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"answer_text": "tiny-love.com"
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"flaxart.com",
"tiny-love.com",
"robosapienonline.com",
"minicar.com"
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"question": "What website can you visit if you want a baby toy for your kid?",
"question_type": "factio... | YOUR KIDS ARE AMAZING --especially compared with everybody else's (who seem to cry all the time). How do you show your love for your kids this holiday season? With toys that are smooth and colorful, interactive and exciting. And with ones that have educational value -- because you are the boss.
FLAX ART HOSPITAL PUZZLE... | high14778.txt |
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"answer_text": "difficult"
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"easy",
"exciting"
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"question": "The writer found it _ to run again after a few years.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"answer": {... | This is new for me and I don't know what to say really, so I just want to have a try.I was always a runner and in pretty good shape for most of my life.Then unluckily, I couldn't get myself out to run.
I put on weight and it made me feel worse about myself.I found it was much harder to begin to run again after a few... | high13017.txt |
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"answer_text": "Plants Fight back with Poisons"
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"options": [
"Plants Fight back with Poisons",
"Plants Can Kill Animals",
"Animals and Plants",
"Lions and Antelopes"
],
"question": "Which of the following can be the best tit... | When you watch TV programs about wild animals, it is surprising to see how an antelope can escape a lion's attack. In the wilderness, everyone has a stunt. Even plants have their own ways of fighting off enemies.
Over millions of years of evolution, plants have developed a unique defence system. Chemicals are wildly us... | high1550.txt |
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"answer_text": "She envied what the lady owned."
},
"options": [
"She thought of Liz Taylor.",
"She had no such expensive car.",
"She disliked her own eyes and teeth.",
"She envied what the lady owned."
],
"question": "Why did ... | One day,I noticed the most beautiful Cadillac pull in the lot while waiting for my husband.A pretty female driver pulled into the spot beside our car.There was a striking resemblance to Liz Taylor.Her eyes were as blue as the sea,and teeth like an even row of pearls.A few minutes 1ater,a nice looking man entered her ca... | high13771.txt |
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"answer_text": "The effect of the Sept. 11 attack and Hollywood films."
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"The relationship between the Sept. 11 attack and Hollywood films.",
"The effect of the Sept. 11 attack and Hollywood films.",
"The response Hollywood ma... | As the world watched the twin towers of the World Trade Center come under attack, a common phrase was repeated:" It looks like a movie."
But this time there was no superman to save the people or the famous building. The attack destroyed one of the world's highest skyscrapers and left 5,000 people dead or missing.
Movie... | high1236.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "find your favorite tent"
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"options": [
"meet your different needs",
"find the answer for every camper",
"help you out of trouble",
"find your favorite tent"
],
"question": "You can make use of the Internet to ... | A tent can be one of the more costly items on your camping equipment shopping list. It is definitely something that you need to consider carefully.
By seeing a tent for real you will be able to get a better impression of its size and construction in the traditional shop. However,the _ is that,unless you are experienced... | high6559.txt |
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"answer_text": "what we eat can affect the whole planet"
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"options": [
"what we eat can affect the whole planet",
"the way we live affects the environment",
"how we can save energy on the Earth",
"how we can produce environmentfriend... | Recently,scientists attending a meeting in Chicago presented new studies showing how food and its production affect global warming.They offered some suggestions for how to eat in a more environmentally friendly way.
For many years,scientists have warned us that our planet is getting warmer.If current trends continue,an... | high7647.txt |
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"answer_text": "supported Panamanian revolutionaries in their fight for independence from Columbia."
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"options": [
"at first wished to build a canal through Nicaragua",
"promised to pay Columbia $ 10 million for Panama",
"wished to build a... | Relation between the United States and Columbia suffered for many years because of an incident involving the Republic of Panama. By the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, many Americans felt that an easier and faster way was needed to get ships from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Some people in the Unit... | high8574.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "CCTV-1"
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"options": [
"Zhejiang Channel",
"Shandong Channel",
"Sichuan Channel",
"CCTV-1"
],
"question": "Which channel is not mentioned in the passage.",
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"answer": {
... | These days, there's a popular cartoon named happy sheep and gray wolf. It's an excellent Chinese cartoon, which tells the stories of happy sheep and gray wolf. The poor gray wolf is always trying hard to catch the sheep, but the sheep could always run away from the danger. The sheep are so clever and lovely that the ca... | high15300.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because he / she found that the productivity was higher."
},
"options": [
"Because he / she wanted to have more sleep time.",
"Because he / she wanted to do morning exercise.",
"Because he / she wanted to test which school is... | Are _ born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I hardly went to bed before midnight, and I would always get up late the next morning.
But after a while I couldn't ignore the high relationship between success and rising early. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my p... | high3421.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "more pizza with French fries"
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"options": [
"more than two slices of pizza in a day",
"two slices of pizza for a meal",
"pizza along with salad",
"more pizza with French fries"
],
"question": "According to the... | Children in the United States eat too much pizza that some researchers now argue the food should join the ranks of sugary drinks and fast food for the harm they do to health.
In a new study, the researchers found that pizza is a large source of calories, saturated fat and salt in children's diets.Children should not ea... | high11166.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "difficult to move his body"
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"options": [
"less likely to achieve dreams",
"difficult to move his body",
"eager to learn how to survive",
"easy to be recognized"
],
"question": "According to the passage, the d... | Mattie Stepanek died at the age of 13 from a rare disease called muscular dystrophy. Because of the disease, Mattie had to get around in a wheelchair, but it did not stop him from staying positive and inspiring others with his message of peace. As a best-selling author and role model, Mattie provided a voice for people... | high16609.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He is very fond of traveling."
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"options": [
"He is very fond of traveling.",
"He doesn't drink wine now.",
"He cannot speak a foreign language.",
"He used to be a housekeeping manager."
],
"question": "What d... | Juanito Estrella has been a housekeeping manager on the US-based large passenger ship Carnival Spirit for 18 months and feels he has found the suitable position in his career .He has always wanted to travel. "I guess I am a really restless spirit. I like traveling, so when the chance came, I jumped at it," he says.
... | high17517.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "cellphones"
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"forks",
"cellphones",
"napkins",
"knives"
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"question": "When having meal in Eva Restaurant, we are not offered _ on the table.[,",
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{... | It's become part of the restaurant table setting: knife, fork, napkin and cell phone.
Distracted dining is the new concern with customers constantly texting friends, uploading a Weibo photo of the meal they're about to chew down or emailing the boss. For many smart-phone users, it's hard just to focus on the meal and... | high5050.txt |
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"answer_text": "Mr. Nordyke's music entertained and comforted people in the community."
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"options": [
"The neighbors often dropped in to hear Mr. Nordyke's performance.",
"Mr. Nordyke's music entertained and comforted people in the community.",
... | My father's playing the violin lights up any room. To him, it is an instrument of faith, hope and charity. My mother used to joke, "Your papa would play his violin if the world was about to blow up."
_
In the early years of the 20th century, the boll weevil began destroying the cotton farms in the southern USA.
In ... | high10278.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The threat of cell phone viruses."
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"options": [
"The operating system of cell phones.",
"The threat of cell phone viruses.",
"The wide use of cell phones.",
"Computer viruses."
],
"question": "What is the pas... | Since the Internet came into homes, the daily life has never been the same again. But the thing that worries most of us is that we can get viruses from the Internet. But can we catch viruses on our cell phones? A new study in the journal Science says yes, but the spread of such mobile software that can bring harm to ou... | high9642.txt |
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"answer_text": "Someone created the grammar first and then people learn the language according to it."
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"Grammar is the system of a language.",
"Someone created the grammar first and then people learn the language according to it.",... | Grammar is the system of a language. People sometimes describe grammar as the "rules" of a language; but in fact no language has rules. If we use the word "rules", we suggest that somebody created the rules first and then spoke the language, like a new game. But languages did not start like that. Languages started by p... | high14036.txt |
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"answer_text": "the disturbance of the daily life cycle of workers who have to change shifts too frequently"
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"options": [
"the inconveniences brought about to the workers by the introduction of automation",
"the disturbance of the daily life cy... | We all know that the normal human daily cycle of activity is of some 7-8 hours' sleep alternating with some 16-17 hours' wakefulness and that the sleep normally coincides with the hours of darkness. Our present concern is with how easily and to what extent this cycle can be modified.
The question is no mere academic o... | high6571.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Clever but unlucky."
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"options": [
"Clever but unlucky.",
"Stupid but lucky.",
"Selfless.",
"A great man."
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"question": "What can we say about the statesman?",
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... | The pilot knew that there was nothing he could do to keep the plane long in the air. So he rushed back to where his passengers sat and explained the dangerous situation. In the end he said, "I'm a married man with two small children. I'm sorry to tell you that there are only three parachutes in the plane." And with th... | high22584.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he had noble personalities"
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"options": [
"he was very intelligent",
"he had won many honors",
"he had noble personalities",
"he was very determined"
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"question": "The professor was admired because _ .",
... | A professor I have worked pretty closely with has been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. It has been devastating for his family and heartbreaking for his students.
What made him extraordinary was not only that he was a rising star. He had only recently collected the highest honors for young researchers at the White House... | high15328.txt |
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"answer_text": "To check the arrangement."
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"options": [
"To check the arrangement.",
"To exchange ideas.",
"To decide the topics.",
"To ask for leave."
],
"question": "Why are you advised to contact Mandi?",
"question_ty... | English Conversation
Leader: Mandi Ashmore
english@ iwc-lausanne. org
We meet on Mondays at 14:30 at the IWC clubhouse. We chat for about an hour and discuss everything. Mandi asks "students" to contact her on Monday to confirm the class as sometimes she needs to cancel for various reasons or occasionally she may choos... | high13981.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "she knew the rules well and was fair"
},
"options": [
"they wanted to make her happy",
"she called them brothers",
"no one else wanted to do it for them",
"she knew the rules well and was fair"
],
"question": "H... | Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson,South Dakota.Baseball was always her favorite sport.Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first base in their games.More often,however,they asked her to umpire for them,because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing.
One day in 190... | high3409.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Giving examples."
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"options": [
"Giving examples.",
"Cause-effect analysis.",
"Comparative analysis.",
"Process analysis."
],
"question": "What method does the author mainly use to develop the text?",
"que... | Psychologists have discovered that even the most independent-minded of us will conform to social pressure when we are with a group of people. In one classie experiment, people were showna vertical line and asked to find a line of identical length from a selection of three.
You might think that this is an absurdly easy ... | high19512.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Handwriting."
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"options": [
"Keyboarding.",
"Shorthand",
"Handwriting.",
"Block letters."
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"question": "What is the author concerned about after 2011 SAT exams?",
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"answ... | The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand---a system of rapid handwriting, and now it's threatening to finish off handwriting as a whole. When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2011, just 15% of the most 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive .The rest? Block letters.
... | high4366.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Sad and puzzled."
},
"options": [
"Surprised and disappointed.",
"Happy but confused.",
"Proud but frightened.",
"Sad and puzzled."
],
"question": "How did Rose feel when she received roses a year after her husb... | Red roses were her favorites; her name was also Rose. And every year her husband sent them, tied with pretty bows. The year he died, the roses were delivered to her door. The card said, "Be my Valentine " , like all the years before.
Each year he sent her roses, and the note would always say, "I love you even more this... | high16621.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "play a joke on the owner"
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"options": [
"steal them",
"find their owner",
"play a joke on the owner",
"give the owner some money"
],
"question": "When the student saw the shoes, he wanted to _ .",
"ques... | One day a student was taking a walk with his teacher. As they went along, they saw a pair of old shoes lying in the path. They were a poor farmer's, who was working in the nearby field.
The student turned to the teacher, saying: "we will hide his shoes, and hide ourselves behind those trees, and wait to see what he wil... | high5078.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "tell who really cared about the baby"
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"options": [
"cut the baby into halves",
"to kill the mother who lied",
"tell who really cared about the baby",
"kill all of them"
],
"question": "A sword was brought to ... | In Jewish history, King Solomon is considered to be the wisest man who ever lived. There are many stories about the wisdom of King Solomon. Here's one.
One day two women came before the King. They carried with them a little baby, which was set down on the floor, at the foot of Solomon's throne.
One of the... | high20393.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "behave within the laws and value systems"
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"regard their life as their own business",
"seek gains as their primary object",
"behave within the laws and value systems",
"treat others with kindness and pity... | Freedom and Responsibility
Freedom's challenge in the Digital Age is a serious topic. We are facing today a strange new world and we are all wondering what we are going to do with it.
Some 2,500 years ago Greece discovered freedom. Before that there was no freedom. There were great civilizations, splendid empires, but ... | high10250.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "needs a lot of thoughts"
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"options": [
"is not difficult at all",
"needs a lot of dreams",
"is an interesting thing",
"needs a lot of thoughts"
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"question": "According to the author choosing the right career... | There is a wide and deep choice of a career. Whether he's a hand in construction or sitting behind the desk working on a computer, everyone has some ideas of what is an attractive career. However, making a career choice is not simply a matter of following a dream; for most people it means a lot of research and soul sea... | high2717.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "have fun as well as bring him money"
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"options": [
"taste the wine made in the USA",
"raise and hunt animals",
"do wedding business",
"have fun as well as bring him money"
],
"question": "On Malcolm Baldwin's ... | As weather cools across the United States, a growing number of Americans visit farms. They harvest fruits, enjoy hay wagon rides and walk in the fields. These people are called "agri-tourists." They improve the economy of rural areas and help farmers increase their profits.
School children are walking in a corn field _... | high10536.txt |
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"1614",
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"1620"
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"question": "Captain John Smith arrived at the area New England in _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"answer": {
"answer_in... | In the year Shakespeare died in 1616, New England was born. This was in fact four years before any English speakers permanently settled in _ But in 1616 it was already the subject of the bookA Description of New England, by that busy explorer and promoter Captain John Smith, who had visited the land two years before... | high21933.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "get a mineral from turtle tears"
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"options": [
"help the turtles get sodium",
"get a mineral from turtle tears",
"rid waste from the turtles' bodies",
"take turtles to the best water source ."
],
"ques... | Deep in the western Amazon rainforest, live butterflies that drink turtle tears. That sounds like a line straight out of a fantasy novel, but it's one hundred percent real life! It's an unusual sight--a crowd of butterflies flying around the eyes of yellow-spotted river turtles, trying to get a little tear.s. The poor... | high19274.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "it is biologically difficult for students to rise early"
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"options": [
"it is really tough for parents to enforce bedtime",
"it is biologically difficult for students to rise early",
"students work so late at night that the... | A Brown University sleep researcher has some advice for people who run high schools: Don't start classes so early in the morning. It may not be that the students who
at their desks are lazy. And it may not be that their parents have failed to enforce bedtime. Instead, it may be that biologically these sleepyhead stud... | high16147.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Jack's light was not turned off"
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"options": [
"Jack had fallen asleep while reading",
"Jack had been reading for some time",
"Jack's light was not turned off",
"Jack was ready to answer the doctor"
],
"questi... | It must have been around nine o'clock when I drove back home from work because it was already dark. As I came near to the gates I turned off the head lights of the car so as to prevent the beam from swinging through the window and waking Jack, who shared the house with me. But I needn't have done so. I noticed that h... | high11628.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "An app"
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"options": [
"An app",
"A book",
"A map",
"An advertisement"
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"question": "What is Geneva Tourist Guide?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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... | Geneva Tourist Guide
Universal compact app for iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPhone 5 / iPhone / iPod / iPad GENEVA TOURIST GUIDE with attractions, museums, restaurants, bars, hotels, theatres and shops with traveler reviews and ratings, pictures, rich travel information, prices and opening hours.
Discover what's on and ... | high14988.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "is most popular with girls under the age of ten"
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"options": [
"plays a role in a film directed by Scarlett O'Hara",
"is most popular with girls under the age of ten",
"has rarely changed its image since its birth 50 years ... | 50 years ago Barbie Millicent Roberts first appeared in the world of toys. Barbie, as everyone called her, has become the most successful toy in history. According to Barbie's parents, the Mattel Company, 90% of all American girls between 3 and 10 have at least one Barbie at home.
In today's world, however, Barbie is f... | high7109.txt |
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"answer_text": "The nectar of lemon plants contains caffeine."
},
"options": [
"Caffeine has no effect on the rat brain.",
"Bee population has been increasing.",
"The nectar of lemon plants contains caffeine.",
"Bees dislike nectar fro... | Humans aren't the only ones getting a buzz from coffee.Caffeine can improve memory among honeybees and lead to better pollination .According to a recent study published in the journal Science.
The study was conducted by a team of researchers at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom.They found that the nectar of so... | high9124.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "EUR160"
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"EUR280",
"EUR160",
"EUR80"
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"question": "If a couple want to stay in Le Val de Cantobre for two days, they will have to pay about _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions... | Le Val de Cantobre, Aveyron (France)
It's in the grounds of a medieval house. There's a swimming pool, a river and a pizza restaurant. The scenery around the park is beautiful and great for walking. A week's stay will cost you about EUR280.
For more information please go to www.eurocamp.co.uk.
Four Seasons Tented Cam... | high12335.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To give him some advice."
},
"options": [
"To congratulate her son.",
"To give him some advice.",
"To show her pity.",
"To talk things through."
],
"question": "Why did the mother write the letter to Charlie?",
... | To my Charlie on his wedding day--
I know you think these notes are silly. I have watched you wear a long face over the years when I give them to you. But understand that sometimes I want to tell you something and I want to get it just right. Putting it down on paper helps me do that. I wish I had been a better writer.... | high14744.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "put it into the uncooked rice"
},
"options": [
"warm it up under your arm",
"remove the battery after you dry it",
"put it into the uncooked rice",
"press it with both of your hands"
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"question": "If your cell... | Fix it on your own
Did you know that a bowl of rice could save your iPod if you drop it in a swimming pool by accident? Or that the camera on your phone could tell you what's wrong with your TV remote control? The experts at Geek Squad (geelsquad.co.uk) have made a gadget rescue guide.So, let's take a look at some of... | high9130.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "does help to make illness less serious"
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"is as effective as the polio and the measles vaccines",
"is worse,compared with the polio and the measles vaccines",
"does help to make illness less serious",
"is... | Did you get a flu shot this year?For the first time,the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US is recommending that all children aged from 6 months to 18 years receive the flu _ .
Vaccines battle diseases caused by bacteria and viruses.A weakened form of the germ is introduced into the body.The body mak... | high6203.txt |
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"question": "We learn from the passage that the number of survivors except the crew members is _ .",
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"ans... | The Sewol ferry was carrying 476 people, most of whom were students from a high school near Seoul, when it sank off South Korea's southern coast on April 16. Only 174 survived, including 22 of the 29 crew members. The sinking left more than 260 people dead with about 40 others still missing.
On Tuesday, one ordinary ... | high10522.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "lose"
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"succeed",
"lose",
"fall"
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"question": "What does the word \"fail\" mean?",
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answe... | Be positive about school! Don`t say things are difficult or boring. Be interested in school life and your school subjects. Join lots of activities. Be quick to put your hand up. Go round the school with a big smile.
Expect to work. School is not a holiday camp. If you are not working, you are not learning, and you are ... | high21927.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Terraforming Mars."
},
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"Terraforming Mars.",
"Saving the Earth",
"Travelling to Mars.",
"A Newly-found Place"
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"question": "What would be the best title for this passage?",
"question_type": nu... | Sometime early in the next century, human beings will move to Mars. They will live there for about a year, and then will be replaced with another group of pioneers. Building the base on Mars will advance our knowledge of the solar system and aid in our understanding of the earth.
We already know that Mars resembles the... | high4414.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "One's independence."
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"options": [
"One's beautiful looks.",
"One's knowledge.",
"One's young age.",
"One's independence."
],
"question": "What did the examiner value most?",
"question_type": "factiod_ques... | A famous foreign company that invested in China wanted to employ a reception secretary for its public relation department.
A beautiful girl with a master degree in electric engineering became a winning candidate through the difficult process of employment. At its last stage she faced an oral test together with another... | high16153.txt |
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When buying ... | high19506.txt |
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"the bear can't find out your food easily",
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"To encourage people to join a volunteer program.",
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First of all, mistakes are a clear sign that you are trying new things. It's always good to try new things because when you are trying new things you are growing. If you never try anything new, how can you improve? How can you expand? The simple answer is "You can't". Look a... | high1785.txt |
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Verb. noun. adjective
#Verb
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Everyone loves Adventureland !The Parks and Exhibitions were built for you to explore ,enjoy,and admire their wonders.Every visit will be an unforgettable experience.You will go away enriched,longing to come back.What are you going to do this time?
The Travel Pavilion
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What can explain and solve the problem? The fact is that pollution is caused by m... | high21270.txt |
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"Too many natural disasters."
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"question": "What is ... | Weeks have passed since the world lost contact with Malaysia Airlines flightMH370and its 239passengers and crew.
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In 2009,... | high23467.txt |
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First, your race packet is ready and can be picked up at the Fleet Feet Sports Tulsa location you've specified during registration.
Hours for pickup.
Tuesday, 10 am to 8 pm (Fleet Feet ... | high12862.txt |
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"More people should give up smoking.",
"Broadened... | Beijing's broadened ban on smoking in public places took effect Thursday, adding force to the effort to hold a smoke-free Olympics.
The new rules extend existing anti-smoking regulations to more places, including fitness centers, cultural relic sites, offices, meeting rooms, dining halls, toilets and lifts. Restaurants... | high7492.txt |
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"question_type": "cloze_que... | Counterfeit medicines are a widespread problem in developing countries. Like other _ , they look like real products. But counterfeit drugs may contain too much, too little or none of the active ingredients of the real thing.
People do not get the medicine they need. And in some cases the counterfeits cause death. Twe... | high6798.txt |
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1. $2,000 Fight Climate Change like a Ninja Scholarship
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Develop Social Skills
As children play pretend games,they explore relationships between family members,friends and coworkers and learn more about how people interact.Playing do... | high563.txt |
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"questi... | When important events are happening around the world, most people turn to traditional media sources, such as CNN and BBC for the news. However, during the war in Iraq in 2003, many people followed the war from the point of view of an unknown Iraqi citizen who called himself "Salam Pax", which means peace.
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The successful launch, powered by a Long March 2F rocket, was shown live on state television Saturday from the Jiuqua... | high4831.txt |
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Stephen and Shelli had married just six months before... | high1791.txt |
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},
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"It causes uncontrolled bleeding.",
"People with hemophilia don't h... | Hemophilia results when a gene fails to produce the protein needed for the blood to clot ,or change from a liquid to a solid .The fault gene is passed from parents to children .People with hemophilia suffer uncontrolled bleeding .This can result in pain , tissue swelling and permanent damage to joints and muscles.
... | high20634.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer": {
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Finding work-life balance in today's frenetically paced world is no simple task.
Spend more time at work than at home, and you miss out on a rewarding personal life. Then again, when you face challenges in your personal life, such as caring for an aging paren... | high4819.txt |
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"answer": {
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Backpacking is the way. As the most popular traveling choice among young western people, backpacking allows you to travel at your own free will. Carrying a tent, sleeping bag and clothes,
.
It is a thrill to put our ability to t... | high16386.txt |
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"Thirty percent of all British males have cried in the last month. That is a ... | high22023.txt |
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"question_type": "cloze_qu... | James Stallman Rockefeller, the oldest-known U. S. Olympic medal winner and the former head of the bank that became Citigroup, died Tuesday. He was 102. Records of the U. S. Olympic Committee show that Rockefeller was the oldest American medal winner. He was the captain of Yale University's eight-man rowing team with c... | high15857.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "To show his artwork to her."
},
"options": [
"To introduce Stephanie to her.",
"To prevent her from seeing his painting.",
"To put the material back in the yard.",
"To show his artwork to her."
],
"question": "W... | When you are little, the whole world feels like a big playground.I was living in Conyers, Georgia the summer it all happened.I was a second grader, but my best friend Stephanie was only in the first grade.Both of our parents were at work and most of the time they let us go our own way.
It was a hot afternoon and we dec... | high14591.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Robbie didn't believe what he said."
},
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"he was tired after a day's work",
"he didn't earn enough money",
"Robbie was unwilling to work",
"Robbie didn't believe what he said."
],
"question": "The au... | I am a taxi driver. One Monday morning, I had stopped at New York Hospital when I found _ man dashing down the steps. He was waving to me. I waited until he jumped into the cab. " LaGuardia Airport, please," he said.
As always, I wondered about my passenger. " What do you do?" " I am in the neurology department at the... | high13598.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "to stay young forever."
},
"options": [
"to make themselves more attractive",
"to improve their appearance and find better job opportunities",
"to seek better opportunities in marriage.",
"to stay young forever."
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"answer_text": "give information about services available for the unemployed"
},
"options": [
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"teach the unemployed people how to get registered for work",
"give information about services a... | Thousands of jobs come into our Job Centre every week, but they get snapped up quickly. So although we shall do all we can to help you, it's important for you to do all you can to help yourself. This passage tells you how.
Registered for work
Once you have registered f... | high22745.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "His visit to a high school on the Eastern seaboard."
},
"options": [
"His meeting with a confident businessman.",
"His appointment as a headmaster.",
"His beginning to teach geography.",
"His visit to a high school on t... | Last week, on a flight to Washington, I met a confident businessman who asked me about my profession when sitting himself down comfortably next to me. I told him that I am an educator, and for twelve years I have been trying to develop and promote critical thinking about learning in mainstream education. "Goodness, it ... | high17926.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "should be well managed for our own good"
},
"options": [
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"could be managed by the internal clock of human bodies",
"should be well managed for our own good",
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Even if you don'... | high3810.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Stories behind the names of NBA Teams"
},
"options": [
"History of NBA",
"Stories behind the names of NBA Teams",
"Famous NBA Teams",
"Interesting Stories about NBA"
],
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For teams like Los Angel... | high21258.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "They were waiting for the neighbour's cats to appear."
},
"options": [
"They were about to start a snowball fight.",
"They were waiting to see if there any fires this year.",
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