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"answer_text": "Their job required a good memory."
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"Their job required a good memory.",
"Most of them had a talent for acting.",
"They still enjoy popularity nowadays.",
"Their stories focused on the life of the kings."... | In the past, writing wasn't very common in West Africa. In fact none of the major early civilizations of West Africa developed a written language. Arabic was the only written language they used. The lack of a native written language does not mean that the people of West Africa didn't know their history, though. They pa... | high18231.txt |
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"answer_text": "have become victims of modern organizations"
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"have received high quality service",
"deserve the lowest status in soc... | I have had just about enough of being treated like a second-class citizen, simply because I happen to be that unfairly treated member of society --- a customer. The more I go into shops and hotels, banks and post offices, railway stations, airports and the like, the more I am convinced the things are being run merely t... | high4983.txt |
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"answer_text": "he has satisfied his hunger"
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"he has saved up enough money",
"he has grown dissatisfied with his simple shelter",
"he has satisfied his hunger",
"he has learned to build houses"
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"question": "A... | Human needs seem endless. When a hungry man gets a meal, he begins to think about an overcoat, when a manager gets a new sports car, a big house and pleasure boats dance into view.
The many needs of mankind might be regarded as making up several levels. When there is money enough to satisfy one level of needs, another ... | high11573.txt |
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"answer_text": "are largely formed in later life"
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"are largely formed in later life",
"have nothing to do with gender socialization",
"have a biological origin"
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"question... | Throughout the world, boys and girls prefer to play with different types of toys. Boys typically like to play with cars and trucks, while girls typically choose to play with dolls. Why is this? A traditional sociological explanation is that boys and girls are socialized and encouraged to play with different types of to... | high3034.txt |
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"answer_text": "They can help disabled people park their cars."
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"They are all used by disabled people.",
"They are cards designed by disabled people.",
"They can help disabled people park their cars.",
"They allow disab... | Some disabled people use a special card when they park their cars. These are called disabled placards, which are removable signs that can be hung from the rear-view mirror of a car. These placards are only supposed to be for disabled people.
These placards are meant to help disabled people in a number of ways. They al... | high11215.txt |
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"answer_text": "Modern technology."
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"Unhealthy lifestyle.",
"Modern technology.",
"Environmental conditions.",
"Work stress."
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"question": "Which of the following is not a direct cause of sleep problems?",
... | Do you sleep well? Some people get off to sleep as soon as their head hits the pillow, but many others are not so lucky. In fact, the lack of quality sleep has become a public health issue around the world. According to me World Association of Sleep Medicine, 45 percent of the world's population suffer from sleep prob... | high3752.txt |
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"answer_text": "caffeine"
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"question": "There is a controversy over the STEEM Peanut Butter because it contains _ .",
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{... | Americans love peanut butter. The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter before he or she graduates high school. But there is a controversy over a new peanut butter. It is called STEEM Peanut Butter. This peanut butter adds a new ingredient: caffeine . Coffee is a popular morning drink because it has caffeine and g... | high19891.txt |
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"answer_text": "it's no use dreaming but be practical"
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"you will certainly get what you want",
"it's no use dreaming but be practical",
"you should never be satisfied with what you have",
"it's essential to be ambitious... | You may have heard some respectable elders say, "It's not what you want in this world, but what you get."
Psychology teaches that you do get what you want if you know what you want and want the right things.
You can make a mental blueprint of a desire as you would make a blueprint of a house, and each of us is continua... | high5323.txt |
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"answer_text": "there were signs of hibernation in human sleeping habits"
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"people might become lazy as a result of too much sleep",
"there were signs of hibernation in human sleeping habits",
"people tended to sleep more pe... | Have you winterized your horse yet? Even though global warming may have made our climate more mild, many animals are still hibernating .It's too bad that humans can't hibernate. In fact, as a species, we almost did.
Apparently, at times in the past , peasants in France liked a semi-state of human hibernation . So writ... | high18557.txt |
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"answer_text": "Something done to gain knowledge while traveling."
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"Something done to gain knowledge while traveling.",
"Something done to know more about one's own country while traveling.",
"Something done to know more abou... | There's no need to say it, but there are really more than a few benefits to educational tours. From the word itself, an educational tour is something done to gain knowledge while traveling and touring to some place. It creates opportunities for people to think out of the box and see things and places that aren't usuall... | high9519.txt |
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"answer_text": "Life full of sensual pleasures."
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"Life without pain and grief.",
"Life full of sensual pleasures.",
"Life with desire for possessions.",
"Life full of imagination."
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"question": "What kind of l... | Everyone agrees that all the creatures want happiness and are afraid of pain and grief. The question, however, is "What is real happiness?" The desire for happiness has no meaning without understanding the real nature of happiness.
Generally, ordinary beings consider sensual pleasures as happiness, and their actions a... | high1145.txt |
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"answer_text": "Many new websites appear and develop fast."
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"Online games are more and more attractive.",
"Many new websites appear and develop fast.",
"More and more people want to travel abroad.",
"It helps travelers ... | World travel has moved on to a new level as new websites spring up to enable travelers to plan their trips online. Virtual tourism is the latest name of the game and although relatively new, has seen some tourism websites grow to host over one-million users.
Typically, this development features a website that contains ... | high13402.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because he wanted to be a full-time writer."
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"Because he didn't like the working conditions.",
"Because he couldn't earn enough to make a living.",
"Because he wanted to be a full-time writer.",
"Because... | When middle-aged Alex quit his job and made up his mind to become a self-employed writer, no one could tell for sure whether he would succeed or not.He found a cold storage room in a building, set up a used typewriter and settled down to work.
After a year or so, however, Alex began to doubt himself.He found it was dif... | high15073.txt |
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"answer_text": "watch TV programs online"
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"listen to music",
"make a call",
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"read newspapers"
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"question": "People use iPlayer to _ .",
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}... | The iPhone, the iPad, each of Apple's products sounds cool and has become a fad . Apple has cleverly taken advantage of the power of the letter "i" - and many other brands are following suit. The BBC's iPlayer - which allows Web users to watch TV programs on the Internet -adopted the title in 2008. A lovely bear - pop... | high8607.txt |
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"answer_text": "don't want to have it as food"
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"don't want it to die",
"hope it will grow quickly",
"don't want to have it as food",
"want to practice their fishing skills"
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"question": "People sometimes set a... | It is often necessary to release a fish, that is, set it free after catching, because it is too small, or you just don't want to take it home to eat. In some cases, releasing fish is a good measure that will help keep fish variety and build their population size. The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF) encou... | high7534.txt |
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"answer_text": "Phil and his wife lived in Australia."
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"Phil and his wife lived in Australia.",
"Phil knew he was going to save his son.",
"Benji was going to see off his son on the beach.",
"Benji and Phil were separat... | Waiting anxiously to be reunited with the son he had not seen for 13 years, Phil Baker took a walk along the beach with his wife Lyn to relax himself. His boy Benji, 21, was finally back to Australia after living most of his life in the UK, half a world away from his dad.
As he looked out at the ocean, wondering how hi... | high12293.txt |
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"answer_text": "because Allie is anxious about talking about leaving"
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"because Allie is anxious about talking about leaving",
"Because Allie is tired of the author's suggestion",
"Because the author is angry with Allie's rude... | My daughter Allie is leaving for college in a week. Her room is cluttered with shopping bags filled with blankets, towels, jeans, sweaters. She won't talk about going.
I say, "I'm going to miss you," and she gives me one of her looks and leaves the room. Another time I say, in a voice so friendly it surprises even me... | high22350.txt |
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"answer... | Children form opinions about drugs and alcohol at a very early age. Even four and five year olds have definite opinions about alcohol. Preschoolers, because of the commercials they see on TV, often think that alcohol helps people have more fun and be better athletes! Images of alcohol are everywhere in out society--con... | high9096.txt |
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"answer_text": "Egg in a bottle"
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"The pressure of the air",
"Egg in a bottle",
"Egg, bottle and match"
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"question": "The best title of this passage can be _ .",
"question_type": "... | Here's an amazing way to get a hard-boiled egg into a bottle, even though the mouth of the boiled is smaller than the egg! What's more, you don't even need to touch the egg to get it to go in!
For this experiment you will need:
*a hard-boiled egg
*a glass bottle with a mouth just slightly smaller than the egg (a fruit-... | high10484.txt |
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"answer_text": "David Cameron isn't as popular in America as James Cameron"
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"71 percent of Americans are pessimistic about the future.",
"Michael Hogan is exec... | Most Americans think the quality of life for adults under 30 years old, or Generation Y, won't be as good as it is for their baby-boomer parents, according to a new poll.
More than 60 percent of people are pessimistic about the future, and 71 percent of young Americans under 30 said they would rather go back ... | high21881.txt |
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"answer_text": "send postcards as the gifts to the class"
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"send postcards as the gifts to the class",
"make phone calls to all the classmates",
"buy gifts for some of the classmates",
"give each classmate a picture as a... | Ask a question! Email it to Letters@Highlights.com.
Gift Giving
I'm going to China and everyone in my class is asking me to buy them something. What should I do?
Reply from the Highlights Editor:
Your classmates are probably just excited about your trip. Most likely they don't expect you to buy gifts for everyone. Send... | high11942.txt |
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"answer_text": "offer some ways to experience extreme sports"
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"introduce the most exciting sports around the worl... | Ice-climb in London
The huge ice skating area at Somerset House has been drawing crowds each winter for years, but last November an ice wall was added for the first time, bringing even more danger and excitement. Standing more than 26 feet high is along line of pure ice, featuring three climbing faces of varying diffic... | high20547.txt |
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] | The total area of land on earth is about 149 million square kilometers, or about 39 percent of the total area of the earth.
The average height of the land is about 750 metres above the sea level .The Eurasian land mass is the largest with an area of 54,527,600 square kilometers .The smallest continent is the A... | high21659.txt |
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"answer_text": "temperatures and water levels in the air"
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"temperatures and levels of air"
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"question": "The shap... | Winter weather has returned to northern areas of the world. In much of the United States, winter means the return of snow.
Snow is a form of frozen water. It contains many groups of tiny ice particles ( ) called snow crystals ( ) . These crystals grow from water particles in cold clouds. They usually grow around a piec... | high18966.txt |
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"to convince women that they should spend more time at home",
"to convince women that they should spend more time at work... | Many American women are earning money outside their homes today. Among women who are eighteen to sixty-four years old, more than fifty per cent have jobs.
In general, working women have had more education then those who stay at home. Of those who work, thirty-two per cent have attended college, compared with twenty... | high20221.txt |
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"answer_text": "further researches on the Mona Lisa"
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"an American physicist's discovery",
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"questio... | A camera and a computer can "see" something that perhaps millions of pairs of eyes failed to see for 480 years: the Mona Lisa's necklace. The discovery about the famous painting was made by an American physicist.
The Mona Lisa, painted by the Italian, Leonardo da Vinci, has been on show for many years in Paris. Now a r... | high638.txt |
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"They can do everything as they like.",
"They are well developed on all sides.",
"They are almost separ... | There's a dark little joke: Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a hundred-year sleep. Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices. Young people sit on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls-- every place Rip goes just puzzles him. But... | high24047.txt |
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"answer_text": "find land; get permission; cost project"
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"cost project; build project; finish touches",
"find land; cost project; build project",
"find land; get permissio... | Build the Dream is a website produced by Travis Perkins, one of the UK's leading builders merchants, to assist with self-builds, renovations, extensions and improvements. Go with the first step; find land, get planning permission and cost your project. Start out with our advice and practical help on costing your projec... | high7905.txt |
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"answer_text": "seek their favorite food in a new place"
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"avoid being constantly hunted",
"breed more young in a new place",
"adjust themselves to the changes of weather"
]... | Contrary to people's previous knowledge, it's food shortage not dietary preference that motivates birds to migrate thousands of miles back and forth between breeding and nonbreeding areas each year, a new research shows.
"It's not whether you eat insects,fruits or candy bars or where you eat them that counts,but how re... | high14184.txt |
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"answer_text": "By boat."
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"By plane.",
"By boat.",
"By train."
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"question": "How did the writer travel to Dublin?",
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"answer_i... | London is my favorite city in the world and it's a place that draws me back to it again and again.
My first trip to London at the age of 19 was my first solo trip anywhere. I found a home stay program in one of my guidebooks so I spent my first several days staying on the out streets of London near Ealing Broadway. ... | high22436.txt |
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"answer_text": "Material goods bring people less happiness than experiences."
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"About onethird of the people prefer material goods to experiences.",
"Materialists... | If your parents were to surprise you with a present on your birthday, which one would you prefer, a trip to the amusement park or a new pair of shoes?
According to Science Daily, about onethird of the people are likely to prefer shoes to a fun trip. These people are called "materialists", namely, those who value materi... | high13833.txt |
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"answer_text": "have normal language skills"
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"are looked down upon by others"
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"question": "Children with a stutter a... | A new Australian research indicates that children with a stutter do not suffer disadvantages at school, More than ten percent of children have a stutter by the age of four but they score just as high as other children on tests designed to judge their language, thinking skills and character.
Professor Reilly's team st... | high9928.txt |
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"answer_text": "Get the tears big enough to break away from his eyes."
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"Get the tears big enough to fall off of his eyes.",
"Rub his eyes against his helmet to let the ... | Entering Space, astronauts can give us a fascinating account of a shuttle flight, describing the pressure of a countdown and launch, the complexities of living the days in the strange weightless environment, the challenges of working in space, the emotional effect of seeing earth from space, the drama of the meteoric l... | high7911.txt |
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"answer_text": "To improve Aboriginal children's school attendance."
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"To improve Aboriginal children's school attendance.",
"To get tribal chiefs to support education.",
"To punish pare... | Parents on South Australia's Aboriginal lands may lose some of their financial aid if they do not send their children to school. The new rules draw wide concern.
Mundine is Prime Minister Tony Abbott's top advisor on issues concerning Aboriginals, native Australians. "Now, I know the government needs some necessary m... | high13827.txt |
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"answer_text": "introduce a movie called Night at the Museum"
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"introduce a movie called Night at the Museum",
"made known a USdirector Shawn Levy",
"make students learn his... | Teachers spend countless years trying to make history come alive for their students. But, prefix = st1 /USDirector Shawn Levy attempts to do this on film in the recently released Night at the Museum.
The film is adapted from Milan Trenc's book of the same name. It brings to life a world where dinosaurs wander the eart... | high16787.txt |
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"answer_text": "Three."
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"Three.",
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"question": "At least how many children does Mrs. Gardiner have?",
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"answer_ind... | When Cathleen Gardiner's twins were born 17 years ago, doctors told her that they were a pair in a million. One had Down syndrome , while the other did not. Here, Cathleen tells their touching story.
Since Sean was born 17 years ago, I have always thought that he is just as wonderful as his brother and sister. Though h... | high2869.txt |
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"answer_text": "Huge."
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"Hot.",
"Bright.",
"All above."
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"question": "Which words tell us what the sun is like?",
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All living things need light and heat from the sun to live. Plants need light and heat to grow. They use the light from the sun to make food. We cannot make our own food, but plant... | high20235.txt |
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"answer_text": "More people may lose their jobs."
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"The economic recovery is to be sped up.",
"Many companies may make higher profits.",
"More people may lose their jobs.",
"Traditional skills will be improved."
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... | The Toyota Prius hybrids adapted by Google's engineers have covered 300,000 miles on the roads of California without a human at the wheel, but with only one accident by a human-controlled car.It's clear that driverless cars are much safer than human-controlled ones.40,000 people are killed every year in road accidents ... | high17499.txt |
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"the nurse was joking with him",
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"question": "The w... | My first reaction was annoyance. It was Friday afternoon, and I was within an hour of finishing my work for the week. As I was leaving, a nurse brought me one more patient message. The statement read: "Mm. Jones called to say that she has had blurred vision ever since her medical test this morning. " I smiled. Sudde... | high21895.txt |
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"answer_text": "has side effects on students in college entrance exams"
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"contributes to scores in college entrance exams",
"has no effects on good math students",
"has s... | Worrying about how you'll perform on a math test may actually contribute to a lower test score, US researchers said on Saturday.
Math anxiety--feelings of dread and fear and avoiding math--can weaken the brain's limited amount of working capacity, a resource needed to calculate difficult math problems, said Mark Ashcra... | high20553.txt |
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"Smooth.",
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"Tiring."
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"question": "Which of the following best describes Webster's life at Yale?",
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"answer_... | Noah Webster, born on October 16, 1758 , is known for The American Dictionary of the English Language. He has been called the " Father of American Scholarship and Education. " His " Blue-Backed Speller" books were used to teach spelling and reading to five generations of American children. But how much .do you know abo... | high5860.txt |
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"New York City",
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"question": "Where did Fitzgerald spend most of her childhood?",
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... | One of the most successful singers of the twentieth century , Ella Fitzgerald, has made several different styles of her own. She was born in Virginia but was brought up in Yonkers, New York. Chick Webb noticed her in a competition when she was sixteen. He asked her to sing with his band , and when he died in 1939, she... | high9082.txt |
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"answer_text": "A robbery can affect your moods at home."
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"You cannot insure against damage to property.",
"A robbery can affect your moods at home.",
"It takes a long time to... | Many people think there is no need to take special care over home security.
"I'm all right, I'm insured "
Maybe--if you're fully insured. Even then you can never recover the real value you place on your possessions. But you can't insure against the upset and unhappiness that we all feel if our homes are torn apart by ... | high5690.txt |
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"answer_text": "A \"wonder\" mineral"
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"Fireproof matter",
"A \"wonder\" mineral",
"A new roofing material"
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"question": "Which title best expresses the main idea of this passage?",
... | Although man has known asbestos for many hundreds of years, it was not until 160 years ago that it was mined for the first time on the North American continent. H. W. Johns, owner of a New York City Supply Shop for roofers , was responsible for(...) the opening of that first mine.
Mr. Johns was given a piece of as... | high21665.txt |
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"answer_text": "less than half of its population"
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"question": "Eight months ago the number of registered users of Facebook in UK wa... | Facebook is now used by 30 million people in the UK, around half the population. Joanna Shields, vice president of Facebook Europe, made the announcement this morning at a media conference in London.
Globally, Facebook has more than 500 million registered users, a milestone it hit last summer. Last July it had 26 mil... | high5848.txt |
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"answer_text": "he wanted his friends to think that was all he wanted to record"
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"he wanted to find out whether the tape recorder was working",
"he wanted to make his friend... | Once I invited a group of friends round to my house, telling them that I was going to record their speech. I said I was interested in their regional accents, and that it would take only a few minutes. Thus, on one evening, three people turned up at my house and were shown into my front room. When they saw the room they... | high7087.txt |
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"A life away from paper and pencils."
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Your address was forwarded to us by How to Magazine.All of us here think The International Institute of Not Doing Much is the best organization in the world.You know how to avoid unnecessary activities!
As a matter of fact, we closely followed the advice in your article.First, we replaced all ou... | high9914.txt |
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},
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"The political views of Obama from his childhood.",
"The determination and hard work of young Obama.",
... | The producer of a new Indonesian movie about President Obama's childhood years in Jakarta is hoping that interested Americans will flock to see the film, Little Obama, in theatres across the country.
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"the office had a new appearance"
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"understand the meaning of being creative",
"learn many new words by heart"
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"the restaurants offer different food and drinks from other restaurants",
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},
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},
"options": [
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"the whole society care for children as well as their parents",
"Schools and teachers... | A senior United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) official on May 29 praised China for its remarkable achievements in children's welfare .
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"be polite and friendly",
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"understand what they think about"
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"answer": {
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"Both A and B"
],
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Some children feel it is very difficult to do their ho... | high14812.txt |
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},
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"make a call",
"watch TV programs online",
"play computer games"
],
"question": "People use iPlayer to _ .",
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],
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},
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"are working for high-tech companies.",
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"are victims of sleeping sickness."
],
"question": "These are designed for ... | Energy pod:
It was designed by a US company with NASA technology. It puts the human body in the best sleeping position and blocks outside noise to create an ideal napping experience. Silicon Valley high-tech companies such as Google provide the Pod for employees.
White noise radio:
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"was not equal to the job any longer",
"didn't get along well with others"
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"11."
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"answer": {
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Her business began to have problems in 2008 after going through her books
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"can produce power",
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],
"question": "Roosegaarde's device .",
"questio... | Hong Kong (CNN)--A Dutch artist and designer has come up with a device he hopes will suck pollutants from Beijing's smog-covered skies, creating columns of clean air for residents.
An electromagnetic field caused by copper coils will pull small pieces in the smog to the ground where they can be easily cleaned.
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"answer": {
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],
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},
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What the scientists say is that dogs that exhibit anxiety when left home alone by their owners may have bigger prob... | high16036.txt |
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"answer": {
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"teach his daughter how to sing"
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"the old man refused to teach him everything",
"the king's old servant order... | Once upon a time a man became a great archer .He asked the king to _
him as the greatest archer of the country.The king was about to do so when an old
servant of the king said,"Wait,sir.I know an old man who lives in the forest.He is a
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"answer": {
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},
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"you can use a calculator to exchange money",
"applying for different visas is much simpler",
"one visa is good ... | Signs in Chinese will be set up in public areas such as airports, to benefit Chinese travelers, the Italian Government announced in late February. _ .
Despite the different languages, travel across Europe has never been so simple. Just five years ago, if you wanted to visit Germany in the north and Spain in the south i... | high2100.txt |
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"had an interest in physics",
"would like her children to be good at math"
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},
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"It includes art collections from different countries.",
"It has a large collection of impression... | The Museum of Fine Arts, located in Boston Massachusetts, was founded in 1870. The current buildings, the result of many additions and restructures of the original building, were completed in 1981.
Today the museum is home to more than 25,000 square feet of exhibition space. The collection varies and includes Asian art... | high20584.txt |
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"answer": {
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"ask for some advice",
"answer some questions",
"invite her to dinner"
],
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"q... | Dear Betty,
My roommate's family wants me to celebrate Thanksgiving Day with them in their home. I accepted the invitation, and I'm excited about going, but I'm a little nervous about it, too. The social customs in my country are different from those here, so I'm a little worried about making mistakes.
Should I bring a... | high17328.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Because she was criticized by many people for her unintentional behaviors."
},
"options": [
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"Because she didn't win any medal.",
"Because she was criticized by... | Gabby Douglas stood beneath the Rio Olympic Arena, still in her Team USA leotard, trying hard to understand how she had become the most unpatriotic athlete in Rio. Tears filled in her eyes. She tried hard to talk but no words came out. Her pauses were long and uncomfortable.
"I've been trying to stay off the Internet b... | high14621.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "very thin"
},
"options": [
"very fat",
"very thin",
"good-looking",
"young-looking"
],
"question": "We can infer from the passage that Sam Berns was _ .",
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},
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"Even though I have many difficulties in my life, I don't want people to feel bad for me," Sam said during a TED talk.
Progeria affects approximately one in every 4 million to 8 million newborns. Right now, there are only abou... | high9055.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "They should read as wide as possible."
},
"options": [
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"They should read books about intelligence.",
"They must read about politics when their major is medicine.",
"They shoul... | Read a lot, I mean a lot! You have to increase your ability for reading. Many students are in the habit of reading only when their exams are approaching while some others read only what they are taught or things that must be read because it is in their curriculum. But listen to me now, I am telling you from my own expe... | high6366.txt |
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"answer": {
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"By train.",
"By air.",
"On foot."
],
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},
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
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I flew to Nairobi in Kenya and spent several days there. At my hotel in Nairobi I met the rest of the group with whom I would spend the next week. We all travelled on the bus together for a 6-hour journey into Tanzania and then Arusha , a quiet town... | high1409.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
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},
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"loses her heart to you",
"feels hungry at the time"
],
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No one love... | high12250.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
"The clone created will have one defect or another.",
"The clone created will be mistreated.",
"The clone created is unlikely to fulfill your expectations.",
"The c... | Some scientists have suggested that it might in some cases be ethically acceptable to clone existing people. One possibility is generating replacement for a dying . All such possibilities, however, raise the concern that the clone would be treated as less than a complete individual, because he or she would likely suf... | high22393.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a winning horse"
},
"options": [
"Isaac\"s father",
"a winning horse",
"a slave taking care if horses",
"the first racing horse in Kentucky"
],
"question": "We know from the text that Buchanan is _ .",
"qu... | May : Happenings from the past
May 5,1884
Isaac Murphy , son of a slave and perhaps the greatest horse rider in American history , rides Buchanan to win his first Kentucky Derby . He becomes the first rider ever to win the race three times .
May 9 , 1754
Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette produces perhaps the fir... | high7078.txt |
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"answer": {
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"there is some rain, but far from enough",
"the rainfall is just enough for the plants"
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},
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"the sales of textbooks and course materials",
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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Our confidential and professional service includes:
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
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},
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"Shera Road route",
"Shore Road route",
"Spencer Street starwalkers"
],
"question": "Part of Bell Road route is similar to _ .",
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Bell Road route
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"How might our unde... | Climatic conditions are delicately adjusted to composition of the Earth's atmosphere. If there were a change in the atmosphere -- for example, in the amounts of atmospheric gases -- the climate would probably change also. A slight increase in water vapor , for example, would increase the heat-keeping capacity of th... | high24084.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "7"
},
"options": [
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"7",
"15",
"30"
],
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},
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
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We have arrived in the hot, wet city of Bangkok. This is our first trip toThailand . All the different smells make us want to try the food. We aregoing to eat something special for dinner tonight. The hotel we are staying in is
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
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},
"options": [
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"different smells can keep people feel happy",
"smells are effective if used in suitable cases",
"hospitals ta... | Our sense of smell, which we normally take for granted, is nowadays being increasingly used for purposes which might surprise us if we realized them.
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[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "because your dog loves the particular way you smell."
},
"options": [
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"because your dog is hungry",
"because your dog wants to attract your attention",
"because your dog loves ... | If your dog looks pleased to see you - it is probably because it loves the particular way you smell.
The odour of a familiar human apparently lingers like perfume in the animal's brain - where it triggers an instinctive emotional response, research published yesterday reveals.
Our scent acts on a part of the canine bra... | high6400.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A Survival from a Shark Attack"
},
"options": [
"Courage Can Beat Any Difficulty",
"How to Escape from a Shark Attack",
"A Survival from a Shark Attack",
"Sharks Can Target Humans Sometimes"
],
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It's been a long journey back for the brave girl, whose life was changed forever as she was on her surfboa... | high5109.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "they can perform better than others"
},
"options": [
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"they can perform better than others",
"the group projects are too stressful",
"average students are unwilling to participate"
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "pay more attention to"
},
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"come up with"
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
"The lone goalkeeper gave it everything he had, desperately throwing his body.",
"He became a raging maniac -- shouting, runnin... | I was watching some little kids play soccer. These kids were only five or six years old, but they were playing a real game -- a serious game -- two teams, complete with coaches, uniforms, and parents. I didn't know any of them, so I was able to enjoy the game without the distractionof being anxious about winning or los... | high4217.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Their child death rate remains high."
},
"options": [
"They adopt healthy living habits.",
"They have poor immune systems.",
"They eat food with fewer bacteria.",
"Their child death rate remains high."
],
"quest... | In 1988, a company in Ohio invented an alcohol-based hand cleaner, which was meant to be used by health-care worker; when soap and water were unavailable. Joe Kanfer, the company's C. E. O., told me recently, "there were a couple of other alcohol products out there, but they were really ugly. Either they were greasy ... | high19463.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "he had bad eyesight"
},
"options": [
"he was unlearned",
"he was in poor condition",
"he was inexperienced",
"he had bad eyesight"
],
"question": "Hemingway was turned down for army service in World war I becaus... | Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21st, 1899. Influenced by his father, he enjoyed camping, fishing and hunting at his early age. In 1917, after graduation from high school, Hemingway began his writing career with The Kansas City Star. And then, after being rejected for army service in World War ... | high10335.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Guanfu Museum, the first private museum in China was founded fifteen years ago."
},
"options": [
"Guanfu Museum was built in 2008.",
"Ma Weidu was invited to lecture by Guanfu Museum.",
"The public were attracted by Chinese a... | Ma Weidu is the founder and curator of Guanfu Museum, which is the first private museum in China. With mainly Chinese artifacts on exhibition, the museum was founded on Jan. 18,l 997.It was not well-known by the public until 2008.
On Jan. l,2008,Ma Weidu was invited to be the guest in the flagship CCTV program "Lectur... | high2672.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "They are all members of groups."
},
"options": [
"They are more or less solitary",
"They all belong to clubs.",
"They are all members of groups.",
"They separate themselves from the rest of mankind."
],
"questio... | The social sciences, as the name shows, are the scientific study of the behavior of human beings, both in groups and individually. There is no past or present information of human beings who were not in groups. The groups may be small, like the family, or large, like a city or nation. But in order to reach complete dev... | high19477.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Ancient dogs entered North America across the Bering Land Bridge."
},
"options": [
"Native Americans domesticated local wolves into dogs.",
"Scientists discovered some ancient dog remains in 1920s.",
"Latin America's dogs are... | When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, dogs were by their sides, according to a study published in the journal Science.
Robert Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jennifer Leonard of the Smithsonian Institute, used DNA material--some of it unearthed by miners ... | high4203.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Most movies describe stories that happen in our life."
},
"options": [
"Most movies are about relationships between friends.",
"Most movies describe stories that happen in our life.",
"Movies about friendship are popular with... | Most of the movies show our relationships and our society. What's more important is that people love to watch highs and lows of the relationships in movies. Friendship has been the favorite subject of movie makers for a long time. Many movies are based on lovely relationships like friendship. Friendship can be between ... | high16744.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "England"
},
"options": [
"Greece",
"China",
"England",
"India"
],
"question": "Where did the king live?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_... | Long long ago, there lived in England a king named Midas. He was a greedy man and loved gold better than anything else in the world.
One day, he asked a god to give him more gold. The god decided to punish him and said, "Your wish is _ already. Everything you touch will turn to gold."
Midas was very happy when he hea... | high8439.txt |
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