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"answer_text": "Homeless and miserable"
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"options": [
"Homeless and dangerous",
"Homeless and childish",
"Homeless and miserable",
"Homeless and sleepless"
],
"question": "What kind of life does George Brown lead?",
"ques... | Nobody Benefits
NEW YORK--America has been experiencing the longest economic increase in its history.Incomes have risen, unemployment has fallen, and cities such as New York are bursting with new office buildings.
But just a short walk from Manhattan's skyscrapers, George Brown sits on the side-walk, cooking a lunch of... | high4584.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Human beings are more and more concerned with animals nowadays."
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"The story of the Anleys and their dog was too unique to be newsworthy.",
"Most people surveyed choose to save their own dog rather than a human.",
... | Recently, an almost literal case of lifeboat ethics occurred. On Aug. 4, Graham and Sheryl Anley, while boating off the coast of South Africa, hit a rock. As the boat threatened to sink the husband got off, but his wife was trapped in the boat. Instead of freeing his wife and getting her to shore, Graham grabbed Rosie... | high5842.txt |
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"answer_text": "Chinese born in America"
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"options": [
"three English letters",
"a kind of banana",
"Chinese born in America",
"Americans born in China"
],
"question": "\"ABC\" in this passage means\" _ \".",
"question_... | You may know the English letters A, B and C.But do you know there are people called ABC? You may 1ike eating bananas.But do you know there is such a thing, a "banana person"? How strange! Are these people from "another earth"? No, they are just Chinese people like you and me.
ABC means American-born Chinese.An ABC is a... | high18950.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "strong-minded and courageous"
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"options": [
"honest and curious",
"patient and confident",
"cautious and creative",
"strong-minded and courageous"
],
"question": "Marie Colvin's story in the passage indicates ... | After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program, her mother recalled, Marie
Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices.
"Everyone else was already admitted to college," her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said from the
family home. "So she took our car and drove up ... | high21109.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Dairy Products Build Slimmer Bodies in Girls"
},
"options": [
"Dairy Products Build Slimmer Bodies in Girls",
"Different Ways Help Girls Keep Weight Balance",
"Dairy Products Gain Popularity with Girls",
"Study Suggests... | Girls who get enough dairy products in their diets may weigh less than other teens with the same age.
Girls who consumed more dairy products were found to have slimmer middles than girls of the same age and race who ate the same number of calories and got the same amount of exercise. Girls who drank more soda, but al... | high19496.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "steam engine"
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"options": [
"train",
"engine",
"steam engine",
"bus"
],
"question": "Watt made the world's first _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2... | The horsepower was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt had made the world's first widely used steam engine. He had no way of telling people exactly how powerful it was, for at that time there were no units for measuring power.
Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. ... | high20217.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "keep a leading position in liberal education"
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"options": [
"maintain people's interest in liberal education",
"define the government's role in education",
"keep a leading position in liberal education",
"safeguard in... | "The Heart of the Matter," the newly-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), deserves praise for attaching the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America. Regrettably, however, the report's failure to address the true natu... | high18788.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "best meets one's own personal needs and interests"
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"has the best location",
"best meets one's own personal needs and interests",
"best meets one's assessment of an institution's prestige",
"offers good l... | For most Chinese university students, the prefix = st1 /USis a favorite destination for further education. But apart from obstacles such as the GRE and TOEFL exams, choosing a good graduate school is no easy task.
Admission is very competitive for international students, so it is important to apply to a number of inst... | high24071.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "It can offer detailed information."
},
"options": [
"It may get lost easily in the air.",
"It can't work in the windy days.",
"It can offer detailed information.",
"It is useless when the poacher stays still."
],
... | Since 2008, hunters have illegally killed more than 3000 rhinos in South Africa. The International Union for Conservation of Nature warns that rhinos may die out by 2026. People who hunt and kill illegally are called poachers. The most effective way to watch for and prevent illegal hunting is from the air. However, pil... | high13805.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "His wife's wage increase."
},
"options": [
"His being out of work.",
"His making more money.",
"His wife's wage increase.",
"His wife's encouragement."
],
"question": "What made Al Watts decide to become a stay-... | A new study by the Pew Research Center shows that the number of dads who choose to stay home and care for their children and families has quadrupled over the past 25 years. Can social and economic factors explain the change?
Make no mistake; _ . In fact, they are only 16% of all stay-at-home parents.but that number i... | high13811.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "all of the above"
},
"options": [
"they are crazy about pop stars in South Korea",
"Korean people have certain qualities they respect",
"there are many similarities between China and South Korea",
"all of the above"
... | SHE dresses in saggy pants and is crazy about the pop star, Rain. Bin Xue is in love with South Korean culture. The 19-year-old from Sichuan Province feels a strong connection with the neighbouring country.
"The two nations have a long history of friendship and there are many similarities between them," she said. "Bu... | high22414.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Ellen Logan at the Holiday Inn"
},
"options": [
"Ellen Logan at the Holiday Inn",
"American Holiday Inn",
"A Special Holiday Inn Hotel in Manhattan",
"How to Deal with People"
],
"question": "A good title for th... | For a small town, Manhattan, Kansas has some big surprises. And one of them is the Holiday Inn Hotel, with rooms built around a swimming pool and a friendly family atmosphere.
The Holiday Inn is where Manhattan people often go for a special party, or a night out. A lot of them choose to eat in the brightly lit restaura... | high18944.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A type of wild vegetation."
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"options": [
"Western migration after the Civil War.",
"The raising of cattle.",
"The climate of the westernprefix = st1 /United States.",
"A type of wild vegetation."
],
"question... | Legend has it that sometime toward the end of the Civil War (1861 - 1865) a government train carrying oxen was caught in a snowstorm and had to be abandoned. The driver returned the next spring to see what had become of his cargo. Instead of the skeletons he had expected to find, he saw his oxen, living, fat, and healt... | high19482.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She mistook her sister's Christmas gift for hers."
},
"options": [
"Her mother couldn't understand her at all.",
"Her mother didn't buy her any Christmas gift.",
"She mistook her sister's Christmas gift for hers.",
"She... | Christmas Eve was tomorrow. I hoped one of the packages that held a camera had already been placed under the Christmas tree. It was the only thing I wanted. I had been _ to my parents. I love taking photos. My bedroom walls are covered with photos I had taken with my mom's old camera. I'm always trying to capture tho... | high2687.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Three kinds of friends in our life."
},
"options": [
"What a true friend is like.",
"Three kinds of friends in our life.",
"The role that friends play in our life.",
"Why there are different kinds of friends."
],
... | There are three different kinds of friends in our life. I classify them according to how well I know them and how well they know me.
The first type of friend is just an acquaintance . This means that you only know their names. You might not even remember what they look like if you go away for a short vacation. You don... | high16969.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Four"
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"options": [
"Three",
"Four",
"Five",
"Six"
],
"question": "How many goals of agriculture are mentioned in the passage?",
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
... | The future of agriculture must achieve several goals at the same time.
First, it now appears that we will have to double world food production in the next 40 years due to population growth, increasing meat consumption and pressure from biofuels . We will also have to reduce the environmental impacts from our farming ... | high20565.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he was affected by his daughter's long absence"
},
"options": [
"all kinds of passwords made him confused",
"he was thinking too much about his work",
"he was affected by his daughter's long absence",
"he was getting ol... | DEAR Daughter,
We have not seen you for a while now, so I thought we might check in. Did you fall off the edge of the Earth? Your mother worries, you know, and I am just curious. Well, I am more than curious. I feel abandoned.
Apparently you've dumped us for your career. I can understand that, because you've always had... | high11960.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "can't be used to pay taxes"
},
"options": [
"includes shipping fees",
"will be mailed to buyers",
"can't be used to pay taxes",
"needs to be cashed at banks"
],
"question": "The voucher mentioned in the passage ... | Money off your rented textbooks from TextbookRental.ca
Offer details
*Pay online
*Limit 1 voucher per person, may buy 5 more for others
*Shipping is extra (average $6, return shipping included)
*The voucher is valid towards shipping
*Taxes extra
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*Save up to 75% on every textbook
*Rent books by the semester
... | high5856.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the roses in Bulgaria"
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"options": [
"the Bulgarian life",
"rose festivals of the world",
"the roses in Bulgaria",
"the living habits of roses"
],
"question": "The passage mainly talks about _ .",
"ques... | Bulgaria is famous for its roses and produces about 85 percent of all the rose oil in the world. Rose oil is called liquid gold and is used in making soaps, chocolates, perfumes and so on.
The first records about growing roses on Bulgarian land go back many centuries. The Rose Valley developed in the area betwe... | high22372.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "proved that clothes can't show a person's true personality"
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"options": [
"immediately won the admiration of his daughters",
"turned out unsuited to his plan",
"proved that clothes can't show a person's true personality",
... | I bought a Paul Smith shirt three months ago. For those who don't know, Paul Smith is an English designer brand.
His shirts cost about 1,000 yuan and upwards. I paid 50 yuan for my colorful shirt from a street vendor in Beijing.
Of course my shirt was a knockoff, a cheap copy of the brand. After a few washes, little ba... | high6387.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "A modern treasure hunt."
},
"options": [
"An exciting historical event.",
"The importance of logical thinking.",
"The attraction of Masquerade.",
"A modern treasure hunt."
],
"question": "What is the subject dis... | Treasure hunts have excited people's imagination for hundreds of years both in real life and in books such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Kit Williams, a modern writer, had the idea of combining the real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues found in a book when he wrote a children's story, Masquer... | high11948.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "how people open up when emailing"
},
"options": [
"how people open up when emailing",
"how people do research studies",
"how to communicate at work",
"how to discuss and solve a problem"
],
"question": "The subj... | People tend to become more personal and hide less of themselves when using email.Researchers from Open University in Britain have found in a recent study that there are good reasons for this.
The team of researchers asked 83 pairs of students, all strangers to each other, to solve a problem.They had to discuss this que... | high21653.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Cars passing a school in towns should drive at a speed of less than 31 mph."
},
"options": [
"A passenger's not wearing the seat belt has little to do with the driver.",
"There will be a reminder for drivers to remember to drive on... | Driving in a foreign country is always different in at least some ways from driving in your own country. Here are some general points regarding driving in New Zealand.
Visitors wishing to drive in New Zealand do not require an international driver's license but are required to carry their local driver's license wheneve... | high11790.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "3"
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"2",
"3",
"4",
"5"
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"question": "According to the passage how many dogs starred in movies?",
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": ... | Blair: Blair was the first to appear in movies in history. In 1905, Blair appeared in the movie Rescued by Rover . It is a British film that a baby is kidnapped by an old woman, but the faithful family dog Rover saves the baby at last.
Though Rover is a common name, it became popular because of the dog hero in the mov... | high12299.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "It was performed in space."
},
"options": [
"It was performed in space.",
"It was created by an astronaut.",
"It was a very familiar song.",
"It was first sung by a famous singer."
],
"question": "Why was Chris ... | For more than 40 years, scientists have sought to learn how well human beings can adapt to long periods in space. The International Space Station continues to provide valuable knowledge about spaceflight. But an earlier space station, Skylab, helped make the current space project possible.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadf... | high8382.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "there was a rainfall of 243 mm in 22 hours before 6 a.m. in northern district of Miyun"
},
"options": [
"there was a rainfall of 243 mm in 22 hours before 6 a.m. in northern district of Miyun",
"a man and a woman were killed in the... | Beijing, July 25 (Xinhua) --- Two people found dead on a rain-flooded road in Beijing Sunday night are doubted to have been killed by lightning, as the heaviest rainstorm in 13 years hit the city from Sunday through Monday morning and is expected to last into Monday evening.
The victims, a man and a woman were found de... | high23044.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "People who work in London prefer to live in the country."
},
"options": [
"People who like country things prefer to live outside the city.",
"People who work in London prefer to live in the country.",
"Because of certain disa... | Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go in to their offices or schools every day by train, car or bus, even though this means they have to get up early in the morning and reach home late in the evening.
One advantage of living outside London is that houses are cheaper. Even a small flat in L... | high154.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "More research should be made before the technology comes into wide use."
},
"options": [
"Dr. Baltimore started his research on modiffing gene in 1975.",
"Scientists' opinions about the use of gene editing are consistent.",
"... | "Over the years the unthinkable has become thinkable and today we sense we are close to being able to alter human heredity oe#)." These were the words of David Baltimore of the California Institute of Technology, on December 1st, when he opened a three-day meeting in Washington to discuss the morality and use of human ... | high13187.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "More women shopped online than men in 2004"
},
"options": [
"There were fewer women online shoppers than men in 2004",
"Most of the Internet users between the ages of 18 and 29 are women.",
"People in the US were more likely ... | Women turn to online shopping
Women have jumped ahead of men for the first time in using the Internet to do their holiday shopping, according to a study published last week in the US.
For years men have been more likely to shop on the Internet than women, but during the 2004 holiday season, 58 percent of those making o... | high632.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "writing was not intended for women in the 19th century in Britain"
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"options": [
"the three sisters were badly treated by their step-mother",
"The three Bronte sisters were brought up in Ireland",
"Haworth was suffering hig... | The Bronte sisters were three sisters who became famous novelists. Their lives and works are connected with the lonely moors of Yorkshire, England, where they lived. Patrick Bronte, the sisters' father, was a poor Irishman who became the parish clergyman of the small, isolated town of Haworth, Yorkshire. Bronte was som... | high13839.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a folktale"
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"a news article",
"a folktale",
"realistic fiction",
"historical fiction"
],
"question": "This story is most like _ .",
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"answer":... | There's a small town in the central part of England called Gotham. Some say it's a town of fools. Others say all the villagers are wise. Let me tell you about the people of Gotham so you can decide for yourself.
Long ago, England was ruled by a cruel king named John. One day, the people of Gotham heard that King John a... | high9922.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Home education in the UK"
},
"options": [
"New ways of learning to read and write",
"Problems with UK schools",
"Home education in the UK",
"New methods of teaching"
],
"question": "What is the topic of this art... | Eight-year-old Bethany and seven-year-old Eliza are having a great time jumping around in the orchard of their home in a village near Penrith. They can play any time they like because they don't go to school. Instead, they are educated at home by their parents, Paul and Veronika Robinson. But they don't have lessons, ... | high16799.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "brave"
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"options": [
"brave",
"fearful",
"artificial",
"tricky"
],
"question": "According to this passage, which word can best describe Jim Hawkins?",
"question_type": null
},
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"answer": {
"... | Treasure Island isn't a true story, _
armed to the teeth and ready to go treasure hunting. But you will find, as you read this book, that
although pirates can be murderous and treacherous ,they can also be cowardly, superstitious, and easily led. As it turns out, that is fortunate for Jim Hawkins.
It's a brillian... | high21135.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "new generation gap between the old and the young"
},
"options": [
"the impact of computer technology on modern surgery",
"an interview with a distinguished Asian neurosurgeon",
"new generation gap between the old and the youn... | There is a saying in French--"Si vieillesse pouvait, si jeunesse savait"--which means roughly "if age had the ability, if youth had the knowledge." I was reminded of this saying the other day when I saw an interview with a distinguished Asian neurosurgeon , now retired, about the impact of computer technology on modern... | high2877.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "60% of them."
},
"options": [
"14% of them.",
"46% of them.",
"32% of them.",
"60% of them."
],
"question": "How many of the wealthy Chinese interviewed were in favor of moving overseas?",
"question_type": "... | China has a long tradition of respecting education. But its present education is not that respectable.
According to the Hurun Report, which conducted one-on-one interviews with 980 wealthy Chinese people with net assets of more than 60 million yuan ($9.5 million) in 18 mainland cities from May to September, about 14 ... | high17487.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "six"
},
"options": [
"two",
"four",
"six",
"eight"
],
"question": "How many germy places are mentioned in this passage?",
"question_type": null
},
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer... | No one likes germs.You wash your hands often and avoid sick people.But some of the germiest places are in your own home where you can't avoid them!
Over 77,500 bacteria per square centimeter can live in your kitchen sink drain.More bacteria live in and around the sink itself.To get rid of them,clean the entire sink are... | high16941.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "because the Nobles are quite possibly slow to recognize achievement"
},
"options": [
"because usually the Nobels award work done in the previous year.",
"just because they envy those who have won the Nobles.",
"because differ... | The Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry are the most respected prizes in science. But talk to scientists in private, and many will complain why (besides jealousy, perhaps) are some scientists unhappy with the Nobels?
One reason is that the committees can often be slow to recognize achievement.... | high18978.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Jack, 8 years old."
},
"options": [
"Jack, 8 years old.",
"Tom, 9 years old.",
"John, 11 years old.",
"Linda, 13 years old."
],
"question": "Which of the following kids may NOT be included in Tabb's program \" T... | Tabb doesn't look like a typical music teacher. But every weekday evening in the French Quarter New Orleans, he beats out the rhythm on his music stand as students play their chosen instruments.
"I'm doing my best to take young people away from harmful things," said Tabb. His program, "The Roots of Music", offers free... | high2863.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "develop gamers' problem-solving skills"
},
"options": [
"give gamers more chances to play online games",
"develop gamers' problem-solving skills",
"help gamers get used to social changes",
"make gamers take proper attit... | At Institute for the Future, game designer Jane McGonigal creates massive multi-player free online role-playing games (MMORPGs), which focus on social changes and environmental problems. She hopes that players will use their new skills to make the real world better.
According to Jane, our addiction to gaming is actua... | high21121.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "He was afraid Shane had been killed by the tsunami."
},
"options": [
"He couldn't go back home to take Shane.",
"He was afraid Shane had been killed by the tsunami.",
"He thought Shane had been taken away by his neighbour.",
... | The earthquake that shook Japan on March 11, 2011 was the strongest earthquake in that country's recorded history and the fourth strongest recorded on Earth since 1900. It cracked open the ground, knocked people off their feet, and made tall buildings move. Then things got even worse.
It created huge waves called a tsu... | high16955.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "old people with special cards"
},
"options": [
"those who have special cards",
"old people with special cards",
"people who hold high positions in the government",
"those who wanted to travel cheaply"
],
"questi... | Senior citizens are permitted to travel cheaply on a bus if they have a special card. Women may get cards when they are sixty.
Mrs. Matthews lived in the country but she went into town once a week to buy food and other things for the house, and she usually went by bus. She always had to pay the full price for her ride.... | high626.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "At a graduation ceremony"
},
"options": [
"At an open-air theater.",
"At a traditional festival.",
"At a graduation ceremony",
"At an important sports game."
],
"question": "Where did the story take place?",
... | Last weekend marked one of the nicest days so far this spring. It was warm with a tiny wind, the sun streamed through lightweight sweaters to warm the skin; the male choir was warming up, and the students were moving around the lawn behind the huge crowd of six-thousand-plus observers.
With all of the parents, sist... | high24059.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "A Precious Gift."
},
"options": [
"A Special Funeral.",
"A Kind Old Man.",
"A Thankful Young Man.",
"A Precious Gift."
],
"question": "Which of the following may be the title of the passage?",
"question_type... | It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man.Over the phone ,his mother told him,"Mr.Belser died last night ,The funeral is Wednesday."Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel as he sat quietly remembering his childhood days.
When Jack was very young ,his father died.Mr Belser,who lived in the sa... | high23736.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "It resulted from lack of vitamins."
},
"options": [
"It killed large numbers of people.",
"It resulted from lack of vitamins.",
"It was transmitted by milled rice.",
"It was caused by diseased chickens."
],
"que... | The vitamins necessary for a healthy body are normally supplied by a good mixed diet, including a variety of fruits and green vegetables. It is only when people try to live on a very _ diet, say that when trying to lose weight, that it is necessary to make special provisions to supply the missing vitamins.
An example o... | high15284.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "behave yourself"
},
"options": [
"behave yourself",
"take care of yourself",
"make yourself at home",
"do everything on your own"
],
"question": "If your parents ask you to act your age, they really mean to advi... | Parents might tell older children to "Act your age". But some researchers say that is what persons from thirteen to nineteen years old are doing. While teenagers can look all grown up, studies have shown that their brains are still developing. How much this explains their behavior, though, is a subject of debate.
Jay G... | high9936.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He helped his father,but not very happily."
},
"options": [
"He helped his father happily.",
"He never helped his father.",
"He helped his father,but not very happily.",
"He only helped his father take a walk after su... | When I was growing up,I was embarrassed to be seen with my father. He was badly crippled ,and when we would walk together,his hand on my arm for balance,people would stare,I would be ashamed of the unwanted attention.
It was difficult to walk together--and because of that,we didn't say much as we went along. But as we... | high14824.txt |
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"answer_text": "It didn't show Mr. Sultan's name."
},
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"It was taken away by Mr. Sultan.",
"It didn't show Mr. Sultan's name.",
"t didn't have the courses that he had chosen."
],
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Mr. Sultan had just got a job at my high school but his name wasn't in the school's system. So when I got my schedule ,it read: Staff F. It was during _ hat I realised that "Staff F" was Mr. Sultan. When he called my name, he asked if I remembered h... | high8396.txt |
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"answer_text": "Solar energy."
},
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"Solar energy.",
"Energy and pollution.",
"Energy and money."
],
"question": "What's this passage mainly about?",
"question_type"... | Solar energy for your home is coming. It can help you as a single home owner. It can help the whole country as well. Whether or not solar energy can save your money depends on many things. Where you live is one factor and the type of home you have is another. Things like insulation , present energy costs, and the type... | high23050.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "use the Internet more than enough"
},
"options": [
"use the Internet more than enough",
"feel depressed when using the Internet",
"seldom connect to the Internet",
"feel depressed without the Internet"
],
"quest... | British paychologists have found evidence of a link between excessive Internet use and depression, a research has shown.
Leeds University researchers, writing in the Psychopathology journal, said a small part of Internet users were classed as Internet addicts and that people in this group were more likely to be depres... | high140.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because he wanted to show he was an adult."
},
"options": [
"Because he was thirsty.",
"Because he wanted to show he was an adult.",
"Because he wanted to impress his father casually.",
"Because he wanted to discuss his... | It was my first day back home since starting college. A lot had changed in the last year. Not with my hometown but with me. I had left as a 17-year-old boy and had now returned as an 18-year-old man. In the city, I was living on my own, had a part-time job and was studying. Even the government recognized I was an adult... | high13193.txt |
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"answer_text": "He thought it was unfair for Charlie."
},
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"He thought it was unfair for Charlie.",
"He didn't care about money.",
"He preferred chicken to money."
],
"ques... | Charlie Boswell has always been a great hero. He has encouraged thousands of people to rise above circumstances and live out true meaning of life.
He was blinded during World War II while rescuing his friend from a tank that was under fire.
He was a great athlete before the accident. In order to prove his talent and de... | high20559.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Children."
},
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"Teachers.",
"Researchers.",
"Children."
],
"question": "Who is \"What Darwin Saw\" intended for?",
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},
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"answer": {
... | Many people enjoy an adventure story. Others like mysteries that lead the reader to an exciting discovery. The story of the young British naturalist Charles Darwin combines both of these. That is why the author and illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer chose to write the children's book "What Darwin Saw". The book was publishe... | high21647.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"he was thrown into the open air",
"he was such a small seed",
"he didn't believe in himself"
],
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Then one day, a wind picked him up and threw him on an open field under the sun.Later, he was given rain.
Years later he saw a traveler sitting by his side."Than... | high11784.txt |
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},
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"many guests bring their babies to the party",
"his story is easily forgotten by the listeners",
"he is int... | In ancient Japan, if you saved someone's life, they would make it their duty to spend the rest of their life serving you. Nowadays, if you rescue someone's story, he or she will feel the same kind of gratitude .
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},
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"making tents for wagons",
"making trousers for the miners",
"making wagon covers and tents"
],
"question": "The denim cloth was or... | In 1859,during the Gold Rush,a twenty- year-old immigrant from Bavaria named Levi Strauss stepped off the boat in San Francisco. He had with him a special cloth called Serge de Nimes that was later called denim in America. Levi Strauss hoped to sell the denim as material to make tents and covers for wagons to the men w... | high4547.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"Old people are creative.",
"Women are sporty at 85.",
"Women live longer than men."
],
"question": "What does the story of Jeanne Calment prov... | She took up skating at age 85, made her first movie appearance at age 114, and held a concert in the neighborhood on her 121st birthday.
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},
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"is now trying his best to provide proofs for long-held bel... | Autumn and winter are cold and flu seasons. Will the old advice about dressing warmly help prevent a cold, or if you get sick, should you follow the old saying, "feed a cold and starve a fever?" And what about that fever? Should you take medicine to reduce your temperature, or is it better to let the body treat the fev... | high7.txt |
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},
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"The coach didn't like him.",
"His father always watched him.",
"The boy was shorter than other boys."
],
"question": "W... | A skinny young boy loved football with all his heart. But being half the size of the other boys, he got ly nowhere. This teenager lived alone with his father. Even though the boy was always standing on the bench , his father was always standing with cheering. He never missed a game. This young man was still the smalle... | high21874.txt |
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},
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"the everyday problems",
"the people who have some difficulty using equipment and tools",
"the everyday problems of people w... | Left-Handers' Day
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},
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"The senate voting.",
"Dispute on the budget bill.",
"Lazy people across the country."
],
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},
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"Chinese New Year Celebration can bring luck to them during the next year",
"Some dif... | Chinese New Year Celebration is the most important celebration of the year. Chinese people may celebrate the Chinese New Year in slightly different ways but their wishes are almost the same; they want their family members and friends to be healthy and lucky during next year.
Chinese New Year Celebration usually lasts f... | high5659.txt |
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"answer_text": "we can fly directly from Beijing to Zurich"
},
"options": [
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"we can fly directly from Beijing to Zurich",
"the first flight from Beijing to Europe will only cost you... | Swiss International Air lines(SWISS)will introduce daily non-stop flights between Beijing and Zurich.
The new service to the financial center of Switzerland is expected to start on Dec.12,2012,which marks an expansion of services for the Chinese market.In May 2008,SWISS already started direct flights to Shanghai.
The f... | high6350.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"Excited.",
"Cool.",
"Upset."
],
"question": "How do you feel when you are drowned by a lot of tourists?",
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},
{
"answer": {
... | If you choose a hot tourist spot for your holiday, you are likely to be drowned by a great number of tourists, noise and long lines. At this point you might wonder why you ever left home. Here are some tips to deal with crowds and avoid the trouble that might ruin your trip.
Book Tickets In Advance
Buy tickets online b... | high14617.txt |
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"answer_text": "Petroleum formation appears to begin in marine sediments where organic matter exists."
},
"options": [
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"Large amounts of oxygen are needed for petroleum f... | Petroleum, consisting of crude oil and natural gas, seems to originate from organic matter in marine sediment .Tiny organisms settle to the seafloor and gather in marine mud. The organic matter may partially break down, using up the dissolved oxygen in the sediment. As soon as the oxygen is gone, decay stops and the r... | high9063.txt |
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"politics",
"a contemporary life",
"a myth or legend"
],
"question": "This reading passages is most probably an account of _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questi... | The Toltec---as they were now called ---began to know great abundance and enjoy the
generous gifts of the land, as had been foretold by Quetzalcoatl.
"He has great powers.He has made us rich.We have not known hunger since he arrived.Where he places his eyes and hands,everything is abundance and beauty."
They were ha... | high13178.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They are able to play a lot of tricks."
},
"options": [
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"Humans know well of dolphins' language.",
"Their brain chemistry is similar to humans'.",
"Dolphins' mothers care little... | There's no doubt that man is the smartest. But do you know what other animals are smart, too?
Dolphins
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"the directions for a product",
"acting classes for college students",
"an introduction to a film"
],
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Special four-week mini-session
April -- May
Acting Classes for Ages 4+ and Teens!
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},
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"He was fooled by a schoolboy.",
"He was five minutes late for class.",
"He fell into a pool on the fourth floor."
],
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"answer": {
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},
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"is well worth focusing on",
"wants to make friends with you",
"is the one you're looking for"
],
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "seldom put models on the cover"
},
"options": [
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"no longer put models on the cover",
"need not worry about celebrities' market potential",
"judge the market potential of every celebrity... | Celebrity has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption on the interest of celebrity attached to any given product. Besides, fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models o... | high12500.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "you get a book somewhere for free without knowing in advance"
},
"options": [
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"you know where to get a book for free",
"you get a book somewhere for free without knowing in advance"... | If you happen to find "On the Road" at a gas station or "Who Moved My Cheese?" in your grocery store, it might not be and accident. You could be the unwitting beneficiary of a "bookcrosser"---- a person who on purpose leaves books in public places hoping they'll be found by strangers.
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"Her life was saved by a lifeguard.",
"She was drowned.",
"She died."
],
"question": "What happened to Sandra?",
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"options": [
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"providing customer service",
"assisting the physician with examinations",
"recording health information"
],
"question": "As a medical assis... | Five Booming Careers in Health Care
Loving what you do is great,but knowing your career will be there tomorrow is even better. And when it comes to booming fields,the health care industry is one that's primed for growth.
Want to prepare to take your place in the health care field?Check out these five indemand health c... | high9705.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"friends of friends",
"people he knows",
"strangers of his age"
],
"question": "The writer usually shares a car with _ .",
"question_type": ... | Well, what a bonus! Lots of us are using technology to find rides, and not just to school. It's awkward to call
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It may soun... | high17478.txt |
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"answer": {
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"Smoking can make them cool",
"Smoking will stop them from making friends",
"Smoking make them look less educated"
],
"question... | SOME teenagers take up smoking during the holidays either because they become "rich" enough to afford a pack of cigarettes or they think they look "cool". Everyone knows that "smoking is bad for you", but do smokers really know what the health warnings mean to them?
Smoking, the world's second leading cause of preventa... | high10317.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Her hometown with fantastic scenery."
},
"options": [
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"Her lifelong devotion to teaching.",
"Her hometown with fantastic scenery.",
"Her experience as a speech maker."
],
"question... | "Holding girls back from an education is robbing them of their dignity ," says Mariam, a teacher, in an interview with Action Press.
"I feel proud when I tell people that I'm from Swat in Pakistan, with its green and mountainous valley. But I don't feel proud about the number of women and girls where I'm from who are ... | high11009.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Cave Art Turns Out to Be Britain's Oldest"
},
"options": [
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"Cave Art Found in an Unusual Way",
"Cave Art Turns Out to Be Britain's Oldest",
"Cave Art in Britain"
],
"q... | Scientists recently discovered that pictures on cave walls at Creswell Crags are the oldest known in Great Britain. But they didn't find out in the usual way.
Archaeologists often date cave art with a process called radiocarbon dating. The technique can measure the age of carbon found in charcoal drawings or painted pi... | high18993.txt |
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"doctor",
"businessman",
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Born in Seattle... | high2888.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"his disease couldn't be cured",
"his disease was not serious at all",
"he had to wait for the result of the test"
],
"question": "The doc... | When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, "If today were the last day of my life, would I ... | high16766.txt |
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"answer": {
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"people don't want the dirty water"
],
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"answer": {
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},
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"English-learning students."
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"question": "What kind of people is the passage ... | Nanjing and Hangzhou summer camps offered
We are looking for hard-working and open-minded English teachers to join the Nanjing ( Jiangsu Province) and Hangzhou ( Zhejiang Province) summer camps !
Both of the summer camps will run from the beginning of July to the end of August. You will be expected to teach spoken Engl... | high19455.txt |
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"answer": {
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"she had visitors on Thursday",
"she visited a club on Thursday",
"a special visitor came on Thursday"
],
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"answer": {
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},
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"He was listening to a strange sound.",
"He was going fishing with his father.",
"He was lost in the thought of the fishing tr... | Andy rode slowly on his way to school, day-dreaming about the fishing trip that his father had promised him. He was so busy dreaming about all the fish he would catch that he was unaware of everything else around him.
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"answer": {
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"She felt eager to go back to work.",
"She felt both very anxious and helpless.",
"She felt worried about her children's growt... | Our youngest child eagerly entered kindergarten, while our oldest child excitedly went to college--and I felt left behind. After being very happy as a stay-at-home mother of six children, I suddenly felt stuck on a dead-end road and lacked direction. An inner anxiety troubled me that life was passing by. The road, requ... | high16772.txt |
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"answer": {
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"should be paid attention to",
"only boys may meet with",
"has made news headlines"
],
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"Dog bites and maulings are a worldwide problem, particularly in children." write Marina Morgan and John Palmer. Every year 250,... | high801.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "His old glasses were broken."
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"His glasses were missing.",
"His old glasses were broken.",
"He forgot to wear his glasses."
],
"question": "Why didn't the clerk Char... | My wife and I have always been friendly with the clerks at the local store. I don't think many people appreciate what a difficult job these clerks have. They work for a little money and I often wonder how they make ends meet.
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Be responsible for Our Own Choices."
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"Overcome the Challenges in Our Life.",
"Acknowledge the Truth Rather than Deny It.",
"More than a Comfortable Fantasy."
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},
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"the ice in the North Pole is melting faster than expected",
"the ice in the North Pole will melt befor... | If you want to see climate change, head north and keep going until you run out of globe. That is easier said than done. The Arctic is home to few people and covered in ice much of the year. But those who make their way to the icy seas of the Arctic Ocean will see a part of the planet that is warming and changing fast... | high6422.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"To be an animal expert.",
"To be a famous writer.",
"To be an underwater explorer."
],
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"answer": {
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},
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"He was bored with his job.",
"He wanted a higher position.",
"he hoped to find a better boss."
],
"question": "Why did Jimmy apply for a new job?",
... | Jimmy is an automotive mechanic, but he lost his job a few months ago. He has a good heart,but always afraid to apply for a new job.
One day, he gathered up all his strength and decided to attend a job interview. His appoint--ment was at 10 a.m. and it was already 8:30. While waiting for a bus, he saw an elderly man wi... | high9077.txt |
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"answer": {
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"with the bridesmaid",
"from a side door."
],
"question": "According to the passage, the bride enters the church _ ."... | Weddings in the United States vary as much as the people do. There are church weddings with a great deal of fanfare ; there are weddings on mountain tops with guests barefooted; there have been weddings on the ocean floor with oxygen tanks for the guests. But many weddings, no matter where or how they are performed, in... | high14603.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "his wish to express his own feelings"
},
"options": [
"his wish to express his own feelings",
"his dream of becoming a famous artist",
"his admiration for Lewis Carroll",
"his eagerness to cure his wife's illness"
]... | Charles Blackman:Alice in Wonderland
An Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV),Australia
10 June --12 August 2015
Venue The Ian Potter Centre
Admission Free entry
Charles Blackman is famous for his beautiful painting of dreams. In 1956, he heard for the first time Lewis Carroll's extraordinary ... | high12272.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Supportive"
},
"options": [
"Doubtful",
"Supportive",
"Critical",
"Uninterested"
],
"question": "What's the author's attitude towards mobile phones? _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"a... | "I can't live without my mobile phone!" is what I often hear people say as they talk about how mobiles have become an essential part of their lives.
The all so common sight of heads bent, eyes staring at mobile screens and fingers busy tapping away repeats itself across major cities around the world. Whenever there is ... | high8369.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Without it we'll always depend on our native language and end up translating in our head."
},
"options": [
"Because it is a good friend.",
"Because it can help us to find the right direction if we get lost.",
"Without it we'l... | While reading a book in English, every few lines of text, you run across a word or two that you don't know. You look up every new word in the dictionary. Bad move. All that does slow you down. Even electric or CD -ROM dictionaries can get in the way of your reading progress. A dictionary is like a road map. It can help... | high16014.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The US and China"
},
"options": [
"Britain and China",
"The US and China",
"France and the US",
"Germany and the US"
],
"question": "The researchers in the team come from _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_que... | Endangered giant pandas are facing a new threat: the loss of their food source, bamboo. In China's Qinling Mountains, giant pandas spend most of their day eating bamboo. The plant makes up 99% of the panda's diet, with some pandas eating about 40 pounds of it a day. But Qinling's pandas may soon have to find another fo... | high19327.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "He was there on holiday."
},
"options": [
"It was his hometown.",
"He was there on holiday.",
"He was in the making of a film.",
"He was there to have his photograph taken."
],
"question": "Why do you suppose Ed... | Edgar felt quite excited at the thought of his first swim of the summer. With the sun shining down so strongly, the sea was certain to be warm enough. He walked quickly along the sea-front towards the steps that led on to the sands. He smiled cheerfully at the passersby. He had just smiled and raised his hat to an elde... | high4553.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "send messages"
},
"options": [
"check emails",
"send messages",
"find the destination",
"watch a video"
],
"question": "People prefer a smart phone to a common one, because the latter only can help us _ .",
... | A smart phone is a mobile phone built on a mobile operating system, with more advanced computing abilities than a common phone. The first smart phones enabled the users to send and receive emails. Later models added the function of portable media players, pocket video cameras, and GPS navigation units to form one m... | high5895.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Behavior considered unacceptable to the society."
},
"options": [
"Behavior considered unacceptable to the society.",
"An unfavorable impression left on other people.",
"A strong desire to do something strange or terrible.",
... | Sometimes you may have a strong desire to do something strange or terrible. However, chances are that you don't act on your impulse , but let it pass instead. You know that to take the action is wrong in some way and that other people will not accept your behavior.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the phenomen... | high2122.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "exists on a river"
},
"options": [
"is only an economic centre",
"exists on a river",
"covers more than thirty miles from west to east",
"is to the east of England"
],
"question": "According to the article, Lond... | London, the capital of England, is political, economic and commercial centre. It stands on the Thames, extending for nearly thirty miles from north to south and for nearly thirty miles from east to west.
London is divided into many administrative units. Greater London, the largest unit, cover 1,605 square miles. The... | high21860.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "\"early bird special\" sale"
},
"options": [
"\"back-to-school\" sale",
"\"midnight madness\" sale",
"\"early bird special\" sale",
"\"buy one, get one free\" sale"
],
"question": "The day after Thanksgiving, th... | When a store sells goods or services at a price lower than usual, it is called a sale. Sales last for a limited time. Then the price returns to normal.
There are many kinds of sales. For example, a "back-to-school" sale is held near the beginning of the school year. A "midnight madness" event starts very late at night.... | high18039.txt |
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