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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Whether secretaries have a good future nowadays."
},
"options": [
"Whether secretaries have a good future nowadays.",
"How secretaries have failed to benefit from technology advances.",
"Whether secretaries should make coffee... | The 1950s and 60s brought many new things to American offices, including the Xerox machine , word processing and -- perhaps less famously -- the first National Secretaries Day, in 1952. Secretaries of that era expected a bright future, and many saw their job as a ticket to a better life.
But nearly 60 years later, ... | high21501.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "who play music together"
},
"options": [
"who play games on the sports ground",
"who play music together",
"living in the same neighborhood",
"doing things together under a leader and with a common purpose"
],
"... | More and more often we heard of people talking about Karaoke(OK). But what on earth it is about, still remains a question for many people. Karaoke is a sort of acoustic equipment which was invented in Japan around the middle of the 1970's. It means "a band without people" in Japanese. In fact, it is just a music tape ... | high10904.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "they have a much higher education"
},
"options": [
"they don't want to be gentle any more",
"most of them are not in good shape",
"they have a much higher education",
"matchmaking agencies pushed them too hard"
],
... | As women in the rich Asian country have become better educated, with five times as many now getting advanced degrees as in 1995, they have also become choosier and are less likely to settle for the role of gentle wife traditionally expected of Korean women.
"I heard if you are a female with master's degree, it is much ... | high22008.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "they use electricity as power"
},
"options": [
"they feel smooth and soft",
"they use electricity as power",
"they can be washed in water",
"they are made from flexible materials"
],
"question": ". The electroni... | Clothes can make phone calls, play music, dial your pal's number, keep you warm during cold weather and operate your computer?
This is not a fantasy. A British company, called Electrotextiles, has created a wide range of clothes -- clothes that have minds of their own! Scientists, working for the company, have invented... | high1792.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Three"
},
"options": [
"Two",
"Three",
"Four",
"Five"
],
"question": "How many viewpoints are discussed here about the future?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_in... | Some people are pessimistic when they think about the future. They say that, a hundred years from now, we will have used up most of the earths resources. We will have made our seas so dirty that we will not be able to eat fish from them. There will be so many people in the world that we will have to use all the country... | high206.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "are worth researching"
},
"options": [
"can spin silk underwater or on dry land",
"are worth researching",
"are quite different from butterflies and spiders",
"have been widely used in the medical field"
],
"que... | SALT LAKE CITY, March 1, 2010 --- Like silkworm moths , butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater instead of on dry land. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly's silk is sticky when wet and how that may make it valuable as an adhesive tape during an opera... | high23316.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "to drink more milk"
},
"options": [
"to drink more coffee",
"to drink more milk",
"to drink more soda",
"to drink more fruit juice"
],
"question": "According to the passage, Professor Storey thinks it helpful fo... | Young children from poor families are more likely to consume junk food and fizzy drinks than their richer companions. A study of 1,800 four- and five-year-olds found more than half of those from poor backgrounds drank at least one a week, compared to just four in ten _ kids. They also drank less milk and consumed more... | high12875.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "become sick"
},
"options": [
"become sick",
"drink water",
"store food",
"feel fresh"
],
"question": "If hamsters don't have a balanced diet, they will _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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... | Hamsters are lovely small animals which are similar to mice, and some people like to keep them as pets. They need to eat a balanced diet, or they can become very sick. That's why hamsters should be fed healthy foods.
Most pet stores sell hamster mix. This is a combination of foods that are just right for hamsters.... | high23470.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "make buying much more convenient"
},
"options": [
"make buying much more convenient",
"give customers second thoughts",
"not be driven by advertisers' need",
"put something back on the shelf"
],
"question": "Bot... | Supermarkets are trying out new computers that make shopping carts more intelligent. They will help shoppers find cups or toilet soap, and keep a record of the bill. The touch-screen devices are on show at the Food Marketing Institute's exhibition here this week. "These devices are able to create value and get you arou... | high6943.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "It's not accessible to reach the accident spot."
},
"options": [
"It's not accessible to reach the accident spot.",
"No enough helicopters and ambulances could be found at that time.",
"It was too far from hospital to Cumbria... | An elderly woman died and several other passengers were critically injured when a crowded Virgin express train crashed in Cumbria last night.
A huge rescue operation involving RAF helicopters and dozens of ambulances arrive. After passengers were trapped in the train for more than four hours because fallen power line p... | high7485.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "suffer from loneliness and anxiety"
},
"options": [
"suffer from loneliness and anxiety",
"play endless online games",
"cause adoption of self-destruction",
"worry about life's pressures"
],
"question": "Accordi... | Being lonely in the crowd might seem ridiculous. But according to a recent survey, the situation is all too common. Loneliness and other anxiety problems - worrying about life's pressures - can even lead to self-murder.
An article in China Daily gave no reason for this other than the usual blaming of the post-... | high21267.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "tend to hold negative worldviews"
},
"options": [
"often shape their own ideas",
"are less likely to be successful",
"usually manage to live with stress",
"tend to hold negative worldviews"
],
"question": "It's ... | Who do you feel closer to -- your mom or your dad?
In almost every culture in the world, mothers are thought to be more important than fathers during children's development and more likely to build strong bonds with their children.
This belief had existed for a long time until scientists started asking a new question: ... | high19920.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle."
},
"options": [
"David Beckham and his wife.",
"Elton John and his partner David Furnish.",
"People from the charities they work with.",
"President Barack Obama and his wif... | Soccer star David Beckham will be there with his pop star wife Victoria. Elton John is attending with partner David Furnish.
The guest list for the April 29 union of Prince William and Kate Middleton is still being kept secret, but details have begun to leak out, with some coming forward to say they are attending and t... | high20179.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "improve their education at home to get better jobs"
},
"options": [
"attend full-time universities",
"work part time to further their education",
"improve their education at home to get better jobs",
"earn their degrees... | Have you ever wondered what a Degree might be worth to you in your job or career ? It means a lot of Americans with an Associate Degree average nearly $10,000 more in yearly earnings than those with just a High School Diploma .
Harcourt Learning Direct offers you a way to get a Specialized Associate Degree in 11 of tod... | high5292.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "CSM Media Research"
},
"options": [
"China Central TV",
"Reed MIDEM",
"MIPTV",
"CSM Media Research"
],
"question": "_ provided the exact viewer figures for the Guinness World Record to confirm.",
"question... | Guinness World Records, the global authority on record-breaking achievements, presented China Central TV (CCTV) the world record for Most Watched National Network TV Broadcast for its annual Spring Festival Gala show. The program, which is produced especially to celebratethe Chinese New Year, had a unique reach of 498,... | high21273.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Google has developed a driverless car."
},
"options": [
"An auto revolution is on its way.",
"Google has developed a driverless car.",
"The Carbot has passed its early testing stages.",
"Science fiction has turned into ... | Google, the Internet search and mapping company, has developed a car that can steer without a driver.
Sometimes the reality is stranger than science fiction: Google is road-testing cars that steer, stop and start without a human driver. The goal is to "help prevent traffic accidents, free up people's time and reduce ca... | high4198.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Collecting information."
},
"options": [
"Observing people.",
"Interviewing people.",
"Doing lab experiments.",
"Collecting information."
],
"question": "What method did Andrew Howell and his colleagues use in t... | After a fight and before forgiveness often comes an apology. But saying "I'm sorry" comes more easily for some people than doing that for others. A new study suggests that specific personality traits offer clues about whether a person is likely to offer a sincere apology.
Psychologist Andrew Howell and his colleagues ... | high19934.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "explain why many writers use science in their works"
},
"options": [
"explain where science can be applied",
"show the value of Brooks' new book",
"remind the reader of the importance of science",
"explain why many writ... | Science has a lot of uses. It can uncover laws of nature, cure diseases, make bombs, and help bridges to stand up. Indeed science is so good at what it does that there's always a temptation to drag it into problems where it may not be helpful. David Brooks, author of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Char... | high12861.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Three suns shine in Leshan, Sichuan."
},
"options": [
"What is \"sun dog?\"",
"Wang Sichao discovered three suns.",
"Three suns shine in Leshan, Sichuan.",
"Lu Shan found three sun dogs in Leshan."
],
"question"... | "Look! Here come UFOs!" At around 8 p.m. July 26,2010, a citizen called Lu Shan spotted this special phenomenon in Leshan, Sichuan: three unidentified and bright objects appeared in the sky above "Jade International" building, and then disappeared all together after 10 more minutes.
The phenomenon caught a lot of att... | high23464.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The writer's 10-year-old daughter"
},
"options": [
"The mother",
"One of the passers-by",
"The writer's 10-year-old daughter",
"One of the writer's neighbors' kids."
],
"question": "Who raised the idea of washin... | Last weekend, my kids along with a few other kids from the neighborhood volunteered to help me wash my car. My 10-year-old daughter came up with the idea of washing other people's cars as well. It was pretty hot outside. She further wanted to give juice for a low cost but not free. I felt happy and decided to help her.... | high574.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A great discovery of fossils."
},
"options": [
"The secret of ancient animals' deaths.",
"The preparation for a future fossil exhibition.",
"A great discovery of fossils.",
"The history of San Timoteo Canyon."
],
... | Construction workers in Southern California have made a wild discovery. They were digging at a building site in San Timoteo Canyon when they unearthed hundreds of ancient animal fossils. Researchers say the bones hold important clues about the history of the region.
Nearly 1, 500 fossils were recovered from the dusty... | high15868.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Because students have to satisfy their parents."
},
"options": [
"Because students want to improve other abilities.",
"Because students feel great pressure from universities.",
"Because students have to satisfy their parents.... | As the semester ended, students had a chance to _ .
They got to grade me anonymously , assessing the ability of my thinking, my organizational skills and the depth of my knowledge. Such evaluations keep me alert to what works and what doesn't. Students reflect my performance back to me, and I'm glad to learn what they... | high212.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "JSSICA LOST is about a mother and her daughter."
},
"options": [
"MAINE talks about a loving happy family.",
"WHAT I LEARNED WHEN I ALMOST DIED is a novel.",
"JSSICA LOST is about a mother and her daughter.",
"LONG DRIV... | by J. Courtney Sullivan, fiction, $26
The Kellehers are a big, disorderly family who sometimes seem to have only one thing in common: love for their beach house in Maine. Lie there with this novel and listen to a summer's worth of secrets, quarrels, and misunderstandings.
WHAT I LEARNED WHEN I ALMOST DIED
by Chris Lich... | high1786.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the health of its habitat is worsening"
},
"options": [
"it is a totally warm and lovable species",
"the health of its habitat is worsening",
"its population has dropped sharply",
"few clownfish can be found in zoos"
... | Almost a decade after the hit Finding Nemo made clownfish seem totally warm and lovable, environmentalists are now looking for a real-life sequel: Saving Nemo.
In the United States, a request has been made to extend the protections of the Endangered Species Act to marine species including the clownfish.
But before you... | high23302.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the child isn't. a person alive"
},
"options": [
"the child is lovely",
"the child is so young that we can't know he is a boy or a girl",
"the child isn't. a person alive",
"the friend doesn't know who is the child"
... | Once a father was seated at the dinner table with his wife and children. A good friend who had come to visit was eating with them. While they were sitting there the clock struck twelve,and the stranger saw the door open and a very pale little child dressed in snow-white clothes come in. It neither looked around,nor did... | high18394.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the hot dishes were mainly cooked by Yang."
},
"options": [
"It lasted about half an hour.",
"There were eight dishes in all.",
"the hot dishes were mainly cooked by Yang.",
"Many dishes were cooked in American style."
... | Janice is an American engineer working in Nanjing. She and her husband George, who is teaching English at a university, have been eager to get to know Chinese people better, so they were pleased when Liu, Janice's young co-worker, invited them to her home for dinner.
When they arrived, Liu introduced them to her husban... | high4826.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Insurance is a good protection against accidents and illness."
},
"options": [
"Everyone will have some sort of illness or accident.",
"Accident and health insurance is available to everyone.",
"Cancelable insurance policies ... | Accidents and illness are unhappy things to talk about, but no one can expect to live a lifetime without having some kind of accident or becoming ill. Some accidents and illnesses are serious and may result in long periods of invalidism.
The newspapers contain spectacular accounts of accidents in the street and highway... | high3191.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "PS12"
},
"options": [
"PS7",
"PS12",
"PS13",
"PS23"
],
"question": "How much would a couple with one child pay to go to The East London Museum?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {... | Once home to the world's largest trading port,East London is a lovely and cultural place to
visit.Here are some of the places of interest there.
Aquarium Beachfront,Esplanade,East London
Tel:705 2637
Open daily:9 a.n5 p.m.
Fish Feeding:daily at 10:30 a.m.and 3:00 p.m
Seal Show:daily at 11:30 a.m.a... | high21515.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "experiencing better service"
},
"options": [
"not being recognized",
"mainly aged 25-34",
"experiencing better service",
"not a profitable market"
],
"question": "Solo travellers are now _",
"question_type... | More than 15 million Britons, many of them women, will holiday unaccompanied this year. And they will no longer be treated as second-class citizens. After 50 years of being slighted, ripped off, herded together and allocated the worst rooms in the hotel, the single traveller's time has finally come. Rather than being v... | high22034.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "To protect the environment."
},
"options": [
"To appeal to more visitors.",
"To protect the environment.",
"To control butterfly population.",
"To expand the area for wildlife."
],
"question": "According to Para... | In Wiltshire, England, volunteers are being sought to visit a nature protection area to count the butterflies living there and on surrounding fields. The project is promoted by an environmental protection organisation,which has contributed to improving the living environment for wild animals. Recently, the organisation... | high15698.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "most people's thoughts are controlled by others"
},
"options": [
"we have thoughts similar to those of others",
"other people's thoughts are more important",
"most people's thoughts are controlled by others",
"most peop... | Who's in control of your life? Who is pulling your string? For the majority of us, it's other people - society, colleagues, friends, family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young, of course.We were brainwashed.We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a ... | high15840.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Praying for your enemies."
},
"options": [
"Praying for your enemies.",
"The experience of the writer.",
"How to get along with the kids.",
"How to solve the problem about the \"atrisk\" students."
],
"question"... | Last year I was put into a lowerlevel math class at school. The reason I was in this class had nothing to do with my intellect or maths skills. I am blind.
The only problem with being in this class was that I was surrounded by "atrisk" students. These were kids who did not do well in school and they were constantly i... | high14586.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "take the function of bonuses for granted"
},
"options": [
"take the function of bonuses for granted",
"see that bonus offering is done everywhere",
"think financial encouragement is disgusting",
"are shocked by the prac... | Bonus culture has become the subject of many studies nowadays. Many people have been angered by the way some bankers and high officials seem to have been rewarded for failure. Others find the idea of offering many-million-dollar bonuses morally disgusting.
But few have asked whether performance-related bonuses really ... | high20623.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The heroine is not brave enough."
},
"options": [
"The plot is too simple.",
"The description is not vivid.",
"The heroine is not brave enough.",
"The story is unfit for the children today."
],
"question": "Why ... | This is a story told or read to children of young ages.The heroine , Cinderella, treated cruelly by her stepmother and her two ugly stepsisters, is helpless until the right magic comes along.She meets her prince and they live together happily.
Just a sweet, pretty tale? Not in the view of Ellen Macintosh, who has writt... | high10938.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "got patience in prison"
},
"options": [
"got patience in prison",
"always wants to know what patience is",
"began to teach others how to be patient",
"is a successful man now through failure"
],
"question": "We ... | Over the last six years I have learned what patience is. Growing up I did not have this virtue and it is a very important virtue to have. Now I can see that if you are patient you will almost always get what you want if you are supposed to have it. I gained patience when I lost my freedom. I knew that I would eventuall... | high16391.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "it is not always full"
},
"options": [
"it arrives on time",
"it is not always full",
"it travels faster",
"it has fewer seats on it"
],
"question": "The writer has to take Bus No.49 because _ .",
"questio... | Dear Sir,
I have to travel every day from Souk Road to the airport. Two buses travel along their route : the number 49 and number 16. But by the time the number 16 bus reaches Souk Road it is always full, so I can't get on it. I have to wait for the number 49, because sometimes there are empty seats on it.
The timetab... | high11398.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "not dangerous"
},
"options": [
"dangerous killers",
"not dangerous",
"afraid of people",
"found inJapan"
],
"question": "Most types of sharks are _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"ans... | Read the following interview with Dr John Bass, an international shark specialist who has spent many years studying sharks:
First of all, doctor, are all sharks dangerous?
No, they aren't. There are about 250 different kinds of sharks, but fewer than 30 of them are dangerous to humans. Certain sharks are very aggres... | high17931.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "More official"
},
"options": [
"Playful",
"Direct",
"Less respectful",
"More official"
],
"question": "Which of the following is NOT true for slang compared with the official language?",
"question_type": nul... | Slang is a popular, less official and often very current form of language. It is an important part of a living language and is constantly changing as language changes. Slang is often playful, direct and sometimes less respectful than the more official and traditional version of language. So now I'm going to lay it on y... | high10086.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "draw our attention to water shortage"
},
"options": [
"tell us what life is like in Yemen",
"draw our attention to water shortage",
"remind us how important water is",
"show us ways of solving problems"
],
"ques... | Imagine one day, the water taps in your house stop running. You have to buy water from shops. And still there isn't enough for everyone. Your mother has to save the family's shower water to do other things. Would you be able to stand that kind of life?
Probably not. But _ 's what kids in Yemen are experiencing. Experts... | high3807.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "what happiness is"
},
"options": [
"happiness means the same to everyone",
"what happiness is",
"money makes one happy,so does helping others",
"both A and C"
],
"question": "The main idea of the above article i... | There is one thing that everyone wants more than anything else. Some people try to get it by .making money. They think that when they have enough money to buy such things as houses, farms, and cars, they will have the one thing that everyone wants.
Other people believe that if they know enough they will find this thing... | high20145.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "are difficult to find for girls"
},
"options": [
"are all made by boys",
"are seldom loved by girls",
"are only designed for boys",
"are difficult to find for girls"
],
"question": "According to the text, footba... | Football T-shirts are more commonly connected with boys than girls. This can often cause a problem when you want to find a cool shirt for a girl. That is not to say that there are no cool shirts out there for girls to wear. The problem is that they are often harder to find than the ones for boys.
You can get custom s... | high12691.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "western stand-up comedy"
},
"options": [
"China's new comedian star",
"the origin of Errenzhuan",
"western stand-up comedy",
"ancient comedies in the world"
],
"question": "The passage is mainly about _ .",
... | While Errenzhuan has gained in popularity over the past few years, not least as a result of comedians such as Xiao Shenyang, so has the Western equivalent of the ancient art form - stand-up comedy.
Stand-up comedy differs from Errenzhuan. It normally features a single person on stage, as opposed to a duet. Although m... | high22752.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "education of American high school"
},
"options": [
"education of Chinese middle school",
"education of American high school",
"American free education",
"how to get into universities in America"
],
"question": "... | As a student, you must be excited to know something about American school students. In fact, just like in China, in the United States, high school is usually divided into two periods, the first two or three years are called "junior high school" and the other is "senior high school".
In China, children enjoy free educat... | high9480.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "a model interview"
},
"options": [
"a model interview",
"her brothers' examples",
"the taxi-ride to her hotel room",
"the beautiful scenery of New York"
],
"question": "Lawrence made up her mind to be an actress... | To win an Oscar is an achievement at any age. To do so at 22, as Jennifer
Lawrence has, is just amazing. Recently, the American star won Best Actress at this year's Academy Awards for her role in the film The Silver Linings Playbook. According to Time magazine's Richard Corliss, Lawrence is that rare young actress who ... | high8946.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To realize his childhood dream to be an actor"
},
"options": [
"To study kung fu to build up his strength",
"Because he has seen through the human society",
"To realize his childhood dream to be an actor",
"To make mone... | Some years ago, Wang Baoqiang was a nobody to most Chinese people. However, he is now a household film star in China.
Wang is the youngest child of a poor family in Hebei Province. Dreaming of becoming an actor, he left home at the age of 8 to study kung fu at Shaolin Temple, since kung-fu actors seemed to appear most ... | high12685.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "can imagine they have great power"
},
"options": [
"are usually rich",
"like to daydream",
"can imagine they have great power",
"frighten those without masks"
],
"question": "In the Venice Carnival people wearin... | The Venice Carnival is the largest and the most important Venetian festival. It is a festival that celebrates the passage from winter to spring, a time when seemingly anything is possible, including the illusion that the people at the bottom become the most powerful by wearing masks on their faces.
The Venice Carniva... | high22746.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "To give the readers an idea of cognitive interview."
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THE TOWER OF LONDON
Royal Palace and fortress for over 900 years, scene of mystery, murder and home to the Crown Jewels.
KENSINGTON PALACE
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* You have to buy a good plant, preferably around two years old.
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"Christian Tetzlaff"
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I... | high14579.txt |
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},
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"People in our country can fly to Canada from Beijing directly now.",
"More people will ... | Beijing, January 25 ( Xinhuanet)--Air Canada announced that effective June 2, 2005 it will introduce non--stop service between Toronto and Beijing, further building its main Toronto hub with more non-stop flights to Asia and creating the first--ever direct link between eastern Canada and the Chinese mainland.
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"how a mother and son experienced a storm",
"how a mother and son survived a storm",
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"To know how far the conversation can go."
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The popular star moved up four positions from last year and has knocked TV chat show host Oprah Winfrey of the top spot.
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London pothole gardener Steve Wheen , 34 , has created over 150 little gardens so far the smallest one of which is just one-inch-square.
"I really enjoy the reactions of people who come ... | high10079.txt |
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"cars have a poor effect on most American's life",
"the a... | When my dad was a very young man, he was one of the few people in the small community of North Apollo, who owned a car. When he and Mom got married, they went on their honeymoon in that old Ford, but they had to turn around and pay a visit to the garage because the car didn't have enough power to drive them going forwa... | high18425.txt |
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"he was thirsty only",
"the store only provided drinks",
"he felt cold that day"
],
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"explain what is helpful to your health and what is not",
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1. People who don't eat meat can stay healthy.
True. As long as people eat enough milk, eggs and meat alternates , they can get enough protein.
2. Fresh vegetables ... | high6980.txt |
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"Some of the elms were cut up into firewood.",
"All the elms were infected by a disease and died.",
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"answer": {
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Our Famous "Gardens of the World"
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"answer": {
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"on cloud nine",
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"answer": {
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"question_type": "... | A few minutes ago , walking back from lunch , I started to cross the street when I heard the sound of a coin dropping . It wasn't much but , as I turned , my eyes caught the heads of several other people turning too . A woman had dropped what appeared to be a dime .
The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on sidewalk is... | high22975.txt |
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"singing to a record company",
"marketing and advertisement"
],
"question": "Arctic Monkeys gained popularity through _ .",
"question... | One of the biggest new bands in the UK is Arctic Monkeys.Their first two singles went straight to Number One in the charts and their first album "Whatever People Say I Am,That's what I'm No" has become a recordbreaking album.It's the fastest selling debut album in UK chart history.
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"We should overcome any difficulty.",
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},
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"Australia.",
"India."
],
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... | Do you want to live a happier, less stressful life?
Try laughing for no reason at all. That's how thousands of people start their day at Laughter Clubs around the world - and many doctors now think that having a good laugh might be one of the best ways to stay healthy.
The first Laughter Club was started in Mumbai, I... | high1023.txt |
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A ... | high22961.txt |
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"become famous",
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"earn more money"
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"question_ty... | Just 25 years ago, the top three career hopes for young people in Britain were teacher, banker and doctor.Now, they want to be sports star, pop star and actor, according to survey by the Guardian newspaper.
Rachel, a character in the popular TV show Glee, may be said to speak for British teenagers."Nowadays being nobod... | high17702.txt |
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"the disadvantages of friendship"
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"will take five days leave on average",
"will work 500 million days freely for their employers",
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"China plans to launch her third manned space flight",
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"The winner will join in the production of the musical.",
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Annual Playwright Challenge
Attention, students! Unleash your creativity and writing skill by submitting an original story for an opportunity to have your entry produced as a full-length musical by the Scripps Performing Arts academy this fall. The winner will also get the opportunity to... | high19049.txt |
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"Mars is a little bigger than Earth.",
"There are flowing rivers on Mars.",
"People haven't been to Mars so far.",
"Scientists have discovered signs of life on Mars."... | Life on Mars could become a reality and it could happen in your lifetime.
A welcoming planet
Scientists say Earth's neighbor Mars, a bright red planet about half Earth's size, is the most likely to support human life. Mars even has frozen water on its surface.
Since the late 1990s, NASA has been exploring Mars using re... | high5523.txt |
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"question": "Jules wrote a lot of exci... | Jules Verne was a Frenchman who was born in 1828 and died in 1905. He read a great many scientific books and wrote a number of exciting books about the things which he thought that scientists and inventors would one day be able to do. Years later, many of the things really happened. At that time, however, his stories s... | high18357.txt |
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"answer_text": "a day people remember those who died in wars"
},
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"the day the United States was founded",
"the day people remember their ancestors",
"a day people celebrate the victories of World War II",
"a day people rem... | When the Japanese attacked America's ships at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, they did it secretly. The makers of the movie Pearl Harbor have behaved differently.
The noise about Pearl Harbor, made by Disney,has reached its highest point with its premiere before the movie opens in cinemas across the US at the start ... | high1745.txt |
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"answer_text": "Japanese Children's Day"
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"Japanese Girl's Day",
"Japanese Children's Day"
],
"question": "What is the BEST title for the passage?",
"question_ty... | On Boy's Day,children don't have to go to school.Every family with a boy hangs up huge carpshaped flags.The flags are usually three colors:black(representing the father),red (representing the mother)and blue(representing the son). Japanese parents believe that the flags will bring their boys good luck and give them cou... | high7334.txt |
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"answer_text": "She spoke publicly about girls' rights to education."
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"She didn't want to be a member of the Taliban.",
"She spoke publicly about... | On March 19, 2013, Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old Pakistani student and women's-education activist , returned to the classroom for the first time since being attacked by a member of the Taliban on October 9, 2012. Malala was shot on her way home from school in Mingora, Pakistan. The Taliban said that they did the att... | high8007.txt |
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},
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"tasting whisky is better than going fishing",
"1873 is a special yea... | There is no better way to enjoy Scottish traditions than going fishing and tasting a little whisky at a quiet place like the Inverlochy Castle. When Queen Victoria visited the in 1873 she wrote in her diary, "I never saw a lovelier spot ," And she didn't even go fishing.
Scotland is not easily defined. In certain mome... | high20838.txt |
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"answer_text": "see sea life around them in the room"
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"open windows to see sea life swimming",
"see sea life around them in the room",
"only watch videos about sea life"
]... | If you plan on visiting to Fiji, you are probably looking for some fun things to do. Below are four unusual places.
The Poseidon Resort
The Poseidon resort is an underwater resort that gives visitors a beautiful view of sea life. This resort covers 255 acres. It's covered and surrounded by a lagoon that covers 5,000 ... | high4615.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "went red in the face and looked down at his shoes"
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"went red in the face because hi... | My grandfather was a teacher. He was the headmaster of a school for boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. I know that he was a kind and gentle man at heart, because when I was young (and he was old), he gave me presents and seated me on his knees, and told me stories. But I believe the boys at his school were... | high19061.txt |
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