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"answer_text": "To offer new ways of language learning."
},
"options": [
"To offer new ways of language learning.",
"To make an advertisement for their company.",
"To share interests and make new friends.",
"To tell his inspiring story... | Nowadays,the Internet,with its ability to connect people throughout the world,is changing the way people learn languages.There is still no way to avoid the hard work through vocabulary lists and grammar rules,but the books,tapes and even CDs are being replaced by email, video chat and social networks.
Livemocha, a Sea... | high7167.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "changing weight"
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"options": [
"carrying the bags of sand",
"keeping drinking-water",
"carrying ropes of the basket",
"changing weight"
],
"question": "The metal box was used for _ .",
"question_type": ... | On Nov.18th, 1908, three men went up in a balloon. They started early in London. The headman was Augusta Gaudron, and the other two men were Tannar and Maitland. They had a big balloon and they were ready for a long way.
Soon they heard the sea. They were carrying the usual rope, and it was hanging down from the basket... | high8254.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Next Thursday"
},
"options": [
"Next Tuesday.",
"Next Wednesday.",
"Next Thursday",
"Next Friday"
],
"question": "When will the final exam be held?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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"answer... | Now I would like to talk to you about your final exam. The exam will be held next Thursday, the last day of the exam week. Remember to bring two or three pens in case they run out of ink. Unlike the midterm exam, this test will not include multiple-choice questions, it will contain entirely of essays . You will have t... | high16129.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "they did not have any human guidance"
},
"options": [
"they did not have any human guidance",
"the road was not familiar to the drivers",
"the distance was too long for the vehicles",
"the prize money was unattractive t... | Thirteen vehicles lined up last March to race across the Mojave Desert , seeking a million in prize money . To win , they had to finish the 142-mile race in less than 10 hours . Teams and watchers knew there might be no winner at all , because these vehicles were missinge a key part drivers .
DARPA , the Defense Advanc... | high21785.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because he had to refresh himself for the classes in the afternoon."
},
"options": [
"Because he needed to eat something as lunch.",
"Because he was very thirsty.",
"Because he had to refresh himself for the classes in the af... | As a substitute teacher, my daily routine involves driving to a new school almost every day so I'm usually unable to anticipate the day's events, good or bad!
On one particular day, I was teaching in a very difficult classroom. I was managing behavior all morning and by lunch time, I knew I needed coffee to even consid... | high3301.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To inform people of the bad effects of phubbing."
},
"options": [
"To inform people of the bad effects of phubbing.",
"To advertise the cartoon made by students.",
"To indicate the world will finally be destroyed by phubbers.... | Have you ever run into a careless cell phone user on the street? Perhaps they were busy talking, testing or checking updates on WeChat without looking at what was going on around them. As the number of this new "species" of human has kept rising, they have been given a new name -- phubbers .
Recently, a cartoon create... | high11646.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "his arms touched the ground when he moved"
},
"options": [
"he didn't talk to them",
"he kept away from them",
"his arms touched the ground when he moved",
"he couldn't use his arms"
],
"question": "Children lau... | Hank Viscardi was born without legs.He had not legs but stumps that could he fitted with a kind of special boots,People stared at him with cruel interest.Children laughed at him and called him'Ape Man' because his arms practically dragged on the ground.
Hank went to school like other boys.His grades were good and h... | high17237.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A strict teacher."
},
"options": [
"A patient teacher.",
"An honest teacher.",
"A strict teacher.",
"A hard-working teacher."
],
"question": "Which of the following is considered a good teacher by the writer?",
... | A good teacher is many things to many people. In my own experience, the people I respect the most and think about the most are the teachers who demanded the most discipline from their students.
I miss one teacher in particular that I had in high school. I think she was a good teacher because she was a very strict p... | high5770.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "New technologies cause trouble for recyclers."
},
"options": [
"New technologies cause trouble for recyclers.",
"Experts are trying to solve the tech trash problem.",
"New technology has both advantages and disadvantages",
... | Picture a wasteland of computer monitors and TVs, stretching as far as the eye can see. Imagine towers of boxes, all of them filled with broken glass and old electronic devices. Technology graveyards like this can be found in communities across the country.
Experts say that landfills and warehouses will overflow unl... | high18104.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The sight of a father with a child in his arms."
},
"options": [
"The sight of the desolate street lights.",
"The sight of the empty street.",
"The sight of a father with a child in his arms.",
"The sight of light in hi... | "BANG!" the door caused a reverberation .It was just standing there, with Father standing on one side, and I on the other side.
We were both in great anger."Never set foot in this house again!" stormed Father.With tears welling up in my eyes, I rushed out of the flat and ran along the street.
The street lights were sh... | high5016.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Under the experimental conditions as those of the streets."
},
"options": [
"At crossroads.",
"At a police traffic station.",
"In a crowded street.",
"Under the experimental conditions as those of the streets."
],
... | Listening to music while you drive can improve your speed and ability to get away from accidents, according to Australian psychologists. But turning your car radio up to full volume could probably make you end up in an accident. The performance of difficult tasks can be influenced if people are subjected to loud noise.... | high18662.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the students' poor command of English is English teacher's fault"
},
"options": [
"the college students' English is the worst of all",
"the high school students were not diligent at all",
"the students' poor command of Englis... | The speaker, a teacher from a community college, addressed a sympathetic audience. Heads nodded in agreement when he said, "High school English teachers are not doing their jobs." He described the weaknesses of his students, all high school graduates who can use language only at a grade 9 level. I was unable to determi... | high16897.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "in a newspaper"
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"options": [
"in a store window",
"in a school magazine",
"in a newspaper",
"on a company notice-board"
],
"question": "You many find the above advertisements _ .",
"question_type": "clo... | Read the advertisements carefully. Then answer the questions that follow.
INTERESTED IN CHILDCARE?
Qualified person or preschool teacher needed for busy childcare center, south of the river. Full-time work guaranteed. Immediate start necessary. The candidate must be able to work as a co-operative team member, Phone 634... | high2779.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "It's a science fiction movie."
},
"options": [
"It's a science fiction movie.",
"It's about the alien spacecraft.",
"It's produced by Tom Chiver.",
"It's a jokey and humorous one."
],
"question": "Which of the f... | "NOW I just don't believe that. "Surely all of us, at some point, have watched a movie and thought: It's simply badly researched,or the makers must think we're fools. Recently, The Daily Telegraph ran a humorous piece on untrue tech moments from some top movies. Let's see what they are all about.
Tom Chiver, the writer... | high3467.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He wanted to steal some money."
},
"options": [
"He knew the President had lots of money.",
"He knew the President lived in the suite.",
"He wanted to be a rich businessman.",
"He wanted to steal some money."
],
... | A thief entered the bedroom of the 30th President of the United States, who met him and helped him escape punishment.
The event happened in the early morning hours in one of the first days when Calvin Coolidge came into power, late in August, 1923.He and his family were living in the same third-floor suite at the Wil... | high11120.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Because his backpack had no room his clothes."
},
"options": [
"Because they were the uniforms for air couriers.",
"Because that made him easier to be recognized.",
"Because his backpack had no room his clothes.",
"Beca... | Brian arrived at the San Francisco airport two hours before the flight to Paris. He was wearing three shirts, a jacket, two pairs of socks, a pair of shorts, and two pairs of jeans. He was carrying one small backpack, which was very full, but he didn't have any other luggage. Brian needed to meet a man named Tony befor... | high7601.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "rules to obey"
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"options": [
"things to do",
"prices for theme parks",
"rules to obey",
"special offers"
],
"question": "This passage mainly talks about all the following EXCEPT _ .",
"question_type": "c... | There are plenty of different parks to visit in the UK. All theme parks in Britain have cafes, restaurants, picnic areas and gift shops, so you'll still have plenty to see and do when you and the kids have been on enough rides. There are usually smaller "funfair" rides and games as well, so younger children won't get b... | high8532.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Handling Somalia's political problems."
},
"options": [
"Providing lots of money.",
"Ending Civil war.",
"Supplying enough food.",
"Handling Somalia's political problems."
],
"question": "According to the passag... | Kenya wants to organize a major international conference to discuss how to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia. The conference may also deal with ways to rescue Somalia from seventeen years of civil war. More than forty percent of its people depend on food aid.
Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula says the world ... | high12429.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Rich countries' gains are greater than their losses."
},
"options": [
"Agricultural harvests in rich countries fall.",
"Droughts become more harmful than floods.",
"Rich countries' gains are greater than their losses.",
... | El Nifio, a Spanish term for "the Christ child", was named by South American fisherman who noticed that the global weather pattern, which happens every two to seven years, reduced the amount of fishes caught around Christmas. El Nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western Pacific, flow back eastw... | high13737.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "journalist who likes traveling, exploring, writing and studying"
},
"options": [
"doctor who likes carrying the small first-aid kit",
"journalist who likes traveling, exploring, writing and studying",
"writer who likes travel... | As an old-fashioned explorer, Paul Salopek sets out on foot to circle around the world. He is also a modern-day explorer. _ a few clothes, a small first-aid kit and notebooks, he is carrying a recorder, a video camera, a small computer and a satellite phone -- a telephone that connects to a satellite and can be used in... | high14058.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Diet."
},
"options": [
"Gender, age and socio-economic status.",
"Smoking and physical activity.",
"Diet.",
"BMI."
],
"question": "What was the difference between the four groups in the experiment?",
"questi... | A new University of Graz study concludes that vegetarians are more often ill and have a lower quality of living than meat-eaters. According to the German press release, vegetarians "have cancer and heart attacks more often". The release also says that they show more psychological disorders than meat eaters. Consequent... | high7615.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "people's feeling the unreal phone rings"
},
"options": [
"people's being addicted to mobile phones",
"people's feeling the unreal phone rings",
"mobile phones' going wrong frequently",
"mobile phones' disturbing people ... | "I usually put my mobile phone in my bag, and I often feel like it is ringing when there actually is no phone call. Now I always want to keep it in my hand, being afraid that I might miss important calls or messages," Miss Liu tells her doctor.
Miss Gu, a news worker, has to take her mobile phone with her all the time ... | high15352.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "more educational programs will be started in national parks"
},
"options": [
"the National Park Service will celebrate its 100th anniversary",
"more educational programs will be started in national parks",
"NatureBridge plans... | The National Park Service in the United States will mark its one hundredth anniversary in 2016. As it nears its second century, the Park Service plans to increase its educational programs for students and teachers.
The plans include transportation support for one hundred thousand students each year to visit national p... | high23838.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Disapproving"
},
"options": [
"Sympathetic",
"Disapproving",
"Supportive",
"Neutral"
],
"question": "What's the author's attitude toward continued parental guidance to college students?",
"question_type": nu... | Why College Is Not Home
The college years are supposed to be a time for important growth in autonomy and the development of adult identity. However, now they are becoming an extended period of adolescence, during which many of today's students and are not shouldered with adult responsibilities.
For previous generation... | high13723.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "to talk big"
},
"options": [
"to sing a nice song",
"to talk big",
"to go on better",
"to have a bath three times a day"
],
"question": "According to the passage, the meaning of the word \"boast\" is _ .",
... | Have you ever listened to young children talking in the playground? They are always boasting. They say things like, "My Dad's car is bigger than your Dad's," and "My Mom is smarter than yours." They particularly like to boast about their families.
There were three little boys, Harry, Ted and Gavin, who were always boas... | high1264.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Stand Up and Cheer"
},
"options": [
"That Hagen Girl",
"Little Miss Marker",
"Stand Up and Cheer",
"The Little Colonel"
],
"question": "For which movie did Shirley Temple win the Oscar?",
"question_type": "f... | Shirley Temple Black, who lifted America's spirit as a bright-eyed child movie star during the Great Depression, peacefully passed away at her California home on Monday evening at 85, surrounded by her family and caregivers.
Temple, born on April 23, 1928, started her entertainment career in the early 1930s and was fam... | high9638.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "One hour."
},
"options": [
"One hour.",
"One and a half hours.",
"Two hours.",
"Two and a half hours."
],
"question": "How long did it take the writer to go to school after getting up yesterday ?",
"question... | Yesterday was my first day of school. I had to wake up at 6 am and I had a bit of breakfast and got dressed in my school clothes. I got a service car to the Nile and crossed the Nile in a motor boat. Then it dropped me off at the Luxor museum and I walked to school which is at the back of the Luxor museum. By the time ... | high18676.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "there are a variety of enjoyable ways of spending time there"
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"options": [
"their parents can live and play with them",
"they can buy what they want there",
"there are a variety of enjoyable ways of spending time there",
... | The island of Great Britain being small (compare the size of Australia), the natural place for holiday relaxation and enjoyment is extensive coastline, above all its southern and eastern coasts, and the favorite resort of the mass-population of industrial Lancashire, is on the north-west coast. Distant and little-inhab... | high5002.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "At 10:00 am on Wednesday."
},
"options": [
"At 9:00 am on Monday.",
"At 10:00 am on Wednesday.",
"At 1:00 pm on Friday.",
"At 11:00 am on Sunday."
],
"question": "When can people visit the White House?",
"qu... | Members of the public can visit the White House now. Requests must be made through one's Member of Congress . These self-guided tours are allowed from 7:30 am to 11:00 am Tuesday through Thursday, 7:30 am to 1:00 pm Saturdays (except for holidays). Requests can be made up to six months in advance and no less than 21... | high16883.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a full-time worker"
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"options": [
"a housewife",
"a full-time worker",
"a clothes maker",
"a college student"
],
"question": "From the passage we can infer that the writer of the passage now is _ .",
"q... | I love it at night. It's peaceful. And when it cools down I sometimes do some ironing. I don't really care for it. I work full-time and am too busy for most housework. I remember the old woman who taught me to iron . I was about 15 and somehow got a live-in job taking care of a woman who had been an able-bodied, health... | high3473.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "mother"
},
"options": [
"teacher",
"doctor",
"father",
"mother"
],
"question": "According to the passage, the author probably is a _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"a... | I come to the United States ten year ago. I would always say that I was trying to study, but there were always things like work and my kids that would not allow me to start.
Now I realized that those were only excuses. What stopped me was that I was afraid to start studying again. I always believed I would learn by mys... | high11134.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Boats come every fifteen minutes."
},
"options": [
"Boats come every fifteen minutes.",
"In the boat the tourists can enjoy drinking.",
"Tourists have to spend a day on the boat enjoying scenes.",
"Tourists can only see... | We all know that Paris is a popular travel destination, which has much more to offer than just seeing the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower that are well-known. Experience this amazing city through some of its secret places.
River Boats
Tour the heart of Paris by boat along the Seine River! Boats offer 8 must-see tourist sto... | high19568.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "inform those interested to audition for a musical"
},
"options": [
"tell the public about the story of Sweeney Todd",
"promote the love for watching a musical performance",
"inform those interested to audition for a musical",... | Upcoming Audition(,)
The Musical Sweeney Todd
Executive Director: Paul German Director: Calvin Remsberg
Artistic Director : Steven Glaudini Musical Director: JohnGlaudini
Opening: 1 January 2011 To 14 January 2011 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center,
Long Beach Road
Audition Location: Musical Th... | high21791.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "All the sailors gather on deck"
},
"options": [
"All the sailors gather on deck",
"Give your hands to me",
"Put your right hand and left hand on deck",
"Shake your hands with me"
],
"question": "\"All hands on d... | First Frenchman: I once heard someone shout, "Look out," I put my head out of a window and a basin of water fell on me. It seems that "Look out" may mean "don't look out."
Second Frenchman: Once I was on a ship and heard the captain shout, "All hands on deck," I put my hands on the deck and someone walked on them.
Thir... | high11652.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "At some crossroads, drivers needn't stop or go slow."
},
"options": [
"Stop signs can be found at every crossroads.",
"At crossroads with a \"Slow\" sign, drivers never have to stop.",
"At crossroads with a \"Slow\" sign, dri... | As one approaches some crossroads, one comes to a sign which says that drivers have to stop when they come to the main road ahead. At other crossroads, drivers have to go slow, but they do not actually have to stop (unless, of course, there is something coming along the main road); and at still others, they do not have... | high21949.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "On the early morning of Saturday."
},
"options": [
"On the night of Friday.",
"On the late night of Saturday.",
"On the early morning of Saturday.",
"On Sunday evening."
],
"question": "When did the story take p... | prefix = st1 /Pennsylvania--When Connie Beck and her husband awoke to strange noises last weekend, they thought high winds were rattling their home. What they found was even more unexpected: A deer was taking a bubble bath in their bathtub.
" _ ," Mrs. Beck said. "We were just waking up."
The deer burst t... | high17223.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "more efforts should be made to improve the quality of our material life"
},
"options": [
"our natural surroundings are in danger of being destroyed by industry",
"the fixed supply of natural resources marks a point beyond which eco... | There is much discussion today about whether economic growth is desirable. At an earlier period, our desire for material wealth may have been justified. Now, however, this desire for more than we need is causing serious problems. Even though we have good intentions, we may be producing too much, too fast.
Those who cri... | high18110.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "it has a pleasant atmosphere"
},
"options": [
"it is held on a 253.3 meters long official track",
"many competitors take part in it",
"it has a pleasant atmosphere",
"the winner will be awarded a lot of money"
],
... | The Wife-carrying World Championship has been celebrated in a small town in central Finland since 1992. In 1992, the people of the town decided to restart some long-forgotten traditions. Back in the late 1800s, there was a robber called Rosvo-Ronkainen in that area. He was said to only accept men as members of his gang... | high5764.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "She wanted to be herself."
},
"options": [
"She wanted to be herself.",
"It would be inconvenient.",
"The name Suzie was too ordinary.",
"She was fond of her own name."
],
"question": "Why did Oprah refuse to ch... | Does it feel right?
This is an excerpt from Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address:
A year after I left college, I was given the opportunity to co-anchor the 6 o'clock news in Baltimore...Yet, it didn't feel right. The first sign, as President Hennessy was saying, was when they tried to change my name. ... | high23186.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "To search for the meaning of life"
},
"options": [
"To search for the meaning of life",
"To keep memories of his mother",
"To help people who are suffering",
"To pursuer his love of photography"
],
"question": "... | "A Long Walk Home"-----life as Eli Reed saw it
American photographer and photojournalist Eli Reed has been documenting "life as I saw it" for more than 40 years. His career retrospective , "Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home", is an extraordinary search of beauty while recording hardship. With a heart of love, Reed uses a styl... | high13045.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "hunt animals"
},
"options": [
"treat diseases",
"avoid being bitten",
"hunt animals",
"eat their meat"
],
"question": "We can infer that the Indians may kill poison frogs in order to _ .",
"question_type":... | You may have seen a lot of frogs, but if you haven't, you must have heard about frogs. However, have you heard about a frog that can kill a person?
These small brightly colored amphibians live in the tropical rain forests of Central and South America. They are best known for their ability to kill persons even though... | high7173.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "China"
},
"options": [
"China",
"Egypt",
"Greece",
"Rome"
],
"question": "According to this passage, the umbrella was probably first invented in ancient _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | To us it seems so natural to put up an umbrella to keep the water off when it rains, But actually the umbrella was not invented as protection against the rain, Its first use was as a shade against the sun! Nobody knows who first invented it, but the umbrella was used in very ancient times. Probably the first to use it ... | high8240.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "how to spend less when traveling by air"
},
"options": [
"how to keep yourself safe during your flight",
"how to choose a better and more comfortable airline",
"how to spend less when traveling by air",
"how to book you... | More often than not, the person sitting next to you on a plane or sleeping in the next hotel room has paid more or less than you did for the same services. Each day, airlines give more than several hundred fares for flights between the same two cities and hotels charge different rates for the same room. So how do you... | high22298.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "fishermen"
},
"options": [
"sailors",
"King Charles and his family",
"fishermen",
"The families of kings and queens"
],
"question": "The first English people living in the \"green village\" were _ .",
"qu... | Greenwich is on the River, five miles from the middle of London, and its history is two thousand years old. The first English people were fishermen there, and they named the place Greenwich, meaning "green village". Later the English kings and queens lived at Greenwich in their beautiful places.
The name of the earlie... | high19226.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Low-tech cooking produces better-tasting meals."
},
"options": [
"The writer likes high-tech cooking.",
"Low-tech cooking produces better-tasting meals.",
"High-tech news programs always keep you reading what is important to ... | High-tech machines have made life easier for millions around the world. However, some people still prefer low-tech ways of doing things. Here's an example of why this is happening. You can microwave a frozen hamburger in 60 seconds. However, it won't taste as good as one you cook on the stove. And if you're in that muc... | high4452.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "different times have different themes of the American dream"
},
"options": [
"America' s golden dream could never be realized",
"America's golden dream had bought great fortune to Chinese immigrants",
"different times have di... | You may have heard the term "the American Dream".In 1848, James W.Marshall found gold in California and people began having golden dreams.That 19th century "American Dream" motivated the Gold Rush and gave California its nickname of the "Golden State".
The American Dream drove not only 1800s gold-rush prospectors but ... | high16115.txt |
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10 New Professors, Readers, Senior Lecturers or Lecturers
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"Romania might be unsafe at that time",
"the mother didn't like to write in pen"
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"people are not likely to be distracted unt... | Parents who feel disappointed at their teenagers' failure to pay attention in class, and inability to sit quietly long enough to finish homework or plan ahead, should take _ . Their children are not being lazy or careless, according to new research.
The research has found that teenagers' brains continue developing far ... | high2745.txt |
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Look at what's the coolest gadget (vote for a chance to win $ 50).
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Like the other devices of NZXT, the Cryo S was designed to provide a competitive advantage at PC gaming. It has two adjustable 120mm fans that provide powerful cooling.
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Our school leavers face so much competition that they seldom care what they do... | high13079.txt |
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"tell the readers how important it is to know more about Mesothelioma.",
"provide more information about Mesothelioma",
"give advice on how tto avoid developing Mes... | Many people have never heard of Mesothelioma and are unaware of its symptoms. Although considered a rare form of cancer, each year the number of cases grows. With the prevalence of this disease on the rise, it is critical to understand why and how Mesothelioma develops and what courses of action can be taken in the eve... | high727.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because she likes to form a close connection with people."
},
"options": [
"Because she likes playing musical instruments.",
"Because she wants to provide free music for her friends.",
"Because she doesn't like talking on her... | Every Sunday morning, as most people line up outside neighborhood breakfast spots, watch TV news shows, or head for church, Chloris Noelke-Olson is tuning up her fiddle . She is preparing to enjoy bluegrass music the old-fashioned way: with friends, at home, for free.
" To be able to play with other people face to fa... | high23637.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "in a moving car"
},
"options": [
"in a library",
"in a moving car",
"where Miss Saeki used to spend time with her boyfriend",
"where Kafka lives"
],
"question": "The conversation takes place_.",
"question_ty... | With both hands resting on top of the steering wheel, Oshima looks over at me: "That's where you will be living now, Kafka. In the room where Miss Saeki used to spend time with her boyfriend. As I said, there is some change to the library, but it's the very same room. "
Silence on my part.
"Miss Saeki's life... | high22529.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "unusual and interesting"
},
"options": [
"warm and furry",
"unusual and interesting",
"lovely and friendly",
"frightening and dangerous"
],
"question": "People might like the animals in a reptile petting zoo bec... | at the Oak Park Nature Center
Kids! Are you tired of Mom or Dad dragging you to the same old petting zoos, where (if you're lucky) you might get to touch a little rabbit or goat?
Mom or Dad! Are you tired of hearing your kids complain about how animals in the same old petting zoos are monotonous?
Consider This:
The fac... | high18879.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The computer refused to work."
},
"options": [
"She had saved what she had written.",
"She couldn't move the cursor.",
"The computer refused to work.",
"The computer offered to repair itself."
],
"question": "Wh... | It was late in the afternoon, and I was putting the final touch on a piece of writing that I was feeling pretty good about. I wanted to save it, but my cursor had frozen. I tried to shut the computer down, and it seized up altogether. Unsure of what else to do, I yanked the battery out.
Unfortunately, Windows had be... | high2962.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Making comparison."
},
"options": [
"Making comparison.",
"Giving examples",
"Setting scenes",
"Following time order."
],
"question": "How does the writer develop the passage?",
"question_type": null
},
... | An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire.
The employer was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build... | high21020.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because of her successful career and her charity work."
},
"options": [
"Because of her maturity and courage.",
"Because of her experience of travelling abroad.",
"Because of her appearance on screen at the age of 7.",
... | While other stars her age are partying at clubs, Selena Gomez takes the time out of her day to help those less fortunate.
She has been such an impressive role model for younger generations that the 20-year-old Disney star was named Woman of the Year by US magazine Glamour this month, in recognition of her successfu... | high17592.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "like a mailbox"
},
"options": [
"by a ship supply company",
"on the basis of toy horses",
"like a mailbox",
"with glass"
],
"question": "The library was built _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},... | It's such a happy-looking library, painted yellow, decorated with palm-tree stickers and sheltered from the Florida sun by its own roof. About the size of a microwave oven, it's pedestrian-friendly, too, waiting for book lovers next to a sidewalk in Palm Beach country Estates, along the northern boundary of Palm Beach ... | high16698.txt |
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