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"answer_text": "nervous"
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"excited",
"happy"
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"question": "When new students come to school on the first day they usually feel _ .",
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"a... | You may not know a lot of people when you start high school. Even if you know some new students, you still feel nervous that you don't know any upperclassmen and teachers. How are you going to make friends among this sea of unknown faces?
Most high schools welcome new students before school actually starts. These are... | high14264.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "his wish to express his own feelings"
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"his admiration for Lewis Carroll",
"his dream of becoming a famous artist",
"his wish to express his own feelings",
"his eagerness to cure his wife's illness"
]... | Charles Blackman: Alice in Wonderland
An Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Australia
10 June--12 August 2013
Venue The lan Potter Centre
Admission Free entry
Charles Blackman is famous for his beautiful painting of dreams. In 1956, he heard for the first time Lewis Carroll's extraordinary tal... | high3883.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Paper textbooks."
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"options": [
"Paper textbooks.",
"The Internet.",
"Computers.",
"Electronic textbooks."
],
"question": "Which of the following is /are NOT used when students have social studies classes?",
... | Electronic books have changed the way many people read for pleasure. Now online textbooks are changing the way some students learn and some teachers teach.
More than one hundred seventy-five thousand students attend the public schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, outside Washington. Last year, the school system used di... | high2545.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Seeks after truth and wisdom"
},
"options": [
"does not like Jesus Christ",
"teaches people something about God",
"Seeks after truth and wisdom",
"is more clever than most of other people"
],
"question": "A phil... | Confucius was born five hundred and fifty years before Christ. Unlike Jesus Christ, he did not bring words of God to the people. He was a clever teacher and a philosopher, looking for truth and wisdom. Most of his teaching was about life in this world.
Confucius was very keen to give people good rulers. Someone as... | high19998.txt |
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"answer_text": "It helps the country to protect the people"
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"It helps the country to protect the people",
"It helps the traveler to know where he will go",
"He needs to have his picture taken more often",
"He needs some... | Americans can travel almost anywhere they choose. But to protect its people, the government lists a few dangerous places where Americans cannot go. These places are unfriendly countries or countries at war. There, the travelers might not be safe. These countries are listed in a small book called a passport .
This passp... | high16473.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Three"
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"Two",
"Three",
"Four",
"Five"
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"question": "How many henges are mentioned in this passage?",
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"answer": {
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"answer_te... | LONDON--Archaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Britain's famous circle of standing stones at Stonehenge.
Researchers have named the site "Bluehenge" after the color of the 27 Welsh stones that were laid to make up a path. The stones have disappeared, but the path of holes remains.
The new circl... | high4134.txt |
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"answer_text": "$122 billion."
},
"options": [
"$54 billion.",
"$96 billion.",
"$122 billion.",
"$143 billion."
],
"question": "How much more is spent on mental disorders_in 2013 compared with 1996?",
"question_type": "cloz... | If you're still of the belief thaJ mental health conditions aren,t as serious as physical ones,a new report will open your eyes.
The United States spent about $201 billion on mental illness in 2013, according to the new analysis published in the journal Health Affairs. That makes it the costliest medical condition in t... | high19740.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "conservative"
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"options": [
"positive",
"progressive",
"conservative",
"negative"
],
"question": "The author's attitude towards Western/Eastern cooperation can be described as _ .",
"question_type": "cl... | Western airliner manufacturers seem to be tripping over themselves in their eagerness to sign cooperative agreements with Asian partners as a low-cost route to developing new airliners. Their potential Asian partners seem to be tripping over themselves to sign such agreements, as a low-cost route to acquiring new air... | high17779.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "tried to stop others making fun of her"
},
"options": [
"took no notice of her",
"laughed at her",
"said hello to her",
"tried to stop others making fun of her"
],
"question": "When the very fat girl appeared, A... | I was eleven years old, waiting for my exam at Saraswati Vidyalaya, my school in Nagpur. "No. 12, please come forward." Kirti, a very fat girl from my class, stepped ahead. I heard my classmates laughing and so I tried to stop them with my eyes. But my good intentions were mistaken. The next morning, my teacher, Mrs. K... | high3897.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The father lit a match in order to check the time."
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"The boy and his father discussed what to do with the big fish.",
"The boy threw the bass back into the water willingly.",
"The father lit a match in order t... | Once there was an 11-year-old boy who went fishing with his father in the middle of a New Hampshire lake. On the day before bass season opened, they were fishing early in the evening, catching other fish with worms. Then the boy tied on a small silver lure and put it into the lake. Suddenly he felt that something v... | high2551.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "so that you can let some warm air in"
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"because the light in the room is dim",
"so that you can breathe the fresh air",
"so that you can let some warm air in",
"so that you can have a good view from it"
... | Kuala Lumpur is an exciting capital city in Malaysia. Here are the top 4 budget hotels there:
The Chinatown Inn (About $30 per night)
Just a block from the railway station, located in Chinatown's open market. It has clean beds, central air conditioning, hot water for coffee and tea, and a hall with a big screen TV. Wi-... | high10016.txt |
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"answer_text": "Cage was not accepted by his future mother-in-law."
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"Wild at Heart is funny rather than frightening",
"Cage was not accepted by his future mother-in-law.",
"A famous detective happened to help Cage and Dean.",... | H.T.B. Arts Center
FILM Tickets PS2.50 / PS 1.50. Performances at 8 pm unless started otherwise.
WILD AT HEART 127mins.
Wen 6-Fri8 February
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Laura Dern, Willam Dafoe. A first-class film. Cage and his girlfriend Dean are on the run through the dangerous Deep South. They are ... | high11308.txt |
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"answer_text": "introduce other trainings for students"
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"cut students' heavy study tasks",
"introduce other trainings for students",
"encourage students to work out",
"shorten the time of military training"
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"... | September is a difficult month for all students as they return to continue their education, but for high school and university green hands, it is not just the heavy study tasks they need to follow. They will also go through military training, which aims to help students improve their health and help them adapt to coll... | high19754.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "she never knew when he was coming"
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"he was a man difficult to please",
"she never knew when he was coming",
"she was too busy looking after her children",
"he never stayed long enough for a meal"
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... | Maggie was very glad that James was not a frequent visitor to the house. So far as the children were concerned, they had a mystery about him that stirred their imagination. He stirred Maggie's anger, however, so that she often said to her husband, "It's mercy that brother of yours doesn't come oftener."
In fact James c... | high4120.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He always makes foolish mistakes on social occasions."
},
"options": [
"He's the Secretary of the Interior.",
"He has more friends than other people.",
"He always makes foolish mistakes on social occasions.",
"He likes ... | Mr. Smith is well known in Washington because of his many social blunders. He always likes to attend the various social functions because he wants to expand his circle of friends. Whenever he is invited, he goes, unless he is ill.
Recently he received an invitation to a fashionable banquet. Although he did not know the... | high7429.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Chris' lyrics showed his true love for Juliana."
},
"options": [
"Chris touched the Americans mainly for his singing.",
"Chris has always been Juliana's idol.",
"Chris was an American idol because of his love for his fiancee.... | Chris Medina was an outstanding star on a Monday night's audition of American Idol (,). He made the Americans moved for more than just his singing. Chris performed the famous band The Script's song "Breakeven" and he brought along his beloved fiancee , Juliana Ramos, who is limited to a wheelchair following a terrible ... | high12601.txt |
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"answer_text": "They play an important role in the London 2012 Olympics."
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"options": [
"They'll decide whether the London 2012 Olympics are a success.",
"They play an important role in the London 2012 Olympics.",
"The London 2012 Olympics... | Like every other Olympics, the London 2012 Olympics will depend upon thousands of volunteers to help with the smooth running of the event. To show the importance of the role, London 2012 volunteers are to be called 'Game Makers'. Lord Coe has said recently: "London 2012 is relying on brilliant Game Makers to help us cr... | high1058.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Are only children different?"
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"options": [
"Are only children lonely?",
"Are only children common?",
"Are only children dangerous?",
"Are only children different?"
],
"question": "Which of the following could... | "Oh,you must have been a spoiled kid.You must be really bossy.I wonder what you're going to be like to deal with?" That's often the response Angela Hult gets when people find out she's an only child,she told ABC News.Despite such negative remarks,Hult has decided to have only one child herself.And she's not alone.
... | high6737.txt |
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"answer_text": "It tastes quite delicious."
},
"options": [
"It is popular among the neighbors.",
"It contains honey and vegetables.",
"It looks very wonderful.",
"It tastes quite delicious."
],
"question": "What can we infer a... | Nothing could stop Dad. After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family. He planted vegetables, fruit trees and even kept bees for honey.
And every week he cleaned Old Man McColgin's chicken house in exchange for manure. The smell really burn... | high14270.txt |
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"answer_text": "teachers"
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"nurses",
"managers",
"trainees",
"teachers"
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"question": "From the ad above, it seems that the company wants _ .",
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... | Company: KinderCare
Location: US-TX-College Station
Base Pay: 600$ ,.
Employee Type: Full-Time Employee
Industry: Education-Teaching-Management
Job Type: Education
Required Education: 2 Years Degree
Required Experience: At Least 1 Year
Jobs So Desirable, We Hate To Call It Work... Looking for a gr... | high6051.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he wasn't sure whether Bruce was right and was anxious to go home"
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"he was sure there would be nothing to happen",
"he wasn't sure whether Bruce was right and was anxious to go home",
"he didn't hear his frien... | One bitterly cold day, a snowstorm blew into our area. Needing firewood, I quickly set out with my best friend, Bruce, to look for a tree to cut down. I was glad to have Bruce along. Cutting down a tree in a snowstorm can be dangerous. So it was important to have a friend who could warn me of dangers.
When I chose a bi... | high9362.txt |
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"answer_text": "A windbreak is a wall of trees to hold soil in place."
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"A windbreak is a concrete wall to prevent the strong winds.",
"A windbreak is a wood with different kinds of trees.",
"A windbreak is a wall of trees to ... | Different kinds of soil conservation methods are used by farmers to protect their land from damage by farming and the forces of nature. One important form of soil conservation is the use of windbreaks.
Windbreaks are barriers formed by trees and other plants with many leaves. Farmers plant them in lines around their ... | high14516.txt |
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"answer_text": "Loose dogs pose a great danger to wildlife."
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"Many species are endangered because they are killed by loose dogs.",
"Wild dogs are immune to many diseases.",
"Wolves are still the greatest enemy of livestock.",... | In the eyes of dog lovers, the dog is man's best friend. But for much wildlife, loose dogs may be a dangerous enemy, according to a study by a biologist from Utah State University in the US.
Based on much existing research and their own case studies, Julie Young of Utah State University and four other scientists conclu... | high12167.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "write your own stories in the book"
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"ask the author questions",
"write your own stories in the book",
"have a chance to see beautiful photos",
"read many interesting stories about the author"
],
... | Diary of a Do - It - Yourself Book
This book based on Greg Hefley's own "diary" lets kids express themselves in an exciting way. In the book, kids will be asked: What was the best dream you have ever had? The worst thing you have ever eaten? The best secret you have ever heard? This Do - It - Yourself Book is unique an... | high16301.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "their homes can't hold many people"
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"they need to share the bill equally",
"it is a traditional custom in Japan",
"dishes in restaurants are delicious",
"their homes can't hold many people"
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"q... | In Japan, people will often go out to restaurants to treat guests. The reason for this is that Japanese homes are small. If you go out to eat with your workmates, it is a custom to share the bill equally, no matter how much you eat or drink yourself.
Japanese people use chopsticks to eat. But if you eat out, you can as... | high3129.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "treasure their lifetime to fulfill their own business"
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"be brave when facing a cancer",
"treasure their lifetime to fulfill their own business",
"know a sorrowful experience of his won",
"know how he tre... | About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas . I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that was incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months... | high2237.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he wanted to use the information to create a website"
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"he didn't want to become a writer",
"the book was not about rainforest protection",
"he wanted to use the information to create a website",
"making ... | Twelve years ago,a young traveler named Rhett Butler from San Francisco,California, visited the Sabah rainforest on Malaysian Borneo. In one area of the rainforest,he watched a bird flying through the trees. The beautiful sight lett quite an impression on him. But weeks later,back home, Rhett Butler got the news that t... | high10770.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "maybe you will buy some"
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"options": [
"maybe you will buy some",
"you will not look at it",
"you will buy diary products",
"maybe it is on sale"
],
"question": "When you walk by the expensive meat, _ .",
... | People in cities all over the world shop in supermarkets. When you enter the supermarket, you see shelves full of food. You walk in the aisles, pushing your shopping cart. You probably hear soft, slow music in the supermarket. This kind of music is playing to relax you and make you walk slowly. Thus, you will probably ... | high5558.txt |
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"answer_text": "that welcomes people from all over the world"
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"that welcomes people from all over the world",
"where citizens take more pride in their original culture",
"that is mostly settled by Europeans and Africans",
... | The United States of America is the most culturally diverse country in the world in terms of culture religion, ethnicity and sexual orientation. As a combination of various races and cultures, America is home to all. The culture here is so unique that citizens can be just as proud of their original cultural heritage ... | high23392.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because sunlight is highly focused in the desert."
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"Because the temperature is extremely high in the desert.",
"Because there is no life in the desert.",
"Because there is much salt in the desert.",
"Bec... | The world's largest solar thermal plant is set to begin producing power in the United States by the end of the year. Wind and energy from the sun are generally considered clean, unlike energy from coal-burning power stations. However, environmentalists now worry that too much solar power development could harm the loca... | high6079.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "of her own will"
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"of her own will",
"to play a joke on him",
"at the request of charley",
"to teach Charley a lesson"
],
"question": "Wanda turned Charley from a frog into a prince _",
"ques... | One morning, Charley, a little green frog, was sitting in a pond by the side of the road.
Wanda, the neighborhood witch , was walking along the road. She was a good witch and dreamt to become a fairy godmother who can save people from trouble with magic powers. Wanda had been learning fairy godmother magic for 103 yea... | high1716.txt |
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"answer_text": "World Slow Day"
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"Slow Life Supporters",
"Lifestyle of Italy",
"World Slow Day",
"Living Well"
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"question": "What's the best title of the text?",
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"answer":... | Italians were reminded to slow down and relax on World Slow Day, an annual event celebrating life's simple pleasures.
"Let's take this day to stop and think about all the things we miss while we're rushing through our lives," said Bruno Contigiani, the President of the Art of Living Slowly Association. Contigiani, 62, ... | high8054.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To keep the cultural variety of the city."
},
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"To provide different forms of amusement.",
"To keep the cultural variety of the city.",
"To inspire its immigrant community.",
"To satisfy its immigrant mercha... | Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement form their native countries. "Toronto is truly multicultural ," he said in a newspaper interview. "It's a city from many places, and ... | high7367.txt |
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"answer_text": "to help people choose activities and events they're interested in"
},
"options": [
"to tell people how to spend their holidays at home",
"to design some activities for event organizers",
"to help people choose activities and ... | Finding something to do during the school holidays isn't always easy, but one mum has set up a new website to help families find activities and events in Norfolk.
Fiona Anthony of Bawburgh, near Norwich, was persuaded by her friends to set up the website, Info4Families, when they noticed she always knew what events wer... | high10980.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the video of them singing \"In the Spring\" was posted on the Internet."
},
"options": [
"they sang the song \"In the Spring\" with a star composer Wang Feng.",
"the video of them singing \"In the Spring\" was posted on the Interne... | Two Chinese farmers who became an overnight hit when their heart-rending version of a famous pop song appeared on the Internet took to the stage in front of thousands of fans in Shanghai last Saturday.
Wang Xu, 44,and Liu Gang, 29, sang "In the Spring" alongside the song's star composer Wang Feng, in front of about 80,... | high21585.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "His mother offered him nice food."
},
"options": [
"lie lived in a nest in the tree.",
"He was always cold and hungry.",
"He lived very happily with friends.",
"His mother offered him nice food."
],
"question": ... | Once there was a baby eagle living in a nest on a cliff .The baby eagle loved his nest.It was warm, soft and comfortable.And even better, he had all the food and love that his mother could give.Whenever the baby eagle was hungry, his mother would always come just in time with the delicious food he liked.
He was grow... | high11446.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "3."
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"options": [
"3.",
"4.",
"5.",
"6."
],
"question": "According to the passage, how many kids does the family have at least?",
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... | I was thirteen when my father got hurt.Looking back over the years, I sometimes wonder what I could have done differently that day.Spit twice over my shoulder when I saw the single magpie , maybe.But that's the thing about superstitions .You don't know how much power they have until you break them.
We lived in a dar... | high20843.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "see its colour"
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"see its heat",
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"see nothing"
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"question": "When something reflects light, we can _ .",
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{... | What is colour? Why do some of the things around us look red, some green, others blue?
Colours are really made by reflected light. We see colour because most of the things reflect light. Something is red, for it reflects most of the red light. In the same way, if something is green, it reflects most of the green light.... | high3101.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "has little moisture and no lakes or rivers."
},
"options": [
"is sandy.",
"has the same temperature as a desert.",
"has little moisture and no lakes or rivers.",
"there are no people there."
],
"question": "Anta... | The Antarctica is actually a desert. It is the only continent on the earth without a river or a lake.
The Antarctica is all ice all year round. The warmest temperature ever recorded there is zero, at the South Pole. Explorers used to think that a place so cold would have a heavy snowfall. But less than ten inches of sn... | high10758.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "feel it harder to experience happiness"
},
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"will take fewer risks in pursuing happiness",
"feel it harder to experience happiness",
"combine their happiness less with others",
"tend to believe responsibilit... | When asked about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, an delight, which seems to get rarer the older we get.
For kids, happiness has a magical quality. Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved .
In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it's c... | high18304.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "damaging the structure of their leaves"
},
"options": [
"exposing them to strong sunlight",
"damaging the structure of their leaves",
"adding more pores to the roots",
"making the land unfit for the plants to grow"
... | As people in Beijing and northern China struggle with severe air pollution this winter,the toxic air is also making life hard for plants and even food crops of China.
"in the last 50 years there has been a 1 6-fold increase in ozone pollution"in the Beijing area,said Hanqin Tian of Auburn University in Alabama,who stud... | high5570.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Louis Braille developed a reading method for blind people."
},
"options": [
"Louis Braille developed a reading method for blind people.",
"Louis Braille became blind as he was a child.",
"Blind people can read any books they ... | Louis Braille, Alphabet Maker
Blind people can read. They do so by running their fingers along a line of raised points or dots on paper. Of course, they first have to learn the code. Here are some examples of it. One dot stands for the letter "A." Two dots side by side mean "C." Four dots arranged to look like a box (:... | high18462.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because weightless pieces of food might make trouble when they travel around."
},
"options": [
"Because small pieces of food would fall down to the floor.",
"Because weightless pieces of food might make trouble when they travel aro... | Another thing an astronaut has to learn about is eating in space.Food is weightless, just as men are.
Food for space has to be packed in special ways.Some of it goes into tubes that a man can squeeze into his mouth.Bite-sized cookies are packed in plastic.
There is a good reason for covering each bite.The plastic keeps... | high5216.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "encourage people to visit Newcastle"
},
"options": [
"advertise the local soccer team",
"encourage people to visit Newcastle",
"introduce the lifestyle in Newcastle",
"describe the long history of Newcastle"
],
... | Newcastle, one of the fastest developing cities in the United Kingdom, is beginning to draw tourists from all corners of Europe. It's said most visitors come here to see the famous soccer team play. The mood of the locals is often changed by the success or failures of the local team.
Newcastle's most popular place is t... | high2579.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Innova Junior College"
},
"options": [
"the National University of Singapore",
"Chinese newspaper Lianhe Zaobao",
"the Saint Andrew's Junior College",
"Innova Junior College"
],
"question": "The competition was ... | Only three local students won Chinese Blog Competition. And 15 of the 18 awards went to students from China.
170 students' task: to get a fully-designed blog up and running, complete with many postings based on a theme of choice--all written in Chinese.
Themes ranged from local opinions-such as the usage of Singlish, e... | high3667.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "feels bored of the paper work"
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"options": [
"doesn't know how to reply",
"feels bored of the paper work",
"doesn't want to attend college",
"has been too busy to open them"
],
"question": "Envelopes are pilin... | A Mountain of Green Beans
Another envelope in the mail. There's my name, Alexander Spencer, typed on the front. I throw it under the bed. The piles of envelopes are growing.
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"Well," said Mr Smith, "everything was going fine. I got my ticket, checked m... | high3673.txt |
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"question_... | Newspapers in Great Britain vary greatly in their ways of carrying the news. There are serious papers for those who want to know about important happenings everywhere, both at home and abroad. There are popular newspapers for those who prefer entertainment to information.
The London newspaper that is best known outside... | high17023.txt |
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Olga now has more than 30 world records to her name and has won more than 750 gold medals. But she... | high13245.txt |
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It is the case that somebody who is in the upper third of income, poor scor... | high8040.txt |
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Ms. Lega... | high10774.txt |
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"they become weak an... | If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they become weak; when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way.
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Certainly! there are some differences between British and American E... | high4642.txt |
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I pressed him. "What do you mean by that?" His face took on an skeptical look. "You have to ask me?" At that moment I felt a little foolish. Complex human problems, at least to me, often prevent people fr... | high19036.txt |
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"prevent the car thief from re... | Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch.But he is in for an unwelcome surprise.The car is fitted with a remote immobilizer, and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again.
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"he was suffering from sleeplessness disease",
"he couldn't get out of mental pressure",
"he felt tired of a... | I shall never forget the night,a few years ago,when Marion J.Douglas was a student in one of my adulteducation classes. He told us how tragedy had struck at his home,not once,but twice. The first time he had lost his fiveyearold daughter. He and his wife thought they couldn't bear that first loss;but,as he said,"Ten mo... | high12163.txt |
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Reservoirs are areas where water is stored. In California, some reservoirs are empty. T... | high8078.txt |
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Many may not expect to hear the words of the old Chinese saying in these modern times--with parents wealthier and better educated than they have ever been--but experts say they still ring true.
Today,it seems,Chinese parents are more likely to send their chi... | high14512.txt |
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"By asking test-takers to sign in.",
"By providing different tests at a time.",
"By recording the test-takers' behaviors."... | Since American students have been introduced into the era of the Massive Open Online Course, the opportunity for cheating appears greater than ever. The all-knowing Google search engine is within easy reach. So how can a teacher handle such a large number of examinees so far away, let alone searching out cheaters takin... | high12605.txt |
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"When we see something that makes us unhappy, we don't know what to do.",
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The root of th... | high4124.txt |
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J. Crew's ... | high19750.txt |
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"strokes, heart failure and diabetes",
"heart attacks, blindness and diabetes",
"heart troubles,strokes and cancers"
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The theme for 2013 is high blood pressure. High blood pressure increases the risk of heart attacks, ... | high3893.txt |
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"answer_text": "Gorilla Grill."
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"Gorilla Grill.",
"La Casita.",
"Silverback's Cafe."
],
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Safari shuttle
While you're here, take the Safari shuttle for a quick trip from one end of the Zoo to the other.
All day long, seven days a week (from 10 am to 5 pm), the Safari Shuttle picks up passengers, ... | high10012.txt |
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"answer_text": "provide information on a coming eclipse of the sun in Nigeria"
},
"options": [
"predict a eclipse of the sun in Nigeria",
"compare a eclipse of the sun with a eclipse of the moon",
"provide information on a coming eclipse of ... | About five states in Nigeria will experience a total eclipse of the sun on March 29, 2006, according to a forecast by the Ministry of Science and Technology this week.
An eclipse occurs in one of two ways: when the moon passes between the earth and the sun so that all or part of the sun cannot be seen for a time, or... | high19988.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Call for help if caught in a dangerous wave"
},
"options": [
"Go off the water without a lifeguard on duty",
"Go on swimming in a heavy rain",
"Go off the water before checking the water conditions",
"Call for help if c... | Lakes, ponds, and beaches mean summer fun and cool relaxation from hot weather. But water also can be dangerous for kids if you don't take great care. Nearly 1,000 kids die each year by drowning.
Here are some tips to keep your kids safe in the water:
At the Lake or Pond
*Don't let little kids swim alone without adult ... | high2555.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Show the child how angry they are and tell him why."
},
"options": [
"Ask the child not to do it again any time.",
"Show the child how angry they are and tell him why.",
"Teach the child why and how to say sorry to others.",
... | There's a time to get angry, and it's best for your child if you do. Let's say your child hits a playmate with a toy hard enough to make the other child cry. How can you teach your child to feel sorry so he or she won't do it again? Researchers say the best way for parents to react is to show their anger and to let the... | high11318.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "relied on others' sympathy before"
},
"options": [
"relied on others' sympathy before",
"was joyful in his life",
"hated working hard",
"was a naughty boy"
],
"question": "According to the passage, Teary Joe... | Teary Joe was a boy with a special ability: he could make himself cry in less than a second. If he disliked something, or things became difficult, Teary Joe would not hesitate to put on a pitiful face and set great big tears running down his cheeks. In this way he managed to get practically everything he wanted, becaus... | high19744.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "they can find little value of it"
},
"options": [
"they show too much concern about the cost",
"they can find little value of it",
"they do most YouTube-watching at work",
"the Internet doesn't reach their homes"
],... | A little under one-third of U.S. families have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives, according to a survey released on Friday.
Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 percent of U.S. families, or 31 million homes... | high4130.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "It was her dream to receive college education."
},
"options": [
"She wanted to marry a rich husband.",
"It was her dream to receive college education.",
"She wanted to change her present situation.",
"She wanted to get ... | On the first day of college our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know.
I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said, "Hi, h... | high16477.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Chinese children prefer foreign cartoon films to domestic ones."
},
"options": [
"Chinese children prefer foreign cartoon films to domestic ones.",
"Chinese children never watch domestic cartoon films.",
"Chinese children pre... | From Sept. 1, Chinese children will be able to watch domestic cartoon programs during 5 p.m. every day, according to a regulation by prefix = st1 /China's TV watchdog.
The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has decided to ban all foreign cartoons during the "Golden hours", reported the Beijing N... | high17769.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures and Rio"
},
"options": [
"The Silent House and Rio",
"Submarine and Passenger Side",
"A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures and Rio",
"Killing Bono and Country Strong"
],
"quest... | Check out all the new releases in the next four weeks.
Wednesday 16 march
Chalet Girl (12A )Watch the Trailer
A British comedy about a girl who decides to give up her job at a fried chicken fast food place to try out being a chalet girl in the Alps. Starring Bill Nighy and Ed Westwick.
Friday 18 March
Submarine (... | high3887.txt |
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