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"answer_text": "Positive."
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"Positive.",
"Indifferent(\n).",
"Negative.",
"Worried."
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"question": "What is the author's attitude towards giving children pocket money?",
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"a... | "How should I give my children pocket money?" is one of the most common questions asked by parents. "Should kids receive pocket money when they get high marks at school, or lose pocket money if they don't help with the housework?" are also common questions.
Giving pocket money is an excellent way to develop childr... | high1539.txt |
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"answer_text": "To 1 Bowling Green."
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"To 1 Bowling Green.",
"To 1216 Fifth Ave.",
"To Seventh Ave at 27\nthSt.",
"To 103\nrdWall St."
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"question": "If you are interested in Native American culture, where would... | In New York there are quite a few free museums for visitors. Below we explore New York's most impressive free ones.
National Museum of the American Indian
Focusing largely on Native American culture, this museum boasts over a million items, from crafts to traditional tools, all of which played a large part in Native Am... | high12837.txt |
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"answer_text": "People in their early twenties."
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"Teens.",
"People in their early twenties.",
"People in their early thirties.",
"People in their early forties."
],
"question": "Who are most likely to rely on co... | The personal computer has overtaken the family dog as man's best friend.according to a study.
Researchers found that just 6 per cent of us believe that" most people rely more on their dog than they do on their PC",while 67 per cent think the opposite to be true.
Even 38 per cent of dog owners admitted to relying more o... | high522.txt |
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"answer_text": "Most of the hotels in Switzerland offer first class service."
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"Most of the hotels in Switzerland are big in size.",
"The hotels in Switzerland offer exactly the same service.",
"Most of the hotels in Switzerla... | More perhaps than any other European nation, the Swiss are accustomed to looking after foreign travelers. As early as the 18th century, wealthy French, Germans and Italians were treating the country as a amusement center while, in the 19th century, it became the major holiday playground for the British nobles. Today, i... | high6901.txt |
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"answer_text": "the command post is crowded with people all the time."
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"the command post is stationed with people all the time.",
"the command post is crowded with people all the time.",
"there are clocks around the command p... | The government-run command post in Tunis is staffed around the clock by military personnel, meteorologists and civilians. On the wall are maps, crisscrossed with brightly colors arrows that painstakingly track the fearsome path of the enemy.
What kind of invader gives rise to such high-level monitoring? Not man, not be... | high15180.txt |
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"answer_text": "will luckily be able to watch the men's 100m final"
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"will luckily be able to watch the men's 100m final",
"will not enjoy the synchronized swimming events",
"will have to change their tickets to other games",
... | Around 200 people who thought their only experience of the London 2012 Olympic Games would be minor heats of synchronized swimming have received an unexpected hange to the men's 100m final because of an embarrassing ticketing mistake.
The London 2012 Organising Committee (Locog) confirmed on Wednesday that an error n... | high21225.txt |
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"answer_text": "hands and arms"
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"head and neck",
"feet and head",
"legs and knees",
"hands and arms"
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"question": "In sepaktakraw, players are not allowed to use _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"... | Imagine that the rules of volleyball forbid the use of hands or arms---that's sepaktakraw . It's a difficult sport, but that isn't stopping the world from picking it up.
The court where sepaktakraw is played is the size of one used for badminton doubles. A net and a plastic ball a little larger than a baseball are used... | high19962.txt |
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"answer_text": "Those who have troubled relationships with their friends or family members and try to improve them."
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"Those who are to act some roles in a certain play for the first time in their life.",
"Those who are preparing fo... | When you are at odds with someone close to you, the One-Minute Drill can show you how to express your feelings effectively - and how to listen more skillfully. All it requires is two individuals who are committed to improving their relationship.
Set aside at least ten minutes, and then sit facing each other. Decide who... | high11480.txt |
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"answer_text": "His religious and political considerations."
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".Making industrial production in Europe safer.",
"The pace of European industrialization.",
"His religious and political considerations.",
"The support of th... | talent, but his contributions includes many of today's social insurance programs. During the middle German Prime Minister Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military and diplomatic of the 19th century, Germany, along with other European nations, experienced an unprecedented rash of workplace deaths and accide... | high20885.txt |
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"answer_text": "who have lost their consciousness owing to a stroke"
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"whose parent has experienced a head injury",
"who have lived in a foreign country for a long time",
"who have lost their consciousness owing to a stroke",
... | Two years ago, Wendy Hasnip, 47, experienced a brain injury that left her speechless for two weeks. When she finally recovered, she found herself talking with what seemed to be a French accent: "I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the first ten minutes laughing," Hasnip said at the time. "While I have nothin... | high21543.txt |
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"answer_text": "carnivorous animals and herbivorous animals"
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"carnivorous animals and meat-eating animals",
"herbivorous animals and plant-eating animals",
"carnivorous animals and herbivorous animals",
"meat animals an... | Animals like the lion are known as carnivorous (meat-eating) animals. They feed on smaller animals. But many other animals eat grass or plants. They are called herbivorous (plant-eating) animals.
You may be surprised to learn that there are carnivorous plants as well as carnivorous animals. Plants that grow in poor soi... | high1908.txt |
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"answer_text": "take the GRE revised General Test"
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"achieve your career goals",
"earn as much money as possible",
"take the GRE revised General Test",
"vary educational and cultural background"
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"question": "I... | One Test for Graduate and Business School.
Getting an advanced degree can create many opportunities. The GRE revised General Test--the most widely accepted graduate admission test worldwide--can bring you one step closer to achieving your career goals.
There has never been a better time to take the test that gives you ... | high12189.txt |
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"answer_text": "people go out and drink a lot"
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"people stay up too late",
"people go out and drink a lot",
"firework explodes in the sky",
"people go shopping madly"
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"question": "The last Friday before Christ... | In Britain, it's bottoms up from the week before Christmas till the last firework explodes in the sky announcing the new year. The last Friday before Christmas, popularly known as 'Mad Friday', is one of the busiest periods for the country's pubs and clubs.
But it's not just the bars that get busy. Ambulances and A&E d... | high13297.txt |
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"answer_text": "Children should be encouraged if they are in trouble."
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"Children should be patted when they lose something.",
"Children should be encouraged if they are in trouble.",
"Both failure and mistakes should be ignor... | We often don' t give importance to minor things thinking they won' t matter. But at times, some things look very minor but their result can be really powerful. Here are some of the efforts which can change the relationship between parents and children.
Pat your child when he loses:May it be failure in the class, or on ... | high23354.txt |
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"answer_text": "On the island of Viti Levu."
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"In Suva.",
"In Sydney.",
"On the island of Vatoa.",
"On the island of Viti Levu."
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"question": "Where is the international airport of Fiji?",
"question_type": ... | It's only 4 hours flying time from Sydney, but a world away. What better place to rest than a country where the only place people hurry is on the football field and things are done in "Fiji time"?
Viti Levu - Great Fiji - is the largest island. Here you'll find the capital Suva and the international airport at Nadi. Va... | high8086.txt |
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"answer_text": "man hasn't realized the importance of trees to him"
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"man is only interested in building empires",
"man is eager to profit from trees",
"man hasn't realized the importance of trees to him",
"man hasn't fo... | We can't deny that trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products, they give him shade, and they help to prevent drought and floods.
Unfortunately, in many parts of the world man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. In his eagerne... | high13283.txt |
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"answer_text": "81"
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"question": "We can learn from the passage that Queen Elizabeth II is _ years old this year.",
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"answe... | April 21st in 2006 was the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. She is one of the most famous women in the world. Here are some interesting stories about the Queen.
Queen Elizabeth IIis the fortieth monarch since 1066. She has been the queen of Great Britain for 54 years. During her 54-year reign , she has made over 2... | high9398.txt |
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"answer_text": "it's necessary for a school to have a library"
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"it's necessary for a school to have a library",
"there are many learning places better than a library",
"the school library is noisy and crowded in most cases",
... | After a discussion last week. "Do SCHOOL Libraries Need Books?" the comments from readers included some first-hand views from students. Below are excerpts from their observations on how studying has changed and how they use libraries.
It makes little difference whether the books you are reading is electronic or paper.... | high20649.txt |
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"answer_text": "he was not skillful enough in communicating with people."
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"he was not a qualified typist.",
"he couldn't make coffee",
"he was not skillful enough in communicating with people.",
"he didn't apologize in ... | Maxwell had not held a steady job in almost two years. Today was a big day, because he was going to a job interview that he felt good about. The secretary he had talked to on the phone sounded friendly and encouraging.
Maxwell was a typist. His fingers danced on the keyboard. However, his people skills were not nearly... | high20891.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "her mother would be sad"
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"her Mom would forget her",
"her birthday had been forgotten",
"her mother would be sad",
"she would be growing older"
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"question": "When it was time for her birthday, ... | When I got up, Mom was already awake. I could hear her doing something in the kitchen. It's was my birthday, and I was afraid.
What if my husband had neglected to take Mom shopping for a card? Once Mom found it was my birthday, she would be sad that she had forgotten and had nothing to give me. She even can't... | high21557.txt |
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"answer_text": "will feel guilty about the trouble"
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"will communicate with their parents",
"will be responsible for the trouble",
"will feel guilty about the trouble",
"will help the parents recover"
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"questio... | If the child has been brought up in a loving, openly communicative environment, the relationship with parents would be a strong one.It is only when there are ongoing troubles in the relationship between parents and the child that there is a breakdown in communication.
When parents are going through difficulties in thei... | high21231.txt |
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"answer_text": "Unfairly."
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"Kindly.",
"Unfairly.",
"Normally.",
"Cruelly."
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"question": "How do you think Elizabethwas treated in the medical school?",
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... | Years ago people could hardly accept the ideas of a woman's being a doctor. In order to get into medical school in 1847, Elizabeth Blackwell was asked to keep it a secret that she was a woman. This was contrary to her beliefs, and she refused to do it. After entering medical school, prefix = st1 /Elizabethoften had to ... | high19976.txt |
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"answer_text": "giving money brings more happiness than spending it on himself or herself"
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"any country can get greater happiness from giving at any time",
"there is a negative connection from aid to happiness for European countrie... | Is there a connection between a nation's contributions to international aid programs and the happiness of its citizens? According to a study of nine European donor countries, there is a direct relationship between the level of foreign aid and level of happiness in the UK and France but for other European countries th... | high17783.txt |
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"answer_text": "come from different countries in the world"
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"come from different countries in the world",
"mainly come from Europe",
"mainly come from Asia",
"come from China"
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"question": "People in America ... | Most Westerners--particularly most Americans--are not nearly as concerned about protocol in social matters as Chinese people are. America is a nation of immigrants. It's made up of people from all over the world, all of whom bring their own traditions and habits with them. Thus you needn't worry much about "proper" b... | high12823.txt |
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"answer_text": "have a telephone"
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"learn how to operate a computer",
"know how to make a telephone call",
"have a telephone",
"learn how to type on a computer"
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"question": "If you want to join the Internet,yo... | You've probably heard of a lot about the Internet,but what is it?
The Internet is a computer network that uses the telephone system to connect together millions of computers around the world. Maybe that isn't very exciting but once you're connected to the Internet,there are lots of different things you can do.You can s... | high8938.txt |
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"answer_text": "make it clear by yourself"
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"ask your teacher for help",
"make it clear by yourself",
"ask your classmates to help you",
"ask your parents for help"
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"question": "When you have doubt on schoolwo... | Work Your Mind
Here's something to think about the next time you ask your teacher for help: struggling with schoolwork on your own can help you learn. According to a recent study, the more you struggle while you are learning new information, the better you can remember it later.
This theory might surprise you. When tea... | high536.txt |
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"answer_text": "Weight-loss solutions for new moms"
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"The influence of babies on their mother",
"Weight-loss solutions for new moms",
"The reasons of new moms' fatness",
"How to exercise and prepare healthy meals"
],... | The constant demands, together with the exhausting effects of interrupted sleep, can make it hard to find the time and energy to exercise or prepare healthy meals.
Here are some tips for common problems new moms face:
Problem: No time to cook proper meals. When you're caring for a baby, cooking proper meals seems like... | high22738.txt |
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"answer_text": "Gulangyu Islet and Guanyinshan Water Park"
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"Guanyinshan Water Park",
"Gulangyu Islet and Guanyinshan Water Park",
"Guanyinshan Water Park and Xiamen Firefly Park"
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"question":... | If you walk along the streets, you will find children as young as seven years old walking to school or taking the public bus on their own. If you ride on the public bus with a baby or young child, you will find at least three people standing up to give up their seats for you. And as a booming town with a young populati... | high19786.txt |
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"answer_text": "Last fall,there was the second lowest number of grown salmon returning on record."
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"Last fall,there was the second lowest number of grown salmon returning on record.",
"The salmon migrates to the ocean when they gro... | The shocking collapse of one of the West Coast's biggest wild salmon runs has prompted even cash-trapped fishermen to call for an unprecedented shutdown of salmon fishing off the coasts of California and Oregon.
The Sacramento River salmon run is usually one of the most productive on the Pacific Coast,providing the b... | high17973.txt |
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"answer_text": "Their own slimming matter."
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"Different diets they prefer.",
"Their life after marriage.",
"Tex books for students.",
"Their own slimming matter."
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"question": "What do you think the four women ... | Glynis Davis:
I first piled on the pounds when I was in the family way and I couldn't lose them afterwards. Then I joined a slimming club. My target was 140 pounds and I lost 30 pounds in six months. I felt great and people kept saying how good I looked. But Christmas came and I started to slip back into my old eating ... | high2583.txt |
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"answer_text": "the course emphasizes the application of skills"
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"the course is suitable for students of all levels",
"the course will ensure your success at university",
"you can't go to university without taking the course"... | Gateway Academy Pre-Sessional Courses
Our pre-sessional courses are ideal for students who have a conditional place at a British university, but who need to achieve a certain level of English in order to be accepted. The course aims to provide students with the English language and study skills that they need in order ... | high20107.txt |
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"answer_text": "is determined partly by genes"
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"increases gradually with age",
"has little to do with wealth",
"is measured by desires"
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"question": "According to the passage, ... | Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found out ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are determined to a certain degree by genes. However, of all the factors, wealth and age are the top two.
Money can buy a degree of happiness... | high3845.txt |
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"answer_text": "A general"
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"President of the USA",
"A soldier of Cuba",
"A mailman",
"A general"
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"question": "Who is Garcia?",
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"answer_i... | When war broke out between Spain and the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with General Garcia, who was somewhere in the mountains of Cuba -- No one knew where. The President must secure his cooperation, and quickly.
What to do!
Someone said to the President, "A fellow by the name of Rowan ... | high18498.txt |
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"answer_text": "they are afraid that they may lose their jobs"
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"they devote themselves to the whole work",
"they are afraid that they may lose their jobs",
"they are asked to keep in touch with their bosses",
"they aren... | More than half of Americans do not take all their vacation days,even though they think they need one more holiday. And nearly a third of workers who take a break check their emails from the boss every other day and some even keep in touch hourly.
"We're workaholics ',"said Samuel Nahmias."From a general perspective,thi... | high8910.txt |
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"answer_text": "less time spent outdoors may mean more short-sightedness"
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"short-sightedness and its effects",
"some factors that affect one's eyesight",
"more and more children become short-sighted",
"less time spent o... | The time children spend outdoors could be linked to a reduced risk of being short-sighted, research suggests.
An analysis of eight previous studies by University of Cambridge researchers found that for each additional hour spent outside per week, the risk of short-sightedness was reduced by 2%.They said exposure to ... | high22710.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "help the wearers keep their duties in mind"
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"prevent the wearers from being laughed at",
"help the wearers keep their duties in mind",
"are seen as a symbol of power",
"help to create social barriers"
... | School uniforms are becoming more and more popular across the U.S.A. That's no surprise,because they offer many benefits. They immediately end the powerful social sorting and labeling that come from clothing. If all students are dressed in the same way,they will not pay too much attention to their clothing,and some of... | high1934.txt |
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"answer_text": "The global recruitment mostly took place online"
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"The recruitment started in winter in Australia",
"Ben Southall got the job in January",
"The global recruitment mostly took place online",
"The organizer... | SYDNEY (AFP) Nick Bryant reports:
"It gives me great pleasure to introduce the new caretaker of the islands of the Great Barrier Reef, from the United Kingdom, Ben Southall."
A global recruitment drive with the trappings of a TV reality show made it truly a tourism marketing campaign.
The best job in the world's com... | high22076.txt |
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"answer_text": "tried to change her life"
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"often slept m friends' homes",
"felt lonely because of her illness",
"felt quite desperate for her father"
],
"question": "According to the ... | In 1997, I found myself in a situation I never thought I'd be in: alone and begging for money in New York. My father had been separated from our family, and my mother had recently died from complications related to AIDS. What I remember most about such nights is lying on the cold marble floor and using my backpack for... | high278.txt |
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"answer_text": "draw our attention to Internet language"
},
"options": [
"explain some Internet language",
"suggest common Internet language",
"laugh at the Beijing father",
"draw our attention to Internet language"
],
"questio... | Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Interact forum asking what "PK" meant.
"My family has been watching the 'Super Girl' singing competition TV program.My little daughter asked me what 'PK' meant,but I had no idea,"explained the puzzled father.
To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games... | high15802.txt |
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"answer_text": "Alabama"
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"Alabama",
"Cleveland",
"Ohio",
"Michigan"
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"question": "Jesse Owens was born in _ in the USA.",
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"answer": {
"answer_index"... | Jesse Owens was born in Alabama in the USA, in 1913. There were ten children in his family. Jesse was the youngest. He went to school in the city of Cleveland. At school he showed he had a special talent for athletics . He could run fast. He could jump high. He could jump far. Because he was good at athletics, Jesse b... | high6083.txt |
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"answer_text": "Volunteer Service in the West"
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"The Benefit of Being a Volunteer",
"Volunteer Service in the West",
"Who Can Be a Volunteer"
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"question": "What's the best title of the ... | Do you want to work with people, animals or machines? Do you want to work indoors or outdoors, directly serve people in need or serve people behind the scenes? These are the typical questions that volunteer service agencies would ask.
Every year, thousands of people in the west offer volunteer service. Volunteering gr... | high23368.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To avoid getting his shoes dirty."
},
"options": [
"To get close to a butterfly.",
"To look over the bad situation.",
"To escape a sudden attack.",
"To avoid getting his shoes dirty."
],
"question": "Why did the... | Walking down a path through some woods in Georgia, I saw a small pool of water ahead on the path. I angled my direction to go around it on the part of the path that wasn't covered by water or mud. As I reached the pool, I was suddenly attacked! Yet I did nothing for the attack. It was so unpredictable and from somewher... | high4694.txt |
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"answer_text": "Firms guided by strategic speed take time to make necessary changes."
},
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"How fast a firm moves depends on how big it is.",
"How competitive a firm is depends on what it produces.",
"Firms guided by strategic spe... | In business, there's a speed difference: It's the difference between how important a firm's leaders say speed is to their competitive strategy and how fast the company actually moves.The difference is important regardless of industry and company size. Companies fearful of losing their competitive advantage spend much... | high4858.txt |
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"answer_text": "to find the frequency of people's yawning"
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"to find the frequency of people's yawning",
"to indicate brain can regulate temperature naturally",
"to prove people yawn in winter and in summer equally",
"to... | Yawning sends out certain messages -either "Oh,this movie is so boring" or "I probably need to get some sleep". But did you know that a yawn can also help your brain to cool down when it is overheated?
A new study, led by a research team at Princeton University, has indicated that yawning could be the brain's natural w... | high4680.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because he was caught in a traffic jam."
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"options": [
"Because he was ill.",
"Because he got up late.",
"Because he was caught in a traffic jam.",
"He was busy applying for a new job."
],
"question": "Why was... | A lot of us lose life's tough battles by starting a frontal attack--when a touch of humor might well enable us to win. Consider the case of a young friend of mine, who hit a traffic jam on his way to work shortly after receiving an ultimatum about being late on the job. Although there was a good reason for Sam's a be... | high7389.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "harmful"
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"made from plants",
"good and eco-friendly",
"biodegradable"
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"question": "Plastics produced in the traditional way are _ .",
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... | You may never connect the words "good" and "eco-friendly"with plastic.It's time to do a rethink on that as we say hello to hemp plastic.Traditionally,plastics have been made from petrochemicals,which are mainly poisonous.Plants,on the other hand,are also a source of cellulose ,which can be used to make biodegradable p... | high1920.txt |
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"answer_text": "hutong days realize my desires to live a local life ."
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"Trishaw is the only way to visit the hutong",
"living in the hutong with other visitors",
... | I first visited hutong as part of a tourist group several years ago. We rode on a trishaw with a guide explaining the history, architecture and lifestyle of the local inhabitants.
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"was watching a drama on TV in the hotel",
"tried to find his son lost in the waters",
"watched things goin... | SYDNEY 2005-01-01 08:30--Mother of two, Jillian Searle, had to choose between her children when she made a life--or--death decision.
Swept up by mountainous tsunami waves at a Thai resort, she could not hold on to both her young sons and survive. Fighting to stay above the waters, she had to choose which one would have... | high6097.txt |
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"Blue--the most attractive eye colour.",
"A survey result on eye colours.",
"Different eye colours in the world."
... | Blue is the most attractive eye colour according to a new research.
Blue eyes like those belonging to sexy star Angelina Jolie are the most appealing colour according to a pool of 3,000 18-24yearolds by Fresh Look One Day Colour. Angelina,her partner Brad Pitt and his exwife Jennifer Aniston all have blue eyes and all ... | high8904.txt |
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"Mrs Oglivie,Palmlace Limited.",
"The Enterprise Shopping Centre.",
"Wealden District Council."
],
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We're looking for producers to join us on the sound of London Kiss 100 FM. You'll work on the station's music programs. Music production experience in radio is necessary,along with rich knowledge of modern dance music. Please apply in writing to Producer Vacancies,Kiss 100.
Father Christmas
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},
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"To attract readers' interest in icebergs.",
"To show readers icebergs are dangerous.",
"To tell readers icebergs are large blocks of ice.",
"To encourage reade... | What does the word iceberg make you think of ? Do you think of a large block of ice in a cold northern ocean? Or do you think of something that ships can crash into? While these are both correct, in truth there's far more to icebergs than meets the eye.
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},
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"Because she didn't want to disturb others.",
"Because she didn't have a large house.",
"Because she liked ... | Brenda Bongos was a happy, artistic girl. She had one big ambition--to play the drums in a band. But one big obstacle lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to practice a lot, but she lived next-door to a lot of old people. Many of them are sick. She knew that the sound of beating drums would r... | high3689.txt |
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"About 2 million.",
"About 3 million.",
"About 1 million."
],
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},
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"Why we should take responsibility for the old.",
"How we can improve the lives of the old.",
"Where the old can go ... | A serious problem for today's society is who should be responsible for our elderly and how to improve their lives. It is not only a financial problem but also a question of the system we want for our society. I would like to suggest several possible solutions to this problem.
First, employers should take the responsibi... | high3851.txt |
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},
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"the amount of monetary rewards for student' creativity",
"the study of relationship... | Psychologists take opposing views of how external rewards, from warm praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, who study the relation between actions and their consequences, argue that rewards can improve performance at work and school. Cognitive researchers, who study various aspects of me... | high20113.txt |
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"different reactions to a dust storm in Australia",
"the damage caused by the big dust storm i... | Residents along Australia's east coast awoke in the morning to an orange sky as winds swept millions of tons of red dust from the country's inland and dumped it on Sydney.
Tanya Ferguson,living in Sydney,saw that the room was completely orange.She thought there was a bush fire.But when she went outside,the entire city ... | high18467.txt |
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"answer_text": "Cheriton; Sangatte"
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"London; Paris",
"Lille; Brussels",
"Cheriton; Sangatte"
],
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The Chunnel is actually the English nickname for the Chann... | high5213.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"university scholar",
"state leader",
"military consultant"
],
"question": "At the time of the writing, Geoff Hoon was a _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_q... | Geoff Hoon is one of prefix = st1 /Britain's most experienced politicians.
Mr Hoon joined the Foreign and Commonwealth office in May 1999 as Minister of State with responsibility for Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa; he was then made Minister for Europe. Later, in 1999, Mr Hoon joined Tony Blair's Ca... | high17754.txt |
[
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"answer_text": "Share your talent for it helps to improve yourself."
},
"options": [
"Focus on what you are capable of rather than what you are not.",
"Take pride in your achievements however big or seemingly small they are.",
"Share your ta... | We are constantly bombarded with visions of how we are not good enough or how we need to improve ourselves. And it's not only external things that cause us to have such low self-esteems and feel bad about ourselves either, but your negative inner thought reflects your way of being real with yourself. Little things like... | high19779.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because he thinks it will be helpful for his music career."
},
"options": [
"Because he wants to live in the UK.",
"Because his record company asks him to.",
"Because he wants to sell his album in the UK.",
"Because he ... | In his lowest days when few people bought his records, Taiwan singer Steve Chou lived alone in Canada and did little. One day, he passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him.
"My heart tells me that music is the thing I truly want to do, not for fame or money," Chou said. That's how we luckil... | high3662.txt |
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"answer_text": "His easy-broken bone disease affected him."
},
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"His easy-broken bone disease affected him.",
"His parents also had the same disease.",
"His poor family couldn't provide him with rich food.",
"An unexpected ... | Born with easy-broken bone disease, Zhang Yonghong is only half a meter tall and must use a wheelchair. His thin arms and legs can hardly support any weight, and he is unable to take care of himself. However, his hands are able to produce fine paper-cuts, which will free his daughter from the same disease.
To support h... | high8737.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a series of TV programmes for children"
},
"options": [
"different science fiction films shown each day",
"a series of TV programmes for parents",
"a series of TV programmes for children",
"different children's films sh... | Tuesday
October 23 11:00 am
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For World Tree Day, Snook gives out badges to everyone who is nice to the tree, but Bob can't think of what to do -until he comes up with a song.Also: Madge and Snook plan a party to celebrate the World Tree's birthday.
Wednesday
October 21 11:00am
The ... | high15143.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "give their children little time to develop freely"
},
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"treat their children as sports players",
"pay no attention to their children's lessons",
"bring up their children in a simple way",
"give their childre... | LONDON -- Life for Cathy Hagner and her three children is set to permanent fast-forward.
Their full school day and her job as a lawyer's assistant are busy enough. But Hanger also has to take the two boys to soccer or hockey or basketball while dropping off her daughter at piano lessons or Girl Scout Club.
Often, the ... | high7404.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "as important as \"reading between the lines\""
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"as important as \"reading between the lines\"",
"not so important as \"re... | You know you have to read "between the lines" to get the most out of anything. I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading. You have to "mark between the lines". By marking you can make the most efficient kind of reading.
There are two ways in which one can own a book. The fir... | high9429.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "helped students be more focused in class"
},
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"draw students to reading classic novels",
"make students less worried in English class",
"encourage students to red ... | In a growing number of English classes, teachers are leaving the classic novels on the shelf and letting students select the books they read. Supporters say that the new approach, called reader's workshop, helps develop a love for reading in students who are bored by classic literature. They argue that the best way to ... | high1075.txt |
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"answer_text": "We may be able .to visit some scenic spots at a fairly low price."
},
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"Day Ranger tickets~offer us unlimited bus travel across the county every day.",
... | The local bus network gives access to most of the attractions of Nottinghamshire,making it easy for you to enjoy all that the county has to offer.
Why not let Nottinghamshire's buses provide you with a cheep,convenient and safe way of enjoying a day out. they even take away the worry of stopping for lunch, having a... | high22937.txt |
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"answer_text": "his church songs helped his development in his singing"
},
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"Elvis forgot his church music at a later age",
"his church songs helped his development in his singing",
"Elvis didn't get any help from his parents in ... | One of the most popular American singers of the twentieth century was Elvis Presley. He made the Rock & Roll music popular around the world. He sold millions of records and made many successful films, and he helped change the direction of popular music in the 1960s.
Elvis Presley was born in a poor family in 1935. His ... | high13532.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She was in great danger."
},
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"A doctor came to see her in her house.",
"She was very thin and couldn't speak.",
"She was in great danger."
],
"question": "What d... | Like any good mother,when Karen found out that another baby was on the way,she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son,Michael,prepare for a new baby.They find out that the new baby is going to be a girl,and day after day,night after night,Michael sings to his sister in Mommy's stomach.
Finally,Michael's little s... | high287.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "loses his clothes in Mr. McGregor's garden"
},
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"gathers onions to give to his mother",
"runs into a scarecrow when escaping",
"loses his clothes in Mr. McGregor's garden"
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"answer": {
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"\"female\" facial features",
"low eyebrows",
"obvious cheekbones"
],
"question": "Miss Green wants to find a pet shop for her dog while she is on hol... | The truth was written all over her face. The eyes are the window to the soul. From those sayings, you would think that we could read faces. In fact, people tend to overestimate their ability to do it.
Most of us can't distinguish between certain expressions without contextual clues. In one study, participants were unab... | high13254.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It contributes to their self-study."
},
"options": [
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"It trains teachers for them.",
"It helps raise their living standards.",
"It provides funds for building schools."
],
... | The kids in this village wear dirty, ragged clothes. They sleep beside cows and sheep in huts made of sticks and mud. They have no school. Yet they all can chant the English alphabet, and some can make words.
The key to their success: 20 tablet computers dropped off in their Ethiopian village in February by a U.S. gro... | high8051.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "traveling on vacation"
},
"options": [
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"exploring in the forests",
"buying a Mother's Day gift",
"learning geography in class"
],
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For the youngest ones, don't miss the adorable Hugg-A- Pla... | high22089.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Narcissus was good-looking."
},
"options": [
"Narcissus was good-looking.",
"Echo was a lively spirit",
"Narcissus loved her, too.",
"Echo took pity on Narcissus"
],
"question": "Echo fell in love with Narcissus... | Narcissus was a beautiful looking boy. He had long, flowing, blond hair, beautiful, bright, blue eyes and even, white teeth. Many young ladies fell in love with him including the nymph : Echo.
Nymphs were lively spirits who lived near streams and lakes and protected trees in the forest. Echo had upset the Queen of the ... | high7362.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "can understand you"
},
"options": [
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"likes to talk with you",
"can read your diary",
"can understand you"
],
"question": "In Anne's opinion, the best friend is one who _ .",
"question_t... | Do you want to have a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feelings and thoughts? Or are you afraid that your friend would laugh at you, or just can't understand what you are going through?
Anne Frank chose the first kind. She lived in Amsterdam during World War II. Her family was Jewish so the... | high11443.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
"Angry.",
"Calm.",
"Nervous.",
"Excited."
],
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},
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"answer": {
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"You may wonder, Sir Percival," said Laura calmly, "if I am going to ask to be released from ray promise to marry you. I am not going to ask ... | high20846.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "become a brother like Paul's"
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"get a present from his brother",
"become a brother like Paul's",
"take a ride in his automobile"
],
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Paul nodded, "My brother gave it to me for Christmas." The boy was ... | high3104.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The ability to obtain and apply knowledge."
},
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"Computer skill.",
"The ability to obtain and apply knowledge.",
"Foreign language."
],
"question": "What is the ... | During the last century we have moved from the Industrial Age through the Information Age to the Knowledge Age. The ability to obtain and apply the right knowledge effectively will become a key skill in the next century. Our ability will no longer be judged only by knowledge gained in the past, but will also be measure... | high10985.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It 's a pity."
},
"options": [
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"It's disappointing.",
"It 's a pity.",
"It's acceptable."
],
"question": "What does the author think of Mr. Miyazaki's retirement?",
"question_type": null
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Koji Hoshino, who is the president of Mr. Miyazaki's production company, made the announcement at the film festival, where Mr. Miyazaki's latest work, The Wind Rises,... | high18301.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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"show his generosity",
"express his thoughts",
"exchange his opinions"
],
"question": "The writer's purpose in writing the passage is to _ .",
... | Last Friday, I was coming home late after spending time with friends and thought I'd go down to the $99 cent pizza place. On the way, I saw a man sitting on the stairs alone there. I'd seen him before every day I run late to work, but this time I had no place to rush off to.
There was something about him, a quiet manne... | high5575.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "accidents that affected many living things"
},
"options": [
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"air pollution",
"water pollution",
"what people are doing to prevent environmental disasters"
],
"questi... | Accidents happen, but when they destroy the delicate balance of nature and cause the whole world to suffer, they become disasters, and we should do all we can to prevent them from happening again.
Bhopal chemical leak, December 1984, Bhopal, India
An explosion in the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India, rele... | high11457.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Because they want to get a more stable job."
},
"options": [
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"Because they want to get a more stable job.",
"Because medicine is easier to learn than other subjects.",
"... | A growing number of college students are applying to take entry tests for medical and dental schools among increasing graduate unemployment in Korea.
"I've decided to apply for the test to enter a medical college to become a doctor, changing from my original plan to prepare for a lawyer qualification exam in order to... | high3110.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a matter of life or death"
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"a matter of life or death",
"the small stuff",
"a great chance"
],
"question": "People without patience will treat the challenge as _ .",
"quest... | The quality of patience goes a long way toward your goal of creating a more peaceful and loving self. The more patient you are, the more accepting you will be of what life is, rather than insisting that life be exactly as you would like it to be. Without patience, life is extremely frustrating. You are easily annoyed, ... | high20852.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Willapark Manor Hotel."
},
"options": [
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"The Bay Hotel.",
"Willapark Manor Hotel.",
"S W France."
],
"question": "60. If you want to take your children and pets with you on holiday, you can choose ... | Holiday
The Bay Hotel
It is a quiet, comfortable hotel overlooking the bay in an uncommerciallised Cornish fishing village on England's most southerly point. If pop music is no longer your strong point, and you are considering a relaxing holiday where the scenery is break taking and sound of the sea is live music to yo... | high16338.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "She enjoys staying with him while working."
},
"options": [
"He can help pick more tomatoes.",
"He can learn the hardship of labor.",
"She enjoys staying with him while working.",
"She tries to share the happiness of ha... | Picking tomatoes
For as long as I can remember,Grandma's plentiful tomato garden has been a sign of summer's end.Each September,just as the decreased heat of the sun suggests cooler days,Grandma requests my help in her tomato garden.She convinces me she cannot pick tomatoes without my youthful eyes and quick mind.She s... | high21594.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"Because he had to receive treatment in hospital.",
"Because his father asked him to.",
"Because th... | At 21,Ricardo Semler became boss of his father's business in Brazil,Semco,which sold parts for ships. Semler Junior worked like a mad man,from 7:30 am,until midnight every day. One afternoon,while touring a factory in New York,he broke down. The doctor who treated him said,"There's nothing wrong with you. But if you co... | high5561.txt |
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"8315--6170",
"6606--9999"
],
"question": "If you want to buy tickets for listening to the music \"Memory of Childhood\", you will dial _ .",
"quest... | Happy birthday
The China National Opera (CNO) will give a concert to celebrate its 50th birthday .
Different generations of CNO vocalists , like Li Guangxi , Yao Hong and Ma Mei , will present the concert which will feature both songs from famous Chinese operas like "The White-haired Girl" and "The Hundredth Bride", as... | high17026.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Interesting hobbies"
},
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"Wearing badges",
"Collecting stamps",
"Enjoying music"
],
"question": "Which of the following is the best title for the text?",
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "came from a family without good background"
},
"options": [
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"paid her first visit to the UK this time",
"was confident when she entered the college",
"came from a family without good b... | Despite being tall, Michelle Obama is much smaller than she appears on television. And she seemed a little short by her surroundings in the great hall of Christchurch College as she spoke quietly without a microphone because of a technical mistake. Her audience were 40 young girls from a London state school where 50 la... | high1707.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"it was the only hospital curing her burns",
"surgeons there were skilled at performing skin grafts",
"it w... | Ammie was only 18 months old when she had an accident that scarred her for life. While her mother was away for a moment , the curious baby reached up to a hot kettle in the kitchen and poured boiling water all over her body.
An ambulance was called and rushed the baby to nearby hospital . About 20 percent of Ammie's bo... | high293.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "it is similar"
},
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"it can be stored at any rooms",
"it can be sent into clouds by wind",
"it is similar"
],
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "find a better way to keep the cat"
},
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"spend more time cleaning the house",
"ask her daughter to help tidy up",
"find a better way to keep the cat"
],
"que... | Dear Aunty,
After years of her crying, I finally gave in and allowed my daughter to have a cat. I now regret my decision. As someone needs to have a clean, tidy house, I no longer feel relaxed in my own home. If I tell her, "sorry, the cat has to go." She will be heartbroken. What can I do?
-Feline Phobic
Dear Phobic,
... | high15631.txt |
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"answer": {
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"positive; uncertain"
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"question": "About the Obama government's new moves, the auto makers are _ ... | The U.S. government's push to decrease the nation's output of greenhouse gases by increasing the fuel efficiency of the cars Americans drive is arousing again an emotional argument: Does driving a small, fuel-efficient car make you more likely to die on the road?
Engineers and statistical analysts can point to data tha... | high8045.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "a deaf player devoted to the game of baseball"
},
"options": [
"a deaf player devoted to the game of baseball",
"baseball game rules and important players",
"the rise in the social position of the deaf people",
"where t... | In October 1961 at Crowley Field in Cincinnati Ohio an old deaf gentleman named William E. Hoy stood up to throw the first ball of the World Series. Most people at Crowley Field on that day probably did not remember Hoy because he had retired from professional baseball 58 years earlier in 1903. However he had been an ... | high7376.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "some schools overemphasize testing"
},
"options": [
"some schools overemphasize testing",
"her daughter is not a good student",
"the test is most important",
"the quality of tests should be limited"
],
"question... | Tests are not fun--but they're necessary.But in places like Colorado, Connecticut and New York, we're seeing a new and problematic movement within public education to convince parents to pull their children from participating in any standardized testing.They're opting out of the exams designed to measure how well our s... | high12638.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "presenting a cause and analyzing its effects"
},
"options": [
"providing typical examples",
"following the natural time order",
"comparing opinions from different fields",
"presenting a cause and analyzing its effects"
... | Being able to multitask--doing several things at the same time--is considered a welcome skill by most people. But if we consider the situation of the young people aged from eight to eighteen, we should think again.
What we often see nowadays is that young people juggle an ever larger number of electronic devices as the... | high7410.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "promises to accompany the elderly"
},
"options": [
"reaches the age of 25",
"has financial problems",
"promises to accompany the elderly",
"agrees to share it with his neighbor"
],
"question": "Helsinki probably... | A recent housing project in Helsinki offers remarkably cheap apartments for those under the age of 25. They must commit to spending time with their older neighbors.
Helsinki offers 247-suqare-foot studio apartments with a bathroom, storage space, kitchen, and balcony for only $272 every month--about a third of the aver... | high14249.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "3,827."
},
"options": [
"537.",
"3,290.",
"3,827.",
"2,753."
],
"question": "How many women in the survey in the two communities were grandmothers who had lived past the age of 50?",
"question_type": "factio... | Have you thanked your grandma today? You might want to consider it. A recent study found that kids live longer when a grandmother takes part in their daily lives.
Most animals die soon after their childbearing years are over. Women, however, often live for many years after they stop having kids.
To try to understand... | high22923.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "All of the above."
},
"options": [
"Good way of holding your body.",
"Balanced food.",
"Right body weight.",
"All of the above."
],
"question": "According to this passage, which of the following is suggested abo... | Good posture certainly shows good health. It also adds to a body's energy and beauty. The body is not handsome when the back is bent and neck thrusts forward. Bad posture suggests the impression that a person is tired,lacking in energy,bored,or weak. Tiredness may sometimes be the cause of bad posture. Most often,howev... | high1061.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "If you'd like to enjoy songs, you'll face the music."
},
"options": [
"If you'd like to enjoy songs, you'll face the music.",
"When actors have to face the music, it means they have to go on stage to perform, however changeable the... | When someone says, "Well, I guess I'll have to face the music," it doesn't mean he is planning to go to a concert. It is something far less pleasant, like being called in by your boss to explain why you did this and did that, and why you did not do this or that. Terrible music indeed, but it has to be faced. At sometim... | high13526.txt |
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