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"answer_text": "Water's worldwide travels"
},
"options": [
"Crops and Virtual Water",
"Import and Export of Water",
"Benefits of Virtual Water",
"Water's worldwide travels"
],
"question": "What is the best title for the passage... | Water runs downhill from mountaintops to streams to rivers to oceans. But downhill isn't the only way that water moves .A new study measures how water travels from country to country for human consumption. This flow isn't the type we usually think about .These scientists looked at the water used to grow and make the pr... | high6282.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He tries all sorts of tricks to achieve his goal."
},
"options": [
"He tries all sorts of tricks to achieve his goal.",
"He acknowledges his guilt of telling lies.",
"He attracts people's attention in the street.",
"He ... | A little girl in my family got a typewriter for Christmas. Not a laptop. Nothing with a screen. The old-fashioned manual kind.
Typewriters had pretty much gone the way of dodo birds quite some years before my granddaughter was born. But it was the typewriter used by a journalist in the movie "Kit Kittredge: An American... | high23169.txt |
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"answer_text": "How an unsuccessful person became famous."
},
"options": [
"Sometimes an idol behaves quite foolishly.",
"Hung's performance attracted the public eye.",
"How an unsuccessful person became famous.",
"Success sometimes do... | In the age of reality television.success isn't the only way to the public eye.Failure can also create fame,just like William Hung,21,a native of Hong Kong.
Hung recently has made an agreement with US-based entertainment firms Koch Records and Fuse Music Network.They wilt publish a full-length record,titled"The True Ido... | high22277.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "By post ."
},
"options": [
"In person.",
"By telephone.",
"By fax.",
"By post ."
],
"question": "In which of the following ways of booking does one probably have to pay extra money ?",
"question_type": null
... | Booking opens for Beckett Shorts on September .
BY TELEPHONE
For credit card booking. Calls are answered .
BOX OFFICE 01789 295623 9 a.m.~ 8 p.m. (Mon.~ Sat)
0541 541051 (24 hours , 7 days , no booking charge )
BY FAX
For credit card booking . Please allow at least 48 hours for reply , if required.
BOX OFFICE... | high7177.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "18"
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"options": [
"18",
"20",
"26",
"24"
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"question": "How many people died at the scene?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "sa... | America was faced with one of its worst ever mass shootings on Friday when 20 children and six adults were shot dead by a gunman who opened fire at an elementary school in Connecticut.
The gunshot atSandy Hook element school in Newtown, about 65 miles north-east.of New York, is understood to have been carried out by a ... | high23182.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She still suffered from mental problems."
},
"options": [
"She was struck by lightning at schoo1.",
"She completely recovered from being struck.",
"She still suffered from mental problems.",
"She had to press her ear al... | People should be warned against using mobile phones outdoors in stormy weather because they may"be struck by lightning",according to doctors.
Three experts have described how a teenage girl was struck by lightning while using her phone in a large London park.The girl,aged 15,recovered,but a year later was still wheelch... | high1506.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "it was a convention for him to accept the Old Gentleman's dinner"
},
"options": [
"he was hungry and expected to find some food",
"he had nowhere to go on the Thanksgiving Day",
"he wanted to meet the Old Gentleman and check ... | There is one holiday in the year which is completely American, Thanksgiving Day. It is the day when everyone goes back home to spend the day with his family, to have the traditional Thanksgiving dinner of roast turkey, to talk about old times.
This is a story of Thanksgiving Day and of one man's efforts, under rather s... | high13041.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Harvard University"
},
"options": [
"Harvard University",
"a foster school",
"his teacher's school",
"his uncle's university"
],
"question": "On January 11, 2007, students listened to a speech made by Richard, w... | On January 11, 2007, as students sat and listened, a very important guest speaker named Richard, spoke to the students in the lecture hall. He not only showed the potential within young adults, but encouraged them to work hard at their lessons.
Richard was a young child when his mother died and his father walked out. ... | high10548.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "It was beyond his wildest dream that he could work for the Times."
},
"options": [
"He got a good salary working as a police reporter.",
"He lived a rich life with his mother in his childhood.",
"It was proud of her mother to... | "Get yourself up and make something of yourself,buddy!"Though my mother has passed away,her words are as clear in my head today as when I was a boy.
"Christ!"I said,"I have made something of myself. I want to sleep late as I like."
"If there's one thing I can't stand,it's a quitter."Her voice in my head is more powerfu... | high5760.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The problems of population ageing and growth."
},
"options": [
"The lack of the cost of treatment of cancers.",
"The problems of population ageing and growth.",
"The high rate of cancer of high-income countries.",
"The ... | The globe is facing a "tidal wave" of cancer, and restrictions on alcohol and sugar need to be considered, say World Health Organization scientists. It predicts the number of cancer cases will reach 24 million a year by 2035, but half could be prevented. The WHO said there was now a "real need" to focus on cancer preve... | high18114.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "he wanted to choose a short course"
},
"options": [
"he wanted to choose a short course",
"his earlier course was dangerous",
"he just wanted to take a risk",
"he knew where the water was deep"
],
"question": "M... | Mike McClure walked into Sarasota Bay for a little fishing on a beautiful day last April. This afternoon, the water was shallow enough at low tide that McClure could easily walk 100 yards offshore and cast his line in any direction.
Near sunset, still without a fish, he decided to turn back. Rather than turn to his e... | high16139.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "there are already too many actors"
},
"options": [
"actors are very unusual people",
"the course at the drama school lasts two years",
"acting is really a hard job",
"there are already too many actors"
],
"quest... | Acting is such an over-crowded profession that the only advice that should be given to a young person thinking of going on the stage is "Don't!". But it is useless to try to discourage someone who feels that he must act, though the chances of his becoming famous are slim. The normal way to begin is to go to a drama sch... | high21795.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "only you and your best friend are involved in the conversation"
},
"options": [
"the joke is well chosen",
"you have complete confidence in your listeners' sense of humor",
"only you and your best friend are involved in the c... | What is funny? The short answer is: Who knows? The joke that causes a burst of laughter from one listener might be met with a puzzled look from another.
In general, you should avoid jokes at any business or social gathering where there are more than two people in your conversational group. If there are only two people ... | high11656.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "golden"
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"options": [
"blue",
"golden",
"green",
"red"
],
"question": "What's the color of blue moon?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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"answer_... | Once in a blue moon, there is one on New Year's Eve. Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. But don't expect it to be blue - the name has nothing to do with the color of our closest celestial neighbor. A full ... | high3311.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "To help solve the problem of lack of toilets in developing countries"
},
"options": [
"To protect the local environment",
"To earn a lot of money from the project",
"To do research on the social development",
"To help s... | The name sounds funny but the idea is no joke: it's a personal toilet called the pee-pool, Anders Wilhelmson, a Swedish architect, is the inventor of the pee-pool.
He became interested in the idea of sanitation after taking part in a research project on the social and political development of cities, One of the most c... | high11130.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "moved to America with her family at eleven"
},
"options": [
"received bad education in her childhood",
"spent a happy and lucky childhood",
"moved to America with her family at eleven",
"decided to be a doctor due to he... | Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3, 1821 in Bristol, England. Her father was a rich sugar businessman at the time. Because her parents thought boys and girls should be equal, Elizabeth received the same education as her brothers.
In 1832, her father's business was destroyed by fire, so her family moved to New Y... | high3477.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "One for typing."
},
"options": [
"One for recording.",
"One for charging.",
"One for telephoning.",
"One for typing."
],
"question": "What kind of product for hand-held devices does the writer discuss?",
"qu... | As hand-held devices such as smartphones are becoming more common, users are reporting some new physical problems. Florida chiropractor Dean Fishman began noticing an increased number of patients talking about neck and shoulder pain. He discovered these symptoms were due to the overuse of hand-held devices, particularl... | high4318.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "How New York Became America's Largest City"
},
"options": [
"The Development of Transportation in New York",
"Export and Import of New York",
"How New York Became America's Largest City",
"How New York Exchanged with Eu... | In the 18th century, New York was smaller than Philadelphia and Boston. Today it is the largest city in America. How can the change in its size and importance be explained?
To answer this question we must consider certain facts about geography, history, and economics. Together these three will explain the huge growth o... | high5006.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because she wanted to let kids know how they earned the desks."
},
"options": [
"Because she wanted to punish the kids.",
"Because she wanted to let kids know how they earned the desks.",
"Because kids didn't need any desks a... | Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cochran, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School, did something unforgettable. On the first day of school, with permission of the school headmaster, she took all of the desks out of the classroom.
The kids came into the first period. They wal... | high18672.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the heat from human bodies,other heat-omitting objects is only used in cold winter"
},
"options": [
"fat,male and hard-working students give off more heat",
"six buildings are heated by the heat system on the prefix = st1 /Johnstow... | No matter what he is doing,every human being gives body heat.The usual problem is how to _ it.But the designers of the Johnstown campus of the university of Pittsburg set themselves the opposite problem--how to collect body heat.They have designed a collection system which uses not only body heat but also the heat giv... | high16887.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "He deals with the danger of birds at airports."
},
"options": [
"He does research on geese's living conditions.",
"He makes efforts to protect wild birds.",
"He deals with the danger of birds at airports.",
"He tries to... | Lee Humberg, district manager for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, is the man in charge of figuring out how to remove the flocks of 15,000 to 20,000 Canada geese that could strike planes flying in and out of the New York area. The Port Authority, the agency that manage... | high1260.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "In September 2016"
},
"options": [
"In May 2016",
"In May 2017",
"In September 2016",
"In September2017"
],
"question": "When will the job start?",
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{
"answer":... | Basketball Statistician Help Wanted
The Athletic Department is looking for students to help assist staff during the Fall 2016, Winter 2016-17 and Spring 2017 semesters. Students in this position will be keeping live statistics during basketball games. Students must meet all of the following requirements:
Good computer ... | high13727.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Miss Angelia felt happy in her heart."
},
"options": [
"Miss Angelia felt happy in her heart.",
"Mr.Robert always acted strangely",
"Miss Angelia was angry at his words",
"Mr.Robert pretended to marry her actually"
... | It was a Friday. As usual, the office became busier and busier. Orders to buy and sell came and went like birds. It was in the stock market, the world of money that Mr.Robert,the stockbroker, worked faster and faster. There was no room in it for the world of human feelings or the world of nature.
Near lunchtime, everyt... | high14048.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a tight dress"
},
"options": [
"a comfortable suit",
"a tight dress",
"a short skirt",
"a loose sweater"
],
"question": "All of the following fashions belong to Chanel's design style EXCEPT _",
"question_t... | From her first women's hat shop, opened in 1910, Gabrielle Coco Chanel rose to become one of the most important fashion designers in Paris. Her fashion themes included simple suits and dresses, women's trousers, perfume and so on.
She claimed a birth date of 1893 and a birthplace of Auvergne; she was actually born in... | high15356.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Sally."
},
"options": [
"Sunny.",
"Jane.",
"Sally.",
"Johnson."
],
"question": "Who thinks that too much homework may do harm to students' physical and mental health?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
... | Nowadays they are giving homework even during the holidays and I hate that very much. But I think there is a reason for it. Homework is given so that we can remember whatever we have learnt. Regular drilling and repetition make perfect. But teachers have started to give too much homework. Anything in excess is bad.
J... | high8522.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the increase of people's income"
},
"options": [
"the increase of people's income",
"more people suffering diseases",
"the rising of PM2. 5 readings",
"patients increased in hospital"
],
"question": "The effect ... | Since the beginning of the year, smog has covered parts of North China. In January, Beijing saw only five days without smog. The rising PM2.5 readings terrified many people, and some health experts said that whenever the smog gets serious, hospitals receive more patients suffering acute respiratory and heart disease... | high7611.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "HK $750"
},
"options": [
"HK $360",
"$ 360",
"HK $750",
"HK $885"
],
"question": "On September 10 of 2009(weekday), Hong Kong residents and tourists will have to spend _ buying three children tickets.",
... | Ticket price increases at HK Disney
Source:Xinhua | 02--05--2009 11:39
Hong Kong Disneyland announced on Tuesday it will raise weekday admission prices for mainland and overseas tourists by about 19 percent.But Hong Kong residents and tourists who purchase tickets through travel agents can still enjoy the old prices un... | high12439.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "shouldn't lose heart about your memory"
},
"options": [
"must be too careless",
"shouldn't take notice of the result",
"must accept the fact",
"shouldn't lose heart about your memory"
],
"question": "When you fo... | Mark began to introduce the guest speaker to the listeners, but then stopped for a while. He had forgotten her name.
Barbara hid her valuable things when she went on vacation. When she came back, she couldn't remember where she'd put them.
Perhaps you've had such experiences like these. Most people have. But most of th... | high9628.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "One and a half pots."
},
"options": [
"A full pot.",
"Two full pots.",
"Half a pot.",
"One and a half pots."
],
"question": "How much water did the man carry home every day?",
"question_type": "factiod_quest... | A man had two large pots. One of the pots had a crack in it, so while the other pot always delivered a full pot of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to his house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. This went on every day for years.
One day a neighbor asked the man, "One of your pots has been bro... | high8536.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "why people read newspaper when they travel by train"
},
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"people in Britain are great newspaper readers",
"why people read newspaper when they travel by train",
"people do nothing but read in a train",
"when... | The British people are among the world's greatest readers of newspapers.It's been the custom ever since most people could read.
But why do people want to do nothing but read while traveling to work in a train? Perhaps they are tired, or else they sit behind a newspaper to shut themselves off from the world.All the same... | high15342.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "His study needed more attention from his parents and teachers."
},
"options": [
"He was always sad about his school marks.",
"His parents always scolded him about his bad school marks.",
"His study needed more attention from ... | When I was an official of a school in Palo Alto, California, Polly Tyner, the president of our board, wrote a letter that was printed in the Palo Alto Times. Polly's son, Jim, had great difficulty in school. He was classified as the educationally handicapped and required a great deal of patience on the part of his pare... | high938.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "has a history of nearly 200 years."
},
"options": [
"was refused by people when it first appeared.",
"will soon change the way we watch TV.",
"does no good to our visual system.",
"has a history of nearly 200 years."
... | How long has 3-D technology been around? Most of us might think of crowds of teenagers in a 1950's movie house watching Bwana Devil in 3-D. But 3-D technology made its first appearance on the scene in 1838 with the first stereoscope . And the first actual 3-D movie was a 1903 film called Le Ariveed'un Train.
Although i... | high7605.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "remember important things better"
},
"options": [
"plan their schedule in a short time",
"remember important things better",
"strengthen and improve their writing skills",
"remind themselves of the importance of keeping... | Today, most people follow a routine, such that they are caught in a cycle of running around the clock without getting any breathing space to enjoy a satisfying life. If you could only take a pause and inspect your routine with a new outlook, you would find that it is actually easy to make some positive changes in life.... | high19578.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Lee Ann Nelson"
},
"options": [
"Behrooz Vakil",
"Lee Ann Nelson",
"Michele Killeen",
"Darren Osbrun"
],
"question": "Li Yan, a Chinese girl hoping to learn communication skills, might call _ .",
"questio... | Chess Club
The Chess Club is open to anyone interested in chess, including the _ , the expert, or anyone in between! Club meetings include opportunities to play others as well as to plan tournaments .
Advisor: Behrooz Vakil Telephone: 636-922-8347
Communications Club
The Communications Club... | high18666.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "lie on his back"
},
"options": [
"lie on his stomach",
"lie on his back",
"stand quietly",
"sit in peace"
],
"question": "The wise man mentioned in the text told people to bury him on his face so that when eve... | We often hear people talking about a generation gap . The name is new,but the idea is old. Young people and their parents don't understand each other. The world has always kept changing. During the second century after Christ a wise man said, "Bury me on my face because in a little while everything will be turned upsi... | high5012.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "people travel more"
},
"options": [
"people travel more",
"people don't eat health food",
"there aren't enough hospitals",
"scientists can't find a cure"
],
"question": "The situation is more serious today be... | In 2004,the World Health Organization,WHO,warned of a possible outbreak of another serious disease which may be even more deadly than SARS.The WHO believes that it is likely that bird flu will spread to human beings in the next few years.If it does,up to seven millions people could die from the disease.
Diseases like b... | high16893.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Chinese-English has something different."
},
"options": [
"Learning English needs confidence.",
"Native speakers are hard to understand.",
"Chinese-English has something different.",
"Chinese students are more creative.... | As an English teacher, one of the most common problems I've found with my students is their lack of confidence with speaking, and difficulty in understanding native speakers. Another problem could be that a foreign language taught in schools can sound quite different to what native speakers actually use.
There are a fe... | high21959.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Because the first landing on the moon attracted the world's attention."
},
"options": [
"Because people had never seen such brave astronauts as them before.",
"Because the first landing on the moon attracted the world's attention."... | A rocket began countdown . It was a common sound in the 1960s. But this was not just another countdown. It was the beginning of a historic event. It was the countdown of Apollo 11 -the space fligh that would carry men to the first landing on the moon.
In the spaceship at the top of the rocket were three American astron... | high18100.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Afghanistan"
},
"options": [
"Indonesia",
"Pakistan",
"Kenya",
"Afghanistan"
],
"question": "The first country where the author provided people with medical care is _",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | My wife passed away seven and a half years ago, and I went through a huge depression , the worst time in my life. I even wanted to end my life. I continued to work as a small-town doctor at my medical clinic in Kilauea, Hawaii. My kids had gone to live on the mainland, and I was alone. On a family trip, we turned on t... | high5774.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "US presidents on holiday."
},
"options": [
"US presidents on holiday.",
"Relationship between work and play.",
"Famous US presidents.",
"Suggestions on spending holidays."
],
"question": "What's the passage main... | All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. That saying holds true not only for you and me, but also for some of the most powerful and influential people in the world, such as the presidents of the United States.
But how do American presidents spend their vacation time? Let's take a look!
Franklin D. Roosevelt, conside... | high17233.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "report an international Chinese language contest to be held"
},
"options": [
"show the popularity of Chinese language learning in the world",
"introduce an international Chinese language learning test system",
"make readers a... | BEIJING, Oct.14(Xinhua)----A total of 120 middle school students from 35 countries will attend the final of an international China language contest, to be held in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality from Oct.16 to 30.
The candidates, aged from 15 to 20,must be from foreign countries and not native Chinese... | high21781.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "taking on English teachers"
},
"options": [
"introducing a school",
"seeking a teaching position",
"taking on English teachers",
"attracting foreign students"
],
"question": "This advertisement is about _ .",
... | Ad No.90374
Posted July 12, 2015 by Amanda
Expire Date August 12, 2015
Tag:Beijing Language Teaching Part Time
We are looking for Teachers, whose Native Language is English, willing to teach in China. Mostly schools are in South of China.
The Benefit package for ESL Teachers includes:
One-year Contract:1st September 20... | high11642.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "by wearing a special \ndevice"
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"by distinguishing themselves from women",
"by taking part in an activity actively",
"by wearing a special \ndevice",
"by transforming his sense of place"
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"quest... | Scientists have transformed men's minds into avirtual woman's body in an experiment that could throw light upon how humans distinguish themselves form others.
In a study at Barcelona University, men wore a virtual reality headset that allowed them to see and hear the world as a female character. When they looked down, ... | high3305.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they don't take animal abuse seriously"
},
"options": [
"they are too busy to worry about the animals",
"they don't take animal abuse seriously",
"they just leave it to the police",
"they are afraid of being laughed at"... | If you see a group of kids hitting and abusing an animal, would you stop them? Would you at least call the police? Again people would walk away. Some people do not believe that animal abuse is a big issue.
Every day animals are abused in their homes or on the streets. It seems as if politicians do nothing to stop this ... | high8250.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "unexpected stops of the bus"
},
"options": [
"bad weather",
"unexpected stops of the bus",
"one passenger",
"an accident on the way"
],
"question": "The writer believed that the trip took more time because of ... | I paid a visit to Cambridge last January. Though the trip took me 5 hours and it rained the whole day with strong winds there, the town deserved a visit.
The bus started at 6:10 a. m. It stopped at 4 airports before we finally arrived,which wasted more time than we expected. Tired with long sitting,one passenger stood... | high15424.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "our dreams"
},
"options": [
"our self-esteem",
"our physical conditions",
"our dreams",
"our surroundings"
],
"question": "According to the passage , all of the following factors may affect our emotion, EXCEPT ... | Many things -- genetics, environment, the food you eat, illness, sleep, even the seasons -- influence your emotional state. But at the heart of it is how you regard yourself. If you have a healthy level of self-esteem, you not only cope with life's challenges better than people with low self-esteem, but you're probably... | high22288.txt |
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"What day is it today?"she asks, in Mandarin Chinese.
"Confucius' birthday!"the fifth graders shout in Mandarin.
"Why do we celebrate Confucius' birthday?"
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"the fish resource near the shore was on the decrease",
"people would prefer eating fresh fishes to ... | It is well known that the Japanese people's love of fish is almost as a bee's interest in honey. As fish populations were decreasing, fishing companies were forced to fish further and further away from the shore. Then they had a big challenge -how to keep the fish fresh for longer. So they decided to keep the fish stor... | high13055.txt |
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"Britain was Spring's birthplace.",
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"The public w... | Just about every week now, we read a newspaper headline about the genetic basis for breast cancer, intelligence, orobesity. Such news stories may lead us to believe our lives are being _ by genetic discoveries. We may be close to changing and getting rid of mental illness, for example and identify the causes of crime,p... | high21971.txt |
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"to different high schools."
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Orlando lost his hearing at the age of one. German was bo... | high10574.txt |
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A senior official freely admitted to being an occasional participant in the vast ... | high18128.txt |
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Studying my younger self, I smiled and nodded.
"That's my granddaughter," Grandma said. "She lives in Connecticut. She must be.'.Well, I've forgotten how old she'd be now!"
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The British Isles is made up of two large islands: One is called Ireland and the other Britain. Britain, or Great Britain, is the larger of these two islands and it is divided into three parts: Scotland, Wales and England.
The Uni... | high4442.txt |
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"human interacted with cats very early",
"cats didn't appear until prehistoric Cyprus",
"when cats became domest... | Although cats may be one of the most popular pets today, little is known about how and when humans and cats set up their close relationship.
The earliest evidence for human-cat interaction dates back to prehistoric Cyprus , where the remains of a wild cat and a human -- dated 9,500 years old -- were found buried togeth... | high5984.txt |
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"Enjoy herself outside.",
"Play a trick on her mom.",
"Go to the theatre to see a play."
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"nothing is wrong with teens' chatting online",
"teens can manage their social connections",
"spending hour... | Teens don't understand the big fuss .As the first generation to grow up in a wired world,they hardly know a time when computers weren't around,and they eagerly catch the chance to spend hours online,chatting with friends.So what?
But researchers nationwide are increasingly worried that teens are becoming isolated ,less... | high8278.txt |
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"love stories"
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J.K. Rowling has been spotted at cafes in Scotland working on a detective novel, a British newspaper reported Saturday.
The Sunday Tim... | high6255.txt |
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"get ideas for writing",
"do shopping",
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I needed to run away and the Bloomsburg Fair was the best place to go.
I don't know if you can call it running away when it was only an hour away from my home.But once I entered the fair grounds, I crossed over into another world.The loudspeaker offered background music over the sounds of peo... | high9166.txt |
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"you can't capture them",
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},
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"Beach lovers having more choices.",
"A unique beach vacation.",
"Unique beaches around the world."
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"show his innocence",
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"make a choice"
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},
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"Because Hong Kong's population will greatly increase.",
"Because Hong Kong is developi... | Hong Kong, a city of seven million--and growing fast. By the year 2050 Hong Kong's population will almost double. Where will these people live?
There's only one place to go--up. Fast forward 50 years.This is the tallest man-made structure on the planet. Its name:Millennium Tower. It would stand twice as tall as anythin... | high14074.txt |
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"answer_text": "The best novel shows readers how to be promoted in various companies."
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"The best novel shows readers how to be promoted in various comp... | DU Lala is the hottest career coach in the country. The fictional character in the acclaimed novel Du La La's Promotion shows others how to take the high road to success in a multinational company. But does her story describe a real or distorted picture of work life? The answer is as complicated as office life itself.
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"answer": {
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"providing examples and facts.",
"discussing questions."
],
"question": "The author tries to persuade the ... | "Little lies" sometimes come to easily to us that we don't even consider them to be lies. Read about these lies of everyday life:
1. Lying about your age or your kid's age to get a cheaper ticket.
2. Telling the host of a dinner party that the terrible food he prepared is wonderful.
3. Lying to your aunt about how m... | high12405.txt |
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"answer": {
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"At the front of a novel",
"In a Business brochure",
"on the newspaper"
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"question": "Where can you possibly read tins article?",
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"Take pride in them and show them to others.",
"Ask kids to make them with great care and love.",
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During the May Day holiday, gold stores were crowded with mostly female customers. Most of them are middle-aged "Chinese housewives". This group... | high4324.txt |
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"answer": {
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"Modest and knowledgeable.",
"Honest and patient."
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"answer": {
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"he feared to lose his money",
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"he was as comfortable as his wife"
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"prove tha... | It was a party. I was 18 and it was fresher week. I was at the beginning of a course in English Literature and full of enthusiasm for my subject. She was also 18 and enrolled in a course in physics.
"Your major is of no use to society. What will you do with it when you graduate, other than teach? Plus, you're going to... | high11118.txt |
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},
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"The families felt it hard to have dinner together every day.",
"The famili... | One of the 10 things that happy families do is to eat dinner together. As growing up, I thought everyone ate dinner as a family. However, now I realized that is not the case. In fact, most families eat dinner together only about four times a week and 10% of families only eat together twice a week. And as children get o... | high18882.txt |
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"answer": {
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One of our stops, once we crossed the Oregon border, was at a Black Bear Diner. Walking towards the front door we noti... | high2999.txt |
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"answer": {
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"It is best known for the clothes he wears.",
"It is 60 meters high."
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Think of the Belgian capital and, if anything, you think of the small peeing boy _ a 60-meter-high bronze figure standing on a block, supplying a constant stream of water to the basin under him.
Some m... | high16677.txt |
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"answer": {
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"put a hundred-dollar bill in the safe",
"ask to be a desk clerk",
"stay for the night"
],
"question": "The man went to a Detroit hotel one day to _ ."... | About a year ago, I went to stay at a Detroit hotel. I didn't want to carry too much money with me, so I asked the desk clerk to put a one-hundred-dollar bill in the safe for me.
The next morning, however, the clerk said he knew nothing about my money. I didn't have any proof that I had given the man the money. Th... | high17569.txt |
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"Plants use color to attract attention",
"Antioxidants can protect plants from UV light",
"Antioxidants ... | Nature is full of color, from rainbows and roses to butterfly wings and peacock tails. Even the fruits and vegetables you eat have different colors: blue blueberries, red strawberries, green broccoli, and orange carrots.
Plant and animals often use color to attract attention. The substances responsible for these colors... | high2741.txt |
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"is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature",
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"She has taken an art form, the short story, which has tended to live a little bit in the shadow of the novel, and she has cultivated it almost to perfection," he said.
The ... | high10206.txt |
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"He had mistaken Wilson for a friend of his.",
"Wilson was a stranger there.",
"Wilson made a lot of noise when he was walking."... | One day, Wilson was walking quietly along the road when someone hit him hard on the back of his neck.He looked behind him, and saw a young man whom he had never seen before.
"How dare you hit me like that?" shouted Wilson.
The young man said he had mistaken Wilson for a friend of his and that he thought Wilson was maki... | high1248.txt |
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"A person's hair may reveal where they have lived.",
"Hair analysis accurately identifies ... | Scientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.
The method relies on measuring how chemical variations in drinking water show up in people's hair.
"You're what you e... | high14060.txt |
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"answer": {
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"Its being easy to maintain.",
"The good we have done to our friends.",
"That we make efforts for frien... | We all need friends and we always have. Our ancestors found that gaining the basic necessities of life was easier in a group. It's estimated that the maximum number of people who lived in early communities of hunter-gatherers was 150.
Friends aren't bound(......)by blood or family bonds, employment contracts or legal o... | high9614.txt |
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"she felt depressed and quit from school",
"she was suffering from a pain in her back"... | In a room at Texas Children Cancer Center in Houston, eight-year-old Simran Jatar lay in bed with a drip above her to fight her bone cancer. Over her bald head, she wore a pink hat that matched her clothes. But the third grader's cheery dressing didn't mask her pain and weary eyes.
Then a visitor showed up. "Do you... | high904.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Few Reasons Why You Need a Business Attorney."
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"Business Attorney is a Key to a Business.",
"Advice from Attorney for a Business.",
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"Traditional methods prevent fishermen from fishing.",
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"Unbelievable",
"Mysterious"
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"question_typ... | Two sculptures of life-size lions, each weighing about 5 tons in ancient times, have been discovered in what is now Turkey. The discovery of the massive lions, along with other pieces such as a large stone basin about 7 feet in diameter, left the archaeologists with a mystery ----what were they intended for?
A search o... | high14706.txt |
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"He went to see the noisy aircraft.",
"He called the police to save the girl.",
"He hurried to check who was outside."
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"more and more people have joined the AAVS",
"most American are against cloning pet animals",
"the American Anti-... | Almost 80% of the Americans have stated their opposition to cloning pet animals such as cats and dogs, yet companies still try to make a business out of selling cloned pets. Pet cloning has been promoted as a way to "bring back" or "copy" a beloved companion animal. However, studies have shown that cloning remains an e... | high13069.txt |
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"in a practical way"
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We spend our one-hour class discussing two or three of the paintings,many of which are by artists that we have already studied in class.
The professor begins by selecting one work of art.Aft... | high21965.txt |
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I had one pupil, Dan, who didn't appear to get much out of the clas... | high10560.txt |
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"a novel",
"a match",
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Five star fathers and their children travel around China, riding camels through the western deserts, fishing off the east coast, and selling vegetables for their bus fare home... | high5748.txt |
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"A buyer is also attracted by the size of the contain... | Packaging is an important form of advertising. A package can sometimes motivate someone to buy a product. For example, a small child might ask for a breakfast food that comes in a box with a picture of a TV character. The child is more interested in the picture than in the breakfast food. Pictures for children to colo... | high16111.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Prepare children for the future before they leave home."
},
"options": [
"Help children fill out their college applications.",
"Fallinto children's lives at college admission time.",
"Prepare children for the future before th... | What is the main testing ground of fears about incomplete or inadequate child reariry? The college admission process.
If you are afraid you don't discipline your children enough,the evidence of parental failure is right there in front of everyone. The child is not filling out her college applications !
lf you are afrai... | high19222.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "can meet the nation's demand as a source of manpower"
},
"options": [
"will not be a disgrace to society",
"will become loyal citizens",
"can take care of themselves",
"can meet the nation's demand as a source of manpow... | When your parents advise you to "get an education" in order to raise your income, they tell you only half the truth. What they really mean is to get just enough education to provide manpower for your society, but not so much that you prove an embarrassment to your society.
Get a high school diploma, at least. Without ... | high5990.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "cats' sense of smell is much stronger than humans'"
},
"options": [
"cats can tell what you did before you came home",
"cats can cure your diseases with the Jacobsen's organ",
"cats' sense of smell is much stronger than human... | Cats have an amazing sense of smell, which is something like 12 times that of humans. Your cat is able to smell, whether you know it or not, whenever you come home or enter a new space. They can tell who you are, where you were an hour ago and sometimes even what you had for breakfast! Some people believe that cats can... | high21232.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "they care more about others' affection"
},
"options": [
"they don't care about their own interests and feelings",
"they don't know they will regret afterwards",
"they have already been used to saying \"yes\"",
"they car... | Most people say "yes" much more readily than "no".
A friend is moving house this weekend and would like some help, and you agree. But, what you really wanted was a couple of quiet days relaxing at home. Or a roommate spends the entire weekends playing video games and wants to borrow your homework for "reference". Y... | high17958.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "The Valentine's card to Mum sent by my father in 1944 was a real treasure to them."
},
"options": [
"My father had been in the army for just one year.",
"I revisited the attic, hoping to find some gold boxes.",
"My father's s... | During my visit to my parents, I decided to explore their attic . They have lived in their home in the mountains since 1953, so investigating the attic was a trip down memory lane for me.
I climbed the unstable ladder to the dusty, cold third floor. I looked around and noticed a very old basket in the corner, in which ... | high17780.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "A short red-haired woman who wears a purple hat."
},
"options": [
"A big-faced woman who wears a small, nice hat.",
"A short red-haired woman who wears a purple hat.",
"A tall woman who wears a hat with a huge upturned brim."... | Most of the time, people wear hats to protect themselves from _ weather conditions. Hats are also worn to show politeness and as signs of social position. But nowadays, hats, especially women's hats, are much more than that. More exactly, hats have changed into fashion and style symbols by many movie stars. What's more... | high12820.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "His working experience"
},
"options": [
"A Swedish novel",
"His present partner",
"A bookstore clerk",
"His working experience"
],
"question": "What inspired Morioka to open such a bookstore?",
"question_typ... | Those who are used to looking through thousands of books in big bookstores may find Japan's Morioka Shoten a little strange. That's because this tiny bookstore that is located in Ginza, Tokyo sells only a single book at a time.
Opened in May 2015, Morioka Shoten is the brainchild of Yoshiyuki Morioka. The experienced b... | high14289.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Santiago."
},
"options": [
"Hemingway.",
"Santiago.",
"Manolin.",
"Marlin."
],
"question": "Who is the hero of The old Man and the Sea?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"... | The OM Man and the Sea ,for which Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of the most influential novels of the literary treasure of the world. Famously known for his brief and short sentences ,Hemingway created ah interesting and unique style of writing that still appeal to readers today.
Santiago... | high23425.txt |
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