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"answer_text": "find another lady to share the cost to rent a flat"
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"rent a beautiful flat of her own in Happy Valley",
"find another lady to share the cost to rent a flat",
"share her room in a flat with whoever has no pet",... | * Share Flats: Happy Valley big flat, 1 room ready for use immediately. Quiet and convenient, fully furnished, park view. $6,800 including bills with maid. Female nonsmoker. No pet. Sara 25720836 or 10077809.
* Moving Sale: 2 armchairs, red/brown at $400 each; coffee table, black, wood, $800; oil painting, big, $900; T... | high2784.txt |
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"answer_text": "It is able to influence the consumers' choice of purchase."
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"options": [
"It describes the product.",
"It helps the product designer to express himself.",
"It may put the purchaser in a spending mood.",
"It is able t... | Color is very important in our daily life. It can influence our choice of purchase when we go shopping and can also affect the way we look and feel. A person can be naturally attracted to one particular color1 while finding another color1 repulsive. The influence of color1 on human emotions and feelings is very powerfu... | high20300.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Traditional food is less frequently cooked."
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"options": [
"People prefer to cook at home.",
"More people choose to eat out.",
"Traditional food is less frequently cooked.",
"People eat faster than before."
],
... | "Food in France is still primarily about pleasure,"says Mark Singer, technical director of cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris."Cooking and eating are both pastimes and pleasure."The French might start their day with bread, butter, jam, and perhaps something hot to drink -- it's a time of the day when the whole family ... | high19581.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They all feature timetravel."
},
"options": [
"They are all about love.",
"They all describe what happened in ancient times.",
"They are all based on true stories.",
"They all feature timetravel."
],
"question":... | In the last couple of years, there has been a craze about timetraveling TV series in China.This year, it seems like the South Korean drama writers have fallen in a deep, neverending love with the timetravel trend.
Rooftop Prince
A prince from the Joseon era (18th century), Lee Gak is _ 300 years forward into the future... | high5955.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The study condition"
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"options": [
"The climate",
"The scenery",
"The study condition",
"The living condition"
],
"question": "What, according to the author, should be considered first if you want to study in ... | If you are planning to study in the United States, you need to consider several factors. Everyone has different opinions about where is the best place to live in. Also, the best places to live in are not always home to the best schools. Finally, many schools specialize in different areas of study. The Massachusetts Ins... | high4493.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "China has begun to take steps to prevent A/H1N1 flu."
},
"options": [
"A/H1N1 flu killed more than 80 people.",
"A/H1N1 flu is spreading from human to human.",
"China has begun to take steps to prevent A/H1N1 flu.",
"Al... | Since weeks ago, China has been involved in a worldwide A/H1N1 flu that has already killed more than 80 people in the middle of May, 2009, in Mexico and has turned into a global _ .
The central government has asked people entering China from the virus-hit countries to report flu-like symptoms to the authorities.In an e... | high21778.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The law of the country."
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"options": [
"The sticker's low cost.",
"The mass production.",
"The goodwill of motorists.",
"The law of the country."
],
"question": "What may probably contribute to the application... | You may have experienced the frustration of receiving a parking fine or finding your car towed away after leaving it parked for a couple of minutes.
But now a high tech car sticker could help motorists avoid such a situation by allowing a traffic warden to get in touch with them.Car owners can buy the sticker and plac... | high11863.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Changes in the British bird population."
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"options": [
"The results of global warming.",
"Changes in the British bird population.",
"Increasing environmental pollution.",
"Worsening British weather."
],
"quest... | Experts believe that storms and severe weather in North America and Asia have disrupted bird flight paths across the world and swept huge numbers of bird species towards the British Isles.
Birds flying to the other side of the Atlantic or to the Pacific to lay their eggs have been trapped in Britain and Ireland, adding... | high20466.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "People thought she was too old to work"
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"options": [
"Nursing clinics were hard to find",
"She found it difficult to trust others",
"People thought she was too old to work",
"People didn't think she had enough work e... | A job is more than a job,especially to the old. "It's not the money that matters,but the sense of self-worth."56-year-old Cbeng Wonlan said. So,every day Ms Cheng carries a bag of parcels,letters and documents and does her rounds in North Point. She's a courier
Five years ago.Ms Cheng was a nurse at a private clinic. ... | high6284.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Develop the positive attitude"
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"options": [
"To live with an aim in life",
"To be a pessimist or optimist",
"Life is full of ups and downs",
"Develop the positive attitude"
],
"question": "What might be the b... | When you enter a crowded room or go on a picnic or to a party, who is the most attractive and appealing person? It is the person who is cheerful, has a smiling face and behaves as if he or she is enjoying every moment of the event! Such people have an optimistic opinion on life. They are the ones with a positive attitu... | high22271.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Hamad and his talent for painting."
},
"options": [
"Hamad's painting exhibition.",
"Hamad and his talent for painting.",
"The popularity of Hamad's works.",
"The similarities between Hamad and Picasso."
],
"que... | An 11-year-old boy who has been compared to Spanish Impressionist , the great Pablo Picasso, is holding his first exhibition at Llangollen's Gardening Show this weekend.
Hamad al-Humaidhan, who was born in Kuwait but now lives in Bath, Britain, had no previous knowledge of art history when he first picked up a brush.
... | high6290.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A new attempt making students change their bad behavior."
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"options": [
"How a school keeps students good at drama and arts.",
"Why students are interested in learning drama and arts.",
"A new attempt making students change... | The prefix = st1 /Windsorboys' secondary school used its school founding to save its local arts centre and establish a learning support unit there.
Now expelled pupils and students who are likely to be expelled are studying a course at the unit in Windsor arts centre while also working with artists. One pupil was aske... | high22265.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To recommend an interesting family activity."
},
"options": [
"To recommend an interesting family activity.",
"To stress the importance of family activities.",
"To encourage children to read more books.",
"To introduce ... | When you don't have anything planned for the day or it's rainy outside and your children are stuck in the house, why not sit around and tell them riddles? Telling riddles will make your family laugh and sometimes even scratch their heads, trying to figure out what the answer is.
Riddles have been a pastime for centurie... | high4487.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "feel the same as you do"
},
"options": [
"are polite and nervous",
"will help you",
"feel the same as you do",
"will learn the new rules with you"
],
"question": "The author says that you're not alone because ot... | Are you afraid of moving up to senior high school? It is a completely new experience, but you shouldn't worry. We've put together a guide to help you.
You are not alone
Remember that everybody else in your grade is in the same boat. You may not notice it, but they are just as nervous as you are.
Moving up to senior hig... | high11877.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the opinion about national air"
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"options": [
"the way they traveled",
"the opinion about national air",
"the way they lived their life",
"the life style of internet"
],
"question": "The haze affected people m... | Hu Li's heart sank due to the color of the air.Driving 140 kilometers from Tianjin City to Beijing last week,she held her breath as the air became a charcoal grey haze .The 39yearold businesswoman has lived in Beijing for a decade,and this past month,she said,brought the worst air pollution she has ever seen.It gave he... | high5799.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "more of the same kinds of foods eaten by people over 10,000 years ago"
},
"options": [
"more foods as humans living 10,000 years ago did",
"as humans living 10,000 years ago ate",
"more kinds of food eaten by people living ov... | Two American scientists told the people in industrial nations that they would be much healthier if they ate more of the same kind of foods eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago.
The scientists say that the human body has changed very little since human first appeared on earth, but the way we live has change... | high2790.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To show the win-win situation in micro-blog marketing."
},
"options": [
"To indicate how fast he got the tea.",
"To strengthen micro-blog based marketing.",
"To show the win-win situation in micro-blog marketing.",
"To ... | Micro-blog is no longer simply a platform for self-expression, gossip and networking, as it is becoming an increasingly fierce battlefield for businesses wanting to promote their products and services.
Over the last year, micro-blogging has become wildly popular in China, with some 65 million China based micro-blog acc... | high20314.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Disappointed."
},
"options": [
"Disappointed.",
"Excited.",
"Anxious.",
"Content."
],
"question": "How did the author feel after receiving Camille's e-mail?",
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... | My divorce was now final and I needed to find a new home for me and my six-year-old son, Dash. A few days earlier I'd seen an ad. I was willing to try anything, so I contacted the owner, a woman named Camille. When she e-mailed me back I discovered she wasn't renting a house at all. She was renting the attic apartmen... | high19595.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The cashier was playing a joke on him."
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"options": [
"The boy was shopping by himself.",
"The boy's mother asked her to do so.",
"The cashier was playing a joke on him.",
"The boy's mother was away for something else... | All you have is what you bring with you
I've always felt a need to be prepared for whatever situation I've found myself in.
My mother once took me to a store when I was seven years old. She and I got to the checkout counter, and she realized she had forgotten a couple of things on her shopping list. She left me with th... | high18853.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "show that in fact humans are not so rational as known when making choices."
},
"options": [
"reveal the serious housing problems of modern society.",
"explain how to make a more reasonable choice when buying houses.",
"show t... | Classical philosophers called humans "the rational animal". Clearly, they never looked closely at ants. A new study suggests that ant colonies avoid irrational decisions that people and other animals often make.
Consider the following scenario: You want to buy a house with a big kitchen and a big yard, but there are o... | high22503.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "accepted the European standard of beauty"
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"options": [
"realized the importance of good memory",
"didn't mind others saying she was black",
"accepted the European standard of beauty",
"didn't think her mother was ver... | It took me several years to realize that my black skin is beautiful and I have accepted the fact that indeed black is beautiful now. This skin I have been in for so many years determined my self worth.
I had so many factors "against" me in my mind when I was a little girl. I was a tall, thin, dark skinned girl with a g... | high13906.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "how serious the earthquake is"
},
"options": [
"where the earthquake takes place",
"when the earthquake takes place",
"how serious the earthquake is",
"how long the earthquake lasts"
],
"question": "People use R... | 2008 sadly saw the worst earthquake in China in over 30 years. The Great Sichuan Earthquake was 8 on the Richter scale and killed around 70,000 people in May, not to mention the tens of thousands who were injured or went missing.
On 26thJanuary, 2009, the biggest earthquake in India took the lives of 25,000 people. In ... | high1299.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the first person to design a sewing machine that really worked"
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"options": [
"the first person we know of who solved problems in his sleep",
"much more hard-working than other inventors",
"the first person to design a sewi... | Early one morning,more than a hundred years ago,an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep.He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needle.
Though he was tired,Howe slep... | high7830.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "they start walking"
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"options": [
"they can talk",
"they are five or six years old",
"they have no fear of the water",
"they start walking"
],
"question": "Little children can learn to swim as soon as _ .",... | Swimming is one of those activities that can be learned early in life. Little children can learn to swim as soon as they walk. In fact, you need the same skills in walking as in swimming. However, I believe that five is the best age to learn. By five or six, a child knows fear of water, a very important thing to know. ... | high16856.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "even if you don't have health problems"
},
"options": [
"if you can't bear high temperature",
"if you have some health problems",
"even if you don't have health problems",
"when the temperature is very low outside"
... | Hot yoga is not terribly different from regular yoga. You will do the same poses. However, the catch is that the temperature will be at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit and sometimes higher. The heat is what makes this type of yoga not for everyone. Regardless of your overall health, talk to your doctor before taking a hot... | high17590.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "His grandmother grew up in Zhejiang."
},
"options": [
"He was born in Zhejiang.",
"His sports shirts are made in Zhejiang.",
"He once visited Zhejiang.",
"His grandmother grew up in Zhejiang."
],
"question": "Wh... | HANGZHOU, China -- Millions of Chinese basketball fans who were upset about the retirement of Yao Ming, are excited to see another even more shining star, Jeremy Lin, rising from the N.B.A and becoming a household name all across China.
"We are amazed by Lin Shuhao's magic performance and should cheer him on," one Inte... | high21022.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The Highlander Motor Inn"
},
"options": [
"Americana Hotel Crystal City",
"Days Inn Arlington",
"Hyatt Regency Crystal City",
"The Highlander Motor Inn"
],
"question": "Which hotel does not provide service to dr... | Convenient location 5 minutes from Washington ,D.C. and one block to Crystal City Metro, Crystal City Underground. Alexandria. Free Parking, free Deluxe Continental breakfast and complimentary Hotel Shuttle Service to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
14000 Jefferson Davis Hwy(endurance on S. Eads St.)
Phone ... | high9835.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "doubtful"
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"options": [
"supportive",
"doubtful",
"uninterested",
"indifferent"
],
"question": "What's Anna Sosa's attitude towards companies claiming that their toys are educational?",
"question_type": nu... | A new study says electronic toys are not helping babies learn.
"Even if companies are marketing them as educational, they're not teaching the babies anything at this time," said Anna Sosa the study's author.
Researchers listened to audio recordings of parents playing with their babies aged 10 months to 16 months. The r... | high14099.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the teachers who have taught him"
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"options": [
"the members of his family",
"his girlfriend",
"the teachers who have taught him",
"his schoolmates"
],
"question": "According to the 22-year-old student,he woul... | Since long ago,greeting cards have been considered a time-saver.More than 150 years ago,a busy Englishman,Sir Henry,asked a friend to design a card so that he didn't have to labour to write holiday letters to his friends at the end of the year.Those paper cards are now the tradition.
_ .That's why the Internet is read... | high7818.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a new way of highway speed control"
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"options": [
"a new way of highway speed control",
"a new pattern for painting highway",
"a new way of training drivers",
"a new type of optical illusion"
],
"question": "T... | Believe it or not, optical illusion can cut highway crashes.
Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobile crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion. Bent strips, called chevrons , painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus... | high725.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they are more expensive than traditional newspapers"
},
"options": [
"they are more expensive than traditional newspapers",
"you can choose the kind of voice you like to hear",
"you can get more information from them easily",... | In the near future, daily newspapers and monthly magazines will probably disappear. Electronic media can provide the same information faster and cheaper. The Internet, together with laptops and cellphones, makes it possible that almost everyone can at any time and in almost any place get some news for free or for few f... | high13090.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "landing"
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"taking off",
"landing",
"orbiting",
"walking down"
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"question": "The word \"descent\" in the passage means _ .",
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... | The space shuttle Columbia flared and broke up in the skies over Texas on Saturday, February 1,2003, killing the seven astronauts on board in what NASA and President Bush called a tragedy for the entire nation. NASA launched an investigation into the disaster and began searching for the astronauts' remains. It said tha... | high23153.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "changing our lives is down to us"
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"the harder we work,the more successful we will become",
"our work and life are closely connected with others",
"changing our lives is down to us",
"we will have a bette... | One day the employees of a large company in St Louis,Missouri returned from their lunch break and were greeted with a sign on the front door. The sign said:"Yesterday the person who has been hindering your growth in this company passed away. We invite you to join the funeral in the room that has been prepared in the... | high8295.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "It helps doctors know whether patients are vegetative or not."
},
"options": [
"It leads to studying how to cure vegetative patients.",
"It attracts society to pay more attention to vegetative patients.",
"It helps doctors kn... | (NEW YORK)---Scientists have discovered small signs of awareness in some vegetative brain injury patients and have even communicated with one of them---findings that are beneficial to how to assess and care for such people.
The new research suggests that standard tests may ignore patients who have some consciousness, ... | high11687.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "They play board games and cards with the residents."
},
"options": [
"They share everything with the residents.",
"They play board games and cards with the residents.",
"They watch the residents play games.",
"They buy ... | Every Wednesday, I go to Cantata Adult Life Services, a local retirement community in Brookfield, Illinois, US, with my classmates to do community service.
After my very first visit to Cantata, my life changed forever. That may sound a bit dramatic, but volunteering with the elderly has changed my views on life.
Our vi... | high10599.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Confused"
},
"options": [
"Frightened",
"Enjoyable",
"Confused",
"Usual"
],
"question": "How did the Japanese feel when seeing the stuck lizard?",
"question_type": null
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"answer": {
"answer... | This is a true story that happened in Japan.In order to _ the house, a Japanese tore open the walls. Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls. When tearing down the walls, he found that there was a lizard stuck there because a nail from outside was hammered into one of its feet. He saw thi... | high21750.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "between two passengers"
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"on a farm",
"between two passengers",
"before a long plane journey",
"in a shop"
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"question": "The story took place _ .",
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},... | Two men were sitting together on a ship. They were on a long travel. One of them was a professor. The other was a farmer. They sat without talking for a while, and then the farmer said, "Let's do something to pass the time."
"What do you want to do?" the professor asked. "We can ask each other riddles." The farmer said... | high13084.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "African countries"
},
"options": [
"The USA",
"European Union",
"African countries",
"France"
],
"question": "Which area has the most mobile users according to the text?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions... | The World Bank estimates there are about 650 million mobile phone users in African countries south of the Sahara Desert. That is greater than the number of users in the United States and European Union.
Samia Melhem worke for the World Bank to increase information technologies in Africa. She says mobile phones are the ... | high23147.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Because people love watching magicians make the impossible happen."
},
"options": [
"Because Liu Qian is known for his interaction with his audiences.",
"Because people love watching magicians make the impossible happen.",
"B... | Here's an unusual story: a diamond ring was recently found in an egg. The magician, Liu Qian, discovered it, in front of an audience of millions at CCTV's Spring Festival Gala. Liu's magic tricks have made the centuries-old art of magic fashionable once again, and made him the hottest magician in prefix = st1 /China. ... | high22259.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Something unknown."
},
"options": [
"Bats.",
"Monkeys.",
"Infected humans.",
"Something unknown."
],
"question": "Where does the Ebola virus come from?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
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"an... | The World Health Organization reports a number of people have died of the Ebola virus in central Africa during the last few months. Ebola, also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever or Ebola viral disease, is a rare and deadly illness with high death rates in humans and primates. The natural source of Ebola virus remains... | high9821.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "to keep a record of what they did unintentionally"
},
"options": [
"to keep track of people who tend to forget things",
"to report their embarrassing lapses at random",
"to analyse their awkward experiences scientifically",
... | Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnight. When he came to analyse their embarrassing lapses ( ) in a scientific report, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groupings, nor did the lapses appear to be en... | high23621.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "She has had an operation."
},
"options": [
"She is ill now with a cancer.",
"She has had an operation.",
"She is curing people of cancer.",
"She is working in a hospital."
],
"question": "What can we infer about... | Name: Julia Rosetti
Email: n1950215@droid.fit.qut.edu.au
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Age: 18
Sex: Female
Drugs: No
Alcohol: No
Sports/ Activities: I used to do a lot of ballet and stage work, my ambition was to be a professional dancer before I got sick. Nowadays I love to read, and other stuff like that, as well as ... | high731.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "He loves his daughters as deeply as any other ordinary father."
},
"options": [
"He loves his daughters as deeply as any other ordinary father.",
"He loves his daughters but pushes them to work hard.",
"He is patient with his... | Dear Malia and Sasha,
I know that you've both had a lot of fun these last two years on the campaign trail , going to picnics and parades and state fairs, eating all sorts of junk food your mother and I probably shouldn't have let you have. But I also know that it hasn't always been easy for you and Mom, and that t... | high16842.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To express his thanks to those who have helped him with the hook."
},
"options": [
"To show that he had expert friends in various fields.",
"To express his excitement for having published his book.",
"To express his thanks to... | I must first thank the writers and editors of Scienlljic American and Scientific American Mind for the excellent articles on which so much of this book is based; they arc acknowledged in detail in the Sources.
I am most grateful to he famous netunscicutists ( ) and experts who kindly gave their time to help re c ... | high17584.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "a famous American writer"
},
"options": [
"a famous American writer",
"name of a book",
"a great river in America",
"a large ship"
],
"question": "\"Mark Twain\" was _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_question... | "Mark Twain" was the name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835~1910) when he wrote books.His father was a lawyer,but a poor one,who lived in Florida,Missouri.The family was so poor that Samuel did not receive much teaching.He had to learn all that he could from the people whom he met.His father died when he was very ... | high20328.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "More Shanghai People Rent Cars for Holidays."
},
"options": [
"How Shanghai People Spend Their Holidays?",
"More Shanghai People Rent Cars for Holidays.",
"Why So Many Shanghai People Rented Cars For Holidays?",
"Shangh... | Shanghai ---- More Shanghai people are renting cars to travel over the coming National Day holiday, Tom reported today.
Most cars in large local car-rental companies such as Yongda,Anji and Dazhong are rented so far with the Buick Sport Utility Vehicle(SUV)in great need.
Santana and Jetta were the most popular car mode... | high21036.txt |
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"her father's death",
"her mother's pain",
"the ache of her own heart",
"the pain of Janie's parents"
],
"question": "After she learns Janie's story,the writer thought of _ .... | "It's over!Thank goodness!"
School was over and I was tired.I sat at the front of the school bus.
Janie,the driver,tries to break the uncomfortable atmosphere by striking the match of talks.I try to listen politely,but usually I am too busy thinking about my day.On this day,however,her talk was worth listening to... | high24199.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a new television series"
},
"options": [
"a television host",
"a new television series",
"how colours influence us",
"the popularity of a recent television show"
],
"question": "The main purpose of the text is t... | Different colours can affect us in many different ways, according to Verity Allen. In her new series ' Colour me Healthy', Verity looks at the ways that colours can influence how hard we work and the choices we make. They can even change our emotions and influence how healthy we are.
"Have you ever noticed how people a... | high8530.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "depressed"
},
"options": [
"annoyed",
"depressed",
"stressed",
"encouraged"
],
"question": "If a person feels blue, he is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_in... | Many everyday American expressions are based on colors.
Red is a hot color. Americans often use it to express heat. They may say they are red hot about something unfair. When they are red hot they are very angry about something. The small hot tasting peppers found in many Mexican foods are called red hots for their col... | high15344.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "The history of Tin Pan Alley."
},
"options": [
"American popular music.",
"Tin Pan Alley's future.",
"American music Industry.",
"The history of Tin Pan Alley."
],
"question": "What.is the passage mainly about ?... | In the late nineteenth century, ^5,000 pianos were sold in the United States each year and, with over half a million youths learning to play the instrument, there was a huge demand for sheet music .Indeed the demand was so huge that publishers rushed to enter the profitable market.During the last fifteen years of the ... | high11122.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The problems you have when you go to another country."
},
"options": [
"Something you feel surprised at.",
"The problems you have when you go to another country.",
"The frightening feelings you have.",
"Something differ... | Each year,millions of people go abroad to work,study,or travel.It's a great way to find out what life is like in another part of the world! You're probably hoping to make new friends and learn about the culture in your host country everything from attitudes and beliefs to social customs and popular foods.But constantly... | high16895.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "friends or partners"
},
"options": [
"the old and the young",
"gardeners or farmers",
"friends or partners",
"teammates or classmates"
],
"question": "The word buddies in the first sentence probably means _ ."... | Grandfather and 3-year-old boys are natural buddies. On this particular day in May, the grandfather was pleased to have the company of his best little pal when planting the vegetable garden. For a while, the boy seemed to like it too. His small fingers were just the right size to pick up tiny seeds and drop them into G... | high17553.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the types of the product lie on the people rather than its nature"
},
"options": [
"goods are classified differently in different countries",
"the types of the product lie on the people rather than its nature",
"Frenchmen oft... | The traditional distinction between products that satisfy needs and those that satisfy wants is no longer adequate to describe classes of products. In today's prosperous societies, the distinction has become unclear because so many wants have been turned into needs. A writer, for instance, can work with paper and penci... | high5014.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "he didn't notice the writer"
},
"options": [
"he didn't want to take the passenger",
"he didn't notice the writer",
"he had a cold and could not speak",
"he didn't feel well"
],
"question": "Why did the driver s... | He must have been completely lost in something he was reading because I had to tap on the windshield to get his attention."Is your cab available ?"I asked when he finally looked up at me.He nodded,then said apologetically as I settled into the back seat,"I'm sorry,but I was reading a letter."He sounded as if he had a c... | high17235.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "since there were mail-order catalogues"
},
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"before long",
"after the Internet",
"since there were mail-order catalogues",
"since he worked as a businessman"
],
"question": "Larry Pollock has been fa... | Local businessmen are increasingly facing competition from on line retailers. Larry Pollock, owner of Camera Co/Op on South Congress, said he has been dealing with this kind of problem for years, even before the Internet. The struggle began with mail-order catalogues, which are similar to online retailers in that they ... | high20499.txt |
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