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"answer_text": "how British parents accept the truth of teenagers owning a mobile phone"
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"how British parents accept the truth of teenagers owning a mobile phone",
"British kids have good relationship with their parents",
"Br... | LONDON----"Everyone else has one!" Lucy declared to her parents, trying to get a mobile phone as a gift for her 14th birthday. Her parents gave in.
Curious to know her daughter would use the phone, Jane Bidder, the mother, followed Lucy to the school bus in the morning. The bus seats 20, of whom half have a mobile ... | high23292.txt |
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"answer_text": "the child may misbehave"
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"the child may misbehave",
"the ability may fade away",
"the child may lose interest",
"the parents may become anxious"
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"question": "If a child's musical ability is no... | How to deal successfully with a child who shows outstanding musical ability?It's not always clear how best to develop and encourage his gift.Many parents may even fail to recognise and respond to their children's need until frustration explodes into difficult or uncooperative behaviour.And while most schools are equip... | high6179.txt |
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"answer_text": "A new type of cash machine"
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"A new medical instrument",
"A new type of talking machine",
"A new type of cash machine",
"National Cash Register"
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"question": "What does this passage mainly talk ... | To get cash out in the 21st century, you won't need a bank card, a PIN or even have to move a finger. You will simply have to look the cash machine straight in the eye, declares National Cash Registers, a multinational company that makes automated teller machines, or ATMs. NCR has shown its first example machine that ... | high5470.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "was a process that had already taken 12 months"
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"was a process that had already taken 12 months",
"was in the charge of the headman.",
"should have been finished more than a year ago",
"was an artistic c... | The First Hello
The man from the telephone department got off the bus, and made his way to the tea stall, wiping the sweat off his head, face, then slipping his handkerchief under his shirt to wipe his neck and back. It was a year ago that the phone line had been installed, six months later men from the public works de... | high18204.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The game warden."
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"The Department of Fish and Game.",
"The game warden.",
"A person unmentioned in the passage.",
"The auction organizers."
],
"question": "Who wrote a letter to the writer tellin... | Having driven almost thirty hours, I decided to stay in South Carolina for a few days. The next morning, I purchased a three-day fishing license and bait before heading to the lake.
Opening my trunk, I carefully took out my fishing gear , put it on the lake's edge, baited up and began to fish.
"Good morning," said s... | high10658.txt |
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"answer_text": "To increase domestic demand in the face of the global financial crisis."
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"To increase domestic demand in the face of the global financial crisis.",
"To enable students to use them in local stores and supermarkets, o... | Coupons to spend
"How did you spend your coupons?"
On their first day back to school, many students in Hangzhou greeted each other this way.
The coupons referred to the 100 yuan coupons each student received form the city government before the Spring Festival holidays. Over 260,000 primary school and middle school stud... | high11546.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "About 11 years."
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"About 5 years.",
"About 11 years.",
"About15 years.",
"About 20 years."
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"question": "How many years is it since the electronic cigarette was first invented according to the p... | Since around the later part of the 1950s, society started to realize that tobacco cigarettes caused health problems. As research progressed along with increasing numbers of people that developed lung cancer, emphysema, and other smoking related illnesses, cigarette smoking has become less accepted and popular. Unfortun... | high10880.txt |
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"answer_text": "The number of tourists to the Antarctic is over 5 times as large as that of 17 years ago."
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"Antarctica tourism has a history of about 17 years",
"The number of tourists to the Antarctic is over 5 times as large as t... | Ship tourism to Antarctica is on the rise: More than 35,000 tourists are expected to visit Antarctic this summer. In 1992-1993, 6,750 visited Antarctica, according to the Antarctica Treaty. All of this tourism, however, is putting both tourists and the environment in great danger.
Among the tourist ships that visit the... | high16229.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "to respond to the complaints about rising postal rates"
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"to reduce the cost of printing 2-or 3-cent stamps",
"to help save the consumers' cost on first-class mailing",
"to respond to the complaints about risin... | Mail carriers will be delivering some good news and some bad news this week.
The bad news: Stamp prices are expected to rise 2 cents in May to 41 cents, the Postal Regulatory Commission announced yesterday. The good news: With the introduction of a "forever stamp,"it may be the last time Americans have to use annoying ... | high21485.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "At the front."
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"At the back.",
"At the front.",
"In the middle.",
"On the right."
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"question": "According to the passage,where do women likes to stand in the lift?",
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... | According to new research,there could be a social hierarchy attached to where people stand in the lift.More senior men stand at the back,young men in the middle and women of all ages at the front.
Most people know that awkward feeling when you shuffle into an elevator with other people and try not to make eye contact.
... | high5464.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a parent"
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"a parent",
"a famous professor",
"a student",
"a famous headmaster"
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"ans... | On the whole, it's not something we parents shout about, but one in four of us does it.Hiring private tutors for our children is now widespread.And this year, as always,the Easter holidays will be peak time for tutor demand.
"My husband and I tried to tutor her at home,but we found all our knowledge was out of date an... | high17123.txt |
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"answer_text": "Look at how technology will change the world."
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"Look at how technology will make people happy.",
"Look at how technology will change the world.",
"Make technology work better for themselves.",
"Make smal... | World Future Society
People
People may live for up to 120 years and use new technology to help when people go blind, deaf and have other problems. The number of people over a hundred years old could go from 135,000 today to 2.2 million people by 2050. By 2015 people think that 100 million workers will be able to work f... | high20957.txt |
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"answer_text": "The worker enjoyed his work very much."
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"The author passed by the toll booth every day.",
"The worker enjoyed his work very much.",
"Only western people like to spend their holidays in the Berkeley hills.",
... | If you have ever gone through a toll booth , you know that your relationship to the person in the booth is not the most intimate you'll ever have. It is one of life's frequent affairs: You hand over some money; you might get change; you drive off.
Late one morning in 1984, headed for lunch in San Francisco, I drove tow... | high3015.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The brain controls the body."
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"The human brain works very fast.",
"The largest brain is not always the best brain.",
"The brain controls the body.",
"The best brain is the largest brain."
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"que... | As we know, Human beings each have unique brains. The brain is of the greatest importance to the body. It is the boss of the body.Your eyes,ears,nose,and skin tell your brain what is going on around you.Other parts of your body tell your brain what is going on inside of you.Your brain takes in the signals.It tells your... | high10894.txt |
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"answer_text": "The color1 of the universe"
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"Research made by two astronauts",
"The color1 of the universe",
"Mistakes made by scientists",
"A mistake in the computer"
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"question": "The best title of the passa... | What is the color1 of the universe? Astronomers had not answered this question, until two months ago. That is when two American astronomers reported on their study of all the light in the universe. They said that the universe would appear to the human eye to be a light greenish color1, called turquoise .
Karl Glazebr... | high21491.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "have poorer academic performances"
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"have poorer academic performances",
"be more likely to hurt others",
"enjoy better school lives",
"are less likely to use alcohol and tobacco"
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"question": "... | Students who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills, are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol and tobacco use than their single classmates, according to new research from the University of Georgia.
"Romantic relationships are a symbol of adolescence , but ... | high8140.txt |
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"answer_text": "80%"
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"60%",
"56.5 %",
"41.2%"
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"question": "According to the passage _ of the buyers are NOT content with their houses.",
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"answer... | Buying a house for most of the people is a once in a lifetime decision, which means people decide to do so only after coming across the ideal house. Surprisingly, eight in every 10 home buyers are unhappy with their houses.
A survey conducted by the Beijing Consumers' Association (BCA) recently shows about 80 percent o... | high15734.txt |
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"answer_text": "He had worked with his colleague long enough."
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"He had worked with his colleague long enough.",
"His colleague's handwriting was so beautiful.",
"His colleague's handwriting was so terrible.",
"He still ... | I had in my hand a sheet of paper with handwritten instructions on it for some sort of editorial task.It occurred at first that I did not recognize the handwriting,and then I realized whose it must be.I finally became aware of the fact that I had been working with this colleague for at least a year,maybe two,and yet I ... | high22198.txt |
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"answer_text": "the jacket and the boots"
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"the wool snow pants and the jacket",
"the jacket and the boots",
"the jacket and the hat",
"the boots and the gloves"
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"question": "According to the passage,the littl... | It was the first mow of winter -- an exciting day for every, child but not for most tether. Up until now, l had been able to dress myself for recess , but today I would need some help. Miss Finlayson, my kindergarten teacher at Princess Elizabeth School near Hamilton, Ontario, had been through first snow days ,tony tim... | high7273.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "local news used to be the only source of information"
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"local news used to be the only source of information",
"local news still takes a significant place",
"national news is becoming more popular",
"inte... | Clearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live, we must communicate with other people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-to-person basis by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, buy things in shops, or eat in restaurants, we are likely to have conversations where we g... | high1602.txt |
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"answer_text": "a computer"
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"the robotic arms",
"the dairy farmers",
"the cows themselves",
"a computer"
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"question": "Under robotic milking systems, _ decide(s) whether a cow is suitable to be milked.",
... | Technology is making life easier for some dairy farmers. They use robotic systems to milk their cows. These systems are designed to reduce labor and increase milk production.
Cows are trained to follow a series of paths that lead to the milking stations. Only one cow at a time can enter the station. Once inside,the cow... | high13345.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "forbids selling alcohol to people under 16"
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"aims to keep Italy's sipping culture alive",
"is welcomed by Italian adult people",
"has reduced the number of underage youths getting drunk",
"forbids sellin... | Italians like to say that when it comes to alcohol, they have a sipping culture rather than a drinking culture. That means that while Italians may enjoy a glass of wine or beer, they don't usually get very drunk.
That's not true anymore. The new study by the Italian National Health Institute found that 63 percent of It... | high23286.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "to see a patient"
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"to clean the floor",
"to please the nurse",
"to see a patient",
"to surprise the story-teller"
],
"question": "When she took a mop from the small room what Mum really wanted to... | We walked in so quietly that the nurse at the desk didn't even lift her eyes from the book.Mum pointed at a big chair by the door and I knew she wanted me to sit down.While I watched mouth open in surprise, Mum took off her hat and coat and gave them to me to hold.She walked quietly to the small room by the lift and to... | high9538.txt |
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"answer_text": "Toyota will have a worldwide recall of Lexus LS430 sedans."
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"Chinese customers are not satisfied with Toyota Lexus LS430 sedans.",
"Chinese car market has seen car recalls three times so far.",
"Toyota will ha... | Toyota Motor Corp, Japan's biggest carmaker, said on Friday it will recall 1,489 Lexus sedans sold in China. "It will take us some time to ship the fuel tanks and vent pipes to China to change those in these Lexus sedans for customers free of charge, if problems are found," said Yang Hongjian, a spokes- woman of Toyo... | high1164.txt |
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"answer_text": "Aerosols caninfluence each other in various ways."
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"Aerosols caninfluence each other in various ways.",
"All the aerosols will cool the earth.",
"Aerosols can add nutrients to human beings.Ks5u",
"Any ki... | Nowadays, there is a heated debate on whether pollutants should be cleaned in the air. Cleaning up the air, while good for our lungs, could make global warming worse. And the pollutants still go up around the air, along with carbon dioxide.
These pollutants are called aerosols and they include soot as well as mixture... | high22826.txt |
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"answer_text": "It is related to the American Student Union."
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"options": [
"The ISC table can be visited at weekends.",
"It mainly offers help to American students.",
"It is related to the American Student Union.",
"It's a club focu... | International Students Club (ISC) is a friendship club organized by the American Student Union (ASU) for all international students. Visit the ISC table on the Tempe Main Campus from 9:30am to 12:30pm Monday -- Thursday to get information, practice speaking English, meet new friends and sign up for ISC activities.
Ou... | high13423.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "it has thousands of big and small islands"
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"Japan is a small country",
"it is on the Pacific Ocean",
"it has thousands of big and small islands",
"Japan has hundreds of small islands"
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"questio... | Japan is an island country in the Pacific Ocean. As the Japanese students already know, four main islands and more than 3,000 small ones stretch from north to south for about 1,300 miles. As for the climate of the country, well, it's hot and humid in summer, but it is quite cold and wet in Japan during winter. Typhoon... | high8626.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because he sang for guests while he worked as a cook."
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"Because he was a cook at a country-music club.",
"Because he sang for guests while he worked as a cook.",
"Because he often sang while cooking.",
"... | I grew up in a small town. My father raised chickens and ran a construction company. I was barely 10 years old when my dad gave me the responsibility of feeding the chickens and cleaning up the stable. He believed it was important for me to have those jobs to learn responsibility. Then, when I was 22, I found a job i... | high7515.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It isn't effective because it doesn't focus on specific exams."
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"It's expensive but worthwhile because it works the best.",
"It confuses students because the knowledge taught in it is out of date.",
"It isn't ... | On the whole, it's not something we parents shout about, but one in four of us does it. Hiring private tutors for our children is now widespread.
"It's expensive, but worth it," says Ashan Sabri, whose daughter Zarreen, is having tuition in biology and chemistry in preparation for A-levels this summer. "My husband and ... | high11234.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "get rid of shyness forever"
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"get to know more friends",
"learn more than you do alone",
"work in an organized way",
"get rid of shyness forever"
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"question": "Group projects can give you a chan... | Few of us act alone in the real world. Most things are done with the help or ideas of other people. Group projects are great practice for high school, college, and real life, when you will probably have a job that requires working with others. Right now, group projects can be fun and they often allow you to do a bigger... | high3773.txt |
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"answer_text": "Beijing's air pollution"
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"a programme to improve Beijing's air quality",
"progress made in Beijing's air quality",
"Beijing's air pollution",
"the difference between Hainan and Beijing"
],
"quest... | While students in Hainan are quite used to clear skies, Beijing teenagers are not so
lucky. As another warm winter approaches, the city can expect the normal clouds of smoke
caused by air pollution.
But things could start to get better soon. The government is co-operating with a US-
based environmental protectio... | high18576.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Both good habits and bad habits"
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"Good habits",
"Bad habits",
"Both good habits and bad habits",
"Neither good habits nor bad habits"
],
"question": "are formed little by little.",
"question_... | Habits,whether good or bad,are gradually formed when a person does a certain thing again.He is driven by some unseen force to do the same thing repeatedly, and then a habit is formed.Once a habit is formed,it is difficult,and sometimes impossible,to get rid of.It is therefore very important that we should pay great att... | high17645.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "how you build up your sleep debt"
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"options": [
"how you build up your sleep debt",
"how you can pay off sleep debts at weekends",
"why you need enough sleep every night",
"why you should drink coffee to stay energeti... | Let's do some sleep math. You lost two hours of sleep every night last week because of a big project due on Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, you slept in, getting four extra hours. On Monday morning, you were feeling so bright-eyed, and you only had one cup of coffee, instead of your usual two. But don't be cheated by y... | high11963.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "something about Qixi and Valentine's Day"
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"options": [
"two moving romantic stories",
"something about Qixi and Valentine's Day",
"why young people prefer Western festivals",
"how Qixi is different from European Vale... | Chinese Valentine's Day is on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar . It is a traditional festival for Chinese people. It comes from a romantic ancient Chinese story. Niu Lang and Zhi Nv, two lovers who got separated by the Queen Mother of the Western Heavens, can only meet that night. Thanks to... | high20566.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "she felt it normal not to have children"
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"options": [
"she could adopt one",
"her life and career were unbelievably rich without children",
"she felt it normal not to have children",
"she was too busy"
],
"qu... | As a solo artist,Brightman has sold 26 million albums and two million DVDs in 34 countries. Her musical styles put opera, pop and jazz together. She is popular in the States but not here(Britain)--the image of her and her second husband, Andrew Lloyd Webber(he much older, she his muse) seems for ever frozen.
The 47-yea... | high4593.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "He wanted to be with people who he knew and loved when he died."
},
"options": [
"He had been cured by the doctors.",
"He got better and better.",
"He missed his friends and teachers.",
"He wanted to be with people who ... | Chuck was thirteen when he came home from the hospital. He came home not because he was getting better but because he wanted to be with people he knew and loved when he died. I came by the house to visit him and his family several times a week during his treatment. On most of my visits, Chuck was very weak. But the las... | high21678.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "tend to talk more and listen less"
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"actually lose the ability to listen",
"seldom chat constantly with each other",
"feel frightened when they are alone and silent",
"tend to talk more and listen less"
... | In Africa, listening is a guiding principle .It's a principle that' been lost in the constant chat of the Western world .From my own past experience , I noticed how much faster I had to answer a question during a TV interview .It is as if we have completely lost the ability to listen .We talk and talk , and we end up f... | high5855.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "study science in a free way"
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"study science in a free way",
"play games with other members",
"watch scientific experiments",
"attend Scientific educators' class"
],
"question": "In Discovery Spac... | Museum Visit and Discovery Space
When you visit the museum in the Sciencenter, your class can also have a visit to Discovery Space. It is hosted by a Sciencenter educator. Discovery Space provides school-age kids with a place to explore the world of science the way they like. Students will have self-directed indep... | high22371.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "I was not careful with English idioms"
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"options": [
"I didn't have the slightest interest in them",
"English idioms are not important",
"My teacher didn't emphasize the importance of them",
"I was not careful with En... | A year ago, I paid no attention to English idioms, though my teacher stressed the importance again and again. But soon, the importance of English idioms was shown in an amusing experience.
One day, I happened to meet an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English... | high619.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Smart shoes deciding on television time."
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"options": [
"New Shoes and watching TV in the UK.",
"A newly-invented type of shoes in the UK.",
"Smart shoes deciding on television time.",
"The problem of children's obesi... | Sports shoes that work out whether their owner has done enough exercise to ensure time in front of the television have been invented in the prefix = st1 /UK.
The shoes--dubbed Square Eyes - contain an electronic pressure sensor and a tiny computer chip to record how many steps the wearer has taken in a day. A wireless... | high24066.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "stay under the desk"
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"read documents in the office",
"stay under the desk",
"run out of the room quickly",
"catch the falling debris"
],
"question": "When the earthquake struck, Jens Kristensen d... | At 4:53 pm. on January 12, United Nations aid worker Jens Kristensen was at his desk reading documents on the third floor of the Christopher Hotel, which served as UN headquarters in PortauPrince, when he felt a tremor . Four seconds later, the earthquake hit.
"In a split second, I considered whether to run for the doo... | high7924.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To tell us a story about Noah."
},
"options": [
"To show the problems of foster parents.",
"To give a warning to foster parents.",
"To tell us a story about Noah.",
"To blame foster parents."
],
"question": "Wha... | When Sara and Nathan Jones were training to become foster parents , their son, Noah, learned a tough thing or two about foster care. For instance, nearly 600 local foster kids changed families every year, and they carried their belongings from one home to the next in black garbage bags.
Noah, then ten, couldn't imagine... | high23709.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It doesn't bring other users trouble."
},
"options": [
"It doesn't bring other users trouble.",
"It is popular with the poor people.",
"It is supported by Microsoft.",
"It is advertised through the Internet."
],
... | It seems that all your friends' names on MSN have added a little green "I'm" symbol overnight. If you ask what is going on, someone will tell you it's a charity activity.
Though this charity program has not yet officially begun for Chinese users, this little green symbol has proven popular among Chinese Windows Live Me... | high81.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They are willing to laugh."
},
"options": [
"They have a sense of humor.",
"They are amused by jokes.",
"They are willing to laugh.",
"They can't help laughing a lot."
],
"question": "Why do people practicing La... | Laughter Yoga is a unique technique invented by Dr Kataria, a doctor from India, by which you can learn to "Laugh for No Reason". You don't even need a sense of humor, no funny jokes or comedy programs -- just a willingness to laugh -- and in the present climate everyone needs to laugh more.
Laughter Yoga is a combin... | high22417.txt |
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"answer": {
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"8",
"7"
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"question": "How many characters are mentioned in this passage?",
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "A ban... | Doctor Manette had suddenly disappeared. Everything was done to discover some trace of him, but in vain. The loss of her husband caused his wife such pain that she decided to bring up her little daughter, Lucie, in ignorance of her father's fate, and when in two years she died she left little Lucie under the guardiansh... | high13812.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He eventually showed up when his hide-and-seek game ended."
},
"options": [
"He practiced the \"never talk to strangers\" rule.",
"He hid from the rescuers to avoid possible abduction.",
"He eventually showed up when his hide... | Never Talk to Strangers?
"Never talk to strangers." Many children are taught this simple rule as a precaution against abduction . In June, 2005, an 11-year-old boy was lost in the Utah wilderness for four days. During that time, he stayed on the path. He saw people searching for him but deliberately hid from them, afra... | high9909.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "An ordinary car cannot run more than 15 miles with one gallon of gas."
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Sunday Noon to 5:00 p. m.
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"question": "We can learn that the boo... | First published in 2001, the book Life of Pi written by Canadian author Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize and an Asian American Prize for Literature. It is the story of a young boy named Pi who spends 227 days at sea with a small group of animals after disaster strikes their ship and is an account of his journey of ... | high9074.txt |
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"answer_text": "The Poor Suffer from High Food Prices."
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"A World Food Program in Rome.",
"The Poor Suffer from High Food Prices.",
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],
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Three UN agencies have published a report recently, saying high prices are likely to continue. Gregory Barrow, who is with the... | high12271.txt |
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"Different kinds of sales.",
"Shoppers' ways to earn money.",
"Reasons for the popularity of sales."
],
"question": "What does the pas... | There are many kinds of sales. For example, a "back-to-school sale" is held near the beginning of the school year. Parents like the lower prices of the clothes and school supplies for their children.
A "midnight madness" event starts very late at night. An "early bird special" sale starts very early in the morning. Thi... | high7059.txt |
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"options": [
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"Arab-Americans, Contributions to America.",
"Arab-Americans, Education and Income."
],
"question": "What wou... | For many in the prefix = st1 /United States, Arab-Americans are an invisible part of the population. Though Arab-Americans as a community have made great contributions to American society in fields from literature to politics to medicine, many Americans know very little about Americans of Arab backgrounds.
Arab history... | high19324.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "prove that size and shape of skulls does not show accurately what early humans ate"
},
"options": [
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"tell readers they had different eating habits from... | If the eyes are the romantic's window into the soul, _
In a study published last month in the journal Science, Peter Ungar of the University of Arkansas and his partner, Matt Sponheimer of the University of Colorado, US, examined the teeth of our early human ancestors to find out what they were really eating.
They alr... | high4550.txt |
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"answer_text": "The UN Security Council is going to take in new members."
},
"options": [
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"Some countries, such as North and South Korea, Italy, Pakistan,... | The UN Security Council was created in 1945. It is made up of 10 rotating members and five permanent members, which have a veto, the power to stop a resolution . Most UN members now consider the organization's structure outdated. But any changes need the agreement of two-thirds of the 191 members, and no veto from a... | high16017.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "foreigner to Americans"
},
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"Chinese",
"European",
"foreigner to Americans"
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"question": "It can be inferred according to the passage that the author may be a _ .",
"question_type"... | On my first trip in the United States , I went to San Antonion . I was on foot . So I went to only three places there : the Alamo , the River Walk , and the Art Gallery . I especially enjoyed visiting the Alamo , a well- known building in America .
When I arrived at the Alamo , I was deeply impressed because it was wel... | high11778.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "his navy friend"
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"the husband of his aunt",
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"Edouard Colonne"
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"question": "What _ did played the most important part in Roussel's final success.",
"que... | Some people succeed in unbelievable ways.
Roussel was orphaned at the age of eight and went to live with his grandfather. He built on the music he had learned from his mother, entertaining himself by reading through the family music collection and playing his favorite songs on the piano.
Three years later, Roussel's gr... | high5896.txt |
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