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"answer_text": "Because he didn't feel the same satisfaction as being a teacher."
},
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"Because the salary was lower than that being a teacher.",
"Because the working conditions were quite bad.",
"Because he didn't feel the same s... | I got into the teaching profession by choice. I was then in 9th grade, when my mathematics teacher asked me to take a class for a few students to whom the subject seemed difficult. And believe me, I enjoyed the teaching. I never knew teaching would be so interesting. I loved my freshmen and was delighted to teach my so... | high14151.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "German"
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"America",
"French",
"German",
"British"
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"question": "Beethoven was a _ musician.",
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"... | Beethoven, a famous musician in the world, was born in Germany in 1770.
In his childhood Beethoven didn't have a happy life.His father was a singer. When he was only four, his father began to make him practise hour after hour on different musical instruments . If he did not put his heart into it, his father would beat ... | high9725.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because there are less young students in the area."
},
"options": [
"Because the students live in poor communities.",
"Because education is free for Scottish students.",
"Because there are less young students in the area.",
... | The increase in tuition fees has led to a "clear drop" in the number of English students applying for university places this autumn. There are 15,000 "missing" applicants this academic year, according to the Independent Commission on Fees. Chairman Will Hutton said: "We're asking our young men and women to have more d... | high6416.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Nonscientists will be able to add their own notes to the website."
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"You can find information of all living species online in 2017.",
"Nonscientists will be able to add their own notes to the website.",
"The ki... | So far, scientists have named about 1.8 million living species ,and that's just a small part of what probably exists on Earth.With so many plants,animals,fungi,and other organisms covering the planet,it can be tough to figure out what type of spider is crawling up your leg or what kind of bird just flew by.
A soon-to... | high24092.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Diligent and adventurous"
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"options": [
"Faithful and brave",
"Diligent and adventurous",
"Polite but naughty",
"Imaginative but proud"
],
"question": "Which of the following words can best describe the boy?",... | Retold by Laura E.Richards
All day long the little boy had worked hard, in the field and barn and shed, for his parents were poor farmers, and could not pay a workman.But at sunset there came an hour that was all his own, for his father had given it to him.Then the boy would go up to the top of a hill and look across a... | high23925.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "PS12.00."
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"PS9.80.",
"PS12.00.",
"PS14.20.",
"PS16.40."
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"question": "How much is the admission for a family of two grown-ups and two children?",
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... | Shakespeare's Birthplace and Exhibition of Shakespeare's World
Welcome to the world-famous house where William Shakespeare was born in l564 and where he grew up. The property remained in the ownership of Shakespeare's family until 1806. The House has welcomed visitors traveling from all over the world, for over 250 y... | high12520.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To get rid of trouble."
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"options": [
"To help their friends out.",
"To get rid of trouble.",
"To get attention from others.",
"To create a popular image."
],
"question": "What's the purpose of children tellin... | Whether we're 2 years old or 62, our reasons for lying are mostly the same: to get out of trouble, for personal gain and to make ourselves look better in the eyes of others. But a growing body of research is raising questions about how a child's lie is different from an adult's lie, and how the way we _ changes as we g... | high835.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "makes some men feel proud and others uneasy"
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"brings a feeling of excitement to some men",
"has a different meaning for those who have daughters",
"makes some men feel proud and others uneasy",
"means no... | "Congratulations, Mr. Jones, it's a girl."
Fatherhood is going to have a different meaning and bring forth a different answer from every man who hears these words. Some feel proud when they receive the news, while others worry, wondering whether they will be good fathers. Although there are some men who like children a... | high7708.txt |
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"answer_text": "website"
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"website",
"newspaper",
"announcement"
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"question": "The passage is probably from a(n) _ .",
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"answer": {
"answer_ind... | The Museum: The Charles Dickens Museum in London is the world's most important collection of material relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator.The only surviving London home of Dickens (from 1837 until 1839) was opened as a museum in 1925 and is still welcoming visitors from all over the world.On... | high4201.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "advertisement"
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"advertisement",
"lab report",
"letter of thanks"
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"question": "This passage most probably is a (n) _ .",
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"an... | Dear Customers,
I love slipping into a comfortable chair for a long read, as I relax into the chair. I also relax into the author's words, stories, and ideas. The physical book is so elegant that it disappears into the background, and what remains is the author's world.
Today, we at Amazon are excited to announce Kindl... | high19475.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "His corn picker broke down."
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"options": [
"His wife objected to his helping his friend.",
"His corn picker ran out of oil.",
"His corn picker broke down.",
"The weather was not favorable."
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"question": "Whi... | My grandfather had a small farm where he raised beef and some grain for feed. He also worked diligently as a factory laborer and country pastor. He was a good neighbor and well-respected for honoring his word. When harvest time came, he'd piece together his old one-row corn picker and oil it up for the season. All his ... | high16746.txt |
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"answer_text": "The research about Alzheimer's disease."
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"options": [
"Some early signs of the Alzheimer's disease.",
"Some physical tests about Alzheimer's disease.",
"The research about Alzheimer's disease.",
"The patients of Alzh... | Alzheimer's disease affects millions of people around the world. American researchers say the disease will affect more than one hundred million people worldwide by the year twenty fifty. That would be four times the current number. Researchers and doctors have been studying Alzheimer's patients for a century. Yet the c... | high11029.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "can sit wherever they like when they come in"
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"can enjoy a buffet free of charge",
"cannot reserve a place for lunch or dinner",
"can have the full menu whenever they like",
"can sit wherever they like w... | Extracts From Information Booklet For Car Ferry Passengers
CAR DECKS
Car drivers are advised to use the handbrake before leaving their cars, to lock all doors and to take with them all belongings that may be needed during the crossing.
CURRENCY EXCHANGE
We regret that there are no facilities aboard for the exchange o... | high10337.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "have fathers realize their responsibility for their families"
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"test to - be - dads' fatherhood knowledge",
"test Challenge Dad's parenting knowledge",
"attract the whole society's attention to parenting",
... | TOKYO (Reuters) - "Who played the father in the movie 'Kramer versus Kramer'?" That's one of the 50 questions Japanese men could face in a "daddy exam", meant to raise awareness about fatherhood in a country where men tend to work long hours and leave their wives in charge of childcare and household work.
Even men who ... | high2670.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To their friend's home for the party"
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"To the mental hospital to visit their friend.",
"To the police station to report the murder",
"To their friend's home for the party",
"To the radio station for the ... | It was on a cold night of December. The rain was pouring on the car roof as Albert and Andy drove through the empty country roads towards their friends' house, the Harrisons,where they were going to attend a party to celebrate the engagement of the Harrisons' daughter,Lisa. When they drove, they listened to the local r... | high17458.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To serve them some cocoa and food"
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"To offer them some warm clothes",
"To serve them some cocoa and food",
"To sell them some old paper",
"To show off her matched cups and saucers"
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"question":... | They stood outside the door - two children in shabby outgrown coats.
"Any old papers, lady?"
I was busy, I wanted to say no until I saw the snow on their clothes. And their little sandals were also covered with snow.
"Come in and I'll make you a cup of hot cocoa."
There was no conversation. Their wet sandals left mar... | high16975.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He took a positive attitude towards failure."
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"Being short of money, David was eager to find a job.",
"He wanted to work for a company in the local city.",
"He was not hopeful of getting the job.",
"He t... | Half a year before graduation from college, my son David began to seek a job. Due to the financial crisis, the competition was ever-fierce. My son targeted a company that was located in a coastal city. It was intended to employ only one person among more than twenty candidates, I said to David, "You should not harbor t... | high18780.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "change their color1s to protect themselves"
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"are small animals",
"are easily found by birds",
"are dangerous to their enemies",
"change their color1s to protect themselves"
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"question": "From t... | Do you know why different animals or pests have their special color1s? Their color1s in them seem to be used mainly to protect themselves.
Some birds like eating locusts , but birds cannot easily catch them. Why? It is because locusts change their color1s together with the change of the color1s of crops . When cro... | high21101.txt |
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"answer_text": "To protect this endangered animal."
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"options": [
"To protect this endangered animal.",
"To entertain people.",
"To satisfy people's curiosity.",
"To do some experiments."
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"question": "Why did Peruvians set... | Jaguar was very rare. It was said that there less than 20 jaguars in the world, one of which was living in the national zoo of Peru. In order to help this jaguar, Peruvians set up a zoo for it, where there were sheep and deer for the jaguar to eat. However, strange enough, no one had ever seen the jaguar hunt the deer... | high2843.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "praise for efforts should be more encouraged"
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"praise for efforts should be more encouraged",
"praise for results works better than praise for efforts",
"praising a child's achievements benefits his or her suc... | For years we have been told that encouraging a child's self-respect is important to his or her success in life. But child experts are now learning that too much praise can lead to the opposite effect. _ who expect it at every turn may become teens who seek the same kind of approval from their friends when asked if they... | high3585.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "has had his stories published in the newspapers"
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"is a professional comic",
"has rich stage experience",
"is good at communicating with others",
"has had his stories published in the newspapers"
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... | I became a stand- up comic at 12:45 yesterday afternoon when I walked onto a comedy club stage and did a "bit". It was an audition in which people had exactly two minutes each to perform for a producer.
I am not a comic, have never appeared onstage, am awkward before many people, and have no social skills. But I ha... | high18958.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because she was the first woman to be president of Harvard University."
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"options": [
"Because she is a historian.",
"Because she was president of Harvard University.",
"Because she was the first woman to be president of Ha... | Historians usually just study great things that happened in the past time, but Drew Faust has made history! On February 11, 2007, Faust was named president of Harvard University.She is the first woman to hold the position in the school's 371-year history.
"I am a historian," she said."I've spent a lot of time thinking ... | high9916.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "high blood pressure"
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"the heart beat",
"the lung problem",
"high blood pressure",
"causing your sweating"
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"question": "The word \"hypertension\" in the passage most probably refers to _ .",... | Did you know that Christmas shopping is even worse for our health than we previously thought? According to an internet survey, the incidence of _ during the festive shopping season is on the up.
Christmas shopping increased blood pressure to dangerous levels in 50 percent of shoppers. This can lead to hypertension. He... | high22408.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "it was improper for a lady to show her ankles."
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"only the rich went on holidays to the seaside.",
"dining rooms were often located on the second or third floor to avoid being looked into.",
"it was improper fo... | During the Victorian period, ordinary people started going on holidays to the seaside for the first time.
When a woman entered a room, it was considered rude for a man to offer his seat to her because the cushion might still be warm.
People thought that you could digest food better in the dark, so the dining room... | high23716.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Town Twinning"
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"Town Twinning",
"Friendly Towns",
"Exchanging Teachers and Students",
"Peace and Understanding"
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"question": "Which is the best title for the passage?",
"question_type": nul... | In Europe, many people make friends between their countries through town twinning. Town or city twinning means two towns in different countries agree and decide to become "twins" with a sister-city relationship.
The people find pen friends in the twin town. They exchange newspapers and stamps. The school teachers discu... | high606.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "may be different"
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"come from their parents",
"have nothing to do with their education",
"may be different",
"have something to do with their marks in the exams"
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"question": "Generally speaking... | Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will learn a musical instrument or ba... | high1392.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the absorption of the nutrients"
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"people lose weight",
"feel always full",
"the absorption of the nutrients",
"people to live longer"
],
"question": "According to Joe, the appropriate fat intake ... | There are plenty of creams etc on the market that help you look younger, but today, Dr Oz is going to show how some people are actually living longer.
"We are going to talk about extreme life extension," he says. "I am talking in details about allowing us to go into our second century of life with the energy that you h... | high160.txt |
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"answer_text": "insects that travel around and pollinate plants"
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"insects that are eaten by birds, reptiles and fish",
"insects that travel around and pollinate plants",
"insects that harm mosquitoes and stop the spread of di... | If you look outside, you probably will see some kind of insect. If your first instinct is to kill it, take a moment to think about all of the benefits insects provide to the environment.
Entomologists, scientists who study insects, estimate that there are more than 800,000 species of insects found throughout the world.... | high14804.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He could not use his organs under the neck."
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"options": [
"It was impossible for him to do anything.",
"By no means could he call for a nurse.",
"He could not use his organs under the neck.",
"He was unable to move h... | A chip inserted in a young quadriplegic's brain is already improving his quality of life. Soon the benefits may be more widespread.
A 25-year-old man unable to move from the neck down recently did what many assumed impossible. After a knife attack that had left him paralyzed, all he could move was his head, which he... | high20579.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "not dreaming of living a comfortable life"
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"options": [
"not dreaming of living a comfortable life",
"avoiding finding unnecessary excuses",
"deciding to change your present life",
"getting in touch with successful p... | What I've noticed about some very successful business owners is that they are always learning and growing.
For your business to be better you need to be better and, you don't get better by doing nothing!
You are the average of the five PEOPLE you hang around with most. Surround yourself with people whom you want to be ... | high21673.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "how to make a friend and be a friend"
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"the ways of talking to a shy person",
"some favorable qualities to be a psychologist",
"how to make yourself attractive to your listeners",
"how to make a friend an... | After we meet people it is up to us to make them our friends. Let us stop a moment and consider what really makes a friend. The major qualities like faithfulness, devotion, friendly company, flash through our minds. But it is the large number of very small particular qualities that make up one's whole character, such a... | high11968.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The introduction to the Best High Schools in three states."
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"The introduction to the Best High Schools in three states.",
"The different examinations in several high schools.",
"Scholarships in the Best High S... | Alabama
Students in Alabama take the Alabama High School Graduation Exam, which consists of multiple-choice questions. In the classroom, Alabama high school students must prove specific skills in English and take certain math classes.
Among the 2013 U.S. News Best High Schools in Alabama, two were awarded gold medals, ... | high5686.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The adaptive ability of humans."
},
"options": [
"Our genetic makeup.",
"Resources on the earth.",
"The adaptive ability of humans.",
"By-products in space exploration."
],
"question": "What makes it possible fo... | Why should mankind explore space? Why should money, time and effort be spent exploring and researching something with so few obvious benefits? Why should resources be spent on space rather than on conditions and people on Earth? These are questions that, understandably, are very often asked.
Perhaps the best answer lie... | high174.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because consumers can hardly make sense of the information on the food labels."
},
"options": [
"Because there are usually an extremely wide variety of food in the shop.",
"Because food labels in the shop are in such a mess that th... | Food labels are such a mess that the government is redesigning them, as the ingredient lists are usually too confusing. As a result, a shopper could spend hours in a grocery store watching, calculating, and comparing, and still could not get it right. ShopWell is trying to help by allowing consumers to scan food label... | high7091.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "It is not a new development."
},
"options": [
"It is not a new development.",
"It made World Wide Web famous.",
"It appeared because of the computers.",
"It helped people develop new interests."
],
"question": "... | One of the most recent social changes taking place in the world is social networking. Social networking has been in existence for at least 150 years, and probably longer than that. In the times before the invention of the computer and the World Wide Web (WWW), social networking was done in person. People who had simila... | high14810.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "around 3,000"
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"no more than 20",
"over 3,000",
"4,000",
"around 3,000"
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"question": "Scientists say that within 50 years, perhaps, there will be only _ languages in the world.",
"questio... | The time may soon come when we say goodbye to most of the world's languages. Today humans express themselves in over 6,000 different languages. But that is quickly changing. Many scientists say that over half of these languages will disappear within the next 50 years. After 100 years, the languages used in the world wi... | high9902.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "need to deal with their health problems"
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"options": [
"just need a lot of willpower",
"can recover with a good diet",
"can recover with the help of others",
"need to deal with their health problems"
],
"quest... | Emily and her boyfriend had just had a fight. She felt alone and hopeless. Then she went into the kitchen and grabbed what she needed before going back up to her room quietly. She switched on the TV and started eating...and eating...for hours, until it was all gone.
What Emily didn't know at the time was that she was s... | high13819.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "support the idea that clearer thinking comes from messy environment"
},
"options": [
"support the idea that clearer thinking comes from messy environment",
"tell the fact that Einstein was well-known for his untidy desks",
"i... | "A messy desk can actually lead people towards clearer thinking", say researchers from Germany.
The researchers found in a series of linked studies----using a messy desk and a messy shop front ----that people actually thought more clearly when all around was chaos, as they sought to simplify the tasks at hand.
Visual... | high23702.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "5:45 p.m."
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"6:20 p.m.",
"5:45 p.m.",
"8:00 p.m.",
"7:15 p.m."
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"question": "If you want to take a bus in the evening rush hour, you should take the _ in the Railway St... | The following notice is posted in the bus station.
Time Table:
*Buses leave the Railway Station, New York City, from7:00 a.m. and every half-hour thereafter, until 11:30 p.m. (7 days a week)
*Buses leave Brennan Station 20 minutes before and after every hour from 6:20 a.m. to 11:40 p.m. (7 days a week)
*Evening rush ho... | high1386.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "show us our real mind"
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"show us our real mind",
"solve our stress in mind",
"give us a turning point in mind"
],
"question": "By saying \"Dreams give US an x-ray of our unc... | If your recurring dreams are worrying you,you can rest assured and needn't worry.Psychologists say in the vast majority of these cases,this is just the mind's way of dealing with stress and conflicts,problems and concerns.It's a good thing.
They call be surprisingly vivid and real,or fragmented and weird.They can be co... | high612.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Mother, passion, smile, love and eternity."
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"Mother, smile, passion, love and eternity.",
"Mother, passion, smile, love and eternity.",
"Mother, smile, love, eternity and passion.",
"Mother-in-law, passi... | There is good and bad news for parents today. The word "mother" has been voted the most beautiful word in the English language. But "father" failed even to make it on the list of the 70 best words in a survey of thousands of non-English speakers across the world. From Ankara to Zurich, "mother" was voted above "love", ... | high16961.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the bamboo seed never stopped growing"
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"options": [
"he cared for the fern only",
"they didn't receive any care from him",
"he gave up the bamboo in the fifth year",
"the bamboo seed never stopped growing"
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... | If you are trying to achieve big goals in your life and work, the chances are that, from time to time, you hit rock bottom. Nothing works, nothing goes right, and nothing succeeds. At times like these, you may feel like throwing in the towel. But before you do, read the following story. It might just change your mind.
... | high18794.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Cartoon making"
},
"options": [
"Animal world",
"Movie camera",
"Cartoon making",
"Movement"
],
"question": "What does the passage mainly discuss?",
"question_type": null
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"answer": {
"answ... | Animation means making things which are lifeless come alive and move.
Since earliest times, people have always been astonished by movement. But not until this century have we managed to take control of movement, to record it, and in the case of animation, to retranslate it and recreate it. To do all this, we use a movi... | high2857.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "using phones while driving has caused many accidents"
},
"options": [
"there is no national laws to prevent the use of cell phones in cars",
"most drivers take no notice of American laws",
"using phones while driving has caus... | Although new laws have been passed in some American
states to cut down on distracted driving, many
accidents and deaths were still related with it, especially
using cell phones while driving. Recently the Obama
administration is considering disabling cell phones in cars,
aiming to out down cell-phone-related road ... | high21115.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "pay for his college education"
},
"options": [
"support his family",
"do some research",
"help his partner expand business",
"pay for his college education"
],
"question": "Deluca opened the first sandwich shop ... | It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked Deluca about his plan for the future. "I'm going to college, but I need a way to pay for it," Deluca recalls saying. "Buck said, 'you should open a sandwich shop.'"
That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal... | high3591.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "English words"
},
"options": [
"new inventions",
"languages",
"English words",
"new discoveries"
],
"question": "A few hundred _ come from the names of people.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
... | About three hundred words in the English language come from the names of people. Many of these words are technical words. When there is a new invention of discovery, a new word may be coined after the inventor or scientist.
It is interesting to observe how many common words have found their way into the language from ... | high15298.txt |
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"answer_text": "It has lost its leading status in the world market."
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"to draw readers' attention to his theory",
"to introduce the topic to be discussed in the passage",
"to describe the cars in the future",
"to prove that his ide... | Recently I was asked,"Are we anywhere near the day when you can climb into a car on Long Island, program it to take you to your niece's house in Chicago, hit enter, and after the first hundred yards, once you hit a main road, the car takes over automatically and you just sit back and enjoy the ride?"
It is a questio... | high22811.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "was of particular importance in a war"
},
"options": [
"had served as a university",
"was constructed with white stones",
"was designed by Christopher Wren",
"was of particular importance in a war"
],
"question"... | The area south of the Thames at Greenwich has a long history. Throughout time different buildings have been constructed on the same site. The Palace of Placentia, an English Royal Palace built in 1447, no longer exists apart from a few remains under the present buildings.
The grand buildings on the South Bank of the Th... | high15071.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "middle-aged men and middle-aged women"
},
"options": [
"young men and young women",
"young women in the same industry",
"middle-aged men and middle-aged women",
"middle-aged women in the same industry"
],
"quest... | Why do women earn less than men?
Women earn less than men. For example, in 1988 the hourly wages of women in the U.S. were 16% less than those of men. The gap between male and female incomes varies with age. The gap between the labor incomes of young women and young men is much smaller than that between middle-aged wom... | high7536.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "ln a newspaper."
},
"options": [
"In a diary.",
"In a magazine.",
"In a science report.",
"ln a newspaper."
],
"question": "Where can you most likely read this passage?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"... | BERLIN-With the crisis in Japan raising fears about nuclear power, Germany and Switzerland said on Monday that they would reassess the safety of their own reactors.
Doris Leuthard, the Swiss energy minister, said Switzerland would put off plans to build nuclear plants. She said no new ones would be permitted unti... | high22805.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Informing, persuading and entertaining."
},
"options": [
"Informing, delivering and entertaining.",
"Informing, persuading and entertaining.",
"Informing, writing and delivering.",
"Informing, writing and persuading."
... | A speech is a wonderful opportunity to inform, persuade or entertain. The best speeches often take on a combination of all three of these components . However, before you can go about the writing of a great speech, it is important to set goals. Goals keep you,your speech and your audience focused.
What a goal is
In the... | high1147.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "He was ambitious."
},
"options": [
"He was ambitious.",
"He was cautious.",
"He was unreliable.",
"He was inexperienced."
],
"question": "What can we learn about Howard Warshaw from the passage?",
"question_... | Worst Game Ever?
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a video game that came out for the Atari 2600 game system in 1982. It was based on a very popular film of the same name. Star programmer Howard Warshaw created it with consultation from the film director Steven Spielberg.
It was July 27th, 1982. Howard Warshaw was hot off ... | high13400.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Mobile devices create a lot of divided attention and social anxiety."
},
"options": [
"The wide use of mobile devices has nothing to do with the traditional social construction.",
"Mobile devices play a less important part in Ameri... | When Gretchen Baxter gets home from work as a New York City book editor, she checks her Blackberry at the door. "I think we are attached to these devices in a way that is not always positive," says Baxter, who'd rather focus at home on her husband and 12-year-old daughter. "It's there and it beckons . That's human natu... | high6628.txt |
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