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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "February 17th 1963"
},
"options": [
"February 17th, 1998.",
"February 17th 1963",
"Brooklyn, N. Y.",
"1991"
],
"question": "When was Michael born?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {
"answ... | Michael Jordan was born on February 17,1963 in Brooklym ,N.Y. And he graduated from North Carolina College. There are four people in his family, his wife Juanita, his sons Jeffrey and Marcus. His favorite food is seafood. His position is board and his favorite sports are golf and football except basketball.
His awards ... | middle7714.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "a meaningful story"
},
"options": [
"a serious case",
"one part of a play",
"a humorous story",
"a meaningful story"
],
"question": "This passage tells us _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{... | At two o'clock a bank robber stole in. "This is a holdup," the man said rudely. He took a gun from under his jacket, pointing to George. "Hand it over!" George reached into his money-box and took all the bills from the top part-close to six thousand dollars. The robber snatched them and turned to leave.
Then while ... | middle1365.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Eight years."
},
"options": [
"One year.",
"Four years.",
"Eight years.",
"Twelve years."
],
"question": "How long had Jerry lived at the Children's Home by the time he met the writer?",
"question_type": "fa... | He came again the next day and worked until it was time to leave. His name was Jerry. He was 12 and had been at the Children's Home since he was only four. I thought of him. He was honest . For example, the handle of the ax broke one day. Jerry said the Children's Home would mend it. I handed him some money to pay ... | middle69.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "watch the trees in the forest"
},
"options": [
"build their camp",
"find their way home",
"enjoy the mountains in the snow.",
"watch the trees in the forest"
],
"question": "Bob and his two friends went to the f... | One day Bob took two of his friends into the mountains. They put up their tents and then rode off to a forest to see how the trees were growing.
In the afternoon when they were about ten kilometers from their camp, it started to snow. More and more snow fell. Soon Bob could hardly see his hands before his face. He coul... | middle7700.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because it didn't need to fly to look for food."
},
"options": [
"Because it liked walking on the ground.",
"Because it had no enemies in the forest.",
"Because it was too big to fly.",
"Because it didn't need to fly to... | The dodo was a ground nesting , flightless bird. An adult dodo could grow to a height of about a meter and weigh between 45-50 pounds. The natural habitat of this kind of bird lay in the forest of Mauritius.
Seed and fruits that were found in the forest were the main food of the dodo birds. As they could easily get th... | middle5117.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "hearing"
},
"options": [
"speaking",
"seeing",
"hearing",
"feeling"
],
"question": "We usually begin to learn a language by _ it first .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | Do you remember the things happened many years ago ? Do you remember all the names of your friends? Do you have a good memory ?
A good memory is a great help in learning language . Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he learns when he is a little child. And some children , who live abroad with their p... | middle2678.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "everything from mists to smells."
},
"options": [
"street racing or war",
"a mist of gunpowder",
"the smell of water",
"everything from mists to smells."
],
"question": "The nozzles in a 4D cinema can let out ... | Have you ever watched movies in a 4D cinema? It is going to be the next wave in movie theatre experience, and it will take your experience to the next level.
The 4D cinema experience has actual smells, mists and vibrations . While you're watching a movie about water fighting, _ nozzles in the seats might let out a mi... | middle3566.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "friendly to"
},
"options": [
"careful with",
"friendly to",
"strict with",
"rude to"
],
"question": "According to the passage, people had better be _ those they don't like.",
"question_type": "cloze_... | How to get along with people you don't like? We all have to be friendly to people we don't like. We can't change others, but we can change our own ideas and actions.
The following are some methods:
*Be polite. Say "Hello" or "have a nice day". Say that he or she looks nice.
*Be positive . Think of five good things abou... | middle4209.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "their parents had died"
},
"options": [
"they were too poor",
"their grandfather left them",
"he was old enough",
"their parents had died"
],
"question": "Jim looked after his little sister by himself because ... | Jim was a 15-year-old boy living with his little sister, Joy. Their parents had passed away long ago. Jim took care of Joy by himself.
One day, Jim woke up at 3 in the morning as usual. When Joy was sleeping alone, Jim left their little house to deliver newspapers. As he did so, he found something unusual. One man was ... | middle3200.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Why many bees won't return after leaving their hives."
},
"options": [
"Why a lot of bees can't give birth to babies.",
"Why many bees won't return after leaving their hives.",
"Why many hives have disappeared in the last eig... | In the last eight years, a lot of bees have disappeared. Scientists have been studying why those bees have been leaving their hives and not returning. They believe that their living environment may be changing.
Now, the US government is stepping in to help fight this problem. President Barack Obama has asked for $50 mi... | middle6378.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "A, B and C"
},
"options": [
"plants and trees",
"land",
"the oceans",
"A, B and C"
],
"question": "Half of the CO2that we produced can be taken in by _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | According to the studies from the UN, the increase of CO2in the air is responsible for 85% of the temperature increase. CO2goes into the air when we burn fossil fuels to run our industries, cars and so on. Luckily, half of the CO2that we produced is taken in by plants, trees, land and the oceans. The rest gases are sti... | middle7066.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the ones bringing news from the gods"
},
"options": [
"the ones bringing news from the gods",
"gods, too",
"the ones bringing news from human beings",
"bad"
],
"question": "In ancient times birds were thought to... | In ancient times , people thought that their gods lived on the tops of mountains. They believed that anything above them was nearer to their gods than them. They thought that birds were messengers from the gods. There were many beliefs about how to treat birds. Some people even believed that killing a bird was an ac... | middle5936.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "thinner"
},
"options": [
"powerful",
"relaxed",
"thinner",
"heavier"
],
"question": "Black is a color often used in fashion because it can make people look _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
... | Black is the color of power. It has the meaning of submission . It is popular in fashion because it makes people look thinner.
White is the color for brides . White is considered a summer color. White is popular in fashion because it is light and goes with everything.
Red is a hot and strong color. It can make the hear... | middle5088.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "they were eager to own the iPad"
},
"options": [
"they could get a gift when the store opened",
"the price of the iPad was low at first",
"they were eager to own the iPad",
"there were a few iPads on sale"
],
"q... | One Saturday morning, Apple Inc's iPad table computer went on sale in the United States stores across the country. The iPad can be bought in more than 200 U.S. Apple stores from Apple. Many fans even waited overnight outside some Apple stores, hoping to be the first to get one. Dozens of the people were waiting before... | middle4396.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "$ 260"
},
"options": [
"$ 260",
"$ 216",
"Y=260",
"$ 206"
],
"question": "How much is the dress?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": ... | Mrs. Hunt comes back from work. She tells Mr. Hunt about a nice dress. "I see it in the shop every day," she says "and..."
"And you want to buy it?" says Mr. Hunt. "How much is it?"
"Two hundred and sixty dollars."
"Wow, two hundred and sixty dollars for a dress? That's too much!"
But every evening when he comes back, ... | middle6581.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "kind"
},
"options": [
"lazy",
"kind",
"healthy",
"magic"
],
"question": "Hungbu was .",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "A seed."
... | Long ago, there was a rich man who had two sons. The older brother, who was called Nolbu, was greedy and lazy. However, his younger brother Hungbu was hard-working and kind-hearted. When their father died, Nolbu inherited his house and land, but Hungbu received nothing.
One day when Hungbu was working in the fields... | middle7847.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "25%"
},
"options": [
"25%",
"38%",
"50%",
"75%"
],
"question": "There are _ of the Grade 8 students in Beijing have classes on the weekend.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | The weekend is usually a period of time for resting. But today's Chinese students can hardly rest during the weekend.
According to a survey, 25%of the Grade 8 students in Beijing have classes on the weekend. Over 38% of the middle school students have less than eight hours' sleep, because of the hard study. Nan Weitong... | middle4382.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Worried."
},
"options": [
"Excited.",
"Worried.",
"Angry.",
"Tired."
],
"question": "How did the writer feel about his upcoming 30th birthday?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | In two days, I will be turning 30. And I was not looking forward to a new decade . I was afraid that the best years of my life were behind me.
One day, I met with my friend Nicholas. He was a 79-year-old man. He noticed something was different about me and asked if anything was wrong. I told him what I was anxious a... | middle5922.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Thank you"
},
"options": [
"Happy Teachers' Day",
"Thank you",
"Goodbye",
"Sorry"
],
"question": "This letter is about a girl saying \" _ \" to a teacher.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | Dear Mrs. Smith,
I was a student of yours in Grade Six, and I hope you still remember me. I'm writing this letter because I want to let you know that the school year with you was important and special to me. It made a great contribution to my life.
I know I was very quiet in your class, and you never said much to me. ... | middle2095.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "are not in education, employment or training"
},
"options": [
"often miss classes from studio school",
"prefer studio schools to ordinary schools",
"refuse to take any part-time job after school",
"are not in education,... | Thousands of teenagers will be able to move to a new wave of "studio schools" at the age of 14 to improve their chances of finding a job in UK. Twelve new-style schools are open to act as a bridge to the workplace and cut the number of NEETs.
Under plans, schools will operate longer days and work outside standard schoo... | middle2903.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "learned to farm the land"
},
"options": [
"learned to farm the land",
"cooked different kinds of food",
"couldn't find food around them",
"transported food from one country to another"
],
"question": "10,000 yea... | For 99% of human history, people took their food from the world around them. They ate all that they could find, and then moved on. Then around 10,000 years ago, about 1% of human history, people learned to farm the land.
The kind of food we eat depends on which part of the world we live in, or which part of our country... | middle2917.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Using air conditioners may be a waste of energy."
},
"options": [
"It's a pity to wear your dad's old T-shirts.",
"Using air conditioners may be a waste of energy.",
"Taking a bus wastes a lot of oil every year.",
"Usin... | Did you see snow in your hometown last winter? Did you feel it was warmer than before?
"There have been 21 warm winters in China since 1986," said scientists. They also said that in the past 100 years, as the global temperatures went up by 0.74 degC , the temperature in North China has climbed 1.4 degC in only 50 yea... | middle752.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To play jokes on others."
},
"options": [
"To fight with his friends.",
"To play with his brother.",
"To play jokes on others.",
"To put others into trouble."
],
"question": "What did the writer like to do when ... | When I was young, I liked to play jokes on people I knew, especially on my parents and friends. One day my mother was cooking in the kitchen and my younger brother was playing near the window. I ran to my mother and said,| " My brother has fallen from the open window!" She was very worried about my brother and then I s... | middle2042.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The school basketball club."
},
"options": [
"The school soccer club.",
"The school volleyball club.",
"The school basketball club.",
"The school baseball club."
],
"question": "What club is Barry in?",
"que... | Barry and Jim are twin brothers. But they like different things. Barry likes basketball and soccer. He is in the school basketball club, and he plays soccer every day. He has 9 basketballs in his bookcase. He also likes volleyball. He has 3 white volleyballs and 3 blue volleyballs. He doesn't like tennis. He wants to... | middle4433.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Apples."
},
"options": [
"Apples.",
"Bananas.",
"Strawberries.",
"Oranges."
],
"question": "What does Tommy's father like?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index"... | Tommy and his mother go shopping today. Tommy's father likes apples very much. They buy some red apples for him. Tommy's mother likes yellow bananas, but the bananas are green. "Look! The strawberries are very nice, Mom. Do you like them?" Tommy says to his mother. "Yes, I like strawberries very much." Tommy's mother ... | middle8209.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Because they want to make taking notes easier."
},
"options": [
"Because they want to take right notes.",
"Because their teachers want them to do so.",
"Because they want to make taking notes easier.",
"Because they alw... | With the development of science, more and more students don't like taking notes by hand. Instead, they use digital cameras to take pictures of the words that their teachers write on the blackboard or record what their teachers say in class.
The children might think there are too many notes to take or their teachers w... | middle6224.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Never-give-up spirit."
},
"options": [
"His university.",
"Never-give-up spirit.",
"His opportunity.",
"Never practicing hard."
],
"question": "What makes Lin special from other players?",
"question_type": "... | Who "entertained us, challenged us and changed our world"? Absolutely, Jeremy Lin, an Asian-American NBA rising star, is one of those people. TIME Magazine named him one of 2012's Most Influential People in the World.
Lin, 23, is not just a good basketball player, but also a graduate of Harvard University, one of the b... | middle6542.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the earth"
},
"options": [
"the sun",
"the moon",
"sunlight",
"the earth"
],
"question": "A comet is like.",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answ... | If you look at the sky one night and see something moving and shining that you have never seen before, it might be a comet .
A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it reflects . Like the earth a comet goes around the sun, but on a much longer p... | middle7884.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "he wants Farquaad to let the fantasy characters live in the country"
},
"options": [
"he wants to marry her",
"he wants to kill the princess",
"Farquaad wants to marry her",
"he wants Farquaad to let the fantasy charact... | Farquaad, the ruler of a country called Duloc, decides that all the characters from fantasy stories must leave the country. There is a huge green monster called Shrek who lives in a forest and all the fantasy characters hide in his home, although Shrek doesn't want them to.
Shrek visits Farquaad. Farquaad agrees that t... | middle961.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "few people know"
},
"options": [
"few people know",
"no one knows",
"most people know",
"all the people know"
],
"question": "The writer of the passage thinks that _ there is a blind spot in the eye.",
"... | It seems to be strange that there is a blind spot in the eye. Here is an interesting experiment that can make something _ when one eye is open.
Make a card about the size of a postcard and write two English letters "L" and "R" on it. "L" is on the left and "R" on the right. First, hold the card about 80 cm away and y... | middle4355.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "south"
},
"options": [
"south",
"north",
"center",
"we don't know"
],
"question": "Hainan is in the _ of China.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
... | Hainan is in the south of China. The weather there is different from that of other areas of China. There is no winter in Hainan. It's not cold all year round. Many people go there in winter, because it's cold in the north of China. In summer, it's very hot. It's usually sunny, but it often rains. So people often take a... | middle2730.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "White."
},
"options": [
"Green.",
"White.",
"Black.",
"Smith."
],
"question": "What's Kate's family name?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answe... | Kate White has a big family. There are nine people. Her grandfather's name is James White. He is a doctor. Her grandmother's name is Alice White. She is a housewife . They have a son and a daughter. Her father's name is Thomas White and he is an actor. Her mother's name is Jenny White and she is a nurse. Kate is 13 y... | middle6556.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "real and important"
},
"options": [
"social and proud",
"good and opposite",
"real and important",
"strong and changeable"
],
"question": "A down-to-earth person could be _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_que... | The expression "down to earth" means being open and honest. It is easy to get on with some one who is down to earth. A down-to-earth person is the opposite of someone who acts important or proud.
Down-to-earth people could be important members of society. But they do not consider themselves to be better than others who... | middle1239.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a teacher"
},
"options": [
"a worker",
"a teacher",
"a doctor",
"a driver"
],
"question": "--What's Jim's father ? --He is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answ... | This is a teacher's family . The father's name is Lake Smith . He's forty - four . The mother's name is Kate Smith . She's forty - two . The Smiths have a son , Jim , and a daughter , Ann . Jim is fourteen , and Ann is twelve . The son looks like his father , and the daughter looks like her mother . They are all in No.... | middle7648.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "1991"
},
"options": [
"1991",
"1972",
"2010",
"2001"
],
"question": "When might soap operas from South Korea become popular in China?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"an... | Soap operas from South Korea have been popular in China for more than twenty years now. So it is not the first time for the soap operas made in China to feel less popular. But this time, they are facing more difficulties, for The Heirs and My Love From the Star really made a full success.
A senior official said he some... | middle6230.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "six months"
},
"options": [
"five to eight days",
"several weeks",
"six months",
"a year"
],
"question": "Expo 2010 will last _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answe... | Expo 2010 is held in Shanghai from May 1 to October 31.People all over the world are looking forward to it.Here are several golden rules on how to best plan your hip.
Rule 1:Do your homework
Read everything you call before going.Really study the maps.Know the pavilions.Arrive at the entrance nearest Io the things you w... | middle2056.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "shout as loudly as possible"
},
"options": [
"use the lift",
"try to put out the fire ourselves",
"open the hot door and go out",
"shout as loudly as possible"
],
"question": "The passage tells us that we can _... | Fire can be very dangerous. We should be careful with it. This is what to do in a fire:
*Shout out. Shout as loudly as you can, because people may be asleep.
*Call 119. Don't try to put out the fire yourself. Tell 119 where you are and what is on fire.
*Keep down next to the floor. There is less smoke down there, so it... | middle3348.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "No, it isn't."
},
"options": [
"Yes, it is.",
"No, it isn't.",
"Yes, they do.",
"No,they don't."
],
"question": "Is the picture about the White family?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"an... | A picture is on my desk. It is a picture of Mary's family. The man is her father Mr. White. He is a doctor. A woman is behind Mary. She is her mother. She's a teacher. A boy is in the picture, too. He is Mary's brother, Sam. Mary and Sam are in the same school. But they aren't in the same grade. They look like their mo... | middle4427.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Before Christmas Day."
},
"options": [
"On Christmas Day.",
"Before Christmas Day.",
"On New Year's Day.",
"After New Year's Day."
],
"question": "When did the story probably happen?",
"question_type": "fact... | When my son, Mark, was in the third grade, he saved all his pocket money for over three months to buy holiday presents. The third Saturday in December Mark said he had made his list and had twenty dollars in his pocket.
I drove him to a nearby supermarket. Mark picked up a hand basket and went in while I waited and wat... | middle8235.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "China"
},
"options": [
"China",
"many Asian countries",
"African countries",
"all over the world"
],
"question": "Chopsticks have their beginnings in _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"... | Though chopsticks are used in many Asian countries, they have their beginning in China. Chinese history says that the Chinese had chopsticks as far as the Xia Dynasty (about 4, 00 years ago). In the Spring and Autumn Period copper and iron chopsticks appeared. With the Han Dynasty lacquered chopsticks came, followed ... | middle7106.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Preventing heart problems."
},
"options": [
"Studying plants.",
"Building up the plaque.",
"Treating AIDS and cancer.",
"Preventing heart problems."
],
"question": "What can foxglove be used for?",
"question... | For thousands of years, people have used plants to make medicines. They used different parts of the plants --the roots, the leaves, the flowers, and the bark . Today, doctors have rediscovered more medicinal values of some plants. Let's look at some examples.
Foxglove is a common plant. People have used it to make t... | middle1577.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "our classroom"
},
"options": [
"our room",
"our classroom",
"my bedroom",
"our school"
],
"question": "This passage is about _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answe... | I' m Eric. Welcome to our classroom. You can see a nice classroom. A blackboard is on the wall. A map of China and a map of the world are on the wall, too. The map of China is old. But the map of the world is new. There is a teacher's desk. An eraser and a ruler are on it.
There are two doors in the wall. Some brooms ... | middle6218.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "What a firefighter does."
},
"options": [
"What a firefighter does.",
"How a firefighter is trained.",
"What a firefighter wears.",
"How a firefighter helps animals."
],
"question": "What is this article mostly ... | Firefighter Regina Wilson works in Brooklyn, New York. A reporter is asking Regina questions about how she does her job.
Reporter: How long have you been a firefighter?
Wilson: Eight years.
Reporter: How did you get started?
Wilson: First, I had to take a lot of tests. Then, I went to firefighting school for 13 weeks. ... | middle3360.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "did better than other competition teams"
},
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"were from rich families",
"got a lot of money from their school",
"did better than other competition teams",
"were helped by their teacher to build the machine"
... | At Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix, Arizona in the United States, four poor Mexican boys worked together on a strange electric machine. They were encouraged by their teacher Allan Cameron to build the machine. It only cost them $800 to build it. They used pipes , cameras, computer parts, and whatever they could find... | middle4369.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "he always tells others what to do"
},
"options": [
"he always tells others what to do",
"he works harder than others",
"he cares about others instead of himself",
"he listens to his wife all the time"
],
"questi... | A person's nose is important for breathing and smelling. The nose is also used in many popular expressions.
Some people are able to lead other people by the nose. For example, if a wife leads her husband by the nose, she makes him do whatever she wants him to do.
Some people are said to be hard-nosed. They will not cha... | middle3406.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "teenagers"
},
"options": [
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"parents",
"policemen",
"teachers"
],
"question": "The members of School Watch are probably _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | Hello, everyone. Because of the high rate of school violence in some areas, teenagers' safety becomes a serious problem. We are planning to set up an organization named School Watch to make sure that students have a safe environment. Please be part of our plan!
What is School Watch?
School Watch is a volunteer projec... | middle2718.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "classmates"
},
"options": [
"sisters",
"cousins",
"classmates",
"brothers"
],
"question": "Betty and Helen are _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
... | Helen and Betty are very good friends. They are in the same class at school.
Now they are eight years old. Helen's mother has a new baby. Helen is very happy to have a little sister, so she always talks about her to Betty.
At first Betty is very interested in the new baby. But after some time she begins to get unhappy... | middle5077.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "senthimtoOxfordtostudy"
},
"options": [
"senthimtoworkatOxfordfortwoorthreeyears",
"wantedhimtoliveatOxfordfortwoorthreeyears",
"senthimtoOxfordtostudy",
"gavehimalotofmoney"
],
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It happened one night t... | middle1205.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Four."
},
"options": [
"Three.",
"Four.",
"Two.",
"One."
],
"question": "How many children are there in the family?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
... | Gina is an English girl. She has a brother. His name is Mike. They are good students. Their father and mother are English teachers, and they work very long hours every day. So the family usually go to the park on Saturday or Sunday.
Today is Saturday. It's a nice day. They want to go there with their dog. They leave ho... | middle949.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "in his car"
},
"options": [
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"in his car",
"on foot",
"by bus"
],
"question": "Mr White usually went to work _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index... | One night Mr White left his car outside his house as usual. But when he came down the next morning to go to his office, he found that his car wasn't there. He called the police and told them what had happened.
When Mr White came home from his office that evening, his car was back again at his usual place in front of hi... | middle7674.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the Spring Festival"
},
"options": [
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"the Spring Festival",
"Christmas Day",
"the Dragon Boat Festival"
],
"question": "\"The Chinese New Year\" in the passage means \" _ \".",
"question_type"... | The Chinese New Year is the most important holiday for the Chinese people. For the Chinese,the New Year comes with the first day of the First Moon,between January 21 and February 19. People get ready for the holiday for fifteen days.
Finally,at midnight it is the first day of the First Moon. People close the shops and ... | middle3412.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "have more food"
},
"options": [
"have more food",
"release poison",
"planting",
"plant more crops"
],
"question": "Farmers Use large amounts of chemicals to _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
... | Water pollution happens when waste things from many areas are thrown into rivers,lakes and seas.
Agriculture
To get more food,farmers use large amounts of chemicals .When the chemicals are not completely used by the plants,they are washed away by the rainwater into rivers,lakes and seas,which pollute both surface water... | middle5063.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "He was thinking of what gift he would get."
},
"options": [
"He had a lot of things to do.",
"He wanted to take a look at the reindeer.",
"He was disturbed by a big noise .",
"He was thinking of what gift he would get."... | The last few days before Christmas passed quickly and it was soon Christmas Eve. That night when everyone went to bed, Bunny couldn't sleep. He still couldn't think of what he wanted his special Christmas gift to be. He wondered how Santa Claus would know what to bring him if he didn't know himself.
As he was sitting u... | middle5705.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "surprised"
},
"options": [
"happy",
"surprised",
"angry",
"sad"
],
"question": "The writer feels very _ because of the way his classmates dress these days.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | These days, I'm surprised at what my classmates have changed since school started. It's not just the new teachers, new buildings, or new rules. I also notice how people are dressing differently. Dressing is not just a choice to keep warm. It's also a healthy personal choice in so many ways.
Dress rules: Many schools ha... | middle3374.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "a running star"
},
"options": [
"a reporter",
"a snowman",
"a worker",
"a running star"
],
"question": "Jack wants to be _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_ind... | My name is Jack.Here are four of my favorite photos.Let me tell you something about them.
In the first photo, I'm running.I like sports and I want to be a running star.
I like spring and winter best.So I have two photos of them.Look at the second photo.I am flying kites with my friends in the park. There are all kinds ... | middle7112.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "People and animals"
},
"options": [
"Everybody",
"Woodchucks and bees",
"Bees and birds",
"People and animals"
],
"question": "_ have homes.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | Everybody has a home. We people have homes,animals have homes,too.
Some animals live under the ground. The woodchuck lives in holes under the ground. His home has two doors. If anybody comes in one door, he goes out from the other door. Some birds live in nests and trees. They come out for food in the day and go bac... | middle1563.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "a driver's license"
},
"options": [
"working experience",
"good knowledge of the city",
"a driver's license",
"a college student's card"
],
"question": "If you want to be a postman,it's necessary for you to have... | Postmen wanted English teachers wanted
No experience nec essary but you must be Warm and patient college students.
Hard--working. Able to speak standard English, good with children.
Free to choose working hours. Time: on weekends
Write t... | middle6783.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "will make our air much cleaner"
},
"options": [
"will make our air much cleaner",
"will run more slowly",
"will be more dangerous",
"will be heavy"
],
"question": "Solar power cars _ according to the passage... | Now our environment is becoming worse and worse. Everyone wants to live healthily. Here is some information about what our life will be like in ten years.
Cars will run on a solar power and will be much cleaner. They will be much safer. For example, if you are too close to another car or if you are driving dangerousl... | middle4194.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "lonely"
},
"options": [
"happy",
"sad",
"lonely",
"unpopular"
],
"question": "People often feels _ if they have no good friends.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answe... | Friends are very important in our everyday life. Everyone needs friends. We all like to feel close to someone. It is nice to have a friend to talk, laugh and do things with. Certainly, sometimes we need to be alone. We don't always want people around. But we would feel lonely if we never had a friend.
No two people are... | middle3823.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "from six to seven in the evening"
},
"options": [
"from six to seven in the morning",
"from six to seven in the evening",
"from five to six in the morning",
"from five to six in the evening"
],
"question": "John... | Good evening, everyone! Let's talk about some of the new and the old everyday shows. The news is on Channel Six from 6:00 to 7:00 every evening. Johnson has been reading the news for many years. He and his group always do their job well. The same channel is also good for late night watching. At 11:30 every night, Ted ... | middle1946.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "others won't hear the play well"
},
"options": [
"the theatre won't allow it",
"the actors will get angry",
"others won't hear the play well",
"we will miss part of the play"
],
"question": "If we listen to our ... | You probably know you should say "please" and "thank you" at restaurants. You probably know the rules of a library. You know you should respect and be nice to your classmates. But do you have music manners?
Keep It Down! You have to notice the _ of your music. You should not play your music so loud that everyone around... | middle2297.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Three."
},
"options": [
"One.",
"Two.",
"Three.",
"Four."
],
"question": "How many suggestions of happiness are mentioned in this passage?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index... | Sadness and happiness are often talked about by people in their spare time. Most people want themselves to be happy for ever, but few know how to find happiness. Others say if you own lots of money and success, you will be happy. However, money and success alone do notbring lasting happiness. A famous a Greek thinker, ... | middle3189.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Twelve."
},
"options": [
"Twelve.",
"Thirteen.",
"Fourteen.",
"Fifteen."
],
"question": "How old is Zhang Yue?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"... | I'm Zhang Yue. I come fiom Beijing. I'm twelve years old and I'm a student. I have a bike. I go to school by bike. I can speak Chinese and English. This is my friend. Her name is Alice Brown. She is twelve years old. Too. She likes red. We are in the same class. The man in the photo is Alice's father. He is my English... | middle4180.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "an American girl"
},
"options": [
"an American girl",
"an American girl's grandma",
"an America boy",
"an American girl's friend"
],
"question": "The song Happy Birthday was written by _ .",
"question_type... | You may know the song Happy Birthday very well.But do you know about its writer?It was written by an American girl.And she became very rich after that.
When she was a child,she was poor.Once,she was invited to her friend's birthday party.She was pleased but sad because she didn't have enough money to buy a gift for her... | middle3837.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "take children to play games at the City Theater"
},
"options": [
"go to watch a ball game",
"take children to play games at the City Theater",
"go to the Central Park for a picnic",
"go to concert at Rose Hall, City Col... | Passage 1
Captain Good fellow
Do your children enjoy interesting stories, funny games, and exciting dances?
Captain Good fellow will be ready to teach all these things to children at the City Theater on Saturday morning at 10:00, free.
Films at the Museum
Two American films will be shown on Saturday afternoon at the Mu... | middle6797.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Because it is fast ."
},
"options": [
"Because it is safe.",
"Because it is fast .",
"Because you can walk around in the plane.",
"Because it is cheap."
],
"question": "Why do many people like to travel by plane... | Many people like to travel by plane because it is fast, but I don't like it because an airport is usually far from the city. You have to get there early and wait for hours for the plane to take off and it is often late. You can't open the windows. You can't choose the food. Planes are fast, but they still take hours to... | middle7489.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "6:50"
},
"options": [
"6:50",
"7:00",
"7:10",
"10:00"
],
"question": "Amma gets up at _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "bread ... | Every morning Amma gets up at ten to seven. She brushes her teeth, takes a shower and gets dressed . Then she goes to the kitchen and makes breakfast. She usually has orange juice and bread for breakfast. After breakfast, she reads the newspaper. At seven forty--five she leaves home and goes to work by subway. | middle544.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because they could bring any books and notes into the classroom during the test."
},
"options": [
"Because it was their last exam in the college.",
"Because they knew there were only five questions.",
"Because they thought th... | It was the last day of the final exam in a college. Outside the classroom, a group of students were waiting for the last exam. On their faces was confidence.
They knew the exam would be easy. The teacher said they could bring any books or notes during the test.
Right after they came into the classroom. The teacher hand... | middle6967.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "an old box"
},
"options": [
"an old box",
"a bus",
"a shop",
"the street"
],
"question": "Jack's wife found the umbrellas in _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer... | One day, Jack's wife was in their bedroom. She found many things in an old box. "look at all these umbrellas," Jack's wife said to him, "There are eight and they are all broken." "I'll take them all to the umbrella shop and mend them," Jack said, "They are too good to throw away." Jack took the eight umbrellas to the s... | middle222.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "on Tuesday"
},
"options": [
"on Sunday",
"on Tuesday",
"on Wednesday",
"on Thursday"
],
"question": "We can get some information about volunteers on Radio Five _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},... | You're listening to Radio Five. Regular listeners know that every Tuesday I give a list of places in the city that are looking for volunteers.
Tiny Tot Preschool is looking for someone who will sing songs to the children on Thursday mornings. The best person for this job would be someone who can play the piano or the g... | middle4816.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "five"
},
"options": [
"two",
"three",
"four",
"five"
],
"question": "_ people express their ideas in the passage.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
... | A middle school organized a "No TV Week" program. All the teachers, parents and students worked together for this program and most of them found it to be a very good one. The headmaster said, "The idea was not to stop watching TV _ but for the students just to find how much time they watch TV and try to use the time fo... | middle236.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Sunday afternoon"
},
"options": [
"Saturday afternoon",
"Saturday morning",
"Sunday morning",
"Sunday afternoon"
],
"question": "Mary goes to do the shopping with her mother on _ .",
"question_type": "clo... | It is Sunday afternoon. Mary goes to do the shopping with her mother. Her mother wants to buy some food for supper. Mary wants to buy a new skirt and some school things. They come to a shop.
"What does your shop sell?" Mary asks, "A lot of things." The girl in the shop says. "You can buy food, drinks, clothes in our sh... | middle550.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "to be a happy man"
},
"options": [
"to buy a shirt",
"to be a clever man",
"to be a happy man",
"to find a happy man"
],
"question": "The king felt very unhappy. He wanted _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_que... | A king often felt unhappy and he asked a clever old man how he could be happy. "That's very easy," said the old man. "You just need to put on a happy man's shirt and you'll be happy."
The king believed the old man and began to look for a happy man. He visited many countries and met kings, professors and others. But th... | middle6973.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "healthy"
},
"options": [
"healthy",
"young",
"smart",
"warm"
],
"question": "In China some people drink tea because it makes them _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"an... | People drink tea. There are many kinds of tea, such as black tea, green tea, white tea and yellow tea. People drink a lot of tea in China. Some people drink it because they think it makes them healthy. Many people drink it because it tastes very good. It is delicious.
People drink a lot of tea in Japan. People drink a ... | middle5249.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the online shops can better protect consumer rights"
},
"options": [
"the quality is not always as good as they promise",
"the online shops can better protect consumer rights",
"we can only know about the goods from the adver... | Shopping online is easier than actually going to a store and saves your time. However, it's not always that easy. Sometimes, you may have a few problems.
Xu Zijiao, 21, a student at Sichuan University, often buys clothes on Taobao. "The colors might be different. And since you can't feel the clothes, the quality might ... | middle3638.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "John liked it to be long"
},
"options": [
"the barber wouldn't like to cut it short",
"the hair grew fast",
"John liked it to be long",
"John was a girl"
],
"question": "John kept long hair because _ .",
"... | John liked to wear his hair very long. Some of his friends thought it looked like a girl's hair, but they never made jokes about it, because John was a big strong man and he didn't think jokes about his hair funny.
John always went to the barber's twice a month to have his hair cut and washed, and one day the barber sa... | middle4157.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "tell you how to get to some places"
},
"options": [
"play music while you're writing on the paper",
"tell you how to get to some places",
"run, balance, dance and even serve you",
"go as fast as 19 km an hour"
],
... | Mip
Mip, a playful robot, was developed by a Canadian toy maker named Wowwee. It stands 19 cm tall. You can control it just with your gestures or a smart phone. Mip can run, balance and dance on two wheels. It can also bring you a bottle of water.
Android Wear
Google is developing a smart watch called Android Wear. T... | middle6998.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Sports"
},
"options": [
"TVs",
"Computers",
"Sports",
"Telephones"
],
"question": "_ become an important part of people's life.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_i... | As time goes by, sports have become more and more important in people's modern life. People take part in different kinds of sports, like football, basketball, table tennis, swimming and so on.
Sports are popular all over the world. People also like watching sports matches . Sports stars are very popular with people, es... | middle6026.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "It was struggling to keep itself from falling into the water."
},
"options": [
"It was showing another flying skill.",
"It was struggling to keep itself from falling into the water.",
"It was thirsty and wanted to drink some ... | A group of swans flew down to a beach where a crow was jumping around. The crow watched them with disdain .
"You have no flying skills at all!" he said to the swans. "All you can do is to move your wings. Can you turn over in the air? No, that's beyond you. Let's have a flying competition. I'll show you what real flyi... | middle1749.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "all of the above"
},
"options": [
"the leaves of the trees",
"water and minerals",
"the soil and air",
"all of the above"
],
"question": "According to the text, colorful plants and flowers live on _ .",
"q... | What do you think of a forest, what do you see? Just trees? Or do you see many other things, such as singing birds, colorful plants and wild flowers?
The forest is a whole of its own. It is full of many different living things. But even though they are all different, they have one thing in common: they all need each ot... | middle1991.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "On Fridays."
},
"options": [
"On Wednesdays.",
"On Thursdays.",
"On Fridays.",
"On Saturdays."
],
"question": "When can we watch the show on TV?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": ... | "My dear dad, where are we going?" Have you ever heard of this question? It's from the song of Hunan TV station's show: Where Are We Going, Dad?
The show is played on Fridays. In the show, five pairs of fathers and kids go to strange places and finish interesting tasks. The fathers learn to cook and look after their ki... | middle2240.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "classroom"
},
"options": [
"Family",
"classroom",
"friends",
"school"
],
"question": "This is a picture of Jack's _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,... | Hello, I'm Jack. Please look at the picture of my classroom. On the front wall, there is a blackboard.It's very big. In front of the blackboard, there is a yellow desk. It's for our teachers. There is a computer on it. On the right wall there is a map of China. On the black ( ) wall of our classroom is a blackboard. W... | middle6032.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "international"
},
"options": [
"interesting",
"international",
"ice cream",
"American"
],
"question": "Coffee is an _ drink.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_ind... | Coffee has become the most popular American drink. Today people in the United States drink more coffee than people in any of the other countries. People drink coffee at breakfast, at lunch, at dinner and between meals. They drink hot coffee or coffee with ice in it. They drink it at work and at home. They eat coffee ic... | middle1985.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Most countries"
},
"options": [
"All countries",
"A few countries",
"No countries",
"Most countries"
],
"question": "_ agree with the United Nations' list of children's rights.",
"question_type": "cloze_qu... | If you want to do a school project on children's rights, you can look on the Internet for some information. A United Nations website can show you plenty of useful information for the project.
The United Nations lists the rights of children. Most countries agree all of them, but some countries do not. The following are ... | middle2532.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "that gives teenagers an idea or task for every single day of the year"
},
"options": [
"written about Michael Norton.",
"about what teenagers learn at school",
"that gives teenagers an idea or task for every single day of the... | Everyone dreams of changing the world. But can teenagers really make a difference? And how can they go about it?
Michael Norton's book 365 Ways to Change the World is a good starting point. The book gives an idea or task for every single day of the year. The tasks include offering to work at a local homeless shelter ... | middle4143.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "It's sunny."
},
"options": [
"It's sunny.",
"It's windy.",
"It's cloudy.",
"It's rainy."
],
"question": "How's the weather today?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer... | It's a sunny and warm Sunday morning. My parents, my sister and I are all at home. My parents don't have to go to work, and my sister and I don't have to go to school. We are all in the yard . Look! My father is cleaning his bike. He often goes to work by bike. The bike ride takes him about ten minutes. My mother is w... | middle7462.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "To watch the house."
},
"options": [
"To wait for her.",
"To watch the house.",
"To look after the child.",
"To wait for his uncle."
],
"question": "What did Mike's mother ask him to do while she was away? _ .... | One day, little Mike's mother went to the river to do some washing.Before she left, she said to him: "Mike,while I am away, stay near the door and watch it all the time! "She said this because she was afraid of the thieves.
Mike sat down beside the door.After an hour,one of his uncles came.He asked Mike, "Where is your... | middle1013.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the Internet of things will appear in our daily life sooner"
},
"options": [
"the Internet of things will appear in our daily life sooner",
"Samsung has produced the Internet of things recently",
"Samsung products have been p... | Is your TV connected to the Internet? What about your chair or your fridge? It is possible that they are not. But in the future, most things in your home may be connected, as the so-called "Internet of things" is developing.
The Internet of things may be coming sooner than you think. It is reported that during his spee... | middle5275.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Finally Mark was happy because he achieved his goal that day"
},
"options": [
"many of Mark's classmates gave up by the end of the second lap",
"it was too difficult for Mark to run the mile",
"Finally Mark was happy because ... | In my second year of high school, the class was scheduled to run the mile. when the coach yelled, "Ready. Set. Go!", I rushed out like an airplane, faster than anyone else for the first 20 feet. I made up my mind to finish first. As we came around the first of four laps, there were students all over the track . By th... | middle3604.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "A painter and art teacher."
},
"options": [
"A teacher.",
"A painter.",
"An artist.",
"A painter and art teacher."
],
"question": "What did Pablo Picasso's father do?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"an... | Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. His father was a painter and art teacher who gave his son the first lesson in drawing. He won a prize-- "Science and Charity" for his first important painting when he was only fifteen. He studied in several cities in Spain. But there was no one to teach him all that he wanted to... | middle5513.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "seventeen"
},
"options": [
"fifteen",
"sixteen",
"seventeen",
"eighteen"
],
"question": "There were _ apples when the three boys divided them.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | Three boys, Tom, Sam and Jim bought seventeen apples. Tom wanted the half . Sam wanted one-third ,and Jim wanted one-ninth * But they didn't know how to do.
Just at that time,a little boy came with an apple in his hand. The boy said to them, "Don't worry. Let me help you" Then he put his apple into their apples, and... | middle1775.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "your favorite basketball team wins the game"
},
"options": [
"there is too much homework on this weekend",
"your favorite basketball team wins the game",
"a friend breaks your favorite thing",
"your parents don't let yo... | Anger is a kind of feeling. Many things can make you angry. When your teacher gives you too much homework, when your team loses an important game, when a friend borrows your favorite thing and then breaks it, you may get really angry.
Usually, your body will tell you when you are angry. For example, you breathe faster,... | middle8037.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "father"
},
"options": [
"brother",
"classmate",
"father",
"teacher"
],
"question": "Mr. Smith is Jack's _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"an... | Jack is in bed. Mr. Smith sits beside him.
"What kind of day do you have today?" Mr. Smith asks.
"It is a bad day for me," Jack answers. "I have a fight with Tom. Then the teacher calls you and tells you about it, right?"
"Yes , part of the day is bad," Mr. Smith says. But there are good parts, too. Now it is time to ... | middle7310.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Happy."
},
"options": [
"Angry.",
"Afraid.",
"Sad.",
"Happy."
],
"question": "How does the writer feel when he goes to the dentist?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answ... | Some children are afraid to go to the dentist, but not me. I'm a boy of 8 and I have a funny dentist. His name is Dr. Smileyface. I don't think that's his real name, but that's what he tells all the children who come to see him.
He has a cool waiting room. It has video games and a big toy box. Dr. Smileyface always wea... | middle8023.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "at 10 am"
},
"options": [
"at 7 am",
"at 8 am",
"at 9 am",
"at 10 am"
],
"question": "England high school students usually start school _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | IT'S a scene in many homes around the world: tired-eyed teens wake to the sound of their alarm clock. Another school day begins, and we all wish we could have just one extra hour of sleep.
For lucky high school students in England, they're now going to reset their alarm and get an extra hour of sleep. Instead of starti... | middle4619.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "cheaper"
},
"options": [
"more expensive",
"more difficult",
"cheaper",
"worse"
],
"question": "According to the passage, it is often _ to buy new electronics than to repair old ones.",
"question_type": ... | E-waste is fast becoming a serious problem around the world. This report will examine this problem and provide some possible ways to solve it.
We live in a society that is producing and using electronics all the time. It is often cheaper to buy new products than to repair old ones. Also, through clever advertising, co... | middle3176.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "It can be used to show happiness."
},
"options": [
"It can be used to show happiness.",
"It needs to do many things.",
"It needs to eat a lot.",
"It can only live on the beach."
],
"question": "Which of the foll... | Learning English grammar and English vocabulary can be hard enough, but trying to understand English sayings can be more difficult. Some are just hard to figure out and others don't make any sense at all. Here are four funny English sayings that you can use every day.
I'm happy as a clam .
Think of a clam. It doesn't h... | middle2268.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "He travelled to India and Africa."
},
"options": [
"He travelled to India and Africa.",
"Each trip lasted six years.",
"When he died, he was 72 years old.",
"He was a great king."
],
"question": "What do we know... | Zheng He was an amazing man. He was born in 1371. Eleven years later, he was caught by the army of a rich young man called Zhu Di and made to work for him. Over time the rich man saw that Zheng He was very clever and strong and they became close friends. In 1403 Zhu Di was made the King of China and he asked Zheng He t... | middle5507.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "nine years old"
},
"options": [
"four years old",
"six years old",
"eight years old",
"nine years old"
],
"question": "The woman's daughter is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer... | My nine-year-old daughter, Maria, is in Grade Two. Every evening we get into homework battles . When she get home, homework is the last thing she likes to do. I think she should do her homework just after school. But she thinks she should have some time to rest and play first. When Maria does her homework, she wants m... | middle1007.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "larger"
},
"options": [
"larger",
"large",
"small",
"smaller"
],
"question": "China is _ than Australia.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answe... | Australia is the smallest continent in the world. It is a little smaller than China. It is near the south of the equator .So when it is summer in our country, it is winter in Australia.
Australia has a small population .The population of Australia is nearly the same as that of Shanghai, a city in China.
Australia is ... | middle593.txt |
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