specific project, so you will get to see the results of your labors when you leave. Decide what type of work you want to do.
How to determine if you need to incorporate
Estimate the size of your company.
The size of a company is the biggest factor in determining whether a company should choose a corporate form over another type of business entity. While corporations are often subject to lower income tax rates than other business forms, income tax is one of several considerations to take into account before incorporating.
OPTIONS:
- Corporations are considered limited liability corporations and are usually limited liability corporations only. However, corporations can collect income from a business on a major or non-taxable basis-known as tax-exempt income.
- An example of a company that may benefit from a corporation is a fully-formed corporation. However, you may have a shareholder and any deceased member is the highest bidder.
- The other costs of incorporation can be substantial. A corporation will need to pay a filing fee with the secretary of state's office in their state.
- Business forms are typically allocated by the better business bureau (bbb). You may need to visit a bbb office to access this information.
The other costs of incorporation can be substantial. A corporation will need to pay a filing fee with the secretary of state's office in their state.
question: Complete the next sentence:
There is a large crowd spectating, and a man in the center of the ring acting as referee. The two sumo wrestlers throw a white powder into the ring. the
OPTIONS:
- sumo competitive spirit burns bright there for a little while, then the man gives a toast without spilling anything.
- match is reconfigured in slow motion and the referee is checked for a red bar after the match.
- small sumo wrestler is wiping the white powder off with a wooden towel.
- squat and clap their hands together, while a group of men hold flags and walk around the ring.
answer: squat and clap their hands together, while a group of men hold flags and walk around the ring.
IN: What happens next?
How to drill through granite
Make certain you really, really, really need to drill a hole where you're thinking about drilling one.
Consider other alternatives before you start putting holes in your granite, especially when you're working with something as expensive as a granite countertop.
Determine the ideal hole size your application requires.
OPTIONS:
- The best sized hole size will vary depending on the size of the granite countertop. A diameter of 6 inches will allow you to drill around 12 feet (3.8 m), but a diameter of 34 inches is preferable to 36 inches.
- Quartz countertops are very similar in size to granite, with a limit of. In general, you should drill a hole between two and four inches wide, with the goal of drilling a hole three inches deep and one twice the width of your countertop.
- Mark the area where you plan to drill. For small diameter holes, you can use a small dot.
- The size of your granite will affect how accurate your measurement will be. For instance, if you want to drill a hole for a marble countertop, then you'll need to cut a large hole about an inch from the edge of the granite.
OUT: | Mark the area where you plan to drill. For small diameter holes, you can use a small dot. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
The 1986 FIA European Formula Three Cup was the second European Formula Three Cup race and the first to be held at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari on October 26, 1986. The race was won by Italian Stefano Modena, driving for Euroteam outfit, who finished ahead of the previous years winner Alex Caffi and fellow Italian Nicola Larini.
Hypothesis: Stefano Modena won 4 previous race
Available choices:
* Yes;
* It's impossible to say;
* No; | It's impossible to say |
Kasey Peters (born May 20, 1987) is a former American football quarterback. He played college football at Saddleback, Santa Ana, Grand Valley State and Rocky Mountain. He was a member of the Tri-Cities Fever, New Mexico Stars, West Texas Wildcatters, Duke City Gladiators, Las Vegas Outlaws, New Orleans VooDoo, Portland Steel and Monterrey Steel.
Kasey Peters was born in Texas. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: Revisited is a 1960 album contains songs done by Tom Lehre
Context: Revisited is a 1960 album by Tom Lehrer, consisting of live recordings of all the songs from 1953's "Songs by Tom Lehrer". The CD reissue of the album contains two additional tracks that Lehrer wrote and performed for the PBS television show "The Electric Company" (and produced and conducted by Joe Raposo).
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: Yes
Context:
3 Musketeers is a direct-to-video action film by The Asylum loosely based on "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas. The film is directed by Cole McKay and is a mockbuster that was released shortly after the Paul W. S. Anderson film "The Three Musketeers". The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray disc on October 25, 2011.
Hypothesis: 3 Musketeers was released in theatres OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
No
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Till-Holger Borchert (born 1967, in Hamburg) is a German art historian and writer specialising in 14th and 15th-century art. He has been the chief curator of the Groeningemuseum and Arentshuis museums in Bruges between 2003 and 2014. In december 2014, he was appointed as artistic director of the Municipal Museums in Bruges.
Sentence: Till-Holger Borchert is still alive to this day.
Output: Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Miss Robin Crusoe is a 1954 Eastmancolor adventure film directed by Eugene Frenke, starring Amanda Blake, George Nader and Rosalind Hayes. One of many film variations of "Robinson Crusoe", it features a female castaway. The film was shot on location in Palos Verdes, California.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: There are three stars in Miss Robin Crusoe.
****
Answer:
Yes
USS "Kamehameha" (SSBN-642) (called "Kamfish" by her crew), a "Benjamin Franklin"-class ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Kamehameha I, the first King of Hawaii (c. 1758–1819). She is one of only two ships of the United States to be named after a monarch. She was later reclassified as an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-642.
King Kamehameha entered existence before the USS Kamehameha. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | Yes |
Teacher:In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Washington (CNN) President-elect Donald Trump will begin the process of reshaping America's trade policy on Day 1 of his administration, according to a memo drafted by his transition team obtained by CNN. The document lays out the skeleton of Trump's trade policy for the first 200 days of his presidency, focusing on a set of principles including renegotiating or withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement -- a frequent promise Trump made on the campaign trail. Who would be in Trump's Cabinet? The memo itself notes that plenty could change before Trump starts his presidency on January 20, 2017, calling the contents "for discussion purposes only." But the draft memo reveals what the Trump transition team has developed as a blueprint for Trump's administration based on its pre-election work and Trump's own campaign promises.The 200-day plan is built around five main principlesThe draft memo reveals what the transition team has developed as a blueprint for Trump's administration
Question:The _ transition didn't respond to a request for comment about if Trump had reviewed the document and what his thoughts were.
Student: | Donald Trump |
Problem: Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil producer in the world, was once a supporter of Osama bin Laden and his associates who led attacks against the United States.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Iraq is the biggest oil producer in the world."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Q: Perry Farrell will make more money if his festival resurfaces.
Even though the rug was ripped out from under Lollapalooza this week, Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell is optimistic that the eclectic music festival he co-founded in 1991 will resurface and it might be sooner than you think.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Craig Conway, fired as PeopleSoft's chief executive officer before the company was bought by Oracle, was in England last week.
The CEO did something to be fired OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: Education should not be deprived due to a lack of money.
Context: What Canadians have told us is that regardless of the fact that government is really responsible constitutionally for education, parents, grandparents and young people themselves want all governments to work together toward education and ensuring that every person who wants to get an education is not deprived of getting that education through colleges or universities or other institutions by virtue of the fact that they do not have any money.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: Yes
Context:
Johann Kastenberger (born October 1, 1958, in Sankt Leonhard am Forst, died November 15, 1988, in Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria) was an Austrian marathon runner, bank robber and murderer. He infamously committed his crimes while wearing a Ronald Reagan mask, earning him the nickname "Shotgun Ronnie". Kastenberger's criminal life was the basis for the 2010 film "The Robber".
Hypothesis: Kastenberger always wore a mask when he committed his robberies. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
It's impossible to say
Problem: How to time your trip to miami<br>Consider what you want most from a miami trip, because most trips involve a trade-off. [substeps] The best time of year in terms of weather and miami attractions and events is also the most expensive. If you're looking for the best value for your money, you can avoid the crowds, but miami weather can be uncomfortable and volatile.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "miami contains an a"? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | Yes |
Logic ==> An ore can be dug up. Ores have iron.
ore
Question ==> What mineral is dug up to smelt in to iron?
Options:
- earth
- ore
- saline
- multivitamin
- michigan
** Hometown is where people are born and grow up. People generally have a lot of friends in their howntowns.
visiting friends
** He was back in his hometown, he was planning on having fun and doing what?
Options:
- being understood
- hug
- rambling
- kiss
- visiting friends
Detailed logic: Headaches is caused by talking too much. WHen someone is talking too much it causes headaches in other people.
headaches
Question for this logic: WHen someone is talking too much it causes what in other people?
Options:
- dry mouth
- misunderstandings
- upset stomach
- distraction
- headaches
Logic ==> Get cold is to feel cold when outside is at a low temperature, especially when compared to the temperature of the human body. When kissing outside can get cold.
get cold
Question ==> What can happen when kissing outside?
Options:
- herpes
- sexual stimulation
- catch cold
- outburst
- get cold
** City is a single area. City has cemetery. City has houses and businesses.
city
** A cemetery surrounded by many houses and businesses is located in what area?
Options:
- city
- churchyard
- most cities
- ocean
- field
Detailed logic: When a person runs all day and feels tired, he usually prefers to take a break. Taking a break also means taking time to rest.
time to rest
Question for this logic: | A person had run all day and felt tired, what did they need?
Options:
- water
- time to rest
- intellectual stimulation
- look beautiful
- compliments |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: Kornberg made the discovery that signals to the RNA are made by a complex of proteins that they called " mediator " .
A: Using this system , Kornberg made the major discovery that transmission of gene regulatory signals to the RNA polymerase machinery is accomplished by an additional protein complex that they dubbed " Mediator " .
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Q: Fox ( styled FOX ) is an American television network .
A: The Fox Broadcasting Company ( often shortened to Fox and stylized in all caps as FOX ) is an American free-to-air television network that is a flagship property of the Fox Corporation .
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Q: In protists , vacuoles also store and help digest food that the protist ate .
A: | In protists , vacuoles have the additional function of storing food which has been absorbed by the organism and assisting in the digestive and waste management process for the cell .
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Context:
"Trap Queen" is the debut single by American rapper Fetty Wap from his self-titled debut album (2015). Following its online premiere in March 2014, it was released independently on April 22, 2014 before being re-released in conjunction with 300 Entertainment on December 15, 2014. The song was well received by critics who praised the vocals and production for being cheery and infectious.
Hypothesis: Trap Queen by American wrapper Fetty Wap had multiple release dates during the year 2014.
Yes
Context:
Lausche (Czech: "Luž" ), is, at 793 m , the highest peak of the Lusatian Mountains and the highest mountain in the German part of the Upper Lusatia region. The conical mountain is part of the Zittau Mountains range, situated on the border of the German state of Saxony with the Bohemian region of the Czech Republic.
Hypothesis: Lausche is located in the Upper Lusatia region which is hope to many people.
It's impossible to say
Context:
The Commoner was a weekly newspaper published in Lincoln, Nebraska, from 1901 to 1923 that was owned, edited, and published by William Jennings Bryan. "The Commoner" was a political paper of the early twentieth century that impacted a great deal of public opinion on critical matters.
Hypothesis: The Commoner was published for twenty-two years.
| Yes |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Paul put the despised watch away And laid out before him his array Of stones and metals, and when the morning Struck the stones to their best adorning, He chose the brightest, and this new watch Was so light and thin it seemed to catch The sunlight's nothingness, and its gleam. Topazes ran in a foamy stream Over the cover, the hands were studded With garnets, and seemed red roses, budded. The face was of crystal, and engraved Upon it the figures flashed and waved With zircons, and beryls, and amethysts. It took a week to make, and his trysts At night with the Shadow were his alone. Paul swore not to speak till his task was done. The night that the jewel was worthy to give. Paul watched the long hours of daylight live To the faintest streak; then lit his light, And sharp against the wall's pure white The outline of the Shadow started Into form. His burning-hearted Words so long imprisoned swelled To tumbling speech. Like one compelled, He told the lady all his love, And holding out the watch above His head, he knelt, imploring some Littlest sign. The Shadow was dumb. <sep>What types of stones were Paul's watch adorned with?<sep>Metals
A: | No |
The Minardi M190 was a Formula One car designed by Aldo Costa and Tomasso Carletti and built by Minardi for the 1990 Formula One season. The car was powered by the Cosworth DFR V8 engine and ran on Pirelli tyres. It failed to score any points for Minardi.
The Minardi M190 was built by Cosworth for the 1990 Formula One season. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
input hypothesis: SpongeBob SquarePants was produced by Illumination.
Context: Scooter is an animated character used by Fox Sports during Major League Baseball games. The character, a baseball with human facial characteristics, is voiced by Tom Kenny (best known for his work as the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants) and was designed by Fox to explain different types of pitches with the education of children in mind.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: No
Context:
Storm Front is a 2000 novel by science fiction and fantasy author Jim Butcher. It is the first novel in The Dresden Files, his first published series, and it follows the character of Harry Dresden, professional wizard. The novel was later adapted into a pilot for a SyFy channel television series.
Hypothesis: Storm Front was written the year after 2000. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
No
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
The Lady Vanishes is a 1979 English comedy mystery film directed by Anthony Page. Its screenplay by George Axelrod was based on the novel "The Wheel Spins" by Ethel Lina White (1876–1944). It stars Elliott Gould as Robert, Cybill Shepherd as Amanda (Iris), Angela Lansbury as Miss Froy, Herbert Lom, Arthur Lowe and Ian Carmichael as Charters and Caldicott.
Sentence: Anthony Page read the book "The Wheel Spins".
Output: It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
North East Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, bordering the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire and the non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire. The population of the Unitary Authority at the 2011 Census was 159,616. These three administrative units make up the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: In England, Lincolnshire is a ceremonial county.
****
Answer:
Yes
Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, ("née" Ashley; 28 November 1901 – 21 February 1960) was an English heiress, socialite, relief worker and the last Vicereine of India as wife of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
Edwina never met Louis Mountbatten. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | No |
Consider the question. Waiting for a bus that has already came and went would be an example of bad what?
Options:
- timing
- getting bored
- patience
- expenditure of time
- public transportation
What is the step-by-step reasoning process to arrive at the answer: timing? | Waiting for a bus that has already came and went would be an example of bad timing. |
Last week, LTTE leader Vilupillai Prabhakaran stated that the rebels are running out of patience and are prepared to go back to war.
Can we infer the following?
Vilupillai Prabhakaran is a rebel. | no |
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below.
18 states have provisions that permit women who quit their jobs because of domestic violence to collect unemployment insurance.
Only 18 states, including Massachusetts, have specific provisions that allow women who quit their jobs due to domestic violence to qualify for UI.
yes
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below.
Gerhardt Schroeder was accused of helping VW.
Mr David Herman, head of GM's local operations accused Mr Gerhardt Schroeder, prime Minister of Lower Saxony and a member of the VW supervisory board, of trying to use his political weight to influence the investigations by state prosecutors in Hesse into claims of industrial espionage against GM.
yes
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below.
Missouri's population is 56.
That natural increase accounted for 56 percent of Missouri population growth during the past four years.
no
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below.
Majel Roddenberry died of cancer.
Roddenberry was probably most known for her role as the voice of the computers in nearly every Star Trek television spinoff series from the 1960's to present time. She is also the voice of the computer in the upcoming movie by director J.J. Abrams, Star Trek. Majel also played Nurse Chapel in the original Star Trek series starring William Shatner and later played Lwaxana Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
| no |
Explain simply why dishwasher is the correct answer to: The plate was dirty, where did the woman put it?
Options:
- garbage
- kitchen cupboard
- table
- flea market
- dishwasher. Explanation: | Dishes are washed in a dishwasher. People keep dirty dishes in the dishwasher. |
Of course, most of the tax cuts expire in 2010; only three years from when Rangel would take over as chair if Democrats win.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Question: Democrats won the elections three years ago.
no
There is no way Marlowe could legally leave Italy, especially after an arrest warrant has been issued for him by the authorities. Assisted by Zaleshoff, he succeeds in making his escape from Milan.
Is this true: Marlowe supported Zaleshoff.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
A: no
Question:
With the publication of Sophie's World in 1991, Gaarder gained international fame. Sophie's World spent three years as the best selling book in Norway. His first book to be translated into English, Sophie's World was also the top-selling book in Germany, France, and Great Britain.
Is this true?
Sophie's World is a best seller.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Answer:
yes
Problem: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Five suicide bombers stormed a government office in Kandahar on Wednesday morning, killing 13 people, including two provincial government officials, and wounding 14. One militant detonated a car bomb at the entrance gate of the provincial council office, as the others stormed the compound with assault rifles and hand grenades. Seven civilians and six police officers were killed in the 20-minute gun battle, which ended when two of the militants blew themselves up in the main hall, said the provincial police chief, Matiullah Qati.
Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
Five government officials were killed in the suicide bomber attack in Kandahar.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
****
Answer: no
Q: The new study refutes earlier findings by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, who concluded that the odds of getting head and neck cancers rose in tandem with the frequency and duration of marijuana use.
The latest findings contradict a California study that implicated regular pot smoking as having markedly higher risks for head and neck cancers.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
A: yes
Officials claimed they were backed by influential members of the Santa Cruz business community of Croatian descent. The security vice-minister, Marcos Farfan, said that police have surveillance photographs of Mr Dwyer at various public events attended by Mr Morales, including a peasant rally near Santa Cruz and a visit to naval installations on Lake Titicaca. Mr Farfan said that Mr Dwyer was "following" Mr Morales and other officials as part of the preparations for the "assassination plot". He added that police experts are analysing contents reportedly found in computers taken from the rooms in which the men were killed.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Question: Lake Titicaca has a naval installation.
| yes |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: What happened to the ground to force some flowers to grow?, Context: Flower evolution continues to the present day; modern flowers have been so profoundly influenced by humans that some of them cannot be pollinated in nature. Many modern domesticated flower species were formerly simple weeds, which sprouted only when the ground was disturbed. Some of them tended to grow with human crops, perhaps already having symbiotic companion plant relationships with them, and the prettiest did not get plucked because of their beauty, developing a dependence upon and special adaptation to human affection.
Output: | the ground was disturbed |
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Donald Jay Rickles (May 8, 1926 – April 6, 2017) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author. He became well known as an insult comic. His prominent film roles included "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1958) with Clark Gable and "Kelly's Heroes" (1970) with Clint Eastwood, and beginning in 1976 he enjoyed a two-year run starring in the NBC television sitcom "C.P.O. Sharkey".
Hypothesis: Donald J. Rickles was born on the fifth month of year 1926.
****
Answer:
Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Manila Calling is a 1942 American black-and-white World War II propaganda war film drama from 20th Century Fox, produced by Sol M. Wurtzel, directed by Herbert I. Leeds, that stars Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Cornel Wilde, James Gleason, Lester Matthews, Louis Jean Heydt, and Ted North.
Hypothesis: 20th Century Fox can be associated with propoganda.
****
Answer:
Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Cross Gene (Korean: 크로스진; stylized as CROSS GENE) is a five-member boy group based in South Korea. Signed under Amuse Korea, the group consists of South Korean members: Shin, Sangmin, Yongseok and Seyoung and Japanese member Takuya. They released their debut mini-album "Timeless: Begins" in 2012, which peaked at #8 on the Gaon weekly album chart.
Hypothesis: The Gaon weekly album chart consists of at least 8 albums.
****
Answer:
| Yes |
Question:
The Iraqi Foreign Minister, Mohammad Said Al-Sahaf, met today with the new ambassadors and briefed them "on the Iraqi diplomacy directives of escalating the move toward lifting the blockade imposed on Iraq and developing relations with various countries of the world."
Is this true?
Mohammed Said AL-SAHAF met with the ambassadors and briefed them on Iraq's diplomacy directives.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Answer:
yes
Problem: This taught postgraduate masters degree programme will provide specialised training at a postgraduate level in the methods and uses of remote sensing applied to the ocean.
Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
Ocean remote sensing is applied.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
****
Answer: yes
Q: Security authorities have declared a state of maximum emergency in Guatemala, which is located directly in the path of the hurricane.
There is a state of maximum emergency in Guatemala because of the hurricane.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
A: yes
Peter Voser, a 46-year-old who joined ABB from Shell 2-1/2 years ago, will rejoin the Anglo-Dutch company on October 4.
Can we say the following?
Peter Voser has worked for Shell in the past.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
yes
Question: In documents they filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, government lawyers argued that three inmates who committed suicide last month by hanging themselves coordinated their actions by using attorney-client confidentiality to communicate with each other. Government officials said that among papers marked "Attorney Client Privilege" were instructions on how to tie knots and a classified memo on camp activities and inmate locations.
Three people committed suicide in jail.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Answer: yes
Question:
The Scots pioneered the idea of a single currency, when they shared the Ecu with France during the Auld Alliance, and therefore they are certain to join in the monetary union process again when the EU states amalgamate their currencies under Maastricht.
Is this true?
France still maintains Ecu is the best denomination for the Maastricht single-currency..
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Answer:
| no |
Question: Nepali mountaineer Ang Rita Sherpa last week broke his own record of the number of climbing Mt. Everest.
Alison Hargreaves is the first woman to have made the climb up the Everest with no artificial oxygen.
Answer: no
Question: A unique feature of previous Ebola outbreaks has been the relative sparing of children. For the first time, an out break of an unusual illness-Ebola haemorrhagic fever occurred in Northern Uganda - Gulu district.
Ebola Epidemic breaks out in Zaire.
Answer: no
Question: Time Warner is the world's largest media and Internet company.
Time Warner is the world's largest company.
Answer: | no |
Definition: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: When was an incredibly important tango related customer service establishment founded?, Context: In Montevideo, as throughout the Rio de Plata region, the most popular forms of music are tango, milonga and vals criollo. Many notable songs originated in Montevideo including "El Tango supremo", La Cumparsita", La Milonga", "La Puñalada" and "Desde el Alma", composed by notable Montevideo musicians such as Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Pintín Castellanos and Rosita Melo. Tango is deeply ingrained in the cultural life of the city and is the theme for many of the bars and restaurants in the city. Fun Fun' Bar, established in 1935, is one of the most important places for tango in Uruguay as is El Farolito, located in the old part of the city and Joventango, Café Las Musas, Garufa and Vieja Viola. The city is also home to the Montevideo Jazz Festival and has the Bancaria Jazz Club bar catering for jazz enthusiasts.
Output: | 1935 |
Please answer the following question: The longest solar eclipse of the century cast a wide shadow for several minutes over Asia and the Pacific Ocean on 22th July, drawing people outside to watch the sight in the sky. Day turned into night. Temperature turned cooler in cities and villages filled with fans of astronomy. The total eclipse could be seen starting in India on Wednesday morning and moving eastward across China and parts of the Pacific. Millions cast their eyes towards the heavens to catch an unusual view of the sun's colorful ring. Cloud in some areas prevented people from fully enjoying the sight. Still, many were frightened. The total eclipse occurs about twice a year as the moon passes between the earth and the sun on the same plane as earth's circle. The local astronomy society gave a flash on how an eclipse happens. Wednesday's event lasted up to more than six minutes in some places. In India, thousands bathed in the Ganges River in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi to clean their souls. It was sunny sky in Hong Kong for the eclipse, where students, parents and the elderly flooded in a primary school to watch. In Shanghai, children climbed up ladders to look through two large telescopes on the school roof to catch sight of the moon moving across the sun. Others looked through a pair of glasses covered with solar filter paper, where they could take pictures of the moon moving over the sun. In some cultures, many old stories are about eclipse. In India, a eclipse was considered unfavorable. In Chinese tradition, there is a story about a heavenly dog eating the sun. As the story goes, people would make noise to frighten off the dog and save the sun. What does the text imply about the total solar eclipse? A) All people watched the solar eclipse for at least six minutes. B) In ancient China, people couldn't understand this phenomenon. C) Your eyes must be hurt without filter equipment while watching. D) You can watch the total solar eclipse directly only with your eyes.
A: | B |
Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
More shots are shown of a website as well as the outside of the shop while the men continue to speak. more people | are seen getting tattoos while the men still speak to the camera. |
Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
See one example below:
Problem: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
Solution: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Explanation: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Problem: Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a 'substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science'.
Solution: | what is a fellow of the royal society |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given Wikipedia articles on a range of topics, we ask you to write a question based on the content of the articles that can be answered in a binary manner i.e. True or False.
United States at the FIFA World Cup -- The United States men's national soccer team has played in several World Cup finals, with their best result occurring during their first appearance at the 1930 World Cup, when the United States finished in third place. After the 1950 World Cup, in which the United States upset England in group play 1--0, the U.S. was absent from the finals until 1990. The United States has participated in every World Cup since 1990 until they failed to qualify for the 2018 competition after a loss to Trinidad and Tobago in 2017.
| have america ever been in the world cup |
(Q).
Buying insurance is a way in which people can protect themselves against large losses. Protection against fire is one kind of insurance. Large numbers of people pay small sums of money to an insurance company. Although thousands of people have paid for fire insurance, only a few will lose their homes by fire. The insurance company will pay for these homes out of the small sums of money it has collected. The first modern fire insurance company was formed in London, England, in the 1760s. A great fire had just destroyed most of the city, and people wanted protection against further losses. The first company grew rapidly. Soon other companies were founded in other areas. Benjamin Franklin helped form the first fire insurance company in America in 1752, and then a new kind of insurance for farmers was suggested. The new insurance would provide protection against the loss of crops from storms. Later on another new insurance company was started in America. This company, which offered life insurance, collected small sums of money regularly from many different men. If a man died, his family was given a large sum of money. Over the years, insurance companies have offered new kinds of insurance protection. The new kinds of insurance cover losses from such accidents as car and plane crashes. Today, most people have some kind of insurance. Who helped set up the first company in America? A) Benjamin Franklin. B) Businessmen. C) The first insurance company in London. D) Farmers.
(A).
A
(Q).
I have come across some really excellent examples of British humour in the form of jokes. Here is a very funny joke about how the English and the Scottish save on train fare. Five Englishmen boarded a train just behind five Scots, who as a group had only bought one ticket. Just before the conductor came, all the Scots went into the toilet. As the conductor passed the toilet, he knocked and called, "Tickets, please!' One of the Scots slid a ticket out under the door. It was punched and pushed back. When it was safe, all the Scots came out and took their seats. The Englishmen were quite impressed by what the Scots had done. On the trip back, the five Englishmen decided to try this themselves and bought only one ticket. They noticed that the Scots had not bought any tickets this time. Anyway again, just before the conductor came, the Scots went into one of the toilets, the Englishmen into the other. Then one of the Scots leaned out, knocked on the Englishmen's toilet and called, "Tickets, please!" When the ticket was slid out under the door, he picked it up and quickly closed the door. English humor shows the ups and downs of life in Britain. Humour helps us to look at the lighter side of things. So, if you want a good laugh, and want to change your attitude to what would otherwise be a difficult situation, turn to a good English situation comedy and have a good time. Which of the following words can best describe the five Scots? A) Confident B) Careful C) Mean D) Clever
(A).
D
(Q).
Germs are everywhere. You can't see them, but they are on your desk, on your computer, and even in the air! Like people, germs move around the world. They fly with us on planes. When food, clothes, and other things travel around the world, germs travel, too. Some germs are safe, but some are dangerous. Germs cause illnesses like colds and the flu. Warmer Weather Brings Germs The world's weather is changing. Cooler countries are getting warmer, so insects from hot countries can move _ . Some of these insects, like mosquitoes, carry dangerous germs. These germs cause headaches, fever, and can even kill people. Under Your Skin Your skin protects you from germs. It stops some germs, but not all. They can enter your body when you eat, or when you have a cut. Germs are on your hands, too. They enter your body when you touch your eyes, nose, or mouth. Fighting Germs Your immune system protects you, too. When germs get inside your body, your immune system finds and kills them. Special cells move around your body and fight germs. They help you stay healthy. Other cells make antibodies. Antibodies help your body find and stop germs. What can you do to fight germs? You should wash your hands with soap and water. Soap kills many germs, and water washes them away. What do antibodies do? A) They kill germs and wash them away. B) They find and develop germs. C) They help protect us from germs. D) They carry dangerous germs.
(A).
| C |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Zakariya Essabar, a Moroccan citizen, moved to Germany in February 1997 and to Hamburg in 1998, where he studied medical technology. Soon after moving to Hamburg, Essabar met Binalshibh and the others through a Turkish mosque. Essabar turned extremist fairly suddenly, probably in 1999, and reportedly pressured one acquaintance with physical force to become more religious, grow a beard, and compel his wife to convert to Islam. Essabar's parents were said to have made repeated but unsuccessful efforts to sway him from this lifestyle. Shortly before the 9/11 attacks, he would travel to Afghanistan to communicate the date for the attacks to the al Qaeda leadership. Mounir el Motassadeq, another Moroccan, came to Germany in 1993, moving to Hamburg two years later to study electrical engineering at theTechnical University. A witness has recalled Motassadeq saying that he would kill his entire family if his religious beliefs demanded it. One of Motassadeq's roommates recalls him referring to Hitler as a "good man" and organizing film sessions that included speeches by Bin Laden. Motassadeq would help conceal the Hamburg group's trip to Afghanistan in late 1999. Abdelghani Mzoudi, also a Moroccan, arrived in Germany in the summer of 1993, after completing university courses in physics and chemistry. Mzoudi studied in Dortmund, Bochum, and Muenster before moving to Hamburg in 1995. Mzoudi described himself as a weak Muslim when he was home in Morocco, but much more devout when he was back in Hamburg. In April 1996, Mzoudi and Motassadeq witnessed the execution of Atta's will. During the course of 1999, Atta and his group became ever more extreme and secretive, speaking only in Arabic to conceal the content of their conversations. 87 When the four core members of the Hamburg cell left Germany to journey to Afghanistan late that year, it seems unlikely that they already knew about the planes operation; no evidence connects them to al Qaeda before that time. Witnesses have attested, however, that their pronouncements reflected ample predisposition toward taking some action against the United States. In short, they fit the bill for Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM. Going to Afghanistan The available evidence indicates that in 1999, Atta, Binalshibh, Shehhi, and Jarrah decided to fight in Chechnya against the Russians. <sep>Who would travel to Afghanistan to communicate the date for the attacks to the al Qaeda leadership shortly before the 9/11 attacks?<sep>Mzoudi
| No |
Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: One look at Fred Rooney, and you just know he's the good guy. A trace of childish innocence in his face gives the lanky Bethlehem lawyer a Jimmy Stewart-like quality of quiet trust. In black jeans and button-down shirt, he's a kind of folk hero in the south Bethlehem melting pot where he's crafted a law practice catering to working-class families - mostly Latino - in the shadow of the hulkish remnants of Bethlehem Steel. A two-hour drive away, at City University of New York Law School in Queens, Rooney spends several days a week helping upstart lawyers develop storefront practices that, like his, provide legal representation to folks who can't afford a $250-an-hour legal counselor. Kristin Booth Glen, the law school's dean, took one look at Rooney and knew he was the right person to head the innovative Community Legal Resources Network. ''Fred's so low-key, he's Midwestern in effect,'' says Glen, a former New York Supreme Court judge. ''He captivates people, he inspires loyalty.'' For bringing legal representation to the poor and a host of other social causes, including finding medical care for seriously ill children in Latin America, the Moravian College Alumni Association has chosen Rooney for its prestigious Haupert Humanitarian Award. The award, given to only a select few alumni, will be presented at 7:30 tonight at a reception on Moravian's Priscilla Payne Hurd campus. Moravian, where he was an undergraduate in the early 1970s, inspired Rooney's deep sense of social justice. The son of a Bethlehem Steel executive in New York, he came to the Bethlehem campus from an affluent upbringing on Long Island. The young Rooney might have set his sights on Washington, D.C., like his uncle, former U.S. Rep. Fred Rooney of Bethlehem. After all, politics run in the Rooney family. His brother, state Rep. T.J. Rooney of Bethlehem, is a power in the state Legislature and the Democratic Party. But on a trip to Colombia when he was a junior at Moravian, the child of privilege saw human suffering, malnutrition and poverty the likes of which he had never imagined. ''I couldn't understand why we live this way and they live that way,'' Rooney recalled. ''It's been the guiding light of my life ever since.'' After graduating in CUNY Law School's first class in 1986, he took a job with Lehigh Valley Legal Services. <sep>Who said Fred Rooney inspires loyalty?<sep>Kristin Glenn
Output: | Yes |
Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: The driver of a car that crashed into a lake Tuesday afternoon reportedly was texting while driving, authorities said.
Deputies with the Charles County Sheriff's Office were called to Waldorf, Md., about 12:25 p.m. for a report of a car that drove into a lake.
Woman Reportedly Texting While Driving Crashes Into Lake
The 25-year-old driver of the Hyundai was northbound on St. Charles Parkway near St. Thomas Drive when she drove off the roadway, struck a tree and drove about 60 feet into the lake, becoming submerged in about 5 feet of water.
The driver was out of the car when emergency crews arrived. She was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.
Caught on Camera: Trooper Hits Bikers
Dashcam footage shows brutal collision between Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper and couple on motorcycle. The video shows Trooper Jacob Daymon driving on U.S. 35 east of Dayton on the night of August 17th. Daymon showed no signs of braking and rear-ended Amy and Corey Waldman's motorcycle, tossing the couple over the cruiser. Alison Montoya reports. (Published Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013)
The car has been removed from the lake. ||||| FILED UNDER
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WALDORF, Md. (WUSA9) -- Authorities say a driver admitted that she was texting before her car went into a lake near St. Thomas Drive at St. Charles Parkway in Waldorf on Tuesday afternoon.
The driver told police she was texting when she ran off a road, struck a tree and was propelled into Wakefield Lake, according to authorities. She was able to escape the car through a window. Authorities say she was transported to a hospital for minor injuries.
The woman was driving north on St. Charles Parkway just past St. Thomas Drive at about 12:25 p.m. Tuesday when she left the road, according to Charles County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Diane Richardson. The woman's car traveled 50 or 60 feet into the lake in about 5 feet of water, Richardson said.
Police say charges are pending.
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Output: | A 25-year-old woman in Maryland has delivered unto the nation the latest public-service announcement about texting and driving in dramatic fashion: Police say she lost control of her Hyundai while looking at her phone, smacked a tree, then drove 60 feet into a lake in Waldorf, reports NBC Washington. The car ended up submerged in about 5 feet of water, and the woman was able to get out through a window before emergency crews arrived. She suffered only minor injuries, but charges are pending, reports WUSA9. |
Instructions: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Input: After returning to Earth, Watney becomes a survival instructor for astronaut candidates. Five years later, on the occasion of the Ares V mission launch, those involved in Watney's rescue have begun new lives.
Output: | the martian does he die at the end? |
Question: Across countryside, non-food crops are growing alongside wheat.Some are used in new alternatives to plastics and other materials, but others will simply be burned. Burning crops is becoming more popular because it is good for the planet.Doing so is also cheaper than burning fossil fuels.As more land is devoted to non-food crop production, the economics of crops for fuel are likely to become even more favorable. Humans have been burning such biomass--organic materials from plants or animals-- since they discovered fire.But that burning fossil fuels could have catastrophic consequences has brought biomass back into fashion. Even allowing for emissions of carbon dioxide from fuel used in planting, harvesting, processing and transporting biomass fuel, replacing fossil fuel with biomass can typically reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 90 percent. Power stations around the world are experimenting with forms of biomass to add to their coal or oil, with encouraging results.Indeed, power companies could profit by turning to biomass, especially when the subsidies many governments offer for using renewable energy are taken into account. Farmers can benefit from growing biomass.In Europe, the reduction of subsidies for certain crops is exposing farmers to market forces.Instead of being paid for whatever they produce, farmers must seek a clear demand for their product.Many believe that the demand for alternatives to fossil fuels could be just such a driver. But while biomass offers a variety of potential alternatives, the world's infrastructure has developed around burning fossil fuels to such a stage that switching to biomass involves a change in conception that many companies have not accepted. Also, there are problems with using biomass.Although most coal-fired power stations could take a small amount of their fuel from biomass without significant adjustment, few are built to run on biomass alone.Burning some forms of biomass also causes environmental problems.Oils and waste can be smelly, while wood... What is the author's attitude towards biomass fuels? A) Defensive. B) Doubtful. C) Negative. D) Objective
Answer: | D |
Given the question: The unwanted disturbing of a mobile phone ringing at a critical moment has led to some famously strong reactions British actor Richard Grif-fiths,stopped a performance at the National Theatre and ordered The offending party to leave Judge Robert Restaino went considerably further.He was hearing a session of domestic violence offenders in a court when proceedings were interrupted by rings of a phone. "Everyone is going to jail unless I get that instrument now," he shouted. Over the next two hours,the judge entered a period of "incredible madness".He began by ordering the doors of the court locked,and set the officers to searching for the phone. When that failed to find the offending item he ordered each of the defendants present in the room up to his bench and in turn asked them if they had no idea, he sent each in turn to jail . All 46 of them. When a defendant protested the judge's actions were not fair to those who didn't possess the phone,Restaino replied:"I know it isn't. Judge's actions caused chaos.Extra officers had to be drafted into the court to control the crowd.and booking officers at the city jail were at full stretch." _ ", one said at the time. Fourteen of the defendants were shackled( )in irons and sent to the county jail. The judge cooled off and later that afternoon released all 46. The "two hours of viral lunacy ", has probably cost Restaino his job.The commission ruled that he should be removed from his $14,000 job.Restaino now has 30 days to appeal . His lawyer pointed out that until that moment he had served 11 years as a judge without any disciplinary issues."With the exception of two hours.his record is spotless." From the passage we can find _ . A) Robert is always challenging the disciplines B) Robert is now in jail C) judge is not a well-paid job D) all the defendants didn't follow Robert's instructions willingly
The answer is: | D |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
--------
Question: Paris, France (CNN) -- Hundreds of French workers, angry about proposed layoffs at a Caterpillar factory, were holding executives of the company hostage Tuesday, a spokesman for the workers said. Caterpillar's French staff say they are angry about a lack of negotiations over layoffs. It is at least the third time this month that French workers threatened with cutbacks have blockaded managers in their offices to demand negotiations. Executives were released unharmed in both previous situations. The latest incident started Tuesday morning at the office of the construction equipment company in the southeastern city of Grenoble. The workers were angry that Caterpillar had proposed cutting more than 700 jobs and would not negotiate, said Nicolas Benoit, a spokesman for the workers' union. They did not want to harm the Caterpillar executives, Benoit told CNN. One hostage was released Tuesday evening leaving workers with four captives inside the Caterpillar building. The released man was a human resources director identified only as Mr. Petit, because he has heart problems, union representative Bernard Patrick told CNN. Petit had a heart attack a few weeks ago, Patrick said. The four others still being held are Nicolas Polutnik, the head of operations; two other executives; and Petit's personal assistant, he said. About 500 employees were also outside the building protesting. <sep>Have any executives from the Caterpillar factory been hurt by the workers so far?<sep>Yes
Answer: No
Question: Relying on an animal to come by is risky. A flower may have to wait a long time for the right animals to come by. What if one never passes close enough to the flower? Hoping the wind will blow is also risky for a plant. What if the wind does not blow? What if the blowing pollen does not land on another flower? The wind could even blow the pollen over the ocean where it is wasted. Giving free nectar is costly. It is not a good use of the plants energy. A plant uses a lot of energy to produce nectar. Some animals may just drink the nectar. They may not carry off any pollen in return. To improve their chances, plants evolved special traits. For example, they developed ways to hide their nectar. Only certain animals were able to get at the plants hidden nectar. These specific animals might be more likely to visit only flowers of the same species. This was also a benefit for some animals. Animals also evolved special traits to get to the nectar. <sep>What do some plants provide that entices animals to visit them?<sep>Photosynthesis
Answer: No
Question: Once upon a time I had a dog named Toodles. He was black and white and had long floppy ears. He also had very short legs, but really big paws. Every Saturday we would go to the park and play Toodles' favorite game. Toodles loved playing fetch. One Saturday, Toodles ran over to the pond because he saw ducks swimming there. He ran all around the pond, barking at the ducks. The ducks ignored him, and kept swimming. Toodles wasn't having it! He jumped into the pond and started swimming toward the ducks, chasing around his new playmates. One of the ducks, braver than the others, poked Toodles with his beak - and then bit him right on one of his floppy ears! Toodles barked and ran out of the pond because the duck hurt his ear. Soaking wet, he ran toward where I was eating a sandwich on the grass and curled right up in my lap so I could make him feel better. After that, whenever he would see a duck, Toodles would run the other way. <sep>Where was the pond<sep>In the park
Answer: | Yes
|
Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
The Middlewich Paddies formed within the last 10 years.
The Middlewich Paddies are an Irish folk band formed in 1979 in the town of Middlewich in Cheshire. Although not widely known outside of folk music circles, two members of the band were instrumental in setting up the Middlewich folk and boat festival which has now become a recognised festival on the folk circuit.
Options:
I. Yes;
II. It's impossible to say;
III. No; | III. |
Electricity, like clean water, is a resource that's often taken for granted. But last summer, when blackouts struck much of the northeastern US, Ontario and Rome, consumers on two continents were given a painful reminder of just how easily broken electricity supplies can be. The massive disorder stranded commuters, stopped freezers, shut down businesses and refocused attention on where most of the planet's power comes from:oil-and-gas-fired generators and nuclear plants, These sources not only pollute the environment but also make many consumers feel unacceptable health risks. Companies are trying to offer an alternative, clean energy from renewable resources that's plentiful and portable. Lifton's Medis Technologies, as well as companies like Hydrogenics and Nanosys, is tapping into fuel cells and dolor panels to give people power whenever and wherever they want it, free from dependence on local grids . The search for alternative energy is nothing new, but the current trend of innovators is focusing on the goal of making clean and sustainable power a mainstream commodity. For example, the fuel cell, which produces electricity from the chemical reaction between oxygen and hydrogen, has been around for about 150 years, though its commercial development did not begin until the 1960s and then only as part of NASA spacecraft. Today this technology is coming down to Earth in places like Tokyo; in nine European cities, from Stockholm to Porto, each operating three hydrogen-fuel-cell buses; and in Iceland, which is trying to create the first fuel free hydrogen economy by 2030. When hydrogen and oxygen molecules combine, the reaction produces heat and water. Fuel cells use this reaction to generate electricity. With the cell phone and gadget market in mind, Medis has developed a fuel cell with cheap components that produces little heat and effortlessly reduces waste water without turning to energy consuming pumps. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage? A) Lifton's Medis Technologies is tapping into fuel cells and solar panels. B) The fuel cell has been around for about 150 years. C) The fuel cell's commercial development did not begin until the 1960s. D) When hydrogen and oxygen molecules combine, the reaction produces o2 and H2O.
The answer to this question is: | D |
Q: it happened on august 1
The probe looked into the October 2000 shooting-deaths of 13 Arabs, during violent demonstrations in northern Israel that erupted days after the start of a Palestinian uprising.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Smart Rats<br>When I was in high school I took biology. The classroom was in a lab, with rats and frogs, The rats ran on the wheel, which squeaked. The teach put a pencil in to stop the wheel from working. The room cheered when the rats pushed the pencil out and ran.
The room cheered because the teacher put a pencil in the wheel. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
input hypothesis: North Korea already has nuclear weapons
Context: World leaders expressed concern on Thursday that North Korea will quit six-party nuclear disarmament talks and will bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: Yes
Context:
"It's a vote of confidence that the momentum is going to continue", Doyle said . The momentum also appears to be moving south . The Mexican election is the latest indication that the free-market reforms that have swept Latin America during the past decade are gaining political acceptance . In Brazil , prices rose sharply , reacting to the Mexico vote and to new polls favorable to free-market presidential candidate Fernando Henrique Cardoso .
Hypothesis: The mexican election was last year OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
It's impossible to say
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Jealousy Issues<br>Tim's girlfriend was jealous. She caught him talking to a friend online. Tim didn't think much of it. His girlfriend threatened the other girl. It made Tim break up with her.
Sentence: Tim would do anything for his girlfriend.
Output: No
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A Member is doing something inherently connected with a ``proceeding in Parliament'' when putting down a question on the Order Paper, a notice of motion, a notice of motion for the production of papers, or a report stage amendment; when obtaining assistance to do any of these; or when obtaining assistance to draft a bill.
Sentence: the Order Paper is expensive
Output: | It's impossible to say |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Example: For four years we have waited expectantly for the pitter patter of tiny paws. Soon, that wait could finally be over. Tian Tian, the UK's only female giant panda, has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as August. However Edinburgh Zoo, where the pandas live, have warned people 'not to get too excited' as the process is 'extremely complex'. Moreover, on the two previous occasions keepers inseminated Tian Tian - whose name means 'Sweetie' - she has failed to produce a panda cub. She was artificially inseminated again in March this year, but keepers at the zoo say implantation - when a fertilised egg attaches to the uterus - has not yet occurred.Tian Tian has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as AugustShe has been inseminated twice before but so far failed to produce a cubTian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in 2011 from China to great fanfareOn loan at £600k a year, became first giant pandas to live in UK for 17 years
Questions:Under the terms of the agreement any cubs will return to _ at the age of two, the age at which they would normally leave their mother in the wild. (A) Tian Tian (B) UK (C) Edinburgh Zoo (D) Sweetie (E) Yang Guang (F) China
Example solution: (F)
Example explanation: This is a good example. Based on the passage, any cubs will return to China at the age of two
Problem: (CNN) -- Sebastian Vettel dashed Fernando Alonso's hopes of delivering a home victory for Ferrari at Monza with another commanding drive to win the Italian Grand Prix Sunday. The three-time defending champion secured his sixth win of the season after starting on pole position, relegating Spain's Alonso to second place. Vettel's Red Bull teammate Mark Webber finished third ahead of the second Ferrari of Brazilian Felipe Massa. The victory extended Vettel's advantage in the world title race over Alonso to 53 points with seven rounds remaining. Britain's Lewis Hamilton, who was forced to start from 12th after a poor qualifying session Saturday, could only manage ninth spot, but remained in third place in the standings, 81 points adrift.Sebastian Vettel wins Italian Grand Prix at MonzaSixth win of season for three-time defending championFernando Alonso finishes second for FerrariMark Webber joins Red Bull teammate Vettel on the podium
Questions:_ acknowledged there was little he could do to prevent the 32nd victory of Vettel's career. (A) CNN (B) Sebastian Vettel (C) Fernando Alonso (D) Ferrari (E) Monza (F) Italian (G) Grand Prix (H) Spain (I) Vettel (J) Red Bull (K) Mark Webber (L) Brazilian (M) Felipe Massa (N) Britain (O) Lewis Hamilton
| Solution: (C) |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[Q]: How did people react to the changes Passos Coelho made?, Context: Passos Coelho also announced that the retirement age will be increased from 65 to 66, announced cuts in the pensions, unemployment benefits, health, education and science expenses, abolished the English obligatory classes in Basic Education, but kept the pensions of the judges, diplomats untouched and didn't raise the retirement age of the military and police forces. He has, however, cut meaningfully the politicians salaries. These policies have led to social unrest and to confrontations between several institutions, namely between the Government and the Constitutional Court. Several individualities belonging to the parties that support the government have also raised their voices against the policies that have been taken in order to try to solve the financial crisis.
[A]: These policies have led to social unrest and to confrontations between several institutions, namely between the Government and the Constitutional Court
[Q]: What aspect of a child's mental capacity did multinationals use to their advantage?, Context: On 23 June 1757, the English East India Company defeated Siraj-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Bengal, in the Battle of Plassey. The British thus became masters of east India (Bengal, Bihar, Orissa) – a prosperous region with a flourishing agriculture, industry and trade. This led to a large amount of children being forced into labour due to the increasing need of cheap labour to produce large numbers of goods. Many multinationals often employed children because that they can be recruited for less pay, and have more endurance to utilise in factory environments. Another reason many Indian children were hired was because they lack knowledge of their basic rights, they did not cause trouble or complain, and they were often more trustworthy. The innocence that comes with childhood was utilised to make a profit by many and was encouraged by the need for family income.
[A]: innocence
[Q]: Where might have Arabian tradition of henna come from?, Context: Additionally, henna is an important part of Somali culture. It is worn by Somali women on their hands, arms, feet and neck during weddings, Eid, Ramadan, and other festive occasions. Somali henna designs are similar to those in the Arabian peninsula, often featuring flower motifs and triangular shapes. The palm is also frequently decorated with a dot of henna and the fingertips are dipped in the dye. Henna parties are usually held before the wedding takes place. Somali women have likewise traditionally applied kohl (kuul) to their eyes. Usage of the eye cosmetic in the Horn region is believed to date to the ancient Land of Punt.
[A]: | ancient Land of Punt
|
Teacher:In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Examples of this form of articulation are found in the hip, where the rounded head of the femur (ball) rests in the cup-like acetabulum (socket) of the pelvis, and in the glenohumeral joint of the shoulder, where the rounded head of the humerus (ball) rests in the cup-like glenoid fossa (socket) of the shoulder blade. The shoulder includes a sternoclavicular articulation joint.
Student: | how did the ball and socket joint get its name |
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to make an icicle garland
Tape a sheet of parchment paper to a flat surface.
This will make it easier to remove the icicles. You can work on top of a table, counter, or baking sheet
Do not use wax paper.
Available options:
A). If you do, simply tear the paper in two. Wrap the parchment paper tightly in a plastic bag..
B). It will melt and fuse with the hot glue. Tape some fishing line onto the parchment paper..
C). You do not want to tear it off later. It will not be of any use once the icicles are placed on the sheet of parchment paper..
D). You will need to use parchment paper for this method. You can use any kind of paper you want, although you should avoid the cardstock variety.. | B). |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Starting today, the government must follow the example set by one of its own backbenchers, the member for Thunder Bay-Atitokan, who wrote in The Chronicle Journal as recently as March 29 that the government was again going to meet with public service employee representatives on the issue of pension fund surpluses in order to come up with an agreement acceptable to both parties.
Hypothesis: The government is going to meet with public service representatives. | Yes |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
New York State Route 146A (NY 146A) is a state highway in New York State. It begins at NY 146 in Clifton Park and ends at NY 50 in Ballston Lake. It is located entirely within Saratoga County. Route 146A is the last existing spur of NY 146 in Saratoga and Schenectady counties.
Hypothesis: It begins at NY 146 in Clifton Park next to the playground and ends at NY 50 in Ballston Lake.
Choose from:
i. Yes.
ii. It's impossible to say.
iii. No. | ii. |
Q:
Gain knowledge or have more knowledge is gain skill by studying, practicing, being taught, or experiencing something. To gain knowledge is generally a person's main goal when they spend time learning about a subject.
A:
What is generally a person's main goal when they spend time learning about a subject?
Options:
- change
- gain knowledge
- elation
- headache
- boredom
gain knowledge
Q:
Michigan is an American city. An American weasel might live in michigan.
A:
Where might an American weasel live?
Options:
- michigan
- chicken coop
- great britain
- hen house
- in deep sea
michigan
Q:
Dairies are known to have dairy products. Dairy products means things made from milk. Milk usually comes from cows. When people want food from dairy, they usually milk a cow.
A:
If a person needs food from a dairy what should they do?
Options:
- promise to do
- go to a store
- step forward
- milk cow
- need food
milk cow
Q:
Drinking coffee contains caffeine. One of the effects of caffeine is it reduces sleep. Humans drink coffee to feel more alert when they feel sleepy.
A:
| If a human is sleepy what can they do to feel more alert?
Options:
- dream dreams
- think critically
- cross road
- drink coffee
- drive a car
drink coffee |
Context:
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A bill aimed at keeping food delivery drivers safe is headed to the governor’s desk. The Rhode Island Senate approved a bill Wednesday which would make assault of a delivery driver a felony. Penalties include up to 3 years in prison, a $3,000 fine, or both. If a weapon is used, punishment could be more severe. The bill has already been approved by the full House of Representatives.
Hypothesis: The bill includes a penalty of a $3,000 fine.
Yes
Context:
Tony Shalhoub won best actor in a comedy for "Monk", and James Spader won best actor in a drama for "Boston Legal."
Hypothesis: Boston Legal starred James spader
Yes
Context:
Europe's economic environment has altered considerably over the last thirty years, and the economies of European countries have progressively opened up to the global economy. As a result, the competitiveness of the European economies is dependent not just on production costs, but also on the performance of pension and social security systems guaranteeing security for the future.
Hypothesis: Pension programs guarantee security for the least competitive European economies.
| It's impossible to say |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
George White's Scandals is a 1934 American musical film directed by George White and written by Jack Yellen. The film stars Rudy Vallée, Jimmy Durante, Alice Faye, Adrienne Ames, Gregory Ratoff, Cliff Edwards and Dixie Dunbar. The film was released on March 16, 1934, by Fox Film Corporation.
Hypothesis: George White's Scandals is a American musical from the 1930s
Available options:
[-] Yes
[-] It's impossible to say
[-] No | Yes |
The measures currently in force include a travel ban on senior government figures, but France has invited Mr. Mugabe to a Franco-African summit in Paris next month, angering several countries.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
France angered a number of countries, by inviting Mr. Mugabe to attend a Franco-African summit in Paris. | yes |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
Then the video splits into four segments each with video of people maneuvering boats and the action they are performing. at the end
A: a website address is shown on the screen.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
She is throwing a frisbee to the dog and makes the dog fetch it for her. The dog runs every time she throws the frisbee at a distance and fetches it for her. the doh
A: jumps high up to grab the frisbee off her hand.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
One man is wearing a white shirt and the other man is wearing a dark shirt. The men begin playing while the game progresses each man serves from the serving box. the game
A: finishes with a hand shake and a wave to the crowd.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to decorate a dorm room
Add pictures or posters to your dorm walls.
Posters or other forms of wall art are a fun and popular way to decorate your dorm room. Add some of your favorite band posters, or posters with images of landscapes, art print reproductions, or appealing abstract designs.
A: | Most large universities will have a week-long poster sale near the beginning of the fall semester. You can easily find popular dorm-room posters at this sale. |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example: For four years we have waited expectantly for the pitter patter of tiny paws. Soon, that wait could finally be over. Tian Tian, the UK's only female giant panda, has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as August. However Edinburgh Zoo, where the pandas live, have warned people 'not to get too excited' as the process is 'extremely complex'. Moreover, on the two previous occasions keepers inseminated Tian Tian - whose name means 'Sweetie' - she has failed to produce a panda cub. She was artificially inseminated again in March this year, but keepers at the zoo say implantation - when a fertilised egg attaches to the uterus - has not yet occurred.Tian Tian has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as AugustShe has been inseminated twice before but so far failed to produce a cubTian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in 2011 from China to great fanfareOn loan at £600k a year, became first giant pandas to live in UK for 17 years
Questions:Under the terms of the agreement any cubs will return to _ at the age of two, the age at which they would normally leave their mother in the wild.
Example solution: China
Example explanation: This is a good example. Based on the passage, any cubs will return to China at the age of two
Problem: The wife of a man jailed for killing his own brother has vowed to stand by her man. Mark Lowe, 32, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, is currently serving a five-year sentence for beating and kicking his brother Wayne to death, after Wayne, then 33, attacked him in his bed with a knife. Mark's wife Sarah is now looking after three young children alone and said: '[Mark] will regret what he did for the rest of his life, because he loved his brother.' Mark Lowe, 32 (left), is currently serving a five year sentence for beating and kicking his brother Wayne (right) to death, but his wife Sarah (bottom) is standing by her manMark Lowe, 32, beat his brother Wayne, 33, to death last SeptemberWayne, who was known for being violent, attacked Mark in bed with a knifeMum-of-three Sarah Lowe insists her husband, a nurse, is a good manMark is now serving a four year eight month prison sentence
Question:But prosecutors accepted a manslaughter plea 'on the basis of a loss of control' as he was first attacked by a knife-wielding _.
| Solution: Wayne |
input hypothesis: Other physicists disagreed with the theories of Einstein.
Context: That theory, a concept first proposed by Albert Einstein and often reiterated by British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, seeks to find a single set of equations that can explain all the fundamental forces in the universe: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak interactive forces among subnuclear particles.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: It's impossible to say
Context:
A Kelowna diner was the scene of a break-in over the weekend. Kelowna RCMP were called to MTL montREAL food diner on Kirschner Road early Saturday morning. Police say a suspect caused some damage to the business and stole an undisclosed amount of cash. They say they seized evidence at the scene. The suspect managed to escape before police arrived.
Hypothesis: Kelowna is a nice city in British Columbia OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
It's impossible to say
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
None Chicago Bears punter Adam Podlesh (8) takes a snap before punting the ball in the first half of an NFL football game against the St. Louis Rams in Chicago, on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. Podlesh was a standout player at Pittsford before going on to punt for the University of Maryland and in the NFL. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP
Sentence: The game mentioned in the text happened in the year that comes immediately after 2011.
Output: Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn, along with top members of the Automobile Club of Southern California, along with will announce the kickoff of a $9 billion plan to fund Los Angeles County's Top Ten Traffic Busters.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Los Angeles County can not afford the $9 billion plan.
****
Answer:
It's impossible to say
[Q]: Poor Trays<br>Tim was trying to make ice. He had to do it the old fashioned way with trays. Tim's trays were old and breaking apart. He got pieces of broken plastic everywhere. Tim finally decided to invest in new trays. Tim got new and expensive trays. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: Tropical Storm Arthur is projected to weaken tonight, but it will likely regain strength after entering the Bay of Campeche on Sunday.The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season got off to an early start today when a tropical storm formed off the coast of Belize, one day before the season officially begins. Tropical Storm Arthur formed Saturday afternoon and quickly made landfall at the Yucatan Peninsula, near the border between Belize and Mexico. Both countries issued a tropical storm warning for the peninsula's eastern coastline. In the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, ports were closed to small boats, water sports were banned, and those living in coastal areas were encouraged to take precautions. There were safety concerns due to Tropical Storm Arthur. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: | Yes |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
How to overcome fear of birds<br>Learn about exposure therapy. The most effective way to begin dismantling your fear of birds is by exposure to them. The goal of exposing yourself to birds is to gradually decrease your fearful reactions through prolonged contact.
Hypothesis: Viewing birds can help with fear of birds.
Choose your answer from: 1). Yes. 2). It's impossible to say. 3). No. | 1). |
*Ans* fall down
*Question* If I go for a run and don't watch where I place my feet, what's likely to happen?
Options:
- fall down
- sweat
- exhaustion
- may trip
- may fall
*CoT* While running, people mostly fall down. When someone runs carelessly, he tend to fall down.
*Ans* band together
*Question* What would people do if they are agreeing with each other?
Options:
- smiles
- dissonance
- accord
- band together
- rapport
*CoT* Band together means forming a group of people with similar interests. Agreeing with each other means having similar interests.
*Ans* two eyes
| *Question* Humans tend to have what round things that dart around?
Options:
- two arms
- live forever
- two eyes
- lay eggs
- ten fingers
*CoT* Dart around means to move quickly and erratically. Humans tend to have two eyes that dart around. |
Question:
In 1979, the very first cases of AIDS appeared in New York. Cases of the disease that had never been seen prior to 1979, but is now considered more deadly than the bubonic plague, continued to surface in California and New York, almost exclusively in homosexual men.
Is this true?
AIDS spreads in Africa.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Answer:
no
Question:
Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s new vehicle sales in the US fell 46 percent in June
Is this true?
Mitsubishi sales rose 46 percent
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Answer:
no
Question:
Since the island also lacks wells, water has to be obtained from rain carefully collected in concrete cisterns.
Is this true?
The island gets water from collected rain.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Answer:
| yes |
Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: During one interview, agents watched Mr. Miller as he grew aroused while he looked through a book of images of children, two law enforcement officials said. At another point during questioning, when agents asked Mr. Miller about the possibility of Etan’s being buried in the basement, he asked back, “What if the body was moved?”
Mr. Miller’s stepson, Jason C. Webley, has said he had never heard of any rape accusations against his stepfather. He also said he did not believe that his stepfather had anything to do with Etan’s disappearance.
Mr. Miller’s lawyer, Michael Farkas, said his client “has absolutely no responsibility for the terrible tragedy that befell young Etan Patz, and he grieves for Etan’s fate as all New Yorkers have for decades.”
In the intervening years, Agent MacDonald chipped away at the case off and on, even as he juggled it with more active cases, like a large gang investigation in Yonkers. He also played a critical role, three law enforcement officials said, in capturing the Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, who was found in Santa Monica, Calif., last year.
Agent MacDonald met some resistance from Etan’s family. Stanley K. Patz, Etan’s father, would meet with the new investigator, but Julie Patz had had enough of new investigators over the years. There were a number of meetings between Mr. Patz and Agent MacDonald before she would participate.
Etan’s sister, Shira, however, “shut down” under the agent’s direct interview style, the official familiar with the investigation said. The F.B.I. considers her potentially an important witness because they believe that if Etan ever offered any hint of inappropriate advances by Mr. Ramos or other adults in the days preceding his disappearance, Shira might know.
With its suspicions of Mr. Miller rising, the F.B.I. brought in a cadaver-sniffing dog to examine the basement less than a month ago, and the dog’s response suggested the possibility that human remains might once have been buried there.
The case is at a precarious juncture, as the digging ended its fourth day on Sunday, with investigators expected to begin again at 8 a.m. on Monday.
“If they find remains, the case is solvable,” one law enforcement official said. “If none are found, I fear we’re at a dead end.”
Mr. MacDonald was transferred to Maine last year and handed over the case to another agent, Jed Salter. But Agent MacDonald has returned for the dig. “He’s hopeful, but realistic as well,” an official said. ||||| New York (CNN) -- The search of a New York City basement for clues in the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz more than three decades ago has ended with no "obvious" human remains found, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said Monday.
An FBI evidence team, along with police, planned to do another check to be sure nothing was missed.
A field test on what was considered a possible bloodstain found in the basement was negative, a source briefed on the investigation told CNN. The stain, some possible strands of hair and a piece of paper will be analyzed at an FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, the source said.
The boy's family was informed Sunday afternoon that the search had come up empty, according to a law enforcement source.
Officials were wrapping up at the scene Monday, Browne said, less than 100 yards from Etan's home. They removed two Dumpsters that contained some concrete slabs taken from the basement, which was a carpenter's workshop at the time Etan vanished. The trash bins and their contents were taken to a location where they can be safeguarded, a source familiar with the investigation said.
The basement is about a half-block from where the boy's family still lives. Etan went missing May 25, 1979, a block from his home in the New York neighborhood of SoHo. It was the first time he walked to a bus stop by himself.
Days after Etan went missing, the carpenter who worked out of the basement poured a new concrete floor, and it wasn't dug up until now, according to a law enforcement source.
About a month ago, a cadaver dog reacted to the floor in a way that suggested the possibility of human remains, a law enforcement source said.
The carpenter, Othniel Miller, 75, has not been charged with a crime.
He had no involvement in the disappearance, his lawyer said.
"Mr. Miller has been cooperating with this investigation for over 30 years," attorney Michael Farkas said Friday. "He has continued to cooperate on multiple occasions. And I am going to assist him in cooperating to the fullest extent possible."
Miller's daughter, Stephanie Miller, told CNN affiliate WCBS that her father had cooperated with federal agents, saying he "doesn't have anything to do with it."
FBI agents, assisted by the NYPD, discovered the possible bloodstain over the weekend by spraying the chemical luminol, which can indicate the presence of blood but is not always conclusive, according to a source,who was also briefed on the investigation.
Investigators recently relaunched their inquiry into the cold case, often described as a milestone effort that helped draw the plight of missing children into the national consciousness.
Authorities said that both new and old information led them to Miller, a part-time handyman who met Etan the day before he disappeared and gave him a dollar.
It was interest in Miller that prompted authorities to bring a cadaver dog about 10 days ago to the SoHo basement, where Etan apparently had encountered the carpenter, then 42, a source said.
When agents interviewed Miller about his connection to the basement, the source said, Miller blurted out, "What if the body was moved?"
Farkas, the attorney, said he would speak to authorities about that alleged remark.
"I don't know that he asked that," Farkas said.
Miller was picked up by the FBI on Thursday and was questioned and returned to his Brooklyn apartment, a source said.
In 2010, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said his office decided to take another look at the decades-old mystery. FBI leads were then culled from that case file, sources said.
The investigation garnered national headlines as authorities splashed the child's image on the sides of milk cartons in the hopes of gathering more information.
Etan was officially declared dead in 2001 as part of a civil lawsuit filed by his family against a drifter, Jose Antonio Ramos, a convicted child molester acquainted with the boy's babysitter.
A judge found Ramos responsible for the death and ordered him to pay the family $2 million. He never paid the money.
Though Ramos has been considered a key focus of the investigation for years, he has never been charged in the case. He is serving a 20-year sentence in a Pennsylvania prison for molesting a different boy and is set to be released this year.
A source said investigators want to expand the pool of possible suspects beyond Ramos.
Stan and Julie Patz, Etan's parents, wouldn't comment on the developments. A notice on the apartment building said, "To the hardworking and patient media people: The answer to all your questions at this time is 'no comment.' Please stop ringing our bell and calling for interviews."
SoHo -- a Lower Manhattan neighborhood now known for its boutique shops, art galleries and loft apartments -- at the time was a grittier locale where abandoned storefronts dotted the streets.
The boy's disappearance raised awareness of child abductions and led to new ways to search for missing children.
President Ronald Reagan named May 25, the day Etan went missing, National Missing Children's Day.
CNN's Susan Candiotti, Deb Feyerick, Ross Levitt, Adam Reiss, and Josh Levs contributed to this report. |||||
Output: | The case of Etan Patz was opened in 1979 and almost closed five years ago, but a fairly low-ranking FBI agent brought it back into the limelight—culminating in the recent search of a New York City basement, reveals the New York Times. Agent Thomas McDonald took on the hopeless-looking case following another agent's promotion; seeking "some measure of peace" for Patz's family, McDonald contacted old witnesses and developed a 50-page "Patzifesto" containing his findings. In the course of McDonald's work, doubts were raised about the previous top suspect, Jose Ramos, who tended to develop close relationships with the children he abused; no such link between Ramos and Patz was uncovered. New suspect Othniel Miller's name popped up as part of McDonald's search. When asked about a basement burial in one interview, he asked agents, "What if the body was moved?" Meanwhile, the basement search is due to resume today, following a sudden halt yesterday, amid rain. At that point, reporters spotted something being loaded into a van, CNN notes. Yesterday, investigators reportedly found what may be a blood stain on a cinder block. |
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
"She would generally approach me after the meetings. Especially after the complaint was filed, I spoke with her a lot. She would ask me occasionally my thoughts, public comment, what I thought -- why I thought the board was doing what they were doing, those such things."
Sentence: She waited until after the meeting to question me.
Output: Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Mike Harris has kept his word to Ontarian voters by cutting taxes for working families by 30%, eliminating the huge provincial deficit by next year, creating over 850,000 new jobs and introducing a taxpayer protection act with teeth, all while increasing health care spending and absorbing the huge transfer cuts of this Liberal government.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Mike Harris has cut taxes for working families by 30%
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Answer:
Yes
[Q]: How to remove mold odors from inside automobiles<br>Inspect the interior of the car. Check everywhere, even in places that are hidden from you view like under the floor mats and seats. Look for any traces of moisture or mildew. The kiss was special to her. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
Problem: Well, it starts with enforcing law. When you say loud and clear to somebody if you're going to carry a gun illegally, we're going to arrest you. If you're going to sell a gun illegally, you need to be arrested. If you commit a crime with a gun, there needs to be absolute certainty in the law.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Do not think about carrying a gun illegally, as you can get arrested."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Q: Fast Lane contains a l
"Fast Lane" was the third single released in 2001 by American R&B/soul singer-songwriter Bilal, from his debut studio album, "1st Born Second". The song peaked at no. 41 on Billboards R&B Singles chart. The music video for the remix featuring Dr. Dre & Jadakiss was directed by Sanaa Hamri.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Q: Pianos are in marching bands.
Marching Band<br>I always wanted to be in a marching band. The only instrument I played was piano. My friend told the instructor I wanted to be in the band. He handed me a baritone and told me to learn it. I took it home and learned it and then I was in the band!
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | No |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: what is the fourth word in the first paragraph?, Context: Representatives of the Polish government officially took over the civilian administration of the southern part of East Prussia on 23 May 1945. Subsequently Polish expatriates from Polish lands annexed by the Soviet Union as well as Ukrainians and Lemkos from southern Poland, expelled in Operation Vistula in 1947, were settled in the southern part of East Prussia, now the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. In 1950 the Olsztyn Voivodeship counted 689,000 inhabitants, 22.6% of them coming from areas annexed by the Soviet Union, 10% Ukrainians, and 18.5% of them pre-war inhabitants. The remaining pre-war population was treated as Germanized Poles and a policy of re-Polonization was pursued throughout the country Most of these "Autochthones" chose to emigrate to West Germany from the 1950s through 1970s (between 1970 and 1988 55,227 persons from Warmia and Masuria moved to Western Germany). Local toponyms were Polonised by the Polish Commission for the Determination of Place Names.
A: Polish
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Q: Which judge on American Idol was on more seasons, Keith Urban or Jennifer Lopez?, Context: Fox announced on May 11, 2015 that the fifteenth season would be the final season of American Idol; as such, the season is expected to have an additional focus on the program's alumni. Ryan Seacrest returns as host, with Harry Connick Jr., Keith Urban, and Jennifer Lopez all returning for their respective third, fourth, and fifth seasons as judges.
A: Jennifer Lopez
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Q: The Nile River and where else were big areas for slave traders to gain captives?, Context: During the 16th and 17th centuries slave traders began to raid the region as part of the expansion of the Saharan and Nile River slave routes. Their captives were slaved and shipped to the Mediterranean coast, Europe, Arabia, the Western Hemisphere, or to the slave ports and factories along the West and North Africa or South the Ubanqui and Congo rivers. In the mid 19th century, the Bobangi people became major slave traders and sold their captives to the Americas using the Ubangi river to reach the coast. During the 18th century Bandia-Nzakara peoples established the Bangassou Kingdom along the Ubangi River.
A: | the Saharan
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In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
[Q]: Powell contended that it was not inconsistent to want to foster cooperation even with an organization like the Indonesian military, which has a history of human rights abuses. "If you get young officers, expose them to a military organization that is within a democratic political institution, such as the United States, then that rubs off on them," he said. In Malaysia, Powell met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has led the country since 1981. The Malaysian foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, later told local reporters that Powell had proposed that American and Malaysian officials review the idea of forming a regional training center in Malaysia to coordinate antiterrorism activities. His brief stop in Malaysia also highlighted the moral ambiguities of the effort to prevent terrorism and its emphasis on cooperation with governments that the United States has often criticized. The United States once distanced itself from Mahathir for strong-arm tactics with political rivals, and human rights groups criticize him for arresting and jailing scores of suspected militants, including some who may be linked to al-Qaida, without trial. Powell said his discussions with Mahathir "touched on the case" of his former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of sodomy and abuse of power after trials that Powell said the United States had "always felt" were flawed. The assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, James Kelly, met on Tuesday morning with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, for what she later told Malaysian reporters was a discussion about both the detention of her husband and six supporters, and the campaign against terrorism. <sep>What issue does Malaysia seem to continue to have trouble with?<sep>Terrorism
[A]: Yes
[Q]: A flood occurs when a river overflows its banks. This might happen because of heavy rains. Floodplains In very flat regions, flood water may spread out on the surface of the land. It then slows down and drops its sediment. If a river floods often, a floodplain develops. A floodplain is an area where a thick layer of rich soil is left behind as the floodwater recedes. Thats why floodplains are usually good places for growing plants. They are very flat areas and they have very rich soils. The Nile River valley is a great example of a floodplain. Each year, the Nile River rises over its banks. This floodwater carries a lot of sediment. This sediment has been eroded off areas of land from upstream. This sediment is dropped as the water slows down after spreading across the land. What is left behind is a very rich soil. Thats why crops can be raised in the middle of a sandy desert. Natural Levees A flooding river often forms natural levees along its banks. A levee is a raised strip of sediments deposited close to the waters edge. <sep>Where does the sediment in a flooding river come from, and where does it eventually come to rest?<sep>It comes from eroded rock and land and rests when the water receeds
[A]: Yes
[Q]: New Horizons: Exhausted after the Civil War, Spain remained on the sidelines during World War II and began to recover economically under the oppressive, law-and-order regime of Franco. There had been a foretaste of elite foreign tourism in the 1920s, but it was the late 1950s when the rest of Europe began sun-seeking pilgrimages to Spain. Tourism exploded into an annual southern migration, transforming the Spanish economy, landscape, and society. Eager to capitalize, the country poured its soul into mass tourism, which triggered a rash of indiscriminate building on the southern and eastern coastlines, with scant regard for tradition or aesthetics. But after so many years closed off from the rest of Europe, of equal significance was the injection of foreign influences into Franco's once hermetically sealed Spain. Mallorca and Menorca in particular saw explosive growth in tourism; by the 1970s, the Balearics were one of Europe's most popular holiday destinations. Franco named as his successor the grandson of Alfonso XIII, who was enthroned as King Juan Carlos I when the dictator died in 1975. To the dismay of Franco diehards, the king brilliantly managed the transition to democracy, then stood back to allow it full rein, even intervening during a brief attempt at a military coup. After many years of repression, new freedoms and autonomy were granted to Spanish regions, including the Balearics, and their languages and cultures enjoyed a long-desired renaissance. More a part of Europe than ever before, Spain joined the European Community (now European Union) in 1986, giving further boost to a booming economy. The tourist industry continued to expand, and though it became one of the top two income earners in Spain, a realization that unrestricted mass tourism was leading to damaging long-term consequences also began to grow. By the late 1990s, a new emphasis on quality and, especially in the Balearics, on safeguarding the environment had finally taken root—too late for many environmentalists, but hopefully still in time to preserve much of the natural beauty and unique character of the Las Islas Baleares. <sep>Which king brought democracy to Spain and was democracy successful?<sep>Franco brought successful democracy to Spain
[A]: | No
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Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
See one example below:
Problem: For four years we have waited expectantly for the pitter patter of tiny paws. Soon, that wait could finally be over. Tian Tian, the UK's only female giant panda, has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as August. However Edinburgh Zoo, where the pandas live, have warned people 'not to get too excited' as the process is 'extremely complex'. Moreover, on the two previous occasions keepers inseminated Tian Tian - whose name means 'Sweetie' - she has failed to produce a panda cub. She was artificially inseminated again in March this year, but keepers at the zoo say implantation - when a fertilised egg attaches to the uterus - has not yet occurred.Tian Tian has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as AugustShe has been inseminated twice before but so far failed to produce a cubTian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in 2011 from China to great fanfareOn loan at £600k a year, became first giant pandas to live in UK for 17 years
Questions:Under the terms of the agreement any cubs will return to _ at the age of two, the age at which they would normally leave their mother in the wild.
Solution: China
Explanation: This is a good example. Based on the passage, any cubs will return to China at the age of two
Problem: Mark Sampson's women became the most successful England football side for almost 50 years when they beat Germany for the first time to finish third at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada. A Fara Williams penalty in extra-time gave Mark Sampson’s side their historic 1-0 win after a fiercely fought encounter in Edmonton in which both sides gave their absolute all. Germany are two-time world champions, European Champions and heavy favourites going into this competition. England on the other hand were expected to have done well if they simply made it out of their group, although Sampson insists he and his team always believed they could go all the way.Germany and England could not be separated after 90 minutes, playing out a tense 0-0 drawMark Sampson's side had the best of the chances in normal time with Jill Scott squandering a good opportunityIn the 108th minute referee Ri Hyang-ok pointed to the penalty spot after Germany defender Tabea Kemme had dragged down Lianne Sanderson in the areaFara Williams, who was successful from the penalty spot against Colombia and Japan, sent German goalkeeper Nadine Angerer the wrong way, cue jubilant celebrations on the England benchThe Lionesses held out to overcome favourites Germany to take home the bronze medal
Question:Houghton had her chance to cap a fine performance with the winning goal when set up by _ her long range shot sailed over.
Solution: | Lianne Sanderson |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Its motto is " " ( " ' The interest for the student develops the student 's interest " ) .
Output: | Its motto is « " L ’ inte ́ re ̂ t pour l ’ e ́ le ̀ ve de ́ veloppe l ’ inte ́ re ̂ t de l ’ e ́ le ̀ ve " » ( " ' The interest for the student develops the student 's interest " ) . |
Three nurses in one of Vienna's oldest hospitals have been arrested on suspicion of killing 35 patients.
Question: Three Vienna nurses are under suspicion for killing patients.
yes
The M-2000 uses a commercially manufactured NbTi superconductor, similar to that used in the M-2000 Maglev magnets.
Question: Maglev is commercially used.
no
Two of Gianni Versace's favorite buzzwords were quality and future, so after the 50-year-old designer was murdered last July outside his Miami Beach, Fla. mansion, it was somehow inevitable that his family would have to go about putting those words together: They had to ask themselves how they could ensure the future of the company Versace had built without sacrificing its reputation for quality.
Question: Gianni Versace is a designer.
| yes |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
See one example below:
Problem: For four years we have waited expectantly for the pitter patter of tiny paws. Soon, that wait could finally be over. Tian Tian, the UK's only female giant panda, has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as August. However Edinburgh Zoo, where the pandas live, have warned people 'not to get too excited' as the process is 'extremely complex'. Moreover, on the two previous occasions keepers inseminated Tian Tian - whose name means 'Sweetie' - she has failed to produce a panda cub. She was artificially inseminated again in March this year, but keepers at the zoo say implantation - when a fertilised egg attaches to the uterus - has not yet occurred.Tian Tian has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as AugustShe has been inseminated twice before but so far failed to produce a cubTian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in 2011 from China to great fanfareOn loan at £600k a year, became first giant pandas to live in UK for 17 years
Questions:Under the terms of the agreement any cubs will return to _ at the age of two, the age at which they would normally leave their mother in the wild. (A) Tian Tian (B) UK (C) Edinburgh Zoo (D) Sweetie (E) Yang Guang (F) China
Solution: (F)
Explanation: This is a good example. Based on the passage, any cubs will return to China at the age of two
Problem: Angry fans are calling for Take That to re-issue their newly released 2015 concert DVD after finding a glitch that makes it skip and miss 10 seconds of the first song. Many have complained on the boy band's social media pages after finding the fault with the Take That Live 2015 DVD, which was released on Friday last week. Fans across the world who have bought the DVD from numerous different outlets have all found the DVD freezes for 10 seconds during the opening track 'I Like It'. It comes after fans waited five months to re-live the sold-out stadium concerts performed by the trio, who last time sold more than a million copies of their tour DVD.Take That's newly released DVD of 2015 concert has sticking glitchFans have taken to Twitter, Facebook and Amazon to demand re-issueThousands could be set for disappointment at Christmas thanks to error
Questions:Fans have also been giving the DVD just one star on _ because of the glitch. (A) Take That (B) Take That Live (C) DVD (D) I Like It (E) Twitter (F) Facebook (G) Amazon
Solution: | (G) |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Example input: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
Example output: Russian Revolution
Example explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Q: How does this work in the iwld?, Context: Species boundaries in plants may be weaker than in animals, and cross species hybrids are often possible. A familiar example is peppermint, Mentha × piperita, a sterile hybrid between Mentha aquatica and spearmint, Mentha spicata. The many cultivated varieties of wheat are the result of multiple inter- and intra-specific crosses between wild species and their hybrids. Angiosperms with monoecious flowers often have self-incompatibility mechanisms that operate between the pollen and stigma so that the pollen either fails to reach the stigma or fails to germinate and produce male gametes. This is one of several methods used by plants to promote outcrossing. In many land plants the male and female gametes are produced by separate individuals. These species are said to be dioecious when referring to vascular plant sporophytes and dioicous when referring to bryophyte gametophytes.
A: | This is one of several methods used by plants to promote outcrossing |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[Q]: what ethnicity is mentioned first?, Context: India rejected Chinese demands that the torch route be clear of India's 150,000-strong Tibetan exile community, by which they required a ban on congregation near the curtailed 3 km route. In response Indian officials said India was a democracy, and "a wholesale ban on protests was out of the question". Contradicting some other reports, Indian officials also refused permission to the "Olympic Holy Flame Protection Unit". The combined effect is a "rapid deterioration" of relations between India and China. Meanwhile, the Tibetan government in exile, which is based in India, has stated that it did not support the disruption of the Olympic torch relay.
[A]: Chinese
[Q]: How do chruches of christ worship in song?, Context: Present-day Christian religious bodies known for conducting their worship services without musical accompaniment include some Presbyterian churches devoted to the regulative principle of worship, Old Regular Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Plymouth Brethren, Churches of Christ, the Old German Baptist Brethren, Doukhobors the Byzantine Rite and the Amish, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites. Certain high church services and other musical events in liturgical churches (such as the Roman Catholic Mass and the Lutheran Divine Service) may be a cappella, a practice remaining from apostolic times. Many Mennonites also conduct some or all of their services without instruments. Sacred Harp, a type of folk music, is an a cappella style of religious singing with shape notes, usually sung at singing conventions.
[A]: without musical accompaniment
[Q]: What obstacle occurred in the prior war for Germany that they felt would not be occurring this time?, Context: The day after the Pact was signed, the French and British military negotiation delegation urgently requested a meeting with Soviet military negotiator Kliment Voroshilov. On August 25, Voroshilov told them "[i]n view of the changed political situation, no useful purpose can be served in continuing the conversation." That day, Hitler told the British ambassador to Berlin that the pact with the Soviets prevented Germany from facing a two front war, changing the strategic situation from that in World War I, and that Britain should accept his demands regarding Poland.
[A]: | a two front war
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Answer the following question: As for older people, some of the applications are hard to use because they didn't grow up with them. They don't have simple models of how it should work. They don't know what to do when it doesn't work. I think there is huge potential, so I have designed some for them. The ability to connect to friends, who remember the same movies, news and music, is really important, especially as people get older. They end up in retirement homes and they aren't always close to their friends. Allowing the network to help them connect with friends and family members is a really powerful thing. My wife likes using the Internet, although it took me years to get her to use e-mail. She was born with normal hearing, but lost it when she was three years old. She was totally deaf for many years until 53 when she got ear implants .They work really well. That is a big change for her. Before then, her friends couldn't call her on the phone, so they insisted that she use e-mails to communicate with them. The younger people don't even think of this as technology. It's just there, and they use it .There's been a very interesting change in communication styles between the old and the young .A woman named Sharryturkle wrote about this phenomenon .There are some kids who are now in their teens and are tending not to make phone calls. And they think of e-mail as old-fashioned and slow. The reason why teens don't make phone calls seems to be that they don't know what to say. When they call they often pause for a while. On the other hand, texting is considered proper, and it's OK if you don't answer. You might have been distracted .It's not considered rude, but it's considered unusual if you're in this kind of voice conversation and simply stop talling. What is the best way for the teens to communicate with others? A) Sending e-mail. B) Making phone call. C) Writing letters. D) Sending text messages.
Answer: | D |
Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: A West Tennessee nonprofit organization will use a $300,000 federal grant to hire an attorney and a Spanish-speaking paralegal to help provide legal assistance to domestic violence victims. The U.S. Department of Justice two-year grant will begin Oct. 1, which is the start of domestic violence awareness month. U.S. Rep. John Tanner announced Monday that the grant was awarded to West Tennessee Legal Services of Jackson. The organization provides legal assistance and advocacy in 17 counties. "This award will offer assistance as we look for whatever ways possible to stop domestic violence and help the women, men and children who are victims of abuse," Tanner said in a news statement. The organization doesn't have a staff member who speaks Spanish and the need is increasing with growing Hispanic populations, said the organization's executive director Steven Xanthopoulos. He estimated the money will help handle at least another 180 cases next year. The group closes about 2,500 cases a year. The money was timed well because the legal group had recently lost about $120,000 in grant money due to a decrease in the poverty population in West Tennessee in Census 2000, Xanthopoulos said. "The drop in poverty is a good thing, but there is still a great need out there," he said. "So this was a very good thing." Having legal representation at divorce and child custody hearings is important in helping victims leave abusive and sometimes dangerous situations, said Margaret Cole, executive director of Wo/Men's Resource and Rape Assistance Program in Jackson. Her organization and Northwest Safeline are partners in the grant. Northwest Safeline, based in Dyersburg, is a family violence intervention project that serves Dyer, Obion, Lake and Crockett counties. <sep>How many more cases will the grant money that West Tennessee Legal Services be able to handle next year?<sep>At least another 180 cases next year
Output: | Yes |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
(CNN) Debbie Wasserman Schultz's stewardship of the Democratic National Committee has been under fire through most of the presidential primary process. Now, on the eve of the party's convention, Wasserman Schultz is facing pressure to resign, and will have no major role on the convention stage, after Wikileaks released nearly 20,000 DNC emails that bolster Sanders' supporters' claims that the party favored Clinton. One email appears to show DNC staffers asking how they can reference Bernie Sanders' faith to weaken him in the eyes of Southern voters. Another seems to depict an attorney advising the committee on how to defend Hillary Clinton against an accusation by the Sanders campaign of not living up to a joint fundraising agreement.Leaked DNC emails have Bernie Sanders supporters upset at treatment of his campaignThey've long maintained the party committee was tilted against him
Questions:But Baltimore mayor and DNC Secretary Stephanie Rawlings-Blake denied any suggestion that _'s camp was treated more favorably by the committee. (A) CNN (B) Debbie Wasserman Schultz (C) Democratic National Committee (D) Wasserman Schultz (E) Wikileaks (F) DNC (G) Sanders (H) Clinton (I) Bernie Sanders (J) Southern | (H) |
That natural increase accounted for 56 percent of Missouri population growth during the past four years.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Question: Missouri's population is 56.
no
A small airplane crashed yesterday in southeast Alaska, killing five and injuring four. Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said that among the survivors is a two-year-old girl. Ketchikan Public Safety Director Rich Leipfert told the Ketchikan Daily News that three of the injured were transported to hospitals. Leipfert also said that the plane, belonging to SeaWind Aviation, crashed into a tree at Traitors Cove, an area about 25 miles north of Ketchikan.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Question: 25 people died in an airplane crash.
no
Hurricane Katrina petroleum-supply outlook improved somewhat, yesterday, as U.S. and European governments agreed to release 2 million barrels a day, of oil and refined products, from their reserves.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Question: Offers by individual European governments, involved supplies of crude or refined oil products.
| yes |
Desert Rock Airport is a private-use airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Mercury, in Nye County, Nevada, United States. The airport is located on the Nevada Test Site and is owned by the United States Department of Energy.
The airport is located in or around the desert which is where it got it's name probably. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
input hypothesis: The loss of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to a car bomb was a national tragedy.
Context: Lebanon is in a period of mourning after a massive car bomb killed the former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, on Tuesday.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: Yes
Context:
We are committed to the deployment of these technologies and are excited by the advances in remote sensing technology that are enabling us to extract more information from sensors in a cost-efficient and timely manner.
Hypothesis: The information is being used around the world to combat crime. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
It's impossible to say
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A report of a major earthquake off the California coast has turned out to be a false alarm based on a quake that happened in 1925. The US Geological Survey sent out an email alert Wednesday afternoon saying a magnitude 6.8 quake had struck in the Pacific Ocean 10 miles west of Santa Barbara. The report cause huge ripples on Twitter and in newsrooms across the country, but suspiciously no reports of anyone having felt the temblor. USGS geophysicist Rafael Abreu says researchers were working on the 1925 earthquake when the mistaken alert went out.
Sentence: The falsely reported earthquake had a different strength than the 1925 earthquake
Output: Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Daredevil<br>Josh loved doing skateboard tricks to grab people's attention. But his tricks became more and more dangerous. While at a skate park, he announced he would do a backflip off a ramp. And a large scene gathered around him. But Josh ended up in the hospital.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Skateboard tricks cannot cause injury.
****
Answer:
No
The Okanagan Highland is an elevated hilly plateau area in British Columbia, Canada, and the U.S. state of Washington (where it is spelled Okanogan Highlands). Rounded mountains with elevations up to 8,000 feet above sea level and deep, narrow valleys are characteristic of the region.
The spelling Okanogan Highland is most commonly accepted. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
Ques:Nearly everyone is shy in some ways. If shyness is making you uncomfortable, it may be time for a few lessons in self-confidence. You can build your confidence by following some suggestions from doctors and psychologists. Make a decision not to hold back in conversations. What you have to say is just as important as what other people say. And don't turn down party invitations just because of your shyness. Prepare for yourself for being with others in groups. Make a list of the good qualities you have. Then make a list of ideas, experiences, and skills you would like to share with other people . I think about what you would like to say in advance. Then say it. If you start feeling self-conscious in a group, take a deep breath and focus your attention on other people, Remember, you are not alone. Other people are concerned about the impression they are making, too. No one ever gets over being shy completely, but most people do learn to live with their shyness. Even entertainers admit that they often feel shy. They work at fighting their shy feelings so that they can face the cameras and the public. Just making the effort to control shyness can have many rewards. But perhaps the best reason to fight shyness is to give other people a chance to know about you. The main purpose of the article is to _ . A) explain how shyness developed B) recommend ways of dealing with shyness C) persuade readers that shyness is natural D) prove that shyness can be overcome
Ans:B
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Ques:Near the village, there is an old famous temple. Some people want to build new houses where the temple now stands, because they can find no other area to build them, while others disagree with them. They meet to decide how to solve the problem. Here are their opinions about it. The expert wants to protect the temple and believes that there are some interesting things buried in the ground. If it is destroyed or moved, people may never learn about how people lived in the past. The businessman thinks that the houses should be built. History is important, but we must think about the future. The village needs development and building new houses will offer jobs to hundreds of people. Villager A says, "We should build the new houses because we need houses to live in." Villager B says, "We should protect the temple because it can attract many tourists to come for a visit. If the temple is destroyed or moved, we will lose a lot of business." The village leader thinks that he has a duty to make life better for the villagers. They need jobs and new houses. He also thinks the cultural site is important and they should be careful with it as well. The expert doesn't want to _ the old famous temple. A) rebuild B) protect C) pull down D) fall down
Ans:C
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Ques:Apollo 11, carrying Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins, was launched on 16 July, 1969. Five days later they stepped down onto the moon. Neil Armstrong On the way there: Of all the wonderful views we had, the most impressive to me was on the way to the Moon when we flew through its shadow. We were still thousands of miles away, but close enough so that the Moon almost filled our window. The moon appeared blue-grey. It seemed almost as if it were showing us its roundness, its similarity in shape to our Earth, in a sort of welcome. I was sure it would be a hospitable host. It had been waiting for its first visitors for a long time. After touch down: The sky is black, you know. It's a very dark sky, but it still seemed more like daylight than darkness as we looked out the window. It's a very strange thing but the surface looked very warm and inviting. It seemed to be tan . It's hard to explain that, because later when I held the material in my hand, it wasn't tan at all. It was black, grey and so on. Edwin Aldrin On the Moon: The blue color of my boots has completely disappeared now into this soil--still don't know what color to describe this other than grayish cocoa. Back on board: The moon was a very natural and pleasant environment in which to work. On the Moon, in one-sixth gravity, you have a strong feeling of being somewhere. As we did our experiments, some objects we threw away would go in a slow, lazy manner. What did Armstrong find very strange on the moon? A) The color of the sky. B) The surface of the moon C) The gravity on the moon. D) The daylight on the moon.
Ans:B
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Ques:More than one million children in the United States do not go to school. Instead, they learn at home. Most often, their parents are their teachers. Educational companies, libraries and the Internet provide many families with teaching materials. Parents choose home schooling for several reasons. Some choose it because of their religious beliefs. Others say it provides more time for the family to be together. They say the home offers a better place for learning. Some parents believe home schooling avoids learning. Some parents believe home schooling avoids problems of _ schools. Critics, however, say children need to attend school with other children. All fifty American states and the District of Columbia permit home schooling. Some states do not require much preparation by parents or testing of children. Other states have more requirements for home schooling. Home schooling in the United States began when the country was established. In farm areas, people often lived far from a school. Widespread home schooling took place until about the middle of the nineteenth century. Then, in 1852, the state of Massachusetts passed the first law requiring children to attend school. Over the years, the American public education system strengthened and grew. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, some Americans believed that traditional education was not helping their children. So a number of parents began home schooling. Home schooling expert Linda Dobson says many people have helped the movement grow. She says many kinds of people have joined the movement. These include rich people and poor people. They represent many races, religions and political beliefs. Ms. Dobson says the number of home-schooled children has increased an estimated fifteen to twenty percent each year during the last fifteen years. Teaching materials for home schooling do NOT come from _ . A) parents B) libraries C) the Internet D) educational companies
Ans: | A
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Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Problem:Which happened first, Heitaro Nakajima developed an early digital audio recorder or became general manager of Sony's audio department?, Context: Heitaro Nakajima, who developed an early digital audio recorder within Japan's national public broadcasting organization NHK in 1970, became general manager of Sony's audio department in 1971. His team developed a digital PCM adaptor audio tape recorder using a Betamax video recorder in 1973. After this, in 1974 the leap to storing digital audio on an optical disc was easily made. Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical digital audio disc in September 1976. A year later, in September 1977, Sony showed the press a 30 cm disc that could play 60 minutes of digital audio (44,100 Hz sampling rate and 16-bit resolution) using MFM modulation. In September 1978, the company demonstrated an optical digital audio disc with a 150-minute playing time, 44,056 Hz sampling rate, 16-bit linear resolution, and cross-interleaved error correction code—specifications similar to those later settled upon for the standard Compact Disc format in 1980. Technical details of Sony's digital audio disc were presented during the 62nd AES Convention, held on 13–16 March 1979, in Brussels. Sony's AES technical paper was published on 1 March 1979. A week later, on 8 March, Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference called "Philips Introduce Compact Disc" in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Solution: | developed an early digital audio recorder |
Problem: Climatologists believe artificially induced climate change is the reason Australia is destined for the warmest year on record. Temperatures so far this year have averaged one degree above the 30-year average, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) told the Greenhouse 2005 - Action in Climate Change Conference being held in Melbourne this week. The head of the National Climate Centre, Michael Coughlan, says Australia has had the warmest ever first 10 months of 2005, and seems likely to be a record-breaking year.
Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
Bad weather creates problems.
****
Answer: no
Problem: The BBC's Tim Franks says frustrated British diplomats insist there have been several achievements but there is no doubt that the continued delay in reaching agreement on a budget for the EU hangs over all discussions.
Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
Diplomats agree on EU budget.
****
Answer: no
Problem: Yunus, who shared the 1.4 million prize Friday with the Grameen Bank that he founded 30 years ago, pioneered the concept of "microcredit." It allows very poor people, who don't qualify for traditional loans, to get loans of as little as a few dollars without collateral. The banks' shareholders are the impoverished people it supports.
Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
Yunus founded the Grameen Bank 30 years ago.
****
Answer: yes
Problem: The National Assn. of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes had shot up to an annual rate of 7.29 million in August, 7.8% higher than a year earlier.
Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
Sales of existing homes raised 7.8%.
****
Answer: | yes |
Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: On Monday, departing Gov. Roy Barnes will spend his first day as a private citizen by starting his new job as a full-time, pro-bono (unpaid) lawyer at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. The decision by Barnes, the most improbable casualty of Election Day 2002, to go to work for legal aid was almost as unexpected as his November defeat. As a legal services attorney, Barnes will help women escape domestic violence, Mauricio Vivero is vice president seniors fight predatory lending scams and parents obtain child support for their kids. of Legal In doing so, he will take his place on the front line of the U.S. legal community's Services Corporation, the uphill and underpublicized struggle to achieve equal access to justice for millions of Washington-Americans too poor to afford legal representation. based nonprofit corporation chartered by The inaccessibility of the U.S. civil justice system is hardly a new development, but it Congress in took Barnes' decision to put the national media spotlight on our country's ongoing 1974 to promote equal access to access-to-justice crisis. civil justice. The 2000 U.S. census reports that more than 43 million Americans qualify for free federally funded legal assistance, yet fewer than 20 percent of eligible clients (annual income: $11,075 or less) are able to obtain legal help when they need it, according to the American Bar Association. In Georgia, there is just one legal aid lawyer for every 10,500 eligible poor people. Barnes understood this problem long before he became governor. While in private practice, he handled many pro-bono cases and was a frequent volunteer in the Cobb County office of the federally funded Atlanta Legal Aid Society. Most memorably, he secured a $115 million judgment in 1993 against Fleet Finance for victimizing 18,000 homeowners -- many of them senior citizens -- with its widespread predatory lending mortgage practices. His long-standing commitment to the underserved is certainly admirable, but it should not be viewed as a rare and laudable act of civic virtue. To be admitted to practice law, every attorney must take a professional oath to promote justice -- and every state's ethical rules include language indicating lawyers' responsibility to be guardians of fair play for those living in poverty. In Georgia, many law firms, corporations and private attorneys are working pro bono to serve the neediest clients. Yet only 23 percent of the state's 23,598 active lawyers reported meeting the Georgia State Bar's goal of 50 hours of pro-bono service in 2002. The need for volunteers is most severe outside the five-county Atlanta metropolitan area, where 70 percent of the state's poor people are served by only 24 percent of the state's lawyers. National pro-bono participation is even worse. Only 23 percent of the roughly 1 million attorneys in America volunteer even one hour of pro-bono service annually, according to the ABA. <sep>National pro-bono participation levels are worse than which state?<sep>Washington
Output: | No |
The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman's life spent in caring for the children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, four or five of whom lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five years and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has to take care of children, her work is lightened by modern living conditions. This important change in women's life-patterns has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls took a full-time job after they left school. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school- leaving age is sixteen; many girls stay at school after that age, and though women usually marry older, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more afterwards return to full-or-part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them. Many girls, the passage claims, are now likely to _ . A) give up their jobs for good after they are married B) leave school as soon as they can C) marry so that they can get a job D) continue working until they are going to have a baby
The answer to this question is: | D |
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below. Choose from options.
In the May 2005 general election Conservatives got 33 seats.
In the May 2005 general election Michael Howard failed to unseat the Labour Government, although the Conservatives did gain 33 seats, playing the most significant role in reducing Labour's majority from 167 to 66.
Available choices: (A). yes; (B). no; | (B). |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
A convicted paedophile accused of molesting boys across three states has denied he's 'delusional' to proclaim his innocence. Gregory Robert Knight started his teaching career in South Australia where he was found to have touched the penises of at least three teenage boys during school camps in 1977. He then moved to Queensland and worked at Brisbane Boys' College, where he was again subject to allegations of abuse. In 1981, he successfully applied for a job as a music teacher at St Paul's School, also in Brisbane, but resigned three years later after a student came forward with more complaints of misconduct.Gregory Robert Knight is accused of molesting boys in three statesHe is a convicted paedophile, convicted in 1994 for child sex abuseProsecutor said knight's denial of complaints against him was 'delusional'The claim was made during a royal commission hearing on TuesdayHe has offended in South Australia, Queensland and Northern Territory
Questions:Knight said the _ student who went to police - who earlier told the commission he had been drugged and raped - had only come forward when compensation started being handed out. (A) Gregory Robert Knight (B) South Australia (C) Queensland (D) Brisbane Boys' College (E) St Paul's School (F) Brisbane (G) Northern Territory
| (E) |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Example: For four years we have waited expectantly for the pitter patter of tiny paws. Soon, that wait could finally be over. Tian Tian, the UK's only female giant panda, has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as August. However Edinburgh Zoo, where the pandas live, have warned people 'not to get too excited' as the process is 'extremely complex'. Moreover, on the two previous occasions keepers inseminated Tian Tian - whose name means 'Sweetie' - she has failed to produce a panda cub. She was artificially inseminated again in March this year, but keepers at the zoo say implantation - when a fertilised egg attaches to the uterus - has not yet occurred.Tian Tian has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as AugustShe has been inseminated twice before but so far failed to produce a cubTian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in 2011 from China to great fanfareOn loan at £600k a year, became first giant pandas to live in UK for 17 years
Questions:Under the terms of the agreement any cubs will return to _ at the age of two, the age at which they would normally leave their mother in the wild. (A) Tian Tian (B) UK (C) Edinburgh Zoo (D) Sweetie (E) Yang Guang (F) China
Output: (F)
This is a good example. Based on the passage, any cubs will return to China at the age of two
New input case for you: Jihadi John will never enter 'paradise' because he beheaded British aid worker Alan Henning while he was 'under the protection of Muslims', a rival terror group battling ISIS has claimed. In a new propaganda magazine published online, the Jaish al-Fath group says the 47-year-old was a 'non-believer' but his murder was not justified under shariah law. Islamic State filmed the murder of Henning at the hands of Jihadi John - later outed as Mohammed Emwazi - and released the gruesome footage online in October 2014. But the man who was described as a 'decent, caring human being' was supposedly granted Amana [protection] by two different Islamist groups and it was forbidden to harm him, according to Jaish al-Fath which commands up to 10,000 fighters.Statement from Jaish al-Fath Islamist group in new propaganda magazineBritish aid worker Henning was murdered by 'Jihadi John' in October 2014He was supposedly granted security by two different jihadi groups in SyriaJaish brands ISIS leader 'criminal' and its online supporters 'foul-mouthed'
Questions:'They fail to see how their actions will affect the Ummah [community] at large,' _-Fath writes. (A) Jihadi John (B) British (C) Alan Henning (D) Muslims (E) ISIS (F) Jaish al (G) Fath (H) Islamic (I) Henning (J) Mohammed Emwazi (K) Amana (L) Islamist (M) Fath Islamist (N) Syria
Output: | (F) |
Q: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
(CNN) Two New York residents accused of conspiring to support ISIS and plotting to set off a pressure-cooker bomb in the city have pleaded guilty to all charges, federal prosecutors and New York officials said. Munther Omar Saleh, 21, of Queens, and Fareed Mumuni, 22, of Staten Island, were charged with "conspiring and attempting to provide material support" to ISIS and with assaulting and conspiring to assault federal officers, the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York said in a statement. Mumuni also was charged with "attempted murder of federal officers." That charge resulted from an incident in which Mumuni repeatedly stabbed an FBI agent as law enforcement officials carried out a search warrant at his home about two years ago, officials said.Munther Omar Saleh, 21, and Fareed Mumuni, 22, are charged with trying to aid ISISThe pair plotted a pressure-cooker bomb attack in New York, officials say
Questions:After his arrest, _ admitted that he kept a knife wrapped in a T-shirt in his bed to use in any confrontation with law enforcement officers. (A) New York (B) ISIS (C) Munther Omar Saleh (D) Queens (E) Fareed Mumuni (F) Staten Island (G) US Attorney's Office (H) Eastern District of New York (I) FBI
A: | (E) |
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
Several players are on an ice court playing hockey. a small boy
Pick from:
* is on the floor and someone is pushing him.
* waits on the field as the teams play hockey.
* tries to keep up, stick in hand.
* skates toward the puck as the camera pans in closer and focuses on the rink between them. | tries to keep up, stick in hand. |
*Question*
In the summer of 1980 a Spanish tourist, Gaspar Carner, went to Great Britain on holiday. When he was travelling in Scotland, he decided to visit Loch Ness, the famous lake where people say there is a monster. But while he was going across the lake in a boat, his bag fell into the water. In the bag were his passport, car keys, pen, and all his money. Loch Ness is 150 metres deep, so he didn't expect to see the bag again! Fourteen years later, in 1994, some scientists decided to explore the lake. They looked for the Loch Ness monster. Suddenly one of them saw something black in the water. They carefully went nearer. They thought the black thing was the monster. They went nearer and nearer. It was a bag. They took the bag out of the lake. They found that the photo on the passport was still clear. One of the scientists happened to be familiar with Gaspar Carner. So the bag was returned to him. How did the explorers know the bag was Carner's? A) Carner recognized the bag B) They expected it was the monster C) Carner was very famous D) One of the explorers knew Carner
**Answer**
D
*Question*
"Did you hear what happened to Adam last Friday?" Lindsey whispers to Tori. With her eyes shining, Tori brags, "You bet I did. Sean told me two days ago." What are Lindsey and Tori talking about? It just happens to be yours truly, Adam Freedman. I can tell you that what they are saying is (a) not nice and (b) not even true. Still, Lindsey and Tori aren't very different from most students here at Linton High School, including me. Many of our conversations are gossip . I have noticed three effects of gossip: it can hurt people, it can give gossipers a strange kind of satisfaction, and it can cause social pressures in a group. An important negative effect of gossip is that it can hurt the person being talked about. Usually, gossip spreads information about a topic--breakups, troubles at home, even dropping out--that a person would rather keep secret. The more embarrassing or shameful the secret is, the juicer the gossip it makes. Probably the worst type of gossip is the absolute lie. People often think of gossipers as harmless, bur cruel lies can cause pain. If we know that gossip can be harmful, then why do so many of us do it? The answer lies in another effect of gossip: the satisfaction it gives us. Sharing the latest rumor can make a person feel important because he or she knows something that others don't. Similarly, hearing the latest rumor can make a person feel like part of the "in group". In other words, gossip is satisfying because it gives people a sense of belonging or even superiority . Gossip can also have a third effect: it strengthens unwritten, unspoken rules about how people should act. Professor David Wilson explains that gossip is important in policing behaviors in a group. Translated into high school terms, this means that if everybody you hang around with is laughing at what John wore or what Jane said, then you can bet that wearing or saying something similar will get you the same kind of negative attention. The do's and don'ts conveyed through gossip will never show up in any student... What advice does the author give in the passage? A) Never become a gossiper. B) Stay away from gossipers. C) Don't let gossip turn into lies. D) Think twice before you gossip.
**Answer**
D
*Question*
Young women who take part in beauty contests are helping to keep alive an outdated opinion of women that a woman's most important value is how she looks. Women have been working very hard through the years to change their image. They have been trying to prove that the value of a woman does not lie only in her beauty. The world is just beginning to recognize that women are as smart, wise and strong in personality as men are, and that there are qualities more important than looks when judging people. When women take part in beauty contests for top prizes, they encourage people to value them for their beauty alone. It is unfair to say that beauty alone determines one's worth. Beauty contests not only encourage spectators to judge women by their appearance, but they encourage this idea in the contestants as well. These young women spend months losing weight to be the "right" size and learning how to dress, wear makeup, and walk just right so that some judges will consider them beautiful. I think it's great for a woman to feel good about her appearance, but looks shouldn't be sought after in an extreme or unreasonable way. There are too many other, more important, things in a young woman's life: learning, developing friendships and preparing for their future work and perhaps a family. As long as there are beauty contests, women won't be fully recognized as well-rounded human beings. According to the author, beauty contests are _ . A) disrespectful to women B) unpleasant to contestants C) necessary for modern society D) helpful in improving women's image
**Answer**
A
*Question*
American parents generally can choose any name they want for their children. They may choose a name because it honors a family member. Or they may choose a name just because they like it. A website called Baby Center lists some unusual names given to American babies born last year. Some were named for characters in old stories, such as Hero, Thor and Ulysses. Other people named their babies after kinds of food, like actress Gwyneth Paltrow. She named her daughter Apple. Other people named their babies Banana, Pumpkin and Cookie. Still some babies were named for places. These included Brazil, India and Rome. Some parents used names of famous people from history such as Newton and Hannibal. Other parents named their babies after flowers or the weather. These babies were named Buttercup, Iris, Sunshine and Thunder. Recording artists and movie actors influence some parents' choices of names. Babies were named Beyonce, Charlize, Reda, Pierce, Shajira and Whitney. Movie actors themselves often give their babies unusual names. For example, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt named their baby daughter Shiloh. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes named their little girl Suri. Some American parents do not want unusual names. They want their baby's name to honor their religious faith. Such names include Abraham for boys or Sarah for girls. And many people give their babies the same name as a family member or good friend. The United States Social Security Administration once published a list of the most popular names for American girls and boys born. Many of the top ten boys, names are from the Jewish and Christian Bibles. If a girl is named Sarah, the name reflects her parents' _ . A) love B) career C) expectation D) religion
**Answer**
| D |
Definition: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: What does not produce beers, but sells them?, Context: A brewery tap is the nearest outlet for a brewery's beers. This is usually a room or bar in the brewery itself, though the name may be applied to the nearest pub. The term is not applied to a brewpub which brews and sells its beer on the same premises.
Output: | brewery tap |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
The words how to apply mascara appear. A woman with long black hair is talking to the camera. she
A: holds up a wand of mascara.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to look girly
Wear the right colors.
Wear clothes the colors of the rainbow. You can wear blacks and browns to you just have to have a balance.
A: Pastels are always nice and denote sweetness. If you are feeling adventurous, try bright colors like hot pink, yellow, orange, etc.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to use herbs to treat bad breath
Use peppermint.
Peppermint oils can provide the mouth with a fresh and clean feeling. You can either chew on a mint or use the oils to make a tea.
A: To make a tea mixture from fresh or dried peppermint : Add a heaped teaspoon of the dried or fresh peppermint to a cup of boiling water. Allow it to steep for a few minutes.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to get immunizations for traveling
Check your vaccination records.
To start, you'll want to check your existing vaccination records to see if you're due for any routine immunizations. You can ask your parents or your doctor for a copy of your records.
A: | You may also be able to find a copy online through the center for disease control and prevention website. Routine vaccinations are the vaccinations you would have received as a child in the form of a booster shot. |
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