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"answer_text": "That someone speaks a new language in a sudden."
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"That someone becomes unconscious.",
"That someone speaks a new language in a sudden.",
"That someone doesn't like his mother language.",
"That someone is... | Imagine going to sleep then waking up speaking another language. It may sound impossible, but it's actually happened.
The phenomenon of being able to suddenly speak another language is known as"Xenoglossia", from the Greek words"xenos"(foreigner)and "glossa"(language).
_ once happened to a 13yearold girl from Croatia.... | high5326.txt |
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"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "you don't have to be rich in order to give"
},
"options": [
"giving means you will lack money",
"the excitement of giving can bring you money",
"you don't have to be rich in order to give",
"when you give away money,you... | Like most people,1 was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting It was not until in my late thirties that 1 made this important discovery:giving-away makes life so much more exciting You need not worry if you lack money This is how 1 experimented with giving-away.If an idea for improving the window display ... | high17661.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "He suffers from loneliness greatly."
},
"options": [
"He was deserted by his family.",
"He found many sources of food.",
"He came to the island for a test.",
"He suffers from loneliness greatly."
],
"question": ... | The loneliest chimp in the world just got the best surprise--a hug from a new friend. Ponso has been by himself for nearly three years, finding himself alone after his wife and children died on the island where they were abandoned by a medical testing company many years ago.
For years a nearby villager named Germain ha... | high19894.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Signing Commonwealth documents every day."
},
"options": [
"Traveling around the UK.",
"Declaring when the world is at war.",
"Inviting other leaders to have dinner with her.",
"Signing Commonwealth documents every day.... | The royal family is a part of British history and cultural identity.
Up until the 17th century, people believed that the British king or queen had a "divine right" to rule. This was the idea that God chose the king or queen and that he or she was therefore above the law. However, this idea was challenged during the Eng... | high2449.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they watch TV too often"
},
"options": [
"they watch TV too often",
"they have done too much homework",
"they have to fulfill too many duties",
"teachers are too strict with them"
],
"question": "Children are be... | "It hurts me more than you", and "This is for your own good" --these are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.
That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to ach... | high1140.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the face of the Sphinx looks like Pharaoh Khafre."
},
"options": [
"the face of the Sphinx looks like Pharaoh Khafre.",
"the Great Pyramid was built by Pharaoh Khafre.",
"Pharaoh Khafre built his tomb beside the Sphinx.",
... | Along with the Great Pyramid of Giza. The Sphinx is one of the most studied ancient monument of mankind's history. The whole complex of Giza, composed of the Sphinx, the Great Pyramid, other pyramids, and distinct structures, definitely holds the key to understanding advanced past civilizations. In the examination of ... | high22802.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Jennifer's uncle."
},
"options": [
"Jennifer.",
"Jennifer's mother.",
"Jennifer's uncle.",
"Jennifer's brothers."
],
"question": "Who fixed the sailboat with Jennifer's father?",
"question_type": "factiod_qu... | Jennifer's Hurricane Experience
I have evacuated lots of times in my life. To make sure everything is safe, my family have to move a lot of things. I usually help my mom and my brothers help my dad. Mom and I take all of the special keepsakes to low safe places. Another thing we have to do is to take our sailboat out i... | high13407.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "didn't know how serious Grandma's illness was"
},
"options": [
"knew Grandma would appear in a local medical journal",
"found that something was wrong with the costumes",
"didn't realize that Grandma was feeling unwell",
... | It was the day after Halloween when my grandmother was admitted to the hospital with the worst headache she'd ever had. While posing in our costumes the night before, we knew something was wrong, just not how wrong.
Grandma's house was the central gathering place of my family. Sunday lunches, birthday dinners, Easter, ... | high14368.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Bush and the students of Qinghua discussed something about how to make China richer and stronger."
},
"options": [
"Bush think bilateral contacts and mutual understanding will promote Sino-U.S. relations.",
"Many Americans are inte... | Visiting U.S. President George W. Bush said in Beijing Friday that both China and the United States should encourage bilateral contacts and exchanges to promote mutual understanding.
"It's important for our political leaders to come to China," said Bush, who gave a speech Friday morning at Qinghua University, one of ... | high7531.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "hat"
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"trousers",
"jacket",
"boots",
"hat"
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"question": "The little girl was more satisfied with her _ .",
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"answer": {
"answer_index":... | It was the first snow of winter -- an exciting day for every child but not for most teachers. Up until now, I had been old enough to dress myself, but today would need some help. Miss Finlayson, my kindergarten teacher, had been through brst snow days many times, but I think she may still remember this one.
I managed t... | high8164.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "her mother made her nervous"
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"options": [
"she couldn't talk with her mother",
"her father wanted to teach her",
"her mother made her nervous",
"she didn't trust her mother"
],
"question": "The author couldn'... | Car Talk
When I got the driving license last summer, Mom and I took our first trip around an empty parking lot. Then I found that my mother was not the best teacher for me. It wasn't that she shouted, or told me that I was doing poorly. As you can imagine, my mother's "helpful instructions" only managed to make me more... | high6149.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Ideas still vary in the identity of Pluto."
},
"options": [
"Ideas still vary in the identity of Pluto.",
"Only scientists could watch the flyby live.",
"Mars is the first planet visited by a spaceship.",
"New Horizons ... | NASA-s New Horizons probe flew by Pluto this morning, sending back history's first up-close looks at the vast freezing-cold world. Closest approach came at 7:49 a.m. EDT. To celebrate, NASA gave out the latest photo of Pluto. It showed a reddish world with an amazing heart-shaped feature on its surface.
After today'... | high13361.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It is extremely useful and convenient, but it may be inconvenient or even harmful."
},
"options": [
"It should replace old-fashioned letters completely.",
"It is perfect and always does good to you.",
"It is extremely useful ... | Online Communication
In an age when technology moves faster than most can keep up with, a small group of people still remain in the time of old-fashioned letter. Frankly speaking, I was once certain that traditional letters could never be replaced by other means of communication.
But a story about online communication ... | high5440.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To seek freedom."
},
"options": [
"To seek freedom.",
"To seek wealth.",
"To seek good education.",
"To seek a good job."
],
"question": "Why did the Belarskys come to the US according to the passage?",
"que... | What Is Today's American Dream
They may not have called it the American Dream, but for centuries people have gone to America in search of freer, happier, and richer lives. But is today's American Dream a mythical concept or still a reality?
Isabel Belarsky's tiny Brooklyn apartment fills with the sound of her father's ... | high18234.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "both Fear and Faith trust something in the future"
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"options": [
"both Fear and Faith trust something in the future",
"Fear and Faith have nothing in common",
"neither negative nor positive future will happen",
"peopl... | Do you know what Fear and Faith have in common? Fear believes in a negative future. Faith believes in a positive future. Both believe in something that has not yet happened. So I ask you, if neither the positive nor negative future has happened yet then why not choose to believe in the positive future?
I believe during... | high17107.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "in the European films there were only little roles for her to act"
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"options": [
"in the European films there were only little roles for her to act",
"in the Americana there were many important film roles waiting for her to act",... | Audrey Hepburn (*) was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. She really was blue-blood from the beginning with her father, a wealthy English banker, and her mother, a Dutch noblewoman. After her parents divorced, Audrey went to London with her mother where she went to a private girl school. Later, when her mother m... | high16219.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Store and sell them."
},
"options": [
"Throw them away.",
"Store and sell them.",
"Cut them into pieces.",
"Give them to the students in Inner Mongolia."
],
"question": "What do Wang Boxuan and his schoolmates d... | June 5 is World Environment Day. This makes us pay more attention to our environment and the need to protect it.
When Wang Boxuan, a Beijing high schoolboy, uses up his exercise books, he does not throw them away. Each one is stored at his school with hundreds of exercise books given by other students. Then they are so... | high11576.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "detect potential contacts between vehicles in advance"
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"options": [
"detect possible dangerous crossroads",
"compute the movement of the contacting vehicles",
"brake the car automatically in as little time as possible",
... | Driving speeds have largely stabilized, and nowadays, safety concerns are important and reducing road accidents to minimum is a must. So, automakers are focused on safety systems more than ever before.
Given the emphasis on improving safety, it's possible that well-known phrases such as "live fast and die young" may l... | high20973.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "everyday life and feelings"
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"options": [
"everyday life and feelings",
"farmers' feelings",
"the lives of workers",
"the lives of farmers"
],
"question": "Country music is usually about _ .",
"question... | Are you interested in country music? I like it very much! It will take me away for a while after I am tired .The guitars and songs will take me to mountains and fields.
Country music usually talks of everyday life and feelings. It's the spirit of America, easy to understand, slow and simple.
Country music developed in ... | high3031.txt |
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"answer_text": "the effect of exposure to radiation is slow in coming"
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"exposure to even tiny amount of radiation is fatal( )",
"the effect of exposure to radiation is slow in coming",
"radiation is avoidable in space explora... | Space is a dangerous place, not only because of meteors but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through, and this is necessary for plants to make the food that we eat. Heat, too, makes our environment endurable. Various kinds of r... | high12057.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he was worried the vendor would take revenge on him"
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"options": [
"the man should know bargaining is a way of life here",
"he couldn't exchange his garment if he did so",
"he was worried the vendor would take revenge on hi... | As I stood in a stall of Beijing's Silk Market, waiting to exchange a silk garment, I watched in amazement as the young vendor pulled out silk nightgown after nightgown for a foreigner, who sounded like an American, but frankly could have been from any English-speaking Western country.
The man appeared satisfied wh... | high22194.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The picture can play what's been recorded as if the person in the picture \"talks\"."
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"options": [
"The picture can play what's been recorded as if the person in the picture \"talks\".",
"You can have a talk with the person in t... | How can you hear your friends' voices when they are far away and you can't make a long--distance call? Besides the web camera system with your computer, we have a new high-tech way to solve the problem and ease your pain of missing them.
The Japanese company Combiwith created a system--
. It makes people in pictures sp... | high15738.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "can go into your soul without being noticed"
},
"options": [
"you feel others do better than you",
"can go into your soul without being noticed",
"positive enough to make yourself do better",
"makes you as worthy as the... | Jealousy is a horrible feeling that weeds its way into your life and relationships before you know it. You might want something someone else has, or feel like they're happier than you. It might seem like an uncontrollable emotion, but it's truly not!
Remember your big accomplishments. If your coworker gets the promot... | high6161.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "online wealth has to be gained bit by bit"
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"options": [
"expert knowledge is badly needed",
"you are short of money at the beginning",
"online wealth has to be gained bit by bit",
"family and friends will be against ... | Rome wasn't built in a day, and the Internet didn't come out of a golden egg. Many of today's creations were not born of people who had creative ideas, but who did not stop at simply having an idea. They took one brick of capital , another brick of knowledge, perhaps a brick or two of family and friends, and built the... | high14426.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because people have lost sensible judgment."
},
"options": [
"Because their children are disappointing.",
"Because they have to look serious in public.",
"Because life is becoming a greater burden.",
"Because people hav... | These days, it seems that almost all of us are too serious.My older daughter often says to me, "Daddy, you've got that serious look again." Even those of us who are committed to non-seriousness are probably too serious.People are frustrated and anxious about almost everything -- being five minutes late, witnessing some... | high9252.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Its winner got a cash prize."
},
"options": [
"It lasted five days.",
"It was held in Japan.",
"Its winner got a cash prize.",
"Its winner will work in Fukushima."
],
"question": "What do we know about this year... | Contestants from around the world met in Pomona, California, this month to test their skills at things like driving a car, walking down stairs, and opening doors. Sounds easy, right? But the competitors weren't people--they were robots!
The bots were participating in the final round of the US's DARPA(Defense Advanced ... | high13349.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "3"
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"4",
"3",
"2",
"5"
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"question": "How many of the seven ads are placed by people who want to hire someone for certain job?",
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"answer": {
... | (1)Secretary. Part time. 20 hours a week. Busy doctor's office. Experience preferred. Good typing. Call 555-2438.
(2)BABY SITTER. 3 to 6 weekday afternoons. I will take you home. $5.00 an hour. Call 555-5593.
(3)Guitar lessons. Your home or mine. Experienced musician. Master's degree in music. Call Louise 555-6131.
(4)... | high2307.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "they take no interest in classes"
},
"options": [
"they have failing grades",
"they are lazy and not intelligent",
"they are discriminated against",
"they take no interest in classes"
],
"question": "According t... | A survey suggests that people who have dropped out from high school just earn an average of $9,000 less per year than graduates. Now a new study removes a common belief why they quit. It's much more basic than flunking out .
Society tends to think of high school dropouts as kids who just can't cut it. They are lazy, an... | high10640.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To tell us the benefits of playing sports"
},
"options": [
"To advise parents to take exercise",
"To tell us the benefits of playing sports",
"To explain why girls like playing sports.",
"To introduce some ways of takin... | Why do we play sports?You might say "to get exercise"and you'd be right.To have fun? That's true,too.But there's more.In fact,there are at least 5 more reasons.According to the Women's Sports Foundation,girls who play sports get a lot more than just fit.
Girls who play sports do better in school.You might think tha... | high20783.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It lasted for a whole school year."
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"The teachers were also encouraged to drink water.",
"The students surveyed were all overweight.",
"It surveyed children in the countryside.",
"It lasted for a whole s... | Putting in water fountains at schools, and teaching children about the health benefits of water, could reduce their risk of getting extra pounds, reports a new study that is published in the latest issue of the journal Pediatrics.
The findings are based on a survey in 32 elementary schools of two German cities, Dortm... | high5468.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "By air."
},
"options": [
"By sea.",
"By air.",
"By train.",
"By car."
],
"question": "How did they go to the city of Lulea?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
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"answer": {
"answer_index... | At the end of every British summer I find myself praying for a proper winter, one that will allow a bit of fun: sledging, snowballing, snowman-building. I'm not very demanding; I don't need amazing downhill skiing and the Cresta Run. What I want is a few days out with the kids. And, much as I like blue skies and sun in... | high19102.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "he tried to understand her point of view"
},
"options": [
"he was shocked and jumped",
"he tried to understand her point of view",
"he thought that telling the truth was a merit",
"he decided to teach her something abou... | Sarah came running in saying, "Look what l found. " Over the top of the paper I was reading I saw a long object that made me jump. It was a piece of snakeskin that had been shed by one of our garden snakes.
'Isn't it beautiful?" said my wide-eyed 7~year-old daughter. I stared at the organic wrapper and thought to my... | high3019.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "For a new exhibit."
},
"options": [
"For a marketing ploy.",
"It's devised to make fun.",
"People really need them.",
"For a new exhibit."
],
"question": "For what does the museum pay for cockroaches?",
"que... | Get a reward for every bug you bring to live in new science museum exhibit.
In a city with trillions of American cockroaches , the Houston Museum of Natural Science has agreed to pay a quarter per bug-up to 1,000-as it seeks to populate a new insect exhibit alongside its Cockrell Butterfly Center.
Nancy Greig, the muse... | high17891.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the bus was on the way to Shenzhen"
},
"options": [
"the bus was on the way to Shenzhen",
"most of the passengers were sound asleep",
"all the passengers were given immediate rescue",
"it was snowing hard"
],
"q... | Fifteen people were killed and 38 others injured in a road accident early Wednesday morning in Ens hi, Central China's Hu bei Province.
The bus, travelling from Wanzhou in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality to Shen zhen in South China's Guangdong Province, had 53 _ on board,three more than permitted.
At around 1... | high11238.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "were looked down upon"
},
"options": [
"were not allowed to take buses",
"only stood in the buses",
"were looked down upon",
"had no right at all"
],
"question": "From the passage we can infer that in Rosa Parks... | Rosa Parks was an African-American woman who began the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus . She
what she believed was right , and her courage inspired countless others to do the same.
Born in Alabama in 1913 , Mrs. Parks grew up on a farm just outside Montgomery in a town c... | high16557.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "to visit her father"
},
"options": [
"to talk with the officer",
"to visit her father",
"to get a piece of paper from the officer",
"to pay a visit to her favorite place"
],
"question": "The author goes to the p... | I get off the bus and walk a few blocks. I stop when I get to a garage-like place and walk to the metal door with brown paint. I turn the knob and walk in. A thousand eyes look at me as I take my place at the end of the long line. When I finally get up to the window, I hand the officer my ID. "I'm here to visit Mr C. Y... | high4010.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "achieve weight loss"
},
"options": [
"stay in fashion",
"enjoy its taste",
"gain more energy",
"achieve weight loss"
],
"question": "People drink diet soda to _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},... | Let's face it.No one drinks die t soda for the taste.People drink diet soda in the hope that it will help them lose weight or at least keep them from gaining it.Yet it seems to have exactly the opposite effect, according to a new study.
Researchers from the University of Texas said those who drank two or more diet sod... | high19664.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "his company's different stages of development"
},
"options": [
"the change of his character with the time",
"the various opinions of different journalists",
"his company's different stages of development",
"his populari... | Throughout my 41 years at General Electric, I've experienced a lot.In the media, I've gone from prince to pig and back again.And I've been called many things.
In the early days, some called me a crazy, wild man.When I became CEO two decades ago, Wall Street asked, "Jack who?"
When I tried to make GE more competitive by... | high17649.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Charge"
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"Charge",
"Baht",
"Won",
"Ringgit"
],
"question": "Which of the following is NOT the unit of money?.",
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"answer": {
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"a... | The porter brings your bags to your room and helpfully explains all you want to know.Then he points to the phone and says:"If there's anything else you need, just call."All this time you have been thinking of one thing:"How much should I tip him?" To make your next trip a little easier, here's guide to tipping across ... | high2461.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Health."
},
"options": [
"Technology.",
"Society.",
"Culture.",
"Health."
],
"question": "In which part of the newspaper will you read this passage?",
"question_type": null
},
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"answer": {
"an... | Just because you are in a wheelchair doesn't mean you can't enjoy the competitiveness --the all-around fun --that playing sports offers you. More and more wheelchair users are playing sports every day --some even on a professional level. The following are just a few examples of the different choices you have.
Wh... | high9534.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "feel lonely"
},
"options": [
"feel lonely",
"feel shy",
"be fearful",
"be disappointed"
],
"question": "If a dog snaps at things, it is because it may _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | A dog can't speak words, but it can "talk". It has feelings just as you do. At times it may feel angry or afraid. Watch a dog closely. You can see what it is trying to tell you. When you are afraid, you may look down shyly. A fearful dog looks away from you. It may run away too. When you are angry with people, you star... | high12731.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "save electricity"
},
"options": [
"keep watch on his house",
"keep his house safe",
"monitor the elderly people inside",
"save electricity"
],
"question": "The system was first designed for a house owner to _ ... | Smart home applications can share all kinds of helpful information with homeowners. There appears a new housing platform which can detect the stress on electricity -- and the stress on the heart.
"There is a growing population of elderly people, and there are statistics to show that more and more of them are going to l... | high6613.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "keep the health of the mind of the senior"
},
"options": [
"keep the health of the mind of the senior",
"popularize the use of computers among the old",
"organize the senior as a group to work",
"help the senior connect... | "Let's go down one more, push your enter key..." says a volunteer helping senior citizens work a web session on the Inter-net.
David Lansdale has found a way to light up the lives of the elderly. He gets them wired to the Internet. " If you hit your enter key, it will bring up this particular e-mail..."
Pauline Allen i... | high9520.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "have their people environment changed"
},
"options": [
"join a new social community",
"influence their friend around",
"choose their friendships purposely",
"have their people environment changed"
],
"question":... | When going through major life changes, like changing careers, I would change the people with whom I spent the most time. We've all gone through periods when the people in our lives have changed--graduation, moving to a new city, getting a new job, joining a new club, etc. I don't think I need to convince you just how m... | high14354.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Because she can help discover cancer early."
},
"options": [
"Because she can help discover cancer early.",
"Because she can smell the urine and breath samples.",
"Because she has saved many people's lives by barking.",
... | Dogs have an amazing sense of smell thanks to 300million smell receptors in their noses, compared to only five million in the human nose. Medical dogs are trained by smelling samples of people already diagnosed with cancer and those of people without the disease so they can learn to tell the difference.
Dr Claire Guest... | high12725.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "To develop new crops"
},
"options": [
"To develop new crops",
"To plant more crops.",
"To control population growth.",
"To improve farming technology."
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The youngster can't join in PE lessons at school, because he suffers from a rare condition, which means his body dangerously overh... | high19670.txt |
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Americans have an unspoken rule about tippi... | high2313.txt |
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"The hunter shot the duck in the wing.",
"Ducks do not move at all for the whole winter.",
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We always convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, than another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are. After that we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with.36. _ .
We always tell ourselves ... | high19116.txt |
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Today we are launching a campaign(called "He For She"). I am reaching out to you because we need your help. We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved. This is the first campaign of this kind in the UN. We w... | high9246.txt |
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My daughter will be five years old. She is happy, well-mannered, loving and pretty. She has attended a Montessori school since she was 16 months old and has made two friends. The three girls are always together, or talking with each other.
But recently the girls told my daughter that they would not play... | high23711.txt |
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... | Educational Camps 2011
21st Century Princess Program: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday through Friday, July 23-27. For girls 12-15. Girls learn hair care, good manners and the importance of inner beauty. Homewood Suites by Hilton, 2001 E. Highland Ave., Phoenix. $495. www. homewoodsuites. hilton.com. (623) 848-1844.
Barrow I... | high21660.txt |
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Buckingham Palace has announced that the annual Swan Upping, a tradition dating back to the 12th century which involves a counting of the swan population on the River Thames, will be conducted by the Queen's official Swan M... | high22369.txt |
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The five--London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris--became official candidates, beginning a 14-month race that ended with the selection of a winning bid by the IOC's assembly in Singapore in July 2005.
Havan... | high23077.txt |
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"question": "All the four extreme sports are mainly intended to test one's _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questi... | Dangerous as they are, extreme sports remain appealing among many Australian young people! Camp Xtreme is the perfect test of your heart.
Kite Surfing
It's the exciting mixture of kite, board and waves. The idea of using a kite to accelerate speed seems like a new challenge, yet the art of kite flying dates back to the... | high7096.txt |
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Some plants have their own ways to keep animals away. For... | high173.txt |
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Mo... | high6388.txt |
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While Henry Hitchings of the Los Angeles Times admits that good manners can reduce s... | high5681.txt |
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"The organization had already broken up.",
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"answer": {
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... | For a commuter rushito catch a train, a minute can mean the difference
between dinner with the family and foods in the microwave. What most passengers don't realize
is that their minute is already there.
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"Emoti... | Why do our eyes open wide when we feel fear? And why do our eyes become narrow when we express disgust ? According to a new research, it has something to do with survival.
In a recently published paper, researchers concluded that expressions of fear and disgust changed the way human eyes gather and focus light. They a... | high18793.txt |
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DNA is the chemical that contains a person's genetic makeup. Every person, except... | high23705.txt |
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],
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"It's not right." Mr. Wu said to his wife one evening. "At some time or another that man has borrowed nearly everything we have. Almost every day he comes over to borrow something."
"You are quite right," his wife replied, "and m... | high1381.txt |
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"hiding from its owner inside a bag"
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"answer": {
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"the author had lived in Fiji for about five years",
"the author had no memories of her grandma",
"people value f... | The island Fiji has always been around me in my life. My parents met in Fiji when my father was a teacher as a Peace Corps volunteer and my mother a student. They taught me about its people, culture, foods and religious beliefs.
At the age of two, I made my first trip across the Pacific Ocean to Fiji. My mother and I m... | high2878.txt |
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"answer": {
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"the buildings he designed were beautiful",
"he began his professional life as a painter, befo... | Frank Lloyd Wright did not call himself an artist. He called himself an architect. But the buildings he designed were works of art. He looked at the ugly square buildings around him, and he did not like what he saw. He wondered why people built ugly homes, when they could have beautiful ones.
Frank Lloyd Wright liv... | high20224.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Bridges House Hotel."
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"Hotel Juliana.",
"Shanghai Hotel.",
"Hotel de Koophandel."
],
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"quest... | Recommended Delft Hotels
Bridges House Hotel
Bridges House Hotel is a hotel in the centre of Delft and has shops and museums next door. There are many restaurants in the area where you can eat a lovely dinner in the evening. The market square is within easy walking distance. The comfortable rooms are all uniquely decor... | high14181.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Food-choosing"
},
"options": [
"Exercising",
"Hunger",
"Food-choosing",
"Eating milk and bananas"
],
"question": "According to the passage, the best way to keep slim is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_quest... | Some people don't mind being fat. Other people can keep slim without any effort. But a lot of people do put on too much weight and don't like it. The question is, what can they do about it?
Some believe exercise can be helpful. But the trouble is that it only makes you want to eat more. You might sweat out a couple of ... | high24042.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "good transports."
},
"options": [
"grand mountains.",
"clean rivers.",
"kind people",
"good transports."
],
"question": "Which of the following is not included in the advantages of Yunnan?",
"question_type":... | Last summer holiday, I took a trip to Yunnan. It is in the southern part of our country .It is really a very beautiful place-grand mountains, clean rivers and kind people. Trees and flowers are seen everywhere. Every year there are lots and lots of visitors.
Maybe you have heard about Shi Lin (stone forests). There are... | high7900.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "People communicate more since telephone has been created."
},
"options": [
"People don't communicate without telephone.",
"People communicate because of the creating of the telephone.",
"People communicate more since telephon... | When I asked my daughter which item she would keep: the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said "the phone". Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.
Point 1: The te... | high22433.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Because his wife persuaded him to."
},
"options": [
"Because his wife persuaded him to.",
"Because they were of no use at all.",
"Because they were heavy on the moves.",
"Because they occupied space too long."
],
... | For twenty years, I saved all my college course notes and textbooks: that's a lot of paper.
Worse, it's not easy to carry them around -- and trust me, they aren't light -- on at least seven moves. Yet I never once looked at them. They sat in our basement, covered in a thick layer of dust. If books and papers could wond... | high13836.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "A sudden storm started with thunder and lightning."
},
"options": [
"A sudden storm started with thunder and lightning.",
"The seawater rose suddenly and flooded the land.",
"Huge waves came upon the land, damaging the buildi... | The worst earthquake in 40 years shook South Asia on Sunday, starting with horrible waves that swept entire villages into the sea. At least 20,000 people in six countries were killed in the disaster, and millions were left homeless.
The quake shook deep beneath the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It was felt more than 30... | high12296.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The fast growth of material needs."
},
"options": [
"The increase in population.",
"Shortage of food and water.",
"The fast growth of material needs.",
"Failure to protect the environment."
],
"question": "Accor... | It is true that world population is growing, but this is not the cause of our current and future global problems. Believing this will cause us to ignore the real problem and risk long-term damage to our planet.
Let me start by explaining why overpopulation is a _ . For one thing, the UN Population Division regularly pr... | high13188.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the flexibility in Laresce's back helps her to lift heavy weight"
},
"options": [
"Laresce is suffering a lot from hypermobility",
"hypermobility is helpful to increase one's strength",
"Laresce didn't go to school because of... | Laresce was born with a condition called hypermobility which meant her joints were"bend".The condition can use severe joint pain and lead to dislocations .
But rather than feel sorry for herself, she used her misfortune to inspire her to become Britain's strongest schoolgirl.
Just two years ago,the condition left Lares... | high9093.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because it helps them do other activities freely."
},
"options": [
"Because it looks beautiful.",
"Because it's a duty for them to bring it.",
"Because they can put all the books into it.",
"Because it helps them do oth... | parents usually go to malls to find new school supplies for their children. One of the most important things to get during this time is the backpack. Most students choose to bring a backpack because it allows them to have both hands free. This makes the bag less likely to hinder other activities that the person carry... | high11947.txt |
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