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"answer_text": "Dress up as baby bears to learn about bears."
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"Watch bears' performances.",
"Take care of bears",
"Dress up as baby bears to learn about bears.",
"Learn how to survive a bear attack."
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"questio... | Discover Nature Schools programs
Becoming Bears (Kindergarten-2 grade)
By becoming baby bears, children learn from their "parent" to survive the seasons. Kids will find safety in the spring and learn kinds of food bears eat during the summer, and then create a cave for winter hibernation . After learning the skills nee... | high5096.txt |
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"answer_text": "he spent quite some time looking for a suitable place to live in"
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"he spent a year writing about the place he lived in",
"he spent quite some time looking for a suitable place to live in",
"he stayed in an Ind... | I came to India a year ago to find a village in which I could live and write but it was many months before I settled down happily in this Himalayan community.I wasted a lot of time looking for the "typical" village, yet no such thing exists. Conditions vary too widely.But the villages I stayed in had much in common--po... | high2921.txt |
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"answer_text": "attract people to go on the tours"
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"options": [
"advise people to learn more about the Capital City",
"introduce Tour One Inc. to us",
"advertise a tour in the Capital City",
"attract people to go on the tours"
]... | Tour One invites you to join our tours of the Capital City. Your host will entertain you with historical anecdotes and offer an endless supply of "insider" tips to make your visit wonderful. Your time with us will be the highlight of your visit to Washington DC. Because class size does matter, Tour One uses a minibus... | high21063.txt |
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"answer_text": "They had to observe the official rules."
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"He was diagnosed with lung cancer.",
"He was unwilling to give away his money.",
"They had to observe the official rules.",
"They didn't want to disturb his peac... | Winning the lottery is not the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for many past winners. Sad stories do exist in large numbers for the past lottery winners and that's why some financial experts say "70 percent of lottery winners will squander away winning within a few years." Some end up losing all within two ye... | high4388.txt |
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"answer_text": "her mixed feelings during the months leading towards graduation and on the actual graduation day"
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"the great excitement during the months leading up to the big event--the graduation ceremony",
"her mixed feelings du... | High school graduation--the bittersweet feelings are as much a part of me now as they were twenty-one years ago.
As graduation day approached, excitement increased. Being out of high school meant I was finally coming of age. Soon I would be on my own, making my own decisions, doing what I wanted without someone looking... | high9874.txt |
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"answer_text": "23 people were killed and dozens of others were injured."
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"34 people were killed.",
"There were many Israeli casualties.",
"23 people were killed and dozens of others were injured.",
"Many houses were bu... | CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) April 24, 2006--Three explosions shook the Egyptian Sinai _ of Dahab on Monday, killing 23 people and wounding dozens of others, rescue and security officials said.
Witnesses said smokebillowed1up from the town's tourist bazaar, and residents said they saw body parts anddebris2on the street after... | high7681.txt |
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"answer_text": "They are very smart whales."
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"options": [
"They live in the Atlantic Ocean.",
"They are highly thought of.",
"They are very smart whales.",
"They are the smallest in number."
],
"question": "What can we learn... | In the Arctic Ocean waters live the social animals---belugas, which is also known as white whales. Highly intelligent, these whales use different sounds to communicate and find their way. Belugas are also among the smallest kinds of whales.
More than 210 belugas, including 31 in the United States, live in aquariums a... | high23674.txt |
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"answer_text": "Using their wings to sense the sound vibrations"
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"Using their feet to sense the vibration of things",
"Using their ears to listen directly",
"Using their wings to sense the sound vibrations",
"Using thei... | Butterflies are some of the most fascinating and beautiful insects in the world. Adult butterflies will live about 2 to 4 weeks. They use their senses of sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste to survive in the world, find food and mates, lay eggs in an appropriate place, migrate, and avoid hungry enemies.
Butterflies... | high7859.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "has caused payment revolution in Germany"
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"was invented by the Edeka supermarket chain",
"has caused payment revolution in Germany",
"is more popular with young people",
"is preferred by most American cu... | A new system that scans customers' fingerprints and subtracts the grocery bill from their bank accounts has taken supermarkets in Germany to use the new system. "Almost a quarter of our customers pay with their fingers," said an employee at the headquarters. Edeka has tried the system at 70 of its supermarkets. It says... | high764.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "to share trust and cooperation"
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"options": [
"to drive with a companion",
"to have personal independence",
"to gain certain responsibility",
"to share trust and cooperation"
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"question": "The author conside... | One night recently, I was driving down a two-lane highway at about 60 miles an hour. A car approached from the opposite direction at about the same speed. As we passed each other, I caught the other driver's eye for only a second. I wondered whether he might be thinking, as I was, how dependent we were on each other at... | high1596.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The sudden brake."
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"options": [
"The sharp U-turn.",
"The steep dam.",
"The sudden brake.",
"A truck hitting the car."
],
"question": "What might be the main reason. For the car accident?",
"question_type... | The 30 miles of steep roads that snake through the mountains of Logan Canyon in Utah are enough to make most drivers'hands sweat. But Andersen, a 46-year-old father of four, wasn't expecting any trouble on the road last New Year's Eve, when he set off for a ski trip to the Bear River Mountains with nine-year-old daught... | high23112.txt |
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"answer_text": "Strasbourg"
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"Paris",
"Barn",
"Nancy",
"Strasbourg"
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"question": "Where did the author get off the train?",
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"ans... | Sunday, October 5
Clear, 69degF
My wife, Eleanor and I took the train from Paris to Strasbourg, where we were met by our driver and guide, and the minibus which goes along with the boat. We stopped off in Barn for an hour on the way. Then we were taken to Nancy where the boat was kept.
After the other passengers arrive... | high3381.txt |
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"answer_text": "He made the film Strange Skies."
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"He is an artist from Harvard University.",
"He opened a restaurant for plants.",
"He made the film Strange Skies.",
"He liked recording Italian skies."
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"quest... | From Avatar to Lord of the Rings, plants are no strangers to playing big movie roles. However, no one has ever shot a film that plants themselves can watch until now. In a New York art gallery, seven house plants have spent the last seven weeks watching Strange Skies, the first travel documentary for a vegetable audien... | high5928.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because she didn't like the greedy owner."
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"Because she didn't like the greedy owner.",
"Because she wanted to save the gold for the poor.",
"Because the basement was too cold to stay in.",
"Because she ... | Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the guestroom. Instead the angels were given some space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. Whe... | high21705.txt |
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"answer_text": "It overlooks the River Ouse."
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"It overlooks the River Ouse.",
"It was built about 120 years ago.",
"It is located in the suburb of Bedford.",
"It takes you about an hour to drive from the hotel to Luton ... | Built in 1794 for the 5th Duke of Bedford, this hotel in the heart of Bedford overlooks the River Ouse, which winds through the beautiful Bedfordshire countryside. We offer a flexible approach to conferencing. With purpose-built meeting rooms offering a flexible and functional space, our hotel is designed for comfort a... | high18184.txt |
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"answer_text": "Sprayable Energy lets users not worry about taking in unnecessary calories.."
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"options": [
"A bottle of Sprayable Energyis cheaper than 40 cups of coffee. .",
"Sprayable Energy lets users not worry about taking in unnecessary ca... | Many people rely on a cup of coffee or two to wake them up in the morning or pick them up during the working day, but now a chemist has come up with a speedy alternative to crafting a cup of coffee.
U.S. biochemist Ben Yu has created 'Sprayable Energy,' which claims to be the world's first caffeine - based topical ener... | high10533.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "enjoyable"
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"surprising",
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"enjoyable",
"serious"
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"question": "In this passage, the English week is described as _ .",
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"answer": {... | The first English week at our school started on May 4th, 2009. The whole school was filled with an English learning atmosphere. A series of activities was held. There were handwriting activities, story writing, English songs, role playing in English, and so on, all the teachers and students were very happy. They spoke ... | high2074.txt |
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"answer_text": "How John Milton studied Latin."
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"options": [
"How John Milton wrote \"Paradise Lost\".",
"How John Milton studied Latin.",
"How John Milton became famous.",
"How John Milton became a poet."
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"question": "Wh... | When John Milton, writer of "Paradise Lost", entered Cambridge University, in 1625, he was already skilled in Latin after seven years of studying it as his second language at St. Paul's School, prefix = st1 /London. Like all English boys who prepared for college in grammar schools, he had learned not only to read Latin... | high19271.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "workers who feared the loss of their jobs to a machine set fire"
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"options": [
"people did not know how to put out the fire",
"Elias Howe thought Thimonnier had stolen his invention",
"the sewing machines couldn't work fina... | Humans have sewn by hand for thousands of years. It was said that the first thread was made from animal muscle and sinew . And the earliest needles were made from bones. Since those early days, many people have been involved in the process of developing a machine that could do the same thing more quickly and with grea... | high4405.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They both carry their young in a pocket."
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"options": [
"They both have thick fur.",
"They both have sharp teeth.",
"They both eat eucalyptus leaves.",
"They both carry their young in a pocket."
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"question":... | A Koala Isn't a Bear
Koalas remind people of teddy bears.They have thick fur and large ears.Their broad, flat nose makes them look cute, similar to teddy bears.In fact koalas aren't cute.They have sharp teeth and very sharp claws! Koalas are marsupials.This means the mother carries her baby in a pocket while it develop... | high12324.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the clerk didn't treat him kindly"
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"options": [
"his intended purchases were of poor quality.",
"there's nothing he wanted in the shop",
"the clerk didn't speak English",
"the clerk didn't treat him kindly"
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... | One day while shopping in a small town in southern California, it was my misfortune to be approached by a clerk whose personality conflicted with mine. He seemed most unfriendly and not at all concerned about my intended purchase. I bought nothing, and marched angrily out of the store. My _ toward that clerk increased ... | high9121.txt |
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"answer_text": "has the same meaning as \"John Blake Junior\""
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"is also the name of a computer",
"shows the traditional way of American baby naming",
"has the same meaning as \"John Blake Junior\"",
"tells something abo... | There was a strange father, John Blake, from Michigan, who named his children after a computer software term. He told the local newspaper the US traditional way of adding "Junior" or "II" after a boy's name was too common. So, when his son was born last week, he decided on the name John Blake 2.0, as if he were a softw... | high14755.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Everyone has one of its variants."
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"options": [
"It has two similar variants.",
"Some people don't have it.",
"It's bad for people's memory.",
"Everyone has one of its variants."
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"question": "What do we kn... | Are you a forgetful person? You might be able to blame your genes, a new study in the journal Neuroscience Letters suggests.
Researchers from the University of Bonn have identified a variant on the DRD2 gene that seems to be associated with increased forgetfulness.
Everyone has one of two variants of the DRD2 gene, th... | high9647.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To reduce childhood fatness rate."
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"options": [
"To call on healthy eating.",
"To reduce childhood fatness rate.",
"To show the harm caused by fatness.",
"To educate people how to avoid illness."
],
"question... | First lady's campaign brings change
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wal-Mart is putting special labels on some products to help shoppers quickly notice healthier ones. Millions of schoolchildren are helping themselves to vegetables from salad bars in their lunchrooms, and kids' meals at Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants co... | high23847.txt |
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"answer_text": "optimistic."
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"pessimistic.",
"optimistic.",
"sorrowful.",
"fearful."
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"question": "What is the boy Tyler's attitude towards death?",
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"an... | In my procession as an educator and health care provider, I have worked with numerous children infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The relationships that I have had with these special kids have been gifts in my life. They have taught me so many things, but I have especially learned that great courage can be found... | high8559.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "can make an object seem to speak"
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"is a person who can make puppets",
"needs to work with another person",
"can speak without using his mouth",
"can make an object seem to speak"
],
"question": "... | Have you ever wished that you could make your little sister's teddy bear talk to her? Or have you ever wanted to bring a puppet to life? If so, you may be interested in learning the art of ventriloquism . A ventriloquist can make an ordinary object seem to be alive by giving it a personality, movement, and speech.
Y... | high957.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Her vivid memories lead her to experience sufferings."
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"options": [
"She hardly sleeps well at night.",
"She usually gets hurt easily by others.",
"She can't distinguish between reality and dreams.",
"Her vivid memor... | Rebecca, who is a 25-year-old woman, has a rare condition. She can remember all the events she has experienced in her life. The events are so vivid, as if they happened just moments ago. But her vivid memories often become a reality. Rebecca said, "When I relive memories, the emotions come back. So if it's something th... | high13984.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "deliver a message"
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"deliver a message",
"tell a story",
"give an order",
"stand for God"
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"question": "In the Old Testament of the Bible, the rainbow is used to _ .",
"question_type": "c... | Throughout history, rainbows have been a source of mystery and legend. Rainbows are also important symbols in a number of cultures around the world.
In the Old Testament of the Bible(<<>> ), for example, God shows Noah a rainbow to let him know that the Flood is over and that he will never destroy the earth again with ... | high21088.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he didn't receive timely treatment"
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"options": [
"his tooth disease was very deadly",
"the doctor refused to treat him properly",
"he didn't receive timely treatment",
"something was wrong with his brain"
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... | Perhaps it is hard to imagine that a bad tooth could be deadly. But doctors in the Washington area say a twelveyearold boy died last month of a tooth infection that spread to his brain. They say it might have been prevented if the boy had received the dental care he needed.
Experts at the National Institutes of Health ... | high16624.txt |
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"answer_text": "inspired"
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"question": "How did the netizens feel when they read the micro blog related to the dog?",
"question_type": "factiod_question... | The homeless dog, known as Xiao Sa, has been following a team of cyclists for 24 days along 1,833 kilometers of highway from Kangding, Sichuan province, to Lhasa in Tibet.
Nobody knows where the white dog came from or how long she has been straying on highway G318. Netizens call her the "dog with determination" and the... | high2712.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "For her birthday."
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"options": [
"For a new hand bag.",
"For new notes.",
"For her husband's birthday.",
"For her birthday."
],
"question": "Why did Mr. White give his wife ten pounds?",
"question_type": "... | One day Mr. White gave his wife ten pounds for her birthday -- ten new pound notes. So Mrs. White went out shopping. She waited for a bus, got on it and sat down next to an o1d 1ady. After a while, Mrs. White noticed that the old 1ady's handbag was open. Inside it, she saw a wad of pound notes exactly like the ones her... | high18609.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the developing"
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"the batteries",
"the speed",
"the developing",
"the appearance"
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"question": "The passage mainly talks about _ of a new car.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},... | When a handheld video game runs out of power,all you have to do is plug it in and charge it up.Within a few years,some of you might do the same thing with mom's car.Automobile companies are developing vehicles that will plugin to electric sockets ,just like many laptops,digital cameras,cellphones and small video game... | high20396.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the Japanese kept the captain of a fishing boat from returning for questioning"
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"the Japanese government has bought the Diaoyu Islands from the Liyuans",
"two Japanese naval ships sailed in the Chinese sea around th... | Tensions have erupted over some barren rocks in the Pacific that you may never have heard of, but stay tuned--this is a boundary dispute that could get ugly and some day have far-reaching consequences for China, Japan, Taiwan and the United States.
The islands in dispute are called the Senkaku chain by Japan, the Diao... | high4377.txt |
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"answer_text": "Neither country was given a high positive rating from each other."
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"Most of the Chinese surveyed gave a positive view to the U.S.",
"Neither country was given a high positive rating from each other.",
"America... | President Barack Obama speaks as he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping over international security issues during the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, March 31, 2016.
While they report slow progress over major disagreements, what do average citizens in those countries think about each other? A study by the P... | high19503.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "\"Thanksgiving, a National Holiday\""
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"\"Thanksgiving Day\"",
"\"Thank God for a Good Harvest\"",
"\"Thanksgiving Foods\"",
"\"Thanksgiving, a National Holiday\""
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"question": "serves as the be... | Thanksgiving Day is always celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. It is the most traditional American holiday. The first Thanksgiving Day was held in Massachusetts in 1621. After a year of great hardship, the colonist wanted to give thanks to God for their first harvest. They invited their Indian thanks. But it... | high16630.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "musicals are not a new feature this year"
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"the Oscars has been trying hard to change",
"the Oscars' theme is a tribute to musicals",
"it is not the first time that the Oscars has had a theme",
"musicals ... | Like any awards ceremony of its age, the Oscars, now in its 85th year, has been trying hard to change.
So how did that go this year? When host Seth MacFarlane noted in his opening speech that it was the first time the Academy Awards had a theme, I thought: "well, that's a good start."
But when he revealed that the them... | high3418.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "You are who your friends are"
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"options": [
"A friend in need is a friend indeed",
"How to make friendship last for ever",
"You are who your friends are",
"Friends are the most important in one's success"
],
"... | The other day I heard a few local musicians talking:
"I hate all the terrible pianos in this town. I hate that rubbish they play on the radio. They can't even understand a bit of music."
"I'm never playing in that club again. Too many drunks and nobody listens to us."
But, one younger musician said, "There are a few cl... | high2706.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "inform the readers how to be truly happy"
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"options": [
"persuade the readers to make a commitment",
"inform the readers how to be truly happy",
"explain to the readers what personal values are",
"instruct the readers... | You feel happiest when you create a healthy balance between giving and receiving. If you give and give without making time to fill your own needs, then it's likely you will burn out, or feel upset .When you take and take without giving anything back ,you never feel fulfilled, so you are always searching for ways to fil... | high5069.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "development pressures"
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"stealing",
"misuse by visitors",
"a war"
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"question": "The town of Lamu faces danger from _ .",
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... | The Global Heritage Fund organization recently released a list of cultural treasures in the developing world that are in danger of disappearing. These"On the Verge" places face many threats. They included war, development pressures, stealing and misuse by visitors. The Global Heritage Fund says these places are importa... | high20382.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To support the research on kids' cancers."
},
"options": [
"To show he was not afraid of brain tumors.",
"To help found an organization for cancers.",
"To support the research on kids' cancers.",
"To collect some of his... | 8-year-old Mario spent one day selling lemonade in New Jersey. But he didn't do it for spending money. "The people in the hospital need more medicine," Mario said.
Mario's lemonade stand raised money after a group called Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is an organization that raises money for research on cancers that affe... | high14027.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "get a real shark tooth as a souvenir"
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"feed sharks once a life time",
"get a real shark tooth as a souvenir",
"meet the biggest predators of sharks",
"draw some pictures of sharks"
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"question":... | Get up close and very personal with the Aquarium's largest exhibit and its biggest predators with the new Shark Keeper program! After each participant prepares to feed the sharks and other fishes in the 120,000-gallon Lost City of Atlantis Exhibit, they will then get the once-in-a-lifetime chance to feed our sand tige... | high9653.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A material that turns red before it breaks."
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"The collapse of an overpass in Zhuzhou,Hunan Province.",
"The Sichuan earthquake",
"A material that turns red before it breaks.",
"A way of preventing buildi... | A huge cloud of dust rose and an overpass disappeared. This was the scene in Zhuzhou,Hunan Province on May 17.Nine people were killed and 16 injured.
Things were similar last year in the Sichuan earthquake. Thousands of people were buried in the ruins and lost their lives. What if we could have warned them?
People are ... | high6560.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Alejandra Pachecho and Carl Khalid"
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"Alejandra Pachecho and Rodrigo Cruz",
"Alejandra Pachecho and Carl Khalid",
"Alejandra Pachecho and Mirna Hazim",
"Carl Khalid and Mirna Hazim"
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"question":... | Alejandra Pachecho:No. Why not?That is because in this world some people drive very crazily. So most people who use cell phones to talk in the car usually pay more attention to what they are talking about than to driving. One of the reasons that I feel this way is that my friend had a car accident while using a cell ph... | high23853.txt |
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"answer_text": "Families of the victims in the 9/11 attacks celebrated together."
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"options": [
"Four people were killed in the firefight.",
"Families of the victims in the 9/11 attacks celebrated together.",
"President Obama thought highl... | As the United States nears the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that killed more than 3,000 people, President Obama announced Sunday night that the al Qaeda leader and mastermind of that horrific day, Osama bin Laden, has been killed.
CNN reports that a senior government official confirmed that bin Laden was shot... | high12456.txt |
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"answer_text": "It was 5 pounds heavier than Dill's biggest one that year."
},
"options": [
"It weighed over 1,000 pounds.",
"It was missing after the competition.",
"It was 5 pounds heavier than that of 1982.",
"It was 5 pounds heavie... | Howard Dill is a giant among giant pumpkin growers. He grew world champion pumpkins for four years running,from 1979 to 1982, and missed winning the fifth year by only 5 pounds. Today, his Dill Atlantic Giant seeds are sold worldwide to more than 50 seed companies. The pumpkins grown from his Dill Atlantic Giant seeds... | high943.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To introduce the topic of the text."
},
"options": [
"To remember both of them.",
"To prove their wisdom.",
"To introduce the topic of the text.",
"To explain their relationships."
],
"question": "Why does the a... | Many people know the names Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison. However, most people don't know the name of the man who invented the television, Philo Farnsworth.
Philo Farnsworth was born in 1906 and grew up on a potato farm. As a boy, he loved to learn about science, and he read a lot of science books. When he wa... | high15339.txt |
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"Somebody with measles visited Disneyland.",
"California is a place fit for this illness's spread.",
"Some pe... | People from all over the world visit Disneyland to have fun, not to get sick. But last week, an outbreak of measles spread from the Southern California theme park. As of Monday, January 19, at least 52 people have got the easily spread illness.
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"To win herself greater popularity.",
"To write her books in a new way.",
"To make book signings less tiring."
],
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"The car won't work at all."
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"take DIY courses run by the government.",
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"The apps enjoy high popularity in developing countries.",
"Only part of the messages sent... | If you hear the sound of a mobile phone beeping in a bag or pocket, you could think that someone has received a text message. Text messaging, or texting, is the art of sending a short, electronic message between two mobile phones. The users should pay a certain amount to send messages via SMS--- short message service. ... | high9135.txt |
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},
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"According to their attitudes to the same thing.",
"According to their habits."
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People who... | high10527.txt |
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"changes in industrial production",
"the safety and health of workers and customer... | Some years ago industries had more freedom than they have now, and they did not need to be as careful as they must today. They did not need to worry a lot about the safety of the new products that they developed. They did not have to pay much attention to the health and safety of the people who worked for them. Often n... | high2060.txt |
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"On Chinese dinner table,chopsticks replace k... | Of course,the main difference on the Chinese dinner table is chopsticks instead of knife and fork,but that's only superficial.Besides,in decent restaurants,you can always ask for a pair of knife and fork,if you find the chopsticks not helpful enough.The real difference is that in the West,you have your own plate of foo... | high21922.txt |
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},
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"It uses planes without human operators.",
"It can delivery many products at a time.",
"It is much safer than other del... | Amazon. com has received a patent right to send its products to customers by drone planes. The company is the largest US-based online seller of products by mail and other services. Now, the company has received a patent for its planned drone delivery system.
In March, federal officials allowed Amazon to test its drone... | high11639.txt |
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],
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},
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"Introduction to climate in different places.",
"Popular science on climate."
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"to know the making of products"
],
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"He made the most famous Land Art.",
"He was a pioneer in creating Land Art."
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"answer": {
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},
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"taking some exercise",
"drinking some wine",
"listening to favorite music"
],
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... | Songs that make our hearts soar can make them stronger too, US researchers reported on Tuesday.
They found that when people listened to their favorite music, their blood vessels dilated in much the same way as when they are laughing, or taking blood medications.
"We have a pretty impressive effect," said Dr Michael Mi... | high17260.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"I Never Give Up",
"I Know WhO 1 am"
],
"question": "The best title of the passage should be _ .",
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In an open letter on ... | high18153.txt |
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"tell us that standards of female beauty are very high",
"explain why women are more... | Women, as all research suggests, are far more critical of their appearance than men. Most of them are likely to feel dissatisfied with their reflection in the mirror.
It is quite possible that men looking in the mirror are either pleased with what they see or indifferent. Research shows that men generally have a much m... | high2048.txt |
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"answer": {
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],
"question": "It is the _ on the earth that makes life possible .",
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"answer": {
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},
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"the efforts of political writings",
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],
"question": "Modern English developed through _ .",
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"Expressing their feelings like anger.",
"Having a strong faith in their own abilities and potenti... | As a parent you might never guess all the ways a good imagination benefits your child. It helps a preschooler :
Develop social skills
As children play pretend, they explore relationships between family members, friends and coworkers and learn more about how people interact. Playing doctor, they imagine how physicians c... | high4439.txt |
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"answer": {
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"silly"
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... | There was once a boy who hardly had any toys or money. Nevertheless, he was a very happy little boy. He said that what made him happy was doing things for others, and that doing so gave him a nice feeling inside. However, no one really believed him, they thought he was silly. He spent all day helping others, dispensing... | high16618.txt |
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"answer": {
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"enlarge the scene of the film",
"make the film more attractive",
"emphasize the condition of the ... | The _ film Titanic has brought millions of dollars and thousands of people to the theaters and continues to touch people today in their homes. Why is this film so successful? It is a combination of many different things. Among these are many different elements. Looking at some of these elements will show how the direct... | high3430.txt |
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},
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"had already missed his chance to talk to the wise man",
"was shown around the palace by the local people",
"didn'... | A shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness from the wisest man in the world. The boy walked a long way, and finally came upon the beautiful castle where the wise man lived.
On entering the main room of the castle, the boy was quite surprised: tradesmen coming and going, people chatting in the corn... | high11177.txt |
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"answer": {
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"report",
"diary"
],
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"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answer": {
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "according to an interesting theory, the orange lights are space animals"
},
"options": [
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"Captain Nash may have been the first to see lights in space",... | On the night of July 6, 1943, a plane took off from an Air Force base in England to intercept German fighters over the English Channel. Piloting the plane was Captain Thomas Nash. Looking westward, Nash saw twelve orange lights in a row, moving at a fantastic rate of speed. An old experienced flyer, he had never seen... | high17506.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"in the afternoon",
"in the morning",
"at night"
],
"question": "It can be known from the passage that the car accident happened _ .",
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Acting Senior Sergeant Broc... | high5041.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
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},
"options": [
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"Their family was dead and heir homes were destroyed.",
"Their family was dead, but heir homes s... | The Sir Lankan coastline is filled with fishermen who use the sea as their main source of living. Their daily catch would define the life of their own and their families. But it only took a few hours to remove their life-long habitat right in front of their eyes.
Some fishermen had set sail on Christmas night. A very f... | high18635.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"they can start selling shoes and driving taxis",
"they compete for admission to graduate schools",
"colleg... | There is no denying that over the years college education has been accepted without the slightest doubt. All high school graduates should go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more, become "better" citizens and be more responsible than those who don't go.
But college... | high6548.txt |
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"answer": {
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"people start to fight in groups",
"the whole tomato fight is over",
"the fight has lasted for two hours"
],
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No one knows exactly how t... | high13760.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"Our environment will be much polluted with a growing number of cars.",
"The wa... | We don't know how different our life in the future. We can only try to imagine it.
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"to the north; on the southwest",
"to the east; on the northeast",
"to the east; on the southwest"
],
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"Get some tips to protect their home."
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The future is here at Ecoworld Discovery Centre!
Class for children!
Hands-on games, challenging and fun! Discover the environmental world in an exciting and educational way. Special activities for different ages.
Organic gardens!
Find out how to protect the environment in your own back garden... | high8565.txt |
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},
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"The discovery of a large chariot pit in Henan.",
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Experts said the relics are dated more than 300 years earlier ... | high7642.txt |
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},
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"he meets a thief, Fagin, in the streets of London",
"he lives a hard life in his childhood",
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And now, Dickens' classic scenes of the lives of the Victorian British poor will appear ... | high8571.txt |
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},
"options": [
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"should be taken when people are young.",
"have greatly increased the life expectancy rate... | Here is some news of the future.
March 20, 2035
There was a lot of news around the life extension drugs that hit the market a decade ago. They didn't promise that you would like forever, but they gave you a chance to extend your life an extra five to ten years. Even though the life expectancy rate at birth has increase... | high3424.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"a teacher",
"an Englishman",
"their hands, heads and other parts of their bodies."
],
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"answer": {
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},
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"around 20",
"in their 30s",
"in their 40s"
],
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"answer": {
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},
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"a 32yearold actor",
"a high school student",
"a drama teacher"
],
"question": "The writer of this passage is most probably _ .",
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I was no one special in Miss Roberts' class.I don't remember any one special bit of wisdom she passed... | high18621.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"will replace traditional shopping soon",
"offer many benefits to customers",
"seldom provides a better selection"
],
"ques... | Americans are buying more products and services than ever before through the Internet, and the popularity of online sales is likely to spread to other countries. Online sales now represent as much as one-tenth of all retail sales in the United States,which has led traditional stores to seek new ways to keep their cust... | high5055.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "52."
},
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"28.",
"49.",
"52."
],
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"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"People can draw lessons from their mistakes.",
"Mistakes mean that people are getting ... | If you'renotmakingmistakes,you'renottryinghardenough.
It's good to make mistakes. That's not a _ , folks,and I have not lost my mind. It is good to make mistakes, and here's why.
First of all, mistakes are a clear sign that you are trying new things. It's always good to try new things because when you are trying new t... | high18147.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"Because his mother needed these presents.",
"Because he wanted to show he had a lot of money.",
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"answer": {
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},
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"show how scientists get inspiration from dogs to develop technology",
"introduce the topic in a mor... | When a dog loses a leg, the animal eventually figures out the best way to get around on three legs. In a short time, the dog learns to deal with its physical disability.
Now, scientists have developed robots that behave in much the same way.
We can find robots everywhere. Robots build cars, play chess and can clean you... | high19259.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "More than 92,000."
},
"options": [
"About 10,000.",
"More than 82,000.",
"About 36,000.",
"More than 92,000."
],
"question": "How many people died because of the eruption on April 10, 1815 ?",
"question_type... | On April 10, 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia erupted with great force. Fifty cubic kilometers of magma flew from its peak and a blanket of ash as thick as one centimeter fell over more than 500,000 square kilometers of Indonesia and the Java Sea. The eruption destroyed Tambora's peak and formed a hole six by seven... | high15463.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Between Julia's hotel and the market."
},
"options": [
"In the market.",
"In the busiest part of the city.",
"Outside the shops.",
"Between Julia's hotel and the market."
],
"question": "Where was the beggar sit... | A woman called Julia lived in the countryside, one year she decided to visit the capital city to see the sights. She stayed at a hotel near the central market. She had seldom been to the city before, and was very excited about what she would find.
On the first morning of her visit, as she walked from the hotel to the m... | high1555.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "at the supermarket"
},
"options": [
"on TV",
"at the supermarket",
"from the manager",
"from the newspaper"
],
"question": "The housewives learnt about the free goods _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questio... | All the housewives who went to the new supermarket had one great ambition: to be the lucky customer who did not have to pay for her shopping.For this was what the notice just inside the entrance promised.It said: "Remember, once a week, one of our customers gets free goods.This May Be Your Lucky Day!"
For several weeks... | high9109.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "It tells people to eat breakfast."
},
"options": [
"It is part of our brain.",
"It tells people to eat breakfast.",
"It decides which food we like.",
"It is active toward high-calorie food."
],
"question": "Whic... | Eat like a king in the morning, a prince at noon, and a peasant at night. This saying is all about the importance of breakfast. And now scientists can tell us just why it's so important. According to a study carried out at Imperial College London, UK, skipping the first meal of the day not only means you eat more at lu... | high8940.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "parents"
},
"options": [
"parents",
"teachers",
"children",
"psychologists"
],
"question": "This article is particularly written for_.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"ans... | Childhood is a happy time, right? Not necessarily. Consider these facts.
Depression may occur in as many as 1 in 33 children.
Once a child has an episode of depression, he or she has a 50 percent chance of experiencing another episode in the next 5 years.
Suicide is the 6th leading cause of death f... | high22998.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "high school life"
},
"options": [
"high school life",
"how to take art classes",
"the fun side of high school life",
"how to make new friends in high school"
],
"question": "The passage is mainly about _ .",
... | High school could be a scary time for everyone. The school seems bigger; there are more kids and it's a totally new environment. In fact, it isn't that bad.
High school is a lot like middle school after a while. The first day of course is always scary, and the first day of middle school must have been the same. Of cour... | high8798.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "of extreme importance in expressing feelings and exchanging ideas"
},
"options": [
"of extreme importance in expressing feelings and exchanging ideas",
"something through which one can see a person's inner world",
"of conside... | Whether the eyes are "the windows of the soul" is debatable;that they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a fact.During the first two months of a baby's life,the stimulus that produces a smile is a pair of eyes.The eyes need not be real:a mask with two dots will produce a smile.Significantly,a r... | high22740.txt |
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