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"answer_text": "It was very conservative and uninteresting."
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"It was very conservative and uninteresting.",
"It was influenced by French cooking.",
"It was very unhealthy.",
"It was plentiful"
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"question": "Wh... | In today's prefix = st1 /Ireland, it seems hard to imagine the grim days of the 19thcentury when so many of the population starved, or that, in those days, many poor people had no clue how to prepare any food other than boil a potato. Nowadays, it is quite possible to eat both well and heartily all over the island.
Tou... | high19997.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "is more of an Earth's cousin than an Earth's twin"
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"is more of an Earth's cousin than an Earth's twin",
"has a lot in common with Earth, including their parent stars",
"is a lot bigger than Earth",
"is s... | A newly discovered planet looks just right for life as we know it, according to an international group of astronomers. Orbiting a star about 500 light-years away, the planet called Kepler-186f is about the same size as Earth. It orbits its star at the right distance for liquid water on the surface. That is a necessary ... | high18451.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "change her life by marrying rich"
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"options": [
"master the skills of writing",
"marry the one she loved",
"change her life by marrying rich",
"obey her parents"
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"question": "In the 19th century, a poor gir... | There are some topics that readers never grow bored with, and the search for a suitable partner is one of them. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, first published in 1813, tells the story of five young women, all of whom are looking for a husband. In order to fully understand the novel, the readers must know that at ... | high5225.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they weren't using seat belts"
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"they weren't using seat belts",
"they were too careful when they walked on the road",
"they were not old enough to sit in the car",
"they wore seat belts"
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"ques... | Everyone gets sick of hearing. "Put on your seat belt!"But it's good advice. People who wear seat belts are 45 percent less likely to be killed while riding in the front seat of a car.
The US government wants more seat belt laws. It says children aged 4 to 15 are often killed in car accidents. In 2005, there were 1,627... | high3654.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He was to meet his girlfriend."
},
"options": [
"He had to pick up some groceries.",
"He had to go back to school soon.",
"He was delayed by an elderly lady.",
"He was to meet his girlfriend."
],
"question": "Wh... | I was in a rush as always, but this time it was for an important date I just couldn't be late for! I found myself at a checkout counter behind an elderly woman seemingly in no hurry as she paid for her groceries. A PhD student with not a lot of money, I had hurried into the store to pick up some flowers. I was in a hug... | high8701.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "31"
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"14",
"26",
"31",
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"question": "How old was Doris Lessing when she published her first novel?",
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"answer_index": ... | In Stockholm, the Swedish Academy has chosen the British author Doris Lessing for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The selection of Doris Lessing for a Nobel was popular among the hundreds of journalists gathered for the announcement in Stockholm.
Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl said with s... | high15175.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "learn our own history"
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"write our own stories",
"learn our own history",
"understand the importance of history",
"have a proper attitude towards history"
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"question": "The passage mainly encour... | Understanding one's own history is important for young people's learning and development. Students are often asked to write a story about their own family's history or about a special person in their family. But too rarely do students focus on the history of their own community or their own people, in a way that helps ... | high13504.txt |
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"answer_text": "A Modern Tale of Two Cities"
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"Londoners and Parisians",
"A Modern Tale of Two Cities",
"The Similarity of Two Cities",
"Fancy London and FashionableParis"
],
"question": "The best title for this ... | LONDON--A morning's train ride away, across the Channel, English kids talk about Liverpool's soccer team in aprefix = st1 /Parispub.
Some Parisians have even started to go to work in London.
In the 19thcentury, Charles Dickens compared the two great rival cities, London and Paris, in "A Tale of Two Cities." These days... | high22901.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "direct contact with a variety of plants has decreased"
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"people no longer value plants as a useful resource",
"direct contact with a variety of plants has decreased",
"botany is not recognized as a special bran... | Botany , the study of plants, occupies a particular position in the history of human knowledge.For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the vaguest ) of insights.It is impossible to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from... | high1725.txt |
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"answer_text": "The origin and popularity of the TV firelog."
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"options": [
"The origin and popularity of the TV firelog.",
"Famous holiday traditions.",
"What makes the TV firelog so popular.",
"The TV firelog today."
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"qu... | There are many traditions around the holidays. "Holiday traditions" are things that people do every year during a holiday such as Christmas or Thanksgiving. At Christmas, for example, many people put up a Christmas tree or Christmas lights. These are Christmas traditions that have been going on for many years. But ther... | high9379.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She didn't like waking up her baby."
},
"options": [
"He did not like shopping with a child in hand.",
"She didn't like waking up her baby.",
"Stephen was big enough to take care of his sister.",
"It was icy cold outsid... | "Keep an eye on Esther. I'll be back in a second," Joy Warren said to her three-year-old son Stephen, who was sitting in the back of the Buick. She didn't like leaving the children alone in the car, but the baby was sleeping soundly. And it would only be a moment.
She had hardly walked 40 yards when she saw the car mov... | high7354.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Do you have relatives living abroad?"
},
"options": [
"Does your life have a purpose or meaning?",
"Do you have relatives living abroad?",
"Are you satisfied with your everyday life?",
"Is religion involved in your dail... | While residents of wealthy nations tend to have greater life satisfaction, new research shows that those living in poorer nations report having greater meaning in life.
These findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological science, suggest that meaning in life may be higher ... | high8067.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "His mother gave him some money when he bought the first bike."
},
"options": [
"His mother gave him some money when he bought the first bike.",
"The first bike was a gift from his mother.",
"He bought the first bike for racin... | My bike was a three-speed English "racer", purchased during my second year in college in November 1964 for $44. Most of the money was earned by myself in my spare time, but I had to get my mother to help me out a little. At that time, bikes were rare on a college campus. My reason for getting a bicycle was a little str... | high15613.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Anxiety and Tests"
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"Tests at college",
"Anxiety and Tests",
"How to Get Rid of Anxiety",
"Counseling Courses Help Students"
],
"question": "The title of the passage should be _",
"question_t... | Ann Whimey, a sophomore at Colorado State University, first had a problem taking tests when she began college. "I was always well prepared for my tests. Sometimes I studied for weeks before a test. Yet I would go to take the test, only to find I could not answer the questions correctly. I would blank out because of ne... | high3132.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "whether TV is a good or bad influence on young people in the modern world"
},
"options": [
"that TV is a central part of many people's lives",
"that Murray would like to see changes to television habits",
"whether TV is a goo... | Television is a central part of many people's lives. There are very few places in the world where one cannot find a television set. Some sporting events, such as the Olympic Games or the football World Cup, can attract audiences of many millions. But is television a good or bad influence on young people in the modern w... | high20870.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "explain his or her purpose in writing the book"
},
"options": [
"teach women to repair their sewing machines.",
"explain his or her purpose in writing the book",
"introduce the reasons for doing one's own sewing",
"tell... | As we all know sewing-machine repair is one of the fastest growing businesses in the world today. Newspapers, women's magazines, high schools and colleges are all encouraging millions of American women to do their own sewing, not only to make their own shirts and sweaters, but also to make nice clothes for their husba... | high11475.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "robots can't tell us all we want to know"
},
"options": [
"robots could not send back pictures",
"robots can't tell us all we want to know",
"robots are controlled by us humans",
"robots are no longer of any use to us"
... | Over the next 20 years, we are going to send more and better robots to Mars. Those robots will send back better pictures, maps, samples, and weather reports. There is a limit to what robots can tell us, though, so eventually we will have to send people to study the planet.
Before people can visit Mars, we need to inven... | high19029.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "they were preparing for a dinner"
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"they were chatting",
"they were having a party",
"they were preparing for a dinner",
"they were watching a fire"
],
"question": "The servants were up very late ... | Pepys and his wife had asked some friends to dinner on Sunday, September 2nd, 1666. The servants were up very late on the Saturday evening, getting everything ready for the next day, and while they were busy they saw the glow of a fire start in the sky. By 3 o'clock on the Sunday morning, the glow had become so bright ... | high17004.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "carrying snow from elsewhere"
},
"options": [
"carrying snow from elsewhere",
"getting residents to sell tickets",
"putting on advertisements on the Internet",
"building many clubs"
],
"question": "Seattle prepa... | Seattle, Washington ,is nicknamed "Rain city", but it's snow that is making it famous. On January 12,2013, Seattle residents set the Guinness World Record for the biggest snowball fight More than5,800 people showed up to throw snowballs at one another at the Seattle Centre.
It didn't snow in Seattle on that day... | high18337.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "expensive petrol"
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"options": [
"traffic jams",
"harder tests",
"expensive petrol",
"worst economy"
],
"question": "In recent years cars are used less than before mainly because of _ .",
"question_type"... | There is no question that fewer teenagers are on the roads in the US.
In 1978, 50% of 16-year-olds had got their first driving licence. In 2008, according to the US Transportation Department, it was just 30%. The number of those aged 19 and under with driving licences has also been _ since 1978, when 11, 989, 000 had l... | high5543.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "parents who drive their children to school"
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"teachers whose students have asked their parents to drive them to school",
"children who have asked their parents to drive them to school",
"parents who drive their... | Don't drive your kids to school. Let them ride a bike to school.
In England 8.3 million children travel to school every day. It is reported that only a small number of pupils cycle to school (under 2%), although one in three children would actually like to.
Experts say that to stay healthy, children need at least one h... | high4885.txt |
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"answer_text": "We do not think silence to be beneficial"
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"options": [
"We are used to quietness",
"We have to put up with noise",
"We do not think silence to be beneficial",
"We do not believe lasting peace to be available"
],
... | George Prochnik would like the world _ . He makes his case in a new book. Listening for meaning in a World of Noise. Here he explain himself (using his voice);
"We've become so accustomed to noise, there's almost a deep prejudice against the idea that silence might be beneficial, if you tell someone to be quiet ,... | high20864.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Dr. Vincent was caring and kind"
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"options": [
"Dr. Vincent was handsome",
"Dr. Vincent was caring and kind",
"Dr. Vincent carried out the operation.",
"Dr. Vincent offered the money the operation needed."
],
... | I had been to several doctors as a child, but I have a special place in my heart for Dr. Vincent. He was a Pediatric Cardiologist at UCLA back in 1971 who saved my life. I was eight years old at the time with a severe heart problem and I needed heart surgery. My Mom did not have the money, and without the surgery there... | high11461.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "American Watersports"
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"Jet Ski Tours of Miami",
"Coconut's Watersports",
"15\nthStreet Boat Company",
"American Watersports"
],
"question": "You should especially protect yourself from sun burnt ... | American Watersports Tuesday-Saturday
Located on the beach of the Sea Gardens Beach Resort, there are fun things to rent for the whole family. They offer rentals for kayaks, jet skis, and even parasail! Enjoy the water up-close or from a bird's eye view! No matter what activity you're enjoying, be sure to protect yo... | high4649.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "found it no use crying over the wrong past."
},
"options": [
"returned from a long journey and regretted what he had done.",
"was ignored by his parents when he was only a child.",
"didn't enter the deep, dark cave when he wa... | It was New Year's Night. An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his sad eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake.
He had already passed sixty and brought from his journey nothing but errors and regrets. Now his health was poor, his mi... | high17010.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "earth"
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"metal",
"plastic",
"wood",
"earth"
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"question": "It is possible that ceramics are materials of _ .",
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"answer": {
"answer_in... | Pottery is the name given to all kinds of useful or artistic objects made from clay. Pottery can be plates or water pots or baskets. Pottery can be large or small, fancy or plain. Pottery is part of the large family of ceramics .Ceramics are synthetic materials. For example, bricks and tiles are both ceramics.
How is... | high5557.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "it is necessary for kids to eat different foods for all nutrients"
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"options": [
"it is necessary for kids to eat different foods for all nutrients",
"it is necessary for one to exercise if he needs more vitamins",
"is it u... | Vitamins are stored in foods we eat. The kids are udner great need of vitamins for growth. As they use their energy in playing, they need lots of vitamins.
Children usually choose certain foods above the others and often do not eat those with important nutrients . Sothough the food they are eating is nutritious, it may... | high18323.txt |
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"answer_text": "Siberia, an interesting and beautiful place."
},
"options": [
"Siberia, an interesting and beautiful place.",
"The climate in Siberia.",
"The four seasons in Siberia.",
"Collecting mushrooms in Siberia."
],
"que... | Siberia is a huge territory in Russia. It is more than half of Russia and is 4,000 miles wide. Most of this area is a forest with animals and birds. In autumn, the forests in Siberia are full of mushrooms and berries . Many people like picking mushrooms, but that is not as simple as you might think. Old people who liv... | high2238.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Marc's disagreement with his parents about their move"
},
"options": [
"Marc and Rachel's different attitudes",
"a quarrel between Tommy Lyons and Marc",
"Marc's disagreement with his parents about their move",
"Mr. And... | One evening after dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Tisich called a family meeting. "We've had to make a difficult decision," Mr. Tisich announced. "You see, your mother has been offered a post as co-director of a television station in Chicago. Unfortunately, the station is not here. After thinking long and hard about it, we've con... | high4891.txt |
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"answer_text": "encourages children together with their parents to solve math story problems"
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"requires parents and children to answer reading comprehension questions",
"assesses children's math achievement and parents' nervousness... | Adding math talk to story time at home is a winning factor for children's math achievement, according to a new research from the University of Chicago. The study from psychologists Sian Beilock and Susan Levine shows a marked increase in math achievement among children whose families used Bedtime Math, an iPad app that... | high13276.txt |
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"answer_text": "Motherhood was not recognized and respected as a job by society."
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"options": [
"The recorder was impatient and rude.",
"The woman felt ashamed to admit what her job was.",
"The author was upset about the situation that mot... | A woman named Emily renewing her driver's license at the County Clerk's office was asked to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself.
"What I mean is," explained the recorder, "do you have a job, or are you just a ..."
"Of course I have a job," said Emily. "I'm a mother."
"We don't list 'm... | high1731.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "plays"
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"novels",
"poetry",
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"cookbooks"
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"question": "According to the passage, Aphra Behn was famous for _ .",
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... | British Women Writers in different periods of time
The English Renaissance
The English Renaissance began in the later part of the fifteenth century and lasted until the 1660s. Among the most famous women writers of this period is Aphra Behn, who is seen as the first professional woman writer in English. She wrote a num... | high14519.txt |
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"answer_text": "How well China is prepared for another likely outbreak of SARS"
},
"options": [
"Zhong Nanshan, a well-known anti-SARS scientist",
"What happened during the first outbreak of SARS",
"How well China is prepared for another lik... | BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- A recent sudden temperature drop in most areas of China has set off fears of a possible return of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the country has mobilized to prepare for another outbreak.
North China's Tianjin Port resumed a temperature reporting system on Sunday. Any passe... | high7340.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "brought supplies to the ISS"
},
"options": [
"carried researches to space",
"assembled the Robonaut 2 at the ISS",
"brought supplies to the ISS",
"went on a spacewalk"
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"question": "As part of the final missio... | The space shuttle Discovery has had a long and busy career. For 27 years, it has worked for NASA, carrying astronauts to space and back on 39 missions. On March 9, 2011, after returning from its final voyage, the world's most traveled spaceship was retired.
A crowd of shuttle workers, reporters and schoolchildren waite... | high15607.txt |
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"answer_text": "Benazir Bhutto was killed because she collected information for American government ."
},
"options": [
"Benazir Bhutto was murdered because she was working for Bin Laden .",
"Benazir Bhutto has been dead for a week since her murder... | After killing Osama Bin Laden and dropping his body into the ocean to avoid causing more hatred fro, the Muslims , the American government recently released a video of Osama Bin Laden living in his safe house watching TV , which has been viewed millions of times . The following are comments made by viewers .
A. Yeah , ... | high12168.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "his father is a rich farmer"
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"he wants to be a lawyer",
"his father is a rich farmer",
"he's smart and strong",
"he keeps his wallet well"
],
"question": "Robert can study in the university becau... | Robert was born in a small town in England. His father has a farm and can supply him enough money to finish university where he's studying law. The young man studies hard and hopes to be a famous lawyer.
Last Monday their term was over. Robert said to his father on the telephone that he was going to travel in a small c... | high7426.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "A carriage."
},
"options": [
"A carriage.",
"A bicycle.",
"A canal bus.",
"A water taxi."
],
"question": "What means of transport is not available to visitors in Amsterdam?",
"question_type": "factiod_questi... | Have you ever been to the beautiful country of Holland and its capital Amsterdam? Anyone who has traveled to Amsterdam would probably agree on one thing: Amsterdam's story is a tale of two cities -- one during the day and a completely different one at night.
During the day, the largest city in the Netherlands sits quie... | high15161.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "By examining global airline travel patterns"
},
"options": [
"By doing experiments",
"By examining global airline travel patterns",
"By setting up a model",
"By collecting the data of the cases"
],
"question": "... | Controlling the Ebola virus outbreak at the source in West Africa is the most effective way to decrease international risk of transmission, according to a research paper.
If the epidemic persists and grows, it's likely there will be more cases of the deadly virus exported to other countries, including Canada, via air... | high8715.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the two experiments are about memory transplants"
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"the two experiments are about memory transplants",
"the scientists exchanged the dolphin's and the bear's brains",
"there is no possibility of changing the hu... | Research on the human brain has been attracting the attention of more and more scientists in recent years. One of the latest research topics is how to change the human brain or combine the computer and the human brain, i.e., to transplant a chip into human brain. This innovation may make everyone's dream come true.... | high13510.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "When they were passing through an exit."
},
"options": [
"Before they arrived at a bridge.",
"When they were passing through an exit.",
"When the young man stopped them for help.",
"After they came back to the right roa... | 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 paid the brid... | high1057.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "discuss how to give a good definition to the word \"heart\""
},
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"correct others' inexact explanations of the word \"heart\"",
"tell readers a series of humorous stories",
"discuss how to give a good definition to... | What does the word "heart" mean? Strictly speaking, a heart is an organ of the physical body which pumps blood into the organism . The term "heart", however, extends to more than the physical body.
When lovers separate, one will often claim to have a broken heart, yet remain living. A sad gent or lady will often grasp ... | high22915.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "They must be humorous."
},
"options": [
"They must be charming.",
"Their observation must be keen.",
"They must be humorous.",
"They must be good at thinking."
],
"question": "Which of the following cannot concl... | Three blondes were being trained to become detectives by a policeman. To test their skills in recognizing a suspect , the policeman showed the first blonde a picture for five seconds and then asked how she could recognize him. She thought it easy, for the suspect had only one eye. The policeman felt disappointed at ... | high19983.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "faced the threat of wild animals"
},
"options": [
"knew Alaska well before they set off",
"were poor before they went to Alaska",
"faced the threat of wild animals",
"got along well with each other"
],
"question... | "Gold Rush Alaska" has given America gold fever. A lot of young men put everything at risk to find gold in Alaska. They face problems with their machines and the Alaska wild animals. They're just ordinary people out trying to realize a dream.
Todd Dorsey is one of them. He spent $100,000 on it and prepared for a year b... | high10019.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a well-received American football game"
},
"options": [
"a well-received American football game",
"an expensive American sport",
"an impressive TV performance",
"a most-watched TV series"
],
"question": "Accordi... | On "Super Bowl Sunday", millions of Americans are glued to their TVs. They are eating pizza, chicken wings and chips and cheering every move. They're watching the Super Bowl.
Why are Americans so crazy about American football? Well, it is more exciting than other sports. One team can lose possession of the ball in a mi... | high17776.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Possible Spread of SARS in the USA"
},
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"A Worldwide Warning",
"Suspected SARS Cases",
"What Is SARS",
"Possible Spread of SARS in the USA"
],
"question": "The best title for this text is _ .",
... | April 11, 2003 12:44 a. m. PST, Associated Press
The respiratory virus known as SARS has appeared to spread in the United States only to family members of health workers with close contact to a sick person.
On Thursday, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there might be a case of severe acu... | high5231.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "You can do dictation exercises online."
},
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"You can do dictation exercises online.",
"You mustn't make mistakes in the forums.",
"You should show your real life words on blogs.",
"Your friends should show y... | Do you dream of changing the world with your words? Or maybe you just want to be able to express your thoughts and ideas more clearly. Anyway, it's more important for us to write correctly and properly. Then how to improve your English writing skills? www.ks5u.com
Get the most out of your dictionary by understand... | high18445.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "is fairly small"
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"is cheap",
"has cheap furniture",
"has a simple design",
"is fairly small"
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Tiny though it is, it has got all the comforts. Peter Baynes, Chan's architect ,has achieved a clever piece of design, according to architectural experts.
The Chan mini-h... | high16468.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the Greeks"
},
"options": [
"the Greeks",
"the Romans",
"the Americans",
"the Europeans"
],
"question": "A water system for baths was built by _ over 3,000 years ago.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"... | As is known to us all, baths and bathing have long been considered of medical importance to man. In Greece there are the ruins of a water system for baths built over 3,000 years ago. The Romans had warm public baths. In some baths, as many 3,000 persons could bathe at the same time.
Treating disease by taking bathing h... | high3640.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "hardly using your brain"
},
"options": [
"getting too old",
"hardly using your brain",
"working too hard",
"using your brain too much"
],
"question": "According to the text, you lose your memory by _ .",
... | Man still has a lot to learn about the most powerful and complex part of his body -- the brain.
It may be surprising to learn that it isn't age that makes you lose your memory. The reason could be that you have a "lazy" memory, not an old one. Like your body your memory improves with exercise. Once given plenty of exer... | high11307.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "a college degree was the key to the author's dreams"
},
"options": [
"the author was an ambitious student",
"the author should set more realistic goals",
"a college student would lead an easier life",
"a college degree ... | College students constantly hear the praises of education.We have all become used to believing that a college education is always a guarantee of an easier life.I was nine years old when my fourth-grade teacher presented me with a task, to write down all of the things I wanted in my life.I filled my paper with things li... | high12626.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Taste many kinds of apples."
},
"options": [
"Attend experts' lectures.",
"Visit fruit-loving families.",
"Taste many kinds of apples.",
"Plant fruit trees in an orchard."
],
"question": "What can people do at t... | If you are a fruit grower -- or would like to become one --join in Apple Day to see what's around. It's called Apple Day but in fact it's more like Apple Month. The day itself is on October 21, but since it has become popular, events now last through most of October around Britain.
Visiting an apple event is a good cha... | high14257.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Dongzhimen and Sanyuanqiao."
},
"options": [
"Dongzhimen and Xizhimen.",
"Jianguomen and Fuxingmen.",
"Dongzhimen and Sanyuanqiao.",
"Zhichunlu and Shaoyaoju."
],
"question": "At which of the station, passengers... | (BEIJING, August 10)--The Beijing Dailyhas put together a number of tips for cost-efficient travel in Beijing.
Subway transfer
"Transfer" is a word frequently used by volunteers helping visitors choose the best way of transport during the ongoing Beijing Olympics to save time.
On the seven subway lines now in operatio... | high9423.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "What effects will the weak dollar have?"
},
"options": [
"Why is the dollar losing value?",
"What caused the weak dollar?",
"What to do with the weak dollar?",
"What effects will the weak dollar have?"
],
"quest... | The dollar is becoming weaker and weaker. What effects will it have?
Look at the recordhigh price of oil. Even if the same amount of oil is being pumped out of the ground,since it is traded in dollars and the dollar has weakened,the price of oil has increased to make up for the lost value of the dollar,creating a sort ... | high6710.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To excite children's interest in reading."
},
"options": [
"To donate books to libraries and schools.",
"To encourage students to use the library.",
"To excite children's interest in reading.",
"To introduce some new co... | Several months ago, I attended the opening event for a new children's literacy campaign at the Burbank Library in California. The campaign is called Marvel Comics Close-Up, aimed at using comic books to encourage kids to read. Disney and Marvel donated 210,000 books to libraries and schools across the country.
Stars f... | high13538.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "He wants to create a good impression."
},
"options": [
"He is interested in the baby.",
"He wants to create a good impression.",
"He wants to be always polite to him.",
"It's a way to start a chat with great politeness.... | I've just got to talk about this problem I'm having with my postman. It all began a year ago, after the birth of his first child. Not wanting to appear rude, I asked him about the baby. The next week, not wanting him to think I had asked out of mere politeness the week before, I asked all about the baby again. Now I ca... | high10031.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Octopuses."
},
"options": [
"Octopuses.",
"Crocodiles.",
"Bats.",
"Koalas."
],
"question": "Which animal moms die when their babies are born?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | Animal moms are great moms. You might be surprised at some of these moms.
Octopuses
The mother octopus lays about 50,000 eggs. For about 300 days, she stays with the eggs, cleans them and protects them. She does not leave to feed. However, this animal mom dies as soon as the eggs are hatched .
Crocodiles
A crocodil... | high2576.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "New Hope for Elephants."
},
"options": [
"New Hope for Elephants.",
"Elephants are dying.",
"Elephants are valuable.",
"How to protect elephants"
],
"question": "What's the best title for this passage?",
"qu... | The illegal ivory trade has been a major problem in Africa for decades. Poachers and hunters have killed off hundreds of thousands of elephants to obtain this precious material. Now, affected areas are taking action. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced on Wednesday that key states where... | high16440.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Smoking causes skin aging"
},
"options": [
"The danger of smoking",
"Smoking causes skin aging",
"Quit smoking for health",
"A survey of smokers"
],
"question": "The best title for this passage would be _ .",
... | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smoking not only can wrinkle the face and turn it yellow -- it can do the same to the whole body, researchers reported on Monday.
The study, published in the Archives of Dermatology, shows that smoking affects the skin all over the body -- even skin protected from the sun.
"We examined non-facial s... | high3668.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the origin and usage of several \"hold \"expressions"
},
"options": [
"the origin and usage of several \"hold \"expressions",
"how to distinguish between four \"hold\"expressions",
"the classifications of \"hold\" expressions... | "Can't hold a candle to" is a popular expression. It is from the time before electricity, when people used candles for light. Someone who lived in a big house would have a servant light his way by holding a candle. The expression meant that the person who cannot hold a candle to you is not fit even to be your servant.
... | high17986.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "use for their schoolwork"
},
"options": [
"connect them to libraries",
"access the Internet",
"work at home",
"use for their schoolwork"
],
"question": "The main purpose of the laptop program is to give each stu... | Laptop computers are popular all over the world.People use them on trains and airplanes, in airports and hotels.These laptops connect people to their workplace.In the United States today, laptops also connect students to their classrooms.
Westlake College in Virginia will start a laptop computer program that allows stu... | high11449.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "are specially gifted in a way"
},
"options": [
"can be cured totally",
"can not understand what is being said",
"are specially gifted in a way",
"should be treated equally and nicely"
],
"question": "Dr. Oliver ... | Believe it or not but it is true. There are people who lose the ability to understand or use words due to brain damage. But they become extremely good at something else. They become experts at spotting liars. The condition in which people lose their power to understand or use words due to brain damage are called aphasi... | high19015.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "from her husband"
},
"options": [
"from her father",
"from her husband",
"in a shop",
"in the advertising department"
],
"question": "Diane Arbus got her first camera _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_quest... | Diane Arbus is known for creating intense black and white photographs of very unusual people. She used a special camera that produced square shaped images. One art expert said Diane Arbus turned photography inside out. Instead of looking at her subjects, she made them look at her.
Diane Arbus was born in 1923 to a weal... | high16326.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "He is anxious about the misunderstanding of Frost's idea."
},
"options": [
"He thinks highly of Frost' s poems.",
"He has a low opinion of Frost's neighbor.",
"He looks down upon the TV commentator.",
"He is anxious abo... | "Good fences make good neighbors", the television commentator said, misquoting Robert Frost for the millionth time in my memory.It made me wonder if the poet was not looking down from Heaven and sadly shaking his head.
No line of poetry has ever been more misused in history than that one.It comes from Frost' s grea... | high20694.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Peer pressure includes direct and indirect pressure."
},
"options": [
"Peer pressure includes direct and indirect pressure.",
"Peer pressure comes from smoking, drinking and using drugs.",
"Teens facing pressure can't tell ri... | As children enter their teens, they usually begin to pay more attention to their peers or friends. Peer pressure can be direct or indirect, but it is almost always present. Learning to deal with peer pressure makes a teen mature , and able to get along well with others.
Bad peer pressure is when teens feel pressur... | high10757.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the world'syoungest college professor"
},
"options": [
"America's youngest bachelor of science",
"Drexel University's youngest student",
"the world'syoungest college professor",
"the world's youngest female teacher"
... | Alia Sabur, from Northport, N. Y., US, went to college at age 10. And four years later, Sabur became a bachelor of science in. Applied Mathematics summa cum laude from Stony Brook University -- the youngest female in US history to do so. Her education continued at Drexel University, where she earned a Master of Scienc... | high1719.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "tell people what happiness is"
},
"options": [
"give audience enough fun",
"write memoirs to introduce their lives",
"show unhappiness behind fun",
"tell people what happiness is"
],
"question": "According to th... | I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood. You may think people in such an attractive and exciting, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.
Many intelligent people still consider happiness equal to fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or... | high14531.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Give them more allowance if they help do the housework"
},
"options": [
"Stop giving them allowance at once.",
"Buy them something they are in need of.",
"Give them more allowance if they help do the housework",
"Encour... | As an expert on education, I finished a Junior Achievement course at a local middle school last week. I received some meaningful answers when I asked teens what they would want to tell their parents about money.
Max said,'Dear Mom, I need to give you some advice on money. I need more allowance !" I have to say many te... | high9345.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "I can share many reviews and performances online with my friends in South Africa"
},
"options": [
"I often leave campus for more than few days",
"I often attend some of them in person",
"I bought a bigger Ford? Mustang",
... | It's time to remind myself what I love about life here in California,USA, to remember what I desperately miss when I go home.
Real radio
In the USA there are so many radio stations that those iPod tuner things don't work at all. _ . It took me a while to discover the USA's many public radio stations, which don't broadc... | high6076.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "on March 5ththere will be two plays for us to choose"
},
"options": [
"Story of Puppets is played held in China Children's Theater",
"all the artists who have won prizes will perform magic tricks",
"on March 5ththere will be ... | Keep in the air:The Chaoyang Theater is one of Beijing Theaters to present acrobatic programs all year round.
Top acrobatic artists invited from all over the country perform for Chinese and foreign tourists.The program features trick cycling,leaping through hoops and Chinese magic tricks.Some of the artists have won... | high22083.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Singing for those working in the fields."
},
"options": [
"Wearing a big hat and playing a guitar.",
"Using the rising and falling voice.",
"Telling about his love, hope and loss.",
"Singing for those working in the fie... | Wearing a big hat and playing a guitar, a country music singer is using his rising and falling voice to tell the audience about his love, hope and loss. Few people could avoid getting caught up in his feelings.
This is the appeal of country music, which speaks to the basic emotions of human life. Throughout the 20th ce... | high7368.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "she wrote socially critical novels and plays"
},
"options": [
"she was an Austrian woman writer",
"she wrote socially critical novels and plays",
"her novel \"The Piano Teacher\" was made into a movie",
"the nature of h... | For a writer, there is hardly any greater honor than winning the Nobel Prize for literature.
And for a woman writer, claiming the prize is even harder, for only eight women once won it. Austria's Elfriede Jelinek is the ninth and the first since 1996.
The Stockholm-based Swedish Academy announced last Thursday that Jel... | high12140.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "lonely"
},
"options": [
"happy",
"lonely",
"free",
"excited"
],
"question": "Those who have big houses may often feel _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index":... | Happiness is for everyone. You don't need to care about those people who have beautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools or those who have nice cars and a lot of money and so on. Why? Because those who have big houses may often feel lonely and those who have cars may want to walk on the country roads at the... | high299.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Arthur Conan Doyle"
},
"options": [
"Arthur Conan Doyle",
"Daniel Libeskind",
"Art Spiegelman",
"Anita Shreve"
],
"question": "Who is the writer of the latest book published among the four books?",
"question... | New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Price: PS28.00
Publication Date: 30/11/2006
Publisher's description:
Collect Doyle's fifty-six classic short stories, arranged in the order in which they appeared in late-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-century book editions, in a set complemented by four nove... | high23389.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "They did what the bear safety handbook had said."
},
"options": [
"They went to the wild to watch the bear.",
"They did what the bear safety handbook had said.",
"They were the first people to trap the bear.",
"They aba... | Campers Gene and Marie Marsden took pride in being good citizens when in the wild. While driving miles to the Green River Lakes area, they taught their children what they had learned in the bear safety handbook put out by the Bridger-Teton Forest Service.
Mr. and Mrs. Marsden did their best to keep a tidy camp. As the ... | high14525.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Water's becoming salty."
},
"options": [
"Climate change.",
"Water's becoming salty.",
"Population growth.",
"Water's being wasted."
],
"question": "Which of the following is NOT a reason for a water crisis?",
... | Everyone needs safe drinking water, but about 1.1 billion people have no access to clean water. Most of the world's water is salty ocean water or frozen polar ice. By 2050, the world's population could grow from 6.7 billion to more than 9 billion. All of those people will need water to drink. But the bad news is that s... | high22097.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "It is a computer program created by Rafael Perezy Perez."
},
"options": [
"It is a computer program that can write fiction stories on its own.",
"It is a computer program created by Rafael Perezy Perez.",
"It is blamed for lo... | While it may be unlikely for a computer to write a best seller, a technology expert has created a computer program that writes its own fiction stories with minimal user input. The program, called MEXICA, is the first to generate original stories based on computerized representations of emotions and tensions between cha... | high12154.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "he has a consideration for the visitors"
},
"options": [
"his museum shows a lack of money",
"admission fees should be forceful",
"he is in favor of New York's action",
"he has a consideration for the visitors"
],
... | Visitors to museums have to pay "voluntary" admission fees, Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, urged yesterday. He said that encouraging visitors to set a value on museums and art galleries, which have been free since 2001, would work extremely well. Mr. Johnson held up New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art as a mod... | high20858.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Moms play a significant role in handling kids' emotions ."
},
"options": [
"Orphan bonobos never give a hand to friend .",
"There were 370 bonobos involved in the research .",
"The ability to comfort others is unique to human... | What do you usually do to comfort your friends when they are feeling sad or depressed ? You probably pat them on the back or shoulder , or maybe you give them a big , warm hug .
We used to think that knowing when and how to comfort others was an ability that only humans have . But scientists have discovered that apes h... | high19001.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "introduce books to readers"
},
"options": [
"teach students how to learn idioms",
"introduce books to readers",
"increase students' knowledge about idioms",
"offer learning materials to readers for free"
],
"que... | One of the most difficulties in learning a language is learning the idiomatic phrases, slang and common usage of native speakers. These four books focus on giving students a hand when learning North American idiomatic language.
Ya Gotta Know It by Hania Hassan
It provides an excellent mixture of materials for classroom... | high4675.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "it would be a waste of money"
},
"options": [
"the theatres would be overcrowded",
"it would be a waste of money",
"pensioners wouldn't get free tickets",
"the government wouldn't be able to afford it"
],
"quest... | Tens of thousands of theatre tickets will be given away to young people next year as part of a government campaign to inspire a lifelong love for theatre.
The plan to offer free seats to people aged between 18 to 26--funded with PS2.5 million of taxpayers' money--was announced yesterday by Andy Burnham, the Culture Sec... | high16332.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "1776"
},
"options": [
"1786",
"1800",
"1842",
"1776"
],
"question": "From the passage we can infer that America won its independence in _ .",
"question_type": "summarization_questions"
},
{
"answe... | As we all know, it was Thomas Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of Independence (<<>> ). He wrote it in two weeks, and after a few changes, it was accepted by the Congress . As a result, he became famous.
Born in 1743 in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson, a wonderful student at school and almost talented( ) lawyer later, w... | high10743.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Rolls's car could go faster than four miles an hour"
},
"options": [
"they could watch the car coming from the other direction",
"Rolls's car could go faster than four miles an hour",
"they could make sure no one was in the w... | At one time no one could travel on an English road faster than four miles an hour. That was the law until 1896. A man had to walk in front of a car which could not go faster than the man. At night the man had to carry a red lamp.
Once Charles Rolls brought a car from France to England, but he wanted to drive faster tha... | high10025.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "removing people's bad living habits"
},
"options": [
"keeping people in a healthy physical condition",
"monitoring patients' body functions",
"removing people's bad living habits",
"ensuring people's psychological well-... | As we have seen, the focus of medical care in our society has been shifting from curing disease to preventing disease--especially in terms of changing our many unhealthy behaviors, such as poor eating habits, smoking, and failure to exercise. The line of thought involved in this shift can be pursued further. Imagine a ... | high2562.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because they show the day in the same order."
},
"options": [
"Because they are small.",
"Because they are big.",
"Because they can be put on the desk.",
"Because they show the day in the same order."
],
"questi... | The New Year is the time to buy a new calendar . Yet it can take a lot of time just to choose the right one. There are lots and lots of choices. There are small ones. Big ones. Calendars sit on a desk. Calendars hang on the wall. Calendars are carried around. In one way all calendars are the same. They all list the sam... | high18479.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "was once a guest in the Greens"
},
"options": [
"is a member of the Greens",
"had no idea whether to watch TV",
"was once a guest in the Greens",
"prefers ITV to the BBC"
],
"question": "We can conclude that Jim... | One of the first things that Jim discovered while living with the Greens was that there were different television channels in Britain, the BBC broadcasts on two channels: BBC1 and BBC2. There is a mixture of serious and light programmes on BBC1; there are mainly serious programmes on BBC2. ITV is an independent channel... | high19767.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Douglas Adams and his works"
},
"options": [
"Douglas Adams, always loved by fans",
"Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy",
"Douglas Adams and his works",
"Douglas Adams's personal lives"
],
"q... | Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952, educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge where, in 1974 he gained a BA (and later an MA) in English literature.
He was the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(<<>> ), which started life as a BBC Radio 4 series in March 1978. Sinc... | high4113.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "sad music may help arouse positive emotions"
},
"options": [
"sad music may help arouse positive emotions",
"sad music can make people relax",
"Sad music has a positive effect on people's health",
"many experts recommen... | A new study suggests that sad music might actually arouse positive emotions. The finding helps to explain why people enjoy listening to sad music, say Ai Kawakami and her colleagues from Tokyo University of the Arts and the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan. Ai Kawakami and her colleagues asked 44 volunteers, includ... | high16454.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "you enjoyed your meal"
},
"options": [
"you enjoyed your meal",
"you are not full",
"your meal is not good",
"you want to eat more"
],
"question": "In Mongolia, burping is a way of showing that _ .",
"ques... | Many years ago, children who had good manners kept quiet if their parents were talking with other persons. Today, well-mannered children have more freedom.
Sometimes good manners in one place are bad manners in other place.
Suppose you are a visitor in the prefix = st1 /landofMongolia. Some friends ask you to eat wit... | high17992.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "there may be a monster"
},
"options": [
"it's very deep",
"there may be a monster",
"there's a bag in it",
"it's in Scotland"
],
"question": "The reason why the lake is famous is that _ .",
"question_type... | In the summer of 1980 a Spanish tourist, Gaspar Carner, went to Great Britain on holiday. When he was travelling in Scotland, he decided to visit Loch Ness, the famous lake where people say there is a monster. But while he was going across the lake in a boat, his bag fell into the water. In the bag were his passport, c... | high8729.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "describe the poor education conditions of African girls"
},
"options": [
"find the cause of Africa's poverty",
"describe the poor education conditions of African girls",
"prove the inequality in African society",
"refor... | Fatimah Bamun dropped out of Balizenda Primary School in the first grade, when her father refused to buy her pencils and paper. Only after her teachers said to him that his daughter showed unusual promise did he change his mind. Today, Fatimah, 14, tall and slender, studies math in a dirt-floored fourth-grade classroo... | high9437.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "took it as a good medicine"
},
"options": [
"enjoy it",
"wanted to taste it",
"took it as a good medicine",
"was a foolish boy"
],
"question": "The boy ate up the raw fish head only in two gulps, because he _ ... | How to Become Cleverer? Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how to become cleverer, because his mother always called him "foolish boy".
"That's easy," answered the fisherman. "I know one way to make you become cleverer."
"Really?"
"Of course. It is said a fish head is good for brain. If you eat one, you'll become clever... | high14243.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "a fun run around central Brisbane"
},
"options": [
"a fun run around central Brisbane",
"an international Star Wars Day",
"a buskers festival in QUT",
"QUT's learning Potential Fund"
],
"question": "The purpose ... | The stars have come together for the 2014 QUT Classic fun run on Sunday, May 4! This year's fun run around central Brisbane not only promises a fantastic family day out--it also happens to be International Star Wars Day.
Hundreds of seriousand not so seriousparticipants will contest a choice of scenic l km , 5km or l0k... | high6704.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "some anxiety can lead to changes for the better"
},
"options": [
"anxiety is a good thing",
"anxiety is a symptom of mental illness",
"some anxiety can lead to changes for the better",
"no anxiety is bad for society"
... | Anxiety is the appropriate emotion when the immediate personal terror--of a volcano, an arrow, a stab in the back and other disasters, all directed against one's self--disappears.
The kind of world that produces anxiety is actually a world of safety, a world in which no one feels that he himself is facing sudden deat... | high22929.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "by time"
},
"options": [
"by space",
"by examples",
"by time",
"by comparison"
],
"question": "The passage is developed _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_inde... | Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. She really was blue-blood from the beginning with her father, a wealthy English banker, and her mother, a Dutch baroness . After her parents divorced, Audrey went to London with her mother where she went to a private girls school. In World War II she fell on... | high17077.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "mobile phones are too popular among people now"
},
"options": [
"people admire those who don't have mobile phones",
"people don't like to have mobile phones nowadays",
"mobile phones are too popular among people now",
"... | As the mobile phones so widely appear in our daily life, someone said it would be cool if you didn't have a mobile phone nowadays. It might be true to some extent, but as for an adult, a mobile means contact. It connects your work, relatives, friends, etc. It should do great deeds for us.
Months ago, my uncle gave his ... | high5530.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Rumors about Charles Manson's secret son."
},
"options": [
"Commonly-asked beauty questions.",
"Celebrity news.",
"Rumors about Charles Manson's secret son.",
"Lifestyle topics."
],
"question": "Which content sh... | TV IN CHICAGO(May, 7, 2013)
2:30 AM Weekend ABC 7 News(Repeat)
The top local, regional and national news events are presented by the ABC 7
Weekend News Team, along with weather, sports and travel conditions.
3:00 AM ... | high18344.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "They help you to read much faster."
},
"options": [
"They help to improve your memory.",
"They help you to read much faster.",
"They offer you the latest ideas.",
"They include many tests."
],
"question": "What ... | As We Speak
by Peter Meyers, Shann Nix
The world is full of brilliant people whose ideas are never heard. This book is designed to make sure that you're not one of them. Whether you are speaking to a large audience or in a one-on-one conversation, the way in which you communicate ideas, as much as the ideas themselves,... | high10718.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "News reporters."
},
"options": [
"Netizens.",
"Government officials.",
"News reporters.",
"Telecommunication operators"
],
"question": "Who helped the mobile users most to realize the harm of the \"one ring\"cal... | Although mobile phones have brought a lot of convenience to people,they have also brought troubles.
Besides endless spam text messages( ),another problem seems even more
annoying.That is the so-called "one ring"call.It is a phone call that only rings one time and stops before the receivers is able to pick it up .Whe... | high20803.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "youths have sharper intuition and quicker reactions than adults"
},
"options": [
"youths are smarter and more fearless than adults",
"youths are more willing to take risks in space",
"youths have sharper intuition and quicker... | HE is one of the most charming young heroes since Harry Potter. Like Potter, he is chosen by fate to carry out a
, but unlike the boy wizard, he doesn't get any chances to have fun or hang out with friends because he's a little too busy preparing to lead during an upcoming war to save the Earth.
Meet Ender Wiggin, 15, ... | high16369.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "A weight that the body doesn't want to change."
},
"options": [
"A weight that the body doesn't want to change.",
"A weight that you have kept for a long time.",
"A weight that you are trying to lose.",
"A weight that c... | The last five pounds. The vanity pounds. The dream weight. The fantasy weight. The high school weight. Yes, many names are given to the weight - the five pounds - that seems just out of reach no matter how much we exercise and improve our eating habits.
But why is it out of reach? Is it all in our heads? Or is it beca... | high8014.txt |
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