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"answer_text": "To watch a scientist secretly"
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"To test a high-tech tool",
"To watch a scientist secretly",
"To study a new technology",
"To save a baby from a car"
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"question": "What is Banks's first real tas... | Which boy hasn't dreamed of being a cool secret agent ? The wonderful fighting and the world-saving adventures are much more colourful than most people's everyday lives. Well, Cody Banks is just like any other boy, except that he is not just dreaming. He has a big secret his friends never know about. He was trained to ... | high8743.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Happiness."
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"options": [
"Money and Happiness",
"Happiness.",
"The Happiness Makeover",
"Hormones,Health,and Happiness"
],
"question": "If you want to know more about whether happiness has something to do wit... | Money and Happiness
A Guide to Living a Good Life
Author: Laura Rowley
Publisher: Wiley (March 1, 2007)
Laura Rowley makes us all understand the connection between money and happiness in our own lives so that we can spend our time and efforts wisely. She offers an insight so that every reader can make smarter decisions... | high15137.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "18 hours"
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"8 weeks",
"11 hours",
"7 hours",
"18 hours"
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"question": "Rebecca Martinez died _ after she went to the operation table.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"ans... | SANTO DOMINGO, Domincan Republic ---An infant girl born with a second head bled to death Saturday after complex surgery to remove her partially formed twin , her parents and doctors said.
A medical team completed the 11- hour operation Friday night and said 8-week-old Rebecca Martinez died seven hours later. Doctors ... | high7470.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Some of its main characters were working class."
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"options": [
"It was his most difficult book to write.",
"It was the first successful novel King wrote.",
"There were few children featured in the story.",
"Some of it... | Characters in novels don't always do what the writer wants them to do. Sometimes they cause trouble, take on lives of their own, or even work against the writer. It's not just a problem for inexperienced authors: famed children's novelist Roald Dahl said he got the main character in his bookMatildaso "wrong"that when h... | high14229.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Her daughter used the material wrongly."
},
"options": [
"She was tired from work.",
"Her daughter watched too much TV.",
"The house was in a mess.",
"Her daughter used the material wrongly."
],
"question": "Why... | I was off to go back to work one evening and my two children were busy sewing things on the sewing machine. My 11yearold daughter was, in the midst of her project, going to help her older brother in making a little cushion . I left, and in a few hours returned to find a mess in the kitchen, front room, and both childre... | high23485.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the reason for Americans' willingness to cooperate and share responsibility"
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"the reason for Americans' willingness to cooperate and share responsibility",
"the American people's determination to live",
"the A... | Americans Spend Their Free Time In Various Ways
America is a country of sports--of hunting,fishing and swimming,and of team sports like baseball and football.Millions of Americans watch their favorite sports on television.They also like to play in community orchestras ,make their own films or recordings,go camping,visi... | high1001.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "being fond blind was embarrassing"
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"options": [
"she might be recognized",
"asking for help looked silly",
"she was normal and independent",
"being fond blind was embarrassing"
],
"question": "The girl refuse... | I was blind, but I was ashamed of it if it was known. I refused to use a white stick and hated asking for help. After all, I was a teenager girl, and I couldn't bear people to look at me and think I was not like them. I must have been a terrible danger on the roads, coming across me wandering through the traffic, motor... | high595.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "some high supermarket technologies"
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"options": [
"some high supermarket technologies",
"the future supermarket",
"a special way of payment",
"the past supermarket"
],
"question": "The main purpose of the pass... | The supermarket of the past is racing toward a high tech future. And clever marketers are starting with their youngest customers. Publix Supermarkets in the prefix = st1 /U.S.city of Atlanta,Georgiahave begun testing TV Karts for little kids. Moms can shop in peace while their kids ride along watching their favorite TV... | high22943.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "their poor memory"
},
"options": [
"their bad health",
"their lonely life",
"their dangerous stove",
"their poor memory"
],
"question": "The couple was worried about _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions... | An elderly couple lived far away from their children. They noticed that they were beginning to forget many little things around the house. They were afraid that this could be perilous, as one of them might forget to turn off the stove and thus cause a fire. They were so worried that they decided to see their doctor to ... | high13546.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Distance between an animal and its enemy before escaping"
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"Distance between animals of the same species before escaping.",
"Distance between large and small animals before escaping.",
"Distance between an anim... | Flight Distance
Any observant people have noticed that a wild animal will allow a man or other potential enemy to approach only up to a given distance before it escapes. "Flight distance" is the terms used for this interspecies spacing. As a general rule, there is a positive relationship between the size of an animal a... | high15123.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "introduces some knowledge about personal space"
},
"options": [
"tells us how to achieve personal space",
"explains what personal space people need is",
"introduces some knowledge about personal space",
"argues for the ... | Many of us feel uneasy when someone stands too close to us, talks to us too loudly or makes eye contact with us for too long. But have you ever wondered why those things make you uncomfortable?
It's all about personal peace, which means not only an imaginary space around the body, but also the space around all the se... | high8757.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "People's search for alternative energy"
},
"options": [
"The future of alternative energy",
"How the fuel cells works",
"People's search for alternative energy",
"The damage done by the blackout last summer."
],
... | Electricity, like clean water, is a resource that's often taken for granted. But last summer, when blackouts struck much of the northeastern US, Ontario and Rome, consumers on two continents were given a painful reminder of just how easily broken electricity supplies can be. The massive disorder stranded commuters, st... | high7464.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a spicy drink"
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"options": [
"a sweet candy",
"a spicy drink",
"a sweet drink",
"a spicy candy"
],
"question": "Before being brought into Europe by the Spanish,chocolate was served as _ .",
"questio... | When the Spanish first brought chocolate back to Europe,it was still being served as a drink,but soon went through an important change:the chili pepper was replaced by sugar. The new sweetened chocolate drink was so expensive that few could afford,but by the 17th century the drink was common among European noblemen. In... | high23491.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "had just taken drugs and was in the state of excitement."
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"had just taken drugs and was in the state of excitement.",
"was sleeping in a high bed above the ground.",
"had just taken drugs and was in the state ... | Graham and his friends preferred to shoot up in their arms, necks and legs. A dealer once said Graham was the type who would never be able to turn back and that he expected him to die from the drug. Wendy feared the same, but didn't know how to save her son. " Once, after he'd disappeared for more than a month, I found... | high9449.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The Times"
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"options": [
"The Times",
"Science Fiction",
"Fortune",
"National Geography"
],
"question": "Which magazine this passage may be mostly selected from?",
"question_type": null
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"answe... | Chinese scientist Tu Youyou on October 5 won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine amongst a trio for discovering parasite therapies . 85-year-old Tu is awarded this world-renowned prize for her contribution to reducing the death rate of malaria, minimizing patients' suffering and promoting mankind's health. This i... | high12894.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A new type of business franchise for kids."
},
"options": [
"The fast development of Discovery Zone.",
"The disadvantages of outdoor playgrounds.",
"A new type of business franchise for kids.",
"Children can play in the... | Old-Fashioned Play--For Pay
Kids !Come have a ball! Or 60,000 of them! There's a new type of business franchise that is appearing in shopping malls and neighborhoods acrossprefix = st1 /Americaoffering pay-per-use indoor playgrounds ,which feature toys ,games ,supervised fun and a workout that doesn't break the ... | high22957.txt |
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"answer_text": "CRIENGLISH can reach you if you win a prize"
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"options": [
"CRIENGLISH can post it online",
"everybody online can contact you",
"CRIENGLISH can reach you if you win a prize",
"CRIENGLISH can use it for some other purp... | Online Voting --The Most Beautiful Places in China
What are the most beautiful places in China in your eyes? Please take part in our activity and vote online. We are looking forward to your choice and voice!
Everyone is welcome!
Rules:
1) Voting period: October 1 to November 30.
2) The results and the winners list will... | high581.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The Sumerians."
},
"options": [
"The Greeks.",
"Christian Hansen.",
"Louis Pasteur.",
"The Sumerians."
],
"question": "According to the passage, who was the first to brew beer?",
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... | Between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago, some humans discontinued their wandering hunting and gathering and settled down to farm. Grain was the first domesticated crop that started that farming process.
The oldest proven records of brewing are about 6,000 years old and refer to the Sumerians. Sumeria lay between the Tigris... | high1015.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "New York was the first city in the world to have electric lights"
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"options": [
"Edison didn't like to study at school",
"Edison invented the light bulb in his late twenties",
"even without electronics, we might have radio,... | There are many people who say Thomas Edison invented the twentieth century. Although there are those who may disagree, yet Edison was one of the greatest inventors in America.
Born in 1847 in Ohio, Thomas Edison attended school for only three months. After his teacher said that he could not learn, Edison's mother decid... | high13552.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "many \"long sleepers\" preserve their sleeping habit formed during their childhood"
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"options": [
"\"short sleepers\" need less sleep by nature",
"\"long sleepers\" sleep a longer period of time during the day",
"many \"lon... | Baekeland and Hartmann report that the " short sleepers" had been more or less average in their sleep needs until the men were in their teens. But at about age 15 0r so, the men voluntarily began cutting down their nightly sleep time because of pressures from school, work, and other activities. These men tended to ... | high5273.txt |
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"answer_text": "The loss of a friend."
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"options": [
"A high school task.",
"A professor's encouragement",
"The loss of a friend.",
"Doubts about the present test."
],
"question": "What made Jack Andraka research pancreatic c... | A boy won the grand prize at the 2012 International Science and Engineering Fair, the largest high school science competition in the world. The Maryland teenager Jack Andraka is the youngest winner of the $75,000 prize. He was chosen from among l,500 students in 70 countries.
Jack invented a test for pancreatic cancer... | high18407.txt |
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"answer_text": "Traffic accidents leads to very serious economic consequences."
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"Traffic accidents leads to very serious economic consequences.",
"Malaria causes more deaths every year than traffic accidents.",
"Running a yel... | Turning left under a bridge in Beijing, Hu Xingxin, 24, suddenly braked to a stop in front of a yellow light at a busy crossroad.
"According to the new traffic regulations, running a yellow light is equal to running a red one," said the Beijing-based IT technician. "Since the new rules came into effect I'm always ready... | high17734.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "dog"
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"cat",
"dog",
"cow",
"goat"
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"question": "An Afghan hound is a kind of _ .",
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"answer": {
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"answer_text"... | The researchers, led by Hwang Woo-suk, insist they cloned an Afghan hound, only to help investigate human disease, including the possibility of cloning stem cells for treatment purposes.
But others immediately renewed calls for a global ban on human reproductive cloning before the technology moves any farther.
"S... | high20198.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "encouraging players to walk and exercise instead of staying indoors"
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"designed to help patients in hospital recover sooner",
"helping cure such diseases as obesity, diabetes and heart disease",
"encouraging pl... | A hospital has been forced to ban Pokemon Go players from the site after a monster hub was found in the A&E department. Royal Stoke University Hospital discovered that its casualty unit is on the same spot as a Pokemon Go 'gym' ---- where players can train their newly caught Nintendo creatures.
The University Hospita... | high19719.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Offended"
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"Guilty",
"Offended",
"Disappointed",
"Discouraged"
],
"question": "How did the immigrants in Salt Lake City feel about \"Operation Safe Travel\"?",
"question_type": "factiod_questi... | In a country that defines itself by ideals, not by shared blood, who should be allowed to come to work and live here? In the wake of the Sept.11 attacks these questions have never seemed more pressing.
On Dec.11, 2001, as part of the effort to increase homeland security, federal and local authorities in 14 states stage... | high11345.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The Changing Role of Women in Society"
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"Women's Responsibility in Society",
"The Changing Social Environments",
"The Changing Role of Women in Society",
"Women's Financial Contributions"
],
"ques... | Earlier, in the old days, women used to sit at home separated from the outside world. They used to manage the home and look after children. They were free of the responsibility of earning money to support the family, which was left to men.
With the coming of industrialization and technological development, the lifest... | high3602.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It worked well with his active mind ."
},
"options": [
"It made his mind empty .",
"It was well-paid but too demanding .",
"It worked well with his active mind .",
"It was too interesting to think of anything else ."
... | There seems to be a general assumption that brilliant people cannot stand routine ; that they need a varied , exciting life in order to do their best . It is also assumed that dull people are particularly suited for dull work . We are told that the reason the present-day young complain so loudly about the dullness of j... | high11423.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Your own intelligence will stop growing."
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"Your brain will become smaller.",
"You will never get help from authority.",
"You will hardly know the world.",
"Your own intelligence will stop growing."
]... | Never argue with one's own understanding.
The whisper of intelligence is always there, whatever you do.
If you create a time lag between the whisper of intelligence and understanding in you and your action, then you are preventing the brain from growing into a new size. When you argue with intelligence, when you post... | high3164.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Two."
},
"options": [
"Two.",
"Three.",
"Four.",
"Five."
],
"question": "How many times has Marjorie Gestring taken part in the Olympic Games?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
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"answer": {
... | Marjorie Gestring
Marjorie Gestring was a springboard diver from the United States who won the gold medal in 3-meter springboard diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany at the age of 13 years. With the cancellation of the Olympics in 1940 and 1944 because of World War II, Gestring did not get a chance t... | high20826.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "know about"
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"know nothing",
"know about",
"dislike",
"like"
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"question": "\"To be familiar with\" means to _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"answer... | We are already familiar with computers--computers work for us at home, in offices and in factories. But it is also true that many children today are using computers at schools before they can write. What does this mean for the future? Are these children lucky or not?
Many people who do not know about computers think of... | high5515.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He is tired of the riddles told by T.J"
},
"options": [
"he is a cruel boy",
"he doesn't like T.J",
"He is tired of the riddles told by T.J",
"He doesn't know the answer to the riddle"
],
"question": "Keith shou... | The longest day of the month is the day after my younger brother T.J gets his new issue of Just Joking , a magazine filled with all kinds of jokes. When the new issue arrives, T.J tells me every riddle in it . But a constant stream of riddles can get annoying .
"Hey, Keith ! What did he hamburger name his daughter ?"
... | high17052.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Tickets"
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"Cash",
"Tickets",
"Change",
"Bank cards"
],
"question": "What should people take when getting on the bus in Sydney?",
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"answer": {
... | Sydney has a huge bus system. No buses accept cash, and a ticket needs to be bought ahead of time. The buses often run at busy hours and regularly during the day. The Sydney Explorer bus provides air-conditioned service and stops at 27 tourist attractions. Its partner, the Bondi Explorer, stops at 19 attractions. _ It'... | high13234.txt |
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"answer_text": "On National Rail services you must touch them on the reader twice."
},
"options": [
"They are limited in use to the owners themselves.",
"On National Rail services you must touch them on the reader twice.",
"They are not suit... | Oyster
What is an Oyster card?
Oyster is the easiest way to pay for journeys on the bus, Tube, tram, Docklands Light Railway (DLR), London Overground and National Rail journeys in London. You can store your travel cards, Bus&Tram Pass, season tickets and credit to pay for journeys as you go.
Where to get an Oyster card... | high8031.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "A table"
},
"options": [
"A mobile phone",
"A radio",
"An e-bike",
"A table"
],
"question": "Which of the following is most likely not to be a form of e-waste?",
"question_type": null
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"answer": ... | Electronic waste, or e-waste, refers to electronic products that are no longer usable. This can include TVs, cell phones and computers and other office electronics, electronic toys and videos machines. Today, the average turnover rate for a computer in the United States is every two years, according to the environmenta... | high7302.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "to show grandparents get on well with grandchildren"
},
"options": [
"to show Indian society is full of perfect harmony",
"to stress all the children admire their grandparents",
"to show grandparents get on well with grandchi... | The connection shared by grandparents and grandchildren is something very special and despite the changing family situation, it still remains strong across generations. For most of us, our grandparents were our first best friends, the ones with whom we shared our secrets and our pain.
In majority of the cases, grandpar... | high16364.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "He was seriously ill."
},
"options": [
"He was seriously ill.",
"He was a dishonest boy.",
"He was crazy about magic.",
"He was Dr. Epstein's patient."
],
"question": "What do we know about Tom?",
"question_... | Imagination and fantasy can play an important role in achieving the things we fear. Children know this very well. Fred Epstein, in his book I Make It to Five, tells a story he heard from one of his friends about Tom, a four-year-old boy with a cancer in his back bone. He came through several operations and a lot of pai... | high4623.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the Summer Palace"
},
"options": [
"Terracotta Warriors",
"the Forbidden City",
"the Great Wall",
"the Summer Palace"
],
"question": "Mrs. Obama has visited the following places except _ .",
"question_type... | U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and her family have just ended their one-week trip in China. The whole world has paid attention to the two elegant and beautiful first ladies who have made a difference in the relationship between China and the U.S.A.
Mrs. Obama has visited the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Terracot... | high19057.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "hardly attack people"
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"look alike",
"are dangerous",
"usually live in deep sea",
"hardly attack people"
],
"question": "From the passage we can learn sharks _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_q... | Are you afraid of sharks? You shouldn't be! Below we cleared up the main _ about one of the world's most perfectly formed creatures ...
All sharks are the same.
This is ly not true. There are nearly four hundred species of sharks and they vary widely in habitat, size, features, diet and lifestyle. T... | high18349.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "in the afternoon"
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"in the afternoon",
"in the late evening",
"in the early morning",
"right before the exam"
],
"question": "If there is an English exam two weeks later, you should go over Englis... | Most of us seem to reach our peak of alertness around noon. Soon after that, alertness declines, and sleepiness may set in by mid-afternoon.
Your short-term memory is best during the morning--in fact, about 15 percent more efficient than at any other time of day. So, students, take notice: when you are faced with a m... | high2252.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "To explore the biological basis of social behavior."
},
"options": [
"To discover people's willingness for orders from leaders.",
"To display the power of punishment on ability to learn.",
"To test people's willingness to sac... | A few years ago, in one experiment in behavioural psychology, Stanley Milgram of Yale University tested 40 subjects for their willingness to obey instructions given by a "leader" in a situation in which the subjects might feel a personal dislike of the actions they were called upon to perform. Specifically, Milgram tol... | high10715.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "are able to experience some adventurous activities in Haines"
},
"options": [
"will spend one day experiencing the local culture at Alaska Indian Arts",
"can contact Alaska Mountain Guides & Climbing School by email or fax",
... | Nothing evokes Alaska like a whale exploding out of the water or an eagle pulling a silver fish from the river .Combine these images with high mountains,brilliant icebergs and wonderful meals and you really do have the Best of Alaska! Join us for an unforgettable 7-day excursion to the last frontier!
Highlights:
JUN... | high9307.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "she was running for the lives of others"
},
"options": [
"she would set up a new record",
"she was running for the lives of others",
"she would run a race without others",
"she couldn't rely on Victor this time"
],
... | "Get out of the plane!" Justin shouted. Teddy and he dropped to the ground,....
When Kathy and Victor reached the edge of the grassland, flames were shooting more than five meters into the air.
Kathy couldn't believe what she was seeing. One glance told her they needed medical attention immediately. She questioned Just... | high1983.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "there was a difficult problem troubling him"
},
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"he enjoyed the scenery of the great mountain",
"the old man was very good at telling stories",
"there was a difficult problem troubling him",
"he was not sur... | There was once an old wise man living on the top of a mountain. Whenever the villagers had a problem, they would climb up the mountain and ask the old man for advice.
One day a young man arrived. "Wise man," he asked, "What makes a man truly great?"
The old man said, "Do you sincerely want to know?"
"Yes, yes!" the you... | high8019.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "considers welfare reform to be fundamentally successful"
},
"options": [
"believes the reform has reduced the government's burden",
"insists that welfare reform is doing little good for the poor",
"is not interested in the su... | While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states--at least in getting people off welfare.It's estimated that more than 2 million people have left the list since 1994.
In the past four years, welfare list in Athens County have been cut in half.But 70 percent of the p... | high12102.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "First aid emergency advice."
},
"options": [
"An advertisement.",
"A horror story.",
"A news report.",
"First aid emergency advice."
],
"question": "What kind of passage is it?",
"question_type": null
},
... | Government statistics recently showed that in the UK, more than 3,000 people a year experience electric shocks in their home. A smaller number of people are killed after contact with power lines outside the home. Electric shocks can cause a person's heart or breathing to stop, can also cause burns and are potentially f... | high12664.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Britain."
},
"options": [
"Germany.",
"France.",
"Britain.",
"Italy."
],
"question": "Which country attracted American students most in the 2011-2012 school year?",
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},
... | Hunter Bliss, like more and more American students, left the United States to go to college. In the 2011-2012 school year, 46,571 U.S. students registered for degree programs in 14 countries. The top destination countries were the U.K. and Canada, followed by France, Germany, Italy and some other European countries. Ge... | high14215.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "face criticism calmly."
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Available Programs:
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* Timing
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The "happiest place on earth" is a top destination on many families' bucket lists. But taking a vacation to Disney World can be difficult to do on a budget. There are some considerations that you can make to reduce the cost of your Disney World vacation.
1. Buy Souvenirs ... | high14567.txt |
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Yang Yang, putting behind her a dismal fourth place finish in the 1,500 meters three days ago, got off to a sparking lead and never looked back to... | high1997.txt |
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----Anonymous
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It's "no".
What do you ask? We'll say it again: "No".
Sweet and simple "no".
Say "no" at your office and see how quickly that pile of work on your desk disappears.
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Instead of sending her away or reasoning with her, he said to her, "Fetch me a mustard seed from a home that has never known sadness. We will use i... | high3665.txt |
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That gap has been narrowing in recent years and this year women have moved ahead.
The finding has been made by James Flynn, a world-famous expert on ... | high17753.txt |
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The new cards, which most people will have by 2005, contain a microchip on which personal information is stored. This can be checked against databases kept by the government.
"The inf... | high20699.txt |
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Hillary died and went to heaven. When she was met by the Angel Gabriel she noticed behind her a wall of unimaginable proportions that was completely covered with clocks.
"What are they?" she asked... | high15622.txt |
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In many major Asian cities like Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo... | high7365.txt |
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Busy parents who expected more time with the kids are Findi... | high280.txt |
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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said its modeling suggested a "fairly large potential for an El Nino, most like... | high13253.txt |
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The 25-year-old author described winning as an "unbelievable feeling". "I didn't think my book would be on the shortl... | high7371.txt |
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... | Gants Hill, London
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"answer": {
... | The dream of flying into outer space, cherished by the Chinese people for centuries, will soon come true.
China launched its fourth unmanned spacecraft "Shenzhou IV" on December 30 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Gansu Province. It was the 27th consecutive( )and successful launch of China - made rockets sinc... | high1700.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Yao Ming retires from basketball"
},
"options": [
"Yao Ming:a household name",
"Yao Ming retires from basketball",
"A farewell conference",
"Yao Ming's personal decision"
],
"question": "Which of the following c... | Yao Ming told at a news conference that a series of foot and leg injuries forced him to end his playing career at the age of 30.
"I will formally end my career," said Yao, who became a household name in China before starting his NBA career with the Houston Rockets in 2002. Yao played eight seasons in the NBA.
"Today is... | high13247.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "He will choose a less challenging task."
},
"options": [
"He will choose a less challenging task.",
"He will hide his mistakes from his teachers.",
"He will work harder to avoid mistakes.",
"He will ask his teachers for... | We are surrounded by mixed messages about mistakes: we're told we earn by making them,
but we work hard to avoid them. So the result is that most of us know that we are going to make
mistakes, but deep down, we feel we shouldn't.
Experiments with schoolchildren who did well on a given test show that those who were
prai... | high14528.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Pursuit of equal justice for all."
},
"options": [
"Pursuit of equal justice for all.",
"International relations.",
"His vision and agenda setting.",
"Economic management."
],
"question": "In which of the follow... | Days after celebrations honoring his bicentennial , Abraham Lincoln kept his rank as best US president, according to a survey of 65 historians that landed George W. Bush 36th out of 42 overall.
Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865), the first US president George Washington (1789-1797) and New Deal architect Franklin D. Roosev... | high23384.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "includes many categories"
},
"options": [
"lasts one month",
"is a writing contest",
"includes many categories",
"allows anyone to take part"
],
"question": "The Canada's Most Interesting Towns Contest _ .",
... | The Canada's Most Interesting Towns Contest is started by Reader's Digest Association (Canada) and is open to all Canadians. All entries must be submitted by December 18,2012.
Entry requirements
Participants must submit a story in English or in French and one photo that tell why their town is the most interesti... | high18312.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "learns to survive on her own"
},
"options": [
"learns to survive on her own",
"asks others for advice",
"feels down and disappointed",
"becomes an innocent young lady"
],
"question": "When Legend of Zhen Huan fi... | "I pity the empress. Poor empress." "Do you think Zhen Huan really loves the emperor?" From campuses to offices, from shopping malls to the streets, talk about Legend of Zhen Huan is everywhere.
Unlike other long TV series, Legend of Zhen Huan, the 76-episode Qing dynasty drama series, has kept attracting new audiences... | high5566.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "22%"
},
"options": [
"22%",
"44%",
"47%",
"53%"
],
"question": "How many of Internet users googled themselves in 2002 according to the report?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | Have you ever ''Googled'' yourself?
More Americans are Googling themselves-and many are checking out their friends,co-workers and romantic interests,too.
In a report Sunday, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said 47 percent of U.S.adult Internet users have looked for information about themselves throug... | high17021.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "recognize sounds better"
},
"options": [
"sing better",
"do better in exams",
"recognize sounds better",
"response more quickly"
],
"question": "Compared with children who haven't taken music lessons, musically-... | Let's say you took violin lessons all through elementary school, but you haven't got the instrument out of its case for years. Were all those lessons a waste of your parents' money because you didn't become a violinist?
Even though it has been a long time since you played the violin, a new study shows that as little as... | high2209.txt |
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