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"answer_text": "the author hadn't taken good care of them."
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"they were of poor quality.",
"he didn't have the right kind of leather",
"he thought they were too worn to be repaired",
"the author hadn't taken good care of... | I met him first in 1936. I rushed into his ugly little shop to have the heels of my shoes repaired. I waited when he did it. He greeted me with a cheerful smile. "You're new in this neighborbood, aren't you?"
I said I was. I had moved into a house at the end of the street only a week before.
"This is a fine neighborhoo... | high5321.txt |
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"answer_text": "he was eager to explore the possibilities of buying a policy"
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"he wanted to fill out an application",
"he had decided to buy a life insurance policy",
"he took great interest in the insurance company",
"... | Several months ago I decided it would be wise to look into the possibilities of buying a life insurance policy , because I understood it might be a good investment. I got the name of an insurance agent from a friend and called the agent to get some information. From the kinds of questions I put to him the agent could t... | high17666.txt |
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"answer_text": "is very suitable for an arts center"
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"is very suitable for an arts center",
"was out of use in the 1950s",
"was busy and crowded",
"is an eating place"
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"question": "According to the text, the ... | The Dupont Circle park in Washington DC is a busy, crowded place. Popular restaurants and businesses around the circle attract many city residents and visitors. But few people know about the old streetcar station below the street. Braulio Agnese is the Managing Director of an organization called Dupont Underground. The... | high19893.txt |
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"answer_text": "People who phone while walking."
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"options": [
"People who type while walking.",
"People who phone while walking.",
"People who text while walking.",
"People who read text message while walking."
],
"question"... | Texting pedestrians aren' t just an annoyance to their fellow walkers, but something dangerous to themselves.
"I was checking emails while walking to work this morning," said Wolbert van den Hoorn. "But it has a serious influence on the safety of people who type or read text while walking. "
Anecdotes back him up. A to... | high10109.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "fight wars in other lands"
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"live at home and work for the empire",
"become loyal Roman citizens",
"go to other countries and raise families",
"fight wars in other lands"
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"question": "The Emper... | The Roman Emperor Claudius II was fighting many wars. He wanted a strong army, but many men did not want to be soldiers. Claudius thought the men wanted to stay at home to be with their wives and children instead of leaving to fight wars.
Claudius thought of an _ solution to his problem. He decided to cancel all marria... | high11217.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experience"
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"warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experience",
"advise young people to give up their ideas of becoming... | Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these people are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone as a typewriter. "You've got to want to write," I say to them,... | high3750.txt |
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"answer_text": "Different kinds of allergy tests."
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"Different kinds of allergy tests.",
"A new allergy test that works very well.",
"When children should be tested for allergies.",
"How allergy tests have changed over t... | Just one bite of cake that is made with eggs is enough to make John feel very sick. Susan gets a terrible rash whenever she eats anything containing seafood, and David nearly died when he first ate a cookie that included peanuts. David had trouble breathing after he ate the cookie, but his mother knew what to do and sh... | high16578.txt |
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"answer_text": "Subscribers to the paper's print edition will also enjoy full access to the site."
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"Non-paying subscribers will get no access to NYTimes.com.",
"Readers will be charged more to read articles on NYTimes.com.",
... | The New York Times announced Wednesday that it intended to charge frequent readers for access to its website, a step being debated across the industry that nearly every major newspaper has so far feared to take.
Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month befor... | high11571.txt |
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"answer_text": "food has an effect on your health"
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"you will become your own food",
"you will know what food is good by its appearance",
"food has an effect on your health",
"you will know the effects of different types... | We have proof that you become what you eat. When you know the effects of different types of food, you can use your knowledge well and eat what you want to become.
Food has an impact on our physical and mental health. Have you ever heard any of the following advice?
Lettuce or milk can make you sleepy.
To stop feeling... | high3036.txt |
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"answer_text": "They have much in common."
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"options": [
"They share the same name.",
"Jasmine looks very fascinating.",
"They have much in common.",
"Jasmine's father is very pitiful."
],
"question": "Why does the author sho... | The silent young woman in bed number six is called Jasmine. So am I, but names are only superficial things, floats on the surface of the water, and we share deeper connections than that. That is why she fascinates me--why I spend my off-duty time sitting beside her.
Today is difficult. The ward is full of pati... | high20974.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "is harmful to working people in developed countries."
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"is not so serious as people thought",
"is harmful to working people in developed countries.",
"is the first killer in Germany and Italy.",
"is creat... | That "Monday morning feeling" could be a crushing pain in the chest which leaves you sweating and gasping for breath. Recent research from Germany and Italy shows that heart attacks are more common on Monday mornings and doctors blame the stress of returning to work after the weekend break.
The risk of having a heart a... | high2328.txt |
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"answer_text": "Employees should be constantly warned about virus threats to ensure the normal functioning of the company's computer system."
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"Employees welcome the free software available on the Internet and they download a lot of it.",... | Do you remember the good old days? Innocent times spent sharing documents and executable files without a care in the world. Okay, every month or so you might encounter a boot sector virus -- but they were easy to deal with even if the anti-virus software didn't pick them up.
But those long lazy summers disappeared ... | high18233.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "we had better go on holiday for the benefits of health"
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"it is best to go to foreign countries like Maldives.",
"we had better go on holiday for the benefits of health",
"we have to go on holiday as much as po... | How often do you go on holiday? Going on holiday makes you feel good while you're there-you gain the health benefits for months, new research shows.
Jetting off to exotic destinations such as the Maldives cuts your blood pressure, helps you sleep better and bounce back from stress, it found. The benefits last at least ... | high5447.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a space for a certain purpose"
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"a club that children may join",
"a space for a certain purpose",
"a program for teenage readers",
"a prize in a national competition"
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"question": "According to ... | The Opening ofThe Book Nook
Saturday, October 4 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
You will not want to miss the opening of your new neighborhood bookstore! Located at 2289 Main Street, the Book Nook is within walking distance of schools and many homes and businesses. Come and check out the Book Nook on Saturday!
Activities will inc... | high14409.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "learn to paint pictures"
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"study abroad",
"work abroad",
"pay for the debts",
"learn to paint pictures"
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"question": "He wanted to borrow money because he wanted to _ .",
"question_type": ... | Hobbs was an orphan . He worked in a factory and every day he got a little money. Hard work changed him thin and weak. He wanted to borrow a lot of money to learn to paint pictures, but he did not think he could pay off the debts.One day the lawyer said to him, "One thousand dollars, and here is the money." As Hobbs to... | high1621.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because the experience with the ants presents a sharp contrast to that with the cockroach later."
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"Because the experience with the ants presents a sharp contrast to that with the cockroach later.",
"Because the auth... | A few years ago I was on a bicycle trip when I got off my bike for a rest. I sat down on the grass. A few seconds later, I was covered in ants. They were swarming all over me so I got up and brushed them off. It was a strange experience but I soon forgot about it.
A couple of years later, I was living in Jordan. I had ... | high12078.txt |
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"answer_text": "were fitted with solid tyres"
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"were difficult to separate",
"could be split into 6 pieces",
"were fitted with solid tyres",
"were hard to carry on a train"
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"question": "We can learn from the t... | Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle, once said that the perfect portable bike would be "like a magic carpet...You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag". Then he paused: "But you'll always be limited by the size of the wheels. And so far no one has invented a folding wheel."
It wa... | high8163.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "e-PALS"
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"KidFu",
"Europe Pages",
"e-PALS",
"spoton. community"
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"question": "A teacher can visit _ to help his/her pupils to get pen-pals.",
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... | Hello, you guys! Do you want to make e-pals via the Internet and have fun? Here's some advice for you to follow. First take a look at
. Click on international pen-pal sites to find some of our favorite international e-pal and pen-pal web sites. Don't forget: some e-pal services cost money and some are safer than others... | high15717.txt |
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"answer_text": "Sat 2:00 pm"
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"Sat 8:30 pm",
"Sun noon",
"Sun 2:00 pm",
"Sat 2:00 pm"
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"question": "According to the passage, the most popular time for the sporting events may be _ .",
"question_type": "... | Central Sports Centre. City Road.
All Stars vs Rockets, Saturday 8: 30 p.m. $12
Northerners vs Tigers, Sunday noon $14
BUSHWALKING :
Meet at Wanda Station, Saturday 9:00 a.m. sharp for 3-hour walk to Canary Mountains. $7, ph 341-5432 Meet at Westley Station, Sunday 9:00 a.m. sharp for a full day walk to Wombak Valley.... | high7250.txt |
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"answer_text": "Losing long-term friendship."
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"Running away from the school.",
"Losing long-term friendship.",
"A specific person's marriage.",
"A company's closing down."
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"question": "According to the passag... | In modern society loneliness can be seen as a social phenomenon and people can experience loneliness for many reasons. It is a very common, though normally temporary, consequence of a breakup, divorce, or loss of any important long-term relationship. In these cases, loneliness may result both from the loss of a specifi... | high19105.txt |
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"answer_text": "He wanted to earn some money from it."
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"He wanted to show his kindness.",
"He wanted to have a pleasant journey.",
"He wanted to earn some money from it.",
"He wanted to make friends with the woman."
... | A beautiful woman took a plane on business. She found her seat and sat down next to a young man. The man was just thinking of making a few dollars on the plane. When he saw the woman, he got an idea.
"Hey! Would you like to play a game?" he asked the woman. "No, thank you. I just want to take a nap ," the woman answer... | high4771.txt |
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"answer_text": "How Barack Obama will deal with the current economic slowdown."
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"What Barack Obama is expected to do in dealing with the US-China relationship.",
"Why Barack Obama will maintain a good relationship with China.",
... | People in China, as in other parts of the world, are waiting to see how U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will deal with global problems such as the current economic slowdown once he takes office. As Sam Beattie reports from Beijing, there is widespread hope for closer U.S.-Chinese cooperation.
For many students in Bei... | high11559.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he thought about his future"
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"he had to take tests at school",
"he thought about his future",
"he had lots of sleepless nights",
"he searched for words of wisdom"
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"question": "The author felt ... | As a senior, my future is always on my mind. To be exact, thoughts of the future have kept me up countless nights and made me worry enough to do poorly on more than one test. Because of this, words of wisdom are a source of comfort. Steve Jobs gave a speech to Stanford's graduating class in 2005 and his words resound r... | high2300.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "millions of years ago"
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"millions of years ago",
"more than 100 millions years ago",
"when it was warm and wet somewhere"
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"question": "According to the passage, dinosau... | Millions of years ago dinosaurs lived on the earth. In the days of dinosaurs the whole earth was warm and wet. There were green forests and they could find enough to eat. Later, parts of the earth became cold and dry. and the forests there died. Then dinosaurs could not find enough to cat. This must be one reason why... | high10647.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the museum needs changes"
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"people learn best when they look at something",
"visitors prefer to learn from museums",
"the museum needs changes"
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"question":... | Museums have changed. They are no longer places that one "should" go but now they are places to enjoy.
At a science museum in Canada, you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless electricity passes through your body. At the Children's Museum in New York, you can play an African drum. There are no "Do Not Touch" si... | high20784.txt |
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"answer_text": "Both regular and diet sodas can probably increase the risk for heart disease."
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"Only people who overdrink sodas have high risk for heart disease.",
"In the study, about one quarter of people have high blood level.",... | People around the world drink about 180 billion liters of soda a year. That translates to more than 29 liters per person. Experts say the amount of carbonated soft drinks we consume is growing. New research from the American Heart Association finds that drinking soda, even diet soda, may significantly increase your ri... | high17128.txt |
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"answer_text": "Your Personality Depends a Lot on How You Sleep at Night"
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"A Good Night's Sleep Sets You Up for the Following Day",
"Your Personality Depends a Lot on How You Sleep at Night",
"How You Sleep at Night Affects W... | According to body language expert Robert Phipps,the way people sleep at night actually determines a lot about the type of personality they have.Phipps has identified four sleeping positions that affect personality.
Phipps found that worriers,those who stress the most,tend to sleep in the fetal position.He found that th... | high6166.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "encourage boys to express their emotions more freely"
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"force boys to hide their emotions to be \"real man\"",
"help to develop masculine aggressiveness in boys",
"encourage boys to express their emotions more ... | Boy's schools are the perfect place to teach young men to express their emotions and involve them in activities such as art dance and music. Far from the traditional image of a culture of aggressive masculinity , the absence of girls gives boys the chance to develop without pressure to agree with a stereotype, a US st... | high9255.txt |
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"answer_text": "They fear losing control of their workers."
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"They want to stick to their routine practice.",
"They have little trust in modem technology.",
"They are used to... | Digital technology -- email and smart phones especially -- have vastly improved workers' ability to be productive outside of a traditional office. Even so, most white-collar work still happens in an office. One reason is that, according to findings of a new survey of office workers conducted by Wakefield Research for... | high14421.txt |
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"answer": ... | It's not a new phenomenon, but have you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs? We all use them, often without noticing what we're doing.
I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week, and I said "I'll pencil it in my diary", and my friend said "You can ink it in", meaning that it was a firm arrangement ... | high1609.txt |
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"answer_text": "The serious destruction caused by the great power of a tsunaml."
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"options": [
"The great speed of a tsunami.",
"The number of deaths caused by a tsunami.",
"The countries which were struck by a tsunami.",
"The seriou... | The 9.2magnitude earthquake which caused the tsunami in
the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day last year occurred at 7:58 a.m.,95 miles off the west coast of Aceh, Indonesia.
Eighteen minutes later.10-metre high waves crashed the ashore along a 500----mile-long stretch of Aceh.
Two hours later the tsunami hit Thailand and Mala... | high12050.txt |
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"answer_text": "the story of the Taj Mahal"
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"the story of the Taj Mahal",
"white and black marble tombs made for two emperors",
"the love story of Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife"
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"q... | The Taj Mahal is a love story, a sad and beautiful one. If it didn't exist, we would easily imagine that the story of its construction was simply a fairy tale. Three hundred years ago, there lived an Indian emperor called Shah Jahan. His wife was a beautiful and bright woman whom he loved greatly. Her title was Mumta... | high7278.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a wedding ceremony can be held on the wing"
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"air hostesses can offer good service",
"a wedding ceremony can be held on the wing",
"the staff can have a \"wing ... | ARLANDA, Sweden (Reuters Life!) - Many people hate the idea of having to sleep on a plane. But Swedish entrepreneur Oscar Dios thinks they can be persuaded otherwise and he has created a new kind of hostel to prove it.
Dios says it is the world's first jumbo (unusually large) jet hostel, an actual jet-plane at Sweden's... | high22193.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "In a section for ads in a website."
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"In a book shop.",
"In a science magazine.",
"In a fiction novel."
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"question": "Where can you see this short passage?"... | Paperback: 264 pages
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ISBN: 0672327627
Product Dimensions: 8.4x5.5x0.6 inches
OVERVIEW
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"answer_text": "Because one side of this house is made of glass."
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"Because its outside is very interesting.",
"Because one side of this house is made of glass.",
"Because viewers can stand on its door near the top of the hous... | Weird Homes We All Wish We Live in
Your home is one of the biggest purchases you're going to make in your entire life, but that doesn't mean you can't live somewhere you enjoy. If you're looking for the weird, the wonderful, or just odd, then these houses are the top of the list.
Upside Down
Like the previous upside do... | high12736.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "based on his selection of facts"
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"based on the Russian history",
"based on his selection of facts",
"not related to historical details"
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"question": "Tolstoy's ... | Napoleon, as a character in Tolstoy's War and Peace, is more than once described as having "fat little hands". Nor does he "sit well or firmly on the horse". He is said to be "undersized", with "short legs" and a "round stomach". The issue here is not the accuracy of Tolstoy's description-it seems not that far off from... | high13428.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "show he is friendly"
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"ask the dog for help",
"show he is friendly",
"show his anger",
"show his respect for him"
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"question": "We know a shy and lower--ranking dog licks the nose of a higher-ra... | What could be cuter than your puppy giving his doggy friend a kiss on the nose? Nothing, really. But is your dog actual-fly planting a kiss on his friend? Yes, but that's only one of the reasons your dog may lick another dog's nose. Here are some other reasons why your dog may lick another dog's nose.
During an introdu... | high6600.txt |
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"answer_text": "5,000,000"
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"1,000,000",
"500,000"
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"question": "New York City has a population of about _ according to the passage.",
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... | About 1 million adult New Yorkers are obese , but nearly two-thirds of them don't think they are, according to a study released on Tuesday by the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene .
Among the obese, who account for about one in five New Yorkers, only 39% described themselves as "very overweight", according... | high9533.txt |
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"question": "When he was a small boy, Sander was influenced by books about _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "creative and competent"
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"creative and passionate",
"respectable and sensitive",
"creative and competent"
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"question": "People satisfied with their careers are _ ... | Do you want to love what you do for a living? Follow your passion. This piece of advice provides the foundation for modern thinking on career satisfaction. But this can be a problem.
I've spent the past several years researching and writing about the different strategies we use to seek happiness in our work. It became ... | high5309.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He got lost."
},
"options": [
"He got lost.",
"He broke his skis.",
"He hurt his eyes",
"He caught a cold"
],
"question": "What happened to Nicholas one Sunday afternoon?",
"question_type": "factiod_question... | The Boy Made It!
One Sunday, Nicholas, a teenager, went skiing at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine. In the early afternoon, when he was planning to go home, a fierce snowstorm swept into the area. Unable to see far, he accidentally turned off the path. Before he knew it, Nicholas was lost, all alone! He didn't have food, wa... | high10121.txt |
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"answer_text": "Harry's father"
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"Harry",
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"question": "_ always does some housework in the morning.",
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"answer"... | Harry is eighteen now. He studies in a middle school. His parents like him very much and hope he can become a famous man. So they often tell him to study hard and they do all for him. They call him at six in the morning, after breakfast his father takes him to school in a car and in the afternoon, as soon as the young ... | high3778.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "clever actions done to people by using skill to confuse them"
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"clever actions done to people by using skill to confuse them",
"a strange habit",
"the cards played... | When a friend calls out "Wait a second, I have a trick to show you," don't you always stop and wait? Tricks are hard to resist. No one is ever too old to enjoy them or too young either. In fact, many of the most successful tricks are really quite simple. They don't require special equipments or hours of practice. For e... | high17896.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "make the company run smoothly"
},
"options": [
"cut down on the cost of the treatment",
"get the support of the government",
"make the company run smoothly",
"attract more people to its hospital"
],
"question": ... | Narayana Hrudayalaya, a complex of health centers based in southern India, offers low-cost, high-quality specialty care in a largely poor country of 1.2 billion people. By thinking differently about everything from the unusually high number of patients it treats to the millions for whom it provides insurance, the hospi... | high16550.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She lived an unhappy life."
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"options": [
"She was born poor.",
"She lived an unhappy life.",
"Her grandparents treated her badly.",
"Her parents didn't love her."
],
"question": "What do we know about Elizabe... | Elizabeth Bishop, who was famous for the poetry A Prodigal, Filling Station , Sandpiper, Manuelzinho and so on, was an influential American poet of the 20th century. Her poetry often shows things that concerned her throughout her life, such as her search for a sense of home. Her troubled childhood and feelings of lone... | high19663.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "In 1968."
},
"options": [
"In 1972.",
"In 1950.",
"In 1968.",
"In 2020."
],
"question": "When was the plan to explore space first announced according to the passage?",
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The project to build a base on the moon will begin soon after 2020, with astronauts living there within four years.
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Prohibition
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The setting: Urban England (the cities), but also rural England (the countryside) including remote English villages.
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"Rumplestiltskin is too difficult.",
"Rumplestiltskin forgives stealing.",
"Rumplestiltskin may have bad influence on ... | Traditional fairy tales are being abandoned by parents because they are too scary for their young children, a study has found.
A research has discovered one in five parents has given up old classics such as Snow Whiteandthe Seven Dwarves and Rapunzelin favour of more modern books. One third of parents say their childr... | high22187.txt |
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"is still an experimental shuttle system",
"sent many supplies to the manned space station",
"returned to Earth safely on the... | Three astronauts returned to Earth safely on Wednesday after a successful 15-day mission , marking another step forward towards the country's goal of building a manned space station by 2020.
Zhang Youxia, commander-in-chief of China's manned space program, said the Shenzhou X mission was a "complete success".
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Ma Cheng's book-loving grandfather came up with an elegant... | high20948.txt |
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"To strengthen sex education for teenagers.",
"To start learning college co... | Most American schools have boys and girls in the same classroom. But a public high school in the small, rural town of Boonsboro, Maryland, offers a special program called the Academy. Top students in the ninth and tenth grades can attend single-sex classes for math, science, English and social studies.
The aim is to he... | high4956.txt |
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Potential candidates must pres... | high5490.txt |
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"Discount packages need to be applied in advance.",
"The Global Cellular Rental is an American company.",
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Hope you aren't _ your personal cell ... | high6199.txt |
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"Near the US-Mexico border."
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"qu... | Researchers who helped discover a new species of Mexican butterfly are offering to sell the naming rights to raise money to fund more research. Co-discoverer Andrew Warren is hoping to raise at least $50,000 by auctioning off the rights to name the 4-inch "owl eye" butterfly, which lives in Sonora, a Mexican state bor... | high15918.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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],
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},
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"answer": {
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},
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"Because she lost her money.",
"Because she lost her way home.",
"Because she couldn't afford a rose."
],
"question": "Why was the... | A gentleman stopped his car at the door of a flower shop. He planned to order flowers and asked the shopkeeper to _ them to his mother, who was far away in his hometown.
The gentleman saw a little girl crying on the road before he entered the shop. He asked her: "Why are you crying?"
"I want to buy a rose for my mothe... | high21303.txt |
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"answer": {
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"He could enjoy music and plays.",
"He liked to work for actors."
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"question": "Why did Pau... | Paul was a student with a lot of problems.He hated school.He didn't like living with his family in the industrial city of Pittsburgh.Paul wanted to be surrounded by beautiful things.He loved his part--time job as an usher at the concert hall.He helped people find their seats before the concert.Then he could listen to t... | high18582.txt |
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"are source of the fish people consume",
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"answer": {
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"dictionaries are not necessary to the students who learn English",
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The students who use dictionaries most do not learn especially well either. The ones who look up every new word do not read fast. Therefore they do not have time to read much. T... | high3793.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer": {
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},
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"A place that regularly hosted large parties.",
"A church where local villagers would get married.",
... | The people who built Stonehenge in Southern England thousands of years ago had wild parties, eating barbecued pigs and breaking pottery. This is according to recent work by archaeologists--history experts who investigate how human beings lived in the past.
Archaeologists digging near Stonehenge last year discovered the... | high18596.txt |
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"answer": {
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"heavier than the year before",
"with the Weight Watchers"
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The year before that, he joined a health club. He exercised every day and ate les... | high20009.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"On July8."
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*Chinese Folk Dancing:Colorful Chinese da... | high19850.txt |
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"the basking shark was swimming far from swimmers",
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"answer": {
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},
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"2 percent of the religious p... | The easiest way for the English to deal with their social discomfort is to avoid social interaction altogether, by choosing either leisure activities that can be performed in the privacy of one's own house, or outdoor activities that follow their interest without direct contact with anyone other than one's own family m... | high23500.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"3",
"4",
"5"
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},
{
"answer": {
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"answer": {
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"answer": {
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"very helpful",
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"question_type": "cloze_qu... | Before you go to another country, it is a great help if you know the language and some of the customs of the country.
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"answer": {
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},
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"an ASL project",
"the program of training the Air Force"
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"answer": {
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"options": [
"friendship needs challenges",
"challenges shape our character",
"small hurdles aren't worth the trouble",
"commitment promotes friendship"
],
"question": "It can ... | Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we come to realize that those challenges are the very things that shape us and make us who we are,it is the same with the challenges that come withfriendship.When we are faced with a challenge,we usually have two choices. We can try to beat it off, or we can decide that t... | high10874.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Love in a paper bag"
},
"options": [
"Stories behind treasures",
"A special present",
"Father and daughter",
"Love in a paper bag"
],
"question": "Which of the following can be the best tide of this passage?",
... | Every morning Molly gave her father the lunch bag before he set off for work.
One morning,besides his usual lunch bag.Molly handed him a second paper bag.
"Why two bags?"her father asked.
"The other is something else, "Molly answered.
"What's in it?"asked her father.
"Just some stuff.Take it with you."Molly replied.
N... | high21471.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Her parents were unlikely to attend the concert."
},
"options": [
"She had no chance to watch the concert.",
"She performed unsuccessfully at the concert.",
"Her parents had gone to a remote country town.",
"Her parents... | The murmur of the audience had just faded into expectant silence. This was one of the most important days in little five-year-old Patricia McKee's life: the Kernot School Concert. She stood behind the curtain with her schoolmates. Yet she was not afraid because everyone had been practicing for weeks and knew their part... | high12093.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "draw readers' attention to the research"
},
"options": [
"draw readers' attention to the research",
"1ink wealth with bad behavior",
"show how the saying proves the findings",
"defend rich people who do unethical things... | Money is the root of all evil and new study claims there may be some truth behind the saying.Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, US,announced on February 27 that rich people are more likely to do unethical things, such as lie or cheat, than poorer people.
The scientists did a series of eight experim... | high8188.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Mark's intelligence brings him negative effects at the same time"
},
"options": [
"Mark must pay for his intelligence at a high price",
"Mark's intelligence brings him negative effects at the same time",
"Mark's intelligence ... | Little Mark is only 6, but he has an IQ of 200, a genius among geniuses. _ His parents must keep him intellectually simulated while making sure he is like any other little boy.
Mark has been attracted by the way how the world works since he was a baby. When he was 3, Mark was reading fluently, mostly self-taught. His p... | high1812.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "She is too old to go to the market as before."
},
"options": [
"The new shop is very big and special.",
"She wants to get best discounts from the new shop.",
"She is too old to go to the market as before.",
"The goods i... | My mother once was a follower of traditional methods when it came to anything. She cooked traditional food, liked dressing up traditionally and thus was fond of traditional way of shopping. She loved going to the market and going from one shop to another to find out what suited her best. She could walk miles when it ca... | high22150.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Nima Louise Carter"
},
"options": [
"Chris Jenkins",
"Hyun Jong",
"Nima Louise Carter",
"Sisman Platzman"
],
"question": "Whose body was found inside a fridge?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{... | Halloween is the one night of the year where being scared is supposed to be good fun. However, amid all the harmless activities like trick-or-treating, sometimes genuinely frightening and disturbing things can happen. October 31 has been the date of some horrific murders and unexplained disappearances, which are far mo... | high9296.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "They think it has more advantages than disadvantages."
},
"options": [
"They think it has more advantages than disadvantages.",
"They want to make themselves famous by doing that.",
"They want to have a personal website each.... | Most parents love the Internet and want their kids to use it. But a new survey in America finds almost as many also fear the online world--especially social networking sites such as My Space--and worry their kids will get in trouble with people they meet.
"The parents see the web's incredible potential , and they know ... | high15924.txt |
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