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"answer_text": "rabbits may enter by digging holes under it"
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"coyotes can climb over it easily",
"the strong wind might blow it away",
"snakes can cross it from under the ground",
"rabbits may enter by digging holes und... | The United States Department of Agriculture has a program called Wildlife Services. Its job is to help protect agricultural and other resources from threats and damage by wildlife. Often that means helping farmers deal with unwelcome visitors. This organization has experts from different fields and it has set up thousa... | high22323.txt |
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"answer_text": "Their academic career can benefit from it."
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"Their academic career can benefit from it.",
"It is an access to better wine cellars.",
"Reasons beside glory.",
"They can win honour."
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"question":... | Most academics would view a post at an elite university like Oxford or Harvard as the crowning achievement of a career--bringing both honour and access to better wine cellars. But scholars desire such places for reasons beyond glory. They believe perching on one of the topmost branches of the academic tree will also im... | high14685.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "to attract more subscribers"
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"to introduce a new magazine",
"to help parents with their daily life",
"to attract more subscribers",
"to collect more money for charity"
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"question": "The purpose... | Get a FREE YEAR! Order NOW and get a FREE YEAR of Parents(r) magazine! That's 2 full years (24 issues) for the regular 1-year rate - just $12. But HURRY, this offer won't last! (U.S. orders only, please.)
Every issue of PARENTS is filled with practical advice from leading doctors and child experts ... toys and games th... | high139.txt |
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"answer_text": "the failure to keep to a set timetable of work"
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"changing from one subject to another",
"the failure to keep to a set timetable of work",
"the unwillingness to work out a systematic plan",
"working on a ... | By far the most common difficulty in study is simple failure to get down to regular concentrated work . This difficulty is much greater for those who do not work to a plan and have no regular routine of study . Many students muddle along , doing a bit of this subject or that , as the mood takes them , or letting their ... | high22337.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "it reduces waste and can help others"
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"it reduces waste and can help others",
"it prevents waste and can earn lots of money",
"it can send the waste produced by developed countries to other countries",
"... | When we think about giving help to developing countries, we often think about giving money so that these countries can build schools and hospitals, buy food and medicine, or find clean water supplies. These seem to be the most important basic needs of the people we are trying to help. However, it's far from enough. Lad... | high16092.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "looked a little nervous"
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"felt a little excited",
"walked energetically",
"looked a little nervous",
"showed up with his teacher"
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"question": "When he first met the author,David _ .",
"q... | (2013*,C)One day,when I was working as a psychologist in England,an adolescent boy showed up in my office.It was David.He kept walking up and down restlessly,his face pale,and his hands shaking slightly.His head teacher had referred him to me."This boy has lost his family,"he wrote."He is understandably very sad and re... | high5813.txt |
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"answer_text": "Monthly Returns"
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"Big City Savers",
"Monthly Returns",
"Weekend Returns",
"Family Returns"
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"question": "Which is the best ticket to buy if you live in London and want to go to a small town 80m... | Want to save money when travelling by train? Here are some ways.
Day Returns
This ticket can save you up to 45% on the standard fare . You have to travel after the rush hour period Mon.-Fri., but can travel at any time on Sat. or Sun.
Big city Saves
These are special low-priced tickets on certain trains. Yon have to b... | high11925.txt |
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"answer_text": "2012 had a higher box office in China than in the US"
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"Avatar is a newly-released 3D movie",
"Transformer held the record of box office in China",
"Avatar is directed by him alone",
"2012 had a higher bo... | China has become an increasingly appealing market for Hollywood films, so it was inevitable that Academy Award-winning director James Cameron would touch down in Beijing Wednesday to promote his latest big-budget movie, Avatar.
During his 20-hour stay in the city, he shared with local media and some lucky fans details ... | high20520.txt |
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"answer_text": "Stay@4ever"
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"Seeme@2",
"Dream4future",
"Visit$me",
"Stay@4ever"
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"question": "Which of the following passwords fits the company's requirements?",
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"answer"... | "YOUR password has expired ," a message said on my screen, with instructions for changing it. Coming up with a new code doesn't seem like a big deal, unless you work at my company, where we have to change it monthly, using at least one uppercase character, one lowercase character, one symbol, and one number. Oh, t... | high10385.txt |
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"answer_text": "he wanted to experience his daughter's milestones"
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"his daughter has been missing him badly",
"he was getting bored with the endless flights",
"he hoped to get his daughter to listen to her",
"he wanted ... | A U.S. dad quit his job, giving up a massive salary, after his 10-year-old daughter gave him a 22-point list outlining all the events he missed so far during the year. As the CEO of the $2 trillion global investment fund PIMCO, Mohamed El-Erian shocked the finance industry when he quit in January.
El-Erian said it was ... | high18901.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "In 2010."
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"options": [
"In 2008.",
"In 2009.",
"In 2010.",
"In 2011."
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"question": "When did the accident happen?",
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"answer_index": 3,... | A teenager realized her dream of becoming a professional model three years after a serious car accident.
Marita Davies was on her way home from a party when the crash happened. The car that Marita took as a passenger was going the wrong way and crashed into another car driven by a drunken driver named David Hudson, whi... | high8489.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "on their way to Shreveport to sell a car"
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"when they were just warned not to pick up a stranger",
"on their way to Shreveport to sell a car",
"on their way to the west for a trip",
"when their car was ru... | On Sunday while I was having my own Father's Day celebration, I thought about my dad a lot. By the time I called to tell him that I loved him, he had already gone to bed. So I wrote the following to show what my dad means to me.
About 28 years ago, my dad was a used car salesman. Every Thursday night, he would head off... | high887.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "On June 15, 2015."
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"On June 15, 2015.",
"On October 15, 2015.",
"On October 15, 2030.",
"On June 15, 2032."
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"question": "When will the six volunteers end their mission about mimicking life on ... | Six volunteers are about to find out what it would be like to live on Mars without ever leaving the Earth. Three men and three women will spend eight months living in a special place on the side of a volcano in Hawaii. They are part of an experiment that is designed to mimic life on Mars. Their mission began on October... | high13854.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a family secret"
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"a family honor",
"a family wealth",
"a family story",
"a family secret"
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"question": "According to Mary's mother, \"a skeleton in a closet\" means _ .",
"question_type"... | One day, Mary asked her mother, "Mum, what do people mean by saying they have a skeleton in the closet ?" Her mother paused thoughtfully and said, "Well, it's something that you would rather not have anyone else know about. For example, if in the past, someone in Dad's family had been arrested for stealing a horse, it ... | high23997.txt |
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"answer_text": "Deaf Basketball"
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"Deaf Basketball",
"Wheelchair Basketball",
"Beach Basketball"
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"question": "Which of the following types of basketball has the longest history?",
"q... | In addition to the official basketball world, various other types of basketball are practiced around the world.
Wheelchair Basketball
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "by experiment on mice."
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"by questionnaire on parents.",
"by experiment on mice.",
"by raising babies themselves.",
"by experiment on humans."
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"question": "The researchers proved their idea _... | Children who are brought up by two parents grow up to be cleverer than those raised by just one person, new research suggests. Being with both parents in the earliest years of life leads to a child developing more brain cells, the scientists believe. Being brought up by both parents causes boys to have better memory an... | high7962.txt |
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"answer_text": "1878"
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"question": "The University of Oxford did not take in female students until _ .",
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... | As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford is a unique and historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. From 1878, academi... | high9797.txt |
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"answer_text": "the cost of food has gone up"
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"there is less healthful food on the menus",
"the cost of food has gone up",
"kids often forget to bring lunch money",
"some school dining-halls are serving smaller portions... | More than 30 million kids buy school lunch each day. This year, many schools raised lunch prices to fight raising costs. Students pay about $2 a meal now. That is 27 cents more than last year. But they still get a good deal. The average cost for schools to produce one meal has gone up 30 cents, and is now $3.
So, how d... | high5185.txt |
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"answer_text": "Father dies sheltering daughter from snowstorm"
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"Snowstorm takes away 9-year-old girl's father",
"Father dies sheltering daughter from snowstorm",
"8-year-old girl made orphan in snowstorm",
"Japanese da... | JANUARY 15, 2014 KYOTO -- A father froze to death while sheltering his eight years old daughter from severe weekend snowstorms that swept northern Japan. Fujita Makoto, one of at least nine people killed as snowstorms swept across Hokkaido , died as he tried to protect his only child Yumi against winds of up to 113 ki... | high18929.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Classroom stress and parental pressure"
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"Competitiveness in education system",
"Classroom stress and parental pressure",
"Physical punishment from their parents",
"Endless homework from school teachers\n... | A third of primary schoolchildren in China are suffering from psychological ill-health as a result of classroom stress and parental pressure, according to a study published on Tuesday.
The problem is so bad that urgent measures are needed, warns the study, led by British and Chinese researchers.
The investigation surve... | high21170.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because we'll never forget some of our friends."
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"Because everyone has a changing circle of friends.",
"Because we sometimes forget to renew phone books.",
"Because we'll never forget some of our friends.",
... | TS said that everyone has a changing circle of friends. However, no matter how frequently we renew our phone books, some names always remain. These names remind us of the good times we spent together with our friends. Though we may not see them every day, they will always stay in our hearts.
Tom was often called "Big ... | high2832.txt |
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"answer_text": "the hot weather is a big problem for Olympic athletes"
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"why it is very hot in Athens",
"the hot weather is a big problem for Olympic athletes",
"how important science is to every athlete",
"the Olympics ... | It will be hot--hot enough that most locals will have cleared town for cooler places. But because athletes competing at the 2004 Olympics have no choice but to stay in the hot weather, many plan to turn to science to stay cool.
Some will put their hands in ice water just before competing and nearly all will be wearing ... | high7792.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because Ted was not free at that moment."
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"Because Ted was tired of listening to Spotty barking.",
"Because Ted only cared about Brownie's safety.",
"Because Ted was not free at that moment.",
"Because T... | Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs who met every day to play together. These two loved each other and played together so often that they had worn a path through the grass of the field between their respective houses.
One evening, Brownie's family noticed that Brownie hadn't returned home. They went looking for him w... | high9967.txt |
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"answer_text": "are the most valuable part of one's personal education"
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"will give one encouragement and direction",
"are helpful in finding the right information",
"are the most valuable part of one's personal education",
... | The most exciting kind of education is also the most personal. Nothing can exceed the joy of discovering for yourself something that is important to you! It may be an idea or a bit of information you come across accidentally--or a sudden insight, fitting together pieces of information or working through a problem. Su... | high23767.txt |
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"answer_text": "Actors Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward are asked to act Joe, Matilda and Rosie's parents."
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"Children envy each other and can't get along well enough.",
"Joe, Matilda and Rosie's parents are mentioned in the passage.",
... | Five-year-old Joe Brown isn't backward at coming forward about what he thinks of his big sisters, Rosie and Matilda.
"They're horrible and ugly," he said, with a grin . "Horrible and ugly."
Then again, his sisters aren't always over-fond of their young brother, either.
"When Joe was born, Matilda said she was going to... | high23001.txt |
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"answer_text": "in an exam room"
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"in an exam room",
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"in the language lab"
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"question": "The story took place exactly _ .",
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"answer_text": "Holland is not the birthplace of tulips."
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"Carolus Clusius' book made people import tulips into Holland.",
"Holland is called \"the flower shop of the world\" because of the tulip.",
"The tulip festival in the... | Tulips are the national flower of Iran and Turkey. The European name for the flower is a misuse of the Persian word for turban , a mistake probably arising in the common Turkish custom of wearing flowers in the folds of the turban. Alternatively, the misuse may have arisen because this eastern flower, when not yet in ... | high14875.txt |
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"answer_text": "How to be a Friend."
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"A friend in Need is a Friend Indeed",
"How to be a Friend.",
"Honesty is the Most Important Quality.",
"three Important Points in Life."
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"question": "What's the best titl... | Too many people want others to be friends,but they don't give friendship back.That is why some friendships don't last long.To have a friend,you must learn to be one.You must learn to treat your friend the way you want your friend to treat you.Learning to be a good friend means learning three rules:be honest,be generous... | high21616.txt |
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"answer_text": "Opinions about competition are different among people."
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"Competition helps to set up self-respect.",
"Opinions about competition are different among people.",
"Competition is harmful to personal quality develo... | In modem society there is a great deal of argument about competition.Some value it highly,believing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity.Others say that competition is bad, that it sets one person against another and that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.
I have taught many childr... | high3292.txt |
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"answer_text": "It's part of Occupy Wall Street movement."
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"It's a name of the computer game.",
"It's part of Occupy Wall Street movement.",
"It's a book about millionaires in America.",
"It's the name of a special day ... | By the growing national Occupy Wall Street movement, hundreds of protesters moved through midtown Manhattan on Tuesday. They called this "Millionaires March".
They marched two by two up the sidewalk, planning to pass the homes of some of New York City's wealthiest people. They said they didn't have a permit and didn't... | high20508.txt |
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"answer_text": "Eddie's mother missed her husband so much that she was at a loss"
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"Eddie's mother liked to listen to the radio",
"Eddie often helped his mother wash the dishes",
"Eddie and his wife lived in his mother's apart... | Eddie's father used to say he'd spent so many years by the ocean, breathing seawater. Now, away from that ocean, in the hospital bed, his body began to look like a beached fish. His condition went from fair to stable and from stable to serious. Friends went from saying, "He'll be home in a day" to "He'll be home in a w... | high18097.txt |
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"answer_text": "whale sharks"
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"penguins",
"whale sharks",
"dolphins"
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"question": "According to this passage, Ralph and Norton are _ .",
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"a... | Ralph and Norton can grow to be 40 feet long and live in a tank as large as a football field.What are they? They're the only two whale sharks at a North American aquarium .
You can see Ralph and Norton at the world's largest aquarium, the new Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta.
The aquarium's giant tanks hold eight million ga... | high3286.txt |
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"answer_text": "strange"
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"question": "According to British newspapers, questions for Oxbridge applicants are very _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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{... | Every year, British newspapers report on the stranger questions asked in Oxbridge (Oxford & Cambridge) interviews. Often, though, these questions are not as strange as they first seem. And they are all designed to give applicants a chance to think.
Arriving for her first Oxford interview, my sister Jen saw that there... | high2198.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the first American to orbit the earth"
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"talking to ships at sea around the world",
"breaks in the worldwide network",
"the first American to orbit the earth",
"a satellite which fell into the ocean"
... | One night in February 1962, John H. Glenn. Jr., flew over Australia. The man in the Mercury capsule was alone, but friendly voices reached him by radio. On the dark land 100 miles below, he saw a sprinkling of light. They marked the city of Perth, where people had turned on their lights as a greeting to him.
In Friend... | high11919.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "go to your friend and let him know your dissatisfaction"
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"think about his reaction and avoid letting him know it",
"go to your friend and let him know your dissatisfaction",
"try to find someone else to pass o... | Giving bad news is a difficult ball game. To help you get through an already difficult situation, try these tips when you have to tell someone bad news.
Think about your audience. People respond differently to bad news. Think about who you're talking to and how best to pass on unpleasant information to that person.
Con... | high18083.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "health and safety are more important than personal freedom"
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"one should not take risks of dealing with old people",
"old people should have the idea of cleaning their rooms",
"personal freedom is more importan... | Very old people do raise moral problems for almost everyone who comes into touch with them.
Their values - this can't be repeated too often - are not necessarily our values. Physical comfort, cleanness and order are not necessarily the most important for them. The social services from time to time find themselves faced... | high23015.txt |
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"answer_text": "is more than four hours a day"
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"options": [
"is more than four hours a day",
"is less than four hours a day",
"doubled in the last twenty years",
"is more than on any other activities"
],
"question": "Accordi... | PALO ALTO, California----"Switching off the television may help prevent children from getting fatter---- even if they do not change their diet or increase the amount they exercise," US researchers said last week.
A study of 192 third and fourth graders, generally aged eight and nine, found that children who cut the num... | high105.txt |
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"answer_text": "long-term smoking"
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"his bad eating habit",
"overmuch work",
"long-term smoking",
"the old age"
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"question": "Anchor Peter Jennings died of lung cancer which was possibly caused by _ .",... | ABC News anchor Peter Jennings died on Aug.7, 2005 at home in New York after a brief battle with lung cancer. ABC News anchors said they hope if anything good can be taken from Jennings' death, it is a great awareness of the dangers of smoking.
"I want to give a message," Barbara Walters said. "If you have kids who a... | high13868.txt |
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"answer_text": "He showed little interest in it."
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"He thought it interesting.",
"He wanted to try it at once.",
"He showed little interest in it.",
"He found it unsuitable for him."
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"question": "What was the ... | When I first heard about geocaching ,I was skeptical. But the more I thought about it, the more it seemed like an interesting idea.I at least wanted to try it once.
Having familiarized myself with how the game works,I set out in search of my first cache. My trip took me through a series of lively hutong ,past a number ... | high9973.txt |
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"answer_text": "How Bruce Wayne develops into a superhero."
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"options": [
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"How to overcome childhood fears.",
"What makes a superhero.",
"Why superheroes enjoy great popularity in Britain... | Superman, Spider-Man, Batman and Iron Man ... .There is no shortage of superheroes. You find them in comic books, on the TV and the big screen.
In a survey of fans by the sci-fi and fantasy website, SFX.co.uk, Batman, 70 years old this year, was voted Britain's favorite superhero.
Unlike many crime-fighting superheroes... | high663.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because William had no experience of doing it in the wild."
},
"options": [
"Because William didn't know how to use the kits.",
"Because the author didn't trust William.",
"Because the author hurt himself severely.",
"B... | I spend a lot of time backpacking and hiking the outdoors and there are two pieces of equipment that are with me on each trip: an Adventure Medical Kits Weekender and an Adventure Medical Kits Suture Syringe Kit. Both proved very helpful on my most recent adventures to the Wrangell in Alaska.
On that day, we were "bles... | high5191.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Wild Water Wilderness"
},
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"Fiesta Village",
"the Boardwalk",
"Wild Water Wilderness",
"Camp Snoopy"
],
"question": "Besides Indian Trails, you can also experience Native American culture in _ .",... | Knott's Berry Farm is the nation's oldest, and first, theme park and draws around five million visitors each year. Knott's Berry Farm hardly had a very good start. Arriving in Southern California in the 1920s, the Knott Family farmed about 20 acres of land and finally started a restaurant called Mrs. Knott' s Chicken D... | high2826.txt |
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"answer_text": "Campus"
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"question": "In which column of a newspaper would you most probably read this passage?",
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"answer": ... | It's a nightmare for Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST): within a week, two students committed suicide by jumping off dorm buildings.
Officials from the university are reluctant to give interviews.
"We had a hard time calming down students who were shocked at the suicides," said Zhang Jingyuan, head ... | high21164.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Italy"
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"India",
"Britain",
"China",
"Italy"
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"question": "Yellow is concerned with anger in _ .",
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"answer": {
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... | Many people take it for granted that black is a color of bad things while white should always mean something good. This may be because, in their opinion, black is related to darkness and white to purity. However, that is not always the case. Did you know that the same one color may mean something differently in differe... | high11528.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "older than 20"
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"in their 30s",
"around 20",
"older than 20",
"in their 40s"
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"question": "We can infer from the text that most millionaires are_.",
"question_type": "summarization_questions... | Everyone would like to be a millionaire but can you imagine having over $30 million and only being 20 years old? Britney Spears from Kentwood, a small town in Louisiana, is only 20 years old; she is an international pop superstar with not only $30 million but also a $2 million house in LA. At her young age, she can loo... | high16247.txt |
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"answer_text": ".Australia is confident that the Reef is not\"in danger\",."
},
"options": [
".Much remains to be done for Australia to save the Reef.",
".Australian government is on good terms with UNESCO.",
".Australia is confident that th... | Australia said on Friday that it had done enough to prevent the UN from listing the Great Barrier Reef ,the world's biggest coral reef ecosystem ,as being'in danger'*
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"The lunches contain too much fat.",
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That's not a reference to the mystery meat served up in the cafeteria line either. The retired officers are saying that school lunches have helped make the nation's youn... | high4700.txt |
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"Anne Hidalgo didn't respond to Boris Johnson's remark... | Which city would you prefer to visit, London or Paris?London had welcomed 16.8 million foreign visitors in 2014, compared with 15.2 million visitors to Paris, according to a new report released by UK research firm Euromonitor International in January.
Boris Johnson, London's mayor, is very proud."With so many fascinati... | high10636.txt |
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Hank went to school like other boys.His grades were good and he... | high1678.txt |
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But the customer was in Tennessee, far a... | high14450.txt |
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"It left the sky blue and beautiful."
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Chicago is a great city for eating, and we have enjoyed tasting the different foo... | high14336.txt |
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"To advise readers against reading computer-written news.",
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"appeal to married people to keep thei... | Soaring divorce rates around the globe are _ the environment ,American researchers suggested in a study released Monday .
Michigan State University researcher Jianguo "Jack "Liu and his assistant Eunice Yu said the increasing number of divorces leads to more households with fewer people and greater consumption of wat... | high20093.txt |
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"Eco City Farms are gaining popularity.",
"Eco City Farms are influencing community life.",
"Eco City Farms helps the worki... | Eco City Farms are becoming more popular in cities and towns around the Unites States.
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"he holds politica... | Former President Jimmy Carter believes U.S central intelligence agency is spying on him -- so much so, he gives up email to avoid government spies.
"You know, I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored," Carter told NBC's Andrea Mitchell in an interview broadcast Sunday. "And when I want to communica... | high18518.txt |
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"answer": {
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Let us imagine how Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's most famous work, might be updated, 200 years on.
Austen's popularity is rooted in her intelligence. But today she would certainly have had a very different life, as would her characters. Here's my own suggestion. . .
It is a... | high4072.txt |
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Good grades and high tests scores still matter--a lot--to many colleges as they award financial aid.
But with low-income students projected to make up an ever-larger share of the college-bound population in coming years, some schools are re-examining whether that... | high19606.txt |
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Meanwhile, Fitzgerald's wealth greatly increa... | high22690.txt |
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The story starts on a farm in Devon, southwest England. The Narracott family--... | high6665.txt |
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"answer": {
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Traditionally, the true value of Thanksgiving lies at home not the shopping centers. However, Black Friday has nowadays allowed society to ignore _ as individuals long for something that t... | high6103.txt |
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If I have learned anything in my 16 years, it is that communication is very important. With any relationship, you need to let other people know how you are feeling. If you are not able to commun... | high14444.txt |
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1.All the toys and games here are just for you to play with. You can't sell them,give them to anyone,or pretend you made them. You can't do anyth... | high9230.txt |
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The official of the university has reported to us that you are an English major who meets the high standards for membership in Sigma Tau Delta. As is known, Sigma Tau Delta was founded in 1924 at Dakota Wesleyan University. It is an international collegiate honor societyfor students of English. It pr... | high20939.txt |
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"All cameras have a sensor.",
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Traditional values have long kept the Chinese, especially women, from displaying beauty. But Chinese people ha... | high4714.txt |
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Why are so many students not doing well? Why is there such a huge achievement gap between urban and suburban students? Just this week, in my school the seventh grade team leader called a meeting to d... | high10622.txt |
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Rhinos have lived on earth for more than 40 million y... | high13303.txt |
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"To make the flames of love burning forever.",
"To keep good relations with friends."
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Love gives meaning to life as without love life i... | high8106.txt |
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],
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Gateway Town Center
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Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls, 41, has... | high11514.txt |
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"question": "_ controllers since February have been caught sleeping on duty at night or early morning.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {... | WASHINGTON---At least four more U.S. air-traffic controllers are caught nodding off on the job at three separate airports across the nation, the government said Wednesday.
The controller working alone in the tower fell asleep and was out of communication for 16 minutes while a medical flight carrying a patient was tryi... | high20911.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "plants are important for life"
},
"options": [
"plants are important for life",
"plants cannot grow without air",
"there are many plants around us",
"we cannot live without water"
],
"question": "The main idea o... | Plants are very important living things. Life could not go 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 plants and other animals. So animals and man need plants in order to live... | high19148.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "your way of managing money is a reflection of your value or belief"
},
"options": [
"we spend money because we have earned it",
"saving money is a good way to manage money",
"your way of managing money is a reflection of your... | EVERYBODY in this world is different from one another. But do you know that understanding differences can help you better manage your money?
As we grow up, we gradually develop a set of our own values or beliefs. These are influenced by society, our family, the education we receive and so on. Once this value system is ... | high5422.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "help both Chinese and foreigners to find one they want to marry"
},
"options": [
"help foreigners to travel in China",
"help both Chinese and foreigners to find one they want to marry",
"help Chinese and foreigners make frien... | To all of you at Chinese love links, I am 44 years old and never married. I have always wanted to find that perfect someone that I dream about. For about the last five years I have almost given up the hope of ever finding the one I truly wish to spend the rest of my life with.
I have always tried to be a nice guy. I ha... | high18256.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "To wear a headphone."
},
"options": [
"To wear an earplug.",
"To wear a headphone.",
"To wear a microphone.",
"To wear electronics."
],
"question": "What is the best way to keep out the unwanted noise?",
"qu... | A New Headphone
The answer to a very great noise may not be blocking it out with earplugs but taking that noise and bearing it as its own game.
Earplugs have been the simple but effective way to stop noise affecting your mind, but their shortcoming is that they also block out sounds you may want or need to hear, su... | high17165.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The girl picked one pebbles and made it disappear."
},
"options": [
"The girl refused to take a pebble and fled at once.",
"The girl exposed the cheat and found another way.",
"The girl picked one pebbles and made it disappea... | Many years ago in a small German town, a Jewish businessman had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to the moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the businessman's beautiful daughter. So he proposed a bargain.
The moneylender told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble in... | high5344.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "he enjoyed seeing new places"
},
"options": [
"he preferred to stay alone",
"he enjoyed seeing new places",
"he couldn't do well at school",
"he didn't get along well with his parents"
],
"question": "Johnny fre... | Johnny the Explorer
Johnny was three when he ran away from home for the first time.Somebody left the garden gate open.Johnny wandered out,crossed some fields and,two hours later,arrived in the next village.He was just able to give his name and address.
By the time be was seven,Johnny used to disappear from home... | high17603.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Teenagers tend to overestimate their future earnings."
},
"options": [
"Students understand personal finances differently.",
"University tuition fees in England have been rising.",
"Teenagers tend to overestimate their future... | A study involving 8,500 teenagers from all social backgrounds found that most of them are ignorant when it comes to money. The findings, the first in a series of reports from NatWesl that has started a five-year research project into teenagers and money, are particularly worrying as this generation of young people is l... | high11272.txt |
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