diff --git a/paddlepalm/reader/utils/reader4ernie.py b/paddlepalm/reader/utils/reader4ernie.py
index 4c014dd9a9ac0ffcba66aeae79b1819bb984d830..37b6396dd80a6e158bf06e295894a2094dfd16f6 100644
--- a/paddlepalm/reader/utils/reader4ernie.py
+++ b/paddlepalm/reader/utils/reader4ernie.py
@@ -639,7 +639,8 @@ class MRCReader(BaseReader):
                  for_cn=True,
                  task_id=0,
                  doc_stride=128,
-                 max_query_length=64):
+                 max_query_length=64,
+                 remove_noanswer=True):
         self.max_seq_len = max_seq_len
         self.tokenizer = tokenization.FullTokenizer(
             vocab_file=vocab_path, do_lower_case=do_lower_case)
@@ -654,6 +655,7 @@ class MRCReader(BaseReader):
         self.max_query_length = max_query_length
         self.examples = {}
         self.features = {}
+        self.remove_noanswer = remove_noanswer
 
         if random_seed is not None:
             np.random.seed(random_seed)
@@ -758,7 +760,7 @@ class MRCReader(BaseReader):
         return cur_span_index == best_span_index
 
     def _convert_example_to_feature(self, examples, max_seq_length, tokenizer,
-                                    is_training):
+                                    is_training, remove_noanswer=True):
         features = []
         unique_id = 1000000000
 
@@ -845,6 +847,8 @@ class MRCReader(BaseReader):
                     if out_of_span:
                         start_position = 0
                         end_position = 0
+                        if remove_noanswer:
+                            continue
                     else:
                         doc_offset = len(query_tokens) + 2
                         start_position = tok_start_position - doc_start + doc_offset
@@ -958,7 +962,7 @@ class MRCReader(BaseReader):
         if not examples:
             examples = self._read_json(input_file, phase == "train")
             features = self._convert_example_to_feature(
-                examples, self.max_seq_len, self.tokenizer, phase == "train")
+                examples, self.max_seq_len, self.tokenizer, phase == "train", remove_noanswer=self.remove_noanswer)
             self.examples[phase] = examples
             self.features[phase] = features