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"answer_text": "are accustomed to their life"
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"is extremely rich",
"is an unhappy one",
"are accustomed to their life",
"long for a change in their life"
],
"question": "The writer suggests that her family _ ... | They think they're lucky that they're living and it's Christmas again. They can't see that we live on a dirty street in a shabby house among people who aren't much good. Johnny and the children can't see how pitiful it is that our neighbors have to make happiness out of this filth and dirt. My children must get out of ... | high23395.txt |
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"answer_text": "Avoiding using a phone for some time"
},
"options": [
"Avoiding using a phone for some time",
"Learning more about modern technology",
"Protecting one's phone against any damage",
"Not using a mobile phone in one's dail... | Kelly Reeves was getting ready for a trip when her phone slipped into a sink full of water. Panic moment! She quickly picked up the wet phone and tried to turn it on, but nothing worked. Her first reaction? She got dressed, drove to the nearest store, and bought a new mobile at full price.
A new study finds that fear o... | high1711.txt |
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"answer_text": "the US is determined to improve energy efficiency in the whole America"
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"options": [
"the US government office buildings have wasted the most energy",
"Obama has decided to take the lead to cut down the use of electricity",
... | The United States is the world's largest consumer of energy. We use electricity, gas and oil to light and heat our buildings and run our cars. The demand for power is growing. But we may not need to build new power plants or find more oil. The best way to increase our supply of energy is to be more efficient.
Did you k... | high285.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "household air pollution from cooking is surprisingly harmful"
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"options": [
"factories are the biggest killer worldwide nowadays",
"burning 400 cigarettes an hour is extremely dangerous",
"household air pollution from cooki... | Polluted airborne particles kill 7 million people a year, reports the World Health Organization.
That news may not come as a surprise to anyone who has seen images of chimneys in Beijing, Delhi or Mexico. But those factories-or even the jammed roadways of modern cities-are not the biggest killer. Each year, some 4.3 m... | high13256.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Two years."
},
"options": [
"Three years.",
"Six years.",
"Four years.",
"Two years."
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"question": "How long does it take to build the Hong Kong Disneyland?",
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... | HONG KONG,Sept .12,2005-Hong Kong Disneyland,the 11th theme park of Walt Disney Co.,opened here on Monday morning.Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong,Donald T&-mg Yam-kuen,chief executive of Hong Kong-Special Administrative Region(HKSAR),and Tung Chee-hwa,attended the opening.
The Hong Kong Disneyland project, wor... | high22935.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "she refused the training and education during her childhood by her parents"
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"options": [
"she didn't like living with her parents",
"she was brought up in a very poor family",
"she was often against her parents",
"sh... | Jessica Alba rebelled from her "strict" parents when she was just five. The 29-year-old actress admits her Catholic education made her want to "break away" from her mother Catherine and father Mark.
She explained: "It's always been weird because I grew up in a very traditional, Catholic household. My parents were ve... | high1077.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "it can make your cold hands warm"
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"options": [
"it can make your cold hands warm",
"it has been used for many years",
"it was used to treat kinds of illnesses",
"it is regarded as the healthiest drink"
],
"qu... | Winter is coming, and some parts of the world are already covered with deep snow. The best way to warm those cold hands is a cup of hot sweet chocolate. Hot chocolate has been used for many years to treat diseases and fight bad moods. It's known as a special healthy drink from the 16thto 19thcenturies, and sometimes wa... | high13530.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Valuable guitar found"
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"options": [
"Careless guitarist surprised",
"Valuable guitar found",
"Coffeehouse owner rewarded",
"Taxi driver still unknown"
],
"question": "Which of the following would be the best ... | A guitarist was pleasantly surprised to hear from New York City police that his valuable guitar had been found.It disappeared almost a year ago when he got out of a taxi and forgot to take the guitar with him.Laurence Lennon,44,said he was running late that day.He was talking to his manager on his cellphone when he rus... | high6718.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Climb a rope"
},
"options": [
"Lift weights",
"Climb a rope",
"Cycle",
"Have a balanced diet"
],
"question": "According to the passage, what is usually taught in the old gym class?",
"question_type": null
... | Phys ed (physical education) is making a comeback as a part of the school core curriculum ,but with a difference. While group sports are still part of the curriculum, the new way is to teach skills that are useful beyond gym class. Instead of learning how to climb a rope, children are taught to lift weights, balance th... | high15141.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To let people know more about all the American states."
},
"options": [
"To excite the music talent in ordinary Americans.",
"To record an album of his own music.",
"To let people know more about all the American states.",
... | Most people know that the United States is made up of fifty states. However, few people know a lot about all fifty of them. Sufjan Stevens is a young American musician. He wants to change this situation.
Sufjan Stevens plans to make an album about each of the fifty American states. During college he played in several m... | high8735.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "will be popular again"
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"options": [
"will be more popular than TV",
"will be popular again",
"started in Wales",
"are in the hands of some old people"
],
"question": "Ambrose believes that the art of storytel... | CARDIFF, Wales Poets, singers and musicians from across the globe gathered in Wales to celebrate the tradition of storytelling.
"It might seem strange that people still want to listen in age of watching television, but this is an unusual art form whose time has come again," said David Ambrose, director of Beyond the B... | high7406.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "they bring in great profits"
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"options": [
"they bring in great profits",
"they require a lot of money to make",
"they are not difficult to produce",
"they attract more viewers than other programs"
],
"questio... | Making an advertisement for television often costs more than a movie. For example, a two - hour movie costs $6 million to make. A TV commercial can cost more than $6 000 a second. And that does not include cost of paying for air time. Which is more valuable, the program or the ad? In terms of money - and making money i... | high3660.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "To measure teenagers' moral development."
},
"options": [
"To develop teenagers' ability to communicate.",
"To enrich teenagers' awareness of social life.",
"To discuss how to save the life of a friend.",
"To measure te... | A study has found, spending hours playing violent video games prevents teenagers from their moral growth. It is thought that regular touch to violence and lack of contact with the outside world makes it harder for them to tell right from wrong.They also struggle to trust other people,and see the world from their viewpo... | high16448.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "he can enjoy himself in his leisure time"
},
"options": [
"he is out of work",
"whatever he does makes no sense",
"he can enjoy himself in his leisure time",
"he is worried about his writing"
],
"question": "The... | Nowadays more and more people are trapped in too busy work to relax themselves. We have no time to tell a bed-time story to our children, or enjoy a nice dinner with our family, or take a break to think about how we live the precious life, or even meet friends. All we notice is that the distinctions that used to guide ... | high5211.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "get new authors' books read quickly"
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"options": [
"sell more books",
"make it fun to read",
"invent a new kind of book",
"get new authors' books read quickly"
],
"question": "The main purpose of publishing \"... | "The Book That Can't Wait" is a great new idea that seeks to strengthen bonds between first time writers and their readers by getting their books read quickly.
Argentinean independent publishers Eterna Cadencia are publishing a collection of short stories by new South American authors using special ink that slowly d... | high17756.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "feed the fast growing population"
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"options": [
"feed the fast growing population",
"make the foods much cheaper",
"make the foods much tastier",
"kill pests on the crops"
],
"question": "The chief purpose of ... | The world has a fast growing population and people need more land for houses, factories, highways, and so on. The farmland is decreasing with each passing day. How to meet the need of feeding the growing population? One way is to introduce some high-output gene into a crop to enable it to produce more. Biologists over ... | high10039.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "tell us his strange experiences"
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"options": [
"tell us his strange experiences",
"tell us what happens in his bedroom",
"tell us an interesting story",
"tell us what happens in his apartment"
],
"question": "... | Back in 2003 I had a pet rabbit named Alaska.Due to the rules the landlord had set,he had to be kept in the basement .One night I went downstairs to feed him.Keep in mind I've always thought the basement was frightening.As I was facing his cage and putting the bowl of water inside,a big shadow appeared behind me,as if ... | high11333.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "a long dress"
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"options": [
"a long dress",
"a cocktail dress",
"a short dress",
"a dark suit"
],
"question": "If a lady receives an invitation marked with \"formal\", she should wear",
"question_type": "f... | If you are invited to a party by the Austrians and the suggested dress is "informal " (usually marked in the lower left-hand coner of the invitation) , it may mean dark suit and a white shirt for men and cocktail dress( ) for women. Or again, may mean something considerably less formal. "Formal" means a black tie and e... | high3674.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Advertisers perform a useful service to communities."
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"options": [
"Advertisements create mass markets for all products.",
"Advertisers perform a useful service to communities.",
"The criticisms for advertisements.",
... | Advertisers tend to think big and perhaps this is why they're always coming in for criticism. Their critics seem to resent them because they have a gift for self-promotion and because they have so much money to throw around. " It's unfair," they say, " that this entirely unproductive industry (if we can call it that) s... | high18471.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Kimchi is a cultural treasure for Koreans."
},
"options": [
"Kimchi contains something that can kill the H5N1 virus.",
"Kimchi is rated as the healthiest food in the world.",
"Kimchi is a cultural treasure for Koreans.",
... | Anyone for kimchi ? Around 2,000 women made the traditional dish last week in Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea(ROK).
More than 270 tons of kimchi were produced and handed out to needy neighbours.
In the ROK, kimchi is more than a dish to be eaten with every meal, even though Koreans are said to eat about 40 ... | high5205.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "its safety"
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"options": [
"its appearance",
"its size",
"its color1",
"its safety"
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"question": "After borrowing the suitcase, the author was worried about _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
}... | My friend Kathy and I were going to Colorado Springs for holiday. The only problem was, I didn't have any luggage to pack my belongings in.
My friend Debbie offered to lend me a suitcase that belonged to her father, who had passed away long ago. "I don't know if you'll want to use it," she said so gently, "it's very ol... | high17742.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a legal document issued by a country to permit a foreigner to travel to the country and request to enter"
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"options": [
"something that permits a foreign citizen to travel to the USA",
"a legal document issued by the USgovernment... | Every foreign student who has been accepted to study in this country must have a legal document called a visa from the prefix = st1 /United Statesgovernment. A visa permits a foreign citizen to travel to theUnited Statesand request permission to enter the country. The rules for getting a visa can be found on the State ... | high22921.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "they wanted to experience more in their lives."
},
"options": [
"their children wanted to make friends of all nationalities.",
"they wanted to experience more in their lives.",
"their children wanted completed freedom.",
... | Phillida Eves and her husband Tedd Hamilton weren't unhappy living in the Galway countryside with their sons, Cian and Oisin, and their daughter, Soracha. "We had a lovely home , a car, lots of friends, and weekends sailing our boat", says Phillida. "But there's a line from a poem that goes: 'Tell me, what is it you pl... | high13524.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He wet his gloves by rubbing them across his T-shirt."
},
"options": [
"He refused to continue the game.",
"He angrily hit the referee with a ball.",
"He insisted that the referee was unfair.",
"He wet his gloves by rub... | "Tear them apart!" "Kill the fool!" "Murder the referee !"
These are common remarks one may hear at various sporting events. At the time they are made,they may seem innocent(,) enough. But let's not kid ourselves.They have been known to influence behavior in such a way as to lead to real violence. Books have been writt... | high8721.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "temperature changes"
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"options": [
"floods",
"fronts",
"temperature changes",
"frosts"
],
"question": "One characteristic of weather maps NOT mentioned by the author in this passage is _ .",
"question_ty... | A weather map is an important tool for geographers. A succession of three or four maps presents continuous picture of weather changes. Weather forecasters are able to determine the speed of air masses and fronts to determine whether an individual pressure aroa is deepening or becoming shallow and whether a front is... | high15155.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A punctual person does everything at the right time while an unpunctual person seldom does anything at the correct time."
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"options": [
"A punctual person does everything ahead of time while an unpunctual person does everything behind ... | A punctual person is in the habit of doing a thing at the proper time and is never late in keeping an appointment.
The unpunctual man, on one hand, never does what he has to do at the proper time. He is always in a hurry and in the end loses both time and his good name. A lost thing may be found again, but lost time ca... | high7412.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The experience"
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"options": [
"The police",
"The experience",
"Segaran",
"The visited friend"
],
"question": "_ taught the author never to carry a passenger on a bicycle again.",
"question_type": "cloze_... | Carrying a passenger on a bicycle is an offence punishable by law. Everyone knows that but still some of us do it.
I had done it many times before until something happened to teach me never to do it again. It was not the police. Rather it was an unforgettable, and unpleasant, experience.
It happened one evening when my... | high8047.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "1et us understand old people better"
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"options": [
"make the users more comfortable",
"1et us understand old people better",
"help old people move more quickly",
"produce new tools for the old-age business"
],
... | You've heard of the fat suit and the pregnancy suit;now meet AGNES--the old person suit.
AGNES stands for "Age Gain Now Empathy System" and was designed by researchers at MIT's AgeLab to let you know what it feels like--physically--to be 75 years old."The business of old age demands new tools,"said Joseph Coughlin,dir... | high15633.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the whites would vote for a black mayor"
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"options": [
"the whites would vote for a black mayor",
"a black mayor would be elected in such a large city",
"a black from a poor farmer's family could be elected mayor of Los Ang... | On May 29, 1973, Thomas Bradley, a black man, was elected mayor of Los Angeles. Los Angeles is the third largest city in the United States, with a population of three million. About sixteen percent of the city's population are black.
News of this election appeared on the front pages of newspapers everywhere in the Unit... | high7374.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A christmas tree gives hope for a miracle"
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"options": [
"A christmas tree gives hope for a miracle",
"Friends' help means a lot",
"A Christmas tree for a hospital",
"The best hope of Suzy Jordan"
],
"question... | Theangelshavefinallybeenconnectedtogether andthebowshaveallbeencarefully fixed across the branches.After three months of hard work, 16-year-old Suzy Jordan's tree is finally appearing at the yearly Festival of Trees in honor of her best friend, Emily Austin.
"All that's needed now is a real angel,"says Suzy,"to help 13... | high9359.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "they found their soul mates in cities"
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"options": [
"they don't like to live in the rural Kansas",
"there are not many girls in the rural Kansas",
"they found their soul mates in cities",
"the life in rural Kansas is... | Many rural areas in the United States have no doctor. Some medical schools are trying different ways to treat the problem . One idea is to educate doctors in smaller communities and hope they stay. Dr. William Cathcart-Rake heads a new program at the University of Kansas in the Midwest.
"We need more doctors. There's s... | high291.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Four."
},
"options": [
"Three.",
"Four.",
"Five.",
"Six."
],
"question": "How many main advantages of the Internet are talked about in the_passage?",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answer":... | In the early 1990s,the word" Internet" was strange to most people. But today, Internet has become a useful tool for people all over the world. Maybe Internet has been the greatest invention in the field of communication in the history of mankind .
Communicating with others on the Internet is much faster. We can chat wi... | high1705.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Pets may not follow orders."
},
"options": [
"Pets may not follow orders.",
"Pets don't want to be bothered.",
"Pets may not like photographers.",
"Pets seldom change their expressions."
],
"question": "Why do s... | Animals are a favorite subject of many photographers. Cats, dogs, and other pets top the list, followed by zoo animals. However, because it's hard to get them to sit still and "perform on command," some professional photographers refuse to photograph pets.
One way to get an appealing portrait of a cat or ... | high18317.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "He has as many as 5 billions fans in China."
},
"options": [
"He played in the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony last summer.",
"He has as many as 5 billions fans in China.",
"He is the first Chinese pianist to play with the w... | He is talent and charm have made him the No.1 Chinese classical artist in the world. He played in the grand Beijing Olympic opening ceremony last summer, watched by a TV audience of 5 billion.
Lang Lang, 26, is the first Chinese pianist to play with the world's top orchestras, making his _ at the Carnegie Hall in New ... | high5563.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "There are no imposing doors and concrete walls in her new school."
},
"options": [
"There are no imposing doors and concrete walls in her new school.",
"The author's old classroom is a trailer.",
"The author's new school is a... | It was a very different school from those in China. You're not met by imposing doors and concrete walls, and the buildings were inviting. On the front of the main building was inscribed "Lee Elementary School, 1904." Wow! I knew it was an old school. Surrounding the main building were five trailers . One of them was my... | high20688.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Arabs in America."
},
"options": [
"Arabs in America.",
"The Two Arab Immigration Waves to America.",
"Arab-Americans,Contributions to America.",
"Arab-Americans,Education and Income."
],
"question": "What would... | For many in the United States,Arab-Americans are an invisible part of the population.Though Arab-Americans as a community have made great contributions to American society in fields from literature to politics to medicine,many Americans know very little about Americans of Arab backgrounds.
Arab history in the United St... | high10993.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "give a hand to those in need of help"
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"ask for help from his neighbors",
"give a hand to those in need of help",
"require his neighbors to clear the snow",
"raise money for the old people in his communit... | Last Sunday, as soon as I walked into the house in the afternoon, my little brother placed a bunch of papers in my hands and asked me to fold them up so they could fit into an envelope as quickly as possible. He said it needed to get done quickly before it turned dark.
After I read what was on the papers, I smiled. It ... | high21596.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "She was competitive."
},
"options": [
"She was brave.",
"She was competitive.",
"She was strong.",
"She was disabled."
],
"question": "What made Jean take part in sports?",
"question_type": "factiod_question... | Jean Driscoll can go faster in her wheelchair than the world's best marathoners can run!
In April, Jean finished the Boston Marathon in 1 hour 34 minutes 22 seconds. That's about 33 minutes faster than the winning male runner! She competed on the track, too. She was second in the 800 meter wheelchair race at the 1992 O... | high11455.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Danger of Harmful Waste to Mankind"
},
"options": [
"Measures of Reducing Dangerous Waste",
"Danger of Harmful Waste to Mankind",
"Dangerous Waste and Water Pollution",
"Environmental Protection"
],
"question": ... | Besides giving off gases and dusts into the air, humans produce waste that is poured on the environment. Often, this waste produced by major industries and people is harmful to both nature and human life.
One of the main causes of the large amount of dangerous waste is that people do not realize how large a problem it ... | high3112.txt |
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"answer_text": "Tui Na can bring back not only physical health but also emotional health."
},
"options": [
"Tui Na is a whole-body treatment and can't be divided into different parts.",
"Tui Na can be used to balance the diseases before they can d... | Tui Na and Your Emotional Health
In Traditional Chinese Medicine the body, mind and spirit cannot be divided and so the unique whole-body treatment in Tui Na can also be a useful treatment correcting any imbalances in the body's energy before symptoms and disease can develop. It also works to restore emotional harmony ... | high4696.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Receiving vaccines will be effective to protect against it."
},
"options": [
"In fact it is not a kind of influenza virus.",
"It is quite possible to predict it in theory.",
"Old people are more likely to contract it than kid... | There is a joke among flu researchers: "If you've seen one flu season, you've seen one flu season." The joke is about the unpredictable nature of the flu virus. Every year it looks different, and everystrain follows its own pattern -- it's the reason why new strains like H1N1 are extremely difficult to predict.
Dr. Mi... | high10978.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The places that the horrible disasters struck."
},
"options": [
"Some countries where he could set up clinics.",
"Some African countries where flu broke out.",
"The places where the earthquakes happened.",
"The places t... | My wife passed away a few years ago, and I went through the worst time in my life. I even wanted to kill myself. Just for kids, I had to continue to live and work as small-town doctor at my medical clinic in Hawaii. My kids had gone to live on the mainland, and I was alone. Then they asked me to have a family trip.
On ... | high20663.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It could advertise for his company for free."
},
"options": [
"He could become famous.",
"He liked to have a nickname.",
"It could make his workmates happy.",
"It could advertise for his company for free."
],
"q... | Albert was an ordinary worker in an oil company in America. His workmates gave a nickname "Four dollars a bucket " to him, for he was always used to leaving an advertisement of his company "Four dollars a bucket of oil" below his name whenever and wherever he wrote down his name.
As time went by, people forgot his re... | high5588.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "mental faculties"
},
"options": [
"logic",
"mental faculties",
"learning ability",
"working-memory capacity"
],
"question": "According to the text your academic success depends on your _ .",
"question_t... | If you ask Americans whether or not they think their former president George W. Bush is smart, most of them will probably tell you they don't think so. However, Bush's IQ score is estimated to be above 120, which puts him in the top ten percent of the population.
It doesn't seem to make sense. How come someone with suc... | high15800.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Because they want others to know or think they are rich."
},
"options": [
"Because they feel proud to be taken for the Joneses.",
"Because they want others to know or think they are rich.",
"Because they are afraid that other... | It is said that in the United States much has been told about that anyone can become rich and successful if he works hard and has some good luck.
Yes, when one becomes rich he wants people to know it. And even though he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That's what "Keeping up with the Jon... | high22074.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because two homeless men were also waiting in line, with a bad smell."
},
"options": [
"Because both men were poorly dressed and mentally ill.",
"Because the short gentleman was smiling to everyone around.",
"Because two home... | I am a mother of three children and have recently completed my college degree. The last class I had to take was social study. The last project of the term was called "Smile". The last class was asked to go out and smile at three people and document their reactions.
Soon after we were given the project, my husband, my y... | high1936.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "sulfur"
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"carbon",
"sulfur",
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Poteet, Texas, USA
April 11 - April 13
Description:
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"completed an easy task"
],
"question": "\"She succeeded... | This hotel in the trees is famous in the world. Peop1e who know very little about Kenya, know of Treetops. When King George VI died, Princess Elizabeth was staying on the Treetops, and when she came down from there, "She succeeded him as the queen of the country". This hotel in the middle of the forest shows the pleasu... | high15828.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Lajmayin"
},
"options": [
"duck",
"dumplings",
"Lajmayin",
"pork"
],
"question": "On Chinese New Year's Day,Miang's aunt may cook all of the following EXCEPT _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
... | Miang
My name is Miang,I come from Thailand. I would like to tell you about my favorite holiday,which is Chinese Spring Festival,taking place in January or February every year. My family is Chinese,and we celebrate this day all together,too. My aunt prepares some traditional Chinese dishes,such as duck ,chicken,fish,po... | high13281.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "can stay alive for two months out of water"
},
"options": [
"likes eating nuts",
"prefers living in dry places",
"is the longest living fish on earth",
"can stay alive for two months out of water"
],
"question":... | GUATEMALA CITY(Reuters)---- A fish that lives in mangrove swamps across the Americas can live out of water for months at a time, similar to how animals adapted to land millions of years ago, a new study shows.
The Mangrove Rivulus, a type of small killifish, lives in small pools of water in a certain type of empty nut ... | high8084.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the class made fun of her."
},
"options": [
"Reed Harrington didn't date her.",
"Carlos was too rude to her.",
"she had to carry many books.",
"the class made fun of her."
],
"question": "The author was angry be... | The first time I saw Carlos I would never have believed he was going to change my life. I had my arms full of books and I was walking into the classroom when I ran into something solid. It was Carlos.
"My God, you're tall" he said.
Of course, the class began to laugh. Angry, I walked to my seat without a word.
I glance... | high23815.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "to draw more visitors in the summer of 2010"
},
"options": [
"to describe the beauty of SeaWorld San Diego",
"to draw more visitors in the summer of 2010",
"to tell of the most exciting activities",
"to introduce variou... | SeaWorld San Diego is one of the world's famous marine adventure parks with 200 acres of world-class shows, thrilling rides and unforgettable animal encounters. More than 80 million visitors have explored the mysteries of the sea here.and spent the day checking out all eleven shows including the performance of Shamu th... | high12410.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "she was the subject of a study"
},
"options": [
"she was asked to do research on mice",
"she wanted to experience loneliness",
"she was the subject of a study",
"she needed to record her life"
],
"question": "St... | On May 23,1989, Stefania Follini came out from a cave at Carlsbad, New Mexico. She hadn't seen the sun for eighteen and a half weeks. Stefania was in a research program, and the scientists in the program were studying body rhythms . In this experiment Stefania had spent 130 days in a cave, 30 feet in depth.
During her... | high7638.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "The amount of salt consumed"
},
"options": [
"The amount of salt consumed",
"The number of deaths caused by high blood pressure.",
"The number of people with cardiovascular disease.",
"The number of people with high blo... | According to the Ministry of Health, 260 million Chinese people have chronic diseases, and 85 percent of all deaths in China are caused by such diseases. Among them, cardiovascular disease has bothered more people than any other kind of chronic disease.
According to the WHO(World Health Organization), salt consumption ... | high9615.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the lights lit by a famous person"
},
"options": [
"the wonderful window dressing",
"the Europe's largest music shop",
"the lights lit by a famous person",
"many bargains to choose from"
],
"question": "Oxford S... | Hands-on experience is still attractive to many buyers, although online ordering is popular in the UK today.
Oxford Street
London is shoppers' paradise, and most visitors head for Oxford Street. Halfway along is Sel-fridges, one of the world's first department stores where the architecture and window dressing impress e... | high14061.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "a city in Germany"
},
"options": [
"a kind of food",
"a round piece of beef",
"the name of a village",
"a city in Germany"
],
"question": "Hamburg is _",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"an... | Although English is not as old as Chinese , it is spoken by many people around the world every day. English speakers are always creating new words and we are often able to know where most words come from.
Sometimes, however, no one may really know where a word comes from. Did you ever think about why hamburgers are ca... | high1249.txt |
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