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"answer_text": "The Jamala Wildlife Lodge lies in the heart of Canberra."
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"The Jamala Wildlife Lodge lies in the heart of Canberra.",
"The Jamala Wildlife Lodge has a very long history.",
"The Jamala Wildlife Lodge is outside... | Imagine being given the opportunity to wake up to lions, eat your meals with monkeys, and even share your bath with bears, all from the comfort of a unique new lodging experience.
The Jamala Wildlife Lodge opened its doors in January 2015, which was set up in an effort to educate visitors about aiding the survival of m... | high11150.txt |
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"answer_text": "Appear on comic TV shows."
},
"options": [
"Appear on comic TV shows.",
"Donate large sums of money.",
"Donate expensive clothes to charity shops.",
"Play in a music video with the Prime Minister."
],
"question"... | If you watch British television on Friday March 15, you might be surprised to see celebrities wearing funny red noses and joking around. But don't worry, they're not mad, it's all part of a biennial fund-raising event called Red Nose Day.
Organized by the charity Comic Relief, founded in 1985 by two British comedians, ... | high3417.txt |
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"answer_text": "Liu Xiang's resumption to the racetrack"
},
"options": [
"victory of Liu Xiang",
"Liu Xiang's resumption to the racetrack",
"dream of Liu Xiang",
"Liu Xiang's high aim"
],
"question": "This passage mainly talks ... | Liu Xiang Will Resume Training
prefix = st1 /Athens Olympic 110m hurdle champion Liu Xiang felt so _ to return to racetrack after getting out of the great number of social activities.
Liu arrived in hometown ShanghaiWednesday night and was about toresumetraining shortly after.
"I am so exhausted from so many social ... | high18612.txt |
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"answer_text": "to tell us some basic information on City Lit"
},
"options": [
"to teach people how to learn well in City Lit",
"to introduce the development of City Lit",
"to tell us some basic information on City Lit",
"to show us so... | Welcome to City Lit
About us
City Lit is London's influential destination for inspiring evening,daytime and weekend courses for adults.Each year we offer thousands of part-time courses,always trying to follow new trends and the passions and interests of our learners.Most of our classes take place in our bright,modern b... | high5066.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Some lives are worth saving and others are not."
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"options": [
"We act sometimes as if the people suffering don't exist.",
"They can't solve these problems alone.",
"Some lives are worth saving and others are not.",
"... | "Some of the worst human tragedies happening in the world today go on because we don't really see them.We rarely make eye communication with people who are suffering,so we act sometimes as if the people don't exist."
The speaker is Bill Gates,the world's richest man.At a gathering in Seattle,he is talking not as th... | high17521.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a prisoner"
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"options": [
"an animal protector",
"the cat owner",
"a prison officer",
"a prisoner"
],
"question": "From the passage,we can learn that the author was _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_question... | When a dirty and untidy orange cat showed up in the prison yard,I was one of the first to go out there and pet it.I hadn't touched a cat or a dog in over 20 years.I spent at least 20 minutes,knelt down behind the kitchen as the cat rolled around,relaxed.What he was expressing outwardly, I was feeling inwardly.It was an... | high2709.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "teach a life lesson"
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"options": [
"teach a life lesson",
"make an experiment",
"show the large jar",
"recognize the jar"
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"question": "The professor filled an empty jar with rocks to _ .",
"question_... | A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty jar and started to fill it with rocks. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of _ and ... | high7881.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Heather's contribution to the world"
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"options": [
"Heather's miserable life",
"Heather's contribution to the world",
"Heather's success in her work",
"Heather's belief in life"
],
"question": "This passage is... | Heather Mills McCartney lives an admirable life, attending celebrity parties, meeting regularly with the rich and famous and doing meaningful work for charity. All who work with her admire and respect her. But Heather's life hasn't always been so easy. When Heather was only 9 years old, her mother abandoned her and her... | high1228.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Positive."
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"options": [
"Unsatisfied.",
"Doubtful.",
"Positive.",
"Negative."
],
"question": "What is the author's attitude toward Byron Robinson's theory of two human brains?",
"question_type": null
},... | Back in the early 1900s, American physician Byron Robinson wrote a book proposing an interesting theory: humans actually have two brains --- one in our heads and the other in our stomachs, and the two "communicate" all the time. Interestingly, in Chinese culture, thoughts are also related to the belly in phrases and id... | high6547.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he wanted to take the woman's things"
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"options": [
"he didn't know how to cure her",
"he wanted to get a lot of money",
"he wanted to take the woman's things",
"the woman refused to pay him"
],
"question": "T... | An old woman went suddenly blind. She promised a doctor a lot of money if he could make her see again. "If you fail", she said , " you will get nothing," The doctor agreed with her.
The doctor soon discovered what was wrong with her, but he decided not to cure her right away. Instead, each time he visited, he secretly ... | high9674.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "gather clean water efficiently"
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"options": [
"gather clean water efficiently",
"reduce water supply costs",
"simplify maintenance",
"preserve water supplies"
],
"question": "Warka Water is designed mainly to ... | If you go to Ethiopia,you'll find a strange palm-like structure,which is called Warka Water.It gathers water from fog and condensation and is invented by an Italian firm.
When Italian designer Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect Andreas Vogler first visited Ethiopia in 2012,they were shocked to see women and children fo... | high14000.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To learn about the process of decision-making."
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"options": [
"To think about happy times.",
"To make many decisions at a time.",
"To stop feeling regretful about the past.",
"To learn about the process of decision-ma... | Decisions, decisions! Our lives are full of them, from the small ones to the life-changing. The right to choose is central to everyone. Yet sometimes we make bad decisions that leave us unhappy or full of regret. Can science help?
Most of us know little about the mental processes that lie behind our decisions. Luckily,... | high964.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "throw light on a special benefit of working"
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"options": [
"describe her own experience in raising children",
"advise us to mix work and family",
"throw light on a special benefit of working",
"argue for working mothe... | What do working mothers worry about the most? It's the kids of course. Whatever the setting, the question I get asked the most is "Will the kids be alright?" It has made me realize that we tend to look at the glass half-empty rather than half-filled when it comes to mixing work and family. We forget about all the benef... | high12471.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "News Item 4"
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"options": [
"News Item 1",
"News Item 2",
"News Item 3",
"News Item 4"
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"question": "\"Excessive Apology\" may be a good title for_.",
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"answ... | Four pieces of News
News Item 1
ChongQing--A man has received compensation of more than 130,000 yuan(US&15,662)for being wrongly convicted of murder and serving nearly seven years in jail.Tong Liqing,who is now 41,was jailed for killing his brother's maid.At his trial,Tong said he had admitted to the crime to escape fu... | high23874.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Europe"
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"Asia",
"Africa",
"Latin America",
"Europe"
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"question": "Before 1924, all the winter sports competitions were held in_.",
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"answer": ... | The history of the Winter Games, however, has been even more troubled than that of the Summer Games. Until 1924 all the winter sports competitions, held every four years from 1901 to 1917 and again in 1922, had been in the Scandinavian countries - Sweden, Norway and Finland. The sportsmen of these countries believed th... | high16617.txt |
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"answer_text": "The environment in Abdet is getting better."
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"options": [
"Climbing Sierra de Aitana is the most exciting.",
"Ancient trails have changed into highways.",
"The environment in Abdet is getting better.",
"Traders live ... | Guided Walking Week April 2016
Dates: April 30th-May 7th 2016
Location: Abdet, Costa Blanca
A week of guided walking in the mountains around Abdet. Highlights include the climbing of Valencia's highest summit (Sierra de Aitana), traveling completely around the impressive Puig Campana, and several explorations in the Si... | high19524.txt |
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"answer_text": "One who plays with great passion."
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"options": [
"One who plays with great passion.",
"One who plays unique music.",
"One who plays creatively.",
"One who has a sense of vision."
],
"question": "According to t... | A research found that people shown silent videos of piano competitions could pick out the winners more often than those who could also hear the music. It underlines the importance of our sense of vision, say scientists. Their study concludes that the best predictor of a winner's musical performance was the visible pass... | high4350.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "In a website."
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"options": [
"In a textbook.",
"In a magazine.",
"In a paper.",
"In a website."
],
"question": "Where would this passage most probably appear?",
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"answer":... | Natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods can often come at the least expected time.Others, such as hurricanes are increasing in severity and destruction.Typically, those poor countries are the worst hit for they have the least resources to deal with the destruction and rebuild their home.This part of... | high2721.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Choose the holiday in Devon."
},
"options": [
"Go to the Snowdonia Centre.",
"Choose the holiday in Devon.",
"Join the World Sea Trip of 2008.",
"Visit Acapulco and Hawaii."
],
"question": "What can you do if yo... | Holidays
Holiday News
Vacancies now and in the school holidays at a country hotel in Devon. This comfortable, friendly home-from-home lies near the beautiful quiet countryside, but just a drive away from the sea. The food is simple but good. Children and pets are welcome. Reduced prices for low season.
The Snowdonia C... | high10266.txt |
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"answer_text": "Clarence Holiday spent too much time in working"
},
"options": [
"Sadie Fagan wanted to move to New York City",
"the family couldn't support itself",
"Clarence Holiday spent too much time in working",
"Clerence Holiday ... | Billie Holiday was one of the greatest jazz singers in America. Her life was just a mixture of success and tragedy. Her singing expressed her experiences and feelings.
Billie Holiday was born Eleanora Fagan in 1915 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her parents were Sadie Fagan and Clarence Holiday. They were young when their da... | high2047.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Whether the companies should pay for it."
},
"options": [
"Whether the companies should pay for it.",
"Whether taxpayers could get profit from it.",
"Who have the ability to change it.",
"How much should be paid for it.... | When policy experts debate climate change solutions, they often talk about "a price on carbon." They are arguing about whether companies should pay when they put carbon pollution in the air. Proponents say that it's simple economics -- if it's free to pollute, you'll get a lot of pollution. Opponents claim it will rais... | high10500.txt |
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"answer_text": "They think that computers cannot grade writing as well as people."
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"options": [
"They think highly of the computer systems.",
"They think that computers cannot grade writing as well as people.",
"They believe that computer... | Last year, a report by a committee of education experts said that a lot of American students cannot write well. The report noted the concerns of business leaders and teachers. The experts said that more students should have to pass a writing test before they can finish high school. They pointed out that major college e... | high16171.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "improve their bone mineral density"
},
"options": [
"recover from spinal cord injury",
"improve their bone mineral density",
"walk as fast as normal people",
"monitor their waist's movement"
],
"question": "With... | With the press of a button, a person with severe spinal cord injuiy is able to walk again, thanks to the Walking Assistive Exoskeleton Robot (WAER).
Powered suits that could help paralyzed people walk and others lift and carry heavy loads with ease have been a dream since late 19th century. But they can realize their... | high19242.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "go to the Box Office on Sundays"
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"options": [
"use the Internet",
"go to the Box Office on Sundays",
"ring the booking number and pay for the tickets by credit card",
"complete a booking form and post it to the Box O... | The booking notes of the play " the Age of Innocence" .
Price: $ 10
BOOKING:
There are four ways to book seats for performance :
---In person
The Box Office is open from Monday to Saturday , 10 a.m. --- 8 p.m.
---By telephone _
Ring 01324976 to reserve your tickets or to pay by credit card (Visa , MasterCard and Amex... | high4436.txt |
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"answer_text": "It is plant and animal matter used to provide power."
},
"options": [
"It is a useful way of burning crops.",
"It is plant and animal matter used to provide power.",
"It is a new alternative to be used widely.",
"It is ... | Across countryside, non-food crops are growing alongside wheat.Some are used in new alternatives to plastics and other materials, but others will simply be burned.
Burning crops is becoming more popular because it is good for the planet.Doing so is also cheaper than burning fossil fuels.As more land is devoted to non-f... | high3359.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because it shows that you are not a person around here."
},
"options": [
"Because it shows that you are not a person around here.",
"Because it is not convenient.",
"Because it can't be hidden under your jacket.",
"Beca... | Here are some tips on how to keep you,your belongings and your money safe during traveling. After all,it'd be a shame to spend all that time finding the best price for your trip,only to lose your cash and credit cards to a thief.
Don't let others know that you are new here.
You're a tourist. You know that,but you don't... | high14766.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Local performers challenge bands from all over the world."
},
"options": [
"The festival is economically important for Scotland.",
"Many people in Scotland rely on the festival for their jobs.",
"Local performers challenge ba... | B Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, and has long been a favorite destination of tourists from all over the world, as well as an important cultural and political center.
With its museums, shops, wonderful historic castle, and many pubs and restaurants, there are many things for visitors to enjoy all year round... | high13009.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "tell you the truth"
},
"options": [
"answer \"fine\"",
"tell you the truth",
"make no answer",
"get angry and walk away"
],
"question": "When you ask a Russian \"how are you\" the Russian will _ .",
"ques... | "When an American asks me this question, it's like a wall of ice crashing down between us." my Moscow-born friend Galina said. The question is "How are you?".
The answer Americans give, of course is, "Fine." But when Russians hear this they think one of two things: you are experiencing a rare moment of fineness or you ... | high8218.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Firms are urged to cut carbon emissions by shoppers' environmental awareness."
},
"options": [
"Businesses are finding ways to send their message to the shoppers.",
"Companies will soon get information about cutting carbon emission... | Businesses are witnessing a difficult time,which has in turn produced influence on consumers' desire to go green.However,shoppers are still laying stress on environmental concerns.
Two thirds of customers say that environmental considerations _ their purchases to the same degree as they did a year ago,while more than a... | high6235.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the mother spent more time on housework"
},
"options": [
"the two children wore the then clothes for school",
"they prepared their meals together on a stove",
"they ate simple foods they had never seen",
"the mother spe... | The Bowler family had a very unusual experience this year. It was one of more than 400 families who applied to 1900 house, a reality TV show which took a typical family back a hundred years to see how people lived in the days before the internet, computer games and even electricity.
The Bowler family spent three months... | high14772.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "go skating"
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"options": [
"make a snowman",
"throw snowballs",
"go skating",
"go skiing"
],
"question": "The kids liked to _ at the local ponds in winter.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | Years ago there was a group of kids who would hang around at some local ponds in the woods near their houses in Warwick, Rhode Island. In summer they caught frogs and fish. When winter arrived they couldn't wait to go skating. Time passed, and the ponds became the only open space for the kids to enjoy themselves in th... | high9106.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "had a load on his head"
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"options": [
"was too weak to stand still",
"fell down on the road",
"had a load on his head",
"didn't know how to cross the road"
],
"question": "The old man that the author noticed ... | Just two weeks ago, I was about to cross a busy road when I noticed an old grandpa with a heavy load on his head just a few meters from me. He looked very weak. A few minutes later, I realized I'd forgotten to cross the road. And he'd seen me looking at him.
I love my grandparents so much that whenever I see any ol... | high21911.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he had a lot of work to do"
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"options": [
"he was a driver",
"he worked in a factory",
"he had worked there for a long time",
"he had a lot of work to do"
],
"question": "Mr. Lang was paid much because _ ."... | Son's Help
Mr. Lang worked in a factory. As a driver, he was busy but he was paid much. His wife was an able woman and did all the housework. When he came back, she took good care of him and he never did anything at home. So he had enough time when he had a holiday. A few friends of his liked gambling and he learned it... | high2053.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Emotions Affect Our Bodies"
},
"options": [
"What Happens to An Excited Person",
"What Happens to A Frightened Cat",
"Emotions Affect Our Bodies",
"Feelings That People Have"
],
"question": "The best title for t... | Sometimes people call each other " scared cat" , but have you ever thought about this expression? When a cat is frightened, its heart starts beating faster, its muscles get tense, and there are changes in the chemicals in its blood-stream. If the danger continues, this animal will do one of the two things. It will de... | high10514.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Individual efforts"
},
"options": [
"Short history",
"Individual efforts",
"Political influences",
"Language translation"
],
"question": "Which of the following is NOT the reason for Chinese contemporary literat... | BEIJING --- Since Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the public has started to consider the way to improve Chinese literature's global presence.
The prize indicates that Chinese contemporary authors and their works are getting the world's attention, which inspires writers and amateurs to continue their work, acc... | high18148.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the speed at which it spends money"
},
"options": [
"the salary it pays to its staff",
"the interest it pays to the bank",
"the way in which it raises capital",
"the speed at which it spends money"
],
"question"... | Bum rate is the speed at which a startup business consumes money. My rate would be $ 50,000 a month when my new media company started. So, I began looking around for individuals who would be my first investors. "Angel money" it was called. But when I reviewed my list of acquaintances to find those who might be able to ... | high4422.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the oldest man to father children"
},
"options": [
"giving birth to the most children",
"the healthiest and happiest father",
"the oldest man to father children",
"improving life expectancy of Indians."
],
"ques... | Most people can only dream of living for 100 years, let alone fathering a child nearly a century after being born themselves. But that is apparently a reality today, as a 96-year-old Indian man claims to have fathered a child, his second in recent years.
Ramajit Raghav and his 52-year-old wife, Shakuntala Devi, reporte... | high16603.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "An Amazing Moment"
},
"options": [
"An Amazing Moment",
"A Pitiful Fetus",
"An Honorable Job as a Photographer",
"An Impressive Surgeon"
],
"question": "What may be the best title for the passage?",
"questio... | As an experienced photojournalist in Nashville, Tennessee, I was hired by USA Today newspaper to photograph a spinal bifida corrective surgical procedure. It was to be performed on a twenty-one week old fetus in uterus at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At that time, in 1999, twenty-one weeks in uterus was the ... | high4344.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "surprised at the news"
},
"options": [
"surprised at the news",
"to take a make-up test",
"informed of the reasons by letter",
"aware of the reasons in their own heart"
],
"question": "Students whose results wer... | Some students who took the International English Language Testing System(IELTS) exam in August and September, 2015 have had their results"withheld permanently", sending a strong signal that the examiners intend to stamp out cheating, some senior language tutors said.
Yang Yuting, chief language training tutor at Amber... | high19530.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To protect wild plants from extinction."
},
"options": [
"To collect enough money for the project.",
"To safeguard food crops.",
"To protect wild plants from extinction.",
"To help scientists study wild plants."
],
... | Britain's seed bank, the only one in the world aiming to collect all of the planet's wild plant species, has reached its goal of banking 10 percent by 2010.
The Millennium Seed Bank Project, run by Kew Gardens--one of the oldest botanical gardens--will officially place the 24,200th species on Thursday, a pink, wild ... | high2735.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the school bus would arrive in a while"
},
"options": [
"the author's son was still at school",
"the school bus would arrive in a while",
"the author's son was at his friend's home",
"there might be something wrong with... | My son was a second-grader. He went to school by bus every day. He was the first student on in the morning, as we were farthest from school, and the last student off in the evening. I was a teacher myself and it was a comfort to realize the school staff were all working as hard as I was to provide a safe learning env... | high7895.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the Chinese History Museum"
},
"options": [
"a typical Suzhou garden",
"the stone lions",
"the Chinese History Museum",
"red lanterns"
],
"question": "In Vancouver's Chinatown you can see all the things EXCEPT ... | Vancouver's Chinatown--Canada's largest Chinatown
Vancouver's Chinatown is North America's second biggest Chinatown, after San Francisco's. Mandarin and Cantonese are the mother tongues in 30% of Vancouver homes, which makes Chinese the largest "minority" ethnic group .
Vancouver's Chinatown is the place to visit for a... | high14014.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "They made their websites."
},
"options": [
"They went out of business.",
"They made their websites.",
"They bought Internet companies.",
"They sold their companies."
],
"question": "What did many traditional com... | In the mid 1990's, people started doing business on the Internet. At that time, there were two kinds of companies. First, there were traditional companies. They sold things in stores. Then there were Internet companies. They didn't have a store, and they only sold things on the Net.
Traditional companies didn't want to... | high970.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Listen first if you have trouble reading."
},
"options": [
"Listen as much as possible.",
"Try to use your imagination.",
"Great works need to be read out loud.",
"Listen first if you have trouble reading."
],
"... | What is most likely to affect your success at school or at a job? The ability to read. And that goes for your kids too. The declining literacy of our society has been a main concern of educators for a while now, and yet things are not getting better.
In most cases, how well we learn to read will depend largely on our ... | high12465.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "can be used for free"
},
"options": [
"can be used for free",
"is written by experts",
"full of mistakes",
"is a set of books"
],
"question": "According to this passage, we can know that Wikipedia _ .",
"q... | We often use an Internet search engine to find a website that will provide information. For example, if we want to learn something about the Pepsi Cola Company, its website provides information about the history of the company. We can also find articles in newspapers and magazines. We confirm information with second an... | high23860.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "doctors in Deleville were not sure about the cause of her illness"
},
"options": [
"her parents were living in London then",
"the hospitals in Deleville were full at that time",
"she was the daughter of a famous doctor in Lon... | Everybody may have seen the film "Death on the Nile (n. )", but nobody can imagine that the writer of the story, Agatha Christie, saved a baby in a most unusual way.
In June 1977, a baby girl became seriously ill in Deleville. Doctors there were unable to find out the cause of her illness, so she was sent to a famous h... | high15685.txt |
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But a man with bad manners has no respect for others. He uses words carelessly and behaves rudely... | high227.txt |
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However, the findings should not stop us from keeping fit. Experts believe that willpower is like a muscle, and needs to be exercised to help one avoid the tempta... | high23337.txt |
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"Forty."
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The survey went on to p... | high10925.txt |
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That may seem a strange thing to say.But touching things can help you to see them better.
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The Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission estimated the number of emergency room visits for eye injuries caused by ... | high22997.txt |
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Explanation of Contents
This is the fourth edition of these pages. It is hard to believe, but once again they are new and improved. My motive in publishing these pages remains to help and stimulate others in Shakespeare studies, and especially those who might contribute their wor... | high13586.txt |
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All one really needs nowadays is a camera, a c... | high6976.txt |
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I'm talking about the gift of fitness. Improved fitness i... | high11391.txt |
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Instant Expert-- How Your Brain Works
Saturday, 20 May 2017from 10:00 to 17:00
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Ever wondered how your brain works? How that stuff in your head enables you to see, hear and think about the world around you, make decisions and act on them? Join six leading scientists to explore... | high19915.txt |
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GETTING A GRANT
Who pays?
The Local Education Authority (LEA) for the area in which the student is living.
Who can get this money?
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Some Parisians have started to travel to work in London.
In the 19th century, Charles Dickens compared the two cities, London and Paris, in A Tale of Two Cities. These days, it might be A tale of O... | high10931.txt |
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The World Of Theatre: All of New York is. And it begins with Broadway. Where else can you find so many hit shows in one place? Only in New York!
The World Of Music: Spend an evenin... | high23323.txt |
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Alice had thought her daughter was coming to visit her on Christmas day and that they were going to have the wh... | high20602.txt |
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The event was swimming and started with only three men on the blocks. For one reason or another, two of them false started, so they were disqualified. That left onl... | high1957.txt |
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September is around the corner, and some of us are already complaining about summer's end. But parents have a special reason to do so. The end of summer means the start of school. And these days, planning a young child's schedule is a big challenge. The challenge is no longer finding activit... | high6786.txt |
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Vicky Zhao is a mainlander working in Hong Kong. For her, one thing she can't put up with is people standing on the wrong side of the escalator in subway stations. "Escalators help us mo... | high12868.txt |
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Will be among the 500,000 Winners!
Use SPLASH for the SOFTEST ...
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That's where the similarities end: this bag can wirelessly keep track of your belongings and ... | high20164.txt |
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Today things are different. The world has become too crowded. We are using up our natural resources too quickly, and at the same time we are polluting our en... | high4185.txt |
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"he was not in the position to solve such problems",
"many people were too selfish to think about others",
... | Mark felt that it was time for him, to take part in his community, so he went to the neighborhood meeting after work. The area' s city councilwoman was leading a discussion about how the quality of life was decreasing. The neighborhood faced many problems.
Mark looked at the charts taped to the walls. There are ch... | high17904.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "All the 3 experiments proved the same result."
},
"options": [
"All the subjects went through all the 3 experiments.",
"Stellar carefully chose 300 college students according their personal income level.",
"The rich really la... | Now comes word from the University of California, Berkeley, a new study has confirmed that the richer you are the less compassionate you are
In a study just published in the journal Emotion, psychologist Jennifer Stellar sought to determine the empathic capacities of a group of 300 college students, who had been hand-... | high19929.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "size"
},
"options": [
"price",
"colour",
"shape",
"size"
],
"question": "According to the writer, the disadvantage about the iPod is mostly about its _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"... | The disadvantage you usually find about MP3 players like the iPod is that they are too big. But get ready for the MP3 player in your hand to get much smaller--the size of a Band-Aid .
It's called the Skinny Player, and it's being designed by industrial designers Chih-Wei Wang and Shou-His Fu. Unlike the current types ... | high20170.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "it will help to make the world a good living place"
},
"options": [
"if we make the earth unlivable, we'll have to live in space",
"it can help our children live better",
"if we don't, the earth will become a garbage dump",
... | "Why should I care about the environment?" some people ask. There is a very simple reason: We live on the earth, and it is the only place we can live on right now, as we cannot live in space yet. If we treat the earth like a garbage dump, it will become dirty and unlivable. If we treat it well by being eco-conscious, t... | high3832.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Starbucks,tile Coffee Giant"
},
"options": [
"Starbucks,tile Coffee Giant",
"The World's Starbucks",
"Starbucks,Selling Ideas",
"Starbucks,In or Out"
],
"question": "Which of the following may be the best title ... | Starbucks coffee shops can be found all overprefix = st1 /Americaand in more than thirty countries around the world. Many people think they are great places. to enjoy a cup of hot coffee or tea. But others dislike the company.
If you are in any major city in America,the chances are great that you are not far from a... | high23479.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "giving examples"
},
"options": [
"giving examples",
"making comparisons",
"raising questions",
"quoting famous remarks"
],
"question": "The author introduces the expressions mainly by _ .",
"question_type... | "Can't hold a candle to" is a popular expression.When there wasn't electricity, someone would have a servant light his way by holding a candle.The expression meant that the person who cannot hold a candle to you is not fit even to be your servant.Now,it means such a person cannot compare or compete.
Another expression ... | high6792.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "recognition"
},
"options": [
"recognition",
"recall",
"memorization",
"relearning"
],
"question": "The way to pick out the items on the first list from the second is known as _ .",
"question_type": "cloz... | Memory is the ability to keep track of things that have happened in the past. Memory really is learning. One needs memory to ride a bicycle. A dog needs to remember if it is to come when called.
Memory is said to be stored in the brain as a "memory trace ." What makes up this trace is not known. Some scientists believe... | high569.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "noise pollution"
},
"options": [
"air pollution",
"water pollution",
"noise pollution",
"world pollution"
],
"question": "The text is mainly about _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"an... | In today's world, almost everyone knows that air pollution and water pollution are harmful to people's health. However, not all people know that noise is also a kind of pollution, and this is harmful to people's health, too.
People who work and live under noisy conditions usually become deaf today. However, scientis... | high22767.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "people are living longer due to better living conditions"
},
"options": [
"there are many rich valleys and large fields",
"farmers are producing more crops than before",
"people are living longer due to better living conditio... | As people slowly learn to cure diseases, control floods, prevent hunger, and stop wars, fewer people die every year. As a result, the population of the world is becoming larger. In 1925 there were about 2 billion people in the world; today there are over 6 billion.
When the number rises, extra mouths must be fed. New l... | high1943.txt |
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