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"answer_text": "November 7\nth."
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"February 6\nth.",
"March 6\nth.",
"November 7\nth.",
"December 5th."
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"question": "When is the talk on James Brindley?",
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... | Monthly Talks at London Canal Museum
Our monthly talks start at 19:30 on the first Thursday of each month except August. Admission is at normal charges and you don't need to book. They end around 21:00.
_ th
The Canal Pioneers, by Chris Lewis. James Brindley is recognized as one of the leading early canal engineers. H... | high10258.txt |
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"answer_text": "did not like asking people for help"
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"was tried of living alone",
"was not liked by her daughter",
"did not like asking people for help",
"did not want to be visited by her daughter"
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"question... | "Yes, I'll be ready at nine in the morning. Goodbye, dear, and thanks again." It had not been an easy telephone call for Mrs. Robson to make. Her daughter had been very kind, of course, and had immediately agreed to pick her up and drive her to the station, but Mrs. Robson hated to admit that she needed help. Since her... | high18604.txt |
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"answer_text": "The author hadn't been a mother until she removed from her marriage."
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"The author had suffered from an unfortunate marriage for a long time.",
"All the things the author did were to protect her daughter",
"The... | The day I became a mom was not the day my daughter was born, but seven years later. Up until that day, I had been too busy trying to survive my abusive marriage. I had spent all my energy trying to run a "perfect" home that would pass inspection each evening, and I didn't see that my baby girl had become a toddler. I'... | high5070.txt |
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"answer_text": "is most important"
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"is most important",
"is considered",
"is included",
"is numbered"
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"question": "The last word of the passage \"counts\" more probably means _ .",
"question_type": "cl... | No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world, but estimates suggest the figure is over 450 million. The number of disabled people in India alone is probably more than double the total population of Canada.
In the United Kingdom, about one in ten people have some disability. Disability is no... | high17537.txt |
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"answer_text": "He was from England."
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"He was from America.",
"He was from France.",
"He was from England.",
"He was from China."
],
"question": "Where was the writer from?",
"question_type": "factiod_questi... | When I was 16 years old,I made my first visit to the United States.It wasn't the first time I had been abroad.Like most English children I also learned French at school.And I had often been to France,so I was used to speaking a foreign language to people who didn't understand English.But when I went to America I was re... | high16629.txt |
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"answer_text": "how the belief \"lead your life\" made Lee's life different"
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"how the belief \"lead your life\" made Lee's life different",
"how Lee kept changing his jobs to become successful",
"how talented Lee is in hi-tec... | Kai-Fu Lee is one of the most successful Chinese professional managers. He worked for big companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Google. Now he works for himself and he also writes some books. Behind each of his choices is his belief that you should "lead your life" rather than "live your life".
He made his first big d... | high21085.txt |
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"answer_text": "The word \"koala\" is an original English word"
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"The name was given by the native in Australia",
"The word \"koala\" is an original English word",
"The name describes one of its living habits",
"The name... | The koala is possibly one of the best known Australian animals, and is found in four states: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The word "koala" comes from an Australian aboriginal word meaning "no drink".
Sometimes people call them "koala bears" but koala is not a bear. It belongs to a special... | high3401.txt |
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"answer_text": "Chuck Berry can be said to have formed rock and roll's basic structure."
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"Chuck Berry was the first to invent rock and roll on his own.",
"Chuck Berry was put into prison for leaving school in 1943.",
"Chuck B... | This week Faith Lapidus and Doug Johnson will tell you about Chuck Berry.Chuck Berry,born on October 18,1926,is often called the father of rock and roll.He is one of the most popular and influential performers of rhythm-and-blues and rock'n'roll music during the 1950s,1960s and 1970s.
He started singing in church when ... | high5064.txt |
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"answer_text": "7:30"
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"8:00",
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"8:30"
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"answer_i... | It's eight o'clock and the time for Morning New Highlights . One person was killed and two were injured in a car accident just thirty minutes ago. Cause of the accident is not yet found out. A great fire swept through a storehouse next to the Fulton River early this morning, causing about $3,000,000 in damage. The fire... | high18610.txt |
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"answer_text": "His willingness to help the needy"
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"His work in the church",
"Being a student of medicine",
"His willingness to help the needy",
"Being a star in the NBA"
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"question": "What was Mutombo praised... | Heroes of Our Time
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... | high17523.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a little soft outside and sweet inside"
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"green outside and sweet inside",
"good-looking outside and soft inside",
"yellowy-gold outside and hard inside",
"a little soft outside and sweet inside"
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... | More than 10 years ago, it was difficult to buy a tasty pineapple . The fruits that made it to the UK were green on the outside and, more often than not, hard with an unpleasant taste within. Then in 1966, the Del Monte Gold pineapple produced in Hawaii first hit our shelves.
The new type of pineapple looked more ... | high21091.txt |
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"answer_text": "The frightening ends of past fairy tales."
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"The frightening ends of past fairy tales.",
"His daughter's strong interest in fairy tales.",
"His desire to let his daughter know more stories.",
"His attempt... | When my daughter Sally was five, I bought Grimm's Fairy Tales and read Snow White to her one night. At the end of the original Grimm tale, Snow White's stepmother is made to put on red-hot iron shoes and dance until she falls down dead.
This came as something of a shock. I always thought fairytales had happy endings. A... | high11152.txt |
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"answer_text": "Doctors can tell us something about our health by looking at our nails."
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"Doctors can tell us something about our health by looking at our nails.",
"We should see a doctor if we find nails in bad condition.",
... | When most of us look at our hands, we might notice that we need to clean, or stop biting our fingernails, and that's about it. But if you ask a doctor, he can see a whole lot more. Everything from poor diet and stress to serious kidney problems can be revealed by a glance at your fingernails.
There are about 30 diffe... | high9886.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "unconscious actions"
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"conscious selection of sounds",
"imitation of those around him",
"a drive to make noises",
"unconscious actions"
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"question": "For an adult, the process of speaking usuall... | Speech--the act of uttering sounds to convey meaning--is a kind of human action. Like any other
constantly repeated action, speaking has to be learned, but once it is learned, it becomes a generally
unconscious and apparently automatic process.
As far as we can determine, human beings do not need to be forced to speak;... | high15334.txt |
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"answer_text": "118 islands"
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"400 bridges",
"150 canals",
"118 islands",
"a lagoon"
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"question": "The city is made up of _ .",
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"answer_i... | Venice is a city of the sea. It is built on islands which are in the middle of lagoon . Today, the city covers 118 islands. These islands are connected by bridges. There are about 400 bridges which cross 150 canals . It is difficult to forget the sea when you are in the city.
Many people of Venice have always been fi... | high22598.txt |
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"answer_text": "gets us to recall something from our memories"
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"slows down the process of losing our memories",
"helps us understand our memory system better",
"gets us to recall something from our memories",
"helps us ... | Most episodes of absent- mindedness- forgetting where you left something or wondering why you just entered a room-are caused by a simple lack of attention, says Schacter."You're supposed to remember something, but you haven't encoded it deeply."
Encoding, Schacter explains, is a special way of paying attention to an e... | high7673.txt |
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"answer_text": "someone had invaded his \"space\""
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"he had no place to sit",
"someone had invaded his \"space\"",
"too many people shared a section with him",
"some other people talked about things he didn't know about"... | People often say that the Englishman's home is his castle. They mean that the home is very important and personal to him. Most people in Britain live in houses rather than flats, and many people own their homes. This means that they can make them individual; they can paint them, and change them in any way they like. Mo... | high1202.txt |
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"answer_text": "they wanted to make their kids understand the pleasure of giving"
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"they wanted to make their kids understand the pleasure of giving",
"their kids could receive presents from their other family members",
"the s... | Earlier this month, blogger Lisa Henderson announced that she and her husband John had decided not to have Christmas. The family, who lives in Utah, will still put up decorations, but presents from Santa are a no-go this year.
"John and I feel like we are fighting a very hard uphill battle with our kids when it comes t... | high13745.txt |
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"answer_text": "Suggestions on How to Build a More Meaningful Career"
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"Steps on How to Live Happily and Comfortably",
"Do not Hate Your Job Any Longer.",
"Find Out... | Many people go to work each day to a job they hate. The harmful feelings influence their entire life, putting a negative cloud over the home, their friends and many of their other activities. There is a better way to live your life. Meaningful purpose is a driving force that adds enthusiasm to your days. Here are a few... | high1564.txt |
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"answer_text": "In Kruger National Park."
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"In the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic.",
"In Kruger National Park.",
"In the Piazza San Marco.",
"At the Nelson Mandela Museum."
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"question": "Where can you see a v... | Wonderful places can he visited at a low price. You call visit the following places with hotel rates and services that are down the average.
SOUTH AFRICA
Nelson Mandela's hotel rate is 8 percent down compared to the previous years. You can enjoy safari or just hang out with the free-walking penguins on Boulders Beach, ... | high13023.txt |
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"answer_text": "The musical environment in which he was brought up"
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"The musical environment in which he was brought up",
"His father's musical instruments",
"The church music he listened to",
"The recordings of jazz gr... | John Coltrane was born in North Carolina in 1926 and raised in the small farm town of High Point. As a young boy, he spent a great deal of time listening to the music of the black Southern church. Coltrane's father sewed clothes and could also play several musical instruments for his own enjoyment. The young Coltrane g... | high8226.txt |
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"answer_text": "They have the same ending sound."
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"They have the same ending sound.",
"They have different ending sounds.",
"They must have the same meaning.",
"They must have different meanings."
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"question":... | Two words rhyme with each other when they have the same ending word, like "think," "pink". The last word in each of the lines of a poem does not have to have a rhyming sound, many of them do. Two lines of poetry that rhyme with each other at the end are call rhyming couplet.
Writing rhyming poetry can be difficult beca... | high7115.txt |
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"answer_text": "Message in a Gift"
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"Ways of Choosing Gifts",
"An Important Tradition",
"Exchanging Presents",
"Message in a Gift"
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"question": "The best possible title for this passage is \" _ \".",
"que... | Have you ever received a gift that was so dearly, not your taste that you wondered if perhaps it had been handed to you by mistake? Worse, have you ever given a present and watched your friend look as though she had opened the wrong box? Maybe she responded with a polite "Why, thank you," but you knew _ . Why do presen... | high14994.txt |
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"answer_text": "Children's study can be badly influenced if they watch too much TV."
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"Family time has been destroyed.",
"Children who watch too much TV are often overweight.",
"Children spend less time sleeping because of wat... | Children lie on couches or sit on floors, nearly hypnotized by all kinds of messages coming from the television. This scene has become all too familiar. Increasingly, young children are adopting a watching-TV lifestyle, at s stage in life when activity is important to their growth. Furthermore, family time is being de... | high11634.txt |
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"question": "The driver always worked at night because it was easier to _ .",
"question_type": "cloze... | This is a talk by a London taxi driver.
"I've been a taxi driver for nearly ten years. Most London taxi drivers have their own taxis."
"It's a nice job most of time. You meet a lot of people. I always work at night, because there is too much traffic during the day. I live twenty miles outside London and I go to work at... | high3373.txt |
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"answer_text": "A 14yearold girl."
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"A 4yearold boy.",
"A 6yearold girl.",
"An 8yearold girl.",
"A 14yearold girl."
],
"question": "Which of the following persons is suitable for Dam Release Whitewater Rafting?",... | Welcome to Pocono Whitewater
There's something fun here at Pocono Whitewater for every level of adventurer! We have mild to wild whitewater rafting , family trips, and birdwatching boating. Choose one adventure now. It's up to you! We have trips available daily. Give us a call today!
Dam Release Whitewater Rafting
Ex... | high19268.txt |
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"answer_text": "the newly-designed \"atmospheric satellites\""
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"the development of aircraft industry.",
"a new kind of orbital satellite",
"a company called \"Tian Aerospace\"",
"the newly-designed \"atmospheric satelli... | While very young unmanned aircraft industry looks at ways to improve small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for specific tasks such facility security, infrastructure inspection, or precision agriculture, a New Mexico-based aerospace founder is thinking bigger and longer-term ones. Titan Aerospace, a one-year-old aircraf... | high18176.txt |
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"answer_text": "equip new immigrants with the skills needed"
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"equip new immigrants with the skills needed",
"help new immigrants set up a home away from home",
"provide support for new immigrants in financial need",
"he... | The Andrew Romay Immigrant Support Program (ISP) at the International Center provides a welcoming place for immigrants where they can build the skills they need to fully participate in the professional and social life of their new country.
About the Program
The Andrew Romay Immigrant Support Program (ISP... | high17245.txt |
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"answer_text": "The parrot imitated the fire alarm at Shanna's house."
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"Shanna Sexton was amazed to see a parrot in her garden.",
"Ledger loved her parrot very much and worried for his missing.",
"The parrot has been missing ... | According to the Daily Telegraph on February 10, a British woman who was "pushed to the edge" by a _ fire alarm that sounded non-stop for several days discovered that the sound was in fact made by a parrot in her garden.
Shanna Sexton, 25, from Devon, UK, even called in workmen to try and solve the problem. But she wa... | high20402.txt |
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"answer_text": "Liu Junsheng"
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"Zhu Bo",
"Zeng Hao",
"Liu Junsheng",
"Wei Guihong"
],
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{... | More college graduates in China are seeking for work experience instead of advanced degrees, a survey shows. The practical approach, coupled with a record number of students graduating from college, is expected to strengthen competition in the job market, analysts said.
More than 76 percent of university students said ... | high11807.txt |
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"answer_text": "bad food"
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"cold weather"
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"question": "What made Janet sick?",
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] | Dr. Martinez put on a false smile as she entered Janet Eslin's hospital room. She couldn't let Janet see that she was worried. Yet she had been searching for the cause of Janet's illness and hadn't found a clue .
"How are you feeling today?" Dr. Martinez asked her patient. Janet replied that she felt about the same--... | high2086.txt |
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"answer_text": "introduce Internet dating to us"
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"inform us how to date on the Internet",
"warn readers against web love",
"introduce Internet dating to us"
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"q... | Internet dating has become one of the biggest and most successful business ventures on the Internet.Basically,Internet dating is a way to meet people for either friendship or dating without actually having to meet them in person first.
The first thing to do if you decide to try Internet dating is to build your profile ... | high3398.txt |
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"answer_text": "comparing good books to good friends in life"
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"describing life experience of great writers",
"telling his own story of reading good books",
"presenting the best thoughts in good books",
"comparing good b... | A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps. One should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.
A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and in... | high5931.txt |
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"they were to be trained",
"they would live with human beings"
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"question": "The dolphins st... | Rescue workers and volunteers in prefix = st1 /Floridaworked non-stop to help as many dolphins as they could to return to deep water. Some dolphins made it. About 24 died.
For 35 dolphins in danger there was only one chance for survival--to be sent to the Marine Mammals Care Centre.
The dolphins were placed in a water ... | high19283.txt |
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"they were not interested in music",
"it was too cold in the subway",
"the performance was not good enough"
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"question": "Few people stopped to... | A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, 1,100 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
Three minutes went by, and a middle aged man no... | high6586.txt |
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"micrometer<millimeter<nanometer<meter",
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Nanometer is a v... | high7840.txt |
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"answer_text": "Flower festival"
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"Kite show",
"Folk music",
"Flower festival"
],
"question": "Suppose you are too far away from Beijingor you can't spare time to go there in person, which of th... | Russian dances: The famous "Little White Birth" Dance Troupe will travel from prefix = st1 /Russiato present performances inBeijing.
The troupe, founded in 1948, is famous for their combination of Russian folk dances and classical dancing art.
It has been invited by the Beijing Foreign Culture Exchange Co to give four ... | high24102.txt |
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"answer_text": "that they lose their position of authority in their families"
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"that they lose their position of authority in their families",
"that their children have lost s... | Many immigrants to the United States find the decision to seek better lives for their families in America can have an unexpected and tragic consequence . Deep differences with their children develop over language and culture.
"Many immigrants arrive here without much education. Their kids soon gain language skills and... | high7698.txt |
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"answer_text": "God sent him $100 in cash."
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"God sent him $100 in cash.",
"the post office employees sent him $100 in cash",
"he would not die with getting $100",
"the post office employees kept $90"
],
"questio... | An old man decided to write a letter to God:
Dear God,
I am nearing the end of my life. The doctors tell me I am dying of cancer and have a few months to live. In fact, as You know, throughout my entire life I've had nothing but bad luck. But no matter what You have inflicted on me, I have never lost my faith in You.... | high22573.txt |
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"answer_text": "the gene that determines skin colour"
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"people living in northern latitudes need more sunlight",
"the reason why people change their skin colour",
"the reason why people get skin cancer",
"the gene that d... | Can people change their skin colour without suffering like pop king Michael Jackson? Perhaps yes. Scientists have found the gene that determines skin colour. The gene comes in two versions, one of which is found in 99 per cent of Europeans. The other is found in 93 to 100 per cent of Africans, researchers at Pennsylvan... | high4391.txt |
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"answer_text": "didn't refuse the old woman's request"
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"was fond of magic",
"didn't refuse the old woman's request",
"didn't live in the palace"
],
"question": "We know from the... | Once upon a time there lived the daughter of a king. Her name was Safia. Her father and mother loved her very much, and would deny her nothing in the world.
One day, a magician came to the palace and asked for sanctuary , saying that he was a professor who was being persecuted by his enemies and had nowhere to w... | high20364.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Susan had changed something without his permission"
},
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"Susan had failed to keep his office clean",
"he felt Susan changed too much about the papers",
"Susan had changed something w... | One day, Jack threw some papers on my desk. "What's wrong?" I asked. "Next time you want to change anything, ask me first," he said, and left. I had made just one small change. But it's not that I hadn't been warned. My colleagues had said he was responsible for the resignations of the two previous secretaries. As the ... | high4385.txt |
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"answer_text": "Steve's boss trusted him very much."
},
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"Steve's boss trusted him very much.",
"Steve doesn't like to play jokes on his family.",
"Steve could log on his boss' home because he had been given the key.",
"It'... | Before leaving work, Steve Lee likes to use his cell phone to turn on his heat and air condition system at home. So by the time he gets through traffic into his front door, the temperature inside is perfect. You may wonder what a so-called smart home can do inside.
Lee works for a company called Smarthome. com, testin... | high18837.txt |
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"answer_text": "An article on notes taken from chteens@weeklyreader.com."
},
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"An article on how to improve personality and maintain mental health.",
"An article on how to start and develop a conversation."... | This is our last issue of the 2010-11 school year.Our cover story, on hair, may be more useful to your students than you suspect.They're in the process of building their identities and testing independence, so some big questions --should I shave, or wait? Will I go bald like my dad? --are front and center to them.We ho... | high20370.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "are familiar with the names"
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"will learn from the two writers",
"have ignored the two writers",
"are familiar with the names",
"know a lot about the two"
],
"question": "The author states that \"... | Sure. you know their names, possibly better than you know the name of the street you live on.
When the need comes, these names roll off our tongues like they were our own brothers. I am writing about the famous Webster s Dictionary and Roget s Thesaurus.
Webster s Dictionary. Many people can respond immediately: Noah W... | high6592.txt |
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"answer_text": "to learn how to give others love and care"
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"she was not ready for change at all",
"she couldn't get ... | About five years ago I started at a new school when my family moved to Iowa. I was just a little ex-cited, but I worried I would never fit in with the other sixth graders.
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"Parents should watch less TV."
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Top 6 Unusual Guinness World Records
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Happiness tells the story of two people (acted by Lisa Turbot and Danny Roy) who work for different advertising companies. They talk on the phone all the time and don't like each other. But then they communicate by mail and fall in love. This movie will be very popular with teenagers and people who like ro... | high22201.txt |
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"Parents who want their ... | Learn To Speak Rocket French!
Who Wants to Learn to Speak French in the Shortest Possible Time?
If you Answered " I DO" Then Please Read on to Try My Free-6-Day French Course.
Why do you want to learn to speak French?
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"have a chat"
],
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"How a barefoot teen saved his neighbor."
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"the clerk was quarreling with a customer",
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"I can imagine how they have suffered from being abandoned. They lead a harsh life wandering around," said the stude... | high2904.txt |
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"How Much Is Being Attractive Worth?",
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"How Happy Do Attractive People Feel?"
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"only the advanced computers suffers from the error",
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"Regret.",
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],
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The most extraordinary thing happened when I was on this walk.
I saw an old man sitting on a chair. He was a seller of second-hand shoes. I thought he looked at least seventy... | high7868.txt |
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},
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"the Japanese they meet are cruel",
"the Japanese don't want to communicate with Chinese people",
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But she began to change her mind after she met some Japanese teenagers in a history museum six years ago. These f... | high13786.txt |
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"Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland",
"Northern Ireland, Wales and England"
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},
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"answer": {
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"pleased",
"frightened",
"defeated"
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For example, we know that a frightened cat will arch its back high in rigid curve ... | high21052.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
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},
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"answer": {
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},
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"The kind of job fathers do.",
"The kind of job women do."
],
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"answer": {
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},
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"don't look after their gardens well",
"don't tell their neighbors about their holidays"
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We don't see the stranger wandering outside the house next door.
We don't notice the sounds from the flat upstairs.
(Weren't they supposed to be on holiday?)
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"answer": {
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},
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"The colour of the roofs"
],
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"answer": {
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},
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"its more than 2,000 monkeys",
"the delicious food offered in a buffet",
"the parade held each year there"
],
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"left-handed with normal hearing",
"healthy and able to work about 4--5 hours",
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"2010: The year technology replaced talking.",
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"on Sunday night",
"Three days before the report came out.",
"Just before the report was written."
],
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The 48-year-old policeman intervened to stop the butchering of unarmed civilians, saving many from death and injury, but he was injured in the process.... | high6357.txt |
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"answer": {
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],
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If his employer liked the idea, Smith might be given more pay. Perhaps he might even get a better job with the company.
Busi... | high21873.txt |
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Archaeologists digging near Stonehenge last year discovered t... | high10476.txt |
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"they have to defend themselves from possible violence",
"their wives are in fear that their husband might be shot down",
"they often experience the car... | American TV and movies once gave a tough and cruel picture of the American police, though now there are TV series which have _ as heroes and defenders of society. The police are grateful for the good publicity and their new image, especially in cities where there are black Jews, who live under poverty line. White poli... | high19334.txt |
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"answer_text": "Advertisement One."
},
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"Advertisement One.",
"Advertisement Two.",
"Advertisement Three.",
"Advertisement Four."
],
"question": "Which advertisement pays special attention to housing location and pr... | 1. Need a room close to the US
Embassy for a week in early January
I need a room close to the US embassy for a week in early January. My parents are going to the US embassy for visa interview on January 7th. I am looking for a place for them to stay around this date. Hotels are too expensive for them since they have be... | high4540.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "In 1935."
},
"options": [
"In 1955.",
"In 1935.",
"In 1936.",
"In 1934."
],
"question": "When did Qian xuesen begin to study in Massachusetts Institute of Technology?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
... | Qian Xuesen is one of the pioneers of China's space science. As a world-famous expert on aerospace rockets and aerodynamics, he obtained great achievements in the areas of applied mechanics, engineering cybernetics and system engineering and made distinguished contributions to the foundation and development of Chinese ... | high11768.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They both show the author's great talent."
},
"options": [
"They are both intended for children.",
"They both show the author's great talent.",
"Their characters both have magical power.",
"Both of them won't be read on... | J.K. Rowling set children's imaginations on fire. Can the creator of Harry Potter do the same for a grown-up audience? The British author will find out on September 27, when more than 2 million hardcover copies of her first novel for adults hit bookstores in the UK and the US, along with the digital edition. Set in a ... | high5886.txt |
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"answer_text": "Windsurfing insects have real direction."
},
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"Insects migrate with the seasons.",
"The wind helps insects greatly in migrating.",
"Windsurfing insects have real direction.",
"Scientists have trouble in obse... | As they migrate, butterflies and moths choose the winds they want to fly with, and they change their body positions if they start floating in the wrong direction. This new finding suggests that insects may use some of the same methods that birds use for traveling long distances. Scientists have long thought that insect... | high3549.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a web page"
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"a web page",
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"a collection of stories"
],
"question": "The passage is likely to appear in_.",
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},
{
... | E-Cooking Games
Thanks for visiting E-Cooking Games!We offer many different types of free online food games for kids. You can find games where you can bake your own cakes, make your own hot dogs, pies and a lot more .You will also find more than just food games. You will find games where you can play makeup games, ca... | high18994.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "To warn people of emergencies via message."
},
"options": [
"To warn people of emergencies via message.",
"To popularize the use of cell phone.",
"To estimate the monthly number of messages.",
"To promote the wireless i... | Federal regulators Wednesday approved a plan to create a nationwide emergency alert system using text messages delivered to cell phones.
Text messages have exploded in popularity in recent years, particularly among young people. The wireless industry's trade association, CTIA, estimates more than 48 billions text ... | high16761.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "be likely to eat less"
},
"options": [
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],
"question": "When people hear themselves eating, they can _ .",
... | The sounds you make while chewing have a significant effect on the amount of food you eat, a new study has found. The results suggest that people are likely to consume less if they can hear themselves eating.
Researchers at Brigham Young University and Colorado State University have found that your TV, radio, and compu... | high19452.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "want to show their existence by creating a culture of their own"
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