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"answer_text": "They lived in peace."
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"They lived a poor life.",
"They lived in peace.",
"They never spoke to each other.",
"They lived on the same farm."
],
"question": "What was the life like for the two broth... | Once upon a time, two brothers who lived on neighboring farms fell into conflict . It was the first serious one between them in 40 years of farming peacefully side by side. In the end, they fell apart.
One morning, a man with a carpenter's toolbox came for some work. The elder brother said, "I just have a job for you... | high13078.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The frogs were easy money."
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"options": [
"The frogs were easy money.",
"They needed money to buy medicine.",
"They wanted to please the visitors.",
"The frogs made too much noise."
],
"question": "Why did the... | It was a village in India.The people were poor.However,they were not unhappy.After all,their forefathers had lived in the same way for centuries.
Then one day,some visitors from the city arrived.They told the villagers there were some people elsewhere who liked to eat frog's legs.However,they did not have enough frogs ... | high6250.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because they can devote time and energy to their careers"
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"Because family life is not important",
"Because they can devote time and energy to their careers",
"Because they don't want to devote time and attenti... | The choice between having a career or making time for love is an extremely personal and individual decision. There are many factors which can affect your choice.
Careers and love fulfill us in different but important ways. Having a solid career gives us a sense of accomplishment and self worth. Then there are those who... | high9163.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "English is the main working language in the world."
},
"options": [
"English is the first language in Denmark.",
"All of African people can speak English.",
"English is the main working language in the world.",
"About 7... | English has now achieved global status (position). Whenever we turn on the news to find out what's happening in East Asia, or Africa, or South America, or anywhere, local people are being interviewed and telling us about it in English.
Indeed, if one looks at the facts about the amazing reach of the English language, h... | high14717.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "its big size"
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"options": [
"its big size",
"its business-to-business service",
"its not charging small sellers",
"its low price"
],
"question": "Alibaba's advantage mainly lies in _ .",
"question_type"... | Alibaba started taking the lead in China, simply enough, by connecting big Chinese manufacturers with big buyers across the world. Its business-to-business site, Alibaba.com allowed business to buy almost everything. Alibaba's advantage wasn't hard to identify: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards. Its ... | high8269.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Amy Chua considers her methods useful"
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"options": [
"Amy Chua will change her methods",
"Amy Chua considers her methods useful",
"Amy Chua's children don't love their mother",
"Amy Chua's children prefer western pare... | Just what is a tiger mother? Amy Chua is a law professor at America's Yale University and her recent book on the subject is making waves. She's been called "dangerous","outrageous",even a "monster" for her descriptions of how she brought up her two daughters.
Her bookBattle Hymn of the Tiger Motherdescribes fighting wi... | high14703.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "high unemployment"
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"options": [
"tough policy",
"stable pension",
"high unemployment",
"free medical care"
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"question": "In Passage 1,one reason for suggesting earlier retirement in the US is the _",
"... | The passages below discuss the retirement age.
Passage 1:
In the United States,the financial crisis has left the country with 11 million fewer jobs than Americans need now.No matter how tough the policy ,we are not going to find 11 million new jobs soon.So common sense suggests we should make some decisions about who s... | high9177.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "What other people say about you may not be correct."
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"options": [
"You needn't have the same opinion as others.",
"You should believe what other people say.",
"What other people say about you may not be correct.",
"T... | On the first day of the 11th grade, our new math teacher Mr Washington asked me to go to the blackboard to do a math problem. I told him that I couldn't do it. He asked, "Why not?" I paused, and then I said, "Because I'm educable mentally retarded ."
He came from behind his desk and looked at me. "Don't ever say ... | high18139.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "2 in 100."
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"options": [
"Nobody.",
"Everybody.",
"2 in 100.",
"98 in 100."
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"question": "How many people can drive equally well while using a cell phone?",
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... | Many people think it is safe to use a cell phone while they are driving. Yet Scores of studies suggest that real multitaskers - those who can carry out multiple tasks equally well, make up just 2 per cent of the population. More surprisingly, the so-called "supertaskers" actually have differently structured brains to... | high21960.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "stayed together in a small room"
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"went to another hotel",
"each got a small room for the night",
"stayed together in a small room",
"got a small room Mr. Knight kept for himself"
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"question": "... | Mr. Knight was the manager of a hotel. One weekend all of the hotels in the city were full because there was a large meeting. On Friday, three men came into the hotel and asked for rooms. Mr. Knight said there were no rooms ready because of the meeting. The men were unhappy.
Mr. Knight wanted to help them. He remembere... | high2022.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "of great use to people like the author"
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"only intended to help the Chinese-Americans",
"an organization which is set up to make a profit",
"of great use to people like the author",
"a school showing how ... | Although I started learning English during my college years, when I entered the States, I only understood two English words "Yes" and "No". We learned many grammar rules but we could not make the language connections to the real English world. Language _ worries almost all first generation immigrants. For example, I go... | high10565.txt |
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"answer_text": "She lost it while helping to plant potatoes in the field."
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"She lost it while helping to harvest tomatoes in the field",
"She lost it while watering the plants in the field.",
"She lost it while working in the... | One day newly wedded Nancy lost her ring while helping to plant potatoes. Friends were called and the field was searched long but _ . Later, when the potatoes were harvested, Everyone looked out for the ring but it remained lost. Another year came round and all the farmers working in the field kept their eyes open. The... | high5995.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "more people will suffer from mental problems"
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"options": [
"more people will be poorer",
"more people will be out of jobs",
"more people will suffer from mental problems",
"more people will commit suicide"
],
... | The global financial crisis is likely to cause increased mental health problems as people struggle to deal with poverty and unemployment, the World Health Organization warned Thursday.
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are already affected by mental problems such as depression and bipolar disorders and the cur... | high16114.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "participants can experience different adventures"
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"options": [
"participants can make friends with others",
"participants can visit some places of interest",
"participants can experience different adventures",
"parti... | Although there are no state controlled survival courses in Britain or the United States, there are various independent organizations offering similar activities.
Students can participate ( take part ) in outdoor training courses through university clubs and societies . Anyone can register ( ) with such groups , which ... | high4453.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Happy."
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"options": [
"Doubtful.",
"Angry.",
"Happy.",
"Regretful."
],
"question": "How did the author feel after seeing Dad's smiling to her talk of Kitty?",
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"answer": {... | Kitty is a little black-and-brown Australian dog. It's not a particularly bright dog. While Dad can make my sister and me afraid just by the tone of his voice, I have never heard him raise his voice at Kitty. In fact, one look from Kitty at the biscuit tin is enough to send my dad flying to get him a snack. Whenever we... | high19227.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They were not pleased with American society."
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"options": [
"They were not pleased with American society.",
"They wanted to grow marijuana.",
"They wanted to go to the Vietnam War.",
"They did not want all people to b... | In the 1960s, many young Americans were dissatisfied with American society. They wanted to end the Vietnam War and to make all of the people in the U.S. equal. Some of them decided to "drop out" of American society and form their own societies. They formed utopian communities, which they called "communes ," where they ... | high16672.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "stay at a local guesthouse"
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"options": [
"stay at a local guesthouse",
"book an empty house for free",
"use an empty bed without permission",
"share your room by paying your roommate"
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"question": "If a fri... | You have a special card which operates the electronic lock on your room door and a key for the main door of the door of the hotel. These are your responsibility and should never be lent to anyone, including your fellow classmates. If you lose them you will be charged PS20 per replacement. Do not leave your room unlocke... | high4335.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because the certain sounds are connected to happy memories for that person."
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"Because certain words or songs can make a person happy.",
"Because a person has the ability to recognize the sounds",
"Because the ... | Everything that humans hear is in the form of waves. Just as the eye sees light waves in the form of color1s, the ear hears sound waves in the form of noises. The ear and the eye turn these different waves into signals that the brain can make sense of.
The ears and brain have an amazing ability to recognize particular ... | high18887.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "People had a divided sleep pattern only in the 18th century."
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"options": [
"People had a divided sleep pattern only in the 18th century.",
"It may be natural to wake up in the middle of the night.",
"Scientists agree that ... | Most people today think of sleep as one continuous period of downtime.This is not the way people used to sleep.According to researchers,in earlier times,people divided sleep by first sleeping a few hours,waking up,then going back to sleep.In the first period,you would typically sleep until midnight or shortly afterward... | high10203.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "does not bother to make clothes for fat people"
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"options": [
"makes a lot of money by making clothes for fat people",
"does not bother to make clothes for fat people",
"targets on fat people mainly for the purpose of makin... | Some people would have you believe that being fat is the worst thing you can be. They think that if a person is fat they have no life, no love, no reason to want to look good in their clothes. The sad thing is that many people who are fat do feel the same loathing toward themselves and others who are overweight or obes... | high14065.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She drove her away."
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"options": [
"She gave her some food.",
"She drove her away.",
"She took her home.",
"She said thank you to her."
],
"question": "What did the woman do when she first saw Brandy?",
"q... | My 18-month-old son, Adam, called from the front door. "Look, Mama! Doggie!" I dropped what I was doing and stuck my head out the door. Brandy, our next-door neighbor's 11-year-old dog, was over again. "Go away!" I shouted.
Brandy's owner had died about a month earlier. The woman's family had emptied the house and stuc... | high9611.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "didn't do so well in his studies"
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"options": [
"was good at writing novels",
"loved Horticulture very much even",
"didn't do so well in his studies",
"decided to be an apprentice"
],
"question": "We know that... | Alan took an early interest in gardening---first on his grandfather's Yorkshire allotment in Ilkley, and then in his parents' back garden. Small polythene greenhouses appeared in the back garden, and cacti were bought from church markets.
Alan left school at fifteen with one `O' level in Art and took a job as an appren... | high12414.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "going home after school"
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"serving as a warner",
"going home after school",
"staying in classroom",
"playing at home"
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"question": "Malala was violently attacked by the Taliban when _ .",
... | On March 19, Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old Pakistani student and women's education activist, returned to the classroom for the first time since being violently attacked by a member of the Taliban--a terrorist organization-- on October 9, 2012. Malala was shot on her way home from school in Mingora, Pakistan. A Taliba... | high23811.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they are most likely satisfied with life."
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"their children have grown up.",
"they don't have to work every day.",
"they can do whatever they like best.",
"they are most likely satisfied with life."
]... | Are people less happy or more happy the older they get ? A study found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age 50. In fact, it found that by the age of 85, people are happier with their life than they were at 18.
The finding came from a Gallup survey of more than 340,000 adults in the U... | high11135.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "health and safety are more important than personal freedom"
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"options": [
"health and safety are more important than personal freedom",
"personal freedom is more important than health and safety",
"old people should keep th... | Very old people do raise moral problems for almost everyone who comes in contact with them. Their values--this can't be repeated too often--are not necessarily our values. Physical comfort, cleanness and order are not necessarily the most important things. The social services from time to time find themselves faced wit... | high3472.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "it was not easy for them to find water"
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"options": [
"Regis had never heard of hippos",
"they had their own source of water",
"it was not easy for them to find water",
"some of them had been attacked by hippos"
]... | When Regis Mngwiro and the other villagers moved to a new place in southeastern Zimbabwe, Africa, they were happy to find a lake nearby. Now, they would no longer have to walk long distances looking for water. At last, they had a source of water what they call their own.
But several days later, two young boys saw som... | high16882.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "was persuaded into taking tennis training"
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"was interested in playing tennis",
"was persuaded into taking tennis training",
"began to become interested in space",
"decided to become an astrophysicist"
... | When Sally Ride was ten years old, she had no idea that she would some day grow up to be one of America's first woman astronauts. In fact, if you had asked her then what wanted to be, she would have said, " I want to play shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers." Sally collected baseball cards by the boxful, and she knew... | high5003.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "go there yourself and visit it"
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"options": [
"see its photographs",
"listen to the report about it",
"watch its introduction on TV",
"go there yourself and visit it"
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"question": "The best way to feel the t... | Probably you have seen photos of the Grand Canyon , the great valley in the desert country of Arizona. But you must go there yourself to feel its true size and beauty. The Grand Canyon is one of the greatest natural wonders of the world
The Colorado River formed the Grand Canyon over millions of years.Slowly,the river ... | high18677.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a white lie is necessary sometimes"
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"supporting each other in anything helps build a good relationship",
"a white lie is necessary sometimes",
"compromises are essential at any time",
"your friends need ... | Good relationships are definitely good sources of happiness in life. We all want happy relationships but if we do not keep that relationship alive, it can also be one of the most distraught things in life. There may be no hard and fast rules in making good relationships, as each of us has different preferences and poin... | high17544.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "tell us how to live an easier life in high school."
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"options": [
"advise us to study hard in high school.",
"tell us how to live an easier life in high school.",
"show that we may live a hard life in high school.",
"... | Starting high school means many changes in your life. Most teenagers look forward to the first day of high school, but still feel a little bit nervous. In order to make your high school life easier, you can follow these tips.
Learn all you can about your first day before the first day. Take part in some activities that... | high1265.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "her neighborhood was destroyed"
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"options": [
"some friends had lost their lives",
"her neighborhood was destroyed",
"her school had moved to Brooklyn",
"the elderly were free from suffering"
],
"question": "W... | Surviving Hurricane Sandy
Natalie Doan,14, has always felt lucky to live in Rockaway, New York. Living just a few blocks from the beach, Natalie can see the ocean and hear the wave from her house. "It's the ocean that makes Rockaway so special," she says.
On October 29, 2012, that ocean turned fierce. That night, Hurr... | high13722.txt |
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"answer_text": "It excites readers to read William Wordsworth's poems."
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"William Wordsworth's poems are full of wisdom.",
"It excites readers to read William Wordsworth's poems.",
"Only gross and violent words can arouse peop... | He wrote that the "human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants ". And it appears that simply reading those words by William Wordsworth proves his point.
Researchers at the University of Liverpool found the works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth and the like had a beneficial... | high23839.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Students."
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"options": [
"Students.",
"Parents.",
"Teachers.",
"Doctors."
],
"question": "For whom is the passage most probably written?",
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"answer_index... | As you grow older, you'll be faced with some challenging decisions--like whether to cut class or try cigarettes. Making decisions on your own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and try to pressure you one way or another it can be even harder. People who are your age, like your classmates, are called pee... | high929.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "in a travel booklet"
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"in a school magazine",
"in a travel booklet",
"in a store window",
"on a company notice-board"
],
"question": "You may find the above introduction _ .",
"question_typ... | Opened in 1977, Ocean Park is one of Hong Kong's perennially popular attractions, providing an exciting mix of entertainment, education and conservation facilities. The 80-hectare (200-acre) park is situated on the southern side of Hong Kong Island, with rides, exhibits and facilities on both sides of the mountain. A ... | high7614.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "1,800 kinds of medical plants."
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"options": [
"over 1,000,000 words",
"1,800 kinds of medical plants.",
"a lot of medical work",
"many foreign medical stories"
],
"question": "His COMPENDIUM OF MATERIA MEDICA ... | Li Shizhen was born in 1918 in Hubei province. His father was a doctor. He learned a lot about medical herbs from his father and read many medical books. At the age of 23 he became a doctor. He often treated poor people's illness, so many peasants and fishermen made friends with him.
The year he was 35 Li shizhen beg... | high8241.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "its huge population affects its native ecosystem"
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"options": [
"it's gradually dying out",
"it's not found anywhere else",
"it's well protected by the local people",
"its huge population affects its native ecosystem"... | The red crab lives on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean and has been found nowhere else in the world. But on its homeland it is a very significant species -- some 120 million individuals cover the rain forest floor and play a major role in determining the structure of the ecosystem.
These large crabs are active du... | high22299.txt |
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"answer_text": "It's thought that the Boog is beyond control."
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"options": [
"He wants to seek a comfortable settlement.",
"It's thought that the Boog is beyond control.",
"The Boog is required to find enough food.",
"The Boog is eag... | A twisted sense of humor and a strong voice cast make "Open Season" fun for kids and adults. It's a great start for Sony's animation studio.
Boog is a full-grown grizzly bear that has been raised among humans by park ranger Beth. He has a warm place to live, all the food he wants, and is safe from hunters.
However, wh... | high7172.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "link the human brain with computers"
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"options": [
"help to update computer systems",
"link the human brain with computers",
"help the disabled to recover",
"control a person's thoughts"
],
"question": "BCI is... | Since the 1970s, scientists have been searching for ways to link the brain with computers.Brain-computer interface(BCI) technology could help people with disabilities send commands to machines.
Recently, two researchers, Jose Millan and Michele Tavella from the Federal Polytechnic School in Lausanne, Switzerland, demon... | high1503.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A 30 - year - old woman without disability"
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"options": [
"A pupil in grade six",
"A 30 - year - old woman without disability",
"An old man in his seventies",
"A person in a wheelchair"
],
"question": "Which o... | Here is some information from a tourist guide to Patapsco Valley state Park Maryland, USA.
Wildlife and Nature Appreciation
While visiting Patapsco Valley State Park, you will see a variety of natural habitats. Throughout spring and fall, dogwoods, maples, redbuds, and many varieties of wildflowers color the forest. Th... | high13044.txt |
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"answer_text": "Fossil fuels were created millions of years ago by plant and animal remains."
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"options": [
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"Burning natural gas releases more pollutants than oil or... | Many people think the search for cleaner energy leads only to renewable resources like sun, wind and water. But it also leads to a fossil fuel. Natural gas is considered the cleanest of the fossil fuels, the fuels created by plant and animal remains over millions of years.
Burning it releases fewer pollutants than oil... | high23187.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "just listen while a kid is explaining his problem"
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"give a kid some help when he is explaining his problem",
"just listen while a kid is explaining his problem",
"work together with a kid toward the solution t... | Science Daily--Kids may roll their eyes when their mothers asks them about their school day, but answering her may actually help them learn. New research from Vanderbilt University reveals that children learn the solution to a problem best when they explain it to their mom.
"We knew that children learn well with their ... | high5765.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they are flying in the sky"
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"options": [
"they are floating above their own bodies",
"they are walking towards a light",
"they are flying in the sky",
"they are seeing a bright light"
],
"question": "Accordin... | An out-of-body experience? It's just your brain playing tricks on you.
Some report feeling as if they are floating above their own bodies, while others find themselves drawn towards a blinding light. But out-of-body experiences are nothing more than a trick of the mind, scientists claim.
They say that common spooky sce... | high18111.txt |
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"answer_text": "Kunqu Opera has a history of over 600 years."
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"options": [
"Kunqu Opera has a history of over 600 years.",
"Kunqu Opera is the oldest form of opera.",
"Kunqu Opera dates back to the beginning Yuan Dynasty.",
"Kunqu O... | The Chinese classic work of literature "A Dream of Red Mansions" has been adapted into a number of stage and screen versions over the years. Artists from the Northern Kunqu Opera Theatre made the classic back in 2011. And now the triennial China Arts Festival is recognizing their work.
Kunqu Opera is one of the ol... | high17222.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Stealing Patch from the shelter."
},
"options": [
"Letting Patch follow him wherever he went.",
"Telling his aunt Patch was deaf..",
"Stealing Patch from the shelter.",
"Asking Aunt Kim for help."
],
"question":... | In the six months that he'd worked at his aunt's shelter, Bryan had never grown close to a dog, but Patch was different. Aunt Kim had warned him, "Bryan, your mom says no dogs." The fact that Patch was deaf did not help.
"It's not your fault you're deaf, "Bryan said, "Don't worry, because I've got a plan!" Later, Bryan... | high21948.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "university students"
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"book dealers",
"university students",
"publishers",
"campus staff"
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"question": "The intended readers of this passage are _ .",
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... | Bookie's, the campus bookstore is located at the Campus Activity Centre, main floor.
Bookie's is the only place in Kamloops to buy your course textbooks. There is a booklist in the bookstore listing the books required for each course. If you need help in finding your course textbooks, ask any of the staff in the bookst... | high11653.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To arouse the American public's interest."
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"To show his bravery and make him a role model for teenagers.",
"To arouse the American public's interest.",
"To help reform the spaceflight industry.",
"To fil... | An astronomer is making a case for launching pop singer Justin Bieber into suborbital space aboard a private rocket ship. The idea is not to rid the world of the Canadian teenager -- he would come back down to Earth eventually, after all -- but rather to help jump-start the emerging suborbital spaceflight industry.
It ... | high3314.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the first racing horse in Kentucky"
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"a winning horse",
"a slave taking care of horse",
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May 5, 1884
Issac Murpthy, son of a slave and perhaps the greatest horse rider in American history, rides Buchanan to win his first Kentucky Derby. He became the first rider ever to win the race three times.
May 9, 1754
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But sometimes cats and dogs do drop from the sky! Here's how _ happens.
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Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled by Catherine Thimmesh, 58 pages, ages 9-12
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Do you have such kind of experience? In a bus you may look at a stranger, but not too long. And if he is sensing that he is being stared at, he may feel uncomfortable.
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Welcome to our fifth grade class in Room 35 at Anne E. Moncure Elementary School. We have a very busy and exciting year in store for us!
Before I give you a short preview of some of the subjects to be covered during the course of this year, let me first introduce myself. I am Elaine Bogucki and I have liv... | high8533.txt |
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"for young Cambodians in troubled lives",
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Sports like Khmer boxing and soccer are wildly popular in Cambodia. But Chea, who has been skating for 6 months, says skating ha... | high3466.txt |
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"A New Danger: Texting While Walking",
"Texting: Easier and Less Formal",
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"I'm pretty sure I was replying to two texts at a time," the 18-year-old girl said, recalling one text was from her dad and one from a friend.
"I was just so devoted to the texts that I just walked right ... | high16896.txt |
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"Displaying a special framework structure."
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Jay Chou
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"she didn't solve some racial problems",
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Michelle Obama has spent the first half-century of her life breaking barriers and checking off a series of firsts. Now, as she reaches her milestone birthday Friday, the nation will be watching to see in what other areas she will leave her mark.
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From an early age, American children learn responsibility . Children as young as 2 begin to ... | high8902.txt |
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"To make us aware of the pollution around us.",
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Being overweight most of my adult life, I always had very little self-confidence. Wearing a dress I didn't like to such an important event was enough to make me look for help. Than... | high12819.txt |
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The Rappenecker Hutte is a 350-year-old farm house in south Germa... | high22702.txt |
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"Teamwork skills."
],
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"answer": {
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"a book review"
],
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"set in the present situation"
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Each autumn in the pine forests of central prefix = st1 /Mexico, one of the greatest natural phenomena appears, as tens of millions of beautiful orange Monarch butterflies pour into the trees to spend the winter months.
Some of them... | high17975.txt |
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Speaking in his third Ask Me Anything question-and-answer session for online forum Reddit , the Microsoft founder said that he wished he spoke French, Ar... | high19958.txt |
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"You send out a friend request to people.",
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This is no ordinary button. One click and I have the power to erase a person from my life.
In late fall, I had around 400 friends on Facebook. Today, I have 134.
Click. Make that 133.
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Firstly, if you have decided to buy a bike, let me congratulate you! This is because you are kind to the environment. Before you go to a store to buy a bicycl... | high23408.txt |
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Competition for the top pr... | high22716.txt |
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One evening Barton showed his friends a large g... | high1932.txt |
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"A ferry that uses solar and wind power.",
"A new type of generator designed by Dane."
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The Solar Sailor has been in use for six months. It uses four... | high22070.txt |
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into who you are and what you are supposed to be doing with your life.
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"answer_text": "You had better turn your attention away from delicious foods."
},
"options": [
"You had better turn your attention away from delicious foods.",
"Drinking some water of soup before eating helps you eat less.",
"Holidays are ha... | Do you love the holidays, but hate the pounds that follow? You are not alone. Holidays are times for feasting and celebrating. Many people are worried about their weight. With proper planning, though, it is possible to keep normal weight during the holidays. Whether it is celebrating at the office party or sitting down... | high21579.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Services are convenient for its members."
},
"options": [
"Special gifts are ready for parents.",
"The bank opens only on work days.",
"Services are convenient for its members.",
"Fees are necessary for the account keep... | The Winners Club is a bank account specially designed for teenagers.It has been made to help you better manage your money.The Winners Club is a transaction account where you receive a key-card so you can get to your money 24/7 --that's 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!
It's a club with impressive features for teenagers:... | high8080.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "He must win the World Cup with Argentina."
},
"options": [
"He must win the World Cup with Argentina.",
"He must win the tournament a few more times.",
"He must defeat Pele and Maradona.",
"He must avoid injury or lengt... | Every time Lionel Messi breaks a record, it seems appropriate to compare him to the legends that came before him.
In 2012, he rewrote soccer history on multiple occasions, and his latest record came when he scored his 86th goal of the calendar year, breaking Gerd Muller's previous mark, before wrapping up the year with... | high23346.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The new name is Bombay."
},
"options": [
"It is the movie capital of India.",
"The new name is Bombay.",
"More movies are made there than in Hollywood.",
"It is less expensive to make films there than in Hollywood."
... | Most people think that the capital of the movie world is Hollywood, in the United States. However, the real movie capital is Mumbai, in India. Mumbai used to be known as Bombay, and so the film industry there is called "Bollywood". Each year, Bollywood makes twice as many movies as Hollywood.
The movies from Bollywood ... | high13285.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "to see the father off"
},
"options": [
"to meet a friend",
"to see the father off",
"to take a family photo",
"to enjoy the sailing of the ship"
],
"question": "We can infer that the mother and children went to ... | My father was Chief engineer of merchant ship, which was sunk in Word War II. The book Night of the U-boats told the story.
Memories
In September, 1940, my mother, sister and I went to Swansea, where my father's ship was getting ready to sail. We brought him a family photograph to be kept with him at all times and keep... | high256.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "peer influence"
},
"options": [
"peer influence",
"teenagers' lifestyles",
"academic pressure",
"moral judgment"
],
"question": "The passage is mainly about _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
... | As students enter the school building, they are easy targets of peer pressure.Students may become involved in activities that are dangerous to themselves, or others, due to peer pressure.
Drugs, including alcohol, are a major part of peer pressure.A research institute reports that about 30 percent of the teenagers are ... | high21551.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Bolt suffered a car crash in London recently."
},
"options": [
"Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt broke the world 100m record in the London Grand Prix on Friday.",
"Bolt will not compete in the 200m in London because of Gay's impressive... | Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt plans to send a message to rival Tyson Gay by breaking the world 100m record in the London Grand Prix on Friday.
Bolt, who won gold in the 100m,200m and 4*100m relay in reord times at the Beijing Olympics last year, is determined to use the Crystal Palace event to crush the morale of h... | high10954.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "prove that they can pay for their study"
},
"options": [
"buy their own textbooks themselves",
"prove that they can pay for their study",
"find a living place with a kitchen",
"find someone to pay for their college fees... | Students who want to attend an American university must explain how they will pay for their education. They have to show that they will be able to pay for each year of study. Students have to consider not only the tuition, the cost of classes, but also meals and a place to live in, which is known as room-and-board. The... | high20897.txt |
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