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"answer_text": "She takes pride in her community"
},
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"She takes pride in her community",
"She once stepped on a dog's waste",
"She is quite in favor of raising a dog",
"She finds it embarrassing to walk on the grass"
]... | While nature lovers across the world wish all humans to realize the significance of their natural surroundings , many Australians are turning caring for the environment into a way of life.
Julie Astonis , an Australian housewife in Brisbane is one such example. Even though autumn is approaching Australia's Brisbane in ... | high5310.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Our health."
},
"options": [
"Our taste.",
"Our health.",
"The variety of foods.",
"The source of foods."
],
"question": "What do we consider most important when choosing our foods?",
"question_type": "facti... | The dark chocolate is one of the favourite food choices by many. The taste is simply irresistible , the smell is inviting and the feel of every bite is surely what you are longing for.
Apart from the taste, you simply cannot resist it because it has a lot of benefits when it comes to your health. Our health is our pri... | high18564.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "The passage doesn't say."
},
"options": [
"The passage doesn't say.",
"Spain.",
"France.",
"The United States."
],
"question": "Which culture celebrates New Year in the morning?",
"question_type": "factiod_q... | Almost all cultures celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of another in some way. Different cultures celebrate the beginning of a new year in different ways, and at different times on the calendar.
In Western countries, people usually celebrate New Year at midnight on January 1st. People may go to parties, dr... | high10138.txt |
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"answer_text": "Brownie married Winnie Bamber."
},
"options": [
"Tony is the son of Winnie Bamber.",
"Billy Charnley's daughter was married to Don Roccoforte.",
"Brownie married Winnie Bamber.",
"Mrs. Roccoforte is Winnie Bamber's niec... | The old camera Brownie picked up in a charity shop was a splendid find. But the undeveloped film still inside turned out to be even more of a treasure.
New owner Don Roccoforte had it developed and saw in it an attractive dark haired woman in her thirties with two young boys. He immediately determined to try to find ou... | high13431.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Heroes:close call in a hotel fire"
},
"options": [
"College students have a terrible holiday",
"College students survived a big fire",
"Heroes:close call in a hotel fire",
"A big fire broke out in a hotel"
],
"q... | It was almost four o'clock in the morning when the fire broke out."We watch one window blow out,and then another,and heard people shouting,"says Stanley,21,a junior from Westfield State College in Massachusetts.Students were throwing ropes made from bed sheets out their windows,and a couple of them were trying to climb... | high1176.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To improve present smoke alarms."
},
"options": [
"To predict low-level fire risks.",
"To experiment with a new battery.",
"To improve present smoke alarms.",
"To avoid the low-battery chirp."
],
"question": "Fo... | The PS109 Nest Protect Smoke Alarm promises Internet alerts and an end to the low battery chirp . Besides, it uses a voice to tell you where the fire is.
The alarm is the first UK product from Nest, which is run by iPod-inventor Tony Fadell. The company claims the device's batteries will last for up to seven years. The... | high6619.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The children who sleep longer are weak in their study."
},
"options": [
"There are some daily struggles between parents and children because of having nothing in common with extra rest time.",
"The children who sleep longer are wea... | In real life, the daily struggles between parents and children are around these narrow problems of an extra hour, extra TV show, and so on" said Avi Sadeh, psychology professor at Tel Aviv University. "Too little sleep and more accidents," he said.
Sadeh and his colleagues found an extra hour of sleep can make a big di... | high7507.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Registered companies donating food,"
},
"options": [
"Hungry people living in Copia,",
"Registered companies donating food,",
"Charity organizations serving the poor.",
"Food recovery companice removing food."
],... | Ahmad is the founder of Copia, which she describers as "match com meets Uber for food recovery." Conipanies use the Copia app to report when they have leftover food,what kind, and how much . When recipients such as shelters, soup kitchens , and agencies first register with Cupia, they indicate how many people th... | high15040.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Chips."
},
"options": [
"Chips.",
"Crisps.",
"Shoofly.",
"Mississippi Mud Pie."
],
"question": "What do British people call French Fries?",
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"answer": {
"answer_index"... | Recently,I came across an interesting article on the differences between British English and American English. I had a lot of fun reading it and thinking of as many differences as I could as an American.
Their cars have "bonnets ", while ourselves have "hoods". They park their cars in a "car park" while we leave ours i... | high8634.txt |
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"answer_text": "At first making films were not popular."
},
"options": [
"People liked the color film as soon as it was made.",
"At first making films were not popular.",
"Color films were at first silence.",
"Talking films were all co... | At first all films were in black and white, but in 1932 the first color film was made. It proved as unpopular as making films had done in the late 1920's. It was not until 1938 that a full length color film was made, and the success of this film made producers everywhere change from black and white to color. This firs... | high12049.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It draws great public attention across the country."
},
"options": [
"It's open to people of all ages and all walks.",
"It's the most-viewed TV programs in China.",
"It aims to spread Chinese culture to the world.",
"It... | Every week in China, millions of people will sit in front of their TVs watching teenagers compete for the title Character Hero, which is a Chinese-style spelling bee . In this challenge, young competitors must write Chinese characters by hand. To prepare for the competition, the competitors usually spend months studyin... | high7261.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "collect donations for the homeless people"
},
"options": [
"keep yourself from the cold",
"bring a blanket to go on a trip",
"buy a home for homeless people",
"collect donations for the homeless people"
],
"ques... | Countless people long to make a difference this holiday season, yet they don't realize that opportunities to make a difference are everywhere .Here are some ideas to get you started.
Organize a blank drive
It is cold outside, but imagine how thousands of homeless people may feel without a home of their own, or even a b... | high8152.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "It's easier than we think to get what we want."
},
"options": [
"It's easier than we think to get what we want.",
"It's important to learn to accept sufferings in life.",
"It's impractical to change our way of thinking.",
... | Life can be so wonderful, full of adventure and joy. It can also be full of challenges, setbacks and heartbreaks. Whatever our circumstances, we generally still have dreams, hopes and desires--that little something more we want for ourselves and our loved ones. Yet knowing we can have more can also create a problem, be... | high14438.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Our authors never know what our children need."
},
"options": [
"they have little sense of interest and entertainment",
"many of our books are of the same",
"the authors didn't pay much attention to the children's tastes.",
... | The publication of "Harry Potterandthe Half-Blood Prince" gladdens booksellers across China. The British and American editions were No. 1 and No. 3 respectively on the sales chart of the Beijing Xidan Book Building last week. The book's poster is highlighted and news about the book can often be heard on the radio.
Why ... | high23294.txt |
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"answer_text": "Lego City Deep Sea Exploration"
},
"options": [
"Lego City Forest Pursuit",
"the Lego construction play area",
"the Lego Studios 4D Cinema",
"Lego City Deep Sea Exploration"
],
"question": "When you have a sleep... | A sleepover at Legoland Discovery Centre, at the Trafford Centre in Manchester, may sound like the perfect place to host your child's next birthday party -- but it will set parents back more than PS1,000.
All rides -- Kingdom Quest Laser Ride, Merlin's Apprentice and Lego City Forest Pursuit -- are open during the ev... | high13357.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the result of the study about sitting too long is shocking"
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"the result of the study about sitting too long is shocking",
"we need to remove many rocks",
"we need to smooth away many difficulties",
"sitt... | Mark Ramirez, a senior executive at AOL, could work in the comfortable leather chair, if he wanted. No, thanks. He prefers to stand most of the day at a desk raised above stomach level.
"I've got my knees bent. I feel totally alive," he said. "It feels more natural to stand."
In the past few years, standing has become ... | high1610.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "studying"
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"living",
"visiting",
"studying",
"amusing"
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"question": "The city of Amsterdam is the best place for _ .",
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] | Studying in Amsterdam means having one of the most beautiful and cultural cities as your campus. People living there are easy-going and friendly; English is the second language in the nation. It has a television cable network with access to over 20 television stations from Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and th... | high17131.txt |
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"answer_text": "The Web and the Culture of \" Free\""
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"options": [
"The Nature of the Web",
"The Web and the Culture of \" Free\"",
"Stealing and File Sharing",
"What Does the Word \" Free\" Mean?"
],
"question": "What is th... | When the recent research was analyzed , it was found that a lot of people wanted free pictures or free music from the Web. If it couldn't be free, then they wanted it "new" or at least at a low price. It seems that 70 percent of people aged 16 to 24 download music online but only 1 in 40 tracks are bought legally.
Thus... | high5476.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "How gestures can vary in different cultures?"
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"options": [
"How gestures can vary in different cultures?",
"What gestures can be acceptable in western countries?",
"What can we do when traveling?",
"How to be friendl... | While all cultures share the same basic emotions, the body language used throughout different cultures of the world vary enormously. What can mean one thing in one country can often mean something completely different in another.
For example, in North America and Europe people tend to prefer direct eye contact. But in ... | high18202.txt |
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"answer_text": "David Salinger's early life"
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"options": [
"David Salinger's major novels",
"David Salinger's early life",
"David Salinger's education background",
"David Salinger's experience in the army"
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"question": "The... | Jerome David Salinger was born in Manhattan on New Year s Day,1919.His father was a Jew.His mother was of Irish descent.
Never much of a student attended the progressive McBurney School.But he left school after two years and in 1934was packed off to Valley Forge Military Academy.In 1937,after a couple of unenthusiastic... | high21483.txt |
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"answer_text": "Two."
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"options": [
"Two.",
"Three.",
"Four.",
"It depends."
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"question": "How many sources of power do most hybrid cars use?",
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"answer... | Today's drivers may feel shocked by the high price of petrol when they drive to the gas station. However, the car industry has the technology to solve _ . It's the hybrid car .
What is a hybrid car? Any car that uses two or more sources of power is a hybrid car. Most hybrid cars on the road right now are petrol-electri... | high10886.txt |
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"answer_text": "By his lying position in death."
},
"options": [
"By the food he ate.",
"By doing further experiments.",
"By observing other polar bears.",
"By his lying position in death."
],
"question": "How did Stirling know... | A victim of climate change
A polar bear's dead body found on the Arctic island of Svalbard, the northernmost part of Norway, has shocked experts who say climate change may be to blame for the death. The starved polar bear in Norway was said to be in good bones by the time a group of explorers came across its body in Ju... | high4768.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He thought the sailor was just an unimportant man."
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"options": [
"He thought the sailor was just an unimportant man.",
"He didn't like him at that time.",
"He was very busy then.",
"He didn't know him well then."
... | Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet fighter pilot in Viet Nam. After 75 missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb parachuted down into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison.
One day, Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant when a man from another ... | high11540.txt |
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"answer_text": "It will begin on July16 and last for five days."
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"It will begin on July16 and last for five days.",
"Students in any grade can take part in the camp.",
"Parents are allowed to accompany their children.",
... | Time: July 16-20, 2016
Location: Norman Park Conference Center
Price: 500
Students who have completed the 5th, 6thor 7thgrade and meet the specified requirements can take part in this exciting mission opportunity. Children will spend 5 days in the Center joining in various activities.
Our theme for this camp is "Team... | high12061.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "trade along the Silk Road began earlier than once thought"
},
"options": [
"Egyptians had probably travelled to China to buy silk",
"trade along the Silk Road began earlier than once thought",
"historical research often achie... | New archaeological discovers suggest that trade between Europe and Asia along the Silk
Road probably began in some form many countries earlier than once thought. The findings, _ with a widening range of scientific and historical research, could add a fascinating new
page to the epic of the Silk Road.
The latest and mos... | high7249.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "USB vacuum"
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"options": [
"Fruit powered digital clock",
"USB vacuum",
"SIM card reader",
"Naf Naf Hyp MP3"
],
"question": "If you have 115 yuan, which product can you buy according to the passage?",
"ques... | Fruit powered digital clock
Fruit's not only good to eat, but it can also power this Fruit digital Clock. This clock uses the scientific principles on which modern electrical storage batteries are based. The acid from the fruit helps transmit an electrical flow between two metal poles. The clock is priced at US $ 15. C... | high6157.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The terrorists all surrendered to the police and soldiers."
},
"options": [
"Dozens of people were seized by the terrorist as hostages.",
"The Indonesian consulate was located in Amsterdam.",
"The terrorists were Indonesians... | Early last Tuesday, six men carrying machine guns, a pistol and a hunting rifle got on a four--car electric " milk train" at the Dutch town of Assen. Shortly after it left Beilen, ten miles away, the terrorists stopped the train and seized the passenger as hostages. As police and Dutch soldiers ringed the train, anothe... | high1638.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "how a web site is set up"
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"options": [
"how a web site is set up",
"how sad the love stories are",
"How much a website can make",
"How many people like the web site"
],
"question": "The passage is mainly abou... | Diamonds may be forever. But what's a girl to do when she gets dumped or divorced and those rings, necklace and love gifts lose their emotional sense?
Help is just a click away on new Web sites that provide an outlet for selling jewelry from past relationships, sharing break-up stories and helping broken hearts ... | high10676.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "could be extremely thin"
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"options": [
"uses a solid semiconductor",
"will soon replace the present ones.",
"could be extremely thin",
"has passed the final test."
],
"question": "According to Jae Kwon, his nu... | Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems.While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are much larger and heavier than the devices themselves.University of Missouri(MU) researchers are developing a nuclear energy source th... | high2331.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "inside the rib cage of your chest."
},
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"In the organs of your body.",
"inside the rib cage of your chest.",
"between your nose and mouth .",
"at the back of your throat."
],
"question": "Where are y... | You do something about twenty times a minute without even thinking about it--you breathe! In fact, every day you take about twenty-thousand breaths. The organs of your body that allow you to breathe are called your lungs. You have two of them that work together, located in your chest inside the rib cage.
The main pur... | high17119.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they offer their help"
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"options": [
"they offer their help",
"they receive others' help",
"they feel others' kindness",
"they show their weakness"
],
"question": "The author has discovered that people will fe... | In the animal kingdom, weakness can bring about aggression in other animal. This sometimes happens with humans also. But I have found that my weakness brings out the kindness in people. I see it every day when people hold doors for me, pour cream into my coffee, or help me to put on my coat. And I have discovered that ... | high4740.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "he enjoyed seeing new places"
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"options": [
"he preferred to stay home",
"he enjoyed seeing new places",
"he couldn't do well at school",
"he didn't get along well with his parents"
],
"question": "Johnny freq... | Johnny the Explorer
Johnny was three when he ran away from home for the first time. Somebody left the garden gate open. Johnny wandered out, crossed some fields, and two hours later, and arrived in the next village. He was just able to give his name and address.
By the time he was seven, Johnny used to vanish from home... | high19134.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "he couldn't get out of mental pressure"
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"options": [
"he couldn't earn enough money to support his family",
"he was suffering from sleeplessness disease",
"he couldn't get out of mental pressure",
"he felt tired of a... | I shall never forget the night, a few years ago, when Marion J. Douglas was a student in one of my calsses. (I have not used his real name for personal reasons. As he requested.) But here is his real story as he told it before one of our adult - education classes. He told us how tragedy had struck at his home, not once... | high16207.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "designed to test people's ability of understanding"
},
"options": [
"created through a speech synthesizer",
"hard to understand",
"available at the beginning",
"designed to test people's ability of understanding"
],... | Even facts "forgotten" by people during a busy day may be retrieved if this is followed by a good night's sleep.
Researchers from the University of Chicago asked volunteers to remember simple words.Many found their memories letting them down towards the end of the day, but the following morning, those who had slept wel... | high11568.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "travel around the world on business"
},
"options": [
"have been to the four comers of the earth",
"travel around the world on business",
"want to explore the eight airlines",
"need support all along the way"
],
... | The eight airlines of the Oneworld alliance have joined forces to give world travelers a simple way to plan and book a round-the-world journey. It's called the Oneworld Explorer program.
Oneworld Explorer is the perfect solution for a once-in-a-lifetime holiday or an extended business trip. It's a great way for you t... | high3749.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The nurse seldom communicated with her."
},
"options": [
"The nurse treated her abruptly.",
"The nurse didn't offer medications on time.",
"The nurse seldom communicated with her.",
"The nurse was irresponsible."
],... | We've all heard the quote, 'Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.'
My husband and son died within two years of each other. From my personal experience, I believe that if we aren't careful, grief can become a rather self-involved process in which we can become so focused on our own suffering that we ... | high19652.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Europe"
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"Europe",
"Europe",
"West African coast",
"West African coast"
],
"question": "Which of the following shows the route of slave trade correctly?",
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"a... | During the early years of American settlement, a new form of English was beginning to develop in the islands of the West Indies and the southern part of the mainland, spoken by the black population. The beginning of the seventeenth century saw the happening of the slave trade. Ships from Europe travelled to the West Af... | high16561.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It was considered a symbol of a civilized behavior."
},
"options": [
"It was considered a symbol of a civilized behavior.",
"It was a long time tradition as old as the Queen.",
"It was a product of the slow pace of life.",
... | Bright red post boxes, the Queen and queuing--what do they all have in common? They are all important parts of British life. At least I thought so.
However, the ability to queue for long periods of time, once believed to be a traditional characteristic of the British, is no longer tolerated by people in the UK, accordi... | high5338.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Room 1."
},
"options": [
"Room 1.",
"Room 2.",
"Room 3.",
"The Footwear Library."
],
"question": "Where would you find a famous singer's shoes?",
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},
{
"answer": {... | Welcome to one of the largest collections of footwear in the world that will make you green with envy. Here at the Footwear Museum you can see exhibits from all over the world. You can find out about shoes worn by everyone from the Ancient Egyptians to pop stars.
Room 1
The celebrity footwear section is probably the mo... | high3991.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "can be free to read there"
},
"options": [
"can't keep books very long",
"need to have a library card",
"can be free to read there",
"must help increase the collection"
],
"question": "According to the passage, ... | If you put all the books you own on the street outside your house, you might expect them to disappear immediately. But one man, Hernando Guanlao in Manila, tried it and found that his collections grew.
He's a lovely man in his early 60s, with one ever-lasting love--books. They're his pride and joy, because, whether he ... | high13419.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The Agreement's minimum goal would not be reached."
},
"options": [
"The human population would increase by one third.",
"Little over 50% of all species would still exist.",
"Nations would not need to tighten their emissions ... | Is there link between humans and climate change or not? This question was first studied in the early 1900s. Since then, many scientists have thought that our actions do make a difference. In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol explained our role in the Earth's changing atmosphere and set international limits for gas emissions fr... | high14376.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Christ Church College"
},
"options": [
"Merton College",
"Bodleian Library",
"Magdalen College",
"Christ Church College"
],
"question": "If a Harry Potter fan travels to Oxford, he'll probably visit _ .",
... | If you want to walk in the footsteps of some of the world's greatest figures, then go to Oxford. Many of Oxford's 38 colleges are open to the public year-round. Here are a few of the colleges worth visiting and some famous people who have studied there.
Christ Church College
Long before it became known as a location fo... | high9502.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Turkestanian salamander."
},
"options": [
"Rio Pescado stubfoot toad.",
"Gastric brooding frog.",
"Turkestanian salamander.",
"Scarlet frog."
],
"question": "Which of the following animals hasn't been seen for o... | Have you seen a yellow-and-black salamander ? How about a scarlet frog? Scientists haven't spotted either species in more than 20 years. What happened to them? Are the creatures still out there, or are they extinct?
Those are questions that scientists hope to answer. They recently set out around the world in search of... | high6631.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "show how people can be geniuses."
},
"options": [
"show how people can be geniuses.",
"show becoming a genius is easy.",
"show geniuses are common.",
"show people know how to explain geniuses."
],
"question": "T... | Geniuses amaze us,impress us and make us all a little jealous. How do they differ from the average person?Scientists are working hard to figure out that answer. Tune in to the National Geographic Channel to find out about the discoveries they're making in the series My Brilliant Brain.
When Marc Yu was only two years o... | high15068.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It is likely that taking a\"gap year\"is becoming popular in America."
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"It is likely that taking a\"gap year\"is becoming popular in America.",
"More and more American students are choosing to take a year off.",
... | In Britain and other countries,young people sometimes take a"gap year",a year off between high school and college.This idea never gained a big following in America.Recent news reports have suggested that interest may be growing,though there are no official numbers.
Charles Deacon,.Dean of Admissions at Georgetown Unive... | high12707.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they live in one place, district or country, considered as a whole"
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"they live all over the world",
"they are different from other animals",
"they live in one place, district or country, considered as a whole"... | Humans are social animals. They live in groups all over the world. As these groups of people live apart from other groups, over the years and centuries they develop their own habits and ideas, which form different cultures. One important particular side of every culture is how its people deal with time.
Time is not ... | high22808.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the strait it crosses"
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"the local climate",
"the color of a paint",
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"buy gifts for some of the classmates.",
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"Miami scored in the bottom 10 percent in all nine categorie... | Cleveland has won the distinction of being the worst city in the United States, according to a new survey. The city has high unemployment, terrible weather, heavy taxes, and ordinary sports teams, all of which have pushed it to the No. 1 position in the Forbes.com list.
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"He was thirsty and wanted to drink some water.",
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"I wish I had a friend." He said to himself every day, "One friend would be enough. Someone to talk to."
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"how to look carefully after the employees",
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6-15 September 2012, Jeju, Korea
*Forum
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I could, of course, go to a bar. But a pub, I always find, is far more comfortable and has a more relaxed atmosphere.
Many people in the UK also have a favorite pub at the end of the ... | high12075.txt |
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"How Lincoln Becamse President of the U. S.",
"Lincoln's Great Kindness to Children"
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"In Cairo.",
"In Europe.",
"In Western Africa."
],
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"The Similarity of Two Cities",
"Fancy London and Fashionable Paris"
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"usually compared her lesson with Tiffany's",
"sometimes gave lots... | During my elementary school years,I used to compare my mom with my best friend Tiffany's mom.
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"serious results have been caused",
"people have trouble in travelling"
],
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"answer": {
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"the boy wants to play with his father",
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"answer": {
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"was sure they'd end their lives there",
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"answer": {
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"Business leaders.",
"Scientists."
],
"question": "Which group supports to cut carbon emissions by at least 25%?",
"question_type"... | Australia has promised to introduce the most comprehensive carbon trading program outside Europe in 2010. The government in Canberra plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least five percent by 2020, but it could make bigger reductions if other countries agree to tougher targets.
The Australian government warn... | high14835.txt |
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"They often held parties .",
"They disturbed the writer's living greatly .",
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"question": "When was the baby deaths rate for both boys and girls equal?",
"question_type": "factiod_quest... | China has announced it's abolishing its one-child policy. What difference has it made, statistically speaking?
400 million births prevented
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The majority of the... | high13182.txt |
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"Ruffi Ruff! Where's Scruff?"
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Reading level: Baby--reschool
Hardcover: 16 pages
Language: English
Availability: In Stock.Sold by Amazon-com.Gift--wrap available.
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"answer": {
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"made her father unhappy",
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],
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},
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"can hear the normal-volume sounds when performing the dem... | Teenagers around the world can be glad with the news that their brain deserves the blame when parents' orders go ignored while they tap on their smartphones.
A new scientific study from the University College London has found that humans may suffer temporarily deaf when they're simultaneously focusing on something visu... | high14821.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"British people drink more tea than people in other countries.",
"Tea break plays an import... | China has been drinking tea since the time of Shennong, 5,000 years ago. Britain's relationship with tea is much shorter, but tea enjoys the pride as the UK's national drink. According to the UK Tea Council, British people drink an average of three cups a day or a national total of 165 million cups every day.
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "dreams can help improve skills"
},
"options": [
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"tasks can only be settled through dreams",
"players stop learning in dreams",
"dreams can help improve skills"
],
"question": "Robe... | When you tidy your messy bedroom, it gets a lot easier to find things. Dreams may work the same way for a messy brain, helping you learn by organizing memories and ideas.
To test how much dreams can help learning, Robert Stickgold had some students play a shape-fitting game called Tetris for a few hours and then go t... | high13196.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "To advocate digital education."
},
"options": [
"To advocate digital education.",
"To inform people of Digital Learning Day.",
"To present the achievement of digital revolution.",
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},
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Creative communication Essay Contest
The Creative Communication E... | high11959.txt |
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"answer": {
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"give you advice on how to be happy",
"help you to get rid of our bad behaviors",
"help you to develop a good personality... | Miguel's co-workers don't quite understand him. One day he is smiling and friendly, a real team player. The next day, he is cross, getting angry over minor things, especially when asked to improve one of his designs.
Identifying your personality characteristics is the first step in developing a good attitude. Are you a... | high21642.txt |
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"answer": {
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"The new capital of Brasilia of Brazil",
"Los Angles",
"London"
],
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Several factors in the natural environment determine the location of cities. Large cities, for example, are generally not found in inhospitable zones.... | high16788.txt |
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"get more information about America and find a way to Asia"
],
"question": "In the ... | To find how the name Canada came about we must go back to the 16th century. At that time, the French dreamed of disclosing and controlling more land, of expanding trade beyond their borders and of spreading their faith across the world .In 1535, Francois I ,King of France, ordered a navigator named Jacques Cartier... | high2866.txt |
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"poor people"
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},
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needed. It says, for example, nearly one billion people were hungry arid just as many were
illiterate .
Worldwatch Institute's Danielle Nierenberg said while a billion people went to bed hungry
each night, it wasn't because of... | high21124.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"They want their children to love them more."... | A new semester has just started and a number of parents are registering to change their children's names, in the hope that it will change their temper or help their children drop bad habits, like addiction to the Internet.
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"men usually earn more if they get married earlier",
"for a woman,the suitable age of marriage is 27",
... | In nowadays,people tend to get married late.Does it have advantage or disadvantage?Different people have different opinions.Now let's have a look at a telated study about Americans.
A study has found that marrying later in life is generally financially benfeicial for women,but not for men.
The University of Virginia ha... | high23733.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Providing a new kind of entertainment."
},
"options": [
"Maintaining a manned lunar base.",
"Providing a new kind of entertainment.",
"Offering some community-based facilities.",
"Finding facts about the first explorati... | Have you ever had that fantasy to visit the moon, grab a rock and throw it into space so it would float forever? Soon, if you have got the cash, you can!
Enter the Artemis Project. This new and exciting project is a private one that will "establish a permanent, self-supporting manned lunar base," which translates into ... | high9933.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "weakening"
},
"options": [
"getting stronger",
"weakening",
"going to affect China soon",
"moving more than 120 miles per hour"
],
"question": "We can know from the passage that the Typhoon Hagupit is _ .",
... | At least 3 people are dead in the Philippines now that Typhoon Hagupit has landed.
The typhoon, which hit the eastern Philippines over the weekend, has blown down trees and sent more than 650thousand people into shelters before weakening.
"There were very strong winds last night. The roof was beginning to move, and rai... | high13828.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "be a cheerful companion"
},
"options": [
"be a cheerful companion",
"try to cheat a customer",
"earn a great deal of money",
"trust his assistant much"
],
"question": "It seems unlikely that the newspaper seller... | The newspaper seller was a clean, neat man, of about forty with a rather serious, unsmiling face. He didn't speak much to the customers or to his helpers, but when he did he spoke slowly and quietly, as if to himself. He believed in efficiency, not conversation. And this was how the office workers, rushing to catch the... | high19493.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "either bullying or maltreatment has negative effects on chilciren's health"
},
"options": [
"researchers should pay less attention to maltreatment",
"more bullied kids have mental problems in the USA",
"a similar number of ch... | Bullied kids face a high risk of mental health problems as teens and as young adults. Indeed, kids troubled by bullying may be worse off than those who had suffered physical abuse or neglect, as the study found.
Until recently, most studies of child victims focused not on bullying but on maltreatment , Dieter Wolke s... | high18955.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "To save lives of people."
},
"options": [
"To detect sea mines and swimmers.",
"To save lives of people.",
"To recover inert torpedoes.",
"To help the U.S. Naval test equipment."
],
"question": "Which is NOT the... | In a little-known part of the counter-terrorism world, one of the most effective detection systems is a 600-pound animal that works for about 20 pounds of fish a day.
Since the 1960s, the United States and a handful of other countries have trained dolphins and sea lions to detect sea mines and swimmers, to recover ine... | high2696.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Chillicothe, Ohio"
},
"options": [
"Anchor Point",
"Chillicothe, Ohio",
"Mill Creek",
"Brentwood"
],
"question": "Young Jason Pryor lives at _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer":... | An 18-year-old high school student who had just learned to swim in the last summer vacation saved the life of a drowning Ohio boy on Friday afternoon.
Tom Erickson was credited with (......)saving the life of Jason Pryor,10, in Mill Creek Park. Young Jason Pryor, from Chillicothe, was visiting s from Anchor Point wh... | high16978.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "it makes her feel like she is not so strange as people think"
},
"options": [
"she only wants to make friends with the people like her",
"many people think she is strange and don't like to be with her",
"she knows there are m... | Rachael lives in Wisconsin and has lived there all her life. She is just an average girl; at first when you are around her, she seems to be very shy. If you get to know her, she'll start to open up but always keep things to herself.
Sports are something that keeps her going, a way to release stress. Usually, you will s... | high20212.txt |
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