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"answer_text": "3"
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"question": "How many reasons for going to college does the author mention in the text?",
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... | Hey there,
So you're about to spend four years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars of your parents' money, and all you really know about college is that all of your friends are going. Do you ever stop to wonder why you're going?
Relax. You're making the right decision. First of all, you'll discover what inter... | high16071.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "There is more to life than riches."
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"There is more to life than riches.",
"Gold is more important than food.",
"You can't trust your friends.",
"You must make a wiser choice."
],
"question": "Wha... | Midas was a powerful king, both rich and greedy. Once he did a great favor for Bacchus, the god of wine. Bacchus offered Midas his choice of a reward. Midas answered at once. He asked that whatever he touched be turned into gold. Bacchus agreed, though he was sorry that Midas had not made a wiser choice.
Midas was eage... | high4536.txt |
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"answer_text": "Harbin Ice and Snow Festival."
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"options": [
"Sundance Film Festival.",
"Harbin Ice and Snow Festival.",
"Holi Festival.",
"The Carnival of Venice."
],
"question": "Which of the following festivals can't be ce... | During the cold winter days, there are some interesting festivals in the world. Look at the following ones.
Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
Place: China
Time: January 5 to February 5
People build incredible things out of ice and snow, decorating them with lights.
The Carnival of Venice
Place: Italy
Time: between February ... | high19342.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "their birthplaces"
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"options": [
"the chef's name",
"their birthplaces",
"the name of fish",
"some kinds of food"
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"question": "Two kinds of Sushi, Edo and Osaka, were probably named after _ .",
"ques... | Sushi is a kind of food made with a mixture of cooked or raw fish, vegetables, and rice. Although Sushi is most commonly considered to have its origin in Japan, it actually began in China during the 7thCentury.
At that time, any fish caught had to be preserved. Raw fish was cleaned and then pressed between layers of he... | high5628.txt |
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"answer_text": "They have independence."
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"They have independence.",
"They want to win the permission of their parents.",
"They enjoy the freedom of choosing their spouses.",
"They want to challenge the authority of thei... | Upon reaching an appropriate age (usually between 18 and 21 years), children are encouraged, but not forced, to "leave the nest" and begin an independent life. After children leave home, they often find social relationship and financial support outside the family. Parents do not arrange marriages for their children, no... | high21805.txt |
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"answer_text": "To offer tips for saving transport costs in London."
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"options": [
"To introduce the public transport system in London.",
"To show readers how to use the Oyster Card.",
"To prove the subway in London is easy to use.",
... | Visiting London can be an expensive trip, so establishing a budget and finding bargains when you arrive will help you get around London on the cheap. The following steps can help you find cheaper alternatives for transport for your London trip.
l Familiarize yourself with the city's boroughs and specifically the area w... | high2147.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Two."
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"options": [
"One.",
"Two.",
"Three.",
"None."
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"question": "How many night flights will the tourists take during this trip?",
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"... | 2015, the time has come for more creative China tours to be made, Shanghai Disney opens, more high-speed rail options. Insisting on high-quality services, we are proud to present our ever best-selling China tour packages, tour themes and the next popular destinations. Check out the optional activities and information m... | high10400.txt |
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"answer_text": "At 13:00 0n 28 August."
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"At 9:00 0n 19 May.",
"At 18:00 0n 20 May.",
"At 13:00 0n 28 August.",
"At 17:30 0n 31 August."
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"question": "When can you enjoy a visit to Frogmore House and Garden?",
... | Frogmore House has been a royal place since the 18th century and is today used by the Royal Family for private entertaining. It is especially linked with Queen Charlotte, The wife of George III, and her daughters, whose love of botany and art is reflected throughout the house.
Unfortunately, parts of a visit to Frogmor... | high13109.txt |
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"answer_text": "some experts have given a warning"
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"they have evidence that the use of cell phones can lead to cancer",
"they make a fuss over cell phone use",
"some experts have given a warning",
"cell phones are respo... | Cell phones: is there a cancer link?
Could your cell phone give you cancer? Whether it could or not, some people are worrying about the possibility that phones, power lines and Wi-Fi could be responsible for a range of illnesses, from rashes to brain tumors.
Some say there is evidence to support the growing anxieties.... | high6321.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a travel brochure"
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"options": [
"a science report",
"a news article",
"a travel brochure",
"a book review"
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"question": "The text is probably from _ .",
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... | Plan on traveling around the USA? There are a number of outstanding websites that can make your American dream come true.
www.101usaholidays.co.uk
This is the latest offering that features 101 holiday ideas to the USA. It's a diverse selection, ranging from touring in the footsteps of Martin Luther King to a golfing br... | high14666.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "people's happiness is an important target for the development of a country"
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"people's happiness is determined by great people",
"people's happiness is an important target for the development of a country",
"pe... | Recently,CCTV journalists have approached pedestrians with their cameras,held a microphone to their mouth and asked a simple question :"Are you happy?"
The question has caught many interviewees off guard.Even Mo Yan who recently won a Nobel Prize,responded by saying:"I don't know".
While the question has become a... | high9012.txt |
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"answer_text": "before she got married to Henry"
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"before she got married to Henry",
"when she was twenty years old",
"after she finished high school",
"when she just moved to Maryland"
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"question": "Susan got ... | I got my first driver's license in 1953 by taking driver education in my first year at Central High School in Charlotte,North Carolina.Four years later when it was time to renew my license I was a married woman.Henry and I were living in Baltimore,Maryland.Two weeks before my 20th birthday,Henry drove me to the motor v... | high15578.txt |
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"answer_text": "She had an accident."
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"options": [
"She was the farmer's wife.",
"She had an accident.",
"She was hidden somewhere.",
"She had caused a scandal."
],
"question": "What do we know about Milly from the story?",
... | I had just gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang. It was a strange farmer. I had never met him before although I had heard people talk about him. He sounded quite nervous and he had been talking for a minute or so before I understood anything. Even then all I could understand was that someone called Mil... | high12217.txt |
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"answer_text": "PS175"
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"PS180",
"PS160",
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"question": "A family of four,including a son of 19 and a daughter of 13,should pay _ .",
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"answ... | Here is the tour that's voted "3rdbest tour in London" on the Best Things to Do-TripAdvisor! Hairy Goat is the best and most original tour company in London.
Do you like walking around a city and discovering something that makes a great photo? London is full of interesting photo chances and maybe you need someone to le... | high12571.txt |
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"answer_text": "it was very long"
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"it was made by brick",
"it was very wide",
"it was very long",
"it had a long history"
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"question": "The main reason for which the Great Wall can be called\"great\"is _ .",... | No one can believe that the over 6 300-kilometer long Great Wall might disappear some day.Believe it or not,the Great Wall is being destroyed by people.Less than 20 percent of the Great Wall built in the Ming Dynasty is still perfect,but about 80 percent is in danger.The Great Wall can be called "great" mostly because ... | high7759.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "experience its fastest development"
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"options": [
"work the shortest time",
"make the most money",
"enjoy its safest working conditions",
"experience its fastest development"
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"question": "From the passage, ... | Young people looking for a job with good pay, flexible hours and job security should consider working in health care, according to a list of the top 15 best jobs in the US for young people.
Health care is the fastest growing sector of the US economy and nearly half of what are considered the top jobs for young people a... | high864.txt |
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"answer_text": "More than half of the teenagers in the US and the UK have Internet access."
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"More than half of the teenagers in the US and the UK have Internet access.",
"Teenagers pay for goods online with their own credit cards."... | They like using the Internet. They have lots of pocket money to spend. And they spend a higher proportion of it online than the rest of us. Teenagers are just the sort of people an online seller is interested in, and the things they want to buy-games, CDs and clothing-are easily sold on the Web.
But paying online is a ... | high24.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "in the night time"
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"in the night time",
"after lullabies were broadcast",
"while the student was awake",
"all through the twelve hours"
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"question": "In the experiment, lessons were given _ ... | If you ask some people, "How did you learn English so well?" you may get a surprising answer: "In my sleep!"
These are people who have taken part in one of the recent experiments to test "the learn while you sleep" method , which is now being tried in several countries, and with several subjects. English is among th... | high1328.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "think in a habitual way"
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"think in a habitual way",
"enjoy having a car ride",
"usually behave in a friendly way",
"have a good memory"
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"question": "As with the dog Barney, people _ .",
... | Whenever my dog, Barney, comes into the house after having been for a ride in the car, he runs to the pen we have set up for him by the back door. It's not something we intentionally trained him to do. The habit came simply because my husband tended to put him in his pen whenever they came in. After doing it a few tim... | high2621.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Caring and responsible."
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"options": [
"Brave and independent.",
"Caring and responsible.",
"Honest and determined.",
"Friendly and humorous."
],
"question": ". Which of the following best describes Doniece Sa... | San Francisco, unofficially regarded as one of the homeless capitals of the US, counts nearly 6,500 homeless people, with 4,300 living on the street.
Among the many problems that the homeless face is little or no access to showers. San Francisco only has about 16 to 20 shower stations to accommodate _ . But Doniece San... | high10366.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To get back their football."
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"options": [
"To go boat rowing.",
"To swim in the open water.",
"To get back their football.",
"To test the umbrella as a sail."
],
"question": "Why did the two boys go to the se... | On a sunny day last August, Tim heard some shouting. Looking out to the sea carefully, he saw a couple of kids in a rowboat were being pulled out to sea.
Two 12-year-old boys, Christian and Jack, rowed out a boat to search for a football. Once they'd rowed beyond the calm waters, a beach umbrella tied to the boat caugh... | high17409.txt |
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"answer_text": "Shadow is a small and healthy dog."
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"the Browns have never had a pet before.",
"the Browns knew about Shadow from the newspaper.",
"Shadow is a small and healthy dog.",
"Mr Brown didn't quite agree with ... | Well,we're in our new house. Let's get a new pet to get along with it,"Mrs Brown said to her husband.
"That sounds like a pretty good idea,"he answered."Do you want to see the ads in the newspaper?"
"Let's go to the animal shelter. Many pets there need homes. Since tomorrow is Saturday,we can both go," she sa... | high16717.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "full of enthusiasm"
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"full of ambition",
"self-disciplined",
"full of enthusiasm",
"knowledgeable"
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"question": "According to the author, a born naturalist should first of all be _",
"ques... | Looking back on my childhood. I am convinced that naturalists are born and not made. Although we were brought up in the same way, my brothers and sisters soon abandoned their pressed flowers and insects. Unlike them, I had no ear for music and languages. I was not an early reader and I could not do mental arithmetic.
... | high4250.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "their country was in war and they needed peace"
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"they suffered starvation in their homeland",
"they wanted to start a rich life in the new land",
"they tried to get away from the terrible climate",
"thei... | My grandma whom we all called Nanny was a solid, first-generation, Italian immigrant. She came to this country with her family on a tiny ship during World War I when she was only 8 years old. During the trip she survived stormy seas,little food, and an attack by a German U-boat. After getting here,her large family work... | high2635.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because it is environmentally friendly."
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"options": [
"Because it means convenience to people.",
"Because it can help people save a lot of money.",
"Because local food has more nutrition.",
"Because it is environment... | "Eat local." It's one way to reduce human effect on the planet.Eating local means to try to buy and consume foods that are grown in places close to home.However, most of the food sold at supermarkets is not locally grown or produced.Trucks and planes deliver these foods from hundreds or thousands of miles away.During t... | high10372.txt |
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"answer_text": "a diary from Xiang"
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"options": [
"Xiang's talk with reporters",
"a diary from Xiang",
"Xiang's composition",
"Xiang's lecture"
],
"question": "From the passage, we know that the text is probably _ .",
... | Xiang Xiaowen is a student who survived the earthquake in China's Sichuan Province. Like thousands of others, she is now living in a tent in the hard-hitting city of Mianyang.
We are now sleeping in a tent city.
The earthquake happened last Monday and our rooms in school were destroyed. There are four tent cities. Ever... | high16703.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "raise chimpanzees as pets"
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"raise chimpanzees as pets",
"sell chimpanzees in the market",
"persuade people into donating money to WAZA",
"make chimpanzees feel on equal terms with human beings"
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... | The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) is an international organization that brings together zoos and aquariums to cooperate in efforts to advance the respectful, humane treatment of animals in our care, and to support the conservation of animals across the globe.
WAZA was shocked and disappointed to learn... | high19430.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "valued his dropping out"
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"was adopted by a lawyer and his wife",
"dropped out when he was 17 years old",
"The author was admitted to Stanford",
"valued his dropping out"
],
"question": "From the ... | I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another l8 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unmarried college graduate student, and she decided to, put me up for adoption. She fel... | high4244.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "sometimes doubted his ability to fly"
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"met several times of emergencies",
"was worried about his own safety",
"couldn't wait to fly alone in the sky",
"sometimes doubted his ability to fly"
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"q... | Fly Alone for the First Time
I began flying lessons at the age of 14; but the Federal Aviation Administration requires you to be 16 before you make flight by yourself. So I had to wait for two long years until I could fly a plane by myself. I used that time to master the basic maneuvers of flying. I learned emergency... | high12565.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "unfortunate events usually happen together."
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"options": [
"unfortunate events usually happen together.",
"personal misfortunes tend to happen every now and then.",
"misfortunes will occur three times in one's whole life.",... | People tend to be more impressed by evidence that seems to confirm some relationship. Thus many are convinced that their dreams are prophetic because a few have come true; they fail to notice the many that have not. Consider also the belief that "the phone always rings when I'm in the shower. " If it does ring while y... | high23960.txt |
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"answer_text": "loved to help the sick people"
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"options": [
"loved to travel very much",
"knew what her duty in life was",
"loved to help the sick people",
"was most interested in music and drawing"
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"question": "When she ... | Florence Nightingale was born in a rich family. When she was young she took lessons in music and drawing, and read great books. She also traveled a great deal with her mother and father.
As a child she felt that visiting sick people was both a duty and a pleasure. She enjoyed helping them.
At last mind was made up. "I'... | high870.txt |
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"answer_text": "The amount of daylight."
},
"options": [
"The conditions of the soil.",
"The amount of daylight.",
"The amount of rainfall.",
"Cold weather."
],
"question": "What has a great effect on the life cycle of the mum?... | People have been growing chrysanthemums for more than 2,000 years. Mums make bright and colorful gardens. People in China and other Asian cultures make tea with the flowers.
One basic kind of mum is the garden mum. The other basic kind is the florist mum. The garden mum is better able to handle different growing condit... | high30.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "language can help brain power"
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"options": [
"language can help brain power",
"man's ability of learning a second language",
"science on learning a second language",
"language learning and maths study"
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"que... | If English means endless new words,difficult gramrnar and sometimes strange pronunciation,you are wrong.Haven't you noticed that you have become smarter since you started to learn a language?
According to a new study by a British university,learning a second language can lead to an increase in your brain power,Research... | high6453.txt |
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"answer_text": "In the Water Cube."
},
"options": [
"In a theater in Shanghai.",
"In the Water Cube.",
"In a Children's Palace.",
"In Nanjing."
],
"question": "Where did the gala take place?",
"question_type": "factiod_ques... | Celebrity TV presenter Ju Ping has been a host on China Central Television for 30 years, but her recent experience fronting a charity event was one of the most special moments in her career.
On April 2, World Autism Day, Ju partnered with Xia Junqi, a 17-year-old autistic teenager, to host a charity gala at the Beijing... | high9760.txt |
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"answer_text": "It will begin on July 16 and last for five days."
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"It will begin on July 16 and last for five days.",
"Students in any grade can take part in the camp.",
"Parents are allowed to come along with their children.... | Time: July 16-20
Location: Norman Park Conference Center
Price: 500
Students who have completed the 5th, 6th or 7th grade and meet our requirements can take part in this exciting project. Children will spend 5 days in the Center joining in various activities.
Our theme for this camp is "Teamwork". The title speaks to... | high14114.txt |
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"answer_text": "She was competitive."
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"She was competitive.",
"She was brave.",
"She was strong.",
"She was disabled."
],
"question": "What made Jean take part in sports?",
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... | Jean Driscoll can go faster in her wheelchair than the world's best marathoners can run!
In April, Jean finished the Boston Marathon in 1 hour 34 minutes 22 seconds. That's about 33 minutes faster than the winning male runner! She competed on the track, too. She was second in the 800 meter wheelchair race at the 1992 ... | high6335.txt |
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"answer_text": "We use intelligent robots to do everyday housework."
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"We have diseases and die young.",
"We spend less time in virtual reality.",
"We give birth to a child when we are young.",
"We use intelligent robots... | By 2050, a completely new type of human evolve as a result of extremely new technology, behavior, and natural selection. This is according to Cadell Last, a researcher at the Global Brain Institute, who claims mankind is undergoing a major "evolutionary transition".
In less than four decades, Mr. Last claims we will li... | high14672.txt |
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"answer_text": "Near the post office."
},
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"Near the hospital.",
"Near the post office.",
"Outside the food store.",
"In the bookstore."
],
"question": "Where did the author meet the woman?",
"question_type": nu... | One day when I left a bookstore and walked on the street, I saw a woman standing outside the post office. She looked pale and worried. I stopped and asked if she needed help. She told me that her foot was hurting and she had to go to the hospital fight away, but there was no taxi. I wanted to make a trip to a food stor... | high8318.txt |
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"answer_text": "They study at home rather than in classrooms."
},
"options": [
"They have to take long bus rides to school.",
"They study at home rather than in classrooms.",
"They receive money from traditional public schools.",
"They... | About 21,000 young people in 17 American states do not attend classes in school buildings.
Instead, they receive their elementary and high school education by working at home on computers.The Center for Education Reform says the United States has 67 public "cyberschools."and that is about twice as many as two years ago... | high12203.txt |
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"answer_text": "lives away from her parents"
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"takes pride in her friends",
"lives away from her parents",
"knows Mr. Expert quite well",
"hates her parents very much"
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"question": "59. We can learn from the fi... | A letter to Edward,a columnist
Dear Mr. Expert,
I grew up in an unhappy and abusive home. I always promised myself that I'd get out as soon as possible. Now, at age 20, I have a good job and a nice house, and I'm really proud of the independence I've achieved.
Here's the problem: several of my friends who still live w... | high16065.txt |
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"answer_text": "Her discovery has greatly reduced the death rate caused by malaria"
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"options": [
"She was working together with two foreign scientists",
"Her work has inspired traditional Chinese medicine",
"She discovered a drug that has... | STOCKHOLM---William Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Tu Youyou jointly won the 2015 Nbel Prize for medicine for their work against diseases caused by parasites , the award-giving body said on Monday.
Irish-born Campbell and Japanese Omura won half of the prize for discovering a new drug, avermectin, that has helped the batt... | high19356.txt |
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"answer_text": "people who fight against hunger"
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"people who fight against hunger",
"researchers or top policy officials",
"people from nongovernmental groups",
"people who have advanced human development"
],
"q... | This year's World Food Prize will honor two leaders of hunger-fighting groups based in the United States. The winners are David Beckmann of Bread for the World and Jo Luck of Heifer International. They will share the prize of 250,000 dollars. The World Food Prize usually goes to researchers or top policy officials. Th... | high4522.txt |
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"answer_text": "it is dark and cold"
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"options": [
"there are some mysterious footprints",
"the landscape is not very large",
"there are many fish",
"it is dark and cold"
],
"question": "On the bottom of Challenger Deep, _ ... | Seven years of careful design and planning all came together on Monday, when James Cameron became the first human to make a solo trip to the deepest known point on earth - the Challenger Deep! More importantly though, he appeared safely seven hours later, completing with exciting-photos and videos from this dark myster... | high18048.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Miss White's praise"
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"Miss White's encouragement",
"Miss White's praise",
"knowing Miss White concerned him",
"Miss White's persuasion"
],
"question": "What made Steve change greatly all of a sud... | _ , by the U.S. education system. Remarkably, he could read, yet, in spite of his reading skills, Steve was failing. He had been failing since first grade, as he was passed on from grade to grade. Steve was a big boy, looking more like a teenager than a twelve year old, yet, Steve went unnoticed... until Miss White.
Mi... | high2153.txt |
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"answer_text": "A true friend"
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"A precious friendship",
"A true friend",
"A happy time",
"Friend, a treasure."
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"question": "What is the best title for this passage?",
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"a... | True friends double your happiness and half your burdens. Basically how you would like a true friend to be is what you should be like to your true friends. Trust, forgiveness, responsibility are some elements of a true friendship. True friendships are hard to achieve. And what's more, life is short. So treasure these f... | high21811.txt |
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"answer_text": "Its dancers have chances to study in the U.S."
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"It was started by a journalist.",
"It travels across the U.S.annually.",
"It consists of two dozen performers.",
"Its dancers have chances to study in the ... | Over the past 20 years, AIDS and war have claimed the parents of 2.4 million Ugandan children.When Alexis Hefley first visited the country,, in 1993, she saw the children's sorrow, but the former Texas banker also spotted "a world of possibility".She watched as they danced for tourists to earn money, and she had a thou... | high11695.txt |
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Where To Find Help In The College
Here are the places of some important college services and facilities.
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"she (he) is very tired",
"she (he) is angry"
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DO NOT FISH FOR FOOD, FISHERMAN!
FOR YOUR OWN HEALTH
FISH FROM THESE WATERS SHOULD NOT BE EATEN
BECAUSE OF MERCURY POLLUTION
Office of Land and Forests | high15395.txt |
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Suddenly, a man got inside the cab. He took her handbag where she had placed her visa, passport, and all her money for the trip.
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The baby's mother was killed, most likely by a poacher. On Wednesday... | high23627.txt |
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"Looking after their children all the time.",
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"the traditional view that a nurse should be female is wrong.",
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* Job titles that have sexual connotations mean an intention to discriminate o... | high16688.txt |
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"She changed her purse and other little things.",
"One of her shoe heels broke.",
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},
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"money can give pets happiness.",
"it's the best way to spend money.",
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Indian call-center employers, Russian engineers, Chinese middle managers, and Bra... | high23155.txt |
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* What to do if you get tired of a subject you are studying
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This is the real training that all fighter and test pilots have . Learn the cockpit and how to put your plane through its paces . Finally, you fight a _ battle with your teammates.
It's held at the U.S... | high11859.txt |
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"the writer had been completely lost",
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"answer": {
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Tank Loft, Chongqing
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"answer": {
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"They are for people who have pets."
],
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Ah, the time in life when one has to leave home. No one seems to have as hard a time with it as Pepito. Pepito is a little bird who needs to leave the nest, but the problems is, he's afraid of heights. This makes flying away a bit of a problem, so... | high22263.txt |
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Now American researchers think they are close to developing a pill, which will he... | high4481.txt |
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"He showed sympathy for the little ant.",
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"The Olympic Games have to increase the number of sports.",
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been looking for ways to make the world's largest sporting event a bit smaller and easier for c... | high20474.txt |
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"answer": {
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Tu shared the prize with Irish-born William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of ... | high11871.txt |
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"Because it must be handled skillfully.",
"Because it involves careful planning.",
"Because it is time - consuming."
],
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"answer": {
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"answer": {
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"Our strength and shortage."
],
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"answer": {
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"diligent and understanding"
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"Bad weather like floods, drought, and landslides happen in some countries.",
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Atlacomulco."
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"An Indian Village."
],
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"A parasite in computer."
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"question"... | In today's world, we rely on computers as never before.They are used for everything from ordering a pizza to running hospitals and military defense systems.Banking and credit card information is stored and accessed by computers.So what happens when a computer gets infected with a virus? One effect is that people's acce... | high22511.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She wanted to attend a dance party."
},
"options": [
"She wanted to hold a dance party.",
"She wanted to attend a dance party.",
"She wanted to know more women in the town.",
"She wanted to get prepared for visiting the... | There was once a traveling reporter who was doing a story on the small towns in the Midwest of America. She was particularly interested in the social structures, how men and women got along, and what happened at these large dance parties. She got into a town a few days early, knowing that people would be coming in from... | high24160.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "giving some specific examples"
},
"options": [
"showing an interesting discussion",
"comparing several sport events",
"explaining some game rules",
"giving some specific examples"
],
"question": "The author intr... | If you're into sports, you've seen it happen. You've probably even experienced it: basketball players shaking hands after four quarters of knocking each other around, tennis players leaping over the net to shake hands with their opponents after a hard-fought match, soccer players exchanging sport shirts after an int... | high20306.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Because it had been kept for years."
},
"options": [
"Because it smelt terrible.",
"Because it had been kept for years.",
"Because it was mixed with something else.",
"Because his father drank too much that night."
... | I remember a day when I was a little kid. I was making a sandwich in the kitchen when I noticed the date on one of the wine bottles.
" Dad, dad!" I cried. "This wine is too old to drink."
" Son, hold on," he said.
" No, you can't drink this tonight! This bottle of wine was made 10 years ago."
" Wait, let me tell you...... | high2782.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "lies east of Sweden"
},
"options": [
"lies inside the Arctic Circle",
"is next to the countries of northern Europe",
"lies east of Sweden",
"is entirely covered with forests and lakes"
],
"question": "From the p... | Finland is perhaps the most beautiful and mysterious of the countries of northern Europe. Two-thirds of its surface is covered with thick forests and among them lie lakes, connected with rivers and canals. The northern part of this country is inside the Arctic Circle , where almost no trees can grow because of its ... | high18841.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Reasons Why You're Not Making Money Blogging"
},
"options": [
"Reasons Why You're Making Money BIogging",
"Reasons Why You're Not Making Money Blogging",
"Skills That You Can Depend on to Improve Your Blogs",
"It's Easy... | The most frequent reason why people don't make any money blogging is quite obvious: They do not work enough for it. Lots of people tend to think they just have to put some content online, fill it with Adsense ads and wait until they make money. Seriously, if it were that easy, everyone will have at least one website. ... | high21018.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "She just does that out of a strong desire."
},
"options": [
"She just does that out of a strong desire.",
"She can find pleasure in telling a lie.",
"She is afraid to admit her mistakes.",
"She likes to play tricks on o... | It was the middle of third grade and I was not sure what had got into me. I lied about many things -- I lied that I had eaten all my dinner, when in fact I buried it in the trash can. I lied that I had made my bed, when clearly I had not. My lies were not hurting anyone, but for some reason I felt the need to tell lies... | high19587.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "are attaching more importance to their overseas business"
},
"options": [
"are eager to work overseas",
"have to get familiar with modern technology",
"are gaining more economic benefits from domestic operations",
"are ... | New technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. It's now a "global village" where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course, our ability to benefit from this high-tech communications equipment is greatly increased by foreign language skills.
Deeply involved... | high4495.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "inform us that Zhang's illegal birth case will be dealt with by the government"
},
"options": [
"claim that Zhang Yimou remarried and fathered a total of seven children",
"inform us that Zhang's illegal birth case will be dealt wit... | BEIJING--Family planning officers will handle the illegal birth case of film director Zhang Yimou by following legal procedures, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, December 10, 2013.
When asked to comment on Zhang's case at a press conference, Yao Hongwen, spokesman for the National Health and Family Planning Comm... | high5953.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the power of belief"
},
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"the power of confidence",
"the responses of humans and animals to dangers",
"the difference between humans and animals",
"the power of belief"
],
"question": "By comparing a... | Have you heard of the story of the four-minute miles? Many years ago, people believed that it was impossible for a human being to run a mile in less than four minutes until Roger Banister proves it wrong in 1954.
What happens if you put an animal in a pond? Any animal, big or small, will swim its way through. What happ... | high11865.txt |
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