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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "support poor people out of poverty"
},
"options": [
"make money out of the poor",
"support poor people out of poverty",
"set up more charity organizations",
"encourage economic growth worldwide"
],
"question": "... | Millions of families around the world have been given a helping hand out of poverty by micro-credits. These very small loans , usually less than US$200, have enabled the very poorest people to set up or expand businesses and become self-sufficient.
The micro-credit movement started with Professor Muhammad Yunus, who... | high18427.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "lots of women in Shanghai have cancer"
},
"options": [
"the women with cancer in Shanghai",
"lots of women in Shanghai have cancer",
"the five most common cancer forms among women in Shanghai",
"The prevention and contr... | "ONE in every 50 Shanghai women has cancer, a total of more than 140,000 women currently living in the city, and cancer statistics are based on citizens with permanent residency ," officials from the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention said ahead of International Women's Day on Friday.
However, they said... | high5535.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "S W France"
},
"options": [
"S W France",
"The Blakeney Hotel",
"Willapark Manor Hotel",
"The Country Garden Hotel"
],
"question": "All of the following hotels are close to the sea EXCEPT _ .",
"question_... | The Bay Hotel. It's a quiet, comfortable hotel overlooking the bay in an uncommercialised Cornish fishing village on England's most southerly point. If pop music is no longer your strong point, and you are considering a relaxing holiday where the scenery is breathtaking and the sound of the sea is live music to your ea... | high18341.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Tolstoy's worldview didn't suit the Russian s in the last century"
},
"options": [
"Experts hold the view that Russian people think little of Tolstoy",
"Western people believe Tolstoy provides good solutions to today's issue",
... | This year marks the 100thanniversary of Leo Tolstoy's death. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest novelists of all time. Much of the West is marking the anniversary with new translations of the author's works, including War and Peace. Movies are being released, including a black-and-white documentary and ... | high20806.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "life in different cities"
},
"options": [
"mother",
"father",
"school life",
"life in different cities"
],
"question": "Thanks to his _ ,Du Kun could write his books.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | Du Kun,a Chinese boy is called"the youngest writer in the world."He has written three books till now.Du Kun was born in Jiangsu in 1994.When he was 7 months old.his parents started working in over 30 different cities,such as xi'an and Shenzhen.This kind of life gave him things to think and write about.When he was 9 mon... | high11403.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "some bits about pocket money in Britain"
},
"options": [
"teenagers everywhere get pocket money",
"how to spend pocket money",
"some bits about pocket money in Britain",
"how to get pocket money"
],
"question": ... | Most British parents give their teenagers pocket money.Teenagers get betweenPS7 andPS20 a week.They spend it on fast food,designed clothes,the cinema,concert,magazines and mobile phones.
1)Lazy parents?
37%of parents pay teenagers to clean the living room,66%of parents pay teenagers to take the rubbish out.
2)Lazy teen... | high15665.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "\"reeit\""
},
"options": [
"\"hou's it gaun\"",
"\"reeit\"",
"\"eyyup\"",
"\"ahhdu\""
],
"question": "People from North West greet each other by saying _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | If you have seen or heard of the British TV series Downton Abbey, you have probably noticed an "upstairs-downstairs" class system in which the noble people are upstairs, worrying what clothes they should wear for dinner and the poor people are downstairs, working hard to make food and tea. So it's not hard to tell that... | high8011.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "They want to get immediate success or quick money."
},
"options": [
"They are not fully aware of the danger.",
"They don't know how to protect themselves.",
"They want to get immediate success or quick money.",
"They do... | Today's world is very unsafe for children. We all listen to news of child abduction everyday on TV and feel concerned about the safety of our children. So, it is necessary for parents to know about the methods of protecting children from illegal elements and criminals. GPS tracking system comes in handy for such a purp... | high13214.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To lead into the topic of yawning."
},
"options": [
"To explain why humans yawn.",
"To explain how humans start yawning.",
"To lead into the topic of yawning.",
"To complain about being woken up by the clock."
],
... | Can you remember a morning when you've woken up to the ring of your alarm clock and wished you could stay in bed? You haven't slept well, your hair is a mess. Worse, you can't stop yawning. Yawning is universal to humans and many animals. Cats, dogs and fish yawn just like humans do! Yawning is an involuntary(,) action... | high1753.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "confidence"
},
"options": [
"admitting your shortcomings",
"self criticism",
"modesty",
"confidence"
],
"question": "According to the passage, _ plays an important role in making friends.",
"question_type"... | Many of us mistakenly believe that it's wrong to think we have any good qualities. We may spend a lot of time blaming ourselves for our negative qualities, thinking that self criticism is the key to improving our performance. However, a constant focus on our supposed shortcomings can stop our efforts to make friends wi... | high7336.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "amuse readers"
},
"options": [
"amuse readers",
"tell an exciting adventure",
"praise Larry Belmont's bravery",
"show the danger of travelling through a forest"
],
"question": "The purpose of this passage is to ... | Once an Englishman named Larry Belmont went to Russia for a holiday. After he got back, some of his friends came. "I had a very dangerous trip while I was in Russia," Larry said. "I went to see a friend in the country when the sun went down, I was still travelling through a forest in a sleigh . It was a long way from m... | high8005.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "it is a famous place in the world."
},
"options": [
"summer heat keeps Americans away",
"experiencing the heat in it is cool",
"it is a series of salt flats",
"it is a famous place in the world."
],
"question": ... | Death Valley is the lowest, hottest, driest area in North America. This California National Park has less than 5 cm of rainfall a year and temperature up to 53degC in summer. That's enough to keep Americans away during the hottest months from June to August. But it is the high temperature and terrible heat that draw th... | high15671.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The author cares more about looking good before her girlfriends."
},
"options": [
"The author is disappointed that few men take notice of her slim figure.",
"The author cares more about looking good before her girlfriends.",
... | I feel it enormous responsibility, as a mother of two little girls, to lead you down a path that is relatively healthy when it comes to beauty and self-image.
In a lot of women's eyes I've probably already failed in that respect due to the amount of pink princess Barbie mess cluttering up Vera's room. But I will sa... | high6028.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "19 South 8th St. NY. 13214"
},
"options": [
"237 Rockledge St. Syracuse, NY. 13224",
"404 Snow Road, Syracuse, NY. 13224",
"500 Park Drive, DeWitt, NY. 13214",
"19 South 8th St. NY. 13214"
],
"question": "If you... | Help Wanted:
PAINTER
Must have at least 3 years painting experience. Commercial and new construction work. $ 10/hr. Immediate opening. Call 435-9201 with work history.
SECRETARY
Part-time position available in friendly, busy office. Good typing and general office skills. Some weekends required. High pay.
Various duties... | high13200.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "borrows money but doesn't return"
},
"options": [
"makes people think about themselves",
"borrows money but doesn't return",
"helps people when they are in trouble",
"thinks about other people' s feelings"
],
"q... | A bully is a person who enjoys hurting other people. A bully can hurt people with words or by hitting them. 85% of children in the UK have been bullied at least once.
How can I tell if a person is a bully?
He or she will...
* try to find your weak point--perhaps you are shy, nervous or easily made worried.
* make fun o... | high1747.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "social connections"
},
"options": [
"neighbor communication",
"social connections",
"siblings' support",
"s' relations"
],
"question": "According to the research, if you want to be happy, you'd better have more ... | Happiness is _ , researchers reported on Thursday. The more happy people you know, the more likely you are yourself to be happy. And getting connected to happy people improves a person's own happiness. Researchers have been analyzing a collection of facts from tracking sheets dating back to 1971, following births, mar... | high17066.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "How different cultures look at rats."
},
"options": [
"A trend of keeping rats as pets.",
"How different cultures look at rats.",
"How humans get along with animals.",
"Favored animals in different cultures."
],
... | The relationship between humans and animals has always been complex. Some cultures have developed entire belief systems around favored animals. Even in cultures with less formal belief systems, connections between people and animals still lead to commonly accepted opinions about animals.
These belief systems usually de... | high5521.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "The ocean quahog was 400 years old"
},
"options": [
"The ocean quahog got a deadly disease",
"The growth rings inside were so close together",
"it was accurate to count the growth rings outside",
"The ocean quahog was 4... | When scientists accidentally killed what turned out to be the world's oldest living creature, it was bad enough. Now, their mistake has been worsened after further research found it was even older - at 507 years.
The ocean quahog, a type of deep-sea clam, was dredged alive from the bottom of the North Atlantic near I... | high16378.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "a person's memory becomes weak if he does not practise remembering things"
},
"options": [
"arms or legs become weak if they are not used for some time",
"when they start using their arms or legs again, they slowly become strong ag... | If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they become weak. When you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows this. Yet there are many people who do not seem to know that one's memory works in the same way. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that h... | high3150.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Call\"Fire\"to warn your family members."
},
"options": [
"Call the fire department",
"Call\"Fire\"to warn your family members.",
"Collect your favorite belongings to save from the burning house.",
"Have a white sheet f... | What to do if a fire starts?
Imagine it's late at night. You hear the smoke detectors go off. You smell smoke when you wake up. Do you know what to do?
If a fire starts in your home, remember your escape plan and leave as quickly as possible. Keep the following things in mind to make a safe escape.
* Call"Fire!"to wa... | high20812.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "using bluetooth connection"
},
"options": [
"connecting to another computer",
"switching off the Wi-Fi button",
"using bluetooth connection",
"connecting bluetooth to Wi-Fi"
],
"question": "People can enjoy a wi... | Imagine that you are sitting in a park and suddenly remember that you need to send an urgent email. You have your laptop computer with you and you connect it to a wireless access point and access the Internet. Then you send your email. This wouldn't have been possible if there were no wireless Internet for laptops. Wir... | high3636.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "His great contributions to Russian economy and social stability."
},
"options": [
"His successful economy policy",
"His outstanding ability of politics",
"His great contributions to Russian economy and social stability.",
... | Time magazine named Russian President Vladimir Putin its "Person of the Year" for 2007 on Wednesday, saying he had returned his country from chaos to "the table of world power" though at a cost of democratic principles.
He doesn't care about civil liberties; he doesn't care about free speech; he cares about stability.... | high11371.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Mount Everest explorers."
},
"options": [
"The telecom firm.",
"The local residents.",
"Travelers to Nepal.",
"Mount Everest explorers."
],
"question": "Who are most likely to benefit from the 3G services at Mou... | Climbers at the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, will now be able to make video calls and surf the Internet on their mobile phones, a Nepalese telecom group claims.
Ncell, a branch company of Swedish phone giant TeliaSonera, said on Thursday it had set up a high-speed third-generation (3G) phone base s... | high4159.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Because they are always hungry."
},
"options": [
"Because they have no time.",
"Because they are tired of them.",
"Because they are always hungry.",
"Because they have other interesting things to do."
],
"questi... | Earlier this year I traveled to Turkana in Kenya. I was there to take pictures of the "broken food system".
As a special visitor, I was greeted with songs and dances. The locals used to sing and dance all the time but now Turkana is silent and has been for some years. No one is singing or dancing any more because they ... | high5247.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "a kind of politeness"
},
"options": [
"a nice way of refusal",
"an excuse of leaving",
"a kind of politeness",
"an expression of surprise"
],
"question": "The author thought of his friend's invitation --- \"You'... | I recently ran into a friend I hadn't seen for a long while.Our conversation was lively and full of news from both sides.Before we parted she said,"You'll have to drop in sometime." I immediately sensed that if I simply "dropped in'' I would take my friend by surprise,and I would be discouraged by the image of her st... | high2528.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "forbid the use of social networks during work time"
},
"options": [
"take legal action against the attackers",
"avoid posting embarrassing information",
"refuse to hire potential addicted employees",
"forbid the use of ... | By now, we are all aware that social media has had a tremendous influence on our culture, in business, on the world-at-large. Social media websites revolutionized the way people communicate and socialize on the Web. However, aside from seeing your friends' new baby on Facebook, or reading about Justin Bieber's latest c... | high13566.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "hearing"
},
"options": [
"speaking",
"hearing",
"saying",
"teaching"
],
"question": "We usually begin to learn our own language by _ it.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small child, and some children, like boys and girls who live abroad with their parents, seem to learn two languages almost as easily as one. In school it is not easy to learn a second langua... | high1021.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "blood"
},
"options": [
"blood",
"clouds",
"rain",
"life"
],
"question": "According to the passage, water is the _ of our earth.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer... | Water is the "life blood" of our earth. It is in every living thing. It is in the air. It runs through mountains and valleys. It forms lakes and oceans. Water is everywhere.
Nature has a great water system. Rain water finds its way to streams and the oceans.
Here at the mouth of a river there is much important plant an... | high14209.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Because they protected themselves from being destroyed."
},
"options": [
"Because the gardener often touched them.",
"Because the wind were not strong.",
"Because they protected themselves from being destroyed.",
"Becau... | There was once a forest made up of tiny trees that were all growing up together. They had been planted by a very old gardener who took care that they would all grow up to be straight and healthy. However, the area was hit by strong winds, and the little trees preferred to avoid the annoying winds, so they bent their t... | high7450.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the British at home and abroad"
},
"options": [
"the British at home and abroad",
"the British in the UK",
"the foreigners in Britain",
"English learners across the globe"
],
"question": "The Weekly Telegraph in... | The Weekly Telegraph is Britain's global newspaper, the home-grown quality newspaper that delivers the best of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph to the British around the world and adds its special articles, features and reports designed to be of real value to foreign readers.Telegraph.co.uk/expat, the websi... | high15117.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "improve memory"
},
"options": [
"improve memory",
"awaken emotions",
"mark time",
"stay in the mind"
],
"question": "According to the author,music can NOT _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{... | The music of your teenage years probably will stay with you for the rest of your life.I think music is deeply connected with memory because of the emotions it awakens.Music also helps to mark time because of the way the fashions and stars of pop culture come and go.I often connect some summers with particular records (... | high6996.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "She married a music producer."
},
"options": [
"She lives in her hometown with her family now.",
"She graduated from Berklee at the age of 28.",
"She married a music producer.",
"She has released four albums."
],
... | Singer and songwriter Corrinne May's songs always try to express hope, joy and "a deeper beauty and meaning to the everyday moments of life."
Music seemed to play a part in May's life from the very beginning. Her parents say she hummed songs from the time she was two or three. May began taking classical piano lessons... | high12678.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "To share the story of Finland's success in education."
},
"options": [
"To introduce a Finnish official.",
"To share the story of Finland's success in education.",
"To compare the education systems of Finland and the US.",
... | Forty years ago, Finland was a small country with ordinary public schools. Today, Finland is still small but no one calls Finland's public schools ordinary anymore.
In 2000, the Finns surprised the world when their 15yearolds scored at the top of a closelywatched international exam called the PISA, the Program for Inte... | high8788.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "you go over your notes carefully for the exam"
},
"options": [
"you spend all of your time on questions that you are not good at",
"you discuss the answers with your friends after exams",
"you go over your notes carefully for... | Very few people look forward to and enjoy exams. That doesn't have to mean that you should be afraid of them, though. The following tips will help you get through that terrible exam period.
Here are eight steps to help you during exams:
1. Make sure you know how much time you will have in the exam, and how many questio... | high12693.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Travelling around the world for charity projects."
},
"options": [
"Declaring when the UK is at war.",
"Travelling around the world for charity projects.",
"Inviting other world leaders to visit the UK.",
"Signing Commo... | The British royal family is about to be slimmed down. The queen plans to reduce the number of real royals, as was recently announced. However, there seems little sign of the monarchy disappearing completely.
Up till the 17th century, the British king or queen was believed to rule by "divine right", which was the id... | high8950.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "holiday-makers"
},
"options": [
"tourists",
"holiday-makers",
"guides",
"sportsmen"
],
"question": "This passage is written mainly for _ .w",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | Weekend one -day out
A walk along the Great Wallw _ w w. k#s5 _ u.c o*m
Beijing Hikers is organizing a hike in a village along the Great Wall in Changping District, north of downtown Beijing. The walk will take around three hours covering a distance of 10 kilometres.
Time:8:30 a.m~4:30 p.m,Dec,4
Cost:200 yuan(US$25) ... | high22988.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "popular art is a kind of amusement"
},
"options": [
"popular art is better than high art",
"high art is not a real art form",
"popular art will be loved for a longer time than high art",
"popular art is a kind of amusem... | Art is sometimes divided into two kinds, high art and popular art. High art attracts a much smaller population than popular art,but the number is large and growing. People who enjoy high art go to the opera and symphony concerts ; they read serious books and go to serious plays ; they keep up with art exhibitions. Popu... | high9496.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "dull"
},
"options": [
"busy",
"sociable",
"dull",
"changeable"
],
"question": "At the beginning Miss Eyre's impressions of Mr. Rochester were all except _",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"... | For several days I saw little of Mr. Rochester. In the morning he seemed very busy with business, and in the afternoon gentlemen from the neighborhood called and sometimes stayed to dine with him. When his foot was well enough,he rode out a great deal.
During this time,all my knowledge of him was limited to occasional... | high20147.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "He thinks they are lucky."
},
"options": [
"He thinks they are lucky.",
"He is bored with them.",
"He wants to learn from them.",
"He believes their success is a bad thing."
],
"question": "What is the author's ... | It is said that usually people learn from their experiences and the mistakes they make throughout their lives. This is correct because life teaches us what is correct to do and what is not.
Let's consider a mistake that one has made while trying to learn to drive. It is true that, for a beginner, it is common to make m... | high3805.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Medicine"
},
"options": [
"food",
"Candles",
"A radio",
"Medicine"
],
"question": "Which of the following things has the writer NOT prepared for disasters?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {
... | During a recent phone interview with a mom who had just moved to Colorado, the conversation turned to disaster planning." I am standing here looking out of the window at the smoke from wildfires," she told me, "and have absolutely no idea what we will do if the wind shifts our way." Fortunately, the fire was put out, s... | high10084.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "it resembles the tiny heroes in a set of books"
},
"options": [
"it is a figure described in the Lord of the Rings",
"it resembles the tiny heroes in a set of books",
"it proves to be a full-grown adult",
"it belongs to... | Small discoveries in Indonesia are causing a stir in the science world. Researchers have unearthed tiny bones that they believe belong to an entire new human species. If that's true, it will change how we think about our ancestors.
Clues that the little people may have lived long ago were first revealed last year in t... | high21259.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "You can share interests with your online friends."
},
"options": [
"It is rather difficult to make friends now.",
"You can share interests with your online friends.",
"Online friends are usually not your true friends.",
... | Are you bored and lonely? Do you want to make new friends? Do long working hours
make it difficult for you to get out and about to meet new people? Maybe you or your friends have moved to a new area and this has left you feeling lonely.
Even if you are already the proverbial social butterfly, you may still find that y... | high20621.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "spent 25 years in Africa studying chimpanzees"
},
"options": [
"spent 25 years in Africa studying chimpanzees",
"is only interested in chimpanzee research",
"wrote a new book about what she learned about chimpanzees",
"... | When Dr Jane Goodall was a kid growing up in England, she dreamed of one day living among wild animals. That opportunity came when Goodall was 26 years old. Goodall moved to the African country and spent 25 years there. What she learned about chimpanzees fascinated people all over the world.
After studying animals... | high23328.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Job-hunters."
},
"options": [
"Job-hunters.",
"Net surfers.",
"Employers.",
"Educators."
],
"question": "Who might be most interested in the passage?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {
"a... | Careercast.com is out with its list of best and worst jobs of 2012. It's bad news for the writer of this story, but much brighter for the folks who program the code that keeps this website busy.
Using a method that looked at physical demands, work environment, income, stress and hiring outlook, career Website Careercas... | high238.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the use of telemedicine"
},
"options": [
"the use of telemedicine",
"the on-line doctors",
"medical care and treatment",
"communication improvement"
],
"question": "The author mainly talks about _ .",
"q... | Want a glance of the future health care? Take a look at the way the various network of people about patient care are being connected to one another, and how this new connectivity is being exploited to deliver medicine to the patient--no matter he or she may be.
Online doctors offering advice based on normal symptoms ... | high22036.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "have a bath to make himself sweet"
},
"options": [
"have a bath to make himself sweet",
"do some interesting tests",
"give people a surprise",
"make a sweet cake"
],
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W... | high14590.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "people there are brave and strong when facing the earthquake"
},
"options": [
"the strong trees stand still to fight the early spring's cold nights",
"some trees were cut down to make tents to live through the disaster",
"the... | At 7:49 a.m. local time on Wednesday, April 14th, a huge earthquake struck Yushu County in Qinghai, China, described as "end of the earth" in a famous poem of the Tang Dynasty.
The earthquake destroyed many houses, cut off power and caused over 2,000 deaths and injuries. On the night when the earthquake happened, many ... | high15856.txt |
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"answer_text": "a brief introduction to the museum"
},
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"the purpose to build the museum",
"a brief introduction to the museum",
"a detailed description of the museum"
],
"question": ... | Welcome to the National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum is the largest of its kind in the world, with over two million items in its collections. Twenty galleries display some of the finest sea affairs in historic buildings, which were formerly a school for the sons of seamen.
Opening times
10:00 - 17:00 W... | high22022.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "iPhones"
},
"options": [
"iTunes",
"iPhones",
"computers",
"microphones"
],
"question": "All of the options are strongly recommended to the users of _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
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There... | high4818.txt |
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"answer_text": "Quick and violent."
},
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"Slow and boring.",
"Fast and interesting",
"Peaceful but exciting",
"Quick and violent."
],
"question": "Which of the following best describes blitz chess?",
"question_ty... | With kings, artists and writers playing chess, you might get the idea that chess is the most civilized game. But you'd be wrong.
A Scandinavian manuscript ,900 years old, tells of how one player, who lost a game, picked up the board and hit his opponent on the head with it. _
Grandmasters have called it "a blood spor... | high20635.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "She wanted to help the \"old woman\" out in the bad weather"
},
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"she recognized \"the old woman\"",
"She knocked \"the old woman \"down",
"She wanted to help the \"ol... | A young woman was driving through the lonely countryside. It was dark and raining. Suddenly she saw an old woman by the side of the road, holding her hand out as if she wanted a lift. "I can't leave her out in this weather," the woman said to herself, so she stopped the car and opened the door. "Do you want a lift?" ... | high17099.txt |
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"their thinking",
"neighborhood area",
"their beliefs"
],
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Ho... | high10090.txt |
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"answer_text": "her poor health and her mother's death"
},
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"her bad temper",
"her unhealthy diet",
"her unhappy family",
"her poor health and her mother's death"
],
"question": "The author's mother never thought sh... | My mother celebrates her 90th birthday today. She has asked me to keep it a secret and tell people she is only 89. For some reason she seems to think this sounds better. We really have our share of disagreements, but on this one I stand firm: I think 90 sounds pretty fantastic.
My mother says she never thought she woul... | high17927.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the relationship between communication and culture"
},
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"the importance of understanding a person in communication",
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Reputation affects students' decisions when choosing universities."
},
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"No Asian universities are among the Top 10.",
"At least five UK universities are among Top 20.",
"The Times Higher Education magazine is fro... | Harvard University in the United States has been ranked as the university with the best "reputation" in the world.
The Times Higher Education magazine has listed 200 top universities all over the world based on how they are regarded by a group of international college teachers. That is to say the list measures how univ... | high6969.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The car wash facilities."
},
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"The car wash facilities.",
"Any public place.",
"Your home.",
"The forest."
],
"question": "Where should you go to wash your car when you are in Moscow?",
"question... | There are some strange driving laws in different countries.
Vietnam: If you're in Vietnam without a Vietnamese driver's license, you risk a prison sentence of up to 3years.
Russia: In Moscow, if your car is dirty enough to draw dust art, you will be fined about 2,000 rubles. Worse yet, it's not legal to wash your car... | high13599.txt |
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"mermaid",
"soldier"
],
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},
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"answer": {
"a... | (Warsaw)? .
Long long ago,there was a young man.His name was Wars.He lived in a little house near the River Vistula.He went there fishing every day for a living.
One day he saw a beautiful girl in the river.The girl's name was Sawa.From then on,the young man and the beautiful girl met every day.They fell in love with ... | high9482.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"didn't want to have friends",
"was not good at making friends",
"spent most of his time in working and had no time to mak... | Even people who don't understand English can enjoy Chaplin's films because they are mostly silent. It isn't what he says that makes us laugh. It depends upon actions which mean the same thing to people all over the world. He is _ of the art - a kind of world language.
As a young man, he and his brother traveled to Amer... | high3839.txt |
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"answer": {
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"a cure for colds",
"a cure for old age",
"a medicine that made people live forever"
],
"question": "What did the man sell at first at the fair?",
"question_type"... | A man was selling medicine at a fair .At first he sold bottles of a cure for colds for just a dollar a bottle.
Many people wanted to buy it and the man's young assistant moved quickly through the crowd collecting money and handing out bottles of the cure.
Then,when he had a big crowd, the man held up a very small bottl... | high5290.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a market town famous for its Bakewell pudding"
},
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"a market town famous for its Bakewell pudding",
"a small town far away from tea rooms and pubs.",
"a quiet town with only local visitors",
"a modern town w... | You'd expect the home of the Bakewell pudding to know a thing or two about keeping its visitors cosy and well-fed,and in this attractive market town,you're never more than a few steps away from a tea room or pub. And to walk off all the cake and ale, the spectacular Peak District is on the doorstep.
Eat/drink The Manne... | high19922.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "teachers should give careful consideration to summer homework"
},
"options": [
"more summer homework causes students' learning difficulties",
"students should go to summer school if they have no homework",
"teachers should gi... | The New York Times' Room for Debate blog has a panel considering the pluses and minuses of summer homework. This has been the subject of debate in our house. Our 11th-grade daughter's summer assignments were very challenging, to the point where I sometimes wondered if more of her time would have been better spent jus... | high6941.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Laughter can make you become old quickly."
},
"options": [
"Laughter is good for health.",
"Laughter can make you become old quickly.",
"Laughter helps to reduce pain.",
"Laughter, just like physical exercise, is good f... | There is an English saying, "Laughter is the best medicine." Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They have found that laughter really can improve people's health.
Tests were carried out to study the effects... | high562.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "angry bees"
},
"options": [
"loud noises",
"some crops",
"video cameras",
"angry bees"
],
"question": "We know from the passage that elephants may be frightened of _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | Recordings of angry bees are enough to send big, tough African elephants running away, a new study says. Beehives -either recorded or real-may even prevent elephants from damaging farmer's crops.
In 2002, scientist Lucy King and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them. Today, Lucy w... | high6799.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "They followed some pedestrians in the street."
},
"options": [
"They called on most pedestrians.",
"They tried texting while they were walking.",
"They followed some pedestrians in the street.",
"They showed pedestrians... | People who have the habit of texting while walking tend to develop a robot-like posture, lose their balance, and involve themselves in traffic accidents, according to a research from the University of Queensland. Researchers said that text-walkers are in danger of walking into traffic and train tracks among others. T... | high12877.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "who are poor and often get into trouble for breaking rules"
},
"options": [
"who are poor in their lessons at school",
"who get along well with the soc group",
"who go between the poor and the rich children",
"who are p... | Below are reviews for three books and two book series. Each has been read and loved by students across the country.
The Outsiders
This book, first published in 1967. has become a classic for teens across the nation. It focuses on Ponyboy , who has been labeled all his life as a greaser. The greaser's... | high23314.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "eating apples regularly does lots of good to our health."
},
"options": [
"eating apples regularly does lots of good to our health.",
"the apple is the best among all kinds of fruits",
"apples can take the place of doctors",
... | Your body, which has close relations with the food you eat, is the most important thing you own, so it needs proper treatment and proper nourishment . The old saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." is not as silly as some people think. The body needs fruit and vegetables because they contain vitamins. Many peop... | high204.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "sells the right, the guidance to a business under its name"
},
"options": [
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"rents proven ideas and techniques for investment",
"sells the right, the guidance to a business unde... | Holiday Inns and McDonald's. both saw unmatched growth in the 1960s. Their growth opened another direct business operation--franchising.
These operations have the same general pattern. The franchisor, the parent company, first establishes a successful retail business. As it expands, it sees a profit potential in offeri... | high1790.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "New immigrants will have to take a test"
},
"options": [
"New immigrants will have to take a test",
"New immigrants should speak perfect English",
"New immigrants must bring enough money",
"New immigrants must be health... | Australia is largely a nation of immigration , with one in four of Australia's 21 million population born overseas. But immigrations hoping to become Australian citizens will soon have to take a test examining their knowledge of the country's history and institutions.
While Australia prides itself on its multicultural ... | high1948.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "would make his class lively and interesting"
},
"options": [
"would record all historical events onto the radio",
"would get very excited when giving lessons",
"would always teach the students the American Revolution",
... | Many university students dislike studying history because there is little to get excited about when historical events are presented in a boring manner. However, I'll never forget my American History professor, Dr. Williamson. Each event leaped from the pages of our text and became as real as the daily news report on th... | high21503.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the effect of light on sleep"
},
"options": [
"natural wake-up cycles",
"the effect of light on sleep",
"personal and health concerns",
"functions of computer monitors"
],
"question": "The passage is mainly abou... | Lights Out at Bedtime
There are plenty of good reasons to power up a personal desktop or laptop computer in the evening -- writing e-mails,chatting on social networks or making purchases over the Internet,for instance.But various studies indicate that people who stare at a PC's bright monitor shortly before going to be... | high10906.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "shortly before 1851"
},
"options": [
"in the 1950s",
"in the 1900s",
"shortly before 1851",
"before 1951"
],
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"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | Perhaps the most extraordinary building put up in the nineteenth century was the Crystal Palace which was built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Crystal Palace was different from all the other buildings in the world, for it was made of iron and glass. It was one of the biggest buildings of all the... | high3187.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "To find out if laughter was good to health."
},
"options": [
"To find out if laughter was good to health.",
"To discover the best medicine to cure diabetes.",
"Because the number of diabetic patients is the largest in the wor... | Not all think laughter is the best medicine, but it seems to help.So scientists carried on a new study of diabetes patients who were given a good dose of humor for a year to prove it.
Researchers divide 20 high-risk diabetic patients into two groups.Both groups were given standard diabetes medicine.Group L viewed 30 ... | high2299.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "At 6 p.m."
},
"options": [
"At 9 p.m.",
"At 6 p.m.",
"At 5 p.m.",
"At 5:30 p.m."
],
"question": "When do the post office main branches close?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_in... | You can mail a letter or package under 16 oz. (unit of weight, 454g) in a mailbox, a blue box found on many street corners in U.S. cities and towns. Each mail box should have pick-up times clearly posted on top.
!Packages over 16 oz. placed in a mailbox will not be sent. Bring the package to the post office or retail ... | high4830.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "has a very complex nervous system"
},
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"has nine small brains and a big one",
"has a very complex nervous system",
"has all its brains behind its eyes"
],
"quest... | The more we learn about the octopus , the more intelligent we discover they are. Octopuses possess not one but nine "brains", one in each of their legs and a central brain behind the eyes. Octopuses can solve problems, can be trained to learn behavior and are extremely good at figuring out how to get out of an aquariu... | high18382.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "doubts if McDonald's food meets health standards"
},
"options": [
"keeps the record of the food by smelling it",
"manages The Happy Meal Project in Boston",
"is a Manhattan artist who likes meat very much",
"doubts if M... | Looking almost as fresh as the day it was bought, this McDonald's Happy Meal is in fact a staggering six months old. Photographed every day for the past half a year by Manhattan artist Sally Davies, the kids meal of fries and burger shows no sign of mould or decomposition .
In a work named The Happy Meal Project, ... | high21517.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "predicting the weather is more difficult than predicting the path of a satellite"
},
"options": [
"a large planet is able to change the size of a tiny planet",
"ground controllers can affect the gravitational force of planets",
... | It is easy to lose patience with science today. The questions are pressing: How dangerous is air pollution? What about low-level radiation? When will that horrible earthquake strike California? And why can't we predict weather better? But the evidence is often described as "uncertain", forcing scientists to base their ... | high10912.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "teacher"
},
"options": [
"doctor",
"model",
"teacher",
"reporter"
],
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"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | Last week I talked with some of my students about what they wanted to do after they graduated, and what kind of job prospects they thought they had.
Given that I teach students who are training to be doctors, I was surprised do find that most thought that they would not be able to get the jobs they wanted without "out... | high19088.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25"
},
"options": [
"on the same date every year",
"on Sunday on March 22",
"on Sunday on April 25",
"on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25"
],
"question": "Easter come... | The most important holiday in spring, especially for Christians, is Easter. This Christian holiday is not on the same date every year,but it's always on a Sunday. It can be any Sunday between March 22 and April 25. Many people celebrate Easter by buying new clothes. Children celebrate by hunting for colored eggs that t... | high3193.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "To introduce."
},
"options": [
"To educate.",
"To persuade.",
"To instruct.",
"To introduce."
],
"question": "What is the purpose of the text?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_i... | A public high school in the rural town of Boonsboro,Maryland,offers a special program recently. Top students in the ninth and tenth grades can attend single-sex classes for math,science,English and social studies.
The aim is to help teenagers keep their mind on their work by keeping males and females apart. Rebecca Bro... | high4824.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "The passage doesn't tell us directly."
},
"options": [
"He was hungry and had no place to live in.",
"His owner went away on weekends.",
"He couldn't find his way to his owner's house.",
"The passage doesn't tell us dir... | After my husband died suddenly from a heart attack on the tennis court, my world crashed around me. I was overwhelmed with the responsibilities of earning a living, caring for the children and just _ .
I was fortunate to find a wonderful housekeeper to care for the children during the week, but from Friday nights to M... | high20609.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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},
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"accepting the punishment willingly",
"taking consequences into consideration1]",
"trying things out one by one"
],
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Gratitude is of vital importance to happiness."
},
"options": [
"Being thankful will keep you fit.",
"Mom is great for her being thankful.",
"There are many ways of being thankful.",
"Gratitude is of vital importance to... | Mom was right! If you say thank you, for even the smallest gift or slightest show of kindness, you'll fell happy.
Gratitude , says Robert A. Emmons, a professor of psychology at the University of California, is an extremely important element of happiness, In his most recent book, Thanks! (Houghton Mifflin, $30.95), Emm... | high23300.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "It is a brief introduction to Qian, a famous Chinese scientist."
},
"options": [
"It gives a short history of Chinese missile and space programs.",
"It is about how Qian contributed to the Chinese space program.",
"It lists i... | China in the 21st century is making great progress in space technology. In 2003, the country sent up the manned spacecraft Shenzhou-V. Four years later, Chang'e-I went into orbit around the moon. In 2008 a Chinese man did the country's first spacewalk.
These achievements would have been unthinkable without the contri... | high1784.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "to report some celebrations of Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of his books"
},
"options": [
"to say something about Darwin and his wife",
"to introduce Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution",
"to sing ... | London: It's well known that Charles Darwin's famous theory of evolution annoyed many people because it was against the Biblical view of creation. But few know that it also created problems for Darwin at home with his deeply religious wife, Emma.
"Darwin _ the publication of On the Origin of Species to avoid offending ... | high210.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The report is compiled every year."
},
"options": [
"The report is compiled by the Ministry of Education alone.",
"The report is compiled every year.",
"The report is compiled every two years.",
"The report is based on ... | Does technology pose a threat to the purity of Chinese language?
Many Chinese use instant messenger tools such as MSN or QQ, listen to music on MP3 players and log on the Internet using ADSL--most without knowing the literal Chinese translation of the abbreviations . But they don't have to, as many English letters have... | high7493.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Three."
},
"options": [
"Six.",
"Two.",
"Three.",
"Four."
],
"question": "How many languages are mentioned in this passage?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"an... | The fourth-graders at Chicago's McCormick Primary School are unaware of the difficulty in learning Chinese. For most, who speak Spanish at home, it's becoming their third language. They've been learning and using Chinese words since kindergarten, and it's now second nature to give a hearty "ni hao" when strangers enter... | high6955.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "both buses and trains"
},
"options": [
"both buses and trains",
"only trains",
"both buses and taxis",
"only rental cars"
],
"question": "By an EZ-Link care, you can take _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_que... | Singapore's public transport system is one of the best in the world, so you should have no problem finding your way around like a local. There are three main forms of public transport that you would find in any other major city--trains, buses and taxis.
TRAINS
Trains run from 6:00 am to midnight. Single trip tickets st... | high576.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Join his family"
},
"options": [
"Go shopping",
"Find a house",
"Join his family",
"Take his family"
],
"question": "What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?",
"question_type": "factiod_questi... | Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.
During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worr... | high8978.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the effect of cup color on coffee's taste"
},
"options": [
"the popularity of sweet coffee.",
"an experiment made in Oxford.",
"the effect of cup color on coffee's taste",
"useful tips on how to make coffee."
],
... | More than 2.25 billion cups of coffee are drunk throughout the world each day, and it's likely that many taste bitter. Now, a new study suggests that coffee fans can make their drink sweeter by changing the color of their cups.
Researchers from Oxford set out to prove whether the claim that coffee drunk from a white cu... | high12863.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "obtain data on atmospheric conditions over a wide area"
},
"options": [
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"interpret the weather condition before the time of observation",
"obtain data on atmospheric conditions over... | A weather map is an important tool for geographers. A succession of three or four maps presents a continuous picture of weather changes. Weather forecasters are able to determine the speed of air masses and fronts to determine whether an individual pressure area is deepening or becoming shallow and whether a front is i... | high23466.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "in the bedroom"
},
"options": [
"in the living room",
"in the bedroom",
"in the office",
"on the move"
],
"question": "According to a recent survey, most tablet owners use their iPad _ .",
"question_type"... | About 35 percent of British adults sleep with teddy bears. Many more share a bed with a partner or spouse. Others still co - sleep, alongside children in a family bed.
But lying with your iPad? A recent survey by marketing agency Rosette found that 68 percent of tablet owners use the device in the bedroom, more than in... | high5284.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because her breast have a higher risk of developing cancer."
},
"options": [
"Because her breast cancer is more serious.",
"Because ovarian cancer is ly easy to treat.",
"Because an operation for ovarian cancer costs too muc... | My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold him in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.
We often speak of "Mommy's mommy," and I find myself tryin... | high19936.txt |
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"answer_text": "Einstein made some very important discoveries in 1905"
},
"options": [
"Einstein was working in Switzerland in 1905",
"Einstein was 26 years old in 1905",
"Einstein made some very important discoveries in 1905",
"Einste... | What will you be doing when you are 26 years old? Studying at university or working for a living? Take a look at what Albert Einstein was doing at the age of 26.
100 years ago, Einstein was working in Switzerland. His hobby was physics. Without much money or help, he wrote five papers for a physics magazine. Three of ... | high16152.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because she couldn't find her parents' present."
},
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"Because she couldn't find her stockings.",
"Because her stocking hung at the fireplace disappeared.",
"Because she couldn't find her parents' present.",
... | Jo was the first to wake in the gray dawn of Christmas morning. No stockings hung at the fireplace, and for a moment she felt as much disappointed as she did long ago, when her little sock fell down because it was crammed so full of goodies. Then she remembered her mother's promise and, slipping her hand under her pill... | high19261.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "violence"
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"options": [
"thrilling goals",
"the players",
"violence",
"the fans"
],
"question": "The charm of football includes all except _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answer": ... | There are many dimensions to football's allure and appeal: top-class moves, thrilling goals, majestic star players, thunderous encounters and passionate fans. Football stirs the emotions all over the globe, brings people from contrasting cultures together, and promotes solid virtues such as fairness, team spirit and t... | high4415.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "two to three times the size of Earth"
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"options": [
"the same size as Earth",
"about 0.5--2 times as big as Earth",
"twice the size of Earth",
"two to three times the size of Earth"
],
"question": "Through Kep... | Scientists added a record of 715 more planets to the list known to the world beyond the solar system, astronomers said on Wednesday, in February 2014. The additions include four planets about 0.5-2 times as big as Earth that are the right distance from their parent stars for liquid surface water, which is believed to b... | high10523.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "your body loses a lot of water every day"
},
"options": [
"your body needs too much water",
"water does all kinds of jobs in your body",
"your body loses a lot of water every day",
"the more water you drink the better y... | As you can see,water works hard in your body every day.That's why it's important to give your body the water it needs to carry out all its different jobs.On a regular day,your body loses 2 to 3 quarts of water--enough to fill a 2liter soda bottle.You probably guess that water is lost when you sweat--especially on a ... | high6202.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Because she is really shocked at Lucy's rudeness."
},
"options": [
"Because she wants to offer some other helpful advice.",
"Because she has prepared the conversation for nine years.",
"Because she is really shocked at Lucy's... | "OK,"I said to my daughter as she bent over her afternoon bowl of rice."What's going on with you and your friend J.?" J.is the leader of a group of third-graders at her camp-- a position Lucy herself occupied the previous summer. _ and every day at snack time, she tells me all about it, while I offer the unhelpful advi... | high9131.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Films and fashion."
},
"options": [
"Films and fashion.",
"Stars' fashion.",
"Influential films.",
"Film cultures."
],
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},
{
... | My daughter went to see The Wild One recently and she commented that Marlon Brando was wearing jeans so long ago. Of course he helped set the trend, so that got me thinking about the link between films and trends in fashion. Fashion and films have gone hand in hand for long. The Wild One is a good example: it appeared ... | high14745.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Some unusual pets are adopted by people."
},
"options": [
"Some websites are set up to protect pets.",
"Some unusual pets are adopted by people.",
"People should take good care of their pets.",
"Pets sometimes can be ve... | What kind of pets do people have in your country? Dogs? Cats? How about a duck, hippo or lion? Here are two cases of animal owners with unusual pets.
Barrie Hayman has a pet duck called Star. Barrie adopted him after his brothers and sisters stayed away from him at birth. Barrie, a duck breeder, realized the little d... | high12334.txt |
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