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"answer_text": "It helps get rid of people's smartphone addiction."
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"It is actually a new kind of real smartphone.",
"It can help us stay away from the real world.",
"It helps get rid of people's smartphone addiction.",
... | If you're secretly worried about your smartphone addiction, then the new NoPhone might be just the thing you need.It looks and feels exactly like a smartphone,but it does nothing.It's just a piece of plastic that you can carry around in your hand to fool yourself.
Dutch designer lngmar Larsen came up with the idea as a... | high9818.txt |
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"answer_text": "An article in a magazine."
},
"options": [
"Her love for her s.",
"Her rich imagination about the objects.",
"An article in a magazine.",
"Some pictures in an article."
],
"question": "What made the writer have... | Looking through a magazine in a waiting room recently, I came across an article with the title "My top five most precious possessions".It was just a few lines of text with pictures, but it caught my imagination. It's interesting how inanimate objects can take on such significance and become woven into a person's, and ... | high24177.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "it looked strange in several ways"
},
"options": [
"it was a small wooden boat",
"it carried Chinese silk and tea",
"it had traveled fifteen thousand miles",
"it looked strange in several ways"
],
"question": "T... | Over a hundred years ago people in London were surprised to see a very unusual boat come sailing up the Thames River.The boat was eighty feet long flat-bottomed,with big wooden eyes on both sides in the front and was colorfully painted at the back.
People came to know that it was a sailing boat from Fuzhou in distant C... | high7835.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "safety is actually a serious problem"
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"options": [
"most of students like shooting",
"the students are not expected to be soldiers",
"safety is actually a serious problem",
"students can freely take guns into their c... | More than 6,000 children were expelled from US school last year for bringing guns and bombs to school, the US Department of Education said on May 8.
The department gave a report to the expulsions as saying handguns accounted for 58 percent of the 6,093 expulsions in 1996--1997, against 7 percent for rifles or sh... | high23618.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They saved those people's businesses from destruction."
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"options": [
"They saved those people's businesses from destruction.",
"They left those people's business unharmed much.",
"They sent soldiers to serve them no matter... | There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for "protection". If the money was not paid immediately, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop. Getting "protection money" is not a modern means. As long ago a... | high6295.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Healthcare developed more slowly than economics."
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"options": [
"Healthcare developed more slowly than economics.",
"Economics developed more slowly than healthcare.",
"The health indicators failed to improve economics.",
... | The head of the World Health Organization (WTO) yesterday warned of worsening health in the country's vast rural areas while praising the government for its commitment on improving healthcare in the countryside.
"The health indicators have failed to improve in pace with economic indicators." said Margared Ch... | high22260.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "do well in tests"
},
"options": [
"do well in tests",
"be considered inferior",
"be more effective than others",
"do research when faced with a task"
],
"question": "People with great cognitive ability tend to ... | Three years ago I listened to a lecture on cognition that changed the way I think about intelligence. There are two types of cognition, and the first is normal cognition the ability to regain knowledge from memory. The second type of cognition is metacognition the ability to know whether or not you know.
Does this aff... | high4482.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "providing passengers all kinds of service"
},
"options": [
"facilities in the hotel",
"providing passengers all kinds of service",
"the ways of serving",
"carrying out the promise of the hotel"
],
"question": "T... | Welcome to the Ambassador Hotel. To make your stay as enjoyable as possible, we hope you will use our facilities to the full.
_
Breakfast is served in the dining mom from 8 to 9:30 a.m.. Alternatively, the room staff will bring a breakfast tray to your room at any time after 7 a.m., if you place an order for it by t... | high5944.txt |
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"answer_text": "salesman"
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"robot",
"soldier",
"salesman",
"athlete"
],
"question": "It can be inferred from the text that the author is most probably a(n) _ .",
"question_type": "summarization_questions"
... | Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my mind, my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me. I'm a unique creature.
Vain attempts to imitate others no longer will I ma... | high11872.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "judge the quality of fresh milk"
},
"options": [
"adjust the temperature of milking stations",
"judge the quality of fresh milk",
"improve the appetite of cows",
"keep fresh milk for two weeks"
],
"question": "B... | Technology is making life easier for some dairy farmers.They use robotic systems to milk their cows.Cows are trained to follow a series of paths that lead to milking stations.Only one cow at a time can enter a station.
Once inside,the cow is rewarded with food.As the cow eats,a robotic arm cleans and connects the anim... | high2018.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "to cheer Hector"
},
"options": [
"to play football",
"to cheer Hector",
"to direct Hector",
"to pick up the football"
],
"question": "Hector's father attended every game _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_ques... | Hector always gave everything he had. But because he was only half the size of the other boys, he mostly had to sit out his high school football games. Even so, Hector's father was always in the stands cheering. He never missed a game.
A few years later, Hector decided to try out for the college team. The coach kept h... | high17230.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Because they wanted to save money in this way."
},
"options": [
"Because they had no time to find helpers.",
"Because they wanted to save money in this way.",
"Because they thought they were able to do that.",
"Because ... | David and I met as interns on Capital Hill. Our love then grew through a 5-year long-distance relationship. We were able to survive despite our pursuit to become a doctor and a lawyer. He was at the University of Michigan School of Medicine and I was at the University of Maryland School of Law. We encouraged each othe... | high18103.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Homemade CPUs on the Way for Local Supercomputers"
},
"options": [
"The Arrival of Chinese Supercomputers",
"Homemade CPUs with a Long Way to Go",
"The Supercomputers of Three Organizations in China",
"Homemade CPUs on ... | BEIJING - By the end of 2011 China-made supercomputers will say goodbye to foreign microchips and start using their own "Chinese core ", according to one of the country's leading scientists, Hu Weiwu.
Hu told reporters on Saturday that the "Dawning 6000" supercomputer, developed by the Institute of Computing Technolog... | high5777.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Love takes a long period."
},
"options": [
"Love takes a long period.",
"Love gets along without richness.",
"Love goes on against Vanity.",
"Love is different from happiness."
],
"question": "What idea did the ... | Once upon a time, there was an island inhabited by: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all the rest of it, including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left. Except for Love.
Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out until the last pos... | high11899.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A newspaper"
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"A magazine on science",
"A fairy Tale",
"A scientific fantasy book",
"A newspaper"
],
"question": "Where can this passage probably be adapted from?",
"question_type": null
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... | A powerful earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan at two forty-six p.m. local time on March eleventh.2011. Japan's Meteorological Agency released its first tsunami warnings just three minutes later. The country has one of the best earthquake early warning systems in the world.
There are more than four thous... | high3306.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "he had a strong, confident and independent character"
},
"options": [
"he had no working experience in medicine",
"he had a strong, confident and independent character",
"his performance during the probation didn't meet their... | Recently, I learned firsthand why it's a bad idea to judge people prematurely .
I'm a nursing supervisor, and my job is to evaluate workers' performances at the hospital.
Kenny was a new employee. After weeks' probation , I had to admit that he was clean, punctual and efficient.
But he had this self-assured and energ... | high11641.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "they naturally put off forming new habits"
},
"options": [
"they don't have enough desire",
"their life is filled with routine work",
"they benefit from the force of habit",
"they naturally put off forming new habits"
... | To be able to motivate oneself, or self-motivate, occurs when a person has the willingness to do something and is internally motivated to do it.
Sometimes it's very difficult to get ourselves moving.The natural tendency is to postpone.Life just seems to get in the way! There is a job to go to, groceries to do, televis... | high12348.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "testing the students better on the knowledge and skills they've learnt"
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"options": [
"getting more students interested in the entrance exam",
"making it easier for students to be admitted into colleges",
"offering chances ... | Essay is optional and no penalties for wrong answers. These changes will take place in SAT college exam. The changes include the use of some words more commonly used in school and on the job instead of the words such as "prevaricator" and "sagacious".
College Board officials said the change is needed to make the exam ... | high8253.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Feel confident about your ability."
},
"options": [
"Don't compare with others.",
"Bring everything under control.",
"Find out what you have in mind.",
"Feel confident about your ability."
],
"question": "56. Ac... | A
When you think of success, you think of relative achievements in your own world. Each element of your world is important to you, and there is no need to compare with others. You cannot affect the success of others; you can affect your own success.
Success is very much achievable to everybody. Believe that and you hav... | high15427.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "thief"
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"options": [
"prisoner",
"piano-player",
"thief",
"small boy"
],
"question": "People called him \"Fingers\" because he was a _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answer": {
... | Sam "Fingers" had been in trouble all his life. He'd started stealing things when he was only a kid. He used to walk through the street market near his home and "pick up" a few things--an apple, or a hairbrush perhaps. But things got worse as Sam got older. By the time he was twenty-five, he was spending a lot of time ... | high14739.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "went to a certain pigeon and put some money in the bag it carried"
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"options": [
"went to a certain pigeon and put some money in the bag it carried",
"gave the money to the thief and had his car back in a park",
"sent some ... | Taiwan police cannot decide whether to treat it as an extremely clever act of stealing or an even cleverer cheat .Either way, it could be a perfect crime , because the criminals are birds----homing pigeons.
The crime begins with a telephone message to the owner of a stolen car: if you want the car back, pay some money.... | high23195.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "When men and women meet."
},
"options": [
"When traditional events are held.",
"When a tea ceremony is held.",
"When men and women meet.",
"When meals are traditionally had."
],
"question": "Which of the followi... | Many Western people are not used to sitting on the floor any more. In Japan, however, sitting upright on the floor is common in different situations. For example, meals are traditionally had when people sit on the tatami floor around a low table. Also during the tea ceremony and other traditional events, one sits on ... | high13056.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "4."
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"options": [
"4.",
"5.",
"6.",
"7."
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"question": "How many cities in Morocco are introduced in the passage?",
"question_type": null
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_te... | Morocco is located at the northwest of Africa and is bordered in the north by the strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea. The Atlantic Ocean keeps the west and the north of the country more temperate . The country also offers the broadest plains some of which run along the Atlantic Ocean and the highest mountain... | high1511.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "were more anxious"
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"options": [
"started sleep more easily",
"were more anxious",
"were less active",
"woke up later"
],
"question": "According to the text, the mice fed with daytime milk _ .",
"questio... | A warm drink of milk before bed has long been the best choice for those wanting a good night's sleep. But now a study has found it really does help people nod off--if it is milked from a cow at night.
Researchers have discovered that "night milk" contains more melatonin , which has been proven to help people feel sleep... | high13730.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "A valuable educational project for farmers"
},
"options": [
"A best-selling mobile phone",
"A valuable educational project for farmers",
"United States support for developing countries",
"A new type of scientist -farmer... | Mobile phones are an important business tool for farmers in rural areas. But they also put a valuable educational tool in their hands.
The University of Illinois in the United States has a project called SAWBO--Scientific Animations Without Borders. It produces educational videos that can be downloaded to cell phones. ... | high1277.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To clarify the reasons leading to the failure of achieving goals."
},
"options": [
"To remind people of the importance of setting life goals.",
"To convince people of keeping to their life goals.",
"To clarify the reasons lea... | There are many reasons that goals go unfulfilled. For many, goal setting is a never ending circle that starts, stops, and begins again. To help us succeed in reaching our goals, let's examine the reasons why many people fail at reaching them. Here are 7 Reasons That You Won't Reach Your Goals:
1. You Don't Have Any Goa... | high6518.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Looking for anything out of the ordinary."
},
"options": [
"Looking for anything out of the ordinary.",
"Looking for something that had been lost.",
"Being careful not to disturb people.",
"Being careless in carrying ou... | The young policeman, Constable Rider, walked more quickly than usual, because of the cold, but he did not consciously neglect any part of his work. His torch flashed on doorways and windows as he looked for anything that was at all suspicious, and when he ever thought that anything was unusual, he went to try the doo... | high7606.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "marketing this paint in Europe is not under way"
},
"options": [
"the paint has already been used on cars by now",
"the paint beats other products of its kind in its lengthy effect",
"car damage is mainly caused by scratches ... | After years of hearing drivers complain about scratches on their cars, Japan's Nissan Motor Company has officially announced the next big thing--a paint that not only resists scratches and scrapes, but actually repairs itself within a few days.
The new material, developed by Nippon Paint Company, contains an elastic ... | high15341.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because the mother was worried about her daughter's health."
},
"options": [
"Because the mother was worried about her daughter's health.",
"Because the mother thought her daughter was brave enough.",
"Because the mother was ... | By May,after three months,I had lost22pounds and reached my goal of 115 pounds.My friends would say "Alice,you look great!"or"How did you lose so much weight?"Those _ made me feel good and confident.
Soon I dropped to110 pounds.A few of my friends told me that I needed to stop dieting,because I was starting to look sic... | high3460.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "can work for about a month"
},
"options": [
"is aged between 24 and 40",
"can work for about a month",
"should deal with general duties",
"may do some training work"
],
"question": "We learn from the ads that th... | Software Trainer
If you are aged 24-25 and have experience in teaching and training, you could be the person we are looking for. You should be good at the computer and have some experience in programme writing. You will be allowed to make your own decisions, and to design courses as well as present them. Pay upwards of... | high11127.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "three"
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"options": [
"two",
"three",
"four",
"five"
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"question": "The writer mentions _ main factors to make a news story really great .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answer": {... | To write a great news story , you have to make sure it is correct , relevant and fresh.
For a start, all the information in a story must be correct. Not only the spelling and grammar, but also the facts.
Any mistakes that appear in a story can get a newspaper into big trouble.
For example, if a newspaper said that ... | high16648.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "People shop in nearby stores without having to drive, so small businesses are declining."
},
"options": [
"More people prefer to travel on public transportation which costs less than driving cars.",
"People shop in nearby stores wi... | "Extra? Extra! Gasoline hits four dollars a gallon!"
No one will really be shocked -- except, perhaps, the old-timers who tell about the good old days when gas was three gallons for a dollar, and people drove around "just for the fun of it".
As a matter of fact, the price of gas has been rising fast and... | high17556.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "take children to play games at the City Theatre"
},
"options": [
"take children to play games at the City Theatre",
"go and watch a ballgame",
"go to a concert at Rose Hall,City College",
"go to the Central Park for a p... | Enjoyable Saturday
Do your children enjoy interesting stories,funny games,and exciting dances?Captain Goodfellow will be ready to do all these things with children at the City Theatre on Saturday morning at 10:00,free.
Movies at the Museum
Two European movies will be shown on Saturday afternoon at the Museum Theatre.Se... | high16890.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He could not catch a fish."
},
"options": [
"He could not catch a fish.",
"His father was not patient with him.",
"His father did not teach him fishing.",
"He could not influence a fish as his father did."
],
"q... | When I was nine years old, I loved to go fishing with my dad. But the only thing that wasn't very fun about it was that he could catch many fish while I couldn't catch anything. I usually got pretty upset and kept asking him why. He always answered, "Son, if you want to catch a fish, you have to think like a fish", I r... | high10239.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "ways to keep our voice youthful"
},
"options": [
"ways to keep us from aging",
"ways to talk with other people",
"ways to keep our voice youthful",
"prevention of diseases caused by talking too much"
],
"questio... | As we get older, most of us worry about grey hair, wrinkles and maintaining a youthful body. But people often don't realize the voice needs looking after. Here, Mr. Rubin, a voice expert, reveals how to keep your voice youthful.
Drink more fluid and avoid spicy food
You need water for the vocal cords to vibrate well.... | high3474.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "an iPod touch"
},
"options": [
"a computer",
"an iPhone",
"an iPod",
"an iPod touch"
],
"question": "According to the text, Matt's daughter would like to have _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
... | Apple is known for offering the best customer service in the consumer technology market, such as Lenovo, Google and Nokia, in customer satisfaction surveys every year .
A particular story tells of how an Apple store manager broke a rule to earn a new, 10-year-old customer for life.
Matt tells us this touching story:
My... | high11133.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A medical magazine"
},
"options": [
"An medical institute.",
"A research center.",
"A medical magazine",
"A TV station"
],
"question": "60. What is the American Journal of Preventive Medicine?",
"question_ty... | Risk of death is 3.5 to 5 times greater for obese smokers than it is for people who have never smoked and are at a normal weight, according to a study published in the November, 2006 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
The study, which began with a self-administered questionnaire taken between 1983 ... | high5005.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They were too poor to live in the former house."
},
"options": [
"Both of them were out of work.",
"They wanted to live a better life.",
"The man could take better care of his business.",
"They were too poor to live in ... | On a freezing cold day, a couple had to move into a small apartment because of their failure in business.The husband worked day and night to support the family but with no care of his wife.So she thought, "He doesn't love me any more, he just cares about his business, not me".
One day, she was about to take a shower wh... | high18671.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "what music a restaurant plays makes it different from other restaurants"
},
"options": [
"music can influence diners' eating speed",
"a restaurant shouldn't often change its background music",
"he realized the importance of m... | Music probably isn't the main reason for where you choose to eat something, but restaurant owners put a lot of thought into what they play.
In a recent article about music's role in restaurant design, author Mark Brandau details the different ways sound influences sales. Here are a few "notes" to keep in mind the nex... | high16884.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "241-2742."
},
"options": [
"241-2742.",
"723-1182.",
"381-3300.",
"232-6220."
],
"question": "Which number should you call if you want to see an opera?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"an... | Music
Opera at Music Hall: 1243 Elm Street. The season runs June through August, with additional performances in March and September. The Opera honors Enjoy the Arts membership discounts. Phone: 241-2742. http://www.cityopera.com.
Chamber Orchestra: The Orchestra plays at Memorial Hall at 1406 Elm Street, which offers ... | high13724.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "By talking to him."
},
"options": [
"By putting red paper-cuts on windows.",
"By eating up beasts.",
"By talking to him.",
"By riding on him."
],
"question": "How did the old man stop Nian from eating people?",
... | Every country has its traditional festivals. The Chinese New Year is now known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the beginning of spring. Though there are some sayings about its origin, all agree that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese means "year", was originally the name of a beast that started to eat... | high1263.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Her female line was well linked."
},
"options": [
"Her dream of being a mother came true.",
"She found her origin from her Chinese mother.",
"She wrote the letter to her daughter.",
"Her female line was well linked."
... | Dear Maya Shao-ming,
To me, June 6, 1990 is a special day. My long-awaited dream came true the minute your father cried, "A girl!" You are more than just a second child, more than just a girl to match our boy. You, little daughter, are the link to our female line, the legacy of another woman's pain and sacrifice 31 yea... | high7612.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "social skills"
},
"options": [
"social skills",
"culture",
"race",
"gender"
],
"question": "While making friends, kids think more about the following EXCEPT _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
... | Washington: A research conducted at the University of Maryland looks at the numerous complex reasons as to why young children decide to include or exclude other kids from their group of friends.
It suggests that the kids' decision-making process is much more complex than previously believed.
"They take into account g... | high15355.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the French Revolution"
},
"options": [
"Charles Dickens",
"the French Revolution",
"deep sympathy",
"the upper class"
],
"question": ". A Tale of Two Cities is mainly about _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_qu... | A Tale of Two Cities was written by the famous English writer Charles Dickens. The tale is mainly about the French Revolution in 1789, where the poor rose up against the king and the nobles. Dickens showed deep sympathy for the poor and deep hatred for the cruelty of the upper class, though he wrote quite a lot about t... | high7174.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "to tell us how to eat instant noodles safely and healthily."
},
"options": [
"To tell us how the instant noodles are made.",
"To tell us how to cook instant noodles.",
"To tell us something about the layer of wax coating on t... | Everyone who has eaten instant noodles before knows how it looks like. It is very easy to cook it instantly by putting the noodles into the boiling water and add in those MSG packets, together with your other ingredients like eggs or vegetables. However, have you ever wondered whether this is the correct way of cooki... | high8247.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "The government organized to clear the snow away with snow-ploughs and gritters."
},
"options": [
"More than 3000 schools had to close for the heavy snow.",
"Major motorways in the country had to close for the bad weather.",
"... | The British usually expect one or two snowfalls each year but the amount of snow rarely affects everyday life. However, this week Britain has had the worst snow it has seen in around 18 years. Some places had more than 30cm in a day.
The bad weather caused severe disruption. More than 3000 schools had to close as teac... | high23181.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Penguins lost ability to taste fish"
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In the first stage of our lives,we develop and grow, reaching toward the top of physical vitality .
After we grow up,however, the body begins a process of gradually wearing out.
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"He is too short to be a tennis player",
"He was born disa... | To get to the tennis court, Conner Stroud has to push his wheelchair there.
The 15-yea-old from North Carolina, US was born without legs. But when he picks up his racquet and begins to hit a ball, you quickly see that the young man just want to win.
Stroud began playing tennis at age 5 at the small tennis club his par... | high12374.txt |
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"Children never fly kites on their own in flying lessons.",
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"There are too many taps accessing the water.",
"The population of the area is growing fast.",
"The coming ... | As you climb into the hill country, the roads get dustier and rougher, and fewer cars can be seen. Phonxay is one of the poorest districts of Laos, and many of its villages are only accessible by footpath. Our destination this hot morning is a concrete water tank that can be found just off the road. A UK organization h... | high4333.txt |
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"His father went too far to praise him.",
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"he wanted to donate more t... | When I was about 14, I decided to make money, so I got a part-time job at a local restaurant. With my first paycheck, I realized that I would have to work awfully hard to make very little money. My boss had been making just above minimum wage for 20 years, and I knew I didn't want to spend the rest of my life working t... | high10205.txt |
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"to get in touch with the shy and eager boy"
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At a glance Kane was a sight. He'd been born with hard sticks for legs. And on that morning I witnessed the effect that Kane's physical shortcomings had on his family. B... | high6524.txt |
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A team of researchers led by Se Ji... | high23817.txt |
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"computers can make people sleep fast",
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Your bedroom should be shaped to your taste and to allow you to sleep in a peaceful environment. One of the b... | high12412.txt |
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"answer": {
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"teach the students about toy design"
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"they have carefully planned their family trips for holidays",
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Right now, the four tr... | high9603.txt |
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"there are 15.96 million visitors visiting London in 2013",
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"answer": {
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In ancient times, man settled near rivers or on river banks and built up large empires.
Water is nature's most v... | high15369.txt |
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"it is the largest English dictionary ever published",
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As China plays a more and more important role in the world economy, the Chinese language is forever evolving, attracting more attention from people wh... | high23803.txt |
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One evening ,the telephone rang while the old woman was... | high12406.txt |
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"H7N9 transmission may be spreading between people .",
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The findings provide the stron... | high4327.txt |
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But the boy changed after leaving home and attending the boarding school. His grades started dropping. He hated be... | high16660.txt |
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"the city councilman was responsible for the decreasing of life quality",
"the... | Mark felt that it was time for him to take part in his community activities, so he went to the neighborhood meeting after work. The city councilman was leading a discussion about the decreasing life quality. The neighborhood faced many problems.
Mark looked at the charts taped to the walls. There are charts for crime,... | high10211.txt |
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],
"question": "The passage is mainly about _ .",
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Many kinds of agriculture depend on these small, social insects. Without bees, fruit and nut growers as well as many other farmers would not have a crop.
There are more than 20,000 kinds of bees.... | high2756.txt |
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"answer": {
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],
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"questio... | My Left Foot (1989)
Imagine _ , unable to make any movements except to move your left foot. The main character in My Left Foot,based on the real story of cerebral palsy sufferer Christy Brown,can barely move his mouth to speak, but by controlling his left foot, he's able to express himself as an artist and poet. For ... | high10577.txt |
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"They are trying to get high scores."
],
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"others often make fun of them.",
"They can't find boyfriends."
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"answer": {
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"question": "Peter Post thinks using \"You're welcome\" to reply to \"Thank you\" is _ .",
"qu... | A recent National Public Radio program examined the disappearance of some of the first words we were probably taught - "please" and "thank you." Other polite phrases are also disappearing. "You're welcome" has been replaced by "sure," "no problem," "you bet" or "enjoy."
Are we becoming ruder, or are patterns of speec... | high17218.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "an average height for an adult"
},
"options": [
"an average height for an adult",
"too tall for an average person",
"too short for an average person",
"none of the above"
],
"question": "It can be inferred from ... | Hank Viscardi was 26 years old when he put on his first pair of long trousers and his first pair of shoes. For the first time he saw himself as he had always wanted to be a full five feet eight inches tall.
Hank had been born without legs. Until he was seven, his world was a world of repeated operations. At last he had... | high16106.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "They don't tell them that they have failed."
},
"options": [
"They give them some presents.",
"They don't tell them that they have failed.",
"They don't blame others.",
"They help them to come out of failure."
],
... | Why are so many people afraid to fail? Quite simply because we forget that failure is part of the human life and that every person has the right to fail. Every person is able to fight failure and finally succeed.
Most parents work hard at preventing failure or protecting their children from the knowledge that they have... | high11669.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "research in China finds air pollution shortened life expectancy"
},
"options": [
"research in China finds air pollution shortened life expectancy",
"the government provided free coal for heating in North China",
"coal burning... | A new study links heavy air pollution from coal burning to shorter lives in northern China. Researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of 5 years less than their southern counterparts because they breathed dirtier air.
China itself made the comparison possible: for d... | high5987.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Three."
},
"options": [
"Two.",
"Three.",
"Four.",
"Five."
],
"question": "How many reasons does the author give for using humor?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
... | For any person who must speak in public, to business or pleasure groups, humor is a helpful, and necessary, tool for getting your message across. Why does humor work a lot? There are several reasons.
People will enjoy what you have to say if it is presented with humor. But, more importantly, if you are in a situation w... | high12360.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Science."
},
"options": [
"Nation.",
"Opinion.",
"Business.",
"Science."
],
"question": "In which part of a newspaper can you read the above passage?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {
"a... | Findings from a new study were presented at a recent meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society. Researchers in the United States studied 100,000 women during an eight-year period, beginning in 1994. All of the women were fifty or older. The study was part of the Women's Health Initiative organized by the National... | high9165.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "It can be avoided if human values are translated into their language."
},
"options": [
"It may constitute a challenge to computer progranmers.",
"It accompanies all machinery involving high technology.",
"It can be avoided if... | As Artificial Intelligence(AI) becomes increasingly sophisticated, there are growing concerns that robots could become a threat. This danger can be avoided, according to computer science professor Stuart Russell, if we figure out how to turn human values into a programmable code.
Russell argues that as robots take on m... | high14711.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "all of the above"
},
"options": [
"birds and otters",
"shellfish",
"seals and whales",
"all of the above"
],
"question": "The creatures affected by the oil spill near Alaska were _ .",
"question_type": "cl... | Every year 2.2 million tons of oil are spilled ( , ) into the ocean. Actually, this only amounts to a small percentage of the total 1.6 billion tons of oil shipped around the world each year.However, this spilled oil has terrible effects on ocean life, including the coastlines where the off washes up onto shore. Some o... | high6256.txt |
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