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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nit can be hired, of course, and naturally doesn't care who hires it. Something as it had in his own time. Oceans, mountains, and to a lesser extent, deserts, ar...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nanything that Judy can’t solve.” “Well, you were Judy Bolton when you solved all those mysteries. I met you when the whole road. “Who’s going to stop us? And wh...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nrelentlessly toward him. He awoke still screaming.... A night without darkness passed. Ben lay waiting for Maggie's return, a question already formed in his min...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nEleven-Twelfths of 1999 In Review When Chatterbox invited readers to nominate events, significant deaths, good and bad movies, etc., for 1999--a year likely to ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThat the gentleman in question was a nut was beyond question. He was an institutionalized psychotic. He was nutty enough to think he could make an atom bomb out...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nShe provocatively arched her back. Not even the women of Kelburn's race had a body like hers and she knew it. \"Racially, there should be a chance,\" she said. ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nTHE TALKATIVE the tree named Ashlew, Dang vines! Beats all how some plants TREE when they used to be men! All have no manners—but what do you expect, by root!\"...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThe first because we were the first . and skin-tight. I was worshiping him and hating him at the same time, for I was thinking: first! Mickey Cameron, sitting n...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\non Mars along to write up the first trip to Mars. He was always getting sandy, but handkerchiefs over nose and mouth solve this. We look like desperadoes, what ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nMacklin was playing jacks. \"Do you think we'll have to use force on Macklin to get him to \"Hello?\" Elliot Macklin said. carried away for a moment. But Mackli...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nBy JAMES McCONNELL There should be an epitaph for every and special one for Loner Charlie. \"Now the world is dead. The whole world is dead.\" day has not quite...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\n, she thought. He rapidly mounted the stairs and halted at the top to look around searchingly. His gaze lighted on their table, his eyebrows went up, and he mad...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIt was a fine day at the beach for Purnie's game—but his new friends played very rough! Purnie ran laughing and shouting through the forest until he could run n...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nToo smoothly, it seemed to me, and the others seemed to think so, too. McIvers’ restlessness was beginning to grate on our nerves. He talked too much, while we ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThey were mad, all right, and now Matilda wondered if, actually, Matilda would seek the happy medium. And, above all else, she had had enough of her pen pal col...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nBy CARL JACOBI Grannie Annie, who wrote science fiction under the nom de plume of Annabella C. Flowers, had stumbled onto a murderous plot more hair-raising tha...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThere were more Joes on Venus than you could shake a ray-gun at. Perhaps there was method in Colonel Walsh's madness—murder-madness—when he ordered Major Polk t...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nTHE GIANTS RETURN By ROBERT ABERNATHY Earth set itself grimly to meet them with Quest Quest III Quest I , launched toward Arcturus and the Quest III Quest III t...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThis is what Fiss means by the \"irony\" in his title: that true freedom of speech for all requires suppressing the speech of some. This is not, technically, an...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nSILENCE IS—DEADLY Curtis recalled that Nelson and Androka had long conversations radio—silence of that sort would be deadly! concentration, as his bushy gray he...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\na second, then vanished with a flaming puff of released gravitons from such a manner that the big, powerful ship was moving at the same rate Unfortunately, othe...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nby BASIL WELLS Marooned on a world within a world, aided by a slim girl and an old warrior, Patrolman reflected waves of sound were of little value. Distances w...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nGrannie Annie, that waspish science-fiction writer, was in a jam again. What with red-spot Grannie Annie was the original research digger-upper, and when she la...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nBy the mid sixties it was definitely established that the three Faults It is not really surprising that it took so long to figure out the connection. The popula...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIt had been a bad day I had forgotten to wind the alarm clock, so I'd During the day, by actual count, I heard the phrase \"I'm just spitballing\" eight times, ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\npoking in under the window shade pried his eyes open. The dream fled. Eddie kicked Eddie found it easy to believe the stories he had heard about his father bein...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nOrison went with her cupped hands to the nearest tank and sprinkled the come on real cool in the secretary-bit.\" \"He was a very kind employer,\" Orison said. ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nWilliam Shawn, then editor of The New Yorker Both these memoirs must be read by everyone--everyone, that is, who takes seriously the important business of sorti...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nName Your Symptom Anybody who shunned a Cure needed his Morgan shook his thick head, ruffling his thinning red hair. \"I dunno, Henry, but staying on our side i...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nis sociology good for?\" Wilton Caswell, Ph.D., was head of my Sociology Department, and right then he was mad enough to chew nails. On the office wall behind h...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\n\"He literally couldn't look more like a paedophile,\" read one post – one of many to state a supposedly incontrovertible truth: that Savile's criminal tendenci...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nimpossible for an outlander to be, brought angry crowds to surround of the Universal Holy Empire of Sunda. He ignored the snarling, the We control it adequately...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nQUEST OF THIG Thig of Ortha was the vanguard of the conquering \"HORDE.\" He had blasted across trackless space to subdue a defenseless world—only to meet on Ea...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nmight have a planet revolving about each star. Of all the insane— They were mad, all right, and now Matilda wondered if, actually, they were husband and wife. I...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nA FILBERT IS A NUT BY RICK RAPHAEL That the gentleman in question was a nut was beyond question. He was an institutionalized Miss Abercrombie, the manual therap...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\n\"Backfire,\" said Lane. \"I set Gerri reeled away from the .\" Lane said, \"I can do that a on the problem. But Lane had no more patience. They'd sweat, he tho...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nBy F. L. WALLACE Illustrated by EMSH I would be infertile.\" Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that race an inferiority complex—but then he tried ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\n\"Well, I mean, it's not only about Wanda,\" said Harry. \"You see, my wife, Jane, that is....\" \"Yes?\" said the priest. He took his pen out of the holder. \"...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nhis wide, thin body, which constituted the knot at the middle. His neck was flat, too, arching out in another loop. Of all his features, only his head had appre...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nOrison went with her cupped hands to the nearest tank and sprinkled the \"They're so very strange,\" Orison said. At the bottom of the tank she Trust Company, t...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nhis eyebrows went up, and he made a beeline for Doc. Sandra wondered if The official laid a hand on Doc's shoulder. \"Sir!\" he said agitatedly. Not that there ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nyou get a can opener! \"Feetch!\" grated Ogden Piltdon, president of the Piltdon Opener Company, slamming the drafting board with his hairy fist, \"I want resul...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nthe U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] It was a fine day at the beach for Purnie's game—but his new friends played very rough! Purnie ran laughing...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nto gyp a space-lane sucker. Or so they thought! Angus Johnson knew differently. He charged them five buckos for a glass of water—and got it! [Transcriber's Note...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nbeen greatly simplified. In post-war Japan Walt Sheldon has found not only serenity, but complete freedom to write undisturbed about the things he treasures mos...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nits contents when he was through Metallic parts lay heaped in a pile. He poked at them with a assortment in the other room? He could not guess. But the others h...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nenterprise through the micro-tapes surface of the Moon's far side, and, to Earth. Pop matter-of-factly tended the shack and the landing field and the popping up...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\na \"Feetch M-D\" next time \"Feetch!\" grated Ogden Piltdon, president of the Piltdon Opener Can-Opener!\" roared Mr. Piltdon. \"Look at our competitors. The In...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nmean, how do we know Superior is maintaining the same position up here \"We could tell by the sun, silly.\" \"Of course,\" he said, grinning at his stupidity. \...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\n[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction February 1951. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that But some men aren't...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nRetief gave them more of \"How many men do you need for the harvest, Hank?\" Retief inquired. beret from the clothes tree. \"I'm off now, Retief,\" he said. \"I...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nbiggest surprise since David Let me put it this way,\" Conners said paternally. \"We expect a certain amount of decorum from our Washington news correspondents,...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\npast. Joe didn't know how they'd Joe Prantera comfortable, warm feeling began spreading over him, the The older man stopped and squinted, but not suspiciously, ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThey were still separated, two on one side of the airlock, two on the other. \"I can see it,\" he said. \"It's getting redder. It's ... it's ... melting, yes. M...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nA more subversive sort of queen is on display in Velvet Goldmine , Todd Haynes' musical fantasia on the early '70s era of \"glam\" or \"glitter\" rock. Here the...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nBrightside Crossing by Alan E. Nourse And every mile the Sun got bigger and whiter and higher in the sky and hotter. Without our ultra-violet screens and glare ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nYou can't be both a queenly queen and a womanly woman, says the script (by Michael Hirst)--at least not in 1554. (The director, Shekhar Kapur, made the same poi...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nJUPITER'S JOKE down a dare, breathed a prayer to the gods of idiots and spacemen, and headed in toward the great red spot of terrible Jupiter. and talent and th...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\n“All right,” Doggo wrote, and the conference was at an end. The morrow would decide the ascendancy of Myles Cabot or the Prince Yuri over the new continent. IV ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nPLANET Ralph Milne Farley Cabot or the Prince Yuri over the new continent. IV I SIGNALS FROM MARS FAIL TO REACH HARVARD THE COUP D’ETAT The next morning Myles C...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nRead locked the door and drew his pistol. Sergeant Rashid handed Premier Umluana the warrant. If Umluana noticed Read's gun, he didn't show it. He read the the ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nenough training in the subject to know how to handle that isotope safely,” Mr. Taylor said. “But, Dad,” Eddie wondered, “what could they do with it?” “They coul...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\n\"On your mark!\" he shouted to the rippling stream and its orange He shrieked this command upward toward the dense, low-hanging purple clouds that perennially ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\n... After a Few Words ... This is a science-fiction story. History is a science the other part is, as all Americans know, the most fictional field we have today...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nnot.\" The captain was momentarily silent, groping for an adequate reply. Earth set itself grimly to meet them with Behind him somebody made a choked noise, the...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nEarth set itself grimly to meet them with corrosive fire, determined to blast them back to the stars. But they erred in thinking hush, and the ship jarred sligh...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nQueazy discharged their tremendous inertia into the motive-tubes in such a manner that the big, powerful ship was moving at the same rate as the asteroid below—...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nsag of the dust I learned to spot a passable crack, and tell it from an impassable cut. Time after time the Bugs ground to JAMES BARON was not pleased to hear t...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nNed Vince knew that. Still, his into alkaline depths ... it was death. But Ned Vince lived again—a million years later! Ned Vince made a last effort Ned Vince w...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nTHE BIG HEADACHE What's the principal cause of headaches? of all headaches.\" \"That's what I meant to say. But I'm not sure it would be completely ethical with...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nExtensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Howell, the man across the table from him, looked emba...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThese lucky authors are scholars, and the works they customarily write and publish without payment are peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals. Open access...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nhe could fool himself into thinking that there was some purpose to this journey. He'd come to believe that perhaps what his life lacked was purpose, and for a w...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nStill, he was the honored home-comer, the successful returnee, the He was glad when the official greeting was over. He was a very tired man and he had come fart...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nto gyp a space-lane sucker. Or so they thought! Angus Johnson knew differently. He charged them five buckos for a glass of water—and got it! In their hectic voy...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThe sand-thing was powerful, lonely and strange. No doubt it was a god—but who wasn't? Stinson lay still in the sand where he fell, gloating over the success of...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nIT WAS A DULL, ROUTINE LITTLE WORLD. IT DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A CITY. EVERYTHING IT HAD WAS life traces on that little moon, but it would be a lively place. So Natur...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nThis guard smelled trouble and it could be I His name was Liam O'Leary and there was something stinking in his nostrils. It was the smell of trouble. He hadn't ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nBY STANLEY GIMBLE Illustrated by Freas She surely got her wish ... but there was some question about getting what she wanted. Phil Conover pulled the zipper of ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nlines—little clothing being required in the artificially warmed and repulsion through a that would have made an old year of discovery for AMAZING barely managed...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\ndelivered a paper entitled simply, \"On the Nature of the Solar S-Regions.\" Owing to its unassuming title the startling implications contained in the paper wer...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nTHE PERFECTIONISTS By ARNOLD CASTLE ILLUSTRATED by SUMMERS Is there something wrong with you? Do you fail to fit in with your group? Nervous, anxious, ill-at-ea...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\npsychologists to relieve tension. And—despite the treatment, Joe Joe's table. The girl counted the money, then placed it in her purse. Joe noticed \"Tell you la...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nwriter, was in a jam again. What with red-spot fever, talking cockatoos and flagpole trees, I was running in circles—especially since Grannie became twins every...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nvalor for them to hunt men in the world of men. In that fact lay a key to their character—if such utterly alien creatures could be said to have character. luxur...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nPlanet Stories Spring 1945. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that We had left the offices of Interstellar Voice three days ago, Earth time, and n...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nTHE FIRE and THE SWORD menshar Eckert, you have but to ask.\" It would probably be a mistake to ask for a list of Pendleton's friends, but there was a way aroun...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\ninside, in the hospital ward, Lieutenant Alice Britton clutched at the sheets of her bed in pain, then relaxed as it faded away. Major Banes looked at her and s...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nlacked adequate medical and research facilities. Bergstrom was waiting in his office monkey on his back Under the cloud of cast-off identities lay the shape of ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nto courier duty, but this is an unusual mission.\" Retief sat relaxed and said nothing. Just before the silence grew Magnan leaned back, waiting for Retief's re...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nCOMPLEXITY AND HUMANITY coming up with the most ingenious, improvised solutions to otherwise, is a breakdown of systems. For a time, chaos reigns. For a disaste...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nGambling's would-be federal regulators--the National Gambling Impact Study Commission--went to Las Vegas this week to hold hearings. In today's dispatch, we lea...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nTHE FIRST ONE By HERBERT D. KASTLE [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Analog July 1961. since engulfed and placed well within its boundaries. But...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nETERNAL Ned Vince knew that. Still, his It was all sound logic. Even death. But Ned Vince lived again—a million years later! Ned Vince made a last effort to con...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nvast distance did not mean that isolation could endure forever. The history of the planet was For days the two within the ship listened and watched with little ...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nLinton lay down his steel fork beside the massively solid transparency Howell, the man across the table from him, looked embarrassed without looking. \"Not at a...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\n“You mean he must have been an atomic scientist himself?” Eddie asked. “Let’s just say he—or both of them—have much age, although Eddie knew it had been eightee...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\nfor weapons more adequate for encountering the local fauna when it was over. Blast-rifles were not effective against such creatures as these. Torches were conta...
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[ { "human": "Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.\n\n<passage>:\n“Tell Judy about it,” begged Lois. “Please, Lorraine, loyal to each other. But you always did take Judy’s part. She was the one who nearly spoiled our double “Y...