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"answer_text": "Size"
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"Wi-Fi version",
"Operating system",
"Prices",
"Size"
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"question": "What is the 7.9-inch iPad Mini's major contribution to the customers?",
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... | The past week was possibly the most eventful in the history of customer technology markets,or to be precise, the 7-inch (17.8-cm) tablet market. Never before have three of thebiggest players in the industry scheduled what could be truly historic productlaunches so close together.
Despite its name, the 7.9-inch iPad M... | high4376.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "change their colours to protect themselves"
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"are small animals",
"are easily found by birds",
"are dangerous to their enemies",
"change their colours to protect themselves"
],
"question": "From t... | Do you know why different animals or pests have their special colours? Colours in them seem to be used mainly to protect themselves.
Some birds like eating locusts. but birds cannot easily catch them. Why? It is because locusts change their colours together with the change of the colours of crops. When crops are green,... | high16157.txt |
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"answer_text": "contribute to protecting endangered species"
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"contribute to protecting endangered species",
"enjoy a 10 % discount off the admission",
"become a volunteer for species at the zoo",
"be asked to donate ext... | At Bristol Zoo Gardens you can enjoy an amazing world of animals, all within our award-winning 12 acre gardens. With over 400 species and nine animals houses under cover, it's one of the best days out in Bristol whatever the weather. We suggest you allow 2-5 hours for your visit to really take in everything we have to ... | high19264.txt |
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"answer_text": "To help people enjoy walking in the street and enjoy life."
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"options": [
"To let people keep away from vehicles.",
"To build safer walkways for pedestrians.",
"To help people enjoy walking in the street and enjoy life.",
... | Put your car keys away and forget about your travel pass --- it's time to do a bit of walking.
National Walking Month is organized every May by Living Streets, an organization that campaigns for the rights and the needs of pedestrians, so the organization is previously known as the Pedestrians' Association. The associa... | high11638.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "escape the coldness outside"
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"taste the delicious coffee",
"escape the coldness outside",
"relax as a tourist",
"observe other people"
],
"question": "The author entered the nearest restaurant to... | The cold wind cut through my enthusiasm as a tourist in Washington D.C., so I entered the nearest restaurant for warmth. I ordered a hot cup of coffee, and began observing people.
Some people were having dinner in the great hall, which made me consider an early dinner. At that time, I observed a man seated nearby an... | high21923.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "is a proven good student who can learn a lot from other players."
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"enjoyed himself in the Houston Rockets",
"used to be a leader in the New York Knicks",
"is a proven good student who can learn a lot from othe... | Jeremy Shu-How Lin, who was born in California, 1988, world-famous now,is the first Chinese-American professional basketball player with the New York Knicks of NBA.
It hasn't been an easy road for Lin. After high school, Lin sent his resume and a DVD of highlights to all the Ivy League schools, and his dream schools S... | high2061.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Digging deep wells."
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"Less rainfall.",
"Insufficient water reserves.",
"Digging deep wells.",
"Environmental damage."
],
"question": "Which of the following is not the cause of the drought mentio... | A drink of water is just a matter of turning on a tap for most of us. However, water for those in drought-stricken northwestern China can't be taken for granted. Its present shortage is a matter of life and death to them.
The tragedy is the direct result of the drought that has hit a large area of northwestern China, a... | high17249.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "By making friends with others."
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"options": [
"By joining specialinterest clubs.",
"By focusing on their studies.",
"By taking up parttime jobs.",
"By making friends with others."
],
"question": "In the writer... | You will go to college some day and college is one of the most exciting stages of one's life.If you wish to make the most of your campus experience and become a better person after those four years,then first you ought to make friends.Close friends contribute to your selfgrowth for they provide you with moral support ... | high6207.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they don't get enough exercise"
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"they lack confidence",
"they do exercise alone",
"they are under great pressure",
"they don't get enough exercise"
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"question": "Many Americans fail to lose wei... | Look and feel better in 30 days, guaranteed!
Our proven workout system helps you reach your goals fast.
Many Americans are overweight for lack of physical activity. Many are struggling to lose weight, but most give up just within days. If you've struggled with diets and workout routines, only to feel like you aren't ge... | high9134.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Presently taken by people."
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"Worn out.",
"Lively and cheerful.",
"Fed on.",
"Presently taken by people."
],
"question": "What is the meaning of \"live-in\" in this passage?",
"question_type":... | What are some of the steps a person can take to prevent his house from being broken in while he or she is away? One step is to make sure that the house has a _ look. Living room shades could be pulled down only half-away. Bedrooms that usually have the shades pulled down at night should be left down. Another is to make... | high14740.txt |
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"answer_text": "516-621-3939."
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"800-718-2787.",
"888-709-8324.",
"516-621-3939.",
"800-897-6677."
],
"question": "Which number will you dial if you want to become a businessman in future?",
"question_type": ... | School of Cinema and Performing Arts
It offers two two-week sessions and one three-week session during the summer. Your teen can participate in the filmmaking, acting, dance, photography programs. He will work with professionals who will teach him the latest technology through hands-on experience. Tuition includes da... | high14998.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He seemed to have deep emotional problems."
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"He seemed to have deep emotional problems.",
"He seemed not to be getting along well with his classmates.",
"He mainly had behavior problems at school.",
"He ... | As a first -year teacher at a Christian school ,I was expecting my fifth grade students to be prefect , perfect in behavior , in attitude , and I even expected the home-life of each student to be nearly perfect . I found , of course , that these students were not different from the children I taught in public school .T... | high7119.txt |
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"answer_text": "The ways of saving money on campus."
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"The ways of saving money on campus.",
"Online teambuying becomes popular.",
"How to recognize fake goods online.",
"How to choose a city to travel."
],
"ques... | With limited pocket money in hand,many Chinese college students are increasingly opting to live life "low cost".One way to save money is teambuying.Online teambuying offers huge discounts and becomes popular on campus.
Li Jing,a student at China Youth University for Political Sciences,for example,says she often buys mo... | high6213.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "her aunt's neighbors"
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"her aunt's neighbors",
"her own neighbors",
"her own relatives",
"her family members"
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"question": "To care for her aunt's cat the writer first thought of _ .",
"q... | I loved my aunt Suzy. She was such a kind old lady. I loved going to her house on holiday. She had been sick for the last few years and, though my job had taken me away across the town, I tried to visit her as much as possible. I helped with the shopping, the cooking and the cleaning and taking her pet cat Mazy to the ... | high14754.txt |
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"answer_text": "People are free from exploitation and oppression."
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"People are free to develop their power of imagination.",
"People who are honest and work hard can succeed.",
"People are free from exploitation and oppressio... | Ask most people how they define the American Dream and chances are they'll say, "Success." The dream of individual opportunity has been home in American since Europeans discovered a "new world" in the Western Hemisphere. Early immigrants like Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur praised highly the freedom and opportunity to b... | high9120.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "suffer from monkey-pox"
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"come from Columbia",
"enjoy being with children",
"prevent us from being infected",
"suffer from monkey-pox"
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"question": "We learn from Paragraph 1 that the pet sold a... | We have met the enemy, and he is ours. We bought him at a pet shop. When monkey-pox, a disease usually found in the African rain forest, suddenly turns up in children in the American Midwest, it's hard not to wonder if the disease that comes from foreign animals is homing in on human beings. "Most of the infections w... | high16143.txt |
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"answer_text": "China Mobile isChina's largest mobile phone sellers."
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"options": [
"China Mobile isChina's largest mobile phone sellers.",
"China Mobile isChina's largest mobile communications operator.",
"China Mobile has covered nearly ... | China Mobile, the country's largest mobile communications operator, has accounted for nearly 40 percent of revenues in the domestic telecoms market. That puts it at the top of the six major telecoms operators in the nation, according to the latest official statistics .
The other five are: China Telecom, 31.1 percent... | high19270.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the cultural differences of the speakers"
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"options": [
"the beauty of the language",
"how the language is spoken",
"the cultural differences of the speakers",
"the meeting of the day"
],
"question": "In Steph... | Many English learners have difficulty deciding what kind of English accent they want to have. A US accent, perhaps modeled on the way a Hollywood star speaks? Or maybe you want to imitate the British accent of a BBC news reader?
Young British people find the US accent attractive while young US people like a British ac... | high2075.txt |
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"answer_text": "George Crookham."
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"His mother.",
"George Crookham.",
"His father.",
"The teachers in Harvard and Yale."
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"question": "Who do you think had a major influence on John Wesley Powell'S life?",
... | John Wesley Powell(1834--1902)Was a famous explorer of the American West.When he Was young,his mother put him under the guidance of George Crookham,a self-taught scientist,from whom he received a wide,but informal,education.Young John learned many things about the natural sciences.But his father preferred him to study ... | high21937.txt |
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"answer_text": "The sharp increase of tuition fees."
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"Poor quality of higher education.",
"The sharp increase of tuition fees.",
"The poor economic situation in EU.",
"Higher living cost in England."
],
"questio... | Britain's private schools are one of its most successful exports.The children of the well-off flock to them,whether from China,Nigeria or Russia :the number of foreign pupils rose by 1.4%in the last year alone.
Yet foreign students,whether educated in British private schools or elsewhere,are decreasingly likely to go t... | high18608.txt |
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"answer_text": "they are really proud of their present life"
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"they are really tired of their present situation",
"they are really proud of their present life",
"they are complaining about their current work",
"their lif... | If you live in America in the 21stcentury you'll probably have to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It's become the default response when you ask anyone how they are doing:"Busy!""Crazy busy!".It is,pretty obviously,a boast disguised as a complaint. And the common response is a kind of congratulatio... | high2713.txt |
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"answer_text": "Building snowmen was a way for people to express themselves."
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"People thought of snow as holy art supplies.",
"People longed to see masterpieces of snow.",
"Building snowmen was a way for people to express the... | Look to many of history's cultural symbols, and there you'll find an ancestor of Frosty, the snowman in the movie Frozen. It appeared on some of the first postcards, starred in some of the earliest silent movies, and was the subject of a couple of the earliest photos, dating all the way back to the 1800s. I discovered ... | high10254.txt |
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"answer_text": "How we can improve the lives of the old."
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"The problem faced by the old in society.",
"Why we should take responsibility for the old.",
"How we can improve the lives of the old.",
"Where the old can go t... | One of the serious problems for today's society is who should be responsible for the old and how to improve their lives. It is not only a financial problem but also a question of the system we want for our society. I would like to suggest several possible solutions to this problem.
First,employers should take the respo... | high16625.txt |
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"answer_text": "a reward"
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"a reward",
"a punishment",
"business",
"a gift"
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"question": "Mr Tamang treated the legacy as _ .",
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"answer_i... | Until a few months ago, he was a butler in one of the more expensive residential buildings in Manhattan. But now, Nepal-born Indra Tamang is the owner of two multi-million dollar apartments in the same building.
The former owner - his former employer, Ruth Ford - died last year and left the apartments to Mr Tamang in... | high4362.txt |
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"answer_text": "To express thanks for the blessings of the past year."
},
"options": [
"To celebrate the foundation of the country.",
"To enjoy a big feast and memorize their ancestors.",
"To express thanks for the blessings of the past year... | Americans have always been hungry for the holidays. After all, a big Thanksgiving feast is one of our country's oldest traditions, older than America itself. Thankfully, the spirit behind Thanksgiving has never changed, either. It has always been a special time to be thankful for the blessings of the past year.
The fea... | high19516.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The invention was not so convenient."
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"Clothes couldn't be washed well.",
"The invention was not so convenient.",
"The bag couldn't contain enough water.",
"The cost of the invention was very high."
... | The biggest challenge faced by travelers especially those who like to have a backpacking trip is how to ensure a steady supply of clean clothes. Now, thanks to a great invention called Scrubba Wash Pack, that worry may be a thing of the past.
The portable washing machine was invented by Ash Newland in 2010, while plann... | high13985.txt |
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"answer_text": "It is not easy to gain money"
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"options": [
"Observation is the best teacher.",
"Seeing is believing.",
"The outsider sees the most of the game.",
"It is not easy to gain money"
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"question": "By saying \"Do ... | For years I wanted a flower garden. I'd spend hours thinking of different things I could plant that would look nice together.
But then we had Matthew. And Marvin. And the twins, Alisa and Alan. And then Helen. Five children. I was too busy raising them to grow a garden.
Money was tight, as well as time. Often when my c... | high8558.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "stammerers should be understood and can contribute to the world"
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"stammerers face bullying in school but not in the workplace",
"Edward VIII gave up his crown because he was a stammerer",
"stammerers should be... | Imagine that you are in school, giving a speech to your class. Now think what it feels like when stammering makes it a struggle to communicate your thoughts and feelings to other people.
The King's Speech, which won the best picture at the Academy Awards in March, 2011, focuses on stammering along with other speech-r... | high956.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "do good to the health of consumers"
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"lower the costs of the products",
"maker its food taste hatter than ever before",
"cure the heart disease",
"do good to the health of consumers"
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"questio... | Beginning in October, more than 13,000 McDonald's restaurants in America will use a new variety of cooking oil. McDonald' s aims to make its French fries and other fried foods healthier.
The change will not affect the taste or the number of calories in the food. But by changing the cooking oil, McDonald's says, it h... | high12443.txt |
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"answer_text": "to find solutions to the problem of poverty"
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"to define what the poverty line is",
"to explain why some people live the poverty line",
"to find solutions to the problem of poverty",
"to show sympathy fo... | The poverty line is the minimum income that people need for an acceptable standard of living. People with incomes below the poverty line are considered poor. Economists study the causes of poverty in order to find solutions to the problem.
As the general standard of living in the country rises, the poverty line does, t... | high23846.txt |
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"answer_text": "A little confidence may help you achieve what might be impossible."
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"A little confidence may help you achieve what might be impossible.",
"Mrs. Goff is the best math teacher.",
"A teacher determines the fate o... | Mrs. Goff is a math teacher at Lincoln High School. Mrs. Goff and I met my freshman year. Zach Howe and I were on our way to a baseball game when he said he needed to get his stuff from Mrs. Goff's room. I had no idea who she was then, but he said she was great. Well, he was definitely right.
Last year, I had a college... | high6575.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "On her own, but not alone"
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"On her own, but not alone",
"A friend in need is a friend indeed",
"A new practice of American government",
"An impressive advantage of the Internet"
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"question": "T... | Marjorie Baer used to joke about her retirement plans. She wasn't married and had no kids, but she didn't intend to be alone--she and all her single friends would move into a fictional home she called Casa de Biddies. Instead, Baer developed terminal brain cancer when she was 52. But just as she'd hoped, her friends an... | high9646.txt |
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"answer_text": "medical records before June 25 won't be received"
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"all Michael Jackson's medical records can be accessed",
"Mitchell Beckloff will not go over the record first",
"Joe Jackson's lawyer will not get any records"... | LOS ANGELES, the US
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled Michael Jackson's father can receive some medical records related to his superstar son's death.The judge will review the records first before making them accessible to Joe Jackson's lawyer,Brian Oxman.Beckloff said the man can only receive rec... | high765.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "improve their education at home to get better jobs"
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"attend full-time universities",
"work part time to further their education",
"improve their education at home to get better jobs",
"earn their degrees... | Have you ever wondered what a Degree in your job or career? It means a lot of Americans with an Associate Degree average nearly $10,000 more in yearly earnings than those with just a High School Diploma .
Harcourt Learning Direct offers you a way to get a Specialized Associate Degree in 11 of today's growing fields--wi... | high7858.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": ". Their families"
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". Friends",
". Their families",
". Their parents",
". Other s"
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"question": "With whom do Polish people have Christmas Eve supper?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"... | People in Poland tend to spend Christmas with their families, and the most important part of Christmas is Christmas Eve supper. The whole family just sits around the table, and there are twelve traditional dishes on the table, and you are supposed to taste them all, because if you don't try them all you may have bad lu... | high23675.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Mother asked Peter to hold Kate's hand all the way."
},
"options": [
"Kate didn't know their destination at all.",
"Peter and Kate missed their stop in the end.",
"Peter is thought to take Kate to the North Pole.",
"Mot... | Peter and his seven-year-old sister ,Kate , were at the same school. Not long after his tenth birthday Peter was entrusted to take her to school.
It was only two stops down the road , but the way his parents kept going on about it , you might have thought Peter was taking Kate to the North Pole . He was given instructi... | high2920.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "her kindness to others"
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"her kindness to others",
"her excellent teaching",
"her quality of honesty",
"her positive attitude to life"
],
"question": "The author admired her mom for _ .",
"... | Growing up, I wanted to be just like my mom. She was kind. People always seemed to feel comfortable in her presence. For years, she was a volunteer in our community. I loved going to the local nursing home with her where she taught a ceramic class.
On one summer day, Mama told me to get changed and meet her at the car.... | high5097.txt |
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"answer_text": "They should take it as a reference."
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"They should take it as a reference.",
"They should make their kids' sleep hours different from it.",
"They should follow it regularly and strictly.",
"They should no... | Sleep -- or a lack of it -- is probably the most-discussed part of baby care. New parents discover its importance in those first few weeks and months after their babies were born. Actually, the quality and quantity of a baby's sleep affects the well-being of everyone in the family. So how do new parents get their child... | high16816.txt |
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"answer_text": "Jane Addams' work for social reform and world peace."
},
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"The early development of social work in America.",
"Contributions of educated women to American society.",
"Jane Addams' work for social reform and world ... | The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually and the first woman to win this prize was Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner in 1905. In fact, her work inspired the creation of the Prize. The first American woman to win this prize was Jane Addams, in 1931. However, Addams is best known as the founder of Hull House.
J... | high18185.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Friday"
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"Monday",
"Saturday",
"Friday",
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"question": "From the passage we know that the virus attacked thousands of computers on .",
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... | Email systems at thousands of companies' offices around the world were attacked by a virus called "Mellissa" that _ itself as "an important message" from a friend.
"Even though there was a weekend warning, more than 50,000 companies at about 100 places around the world have been attacked by the virus," computer expert... | high21704.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He's gaining weight and feeling bad."
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"He wants to take better care of others.",
"He's gaining weight and feeling bad.",
"He did not take any exercise in the past.",
"He got the idea from his son."
]... | Every year Chris Brogan posts his three words for a new year. Many others and I have followed his lead for the past three or four years. They helped me a lot. My words for last year were"passion", "focus"and"delegate"and I stayed true to them. This year, 2013, my goals are more personal and less professional.
FOCUS
Foc... | high5929.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Desire to drive on the road declines among American teens."
},
"options": [
"Desire to drive on the road declines among American teens.",
"Getting a license costs much more than ever before.",
"Social networking sites are cha... | When I was growing up, 16 was always a magical age, a symbol of maturity, responsibility and of course more independence and freedom. I sat through the hours of Driver's Ed classes eager to get out on the road. I couldn't wait to get my driver's license.
But it's a different story for today's teens. In January, the U.... | high3380.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "You really worn me out."
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"I was greatly astonished.",
"You really worn me out.",
"I felt much appreciated.",
"You left me impressed."
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"question": "Which of the following is closest in meaning ... | A college student has turned the act of telling someone off into an art form. Lama Ali, who attend school in Virginia, had three final assignments due on the same day for her fashion drawing class. Exhausted after working on painting for seven hours straight, the 20-year-old decided to include a message in American Sig... | high14967.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Users can find the best possible route by the system."
},
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"It can decide destination for users.",
"It sends back information every 30 minutes.",
"Users can earn much money by the system.",
"Users can find t... | More than 700 business leaders, government officials and investors gathered in Mountain View, California in December,2012 to attend the Social Innovation Summit. It is an invitation-only conference aimed at finding new ways to deal with old problems.
Traffic jam is a problem that Bruggemann hopes to solve."Traffic is r... | high23113.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "her son Paul needed an examination"
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"one of her children liked to play there",
"her son Paul needed an examination",
"she was tired and needed to see her doctor",
"she wanted to have all her children exa... | Sitting in the play area of the doctor's office, my children, Paul, four, and Bailey, three, built a Lego tower while we waited to be called for Paul's examination.
"Good job, you guys,"I said, trying not to sound too tired. My husband was away on business, and it was difficult being alone with the kids. At times I fel... | high1597.txt |
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"answer_text": "Other patients in the hospital didn't get the same kindness as her."
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"She was given less care in the hospital.",
"Patients were only given physical care in the hospital.",
"She didn't get treatment immediately... | Two years ago I fell off the steps of a bus while climbing down and twisted my ankle. What followed was the usual way that is common in the US. A few hours later I was treated and discharged. What was uncommon was that I received extra care while going to ER(emergency room) and while I was in the hospital.
People were ... | high14973.txt |
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"answer_text": "an eye-scanning camera on computer"
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... | Dear Editor,
I'm a Senior I study in a middle school. This term, my favorite teacher, Miss Mao, no longer teaches us. I want to see her, but I'm afraid that she no longer likes me and I don't want to trouble her. I really miss her. What should I do?
Tian Yan
Dear Tian Yan,
It's bad luck that you have lost your favorite... | high1583.txt |
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For the longest time I was too embarrassed to tell... | high21710.txt |
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The Silver City Council recognizes that citizens have certain needs. To better meet your needs, we have made several changes to community facilities in 2004. This chart shows how we have tried to make your life better.
Transport Three stations for the suburbs have been added... | high759.txt |
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On Nov.19,a team of students from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in the US awed peers and even scientists by successfully launching a satellite.
The first satellite ... | high11823.txt |
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Single - handed
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For inspiration, you could read some books. In the books of J.R.R. Tolkein, Bilbo Baggins finds a ring that can make him disappear. Of course, there's also poor Harry Potter, who used his invisibility cloak to hide from danger.
Now that you've... | high11837.txt |
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When I came back with the coffee, there... | high5901.txt |
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The man said, "I don't sing."
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My older son was reading a detective novel while my younger son was reading fairy tales. They were each in different rooms, _ their books with no TV, music or anything else distracting their attention.
I read a lot during my childhood, curling up in sofa or lying in bed. Like an... | high995.txt |
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"speaking is the only way to correct mistakes",
"getting and using responses is important",
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"She gave single mothers the help they needed",
"She went to a training program to help a lite... | I went through a training program and became a literacy volunteer last surnmen The training
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... | high2908.txt |
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"To prove a good sleep helps solve problems.",
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"He had breakfast at home.",
"He left a note on the freezer."
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Tim pulled on a sweater and put some apples into his schoolbag. It was too early for breakfa... | high3551.txt |
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"Shadow is a small and healthy dog",
"Mr. Brown didn't quite agree with his... | "Well, we're in our new house. Let's get a new pet to go along with it," Mrs. Brown said to her husband.
"That sounds like a very good idea," he answered. "Do you want to see the ads in the newspaper?"
"Let's go to the animal _ . Many pets there need homes. Since tomorrow is Saturday, we can both go." she said.
The nex... | high5120.txt |
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"The injured are encouraged to ac... | Do you know a child who has used first aid to save a life or help an injured person?
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The awards are open to all those under 18, and the closing date for nomi... | high13601.txt |
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"computer technology is hard for people to master",
"computers have more disadvantages than expected",
"computers have more advantages than expected",
... | As digital technology increasingly controls the lives of young people, scientists have begun to wonder: Is the Internet good or bad for kids?
"It's impossible to answer that question because the Internet is so many things," says psychologist Patricia Greenfield. "It's networked computer games and news about politics an... | high7737.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "She died before she was born"
},
"options": [
"She died six months after birth",
"She died in a medical accident.",
"She died before she was born",
"She died from lack of equipment."
],
"question": "What happene... | Over thousands of years, human beings have been learning about more and more about this world, and have figured out many ways to avoid risks and make our lives easier. Even in ancient times, we used fire to frighten away animals, built simple boats to cross waters, and armed ourselves with sharpening stones and sticks.... | high8362.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Too much screen time leads to obesity."
},
"options": [
"A new study on screens.",
"TVs do harm to children.",
"The less TV time, the fatter.",
"Too much screen time leads to obesity."
],
"question": "Which of t... | Children and teenagers who spend lots of time in front of screens---especially TVs---are easier to get more weight as they grow, according to a new study.
The findings agree with the research suggesting all that inactive sitting and always watching advertisements may lead to poor eating habits.
Researchers used res... | high7051.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "a story book"
},
"options": [
"a story book",
"a newspaper",
"a magazine",
"a guide book"
],
"question": "This passage may most probably be found in _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"... | One of the greatest warriors of history, Genghis Kahn, came from the Mongolian people. He controlled many countries in Asia and Europe because of his bravery and leadership in battle. This time period was known as the Yuan Dynasty in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Genghis decided to go hunting one day and many of his wa... | high12279.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Green plants can increase job satisfaction."
},
"options": [
"Green plants can increase job satisfaction.",
"An easier way to increase job satisfaction.",
"What the best working environment is.",
"Who are happy with the... | -American office workers spend an average of 52 hours a week at their desks, according to a statistic survey. Some might argue that not all that time is spent working,but still all those hours in windowless offices with artificial light can have an influence.
A few green additions could have a large effect on worker ha... | high1420.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Because the Cat was dying."
},
"options": [
"Because he had to give the cat away and bring back a new cat.",
"Because the Cat was bad-tempered and bad to him.",
"Because the Cat was dying.",
"Because he would leave the ... | The Zen of Cat
The Man was very sad. He knew that the Cat's days were numbered. The doctor had said there was not anything more that could be done, and that he should take the Cat home and make him as comfortable as possible.
The Man stroked the Cat on his lap and sighed. The Cat opened his eyes, purred and loo... | high18032.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "To look for a job in Robert's company"
},
"options": [
"To ask for a lift in Robert's truck.",
"To look for a job in Robert's company",
"To beg for some money to buy a ticket.",
"To expect Robert to buy him breakfast."
... | Robert is a boss who hires me as a helper. He has lost his home and now has to live back at home, with his mother, at 46.
We had a job in Fort Bending. Robert bought me breakfast there. As we were leaving ,a man walked to us asking if he could get some work from Roberts' company. Robert explained there was no work f... | high5646.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "It is more important to keep the freezer at the temperature of zero-degree."
},
"options": [
"It is more important to keep the freezer at the temperature of zero-degree.",
"It is an easy task to have your freezer serve you for 15 y... | When you choose a freezer, remember it's probably going to be with you for a long time. So it's important to know which freezer is right for your needs.
First, decide if you want an upright or chest model. Uprights are more convenient. Their storage space is more accessible and they take up less floor area. However,... | high17301.txt |
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