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"answer_text": "may be held by your bus driver until you need them"
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"will be given to you with other documents",
"may be held by your bus driver... | Luggage
We ask you to keep what you bring with you down to one mediumsized suitcase per person on board the bus.
Seat Arrangements
Special needs for particular seats can be made on most bus breaks when booking, but since arrangements are made on a firstcomefirstserved basis, early booking is advisable. Wh... | high20769.txt |
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"answer_text": "increase the food production or look for other food sources"
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"increase the food production or look for... | By 2050 there will have been an extra 2.5 billion people on earth. And what will they eat?
To solve the problem, we should have to double our food production. We can also develop a diet of algae , insects and meat grown in laboratories.
Algae can grow very quickly at sea, in polluted water and in places that would norm... | high4944.txt |
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"answer_text": "to encourage consumers to make their efforts to live a green way"
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"to get the government involved in protecting the environment",
"to require the companies produce environmentally-friendly products",
"to encou... | There is a forgotten player in the global efforts to limit C02 emissions:the consumer. Households consume one--third of the final energy used in the European Union and produce around two--thirds of city waste.Moreover,food,housing,and private transport account for almost 80%of environmental pressures.So consumers can m... | high21477.txt |
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"answer_text": "Land for them to live on is limited and they are hunted in large numbers."
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"Land for them to live on is limited and they are hunted in large numb... | Could a grizzly bear move to your neighborhood? If you live in the U.S. West, the answer may be yes. People and grizzly bears are living closer together now.
The grizzly bear is one of the largest meat-eating land animals in North America. In the early 1800s, about 50,000 grizzly bears lived there. Today there're far f... | high10872.txt |
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"answer_text": "By comparison."
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"By comparison.",
"By analyzing intelligence tests.",
"By asking women questions."
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"question": "How did Santiago lead to the findings?",
"question_type":... | Having a child may improve a woman's memory, a new study suggests.
In the study, women who were new mothers scored better on tests of visuospatial memory - the ability to understand and remember information about their surroundings--compared with women who didn't have children.
The findings contradicts the old belief t... | high5496.txt |
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"question": "If you want to go out for lunch on Tuesday you can call up the number _ .",
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... | Telephone: 2706030
Address: 9020 Bridgeport road
Open: Mon. to Fri. 7:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Sat. 7:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Sun. 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
NEW YORK MUSEUM
Telephone: 7364431
Address: Vanier Park, 1100 Chestnut St. New York, America's l... | high4950.txt |
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"answer_text": "Lyon and Isle of Skye"
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"... | Where to go in September
Planning a holiday next month? We pick four great trips for September.
Sicily
September is the loveliest month of the year to visit Sicily. It's the perfect time, for the sea is still warm and there are fewer crowds. Besides, the weather is pleasant enough to walk around enjoyable, sandy-colour... | high21463.txt |
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"answer_text": "enjoy TV together with various smaller screens on hand"
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"care more about who holds the remote control",
"share the same programmes in the living room",
"watch better and more delicate television programmes",
... | For decades, families settled on the sofa to share the latest news and TV series, until additional bedroom TV, computer games and the Internet almost put an end to family rows over who held the remote control. Now, however, the traditional living room scene is making a comeback. A study by the communications watchdog O... | high4788.txt |
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"answer_text": "to put more effort into the health issues in them"
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"to aid them with natural resources",
"to put more effort into the health issues in them",
"to help them take a m... | Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that he planned to give away almost all of his vast fortune , largely to the cause of global health , during the course of his lifetime . With an estimated worth of more than $ 40 billion , according to Forbes , the project will be no small feat for Gates . Having already provided the... | high10866.txt |
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"answer_text": "on a Greek island with six hundred animals"
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"on a Greek island with six hundred animals",
"all over the world... | A close friend of mine lives with six hundred wild animals on the Greek Island of Kyklos.Ever since he left school (where I first knew him),he has travelled all over the world collecting animals for his very own zoo.He hoped to collect at least two examples of every sort of animal on his island before the Great Flood. ... | high7281.txt |
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"answer_text": "after he returned from Vietnam War"
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Gloria was born in Cuba in 1957. Her family left the country just before Fidel Castro came to power. In Miami, where the family settled... | high1828.txt |
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"answer_text": "Music helps Mr. Wolfensohn have a better understanding of the different culture."
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"Musicians exist in all industries.",
"Music can certainly mak... | Look carefully and you'll find musicians at the top of almost any industry. The television broadcaster Paula Zahn(cello) and the NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd (French horn) attended college on music scholarships; Both Microsoft's Mr. Allen and the venture capitalist Rogar McNamee have rock bands. Lorry... | high12917.txt |
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"answer_text": "After Daniel Coleman published his book on EQ."
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"After Peter Salovey and John Mayer defined the term.",
"After computers became widely spread in our life.",
"After Daniel Coleman published his book on EQ.",
... | The concept of Emotional Intelligence(EQ or EI)was first given by Peter Salovey and John Mayer.but it became widely popular after the publication of Daniel Coleman's best seller"Emotional Intelligence"in 1995.The meaning of emotional intelligence is"Knowing how you and others feel and what to do about it."
The cont... | high23512.txt |
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"answer_text": "personal or family money"
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"personal or family money",
"the American schools",
"international organization"
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"question": "Most foreign students depend on _ to pay fo... | Students who want to study in the United States may find that their chances for financial aid are limited. They often have to pay for their education with their own savings or their family's money.
A recent report from the Institute of International Education in New York looked at 2008-2009 school year.
Colleges and un... | high1196.txt |
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"answer_text": "inherit London's tradition"
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"inherit London's tradition",
"imitate the Egyptian style",
"attract potential visitors"
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"question": "When he designed the Shard, Piano w... | London's newest skyscraper is called the Shard and it cost about 430 million pounds to build. At a height of almost 310 metres, it is the tallest building in Europe. The Shard has completely changed the appearance of London. However, not everyone thinks that it is a change for the better.
The Shard was designed by the... | high6821.txt |
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"answer_text": "I managed to over come the challenges."
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"I encouraged many people who want to succeed.",
"I created many chances to help people.",
"I was respected as a source... | Oprah Winfrey is not just a very successful TV personality in the US, she is also a woman who has encouraged millions. For those people, her life and her success are a good example. She has struggled with many of the challenges that we all face, and she has changed her life. Her message is powerful: I did it, and so c... | high3781.txt |
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"answer_text": "protect yourself against crime"
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"walk alone at night freely",
"protect animals while camping"
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"question": "The G700Tactical Flash... | Military Grade Flashlight Available to Public
It seems like every day you turn on the news the world's about to end.Lately,Americans have had enough,and are searching for better ways to protect themselves and their families against rising crime.
Their solution?Military grade tactical flashlights.
Powerful technology us... | high19842.txt |
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"question": "'Incident at Halk Hill' is a _ story.",
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... | A man in a very splendid restaurant started to take off his jacket. Seeing this, the head waiter ran to his table and said, "I'm afraid I must ask you to keep your jacket on, sir, for it is not good manners to do it in such a smart restaurant."
"Now listen", said the man, "I'll let you know that the Queen of England ga... | high23275.txt |
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"answer_text": "NIR light."
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"NIR light.",
"Acidity change.",
"UV light."
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"question": "According to the passage, which of the following could be the best trigger?",
"question_type": ... | Medical drugs sometimes cause more damage than they cure. One solution to this problem is to put the drugs inside a capsule, protecting them from the body--and the body from them--until they can be released at just the right spot. There are lots of ways to trigger this release, including changing temperature, acidity... | high365.txt |
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"question": "The word \" address\" in the first line probably means \" _ \".",
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... | The Coalition for the Homeless is an organization that seeks to _ the needs of the homeless population in the United States. It is a network of offices, some of which provide food and houses for the homeless population, and some of which fight for the passing of laws that would give every American the right to a place ... | high1829.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "prevent students from studying too late"
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"arrest the students who work late at night",
"reward citizens who turn in violators",
"conduct a survey among students",
"prevent students from studying too late... | On a wet Wednesday evening in Seoul, six government employees gathered at the office to prepare for a late-night patrol . The mission is to find children who are studying after 10 p. m. and stop them.
In South Korea, it has come to this. To reduce the country's addiction ... | high7280.txt |
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"answer_text": "at least 10 years"
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"8 years",
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"more than 20 years"
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"question": "If a first -year college student in America wants to be a doctor, he has to wait for _ .",
... | To become a doctor in the United States, students usually attend four years of medical school after they complete college. Then these young doctors work in hospitals for several years to complete a training program called a residency .
These medical residents provide hospitals with needed services in return for not muc... | high10867.txt |
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"answer_text": "they should demand compensation from the government"
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"retailers are strongly against the policy",
"it's a policy pushed by some health advocates",
"people all over the world are shocked at the news",
"th... | SYDNEY --- Tobacco companies will be forced to use plain, logo-free packaging on their cigarettes in order to make them less attractive to smokers under laws introduced Thursday by Australia's government.
The rules, which will take effect on 1 July 2012, will ban tobacco companies from including logos, promotional text... | high21462.txt |
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"answer_text": "was first used as a history textbook at Calvert School"
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"was introduced to Calvert School by V. M. Hillyer",
... | A Child's History of the World
Our Price: $28.00
Item #: 010821
ISBN: 978-8-8828-7028-7
Grades: 4--Adult
Product Description
V. M. Hillyer, the first headmaster of Calvert School, spent many of his school years studying only American history. Believing that studying world history would broaden children's horizons and g... | high5497.txt |
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"answer_text": "Tribute to New Orleans."
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"options": [
"Jazz on Jackson Stage.",
"Jazz & Heritage Family Stage.",
"Tribute to New Orleans.",
"Jazz Club Tour."
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"question": "What is special for the Chicago Jazz Festival this... | Summer cools down in August when the city features a lot of jazz to send excitement to any music fan. Beginning August 28, the city hosts a week of jazz performances in a variety of places.
This year's annual Jazz Festival in Grant Park will offer a "tribute to New Orleans" with performers from the city, honoring the b... | high18585.txt |
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"question": "Bartholdi made his first trip to the United States to talk about the Statue of Liberty in _ .",
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... | On July 4,1986,Americans celebrated the Statue of Liberty's 100th birthday.Parades,speeches,fireworks,and other activities contributed to the great joy of the event.The celebration caused reporters and the 1ocal people to 1ook back a century to the similar great joy that marked the official opening of the statue.The S... | high3958.txt |
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"answer_text": "High technology may become a reason for loneliness."
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"High technology may become a reason for loneliness.",
"People shouldn't use the Internet to get to know strangers.",
"It's hard for people to get enough co... | They may have text,email,Facebook and Twitter,but young people are still lonelier than any other age group.The Loneliness in New Zealand Report,published by Statistics New Zealand,shows under 30s are more likely to feel lonely than older people because loneliness decreases with age.Loneliness and poor mental health wer... | high19843.txt |
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"answer_text": "Four"
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"question": "How many ways of fishing have been introduced in the passage?",
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... | People go fishing for many reasons, for one they like the sport of it, reeling in the big catch after a long day of work or just having a few drinks on the water with some friends and letting all the stress just go. Whatever the reasons may be, it is absolutely _ .
People in the south sometimes do a strange type of f... | high3780.txt |
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"was told not to yell at other children",
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"was blamed for creating an air of tensio... | Before I had my son, I spent two years working with children with disabilities. I learned that shouting and threats of punishment would result in a disaster. Coming up against their behaviour could only make the job harder and their behaviour more extreme. I found something that worked, though.
There was a very naughty... | high6820.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "bees dance more often than people"
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"people learned dance from bees",
"bees dance more often than people",
"bees don't like music"
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"question": "The writer belie... | Have you ever seen people dance? Some dances are fast and others are slow. People's feet always move when they dance. They keep on moving until the music stops.
People have enjoyed dancing for a very long time. This story is of a different kind of dance. It is a dance without people or music. Yet this dance is one of t... | high403.txt |
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"answer_text": "KINGSGATEBAY."
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"BRANSCOMBE.",
"KINGSGATEBAY.",
"RINGSTEADBAY."
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"question": "Which beach is the most wonderful place for summer bathing? _",
"question_type": "cloze_questio... | There's no better place to be than beside the seaside in the summer. And even in Britainyou can still find beaches away from the crowds with golden sand.
COMPTON BAY, ISLE OF WIGHT
This wide sandy beach is on the south west coast, between Freshwater and Brook and is part of the TennysonHeritageCoast. There are striking... | high23513.txt |
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"answer_text": "The boom of human population"
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"options": [
"Colonial conquests of Europe",
"The boom of human population",
"Advances in science and industrialization",
"The rise of nation-states"
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"question": "Which of the... | The death of languages is not a new phenomenon. Languages usually have a relatively short life span as well as a very high death rate. Only a few, including Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Latin, have lasted more than 2,000 years.
What is new, however, is the speed at which they are dying out. Europe's colonial conquests cau... | high12916.txt |
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"question": "This passage is written mainly for _ .",
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... | Weekend one-day out
A walk along the Wall -- 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-4:30p.m, Dec.4
Cost: 200 yuan (US $25) per adult, 150 yuan (US $... | high22619.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "our feelings are related to our bodily experience"
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"our feelings are related to our bodily experience",
"we can learn to take control of other people's bodies",
"participants will live more passionately after ... | If you could be anybody in the world, who would it be? Your neighbour or a super star? A few people have experienced what it might be like to step into the skin of another person, thanks to an unusual virtual reality device. Rikke Wahl, an actress, model and artist, was one of the participants in a body swapping experi... | high6834.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "refusing always to say yes to your friend"
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"options": [
"refusing always to say yes to your friend",
"saying no to your friend who turns to you",
"making different kinds of friends",
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... | Many people find themselves caught up in others' problems, and then confused about how and when to help. In fact, all relationships need limits no matter whether they are friendships, sibling relations, mates/ lovers or business relations. On some level, all limit setting means saying no. However, it is usually a quali... | high8819.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they have deep effects on our future"
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"they have deep effects on our future",
"they have nothing to do with our career",
"we are faced with choices everywhere",
"we should not waste our precious time"
... | The direction of our lives is determined by the choices we make every day. They accumulate and lead to our final destination. Success in life is not a gift that just falls on people like a ripe pawpaw! It is a choice you have to make. The life you are going to live tomorrow is just a direct product of your choice toda... | high24268.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the elderly need humane help from society"
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"businesses should do something for society in return",
"old people are entitled to special treatment for their contribut... | Age has its special advantages inprefix = st1 /America. And one of the more impressive of them is the senior citizen discount . Anyone who has reached a certain age-- in some cases as low as 55 -- is automatically entitled to plenty of price reductions at nearly every level of commercial life . Eligibility is determ... | high23507.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He knew he would get home quicker that way."
},
"options": [
"He usually discovered something suspicious along that way.",
"He had an appointment with a man at number 29 there.",
"He chose to go that way by chance.",
"H... | Police Officer Tidwell left the station just after 8 a.m.on Sunday June 4.He had spent aboring night on duty and was looking forward to his day of rest.By habit he took a short-cutdown the path behind Dugby Hall road and after a minute or two he saw a man climbing down a drainpipe from an open bedroom window of Numbe... | high19857.txt |
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"answer_text": "children can also invent something"
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"it is easy even for children to make inventions",
"kids have more advantages in inventing things",
"to be an inventor is the bes... | An inventor seeks to create a new product that serves a specific need and fulfills a role that other products do not. Sometimes an inventor comes up with a wholly new idea, but more often inventions are simply improvements on an older design. With a little imagination and creativity , an old idea can suddenly become s... | high3794.txt |
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"answer_text": "a string of accidents related to school buses"
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"public response on new safety standards",
"a string of accidents related to school buses",
"the public demand for developing US standards",
"rising anger a... | Over the past two weeks, public feedback was sought on new safety standards for school buses.In the wake of the accidents coming one after another, experts from MIIT drew up a new safety technique document of school buses in December, based on US and EU standards.
School bus makers and industry watchers doubt the poss... | high21310.txt |
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"question": "The last word of the text\"counts\"most probably means _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_q... | No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world,but estimates suggest the figure is over 450 million.The number of disabled people in India alone is probably more than double the total population of Canada.
In the United Kingdom,about one in ten people have some disability.Disability is not just so... | high10873.txt |
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"answer_text": "get connected with the young kids and stay active"
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"provide counseling service for the school kids",
"avoid getting into financial trouble after retirement"... | It's 6 a.In.dark and damp.The gentle mist makes it somewhat difficult to find school bus No.330 parked by the east fence, even with my flashlight.
For so many times.it's occurred to me that I've found a strange way of easing into retirement --wheeling a school bus around the streets of Minnetonka, _ elementary and mi... | high21476.txt |
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"A useless policeman"
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She drove by him. He looked at her car as she drove by. She continue... | high4945.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because they knew Shay was anything but good at playing baseball."
},
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"Because it was a very important game and they couldn't afford to lose it.",
"Because they knew Shay was physically disabled.",
"Beca... | A Divine Plan
At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learningdisabled children, the father of one student delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by those who attended. He began with a question. "Everything God does is done with perfection. Yet, my son, Shay, cannot learn and understand things as... | high20768.txt |
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Stainless Steel Travel Mug Owners
Lid Recall-15 oz Stainless Steel Travel Mug
A fault at the cup has been recognized. The fault may result in some lids lifting slightly from the body of the mug, and could probably cause injury from hot liquid leaking. Therefore, we have given an immediate lid r... | high20740.txt |
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Have you ever wondered what a degree might be worth to your job or career? It means a lot of Americans with an Associate Degree average nearly $ 10,000 more in their earnings than those with just a high school diploma.
Harcourt Learning Direct offers you a way to get a Specialized Associate Deg... | high24240.txt |
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A repeated criticism of the UK's university sector is its noticeable weakness in translating new knowledge into new products and services.
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The 39thHong Kong Art Festival, to be held early next year, will be based on the topic of "family"
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"A kind of positive lifestyle.",
"The impression we have on other people.",
"Our sense of how good we feel about ourselves.",
"Our understanding of how we ... | "Love your neighbor as yourself"is a saying familiar to most of us. It means that you must have he ability to love and accept yourself in order to form and keep satisfying relationship with others self-esteem means accepting yourself for who you really are, and believing that you are indeed a worthwhile person who is d... | high8616.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Slogan And Brand"
},
"options": [
"Just Do It!",
"Slogan And Brand",
"Famous slogans",
"What Is A Good slogan?"
],
"question": "what would be the best title for the text?",
"question_type": null
}
] | On hearing the words "Just do it!",you will know there is a Nike product nearby.If it's "Always Coca-Cola", you can be sure someone wants to sell you a refreshing drink.
_ The slogan helps people understand the brand better by telling them what it wants to sell to its customers.Good slogans 1eave a message inside peop... | high15062.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the improper way of teaching"
},
"options": [
"her cleverness in test taking",
"the good way to take tests",
"the improper way of teaching",
"the best way to read textbooks"
],
"question": "The author mentions E... | Testing has taken the place of teaching in most public schools. Pretests, drills, tests, and retests. They know that the best way to read a textbook is to look at the questions at the end of the chapter and then read the text quickly for the answers. I believe that my daughter Erica, who gets excellent marks, has never... | high11204.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "The moon is the easiest place in space to get to and it has no air, unlike Earth."
},
"options": [
"The moon is beautiful.",
"The moon is different from the earth.",
"The moon is Earth's nearest neighbor--it is the easiest pl... | Did you ever look up at the moon and think you saw a man's face there? When the moon is round and full, the shadows of the moon mountains and the lines of the moon valleys sometimes seem to show a giant nose and mouth and eyes. At least, some people think so.
If there were a man on the moon--instead of mountains and v... | high3743.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Prejudice is a preconceived opinion before becoming aware of fact or reason."
},
"options": [
"Prejudice is a reasonable idea that is based on one's own experience.",
"Prejudice is a preference for one group of people or things ove... | Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on fact or reason. Examples of prejudice in schools include believing that some students are particular type of people simply because of the way they dress or act, or believing that a certain group is good at sports simply because many peop1e in that group are goad ... | high17675.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "They received much less than they had expected."
},
"options": [
"They hoped less homework would be given.",
"They were upset about what they had done.",
"They wanted to be respected by their teacher.",
"They received m... | As I made my way to my office last Thursday, I noticed an A4 poster stuck to the lift door. Then I noticed one on the wall, one on the noticeboard, and then one on my classroom door. In fact, they were stuck to nearly every available surface along the corridor. And they all had the same statement:"All I'm asking for is... | high19880.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "were Irish immigrants in America"
},
"options": [
"still lived in Ireland alone",
"owned a small farm in Texas",
"returned to their birthplace",
"were Irish immigrants in America"
],
"question": "Michael's paren... | Michael was a farmer in Texas.His parents moved to the USA from Ireland in the 1940's, and they became very rich.Michael decided to go back to Ireland to meet his old grandfather, who was still living on the same farm.
Michael booked his ticket,flew to Shannon airport,hired a car and drove to the small village where hi... | high11210.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "How to dress properly in a business setting."
},
"options": [
"How to dress properly in a business setting.",
"The relationship between career and social life.",
"The differences between professional and casual dress.",
... | Being less than perfectly well-dressed in a business setting can result in a feeling of great discomfort that may well require treatment to eliminate (remove). And the sad truth is that "clothing mismatches" on the job can ruin the day of the person who is wearing the inappropriate attire --and the people with whom he ... | high3757.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Students' passion for activities was high at first but disappeared gradually."
},
"options": [
"Students' passion for activities was high at first but disappeared gradually.",
"Students' passion for activities grew gradually becaus... | Actually we have known a lot of examples and meaningful words to support the fact that we should try our best to ease the bad impression of others. Just like the old saying goes, we should give a better assumption to the one than we think he was. But many of us always fail to do this.
Take the situation of my class for... | high4038.txt |
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