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"answer_text": "The sense of belonging to a group."
},
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"The act of calling each other.",
"the sense of accomplishment.",
"The act of hunting for something.",
"The sense of belonging to a group."
],
"question": ".Wh... | Howling is a behavior commonly observed among a wolf nark. An animals, wolves work together to hunt and rely on howling was an important means of communication each other. There are different explants of a wolf's howl and it appears that there may be more to discover. One theory is that wolves howl to bend better ... | high12207.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Online English tests make scoring more accurate."
},
"options": [
"Listening is more difficult to be tested online than speaking.",
"Online English tests need more time.",
"Online English tests make scoring more accurate.",
... | Clive Roberts,a director at ELS Educational Services,says English tests are changing greatly in response to the global growth in the use of English as _ -- the common language used among people with different native languages.For that reason,a lot of new tests are being developed while old tests are being improved to m... | high13119.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Learning while you dream"
},
"options": [
"Learning while you dream",
"What dreams stand for",
"Dream a good dream",
"Dreams and health"
],
"question": "What's the best title for this passage?",
"question_ty... | Why do we dream?It's a question researchers have been studying for years. Now new research suggests that some dreams may result from the brain's effort to keep learning, even as we sleep.
In a study in Boston, 100 volunteers were trained for an hour on a maze .They tried to find their way through the difficult puzzle ... | high14676.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "observe space weather"
},
"options": [
"replace the satellite in use",
"observe space weather",
"study the sun",
"take pictures of space"
],
"question": "The new satellite is used to _ ?",
"question_type"... | A new satellite is travelling 1.5 million kilometers over a 110-day period to enter an orbit of the sun. It is called DSCOVR--the Deep Space Climate Observatory. It will replace a satellite that has been observing space weather.
DSCOVR will begin its work during the worst of the 11-year-long solar cycle. This is a time... | high9764.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "They run their business creatively."
},
"options": [
"They seek after short-term profits.",
"They tend to invest in unrelated areas.",
"They run their business creatively.",
"They show interest in personal computers"
... | With the passing of Steve Jobs, the tech industry has lost one of its most respected heroes. So where will the industry turn for inspiration, now that Jobs is gone?
New Apple CEO, Tim Cook, will keep the business going, but he is unlikely to inspire the same kind of devotion as Jobs. Facebook owner, Mark Zuckerberg, ha... | high7991.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The Highlander Motor Inn"
},
"options": [
"Americana Hotel Crystal City",
"Days InnArlington",
"The Highlander Motor Inn",
"HvattRegencyCrystalCity"
],
"question": "Which hotel does not provide service to drive ... | Convenient location 5 minutes from Washington , D. C. and one block to Crystal City METRO , Cryastal City Underground. Alexandria. Free Parking, free Deluxe Continental Breakfast and complimentary Hotel Shuttle Service to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
14000 Jefferson Davis Hwy ( endurance onS. Eads St... | high23964.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "help the students learn better"
},
"options": [
"help the students learn better",
"rid the students of homesickness",
"attract more international students",
"prevent the students forgetting their culture"
],
"qu... | In New York City public schools, 176 different languages are spoken among the more than 1 million students. For 160,000 children, English is not their first language. New York's Department of Education makes learning better for these students by providing dual-language programs, in which students are taught in two lang... | high12561.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "lead in the topic"
},
"options": [
"show the author's opinion",
"introduce a TV show",
"tell a famous person",
"lead in the topic"
],
"question": "George Carlin's words are placed at the beginning of the passage... | In 1975, George Carlin appeared on a popular TV show, Saturday Night Live, with his famous words about blue food. "Why is there no blue food? I can't find blue food--I can't find the flavor of blue! I mean yellow is lemon; orange is orange and red is cherry. Where is the blue food? "
Well, Carlin pretty much has it rig... | high7749.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Finding an Earth-like planet"
},
"options": [
"Finding an Earth-like planet",
"Orbiting other stars.",
"Developing new telescopes",
"Finding more exoplanets."
],
"question": "What is very important in determinin... | Astronomers say they are on the point of finding planets like Earth orbiting other stars, which is a key step in determining if we are alone in the universe.
A top NASA official and other leading scientists say that within four or five years they should discover the first Earth-like planet where life could develop, o... | high4240.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "He studied hard at home."
},
"options": [
"He attended school in the daytime.",
"He studied hard at home.",
"He read books in the garage where he worked.",
"He turned to some instructors for help."
],
"question"... | Most people report that they do not usually feel confident. But exciting things can happen when we actually believe in ourselves. Here is a man who believed in his own ability even as a boy, and that confidence helped shape his adult life.
At the turn of the last century, a young boy quit school to help with the family... | high19434.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "by the bite of certain mosquitoes"
},
"options": [
"by air",
"by dirty water",
"by the bite of certain mosquitoes",
"by getting in touch with the patient"
],
"question": "Before 1900,many people didn't think yel... | Before 1900, many theories existed as to the cause of yellow fever . Some doctors were sure the disease was air-borne; others felt that it was spread from person to person. Dr. Carlos Finlay, a well-known Cuban doctor of that time, had long held the theory that it was caused by the bite of mosquitoes. But neither the ... | high16707.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "encourage children's interest in poetry writing"
},
"options": [
"encourage children to learn from other poets",
"help children realize the dream of poetry writing",
"encourage children's interest in poetry writing",
"e... | 2014 TFK Poetry Contest
Calling all poets! TIME For Kids has a challenge for you:Write a funny, rhyming poem. It must be an original poem that does not copy another poet's work. Enter it in the TIME For Kids Poetry Contest. As fewer and fewer children are interested in writing poetry of their own, TIME For Kids decides... | high11068.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The researchers drew their conclusion by comparison."
},
"options": [
"Blue light exposure can make us lose weight at night.",
"Blue light exposure has no effect on sleeplessness.",
"The researchers drew their conclusion by c... | Using a computer or smartphone at night can cause us to pile on the pounds,new research has revealed.
The study found a link between blue light exposure(blue light is produced by smartphones and computers)and increased hunger.It found that exposure to blue light increases hunger levels for several hours and even increa... | high10376.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "only during lunch time"
},
"options": [
"any day before work hours",
"both before and after work hours",
"only during lunch time",
"on Saturday and Sunday"
],
"question": "The writer could go and buy the ticket ... | I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last Friday. The announcement in the paper said that you could buy tickets at the theatre box office in Richland Hills any day between 10:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Since I work from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., the only time I could go to the theatre was during my... | high2631.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "50 years"
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"options": [
"100 yea",
"60 years",
"50 years",
"10 years"
],
"question": "Sir John predicted the human cloning would be a reality in _ at most.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | Sir John a British scientist who won last year's Nobel prize for medicine, said he had predicted at the time of his frog experiments that the successful cloning of a mammal would happen within 50 years.and that "maybe the same answer is appropriate" far the step to human cloning. Parents who lose children in accidents ... | high17419.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Love is never too late"
},
"options": [
"Love me, love my dog",
"Love is never too late",
"Love is blind",
"Love at first sight"
],
"question": "Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage ... | My aunt died back in about 2003. She was eighty-four and so was my uncle. When she passed he felt miserable. They had been married for over 60 years. After my aunt's death, he attended his church more frequently and his mourning was nearly unbearable to witness. His only daughter lived clear across the country in the s... | high19420.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "can't exercise control over themselves"
},
"options": [
"are ready to change their minds",
"are easily changed by windy weather",
"don't have the power to face their future",
"can't exercise control over themselves"
... | From now on,never spend your time thinking of reasons for your failures and shortcomings.Instead,realize that the seeds of success were planted within you when you were born.Only you have the power to make those seeds grow.
The seeds,and the power to grow them,are contained in the most wonderful machine ever made:the h... | high16713.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Sagrada Familia."
},
"options": [
"Sagrada Familia.",
"La Pedrera.",
"Barcelona FC Museum.",
"Miro Museum."
],
"question": "Which of the following attractions is the most popular?",
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}... | Sagrada Familia ( 2,056,448 visits/year)
Opening hours: 09:00-18:00 (October-March) 09:00-20:00 (April-September).
Admission: $11, or $10 with the Barcelona Card.
Disabled access: Yes.
The temple has been under construction since 1882 and they've still got another 30 to 80 years to go before it will be finished. The... | high10362.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "work at the same time"
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"options": [
"work at the same time",
"work all the weekdays",
"work hard",
"ask for leave when being absent"
],
"question": "According to \"Flextime\" system, workers need not _ .",... | A major new development in system of work in Britain is taking place. Flexible working hours, or "Flextime", are catching on fast, and trend is continuing. In 1973, over 500 organizations had adopted the idea, and by 1974, this number had risen to over 200,000.
Flexible working hours were invented in Germany in the lat... | high2625.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "has a short life period"
},
"options": [
"has exactly the same DNA as human",
"is harmful to human",
"is often used in agricultural research",
"has a short life period"
],
"question": "From the passage we can kn... | Humans are well-equipped for life on Earth. But in space, it is different. Low or _ changes how the blood flows and causes motion sickness, muscle loss and tiredness. Weightlessness can also cause bone loss. But scientists are experimenting with little worms to better understand how space travel affects astronauts.
The... | high9770.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "get safe and healthy food"
},
"options": [
"save the living cost",
"reduce farmers' burden",
"solve the employment problems",
"get safe and healthy food"
],
"question": "According to the passage people raise chi... | More and more Americans are showing an interest in healthy and locally-produced food. As the interest increases, raising chickens has been gaining popularity in some American cities.
"Look, we get three eggs this time."
Collecting eggs is a daily pleasure for the Hurst family. Naomi Hurst says her family started to rai... | high14104.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "You are cornered."
},
"options": [
"You are helped.",
"You are inspired.",
"You are confident.",
"You are cornered."
],
"question": "What does the policeman probably mean by saying \"your back is up against the ... | In February 2006, Lydia Angyiou and her two sons were walking through their village in northern Canada. The sound of children shouting made her turn around. To her horror, Lydia saw a 700-pound polar bear behind her eyeing her seven-year-old son. Getting between the bear and her child, Lydia yelled at the children to r... | high20.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Advice on how to adjust to college life."
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"Advice on how to adjust to college life.",
"Things that can be done in a dormitory.",
"Places to live in when going to a college.",
"Ways of making friends with... | Going to college and living away from home for the first time can be terribie.Students tend to have higher academic achievements in college when they enjoy living in the dormitory.Most colleges and universities have many programs that help first-year students adjust to studying and living in a new community.Take advant... | high6443.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "lived in round places, but were forced to live in square houses"
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"options": [
"don't have modern instruments in their homes",
"refused to move from round places",
"lived in round places, but were forced to live in square h... | I came to live here where I am now between Wounded Knee Greek and Grass Greek. Others came too, and we made these little grey houses of logs that you see, and they are square. It is a bad way to live, for there can be no power in a square.
You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is beca... | high7985.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "\"Giraffes\" is a beautiful name for those who are ready to help other people."
},
"options": [
"Some of the people around us look like giraffes.",
"Giraffes are the most beautiful animal in the world.",
"\"Giraffes\" is a be... | Claude and Louris are "giraffes". So are police officers Hankins and Pearson. These men and women don't look like giraffes; they look like you and me. Then, why do people call them "giraffes"?
A giraffe, they say, is an animal that sticks its neck out, can see places far away and has a large heart. It lives a quiet lif... | high23970.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Jack Broughton created a kind of gloves with paddling for boxers."
},
"options": [
"The first boxing champion was James Figg from Scotland.",
"Jack Broughton created a kind of gloves with paddling for boxers.",
"The coaches e... | Boxing games are truly widely supported by a lot of people over the world . The sport involves two people fighting with each other inside a ring with a referee making sure that the fight goes on smoothly. The fighters have to be of the same weight to be able to fight and they make use of their fists according to the ru... | high860.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Africa."
},
"options": [
"Africa.",
"Asia.",
"The United States.",
"France."
],
"question": "Which areas are the most worrying places where AIDS spreads quickly?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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] | On June 5, 1981 the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, U.S. announced the presence of a rare, infectious disease in five American homosexuals . Soon doctors were finding similar cases all over the country and the world. The AIDS epidemic had officially begun. By 1983 it was clear that AIDS had spread around the wo... | high8308.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "at night."
},
"options": [
"at noon",
"in the morning",
"at night.",
"In the afternoon."
],
"question": "The two ferry disasters occurred _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"answer": {
... | Rescuers have found the bodies of over 130 people killed in two ferry disasters in Bangladesh.The accidents happened during a storm that hit the country on April 21st.Hundreds more are missing or feared to be dead.
The two ferries sank in different rivers near the capital city of Dhakfi as strong winds and rain hit the... | high12213.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "find your stolen bicycle"
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"options": [
"get your serial number",
"receive free repair services",
"settle conflicts with walkers",
"find your stolen bicycle"
],
"question": "Registration of your bicycle may he... | Bicycle Safety
Operation Always ride your bike in a safe, controlled manner on campus . Obey rules and regulations. Watch out for walkers and other bicyclists, and always use your lights in dark conditions.
Theft Prevention Always securely lock your bicycle to a bicycle rack -- even if you are only away for a minute. R... | high14662.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he believed he was able to take the challenge"
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"he wanted to raise money for Leukemia research",
"he believed he was able to take the challenge",
"he hoped to recover his strength through training",
"his... | In December of l 992.I was a happy husband and father of two young children.A month later,I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia .
After two years of chemo that helped control the disease,my body was weak and lifeless.I felt as if I were a puppet who needed help to lift his arms or hold up his head.
I began ... | high6325.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "A passenger."
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"options": [
"Adoorman.",
"A passenger.",
"The poker player.",
"The police."
],
"question": "Who proved the driver found $300.000?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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"answer... | Las Vegas cab driver Gerardo Gamboa thought someone must have left a bag of chocolates in the back seat of his vehicle,but it turned out to be $300,000 in cold hard cash.
Now,Gamboa is winning honors for honesty after turning in the money he found Monday.The money was returned to an unidentified poker player work... | high18058.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "pigs are more useful than ordinary people imagine"
},
"options": [
"people in England like pigs more than other animals",
"pigs are more useful than ordinary people imagine",
"pigs are the first animals raised by man",
... | I'm a pig,and my son is a rabbit. I have snakes for daughters,and my wife,believe it or not,is a dragon!Do I live in a zoo?No,of course not!I am talking about Chinese zodiac signs .Depending on the year of your birth,each person has an animal for a sign. That's why I am a pig and my wife is a dragon. If you,like me,wer... | high10404.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Africans--Americans--Latinos"
},
"options": [
"Whites--Native Hawaiians",
"Africans--Americans--Latinos",
"Asians--Native Hawaiians",
"Africans--Americans--Native Hawaiians"
],
"question": "Which of the followin... | Researchers have found more evidence that suggests a relationship between races and rates of lung cancer among smokers. A new study shows that black people and Native Hawaiians are more likely to develop lung cancer from smoking. It compared their risk to whites, Japanese-Americans and Latinos.
Researchers at the Unive... | high2143.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "GLTP"
},
"options": [
"Kruger Park",
"GLTP",
"South African National Park",
"African wildlife Foundation"
],
"question": "_ is being established to relocate some African animals.",
"question_type": "cloze_... | Herds of zebra, impala and giraffe from South Africa's Kruger Park found a new home as part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP) wildlife relocation project.
About 1,000 animals, from the large blue wildebeest to the stocky warthog, have been relocated to the park straddling South African, Mozambican and Zi... | high21801.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The number of foreign pupils has increased too fast"
},
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"Foreign pupils bring their cultures into Britain",
"Teachers work harder than before while getting paid less",
"The number of foreign pupils has increased ... | The debate over children from other European countries in prefix = st1 /Britain's school was refried after the country's leading teachers told The Observer that rising numbers of foreign pupils are putting some of schools near the breaking point.
Members of the National Association of Head Teachers will this week tell ... | high19346.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "How to improve safety while you are flying."
},
"options": [
"What to do in the event of a crash.",
"How to avoid turbulence.",
"How to improve safety while you are flying.",
"How to avoid injury."
],
"question"... | Statistically, air travel is by far the safest way to travel, and you can make flying even safer, just by following these simple rules. As your chances of being involved in an air accident are practically nil , many of these tips concern what you should and shouldn't do to make your journey safer when you are airborne... | high4532.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Picasso's style of painting."
},
"options": [
"Picasso didn't find his own style.",
"People can't understand Picasso.",
"Picasso's style of painting.",
"Famous paintings of Picasso."
],
"question": "What does th... | Most painters discover a style of painting that suits them and stick to that, especially if people admire their pictures. But Picasso, the great Spanish painter, was like a man who had not yet found his own particular style of painting. He kept on struggling to find the perfect expression till his death in 1973.
... | high21632.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Most of the words in Cihai withstand the test of time and usage."
},
"options": [
"It will be edited and published in 2009.",
"Most of the words in Cihai withstand the test of time and usage.",
"It records all new words at ho... | Are the Super Girls super enough to make it into China's most authoritative dictionary?
The editors of Cihai are working on a new edition, and they say they haven't decided yet.
"The editing preparation of the 2009 edition of the dictionary has just started," an editor of Cihaisaid. "Which new words will be added, a... | high17380.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a piece of news"
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"options": [
"a piece of news",
"an advertisement",
"a poster",
"an explanation"
],
"question": "The passage is _",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"ans... | BEIJING----China will further open its financial sector in "an active and safe" way, the country's central bank vowed on Friday.
"China will gradually broaden the chance for the participation of foreign capital in the domestic financial market," said the People's Bank of China in a report. "We will strengthen the conne... | high11929.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Levels of brown fat can be increased by socialising."
},
"options": [
"Levels of brown fat can be increased by socialising.",
"The mice lacking social life lose more weight.",
"The research findings haven't been published so ... | Keeping a busy social life among lots of friends may keep people thinner than spending hours doing some exercises, according to scientists. They say that socialising and meeting with friends help increase levels of brown fat in the body which burns calories to produce heat.
Living in an exciting social environment was ... | high135.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Because she decided to be separated from her parents for a while."
},
"options": [
"Because she broke up with her boyfriend and wanted to be alone.",
"Because she decided to be separated from her parents for a while.",
"Becau... | During my early twenties, to make my parents stop feeling angry, and simply to escape, I decided to live in my birthplace for a period of time, something I'd sworn I would never do. My parents were thrilled. They prayed that I'd come back triumphantly with a picture-perfect bridegroom. That was the furthest thing from ... | high14689.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "on a highway"
},
"options": [
"in a garage",
"on a highway",
"in a busy street",
"near a gas station"
],
"question": "This story most probably took place _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{... | He almost didn't see the old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front her Mercedes and got out.
Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn'... | high15597.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "His interest."
},
"options": [
"His nature.",
"His father.",
"His family.",
"His interest."
],
"question": "What led Albert Hofmann to a career in chemistry?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
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... | Albert Hofmann was a Swiss Scientist who was fascinated by nature. This led him to a career in chemistry in which he sought answers to his uncertainties. He worked at Sandoz Laboratories where he nurtured his research work, and there he made a lot of success by working with various plants and changing them into somethi... | high14851.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "There is still a lot to learn about writing good poems."
},
"options": [
"There is still a lot to learn about writing good poems.",
"Poems must depend on the Internet, workshops and libraries.",
"Writing poems is meaningful b... | A poem starts with a thought, an idea, or an emotion felt from the heart.Poems can be happy or sad, deep-thinking or even humorous.The choice is up to you and your imagination as to what you will create.
Your first step is to write down the idea or thought that you have and you want to turn into a poem.Next, you should... | high13858.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Because they couldn't bear Mary 's behavior any longer."
},
"options": [
"Because they had finished the task.",
"Because Mary had something more important to do.",
"Because they couldn't bear Mary 's behavior any longer.",
... | A lady named Mary from California flew to Japan, in her favourite jeans and a casual jacket, to give her first speech. Fourteen hours later, four perfectly dressed Japanese gentlemen greeted her at the airport. Smiling and bowing low, they handed her their business cards. With her bag in one hand, Mary took their cards... | high8485.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the problem of junk mail"
},
"options": [
"the problem of junk mail",
"the profits of junk mail",
"protection against junk mail",
"the harmful effects of junk mail"
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"question": "The passage is mainly about ... | "Dear anybody. Your email address has been chosen by our computer. So, for no reason, we'd like to give you a million dollars. All you need to do is give us your bank account numbers. Can we interest you in some diet pills? And, by the way, I want to marry you."
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Scientists have dated the site, which is located in prefix = st1 /England, to aro... | high16920.txt |
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"a wide range of interesting news",
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I've seen so many new graduates who do not know how to use the degree they ha... | high22449.txt |
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# 1. Think big. Get rid of negative beliefs.
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"Two full inches in the first three days!"
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Tess took her money and made her way six blocks to Rexall's Drug Store.
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Lemonade/Cookie Stand
Benefits
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Today computers are used in many ways and can do many k... | high23019.txt |
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Chen Jianqing, 35, from Southeast China's Fujian Province, who ran a shop with her husband in a small town 45 kilometers away from South African capital J... | high5189.txt |
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"Airfares are set in different situations.",
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Prices change from day to day, even minute to minute. Looking through multiple websites for the best deal can be a big challenge. Even when you do book, there's no guarantee that you are going to get the best price.
"You just don't know... | high1106.txt |
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"He was lonely on the road.",
"He was slowed down by a truck.",
"He got tired of driving too long.",
"He came across too many traffic lights."
],
"question": "Why ... | Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg,distance of about eighty miles. It was late. Several times I got stuck behind a slow-moving truck on a narrow road with a solid white line on my left, and I became increasingly impatient.
At one point along an open road, I came to a crossing with a traffic light. I ... | high492.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "helps it collect much more water than other plants"
},
"options": [
"enables it to survive with fewer leaves",
"works in many other desert plants in the world",
"helps it collect much more water than other plants",
"pre... | ScienceDaily (July 5, 2009) -- Researchers from the University of Haifa-Oranim have managed to make out the "self-irrigating" mechanism of the desert rhubarb , which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water collected by other plants in the Negev Desert. This is the first example of a self-irrigating plant wo... | high22844.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Her love for Utah's wilderness and her ski experiences."
},
"options": [
"Her being ready for any ski risks.",
"Her love for Utah's wilderness and her ski experiences.",
"Her dreaming of the best ski job on the planet.",
... | After serving as a ski guide in Utah's back country for more than two decades, a Park City woman is being recognized by Outside Magazine as 2015's Best Ski Guide.
Deb Lovci grew up in Colorado and began skiing when she was five years old. Later she moved to Utah and fell in love with the back country of Wasatch Mountai... | high13441.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Crying tears of joy helps to balance emotions."
},
"options": [
"The reason why people cry with tears.",
"Crying tears of joy helps to balance emotions.",
"Strong negative feelings are useful to people.",
"People recove... | When people reunite with their loved ones, it's usually all extremely happy moment. But what is their most common response to seeing them again? It may seem strange,but most of the time they break down in tears.
Now a group of psychologists from Yale University say they have found the reason why, and that crying tears ... | high12987.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "you may make a fool of yourself trying to be smart"
},
"options": [
"you may make a fool of yourself trying to be smart",
"it means that you should not be above asking questions",
"you are actually trying to make fun of your ... | A good relationship between students and teachers makes the classroom a very inviting place. When you like your teachers, it's easier to pay attention to their explanations and improve your marks. When you consider your teachers as friends, you'll certainly have more respect for them. When your teachers consider you to... | high6669.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Perhaps your friendship is over because of your problem."
},
"options": [
"You are always late when you and your friend plan to go out.",
"Perhaps your friendship is over because of your problem.",
"Your friend is fond of com... | Most friendships die a nature death: people move, change jobs, or start different stages of life. Other friendships, however, end unexpectedly. When a friendship is over and you don't understand why, it can be especially painful. Sometimes a friend ends your relationship without telling you why.
The loss of friendship... | high5360.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "He comforts him with a hug."
},
"options": [
"He tries to amuse him by behaving awkwardly.",
"He leaves him alone.",
"He comforts him with a hug.",
"He advises him to go for a walk."
],
"question": "What does Ba... | ON a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your pain?
Baymax, the plus-sized white robot, asks the question each time he detects his patient's pain. Considering that he is hardly like a typical Marvel superhero, how could this robotic caregiver from Big Hero 6 have stolen viewers' hearts and taken home this year's ... | high10148.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Because people are in the dark about the feelings of Princess Kaguya."
},
"options": [
"Because people are in the dark about the feelings of Princess Kaguya.",
"Because the story itself offers a combination of wonder, humour and so... | At Japan's Studio Ghibli, which has produced extraordinary animated films since 1985, the best-known figure has always been one of the company's founders, Hayao Miyazaki.
But an equally key figure is co-founder Isao Takahata, who has recently made a new feature, The Tale of Princess Kagnya. It is an unforgettable featu... | high11256.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "grandmother"
},
"options": [
"father",
"mother",
"uncle",
"grandmother"
],
"question": "It was his _ who first influenced Escoffier to be interested in cooking.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
... | Famous as "the king of chefs and the chef of kings," Auguste Escoffier helped raise the position of cooking from a laborer's task to an artist's job. Escoffier was born on October 28, 1846, in the small village of Villeneuve-Loubet, near Nice, France. Among the key figures in the boy's life was his father, who worked p... | high3711.txt |
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