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"answer_text": "She was watching the old man."
},
"options": [
"She was talking with him.",
"She was playing by the river.",
"She was watching the old man.",
"She was helping the old man."
],
"question": "What was the child doi... | An old man was fishing by a river. A child was watching him. The old man was really good at fishing and it didn't take him much time to catch a basket of fish. The old man saw that the child was very cute, and he wanted to give her a whole basket of fish. But the child shook her head.
The old man was surprised and aske... | high19052.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the University Boat Race"
},
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"the Boat Race of the University of Oxford.",
"the Boat Race of the University of Cambridge",
"the Boat Race of the Olympic Games",
"the University Boat Race"
],
"questi... | On the River Thames there are a number of boat races every year and these have become very popular with the public. Perhaps the best-known of these races is the University Boat Race. This takes place just before Easter every year and is a competition between teams from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. They row... | high3149.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To collect ideas on how to recycle plastic waste."
},
"options": [
"To describe plastic waste as potential \"gold\".",
"To invite members of the public to their forum.",
"To collect ideas on how to recycle plastic waste.",
... | Many environmentalists and entrepreneurs are looking for ideas on how to "capture gold" -- that is, how to collect and convert plastic waste into new plastic or fuel.
OK, describing plastic waste as potential "gold" may be overdoing it. But the campaigners say that publicizing the notion that plastic is worth somethin... | high10710.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Changes of zoos over the time."
},
"options": [
"Protection of zoo animals.",
"Changes of zoos over the time.",
"The safety problem of zoos.",
"The living habits of zoo animals."
],
"question": "What is the pass... | Zoos have been around for centuries -- and they've changed a lot over the years. In the Middle Ages, wealthy people kept animals in their gardens. Public animal parks appeared in European cities in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The Philadelphia Zoo, the first in the United States, opened in 1874.
Until a few decades ... | high5538.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Technology can make our trips better."
},
"options": [
"The cost of Blu Hotel was higher than that of others.",
"The clerk was very friendly and patient.",
"The smart phones have many functions.",
"Technology can make o... | Can technology improve your trip? Meet Judy Williams. When she and her husband recently checked into Blu Hotel in Zurich, a clerk asked them to sign the dotted line on a room rate hundreds of dollars higher than their online offer.
"It was not a cheap stay," says Williams, a lawyer from Billings, Mont. But it became mo... | high14576.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The Second Wave of Feminist."
},
"options": [
"The Second Wave of Feminist.",
"Women's Independent Spirits.",
"The Unity of Women.",
"The Action of Union."
],
"question": "What was the main idea of this passage?... | The statistics I've cited and the living examples are all too familiar to you. But what may not be so familiar will be the increasing number of women who are looking actively for advancement of for a new job in your offices. This woman may be equipped with professional skills and perhaps valuable experience. She will n... | high9302.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Commercial art."
},
"options": [
"Psychology.",
"Commercial art.",
"International business.",
"English composition."
],
"question": "What did the author study in the first place when he was in college?",
"qu... | I decided to go back to school in the fall of 2010 for not being happy with my current job and financial status. I got my Associate in May 2002 in commercial art. After graduation, I had trouble getting a job in that field. For years, I was going from one job to another, and I was not satisfied with unstableness .
I... | high13219.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "is very special"
},
"options": [
"is very big",
"is very sweet",
"is very special",
"is good for health"
],
"question": "We can learn from the text that the tomato grown by Rod Matless _ .",
"question_type... | It's not often a tomato is described as so sweet 'whenever people see it they just want to hug it'--but this was no ordinary piece of fruit.
The heart-shaped tomato was grown by the retired worker, Rod Matless, who said he was surprised when he noticed it in his field. Mr Matless, 69, who had a heart attack a few years... | high12107.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "have equal chances with men in education and work"
},
"options": [
"get higher pay than men",
"enjoy more freedom than men",
"do whatever they like to do",
"have equal chances with men in education and work"
],
... | Britain has laws to make sure that women have the same chances as men in education, jobs and training. But it's still unusual to find women doing dirty or heavy jobs.
Nikki Henriques is a car _ engineer in London. She used to be a secretary. Barty Philips, a journalist with "The Observer", a Sunday newspaper, asked her... | high1986.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "smiling"
},
"options": [
"talking",
"discussing",
"cooperating",
"smiling"
],
"question": "Huang Ruijia succeeded because she was always _ in the competition.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
... | Smiling girls have their luck. It fits Huang Ruijia well. The 15-year-old student comes from Chengdu Experimental Foreign Language School. On March 22, 2014,she won third place(junior category)at the 12th China Daily "21st Century Lenovo Cup" National High School English Speaking Competition, which was held in Beijing.... | high9316.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "How to use the mind against disease."
},
"options": [
"How suggestion therapy benefits adults and children.",
"How modern therapy focuses on the disease.",
"Responses from the medical world.",
"How to use the mind again... | Psychology has a new application in the field of medicine. Many doctors, together with their patients, are looking for alternative methods of treatment of physical problems. In large hospitals, modern therapy seems to focus on the physical disease. Patients may feel they are treated like broken machines. Some doctors h... | high12113.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "volunteers felt uncomfortable in it."
},
"options": [
"volunteers felt uncomfortable in it.",
"volunteers didn't want to eat anything.",
"the experiment was still going on.",
"volunteers were allowed to take their lapto... | Are you a media addict who would go mad after two hours without TV, friend requests, exciting online games and your mobile - or would you easily survive?
Recently, university students around the world were asked to volunteer in a global experiment called Unplugged. It was designed to see how young people would react if... | high1992.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "your child's language ability"
},
"options": [
"your child's curiosity",
"your child's imagination",
"your child's patience",
"your child's language ability"
],
"question": "The sit-and-listen game is intended t... | Games are a good form of teaching or training children as they combine fun with knowledge. They make the teaching or training activities more interesting. They are useful in all fields of teaching and training.
Help your child discover just how much more is going on in the world around them with this listening game. I... | high19046.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "African farmers have ideas to help fighting hunger and poverty"
},
"options": [
"sub-Saharan Africa has the world's highest hunger rate",
"African farmers have ideas to help fighting hunger and poverty",
"women farmers grow v... | Sub-Saharan Africa has the world's highest hunger rate. But according to a new report, African farmers also have ideas that could help the world fight hunger and poverty. Danielle Nierenberg from the Worldwatch Institute in Washington spent a year visiting twenty-five countries south of the Sahara. In Nairobi, Kenya, f... | high4632.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "president"
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"diplomat",
"scientist",
"businessman",
"president"
],
"question": "Benjamin Franklin was NOT a _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"answer": {
"answer_in... | Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17,1706 in Boston,America. In his life he built a successful printing and publishing business in Philadelphia;he conducted scientific studies of electricity and made several important discoveries;he was a diplomat and statesman;he helped establish Pennsylvania's first university ... | high2243.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "All kinds of discounts."
},
"options": [
"Reasonable price.",
"Various choices.",
"Wide coverage.",
"All kinds of discounts."
],
"question": "Which of the following is not an advantage of Eurail Pass?",
"que... | Every year, thousands of young Europeans set off to explore their continent by train in the summertime. It is a necessary part of growing up and often the first time many Europeans travel without their parents. Now you too can share this adventure.
There are so many places you can not afford to miss while travelling in... | high10704.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Through the experience, you learn to live in a tent."
},
"options": [
"It builds up your character.",
"Through the experience, you learn to live in a tent.",
"Through the experience, you learn to rely on yourself.",
"Th... | A spirit of adventure, curiosity about different cultures and the desire for a challenge can be found in young people everywhere. More and more students inprefix = st1 /Chinaare backpacking around the country.
According to the China Youth Travel Service, Hainan, Dalian, Zhangjiajie andQingdaowere among the most pop... | high18358.txt |
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"answer_text": "Women will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated."
},
"options": [
"Only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world.",
"In the wild, monkeys are never unhappy to share their food with each oth... | Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as being lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as "all too human", with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to... | high2525.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because he rescued 669 children before the Second World War."
},
"options": [
"Because he rescued 669 children before the Second World War.",
"Because he joined the army in the Second World War.",
"Because he made great contr... | Nicholas Winton,a British saved 669 children from the Nazis,was awarded the highest civilian honour in the Czech Republic on Tuesday.
Winton,now 105,was presented with the Order of the White Lion by the Czech president in a special ceremony at Prague Castle.
Winton,who has often been nicknamed "the British Schindler",o... | high10062.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "makes customers walk slowly and buy more"
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"makes customers walk slowly and buy more",
"can help customers get the things they want",
"can make customers relaxed and happy",
"can tell customers exactly wh... | People in cities all over the world shop in supermarkets. Who decides what you buy in the supermarket? Do you decide? Does the supermarket decide?
When you enter the supermarket, you see shelves full of food. You walk in the aisles between the shelves. You push a shopping cart and put your food in it.
You probably he... | high16413.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "People who use laptops."
},
"options": [
"People who are in fashion.",
"People who like carrying small bags.",
"People who drink coffee often.",
"People who use laptops."
],
"question": "Who is the passage espec... | Mini Riser -- Attractive, Compact, Adjustable Laptop Stand
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*Open design lets air flow under the laptop and positions the keyboard at a comfortable angle.
*Adjustable width will support iPads, netbooks, up to 17" laptops.
*Strong.
*Stable.... | high19720.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "there would be no standards without external examinations"
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"options": [
"changing the standards could mean the end of equality",
"standards must keep changing in order to achieve equality",
"there would be no standards wit... | We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and examination system in the name of equality, others, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it.
Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupils. The s... | high4154.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "relax yourself by not thinking of him or her any more"
},
"options": [
"try your best to defeat him or her",
"break off relations with him or her",
"persuade him or her to have a talk with you",
"relax yourself by not t... | LEEDS, England--- A Leeds University psychology professor is teaching a course to help dozens of Bristons forgive their enemies.
"The hatred we hold within us is a cancer," Professor Ken Hart said, adding that holding in anger can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease.
More than seventy people ... | high12675.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Stop broadcasting advertisements for junk food on TV."
},
"options": [
"Produce more and better cartoons for young kids.",
"Stop broadcasting advertisements for junk food on TV.",
"Help kids develop healthy lifestyle in the p... | You might notice something new in the next few years as you watch Disney programs: Starting in 2015, there won't be any candy, sugary cereal or fast-food commercials aimed at kids.
The Walt Disney Company has become the first major media company to ban ads for junk food on its TV channels, radio stations and websites. ... | high6743.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "parents"
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"options": [
"knowledge",
"concerns",
"school",
"parents"
],
"question": "In Adam Hancock's research, student's credit card debt is related to their _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | Parents need to be good role models to help their children make sensible financial decisions, according to Adam Hancock and his team, from East Caronlina University in the US. Their work highlights that parents who argue about finances contribute to increasing credit card debt among their children during their students... | high9470.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "body language"
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"body language",
"habits",
"language skills",
"advice"
],
"question": "We can learn from the text that the \"secret\" system mainly refers to _ .",
"question_type": "summari... | Much has been written about body language during a job interview. Experts from across many fields are full of advice on just how to present your best performance in an interview using conscious body language choices. While many of these experts say there is a "secret" system for making the most of an interview, the r... | high18416.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "he must have it known and well understood by others"
},
"options": [
"he needn't tell others about that",
"other members just follow his orders",
"he must have it known and well understood by others",
"others may have t... | It can be as simple or as complex as you want. Anybody who enjoys the cinema knows that when the final credits roll they include everyone who has contributed -- Director, Performers, Best Boy, Make Up, etc.
It usually takes over a hundred people working a year to make a feature film, ten people to produce a pop promo ... | high17725.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "find a dress which you've got used to"
},
"options": [
"put on your newly-bought clothes",
"have you hair cut",
"buy some modern and beautiful ties,shoes.etc",
"find a dress which you've got used to"
],
"questio... | So you have been called for an interview-well done? Your effort has been paid off. Now to get the job, you will feet better at the interview if you show an understanding of the nature of the organization.
Ask a member of family or a friend to act as the employer and to give you an unreal interview.Be as realistic as po... | high20189.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "She is a college student."
},
"options": [
"She is a high school student.",
"She is a college student.",
"She is a clerk in a school.",
"She is a traveler."
],
"question": "What can we infer about the writer?",
... | I start to wonder what else had changed since I'd been gone. My parents are in an awkward puzzle, wondering how to treat me now----whether to treat me--still their daughter--as one of them, an adult, or as the child they feel they sent away months earlier.
I run into two of my best friends from high school; we stare at... | high11354.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Chickens: a Better Choice of Living Drug Factories."
},
"options": [
"Animals and Protein Drugs.",
"Medicine Packaged in Various Forms.",
"A Scotland Scientist and His Chickens.",
"Chickens: a Better Choice of Living Dr... | We know, painkillers in a tablet can make your headache go away, and antibiotic from a tube can prevent your cuts from becoming infected. Can medicine come in chicken eggs? A team of scientists from Scotland says "yes." They've kept some special chickens that lay eggs with disease-treating drugs inside.
These drugs ar... | high21297.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Sit less, live longer."
},
"options": [
"Take exercise, keep fit.",
"Change more, achieve greater.",
"Talk directly, improve relationship.",
"Sit less, live longer."
],
"question": "What might be the best title ... | If you are sitting down listening to what I'm going to say, stand up. Move your legs. Touch your toes, if you can. Do anything but sit.
If you cut down on the time you spend sitting, you might live longer. New research shows that sitting less than three hours a day might extend your life by two years.
Just the opposite... | high8746.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "not try to close the gap"
},
"options": [
"not try to close the gap",
"stop talking with him or her",
"back away too",
"ask him or her what happened"
],
"question": "If an American to whom you are speaking backs... | There are a lot of differences in life in the US that you can only learn by living here. However, we will try to introduce you to some of the more important cultural differences.
Personal Space
When two people are talking to each other, they tend to stand a distance apart. Each person has an invisible boundary around... | high15132.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Beijing's air pollution"
},
"options": [
"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 protection agency... | high7475.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "During the spring season."
},
"options": [
"At the end of winter.",
"In the middle of autumn.",
"During the spring season.",
"At the beginning of summer."
],
"question": "When did the story happen?",
"questi... | The farmer and the stork
After the long winter, the farmers finally began planting their fields. This made the birds very glad, for now there would be millions of seeds to steal! While some of the birds were careful, the cranes were daring ; they stole seeds from right under the farmers' noses. The cranes c... | high22946.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the scenery in autumn is more attractive"
},
"options": [
"Holidays in autumn can be cheaper",
"the scenery in autumn is more attractive",
"the resorts in autumn are less crowded",
"The weather is neither too hot nor to... | September can be a depressing month. The summer holidays are over, it's time to go back to work or school and Christmas is four months away. However, for some people it's the perfect time to get away.
These days more and more people are taking their holidays late in the year and for good reasons. Holidays in autumn can... | high590.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "training future leaders for development"
},
"options": [
"investing more money for development",
"developing computer science",
"training future leaders for development",
"founding more universities"
],
"questio... | Having just quit a highly moneymaking job with tech giant Microsoft in the United States,where he'd made millions working as a program manager, _
What Awuah wanted was to create a university in his native Ghana.a state-of-the-art education centre that would help educate the country's next generation of leaders.Awuah m... | high13543.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "More than 150"
},
"options": [
"Less than 100",
"Less than 150",
"More than 150",
"149"
],
"question": "_ whales and dolphins would probably die in this mass beaching along the coast of Australia and New Zeala... | Everyone makes mistakes in life, but for whales and dolphins, the "mistake" of landing on the shore costs the highest price---their lives.
People living along the coast of Australia and New Zealand have been shocked and saddened by the number of whales and dolphins that they have found on their beaches recently. Since ... | high9458.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "share her story and impression on Chinese cuisines"
},
"options": [
"share her story and impression on Chinese cuisines",
"tell readers how to comment on amazing Chinese food cities",
"talk the readers into enjoying the signa... | Although travelers can try dishes from around China and the globe in well-known food cities like Beijing and Shanghai, it is outside these major metropolises where a world of exciting Chinese cuisine awaits the true foodie . With this in mind and after three years of living in China and writing about Chinese food, I s... | high12885.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "A TV programme."
},
"options": [
"A news story.",
"A popular book.",
"A research report.",
"A TV programme."
],
"question": "What is Animal Hospital?",
"question_type": null
},
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"answer": {
"a... | Tales From Animal Hospital
David Crant
David Grant has become a familiar face to millions of fans of Animal Hospital. Here Dr Crant tells usthe very best of his personal stories about the animals he has treated, including familiar patients such as the dogs Snowy and Duchess, the delightful cat Marigold Serendipity Diam... | high13225.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because her friend in Tanzania maybe had to quit school for lack of money."
},
"options": [
"Because she had to stop her voluntary work.",
"Because she had no money to buy food or other things.",
"Because she had spent all he... | I once did a year of voluntary service in a residential home for people with learning disabilities.
was set in an English village deep in the countryside, quite different from my home in Sweden. One of my fellow volunteers, a girl from Tanzania, seemed a little unhappy, so I asked what the problem was. She told me she ... | high15654.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "proved that cell death is programmed"
},
"options": [
"found that human beings are similar to the worm",
"got the fact we share 40 per cent of our genetic structure with the simple worm",
"found the computer which controls ea... | Whatever our differences as human beings are we all think we're more like the rest of the animal world than we realize. It is said that we share 40 per cent of our genetic structure with the simple worm.
But that fact has helped Sir John Sulston win the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John is the founder of the Sang... | high7313.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The husband was considered a brave man by the clerk at the store."
},
"options": [
"The husband was doing all the talking when the couple viewed the works.",
"The husband tapped his way to the coatroom to get his jacket.",
"T... | One afternoon I toured an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting. I was looking forward to a quiet view of the wonderful works..
A young couple viewing the paintings ahead of me chatted nonstop between themselves. I watched them a moment and decided she was doing all the talking. I admired... | high11432.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Cotillard once won the best actress Oscar."
},
"options": [
"Cotillard once won the best actress Oscar.",
"Jennifer Lawrence was nominated because of The Hunger Games.",
"Mirren is the only one who can take the place of Jenni... | "Who is that?" When watching the movie, Silver Linings Playbook, at the Toronto International Film Festival in early September, the woman sitting next asked me.
It seemed to be a strange question. I wanted to ask if she ever saw a little movie called The Hunger Games, or the Oscar-nominated movie Winter's Bone. Instead... | high3175.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Too much screen time leads to obesity."
},
"options": [
"A new study on screens.",
"TVs do harm to children.",
"The less TV time ,the fatter.",
"Too much screen time leads to obesity."
],
"question": "Which of t... | Children and teenagers who spend lots of time in front of screens-especially TVs-are easier to get more weight as they age .according to a new study.
The findings agree with research suggesting all that inactive sitting and always watching advertisements may lead to poor eating habits.
Researchers used re... | high18370.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "was unhappy with......"
},
"options": [
"followed the fashion",
"got bored with his job",
"was unhappy with......",
"liked the author's collection of stamps"
],
"question": "We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 ... | "Dad," I say one day .....take a trip. Why don't you fly and meet me?"
My father had just reired........... His job filled his day, his thought, his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake ... | high16349.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He believed it could prevent him drinking."
},
"options": [
"He wanted him to cure his illness.",
"He was trying to keep him dying.",
"He thought the medicine could make him sick.",
"He believed it could prevent him dri... | That summer I drank every day, everywhere I went. I had a bottle in my drawer next to me and a bottle next to my bed. I never did another drug, but I drank so much that my family finally asked a priest for help. My father gave me a bottle of medicine for alcoholism that produces unpleasant symptoms when users drink alc... | high3161.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "body language"
},
"options": [
"interesting words",
"attractive look",
"polite attitude",
"body language"
],
"question": "According to the passage, the first impression you usually give others is created by your... | We start forming impressions of people we meet from the moment we set eyes on them. A large part of the first impression that you create comes from your body language. Your body language speaks louder than the words you say.
Face
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Whichever it is, many parents today readily admit to buying off their children, who getgoodies for anything from behaving in a restaurant to sleeping all night in their own beds.
That's what worries parenting experts.
"I think that reward systems have a time and a place... | high10738.txt |
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This couple had been quarreling all their 40 over years of marriage nothing ever seemed to go right. They hang on bec... | high17057.txt |
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When Mary was hospitalized with heart trouble in 1989, they decided it was time to get serious. Richard, who worked for a business compa... | high6019.txt |
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"Disney World theme parks have the same opening and closing times",
"a sin... | Opened in 1971, the Magic Kingdom was the first theme park at Walt Disney World. All Disney World theme parks are open 365 days a year, although opening and closing times for each park are different from day to day. If you are traveling without kids, try to visit it on a school day to avoid the largest crowds. If you ... | high15640.txt |
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"To give advice to high school students.",
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1.Your high school sweetheart will probably not be your spouse.
When I was ... | high8034.txt |
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"A break in the food chain.",
"A small variety of animals.",
"The constant warming climate."
],
"question": "According to what Richard Bu... | Planet Earth would be a scary place for humans if dinosaurs still ruled the world.
Though there are still some traces of life from the Jurassic Period, the Age of Dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago.
This mass extinction is believed to be the result of an asteriod hitting Earth. A new report by the journal Biologi... | high8752.txt |
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"help raise employee's living standards",
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Leadership today is not about forcing others to do things .If this is even possible .it is short-term ,and tends to backfire. If you order someone to do something against their will, they may do it be... | high7461.txt |
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"They feel much softer than normal clothes.",
"They are expensive to produce.",
"They act as a smart phone for users."
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"the shops will be very crowded on that day",
"the shops will keep open until the daybreak of next da... | The Friday after the American holiday of Thanksgiving is called Black Friday. It's said that it's the day that store ledgers move into the black and companies become profitable. On that day, retailers slash prices to get consumers to buy. It is also a time when many Americans start their Christmas shopping. VOA's Eli... | high584.txt |
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Dogs love people, too. They lick their faces, protect their homes. Where did these four-legg... | high1010.txt |
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},
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"Because few vitamins were amines.",
"Because there were new findings.",
"Because the latter was easy to remember."
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Some of the most important helpers in the j... | high13557.txt |
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"How our habits influence our sleep patterns.",
"What causes the differences between early risers ... | Are you an early riser or a night owl? Researchers from Aachen University in Germany believe that about 10 percent of people can be classified as "morning people", who feel more active and function best in the morning.Around 20 percent are night owls--people who naturally tend to stay up late and are more tired during ... | high14238.txt |
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"They think it is a good way to make some extra money.",
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A survey of young people's music ownership has found that teenagers and college students have an average of more than 8... | high23494.txt |
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"answer": {
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"Your concentration will improve if you study and watch TV at the same time.",
"You should study in a dif... | Do you want to improve the way you study? Do you feel nervous before a test? Many students say that a lack of concentration is their biggest problem. It seriously affects their ability to study, so do their test results. If so, use these tips to help you.
_
You should always study in the same place. You shouldn't sit... | high12891.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"Via a matchmaker.",
"By e-mail.",
"Via a face-to-face meeting."
],
"question": "How do home exchangers normally begin their communication?",
"question_type": "factio... | No budget for your vacation? Try home exchanges ---- swapping houses with strangers. Agree to use each other's cars, and you can save dollars on car rentals , too.
Home exchanges are not new. At least one group, Intervac, has been facilitating such an arrangement since 1953. But trading online is gaining popularity th... | high5276.txt |
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},
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"It creates everything of life",
"It benefits ability of socialization and creativity",
"It is simply a popula... | Second Life is a three-dimensional , online world in which computer users can crate a new self and live a different life . Second Life is one of the most popular new online games called " massively multiplayer online role playing games ." These games are also called MMOs , for short .
But unlike the other MMOs, ... | high17731.txt |
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},
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"remind people the drinks were not free",
"prove the actual effect of different pictures",
"see how honest people are in... | Honesty is the best policy, as the English saying goes. Unfortunately, honesty often leaves us when no one is watching, British psychologists reported last week.
Researchers at UK's Newcastle University set up an experiment in their psychology department's coffee room.
They set a kettle, with tea, coffee and milk on th... | high11340.txt |
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"the man didn't enter the deep, dark cave when he was young",
"the man was deserted by... | It was New Year's Night. An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. Then he cast them on the earth, where few more hopeless people than himself now moved towards their certain goal --- ... | high3607.txt |
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"been discouraged by h... | I'm glad to find this comment which has some sort of support in this quest I have to eat raw foods. I'm an unhealthy 49 years old and have come to the conclusion that it's now or never, so I am taking a dive into the raw eating lifestyle.
I have to cook for my family and prepare what they want to eat. I'm trying to pla... | high4168.txt |
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"She was a babysitter.",
"She was a social worker."
],
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A year ago a boy of 14 befriended my daughter on Facebook after reading something Alisa wrote about bullying. Today he messaged her and... | high5506.txt |
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"answer": {
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"Eppes woke up in the morning",
"Danielle ran to the two boys",
"R.J. was ordered to jump by his father"
],
"question": "The ligh... | Thunder was coming when Reginald Eppes woke up at five in the morning. He checked the weather forecast. A violent storm was coming ,but it sounded like his small town wouldn't be hit too hard. But Eppes, a firefighter, had clearly known the power of these huge storms from experiences. "Do you know where the flashligh... | high18372.txt |
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"he asked for a lot of food from his classmates",
"he brought his food to his classmates",
"he had a lot of... | Jess really felt very happy.When he arrived at his seat in the classroom that morning,he found an invitation on his desk.It was from several of his classmates asking him to join them on a camping trip.This was the first time he was asked to join in an out-of-school activity.Why were they asking him now? Nobody seemed t... | high17041.txt |
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},
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"It's an environmentally friendly gas.",
"Its production process is too long.",
"It's easily recognized by the customers."
... | A town in Oxfordshire has become the first in the UK to have biomethane gas from human waste piped to their homes for gas central heating and cooking.
Up to 200 families in Didcot now receive the gas via the national gas power system. Head of energy and technology at British Gas, Martin Orrill, said customers wouldn't ... | high11430.txt |
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"answer": {
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"To share his happiness with the writer.",
"To congratulate the writer on his success.",
"To give him some good... | Change Has Come to America
November, 04, 2008, Barack Obama
Hello, Chicago.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It... | high3177.txt |
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"answer": {
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"one is born with his color1 preference",
"one's color1 preference is changeable",
"one has to choose his favorite color1 a... | What is your favorite color1? Do you like yellow, orange or red? If you do, you must be an optimist, a leader, and an active person who enjoys life, people and excitement. Do you prefer gray and blue? Then you are probably quiet, shy and you would rather follow than lead. If you love green, you are strong-minded and de... | high20835.txt |
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},
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"It's bad for people's health.",
"It's a new kind of food.",
"Its story has been published."
],
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"answer": {
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"they were war-like countries",
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The battle outside Troy lasted for ten years. The men were fed up and wanted to return to their homes. Athene, godd... | high7311.txt |
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"A Brave Young Man"
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"To tell us where we should go for our vacations... | When many of us take a vacation, more than anything, we seek to relax. We spend long, lazy days on a beach chair or in a hammock . But too often, we return home, very very tired.
It doesn't have to be this way. Come home _ after an active trip! And you won't be too tired!
Active vacations are often the most relaxing o... | high13227.txt |
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},
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It is estimated that there a... | high14548.txt |
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},
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"Staff leave messages lying around their offices.",
"Many managers prefer to read their messages on p... | When e-mail first came into general use about twenty years ago, there was a lot of talk about the arrival of the paperless office.However, it seems that e-mail has yet to revolutionize office communication.According to communications analyst Richard Metcalf, some offices have actually seen an increase in paper as ... | high23482.txt |
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"Breaki... | high12887.txt |
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},
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"Dolly Parton told her to leave the stage.",
"The coaches described her as foolish.",
"The professionals consid... | The adolescent girl from Tennessee was standing on the stage of a drama summer camp in New York.But the girl didn't feel joyful.She was not the leggy,attractive Hollywood type.In fact,she described herself as stupid.
This girl was Reese Witherspoon,who had wanted to be a country singer and admired and respected Dolly P... | high6769.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer": {
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],
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"question_type... | Who says Americans worship the almighty dollar? It's not true. Having enough free time is more important to most Americans than being rich, according to a new survey.
Only 13 percent of more than 2,400 people questioned in the telephone survey ranked being wealthy as most important to them, while 67 percent ranked fr... | high15130.txt |
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},
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"She felt uncomfortable with her mother's non-smooth hands.",
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I don't remember when it first started annoying me -- her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did annoy me, for they felt wor... | high8744.txt |
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Great Wall I
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"It can release good chemical into blood streams.",
"It can make you feel self--confident.",
"It can cure the ... | Weighed down by study? Pushed to the limit by the fast pace of life ? Frightened by the possible war ? Well, you're not alone. Men and women in France are seeking relief using the world's best medicine-----laughter.
In the past year, more than 15 laughter clubs have been set up across the country. People of all ages go... | high3611.txt |
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Lewis and his co-worker carried out their study by videotaping the families while they are having ordinary meals... | high10048.txt |
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],
"question": "The writer is_now in En... | Dear Lan Lan,
I'm now writing to you at Hartsop, a village in the Lake District, a place to have most beautiful scenery in English couple here to spend Christmas with them. This was planned for overseas students to know British way of life by living with British families.
We came two days before Christmas and during ou... | high17727.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Ice from clean water ."
},
"options": [
"Ice from ice hotels .",
"Ice from clean water .",
"Ice with lots of bubbles in it .",
"Ice weighing over 100 kilograms ."
],
"question": "What kind of ice is ideal for sc... | Ice sculpting is a difficult process . First , ice must be carefully selected so that it is suitable for sculpting . Its ideal material is pure , clean water with high clarity . It should also have the minimum(=least) number of air bubbles. Perfectly clear ice blocks weighing 140 kg and measuring 100 cmx50 cmx25 cm a... | high21281.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "It lives on red sea fans only."
},
"options": [
"It lives on red sea fans only.",
"It swims very quickly.",
"It lives nine feet deep.",
"It usually floats in mid-water."
],
"question": "What do we learn about th... | While I was on a trip to Papua New Guinea to take underwater photographs, I asked a local dive guide to help me find a pygmy sea horse . I wanted to take a picture of it. These sea horses can be red or yellow-and-orange. The red pygmy sea horse lives on only one type of coral, a red sea fan that grows at depths below n... | high3605.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "be getting colder"
},
"options": [
"be getting colder",
"be getting warmer",
"remain the same in the past ten years",
"have good effects on the world's population"
],
"question": "According to the text, the clim... | There is a definite possibility that the climate of the world may be changing. Some scientists imagine that this could even mean the beginning of another ice age. The effects of such a change in climate on the human population of the world would be amazing.
Recent research suggests that the general warming trend of the... | high18400.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Sea Water quality is improved"
},
"options": [
"The species of fish in the oceans is reducing .",
"Sea water is polluted",
"Sea Water quality is improved",
"Less productivity of ecosystems"
],
"question": "Which... | Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia ,prefix = st1 /Canada, led the international team that did the study . Professor Worm says species have recently been disappearing from oceans at increasing speed . At this rate , he says , all seafood species could collapse could collapse by 2048 .
Other studies... | high17733.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Asian and Southeast Asian countries have a great impact on the modem Australian food."
},
"options": [
"fewer and fewer immigrants enter Australia every year",
"Subway is a chain restaurant and it is from the South America",
... | Throughout history, people are now aware that Australian cuisine was based on the old British cooking which was handed down by the first settlers. Modern Australian cuisine, however, has been heavily influenced by Australia's Asian and Southeast Asian neighbors. The trend, motivated by the government health programs, i... | high12893.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "through e-mail"
},
"options": [
"at the box office",
"by telephone",
"through e-mail",
"on the website"
],
"question": "You can buy tickets for performances at the Boston Opera House in all the following ways EX... | The Boston Opera House
In Person
* The Boston Opera House Box Office is open Monday - Friday from 10 am - pm. We provide a direct and customer-friendly service that allows our customers to choose their seats and purchase their tickets at face value without service charges or delivery fees. The savings and confidence as... | high8988.txt |
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