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Question: Sonoma County, California is famous for its natural beauty. The area is also known for its fruits, vegetables, eggs, and seafood. When I first moved to the area years ago, I had no idea I would be living in such a rich area! After the summer, local festivals practically celebrate the richness of the county ev...
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Question: At the age of 16, Julia Butterfly Hill quit school and worked at a restaurant. For many years, she was only interested in making money and material things. Then one day she had a serious car accident, which changed her life. Hill said: "I realized I wanted to find a more powerful purpose for being here on thi...
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Question: The Greeks had long kept certain more or less formal relations with the people of Macedonia . The Macedonians from their side had kept themselves well informed about conditions in Greece. Now it happened, just when Sparta and Athens had finished their disastrous war, that Macedonia was ruled by an extraordin...
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Question: On the way back from work every evening, more often than not there would be a homeless man standing at the exit of the freeway . He looked to be in his late 40s but was probably a lot younger. He had shoulder length straight black hair and a short beard. Every day after work I would remember to gather any sp...
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Question: Do you still remember the funny question: why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side. Most people know this joke. But recently, some people have been much more concerned with how the grizzly bear and mountain lion can cross the road. Millions of animals die each year on US roads, the F...
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Question: I wasn't interested in becoming a model at first. I worked as a receptionist in a beauty shop during high school. It was in South Dakota. A woman who had worked for Vogue--a famous fashion magazine said to me, "Why don't you go to New York and be a model?" So I went to New York at eighteen. I went to the firs...
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Question: A quick look at an e-reader New, High-Contrast E-Ink Screen 50% better contrast than any other e-reader. The clearest text and sharpest images. Read in Bright Sunlight Unlike LCD screens, its screen reads like real paper, with no glare. Read as easily in bright sunlight as in your living room. Lighter Than a...
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Question: When Steve Maxwell graduated from college, he had an engineering degree and a high tech job -- but he couldn't balance his checkbook. "I took one finance class in college but dropped it to go on a ski trip," says the 45-year-old father of three, who lives in Windsor, Colorado. "I actually had to go to my bank...
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Question: When a computer works on a group of programs,it can get very hot.Cooling the computer can cost a lot.So some scientists wonder what would happen if the heat from the computer could beused. Large Internet companies such as Google and Microsoft have thousands of computers.As these computers deal with informatio...
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Question: Only children are happier than those with brothers or sisters, according to a new research which shows _ rivalry can have a serious effect on a child's emotion. Over half of the children surveyed said they had been bullied by a sibling, and one in three said they had been hit,kicked or pushed by a sibling, ...
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Question: Prince Charles yesterday pledged to reduce the royal impact on the environment through sweeping changes to his personal lifestyle and official schedule. The prince will replace carbon-heavy private jets and helicopters with scheduled flights and train services. The move came as Prince Charles urged busine...
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Question: Do you know what a castle is? A castle is a building special to Europe. Castles were built in the Middle Ages by king and other powerful people who live in. Castles were used by people to protect themselves from their enemies. They are big buildings made form stone and wood. Today there are still castles all ...
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Question: In the world, soccer (or football) is the most popular sport. This is because many countries have wonderful teams for the World Cup. The World Cup is held every four years. To remember the 2002 FIFA World Cup, children from different countries and more than 60 children from different Japanese schools came tog...
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Question: If an object is close then how will that object appear? Choices: A. gigantic B. minute C. small D. tiny
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Question: What equals the mass of the object (in kilograms) times the acceleration due to gravity (9.8 m/s 2 )? Choices: A. velocity B. density C. weight D. speed of light
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Question: English is very important in the modern world. Many people want to learn it well. Here are some things that I want to say about learning it. To learn English well, you need two things- _ and good learning methods . Passion is the more important one. Why? Because passion makes you want to learn English. Learn...
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Question: Whenever anyone measures educational success, East Asian countries are always top scorers. But in a recent league table, a European country, Finland, was top of the class. South Korea was still in second place, though. Britain was at number 6. In Korea the school day is long--typically 7 or 8 hours, followed ...
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Question: Cyril was a small town. The houses there were all made of wood; almost everything in the houses such as cupboards, tables and chairs were made of wood, too. And all the houses faced south. The town was never peaceful. Fire broke out once a week on summer afternoons. Residents were puzzled who the real firebug...
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Question: What is a soft, malleable, and corrosion resistant material called? Choices: A. tin B. lead C. gold D. copper
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Question: The personal computer has overtaken the family dog as man's best friend.according to a study. Researchers found that just 6 per cent of us believe that" most people rely more on their dog than they do on their PC",while 67 per cent think the opposite to be true. Even 38 per cent of dog owners admitted to rely...
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Question: The iconic gray mantle of the human brain, which appears to make up most of the mass of the brain, is called? Choices: A. cerebrum B. brain stem C. lobes D. thrombus
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Question: Prices for the Lunar New Year's eve dinners in 2007, the most important dinner for the Chinese people, will be 5 to 9 percent higher as restaurant reservations boom for the festival, Shanghai Morning Post reported on Thursday. This year, the Lunar New Year's eve festival falls on February 17. The tradition me...
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Question: If you have ever experienced jet lag ,you know how much of a drag it can be. Jet lag happens as a result of air travel, when traveling between two or more time zones. Your body is used to operating in a certain time zone, and when its timing is affected, you're likely to have problems. Edward Norton's charact...
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Question: What would you do if you were a fifth grader facing a huge homework load every night, and you found out that there was a machine that would do all the work for you? That's the situation presented to Sam, Kelsey, Judy and Brenton in Dan Gutman's entertaining new book for young readers, The Home Machine. The fo...
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Question: Electromagnets can be controlled by controlling what type of current? Choices: A. negative B. magnetic C. positive D. electric
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Question: Carbon dioxide can be found in what goes through the Choices: A. neck B. ears C. eyes D. brain
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Question: Once upon a time in Greece there lived a clever man. His name was Aesop. One day, when Aesop was taking a walk in the country, a man on the road stopped him. He said, "Kind sir, can you tell me how soon I can get to town?" "Go," Aesop answered. "Of course I know I must go," said the man," But I want to know...
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Question: Sharks live in a liquid deluged with sodium chloride because it allows them to Choices: A. form sharknadoes B. have increased buoyancy C. eat people D. star in films
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Question: Nineteenth-century writers in the United States, whether they wrote novels, short stories, poems or plays, were powerfully drawn to the railroad in its golden years. In fact, writers responded to the railroads as soon as the first were built in the 1830's. By the 1850's, the railroad was a major presence in t...
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Question: Poe ordered some merchandise from Store. When the merchandise was delivered, Poe decided that it was not what he had ordered, and he returned it for credit. Store refused to credit Poe's account, continued to bill him, and, after 90 days, turned the account over to Kane, a bill collector, for collection. Kane...
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Question: It was time for Jill to make her famous apple pie, out of the yellow apples that grew on her land. It was not time to pick the red cherries, or the orange oranges or even the green lettuce, but their nice colors made Jill happy. She would eat some of the pies, and give the rest of them away to her friends and...
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Question: If you want to protect yourself,please remember the following ways of information. These ways will make you safe. Don't use earphones when you are running in the school yard or in the street. You will keep yourself from the outside world and can easily get into trouble. If a stranger is following you, pleas...
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Question: "Seven out of ten people have tried to learn a language at some point in their life and most wish they could speak one more fluently," a survey found. "And nine out of ten people want their children to learn foreign languages at primary school," said the poll for the OCR Examing Board .Languages are no longe...
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Question: All my life I had loved airports.To me,they were fl kind of magic gateway to the world,but today it seemed like a cold and heartless place. "Well,here we are,the airport,"my sister said with fl sigh.As 1 watched her unload my luggage,I could see the sadness in her eyes.One last hug and a final good-bye and I ...
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Question: A group that rescues wildlife has started to search for land and money to build a bird and wildlife hospital in San Francisco. "About 40 volunteers care for injured animals in their homes," founder Jamie Ray said. Ray presented her proposal to build a $2 million wildlife hospital and nature center to en...
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Question: NEW YORK (AP) -- The investigation into the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz has gone through decades and countries, from basements to rooftops and seemingly everywhere in between. No one has ever been charged criminally -- and the little boy with sandy brown hair and a toothy grin was declared dead in 2...
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Question: My name is Jack.Here are four of my favorite photos.Let me tell you something about them. In the first photo, I'm running.I like sports and I want to be a running star. I like spring and winter best.So I have two photos of them.Look at the second photo.I am flying kites with my friends in the park. There are ...
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Question: Education is not an end , but a means to an end . In other words , we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them . Our purpose is to fit them for life . In some modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all whether rich or poor , clever or s...
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Question: All too often, a choice that seems sustainable turns out on closer examination to be problematic. Probably the best example is the rush to produce ethanol for fuel from corn. Corn is a renewable resource --you can harvest it and grow more, almost limitlessly. So replacing gas with corn ethanol seems like a g...
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Question: If you had a hammer, you would find ____ nails made of ____ Choices: A. wood; wood B. iron; wood C. wood; iron D. iron; iron
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Question: In the early days of nuclear power, the United States make money on it. But today opponents have so complicated its development that no nuclear plants have been ordered or built here in 12 years. The greatest fear of nuclear power opponents has always been a reactor "meltdown". Today, the chances of a meltd...
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Question: Dear friends, ladies and gentlemen, It's my honor to attend this conference. I hope to tell you, with my own experience, how I benefit from the rapidly developing information technology. I injured my neck and became disabled in a diving accident in May 1997. I was desperate then and even thought of killing my...
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Question: Safe practices in the laboratory include all of these except Choices: A. tying back long hair. B. wearing safety goggles. C. performing each step quickly. D. wiping up spills immediately.
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Question: BEIJING, July 21-More and more parents in Shanghai have found that their children are forgetting how to use Shanghai dialect to express themselves, according to a report in the city's Jiefang Daily on July 11, and some have begun forcing them to speak it at home. Language experts say that the promotion of Put...
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Question: Students made lemonade using the following recipe: 100 grams of lemon juice 100 grams of sugar 1,000 grams of water The students combined the lemon juice, sugar, and water in a container. They stirred the lemonade until all the sugar dissolved. They poured the lemonade into a plastic tray and put the tray in ...
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Question: Two teachers are needed in Henan Province ASAP! 7000-8000 RMB/month(20 lessons/week)plus benefits! The school is located in Xinzheng Town,which is only 45minites away from Zhengzhou City by bus. Requirements: Native English speakers from Australia,Canada,UK,etc.Bachelor's degree and teaching experience We...
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Question: Elsie Comer is nearly 92, but she can still play a game of Words with Friends on her iPad and claims that the Apple product has changed her life. Mrs. Comer, who lives in a house close to Manchester Airport, admits to playing the hugely popular puzzle game at a time and also uses her iPad to track the pla...
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Question: Many of us feel uneasy when someone stands too close to us, talks to us too loudly or makes eye contact with us for too long. But have you ever wondered why those things make you uncomfortable? It's all about personal peace, which means not only an imaginary space around the body, but also the space around ...
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Question: A magnet would attract a Choices: A. Wooden hairbrush B. Oranges C. Glassware D. Zippers
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Question: The local bus network gives access to most of the attractions of Nottinghamshire,making it easy for you to enjoy all that the county has to offer. Why not let Nottinghamshire's buses provide you with a cheep,convenient and safe way of enjoying a day out. they even take away the worry of stopping for lunch...
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Question: A new satellite is travelling 1.5 million kilometers over a 110-day period to enter an orbit of the sun. It is called DSCOVR--the Deep Space Climate Observatory. It will replace a satellite that has been observing space weather. DSCOVR will begin its work during the worst of the 11-year-long solar cycle. This...
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Question: People with less education suffer fewer stressful days,according to a report in the current issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. However,the study also found that when lesseducated people did suffer stress it was more severe and had a larger impact on their health. From this researchers have co...
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Question: One day, a young man was cleaning out his late grandfather's belongings when he came across a bright red envelope. Written on the front were the words, "To my grandson." Recognizing his grandfather's handwriting, the young man opened the envelope. A letter inside read: Dear Ronny, Years ago you came to me for...
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Question: Last Friday my brother and I were driving home together after doing some shopping and gave our attention to an interesting conversation. Because of this distraction my brother took a wrong turn. Unfortunately, the wrong turn took us towards a bridge and we had no way to turn back. Unwillingly, my brother pai...
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Question: As the railroads and the highways shaped the American West in the past centuries, a new electhical generating and transmission systen for the 21 century will leave a lasting mark on the West, for better or worse. Much of the real significance of railroads and highways is not in their direct physical effect on...
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Question: American football In almost every big university in the USA, football is a favourite sport. American football is not like soccer. Players sometimes kick the ball, but they also throw the ball and run with it. They try to take it to the other end of the field. They have four chances to move the ball ten yards...
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Question: Top 5 Must See Places in Beijing Beijing is an old capital city with a lot of tourists attractions. What is the most representative place in Beijing? The answers are various. Here are the Top 5 Must See Places in Beijing. 1. Forbidden City The Forbidden City is the ideal place for you to begin your exploratio...
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Question: It was the Greek shopkeeper who taught me about the power of being kind. In 2008, I left Spain to study alone in London. My parents had to bring up my three younger sisters and two younger brothers, so I found three part-time jobs to pay for my studies. I worked early mornings and late nights, so I was tired...
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Question: Surfing--the art of riding a wave on a pointed board--is the wildest, fastest natural water sport known to man. In recent years, it has developed into a major sport around the world, from Australia to South Africa. Australians brave men--eating sharks to ride the green waves Down Under, Hawaiian experts risk...
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Question: C "Over the years the unthinkable has become thinkable and today we sense we are close to being able to alter human heredity ." These were the words of David Baltimore of the California Institute of Technology,on December 1st,when he opened a threeday meeting in Washington to discuss the morality and use of...
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Question: The boy began lessons with an old Japanese judo teacher, Mr. Tanaka. The boy was doing well, but his teacher had taught him only one move in three months of training. "Mr. Tanaka," the boy finally asked, "shouldn't I be learning more moves?" "This is the only move you know, but this is the only move you'll ev...
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Question: Mrs. Black lives on Second Avenue. New Year is coming. She wants to send a card to her friend in Toronto, but she doesn't know where the post office is. She asks her neighbor Mary, " Is there a post office near here? I want to send a card." "The post office is not near from here," answers Mary, "but you d...
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Question: The challenge of techniques used for proteomic analyses is the difficulty in detecting small quantities of what? Choices: A. acids B. bacteria C. particles D. proteins
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Question: My sister and I grew up in a little village in England. Our father was a struggling lawyer, but I always knew he was special. He never criticized us, but used praise to bring out our best. He'd say, "If you pour water on flowers, they flourish . If you don't give them water, they die." I remember as a child I...
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Question: Two years after the First World War (1914-1918), a small group of soldiers left the army and returned to their hometown in France. Most of them lived well, but one of them was poor. His name was Clinton. Once a year they had supper in Barton's house. Barton was very rich. One evening Barton showed his friends...
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Question: Travel is fun and exciting, but it's not if you get sick. You may think, "Not me, I won't get sick in my holiday." But, for many people, that is what happens. Of course you don't want to spend your holiday sick in bed. So what can you do to stay in good health? There are three things you should remember when ...
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Question: The United States covers a large part of the North American continent. Its neighbours are Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. Although the United States is a big country, it is not the largest in the world. In 1964, its population was over 185,000,000. When this land first became a nation, aft...
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Question: The changing of a light ray’s direction (loosely called bending) when it passes through variations in matter is called this? Choices: A. refraction B. vibration C. resonance D. wavelength
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Question: Today people can use the phone to talk with others almost anywhere on the earth. But when you use the phone , you don't see the person you are talking with . That may change in the near future . Today some people are using a kind of telephone called the picture phone or vision phone. With _ , two people who a...
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Question: Parents are a child's first teachers. But some parents never learned from good examples. In New York City, Covenant House tries to help homeless young mothers become good parents. The twelve or so teenagers who live at the shelter attend parenting classes four days a week. The class is called Mommy and Me. Te...
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Question: Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people,but I also explain that there's a big difference between "being a writer" and writing.In most cases these people are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. "You've got to want to write, "I say ...
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Question: The cell walls of fungi are made of what? Choices: A. chitin B. lectin C. cartilage D. mucous
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Question: People say, you can not change the environment, but can change their own; you can not change the facts, but can change attitudes; you can not change the past, but can be changed now; you can not control other people, but can be masters of our own; you can not do everything well, but can be conscientious in ev...
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Question: More than 20 million kids in the United States live with one parent. Separation and divorce are the most common reasons for this. In other cases, the mom and dad may never have lived together, or one of them may have died. Living with one parent instead of two can bring about a lot of emotions. These feelings...
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Question: Have you ever picked a job based on the fact that you were good at it but later found it made you feel very uncomfortable over time? When you select your career, there's whole lot more to it than assessing your skills and matching them with a particular position. If you ignore your personality, it will hurt y...
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Question: For Chinese students the end of their senior year is filled with studying and stress as they prepare for the college entrance exams in June. The end of senior year is a celebration of their time in high school and involves parties, games and fun. Senioritis is a commonly used expression. It means seniors hav...
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Question: A dead body will become what if exposed to the air Choices: A. hot remains B. fresh remains C. wet remains D. skeletal remains
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Question: All of the following are functions of a cell membrane except Choices: A. surrounding and protecting the contents of the cell. B. releasing waste products from the cell. C. producing energy for cell processes. D. allowing gases to enter the cell.
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Question: (2013*,D)In 1974,after filling out fifty applications,going through four interviews,and winning one offer,I took what I could get--a teaching job at what I considered a distant wild area:western New Jersey.My characteristic optimism was alive only when I reminded myself that I would be doing what I had wanted...
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Question: What are indestructible and constantly in motion? Choices: A. crystals B. atoms C. ions D. viruses
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Question: Which kind of irrigation uses much less water than other methods? Choices: A. drip B. solar C. constant D. mist
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Question: Electronic book publishing has many of the same risks and opportunities as electronic music publishing. By delivering text direct to the user's computer screen, the e-book could cut down costs, and allow creators to deal directly with their audience, bypassing traditional publishers and readers. But it also...
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Question: What do you call mixtures of ash and water that travel down river valleys? Choices: A. debris B. mud slides C. pollutants D. lahars
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Question: One hot summer day in August my family and I wanted to go to the beach. We had not gone to the beach in a very long time and felt that today was a great day to do it. We piled everyone into the car-my mom, my dad, my sister, my dog, and me. I begged mom and dad to let me sit in the front seat, but they sai...
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Question: Fish have ears. Really. They're quite small and have no opening to the outside world carrying sound through the body. For the past seven years, Simon Thorrold, a university professor, has been examining fish ears, small round ear bones called otoliths. As fish grow, so do their otoliths. Each day, their otoli...
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Question: Top 8 food and beverage companies in China No 1 COFCO Group COFCO Group is the largest company of various products and services in the agricultural products and food industry in China. It is devoted to providing healthy and nutritious food, as well as contributing to improvement of people's living standards a...
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Question: Many plant species can only reproduce if the environment includes Choices: A. fungi B. ants C. bees D. spiders
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Question: Can people change their skin color1 without suffering like pop king Michael Jackson? Perhaps yes. Scientists have found the gene that determines skin color1. The gene comes in two versions, one of which is found in 99 percent of Europeans. The other is found in 93 to 100 percent of Africans, researchers a...
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Question: Growing strawberries in pots *The best way to start growing strawberries is to buy pot-grown strawberry plants m spring:5 plants are plenty for a hanging basket and 10 for the average 13 inch-sized pot. *Plant them immediately in soil-based compost and they will produce a modest crop in their first year.The ...
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Question: Do you know you could get sick just by walking past a building? The bacteria that cause Legionnaire's disease grow very fast in large modern buildings. They are carried by air through the buildings and outside. Legionnaire s disease is only one of the illnesses that are caused by "sick buildings". Some build...
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Question: There's no doubt that man is the smartest. But do you know what other animals are smart, too? Dolphins Dolphins are very smart. Most of the "tricks" they're taught to do are actually behavior they would engage in on their own. They love to play, race and generally enjoy their life to the fullest. They speak a...
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Question: On a cold winter Sunday, the little man came up to me as I was about to enter the telephone box and asked me whether I had a match. "I'm sorry,"I said."I don't smoke, so I haven't any. You'd better ask someone else." He looked rather disappointed, hesitated, and then turned away. I watched him walk slowly dow...
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Question: In prefix = st1 /America, drivers' education is part of high school. Every student in his or her second year of high school is required to take a course in drivers' education. However, unlike other courses, it isn't given during the regular school year. Instead, it is a summer course. The course is divided in...
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Question: The 18-meter-tall Rubber Duck arrived in Beijing on Friday. It was placed on waters in the International Garden Expo Park, where the Yongding River passes through. The Rubber Duck exhibition was designed by Dutch artist, Florentijn Hofman. It was part of the activities of Beijing Design Week, which ran from S...
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Question: Greece is one of the most beautiful countries of the world. Millions of tourists visit this place every year. In Greece the bus is the most convenient and preferred means of travelling. There are intercity buses operated by KTEL that interconnect various cities of Greece, and there are international buses o...
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Question: A new book written by a Chinese American on her super-strict parenting - "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" has raised fierce debates in the US. Amy Chua is a Yale Law School professor and the mother of two teenage girls. She is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. In the Chinese culture, the tighter represents...
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Question: Although it is not vital to humans, calcitonin is important for calcium homeostasis in adults of some species in what group characterized by backbones? Choices: A. invertebrates B. vertebrates C. reptiles D. mammals
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Question: Once there was something wrong with a machine in a factory. The workers could do nothing but turn to a German engineer for help, who drew a line on it and then said, "Take off the part where the line is and change it for a new one. "The machine, with a new line on, began running well again. The engineer then ...
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Question: We must do what we can to protect the plants because plants are very important for living things. Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is because plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating pla...
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Question: The ancient Egyptians appeared to be among the first early civilizations to learn how to grow roses. In 1888, at Hawara in the El Faiyum area of Egypt, two-thousand-year-old roses were found in ancient tombs. The discovery suggested roses were an important part of the complex burial ceremony which took place ...
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