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"answer_text": "a teenage girl's"
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"a growing-up boy's",
"an old woman's",
"a teenage girl's",
"a grown-up's"
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"question": "The passage is told about _ problems.",
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}... | How hard we have all prayed to grow up quickly, and looked forward to the happy days of being a grown-up and enjoying the many interests that a youth should have.
At last, you have grown up. At least you are no longer a child. They call you "young lady". You then enjoy the pleasure of being a young lady. You are proud... | high14015.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "His colleagues envied him and did so to destroy his fame."
},
"options": [
"His fellow scientists wanted to make fun of him.",
"His workmates are eager to become famous too.",
"These scientists made a mistake because of carel... | Can you believe everything that you read? It seems as if every day, some new articles come out about a new discovery about this or that. For example, water is bad for you, or good for you. The answer depends on which scientific study has just come out. People cannot decide which food items are healthy, how pyramids wer... | high6552.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "It does no good to human health."
},
"options": [
"It's unnecessary.",
"It does no good to human health.",
"It is hated by most people.",
"It will always lead to heart disease and circulatory disorders."
],
"que... | In recent years, there has been a steady attack on salt from the doctors: salt is bad for you--regardless of your health. Politicians also got aboard. "There is a direct relationship," US Congressman Neal Smith said, "between the amount of sodium a person consumes and heart disease, circulatory disorders, stroke and ... | high7894.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "think they can have a good time and develop relationships"
},
"options": [
"are afraid of awkward silence with their families and friends",
"can both talk and watch the screen at the Same time",
"think they can have a good ti... | When women sit together to watch a movie on TV, they usually talk simultaneously about a variety of subjects, including children, men, careers and what' s happening in their lives. When groups of men and women watch a movie together, the men usually end up telling the women to shut up. Men can either talk or watch the ... | high10273.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because she always played with Lisa."
},
"options": [
"Because she lost her friends because of Lisa.",
"Because she wore a wig to school.",
"Because she cried in the classroom.",
"Because she always played with Lisa."
... | When I was in primary school, sometimes I would meet a girl of the same age as me. Lisa was never active, but she was always very sweet and nice. In the 5th grade she came to my class.
She was absent a lot , and one day I had the courage to ask why. She told me she was sick, and she explained she wore a wig because h... | high2734.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Appreciative."
},
"options": [
"Appreciative.",
"Critical.",
"Grateful.",
"Negative."
],
"question": "What's the writer's attitude toward the young boy in this passage?",
"question_type": null
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"... | In my mind, there is a moving story about a skinny young boy who loved football with all his heart.
Practice after practice, he eagerly gave everything he had. But being half the size of the other boys,he got ly nowhere. Despite his hard training at all the games, this hopeful athlete sat on the bench and hardly ever ... | high19531.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "It offers chances to take great photos."
},
"options": [
"It is organized by the Best Things to Do on Trip Advisor.",
"It has been voted the best tour three times.",
"It is intended for individuals only.",
"It offers ch... | London Photography Mystery Tour
Here's the tour that's voted "3rd best tour in London" on the Best Things to Do on Trip Advisor! Hairy Goat is the best rated and most original tour company in London.
Do you like walking around a city and discovering something that makes a great photo? It can be statues, elaborate door... | high16602.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "so that he can give a good reason for his arrests in court"
},
"options": [
"so that he can catch criminals in the streets easily",
"because many of the criminals he has to catch are very dangerous",
"because he has to know n... | Real policemen, both in Britain and the United States, hardly recognize any similarity between their lives and what they see on TV -- if they ever get home in time. There are similarities, of course, but the cops (policemen) don't think much of them.
The first difference is that a policeman's real life revolves ... | high17508.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Not until she became a driver herself."
},
"options": [
"Not until she became a driver herself.",
"Not until she had driven a car for 20 years.",
"After she was shouted at by a motorist.",
"After she was once knocked do... | A few days ago we - that's me and the husband - took a cab to the station. Chat with the driver fell to the wrong of cyclists, and the misunderstanding of the road rules. So far as the rules of the road go, there seems to be one basic principle: when you are driving a car you hate bikes, when you are riding a bike you ... | high4351.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "New York."
},
"options": [
"Geneva.",
"Sydney.",
"Tokyo.",
"New York."
],
"question": "Which of the following cities may be the cheapest for employees overseas?",
"question_type": null
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"answer":... | What's the most expensive place to station an employee overseas? London? Tokyo? Sao Paulo? Try Luanda, Angola.
That's the finding of a survey by Mercer, the world's largest human resources consulting firm, headquartered in New York City. Two African cities (Luanda, N'Djamena) were in the top 10, along with four (Moscow... | high19525.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "interview a celebrity"
},
"options": [
"correct a piece of writing",
"write a complete book",
"improve a written article",
"interview a celebrity"
],
"question": "A ghostwriter does all the following EXCEPT _ ... | Ghostwriters are widely used by celebrities or public figures who wish to publish their autobiographies . The degree of involvement of the ghostwriter in nonfiction writing projects ranges from minor to significant. Various sources explain the role of the ghostwriter and how competent writers can get this kind of wo... | high16616.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Life Is Beautiful."
},
"options": [
"My Left Foot.",
"Life Is Beautiful.",
"Shine.",
"Stand and Deliver."
],
"question": "If you want to watch a movie about wars, which may be one of your choices?",
"questio... | My Left Foot (1989)
Imagine being a prisoner of your own body, unable to make any movements except to move your left foot. The main character in My Left Foot, based on the real story of cerebral palsy sufferer Christy Brown, can barely move his mouth to speak, but by controlling his left foot, he's able to express hi... | high11179.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Drinking and driving"
},
"options": [
"Driving much faster than the speed limit.",
"Drinking and driving",
"Moving into a parking space where another car is trying to park.",
"Changing lanes very suddenly and blocking a... | At times we all get angry when we are driving. It might be because we are stuck in a traffic jam or stuck behind a very slow driver. It might be because we think another driver has done something very stupid and dangerous. Whatever the reason, it seems that getting angry in a car is something which happens more and mor... | high965.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "father's kind offer to the family in the rain"
},
"options": [
"father's kind offer to the family in the rain",
"mother's generosity to give all our Christmas presents away",
"that my sister and I had no alternative as to my ... | Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was there, standing outside the closed gas station.
My father was driving very slowly down the highway. The clo... | high7658.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "not knowing what to say at the moment"
},
"options": [
"to be absent-minded",
"to think too much suddenly",
"to be afraid of the audience",
"not knowing what to say at the moment"
],
"question": "\"Go blank\" he... | I stood up to speak and my mind went blank .Has this ever happened to you? You may be nervous in front of an audience .You may be worried that you didn't prepare enough, You may have forgotten some of your facts. What can you do? Sometimes people prepare too much and become terrified if they can't remember the words th... | high9675.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "will get used to the new life with certain difficulty."
},
"options": [
"find their new life always wonderful and exciting.",
"dislike the new surroundings from the beginning.",
"quickly get accustomed to the new culture ther... | "You are going abroad and will live there? Oh, wonderful! You are so lucky."
Perhaps your family and friends said similar things to you when you left home. But is it true all the time? Is your life in the new country always wonderful and exciting?
Specialists say that it isn't that easy to get used to life in a new cul... | high6546.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "studying dinosaur fossils"
},
"options": [
"studying dinosaur fossils",
"examining modern animals",
"watching dinosaurs",
"using telescopes"
],
"question": "Dinosaur scientists can get information directly by _... | Unlike modern animal scientists, dinosaur scientists cannot sit on a hillside and use telescopes to watch dinosaurs in order to know how they lived and whether they were good parents. Instead, they have to search hard for information from dinosaurs' fossils because dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.
It's very ... | high7880.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "He was a boy handicapped and needed lots of patience."
},
"options": [
"He was a boy handicapped and needed lots of patience.",
"He was an optimistic child and was sincere and kind to others.",
"He found a job after his gradu... | When I was superintendent of schools in Palo Alto, California, Polly Tyner, the president of our board of trustees , wrote a letter that was printed in the Palo Alto Times. Polly's son, Jim, had great difficulty in school. He was classified as educationally handicapped and required a great deal of patience on the part ... | high13008.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "doesn't look her age at all"
},
"options": [
"doesn't deserve her name",
"doesn't look her age at all",
"behaves like a young woman",
"looks younger than Halle Berry"
],
"question": "In the author's eyes, Sandra... | Sandra Bullock turned 51 last month. But because she looks exactly the same as she did inMiss Congeniality, a movie filmed back in the 20thcentury, everyone calls her "ageless." Bullock is just one of a number of stars in their 40s and 50s who've had birthdays recently but have not gotten older, unlike the rest of us i... | high14767.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "The argument over salt and health."
},
"options": [
"The argument over salt and health.",
"Less salt, fewer heart attacks.",
"National campaign for less salt.",
"Bad effects of salt."
],
"question": "What's the ... | Last month we reported about a study that showed eating even a little less salt could greatly help the heart. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The scientists used a computer model to predict how just three grams less salt a day would affect heart disease in the United States.
The scientis... | high9113.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Refrigerators."
},
"options": [
"Building materials.",
"Wet carpet.",
"Cooling system.",
"Refrigerators."
],
"question": "According to the author,which may NOT be the source of indoor air pollution?",
"quest... | Most people are aware that outdoor air pollution can damage their health,but many do not know that indoor air pollution can also have significant health effects.Environmental Protection Agency studies indicate that indoor levels of pollutants may be 3~5 times,and occasionally more than 100 times,higher than outdoor lev... | high6220.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "To encourage people to slow down."
},
"options": [
"To call on people to eat out.",
"To make people enjoy cooking.",
"To drive McDonald's out of Rome",
"To encourage people to slow down."
],
"question": "What's ... | The clock rules our lives. The more we try to save time, the less time we seem to have. In every area of our lives we are doing things faster. And many of us live in towns and cities which are getting noisier and more stressful as each day passes. But now a worldwide movement, whose aim is to slow life down, has starte... | high15479.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the past"
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"themselves",
"others",
"the past",
"nothing"
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"question": "The old like to talk about _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2... | Today is Sarah's birthday. She is seventy-five. We asked a few old friends to dinner.
Like most elderly people, I suppose, we spent most of the evening talking about old times. Thirty years ago, the village used to be a quiet place. Now it has changed. Every Sunday hundreds of cars pass through the village at what I th... | high12316.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "share the responsibility of caring with others"
},
"options": [
"share the responsibility of caring with others",
"take good care of themselves",
"learn how to live a longer life",
"help as many people as possible"
... | What if it isn't a dog-eat-dog world? What if caring for a dog or for a mom with Alzheimer's makes you stronger and allows you to live longer?
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are challenging our long-held belief that humans are born to be selfish.
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selectio... | high3358.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "It was once on display"
},
"options": [
"It can help a lot in lung transplants",
"It was once on display",
"It works differently from the normal one in the body",
"It's just like an oxygen bottle."
],
"question"... | A portable lung which could help those with breathing problems lead a normal life is being developed by scientists.
The Swansea University scientists say it could take many years before the device , the size of a spectacle box , is available . Lung patients , who have seen how it would work , have welcomed the resea... | high4437.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "police were still trying to identify a possible bomb"
},
"options": [
"police were still trying to identify a possible bomb",
"passengers succeeded in stopping the explosion",
"a frightening bomb was found later on the airpla... | MEXICO CITY: A jetliner from the beach resort of Cancun was briefly hijacked as it landed in Mexico City on Wednesday. The hijackers released all passengers shortly before federal police stormed the plane, and the crew emerged unharmed moments later.
Police, who did not fire a single shot, led as many as eight handcuff... | high16170.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "studied in Peking University"
},
"options": [
"studied in Peking University",
"talked with his friends about the walls",
"experienced the \"cultural shock\" at his arrival",
"spent two and a half years in China over sev... | Having spent two and a half years in China over several visits, I don't remember ever going through a phase we in the United States call "cultural shock". This period of difficulty in adjusting to a new culture would probably have set in during my semester at Peking University. Of course, this is not to say that I didn... | high5729.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "couldn't get whatever she liked"
},
"options": [
"couldn't get whatever she liked",
"couldn't see her parents at all",
"didn't like new clothes",
"didn't like Christmas that much"
],
"question": "When the writer... | I was born into a family of five children. As the youngest child, I didn't have many new clothes. Though my parents worked very hard, we could hardly make ends meet. The only time we would receive new clothes was at Christmas.
The family across the street lived a much better life. They just had two daughters and they w... | high10501.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the rain is spread out in a year"
},
"options": [
"the rain falls only in a few weeks",
"the rain is spread out in a year",
"there is little rain in a year",
"it is dry all the year round ."
],
"question": "Many... | Deserts are found where there is little rainfall or where rain for a whole year falls in only a few weeks' time. Ten inches of rain may be enough for many plants to survive if the rain is spread throughout the year. If it falls within one or two months and the rest of the year is dry, those plants may die and a deser... | high2046.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Family Unity Builds Success"
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"options": [
"How to Run a Corporation Well",
"Strength Comes from Peace",
"How to Achieve a Big Dream",
"Family Unity Builds Success"
],
"question": "Which of the following can b... | When her five daughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity .To show this, she pick up one chopstick, taking it as one person.Then she easily broke it into two pieces.Next, she tied several chopsticks together, taking them as a family.She showed the girls it was hard to break the ti... | high13020.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Opinions about competition are different among people"
},
"options": [
"Competition helps to set up self-respect .",
"Opinions about competition are different among people",
"Competition is harmful to personal quality develop... | In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition . Some value it highly , believing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity . Others say that competition is bad ; that it sets one person against another ; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people .
I have taught many... | high1567.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "How Safina came first in women's tennis."
},
"options": [
"How Safina came first in women's tennis.",
"How the parents taught Safina to play tennis.",
"How her brother helped Safina play tennis.",
"How Safina beat her b... | About a year ago,if you had asked who Dinara Safina was,the answer would have been,"She is Marat Safin's younger sister." She was overshadowed by her wonder brother.But now she has made a name for herself:the world No.1 player in women's tennis.
The 22yearold Russian overtook Serena Williams of the US for top ranking o... | high6208.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Movie theaters' ban on outside food."
},
"options": [
"The pleasure of enjoying snacks.",
"A Michigan man's fight for his right.",
"Movie theaters' ban on outside food.",
"Bad manners in movie theaters."
],
"que... | You and your friends are settling into your seats. The new Spider-Man movie is about to start and you've got the snacks: soda and popcorn. Food is part of what makes the movies fun.
Just as the lights go out, you catch a slight smell of ... tuna fish?! You turn your head, searching for the source. Then you spot him: A ... | high7116.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "84 hours"
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"84 hours",
"86 hours",
"90 hours",
"96 hours"
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"question": "Before this basketball marathon, the world record was _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"ans... | Once a group of 17-year-old schoolboys decided to break the world basketball marathon record. They wanted to play for 90 hours ,breaking the record by adding 6 hours . Each team had 9 players, with 5 at a time. The boys decided each person would play 21.5 hours and then rest for 2 hours. Then they started at 6 o'clock ... | high15451.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "her mother was looking after her father in hospital"
},
"options": [
"her mother was away working in another town",
"her mother was looking after her father in hospital",
"she wanted to tell her about the illness of Beth",
... | Mr. Laurence was not allowed to see Beth, and Meg felt unhappy writing letters to her mother saying nothing about Beth's illness. Jo nursed Beth night and day, but the time came when Beth did not know her and called for her mother. Jo was frightened, and Meg begged to be allowed to write the truth, but Hannah said ther... | high8225.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Movie World"
},
"options": [
"Movie World",
"Sea World",
"Tropical Fruit World",
"Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary"
],
"question": "If you want to watch stunt shows, you can go to _ .",
"question_type": "cloz... | Movie World
Movie world is the only movie-related theme park in Australia. With one of the best coast and a good handful of movie-related rides, you'll experience a fun-filled adventure with the glamour of Hollywood. Get "behind the scenes" movie information and stunt shows to keep the whole family entertained for th... | high14997.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "lack of mother-tongue education can lead to economic failure"
},
"options": [
"mother-tongue education is not practiced in all African countries",
"lack of mother-tongue education can lead to economic failure",
"globalization... | One of the main challenges facing many countries is how to maintain their identity in the face of globalization and the growing multi-language trend. "One of the main reasons for economic failure in many African countries is the fact that, with a few important exceptions, mother-tongue education is not practiced in any... | high3370.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "physics study"
},
"options": [
"physics study",
"teacher assistants",
"free time activities",
"language exchange program"
],
"question": "The passage mentions all the following points EXCEPT _ .",
"questio... | Sunday, 31 August
We've been in China for a month now. Dad, Mom, Harry and I moved to Tianjin on 25 August. We're not very far from Beijing. Two days ago, we celebrated my 16thbirthday. It was great celebrating in China; the only thing that was strange was the cake--here they're not as sweet as the ones in New York. On... | high11637.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "so that the policeman could find it easily"
},
"options": [
"so that he could make more room for himself",
"so that the policeman could find it easily",
"because the other passengers didn't like it",
"because there was ... | A small man with a fat stomach got on the train at the last station before the frontier . He carried a paper bag. And four feet ducks could be seen under the cover. The man found an empty seat, put the bag in the middle of the floor, took out a newspaper and began to read. Then a policeman came in. Of course he saw th... | high16158.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "People who have just moved to a foreign country."
},
"options": [
"The family and friends of those who came to the US.",
"Those who have got rid of culture shock.",
"People who can easily adjust their life in the US.",
... | "You're going to the United States to live? How wonderful! You're really lucky!"
Does this sound familiar? Perhaps your family and friends said similar things to you when you left home. But does it seem true all the time? Is your life in this new country always wonderful and exciting? A great many facts show that it's ... | high17246.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "how to deal with unexpected things in life"
},
"options": [
"how to change yourself successfully",
"how to do if your colleague leaves",
"how to deal with unhappy things in life",
"how to deal with unexpected things i... | Please excuse me if I'm a little sad today. Mark is leaving, and I'm feeling kind of sad.
You probably don't know Mark, but you might be lucky enough to know someone just like him. He's been the heart and soul of the office for a couple of years combining great professional skills with a sweet nature. He just wants to ... | high5701.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "John needed education and he could go to high school there"
},
"options": [
"life in prefix = st1 /Chicagowould be better for the blacks than for the whites",
"John's father died in his hometown when John was very young",
"th... | John H.Johnson was born in a family in Arkansas City in 1918.His father died in an accident when John was six.He was reaching high school age, but his hometown offered no high schools for the blacks.
Fortunately he has a strong-willed and caring mother.John remembers that his mother told him many times, "Son, you can b... | high18175.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "An accident that killed some people."
},
"options": [
"An accident that killed some people.",
"A new-year celebration.",
"A popular tourist attraction in Shanghai.",
"Some old buildings along the Huangpu River."
],
... | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A stampede killed at least 35 people and injured 43 during New Year's Eve celebrations in Shanghai, on the city's popular waterfront tourist attraction known as the Bund , authorities said.
The Shanghai government said that large crowds started to stampede in Chen Yi Square on the Bund just before ... | high10529.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The soil it was built on is not solid."
},
"options": [
"Its population is rising.",
"Its buildings are too weighty.",
"The soil it was built on is not solid.",
"Its underground water is being overused."
],
"que... | There's no place in the world like Venice, Italy. Called the City of Water, Venice was built about 1,500 years ago. It's made up of 118 tiny islands in the Adriatic Sea. The area, however, may be in over its head. But now scientists have a new plan to save the city.
Because the city was built on soft soil, it has been ... | high17520.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Chinese and Nigerian media should pay more attention to their own growing roles and strive to present a reliable image to each other."
},
"options": [
"More international community should pay attention to Africa's deepening relationship ... | Chinese and Nigerian media should pay more attention to their own growing roles and strive to present a reliable image of China to African audiences and vice versa . Agreement on this important step in ongoing cooperation between the two sides was reached by media representatives attending a media forum on September 19... | high5067.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "on holiday"
},
"options": [
"on business",
"on holiday",
"for exploring",
"for money"
],
"question": "Carner visited Loch Ness _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answ... | In the summer of 1980 a Spanish tourist, Gaspar Carner, went to prefix = st1 /Great Britainon holiday. When he was travelling in Scotland, he decided to visit Loch Ness, the famous lake where people say there is a monster . But while he was going across the lake in a boat, his bag fell into the water. In the bag were h... | high18613.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "describe how modern research has updated an old explanation"
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The worst days of any summer are the rainy ones. We spend all year looking forward to nice weather and long, hot days. All of winter, with its cloudy days and bitter cold, we dream of those endless days at the beach, lying on the sand and enjoying the bright and burning sun. And then, summer comes, and it r... | high11151.txt |
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"He was on a business trip."
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As told by Lee Joon-ho, 20, a senior in law at Seoul National University
Korean TV dramas have shown a lot of rebellious youth, but in fact most students still live a traditional life.
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"Because he wanted to protect his father from being hurt.",
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"... | 1 Day Fly-Fly Aboriginal Rock Tour
Tour Details
Operator: Adventure North Australia
Destination: Cooktown
Departs From: Cairns
Tour Description
Voted as one of Australia's Must-Do-Experiences. Treat yourself to an amazing day out with Aboriginal Elder Willie Gordon.
Depart Cairns Domestic Airport for the Skytrans Fligh... | high781.txt |
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... | high17534.txt |
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Tayka Hotel de Sal
Where: Tahua, Bolivia
How much: About $95 a night Zxxk
Why it's cool: You've stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That's something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt - including the beds (though you'll sleep on regular... | high5073.txt |
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The Shuttle Student Involvement Program invited students to make a science experiment. The experiment would be done by astronauts on the... | high3364.txt |
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So she was co... | high11623.txt |
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"Sharma was sure to win in the audition",
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Pi, the lead character in Oscar-winning Ang Lee's new movie Life of Pi, went throug... | high5715.txt |
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"I will answer your question."
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],
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Tour 1 Garland Valley
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"South Africa ignores the protection of animals.",
"An Asian toad gets a new home in South Africa.",
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South Africans are shocked at the endurance of a toad that got trapped in a cargo shipment from China to Cape Town, after jumping into a porcelain candlestick that was made there. South African officials reported... | high14983.txt |
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The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million b... | high22202.txt |
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In the US, giving a little extra money to service workers on top of your bill is a common practice.
Though US national law requires that businesses pay workers at least $7.25 (45 yuan) per hour... | high14968.txt |
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Kevin Salwen was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, back from a sleepover in 2006 . While waiting at a traffic light, they saw a black Mercedes Coupe on one side and a homeless man begging for food on the other.
"Dad, if that man had a less nice car, that man there could ... | high5926.txt |
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},
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"The fact that she keeps searching for her future.",
"The fact that she doesn't know what her future is."... | At 57 you would think I know what my future looks like. But I don't. I'm still searching for it.
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"their parents set a bad example to them",
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],
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You can use role-rever... | high6591.txt |
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... | Hey there,
So you're about to spend four years of your life and tens of dollars of your parents' money, and all
you really know about college is that all of your friends are going. Do you ever stop to wonder why
you're going?
*Relax. You're making the right decision. First of all, you'll discover what interests you ... | high22564.txt |
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"answer_text": "mental health"
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"normal organs",
"lungs and heart",
"mental health",
"blood pressure"
],
"question": "The results of new research on mice first suggest that polluted air mainly does harm to _ ."... | Long-time exposure to air pollution can lead to physical changes in the brain and cause trouble in learning and memory, and even anxiety. This is suggested by the results of new research on mice.
While other studies have shown the harmful effects of polluted air in the lungs and heart, this is the first to show the n... | high13961.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "It is not completely a bad thing."
},
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"It is disastrous to society.",
"It is not completely a bad thing.",
"It is a punishment to those working in Silicon Valley.",
"People with autism should never marry."
... | It's the place where smart people make smart machines work even smarter. It's also in the heart of sunny California, a great place to start a family and raise kids. What could be better?
But something is happening to their children. Up until the age of two they develop normally. But then everything seems to go backward... | high6585.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "to get people to spend more time doing more productive things"
},
"options": [
"to get people to spend more time doing more productive things",
"to keep kids from participating in healthy physical activities",
"to advise peop... | Bored? Don't know what to do with your time? Get your friends or family together, go to the park or go hiking, do something fun --just don't turn on your TV.
The 10th annual TV-Turnoff Week starts on Monday. The TV-Turnoff Network, a nonprofit organization, began the program in 1994 to get children and adults to watch ... | high7843.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "The 5thMedia"
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"More Information for You",
"Thumb Culture",
"The 5thMedia"
],
"question": "What's the best title of the passage?",
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},
{
... | Traditional media platforms such as radio, television, newspaper and the Internet still cannot satisfy people living in fast - paced modern society.
The highly technical development of mobile phones also nurtures the "thumb culture" and a new alternative media.
With the aim of "putting the world in your pocket,"... | high24101.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "An unlikely best friend"
},
"options": [
"A story about Paris",
"An unlikely best friend",
"Life in a new school",
"A secret of how to make friends"
],
"question": "Which of the following is most probably the be... | Once again, I was in a new school. There was a girl in my class named Paris. That's where the similarities ended.
I was tall and she was small. I was one of the oldest in the class while she was the youngest. I was awkward and shy. She wasn't. I couldn't stand her, considering her my enemy. But she wanted to be fri... | high22570.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Never before have airline passengers been blacklisted."
},
"options": [
"Never before have airline passengers been blacklisted.",
"At no time should flights be delayed, whatever the reasons.",
"Members of the cabin crew shoul... | Uncivilized behavior by passengers unacceptable
For the first time, airline passengers have been blacklisted for uncivilized behavior. Their names will remain on the blacklist for one or two years, according to an announcement by the China Air Transport Association on Saturday. The blacklisting means they will not be a... | high13975.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "bring it back in its original form"
},
"options": [
"post it to where you bought",
"open its package to examine it",
"send it to families in need for yourself",
"bring it back in its original form"
],
"question"... | Salvation Army Angel Program
Angel Tree collects gifts for children and families in need. Participate by selecting an angel from any Angel Tree at all Cyprus Credit Union location or any Utah Macy's Department store. Shop for your angel, then return your new, unwrapped gift to the same Angel Tree. Gifts must be returne... | high4392.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "They can reach an accident area faster."
},
"options": [
"They can be safer.",
"They can reach an accident area faster.",
"They can get more advice from people.",
"They can share their information with others."
],
... | Controlling traffic is a complex and high cost problem in many developed countries. It becomes more difficult and costly with the ever- increasing number of cars on the roads. But scientists and students at the CATT, at the University of Maryland are working to solve this problem. They are using simulation technologie... | high11804.txt |
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