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"answer_text": "shocked"
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"angry",
"disappointed",
"calm"
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"question": "Hearing her son's question, the author felt _ .",
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},
{
"answer": {
"ans... | One evening last summer, when I asked my 17-year-old son, Ray, for help with dinner, his response surprised me, "What's a colander ?" he asked.
I could only blame myself. Nobody's hands went in the sauce except my own. But that night, as I explained with a touch of panic that a colander is the thing with holes in it, ... | high10207.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "was made to welcome customers and check their bags"
},
"options": [
"asked every customer for money to feed her family",
"was made to welcome customers and check their bags",
"was asked to keep the door open all the time",
... | While I was on my way to Walmart, I was greeted by an elder woman who was working at the door as a greeter, I had a return to make so she stopped me and asked to tag my bag. Usually I would have gotten annoyed because I know I don't steal, so why does my bag need to be tagged? I'd just witnessed someone ahead of me bei... | high2740.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Show ads based on your conversation ."
},
"options": [
"Chat with you like a real friend .",
"Turn on your phone's microphone .",
"Identify the movie you are watching .",
"Show ads based on your conversation ."
],
... | The Big Brother in the novel 1984 listens to everything and nothing can escape his ears . Now in reality , we have Facebook . The social media giant has never denied that it's keeping track of conversations you have near your phone ( if the Facebook app is open , that is ) , but not , one expert has told NBC that Mark ... | high19545.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "frightened but calm"
},
"options": [
"panicked but optimistic",
"nervous and hopeless",
"upset and regretful",
"frightened but calm"
],
"question": "Gaddy felt _ when he found himself trapped in the crocodil... | "All I could see was two sets of red eyes below me," said Dave Gatty, an Australian farmer who spent seven days up a tree in remote bush land to escape crocodiles. Gatty, 52, said he was forced to take such drastic action after he accidentally went into a crocodile-infested area of Queensland. He only had two meat sand... | high4331.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "expensive watches with unnecessary functions still sell"
},
"options": [
"people dive 300 meters into the sea",
"expensive clothes sell better than cheap ones",
"cheap cars don't run as fast as expensive ones",
"expensi... | When I was seven my father gave me a Timex, my first watch. I loved it, wore it for years, and haven't had another one since it stopped ticking a decade ago. Why? Because I don't need one. I have a mobile phone and I'm always near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these devices tell the time--which is wh... | high2998.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "was disappointed with the restaurant"
},
"options": [
"was satisfied with the restaurant.",
"was disappointed with the restaurant",
"had to wait for his food",
"ate for the first time at the restaurant"
],
"ques... | To: manager@ tastytreat.com.ca
Date: Monday, 7 October, 3:34p.m.
From: raymondyuen@ canada.net
Subject: Complaint
Dear Mr. Price,
I have eaten in your restaurant many times and have always been happy with the food and service. This makes what happened last Saturday even more disappointing.
It was my son's birthda... | high16676.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Monday"
},
"options": [
"Monday",
"Wednesday",
"Friday",
"Sunday"
],
"question": "_ has always been thought as the unhappiest day of a week.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | If you struggled to get up for work on Wednesdays, there could be a good reason--it is the day our mood reaches its lowest point. Monday has traditionally been thought of as the most depressing day of the week but according to psychologists, midweek gives more cause for concern in reality. Wednesday represented the low... | high11119.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Flower buds"
},
"options": [
"Flower buds",
"Pictures",
"Boys",
"Innocent children"
],
"question": "Girls are usually compared to _ at the age of sixteen.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | Sixteen, sweet sixteen! Sweet sixteen? What 's so sweet about this birthday? Perhaps because sixteen marks out coming of age, which is the interim period between childhood and adulthood. It is a very brief and unique stage in our lives. A time when we are becoming an adult, yet still haven't lost our childhood innocenc... | high18883.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "her name was similar to a terrorist's"
},
"options": [
"she and her husband returned from Jamaica",
"her name was similar to a terrorist's",
"she had been held in Montreal",
"she had spoken at a book event"
],
"... | My heart sank when the man at the immigration counter gestured to the back room. I was born and raised in America, and this was Miami, where I live, but they weren't quite ready to let me in yet.
"Please wait in here, Ms. Abujaber," the immigration officer said. My husband, with his very American last name, accompanied... | high5991.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "is an interesting experience"
},
"options": [
"is an interesting experience",
"is always very stressful",
"needs much professional knowledge",
"is the best choice to work in a TV station"
],
"question": "Accordi... | The Production Department can be a fun place to work in a TV station. It can also be quite stressful if the station broadcasts a significant amount of live programming. There can be a number of interesting positions in this department. Here is a list of the core ones:
The Production Manager heads the department, and is... | high3338.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "She does reading"
},
"options": [
"She does reading",
"Her mother doesn't provide her with enough books.",
"She has become addicted to playing games on the web.",
"Like many youngsters, she has lost interest in"
],
... | Books are not Nadia Konyk's thing. Her mother brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows interest. Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet. She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer, spending most of her time reading and commenting on sto... | high16110.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "He has a great talent for singing."
},
"options": [
"He has a great talent for singing.",
"He works quite hard as a shop owner.",
"He sings better than Susan Boyle.",
"He likes watching TV best."
],
"question": ... | A shop worker nicknamed Little Fatty told of his shock at becoming a Susan Boyle-like Internet star after a perfect Whitney Houston performance on a TV talent show. Lin Yuqun, 24, won over the judges and the audience of the Million Star show with perfect performances of Whitney Houston's I will Always Love You , and h... | high5749.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "wanted to refresh after 26 years' work"
},
"options": [
"had lost his old job",
"wanted to refresh after 26 years' work",
"had a desire for travelling",
"became interested in historical research"
],
"question": ... | Dennis Sinar, 51, a doctor from New York, is quick to explain why he took a year-long break from his job. "I was pretty burned out after practicing medicine for 26 years. I needed a recharge." So he took a "gap year", from July 2011 to June 2012, to explore things like ancient buildings, and traditional Eastern medicin... | high10561.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "25%"
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"16%",
"25%",
"35%",
"55%"
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"question": "How many office workers use old computers in Britain expressed their dissatisfaction?",
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"answ... | Old Computers Make for Unhappy Workers --- Survey
LONDON (Reuters) ----- Dealing with the dissatisfaction of aging and unreliable office computers leads to workers' unhappiness and more sick leave, a survey showed on Wednesday.
A survey carried out by caro4free.net of over 2,700 European office workers from the UK, Fr... | high2026.txt |
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"answer_text": "83156170"
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"question": "If you want to buy tickets for listening to the music \"Memory of Childhood\", you will dial _ .",
"question_type": ... | The China National Opera (CNO) will give a concert to celebrate its 50thbirthday.
Different generations of CNO vocalists , like Li Guangxi, Yao Hong and Ma Mei, will present the concert which will feature both songs from famous operas like "The White-haired Girl" and "The Hundredth Bride", as well as arias of such Wes... | high13068.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The authority's order."
},
"options": [
"Parents' complaints.",
"The authority's order.",
"The photos of other kids.",
"Supporting from the school."
],
"question": "What speeded up the spread of Martha's story?"... | When Barbra Streisand discovered in 2003 that a photograph of her California beach house was among 12,000 photos on theInternetas part of a collection by photographer Kenneth Adelman, she did what any famous person would do:hit him with a $50 million lawsuit. But in trying to hold back the images, she caused a differen... | high9173.txt |
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"answer_text": "an olive branch means flood is over"
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"an olive branch suggests flood is coming.",
"the ark is made of olive tree wood.",
"an olive branch means flood is over",
"a dove loves to settle on the olive branch... | The term "to extend an olive branch" means to make an offer of peace or reconciliation . This term has Biblical origins, coming from the section of the Old Testament that deals with the flood; the sign that the flood is over is an olive branch brought back to the ark by a dove. Olive branches were also symbols of peac... | high14707.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "her English was poor"
},
"options": [
"her English was poor",
"it's easy to master English",
"it's difficult to make money",
"people there weren't very friendly"
],
"question": "After the woman visited the Unite... | A woman from Japan was telling a friend about her trip to the United States.The woman had visited major businesses and investment companies in New York City and Chicago.
"I studied English before I left home,"she said."But I still was not sure that people were speaking English."
Her problem is easy to understand.Americ... | high6240.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The first English dictionary was published in the early 17"
},
"options": [
"The dialect of London became the standard in the year 1604.",
"Vowels were pronounced longer towards the end of Middle English",
"The first English ... | Towards the end of Middle English, a sudden change in pronunciation started, with vowels being pronounced shorter and shorter. From the 16
century the British had contact with people from around the world. This means that many new words and phrases entered the language. The invention of printing also meant that there w... | high15419.txt |
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"answer_text": "angry"
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"worried",
"angry",
"nervous",
"surprised"
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"question": "Hearing Mary decided to leave home, Mary's father was very _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"answer": ... | It was late one evening. I can't remember what it was about, but my dad and I had a very big argument when my mom was away. We both said things we didn't mean, and in the end I said, "I'm leaving." And he said, "Good. The sooner, the better."
I threw a few things in a suitcase and closed the door angrily behind me, n... | high14713.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "people seldom show depressing stuff on the social networking websites"
},
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"Facebook or Twitter is a good place where we share personal experience",
"people seldom show depressing stuff on the social networking websites... | Recently the barbican museum in London held an exhibition called the rain room. During the time this exhibition was open, my twitter stream was filled with photos of people standing in the rain room, accompanied by the caption "rain room@ the barbican!" and a location attachment to prove that they were indeed in the ra... | high9167.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "5 to 7"
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"5 to 7",
"18",
"13",
"384"
],
"question": "If you want to get into touch with a stranger in the world, how many e-mails might it take for the message to reach him/her?",
"question_ty... | We're all connected. You can send an e-mail message to a friend, and your friend can pass it on to one of his or her friends, and that friend can do the same, continuing the chain. Eventually, your message could reach just about anyone in the world, and it might take only five to seven e-mails for the message to get th... | high6254.txt |
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"answer_text": "the outflow of labour helps solve its social problems"
},
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"the country is Asia's main source of migrant workers",
"labour exports lead to a 10% growth of its GDP",
"the outflow of labour helps solve its social pr... | Last year more than one million Filipinos worked abroad as servants,nurses,sailors and in other difficult but low-paid jobs.Southeast Asians leave their poorer countries for their richer neighbours.
Many of these wage-earners return in the end.In the meantime,they send home huge amounts of money--in the Philippines' ca... | high8279.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "his boat was in the darkness"
},
"options": [
"the wind was too strong",
"the wave hit the boat",
"the safety belt was broken",
"his boat was in the darkness"
],
"question": "The author of the passage was alone ... | Well, when the huge wave hit the boat, my safety belt broke and I was swept overboard. I don't really understand how it happened, but it did. I heard someone yell out, but then my boat, Wild One, went off into the darkness and I was alone in a very rough sea. I then spent five and a half hours in the water. The place w... | high12362.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "He is extremely busy."
},
"options": [
"His hand is more shaky than ever.",
"He is extremely busy.",
"He has got a new address.",
"He has to help the North Polar Bear."
],
"question": "Why can the writer only wr... | Cliff House
Top of the world
Near the North Pole
Christmas, 1925
My dear boys,
I am dreadfully busy this yearit makes my hand more shaky than ever when I think of itand not very rich; in fact awful things have been happening, and some of the presents have got spoilt, and I haven't got the North Polar Bear to help me, a... | high5985.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "People who do not feel satisfied with their jobs."
},
"options": [
"Joanne Gordon herself.",
"Tony Hawk, Sally Ayote, and Caroline Baron.",
"People who do not feel satisfied with their jobs.",
"The workers who agree wit... | "Find a job you love, and you'll never work a day in your life." Do you agree with this old saying? Joanne Gordon does. She is the author of Be Happy at work and other books about careers . Gordon believes that about 30% of employees in North America do not like their jobs, and she thinks that is terrible. She wants t... | high4443.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To make testing new drugs faster and cheaper."
},
"options": [
"To treat the patients whose body organs don't work well.",
"To examine the health condition of human organs.",
"To make testing new drugs faster and cheaper.",
... | Testing new drugs for safety and effectiveness is a costly process in the United States. It also can take:lot of time. Some scientists are now designing silicon computer chips that act like human organs. The scientists think they have found a way to make the process faster and more economical.
The silicon computer chi... | high19237.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "they have to get more advanced degrees to earn more"
},
"options": [
"they don't have to worry about the cost in education",
"they have to get more advanced degrees to earn more",
"they don't want to support their family memb... | A job used to be the next step after a diploma. But now, young people aren't in any rush to start working. Less than 78 % of people aged 20 to 34 either have jobs or are looking for work, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (USA). That's down from the peak of 83 % in 2000, and the lowest since the 1970s. The bi... | high18129.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "early adopters are probably welcomed by the tech companies"
},
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"the Segway motorized scooter (para. 3) was once quite popular",
"early adopters are probably welcomed by the tech companies",
"Mecca (para. 2) is a ... | Gadgets can be wildly expensive and quickly out-of-date, but Steven Poole is still the first to buy them. Technological innovations are often quite stupid. The idea that you might want to walk down the street holding a mobile phone in front of your face, just to experience the wonders of video calling, is clearly r... | high21970.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "to build up a global sense of brotherhood and friendship through laughter"
},
"options": [
"to build up a global sense of brotherhood and friendship through laughter",
"to build a common connection between various religions",
... | Kataria is the founder of the worldwide laughter movement. The celebration of World Laughter Day is a positive activity for world peace and is intended to build up a global sense of brotherhood and friendship through laughter. The first "World Laughter Day" gathering took place in Mumbai, India, on 11th January, 1998. ... | high2032.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Learning How to Be Happy."
},
"options": [
"Basic Things for Happiness.",
"Tips to Be Happy.",
"Learning How to Be Happy.",
"Laughing a Lot at School."
],
"question": "What would be the best title of this passag... | Teenagers at one German school are learning how to achieve happiness alongside subjects like maths and languages.
The class sit in a circle with their eyes shut and count from one to ten: one begins, the next voice comes from the far right, a third from the other side. The aim is to listen for an opportunity to shout t... | high10213.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "cloud and rain"
},
"options": [
"low cloud and fog",
"typhoon and flood",
"cloud and rain",
"sunshine and mild wind"
],
"question": "On August 25, in N. Ireland and northwest England, there will be _ .",
... | National Forecast
LONDON --This Evening and Tonight:
Rain, locally heavy across northwest Scotland. Mostly cloudy but dry in other northern and western areas. Dry with clear spells in more central and eastern parts, but some low cloud and fog will develop. Generally mild with light winds.
Saturday:
Cloud and rain over... | high2754.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "New royal baby named George Alexander Louis"
},
"options": [
"New royal baby named George Alexander Louis",
"The royal couple gave birth to their eldest son.",
"The choice of name was interesting and complicated .",
"Th... | Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge's new son will be named George Alexander Louis, the royal family says. A statement from William and Catherine's settlement Kensington Palace said the baby, third in line to the throne , would be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge.
On Wednesday the royal c... | high4325.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "They will be completed in the near future."
},
"options": [
"They have been opened to travelers.",
"They will be completed in the near future.",
"They are all located in Asia.",
"They are mostly for military purposes."
... | From Britain to the Middle East and China, engineers and architects are pushing the boundaries of possibility as they strive to create the biggest and the best. Here are recently-selected seven wonders-to-be in the modern world which are near completion. Among these, Beijing Daxing International Airport ranks the first... | high19551.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The INCCH will learn more if allowed to clean the Mona Lisa painting."
},
"options": [
"The French government will be in charge of digging up da Vinci's body.",
"The INCCH will learn more if allowed to clean the Mona Lisa painting.... | Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is perhaps the most famous portrait in the world, but now some suspect that the woman with the mysterious smile may not be a woman after all. They are suggesting that the Mona Lisa may be a self- portrait, da Vinci in drag .
Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage (INCCH) is carr... | high18897.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "very strange"
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"very interesting",
"very strange",
"very common",
"very sensitive"
],
"question": "The writer felt the birthday party he attended was _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions... | I attended a birthday party in 1991. My teacher was then 59 years old. But her fellow teacher said that we were celebrating her 39thbirthday! We were all surprised and puzzled.
After the party I was told by the fellow teacher that American women have a special saying about birthdays. If a woman is over 40, or even if s... | high12404.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "to result from environmental influences"
},
"options": [
"to be based on inactive life style",
"to be due to anxiety",
"to result from environmental influences",
"to be caused by heavy smoking"
],
"question": "A... | Cancer is feared by everyone. And there is more and more fear about cancer. Not the disease itself -- there is no such thing as a high incidence rates of cancer. Except for lung cancer, mostly caused by cigarette smoking, the incidence rates are not on the rise. However, some kinds of cancer are decreasing. But the fe... | high911.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "prepare for the landing on the moon"
},
"options": [
"take the astronauts to the moon",
"detect alien music in outer space",
"prepare for the landing on the moon",
"move around and observe the moon"
],
"question... | On May 18,1969,NASA astronauts Thomas Stafford,John Young,and Eugene Cernan boarded the Apollo 10 lunar module --the fourth manned mission in the US Apollo Space program and only the second after Apollo 8 to circle the moon.Its mission was to circle the moon and thoroughly test the components and procedures to pave the... | high14075.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It is an opportunity for Americans to get things they want at a much lower price."
},
"options": [
"It is a special day in the US on which government hands out coupons to customers.",
"It is a shopping festival in the US that falls... | There is nothing in the US quite like Black Friday. Before midnight on Thursday, in malls across the US, people start queuing up outside the locked entrances of stores, making longer and longer lines, holding coupons , sipping coffee and hot chocolate, rubbing their hands and stamping their feet for warmth, excitedl... | high9601.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "California's worse situation in higher education"
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"options": [
"California's worse situation in higher education",
"the dangerous situation in California",
"California's research on education and economy",
"funding c... | California, once regarded as a leader in the United States for its public higher education system, ranks next to the last in the U.S.for its number of adults with at least a high school diploma, according to the report, titled "California at the Edge of a Cliff," released by the California Faculty Association.
Meanwhil... | high6532.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "5 dogs and 169 people"
},
"options": [
"10 dogs and 55 people",
"5 dogs and 86 people",
"10 dogs and 83 people",
"5 dogs and 169 people"
],
"question": "McCulloch and his group used_in their research.",
"que... | Dogs have long been used to find explosives and drugs.Now,a new study shows that man's best friend can also help to find lung and breast cancer,researchers report in integrative Cancer Therapies.The findings show that trained ordinary household dogs can detect early--stage lung and breast cancers by smelling the breath... | high16892.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "imagining that you are better than others"
},
"options": [
"imagining that you are better than others",
"imagining you have a cottage.",
"thinking how pretty you will be in the future.",
"comparing yourself with million... | It is an agreed fact that all creatures want happiness instead of pain and grief. However, what is happiness?
Some thinkers say "Happiness doesn't lie in objects of enjoyments ; happiness or unhappiness lies in imagination". To prove their belief, they give examples like the following one: A man has a two-storey hous... | high17554.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She would like to resign herself to life."
},
"options": [
"She wanted to rid herself of worries.",
"She was to have words with her mother.",
"She was defeated by misfortunes.",
"She would like to resign herself to life... | A young woman went to her mother and told her how hard life was. She was tired of struggling and fighting and wanted to give up.
So, her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed ... | high18667.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "there are bedtime stories in the Tale of Samuel Whiskers"
},
"options": [
"Annie knew how important she was to her mother",
"shoppers didn't notice the author dancing with her son",
"there are bedtime stories in the Tale of S... | When we're young and we dream of love and fulfillment, we think perhaps of moon-covered Parisian nights or walks along the beach at sunset. No one tells us that the greatest moments of a lifetime are short, unplanned and nearly always catch us off guard.
Not long ago,as I was reading a bedtime story to my seven-year-o... | high19579.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "criticized himself a lot"
},
"options": [
"was very proud of himself",
"treated people differently",
"worked hard to keep fit",
"criticized himself a lot"
],
"question": "The author's coworker used to be a perso... | It was a dark, wet November morning. It seemed like it would take a million years to get to summer again. I thought bears have got it right---- what a perfect idea to sleep through the worst part of the year and wake up when spring comes!
"Want some words of affirmation ?" a coworker, seeing my mood, kindly suggested. ... | high11125.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "The songs of humpback whales can spread globally."
},
"options": [
"The humpback whale likes to hear Lady Gaga's songs.",
"The humpback whale's tunes sound like Lady Gaga.",
"Lady Gaga's new single gained worldwide popularity... | When Lady Gaga releases a new, pleasing and easily remembered single, it quickly goes around the world. Now scientists have discovered the same thing happens with the songs of another creature----the humpback whale. The mammals become absorbed by new tunes just like people do, and the most popular original whale songs ... | high7604.txt |
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],
"question": "People with start-up fatigue are most likely to .",
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We experience this tiredness in two ways: as start-up fatigue and performance fatigue. In the former case, we keep putting off a task because it has either too boring or too difficult. And the longer... | high13732.txt |
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},
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"The male chooses their nest.",
"The house-hunter chooses their nest.",
"The female chooses their nest."
],
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Among many birds that nest in holes, the male ha... | high1275.txt |
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"He was tired of literature",
"He had an attention disorder",
"He wanted to take the task home"
],
"question": "The author didn't finish t... | At thirteen, I was diagnosed with kind of attention disorder. It made school difficult for me. When everyone else in the class was focusing on tasks, I could not.
In my first literature class, Mrs. Smith asked us to read a story and then write on it, all within 45 minutes. I raised my hand right away and said, "Mrs. Sm... | high13054.txt |
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"making people more creative",
"improving performance"
],
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"being a tidy person"
],
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The authors divide people into two groups : people whose opinions you care ... | high23197.txt |
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"Wang Chen Won the International University WEICHI Tournament 2013",
"Weichi Brings Wang a Sense of Ach... | This July, Wang Chen, a student from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, won the International University WEICHI Tournament 2013 in Shanghai, which saw competitors from 54 universities around the world, including Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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"answer_text": "vitamin D is vital for the body to absorb calcium needed for healthy teeth and bones"
},
"options": [
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"a large quantity of vitamin D stored in bod... | Sometimes successful health campaigns can have quite unexpected reactions. The years of warnings about skin cancer mean that Britons are happy to cover themselves in sunscreen or stay out of the sun altogether, but it also means that most of us are not getting enough vitamin D.
Scientists announced yesterday that Brito... | high8251.txt |
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"He was afraid someone would steal them.",
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"Mrs.Cobell raised $2,000 in all.",
"Mrs.Cobell used to swim very well.",
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"welcome new students",
"give some advice for the graduates"
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The first lady told the 170 graduates that she spent too much of her own time in college focusing on academic achievem... | high17232.txt |
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In 1979, after ... | high5775.txt |
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"It is capable of orbiting for two weeks.",
"It will be sent into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.",
"It will be sent in... | China's second manned space flight will be done by two astronauts over five days in 2005. "Shenzhou-VI will be sent into space sometime in 2005," said Zuo Saichun, a spokesperson of the China Aerospace Science and Technology (CAST). "The spacecraft will make new breakthroughs in China's manned space technology."
Unlike... | high18101.txt |
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"Teahouse of the Almighty.",
"Mother Jones.",
"Big Machine."
],
"question": "Which of the following won the Shirley Jackson Award?",
"question_typ... | The following are selected contributors' notes for an essay collection.
KATY BUTLER, a 2004 finalist for a National Magazine Award, has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, Mother Jones, Salon, Tricycle, and other magazines. She was born in South Africa and raised in England, and came to the United States wi... | high11657.txt |
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"friendship is the most important for students",
"social development is based... | Family relationship, love and friendship are the three most important emotions in the world. Family relationship is the inborn connection, which you can't avoid or choose at will. Love, for a student, is not always within our reach and as for friendship, personally, it's most important. Nowadays, it is common to see fr... | high21794.txt |
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"be good at keeping you quiet"
],
"question": "A loyal best friend must _ a... | Do you know that people without friends are more likely to die an early death? It's true.However,not all the friends are helpful to up your chances of living a long,happy life. The following types of friends are just what you need to keep the doctor away.
A Loyal Best Friend
Sometimes a loyal best friend is the only th... | high18115.txt |
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"tells the way of getting out of college",
"discusses the practical value ... | In the new book The Education of Millionaires,Michael Ellsberg suggests that although"there are many wonderful things you can learn in college,"few of them are applied to real life .So Ellsberg has written the book to tell"the capabilities and attitudes that will get you improved outside the classroom."
I welcome the k... | high5761.txt |
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"My teacher didn't emphasize the importance",
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One day, I happened to meet an Englishman, on the road, and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English,... | high10549.txt |
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"they were agitators and un-American",
"too many people tried to erect new barriers",
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Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson signed a law to change that. The Voting Rights Act broke down legal barriers ... | high13040.txt |
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When is TEENSGIVING in SPRING 2013?
SUNDAY, ... | high23183.txt |
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"answer_text": "how Liz struggled to change her life"
},
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"What a hard time Liz had in her childhood",
"why Liz loved her parents so much",
"how Liz struggled to change her lif... | When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station . When other teens were studying or going out , she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University . And her amaz... | high7176.txt |
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"answer_text": "Only a small portion of the atmosphere consists of carbon dioxide."
},
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... | In the 1960s Professor Bolin predicted that the "greenhouse effect", caused by an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, would lead to important changes in the Earth's climate. At the time his prediction were regarded as science fiction. But it is now gradually agreed that the amount of car... | high8245.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"Playing a game.",
"Preparing for a play.",
"Acting in a movie."
],
"question": "What was the author doing at the beginning of' the story?",
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"growing online sales will cut their share of the market",
"people like to have their goods d... | Traditional businessmen feel worried that growing ecommerce will reduce their share of the market.
According to a survey, 90% of some people's purchases are made on the computer. As they find that by being able to go online and choose the things that they need to choose, and have them delivered right to their doorsteps... | high7610.txt |
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"The large tree",
"A plough",
"The lightning itself"
],
"question": "What did Edwards see first after being struck down by a lightning?",
"question_type": "factiod_quest... | Something strange was unbelievable. Take Robert for example. After the terrible car accident, his whole world had been completely dark and quiet for almost ten years. The loss of sight and hearing made him try many times to put end to his life.
His family especially his wife did their best to tend and comfort him. By a... | high8523.txt |
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"answer_text": "Painful."
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"Curious.",
"Frightened.",
"Disappointed."
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Twelve-year-old Roth becomes a friend of Dr. Banting and his assistant, Mr. Best, who are doing research on a cure for diabetes . She finds herself torn between her sympathy for the animals being experimented on and her friendship with Banting and Best.
Book 2George Washington Carve... | high15357.txt |
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"answer_text": "Cats and dogs can cooperate with each other in order to finish something."
},
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"Cats and dogs can be friends if they work together.",
"Cats and dogs can get along well wit... | Cats and dogs aren't usually friendly but they can work together well when there's a common goal.
Matt Hirst's pets were recently caught on camera conspiring to open the kitchen door while the master was away.
According to his post on Reddit, Hirst -- who lives in the U.K. -- had been arriving home all week to notice o... | high14049.txt |
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},
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"Visit fruit-loving families.",
"Plant fruit trees in an orchard.",
"Taste many kinds of apples."
],
"question": "What can people do at t... | If you are a fruit grower--or would like to become one--take advantage of Apple Day to see what's around.
It's called Apple Day but in practice it's more like Apple Month. The day itself is on October 21, but sinceit has
caught on, events now spread out over most of October around Britain.
Visiting an apple event is a ... | high13726.txt |
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"answer_text": "The team Houston led by YaoMing promises to be the most difficult one to be defeated."
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"Yao has become the best one in NBA and no one can be over him any more.",
"The team Houston led by YaoMing promises to be the m... | MIAMI (AFP) -- Yao Ming's 34-point performance against Shaquille O'Neal has the 2.26m Chinese center enjoying a happiness almost as huge as himself.
Yao scored 34 points, 14 in the fourth quarter, to spark Houston past defending NBA champion Miami 94-72 Sunday night. prefix = st1 /Yaoalso grabbed 14 rebounds and hel... | high17540.txt |
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},
"options": [
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"she thought they were hungry and needed something to eat",
"she wanted to get success",
"she wanted to become richer"
],
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"We do not go into a house together." they replied.
"Why is that?" she asked.
One of the old men answered, "His name is Wealth, this is Success, and I am Lo... | high18673.txt |
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"don't use chemicals to control harmful insects and weeds",
"don't need to control harmful insects and weeds",
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"find a specially trained teacher"
],
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"answer": {
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},
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"To advise friends to be loyal even in competition.",
"To expose the weak side of friendship when tested.",
"To support the author's own argument on compet... | We live in a very competitive world. Everybody seems to be competing with someone at some level. Each week we spend hours playing or watching others compete in sporting activities all over the world. We cannot help being impressed by the level of excellence that these people achieve.
In sport and business, competition ... | high3476.txt |
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},
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"The ability to make all students behave well.",
"The ability to treat different students in the same way.",
"The ability to discover a student's pote... | Many of us have heard stories about teachers who can "see" into a student's future. Even if a student is not performing well, they can predict success. We are convinced that this ability, this gift, is evidence that they were "called to teach" . If the gift of sight is evidence, how greater must be the gift of touch. I... | high11131.txt |
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"They were famous in Puerto Rico.",
"They had different cultural values.",
"They took cultural values seriously."
],
"question... | Growing up in Puerto Rico, our family was no different from so many others. My parents got married after my father came back when the war ended. Both of my parents were struggling with the hard economic realities of the time. But somehow, they found time to cherish those cultural values that shaped our everyday life.
I... | high19586.txt |
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"answer": {
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Many of the larger Scottish Islands have airports on the smaller islands. This makes island travel a lot easier across from the mainland of Scotland and between islands. Flying over the islands gives you a bird's-eye view on clear days.
Orkney Islands Airport
... | high21019.txt |
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"there were forty master dyers",
"everyone wore the same color1",
"the dyers didn't use machines"
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"question": "To the traveler, the... | A traveler once visited a city where everyone wore blue. Puzzled, he went to a dyer and said, " Please dye the handkerchief red."
"I don't know how to dye red."
"Then dye it green."
"I can't dye it green. There are forty master dyers in this city, and every one of us can dye only blue." "I can dye all color1s," sai... | high18840.txt |
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"answer_text": "To be in hot water;To be in deep water."
},
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"To be in hot water;To keep your head above water.",
"To be in deep water;Water over the dam.",
"Water over the dam;To ... | Expressions about water are almost as common as water itself. But many of the expressions using water have unpleasant meanings.
The expression "to be in hot water" is one of them. It is a very old expression. "Hot water" was used 500 years ago to mean being in trouble. One story says it got that meaning from the custom... | high2783.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because he has many opportunities to look for any possible challenges initiatively."
},
"options": [
"Because he has learned there for about two years.",
"Because he ran a business of his own.",
"Because he has many opportuni... | I always wanted to run a business of some sort,and finally I got such a good chance to do so at the beginning of the summer term.The business project is called Young Enterprise,where we set up a small company called "Limitless" and sold the products to the school and public.I was appointed deputy director and financial... | high18698.txt |
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"answer_text": "a good cry can sometimes help us face problems rightly"
},
"options": [
"people don't like being seen crying",
"crying in public makes people feel better",
"a bad cry is as common as a good cry",
"a good cry can sometim... | We've all experienced a "good cry". Shedding some tears can often make us feel better and help us put things in perspective. But why is crying beneficial? And is there such a thing as a "bad cry"?
The researchers analyzed the detailed accounts of more than 3,000 recent crying experiences and found that the benefits o... | high20307.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A student magazine."
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"A computer magazine.",
"A food magazine.",
"A fashion magazine."
],
"question": "In which magazine will you read this text?",
"question_type": "fa... | Your stay in Britain should be a memorable and happy time. To achieve this, you
need to prepare yourself well for the trip. Not only will you use English, but you will also need to get used to customs, attitudes and food that are different from what you know.
Your stay will be more enjoyable if you join in with you... | high24161.txt |
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"answer": {
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"Section 2.",
"Section 3.",
"Section 1&2."
],
"question": "There are three sections in the passage.Which section do you think is about why phonecards are good?",
"qu... | How many coins have you got in your pocket right now?Three?Two?Or one?With a phonecard you can make up to 200 calls without any change at all.
1.What do you do with it?
Go to a telephone box marked "Phonecard".Put in your card,make your call and when you've finished,a screen tells you how much is left on your card.It c... | high7823.txt |
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"answer": {
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"boys",
"girls",
"old men"
],
"question": "According to the article, more and more_in Europe were giving up smoking.",
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},
{
... | Within a few short years, girls in Europe have become heavier smokers than boys, for reasons experts still fail to understand, according to a British study, presented last week to an international conference on smoking.
Anti-smoking activists at the second "Tobacco or Health" conference in the Canary Islands pointe... | high22510.txt |
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},
"options": [
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"They are all famous for their traditional food.",
"They are all great cities for art lovers.",
"They are all ... | Florence,Italy
Who should go:Art lovers;Renaissance historians;leather handbag shoppers with high credit limits.
When to go:Spring or fall.Travellers usually avoid summer in Florence.
Paris,France
Who should go:Starving artists;Henry Miler fans;traditional food lovers.
When to go:Spring is the best time.That's what the... | high13915.txt |
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"answer_text": "more right-handed women than left-handed women tend to hold their babies on the left"
},
"options": [
"left-handed women tend to hold their babies on the right",
"more right-handed women than left-handed women tend to hold their ba... | Scientists have recently discovered that mothers tend to hold their baby on the left.Of 255 right-handed mothers,83% held the baby on the left.And out of 32 left-handed women,78%held the baby on the left As a control( ),women were watched coming from supermarkets carrying baby-sized bags;the bags were held with no side... | high22276.txt |
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"answer": {
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"become a good fairy godmother",
"be a beautiful and attractive fairy",
"help more people get out of trouble"
],
"question": ... | There was once a fairy who was learning how to be a fairy godmother. She was the kindest and cleverest of all fairies. However, she was also a very ugly fairy. And no matter how friendly she was to others, it seemed that everyone always believed that the most important thing about a fairy was her beauty. In the fairy c... | high23168.txt |
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"the child may behave badly",
"the ability may fade away",
"the child may lose interest",
"the parents may become anxious"
],
"question": "If a child's musical ability... | How to deal successfully with a child showing outstanding musical ability? It's not always clear how best to develop and encourage his gift. Many parents may even fail to recognize and respond to their children's need until discouragement explodes into uncooperative behavior. And while most schools are equipped to dea... | high6283.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "security in shopping"
},
"options": [
"freedom of shopping",
"shopping convenience",
"security in shopping",
"Internet access"
],
"question": "Consumer confidence in online shopping mainly relies on _ .",
... | It is amazing to note that the Internet is still such a new device,and yet it is one of the fastest and most powerful media tools. But think about it for a moment. On the Internet,a big online company can be run by only two guys in their garage. So it is only reasonable then,that people shopping online would be a littl... | high11864.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "he was busy looking for her"
},
"options": [
"he was busy looking for her",
"he had to look after his wife",
"he was not strict in his job",
"he no longer enjoyed working there"
],
"question": "Her father didn't... | A gentle breeze blew through Jennifer's hair. The golden red sun was setting. She was on the beach, looking up at the fiery ball. She was amazed by its color1, deep red in the middle, softly fading into yellow. She could hear nothing but the waves and the seagulls flying up above in the sky.
The atmosphere relaxed he... | high20461.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "He is a blind but very neat."
},
"options": [
"He is a blind but very neat.",
"His wife died many years ago.",
"He likes playing the piano.",
"His room in the nursing home is big."
],
"question": "What do we kno... | Busy as I am every day, I always open my computer and check my email. Most of the time I am simply doing finger exercises, another form of piano practice without beautiful tones. Sometimes, however, I receive a gift, reminding me of the gifts in my life. The following passage is one of those gifts.
Peter Jones is a 92-... | high5952.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Roslyn to Benjamin"
},
"options": [
"The boy's mother to his father",
"Benjamin's father to Roslyn",
"Benjamin to his mother",
"Roslyn to Benjamin"
],
"question": "Who lost a bet to whom?",
"question_type": ... | Bet Winner
MILLBURN, New Jersey-- An 11-year-old boy, he gave up television for a year in a bet with his mother, says he will use some of the money to buy himself an astronaut's suit. The bet ended at 9:01 on Monday morning, but Benjamin waited until his mother, Roslyn, handed him five 100-dollar bills in front of a ga... | high20475.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Trees that can resist wind better."
},
"options": [
"Trees that worms can't hurt.",
"Genetically engineered trees.",
"Trees that can resist wind better.",
"Trees that can protect themselves at a chemical attack."
],... | Special trees that grow faster, fight pollution, produce better wood, and even sense chemical attacks are being planted by scientists in the US.
When 40 per cent of Hawaii's US$14 million-a-year papaya industry was destroyed by a virus five years ago, work began on creating genetically engineered trees.
Researchers su... | high5946.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "to help poor college students"
},
"options": [
"for parents and students to complain",
"to help poor college students",
"for poor students to get free education",
"to help students find jobs"
],
"question": "The... | The national assistance system for poor college students is getting more effective as proved by fewer phone calls to the hotline of the National Center for Student Assistance Administration.
"Poor college students and their parents are getting more satisfied with the national assistance system," said Ma Wenhua, deputy ... | high4480.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Harriet's fight against slavery."
},
"options": [
"The Underground Railroad.",
"The history of American slavery.",
"Harriet's hard life and bravery.",
"Harriet's fight against slavery."
],
"question": "What does... | Harriet Tubman was an AfricanAmerican woman who fought against slavery. She was born in 1820. She helped many people escape from slavery through the Underground Railroad. It was an organized effort to help slaves from the southern states to areas that banned slavery.
Slaves could be sold freely. Families were often sep... | high7189.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Basic Photography"
},
"options": [
"Understanding Computers",
"Basic Photography",
"Oil Painting",
"Typing"
],
"question": "Of all the courses mentioned in the text, the shortest one is _ .",
"question_ty... | Register in person, by phone 264-8833, or by mail. Use form given.
178 IN Winchester St, Chicago
Basic Photography
This is an eight-hour course for beginners who want to learn how to use a 35mm camera. The teacher will cover such areas as kinds of film, light, and lenses . Bring your own 35mm camera to class. Course ch... | high14908.txt |
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