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"answer_text": "awkward"
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"moved",
"awkward",
"proud",
"nervous"
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"question": "When the author first saw Dad's lunch box notes, she felt _ .",
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},
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"answer": {
... | When I was 11, I threw a glance into Dad's lunch box and made the unexpected discovery that my mother still showed her love towards my father. The evidence, a napkin resting on top of the sandwiches packed in wax paper, was certain "Love you!" she had written on the napkin. " Meat loaf for supper!"
Mom penned all kinds... | high8493.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "start a private hotel"
},
"options": [
"pay off the debt",
"start a private hotel",
"cut down expenses",
"buy living necessities"
],
"question": "Kay and Charles Giddens sold their home to _ .",
"question... | More People Are Leaving the Rat Race for the Simple Life
Time is more precious than money for an increasing number of people who are choosing to live more with less--and liking it
Kay and Charles Giddens, two lawyers, sold their home to start a B&B hotel.Four years later, the couple dishes out banana pancake breakfast,... | high12588.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "She's healthy and her mind is sharp."
},
"options": [
"She lives with her daughter.",
"She's healthy and her mind is sharp.",
"She likes to live with her children and has a happy life.",
"She has lived 30 years past the... | Head held high, hands firmly gripping her walker, Mary Arnott, 99, walks slowly with dignity through the women's changing room at the Etobicoke Olympium pool, past the teenage girls who have been blow-drying their hair for half an hour, into the mist of the showers, then out the door and first one into the heated pool.... | high9955.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "amuse himself"
},
"options": [
"find the truth",
"show his wisdom",
"amuse himself",
"teach him a lesson"
],
"question": "The student wanted to play the poor man a trick to _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_q... | One day, a college student was taking a walk with a professor. As they went along, they saw
lying in the path a pair of old shoes. They supposed the shoes belonged to a poor man who was employed in a field close by, and who had nearly finished his day's word.
The student turned to the professor, saying, " Let us play t... | high11081.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "living, working below the ocean"
},
"options": [
"pressure, lack of oxygen, and weightlessness in the sea",
"living, working below the ocean",
"underwater submarine",
"walking on the ocean floor"
],
"question": ... | Can you imagine traveling to work in a one-man submarine?
Scientists believe that someday one-man submarines will be as numerous as automobiles today. One says," One day soon, men will walk on the ocean floor as they do on the street. " Perhaps during your life time, people will travel, work and live under the sea.
... | high18728.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "their academic performance"
},
"options": [
"their personal interest",
"their academic performance",
"their teachers' opinion",
"their reasons for application"
],
"question": "When choosing students, colleges an... | Educators across the U.S. are calling for major changes to the admission process in higher education.
The National Center for Educational Statistics (or NCES) reported that U.S. colleges and universities received more than 9 million applications between 2013 and 2014 and admitted more than 5 million students. But the p... | high19436.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they are not satisfied with their present life"
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"options": [
"they have little fun in their daily lives",
"they are not satisfied with their present life",
"they want to entertain their friends and acquaintances",
"t... | Women consistently lie on social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter to make their lives appear more exciting, a survey has found. The survey was asked to carried out by Pencourage, a new anonymous "diary-style" social media website.
Researchers found that at least one in four women exaggerated or twisted what... | high4242.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the author is not young any longer at present"
},
"options": [
"the author is not young any longer at present",
"the season the author describes is the meet of late autumn and early winter",
"the author is a person who used t... | It is that time of the year when the warm, late Summer days meet the cold, early Autumn nights. The skies on days like these are bright and clear. The air is cool, fresh, and full of the smell of wild flowers. The leaves on the trees are dark green but with splashes of red appearing here and there. It is a really beaut... | high876.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Edwin Moses and Greg Louganis."
},
"options": [
"Edwin Moses and Greg Louganis.",
"Dominique Dawes and Edwin Moses.",
"Dick Fosbury and Kerri Strug.",
"Greg Louganis and Dick Fosbury."
],
"question": "Who won tw... | Where Are They Now: Life after Olympic Gold
These celebrated Olympic champions from decades past wrote sports history, but what are they up to now? Here's the latest on some of the greatest.
Edwin Moses
_ : Gold Medals in 400 Meters Hurdles (1976 Montreal Games, 1984 Los Angeles Games)
_ : Moses earned a degree in ph... | high8478.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "how to manage water intake during a marathon"
},
"options": [
"the signs and treatment for dehydration",
"the long distance runners who need help",
"how to manage water intake during a marathon",
"a 28-year-old woman wh... | If you're training for a marathon, a proper plan for water intake is important. Of course, there's the risk of dehydration . But athletes now know they can also get into trouble by drinking too much. Too much water intake can lower levels of sodium in the blood. The death of a 28-year-old woman following the Bost... | high23966.txt |
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"answer_text": "impossible"
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"great",
"impossible",
"challenging",
"reasonable"
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"question": "Jean's third-grade teacher thought her dream to be _ .",
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"ans... | In 1959, when Jean Harper was in the third grade, her teacher gave the class an assignment to write a report on what they wanted to be when they grew up. She poured her heart into her report and expressed her dream of becoming an airline pilot. Her paper came back with an "F" on it. The teacher told her it was a "fairy... | high12563.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "learning should develop creativity"
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"options": [
"learning should develop creativity",
"homework should be done at home",
"learning remains to be a difficult task",
"homework serves as a ticket to success"
],
... | The old saying that practice makes perfect seems to make no sense when it comes to schoolwork. Many educators today are looking for evidence to support the case for homework, but are coming up empty-handed.
Mary Jane Cera is the academic administrator for the Kino School, and she maintains a no-homework policy across a... | high7993.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Roland Kruger"
},
"options": [
"Andy Palmer",
"Alfonso Albaisa",
"Johan de Nysschen",
"Roland Kruger"
],
"question": "Who will take charge of the launch of the Q80 Inspiration?",
"question_type": "factiod_qu... | Infiniti, Nissan's luxury brand, continues to show off ideas for the future.
The Q80 Inspiration here in Paris is an excellent piece of work, perhaps a concept elegant enough to make us forget that Infiniti's former Hong Kong-based president, Johan de Nysschen, moved to take over General Motors' Cadillac car brand in J... | high9766.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "liked his teacher very much"
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"options": [
"liked his teacher very much",
"got little help from his teacher",
"got along well with his classmates",
"was hit by his teacher with erasers"
],
"question": "When th... | One of the hardest things to do when you are a small child is to start school, and have a new teacher every year. I remember when I was in fourth grade, there were tons of rumors about my teacher. They said that he would hit kids with erasers. _ , and to this day I still remember him as one of those people who really... | high14112.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "I give him the cold shoulder"
},
"options": [
"I give him the cold shoulder",
"I think he is a cold-blooded man",
"I think he is a cold fish",
"I'm likely to get cold feet"
],
"question": "When you refuse to spe... | For centuries, the body's blood has been linked closely with the emotions.People who show no human emotions or feelings, are said to be cold-blooded killer.For example, the police are searching for a cold-blooded killer.He seems to kill for no reason, and no emotion, as if taking someone's life as nothing.
Cold can aff... | high36.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "can strengthen the relationship between illustrators and publishers"
},
"options": [
"will last five days in all in July every other year",
"is intended for college students who are good at painting",
"is held by the Bologna ... | The aims of the Illustrators Exhibition,staged as part of the Bologna Children's Book Fair,organized by BolognaFiere and held from 19 to 22.March 2012,are to bring illustrators and publishers together and to promote illustrators and their works among publishers.
QUALIFICATIONS
*Individual illustrators or groups of illu... | high6455.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "When he passed by a store and heard a song that enchanted him."
},
"options": [
"He was encouraged by his friends.",
"When he passed by a store and heard a song that enchanted him.",
"He decided to rebuild his reputation.",
... | In his lowest days when few people bought his records, Taiwan singer Steve Chou lived alone in Canada and did little. One day, he passed by a local CD store and accidentally heard a song that greatly enchanted him. His passion for music was suddenly rekindled .
"My heart tells me that music is the thing I truly wa... | high6333.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Firms guided by strategic speed take time to make necessary changes."
},
"options": [
"how fast a firm moves depends on how big it is.",
"how competitive a firm is depends on what it produces.",
"Firms guided by strategic spe... | In business, there is a speed difference: It's the difference between how important a firms leaders say speed is to their competitive strategy and how fast the company actually moves. The difference is important regardless of industry and company size .Companies fearful of losing their competitive advantage spend muc... | high12205.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "are too young to achieve anything"
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"are too young to achieve anything",
"can do anything though you are young",
"are old enough to become an inventor",
"have to learn knowledge from other people"
],
... | Do you have imagination? Do you like to solve problems? Can you? If so, you could be the next great inventor. "But I'm just a kid",you might be! Don't worry about a little thing like age. For example, one famous inventor-- Benjamin Franklin--got his start when he was only 12. At that young age, he created paddles for h... | high19350.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "you can control the form filling with enough time"
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"everything connected with application forms is easier",
"you can control the form filling with enough time",
"you can plan and have control of the needed tim... | Collecting information about pre-employment and filling out an application form are closely connected, However, filling out an application form is much easier because you have total control and have enough time to think and plan.
That you are given a form to fill out does not necessarily mean that you have to answer al... | high4524.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "make money by selling tents"
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"options": [
"find a strong material to make pants",
"work for his brothers",
"make money by selling tents",
"open a store to make pants"
],
"question": "56. When Levi Strauss wen... | Levi Strauss was born in Bavaria in Europe in 1829. He
to the United States of America when he was seventeen years old. His brothers sold cloth, and he worked for them even though he could not speak English very well. At this time many people were moving to California because gold was discovered there. Strauss went ... | high16063.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She had a larger reunion with her family members in Mississippi."
},
"options": [
"She suffered memory loss and forgot everything about herself.",
"She lives with a caretaker and her relatives in Alabama at present.",
"She's ... | After nearly 50 years of separation,an elderly woman has been reunited with the family that she feared was lost to her forever.
Celestine Thompson left Mississippi when she was 14 years old and eventually settled in New York,where she spent more than 30 years of her life,according to WLOX 13News. After surviving a fire... | high10412.txt |
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"answer_text": "It will do little harm to the environment."
},
"options": [
"All its walls will be painted blue.",
"It will have a waste paper recycling system.",
"It will be made of recycled rubbish.",
"It will do little harm to the e... | Tired of living in the same location but don't want to leave the house you love? That wouldn't be a problem if architect Felipe Campolina had his way.
The Brazilian architect has designed a concept for a home tower consisting of portable, stackable apartment units, which he says opens up new possibilities for ways of... | high2155.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Disappearance."
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"options": [
"Decrease.",
"Losing functions",
"Disappearance.",
"Existence"
],
"question": "What will probably happen to coral species with the increasing threats?",
"question_type": "fact... | Conservationists have unveiled plans to preserve and protect the world's most important species of coral, in a response to increasing threats that they say will lead to "functional extinction" within decades.
Led by scientists at the Zoological Society of London, the Edge Coral Reefs project has identified 10 coral spe... | high4530.txt |
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"answer_text": "sympathetic"
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"sympathetic",
"indifferent",
"enraged",
"not mentioned"
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"question": "Most people are_toward the death of Wang Bei according to the survey.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions... | The tragic death of celebrity Wang Bei has made people aware of the risks of cosmetic surgery, which is becoming increasingly popular.
A survey on the reaction to Wang's death, conducted by Tencent, which runs China's most popular instant-messaging service, received more than 600,000 responses, as of press time Monday.... | high11718.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because she didn't know how to stop Will from hurting others."
},
"options": [
"Because Will could hurt nobody there.",
"Because she was afraid that other children would hurt Will.",
"Because Will's grandparents told her they... | When my daughter realized that she had really hurt another child with a mean word, she cried and immediately wanted to apologize. That was a good thing, but I wanted her to know an apology can't always make things better. So I told her the story of Will, a 9-year-old boy whose father left his mom two years earlier.
Wil... | high10406.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "preferred blog writing to newspaper reading"
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"were financially dependent",
"got well-prepared for the employment",
"got married early and started their family",
"preferred blog writing to newspaper readi... | There used to be four common life phases : childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.Now, there are at least six: childhood, adolescence, odyssey, adulthood, active retirement and old age.Of the new ones, the least understood is odyssey, the decade of wandering that frequently occurs between adolescence and adult... | high21803.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Outdoor winter activities"
},
"options": [
"Outdoor winter activities",
"Popular winter sports around the world",
"Fun winter activities for children",
"Best ways to enjoy winter scenery."
],
"question": "What d... | Hiking
If you like to hike during the warm months, you'll probably like to hike in the winter. The landscape changes completely from summer to fall to winter, and the snow can make for some really beautiful photos. Be sure to bring your camera with you to capture all the awesome scenery. Because it's cold out, you also... | high2141.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Americans are eating out more and more."
},
"options": [
"Americans are having a too busy life.",
"Americans are getting fatter and fatter.",
"Americans are eating out more and more.",
"Americans are in greater danger o... | Many Americans spend more time in cars these days than in the kitchen. But as lives grow busier--and waistlines grow larger--a number of health experts are calling for Americans to reduce their risk of cancer and other diseases by cooking at home more and eating out less.
"When dining out, people are likely to _ all th... | high14660.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "it protects crops, produces honey and preserves the elephant at the same time"
},
"options": [
"it successfully keeps elephants out of African farmers' fields",
"the fences were adopted by farming communities in three Kenyan distri... | An African-born British scientist received an environment research prize for showing how bees can be used to reduce conflict between people and elephants. Lucy King's work proved that beehive "fences" can keep elephants out of African farmers' fields. The animals are scared of bees, which can bite them inside their lo... | high9014.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The end for Beckham?"
},
"options": [
"Beckham had a dream?",
"Beckham--- a great football player!",
"The end for Beckham?",
"World Cup in South Africa!"
],
"question": ".What is the best title of the passage?",... | David Beckham had a dream: to be the first English player to appear in four World Cups.But now it appears that dream is over after a serious injury to his Achilles tendon which means he could be out of action for around six months.With this year's World Cup in South Africa only three months away, sadly Beckham looks ... | high12211.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "organic foods cost more but are not necessarily better than conventionally grown foods"
},
"options": [
"most doctors believe organic foods prevent disease or provide other benefits to health",
"organic foods are actually less nutr... | Organic food, once considered something that only health fanatics desired, is now a regular feature at most supermarkets. And that has created a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, you have a conventionally grown apple. On the other, you have one that's organic. Both apples are firm, shiny and red. Both provide vitamins... | high7039.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "in China childhood obesity rate in rural areas is lower than that in major cities"
},
"options": [
"weight-loss camps was very popular in China six years ago",
"about 290 million Chinese are overweight in China in all",
"in C... | Some weight-loss camps, which are rare in China just a few years ago, have sprouted in Beijing, Qingdao, Shenzhen, and other cities. Today about 15 percent of adults, or 200 million Chinese, are reportedly overweight. Of these, 90 million--about 7 percent--are obese .
Experts say the obesity epidemic is spreading to ch... | high15218.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the belief in the product"
},
"options": [
"the pleasing color of the package",
"the special taste of the product",
"the strange shape of the package",
"the belief in the product"
],
"question": "According to th... | There are thousands of things to be sold that are of all colors and shapes in a supermarket, making you believe that they are good enough for you to have a try. How packaging is the quiet but persuading salesman?
There on the shelves,each bottle, can and box has been carefully designed to speak to the inner self of the... | high862.txt |
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"answer_text": "The understanding of \"privacy\" is different in China and America."
},
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"The understanding of \"privacy\" is different in China and America.",
"There is privacy between husband and wife in America.",
"Everyone ha... | "Privacy" is translated as "yin si" in Chinese. Traditionally,in the Chinese mind,"yin si" is associated with(...)what is closed or unfair. If someone is said to have "yin si",meddlers will be attracted to pry into his or her things. So people always say that they don't have "yin si".
On the contrary, Americans often d... | high23972.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the target of the attack was obviously on Britons and Americans"
},
"options": [
"thirty-nine hostages were rescued from the Taj Mahal Hotel",
"fourteen gunmen were killed in Nariman House",
"the target of the attack was obvi... | MUMBAI - Indian commandos battled into the early hours of Friday to end a multiple hostage crisis in Mumbai after suspected Islamic militants killed 125 people across the city.
Officials said they had almost totally cleared the luxury Taj Mahal hotel where gunmen had been held up for more than 24 hours.
Indian security... | high12577.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To warn people of the danger of tired driving"
},
"options": [
"To warn people of the danger of tired driving",
"To tell people to be careful when walking on the street",
"To inform people of the importance of a good rest",
... | Almost one in five drivers had dozed off behind the wheel, a shocking news report had showed. Of those who were dozing off, 29% have done so with their cars speeding at 70 miles per hour. The report also found a quarter of men have fallen asleep while driving, making it almost twice as many as women.
The Safety on Whee... | high13669.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He has a handsome income"
},
"options": [
"He often goes out with friends",
"He lives with his mother",
"He has a handsome income",
"He graduated with six O-levels"
],
"question": "In what way is David different... | Computer programmer David Jones earns $35.000 a year designing new computer games. yet he cannot find a bank ready to let him have a credit card Instead he has been told to wait another two years until he is 18. The 16-year-old works for a small firm in Liverpool where the problem of most young people of his age is fin... | high7987.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "only when you go to sleep"
},
"options": [
"only in a normal night",
"only when you go to sleep",
"only when you refuse to show yourself to the world",
"only when you change sleeping position"
],
"question": "Ac... | Everyone has got two personalities - the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real. You don't show your secret personality when you're awake because you can control your behavior, but when you're asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night, of course, people frequentl... | high9772.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "On Norman Drive."
},
"options": [
"On Norman Drive.",
"On Palmer Street.",
"On Kingston Highway.",
"On Route 29."
],
"question": "Where is Bentwood Truck Museum?",
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},
... | Grand Opening
Bentwood Truck Museum
Saturday, November 8, at 10:00 A. M.
After eighteen months of hard work by more than 100 volunteers, the Bentwood Truck Museum is ready to open. The old factory had been scheduled to be destroyed. When Roger Haygood heard about the plan to tear down the building, he bought it so that... | high6441.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a natural course that is to a certain degree useful to us"
},
"options": [
"the way in which gases are used for keeping plants warm",
"a natural course that is to a certain degree useful to us",
"the way \"greenhouse gases\" ... | A green house is a building made of glass which is used for keeping warm when the outside temperature is low. In a similar way there are several gases in the atmosphere (mixture of gases that surround the earth) which trap the heat produced by the sun and prevent it from escaping. These gases are known as "greenhouse g... | high22.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "it may cause some diseases"
},
"options": [
"they don't know how to treat themselves.",
"they may meet more needle sticks",
"it may cause some diseases",
"it may make patients sad."
],
"question": "It is dangero... | For medical students, real experience begins not in a classroom but at a teaching hospital. These doctors in training are guided. But sometimes accidents happen and the students get injured.
For example, they might stick themselves with a needle while treating patients. Such needle sticks are common. But a recent study... | high5148.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "on the very top of the a tree"
},
"options": [
"on the very top of the a tree",
"hidden in the middle of a tree",
"on the tree for the longest time",
"exposed to sunlight less often"
],
"question": "From the sto... | Once there was a man who lied to eat mangoes. One day he decided to get the sweetest mango from the very top of the tree. Mangoes which are exposed to the sun the most are the sweetest.
So he climbed up to the top, where the branches were thin. He managed to pick up a few sweet reddish fruits, but, in an attempt to cli... | high2627.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "introduce the Japanese custom of bowing"
},
"options": [
"introduce the history of bowing in Japan",
"describe the purposes of bowing in Japan",
"describe different ways of bowing in Japan",
"introduce the Japanese cust... | Bowing is a very important custom in Japan. Unlike people in many other countries, they greet each other by bowing instead of shaking hands. It is impolite not to return a bow to whoever bows to you.
Bowing has many functions in one. It expresses the feeling of respect, thanks, regret, and so on. You can bow when you s... | high3539.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "women do play an important part in men's lives and work"
},
"options": [
"men are always successful but not women",
"women are not willing to stand in front of men",
"women do play an important part in men's lives and work",
... | People used to say, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." and "Behind every successful man there is a woman."
Both these sayings mean the same thing. Men rule the world, but their mothers and wives rule them.
Most American women wish to make their husbands and sons successful, but some of them want more... | high4256.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "didn't want to worry his mother"
},
"options": [
"didn't want to worry his mother",
"didn't like his mother to notice him.",
"looked worried and his mother had noticed it",
"was thinking of how to get the pair of shoes.... | The date was like any other day in his life. After school Michael walked past the shop on the street corner. He stopped to look at the front row of shoes. And he felt sorry for himself. He really wanted to have them for his birthday.
He sadly walked away and thought of what to tell his mother. He knew she would give ... | high19422.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Passengers transferring to a city in Ireland."
},
"options": [
"People travelling straight to London.",
"Holders of European Community passports.",
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"Let's find out what's going on outside,"Paige's mom suggested as she turned on the small radio.
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Answer: My name is Misbah, 27 years old. I was born in a war-torn area. Right now I am a web designer.
Q: What are ... | high3263.txt |
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Guess again.
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Hours
Regular hours are 9:00 a.m.--5:00 p.m. , daily. Last admission at 4:00 p.m.
Open every day except Christmas.
Admission
We have several ticket choices for you to choose from. Advance tickets may be purchased at the will- call booth in person at the museum before 4:00 p.m.
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"greet tourists coming ... | While other countries debate whether to fix wind turbines offshore or in distant areas, Denmark is building them right in its capital. Three windmills were recently introduced in a Copenhagen neighbourhood, and the city plans to add another 97.
"We've made a very ambitious commitment to make Copenhagen CO2-neutral by... | high9996.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "About 3,500"
},
"options": [
"About 2,500",
"About 3,500",
"About 4,500",
"About 5,500"
],
"question": "How many hours did it take for the spacecraft from the earth to touch the comet Tempel 1?",
"question_t... | For thousands of years comets have been a mystery to man. They travel across the sky very fast and have a bright "tail" of burning gas. The comet Tempel 1 has an orbit far outside the orbit of the furthest planet in our solar system, Pluto. It has been there for 4.6 billion years, 133 million kilometers from Earth. La... | high13655.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "About 6"
},
"options": [
"About 28",
"About 26",
"About 13",
"About 6"
],
"question": "How many hours of housework did men do every week in the 1970s?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"ans... | Having a husband means an extra seven hours of housework each week for women, according to a new study. For men, getting married saves an hour of housework a week. "It's a _ ," said lead researcher Frank Stafford at University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. "Men usually work more outside the home, while w... | high686.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "provide supplies-needed lists and instructions"
},
"options": [
"include recycling-based crafts",
"divide arts and crafts projects by theme.",
"provide supplies-needed lists and instructions",
"have an index of projects... | Arts and crafts projects for children aren't always easy to get. If you're looking for some new arts and crafts ideas to keep your kids entertained at home, you can find many Internet sources. Here's a quick look at some online sources of how-to, try-this, and have-fun arts and crafts for kids.
Website 1: Amazing Mom... | high23796.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "they had solved the problems secretly"
},
"options": [
"they hadn't solved the problems thoroughly",
"they had solved the problems secretly",
"they were friends of the worried individual",
"they expected to be paid back... | In a book called Magnificent Obsession, by Lloyd C. Douglas, a description is given of people helping others but doing it secretly. When difficult problems worried an individual , friends nearby would meet to discuss possible solution without the individual knowing their actions. When a solution was agreed upon, one o... | high9809.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "if you want to cut off the relationship with somebody, you can give him cutlery"
},
"options": [
"you must shake hands when you meet a person for the first time",
"you have to give your present in private",
"if you want to cu... | You have to shake hands when you're coming or going in Germany, but in Britain you usually only shake hands when you meet someone for the first time.
You have to give your present in public in the Middle East to show it's not a bribe , but it's good manners to give your present in private in Asia.
You mustn't give cutl... | high13912.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "sugar"
},
"options": [
"sugar",
"fiber",
"vitamin",
"iron"
],
"question": "The students using vending machines take in less of all the following EXCEPT .",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {
... | Vending machines are found in 16% of U.S.elementary schools, 52% of middle schools and 88% of high schools.About 22% of students in grades 1 through 12 buy food in vending machines each day--and those purchases added an average of 253 calories to their diets, according to a new study in the September issue of the Jou... | high719.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "he supports environmental protection"
},
"options": [
"he loves adventure",
"cycling is a lot of fun",
"he wanted to find himself a wife",
"he supports environmental protection"
],
"question": "Ted Shreds went c... | Ted Shreds doesn't like cars.He wants people to stop driving because cars make the air dirty.Ted had an idea.He said,"I'm going to cycle around North America.I want to show everyone that cycling is a fun way to get around.If more people ride bikes,the air will be cleaner."
He left his hometown with $160 in his pocket.W... | high7824.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Henry has just been back with some fish."
},
"options": [
"Sylvia got some fish for Henry.",
"Henry didn't catch any fish.",
"Sylvia has cooked some fish.",
"Henry has just been back with some fish."
],
"questio... | As is known to all, in daily conversation modern people like to use simple words and simple sentences, especially some sentences with some parts left out. Here is an interesting example from the conversation between Henry, a fisherman, and his wife Sylvia. Do you know what they are talking about?
Sylvia: Going?
Henry: ... | high24166.txt |
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