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"answer_text": "About 1900 yuan."
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"About 1900 yuan.",
"About 2000 yuan.",
"About 1500 yuan.",
"About 1400 yuan."
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"question": "According to the passage, how much will the two-day tickets cost if a couple go to... | Shanghai Disney Resort has revealed its ticket prices for Disneyland claiming the lowest of all 12 Disney parks and six resorts in the world.
Shanghai Disneyland ticket prices are set at 499 yuan (75 dollars) for the grand opening period (June 16-30, 2016) and regular price at 370 yuan. Its regular price for a one-day ... | high14295.txt |
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"answer_text": "are popular among people who want to quit smoking"
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"are much safer than common cigarettes",
"are popular among people who want to quit smoking",
"will take the place of traditional cigarettes",
"are prod... | Should e-cigarettes (electronic cigarettes) be a new choice for the smokers trying to get rid of the habit? Reactions from Americans are mixed. More than half of the people questioned in a survey think e-cigarettes should be controlled by the US Food and Drug Administration, but 47 percent believe the e-cigarettes shou... | high3872.txt |
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"answer_text": "Guide dogs for the mind."
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"Guide dogs for the mind.",
"Pets, faithful companions.",
"Mental support for the disabled.",
"Dementia, a curable disease."
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"question": "What's the best title for th... | Dogs already guide blind and disabled people and now they are to be trained to help people with dementia. The idea developed by some university students will now be put into practice by Scotland Medical Centre. The research is meaningful, for there are 670, 000 people in Britain who have dementia and by 2021 this is ex... | high19969.txt |
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"answer_text": "Diet"
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"Diet",
"Appearance",
"Reproduction",
"Hunting"
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"question": "Which aspect is not mentioned in the passage?",
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... | The great white shark is the largest shark and is probably the most well-known and feared shark. The great white shark is gray or bluish above and white below. The largest Great Whites can reach lengths of 22 feet and weigh up to 5,000 pounds. The Great White has massive teeth, which are positioned in rows. When the Gr... | high17944.txt |
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"answer_text": "a memorial building"
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"a memorial building",
"a tourist attraction",
"a prison",
"a gift to Mumtaz"
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"question": "The Taj Mahal was first built as _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_question... | Say you are a 17th century construction worker who's worked hard to build a splendid tower for the dead wife of your emperor.
Now say that the emperor orders your fingertips cut off so you can never build another one. Yes, this story is about the Taj Mahal, one of the most famous buildings in the world. And the tale be... | high16482.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because he thought he could get back his money."
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"Because he wanted to go back home due to the boring film.",
"Because he thought he could get back his money.",
"Because it was time for the baby to have a meal... | Let Baby Cry
The parents with their three-year-old son went to see a film.
When they walked into the cinema, the attendant said to them, "you'll have to go out if your son cries. But we'll refund you the tickets."
About half an hour later, the husband asked his wife, "What do you think of the film?"
"I've never seen su... | high21548.txt |
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"answer_text": "is part of the permanent exhibition in the city of Salzburg"
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"is now being owned by the Mozart family",
"has been kept by Carl Thomas since Mozart died",
"is much bigger and heavier than modern ones",
"i... | The piano on which Mozart wrote all of his late works returned home to Vienna for the first time since his death in 1791.The piano will stand in his former Vienna home, now a museum, for two weeks, ending in a concert of the works by Mozart.
Mozart bought the instrument from Anton Walter, the most famous piano maker of... | high10795.txt |
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"answer_text": "there are plenty of choices of products and sellers"
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"the consumer earn less money than before",
"the businessmen are not as honest as before",
"there are plenty of choices of products and sellers",
"the... | Anne Nelson has no doubts when she's arguing with a salesman over the price of a car. She first checks car prices and does some research and then adopts a take-it-or-leave-it attitude. That helped her get 15 percent knocked off the price of a used BMW.
But what about asking for a discount on vegetables at the grocery s... | high20656.txt |
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"answer_text": "San Francisco's Chinatown."
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"London's Chinatown.",
"Bangkok's Chinatown.",
"Mauritius's Chinatown.",
"San Francisco's Chinatown."
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"question": "According to the text, which of the following has... | Preparations are underway around the world for Chinese New Year (Feb 19) and celebrations in China will be mirrored across the planet wherever the Chinese Diaspora calls home. Here are some Chinatowns for those outside of China wishing to mark the day.
London
Although it may not be as large or as long-built as others... | high9387.txt |
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"answer_text": "an increasing number of animals are killed in road accidents"
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"wild animals have become more dangerous",
"the driving condition has improved greatly",
"an increasing number of animals are killed in road accide... | 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 worried about how the grizzly bear and mountain lion can cross the road.
"Millions of animals die each year on U.S. roads," the Federal Highway Administration reports. In fact, only ab... | high15835.txt |
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"answer_text": "It hit a police car."
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"It hit a police car.",
"The engine died.",
"The writer braked it hard.",
"The man from the Driver's License Office helped make it stop."
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"question": "Why didn't the car ... | I turned 16 on Friday, but the Driver's License Office in my small hometown was only open on Tuesday, so I had to wait through that extremely long weekend and an endless Monday before going in for my examination.
I came to the Driver's License Office half an hour earlier _ , pacing back and forth on the worn porch wait... | high12182.txt |
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"answer_text": "physical exercise affected their health"
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"physical exercise affected their health",
"physical exercise gave them a deep thought",
"asthma attacks made them like physical exercise",
"asthma attacks could ... | Jeremy Wirick, 9, has been back in school for less than two months, but he has already had several asthma attacks. A recent attack happened on October 2, after he pushed himself too hard in gym class. Running, power walking, jogging and push-ups took their toll. When Jeremy got home an hour or two later, he was out of ... | high8099.txt |
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"answer_text": "how to keep a long friendship"
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"options": [
"why a long friendship is important",
"what we can do for our friends",
"how to make friends with others",
"how to keep a long friendship"
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"question": "This pass... | Many people often lose their friends and they don't know how to keep a long friendship. So how can you keep a long friendship? The following passage explains very well about this matter.
The first thing you need to do is to become a good listener. In this way, you show your friends that you are interested in their ... | high22041.txt |
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"answer_text": "he drove too fast"
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"he didn't have a license",
"he forgot to re-register",
"he was seriously ill",
"he drove too fast"
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"question": "The author was stopped by the police officer because _ ."... | The Truth Can Set You Free
I recently got pulled over for speeding not far from my new home in Virginia. I hadn't been paying attention, and I had driven a few miles an hour over the speed limit.
"Can I see your license and registration?" the police officer asked me. I pulled both out for him, and he saw my Pittsburgh ... | high10965.txt |
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"answer_text": "their parents would not be too sad if they died"
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"an old social custom could be kept up",
"maternal attachment could be maintained",
"they could have better chances to survive",
"their parents would not ... | While parents, particularly mothers, have always been attached to their infants . societal conditions frequently made this attachment difficult to maintain . First of all, the high infant death rate in the premodern times meant that such attachments often ended in hopelessness. Perhaps to prevent the sadness that infan... | high21560.txt |
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"answer_text": "Her research interests."
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"Flexible work hours.",
"Her research interests.",
"Chances of academic accomplishments",
"Her preference for the lifestyle at university"
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"question": "What was Helen ... | It is pretty much a one-way street.While it may"be common for university researchers to try their luck in the commercial world,there is very little traffic in the opposite direction.Pay has always been the biggest _ ,as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university jo... | high5595.txt |
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"answer_text": "an increased concern about the environment"
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"an increased concern about the environment",
"a demand for money-saving technology",
"the high cost of electrical power",
"the shortage of power supply"
]... | Store shelves are filling up with so-called "green" products promising to benefit the environment. A recent argument shows that it can be as difficult for buyers to confirm such statement as for producers to defend them.
The argument concerns the GreenPlug Electricity Saver. The GreenPlug is supposed to prevent energy ... | high23377.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a shoe shiner"
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"a company manager",
"a shoe shiner",
"a medicine maker"
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"question": "Cai Yong decided to work as _ .",
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... | Few students would dream of getting a job as a shoe shiner working along the street. College students, in their own eyes and in the eyes of the public, are expected to get at least a proper job, if not working in a high-income or white-collar position.
Cai Yong's decision to work as a shoe shiner shocked not only his p... | high267.txt |
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"answer_text": "what they learn in university classes is not adequate for their new life"
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"They were not well educated at school.",
"what they learn in university classes is not adequate for their new life",
"the society is t... | When young people get their first real jobs, they face a lot of new, confusing situations. They may find that everything is different from the way things were at school. It is also possible that they will feel uncomfortable and insecure in both professional and social situations. Eventually , they realize that universi... | high22069.txt |
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"answer_text": "Definition 2"
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"question": "Which meaning of the word javelin is used in the sentence below?",
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] | Answer the following questions by using the information taken from a dictionary page. (You may read the questions first.)
jaguar: n. a type of large, yellow-colored cat with black markings found in the southwestern region of the U. S. and in Central and South America.
jargon: 1. n. speech that doesn't make sense. 2. n.... | high7382.txt |
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"answer_text": "Voice's influence on plant growing."
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"Plants enjoy men's voices than women's.",
"A botanical experiment in a museum.",
"Voice's influence on plant growing.",
"Strange phenomenon at Royal Horticultural S... | "If you talk to the plants, they will grow faster and the effect is even better if you're a woman." Researchers at Royal Horticultural Society carried out an experiment to find that the voice of a woman gardener makes plants grow faster.
The experiment lasted a month and by the end of the study scientists managed to di... | high6922.txt |
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"answer_text": "their training should not be wasted"
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"they are not allowed to give up their jobs",
"their training should not be wasted",
"they want to make a living by themselves",
"they must still improve themselves a... | Modern society cannot well do without the contribution that women can make in the professions and other kinds of work. There is a serious shortage of nurses and teachers, to mention only two of the occupations followed by women. It is a waste to give years of training at public expense only to have the qualified teache... | high1095.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because he was grateful for Jack's time with him."
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"Because he thought he had to keep his word.",
"Because he had no children or s.",
"Because he was grateful for Jack's time with him.",
"Because Jack h... | It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. College, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife and son. He was workin... | high23411.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "offering prizes"
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"offering prizes",
"showing sample logos",
"explaining the rules",
"relating graphic details"
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"question": "At the beginning, the advertisement tries to encourage readers to en... | We need a logo--a graphic image--that will be the perfect symbol of our great new Wellsville Skate Park. We would like those of you who are counting the days until the grand opening to design an appropriate logo that can be used on stationery, business cards, fliers, brochures, posters and T-shirts. An appropriate, w... | high12814.txt |
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"answer_text": "painting displays universal qualities"
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"painting is thought to be artistic",
"painting is similar to music and dance",
"painting has been practiced for some 20,00... | Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment , has been continuously practiced by humans for some 20,000 years. Together with other activities that may have been ritualistic but have come to be considered as artistic (such as music or dance), painting was one of the earliest ways in... | high19941.txt |
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"answer_text": "they are afraid it will be done further damage."
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"it is now in a poor chemical state",
"they don't know how to replace the wooden panel",
"they don't have the materials Da Vinci used",
"they are afraid i... | She is widely seen as proof that good looks can last forever. But, at nearly 500 years of age, _
The health of the famous picture, painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1505, is getting worse by the year, according to the Louvre museum where it is housed.
"The thin, wooden panel on which the Mona Lisa is painted in oil has ... | high3682.txt |
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"answer_text": "Karni's findings are based on comparisons between two groups of participants"
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"the new research has discovered the memory process during the sleep",
"taking a nap helps improve both long-term and short-term memories... | Naps--short sleeps during the day--may improve memory, experts said recently.
New research conducted by brain researcher Avi Karni of the University of Haifa in Israel explores the possibility that naps help lock in sometimes long-term memories. "We still don't know exactly how memory system works during sleep, but th... | high21206.txt |
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"answer_text": "Dorms allow students in the U.S. choose to live in dorms"
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"Dorms are safer for students to live in most cases.",
"Dorms offer the chance to meet othe... | We continue our Foreign Student Series on higher education in the United States. Now we move on to college life once you are admitted to a school. The first thing you need to value is a place to live. Housing policies differ from school to school. Students might have to live in a dormitory, at least for the first year ... | high18493.txt |
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"answer_text": "Have fun with his brother.8"
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"Play video games.2",
"Have fun with his brother.8",
"Pack things up to amuse himself.e"
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"question": "What did the author do when traveling to My... | The best family vacation that I ever had was going on a road trip to Myrtle Beach. The trip was for 2 weeks during the March break from school. This trip was probably about 20 years ago so it was before the time of things like portable video games and being able to watch movies in the back seat.2
So to pass the many ho... | high19955.txt |
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"answer_text": "Michael's company was trapped in trouble"
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"Some trouble happened to the author",
"Michael didn't approve of going traveling",
"Michael's company was trapped in trouble",
"Michael was tired of planning th... | My husband, Michael, a co-owner of a development company, came home from work one day said , " it 's not looking good."At midnight, I'd wake up and see him sitting in a chair,with his hand on his forehead
As a family, we'd always talked about traveling more, but we'd been tied to routines. Now l saw no p... | high17978.txt |
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"answer_text": "Supportive."
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"Concerned.",
"Supportive.",
"Uninterested."
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"question": "What is David Chadwell's attitude towards separating primary boys and girls while learning?",
"question_t... | At a primary school in a small town in the east of South Carolina, second-grade teachers Carneau and Lynne are convinced that separating primary boys and girls produces immediate academic improvement in both genders
David Chadwell, South Carolina's coordinator of single gender education says, " Boys and girls learn,... | high21212.txt |
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"answer_text": "The brief introduction of Ji Xianlin."
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"The brief introduction of Ji Xianlin.",
"Ji Xianlin's ideology.",
"Ji Xianlin's achievements.",
"Ji Xianlin's discussions on the cultural problems between the East... | Ji Xianlin, a famous paleographer , historian, and writer, was born in 1911. In 1930, Ji was admitted to Tsinghua University as a major in Western literature. In 1935, he went to Germany as an exchange student to study ancient languages, receiving his PhD degree in 1941. Ji returned to China in 1946, and in the autumn... | high6936.txt |
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"answer_text": "More advertisers begin to promote sales through spam."
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"Companies rely on e-mail for communications.",
"More people in the world communicate by e-mail.",
"Many computer viruses contain spam e-mail.",
"Mo... | When I first got an e-mail account ten years ago, I received communications only from family, friends, and colleagues. Now it seems that every time I check my e-mail,I have an endless series of advertisements and other _ that do not interest me at all. If we want e-mail to continue to be useful, we need specific laws t... | high1081.txt |
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"answer_text": "a place where everything can be seen by others"
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"a tower that provides a broad view",
"a place where everything can be seen by others"
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"question... | "Panopticon" is a place in which everything is in full view of others.
A recent New York Times " House and Home" article featured the story of a man who lives in a glass house.Every wall in his home is transparent; he has no walls to hide behind, not even in the bathroom.Of course, he lives in a remote area where ... | high23405.txt |
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"answer_text": "the cost of riding bikes is much cheaper than that of taking trains or buses"
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"the cost of riding bikes is much cheaper than that of taking trains or buses",
"there are a lo... | In 1974, the price of petrol in Britain rose by 120 percent; cars became expensive to run and train and bus fares increased. People who hadn't used a bicycle since they were children decided that they would buy bicycles.They discovered that cycling could be enjoyable and cheap.
Bicycle sales had been falling for many y... | high12800.txt |
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"answer_text": "control the ropes for the jumpers"
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"jump over both ropes from one side",
"control the ropes for the jumpers",
"jump from the beginning after making a mistake"
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"que... | Chinese Jump Rope is a challenging game played by anyone anywhere. The simple rules test the skill and coordination of all players.
RULES
A jumper jumps until a jumping mistake is made.
* A mistake can be made if a jumper jumps "out" instead of "in".
* A mistake is also made if a jumper touches the rope incorrectly ... | high23363.txt |
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"answer_text": "digital tools bring about benefits and problems"
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"the Internet is playing a key role",
"teachers encourage using digital tools",
"digital tools bring about benefits ... | Teachers say the digital age has had a good influence - and a not-so-good influence - on this generation of American teenagers.More than 2,000 teachers took an online survey.Three-quarters of the teachers said the Internet and digital search tools have had a "mostly positive" effect on their students' research habits a... | high6088.txt |
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"answer_text": "to stop his son crying"
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"to stop his son crying",
"to let him learn something",
"to make him frightened",
"to let his son spend a good night"
],
"question": "Father brought a TV set into his son'... | One hot night last July, when our new baby wouldn't or couldn't sleep, I tried everything I could think of : a warm bottle, songs gentle rocking. Nothing would settle him down. Guessing that I would have a long night ahead of me, I brought a portable TV into his room, figuring that watching the late movie was as good ... | high15809.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "raise production of a key blood cell"
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"make people joyful",
"aid digestion",
"make break away from the bad habits"
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"question": "Playing bridge can help ... | New findings suggest that brainy card games such as contract bridge may temporarily raise production of a key blood cell including in fighting off illness. After 90 minutes of play, bridge players had increased levels of immune cells, according to the research reported last week.
A researcher, Diamond, studied bridge... | high273.txt |
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"answer_text": "She is cheerful and humorous."
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"She is cheerful and humorous.",
"She would like to live much longer.",
"She feels she is going to die very soon."
],
"question": "... | Jeanne Calment, a French woman, became a record breaker on 17 October of 1995, when at the age of 120 years and 238 days, she became the longest-lived human being on record. A Japanese man died in 1986 at the age of 120 years and 237 days.
Jeanne Calment lives in a small old people's home in the south of France; her hu... | high7396.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he wrote himself as a loser in cartoons"
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"wrote some articles in magazines",
"he turned to others for help",
"he wrote himself as a loser in cartoons"
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"question": ... | This is a true story about a boy who, the world might say, was a terrible underachiever. While in the eighth grade, he failed subjects repeatedly. High school wasn't much better; he _ Latin, algebra, English, and received a grade of zero in physics. The boy managed to make the school golf team, but he lost the most imp... | high10971.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Her car was stuck in the train tracks."
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"She was seriously injured.",
"Her car was stuck in the train tracks.",
"Her car crashed into a train.",
"Her car knocked over a passerby."
],
"question": ... | One evening,June Griffith was on her way to pick up her son.Almost immediately,she realized that she had gone the wrong way.She'd driven onto railroad tracks and the underside of her car was caught.
As Griffith tried to remove the car,its headlights attracted the attention of a passerby,Jordan Ricks,a college stud... | high21574.txt |
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"answer_text": "Tips for handling complaints from customers."
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"Importance of dealing with customer complaints.",
"Effects of customer complaints on business.",
"Tips for handling complaints from customers.",
"Several fa... | No matter what type of business you run, it has to deal with situations in which things go wrong from your customer's point of view. Complaints can be a great source of information for the organizations. So it's important to learn to deal with customer complaints efficiently.
Firstly, listen actively to what the custom... | high4847.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "take a language test"
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"visit da Vinci's home",
"hear lectures on French history",
"go to see the castle built by Charles VIII"
],
"question": "When a student gets to Amboi... | Summer Cultural Exploration in France
The Summer Cultural Exploration program in Amboise, France, provides students with the opportunity to study French in a friendly historic atmosphere while experiencing a taste of French culture.
Amboise
Amboise is a charming small town on the Loire River in central France. The roya... | high5581.txt |
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"answer_text": "The mother was disabled and unable to move around without a wheelchair."
},
"options": [
"The mother made the payment for the wedding gown for her daughter on the spot.",
"The mother was disabled and unable to move around without a... | My trip with my sister and my daughter to Manhattan wedding gown(,) shop, cannot be understood without further focusing on Marina, my 14-year-old daughter Ive asked to try on dresses.
This was the girl I took to Kleinfeld, the fancy store featured on the television program Say Yes to the Dress. As the trip approached, ... | high10226.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a shopkeeper"
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"a doctor",
"a policeman",
"a shopkeeper"
],
"question": "What was Mr. King?",
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"answer_index": 0,... | Henry found work in a bookstore after he finished middle school. He wouldn't do anything but wanted to get rich. Mr. King thought he was too lazy and was going to send him away. Henry was afraid and had to work hard.
It was a cold morning. It was snowing and there was thin ice on the streets. Few people went to buy the... | high2761.txt |
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"answer_text": "To express her deep love to Hong Kong. ks5u"
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"To attract more tourists to visit Hong Kong.",
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Northern spotted owls are known to be curious. When seeing you, these owls will come down close and check you out.
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Set to open in 2013, the PS188 m LoB is already beginning to tale shape next to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with which it will share some equipment.
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Police officer Wang Shaoyan came under the spotlight this month after his child took part in an 18-kilometer race in the Hubei provincial capital.
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"We study for jobs that don't exist," Nicol... | high16125.txt |
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But you might be wrong.
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"he wanted his clothes to look neat all the time",
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},
... | We know more about the surface of the planet Mars than we know about what is at the bottom of Earth's oceans.
Until recently, scientists had mapped only about 20 percent of the sea floor. But our knowledge of the deep seas is changing because of information from satellites. Scientists have produced a new map that provi... | high7625.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "self-respect"
},
"options": [
"self-respect",
"financial rewards",
"advertising ability",
"friendly relationship"
],
"question": "According to the passage, the positive action in the example contributes to our ... | Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self- respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized as "honor" help you create this life of good feelings.
Here's an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.
Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an it... | high918.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "offered him an opportunity that changed his life"
},
"options": [
"invited him to join in their game",
"liked the book that he was reading",
"broke the long silence of that summer evening",
"offered him an opportunity t... | A city child's summer is spent in the street in front of his home,and all through the long summer vacations I sat on the edge of the street and watched enviously the other boys on the block play baseball. I was never asked to take part even when one team had a member missing--not out of special cruelty, but because the... | high8516.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Nobel was a man of strong will"
},
"options": [
"Nobel was a man of strong will",
"Nobel was a man of gift",
"Nobel seldom got on well with his work",
"Nobel had his heart in his work"
],
"question": "Through hi... | Nobel, who was born in Stockholm, is a great scientist famous for his dangerous experiments.
Nobel studied in the USA and then Russia between 1850 and 1859. After his return, he started researching into bombs. As is known, bomb is dangerous to life, but Nobel was working under that condition. Once a big explosion in hi... | high15362.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "damaging his immune cells"
},
"options": [
"attacking him with high fever",
"regulating his immune system",
"damaging his immune cells",
"harming all his organs directly"
],
"question": "Ebola causes the death o... | The current Ebola outbreak in western and central Africa has infected at least 3,069 people, including 1,552 dead, making it the largest outbreak in history. Ebola is a deadly virus --about 60 percent of people infected with it have died.
How is Ebola doing its harm?
When a person becomes infected with Ebola, the vir... | high9608.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Her social work."
},
"options": [
"Her social work.",
"Her lack of proper training in law.",
"Her efforts to win a prize.",
"Her community background."
],
"question": "What is jane Addams noted for in history?",... | You probably know who Marie Curie was,but you may not have heard of Rachel Carson.Of the outstanding ladies listed below,who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?
Jane Addams(1860-1935)
Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank.Addans helped the poor and work... | high13713.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "her friends had something in common with her"
},
"options": [
"there was a friendly girl of her age living next door",
"she could travel around in her father's jet",
"her friends had something in common with her",
"her ... | "It's really cool to have a dad who flies fighter jets,"thought 11-year-old Casey as she was watching him fly overhead.
Living on an Air Force base was not as bad as some people might think. Casey rather enjoyed being around friends who had something in common with each other. They had their own school, bowling area, a... | high1254.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To become someone important."
},
"options": [
"To improve his gardening",
"To further his education.",
"To become someone important.",
"To help immigrants succeed."
],
"question": "Why did Tabia come to America?... | A mansion may symbolize the American dream. But the fact is, for most immigrants, the closest one they ever get to is the neighboring bushes.
Such is the case with 63-year-old Catalino Tabia, Calif. He's a gardener with a 6'h grade education. He came to America to make his dreams come true, but ended up fulfilling... | high17575.txt |
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