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"answer_text": "To introduce the effects of texting on grammar."
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"To introduce the effects of texting on grammar.",
"To inform us that texting is likely to become a second l... | You've probably grown accustomed to texting in the glow of a mobile phone screen. Well, there's some good and bad news coming for those of you who spend hours speedily tapping messages to one another.
The good news is that the hours you spend face-to-phone are paying off. You may have become fluent in a second languag... | high17785.txt |
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"answer_text": "People who try to improve their health."
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"People who publish books on health.",
"People who cook food for certain patients.",
"People who try to improve their healt... | Food Cures
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"answer_text": "could receive education assistance"
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"often have to take long night shifts",
"should have a graduate degree at least",
"could transfer to other top children's hospitals in the nation",
"could receive educ... | At The Children's Hospital, we're making it all better for our patients and their families all the time. We invite you to see how we' ve grown and discuss opportunities to enhance your nursing career. We offer competitive salaries and benefits, flexible shifts, including 4,6,and 8-hour shifts, education assistance, low... | high19970.txt |
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"answer_te... | This is the letter that Mr. White wrote before his death about his three books for children:
Dear Reader:
I receive many letters from children and can't answer them all -- there wouldn't be time enough in a day. That is why I am sending you this printed reply to your letter. I'll try to answer some of the questions tha... | high530.txt |
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"answer_index": 0... | Owls are mysterious creatures. We often think of them as scary. They sometimes live in abandoned houses. They fly without a sound through backyards at night. In stories, they appear with ghosts. When we hear an owl's familiar "whooo...whooo...",it can make us feel very frightened. Owls fly silently, without even a whi... | high12825.txt |
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"answer_text": "was a musician of much influence"
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"travelled to play modern music"
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"question": "Armstrong was calle... | Louis Armstrong had two famous nicknames. Some people called him Bagamo. They said his mouth looked like a large bag. Musicians often called him Pops, as a sign of respect for his influence on the world of music.
Born in 1901 in New Orleans, he grew up poor, but lived among great musicians. Jazz was invented in the cit... | high23420.txt |
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"answer_text": "He wanted to get respect from the elephant and the whale."
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"He knew that he could do well in this game.",
"He wanted to get respect from the elephant and the whale.",
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"answer_text": "Because they could exchange ideas there."
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"Because it was a fashion to drink coffee.",
"Because coffeehouses provided a better flavor.",
"Because they could stay awake and active there.",
"Because they c... | Coffee is a powerful beverage.On a personal level,it helps keep US awake and active.On a much broader level,it has helped shape our history and continues to shape our culture.
Coffee didn't take off until the l400s when people figured out they could roast its seeds.By the l500s,the drink had spread to coffeehouses acro... | high6913.txt |
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"answer_text": "Green tea makes you less disabled."
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"Green tea makes you less active.",
"Green tea makes you less disabled.",
"Green tea makes you more friendly.",
"Green tea makes you more educated."
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"questi... | Elderly adults who regularly drink green tea may stay more active and independent than their peers over time,according to a Japanese study that covered thousands of people.
Green tea contains antioxidant chemicals that may help _ the cell damage that can lead to disease.Researchers have been studying green tea's effect... | high524.txt |
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"answer_text": "warm help in a cold rainy evening"
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"dirty tricks by poor teenage boys",
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"question": ... | One rainy evening I went to fill up at the gas station. A pre-teen boy approached my car and asked me for money to help him and his mother stay in their hotel for an additional week. He stated that if they did not come up with $25 they would be _ that same evening. Having worked in social services before and having dou... | high12831.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because they lived far away from each other."
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"Because they had a bad attitude to them.",
"Because they were all busy with their work.",
"Because they lived far awa... | My parents moved to Mississippi when my brother and I were small children, and we were separated from our Oklahoma grandparents by some 600 miles. This long distance allowed us to only visit our grandparents once a year, either at Christmas or during summer vacation.
Most of my classmates lived near their grandparents,... | high14298.txt |
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"answer_text": "A service that helps telephone users."
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"An amazing girl.",
"A special kind of telephone.",
"A communication system.",
"A service that helps telephone users."
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"question": "What does \"Informati... | When I was quite young, I discovered that somewhere inside the telephone lived an amazingperson - "Information Please" and there was nothing she did not know.
One day while my mother was out, I hit my finger with a hammer. The pain was terrible, but there was no one home to give me any sympathy. I walked around the hou... | high15186.txt |
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"answer_text": "Helping us perform better."
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"Ensuring great quality of product.",
"Giving a team, and even a company an edge.",
"Making communication effective.",
"Helping us perform better."
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"question": "Wha... | When it comes to making a good career in the business world, being honest and getting along well with colleagues gives a person a solid competitive advantage, claims a new research.
Dr.Jon Bohlmann has found that project managers can expect better performance by far from the members of their team if treating them with ... | high6907.txt |
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"answer_text": "To keep students active through exercise"
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"To help students get through the tough winter months",
"To introduce students to fun physical activities",
... | Students at New Market Elementary School had a fitter lifestyle last week. About 50 students participated in a 30-minute workout after school on Friday in the school's gym. This was a Fit Fridays program introduced at the school by Families Plus, a non-profit group that provides programs to enrich the lives of families... | high17949.txt |
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"question": "We le... | When 47-year-old volunteer Susan Boyle stepped on to the stage of Britain's Got Talent and announced she was unemployed and had never been married, few in the audience would have wondered why. This Ms. Boyle, looking unfashionable, from a village in Scotland, shocked the three judges and the audience with the song "I D... | high21223.txt |
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"answer_text": "He does more exciting activities with the children."
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"He is as cool as the author in the children's eyes.",
"He loves adventure even if it is dangerous for the children.",
"He doesn't spend as much time as the... | If parents had job descriptions, mine would read: organize bills, playmates, laundry(washing clothes), meals, snacks, outings and shopping.
The only thing on my husband's description would be the word "fun" written in big red letters along the top. Although he is a selfless provider, our children think of him more as a... | high17791.txt |
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"answer_text": "A person who wishes to get rid of headache."
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"A person who suffers a damaging burn.",
"A person who wants to reshape nose.",
"A person who needs to smooth out wrinkles.",
"A person who wishes to get rid ... | Cosmetic ( ) surgery is usually performed to correct a physical abnormality or to enhance an otherwise normal physical feature and thus improve appearance. Cosmetic surgery is an extremely broad field that may offer reconstructive surgery for a patient after a damaging burn or other physical injuries yet can also be u... | high19964.txt |
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"answer_text": "the author holds a positive attitude to the healing power of humor"
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"people seldom accuse their friends of not understanding jokes",
"the author hol... | Patients and doctors alike have long believed in the healing power of humor.It is claimed that humor not only affects patients' moods, but can actually help them recover faster.
Several studies seem to support this.Patients in better spirits are known to have higher immune cell counts.Some have even claimed to have h... | high10798.txt |
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... | When you are visiting New York City with kids,there are numerous things to do which will entertain their spirits and feed their minds.
*The Whispering Gallery
Make your way to the Whispering Gallery. The Whispering Room's architecture allows for a phenomenon that usually sparks a lot of giggles. Once inside the gallery... | high4876.txt |
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"asked the team to do more readi... | Sports are the base of my life, next to my mother who raised me when my dad left us.I have been into sports since I was six years old.I have known many coaches and heard hundreds of their tips, but they usually focused on drills to develop my skills and reach the next level of play.
When I was in Senior Two, I met the ... | high10940.txt |
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"answer_text": "More young professionals are returning home to live."
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"More young professionals are returning home to live.",
"British parents are suffering... | The rise of the so-called "boomerang generation" is revealed in official figures showing that almost one in five graduates in their late 20s now live with their parents.
By contrast, only one in eight university graduates had failed to fly the nest by the same age 20 years ago. It also found that grown-up sons are twic... | high20883.txt |
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"answer_text": "the spar which is floating in deep-sea water"
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"the s... | According to the US government, wind farms off the Pacific coast could produce 900 gigawatts of electricity every year.Unfortunately, the water there is far too deep for even the tallest windmills to touch bottom.An experiment under way off the coast of Norway, however, could help put them anywhere.
The project, called... | high11486.txt |
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"answer_text": "the reviewer's indication of what the book is about and what it means to a reader"
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"the reviewer's indication... | A book review tells not only what a book is about, but also how successful it is at what it is trying to do. Professors often assign book reviews as practice in careful analytical reading.
As a reviewer, you bring together the two parts of accurate, analytical reading and strong, personal response when you indicate... | high8094.txt |
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"she had just received her bachelor's degree",
"she had been a teacher at AshlandUniversity",
"she was proud to be ... | It was one of the happiest times of my life. I was 29 and had just received my bachelor's degree, graduating with honors despite working two jobs and being a wife and mother. My parents and five - year - old son were in the audience when I walked onto the stage at prefix = st1 /AshlandUniversityto get my diploma. I was... | high23352.txt |
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"Eating throat tablets as if they were sweets.",
"Choosing certain kinds of food over others.",
"Buying... | It's time you started eating sensibly. Experts at the first Chinese Students Nutrition and Health Festival in Kunming last week listed eight bad eating habits.
*Watching television while having meals or snacks.
Doing this means you don't pay attention to your food, forget how full you are, and so overeat. It can also c... | high9361.txt |
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"answer_text": "People are getting more open to divorce just because of the increasing level of education."
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"\"Match\" opinion about marriage is still widely believed in China.",
"Most Chinese netizens show great sympathy for Wang.... | A Chinese actor's divorce from his wife has social media buzzing, with posts about the subject gaining over five billion views. WangBaoqiang announced online on Sunday that he was divorcing his wife, Ma Rong. He alleged that his marriage broke down after his wife had an affair with his agent, and that she had also tran... | high14515.txt |
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"make preparations for the journey to Jupiter's moon Callisto",
"know if man can sleep f... | Have you ever dreamed of visiting a planet in the Milk Way? While the trip sounds exciting, it would take years and years to reach your destination. So in the future, bedtime for astronauts may be more than a few hours of regular shut-eye. They would have to sleep for years.
European researchers are now conducting hibe... | high6052.txt |
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"quest... | The best way to experience the Web,email,photos,video and other features.
All of the builtin programs on iPad were designed from the ground up to take advantage of the large multitouch screen and advanced capabilities of iPad. And they work in any orientation. So you can do things with these programs that you can't do... | high19031.txt |
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"The 5th China-Japan-South Korea Ministerial Conf... | GWANGJU, South Korea, Sept. 28,2013 (Xinhua) -- Cultural ministers from China, Japan and South Korea participating in the 5th China-Japan-South Korea Ministerial Conference on Culture held here Saturday agreed to strengthen cultural exchange and cooperation to promote the cultural prosperity of East Asia.
Cai Wu, China... | high4645.txt |
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"question": "The passag... | Children don't come with an instruction manual ,but now their grades in school do! Finally,parents can stop worrying about what their child's next school year will bring and get a glimpse of what's coming.
Education.com,an easy-to-use,one-stop online destination with over 4,000 articles,that helps parents and educator... | high20868.txt |
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"answer_text": "Her father gave his attention to his phone instead of her."
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"Her father made a lot of noise by talking on... | A couple of weeks ago, my 12-year-old daughter, Ella threatened to take my phone and break it. "At night you'll always have your phone out and break you'll just type," Ella says. "I'm ready to go to bed, and try to get you to read stories for me and you're just standing there reading your texts and texting other peopl... | high10773.txt |
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"Wuhan issued smog warnings for three days because of smog.",
"The city is reportedly unfit for p... | Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province, has issued smog warnings for three days since Monday because of serious air pollution.
The lingering smog forced construction sites to stop work and primary and middle schools to suspend outdoor activities. From Monday through Wednesday, the city's air quality index reading re... | high18449.txt |
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"question": "Which people might probably first grasp the skill to make pies?",
"question_type": "factiod_ques... | Most people think the first pies were made by early Romans. They may have learned about pie making from the Greeks. These pies were sometimes made in"reeds ", which were used for the purpose of holding the filling ( ), and were not eaten.
The Romans spread the word about pies around Europe and the word"pie"became a po... | high3894.txt |
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"To change former soldiers into teachers.",
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... | Did you have a very strict teacher at school? I did. I'll never forget 'Mr. Strict'. If you didn't get your geography right, you would wish to run to the end of the earth to be far away from him. That tall man with a very loud voice knew how to frighten you and put the fear of God into you. Nobody dared to be late for... | high10015.txt |
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"question": "The passage is most probably taken from _ .",
"... | Michael Fish may soon be replaced as a weather forecaster by the shark .
Research by a British biology student suggests that sharks could be used to predict storms. Lauren Smith, 24, is close to completing her study on shark's ability to sense pressure. If her studies prove the theory, scientists may be able to monito... | high2552.txt |
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"Y... | high4123.txt |
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"It lived for thirteen years.",
"It was born in 2000."
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The Pyrenean ibex is a type of mountain goat,which is believed to have... | high12602.txt |
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The best they can tell us is that the space station, weighting 77 tons and as high as a 12-st... | high22919.txt |
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"one of the best-known scient... | On October 31st, 2009, Chinese famous scientist Qian Xuesen, died in Beijing when he was 98 years old. He is famous as "the country's father of space technology and king of rocketry".
Qian was born in 1911 in Hangzhou. He left for the United States after winning a scholarship to graduate school in 1936. He studied at t... | high14273.txt |
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"Being affected by violence.",
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"Encouraging them to turn on the TV."
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... | It can be hard to encourage families of preschoolers to turn off the TV,but there are plenty of highquality shows that promote learning and positive relationships rather than violence,researchers noted.
"Although clearly kids watch too much,what's more worrying is that they watch poor quality shows," said Dr Christakis... | high6734.txt |
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"question_type": "f... | It is obvious that doctors recognize obesity as a health problem. So why is it so hard for them to talk to their patients about it?
The results of two surveys, one of primary care physicians and the other of patients, found that while most doctors want to help patients lose weight and think it is their responsibility t... | high15179.txt |
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"answer_text": "encourage people to think they will get fit in different activities"
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"tell people how to finish the work duties better",
"tell people how ... | We've all heard about the power of positive thinking, but a recent study found that people who think they're getting fit actually get more positive benefits from activity, according to a Reuters Health article.
The study examined hotel housekeepers over a period of four weeks. Some of the housekeepers were told that th... | high13508.txt |
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"question": "Th... | I regularly train at a local boxing gym and I'm lucky enough to meet an amazing man, Adrian Charter. Adrian comes to the gym to train, just like me. The difference is, I'm 31 years old, and Adrian is 72!
I watched Adrian as he was training, early on a Sunday morning, and he was hitting the punching bag harder and quick... | high14267.txt |
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Yeager's greatest achievement is her cultural impact on making bikinis popular. "Anyone in Miami in the 1950s who wanted a bikini would come to her, and she'd make one," he said.
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Brand new, never been used but I will let it go for used price. Bookstore sold at $150. Call me and let me hear your offer.
Tel: 773-885-6604
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I've certainly noticed some pupils being feverishly overgenerous of late. Last year, I received not one bottle of wine but four for helping a disaffected pupil through his GCSEs. By and large, my colleagues... | high8043.txt |
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"answer_text": "It is an open-air museum."
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"options": [
"It is an open-air museum.",
"It has a history of 143 years.",
"It has been rebuilt recently.",
"It is far away from New York City."
],
"question": "What can we learn a... | New York Hall of Science (NYHS)
Founded in 1964, it is New York City's only hands-on science and technology center. Being an interactive science museum, it has the largest collection of hands-on science exhibits in New York City, exploring biology, chemistry and physics.
The museum focuses on education for children age... | high23391.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Tales of two opposite lives"
},
"options": [
"A lucky dog in social circles",
"Comments on the photos",
"A photo separates two worlds .",
"Tales of two opposite lives"
],
"question": "What would be the best titl... | Two girls living next door to each other-a seemingly plain scene that has two very different life .stories behind it.
Chi Zhen, an 18-year-old student in Seville, Spain, used his camera to tell the story of two lives, which went widespread online. Comments on the photos indicate that they have inspired many, to believe... | high13252.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "had worked on a hard job for too long."
},
"options": [
"couldn't consume her waking hour.",
"had not seen a film for a long time.",
"had not finished her work on time.",
"had worked on a hard job for too long."
],
... | For the last couple of weeks, I had been stuck in front of my computer working on a project that was very important to me. My every waking hour was consumed by the project and although I imagined that I would feel happy after completing parts of the project, I was confused to find that instead, I was feeling rather de... | high281.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "You can save lots of money"
},
"options": [
"You can eat all kinds of vegetables",
"You are lucky to eat what you like",
"You can save lots of money",
"You can satisfy your desire"
],
"question": "What is an adv... | Every time you go shopping, the vegetables and fruit look so tempting that you wish you could buy all of them. Some people are lucky and can grow the fruit and vegetables in the gardens that they have. While getting fresh vegetables, they can also achieve great cost cutting.
Mushrooms are expensive and can also go bad ... | high1715.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The sufferings brought by war still have side effects on the children in Sierra Leone."
},
"options": [
"Plan UK is working on educational projects all over the world.",
"The sufferings brought by war still have side effects on the... | For PS12 you can equip an entire classroom in Burkina Faso, for PS31 you can equip a school football team in Sierra Leone and for PS68 you can support the whole education of a Haitian schoolgirl.
The educational presents are the latest way on the trend of charitable giving for Christmas. Plan UK, an international child... | high7364.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Every day is A Gift"
},
"options": [
"Every day is An Important Occasion",
"My Poor Sister",
"Value Friendship Every Day",
"Every day is A Gift"
],
"question": "The best title for the passage would be _ .",
... | My brother-in-law opened the bottom drawer of my sister's bureau and picked out a wonderful skirt. "Jan bought this the first time we went to New York, at least 8 or 9 years ago. She never wore it. She was saving it for a special occasion." Well, I guess this is the occasion.
He took the skirt from me and put it on th... | high8057.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "8580-5080"
},
"options": [
"139-100-25516",
"1368-1911",
"8580-5080",
"8457-2772"
],
"question": "One who is interested in life of ancient Chinese is more likely to contact _ .",
"question_type": "cloze... | Great Wall Xmas BBQ
Beijing Hikers are organizing a three-hour hike on a rarely visited part of the Great Wall and will celebrate Christmas afterwards with a Christmas barbecue dinner in a small hotel at the foot of the Great Wall . Meet at 8:30 am. Dec. 25 in front of Starbucks at Lido Holiday Inn , Jiangtai Lu. Pleas... | high15623.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Leonardo da Vinci"
},
"options": [
"A businessman",
"Leonardo da Vinci",
"The businessman's second wife",
"The businessman's wife"
],
"question": "Who painted the Mona Lisa?",
"question_type": "factiod_quest... | The Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503. He was working on a special painting for a church at the time, but the church painting was not going well. An Italian businessman asked da Vinci to paint a picture of his second wife. This is the woman who can be seen in the Mona Lisa.
Al... | high21586.txt |
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