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"answer_text": "Salad."
},
"options": [
"Bread.",
"Meat.",
"Salad.",
"Fish."
],
"question": "According to western rules of eating, which of the following is NOT cut before it is eaten?",
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"... | During my first two months in China, I was like a girl in love. Everything I saw and did amazed me. I have journal entries that are pages long describing, in great detail, everything I ate. From the sauce to the kind of chopsticks I used, nothing went unnoticed or unrecorded. Chinese people gape at me when they see me... | high17469.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "11 to 12 hours"
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"2 hours",
"9 to 10 hours",
"11 to 12 hours",
"24 hours"
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"question": "With a smartphone the average UK working day is _ .",
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... | Owning a smartphone may not be as smart as you think. They may let you surf the Internet, listen to music and take photos wherever you are, but they also turn you into a workaholic .
A study suggests that, by giving you access to emails at all times, the smartphone adds as much as two hours to your working day. Researc... | high2899.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "pleasant"
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"pleasant",
"fresh",
"dangerous",
"crazy"
],
"question": "Recalling the old days' shopping in the supermarket,the author thinks it was_.",
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... | Remember when a trip to the supermarket was nothing more than a boring thing requiring little or no specialized knowledge? You could send your kids into a cart while you did shopping. You always bought the same brands,usually the brands your mother bought. You didn't know about unit pricing,and furthermore,you didn't c... | high16777.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "His mother."
},
"options": [
"His father.",
"His mother.",
"His teacher.",
"His brother."
],
"question": "Who had the same interest as Window according to the text?",
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}... | Winslow Homer was the second of three sons of Henrietta Benson and Charles Savage Homer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1836 and grew up in Cambridge. His father was an importer of tools and other goods. His mother was a painter. Window got his interest in drawing and painting from his mother. But his father a... | high19444.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the lemmings' self-killing"
},
"options": [
"how lemmings find food",
"why animals kill themselves",
"the lemmings' self-killing",
"the food supply in the Scandinavian mountains"
],
"question": "The passage is m... | Why would an animal kill itself? It seems a strange question, and yet it is one that has made some scientists curious for a long time. For there is a kind of animal called lemming , that periodically killed themselves together, and no one knows just why!
The small creatures which live in the Scandinavian mountains, fee... | high4230.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Spiritual health is necessary for physical health."
},
"options": [
"Loving others will keep you in good spirits.",
"Heart illness can be cured without operation.",
"Creating strong relationships will keep you healthy.",
... | Recently a man came to me, because he was told that there is fluid around his heart. After trying many drugs which were of no use to reduce the fluid, the doctor told him the only other choice was to have an operation. He refused because he knew that every illness has a mental cause and that if he had the operation bu... | high11018.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "help him take money without being caught"
},
"options": [
"show that the bank was important",
"help him take money without being caught",
"make him look like a hero",
"give Mr. Burrows a good lesson"
],
"questio... | "I wish our bank would be robbed," said George Pickens, the bank clerk, to himself. "If one day a robber holds up me. And if I have to give him a certain amount of money. What is to prevent me keeping all the money left and claiming that the robber had taken it?" Just then a tall and strong man walked in, wearing a mas... | high18982.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Losing their way."
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"options": [
"Damaged roads.",
"Animals' attack.",
"Losing their way.",
"Running out of food."
],
"question": "What was the difficulty the group of people met in the mountain?",
"questi... | A group of people decided to climb a mountain together. They thought it was going to be an easy climb, so they laughed and talked among themselves and didn't notice the sky growing darker. They soon got lost for they couldn't see very far in front of them. They _ together that night over a fire.
No one walked too far a... | high12511.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "he wanted to share it with his wife"
},
"options": [
"he couldn't finish eating it with one bite",
"he was very careful with his food",
"he ordered more than he could eat",
"he wanted to share it with his wife"
],
... | One cold winter evening, some young families and young couples were eating in a McDonald's when an old couple walked slowly into McDonald's hand in hand.
Some of the customers looked admiringly at them .You could tell what the admirers were thinking. Look, there is a couple who has been through a lot tog... | high23914.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Face transplants can work."
},
"options": [
"Face transplants can work.",
"Face transplants help regain confidence.",
"Three people have received face transplants.",
"Disfigured people need face transplants."
],
... | LONDON (Reuters)--New faces given to a Chinese man after a bear tore off part of his face and a FrenchCaribbean man disfigured by a rare tumor show that such transplants can work and are not medical oddities ,researchers said.
The findings give hope to some people with severe facial disfigurement and suggest the trans... | high804.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Choose certificates of deposit for one year."
},
"options": [
"Choose certificates of deposit for one year.",
"Put the money in banks for one year.",
"Put the money in credit unions for one year.",
"Choose certificates ... | Are you a saver or a spender?
"A penny saved is a penny earned." This old saying calls attention to the wisdom of saving money. " _ " is another way to talk about saving for the future.
People who hate to spend money are known as "tightwads," while those who like to get the most value for their money are called "thrift... | high6427.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "At first the price of the vase was much higher than Balzac could offer."
},
"options": [
"vase in the window was placed much higher than Balzac could reach.",
"At first the price of the vase was much higher than Balzac could offer.... | Balzac was good at buying things at its lowest price. One day he wanted to buy a vase in a shop window that was much more expensive than he could offer. Not being able to make the shopkeeper cut down its price very much, he left without further talking. Collecting a half dozen of his friends, he explained his wish to t... | high44.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To show that you are a responsible worker."
},
"options": [
"To prove you are not a habitual late comer.",
"To respect the rules of the organization.",
"To show that you are a responsible worker.",
"To win other workers... | Having good etiquette at the workplace is very important to be a favorite in an office.However,it's observed that many people aren't aware of the workplace etiquette and this creates a very bad impression in the office.So it's important to know some workplace etiquette tips.
Among all the workplace etiquette guidelin... | high14160.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Fifty"
},
"options": [
"Five",
"Forty- Five.",
"Fifty",
"Fifteen."
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"question": "How many states are there in the U. S. A ?",
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"answer": {
"answer_ind... | There are fifty states in the United States. The largest in population is California,the largest in area is Alaska. Alaska is the smallest in population and Rhode Island is the smallest in size. The oldest states are the ones along the Atlantic coast. The newest states are Alaska and Hawaii. Alaska is also the coldest ... | high1348.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "It lands differently from other frogs."
},
"options": [
"It has a long tail",
"It jumps on one foot",
"It stars its jump differently",
"It lands differently from other frogs."
],
"question": "What's special abou... | You probably know that frogs hop ( ). But did you know that there's a small frog in the Pacific Northwest that bellyflops ? It's called a tailed frog.
Dr.Rick Essner, who has been studying tailed frogs for the past few years, says, " I've looked at thousands of jumps and have never seen them land on their feet like ot... | high8595.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "make you become slim more easily"
},
"options": [
"make you gain more fat",
"make you become slim more easily",
"help improve your psychological health",
"help develop your craving for more delicious food"
],
"q... | As a recipe for losing weight, taking a slice of chocolate cake at breakfast would seem an unlikely fantasy.
A team from Tel Aviv University found that eating pudding as part of a balanced 600-calorie breakfast that also included proteins and carbohydrates , could help dieter to lose more weight---and keep _ off in th... | high9853.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "approach the world from different angles"
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"approach the world from different angles",
"explore different phenomena of the world",
"express people's feelings in different ways",
"explain what it means to ... | When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an education priority .This view is shortsighted. In fact, music ... | high743.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "call a phone 8455344517"
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"options": [
"visit Black Rock Forest first",
"download their brochure",
"call a phone 8455344517",
"register before March 8"
],
"question": "If you want to be a member of Summer Scie... | Summer Science Class registration begins on March 8 ! If you are interested in science,the environment,or conservation and you are in grades 7-12,sign up soon for Black Rock Forest Consortium's Summer Science Class program. You can download the Summer Science Classes 2013 brochure here. It is easy to register;just call... | high13790.txt |
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"answer_text": "They all have a three star ratings."
},
"options": [
"They all have a three star ratings.",
"They all have the same number of rooms",
"They are all close to the airport",
"They all provide a room with a mini bar."
]... | Aava Whistler Hotel
Star Ratings: Location: Whistler
Rooms:192
Stay at the Aava Whistler Hotel (formerly Coast Whistler Hotel) and experience a great vacation. The Aava Whistler Hotel is within minutes from over a hundred shopping malls and restaurants. It also has a great number of re... | high23653.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Its sales and income have dropped."
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"options": [
"Its share goes down to$21.",
"Shake Shack has taken its place.",
"It's not popular with Americans.",
"Its sales and income have dropped."
],
"question": "What... | Shake Shack is a new kind of restaurant becoming more popular in the U S.The restaurants are not"fast food."They are known as"fast casual."
Observers say Americans want more choices and fresh food when choosing where and what to eat.This trend is one reason why the fast food restaurant McDonald's has struggled financi... | high10299.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Different kinds of sound."
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"options": [
"Sounds made by man.",
"All the words made by man.",
"Different kinds of sound.",
"The way man learns."
],
"question": "What do we mean by language?",
"question_typ... | No one knows how man learned to make words. Perhaps he began by making sounds like those made by animals. Perhaps he grunted like a pig when he lifted something heavy. Perhaps he made sounds like those he heard all round him--water splashing, bees humming, a stone falling to the ground. Somehow he learned to make words... | high16830.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the children like nothing better than junk food: cookies and chips"
},
"options": [
"canned food is the only one that the kids enjoy most.",
"the children like to have fried chicken only.",
"the kids prefer to have cold drink... | All right! Enough cookies,cola, and chips! It seems that junk food is all that the children want to eat these days.Television controls their tastes.The kids see well-known personalities eating potato chips, candy and other processed food, and they want to be like their heroes.How do they do it?They eat the same food. I... | high2906.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he thinks she may make her mother unhappy"
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"options": [
"he is unable to focus on the paper",
"she will disturb the neighbors",
"he thinks she may make her mother unhappy",
"her mother will have to tidy the kitchen u... | My daughter comes in with some bags of groceries taking my attention away from the paper. She shouts out, "Hi daddy!" and runs toward the little kitchen. She's always running. I've never seen anyone with as much energy as her, except maybe her mom.
"You'd better not make a mess in there, or your mother will be angry!" ... | high21722.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "tiny little hick town"
},
"options": [
"get this off my chest",
"tiny little hick town",
"reading the recipes in the magazine",
"three or four spelling or grammatical errors"
],
"question": "Which phrase from th... | To the Editor,
I have been reading your newspaper, theHometown Gazette, for the past two years, ever since I moved to Smithville. We moved here from New York City, so I am accustomed to reading excellent newspapers such asThe New York Times. In fact, we still have theTimesdelivered on Sundays. The entire family enjoys ... | high14799.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The Four Agreements."
},
"options": [
"You Can Heal Your Life.",
"The Four Agreements.",
"The Game of Life and How to Play it.",
"Slowing Down to the Speed of Life."
],
"question": "According to the author, peop... | The following are four books that will help you change your mind and change your life.
1) You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay:A groundbreaking book when it was released in 1982.It is still the book that I turn to when I have physical unrest that requires deeper understanding.Louise Hay is the pioneer in looking at t... | high23135.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Judges."
},
"options": [
"Judges.",
"Writers.",
"Readers.",
"Sponsors."
],
"question": "Who can submit books to the prize?",
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"answer": {
"answer_index"... | The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded for a novel written by a writer from the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and it aims to represent the very best in contemporary fiction. The prize was originally called the Booker-McConnell Prize, which was the name of the company that sponsored it, though it was bett... | high14955.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "people"
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"hills",
"trees",
"animals",
"people"
],
"question": "More schools are being named after the following EXCEPT _ .",
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"answer": {
... | Public schools in New York,America's biggest city, commonly have numbers for names.But this is unusual.In the United States,the process of naming a school often involves parents and the community
as well as elected school leaders.
Researchers say school names can show civic values and also shape them. For example,nam... | high15493.txt |
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"answer_text": "to be a sourcing assistant, you need to be very persuasive"
},
"options": [
"RHK Design deals with business only from European countries",
"to be a sourcing assistant, you need to be very persuasive",
"to be a Customer Servic... | Sourcing Assistant Needed
Time: 28 March-27 September, 2011
Indian company's Shanghai office is looking for a local Chinese girl, who can speak fluent English, and has at least one year experience in trading business.
Main responsibilities are: sourcing for new suppliers, factory visiting, negotiating... | high21736.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he looked very strange"
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"options": [
"the police called her",
"he looked very strange",
"he came to the hotel with little luggage",
"he came to the hotel the day before New Year's Eve"
],
"question": "Vicki b... | One of Britain's bravest women told yesterday how she helped to catch suspected police killer David Bieber-and was thanked with flowers by the police. It was also said that she could be in line for a share of up to PS 30,000 reward money.
Vicki Brown, 30, played a very important role in ending the nationwide manhunt.... | high17284.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "young men could get married if they had served the army for a number of years."
},
"options": [
"no young men could get married unless they were old enough.",
"young men could get married if they had served the army for a number of... | Several different stories are told about the origin of Saint Valentine's Day. One legend dates as far back as the days of Roman Empire . According to the story, Claudius, the Emperor of Rome, wanted to increase the size of the army. He knew that it would be easier to get young men who were not married to join the arm... | high20428.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "use them in a proper way."
},
"options": [
"use them in a proper way.",
"take too much of them in a special way.",
"have a little of them in any way.",
"use them every now and then."
],
"question": "Drugs can ma... | Everyone takes drugs.Sometimes a drug might be called a herb but the effect is the same.Drugs and herbs can make life better for they are used to improve health.From the simplest headache to a cure for cancer, people believe that certain drugs can help them.But there is danger if the drugs are not used in a proper way.... | high16824.txt |
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"answer_text": "All of the above."
},
"options": [
"Herbal medicine is less expensive.",
"Western medicines can't work very well in some areas.",
"China has already set a good example of combining Eastern and Western medicines.",
"All ... | Not long ago, many doctors in the West laughed at the suggestion that they might learn something from traditional Asian systems of healing. Most of them thought that Asian herbal medicine and acupuncture were believed in only by simple people who knew no better. Western doctors relied mainly on chemical cures as the... | high21050.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "It makes us know what we are like and what we want to be like."
},
"options": [
"It's a good thing.",
"It's just a bad thing.",
"It's a kind of compliment to others.",
"It makes us know what we are like and what we want... | Jealousyis a very common problem in daily life. It's everywhere. For example, if someone does better than you, you will get annoyed because you want to be No. 1. We may become jealous of a best friend's top marks in an exam, or of the girl in art class who is praised by the teacher all the time. We get annoyed because ... | high2912.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Book clubs are popular among American kids."
},
"options": [
"Book clubs develop very fast in America.",
"Book clubs are popular among American kids.",
"American kids' habits are changing towards reading.",
"A new trend... | More than ever, kids today have given up reading for activities like watching TV, playing video games and surfing the Internet, but recently a new trend has been _ that will hopefully change that.
In fact, book clubs are becoming more popular among American kids. 11-year-old Kenya Debarros read about singer... | high22559.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "make lonely old people's life better"
},
"options": [
"understand human-animal relationship",
"make lonely old people's life better",
"find the causes of old people's loneliness",
"promote the animal-assisted research"
... | Researchers are placing robotic dogs in the homes of lonely old people to determine whether they can improve the quality of life for humans. Alan Beck, an expert in human-animal relationship, and Nancy Edwards, a professor of nursing, are leading the animal-assisted study concerning the influence of robotic dogs on o... | high9847.txt |
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"answer_text": "three"
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"question": "The author had _ kind(s) of fears when she was a child.",
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"answer_in... | As a child, I was really afraid of the dark and of getting lost. These fears were very real and caused me some uncomfortable moments.
Maybe it was the strange way things looked and sounded in my own room at night that scared me so much. There was never complete darkness, but always a streetlight or passing car lights, ... | high13784.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Clothing and jewelry."
},
"options": [
"Clothing and jewelry.",
"Books and stones.",
"Knives and chairs.",
"People and animals."
],
"question": "According to the passage, what items do scientists often use to le... | Anthropologists are scientists that study people who often lived hundreds or even thousands of years ago. Items those men, women, and children left behind when they died --- everything from clothing to jewelry and tools --- tell anthropologists a lot. And sometimes even their words survive.
Experts believe that a d... | high24128.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "how a child can be kept safe while riding in a car"
},
"options": [
"how a child can be kept safe while riding in a car",
"why the back seat is the safest place in a car",
"how a child safety seat can protect a child",
... | You want to know where the safest place for young children is in the car? For a child of any age, the back seat is the safest place and the safest part of the back seat is the middle. In the back seat, the child is farthest away from the force or effect of head-on collision , which can cause the most injuries.
... | high23647.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "1890,"
},
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"1890,",
"1892",
"1886",
"1883"
],
"question": "When did Van Gogh die?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Th... | V _ , an artist of tremendous energy and prodigious output. He killed himself when he was only 37, but he left behind him more than 2,000 paintings and drawings, which established his reputation in a way he would never have considered possible.
Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 at Groot Zundert Province of Noord Nr... | high20366.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "exchange ideas about keeping working internationally and a planned meeting."
},
"options": [
"express their opinions on the disagreement between the two nations.",
"exchange ideas about keeping working internationally and a planned... | Chinese President Hu Holds Telephone Talks With Bush
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday spoke over phone with George W. Bush about international cooperation to cope with the ongoing global financial turmoil .
The leaders exchanged ideas about the planned international financial summits and strengthening internatio... | high18821.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "it consumes natural resources"
},
"options": [
"It makes the world warmer",
"it consumes natural resources",
"it brings severe damage to forests",
"it makes growth hard to continue"
],
"question": "The tradition... | We have only one earth.In a world with limited land, water and other natural resources, the harm from the traditional business model is on the rise.Actually, the past decades has seen more and more forests disappearing and globe becoming increasingly warm.People now realize that this unhealthy situation must be changed... | high21078.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "A twisted body."
},
"options": [
"A twisted body.",
"A gradual decrease in blood supply.",
"A sudden release of nitrogen in blood.",
"A drop in blood presure."
],
"question": "Which of the following is a typical... | If a diver surfaces too quickly, he may suffer the bends. Nitrogen dissolved in his blood is suddenly liberated by the reduction of pressure. The consequence, if the bubbles accumulate in a joint, is sharp pain and a bent body -- thus the name. If the bubbles form in his lungs or brain, the consequence can be dea... | high4393.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Waste Disposal Problem"
},
"options": [
"Places for Disposing of Waste",
"Waste Pollution Dangers",
"Ways of Getting Rid of Waste",
"Waste Disposal Problem"
],
"question": "The most suitable title for this passa... | Disposing of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it. As more and more people choose to live close together in cities,the waste disposal problem becomes increasingly difficult.
During the eighteenth century,it was usual for several neighboring towns to get together to select a faraway spot as a dum... | high13974.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a discussion"
},
"options": [
"a slide show",
"a discussion",
"mountain flowers",
"organized tours"
],
"question": "All of the following are included in the wildflower program EXCPET_.",
"question_type": "cl... | Calendar of Events
WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR NEIGUHBORHOOD & LOCAL AREAS
Spring Wildflowers Around Unicol
The wildflower program will begin with a slide show and lecture on Wildflowers. There will be organized wildflower walks that will help both the novice and experienced wildflower enthusiast to better appreciate t... | high24100.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "more Chinese elements are involved"
},
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"it is a political drama",
"more Chinese elements are involved",
"it has caught the attention of US President Barack Obama",
"Kevin Spacey, a cold-blooded Democrat, pl... | The popular US drama series "House of Cards", which has already started its second season, features Chinese elements in its storyline. Traditional heroes are no longer sought after anymore. Today, it's unconventional leading figure -like Francis J. Underwood from "House of Cards" who are winning audiences' hearts.
The ... | high6584.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "How to reduce the exposure to city air pollution."
},
"options": [
"How to make our life easy and at ease",
"How to reduce the exposure to city air pollution.",
"The ways to deal with city pollution",
"We should draw a ... | A recent report has suggested that air pollution in our big cities could be as damaging to our health. The report put forward practical tips that city people can take to reduce their exposure to city air pollution. Quite a lot, it turns out.
* Watch where you walk
Avoid walking along busy streets and thoroughfares ... | high22217.txt |
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],
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We hope the following places can help you choose where to go on your next vacation.
Zurich
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"He enjoyed the ringtone so he kept the phone ringing.",
"He quieted the phone after hearing p... | The New York Philharmonic came to an unexpected stop on Tuesday night when an audience member's cell phone started ringing and wouldn't stop.
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More than 100 years after this playful boy was "born", Peter Pan and his friends are to continue ... | high2090.txt |
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For millions of people suffering from arthritis . It is the only thing t... | high20414.txt |
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"(850) 230-6030.",
"(323) 287-5580."
],
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"question_type... | iD Tech camps
Camp Address: 910 E Hamilton Ave. Suite 300 Campbell, California 95008,USA Phone: (888) 709-8324
This summer, encourage the excellent in your child! At iD Tech Camps>> students age 7-17 can learn to code, design video games, engineer robots, model 3D characters, build websites, and Print 3D Capers meet n... | high14969.txt |
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You can easily see where Hollywood is in Los Angel... | high22203.txt |
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],
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Only then does _ Daisy accept that she has been married, and that everything he has told her is true. The lady's condition was cau... | high7856.txt |
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},
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"It's very hard for seniors to pass the age of 80.",
"The US population has been increasing rapidly sin... | Here is some news of the future.
March 20. 2035
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"he can not avoid final death.",
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"persuade us to get rid of bad habits",
"tell us to avoid Time Management mistakes"
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"Two.",
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He used long talks with patients and the study of dreams to search for the causes of mental and emotional problems. He also tri... | high5072.txt |
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"No pilots were willing to help her.",
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"It can only live for about a million years.",
"As it gets hotter and hotter, it explodes."
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You can see even more with a telescope. You might see stars where before you only saw dark space. You might see that many stars look larger than others. You might see that some s... | high17535.txt |
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"some good ideas on how to master English",
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"a sense of direction is developed with ages",
"people have their sense of direction all their life",
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Scientists say we're all born with a sense of direction, but it is not properly understood how it works.One theory i... | high13753.txt |
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"He thinks it is necessary sometimes.",
"He thinks it requires good computer skills.",
"He thinks it is good for Internet service providers... | Is it wrong to use someone else's wireless (Wi-Fi) connection? Just recently, a man was arrested for doing just that. At that time, he was sitting in the street with a laptop and using an unsecured wireless connection to surf the Net. What do you think about this topic? Listen to the following different views on it.
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"the battle lasted 8 years",
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"Researchers in comScore.",
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],
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"was inspired by Duke Ellington's stage fright",
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"she is more independent than before",
"she is often ignored in and out of class",
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My name is Amy. I am 17 years old. I have a problem at school. Can you help me, Santa? Kids laugh at me because of the way I walk and run and talk. I have cerebral palsy. I just want one day when no one laughs at me or makes fun of me.
Love, Amy
At radio station WJLT in Fort Wayne, Indiana, letters po... | high9890.txt |
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"Senior high school students worldwide.",
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"Robot lovers of all ages."
],
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Tokyo Big Sight,Tokyo, Japan, December 4-5
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"Children should go to school on time and learn to behave well.",
"Teachers a... | Are your children liked by their teachers? All parents want their children to impress(...) their teachers and succeed in school. You can get your children to impress their teachers by following these easy steps.
Make sure they're prepared. Teachers are impressed by children coming to school prepared to learn. Make sure... | high15444.txt |
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"To help a patient recover from disease.",
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"China is discussing the problem of delaying the retirement age now",
"China is pr... | China's top labor official said the country is planning to push back the age at which workers can retire.
Yin Weimin, minister of human resources and social security, demonstrated that we did not put a timetable on the move when he spoke about it during a forum at the weekend.
"Delaying the retirement age is a very com... | high5714.txt |
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"He is addicted to playing games.",
"He got past the lock of a game."
],
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Kristoffer's father, Robert, noticed soon after Christmas that his son was logging into his account and playing games that weren't appr... | high18160.txt |
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Has anyone else ever heard your voice? Again you say, "Of course."
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"The American response to high price"
],
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Dear Mr. President:
I would like to personally thank you for your time and concern for our great country. I would like to take a few minutes to address a few concerns that I have with the United States.
First of all, I would like to address the war. In my opinion, we should have never been... | high3365.txt |
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I watched the first London Marathon on March 29... | high18174.txt |
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Most Facebook users don't realize this ... | high5700.txt |
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Europeans were digging themselves out of heavy snow after a week-long cold sn... | high17247.txt |
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It is the fir... | high16159.txt |
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"answer": {
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"To look for the tools used by our ancestors .",
"To experience the natural beauty of a lighthouse .",
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"supply you with a picture of the future",
"provide information about your surroundings",
"update the maps and GPS in yo... | Your glasses may someday replace your smartphone, and some New Yorkers are ready for the switch. Some in the city can't wait to try them on and use the maps and GPS that the futuristic eyewear is likely to include.
"I'd use it if I were hanging out with friends at 3 a. m. and going to the bar and wanted to see what was... | high13021.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "he needed more time to examine latest information"
},
"options": [
"he needed more time to examine latest information",
"he doubted whether koalas' number is decreasing",
"he was thinking about ways to protect koalas",
... | Tony Burke, Australia's environment minister, says he won't decide until next year whether the koala should be protected as an endangered species. He was expected to make his decision by the end of October. But that decision has been put off. Burke said he needed more time to go over the latest information about the ko... | high794.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "exercise all the muscles of your body"
},
"options": [
"do stomach exercise",
"exercise the waist",
"exercise all the muscles of your body",
"run fast for 30 minutes"
],
"question": "If you want to reduce the fa... | Some people say that the best way to reduce the size of your waist is to do stomach exercise. Many people believe that when specific muscles are exercised, the fatty tissues in the immediate area are burned up. The truth is that exercise burns fat from all over the body and not from one specific area. Of course, if y... | high1200.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Tolerant but stubborn."
},
"options": [
"Brave but innocent.",
"Loyal but ridiculous.",
"Tolerant but stubborn.",
"Trustworthy but childish."
],
"question": "Which can best describe the man from the country?",
... | Before the law sits a gatekeeper.To this gatekeeper comes a man from the country who asks to gain entry into the law.But the gatekeeper says that he cannot grant him entry at the moment.The man thinks about it and then asks if he will be allowed to come in sometime later on."It is possible," says the gatekeeper,"but no... | high13747.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "British students usually find compulsory reading dull."
},
"options": [
"The language used in classics is no longer in use today.",
"British students usually find compulsory reading dull.",
"Only those studying literature rea... | The writings of Shakespeare are today little read by young people in Britain. His young readership is limited to those who choose to study literature at university.
Shakespeare's work, together with most other classics, is seen as remote, and written in a 400-year-old version of English that is about as inviting as too... | high14028.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "to help her come to life"
},
"options": [
"to help her recognize her parents",
"to find whether she is still alive",
"to introduce her to the author",
"to help her come to life"
],
"question": "The nurses repeat... | I had a terrible accident and was transferred via a helicopter to the Pittsburgh Hospital. I was conscious of my accident and friends, and family passing out at the sight of me. It was no picnic!
Late one evening ,I could hear the nurses in the next room repeatedly talking to a new patient. "Sandy, your mom is here. Op... | high23684.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Going to Los Angeles' gutter to help people there."
},
"options": [
"Celebrating his birthday with his neighbours.",
"Working in Loyola Marymount University.",
"Celebrating Christmas with the people he has helped.",
"Go... | Father Maurice Chase used a special way to celebrate his 90th birthday. The Catholic priest took $ 15,000 in cash to Los Angeles' gutter and gave it away. Twenty wheelchair-bound people received $100 bills, while the rest received $1to $ 3 each.
"I come out here to tell them that God loves them and I love them and tha... | high8542.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Losing interest in their homeland"
},
"options": [
"Culture shock",
"Homesick for their new country",
"Losing interest in their homeland",
"Difficult transition"
],
"question": "Which of the following is NOT the... | Colleges may try to do a lot to prepare students for study abroad - telling about culture shock, warning about homesickness, recommending books about the country. But when it comes to adjusting to campus life when they return, schools haven't done as much, even though the transition is sometimes almost as difficult.
"T... | high12459.txt |
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