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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "at around 9: 06"
},
"options": [
"at 8: 30",
"18 minutes earlier than the north tower",
"at around 9: 06",
"at 8: 48"
],
"question": "From the passage , we know that the south tower was hit by the plane _",
... | The Attack on September 11th
New York: When the first jet struck Tower 1 at World Trade Center at 8: 48 am on Tuesday, the people in Tower 2 at World Trade Center with a view of the instant damage across the divide had the clearest sense of what they too must do : get out fast.
Katherine Ilachinski, who had been knocke... | high12683.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "People have other choices for fun."
},
"options": [
"Surfing the Internet is not convenient.",
"People have other choices for fun.",
"The government has taken proper measures.",
"People are too busy with their work."
... | The Internet is now a central part of everyday life. The number of Internet hours in the West is increasing each month, but online addiction is still not attracting a great deal of attention.
Perhaps one reason Internet addiction has not _ in the West is that there are too many other vices available. In a society l... | high17923.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "for her skin disease"
},
"options": [
"for a diet of healthy foods",
"for her skin disease",
"to invite him to give a talk at a ladies' meeting",
"to get the results of some tests."
],
"question": "Mrs Black wen... | Mr.Black was having a lot of trouble with her skin, so she went to her doctor about it. He could not find anything wrong with her, however. So he sent her to the local hospital for some tests. The hospital , of course, sent the results of the tests direct to Mrs. Black's doctor, and the next morning he telephoned her t... | high21249.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "In a newspaper."
},
"options": [
"In a tour guided book.",
"In a geography book.",
"In a book.",
"In a newspaper."
],
"question": "Where are we likely to find this passage?",
"question_type": null
},
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... | BEIJING - China's National Tourism Administration (NTA) said Saturday that 215 Chinese tour groups in Japan were safeandsoundafter a _ 8.8-magnitude earthquake jolted the country's eastern coast Friday.
A total of 4,578 Chinese tourists were staying in Japan at the time of the quake. By Saturday noon, all the 215 tour ... | high20157.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "they are hungry"
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"options": [
"they are attacked",
"they are angry",
"they are sad",
"they are hungry"
],
"question": "Elephants often cause problems in Kenya, because _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_que... | Kenya is the first country to protect elephants by text messages. Mobile phone SIM cards are inserted in the collars of elephants. The cards will send a text message when the elephants wander too close to farms, allowing wildlife protectors to drive them off rather than shoot them.
Hungry elephants cause big problems ... | high3815.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Gender."
},
"options": [
"Gender.",
"Education.",
"Career.",
"Family networks."
],
"question": "What's the most important factor to predict if people will actively care for the elderly?",
"question_type": "f... | According to a new US study, couples who expect their children to help care for them in old age should hope they have daughters because they are likely to be twice as attentive overall.
The research by Angelina Grigoryeva, a sociologist at Princeton University, found that, while women provide as much care for their eld... | high10094.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "To prevent kids from getting lost."
},
"options": [
"To make school buses safer for kids.",
"To prevent kids from getting lost.",
"To help parents locate their missing kids.",
"To save some time for school children."
... | School districts are turning to high-tech solutions-from fingerprint scans to electronic cards - to track kids on school buses and keep them from getting off at the wrong stops. A fingerprint scanning system, approved this month for testing at the Desert Sands district, northeast of San Diego. Students will be scanned ... | high20631.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Robinson is worried about population growth."
},
"options": [
"Robinson is happy after talking to the Ethiopian girl.",
"Robinson is a successful expert in population studies.",
"Robinson is worried about population growth.",... | Former Irish President Mary Robinson was just making a polite conversation with an Ethiopian teenager about her wedding day. The 16yearold had already been married for a year. "She looked at me with the saddest eyes and said, 'I had to drop out of school'," Robinson said in a telephone interview. "That conveyed to me... | high16383.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Water and different foods"
},
"options": [
"fibre",
"food",
"water",
"Water and different foods"
],
"question": "We need _ for a healthy diet.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {... | "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Similarly, if we drink a little more water ever day, we may find that we need to go to the doctor a lot less often. A healthy diet is made up of water and a great many different kinds of foods. We know that healthy foods like fruits, vegetables and fish, are important as they pro... | high1964.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "escape in it"
},
"options": [
"escape in it",
"get to the other side of the island",
"use it for food",
"go around the island"
],
"question": "The purpose of making a canoe on the island was to _ .",
"que... | During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape. When I traveled across to the other side of the island, I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, "Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day."
So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then... | high22026.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a lie told by the writer"
},
"options": [
"a piece of news",
"a lie told by the writer",
"the passage's topic sentence",
"a case from the competition"
],
"question": "The article begins with _ .",
"questi... | A disastrous competition is going on in England, with billions of dollars and hundreds of lives in danger. OK, that's not true. But competitors from around the world gathered on Thursday to compete for the title of 2012's World's Biggest Liar.
Each participant is given up to five minutes to make up the best lie in the ... | high23338.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "He will choose a less challenging task."
},
"options": [
"He will ask his teachers for advice.",
"He will hide his mistakes from his teachers.",
"He will work harder to avoid mistakes.",
"He will choose a less challengi... | We live in a culture that sends out very mixed messages about mistakes: We're told we learn by making them, but we work hard to avoid them. So the result is that most of us know that we are going to make mistakes, but deep down, we feel we shouldn't.
Experiments with schoolchildren who did well on a given test show tha... | high14594.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "fat people have fewer advantages"
},
"options": [
"the standards of fat people",
"the number of fat Americans",
"fat people have fewer advantages",
"how long is the study"
],
"question": "The passage mainly tell... | A new study shows that fat people in the United States suffer direct economic and social effects because of their size. The findings are from an 8-year study of about 100,000 people. The people who were studied were between the age of 18 and 24 when the research began.
The researchers who carried out the study say they... | high15852.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "work in a hospital for a while"
},
"options": [
"see much of the country",
"make friends with a Nepalese",
"work in a hospital for a while",
"find wildlife in the forest"
],
"question": "The writer's purpose to ... | Last year I went to Nepal for three months to work in a hospital. I thought I might as well take the chance to see as much of the country as I could, but it was difficult to travel around Nepal. The hospital let me have a few days' holiday, so I decided to go into the forest and I asked a Nepalese guide, Damal Rai, to ... | high22032.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Natural killer cells are much more in the bloodstreams of runners than in the sedentary mice."
},
"options": [
"Natural killer cells are much more in the bloodstreams of runners than in the sedentary mice.",
"Levels of interleukin-... | The relationship between exercise and cancer has long both intrigued and puzzled oncologists and exercise physiologists.
Exercise is strongly associated with lowered risks for many types of cancer. At the same time, exercise involves biological stress, which typically leads to a short-term increase in inflammation whi... | high14580.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Thomas Jefferson"
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"options": [
"Thomas Jefferson",
"Lincoln",
"Washington",
"Adams"
],
"question": "Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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"answer":... | As we all know,it was Thomas Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of Independence .He wrote it in two weeks,and after a few changes,it was accepted by the Congress.As a result,he became famous in America's history.
Born in Virginia,Thomas Jefferson,a brilliant student at school and almost talented lawyer later,was much... | high15846.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "They preferred to keep their traditional working methods."
},
"options": [
"They called themselves the technophobes.",
"They got full support from their factory owners.",
"They preferred to keep their traditional working meth... | Please help! I live in Germany with my wife and three kids. My parents live in the UK. I want my kids to have as much contact with their grandparents as possible. The kids all use e-mail, Skype and SMS but my parents won't. I've bought them a laptop, paid for broadband, given them both mobile phones and a digital camer... | high20625.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Norman Mailer wrote many great books"
},
"options": [
"Norman Mailer was loved by all people",
"Norman Mailer wounded other authors",
"Norman Mailer wasn't successful",
"Norman Mailer wrote many great books"
],
... | Loved and hated, but never boring. That is what people say of American writer Norman Mailer, who died late last year at the age of 84. He was the author of some of the greatest books of the 20th century.
But Mailer will be remembered as much for his personality as for his writing. He was rude and bad-tempered. He v... | high17937.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She enlightened her daughter with love."
},
"options": [
"She tolerated it.",
"She enlightened her daughter with love.",
"She gave her daughter a lesson.",
"She ignored it."
],
"question": "How did the mother tr... | It was late in a spring afternoon. I was sitting at a fruit stand beside Beihai Lake looking at the shinning ripple , which awoke me to a full sense of life.
A mother and her daughter were sitting opposite to me. The latter, a lovely girl of seven or eight with a pretty, small nose, was occupied with an ice cream. Her ... | high20143.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "a sunny winter day"
},
"options": [
"a sunny winter day",
"a rainy winter day",
"a sunny summer day",
"a rainy summer day"
],
"question": "The winter met the blind man on _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_ques... | It was a sunny winter day. I had gone down the tower when a blind man came toward me. He kept close to the wall, touching it lightly with his arm. I stood still and looked at him walking toward the tower.
"What does a blind man want to climb up the tower for?" I wondered, "Not the view certainly, perhaps he wants to ... | high10080.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "they are flexible and adventurous"
},
"options": [
"they learn to speak Spanish",
"they are flexible and adventurous",
"they live in a local family",
"they experience different projects"
],
"question": "Everyone... | I would recommend uVolunteer Programs in Costa Rica to anyone. Everyone can learn something and enjoy their time here if they have the ability to adapt to different circumstances and a sense of adventure.
I came to San Ramon---the capital of Costa Rica, hardly knowing any Spanish, so the first thing I did there was to... | high13589.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "who just begin to learn how to play the piano"
},
"options": [
"who just begin to learn how to play the piano",
"who are experienced in playing the piano",
"who show interest in teaching the piano lessons",
"who are wil... | Introduction to Piano
No matter what you do in life, it's always important to start with the basics. Taught by experienced musician Dennis Dykstra, this class will give beginning piano learners an introduction to the keyboard, keys, scales, chords, melodies, and note reading. This class is combined with adult class.
Br... | high8954.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "wasn't concentrating"
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"options": [
"made mistakes",
"damaged things",
"was natural",
"wasn't concentrating"
],
"question": "By using \"Tom continued painting and answered carelessly\", the author shows Tom ... | It was Saturday when the entire summer world was bright and fresh. Tom looked at the fence, which was long and high, feeling all enthusiasm leaving him. He dipped his brush into the whitewash before moving it along the top board of the fence. He knew other boys would arrive soon with all minds of interesting plans for ... | high9492.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "improve mutual trust and benefit regional peace and development"
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"options": [
"be all open to the media",
"improve mutual trust and benefit regional peace and development",
"be held at the Zijinshan Summit for Entrepreneur... | NANJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou will shake hands in their historic meeting scheduled in Singapore on Saturday, head of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said on Wednesday.
The two-part meeting includes one session open to the media and another behind closed doors, said Zhang Zhijun,... | high12697.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "They just provide the next turn."
},
"options": [
"They just provide the next turn.",
"They are harmful to eyes.",
"They make drivers tired easily.",
"They often break down suddenly."
],
"question": "What is the... | Global Positioning Systems(GPS) are now a part of everyday driving in many countries. These satellite-based systems provide turn-by-turn directions to help people get to where they want to go. But, they can also cause a lot of problems, send you to the wrong place or leave you completely lost. Many times, the driver is... | high6979.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "fathers often pursue employment at home"
},
"options": [
"fathers often pursue employment at home",
"parents had to make food and necessity themselves for their daily-life",
"many familie2s produce goods at home for sale",
... | Parents have to do much less for their children today than they used to do,and home has become much less of a workshop.Clothes can be bought ready made,washing can go to the laundry,food can be bought cooked,canned or preserved,bread is baked and delivered by the baker,milk arrives on the doorstep,meats can be had at t... | high21275.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "be practical"
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"options": [
"be practical",
"control others",
"avoid risks",
"depend on others"
],
"question": "According to the passage, self-confident people tend to _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_quest... | Self-confidence is an attitude which allows individuals to have positive yet realistic views of themselves and their situations. Self-confident people trust their own abilities, have a general sense of control in their lives, and believe that,within reason, they will be able to do what they wish., plan., and expect. Ha... | high5280.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "increasing urbanization takes place in China"
},
"options": [
"it is the only model way to save the cities",
"it helps stop destroying the rural areas",
"increasing urbanization takes place in China",
"China has the lar... | As China becomes increasingly urbanized , it has to find space for its urban and rural citizens as both groups become increasingly integrated. Experts suggest a possible model way may be "re-inventing" a "garden city".
China's mega-cities are bursting at the borders and the country is now undergoing the quickest and b... | high3829.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Students"
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"options": [
"Students",
"Parents",
"Teachers",
"Actors"
],
"question": "Who is the passage mainly written for?",
"question_type": null
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"a... | Make a five-minute film and win!
Do you love the winter holidays but hate being bored? Then why don't you enter the Film Street Summer Shorts Competition by making a short film this winter with your family and friends?
What you have to do
To enter the competition, you have to make a short film that is around 5 minutes ... | high572.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the wine from famous vineyards"
},
"options": [
"five-year-old Pinot Grigio",
"the wine labeled from older vines",
"the wine from famous vineyards",
"two-year-old Beaujolais Nouveau"
],
"question": "It's better ... | Say you're in the wine store and you want to buy something new. You have nothing to go by outside of the label. Will the label tell you anything you should know? Here's some general advice:
Vintage. This is the first thing we look for ourselves. You don't need to care whether 2001 or 2002 was a better year in the Sierr... | high6789.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Tu's road to success is not traditional"
},
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"Tu is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize",
"Tu has a medical degree",
"Tu's road to success is not traditional",
"Tu discovered a cure for malaria"
],
... | Tu Youyou has become the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for her work in helping to create an anti-malaria medicine. The 84-year-old's route to the honour has been anything but traditional. In China, she is being called the "three nos" winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she's never worked overseas.... | high12867.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "to tell readers that dogs can smell out victims buried in the ruins"
},
"options": [
"to show the way to rescue the victims in the ruins",
"to introduce the instruments to save victims in a disaster",
"to tell readers that do... | Dogs may help save the day in the Philippines, as they use their noses to smell out survivors buried by Friday's mudslide . The team of dogs arrived in the Philippines from Spain, and this Tuesday they were just beginning their work. Search officials told CNN they hope the recent rain will wash away the smell of rescue... | high7497.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Time is valuable ."
},
"options": [
"Time is equal to dollars, pounds...",
"Time is gold .",
"Time is valuable .",
"We must spend time in buying goods"
],
"question": "When we say \"Time is money.\"we mean _",... | A proverb says :"Time is money."But in my opinion, time is even more valuable than money. Why? Because when money is spent ,we can earn it back .However when time is gone ,it will never return .This is the reason why we must value time.
There is no doubt that the time we have is unusually limited. So even an hour is ex... | high6951.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "\"Long time no see\" used as standard American English"
},
"options": [
"the Chinglish expression \"Long time no see\"",
"\"Long time no see\" used as standard American English",
"so many literal translation of the expression... | "Long time no see" is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend's email, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect example of Chinglish.
Obviously, it is a word-by-word literal translation of the Chinese greetings with a ruled English grammar and structure! Later on, my friend tol... | high1958.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "students can get help from the JCR"
},
"options": [
"The collegiate system is beyond his expectation",
"all students live together, as he expects",
"parties are too difficult for students to hold",
"students can get hel... | Oxford University students think about the collegiate system as follws:
*"The collegiate system is exactly what I expect, lots of students all living together, with the JCR(Junior Common Room) acting to support students and organize parties and social events."
2nd year undergraduate, Archaeology and Anthropology
*"Most... | high23304.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "they should face the consequence of losing their own money"
},
"options": [
"you should give them some allowances to pay for the pumpkins",
"they should be rid of their opportunity to celebrate Halloween",
"you should ensure ... | One potential problem with allowances is that children's responsible behavior can become about earning the allowance rather than the intrinsic value of their family responsibilities. For example, if you pay your children for taking out the rubbish, they see this chore as a job that they should be rewarded for instead... | high214.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Resolution."
},
"options": [
"Action.",
"Capacity.",
"Resolution.",
"Enthusiasm."
],
"question": "Which of the following is the first-to-none element in the 19th-century character model?",
"question_type": n... | In the 19th century, there used to be a model of how to be a good person. There are all these torrents of passion flowing through you. Your job, as captain of your soul, is to erect dams to keep these passions in check. Your job is to just say no to laziness, lust, greed, drug use and the other sins.
These days that mo... | high4820.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "she needed the right time to look after her children"
},
"options": [
"she wanted to earn more money to support her family",
"she had suffered a lot of mental pressure",
"she felt tired of taking care of patients",
"she... | Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.
She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. "I would have liked to go back to it, but theshifts are all wrong for me, as I have to be... | high2289.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "protect turtles"
},
"options": [
"help her teacher",
"prove an idea",
"protect turtles",
"become a scientist"
],
"question": "Kim Reich does research on where baby turtles go because she wants to _ .",
"q... | Where do the turtles go?
Every summer, thousands of endangered green sea turtles climb onto beaches around the world. Each mother sea turtle produces 100 or more eggs in a hole, and covers the hole with sand before she swims away.
Two months later, the eggs hatch , and the baby turtles climb out of the sand and swim in... | high10916.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the picture"
},
"options": [
"the picture",
"the shape",
"the voice",
"the weight"
],
"question": "What is the main difference between an HD-TV and a normal television? It is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze... | In the near future, people in some parts of the world will watch a new kind of television. It is called the high definition television or the HD-TV. The main difference between an HD-TV and a normal television is the picture. It is more clear and detailed. This is because the HD-TV has many more points and lines that m... | high3197.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Nearly 2 tons"
},
"options": [
"Nearly 3 tons",
"Nearly 2 tons",
"Almost 1 ton",
"A half ton"
],
"question": "How much bamboo does a panda eat every year?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
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... | Giant pandas are now extremely rare. Their number is less than 1,000 in the wild. The hunting of pandas has been banned for many years, so this is not the problem. Destruction of its habitat, when areas are cleared for growing crops, is one of the main reasons for panda's decline . Another reason is that the bamboo on ... | high18386.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "you can tell the difference between them"
},
"options": [
"you will have a strange feeling",
"you will learn how to reach out",
"you can tell the difference between them",
"you can tell what color1s they are"
],
... | "If you want to see a thing well, reach out and touch it!" That may seem a strange thing to say. But touching things can help you to see them better. Your eyes can tell you that a glass ball is round. But by holding it in your hands, you can feel how smooth and cool the ball is. You can feel how heavy the glass is. Whe... | high20619.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Standing up for others."
},
"options": [
"Standing up for others.",
"Forwarding a hurtful e-mail.",
"Voting for the fat girl on a website.",
"Saying cruel words to upset others."
],
"question": "Which of the fol... | Who knows why kids do anything? When it comes to cyberbullying , they are often motivated by anger or frustration . Sometimes they do it for entertainment or because they are bored and have too much time on their hands and too many tech toys available to them. Many do it for laughs or to get a reaction. Some do it by... | high19098.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "daily bad news and broken marriage saddened him"
},
"options": [
"he wanted to forget his marriage life",
"he wanted to make his bloc successful",
"1,000 simple,free,happy things excited him",
"daily bad news and broken... | Upset by reading bad news daily,Neil Pasricha decided to try to focus on the positive and come up with l,000 simple,free,good things,posting one each day on a blog .
Pasricha,aged 30,said his blog aimed to focus on life's simple pleasures,such as finding forgotten money in a pocket, or fixing a TV set with a heavy b... | high23310.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "recorded their experiences in different ways"
},
"options": [
"made friends with local residents",
"complained about the poor living conditions",
"enjoyed the sunset in the Karoo desert most",
"recorded their experience... | For six hours we shot through the landscape of the Karoo desert in South Africa. Just rocks
and sand and baking sun. Knowing our journey was ending, Daniel and I just wanted to remember all we had seen and done. He used a camera. I used words. I had already finished three notebooks and was into the fourth, a beautiful ... | high1794.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Because he thought men without wives could be better soldiers."
},
"options": [
"Because there were few women in his country at that time.",
"Because he thought men without wives could be better soldiers.",
"Because there was... | February has long been a month of romance. With the sweet smell of roses in the air, romantic films hit cinemas and love stories fill newspapers and magazines.
On the 14th day, it is a custom for a boy to take his girlfriend out to dinner, buy her flowers and chocolates, write poems, sing to her or even spell out her n... | high200.txt |
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"The effect of African elephants' search for food.",
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On the World Environment Day in 2003, Beijing Or... | high22768.txt |
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If proved by DNA evidence, the theory will break long established beliefs about the southerly migration of people who entered America across the Bering Strait, found it empty and occupied it.
On this ... | high7483.txt |
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"question": "We may know from the text that _ can be found in different kinds of tea.",
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"\"California Dreaming\" is the most famous song about winter.",
"W... | Snow can be very beautiful. When snow covers everything around you , the world looks like a "Winter Wonderland". That is the name of a very popular song about winter. Richard Smith and Felix Bernard wrote the song in 1934.
But winter is not always such a beautiful and happy time. It is cold outside.The wind blows and m... | high20194.txt |
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"just as important as a knowledge of woodcraft",
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No one should go into the jungle without the right equipment. You need lightweight clothing, a good k... | high2510.txt |
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Posted By: Nexus English Language Learning Centre (nexus.english.dos@gmail.com)
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for starting teachers that have just finished their qualification to work and to get professional experience. The position will suit enthusiasti... | high10057.txt |
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"Malnutrition remains... | Malnutrition remains a serious problem for India. But a new study shows that India's leading causes of death now also include diseases related to obesity such as heart disease.
India's National Family Health Survey shows that more than twenty percent of Indians living in cities are overweight or obese. And in the nor... | high11349.txt |
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There it is - your selfie.
Over the past year, "selfie" has become a well-known term across the globe. This August... | high16426.txt |
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"They can smell all kinds of explosive materials.",
"They cost peo... | The rat is named Lola and she's at the top of her class of risk-running animals being trained to smell out landmines in Colombia, home to the world's highest number of mine-related deaths and injuries last year. Of the victims, many are children who died in _ while walking to school or playing in the countryside.
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},
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"Keeping the Japanese traditional style of life.",
"Making people feel elegant in the ryokan.",
"At... | Heading back to the room for dinner and a hot shower may sound like the act of a tired tourist ,but in a traditional Japanese inn - or ryokan - those activities can be as interesting as anything along the sightseeing trail."People going looking for a sort of nostalgic ,old-fashioned ,and traditional view of Japanese li... | high7468.txt |
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"We can't know their meanings without context.",
"We may still feel confused even with context.",
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Same spelling, different meaning
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"Musicians.",
"Poets.",
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"question_... | It seems that great artists and scientists often suffer from mental problems. Both Einstein and Dickens had mental illness. Now scientists have started to look at whether mental illness and genius are linked .
Dr. Adele Juda studied 5,000 creative people in Germany. She found there were more people with mental illness ... | high8983.txt |
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Child--rearing doesn't come naturally to guys. My mother knew the na... | high12898.txt |
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After looking at his chart, I saw that he was seeking treatment for alcoholism. There is an immediate prejudice against substance abuse in my E. R. One -we do not have a detox facility.The people seeking treatme... | high6776.txt |
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"There are mainly three activities at Full-day Camp.",
"Specialty camps are only open to young athletes.",
... | About us
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"To persuade us to resist counterfeit goods.",
"To advise us to use phone apps w... | Counterfeit goods, or false versions of products, may cost the government of Kenya as much as $1 billion each year. The fake goods also hurt business owners who find it hard to keep customers. But information technology is being used to try to stop the problem. Jemima Mwafigu is a 34-year-old businesswoman who sells ... | high14557.txt |
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"It is making much of the continent colder.",
"It is making the e",
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"they have a sharp blade to cut leaves",
"other members are busy with other work",
"they can finish the job in a better... | Ants have a reputation for strength,organization and teamwork.But researchers have now discovered that a key secret to the success of ants is their ability to identify the importance of age in the work place.
A study of Gentral American leaf-cutter ants has shown that the younger and stronger members are give the tough... | high12126.txt |
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Researchers used a cartoon cat Sylvester to study how language was reflected in the gestures people made. Dr. Sotaro Kita of the University of Bristol's Department of Experimental Psyc... | high16340.txt |
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"the smokers may become very annoyed at once",
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"the smokers ... | You can't escape the message that smoking is bad for you. But what if one or both of your parents smoke? You might be worried about their health, sick of smelling the smoke, or even a little embarrassed by it. You can't order your mom or dad to stop smoking, but you can encourage them to quit. There are lots of good r... | high19073.txt |
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"dysbiosis of gut microbiota"
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The findings of the team, led by Zhao Liping with Shanghai Jiaotong University, Yin Aihua with the Guangdong province children's hospital, and Tang Huiru w... | high10731.txt |
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"answer": {
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"They mostly do damage during winter.",
"During most typhoons people can keep safe just by stayin... | IF you lived by the sea, you'd know that typhoons are frequent visitors during summer .They bring Strong winds, heavy rain and flooding But most of the time, when people stay indoors, they're just all right.
This is what the people in the Philippines used to believe - until they met the "super typhoon", Haiyan.
The typ... | high5519.txt |
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"More investmen... | Foreigners are likely to acquire more investment opportunities in China since the central government has passed a fresh regulation on Tuesday to attract foreign capital .
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Teach many different kinds of classes using the latest technology in small ... | high2262.txt |
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"diagnosed with eventual blindness at the age of 35",
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It was my wife Elizabeth who first noticed there was a proble... | high18379.txt |
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"can take their mobile phones into the dining room... | Dining in a completely dark room, unaware what's on your plate while sitting next to a complete stranger may not sound like an ideal restaurant experience but it's certainly an _ way to spend a rainy night in London.
Dans le Noir, close to London's financial district, is a restaurant full of blind waiters and waitresse... | high6004.txt |
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"answer": {
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"feel as if he was in space",
"do any space experiments he wants"
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"answer": {
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"Because it is the most influential sitcom of all time.",
"Because it predicts the future of the y... | If a sitcom that lasts for l0 years is considered popular, then surely one that still arouses emotions after 20 must be considered a classic. Friends first aired in the US in 1994, telling about six young men and women in New York.Since then, it's become one of the most famous titles in the sitcom style, aired in over... | high9337.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer": {
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In the international market, goods on sale coming from di... | high22797.txt |
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"answer": {
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"clean fridge in time"
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If all goes well, the intelligent future kitchen will soon help solve all your problems. In the future, all kitchen units will be connected to the... | high12654.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Dealing with some easy jobs, people with higher working memory will daydream."
},
"options": [
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"On the working memory test, people with wandering mind... | Catch yourself daydreaming while washing the dishes again? If this happens often you probably have a pretty capable working memory and a sharper brain, new research suggests.
This mind wandering, it seems, actually gives your working memory a workout. Working memory is the mental work space that allows the brain to _ m... | high599.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"To introduce how migrating birds find their way.",
"To tell some applications of migrating bird... | Scientists have been puzzled by the phenomenon that migrating birds fly not just in groups all the time, but in "V" formations and they have tried to figure out what benefit birds get from this particular formation. Now, a research group from University of London may have found the answer -- migrating birds fly in a "V... | high6762.txt |
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"answer": {
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"Atria Books",
"Random House",
"Riverhead Books"
],
"question": "If the readers want to know about the life of Salinger, they should buy the book published by _ .",
"q... | Mini Book Excerpts
Biography
When Salinger learned that a car park was to be built on the land, the middle-aged writer was shocked and quickly bought the neighboring area to protect it ... The towns-people never forgot the rescue and came to help their most famous neighbor.
J.D. Suli... | high23489.txt |
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"Its underground is too loose.",
"It is resting on top of a lake."
],
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Thailand's dis... | high14225.txt |
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"answer": {
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Financial Services
Edinburgh
Permanent
Updated October 30, 2014
Reporting into the Administration and Finance Partner, this is a new role with responsibility for oversight and leadership in international financial matters, overseas tax issues and overseas operational management.
_
*Overse... | high9451.txt |
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"It was found that he painted a portrait in 1814 instead of in 1609.",
"The Flower portrait has been found to be a fake.",
"Three portraits of Shakespeare are ... | Birthdays often involve surprises. But this year's surprise on the birthday of the great British playwright William Shakespeare is surely one of the most dramatic.
On April 22, one day before his 441st birthday anniversary, experts discovered that one of the most recognizable portraits of William Shakespeare is a fake.... | high2504.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "dependence on parents"
},
"options": [
"dependence on parents",
"disobeying rules and regulations",
"making his own decisions",
"preparing to undertake adult duties"
],
"question": "A rebellious teenager has the... | As your charming child changes into a rebellious teenager, take a deep breath and have a good look at the situation before you throw up your arms in anger or distress. Your teen takes a vital step towards adulthood by way of fighting against your rules, regulations and attitudes. Moving beyond their previous dependence... | high10043.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "feel it harder to experience happiness"
},
"options": [
"feel it harder to experience happiness",
"associate their happiness less with others",
"will take fewer risks in pursuing happiness",
"tend to believe responsibil... | (2013*,D)When asked about happiness,we usually think of something extraordinary,an absolute delight,which seems to get rarer the older we get.
For kids,happiness has a magical quality.Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved .
In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes.Suddenly it... | high16432.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "They can take Friday afternoons off."
},
"options": [
"They don't work on Friday.",
"They have flexible working hours on Friday.",
"They can take Friday afternoons off.",
"They might leave an hour early on Friday aftern... | An increasing number of people are being allowed to finish the working week early during the summer months. Does your boss trust you to spend an afternoon in the sun?
Each year the number of companies which offer employees the choice of an early finish to the working week grows. Or, perhaps, each year,more people who w... | high19701.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Nathan Phillips is an American."
},
"options": [
"Nathan Phillips has been a freshman at the university.",
"Nathan Phillips is an American.",
"Nathan Phillips is an African.",
"Nathan Phillips likes riding a bike."
... | Nathan Phillips, who will formally begin his freshman year at the University of San Diego(USD) on Aug. 31, will arrive on campus in an unusual and philanthropic manner.
Phillips is expected to arrive between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday on his bicycle, having pedaled 1,450 miles from Astoria, Ore.
Phillips combined his d... | high8767.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The more you eat out, the higher rates of obesity you have."
},
"options": [
"The less you eat out, the higher rates of obesity you have.",
"The less you eat at home, the lower rates of obesity you have.",
"The more you eat o... | Deborah Cohen is a senior natural scientist at the Rand Corp and the author of the book A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic and How We Can End It. According to the book, there are lots of misunderstandings of obesity.
1. If you're obese, blame your genes.
Obesity rates have increased. Yet, b... | high7454.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "can grow in poor conditions"
},
"options": [
"may pollute water and soil",
"can grow in poor conditions",
"provide much less energy",
"need more special care"
],
"question": "Compared with corn and soybeans,alga... | With petroleum reserves decreasing,the search is on to replace gas with a cleaner,greener alternative.Though much eco-talk has centered on biofuels from corn and soybeans,the biofuel that looks more likely to replace petroleum comes from a most unlikely source:algae .
Algae,like corn,soybeans,and other crops,grow vi... | high6992.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Children's growing up and leaving home."
},
"options": [
"Children's cutting off contact with their parents.",
"Children's not liking spending time with their parents.",
"Children's growing up and leaving home.",
"Child... | Your youngest son or daughter has just graduated from high school, and soon he or she will trade his or her bedroom in your home for a college residence hall. You're starting to worry about the coming silence in your home and are wondering how you will fill the hours that you previously spent with your son or daughter ... | high5243.txt |
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