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"answer_text": "there was no information about his mother"
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"options": [
"the agency didn't give him any help",
"there was no information about his mother",
"his mother didn't turn up online",
"he missed the information about his mot... | Steve knew he'd been adopted as a baby, and when he turned 18, in 2003, he decided he'd try to track down his birth mother. The agency from which he'd been adopted gave him his mother's name: Tallady. But online searches didn't turn up any results about it, and Steve had to let it go.
In 2007, though, he searched for t... | high6642.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "his dancing skills are amazing"
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"he is a popular singer with a rich voice",
"his dancing skills are amazing",
"he is very modest and friendly",
"he shares the same name with Michael Jackson"
],
"... | Rain, who was born on June 2, 1982 in Seoul, South Korea, is a popular singer with a very deep and rich voice. Jung Ji Hoon is his real name, known as the "Michael Jackson of Korea" for his amazing dancing skills. Rain is very modest and friendly, even a little shy.
He released his first album Bad Guy in 2002, which ca... | high10163.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "she wanted to help \"the old woman\" out in the bad weather"
},
"options": [
"\"the old woman\" asked her to",
"she recognized \"the old woman\"",
"she knocked \"the old woman\" down",
"she wanted to help \"the old woma... | A young woman was driving through the lonely countryside. It was dark and raining. Suddenly she saw an old woman by the side of the road, holding her hand out as if she wanted a lift.
"I can't leave her out in this weather," the woman said to herself, so she stopped the car and opened the door.
"Do you want a lift?" sh... | high2424.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "will be broken if it gets stolen"
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"options": [
"will be safe if it is fully used",
"will be broken if it gets stolen",
"will be expensive if it gets repaired",
"will not be stolen even if it is unlocked"
],
"... | It's a bicyclist's dream: a bike that can't be stolen. The Yerka, designed by three young Chilean engineering students, is the latest entry in a trend of bikes. They use their saddle seat as a lock. They can also use their handlebar as a lock. But the inventors of the Yerka have made an improvement to it. The bike's lo... | high19621.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Taking buses."
},
"options": [
"Taking buses.",
"Buying houses.",
"Flying with an airline.",
"Visiting amusement parks."
],
"question": "According to the author, which of the following seems governed by the prin... | We've considered several ways of paying to cut in line: hiring line standers, buying tickets from scalpers , or purchasing line-cutting privileges directly from, say, an airline or an amusement park. Each of these deals replaces the morals of the queue (waiting your turn) with the morals of the market (paying a price ... | high4055.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "8"
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"7",
"10",
"9",
"8"
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"question": "For how many days does Hanukkah last?",
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Can... | Hanukkah
Hanukkah is a Jewish festival. It is celebrated on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev , which is usually sometime in December. It is often called the festival of lights. The festival celebrates the time, over 2,000 years ago, when the Jewish people fought against an emperor who would not let them fo... | high16512.txt |
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"answer_text": "It causes an increase in writing mistakes."
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"options": [
"It becomes far more acceptable.",
"It causes an increase in writing mistakes.",
"It helps students learn informal expressions.",
"It makes informal expression... | The Internet has greatly changed the way people communicate. But some teachers think the changes are not all for the better.
Eleanor Johnson, an English professor, thinks that text messaging has made students believe that it is far more acceptable than it actually is to just make terrible spelling and grammatical error... | high19147.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Sleep problems have become a worldwide concern."
},
"options": [
"Nobody can stay awake for several days.",
"All people are going through sleep problems.",
"Sleep problems have become a worldwide concern.",
"The majorit... | Do you sleep well? Some people get off to sleep as soon as the head hits the pillow, but many others are not so lucky.In fact,the lack of quality sleep has become a public health issue around the world.According to the World Association of Sleep Medicine,45 percent of the world's population suffer from sleep problems.O... | high16274.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "agriculture"
},
"options": [
"transportation",
"developing countries",
"agriculture",
"developed countries"
],
"question": "According to the passage, more greenhouse gas might be given off in the future from _... | The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and the environment. These findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.
David Tillman, a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, America, examined information from 100 countries to identify what people ate and how diet a... | high10605.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "driving circumstances are bound up with(...) the risk of accidents"
},
"options": [
"different age groups have different peer pressure",
"teenagers often give wrong judgments above passengers' noise",
"underdeveloped brain ma... | Learning to drive is important to the independence of teenagers, but it is also a great responsibility.Although having a law that keeps 16-year-old drivers from having more than one teenager in the car with them at first seems unfair, there are convincing reasons for this requirement.
The Insurance Institute for Highwa... | high2342.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Pop culture"
},
"options": [
"Western countries",
"Pop culture",
"Singlelikes",
"Contemporary society"
],
"question": "In Michael Cobb's opinion, what should be responsible for people's fear of singledom?",
... | As people in China celebrated Singles' Day on November 11, the media eagerly discussed why so many marriageable young people fail to find their other half.
While single people in China are pitied, their counterparts in some Western countries feel they are being discriminated against. In the US, where more... | high18259.txt |
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"answer_text": "Surfing the Internet for fun during office hours increases productivity."
},
"options": [
"People who surf the Internet are good workers.",
"Not everyone surfs the Internet for fun during office hours.",
"Surfing the Internet... | Surfing the Internet for fun will make you a better employee, according to an Australian study.
The University of Melbourne study shows that people who use the Internet for their own reasons at work are about 9 percent more productive than those who do not. Study author Brent Coker said, "Surfing the Internet at times... | high14463.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The photos on the site are really reliable."
},
"options": [
"It offers you a lot of travel information.",
"It tells tourists where the cheap hotels are.",
"The photos on the site are really reliable.",
"The representat... | Do you want to go out of town for a bit of rest and relaxation? Before you start packing, visit these best travel sites for vacationers. In my opinion, they help people deal with common problems that pop up during a trip.
Oyster.com
Based on the advertised photos, the hotel you are considering appears to be clean and m... | high6124.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Exercise is important and don't sit too long."
},
"options": [
"Sitting too long may help increase one's life.",
"Exercise is important and don't sit too long.",
"Watching TV is bad,but can broaden one's horizons.",
"St... | The human body is designed to move. But modern lifestyles and office jobs rarely give us the chance to move around. As we know. we're while we're eating; we sit in the car and we sit while we watch TV. And many of us sit for many hours at work.
New research shows that sitting less than three hours a day might extend yo... | high12012.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "It was ruined by an earthquake and a war, but was twice rebuilt."
},
"options": [
"Its population was doubled.",
"It was twice destroyed by natural disasters and was twice rebuilt.",
"Serious social problems emerged.",
... | Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also one of the world's most modern cities. Twice last century, the city was destroyed and rebuilt. In 1923 a major earthquake struck the city. Thousands of people were killed and millions were left homeless as buildings collapsed and fires b... | high1893.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "hire a motorhome"
},
"options": [
"take an adventure",
"travel to England",
"try a new lifestyle",
"hire a motorhome"
],
"question": "The main purpose of this text is to explain why it is a good idea to _ .",... | Do you want a bit of an adventure? Would you like to discover all the corners of the UK, or travel abroad? Maybe you have never tried the motorhome lifestyle before. Well, read this article and you will know why a motorhome is a good choice.
Nothing is better than a motorhome. It has so many uses that it is considered ... | high8109.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "HKFYG & HKUST"
},
"options": [
"HKFYG & HKU",
"HKFYG & HKUST",
"HKU & HKUST",
"HKUST & SSEL"
],
"question": "The Art of Public Speaking is organized by _ .",
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... | Summer School for Effective Leadership 2014
The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups (HKFYG) partners with 2 world-class universities, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to offer you the best international summer schools in town! This year the Summer School ... | high14477.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "mid-latitude areas are likely to experience positive impacts"
},
"options": [
"crops yields could be increased in tropical regions",
"food production could rise throughout the world",
"chances are that food resources would be... | Climate change could affect food supplies, water resources, human health and homes.
If greenhouse gas emissions keep increasing at the current rate, global temperature is expected to rise between 2degC and 6degC by 2100. This doesn't sound much, but a 5degC change is the difference between the current warm period and a... | high6130.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "people-to-people travel"
},
"options": [
"family visits",
"people-to-people travel",
"religious travel",
"medical travel"
],
"question": "Most Americans get the visa to Cuba by _ .",
"question_type": "cloz... | Traveling to Cuba as an American is like jumping through hoops .To help you better prepare for your trip,here are what you need to know about traveling to Cuba.
You wilI need to obtain a visa to travel to Cuba.You'11 need to apply for the visa associated with your travel purposes,such as religious or medical travel,fam... | high12006.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "cared too much about what the critics had said"
},
"options": [
"was a bad pianist",
"cared too much about what the critics had said",
"refused to play in Helsinki",
"was praised highly by the critics"
],
"quest... | Jean-Michael Lourdis was a promising young pianist. But when the young man played, it seemed to him, as if his hands were iron. He worried so much about his playing that he became oversensitive to the comments of his playing. Unfortunately, in those days, a critic was not considered a critic, unless he found somethi... | high4727.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the people of Bali were not allowed to fight"
},
"options": [
"Bali was an island of quiet and beauty",
"speaking after argument often leads to fight",
"Bali was a safe place to have a holiday",
"the people of Bali were... | Bali is a small prefix = st1 /islandofIndonesia, with an area of only 5,632 square kilometers. It lies to the east ofJavaIslandclosely. It is a pretty island that has many mountains and a pleasant climate. For a long time Bali was cut off from much of the world.
The people of Bali were happy and had a peaceful way of l... | high19153.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The fight against AIDS won't be stopped by the withdraw of money from charity in China."
},
"options": [
"China will have to fight against AIDS alone, though facing financial hardship.",
"Chinese organizations of fighting against A... | BEIJING - The country's top health officials state that an international charity's decisions not to give millions of dollars to Chinese organizations that fight AIDS and other diseases will not bring about the end of those organizations.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced on Monday that i... | high2356.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Room cleaning."
},
"options": [
"Room cleaning.",
"Medical care.",
"Free transport.",
"Physical training."
],
"question": "Which of the following will the host provide?",
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"... | Homestay provides English language students with the opportunity to speak English outside the classroom and the experience of being part of a British home.
What to Expect
The host will provide accommodation and meals. Rooms will be cleaned and bedcovers changed at least once a week. You will be given the house key and... | high5439.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "China's first direct coal-to-oil project."
},
"options": [
"The way to change coal to oil.",
"China's leading coal producer, Shenhua Group.",
"China's first direct coal-to-oil project.",
"The proven coal reserves around... | First direct coal liquefaction line produces
(Xinhua)
HOHHOT - China's first direct coal-to-oil project, operated by the country's leading coal producer, Shenhua Group, produced 866,000 tons of oil products last year.
The direct coal liquefaction line is located in Ejin Horo Banner , Ordos ... | high17618.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "unfold wings for flying"
},
"options": [
"fold and- unfold its wings",
"unfold wings for flying",
"land in the airport",
"meet flying safety regulations"
],
"question": "It takes the carplane one minute to _ .... | If cars had wings, they could fly and that just might happen, beginning in 2012.The company Terrafugia, based in Woburn, Massachusetts, says it plans to deliver its carplane, the Transition, to customers by the end of 2012.
" It's the next 'wow' vehicle," said Terrafugia vice president Richard Gersh."Anybody can buy a ... | high2430.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Science and Technology."
},
"options": [
"Science and Technology.",
"Entertainment.",
"Sports report.",
"Advertisement"
],
"question": "In which section would the passage be seen in a newspaper?",
"question_... | Xinhua Sept.25,2008
JIUQUAN, Gansu---China launched successfully its third manned spacecraft on Thursday with three astronauts on board to attempt the country's first-ever space walk.
The spaceship Shenzhou VII blasted off on a Long March II-F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern... | high11269.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "To ask for help."
},
"options": [
"To criticize his parents.",
"To ask for advice about his studies.",
"To complain about his parents.",
"To ask for help."
],
"question": "What is Jimmy's main purpose in writing... | Dear Editor,
I have just returned home after studying for a year in Germany. But it seems that my parents don't understand me now. They expect me to be the same person I was before I went abroad, but I'm not! Why can't they let me be myself?
Jimmy
Hi, Jimmy,
As far as I know, people who have lived abroad often find tha... | high4041.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "keep calm"
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"options": [
"give up",
"hurry up",
"be careful",
"keep calm"
],
"question": "When problems came up, the author's mother told them to _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"an... | My mother always told us there is no use crying over spilt milk. That means you should not get angry when something bad happens and cannot be changed. She also told us you have to break some eggs to make an omelet . This means you have to do what is necessary to move forward.
My mother believed you are what you eat. A ... | high19635.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "In the USA"
},
"options": [
"In China",
"In India",
"In the USA",
"In Japan"
],
"question": "In which country is glaucoma the biggest danger to people's sight?",
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{... | Glaucoma is a major cause of blindness around the world, especially in developing countries. The World Health Organization says glaucoma is a greater public health challenge than cataracts , because the blindness caused by the latter can be cured after operations.
Glaucoma is a disease that makes people around the worl... | high16506.txt |
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"answer_text": "In scientific research, a higher priority should be given to understanding all living systems."
},
"options": [
"The environment crisis will not be solved unless we stop using virgin materials.",
"In scientific research, a higher p... | American's genius with high technology may have put men on the moon, but there is growing doubt about its ability to solve human problems closer to home.
In fact, a slight but significant change from purely technological solutions is already under way as scientists insist that answers to the world's problems will not c... | high7548.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "situations are new to her"
},
"options": [
"situations are new to her",
"boys are around her",
"she changes into a leader",
"she is away from her mom"
],
"question": "Kelly is nervous when _ .",
"question... | My daughter Kelly is a cautious person.She needs to warm up to situations,is hesitant to try new things.When with close friends,she becomes a leader who laughs loudly and chants,"Girls rule,boys drool." But when that comfort zone is not around her,she is shy and nervous.
This has been challenging for me at times."Shy" ... | high12760.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "a sailor"
},
"options": [
"a surgeon",
"an army man",
"a sailor",
"a life-saver"
],
"question": "When he was a small boy, books about the sea had made Sanders want to be _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_ques... | As a boy, Sanders was much influenced by books about the sea, but by the age of fifteen he had decided to become a doctor rather than a sailor. His father was a doctor. So he was often with the doctors and got along very well with them. When he was fourteen, he was already hanging around the hospital where he was supp... | high1139.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "To prevent her flowers being ruined."
},
"options": [
"To stop them fighting with each other.",
"To prevent her flowers being ruined.",
"To stop them stealing in the flower bed.",
"To keep the boy from being wounded."
... | On a Friday night in May 2015, Oliver and Lone Kleven heard angry shouts coming from their front lawn. Lone, 68, stepped onto the porch and saw two men in dark clothes struggling with something on the ground--right where she and her grandson had planted a flower bed the weekend before.
"Go fight somewhere else!" she sh... | high14311.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Robots are indifferent and emotionless."
},
"options": [
"Robots are indifferent and emotionless.",
"Robots can't provide efficient services.",
"Robots don't offer to give store coupons.",
"Robots are unable to do a job... | I log onto a computer at the doctor's office to say I have arrived and then wait until a voice calls me into the examination room.
There, a robotic nurse directs me onto a device and then takes my blood pressure. Some time later, in steps the doctor, who is also a robot. He notes down my symptoms and gives me a prescri... | high9565.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Attitude makes difference"
},
"options": [
"Attitude makes difference",
"Well begun is half done.",
"The early bird gets the worm.",
"Easier said than done."
],
"question": "Which of the following would be the b... | I told my friend Graham that I often cycle the two miles from my house to the town centre but unfortunately there is a big hill on the route. He replied, "You mean fortunately." He explained that I should be glad of the extra exercise that the hill provided.
My attitude to the hill has now changed. I used to grumble as... | high6656.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "His confidence in business success."
},
"options": [
"The large population in London.",
"His desire to own a department store.",
"His confidence in business success.",
"Affection for London architecture."
],
"qu... | Mr. Selfridge, the Wisconsin-born retailer who left school at 14, rose to become a partner in Marshall Field's. Chicago. Founded in 1852, it was one of the first and most ambitious US department scores. Mr. Selfridge had done well with Marshall Field's. He liked to say, "The customer is always right," which made the ... | high13495.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "complain about a mishandled case"
},
"options": [
"inform the manager of a payment",
"complain about a mishandled case",
"demand an apology from Mr. Watson",
"require the manager to fire Mr. Tan"
],
"question": ... | Dear Mr. Watson,
CLAIM AL54323432--STORM DAMAGE TO ROOF
I received a cheque for $623 dated 26 January in payment of my recent claim . However, I wish to tell you how upset I have been by the way your Claims Assessor, Mr. Michael Tan, handled this claim.
When Mr. Tan first called me, he specifically told me th... | high24239.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "help the homeless start a new life"
},
"options": [
"find a home for homeless people",
"collect money for homeless people",
"help the homeless kick bad habits",
"help the homeless start a new life"
],
"question"... | There are one billion homeless people living in our world today. The Homeless World Cup exists to end this, so we all have a home, a basic human need.
The Homeless World Cup is an annual, international football tournament , uniting teams of people who are homeless to take a once in a lifetime opportunity to represent t... | high8848.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "he got a worse mark than usual"
},
"options": [
"he was unfairly treated by his teacher",
"he was disappointed with his downfall",
"he was not smart enough at studies",
"he got a worse mark than usual"
],
"quest... | On October 23, 2011, David Pologruto, a high school physics teacher, wasstabbed by his smart student Jason Haffizulla. Jason got straight A's and was determined to study medicine at Harvard, yet this was his downfall. His physics teacher gave Jason a B, a mark Jason believed wouldundermine his entrance to Harvard. Af... | high446.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Grow cool climate vegetables in hot areas."
},
"options": [
"Water the field with seawater.",
"Grow asparagus in hot places.",
"Grow cool climate vegetables in hot areas.",
"Cool the soil."
],
"question": "What ... | Did you know that vegetables can grow in the climates they are not used to? Cool climate vegetables like asparagus are now able to be grown in places as hot as Hawaii. In Hawaii, marine engineers have been able to actually let you believe such vegetables that they are living in cooler climates. In that way they grow... | high22890.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "A man was beaten due to his protecting an abused dog"
},
"options": [
"A man was beaten due to his protecting an abused dog",
"A dog's owner was put in prison due to his beating the dog",
"Stop beating the dog",
"Dogs a... | When Jamie Beondik saw a puppy getting beaten with a chain, he tried to help. What he got in return was a beating of his own and he had to go to hospital.
The neighbors saw the fourmonthold black dog named Tomba Wednesday morning being beaten, choked and dragged on a chain by a man on a bike.
Jamie decided to get invol... | high23556.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The people online"
},
"options": [
"Their friends",
"Their family",
"The people online",
"Their management."
],
"question": "Who first saw the ban's video to the song Take Me Out?",
"question_type": "factiod... | NEW YORK-- The band Atomic Tom has scored an Internet hit with its self-created video to the song Take Me Out. In the video, the band members ride a New York City subway while performing entirely on iPhones, with applications linked with mini-battery powered broadcasters for each instrument.
Singer Luck White says the ... | high8690.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Kind and determined."
},
"options": [
"Warm-hearted and crazy.",
"Friendly and confident.",
"Kind and determined.",
"Sensitive and honest."
],
"question": "Which of the following can best describe Wang Weiguo?",... | Wang Weiguo, an award-winning actor of the National Theatre Company of China, was wandering through Bejing's Panjiayuan Flea Market when he found a treasure, 20 exquisite picture frames . He bought them all.
Inside the frames was a woman's life story. There were pictures of her as a baby and a growing child and pictu... | high22648.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "At about twenty-five"
},
"options": [
"At about twenty-five",
"In their earl fifties",
"At the age of fifteen",
"At any age from fifteen to forty-five"
],
"question": "At what age did most women marry around the... | The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman's life spent in caring for the children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would b... | high6865.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "help treat her feet"
},
"options": [
"meet her interest",
"improve her dancing skills",
"help treat her feet",
"prepare her for skating"
],
"question": "The author was enrolled in dance classes to _ .",
"q... | When I was born, my parents immediately noticed something wrong. My feet were deformed , pointing inward and curling under. I wore casts and foot braces in my first two years to correct the problem. Yet I learned to balance and walk in casts. Soon after the last set of casts came off,Mom enrolled me in dance class... | high11282.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Cleaning floors."
},
"options": [
"Making beds and breakfast.",
"Cleaning floors.",
"Making cars and computers.",
"Looking after kids and pets."
],
"question": "What can Roomba do?",
"question_type": "factio... | It's a safe bet that a robot made your car and your computer.Pretty soon,they could be making your bed and breakfast,too.
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Los Angeles, California
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The boy knocked on the door and waited, sweating from fear of the old man.
As he... | high8684.txt |
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What could I do... | high3921.txt |
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By Ernst-Ulrich Franzen
March 11, 2010(3) Comments
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Soon they heard the sea. They were carrying the usual rope ,and it was hanging down from the basket of... | high22674.txt |
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At least one group of people is certain that it can. A recent survey of... | high1850.txt |
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This big storm landed on Oct 29 on the ... | high2395.txt |
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My husband, youngest son and ... | high1844.txt |
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"is the best technician in the world",
"has done a hard job in three months",
"has united InteliData Technologies Corp. with another computer... | Sometimes, something that is considered to be negative turns out to be an advantage on the job. Though he is only l8 years old and blind, Suleyman Gokyigit is among the top computer technicians and programmers at InteliData Technologies Corp., a large software company with several offices across the United States.
"Aft... | high308.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the growing economic pie should be shared among the people"
},
"options": [
"the poor should get help from the rich",
"the government should help the rich",
"the growing economic pie should be shared among the people",
... | During the past Spring Festival, many children may have received red packets from their families. But Xing Pu, a 40-year-old economist, is asking the government to give red packets to every Chinese citizen.
Xing suggested the government give out 1,000 Yuan to each Chinese since the government income has increased rapid... | high8860.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "All above is right"
},
"options": [
"Mobile phones will kill them",
"Mobile phones cause memory loss",
"Mobile phones heat the brain",
"All above is right"
],
"question": "What worries people who use mobile phon... | "Mobile phones killed our man,"screamed one headline last year. Also came claims that an unpublished study had found that mobile phones cause memory loss. And a British newspaper devoted its front page to a picture supposedly showing how mobile phones heat the brain.
For anyone who uses a moblie phone, these are worrin... | high24211.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "different animals use different languages"
},
"options": [
"animal languages are simple to learn",
"people can understand animal languages",
"different animals use different languages",
"animals communicate with each ot... | Simply, language is what people and animals use to communicate their thoughts, ideas and feelings. Of course, animals communicate with each other differently from humans, and each type of animal communicates differently. For example, a bee uses a dance to tell the rest of the bees in the hive where there is food, whi... | high6695.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "worse abroad"
},
"options": [
"worse abroad",
"the same abroad",
"better abroad",
"worse, but now things are better abroad"
],
"question": "According to the writer, things used to be _ .",
"question_type":... | Before the grass has thickened on the roadside and leaves have started growing on the trees is a perfect time to look around and see just how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are stained with chewing gum that has been spat out. Years ago I remember travelling abroad and being saddened by the plastic bags and di... | high22660.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "In 1759."
},
"options": [
"In 1753.",
"In 1759.",
"In 1997.",
"In 2002."
],
"question": "When was the British Museum opened to the public for the first time?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
... | The British Museum
Description:
The British Museum is a museum in London, which is one of the world's greatest museums of human history and culture. Its collections, which number more than 13 million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating... | high17803.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the traveller was not doing well with her camera"
},
"options": [
"they didn't want to stop playing",
"the traveller forgot to take off the cap on her head",
"the traveller was not doing well with her camera",
"they did... | A traveller was staying in an Egyptian village. One day, she held up her camera to take pictures of the children. Suddenly the young ones began to shout at her. The traveller's face turned red and she apologized to the head for what she was doing, and told him she had forgotten that people in some places believed a per... | high21369.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "has a clear idea about her future career all along"
},
"options": [
"is confident she will get a scholarship to college",
"has decided to sign with a better production company",
"shot a music video for her first single after ... | Cymber Larkin's face lights up, her red hair shining in the late afternoon sun ,as she talks about her musical ambitions.
"I am hoping my career just takes off, and everything will be exactly how I want it, like my dream come ture," she says.
The 16-year-old daugher of baseball Hall of Farmer Barry Larkin is creating h... | high23219.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the author doesn't like playing computer games"
},
"options": [
"the author is a fan of computer games",
"the author spends much time playing computer games",
"the author once played a whole night",
"the author doesn't ... | I don't know if I am missing the greatest pleasure of my life.I am not a fan of computer games.Some guys forget themselves and forget day and night when they play games.For example,a colleague has been playing since 1 o'clock this morning and now it is 7 o'clock.He is still commanding his army of little people to attac... | high22107.txt |
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