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"answer_text": "an Englishman; \"Robinson Crusoe\""
},
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"an Englishman; \"A Tale of Two Cities\"",
"an American; \"A Million Pound Note\"",
"a Frenchman; \"The Lost Necklace\"",
"an Englishman; \"Robinson Crusoe\""
],
... | Daniel Defoe (about 1660~1731) was an important novelist in the English literature . When he was young, he served as a soldier and had been to Spain, Italy, France and Germany. At the same time, he went in for politics. He cared much about the development of capitalism . He had written a lot of articles against it and ... | high20401.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "do something we don't like to"
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"options": [
"do something we don't like to",
"go to the theater",
"go to the music show",
"do something that we want to"
],
"question": "\"To face the music\" means \"to _ \... | When someone says "well, I guess I'll have to face the music", it doesn't mean that he is planning to go to hear a singer. It is something far less happy, as you are called in by your leader to explain why you did this and did that or why you did not do this or that.
At some time or another, every one of us has to "fac... | high2085.txt |
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"answer_text": "more and more criminals are using social media sites for crimes"
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"people with mobile phones can shop at London Underground stations",
"Facebook, Twitter, and BlackBerry messenger are not popular in the US",
"t... | Express delivery: How you can buy your groceries from a virtual supermarket
Aug, 1st, 2011 Daily Mail
A "virtual supermarket" consisting of posters of goods put on platform walls is set to be introduced at London Underground stations. Passengers "shop" by scanning QR--Quick Response--codes of the items they want to buy... | high5932.txt |
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"answer_text": "Activities for the bonding between mother and daughter."
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"Trips for mother and daughter.",
"A daughter's attachment to her mother.",
"Suitable books for mother and daughter.",
"Activities for the bonding... | Normally and naturally, a daughter is more attached to her mother in comparison to her father or other siblings . The attachment is also due to the fact that the daughter finds it easier to believe in the mother on personal and biological matters at different stages while growing up.
The bonding between mother and ... | high19280.txt |
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"answer_text": "Panos doesn't like the idea that boys and girls are in separate classes."
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"options": [
"Panos thinks that the idea is very good for they can talk freely.",
"Panos doesn't accept the fact that girls in her class have to finish ma... | HARTLAND, Wis. (AP) -- Lauren Panos was surprised when she walked into her ninth-grade English class in the fall and saw there were no boys.
Her parents had not told her they had enrolled her in a new all-girls class at Arrowhead High School in Hartland. Panos still isn't sold on the idea.
"All the girls there, they ca... | high22216.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "do something that we don't like to"
},
"options": [
"go to the concert",
"do something that we don't like to",
"go to the music show",
"do something pleasant"
],
"question": "\"To face the music\" means \"to _ ... | In America when you hear, "Well, I guess I'll have to face the music", it doesn't mean that he is planning to go to hear a singer or attend a concert. It is something far less unhappy than you are called in by your leader to explain why you did this and that or why you did not do this or that.
At times, almost all of... | high17285.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Take some part-time jobs at night."
},
"options": [
"Go out at night.",
"Do some secret things at night.",
"Go out for a walk at night.",
"Take some part-time jobs at night."
],
"question": "What is the closest ... | Fred Michel is one of 7.2 million Americans who moonlight.
Once a week, after his day job as medical director of a mental health center, the 40-year-old psychiatrist heads to a part-time job at a treatment center for young people. Twice a month, he travels three hours to another teenage treatment center.
Last year,... | high20429.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "have never been so materialistic"
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"options": [
"have never been so materialistic",
"have never been so interested in the arts",
"have never been so financially well off",
"have never attached so much importance to mo... | According to a survey, which was based on the responses of over 188,000 students, today's traditional age college freshmen are "more materialistic and less altruistic " than at any time in the 17 years of the poll.
Not surprising in these hard times, the student's major objective "is to be financially well off. Less i... | high21737.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "deaf students"
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"blind students",
"deaf students",
"art students",
"dumb students"
],
"question": "The passage is written for _ .",
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"answe... | We are going to talk again this week about higher education for disabled students who want to study in the United States.As we noted last time,there are no special colleges or universities for blind students.But there are for deaf students.One of them is Gallaudet University in Washington,D.C. Gallaudet is said to be t... | high15492.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He was upset."
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"options": [
"He was upset.",
"He was happy.",
"He was thankful.",
"He was moved."
],
"question": "What was the author's first reaction when he knew it snowed heavily?",
"question_type": nu... | An early morning winter storm had brought several inches of snow on my small town in the mountains. Schools were canceled, roads were dangerous and all I wanted to do was to stay in bed. Still, I knew I had to get the day started so I put on warm clothes and walked outside. The snow got all over my shoes. The cold wind... | high14954.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because she didn't like the greedy owner."
},
"options": [
"Because she didn't like the greedy owner.",
"Because she waned to save the gold for the poor.",
"Because the basement was too cold to stay in.",
"Because she b... | Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the guest room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When t... | high23646.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "After she entered \"Mission 523\"."
},
"options": [
"When she was 84 years old",
"After she entered \"Mission 523\".",
"In 1967",
"When malaria become serious among ordinary Chinese people."
],
"question": "When... | Tu Youyou, 84, honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct 5, 2015. She was the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize in science for her work in helping to create an anti-malaria medicine.
In 1967, Communist leader Mao Zedong decided there was an urgent national need to find a cure for malaria. ... | high13785.txt |
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"answer_text": "Memory of an Earthquake in Golcuk"
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"Memory of an Earthquake in Golcuk",
"My Uncle's Yearly Vacation in Golck",
"An Unforgettable Experience",
"Our Unsuccessful Attempts"
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"question": "What is t... | In the summer of 1999, a small town called Golcuk was shaken by a big earthquake in north-western Turkey. It destroyed the whole town and other nearby places. Soon enough, help from other countries flew there for one purpose, "saving lives". Nowadays wherever an earthquake strikes, other countries are ready to send hel... | high24129.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "hewantedhisfriendtorepeatthemistake."
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"hewantedhisfriendtorepeatthemistake.",
"hedidn'tknowhisfriendhatedit.",
"hethoughthisfriendknewwhatitwas.",
"hethoughthisfriendwasinterestedinit."
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"quest... | Robert and Peter study in the same university. They do everything together and help each other. But they often play jokes on each other. The school year was over last month and they decided to travel through the country in America. They drove a car and could stop wherever they were interested in and started whenever th... | high9846.txt |
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"answer_text": "cheap rockets for space travel"
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"cheap rockets for space travel",
"a plane",
"a spaceship",
"a satellite"
],
"question": "We will have developed _ in a hundred years'time,permitting long jour... | We often think of future. We often wonder what the world would be like in a hundred years'time.
Think of space,perhaps a permanent station on the moon will have been set up. Perhaps people will be able to visit the moon as tourists. Cheap rockets for space travel will have been developed,permitting long journeys throu... | high8580.txt |
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"answer_text": "a thank-you letter to a newspaper"
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"a report about a warm-hearted girl",
"an advertisement for an animal shelter",
"a thank-you letter to a newspaper",
"a donation program for homeless pets"
],
"... | Around six weeks ago, Kaileen came running into the house, just getting off the bus from school. She was all excited about a story about homeless pets because of Hurricane Katrina and all that was going on to help them. She said that this information came from her animal newspaper (your KIND News). Kaileen has a grea... | high22558.txt |
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"answer_text": "Sessions won the election campaign by a very close outcome."
},
"options": [
"Sessions launched his election campaign on Sept. 22.",
"Sessions worked so hard that he once tried to persuade people in a hospital.",
"Sessions wo... | The new mayor of Hillsdale, Michigan, is a man of the people, ready to listen to their problems, but only until 6 p.m. Then he has to do his homework. Michael Sessions, 18, beat former mayor Douglas Ingles, 51, by just two votes and became the new mayor of Hillsdale. He is America's youngest mayor.
As Sessions was too ... | high2913.txt |
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"answer_text": "Full Moon Beach Party and Swan Lake Ballet"
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"2010 Jazz Festival Shanghai and In the Mood for Love Ballet",
"In the Mood for Love Ballet and Full Moon Beach Party",
"Swan Lake Ballet and In the Mood for Love B... | Swan Lake Ballet
When: Aug. 27, 2010 19:15
Where: Shanghai Grand Theatre
Ticket: 80/180/280/380 RMB pre-sale (before Aug. 28)
Description: Swan Lakeis ballet at its best. There are only two Swan Lake performances this month so get your tickets fast!Swan Laketells the tal... | high21051.txt |
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"answer_text": "They behave as if their memories had totally failed."
},
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"They cannot count numbers.",
"They sometimes jump the queue.",
"They don't know how to express themselves.",
"They behave as if their memories had t... | Since I started working part-time at a grocery store, I have learned that a customer is more than someone who buys things. To me, a customer is a person whose memory fails entirely once he or she starts to push a shopping cart. One of the first things customers forget is how to count. There is no other way to explain h... | high11192.txt |
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"answer_text": "give parents advice on how to communicate with their kids"
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"compare two ways of parents` communicating with their kids",
"give parents advice on how to communicate with their kids",
"explain why kids won`t lis... | Many parents have learned the hard way that what sounds like open communication is often the very thing that closes a youngster`s ears and mouth. One common mistake is the The Lecture, the long _ that often starts with "When I was your age...." Eighteen-year-old Kelly calls lectures "long, one-side discussions in whic... | high21045.txt |
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"answer_text": "to practise speaking, writing and feeling it"
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"to practise speaking, writing and feeling it",
"to forget your own native language",
"to translate everything into his own language",
"to memorize the Engli... | "How can I learn English well?" This is a question many students ask. In my opinion, the most effective way is to learn lessons by heart. If you can recite the text and write it out, you've learned it fairly well. And if you can tell, in your own words, what the lesson says you're a very successful learner indeed. Your... | high2907.txt |
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"answer_text": "Higher body density reduces swimming ability."
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"options": [
"Higher body density reduces swimming ability.",
"A person's body density decides one's swimming ability.",
"Fat people can always swim faster than thin people.",... | The best swimmers tend to be tall and thin with long arms, long legs, long feet, and long hands. The size of their hands gives them great "water grasp", and only a very small hand movement keeps them afloat.
They also have great strength, endurance, insulation against heat loss while in water below body temperature, t... | high16831.txt |
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"answer_text": "tell an interesting incident"
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"tell an interesting incident",
"warn people that some drinks might be dangerous to health",
"suggest using Coca-Cola to kill pests.",
"announce a new discovery of Coca-Cola... | Cotton farmers in some Indian villages are busily buying Coca-Cola and Pepsi, believing that the sugar in the fizzy( ) drinks kills pests.
Farmers say scientists advised them to mix pesticides with a sugary juice to control pests, and they found the mixture cheaper and more effective than pure chemicals-- although s... | high10298.txt |
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"answer_text": "old friends can be found on the Web"
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"old friends can be found on the Web",
"sites devoted to helping students are difficult to find",
"an online dictionary is expensive for students to use",
"products o... | Almost every person uses the Web for something nowadays. This is a good idea since it is useful for so many different things. When you consider its speed and convenience, you will understand that there isn't any reason to use any other means to complete everyday jobs.
Just consider the convenience factor when you n... | high23652.txt |
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"answer_text": "Her tray slipped and made a man's shirt dirty."
},
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"She fell down to the ground.",
"She celebrated passing the exams.",
"Her purse strap got broken suddenly.",
"Her tray slipped and made a man's shirt dirty... | To celebrate the end of our exams, my friends and I went to a fast food restaurant. We ordered hamburgers and Coca Cola at the counter. When our food came, I started walking towards an empty table. By bad luck, my purse strap got caught on a chair and the tray that I was holding slipped from my hands and went flyin... | high13791.txt |
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"answer_text": "It is different for men's clothing and women's."
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"It has been followed by the industry for over 400 years.",
"It is different for men's clothing and women's.",
"It works better with men than with women.",
... | It is hardly surprising that clothing manufacturers follow certain uniform standards for various features of clothes. What seems strange, however, is that the standard adopted for women is the opposite of the one for men. Take a look at the way your clothes button. Men's clothes tend to button from the right, and w... | high742.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Preventing the wind from blowing into your room."
},
"options": [
"Don't exercise six hours before sleeping.",
"Preventing the wind from blowing into your room.",
"Staying in bed after failing to sleep.",
"Don't drink a... | Sleep is a basic human need, as basic as the need for oxygen. Getting a good night's sleep is not only directly related to how we feel the next day, but to our long-term health as well. However, many of us suffer from insomnia . Even more odf us report at least one night of restless sleep per week. This is a serious p... | high9852.txt |
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"answer_text": "the ditch was along a remote country road"
},
"options": [
"the police helped Mr. Johnson get out of the ditch",
"the accident happened on a clear warm day",
"the ditch was along a remote country road",
"Mr. Johnson had... | Mr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty-three, battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. Mr. Johnson took the only escape route -- through the boot .
Mr. Johnson's car had finished up in a ditch at Romney Marsin, Kent after skidding on ice and hitti... | high13949.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Young people"
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"Parents",
"Both parents and their children",
"Young people",
"Teachers"
],
"question": "Whom is this text written for ?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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"ans... | It is natural that young people are often uncomfortable when they are with their parents . They say their parents don't understand them .They often think that their parents are out of touch with modern ways , that they are too serious -- too strict with their children and that they seldom give their children a free h... | high8594.txt |
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"answer_text": "TV: Its Working Rules and Functions."
},
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"A Powerful Tool of Entertainment.",
"The Means of Transmission of TV.",
"TV: Its Working Rules and Functions.",
"A Brief Introduction to the Development of TV."
... | Televisiozn ---- that most widespread and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth ---- is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary advancement and diversity, which promises to reshape our lives and our world. It is an electronic revolution, made possible by the marriage of television ... | high15486.txt |
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"answer_text": "7.5 kg; 45 kg"
},
"options": [
"7.5 kg; 45 kg",
"30 kg; 45 kg",
"45 kg; 7.5 kg",
"5 kg; 30 kg"
],
"question": "Something that weighs 15kg on Earth weighs about _ on Mars and _ on Jupiter.",
"question... | If you look at the night sky, you'll often see stars moving very quickly. In fact, they move much more quickly than they should according to their size and the laws of physics.
Scientists do not completely understand why the speed of these stars is so high. But many believe the reason is that much of the universe is ma... | high14940.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "fly more quickly and easily"
},
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"protect themselves from danger",
"fly more quickly and easily",
"help the sick and wounded",
"fly much higher in the sky"
],
"question": "Wild geese fly in a V forma... | Next autumn when you see wild geese heading south for the winter flying in a V formation you might think about what scientists have discovered as to why they fly that way.
As each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in a V formation the whole group adds at leas... | high14798.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It is a kind of polar bear."
},
"options": [
"It is a kind of polar bear.",
"It is a white variant of the North American black bear.",
"It is a walking contradiction.",
"It's found mainly in the Great Bear Rainforest."
... | With a wildlife guide, I stepped on a journey to find one of the rarest creatures in the world ----the spirit bear, a walking contradiction--a white black bear. Neither albino nor polar bear, the spirit bear is a white variant of the North American black bear, and it's found almost exclusively here in the Great Bea... | high23134.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "offer people a new way to learn languages"
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"increase people's interest in cooking",
"teach people how to cook French dishes",
"offer people a new way to learn languages",
"help cooks learn spoken French ... | A kitchen that gives step-by-step cooking instructions in French could inspire a revolution in language learning in the UK. By using a new technology, it speaks to you as you prepare a French dish. The kitchen breaks new ground by taking language learning out of the classroom and linking it with an enjoyable and reward... | high17291.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The Development of the Hamburger"
},
"options": [
"The St.Louis Fair",
".Russian Eating ?Habits",
"The Development of the Hamburger",
"The First Hamburger Stand"
],
"question": "What would be the best title for ... | It would be hard to find a person in America who has never eaten a hamburger, but this popular food was not originally made in America. The original hamburger can be traded back to the Middle Ages, when Russians ate raw meat that was scraped and shredded with a dull knife and formed into patties , It was called Tar... | high21723.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "making full use of your time"
},
"options": [
"making full use of your time",
"your hard work",
"your brainpower",
"how well you play the game"
],
"question": "According to the passage, your success in high scho... | High school students are some of the busiest people in the world. To get the most from all you do, you must be in control of your time. Otherwise decision that affect how well you play the game, what position you play and when you get to play will be decided for you. Your success in high school depends on your use of t... | high10461.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Acting them out."
},
"options": [
"Reading them aloud.",
"Reciting them.",
"Cooperating with actors.",
"Acting them out."
],
"question": "How will young people learn Shakespeare?",
"question_type": "factiod_... | Eleven-year-olds are to learn Shakespeare using the approaches taken by actors, and English teachers will be encouraged to let pupils walk around the classroom rather than read the plays while pupils are sitting at their desks.
Within the English curriculum you tend to look at a play text as a piece of literature rath... | high2126.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "in 1907"
},
"options": [
"in 1872",
"in 1907",
"in the 1600's",
"in 1914"
],
"question": ".Mother's Day in the U.S. was first celebrated _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"answer": {
... | In the U.S. Mother's Day is a holiday celebrated on second Sunday in May. It is a day when children honor their mothers with cards, gifts and flowers. First _ in Philadelphia in 1907,it is based on suggestions by Julia Ward Howe in 1872 and by Anna Jarvis in 1907.
Although it wasn't celebrated in the U.S. until 1907,th... | high5649.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is about James Joyce's life"
},
"options": [
"Dublin Castle was used for government conferences",
"the sole college of the University of Dublin was established by Queen Elizabeth II... | Dublin City Hall
Inside City Hall is an interesting exhibition about Dublin's history, with historical items from the old city and multimedia presentations. The building, which dates from 1779, once badly damaged, was recently _ . Guided tours are available. Open Monday to Saturday 10:00 a.m.~5:15 p.m., Sunday and holi... | high4557.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Rmb 1,000"
},
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"Rmb 10",
"Rmb 100",
"Rmb 1,000",
"Rmb 10,000"
],
"question": "If Rmb12,000 is deposited in Chinese banks, then how much money will flow into Yu' E Bao accounts according to the passag... | Li Mingyang only joined Alibaba's investment platform one month ago but he has already transferred almost all the cash in his bank account - nearly Rmb200,000 ($32,000) - to the online fund. He is far from alone . More than 30 million people in China have signed up to Yu'E Bao, or "Leftover Treasure", only six months... | high19323.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the hermitage Museum and the Church of Our Savior on the Spilt Blood"
},
"options": [
"Peterhof and Kizhi Island",
"the Hernatage Museum and Peterhof",
"Kizhi Island and the Church of Our Savior on the Spilt Blood",
"th... | When you go to St. Petersburg, the number of attractions can seem large. If you are short of time, or just want to make sure to _ , these are the top must-see sights in St.Petersburg.
*The Hermitage Museum
The Hermitage Museum is one of the most important sights to see for any visitor to St.Petersburg.There are lots of... | high5891.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "not only girls but also boys"
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"girls",
"boys",
"students",
"not only girls but also boys"
],
"question": "The word \"kid\"in this passage refers to _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"... | Lots of kids go through times when they'd like to change their hair. Often, it's girls who are most concerned , but boys may be interested in how their hair looks, too. Sometimes hair will change as you get older----all by itself----when you go through puberty .
Maybe it used to be lighter and now it's darker. Or maybe... | high3238.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "5.5 hours"
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"3 hours",
"5.5 hours",
"7.5 hours.",
"8 hours."
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"question": "According to the schedule, how long will a volunteer work a day?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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... | Volunteer Day schedule:
7:30 a.m.: Meet at the Community Center for breakfast.
8-8:30 a.m.: Visit with people from the many participating organizations. Choose which activity you'd like to help with for the day.
8:30-9 a.m.: Board the bus for your chosen activity, and ride with other volunteers to your activity site.
9... | high12276.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "can be of any size or color"
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"options": [
"can be either new or second-hand",
"can be worn by dolls and humans",
"must be a certain famous brand",
"can be of any size or color"
],
"question": "The denim cloth... | What Will Be Done-With All This Denim?
All the denim will be donated to Cotton From Blue to Green, which recycles jeans into UltraTouch Natural Cotton Fiber Insulation , which is used to help build houses in places that have been damaged by hurricanes and other natural disasters. Your jeans will help keep clothes ou... | high14607.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "to work as a volunteer teacher in Tibetan school"
},
"options": [
"to have money for a deposit on a house",
"to travel by cycling from Sichuan to Tibet",
"to own a new car and marry a slender girl",
"to work as a volunt... | Most students, when asked about their ideal graduation gift, would probably reply, "A car", or "Money for a deposit on a house". Cai Kaiyuan, 21, made a different choice. As a graduation gift to himself, he decided to work as a volunteer teacher in a remote village in Tibet.
Cai, a senior majoring in electrical enginee... | high6340.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Large sea turtles lay their eggs in special ways."
},
"options": [
"Sea turtles have interesting life habits.",
"Sea turtles swim to shore to lay their eggs.",
"Large sea turtles lay their eggs in special ways.",
"Sea t... | Did you know that a turtle can lay 12 eggs in one minute? A large sea turtle lays around 150 eggs at a time. She lays all these eggs in just a few minutes.
Large sea turtles live in the warm seas of the world. Except for when they lay their eggs, they spend their whole lives in the water. When it is time to lay their e... | high1349.txt |
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"single-celled animals can live in super-salty waters",
"the ... | Scientists recently found three animal species living two miles below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, where the super-salty waters don't have oxygen . They're multicellular , which means their bodies have many cells. They each are as small as a large grain of sand. But they are animals.
The most exciting thing ab... | high14161.txt |
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"only the upper class could speak English",
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Other nations, like... | high7738.txt |
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"an organization that provides sports chance... | Playing sports is a way for most kids to make friends, get exercise and have a good time. But what happens when kids have a disability preventing them joining in?
Challenge Alaska has worked out a national program to give those disabled kids a chance to enjoy the sports they otherwise may not be able to.
Alex t... | high23915.txt |
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"the taxi went through a red light again",
"there was a performance the writer had already watched",
"the writer... | It was midnight in Paris and we were rolling toward Avenue Bosguet. As we came to the Pont Alexandra III, the taxi slowed down, for the traffic light was red against us, and then, without stopping, we sailed through the red in a sudden burst of speed. The same performance was repeated at the Alma Bridge. As I paid the ... | high12510.txt |
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"to spare a lot of money for the state",
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That's what some fourth-and-fifth-graders at a school in Minnesota discovered earlier this year when they took part in a research project to see if changing their classrooms would make them more active.
Rese... | high18983.txt |
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"save less of their income than before",
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"A country with the most smokers.",
"The biggest cause of early death."
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Research shows... | high2898.txt |
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Course 1: General English
General English is designed to develop students' basic communication skills in: Speaking and Pronunciation, Reading, Listening, Writing, Grammar and Vocabulary. Tuesday to Friday: 9:00 am t... | high17468.txt |
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"restarted production of frozen meat.",
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The France company that spread a Europe-wide cheating of food supply by passing off 750 tons of horse-meat as beef was allowed on Monday to restart production of minced meat, sausages and ready-to-eat meals. But the company will no longer be allowed to stock frozen meat, Agriculture Minister Stephane Foll said.
... | high10307.txt |
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},
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"There are some easy ways of cooking a meal.",
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I know lots of women who skip breakfast , and they have a ton of different excuses for doing it . Some say they don't have time, others think they're "saving" calories , still others j... | high2640.txt |
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Little did I know that the little $... | high19451.txt |
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Our first expression is "in the red." It is another way of saying that a business is losing money. In the past, numbers in the financial records of a company were written in red ink to show a loss.
A business magazine recentl... | high16762.txt |
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"wouldn't make friends with the disabled",
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A lot of books have flashes of insight, but only few of them can open the readers' mind and make them realize something new. Your book, Out of My Mind, filled me with those sparks. I enjoyed getting to know Melody. Despite the fact that she had cerebral palsy ,Melody had an amazing character that sh... | high10313.txt |
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"How to be good students."
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"q... | When it comes to President Obama, most of his personal business is already known by the public. Personal information about his children, Malia and Sasha, however, has been kept a little more _ .
The New York Timesrecently released a list of rules that Michelle Obama has mentioned over the years that Malia and Sasha mus... | high2654.txt |
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Every three years, the organization called O.E.C.D. organizes exams as part of the Program for Internationa... | high9701.txt |
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With its many fashion shops and coffee shops,Lincoln Park is also a wonderful part of Chicago which is a delight for people to visit.The Chicago History Museum shows typical Americas,and then of course there's the park itself.Facing Lake Michigan,it offers beaches,wildlife signs and Lincoln Park Zoo,where ... | high14175.txt |
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The first computer was made in 1946. It was very big but it worked slowly . Today computers are getting smaller and smaller. But they work faster and faster. ... | high51.txt |
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"The history of American English.",
"The man who made spelling simple."
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For Americans things are a little bit easier, thanks to the work of Noah Webste... | high6432.txt |
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Considering that there was no better way. Mrs. Smith took a piece of paper, and wrote the following words on it:"Give my dog half a pound of meat."Then she gave the paper to her dog and said gently:"Take this to the butcher(* person w... | high811.txt |
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"answer": {
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Clearly, mealtime is not the time for you to say, "Thanks, but ... | high12504.txt |
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"they were both out of work in Colorado",
"the students of his wife were living there",
"his wife had found a new job th... | After suffering through many months of unemployment . my wife and I moved this week from Colorado to Ohio. where she was starting a new job. Not knowing anybody there. we were pretty concerned about how we'd get our entire home unloaded without killing ourselves.
We made a phone call to hire a couple of college s... | high14613.txt |
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"Beijing will reduce the number of newly added vehicles every year.",
"Beijing will firmly control industrial po... | BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Beijing will take a series of measures to tackle its environmental problems and is confident they will not derail its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, an official said on Thursday.
Beijing has formulated 84 measures to deal with environmental issue and air pollution, said Li Shixiang, ... | high6354.txt |
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"he ran his first marathon at age 18",
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It was a mountain bike he received for hi... | high2132.txt |
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"hates her parents very much"
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Dear Mr Expert:
I grew up in an unhappy and abusive home. I always Promised myself that I'd get out as soon as possible. Now, at age 20,I have a good job and a nice house, and I'm really proud of the independence I've achieved.
Here's the problem: several of my friends who still live wi... | high21870.txt |
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"questio... | Do you want to know something about the history of weather? Don't look at the sky. Don't look for old weather reports. Looking at tree rings is more important. Correct weather reports date back only one century, but some trees can provide an exact record of the weather even further back.
It is natural that a tree w... | high18029.txt |
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"answer": {
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"Judgment.",
"Excitement."
],
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"question_type": "factiod_que... | There are hundreds of travel writers. It will not be easy for you to make a mark, unless you are different. Reading the works of great travel writers and getting inspired by them are not a bad thing, but you should not copy their style and their approach. The world needs something new. Greatness is not achieved through... | high19337.txt |
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"answer": {
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"The relation between names and happiness.",
"How to have a name connected with celebrities.",
"The relation between na... | What's in name? Well, apparently, our general happiness. Psychologists say that what we are called has a direct connection with our happiness.
Those called Judy and Joshua are the happiest, while Lynn or Ben is likely to be the unhappiest, according to research. Psychologist Dr David Holmes found that this can cause th... | high4543.txt |
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"explore the life of William Shakespeare",
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Experts have begun excavating the ruins of New Place, Shakespeare's former home in Stratford-upon-Avon, which was destroyed 250 years ago. Although ... | high16004.txt |
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"Things people no longer use.",
"Things out of season.",
"Things of great value."
],
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The sellers put a paid announcement in a lo... | high3.txt |
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"answer": {
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"unrealistic",
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"... | Most young architects--particularly those in big cities--can only dream about working in a building of their own. And making that dream come true often means finding a building no one else seems to want, which is exactly what happened to David Yocum and his partner, Brain Bell. Their building is a former automobile ele... | high8351.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "without a leader"
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"without a leader",
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"without weapons"
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"question": "An independence movement can't be successful _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questi... | Every successful independence movement needs a leader. The leader of the Indian independence movement was Mohandas Gandhi. He was born into a Hindu family. As a young man, Gandhi studied law in London. The Hindu leaders had threatened to punish him. But he went to London anyhow.
Gandhi believed in fighting without weap... | high22389.txt |
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"answer": {
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"quest... | Newspapers are not nearly as popular today as they were in the past. There are not very many people who seriously read a newspaper every day. Most people read only the sports pages, the advice or the gossip columns, the comics, and perhaps the classified advertisements. Most people don't take the time to read the real ... | high23097.txt |
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],
... | Our guide was excellent! He walked us through all the local villages and took extra time at the end to enjoy a local dinner. He stayed with us longer than he was obliged to and made this a fantastic experience.
Tour _
Travel is all about the street food these days, and why not? It's fresh, fast, cheap and a great way... | high13154.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"By the sea",
"On the river",
"In the town"
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"answer_index": ... | Charlie was spending his summer holidays by the sea. One day he climbed over some rocks. He was looking for some crabs for supper. He took off his shorts and put them on a rock.
The afternoon went quickly. Time was flying by. Look! The sea was coming in fast. It was over some of the rocks now.
Charlie looked up. "It... | high187.txt |
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},
"options": [
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"New York's low homeownership rate increases people's happiness leve... | Cities with high levels of homeownership--in the range of 75%, like Detroit and St. Lous -had on average considerably lower levels of economic activity and much lower wages and incomes. Far too many people in financial problems are trapped in homes they can't sell, unable to move on to new centers of opportunity.
The c... | high21858.txt |
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"answer": {
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"phrases in the kitchen"
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"question": "The passage is mainly about _ .",
"question_ty... | Well, it's time for Words and Their Stories. We present more expressions about food from Elenir Scardueli, a listener in Brazil.
My mother believes you are what you eat. Then she'd always give us nutritious food. She likes serving us meat and potatoes, which can also mean the most important part of something. Here's an... | high18001.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"The little girl chose the video game as her present.",
... | I was doing my last-minute Christmas shopping in a toy store, looking at fashion dolls. A nicely-dressed little girl with her father was excitedly looking through the same dolls as well. As she was looking, a boy wandered in and sorted through some of the video games. He was dressed neatly, but in clothes that were obv... | high21680.txt |
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},
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"To attract the readers' interest in the backups.",
"describe a severe natural disaster.",
"To win the ... | Back those photos up
The images were striking. Homes on the East Coast were washed away by Superstorm Sandy. People were in tears, picking up faded photographs, among their only remaining possessions.
If that doesn't move you to get serious about safekeeping your lifetime of memories, what will? The digital age offers ... | high3204.txt |
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},
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"They're difficult to work with as they are stubborn.",
"They respect their boss and hope to be res... | A different sort of _ is developing in the workplace. Someone --- specifically the father-daughter team of Larry and Meagan Johnson --- has figured out that on some American job sites, five generations are working side by side.
In their new book about generations in the workplace the pair argue that while such an age d... | high11743.txt |
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"answer": {
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"The French Revolution.",
"Europe."
],
"question": "What's this passage about?",
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},
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"answer": {
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"answer": {
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"wash your body with water",
"drink from a clean cup",
"wash your hands and face"
],
"question": "In American English \"wash up\" means _... | Like most English children,I learned foreign languages at school.When I made my first visit to the United States,I was sure I could have a nice easy holiday without any language problem.But how wrong I was.
At the American airport,I was looking for a public telephone to tell my friend Jenny that I had arrived.A worker... | high19479.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "$1 million"
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"$105.",
"$10 billion.",
"$63.000.",
"$1 million"
],
"question": "How much did Avon Products,Inc. provide for UNIFEM?",
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"answer":... | prefix = st1 /Yao-less Rockets Keep Rising
Houston Agencies(March 9,2008)--Tracy McGrady had 41 points and nine assists as the Houston Rockets won their 18th game continuously with a 106-96 win over New Orleans on Saturday.
McGrady fell just six points short of his season high for points as the Rockets kept the... | high17454.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "American dance was seen as a lower art form."
},
"options": [
"She was too old to learn American dance.",
"American dance was seen as a lower art form.",
"There was no academic school to teach dancing.",
"Her family was... | Martha Graham, born in 1894, was one of the most famous dancers and creators of dance, whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on the modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture. She created almost two hundred dance pieces. She is often called... | high18767.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "his boss had stopped employing him"
},
"options": [
"he had to help with the author's lessons",
"his boss had stopped employing him",
"heavy house work was waiting for him to do",
"he wanted to search for new jobs on li... | When I walked into the house after school, the first thing I noticed was a box with items I recognized from my dad's office.
"What are you doing home already?" I asked casually.
"Andrew, I was laid off today," he answered, quietly.
I was sure he was joking. "No, you weren't. Why are you really home?"
Then I noticed his... | high16992.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To get a bike to go around."
},
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"To work out what to major in.",
"To open a qq account.",
"To get a bike to go around.",
"To buy a new mobile phone."
],
"question": "For a newcomer to Oxford, what d... | When you first arrive in Oxford, it may take a little while for you to find your way around. Some of the first things our students do when they arrive include finding a bike (most students in Oxford find cycling is the best way to go around), setting up a bank account, getting their computer and mobile phone working, f... | high13632.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Walt Disney"
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"Mickey Mouse",
"Clarence Nash",
"Walt Disney",
"Pluto"
],
"question": "Who made Donald Duck film?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_i... | In 1933 an unknown American called Clarence Nash went to see the filmmaker Walt Disney. He had an unusual voice and he wanted to work in Disney's cartoon film for children. When Walt Disney heard Nash's voice, he said "Stop! That's our duck!"
The duck was the now-famous Donald Duck, who first appeared in 1934 in the fi... | high79.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "makes us sleepy"
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"helps us relaxed",
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"makes us excited"
],
"question": "Melatonin is the hormone that _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questio... | American researchers have discovered that human brains and sleep patterns are confused by devices that give out bright lights. Electronics, such as laptops, mislead our minds into thinking that it is still daytime, preventing sleep and increasing the risk of _ .
Sleep experts say human's natural body clock begins to r... | high9729.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "many kids have their own cellphones"
},
"options": [
"not all cellphones meet kids' needs",
"not all parents buy their kids cellphones",
"kids who are old enough should have cellphones",
"many kids have their own cellph... | Most cellphone companies design models especially for kids. But parents are usually the ones buying the phones. According to a July 2012 study, 56% of parents of children aged 8 to 12 have given their children a cellphone. The number goes up with age. The study just proves what many people already guessed: many kids, i... | high8437.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Alice Wilder's participation in feminist activities"
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"how girls and women fight for their right... | Alice Wilder, a 17-year-old student at Northwest School of the Arts in North Carolina, considers herself a feminist . She is one of 26 bloggers for SPARK, an international group founded in 2010. The group fights the use of the female body as a marketing tool in the media.
Alice found out about SPARK when the organizat... | high23929.txt |
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