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"answer_text": "the healthy growth of teenagers"
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"options": [
"helping people in trouble",
"writing books for children",
"the research of teen problems",
"the healthy growth of teenagers"
],
"question": "Kimberly Kirberger d... | Who Is Kimberly Kirberger? Kimberly Kirberger is the president and founder of Inspiration and Motivation for Teens, Inc. (I. A. M. for Teens, Inc. ) a corporation formed exclusively to work for teens. It is her goal to see teens represented in a more positive light and it is her strong belief that teens deserve bette... | high23921.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Choosing a career according to one's strengths."
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"The importance of working hard at school.",
"Choosing a career according to one's strengths.",
"How to face one's weakness.",
"The value of school work."... | What should you think about when trying to find your career? You are probably better at some school subjects than others. These may show strengths that you can use in your work. A boy who is good at mathematics can use that in an engineering career. A girl who spells well and likes English may be good at office work. S... | high831.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Four."
},
"options": [
"Six.",
"Three.",
"Four.",
"Five."
],
"question": "In this text, the writer mentioned many best-looking campuses in the world. How many Universities are in America?",
"question_type": ... | Forbes asked a panel of architects and campus designers to nominate their picks for the best-looking campuses in the world. These are their top choices.
Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio, US
Mike Evans, a principal at Norfolk, Va., design firm Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company, says to be beautiful a campus must have a... | high6412.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To signal for help."
},
"options": [
"To celebrate the journey.",
"To signal for help.",
"To contact the Titanic.",
"To warn other ships."
],
"question": "Why were the rockets really fired?",
"question_type"... | It was about 11:15 pm on the passenger ship California. The night was freezing cold and the water was filled with ice from the North Pole, making it difficult for the ship to sail on.
In the radio room, ship California's operator Cyril Evans listened to the radio-talk between a nearby passenger ship and the telegraph s... | high9721.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Move an object out of the way before it trips someone."
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"options": [
"Start the car the moment everyone is seated.",
"Leave the room for a minute with the iron working.",
"Wait for an extra minute so that the steak tastes ... | Two of the saddest words in the English language are "if only". I live my life with the goal of never having to say those words, because they convey regret, lost opportunities, mistakes, and disappointment.
My father is famous in our family for saying, "Take the extra minute to do it right." I always try to live by the... | high14155.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "help someone get to work"
},
"options": [
"climb a long way up a mountain",
"get to the edge of a valley",
"walk through a dangerous area",
"help someone get to work"
],
"question": "Robinson Diaz has a difficul... | Robinson Diaz lives in a small cottage high in the Andes Mountains of South America. Diaz is a "cable racer", and every morning he faces the difficult task of taking the local teacher to her school. To do this, he first walks for an hour up to a place the locals call Los Pinos, right at the edge of the 400-foot deep go... | high24096.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "lawyer"
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"teacher",
"printer",
"leader",
"lawyer"
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"question": "Matthew Wheelock once had an occupation as a _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"answe... | Something that makes sense is happening in Washington, D.C! Public school kids surrounded by museums and monuments are putting the ready-made learning tools to use -- and actually learning.
A trip to see painter Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series is one of almost 200 trips that Wheelock will organize this year through t... | high6374.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "optimistic"
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"options": [
"pessimistic",
"optimistic",
"depressed",
"disappointed"
],
"question": "Although a lot of unfortunate matters happened to Jean, she is still _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_ques... | Well I decided to cut my front lawn today, especially since I live on a main street downtown with lots of traffic. Anyway, I finished mine and decided to cut my neighbor--Jean's grass while I was at it. She is a sweet person who has gone through some _ times in the last year. Her brother passed away of cancer last yea... | high9047.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Newspaper can supply us with more detailed information."
},
"options": [
"People want to know what happened.",
"Newspapers are cheaper than any other news medium.",
"Newspapers are more convenient than any other news medium."... | A newspaper, a publication usually issued on a daily or weekly basis, has the main function of reporting news. Many newspapers also _ their readers with other pieces of useful information, such as weather reports, television schedules, and stock prices. They provide commentary on politics, economics, and arts and cul... | high14633.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "One-year-olds can be emotionally influenced by TV programs."
},
"options": [
"Small babies should not be allowed to watch television programs.",
"Adults should let their babies do nothing but watch television.",
"TV programs ... | Babies are not just passing idle time when they stare at the television--they are actually learning about the world, U. S. researchers said.
Parents may want to limit what their babies see on television, based on the study, said Donna Mumme, assistant professor of psychology at Tuffs University in Boston, who led the r... | high8359.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "An act of kindness."
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"options": [
"A singer's autobiography.",
"The life of an old couple.",
"An act of kindness.",
"The difficulties Jan met."
],
"question": "What is the passage mainly about?",
"questio... | I recently read about a wonderful act of kindness. It is about the country singer, Jan Howard, and it happened in the mid 1950s. You can read about it in her autobiography , Sunshine and Shadow. She suffered a lot with her three children, two of whom were babies. She was forced to leave her husband because he didn't ca... | high22381.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because Bedell was more a suffering human being than an enemy to Bettie."
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"Because she felt it her responsibility to save soldiers of the Union.",
"Because she wanted to save Bedell so that her husband could be free... | "I never did hate the Yankees . All that I hated was the war..." That's how my great-aunt Bettie began her story. I heard it many times as a child, whenever my family visited Aunt Bettie in the old house in Berryville, Virginia.
Bettie Van Metre had good reason to hate the Civil War. Her brother was killed at Gettysb... | high12242.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "They are more likely to survive serious diseases today."
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"options": [
"They are sure to enjoy a longer and happier life.",
"Their average life span has been considerably extended.",
"They have lived long enough to read thi... | If you're a male and you're reading this, congratulations: you're a survivor. According to a survey, you're more than twice as likely to die of skin cancer than a woman, than nine times more likely to die of AIDS. Assuming you make it to the end of your natural term, about 78 years for men in Australia, you'll die on a... | high21688.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "she was not accustomed to the new surroundings"
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"options": [
"she was attracted by the beauty and peace right away",
"she was not accustomed to the new surroundings",
"she was in conflict with her step-father about farming... | Growing up in town, I classified myself as a "city girl." I had very little knowledge about farming and rural areas, but all of that changed six years ago when my mother and stepfather married and we moved to my stepfather's farm. Surrounded by cows and cornfields, I was unsure of what to do. However, I did enjoy the b... | high19317.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Digital billboards are used to convey messages."
},
"options": [
"The brightness of digital billboards is harmful to people's eyes.",
"The Federal Highway Administration banned digital signs in 2013.",
"There is evidence indi... | Many drivers say the large digital billboards flashing ads every few seconds along Bay Area freeways are just too bright and too distracting. And they may be right.
A Swedish study published in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention concludes that digital billboards hold the gazes of drivers longer than two seconds. Pre... | high4563.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the hearing of 10 percent of all the workers in Britain are being deafened by the noise where they work"
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"options": [
"90 percent of all the workers in Britain are not suffering from noise",
"10 percent of all the workers in B... | In today's world, almost everyone knows that air pollution and water pollution are harmful to people's health. However, not all the persons know that noise is also a kind of pollution, and that is harmful to human health, too.
People who work and live under noisy conditions become deaf . Today, however, scientists b... | high20596.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "he had confidence in her"
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"options": [
"he showed sympathy to her",
"he had confidence in her",
"he lost hope in her",
"he felt sorry about her"
],
"question": "From what Jessica' s father said. we know that"... | Born in 1983 in Arizona, US, Jessica has learned to live her life with her feet. She was born without arms, and no doctors could figure out why.
There were many questions at the time about whether Jessica would be able to live a "normal" life. However, Jessica ' s father said , "I have never shed a tear abou... | high18009.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Uncomfortable."
},
"options": [
"Uncomfortable.",
"Shocked",
"Wonderful",
"Excited"
],
"question": "How did the author first feel about camping in Yosemite?",
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... | THE first night in Yosemite had been awful. I hadn't been able to sleep and I was stuck in a too small tent with my wife and two kids. "Things haven't worked out," I said to myself. But, like so many other things I complain before my morning coffee, this one was ridiculously off-key. Things weren't bad; they were good.... | high21850.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Peach Springs"
},
"options": [
"Travertine Falls",
"Peach Springs",
"Diamond Creek",
"Grand Canyon West"
],
"question": "Where do whitewater rafting tours start?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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... | Experience the Colorado River the Hualapai Way!
River Runners offers the ONLY One Day Whitewater trip ANYWHERE at the GRAND CANYOU!
Since1973,Hualapai River Runners has been conducting whitewater rafting journey to the Colorado River. Our experienced guides expertly sail along the river and share the history of the Can... | high2112.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A gift ark"
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"options": [
"$5.000 in cash",
"Farm animals",
"A gift ark",
"Lemon Hands Bakery"
],
"question": "What did Alex Wood donate to Heifer International?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},... | Alex Wood began fundraising when he was four years old. He sold lemonade and cookies to raise money for a school in Haiti. Later, Alex sent 15 bags of food he collected from his neighbors to a food store near his home which asked for donations .
Alex wanted to help more people. He decided to donate to Heifer Internatio... | high3218.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because they have a \"disease\"."
},
"options": [
"Because they have a \"disease\".",
"Because they are busy for the university.",
"Because it is illegal for them to work.",
"There's too much for them to learn in high s... | For Chinese students the end of their senior year is filled with studying and stress as they prepare for the college entrance exams in June.
The end of senior year is a celebration of their time in high school and involves parties, games and fun.
Senioritis is a commonly used expression. It means seniors have a diseas... | high16030.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Double the price."
},
"options": [
"Another pack of chicken.",
"Two packs of chicken.",
"Double the price.",
"A whole-hearted apology."
],
"question": "What did the friend get when he took the bad chicken back t... | Once my friend Peterson bought a pack of chicken, the brand of which was very famous at that time. But when he got home he found that the chicken had gone bad. He took the chicken back to the shop and he was paid twice of the price. We may say now he should have been satisfied but my friend would not like to stop. He d... | high4577.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "is looking forward to her father's return"
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"is looking forward to her father's return",
"feels ashamed that her father was lost",
"is unsatisfied with the government",
"can't get well with her family mem... | I am sitting in the examination hall among my classmates with a sheet of questions in front of me. The only difference between my classmates and me is that they are all busy filling out their sheets, while I am just sitting, staring at the wall in front of me. My mind silently fights to keep memories as I search for so... | high19303.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To the southwest of Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean."
},
"options": [
"In the southeast part of the Atlantic Ocean.",
"In the northeast part of the Atlantic Ocean.",
"To the southwest of Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean.",
"... | At 2:30 December 5, 1945, five US Navy training planes took off in clear weather from the base Lauderdale, Florida. The planes flew east over the coast... and disappeared. The group was Flight 19, on a run between Florida and Bahamas. Tailor was the group leader. At about 3:40, Tailor reported that his compasses were ... | high20582.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "doesn't help develop leadership and group skills"
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"doesn't benefit the children at all",
"doesn't help develop leadership and group skills",
"makes children become more active",
"helps increase physical ... | Play allows children to use their creativity while developing their imagination and physical, cognitive , and emotional strength. Play is important to healthy brain development. Play allows children to create and explore a world they can master, conquering their fears while practicing adult roles. Undirected play allo... | high5669.txt |
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"answer_text": "Apple wanted to contribute to protecting the environment"
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"Apple wanted to change its public image eagerly",
"Apple wanted to contribute to protecting the environment",
"Apple wanted to cut down its expenses b... | Note: 1gigawtt =" 1000" megawatts
SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple is cleaning up its manufacturing operations in China to reduce the air pollution caused by the factories that have assembled hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads during the past eight years.
The world's most valuable company is working with its Chinese sup... | high11987.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "people whose children like fishing"
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"options": [
"children who are below 11 years old",
"people whose children like fishing",
"those who are good at photos",
"those whose parents like fishing"
],
"question": ... | Kids Fishing Photo Contest
It certainly isn't hard to " picture it", that is - smiles, laughs, looks of anticipation and excitement. So, join in the fun, catch the excitement of your child on film while fishing and enter his or her picture in the yearly Kids Fishing Photo Contest! The contest is sponsored by Virginia... | high2106.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It refers to a women's certain life period."
},
"options": [
"It's a clock made of biological matters.",
"It refers to a women's certain life period.",
"It records when women need to bear children.",
"It refers to a wom... | American actress Marisa Tomei won an Academy Award for her work in the 1992 movie My Cousin Vinny. People laughed when they saw her film character telling a boyfriend that they need to get married. Why marriage? Because her biological clock is ticking and she wants a baby.
"Well I hate to bring it up because I know you... | high10441.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Stronger construction will save the expense in the long run."
},
"options": [
"There are many severe weather events destroying homes, businesses and lives.",
"Stronger construction will save the expense in the long run.",
"Go... | Climate change is making it harder than usual for scientists to figure out what the future will bring and what impact weather changes will have on society and the economy. An upsurge of severe weather events has already destroyed homes, businesses and lives. Some fairly simple changes may reduce the toll.
In a laborato... | high6360.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they will possibly lose a lot of customers"
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"they will possibly lose a lot of customers",
"there will be less overweight people",
"people will use other forms of transportation",
"the problem of overweig... | Is pricing a plane ticket based on the passenger's weight fair? If you're taking an international flight on Samoa Air today, your fare will be based on your weight, along with that of your luggage. The cost is 93 cents to $1.06 for each kilogram.
The average American woman weighs 75.5 kilograms, far from the ideal weig... | high14627.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the structure of his eyes will keep the same as before"
},
"options": [
"the structure of his eyes will keep the same as before",
"it is harmful",
"the structure of his eyes will be changed",
"he will lose sight"
],... | There are many commonly held beliefs about eye glasses and eyesight that are not proven facts. For instance, some people believe that wearing glasses too soon weakens the eyes. But there is no evidence to show that the structure of eyes is changed by wearing glasses at a young age. Wearing the wrong glasses, however, c... | high9053.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the moon"
},
"options": [
"the Tuba City",
"the moon",
"the NASA research center",
"the Apollo moon mission"
],
"question": "The appearance of the Navajo Reservation is very similar to that of _ .",
"ques... | About 1966 or so, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City. There the land of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the lunar surface. Among all the trucks and large vehicles were two large figures that were dressed in full lunar space suits.
Nearby, a Navajo shepherd ... | high22395.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "People will be discouraged without praise."
},
"options": [
"Praise can have people take risky actions.",
"Encouragement can make people achieve greater progress.",
"No recognition,no progress.",
"People will be discour... | Everyone needs recognition for his achievements,but few people make the need known quite as clearly as the little boy who said to his father,"Let's play darts .I'll throw and you should say 'Wonderful!'"
Fran Tarkenton,former Minnesota Vikings quarterback,once called a play that required him to block onrushing tackler... | high15539.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Before Games' opening ceremony and after the closing"
},
"options": [
"During the Olympics",
"Before Games' opening ceremony and after the closing",
"After the Olympics' closing",
"We don't know"
],
"question": ... | According to a survey released by the Nielson Company on Thursday, China has become a global tourist attraction after the Beijing Olympics.
The survey said the Olympics not only built up China's image but also served as an advertisement for China's tourism.
The online survey was conducted on consumers in 16 countries a... | high12256.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Parents shouldn't entirely leave the education of children to the old."
},
"options": [
"Parents shouldn't entirely leave the education of children to the old.",
"36% of the audience of the program are female aged from 25-34.",
... | The Hunan Satellite TV (HNTV) show "Where are we going, Dad?" is a big hit. Many famous stars brought their children to a strange village alone, and they had to spend 72 hours with their children there. The program fully showed us a modern version of the "how to be a good father". As the young parents today are too bus... | high12530.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "try to fill the empty space in life"
},
"options": [
"talk to online friends",
"try to fill the empty space in life",
"create a new online name",
"ask an alcoholic for some advice"
],
"question": "If a mom wants... | For a stay-at-home mom, a computer with an Internet connection can truly be a lifeline . When diapers and baby talk become just too much, adult talk is just a click away. But for some moms, the attraction of the online world becomes too strong to resist and instead of being an occasional thing, it becomes an addiction... | high23935.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "not sure"
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"options": [
"great pressure of the earth's outer layers",
"the heat left from the time when the earth was formed",
"radioactive elements giving out heat",
"not sure"
],
"question": "The cause for t... | Geologists have been studying volcanoes for a long time.Though they have learned a great deal,they still have not discovered the cause of volcanic action.They know that the inside of the earth is very hot,but they are not sure exactly what causes the great heat.Some geologists have thought that the heat is caused by th... | high7718.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Because they can't stand the high water pressure."
},
"options": [
"Because they can't stand the high water pressure.",
"Because it's too cold in deep ocean.",
"Because time for experiments is too limited.",
"Because it... | The Internationa1 Space Station allows astronauts to live in space for extended amounts of time, enabling them to explore the outside universe and conduct many experiments. However, nothing like that exists for our oceans, and thanks to the high water pressure, ocean researchers are able to explore what lies undersea f... | high825.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Expressing the writer's idea that gene technology will benefit people"
},
"options": [
"Expressing the writer's idea that gene technology will benefit people",
"Telling people the advantages of gene technology",
"Telling the ... | Among all the fast growing science and technology, the research of human genes , or biological engineering as people call it, is drawing more and more attention now. Sometimes it is a hot topic discussed by people.
The greatest thing that gene technology can do is to cure serious diseases that doctors at present can al... | high65.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To talk about the school reforms."
},
"options": [
"To attract people to the school.",
"To talk about the school reforms.",
"To introduce the school",
"To introduce the relationship between the school and students."
... | Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of visiting with Deputy Superintendent Pedro Martinez, Principal Neddy Alvarez and her staff at Western High School, located in the Clark County School District, in Las Vegas. The school undertook a comprehensive effort to completely transform the culture of the school and added a moti... | high6406.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "For the efficiency and cost saving."
},
"options": [
"For the efficiency and cost saving.",
"For the peace of the whole the world.",
"For the celebration of the end of World War II.",
"For the renewal of the Chinese civ... | President Xi Jinping announced Thursday that China will cut its military by 300,000 troops, a significant reduction in one of the largest militaries in the world and a move that the Chinese leader called a gesture of peace.
"The great renewal of the Chinese nation requires efforts of one generation after another," Xi s... | high14141.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "It improves one's appetite."
},
"options": [
"It improves one's appetite.",
"It's an inexpensive exercise",
"It helps to comfort the mind.",
"it can be an individual or social activity"
],
"question": "Which of ... | One important attraction of walking is its long-lasting appeal. Whereas jogging and aerobic dancing can _ quickly, walking provides a popular activity that seems to endure. Fitness foundations estimate that 35 million adult Americans walk for exercise every day, with at least 15 million walking two or three times a wee... | high9735.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "on the Internet"
},
"options": [
"in a newspaper",
"on the Internet",
"in a magazine",
"a travel guide"
],
"question": "This passage most probably appears _ .",
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},
{... | By Zhan Lisheng
Updated: 2008-09-27 07:50
prefix = st1 /GUANGZHOU -- At least 13 people were killed and nine left missing after Typhoon Hagupit swept through the country's southern region on Wednesday, authorities said.
More than 11.5 million people in Guangdong, Hainan and Guangxi provinces were affected by the disast... | high24082.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "surgeons have large hands"
},
"options": [
"patients have large organs",
"surgeons have large hands",
"large cuts take less time",
"large cuts cost less money"
],
"question": "According to the passage, the reaso... | COLUMBUS, Ohio--The heart operation taking place in the pale-green operating room at the Ohio State University Medical Center was unusual. The patient, a 62-year-old man, was made to sleep, tied with blue drapes and lying face up on a narrow table. But no one was touching him.
Instead, the operation was being performed... | high1369.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "By analyzing differences and providing advice."
},
"options": [
"By presenting and solving problems.",
"By explaining the cause-effect relationship.",
"By giving examples and drawing a conclusion.",
"By analyzing differ... | Whether you prefer burning the midnight oil or going to bed early so you can get up at the break of dawn depends on your genes , according to experts.
I jump out of bed each morning, eager to start an active day. But I can hear my neighbour's alarm clock ringing non-stop every morning and I doubt he gets to work... | high10327.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "It's space"
},
"options": [
"It's the clouds",
"It's space",
"It's air",
"It's nothing"
],
"question": "What is the sky? _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_ind... | What is the sky? Where is it? How high is it? What lies above it? These questions are difficult to answer, aren't they?
Is the sky blue? The sky has no colour. We know that there is air around the world. When planes fly, they need air to lift their wings. Planes cannot fly very high because when they go higher, th... | high17448.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "learn more new words"
},
"options": [
"improve your English grammar",
"speak English more fluently",
"gain the skills of writing",
"learn more new words"
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],
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],
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},
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"Whoever has worn a cast for long may have difficulty in muscle recovery.",
"Scientists hav... | Anyone who has worn a cast knows that rebuilding muscle strength once the cast is removed can be difficult. Now researchers at the Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute (OMNI) at Ohio University have found that the mind is _ in maintaining muscle strength following a long period of not moving and that menta... | high11039.txt |
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"missed the beauty of winter",
"enjoyed the seasons except winter"
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],
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Go outside. If you want to feel more connected to the earth, the first step is to experience it for yourself. Choose a... | high21065.txt |
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Dare to Take the Curiosity Challenge!
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"more challenging"
],
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"didn't perform as perfectly as the second one",
"was untrustworthy",
"showed no respect for authority"
],
"question": "In Tiffany's view, the first ca... | As a manager, Tiffany is responsible for interviewing applicants for some of the positions with her company. During one interview, she noticed that the candidate never made direct eye contact. She was puzzled and somewhat disappointed because she liked the individual otherwise.
He had a perfect resume and gave good res... | high9872.txt |
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Many studies have shown that teenagers who have no friends often suffer from psychological disorders. It has been sh... | high762.txt |
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"The Earth Pledge may be an environmental organization.",
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"The Influence of Ecological Devastation",
"The Ways of Building a Sustainable Future",
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"My younger sister told my father the truth about the carnations.",
"Dad asked my s... | When I was young, my father used to grow carnations ----- a kind of flower which was red, pink and white. He took care of them with much love and devotion. Every day he came back home from work, he would enjoy watching them. Everyone who saw them admired them for their beauty. And he used to tell us, "No one should to... | high1590.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
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They got to know each other through Li's elder brother, who was one of Zhang's best friends.
They admired each other's artistic talent and became _ , which resulted in a r... | high14960.txt |
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},
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"Roswell UFO festival.",
"Hemingway Days.",
"All of the above."
],
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Cheese Rolling Festival (England)
The festival started in the 15thcentury in May. When a round cheese is rolled, competitors run down the hi... | high3387.txt |
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"because I was told to do so by my mother",
"as I was named president of the Ford Motor company",
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"IKEA is the world's largest furniture retailer.",
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"answer": {
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"people who enjoy feeding birds outside",
"devices that supplies food for wild birds",
"hunters who hide themselves in... | Passage 1
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"live or work far away from where they were born or grew up",
"live near their own homes... | There is no place like home--as long as it is far enough away, it seems.
Britain has become a nation of nomads ,with nearly half of us living more than 100 miles from the town or village where we grew up, research shows.
The trend is being fuelled by the Internet, better communications and property wealth.
People who m... | high19288.txt |
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},
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"it is right to reject chemicals in food",
"food additives are harmful to our health",
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "are to some degree connected with our feelings"
},
"options": [
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"are man's curious look into the future",
"have nothing to do with our feelings",
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All our dreams have something to do with our feelings, fears, longings, wishes, needs and memories. If a person is hungry, or tired, or c... | high18196.txt |
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"question_type": "cloze_quest... | Great Wall Xmas BBQ
Beijing Hikers is organizing a three-hour hike on a rarely-visited part of the Great Wall and will celebrate Christmas afterwards with a Christmas barbecue dinner in a small hotel at the foot of
the Great Wall.Meet at 8:30 am.Dec 25 in front ofStarbucks at Lido Holiday Inn, Jiangtai Lu.Please
write... | high20409.txt |
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},
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"took a fancy to a unique food culture",
"opened Chez Panisse, a Berkeley restaurant"
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"borrowed books",
"attended a few lectures"
],
"question": "Fred often went to the Students' Union where he _ .... | When I was at university, I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn't do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking in the Students' Union than working in the library. Once, at the end of the term, we had to take an im... | high1584.txt |
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"options": [
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"They didn't have enough time to give birth to and raise babies.",
"The iceberg... | Most penguins died after a huge iceberg grounded near their habitat in Antarctica,forcing them to make a long way to find food, scientists say in a newly published study. The B09B iceberg, measuring about 100 square kilometers, grounded in Commonwealth Bay in East Antarctica in December 2010, the researchers from Austr... | high14974.txt |
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},
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"Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise were very satisfied with their life",
"When they fail in Hollywood, the beautiful h... | _ . Very attractive people tend to form partnerships that are less stable and satisfying than those enjoyed by _ .
According to research by Dr John Blaine of the University of Southern California, relationships between people whose professions largely depend on their appearances, such as models or actors, tend to end m... | high7693.txt |
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"answer": {
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"pinnipeds were hunted for their meat",
"pinnipeds had a better life than today",
"many families were using lamps"
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"answer": {
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"It brought her great profit.",
"It was made when he was 20.",
"It reduced injuries at textile plants."
],
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},
"options": [
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"People feel many awareness weeks are just for marketing exercises.",
"People have a weak... | Awareness Weeks have become a regular part of Britain's cultural landscape over the past few years. They started back in 1957,when one charity , Christian Aid, decided to make all its money-raising efforts on one time of year. It was thought that by doing this they would get more publicity for their cause.
They were r... | high24109.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"Feel happier about yourself .",
"Solve a problem calmly.",
"It is no help at all."
],
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Shouting bad words at someone will hurt the other person or make them angry too. If you feel an... | high5084.txt |
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"Dream and reality",
"Nothing is impossible",
"Efforts to be a ballerina will pay"
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I always had the dream to dance like a beautiful ballerina turning aro... | high16805.txt |
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"should not stop people from looking for a job",
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"his foot and leg injuries",
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],
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... | Chinese star Yao Ming has retired. Yao made it official Wednesday, telling a news conference that a series of foot and leg injuries forced him to end his playing career at the age of 30.
"I will formally end my career,'' said Yao, who became a household name in China before starting his NBA career with the Houston Rock... | high2933.txt |
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],
"question": "The text is mainly about _ .",
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"Its result is consistent with(...... | Small talk is part of everyday life, but it's the deep conversations that may make you happy. That's one possibility suggested in a new study which examined how conversation is related to happiness.
Researchers, led by Matthias Mehl at the University of Arizona, looked at the different types of conversation that happy ... | high22550.txt |
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},
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"About 20% of adults aged 50 plus have access to the Internet.",
"About 460 peopl... | Social networking isn't only for the under 40s. More than 25 percent of Americans 50 years and older stay connected using sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, according to new research.
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},
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"They now have more interesting things to do.",
"T... | "I had a test and didn't want to do it, so I pretended to be ill", says 13-year-old Mary. But Mary did not enjoy her day off. "It was boring. I wished I had gone to school."
Mary's story is not unusual in Britain. According to the latest government figures, pupil absences are rising, despite schools _ truancy .
Dr Phi... | high12493.txt |
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},
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},
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"A strong desire for logic.",
"A clever and active mind.",
"A strong desire for evidence."
],
"question": "Which of th... | Bruce Alberts, the former President of the National Academies (USA), has now taken over as Editor-in Chief of Science. Judging by his editorial in this week's issueConsidering Science Education there could be some interesting times ahead inScience offices.
Here's part of what Bruce has to say about science educatio... | high20347.txt |
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"science report"
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"question": "The passage is most probably taken from a(n) _ .",
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}... | Yuan Guiren, Minister of Education, announced some measures to reform the NCEE, known as Gaokao, for this year in a media conference.
The first measure is to balance the recruiting quota around the nation, with particular emphasis on recruiting more students in central and western provinces.
In addition to this, Yuan ... | high10284.txt |
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"answer": {
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}... | Rats that eat high levels of a natural sugar known as fructose seem to age faster than other rats.and the same could be true for people who eat too much sweet junk food,Israeli researchers said Monday.
Fructose,found naturally in honey and fruit,is used widely in foods ranging from soft drinks to yogurt.But while its s... | high18800.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To introduce some educational websites to parents for their kids."
},
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"To let parents distinguish between good and bad websites.",
"To attract ... | The Internet can provide a wealth of educational resources for small children, if you know where to look. This article will offer some educational websites to small children. You may need to assist your children in navigating the pages until they understand where their favorite activities are.
Enchanted Learning
Encha... | high5912.txt |
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"Drinking Helps Increase Income"
],
"question":... | People who drink alcohol earn more at their jobs than non-drinkers, according to a US study that highlighted "social capital " gained from drinking.
The study concluded that drinkers earn 10-14 percent more than _ and that men who drink socially bring home an additional seven percent in pay.
"Social drinking builds s... | high20421.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "He needed some kind of human care."
},
"options": [
"He was a greedy man",
"He took on a sign of poor manners.",
"He was in poor health.",
"He needed some kind of human care."
],
"question": "What was the author... | It was such an extremely freezing day that I decided to get a cup of hot drinking first after work. As my colleague, Ricky, and I were making our way to a coffee shop, I noticed an old gentleman rather poorly dressed sitting on a bench nearby. Obviously he was frozen, seemingly one of the homeless or someone like that.... | high11824.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "a crab doesn't feel pain as a chicken or a pig does"
},
"options": [
"it is not guilty to treat a crab cruelly",
"it is too hard to kill a crab",
"a crab doesn't feel pain as a chicken or a pig does",
"the crab is a pop... | Do lobsters, crabs and other crustaceans feel pain? We certainly act as if they don't.Most chefs cook lobsters and crabs alive, usually by dumping them in boiling water.Along with melted butter.That's the appeal of crustaceans-there's no fresher food.We may feel a bit of guilt, or maybe just discomfort, when we hea... | high23128.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "due to river flows over millions of years"
},
"options": [
"as a result of a sudden break of volcanoes",
"due to river flows over millions of years",
"owing to the burst of artificial dams",
"thanks to our ancestors' cr... | How the Grand Canyon was created remains one of the geology's greatest mysteries. Some evidence suggests that the process was a gradual one in which the Colorado River (which runs through the canyon) slowly cut deeper and deeper into the ground over millions of years. But volcanic rock samples taken from the canyon n... | high14784.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Graduating from a good university."
},
"options": [
"Getting on well with other people.",
"Being able to overcome difficulties.",
"Graduating from a good university.",
"Taking positive attitudes towards whatever happens... | I happened to think about IQ and EQ on my way home this afternoon. So, I'd like to try to say something about them.
Due to the nation's family planning policy, usually a couple only has a kid. Young father and mother pay much attention to the smooth and healthy growing of their baby even when it is still in i... | high22236.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "wants to encourage him to go further"
},
"options": [
"wants to encourage him to go further",
"doesn't know the exact distance at all",
"wants to help the man to decide whether to stop and have a rest",
"tries to play a... | "How far is the next village?" the American asks a man standing by the edge of the road. In some countries, because the man realizes that the traveler is tired and eager to reach his destination , he will politely say "Just down the road." He thinks this is more encouraging, gentler, and therefore the wanted answer. S... | high14790.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "The thick grass covering the bridge."
},
"options": [
"There being no cars passing by.",
"So much food offered by Australian producers.",
"So many people dining at the same time.",
"The thick grass covering the bridge."... | SYDNEY (AFP) -- Thousands of people sat down to breakfast on the Sydney Harbor Bridge on Sunday after the bridge was closed to traffic and carpeted with grass for the first time for a giant picnic.
About 6,000 early riser were on the steel bridge from 6:30 am to take part in the two-hour event designed to show Sydney's... | high16187.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Supermarket"
},
"options": [
"Supermarket",
"Theater",
"Parking lot",
"Food court"
],
"question": "Which of the following doesn't make up the basic structure of a shopping mall?",
"question_type": null
},
... | prefix = st1 /Los Angeles' Shopping Malls
Let's take a look around the mall . You will find various malls inLos Angeles. Stores vary by mall . To better understand shopping at the mall , let's take a look at the basic structure of malls.
Basic Structure
Most of the malls are two or three layer buildings includi... | high17299.txt |
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