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"answer_text": "Whatever difficulties we may meet with in our life, we can bend, but can never break."
},
"options": [
"Life is like a bamboo tree that never breaks.",
"Whatever difficulties we may meet with in our life, we can bend, but can never... | One of my fondest memories as a child is going by the river and sitting idly on the bank. There I would enjoy the peace and quiet, watch the water rush downstream and listen to the singing of birds and the rustling of leaves in the trees. I would also watch the bamboo trees bend under pressure from the wind and watch t... | high6140.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "play basketball"
},
"options": [
"visit the museum",
"play soccer",
"read children's stories",
"play basketball"
],
"question": "It's Friday afternoon,you can go to _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_question... | For Children
Museum: Children's Museum, Sundays, 89 North Street, 67641235
Story time: Children's Library, 106 Green Street, Wednesdays during 9:30 a.m -5:00p.m. 66599624
Sports: Soccer Club, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 16 Yangtze Road, 96725643
Basketball Club, Wednesdays and Fridays, 79071632
Cinema: New films for childr... | high9273.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "To better understand babies' needs."
},
"options": [
"To entertain her own children.",
"To better understand babies' needs.",
"To help babies with language problems.",
"To develop a new system of sign language."
],
... | What if our babies could somehow tell us what they're thinking about, what they want, and what makes them unhappy? Robyn Holt, researcher for Baby Talk New Zealand, says they can. Holt heard about baby sign language through an advertisement and decided to go along to a workshop .
"Sign language is something that's alw... | high14407.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Several factors affect kids' sleep."
},
"options": [
"Kids benefit a lot from technology.",
"Several sleep troubles appear at school.",
"Some tips can help kids sleep well.",
"Several factors affect kids' sleep."
],... | Nowadays the U.S. students are sleepy in school because they spend too much time texting, playing video games, watching TV and using the media in other ways.
"Heavy media use interferes with sleep by reducing sleep duration, making it harder to fall asleep, and lowering sleep quality," Meilan Zhang, an assistant profes... | high13368.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "surrounded by France"
},
"options": [
"another name for Monte Carlo",
"mostly visited by French tourists",
"surrounded by France",
"more related to Italy than to France"
],
"question": "Monaco is _ .",
"qu... | Nearly all the tourists who come to southeast France make a tour to Monaco , too. Lying near the French-Italian border, Monaco is not part of France, but a separate principality , though it is surrounded by its greatest neighbour.
Monaco became a principality in the 16th century after being owned by a family member of ... | high6626.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "1937"
},
"options": [
"1922",
"1995",
"1937",
"1959"
],
"question": "The Golden Gate Bridge was completed in _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
... | The orange towers of the Golden Gate Bridge-probably the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed bridge in the world-are visible from almost every point of elevation in San Francisco.
The only cleft in Northern California's 600-mile continental wall, for years this mile-wide strait was considered unbridgeable.... | high9515.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "several cities"
},
"options": [
"Maryland",
"Washington",
"New York",
"several cities"
],
"question": "Before the year 1800, the capital of America had been located in _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questi... | When in 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States, there was no permanent capital in which to house the government. During the Revolutionary War several different cities had served as the national capital. In addition, members of congress could not agree as to where this permanent capital ... | high7538.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Being part of the scene and getting close to animals."
},
"options": [
"Seeing and feeling the real African life.",
"Enjoying good food and wine at the camp.",
"Hunting large animals just as our ancestors did.",
"Being ... | There are many places to go on safari in Africa, but riding a horse through the flooded waters of Botswana's Okavango Delta must rank as one of the world's most exciting wildlife journeys.
Several safari camps operate as the base for this adventure, providing unique rides twice a day to explore deep into the delta. The... | high12710.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "an American"
},
"options": [
"an Englishman",
"a Frenchman",
"a Swedish",
"an American"
],
"question": "The tourist is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"answer": {
"answer_inde... | A tourist comes out of the airport.There are a lot of taxis,but the tourist asks every taxi--driver his name.He takes the third taxi.It costsPS5 from the airport to the hotel."How much does it cost for the whole day?" the tourist asks."PS100",says the taxi-driver.This is very expensive,the tourist accepts the price.
Th... | high11219.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "When the last leaf falls from the ivy vine I must go."
},
"options": [
"The old ivy leaves have little to do with my getting well.",
"When the last leaf falls from the ivy vine I must go.",
"I am such a bad girl as to make ev... | Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor of the apartment building. For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, but had never yet begun it. He earned a little money by serving as a model to artists who could not pay for a professional model. He was a fierce, little, old man who protect... | high16576.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the use of the name infringed Warner's rights"
},
"options": [
"the sold tickets to whoever attends the supper club",
"JK Rowling didn't approve of their doing so",
"the Underground Restaurant charged too much",
"the us... | A woman planning "Harry Potter night" at a supper club she runs at home has been forced to change their name after a warning from film studio Warner Bros .
The evenings in Kiburn, north London, were due to include food and other elements from the Harry Potter books. However, Warner Bros, maker of the Harry Potter film... | high19645.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "to avoid using words one is not sure of"
},
"options": [
"to write carefully",
"to do as teachers say",
"to use dictionaries frequently",
"to avoid using words one is not sure of"
],
"question": "The expression ... | There is a common belief among parents that schools are no longer interested in spelling. No school I have taught in has ever considered spelling unimportant as a basic skill. There are, however, quite different ideas about how to teach it, or how much priority it must be given over general language development and w... | high4031.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "prepare students to find jobs after they graduate"
},
"options": [
"help students do their homework",
"find jobs for students while they are in school",
"prepare students to find jobs after they graduate",
"help high sc... | College graduation brings both the satisfaction of academic achievement and the expectation of a well-paid job. But for 6,000 graduates at prefix = st1 /San JoseStatethis year, there's uncertainty as they enter one of the worst job markets in decades. Ryan Stewart has a freshly-minted degree in religious studies, but ... | high17668.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "When mind keeps growing, creativity fully stops."
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"options": [
"When mind keeps growing, creativity fully stops.",
"When freedom is lost, creativity gets a full stop.",
"When mind stops growing, creativity fully stops.",
... | Since the pre-historic times, man has had an urge to satisfy his needs. Be it hunger, shelter or search for a mate, he has always controlled the situations to his advantage. Probably this might be the reason why we humans are the most developed of all living species on the earth. As we climbed the steps of development,... | high3986.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they can't get help from their parents"
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"options": [
"no good teachers are willing to teach them",
"they can't get help from their parents",
"their parents are unwilling to hire private teachers",
"they themselves ha... | Going to school from 8 am until 5 pm may sound terrible,but Sydney Shaw,a seventh grader at the Alain Locke Charter Academy on Chicago's West Side,has come to like it--as well as the extra 20 or so days that she's in class every year."I'm sure every kid at this school says bad things about the schedule sometimes,"says ... | high2440.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the dodo's living habits"
},
"options": [
"ways to save the dodo",
"the dodo's living habits",
"the bird's natural habitat",
"the cause of the dodo's extinction"
],
"question": "The researchers study the dodo sk... | The dodo is among the most famous extinct creatures, and _ for human-caused extinction events. Despite its bad name, and the fact that the species was alive during recorded human history, little is actually known about how this animal lived, looked, and behaved. A new study of the only known complete skeleton from a s... | high10107.txt |
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"answer_text": "It means that Americans, just like all other people, must die."
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"It means that Americans, just like all other people, must die.",
"It means that Americans do not have a secret place to keep from death in their life.... | Taxes, Taxes and More Taxes
Americans often say that there are only two things a person can be sure of in life; death and taxes. Americans do not have a corner on the "death" market, but many people feel that the United States leads the world with the worst taxes.
Taxes consist of the money which people pay to support ... | high16562.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "to eat and drink"
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"options": [
"to eat and drink",
"to use your cell phone",
"to leave your purse on the desk",
"to ask for more scratch paper"
],
"question": "When you take a test in the Test Center, all of ... | 1. What will I need to take a Test?
You need a photo ID, your instructor's name, a pencil or pen, a calculator, etc.
2. How will I know about time limits?
Students will be informed of any testing time limits, and _ when time is up.
3. If I have my books or backpack, does the Test Center have a place to store them while... | high4025.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "they are afraid they'll need them during the holiday"
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"options": [
"they want to show off their items",
"they prefer a more comfortable holiday",
"they are afraid they'll need them during the holiday",
"they would li... | Men have long been puzzled by the amount women pack, when they go on holiday. They despair when they watch their beloved spend much money on extra baggage charge. Nearly half of these women admitted to lying about the weight of their case to their partner before leaving for the airport, in fear of being made to unload ... | high10113.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "experience a festival celebrated all over the country"
},
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"get some discounts and spend less money",
"enjoy yourself better as there are fewer tourists",
"experience a festival celebrated all over the country",
... | Sri Lanka is known as the "Pearl of the Indian Ocean", and it is easy to see why. This little country never fails to please visitors.
ArriveThe national airline is Sri Lankan Airlines, which flies from Colombo to London and a couple of other European cities. The country's main airport is Colombo Bandaranaike, located 2... | high19889.txt |
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"answer_text": "Internet access is unavailable in deep night."
},
"options": [
"Students have unlimited free Internet access in their dormitories.",
"Students are forbidden to surf the Internet.",
"Internet access is unavailable in deep nigh... | One of India's top engineering schools has restricted Internet access in its boarding houses, saying addiction to surfing, gaming and blogging was affecting students' performance, making them lonely and even suicidal.
Authorities at the best Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai said students had stopped socia... | high6632.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A Search for Buried Planes"
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"options": [
"A British Farmer's Dream",
"Burma's Buried Treasure",
"A Search for Buried Planes",
"The Design of the British Spitfire"
],
"question": "Which of the following is the... | A British farmer has been searching for a group of fighter planes for 15 years. The planes were lost in Burma during World War II. David Cundall, 62, traveled to Burma a dozen times. He spent about US $207,000 in the hope of finding a British Spitfire buried in the Southeast Asian country. Finally, his hard work paid o... | high9501.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "He felt helpless with the huge amount of school work."
},
"options": [
"He had quarreled with his chemistry teacher.",
"He was poor in many of his school subjects.",
"The algebra test would be too difficult for him.",
"... | "Mom, I can't do this." My teenage son Bret stood in front of me with his hands full of papers.
"Can't do what?" I asked while preparing supper.
"All these!" he waved his hands up and down. "There's no way I can do everything my teachers are asking me to do."
I stopped what I was doing and turned to face him. I had nev... | high8179.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "we will increase the size of inhale if we catch a pleasant smell"
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"options": [
"while sleeping, we can learn whatever we want to learn",
"we will increase the size of inhale if we catch a pleasant smell",
"the knowledge we... | Even while in a deep sleep, people can still learn brand new information. Sleepers soak in new associations between smells and sounds, knowledge that lingers into the next waking day, researchers report online August 26 in Nature Neuroscience.
The new study is the first to show that entirely new information can get int... | high6154.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "don't hesitate when making decisions"
},
"options": [
"usually succeed through their own efforts",
"are only passionate about making money",
"don't hesitate when making decisions",
"create both long-term and short-term ... | After studying the daily habits of 177 self-made millionaires over the course of five years, Thomas C. Corley found that they avoid one costly habit: procrastination .
"It prevents even the most talented individuals from realizing success in life," he writes in his upcoming book, "Change Your Habits, Change Your Life.... | high14413.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Two."
},
"options": [
"Two.",
"Three.",
"Ten.",
"Five."
],
"question": "How many exact diseases are mentioned as examples killing twice men than women?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"an... | If you could take a large snapshot of everyone in the United States today, it would contain six minion more females than males. In this country, women outlive men by about seven years. Throughout the modern world, cultures are different, diets are different, ways of life and causes of death are different, but one thi... | high9267.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "The benefits of after-school programs."
},
"options": [
"Prevention of juvenile crimes.",
"Risks kids face after school.",
"A research report on the stresses of students.",
"The benefits of after-school programs."
]... | Do you know what your child is going to do when the school bell rings at the end of the day? More than 14 million students leave school every afternoon and have nowhere to go, since they do not have access to affordable after-school opportunities. According to the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center (NYV... | high2332.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "tell us an unusual experience abroad"
},
"options": [
"tell us how difficult it is living abroad",
"show us how terrible the weather was",
"tell us an unusual experience abroad",
"show us how afraid the author was"
... | I realized that I was getting cold, and felt it was probably time to go back to the apartment, so I put my collar up against the wind and began to walk back up the cold street. I managed to get some food from a vendor , and walked on.
About twenty-five minutes later I knew that something was wrong. It was getting very,... | high10675.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "around 13"
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"options": [
"less than 12",
"more than 18",
"around 13",
"around 10"
],
"question": "Mayday has had a history of _ years up to now.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answer... | Mayday is a rock band from Taiwan that was formed in the late 1990s with five members, namely ,Ashin (vocalist), Monster and Stone (guitars), Masa (bass) and Guan You (drums). Formerly making music under the name of So Band, they officially came to be known as Mayday in 1997, with the name originating from Masa's onlin... | high18229.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The cars were completely destroyed."
},
"options": [
"The drivers were badly hurt.",
"The cars were completely destroyed.",
"The police arrived and saved the drivers.",
"The drivers became good friends."
],
"que... | A woman and a man were involved in a car accident on a snowy cold Monday morning. Both of their cars became totally damaged. But amazingly neither of them was hurt. God works in mysterious ways.
After they got out of their cars, the woman said, " So you're a man. That's interesting. I'm a woman. Wow, just look at our c... | high16204.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Give some advice of traveling in Delhi."
},
"options": [
"Expect us to travel around Delhi.",
"Show his/her experiences in Delhi.",
"Give some advice of traveling in Delhi.",
"Explain the difficulties of traveling in De... | I've spent over a year in India, and in those 365 plus days, I've learned a lot about getting around Indian cities. My biggest lessons have been learned through being cheated, particularly by taxi and rickshaw drivers, but that doesn't mean those are bad ways to travel, as long as you know what you're doing. Below ar... | high4743.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "She had brain damage."
},
"options": [
"She was a baby",
"She did not want to do anything.",
"She had brain damage.",
"She was a blind girl."
],
"question": "Why did Lisa need help?",
"question_type": "facti... | Lisa is ten years old. She is disabled because she has brain damage. She could not do even the simplest thing until a year ago. She could not comb her hair or feed herself. Her parents loved her. And they treated her like a baby.
Mr. Ching has a daughter and a son. They are both grown. They live far from their father. ... | high2865.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "In the computer times, it is becoming popular that people carrying around e-book readers."
},
"options": [
"All of the library experts are interested in the community-building effects.",
"Tens of thousands of public books can be do... | What purposes can a library serve in an era when research can be done at home computers, thousannds of public books can be downloaded for free, and people are starting to carry around e-book readers? That's the question that David Sarno seeks to answer.
"It's very common for people to say, 'Why do I need a library when... | high21127.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "affects many parts of the world"
},
"options": [
"first began in the United Statesin 1933",
"occurs mainly in river areas",
"affects many parts of the world",
"is becoming more and more serious"
],
"question": "... | A serious threat to farmers in many parts of the world is erosion. Erosion occurs if a large area of land is cleared of trees and is then badly treated by the farmers. The rain and winds may gradually wash away, or blow away, much of the topsoil. When this happens, crops of wheat or corn become weaker and weaker until ... | high16953.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Because its coal industry needed a large number of workers."
},
"options": [
"Because it was rich in many different kinds of culture.",
"Because people could get the highest pay there.",
"Because its coal industry needed a la... | Settled by the Celts, invaded by the Romans and the Normans, and ruled by the English, Wales' population has regularly changed over the ages. Wales, particularly South Wales, became a melting pot of European nationalities and cultures. At first workers from England, Ireland and the rural areas of Wales rushed into the ... | high17495.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a strange camping experience"
},
"options": [
"the story of his childhood",
"a strange camping experience",
"about a stranger by the river",
"about a good place for camping."
],
"question": "The writer in the te... | When I was a boy,I belonged to the Boy Scouts ,so I used to go camping every summer,and once something happened which I have never been able to explain.
We were camping in a place above a river. After arriving,we all rushed down to the river and had a swim. Standing by the river,we noticed that it was surrounded b... | high20239.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "In Munich."
},
"options": [
"In Blumenau.",
"In Ontario.",
"In Ho Chi Minh City.",
"In Munich."
],
"question": "In which place does the Oktoberfest take place from September to October?",
"question_type": "f... | Celebrated in the city of Munich, Germany, the Oktoberfest, as it is popularly called, is a 3-week festival that takes place in the months of September and October. Also called the largest beer festival in the world, the Oktoberfest gathers about 6 million visitors worldwide every year. Seeing the popularity of the fes... | high620.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "clothing store"
},
"options": [
"restaurant",
"grocery",
"clothing store",
"sweets shop"
],
"question": "The author probably didn't go to a _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
}
] | I went to the Chinatown market in London last Sunday. The first thing I did was to go to one of the Chinese green grocers' shops. As soon as I entered the shop, I smelt mixtures of Chinese spices and saw the new season's fruits. My son wanted a bag of sweets, so we popped into the shop next door which sells many kinds ... | high15282.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "It is good for eyesight."
},
"options": [
"It is beneficial to building cell walls in eyes.",
"It is more delicious than other food.",
"It is good for eyesight.",
"It is rich in various vitamins."
],
"question":... | We all know that if we want to keep our body in good shape we have to do physical exercise regularly as well as be careful with what we eat. What we tend to forget is that this goes for our eyes as well. Medical science confirms that a diet rich in carotenoids can help maintain good vision and prevent against a numb... | high8390.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "An event of imagination."
},
"options": [
"A historic discovery.",
"An event of imagination.",
"An event will happen on the earth.",
"A scientific adventure."
],
"question": "What is mainly described in the pass... | The year is 2094. It has been announced that a comet is heading towards the Earth. Most of it will miss our planet, but two pieces will probably hit the southern half of the Earth.
On 17 July, a piece four kilometers wide enters the Earth's atmosphere with a massive explosion. About half of the piece is destroyed, ... | high22348.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "if there are water currents, and life in the great depths"
},
"options": [
"if there are water currents, and life in the great depths",
"if people can stand the severe cold in the great depths",
"if there are steps in the gre... | The journey two divers made some time ago to the deepest point on the earth makes us realize how much of the world still remains to be studied. The two men went down seven miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean inside a small steel ball to find out if there are any ocean currents or signs of life.
It was necessary t... | high14822.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "can work for about a month."
},
"options": [
"is aged between 24 and 40.",
"may do some training work.",
"should deal with general duties.",
"can work for about a month."
],
"question": "We learn from the ads th... | Wanted, Someone for a Kiss
We're looking for producers to join us on the sound of London Kiss 100 FM. You'll work on the station's music programs. Music production experience in radio is necessary, along with rich knowledge of modern dance music. Please apply in writing to Producer Vacancies, Kiss 100.
Father Christma... | high13195.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "have been reported by a newspaper"
},
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"have been reported by a newspaper",
"have been stopped by the government",
"have stopped people from using reusable bags",
"have caused serious health damage to custom... | To help the environment, many Americans have made the change from paper and plastic bags to reusable grocery bags. But a report by a Florida newspaper says that reusable grocery bags sold by some supermarkets contain high levels of lead . Lead is a metal that can be harmful to humans, especially young children. Now, Se... | high146.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They hunted four days but failed to meet a bear."
},
"options": [
"They slept all day to wait for the bears to come.",
"They hunted four days but failed to meet a bear.",
"They talked about how to sell the bear to be hunted."... | Hunters and bears are often put in fairy tales and often provide a lot for us to think about life and human nature.
Two hunters, Ali and Hagan, went hunting for bears. For four days they saw nothing. Each night they slept in a nearby village, pledging to make part of the bear's skin against the cost of their lodging ... | high21899.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "In her fifties"
},
"options": [
"In her twenties",
"In her thirties",
"In her forties",
"In her fifties"
],
"question": "When did Marie Curie win a Nobel Prize for a chemistry?",
"question_type": "factiod_qu... | Dr. Marie Curie is known to the world as the scientist who discovered radioactive metals i.e. Radium and Polonium.
Marie Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist. Together with her husband, Pierre, she discovered two new elements and studied the x-rays they emitted. She found that the harmful properties of x-rays were ... | high11782.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the old city of Majorca"
},
"options": [
"the old city of Majorca",
"Palma beach resorts",
"the city centre of Majorca",
"the east of the old town"
],
"question": "If you'd like to buy what you like,you had bett... | *The Hotel Portixol,a hotel that oozes style and has thoughtful extras in Palma Majorca.
*Location
In the bay of Portixol,a 30-minute walk or 10-minute cycle east of the old town,overlooking Portixol port.
*Character
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jaguar: n.a type of large, yellow-colored cat with black markings found in the southwestern region of the U.S.and in Central and South America.
jargon: 1.n.an unknown language that seems strange or i... | high11796.txt |
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"the United States ranked 12th in the chemistry test conducted by 14 cou... | The United States is trying to improve an education system that produces millions of citizens who cannot read, write, or add--let alone finding their country on a map.
In his first State of Union message since taking office a year ago, President George Bush promised to wipe out illiteracy in the next decade and declar... | high21655.txt |
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"To introduce the US Secret Service to us.",
"To give us some information about US \npresidents.",
"To inform us of the inc... | WHEN an Iraqi journalist threw a shoe at former US President George W.Bush at a news conference last December,the president's bodyguards quickly moved to protect him.
Those bodyguards were from the US Secret Service.Their job is to protect the president.Now America's first black president Barack Obama also has the same... | high8384.txt |
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"\"natural\" sleep may be less than eight hours a night",
"modern electronic products cause t... | There was good news last week for people who struggle to get eight hours of sleep a night: they may not need so much shut-eye after all.
Researchers from UCLA and elsewhere looked at sleep habits of remote hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, Namibia and Bolivia -- groups with pre-industrial lifestyles whose sleep patterns ar... | high14836.txt |
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"go to sleep",
"refuse to show yourself to the world",
"change sleeping position"
],
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... | Qi Baishi (1863~1957) is one of the best-known contemporary Chinese artists. His life shows he achieved success by combining talent with hard work.
He was born in a peasant family. At 11 he was sent to learn carpentry . Through his work he got to know some local scholars. One of them, Hu Shenyuan, offered to teach his... | high23042.txt |
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"question_type"... | Staying silent can be just as powerful as the words you mean to say, like when the act of hugging will be more comforting than saying, "Sorry for your loss."
Another time when silence is golden is when you are unsure of what to say. If you are confused about your own feelings concerning a matter, it's best to stay quie... | high7909.txt |
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"Highertown Farm, Cornwall",
"Houghton Mill, Cambridgeshire"
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Low Wray, Cumbria
Low Wray is a lovely campsite situated on the western shore Windermere in th... | high634.txt |
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At the time, hair represented our need to break free from adults in our lives. Long hair represented our freed i... | high9924.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It remained to be seen whether the girl was to be employed or not."
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"The girl was not employed because of dishonesty.",
"It remained to be seen wh... | The girl looking for the job turned out to be excellent but she ended up giving her employer a headache when it also turned out that she used an unreal diploma .
In December, a Civil Administration Bureau in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, announced that it needed five new staff members. Some 120 people applied and ... | high15296.txt |
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"a family story",
"a family treasure"
],
"question": "According to Jessica's mother, \"a skeleton in the closet\" means _ .",
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"answer": {
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"He/She rarely daydreams.",
"He/She takes the initiative .",
"He/She gives up easily.",
"He/She isn't afraid of failing."
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"answer": {
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"the younger children are usually more easily hurt",
"people usually like the younger children more",
"adu... | We have two daughters: Kristen is seven years old and Kelly is four. Last Sunday evening, we invited some people home for dinner. I dressed them nicely for the party, and told them that their job was to join Mommy in answering the door when the bell rang. Mommy would introduce them to the guests, and then they would ta... | high1388.txt |
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"people are better able to make changes when they make changes with others",
... | Eat healthier. Exercise twice a week. Read more books. Lose weight. We make the same resolutions every year. But most of us fail, and quit after only a few days or weeks.Even the most successful among us, those who have climbed to the top of their fields, crash and burn when it comes to personal change. For example, Pr... | high24063.txt |
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"Champs Elysee",
"a lovely visit to Paris",
"pickpockets"
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"question": "This passage is a story about _ .",
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... | Several overseas trips with the family have taught us that they can be rewarding, but you always have to be careful of pickpockets.
On a lovely visit to Paris an encounter with a pickpocket gave the would-be thief a little more than he _
While walking down the famous Champs Elysee, I was astonished to feel someone unz... | high7921.txt |
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"answer": {
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"in a small bay",
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"on a river"
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"question": "The waves can build up _ .",
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"The college should be approved by authority.",
"Their homes are not far from the college.",
"Teachers in the college m... | Online education is becoming a popular learning choice to traditional colleges. Most colleges offer online programs in various fields and levels, which allows students to go on with their education over the Internet. Students must keep in mind that the college they wish to apply to must be approved by a related recogni... | high2681.txt |
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"a panel cooker",
"a parabolic cooker",
"a paper cooker"
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"question": "If you have much food to cook , you'd better choose _ .",
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Solar cooker, or ovens, have... | high11966.txt |
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"answer_text": "That children must have what other children have."
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"That children must have what other children have.",
"That children must have proper pressure to work hard.",
"That children must have special skills to ensur... | Parents are fuelling bad behavior among their children by attempting to "buy" their love with expensive gifts nowadays.
Over recent decades we seem to have created a "must have" culture among our young people. Many mothers and fathers believe they are "failing as parents" if they are unable to ensure that their childre... | high5688.txt |
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"Daphne wanted to keep her as a pet",
"she was very young when she lost her mother",
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Da... | high20563.txt |
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"answer": {
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Dr. Petrels gives his patients good medical advice. But he doesn't just tell his patients what to do. He also sings to them on television! Dr. Petrels... | high5850.txt |
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"Stanford University"
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"question": "Sergey Brin actually graduated from _... | I am Sergey Brin! I was born in Moscow. In 1979, when I was 5, my family immigrated to the United States. I remember that on my 9th birthday I got my first computer "Commodore 64".
Later I graduated with honors in the University of Maryland in Mathematics and IT. The main field of my science research was the technologi... | high4596.txt |
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... | It is your sense of smell that quickly tells you there is good food in the kitchen, or your smelly socks need to be washed.
But how do we recognize smell? Particular smells turn on certain groups of brain cells , scientists say. When your nose catches a slight smell of something, one of 1,000 different types o... | high22374.txt |
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Panorama -- 24 Days
Discover why New Zealand remains one of the world's most popular destinations. This _ , 24-day journey offers... | high22360.txt |
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"often expose themselves to the sun"
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"question": "People... | A new study has found no evidence that sunscreen, commonly used to reduce the risk of skin cancer, actually increases the risk.
Researchers from the University of Iowa based their findings on a review of 18 earlier studies that looked at the association between sunscreen use and melanoma . They said that they found _ i... | high6395.txt |
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"answer_text": "In March people spent 1,200 yuan more to get 10,000 Canadian dollars than they do today because Canadian dollars increased in value."
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Why does it matter so much?
The exchange rate is the term for the comparis... | high11972.txt |
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"remember that you are the best",
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},
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"She liked insects more than his father.",
"She cared for insects very much.",
"She could only tolerate a few insects."
],
"que... | That summer an army of crickets started a war with my father. Dad cared for insects no more than Mamma, but he could tolerate a few living in the basement. Mamma was a city girl and she said a cricket was just too noisy. Then to support her point she wouldn't go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my father's cigarett... | high5844.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Dogs may adapt their behavior in response to the changed circumstances."
},
"options": [
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"Dogs always obey and don't steal forbidden food.",
"Dogs may adapt t... | Dogs can know the meaning of a human perspective, say researchers.
Dogs are more capable of understanding situations from a human's point of view than has previously been recognized, according to researchers.
They found dogs were four times more likely to steal food they had been forbidden, when lights were turned off ... | high4582.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"co-educational schools may lead to love affairs between boys and girls",
"co-education will help ... | Do you have any strong opinion on co-educational or single-sex schools?
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"... | _ (from How Do Animals Move?)
Many animals scurry up tree trunks to escape enemies or find food. Some live in the treetops. Many of these animals are not only expert climbers, but they also have found interesting ways to get from tree to tree.
How Do Animals Adapt?andHow Do Animals Move? are comprehensive exploratio... | high19490.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "she has helped lots of girls with her non-profit organization"
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"she has made to society more harmonious",
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At each stop des... | high18956.txt |
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"answer": {
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"give attention to others",
"voice their opinions",
"notice and get noticed"
],
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Behind the materialistic aspect of shopping for gifts lies the idea of caring, being attentive to the desires of special people in our lives. However, to use ... | high2695.txt |
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"how Hollywood movies are made",
"the differences between two movie industries",
"the history of movie-making in India"
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"answer": {
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"summer",
"in autumn",
"in winter"
],
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Thanksgiving Day is really a harvest festival. This is why it is celebrated in late fall, after the crops are in. But one of the first thanksgivings in America had nothing to do wi... | high90.txt |
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},
"options": [
"The baby might not grow up healthily.",
"The baby might be laughed at by others.",
"The baby might disappoint its mother.",
"the baby might have mental problems.... | When a first-time father saw his newborn son, he immediately noticed the baby's ears obviously standing out from his head. He expressed his concern to the nurse that some children might be made fun of his child. A doctor examined the baby and reassured the new dad that his son was healthy---- the ears presented only a ... | high608.txt |
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},
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"people were interested in playing cards",
"people were interested in collecting postcards",
"people were intere... | In Britain in the 1890s there was a postcard "craze ". People formed clubs and collected and exchanged postcards. Even Queen Victoria had her own private collection.
When Edward was the king, the British had a cheap and good postal system. If anyone wanted to tell a friend that they were coming for tea in the afternoon... | high7935.txt |
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"answer": {
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"hate literature",
"write poems",
"enter the field of literature"
],
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Getting a gift card."
},
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"Getting a certificate.",
"Winning 1,000 dollars.",
"Receiving information for the contest"
],
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Walgreens Baby contest
If you play the new Baby Milestones Challenge Contest by BabyCenter & Walgreens, you could win $1,000 in Walgre... | high9918.txt |
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"avoid some topics about personal beliefs",
"use special vocabulary from the Internet",
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"answer": {
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},
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"get mail from the boy",
"listen to the boy's stories",
"send mail together with the boy"
],
"question": "Mike Crenshaw meets Carter Lawson e... | Neither rain nor snow nor the dark of night can separate Tennessee postal carrier "Mailman Mike" from his 4-and-a-half-year-old friend Carter Lawson - or keep them from their appointments.
For the past nine months, the two have teamed up every day in the preschooler's Knoxville neighborhood for a few minutes of deliver... | high13803.txt |
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},
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"a woman decides if she will shake hands with a man",
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She waited for the flame as the next torchbearer."
},
"options": [
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"She was not allowed to go there.",
"She waited for the flame as the next torchbearer.",
"The ceremony took pl... | OLYMPIA, March 24--Luo Xuejuan, a swimming gold medalist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, became the first Chinese person to relay the Olympic Flame in Greece on Monday, receiving the flame from the first Olympic torchbearer , Greek Alexandros Nikolaidis.
Despite her previous experience as a torchbearer in the Beijing... | high15241.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Moved."
},
"options": [
"Glad.",
"Worried.",
"Moved.",
"Happy."
],
"question": "How did Tommy's parents feel after seeing the words?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"ans... | After a while, Tommy's parents, who had recently separated, would arrive for a meeting on his failing schoolwork and bad behavior. Neither parent knew that I had called the other.
Tommy, an only child, had always been a happy, cooperative and top student. How could I make his father and mother believe that his recent f... | high8435.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Studying a foreign language"
},
"options": [
"Escaping from a war.",
"Being reunited with the beloved people.",
"Seeking a better life",
"Studying a foreign language"
],
"question": "Which of the following reaso... | The desire for a better life is sometimes so big that it makes people leave their countries and their families and work in other countries. They know that they will have to face difficult moments, that they won't be able to communicate with the persons around them, and that they have to work in illegal conditions to ge... | high6418.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "there were few people in the park that day"
},
"options": [
"a heart attack hit the writer's husband suddenly",
"there were few people in the park that day",
"the young woman was at a loss at first",
"the woman was fine... | Every day my husband parked his car in the same open-air car park in Zimbabwe. On this particular day, he had been running to his car with a pile of office papers under his arm. As he opened the car door, he suddenly lost control of his body. He felt a stabbing pain in his arm, and became totally breathless and lost co... | high13630.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "a local storeowner"
},
"options": [
"a local storeowner",
"the owner of the muffin mix company",
"the clerk at a local muffin bakery",
"George, the cashier who sold the muffin mix"
],
"question": "This letter is... | To Whom It May Concern:
On March 5, 2012 , I bought a Perfect Muffin Kit from your store at Midfield Shopping Center. The cashier who assisted me was George. George was very friendly and told me that the Perfect Muffin Kit would live up to the guarantee on the box: "Perfect Muffins Every Time!".
Unfortunately, this pro... | high1377.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "is a good way to test your friendship"
},
"options": [
"is a good way to test your friendship",
"will do harm to your friendship",
"will strengthen your friendship",
"is a good way to break off your friendship"
],
... | Recently, a professor of philosophy in the United States has written a book called Money and the Meaning of Life. He has discovered that how we deal with money in our daytoday life has more meaning than we usually think. One of the exercises he asked his students to do is to keep record of every penny they spend for ... | high16990.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "to make his story realistic and exciting"
},
"options": [
"to learn more about parachute jumping",
"to make his story realistic and exciting",
"to reduce pressure from his busy work",
"to prove to others his skill and c... | When we are unfamiliar with something,we may feel nervous and fearful.The assistance of others is a good way to help us pull through.
I write for a big newspaper, and I wanted to write a story about parachute jumping.To make it a realistic as well as exciting story,I decided that I first had to make a jump myself. ... | high17456.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Many cases of children whose growth don't meet the growing standard curve cannot be treated as abnormal"
},
"options": [
"All the cases of slow weight gain in the first months of the babies' lives are caused by the same reason",
"S... | Babies who are slow to gain weight in the first months of their lives generally catch up to their peers by age 13,a large UK study shows, Researchers said the results would make parents whose babies fail to put on weight quickly less worried.
The researchers looked at data from ,11,499 children who took part in a large... | high5111.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the importance of having a map and right direction"
},
"options": [
"the foolishness of the first driver",
"the importance of having a map and right direction",
"the foolishness of the second driver",
"the importance of... | Why is setting goals important? Because goals can help you do, be, and experience everything you want in life.Instead of just letting life happen to you, goals allow yourself to make your life happen.
Successful and happy people have a vision of how their life should be and they set lots of goals(both short-term and lo... | high11027.txt |
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