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"answer_text": "When he heard the violin at a school concert."
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"When he was exploring the city.",
"When he played games on the streets.",
"When he heard a boy playing piano.",
"When he heard the violin at a school conce... | George Gershwin was born in New York City in 1898. His parents were Russian Jews who had immigrated to the United States. George and his two brothers and sister had a close, happy family life. George liked playing games on the streets of New York. He liked exploring the city. He did not like school or studying.
While e... | high13211.txt |
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"answer_text": "tried to please his serious boss with it"
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"was tired of his boss seriousness",
"tried to please his serious boss with it",
"wanted to improve his working conditions",
"wanted to see his boss' laughing fa... | Waller was a liked-by-all fellow full of fun who often went to coffee houses to tell people interesting stories, of which some even brought him some money. One day, asked by an office secretary who told Waller that his boss was a never-seen before serious man and he never even smiled. Waller would tell a most funny sto... | high1756.txt |
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"answer_text": "Take a short sleep."
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"Talk with his friends.",
"Take a short sleep.",
"Get his eyes examined.",
"Stay away from the class."
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"question": "What did the author want to do just before his first cl... | I can still remember it as if it happened yesterday. I was a college freshman and had stayed up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first class of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a pillow. A few m... | high14218.txt |
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"answer_text": "the protective coloration of animals and pests"
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"the change of color in locusts",
"the protective coloration of animals and pests",
"how a certain sea fish protects itself",
"animals or pests can dye the... | Have you wondered why different animals or pests have their particular colors? Colors in them seem to be used mainly to protect themselves.
Birds, especially seagulls are very fond of locusts, but birds can't easily catch locusts because locusts change their colors together with the change of the color of crops. When c... | high1030.txt |
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"answer_text": "tend to perform better in their school work"
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"are more likely to fail in their school performance",
"definitely can perform better in their school work",
"usually have more of fat and less of fruit and vegetab... | NEW YORK (Reuters Health)--Kids who eat better perform better in school, a new study of Nova Scotia fifthgraders confirms.
Students who ate an adequate amount of fruit,vegetables,protein,fiber and other components of a healthy diet were significantly less likely to fail a _ test,Dr.Paul J.Veugelers of the University of... | high6987.txt |
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"answer_text": "Troubles always happen at the same time."
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"Troubles always happen at the same time.",
"Everyone may have trouble every day.",
"A small matter can cause great trouble.",
"Only the lucky man won't have any... | We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. It seems as if a single unimportant event may cause a number of things to happen. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The t... | high7441.txt |
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"answer_text": "Daniel"
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"the author's wife",
"the author's neighbour",
"Daniel",
"a suffering child"
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"question": "We can see that this text is written to _ .",
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... | It is six o'clock in the morning. You are asleep in my left arm and I am learning the art of one-handed typing. Your mother, more tired yet more happy than I've ever known her, is sound asleep in the room next door.
When you're older we'll tell you that you were born in Hong Kong in the lunar year of the pig. "It's a b... | high15106.txt |
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"answer_text": "About 100 RMB"
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"About 5RMB",
"About 25 RMB",
"About 100 RMB",
"About 125 RMB"
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"question": "How much rebate can I get from a 500 dollars payment?",
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},... | Topic: "Enjoy Worldwide privileges with BOC cards" 5% cash rebate from UnionPay credit card issued by Bank of China
Time: April 1, 2014 to February 28, 2015
Customer: Personal credit cards with card number starting with "62" and with the UnionPay logo on the card
Details:
Payments with business cards, corporate cards ... | high8772.txt |
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"answer_text": "Dog and Cat Honored for Saving Their Masters"
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"Great Honors for Cat and Dog",
"Dog and Cat Honored for Saving Their Masters",
"Unforgettable Experiences",
"So Smart Animals Are"
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"question": "W... | For their nick-of-time acts, Toby, a 2-year-old dog, and Winnie, a cute cat, were named Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
As Amy Paul choked on a piece of apple at her home, her dog jumped up, landing hard on her chest and forcing the piece in her throat out. Whe... | high4148.txt |
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"answer_text": "Cats show more feelings with tails than dogs."
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"Cats draw more attention from humans than dogs.",
"Cats are friendlier to humans than dogs.",
"Cats have more feelings than dogs.",
"Cats show more feeling... | We can express our feelings and needs by using body language. Cats can do that too. The ways that cats use their tails to show their feelings and needs are interesting.
Unlike dogs, which generally wave their tails to express good feelings, cats use their tails to send a lot of signals. When a cat waves its tail strong... | high3627.txt |
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"answer_text": "offers students the chances to have a natural living at college"
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"offers students the chances to have a natural living at college",
"was firstly built by two college students",
"was designed for saving buildin... | Across the United States, universities and colleges have been looking to become more sustainable and more than 600 schools have already planned to become eco-friendly. The EcoDorm, home to 36 students at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, was designed to be sustainable from top to bottom, or in this case, from its r... | high11360.txt |
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"answer_text": "his wife"
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"his own mother",
"no one"
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"question": "The man said he wanted to buy a pearl for _ .",
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"answe... | A well-dressed man entered a famous jewelry shop. He explained that he wished to buy a pearl for his wife' s birthday. The price didn't matter, since business had been very good for him that year. After examining a nice black one that costs $5, 000, he paid for the pearl in cash, shook hands with the jeweler, and left.... | high2539.txt |
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"answer_text": "They may not get satisfactory scores and it influences their admission to college."
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"The SAT is unacceptable for the test takers, teachers, officers and the public.",
"They may not get satisfactory scores and it inf... | LAST week, the College Board announced that it was revising the SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) in an effort to make it more acceptable to test-takers, teachers, college admission officers and the public more generally. Test-takers who receive lower scores than they have hoped for are likely to be concerned about thei... | high17711.txt |
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"answer_text": "he gave some leftovers to the poor woman"
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"he couldn't cook",
"he didn't work hard",
"he didn't like him at all",
"he gave some leftovers to the poor woman"
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"question": "Mr White sent Mr. Back... | Mr. Backer is a kind-hearted man. Once he gave some food to a poor woman . Mr White, the boss of the restaurant, found it and became angry. He often gave the leftovers to some poor workers. Mr. Backers lost his work for it. It was difficult for him to find work in the small country though he was an able cook. The war... | high5256.txt |
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"answer_text": "Americans want to increase the purchasing power of their incomes."
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"Americans never feel satisfied with their incomes.",
"Americans tend to overstate the amount of their incomes.",
"Americans want to have thei... | The American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen, striving to make profits, produce these g... | high18422.txt |
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"answer_text": "Negative."
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"Approving.",
"Negative.",
"Doubtful.",
"Neutral."
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"question": "What's Han Jeong-hee's attitude toward South Korea's proposal of doing scientific whaling?",
"question_type": "fa... | Environmental activists in South Korea are condemning a government plan to hunt endangered whales for scientific research. They believe the plan is part of an effort to restart commercial whaling activities. Such activities are banned in many countries. South Korea announced the proposal in July at a meeting of the Int... | high19728.txt |
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"answer_text": "Tomato Festival"
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"Egg Days",
"Seafood Festival",
"Tomato Festival",
"Vegetable Days"
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"question": "The passage mainly tells us something about _ .",
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}... | Sonoma County, California is famous for its natural beauty. The area is also known for its fruits, vegetables, eggs, and seafood. When I first moved to the area years ago, I had no idea I would be living in such a rich area!
After the summer, local festivals practically celebrate the richness of the county every weeken... | high3633.txt |
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"answer_text": "Jeffery Deaver is a \"00\" agent in Her Majesty's secret service in a James Bond movie."
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"Jeffery Deaver is a \"00\" agent in Her Majesty's secret service in a James Bond movie.",
"Jeffery Deaver was working as a la... | Jeffery Deaver looks more like a brainy villain in a James Bond movie than a "00" agent in Her Majesty's secret service.Best known for his thrillers starring criminalist Lincoln Rhyme, Jeffery Deaver has a new mission: Bring Bond into the 21st century in a new 007 novel.
The yet-to-be-named book is cryptically re... | high11374.txt |
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"answer_text": "introduce the film \"The Day After Tomorrow\""
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"introduce a famous director, Richard Emmerich",
"introduce Roland Emmerich and his films",
"introduce the film \"The Day After Tomorrow\"",
"warn people of... | What would the world look like if it lost its battle against the greenhouse effect and global warming? We are talking about worldwide disaster, including hurricane, earthquake, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age.
This is the scene that faces those who see "The Day After Tomorrow", a new Hollywood... | high17705.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "had shown a surprising ability in the electrical field"
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"had to drop out of school to help on the family farm",
"was sent to school to study electrical engineering",
"wanted to be the first person to invent th... | When the Farnsworth family moved to their new farm in 1919, eleven-year-old Philo was surprised to find it wired for electricity. This unusual circumstance contributed to his fate -- to become an important inventor of the twentieth century.
By thirteen, Farnsworth had become a self-taught electrical engineer. He was ab... | high5242.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Kids care more about achievement."
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"20% of the students are not ambitious.",
"Kids care more about achievement.",
"About 80% of the students are not caring.",
"A majority of the kids are kind students."
... | A new study from Harvard University revealed that the message parents mean to send to children about the value of sympathy is being mistaken by the message they actually send. In fact they value achievement and happiness above all else.
The Making Caring Common Project at Harvard's Graduate School of Education surveye... | high9478.txt |
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"answer_text": "is in charge of the Oakland A's"
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"is interested in competition",
"is good at statistical analysis",
"is in charge of the Oakland A's",
"is the leading player of his team"
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"question": "In the f... | When the film opens, the Oakland A's have just lost a game to the New York Yankees. And they're about to lose three of their best players to richer teams. Beane is sad, because he doesn't have enough money to compete with the big teams. But then he meets Peter Brand, a young Yale graduate and statistics expert.
Brand ... | high22966.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Justin and Teddy"
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"Justin himself",
"Kathy and Victor",
"Justin and Teddy",
"Kathy herself"
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"question": "Who actually had the airplane accident?",
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},... | "Get out of the plane!" Justin shouted.Teddy and he dropped to the ground,...
When Kathy and Victor reached the edge of the meadow flames of the fire were shooting more than five meters into the air.
Kathy couldn't believe what she was seeing.One glance told her they needed medical attention immediately.She questioned... | high1024.txt |
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"answer_text": "to be a gentleman"
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"to be a writer",
"to be a gentleman",
"to work in a factory",
"to support his family"
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"question": "As a boy, Charles Dickens' dream was _ .",
"question_type": "cloze... | Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth.Finances were a constant concern for his family.The expenses of having a large family were too much for his father's salary.In fact, when Charles was just four months old, the family moved to a smaller home to cut expenses.
At a very young age, despite his fami... | high6993.txt |
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"answer_text": "about 90 years"
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"about 50 years",
"about 70 years",
"about 90 years",
"about 150 years"
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"question": "TIME has a history of _ .",
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"answer"... | TIME is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, making it the first weekly news magazine in the US. Hadden was considered carefree, liked to tease Luce and saw TIME as important but also fun. That accounted for its heavy coverage of celebritie... | high7455.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Five days."
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"options": [
"Two days.",
"Three days.",
"Four days.",
"Five days."
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"question": "How many days is it from the day this article was made to the Lunar New Year?",
"question_type": "factiod_qu... | His eyes nearly in tears from the crush of fellow travelers at Guangzhou's train station, Hong Tao said things were much better on Sunday, after days of waiting for a train to his home in Hubei province.
"I think it's fine today, and everything is going smoothly," the 28-year-old said. "I thought it would be really cro... | high8766.txt |
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"answer_text": "Timothy"
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"Steve Jobs.",
"Michael Bloomberg.",
"Moammar Gadhafi.",
"Timothy"
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"question": "Who has been appointed as the new CEO of Apple?",
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... | NEW YORK CITY?A hurricane warning has been given for New York City.Forecasters say Hurricane Irene could cause widespread flooding, power failure and billions of dollars in damage.About 65 million Americans live in Hurricane Irene's projected path --many of whom have been _
In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg ha... | high15112.txt |
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"answer_text": "$25"
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"$5",
"$10",
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"question": "If a boy and his parents go to Blue Ridge Folklife Festival,they should pay _ .",
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... | The arrival of autumn starts the traditional fall festivals which aim to welcome the new season. Here's a guide to several fall festivals that are held in the Roanoke region each year.
Boones Mill Apple Festival
It is held the third Saturday in September every year.The festival is hosted by the Boones Mill Lions Club ... | high7333.txt |
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"answer_text": "He has determination and strong will-power."
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"He used to work as a fireman.",
"He has determination and strong will-power.",
"He learnt running from a coach.",
"He was advised to ride a bike when he was ... | Why do people run? That is, why do thousands get up early and put their knees and ankles and hearts and lungs through the hell of 10,000 meters on the roads? For those who stick with it and are lucky, they get into another world: a state of physical and mental grace reached when their blood is racing through every vein... | high8000.txt |
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"answer_text": "procedure"
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"question": "The Rolls-Royce is expensive for its _ .",
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"... | The famous car Rolls-Royce has been largely hand-made and always one of the most expensive cars on the market.
In fact, Rolls-Royce is made up of two men's names, Charles S. Rolls and Henry Royce. They came from very different backgrounds, received very different educations and when they met; their careers were going i... | high15674.txt |
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"answer_text": "the fish resource near the shore was decreasing"
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"the fish resource near the shore was decreasing",
"the fishes farther away from the sea tasted fresher",
"people would prefer eating fresh fishes to less fresh... | It is well known that the Japanese people's love of fish is almost as strong as a bee's interest in honey. As fish populations were decreasing, fishing companies were forced to fish further and further away from the shore. Then they had a big challenge -- how to keep the fish fresh for longer. So they decided to keep t... | high17063.txt |
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"answer_text": "he thought they were too old to play basketball"
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"he thought they were too old to play basketball",
"they looked young for their age",
"the old seldom went to the bar",
"he didn't believe they played bas... | "How's the basketball coming on?"
I put down my drink and looked across at the next table. I was curious about that because both the man and the woman were at least 65.
"Oh, I'm not playing much basketball these days," the woman replied. "But I'm getting much better at golf."
What's this, I thought. I opened m... | high18350.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Spring"
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"Spring",
"Summer.",
"Autumn.",
"Winter."
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"question": "Which is the busiest season for workers at Wild Friends?",
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... | Every year in late spring at Wild Friends, the wildlife health center, workers receive baby animals, including songbirds and rabbits. This is the busiest time when workers care for and raise all the little ones before sending them back into the wild.
There are many reasons for these little animals' coming to the center... | high5524.txt |
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"answer_text": "she had never performed in public before"
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"her mother and father weren't present",
"the strong spotlight was shining onto the stage",
"she hadn't mastered the entire piece",
"she had never performed in p... | My first performance in front of an audience was coming up soon.
I tried as hard as I could to remain calm, but my heart was racing. I stared down at my sweat-covered, shaking hands.
I looked up again at the audience, realizing that these were real people. They were not just my mum and dad, who would say, "Good... | high20817.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Eleven."
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"options": [
"Three.",
"Eight.",
"Eleven.",
"Twenty-two."
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"question": "How many deaths have the thunderstorms and tornadoes on Friday caused?",
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... | NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A line of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes marched across the South on Friday, peeling away roofs, overturning cars and killing at least 11 people in Tennessee, officials said.
It was the second wave of violent weather to hit the state in less than a week. Last weekend, tornadoes killed 24 people ... | high11412.txt |
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"answer_text": "Fu Xiaoyu's parents can't earn enough money to send her to school."
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"options": [
"Fu Xiaoyu's parents can't earn enough money to send her to school.",
"Huang Ruoqing and Zhang Linna talked with 29 children this summer during the... | FU Yuan has been left at home with his grandparents since he was one month old. His mom and dad left to work in Fujian Province. For the past eight years, Fu has only seen his parents three times although they send home 500 yuan every two or three months.
Fu Xiaoyu, 16, has had to live alone since her grandmother passe... | high15884.txt |
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"answer_text": "music is popular in some professions"
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"music is popular in some professions",
"most surgeons in the UK are fond of singing",
"office workers learn a lot from listening to music",
"fewer than half of the ... | Will you be playing some music at work?
Music is particularly popular in the medical profession, especially among surgeons . A recent survey shows that 90% of surgeons in the UK put music on the sound system in the _ during operations. Plastic surgeons play the most music; it appears that ear, nose, and throat speciali... | high9336.txt |
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"answer_text": "It has a wonderful jumping talent."
},
"options": [
"It likes living on the ceiling.",
"It is good at flying in the air.",
"It is the same length as a pencil.",
"It has a wonderful jumping talent."
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"question"... | Imagine you are in a jumping contest. Animals and insects can also enter this contest. But they might just leave humans in the dust!
The first event is the long jump. The human athlete is Mike Powell. In 1991, he jumped nearly 30 feet, which is the world record for the long jump. That is about five times his own height... | high14542.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because they wanted to get rich by looking for gold."
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"options": [
"Because towns and cities there developed quickly.",
"Because the mountains in California were a great place for travel.",
"Because they wanted to get rich... | Today's word, pan, takes us back to the days of the gold rush in California.
On January 24th, 1848, a man named James Wilson Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread quickly. Thousands rushed west. They traveled on foot, on horseback and by boat to reach the gold fields. By 1849, the great gold rush was ... | high6005.txt |
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"answer_text": "the amount of water the plant stands in"
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"soil conditions and plant age",
"the amount of water the plant stands in",
"the amount of fertilizer used on the crop",
"the amount of time the plant is underwat... | Rice plants normally grow well in still water. But most will die if they are completely underwater for more than four days. Now, researchers have identified a gene that helps rice survive longer underwater. They say the discovery will lead to new kinds of rice plants that can survive flooding, and therefore reach the... | high18378.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Its ocean adds to people's excitement about life beyond Earth."
},
"options": [
"It is a planet with the largest moon in our whole solar system.",
"Its ocean adds to people's excitement about life beyond Earth.",
"It will be ... | Washington: NASA has announced evidence that Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, has a saltwater ocean under its icy surface. The ocean seems to have more water than all the water on Earth's surface, according to new Hubble observation.
New Hubble observations of Ganymede's magnetic field strongly suggest that the moon, ... | high10724.txt |
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"answer_text": "Cigarette smoking contributes to decreased IQ and thinking."
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"options": [
"Cigarette smoking contributes to decreased IQ and thinking.",
"Alcohol abuse is to blame for the poorer mental function.",
"Most of the alcoholics ... | The poorer mental function seen among alcoholics,many of whom also regularly smoke cigarettes,may be partly due to the long term effects of nicotine ,new research suggests.
"People who are also smokers are at a much higher risk," Dr.Jennifer M.Glass of the University of Michigan's Addiction Research Center said. In he... | high2263.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the old age is seen as something that isn't admired"
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"the old age is seen as something that isn't admired",
"it is now believed to bring bad luck to elderly people",
"the standard of getting old has changed",
... | "I'm seventy years old," says the gray-haired lady proudly to the entertainer at her Community Club dinner.
"Did you hear that, everyone?" says the entertainer. "This lovely lady is just seventy years young! And she doesn't look a day over fifty. "
He has been careful not to use the word "old". In a soci... | high19066.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "this island was treeless"
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"this island was treeless",
"they nested randomly",
"they reproduced too rapidly",
"their chicks were extremely weak"
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"question": "Birds on Hawadax Island became an e... | While the presence of rats in homes may cause anxiety and annoyance, they rarely result in driving out the residents. But
is exactly what happened to the inhabitants of the 10squaremile Hawadax Island off the coast of Alaska, almost 230 years ago. Now thanks to a fiveyear effort by scientists, the terribly silent "Rat ... | high16355.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "offer students more chances to make friends"
},
"options": [
"remind students of their old friends",
"help students improve their communication",
"provide students with more activities to relax",
"offer students more ch... | Clare is a third grader at Hoover Elementary School in Dubuque, Iowa. She often saw some!body outside during a class break, sitting alone and not having any friends to play with. When see!ing this scene,she felt bothered,for in her mind everybody in the world needed friends. That was why Clare came up with an idea -- "... | high19700.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A family of artists."
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"options": [
"The life of Charles Willson Peale.",
"Portraits in the 18th century.",
"The Peale Museum.",
"A family of artists."
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... | The Peales were a famous family of American artists. Charles Willson Peale is best remembered for his portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution. He painted portraits of Franklin and Jefferson and over a dozen of George Washington. His life-size portrait of his sons Raphaelle and Titian was so realistic th... | high4174.txt |
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},
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"A study made by the confused.com MotorMate app.",
"What kind of songs the dri... | New research has revealed that which song drivers listen to can influence how safe they are on the roads.Among the top ten safest songs to drive to are Come Away With Me by Norah Jones,I Don't Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith and Tiny Dancer by Elton John.Each of the songs has an optimum tempo for safe driving,imitat... | high16433.txt |
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"persuade teenagers to do volunteering",
"encouraging young people to achieving success",
"teach people how to apply fo... | Extraordinary Teens
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},
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"The importance of music teaching.",
"How to create music by ourselves.",
"How to teach children music."
],
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"More traffic accidents happen every day.",
"The air we breathe may be polluted.",
"It is much easier for us to watch meteor sh... | As the population of the planet increases, so does the number of homes, businesses, parking lots, schools, airports and roadways. All these structures use electricity and need to be lighted. Humans demand these lights. They want their homes more comfortable and they want their streets safe. The problem is that research... | high9450.txt |
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"He was eager to go abroad.",
"He got inspired by a book.",
"He wanted others to help his family."
],
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Instead of dreaming about foreign travel, he had been reading a book, Letter to New Zealand, where the author e... | high14224.txt |
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SECRETARY Part time position available in friendly, busy office. Good typing and general office skills. Some weekends required. High pay. Various duties. ... | high8996.txt |
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},
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"Because she believed that her son had memorized the subway map.",
"Because sh... | My son ,Izzy, was a nine-year-old boy and had been begging me to please let him find his way home by subway, by himself. After all, we live in New York City, and getting around by public transportation is a basic part of life. It is also the first step toward feeling grown-up. So on that sunny Sunday,I gave him a subw... | high12655.txt |
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"is active and mature",
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],
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"You is IN," said Wang LiHua, Editor-in-Chief of Seventeen. "She is active and mature because of her knowledge on everything from academic studie... | high22796.txt |
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One day, my mother was sewing a quilt . I silently sat beside her. "Mum, is there love between you and Dad?" I asked in a very low voice.
With surprise in her eyes, she stopped her work... | high14230.txt |
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"a magazine that helps the family to prepare for special occasions",
"a comp... | Christmas,Easter and Birthday parties can be difficult times for grandmothers and parents as they rush around trying to arrange the perfect celebration or making everyone as happy as possible! What's better than a birthday party that makes your grandchild smile throughout or a celebration that impresses relatives and c... | high12899.txt |
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"presidential visits bring inconvenience to the locals",
"if a person wants to be more productive, he must work f... | Fortunately, I've been able to avoid the traffic jam brought by presidential visits because ! don't have to commute anywhere. Barack Obama visited Los Angeles recently which paralyzed large sections of a city and you could almost hear the collective pain of unhappy commuters.
I am among the l0 percent of people in the ... | high6777.txt |
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},
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"she didn't like stories",
"he was telling a story he had told before",
"the story he told was not interesting"
],
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},
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"solid evidence is inadequate to prove how colors affect us",
"a larger study may help co... | We might think we know which colours do what.The idea that red wakes us up or blue calms us down is deeply rooted in Western culture.But do they really change our behaviour in the ways that we assume?
When it comes to scientific research, the results are mixed and at times contested.Some studies have found that people ... | high12641.txt |
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"answer_text": "After dinner, the children either went out or shut themselves up in their rooms."
},
"options": [
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"After dinner, the children either went out or shut themselves up... | I opened my new patient's chart and headed for her room. My son, Eric, had just brought home a disappointing report card, and my daughter, Shannon, and I had argued again about her getting a driver's license. For the next eight hours I wanted to throw myself into helping people who I knew had much more to worry about t... | high22782.txt |
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},
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"mothers want daughters to be mama's girls again",
"they think their mothers' clothes are no longer in fashion",
"all of the above"
],
"question":... | What happens to mother-daughter relationships when girls become teenagers. It seems that girls go from playing "dress up", to arguing with their mothers about how they should dress.
When a girl is 3-4 years old they love to "dress up" in their mothers' clothes, put on their mothers' makeup, cook, and do whatever else t... | high7469.txt |
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"A language magazine."
],
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Language expert Allen Walker Read said the word began as a short way of writing a ... | high4160.txt |
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},
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"By using #AEW2015 on social media.",
"By delivering a speech.",
"By planning the activity."
],
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How Are You Celebrating American Education Week
Share your plans and ... | high19714.txt |
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"are as big as regular horses",
"live near deep channels",
"like to be alone"
],
"question": "We can learn from the passage that sea... | Do you like seahorses? What do you know about them?
The seahorse is actually not a horse but a fish, and much smaller than any regular horse. In general, a seahorse is about an inch long. It is a beautiful fish that likes warm waters, swims upright , and looks a little like a chess piece.
Seahorses are an unusual kind... | high16427.txt |
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},
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"they feel pleased with the present life.",
"they have experienced some failures before",
"they show little interest in the str... | Psychology tells us that many people hate to take risks. But it is good for us to take risks, especially when the risk is to achieve a desired result. In that way, we become stronger and braver.
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"health",
"wealth",
"honor"
],
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},
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},
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"Too much emphasis on being intelligent.",
"Studying topics outside the regular subjects.",
"Lack of encouragem... | Contrary to many people believe, highly intelligent children are not necessarily certain to achieve academic success. In fact, so-called gifted students may fail to do well because they are unusually smart. Ensuring that a gifted child reaches his or her potential requires an understanding of what can go wrong and how ... | high20195.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"decoration on presents",
"presents",
"all of the above"
],
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... | One of China's most popular folk arts is paper cutting . Archaeological finds trace the tradition back to the 6thcentury; it is supposed that the beginnings of paper cutting were even a few centuries earlier. Paper cuttings are used for religious purposes, for decoration and as patterns .
Today, paper cuttings are m... | high5518.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "in Kensington Gardens."
},
"options": [
"in Regent's Park.",
"in St. James's Park.",
"in Hyde Park.",
"in Kensington Gardens."
],
"question": "Where can visitors find thePeter Pan Statue?",
"question_type": ... | Visitors worry that London is an expensive city but there really are so many free things to do here. The following ideas should get you started.
All of London's major museums are free, but most offer some special exhibitions for a fee. My favorite is the Museum of Londonwhere you can learn the history of London from Ro... | high10730.txt |
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"answer_text": "To provide a general idea of the size of businesses in the United States."
},
"options": [
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"To show the geographical distribution of the United States businesses.",
... | Suppose that we lined up our roughly 14 million United States businesses in order of size, starting with the smallest, along an imaginary road from San Francisco to New York. There will be 4,500 businesses to the mile, or a little less than one per foot. Suppose further that we planted a flag each business. The height ... | high2277.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"It is golden.",
"It has a cell phone.",
"It is new.",
"It has many items."
],
"question": "What is special about the coffin in the second news?",
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... | Ladies and Gentlemen, some strange, wild and wonderful stories colored the news in 2010, you may like them.
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"answer": {
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},
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"the largest octopus in the world",
"octopi and their behavior",
"the octopus's deadly hunting method"
],
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "National Tourism Day"
},
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"the beginning of the NBA playoffs",
"in memory of Spiderman",
"Earthquake Day",
"National Tourism Day"
],
"question": "From the passage we know May19 is _ in China .",
... | What's the News ?
The NBA playoffs began on April 28, and the next two months will be filled withgames decided in the final minutes . The playoffs are also a way to show off the world's bestbasketball players .
There's a saying from Spiderman: "With great power comes great responsibility ." This istrue no matter whethe... | high19072.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "beat a strange passer-by without any reason."
},
"options": [
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"beat a strange passer-by without any reason.",
"speak to a Dutch uncle.",
"become angry with the teacher."
],
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"answer": {
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"only an experimental one carried out in some schools",
"a compulsory one carried out by the U.S go... | Roslyn Hing School on long Island recently started a pilot program using iPads in some classrooms.
A growing number of schools across the U.S.are multimedia,history through gamse and math with step-by -step animation of complex problems.
As part of a pilot program,Roslyn High School handed out 47 iPads on Dec.20,2010 t... | high12127.txt |
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"answer": {
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"both talented and common people",
"only common people",
"more talented people than common people"
],
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"answer": {
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},
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"warm his cold hands",
"avoid paying the restaurant owner",
"make it smell and taste a little better"
],
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The restaurant owner was very angry at this,... | high13239.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"Because we are not old enough.",
"Because we are used to listening to others' voices.",
"Because our parents and professors ask us to listen to the voices ... | Because, like most of you, I began college in my teens, but after a year, I was offered my dream job at Universal Studios, so I dropped out.
Well, I left college because I knew exactly what I wanted to do and some of you know, too -- but some of you don't. Or maybe you thought you knew but are now questioning that choi... | high14556.txt |
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},
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"patients can receive a free treatment",
"customers pay the goods in cash",
"trees are taken good care of"
],
"ques... | A clinic in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, works to support the health of people and forests.
Kinari Webb is an American doctor who helped start the non-profit group that operates the clinic. The group is known as ASRI. Dr. Webb says most communities value the local forests, but illegal logging was often their only way t... | high9322.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
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},
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"Future man will look quite different from us",
"Man is growing taller and uglier as time passes",
"Man's organ... | What will man be like in the future -- in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly changing all the time.
Let us take an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today.... | high201.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Its ability to ward off disasters is incredible."
},
"options": [
"It ensures the normal functioning of an airplane.",
"The idea for its design comes from a comic book.",
"Its ability to ward off disasters is incredible.",
... | You never see him, but they're with you every time you fly. They record where you are going, how fast you're traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book. They're known as the black box.
When ... | high1795.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "over-generalizing might cause you not to accept yourself"
},
"options": [
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"over-generalizing might encourage you to expect the future",
"we can tolerate the fact tha... | We are not born doubting ourselves.We learn to do it.In fact,we are usually taught to doubt ourselves.We can learn some ways that allow us to become more accepting of ourselves.Following are two behaviors that might explain the reasons why you can't move towards greater self-acceptance.
One thing that might cause y... | high23311.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "You can't sleep well all the time."
},
"options": [
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"You have a break after work.",
"You always feel happy and relaxed.",
"You only do one thing at a time."
],
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*Try physical activity
When you are nervous, angry or upset, try r... | high3182.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he would take the car to be serviced at a nearby garage"
},
"options": [
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"he promised not to spend too much time at the movie theatre.",
"the boy agreed to pick him up at 4 o'clock",
"he woul... | I grew up in the south of Spain in a little community called Estepona. I was 16 when one morning, my father told me I could drive him into a remote village called Mijas, about 18 miles away, on the condition that I take the car in to be serviced(,) at a nearby garage. Having just learned to drive and hardly ever having... | high21506.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"water",
"animals",
"money"
],
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},
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"answer": {
"ans... | Mr. King lived with six hundred wild animals on the Greek Island of Kyklos. Ever since he left school, he had traveled all over the word collecting animals for his own zoo. He hoped to collect two examples of every kind of animal on his island. But he was afraid that people would find him someday.
He wrote books about ... | high10903.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "based on the wide use of the Internet"
},
"options": [
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"based on the wide use of the Internet",
"using some technological forces",
"because of the great change of the Earth itself"
... | About 500 years ago, the Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus proved the Earth was round. Now American author Thomas Friedman tells us the Earth is flat in his best seller: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.
If he is not joking, then why is the world flat? Friedman says it is due to techno... | high19099.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "To observe its starry night sky"
},
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"To visit its friendly people",
"To enjoy the beautiful lake",
"to make a wish at the shooting meteors"
],
"question": "Why do ... | Nowadays, pollution is becoming worse and worse. A starry night seems to be a luxury for people living in cities. Is there any ideal place for stargazers ? A small town in New Zealand is here to surprise you with its breathtaking starry night sky.
Lake Tekapo is located at the heart of New Zealand's South Island. It ha... | high18387.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they may feel they're forced to do so"
},
"options": [
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"they often feel lonely in a new school",
"they are ignored by their busy parents",
"they are tired of the moving process"
... | Sooner or later, many families will face the situation of moving. The experience can be very bad for kids, who may not be a part of the decision to move and may not understand it. You can take steps to make the entire process easier for everyone.
Many kids like to stay in familiar places. So as you consider a move, w... | high4835.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Israeli people's attitudes to the prisoner exchange."
},
"options": [
"Israeli people's attitudes to the prisoner exchange.",
"How the kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit managed to return home.",
"The stories of many terrorist at... | Israel was happy, very happy. The news of a deal to bring home the kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit , a young man held prisoner by Hamas for five years,spread.
But the happiness was hardened by the reality of the price Israelis had paid to set him free. The 1,027 Palestinian prisoners to be exchanged for the single Israe... | high19927.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "XOS2."
},
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"EMIEW2.",
"XOS2.",
"EMILY."
],
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},
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"answer": {
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Superhero Suit
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a superhero? Dream no more.There's a real Iron Ma... | high21260.txt |
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"answer_text": "hannanh-bartlett@botmail.co.uk"
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"alexatontaguc@ aol.com",
"www.ehyokah.co.uk",
"hannanh-bartlett@botmail.co.uk"
],
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Heavy snow hits China"
},
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"Chinese New Year in snow",
"China's terrible translation system.",
"An accident"
],
"question": "Choose the best title for this passage.",
"qu... | China's government has issued a severe weather warning after the heaviest snowfalls in decades. The country is experiencing transport delays and power cuts as millions of people prepare to make long journeys home for the Chinese New Year. This report from Quentin Summerville: China hasn't experienced weather this bad i... | high7482.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "increase efficiency in carrying goods and passengers"
},
"options": [
"be finished in three years",
"match the speed of air travel",
"cover the whole area of Asia and Europe",
"increase efficiency in carrying goods and ... | Passengers will be able to travel by train from Londonto Beijing in just two days on trains that travel almost as fast as airplanes under new plans from China.
China is under discussion with 17 countries to build a high-speed rail network to India and Europe with trains that are able to run at over 200mph within the ne... | high22769.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "releasing too many greenhouse gases."
},
"options": [
"cutting down too many trees.",
"releasing too many greenhouse gases.",
"growing too many vegetables.",
"raising too many cows."
],
"question": "Generally sp... | Think about what you usually have for a meal: Is it a hamburger? What about vegetables? Would it surprise you to learn that what you eat can affect the whole planet?
It can--in a big way. Scientists attending the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago presented new studies showing how fo... | high12872.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "to show that his father worked hard all the year on the sea"
},
"options": [
"to prove that his father was as great as the ocean",
"to prove that his father was a fisherman",
"to tell us that his father's clothes were very di... | Frank looked at us and said, ''My Dad was a fisherman. He was a big man, and he was strong from pulling the nets and fighting the seas for his catch. When you got close to him, he smelled like the ocean. He would wear his old canvas, foul-weather coat and his bibbed overalls. No matter how much my Mother washed them, t... | high23477.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Get four books for free in the first year"
},
"options": [
"Order a free watch.",
"Get a gift for nothing.",
"Get four books for free in the first year",
"Order a DVD at a low price."
],
"question": "Which of th... | Have you ever thought of joining a book club and buying new books through the post? Here at the International Book Club, we already have many members buying books from us by mail.
Immediate benefits:
*As a special offer, you may choose any reduced-price books from our new members' book list, to the value of $6 in total... | high8969.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "received more patents than any other American"
},
"options": [
"was the only important American inventor",
"received the first American patent",
"received more patents than any other American",
"was the first American i... | Thomas Alva Edison was awarded more patents on inventions than any other American. When he died in 1931, Americans wondered how they could best show their respect for him. One suggestion was that the nation observe a minute or two of total blackout(,). All electric power would be shut off in homes, streets, and fact... | high6950.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Internet"
},
"options": [
"newspaper",
"TV programme",
"Radio broadcast",
"Internet"
],
"question": "Can you infer where this passage is from?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_i... | It's time to be water efficient!
As populations increase across Australia and the rest of the world, demand for water will also increase. If we don't reduce each individual's demand for water (both directly and through embodied water) the water situation will become dire.
It is obvious that we cannot increase demands... | high7496.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Because she would be much sadder looking at Captain."
},
"options": [
"Because she didn't want to help with dinner.",
"Because she would be much sadder looking at Captain.",
"Because she wanted to play with Captain outside.",... | I was standing in the kitchen helping with dinner, asking my mom about my brother's doctor ' s appointment. They were testing him for autism( ) . My brother, Captain, four years old at the time, had always been my best friend. We would wrestle, play games and have the best of times together, even though we were... | high6788.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "he believed that the telephone knew everything."
},
"options": [
"he believed that the telephone knew everything.",
"the telephone could tell him a doctor's number",
"his mother was on the other end of the telephone",
"... | When I was young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember the shiny box on the wall. But I was too little to reach it, I could only listen to my mother talk on it.
I discovered that inside the wonderful box lived an amazing person whose name was Information Please. There was nothing sh... | high12866.txt |
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