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He worked and gave all his money to help his parents. When he was getting older, he found that he was very interested in fixing things. he collected broken things which people threw away and fixed them into good ones. He could fix almost everything that did not work. He worked hard never gave up. Finally, he opened his own repair shop. It took him about 20 years to become a successful shopkeeper. \n\nNow, he is very rich and has four shops. But he never forgets the days when he had nothing. He gives money to poor families, helps poor kids buy books and offers them free lunch. He also encourages people to reuse things. He always says :Make good use of what you have because we just have one earth.\n\nI am proud of Uncle Bill. 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", "The writer thinks Uncle Bill is a hero because he is good at fixing broken things."], "dc_score": 7.98679220585095, "difficulty_score": 8.766883274271134}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 8, "fields": {"passage": "Many people think heroes need to be handsome, rich, or very smart. But as for me, a hero is a person who always helps others. My hero is Uncle Bill. He is the oldest son of a worker, and he grew up in a poor family with four younger brothers and two little sisters.\n\nHe was good at neither writing nor math. In fact, he never did well in school. so he had to give up school at a very young age. He worked and gave all his money to help his parents. When he was getting older, he found that he was very interested in fixing things. he collected broken things which people threw away and fixed them into good ones. He could fix almost everything that did not work. He worked hard never gave up. Finally, he opened his own repair shop. It took him about 20 years to become a successful shopkeeper. \n\nNow, he is very rich and has four shops. But he never forgets the days when he had nothing. He gives money to poor families, helps poor kids buy books and offers them free lunch. He also encourages people to reuse things. He always says :Make good use of what you have because we just have one earth.\n\nI am proud of Uncle Bill. He is really a hero.", "question_text": "Whats the best title for this passage?", "choices": ["Uncle Bill -My Hero.", "I want to have an uncle.", "Save Our Earth.", "Can you help me?"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["Many people think heroes need to be handsome, rich, or very smart.", "But as for me, a hero is a person who always helps others.", "My hero is Uncle Bill.", "He is the oldest son of a worker, and he grew up in a poor family with four younger brothers and two little sisters.", "He was good at neither writing nor math.", "In fact, he never did well in school.", "he had to give up school at a very young age.", "he collected broken things which people threw away and fixed them into good ones.", "He worked hard never gave up.", "Finally, he opened his own repair shop.", "he is very rich and has four shops.", "But he never forgets the days when he had nothing.", "He gives money to poor families, helps poor kids buy books and offers them free lunch.", "He also encourages people to reuse things.", "He always says: Make good use of what you have because we just have one earth."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is Uncle Bill -My Hero.", "The best title for the passage is I want to have an uncle.", "The best title for the passage is Save Our Earth.", "The best title for the passage is Can you help me?"], "dc_score": 7.98679220585095, "difficulty_score": 8.542300512730133}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 9, "fields": {"passage": "Do you like playing soccer? If you do, you may want to join the school soccer team. Read on and see how to join the school soccer team.\n\nThe first step is to know the information about the team. You can find more information by asking these questions. How many students are there in the soccer team? How many new players do they need? How often do they play soccer?\n\nThe second step is to practice. Practice soccer with your friends or your family. Only good players can join the school soccer team. So you need to practice your \"skill.\"\n\nThe third step is to study hard. If you always get bad grades in the exam, your teachers and parents won't let you join the soccer team.\n\nThe last step is to relax. Don't be too nervous. You can take a deep breath and keep smiling. Believe in yourself and you can be the best player.", "question_text": "Which step is about studying hard?", "choices": ["The first step.", "The second step.", "The third step.", "The last step."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"The third step is to study hard. If you always get bad grades in the exam, your teachers and parents won't let you join the soccer team.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The first step is about studying hard.", "The second step is about studying hard.", "The third step is about studying hard.", "The last step is specifically about studying hard, but it may still be important to continue studying."], "dc_score": 6.698033333333333, "difficulty_score": 6.698033333333333}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 10, "fields": {"passage": "Do you like playing soccer? If you do, you may want to join the school soccer team. Read on and see how to join the school soccer team.\n\nThe first step is to know the information about the team. You can find more information by asking these questions. How many students are there in the soccer team? How many new players do they need? How often do they play soccer?\n\nThe second step is to practice. Practice soccer with your friends or your family. Only good players can join the school soccer team. So you need to practice your \"skill.\"\n\nThe third step is to study hard. If you always get bad grades in the exam, your teachers and parents won't let you join the soccer team.\n\nThe last step is to relax. Don't be too nervous. You can take a deep breath and keep smiling. Believe in yourself and you can be the best player.", "question_text": "If you always get bad grades in the exam, _ won't let you join the soccer team.", "choices": ["your teachers and parents", "your classmates and friends", "your parents and friends", "your teachers and your classmates"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"The third step is to study hard. If you always get bad grades in the exam, your teachers and parents won't let you join the soccer team.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["If you always get bad grades in the exam, your teachers and parents won't let you join the soccer team.", "If you always get bad grades in the exam, your classmates and friends won't let you join the soccer team.", "If you always get bad grades in the exam, your parents and friends won't let you join the soccer team.", "If you always get bad grades in the exam, your teachers and your classmates won't let you join the soccer team."], "dc_score": 6.698033333333333, "difficulty_score": 6.698033333333333}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 11, "fields": {"passage": "Do you like playing soccer? If you do, you may want to join the school soccer team. Read on and see how to join the school soccer team.\n\nThe first step is to know the information about the team. You can find more information by asking these questions. How many students are there in the soccer team? How many new players do they need? How often do they play soccer?\n\nThe second step is to practice. Practice soccer with your friends or your family. Only good players can join the school soccer team. So you need to practice your \"skill.\"\n\nThe third step is to study hard. If you always get bad grades in the exam, your teachers and parents won't let you join the soccer team.\n\nThe last step is to relax. Don't be too nervous. You can take a deep breath and keep smiling. Believe in yourself and you can be the best player.", "question_text": "What's the main idea of the passage?", "choices": ["It's about how to join the school soccer team.", "It's about how to be a good soccer player.", "It's about how to get good grades in the exam.", "It's about how to make more friends at school."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"It's about how to join the school soccer team.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["It's about how to join the school soccer team.", "It's about how to be a good soccer player.", "It's about how to get good grades in the exam.", "It's about how to make more friends at school."], "dc_score": 6.698033333333333, "difficulty_score": 7.399834088739968}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 12, "fields": {"passage": "Recently we had a discussion on the topic of My Chinese Dream. Inspired by President Xi's Chinese Dream, everyone talked happily about his understanding of the Chinese Dream.\n\nFor me, I would like to be a teacher when I listen to my teacher carefully. I think I can be a teacher when I grow up. I can help many students learn things well. I can play with my students, too. So we are good friends. I would like to be a doctor when I see many doctors save their patients. Then I can help many people out of danger. I will be the happiest girl in the world. I would like to be a reporter when I watch TV every evening. We can get lots of important information from them. And I can learn a lot about China and the other countries around the world. They make the world smaller and also make us happy.\n\nI have lots of dreams. Hold fast to my dreams, no matter how big or small they are. The dreams may not be smooth and wide, even need some sacrifices, but hold on to the end, you will find there is no greater happiness than making your dream come true.", "question_text": "This article mainly tells us that _.", "choices": ["I would like to be a teacher", "Dreams need sacrifices", "MyChineseDream", "Dreams are very important"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Recently we had a discussion on the topic of My Chinese Dream. Inspired by President Xi's Chinese Dream, everyone talked happily about his understanding of the Chinese Dream. I have lots of dreams. Hold fast to my dreams, no matter how big or small they are. The dreams may not be smooth and wide, even need some sacrifices, but hold on to the end, you will find there is no greater happiness than making your dream come true.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["This article mainly tells us that \"I would like to be a teacher.\"", "This article mainly tells us that \"Dreams need sacrifices.\"", "This article mainly tells us about \"My Chinese Dream.\"", "This article mainly tells us that \"Dreams are very important.\""], "dc_score": 6.160227403156384, "difficulty_score": 6.815606903308389}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 13, "fields": {"passage": "Recently we had a discussion on the topic of My Chinese Dream. Inspired by President Xi's Chinese Dream, everyone talked happily about his understanding of the Chinese Dream.\n\nFor me, I would like to be a teacher when I listen to my teacher carefully. I think I can be a teacher when I grow up. I can help many students learn things well. I can play with my students, too. So we are good friends. I would like to be a doctor when I see many doctors save their patients. Then I can help many people out of danger. I will be the happiest girl in the world. I would like to be a reporter when I watch TV every evening. We can get lots of important information from them. And I can learn a lot about China and the other countries around the world. They make the world smaller and also make us happy.\n\nI have lots of dreams. Hold fast to my dreams, no matter how big or small they are. The dreams may not be smooth and wide, even need some sacrifices, but hold on to the end, you will find there is no greater happiness than making your dream come true.", "question_text": "The reasons for why I want to be a reporter which is wrong _.", "choices": ["Learn a lot about the countries around the world", "Make us happy", "Get lots of important information", "I can play with my students"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["'Learn a lot about the countries around the world'", "'Make us happy'", "'Get lots of important information'", "'I can play with my students'"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The reasons for why I want to be a reporter which is wrong, are to learn a lot about the countries around the world.", "The reasons for why I want to be a reporter which is wrong, are to make us happy.", "The reasons for why I want to be a reporter which is wrong, are to get lots of important information.", "The reasons for why I want to be a reporter which is wrong, are so that I can play with my students."], "dc_score": 6.160227403156384, "difficulty_score": 6.160227403156384}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 14, "fields": {"passage": "Recently we had a discussion on the topic of My Chinese Dream. Inspired by President Xi's Chinese Dream, everyone talked happily about his understanding of the Chinese Dream.\n\nFor me, I would like to be a teacher when I listen to my teacher carefully. I think I can be a teacher when I grow up. I can help many students learn things well. I can play with my students, too. So we are good friends. I would like to be a doctor when I see many doctors save their patients. Then I can help many people out of danger. I will be the happiest girl in the world. I would like to be a reporter when I watch TV every evening. We can get lots of important information from them. And I can learn a lot about China and the other countries around the world. They make the world smaller and also make us happy.\n\nI have lots of dreams. Hold fast to my dreams, no matter how big or small they are. The dreams may not be smooth and wide, even need some sacrifices, but hold on to the end, you will find there is no greater happiness than making your dream come true.", "question_text": "From the article we know that _.", "choices": ["Teachers can help many people out of danger", "Hold on dreams to the end, we may need sacrifices", "Reporters can make the world bigger", "The dreams must be easy to come true"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Recently we had a discussion on the topic of My Chinese Dream.\" and \"For me, I would like to be a teacher ... I would like to be a doctor ... I would like to be a reporter ...\" and \"Hold fast to my dreams, no matter how big or small they are. The dreams may not be smooth and wide, even need some sacrifices, but hold on to the end, you will find there is no greater happiness than making your dream come true.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["From the article we know that teachers can help many people out of danger.", "From the article we know that holding onto dreams to the end may require sacrifices.", "From the article we know that reporters can make the world bigger.", "From the article we know that the dreams must be easy to come true."], "dc_score": 6.160227403156384, "difficulty_score": 6.160227403156384}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 15, "fields": {"passage": "It was over two months before Christmas when 9-year-old Mary told her father and me that she wanted a new bike. Her old Barbi bike was too old and it often needed repairing. As Christmas came nearer; her dream for a bike seemed to disappear; for she didn't mention it again.\n\nThen much to our surprise; on December 24th; she said that she really wanted a bike as the Christmas present more than anything else. We didn't know what to do. It was too late. We were busy with Christmas dinner and packing presents for our children; parents and also friends till midnight. So there was no time to buy the \"right bike\" for our little girl. Thinking that we might in this way make our child unhappy on Christmas; we felt overwhelmed and sad.\n\nSuddenly my husband came up with an idea. \"What if I make a little bike out of the clay and write a note that she could trade in the model bike for a real one after Christmas?\" So he spent the next 5 hours working on a small clay bike. On Christmas morning; we were very excited and waited for Mary to open the little box with the beautiful red and white bike and the note. She opened the box and read the note loudly. She looked at me and said; \"So; does this mean I can trade in this bike for a real one?\" Smiling; I said; \"yes.\"\n\nMary had tears in her eyes when she replied; \"I would never trade in this beautiful bike that Daddy made for me. I prefer to keep it rather than get a real one.\" At that moment; we thought we would have moved the god to buy her every bike on earth.", "question_text": "What did Mary want as her Christmas present?", "choices": ["A clay model bike.", "An old Barbi bike.", "A new bike.", "Every bike."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Mary told her father and me that she wanted a new bike.\" \"on December 24th; she said that she really wanted a bike as the Christmas present more than anything else.\" \"we felt overwhelmed and sad.\" \"So he spent the next 5 hours working on a small clay bike.\" \"She opened the box and read the note loudly.\" \"What did Mary want as her Christmas present?\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Mary wanted a clay model bike as her Christmas present.", "Mary wanted an old Barbi bike as her Christmas present.", "Mary wanted a new bike as her Christmas present.", "Mary wanted every bike as her Christmas present."], "dc_score": 7.196783852488364, "difficulty_score": 7.196783852488364}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 16, "fields": {"passage": "It was over two months before Christmas when 9-year-old Mary told her father and me that she wanted a new bike. Her old Barbi bike was too old and it often needed repairing. As Christmas came nearer; her dream for a bike seemed to disappear; for she didn't mention it again.\n\nThen much to our surprise; on December 24th; she said that she really wanted a bike as the Christmas present more than anything else. We didn't know what to do. It was too late. We were busy with Christmas dinner and packing presents for our children; parents and also friends till midnight. So there was no time to buy the \"right bike\" for our little girl. Thinking that we might in this way make our child unhappy on Christmas; we felt overwhelmed and sad.\n\nSuddenly my husband came up with an idea. \"What if I make a little bike out of the clay and write a note that she could trade in the model bike for a real one after Christmas?\" So he spent the next 5 hours working on a small clay bike. On Christmas morning; we were very excited and waited for Mary to open the little box with the beautiful red and white bike and the note. She opened the box and read the note loudly. She looked at me and said; \"So; does this mean I can trade in this bike for a real one?\" Smiling; I said; \"yes.\"\n\nMary had tears in her eyes when she replied; \"I would never trade in this beautiful bike that Daddy made for me. I prefer to keep it rather than get a real one.\" At that moment; we thought we would have moved the god to buy her every bike on earth.", "question_text": "Mary's parents didn't buy her a bike because she _.", "choices": ["only asked for it again on December 24th", "didn't want it any more", "changed her mind for something else", "didn't mention it in the past two months"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["t was over two months before Christmas when 9-year-old Mary told her father and me that she wanted a new bike.", "er old Barbi bike was too old and it often needed repairing. ", "hen much to our surprise; on December 24th; she said that she really wanted a bike as the Christmas present more than anything else. ", "e were busy with Christmas dinner and packing presents for our children; parents, and also friends till midnight. ", "o there was no time to buy the \"right bike\" for our little girl. ", "hinking that we might in this way make our child unhappy on Christmas; we felt overwhelmed and sad."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Mary's parents didn't buy her a bike because she only asked for it again on December 24th.", "Mary's parents didn't buy her a bike because she didn't want it any more.", "Mary's parents didn't buy her a bike because she changed her mind for something else.", "Mary's parents didn't buy her a bike because she didn't mention it in the past two months."], "dc_score": 7.196783852488364, "difficulty_score": 7.196783852488364}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 17, "fields": {"passage": "It was over two months before Christmas when 9-year-old Mary told her father and me that she wanted a new bike. Her old Barbi bike was too old and it often needed repairing. As Christmas came nearer; her dream for a bike seemed to disappear; for she didn't mention it again.\n\nThen much to our surprise; on December 24th; she said that she really wanted a bike as the Christmas present more than anything else. We didn't know what to do. It was too late. We were busy with Christmas dinner and packing presents for our children; parents and also friends till midnight. So there was no time to buy the \"right bike\" for our little girl. Thinking that we might in this way make our child unhappy on Christmas; we felt overwhelmed and sad.\n\nSuddenly my husband came up with an idea. \"What if I make a little bike out of the clay and write a note that she could trade in the model bike for a real one after Christmas?\" So he spent the next 5 hours working on a small clay bike. On Christmas morning; we were very excited and waited for Mary to open the little box with the beautiful red and white bike and the note. She opened the box and read the note loudly. She looked at me and said; \"So; does this mean I can trade in this bike for a real one?\" Smiling; I said; \"yes.\"\n\nMary had tears in her eyes when she replied; \"I would never trade in this beautiful bike that Daddy made for me. I prefer to keep it rather than get a real one.\" At that moment; we thought we would have moved the god to buy her every bike on earth.", "question_text": "Mary's father got the idea to _.", "choices": ["spend 5 hours working on the clay", "make a small bike out of clay", "paint her old bike red and white", "put the present into box"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\" What if I make a little bike out of the clay and write a note that she could trade in the model bike for a real one after Christmas?\" So he spent the next 5 hours working on a small clay bike.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Mary's father got the idea to spend 5 hours working on the clay.", "Mary's father got the idea to make a small bike out of clay.", "Mary's father got the idea to paint her old bike red and white.", "Mary's father got the idea to put the present into a box."], "dc_score": 7.196783852488364, "difficulty_score": 7.196783852488364}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 18, "fields": {"passage": "\"My dream has come true. I have always wanted to be a Grand Slam champion.\" These are the words of Chinese tennis player Li Na after she became the first Asian woman to win a Grand Slam final in the French Open on June 4, 2011.\n\n\"People were saying I'm getting old. So this is a great success for such an old woman,\" the 29-year-old girl joked.\n\nMiss Li has a tattoo. She has _ her hair many different colors. And, at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she told her fans to \"shut up\" when they got too noisy in their support.\n\nLi Na was born in Wuhan, she started to play tennis at the age of 6. She once recalled: \"As a child, I felt sad because every day I had to wake up early to practice. After school I had to practice more. I didn't have time to play.\"\n\nLuckily, the strong girl didn't give up, thus making history for Chinese tennis time after time.\n\nNow the new champion is already thinking about winning another Grand Slam title. \"When you have one title, surely you will think about another,\" she says, not hiding her ambition.\n\n\"Chinese people are so lacking in confidence on the tennis court. If there is a person like me who can prove we Chinese can do it, the other young players in China will feel the same,\" she said.", "question_text": "When she began to play tennis, Li Na was _.", "choices": ["happy", "sad", "excited", "bored"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Li Na was \"sad\" when she began to play tennis as a child because she had to wake up early to practice and didn't have time to play."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["When she began to play tennis, Li Na was happy.", "When she began to play tennis, Li Na was sad.", "When she began to play tennis, Li Na was excited.", "When she began to play tennis, Li Na was bored."], "dc_score": 8.083428388746803, "difficulty_score": 8.083428388746803}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 19, "fields": {"passage": "Alice needs some money for a Mother's Day present. She tells her father about her problem.\n\n\"I'll pay you to do some housework. You can clean up the yard,\" her father says.\n\n\"You can also wash my car and Mum's. Both of them need to be washed because they're really dirty.\"\n\nAlice works on the yard and washes her father's car.\n\n\"Too bad! You didn't have time to wash Mum's car,\" Dad says when he pays her.\n\nThe next morning Alice wakes up early. First she washes her mother's car. Then she goes to the flower shop. She also buys her mother's favourite bread on her way home. After breakfast Alice asks her mother to go to the garage. She opens the gate.\n\n\"Wow!\" Alice's mother says. \"My car is sparkling.\"\n\n\"Open the door,\" Alice says.\n\nAlice's mother opens the door. There on the seat she sees a bunch of flowers.\n\n\"Happy Mother's Day!\" Alice says.", "question_text": "What do you think of Alice?", "choices": ["She is good at making pocket money.", "She doesn't love her father.", "She is very nice to her parents.", "She is a lazy girl."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Alice needs some money for a Mother's Day present.", "\"I'll pay you to do some housework. You can clean up the yard,\" her father says.", "\"You can also wash my car and Mum's. Both of them need to be washed because they're really dirty.\"", "Alice works on the yard and washes her father's car.", "The next morning Alice wakes up early. First she washes her mother's car. Then she goes to the flower shop.", "She also buys her mother's favourite bread on her way home.", "Alice's mother opens the door. There on the seat, she sees a bunch of flowers.", "\"Happy Mother's Day!\" Alice says."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["She is good at making pocket money.", "She doesn't love her father.", "She is very nice to her parents.", "She is a lazy girl."], "dc_score": 7.515545596432553, "difficulty_score": 8.173958935720172}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 20, "fields": {"passage": "Alice needs some money for a Mother's Day present. She tells her father about her problem.\n\n\"I'll pay you to do some housework. You can clean up the yard,\" her father says.\n\n\"You can also wash my car and Mum's. Both of them need to be washed because they're really dirty.\"\n\nAlice works on the yard and washes her father's car.\n\n\"Too bad! You didn't have time to wash Mum's car,\" Dad says when he pays her.\n\nThe next morning Alice wakes up early. First she washes her mother's car. Then she goes to the flower shop. She also buys her mother's favourite bread on her way home. After breakfast Alice asks her mother to go to the garage. She opens the gate.\n\n\"Wow!\" Alice's mother says. \"My car is sparkling.\"\n\n\"Open the door,\" Alice says.\n\nAlice's mother opens the door. There on the seat she sees a bunch of flowers.\n\n\"Happy Mother's Day!\" Alice says.", "question_text": "What is this story about?", "choices": ["It is about what Alice buys for her mother on Mother's Day.", "It is about what Alice does for her mother for Mother's Day.", "It is about why Alice's father gives her money to buy presents.", "It is about what Alice does at home each week for her mother."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Alice needs some money for a Mother's Day present.", "\"I'll pay you to do some housework. You can clean up the yard,\" her father says.", "\"You can also wash my car and Mum's. Both of them need to be washed because they're really dirty.\"", "Alice works on the yard and washes her father's car.", "The next morning Alice wakes up early. First she washes her mother's car. Then she goes to the flower shop.", "She also buys her mother's favourite bread on her way home.", "Alice's mother opens the door. There on the seat, she sees a bunch of flowers.", "\"Happy Mother's Day!\" Alice says."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["It is about what Alice buys for her mother on Mother's Day.", "It is about what Alice does for her mother for Mother's Day.", "It is about why Alice's father gives her money to buy presents.", "It is about what Alice does at home each week for her mother."], "dc_score": 7.515545596432553, "difficulty_score": 8.12208717914301}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 21, "fields": {"passage": "Last week, my granddaughter started primary school. And I wished her every success. But part of me didn't. I really wanted her to fail in some ways because I believe that failure can be good for us to grow up. Success is that you can do something that you already know you can do, or doing something correctly the first time. First-time success is usually a luck. First-time failure, in fact, is supposed to be the natural order of things. Failure is how we learn.\n\nI make my living by writing articles for a daily newspaper. Each week I thought that the article that I write would be the worst. I try my best every day. A successful article usually means that I am discussing the subjects I know well, writing in the way I am used to or saying the same things as anyone else but in an excellent way.\n\nMy younger daughter is a trapeze artist. She spent three years putting together a show, and she did it successfully for years. There was no reason for her to change it but she did anyway. She was afraid to be bored. She met failure when she tried some new ways in her show. But she did his only in order to feed her soul. \n\nMy granddaughter is a perfectionist. She will feel her failures, and I will want to encourage her. But I will also, I hope, remind her of what she learned, and how she can do better next time. I hope I can tell her, though, that it's not the end of the world. With luck, it is the beginning.", "question_text": "why id the writher want his granddaughter to fail?", "choices": ["success is boring though it can bring us something good", "she would learn more form failure", "it's impossible to do everything successfully", "he wanted her to be strong enough to face failure"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Last week, my granddaughter started primary school...But part of me didn't...I believe that failure can be good for us to grow up...First-time success is usually a luck...Failure is how we learn... My granddaughter is a perfectionist...I will want to encourage her...But I will also, I hope, remind her of what she learned, and how she can do better next time...With luck, it is the beginning."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The writer want his granddaughter to fail because success is boring though it can bring us something good", "The writer want his granddaughter to fail because she would learn more from failure.", "The writer want his granddaughter to fail because it's impossible to do everything successfully", "The writer want his granddaughter to fail because he wanted her to be strong enough to face failure"], "dc_score": 6.755943478260869, "difficulty_score": 7.5021506400764135}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 22, "fields": {"passage": "Last week, my granddaughter started primary school. And I wished her every success. But part of me didn't. I really wanted her to fail in some ways because I believe that failure can be good for us to grow up. Success is that you can do something that you already know you can do, or doing something correctly the first time. First -time success is usually a luck. First-time failure, in fact, is supposed to be the natural order of things. Failure is how we learn.\n\nI make my living by writing articles for a daily newspaper. Each week I thought that the article that I write would be the worst. I try my best every day. A successful article usually means that I am discussing the subjects I know well, writing in the way I am used to or saying the same things as anyone else but in an excellent way.\n\nMy younger daughter is a trapeze artist.she spent three years putting together a show, and she did it successfully for years. There was no reason for her to change it but she did anyway. She was afraid to be bored. She met failure when she tried some new ways in her show. But she did his only in order to feed her soul. \n\nMy granddaughter is a perfectionist. She will feel her failures, and I will want to encourage her. But I will also, I hope, remind her of what she learned, and how she can do better next time. I hope I can tell her, though, that it's not the end of the world. With luck, it is the beginning.", "question_text": "the writer talked about his own experience to show that _", "choices": ["we cannot depend on luck to live a good life", "we should try every possible way to avoid failure", "past failures made him afraid of writing more", "the thought of failure will make you work even harder"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["I make my living by writing articles for a daily newspaper.", "Each week I thought that the article that I write would be the worst.", "I try my best every day.", "A successful article usually means that I am discussing the subjects I know well, writing in the way I am used to or saying the same things as anyone else but in an excellent way."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The writer talked about his own experience to show that we cannot depend on luck to live a good life.", "The writer talked about his own experience to show that we should try every possible way to avoid failure.", "The writer talked about his own experience to show that past failures made him afraid of writing more.", "The writer talked about his own experience to show that the thought of failure will make you work even harder."], "dc_score": 6.8040010695187165, "difficulty_score": 7.56687625816295}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 23, "fields": {"passage": "Last week, my granddaughter started primary school. And I wished her every success. But part of me didn't. I really wanted her to fail in some ways because I believe that failure can be good for us to grow up. Success is that you can do something that you already know you can do, or doing something correctly the first time. First -time success is usually a luck. First-time failure, in fact, is supposed to be the natural order of things. Failure is how we learn.\n\nI make my living by writing articles for a daily newspaper. Each week I thought that the article that I write would be the worst. I try my best every day. A successful article usually means that I am discussing the subjects I know well, writing in the way I am used to or saying the same things as anyone else but in an excellent way.\n\nMy younger daughter is a trapeze artist.she spent three years putting together a show, and she did it successfully for years. There was no reason for her to change it but she did anyway. She was afraid to be bored. She met failure when she tried some new ways in her show. But she did his only in order to feed her soul. \n\nMy granddaughter is a perfectionist. She will feel her failures, and I will want to encourage her. But I will also, I hope, remind her of what she learned, and how she can do better next time. I hope I can tell her, though, that it's not the end of the world. With luck, it is the beginning.", "question_text": "the writer develop the article mainly by _", "choices": ["giving examples", "following the time order", "comparing different ideas", "presenting the reasons of failure"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["I make my living by writing articles for a daily newspaper. Each week I thought that the article that I write would be the worst. I try my best every day. A successful article usually means that I am discussing the subjects I know well, writing in the way I am used to or saying the same things as anyone else but in an excellent way.\n\nMy younger daughter is a trapeze artist.she spent three years putting together a show, and she did it successfully for years. There was no reason for her to change it but she did anyway. She was afraid to be bored. She met failure when she tried some new ways in her show. But she did his only in order to feed her soul. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["the writer develop the article mainly by giving examples", "the writer develop the article mainly by following the time order", "the writer develop the article mainly by comparing different ideas", "the writer develop the article mainly by presenting the reasons of failure"], "dc_score": 6.8040010695187165, "difficulty_score": 7.329182156038365}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 24, "fields": {"passage": "If we are driving a car or crossing a street, we will stop when the traffic lights turn red. Why do we use red rather than other colors?\n\nAs we know, scattering happens when light goes through the air. For the same media, if the wavelength is long, the scattering will be short. If the wavelength is short, then the scattering will be long.\n\nOf all light we can see red has the longest wavelength, so the scattering is the weakest. That means the red light travels far. In fact, it travels farther on rainy days.\n\nUsing the red light can help drivers in farther areas see the lights. It helps drivers slow down or stop in time. If drivers don't see the red light until they are close, they may not be able to stop the car in time. An accident may happen. Red can also excite people. We can act more quickly when we see the color red.\n\nIn a word, red light helps drivers stop in time and help prevent accidents.", "question_text": "_ has the longest wavelength of all light we can see.", "choices": ["Red", "Green", "Yellow", "Black"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Of all light we can see red has the longest wavelength, so the scattering is the weakest.", "Using the red light can help drivers in farther areas see the lights.", "Red light helps drivers stop in time and help prevent accidents."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Red has the longest wavelength of all light we can see. ", "Green has the longest wavelength of all light we can see. ", "Yellow has the longest wavelength of all light we can see. ", "Black has the longest wavelength of all light we cans see."], "dc_score": 7.882842200328407, "difficulty_score": 7.882842200328407}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 25, "fields": {"passage": "If we are driving a car or crossing a street, we will stop when the traffic lights turn red. Why do we use red rather than other colors?\n\nAs we know, scattering happens when light goes through the air. For the same media, if the wavelength is long, the scattering will be short. If the wavelength is short, then the scattering will be long.\n\nOf all light we can see red has the longest wavelength, so the scattering is the weakest. That means the red light travels far. In fact, it travels farther on rainy days.\n\nUsing the red light can help drivers in farther areas see the lights. It helps drivers slow down or stop in time. If drivers don't see the red light until they are close, they may not be able to stop the car in time. An accident may happen. Red can also excite people. We can act more quickly when we see the color red.\n\nIn a word, red light helps drivers stop in time and help prevent accidents.", "question_text": "Red light travels farther on _ days.", "choices": ["windy", "sunny", "rainy", "cloudy"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Of all light we can see red has the longest wavelength, so the scattering is the weakest. That means the red light travels far. In fact, it travels farther on rainy days.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Red light travels farther on windy days. ", "Red light travels farther on sunny days. ", "Red light travels farther on rainy days. ", "Red light travels farther on cloudy days."], "dc_score": 7.882842200328407, "difficulty_score": 7.882842200328407}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 26, "fields": {"passage": "If we are driving a car or crossing a street, we will stop when the traffic lights turn red. Why do we use red rather than other colors?\n\nAs we know, scattering happens when light goes through the air. For the same media, if the wavelength is long, the scattering will be short. If the wavelength is short, then the scattering will be long.\n\nOf all light we can see red has the longest wavelength, so the scattering is the weakest. That means the red light travels far. In fact, it travels farther on rainy days.\n\nUsing the red light can help drivers in farther areas see the lights. It helps drivers slow down or stop in time. If drivers don't see the red light until they are close, they may not be able to stop the car in time. An accident may happen. Red can also excite people. We can act more quickly when we see the color red.\n\nIn a word, red light helps drivers stop in time and help prevent accidents.", "question_text": "Red can make people act more quickly because _.", "choices": ["red can make people happier", "the scattering of red is very short", "the scattering of red is very long", "red can make people more excited"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Red can also excite people. We can act more quickly when we see the color red.\" ", "\"In a word, red light helps drivers stop in time and help prevent accidents.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Red can make people act more quickly because red can make people happier.", "Red can make people act more quickly because the scattering of red is very short.", "Red can make people act more quickly because the scattering of red is very long.", "Red can make people act more quickly because red can make people more excited."], "dc_score": 7.882842200328407, "difficulty_score": 7.882842200328407}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 27, "fields": {"passage": "If we are driving a car or crossing a street, we will stop when the traffic lights turn red. Why do we use red rather than other colors?\n\nAs we know, scattering happens when light goes through the air. For the same media, if the wavelength is long, the scattering will be short. If the wavelength is short, then the scattering will be long.\n\nOf all light we can see red has the longest wavelength, so the scattering is the weakest. That means the red light travels far. In fact, it travels farther on rainy days.\n\nUsing the red light can help drivers in farther areas see the lights. It helps drivers slow down or stop in time. If drivers don't see the red light until they are close, they may not be able to stop the car in time. An accident may happen. Red can also excite people. We can act more quickly when we see the color red.\n\nIn a word, red light helps drivers stop in time and help prevent accidents.", "question_text": "The passage mainly tells us _.", "choices": ["why accidents happen", "how the red light travels", "why we use red traffic lights", "how to stop in time at traffic lights"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["If we are driving a car or crossing a street, we will stop when the traffic lights turn red. Why do we use red rather than other colors?"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The passage mainly tells us why accidents happen.", "The passage mainly tells us how the red light travels.", "The passage mainly tells us why we use red traffic lights.", "The passage mainly tells us how to stop in time at traffic lights."], "dc_score": 7.882842200328407, "difficulty_score": 8.495268973264205}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 28, "fields": {"passage": "Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks. His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.\n\nNathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait. It took him two days just to build the eyes.\n\nNathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition \"The Art of the Brick\" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.\n\n\"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it,\" says Nathan. \"To do what you love in life is the most important thing.\"", "question_text": "What did Nathan put on his desk at college?", "choices": ["The Statue of Liberty.", "Superman.", "His serf-portrait.", "A Greenwich Village modal."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Nathan put the Statue of Liberty on his desk at college.", "Nathan put Superman on his desk at college.", "Nathan put his self-portrait on his desk at college.", "Nathan put a Greenwich Village model on his desk at college."], "dc_score": 9.029094571805008, "difficulty_score": 9.029094571805008}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 29, "fields": {"passage": "Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks. His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.\n\nNathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait. It took him two days just to build the eyes.\n\nNathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition \"The Art of the Brick\" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.\n\n\"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it,\" says Nathan. \"To do what you love in life is the most important thing.\"", "question_text": "Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?", "choices": ["Because he made little money out of a lawyer.", "Because he wanted to make toys for the children.", "Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks.", "Because he was going to work in the museum instead."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up his highly-paid job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty to Superman! \"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it,\" says Nathan."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Nathan decided to give up his job as a lawyer because he made little money out of being a lawyer. ", "Nathan gave up his job as a lawyer because he wanted to make toys for the children. ", "Nathan decided to give up his job as a lawyer because he wanted to become an artist of toy bricks. ", "Nathan was going to work in the museum instead, so he gave up his job as a lawyer."], "dc_score": 9.029094571805008, "difficulty_score": 9.029094571805008}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 30, "fields": {"passage": "Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks. His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.\n\nNathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait. It took him two days just to build the eyes.\n\nNathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition \"The Art of the Brick\" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.\n\n\"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it,\" says Nathan. \"To do what you love in life is the most important thing.\"", "question_text": "What would be the best title for the passage?", "choices": ["The Brick Artist", "The Brick Exhibition", "Toy Bricks for Adults", "The Artist's Childhood"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun.", "His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since.", "Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.", "Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up his highly-paid job to become an artist that uses toys in his art.", "He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty to Superman!", "He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art.", "Nathan's work has appeared in museums around the world.", "Since it began in 2007, Nathan's exhibition \"The Art of the Brick\" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.", "\"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it,\" says Nathan."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is The Brick Artist", "The best title for the passage is The Brick Exhibition", "The best title for the passage is Toy Bricks for Adults", "The best title for the passage is The Artist's Childhood"], "dc_score": 9.029094571805008, "difficulty_score": 9.760221022936813}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 31, "fields": {"passage": "Kindergartens may teach you very important things you need to know. Dancy, a 5-year-old boy, saved his father's life with the skills he learned.\n\nThe boy's father became seriously ill on the way home from a father-son shopping. He couldn't speak and could hardly move, but he tried hard to stop the car safely. At that point, Dancy used his father's phone to call his mother for help. The 5-year-old boy tried his best to give her useful information and he was able to tell where they were. Just as he had learned in the kindergarten, Dancy read the letters he saw on a nearby store sign: \"F,U,R,N,I,T,U,R,E.\" But that wasn't enough for his mother to find them. Then he added that they were near a bridge. Finally, his mother understood he was talking about a store called Furniture 22 on New Jersey's Route 22. The mother called 911 and the father was saved in time.\n\n\"He just thought his dad needed help,\" Dancy's mother told the reporter. She also pointed out that her husband was a hero, too. \"It is surprising for him to get off the highway and get himself and his child to safety even when he was so sick,\" she said.\n\nShine, head of the kindergarten, felt proud of his pupil. \"Dancy's spelling skills helped him seize the moment,\" he said. \"And that's the real value of education.\"", "question_text": "When the father became seriously ill, he and his son were _.", "choices": ["on the wayhome", "in the kindergarten", "in a shopping center", "at a bus station"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Kindergartens may teach you very important things you need to know.A 5-year-old boy saved his father's life with the skills he learned. The boy's father became seriously ill on the way home from a father-son shopping."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["When the father became seriously ill, he and his son were on the way home.", "When the father became seriously ill, he and his son were in the kindergarten.", "When the father became seriously ill, he and his son were in a shopping center.", "When the father became seriously ill, he and his son were at a bus station."], "dc_score": 8.209282845188284, "difficulty_score": 8.209282845188284}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 32, "fields": {"passage": "Kindergartens may teach you very important things you need to know. Dancy, a 5-year-old boy, saved his father's life with the skills he learned.\n\nThe boy's father became seriously ill on the way home from a father-son shopping. He couldn't speak and could hardly move, but he tried hard to stop the car safely. At that point, Dancy used his father's phone to call his mother for help. The 5-year-old boy tried his best to give her useful information and he was able to tell where they were. Just as he had learned in the kindergarten, Dancy read the letters he saw on a nearby store sign: \"F,U,R,N,I,T,U,R,E.\" But that wasn't enough for his mother to find them. Then he added that they were near a bridge. Finally, his mother understood he was talking about a store called Furniture 22 on New Jersey's Route 22. The mother called 911 and the father was saved in time.\n\n\"He just thought his dad needed help,\" Dancy's mother told the reporter. She also pointed out that her husband was a hero, too. \"It is surprising for him to get off the highway and get himself and his child to safety even when he was so sick,\" she said.\n\nShine, head of the kindergarten, felt proud of his pupil. \"Dancy's spelling skills helped him seize the moment,\" he said. \"And that's the real value of education.\"", "question_text": "Dancy called _ for help when his father couldn't speak.", "choices": ["911", "his mother", "Shine", "the reporter"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["He couldn't speak and could hardly move, but he tried hard to stop the car safely. At that point, Dancy used his father's phone to call his mother for help.", "Then he added that they were near a bridge. Finally, his mother understood he was talking about a store called Furniture 22 on New Jersey's Route The mother called 911 and the father was saved in time."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Dancy called 911 for help when his father couldn't speak. ", "Dancy called his mother for help when his father couldn't speak. ", "Dancy called Shine for help when his father couldn't speak. ", "Dancy called the reporter for help when his father couldn't speak."], "dc_score": 8.209282845188284, "difficulty_score": 8.209282845188284}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 33, "fields": {"passage": "Kindergartens may teach you very important things you need to know. Dancy, a 5-year-old boy, saved his father's life with the skills he learned.\n\nThe boy's father became seriously ill on the way home from a father-son shopping. He couldn't speak and could hardly move, but he tried hard to stop the car safely. At that point, Dancy used his father's phone to call his mother for help. The 5-year-old boy tried his best to give her useful information and he was able to tell where they were. Just as he had learned in the kindergarten, Dancy read the letters he saw on a nearby store sign: \"F,U,R,N,I,T,U,R,E.\" But that wasn't enough for his mother to find them. Then he added that they were near a bridge. Finally, his mother understood he was talking about a store called Furniture 22 on New Jersey's Route 22. The mother called 911 and the father was saved in time.\n\n\"He just thought his dad needed help,\" Dancy's mother told the reporter. She also pointed out that her husband was a hero, too. \"It is surprising for him to get off the highway and get himself and his child to safety even when he was so sick,\" she said.\n\nShine, head of the kindergarten, felt proud of his pupil. \"Dancy's spelling skills helped him seize the moment,\" he said. \"And that's the real value of education.\"", "question_text": "Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?", "choices": ["Dancy drove his father home.", "The reporter was really a hero.", "Shine sent Dancy's father to hospital.", "Dancy saved his father with his spelling skills."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Dancy saved his father with his spelling skills.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Dancy drove his father home.", "The reporter was really a hero.", "Shine sent Dancy's father to hospital.", "Dancy saved his father with his spelling skills."], "dc_score": 8.209282845188284, "difficulty_score": 8.789637101702777}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 34, "fields": {"passage": "A bag is useful and the word \"bag\" is useful, too. Here is an interesting phrase, \"to let the cat out of the bag\". In meaning it is the same as \"to tell the secret\". And there is an old interesting story about the phrase came to be.\n\nLong ago, when farmers wanted to sell chickens at the market, they would usually just throw the chickens in cloth bags. But cats were cheaper than chickens at that time, so many farmers would put cats into the cloth bags but not chickens. One day, a woman asked a man for a chicken. The man gave her a cloth bag in which there was a cat. When the man opened the cloth bag, a big black cat ran out. Not a chicken! The man's secret was out and everyone knew it.\n\nNow when we say someone gives away a secret, we say \"he lets the cat out of the bag\". And that is the story where the interesting phrase came from.", "question_text": "The farmers put cats but not chickens in the bags to _ when they sold chickens.", "choices": ["tell the secret", "sell the cats", "get more money", "keep the cats quiet"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Long ago, when farmers wanted to sell chickens at the market, they would usually just throw the chickens in cloth bags. But cats were cheaper than chickens at that time, so many farmers would put cats into the cloth bags but not chickens."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The farmers put cats but not chickens in the bags to tell the secret when they sold chickens.", "The farmers put cats but not chickens in the bags to sell the cats when they sold chickens.", "The farmers put cats but not chickens in the bags to get more money when they sold chickens.", "The farmers put cats but not chickens in the bags to keep the cats quiet when they sold chickens."], "dc_score": 7.644850295857988, "difficulty_score": 8.657088034662085}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 35, "fields": {"passage": "A bag is useful and the word \"bag\" is useful, too. Here is an interesting phrase, \"to let the cat out of the bag\". In meaning it is the same as \"to tell the secret\". And there is an old interesting story about _.\n\nLong ago, when farmers wanted to sell chickens at the market, they would usually just throw the chickens in cloth bags. But cats were cheaper than chickens at that time, so many farmers would put cats into the cloth bags but not chickens. One day, a woman asked a man for a chicken. The man gave her a cloth bag in which there was a cat. When the man opened the cloth bag, a big black cat ran out. Not a chicken! The man's secret was out and everyone knew it.\n\nNow when we say someone gives away a secret, we say \"he lets the cat out of the bag\". And that is the story where the interesting phrase came from.", "question_text": "Which is the best for the blank in the passage?", "choices": ["The woman who was angry to see a cat.", "The man who put a cat in the bag.", "The man who asked her to see the chicken.", "The woman who wanted to see the chicken."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["The man gave her a cloth bag in which there was a cat.", "When the man opened the cloth bag, a big black cat ran out. Not a chicken!", "The woman wanted to see the chicken. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["And there is an old interesting story about the woman who was angry to see a cat.", "And there is an old interesting story about the man who put a cat in the bag.", "And there is an old interesting story about the man who asked her to see the chicken.", "And there is an old interesting story about the woman who wanted to see the chicken."], "dc_score": 7.632040150093808, "difficulty_score": 8.306261224552697}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 36, "fields": {"passage": "A bag is useful and the word \"bag\" is useful, too. Here is an interesting phrase, \"to let the cat out of the bag\". In meaning it is the same as \"to tell the secret\". And there is an old interesting story about the phrase came to be.\n\nLong ago, when farmers wanted to sell chickens at the market, they would usually just throw the chickens in cloth bags. But cats were cheaper than chickens at that time, so many farmers would put cats into the cloth bags but not chickens. One day, a woman asked a man for a chicken. The man gave her a cloth bag in which there was a cat. When the man opened the cloth bag, a big black cat ran out. Not a chicken! The man's secret was out and everyone knew it.\n\nNow when we say someone gives away a secret, we say \"he lets the cat out of the bag\". And that is the story where the interesting phrase came from.", "question_text": "The writer wrote the story to tell us _.", "choices": ["the woman was smart", "how farmers sold their cats", "the phrase is useful", "where the phrase came from"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"And there is an old interesting story about the phrase came to be.\" and \"Now when we say someone gives away a secret, we say \"he lets the cat out of the bag\". And that is the story where the interesting phrase came from.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The writer wrote the story to tell us the woman was smart.", "The writer wrote the story to tell us how farmers sold their cats.", "The writer wrote the story to tell us the phrase is useful.", "The writer wrote the story to tell us where the phrase came from."], "dc_score": 7.644850295857988, "difficulty_score": 8.410880336504944}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 37, "fields": {"passage": "One weekend, a wife and a husband went to visit a shop in London. After they got back home, they couldn't find their camera. They thought the camera must be in the shop. After a few weeks, they went to that shop again and the boss gave their camera back to them.\n\nWhen their picture of the camera came out, the husband saw two pictures he did not take. One isa man standing at the door of the shop. In his hand there is a piece of paper with some words on it \"I find your camera\". The other is a boy with a piece of paper in his hand. There are somewords on the paper too, \"I take the pictures\".", "question_text": "A wife and a husband went to visit a shop in _.", "choices": ["London", "Pairs", "New York", "Beijing"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["A wife and a husband went to visit a shop in London."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["A wife and a husband went to visit a shop in London.", "A wife and a husband went to visit a shop in Paris.", "A wife and a husband went to visit a shop in New York.", "A wife and a husband went to visit a shop in Beijing."], "dc_score": 6.652270064279156, "difficulty_score": 6.652270064279156}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 38, "fields": {"passage": "One weekend, a wife and a husband went to visit a shop in London. After they got back home, they couldn't find their camera. They thought the camera must be in the shop. After a few weeks, they went to that shop again and the boss gave their camera back to them.\n\nWhen their picture of the camera came out, the husband saw two pictures he did not take. One isa man standing at the door of the shop. In his hand there is a piece of paper with some words on it \"I find your camera\". The other is a boy with a piece of paper in his hand. There are somewords on the paper too, \"I take the pictures\".", "question_text": "They couldn't find their _.", "choices": ["books", "children", "camera", "car"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"They couldn't find their camera.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["They couldn't find their books.", "They couldn't find their children.", "They couldn't find their camera.", "They couldn't find their car."], "dc_score": 6.652270064279156, "difficulty_score": 6.652270064279156}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 39, "fields": {"passage": "One weekend, a wife and a husband went to visit a shop in London. After they got back home, they couldn't find their camera. They thought the camera must be in the shop. After a few weeks, they went to that shop again and the boss gave their camera back to them.\n\nWhen their picture of the camera came out, the husband saw two pictures he did not take. One isa man standing at the door of the shop. In his hand there is a piece of paper with some words on it \"I find your camera\". The other is a boy with a piece of paper in his hand. 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After they got back home, they couldn't find their camera. They thought the camera must be in the shop. After a few weeks, they went to that shop again and the boss gave their camera back to them.\n\nWhen their picture of the camera came out, the husband saw two pictures he did not take. One isa man standing at the door of the shop. In his hand there is a piece of paper with some words on it \"I find your camera\". The other is a boy with a piece of paper in his hand. There are somewords on the paper too, \"I take the pictures\".", "question_text": "The husband saw _ pictures he didn't take.", "choices": ["two", "three", "four", "no"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The husband saw two pictures he did not take."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The husband saw two pictures he didn't take.", "The husband saw three pictures he didn't take.", "The husband saw four pictures he didn't take.", "The husband saw no pictures he didn't take."], "dc_score": 6.652270064279156, "difficulty_score": 6.652270064279156}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 41, "fields": {"passage": "One weekend, a wife and a husband went to visit a shop in London. After they got back home, they couldn't find their camera. They thought the camera must be in the shop. After a few weeks, they went to that shop again and the boss gave their camera back to them.\n\nWhen their picture of the camera came out, the husband saw two pictures he did not take. One isa man standing at the door of the shop. In his hand there is a piece of paper with some words on it \"I find your camera\". The other is a boy with a piece of paper in his hand. There are somewords on the paper too, \"I take the pictures\".", "question_text": "Who took the pictures?", "choices": ["The boss.", "The man.", "The boy.", "The wife."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["When their picture of the camera came out, the husband saw two pictures he did not take.", "One is a man standing at the door of the shop. In his hand there is a piece of paper with some words on it \"I find your camera\".", "The other is a boy with a piece of paper in his hand. There are some words on the paper too, \"I take the pictures\"."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The boss took the pictures.", "The man took the pictures.", "The boy took the pictures.", "The wife took the pictures."], "dc_score": 6.652270064279156, "difficulty_score": 6.652270064279156}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 42, "fields": {"passage": "Imagine climbing the three highest mountains in Britain. Now, imagine climbing all three in 24 hours. That's what Rebecca Shedden, a British schoolgirl did and she's only eight years old. She is one of the youngest people who have arrived on top of Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis, the three highest mountains in Britain.\n\nRebecca and her dad finished the climb, a total of about 11,000 feet (3,353 metres), in 23 hours and 15 minutes. That includes the time spent driving to each mountain: a distance of 500 miles!\n\nClimbing isn't new to this schoolgirl. She took her first trip up a mountain in her dad's backpack when she was just six months old!\n\n\"One of the best parts about this climb was Scafell Pike,\" said Rebecca. \"I've never walked in the dark before, and it was fun seeing all the sheep eyes as they ran around in the dark.\"\n\nRebecca brought along food, water, a medical kit, a hat, a map, a lamp, a camera to take photos and even a mobile phone in case something went wrong. Along the way, she and her dad had fun by making up mountain songs.\n\n\"All my friends like to stay inside playing computer games, but I like being outdoors best,\" says Rebecca. Rebecca also enjoys swimming and skiing.\n\nThe young climber doesn't plan to stay on flat land for long. She wants to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa. \"And I would like to climb Mount Qomolangma one day, too,\" she said.", "question_text": "What is the distance up and down all these three highest mountains in Britain?", "choices": ["500 miles", "24 hours' walk", "11,000 feet", "23 hours and 15 minutes' drive"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Rebecca and her dad finished the climb, a total of about 11,000 feet (3,353 metres), in 23 hours and 15 minutes. That includes the time spent driving to each mountain: a distance of 500 miles!"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The distance up and down all these three highest mountains in Britain is 500 miles.", "The distance up and down all these three highest mountains in Britain is 24 hours' walk.", "The distance up and down all these three highest mountains in Britain is 11,000 feet.", "The distance up and down all these three highest mountains in Britain is 23 hours and 15 minutes' drive."], "dc_score": 9.540764874551972, "difficulty_score": 9.540764874551972}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 43, "fields": {"passage": "Imagine climbing the three highest mountains in Britain. Now, imagine climbing all three in 24 hours. That's what Rebecca Shedden, a British schoolgirl did and she's only eight years old. She is one of the youngest people who have arrived on top of Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis, the three highest mountains in Britain.\n\nRebecca and her dad finished the climb, a total of about 11,000 feet (3,353 metres), in 23 hours and 15 minutes. That includes the time spent driving to each mountain: a distance of 500 miles!\n\nClimbing isn't new to this schoolgirl. She took her first trip up a mountain in her dad's backpack when she was just six months old!\n\n\"One of the best parts about this climb was Scafell Pike,\" said Rebecca. \"I've never walked in the dark before, and it was fun seeing all the sheep eyes as they ran around in the dark.\"\n\nRebecca brought along food, water, a medical kit, a hat, a map, a lamp, a camera to take photos and even a mobile phone in case something went wrong. Along the way, she and her dad had fun by making up mountain songs.\n\n\"All my friends like to stay inside playing computer games, but I like being outdoors best,\" says Rebecca. Rebecca also enjoys swimming and skiing.\n\nThe young climber doesn't plan to stay on flat land for long. She wants to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa. \"And I would like to climb Mount Qomolangma one day, too,\" she said.", "question_text": "Why did Rebecca like climbing Scafell Pike best of the three trips?", "choices": ["Because the Scafell Pike was the darkest part.", "Because it is the highest mountain in Britain.", "Because she likes being outdoors best.", "Because she saw all the sheep eyes in the dark."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"One of the best parts about this climb was Scafell Pike,\" said Rebecca. \"I've never walked in the dark before, and it was fun seeing all the sheep eyes as they ran around in the dark.\" Rebecca also says, \"All my friends like to stay inside playing computer games, but I like being outdoors best\"."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Rebecca liked climbing Scafell Pike best of the three trips because the Scafell Pike was the darkest part. ", "Rebecca liked climbing Scafell Pike best of the three trips because it is the highest mountain in Britain. ", "Rebecca liked climbing Scafell Pike best of the three trips because she likes being outdoors best. ", "Rebecca liked climbing Scafell Pike best of the three trips because she saw all the sheep eyes in the dark."], "dc_score": 9.540764874551972, "difficulty_score": 9.540764874551972}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 44, "fields": {"passage": "Imagine climbing the three highest mountains in Britain. Now, imagine climbing all three in 24 hours. That's what Rebecca Shedden, a British schoolgirl did and she's only eight years old. She is one of the youngest people who have arrived on top of Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis, the three highest mountains in Britain.\n\nRebecca and her dad finished the climb, a total of about 11,000 feet (3,353 metres), in 23 hours and 15 minutes. That includes the time spent driving to each mountain: a distance of 500 miles!\n\nClimbing isn't new to this schoolgirl. She took her first trip up a mountain in her dad's backpack when she was just six months old!\n\n\"One of the best parts about this climb was Scafell Pike,\" said Rebecca. \"I've never walked in the dark before, and it was fun seeing all the sheep eyes as they ran around in the dark.\"\n\nRebecca brought along food, water, a medical kit, a hat, a map, a lamp, a camera to take photos and even a mobile phone in case something went wrong. Along the way, she and her dad had fun by making up mountain songs.\n\n\"All my friends like to stay inside playing computer games, but I like being outdoors best,\" says Rebecca. Rebecca also enjoys swimming and skiing.\n\nThe young climber doesn't plan to stay on flat land for long. She wants to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa. \"And I would like to climb Mount Qomolangma one day, too,\" she said.", "question_text": "Rebecca likes climbing probably because _.", "choices": ["she doesn't get along well with her friends", "her dad has a great influence on her", "she likes making up mountain songs", "she wants to climb Mount Kilimanjaro"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"One of the best parts about this climb was Scafell Pike,\" said Rebecca. \"I've never walked in the dark before, and it was fun seeing all the sheep eyes as they ran around in the dark.\" \"All my friends like to stay inside playing computer games, but I like being outdoors best,\" says Rebecca. Rebecca also enjoys swimming and skiing. The young climber doesn't plan to stay on flat land for long. 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After learning for some time, the users can test themselves by doing a short test on the computer.\n\nThe kitchen project was started by Professor Paul Seedhouse. He became interested in the idea after he visited another kind of talking kitchen. He said, \" The purpose of the French Digital Kitchen is to make learning a language more interesting and more educational.\"\n\nHow does the kitchen work? There is a computer in the kitchen. With this computer, the users can first choose a French recipe that they want to follow. Using information in the computer, the kitchen starts to guide the users how to make a French dish. If you follow the instructions on the computer, it moves on to the next. If you go wrong, the program goes back and repeats the recipe or information. At any time, the users can also ask the kitchen to repeat the recipe or any information..\n\nThe new kitchen can be used in school, universities and even people's homes. The researchers will also be developing the European Digital Kitchen, for the next three years.", "question_text": "After reading the passage, we know the Digital Kitchen _.", "choices": ["is a \"talking kitchen\".", "teaches students English.", "was developed in France.", "cooks all food for people"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"What do you think of a \"talking kitchen\"?\" \"A French Digital Kitchen has been developed at Newcastle University in the UK. It teaches students how to cook French food and speak French at the same time.\" \"The purpose of the French Digital Kitchen is to make learning a language more interesting and more educational.\" \"There is a computer in the kitchen. 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For the first time, students can learn a language by the following cooking steps.\n\nAll grammar and _ have been carefully chosen to make sure the users can understand French well. After learning for some time, the users can test themselves by doing a short test on the computer.\n\nThe kitchen project was started by Professor Paul Seedhouse. He became interested in the idea after he visited another kind of talking kitchen. He said, \" The purpose of the French Digital Kitchen is to make learning a language more interesting and more educational.\"\n\nHow does the kitchen work? There is a computer in the kitchen. With this computer, the users can first choose a French recipe that they want to follow. Using information in the computer, the kitchen starts to guide the users how to make a French dish. If you follow the instructions on the computer, it moves on to the next. If you go wrong, the program goes back and repeats the recipe or information. At any time, the users can also ask the kitchen to repeat the recipe or any information..\n\nThe new kitchen can be used in school, universities and even people's homes. The researchers will also be developing the European Digital Kitchen, for the next three years.", "question_text": "Which of the following can be properly put in \" _ \"?", "choices": ["food", "vocabulary", "recipe", "instructions"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"...students can learn a language by following cooking steps.\"", "\"All grammar and _ have been carefully chosen to make sure the users can understand French well.\"", "\"...users can first choose a French recipe that they want to follow. Using information in the computer, the kitchen starts to guide the users how to make a French dish. 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For the first time, students can learn a language by the following cooking steps.\n\nAll grammar and _ have been carefully chosen to make sure the users can understand French well. After learning for some time, the users can test themselves by doing a short test on the computer.\n\nThe kitchen project was started by Professor Paul Seedhouse. He became interested in the idea after he visited another kind of talking kitchen. He said, \" The purpose of the French Digital Kitchen is to make learning a language more interesting and more educational.\"\n\nHow does the kitchen work? There is a computer in the kitchen. With this computer, the users can first choose a French recipe that they want to follow. Using information in the computer, the kitchen starts to guide the users how to make a French dish. If you follow the instructions on the computer, it moves on to the next. If you go wrong, the program goes back and repeats the recipe or information. At any time, the users can also ask the kitchen to repeat the recipe or any information..\n\nThe new kitchen can be used in school, universities and even people's homes. The researchers will also be developing the European Digital Kitchen, for the next three years.", "question_text": "If the users don't follow the instructions on the computer, the kitchen _.", "choices": ["chooses another recipe.", "goes on to the next step.", "repeats the recipe or information", "stops working at once."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["How does the kitchen work? There is a computer in the kitchen. With this computer, the users can first choose a French recipe that they want to follow. Using information in the computer, the kitchen starts to guide the users how to make a French dish. If you follow the instructions on the computer, it moves on to the next. If you go wrong, the program goes back and repeats the recipe or information. 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For the first time, students can learn a language by the following cooking steps.\n\nAll grammar and _ have been carefully chosen to make sure the users can understand French well. After learning for some time, the users can test themselves by doing a short test on the computer.\n\nThe kitchen project was started by Professor Paul Seedhouse. He became interested in the idea after he visited another kind of talking kitchen. He said, \" The purpose of the French Digital Kitchen is to make learning a language more interesting and more educational.\"\n\nHow does the kitchen work? There is a computer in the kitchen. With this computer, the users can first choose a French recipe that they want to follow. Using information in the computer, the kitchen starts to guide the users how to make a French dish. If you follow the instructions on the computer, it moves on to the next. If you go wrong, the program goes back and repeats the recipe or information. At any time, the users can also ask the kitchen to repeat the recipe or any information..\n\nThe new kitchen can be used in school, universities and even people's homes. The researchers will also be developing the European Digital Kitchen, for the next three years.", "question_text": "The passage is written to _", "choices": ["show you how the computer works.", "introduce a French Digital Kitchen", "teach you how to cook French food", "tell you the importance of language learning."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"A French Digital Kitchen has been developed at Newcastle University in the UK. It teaches students how to cook French food and speak French at the same time. For the first time, students can learn a language by the following cooking steps.\"", "\"The purpose of the French Digital Kitchen is to make learning a language more interesting and more educational.\"", "\"How does the kitchen work? There is a computer in the kitchen. With this computer, the users can first choose a French recipe that they want to follow. Using information in the computer, the kitchen starts to guide the users how to make a French dish.\"", "\"The new kitchen can be used in school, universities and even people's homes. The researchers will also be developing the European Digital Kitchen, for the next three years.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The passage is written to show you how the computer works.", "The passage is written to introduce a French Digital Kitchen.", "The passage is written to teach you how to cook French food.", "The passage is written to tell you the importance of language learning."], "dc_score": 6.985907843137255, "difficulty_score": 7.7351782645471605}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 49, "fields": {"passage": "The keys to reaching or staying at a healthy weight are regular exercise and good eating habits. Teens should get 60 minutes or more of physical activity a day. Note the word \"activity\". As long as you're getting your body moving, it doesn't have to mean doing difficult exercise or going to the sports hall every day. All that matters is that each week you get the right balance of activity, including aerobics, strength building, and flexibility exercise. Make exercise a habit by arranging some time every day.\n\nOn days when you have soccer practice or an aerobics class, you may have no trouble exercising for an hour or more. But most of us are busy, and 60 minutes a day for exercise seems like a lot of time. The good news is that it's OK to divide it into shorter exercise breaks throughout the day.\n\nJust as you might have a healthy snack to stop yourself from getting hungry, exercise snacks can keep energy levels high. So get up 15 minutes early and do some stretching activity. Walk fast or run slowly for 15 minutes after lunch. Do the same thing after school -- or walk or bike home. Add to that taking the stairs, PE class, and walking between classes during the day, and you've probably reached your 60 minutes.\n\nHere are five simple ways to make an exercise lifestyle change:", "question_text": "The writer thinks many people probably misunderstand the word \"activity\" to be \" _ \".", "choices": ["physical activity", "body movement", "sports hall exercise", "outdoor exercise"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Note the word \"activity\". As long as you're getting your body moving, it doesn't have to mean doing difficult exercise or going to the sports hall every day. All that matters is that each week you get the right balance of activity, including aerobics, strength building, and flexibility exercise. On days when you have soccer practice or an aerobics class, you may have no trouble exercising for an hour or more. But most of us are busy, and 60 minutes a day for exercise seems like a lot of time. Add to that taking the stairs, PE class, and walking between classes during the day, and you've probably reached your 60 minutes."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The writer thinks many people probably misunderstand the word \"activity\" to be \"physical activity\".", "The writer thinks many people probably misunderstand the word \"activity\" to be \"body movement\".", "The writer thinks many people probably misunderstand the word \"activity\" to be \"sports hall exercise\".", "The writer thinks many people probably misunderstand the word \"activity\" to be \"outdoor exercise\"."], "dc_score": 7.795527430249633, "difficulty_score": 7.795527430249633}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 50, "fields": {"passage": "The keys to reaching or staying at a healthy weight are regular exercise and good eating habits. Teens should get 60 minutes or more of physical activity a day. Note the word \"activity\". As long as you're getting your body moving, it doesn't have to mean doing difficult exercise or going to the sports hall every day. All that matters is that each week you get the right balance of activity, including aerobics, strength building, and flexibility exercise. Make exercise a habit by arranging some time every day.\n\nOn days when you have soccer practice or an aerobics class, you may have no trouble exercising for an hour or more. But most of us are busy, and 60 minutes a day for exercise seems like a lot of time. The good news is that it's OK to divide it into shorter exercise breaks throughout the day.\n\nJust as you might have a healthy snack to stop yourself from getting hungry, exercise snacks can keep energy levels high. So get up 15 minutes early and do some stretching activity. Walk fast or run slowly for 15 minutes after lunch. Do the same thing after school -- or walk or bike home. Add to that taking the stairs, PE class, and walking between classes during the day, and you've probably reached your 60 minutes.\n\nHere are five simple ways to make an exercise lifestyle change:", "question_text": "When exercising, the most important fact is _.", "choices": ["the time spent on exercise", "the intensity of activity", "the difficulty of exercise", "the right balance of activity"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The keys to reaching or staying at a healthy weight are regular exercise and good eating habits. Teens should get 60 minutes or more of physical activity a day... All that matters is that each week you get the right balance of activity, including aerobics, strength building, and flexibility exercise. On days when you have soccer practice or an aerobics class, you may have no trouble exercising for an hour or more... The good news is that it's OK to divide it into shorter exercise breaks throughout the day. 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Make exercise a habit by arranging some time every day.\n\nOn days when you have soccer practice or an aerobics class, you may have no trouble exercising for an hour or more. But most of us are busy, and 60 minutes a day for exercise seems like a lot of time. The good news is that it's OK to divide it into shorter exercise breaks throughout the day.\n\nJust as you might have a healthy snack to stop yourself from getting hungry, exercise snacks can keep energy levels high. So get up 15 minutes early and do some stretching activity. Walk fast or run slowly for 15 minutes after lunch. Do the same thing after school -- or walk or bike home. Add to that taking the stairs, PE class, and walking between classes during the day, and you've probably reached your 60 minutes.\n\nHere are five simple ways to make an exercise lifestyle change:", "question_text": "The author advises dividing activity into shorter exercise breaks because _.", "choices": ["exercising for a long time is bad for people's health", "it has the same effect as soccer practice", "people usually haven't much time to exercise", "no one can spare lots of time to exercise"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["The good news is that it's OK to divide it into shorter exercise breaks throughout the day.", "On days when you have soccer practice or an aerobics class, you may have no trouble exercising for an hour or more. 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As long as you're getting your body moving, it doesn't have to mean doing difficult exercise or going to the sports hall every day. All that matters is that each week you get the right balance of activity, including aerobics, strength building, and flexibility exercise. Make exercise a habit by arranging some time every day.\n\nOn days when you have soccer practice or an aerobics class, you may have no trouble exercising for an hour or more. But most of us are busy, and 60 minutes a day for exercise seems like a lot of time. The good news is that it's OK to divide it into shorter exercise breaks throughout the day.\n\nJust as you might have a healthy snack to stop yourself from getting hungry, exercise snacks can keep energy levels high. So get up 15 minutes early and do some stretching activity. Walk fast or run slowly for 15 minutes after lunch. Do the same thing after school -- or walk or bike home. Add to that taking the stairs, PE class, and walking between classes during the day, and you've probably reached your 60 minutes.\n\nHere are five simple ways to make an exercise lifestyle change:", "question_text": "What's the best title for this passage?", "choices": ["Regular exercise.", "School exercise.", "Indoor exercise.", "Difficult exercise"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["The keys to reaching or staying at a healthy weight are regular exercise and good eating habits.", "Teens should get 60 minutes or more of physical activity a day.", "As long as you're getting your body moving, it doesn't have to mean doing difficult exercise or going to the sports hall every day.", "Just as you might have a healthy snack to stop yourself from getting hungry, exercise snacks can keep energy levels high.", "Here are five simple ways to make an exercise lifestyle change."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is Regular exercise.", "The best title for the passage is School exercise.", "The best title for the passage is Indoor exercise.", "The best title for the passage is Difficult exercise"], "dc_score": 7.795527430249633, "difficulty_score": 8.448987563044746}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 53, "fields": {"passage": "In many English homes people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. People have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge, eggs or bread, English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast.\n\nLunch comes at one o'clock. Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and dinner is at about half past seven. First they have soup, and then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After that they eat some other things, like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and all these meals are very simple. \n\n.", "question_text": "Many English people eat _ meals a day..", "choices": ["two", "three", "four", "five"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["n many English homes people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. ", "eople have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning.", "nglish people drink tea or coffee at breakfast.", "unch comes at one o'clock. ", "fternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and dinner is at about half past seven. ", "heir meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and all these meals are very simple."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Many English people eat two meals a day.", "Many English people eat three meals a day.", "Many English people eat four meals a day.", "Many English people eat five meals a day."], "dc_score": 6.543636774193549, "difficulty_score": 6.543636774193549}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 54, "fields": {"passage": "In many English homes people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. People have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge, eggs or bread, English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast.\n\nLunch comes at one o'clock. Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and dinner is at about half past seven. First they have soup, and then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After that they eat some other things, like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and all these meals are very simple. \n\n.", "question_text": "People may eat _ for their breakfast.", "choices": ["meat and apples", "vegetables", "bananas and coffee", "bread or eggs"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["People have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning.", "They eat porridge, eggs or bread, English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["People may eat meat and apples for their breakfast.", "People may eat vegetables for their breakfast.", "People may eat bananas and coffee for their breakfast.", "People may eat bread or eggs for their breakfast."], "dc_score": 6.543636774193549, "difficulty_score": 6.543636774193549}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 55, "fields": {"passage": "In many English homes people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. People have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge, eggs or bread, English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast.\n\nLunch comes at one o'clock. Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and dinner is at about half past seven. First they have soup, and then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After that they eat some other things, like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and all these meals are very simple. \n\n.", "question_text": "People have lunch at _ o'clock.", "choices": ["any time", "nine", "five", "one"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["In many English homes people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner.", "Lunch comes at one o'clock."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["People have lunch at any time o'clock.", "People have lunch at nine o'clock.", "People have lunch at five o'clock.", "People have lunch at one o'clock."], "dc_score": 6.543636774193549, "difficulty_score": 6.543636774193549}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 56, "fields": {"passage": "In many English homes people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. People have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge, eggs or bread, English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast.\n\nLunch comes at one o'clock. Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and dinner is at about half past seven. First they have soup, and then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After that they eat some other things, like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and all these meals are very simple. \n\n.", "question_text": "People don't have _ for their dinner.", "choices": ["porridge", "bananas and apples", "soup and meat", "meat and fish"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["In many English homes people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner.", "People have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge, eggs or bread, English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast.", "Lunch comes at one o'clock.", "Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and dinner is at about half past seven.", "First they have soup, and then they have meat or fish with vegetables.", "After that they eat some other things, like bananas, apples or oranges.", "Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day.", "Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and all these meals are very simple. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["People don't have porridge for their dinner.", "People don't have bananas and apples for their dinner.", "People don't have soup and meat for their dinner.", "People don't have meat and fish for their dinner."], "dc_score": 6.543636774193549, "difficulty_score": 6.543636774193549}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 57, "fields": {"passage": "In many English homes people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. People have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge, eggs or bread, English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast.\n\nLunch comes at one o'clock. Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and dinner is at about half past seven. First they have soup, and then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After that they eat some other things, like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and all these meals are very simple. \n\n.", "question_text": "Which is TRUE according to the article ?", "choices": ["All English people have their dinner in the evening.", "All English people have their dinner in the middle of the day.", "English people have breakfast at any time from six to nine in the morning.", "English meals are very simple."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["People eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner.", "People have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning.", "English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast.", "Lunch comes at one o'clock.", "Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon, and dinner is at about half-past seven.", "Not all English people eat dinner in the evening. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day.", "Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper, and all these meals are very simple.", "Not all English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper, and all these meals are very simple."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["According to the article, is it true that all English people have their dinner in the evening.", "According to the article, is it true that all English people have their dinner in the middle of the day.", "According to the article, is it true that English people have breakfast at any time from six to nine in the morning.", "According to the article, is it true that English meals are very simple."], "dc_score": 6.543636774193549, "difficulty_score": 6.543636774193549}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 58, "fields": {"passage": "Success does not belong to a select group of individuals. Success belongs to those who are willing to go after it and try their best to do what they have to do. Here are some useful practical ways for you if you want to be a success.\n\nDesire. Desire is the strong wish to achieve a goal. Without desire you have nothing. Before you can run with desire, your goal must be plain, clear, and it must also be exciting.\n\nShow up. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. You can't have a best seller, if you have never written a book. You can't get your dream job, if you're afraid to turn in an application. Showing up doesn't guarantee success, but if you don't show up, you won't succeed.\n\nFail. Unless you're willing to have a try, fail unhappily, and have another try, success won't happen. To have success you have to do things the right way, but often the only way to do something right is to first fail at it. As Thomas J. Watson said, a simple formula for success is to double your rate of failure. So welcome failure, become a student of failure, learn from failure, and soon you will succeed.\n\nWork Harder. _ Success is not about doing what the common person can't do. It's about doing what the common person is unwilling to do. And on a deeper level, it's about creating habits that the common person is unwilling to create. It's the habit of doing things with excellence that causes success.\n\nEnjoy the Journey. Success is a journey, not a destination. Success is not a certain car or a certain house or a certain happy marriage. Success is the enjoyment of the journey. You have to enjoy the journey.\n\nSomeone once said, \"Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.\" You have to change, you will change, and you will succeed.", "question_text": "Which of the following is NOT mentioned in achieving success?", "choices": ["Working hard.", "Good education.", "Strong desire.", "Enjoying failure."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Desire is important when it comes to achieving success. Showing up is also important, as 70% of success in life is attributed to showing up. It is also mentioned that failure is a part of the process of achieving success, and that becoming comfortable with failure is often necessary. Additionally, working harder than the average person is important, as is enjoying the journey of achieving success. The passage does not mention anything about having a good education as a requirement for success. The concept of \"enjoying failure\" is mentioned as something to strive for, rather than something to avoid."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Working hard is mentioned in achieving success.", "Good education is mentioned in achieving success.", "Strong desire is mentioned in achieving success.", "Enjoying failure is mentioned in achieving success."], "dc_score": 6.676114687100894, "difficulty_score": 6.676114687100894}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 59, "fields": {"passage": "Success does not belong to a select group of individuals. Success belongs to those who are willing to go after it and try their best to do what they have to do. Here are some useful practical ways for you if you want to be a success.\n\nDesire. Desire is the strong wish to achieve a goal. Without desire you have nothing. Before you can run with desire, your goal must be plain, clear, and it must also be exciting.\n\nShow up. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. You can't have a best seller, if you have never written a book. You can't get your dream job, if you're afraid to turn in an application. Showing up doesn't guarantee success, but if you don't show up, you won't succeed.\n\nFail. Unless you're willing to have a try, fail unhappily, and have another try, success won't happen. To have success you have to do things the right way, but often the only way to do something right is to first fail at it. As Thomas J. Watson said, a simple formula for success is to double your rate of failure. So welcome failure, become a student of failure, learn from failure, and soon you will succeed.\n\nWork Harder. _ Success is not about doing what the common person can't do. It's about doing what the common person is unwilling to do. And on a deeper level, it's about creating habits that the common person is unwilling to create. It's the habit of doing things with excellence that causes success.\n\nEnjoy the Journey. Success is a journey, not a destination. Success is not a certain car or a certain house or a certain happy marriage. Success is the enjoyment of the journey. You have to enjoy the journey.\n\nSomeone once said, \"Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.\" You have to change, you will change, and you will succeed.", "question_text": "What does the writer really mean by saying \" _ \" ?", "choices": ["It's not easy for people to develop their health.", "You are sure to meet with some difficulty in your life.", "Keeping working harder is necessary when you go after success.", "Most people don't want to spend too much time running."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Success is not about doing what the common person can't do. It's about doing what the common person is unwilling to do. And on a deeper level, it's about creating habits that the common person is unwilling to create. It's the habit of doing things with excellence that causes success.\" ", "\"Enjoy the Journey. Success is a journey, not a destination. Success is not a certain car or a certain house or a certain happy marriage. Success is the enjoyment of the journey.\" ", "\"Someone once said, \"Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.\" You have to change, you will change, and you will succeed.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["It's not easy for people to develop their health.", "You are sure to meet with some difficulty in your life.", "Keeping working harder is necessary when you go after success.", "Most people don't want to spend too much time running."], "dc_score": 6.676114687100894, "difficulty_score": 7.348471660207257}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 60, "fields": {"passage": "Success does not belong to a select group of individuals. Success belongs to those who are willing to go after it and try their best to do what they have to do. Here are some useful practical ways for you if you want to be a success.\n\nDesire. Desire is the strong wish to achieve a goal. Without desire you have nothing. Before you can run with desire, your goal must be plain, clear, and it must also be exciting.\n\nShow up. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. You can't have a best seller, if you have never written a book. You can't get your dream job, if you're afraid to turn in an application. Showing up doesn't guarantee success, but if you don't show up, you won't succeed.\n\nFail. Unless you're willing to have a try, fail unhappily, and have another try, success won't happen. To have success you have to do things the right way, but often the only way to do something right is to first fail at it. As Thomas J. Watson said, a simple formula for success is to double your rate of failure. So welcome failure, become a student of failure, learn from failure, and soon you will succeed.\n\nWork Harder. _ Success is not about doing what the common person can't do. It's about doing what the common person is unwilling to do. And on a deeper level, it's about creating habits that the common person is unwilling to create. It's the habit of doing things with excellence that causes success.\n\nEnjoy the Journey. Success is a journey, not a destination. Success is not a certain car or a certain house or a certain happy marriage. Success is the enjoyment of the journey. You have to enjoy the journey.\n\nSomeone once said, \"Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.\" You have to change, you will change, and you will succeed.", "question_text": "Which of the following is TRUE about success according to the passage?", "choices": ["If you want to succeed, you should have special talents.", "If you want to succeed, you'd better not show up.", "Success is about doing what the common person can't do.", "Success means the enjoyment of your gain or loss on the journey."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Success does not belong to a select group of individuals. ", "Success belongs to those who are willing to go after it and try their best to do what they have to do.", "Desire is the strong wish to achieve a goal. Without desire you have nothing. ", "Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ", "Unless you're willing to have a try, fail unhappily, and have another try, success won't happen. ", "Success is not about doing what the common person can't do. It's about doing what the common person is unwilling to do.", "Success is a journey, not a destination. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["If you want to succeed, you should have special talents.", "If you want to succeed, you'd better not show up.", "Success is about doing what the common person can't do .", "Success means the enjoyment of your gain or loss on the journey."], "dc_score": 6.676114687100894, "difficulty_score": 6.676114687100894}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 61, "fields": {"passage": "Success does not belong to a select group of individuals. Success belongs to those who are willing to go after it and try their best to do what they have to do. Here are some useful practical ways for you if you want to be a success.\n\nDesire. Desire is the strong wish to achieve a goal. Without desire you have nothing. Before you can run with desire, your goal must be plain, clear, and it must also be exciting.\n\nShow up. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. You can't have a best seller, if you have never written a book. You can't get your dream job, if you're afraid to turn in an application. Showing up doesn't guarantee success, but if you don't show up, you won't succeed.\n\nFail. Unless you're willing to have a try, fail unhappily, and have another try, success won't happen. To have success you have to do things the right way, but often the only way to do something right is to first fail at it. As Thomas J. Watson said, a simple formula for success is to double your rate of failure. So welcome failure, become a student of failure, learn from failure, and soon you will succeed.\n\nWork Harder. _ Success is not about doing what the common person can't do. It's about doing what the common person is unwilling to do. And on a deeper level, it's about creating habits that the common person is unwilling to create. It's the habit of doing things with excellence that causes success.\n\nEnjoy the Journey. Success is a journey, not a destination. Success is not a certain car or a certain house or a certain happy marriage. Success is the enjoyment of the journey. You have to enjoy the journey.\n\nSomeone once said, \"Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.\" You have to change, you will change, and you will succeed.", "question_text": "The best title of the passage might be _.", "choices": ["The Importance of Success", "The Meaning of Success", "Success or Failure", "The Five Main Steps to Success"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["Here are some useful practical ways for you if you want to be a success."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is The Importance of Success", "The best title for the passage is The Meaning of Success", "The best title for the passage is Success or Failure", "The best title for the passage is The Five Main Steps to Success"], "dc_score": 6.676114687100894, "difficulty_score": 7.256807250265651}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 62, "fields": {"passage": "My name's Mary. This is my family tree. These are my parents. Their names are Bill and Grace Brown. Those are my grandparents. Their names are Hery and Linda Brown. This is my uncle. His name is John. That boy is my brother. His name is Tony. This is Susan. She is my uncle's daughter.", "question_text": "Mary's brother is _.", "choices": ["Susan", "John", "Tony", "Linda"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["My name's Mary. Those are my grandparents. Their names are Hery and Linda Brown. This is my uncle. His name is John. That boy is my brother. His name is Tony. This is Susan. She is my uncle's daughter."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Mary's brother is Susan.", "Mary's brother is John.", "Mary's brother is Tony.", "Mary's brother is Linda."], "dc_score": 10.179833333333335, "difficulty_score": 10.179833333333335}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 63, "fields": {"passage": "My name's Mary. This is my family tree. These are my parents. Their names are Bill and Grace Brown. Those are my grandparents. Their names are Henry and Linda Brown. This is my uncle. His name is John. That boy is my brother. His name is Tony. This is Susan. She is my uncle's daughter.", "question_text": "Bill is John's _.", "choices": ["father", "brother", "uncle", "son"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["These are my parents. Their names are Bill and Grace Brown.", "This is my uncle. His name is John. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Bill is John's father.", "Bill is John's brother.", "Bill is John's uncle.", "Bill is John's son."], "dc_score": 10.179833333333335, "difficulty_score": 10.772796023325556}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 64, "fields": {"passage": "My name's Mary. This is my family tree. These are my parents. Their names are Bill and Grace Brown. Those are my grandparents. Their names are Henry and Linda Brown. This is my uncle. His name is John. That boy is my brother. His name is Tony. This is Susan. She is my uncle's daughter.", "question_text": "Henry is Susan's _.", "choices": ["father", "grandfather", "uncle", "grandmother"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Those are my grandparents. Their names are Henry and Linda Brown.", "This is Susan. She is my uncle's daughter."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Henry is Susan's father.", "Henry is Susan's grandfather.", "Henry is Susan's uncle.", "Henry is Susan's grandmother. "], "dc_score": 10.179833333333335, "difficulty_score": 10.887435830916118}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 65, "fields": {"passage": "My name's Mary. This is my family tree. These are my parents. Their names are Bill and Grace Brown. Those are my grandparents. Their names are Henry and Linda Brown. This is my uncle. His name is John. That boy is my brother. His name is Tony. This is Susan. She is my uncle's daughter.", "question_text": "Grace is Susan's _.", "choices": ["sister", "mother", "aunt", "grandmother"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["This is Susan. She is my uncle's daughter.", "These are my parents. Their names are Bill and Grace Brown."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Grace is Susan's sister.", "Grace is Susan's mother.", "Grace is Susan's aunt.", "Grace is Susan's grandmother."], "dc_score": 10.179833333333335, "difficulty_score": 10.853780558093275}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 66, "fields": {"passage": "My name's Mary. This is my family tree. These are my parents. Their names are Bill and Grace Brown. Those are my grandparents. Their names are Henry and Linda Brown. This is my uncle. His name is John. That boy is my brother. His name is Tony. This is Susan. She is my uncle's daughter.", "question_text": "Tony and Mary are Susan's _.", "choices": ["brothers", "sisters", "friends", "cousins"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["That boy is my brother. His name is Tony.", "This is Susan. She is my uncle's daughter.", "My name's Mary."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Tony and Mary are Susan's brothers.", "Tony and Mary are Susan's sisters.", "Tony and Mary are Susan's friends.", "Tony and Mary are Susan's cousins."], "dc_score": 10.179833333333335, "difficulty_score": 10.730900822652476}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 67, "fields": {"passage": "Young people can have problems with their minds.Some students become worried because they have to study very hard. Others have trouble getting on well with people like their parents and classmates.\n\nLiu Wei, a junior 2 student from Hefei,could not understand his teacher and was doing badly in his lessons. He became so worried about it that he started to cut his finger with a knife.\n\nAnother student, 14-year-old Yan Fang from Guangzhou, was afraid of exams. She got very worried when she looked at the exam paper. She couldn't think of anything to write.\n\nA recent report from Jiefang Daily says about 18% of Shanghai teenagers have mental problems. Their troubles include being worried and very unhappy. And they have problems in learning and getting on with people. Many students who have problems won't ask others for advice or help. Some think they will look stupid if they go to see a doctor. Others don't want to talk about their secret.\n\nLiang Yuezhu, an expert on teenagers from Beijing Anding Hospital has the following advice for teenagers:\n\n* Talk to your parents or teachers often\n\n* Take part in group activities and play sports\n\n* Go to see a doctor if you feel unhappy or unwell", "question_text": "The students who often become worried or have trouble getting on with others may have _.", "choices": ["mental problems", "a headache", "knives with them", "no parents"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Young people can have problems with their minds.", "Some students become worried because they have to study very hard.", "Others have trouble getting on well with people like their parents and classmates.", "Liu Wei... became so worried about [not understanding his teacher] that he started to cut his finger with a knife.", "Another student, 14-year-old Yan Fang from Guangzhou, was afraid of exams... She couldn't think of anything to write.", "A recent report from Jiefang Daily says about 18% of Shanghai teenagers have mental problems.", "Their troubles include being worried and very unhappy. And they have problems in learning and getting on with people.", "Many students who have problems won't ask others for advice or help. Some think they will look stupid if they go to see a doctor. Others don't want to talk about their secret.", "Liang Yuezhu, an expert on teenagers from Beijing Anding Hospital has the following advice for teenagers:... Go to see a doctor if you feel unhappy or unwell."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The students who often become worried or have trouble getting on with others may have mental problems.", "The students who often become worried or have trouble getting on with others may have a headache.", "The students who often become worried or have trouble getting on with others may have knives with them.", "The students who often become worried or have trouble getting on with others may have no parents."], "dc_score": 8.627732520325203, "difficulty_score": 9.546785259207232}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 68, "fields": {"passage": "Young people can have problems with their minds.Some students become worried because they have to study very hard. Others have trouble getting on well with people like their parents and classmates.\n\nLiu Wei, a junior 2 student from Hefei,could not understand his teacher and was doing badly in his lessons. He became so worried about it that he started to cut his finger with a knife.\n\nAnother student, 14-year-old Yan Fang from Guangzhou, was afraid of exams. She got very worried when she looked at the exam paper. She couldn't think of anything to write.\n\nA recent report from Jiefang Daily says about 18% of Shanghai teenagers have mental problems. Their troubles include being worried and very unhappy. And they have problems in learning and getting on with people. Many students who have problems won't ask others for advice or help. Some think they will look stupid if they go to see a doctor. Others don't want to talk about their secret.\n\nLiang Yuezhu, an expert on teenagers from Beijing Anding Hospital has the following advice for teenagers:\n\n* Talk to your parents or teachers often\n\n* Take part in group activities and play sports\n\n* Go to see a doctor if you feel unhappy or unwell", "question_text": "Liu Wei cut his finger with a knife because _.", "choices": ["he was afraid of his teacher", "he wanted to frighten his parents", "he was so worried about his studies", "his finger was badly hurt"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Liu Wei, a junior 2 student from Hefei,could not understand his teacher and was doing badly in his lessons. He became so worried about it that he started to cut his finger with a knife."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Liu Wei cut his finger with a knife because he was afraid of his teacher.", "Liu Wei cut his finger with a knife because he wanted to frighten his parents.", "Liu Wei cut his finger with a knife because he was so worried about his studies.", "Liu Wei cut his finger with a knife because his finger was badly hurt."], "dc_score": 8.627732520325203, "difficulty_score": 8.627732520325203}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 69, "fields": {"passage": "Young people can have problems with their minds.Some students become worried because they have to study very hard. Others have trouble getting on well with people like their parents and classmates.\n\nLiu Wei, a junior 2 student from Hefei,could not understand his teacher and was doing badly in his lessons. He became so worried about it that he started to cut his finger with a knife.\n\nAnother student, 14-year-old Yan Fang from Guangzhou, was afraid of exams. She got very worried when she looked at the exam paper. She couldn't think of anything to write.\n\nA recent report from Jiefang Daily says about 18% of Shanghai teenagers have mental problems. Their troubles include being worried and very unhappy. And they have problems in learning and getting on with people. Many students who have problems won't ask others for advice or help. Some think they will look stupid if they go to see a doctor. Others don't want to talk about their secret.\n\nLiang Yuezhu, an expert on teenagers from Beijing Anding Hospital has the following advice for teenagers:\n\n* Talk to your parents or teachers often\n\n* Take part in group activities and play sports\n\n* Go to see a doctor if you feel unhappy or unwell", "question_text": "Yang Fang's problems happened whenever _.", "choices": ["she studied very hard", "she had exams", "she talked with her parents", "she thought of something"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Yang Fang's problems happened whenever she had exams."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Yang Fang's problems happened whenever she studied very hard.", "Yang Fang's problems happened whenever she had exams.", "Yang Fang's problems happened whenever she talked with her parents.", "Yang Fang's problems happened whenever she thought of something."], "dc_score": 8.627732520325203, "difficulty_score": 8.627732520325203}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 70, "fields": {"passage": "Young people can have problems with their minds.Some students become worried because they have to study very hard. Others have trouble getting on well with people like their parents and classmates.\n\nLiu Wei, a junior 2 student from Hefei,could not understand his teacher and was doing badly in his lessons. He became so worried about it that he started to cut his finger with a knife.\n\nAnother student, 14-year-old Yan Fang from Guangzhou, was afraid of exams. She got very worried when she looked at the exam paper. She couldn't think of anything to write.\n\nA recent report from Jiefang Daily says about 18% of Shanghai teenagers have mental problems. Their troubles include being worried and very unhappy. And they have problems in learning and getting on with people. Many students who have problems won't ask others for advice or help. Some think they will look stupid if they go to see a doctor. Others don't want to talk about their secret.\n\nLiang Yuezhu, an expert on teenagers from Beijing Anding Hospital has the following advice for teenagers:\n\n* Talk to your parents or teachers often\n\n* Take part in group activities and play sports\n\n* Go to see a doctor if you feel unhappy or unwell", "question_text": "Students who have problems won't ask others for help because _.", "choices": ["they won't let others think they are stupid", "they don't think doctors can help them", "they don't want to tell their secret to others", "both A and C"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["A recent report from Jiefang Daily says about 18% of Shanghai teenagers have mental problems. Many students who have problems won't ask others for advice or help. Some think they will look stupid if they go to see a doctor. Others don't want to talk about their secret."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Students who have problems won't ask others for help because they won't let others think they are stupid.", "Students who have problems won't ask others for help because they don't think doctors can help them.", "Students who have problems won't ask others for help because they don't want to tell their secret to others.", "Students who have problems won't ask others for help because they won't let others think they are stupid and they don't think doctors can help them."], "dc_score": 8.627732520325203, "difficulty_score": 8.627732520325203}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 71, "fields": {"passage": "Young people can have problems with their minds.Some students become worried because they have to study very hard. Others have trouble getting on well with people like their parents and classmates.\n\nLiu Wei, a junior 2 student from Hefei,could not understand his teacher and was doing badly in his lessons. He became so worried about it that he started to cut his finger with a knife.\n\nAnother student, 14-year-old Yan Fang from Guangzhou, was afraid of exams. She got very worried when she looked at the exam paper. She couldn't think of anything to write.\n\nA recent report from Jiefang Daily says about 18% of Shanghai teenagers have mental problems. Their troubles include being worried and very unhappy. And they have problems in learning and getting on with people. Many students who have problems won't ask others for advice or help. Some think they will look stupid if they go to see a doctor. Others don't want to talk about their secret.\n\nLiang Yuezhu, an expert on teenagers from Beijing Anding Hospital has the following advice for teenagers:\n\n* Talk to your parents or teachers often\n\n* Take part in group activities and play sports\n\n* Go to see a doctor if you feel unhappy or unwell", "question_text": "Liang Yuezhu's advice tells us that _.", "choices": ["it's better for the students who have mental problems to join others", "it's unnecessary for them to be with others", "only group activities and sports can help them", "teachers and parents can't do anything about mental problems"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Liang Yuezhu, an expert on teenagers from Beijing Anding Hospital has the following advice for teenagers:", "* Talk to your parents or teachers often", "* Take part in group activities and play sports "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Liang Yuezhu's advice tells us that it's better for the students who have mental problems to join others.", "Liang Yuezhu's advice tells us that it's unnecessary for them to be with others.", "Liang Yuezhu's advice tells us that only group activities and sports can help them.", "Liang Yuezhu's advice tells us that teachers and parents can't do anything about mental problems."], "dc_score": 8.627732520325203, "difficulty_score": 9.020513976411982}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 72, "fields": {"passage": "A rich man was riding along the road and saw an old man digging in his garden. There was a young tree lying on the ground. The rich man asked the old man. \"What kind of tree are you planting there. My good man?\"\n\n\"This is a fig tree, sir.\" He said.\n\n\"A fig tree? The rich man was very surprised. \"Why, how old are you, may I ask?\"\n\n\"I am ninety years old.\"\n\n\"What!\" shouted the rich man. \"You're ninety years old, you are planting a very young tree now and it'll take years to give fruit. You certainly don t hope to live long enough to get any fruit from this tree. \"The old man smiled and said, \"Tell me, sir, did you eat figs when you were a boy?\" Sure,\" the man did not know why he asked this question.\n\nThe old man asked, \"Who planted the fig trees?\"\n\n\"Why - why: I don't know.\"\n\n\"You see, sir.\" The old man said slowly, \"our forefathers planted trees for us to enjoy and l am doing the same for the people after me.\"\n\nThe rich man was quiet, then said,\" you are right, my good man. We should do some things for the people after us. Thank you very much.\" Then he rode away.", "question_text": "The old man was planting _ when the rich man saw him.", "choices": ["an apple tree", "a fig tree", "a pear tree", "a banana tree"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"The rich man asked the old man. \"What kind of tree are you planting there. My good man?\" \"This is a fig tree, sir.\" He said.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The old man was planting an apple tree when the rich man saw him.", "The old man was planting a fig tree when the rich man saw him.", "The old man was planting a pear tree when the rich man saw him.", "The old man was planting a banana tree when the rich man saw him."], "dc_score": 7.754153746770026, "difficulty_score": 7.754153746770026}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 73, "fields": {"passage": "A rich man was riding along the road and saw an old man digging in his garden. There was a young tree lying on the ground. The rich man asked the old man. \"What kind of tree are you planting there. My good man?\"\n\n\"This is a fig tree, sir.\" He said.\n\n\"A fig tree? The rich man was very surprised. \"Why, how old are you, may I ask?\"\n\n\"I am ninety years old.\"\n\n\"What!\" shouted the rich man. \"You're ninety years old, you are planting a very young tree now and it'll take years to give fruit. You certainly don t hope to live long enough to get any fruit from this tree. \"The old man smiled and said, \"Tell me, sir, did you eat figs when you were a boy?\" Sure,\" the man did not know why he asked this question.\n\nThe old man asked, \"Who planted the fig trees?\"\n\n\"Why - why: I don't know.\"\n\n\"You see, sir.\" The old man said slowly, \"our forefathers planted trees for us to enjoy and l am doing the same for the people after me.\"\n\nThe rich man was quiet, then said,\" you are right, my good man. We should do some things for the people after us. Thank you very much.\" Then he rode away.", "question_text": "The old man was planting the tree _.", "choices": ["to get himself some fruit to eat", "for the people after him", "to make his garden more beautiful", "just for fun"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"The old man asked, 'Who planted the fig trees?' ... 'our forefathers planted trees for us to enjoy and I am doing the same for the people after me.'\" ", "\"The rich man asked the old man. 'What kind of tree are you planting there. My good man?' ... 'This is a fig tree, sir.'\" ", "\"The rich man was very surprised. 'Why, how old are you, may I ask?' ... 'You're ninety years old, you are planting a very young tree now and it'll take years to give fruit. You certainly don't hope to live long enough to get any fruit from this tree.'\" ", "\"'Tell me, sir, did you eat figs when you were a boy?' ... 'Sure,' the man did not know why he asked this question.\"", "\"The old man smiled and said, ' ... l am doing the same for the people after me.'\"", "\"The rich man was quiet, then said,' you are right, my good man. We should do some things for the people after us. Thank you very much.'\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The old man was planting the tree to get himself some fruit to eat.", "The old man was planting the tree for the people after him.", "The old man was planting the tree to make his garden more beautiful.", "The old man was planting the tree just for fun."], "dc_score": 7.754153746770026, "difficulty_score": 8.37264643426102}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 74, "fields": {"passage": "In some countries, people eat rice every day. Sometimes they eat it twice or three times a day for breakfast, lunch and supper. Some people do not eat some kinds of meat. Muslims, for example, do not eat pork.\n\nJapanese eat lots of fish. They are near the sea. So it is easy for them to get fish.\n\nIn the West, such as England and the USA, the most important food is potatoes. People there can cook potatoes in many different ways.\n\nSome people eat only fruit and vegetables. They do not eat meat or fish or anything else from animals. They eat food only from plants. They say the food from plants is better for us than meat. These people are called vegans.", "question_text": "Why do Japanese eat lots of fish?", "choices": ["Because they like fish better than the other food.", "Because it is easy for them to get fish", "Because fish can give them lots of calories.", "Because there is no other food."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Japanese eat lots of fish. They are near the sea. So it is easy for them to get fish.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The Japanese eat lots of fish because they like the taste of fish better than the other foods.", "The Japanese eat lots of fish because it is easy for them to get fish.", "The Japanese eat lots of fish because fish can give them lots of calories.", "The Japanese eat lots of fish because there is no other food."], "dc_score": 6.749927188940092, "difficulty_score": 6.749927188940092}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 75, "fields": {"passage": "An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money. Only a very expensive operation could save him now and there was no one to lend them the money. When she heard her daddy say to her tearful mother, \"Only a miracle can save him now,\" the little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her money from its hiding place and counted it carefully. She ran to a drugstore with the money in her hand.\n\n\"And what do you want?\" asked the salesman.\n\n\"It's for my little brother,\" the girl answered. \"He's really, really sick and I want to buy a miracle.\"\n\n\"Pardon?\" said the salesman.\n\n\"My brother Andrew has something bad growing inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost?\"\n\n\"We don't sell a miracle here, child. I'm sorry,\" the salesman said with a smile.\n\n\"Listen, if it isn't enough, I can try and get some more. Just tell me how much it costs.\"\n\nA well-dressed man heard it and asked, \"What kind of a miracle does your brother need?\"\n\n\"I don't know,\" she answered with her eyes full of tears. \"He's really sick and mum says he needs an operation. But my daddy can't pay for it, so I have brought all my money.\"\n\n\"How much do you have?\" asked the man.\n\n\"$ 1.11, but I can try and get some more,\" she answered.\n\n\"Well, what luck,\" smiled the man. \"$ 1.11, the price of a miracle for little brothers.\" He took up the girl's hand and said, \"Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the kind of miracle you need.\"\n\nThat well-dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong, a famous doctor. The operation was successful and it wasn't long before Andrew was home again\n\nHow much did the miracle cost?", "question_text": "What was the trouble in the little girl's family?", "choices": ["Her brother was seriously ill.", "They had no money.", "Nothing could save her brother.", "Both A and B"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money. Only a very expensive operation could save him now and there was no one to lend them the money. When she heard her daddy say to her tearful mother, \"Only a miracle can save him now,\" the little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her money from its hiding place and counted it carefully. She ran to a drugstore with the money in her hand. ", "\"My brother Andrew has something bad growing inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost?\" ", "\"We don't sell a miracle here, child. I'm sorry,\" the salesman said with a smile. ", "\"Well, what luck,\" smiled the man. \"$ 1.11, the price of a miracle for little brothers.\" He took up the girl's hand and said, \"Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the kind of miracle you need.\" ", "That well-dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong, a famous doctor. The operation was successful and it wasn't long before Andrew was home again. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The trouble in the little girl's family is her brother was seriously ill.", "The trouble in the little girl's family is they hey had no money.", "The trouble in the little girl's family is that nothing could save her brother.", "The trouble in the little girl's family is her brother was seriously ill and ther had no money."], "dc_score": 7.630226116996775, "difficulty_score": 7.630226116996775}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 76, "fields": {"passage": "An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money. Only a very expensive operation could save him now and there was no one to lend them the money. When she heard her daddy say to her tearful mother, \"Only a miracle can save him now,\" the little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her money from its hiding place and counted it carefully. She ran to a drugstore with the money in her hand.\n\n\"And what do you want?\" asked the salesman.\n\n\"It's for my little brother,\" the girl answered. \"He's really, really sick and I want to buy a miracle.\"\n\n\"Pardon?\" said the salesman.\n\n\"My brother Andrew has something bad growing inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost?\"\n\n\"We don't sell a miracle here, child. I'm sorry,\" the salesman said with a smile.\n\n\"Listen, if it isn't enough, I can try and get some more. Just tell me how much it costs.\"\n\nA well-dressed man heard it and asked, \"What kind of a miracle does your brother need?\"\n\n\"I don't know,\" she answered with her eyes full of tears. \"He's really sick and mum says he needs an operation. But my daddy can't pay for it, so I have brought all my money.\"\n\n\"How much do you have?\" asked the man.\n\n\"$ 1.11, but I can try and get some more,\" she answered.\n\n\"Well, what luck,\" smiled the man. \"$ 1.11, the price of a miracle for little brothers.\" He took up the girl's hand and said, \"Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the kind of miracle you need.\"\n\nThat well-dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong, a famous doctor. The operation was successful and it wasn't long before Andrew was home again\n\nHow much did the miracle cost?", "question_text": "In the eye of the little girl, a miracle might be _.", "choices": ["something interesting", "something beautiful", "some wonderful medicine", "some good food"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"She ran to a drugstore with the money in her hand... \"It's for my little brother,\" ...my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost?\" ...\"$ 1.11, the price of a miracle for little brothers.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["In the eye of the little girl, a miracle might be something interesting.", "In the eye of the little girl, a miracle might be something beautiful.", "In the eye of the little girl, a miracle might be some wonderful medicine.", "In the eye of the little girl, a miracle might be some good food."], "dc_score": 7.630226116996775, "difficulty_score": 8.404370885751698}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 77, "fields": {"passage": "An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money. Only a very expensive operation could save him now and there was no one to lend them the money. When she heard her daddy say to her tearful mother, \"Only a miracle can save him now,\" the little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her money from its hiding place and counted it carefully. She ran to a drugstore with the money in her hand.\n\n\"And what do you want?\" asked the salesman.\n\n\"It's for my little brother,\" the girl answered. \"He's really, really sick and I want to buy a miracle.\"\n\n\"Pardon?\" said the salesman.\n\n\"My brother Andrew has something bad growing inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost?\"\n\n\"We don't sell a miracle here, child. I'm sorry,\" the salesman said with a smile.\n\n\"Listen, if it isn't enough, I can try and get some more. Just tell me how much it costs.\"\n\nA well-dressed man heard it and asked, \"What kind of a miracle does your brother need?\"\n\n\"I don't know,\" she answered with her eyes full of tears. \"He's really sick and mum says he needs an operation. But my daddy can't pay for it, so I have brought all my money.\"\n\n\"How much do you have?\" asked the man.\n\n\"$ 1.11, but I can try and get some more,\" she answered.\n\n\"Well, what luck,\" smiled the man. \"$ 1.11, the price of a miracle for little brothers.\" He took up the girl's hand and said, \"Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the kind of miracle you need.\"\n\nThat well-dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong, a famous doctor. The operation was successful and it wasn't long before Andrew was home again\n\nHow much did the miracle cost?", "question_text": "What made the miracle happen?", "choices": ["The girl's love for her brother.", "The girl's money.", "The medicine from the drugstore.", "Nobody can tell."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"How much does a miracle cost?\" ", "\"$ 1.11, the price of a miracle for little brothers.\"", "\"The operation was successful.\" ", "All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money. Only a very expensive operation could save him now and there was no one to lend them the money. When she heard her daddy say to her tearful mother, \"Only a miracle can save him now,\" the little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her money from its hiding place and counted it carefully. She ran to a drugstore with the money in her hand."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The girl's love for her brother made the miracle happen.", "The girl's money made the miracle happen.", "The medicine from the drugstore made the miracle happen.", "Nobody can tell what made the miracle happen."], "dc_score": 7.630226116996775, "difficulty_score": 8.338282406074581}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 78, "fields": {"passage": "An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money. Only a very expensive operation could save him now and there was no one to lend them the money. When she heard her daddy say to her tearful mother, \"Only a miracle can save him now,\" the little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her money from its hiding place and counted it carefully. She ran to a drugstore with the money in her hand.\n\n\"And what do you want?\" asked the salesman.\n\n\"It's for my little brother,\" the girl answered. \"He's really, really sick and I want to buy a miracle.\"\n\n\"Pardon?\" said the salesman.\n\n\"My brother Andrew has something bad growing inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost?\"\n\n\"We don't sell a miracle here, child. I'm sorry,\" the salesman said with a smile.\n\n\"Listen, if it isn't enough, I can try and get some more. Just tell me how much it costs.\"\n\nA well-dressed man heard it and asked, \"What kind of a miracle does your brother need?\"\n\n\"I don't know,\" she answered with her eyes full of tears. \"He's really sick and mum says he needs an operation. But my daddy can't pay for it, so I have brought all my money.\"\n\n\"How much do you have?\" asked the man.\n\n\"$ 1.11, but I can try and get some more,\" she answered.\n\n\"Well, what luck,\" smiled the man. \"$ 1.11, the price of a miracle for little brothers.\" He took up the girl's hand and said, \"Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the kind of miracle you need.\"\n\nThat well-dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong, a famous doctor. The operation was successful and it wasn't long before Andrew was home again\n\nHow much did the miracle cost?", "question_text": "From the passage we can infer that _.", "choices": ["the doctor didn't ask for any pay", "a miracle is sure to happen if you keep on", "the little girl is lovely but not so clever", "Andrew was in fact not so sick as they had thought"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"How much does a miracle cost?\" ", "\"$1.11, the price of a miracle for little brothers.\" ", "\"That well-dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong, a famous doctor.\" ", "\"The operation was successful.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["From the passage we can infer that the doctor didn't ask for any pay.", "From the passage we can infer that a miracle is sure to happen if you keep on.", "From the passage we can infer that the little girl is lovely but not so clever.", "From the passage we can infer that Andrew was in fact not so sick as they had thought."], "dc_score": 7.630226116996775, "difficulty_score": 7.70748385561305}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 79, "fields": {"passage": "Can you imagine keeping an alien dog as a pet? This is what happens in CJ7--a wonderful movie made in China. Maybe some of you saw it. It came out in January, 2008. The movie is about a poor man Ti, his son Dicky and their alien dog CJ7.\n\nDicky, a 10-year-old boy, lives a poor life with his father Ti, a worker. One day,his father finds a ball in the trash and he gives it to Dicky. The ball becomes a cute alien dog. It's a small dog with big eyes and green hair. It can talk and do magic. Soon the dog comes to love Ti and his son. It goes to school with Dicky. It makes him laugh, but it makes trouble, too.\n\nWhen Ti falls off a building and dies, CJ7 saves his life. Because the dog loses all its power, it becomes a doll. But Dicky still wears the dog around his neck. He hopes that CJ7 will come back to life one day.", "question_text": "Dicky's father finds CJ17 in the _.", "choices": ["classroom", "street", "trash", "tree"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Dicky’s father finds a ball in the trash and he gives it to Dicky."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Dicky's father finds CJ17 in the classroom.", "Dicky's father finds CJ17 in the street.", "Dicky's father finds CJ17 in the trash.", "Dicky's father finds CJ17 in the tree."], "dc_score": 7.92564868887314, "difficulty_score": 7.92564868887314}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 80, "fields": {"passage": "Can you imagine keeping an alien dog as a pet? This is what happens in CJ7--a wonderful movie made in China. Maybe some of you saw it. It came out in January, 2008. The movie is about a poor man Ti, his son Dicky and their alien dog CJ7.\n\nDicky, a 10-year-old boy, lives a poor life with his father Ti, a worker. One day,his father finds a ball in the trash and he gives it to Dicky. The ball becomes a cute alien dog. It's a small dog with big eyes and green hair. It can talk and do magic. Soon the dog comes to love Ti and his son. It goes to school with Dicky. It makes him laugh, but it makes trouble, too.\n\nWhen Ti falls off a building and dies, CJ7 saves his life. Because the dog loses all its power, it becomes a doll. But Dicky still wears the dog around his neck. He hopes that CJ7 will come back to life one day.", "question_text": "This passage tells us CJ17 can _.", "choices": ["help do some housework", "talk and do magic", "sing and dance", "help Dicky do homework"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The movie is about a poor man Ti, his son Dicky and their alien dog CJ7.", "The ball becomes a cute alien dog. It's a small dog with big eyes and green hair. It can talk and do magic."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["This passage tells us CJ17 can help do some housework.", "This passage tells us CJ17 can talk and do magic.", "This passage tells us CJ17 can sing and dance.", "This passage tells us CJ17 can help Dicky do homework."], "dc_score": 7.92564868887314, "difficulty_score": 7.92564868887314}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 81, "fields": {"passage": "Can you imagine keeping an alien dog as a pet? This is what happens in CJ7--a wonderful movie made in China. Maybe some of you saw it. It came out in January, 2008. The movie is about a poor man Ti, his son Dicky and their alien dog CJ7.\n\nDicky, a 10-year-old boy, lives a poor life with his father Ti, a worker. One day,his father finds a ball in the trash and he gives it to Dicky. The ball becomes a cute alien dog. It's a small dog with big eyes and green hair. It can talk and do magic. Soon the dog comes to love Ti and his son. It goes to school with Dicky. It makes him laugh, but it makes trouble, too.\n\nWhen Ti falls off a building and dies, CJ7 saves his life. Because the dog loses all its power, it becomes a doll. But Dicky still wears the dog around his neck. He hopes that CJ7 will come back to life one day.", "question_text": "Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?", "choices": ["CJ17 becomes a doll in the end.", "CJ17 never makes trouble.", "CJ17 doesn't like Dicky's school", "CJ17 makes a lot of money for Dicky."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The movie CJ7 is about a poor man, Ti, his son Dicky, and their alien dog CJ7.", "Dicky lives a poor life with his father Ti.", "The alien dog CJ7 was originally a ball that Dicky's father found in the trash.", "The alien dog CJ7 is small with big eyes and green hair, can talk and do magic, and goes to school with Dicky.", "CJ7 saves Ti's life when he falls off a building, but loses all its power and becomes a doll.", "Dicky still wears the dog around his neck and hopes that CJ7 will come back to life one day.", "", "No answer is provided in the given passage for the question \"Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?\"."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["CJ17 becomes a doll in the end.", "CJ17 never makes trouble.", "CJ17 doesn't like Dicky's school", "CJ17 makes a lot of money for Dicky."], "dc_score": 7.92564868887314, "difficulty_score": 7.92564868887314}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 82, "fields": {"passage": "Scientists say there are seven kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are:\n\n(1) green and yellow vegetables of all kind;\n(2) citrus fruits and tomatoes;\n(3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables;\n(4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs;\n(5) milk and foods made of milk, like cheese and ice-cream;\n(6) bread or cereal, rice is also in this kind of foods;\n(7) butter, or something like butter, with fat. \n\nPeople in different countries in the world eat different kinds of things. They also eat in different kinds the day. In some place people eat once or twice a day; in other countries, people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that these differences are not important. It doesn't matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o'clock in the afternoon or at eleven o'clock at night. The important thing is that every day a person must eat something from each of the seven kind of food. The most important thing is that we must find some way to help the hungry people and make the people have right kinds of food, make them and healthy.", "question_text": "It is important that people should _.", "choices": ["eat three times a day", "eat cooked food", "eat dinner at 4 o'clock", "eat something from each of the seven kinds of food every day"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["In some place people eat once or twice a day; in other countries, people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that these differences are not important. ", "The important thing is that every day a person must eat something from each of the seven kind of food.", "The most important thing is that we must find some way to help the hungry people and make the people have right kinds of food, make them and healthy. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["It is important that people should eat three times a day.", "It is important that people should eat cooked food.", "It is important that people should eat dinner at 4 o'clock.", "It is important that people should eat something from each of the seven kinds of food every day."], "dc_score": 7.482446618357487, "difficulty_score": 7.482446618357487}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 83, "fields": {"passage": "Scientists say there are seven kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are:\n\n(1) green and yellow vegetables of all kind;\n(2) citrus fruits and tomatoes;\n(3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables;\n(4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs;\n(5) milk and foods made of milk, like cheese and ice-cream;\n(6) bread or cereal, rice is also in this kind of foods;\n(7) butter, or something like butter, with fat. \n\nPeople in different countries in the world eat different kinds of things. They also eat in different kinds the day. In some place people eat once or twice a day; in other countries, people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that these differences are not important. It doesn't matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o'clock in the afternoon or at eleven o'clock at night. The important thing is that every day a person must eat something from each of the seven kind of food. The most important thing is that we must find some way to help the hungry people and make the people have right kinds of food, make them and healthy.", "question_text": "Which sentence is right?", "choices": ["People should eat ice-cream every day", "Oranges belong to second kind of food", "We should eat chicken every day", "We should never eat fat"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"citrus fruits and tomatoes\" belong to the second kind of food. ", "\"meat of all kinds, fish and eggs\" should be eaten every day. ", "\"milk and foods made of milk, like cheese and ice-cream\" should be eaten every day. ", "\"bread or cereal, rice is also in this kind of foods\" must be eaten every day. ", "\"butter, or something like butter, with fat\" is one of the seven kinds of food that must be eaten every day. ", "Eating frequency and time of day do not matter; the important thing is that every day, a person must eat something from each of the seven kind of food. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["People should eat ice-cream every day", "Oranges belong to second kind of food", "We should eat chicken every day", "We should never eat fat"], "dc_score": 7.482446618357487, "difficulty_score": 8.38164553238335}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 84, "fields": {"passage": "Scientists say there are seven kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are:\n\n(1) green and yellow vegetables of all kind;\n(2) citrus fruits and tomatoes;\n(3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables;\n(4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs;\n(5) milk and foods made of milk, like cheese and ice-cream;\n(6) bread or cereal, rice is also in this kind of foods;\n(7) butter, or something like butter, with fat. \n\nPeople in different countries in the world eat different kinds of things. They also eat in different kinds the day. In some place people eat once or twice a day; in other countries, people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that these differences are not important. It doesn't matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o'clock in the afternoon or at eleven o'clock at night. The important thing is that every day a person must eat something from each of the seven kind of food. The most important thing is that we must find some way to help the hungry people and make the people have right kinds of food, make them and healthy.", "question_text": "In different countries people _.", "choices": ["eat the same kinds of food", "cook their food in the same way", "eat different kinds of food", "eat the food in the same way"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["In different countries people eat different kinds of things. People in some places eat once or twice a day; in other countries, people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that these differences are not important."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["In different countries people eat the same kinds of food.", "In different countries people cook their food in the same way.", "In different countries people eat different kinds of food.", "In different countries people eat the food in the same way."], "dc_score": 7.482446618357487, "difficulty_score": 7.482446618357487}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 85, "fields": {"passage": "Scientists say there are seven kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are:\n\n(1) green and yellow vegetables of all kind;\n(2) citrus fruits and tomatoes;\n(3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables;\n(4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs;\n(5) milk and foods made of milk, like cheese and ice-cream;\n(6) bread or cereal, rice is also in this kind of foods;\n(7) butter, or something like butter, with fat. \n\nPeople in different countries in the world eat different kinds of things. They also eat in different kinds the day. In some place people eat once or twice a day; in other countries, people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that these differences are not important. It doesn't matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o'clock in the afternoon or at eleven o'clock at night. The important thing is that every day a person must eat something from each of the seven kind of food. The most important thing is that we must find some way to help the hungry people and make the people have right kinds of food, make them and healthy.", "question_text": "The most important thing is _.", "choices": ["many people in the world are hungry", "we must eat the seven kinds of food", "many people are too heavy", "people eat too much food"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The important thing is that every day a person must eat something from each of the seven kind of food.", "The most important thing is that we must find some way to help the hungry people and make the people have right kinds of food, make them and healthy. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The most important thing is that many people in the world are hungry.", "The most important thing is that we must eat the seven kinds of food.", "The most important thing is that many people are too heavy.", "The most important thing is that people eat too much food."], "dc_score": 7.482446618357487, "difficulty_score": 7.482446618357487}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 86, "fields": {"passage": "Cars are lots of fun, but they could also be dangerous. We have to be careful when we drive them or ride in them.\n\nIt's always a good idea to put on your seat belt when you're in a car. Why? Think about this example: You put an egg on a skateboard and give it a push. If the skateboard hits a stone, it will stop, but the egg won't. It will fly through the air, hit the ground and break.\n\nNow, think what would happen if you tied the egg to the skateboard. When the skateboard hits a stone, the egg won't go flying; it will stay safely on the skateboard.\n\nVolvo, a famous Swedish carmaker, was the first to use seat belts in 1849.\n\nAir bags are also very important for car safety, because sometimes a seat belt isn't enough. If the car is going really fast and runs into something, seat belts could even hurt the people who wear them. Most new cars have air bags in front of and next to the seats. When a car hits something, its air bags will come out quickly in less than one second to keep the people inside safe.", "question_text": "The passage mainly tells us _.", "choices": ["two important ways to keep safe in cars", "how air bags work to make cars safe", "how seat belts work to make cars safe", "why we must tie the egg to the skateboard"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["Cars could be dangerous, and we have to be careful when we drive them or ride in them.", "Putting on your seat belt is always a good idea when you're in a car.", "Volvo was the first to use seat belts in 1849.", "Air bags are also very important for car safety, sometimes a seat belt isn't enough.", "Most new cars have air bags in front of and next to the seats.", "When a car hits something, its air bags will come out quickly in less than one second to keep the people inside safe."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The passage mainly tells us two important ways to keep safe in cars.", "The passage mainly tells us how air bags work to make cars safe.", "The passage mainly tells us how seat belts work to make cars safe.", "The passage mainly tells us why we must tie the egg to the skateboard."], "dc_score": 6.8806240488155055, "difficulty_score": 7.521183648999209}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 87, "fields": {"passage": "Cars are lots of fun, but they could also be dangerous. We have to be careful when we drive them or ride in them.\n\nIt's always a good idea to put on your seat belt when you're in a car. Why? Think about this example: You put an egg on a skateboard and give it a push. If the skateboard hits a stone, it will stop, but the egg won't. It will fly through the air, hit the ground and break.\n\nNow, think what would happen if you tied the egg to the skateboard. When the skateboard hits a stone, the egg won't go flying; it will stay safely on the skateboard.\n\nVolvo, a famous Swedish carmaker, was the first to use seat belts in 1849.\n\nAir bags are also very important for car safety, because sometimes a seat belt isn't enough. If the car is going really fast and runs into something, seat belts could even hurt the people who wear them. Most new cars have air bags in front of and next to the seats. When a car hits something, its air bags will come out quickly in less than one second to keep the people inside safe.", "question_text": "The writer gives the example of the egg to _.", "choices": ["tell us that eggs are easy to break", "show how to wear a seat belt", "show why it's important to wear a seat belt in a car", "tell us what a skateboard is"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"It's always a good idea to put on your seat belt when you're in a car. Why? Think about this example: You put an egg on a skateboard and give it a push. If the skateboard hits a stone, it will stop, but the egg won't. It will fly through the air, hit the ground and break.\" \"Now, think what would happen if you tied the egg to the skateboard. When the skateboard hits a stone, the egg won't go flying; it will stay safely on the skateboard.\" \"Volvo, a famous Swedish carmaker, was the first to use seat belts in 1849.\" \"Air bags are also very important for car safety, because sometimes a seat belt isn't enough. If the car is going really fast and runs into something, seat belts could even hurt the people who wear them. Most new cars have air bags in front of and next to the seats. When a car hits something, its air bags will come out quickly in less than one second to keep the people inside safe.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The writer gives the example of the egg to tell us that eggs are easy to break.", "The writer gives the example of the egg to show how to wear a seat belt.", "The writer gives the example of the egg to show why it's important to wear a seat belt in a car.", "The writer gives the example of the egg to tell us what a skateboard is."], "dc_score": 6.8806240488155055, "difficulty_score": 7.6816722125730035}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 88, "fields": {"passage": "Cars are lots of fun, but they could also be dangerous. We have to be careful when we drive them or ride in them.\n\nIt's always a good idea to put on your seat belt when you're in a car. Why? Think about this example: You put an egg on a skateboard and give it a push. If the skateboard hits a stone, it will stop, but the egg won't. It will fly through the air, hit the ground and break.\n\nNow, think what would happen if you tied the egg to the skateboard. When the skateboard hits a stone, the egg won't go flying; it will stay safely on the skateboard.\n\nVolvo, a famous Swedish carmaker, was the first to use seat belts in 1849.\n\nAir bags are also very important for car safety, because sometimes a seat belt isn't enough. If the car is going really fast and runs into something, seat belts could even hurt the people who wear them. Most new cars have air bags in front of and next to the seats. When a car hits something, its air bags will come out quickly in less than one second to keep the people inside safe.", "question_text": "Seat belts can make us safer because.", "choices": ["we are interested in them", "they can stop us from hitting other cars", "they can help us stay safely on the seats", "they are made of strong materials"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["It's always a good idea to put on your seat belt when you're in a car.", "If the skateboard hits a stone, it will stop, but the egg won't. It will fly through the air, hit the ground and break.", "Now, think what would happen if you tied the egg to the skateboard. When the skateboard hits a stone, the egg won't go flying; it will stay safely on the skateboard.", "Volvo, a famous Swedish carmaker, was the first to use seat belts in 1849.", "Air bags are also very important for car safety, because sometimes a seat belt isn't enough. If the car is going really fast and runs into something, seat belts could even hurt the people who wear them."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Seat belts can make us safer because we are interested in them", "Seat belts can make us safer because they can stop us from hitting other cars", "Seat belts can make us safer because they can help us stay safely on the seats", "Seat belts can make us safer because they are made of strong materials"], "dc_score": 6.8806240488155055, "difficulty_score": 7.600132859737795}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 89, "fields": {"passage": "Cars are lots of fun, but they could also be dangerous. We have to be careful when we drive them or ride in them.\n\nIt's always a good idea to put on your seat belt when you're in a car. Why? Think about this example: You put an egg on a skateboard and give it a push. If the skateboard hits a stone, it will stop, but the egg won't. It will fly through the air, hit the ground and break.\n\nNow, think what would happen if you tied the egg to the skateboard. When the skateboard hits a stone, the egg won't go flying; it will stay safely on the skateboard.\n\nVolvo, a famous Swedish carmaker, was the first to use seat belts in 1849.\n\nAir bags are also very important for car safety, because sometimes a seat belt isn't enough. If the car is going really fast and runs into something, seat belts could even hurt the people who wear them. Most new cars have air bags in front of and next to the seats. When a car hits something, its air bags will come out quickly in less than one second to keep the people inside safe.", "question_text": "Air bags are important for cars because _.", "choices": ["they are made of plastic", "they can also help us to keep safe in a car", "they can keep cars running slowly", "they are put in front of and next to the seats"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Air bags are also very important for car safety, because sometimes a seat belt isn't enough.", "Most new cars have air bags in front of and next to the seats.", "When a car hits something, its air bags will come out quickly in less than one second to keep the people inside safe."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Air bags are important for cars because they are made of plastic. ", "Air bags are important for cars because they can also help us to keep safe in a car.", "Air bags are important for cars because they can keep cars running slowly. ", "Air bags are important for cars because they are put in front of and next to the seats."], "dc_score": 6.8806240488155055, "difficulty_score": 7.743909909324587}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 90, "fields": {"passage": "Cars are lots of fun, but they could also be dangerous. We have to be careful when we drive them or ride in them.\n\nIt's always a good idea to put on your seat belt when you're in a car. Why? Think about this example: You put an egg on a skateboard and give it a push. If the skateboard hits a stone, it will stop, but the egg won't. It will fly through the air, hit the ground and break.\n\nNow, think what would happen if you tied the egg to the skateboard. When the skateboard hits a stone, the egg won't go flying; it will stay safely on the skateboard.\n\nVolvo, a famous Swedish carmaker, was the first to use seat belts in 1849.\n\nAir bags are also very important for car safety, because sometimes a seat belt isn't enough. If the car is going really fast and runs into something, seat belts could even hurt the people who wear them. Most new cars have air bags in front of and next to the seats. When a car hits something, its air bags will come out quickly in less than one second to keep the people inside safe.", "question_text": "Which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?", "choices": ["It won't be dangerous if there are seat belts or air bags in a car.", "Now most of new cars still have only one air bag.", "When a car hits something, its air bags will come out a few minutes later.", "Volvo was the first to use seat belts."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"It's always a good idea to put on your seat belt when you're in a car.\" ", "\"Volvo, a famous Swedish carmaker, was the first to use seat belts in 1849.\" ", "\"Air bags are also very important for car safety.\" ", "\"Most new cars have air bags in front of and next to the seats.\" ", "\"When a car hits something, its air bags will come out quickly in less than one second to keep the people inside safe.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["It won't be dangerous if there are seat belts or air bags in a car.", "Now most of new cars still have only one air bag.", "When a car hits something, its air bags will come out a few minutes later.", "Volvo was the first to use seat belts."], "dc_score": 6.8806240488155055, "difficulty_score": 6.8806240488155055}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 91, "fields": {"passage": "John is a very strong man. He gets a job of cutting trees in a forest. His boss gives him an axe and showed him the area where he should work.\n\nThe first day, John cuts down 18 trees. \"Good\", the boss says, \"keep it up!\" happily, John tries harder the next day, but he only cuts down 15 trees. The third day he tries even harder, but he can only cut down 10 trees. Day after day he cuts down fewer and fewer trees.\n\n\"I must be losing my strength\", John thinks. He goes to the boss to say sorry and says that he can not know what is going on. \"When is the last time you sharpen your axe?\" the boss asks. \"I'm busy cutting trees, so I have no time to do that.\"\n\nThe moral of this story: While John is working hard, he doesn't work \"smart\". He doesn't think about the best way to do his job.", "question_text": "How many trees does John cut down on the second day?", "choices": ["18", "15", "14", "10"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The first day, John cuts down 18 trees. \"Good\", the boss says, \"keep it up!\" happily, John tries harder the next day, but he only cuts down 15 trees. The third day he tries even harder, but he can only cut down 10 trees. Day after day he cuts down fewer and fewer trees."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["John cut down 18 trees on the second day.", "John cut down 15 trees on the second day.", "John cut down 14 trees on the second day.", "John cut down 10 trees on the second day."], "dc_score": 8.256358396624472, "difficulty_score": 8.256358396624472}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 92, "fields": {"passage": "John is a very strong man. He gets a job of cutting trees in a forest. His boss gives him an axe and showed him the area where he should work.\n\nThe first day, John cuts down 18 trees. \"Good\", the boss says, \"keep it up!\" happily, John tries harder the next day, but he only cuts down 15 trees. The third day he tries even harder, but he can only cut down 10 trees. Day after day he cuts down fewer and fewer trees.\n\n\"I must be losing my strength\", John thinks. He goes to the boss to say sorry and says that he can not know what is going on. \"When is the last time you sharpen your axe?\" the boss asks. \"I'm busy cutting trees, so I have no time to do that.\"\n\nThe moral of this story: While John is working hard, he doesn't work \"smart\". He doesn't think about the best way to do his job.", "question_text": "What does the boss think of John the first day?", "choices": ["He thinks John works hard.", "He thinks John works in a wrong way.", "He thinks John is very smart", "He thinks John cuts down too many trees."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["The first day, John cuts down 18 trees. \"Good\", the boss says, \"keep it up!\" happily, John tries harder the next day, but he only cuts down 15 trees.", "\"I must be losing my strength\", John thinks. He goes to the boss to say sorry and says that he can not know what is going on.", "\"When is the last time you sharpen your axe?\" the boss asks. \"I'm busy cutting trees, so I have no time to do that.\"", "The moral of this story: While John is working hard, he doesn't work \"smart\". He doesn't think about the best way to do his job."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["On the first day, the boss thinks John works hard.", "On the first day, the boss thinks John works in a wrong way.", "On the first day, the boss thinks John is very smart.", "On the first day, the boss thinks John cuts down too many trees."], "dc_score": 8.256358396624472, "difficulty_score": 8.945037843854305}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 93, "fields": {"passage": "John is a very strong man. He gets a job of cutting trees in a forest. His boss gives him an axe and showed him the area where he should work.\n\nThe first day, John cuts down 18 trees. \"Good\", the boss says, \"keep it up!\" happily, John tries harder the next day, but he only cuts down 15 trees. The third day he tries even harder, but he can only cut down 10 trees. Day after day he cuts down fewer and fewer trees.\n\n\"I must be losing my strength\", John thinks. He goes to the boss to say sorry and says that he can not know what is going on. \"When is the last time you sharpen your axe?\" the boss asks. \"I'm busy cutting trees, so I have no time to do that.\"\n\nThe moral of this story: While John is working hard, he doesn't work \"smart\". He doesn't think about the best way to do his job.", "question_text": "Why does John cut down fewer and fewer trees day after day?", "choices": ["Because he is losing his strength", "Because he is busy doing something", "Because he doesn't sharpen his axe.", "Because his boss lets him do so."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Why does John cut down fewer and fewer trees day after day?\" ", "\"Day after day he cuts down fewer and fewer trees.\"", "\"When is the last time you sharpen your axe?\" the boss asks. \"I'm busy cutting trees, so I have no time to do that.\"", "\"The moral of this story: While John is working hard, he doesn't work \"smart\". He doesn't think about the best way to do his job.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["John cut down fewer and fewer trees day after day because he is losing his strength.", "John cut down fewer and fewer trees day after day because he is busy doing something.", "John cut down fewer and fewer trees day after day because he doesn't sharpen his axe.", "John cut down fewer and fewer trees day after day because his boss lets him do so."], "dc_score": 8.256358396624472, "difficulty_score": 8.853934031498813}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 94, "fields": {"passage": "John is a very strong man. He gets a job of cutting trees in a forest. His boss gives him an axe and showed him the area where he should work.\n\nThe first day, John cuts down 18 trees. \"Good\", the boss says, \"keep it up!\" happily, John tries harder the next day, but he only cuts down 15 trees. The third day he tries even harder, but he can only cut down 10 trees. Day after day he cuts down fewer and fewer trees.\n\n\"I must be losing my strength\", John thinks. He goes to the boss to say sorry and says that he can not know what is going on. \"When is the last time you sharpen your axe?\" the boss asks. \"I'm busy cutting trees, so I have no time to do that.\"\n\nThe moral of this story: While John is working hard, he doesn't work \"smart\". He doesn't think about the best way to do his job.", "question_text": "What does the story tell us?", "choices": ["It's really good to work hard", "It's very bad to cut down the trees.", "It's better to think of the best way.", "It's so hard to sharpen the axe."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"John is a very strong man. He gets a job of cutting trees in a forest. His boss gives him an axe and showed him the area where he should work.\" \"The first day, John cuts down 18 trees. 'Good', the boss says, 'keep it up!' happily, John tries harder the next day, but he only cuts down 15 trees. The third day he tries even harder, but he can only cut down 10 trees. Day after day he cuts down fewer and fewer trees.\" \"When is the last time you sharpen your axe?' the boss asks. 'I'm busy cutting trees, so I have no time to do that.' The moral of this story: While John is working hard, he doesn't work 'smart'. He doesn't think about the best way to do his job.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["It's really good to work hard", "It's very bad to cut down the trees.", "It's better to think of the best way.", "It's so hard to sharpen the axe."], "dc_score": 8.256358396624472, "difficulty_score": 8.88216479038759}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 95, "fields": {"passage": "Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.\n\nAdult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmers are music.\n\nPop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or a tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money from these tapes goes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.\n\nThere are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the 1ove between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.", "question_text": "What kind of music are mentioned in this passage?", "choices": ["Pop, folk, country and western music.", "Pop, folk and classical music.", "Pop, folk and country music.", "Pop, country and western music."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. Another is western or country music. Pop or popular music singers make much money."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Pop, folk, country and western music.", "Pop, folk and classical music.", "Pop, folk and country music.", "Pop, country and western music."], "dc_score": 7.4724949494949495, "difficulty_score": 7.4724949494949495}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 96, "fields": {"passage": "Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.\n\nAdult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmers are music.\n\nPop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or a tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money from these tapes goes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.\n\nThere are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the 1ove between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.", "question_text": "When do the adult drivers always listen to music ?", "choices": ["when they drive the car.", "when they drive to work.", "any time they want.", "when they want to sing along with."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["When do adult drivers always listen to music when they drive the car?", "When do adult drivers always listen to music when they drive to work?", "When do adult drivers always listen to music any time they want?", "When do adult drivers always listen to music when they want to sing along with?"], "dc_score": 7.4724949494949495, "difficulty_score": 7.4724949494949495}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 97, "fields": {"passage": "Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.\n\nAdult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmers are music.\n\nPop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or a tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money from these tapes goes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.\n\nThere are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the 1ove between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.", "question_text": "From the passage we know that _.", "choices": ["music is very important to Americans' life", "cowboys only like country music", "different people like different kinds of music", "both A and C"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["From the passage we know that \"music is very important to Americans' life\" and \"different people like different kinds of music\". The passage also mentions folk and country music as important genres of music in America. However, there is no information about cowboys only liking country music."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["From the passage we know that music is very important to Americans' life. ", "From the passage we do not know whether cowboys only like country music or not. ", "From the passage we know that different people like different kinds of music. ", "From the passage we know that both music is very important to Americans' life and we do not know whether cowboys only like country music or not."], "dc_score": 7.4724949494949495, "difficulty_score": 8.184827612885018}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 98, "fields": {"passage": "Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.\n\nAdult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmers are music.\n\nPop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or a tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money from these tapes goes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.\n\nThere are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the 1ove between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.", "question_text": "Which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?", "choices": ["Few students in America like popular music.", "Students with cars in America like to listen to music while driving.", "Adult drivers in America listen to music all the time while driving.", "Everyone in America wants to meet pop singers wherever they go."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.\n\nAdult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmers are music.", "There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the 1ove between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Few students in America like popular music.", "Students with cars in America like to listen to music while driving.", "Adult drivers in America listen to music all the time while driving.", "Everyone in America wants to meet pop singers wherever they go."], "dc_score": 7.4724949494949495, "difficulty_score": 7.4724949494949495}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 99, "fields": {"passage": "Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.\n\nAdult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmers are music.\n\nPop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or a tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money from these tapes goes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.\n\nThere are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the 1ove between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.", "question_text": "What would be the best title for this passage?", "choices": ["American Music.", "Fold Music.", "Pop Music.", "Cowboys and their Country Music."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["Popular music in America is what every student likes.", "Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch.", "Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.", "Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work.", "Most of the radio programmers are music.", "Pop or popular music singers make much money.", "They make a CD or a tape which radio stations use in many places.", "Some of the money from these tapes goes to the singer.", "There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans.", "One is called folk music.", "Another is western or country music.", "This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching.", "Today, any music about country life and the 1ove between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is American Music.", "The best title for the passage is Fold Music.", "The best title for the passage is Pop Music.", "The best title for the passage is Cowboys and their Country Music."], "dc_score": 7.4724949494949495, "difficulty_score": 8.206235106860738}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 100, "fields": {"passage": "People usually think it is very easy to cook instant noodles. They usually put the noodles into the boiling water and add in the MSG, together with the other things like eggs or vegetables. However, have you ever wondered if this is the correct way of cooking them?\n\nDo you know what is on the surface of the noodles? People use something like wax to cover the noodles when they make them, so that the noodles can join together nicely before they are put into the packaging. Many people enjoy eating them without thinking of this. But a report said the wax covered on the noodles was very bad for our bodies. They said it needed about 2-3days to clear away the wax in our bodies after we ate it. So it is dangerous to have too much wax stayed in our stomachs. But it is not difficult to wash away the wax. Before you cook the noodles, wash them with hot water and then pour away the water. Do it like this twice, and you can wash the wax away. Then and you can cook the noodles as usual.", "question_text": "What's on the surface of the instant noodles?", "choices": ["Something like sugar", "Something like cheese", "Something like salt", "Something like wax"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Do you know what is on the surface of the noodles?", "People use something like wax to cover the noodles when they make them, so that the noodles can join together nicely before they are put into the packaging.", "But a report said the wax covered on the noodles was very bad for our bodies.", "They said it needed about 2-3days to clear away the wax in our bodies after we ate it.", "So it is dangerous to have too much wax stayed in our stomachs.", "But it is not difficult to wash away the wax."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["On the surface of the instant noodles, there is something like sugar.", "On the surface of the instant noodles, there is something like cheese.", "On the surface of the instant noodles, there is something like salt.", "On the surface of the instant noodles, there is something like wax."], "dc_score": 7.843043915343915, "difficulty_score": 7.843043915343915}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 101, "fields": {"passage": "People usually think it is very easy to cook instant noodles. They usually put the noodles into the boiling water and add in the MSG, together with the other things like eggs or vegetables. However, have you ever wondered if this is the correct way of cooking them?\n\nDo you know what is on the surface of the noodles? People use something like wax to cover the noodles when they make them, so that the noodles can join together nicely before they are put into the packaging. Many people enjoy eating them without thinking of this. But a report said the wax covered on the noodles was very bad for our bodies. They said it needed about 2-3days to clear away the wax in our bodies after we ate it. So it is dangerous to have too much wax stayed in our stomachs. But it is not difficult to wash away the wax. Before you cook the noodles, wash them with hot water and then pour away the water. Do it like this twice, and you can wash the wax away. Then and you can cook the noodles as usual.", "question_text": "According to the report, _.", "choices": ["it is dangerous to eat only a little wax.", "the wax is bad for our bodies.", "it is difficult to wash away the wax.", "we can eat the noodles every two or three days."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["According to the report, the wax covered on the noodles is very bad for our bodies. So it is dangerous to have too much wax stayed in our stomachs. But it is not difficult to wash away the wax."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["According to the report, it is dangerous to eat only a little wax.", "According to the report, the wax is bad for our bodies.", "According to the report, it is difficult to wash away the wax.", "According to the report, can we eat the noodles every two or three days."], "dc_score": 7.843043915343915, "difficulty_score": 7.843043915343915}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 102, "fields": {"passage": "People usually think it is very easy to cook instant noodles. They usually put the noodles into the boiling water and add in the MSG, together with the other things like eggs or vegetables. However, have you ever wondered if this is the correct way of cooking them?\n\nDo you know what is on the surface of the noodles? People use something like wax to cover the noodles when they make them, so that the noodles can join together nicely before they are put into the packaging. Many people enjoy eating them without thinking of this. But a report said the wax covered on the noodles was very bad for our bodies. They said it needed about 2-3days to clear away the wax in our bodies after we ate it. So it is dangerous to have too much wax stayed in our stomachs. But it is not difficult to wash away the wax. Before you cook the noodles, wash them with hot water and then pour away the water. Do it like this twice, and you can wash the wax away. Then and you can cook the noodles as usual.", "question_text": "To clear away the wax, _ is needed after we ate it.", "choices": ["about 2-3months", "about 2-3 weeks", "about 2-3days", "about 2-3hours"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Do you know what is on the surface of the noodles? A report said the wax covered on the noodles was very bad for our bodies. They said it needed about 2-3days to clear away the wax in our bodies after we ate it."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["To clear away the wax about 2-3 months is needed after we ate it.", "To clear away the wax about 2-3 weeks is needed after we ate it.", "To clear away the wax about 2-3 days is needed after we ate it.", "To clear away the wax about 2-3 hours is needed after we ate it."], "dc_score": 7.843043915343915, "difficulty_score": 7.843043915343915}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 103, "fields": {"passage": "People usually think it is very easy to cook instant noodles. They usually put the noodles into the boiling water and add in the MSG, together with the other things like eggs or vegetables. However, have you ever wondered if this is the correct way of cooking them?\n\nDo you know what is on the surface of the noodles? People use something like wax to cover the noodles when they make them, so that the noodles can join together nicely before they are put into the packaging. Many people enjoy eating them without thinking of this. But a report said the wax covered on the noodles was very bad for our bodies. They said it needed about 2-3days to clear away the wax in our bodies after we ate it. So it is dangerous to have too much wax stayed in our stomachs. But it is not difficult to wash away the wax. Before you cook the noodles, wash them with hot water and then pour away the water. Do it like this twice, and you can wash the wax away. Then and you can cook the noodles as usual.", "question_text": "What's the right way to cook the instant noodles?", "choices": ["Before cooking, wash them with cold water.", "Before cooking, wash them with hot water twice.", "Before cooking, wash them with hot water once.", "Put the noodles into the boiling water directly."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["People usually think it is very easy to cook instant noodles.", "They usually put the noodles into the boiling water and add in the MSG, together with the other things like eggs or vegetables.", "Have you ever wondered if this is the correct way of cooking them?", "Do you know what is on the surface of the noodles?", "People use something like wax to cover the noodles when they make them.", "But a report said the wax covered on the noodles was very bad for our bodies.", "Before you cook the noodles, wash them with hot water and then pour away the water.", "Do it like this twice, and you can wash the wax away.", "Then and you can cook the noodles as usual."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Before cooking, wash them with cold water.", "Before cooking, wash them with hot water twice.", "Before cooking, wash them with hot water once.", "Put the noodles into the boiling water directly."], "dc_score": 7.843043915343915, "difficulty_score": 7.843043915343915}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 104, "fields": {"passage": "People usually think it is very easy to cook instant noodles. They usually put the noodles into the boiling water and add in the MSG, together with the other things like eggs or vegetables. However, have you ever wondered if this is the correct way of cooking them?\n\nDo you know what is on the surface of the noodles? People use something like wax to cover the noodles when they make them, so that the noodles can join together nicely before they are put into the packaging. Many people enjoy eating them without thinking of this. But a report said the wax covered on the noodles was very bad for our bodies. They said it needed about 2-3days to clear away the wax in our bodies after we ate it. So it is dangerous to have too much wax stayed in our stomachs. But it is not difficult to wash away the wax. Before you cook the noodles, wash them with hot water and then pour away the water. Do it like this twice, and you can wash the wax away. Then and you can cook the noodles as usual.", "question_text": "What's the possible meaning of the underline word \"packaging\"?", "choices": ["A deep round pan, usually metal, used for cooking food.[:Zxxk.Com]", "A deep round dish with a wide open top, used for holding food.", "Plastic used to cover food before you put into the fridge.", "Materials used to wrap or protect food that are sold in shops."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"They usually put the noodles into the boiling water and add in the MSG, together with the other things like eggs or vegetables.\"", "\"People use something like wax to cover the noodles when they make them, so that the noodles can join together nicely before they are put into the packaging.\"", "\"But a report said the wax covered on the noodles was very bad for our bodies.\"", "\"Before you cook the noodles, wash them with hot water and then pour away the water. Do it like this twice, and you can wash the wax away.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["What's the possible meaning of the underline word \"packaging\"? - Materials used to wrap or protect food that are sold in shops.", "What's the possible meaning of the underline word \"packaging\"? - A deep round dish with a wide open top, used for holding food.", "What's the possible meaning of the underline word \"packaging\"? - Plastic used to cover food before you put into the fridge.", "What's the possible meaning of the underline word \"packaging\"? - A deep round pan, usually metal, used for cooking food."], "dc_score": 7.843043915343915, "difficulty_score": 8.656848875106988}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 105, "fields": {"passage": "Hi, everyone! I am Paul Hawking, the trip leader for this weekend's activity. It's that time of the year again when the days are long and it is nice to sit outside and enjoy some oysters.\n\nWe plan to head out to the Mission Bay this Sunday for a beach picnic. You can buy fresh oysters at the Mission Bay Oyster Company and you just need to pay $6 to $l0 for each dozen, depending on the size. It's on Sunday, June 30.\n\nWe will meet at the Student Center at 9:00 a.m. and all go together. The driving time is one and a half to two hours, and the time of return is still uncertain. Come and join us in what must now be the 4th or 5th such trip for the Outing Club.\n\nThe oyster farm has a small picnic area with chairs and barbecue grills. Bring some briquettes if you would like to grill. Except for oysters, oysters and oysters, little is available there, so please bring your own food and drinks. And of course, if you have any special oyster recipes, bring them make them and share them!\n\nThe weather forecast says it's going to be sunny and around 26degC this weekend. My telephone number is 408-896-3228. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions. Remember to finish your homework before we leave for the picnic.", "question_text": "On June 30, Paul Hawking will _.", "choices": ["hold a meeting at the Student Center", "arrive at the oyster farm at 9:00 a.m.", "teach the students to cook oysters", "take the students for a picnic"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"We plan to head out to the Mission Bay this Sunday for a beach picnic...It's on Sunday, June 30...We will meet at the Student Center at 9:00 a.m....Come and join us in what must now be the 4th or 5th such trip for the Outing Club.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["On June 30, Paul Hawking will hold a meeting at the Student Center.", "On June 30, Paul Hawking will arrive at the oyster farm at 9:00 a.m.", "On June 30, Paul Hawking will teach the students to cook oysters.", "On June 30, Paul Hawking will take the students for a picnic."], "dc_score": 6.968713655462185, "difficulty_score": 7.477520507699611}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 106, "fields": {"passage": "Hi, everyone! I am Paul Hawking, the trip leader for this weekend's activity. It's that time of the year again when the days are long and it is nice to sit outside and enjoy some oysters.\n\nWe plan to head out to the Mission Bay this Sunday for a beach picnic. You can buy fresh oysters at the Mission Bay Oyster Company and you just need to pay $6 to $l0 for each dozen, depending on the size. It's on Sunday, June 30.\n\nWe will meet at the Student Center at 9:00 a.m. and all go together. The driving time is one and a half to two hours, and the time of return is still uncertain. Come and join us in what must now be the 4th or 5th such trip for the Outing Club.\n\nThe oyster farm has a small picnic area with chairs and barbecue grills. Bring some briquettes if you would like to grill. Except for oysters, oysters and oysters, little is available there, so please bring your own food and drinks. And of course, if you have any special oyster recipes, bring them make them and share them!\n\nThe weather forecast says it's going to be sunny and around 26degC this weekend. My telephone number is 408-896-3228. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions. Remember to finish your homework before we leave for the picnic.", "question_text": "If you buy 24 big oysters, you should probably pay _.", "choices": ["$6", "$10", "$12", "$20"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["We plan to head out to the Mission Bay this Sunday for a beach picnic. You can buy fresh oysters at the Mission Bay Oyster Company and you just need to pay $6 to $l0 for each dozen, depending on the size."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["If you buy 24 big oysters, you should probably pay $6.", "If you buy 24 big oysters, you should probably pay $10.", "If you buy 24 big oysters, you should probably pay $12.", "If you buy 24 big oysters, you should probably pay $20."], "dc_score": 6.968713655462185, "difficulty_score": 7.693129642827868}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 107, "fields": {"passage": "Hi, everyone! I am Paul Hawking, the trip leader for this weekend's activity. It's that time of the year again when the days are long and it is nice to sit outside and enjoy some oysters.\n\nWe plan to head out to the Mission Bay this Sunday for a beach picnic. You can buy fresh oysters at the Mission Bay Oyster Company and you just need to pay $6 to $l0 for each dozen, depending on the size. It's on Sunday, June 30.\n\nWe will meet at the Student Center at 9:00 a.m. and all go together. The driving time is one and a half to two hours, and the time of return is still uncertain. Come and join us in what must now be the 4th or 5th such trip for the Outing Club.\n\nThe oyster farm has a small picnic area with chairs and barbecue grills. Bring some briquettes if you would like to grill. Except for oysters, oysters and oysters, little is available there, so please bring your own food and drinks. And of course, if you have any special oyster recipes, bring them make them and share them!\n\nThe weather forecast says it's going to be sunny and around 26degC this weekend. My telephone number is 408-896-3228. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions. Remember to finish your homework before we leave for the picnic.", "question_text": "If you plan to grill, you must bring _.", "choices": ["a BBQ grill", "some briquettes", "your own recipes", "some oysters"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"We will meet at the Student Center at 9:00 a.m. and all go together...The oyster farm has a small picnic area with chairs and barbecue grills. Bring some briquettes if you would like to grill.\"", "\"Bring some briquettes if you would like to grill.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["If you plan to grill, you must bring a BBQ grill.", "If you plan to grill, you must bring some briquettes.", "If you plan to grill, you must bring your own recipes.", "If you plan to grill, you must bring some oysters."], "dc_score": 6.968713655462185, "difficulty_score": 6.968713655462185}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 108, "fields": {"passage": "Hi, everyone! I am Paul Hawking, the trip leader for this weekend's activity. It's that time of the year again when the days are long and it is nice to sit outside and enjoy some oysters.\n\nWe plan to head out to the Mission Bay this Sunday for a beach picnic. You can buy fresh oysters at the Mission Bay Oyster Company and you just need to pay $6 to $l0 for each dozen, depending on the size. It's on Sunday, June 30.\n\nWe will meet at the Student Center at 9:00 a.m. and all go together. The driving time is one and a half to two hours, and the time of return is still uncertain. Come and join us in what must now be the 4th or 5th such trip for the Outing Club.\n\nThe oyster farm has a small picnic area with chairs and barbecue grills. Bring some briquettes if you would like to grill. Except for oysters, oysters and oysters, little is available there, so please bring your own food and drinks. And of course, if you have any special oyster recipes, bring them make them and share them!\n\nThe weather forecast says it's going to be sunny and around 26degC this weekend. My telephone number is 408-896-3228. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions. Remember to finish your homework before we leave for the picnic.", "question_text": "Which of the following statement is TRUE?", "choices": ["The writer plans to head out the Mission Bay next Sunday for a beach picnic.", "You should finish the homework before leaving for the picnic.", "You can buy and share food and drinks on the farm", "The driving time is less than one and a half hour"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["We plan to head out to the Mission Bay this Sunday for a beach picnic.", "You can buy fresh oysters at the Mission Bay Oyster Company and you just need to pay $6 to $l0 for each dozen, depending on the size.", "We will meet at the Student Center at 9:00 a.m. and all go together.", "Come and join us in what must now be the 4th or 5th such trip for the Outing Club.", "The oyster farm has a small picnic area with chairs and barbecue grills. Bring some briquettes if you would like to grill.", "Except for oysters, oysters and oysters, little is available there, so please bring your own food and drinks.", "The weather forecast says it's going to be sunny and around 26degC this weekend.", "My telephone number is 408-896-Please feel free to call me if you have any questions.", "Remember to finish your homework before we leave for the picnic."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The writer plans to head out the Mission Bay next Sunday for a beach picnic.", "You should finish the homework before leaving for the picnic.", "You can buy and share food and drinks on the farm", "The driving time is less than one and a half hour"], "dc_score": 6.968713655462185, "difficulty_score": 6.968713655462185}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 109, "fields": {"passage": "Hi, everyone! I am Paul Hawking, the trip leader for this weekend's activity. It's that time of the year again when the days are long and it is nice to sit outside and enjoy some oysters.\n\nWe plan to head out to the Mission Bay this Sunday for a beach picnic. You can buy fresh oysters at the Mission Bay Oyster Company and you just need to pay $6 to $l0 for each dozen, depending on the size. It's on Sunday, June 30.\n\nWe will meet at the Student Center at 9:00 a.m. and all go together. The driving time is one and a half to two hours, and the time of return is still uncertain. Come and join us in what must now be the 4th or 5th such trip for the Outing Club.\n\nThe oyster farm has a small picnic area with chairs and barbecue grills. Bring some briquettes if you would like to grill. Except for oysters, oysters and oysters, little is available there, so please bring your own food and drinks. And of course, if you have any special oyster recipes, bring them make them and share them!\n\nThe weather forecast says it's going to be sunny and around 26degC this weekend. My telephone number is 408-896-3228. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions. Remember to finish your homework before we leave for the picnic.", "question_text": "Where does this text probably come from?", "choices": ["A notice on a school website.", "A book on the Mission Bay.", "A business newspaper.", "A science magazine."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Hi, everyone! I am Paul Hawking, the trip leader for this weekend's activity.", "We will meet at the Student Center at 9:00 a.m. and all go together.", "The weather forecast says it's going to be sunny and around 26degC this weekend. My telephone number is 408-896-Please feel free to call me if you have any questions. Remember to finish your homework before we leave for the picnic."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["This text probably comes from a notice on a school website.  ", "This text probably comes from a book on the Mission Bay.  ", "This text probably comes from a business newspaper.  ", "This text probably comes from a science magazine."], "dc_score": 6.968713655462185, "difficulty_score": 7.663682391903333}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 110, "fields": {"passage": "In fall 2006, the National Basketball Association (NBA) started using basketballs made with synthetic, or man-made, material instead of leather. They made the change because they wanted every basketball they use to feel and bounce the same. Not all leather balls are exactly alike in weight or how they bounce, but the synthetic balls are.\n\nHowever, some players complained right away that the new balls bounced differently and were actually harder to control than the leather ones.\n\nPhysics helped answer questions about why the new balls felt different. For example,the scientists studied friction, which in this case affects the ability of a player to hold onto a ball. \"The greater the friction, the better it will stick to his hand\", explains a scientist.\n\nTests on both wet and dry balls showed that while the synthetic ball was easier to hold onto when dry, it had less friction and became much harder to hold onto when wet. That's because water stays on the surface of the synthetic balls but gets taken into the leather balls.\n\nThe scientists also tested bounce and found that the logo printed on the new balls made their surface uneven and caused them to bounce a little strangely compared with the leather balls.\n\nIn January, the NBA went back to using the leather balls. They aren't perfect, but for now, that's just the way the ball bounces.", "question_text": "Why were the synthetic balls expected to be used in NBA according to the text?", "choices": ["Because they are easier to control.", "Because they waste less material.", "Because they look exactly alike.", "Because they feel and bounce alike."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["In fall 2006, the National Basketball Association (NBA) started using basketballs made with synthetic, or man-made, material instead of leather. They made the change because they wanted every basketball they use to feel and bounce the same. Not all leather balls are exactly alike in weight or how they bounce, but the synthetic balls are.", "However, some players complained right away that the new balls bounced differently and were actually harder to control than the leather ones."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Because they are easier to control, the synthetic balls were expected to be used in NBA.", "Because they waste less material, the synthetic balls were expected to be used in NBA.", "Because they look exactly alike, the synthetic balls were expected to be used in NBA.", "Because they feel and bounce alike, the synthetic balls were expected to be used in NBA."], "dc_score": 9.92298831168831, "difficulty_score": 9.92298831168831}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 111, "fields": {"passage": "In fall 2006, the National Basketball Association (NBA) started using basketballs made with synthetic, or man-made, material instead of leather. They made the change because they wanted every basketball they use to feel and bounce the same. Not all leather balls are exactly alike in weight or how they bounce, but the synthetic balls are.\n\nHowever, some players complained right away that the new balls bounced differently and were actually harder to control than the leather ones.\n\nPhysics helped answer questions about why the new balls felt different. For example,the scientists studied friction, which in this case affects the ability of a player to hold onto a ball. \"The greater the friction, the better it will stick to his hand\", explains a scientist.\n\nTests on both wet and dry balls showed that while the synthetic ball was easier to hold onto when dry, it had less friction and became much harder to hold onto when wet. That's because water stays on the surface of the synthetic balls but gets taken into the leather balls.\n\nThe scientists also tested bounce and found that the logo printed on the new balls made their surface uneven and caused them to bounce a little strangely compared with the leather balls.\n\nIn January, the NBA went back to using the leather balls. They aren't perfect, but for now, that's just the way the ball bounces.", "question_text": "The ball is easier to hold on to _", "choices": ["when friction is greater", "when friction is less", "when it is heavier", "when it bounces strangely"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"The greater the friction, the better it will stick to his hand\", explains a scientist.", "Tests on both wet and dry balls showed that while the synthetic ball was easier to hold onto when dry, it had less friction and became much harder to hold onto when wet."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The ball is easier to hold on to when friction is greater.", "The ball is easier to hold on to when friction is less.", "The ball is easier to hold on to when it is heavier.", "The ball is easier to hold on to when it bounces strangely."], "dc_score": 9.92298831168831, "difficulty_score": 9.92298831168831}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 112, "fields": {"passage": "In fall 2006, the National Basketball Association (NBA) started using basketballs made with synthetic, or man-made, material instead of leather. They made the change because they wanted every basketball they use to feel and bounce the same. Not all leather balls are exactly alike in weight or how they bounce, but the synthetic balls are.\n\nHowever, some players complained right away that the new balls bounced differently and were actually harder to control than the leather ones.\n\nPhysics helped answer questions about why the new balls felt different. For example,the scientists studied friction, which in this case affects the ability of a player to hold onto a ball. \"The greater the friction, the better it will stick to his hand\", explains a scientist.\n\nTests on both wet and dry balls showed that while the synthetic ball was easier to hold onto when dry, it had less friction and became much harder to hold onto when wet. That's because water stays on the surface of the synthetic balls but gets taken into the leather balls.\n\nThe scientists also tested bounce and found that the logo printed on the new balls made their surface uneven and caused them to bounce a little strangely compared with the leather balls.\n\nIn January, the NBA went back to using the leather balls. They aren't perfect, but for now, that's just the way the ball bounces.", "question_text": "The synthetic ball bounces differently from the leather one mainly because _", "choices": ["it is wet", "it is dry", "there's a logo on it", "its weight remains the same"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["However, some players complained right away that the new balls bounced differently and were actually harder to control than the leather ones.", "Tests on both wet and dry balls showed that while the synthetic ball was easier to hold onto when dry, it had less friction and became much harder to hold onto when wet.", "The scientists also tested bounce and found that the logo printed on the new balls made their surface uneven and caused them to bounce a little strangely compared with the leather balls. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The synthetic ball bounces differently from the leather one mainly because it is wet.", "The synthetic ball bounces differently from the leather one mainly because it is dry.", "The synthetic ball bounces differently from the leather one mainly because there's a logo on it.", "The synthetic ball bounces differently from the leather one mainly because its weight remains the same."], "dc_score": 9.92298831168831, "difficulty_score": 9.92298831168831}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 113, "fields": {"passage": "In fall 2006, the National Basketball Association (NBA) started using basketballs made with synthetic, or man-made, material instead of leather. They made the change because they wanted every basketball they use to feel and bounce the same. Not all leather balls are exactly alike in weight or how they bounce, but the synthetic balls are.\n\nHowever, some players complained right away that the new balls bounced differently and were actually harder to control than the leather ones.\n\nPhysics helped answer questions about why the new balls felt different. For example,the scientists studied friction, which in this case affects the ability of a player to hold onto a ball. \"The greater the friction, the better it will stick to his hand\", explains a scientist.\n\nTests on both wet and dry balls showed that while the synthetic ball was easier to hold onto when dry, it had less friction and became much harder to hold onto when wet. That's because water stays on the surface of the synthetic balls but gets taken into the leather balls.\n\nThe scientists also tested bounce and found that the logo printed on the new balls made their surface uneven and caused them to bounce a little strangely compared with the leather balls.\n\nIn January, the NBA went back to using the leather balls. They aren't perfect, but for now, that's just the way the ball bounces.", "question_text": "It can be inferred from the text that _.", "choices": ["a synthetic ball takes in water faster than a leather ball", "a leather ball is more difficult to make than a synthetic one", "a synthetic ball is more expensive than a leather ball", "a leather ball may increase its weight during a game"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["the synthetic ball had less friction than the leather ball, thus making it harder to hold onto when wet. The scientists also found that the logo printed on the new balls made their surface uneven and caused them to bounce differently compared with the leather balls. In January, the NBA went back to using the leather balls.", "they made the change because they wanted every basketball they use to feel and bounce the same. Not all leather balls are exactly alike in weight or how they bounce, but the synthetic balls are."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["It can be inferred from the text that a synthetic ball takes in water faster than a leather ball.", "It can be inferred from the text that a leather ball is more difficult to make than a synthetic one.", "It can be inferred from the text that a synthetic ball is more expensive than a leather ball.", "It can be inferred from the text that a leather ball may increase its weight during a game."], "dc_score": 9.92298831168831, "difficulty_score": 10.705012541912065}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 114, "fields": {"passage": "\"Cool\" is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world changes, the word has many different meanings.\n\n\"Cool\" can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say \"It's cool\". You may think, \"He's so cool,\" when you see your favorite footballer.\n\nWe all maximize the meaning of \"cool\". You can use it instead of many words such as \"new\" or \"surprising\". Here's an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall. On one student's paper was just the one sentence, \"It's so cool\". Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.\n\nBut the story also shows a scarcity of words, it seems that some people have no words to show the same meaning without \"cool\". Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word \"cool\"? Yes, I can. And I think they are also very cool.", "question_text": "We know that the word \"cool\" has _.", "choices": ["only one meaning", "the same meaning", "many different meanings", "two meanings"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Cool\" is a word with many meanings...As the world changes, the word has many different meanings...We all maximize the meaning of \"cool\"...But the story also shows a scarcity of words, it seems that some people have no words to show the same meaning without \"cool\". "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["We know that the word \"cool\" has only one meaning.", "We know that the word \"cool\" has the same meaning.", "We know that the word \"cool\" has many different meanings.", "We know that the word \"cool\" has two meanings."], "dc_score": 6.58925641025641, "difficulty_score": 6.58925641025641}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 115, "fields": {"passage": "\"Cool\" is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world changes, the word has many different meanings.\n\n\"Cool\" can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say \"It's cool\". You may think, \"He's so cool,\" when you see your favorite footballer.\n\nWe all maximize the meaning of \"cool\". You can use it instead of many words such as \"new\" or \"surprising\". Here's an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall. On one student's paper was just the one sentence, \"It's so cool\". Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.\n\nBut the story also shows a scarcity of words, it seems that some people have no words to show the same meaning without \"cool\". Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word \"cool\"? Yes, I can. And I think they are also very cool.", "question_text": "In the passage, the word \"express\" means\" _ \".", "choices": ["see", "show", "know", "read"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["In the passage, the word \"express\" means \"see\".", "In the passage, the word \"express\" means \"show\".", "In the passage, the word \"express\" means \"know\".", "In the passage, the word \"express\" means \"read\"."], "dc_score": 6.58925641025641, "difficulty_score": 6.58925641025641}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 116, "fields": {"passage": "\"Cool\" is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world changes, the word has many different meanings.\n\n\"Cool\" can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say \"It's cool\". You may think, \"He's so cool,\" when you see your favorite footballer.\n\nWe all maximize the meaning of \"cool\". You can use it instead of many words such as \"new\" or \"surprising\". Here's an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall. On one student's paper was just the one sentence, \"It's so cool\". Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.\n\nBut the story also shows a scarcity of words, it seems that some people have no words to show the same meaning without \"cool\". Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word \"cool\"? Yes, I can. And I think they are also very cool.", "question_text": "If you are _ something, you may say, \"It's cool.\"", "choices": ["interested in", "unhappy with", "afraid of", "sad about."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Cool\" can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say \"It's cool\". You may think, \"He's so cool,\" when you see your favorite footballer.", "A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall. On one student's paper was just the one sentence, \"It's so cool\". Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["If you are interested in something, you may say \"It's cool.\"", "If you are unhappy with something, you may say \"It's cool.\"", "If you are afraid of something, you may say \"It's cool.\"", "If you are sad about something, you may say \"It's cool.\""], "dc_score": 6.58925641025641, "difficulty_score": 7.4610685974319555}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 117, "fields": {"passage": "\"Cool\" is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world changes, the word has many different meanings.\n\n\"Cool\" can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything. When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say \"It's cool\". You may think, \"He's so cool,\" when you see your favorite footballer.\n\nWe all maximize the meaning of \"cool\". You can use it instead of many words such as \"new\" or \"surprising\". Here's an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall. On one student's paper was just the one sentence, \"It's so cool\". Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.\n\nBut the story also shows a scarcity of words, it seems that some people have no words to show the same meaning without \"cool\". Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word \"cool\"? Yes, I can. And I think they are also very cool.", "question_text": "In the passage, the writer suggests that the word \"cool\" _.", "choices": ["can be used instead of many words", "may not be as cool as it seems", "can make your life colorful.", "may make your life cool"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["We all maximize the meaning of \"cool\". You can use it instead of many words such as \"new\" or \"surprising\".", "But the story also shows a scarcity of words, it seems that some people have no words to show the same meaning without \"cool\". Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word \"cool\"? Yes, I can. And I think they are also very cool."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["In the passage, the writer suggests that the word \"cool\" can be used instead of many words.", "In the passage, the writer suggests that the word \"cool\" may not be as cool as it seems.", "In the passage, the writer suggests that the word \"cool\" can make your life colorful.", "In the passage, the writer suggests that the word \"cool\" may make your life cool."], "dc_score": 6.58925641025641, "difficulty_score": 7.360547022381047}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 118, "fields": {"passage": "During the day we work and play; at night we sleep. Our bodies rest while we sleep. In the morning we are ready to work and play again. While we are asleep our bodies grow most. Children usually need more sleep. We can get our lessons better and we feel better too, when we have plenty of rest. Boys and girls need ten hours of sleep every night when they are eight or nine years old. Our bodies need lots of air when we sleep. If we do not get enough fresh air we'll feel tired when we wake up. While in bed we must not cover our heads. If we do, our lungs will not get enough fresh air. If we open our windows at night we can have plenty of fresh air. Cool air is better then warm air. Boys and girls must get enough sleep if they want to grow and be strong.", "question_text": "Our bodies grow most while we are _.", "choices": ["eating", "playing", "sleeping", "waking"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["While we are asleep our bodies grow most."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Our bodies grow most while we are eating.", "Our bodies grow most while we are playing.", "Our bodies grow most while we are sleeping.", "Our bodies grow most while we are waking."], "dc_score": 6.11232673992674, "difficulty_score": 6.11232673992674}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 119, "fields": {"passage": "During the day we work and play; at night we sleep. Our bodies rest while we sleep. In the morning we are ready to work and play again. While we are asleep our bodies grow most. Children usually need more sleep. We can get our lessons better and we feel better too, when we have plenty of rest. Boys and girls need ten hours of sleep every night when they are eight or nine years old. Our bodies need lots of air when we sleep. If we do not get enough fresh air we'll feel tired when we wake up. While in bed we must not cover our heads. If we do, our lungs will not get enough fresh air. If we open our windows at night we can have plenty of fresh air. Cool air is better then warm air. Boys and girls must get enough sleep if they want to grow and be strong.", "question_text": "Which is the best air for us?", "choices": ["Fresh air", "Cool air", "Warm air", "Dry air"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Our bodies need lots of air when we sleep.", "If we do not get enough fresh air we'll feel tired when we wake up.", "If we open our windows at night we can have plenty of fresh air.", "Cool air is better then warm air."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best air for us is fresh air.", "The best air for us is cool air.", "The best air for us is warm air.", "The best air for us is dry air."], "dc_score": 6.11232673992674, "difficulty_score": 6.896090527148567}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 120, "fields": {"passage": "During the day we work and play; at night we sleep. Our bodies rest while we sleep. In the morning we are ready to work and play again. While we are asleep our bodies grow most. Children usually need more sleep. We can get our lessons better and we feel better too, when we have plenty of rest. Boys and girls need ten hours of sleep every night when they are eight or nine years old. Our bodies need lots of air when we sleep. If we do not get enough fresh air we'll feel tired when we wake up. While in bed we must not cover our heads. If we do, our lungs will not get enough fresh air. If we open our windows at night we can have plenty of fresh air. Cool air is better then warm air. Boys and girls must get enough sleep if they want to grow and be strong.", "question_text": "Too little sleep makes us _.", "choices": ["nappy", "hungry", "tired", "grow"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Our bodies rest while we sleep.", "While we are asleep our bodies grow most.", "Children usually need more sleep.", "We can get our lessons better and we feel better too, when we have plenty of rest.", "Boys and girls need ten hours of sleep every night when they are eight or nine years old.", "If we do not get enough fresh air we'll feel tired when we wake up.", "Boys and girls must get enough sleep if they want to grow and be strong.", "Too little sleep makes us _"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Too little sleep makes us nappy.", "Too little sleep makes us hungry.", "Too little sleep makes us tired.", "Too little sleep makes us grow."], "dc_score": 6.11232673992674, "difficulty_score": 6.902371601027064}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 121, "fields": {"passage": "During the day we work and play; at night we sleep. Our bodies rest while we sleep. In the morning we are ready to work and play again. While we are asleep our bodies grow most. Children usually need more sleep. We can get our lessons better and we feel better too, when we have plenty of rest. Boys and girls need ten hours of sleep every night when they are eight or nine years old. Our bodies need lots of air when we sleep. If we do not get enough fresh air we'll feel tired when we wake up. While in bed we must not cover our heads. If we do, our lungs will not get enough fresh air. If we open our windows at night we can have plenty of fresh air. Cool air is better then warm air. Boys and girls must get enough sleep if they want to grow and be strong.", "question_text": "How much sleep should boys and girls of nine years old have every night?", "choices": ["Eight hours", "Nine hours", "Ten hours", "Seven hours"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Boys and girls need ten hours of sleep every night when they are eight or nine years old."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Boys and girls of nine years old should have eight hours of sleep every night.", "Boys and girls of nine years old should have nine hours of sleep every night.", "Boys and girls of nine years old should have ten hours of sleep every night.", "Boys and girls of nine years old should have seven hours of sleep every night."], "dc_score": 6.11232673992674, "difficulty_score": 6.11232673992674}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 122, "fields": {"passage": "During the day we work and play; at night we sleep. Our bodies rest while we sleep. In the morning we are ready to work and play again. While we are asleep our bodies grow most. Children usually need more sleep. We can get our lessons better and we feel better too, when we have plenty of rest. Boys and girls need ten hours of sleep every night when they are eight or nine years old. Our bodies need lots of air when we sleep. If we do not get enough fresh air we'll feel tired when we wake up. While in bed we must not cover our heads. If we do, our lungs will not get enough fresh air. If we open our windows at night we can have plenty of fresh air. Cool air is better then warm air. Boys and girls must get enough sleep if they want to grow and be strong.", "question_text": "What do the lungs need most?", "choices": ["Fresh air", "Food", "Rest", "Exercise"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Our bodies need lots of air when we sleep.", "If we do not get enough fresh air we'll feel tired when we wake up.", "While in bed we must not cover our heads. If we do, our lungs will not get enough fresh air.", "If we open our windows at night we can have plenty of fresh air.", "Cool air is better then warm air."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The lungs need fresh air most.", "The lungs need food most.", "The lungs need rest most.", "The lungs need exercise most."], "dc_score": 6.11232673992674, "difficulty_score": 6.865655910679629}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 123, "fields": {"passage": "Bruno was a boy of eight. His father worked in a cinema and his mother worked in a shop. He lived not far from his school. He always walked there and walked home. On his way to school he had to pass a playground. It was very wet after it rained. One day, when he got home, his clothes were all wet. His mother became angry and said, \"Don't play in the water on your way home from school!\" On the next day Bruno came home with wet and dirty clothes. His mother became even angrier. \"I'll tell your father if you come back wet again.\" said his mother. \"He will punish you, you know.\"\n\nThe third day the little boy was dry when he came home.\n\n\"You're a good boy today.\" His mother said happily. \"You didn't play in the water.\"\n\n\"No\", the boy said unhappily. \"There were too many older boys in the water when I got there this afternoon. There wasn't any room for me at all.\"", "question_text": "Bruno went to school _ every day.", "choices": ["by bike", "by bus", "by car", "on foot"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"He always walked there and walked home.\"", "\"On his way to school he had to pass a playground.\"", "\"One day, when he got home, his clothes were all wet.\"", "\"On the next day Bruno came home with wet and dirty clothes.\"", "\"The third day the little boy was dry when he came home.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Bruno went to school by bike every day.", "Bruno went to school by bus every day.", "Bruno went to school by car every day.", "Bruno went to school on foot every day."], "dc_score": 7.238289473684211, "difficulty_score": 7.8665653128831545}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 124, "fields": {"passage": "Bruno was a boy of eight. His father worked in a cinema and his mother worked in a shop. He lived not far from his school. He always walked there and walked home. On his way to school he had to pass a playground. It was very wet after it rained. One day, when he got home, his clothes were all wet. His mother became angry and said, \"Don't play in the water on your way home from school!\" On the next day Bruno came home with wet and dirty clothes. His mother became even angrier. \"I'll tell your father if you come back wet again.\" said his mother. \"He will punish you, you know.\"\n\nThe third day the little boy was dry when he came home.\n\n\"You're a good boy today.\" His mother said happily. \"You didn't play in the water.\"\n\n\"No\", the boy said unhappily. \"There were too many older boys in the water when I got there this afternoon. There wasn't any room for me at all.\"", "question_text": "The playground was between _.", "choices": ["two classrooms", "the cinema and shop", "Bruno's house and school", "the shop and Bruno's"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["The playground was between \"Bruno's house and school\"."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The playground was between two classrooms.", "The playground was between the cinema and shop.", "The playground was between Bruno's house and school.", "The playground was between the shop and Bruno's."], "dc_score": 7.238289473684211, "difficulty_score": 8.13625549460997}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 125, "fields": {"passage": "Bruno was a boy of eight. His father worked in a cinema and his mother worked in a shop. He lived not far from his school. He always walked there and walked home. On his way to school he had to pass a playground. It was very wet after it rained. One day, when he got home, his clothes were all wet. His mother became angry and said, \"Don't play in the water on your way home from school!\" On the next day Bruno came home with wet and dirty clothes. His mother became even angrier. \"I'll tell your father if you come back wet again.\" said his mother. \"He will punish you, you know.\"\n\nThe third day the little boy was dry when he came home.\n\n\"You're a good boy today.\" His mother said happily. \"You didn't play in the water.\"\n\n\"No\", the boy said unhappily. \"There were too many older boys in the water when I got there this afternoon. There wasn't any room for me at all.\"", "question_text": "The little boy liked to play on the playground _.", "choices": ["when it snowed", "when there was some water there", "when the children played football there", "When his father was busy with his work"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["On his way to school he had to pass a playground. It was very wet after it rained.", "One day, when he got home, his clothes were all wet.", "\"Don't play in the water on your way home from school!\" On the next day Bruno came home with wet and dirty clothes.", "The third day the little boy was dry when he came home.", "\"No\", the boy said unhappily. \"There were too many older boys in the water when I got there this afternoon. There wasn't any room for me at all.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The little boy liked to play on the playground when it snowed.", "The little boy liked to play on the playground when there was some water there.", "The little boy liked to play on the playground when the children played football there.", "The little boy liked to play on the playground when his father was busy with his work."], "dc_score": 7.238289473684211, "difficulty_score": 8.102582955869881}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 126, "fields": {"passage": "Bruno was a boy of eight. His father worked in a cinema and his mother worked in a shop. He lived not far from his school. He always walked there and walked home. On his way to school he had to pass a playground. It was very wet after it rained. One day, when he got home, his clothes were all wet. His mother became angry and said, \"Don't play in the water on your way home from school!\" On the next day Bruno came home with wet and dirty clothes. His mother became even angrier. \"I'll tell your father if you come back wet again.\" said his mother. \"He will punish you, you know.\"\n\nThe third day the little boy was dry when he came home.\n\n\"You're a good boy today.\" His mother said happily. \"You didn't play in the water.\"\n\n\"No\", the boy said unhappily. \"There were too many older boys in the water when I got there this afternoon. There wasn't any room for me at all.\"", "question_text": "Bruno was afraid of _ the most.", "choices": ["his father", "his mother", "his teacher", "the older boys"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"There were too many older boys in the water when I got there this afternoon. There wasn't any room for me at all.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Bruno was afraid of his father the most.", "Bruno was afraid of his mother the most.", "Bruno was afraid of his teacher the most.", "Bruno was afraid of the older boys the most."], "dc_score": 7.238289473684211, "difficulty_score": 7.827822572283274}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 127, "fields": {"passage": "Bruno was a boy of eight. His father worked in a cinema and his mother worked in a shop. He lived not far from his school. He always walked there and walked home. On his way to school he had to pass a playground. It was very wet after it rained. One day, when he got home, his clothes were all wet. His mother became angry and said, \"Don't play in the water on your way home from school!\" On the next day Bruno came home with wet and dirty clothes. His mother became even angrier. \"I'll tell your father if you come back wet again.\" said his mother. \"He will punish you, you know.\"\n\nThe third day the little boy was dry when he came home.\n\n\"You're a good boy today.\" His mother said happily. \"You didn't play in the water.\"\n\n\"No\", the boy said unhappily. \"There were too many older boys in the water when I got there this afternoon. There wasn't any room for me at all.\"", "question_text": "That afternoon, the boy's clothes were dry because _.", "choices": ["nobody made room for him in the water.", "there was no water on the playground", "He took off his clothes before he played there.", "He played in the water carefully."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["The third day the little boy was dry when he came home.\n\"You're a good boy today.\" His mother said happily. \"You didn't play in the water.\"\n\"No\", the boy said unhappily. \"There were too many older boys in the water when I got there this afternoon. There wasn't any room for me at all.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["That afternoon, the boy's clothes were dry because nobody made room for him in the water.", "That afternoon, the boy's clothes were dry because there was no water on the playground.", "That afternoon, the boy's clothes were dry because he took off his clothes before he played there.", "That afternoon, the boy's clothes were dry because he played in the water carefully."], "dc_score": 7.238289473684211, "difficulty_score": 8.050299437536758}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 128, "fields": {"passage": "It was the first day of school. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a little old lady smiling at me.\n\nShe said, \"Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?\"\n\nI laughed, enthusiastically responding, \"Of course!\" And she gave me a giant squeeze. \"Why are you in college at such an age?\" I asked.\n\n\"I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have children, and then retire and travel.\"\n\n\"No seriously.\"\n\n\"I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!\"\n\nWe became instant friends. Over the course of the year, Rose made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she took great delight in the attention given to her from the other students. At the end of the term we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet and I'll never forget what she taught us.\n\nAs she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her note card on the floor. A little embarrassed she simply said, \"I'm sorry. This whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.\" As we laughed, she cleared her throat and began: \"We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing; There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You have got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. Anyone can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.\"\n\nAt the year's end Rose finished the college degree. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral to honor the wonderful woman.", "question_text": "In Rose's opinion, one can learn to grow up by _.", "choices": ["getting new ideas", "regretting his mistakes", "gaining new knowledge every day", "finding chances to do productive things"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have children, and then retire and travel.\" \"We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing... There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up... The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["In Rose's opinion, one can learn to grow up by getting new ideas.", "In Rose's opinion, one can learn to grow up by regretting his mistakes.", "In Rose's opinion, one can learn to grow up by gaining new knowledge every day.", "In Rose's opinion, one can learn to grow up by finding chances to do productive things."], "dc_score": 7.529119157987385, "difficulty_score": 8.335743346077964}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 129, "fields": {"passage": "It was the first day of school. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a little old lady smiling at me.\n\nShe said, \"Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?\"\n\nI laughed, enthusiastically responding, \"Of course!\" And she gave me a giant squeeze. \"Why are you in college at such an age?\" I asked.\n\n\"I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have children, and then retire and travel.\"\n\n\"No seriously.\"\n\n\"I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!\"\n\nWe became instant friends. Over the course of the year, Rose made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she took great delight in the attention given to her from the other students. At the end of the term we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet and I'll never forget what she taught us.\n\nAs she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her note card on the floor. A little embarrassed she simply said, \"I'm sorry. This whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.\" As we laughed, she cleared her throat and began: \"We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing; There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You have got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. Anyone can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.\"\n\nAt the year's end Rose finished the college degree. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral to honor the wonderful woman.", "question_text": "What else did Rose most probably say at the football banquet?", "choices": ["\"It seems my young days are over.\"", "\"The only people who fear death are those with regrets.\"", "\"When we are old, we can't do anything. So enjoy in time!\"", "\"Have a good time and don't do much in order to stay young.\""], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her note card on the floor. A little embarrassed she simply said, \"I'm sorry. This whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.\" As we laughed, she cleared her throat and began: \"We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing; There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day... There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up... Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Rose most probably said, \"It seems my young days are over.\" at the football banquet.", "Rose most probably said, \"The only people who fear death are those with regrets.\" at the football banquet.", "Rose most probably said, \"When we are old, we can't do anything. So enjoy in time!\" at the football banquet.", "Rose most probably said, \"Have a good time and don't do much in order to stay young.\" at the football banquet."], "dc_score": 7.529119157987385, "difficulty_score": 8.112298515125344}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 130, "fields": {"passage": "It was the first day of school. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a little old lady smiling at me.\n\nShe said, \"Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?\"\n\nI laughed, enthusiastically responding, \"Of course!\" And she gave me a giant squeeze. \"Why are you in college at such an age?\" I asked.\n\n\"I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have children, and then retire and travel.\"\n\n\"No seriously.\"\n\n\"I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!\"\n\nWe became instant friends. Over the course of the year, Rose made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she took great delight in the attention given to her from the other students. At the end of the term we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet and I'll never forget what she taught us.\n\nAs she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her note card on the floor. A little embarrassed she simply said, \"I'm sorry. This whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.\" As we laughed, she cleared her throat and began: \"We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing; There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You have got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. Anyone can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.\"\n\nAt the year's end Rose finished the college degree. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral to honor the wonderful woman.", "question_text": "The story of Rose in the text shows that _.", "choices": ["it is never too late to learn in your life.", "it is good for old people to have friendship.", "it is never too late to be all you can possibly be.", "it is very important to have a healthy body when people are old."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!\"", "\"We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing;\"", "\"There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy and achieving success.\"", "\"The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change.\"", "\"The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["it is never too late to learn in your life.", "it is good for old people to have friendship.", "it is never too late to be all you can possibly be.", "it is very important to have a healthy body when people are old."], "dc_score": 7.529119157987385, "difficulty_score": 8.047511443002696}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 131, "fields": {"passage": "April 20th is an ordinary day in 2013, it is in this day that shocking earthquake happened again in Sichuan province, China. The earthquake was terrible. We can't describe the scene what we saw with any words. Thousands of people were injured even died. And thousands of children became such unlucky ones who lost fathers or mothers. Thousands of orphans longed to have families to continue their lives. I am sympathetic to their fate! But I believed that we can fight against the fate and change it. For example, there are many people keeping living without food or water for about 100 hours during the earthquake!\n\nWhat an unbelievable thing it is! Their great spirits showed the powerful life vitality of humans! However, they must keep fighting against the death. Many schools were destroyed and there were many students and teachers who left us forever. Sadness, hopelessness and different kinds of danger spread out here and there!\n\nBut, fortunately, love is around us: the Communist Party helps us, the army helps us, the people all over the world help us. They offer us money, goods, love and so on ! With the help of such a large love, we will overcome the damage of the earthquake and face our beautiful future!", "question_text": "Many people keeping living without food or water because _.", "choices": ["they were very strong.", "they could fight against the fate and longed to live on.", "they were not hurt.", "they lost fathers and mothers."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["There are many people keeping living without food or water for about 100 hours during the earthquake!", "Their great spirits showed the powerful life vitality of humans!", "With the help of such a large love, we will overcome the damage of the earthquake and face our beautiful future! "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Many people keep living without food or water because they were very strong. ", "Many people keep living without food or water because they could fight against the fate and longed to live on. ", "Many people keep living without food or water because they were not hurt. ", "Many people keep living without food or water because they lost fathers and mothers."], "dc_score": 8.9698249218528, "difficulty_score": 8.9698249218528}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 132, "fields": {"passage": "April 20th is an ordinary day in 2013, it is in this day that shocking earthquake happened again in Sichuan province, China. The earthquake was terrible. We can't describe the scene what we saw with any words. Thousands of people were injured even died. And thousands of children became such unlucky ones who lost fathers or mothers. Thousands of orphans longed to have families to continue their lives. I am sympathetic to their fate! But I believed that we can fight against the fate and change it. For example, there are many people keeping living without food or water for about 100 hours during the earthquake!\n\nWhat an unbelievable thing it is! Their great spirits showed the powerful life vitality of humans! However, they must keep fighting against the death. Many schools were destroyed and there were many students and teachers who left us forever. Sadness, hopelessness and different kinds of danger spread out here and there!\n\nBut, fortunately, love is around us: the Communist Party helps us, the army helps us, the people all over the world help us. They offer us money, goods, love and so on ! With the help of such a large love, we will overcome the damage of the earthquake and face our beautiful future!", "question_text": "Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?", "choices": ["An Earthquake.", "Unbelievable thing.", "Beautiful future.", "Love in disaster."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["April 20th, 2013, a shocking earthquake happened in Sichuan province, China.", "The earthquake was terrible. Thousands of people were injured even died. And thousands of children became such unlucky ones who lost fathers or mothers.", "Thousands of orphans longed to have families to continue their lives. ", "Many schools were destroyed, and there were many students and teachers who left us forever. ", "With the help of such a large love, we will overcome the damage of the earthquake and face our beautiful future! "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is An Earthquake.", "The best title for the passage is Unbelievable thing.", "The best title for the passage is Beautiful future.", "The best title for the passage is Love in disaster."], "dc_score": 8.9698249218528, "difficulty_score": 9.823439519259066}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 133, "fields": {"passage": "Nancy is an English school girl. She studies in a middle school. She has a little brother. His name is John. John is only four. Nancy likes him very much.\n\nToday is Sunday. Nancy wants to do her homework. She takes out her pencil-box and opens it. \"Oh, dear! Where's my pen?\" She can't find her pen. She goes to ask her brother in his bedroom.\n\n\"John! I can't find my pen. Can you see it? Oh, what are you doing with my pen?\"\n\n\"I'm writing to my friend, Peter.\" John answers.\n\n\"But how can you? You don't know how to write!\"\n\n\"It doesn't matter. Peter can't read.\" John says.", "question_text": "How old is Nancy's brother?", "choices": ["Five.", "Four.", "Six.", "Three."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Nancy has a little brother. His name is John. John is only four.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Nancy's brother is five years old.", "Nancy's brother is four years old.", "Nancy's brother is six years old.", "Nancy's brother is three years old."], "dc_score": 9.007835626535627, "difficulty_score": 9.007835626535627}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 134, "fields": {"passage": "Nancy is an English school girl. She studies in a middle school. She has a little brother. His name is John. John is only four. Nancy likes him very much.\n\nToday is Sunday. Nancy wants to do her homework. She takes out her pencil-box and opens it. \"Oh, dear! Where's my pen?\" She can't find her pen. She goes to ask her brother in his bedroom.\n\n\"John! I can't find my pen. Can you see it? Oh, what are you doing with my pen?\"\n\n\"I'm writing to my friend, Peter.\" John answers.\n\n\"But how can you? You don't know how to write!\"\n\n\"It doesn't matter. Peter can't read.\" John says.", "question_text": "_ can't find her pen.", "choices": ["Nancy", "Peter", "John", "Friend"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Nancy wants to do her homework. She takes out her pencil-box and opens it. \"Oh, dear! Where's my pen?\" She can't find her pen.", "She goes to ask her brother in his bedroom.", "\"John! I can't find my pen. Can you see it? Oh, what are you doing with my pen?\"", "\"I'm writing to my friend, Peter.\" John answers.", "\"But how can you? You don't know how to write!\"", "\"It doesn't matter. Peter can't read.\" John says."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Nancy can't find her pen.", "Peter can't find her pen.", "John can't find her pen.", "Friend can't find her pen."], "dc_score": 9.007835626535627, "difficulty_score": 9.007835626535627}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 135, "fields": {"passage": "Nancy is an English school girl. She studies in a middle school. She has a little brother. His name is John. John is only four. Nancy likes him very much.\n\nToday is Sunday. Nancy wants to do her homework. She takes out her pencil-box and opens it. \"Oh, dear! Where's my pen?\" She can't find her pen. She goes to ask her brother in his bedroom.\n\n\"John! I can't find my pen. Can you see it? Oh, what are you doing with my pen?\"\n\n\"I'm writing to my friend, Peter.\" John answers.\n\n\"But how can you? You don't know how to write!\"\n\n\"It doesn't matter. Peter can't read.\" John says.", "question_text": "Where's John?", "choices": ["In the school.", "In a shop.", "In his bedroom.", "In her father's car."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Nancy goes to ask her brother in his bedroom.\" \"John! I can't find my pen. Can you see it? Oh, what are you doing with my pen?\" \"I'm writing to my friend, Peter.\" John answers."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["John is in the school.", "John is in a shop.", "John is in his bedroom.", "John is in her father's car."], "dc_score": 9.007835626535627, "difficulty_score": 9.007835626535627}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 136, "fields": {"passage": "Nancy is an English school girl. She studies in a middle school. She has a little brother. His name is John. John is only four. Nancy likes him very much.\n\nToday is Sunday. Nancy wants to do her homework. She takes out her pencil-box and opens it. \"Oh, dear! Where's my pen?\" She can't find her pen. She goes to ask her brother in his bedroom.\n\n\"John! I can't find my pen. Can you see it? Oh, what are you doing with my pen?\"\n\n\"I'm writing to my friend, Peter.\" John answers.\n\n\"But how can you? You don't know how to write!\"\n\n\"It doesn't matter. Peter can't read.\" John says.", "question_text": "Which is NOT right?", "choices": ["Nancy finds her pen in John's room.", "John can't write.", "John is writing with her sister's pen.", "Peter can read."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Nancy is an English school girl. She studies in a middle school. She has a little brother. His name is John. John is only four.\n\"I'm writing to my friend, Peter.\" John answers.\n\"But how can you? You don't know how to write!\"\n\"It doesn't matter. Peter can't read.\" John says."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Nancy finds her pen in John's room.", "John can't write.", "John is writing with her sister's pen.", "Peter can read."], "dc_score": 9.007835626535627, "difficulty_score": 9.007835626535627}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 137, "fields": {"passage": "Nancy is an English school girl. She studies in a middle school. She has a little brother. His name is John. John is only four. Nancy likes him very much.\n\nToday is Sunday. Nancy wants to do her homework. She takes out her pencil-box and opens it. \"Oh, dear! Where's my pen?\" She can't find her pen. She goes to ask her brother in his bedroom.\n\n\"John! I can't find my pen. Can you see it? Oh, what are you doing with my pen?\"\n\n\"I'm writing to my friend, Peter.\" John answers.\n\n\"But how can you? You don't know how to write!\"\n\n\"It doesn't matter. Peter can't read.\" John says.", "question_text": "John and Peter are _.", "choices": ["friends", "American", "at school", "school girls"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["She has a little brother. His name is John.", "\"John! I can't find my pen. Can you see it? Oh, what are you doing with my pen?\"", "\"I'm writing to my friend, Peter.\" John answers.", "\"But how can you? You don't know how to write!\"", "\"It doesn't matter. Peter can't read.\" John says."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["John and Peter are friends.", "John and Peter are American.", "John and Peter are at school.", "John and Peter are school girls."], "dc_score": 9.007835626535627, "difficulty_score": 9.007835626535627}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 138, "fields": {"passage": "O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, was born in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for long because of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know.\n\nWhen he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.\n\nHe wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers surprised.", "question_text": "_ was the real name of the famous American writer.", "choices": ["O. Henry", "William Sydney Porter", "Carolina", "Texas"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["O. Henry was the real name of the famous American writer.", "William Sydney Porter was the real name of the famous American writer.", "Carolina was the real name of the famous American writer.", "Texas was the real name of the famous American writer."], "dc_score": 8.567722068965516, "difficulty_score": 8.567722068965516}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 139, "fields": {"passage": "O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, was born in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for long because of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know.\n\nWhen he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.\n\nHe wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers surprised.", "question_text": "O. Henry was sent to prison because _.", "choices": ["People thought he had stolen money from the newspaper.", "People thought he had stolen money from the bank.", "he wanted to write stories about prisoners.", "he broke the law by not using his own name"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. ... Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.\" \"People thought he had stolen money from the bank\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["O. Henry was sent to prison because people thought he had stolen money from the newspaper.", "O. Henry was sent to prison because people thought he had stolen money from the bank.", "O. Henry was sent to prison because he wanted to write stories about prisoners.", "O. Henry was sent to prison because he broke the law by not using his own name."], "dc_score": 8.567722068965516, "difficulty_score": 8.567722068965516}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 140, "fields": {"passage": "O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, was born in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for long because of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know.\n\nWhen he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.\n\nHe wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers surprised.", "question_text": "Which of the following is true?", "choices": ["O. Henry was from a rich family", "O. Henry was in school for a long time.", "O. Henry learned everything he needed by himself.", "O. Henry liked writing stories when he was a little boy."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["O. Henry was born in North Carolina in 1862.", "His real name was William Sydney Porter.", "When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for long because of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know.", "When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas.", "During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories.", "He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["O. Henry was from a rich family", "O. Henry was in school for a long time.", "O. Henry learned everything he needed by himself.", "O. Henry liked writing stories when he was a little boy."], "dc_score": 8.567722068965516, "difficulty_score": 8.567722068965516}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 141, "fields": {"passage": "O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, was born in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for long because of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know.\n\nWhen he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.\n\nHe wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers surprised.", "question_text": "O. Henry got most materials for his stories from _.", "choices": ["his happy life as a boy", "New York and the poor of the city", "the newspaper", "his life in prison"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["O. Henry wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with a sudden change."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Did O. Henry get most materials for his stories from his happy life as a boy? No, this is not a correct statement.", "Did O. Henry get most materials for his stories from New York and the poor of the city? This is a correct statement. O. Henry's stories were often inspired by his experiences in New York City and the struggles of its poor residents.", "Did O. Henry get most materials for his stories from the newspaper? This is not a specific enough statement, as O. Henry could have received materials for his stories from various sources within the newspaper industry.", "Did O. Henry get most materials for his stories from his life in prison? While O. Henry did spend time in prison and some of his experiences may have influenced his writing, it is not accurate to say that he got most of his materials for his stories from his time in prison."], "dc_score": 8.567722068965516, "difficulty_score": 8.567722068965516}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 142, "fields": {"passage": "O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, was born in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for long because of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know.\n\nWhen he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.\n\nHe wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers surprised.", "question_text": "People enjoyed reading O. Henry's stories because _", "choices": ["they had surprising endings", "they were easy to understand", "they showed love for the poor", "they were about New York"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers surprised."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["People enjoyed reading O. Henry's stories because they had surprising endings.", "People enjoyed reading O. Henry's stories because they were easy to understand.", "People enjoyed reading O. Henry's stories because they showed love for the poor.", "People enjoyed reading O. Henry's stories because they were about New York."], "dc_score": 8.567722068965516, "difficulty_score": 8.567722068965516}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 143, "fields": {"passage": "Do you know the game \"Rock, paper or scissors\"? Maybe you think it's just a simple game for children. But in fact, some adults use it to make decisions and solve their problems. It is also popular in many countries.\n\nThere are different stories about the history of the game. But many people believe the game came from Japan, and Japanese have played it for a long time. Later it came to Europe in the middle of the 18th century. In 1842, England founded the Paper Scissors Stone Club and from then on people could get together to play the game for honor.\n\nThere is even an international club named the World Rock Paper Scissors Club in Toronto. The club makes \"Rock, paper or scissors\" more and more popular. It holds the world championship every year. Top players from around the world take part in it and the champion can get a lot of money and the honor of all the fans of \"Rock, paper or scissors\".", "question_text": "Who use the game to make decisions and solve problems according to this passage?", "choices": ["Children.", "Some adults.", "Students.", "The old."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"some adults use it to make decisions and solve their problems\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Children use the game to make decisions and solve problems. ", "Some adults use the game to make decisions and solve problems.", "Students use the game to make decisions and solve problems.", "The old use the game to make decisions and solve problems."], "dc_score": 6.998015151515151, "difficulty_score": 6.998015151515151}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 144, "fields": {"passage": "Do you know the game \"Rock, paper or scissors\"? Maybe you think it's just a simple game for children. But in fact, some adults use it to make decisions and solve their problems. It is also popular in many countries.\n\nThere are different stories about the history of the game. But many people believe the game came from Japan, and Japanese have played it for a long time. Later it came to Europe in the middle of the 18th century. In 1842, England founded the Paper Scissors Stone Club and from then on people could get together to play the game for honor.\n\nThere is even an international club named the World Rock Paper Scissors Club in Toronto. The club makes \"Rock, paper or scissors\" more and more popular. It holds the world championship every year. Top players from around the world take part in it and the champion can get a lot of money and the honor of all the fans of \"Rock, paper or scissors\".", "question_text": "From when could people get together to play this game for honor?", "choices": ["1842.", "1841.", "1845.", "1846."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Later it came to Europe in the middle of the 18th century.", "In 1842, England founded the Paper Scissors Stone Club and from then on people could get together to play the game for honor. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["From 1842, people get together to play this game for honor.", "From 1841, people get together to play this game for honor.", "From 1845, people get together to play this game for honor.", "From 1846, people get together to play this game for honor."], "dc_score": 6.998015151515151, "difficulty_score": 6.998015151515151}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 145, "fields": {"passage": "Do you know the game \"Rock, paper or scissors\"? Maybe you think it's just a simple game for children. But in fact, some adults use it to make decisions and solve their problems. It is also popular in many countries.\n\nThere are different stories about the history of the game. But many people believe the game came from Japan, and Japanese have played it for a long time. Later it came to Europe in the middle of the 18th century. In 1842, England founded the Paper Scissors Stone Club and from then on people could get together to play the game for honor.\n\nThere is even an international club named the World Rock Paper Scissors Club in Toronto. The club makes \"Rock, paper or scissors\" more and more popular. It holds the world championship every year. Top players from around the world take part in it and the champion can get a lot of money and the honor of all the fans of \"Rock, paper or scissors\".", "question_text": "How often does the World Rock Paper Scissors Club hold the world championship?", "choices": ["Once a year.", "Once every two years.", "Once every three years.", "Once every four years."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["There is even an international club named the World Rock Paper Scissors Club in Toronto. The club makes \"Rock, paper or scissors\" more and more popular. It holds the world championship every year. Top players from around the world take part in it and the champion can get a lot of money and the honor of all the fans of \"Rock, paper or scissors\"."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The World Rock Paper Scissors Club holds the world championship once a year.", "The World Rock Paper Scissors Club holds the world championship once every two years.", "The World Rock Paper Scissors Club holds the world championship once every three years.", "The World Rock Paper Scissors Club holds the world championship once every four years."], "dc_score": 6.998015151515151, "difficulty_score": 6.998015151515151}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 146, "fields": {"passage": "Do you know the game \"Rock, paper or scissors\"? Maybe you think it's just a simple game for children. But in fact, some adults use it to make decisions and solve their problems. It is also popular in many countries.\n\nThere are different stories about the history of the game. But many people believe the game came from Japan, and Japanese have played it for a long time. Later it came to Europe in the middle of the 18th century. In 1842, England founded the Paper Scissors Stone Club and from then on people could get together to play the game for honor.\n\nThere is even an international club named the World Rock Paper Scissors Club in Toronto. The club makes \"Rock, paper or scissors\" more and more popular. It holds the world championship every year. Top players from around the world take part in it and the champion can get a lot of money and the honor of all the fans of \"Rock, paper or scissors\".", "question_text": "What will the champion of this game get?", "choices": ["A lot of money.", "The leader of this club.", "Honor.", "A and C"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["There is even an international club named the World Rock Paper Scissors Club in Toronto...Champion can get a lot of money and the honor of all fans of \"Rock, paper or scissors\"."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The champion of this game will get a lot of money.", "The champion of this game will get the leader of this club.", "The champion of this game will get honor.", "The champion of this game will get a lot of money and honor."], "dc_score": 6.998015151515151, "difficulty_score": 6.998015151515151}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 147, "fields": {"passage": "We use passwords to keep our personal information secret and safe, but some passwords we use may not be as reliable as we think.\n\nSplash Data, a computer security company, recently released a list of the 25 worst passwords of 2011. This list is based on the research of over 5 million files containing stolen passwords. According to the list, \"password\" is the worst and most common password. Many others on the list are numbers in order either forward (for example,1234) or backward. Letters on the keyboard in order, such as \"qwerty\" are also common, as well as some first names and animals. \"Hackers can easily break into many accounts just by trying common passwords again and again\", said Morgan Slain, CEO of Splash Data.\n\nHow can you make a strong password? It should be eight characters or more, with a mix of letters, numbers and symbols. One way to create a long and easy-to-remember password is to separate short words with spaces or numbers. Having safe passwords is necessary for surfing the Internet safely. But it's not the only thing you must do to keep safety online. Here are some other web safety tips:\n\n*Never give out information that will allow someone to find you offline. That includes your full name, address and phone number.\n\n*Don't include your real name as part of your online screen name.\n\n*Never meet people you met on the Internet in person. If you insist on breaking this rule, meet in a very public place and consider taking an adult with you.\n\nTop 10 worst passwords: 1.password 2. 123456 3. 12345678 4. qwerty 5. abc123\n\n6. monkey 7. 1234567 8. letmein 9.trustno1 10. dragon", "question_text": "What is \"Splash Data\"?", "choices": ["A company.", "A TV station.", "A scientist.", "An American."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": [" \"Splash Data, a computer security company, recently released a list of the 25 worst passwords of 2011.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Splash data is a company.", "Splash data is a TV station.", "Splash data is a scientist.", "Splash data is an American."], "dc_score": 8.100114412456998, "difficulty_score": 8.100114412456998}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 148, "fields": {"passage": "We use passwords to keep our personal information secret and safe, but some passwords we use may not be as reliable as we think.\n\nSplash Data, a computer security company, recently released a list of the 25 worst passwords of 2011. This list is based on the research of over 5 million files containing stolen passwords. According to the list, \"password\" is the worst and most common password. Many others on the list are numbers in order either forward (for example,1234) or backward. Letters on the keyboard in order, such as \"qwerty\" are also common, as well as some first names and animals. \"Hackers can easily break into many accounts just by trying common passwords again and again\", said Morgan Slain, CEO of Splash Data.\n\nHow can you make a strong password? It should be eight characters or more, with a mix of letters, numbers and symbols. One way to create a long and easy-to-remember password is to separate short words with spaces or numbers. Having safe passwords is necessary for surfing the Internet safely. But it's not the only thing you must do to keep safety online. Here are some other web safety tips:\n\n*Never give out information that will allow someone to find you offline. That includes your full name, address and phone number.\n\n*Don't include your real name as part of your online screen name.\n\n*Never meet people you met on the Internet in person. If you insist on breaking this rule, meet in a very public place and consider taking an adult with you.\n\nTop 10 worst passwords: 1.password 2. 123456 3. 12345678 4. qwerty 5. abc123\n\n6. monkey 7. 1234567 8. letmein 9.trustno1 10. dragon", "question_text": "Which is the worst and most common password?", "choices": ["abc123.", "monkey.", "password.", "123456."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["According to the list, \"password\" is the worst and most common password.", "Many others on the list are numbers in order either forward (for example,or backward.", "Letters on the keyboard in order, such as \"qwerty\" are also common, as well as some first names and animals.       "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The worst and most common password is abc123.", "The worst and most common password is monkey.", "The worst and most common password is password.", "The worst and most common password is 123456."], "dc_score": 8.100114412456998, "difficulty_score": 8.100114412456998}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 149, "fields": {"passage": "We use passwords to keep our personal information secret and safe, but some passwords we use may not be as reliable as we think.\n\nSplash Data, a computer security company, recently released a list of the 25 worst passwords of 2011. This list is based on the research of over 5 million files containing stolen passwords. According to the list, \"password\" is the worst and most common password. Many others on the list are numbers in order either forward (for example,1234) or backward. Letters on the keyboard in order, such as \"qwerty\" are also common, as well as some first names and animals. \"Hackers can easily break into many accounts just by trying common passwords again and again\", said Morgan Slain, CEO of Splash Data.\n\nHow can you make a strong password? It should be eight characters or more, with a mix of letters, numbers and symbols. One way to create a long and easy-to-remember password is to separate short words with spaces or numbers. Having safe passwords is necessary for surfing the Internet safely. But it's not the only thing you must do to keep safety online. Here are some other web safety tips:\n\n*Never give out information that will allow someone to find you offline. That includes your full name, address and phone number.\n\n*Don't include your real name as part of your online screen name.\n\n*Never meet people you met on the Internet in person. If you insist on breaking this rule, meet in a very public place and consider taking an adult with you.\n\nTop 10 worst passwords: 1.password 2. 123456 3. 12345678 4. qwerty 5. abc123\n\n6. monkey 7. 1234567 8. letmein 9.trustno1 10. dragon", "question_text": "You can't put your _ on the Internet.", "choices": ["address", "phone number", "name", "A,B and C"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["How can you make a strong password? It should be eight characters or more, with a mix of letters, numbers and symbols. Having safe passwords is necessary for surfing the Internet safely.", "*Never give out information that will allow someone to find you offline. That includes your full name, address and phone number.", "*Don't include your real name as part of your online screen name."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["You can't put your address on the Internet.", "You can't put your phone number on the Internet.", "You can't put your name on the Internet.", "You can't put your address, phone number, and name on the Internet."], "dc_score": 8.100114412456998, "difficulty_score": 8.100114412456998}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 150, "fields": {"passage": "The rain had continued for a week and the flood had created a big river which were running by Nancy Brown's farm. As she tried to gather her cows to a higher ground, she slipped and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk. The fall made her unconscious for a moment or two. When she came to, Lizzie, one of her oldest and favorite cows, was licking her face. \n\nAt that time, the water level on the farm was still rising. Nancy gathered all her strength to get up and began walking slowly with Lizzie. The rain had become much heavier, and the water in the field was now waist high. Nancy's pace got slower and slower because she felt a great pain in her head. Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm around Lizzie's neck and try to hang on. About 20 minutes later, Lizzie managed to pull herself and Nancy out of the rising water and onto a bit of high land, which seemed like a small island in the middle of a lake of white water. \n\nEven though it was about noon, the sky was so dark and the rain and lightning was so bad that it took rescuers more than two hours to discover Nancy. A man from a helicopter lowered a rope, but Nancy couldn't catch it. A moment later, two men landed on the small island from a ladder in the helicopter. They raised her into the helicopter and took her to the school gym, where the Red Cross had set up an emergency shelter. \n\nWhen the flood disappeared two days later, Nancy immediately went back to the \"island\". Lizzie was gone. She was one of 19 cows that Nancy had lost in the flood. \"I owe my life to her\", said Nancy with tears.", "question_text": "What did Nancy try to do before she fell over?", "choices": ["Measure the depth of the river", "Look for a fallen tree trunk", "Protect her cows from being drowned", "Run away from the flooded farm"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"The rain had continued for a week and the flood had created a big river which were running by Nancy Brown's farm. As she tried to gather her cows to a higher ground, she slipped and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk.\" \"Nancy gathered all her strength to get up and began walking slowly with Lizzie.\" \"Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm around Lizzie's neck and try to hang on.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Nancy tried to measure the depth of the river, when she fell over.", "Nancy tried to look for a fallen tree trunk, when she fell over.", "Nancy tried to protect her cows from being drowned, when she fell over.", "Nancy tried to run away from the flooded farm, when she fell over."], "dc_score": 8.953083498349834, "difficulty_score": 8.953083498349834}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 151, "fields": {"passage": "The rain had continued for a week and the flood had created a big river which were running by Nancy Brown's farm. As she tried to gather her cows to a higher ground, she slipped and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk. The fall made her unconscious for a moment or two. When she came to, Lizzie, one of her oldest and favorite cows, was licking her face. \n\nAt that time, the water level on the farm was still rising. Nancy gathered all her strength to get up and began walking slowly with Lizzie. The rain had become much heavier, and the water in the field was now waist high. Nancy's pace got slower and slower because she felt a great pain in her head. Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm around Lizzie's neck and try to hang on. About 20 minutes later, Lizzie managed to pull herself and Nancy out of the rising water and onto a bit of high land, which seemed like a small island in the middle of a lake of white water. \n\nEven though it was about noon, the sky was so dark and the rain and lightning was so bad that it took rescuers more than two hours to discover Nancy. A man from a helicopter lowered a rope, but Nancy couldn't catch it. A moment later, two men landed on the small island from a ladder in the helicopter. They raised her into the helicopter and took her to the school gym, where the Red Cross had set up an emergency shelter. \n\nWhen the flood disappeared two days later, Nancy immediately went back to the \"island\". Lizzie was gone. She was one of 19 cows that Nancy had lost in the flood. \"I owe my life to her\", said Nancy with tears.", "question_text": "The following are true according to the passage except _.", "choices": ["It took Lizzie and Nancy about 20 minutes to get to safety.", "It was raining harder when Nancy managed to get up.", "The bad weather made it difficult for rescuers to find Nancy.", "Nancy took hold of the rope and climbed into the helicopter."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The rain had continued for a week and the flood had created a big river which were running by Nancy Brown's farm.", "As she tried to gather her cows to a higher ground, she slipped and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk.", "When she came to, Lizzie, one of her oldest and favorite cows, was licking her face.", "Nancy gathered all her strength to get up and began walking slowly with Lizzie.", "The rain had become much heavier, and the water in the field was now waist high.", "Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm around Lizzie's neck and try to hang on.", "About 20 minutes later, Lizzie managed to pull herself and Nancy out of the rising water and onto a bit of high land, which seemed like a small island in the middle of a lake of white water.", "Even though it was about noon, the sky was so dark and the rain and lightning were so bad that it took rescuers more than two hours to discover Nancy.", "A man from a helicopter lowered a rope, but Nancy couldn't catch it.", "A moment later, two men landed on the small island from a ladder in the helicopter.", "They raised her into the helicopter and took her to the school gym, where the Red Cross had set up an emergency shelter.", "When the flood disappeared two days later, Nancy immediately went back to the \"island\".", "Lizzie was gone. She was one of 19 cows that Nancy had lost in the flood."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["It did not took Lizzie and Nancy about 20 minutes to get to safety.", "It was not raining harder when Nancy managed to get up.", "The bad weather did not made it difficult for rescuers to find Nancy.", "Nancy did not took hold of the rope and climbed into the helicopter."], "dc_score": 8.953083498349834, "difficulty_score": 8.953083498349834}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 152, "fields": {"passage": "The rain had continued for a week and the flood had created a big river which were running by Nancy Brown's farm. As she tried to gather her cows to a higher ground, she slipped and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk. The fall made her unconscious for a moment or two. When she came to, Lizzie, one of her oldest and favorite cows, was licking her face. \n\nAt that time, the water level on the farm was still rising. Nancy gathered all her strength to get up and began walking slowly with Lizzie. The rain had become much heavier, and the water in the field was now waist high. Nancy's pace got slower and slower because she felt a great pain in her head. Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm around Lizzie's neck and try to hang on. About 20 minutes later, Lizzie managed to pull herself and Nancy out of the rising water and onto a bit of high land, which seemed like a small island in the middle of a lake of white water. \n\nEven though it was about noon, the sky was so dark and the rain and lightning was so bad that it took rescuers more than two hours to discover Nancy. A man from a helicopter lowered a rope, but Nancy couldn't catch it. A moment later, two men landed on the small island from a ladder in the helicopter. They raised her into the helicopter and took her to the school gym, where the Red Cross had set up an emergency shelter. \n\nWhen the flood disappeared two days later, Nancy immediately went back to the \"island\". Lizzie was gone. She was one of 19 cows that Nancy had lost in the flood. \"I owe my life to her\", said Nancy with tears.", "question_text": "What did the local people do to help those in the flooded area according to the passage?", "choices": ["They put up shelter for them in a school.", "They used helicopters to help carry cows.", "They helped farmers gather their cows.", "They set up an organization called Red Cross."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["At that time, the water level on the farm was still rising....Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm around Lizzie's neck and try to hang on....About 20 minutes later, Lizzie managed to pull herself and Nancy out of the rising water and onto a bit of high land, which seemed like a small island in the middle of a lake of white water....Even though it was about noon, the sky was so dark and the rain and lightning was so bad that it took rescuers more than two hours to discover Nancy....They raised her into the helicopter and took her to the school gym, where the Red Cross had set up an emergency shelter....Nancy immediately went back to the \"island\". Lizzie was gone. She was one of 19 cows that Nancy had lost in the flood."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["They put up shelter for them in a school.", "They used helicopters to help carry cows.", "They helped farmers gather their cows.", "They set up an organization called Red Cross."], "dc_score": 8.953083498349834, "difficulty_score": 9.864207517941145}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 153, "fields": {"passage": "There is probably no field of human activity in which our values and lifestyles are shown more clearly and strongly than they are in the clothes that we choose to wear. The dress of an individual is a kind of \"sign language\" that communicates a set of information and is usually the basis on which immediate impressions are formed. Traditionally, a concern for clothes was considered to be an affair of females, while men took pride in the fact that they were completely lacking in clothes consciousness.\n\nThis type of American culture is by degrees changing as man dress takes on greater variety and color. Even as early as 1955, a researcher in Michigan said that White collar workers in particular viewed dress as a symbol of ability, which could be used to impress or influence others, especially in the work situation. The white collar worker was described as extremely concerned about the impression his clothing made on his superiors. Although blue collar workers were less aware that they might be judged on the basis of their clothing, they recognized that any difference from the accepted pattern of dress would be made fun of by fellow workers.\n\nSince that time, of course, the patterns have changed: the typical office worker may now be wearing the blue shirt, and the laborer a white shirt; but the importance of dress has not become less. Other researchers in recent years have helped to prove its importance in the lives of individuals at various age levels and in different social and economic status groups.", "question_text": "The passage tells us that _.", "choices": ["our values and lifestyles are in no field of human activity", "the clothes that we choose to wear have something to do with our values and lifestyles", "our values and lifestyles are from the sign language", "the clothes we choose to wear depend on a set of information and immediate impression"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["There is probably no field of human activity in which our values and lifestyles are shown more clearly and strongly than they are in the clothes that we choose to wear."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The passage tells us that our values and lifestyles are in no field of human activity.", "The passage tells us that the clothes that we choose to wear have something to do with our values and lifestyles.", "The passage tells us that our values and lifestyles are from the sign language.", "The passage tells us that the clothes we choose to wear depend on a set of information and immediate impression."], "dc_score": 8.904688588588588, "difficulty_score": 8.904688588588588}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 154, "fields": {"passage": "There is probably no field of human activity in which our values and lifestyles are shown more clearly and strongly than they are in the clothes that we choose to wear. The dress of an individual is a kind of \"sign language\" that communicates a set of information and is usually the basis on which immediate impressions are formed. Traditionally, a concern for clothes was considered to be an affair of females, while men took pride in the fact that they were completely lacking in clothes consciousness.\n\nThis type of American culture is by degrees changing as man dress takes on greater variety and color. Even as early as 1955, a researcher in Michigan said that White collar workers in particular viewed dress as a symbol of ability, which could be used to impress or influence others, especially in the work situation. The white collar worker was described as extremely concerned about the impression his clothing made on his superiors. Although blue collar workers were less aware that they might be judged on the basis of their clothing, they recognized that any difference from the accepted pattern of dress would be made fun of by fellow workers.\n\nSince that time, of course, the patterns have changed: the typical office worker may now be wearing the blue shirt, and the laborer a white shirt; but the importance of dress has not become less. Other researchers in recent years have helped to prove its importance in the lives of individuals at various age levels and in different social and economic status groups.", "question_text": "Traditionally,people usually thought that _.", "choices": ["men cared very much for clothes", "women were concerned greatly about what they wore while men didn't", "both men and women paid great attention to their clothes", "neither men nor women showed interest in clothes"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Traditionally, a concern for clothes was considered to be an affair of females, while men took pride in the fact that they were completely lacking in clothes consciousness."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Traditionally, people usually thought that men cared very much for clothes.", "Traditionally, people usually thought that women were concerned greatly about what they wore while men didn't.", "Traditionally, people usually thought that both men and women paid great attention to their clothes.", "Traditionally, people usually thought that neither men nor women showed interest in clothes."], "dc_score": 8.904688588588588, "difficulty_score": 8.904688588588588}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 155, "fields": {"passage": "There is probably no field of human activity in which our values and lifestyles are shown more clearly and strongly than they are in the clothes that we choose to wear. The dress of an individual is a kind of \"sign language\" that communicates a set of information and is usually the basis on which immediate impressions are formed. Traditionally, a concern for clothes was considered to be an affair of females, while men took pride in the fact that they were completely lacking in clothes consciousness.\n\nThis type of American culture is by degrees changing as man dress takes on greater variety and color. Even as early as 1955, a researcher in Michigan said that White collar workers in particular viewed dress as a symbol of ability, which could be used to impress or influence others, especially in the work situation. The white collar worker was described as extremely concerned about the impression his clothing made on his superiors. Although blue collar workers were less aware that they might be judged on the basis of their clothing, they recognized that any difference from the accepted pattern of dress would be made fun of by fellow workers.\n\nSince that time, of course, the patterns have changed: the typical office worker may now be wearing the blue shirt, and the laborer a white shirt; but the importance of dress has not become less. Other researchers in recent years have helped to prove its importance in the lives of individuals at various age levels and in different social and economic status groups.", "question_text": "Blue collar workers pay attention to their clothes because _.", "choices": ["they are concerned about the impression their clothes make on their superiors", "they know very clearly that people will judge them on the basis of their clothing", "they want to impress and influence others", "they don't want to be laughed at"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Blue collar workers were less aware that they might be judged on the basis of their clothing, they recognized that any difference from the accepted pattern of dress would be made fun of by fellow workers."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Blue collar workers pay attention to their clothes because they are concerned about the impression their clothes make on their superiors.", "Blue collar workers pay attention to their clothes because they know very clearly that people will judge them on the basis of their clothing.", "Blue collar workers pay attention to their clothes because they want to impress and influence others.", "Blue collar workers pay attention to their clothes because they don't want to be laughed at."], "dc_score": 8.904688588588588, "difficulty_score": 9.597111096285282}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 156, "fields": {"passage": "There is probably no field of human activity in which our values and lifestyles are shown more clearly and strongly than they are in the clothes that we choose to wear. The dress of an individual is a kind of \"sign language\" that communicates a set of information and is usually the basis on which immediate impressions are formed. Traditionally, a concern for clothes was considered to be an affair of females, while men took pride in the fact that they were completely lacking in clothes consciousness.\n\nThis type of American culture is by degrees changing as man dress takes on greater variety and color. Even as early as 1955, a researcher in Michigan said that White collar workers in particular viewed dress as a symbol of ability, which could be used to impress or influence others, especially in the work situation. The white collar worker was described as extremely concerned about the impression his clothing made on his superiors. Although blue collar workers were less aware that they might be judged on the basis of their clothing, they recognized that any difference from the accepted pattern of dress would be made fun of by fellow workers.\n\nSince that time, of course, the patterns have changed: the typical office worker may now be wearing the blue shirt, and the laborer a white shirt; but the importance of dress has not become less. Other researchers in recent years have helped to prove its importance in the lives of individuals at various age levels and in different social and economic status groups.", "question_text": "The passage mainly suggests that _.", "choices": ["now men pay more attention to their clothes than women do", "women always like beautiful dresses", "people have paid more and more attention to the importance of dress", "American culture is changing greatly"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["he dress of an individual is a kind of \"sign language\" that communicates a set of information and is usually the basis on which immediate impressions are formed.", "raditionally, a concern for clothes was considered to be an affair of females, while men took pride in the fact that they were completely lacking in clothes consciousness.", "his type of American culture is by degrees changing as man dress takes on greater variety and color.", " researcher in Michigan said that White collar workers in particular viewed dress as a symbol of ability, which could be used to impress or influence others, especially in the work situation.", "lthough blue collar workers were less aware that they might be judged on the basis of their clothing, they recognized that any difference from the accepted pattern of dress would be made fun of by fellow workers.", "ince that time, of course, the patterns have changed: the typical office worker may now be wearing the blue shirt, and the laborer a white shirt; but the importance of dress has not become less.", "ther researchers in recent years have helped to prove its importance in the lives of individuals at various age levels and in different social and economic status groups."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The passage mainly suggests that now men pay more attention to their clothes than women do.", "The passage mainly suggests that women always like beautiful dresses.", "The passage mainly suggests that people have paid more and more attention to the importance of dress.", "The passage mainly suggests that American culture is changing greatly."], "dc_score": 8.904688588588588, "difficulty_score": 9.782243003030517}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 157, "fields": {"passage": "Little Tommy was doing very badly in math. His parents had tried everything--tutors, cards, special learning centers--in short, everything they could think of. Finally they took Tommy to a catholic school.\n\nAfter the first day, little Tommy came home with a very serious look on his face. He didn't kiss his mother hello. Instead, he went straight to his room and started studying. Books and papers were spread out all over the room and little Tommy was hard at work. His mother was surprised. She called him down to dinner and as soon as he finished eating, he went back to his room, without a word. In no time he was back hitting the books as hard as before. This went on for some time, day after day while the mother tried to understand what was happening.\n\nFinally, little Tommy brought home his report card. He quietly put it on the table and went up to his room and hit the books. His mom looked at it and to her surprise, little Tommy got an A in math. She could no longer hold her curiosity. She went to his room and asked, \"Son, what was it? Was it the nuns?\"\n\nLittle Tommy looked at her and shook his head, \"No\".\n\n\"Well then\", she asked again. \"WHAT was it?\"\n\nLittle Tommy looked at her and said, \"Well, on the first day of school, when I saw that man nailed to the plus sign, I knew they weren't joking.\"", "question_text": "Tommy's mother felt surprised that his son _.", "choices": ["was still the same as usual", "ate so much at dinner", "kissed her hello after school", "worked hard but said little"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"His mother was surprised. She called him down to dinner and as soon as he finished eating, he went back to his room, without a word. In no time he was back hitting the books as hard as before.\" and \"She could no longer hold her curiosity. She went to his room and asked, \"Son, what was it? Was it the nuns?\" Little Tommy looked at her and shook his head, \"No\".\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Tommy's mother felt surprised that his son was still the same as usual.", "Tommy's mother felt surprised that his son ate so much at dinner.", "Tommy's mother felt surprised that his son kissed her hello after school.", "Tommy's mother felt surprised that his son worked hard but said little."], "dc_score": 8.281581293595435, "difficulty_score": 8.281581293595435}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 158, "fields": {"passage": "Little Tommy was doing very badly in math. His parents had tried everything--tutors, cards, special learning centers--in short, everything they could think of. Finally they took Tommy to a catholic school.\n\nAfter the first day, little Tommy came home with a very serious look on his face. He didn't kiss his mother hello. Instead, he went straight to his room and started studying. Books and papers were spread out all over the room and little Tommy was hard at work. His mother was surprised. She called him down to dinner and as soon as he finished eating, he went back to his room, without a word. In no time he was back hitting the books as hard as before. This went on for some time, day after day while the mother tried to understand what was happening.\n\nFinally, little Tommy brought home his report card. He quietly put it on the table and went up to his room and hit the books. His mom looked at it and to her surprise, little Tommy got an A in math. She could no longer hold her curiosity. She went to his room and asked, \"Son, what was it? Was it the nuns?\"\n\nLittle Tommy looked at her and shook his head, \"No\".\n\n\"Well then\", she asked again. \"WHAT was it?\"\n\nLittle Tommy looked at her and said, \"Well, on the first day of school, when I saw that man nailed to the plus sign, I knew they weren't joking.\"", "question_text": "The last sentence in the passage shows that _.", "choices": ["Tommy felt sorry for the man", "Tommy was afraid of being nailed", "Tommy didn't like the plus sign", "Tommy liked playing jokes on others"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Little Tommy looked at her and said, \"Well, on the first day of school, when I saw that man nailed to the plus sign, I knew they weren't joking.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The last sentence in the passage shows that Tommy felt sorry for the man.", "The last sentence in the passage shows that Tommy was afraid of being nailed.", "The last sentence in the passage shows that Tommy didn't like the plus sign.", "The last sentence in the passage shows that Tommy liked playing jokes on others."], "dc_score": 8.281581293595435, "difficulty_score": 8.930296569606336}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 159, "fields": {"passage": "Little Tommy was doing very badly in math. His parents had tried everything--tutors, cards, special learning centers--in short, everything they could think of. Finally they took Tommy to a catholic school.\n\nAfter the first day, little Tommy came home with a very serious look on his face. He didn't kiss his mother hello. Instead, he went straight to his room and started studying. Books and papers were spread out all over the room and little Tommy was hard at work. His mother was surprised. She called him down to dinner and as soon as he finished eating, he went back to his room, without a word. In no time he was back hitting the books as hard as before. This went on for some time, day after day while the mother tried to understand what was happening.\n\nFinally, little Tommy brought home his report card. He quietly put it on the table and went up to his room and hit the books. His mom looked at it and to her surprise, little Tommy got an A in math. She could no longer hold her curiosity. She went to his room and asked, \"Son, what was it? Was it the nuns?\"\n\nLittle Tommy looked at her and shook his head, \"No\".\n\n\"Well then\", she asked again. \"WHAT was it?\"\n\nLittle Tommy looked at her and said, \"Well, on the first day of school, when I saw that man nailed to the plus sign, I knew they weren't joking.\"", "question_text": "From the passage, we can infer that _.", "choices": ["teachers should be strict with their students", "mistakes might do good sometimes", "a catholic school is much better than other ones", "nuns are good at helping children with their math"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["From the passage, we can infer that mistakes might do good sometimes."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["From the passage, we can infer that teachers should be strict with their students.", "From the passage, we can infer that mistakes might do good sometimes.", "From the passage, we can infer that a Catholic school is much better than other ones.", "From the passage, we can infer that nuns are good at helping children with their math."], "dc_score": 8.281581293595435, "difficulty_score": 9.418657000508436}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 160, "fields": {"passage": "Give it five minutes\n\nI used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I'd think of a way to disagree. I'd push back hard if something didn't fit my world-view.\n\nIt's like I had to be first with an opinion -- as if being first meant something. But what it really meant was that I wasn't thinking hard enough about the problem. The faster you react, the less you think. Not always, but often.\n\nThis came to a head back in 2007. I was speaking at the Business Innovation Factory conference in Providence, RI. So was Richard Saul Wurman. After my talk Richard came up to introduce himself and compliment my talk. That was very generous of him. He certainly didn't have to do that.\n\nAnd what did I do? I pushed back at him about the talk he gave. While he was making his points on stage, I was taking an inventory of the things I didn't agree with. And when presented with an opportunity to speak with him, I quickly pushed back at some of his ideas. I must have seemed like such an asshole.\n\nHis response changed my life. It was a simple thing. He said \"Man, give it five minutes.\" I asked him what he meant by that? He said, it's fine to disagree, it's fine to push back, it's great to have strong opinions and beliefs, but give my ideas some time to set in before you're sure you want to argue against them. \"Five minutes\" represented \"think\", not react. He was totally right. I came into the discussion looking to prove something, not learn something.\n\nThis was a big moment for me.\n\nRichard has spent his career thinking about these problems. He's given it 30 years. And I gave it just a few minutes. Now, certainly he can be wrong and I could be right, but it's better to think deeply about something first before being so certain you're right.\n\nThere's also a difference between asking questions and pushing back. Pushing back means you already think you know. Asking questions means you want to know. Ask more questions.\n\nLearning to think first rather than react quick is a life-long pursuit. It's tough. I still get hot sometimes when I shouldn't. But I'm really enjoying all the benefits of getting better.\n\nIf you aren't sure why this is important, think about this quote from Jonathan Ive regarding Steve Jobs' reverence(respect) for ideas:\n\nAnd just as Steve loved ideas, and loved making stuff, he treated the process of creativity with a rare and a wonderful reverence. You see, I think he better than anyone understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished.\n\nThat's deep. Ideas are fragile. They often start powerless. They're barely there, so easy to ignore or skip or miss.\n\nThere are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other people's money and 2. Dismissing an idea.\n\nDismissing an idea is so easy because it doesn't involve any work. You can scoff at it. You can ignore it. You can puff some smoke at it. That's easy. The hard thing to do is protect it, think about it, let it marinate, explore it, riff on it, and try it. The right idea could start out life as the wrong idea.\n\nSo next time you hear something, or someone, talk about an idea, pitch an idea, or suggest an idea, give it five minutes. Think about it a little bit before pushing back, before saying it's too hard or it's too much work.\n\nThose things may be true, but there may be another truth in there too: It may be worth it.", "question_text": "What did the author do while Richard was talking in the business conference?", "choices": ["He kept notes for things that he did not agree with.", "He pushed Richard and beat him.", "He was preparing for his own speech.", "He was getting ready to compliment him."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"He pushed back at him about the talk he gave. While he was making his points on stage, I was taking an inventory of the things I didn't agree with. And when presented with an opportunity to speak with him, I quickly pushed back at some of his ideas.\" - Choice A is the correct answer."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["He kept notes for things that he did not agree with, while Richard was talking in the business conference.", "He did not push Richard and beat him while he was talking in the business conference.", "He was preparing for his own speech while Richard was talking in the business conference.", "He was getting ready to compliment Richard while he was talking in the business conference."], "dc_score": 7.471720216685915, "difficulty_score": 7.471720216685915}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 161, "fields": {"passage": "Give it five minutes\n\nI used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I'd think of a way to disagree. I'd push back hard if something didn't fit my world-view.\n\nIt's like I had to be first with an opinion -- as if being first meant something. But what it really meant was that I wasn't thinking hard enough about the problem. The faster you react, the less you think. Not always, but often.\n\nThis came to a head back in 2007. I was speaking at the Business Innovation Factory conference in Providence, RI. So was Richard Saul Wurman. After my talk Richard came up to introduce himself and compliment my talk. That was very generous of him. He certainly didn't have to do that.\n\nAnd what did I do? I pushed back at him about the talk he gave. While he was making his points on stage, I was taking an inventory of the things I didn't agree with. And when presented with an opportunity to speak with him, I quickly pushed back at some of his ideas. I must have seemed like such an asshole.\n\nHis response changed my life. It was a simple thing. He said \"Man, give it five minutes.\" I asked him what he meant by that? He said, it's fine to disagree, it's fine to push back, it's great to have strong opinions and beliefs, but give my ideas some time to set in before you're sure you want to argue against them. \"Five minutes\" represented \"think\", not react. He was totally right. I came into the discussion looking to prove something, not learn something.\n\nThis was a big moment for me.\n\nRichard has spent his career thinking about these problems. He's given it 30 years. And I gave it just a few minutes. Now, certainly he can be wrong and I could be right, but it's better to think deeply about something first before being so certain you're right.\n\nThere's also a difference between asking questions and pushing back. Pushing back means you already think you know. Asking questions means you want to know. Ask more questions.\n\nLearning to think first rather than react quick is a life-long pursuit. It's tough. I still get hot sometimes when I shouldn't. But I'm really enjoying all the benefits of getting better.\n\nIf you aren't sure why this is important, think about this quote from Jonathan Ive regarding Steve Jobs' reverence(respect) for ideas:\n\nAnd just as Steve loved ideas, and loved making stuff, he treated the process of creativity with a rare and a wonderful reverence. You see, I think he better than anyone understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished.\n\nThat's deep. Ideas are fragile. They often start powerless. They're barely there, so easy to ignore or skip or miss.\n\nThere are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other people's money and 2. Dismissing an idea.\n\nDismissing an idea is so easy because it doesn't involve any work. You can scoff at it. You can ignore it. You can puff some smoke at it. That's easy. The hard thing to do is protect it, think about it, let it marinate, explore it, riff on it, and try it. The right idea could start out life as the wrong idea.\n\nSo next time you hear something, or someone, talk about an idea, pitch an idea, or suggest an idea, give it five minutes. Think about it a little bit before pushing back, before saying it's too hard or it's too much work.\n\nThose things may be true, but there may be another truth in there too: It may be worth it.", "question_text": "Which of the following is the reason for quoting Jonathan Ive?", "choices": ["The author thinks Steve Job is the best when it comes to creativity.", "The author is inspired by Steve Job's attitude towards new ideas.", "The author respects Steve Job because he is creative and he likes ideas.", "The author thinks Steve Job has ideas that are strong and powerful and are hard to miss."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["If you aren't sure why this is important, think about this quote from Jonathan Ive regarding Steve Jobs' reverence(respect) for ideas:", "And just as Steve loved ideas, and loved making stuff, he treated the process of creativity with a rare and a wonderful reverence. You see, I think he better than anyone understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The author thinks Steve Job is the best when it comes to creativity.", "The author is inspired by Steve Job's attitude towards new ideas.", "The author respects Steve Job because he is creative and he likes ideas.", "The author thinks Steve Job has ideas that are strong and powerful and are hard to miss."], "dc_score": 7.471720216685915, "difficulty_score": 8.10142549111268}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 162, "fields": {"passage": "Give it five minutes\n\nI used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I'd think of a way to disagree. I'd push back hard if something didn't fit my world-view.\n\nIt's like I had to be first with an opinion -- as if being first meant something. But what it really meant was that I wasn't thinking hard enough about the problem. The faster you react, the less you think. Not always, but often.\n\nThis came to a head back in 2007. I was speaking at the Business Innovation Factory conference in Providence, RI. So was Richard Saul Wurman. After my talk Richard came up to introduce himself and compliment my talk. That was very generous of him. He certainly didn't have to do that.\n\nAnd what did I do? I pushed back at him about the talk he gave. While he was making his points on stage, I was taking an inventory of the things I didn't agree with. And when presented with an opportunity to speak with him, I quickly pushed back at some of his ideas. I must have seemed like such an asshole.\n\nHis response changed my life. It was a simple thing. He said \"Man, give it five minutes.\" I asked him what he meant by that? He said, it's fine to disagree, it's fine to push back, it's great to have strong opinions and beliefs, but give my ideas some time to set in before you're sure you want to argue against them. \"Five minutes\" represented \"think\", not react. He was totally right. I came into the discussion looking to prove something, not learn something.\n\nThis was a big moment for me.\n\nRichard has spent his career thinking about these problems. He's given it 30 years. And I gave it just a few minutes. Now, certainly he can be wrong and I could be right, but it's better to think deeply about something first before being so certain you're right.\n\nThere's also a difference between asking questions and pushing back. Pushing back means you already think you know. Asking questions means you want to know. Ask more questions.\n\nLearning to think first rather than react quick is a life-long pursuit. It's tough. I still get hot sometimes when I shouldn't. But I'm really enjoying all the benefits of getting better.\n\nIf you aren't sure why this is important, think about this quote from Jonathan Ive regarding Steve Jobs' reverence(respect) for ideas:\n\nAnd just as Steve loved ideas, and loved making stuff, he treated the process of creativity with a rare and a wonderful reverence. You see, I think he better than anyone understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished.\n\nThat's deep. Ideas are fragile. They often start powerless. They're barely there, so easy to ignore or skip or miss.\n\nThere are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other people's money and 2. Dismissing an idea.\n\nDismissing an idea is so easy because it doesn't involve any work. You can scoff at it. You can ignore it. You can puff some smoke at it. That's easy. The hard thing to do is protect it, think about it, let it marinate, explore it, riff on it, and try it. The right idea could start out life as the wrong idea.\n\nSo next time you hear something, or someone, talk about an idea, pitch an idea, or suggest an idea, give it five minutes. Think about it a little bit before pushing back, before saying it's too hard or it's too much work.\n\nThose things may be true, but there may be another truth in there too: It may be worth it.", "question_text": "What is the core argument that the author put forward?", "choices": ["Dismissing ideas is an effortless thing to do so you should always protect ideas carefully.", "The right idea always starts from a wrong idea and you need to protect it from being dismissed.", "One should be careful when it comes to judge a new idea.", "Every idea, whether powerful or fragile deserves five minutes"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"The faster you react, the less you think. Not always, but often...I pushed back at him about the talk he gave...His response changed my life. It was a simple thing. He said \"Man, give it five minutes.\"...ideas are fragile...Dismissing an idea is so easy because it doesn't involve any work...The hard thing to do is protect it, think about it, let it marinate, explore it, riff on it, and try it...So next time you hear something, or someone, talk about an idea, pitch an idea, or suggest an idea, give it five minutes.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Dismissing ideas is an effortless thing to do so you should always protect ideas carefully.", "The right idea always starts from a wrong idea and you need to protect it from being dismissed.", "One should be careful when it comes to judge a new idea.", "Every idea, whether powerful or fragile deserves five minutes"], "dc_score": 7.471720216685915, "difficulty_score": 8.266566526068287}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 163, "fields": {"passage": "Bungee jumping is an activity about jumping from a tall structure while connected to a large elastic cord. The tall structure is usually a fixed object, such as a building, bridge or crane; but it is also possible to jump from a movable object, such as a hot-air balloon or helicopter, that has the ability to stay over one place on the ground; fixed-wing aircraft are unsuitable because they only stay high when moving quickly forward.\n\nWhen the person jumps, the cord stretches to absorb the energy of the fall, then the jumper flies upwards again as the cord jumps back. The jumper oscillates up and down until all the energy is used up.\n\nThe word bungee first appeared around 1930 and was the name for a rubber eraser. The first modern bungee jumps were made on 1 April 1979 from the 250-foot Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, by David Kirk, Chris Baker and Alan Weston of the Dangerous Sports Club. The jumpers continued with jumps in the US from the Golden Gate and Royal Gorge bridges, spreading the concept worldwide. By 1982 they were jumping from mobile cranes and hot-air balloons. Later they put on commercial shows, which began in 1986.\n\nAs with any sport, injuries can still happen, and there have been deaths. A relatively common mistake in the cases that may cause death is to use a cord that is too long. The cord should be fully shorter than the height of the jumping place to allow it room to jumper either starts to slow down or keeps speeding up depending upon the speed of falling.", "question_text": "Which of the following is NOT suitable for bungee jumping?", "choices": ["The fixed-wing aircraft", "The helicopter", "The hot-air balloon", "The mobile crane"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"The tall structure is usually a fixed object, such as a building, bridge or crane; but it is also possible to jump from a movable object, such as a hot-air balloon or helicopter, that has the ability to stay over one place on the ground; fixed-wing aircraft are unsuitable because they only stay high when moving quickly forward.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The fixed-wing aircraft is not suitable for bungee jumping. ", "The helicopter is not suitable for bungee jumping. ", "The hot-air balloon is not suitable for bungee jumping. ", "The mobile crane is not suitable for bungee jumping."], "dc_score": 9.530324719101124, "difficulty_score": 9.530324719101124}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 164, "fields": {"passage": "Bungee jumping is an activity about jumping from a tall structure while connected to a large elastic cord. The tall structure is usually a fixed object, such as a building, bridge or crane; but it is also possible to jump from a movable object, such as a hot-air balloon or helicopter, that has the ability to stay over one place on the ground; fixed-wing aircraft are unsuitable because they only stay high when moving quickly forward.\n\nWhen the person jumps, the cord stretches to absorb the energy of the fall, then the jumper flies upwards again as the cord jumps back. The jumper oscillates up and down until all the energy is used up.\n\nThe word bungee first appeared around 1930 and was the name for a rubber eraser. The first modern bungee jumps were made on 1 April 1979 from the 250-foot Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, by David Kirk, Chris Baker and Alan Weston of the Dangerous Sports Club. The jumpers continued with jumps in the US from the Golden Gate and Royal Gorge bridges, spreading the concept worldwide. By 1982 they were jumping from mobile cranes and hot-air balloons. Later they put on commercial shows, which began in 1986.\n\nAs with any sport, injuries can still happen, and there have been deaths. A relatively common mistake in the cases that may cause death is to use a cord that is too long. The cord should be fully shorter than the height of the jumping place to allow it room to jumper either starts to slow down or keeps speeding up depending upon the speed of falling.", "question_text": "The purpose of writing this passage is to _.", "choices": ["teach people how to carry out a bungee jumping", "remind people of the danger of bungee jumping", "advise people not to take the risk of bungee jumping", "introduce some knowledge about bungee jumping"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["Bungee jumping is an activity about jumping from a tall structure while connected to a large elastic cord.", "The tall structure is usually a fixed object, such as a building, bridge or crane; but it is also possible to jump from a movable object, such as a hot-air balloon or helicopter, that has the ability to stay over one place on the ground.", "When the person jumps, the cord stretches to absorb the energy of the fall, then the jumper flies upwards again as the cord jumps back.", "The jumper oscillates up and down until all the energy is used up.", "The word bungee first appeared around 1930 and was the name for a rubber eraser.", "The first modern bungee jumps were made on 1 April 1979 from the 250-foot Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, by David Kirk, Chris Baker and Alan Weston of the Dangerous Sports Club.", "As with any sport, injuries can still happen, and there have been deaths.", "A relatively common mistake in the cases that may cause death is to use a cord that is too long. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The purpose of writing this passage is to teach people how to carry out a bungee jumping.", "The purpose of writing this passage is to remind people of the danger of bungee jumping.", "The purpose of writing this passage is to advise people not to take the risk of bungee jumping.", "The purpose of writing this passage is to introduce some knowledge about bungee jumping."], "dc_score": 9.530324719101124, "difficulty_score": 10.39191306910401}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 165, "fields": {"passage": "A girl with blue eyes is a blue-eyed girl. A man with long legs is a long-legged man. A woman with white hair is a white-haired woman. Children who have good looks are good-looking children. What do you do when you want to buy clothes? You go to a shop. If you can find clothes that are the right size for you, and if they are ready to wear, you will probably buy them. They are called ready-made clothes. If you can not find clothes that are the right size, you will go to a tailor's shop. A tailor is a man who makes clothes. He will measure you carefully and will then make clothes for you. Such clothes are called tailor-made clothes.\n\nWhat do we call a man who is dressed badly? We call him a badly-dressed man. A woman who is dressed well is called a well-dressed woman.\n\nWhat do you wear when it rains heavily? You wear a coat that will keep the rain out. Such a coat is called a raincoat. It is made of waterproof cloth--cloth that does not let water pass through. We have a lot of rain in England. If you come to England, bring a raincoat and an umbrella. You will find them useful.\n\nIf the floor, walls and ceiling of a room are made so that sound cannot pass through the wall, we say that the room is sound-proof. There are sound-proof rooms in all broadcasting stations.", "question_text": "The clothes which you buy from the supermarket are called _ clothes.", "choices": ["tailor-made", "ready-made", "hand-made", "mass production"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["What do you do when you want to buy clothes? You go to a shop. If you can find clothes that are the right size for you, and if they are ready to wear, you will probably buy them. They are called ready-made clothes. If you can not find clothes that are the right size, you will go to a tailor's shop. A tailor is a man who makes clothes. He will measure you carefully and will then make clothes for you. Such clothes are called tailor-made clothes."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The clothes which you buy from the supermarket are called tailor-made clothes.", "The clothes which you buy from the supermarket are called ready-made clothes.", "The clothes which you buy from the supermarket are called hand-made clothes.", "The clothes which you buy from the supermarket are called mass production clothes."], "dc_score": 7.658188372093024, "difficulty_score": 7.658188372093024}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 166, "fields": {"passage": "A girl with blue eyes is a blue-eyed girl. A man with long legs is a long-legged man. A woman with white hair is a white-haired woman. Children who have good looks are good-looking children. What do you do when you want to buy clothes? You go to a shop. If you can find clothes that are the right size for you, and if they are ready to wear, you will probably buy them. They are called ready-made clothes. If you can not find clothes that are the right size, you will go to a tailor's shop. A tailor is a man who makes clothes. He will measure you carefully and will then make clothes for you. Such clothes are called tailor-made clothes.\n\nWhat do we call a man who is dressed badly? We call him a badly-dressed man. A woman who is dressed well is called a well-dressed woman.\n\nWhat do you wear when it rains heavily? You wear a coat that will keep the rain out. Such a coat is called a raincoat. It is made of waterproof cloth--cloth that does not let water pass through. We have a lot of rain in England. If you come to England, bring a raincoat and an umbrella. You will find them useful.\n\nIf the floor, walls and ceiling of a room are made so that sound cannot pass through the wall, we say that the room is sound-proof. There are sound-proof rooms in all broadcasting stations.", "question_text": "If you come to England, bring both a raincoat and an umbrella because _.", "choices": ["there is a lot of rain in England", "there are few umbrellas in the country", "gentlemen usually carry umbrellas with them in England", "walking with an umbrella in hand is popular in England"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["If you come to England, bring a raincoat and an umbrella. You will find them useful. We have a lot of rain in England. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["If you come to England, bring both a raincoat and an umbrella because there is a lot of rain in England.", "If you come to England, bring both a raincoat and an umbrella because there are few umbrellas in the country.", "If you come to England, bring both a raincoat and an umbrella because gentlemen usually carry umbrellas with them in England.", "If you come to England, bring both a raincoat and an umbrella because walking with an umbrella in hand is popular in England."], "dc_score": 7.658188372093024, "difficulty_score": 7.658188372093024}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 167, "fields": {"passage": "A girl with blue eyes is a blue-eyed girl. A man with long legs is a long-legged man. A woman with white hair is a white-haired woman. Children who have good looks are good-looking children. What do you do when you want to buy clothes? You go to a shop. If you can find clothes that are the right size for you, and if they are ready to wear, you will probably buy them. They are called ready-made clothes. If you can not find clothes that are the right size, you will go to a tailor's shop. A tailor is a man who makes clothes. He will measure you carefully and will then make clothes for you. Such clothes are called tailor-made clothes.\n\nWhat do we call a man who is dressed badly? We call him a badly-dressed man. A woman who is dressed well is called a well-dressed woman.\n\nWhat do you wear when it rains heavily? You wear a coat that will keep the rain out. Such a coat is called a raincoat. It is made of waterproof cloth--cloth that does not let water pass through. We have a lot of rain in England. If you come to England, bring a raincoat and an umbrella. You will find them useful.\n\nIf the floor, walls and ceiling of a room are made so that sound cannot pass through the wall, we say that the room is sound-proof. There are sound-proof rooms in all broadcasting stations.", "question_text": "On back of a watch we can often see the word \"water-proof\". The word means_.", "choices": ["water won't get into the watch", "you can put water into the watch", "not putting the watch into water", "you can see the watch clearly in water"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["It is made of waterproof cloth--cloth that does not let water pass through."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["On the back of a watch we can often see the word \"water-proof\". The word means water won't get into the watch.", "On the back of a watch we can often see the word \"water-proof\". The word means you can't put water into the watch.", "On the back of a watch we can often see the word \"water-proof\". The word means not putting the watch into water.", "On the back of a watch we can often see the word \"water-proof\". The word means you can't see the watch clearly in water."], "dc_score": 7.658188372093024, "difficulty_score": 8.342976866996771}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 168, "fields": {"passage": "A girl with blue eyes is a blue-eyed girl. A man with long legs is a long-legged man. A woman with white hair is a white-haired woman. Children who have good looks are good-looking children. What do you do when you want to buy clothes? You go to a shop. If you can find clothes that are the right size for you, and if they are ready to wear, you will probably buy them. They are called ready-made clothes. If you can not find clothes that are the right size, you will go to a tailor's shop. A tailor is a man who makes clothes. He will measure you carefully and will then make clothes for you. Such clothes are called tailor-made clothes.\n\nWhat do we call a man who is dressed badly? We call him a badly-dressed man. A woman who is dressed well is called a well-dressed woman.\n\nWhat do you wear when it rains heavily? You wear a coat that will keep the rain out. Such a coat is called a raincoat. It is made of waterproof cloth--cloth that does not let water pass through. We have a lot of rain in England. If you come to England, bring a raincoat and an umbrella. You will find them useful.\n\nIf the floor, walls and ceiling of a room are made so that sound cannot pass through the wall, we say that the room is sound-proof. There are sound-proof rooms in all broadcasting stations.", "question_text": "What do you think is the best title for the article?", "choices": ["The Forms of Compound Words.", "Compound Words in Everyday Life", "How to Use Compound Words.", "Water-proof Cloth in the Best."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"What do you do when you want to buy clothes? You go to a shop. If you can find clothes that are the right size for you, and if they are ready to wear, you will probably buy them. They are called ready-made clothes. If you can not find clothes that are the right size, you will go to a tailor's shop. A tailor is a man who makes clothes. He will measure you carefully and will then make clothes for you. Such clothes are called tailor-made clothes.\"", "\"If the floor, walls and ceiling of a room are made so that sound cannot pass through the wall, we say that the room is sound-proof.\"", "\"What do you wear when it rains heavily? You wear a coat that will keep the rain out. Such a coat is called a raincoat. It is made of waterproof cloth--cloth that does not let water pass through. We have a lot of rain in England. If you come to England, bring a raincoat and an umbrella. You will find them useful.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is The Forms of Compound Words.", "The best title for the passage is Compound Words in Everyday Life", "The best title for the passage is How to Use Compound Words.", "The best title for the passage is Water-proof Cloth in the Best."], "dc_score": 7.658188372093024, "difficulty_score": 8.417575489674466}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 169, "fields": {"passage": "My legs don't do much because I have a serious disease. I just sit there and look pretty. When people look at me, they only see the chair -- my wheelchair. I've been in one since I was 3 years old. And it doesn't matter if I graduate at the top of my class and go to law school. To some, I'll always be the girl in the chair.\n\nBut I don't think of myself as the kid who can't walk. Most of my friends don't even notice the chair anymore. I'm just the girl they've been friends with. My friends are good at lifting me in and out of my small car when we go to the movies. We even took the car to the dance. One of the boys helped me out of the car and all the girls helped me to fix my dress. Even in the crowded school elevator, there's always someone around to carry me.\n\nThere are a lot of things I can't do for myself, such as lifting my arms, dressing myself, and feeding myself. Even so, I do very well at school and I always tell myself that I'm just like any other kid in my school.\n\nThe truth is that my parents raised me to be proud of my disability. There are plenty of things I wish I could do differently. I wanted to be a doctor. But that's not going to work out. So I'll be a lawyer instead. I also wanted to dance and play soccer. My parents taught me that I'm like this for a reason -- to educate people and show them that this disease affects my bones -- not my brain. My friends Erica once said to me, \"Kennedy, you're not disabled. You just can't walk.\"", "question_text": "Kennedy's story mainly tells us that we should _.", "choices": ["work hard", "smile at life", "have dreams", "thank our parents"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["Kennedy's story tells us that she has a serious disease and has been in a wheelchair since she was 3 years old. She has friends who are good at lifting her in and out of her car and helping her with her dress. Even though there are things she cannot do for herself, she does well at school and sees herself as any other kid at her school. Her parents raised her to be proud of her disability and that it serves a purpose to educate people. One of her friends said to her, \"Kennedy, you're not disabled. You just can't walk.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Kennedy's story mainly tells us that we should work hard.", "Kennedy's story mainly tells us that we should smile at life.", "Kennedy's story mainly tells us that we should have dreams.", "Kennedy's story mainly tells us that we should thank our parents."], "dc_score": 6.868912429378531, "difficulty_score": 7.589857801372731}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 170, "fields": {"passage": "Today, whether or not you follow the latest trends, one's fashion and choice of dress is a reflection of one's individual style and tastes. Can you still remember how you dressed at the start of China's opening-up? Today's program is one of a special series commemorating the 30th anniversary of reform and opening-up in China. In these two episodes we focused on fashion and style and were honored to invite two special guests to join us in studio--Ms. Zhang Ling from Raffles-BICT International College and Alex from Esquire magazine.\n\nWhen we talk about fashion, color is absolutely crucial. A color can reflect the mood of an individual person or the spiritual temperament of entire society or age. Mrs. Zhang and Alex talked about the colors which have left the greatest impression on them. In the 1960s and 70s, blue and grey were the dominant colors at the time and people had limited choices to dress up. But fast forward to the present, you will find no difficulty in choosing from array of vivid colors in the market.\n\nWe also gave our guests a list of keywords--traditional brands, jeans, DIY, international brands, personal dress for them to choose from in order to represent the fashion of their generation. We find out that for every keyword our guest chose, there was a special story behind it. Some of the stories brought us back to old times--we even brought some vintage clothing from the 60s and 70s up on stage and invited some audience members to try them on.\n\nWhen we mention fashion, we must mention brand. With increasing disposable income and purchasing power of the Chinese, many luxury brands have flocked into China. However, you could imagine in 1980s, when the first inter-national brand came to China, it unveiled a fashion storm among the Chinese.", "question_text": "China's opening-up dates back to _.", "choices": ["the 1960s", "the 1970s", "the 1980s", "the 1990s"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["an you still remember how you dressed at the start of China's opening-up?", "oday's program is one of a special series commemorating the 30th anniversary of reform and opening-up in China.", "n the 1960s and 70s, blue and grey were the dominant colors at the time and people had limited choices to dress up.", "hen we mention fashion, we must mention brand.", "owever, you could imagine in 1980s, when the first international brand came to China, it unveiled a fashion storm among the Chinese.", "", "choices: ", "the 1960s'", "the 1970s'", "the 1980s'", "the 1990s'"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["China's opening-up dates back to the 1960s.", "China's opening-up dates back to the 1970s.", "China's opening-up dates back to the 1980s.", "China's opening-up dates back to the 1990s."], "dc_score": 8.19047757174393, "difficulty_score": 9.013456913082003}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 171, "fields": {"passage": "Today, whether or not you follow the latest trends, one's fashion and choice of dress is a reflection of one's individual style and tastes. Can you still remember how you dressed at the start of China's opening-up? Today's program is one of a special series commemorating the 30th anniversary of reform and opening-up in China. In these two episodes we focused on fashion and style and were honored to invite two special guests to join us in studio--Ms. Zhang Ling from Raffles-BICT International College and Alex from Esquire magazine.\n\nWhen we talk about fashion, color is absolutely crucial. A color can reflect the mood of an individual person or the spiritual temperament of entire society or age. Mrs. Zhang and Alex talked about the colors which have left the greatest impression on them. In the 1960s and 70s, blue and grey were the dominant colors at the time and people had limited choices to dress up. But fast forward to the present, you will find no difficulty in choosing from array of vivid colors in the market.\n\nWe also gave our guests a list of keywords--traditional brands, jeans, DIY, international brands, personal dress for them to choose from in order to represent the fashion of their generation. We find out that for every keyword our guest chose, there was a special story behind it. Some of the stories brought us back to old times--we even brought some vintage clothing from the 60s and 70s up on stage and invited some audience members to try them on.\n\nWhen we mention fashion, we must mention brand. With increasing disposable income and purchasing power of the Chinese, many luxury brands have flocked into China. However, you could imagine in 1980s, when the first inter-national brand came to China, it unveiled a fashion storm among the Chinese.", "question_text": "All of the following EXCEPT _ are keywords in representing the fashion of our generation.", "choices": ["traditional brands", "international brands", "personal dress", "special stories"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["We also gave our guests a list of keywords--traditional brands, jeans, DIY, international brands, personal dress for them to choose from in order to represent the fashion of their generation."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["All of the following EXCEPT traditional brands are keywords in representing the fashion of our generation.", "All of the following EXCEPT international brands are keywords in representing the fashion of our generation.", "All of the following EXCEPT personal dress are keywords in representing the fashion of our generation.", "All of the following EXCEPT special stories are keywords in representing the fashion of our generation."], "dc_score": 8.19047757174393, "difficulty_score": 8.19047757174393}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 172, "fields": {"passage": "Today, whether or not you follow the latest trends, one's fashion and choice of dress is a reflection of one's individual style and tastes. Can you still remember how you dressed at the start of China's opening-up? Today's program is one of a special series commemorating the 30th anniversary of reform and opening-up in China. In these two episodes we focused on fashion and style and were honored to invite two special guests to join us in studio--Ms. Zhang Ling from Raffles-BICT International College and Alex from Esquire magazine.\n\nWhen we talk about fashion, color is absolutely crucial. A color can reflect the mood of an individual person or the spiritual temperament of entire society or age. Mrs. Zhang and Alex talked about the colors which have left the greatest impression on them. In the 1960s and 70s, blue and grey were the dominant colors at the time and people had limited choices to dress up. But fast forward to the present, you will find no difficulty in choosing from array of vivid colors in the market.\n\nWe also gave our guests a list of keywords--traditional brands, jeans, DIY, international brands, personal dress for them to choose from in order to represent the fashion of their generation. We find out that for every keyword our guest chose, there was a special story behind it. Some of the stories brought us back to old times--we even brought some vintage clothing from the 60s and 70s up on stage and invited some audience members to try them on.\n\nWhen we mention fashion, we must mention brand. With increasing disposable income and purchasing power of the Chinese, many luxury brands have flocked into China. However, you could imagine in 1980s, when the first inter-national brand came to China, it unveiled a fashion storm among the Chinese.", "question_text": "The fact that many luxury brands have flocked into China shows that _.", "choices": ["China has given up its own culture", "Chinese have been tired of array of vivid colors in the markets", "Chinese have increased their disposable income and purchasing power", "China has grown tired of its traditional brands"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["When we mention fashion, we must mention brand. With increasing disposable income and purchasing power of the Chinese, many luxury brands have flocked into China. However, you could imagine in 1980s, when the first international brand came to China, it unveiled a fashion storm among the Chinese. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The fact that many luxury brands have flocked into China shows that China has given up its own culture.", "The fact that many luxury brands have flocked into China shows that Chinese have been tired of the array of vivid colors in the markets.", "The fact that many luxury brands have flocked into China shows that Chinese have increased their disposable income and purchasing power. ", "The fact that many luxury brands have flocked into China shows that China has grown tired of its traditional brands."], "dc_score": 8.19047757174393, "difficulty_score": 9.121204777832505}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 173, "fields": {"passage": "A couple who held hands at breakfast every morning even after 70 years of marriage have died 15 hours apart. Helen Felumlee, died at 92 on April 12. Her husband, 91-year-old Kenneth Felumlee, died the next morning.\n\nThe couple's eight children say the two had been inseparable since meeting as teenagers, once sharing the bottom of a bunk bed on a ferry rather than sleeping on night apart.\n\nThey remained deeply in love until the very end, even eating breakfast together while holding hands, said their daughter, Linda Cody. \"We knew when one went, the other was going to go\", she said. According to Cody, about 12 hours after Helen died, Kenneth looked at his children and said, \"Mon's dead\". He quickly began to fade, surrounded by 24 of his closest family members and friends when he died the next morning. \"He was ready\", Cody said, \"He just didn't want to leave her here by herself\".\n\nSon Dick said his parents died of old age, surrounded by family.\n\nThe pair had known each other for several years when they eloped in Newport across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, on Feb. 20, 1994. At two days shy of his 21st birthday, Kenneth-who went by Kenny-was too young to marry in Ohio. \"He couldn't wait\". son Jim said.\n\nKenneth worked as a railroad car inspector and mechanic before becoming a mail carrier for the Post Office. He was active in the church as a Sunday teacher.\n\nHelen stayed at home, not only cooking and cleaning for her own family but also for other families in need in the area. She taught Sunday school, too, but was known more for her greeting card ministry, sending cards for birthdays, sympathy and the holidays to everyone in her community, each with a personal note inside. \"She kept Hallmark in business\", daughter-in-law Debbie joked.\n\nWhen Kenneth retired in 1983 and the children began to leave the house, the Felumlees began to explore their love of travel, visiting almost all 50 states by bus. \"He didn't want to fly anywhere because you couldn't see anything as you were going\", Jim said.\n\nAlthough both experienced declining health in recent years, Cody said, each tried to stay strong for the other. \"That's what kept them going\", she said.", "question_text": "From what Cody said, we can learn the children _.", "choices": ["were not in front of their father", "don't look after their father", "foresaw their father would go", "surrounded their father"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"They remained deeply in love until the very end, even eating breakfast together while holding hands, said their daughter, Linda Cody. \"We knew when one went, the other was going to go\", she said... surrounded by 24 of his closest family members and friends when he died the next morning.\" From what Cody said, we can learn the children surrounded their father."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["From what Cody said, we can learn the children were not in front of their father.", "From what Cody said, we can learn that the children don't look after their father.", "From what Cody said, we can learn that the children foresaw their father would go.", "From what Cody said, we can learn that the children surrounded their father."], "dc_score": 9.617166947171576, "difficulty_score": 10.476218961659828}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 174, "fields": {"passage": "A couple who held hands at breakfast every morning even after 70 years of marriage have died 15 hours apart. Helen Felumlee, died at 92 on April 12. Her husband, 91-year-old Kenneth Felumlee, died the next morning.\n\nThe couple's eight children say the two had been inseparable since meeting as teenagers, once sharing the bottom of a bunk bed on a ferry rather than sleeping on night apart.\n\nThey remained deeply in love until the very end, even eating breakfast together while holding hands, said their daughter, Linda Cody. \"We knew when one went, the other was going to go\", she said. According to Cody, about 12 hours after Helen died, Kenneth looked at his children and said, \"Mon's dead\". He quickly began to fade, surrounded by 24 of his closest family members and friends when he died the next morning. \"He was ready\", Cody said, \"He just didn't want to leave her here by herself\".\n\nSon Dick said his parents died of old age, surrounded by family.\n\nThe pair had known each other for several years when they eloped in Newport across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, on Feb. 20, 1994. At two days shy of his 21st birthday, Kenneth-who went by Kenny-was too young to marry in Ohio. \"He couldn't wait\". son Jim said.\n\nKenneth worked as a railroad car inspector and mechanic before becoming a mail carrier for the Post Office. He was active in the church as a Sunday teacher.\n\nHelen stayed at home, not only cooking and cleaning for her own family but also for other families in need in the area. She taught Sunday school, too, but was known more for her greeting card ministry, sending cards for birthdays, sympathy and the holidays to everyone in her community, each with a personal note inside. \"She kept Hallmark in business\", daughter-in-law Debbie joked.\n\nWhen Kenneth retired in 1983 and the children began to leave the house, the Felumlees began to explore their love of travel, visiting almost all 50 states by bus. \"He didn't want to fly anywhere because you couldn't see anything as you were going\", Jim said.\n\nAlthough both experienced declining health in recent years, Cody said, each tried to stay strong for the other. \"That's what kept them going\", she said.", "question_text": "How many jobs did Kenneth get?", "choices": ["Four.", "Three.", "Two.", "One."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Kenneth had two jobs - he worked as a railroad car inspector and mechanic before becoming a mail carrier for the Post Office."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Kenneth got four jobs.", "Kenneth got three jobs.", "Kenneth got two jobs.", "Kenneth got one jobs."], "dc_score": 9.617166947171576, "difficulty_score": 9.906724742790777}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 175, "fields": {"passage": "Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and called out to her, \"What are you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!\"\n\nAlice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to. She saw a little house, on the door of which was a plate with the name \"W. RABBIT\". She went in and hurried upstairs.\n\nBy this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. There was no label this time with the words' DRINK ME,' but she opened it and put it to her lips.\"I know something interesting is sure to happen,\" she said to herself. Before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head touching the ceiling. She went on growing and very soon had to get down on her knees on the floor. Still she went on growing, and as a last resort, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself, \"Now I can do no more, whatever happens. What will happen to me?\"\n\nLuckily for Alice, she grew no longer: still it was very uncomfortable, and as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.", "question_text": "According to the passage, we can know that Alice _.", "choices": ["felt comfortable when she grew no longer", "was afraid when the Rabbit called out to her", "knew what would happen to her if she continued to grow", "saw a label \"DRINK ME\" on the bottle and drank half of it"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Luckily for Alice, she grew no longer: still it was very uncomfortable, and as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.\"", "\"Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once\"", "\"Before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head touching the ceiling. She went on growing and very soon had to get down on her knees on the floor. Still she went on growing, and as a last resort, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself, 'Now I can do no more, whatever happens. What will happen to me?'\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Alice felt comfortable when she grew no longer.", "Alice was afraid when the Rabbit called out to her.", "Alice knew what would happen to her if she continued to grow.", "Alice saw a label \"DRINK ME\" on the bottle and drank half of it."], "dc_score": 8.08330701754386, "difficulty_score": 8.08330701754386}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 176, "fields": {"passage": "Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and called out to her, \"What are you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!\"\n\nAlice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to. She saw a little house, on the door of which was a plate with the name \"W. RABBIT\". She went in and hurried upstairs.\n\nBy this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. There was no label this time with the words' DRINK ME,' but she opened it and put it to her lips.\"I know something interesting is sure to happen,\" she said to herself. Before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head touching the ceiling. She went on growing and very soon had to get down on her knees on the floor. Still she went on growing, and as a last resort, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself, \"Now I can do no more, whatever happens. What will happen to me?\"\n\nLuckily for Alice, she grew no longer: still it was very uncomfortable, and as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.", "question_text": "Alice grew so big because she _.", "choices": ["had special magical power", "wore the Rabbit's gloves.", "drank something in the bottle", "wanted to frighten the Rabbit"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass.", "There was no label this time with the words' DRINK ME', but she opened it and put it to her lips.", "Before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head touching the ceiling.", "She went on growing, and as a last resort, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself, \"Now I can do no more, whatever happens. What will happen to me?\"", "Luckily for Alice, she grew no longer."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Alice grew so big because she had special magical power.", "Alice grew so big because she wore the Rabbit's gloves.", "Alice grew so big because she drank something in the bottle.", "Alice grew so big because she wanted to frighten the Rabbit."], "dc_score": 8.08330701754386, "difficulty_score": 8.815486199925209}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 177, "fields": {"passage": "Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and called out to her, \"What are you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!\"\n\nAlice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to. She saw a little house, on the door of which was a plate with the name \"W. RABBIT\". She went in and hurried upstairs.\n\nBy this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. There was no label this time with the words' DRINK ME,' but she opened it and put it to her lips.\"I know something interesting is sure to happen,\" she said to herself. Before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head touching the ceiling. She went on growing and very soon had to get down on her knees on the floor. Still she went on growing, and as a last _, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself, \"Now I can do no more, whatever happens. What will happen to me?\"\n\nLuckily for Alice, she grew no longer: still it was very uncomfortable, and as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.", "question_text": "The passage may come from a(an) _.", "choices": ["science book", "wildlife magazine", "guide book", "English novel"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice,\"\n\"She saw a little house, on the door of which was a plate with the name 'W. RABBIT',\"\n\"There was no label this time with the words 'DRINK ME',\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The passage may come from a science book.", "The passage may come from a wildlife magazine.", "The passage may come from a guide book.", "The passage may come from an English novel."], "dc_score": 8.035084976525821, "difficulty_score": 8.398800867541894}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 178, "fields": {"passage": "My favourite book is The Adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Tom lives with his aunt Polly in a quiet street of St. Petersburg, Missouri. He's a lively and clever young boy,and he finds himself in many exciting adventures. He runs away with his two friends, Huck Finn and Joe, to an island in the middle of the Mississippi River for several days.With Huck he goes looking for treasure, with Becky he gets lost in a cave.and finally,they find a box of gold.\n\nMy favourite scene in the book is when everyone thinks Tom is dead. He decides to go to his own funeral. He hides and watches for a time and then suddenly he appears. Everyone is astonished to see him but they're also pleased to see him alive.\n\nTom is the hero of the story, but there are other important characters. Huck is an outsider and everyone is afraid of him. Becky is pretty with fair hair, Joe is Tom's best friend, and Injun Joe is the bad man of the story.\n\nThe theme of the story is about children growing up. It describes how strangers are seen in small towns of America. Finally, it talks about freedom, social rules and how people are punished for bad behaviour.\n\nWhy do I think The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is a great book? Mark Twain wrote the story in 1876, but it's still read and loved by people all over the world today. And although it's only a story, Twain wrote it in the everyday English of the southern states of America in the 19th century, so it sounds very real. Today it's thought to be one of the greatest books in American literature. Go on--- read it! I know you'll enjoy it, too.", "question_text": ".How did people feel when Tom appeared at his own funeral ?", "choices": ["They were surprised and happy.", "They were surprised and sad", "They were worried and excited.", "They were frightened and happy."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["My favourite scene in the book is when everyone thinks Tom is dead. He decides to go to his own funeral. He hides and watches for a time and then suddenly he appears. Everyone is astonished to see him but they're also pleased to see him alive."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["When Tom appeared at his own funeral, they were surprised and happy.", "When Tom appeared at his own funeral, they were surprised and sad.", "When Tom appeared at his own funeral, they were worried and excited.", "When Tom appeared at his own funeral, they were frightened and happy."], "dc_score": 8.909254818787584, "difficulty_score": 9.646232416323494}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 179, "fields": {"passage": "My favourite book is The Adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Tom lives with his aunt Polly in a quiet street of St. Petersburg, Missouri. He's a lively and clever young boy,and he finds himself in many exciting adventures. He runs away with his two friends, Huck Finn and Joe, to an island in the middle of the Mississippi River for several days.With Huck he goes looking for treasure, with Becky he gets lost in a cave.and finally,they find a box of gold.\n\nMy favourite scene in the book is when everyone thinks Tom is dead. He decides to go to his own funeral. He hides and watches for a time and then suddenly he appears. Everyone is astonished to see him but they're also pleased to see him alive.\n\nTom is the hero of the story, but there are other important characters. Huck is an outsider and everyone is afraid of him. Becky is pretty with fair hair, Joe is Tom's best friend, and Injun Joe is the bad man of the story.\n\nThe theme of the story is about children growing up. It describes how strangers are seen in small towns of America. Finally, it talks about freedom, social rules and how people are punished for bad behaviour.\n\nWhy do I think The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is a great book? Mark Twain wrote the story in 1876, but it's still read and loved by people all over the world today. And although it's only a story, Twain wrote it in the everyday English of the southern states of America in the 19th century, so it sounds very real. Today it's thought to be one of the greatest books in American literature. Go on--- read it! I know you'll enjoy it, too.", "question_text": ".The whole book is mainly about _.", "choices": ["freedom and social rules", "children's bad behaviour", "the growth of young children", "strangers in American small towns"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Tom lives with his aunt Polly in a quiet street of St. Petersburg, Missouri. He's a lively and clever young boy,and he finds himself in many exciting adventures.", "He runs away with his two friends, Huck Finn and Joe, to an island in the middle of the Mississippi River for several days.", "With Huck he goes looking for treasure, with Becky he gets lost in a cave.and finally,they find a box of gold.", "My favourite scene in the book is when everyone thinks Tom is dead. ", "The theme of the story is about children growing up. It describes how strangers are seen in small towns of America. Finally, it talks about freedom, social rules and how people are punished for bad behaviour.", "Why do I think The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is a great book? "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The whole book is mainly about freedom and social rules.", "The whole book is mainly about children's bad behaviour.", "The whole book is mainly about the growth of young children.", "The whole book is mainly about strangers in American small towns."], "dc_score": 8.909254818787584, "difficulty_score": 9.639625813271165}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 180, "fields": {"passage": "My favourite book is The Adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Tom lives with his aunt Polly in a quiet street of St. Petersburg, Missouri. He's a lively and clever young boy,and he finds himself in many exciting adventures. He runs away with his two friends, Huck Finn and Joe, to an island in the middle of the Mississippi River for several days.With Huck he goes looking for treasure, with Becky he gets lost in a cave.and finally,they find a box of gold.\n\nMy favourite scene in the book is when everyone thinks Tom is dead. He decides to go to his own funeral. He hides and watches for a time and then suddenly he appears. Everyone is astonished to see him but they're also pleased to see him alive.\n\nTom is the hero of the story, but there are other important characters. Huck is an outsider and everyone is afraid of him. Becky is pretty with fair hair, Joe is Tom's best friend, and Injun Joe is the bad man of the story.\n\nThe theme of the story is about children growing up. It describes how strangers are seen in small towns of America. Finally, it talks about freedom, social rules and how people are punished for bad behaviour.\n\nWhy do I think The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is a great book? Mark Twain wrote the story in 1876, but it's still read and loved by people all over the world today. And although it's only a story, Twain wrote it in the everyday English of the southern states of America in the 19th century, so it sounds very real. Today it's thought to be one of the greatest books in American literature. Go on--- read it! I know you'll enjoy it, too.", "question_text": ".The writer writes the article to _.", "choices": ["ask us to read the book", "tell us how popular the book is today", "tell us when Mark Twain wrote the story", "tell us why the story sounds very real"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["My favourite book is The Adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.", "He's a lively and clever young boy, and he finds himself in many exciting adventures.", "My favourite scene in the book is when everyone thinks Tom is dead.", "Tom is the hero of the story, but there are other important characters.", "The theme of the story is about children growing up.", "Why do I think The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is a great book?", "Mark Twain wrote the story in 1876, but it's still read and loved by people all over the world today.", "Twain wrote it in the everyday English of the southern states of America in the 19th century, so it sounds very real."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The writer writes the article to ask us to read the book.", "The writer writes the article to tell us how popular the book is today.", "The writer writes the article to tell us when Mark Twain wrote the story.", "The writer writes the article to tell us why the story sounds very real."], "dc_score": 8.909254818787584, "difficulty_score": 9.536134888425162}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 181, "fields": {"passage": "What does it mean to say that we live in a world of persuasion? It means that we live among competing interests. Your roommate's need to study for an exam may take priority over pizza. Your instructor may have good reasons not to change your grade.\n\nIn such a world, persuasion is the art of getting others to give fair and favorable consideration to our points of view. When we persuade, we want to influence how others believe and behave. We may not always succeed in persuading others -- other points of view may be more persuasive, depending on the listener, the situation, and the merit of the case. But when we practice the art of persuasion, we try to ensure that our position receives the attention it deserves.\n\nSome people, however, object to the very idea of persuasion. They may regard it as an unwelcome interruption into their lives. Just the opposite, we believe that persuasion is unavoidable -- to live is to persuade. Persuasion may be ethical or unethical, selfless or selfish, inspiring or degrading. Persuaders may enlighten our minds or get our vulnerability. Ethical persuasion, however, calls on sound reasoning and is sensitive to the feelings and needs of listeners. Such persuasion can help us apply the wisdom of the past to the decisions we now must make. Therefore, the most basic part of education is learning to resist the one kind of persuasion and to encourage and practice the other.\n\nBeyond its personal importance to us, persuasion is necessary to society. The right to persuade and be persuaded is the bedrock of the American political system, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution.", "question_text": "According to the passage, persuasion means _.", "choices": ["changing others' points of view", "exercising power over other people", "getting other people to consider your point of view", "getting people to agree with you and do what you want"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"In such a world, persuasion is the art of getting others to give fair and favorable consideration to our points of view,\"\n\"Persuasion may be ethical or unethical, selfless or selfish, inspiring or degrading,\"\n\"Therefore, the most basic part of education is learning to resist the one kind of persuasion and to encourage and practice the other,\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["According to the passage, persuasion means changing others' points of view.", "According to the passage, persuasion means exercising power over other people.", "According to the passage, persuasion means getting other people to consider your point of view.", "According to the passage, persuasion means getting people to agree with you and do what you want."], "dc_score": 8.344533333333334, "difficulty_score": 9.199029959317828}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 182, "fields": {"passage": "What does it mean to say that we live in a world of persuasion? It means that we live among competing interests. Your roommate's need to study for an exam may take priority over pizza. Your instructor may have good reasons not to change your grade.\n\nIn such a world, persuasion is the art of getting others to give fair and favorable consideration to our points of view. When we persuade, we want to influence how others believe and behave. We may not always succeed in persuading others -- other points of view may be more persuasive, depending on the listener, the situation, and the merit of the case. But when we practice the art of persuasion, we try to ensure that our position receives the attention it deserves.\n\nSome people, however, object to the very idea of persuasion. They may regard it as an unwelcome interruption into their lives. Just the opposite, we believe that persuasion is unavoidable -- to live is to persuade. Persuasion may be ethical or unethical, selfless or selfish, inspiring or degrading. Persuaders may enlighten our minds or get our vulnerability. Ethical persuasion, however, calls on sound reasoning and is sensitive to the feelings and needs of listeners. Such persuasion can help us apply the wisdom of the past to the decisions we now must make. Therefore, the most basic part of education is learning to resist the one kind of persuasion and to encourage and practice the other.\n\nBeyond its personal importance to us, persuasion is necessary to society. The right to persuade and be persuaded is the bedrock of the American political system, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution.", "question_text": "The passage states that some people object to persuasion because they think it is _.", "choices": ["a danger to society", "difficult to do well", "unwelcome behavior", "never successful"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The passage states that some people object to the very idea of persuasion, as they may regard it as an unwelcome interruption into their lives."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The passage states that some people object to persuasion because they think it is a danger to society.", "The passage states that some people object to persuasion because they think it is difficult to do well.", "The passage states that some people object to persuasion because they think it is unwelcome behavior.", "The passage states that some people object to persuasion because they think it is never successful."], "dc_score": 8.344533333333334, "difficulty_score": 8.344533333333334}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 183, "fields": {"passage": "What does it mean to say that we live in a world of persuasion? It means that we live among competing interests. Your roommate's need to study for an exam may take priority over pizza. Your instructor may have good reasons not to change your grade.\n\nIn such a world, persuasion is the art of getting others to give fair and favorable consideration to our points of view. When we persuade, we want to influence how others believe and behave. We may not always succeed in persuading others -- other points of view may be more persuasive, depending on the listener, the situation, and the merit of the case. But when we practice the art of persuasion, we try to ensure that our position receives the attention it deserves.\n\nSome people, however, object to the very idea of persuasion. They may regard it as an unwelcome interruption into their lives. Just the opposite, we believe that persuasion is unavoidable -- to live is to persuade. Persuasion may be ethical or unethical, selfless or selfish, inspiring or degrading. Persuaders may enlighten our minds or get our vulnerability. Ethical persuasion, however, calls on sound reasoning and is sensitive to the feelings and needs of listeners. Such persuasion can help us apply the wisdom of the past to the decisions we now must make. Therefore, the most basic part of education is learning to resist the one kind of persuasion and to encourage and practice the other.\n\nBeyond its personal importance to us, persuasion is necessary to society. The right to persuade and be persuaded is the bedrock of the American political system, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution.", "question_text": "The passage mainly discusses _.", "choices": ["that people persuade to get what they want", "that people persuade in different ways", "that persuasion is widely accepted and appreciated", "that persuasion is important and it is all around us"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"What does it mean to say that we live in a world of persuasion? It means that we live among competing interests.\"\n\"In such a world, persuasion is the art of getting others to give fair and favorable consideration to our points of view.\"\n\"Persuasion may be ethical or unethical, selfless or selfish, inspiring or degrading.\"\n\"Therefore, the most basic part of education is learning to resist the one kind of persuasion and to encourage and practice the other.\"\n\"Beyond its personal importance to us, persuasion is necessary to society. The right to persuade and be persuaded is the bedrock of the American political system, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The passage mainly discusses that people persuade to get what they want.", "The passage mainly discusses that people persuade in different ways.", "The passage mainly discusses that persuasion is widely accepted and appreciated.", "The passage mainly discusses that persuasion is important and it is all around us."], "dc_score": 8.344533333333334, "difficulty_score": 9.047496651427778}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 184, "fields": {"passage": "Hi, everybody!\n\nWelcome to our newly-opened Richards Cinema Bookstore!\n\nNow let me introduce to you some of the new film books in our store.\n\nAre you Chinese film fans? OK, here comes the latest 25 New Takes about Chinese films. It is a collection of 25 fresh readings of different Chinese films from the 1930s to the present. In recent years, Chinese films are very popular in the States, such as Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon, Hero, and Flowers of Shanghai.\n\nDo you like French films? Well, here is The French Cinema Book. It covers French films from the 1890s to the beginning of the 21st century. It is written for all lovers of French cinema: students and teachers, specialists and fans, and so on.\n\nMaybe you are Indian film fans and star-chasers. Then here is Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema. The book is complete introduction to all the best Indian films. It also offers a full list of names of the famous and successful film stars in the past ten years. You know, the Indian film industry is the largest in the world after our Hollywood.\n\nIf you like British films, we have The British Cinema Book. It is a good review of British cinema. This book contains a good many nice pictures.\n\nIn our bookstore, you can also find books about Mexican, Japanese, Australian, German and Italian films.\n\nWell, please help yourselves to some coffee or tea, and have a good time here!", "question_text": "The speaker of the passage is most probably _.", "choices": ["the author of 25 New Takes", "a tourist in the cinema bookstore", "the manager of the cinema bookstore", "a reader of Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Welcome to our newly-opened Richards Cinema Bookstore!\"", "\"Now let me introduce to you some of the new film books in our store.\"", "\"Are you Chinese film fans? OK, here comes the latest 25 New Takes about Chinese films.\"", "\"Do you like French films? Well, here is The French Cinema Book.\"", "\"Maybe you are Indian film fans and star-chasers. Then here is Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema.\"", "\"If you like British films, we have The British Cinema Book.\"", "\"In our bookstore, you can also find books about Mexican, Japanese, Australian, German and Italian films.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The speaker of the passage is most probably the author of 25 New Takes.", "The speaker of the passage is most probably a tourist in the cinema bookstore.", "The speaker of the passage is most probably the manager of the cinema bookstore.", "The speaker of the passage is most probably a reader of Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema."], "dc_score": 8.464432740565105, "difficulty_score": 8.986986090029994}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 185, "fields": {"passage": "Hi, everybody!\n\nWelcome to our newly-opened Richards Cinema Bookstore!\n\nNow let me introduce to you some of the new film books in our store.\n\nAre you Chinese film fans? OK, here comes the latest 25 New Takes about Chinese films. It is a collection of 25 fresh readings of different Chinese films from the 1930s to the present. In recent years, Chinese films are very popular in the States, such as Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon, Hero, and Flowers of Shanghai.\n\nDo you like French films? Well, here is The French Cinema Book. It covers French films from the 1890s to the beginning of the 21st century. It is written for all lovers of French cinema: students and teachers, specialists and fans, and so on.\n\nMaybe you are Indian film fans and star-chasers. Then here is Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema. The book is complete introduction to all the best Indian films. It also offers a full list of names of the famous and successful film stars in the past ten years. You know, the Indian film industry is the largest in the world after our Hollywood.\n\nIf you like British films, we have The British Cinema Book. It is a good review of British cinema. This book contains a good many nice pictures.\n\nIn our bookstore, you can also find books about Mexican, Japanese, Australian, German and Italian films.\n\nWell, please help yourselves to some coffee or tea, and have a good time here!", "question_text": "The purpose of the speaker is _.", "choices": ["to satisfy the customers' various tastes", "to keep the authors in the cinema bookstore", "to offer the tourists chances to meet the film stars", "to turn the readers into film producers"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Welcome to our newly-opened Richards Cinema Bookstore!\"", "\"Now let me introduce to you some of the new film books in our store.\"", "\"In our bookstore, you can also find books about Mexican, Japanese, Australian, German and Italian films.\"", "\"please help yourselves to some coffee or tea, and have a good time here!\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The purpose of the speaker is to satisfy the customers' various tastes.", "The purpose of the speaker is to keep the authors in the cinema bookstore.", "The purpose of the speaker is to offer the tourists chances to meet the film stars.", "The purpose of the speaker is to turn the readers into film producers."], "dc_score": 8.464432740565105, "difficulty_score": 9.014710410853871}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 186, "fields": {"passage": "A rare butterfly has been discovered in Britain for the first time in 60 years, having moved from Eastern Europe. The only previous record of a wild yellow-legged Tortoiseshell in Britain was in 1953, when it was seen just once in Sevenoaks, Kent. Several weeks ago, there were already four confirmed sightings, along the East coast in Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent, and six further reports of the butterfly in coastal areas. Conservationists are very excited about the sightings, which are rare in the butterfly world.\n\nThe butterflies are thought to have flown on easterly winds across Europe in the last few weeks. The large and colourful insect mainly lives in Eastern Europe. In recent years, it has spread into Scandinavia and its number increases rapidly during warm weather. Also known as the Scarce Tortoiseshell, it has an orange and blue colour and is about one third bigger than our own Small Tortoiseshell.\n\nButterfly Conservation was starting its annual Big Butterfly Count, a yearly survey of the butterflies across the nation. Sir David Attenborough, President of the charity, said, \"The UK is a nation of amateur naturalists and we have a proud tradition of celebrating and studying our wildlife. By taking part in the Big Butterfly Count this summer, you can contribute to discovering the fantastic butterflies and other wildlife that share your garden, parks and countryside.\" He added, \"Butterflies fought back last year after a terrible 2012 but despite this,butterfly numbers were still below average. Three quarters of the UK's butterflies are in decline and one third are in danger of dying out. This is bad news for the UK's birds, bees, bats and other wildlife.", "question_text": "These rare butterflies usually live in _.", "choices": ["Eastern Europe", "Norfolk,Suffolk and Kent", "coastal areas", "Sevenoaks,Kent"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["The large and colourful insect mainly lives in Eastern Europe.", "In recent years, it has spread into Scandinavia and its number increases rapidly during warm weather.", "The only previous record of a wild yellow-legged Tortoiseshell in Britain was in 1953, when it was seen just once in Sevenoaks, Kent.", "Several weeks ago, there were already four confirmed sightings, along the East coast in Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent, and six further reports of the butterfly in coastal areas."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["These rare butterflies usually live in Eastern Europe.", "These rare butterflies usually live in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent.", "These rare butterflies usually live in coastal areas.", "These rare butterflies usually live in Sevenoaks, Kent."], "dc_score": 10.639694805194805, "difficulty_score": 11.424455427976621}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 187, "fields": {"passage": "A rare butterfly has been discovered in Britain for the first time in 60 years, having moved from Eastern Europe. The only previous record of a wild yellow-legged Tortoiseshell in Britain was in 1953, when it was seen just once in Sevenoaks, Kent. Several weeks ago, there were already four confirmed sightings, along the East coast in Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent, and six further reports of the butterfly in coastal areas. Conservationists are very excited about the sightings, which are rare in the butterfly world.\n\nThe butterflies are thought to have flown on easterly winds across Europe in the last few weeks. The large and colourful insect mainly lives in Eastern Europe. In recent years, it has spread into Scandinavia and its number increases rapidly during warm weather. Also known as the Scarce Tortoiseshell, it has an orange and blue colour and is about one third bigger than our own Small Tortoiseshell.\n\nButterfly Conservation was starting its annual Big Butterfly Count, a yearly survey of the butterflies across the nation. Sir David Attenborough, President of the charity, said, \"The UK is a nation of amateur naturalists and we have a proud tradition of celebrating and studying our wildlife. By taking part in the Big Butterfly Count this summer, you can contribute to discovering the fantastic butterflies and other wildlife that share your garden, parks and countryside.\" He added, \"Butterflies fought back last year after a terrible 2012 but despite this,butterfly numbers were still below average. Three quarters of the UK's butterflies are in decline and one third are in danger of dying out. This is bad news for the UK's birds, bees, bats and other wildlife.", "question_text": "The annual Big Butterfly Count is Intended to _.", "choices": ["inspire amateurs'studying interest", "teach people to do good gardening", "study butterflies across Britain", "celebrate naturalists'contributions"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["The annual Big Butterfly Count is mentioned in the passage. Sir David Attenborough encourages people to participate. However, the passage does not directly state the purpose of the Big Butterfly Count."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The annual Big Butterfly Count is intended to inspire amateurs' studying interest.", "The annual Big Butterfly Count is intended to teach people to do good gardening.", "The annual Big Butterfly Count is intended to study butterflies across Britain.", "The annual Big Butterfly Count is intended to celebrate naturalists' contributions."], "dc_score": 10.639694805194805, "difficulty_score": 11.607234074202397}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 188, "fields": {"passage": "A rare butterfly has been discovered in Britain for the first time in 60 years, having moved from Eastern Europe. The only previous record of a wild yellow-legged Tortoiseshell in Britain was in 1953, when it was seen just once in Sevenoaks, Kent. Several weeks ago, there were already four confirmed sightings, along the East coast in Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent, and six further reports of the butterfly in coastal areas. Conservationists are very excited about the sightings, which are rare in the butterfly world.\n\nThe butterflies are thought to have flown on easterly winds across Europe in the last few weeks. The large and colourful insect mainly lives in Eastern Europe. In recent years, it has spread into Scandinavia and its number increases rapidly during warm weather. Also known as the Scarce Tortoiseshell, it has an orange and blue colour and is about one third bigger than our own Small Tortoiseshell.\n\nButterfly Conservation was starting its annual Big Butterfly Count, a yearly survey of the butterflies across the nation. Sir David Attenborough, President of the charity, said, \"The UK is a nation of amateur naturalists and we have a proud tradition of celebrating and studying our wildlife. By taking part in the Big Butterfly Count this summer, you can contribute to discovering the fantastic butterflies and other wildlife that share your garden, parks and countryside.\" He added, \"Butterflies fought back last year after a terrible 2012 but despite this,butterfly numbers were still below average. Three quarters of the UK's butterflies are in decline and one third are in danger of dying out. This is bad news for the UK's birds, bees, bats and other wildlife.", "question_text": "What's the main idea of the text?", "choices": ["Butterflies are quite rare in Britain.", "Butterflies like travelling frequently.", "A rare butterfly appeared in Britain.", "The butterfly world changed a lot."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"A rare butterfly has been discovered in Britain for the first time in 60 years, having moved from Eastern Europe…Several weeks ago, there were already four confirmed sightings, along the East coast in Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent, and six further reports of the butterfly in coastal areas…Conservationists are very excited about the sightings, which are rare in the butterfly world.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Butterflies are quite rare in Britain.", "Butterflies like travelling frequently.", "A rare butterfly appeared in Britain.", "The butterfly world changed a lot."], "dc_score": 10.639694805194805, "difficulty_score": 11.289318301766814}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 189, "fields": {"passage": "The first time Luca heard the Island of Inventions, he was very young, but the wonders he heard about sounded so unbelievable to him that they were forever kept in his memory. Since then, he never stopped searching clues which might lead him to that place of wonder. He read widely to collect information.\n\nTaking a little from here and there, he got quite a clear idea of what the Island was really like. It was a secret place, where all the great men learn and invent together. To be able to join that select club, you had to have created great inventions. Only then could you receive the invitation.\n\nTo get a chance, Luca spend the years studying and inventing. Every new idea he got, he made it into an invention, and if there were anything he didn't understand, he would seek help. Soon he met other brilliant inventors too, and he told them of the secrets of the Island. These young inventors would likewise dream of being sent \"the letter\".\n\nAs time passed, the disappointment of not being sent the letter gave rise to even greater cooperation and help between them. Their inventions soon became known throughout the world.\n\nBut no invention came.\n\nThey didn't lose heart. They continued learning and inventing, trying to come up with better ideas. Fresh talent was added to their group. One day, Luca, already very old, was speaking with a brilliant young man who had written to join their group. Luca told the young man the secrets of the Island, and of how he was sure that they would receive an invitation. Surprised, the young inventor said: \"What? You mean this isn't really the Island of Inventions?\"\n\nIt inspired Luca and he realized that his dream had become true.", "question_text": "Luca read widely to _.", "choices": ["get information about the great inventions", "get clear ideas about the island for vacations", "seek massages about the secret club of inventions", "get more knowledge for the benefit of his inventions"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Luca read widely to collect information."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Luca read widely to get information about the great inventions.", "Luca read widely to get clear ideas about the island for vacations.", "Luca read widely to seek massages about the secret club of inventions.", "Luca read widely to get more knowledge for the benefit of his inventions."], "dc_score": 8.431689417989418, "difficulty_score": 8.431689417989418}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 190, "fields": {"passage": "The first time Luca heard the Island of Inventions, he was very young, but the wonders he heard about sounded so unbelievable to him that they were forever kept in his memory. Since then, he never stopped searching clues which might lead him to that place of wonder. He read widely to collect information.\n\nTaking a little from here and there, he got quite a clear idea of what the Island was really like. It was a secret place, where all the great men learn and invent together. To be able to join that select club, you had to have created great inventions. Only then could you receive the invitation.\n\nTo get a chance, Luca spend the years studying and inventing. Every new idea he got, he made it into an invention, and if there were anything he didn't understand, he would seek help. Soon he met other brilliant inventors too, and he told them of the secrets of the Island. These young inventors would likewise dream of being sent \"the letter\".\n\nAs time passed, the disappointment of not being sent the letter gave rise to even greater cooperation and help between them. Their inventions soon became known throughout the world.\n\nBut no invention came.\n\nThey didn't lose heart. They continued learning and inventing, trying to come up with better ideas. Fresh talent was added to their group. One day, Luca, already very old, was speaking with a brilliant young man who had written to join their group. Luca told the young man the secrets of the Island, and of how he was sure that they would receive an invitation. Surprised, the young inventor said: \"What? You mean this isn't really the Island of Inventions?\"\n\nIt inspired Luca and he realized that his dream had become true.", "question_text": "Luca and other brilliant inventors around him shared a dream of _.", "choices": ["being great inventors of worldwide fame", "being accepted as members of the Island of Inventions", "being inventors envied by members of the Island of Inventions", "being remembered for the contribution to scientific development"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Luca and other brilliant inventors around him shared a dream of being accepted as members of the Island of Inventions."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Luca and other brilliant inventors around him shared a dream of being great inventors of worldwide fame.", "Luca and other brilliant inventors around him shared a dream of being accepted as members of the Island of Inventions.", "Luca and other brilliant inventors around him shared a dream of being inventors envied by members of the Island of Inventions.", "Luca and other brilliant inventors around him shared a dream of being remembered for the contribution to scientific development."], "dc_score": 8.431689417989418, "difficulty_score": 9.49525004529942}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 191, "fields": {"passage": "The first time Luca heard the Island of Inventions, he was very young, but the wonders he heard about sounded so unbelievable to him that they were forever kept in his memory. Since then, he never stopped searching clues which might lead him to that place of wonder. He read widely to collect information.\n\nTaking a little from here and there, he got quite a clear idea of what the Island was really like. It was a secret place, where all the great men learn and invent together. To be able to join that select club, you had to have created great inventions. Only then could you receive the invitation.\n\nTo get a chance, Luca spend the years studying and inventing. Every new idea he got, he made it into an invention, and if there were anything he didn't understand, he would seek help. Soon he met other brilliant inventors too, and he told them of the secrets of the Island. These young inventors would likewise dream of being sent \"the letter\".\n\nAs time passed, the disappointment of not being sent the letter gave rise to even greater cooperation and help between them. Their inventions soon became known throughout the world.\n\nBut no invention came.\n\nThey didn't lose heart. They continued learning and inventing, trying to come up with better ideas. Fresh talent was added to their group. One day, Luca, already very old, was speaking with a brilliant young man who had written to join their group. Luca told the young man the secrets of the Island, and of how he was sure that they would receive an invitation. Surprised, the young inventor said: \"What? You mean this isn't really the Island of Inventions?\"\n\nIt inspired Luca and he realized that his dream had become true.", "question_text": "What is the effect of their not being given \"the letter\"?", "choices": ["They were disappointed, while it encouraged them to work harder.", "They became desperate and decided to have another way of living.", "They changed their strategy and promote their inventions publicly.", "They gave up their dream while continued their inventions together."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"They didn't lose heart. They continued learning and inventing, trying to come up with better ideas...As time passed, the disappointment of not being sent the letter gave rise to even greater cooperation and help between them.\" Choice A: \"They were disappointed, while it encouraged them to work harder.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["They were disappointed, while it encouraged them to work harder.", "They became desperate and decided to have another way of living.", "They changed their strategy and promote their inventions publicly.", "They gave up their dream while continued their inventions together."], "dc_score": 8.431689417989418, "difficulty_score": 8.431689417989418}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 192, "fields": {"passage": "One of the traditions which is now a necessary part of Christmas is a that of Father Christmas, or Santa Claus. According to the modern legend, he is a magical figure who visits all the children of the world during the night before Christmas Day, leaving presents which they find the next morning. He flies through the night sky in a sledge pulled by reindeer, and enters houses by climbing down chimneys. This strange legend is based on the life of a man called Nicholas, but in fact we know very little about him. Historians think he was a Christian bishop in Turkey in about 285--350 A.D. One of the stories about him is that he helped three poor girls. No one would marry them because they were so poor. To provide them with money for their weddings, Nicholas secretly dropped some gold coins down the chimney of their house. After Nicholas died, he was made a saint by the church. (The name Santa Claus thus comes from St Nicholas). His feast day was celebrated in December, and parents started giving their children secret presents from St Nicholas. Over the years, this custom became part of our Christmas traditions.\n\nRecently, a psychologist has claimed that Father Christmas is \"the perfect fantasy\" for children. According to Professor Anthony Clare, children love the character of Father Christmas because he is like an ideal father: he loves children and gives them presents, but he never criticizes them, is never angry, and children do not even need to thank him for the presents. Other writers, however, point out that Father Christmas can be a frightening character to some children. Jane Bidder says that some children are terrified of this fat, bearded old man. It can certainly confuse many children. As parents, we warn our children to be careful of strangers and never to let them into the house, and yet we tell children that a strange man will come into their bedroom at night! Some children can become very worried about this idea and fear that he is a kind of burglar.\n\nMost children, however, understand from their parents and from the media that Father Christmas is basically a benevolent character, and look forward to his annual visit with joy and excitement.", "question_text": "The writer mentions details such as Father Christmas's sledge, the reindeer and the way he climbs down chimneys because he/she _", "choices": ["wants to make it clear that these things are impossible", "is describing the history of St Nicholas", "wants everyone to believe that Father Christmas is real", "is explaining the modern legend of Father Christmas"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["According to the modern legend, he is a magical figure who visits all the children of the world during the night before Christmas Day, leaving presents which they find the next morning. He flies through the night sky in a sledge pulled by reindeer, and enters houses by climbing down chimneys...This strange legend is based on the life of a man called Nicholas, but in fact we know very little about him...Historians think he was a Christian bishop in Turkey in about 285--350 A.D...Father Christmas can be a frightening character to some children. Jane Bidder says that some children are terrified of this fat, bearded old man. It can certainly confuse many children...Most children, however, understand from their parents and from the media that Father Christmas is basically a benevolent character, and look forward to his annual visit with joy and excitement. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The writer wants to make it clear that these things are impossible because they mention details such as Father Christmas's sledge, the reindeer, and the way he climbs down chimneys.", "The writer is describing the history of St. Nicholas because the details mentioned relate to Father Christmas and not the Saint.", "The writer might be trying to convince the audience that Father Christmas is real by mentioning details about him such as his sledge, reindeer, and chimney-climbing.", "The writer is explaining the modern legend of Father Christmas by mentioning details about him such as his sledge, reindeer, and chimney-climbing."], "dc_score": 9.111488745800672, "difficulty_score": 9.964473565718272}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 193, "fields": {"passage": "One of the traditions which is now a necessary part of Christmas is a that of Father Christmas, or Santa Claus. According to the modern legend, he is a magical figure who visits all the children of the world during the night before Christmas Day, leaving presents which they find the next morning. He flies through the night sky in a sledge pulled by reindeer, and enters houses by climbing down chimneys. This strange legend is based on the life of a man called Nicholas, but in fact we know very little about him. Historians think he was a Christian bishop in Turkey in about 285--350 A.D. One of the stories about him is that he helped three poor girls. No one would marry them because they were so poor. To provide them with money for their weddings, Nicholas secretly dropped some gold coins down the chimney of their house. After Nicholas died, he was made a saint by the church. (The name Santa Claus thus comes from St Nicholas). His feast day was celebrated in December, and parents started giving their children secret presents from St Nicholas. Over the years, this custom became part of our Christmas traditions.\n\nRecently, a psychologist has claimed that Father Christmas is \"the perfect fantasy\" for children. According to Professor Anthony Clare, children love the character of Father Christmas because he is like an ideal father: he loves children and gives them presents, but he never criticizes them, is never angry, and children do not even need to thank him for the presents. Other writers, however, point out that Father Christmas can be a frightening character to some children. Jane Bidder says that some children are terrified of this fat, bearded old man. It can certainly confuse many children. As parents, we warn our children to be careful of strangers and never to let them into the house, and yet we tell children that a strange man will come into their bedroom at night! Some children can become very worried about this idea and fear that he is a kind of burglar.\n\nMost children, however, understand from their parents and from the media that Father Christmas is basically a benevolent character, and look forward to his annual visit with joy and excitement.", "question_text": "Why does the writer mention the story about St Nicholas helping three poor girls?", "choices": ["It shows us that historians know very little about him.", "This story explains why parents give secret presents to children.", "It supports the writer's main point that Father Christmas is based on an untrue story.", "This story explains why we celebrate Christmas in December."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["According to Professor Anthony Clare, children love the character of Father Christmas because he is like an ideal father. One of the stories about Nicholas is that he helped three poor girls. After Nicholas died, he was made a saint by the church. (The name Santa Claus thus comes from St Nicholas). Parents started giving their children secret presents from St Nicholas. Over the years, this custom became part of our Christmas traditions."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["It shows us that historians know very little about him.", "This story explains why parents give secret presents to children.", "It supports the writer's main point that Father Christmas is based on an untrue story.", "This story explains why we celebrate Christmas in December."], "dc_score": 9.111488745800672, "difficulty_score": 9.817301953532693}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 194, "fields": {"passage": "One of the traditions which is now a necessary part of Christmas is a that of Father Christmas, or Santa Claus. According to the modern legend, he is a magical figure who visits all the children of the world during the night before Christmas Day, leaving presents which they find the next morning. He flies through the night sky in a sledge pulled by reindeer, and enters houses by climbing down chimneys. This strange legend is based on the life of a man called Nicholas, but in fact we know very little about him. Historians think he was a Christian bishop in Turkey in about 285--350 A.D. One of the stories about him is that he helped three poor girls. No one would marry them because they were so poor. To provide them with money for their weddings, Nicholas secretly dropped some gold coins down the chimney of their house. After Nicholas died, he was made a saint by the church. (The name Santa Claus thus comes from St Nicholas). His feast day was celebrated in December, and parents started giving their children secret presents from St Nicholas. Over the years, this custom became part of our Christmas traditions.\n\nRecently, a psychologist has claimed that Father Christmas is \"the perfect fantasy\" for children. According to Professor Anthony Clare, children love the character of Father Christmas because he is like an ideal father: he loves children and gives them presents, but he never criticizes them, is never angry, and children do not even need to thank him for the presents. Other writers, however, point out that Father Christmas can be a frightening character to some children. Jane Bidder says that some children are terrified of this fat, bearded old man. It can certainly confuse many children. As parents, we warn our children to be careful of strangers and never to let them into the house, and yet we tell children that a strange man will come into their bedroom at night! Some children can become very worried about this idea and fear that he is a kind of burglar.\n\nMost children, however, understand from their parents and from the media that Father Christmas is basically a benevolent character, and look forward to his annual visit with joy and excitement.", "question_text": "The best title for this passage would be _.", "choices": ["Is Father Christmas Dangerous?", "The True History of St Nicholas", "The Legend of Santa Claus", "The Traditions of Christmas"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["One of the traditions which is now a necessary part of Christmas is a that of Father Christmas, or Santa Claus.", "According to the modern legend, he is a magical figure who visits all the children of the world during the night before Christmas Day.", "This strange legend is based on the life of a man called Nicholas, but in fact we know very little about him.", "Recently, a psychologist has claimed that Father Christmas is \"the perfect fantasy\" for children.", "Other writers, however, point out that Father Christmas can be a frightening character to some children.", "Most children, however, understand from their parents and from the media that Father Christmas is basically a benevolent character, and look forward to his annual visit with joy and excitement."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is Is Father Christmas Dangerous?", "The best title for the passage is The True History of St Nicholas", "The best title for the passage is The Legend of Santa Claus", "The best title for the passage is The Traditions of Christmas"], "dc_score": 9.111488745800672, "difficulty_score": 9.9654184184451}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 195, "fields": {"passage": "A new law helps people with disabilities. The law says that people with disabilities must be able to get into and out of all public buildings. It also says that business must offer special services to people who have special needs. Companies can not refuse to hire disabled workers. Many businesses may have to change their buildings and services.\n\n--Ramps must be built so people can get into buildings.\n\n--Movie theatres must have space for people in wheelchairs and seats for their friends to sit near them.\n\n--Elevators must have floor number in Braille.\n\nThis law will help millions of people. One woman who has been in a wheelchair for many years said, \"It is like a dream\".", "question_text": "According to the passage we can see that_.", "choices": ["it will be difficult for the normal persons to get into the public buildings", "the buildings of all the businesses will have to be changed", "Most businesses used to offer special services to people who have special needs", "it was difficult for the disabled workers to find jobs in the past"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["According to the passage we can see that ramps must be built so people can get into buildings, movie theatres must have space for people in wheelchairs and seats for their friends to sit near them, and elevators must have floor numbers in Braille. The law helps people with disabilities by requiring public buildings to be accessible and businesses to offer special services, and companies cannot refuse to hire disabled workers. Many businesses may have to change their buildings and services."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["We can see that it will be difficult for the normal persons to get into the public buildings.", "We can see that the buildings of all the businesses will have to be changed.", "We can see that most businesses used to offer special services to people who have special needs.", "We can see that it was difficult for the disabled workers to find jobs in the past."], "dc_score": 8.114799516908214, "difficulty_score": 9.002093631218518}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 196, "fields": {"passage": "A new law helps people with disabilities. The law says that people with disabilities must be able to get into and out of all public buildings. It also says that business must offer special services to people who have special needs. Companies can not refuse to hire disabled workers. Many businesses may have to change their buildings and services.\n\n--Ramps must be built so people can get into buildings.\n\n--Movie theatres must have space for people in wheelchairs and seats for their friends to sit near them.\n\n--Elevators must have floor number in Braille.\n\nThis law will help millions of people. One woman who has been in a wheelchair for many years said, \"It is like a dream\".", "question_text": "Ramps can help people_.", "choices": ["with hearing problems", "who have difficulty in using their hands", "who have difficulty in using their legs or feet", "who don't like stairs"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Ramps must be built so people can get into buildings. ", "This law will help millions of people. ", "One woman who has been in a wheelchair for many years said, \"It is like a dream\". "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Ramps can help people with hearing problems.", "Ramps can help people who have difficulty in using their hands.", "Ramps can help people who have difficulty in using their legs or feet.", "Ramps can help people who don't like stair."], "dc_score": 8.114799516908214, "difficulty_score": 8.685018907766866}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 197, "fields": {"passage": "A new law helps people with disabilities. The law says that people with disabilities must be able to get into and out of all public buildings. It also says that business must offer special services to people who have special needs. Companies can not refuse to hire disabled workers. Many businesses may have to change their buildings and services.\n\n--Ramps must be built so people can get into buildings.\n\n--Movie theatres must have space for people in wheelchairs and seats for their friends to sit near them.\n\n--Elevators must have floor number in Braille.\n\nThis law will help millions of people. One woman who has been in a wheelchair for many years said, \"It is like a dream\".", "question_text": "The word \"Braille\" means_.", "choices": ["words known by foreigners", "words known by common people", "words on walls", "words known by the blind"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Elevators must have floor number in Braille."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The word \"Braille\" means words known by foreigners.", "The word \"Braille\" means words known by common people.", "The word \"Braille\" means words on walls.", "The word \"Braille\" means words known by the blind."], "dc_score": 8.114799516908214, "difficulty_score": 8.320755683476117}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 198, "fields": {"passage": "A new law helps people with disabilities. The law says that people with disabilities must be able to get into and out of all public buildings. It also says that business must offer special services to people who have special needs. Companies can not refuse to hire disabled workers. Many businesses may have to change their buildings and services.\n\n--Ramps must be built so people can get into buildings.\n\n--Movie theatres must have space for people in wheelchairs and seats for their friends to sit near them.\n\n--Elevators must have floor number in Braille.\n\nThis law will help millions of people. One woman who has been in a wheelchair for many years said, \"It is like a dream\".", "question_text": "What do you think the disabled would feel about the new law?", "choices": ["They may think the new law reasonable.", "Some of them are sure to be for the new law.", "They must feel very excited and happy.", "They feel it is like a dream."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["This law will help millions of people.", "One woman who has been in a wheelchair for many years said, \"It is like a dream\".", "Ramps must be built so people can get into buildings.", "Movie theatres must have space for people in wheelchairs and seats for their friends to sit near them.", "Elevators must have floor number in Braille. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The disabled people may think the new law reasonable. ", "Some of the disabled people are sure to be for the new law.", "The disabled people must feel very excited and happy.", "The disabled people feel it is like a dream."], "dc_score": 8.114799516908214, "difficulty_score": 8.840229488037949}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 199, "fields": {"passage": "A new law helps people with disabilities. The law says that people with disabilities must be able to get into and out of all public buildings. It also says that business must offer special services to people who have special needs. Companies can not refuse to hire disabled workers. Many businesses may have to change their buildings and services.\n\n--Ramps must be built so people can get into buildings.\n\n--Movie theatres must have space for people in wheelchairs and seats for their friends to sit near them.\n\n--Elevators must have floor number in Braille.\n\nThis law will help millions of people. One woman who has been in a wheelchair for many years said, \"It is like a dream\".", "question_text": "The fact that the new law has been passed shows that _.", "choices": ["the government has paid no attention to the disabilities", "the government wants to help these disabilities", "normal people show mercy to the disabilities", "companies will hire millions of disabled people"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["A new law helps people with disabilities.", "The law says that people with disabilities must be able to get into and out of all public buildings.", "It also says that business must offer special services to people who have special needs.", "Companies can not refuse to hire disabled workers.", "This law will help millions of people."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The fact that the new law has been passed shows that the government has paid no attention to the disabilities.", "The fact that the new law has been passed shows that the government wants to help these disabilities.", "The fact that the new law has been passed shows that normal people show mercy to the disabilities.", "The fact that the new law has been passed shows that companies will hire millions of disabled people."], "dc_score": 8.114799516908214, "difficulty_score": 8.95268614809533}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 200, "fields": {"passage": "\"What is the most important thing you've done in your life?\" The question was put to me during a presentation I gave to a group of lawyers.\n\nThe answer came to me in an instant. It's not the one I gave, because the situation was not right. As a lawyer in the entertainment industry, I knew the audience wanted to hear some amusing stories about my work with well-known people, but here's the true answer:\n\nThe most important thing I've ever done occurred on October 8,1990. I began the day playing tennis with an old friend I hadn't seen for a while. Between points we talked about what had been happening in each other's lives. He and his wife had just had a baby boy, who was keeping them up at night.\n\nWhile we were playing, a car came screaming up the road toward the courts. It was my friend's father, who shouted to my friend that his baby had stopped breathing and was being rushed to the hospital. In a flash my friend was in the car and gone, disappearing in a cloud of dust.\n\nFor a moment I just stood there, paralyzed. Then I tried to figure out what I should do. Follow my friend to the hospital? There was nothing I could accomplish there, I convinced myself. My friend's son was in the care of doctors and nurses, and nothing I could do or say would affect the outcome. Be there for moral support? Well, maybe. But my friend and his wife both had large families, and I knew they'd be surrounded by relatives who would provide more than enough comfort and support, whatever happened. All I could do at the hospital, I decided, was to get in the way. Also, I had planned a full day with my family, who were waiting for me to get home. So I decided to head back to my house and check in my friend later.\n\nAs I started my car, I realized that my friend had left his truck and keys at the courts. I now faced another problem. I couldn't leave the keys in the truck. So I decided to go to the hospital and give him the keys.\n\nWhen I arrived, I was directed to a room where my friend and his wife were waiting. As I had thought, the room was filled with family members silently watching my friend comfort his wife. I went in and stood by the door, trying to decide what to do next. Soon a doctor appeared. He approached my friend and his wife, and in a quiet voice told them that their son had died.\n\nFor a long time the two held each other and cried, unaware of the rest of us standing around in pained silence. After they had calmed themselves, the doctor suggested they spend a few moments with their son.\n\nMy friend and his wife stood up and walked past their families. When they reached the door, my friend saw me standing in the corner. He came over and hugged me and started to cry. My friend's wife hugged me, too, and said, \"Thanks for being here.\"\n\nFor the rest of that morning, I sat in the emergency room of that hospital and watched my friend and his wife hold the body of their infant son, and say goodbye.\n\nIt's the most important thing I have ever done. The experience taught me two lessons.\n\nFirst: The most important thing I've ever done happened when I was completely helpless. None of the things I had learned in university, in three years of law school or in six years of legal practice were of any use in that situation. Something terrible was happening to people I cared about, and I was powerless to change the outcome. All I could do was standing by and watching it happen. And yet it was critical that I do just that--- just be there when someone needed me.\n\nSecond: The most important thing I've done almost didn't happen because of things I had learned in classroom and professional life. Law school taught me how to take a set of facts, break them down and organized them. These skills are critical for lawyers. When people come to us for help, they're often stressed out and depend on a lawyer to think logically. But while learning to think, I almost forget how to feel. Today I have no doubt that I should have leapt into my car without hesitation and followed my friend to the hospital.\n\nFrom that one experience I learned that the most important thing in life isn't the money you make, the status you attain or the honors you achieve.", "question_text": "When he was asked about the most important thing he had done in life at a presentation, the author _.", "choices": ["felt it was not an interesting question", "thought for a while and spoke his mind", "gave an answer from a lawyer's point of view", "didn't give the real answer"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"When he was asked about the most important thing he had done in life at a presentation, the author _.\" ", "\"The answer came to me in an instant... but here's the true answer... The most important thing I've ever done occurred on October 8,1990.\" ", "\"The experience taught me two lessons.\" ", "\"Today I have no doubt that I should have leapt into my car without hesitation and followed my friend to the hospital.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["When he was asked about the most important thing he had done in life at a presentation, the author felt it was not an interesting question.", "When he was asked about the most important thing he had done in life at a presentation, the author thought for a while and spoke his mind.", "When he was asked about the most important thing he had done in life at a presentation, the author gave an answer from a lawyer's point of view.", "When he was asked about the most important thing he had done in life at a presentation, the author didn't give the real answer."], "dc_score": 7.741095850459973, "difficulty_score": 8.638602055330324}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 201, "fields": {"passage": "\"What is the most important thing you've done in your life?\" The question was put to me during a presentation I gave to a group of lawyers.\n\nThe answer came to me in an instant. It's not the one I gave, because the situation was not right. As a lawyer in the entertainment industry, I knew the audience wanted to hear some amusing stories about my work with well-known people, but here's the true answer:\n\nThe most important thing I've ever done occurred on October 8,1990. I began the day playing tennis with an old friend I hadn't seen for a while. Between points we talked about what had been happening in each other's lives. He and his wife had just had a baby boy, who was keeping them up at night.\n\nWhile we were playing, a car came screaming up the road toward the courts. It was my friend's father, who shouted to my friend that his baby had stopped breathing and was being rushed to the hospital. In a flash my friend was in the car and gone, disappearing in a cloud of dust.\n\nFor a moment I just stood there, paralyzed. Then I tried to figure out what I should do. Follow my friend to the hospital? There was nothing I could accomplish there, I convinced myself. My friend's son was in the care of doctors and nurses, and nothing I could do or say would affect the outcome. Be there for moral support? Well, maybe. But my friend and his wife both had large families, and I knew they'd be surrounded by relatives who would provide more than enough comfort and support, whatever happened. All I could do at the hospital, I decided, was to get in the way. Also, I had planned a full day with my family, who were waiting for me to get home. So I decided to head back to my house and check in my friend later.\n\nAs I started my car, I realized that my friend had left his truck and keys at the courts. I now faced another problem. I couldn't leave the keys in the truck. So I decided to go to the hospital and give him the keys.\n\nWhen I arrived, I was directed to a room where my friend and his wife were waiting. As I had thought, the room was filled with family members silently watching my friend comfort his wife. I went in and stood by the door, trying to decide what to do next. Soon a doctor appeared. He approached my friend and his wife, and in a quiet voice told them that their son had died.\n\nFor a long time the two held each other and cried, unaware of the rest of us standing around in pained silence. After they had calmed themselves, the doctor suggested they spend a few moments with their son.\n\nMy friend and his wife stood up and walked past their families. When they reached the door, my friend saw me standing in the corner. He came over and hugged me and started to cry. My friend's wife hugged me, too, and said, \"Thanks for being here.\"\n\nFor the rest of that morning, I sat in the emergency room of that hospital and watched my friend and his wife hold the body of their infant son, and say goodbye.\n\nIt's the most important thing I have ever done. The experience taught me two lessons.\n\nFirst: The most important thing I've ever done happened when I was completely helpless. None of the things I had learned in university, in three years of law school or in six years of legal practice were of any use in that situation. Something terrible was happening to people I cared about, and I was powerless to change the outcome. All I could do was standing by and watching it happen. And yet it was critical that I do just that--- just be there when someone needed me.\n\nSecond: The most important thing I've done almost didn't happen because of things I had learned in classroom and professional life. Law school taught me how to take a set of facts, break them down and organized them. These skills are critical for lawyers. When people come to us for help, they're often stressed out and depend on a lawyer to think logically. But while learning to think, I almost forget how to feel. Today I have no doubt that I should have leapt into my car without hesitation and followed my friend to the hospital.\n\nFrom that one experience I learned that the most important thing in life isn't the money you make, the status you attain or the honors you achieve.", "question_text": "When he saw his friend rush to the hospital, the author could not decide whether to follow mainly because he thought _.", "choices": ["he had to stay with his family", "his friend did not need his help.", "he would not be of much help", "the baby would be in the doctor's care"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"When we were playing, a car came screaming up the road toward the courts...My friend's father, who shouted to my friend that his baby had stopped breathing and was being rushed to the hospital...Follow my friend to the hospital? There was nothing I could accomplish there, I convinced myself. My friend's son was in the care of doctors and nurses, and nothing I could do or say would affect the outcome...All I could do at the hospital, I decided, was to get in the way...So I decided to head back to my house and check in on my friend later. As I started my car, I realized that my friend had left his truck and keys at the courts. I now faced another problem. I couldn't leave the keys in the truck. So I decided to go to the hospital and give him the keys. When I arrived, I was directed to a room where my friend and his wife were waiting.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["When he saw his friend rush to the hospital, the author could not decide whether to follow mainly because he thought he had to stay with his family. ", "When he saw his friend rush to the hospital, the author could not decide whether to follow mainly because he thought his friend did not need his help. ", "When he saw his friend rush to the hospital, the author could not decide whether to follow mainly because he thought he would not be of much help. ", "When he saw his friend rush to the hospital, the author could not decide whether to follow mainly because he thought the baby would be in the doctor's care."], "dc_score": 7.741095850459973, "difficulty_score": 7.741095850459973}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 202, "fields": {"passage": "\"What is the most important thing you've done in your life?\" The question was put to me during a presentation I gave to a group of lawyers.\n\nThe answer came to me in an instant. It's not the one I gave, because the situation was not right. As a lawyer in the entertainment industry, I knew the audience wanted to hear some amusing stories about my work with well-known people, but here's the true answer:\n\nThe most important thing I've ever done occurred on October 8,1990. I began the day playing tennis with an old friend I hadn't seen for a while. Between points we talked about what had been happening in each other's lives. He and his wife had just had a baby boy, who was keeping them up at night.\n\nWhile we were playing, a car came screaming up the road toward the courts. It was my friend's father, who shouted to my friend that his baby had stopped breathing and was being rushed to the hospital. In a flash my friend was in the car and gone, disappearing in a cloud of dust.\n\nFor a moment I just stood there, paralyzed. Then I tried to figure out what I should do. Follow my friend to the hospital? There was nothing I could accomplish there, I convinced myself. My friend's son was in the care of doctors and nurses, and nothing I could do or say would affect the outcome. Be there for moral support? Well, maybe. But my friend and his wife both had large families, and I knew they'd be surrounded by relatives who would provide more than enough comfort and support, whatever happened. All I could do at the hospital, I decided, was to get in the way. Also, I had planned a full day with my family, who were waiting for me to get home. So I decided to head back to my house and check in my friend later.\n\nAs I started my car, I realized that my friend had left his truck and keys at the courts. I now faced another problem. I couldn't leave the keys in the truck. So I decided to go to the hospital and give him the keys.\n\nWhen I arrived, I was directed to a room where my friend and his wife were waiting. As I had thought, the room was filled with family members silently watching my friend comfort his wife. I went in and stood by the door, trying to decide what to do next. Soon a doctor appeared. He approached my friend and his wife, and in a quiet voice told them that their son had died.\n\nFor a long time the two held each other and cried, unaware of the rest of us standing around in pained silence. After they had calmed themselves, the doctor suggested they spend a few moments with their son.\n\nMy friend and his wife stood up and walked past their families. When they reached the door, my friend saw me standing in the corner. He came over and hugged me and started to cry. My friend's wife hugged me, too, and said, \"Thanks for being here.\"\n\nFor the rest of that morning, I sat in the emergency room of that hospital and watched my friend and his wife hold the body of their infant son, and say goodbye.\n\nIt's the most important thing I have ever done. The experience taught me two lessons.\n\nFirst: The most important thing I've ever done happened when I was completely helpless. None of the things I had learned in university, in three years of law school or in six years of legal practice were of any use in that situation. Something terrible was happening to people I cared about, and I was powerless to change the outcome. All I could do was standing by and watching it happen. And yet it was critical that I do just that--- just be there when someone needed me.\n\nSecond: The most important thing I've done almost didn't happen because of things I had learned in classroom and professional life. Law school taught me how to take a set of facts, break them down and organized them. These skills are critical for lawyers. When people come to us for help, they're often stressed out and depend on a lawyer to think logically. But while learning to think, I almost forget how to feel. Today I have no doubt that I should have leapt into my car without hesitation and followed my friend to the hospital.\n\nFrom that one experience I learned that the most important thing in life isn't the money you make, the status you attain or the honors you achieve.", "question_text": "What can we infer from the author's description of the scene at the hospital?", "choices": ["He found out that he was in the way.", "He would have felt guilty if he had not been there.", "He regretted that he went too late.", "His friend would have felt better if he had not been there."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"When I arrived, I was directed to a room where my friend and his wife were waiting.\"", "\"For a long time the two held each other and cried, unaware of the rest of us standing around in pained silence.\"", "\"My friend saw me standing in the corner. He came over and hugged me and started to cry.\"", "\"My friend's wife hugged me, too, and said, \"Thanks for being here.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["He found out that he was in the way.", "He would have felt guilty if he had not been there.", "He regretted that he went too late.", "His friend would have felt better if he had not been there."], "dc_score": 7.741095850459973, "difficulty_score": 8.380360892041823}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 203, "fields": {"passage": "\"What is the most important thing you've done in your life?\" The question was put to me during a presentation I gave to a group of lawyers.\n\nThe answer came to me in an instant. It's not the one I gave, because the situation was not right. As a lawyer in the entertainment industry, I knew the audience wanted to hear some amusing stories about my work with well-known people, but here's the true answer:\n\nThe most important thing I've ever done occurred on October 8,1990. I began the day playing tennis with an old friend I hadn't seen for a while. Between points we talked about what had been happening in each other's lives. He and his wife had just had a baby boy, who was keeping them up at night.\n\nWhile we were playing, a car came screaming up the road toward the courts. It was my friend's father, who shouted to my friend that his baby had stopped breathing and was being rushed to the hospital. In a flash my friend was in the car and gone, disappearing in a cloud of dust.\n\nFor a moment I just stood there, paralyzed. Then I tried to figure out what I should do. Follow my friend to the hospital? There was nothing I could accomplish there, I convinced myself. My friend's son was in the care of doctors and nurses, and nothing I could do or say would affect the outcome. Be there for moral support? Well, maybe. But my friend and his wife both had large families, and I knew they'd be surrounded by relatives who would provide more than enough comfort and support, whatever happened. All I could do at the hospital, I decided, was to get in the way. Also, I had planned a full day with my family, who were waiting for me to get home. So I decided to head back to my house and check in my friend later.\n\nAs I started my car, I realized that my friend had left his truck and keys at the courts. I now faced another problem. I couldn't leave the keys in the truck. So I decided to go to the hospital and give him the keys.\n\nWhen I arrived, I was directed to a room where my friend and his wife were waiting. As I had thought, the room was filled with family members silently watching my friend comfort his wife. I went in and stood by the door, trying to decide what to do next. Soon a doctor appeared. He approached my friend and his wife, and in a quiet voice told them that their son had died.\n\nFor a long time the two held each other and cried, unaware of the rest of us standing around in pained silence. After they had calmed themselves, the doctor suggested they spend a few moments with their son.\n\nMy friend and his wife stood up and walked past their families. When they reached the door, my friend saw me standing in the corner. He came over and hugged me and started to cry. My friend's wife hugged me, too, and said, \"Thanks for being here.\"\n\nFor the rest of that morning, I sat in the emergency room of that hospital and watched my friend and his wife hold the body of their infant son, and say goodbye.\n\nIt's the most important thing I have ever done. The experience taught me two lessons.\n\nFirst: The most important thing I've ever done happened when I was completely helpless. None of the things I had learned in university, in three years of law school or in six years of legal practice were of any use in that situation. Something terrible was happening to people I cared about, and I was powerless to change the outcome. All I could do was standing by and watching it happen. And yet it was critical that I do just that--- just be there when someone needed me.\n\nSecond: The most important thing I've done almost didn't happen because of things I had learned in classroom and professional life. Law school taught me how to take a set of facts, break them down and organized them. These skills are critical for lawyers. When people come to us for help, they're often stressed out and depend on a lawyer to think logically. But while learning to think, I almost forget how to feel. Today I have no doubt that I should have leapt into my car without hesitation and followed my friend to the hospital.\n\nFrom that one experience I learned that the most important thing in life isn't the money you make, the status you attain or the honors you achieve.", "question_text": "Which of the following is conveyed in this story?", "choices": ["Family and relatives can not take the place of friends.", "More people are a great comfort when one is in trouble.", "It is best to be here when someone needs you.", "You can certainly help a friend if you want to."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"The most important thing I've ever done occurred on October 8,1990.\"", "\"All I could do at the hospital, I decided, was to get in the way.\"", "\"So I decided to head back to my house and check in on my friend later.\"", "\"When I arrived, I was directed to a room where my friend and his wife were waiting.\"", "\"My friend's wife hugged me, too, and said, \"Thanks for being here.\"\"", "\"And yet it was critical that I do just that--- just be there when someone needed me.\"", "\"Today I have no doubt that I should have leapt into my car without hesitation and followed my friend to the hospital.\" ", "\"From that one experience I learned that the most important thing in life isn't the money you make, the status you attain or the honors you achieve.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Family and relatives can not take the place of friends.", "More people are a great comfort when one is in trouble.", "It is best to be here when someone needs you.", "You can certainly help a friend if you want to."], "dc_score": 7.741095850459973, "difficulty_score": 8.380743500821055}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 204, "fields": {"passage": "\"What is the most important thing you've done in your life?\" The question was put to me during a presentation I gave to a group of lawyers.\n\nThe answer came to me in an instant. It's not the one I gave, because the situation was not right. As a lawyer in the entertainment industry, I knew the audience wanted to hear some amusing stories about my work with well-known people, but here's the true answer:\n\nThe most important thing I've ever done occurred on October 8,1990. I began the day playing tennis with an old friend I hadn't seen for a while. Between points we talked about what had been happening in each other's lives. He and his wife had just had a baby boy, who was keeping them up at night.\n\nWhile we were playing, a car came screaming up the road toward the courts. It was my friend's father, who shouted to my friend that his baby had stopped breathing and was being rushed to the hospital. In a flash my friend was in the car and gone, disappearing in a cloud of dust.\n\nFor a moment I just stood there, paralyzed. Then I tried to figure out what I should do. Follow my friend to the hospital? There was nothing I could accomplish there, I convinced myself. My friend's son was in the care of doctors and nurses, and nothing I could do or say would affect the outcome. Be there for moral support? Well, maybe. But my friend and his wife both had large families, and I knew they'd be surrounded by relatives who would provide more than enough comfort and support, whatever happened. All I could do at the hospital, I decided, was to get in the way. Also, I had planned a full day with my family, who were waiting for me to get home. So I decided to head back to my house and check in my friend later.\n\nAs I started my car, I realized that my friend had left his truck and keys at the courts. I now faced another problem. I couldn't leave the keys in the truck. So I decided to go to the hospital and give him the keys.\n\nWhen I arrived, I was directed to a room where my friend and his wife were waiting. As I had thought, the room was filled with family members silently watching my friend comfort his wife. I went in and stood by the door, trying to decide what to do next. Soon a doctor appeared. He approached my friend and his wife, and in a quiet voice told them that their son had died.\n\nFor a long time the two held each other and cried, unaware of the rest of us standing around in pained silence. After they had calmed themselves, the doctor suggested they spend a few moments with their son.\n\nMy friend and his wife stood up and walked past their families. When they reached the door, my friend saw me standing in the corner. He came over and hugged me and started to cry. My friend's wife hugged me, too, and said, \"Thanks for being here.\"\n\nFor the rest of that morning, I sat in the emergency room of that hospital and watched my friend and his wife hold the body of their infant son, and say goodbye.\n\nIt's the most important thing I have ever done. The experience taught me two lessons.\n\nFirst: The most important thing I've ever done happened when I was completely helpless. None of the things I had learned in university, in three years of law school or in six years of legal practice were of any use in that situation. Something terrible was happening to people I cared about, and I was powerless to change the outcome. All I could do was standing by and watching it happen. And yet it was critical that I do just that--- just be there when someone needed me.\n\nSecond: The most important thing I've done almost didn't happen because of things I had learned in classroom and professional life. Law school taught me how to take a set of facts, break them down and organized them. These skills are critical for lawyers. When people come to us for help, they're often stressed out and depend on a lawyer to think logically. But while learning to think, I almost forget how to feel. Today I have no doubt that I should have leapt into my car without hesitation and followed my friend to the hospital.\n\nFrom that one experience I learned that the most important thing in life isn't the money you make, the status you attain or the honors you achieve.", "question_text": "The author learned from his own experience that _.", "choices": ["what is taught in school is usually of no use.", "a lawyer cannot learn much in classrooms", "a lawyer should know people's feeling first", "he needs to be able to feel as well as think logically"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["From that one experience I learned that the most important thing in life isn't the money you make, the status you attain or the honors you achieve. Second: The most important thing I've done almost didn't happen because of things I had learned in the classroom and professional life. Today I have no doubt that I should have leapt into my car without hesitation and followed my friend to the hospital."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The author learned from his own experience that what is taught in school is usually of no use.", "The author learned from his own experience that a lawyer cannot learn much in classrooms.", "The author learned from his own experience that a lawyer should know people's feeling first.", "The author learned from his own experience that he needs to be able to feel as well as think logically."], "dc_score": 7.741095850459973, "difficulty_score": 8.461834058976216}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 205, "fields": {"passage": "A desert is a beautiful land of silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and time and space seem endless. Nothing is soft. The sand and rocks are hard, and many of the plants even have hard needles instead of leaves.\n\nThe size and location of the world's deserts are always changing. Over millions of years, as climates change and mountains rise, new dry and wet areas develop. But within the last 100 yeas, deserts have been growing at a frightening speed. This is partly because of natural changes, but the greatest makers are humans.\n\nHumans can make deserts, but humans can also prevent their growth. Algeria Mauritania is planting a similar wall around Nouakchott, the capital. Iran puts a thin covering of petroleum on sandy areas and plants trees. The oil keeps the water and small trees in the land, and men on motorcycles keep the sheep and goats away. The USSR and India are building long canals to bring water to desert areas.", "question_text": "In this passage, \"needles\" refers to _.", "choices": ["small, thin pieces of steel.", "long, thin pieces of branches.", "small pointed growth on the stem of a plant.", "small, thin pieces of sticks."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"The sand and rocks are hard, and many of the plants even have hard needles instead of leaves.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["In this passage, \"needles\" refers to small, thin pieces of steel. ", "In this passage, \"needles\" refers to long, thin pieces of branches.", "In this passage, \"needles\" refers to small pointed growth on the stem of a plant.", "In this passage, \"needles\" refers to small, thin pieces of sticks."], "dc_score": 9.596600834105654, "difficulty_score": 10.296992695209557}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 206, "fields": {"passage": "A desert is a beautiful land of silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and time and space seem endless. Nothing is soft. The sand and rocks are hard, and many of the plants even have hard needles instead of leaves.\n\nThe size and location of the world's deserts are always changing. Over millions of years, as climates change and mountains rise, new dry and wet areas develop. But within the last 100 yeas, deserts have been growing at a frightening speed. This is partly because of natural changes, but the greatest makers are humans.\n\nHumans can make deserts, but humans can also prevent their growth. Algeria Mauritania is planting a similar wall around Nouakchott, the capital. Iran puts a thin covering of petroleum on sandy areas and plants trees. The oil keeps the water and small trees in the land, and men on motorcycles keep the sheep and goats away. The USSR and India are building long canals to bring water to desert areas.", "question_text": "Which of the following is NOT true?", "choices": ["The greatest desert makers are humans.", "There aren't any living things in the deserts.", "Deserts have been growing quickly.", "The size of the deserts is always changing."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"The greatest makers are humans.\"\"deserts have been growing at a frightening speed.\" ", "\"There aren't any living things in the deserts.\"  ", "\"The size and location of the world's deserts are always changing.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The greatest desert makers are not humans.", "There are any living things in the deserts.", "Deserts have not been growing quickly.", "The size of the deserts is not always changing."], "dc_score": 9.596600834105654, "difficulty_score": 9.596600834105654}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 207, "fields": {"passage": "A desert is a beautiful land of silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and time and space seem endless. Nothing is soft. The sand and rocks are hard, and many of the plants even have hard needles instead of leaves.\n\nThe size and location of the world's deserts are always changing. Over millions of years, as climates change and mountains rise, new dry and wet areas develop. But within the last 100 yeas, deserts have been growing at a frightening speed. This is partly because of natural changes, but the greatest makers are humans.\n\nHumans can make deserts, but humans can also prevent their growth. Algeria Mauritania is planting a similar wall around Nouakchott, the capital. Iran puts a thin covering of petroleum on sandy areas and plants trees. The oil keeps the water and small trees in the land, and men on motorcycles keep the sheep and goats away. The USSR and India are building long canals to bring water to desert areas.", "question_text": "People in some countries are fighting a battle against _.", "choices": ["the growth of deserts", "the disappearance of desert plants", "natural changes", "congenital climate"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["But within the last 100 yeas, deserts have been growing at a frightening speed. This is partly because of natural changes, but the greatest makers are humans. ", "Humans can make deserts, but humans can also prevent their growth. Algeria Mauritania is planting a similar wall around Nouakchott, the capital. Iran puts a thin covering of petroleum on sandy areas and plants trees. The oil keeps the water and small trees in the land, and men on motorcycles keep the sheep and goats away. The USSR and India are building long canals to bring water to desert areas. ", "", "Question: People in some countries are fighting a battle against _. ", "Choices: ['the growth of deserts', 'the disappearance of desert plants', 'natural changes', 'congenital climate']"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["People in some countries are fighting a battle against the growth of deserts.", "People in some countries are fighting a battle against the disappearance of desert plants.", "People in some countries are fighting a battle against natural changes.", "People in some countries are fighting a battle against congenital climate."], "dc_score": 9.596600834105654, "difficulty_score": 10.495455072385997}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 208, "fields": {"passage": "A desert is a beautiful land of silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and time and space seem endless. Nothing is soft. The sand and rocks are hard, and many of the plants even have hard needles instead of leaves.\n\nThe size and location of the world's deserts are always changing. Over millions of years, as climates change and mountains rise, new dry and wet areas develop. But within the last 100 yeas, deserts have been growing at a frightening speed. This is partly because of natural changes, but the greatest makers are humans.\n\nHumans can make deserts, but humans can also prevent their growth. Algeria Mauritania is planting a similar wall around Nouakchott, the capital. Iran puts a thin covering of petroleum on sandy areas and plants trees. The oil keeps the water and small trees in the land, and men on motorcycles keep the sheep and goats away. The USSR and India are building long canals to bring water to desert areas.", "question_text": "We can guess that Mauritania and Algeria belong to _.", "choices": ["Asian countries", "American countries", "European counties", "African countries"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["We can guess that Mauritania and Algeria belong to African countries.", "Algeria Mauritania is planting a similar wall around Nouakchott, the capital."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["We can guess that Mauritania and Algeria belong to Asian countries.", "We cannot assume that Mauritania and Algeria belong to American countries.", "We cannot assume that Mauritania and Algeria belong to European countries.", "We cannot assume that Mauritania and Algeria belong to African countries."], "dc_score": 9.596600834105654, "difficulty_score": 10.593509178444712}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 209, "fields": {"passage": "A desert is a beautiful land of silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and time and space seem endless. Nothing is soft. The sand and rocks are hard, and many of the plants even have hard needles instead of leaves.\n\nThe size and location of the world's deserts are always changing. Over millions of years, as climates change and mountains rise, new dry and wet areas develop. But within the last 100 yeas, deserts have been growing at a frightening speed. This is partly because of natural changes, but the greatest makers are humans.\n\nHumans can make deserts, but humans can also prevent their growth. Algeria Mauritania is planting a similar wall around Nouakchott, the capital. Iran puts a thin covering of petroleum on sandy areas and plants trees. The oil keeps the water and small trees in the land, and men on motorcycles keep the sheep and goats away. The USSR and India are building long canals to bring water to desert areas.", "question_text": "Choose the sentence which best gives the main idea of the passage.", "choices": ["The deserts of the world are always changing.", "Man is to take measures to control the growth of the world's deserts.", "Deserts are lands of silence and space.", "Deserts have grown at a fast pace in the past 10 years."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["A desert is a beautiful land of silence and space.", "The size and location of the world's deserts are always changing.", "But within the last 100 yeas, deserts have been growing at a frightening speed.", "Humans can make deserts, but humans can also prevent their growth."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The deserts of the world are always changing.", "Man is to take measures to control the growth of the world's deserts.", "Deserts are lands of silence and space.", "Deserts have grown at a fast pace in the past 10 years."], "dc_score": 9.596600834105654, "difficulty_score": 10.490069367365269}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 210, "fields": {"passage": "Nelson Mandela was a figure of international fame, and many details of his life and career were public knowledge. But here are four things you may not have known about the late South African leader.\n\n1. He was a boxing fan.\n\nIn his youth, Nelson Mandela enjoyed boxing and long-distance running. Even during the 27 years he spent in prison, he would exercise every morning. \"I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was curious by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match,\" he wrote in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.\n\n2. His original name was not Nelson.\n\nRolihlahla Mandela was nine years old when a teacher at the primary Methodist school where he was studying in Qunu, South Africa, gave him an English name \"Nelson\" in accordance with the custom to give all school children Christian names.\n\n3. He forgot his glasses when he was released from prison.\n\nMr. Mandela's release on 11 February 1990 followed years of political pressure against apartheid. Mr. Mandela's reading glasses stayed behind in prison Mr. Mandela and his then-wife Winnie were taken to the centre of Cape Town to address a huge and exciting crowd. But when he pulled out the text of his speech, he realized he had forgotten his glasses and had to borrow Winnie's.\n\n4. He had his own law firm, but it took him years to get a law degree.\n\nMr. Mandela studied law on and off for 50 years from 1939, failing about half the courses he took. A two-year diploma in law on top of his university degree allowed him to practice, and in August 1952, he and Oliver Tambo set up South Africa's first black law firm, Mandela and Tambo, in Johannesburg. He kept on studying hard to finally secure a law degree while in prison in 1989.", "question_text": "What is the main idea of the passage?", "choices": ["Nelson Mandela's life in the prison.", "The achievements of Nelson Mandela.", "Nelson Mandela's hobbies and career.", "Unknown things about Nelson Mandela."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["The passage is about unknown things about Nelson Mandela such as his hobbies, original name, forgetfulness when he was released from prison, his law firm, and his interest in boxing and long-distance running."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["What is the main idea of the passage about Nelson Mandela's life in the prison?", "What is the main idea of the passage about the achievements of Nelson Mandela?", "What is the main idea of the passage about Nelson Mandela's hobbies and career?", "What is the main idea of the passage about unknown things about Nelson Mandela?"], "dc_score": 9.044359417331602, "difficulty_score": 9.700576439280734}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 211, "fields": {"passage": "Nelson Mandela was a figure of international fame, and many details of his life and career were public knowledge. But here are four things you may not have known about the late South African leader.\n\n1. He was a boxing fan.\n\nIn his youth, Nelson Mandela enjoyed boxing and long-distance running. Even during the 27 years he spent in prison, he would exercise every morning. \"I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was curious by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match,\" he wrote in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.\n\n2. His original name was not Nelson.\n\nRolihlahla Mandela was nine years old when a teacher at the primary Methodist school where he was studying in Qunu, South Africa, gave him an English name \"Nelson\" in accordance with the custom to give all school children Christian names.\n\n3. He forgot his glasses when he was released from prison.\n\nMr. Mandela's release on 11 February 1990 followed years of political pressure against apartheid. Mr. Mandela's reading glasses stayed behind in prison Mr. Mandela and his then-wife Winnie were taken to the centre of Cape Town to address a huge and exciting crowd. But when he pulled out the text of his speech, he realized he had forgotten his glasses and had to borrow Winnie's.\n\n4. He had his own law firm, but it took him years to get a law degree.\n\nMr. Mandela studied law on and off for 50 years from 1939, failing about half the courses he took. A two-year diploma in law on top of his university degree allowed him to practice, and in August 1952, he and Oliver Tambo set up South Africa's first black law firm, Mandela and Tambo, in Johannesburg. He kept on studying hard to finally secure a law degree while in prison in 1989.", "question_text": "Why did Nelson Mandela love boxing?", "choices": ["Because he wanted to be a boxer.", "Because he enjoyed the violence of boxing.", "Because he appreciated the strategy in boxing.", "Because he had nothing else to do in the prison."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.\"", "\"Rolihlahla Mandela was nine years old when a teacher at the primary Methodist school where he was studying in Qunu, South Africa, gave him an English name \"Nelson\" in accordance with the custom to give all school children Christian names.\" ", "\"Nelson Mandela enjoyed boxing and long-distance running... he wrote in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Nelson Mandela love boxing because he wanted to be a boxer.", "Nelson Mandela love boxing because he enjoyed the violence of boxing.", "Nelson Mandela love boxing because he appreciated the strategy in boxing.", "Nelson Mandela love boxing because he had nothing else to do in the prison."], "dc_score": 9.044359417331602, "difficulty_score": 9.044359417331602}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 212, "fields": {"passage": "Nelson Mandela was a figure of international fame, and many details of his life and career were public knowledge. But here are four things you may not have known about the late South African leader.\n\n1. He was a boxing fan.\n\nIn his youth, Nelson Mandela enjoyed boxing and long-distance running. Even during the 27 years he spent in prison, he would exercise every morning. \"I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was curious by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match,\" he wrote in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.\n\n2. His original name was not Nelson.\n\nRolihlahla Mandela was nine years old when a teacher at the primary Methodist school where he was studying in Qunu, South Africa, gave him an English name \"Nelson\" in accordance with the custom to give all school children Christian names.\n\n3. He forgot his glasses when he was released from prison.\n\nMr. Mandela's release on 11 February 1990 followed years of political pressure against apartheid. Mr. Mandela's reading glasses stayed behind in prison Mr. Mandela and his then-wife Winnie were taken to the centre of Cape Town to address a huge and exciting crowd. But when he pulled out the text of his speech, he realized he had forgotten his glasses and had to borrow Winnie's.\n\n4. He had his own law firm, but it took him years to get a law degree.\n\nMr. Mandela studied law on and off for 50 years from 1939, failing about half the courses he took. A two-year diploma in law on top of his university degree allowed him to practice, and in August 1952, he and Oliver Tambo set up South Africa's first black law firm, Mandela and Tambo, in Johannesburg. He kept on studying hard to finally secure a law degree while in prison in 1989.", "question_text": "What happened to Mandela when he was about to give the speech?", "choices": ["He broke his glasses into pieces.", "He had to use his wife's glasses.", "He left his own glasses at home.", "His wife wanted to borrow his glasses."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["He forgot his glasses when he was released from prison.", "Mr. Mandela's release on 11 February 1990 followed years of political pressure against apartheid. Mr. Mandela's reading glasses stayed behind in prison Mr. Mandela and his then-wife Winnie were taken to the centre of Cape Town to address a huge and exciting crowd. But when he pulled out the text of his speech, he realized he had forgotten his glasses and had to borrow Winnie's."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["When Mandela was about to give the speech, he broke his glasses into pieces.", "When Mandela was about to give the speech, he had to use his wife's glasses.", "When Mandela was about to give the speech, he left his own glasses at home.", "When Mandela was about to give the speech, his wife wanted to borrow his glasses "], "dc_score": 9.044359417331602, "difficulty_score": 9.044359417331602}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 213, "fields": {"passage": "Nelson Mandela was a figure of international fame, and many details of his life and career were public knowledge. But here are four things you may not have known about the late South African leader.\n\n1. He was a boxing fan.\n\nIn his youth, Nelson Mandela enjoyed boxing and long-distance running. Even during the 27 years he spent in prison, he would exercise every morning. \"I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was curious by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match,\" he wrote in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.\n\n2. His original name was not Nelson.\n\nRolihlahla Mandela was nine years old when a teacher at the primary Methodist school where he was studying in Qunu, South Africa, gave him an English name \"Nelson\" in accordance with the custom to give all school children Christian names.\n\n3. He forgot his glasses when he was released from prison.\n\nMr. Mandela's release on 11 February 1990 followed years of political pressure against apartheid. Mr. Mandela's reading glasses stayed behind in prison Mr. Mandela and his then-wife Winnie were taken to the centre of Cape Town to address a huge and exciting crowd. But when he pulled out the text of his speech, he realized he had forgotten his glasses and had to borrow Winnie's.\n\n4. He had his own law firm, but it took him years to get a law degree.\n\nMr. Mandela studied law on and off for 50 years from 1939, failing about half the courses he took. A two-year diploma in law on top of his university degree allowed him to practice, and in August 1952, he and Oliver Tambo set up South Africa's first black law firm, Mandela and Tambo, in Johannesburg. He kept on studying hard to finally secure a law degree while in prison in 1989.", "question_text": "Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?", "choices": ["Nelson Mandela was not his original name.", "Nelson Mandela was the name given by his teacher.", "Nelson Mandela had been studying the law nonstop for 50 years.", "Nelson Mandela had started his own law firm before he got a law degree."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"His original name was not Nelson.\" ", "\"Rolihlahla Mandela was nine years old when a teacher at the primary Methodist school where he was studying in Qunu, South Africa, gave him an English name 'Nelson' in accordance with the custom to give all school children Christian names.\" ", "\"Mr. Mandela studied law on and off for 50 years from 1939...\" ", "\"He had his own law firm, but it took him years to get a law degree.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Nelson Mandela was his original name.", "Nelson Mandela was not the name given by his teacher.", "Nelson Mandela had not been studying the law nonstop for 50 years.", "Nelson Mandela had not started his own law firm before he got a law degree."], "dc_score": 9.044359417331602, "difficulty_score": 9.044359417331602}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 214, "fields": {"passage": "New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that people who struggle with mood problems or addiction can safely quit smoking and that kicking the habit is associated with improved mental health. \n\n Cavazos-Rehg, an assistant professor of psychiatry, found that quitting or significantly cutting back on cigarette smoking was linked to improved mental health outcomes. Quitting altogether or reducing by half the number of cigarettes smoked daily was associated with lower risk for mood disorders like depression, as well as a lower likelihood of alcohol and drug problems.\n\n \"We don't know if their mental health improves first and then they are more motivated to quit smoking or if quitting smoking leads to an improvement in mental health,\" Cavazos-Rehg said. \"But either way, our findings show a strong link between quitting and a better psychiatric outlook.\"\n\n In addition, she believes the serious health risks associated with smoking make it important for doctors to work with their patients to quit, regardless of other psychiatric problems.\n\n \"About half of all smokers die from related to smoking, so we need to remember that as complicated as it can be to treat mental health issues, smoking cigarettes also causes very serious illnesses that can lead to death,\" she explained.\n\n Cavazos-Rehg and her team analyzed questionnaires gathered as part of the National Epidemiologic Study on Alcohol and Related Conditions. In the early 2000s, just under 35,000 people were surveyed. As part of the study, they answered questions about drinking, smoking and mental health in two interviews conducted three years apart.\n\n The researchers focused on data from 4,800 daily smokers. Those who had addiction or other psychiatric problems at the time of the first survey were less likely to have those same problems three years later if they had quit smoking. And those who hadn't had psychiatric problems at the initial survey were less likely to develop those problems later if they already had quit. \n\n \"We really need to spread the word and encourage doctors and patients to tackle these problems,\" Cavazos-Rehg said. \"When a patient is ready to focus on other mental health issues, it may be an ideal time to address smoking cessation, too.\"", "question_text": "What is the main idea of the passage?", "choices": ["Smoking was associated with alcohol and drug problems.", "Quitting smoking may help to improve mental health.", "Smoking can lead to cancer or other deadly problems.", "Those who had mental problem are more motivated to quit smoking."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that people who struggle with mood problems or addiction can safely quit smoking and that kicking the habit is associated with improved mental health.\"", "\"Quitting altogether or reducing by half the number of cigarettes smoked daily was associated with lower risk for mood disorders like depression, as well as a lower likelihood of alcohol and drug problems.\"", "\"But either way, our findings show a strong link between quitting and a better psychiatric outlook.\"", "\"About half of all smokers die from related to smoking, so we need to remember that as complicated as it can be to treat mental health issues, smoking cigarettes also causes very serious illnesses that can lead to death.\"", "\"Those who had addiction or other psychiatric problems at the time of the first survey were less likely to have those same problems three years later if they had quit smoking.\"", "\"And those who hadn't had psychiatric problems at the initial survey were less likely to develop those problems later if they already had quit.\"", "\"What is the main idea of the passage?\" (question) ", "\"Smoking was associated with alcohol and drug problems.\" (choice)", "\"Quitting smoking may help to improve mental health.\" (choice)", "\"Smoking can lead to cancer or other deadly problems.\" (choice)", "\"Those who had mental problem are more motivated to quit smoking.\" (choice)"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Smoking was associated with alcohol and drug problems.", "Quitting smoking may help to improve mental health.", "Smoking can lead to cancer or other deadly problems.", "Those who had mental problem are more motivated to quit smoking."], "dc_score": 9.665167107438016, "difficulty_score": 10.348907250222238}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 215, "fields": {"passage": "New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that people who struggle with mood problems or addiction can safely quit smoking and that kicking the habit is associated with improved mental health. \n\n Cavazos-Rehg, an assistant professor of psychiatry, found that quitting or significantly cutting back on cigarette smoking was linked to improved mental health outcomes. Quitting altogether or reducing by half the number of cigarettes smoked daily was associated with lower risk for mood disorders like depression, as well as a lower likelihood of alcohol and drug problems.\n\n \"We don't know if their mental health improves first and then they are more motivated to quit smoking or if quitting smoking leads to an improvement in mental health,\" Cavazos-Rehg said. \"But either way, our findings show a strong link between quitting and a better psychiatric outlook.\"\n\n In addition, she believes the serious health risks associated with smoking make it important for doctors to work with their patients to quit, regardless of other psychiatric problems.\n\n \"About half of all smokers die from related to smoking, so we need to remember that as complicated as it can be to treat mental health issues, smoking cigarettes also causes very serious illnesses that can lead to death,\" she explained.\n\n Cavazos-Rehg and her team analyzed questionnaires gathered as part of the National Epidemiologic Study on Alcohol and Related Conditions. In the early 2000s, just under 35,000 people were surveyed. As part of the study, they answered questions about drinking, smoking and mental health in two interviews conducted three years apart.\n\n The researchers focused on data from 4,800 daily smokers. Those who had addiction or other psychiatric problems at the time of the first survey were less likely to have those same problems three years later if they had quit smoking. And those who hadn't had psychiatric problems at the initial survey were less likely to develop those problems later if they already had quit. \n\n \"We really need to spread the word and encourage doctors and patients to tackle these problems,\" Cavazos-Rehg said. \"When a patient is ready to focus on other mental health issues, it may be an ideal time to address smoking cessation, too.\"", "question_text": "It can be inferred from this passage that _.", "choices": ["Having quit smoking, tobacco addicts won't have the same problems again.", "About half of the daily smokers die from deadly mental diseases.", "More than 35,000 people were surveyed, 4,800 of whom were daily smokers.", "Quitting smoking may help avoid alcohol and drug problems."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Cavazos-Rehg found that quitting smoking was linked to improved mental health outcomes.", "Quitting smoking was associated with lower risk for mood disorders like depression, as well as a lower likelihood of alcohol and drug problems.", "The link between quitting smoking and a better psychiatric outlook was strong.", "Serious health risks associated with smoking make it important for doctors to work with their patients to quit, regardless of other psychiatric problems.", "Daily smokers who had addiction or other psychiatric problems at the time of the first survey were less likely to have those same problems three years later if they had quit smoking. ", "Those who hadn't had psychiatric problems at the initial survey were less likely to develop those problems later if they already had quit.", "When a patient is ready to focus on other mental health issues, it may be an ideal time to address smoking cessation.", "Therefore, the correct choice would be: Quitting smoking may help avoid alcohol and drug problems."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Having quit smoking, tobacco addicts won't have the same problems again.", "About half of the daily smokers die from deadly mental diseases.", "More than 35,000 people were surveyed, 4,800 of whom were daily smokers.", "Quitting smoking may help avoid alcohol and drug problems."], "dc_score": 9.665167107438016, "difficulty_score": 10.495325232154517}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 216, "fields": {"passage": "New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that people who struggle with mood problems or addiction can safely quit smoking and that kicking the habit is associated with improved mental health. \n\n Cavazos-Rehg, an assistant professor of psychiatry, found that quitting or significantly cutting back on cigarette smoking was linked to improved mental health outcomes. Quitting altogether or reducing by half the number of cigarettes smoked daily was associated with lower risk for mood disorders like depression, as well as a lower likelihood of alcohol and drug problems.\n\n \"We don't know if their mental health improves first and then they are more motivated to quit smoking or if quitting smoking leads to an improvement in mental health,\" Cavazos-Rehg said. \"But either way, our findings show a strong link between quitting and a better psychiatric outlook.\"\n\n In addition, she believes the serious health risks associated with smoking make it important for doctors to work with their patients to quit, regardless of other psychiatric problems.\n\n \"About half of all smokers die from related to smoking, so we need to remember that as complicated as it can be to treat mental health issues, smoking cigarettes also causes very serious illnesses that can lead to death,\" she explained.\n\n Cavazos-Rehg and her team analyzed questionnaires gathered as part of the National Epidemiologic Study on Alcohol and Related Conditions. In the early 2000s, just under 35,000 people were surveyed. As part of the study, they answered questions about drinking, smoking and mental health in two interviews conducted three years apart.\n\n The researchers focused on data from 4,800 daily smokers. Those who had addiction or other psychiatric problems at the time of the first survey were less likely to have those same problems three years later if they had quit smoking. And those who hadn't had psychiatric problems at the initial survey were less likely to develop those problems later if they already had quit. \n\n \"We really need to spread the word and encourage doctors and patients to tackle these problems,\" Cavazos-Rehg said. \"When a patient is ready to focus on other mental health issues, it may be an ideal time to address smoking cessation, too.\"", "question_text": "Which of the following does professor Cavazos-Rehg agree?", "choices": ["Quitting smoking leads to a better psychiatric outlook.", "If you want to quit smoking, you have to improve your mood problems first.", "There is a strong link between mental health and quitting smoking.", "There is no need to stop smoking when patients center on mental health."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"our findings show a strong link between quitting and a better psychiatric outlook.\"", "\"she believes the serious health risks associated with smoking make it important for doctors to work with their patients to quit, regardless of other psychiatric problems.\"", "\"Those who had addiction or other psychiatric problems at the time of the first survey were less likely to have those same problems three years later if they had quit smoking. And those who hadn't had psychiatric problems at the initial survey were less likely to develop those problems later if they already had quit.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Professor Cavazos-Rehg agrees that quitting smoking leads to a better psychiatric outlook.", "Professor Cavazos-Rehg agrees that if you want to quit smoking, you have to improve your mood problems first.", "Professor Cavazos-Rehg agrees that there is a strong link between mental health and quitting smoking.", "Professor Cavazos-Rehg agrees that there is no need to stop smoking when patients center on mental health."], "dc_score": 9.665167107438016, "difficulty_score": 9.665167107438016}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 217, "fields": {"passage": "New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that people who struggle with mood problems or addiction can safely quit smoking and that kicking the habit is associated with improved mental health. \n\n Cavazos-Rehg, an assistant professor of psychiatry, found that quitting or significantly cutting back on cigarette smoking was linked to improved mental health outcomes. Quitting altogether or reducing by half the number of cigarettes smoked daily was associated with lower risk for mood disorders like depression, as well as a lower likelihood of alcohol and drug problems.\n\n \"We don't know if their mental health improves first and then they are more motivated to quit smoking or if quitting smoking leads to an improvement in mental health,\" Cavazos-Rehg said. \"But either way, our findings show a strong link between quitting and a better psychiatric outlook.\"\n\n In addition, she believes the serious health risks associated with smoking make it important for doctors to work with their patients to quit, regardless of other psychiatric problems.\n\n \"About half of all smokers die from related to smoking, so we need to remember that as complicated as it can be to treat mental health issues, smoking cigarettes also causes very serious illnesses that can lead to death,\" she explained.\n\n Cavazos-Rehg and her team analyzed questionnaires gathered as part of the National Epidemiologic Study on Alcohol and Related Conditions. In the early 2000s, just under 35,000 people were surveyed. As part of the study, they answered questions about drinking, smoking and mental health in two interviews conducted three years apart.\n\n The researchers focused on data from 4,800 daily smokers. Those who had addiction or other psychiatric problems at the time of the first survey were less likely to have those same problems three years later if they had quit smoking. And those who hadn't had psychiatric problems at the initial survey were less likely to develop those problems later if they already had quit. \n\n \"We really need to spread the word and encourage doctors and patients to tackle these problems,\" Cavazos-Rehg said. \"When a patient is ready to focus on other mental health issues, it may be an ideal time to address smoking cessation, too.\"", "question_text": "Which type of writing is the article likely to be?", "choices": ["Science fiction", "A health report", "An education report", "A news report"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": [" \"New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that people who struggle with mood problems or addiction can safely quit smoking and that kicking the habit is associated with improved mental health.\" \"Cavazos-Rehg and her team analyzed questionnaires gathered as part of the National Epidemiologic Study on Alcohol and Related Conditions.\" \"We really need to spread the word and encourage doctors and patients to tackle these problems,\" Cavazos-Rehg said.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The article is likely to be a science fiction piece.", "The article is likely to be a health report.", "The article is likely to be an education report.", "The article is likely to be a news report."], "dc_score": 9.665167107438016, "difficulty_score": 10.394666385628215}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 218, "fields": {"passage": "School is out for the summer in some areas, and for many children, that means weeks of sleeping in late, trips to the swimming pool or hours spent in front of the TV. These months of inactivity---away from the daily tiring things of school---are something that young people look forward to, but it can have a detrimental influence on the knowledge they have.\n\nStudies have shown that children lose a lot in math skills during the summer months. Children who spend little time learning experience a much greater amount of learning loss than those who often take part in summer programs.\n\nSo when school starts again in the fall, teachers often have to spend several weeks reteaching children material that they have forgotten.\n\nExperts suggest that parents make sure the summer months are a time of continued learning. For example, they suggest that lunch time is good time to improve a child's spoken skills, simply through conversation. A trip to the supermarket can be an opportunity to improve a child's math skills by having him or her add up the cost of food. And there is no better way to prevent learning loss than by having a child read every day.\n\nFortunately, there are many programs that can help parents. The best place to start is at your local library. Most libraries have summer reading programs that are filled with fun activities. A strong musical education also improves learning. Find out summer music camps in your area.\n\nWe think that children should have fun during the summer break, but it should not be a vacation from learning. We strongly suggest parents should take advantage of the many educational opportunities available for their children during the coming weeks.", "question_text": "Children lose a lot in learning in the summer break because they_.", "choices": ["do homework before the TV", "stay up late at night", "visit the swimming pool", "spend little time learning"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Studies have shown that children lose a lot in math skills during the summer months. Children who spend little time learning experience a much greater amount of learning loss than those who often take part in summer programs. So when school starts again in the fall, teachers often have to spend several weeks reteaching children material that they have forgotten. Experts suggest that parents make sure the summer months are a time of continued learning. We think that children should have fun during the summer break, but it should not be a vacation from learning. ", "", "Choices: ", "'do homework before the TV'", "'stay up late at night'", "'visit the swimming pool'", "'spend little time learning'"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Children lose a lot in learning in the summer break because they do homework before the TV.", "Children lose a lot in learning in the summer break because they stay up late at night. ", "Children lose a lot in learning in the summer break because they visit the swimming pool. ", "Children lose a lot in learning in the summer break because they spend little time learning. "], "dc_score": 7.9198740484429075, "difficulty_score": 7.9198740484429075}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 219, "fields": {"passage": "School is out for the summer in some areas, and for many children, that means weeks of sleeping in late, trips to the swimming pool or hours spent in front of the TV. These months of inactivity---away from the daily tiring things of school---are something that young people look forward to, but it can have a detrimental influence on the knowledge they have.\n\nStudies have shown that children lose a lot in math skills during the summer months. Children who spend little time learning experience a much greater amount of learning loss than those who often take part in summer programs.\n\nSo when school starts again in the fall, teachers often have to spend several weeks reteaching children material that they have forgotten.\n\nExperts suggest that parents make sure the summer months are a time of continued learning. For example, they suggest that lunch time is good time to improve a child's spoken skills, simply through conversation. A trip to the supermarket can be an opportunity to improve a child's math skills by having him or her add up the cost of food. And there is no better way to prevent learning loss than by having a child read every day.\n\nFortunately, there are many programs that can help parents. The best place to start is at your local library. Most libraries have summer reading programs that are filled with fun activities. A. strong musical education also improves learning. Find out summer music camps in your area.\n\nWe think that children should have fun during the summer break, but it should not be a vacation from learning. We strongly suggest parents should take advantage of the many educational opportunities available for their children during the coming weeks.", "question_text": "Which of the following is true?", "choices": ["It isn't good for children to have fun in summer.", "Children will get bored with reading programs", "Summer programs can be helpful for children.", "Teachers needn't help children review lessons."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["tudies have shown that children lose a lot in math skills during the summer months.", "hildren who spend little time learning experience a much greater amount of learning loss than those who often take part in summer programs.", "o when school starts again in the fall, teachers often have to spend several weeks reteaching children material that they have forgotten.", "xperts suggest that parents make sure the summer months are a time of continued learning.", "Fortunately, there are many programs that can help parents.", "e think that children should have fun during the summer break, but it should not be a vacation from learning."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["It isn't good for children to have fun in summer.", "Children will get bored with reading programs", "Summer programs can be helpful for children.", "Teachers needn't help children review lessons."], "dc_score": 7.928536111111112, "difficulty_score": 8.64542105366678}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 220, "fields": {"passage": "School is out for the summer in some areas, and for many children, that means weeks of sleeping in late, trips to the swimming pool or hours spent in front of the TV. These months of inactivity---away from the daily tiring things of school---are something that young people look forward to, but it can have a detrimental influence on the knowledge they have.\n\nStudies have shown that children lose a lot in math skills during the summer months. Children who spend little time learning experience a much greater amount of learning loss than those who often take part in summer programs.\n\nSo when school starts again in the fall, teachers often have to spend several weeks reteaching children material that they have forgotten.\n\nExperts suggest that parents make sure the summer months are a time of continued learning. For example, they suggest that lunch time is good time to improve a child's spoken skills, simply through conversation. A trip to the supermarket can be an opportunity to improve a child's math skills by having him or her add up the cost of food. And there is no better way to prevent learning loss than by having a child read every day.\n\nFortunately, there are many programs that can help parents. The best place to start is at your local library. Most libraries have summer reading programs that are filled with fun activities. A. strong musical education also improves learning. Find out summer music camps in your area.\n\nWe think that children should have fun during the summer break, but it should not be a vacation from learning. We strongly suggest parents should take advantage of the many educational opportunities available for their children during the coming weeks.", "question_text": "might be most interested in this passage.", "choices": ["Students", "Teachers", "Parents", "Reporters"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["Studies have shown that children lose a lot in math skills during the summer months.", "Children who spend little time learning experience a much greater amount of learning loss than those who often take part in summer programs.", "Experts suggest that parents make sure the summer months are a time of continued learning.", "Fortunately, there are many programs that can help parents.", "We strongly suggest parents should take advantage of the many educational opportunities available for their children during the coming weeks."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Students might be most interested in this passage.", "Teachers might be most interested in this passage.", "Parents might be most interested in this passage.", "Reporters might be most interested in this passage ."], "dc_score": 7.928536111111112, "difficulty_score": 8.749606286317489}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 221, "fields": {"passage": "A new study has been carried to test the role of story telling in lowering blood pressure. Dr. Thomas Houston, a professor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, led a group of scientists that investigated how pre-recorded videos of hypertension patients' talking about their medical histories helped another group of patients with high blood pressure to control their condition over several months.\n\n Houston was surprised by their studies that suggested that communication can be a powerful tool in medicine. They showed that those who had had similar experiences, when talking to someone with a similar background, could help change their behavior to become healthier. Hypertension is difficult to control, since it is dependent on diet, exercise and mental state. Medical treatments with drugs, and lifestyle therapies have been ly ineffective because people find it hard to follow those medical requirements.\n\n In the test, his team carefully chose their story-tellers from 230 members of a patients' community with whom they could most easily relate. Next, they divided their study population into two groups. One received three interactive DVDs containing the tellers' stories of their experiences in living with and treating their hypertension. The other were given educational discs on an unrelated health topic. The study volunteers reported that they had listened to the DVDs, and after three months, those who heard the stories of the hypertensive patients lowered their blood pressure.\n\n While the study did not explain how the story-telling influenced the patients' behavior, Houston suspects that watching patients of similar backgrounds who had a similar medical experience helped to motivate them to seek medical help to their hypertension. They found that after six months the difference in blood pressure between those who watched the story-tellers and those who observed the unrelated videos remained, suggesting that the story-telling continued to have an effect.", "question_text": "We can learn from the text that the pre-recorded videos _.", "choices": ["tell medical histories of hypertension patients", "introduce some medical treatments of hypertension", "introduce a good lifestyle for hypertensive patients", "tell scientific discoveries of the scientist group"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Dr. Thomas Houston led a study to test the role of story-telling in lowering blood pressure", "Pre-recorded videos of hypertension patients were used to help another group of patients with high blood pressure to control their condition", "Communication can be a powerful tool in medicine", "Those who had similar experiences, when talking to someone with a similar background, could help change their behavior to become healthier", "The study volunteers reported that they had listened to the DVDs, and after three months, those who heard the stories of the hypertensive patients lowered their blood pressure"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The pre-recorded videos tell medical histories of hypertension patients.", "The pre-recorded videos introduce some medical treatments of hypertension.", "The pre-recorded videos introduce a good lifestyle for hypertensive patients.", "The pre-recorded videos tell scientific discoveries of the scientist group."], "dc_score": 9.809334489693313, "difficulty_score": 9.809334489693313}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 222, "fields": {"passage": "A new study has been carried to test the role of story telling in lowering blood pressure. Dr. Thomas Houston, a professor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, led a group of scientists that investigated how pre-recorded videos of hypertension patients' talking about their medical histories helped another group of patients with high blood pressure to control their condition over several months.\n\n Houston was surprised by their studies that suggested that communication can be a powerful tool in medicine. They showed that those who had had similar experiences, when talking to someone with a similar background, could help change their behavior to become healthier. Hypertension is difficult to control, since it is dependent on diet, exercise and mental state. Medical treatments with drugs, and lifestyle therapies have been ly ineffective because people find it hard to follow those medical requirements.\n\n In the test, his team carefully chose their story-tellers from 230 members of a patients' community with whom they could most easily relate. Next, they divided their study population into two groups. One received three interactive DVDs containing the tellers' stories of their experiences in living with and treating their hypertension. The other were given educational discs on an unrelated health topic. The study volunteers reported that they had listened to the DVDs, and after three months, those who heard the stories of the hypertensive patients lowered their blood pressure.\n\n While the study did not explain how the story-telling influenced the patients' behavior, Houston suspects that watching patients of similar backgrounds who had a similar medical experience helped to motivate them to seek medical help to their hypertension. They found that after six months the difference in blood pressure between those who watched the story-tellers and those who observed the unrelated videos remained, suggesting that the story-telling continued to have an effect.", "question_text": "Houston was surprised to find that _.", "choices": ["hypertension is really difficult to control", "communication has some medical effects", "medical treatments have no effect at all", "people don't follow the medical requirements"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Houston was surprised by their studies that suggested that communication can be a powerful tool in medicine.", "They showed that those who had had similar experiences, when talking to someone with a similar background, could help change their behavior to become healthier.", "While the study did not explain how the story-telling influenced the patients' behavior, Houston suspects that watching patients of similar backgrounds who had a similar medical experience helped to motivate them to seek medical help to their hypertension.", "It is mentioned that Houston was surprised by the studies that suggested that communication can be a powerful tool in medicine. Therefore, the correct choice is 'communication has some medical effects'."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Houston was surprised to find that hypertension is really difficult to control. ", "Houston was surprised to find that communication has some medical effects. ", "Houston was surprised to find that medical treatments have no effect at all. ", "Houston was surprised to find that people don't follow the medical requirements."], "dc_score": 9.809334489693313, "difficulty_score": 9.809334489693313}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 223, "fields": {"passage": "A new study has been carried to test the role of story telling in lowering blood pressure. Dr. Thomas Houston, a professor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, led a group of scientists that investigated how pre-recorded videos of hypertension patients' talking about their medical histories helped another group of patients with high blood pressure to control their condition over several months.\n\n Houston was surprised by their studies that suggested that communication can be a powerful tool in medicine. They showed that those who had had similar experiences, when talking to someone with a similar background, could help change their behavior to become healthier. Hypertension is difficult to control, since it is dependent on diet, exercise and mental state. Medical treatments with drugs, and lifestyle therapies have been ly ineffective because people find it hard to follow those medical requirements.\n\n In the test, his team carefully chose their story-tellers from 230 members of a patients' community with whom they could most easily relate. Next, they divided their study population into two groups. One received three interactive DVDs containing the tellers' stories of their experiences in living with and treating their hypertension. The other were given educational discs on an unrelated health topic. The study volunteers reported that they had listened to the DVDs, and after three months, those who heard the stories of the hypertensive patients lowered their blood pressure.\n\n While the study did not explain how the story-telling influenced the patients' behavior, Houston suspects that watching patients of similar backgrounds who had a similar medical experience helped to motivate them to seek medical help to their hypertension. They found that after six months the difference in blood pressure between those who watched the story-tellers and those who observed the unrelated videos remained, suggesting that the story-telling continued to have an effect.", "question_text": "Which of the following could be the best title of the text?", "choices": ["The stories of some hypertension patients.", "Medical treatments of blood pressure.", "Storytelling may help lower blood pressure.", "Suggestions about how to lower blood pressure."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["A new study has been carried out to test the role of story telling in lowering blood pressure.", "...investigated how pre-recorded videos of hypertension patients' talking about their medical histories helped another group of patients with high blood pressure to control their condition over several months.", "...their studies that suggested that communication can be a powerful tool in medicine.", "...those who had had similar experiences, when talking to someone with a similar background, could help change their behavior to become healthier.", "In the test, his team carefully chose their story-tellers from 230 members of a patients' community with whom they could most easily relate.", "The study volunteers reported that they had listened to the DVDs, and after three months, those who heard the stories of the hypertensive patients lowered their blood pressure.", "...Houston suspects that watching patients of similar backgrounds who had a similar medical experience helped to motivate them to seek medical help to their hypertension.", "They found that after six months the difference in blood pressure between those who watched the story-tellers and those who observed the unrelated videos remained, suggesting that the story-telling continued to have an effect."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is The stories of some hypertension patients.", "The best title for the passage is Medical treatments of blood pressure.", "The best title for the passage is Storytelling may help lower blood pressure.", "The best title for the passage is Suggestions about how to lower blood pressure."], "dc_score": 9.809334489693313, "difficulty_score": 10.601314473197025}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 224, "fields": {"passage": "Some people collect stamps. Other people collect works of art or musical instruments. But a man in the American state of Maryland collects secrets.\n\nFor the past 10 years, people have been sending Frank Warren postcards and other objects with secrets written on them. He now has a million secrets. \"It's a drawing of a lift. And the secret says: 'I feel guilty when I take lifts for one floor, so I limp when I get out.'\" Frank said.\n\nTen years ago, Mr. Warren created an art project called PostSecret. People then began to send him postcards, other objects and emails telling their secrets. Every Sunday, he chooses 10 secrets and puts them on the website.\n\nMr. Warren says he created PostSecret so people could share their secrets in a safe place. \"I was struggling with secrets in my own life. And it was by creating this safe place where others could share their secrets with me, I think that space was something I needed just as much as they did.\"\n\nHe has published six books full of the secrets people have shared with him. One secret in each book is his. Eric Perry delivers mail for the U.S. Postal Service. He has brought thousands of secrets to Frank's home over the past three years. \"I have a couple of the books that Frank's given me and I've read them all and my family has read them all and it's wild!\"\n\nThe project itself was once one of Frank's secrets. His wife Jan didn't know exactly what he was doing until the first book was published. The publisher told him that the address was going to be on the book, and he refused. However, the address was there just because of the contract between them. Actually Warren wasn't very happy about that.\n\nSome people tell Frank of their secret desire to kill themselves. So he and the PostSecret community have raised more than $1 million to help prevent suicides.", "question_text": "Mr. Warren created PostSecret in order to _.", "choices": ["satisfy his curiosity about others' secrets", "collect more materials for his series of books", "offer a safe place for people to share their secrets", "earn a lot of money by sharing others' secrets online"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Mr. Warren created PostSecret so people could share their secrets in a safe place.", "Some people tell Frank of their secret desire to kill themselves. So he and the PostSecret community have raised more than $1 million to help prevent suicides."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Mr. Warren created PostSecret in order to satisfy his curiosity about others' secrets.", "Mr. Warren created PostSecret in order to collect more materials for his series of books.", "Mr. Warren created PostSecret in order to offer a safe place for people to share their secrets.", "Mr. Warren created PostSecret in order to earn a lot of money by sharing others' secrets online."], "dc_score": 8.67702240247678, "difficulty_score": 8.67702240247678}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 225, "fields": {"passage": "Some people collect stamps. Other people collect works of art or musical instruments. But a man in the American state of Maryland collects secrets.\n\nFor the past 10 years, people have been sending Frank Warren postcards and other objects with secrets written on them. He now has a million secrets. \"It's a drawing of a lift. And the secret says: 'I feel guilty when I take lifts for one floor, so I limp when I get out.'\" Frank said.\n\nTen years ago, Mr. Warren created an art project called PostSecret. People then began to send him postcards, other objects and emails telling their secrets. Every Sunday, he chooses 10 secrets and puts them on the website.\n\nMr. Warren says he created PostSecret so people could share their secrets in a safe place. \"I was struggling with secrets in my own life. And it was by creating this safe place where others could share their secrets with me, I think that space was something I needed just as much as they did.\"\n\nHe has published six books full of the secrets people have shared with him. One secret in each book is his. Eric Perry delivers mail for the U.S. Postal Service. He has brought thousands of secrets to Frank's home over the past three years. \"I have a couple of the books that Frank's given me and I've read them all and my family has read them all and it's wild!\"\n\nThe project itself was once one of Frank's secrets. His wife Jan didn't know exactly what he was doing until the first book was published. The publisher told him that the address was going to be on the book, and he refused. However, the address was there just because of the contract between them. Actually Warren wasn't very happy about that.\n\nSome people tell Frank of their secret desire to kill themselves. So he and the PostSecret community have raised more than $1 million to help prevent suicides.", "question_text": "What do we know about Eric Perry from the passage?", "choices": ["His family are eager to collect the books written by Frank.", "His main job is to deliver mails and postcards for Frank.", "He has been a postman who has a great many secrets.", "He has developed a good relationship with Frank."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Eric Perry delivers mail for the U.S. Postal Service. He has brought thousands of secrets to Frank's home over the past three years. \"I have a couple of the books that Frank's given me and I've read them all and my family has read them all and it's wild!\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["His family are eager to collect the books written by Frank.", "His main job is to deliver mails and postcards for Frank.", "He has been a postman who has a great many secrets.", "He has developed a good relationship with Frank."], "dc_score": 8.67702240247678, "difficulty_score": 9.314814993133012}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 226, "fields": {"passage": "Some people collect stamps. Other people collect works of art or musical instruments. But a man in the American state of Maryland collects secrets.\n\nFor the past 10 years, people have been sending Frank Warren postcards and other objects with secrets written on them. He now has a million secrets. \"It's a drawing of a lift. And the secret says: 'I feel guilty when I take lifts for one floor, so I limp when I get out.'\" Frank said.\n\nTen years ago, Mr. Warren created an art project called PostSecret. People then began to send him postcards, other objects and emails telling their secrets. Every Sunday, he chooses 10 secrets and puts them on the website.\n\nMr. Warren says he created PostSecret so people could share their secrets in a safe place. \"I was struggling with secrets in my own life. And it was by creating this safe place where others could share their secrets with me, I think that space was something I needed just as much as they did.\"\n\nHe has published six books full of the secrets people have shared with him. One secret in each book is his. Eric Perry delivers mail for the U.S. Postal Service. He has brought thousands of secrets to Frank's home over the past three years. \"I have a couple of the books that Frank's given me and I've read them all and my family has read them all and it's wild!\"\n\nThe project itself was once one of Frank's secrets. His wife Jan didn't know exactly what he was doing until the first book was published. The publisher told him that the address was going to be on the book, and he refused. However, the address was there just because of the contract between them. Actually Warren wasn't very happy about that.\n\nSome people tell Frank of their secret desire to kill themselves. So he and the PostSecret community have raised more than $1 million to help prevent suicides.", "question_text": "What was Mr. Warren's secret according to the passage?", "choices": ["He once took the lift only for one floor.", "He is interested in collecting others' secrets.", "He created an art project without telling his wife.", "He helped prevent others from committing suicides."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"For the past 10 years, people have been sending Frank Warren postcards and other objects with secrets written on them. He now has a million secrets...Mr. Warren says he created PostSecret so people could share their secrets in a safe place. 'I was struggling with secrets in my own life. And it was by creating this safe place where others could share their secrets with me, I think that space was something I needed just as much as they did.'...The project itself was once one of Frank's secrets. His wife Jan didn't know exactly what he was doing until the first book was published.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["According to the passage, what was Mr. Warren's secret about his behavior in the lift? - He once took the lift only for one floor.", "Based on the passage, what is Mr. Warren's interest? - He is interested in collecting others' secrets.", "What did Mr. Warren do without informing his wife, as mentioned in the passage? - He created an art project without telling his wife.", "According to the passage, what was one of Mr. Warren's contributions to society? - He helped prevent others from committing suicides."], "dc_score": 8.67702240247678, "difficulty_score": 8.67702240247678}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 227, "fields": {"passage": "What's your idea of a good time? What about dancing in a rainy field with one hundred and fifty thousand other people while a famous rock band plays on a stage so far away that the performers look like ants?\n\nIt may sound strange but that is what many hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK do every summer. Why? Because summer is the time for outdoor music festivals.\n\nHeld on a farm, the Glastonbury Festival is the most well-known and popular festival in the UK. It began in 1970 and the first festival was attended by one thousand five hundred people each paying an admission price of PS1 -- the ticket included free milk from the farm.\n\nSince then the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength -- in 2004 one hundred and fifty thousand fans attended, paying PS112 each for a ticket to the three-day event. Tickets for the event sold out within three hours. Performers included superstars, such as Paul McCartney and James Brown, as well as new talent, like Franz Ferdinand and Joss Stone.\n\nAlthough many summer festivals are run on a profit-making basis, Glastonbury is a charity event, donating millions of pounds to local and international charities.\n\nGlastonbury is not unique in using live music to raise money to fight global poverty.In July of this year, the Live 8 concerts were held simultaneously in London, Paris, Rome and Berlin.Superstars such as Madonna, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder performed in order to highlight international poverty and debt.", "question_text": "What does the author mean by saying \"the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength\"?", "choices": ["The festival has achieved growing success.", "Great efforts have been made to hold the festival.", "The festival has brought in a large amount of money.", "There have been thousands of fans attending the festival."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The Glastonbury Festival is the most well-known and popular festival in the UK.", "In 2004 one hundred and fifty thousand fans attended, paying PS112 each for a ticket to the three-day event.", "Performers included superstars, such as Paul McCartney and James Brown, as well as new talent, like Franz Ferdinand and Joss Stone.", "Glastonbury is a charity event, donating millions of pounds to local and international charities.", "The festival has achieved growing success."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The author's statement \"the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength\" means that the festival has achieved growing success. ", "The author's statement \"the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength\" means that great efforts have been made to hold the festival. ", "The author's statement \"the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength\" means that the festival has brought in a large amount of money. ", "The author's statement \"the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength\" means that there have been thousands of fans attending the festival"], "dc_score": 9.032978078443296, "difficulty_score": 9.032978078443296}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 228, "fields": {"passage": "What's your idea of a good time? What about dancing in a rainy field with one hundred and fifty thousand other people while a famous rock band plays on a stage so far away that the performers look like ants?\n\nIt may sound strange but that is what many hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK do every summer. Why? Because summer is the time for outdoor music festivals.\n\nHeld on a farm, the Glastonbury Festival is the most well-known and popular festival in the UK. It began in 1970 and the first festival was attended by one thousand five hundred people each paying an admission price of PS1 -- the ticket included free milk from the farm.\n\nSince then the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength -- in 2004 one hundred and fifty thousand fans attended, paying PS112 each for a ticket to the three-day event. Tickets for the event sold out within three hours. Performers included superstars, such as Paul McCartney and James Brown, as well as new talent, like Franz Ferdinand and Joss Stone.\n\nAlthough many summer festivals are run on a profit-making basis, Glastonbury is a charity event, donating millions of pounds to local and international charities.\n\nGlastonbury is not unique in using live music to raise money to fight global poverty.In July of this year, the Live 8 concerts were held simultaneously in London, Paris, Rome and Berlin.Superstars such as Madonna, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder performed in order to highlight international poverty and debt.", "question_text": "Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?", "choices": ["The Glastonbury Festival is run on a profit-making basis.", "Tickets for the 2004 Glastonbury Festival were in great demand despite the high price.", "Both James Brown and Joss Stone were born in poor families.", "In the 1970 Glastonbury Festival, one could have lunch on the farm for free."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Held on a farm, the Glastonbury Festival is the most well-known and popular festival in the UK.", "Since then the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength -- in 2004 one hundred and fifty thousand fans attended, paying PS112 each for a ticket to the three-day event. Tickets for the event sold out within three hours. Performers included superstars, such as Paul McCartney and James Brown, as well as new talent, like Franz Ferdinand and Joss Stone.", "Although many summer festivals are run on a profit-making basis, Glastonbury is a charity event, donating millions of pounds to local and international charities. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The Glastonbury Festival is run on a profit-making basis.", "Tickets for the 2004 Glastonbury Festival were in great demand despite the high price.", "Both James Brown and Joss Stone were born in poor families.", "In the 1970 Glastonbury Festival, one could have lunch on the farm for free."], "dc_score": 9.032978078443296, "difficulty_score": 9.91932482372734}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 229, "fields": {"passage": "What's your idea of a good time? What about dancing in a rainy field with one hundred and fifty thousand other people while a famous rock band plays on a stage so far away that the performers look like ants?\n\nIt may sound strange but that is what many hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK do every summer. Why? Because summer is the time for outdoor music festivals.\n\nHeld on a farm, the Glastonbury Festival is the most well-known and popular festival in the UK. It began in 1970 and the first festival was attended by one thousand five hundred people each paying an admission price of PS1 -- the ticket included free milk from the farm.\n\nSince then the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength -- in 2004 one hundred and fifty thousand fans attended, paying PS112 each for a ticket to the three-day event. Tickets for the event sold out within three hours. Performers included superstars, such as Paul McCartney and James Brown, as well as new talent, like Franz Ferdinand and Joss Stone.\n\nAlthough many summer festivals are run on a profit-making basis, Glastonbury is a charity event, donating millions of pounds to local and international charities.\n\nGlastonbury is not unique in using live music to raise money to fight global poverty.In July of this year, the Live 8 concerts were held simultaneously in London, Paris, Rome and Berlin.Superstars such as Madonna, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder performed in order to highlight international poverty and debt.", "question_text": "What is the best title for the passage?", "choices": ["How to have a good time", "Charity events around the world", "The Glastonbury Festival", "Superstars' performances in charity events"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"What's your idea of a good time?\", \"Because summer is the time for outdoor music festivals.\", \"the Glastonbury Festival is the most well-known and popular festival in the UK.\", \"Glastonbury is a charity event, donating millions of pounds to local and international charities.\", \"Live 8 concerts were held simultaneously in London, Paris, Rome and Berlin.\", \"Superstars such as Madonna, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder performed in order to highlight international poverty and debt.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is How to have a good time", "The best title for the passage is Charity events around the world", "The best title for the passage is The Glastonbury Festival", "The best title for the passage is Superstars' performances in charity events"], "dc_score": 9.032978078443296, "difficulty_score": 9.677138534408499}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 230, "fields": {"passage": "The best selling children's book, Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives, has been adapted into a homonymous play that will be put on for the first time next March and tour around 50 cities in China.\n\nThe book was adapted by the Hangzhou based Star Dream Factory.\n\n\"We don't want to descend to the average children's dramas that are overly eager to please the kids,\" said Huang Qin, director of Star Dream Factory. \"We want to provide something practically useful and mystically entertaining\".\n\nThe original book by Chinese children's book writer Zheng Yuanjie focuses on safety tips for kids. With Zheng's usual _ and simplicity, the book avoids sugar-coating reality. Instead, it illustrates the potential dangers in everyday life and provides possible solutions.\n\nZheng recalled that when he saw his new-born baby in the hospital, the first thought that hit him was to do his utmost to guarantee his son's safety.\n\n\"Safety is of the greatest importance to a human being\", said Zheng. \"If the person is gone, nothing else will matter\".\n\nAccording to Zheng, there is no preaching or soapboxing in his book. He said that he just wanted to talk and tell the plain truth to the children in an easily understandable way.\n\nThis line of thought will be echoed in the theatrical reproduction, said director Guo Yan. She also said that the play will place emphasis on multimedia effects and the interaction with the families.\n\n\"Theatre may not ensure the children a path to professional esteem and better jobs in society, but it does have the power to give them strength (at heart)\", said Huang Qin.\n\nHuang also calls for consistent attention to child safety, pointing out the lack of universal education and effective legal channels.\n\nThe show is expecting an estimated audience of more than 100,000 people during its domestic tour in the upcoming year.", "question_text": "Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives has been adapted into a play by _.", "choices": ["Huang Qin.", "Zheng Yuanjie.", "Guo Yan.", "Star Dream Factory"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The book was adapted by the Hangzhou based Star Dream Factory.", "\"We don't want to descend to the average children's dramas that are overly eager to please the kids,\" said Huang Qin, director of Star Dream Factory.", "According to Zheng, there is no preaching or soapboxing in his book.", "This line of thought will be echoed in the theatrical reproduction, said director Guo Yan.", "Huang also calls for consistent attention to child safety, pointing out the lack of universal education and effective legal channels. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives has been adapted into a play by Huang Qin.", "Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives has been adapted into a play by Zheng Yuanjie.", "Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives has been adapted into a play by Guo Yan.", "Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives has been adapted into a play by Star Dream Factory."], "dc_score": 9.225018954248366, "difficulty_score": 9.225018954248366}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 231, "fields": {"passage": "The best selling children's book, Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives, has been adapted into a homonymous play that will be put on for the first time next March and tour around 50 cities in China.\n\nThe book was adapted by the Hangzhou based Star Dream Factory.\n\n\"We don't want to descend to the average children's dramas that are overly eager to please the kids,\" said Huang Qin, director of Star Dream Factory. \"We want to provide something practically useful and mystically entertaining.\"\n\nThe original book by Chinese children's book writer Zheng Yuanjie focuses on safety tips for kids. With Zheng's usual _ and simplicity, the book avoids sugar-coating reality. Instead, it illustrates the potential dangers in everyday life and provides possible solutions.\n\nZheng recalled that when he saw his new-born baby in the hospital, the first thought that hit him was to do his utmost to guarantee his son's safety.\n\n\"Safety is of the greatest importance to a human being,\" said Zheng. \"If the person is gone, nothing else will matter.\"\n\nAccording to Zheng, there is no preaching or soapboxing in his book. He said that he just wanted to talk and tell the plain truth to the children in an easily understandable way.\n\nThis line of thought will be echoed in the theatrical reproduction, said director Guo Yan. She also said that the play will place emphasis on multimedia effects and the interaction with the families.\n\n\"Theatre may not ensure the children a path to professional esteem and better jobs in society, but it does have the power to give them strength (at heart),\" said Huang Qin.\n\nHuang also calls for consistent attention to child safety, pointing out the lack of universal education and effective legal channels.\n\nThe show is expecting an estimated audience of more than 100,000 people during its domestic tour in the upcoming year.", "question_text": "The book Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives is trying to tell the readers _.", "choices": ["how Pipilu give you 100 lives in a clear way", "how Pipilu can live a more interesting life in a simple way", "how we can live a safer life in an understandable way", "how we can have 100 lives in a pleasing way"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["The original book by Chinese children's book writer Zheng Yuanjie focuses on safety tips for kids...the book avoids sugar-coating reality. Instead, it illustrates the potential dangers in everyday life and provides possible solutions... Zheng recalled that when he saw his new-born baby in the hospital, the first thought that hit him was to do his utmost to guarantee his son's safety.... According to Zheng, there is no preaching or soapboxing in his book. He said that he just wanted to talk and tell the plain truth to the children in an easily understandable way. This line of thought will be echoed in the theatrical reproduction, said director Guo Yan. choices: ['how Pipilu give you 100 lives in a clear way', 'how Pipilu can live a more interesting life in a simple way', 'how we can live a safer life in an understandable way', 'how we can have 100 lives in a pleasing way']"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The book Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives is trying to tell the readers how Pipilu give you 100 lives in a clear way.", "The book Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives is trying to tell the readers how Pipilu can live a more interesting life in a simple way.", "The book Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives is trying to tell the readers how we can live a safer life in an understandable way.", "The book Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives is trying to tell the readers how we can have 100 lives in a pleasing way."], "dc_score": 9.225018954248366, "difficulty_score": 10.0994199337004}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 232, "fields": {"passage": "The best selling children's book, Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives, has been adapted into a homonymous play that will be put on for the first time next March and tour around 50 cities in China.\n\nThe book was adapted by the Hangzhou based Star Dream Factory.\n\n\"We don't want to descend to the average children's dramas that are overly eager to please the kids,\" said Huang Qin, director of Star Dream Factory. \"We want to provide something practically useful and mystically entertaining\".\n\nThe original book by Chinese children's book writer Zheng Yuanjie focuses on safety tips for kids. With Zheng's usual _ and simplicity, the book avoids sugar-coating reality. Instead, it illustrates the potential dangers in everyday life and provides possible solutions.\n\nZheng recalled that when he saw his new-born baby in the hospital, the first thought that hit him was to do his utmost to guarantee his son's safety.\n\n\"Safety is of the greatest importance to a human being\", said Zheng. \"If the person is gone, nothing else will matter\".\n\nAccording to Zheng, there is no preaching or soapboxing in his book. He said that he just wanted to talk and tell the plain truth to the children in an easily understandable way.\n\nThis line of thought will be echoed in the theatrical reproduction, said director Guo Yan. She also said that the play will place emphasis on multimedia effects and the interaction with the families.\n\n\"Theatre may not ensure the children a path to professional esteem and better jobs in society, but it does have the power to give them strength (at heart)\", said Huang Qin.\n\nHuang also calls for consistent attention to child safety, pointing out the lack of universal education and effective legal channels.\n\nThe show is expecting an estimated audience of more than 100,000 people during its domestic tour in the upcoming year.", "question_text": "According to Zheng,safety _.", "choices": ["is more important to people than any other things", "is an essential part only to all the children", "is more important to the old than the young", "is more important to the young than the old"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["According to Zheng, there is no preaching or soapboxing in his book. He said that he just wanted to talk and tell the plain truth to the children in an easily understandable way. \"Safety is of the greatest importance to a human being\", said Zheng. \"If the person is gone, nothing else will matter\"."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["According to Zheng, safety is more important to people than any other things.", "According to Zheng, safety is an essential part only to all the children.", "According to Zheng, safety is more important to the old than the young.", "According to Zheng, safety is more important to the young than the old."], "dc_score": 9.225018954248366, "difficulty_score": 9.225018954248366}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 233, "fields": {"passage": "The best selling children's book, Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives, has been adapted into a homonymous play that will be put on for the first time next March and tour around 50 cities in China.\n\nThe book was adapted by the Hangzhou based Star Dream Factory.\n\n\"We don't want to descend to the average children's dramas that are overly eager to please the kids,\" said Huang Qin, director of Star Dream Factory. \"We want to provide something practically useful and mystically entertaining\".\n\nThe original book by Chinese children's book writer Zheng Yuanjie focuses on safety tips for kids. With Zheng's usual _ and simplicity, the book avoids sugar-coating reality. Instead, it illustrates the potential dangers in everyday life and provides possible solutions.\n\nZheng recalled that when he saw his new-born baby in the hospital, the first thought that hit him was to do his utmost to guarantee his son's safety.\n\n\"Safety is of the greatest importance to a human being\", said Zheng. \"If the person is gone, nothing else will matter\".\n\nAccording to Zheng, there is no preaching or soapboxing in his book. He said that he just wanted to talk and tell the plain truth to the children in an easily understandable way.\n\nThis line of thought will be echoed in the theatrical reproduction, said director Guo Yan. She also said that the play will place emphasis on multimedia effects and the interaction with the families.\n\n\"Theatre may not ensure the children a path to professional esteem and better jobs in society, but it does have the power to give them strength (at heart)\", said Huang Qin.\n\nHuang also calls for consistent attention to child safety, pointing out the lack of universal education and effective legal channels.\n\nThe show is expecting an estimated audience of more than 100,000 people during its domestic tour in the upcoming year.", "question_text": "The purpose of the passage is to _ ?", "choices": ["introduce a play to remind children of the importance of safety", "introduce a book and its homonymous play to the readers", "tell the readers how to keep safe", "tell the readers how important safety is"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"The best selling children's book, Pipilu Sending You 100 Lives, has been adapted into a homonymous play that will be put on for the first time next March and tour around 50 cities in China.\"", "\"The original book by Chinese children's book writer Zheng Yuanjie focuses on safety tips for kids.\"", "\"The show is expecting an estimated audience of more than 100,000 people during its domestic tour in the upcoming year.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The purpose of the passage is to introduce a play to remind children of the importance of safety.", "The purpose of the passage is to introduce a book and its homonymous play to the readers.", "The purpose of the passage is to tell the readers how to keep safe.", "The purpose of the passage is to tell the readers how important safety is."], "dc_score": 9.225018954248366, "difficulty_score": 9.939421918972048}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 234, "fields": {"passage": "Many people hate wet, sticky August, but to some, it's an especially bitter time. A new working paper finds that, March and August are the months in which divorce filings peak.\n\nFor the paper, the University of Washington's Brian Serafini and Julie Brines analyzed the most recent years of divorce filings in Washington and drew their conclusion: divorce rises sharply in March and August. The result is supported by some nation-wide, anecdotal evidence. Online searches for \"divorce\" and \"child custody\" dramatically grow early in the year, peaking in March, they point out.\n\nThe authors guess that unhappily married couples schedule their divorce filings around both the winter holidays and Valentine's Day, as well as summer vacations. (More Americans take vacation in July than any other month.)\n\nThere are a few explanations why people might time their marital dissolutions this way, It might just be too difficult to announce a divorce around family-oriented Christmas time, especially if there are kids involved, so many couples weigh the decision to divorce around the new year and progress from there. February is a period in which couples tend to look around for representation on legal sites. And by March, they're prepared to file for divorce.\n\nBut the authors think the more likely reason is that people decide their differences are irreconcilable right after a big trip. It could be that people don't want to ruin a family getaway, or that vacations are so stressful that they drive the already-dissatisfied to divorce. (\"I told you to pack your suitcase last night; now we've missed the train!\")\n\nThen there's the \"broken promise\" theory. \"6People are discontent with their marriages, they look at vacation as an opportunity to give it one last shot, and what they were hoping would happen didn't occur,\" explained Brines, an associate professor of sociology.\n\nIt's not you; in other words, it's your failure to print the boarding passes.", "question_text": "Which of the following can support Brian and Julie's conclusion?", "choices": ["The divorce rate rises sharply in March and August.", "They carried out online surveys and analyzed the results.", "More people search for key words about divorce early in the year.", "Conflicts in marriage tend to get more serious during Christmas."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["A new working paper finds that, March and August are the months in which divorce filings peak.", "For the paper, the University of Washington's Brian Serafini and Julie Brines analyzed the most recent years of divorce filings in Washington and drew their conclusion: divorce rises sharply in March and August.", "The result is supported by some nation-wide, anecdotal evidence. Online searches for \"divorce\" and \"child custody\" dramatically grow early in the year, peaking in March, they point out.", "The authors guess that unhappily married couples schedule their divorce filings around both the winter holidays and Valentine's Day, as well as summer vacations.", "There are a few explanations why people might time their marital dissolutions this way, It might just be too difficult to announce a divorce around family-oriented Christmas time, especially if there are kids involved, so many couples weigh the decision to divorce around the new year and progress from there.", "February is a period in which couples tend to look around for representation on legal sites. And by March, they're prepared to file for divorce. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The divorce rate rises sharply in March and August.", "They carried out online surveys and analyzed the results.", "More people search for key words about divorce early in the year.", "Conflicts in marriage tend to get more serious during Christmas."], "dc_score": 8.793243396226416, "difficulty_score": 9.683797540643393}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 235, "fields": {"passage": "Many people hate wet, sticky August, but to some, it's an especially bitter time. A new working paper finds that, March and August are the months in which divorce filings peak.\n\nFor the paper, the University of Washington's Brian Serafini and Julie Brines analyzed the most recent years of divorce filings in Washington and drew their conclusion: divorce rises sharply in March and August. The result is supported by some nation-wide, anecdotal evidence. Online searches for \"divorce\" and \"child custody\" dramatically grow early in the year, peaking in March, they point out.\n\nThe authors guess that unhappily married couples schedule their divorce filings around both the winter holidays and Valentine's Day, as well as summer vacations. (More Americans take vacation in July than any other month.)\n\nThere are a few explanations why people might time their marital dissolutions this way, It might just be too difficult to announce a divorce around family-oriented Christmas time, especially if there are kids involved, so many couples weigh the decision to divorce around the new year and progress from there. February is a period in which couples tend to look around for representation on legal sites. And by March, they're prepared to file for divorce.\n\nBut the authors think the more likely reason is that people decide their differences are irreconcilable right after a big trip. It could be that people don't want to ruin a family getaway, or that vacations are so stressful that they drive the already-dissatisfied to divorce. (\"I told you to pack your suitcase last night; now we've missed the train!\")\n\nThen there's the \"broken promise\" theory. \"6People are discontent with their marriages, they look at vacation as an opportunity to give it one last shot, and what they were hoping would happen didn't occur,\" explained Brines, an associate professor of sociology.\n\nIt's not you; in other words, it's your failure to print the boarding passes.", "question_text": "According to Brian and Julie, why does divorce rise in March and August?", "choices": ["People need time to decide and prepare before they divorce.", "Many couples want to have a new beginning in a new year.", "Kids are less involved in winter and summer vacations.", "Couples see more marital problems in their vacation trips."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["For the paper, the University of Washington's Brian Serafini and Julie Brines analyzed the most recent years of divorce filings in Washington and drew their conclusion: divorce rises sharply in March and August. The authors guess that unhappily married couples schedule their divorce filings around both the winter holidays and Valentine's Day, as well as summer vacations. There are a few explanations why people might time their marital dissolutions this way, It might just be too difficult to announce a divorce around family-oriented Christmas time, especially if there are kids involved, so many couples weigh the decision to divorce around the new year and progress from there. And by March, they're prepared to file for divorce. The authors think the more likely reason is that people decide their differences are irreconcilable right after a big trip."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["According to Brian and Julie, divorce rise in March and August because people need time to decide and prepare before they divorce.", "According to Brian and Julie, divorce rise in March and August because many couples want to have a new beginning in a new year.", "According to Brian and Julie, divorce rise in March and August because kids are less involved in winter and summer vacations.", "According to Brian and Julie, divorce rise in March and August because couples see more marital problems in their vacation trips."], "dc_score": 8.793243396226416, "difficulty_score": 9.617674180239577}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 236, "fields": {"passage": "When was the last time someone did something unexpectedly nice for you? Not someone you knew, but a total stranger? It's happened to me a few times, but two instances really stand out.\n\nA few years ago, I was dining out with a person who kept going on and on about himself, completely unaware of the fact that I was sitting there in misery. It wasn't his company that disappointed me. I was recovering from a bad grade in my study. I could have collapsed in tears right there at the table.\n\nWhen we picked up the check, the waitress said, \"Your meal was already paid for.\" My friend and I didn't have a clue how it happened. Then I remembered a man coming in out of the corner of my eye. He was dressed in mostly white, sat down at the bar, had a glass of wine, stayed for maybe ten minutes and then left. The waitress said, \"Yes, the gentleman who was in here a while ago paid for you.\"\n\nJust last year, I was running a half-marathon. With just 0.1 miles to go, I was out of gas. Runners call it \"hitting the wall\"; I thought I couldn't move another muscle. Out of nowhere, a teenager jogged up next to me and said, \"What's your name sweetie? Jennifer? Okay, Jennifer, let's go! Come on! It's just around the corner! You can do it!\". And he ran with me until I picked up my pace. I found him at the finish line to thank him for the encouragement only to learn he wasn't even supposed to be in the race that day. He was running in place of someone else.\n\nI still shake my head when I think of these momentary angels that came to me at my point of need. Do you have any experiences like this?", "question_text": "Why did the author say she was in misery?", "choices": ["Because she got into trouble with her friend.", "Because she couldn't enjoy her meal quietly.", "Because her friend complained so much.", "Because she was doing poorly in her study."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": [" \"A few years ago, I was dining out with a person who kept going on and on about himself, completely unaware of the fact that I was sitting there in misery. It wasn't his company that disappointed me. I was recovering from a bad grade in my study. I could have collapsed in tears right there at the table.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The author expressed her misery because she got into trouble with her friend.", "The author felt miserable because she couldn't eat her meal quietly.", "The author feel miserable because her friend complained so much.", "The author feel miserable because she was doing poorly in her study"], "dc_score": 7.511410967741936, "difficulty_score": 7.511410967741936}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 237, "fields": {"passage": "When was the last time someone did something unexpectedly nice for you? Not someone you knew, but a total stranger? It's happened to me a few times, but two instances really stand out.\n\nA few years ago, I was dining out with a person who kept going on and on about himself, completely unaware of the fact that I was sitting there in misery. It wasn't his company that disappointed me. I was recovering from a bad grade in my study. I could have collapsed in tears right there at the table.\n\nWhen we picked up the check, the waitress said, \"Your meal was already paid for.\" My friend and I didn't have a clue how it happened. Then I remembered a man coming in out of the corner of my eye. He was dressed in mostly white, sat down at the bar, had a glass of wine, stayed for maybe ten minutes and then left. The waitress said, \"Yes, the gentleman who was in here a while ago paid for you.\"\n\nJust last year, I was running a half-marathon. With just 0.1 miles to go, I was out of gas. Runners call it \"hitting the wall\"; I thought I couldn't move another muscle. Out of nowhere, a teenager jogged up next to me and said, \"What's your name sweetie? Jennifer? Okay, Jennifer, let's go! Come on! It's just around the corner! You can do it!\". And he ran with me until I picked up my pace. I found him at the finish line to thank him for the encouragement only to learn he wasn't even supposed to be in the race that day. He was running in place of someone else.\n\nI still shake my head when I think of these momentary angels that came to me at my point of need. Do you have any experiences like this?", "question_text": "What do you think of the man who paid for the meal?", "choices": ["He was generous and warm-hearted.", "He knew the author well and always helped her.", "He showed his kindness to his girlfriend.", "He liked making fun of others."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Then I remembered a man coming in out of the corner of my eye...The waitress said, 'Yes, the gentleman who was in here a while ago paid for you.'\"", "\"I still shake my head when I think of these momentary angels that came to me at my point of need.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["He was generous and warm-hearted.", "He knew the author well and always helped her.", "He showed his kindness to his girlfriend.", "He liked making fun of others."], "dc_score": 7.511410967741936, "difficulty_score": 8.221913793801795}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 238, "fields": {"passage": "When was the last time someone did something unexpectedly nice for you? Not someone you knew, but a total stranger? It's happened to me a few times, but two instances really stand out.\n\nA few years ago, I was dining out with a person who kept going on and on about himself, completely unaware of the fact that I was sitting there in misery. It wasn't his company that disappointed me. I was recovering from a bad grade in my study. I could have collapsed in tears right there at the table.\n\nWhen we picked up the check, the waitress said, \"Your meal was already paid for.\" My friend and I didn't have a clue how it happened. Then I remembered a man coming in out of the corner of my eye. He was dressed in mostly white, sat down at the bar, had a glass of wine, stayed for maybe ten minutes and then left. The waitress said, \"Yes, the gentleman who was in here a while ago paid for you.\"\n\nJust last year, I was running a half-marathon. With just 0.1 miles to go, I was out of gas. Runners call it \"hitting the wall\"; I thought I couldn't move another muscle. Out of nowhere, a teenager jogged up next to me and said, \"What's your name sweetie? Jennifer? Okay, Jennifer, let's go! Come on! It's just around the corner! You can do it!\". And he ran with me until I picked up my pace. I found him at the finish line to thank him for the encouragement only to learn he wasn't even supposed to be in the race that day. He was running in place of someone else.\n\nI still shake my head when I think of these momentary angels that came to me at my point of need. Do you have any experiences like this?", "question_text": "Which of the following is the best title for the passage?", "choices": ["The Kindness of Strangers", "An Unpleasant Friend", "Two Unbelievable Experiences", "Hitting the Wall"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"When was the last time someone did something unexpectedly nice for you? Not someone you knew, but a total stranger?\" ", "\"A few years ago, I was dining out with a person who kept going on and on about himself, completely unaware of the fact that I was sitting there in misery.\" ", "\"When we picked up the check, the waitress said, 'Your meal was already paid for.' My friend and I didn't have a clue how it happened.\" ", "\"Just last year, I was running a half-marathon... Out of nowhere, a teenager jogged up next to me and said, 'What's your name sweetie? Jennifer? Okay, Jennifer, let's go! Come on! It's just around the corner! You can do it!'\" ", "\"I still shake my head when I think of these momentary angels that came to me at my point of need.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is The Kindness of Strangers", "The best title for the passage is An Unpleasant Friend", "The best title for the passage is Two Unbelievable Experiences", "The best title for the passage is Hitting the Wall"], "dc_score": 7.511410967741936, "difficulty_score": 8.193511028028022}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 239, "fields": {"passage": "If there is a building which symbolizes a country--such as the Eiffel Tower for France and Sydney Opera House for Australia--then it has to be the Taj Mahal for India.\n\nIt was set up by Emperor Shah Jahan in 1653 in memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. From the time they got married, they wouldn't be separated. She followed him to wars, advised him on affairs of state, and was loved by his people for her good work. But she died in 1631 during childbirth. The emperor was heart-broken and had the Taj Mahal built as a sign of his love.\n\nIt took more than 20 years for the Taj Mahal to be built. Workers were brought in, not only from all over India, but from Central Asia too. A total of 20,000 people worked on the building.\n\nIn 1657, Shah Jahan fell ill, and in 1658 his son Aurangzeb, imprisoned his father and seized power. Shah Jahan stayed in prison until his death in 1666. He was finally buried there with his wife he could never forget.\n\nThe Taj Mahal is definitely worth more than a single visit. As it is built with white marble stones, its character changes in different lights. It looks more beautiful at sunrise and sunset. At sunset, for example, the colour of the Taj changes from white to yellow, then to pink. As the moon rises, it turns a silvery white.\n\nTo show respect to the Taj, tourists are asked to take off their shoes during their visit.", "question_text": "Emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal to _.", "choices": ["make it symbolize India", "memorise his wife", "show his great power", "give his wife a present"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. She died in 1631 during childbirth, and the emperor had the Taj Mahal built as a sign of his love."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Emperor Shah Jahan build the Taj Mahal to make it symbolize India ", "Emperor Shah Jahan build the Taj Mahal to memorize his wife", "Emperor Shah Jahan build the Taj Mahal to show his great power ", "Emperor Shah Jahan build the Taj Mahal to give his wife a present"], "dc_score": 9.418711764705883, "difficulty_score": 9.418711764705883}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 240, "fields": {"passage": "If there is a building which symbolizes a country--such as the Eiffel Tower for France and Sydney Opera House for Australia--then it has to be the Taj Mahal for India.\n\nIt was set up by Emperor Shah Jahan in 1653 in memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. From the time they got married, they wouldn't be separated. She followed him to wars, advised him on affairs of state, and was loved by his people for her good work. But she died in 1631 during childbirth. The emperor was heart-broken and had the Taj Mahal built as a sign of his love.\n\nIt took more than 20 years for the Taj Mahal to be built. Workers were brought in, not only from all over India, but from Central Asia too. A total of 20,000 people worked on the building.\n\nIn 1657, Shah Jahan fell ill, and in 1658 his son Aurangzeb, imprisoned his father and seized power. Shah Jahan stayed in prison until his death in 1666. He was finally buried there with his wife he could never forget.\n\nThe Taj Mahal is definitely worth more than a single visit. As it is built with white marble stones, its character changes in different lights. It looks more beautiful at sunrise and sunset. At sunset, for example, the colour of the Taj changes from white to yellow, then to pink. As the moon rises, it turns a silvery white.\n\nTo show respect to the Taj, tourists are asked to take off their shoes during their visit.", "question_text": "Which of the following about the Taj Mahal is NOT true?", "choices": ["It is a symbol of India.", "It took over 20 years to build the Taj Mahal.", "All workers building the Taj Mahal came from Central Asia.", "The Taj Mahal was built with white marble stones."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"It is a symbol of India.\" \"It took more than 20 years for the Taj Mahal to be built.\" \"Workers were brought in, not only from all over India, but from Central Asia too.\" \"The Taj Mahal is definitely worth more than a single visit. As it is built with white marble stones, its character changes in different lights.\"  "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["It is not a symbol of India.", "It did not took over 20 years to build the Taj Mahal.", "All workers building the Taj Mahal did not came from Central Asia.", "The Taj Mahal was not built with white marble stones."], "dc_score": 9.418711764705883, "difficulty_score": 9.418711764705883}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 241, "fields": {"passage": "If there is a building which symbolizes a country--such as the Eiffel Tower for France and Sydney Opera House for Australia--then it has to be the Taj Mahal for India.\n\nIt was set up by Emperor Shah Jahan in 1653 in memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. From the time they got married, they wouldn't be separated. She followed him to wars, advised him on affairs of state, and was loved by his people for her good work. But she died in 1631 during childbirth. The emperor was heart-broken and had the Taj Mahal built as a sign of his love.\n\nIt took more than 20 years for the Taj Mahal to be built. Workers were brought in, not only from all over India, but from Central Asia too. A total of 20,000 people worked on the building.\n\nIn 1657, Shah Jahan fell ill, and in 1658 his son Aurangzeb, imprisoned his father and seized power. Shah Jahan stayed in prison until his death in 1666. He was finally buried there with his wife he could never forget.\n\nThe Taj Mahal is definitely worth more than a single visit. As it is built with white marble stones, its character changes in different lights. It looks more beautiful at sunrise and sunset. At sunset, for example, the colour of the Taj changes from white to yellow, then to pink. As the moon rises, it turns a silvery white.\n\nTo show respect to the Taj, tourists are asked to take off their shoes during their visit.", "question_text": "According to the passage, we know that Shah Jahan _.", "choices": ["lived a hard life in his last few years", "lost his life just because of his old age", "was not popular with his people at that time", "treated his son badly when he was young"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["According to the passage, we know that Shah Jahan fell ill in 1657 and was imprisoned by his son Aurangzeb who seized power in The passage does not provide information about whether Shah Jahan lived a hard life in his last few years, lost his life just because of his old age, or treated his son badly when he was young."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["According to the passage, we know that Shah Jahan lived a hard life in his last few years.", "According to the passage, we know that Shah Jahan lost his life just because of his old age.", "According to the passage, we know that Shah Jahan was not popular with his people at that time.", "According to the passage, we know that Shah Jahan treated his son badly when he was young."], "dc_score": 9.418711764705883, "difficulty_score": 10.232105643763504}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 242, "fields": {"passage": "According to Andrew, it never would have happened if he had not had a flat tire on Highway 10 last night at about 7:30. He was on his way to attend a three-day sales meeting when he had the flat. tyre. Unfortunately, he did not have a spare, so he pushed the car off the road, locked it up, and managed to thumb a ride back to Pine Grove. It was after eleven o'clock when he finally got home, and it was then that his real problems started.\n\nWhen Andrew left home at about 5:30, he had told his wife not to expect him back until Thursday or Friday. Knowing that his wife was nervous about staying in the house alone at night, Andrew took the precaution of checking all the windows in the house to be sure they were locked, so that he could report to his wife that the house was secure. He convinced his wife that the house was burglar-proof, and that she would be perfectly safe, providing she bolted the front door as soon as he drove away.\n\nAndrew's only thought as he made his way in the dark to his front door was how surprised his wife was going to be to see him, since he was not supposed to be back until Thursday or Friday. He had forgotten about the bolt on the front door. When he turned his key in the lock and the door wouldn't _ he remembered the bolt. And he remembered that he had carefully locked all of the windows.\n\nAlthough Andrew didn't know it at the time, a next-door neighbor had seen him approaching the house and had watched him go up the steps to the front door. In the dark, it was impossible for the neighbor to recognize Andrew, and, besides, the neighbor knew that Andrew had gone out-of-town for a three-day meeting. As a matter of fact, Andrew had asked the neighbor to keep an eye on the house while he was gone.\n\nFinding that he couldn't get in, Andrew began pounding on the front door to get his wife to open the door. According to Andrew, however, his wife is a very sound sleeper, and he knew it was going to be hard to wake her up. In the meantime, because of all the noise he had been making, the neighbor was convinced that somebody was trying to break into the house; so she called the police.\n\nWhen we talked to Andrew at the country jail this morning, he said that he still didn't understand how the police managed to circle the house without his seeing them. He stated that he had decided the only way to get in was to break one of the dining room windows, and that he was about, to hurl his briefcase into the window to break it when two of the officers grabbed him from behind.\n\nAndrew could not make the officers believe that he lived there; so they took him off to jail. Apparently, he did succeed in convincing them that they ought to wake up the woman in the house to check his story. But there was no answer when they knocked at the door. He tried to explain to them that his wife was a very sound sleeper, but they concluded there was nobody in the house.", "question_text": "As Andrew had a flat tyre on the way, he _.", "choices": ["had to take another car to attend the meeting", "rode on a bike to attend the meating", "asked for a lift to go back home", "borrowed a car to go back home"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["According to Andrew, it never would have happened if he had not had a flat tire on Highway 10 last night at about 7:He was on his way to attend a three-day sales meeting when he had the flat. tyre. Unfortunately, he did not have a spare, so he pushed the car off the road, locked it up, and managed to thumb a ride back to Pine Grove."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["As Andrew had a flat tyre on the way, he had to take another car to attend the meeting.", "As Andrew had a flat tyre on the way, he rode on a bike to attend the meeting.", "As Andrew had a flat tyre on the way, he asked for a lift to go back home.", "As Andrew had a flat tyre on the way, he borrowed a car to go back home."], "dc_score": 8.324087279857398, "difficulty_score": 8.324087279857398}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 243, "fields": {"passage": "According to Andrew, it never would have happened if he had not had a flat tire on Highway 10 last night at about 7:30. He was on his way to attend a three-day sales meeting when he had the flat. tyre. Unfortunately, he did not have a spare, so he pushed the car off the road, locked it up, and managed to thumb a ride back to Pine Grove. It was after eleven o'clock when he finally got home, and it was then that his real problems started.\n\nWhen Andrew left home at about 5:30, he had told his wife not to expect him back until Thursday or Friday. Knowing that his wife was nervous about staying in the house alone at night, Andrew took the precaution of checking all the windows in the house to be sure they were locked, so that he could report to his wife that the house was secure. He convinced his wife that the house was burglar-proof, and that she would be perfectly safe, providing she bolted the front door as soon as he drove away.\n\nAndrew's only thought as he made his way in the dark to his front door was how surprised his wife was going to be to see him, since he was not supposed to be back until Thursday or Friday. He had forgotten about the bolt on the front door. When he turned his key in the lock and the door wouldn't open he remembered the bolt. And he remembered that he had carefully locked all of the windows.\n\nAlthough Andrew didn't know it at the time, a next-door neighbor had seen him approaching the house and had watched him go up the steps to the front door. In the dark, it was impossible for the neighbor to recognize Andrew, and, besides, the neighbor knew that Andrew had gone out-of-town for a three-day meeting. As a matter of fact, Andrew had asked the neighbor to keep an eye on the house while he was gone.\n\nFinding that he couldn't get in, Andrew began pounding on the front door to get his wife to open the door. According to Andrew, however, his wife is a very sound sleeper, and he knew it was going to be hard to wake her up. In the meantime, because of all the noise he had been making, the neighbor was convinced that somebody was trying to break into the house; so she called the police.\n\nWhen we talked to Andrew at the country jail this morning, he said that he still didn't understand how the police managed to circle the house without his seeing them. He stated that he had decided the only way to get in was to break one of the dining room windows, and that he was about, to hurl his briefcase into the window to break it when two of the officers grabbed him from behind.\n\nAndrew could not make the officers believe that he lived there; so they took him off to jail. Apparently, he did succeed in convincing them that they ought to wake up the woman in the house to check his story. But there was no answer when they knocked at the door. He tried to explain to them that his wife was a very sound sleeper, but they concluded there was nobody in the house.", "question_text": "When Andrew was approaching the house _.", "choices": ["he was sure he would pleasently surprise his wife", "he was deep in thought", "he was sure that his neighbor would help him", "he was worried about how to wake his wife up"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["When Andrew was approaching the house, \"his only thought as he made his way in the dark to his front door was how surprised his wife was going to be to see him, since he was not supposed to be back until Thursday or Friday.\" Therefore, the answer is: \"he was sure he would pleasantly surprise his wife\"."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["When Andrew was approaching the house, he was sure he would pleasantly surprise his wife.", "When Andrew was approaching the house, he was deep in thought.", "When Andrew was approaching the house, he was sure that his neighbor would help him.", "When Andrew was approaching the house, he was worried about how to wake his wife up."], "dc_score": 8.366169513641756, "difficulty_score": 9.173804157304446}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 244, "fields": {"passage": "According to Andrew, it never would have happened if he had not had a flat tire on Highway 10 last night at about 7:30. He was on his way to attend a three-day sales meeting when he had the flat. tyre. Unfortunately, he did not have a spare, so he pushed the car off the road, locked it up, and managed to thumb a ride back to Pine Grove. It was after eleven o'clock when he finally got home, and it was then that his real problems started.\n\nWhen Andrew left home at about 5:30, he had told his wife not to expect him back until Thursday or Friday. Knowing that his wife was nervous about staying in the house alone at night, Andrew took the precaution of checking all the windows in the house to be sure they were locked, so that he could report to his wife that the house was secure. He convinced his wife that the house was burglar-proof, and that she would be perfectly safe, providing she bolted the front door as soon as he drove away.\n\nAndrew's only thought as he made his way in the dark to his front door was how surprised his wife was going to be to see him, since he was not supposed to be back until Thursday or Friday. He had forgotten about the bolt on the front door. When he turned his key in the lock and the door wouldn't open he remembered the bolt. And he remembered that he had carefully locked all of the windows.\n\nAlthough Andrew didn't know it at the time, a next-door neighbor had seen him approaching the house and had watched him go up the steps to the front door. In the dark, it was impossible for the neighbor to recognize Andrew, and, besides, the neighbor knew that Andrew had gone out-of-town for a three-day meeting. As a matter of fact, Andrew had asked the neighbor to keep an eye on the house while he was gone.\n\nFinding that he couldn't get in, Andrew began pounding on the front door to get his wife to open the door. According to Andrew, however, his wife is a very sound sleeper, and he knew it was going to be hard to wake her up. In the meantime, because of all the noise he had been making, the neighbor was convinced that somebody was trying to break into the house; so she called the police.\n\nWhen we talked to Andrew at the country jail this morning, he said that he still didn't understand how the police managed to circle the house without his seeing them. He stated that he had decided the only way to get in was to break one of the dining room windows, and that he was about, to hurl his briefcase into the window to break it when two of the officers grabbed him from behind.\n\nAndrew could not make the officers believe that he lived there; so they took him off to jail. Apparently, he did succeed in convincing them that they ought to wake up the woman in the house to check his story. But there was no answer when they knocked at the door. He tried to explain to them that his wife was a very sound sleeper, but they concluded there was nobody in the house.", "question_text": "Why did the police officers take Andrew off to jail?", "choices": ["It was too late for them to contact Andrew's wife.", "Andrew did not explain clearly why he broke into the house.", "They thought it unnecessary to check Andrew's story.", "they concluded that Andrew's story was a complete invention."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Andrew began pounding on the front door to get his wife to open the door. According to Andrew, however, his wife is a very sound sleeper, and he knew it was going to be hard to wake her up. In the meantime, because of all the noise he had been making, the neighbor was convinced that somebody was trying to break into the house; so she called the police.", "When we talked to Andrew at the country jail this morning, he said that he still didn't understand how the police managed to circle the house without his seeing them. ", "Apparently, he did succeed in convincing them that they ought to wake up the woman in the house to check his story. But there was no answer when they knocked at the door.", "He tried to explain to them that his wife was a very sound sleeper, but they concluded there was nobody in the house.", "Andrew could not make the officers believe that he lived there; so they took him off to jail."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The police officers take Andrew off to jail because it was too late for them to contact Andrew's wife.", "The police officers take Andrew off to jail because Andrew did not explain clearly why he broke into the house.", "The police officers take Andrew off to jail because they thought it unnecessary to check Andrew's story.", "The police officers take Andrew off to jail because they concluded that Andrew's story was a complete invention."], "dc_score": 8.366169513641756, "difficulty_score": 9.160845811431317}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 245, "fields": {"passage": "Owning a smartphone may not be as smart as you think. They may let you surf the Internet, listen to music and snap photos wherever you are... but they also turn you into a workaholic, it seems. A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day.\n\nResearchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles. The study by technology retailer Pixmania, reveals the average UK working day is between nine and ten hours, but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls. Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails. Some workers confess they are on call almost 24 hours a day, with nine out of ten saying they take work emails and calls outside their normal working hours. Nearly two-thirds say they often check work emails just before they go to bed and as soon as they wake up, while over a third have replied to one in the middle of the night.\n\nGhadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said: \"The ability to access literally millions of apps, keep in contact via social networks and take photos and video as well as text and call has made smartphones valuable for many people. However,there are downsides to this constant connection to work. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smartphones mean that people literally cannot get away from work. The more constantly in contact we become. The more is expected of us in a work capacity.\"", "question_text": "The text is probably taken from _.", "choices": ["a scientific report", "a financial report", "a newspaper", "a literary journal"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day.\"\n\"The study by technology retailer Pixmania, reveals the average UK working day is between nine and ten hours, but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls.\"\n\"Ghadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said: 'The ability to access literally millions of apps, keep in contact via social networks and take photos and video as well as text and call has made smartphones valuable for many people. However, there are downsides to this constant connection to work.'\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The text is probably taken from a scientific report.", "The text is probably taken from a financial report.", "The text is probably taken from a newspaper.", "The text is probably taken from a literary journal."], "dc_score": 8.666857679529773, "difficulty_score": 9.407204281294769}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 246, "fields": {"passage": "Owning a smartphone may not be as smart as you think. They may let you surf the Internet, listen to music and snap photos wherever you are... but they also turn you into a workaholic, it seems. A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day.\n\nResearchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles. The study by technology retailer Pixmania, reveals the average UK working day is between nine and ten hours, but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls. Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails. Some workers confess they are on call almost 24 hours a day, with nine out of ten saying they take work emails and calls outside their normal working hours. Nearly two-thirds say they often check work emails just before they go to bed and as soon as they wake up, while over a third have replied to one in the middle of the night.\n\nGhadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said: \"The ability to access literally millions of apps, keep in contact via social networks and take photos and video as well as text and call has made smartphones valuable for many people. However,there are downsides to this constant connection to work. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smartphones mean that people literally cannot get away from work. The more constantly in contact we become. The more is expected of us in a work capacity.\"", "question_text": "Ghadi may agree that _.", "choices": ["employees are supposed to be on call 24 hours a day", "the ability to access many apps made smartphones worthless", "smartphones might turn a person into a workaholic", "people literally cannot get away from work without smartphones"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Ghadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said: 'The ability to access literally millions of apps, keep in contact via social networks and take photos and video as well as text and call has made smartphones valuable for many people...However, there are downsides to this constant connection to work...smartphones mean that people literally cannot get away from work.'...The more constantly in contact we become. The more is expected of us in a work capacity.\" Therefore, Ghadi may agree that smartphones might turn a person into a workaholic, and people literally cannot get away from work without smartphones."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Ghadi may agree that employees are supposed to be on call 24 hours a day.", "Ghadi may agree that the ability to access many apps made smartphones worthless.", "Ghadi may agree that smartphones might turn a person into a workaholic.", "Ghadi may agree that people literally cannot get away from work without smartphones."], "dc_score": 8.666857679529773, "difficulty_score": 9.393477006527698}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 247, "fields": {"passage": "Owning a smartphone may not be as smart as you think. They may let you surf the Internet, listen to music and snap photos wherever you are... but they also turn you into a workaholic, it seems. A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone adds as much as two hours to your working day.\n\nResearchers found that Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles. The study by technology retailer Pixmania, reveals the average UK working day is between nine and ten hours, but a further two hours is spent responding to or sending work emails, or making work calls. Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails. Some workers confess they are on call almost 24 hours a day, with nine out of ten saying they take work emails and calls outside their normal working hours. Nearly two-thirds say they often check work emails just before they go to bed and as soon as they wake up, while over a third have replied to one in the middle of the night.\n\nGhadi Hobeika, marketing director of Pixmania, said: \"The ability to access literally millions of apps, keep in contact via social networks and take photos and video as well as text and call has made smartphones valuable for many people. However,there are downsides to this constant connection to work. Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and smartphones mean that people literally cannot get away from work. The more constantly in contact we become. The more is expected of us in a work capacity.\"", "question_text": "What is the main idea of this passage?", "choices": ["Smartphones are lengthening working hours.", "Smartphones are becoming valuable for many people.", "Britons work art additional 460 hours a year on average.", "Smartphones are more beneficial to our life than we think."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["A study suggests that smartphones add up to two hours to our working day by giving us access to emails at all times. ", "Britons work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles. ", "Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails. ", "Many people cannot get away from work because of constant connection to work through smartphones. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Smartphones are lengthening working hours.", "Smartphones are becoming valuable for many people.", "Britons work art additional 460 hours a year on average.", "Smartphones are more beneficial to our life than we think."], "dc_score": 8.666857679529773, "difficulty_score": 9.271281351968819}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 248, "fields": {"passage": "I've done many things that would make any parent proud. I've taken part in sports, community work and school events, but I am most proud to be a good big brother. I have to watch over four sisters and a brother, plus myself. That's quitea task, but one I feel I have gotten good at.\n\nMy brother needs more attention than most siblings. When he was nine, he was hit by a pick-up truck on the way to the bus stop and lost use of the lower two-thirds of his body. He's been in a wheelchair for six years. My brother does many things, but sometimes he tries to do things he used to do but can't now. I' m always there with words of encouragement.\n\nI now watch my brother struggle to do as many things as he can within and beyond his limits. Should he fall, I will be the person to pick him up. I also watch as my younger sisters grow up into intelligent, beautiful young women. Whenever my brother or sisters need a helping hand or words of encouragement, I'm on the job. That's what I, the big brother, am for.", "question_text": "How many people are probably there in the author's family? _.", "choices": ["5", "6", "7", "8"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"I have to watch over four sisters and a brother, plus myself.\"", "\"Whenever my brother or sisters need a helping hand or words of encouragement, I'm on the job.\"", "\"That's what I, the big brother, am for.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["How many people are probably there in the author's family? 5.", "How many people are probably there in the author's family? 6.", "How many people are probably there in the author's family? 7.", "How many people are probably there in the author's family? 8."], "dc_score": 7.049399855699856, "difficulty_score": 7.735051749119993}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 249, "fields": {"passage": "I've done many things that would make any parent proud. I've taken part in sports, community work and school events, but I am most proud to be a good big brother. I have to watch over four sisters and a brother, plus myself. That's quitea task, but one I feel I have gotten good at.\n\nMy brother needs more attention than most siblings. When he was nine, he was hit by a pick-up truck on the way to the bus stop and lost use of the lower two-thirds of his body. He's been in a wheelchair for six years. My brother does many things, but sometimes he tries to do things he used to do but can't now. I' m always there with words of encouragement.\n\nI now watch my brother struggle to do as many things as he can within and beyond his limits. Should he fall, I will be the person to pick him up. I also watch as my younger sisters grow up into intelligent, beautiful young women. Whenever my brother or sisters need a helping hand or words of encouragement, I'm on the job. That's what I, the big brother, am for.", "question_text": "The author's brother needs more attention because _.", "choices": ["he is the youngest child of the family", "he lost the functions of his lower body", "he was disabled by a careless bus driver", "he needs the words of encouragement"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"My brother needs more attention than most siblings.\"", "\"When he was nine, he was hit by a pick-up truck on the way to the bus stop and lost use of the lower two-thirds of his body. He's been in a wheelchair for six years.\"", "\"My brother does many things, but sometimes he tries to do things he used to do but can't now. I' m always there with words of encouragement.\"", "\"I now watch my brother struggle to do as many things as he can within and beyond his limits.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The author's brother needs more attention because he is the youngest child of the family.", "The author's brother needs more attention because he lost the functions of his lower body.", "The author's brother needs more attention because he was disabled by a careless bus driver.", "The author's brother needs more attention because he needs the words of encouragement."], "dc_score": 7.049399855699856, "difficulty_score": 7.901499067545822}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 250, "fields": {"passage": "I've done many things that would make any parent proud. I've taken part in sports, community work and school events, but I am most proud to be a good big brother. I have to watch over four sisters and a brother, plus myself. That's quitea task, but one I feel I have gotten good at.\n\nMy brother needs more attention than most siblings. When he was nine, he was hit by a pick-up truck on the way to the bus stop and lost use of the lower two-thirds of his body. He's been in a wheelchair for six years. My brother does many things, but sometimes he tries to do things he used to do but can't now. I' m always there with words of encouragement.\n\nI now watch my brother struggle to do as many things as he can within and beyond his limits. Should he fall, I will be the person to pick him up. I also watch as my younger sisters grow up into intelligent, beautiful young women. Whenever my brother or sisters need a helping hand or words of encouragement, I'm on the job. That's what I, the big brother, am for.", "question_text": "We can learn from the text that a big brother _.", "choices": ["sometimes takes more responsibilities", "must put up with the incredible hardship", "can be asked for help whenever needed", "is the most important guy in a big family"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"but I am most proud to be a good big brother.\"", "\"I have to watch over four sisters and a brother, plus myself.\"", "\"My brother needs more attention than most siblings.\"", "\"I' m always there with words of encouragement.\"", "\"Should he fall, I will be the person to pick him up.\"", "\"Whenever my brother or sisters need a helping hand or words of encouragement, I'm on the job.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["We can learn from the text that a big brother sometimes takes more responsibilities.", "We can learn from the text that a big brother must put up with the incredible hardship.", "We can learn from the text that a big brother can be asked for help whenever needed.", "We can learn from the text that a big brother is the most important guy in a big family."], "dc_score": 7.049399855699856, "difficulty_score": 7.788662272134681}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 251, "fields": {"passage": "People in Mutsuhito, Japan, lived through one hundreds, and sometimes thousands, a day. But they couldn't get used to it.\n\nWhat was it? It was a string of earthquakes that made the small town shake all the time. This went on for more than a year.Sometimes the quakes were very small. Only certain instruments could pick them up. At other times, the quakes damaged houses and land. The people were always afraid. They wished they knew how to stop the ground from shaking.\n\nPeople all over the world would like to know when an earthquake is coming. But an earthquake is almost always a surprise. Under the surface of the Earth, huge blocks of rock drift apart or slide against each other. The ground above splits apart or rumbles and shakes.\n\nSome scientists hope to predict quakes by keeping a close watch on animals. It seems that some animals can sense an earthquake coming. In 1969, animals in a Chinese zoo began to act funny one day. Swans flew out of their pond.A panda sat down, covered its eyes with its paws, and groaned. The animals seemed to know that something was about to happen. And it did. An earthquake struck. What was it that the animals sensed? Scientists are trying to find out.\n\nKeeping close track of the Earth's magnetic force in earthquake areas may also help. A few years ago, in Hollister, CA, scientists kept a record of the area's magnetic pull. For one week, the force grew stronger. Then it weakened suddenly. A day later, an earthquake struck.\n\nIt may become possible to know when and where an earthquake will happen. But it will be much harder to stop one from happening.\n\nMany scientists think that the Earth's covering is not smooth. They say the earth's \"skin\" is made up of huge puzzle pieces called plates. Land and ocean floors make up these huge plates. Under the Earth's crust, or plates, is hot rock. The plates float on top of this rock. Sometimes the rock forces its way through the crust. What happens then? A volcano is born! More often, the rock moves and forces the plates to pull away from each other, causing earthquakes to happen. (Volcanoes and earthquakes often go together.)\n\nSometimes, the plates end up on top of each other.When this happens, the land above may look strange.Seen from the air, there seems to be a long scar in the Earth. This is called a fault. The areas along faults have more earthquakes than other parts of the Earth.\n\nFor now, we'll just have to shake along with the Earth. It goes through millions of small earthquakes every year. With luck, you won't feel a thing!", "question_text": "When the rock forces its way through the Earth's crust, _.", "choices": ["a volcano is born", "an earthquake happens", "a fault forms", "the Earth's covering becomes smooth"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Sometimes the rock forces its way through the crust. What happens then? A volcano is born! More often, the rock moves and forces the plates to pull away from each other, causing earthquakes to happen. (Volcanoes and earthquakes often go together.)"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["When the rock forces its way through the Earth's crust, a volcano is born.", "When the rock forces its way through the Earth's crust, an earthquake happens.", "When the rock forces its way through the Earth's crust, a fault forms.", "When the rock forces its way through the Earth's crust, the Earth's covering becomes smooth."], "dc_score": 8.548688644688646, "difficulty_score": 8.548688644688646}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 252, "fields": {"passage": "People in Mutsuhito, Japan, lived through one hundreds, and sometimes thousands, a day. But they couldn't get used to it.\n\nWhat was it? It was a string of earthquakes that made the small town shake all the time. This went on for more than a year.Sometimes the quakes were very small. Only certain instruments could pick them up. At other times, the quakes damaged houses and land. The people were always afraid. They wished they knew how to stop the ground from shaking.\n\nPeople all over the world would like to know when an earthquake is coming. But an earthquake is almost always a surprise. Under the surface of the Earth, huge blocks of rock drift apart or slide against each other. The ground above splits apart or rumbles and shakes.\n\nSome scientists hope to predict quakes by keeping a close watch on animals. It seems that some animals can sense an earthquake coming. In 1969, animals in a Chinese zoo began to act funny one day. Swans flew out of their pond.A panda sat down, covered its eyes with its paws, and groaned. The animals seemed to know that something was about to happen. And it did. An earthquake struck. What was it that the animals sensed? Scientists are trying to find out.\n\nKeeping close track of the Earth's magnetic force in earthquake areas may also help. A few years ago, in Hollister, CA, scientists kept a record of the area's magnetic pull. For one week, the force grew stronger. Then it weakened suddenly. A day later, an earthquake struck.\n\nIt may become possible to know when and where an earthquake will happen. But it will be much harder to stop one from happening.\n\nMany scientists think that the Earth's covering is not smooth. They say the earth's \"skin\" is made up of huge puzzle pieces called plates. Land and ocean floors make up these huge plates. Under the Earth's crust, or plates, is hot rock. The plates float on top of this rock. Sometimes the rock forces its way through the crust. What happens then? A volcano is born! More often, the rock moves and forces the plates to pull away from each other, causing earthquakes to happen. (Volcanoes and earthquakes often go together.)\n\nSometimes, the plates end up on top of each other.When this happens, the land above may look strange.Seen from the air, there seems to be a long scar in the Earth. This is called a fault. The areas along faults have more earthquakes than other parts of the Earth.\n\nFor now, we'll just have to shake along with the Earth. It goes through millions of small earthquakes every year. With luck, you won't feel a thing!", "question_text": "How does a fault form?", "choices": ["When California rests on two separate plates.", "When the plates end up on top of each other.", "Before an earthquake happens.", "After volcano comes."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["How does a fault form? The areas along faults have more earthquakes than other parts of the Earth. Sometimes, the plates end up on top of each other.When this happens, the land above may look strange.Seen from the air, there seems to be a long scar in the Earth. This is called a fault."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["A fault is form when California rests on two separate plates.", "A fault is form when the plates end up on top of each other.", "A fault is form before an earthquake happens.", "A fault is form after volcano comes."], "dc_score": 8.548688644688646, "difficulty_score": 8.548688644688646}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 253, "fields": {"passage": "The United States is full of cars. There are still many families without cars, but some families have two or more. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are a necessary part of life.\n\nCars are used for business. They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to get to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in order to carry their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies.\n\nSometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities school buses are used only when children live more than a mile away from the school. When the children are too young to walk too far, their mothers take turns driving them to school. One mother drives on Mondays taking her own children and the neighbors' as well. Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesday, and so on. This is called forming a car pool. Men also form car pools, with three or four men taking turns driving to the place where they all work.\n\nMore car pools should be formed in order to put fewer cars on the road and use less gas. Too many cars are being driven. Something will have to be done about the use of cars.", "question_text": "The United States is filled with cars, but _.", "choices": ["not every family has a car", "few families have two cars or even more", "every American has a car", "every family has a car"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The United States is filled with cars. There are still many families without cars, but some families have two or more."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The United States is filled with cars, but not every family has a car.", "The United States is filled with cars, but few families have two cars or even more.", "The United States is filled with cars, but every American has a car.", "The United States is filled with cars, but every family has a car."], "dc_score": 8.396988888888888, "difficulty_score": 8.396988888888888}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 254, "fields": {"passage": "The United States is full of cars. There are still many families without cars, but some families have two or more. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are a necessary part of life.\n\nCars are used for business. They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to get to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in order to carry their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies.\n\nSometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities school buses are used only when children live more than a mile away from the school. When the children are too young to walk too far, their mothers take turns driving them to school. One mother drives on Mondays taking her own children and the neighbors' as well. Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesday, and so on. This is called forming a car pool. Men also form car pools, with three or four men taking turns driving to the place where they all work.\n\nMore car pools should be formed in order to put fewer cars on the road and use less gas. Too many cars are being driven. Something will have to be done about the use of cars.", "question_text": "Mothers form car pools in order that _.", "choices": ["they can drive to school", "they can take turns driving their children to school", "they reach school quickly", "they can drive their children to school in time"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Mothers take turns driving their children to school by forming car pools. This is called forming a car pool."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Mothers form car pools in order that they can drive to school.", "Mothers form car pools in order that they can take turns driving their children to school.", "Mothers form car pools in order that they reach school quickly.", "Mothers form car pools in order that they can drive their children to school in time."], "dc_score": 8.396988888888888, "difficulty_score": 8.396988888888888}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 255, "fields": {"passage": "The United States is full of cars. There are still many families without cars, but some families have two or more. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are a necessary part of life.\n\nCars are used for business. They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to get to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in order to carry their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies.\n\nSometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities school buses are used only when children live more than a mile away from the school. When the children are too young to walk too far, their mothers take turns driving them to school. One mother drives on Mondays taking her own children and the neighbors' as well. Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesday, and so on. This is called forming a car pool. Men also form car pools, with three or four men taking turns driving to the place where they all work.\n\nMore car pools should be formed in order to put fewer cars on the road and use less gas. Too many cars are being driven. Something will have to be done about the use of cars.", "question_text": "The traffic in and around cities is a great problem because _.", "choices": ["too many cars are being driven", "there are too many car pools", "people put fewer cars on the roads", "there is less gas"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["More car pools should be formed in order to put fewer cars on the road and use less gas.", "Too many cars are being driven.", "Something will have to be done about the use of cars."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The traffic in and around cities is a great problem because too many cars are being driven.", "The traffic in and around cities is a great problem because there are too many car pools.", "The traffic in and around cities is a great problem because people put fewer cars on the roads.", "The traffic in and around cities is a great problem because there is less gas."], "dc_score": 8.396988888888888, "difficulty_score": 9.173416760966614}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 256, "fields": {"passage": "Ariau Amazon Towers\n\nThe Ariau Amazon Towers hotel lets you sleep in a tree house. Eight towers make up this hotel that offers over 300 rooms. If you really want to get into the spirit, book the Tarzan Suite which is large enough for a big family. You'll be thirty feet up in the air and can travel between the towers through their wooden walkways.\n\nPrices: starting at $300 one night for each person for a regular room and going all the way up to $3000 for the Tarzan Suite.\n\nFor more information, visit the website: http://www.ariautowers.com\n\nThe Ice Hotel\n\nEvery winter in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, a special kind of hotel called the Ice Hotel is built. Each year, world-famous artists are invited to design and produce works of art from the ice, many of which can be found in the rooms. You'll have your choice between hot or cold rooms, but you will be well advised to stay at least one night in a cold room for a true experience.\n\nPrices: starting at $318 one night for each person for either a cold room or a warm one.\n\nFor more information, visit the website: http://www.icehotel.com\n\nPropeller Island\n\nPropeller Island City Lodge is a very special hotel that was designed by a German artist. Each room provides you with the possibility of living in a work of art. Every single piece of furniture in the thirty rooms of the hotel has been hand-made and each room is completely different. You'll be able to choose a room based on your own personal tastes.\n\nPrices: starting at just $91 a night, and an additional person for only 20 extra dollars.\n\nFor more information, visit the website: http://www.propeller-island.com\n\nFor information about other cool hotels in the world, visit the website:\n\nhttp://www.bahamabeachclub.com", "question_text": "What is special about the Ariau Amazon Towers hotel?", "choices": ["You can sleep in tree houses.", "You can choose any of the towers.", "It is designed for big families.", "Every room has a walkway."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["The Ariau Amazon Towers hotel lets you sleep in a tree house. Eight towers make up this hotel that offers over 300 rooms. If you really want to get into the spirit, book the Tarzan Suite which is large enough for a big family. You'll be thirty feet up in the air and can travel between the towers through their wooden walkways. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Ariau Amazon Towers hotel is special because you can sleep in tree houses.", "Ariau Amazon Towers hotel is special because you can choose any of the towers.", "Ariau Amazon Towers hotel is special because it is designed for big families.", "Ariau Amazon Towers hotel is special because every room has a walkway."], "dc_score": 7.651780645905421, "difficulty_score": 8.411234386583095}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 257, "fields": {"passage": "Ariau Amazon Towers\n\nThe Ariau Amazon Towers hotel lets you sleep in a tree house. Eight towers make up this hotel that offers over 300 rooms. If you really want to get into the spirit, book the Tarzan Suite which is large enough for a big family. You'll be thirty feet up in the air and can travel between the towers through their wooden walkways.\n\nPrices: starting at $300 one night for each person for a regular room and going all the way up to $3000 for the Tarzan Suite.\n\nFor more information, visit the website: http://www.ariautowers.com\n\nThe Ice Hotel\n\nEvery winter in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, a special kind of hotel called the Ice Hotel is built. Each year, world-famous artists are invited to design and produce works of art from the ice, many of which can be found in the rooms. You'll have your choice between hot or cold rooms, but you will be well advised to stay at least one night in a cold room for a true experience.\n\nPrices: starting at $318 one night for each person for either a cold room or a warm one.\n\nFor more information, visit the website: http://www.icehotel.com\n\nPropeller Island\n\nPropeller Island City Lodge is a very special hotel that was designed by a German artist. Each room provides you with the possibility of living in a work of art. Every single piece of furniture in the thirty rooms of the hotel has been hand-made and each room is completely different. You'll be able to choose a room based on your own personal tastes.\n\nPrices: starting at just $91 a night, and an additional person for only 20 extra dollars.\n\nFor more information, visit the website: http://www.propeller-island.com\n\nFor information about other cool hotels in the world, visit the website:\n\nhttp://www.bahamabeachclub.com", "question_text": "For two persons spending a night in one of these hotels, they have to pay at least _.", "choices": ["$111", "$182", "$600", "$636"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Prices: starting at $300 one night for each person for a regular room and going all the way up to $3000 for the Tarzan Suite.", "Prices: starting at $318 one night for each person for either a cold room or a warm one.", "Prices: starting at just $91 a night, and an additional person for only 20 extra dollars. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["For two persons spending a night in one of these hotels, they have to pay at least $111.", "For two persons spending a night in one of these hotels, they have to pay at least $182.", "For two persons spending a night in one of these hotels, they have to pay at least $600.", "For two persons spending a night in one of these hotels, they have to pay at least $636."], "dc_score": 7.651780645905421, "difficulty_score": 8.464361701576811}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 258, "fields": {"passage": "Ariau Amazon Towers\n\nThe Ariau Amazon Towers hotel lets you sleep in a tree house. Eight towers make up this hotel that offers over 300 rooms. If you really want to get into the spirit, book the Tarzan Suite which is large enough for a big family. You'll be thirty feet up in the air and can travel between the towers through their wooden walkways.\n\nPrices: starting at $300 one night for each person for a regular room and going all the way up to $3000 for the Tarzan Suite.\n\nFor more information, visit the website: http://www.ariautowers.com\n\nThe Ice Hotel\n\nEvery winter in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, a special kind of hotel called the Ice Hotel is built. Each year, world-famous artists are invited to design and produce works of art from the ice, many of which can be found in the rooms. You'll have your choice between hot or cold rooms, but you will be well advised to stay at least one night in a cold room for a true experience.\n\nPrices: starting at $318 one night for each person for either a cold room or a warm one.\n\nFor more information, visit the website: http://www.icehotel.com\n\nPropeller Island\n\nPropeller Island City Lodge is a very special hotel that was designed by a German artist. Each room provides you with the possibility of living in a work of art. Every single piece of furniture in the thirty rooms of the hotel has been hand-made and each room is completely different. You'll be able to choose a room based on your own personal tastes.\n\nPrices: starting at just $91 a night, and an additional person for only 20 extra dollars.\n\nFor more information, visit the website: http://www.propeller-island.com\n\nFor information about other cool hotels in the world, visit the website:\n\nhttp://www.bahamabeachclub.com", "question_text": "Which website should you visit if you want to find out whether there exists a hotel under the sea?", "choices": ["http://www.icehotel.com", "http://www.ariautowers.com", "http://www.propeller-island.com", "http://www.bahamabeachclub.com"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["For information about other cool hotels in the world, visit the website:\n\nhttp://www.bahamabeachclub.com", "For more information, visit the website: http://www.propeller-island.com", "For more information, visit the website: http://www.icehotel.com", "For more information, visit the website: http://www.ariautowers.com"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Visit http://www.icehotel.com if you want to find out whether there exists a hotel under the sea. ", "Visit http://www.ariautowers.com if you want to find out whether there exists a hotel under the sea. ", "Visit http://www.propeller-island.com if you want to find out whether there exists a hotel under the sea. ", "Visit http://www.bahamabeachclub.com if you want to find out whether there exists a hotel under the sea."], "dc_score": 7.651780645905421, "difficulty_score": 7.9267205516347055}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 259, "fields": {"passage": "Ariau Amazon Towers\n\nThe Ariau Amazon Towers hotel lets you sleep in a tree house. Eight towers make up this hotel that offers over 300 rooms. If you really want to get into the spirit, book the Tarzan Suite which is large enough for a big family. You'll be thirty feet up in the air and can travel between the towers through their wooden walkways.\n\nPrices: starting at $300 one night for each person for a regular room and going all the way up to $3000 for the Tarzan Suite.\n\nFor more information, visit the website: http://www.ariautowers.com\n\nThe Ice Hotel\n\nEvery winter in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, a special kind of hotel called the Ice Hotel is built. Each year, world-famous artists are invited to design and produce works of art from the ice, many of which can be found in the rooms. You'll have your choice between hot or cold rooms, but you will be well advised to stay at least one night in a cold room for a true experience.\n\nPrices: starting at $318 one night for each person for either a cold room or a warm one.\n\nFor more information, visit the website: http://www.icehotel.com\n\nPropeller Island\n\nPropeller Island City Lodge is a very special hotel that was designed by a German artist. Each room provides you with the possibility of living in a work of art. Every single piece of furniture in the thirty rooms of the hotel has been hand-made and each room is completely different. You'll be able to choose a room based on your own personal tastes.\n\nPrices: starting at just $91 a night, and an additional person for only 20 extra dollars.\n\nFor more information, visit the website: http://www.propeller-island.com\n\nFor information about other cool hotels in the world, visit the website:\n\nhttp://www.bahamabeachclub.com", "question_text": "Which hotel would invite artists to come to work every year?", "choices": ["Propeller Island City Lodge.", "Ariau Amazon Towers.", "The Ice Hotel.", "Bahama Beach Club."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The Ice Hotel", "Each year, world-famous artists are invited to design and produce works of art from the ice, many of which can be found in the rooms. ", "Prices: starting at $318 one night for each person\tfor either a cold room or a warm one.", "For more information, visit the website: http://www.icehotel.com"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Propeller Island City Lodge invites artists to come to work every year.", "Ariau Amazon Towers does not invite artists to come to work every year.", "The Ice Hotel does not invite artists to come to work every year.", "Bahama Beach Club does not invite artists to come to work every year."], "dc_score": 7.651780645905421, "difficulty_score": 7.651780645905421}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 260, "fields": {"passage": "Welcome to Coteborg University\n\nCoteborg University is one of Sweden's largest and most popular universities.\n\nWe are very proud of this and believe that there are several reasons for our popularity. The principal reasons we believe to be the high quality of our education and research and the broad range of courses that we offer. In addition to this, Coteborg University provides an attractive and exceptionally high-standard study environment. Most parts of the university are situated in the city centre and this enriches city life as well as student life.\n\nCoteborg has a lot to offer its students: it has a rich and varied cultural life with many theatres, concerts and festivals. For those looking for outdoor life, forests and vast recreation areas are not far away from the city centre; the sea and the archipelago are also within easy reach. Industry and commerce are expanding, and have a joint interest with the University in meeting the ever-changing and growing demands of society.\n\nCoteborg University strives to be an attractive choice for students from all over the world.\n\nWe look forward to welcoming you to Coteborg University.", "question_text": "The main reasons for Coteborg University's popularity according to the passage is _.", "choices": ["the high quality education and research and the wide range of courses", "the convenient traffic", "its excellent location and fast developing economical environment", "famous professors and friendly students"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"The principal reasons we believe to be the high quality of our education and research and the broad range of courses that we offer.\"", "\"Coteborg University provides an attractive and exceptionally high-standard study environment.\"", "\"Coteborg has a lot to offer its students: it has a rich and varied cultural life with many theatres, concerts and festivals.\"", "\"Industry and commerce are expanding, and have a joint interest with the University in meeting the ever-changing and growing demands of society.\"", "\"Coteborg University strives to be an attractive choice for students from all over the world.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The main reasons for Coteborg University's popularity according to the passage is the high quality education and research and the wide range of courses.", "The main reasons for Coteborg University's popularity according to the passage is the convenient traffic.", "The main reasons for Coteborg University's popularity according to the passage is its excellent location and fast developing economical environment.", "The main reasons for Coteborg University's popularity according to the passage is famous professors and friendly students."], "dc_score": 8.918278624338624, "difficulty_score": 8.918278624338624}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 261, "fields": {"passage": "Welcome to Coteborg University\n\nCoteborg University is one of Sweden's largest and most popular universities.\n\nWe are very proud of this and believe that there are several reasons for our popularity. The principal reasons we believe to be the high quality of our education and research and the broad range of courses that we offer. In addition to this, Coteborg University provides an attractive and exceptionally high-standard study environment. Most parts of the university are situated in the city centre and this enriches city life as well as student life.\n\nCoteborg has a lot to offer its students: it has a rich and varied cultural life with many theatres, concerts and festivals. For those looking for outdoor life, forests and vast recreation areas are not far away from the city centre; the sea and the archipelago are also within easy reach. Industry and commerce are expanding, and have a joint interest with the University in meeting the ever-changing and growing demands of society.\n\nCoteborg University strives to be an attractive choice for students from all over the world.\n\nWe look forward to welcoming you to Coteborg University.", "question_text": "Which of the following statements is true?", "choices": ["The university is in the city centre.", "The students can live outdoor.", "The cultural life of the university is very rich.", "The University has no interest in growing demands of society."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The principal reasons we believe to be the high quality of our education and research and the broad range of courses that we offer.", "Coteborg University provides an attractive and exceptionally high-standard study environment. ", "Most parts of the university are situated in the city centre.", "Coteborg has a lot to offer its students: it has a rich and varied cultural life with many theatres, concerts and festivals. ", "For those looking for outdoor life, forests and vast recreation areas are not far away from the city centre; the sea and the archipelago are also within easy reach.", "Industry and commerce are expanding, and have a joint interest with the University in meeting the ever-changing and growing demands of society.", "Coteborg University strives to be an attractive choice for students from all over the world. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The university is in the city centre.", "The students can live outdoor.", "The cultural life of the university is very rich.", "The University has no interest in growing demands of society."], "dc_score": 8.918278624338624, "difficulty_score": 8.918278624338624}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 262, "fields": {"passage": "Welcome to Coteborg University\n\nCoteborg University is one of Sweden's largest and most popular universities.\n\nWe are very proud of this and believe that there are several reasons for our popularity. The principal reasons we believe to be the high quality of our education and research and the broad range of courses that we offer. In addition to this, Coteborg University provides an attractive and exceptionally high-standard study environment. Most parts of the university are situated in the city centre and this enriches city life as well as student life.\n\nCoteborg has a lot to offer its students: it has a rich and varied cultural life with many theatres, concerts and festivals. For those looking for outdoor life, forests and vast recreation areas are not far away from the city centre; the sea and the archipelago are also within easy reach. Industry and commerce are expanding, and have a joint interest with the University in meeting the ever-changing and growing demands of society.\n\nCoteborg University strives to be an attractive choice for students from all over the world.\n\nWe look forward to welcoming you to Coteborg University.", "question_text": "What's the main purpose of this passage?", "choices": ["To bring fame to Coteborg University.", "To introduce the wonderful cultural life in Coteborg University.", "To declare Coteborg University's goal and interest.", "To attract students all over the world to apply for Coteborg University."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["Coteborg University is one of Sweden's largest and most popular universities.", "The principal reasons we believe to be the high quality of our education and research and the broad range of courses that we offer.", "Coteborg University provides an attractive and exceptionally high-standard study environment. ", "Coteborg has a lot to offer its students: it has a rich and varied cultural life with many theatres, concerts and festivals. ", "Industry and commerce are expanding, and have a joint interest with the University in meeting the ever-changing and growing demands of society. ", "Coteborg University strives to be an attractive choice for students from all over the world. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["To bring fame to Coteborg University.", "To introduce the wonderful cultural life in Coteborg University.", "To declare Coteborg University's goal and interest.", "To attract students all over the world to apply for Coteborg University."], "dc_score": 8.918278624338624, "difficulty_score": 9.762160287350174}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 263, "fields": {"passage": "Any high school students lucky enough to be accepted to Harvard University can easily count themselves among the country's best and brightest. \n\nThe story of David Boone's journey from sleeping on a park bench to one of Harvard's dorm rooms, certainly stands out from the crowd of his peers. \n\nDavid, a 17-year-old senior at a MC2 Stem, a high school in Cleveland, Ohio that focuses largely on engineering and science classes with the help of a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was offered a full-ride scholarship to Harvard in the fall. \n\nHis family life has been complicated for the past few years after gangs and economic hardships resulted in him being separated from his family and forced to look after himself on the streets and park benches in Cleveland. \n\nBecause both his grandmother and mother could not afford to house the teenagers, his siblings split up to stay with various family friends, but because of space issues and his allergies to the families pets, David was unable to stay. He ended up in the safer neighborhood of Coventry where there was a safer park with fewer dangers. \n\n\"All of these life lessons have shaped me into who I am, transforming my dreams and aspirations and allowing me to free myself from what was becoming an unproductive environment\", he wrote in his blog post.\n\nDavid's thirst for knowledge had never been reduced and his enthusiasm for engineering and science was growing. A short while later, Jeff McClellan, the principal of MC2 Stem was immediately impressed by David's dedication in the face of adversity, as well as his academic talent. \n\n\"Here's a kid who's doing everything in his power to get where he wants to go and we had the available resources to provide a little additional support\", Mr McClellan told the local ABC News. \n\nAt MC2 Stem, David found the exact fit, where it seems he was born to absorb what they were offering. Principal Jeff McClellan found David to be a great student and all-around person, but with a serious living situation, so he stepped in to help. After a home discussion with his wife, McClellan decided to offer David a place to live until he could find another home. Mr McClellan and his wife took the teen in and helped him before he found a permanent solution. \n\n When it came to his next step, David aimed high and applied for a list of top colleges, including the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Princeton, Cornell, Yale, Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis. In the end, only MIT rejected his application and he was left to choose his own fate from the selective prestigious and mostly Ivy League schools. \n\nDavid's next challenge is to fight back tears at graduation this weekend. \"I promised myself I wouldn't cry. But I realize that's what everyone does before they cry. I'm pretty sure there's going to be a lot of emotion there.\" he said.", "question_text": "According to the passage, what is one of the reasons that made David homeless?", "choices": ["His parents' divorce.", "His parents' unemployment.", "His desire to be adventurous", "His facing acts of violence."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["His family life has been complicated for the past few years after gangs and economic hardships resulted in him being separated from his family and forced to look after himself on the streets and park benches in Cleveland. Because both his grandmother and mother could not afford to house the teenagers, his siblings split up to stay with various family friends, but because of space issues and his allergies to the families pets, David was unable to stay."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["One of the reasons that led to David's homelessness was his parents' divorce.", "One of the reasons that led to David's homelessness was his parents' unemployment. ", "One of the reasons that led to David's homelessness was David's desire to be adventurous.", "One of the reasons that led to David's homelessness was his facing acts of violence."], "dc_score": 9.099085598141697, "difficulty_score": 9.917160723959668}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 264, "fields": {"passage": "Any high school students lucky enough to be accepted to Harvard University can easily count themselves among the country's best and brightest. \n\nThe story of David Boone's journey from sleeping on a park bench to one of Harvard's dorm rooms, certainly stands out from the crowd of his peers. \n\nDavid, a 17-year-old senior at a MC2 Stem, a high school in Cleveland, Ohio that focuses largely on engineering and science classes with the help of a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was offered a full-ride scholarship to Harvard in the fall. \n\nHis family life has been complicated for the past few years after gangs and economic hardships resulted in him being separated from his family and forced to look after himself on the streets and park benches in Cleveland. \n\nBecause both his grandmother and mother could not afford to house the teenagers, his siblings split up to stay with various family friends, but because of space issues and his allergies to the families pets, David was unable to stay. He ended up in the safer neighborhood of Coventry where there was a safer park with fewer dangers. \n\n\"All of these life lessons have shaped me into who I am, transforming my dreams and aspirations and allowing me to free myself from what was becoming an unproductive environment\", he wrote in his blog post.\n\nDavid's thirst for knowledge had never been reduced and his enthusiasm for engineering and science was growing. A short while later, Jeff McClellan, the principal of MC2 Stem was immediately impressed by David's dedication in the face of adversity, as well as his academic talent. \n\n\"Here's a kid who's doing everything in his power to get where he wants to go and we had the available resources to provide a little additional support\", Mr McClellan told the local ABC News. \n\nAt MC2 Stem, David found the exact fit, where it seems he was born to absorb what they were offering. Principal Jeff McClellan found David to be a great student and all-around person, but with a serious living situation, so he stepped in to help. After a home discussion with his wife, McClellan decided to offer David a place to live until he could find another home. Mr McClellan and his wife took the teen in and helped him before he found a permanent solution. \n\n When it came to his next step, David aimed high and applied for a list of top colleges, including the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Princeton, Cornell, Yale, Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis. In the end, only MIT rejected his application and he was left to choose his own fate from the selective prestigious and mostly Ivy League schools. \n\nDavid's next challenge is to fight back tears at graduation this weekend. \"I promised myself I wouldn't cry. But I realize that's what everyone does before they cry. I'm pretty sure there's going to be a lot of emotion there.\" he said.", "question_text": "Jeff McClellan was impressed by David's _.", "choices": ["honesty and sincerity", "positive attitude towards life", "courage when facing difficulties", "great academic achievement"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Jeff McClellan, the principal of MC2 Stem was immediately impressed by David's dedication in the face of adversity, as well as his academic talent.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Jeff McClellan was impressed by David's honesty and sincerity.", "Jeff McClellan was impressed by David's positive attitude towards life.", "Jeff McClellan was impressed by David's courage when facing difficulties.", "Jeff McClellan was impressed by David's great academic achievement."], "dc_score": 9.099085598141697, "difficulty_score": 9.882269493889805}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 265, "fields": {"passage": "Any high school students lucky enough to be accepted to Harvard University can easily count themselves among the country's best and brightest. \n\nThe story of David Boone's journey from sleeping on a park bench to one of Harvard's dorm rooms, certainly stands out from the crowd of his peers. \n\nDavid, a 17-year-old senior at a MC2 Stem, a high school in Cleveland, Ohio that focuses largely on engineering and science classes with the help of a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was offered a full-ride scholarship to Harvard in the fall. \n\nHis family life has been complicated for the past few years after gangs and economic hardships resulted in him being separated from his family and forced to look after himself on the streets and park benches in Cleveland. \n\nBecause both his grandmother and mother could not afford to house the teenagers, his siblings split up to stay with various family friends, but because of space issues and his allergies to the families pets, David was unable to stay. He ended up in the safer neighborhood of Coventry where there was a safer park with fewer dangers. \n\n\"All of these life lessons have shaped me into who I am, transforming my dreams and aspirations and allowing me to free myself from what was becoming an unproductive environment\", he wrote in his blog post.\n\nDavid's thirst for knowledge had never been reduced and his enthusiasm for engineering and science was growing. A short while later, Jeff McClellan, the principal of MC2 Stem was immediately impressed by David's dedication in the face of adversity, as well as his academic talent. \n\n\"Here's a kid who's doing everything in his power to get where he wants to go and we had the available resources to provide a little additional support\", Mr McClellan told the local ABC News. \n\nAt MC2 Stem, David found the exact fit, where it seems he was born to absorb what they were offering. Principal Jeff McClellan found David to be a great student and all-around person, but with a serious living situation, so he stepped in to help. After a home discussion with his wife, McClellan decided to offer David a place to live until he could find another home. Mr McClellan and his wife took the teen in and helped him before he found a permanent solution. \n\n When it came to his next step, David aimed high and applied for a list of top colleges, including the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Princeton, Cornell, Yale, Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis. In the end, only MIT rejected his application and he was left to choose his own fate from the selective prestigious and mostly Ivy League schools. \n\nDavid's next challenge is to fight back tears at graduation this weekend. \"I promised myself I wouldn't cry. But I realize that's what everyone does before they cry. I'm pretty sure there's going to be a lot of emotion there.\" he said.", "question_text": "How does David feel now when he thought of his life of being homeless?", "choices": ["Grateful.", "Painful.", "Shameful.", "Doubtful."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["His family life has been complicated for the past few years after gangs and economic hardships resulted in him being separated from his family and forced to look after himself on the streets and park benches in Cleveland. All of these life lessons have shaped me into who I am, transforming my dreams and aspirations and allowing me to free myself from what was becoming an unproductive environment\", he wrote in his blog post. David's next challenge is to fight back tears at graduation this weekend. \"I promised myself I wouldn't cry. But I realize that's what everyone does before they cry. I'm pretty sure there's going to be a lot of emotion there.\" he said."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["David feels Grateful now when he thought of his life of being homeless.", "David feels Painful now when he thought of his life of being homeless.", "David feels Shameful now when he thought of his life of being homeless.", "David feels Doubtful now when he thought of his life of being homeless."], "dc_score": 9.099085598141697, "difficulty_score": 9.96420883592074}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 266, "fields": {"passage": "Any high school students lucky enough to be accepted to Harvard University can easily count themselves among the country's best and brightest. \n\nThe story of David Boone's journey from sleeping on a park bench to one of Harvard's dorm rooms, certainly stands out from the crowd of his peers. \n\nDavid, a 17-year-old senior at a MC2 Stem, a high school in Cleveland, Ohio that focuses largely on engineering and science classes with the help of a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was offered a full-ride scholarship to Harvard in the fall. \n\nHis family life has been complicated for the past few years after gangs and economic hardships resulted in him being separated from his family and forced to look after himself on the streets and park benches in Cleveland. \n\nBecause both his grandmother and mother could not afford to house the teenagers, his siblings split up to stay with various family friends, but because of space issues and his allergies to the families pets, David was unable to stay. He ended up in the safer neighborhood of Coventry where there was a safer park with fewer dangers. \n\n\"All of these life lessons have shaped me into who I am, transforming my dreams and aspirations and allowing me to free myself from what was becoming an unproductive environment\", he wrote in his blog post.\n\nDavid's thirst for knowledge had never been reduced and his enthusiasm for engineering and science was growing. A short while later, Jeff McClellan, the principal of MC2 Stem was immediately impressed by David's dedication in the face of adversity, as well as his academic talent. \n\n\"Here's a kid who's doing everything in his power to get where he wants to go and we had the available resources to provide a little additional support\", Mr McClellan told the local ABC News. \n\nAt MC2 Stem, David found the exact fit, where it seems he was born to absorb what they were offering. Principal Jeff McClellan found David to be a great student and all-around person, but with a serious living situation, so he stepped in to help. After a home discussion with his wife, McClellan decided to offer David a place to live until he could find another home. Mr McClellan and his wife took the teen in and helped him before he found a permanent solution. \n\n When it came to his next step, David aimed high and applied for a list of top colleges, including the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Princeton, Cornell, Yale, Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis. In the end, only MIT rejected his application and he was left to choose his own fate from the selective prestigious and mostly Ivy League schools. \n\nDavid's next challenge is to fight back tears at graduation this weekend. \"I promised myself I wouldn't cry. But I realize that's what everyone does before they cry. I'm pretty sure there's going to be a lot of emotion there.\" he said.", "question_text": "What's probably the best title for the passage?", "choices": ["Chances are there, making an effort to seize them", "Deal with adversity, being determined", "Best way to experience, choosing to be homeless", "From a park bench to a Harvard dormitory An incredible story"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"What's probably the best title for the passage?\"", "\"From a park bench to a Harvard dormitory An incredible story\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is Chances are there, making an effort to seize them", "The best title for the passage is Deal with adversity, being determined", "The best title for the passage is Best way to experience, choosing to be homeless", "The best title for the passage is From a park bench to a Harvard dormitory An incredible story"], "dc_score": 9.099085598141697, "difficulty_score": 9.881185525383795}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 267, "fields": {"passage": "Winter is the time of year when people feel very blessed. This isn't because people feel thankful for the cold weather, nor because the important festivals---Christmas or Spring Festival---offer an excuse to celebrate. In fact, \"Bless you!\" is a common response if someone sneezes, a symptom of catching a cold or the flu.\n\nColds and the flu are the most common illnesses of autumn and winter as the weather gets colder. Viruses cause them. If you get one you will feel annoyed, but it is not usually serious. The flu is spread from person to person when we come into contact with a person with the virus. We get the virus on our hands and then we touch our noses and our mouths. We can pass on the flu before we realize we have it. You can infect others one day before symptoms develop and for up to five days after becoming sick.\n\nGetting a flu vaccination is the best way to prevent the illness. Even if your body has built up antibodies for one kind of flu. The vaccine is only effective for one year and viruses are different from year to year, so it is necessary to get a flu vaccination every year. The best time to get the vaccination is October or November. Besides, there are other ways to reduce your chance of getting a flu. Wash your hands. Get enough rest. Eat garlic regularly. Don't let stress control you. Exercise regularly.", "question_text": "We say \"Bless you!\" when _.", "choices": ["we feel annoyed at someone.", "someone sneezes.", "someone catches a cold or the flu.", "we celebrate some important festivals."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Bless you!\" is a common response if someone sneezes, a symptom of catching a cold or the flu."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["We say \"Bless you!\" when we feel annoyed at someone.", "We say \"Bless you!\" when someone sneezes.", "We say \"Bless you!\" when someone catches a cold or the flu.", "We say \"Bless you!\" when we celebrate some important festivals."], "dc_score": 7.8929061538461545, "difficulty_score": 7.8929061538461545}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 268, "fields": {"passage": "Winter is the time of year when people feel very blessed. This isn't because people feel thankful for the cold weather, nor because the important festivals---Christmas or Spring Festival---offer an excuse to celebrate. In fact, \"Bless you!\" is a common response if someone sneezes, a symptom of catching a cold or the flu.\n\nColds and the flu are the most common illnesses of autumn and winter as the weather gets colder. Viruses cause them. If you get one you will feel annoyed, but it is not usually serious. The flu is spread from person to person when we come into contact with a person with the virus. We get the virus on our hands and then we touch our noses and our mouths. We can pass on the flu before we realize we have it. You can infect others one day before symptoms develop and for up to five days after becoming sick.\n\nGetting a flu vaccination is the best way to prevent the illness. Even if your body has built up antibodies for one kind of flu. The vaccine is only effective for one year and viruses are different from year to year, so it is necessary to get a flu vaccination every year. The best time to get the vaccination is October or November. Besides, there are other ways to reduce your chance of getting a flu. Wash your hands. Get enough rest. Eat garlic regularly. Don't let stress control you. Exercise regularly.", "question_text": "How many ways are mentioned in the passage to stop you from catching the flu?", "choices": ["6", "5", "7", "3"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Getting a flu vaccination is the best way to prevent the illness.\" \"Besides, there are other ways to reduce your chance of getting a flu. Wash your hands. Get enough rest. Eat garlic regularly. Don't let stress control you. Exercise regularly.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["6 ways are mentioned in the passage to stop you from catching the flu.", "5 ways are mentioned in the passage to stop you from catching the flu.", "7 ways are mentioned in the passage to stop you from catching the flu.", "3 ways are mentioned in the passage to stop you from catching the flu."], "dc_score": 7.8929061538461545, "difficulty_score": 8.690168506644982}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 269, "fields": {"passage": "Winter is the time of year when people feel very blessed. This isn't because people feel thankful for the cold weather, nor because the important festivals---Christmas or Spring Festival---offer an excuse to celebrate. In fact, \"Bless you!\" is a common response if someone sneezes, a symptom of catching a cold or the flu.\n\nColds and the flu are the most common illnesses of autumn and winter as the weather gets colder. Viruses cause them. If you get one you will feel annoyed, but it is not usually serious. The flu is spread from person to person when we come into contact with a person with the virus. We get the virus on our hands and then we touch our noses and our mouths. We can pass on the flu before we realize we have it. You can infect others one day before symptoms develop and for up to five days after becoming sick.\n\nGetting a flu vaccination is the best way to prevent the illness. Even if your body has built up antibodies for one kind of flu. The vaccine is only effective for one year and viruses are different from year to year, so it is necessary to get a flu vaccination every year. The best time to get the vaccination is October or November. Besides, there are other ways to reduce your chance of getting a flu. Wash your hands. Get enough rest. Eat garlic regularly. Don't let stress control you. Exercise regularly.", "question_text": "The passage is intended to tell us _.", "choices": ["how to keep healthy.", "the causes of flu.", "the influence of flu.", "what to do about flu."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Colds and the flu are the most common illnesses of autumn and winter as the weather gets colder\"", "\"The flu is spread from person to person when we come into contact with a person with the virus\"", "\"Getting a flu vaccination is the best way to prevent the illness.\"", "\"The best time to get the vaccination is October or November.\"", "\"Besides, there are other ways to reduce your chance of getting a flu.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The passage is intended to tell us how to keep healthy.", "The passage is intended to tell us the causes of flu.", "The passage is intended to tell us the influence of flu.", "The passage is intended to tell us what to do about flu."], "dc_score": 7.8929061538461545, "difficulty_score": 8.517881388070416}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 270, "fields": {"passage": "Winter is the time of year when people feel very blessed. This isn't because people feel thankful for the cold weather, nor because the important festivals---Christmas or Spring Festival---offer an excuse to celebrate. In fact, \"Bless you!\" is a common response if someone sneezes, a symptom of catching a cold or the flu.\n\nColds and the flu are the most common illnesses of autumn and winter as the weather gets colder. Viruses cause them. If you get one you will feel annoyed, but it is not usually serious. The flu is spread from person to person when we come into contact with a person with the virus. We get the virus on our hands and then we touch our noses and our mouths. We can pass on the flu before we realize we have it. You can infect others one day before symptoms develop and for up to five days after becoming sick.\n\nGetting a flu vaccination is the best way to prevent the illness. Even if your body has built up antibodies for one kind of flu. The vaccine is only effective for one year and viruses are different from year to year, so it is necessary to get a flu vaccination every year. The best time to get the vaccination is October or November. Besides, there are other ways to reduce your chance of getting a flu. Wash your hands. Get enough rest. Eat garlic regularly. Don't let stress control you. Exercise regularly.", "question_text": "We can infer the passage that _.", "choices": ["People catch a cold or the flu only in autumn or winter.", "people getting a flu vaccination won't catch the illness for life.", "flu can cause symptoms such as sore throat and a runny nose.", "people with the virus of flu but having no symptoms can still infect others."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"We can pass on the flu before we realize we have it.\" \"Getting a flu vaccination is the best way to prevent the illness.\" \"The vaccine is only effective for one year and viruses are different from year to year, so it is necessary to get a flu vaccination every year.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["People catch a cold or the flu only in autumn or winter.", "people getting a flu vaccination won't catch the illness for life.", "flu can cause symptoms such as sore throat and a runny nose.", "people with the virus of flu but having no symptoms can still infect others."], "dc_score": 7.8929061538461545, "difficulty_score": 8.668776655743867}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 271, "fields": {"passage": "If you go into the woods with your friends, stay with them. If you don't, you may get lost. If you do get lost, this is what you should do.\n\nSit down and stay where you are. Don't try to find your friends -- let them find you. You can help them to find you by staying in one place.\n\nThere is another way to help your friends or other people nearby to find you. Give them a signal by shouting or whistling three times. Stop. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal given three times is a call for help. You will be helped by others.\n\nKeep up the shouting or whistling, always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making noise for fun. They will let you know they have heard your signal. They will give two shouts, two whistles or two gunshots. When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help.\n\nIf you don't think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house and cover up the holes with branches with lots of leaves and grass. What should you do if you get hungry or need to drink some water? You should have to leave your little branch house to look for a brook. Don't just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk so that you can find your way back.\n\nThe most important thing to do when you are lost is -- stay in one place.", "question_text": "How do you let people believe that you are not just making noise for fun?", "choices": ["Stop now and then.", "Go on shouting or whistling.", "Shout over and over at the top of voice.", "Shout or whistle three times once a while."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Keep up the shouting or whistling, always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making noise for fun.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["How do you let people believe that you are not just making noise for fun? Stop now and then. ", "How do you let people believe that you are not just making noise for fun? Go on shouting or whistling. ", "How do you let people believe that you are not just making noise for fun? Shout over and over at the top of voice. ", "How do you let people believe that you are not just making noise for fun? Shout or whistle three times once in a while."], "dc_score": 6.526631176999102, "difficulty_score": 6.526631176999102}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 272, "fields": {"passage": "If you go into the woods with your friends, stay with them. If you don't, you may get lost. If you do get lost, this is what you should do.\n\nSit down and stay where you are. Don't try to find your friends -- let them find you. You can help them to find you by staying in one place.\n\nThere is another way to help your friends or other people nearby to find you. Give them a signal by shouting or whistling three times. Stop. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal given three times is a call for help. You will be helped by others.\n\nKeep up the shouting or whistling, always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making noise for fun. They will let you know they have heard your signal. They will give two shouts, two whistles or two gunshots. When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help.\n\nIf you don't think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house and cover up the holes with branches with lots of leaves and grass. What should you do if you get hungry or need to drink some water? You should have to leave your little branch house to look for a brook. Don't just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk so that you can find your way back.\n\nThe most important thing to do when you are lost is -- stay in one place.", "question_text": "If nobody answers you after your signal, what should you do then?", "choices": ["Give two gunshots.", "Shout louder.", "Stop shouting.", "Make a house."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"If you don't think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house and cover up the holes with branches with lots of leaves and grass.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["If nobody answers you after your signal, you should give two gunshots.", "If nobody answers you after your signal, you should shout louder.", "If nobody answers you after your signal, you should stop shouting.", "If nobody answers you after your signal, you should make a house."], "dc_score": 6.526631176999102, "difficulty_score": 6.526631176999102}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 273, "fields": {"passage": "If you go into the woods with your friends, stay with them. If you don't, you may get lost. If you do get lost, this is what you should do.\n\nSit down and stay where you are. Don't try to find your friends -- let them find you. You can help them to find you by staying in one place.\n\nThere is another way to help your friends or other people nearby to find you. Give them a signal by shouting or whistling three times. Stop. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal given three times is a call for help. You will be helped by others.\n\nKeep up the shouting or whistling, always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making noise for fun. They will let you know they have heard your signal. They will give two shouts, two whistles or two gunshots. When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help.\n\nIf you don't think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house and cover up the holes with branches with lots of leaves and grass. What should you do if you get hungry or need to drink some water? You should have to leave your little branch house to look for a brook. Don't just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk so that you can find your way back.\n\nThe most important thing to do when you are lost is -- stay in one place.", "question_text": "If you feel thirsty when you are lost in the forest, what should you do?", "choices": ["Go and find a brook.", "Light a fire and make yourself some tea.", "Go to find a brook and leave marks behind you.", "Find something to hold the water."], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["If you don't think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house and cover up the holes with branches with lots of leaves and grass. What should you do if you get hungry or need to drink some water? You should have to leave your little branch house to look for a brook. Don't just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk so that you can find your way back."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["If you feel thirsty when you are lost in the forest, go and find a brook.", "If you feel thirsty when you are lost in the forest, light a fire and make yourself some tea.", "If you feel thirsty when you are lost in the forest, go to find a brook and leave marks behind you.", "If you feel thirsty when you are lost in the forest, find something to hold the water."], "dc_score": 6.526631176999102, "difficulty_score": 6.526631176999102}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 274, "fields": {"passage": "If you go into the woods with your friends, stay with them. If you don't, you may get lost. If you do get lost, this is what you should do.\n\nSit down and stay where you are. Don't try to find your friends -- let them find you. You can help them to find you by staying in one place.\n\nThere is another way to help your friends or other people nearby to find you. Give them a signal by shouting or whistling three times. Stop. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal given three times is a call for help. You will be helped by others.\n\nKeep up the shouting or whistling, always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making noise for fun. They will let you know they have heard your signal. They will give two shouts, two whistles or two gunshots. When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help.\n\nIf you don't think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house and cover up the holes with branches with lots of leaves and grass. What should you do if you get hungry or need to drink some water? You should have to leave your little branch house to look for a brook. Don't just walk away. Pick off small branches and drop them as you walk so that you can find your way back.\n\nThe most important thing to do when you are lost is -- stay in one place.", "question_text": "What's the best title for the passage?", "choices": ["What Do Three Shots And Two Shots Mean In A Forest", "How To Find Your Friends When You Are Lost In The Woods", "What To Do If You Get Lost In A Forest", "The Most Important Thing To Do Is To Stay In One Place"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"If you get lost in a forest, this is what you should do.\" \"The most important thing to do when you are lost is -- stay in one place.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is What Do Three Shots And Two Shots Mean In A Forest", "The best title for the passage is How To Find Your Friends When You Are Lost In The Woods", "The best title for the passage is What To Do If You Get Lost In A Forest", "The best title for the passage is The Most Important Thing To Do Is To Stay In One Place"], "dc_score": 6.526631176999102, "difficulty_score": 7.42348846756781}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 275, "fields": {"passage": "Three Central Texas men were honored with the Texas Department of Public Safety's Director's Award in a Tuesday morning ceremony for their heroism in saving the victims of a fiery two car accident.\n\nThe accident occurred on March 25 when a vehicle lost control while traveling on a rain-soaked State Highway 6 near Baylor Camp Road. It ran into an oncoming vehicle, leaving the occupants trapped inside as both vehicles burst into flames.\n\nBonge was the first on the scene and heard children screaming. He broke through a back window and pulled Mallory Smith, 10, and her sister, Megan Smith, 9, from the wreckage.\n\nThe girls' mother, Beckie Smith, was not with them at the time of the wreck, as they were traveling with their baby sitter, Lisa Bow bin.\n\nBeckie Smith still remembers the sickening feeling she had up on receiving the call informing her of the wreck and the despair as she drove to the scene.\n\nBozeman and Clemmons arrived shortly after Bonge and helped rescue the other victims and attempted to put out the fires.\n\n\"I was nervous\", Bozeman said. \" I don't feel like I'm a hero. I was just doing what anyone should do in that situation. I hope someone would do the same for me.\"\n\nEveryone at the accident made it out alive, with the victims suffering from nonlife-threatening injuries. Mallory Smith broke both femurs, and Megan had neck and back injuries. Bowbin is still recovering from a broken pelvis, ankle and foot.\n\nThe rescuers also were taken to the hospital and treated for cuts and smoke breathing, Bonge said.\n\nIn addition, Bozeman not to meet accident victim Anthony Rus so in the hospital after the accident, where Russo presented him with a glass frame inscribed with \"Thank you\", Bozeman said. Those involved in that fateful encounter on Highway 6 credited God blessing for bringing them together.\n\n\"Whatever the circumstances, Tuesday's ceremony provided a time to be grateful for those who put their lives on the line for the lives of complete strangers\", Beckie Smith said, \"We're calling it The Miracle on Highway 6.\"", "question_text": "Which of the following can be used to describe Bozeman?", "choices": ["Kind.", "Modest.", "Excited.", "Smart."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Bozeman said, \"I was nervous\", and \"I don't feel like I'm a hero. I was just doing what anyone should do in that situation. I hope someone would do the same for me.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Can Bozeman be described as kind? ", "Can Bozeman be described as modest? ", "Can Bozeman be described as excited? ", "Can Bozeman be described as smart?"], "dc_score": 10.029305491990847, "difficulty_score": 10.659188852610006}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 276, "fields": {"passage": "Three Central Texas men were honored with the Texas Department of Public Safety's Director's Award in a Tuesday morning ceremony for their heroism in saving the victims of a fiery two car accident.\n\nThe accident occurred on March 25 when a vehicle lost control while traveling on a rain-soaked State Highway 6 near Baylor Camp Road. It ran into an oncoming vehicle, leaving the occupants trapped inside as both vehicles burst into flames.\n\nBonge was the first on the scene and heard children screaming. He broke through a back window and pulled Mallory Smith, 10, and her sister, Megan Smith, 9, from the wreckage.\n\nThe girls' mother, Beckie Smith, was not with them at the time of the wreck, as they were traveling with their baby sitter, Lisa Bow bin.\n\nBeckie Smith still remembers the sickening feeling she had up on receiving the call informing her of the wreck and the despair as she drove to the scene.\n\nBozeman and Clemmons arrived shortly after Bonge and helped rescue the other victims and attempted to put out the fires.\n\n\"I was nervous\", Bozeman said. \" I don't feel like I'm a hero. I was just doing what anyone should do in that situation. I hope someone would do the same for me.\"\n\nEveryone at the accident made it out alive, with the victims suffering from nonlife-threatening injuries. Mallory Smith broke both femurs, and Megan had neck and back injuries. Bowbin is still recovering from a broken pelvis, ankle and foot.\n\nThe rescuers also were taken to the hospital and treated for cuts and smoke breathing, Bonge said.\n\nIn addition, Bozeman not to meet accident victim Anthony Rus so in the hospital after the accident, where Russo presented him with a glass frame inscribed with \"Thank you\", Bozeman said. Those involved in that fateful encounter on Highway 6 credited God blessing for bringing them together.\n\n\"Whatever the circumstances, Tuesday's ceremony provided a time to be grateful for those who put their lives on the line for the lives of complete strangers\", Beckie Smith said, \"We're calling it The Miracle on Highway 6.\"", "question_text": "Who saved Megan Smith from the damaged car?", "choices": ["Clemmons.", "Anthony Russo.", "Bozeman.", "Bonge."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The accident occurred on March 25 when a vehicle lost control while traveling on a rain-soaked State Highway 6 near Baylor Camp Road. Bonge was the first on the scene and heard children screaming. He broke through a back window and pulled Mallory Smith, 10, and her sister, Megan Smith, 9, from the wreckage. Bozeman and Clemmons arrived shortly after Bonge and helped rescue the other victims and attempted to put out the fires. Everyone at the accident made it out alive, with the victims suffering from nonlife-threatening injuries. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Clemmons saved Megan Smith from the damaged car.", "Anthony Russo saved Megan Smith from the damaged car.", "Bozeman saved Megan Smith from the damaged car.", "Bonge saved Megan Smith from the damaged car."], "dc_score": 10.029305491990847, "difficulty_score": 10.029305491990847}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 277, "fields": {"passage": "Three Central Texas men were honored with the Texas Department of Public Safety's Director's Award in a Tuesday morning ceremony for their heroism in saving the victims of a fiery two car accident.\n\nThe accident occurred on March 25 when a vehicle lost control while traveling on a rain-soaked State Highway 6 near Baylor Camp Road. It ran into an oncoming vehicle, leaving the occupants trapped inside as both vehicles burst into flames.\n\nBonge was the first on the scene and heard children screaming. He broke through a back window and pulled Mallory Smith, 10, and her sister, Megan Smith, 9, from the wreckage.\n\nThe girls' mother, Beckie Smith, was not with them at the time of the wreck, as they were traveling with their baby sitter, Lisa Bow bin.\n\nBeckie Smith still remembers the sickening feeling she had up on receiving the call informing her of the wreck and the despair as she drove to the scene.\n\nBozeman and Clemmons arrived shortly after Bonge and helped rescue the other victims and attempted to put out the fires.\n\n\"I was nervous\", Bozeman said. \" I don't feel like I'm a hero. I was just doing what anyone should do in that situation. I hope someone would do the same for me.\"\n\nEveryone at the accident made it out alive, with the victims suffering from nonlife-threatening injuries. Mallory Smith broke both femurs, and Megan had neck and back injuries. Bowbin is still recovering from a broken pelvis, ankle and foot.\n\nThe rescuers also were taken to the hospital and treated for cuts and smoke breathing, Bonge said.\n\nIn addition, Bozeman not to meet accident victim Anthony Rus so in the hospital after the accident, where Russo presented him with a glass frame inscribed with \"Thank you\", Bozeman said. Those involved in that fateful encounter on Highway 6 credited God blessing for bringing them together.\n\n\"Whatever the circumstances, Tuesday's ceremony provided a time to be grateful for those who put their lives on the line for the lives of complete strangers\", Beckie Smith said, \"We're calling it The Miracle on Highway 6.\"", "question_text": "What's the main idea of the passage?", "choices": ["Three persons were awarded for rescuing victims in a car accident.", "Three ordinary people were regarded as great heroes.", "Several victims were carried to safety from the burning cars.", "A car accident occurred on a rain-soaked State Highway 6."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["Three Central Texas men were honored with the Texas Department of Public Safety's Director's Award for their heroism in saving the victims of a fiery two-car accident.", "The accident occurred on March 25 when a vehicle lost control while traveling on a rain-soaked State Highway 6 near Baylor Camp Road. ", "Everyone at the accident made it out alive, with the victims suffering from nonlife-threatening injuries. Mallory Smith broke both femurs, and Megan had neck and back injuries. Bowbin is still recovering from a broken pelvis, ankle, and foot.", "A car accident occurred on a rain-soaked State Highway 6."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Three persons were awarded for rescuing victims in a car accident.", "Three ordinary people were regarded as great heroes.", "Several victims were carried to safety from the burning cars.", "A car accident occurred on a rain-soaked State Highway 6."], "dc_score": 10.029305491990847, "difficulty_score": 10.858110258242519}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 278, "fields": {"passage": "Three Central Texas men were honored with the Texas Department of Public Safety's Director's Award in a Tuesday morning ceremony for their heroism in saving the victims of a fiery two car accident.\n\nThe accident occurred on March 25 when a vehicle lost control while traveling on a rain-soaked State Highway 6 near Baylor Camp Road. It ran into an oncoming vehicle, leaving the occupants trapped inside as both vehicles burst into flames.\n\nBonge was the first on the scene and heard children screaming. He broke through a back window and pulled Mallory Smith, 10, and her sister, Megan Smith, 9, from the wreckage.\n\nThe girls' mother, Beckie Smith, was not with them at the time of the wreck, as they were traveling with their baby sitter, Lisa Bow bin.\n\nBeckie Smith still remembers the sickening feeling she had up on receiving the call informing her of the wreck and the despair as she drove to the scene.\n\nBozeman and Clemmons arrived shortly after Bonge and helped rescue the other victims and attempted to put out the fires.\n\n\"I was nervous\", Bozeman said. \" I don't feel like I'm a hero. I was just doing what anyone should do in that situation. I hope someone would do the same for me.\"\n\nEveryone at the accident made it out alive, with the victims suffering from nonlife-threatening injuries. Mallory Smith broke both femurs, and Megan had neck and back injuries. Bowbin is still recovering from a broken pelvis, ankle and foot.\n\nThe rescuers also were taken to the hospital and treated for cuts and smoke breathing, Bonge said.\n\nIn addition, Bozeman not to meet accident victim Anthony Rus so in the hospital after the accident, where Russo presented him with a glass frame inscribed with \"Thank you\", Bozeman said. Those involved in that fateful encounter on Highway 6 credited God blessing for bringing them together.\n\n\"Whatever the circumstances, Tuesday's ceremony provided a time to be grateful for those who put their lives on the line for the lives of complete strangers\", Beckie Smith said, \"We're calling it The Miracle on Highway 6.\"", "question_text": "It can be inferred from what Beckie Smith said that _.", "choices": ["she regarded the accident as a wonder", "she was frightened by the serious accident", "she thought highly of the rescuers", "she called on others to learn from the rescuers"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Whatever the circumstances, Tuesday's ceremony provided a time to be grateful for those who put their lives on the line for the lives of complete strangers\", Beckie Smith said, \"We're calling it The Miracle on Highway 6.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["It can be inferred from what Beckie Smith said that she regarded the accident as a wonder.", "It can be inferred from what Beckie Smith said that she was frightened by the serious accident.", "It can be inferred from what Beckie Smith said that she thought highly of the rescuers.", "It can be inferred from what Beckie Smith said that she called on others to learn from the rescuers."], "dc_score": 10.029305491990847, "difficulty_score": 10.750020455489969}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 279, "fields": {"passage": "Three Central Texas men were honored with the Texas Department of Public Safety's Director's Award in a Tuesday morning ceremony for their heroism in saving the victims of a fiery two car accident.\n\nThe accident occurred on March 25 when a vehicle lost control while traveling on a rain-soaked State Highway 6 near Baylor Camp Road. It ran into an oncoming vehicle, leaving the occupants trapped inside as both vehicles burst into flames.\n\nBonge was the first on the scene and heard children screaming. He broke through a back window and pulled Mallory Smith, 10, and her sister, Megan Smith, 9, from the wreckage.\n\nThe girls' mother, Beckie Smith, was not with them at the time of the wreck, as they were traveling with their baby sitter, Lisa Bow bin.\n\nBeckie Smith still remembers the sickening feeling she had up on receiving the call informing her of the wreck and the despair as she drove to the scene.\n\nBozeman and Clemmons arrived shortly after Bonge and helped rescue the other victims and attempted to put out the fires.\n\n\"I was nervous\", Bozeman said. \" I don't feel like I'm a hero. I was just doing what anyone should do in that situation. I hope someone would do the same for me.\"\n\nEveryone at the accident made it out alive, with the victims suffering from nonlife-threatening injuries. Mallory Smith broke both femurs, and Megan had neck and back injuries. Bowbin is still recovering from a broken pelvis, ankle and foot.\n\nThe rescuers also were taken to the hospital and treated for cuts and smoke breathing, Bonge said.\n\nIn addition, Bozeman not to meet accident victim Anthony Rus so in the hospital after the accident, where Russo presented him with a glass frame inscribed with \"Thank you\", Bozeman said. Those involved in that fateful encounter on Highway 6 credited God blessing for bringing them together.\n\n\"Whatever the circumstances, Tuesday's ceremony provided a time to be grateful for those who put their lives on the line for the lives of complete strangers\", Beckie Smith said, \"We're calling it The Miracle on Highway 6.\"", "question_text": "Which of the following is true according to the passage?", "choices": ["Luckily, no one received too serious injuries in the accident.", "All the victims received slight injuries in the accident.", "The rescuers were taken to the hospital to visit the victims.", "The injured will soon recover from their injuries."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The accident occurred on March 25 when a vehicle lost control while traveling on a rain-soaked State Highway 6 near Baylor Camp Road. It ran into an oncoming vehicle, leaving the occupants trapped inside as both vehicles burst into flames.", "Bonge was the first on the scene and heard children screaming. He broke through a back window and pulled Mallory Smith, 10, and her sister, Megan Smith, 9, from the wreckage.", "Everyone at the accident made it out alive, with the victims suffering from nonlife-threatening injuries. Mallory Smith broke both femurs, and Megan had neck and back injuries. Bowbin is still recovering from a broken pelvis, ankle, and foot.", "The rescuers also were taken to the hospital and treated for cuts and smoke breathing, Bonge said.", "Based on the given passage, we cannot say which of the following is true: ", "'Luckily, no one received too serious injuries in the accident.' ", "'All the victims received slight injuries in the accident.' ", "'The rescuers were taken to the hospital to visit the victims.' ", "'The injured will soon recover from their injuries.'"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Luckily, no one received too serious injuries in the accident.", "All the victims received slight injuries in the accident.", "The rescuers were taken to the hospital to visit the victims.", "The injured will soon recover from their injuries."], "dc_score": 10.029305491990847, "difficulty_score": 10.029305491990847}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 280, "fields": {"passage": "This girl is almost without shelter. She may not realize it, but she's more exposed to the world than she's ever likely to be again. And it isn't because she's a girl. It could be a boy. It could be you.\n\nBut why is she 'shelter less'? She s got a place to live in quite a pleasant place by the look of it and if shelter doesn't' mean a house, then what does it mean? When we say someone \"lives a sheltered life\", we don't only mean that their house is comfortable. We mean that they're protected from too many worries and troubles, that they live in a settled home, probably surrounded by friends and family, and that they don't have to cope with the difficulties the world is full of alone.\n\nCertainly no one would say that this girl was leading a sheltered life; she's leaving home to earn her living in a strange city and live by herself in a bed sitter. She may be just as well protected physically as a \"sheltered life\" person, but she's lost all the other shelters in her life--family, friends, the home she grew up in, school, the groups she belonged to. She s on her own now and unless she's very self-reliant, she's likely to feel unhappy and insecure at times.\n\nA young person setting out on her own like this is between the two main kinds of shelter most of us spend our lives in. One is our parents home where we grow up, and the other is the home we make ourselves and where we bring up our own children. For most people the time they spend between or outside these two shelters is only a small part of their lives.", "question_text": "It can be inferred from the passage that this girl _.", "choices": ["has nowhere to live", "will have problems because she's a girl", "is probably going to feel lonely", "wants to live in her home again"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["This girl is almost without shelter.", "Certainly no one would say that this girl was leading a sheltered life.", "She s on her own now and unless she's very self-reliant, she's likely to feel unhappy and insecure at times."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["It can be inferred from the passage that this girl wants to live in her home again.", "It can be inferred from the passage that this girl will have problems because she's a girl.", "It can be inferred from the passage that this girl is probably going to feel lonely.", "It can be inferred from the passage that this girl has nowhere to live."], "dc_score": 7.395288700564972, "difficulty_score": 8.169178399381947}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 281, "fields": {"passage": "This girl is almost without shelter. She may not realize it, but she's more exposed to the world than she's ever likely to be again. And it isn't because she's a girl. It could be a boy. It could be you.\n\nBut why is she 'shelter less'? She s got a place to live in quite a pleasant place by the look of it and if shelter doesn't' mean a house, then what does it mean? When we say someone \"lives a sheltered life\", we don't only mean that their house is comfortable. We mean that they're protected from too many worries and troubles, that they live in a settled home, probably surrounded by friends and family, and that they don't have to cope with the difficulties the world is full of alone.\n\nCertainly no one would say that this girl was leading a sheltered life; she's leaving home to earn her living in a strange city and live by herself in a bed sitter. She may be just as well protected physically as a \"sheltered life\" person, but she's lost all the other shelters in her life--family, friends, the home she grew up in, school, the groups she belonged to. She s on her own now and unless she's very self-reliant, she's likely to feel unhappy and insecure at times.\n\nA young person setting out on her own like this is between the two main kinds of shelter most of us spend our lives in. One is our parents home where we grow up, and the other is the home we make ourselves and where we bring up our own children. For most people the time they spend between or outside these two shelters is only a small part of their lives.", "question_text": "When we say someone \"lives a sheltered life\", we mean they _.", "choices": ["live in the country", "have a comfortable house", "don't have any worries", "have a secure home life and don't have to face problems alone"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["When we say someone \"lives a sheltered life\", we don't only mean that their house is comfortable. We mean that they're protected from too many worries and troubles, that they live in a settled home, probably surrounded by friends and family, and that they don't have to cope with the difficulties the world is full of alone. Certainly no one would say that this girl was leading a sheltered life; she's leaving home to earn her living in a strange city and live by herself in a bed sitter. She may be just as well protected physically as a \"sheltered life\" person, but she's lost all the other shelters in her life--family, friends, the home she grew up in, school, the groups she belonged to."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["When we say someone \"lives a sheltered life\", we mean they live in the country.", "When we say someone \"lives a sheltered life\", we mean they have a comfortable house.", "When we say someone \"lives a sheltered life\", we mean they don't have any worries.", "When we say someone \"lives a sheltered life\", we mean they have a secure home life and don't have to face problems alone."], "dc_score": 7.395288700564972, "difficulty_score": 7.395288700564972}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 282, "fields": {"passage": "This girl is almost without shelter. She may not realize it, but she's more exposed to the world than she's ever likely to be again. And it isn't because she's a girl. It could be a boy. It could be you.\n\nBut why is she 'shelter less'? She s got a place to live in quite a pleasant place by the look of it and if shelter doesn't' mean a house, then what does it mean? When we say someone \"lives a sheltered life\", we don't only mean that their house is comfortable. We mean that they're protected from too many worries and troubles, that they live in a settled home, probably surrounded by friends and family, and that they don't have to cope with the difficulties the world is full of alone.\n\nCertainly no one would say that this girl was leading a sheltered life; she's leaving home to earn her living in a strange city and live by herself in a bed sitter. She may be just as well protected physically as a \"sheltered life\" person, but she's lost all the other shelters in her life--family, friends, the home she grew up in, school, the groups she belonged to. She s on her own now and unless she's very self-reliant, she's likely to feel unhappy and insecure at times.\n\nA young person setting out on her own like this is between the two main kinds of shelter most of us spend our lives in. One is our parents home where we grow up, and the other is the home we make ourselves and where we bring up our own children. For most people the time they spend between or outside these two shelters is only a small part of their lives.", "question_text": "What would be best title for the passage?", "choices": ["Leaving Home", "Finding a House", "Living with the Family", "Making a Better Shelter"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["She may not realize it, but she's more exposed to the world than she's ever likely to be again.", "She may be just as well protected physically as a \"sheltered life\" person, but she's lost all the other shelters in her life.", "A young person setting out on her own like this is between the two main kinds of shelter most of us spend our lives in.", "One is our parent's home where we grow up, and the other is the home we make ourselves and where we bring up our own children. "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is Leaving Home", "The best title for the passage is Finding a House", "The best title for the passage is Living with the Family", "The best title for the passage is Making a Better Shelter"], "dc_score": 7.395288700564972, "difficulty_score": 8.16044570477507}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 283, "fields": {"passage": "A 16-year-old South Dakota boy who became lost while hunting and spent 16 hours alone in the Black Hills National Forest says he was scared but still managed to make a survival plan.\n\nAustin DuVall, of Rapid City, became lost on Nov.3 while hunting with his father. He ran after a deer, and soon found himself alone. \"I ran after a deer, but I didn't get it,\" he said. \"Then I was really lost\".\n\nHe had only his hunting rifle and the clothes he was wearing. He had no food or water and had nothing that could help him find his way to safety. \"I knew that no one could hear me. I decided to just sleep and get up in the morning and find safety\", he said.\n\nAustin climbed up on a rock and slept through the night. Then he awoke and relied on skills he learned in a hunter safety course. He followed a stream to an occupied cabin. The couple there called his parents and cooked him a breakfast. \"It's probably one meal I'll never forget for the rest of my life\", he said.\n\nAfter DuVall's disappearance, a lot of emergency officials and more than 100 volunteers went searching for him. \"He wasn't sitting there waiting for someone to come and find him\", said his father, Steve DuVall. \"We didn't find him; he found himself.\"\n\nMike Kintigh, regional supervisor for the Game, Fish & Parks Department, said one or two hunters will go missing each year, but rarely for more than 24 hours. \"We're a little bit unique in the Black Hills as it's hard to get lost for a very long time. That's because we've got so many roads here compared to the Rocky Mountains\", Kintigh said. \"You can certainly spend a very uncomfortable night in the woods like Austin did.\"", "question_text": "After Austin realized he lost his way, he _.", "choices": ["was very nervous but excited", "cried aloud for help", "tried to find a safe place", "decided to sleep in the wild"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Austin climbed up on a rock and slept through the night. Then he awoke and relied on skills he learned in a hunter safety course. He followed a stream to an occupied cabin.\" ", "\"After DuVall's disappearance, a lot of emergency officials and more than 100 volunteers went searching for him.\" ", "\"He had only his hunting rifle and the clothes he was wearing. He had no food or water and had nothing that could help him find his way to safety. \"I knew that no one could hear me. I decided to just sleep and get up in the morning and find safety\", he said.\" "], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["After Austin realized he lost his way, he was very nervous but excited.", "After Austin realized he lost his way, he cried aloud for help.", "After Austin realized he lost his way, he tried to find a safe place.", "After Austin realized he lost his way, he decided to sleep in the wild."], "dc_score": 8.491652602436323, "difficulty_score": 8.491652602436323}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 284, "fields": {"passage": "A 16-year-old South Dakota boy who became lost while hunting and spent 16 hours alone in the Black Hills National Forest says he was scared but still managed to make a survival plan.\n\nAustin DuVall, of Rapid City, became lost on Nov.3 while hunting with his father. He ran after a deer, and soon found himself alone. \"I ran after a deer, but I didn't get it,\" he said. \"Then I was really lost\".\n\nHe had only his hunting rifle and the clothes he was wearing. He had no food or water and had nothing that could help him find his way to safety. \"I knew that no one could hear me. I decided to just sleep and get up in the morning and find safety\", he said.\n\nAustin climbed up on a rock and slept through the night. Then he awoke and relied on skills he learned in a hunter safety course. He followed a stream to an occupied cabin. The couple there called his parents and cooked him a breakfast. \"It's probably one meal I'll never forget for the rest of my life\", he said.\n\nAfter DuVall's disappearance, a lot of emergency officials and more than 100 volunteers went searching for him. \"He wasn't sitting there waiting for someone to come and find him\", said his father, Steve DuVall. \"We didn't find him; he found himself.\"\n\nMike Kintigh, regional supervisor for the Game, Fish & Parks Department, said one or two hunters will go missing each year, but rarely for more than 24 hours. \"We're a little bit unique in the Black Hills as it's hard to get lost for a very long time. That's because we've got so many roads here compared to the Rocky Mountains\", Kintigh said. \"You can certainly spend a very uncomfortable night in the woods like Austin did.\"", "question_text": "Who saved Austin according to his father?", "choices": ["The couple in the cabin.", "Emergency officials.", "Volunteers.", "Himself."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["Austin DuVall, of Rapid City, became lost on Nov.3 while hunting with his father.", "Austin climbed up on a rock and slept through the night. Then he awoke and relied on skills he learned in a hunter safety course. He followed a stream to an occupied cabin. The couple there called his parents and cooked him a breakfast.", "\"He wasn't sitting there waiting for someone to come and find him\", said his father, Steve DuVall. \"We didn't find him; he found himself.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The couple in the cabin saved Austin according to his father.", "Emergency officials saved Austin according to his father.", "Volunteers saved Austin according to his father.", "Himself saved Austin according to his father."], "dc_score": 8.491652602436323, "difficulty_score": 8.491652602436323}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 285, "fields": {"passage": "A 16-year-old South Dakota boy who became lost while hunting and spent 16 hours alone in the Black Hills National Forest says he was scared but still managed to make a survival plan.\n\nAustin DuVall, of Rapid City, became lost on Nov.3 while hunting with his father. He ran after a deer, and soon found himself alone. \"I ran after a deer, but I didn't get it,\" he said. \"Then I was really lost\".\n\nHe had only his hunting rifle and the clothes he was wearing. He had no food or water and had nothing that could help him find his way to safety. \"I knew that no one could hear me. I decided to just sleep and get up in the morning and find safety\", he said.\n\nAustin climbed up on a rock and slept through the night. Then he awoke and relied on skills he learned in a hunter safety course. He followed a stream to an occupied cabin. The couple there called his parents and cooked him a breakfast. \"It's probably one meal I'll never forget for the rest of my life\", he said.\n\nAfter DuVall's disappearance, a lot of emergency officials and more than 100 volunteers went searching for him. \"He wasn't sitting there waiting for someone to come and find him\", said his father, Steve DuVall. \"We didn't find him; he found himself.\"\n\nMike Kintigh, regional supervisor for the Game, Fish & Parks Department, said one or two hunters will go missing each year, but rarely for more than 24 hours. \"We're a little bit unique in the Black Hills as it's hard to get lost for a very long time. That's because we've got so many roads here compared to the Rocky Mountains\", Kintigh said. \"You can certainly spend a very uncomfortable night in the woods like Austin did.\"", "question_text": "From what Mike Kintigh said, we learn that _.", "choices": ["if someone gets lost in the Rocky Mountains, it is hard to find a way out", "too many people go missing in the Black Hills every year", "the rescue team is skillful enough to find the lost people in less than 24 hours", "people who are lost in the Black Hills have to spend a night in the woods"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Mike Kintigh, regional supervisor for the Game, Fish & Parks Department, said one or two hunters will go missing each year, but rarely for more than 24 hours. \"We're a little bit unique in the Black Hills as it's hard to get lost for a very long time. That's because we've got so many roads here compared to the Rocky Mountains\", Kintigh said. \"You can certainly spend a very uncomfortable night in the woods like Austin did.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["From what Mike Kintigh said, we learn that if someone gets lost in the Rocky Mountains, it is hard to find a way out.", "From what Mike Kintigh said, we learn that too many people go missing in the Black Hills every year.", "From what Mike Kintigh said, we learn that the rescue team is skillful enough to find the lost people in less than 24 hours.", "From what Mike Kintigh said, we learn that people who are lost in the Black Hills have to spend a night in the woods."], "dc_score": 8.491652602436323, "difficulty_score": 9.240088561823898}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 286, "fields": {"passage": "Dear Earthmen, \n\nI have enjoyed my stay on your interesting unusual planet. I think I understand the life on earth now and I would like to give you my impressions.\n\nFirst of all you live in boxes. Every morning you leave your big boxes and get into smaller boxes on wheels. All these small boxes race around and around, and finally stop to rest. You then leave these boxes on wheels and go to very large tall boxes.\n\nAfter testing all days you get back in your little boxes and return to your big boxes. There you sit and stare at tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front.\n\nOnly one thing puzzles me. One day I went to a football game. A bunch of angry boys fought over a little round ball. Everyone yelled for them to stop but they kept on fighting. They were angry, I suppose, about being cooped up in boxes all day.\n\nThank you earthmen for this chance to get to know you.\n\nGratefully,\n\nThe man from the Mars", "question_text": "The small boxes on wheels are _.", "choices": ["toys", "ears", "houses that can be moved", "boxes in which there are wheels"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["First of all you live in boxes. Every morning you leave your big boxes and get into smaller boxes on wheels. All these small boxes race around and around, and finally stop to rest."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The small boxes on wheels are toys. ", "The small boxes on wheels are ears. ", "The small boxes on wheels are houses that can be moved. ", "The small boxes on wheels are boxes in which there are wheels."], "dc_score": 7.102480952380953, "difficulty_score": 7.955601143750547}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 287, "fields": {"passage": "Dear Earthmen, \n\nI have enjoyed my stay on your interesting unusual planet. I think I understand the life on earth now and I would like to give you my impressions.\n\nFirst of all you live in boxes. Every morning you leave your big boxes and get into smaller boxes on wheels. All these small boxes race around and around, and finally stop to rest. You then leave these boxes on wheels and go to very large tall boxes.\n\nAfter testing all days you get back in your little boxes and return to your big boxes. There you sit and stare at tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front.\n\nOnly one thing puzzles me. One day I went to a football game. A bunch of angry boys fought over a little round ball. Everyone yelled for them to stop but they kept on fighting. They were angry, I suppose, about being cooped up in boxes all day.\n\nThank you earthmen for this chance to get to know you.\n\nGratefully,\n\nThe man from the Mars", "question_text": "The tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front are _.", "choices": ["cameras", "cinema screens", "TV sets", "telescopes"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"You then leave these boxes on wheels and go to very large tall boxes. There you sit and stare at tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front are cameras.", "The tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front are cinema screens.", "The tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front are TV sets.", "The tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front are telescopes."], "dc_score": 7.102480952380953, "difficulty_score": 8.017681944356779}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 288, "fields": {"passage": "Dear Earthmen, \n\nI have enjoyed my stay on your interesting unusual planet. I think I understand the life on earth now and I would like to give you my impressions.\n\nFirst of all you live in boxes. Every morning you leave your big boxes and get into smaller boxes on wheels. All these small boxes race around and around, and finally stop to rest. You then leave these boxes on wheels and go to very large tall boxes.\n\nAfter testing all days you get back in your little boxes and return to your big boxes. There you sit and stare at tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front.\n\nOnly one thing puzzles me. One day I went to a football game. A bunch of angry boys fought over a little round ball. Everyone yelled for them to stop but they kept on fighting. They were angry, I suppose, about being cooped up in boxes all day.\n\nThank you earthmen for this chance to get to know you.\n\nGratefully,\n\nThe man from the Mars", "question_text": "In the football game _.", "choices": ["the players were very angry because there was only one ball on the playground", "the man from the Mars thought the players were fighting", "the man from the Mars saw a fighting among the angry boys", "the players were very angry because everyone yelled at them"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"In the football game a bunch of angry boys fought over a little round ball. Everyone yelled for them to stop but they kept on fighting. They were angry, I suppose, about being cooped up in boxes all day.\" ", "", "Choice 1: Incorrect ", "Choice 2: Correct ", "Choice 3: Correct ", "Choice 4: Incorrect"], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["In the football game, were the players angry because there was only one ball on the playground? ", "In the football game, did the man from Mars think that the players were fighting? ", "In the football game, did the man from Mars see a fighting among the angry boys? ", "In the football game, were the players very angry because everyone yelled at them?"], "dc_score": 7.102480952380953, "difficulty_score": 7.724099553052524}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 289, "fields": {"passage": "Dear Earthmen, \n\nI have enjoyed my stay on your interesting unusual planet. I think I understand the life on earth now and I would like to give you my impressions.\n\nFirst of all you live in boxes. Every morning you leave your big boxes and get into smaller boxes on wheels. All these small boxes race around and around, and finally stop to rest. You then leave these boxes on wheels and go to very large tall boxes.\n\nAfter testing all days you get back in your little boxes and return to your big boxes. There you sit and stare at tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front.\n\nOnly one thing puzzles me. One day I went to a football game. A bunch of angry boys fought over a little round ball. Everyone yelled for them to stop but they kept on fighting. They were angry, I suppose, about being cooped up in boxes all day.\n\nThank you earthmen for this chance to get to know you.\n\nGratefully,\n\nThe man from the Mars", "question_text": "The best title of this passage is _.", "choices": ["The Man from the Mars", "Something about Boxes", "A Letter from the Mars", "A Football Game"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "critical", "relevant_sentences": ["\"Something about Boxes\"", "\"A Football Game\"", "\"The Man from the Mars\" ", "\"A Letter from the Mars\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The best title for the passage is The Man from the Mars", "The best title for the passage is Something about Boxes", "The best title for the passage is A Letter from the Mars", "The best title for the passage is A Football Game"], "dc_score": 7.102480952380953, "difficulty_score": 7.609393918716531}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 290, "fields": {"passage": "Dear Earthmen, \n\nI have enjoyed my stay on your interesting unusual planet. I think I understand the life on earth now and I would like to give you my impressions.\n\nFirst of all you live in boxes. Every morning you leave your big boxes and get into smaller boxes on wheels. All these small boxes race around and around, and finally stop to rest. You then leave these boxes on wheels and go to very large tall boxes.\n\nAfter testing all days you get back in your little boxes and return to your big boxes. There you sit and stare at tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front.\n\nOnly one thing puzzles me. One day I went to a football game. A bunch of angry boys fought over a little round ball. Everyone yelled for them to stop but they kept on fighting. They were angry, I suppose, about being cooped up in boxes all day.\n\nThank you earthmen for this chance to get to know you.\n\nGratefully,\n\nThe man from the Mars", "question_text": "The man from the Mars thinks _.", "choices": ["it interesting to experience a lot on our unusual planet", "there are so many boxes on the earth", "the tiny glowing boxes are moving pictures", "the angry boys are too foolish to fight over a little round ball"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The man from the Mars thinks it interesting to experience a lot on our unusual planet.", "First of all you live in boxes.", "Every morning you leave your big boxes and get into smaller boxes on wheels.", "All these small boxes race around and around, and finally stop to rest.", "You then leave these boxes on wheels and go to very large tall boxes.", "After testing all days you get back in your little boxes and return to your big boxes.", "There you sit and stare at tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front.", "One day I went to a football game. A bunch of angry boys fought over a little round ball. Everyone yelled for them to stop but they kept on fighting. They were angry, I suppose, about being cooped up in boxes all day."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The man from Mars thinks it interesting to experience a lot on our unusual planet.", "The man from Mars thinks there are so many boxes on the earth.", "The man from Mars thinks the tiny glowing boxes are moving pictures.", "The man from Mars thinks the angry boys are too foolish to fight over a little round ball."], "dc_score": 7.102480952380953, "difficulty_score": 7.102480952380953}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 291, "fields": {"passage": "In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an intemational festival of music, dance and theatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War.\n\nAt the same time, the \"Fringe\" appeared as a challenge to the official festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in 1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years.\n\nSoon, groups of students, firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh.\n\nToday the \"Fringe\", once less recognized, has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yet as early as 1959, with only 19 theatre groups performing,some said it was getting too big.\n\nA paid administrator was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than 1,25 million tickets were sold.", "question_text": "Point was the purpose of Edinburgh Festival at he beginning?", "choices": ["To bring Europe together again.", "To honor heroes of World War II.", "To introduce young theatre groups.", "To attract great artists from Europe."], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an international festival of music, dance and theatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["   To bring Europe together again, the Edinburgh Festival was created at the beginning. ", "   In honor of heroes of World War II, Edinburgh Festival was created at the beginning. ", "   To introduce young theatre groups, the Edinburgh Festival was created at the beginning. ", "   To attract great artists from Europe, the Edinburgh Festival was created at the beginning."], "dc_score": 9.553470593607306, "difficulty_score": 10.304738264646774}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 292, "fields": {"passage": "In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an intemational festival of music, dance and theatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War.\n\nAt the same time, the \"Fringe\" appeared as a challenge to the official festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in 1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years.\n\nSoon, groups of students, firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh.\n\nToday the \"Fringe\", once less recognized, has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yet as early as 1959, with only 19 theatre groups performing,some said it was getting too big.\n\nA paid administrator was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than 1,25 million tickets were sold.", "question_text": "Why did some uninvited theatre groups come to Edinburgh in 1947?", "choices": ["They owned a public house there.", "They came to take up a challenge.", "They thought they were also famous.", "They wanted to take part in the festival."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"At the same time, the \"Fringe\" appeared as a challenge to the official festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in 1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Some uninvited theatre groups came to Edinburgh in 1947 because they owned a public house there.", "Some uninvited theatre groups came to Edinburgh in 1947 because they came to take up a challenge.", "Some uninvited theatre groups came to Edinburgh in 1947 because they thought they were also famous.", "Some uninvited theatre groups came to Edinburgh in 1947 because they wanted to take part in the festival."], "dc_score": 9.553470593607306, "difficulty_score": 10.333578187606177}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 293, "fields": {"passage": "In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an intemational festival of music, dance and theatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War.\n\nAt the same time, the \"Fringe\" appeared as a challenge to the official festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in 1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years.\n\nSoon, groups of students, firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh.\n\nToday the \"Fringe\", once less recognized, has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yet as early as 1959, with only 19 theatre groups performing,some said it was getting too big.\n\nA paid administrator was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than 1,25 million tickets were sold.", "question_text": "Who joined the \"Fringe\" after it appeared?", "choices": ["Popular writers.", "University students.", "rusts from around the world.", "Performers of music and dance."], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["At the same time (1947), the \"Fringe\" appeared as a challenge to the official festival. Soon, groups of students, firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh. 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Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in 1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years.\n\nSoon, groups of students, firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh.\n\nToday the \"Fringe\", once less recognized, has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yet as early as 1959, with only 19 theatre groups performing,some said it was getting too big.\n\nA paid administrator was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than 1,25 million tickets were sold.", "question_text": "We may learn from the text that Edinburgh Festival.", "choices": ["has become a non-official event", "has gone beyond an art festival", "gives shows all year round", "keeps growing rapidly"], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["\"decided to hold an international festival of music, dance, and theatre in Edinburgh.\"", "\"At the same time, the \"Fringe\" appeared as a challenge to the official festival.\"", "\"Today the 'Fringe'... has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music, and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts.\"", "\"And yet as early as 1959, with only 19 theatre groups performing, some said it was getting too big.\"", "\"A paid administrator was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself.\"", "\"In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries.\"", "\"More than 1,25 million tickets were sold.\""], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The text suggests that the Edinburgh Festival has become a non-official event.", "The text implies that the Edinburgh Festival has gone beyond an art festival.", "The text hints that the Edinburgh Festival gives shows all year round.", "The text indicates that the Edinburgh Festival keeps growing rapidly."], "dc_score": 9.553470593607306, "difficulty_score": 10.23008533629753}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 295, "fields": {"passage": "Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills during a year abroad beforo college, learning from a cook in Italy and study local specialties in Gerrnany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens offriends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmate how to do things like making drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around,with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.\n\nFood Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman's charisma is key. \"Food T-V isn't about food anymore.\" says Flay, \"It's about your personality and finding a way to keep people's eyeballs on your show.\"\n\nBut Lieberman isn't putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show, Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flight. Lieberman got the job.", "question_text": "We can learn from the text that Lieberman's family _.", "choices": ["have relatives in Europe", "love cooking at home", "often hold parties", "own a restaurant"], "answer": "B", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes.", "Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven.", "Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television.", "After taping the first season of the new show, Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["Lieberman's family have relatives in Europe.", "Lieberman's family love cooking at home.", "Lieberman's family often hold parties.", "Lieberman's family own a restaurant."], "dc_score": 9.459805204460967, "difficulty_score": 10.142264769367305}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 296, "fields": {"passage": "Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills during a year abroad beforo college, learning from a cook in Italy and study local specialties in Gerrnany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens offriends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmate how to do things like making drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around,with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.\n\nFood Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman's charisma is key. \"Food T-V isn't about food anymore.\" says Flay, \"It's about your personality and finding a way to keep people's eyeballs on your show.\"\n\nBut Lieberman isn't putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show, Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flight. Lieberman got the job.", "question_text": "The Food Network got to know Lieberman _.", "choices": ["at one of his parties", "from his teacher", "through his taped show", "on a television program"], "answer": "C", "knowledge_component": "literal", "relevant_sentences": ["The Food Network got to know Lieberman through his taped show."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The Food Network got to know Lieberman at one of his parties.", "The Food Network got to know Lieberman from his teacher.", "The Food Network got to know Lieberman through his taped show.", "The Food Network got to know Lieberman on a television program."], "dc_score": 9.459805204460967, "difficulty_score": 9.459805204460967}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 297, "fields": {"passage": "Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills during a year abroad beforo college, learning from a cook in Italy and study local specialties in Gerrnany, Spain and France. At Yale,he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens offriends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmate how to do things like making drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around,with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.\n\nFood Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the\n\nnetwork television. He says Lieberman's charisma is key.\"Food T-V isn't about\n\nfood anymore.\" says Flay, \" It's about your personality and finding a way to keep\n\npeople's eyeballs on your show.\"\n\nBut Lieberman isn't putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show, Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing\n\nsandwiches. An airline company was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful,\n\ninexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flight. Lieberman got the job.", "question_text": "What does the word \"charisma\" underline in the text refer to ?", "choices": ["A natural ability to attract others.", "A way to show one's achievement.", "Lieberman's after-class interest", "Lieberman's fine cooking skill"], "answer": "A", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman's charisma is key."], "choices_in_complete_thought": ["The word \"charisma\" refers to a natural ability to attract others.", "The word \"charisma\" refers to a way to show one's achievement.", "The word \"charisma\" in refers to Lieberman's after-class interest.", "The word \"charisma\" in the text refer to Lieberman's fine cooking skill."], "dc_score": 9.475322388059702, "difficulty_score": 10.120847499984245}}, {"model": "mysite.question", "pk": 298, "fields": {"passage": "Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills during a year abroad beforo college, learning from a cook in Italy and study local specialties in Gerrnany, Spain and France. At Yale,he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens offriends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmate how to do things like making drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around,with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.\n\nFood Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the\n\nnetwork television. He says Lieberman's charisma is key.\"Food T-V isn't about\n\nfood anymore.\" says Flay, \" It's about your personality and finding a way to keep\n\npeople's eyeballs on your show.\"\n\nBut Lieberman isn't putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show, Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing\n\nsandwiches. An airline company was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful,\n\ninexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flight. Lieberman got the job.", "question_text": "Why did the airline company give Lieberman the job?", "choices": ["He could prepare meals in a small kitchen.", "He was famous for his shows on Food TV.", "He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches.", "He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals."], "answer": "D", "knowledge_component": "inferential", "relevant_sentences": ["An airline company was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flight. 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Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmate how to do things like making drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around,with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.\n\nFood Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman's charisma is key. \"Food T-V isn't about food anymore.\" says Flay, \"It's about your personality and finding a way to keep people's eyeballs on your show.\"\n\nBut Lieberman isn't putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show, Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flight. 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