Analysis: Short Conversation

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通し番号02-043: Short Conversation (150 Words)
(Narrator): Listen to a conversation between two family members.
Alex: Hey! Josh! It’s been quite awhile. How are you doing? How’s college?
Josh: Hey dad! It’s going really well.
Alex: We’ll what are you studying? I’d like to know where all my hard-earned money is going to.
Josh: Well, I’m not really sure what I want to major in yet. I took a two computer science classes, a history class, and a class on languages. The computer science courses were extremely hard. But I liked the language course a lot.
Alex: Well, I know computer science is hard. But, computer scientists make a lot of money!
Josh: I know, but I think I like learning about languages more.
Alex: I
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We are protesting the protest. Basically, the protesters are saying that the police arrested a Jacob last week without a good reason. But a couple of students saw Jacob stealing money from a charity event. I’m pretty sure that Jacob stole the money. So I’m going to the counter-protest.
Jack : Ah okay. I see. I’m not sure who to trust in this situation. I don’t think I’m going to side with either the protestors or the counter-protesters here. Sorry. (142 words)
Q. What is a counter-protest?
When people protest and protest.
When people protest the police.
When people protest a thief.
When people protest a school.
Q. What do the police think happened?
The police think Jacob is a thief.
The police don’t think Jacob is a thief.
The police think Jacob isn’t a student at the university.
The police think that Jacob is a good kid.
Q. What do the protesters (not the counter-protestors) think happened?
They think that Jacob is a thief.
They think Jacob is not a thief.
They don’t know who Jacob is.
They think Jacob is a bad person.
Q. What does Jack think?
Jack thinks Jacob is a thief.
Jack thinks Jacob is not a thief.
Jack doesn’t know. He won’t side with

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