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"answer_text": "An imaginary event"
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"A historic discovery",
"A research on space",
"A scientific adventure",
"An imaginary event"
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"question": "What is mainly described in the passage ?",
"question_type": ... | The year is 2094,It has been announced that a comet is heading towards the Earth.Most of it will miss our planet, but two pieces will probably hit the southern half of the Earth.
On 17 July, a piece four kilometers wide enters the Earth's atmosphere with a massive explosion.About half of the piece is destoryed but the ... | high6297.txt |
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"answer_text": "Three."
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"options": [
"One.",
"Two.",
"Three.",
"Four."
],
"question": ".In answering how many questions did God give \"me\" his opinion?",
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... | Interview With God
I dreamed I had an interview with God."So you would like to interview me?"God asked."If you have the time,"I said."My time is eternity."God smiled,"what questions do you have in mind for me?""What surprises you most about humankind?"God answered,"That they get bored with childhood,they rush to grow u... | high7837.txt |
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"answer_text": "are physically in a dangerous situation"
},
"options": [
"are diagnosed with a serious illness",
"are looking for a job",
"are physically in a dangerous situation",
"are attacked by robbers suddenly"
],
"questio... | An Australian 3-year-old boy was described as a hero after saving his mum from an almost certain death by calling emergency services right after she collapsed because of an epileptic attack .
Aiden McDonald amazed the doctors who arrived at Jeanine McDonald's house 10 minutes after Aiden called 000. The boy was very c... | high24175.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "many people don't tend to get back their refund though the goods quality is poor"
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"people have run into debts mainly because of their Internet shopping addiction",
"many people don't tend to get back their refund th... | The addictive pull of Internet shopping is dragging thousands of victims into a rise of debt, including thousands of women who have run up huge credit card bills they cannot repay.
The appeal of 24-hour access and the explosion in goods and services on offer has seen a 10 percent increase in credit card debts in the U... | high22504.txt |
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"answer_text": "$220."
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"$185.",
"$215.",
"$220.",
"$300."
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"question": "If a sixth-grader wants to take part in a camp about musicals, how much will he spend?",
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... | Are you interested both in camp and music? Maybe the MSU Community Music School is a better place for you to go! It offers different music camps this summer!
Rock Camp
June 23 - 27, 2014
$220
It is held for middle and high school students who have some experience playing their instruments (guitar, bass, drums, or keybo... | high13901.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To enjoy the TV program."
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"options": [
"To eat the hot food.",
"To watch the toaster.",
"To enjoy the TV program.",
"To climb up on a chair."
],
"question": "What had Meagan expected Hannah to do while she wa... | Meagan and her friend Samantha, both students, lived together in Denver. On mornings when Samantha had class, Meagan would watch her 2-year-old daughter, Hannah. Also part of the household was Meagan's pet, Willie, a parrot -- a particularly intelligent and chatty breed. He picked up quite a healthy vocabulary ("Silly ... | high19592.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because he wanted to earn some money."
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"Because he wanted to earn some money.",
"Because his parents wanted him to do so.",
"Because he wanted to experience a different life.",
"Because his parents urged... | While I was waiting to enter university,I saw advertised in a local newspaper a teaching post at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of money, I applied.
Three days later, a letter arrived, asking me to go to Croydon for an interview. It proved a tiring journey: a train t... | high18854.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "can do exactly the same thing repeatedly"
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"can do work as accurately as workers",
"never break down",
"can do exactly the same thing repeatedly",
"ask for less money from companies"
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"question"... | I visited the nearby car factory today with my uncle, who works there. One thing I noticed was that most of the work is now done by robots. Welding , painting, testing, and many other jobs are performed by robots now.
The whole dashboard of the car is now put into the car from above, through the windshield, by a ro... | high3489.txt |
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"answer_text": "Anger may cause you a cancer."
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"options": [
"Were you angry, you would get cancer.",
"Once you are angry, you will get cancer.",
"Angry as you are often, you can't get cancer.",
"Anger may cause you a cancer."
],... | Doctors say anger can be an extremely damaging emotion, unless you learn how to deal with it. They warn that anger can lead to heart disease, stomach problems, headaches, emotional problems and possibly cancer.
Anger is a normal emotion that we all feel from time to time. Some people express anger openly in a calm reas... | high2797.txt |
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"answer_text": "digestive system"
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"special need",
"living habitat",
"digestive system",
"born laziness"
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"question": "Koalas do not get poisoned when eating eucalyptus simply because of their _ .",
"ques... | Koalas are found only in prefix = st1 /Australia. Even if called koala bear, this animal has nothing to do with the actual bear; it is not even a mammal , but a marsupial , like the kangaroo. Its closest living s are the wombats . A koala is about 60-80cm long and weighs 5-14kg.
The name "koala" means "no drink", a... | high16879.txt |
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"answer_text": "The Theory of Division of Labor and Its Significance"
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"The Causes of Industrial Revolution",
"Adam Smith, the Economist and Philosopher",
"The Industrial Revolution and Its Significance",
"The Theory of ... | Over two hundred years ago, Adam Smith introduced some ideas which brought about a world revolution.If we enjoy a high standard of living in modem society, we owe much to this Scottish economist and philosopher.If we enjoy driving in beautiful cars, wearing fashionable shoes, or flying away to distant places for exciti... | high20313.txt |
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"answer_text": "Cars, taxis and motorbikes on the cycle lane pose a threat to cyclists."
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"The city's twisting streets make it hard for the rider to find the way.",
"Cars, taxis and motorbikes on the cycle lane pose a threat to cycl... | Taxi, the underground, driving...in London these means of transport are expensive. As a student on a budget, I couldn't afford the 30 pounds (around 300 yuan) fare for a taxi. Even a bus was one pound and 20 pence (about 12 yuan) for a single ticket. I didn't need to travel this way anyway. I had Mabel-- my London bike... | high23632.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Disappointed and helpless"
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"options": [
"Cold and sick",
"Fortunate and helpful",
"Satisfied and cheerful",
"Disappointed and helpless"
],
"question": "How did the write feel when she was walking home after w... | That cold January night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was, walking home at one in the morning after a tiring practice at the theatre. With opening night only a week ago, I was still learning my lines. I was having trouble dealing with my part-time job at the bank and my acting at night at the... | high722.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Graham helped change the author's attitude"
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"the author's favorite sport is climbing hills",
"the author has to climb a hill to go to work",
"Graham helped change the author's attitude",
"Graham often cl... | I told my friend Graham, "I often walk two miles from my house to the town centre. Unfortunately, there is a big hill on the way." He replied, "You should say 'fortunately'." He explained that I should be glad for the extra exercise that the hill gave.
I thought he was right. My attitude to the hill has now changed. As... | high9832.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "That workers were on strike for better public traffic."
},
"options": [
"That more travelers stayed in the airport.",
"That workers were on strike for better public traffic.",
"That many schools had to stop having classes.",
... | Heavy snow and low temperatures caused further damage across northern Europe on Monday--stranding travelers,snarling traffic and shutting schools.
More than 1,000 flights at Germany's main airports in Frankfurt,Munich and Berlin were _ and many more delayed after up to 40 cm of fresh snow covering the country.Some 500... | high13929.txt |
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"answer_text": "The divorce dress is designed to make women look the most beautiful"
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"The divorce ceremony in Japan includes a buffet meal.",
"Smashing the wedding rings helps Tomoharu Saito make a clean break.",
"The divorce... | (Reuters)--Ceremonies to celebrate divorces have gained momentum in Japan after the massive March earthquake and tsunami, followed by an ongoing nuclear crisis, caused unhappy couples to reassess their lives.
The ceremony to mark a couple's transition to being single again costs 55,000 yen ($690), includes a buffet mea... | high21025.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "his boss asked him to work on his handwriting"
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"he had planned for that for a long time",
"he was shocked by his boss' good handwriting",
"his boss asked him to work on his handwriting",
"he was often mi... | For about a decade, I knew that I needed to improve my handwriting, but I always put it off. "My typing skills are good, my communication skills are good, and all my other abilities are adequate for the job I do and the life I live. Why would I need to improve my handwriting in such a modern world?" I thought.
I wa... | high16851.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "people build a better future"
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"people build a better future",
"the homeless remain healthy",
"the addicts quit their bad habits",
"the prisoners get out of prison"
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"question": "Back on My Feet... | Ask runners why they run and you'll get a variety of answers; to stay healthy or to feel better. Some have an even bigger reasonto stay calm or out of prison. But Back on My Feet puts recovering addicts and the homeless on the road to a brighter future, starting with a simple step; attending group runs three tunes a we... | high17597.txt |
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"answer_text": "He wants to be a citizen who obeys the law."
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"His pride gets in the way.",
"What the institutions of charity offer isn't what Soapy needs.",
"He wants to be a citizen who obeys the law.",
"The institutio... | On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily, and he realized the fact that the time had come for him to provide against the coming winter.
The winter ambitions of Soapy were not of the highest. In them there were no dreams of Mediterranean voyages or blue Southern skies. Three months on the Island was what his ... | high11858.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "throwing away the old cars"
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"taking the train instead of a car",
"throwing away the old cars",
"avoiding the use of pesticides",
"running after those who throw articles carelessly"
],
"question":... | It's you and I who are to blame for the state of the earth. No question about it. It's our life-style that is threatening life on Earth, so we must make the changes. The good news is that many of those changes are really quite simple, even enjoyable, but for every careful step we take as individuals , we must press gov... | high11680.txt |
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"answer_text": "He was in the classroom."
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"He was in the classroom.",
"He was at home. .Com]",
"He was on the way to school.",
"He was on the playground."
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"question": "Where was the writer when the tragedy to... | Seven years ago I was 13 years old. I still remember to this day where I was and how it all came down. I was in my social studies classroom, when a teacher came back and told us that the first building of the World Trade Center was hit by a plane. We immediately stopped our work and turned on the television. Throughout... | high21743.txt |
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"answer_text": "It will probably rain or snow"
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"It will probably rain or snow",
"It will probably be cloudy.",
"It will probably wind",
"It will probably become dry."
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"question": "According to the passage, wh... | These days we hear a lot about how air pollution is changing temperatures on the earth. New evidence from a mountaintop in China now suggests that pollution can also change the amount of rain and snow that falls in some places.
Usually, more rain falls in mountainous places than in flat areas upwind from the mountains.... | high8292.txt |
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"answer_text": "a difficult childhood"
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"a difficult childhood",
"a lonely childhood",
"a normal childhood",
"a happy childhood"
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"question": "We can infer that the author had _ .",
"question_type": "sum... | My mother got divorced when I was 5 and was left to raise me and my two younger brothers. She didn't have a formal education, so she had to work two full-time jobs to make ends meet.
One day several years later, I was determined to help. I told the manager of the Don Carlos Motel in Nana Point that I was 15, so I could... | high12389.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "build up their confidence"
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"do things carefully",
"build up their confidence",
"improve their imagination",
"learn in different situation"
],
"question": "Positive choice of words helps kids to ... | It is not only praise or punishment that determines a child's level of confidence. There are some other important ways we shape our kids--particularly by giving instructions and commands in a negative or positive choice of words. For example, we can say to a child "Don't run into traffic!" or "Stay on the footpath clos... | high14920.txt |
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"answer_text": "could be seen far away"
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"could be seen far away",
"could be seen at night",
"were used only for warning",
"were considered the best way of sending messages"
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"question": "Blanket signals _ ."... | Each Indian tribe had a different language. Many Indians never learned any languages except their own. Do you know how Indians from different tribes talked to each other? They had two ways to talk without sound. One way was by sign language; another way by signals.
Sign language is a way of talking by using signs. Indi... | high13097.txt |
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"answer_text": "academic ability"
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"strong will",
"academic ability",
"full potentialities",
"confidence in school work"
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"question": "The purpose of the SAT is to test students' _ .",
"question_type": "c... | As a professor at a large American university,there is a phrase that I hear often from students:"I'm only a 1050."The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test(SAT),which is used to determine whether they will be admitted to the college or university of their choice,or even if they have... | high8286.txt |
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"answer_text": "To paint it immediately."
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"To speak it out openly.",
"To photograph it instantly.",
"To purchase it directly.",
"To paint it immediately."
],
"question": "According to Ruskin, what should travele... | Whenever something looks interesting or beautiful, there is a natural desire of us to capture and preserve it--which means, in this day and age, that we are likely to reach for our phones to take a picture.
Though this would seem to be an ideal solution, there are two big problems associated with taking pictures. Firs... | high14934.txt |
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"answer_text": "deprives us of leisure time"
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"entitles us to too much leisure time",
"deprives us of leisure time",
"urges us to get things done punctually",
"imposes on us a perfect concept of time"
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"questio... | Our quarrel with efficiency is not that it gets things done, but that it is a thief of time when it leaves us no leisure to enjoy ourselves, and that it strains our nerves when we try to get things done perfectly. In building bridges, American engineers calculate so finely and exactly as to make the two ends come toget... | high13083.txt |
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"answer_text": "a decision made to improve ourselves"
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"a decision made to improve ourselves",
"a ceremony to celebrate New Year",
"a promise made to your parents",
"a recall of what happened last year"
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"quest... | Spring will soon be upon us and a new term is here. All over' the world spring is the season of.new life: flowers bloom, baby animals are born, and the weather becomes warmer.During this time of year, people usually walk around with a spring in their steps and a feeling of fresh beginnings.However, for a fresh beginnin... | high23140.txt |
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"answer_text": "he believed ravens helped protect the Tower"
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"he loved animals a lot",
"he believed ravens helped protect the Tower",
"he wanted to train the ravens to watch the prisoners",
"he thought the Tower was a c... | As a palace, the Tower of London.was a great place to live.As a prison, it, wasn't so nice ----especially since so many prisoners lost their heads.Today tourists can explore 5the Tower in the
United Kingdom.Here are some reasons why the Tower was and still is a cool place.
Ravens are like superheroes.
Well, sort of.Le... | high11694.txt |
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"answer_text": "places to visit"
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"places to visit",
". places to gather together in",
"some easy job",
"things you can do online"
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"question": "The writer compares the Web to _ .",
"question_type": "clo... | The Internet and the World Web are great places to be right now. We use the word "place" because so many of the things you can do online are similar to the things you can do wherever people gather together-in homes , schools , libraries , shopping centers , or at family reunions or town meetings. The Net allows peopl... | high21757.txt |
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"answer_text": "introduce the film Elephant"
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"report a school killing in a US school",
"tell people to be careful while in peace",
"introduce the film Elephant",
"show American school life"
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"question": "This ... | The film starts out as a normal day at a typical American high school. Friends chat in the dining room and boys play football. But there's big surprise when the movie ends with two students going crazy in the school shouting and killing people.
This is Elephant. It stars real school kids. American director Gus Van Sant... | high21031.txt |
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"answer_text": "not all working people live with their parents"
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"children never live with their parents",
"not all working people live with their parents",
"aged people are supported by their grandchildren",
"grandchild... | Until late in the 20th century, most Americans spent time with people of generations. Now mid-aged Americans may not keep in touch with old people until they are old themselves.That's because we group people by age. We put our three-year-olds together in day-care center, our 13-year-olds in school and sports activities... | high2973.txt |
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"question": "The admission for a young couple with a 10 -year son and a 4- year daughter is _ .",
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... | Buckingham Palace is the Queen's house in London and one of only a few working royal palaces left in the world. Located in the heart of London and surrounded by 2 royal parks, a trip to Buckingham Palace is a must for any visitor to London during August and September.
Ticket Pricing
Adult: PS20.50
Over 60/Student (with... | high18868.txt |
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"answer_text": "study the danger of heart disease"
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"study the danger of heart disease",
"study the influence of emotional health",
"collect the information of various diseases",
"provide a place for people of heart dise... | Are you feeling blue? An American study suggests that being surrounded by happy friends and neighbours could have more of an effect on your happiness than money.That is the finding of researchers from Harvard University and the University of California at San Diego.
Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler studied the ... | high16845.txt |
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"answer_text": "A worker."
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"A worker.",
"A man living on fishing.",
"A fishing club official.",
"A reporter of the Southern Daily Echo."
],
"question": "What is Alan Prangrell?",
"question_type": "factiod_qu... | An angler got the shock of his life when his prize catch turned out to be a crocodile.
Alan _ Prangncl], 64, was reportedly fishing in the 22-acre lake near Ringwood when he felt a sharp tugand started to reel the heavy but unknown fish in.
But, according to the Southern Daily Echo, when the end of the line appeared, ... | high17583.txt |
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"answer_text": "Confidence in oneself."
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"A lot of energy.",
"Training from a good coach.",
"Confidence in oneself.",
"Concentration on contestants."
],
"question": "What is the most important thing to have in pr... | It seems that the key to winning any contest is in the belief that you can win. This belief is what inspires one to do one's best. If we have this belief, we work tirelessly to accomplish our goals, and make whatever sacrifices which are necessary. Whether it's a hot-dog eating contest or a spelling bee, the winners ha... | high23626.txt |
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"answer_text": "When the Computer Is Down"
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"The Most Frightening Words",
"The Computer of the Airport",
"Asking the Computer"
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"question": "The best title for the article is _ .... | The most frightening words in the English language are, "Our computer is down." You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, "I'm sorry, I can't sell you a ticket. Our computer is down."
"If your compute... | high736.txt |
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"answer_text": "A driver blows his horn when his car breaks down on a Germany's highway."
},
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"A doctor changing his bulb at his home in Victoria.",
"A driver blows his horn when his car breaks down on a Germany's highway.",
"A s... | There are some strange and wonderful rules in law books around the world. When you are traveling, it's always best to know before you go. Not only could this keep you out of trouble, but it can also help you get the most out of your holiday.
In Victoria, Australia, it's illegal to change a light bulb unless you are a l... | high9826.txt |
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"answer": {
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"drew up a careful plan before taking a ride",
"made a fool of himself in face of his friends",
"hurt himself seriously while riding down the hill",
"succee... | The type of things we remember are different. Although we tend to remember good things in our lives, bad things have a way of
on us. One such thing I remember happened when I was 10 years old.
I decided to ride my bicycle over a near-by stream. I carefully planned the adventure, and asked my friends to go there and h... | high15394.txt |
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"answer_text": "because they regulate atmospheric gases and rainfall"
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"because they increase rainfall throughout the whole world",
"because they regulate atmospheric gases and rainfall",
"because they receive extra heat from ... | Do you know how much tropical rainforest is being destroyed each day around the world, and for what purpose(s)? Putting down exact numbers is nearly impossible, but most experts agree that we are losing upwards of 80,000 acres of rainforests daily. Along with this loss and degradation , we are losing some 135 plant, ... | high22538.txt |
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"answer_text": "whether it was useful to read books"
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"whether it was useful to read books",
"why he forgot what he read soon",
"what kind of book he could understand",
"how he could read books like his grandpa"
],
... | Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table, reading his book. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to copy him in every way he could.
One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa, I try to read the book just like you, but I don't understand it, and I forget what I understand as soon as I close ... | high7994.txt |
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"answer_text": "Playingthe iPad and mobile phone for hours"
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"Studyingtoohard",
"Thebadbodyposition",
"Playingthe iPad and mobile phone for hours",
"Hismother'sconcern"
],
"question": "Whatcaused Owaish Batliwala... | Most children have heard their parents at one time or another yell "sit up straight!" or "don't slouch!"
In the past, this was usually heard at the dinner table as children ate dinner. But these days, it is also heard around another activity-video games.
Ten-year old Owaish Batliwala, from Mumbai, India, admits he spen... | high9761.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Her inability to have children"
},
"options": [
"Her bad relationship with her husband.",
"Her husband's youthful appearance",
"Her inability to have children",
"Her nervousness at parties"
],
"question": "What ... | Standing alone at Browns party,Anna Mackintosh thought about her husband Edward,establishing him clearly in her mind's eye. He was a thin man,forty-one years of age,with fair hair that was often untidy.In the seventeen years they'd been married he had changed very little:he was still nervous with other people,and smile... | high6452.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Being arrested"
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"His job experience",
"The books he read",
"Being arrested",
"Long-hour work"
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"question": "_ made Jack London reconsider his life in the future.",
"question_type": "cloze_... | Jack London had endured more hardships by the age of twenty-one than most people experience in a lifetime. His struggles developed in him sympathy for the working class and a lasting dislike of hard work and provided inspiration for his career as a writer.
London grew up in San Francisco in extreme poverty. At an early... | high871.txt |
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"answer_text": "Teens, Television and Depression"
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"Teens, Television and Depression",
"Men Develop Depression Easier than Women",
"Media Use is Harmful to Adolescents",
"Take Great care of Teenager's depression"
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... | The researchers used a national long-term survey of adolescent health to investigate the relationship between media use and depression. They based their findings on more than four thousand adolescents who were not depressed when the survey began in 2000.
As part of the survey, the young people were asked how many... | high23961.txt |
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As we set out,I was shocked at how narrow the path was.And I c... | high10373.txt |
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Scientists placed more than 200 earthquake recorders in the earth to measure the movement. They found which... | high21810.txt |
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Every child, regardless of the circumstances int... | high4523.txt |
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1. Use your ... | high9007.txt |
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The first kind of loneliness is temporar... | high15579.txt |
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"Americans do in-flight shopping.",
"Germans chat to kill the time.",
"The Chinese switch off the seat-belt sign."
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Fifty years ago,the full-figured Marilyn Monroe was a symbol of the American aesthetic value;today,many H... | high6320.txt |
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... | Tu Youyou, the 85-year-old Chinese pharmacologist ,received the Nobel Prize for medicine in Stockholm on December 10,2015. Tu is the first Chinese Nobel winner in physiology or medicine. Also, in 2011, she became the first Chinese person to receive the US-based Lasker Award for clinical medicine.
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_ I recently let my guard down. Thirty-some years of marriage can do that to a woman. Give a man pruning shears and electric trimmers and he will... | high10401.txt |
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With their grey skin, mournful eyes and slow heavy pace, you could be forgiven for thinking elephants are uniformly melancholy creatures. But scientists have now discovered the largest living land animal... | high2146.txt |
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"The significance of the current economic crisis.",
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Boryeong Mud Festival-Boryeong, South Korea
For two weeks in July, millions gather in Borueong to experienc... | high5629.txt |
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Long March exhibit
The Shanghai History Museum is putting on an exhibition to mark the 60th anniversary of the Long March. On show are more than 220 photos and 40 items that explain with pictures how the communist Red Army drew back from its besieged bases in Jiangxi Province and fought its way to northern Sh... | high19425.txt |
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Sometimes a product is on sale for "below pr... | high16716.txt |
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... | high17408.txt |
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],
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],
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Robinson was born in 1919. He lived in a time when rules controlled what African Am... | high7980.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"Javier faced a number of challenges that put him at some risks.",
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"they consider the food free of pollution"
],
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"Organic produce is always better," Gold said."The food is fr... | high6446.txt |
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},
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"He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town.",
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I am one of those unfortunate people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way ther... | high25.txt |
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"answer_text": "Raffles Place."
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"Piccadilly Circus.",
"Paya Lebar Crescent."
],
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},
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Chinese Inventions--Can You Name Them?
The Invention of Paper and find out everything about paper-making at The Rober C.Williams American Museum of Papermaking.
The Art of Printing(Matteo Ricci)
The Origin of Chinese Books and Printing
Chinese bookmaking an ancient craft
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],
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I'm a senior. I'm going t... | high23975.txt |
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Most Faceboo... | high12570.txt |
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"how to fail",
"the ways to prevent failures",
"the importance of facing failures"
],
"question": "This passage mainly tells us a... | Why are so many people so afraid of failure? Quite simply because no one tells us how to fail so that failure becomes an experience that will lead to growth. We forget that failure is part of the human condition and that every person has the right to fail.
Most parents work hard at either preventing failure or ... | high21192.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Because Radel wanted to create two groups of testers, hungry and non-hungry."
},
"options": [
"Because hungry people needed time to fill their stomach.",
"Because Radel wanted to create two groups of testers, hungry and non-hungry.... | Our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the world; they're affected by what's going on in our heads. A new study finds that hungry people see food-related words more clearly than people who've just eaten.
Psychologists have known for decades that what's going on inside our head affects our... | high4279.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Angry."
},
"options": [
"Angry.",
"Sympathetic.",
"Happy.",
"Positive."
],
"question": "What is the writer's attitude towards the Gazette?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index... | Dear Editor:
I have been reading your newspaper, the Hometown Gazette, for the past two years, ever since I moved to Smithville because of my work. We moved here from New York City, so I am used to reading excellent newspapers such as the Washington Post and the New York Times. In fact, we still have the Times delivere... | high18713.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A man wanted to speak to him"
},
"options": [
"A beggar stopped him",
"A robber stopped him",
"A man wanted to speak to him",
"A man wanted to have words with him"
],
"question": "What happened to Edison when he... | One day when the famous American scientist Edison was on his way home, a young man stopped him and required to have a word with him. Edison accepted his request.
The young man asked, "How can you invent so many things and achieve your fame?"
The scientist said, "It seems that you have been thinking of becoming famous e... | high2608.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "she is a great young rock climber"
},
"options": [
"she is a great young rock climber",
"she can always find climbing holds that don't exist",
"she doesn't look like an athlete at all",
"she is the first female climber ... | Veteran rock climbers are calling her one of the most promising climbers in the world. She flies up, grasping the rock and heading gracefully for practically non-existent holds. She's only 14. Ashima Shiraishi, the New York-born teen, has shaken up the climbing world. At 1.55 meters and 45 kilograms, Ashima might not l... | high13646.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "became a star of Cruzeriro Belo Horizonte in 1992"
},
"options": [
"comes from a rich family",
"began to play soccer at 14",
"won a total of 58 goals at 14",
"became a star of Cruzeriro Belo Horizonte in 1992"
],
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[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "It won't function if you are negative about medicine."
},
"options": [
"It contains some sort of medicine.",
"It won't function if you are negative about medicine.",
"People who don't believe placebo can't be healed by it.",
... | When you go to the doctor, you like to come away with a prescription.It makes you feel better to know you will get some medicine.But the doctor knows that medicine is not always needed.Sometimes all a sick person needs is some reassurance that all will be well.In such cases the doctor may prescribe a placebo.
A placebo... | high14129.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Heart doctors won't call your house so long as you keep eating fish each day."
},
"options": [
"The Dutch research has proved that eating fish can help to prevent heart disease.",
"There is a low incidence of heart disease in count... | A small piece of fish each day may keep the heart doctor away. That's the finding of an extensive study of Dutch men in which deaths from heart disease were more than 50 percent lower among those who consumed at least an ounce of salt water fish per day than those who never ate fish.
The Dutch research is one of three... | high23785.txt |
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