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"answer_text": "Tips On First Days At a New Job"
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"Tips On First Days At a New Job",
"How to Do a Job Well",
"Be the Last to Leave",
"Ways to Find a New Job"
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"question": "Which is the best title for the passag... | No one wants to look silly or do the wrong thing at a new job. It's important to make the right impression from the first day. You will face new people. You will be in a new place. It may be difficult to know what to do. Here are seven tips to help you make it through the first days at a new job:
1. First impression ... | high2541.txt |
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"answer_text": "will increase much faster in China than in France"
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"is bigger in developed countries than in developing countries",
"is oneseventh of the population in developing countries",
"will increase much faster in Chin... | There are many older people in the world and there will be many more.A limeknown fact is that over 60 percent of the older people live in developing countries.According to the World Health Organization,by 2020 there will be 1 billion,with over 700 million living in developing countries.
It is a surprising fact that the... | high6727.txt |
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"answer_text": "foreign language study is popular in UK"
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"foreign language study is popular in UK",
"foreign language study is a must for people of all ages",
"it is especially easy for British people to study foreign languag... | "Seven out of ten people have tried to learn a language at some point in their life and most wish they could speak one more fluently," a survey found. "And nine out of ten people want their children to learn foreign languages at primary school," said the poll for the OCR Examing Board .Languages are no longer compulso... | high7439.txt |
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"answer_text": "have a shorter lifespan"
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"have better kidney funtciton",
"have a shorter lifespan",
"have a higher level of the protein in his/her body",
"suffer from some cognitive disease"
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"question": "If a... | One in five people carry a 'smart gene' variant linked to long lifespan, bigger forebrains and enhanced mental ability, researchers have found.
'We've known for a long time that people lose cognitive abilities as they age, but now we're beginning to understand that factors like KLOTHO can give people a boost in aging.... | high12611.txt |
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"answer_text": "11"
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"question": "How many Germans were killed in the stampede at \"Love Parade 2010\"?",
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"answer_i... | Angry survivors demanded answers on Sunday after a terrible accident at "Love Parade 2010", a music festival in Germany, killed 19 people and left hundreds hurt.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her shock over Saturday's tragedy in the western city of Duisburg., "This was a very sad day," Merkel said.
Witn... | high12177.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "tell people to enjoy themselves sometimes"
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"prove that cutting out fatty foods is difficult",
"tell people to enjoy themselves sometimes",
"encourage people to stick to regular daily things",
"tell us th... | Too many people put off things that could bring them joy just because they haven't thought about them, don't have them on their schedules or are too stubborn to leave from their regular daily things.
One day I thought about all those women on the Titanic who refused sweet foods at dinner that fateful night to cut out f... | high9372.txt |
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"answer_text": "Mr. Dong is in favor of the digital hongbao"
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"it will bring us trouble in holiday reunion",
"it will be out of fashion soon in future",
"Mr. Dong is in favor of the digital hongbao",
"lots of people will... | The Spring Festival is supposed to be a period of time entirely for family reunion. However, as people's enthusiasm for digital hongbao increased, the amount of the time they spend with family members during the holiday decreases. There has been widespread criticism over digital hongbao that it has _ family reunion.
"... | high14506.txt |
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"answer_text": "guarantee people's basic residential needs"
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"guarantee people's basic residential needs",
"handle the roles of government and housing market",
"improve land and financial policies",
"punish illegal occup... | BEIJING---Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed the need to promote the country's housing security and supply to guarantee people's basic residential needs
On Tuesday, Xi said that pushing the construction of the housing supply system is a solid project that benefits all people.
''Solving the housing issue is a l... | high6041.txt |
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"answer_text": "How to get a good night's sleep."
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"When to start a sound sleep.",
"How to get a good night's sleep.",
"What to do with sleep problems",
"Why to form a good habit of sleeping."
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"question": "Wha... | A Good Night's Steep
Sleep plays a vital role in good health and well-being throughout your life.
While you're sleeping, your brain is forming new pathways to help you learn and remember information. Although we all know the importance of getting a good night's sleep, not all of us know the best way of getting it. A sl... | high13269.txt |
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"answer_text": "the influence of weboholism"
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"the cause of weboholism",
"the advantage of weboholism",
"the popularity of weboholism",
"the influence of weboholism"
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"question": "The main idea of the passage i... | A new generation addiction is quickly spreading all over the world. Weboholism , a twentieth century disease, affects people from different ages. They surf the net, use e-mail and speak in chat rooms. They spend many hours on the computer, and it becomes a compulsive habit. They cannot stop, and it affects their lives.... | high2227.txt |
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"answer_text": "their parents are making a living in other cities"
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"they are poor and in rural areas",
"they are brought up by their grandparents",
"their parents are making a living in other cities",
"their parents don... | Many Chinese kids, known as "left-behind" children, hardly ever see their parents, because their parents are migrant workers.
Li Ling, 11, is a left-behind child. Her parents have been working in Zhejiang for 10 years, while she lives with her grandparents in Guangdong. She was reunited with her parents last Spring Fes... | high5548.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "takes delight in doing his job"
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"seldom treats his work seriously",
"takes delight in doing his job",
"compares his work to dancing lesson",
"regards work as a great challenge"
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"question": "Wh... | Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap-dancing to work". My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, but what makes me "tap-dance to work" is when we show people something new, like a computer that can recognize your handwriting or your ... | high19022.txt |
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"answer_text": "air"
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"clothes",
"touching"
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"question": "The spread of the TB is through _ .",
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... | People who breathe infected air from a TB patient can become infected with the tuberculosis bacteria . However, most people with active tuberculosis do not expel (,)very many TB bacteria. So, the spread of the disease usually does not happen unless a person spends a large amount of time with a TB patient. Those most a... | high16311.txt |
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"answer_text": "To have a free mind, we need to throw away unneeded items at times."
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"Changing the position of staff frequently will help to build up a clear mind.",
"A tidy office will lead to a success in your business affairs in... | Forget hard work and perseverance. Getting ahead is as simple as tidying your desk.
According to a leading expert, having a cluttered environment reflects a cluttered mind, but the act of tidying up can help you be more successful. The advice comes from Jayne Morris, the resident"life coach" for NHS Online, who said it... | high3139.txt |
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"answer_text": "The blocking of solar radiation"
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"The lack of trees",
"The demand for refrigeration",
"The blocking of solar radiation",
"The construction of infrastructure."
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"question": "Which of the followi... | On warm summer days with little or no wind, the air temperature in cities can be up to ten degrees higher than that of the surrounding countryside. This is a phenomenon commonly referred to as the "urban heat island" effect.
This phenomenon happens when pavement, buildings, and other infrastructure replace natural la... | high8044.txt |
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"answer_text": "VolP,voice over internet protocol"
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"VolP,voice over internet protocol",
"Switching telephone",
"New technology",
"letters"
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"question": "Which one of the following if you call others?",
"qu... | Switching telephone providers used to be the only way homeowners could save money on telephone bills. Now thanks to new technology, comsumers have another choice-making phone calls over the internet. And this can be completely free if you call another person with an internet phone set-up.
The technology is called voice... | high15630.txt |
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"answer_text": "Africa."
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"the American South.",
"Africa.",
"Chicago.",
"Asia."
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"question": "The \"field holler\" is a kind of music that came from _ .",
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... | During the 1800s, African Americans worked long days in the fields of the American South.To ease their labor, they sang "field hollers" that they had brought from Africa.One person sang a line.Then a group of workers repeated it.The songs' words told of the hardships that people suffered.African Americans sang "shout s... | high6069.txt |
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"answer_text": "Compared to the female's, the male jobless rate becomes higher."
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"Compared to the female's, the male jobless rate becomes higher.",
"The US recession has brought heavy burden on many households.",
"The female ... | The US recession has opened up the biggest gap between male and female unemployment rates since records began in 1948, as men bear the blow of the economy's decline.
Men have lost almost 80% of the 5.1 million jobs since the recession started, pushing the male unemployment rate to 8.8%. The female jobless rate has ... | high23382.txt |
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"answer_text": "people can become more and mature and wiser."
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"people can celebrate their birthdays.",
"people can become more and mature and wiser.",
"people can receive many presents.",
"people will feel younger at he... | Happy birthday! Do birthday really make people happy? Of course they do. _ Birthdays celebrate the day when we were born. Besides, that extra candle on the cake suggests another year of growth and maturity --or so we hope.We all like to imagine that we are getting wiser and not just older.Most of us enjoy seeing the wo... | high13241.txt |
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"answer_text": "Her record-setting string of seven Number One singles."
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"Selling more than 170 million albums worldwide.",
"Her 400 career awards.",
"Her vocal talent.",
"Her record-setting string of seven Number One si... | Whitney Houston, who died on February 11, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California, is being remembered across the globe as a trailblazer . Among all of Houston's outstanding achievements, including a total of more than 400 career a wards , her most significant achievement was her record-setting string of seven Number One sin... | high292.txt |
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"answer_text": "Foreign countries."
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"The northwestern Chinese regions.",
"The northern Chinese regions.",
"The western part of China.",
"Foreign countries."
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"question": "Where do most of the sandstorms in Chi... | Most of the sandstorms that had swept China last year came from foreign land,a Chinese official in charge of desertification control said on Monday. And the invasions could partly explain the frequent sandstorms in the country in recent years despite its achievements in desertification control.
Since the start of l... | high10748.txt |
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"answer_text": "he led the people to end slavery and united the nation"
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"he led the people to end slavery and united the nation",
"he caused the Civil War and fought against slavery",
"he was the only president to join in a c... | Recently, another study has been carried out about who is the greatest American president. Sixty-five presidential historians took part in it and they judged the past forty-two American leaders based on ten qualities of leadership, which include public persuasion, crisis leadership, the management of economy, moral l... | high17027.txt |
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"answer_text": "what they can get for their holidays"
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"where to spend their holidays",
"how to spend their holidays",
"what they can get for their holidays",
"who they should go to visit"
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"question": "64. Acc... | Think back to this time last year. What was on your mind?
Most likely, you were thinking about finals or the holidays, although in this city I've noticed that thinking about the holiday is a fancy way of saying how much stuff will I get.
Now reflect on your thoughts for this holiday season. Most people are still thinki... | high16339.txt |
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"answer_text": "how dissimilar the twins were in appearanee"
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"how dissimilar the twins were in appearanee",
"why Christine could win the art competition",
"who was the most popular girl at school",
"what the twins chara... | I was hurrying to our basketball game one morning when Hillary Barnes,the most popular girl,in school,stopped me."Are you the twin who won the art competition?"she asked.
"No,that's Christine.I'm Katie."I said.
We were not identical twins;we looked quite different.She could defeat Snow White in a beauty contest!Compare... | high21595.txt |
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"answer_text": "the life and cause of John Denver"
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"a book written by John Denver",
"the life and cause of John Denver",
"how to write pop songs",
"what Los Angeles was like"
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"question": "This passage is prob... | John Denver has got international fame as a pop star, songwriter, actor and environmental activist ( ). Songs like Take Me Home, Country Road, Rocky
Mountain High and Annie's Song have become very popular. But less than thirty years ago, John Denver was a young man with little more than a fine voice, a guitar, and a dr... | high10990.txt |
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"answer_text": "Sixteen"
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"Four",
"Sixteen",
"Eight",
"Six"
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"question": "How many students get their scholarships each year according to the Straightforward Teacher Program ?",
"question_type": "factiod_qu... | Becoming a teacher is one of the best ways to make a difference in the life of a child and even older students. Here are some great scholarships and grant opportunities to get the ball rolling on your dreams of becoming a teacher.
Straightforward Teacher Program
This is one of the most popular and unique scholarships a... | high20853.txt |
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"answer_text": "Part 4"
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"Part 3",
"Part 4"
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"question": "We can find the introduction to a product in _ .",
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"answer_i... | Reading is very important to help you learn English. To learn as much as you can from reading, you need to read different kinds of English. This book provides not only different kinds of English but also a good way to check your reading ability.
There are four parts in the book :
Part 1 is Messages : In this part someb... | high3111.txt |
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"answer_text": "It's no use dreaming."
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"You'll certainly get what you want.",
"It's no use dreaming.",
"You should be dissatisfied with what you have.",
"It's essential to set a goal for yourself."
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"question"... | Tight-lipped elders used to say, "It's not what you want in this world, but what you get."
Psychology teaches that you do get what you want if you know what you want and want the right things.
You can make a mental blueprint of a desire as you would make a blueprint of a house, and each of us is continually making thes... | high11456.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "seek safety from any hurt"
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"keep herself from the cold",
"wait for the boy to come",
"want to be left alone",
"seek safety from any hurt"
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"question": "The girl was hiding in the tree at deep n... | Her frozen fingers touched the flame trying to feel alive. She could feel the warmth but it was a cold heat, as if the candle was rejecting her.
Her arms turned red because of the cold, her short sleeved shirt not giving her enough warmth. The winter air grabbed at her arms, causing her pain, but she didn't mind. She ... | high3677.txt |
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"answer_text": "in case of an orange alert, we had better not go outside"
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"in case of an orange alert, we had better not go outside",
"the case of the girl with lung cancer was little' linked to air pollution",
"cancer levels... | Leaders of the World Health Organization say they are concerned about the air quality and
health efiects on citizens during a recent outbreak of heavy pollution in Beijing.Still,they said they
were unsure of the exact amount the air pollution takes on any person's body,casting doubts on
local reports tying the area's d... | high17999.txt |
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"answer_text": "important novels"
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"thrillers",
"boys' books",
"romances",
"important novels"
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"question": "According to the passage, the railroad played a significant role in literature in all of the following... | Nineteenth-century writers in the United States, whether they wrote novels, short stories, poems or plays, were powerfully drawn to the railroad in its golden years. In fact, writers responded to the railroads as soon as the first were built in the 1830's. By the 1850's, the railroad was a major presence in the life of... | high11330.txt |
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"answer_text": "prove the limitations of visualization"
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"tell the results of setting goals",
"prove the limitations of visualization",
"draw the readers' attention to the topic",
"stress the importance of visualization"... | It's almost impossible to go through life without experiencing some kind of failure. If you have a fear of failure, you might be uncomfortable setting goals. But goals help us decide where we want to go in life. Without goals, we have no sure destination.
Many experts recommend visualization as a powerful tool for goa... | high17741.txt |
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"answer_text": "a young writer--Gao Can"
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"how to write poems well",
"a young writer--Gao Can",
"the reason why teenagers rarely write poems"
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"question": "The passage is mainly ab... | Writing has become a fashion among today's teenagers. Look at how popular young writers like Han Han and Guo Jingming are.
Gao Can is a writer. Actually, the 18-year-old is the youngest member of the Association of Writers of Shanxi.
So far, the second grader in the Senior High School Affiliated to Xi'an Jiaot... | high18472.txt |
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"answer_text": "being addicted to computer games"
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"using the web at midnight",
"keeping up with friends online",
"spending too much time online",
"being addicted to computer games"
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"question": "The author use... | I was appreciating my family photos on my computer, admiring my two beautiful babies, when I found a disturbing trend: my laptop was in almost all the pictures. There was my daughter, 8 months old, playing at my feet while I was typing away on the couch. There was me and my son, with the laptop at my side as I held him... | high5206.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "always made troubles with his schoolmates"
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"never did his lessons",
"dropped out",
"always made troubles with his schoolmates",
"he was full of new ideas"
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"question": "Steven Jobs was not a go... | Steven Jobs, the designer of Apple Computer, was not clever when he was in school. At that time, he was not a good student and he always made troubles with his schoolmates. When he went into college, he didn't change a lot. Then he dropped out . But he was full of new ideas.
After he left college, Steven Jobs worked as... | high2569.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "No boring CDs."
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"No boring CDs.",
"No meaningless rules.",
"25-hours of teaching.",
"Free lessons for 30 days."
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"question": "What does the ad promise?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions... | _ Pass for a native.
Pimsleur courses help people who need to speak another language quickly. Our courses took 40 years to develop and are now used by the FBI, CIA, and business professionals everywhere. They are so effective that you have nothing to lose!
You will get everything in 10 days:
* Language instruction that... | high13527.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "seek certain materials to make electricity"
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"help farmers make full use of waste",
"seek certain materials to make electricity",
"persuade farmers to grow more coconuts",
"find a suitable place to carry ... | Seth DeBolt is a plant scientist at the University of Kentucky US. He and other scientists wanted to find a source of fuel that poor people in rural areas of developing countries could use to make electricity.
The United Nations Development Program says a billion and a half people have no electricity. A billion others ... | high1060.txt |
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"answer_text": "To collect money for Central Africa"
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"To film a new Planet of the Apes",
"To collect money for Central Africa",
"To make a study of the origin of man",
"To enjoy famous senic spots in London"
],
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"answer": {
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"nervous",
"lonely",
"disappointed"
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"question": "According to the text, most students feel _ when entering the high school.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
}... | In America, when the eighth graders leave the middle school, they are often worried about moving to the high school. It is a hard time for them, but it can be an exciting one as well. To make it easier, students need to get familiar with their school.
Even though they've done this already in the middle school, it's sti... | high8722.txt |
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"answer_text": "We should always be aware of our manners."
},
"options": [
"Parents should be responsible for their children's good habits.",
"The actress is well known for her beautiful posture.",
"We should always be aware of our manners."... | We would probably all be amazed if we watched a videotape of ourselves performing basically unconscious acts as we go about the business of the day. These unconscious acts consist of all the little personal habits that we don't even think about, but definitely should. These are some of the things that present an image ... | high15156.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Negative"
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"grateful",
"Doubtful",
"Interested"
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"answer": {... | I am sure we've all come across inspiring quotes that made us nod in agreement or made us think, "Wow, that's good quote".But we end up going back to procrastinating on whatever it was we were procrastinating on.So are these inspirational quotes even worth reading? Well, that depends.
Quotes, books, articles, audio p... | high12639.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "habitat protection"
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"federal laws",
"the dusky seaside sparrow",
"habitat protection",
"artificial reefs"
],
"question": "This passage is concerned with _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questi... | Worms,antis,and flowers live in soil.Fish,crabs,and seaweeds live in oceans.Birds,insects,and moss live in trees.soil,oceans,and trees are habitatsplaces where animals and plants live .Besides offering food and shelter, habitats allow for growth and reproduction.
Humans, however,have destroyed many habitats.We chan... | high22936.txt |
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"answer_text": "the author's car broke down on the road"
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"the Mexican man couldn't speak English",
"the author's car broke down on the road",
"the Mexican family came to Oregon for a visit",
"$20 was a small amount for ... | I still clearly remember that day. I was on the side of the road for close to four hours with my big Jeep. I put signs in the windows that said, "NEED A JACK ".
Right as I was about to give up, a truck stopped and a man got off. He sized up the situation and went back to take a jack. After about two hours, we finished ... | high1074.txt |
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"answer_text": "probably intended to make money"
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"probably intended to make money",
"are involved in gambling",
"knew a winning mentality for a team is important"
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"questio... | There are many sorts of spies. There are those employed by governments to protect their countries' interests; there are those we find in fiction and film, like the famous James Bond; and then there are the spies of the business world. But now there is a new form of espionage : sports spying. It may be a profitable job... | high9428.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "she takes pride in what she can do herself"
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"servants in American are hard to get",
"she takes pride in what she can do herself",
"she can hardly afford servants",
"It is easy to prepare a meal with cann... | A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man -- the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and comman... | high7405.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "hold the uniform in such high regard"
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"still judge a man by his clothes",
"hold the uniform in such high regard",
"enjoy having a professional identity",
"will respect an elevator operator as much as a g... | Americans are proud of their variety and individuality,yet they love and respect few things more than a uniform,whether it is the uniform of an elevator operator or the uniform of a fivestar general. Why are uniforms so popular in the United States?
Among the arguments for uniforms,one of the first is that in the eyes ... | high15142.txt |
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Sometimes we treat people from other cou... | high11324.txt |
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The technology is more than just... | high18466.txt |
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],
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"Snowden exposed secret documents.",
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... | What would life be like without rich, creamy, mouthwatering, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate?
Life would be bitter for most Americans. They spend about $13 billion a year buying all sorts of chocolate treats.
However, for the African children who toil under slavelike conditions on cacao plantations, life is not sweet. The... | high15624.txt |
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"question": "Who is the text intended for?",
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},
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"declaring war on Japan without a moment's delay",
"turning t... | The summer has seen a series of marine disputes involving China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines. This week there were more anti-Japanese riots in cities across China because of a dispute over a group of uninhabited islands known to the Japanese as the Senkakus and to the Chinese as the Diaoyu I... | high22088.txt |
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},
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"Pictures and greetings on Christmas cards.",
"Invention and design of the first Christmas cards.",
"Histo... | Today, we send millions of Christmas cards every year. But in fact the Christmas card is a ly modern invention.
In the Middle Ages, European wood engravers produced prints with religious themes. But the first real Christmas card, as we understand the term today, was designed in London, England in 1840. It went on sal... | high23396.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "remember his mother"
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"remember his mother",
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"fulfill a wish of his mum"
],
"question": "The author set the starting date on December 15 to _ .",
"... | Yesterday I started the Year of Giving, my first day of a year-long journey into exploring the act of giving and the meaning of charity. I chose December 15 as the starting date, which marked three years since my mother died from heart disease. She was one of the most generous people that I have ever known. She always ... | high13255.txt |
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"It was carried out in two periods of time.",
"The participants were mostly old people.",
"The participants h... | Moving to a new town or even a new neighborhood is stressful at any age, but a new study shows that frequent moves in childhood are related to poorer well-being in adulthood, especially among people who are more introverted or neurotic .
The researchers tested the relationship between the number of childhood moves an... | high1712.txt |
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},
"options": [
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"joining the nightspots",
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"skiing in the sea"
],
"question": "When coming to Virginia Beach,child... | In America,Virginia Beach has all the elements of a classic seaside resort:brilliant beaches,a lively boardwalk,plenty of restaurants and nightspots,and amusement rides sure to appeal to kids.Many believe Virginia Beach is at its best in the off-season,when the town is less crowded but the weather is still mild.
Meanwh... | high286.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "she could only sing one song in the small farm"
},
"options": [
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"she could only sing one song in the small farm",
"there was nothing more that could make her excited",
"The place was rustic,... | Four years ago my sweet mom went to be with her Lord.She did it her way.
I got the call at work, and 1 headed home quickly.Mom and Dad lived on a small farm that they had owned since I was seven.I hated going there every weekend.There was nothing for a young girl to do but watch the one station on the old TV set, if th... | high15817.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
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},
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"has to be successful in finding a job",
"can still ask for help in time of trouble",
"should be able to take care of himself"
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Childhood is a time when there are few _ to make life diffic... | high1921.txt |
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"both children in China and... | Are you carrying too much on your back to school? I'm sure lots of your age will say "Yes". Not only the students in China have this problem, but children in the United States also have heavy school bags.
Doctors are starting to worry about that younger and younger students are having problems as a result of school ba... | high22063.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"they were not interested in their own astronauts",
"the Russian government invited them to do their resear... | Space travel is definitely bad for astronauts' bones, reducing their bone density after only a month of weightlessness, according to French research published on Friday.
Laurence Vico and his fellow workers at St Etienne University called for more research into the effects of microgravity, after their study of 15 astr... | high7388.txt |
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"contains more minerals",
"is better for medical use",
"is more suitable for eating raw"
],
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],
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"He gives no personal opinion",
"He thinks it is artificial",
"He thinks it goes too far."
],
"question": "What is the author's attitude towards English po... | It's really true what people say about English politeness: it's everywhere.When squeezing past someone in a narrow aisle, people say "sorry".When getting off a bus, English passengers say "thank you" rather than the driver.In Germany, people would never dream of doing these things.
After all, squeezing past others some... | high20674.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the second place"
},
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"a gold medal"
],
"question": "In the Vendee Globe race,Ellen won _ .",
"... | Britain's Solo Sailor
Ellen MacArthur started sailing with her aunt when she was eight. She loved it so much that she saved her money for three years to buy her first small sailing boat.When she was 18,she sailed alone around Britain and won the "Young Sailor of the Year" award.
But Ellen really became famous in 2... | high20112.txt |
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"How can people be successful?",
"How do people make plans?",
"How do people do business?"
],
"question": "Which of the... | How do successful people think? What drives them? Interviews and investigations show that there are several keys to success that successful people share.
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Mother was impressed by his boyish charm and humor."
},
"options": [
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"Her mother disliked Rich's freckled face.",
"Mother was impressed by his boyish charm and humor.",
"S... | After much thought,I came up with a brilliant plan.I worked out a way for Rich to meet my mother and win her over.In fact,I arranged it so my mother would want to cook a meal especially for him.
Rich was not only not Chinese and he was a few years younger than I was.And unfortunately,he looked much younger with his cur... | high19793.txt |
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"answer": {
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"Calm",
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The report, published online in The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, analyz... | high22705.txt |
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"any other country in Western Europe",
"any country in Western Europe",
"every country in Europe"
],
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Some European people realized that the European nations need to join together to help each other. I... | high6928.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"Ma Shwe was placing the calf on the rock",
"the calf was washed away by the rising water",
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "So Aunt Bet would not know she was there"
},
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"So Aunt Bet would not know she was there",
"Because the candle was shining in his eyes",
"Because he did not want to app... | Wide awake in Aunt Bet's Southern house, Annie Van Lew shivered at the sounds of distant guns. It was bad enough that America was at war, but the young Virginia girl was not used to battles being fought this close. _ .Annie sat up in bed and listened.Had a stranger broken in? Earlier, the family had heard that capture... | high22711.txt |
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},
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"It will be the Games of the 30th Olympiad.",
"They will be held in the host country's winter... | The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event. The host city of the Games will be Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as announced at the 121st IOC Session held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 2, 2009. They are scheduled to be held from August 5 to 21, 20... | high18499.txt |
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"answer": {
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"the direction of the wind",
"the temperature of the lake",
"the strength of the wind"
],
"question": "The level of the snowfall depends on _ ... | The south and east of the Great Lakes is famous for the huge amounts of snow it receives. When the snow starts to fall every year, people start discussing the phrase "lake-effect snow".
Lake-effect snow which is influenced by the movement of cold air over the relatively warm water of the Great Lakes often comes in late... | high3844.txt |
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"answer": {
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"They won wsbtv.com's tournament.",
"They played before a baseball game.",
"They got a sum of money as a reward."
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The North Cobb High School Band routinely takes the field every Friday night during football season. The band plays at North Cobb football games.
This week, the band had to get ready a little earlier in the week. That's because they played before the Atlanta Braves base... | high20106.txt |
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"to instruct PTSD patients to return to civilian life",
"to recommend a website to veterans and people concern... | After successfully serving their terms for 4 years, military service men and women are given the choice to stay in the military or return to civilian life.
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"answer": {
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},
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},
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"What are you doing?"I asked.
"... | high17972.txt |
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"About 3 million.",
"About 1.9 million.",
"About 0.96 million."
],
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"Because they are asked to turn off their mobiles.",
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"romantic partners"
],
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"question_type": "cloze_ques... | How Many Lies Do the Children Tell You?
Mothers who feel their children don' t appreciate them can add another _ to the list: half the time, their children are lying to them. A study designed to expose the truth about lying shows that undergraduates lie to their mothers in 46% of their conversations. Still, mums should... | high4695.txt |
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Two central prefix = st1 /Pennsylvaniafriends spent most of March in a text - messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000.
For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $ 26,000.
Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were relying on their unli... | high23369.txt |
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"answer": {
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"be responsible for a well-organized class",
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"Teenagers shouldn't talk with strangers in public.",
"Teenagers mustn't use aggressive language in publi... | Teenagers will be told to "stand up for their elders" on public transport -- or risk losing their right to free travel.
London Mayor Boris Johnson will declare plans today to make youngsters sign a "courtesy pledge" to promise to behave in a respectful manner when travelling in the capital. The three-point pledge st... | high279.txt |
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},
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"They were not allowed to take the same bus with the white."
],
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},
"options": [
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"They include five RPG, forty chess games and one educational game.",
"They are su... | China's Ministry of Culture has recommended 10 cyber games that are suitable for minors to play as part of its drive to purify the on-line environment for the young.
The 10 cyber games were selected by the ministry's on-line games censorship committee from scores of games recommended by the Chinese public.l
The games ... | high10953.txt |
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},
"options": [
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"The professors need more room to present their talents.",
"Lectures are mai... | My friend Fowkes, tells a story of a class he took in 1930s, when books were short and expensive. On the first day the professor marched up to the blackboard, looked through his notes, cleared his throat, and began. Fowkes was the only student in the course. Once Fowkes fell ill and missed a class. When he returned, to... | high20890.txt |
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"they could go sightseeing on foot",
"the underground made the wife feel sick",
"all the above"
],
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"Politeness in communication"
],
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"the industrial structure needed reforming",
"the place was intended for other purp... | There is a unique place where deserted factories have been transformed into a lively artistic zone - where the city's tradition and heritage meet with cutting-edge art and fashion. This is Redtory.
Located at Yuancun Si Heng Lu, not far from the Pearl River of Guangzhou city, Redtory is a creative cultural and industr... | high23341.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "He only depended on good weather and harvest for survival."
},
"options": [
"He didn't work hard.",
"He had too many children to feed.",
"The villagers kept taking his corn.",
"He only depended on good weather and harve... | Shundagarh is a village on India's east-facing coast. It is a village of simple mud and grass houses built on the beach just above the waterline. The Khadra Hills rise immediately behind the village, to a height of one hundred and fifty meters. A simple, good-hearted old man, whose name was Jalpur, farmed two small fie... | high13282.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "bad effects of global warming"
},
"options": [
"rapid changes in earth's temperature",
"bad effects of global warming",
"moving of a country to a new place",
"reasons for lowland flooding"
],
"question": "The te... | You might think that "global warming" means nothing more than a rise in the world's temperature But rising sea levels caused by it have resulted in the first evacuation of an island nation--the citizens of Tuvalu will have to leave their homeland.
During the 20th century , sea level rose 8--12 inches. As a result ,Tuva... | high251.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "began to realize the importance of food"
},
"options": [
"found people were crazy about bread",
"began to realize the importance of food",
"thought that cutting bread was amazing",
"learned people hardly baked their own... | I believe that my country, Poland, is a perfect example for a place where food is particularly important. When we were little children, we began to understand how much a loaf of bread meant to our parents--to some it might sound silly but for me the custom of kissing bread before you started cutting it was simply amazi... | high8087.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "did not know the hole was very deep"
},
"options": [
"were going too fast to stop their cars",
"did not see the hole ahead of them",
"did not know the hole was very deep",
"liked very much driving through water"
],
... | There was once a farmer who lived near a road. It was not a busy road,but from time to time,cars passed the farm.
Near the farm gate, there was a large hole in the road. this hole was always full of water, and the drivers of the cars could not see how deep the hole was. They thought it was probably not deep.So when the... | high15195.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "all travellers to Hong Kong"
},
"options": [
"all citizens in Hong Kong",
"all travellers to Hong Kong",
"all persons going to Hong Kong from Kowloon",
"all people travelling in the world"
],
"question": "The no... | During your stay outside Hong Kong, you may have been exposed to certain infectious diseases without your knowledge.
In case you develop any symptom such as fever, chills, skin troubles or vomiting within 14 days of your arrival in Hong Kong, you should consult a doctor or attend an accident & emergency department/ge... | high22739.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Critical."
},
"options": [
"Critical.",
"Approving",
"uncaring",
"Unclear"
],
"question": "What is the author's attitude towards Plato and Aristotle's theory?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {... | Why do we laugh and get amusement from so many different things,from puns to pratfalls? Why are some things funny to some people and not to others? How is that while a successful joke can cause pleasure,a sick one can cause serious harm?
Over the centuries,various scholars have attempted to produce a universally agre... | high6914.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "To practice English every day and make a record of your achievements."
},
"options": [
"To read English every day.",
"To make a record of your mistakes.",
"To buy a dictionary.",
"To practice English every day and make ... | Some people learn a second language easily. Other people have trouble learning a new language. How can you help yourself learn a new language,such as English? There are several ways to make learning English a little easier and more interesting.
The first step is to feel confident about learning English. If you believe ... | high8939.txt |
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