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"answer_text": "She made a photo album to show her love."
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"She did not understand how her mother felt about her leaving.",
"She had few friends, and kept to herself at home that summer.",
"She made a photo album to show her l... | When my daughter, Sophie, was admitted to a college we were very happy, but a little worried about becoming empty nesters. I knew I had to do something to help myself adapt, starting with the summer before she left.
Sophie had a pack of colorful T-shirts. I knew she wouldn't wear them any more, so I decided to make a q... | high15875.txt |
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"answer_text": "they can't afford diet food and to exercise in gym"
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"they had too much diet food",
"they didn't make a detailed plan",
"they have no time to do exercise in gym",
"they can't afford diet food and to exerc... | "I'd like to be at a healthier weight," a friend told me. "But we just don't have the money to buy expensive diet foods and there isn't enough money to join a gym." Many people feel that way -- that a healthy diet and exercise plan is out of reach because of their high cost. Don't lose hope! We'll be looking at ways to... | high18389.txt |
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"answer_text": "They took a wrong turning."
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"They had a traffic accident.",
"They took a wrong turning.",
"Their car broke down half way.",
"The traffic was heavy on the freeway."
],
"question": "What kept the a... | She handed me a five dollar bill through the car window, then turned and walked away. I don't know her name, nor where she was going ,but I know I will never forget that stranger who generously saved me from a lot of frustration and prevented me from walking a mile or more to my destination.
That day My husband, Leo,... | high20616.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She took a chance and filled one vacancy ."
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"Her mother found her gifted in speed reading.",
"She was the only teenager applicant for the class.",
"She'd already practiced speed reading before.",
"She t... | I'm a speed reader. Have been since I was a teen. Mother worked for the continuing education department of a university, and they were offering a class on speed reading and needed one more person to fill out the class. I became that one person.
The class met for only an hour or two for a few weeks, but when the goal of... | high19097.txt |
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"answer_text": "well-educated youth in China's big cities have difficulty buying houses."
},
"options": [
"knockoffs can be found in China but not very often.",
"the Oxford University Press made the dictionary without outside aid.",
"most Ch... | The 115-year-old prestigious Oxford Dictionary will now include popular new Chinese terms like"shanzhai" "youtiao" and "fangnu", as part of the modern Chinese language.
As China plays a more and more important role in the world economy, the Chinese language is forever developing, attracting more attention from people ... | high3167.txt |
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"answer_text": "Roosevelt"
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"Bush",
"Clinton",
"Roosevelt",
"Washington"
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"question": "President _ sang high praise for the Grand Canyon.",
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... | Nearly 300 miles long, up to 18 miles across and 4000 vertical feet down, the 8th new wonder: the splendid Grand Canyon .
Viewing its glory, President Theodore Roosevelt called the Grand Canyon "a natural wonder, ly unparalleled throughout the rest of the world". He urged Americans to preserve what he described as th... | high20825.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "ITTF will cooperate with Gates"
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"options": [
"ITTF will cooperate with Gates",
"Gates watched Hsing's match",
"some rules have been changed",
"Hsing pushed Li Xiaoxia to the limit"
],
"question": "It is mainl... | LONDON---The International Table Tennies Federation(ITTF) plans to work with Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft Corporation, to promote table tennis in the United States, ITTF President
Adham Sharara said.
The plan was put forward after Gates came to London to watch the game between US teen player Ariel Hsing and C... | high11420.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To get professional help even if it costs."
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"options": [
"To read it over several times by yourself.",
"To get professional help even if it costs.",
"To copy something from books.",
"To publish it on the Internet."
... | As the global financial crisis hits the economy, it's tough finding a job--especially if you're competing with thousands of other hopeful students. Sometimes you get the interview, but don't quite seem to land the job because you don't have related experience. Don't despair! Here are a few tips that might give you an e... | high17051.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "coffee is likely to prevent diabetes"
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"options": [
"coffee is likely to prevent diabetes",
"the way we prevent diabetes",
"old people may develop diabetes",
"dumbbells can keep out of diabetes"
],
"question":... | If you prefer doughnuts to dumbbells , you have a high chance of developing diabetes later in life. But if you wash down those doughnuts with at least seven cups of coffee a day, you are only half as likely as that.
The finding is "quite surprising and fairly dramatic", says Bill Hartnett of UK Diabetes, although th... | high18362.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "People made fun of it."
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"options": [
"People made fun of it.",
"He wanted to make more friends.",
"It was hard to remember.",
"He wanted to be cool in the new school."
],
"question": "Why did the writer want ... | My name is Chelsea Chowderhead. A chowder is a kind of soup. I was laughed at because of my last name as soon as I started school. So when my family moved to South Carolina, I asked my dad if I could change my name.
"You shouldn't change who you are. Let people get to know you first and your name later. When you meet s... | high2279.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "educate children to become money savvy"
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"options": [
"educate children to become money savvy",
"avoid continued mis-selling epidemics",
"help children make money",
"deal with the current economic crisis"
],
"... | Are you good with money?I learnt to be careful with it during my childhood. My father would give me some pocket money and tell me it should last for a whole week. So,I learnt I had to save some if I didn't want to run out of cash quickly. No surprise there:my dad was an accountant!
It's never too early to become money ... | high13237.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "money constantly loses its value"
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"options": [
"everyone's incomes rise",
"money will hold its value",
"we can watch our money grow",
"money constantly loses its value"
],
"question": "From the passage we can... | It is a matter of common observation that although money income keeps going up over the years, we never seem to become richer. Prices are rising continuously. This condition is what we call inflation: the money supply is becoming inflated so that each unit of it becomes less valuable. We have got used to higher and hig... | high1770.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "began to consider losing weight at 30"
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"options": [
"controlled his weight at college",
"began to consider losing weight at 30",
"was satisfied with his figure as a kid",
"may have a family history of heart attack"
... | As a little child,1 was always plump .In college I started blowing up. It got out of control
when l went to law school.
I'd made a decision a thousand times: I'm going to lose weight now. But what motivated
me to get serious about it was turning 30.1 weighed 414 pounds.1 was always tired. Some of my
family members hav... | high14558.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the Civil War"
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"an illness",
"the Civil War",
"her trip to England",
"her grandmother's death"
],
"question": "The author implies Dorothea Dix's work with the insane was interrupted because of ... | Dorothea Dix left home at an early age--of her own free will--to live with her grandmother.
At fourteen, Dorothea was teaching school at Worcester, Massachusetts. A short time after she had begun teaching, she set up a school for young girls in her grandparents' home. Stress was placed on moral character at Dorothea's ... | high7301.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "playing the violin"
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"sailing his boat",
"fame and money",
"playing the violin",
"work"
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"question": "Einstein was most interested in _ in life.",
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... | Einstein was the greatest scientist of his age. But he was almost as strange as his Theory of Relativity.
Once, while riding a street car in Berlin, he told the conductor that he had been given too much change. The conductor counted the change again and found it to be correct, so he handed it back to Einstein, saying "... | high15646.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "an important part of Silk Road"
},
"options": [
"an international fashion centre",
"an important part of Silk Road",
"the focus of the world",
"a vast desert land in Central Asia"
],
"question": "According to th... | I have never heard about a "Fashion Week" outside of New York, London or Milan. But then one just happens to turn up in Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. Actually, I'm ignorant of all those countries in Central Asia, whose names are always ending in "stan." For decades, even centuries, Central Asia has been out of focus, a blank ... | high12129.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the world cyberspace develops fast and uncontrollable"
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"it was set up by a 17-year-old girl",
"Qualls shares her design with her friends",
"Qualls has been building her online business",
"the world cyber... | Like a scene out of a reality show or a Disney movie, Southgate, Mich., teenager Ashley Qualls' moment has arrived.
She may not have an MBA, a high-school diploma, or even a driver's license yet, but Asheley Qualls already has an influential website (www. Whateverlife.Com). The 17-year-old girl hass been building her o... | high7467.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She was kind to them."
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"They were afraid of her.",
"She treated them badly.",
"She was kind to them.",
"It was their daily practice."
],
"question": "Why did these colleagues talk behind their bo... | The other day at lunch I was part of a whole group of colleagues and we were talking behind our boss's back. She's the new principal of our middle school.
We talked about how kind she is to us. She writes notes to wish us happy holidays, or to thank us for jobs well done. She checks on us when she knows we're facing d... | high8754.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It was at first free of charge for its consumers."
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"It appeared earlier than the chocolate bar dispenser.",
"It was invented by a Scottish man in 1971.",
"It was at first free of charge for its consumers.",
... | The cash machine is 47 years old, but where was the birthplace of this world-beating invention? New York? Tokyo? No. The first ever cash machine was born in Enfield Town, north London. It was a Scottish inventor, John shepherd Barron, who realized the concept of a self-service machine that could be used 24 hours a day,... | high6779.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "what emotion the words can bring to people"
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"whether the words are easy to remember",
"what emotion the words can bring to people",
"whether the words are popular and in fashion",
"which group of people ... | Language has a powerful influence over people and their behaviour. This is especially true in the fields of advertising. Visual content and design in advertising have a very great impact on the consumers,but it is language that helps people to identify a product and keep it in mind. The choice of language to show speci... | high23492.txt |
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"answer_text": "about 8000"
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"about 8000",
"about 12000",
"about 32000"
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"question": "There are _ McDonald's restaurants outside the US now.",
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... | The biggest hamburger restaurant chain in the world is McDonald's. It started in 1955 with just one restaurant, but now has more than 20000 worldwide. There are more than 12000 McDonald's restaurants only in the US. You can find them in 100 countries on six continents. There isn't a McDonald's in Antarctica, but I don... | high13551.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "devoting oneself to nursing body and soul"
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"options": [
"being good at communication",
"having service awareness",
"being able to understand how others feel",
"devoting oneself to nursing body and soul"
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"q... | You might be thinking about entering healthcare as a second career but are having lots of doubts, primarily because you feel that the time and energy you invested in your profession might just go to waste. On the contrary, many of the skills and strengths you need in healthcare, particularly in the nursing field, are s... | high22954.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To encourage."
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"options": [
"To encourage.",
"To compare.",
"To prove.",
"To explain."
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"question": "What's the writer's purpose to write the passage?",
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... | It is common and usual to see people _ when they face challenges in their life. We all pass in different life problems and challenges. No one is free of life problems. Only a dead man faces no problem. As long as you are alive, challenges are everywhere.
How do you face problems and challenges in your life? Problems an... | high582.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The medical worker's letters to her school."
},
"options": [
"Her visit to the poor parts of Calcutta.",
"Her visit to Britain after she left school.",
"The medical worker's letters to her school.",
"The work of the nur... | Mother Teresa was born in Yugoslavia, on August 27th, 1910. She attended the government school near her home until she was eighteen. At that time, some doctors and nurses from Yugoslavia were working in India, and they often wrote to the school about their work. She decided to join them one day.
When she finished schoo... | high1016.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "was found on the shores of a village in Spain"
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"was about 15 feet long with a horn",
"could probably grow up to 55 feet long",
"was already in pieces but it was still alive",
"was found on the shores of ... | Even after centuries of exploration , the ocean still holds its mysteries. Although we know more today about the world's oceans and creatures living in them than ever before, every once in a while the sea brings up something so strange, so unexpected, that makes the world wonder what it could be.
Such was the case when... | high10058.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "because it could bring good fortune to Tabor"
},
"options": [
"because Tabor became its leading citizen",
"because great deposits of lead is expected to be found there",
"because it could bring good fortune to Tabor",
"... | Among the more color1ful characters of Leadville's golden age were H.A.W.Tabor and his second wife, Elizabeth McCourt, better known as "Baby Doe". Their history is fast becoming one of the legends of the Old West. Horace Austin Warner Tabor was a school teacher in Vermont. With his first wife and two children he left V... | high17737.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "draw our attention to Internet language"
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"options": [
"explain some Internet language",
"suggest common Internet language",
"laU9h at the Beijing father",
"draw our attention to Internet language"
],
"questio... | Recently a Beijing father asked what "PK' meant at an Internet forum.
"My family has been watching the ' Super Girl' singing competition TV programme . My little daughter asked me what'PK'meant. but I had no idea. "explained the puzzled father.
To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online. it is... | high18404.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Hawaii"
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"options": [
"California",
"New Mexico",
"Hawaii",
"Arkansas"
],
"question": "Visitors are likely to see Bigfoot in the following places EXCEPT _ .",
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... | Want to find Bigfoot? Matt Moneymaker, president of Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot, says the creatures have been seen in every state but Hawaii.
Redwoods State Park, California
With its towering redwoods and thick forest, it's hard to beat the atmosphere at this Northern California park.Moneymaker recommends taking ... | high16429.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Apart from taking medicine, 73 patients also participated in either a tai chi class or a \nhealth education class."
},
"options": [
"This study is the first to prove the benefits of tai chi in the treatment of depression.",
"There ... | More than two million Americans above 65 years of age suffer from depression. And in the next 35 years, twice as many people will find themselves in that age range --including me, and probably you too! So, what activities can prevent depression as we get older?
Researchers at UCLA turned to a gentle "Westernized" versi... | high21285.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "was an army man"
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"options": [
"was a slow student",
"was an army man",
"helped his father in his career",
"had little interest in politics"
],
"question": "Churchill _ before he became a politician.",
... | Winston Churchill was born into a famous family.His father was a successful politician.However, as a boy, Churchill was considered a slow learner in school.Later he entered the Army and saw action in various countries.
In October 1900, Churchill began his political career.For the next sixty years Churchill's work as a ... | high3601.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "teaches English communication skills"
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"options": [
"is an in-company service",
"teaches English communication skills",
"is designed for working people",
"provides English training for free"
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"question": "Da... | I am an English teacher, with over 15 years' experience of teaching in London. I started the DailyStep audio email lesson service because I noticed that when I started their English course, my students' speaking and listening skills were much weaker than their reading and writing skills. In my view, this is because edu... | high11346.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Watson's department didn't earn money that year"
},
"options": [
"Watson would take over a new job in another department",
"Watson had his son study in Riverside School",
"Watson's son knocked a boy down who hit Herbie",
... | Watson entered Mr. Smith's office. The boss was a hard man. He fired people who didn't do well without giving them a second chance.
"Watson," said Mr. Smith, "this past year your department hasn't earned money. We're going to drop that department. It's finished. I'm sorry, --but you'll have to go." "But, sir -- if I ju... | high17723.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "artistic value"
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"atmosphere",
"mass appeal",
"box-office success",
"artistic value"
],
"question": "Product placement can have a bad effect on the _ of a movie.",
"question_type": "cloze_... | If you've ever seen a James Bond movie, you'll know that the hero gets around in a smart Aston Martin car. Even if you know that you could never afford such an expensive vehicle, you don't forget the name, or the car.
Why? You have been affected by product placement.
Companies pay a film to place their products in the ... | high18410.txt |
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"answer_text": "It requires some break in one's career."
},
"options": [
"It requires some break in one's career.",
"It tends to last too long for many people to complete a degree program.",
"It affects one's career.",
"It gives the st... | Today, there are many chances for those who wish to continue their education. However, nearly all require some break in one's career in order to attend school full time.
Part-time education, that is, attending school at night or for one weekend a month, tends to drag the process out over time and puts the completion of... | high5264.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the wife of the U.S President"
},
"options": [
"the First Lady who received U. S patent",
"the first woman inventor",
"the wife of the U.S President",
"praised by Mary Kies"
],
"question": "According to the pass... | In 1809, Mary Kies received the first U.S. patent issued to a woman. Kies , a Connecticut native , invented a process for weaving straw with silk or thread. First Lady Dolley Madison praised her for improving the nation's het industry. Unfortunately , the patent file was destroyed in a big fire in 1836.
Until a... | high21291.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "1556;China."
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"options": [
"1964;Alaska.",
"1556;China.",
"1923;Japan.",
"2008;China."
],
"question": "When and where was the worst earthquake ever reported?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{... | Earthquakes are something that people fear.There are some places that have few or no earthquakes.Most places in the world,however,have them regularly .Countries that have a lot of earthquakes are usually quite mountainous .
The most talked about earthquake in the United States was in San Francisco in 1906.Over 700 peop... | high3615.txt |
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"answer_text": "English teachers should be held responsible for the students' poor command of English"
},
"options": [
"the language of the younger generation is usually inferior to that of the older\ngeneration",
"the students had a poor command... | The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic audience. Heads nodded in agreement when he said, "High school English teachers are not doing their jobs." He described the inadequacies of his students, all high school graduates who can use language only at a grade 9 level. I was unable to dete... | high11352.txt |
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"answer_text": "Mulcahy becomes a famous football player."
},
"options": [
"Mulcahy put in long hours as Vice President at a Fortune 500 company.",
"Mulcahy becomes a famous football player.",
"Mulcahy brought with her several accounts based... | Now let's talk about doing well by doing good--many people who have ever been volunteers for the community find their place in relative jobs or even make their way to be corporate leaders.
Consider the case of Kimberly Mulcahy. Throughout her career, Mulcahy has actively volunteered in her community, profession and ind... | high7473.txt |
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"answer_text": "he came up with the idea of virtual water"
},
"options": [
"he wrote seven books on trade policy",
"he published more than 100 papers on water management",
"he found a new kind of water in water-scarce areas",
"he came ... | A scientist who developed a way to calculate how much water is used in the production of anything from a cup of coffee to a hamburger was awarded the 2008 Stockholm Water Prize.
Professor John Anthony Allan of the University of London in Britain won the award for introducing the idea of "virtual water ", a calculation... | high15134.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "is flavored"
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"has no smell",
"is tasteless",
"has vitamins",
"is flavored"
],
"question": "The expression \"the habit\" (para. 1, sentence 4) refers to drinking water which _ .",
"question_... | Animals seem to have the sense to eat when they are hungry and they do not eat more than their bodies need. It has been demonstrated that rats will, when given a choice over a period of time, prefer water with vitamins to water without vitamins even though there is no difference in taste or smell between the two water ... | high22798.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They like doing the toothache pose when being photographed."
},
"options": [
"They are very dissatisfied with the shape of their face.",
"Most of them have an occupational disease, such as toothache.",
"They are competing to ... | The latest fashion in Japan is posing for photos with your hand pressed against your cheek as if you have toothache. The "cavity pose" is said to make the model's face appear attractive, slimmer and smaller, which is considered more beautiful in Japan. The craze is sweeping Japanese social media, as well as fashion ma... | high12883.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "escape separately"
},
"options": [
"reunite with your family first",
"sit separately",
"escape with your family together",
"escape separately"
],
"question": "While travelling, in the event of emergency, you'd b... | Australian researchers have studied records of 105 plane crashes and interviews with more than 2,000 survivors of traffic accidents, and outlined the following self-help tips.
First, sit with your family but escape separately. About 50 percent of passengers travel with at least one companion. If you are traveling with ... | high23486.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A gathering in his neighborhood."
},
"options": [
"The sunset.",
"The car or boat of the home owner.",
"The pet of the home owner.",
"A gathering in his neighborhood."
],
"question": "What will you most probably... | You might not want a holiday in your hometown, but there is probably someone who does. And, in exchange, you could have a cheap vacation anywhere in the world.
Just picture the scene: you're watching the sunset from the balcony of a Caribbean island house. It's large. And it's free as long as you don't mind the owners ... | high8998.txt |
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"answer_text": "discovered some prehistoric human bones in Zhoukoudian"
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"options": [
"thought that the findings in Zhoukoudian are the first evidence of human life in Asia",
"thought that the findings in Zhoukoudian wouldn't change the history ... | Zhoukoudian is a small village situated about 50 kilometers to the southwest of Beijing. In the 1920s, archaeologists discovered some prehistoric human bones there which changed people's view of China's history. They came from an unknown species of man and were the first evidence of human life in China thousands of yea... | high1002.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "bring more money to the television networks"
},
"options": [
"result in more sport event",
"get more viewers to play sports",
"make more people interested in television",
"bring more money to the television networks"
... | Sports account for a growing amount of income made on the sales of commercial time by television companies. Many television companies have used sports to attract viewers from particular sections of the general public, and then they have sold audiences to advertisers.
An attraction of sport programs for the major U. S.... | high596.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "16"
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"14",
"13.",
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"question": "Kids can have full-time jobs at the age of _ in the USA.",
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,... | If you live in the United States, the law says you can't have a full-time job until you are 16 years old. At 14 or 15, you can work part-time after school or on weekends, and during summer holidays you can work 40 hours each week. Does all that mean that if you are younger than 14, you can't earn your own money? Of cou... | high22940.txt |
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"answer_text": "They gave their friends a basket of flowers secretly."
},
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"They gave their friends a basket of flowers secretly.",
"They sold baskets of spring flowers in neighborhood.",
"They hang a basket of flowers on their f... | "Hey, do you know what? Today is May Day!" my sister announced. "Do you remember the May Day baskets we used to make with colored paper and paste?"
I recalled that my sisters and I would run around our neighborhood delivering the baskets brimming with spring flowers. We would place them on a doorstep, knock on the doo... | high13223.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"effects of experiments on babies",
"babies' understanding of objects",
"different tests on babies' feelings"
],
"question": "The passa... | Grown-ups know that people and objects are solid. At the movies, we know that if we reach out to touch Tom Cruise, all we will feel is air. But does a baby have this understanding?
To see whether babies know objects are solid. T. Bower designed a method for projecting an optical illusion of a hanging ball. His plan w... | high1764.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
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},
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"are ready to change their minds",
"can't exercise control over themselves",
"are easily affected by windy weather"
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The seeds, and the power to grow them, are contained in the most awesome machine ever created: the human mind. Success i... | high9338.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "buying books from England"
},
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"buying books from England",
"putting up the library building",
"asking experts in every field to work there"
],
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President John Adams started the library in 1800 for members of Congress. He wanted them to be able to read books about law. The first 740 books were bought in England. They we... | high7315.txt |
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},
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"It encourages children to love their family and friends",
"The farmer kills Wibur as dinner",
... | Sometimes two very different individuals become the best friends. For example,, who could have thought that a spider would become friends with a pig? But in American writer E.B.White' novel Charlotte's Web, this is exactly what happens
Wibur the pig grows up in a barn and makes many friends, including a spider called... | high8026.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "encouraged him"
},
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"laughed at him",
"encouraged him",
"didn't believe him"
],
"question": "When the author was offered the contract, most of his friends _ .",
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"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "What can we make from old paper?"
},
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"What can we make from old paper?",
"How does food come from old paper?",
"Why can scientists do wonderful things?",
"How can scientists turn wood into food?"
],
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Of course, the best paper comes from wood. Wood comes from trees, and trees are plants. Vegetables and fruit are plants too, and we eat a lot... | high20831.txt |
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"life",
"politics",
"forum"
],
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In addition to improvements in the network of pipes, the government has been upgrading three recycled water plants in the south of the capital, said Zhao Lei, spokesman for the Beijing Municipal Commission of Developme... | high3173.txt |
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},
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"it holds all the works by Rubens and his students",
"there are many people who enjoy visiting it",
"Rubens, a gre... | Many famous painters worked in Antwerp during the city's period of greatest power but Peter Paul Rubens is undoubtedly the most famous one of them. Known as Rubens House, the palace-like residence and studio where Rubens worked and lived from 1616 until his death in 1640 is now one of Antwerp's most visited museums.
A... | high11434.txt |
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"answer_text": "excitedly"
},
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"excitedly",
"indifferently",
"angrily",
"calmly"
],
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Then around age 13, your adoring lit... | high19068.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "fitness is much more than gaining or losing weight"
},
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"working on physical fitness is sometimes harmful",
"fitness is much more than gaining or losing weight... | Fitness isn't just physical: Change your thoughts, and you change your world. Of course we can all agree that gaining and losing weight, exercise, diet, strength, and flexibility are all a part of fitness. But what about body image, self-esteem, aging, relationships, success and happiness? They are all related, all con... | high17045.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "They can attract people's attention to their reports."
},
"options": [
"They can give voice to different views.",
"They can make themselves better known.",
"They can choose from a greater variety of topics.",
"They can ... | Apparently everyone knows that global warming only makes climate more extreme. A hot, dry summer has caused another flood of such claims. And one of the players that benefit the most from this story is the media: the idea of "extreme" climate simply makes for more exciting news.
Consider Paul Krugman writing breathless... | high9310.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Britain"
},
"options": [
"the U.S.A",
"Britain",
"Canada",
"Russia"
],
"question": "According to the passage we know that President Xi Jinping is paying a visit to _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"... | Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed Wednesday that the socialist path China has followed is "correct," and it is the choice of the "history and people."
Citing the remarkable achievements China has made over the past 37 years when it initiated the reform and opening-up policy, Xi noted that it only took several deca... | high14564.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Never have a bottle without a label in the chemistry lab!"
},
"options": [
"Never have a bottle without a label in the chemistry lab!",
"Obey your teacher's instructions in the Chemistry lab.",
"A crylamide can't take the pla... | One Monday morning, Paul and his classmates were in science laboratory for their practical chemistry lesson. The students were going to work in pairs to do an experiment. Before they began, the teacher gave them this description of the different stages of the experiment.
Stage 1: Prepare the equipment: a test tube, a c... | high6023.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "She was too tired to have fun or play games with him."
},
"options": [
"She was too tired to have fun or play games with him.",
"She was sick and wanted to have a good rest.",
"She was too busy and had to work overtime that n... | This week was busier than usual, and I was very tired today. All I wanted to do was to go home and enjoy a bowl of good hot soup.
But when I saw my daughter's car, _ Since his parents separated, I had tried to have my six-year-old grandson spend a few hours with me at least once a week. I had always tried to make it a ... | high1994.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "have a credit card"
},
"options": [
"go to a bank",
"store money in the phone",
"buy a special instrument",
"have a credit card"
],
"question": "To pay with your smart phone, you need to _ .",
"question_t... | Modern smart phones are fast becoming the must-have item. But what's in store for the next generation of smart phones?
Tired of carrying around that heavy wallet? Soon you won't need to! The next generation of smart phones will have NFC technology, which lets you pay for things with your smart phones. All you do is ent... | high12115.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The introduction to American pop culture"
},
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"The history of American pop culture",
"The influence of American pop culture",
"The introduction to American pop cultu... | When you think of American culture, what first comes to your mind? McDonald's? Coca Cola? Disneyland? Michael Jordan? Many people imagine American culture is a collection of popular symbols like these. Actually, these symbols are only one small part of American culture--pop culture.
What is pop culture? Well, pop is sh... | high20819.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "People with mild obesity are less likely to die than people of normal weight."
},
"options": [
"People with high obesity have a lower risk of early death than people with low obesity",
"People with overweight have a greater risk of... | New research shows that overweight or even mildly obese people have a lower risk of early death than people considered to be normal weight.
Researchers examined the results of 97 studies. Most of the studies were less than 10 years old. They included almost three million adults from around the world, including the Unit... | high4634.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "how the expression \"keep up with the Joneses\" came into being"
},
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"what Arthur Momand did to keep up with his neighbors",
"how the expression \"keep up with the Joneses\" came into being",
"what we should do to... | The expression "keeping up with the Joneses" was first used in 1913 by a young American Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself: he began earning $125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. Young Momand was very proud of his riches. He got married and moved with his wife to Long Island,... | high2245.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "that can remind people to do many things"
},
"options": [
"that can remind people to do many things",
"which is linked to a nursing house",
"behind which is a medicine cabinet",
"that can help the elderly brush their te... | Your House Will Take Care of You In Old Age
Have you ever thought what your life would be like in old age?
Everyone talks about the "aging" society with large numbers of elderly people needing home care. Now German researchers have set up a "smart"house, programmed to help the elderly live at home with dignity. Scienti... | high10064.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "he fell in love with it"
},
"options": [
"he was frightened by it",
"he acted as a driver",
"he watched it for hours",
"he fell in love with it"
],
"question": "The first time John Thomas Robertson took a train,... | 12-year-old John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan. "I've liked trains probably from the day I was born," he told Good Morning America. "When I was very little," he said, "my grandpa got me a train model. I would just watch it go round for hours and hours."
When Robertson finally had the opportunity to ride on a tra... | high2523.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Many tourists."
},
"options": [
"Many tourists.",
"Many other animals.",
"Many plants.",
"A sea."
],
"question": "According to the passage, what will be on the moon in about A.D. 2060?",
"question_type": nul... | Life in 2060
Let us suppose it is now about A.D. 2060. Let's make believe(;) it is about sixty years from now. Of course, things have changed and life is very different.
Voyages to the moon are being made every day. It is as easy to take a holiday on the moon today as it was for the people in 1960 to take a hol... | high18438.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "He wrote about the struggles of the poor in London?"
},
"options": [
"He showed an interest in rural matters in his writing.",
"He focused on changing social and economic situation of the countryside",
"He wrote about the str... | It was in the Victorian Era that the novel became the leading form of literature in English. Most writers were more concerned to meet the tastes of the middle class. The best known works of the period included the works of Charles Dickens and the Bronte sisters and others.
Charles Dickens came on the literary scene i... | high4152.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "biotechnology"
},
"options": [
"electronics",
"biotechnology",
"genetic engineering",
"nuclear technology"
],
"question": "According to the passage, the science of the future is likely to be _ .",
"ques... | Until recently, the "science of the future" was supposed to be electronics and artificial intelligence. Today it seems more and more likely that the next great breakthroughs in technology will be brought through a combination of those two sciences with organic chemistry and genetic engineering. This combination is the ... | high16415.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Grace"
},
"options": [
"Emily",
"Grace",
"Mathew",
"Oliver"
],
"question": "In Britain,people may call a little girl _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index":... | The most popular names in the west
Every year in Englishspeaking countries,people list the most popular names. Here are some examples. In the United States at the moment the three most popular names for girls are Emily,Emma and Madison. For boys,they are Michael,Joshua and Mathew. In Britain a parent today might call t... | high8768.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "she believed she could do it anytime"
},
"options": [
"her grandfather was seriously ill",
"she believed she could do it anytime",
"she was too busy with her work",
"her grandfather wanted to travel himself"
],
... | Lying on his sickbed in hospital, all 86-year-old Lin Ruiming can do is stare out at a tiny part of sky through the small window. The old man used to ride his motorbike through the busy streets of downtown Beijing. All the while he could only dream of touring the world.
He has been suffering from terminal lymphoma s... | high9476.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "To make money"
},
"options": [
"To travel there.",
"To save money.",
"To see his wife.",
"To make money"
],
"question": "Why did Pat come to Ireland?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answ... | Pat came over from Ireland to England with his wife one year ago to find work. He got quite a good job with a building company, and as he did not drink or smoke, he saved up quite a lot of money.
His wife's parents were still in Ireland, and one day she got a telegram saying that her mother was ill, so Pat gave her som... | high14202.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "controls her husband's actions"
},
"options": [
"loves her husband very much",
"controls her husband's actions",
"gets on well with her husband",
"does whatever her husband wants her to do"
],
"question": "If we... | The nose is used in many popular expressions. Some people are able to lead other people by the nose. For example, if a wife leads her husband by the nose, she makes him do whatever she wants him to do. Some people are said to be hard-nosed. They will not change their opinions or positions on anything.
It is always help... | high6745.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Parents and the school have the equal power."
},
"options": [
"Parents have greater influence than the school.",
"The school plays a greater role than parents.",
"Parents and the school have the equal power.",
"Neither ... | As researchers learn more about how children's intelligence develops, they are increasingly surprised by the power of parents.The power of the school has been replaced by the home.To begin with, all the factors which are part of intelligence--the child's understanding of language,learning patterns, curiosity--are estab... | high6989.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Tattoos can turn customers away."
},
"options": [
"They don't like tattoos themselves.",
"Tattoos can turn customers away.",
"People with tattoos don't obey the rules.",
"People with tattoos are gang members."
],
... | Having a tattoo can reduce your chance of getting a job, but it depends on where the tattoo is, what it expresses and if the job involves dealing with customers, new research says.
Dr Andrew R Timming told the British Sociological Association conference on work, employment and society in Warwick today that employers w... | high12667.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Smaller chance of stroke."
},
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"No risk of heart disease.",
"Smaller chance of stroke.",
"Low blood pressure.",
"Slightly more heart attacks."
],
"question": "Which is a benefit of a low sodium diet ... | If teens could reduce the salt they take in every day by 3,000 milligrams (mg), they would cut their risk of heart disease and stroke greatly in adulthood, researchers say.
Based on the results of a computer modeling analysis, researchers found that a 3,000 mg reduction in sodium by teenagers could reduce hypertensio... | high15108.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "There would be too many days on the calendar."
},
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"It would be only one day out of step with the seasons.",
"There would be too many days on the calendar.",... | Imagine picking apples on Christmas or going skating on May Day. What about going for a swim on Thanksgiving? Without Leap Day ,which takes place every four years, that could happen.
Our calendar is normally 365 days long. It was created to match the cycles of the seasons. But Roman ruler Julius Caesar noticed a proble... | high14216.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because he had difficulty in writing a story."
},
"options": [
"Because he had no time to fit them together.",
"Because he had difficulty in writing a story.",
"Because he wasn't willing to do his homework.",
"Because h... | Arthur sat at the desk in his room, pencil in hand. He had to write a story for his English class by Friday. "! don't know what to write about, " he complained to his dog Toby, who was asleep at his feet. Arthur was talkative when speaking to his friends, yet he had trouble finding words when he had to write.
By bedtim... | high9462.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "The rent of a tent per night is the lowest."
},
"options": [
"It has been open for a few years.",
"A beautiful lake surrounds it.",
"It offers the longest service.",
"The rent of a tent per night is the lowest."
],
... | The editor of the new Cool Camping Britain guide chooses some of his favorite new finds in England, Wales and Scotland.
Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Inner Hebrides
Is this Britain's most beautiful campsite? From the grassy point looking seaward to the mountains, it's not hard for campers to see how the island inspired The L... | high13579.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "be familiar with the surroundings"
},
"options": [
"fight against the pressure",
"stay closer to an immovable object",
"move in the same direction of the crowd",
"be familiar with the surroundings"
],
"question"... | If you are in a crowd, a first and most important thing is to make yourself familiar with your surroundings and mentally notice alternate exits. No matter where you are, make sure you always know how to get out.
Make sure you know the type of ground you are standing on. For example, in a crowd of moving people wet gro... | high10070.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Snake robots can reduce the patients' medical costs."
},
"options": [
"Snake robots are only used in the medical field.",
"Snake robots can reduce the patients' medical costs.",
"Scientists are uncertain about the prospects f... | Have you heard of snake robots? Scientists and doctors are already using tiny snakes that coil through the human body armed with sharp surgical tools to perform operations on hearts, prostate cancer, and other diseased organs. The snake robots that carry tiny cameras, scissors and forceps, and even more advanced sensor... | high2537.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "vocabulary"
},
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"vocabulary",
"pronunciation",
"spelling",
"grammar"
],
"question": "The main difference between Early and Late Modern English lies in _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | Towards the end of Middle English, a sudden change in pronunciation started, with vowels being pronounced shorter and shorter. From the 16th century the British had contact with many people from around the world. This meant that lots of new vocabulary entered the language. The invention of printing also meant that ... | high5258.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "a girl at middle school"
},
"options": [
"a child",
"the boy who has little schooling",
"everyone",
"a girl at middle school"
],
"question": "It is clear from this that the problem can be settled by _ .",
... | There is very simple way of measuring the height of a water-tower, which we cannot measure by climbing.
Suppose, for example, that we wish to find out the height of the water-tower, AB, in a factory. We first of all go to where the water-tower is standing and measure a distance of, say, 25 feet from it. Then we take a ... | high4146.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "The descriptions in Shakespeare's poems."
},
"options": [
"The descriptions in Shakespeare's poems.",
"The intention to protect local environment.",
"The scientists'concern about the worsening environment.",
"The park v... | Long before the scientific world became concerned about the impacts of introducing nonnative species,a total of l00 starlings were released in New York City's Central Park.Eugene Schieffelin was a Shakespeare lover who wanted to bring to America as manv birds as possible mentioned by the Bard in his poems.He imported 6... | high19732.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "She neither drank enough water nor ate enough of the right kind of foods."
},
"options": [
"She couldn't breathe in enough air in the race.",
"She didn't eat anything before the race.",
"She had been running all summer withou... | Last summer, when Amanda R of Anaheim Hills, California, was running on a cross-country course with her team, she blacked out. "I got really dizzy," she says. "I was out for a few minutes." At first, Amanda thought she was just tired and didn't think she had a health problem. She did go to the emergency room, where she... | high16401.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Indian cultural heritage is related to religions."
},
"options": [
"Ellora Caves only have statues of animals.",
"The Portuguese controlled the whole India two centuries ago.",
"Indian cultural heritage is related to religion... | India is an ancient civilization with rich cultural heritage , and its cultural heritage has something to do with all major religions of the world. Here we take a look at some of the top heritage destinations in India.
Sun Temple, Konark
As the name suggests this temple is all about the power of the sun God. A huge ch... | high3629.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Lack of money."
},
"options": [
"Lack of money.",
"The increased standard of living.",
"No government help.",
"Agreement with their parents."
],
"question": "According to the text, what causes some people to be ... | In many countries the standard of living enjoyed by their people has increased rapidly in recent years. Sadly, not everyone in these countries is so fortunate and many people in rich countries are homeless.
The reasons for homelessness are various, but poverty is undoubtedly one of the main causes. The homeless people ... | high11408.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "complain about the environment"
},
"options": [
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"complain about the environment",
"share his/her opinions about city life",
"make his/her suggestions on managing toxic waste"
]... | Dear Mayor,
I would like to draw your attention to the depressing state of the environment in our city. Increased vehicles have made the air polluted. Citizens find it difficult to breathe. Dumping toxic chemicals into the river has polluted the drinking water and ground water.
All of us, as concerned citizens, have di... | high4620.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "To ask for some advice."
},
"options": [
"To share her sad story.",
"To ask for some advice.",
"To let her mother know how she feels.",
"To find out whether her mother loves her."
],
"question": "What's the writ... | How do you know if your mother likes you or not? That is a question I have been struggling with a lot lately. My mother and I used to talk on the phone a few times a day. I saw her at least twice a week. Now she doesn't answer when I call, and never calls me back. She doesn't see me and then complains that I don't see ... | high19054.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Is Graffiti Art?"
},
"options": [
"How to Be a Good Graffiti Artist.",
"Stop Removing Graffiti!",
"Do You Like Graffiti?",
"Is Graffiti Art?"
],
"question": "What would be the best title for this passage?",
... | Almost anywhere in the world, you can probably see graffiti . Although it's usually more common in big cities, it can be found in almost any community, big or small.
The problem with graffiti art is the question of whether it's really art. This isn't always an easy question to answer, simply because there are so many ... | high16367.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Poor nutrition in developing countries"
},
"options": [
"Poor nutrition in developing countries",
"More food is needed in developing countries",
"More help should be provided for developing countries",
"World bank shoul... | A new World Bank report warns that children who do not get enough good food in the first two years of life suffer lasting damage. They may be underdeveloped or under-weight. They may suffer from poor health or poor intelligence. In addition, these children are more likely to drop out of school and earn less money as ad... | high17079.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "An Australian cafe's policy on children."
},
"options": [
"An Australian cafe's policy on children.",
"A Facebook post about parents' manners.",
"The protection of the customers' basic rights",
"The relationship between... | A cafe owner has defended her decision to pen a Facebook post (an Internet message to be discussed) stating "No, we are not child-friendly," saying it breaks her heart when children damage her possessions.
On Monday, the Little French Cafe in Newcastle, Australia, posted an announcement on their Facebook page: "Are we ... | high10716.txt |
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"How Tig... | Has Tiger Mom gone soft? One year after the release of her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua is back in the spotlight, reflecting on how overnight infamy affected her life, her family and her parenting.
"I have changed a lot," she told the Huffington Post. "In October, we had 30 kids at our house! We ha... | high2251.txt |
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"finds others to take the evening course together",
"recommends another... | English Language and Culture Program
If you wish to improve your English-language skills as well as your understanding of the Canadian cultural context, the courses offered by ELC Evening are for you. Whether your goals are academic, business or immigration-related, there is a course to meet your needs.
Evening course ... | high1758.txt |
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"question": "T... | Many blind people use guide dogs to help them get safely from place to place and to warn them of danger. But what can blind people do if they are allergic to dogs or just don't like them? For these people, they can turn to the Guide Horse Foundation.
Janet and Don Burleson founded the organization in 1999. They began... | high14570.txt |
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"answer_index": 0... | Mr. Sankaram, a physics teacher, was known for his antics in his classroom to make the dull lessons in physics lively and interesting. Mixing different chemical drugs in the lab to become new substances in chemistry makes students excited. While studying botany or zoology, students can visit a garden or zoo. But physic... | high9304.txt |
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"answer_text": "provide cheaper energy for developing countries"
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... | What will power your house in the future?Nuclear,wind,or solar power?According to scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US,it might be leaves -- but artificial ones.
Natural leaves are able to change sunlight and water into energy. It is known as photosynthesis .Now researchers have fo... | high6037.txt |
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"question": "How did the ... | I can remember the day my father came home from the war. As he walked up the front path of our home, he saw Mum and me and he dropped the suitcase.
I was only five years old so Dad made a fuss of me, then began making an even bigger fuss of my mother. This left me free to examine all the stuff lying around the broken s... | high1980.txt |
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A good heart
Dikembe Mutombo grew up in Africa among great poverty and disease. He came to Georgetown University on a scholarship to study medicine--but Coach John Thompson got a look at Dikembe and had a different idea.Dikembe became a star in the NBA,and a citizen of the United States. But he ne... | high7329.txt |
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