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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "you may eat well without paying too much" }, "options": [ "the British aren't interested in traveling to other countries.", "workers usually have their holidays in spring", "you may eat well without paying too much", "h...	In England,factory holidays come mostly in the period between mid-July and mid-August. State schools usually only have six weeks off, from about mid-July to the end of August. The coast is the most popular place for the English people to spend their holidays, but there are few seaside hotels. Food in British hotels and...	middle5007.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "after school hours" }, "options": [ "before school hours", "during school hours", "after school hours", "during her holidays" ], "question": "She spends a lot of time on her hobby _ .", "question_type": "...	Swee Lin has an interesting hobby . She collects stamps. She spends a lot of time on her stamp collection after school hours. She has collected hundreds of stamps from all over the world. They are all in color. Swee Lin likes stamps with pictures of animals and birds on them. In this way, she learns the names of many ...	middle4319.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "Four" }, "options": [ "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven" ], "question": "How many pieces of advice does the passage give us? _", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index"...	If you think you're too shy and want to be a little brave, try the followings: You can make it. Tell people you're shy. There's no need to hide it. When they get to know you're a shy kid, they'll understand you better. This also helps you feel more _ in talks. Try to smile more. When you smile, people think you are fri...	middle7823.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "Six hours." }, "options": [ "Three hours.", "Four hours.", "Five hours.", "Six hours." ], "question": "How many hours for lessons are there in my ideal school?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, {...	I like to get up late, so my ideal school starts at 9: 00 a. m. It finishes at 3: 00 p. m. So we can do lots of sports after school. In my ideal school, there is a big dining hall. We have an hour for lunch. We can listen to music in the hall. We can have maths every day because I think maths is very interesting. The c...	middle6283.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "American" }, "options": [ "American", "Chinese", "English", "Japanese" ], "question": "Jim is _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text"...	Hello! My name is Jim. I'm from the US. Now I am in China with my father and mother. I like China. I like Chinese food, too. I have breakfast at home. I eat an egg, bread and porridge in the morning. I don't like milk. I have no time to go home for lunch. So I have it at school. The lunch in our school is very good. I ...	middle4494.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "some school children could not read" }, "options": [ "some school children could not read", "many children's books were interesting", "children wanted to learn to read", "a writer for children was wanted" ], "qu...	Doctor Seuss was born in 1904. By the middle 1950s, he had become one of the best-loved and most successful children's book writers in the world. His books are very popular with young readers. They enjoy the invented words and the pictures of unusual funny animals and plants. In 1954, life magazine published a report a...	middle4480.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "AI:a Friend or an Enemy?" }, "options": [ "AI:a Friend or an Enemy?", "The Development of AI", "The Future of Human Beings", "The Fight between Humans and AI" ], "question": "The best title for this passage may ...	We often praise the world of science. It explains the world and makes our lives easier with technology. One of the most exciting fields in science is artificial intelligence ( AI). This is an area where scientists are working on making machines that think like humans. However, Professor Stephen Hawking, a well-known Br...	middle7189.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "lazy" }, "options": [ "busy", "lazy", "stupid", "careful" ], "question": "About 40% passwords are easily stolen because the users are _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { ...	Better think twice before choosing a _ for email, online bank or shopping. Simple passwords are easy to be stolen. A password is like a key to your home. If someone steals it, he'll get chances to steal something else. We use passwords everywhere in our life. We are so used to passwords that we don't pay any attention ...	middle6297.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "Because he is funny." }, "options": [ "Because he studies well.", "Because he looks good.", "Because he can play many instruments.", "Because he is funny." ], "question": "Why does everyone like Tom very much?",...	My friend Tom is a schoolboy. Everyone likes him very much because he is funny. He can play many instruments. When he is with his friends, he often plays for them. Today is October 8th. It's Tom's birthday. He has a big and interesting party at home. Many friends come to his party. Tom's mother cooks a lot of food fo...	middle7837.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "soil" }, "options": [ "animal", "plant", "meat", "soil" ], "question": "From the text, we know people live on _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, ...	All our food comes from the soil . Some of us eat meat, but animals live on plants. If there are no plants, we will have no animals and meat. So the soil is necessary for us to live. The top of ground is usually covered with grass or other plants. Plants grow in soil, which has a dark color. This dark soil is humus. De...	middle3489.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "the writer's window was dirty" }, "options": [ "the woman's window was dirty", "the writer's window was dirty", "the woman lived far away", "the writer was near-sighted" ], "question": "The writer couldn't see a...	Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next to ours was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there and whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing and reading. After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window w...	middle2797.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "his schoolmates" }, "options": [ "his schoolmates", "his parents", "his teachers", "his brothers" ], "question": "Steven Jobs always got into trouble with _ in school.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" ...	Steven Jobs, the CEO of Apple, was not a good student when he was in school. At that time, he always got into trouble with his schoolmates. When he went to college, he didn't change a lot. Then he dropped out . But he was full of new ideas. After that, Steven Jobs worked as a video game designer in a company. He worked...	middle722.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "more people would hear his voice" }, "options": [ "children were losing their childhoods", "he didn't have to take extra classes", "more people would hear his voice", "he could enter key middle school" ], "quest...	"Dear Grandpa Guo, we are losing our childhoods! Please help us!" Guo Chuanjie, a famous scientist, received a letter from a Beijing primary school student. The student said that many Chinese kids have to take extra classes on weekends in order to enter key middle schools. The kid hoped more people would hear his voice...	middle2967.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "Australia" }, "options": [ "England", "Iran", "India", "Australia" ], "question": "Tony Wheeler and his wife ended the year-long trip in _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { ...	Tony Wheeler was born to travel. His father worked for an airline. For the first 16 years of his life, Wheeler and his family lived in many different countries. In the early 1970s,Tony met a young woman named Maureen. They soon married. Before getting jobs, Tony and Maureen wanted to travel. They took a year long trip ...	middle2973.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "Stan Lee." }, "options": [ "Stan Lee.", "Marvel.", "Peter parker.", "Superman." ], "question": "Who created spiderman ?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer...	Spiderman is one of the most famous comic book heroes of all time. He was created by Stan Lee in 1963 and was first introduced to the world in the pages of Marvel Comic Books. Spiderman's story is the story of Peter Parker, a child who lost his parents and lives with his aunt and uncle. Peter is a shy, quiet boy wearin...	middle736.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "good study habits" }, "options": [ "good study ways", "good study habits", "good study environment", "the homework" ], "question": "This passage tells about. _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, ...	All students need to have good study habits .When you have good study habits, you learn things quickly. You also remember them easily. Do you like to study in the living room? This is not a good place because it is usually too noisy. You need to study in a quiet place, like your bedroom. A quiet place will help you onl...	middle7994.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "He himself." }, "options": [ "His fans.", "His friends.", "He himself.", "His teacher." ], "question": "Who taught Justin to play the piano, drums and guitar?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { ...	Justin Bieber was nominated for the Best New Artist Grammy 2011. Both he and his fans were excited to hear the great news! Born on March 1, 1994, in Canada, Justin entered a singing contest when he was 12 and won the second place. He taught himself to play the piano, drums and guitar. In 2007 Justin posted videos of hi...	middle31.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "He is 12." }, "options": [ "He is 11.", "He is 13.", "He is 12.", "He is 14." ], "question": "How old is Ivan now?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, ...	Let me tell you my pen friend Ivan. He is 12 years old. He likes playing football. He usually plays football with his friends at weekends. Ivan lives with his father and mother in a city in France. They have a home with five rooms, a swimming pool and a garden. They often have a party in the garden at weekends. They li...	middle6452.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "A few" }, "options": [ "A few", "Few", "About 1500", "Many" ], "question": "How many languages are very important in the world?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, ...	There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But only a few of them are very important. English is one of them. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the USA, but also in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 people speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are ...	middle871.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "happy" }, "options": [ "interested", "happy", "sad", "sorry" ], "question": "Bob felt _ at the new school.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "ans...	Bob was happy. He was at a new school, and students there were friendly. "Hi, Bob!" some students greeted him, but some students said, "Hi, Peter!" Bob didn't understand. He asked one student. "Why do some students call me Peter?" "Oh, that's easy to answer," the students said, "Peter was a student here last year. Now ...	middle2634.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "Their schools took on a new look." }, "options": [ "The new school term began.", "Their schools took on a new look.", "They felt a little bit tired.", "They could get up later." ], "question": "What made the Sic...	A new school term begins, Is anything new at your school? Sichuan students are getting an extra hour to sleep in the morning. This year, Sichuan schools decided that students should start classes later. This should help them feel less tired, For Junior high schools, the first classes will begin no earlier than 8:30 am...	middle2152.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "future man will look different from us" }, "options": [ "man's life will be different in the future", "future man will look different from us", "man is growing taller in the future", "man is changing quickly all the tim...	What will man be like in the future --- in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, because man is slowly changing all the time. Let us take an example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. No...	middle6334.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "The pollution was from factories and coal that people burnt in their houses." }, "options": [ "The pollution came from factories.", "The pollution was from coal that people burnt in their houses.", "The pollution was from too...	London used to be "foggy"--- the "fog" was in fact smog, a _ of smoke and fog. In other words, it was caused by air pollution. In London, some of this pollution came from factories, but a lot of it came from the coal that people burnt in their houses to keep warm during the winter. By the 1950s, London's smog problem h...	middle6320.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "At school." }, "options": [ "On the beach.", "At the hospital.", "At school.", "At home." ], "question": "Where was the writer when she learned her mother was very ill?", "question_type": "factiod_questions"...	On February 14th,2000,my class went on a field trip to the beach. I had so much fun. When we returned to school,my teacher told me to go to the headmaster's office. When I got into the office,I saw a police officer. Suddenly I realized something was wrong. The police officer told me what had happened and we went to pic...	middle2146.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "have a rest" }, "options": [ "have a rest", "learn languages", "look for interesting jobs", "visit musuems" ], "question": "Mr. Smith goes out to _ when it's summer or winter holidays.", "question_type":...	Mr. Smith teaches English in a university . He is often busy with his work. When summer or winter holidays come, he often goes out to take vacations to relax. Usually he goes to France because he thinks it's an interesting country. And he can speak French very well. But last month he said to his wife, " I'm not visitin...	middle5629.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "A pupil" }, "options": [ "A write", "A reporter", "A pupil", "A student" ], "question": "What did the writer do in the passage ?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, ...	I can still remember my first day at school. I was only 6 years old at that time. It was a very big room. I sat at the desk near the window, but I couldn't see anything because the windows were too high. There was a big map of the world on the wall. But I don't think I was worried or unhappy at that time. There was ano...	middle3258.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "like" }, "options": [ "like", "dislike", "leave", "ask about" ], "question": "Mr and Mrs Green _ the country very much, because it is a quiet, clean place.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { ...	Mr and Mrs Green live in a big city , and one summer they go to the country for their holiday. They enjoy it very much, because it is a quiet , clean place. One day,they are going for a walk in the morning and they meet an old man. He lives on a farm and he is sitting in the warm sun in front of his house. Mr Gre...	middle4251.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "Texting" }, "options": [ "Writing letters", "Texting", "Making telephone calls", "Making appointments" ], "question": "Which is the most common way of communication among young students today?", "question_ty...	Now more and more people communicate by sending messages with mobile phones, sending e-mails or even chatting on line. How about our pen, pencil or paper? Which one do you think is easier and more convenient, handwriting or texting ? Today, texting is the most common way of communication, even among young students. P...	middle2620.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Because she doesn't clean the house." }, "options": [ "Because she doesn't study hard.", "Because she isn't good at English.", "Because she doesn't clean the house.", "Because she doesn't finish her homework." ], ...	Dear Mum: Today I'm going to tell you something really special. I know you work very hard and feel tired every day. Every time you come home and see the messy house. I know you are very angry with me. But you always say nothing and clean up the house .I always want to help you, but I have so much homework to do. After...	middle1329.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Four." }, "options": [ "Two", "Three", "Four.", "Five" ], "question": "How many pieces of advice about traveling are mentioned in the passage?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_...	Do you like traveling? How can you make your trip interesting? Here's some advice. Read! Before you leave, you should find some information about the place, such as its geography, history and people. You can introduce that place better by reading. Take photos! If you want to take some photos, remember to choose the mos...	middle7980.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "People fear the terrible weather" }, "options": [ "The farmer is unkind", "People fear the terrible weather", "It is too far from the city", "The work is too hard" ], "question": "Nearly nobody came to the farme...	Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for hired hands but never made it because most people were afraid of the awful storms. Finally, a short, thin man, approached the farmer. "Are you a good farmhand?" the farmer asked him. "Well, I can sleep when the wind blows," answere...	middle6446.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "The Spring Festival" }, "options": [ "Mid-autumn Day", "The Spring Festival", "Children's Day", "Teachers' Day" ], "question": "is the most important festival in China?", "question_type": "factiod_questions"...	Every year there is the Spring Festival in China. Usually it is in January or February . It is the most important festival in China. So before it comes, everyone has to prepare things. They buy pork, beef, chicken, fruit and many other things. And they often make a special kind of food called "dumplings". It means "co...	middle25.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "David" }, "options": [ "A doctor", "A student", "David", "Peter" ], "question": "_ comes to the town to see his friend.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1,...	David comes from the train station and he doesn't know where to go. This is the first time he comes to this town. He comes to see his good friend, Peter. Peter is a doctor. He works in a hospital. But David doesn't know where the hospital is. He walks in the street. He passes a bank, a post office, a hotel and at last ...	middle865.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Three" }, "options": [ "One", "Two", "Three", "Four" ], "question": "How many kind of music are mentioned in the passage?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "an...	When we talk about music, we can think of different kinds of it. Some people like pop music very much, but it often comes and goes so quickly. It shows our deep feelings of love, hate, joy and sadness in daily life, so it is quite popular among young people. However, classical music is not so lucky among young people t...	middle3516.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "56." }, "options": [ "56.", "50.", "39.", "37." ], "question": "How long has the People's Action Party (PAP) ruled Singapore?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_ind...	Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore, died on Monday, March 23, 2015, at the age of 91, according to a statement released by the Prime Minister's Office. Lee, a Cambridge-educated lawyer, is widely credited with building Singapore into one of the world's wealthiest nations. He co-founded the People's Actio...	middle5167.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Five" }, "options": [ "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six" ], "question": "How many people are there in Liu Hong's family?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, ...	Liu Hong is from China. She is a nice girl. Her eyes are big and her mouth is small. She has a big family . Her father is Liu Jie. And her mother's name is Deng Hua. They are very nice. Liu Hong has a sister and brother(,). Her sister is Liu Hui, and her brother is Liu Bin. Liu Hui has long hair and a round face. Bu...	middle2608.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "doctor" }, "options": [ "teacher", "policeman", "doctor", "gatekeeper" ], "question": "Mr Johnson is a _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "ans...	Mr. Johnson worked in a hospital. Three years ago, when he was sixty-eight, he retired. But a lot of people come to ask him to look them over. He's very busy in the daytime and he wants to have a good rest at night. Half a year ago a young man moved in the room upstairs. At first he was quiet. The old man was satisfied...	middle695.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "Her family." }, "options": [ "Two brothers.", "Her family.", "Her parents.", "Father and mother." ], "question": "Who does Alice live with?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { ...	Alice Brown lives in New York with her mum and dad and two brothers,Tony and Peter.It is Alice's fourteen birthday next week.The family has got two dogs,a cat and four rabbits.Alice likes cats and rabbits but her brothers like dogs.Alice's dad works in a hotel.He's a hotel manager.Her mum teaches English at a middle sc...	middle7016.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "His mother." }, "options": [ "His father.", "His mother.", "His teacher.", "His parents." ], "question": "Who gives Steven money every week?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { ...	Steven is six years old. He gets some money from his mother every week. He buys a lot of things from the shops, but he doesn't really need them, and he puts them everywhere. One day his mother gives him a notebook and says, "Now, Steven, when you buy things, write their names down in the notebook, and also write down h...	middle6308.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "To accept the responsibility to look after her baby." }, "options": [ "To bring her high school life to an end.", "To accept the responsibility to look after her baby.", "To stop the chatting with Adam.", "To end the re...	Parents are a child's first teachers. But some parents never learned from good examples. In New York City, Covenant House tries to help homeless young mothers become good parents. The twelve or so teenagers who live at the shelter attend parenting classes four days a week. The class is called Mommy and Me. Teacher Delo...	middle1467.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "a stamp" }, "options": [ "an address", "a message", "a word", "a stamp" ], "question": "With an e-mail you can send a letter without putting _ on it.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "an...	Are you able to send a letter with pictures and sounds to someone, anywhere in the world without putting a stamp on it? With an e-mail you can just do that. Using computers you can send e-mails quickly and easily. The post is much slower than email. E-mail can send its messages to the other side of the world in seconds...	middle5615.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "They have their own hopes and dreams for China." }, "options": [ "They receive higher education in their native country.", "They receive education of all levels in California.", "They have their own hopes and dreams for China...	Recently, China Dream has been the subject of a public topic. Although it is quite common for Chinese people to dream of a developed China, most people also have their own dreams. I interviewed several young Chinese students with higher US educational backgrounds. They all had their own dreams for their native country....	middle3264.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "in the school" }, "options": [ "in the school", "at home", "in a boat", "on the hill" ], "question": "The children are _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index...	It's six forty in the morning. The children are coming into the classroom. A girl is opening the windows. Some are laughing and talking. Some are listening to them. Some are reading books. Some are doing their homework. Miss Lin is standing behind the teacher's desk. She is writing on the blackboard. Sue and Anna are w...	middle7002.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "help with homework" }, "options": [ "buy things", "play games", "help with homework", "read news" ], "question": "According to the passage, it's a new use for students to _ on the Internet.", "question_t...	What can you do on the Internet? Many of us like to read the news, buy things and play games. Some students now have a new use for the Internet - helping them with their homework. Tina, 14, from Shenzhen, Guangdong, often searches online for the answers to her math problems. She said sometimes she and even her parent...	middle1473.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "an e-mail" }, "options": [ "a message", "an ad", "an e-mail", "story" ], "question": "This is _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text"...	Dear Zhang Qian, Thanks for your letter. You want to know about my favorite sport and instrument . Now let me tell you. I like swimming very much, and I like volleyball, basketball, and ping-pang, too. Swimming is my favorite sport. I am good at playing the guitar and the violin, too. My favorite instrument is the viol...	middle1315.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "It is dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer." }, "options": [ "It has clean rivers, lakes and green forests.", "It is like a beautiful girl.", "It is more beautiful and richer.", "It is dirtier and dirtier, poorer and ...	People often say that the earth is like our mother. She gives life to all the living things on the earth and provides us with air, food, water and other essential things we need for living. Once she was beautiful and rich, but now she becomes dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer. It is due to what we have done to her...	middle19.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Different." }, "options": [ "Dull .", "Funny.", "Different.", "Bad." ], "question": "Which word can describe the life in 2050?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, ...	Scientists say life will be very different in 2050. First,there will be no TV channels in 2050.People will choose a program from a computer and watch it on TV.In 2050,we will get information from the computers only. Second,water will be a big problem in 2050.In many places,people won't have water to drink. Third,cars w...	middle7764.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "She believed she could cross the desert." }, "options": [ "She thought she couldn't cross the desert.", "She believed she could cross the desert.", "She thought she knew well about the desert.", "She started to worry ab...	A little stream ran down from a high mountain through many villages and forests. Then it reached a desert,"I went through so many difficulties. I should have no problem crossing the desert,"she thought. As she started, she found herself slowly disappearing into the sand. After many tries, she still failed. At this ti...	middle5173.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "in a shop window" }, "options": [ "at a bus stop", "in her factory", "in a shop window", "at her friend's home" ], "question": "Mr Hunt sees a nice dress _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { ...	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 yuan." "Two hundred and sixty yuan for a dress ?That's too much !" But every evening when she comes back , Mrs H...	middle5198.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "a tiger" }, "options": [ "a wolf", "a tiger", "a bear", "an elephant" ], "question": "Shere Kham is _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer...	In the bushes of Northern Africa, a baby lies warm and safe in a cave . He lies among baby wolves , next to Mother Wolf, and he is not afraid. Outside the cave, Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, shouts angrily, wanting to kill. "No!" says Mother Wolf. "He belongs to me. He will live to run with the other wolves and be ...	middle7957.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "students who studied geography seldom went out of the school building" }, "options": [ "about 10% of British schools didn't organize field trips regularly", "many British students were not interested in geography", "some geog...	"Children need more geography field trips. Schools should organize geography field trips to stop pupils from sitting before computer screens for a long time. And children should be encouraged to see the natural world and study geography," says Michael Palin. The famous actor and writer, Michael Palin, made the comments...	middle6491.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "quite different from" }, "options": [ "quite different from", "the same as", "more difficult than", "easier than" ], "question": "According to the writer ,textbook English is _ everyday English .", "quest...	You want to know about my staying in America ,right ? Well ,to tell you the truth ,it is really an eye-opening experience to study here . In China ,I had English classes five times a week since fifth grade .However ,I didn't know how different textbook English could be from everyday English until I came to Hotchkiss Sc...	middle5826.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "Three." }, "options": [ "Two.", "Three.", "Four.", "Five." ], "question": "How many steps should you pay attention to when you give first aid?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { ...	What would you do if you had an accident in your daily life? It is important for you to get some knowledge about first aid in your daily life. If a person has an accident, he / she needs medical care before a doctor can be found. When you give first aid, you must know three things: First, when a person stops breathing ...	middle2191.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "nice and clean" }, "options": [ "not nice", "not clean", "nice and clean", "not clean or nice" ], "question": ".Linda's room is _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "an...	This is Linda's room. It's a nice room. It's very clean . I can see a brown bed. A photo of a boy is on the wall . Can you see a brown desk? Yes, it's in the room, on the left . A green chair is on the floor. Some books and blue pens are on the desk. Linda's lamp is on the desk, too. It's a pink lamp. Where is Linda? ...	middle5832.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "travelling through the woods" }, "options": [ "holding a meeting", "taking exercise", "travelling through the woods", "sleeping in the woods" ], "question": "Nick and Jack fell into a pit when they were _ .",...	A group of frogs were travelling through the woods. Two of them, Nick and Jack, fell into a deep pit . All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told Nick and Jack that they were as good as dead. Nick and Jack ignored what the other frogs said and tried to jump up out of the...	middle2185.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "Cheap and good." }, "options": [ "Cheap and good.", "Cheap but bad.", "Expensive and bad.", "Expensive but good." ], "question": "How was the food in White Rose Restaurant?", "question_type": "factiod_questi...	The food in White Rose Restaurant was cheap and good, but nobody seemed to want to eat there. There were very few people going to eat there. The owner was very worried about it. Then he thought of a good idea. A few weeks later, his restaurant was always full of men and their girlfriends. Whenever a gentleman came wit...	middle7943.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Climbed the mountains" }, "options": [ "Rode camels", "Sold vegetables", "Climbed the mountains", "Fished on the east coast" ], "question": "According to the passage, what didn't the fathers and their children d...	Since last year, Where Are We Going, Dad? has become one of the most popular TV shows. On the show, the five fathers and their children traveled around China, riding camels through the western desserts , fishing on the east coast, and selling vegetables for their bus fare( )home in southwestern Yunnan Province. One dad...	middle6485.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "cooking" }, "options": [ "cleaning", "reading newspapers", "dealing with math problems", "cooking" ], "question": "The robot can do many things EXCEPT _ for the inventor.", "question_type": "cloze_questi...	An inventor has created his perfect girlfriend,a robot who can do the cleaning,remember his favorite drink and read the newspaper to him. Le Trung,33,has spent 14000 dollars creating the robot.He made the robot look like a woman in her twenties with shiny hair and blue eyes. She can speak English and Japanese and she i...	middle4292.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "She hurt her neighbor deeply." }, "options": [ "She didn't know the story.", "She hurt her neighbor deeply.", "She was hurt deeply.", "She was told an untrue story." ], "question": "Why did the the woman feel so...	A woman repeated a bit of gossip about a neighbor. Within a few days, the whole village knew the story. The person she talked about was deeply hurt and angry. Later, the woman spreading the rumor learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise man to find out what she could do to repair t...	middle656.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "Four." }, "options": [ "Two.", "Three.", "One.", "Four." ], "question": "How many seasons are there in most parts of the world?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_i...	In most parts of the world there are four seasons. They are spring, summer, fall and winter. In different seasons people wear different clothes and do different things. For example, in summer the weather is hot, so people usually wear cool clothes and do things like swimming, boating or surfing . But near the polar reg...	middle2813.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "What to eat" }, "options": [ "What to eat", "What to wear", "What to learn", "What to obey" ], "question": "_", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "ans...	There are over 800 boarding schools in the UK. Children of 7 to 18 can go to boarding schools. _ In the UK, boarding schools have three terms in a school year, each student has his or her subject plan. Besides the usual classrooms and laboratories, the boarding schools also have music rooms, boats, swimming pools,...	middle130.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "A, B and C" }, "options": [ "Hold your head up.", "Smile.", "Be kind.", "A, B and C" ], "question": "How can we feel great about ourselves according to the writer?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" },...	These days,more and more young people wish to be more beautiful,So they turn to plastic surgery for help.They spend thousands of yuan on these painful surgeries to fix their nose,to change their eyelids or to take off weight from their stomachs. In fact,most people are not pleased with the way they look.Even the most b...	middle2807.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Three" }, "options": [ "One", "Two", "Three", "Four" ], "question": "How many kinds of animals can we find in the passage?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "ans...	What will the weather be like? Some people say they can know what the weather will be like from birds. When they see birds fly high out to the sea, they know it is a nice day, because birds don't like to fly out if it rains. When the weather is bad, the birds will come back to the beach. A big wind may come with a rain...	middle642.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "stop wasting food" }, "options": [ "do volunteer work", "work part time in restaurants", "stop wasting food", "wash their plates after dinner" ], "question": "The Clean Your Plate Campaign calls on people to _...	Qi Haoran, a Junior 1 student at High School Attached to Harbin Institute of Technology, was quite busy over the past winter vacation--and not just with homework. Qi, together with 10 other classmates made a volunteer group to call on people to join the Clean Your Plate Campaign . The 11 students went to many restaura...	middle1659.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "colorful" }, "options": [ "black", "yellow", "white", "colorful" ], "question": "According to Dr. Frank, _ school buses are safer for the students.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer...	In the USA, about 450,000 school buses take more than 25 million children to and from school. The yellow school bus is a US icon . Yellow became the color of school buses in the USA in 1939. Dr. Frank got the good idea. He said it was easy for people to see yellow buses and the black letters on them in early morning o...	middle6136.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "a TV program" }, "options": [ "a magazine", "a newspaper", "a film", "a TV program" ], "question": "A Bite of China is _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index...	A Bite of China Are you an eating-lover? Do you want to eat every delicious food in the world? Then do you watch the popular program A Bite of China? It's a TV program on Chinese delicious food which has been produced by CCTV. Is there any holiday that isn't celebrated with special festival food? Here are several tradi...	middle7228.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "the air gets thinner when they go up higher" }, "options": [ "there is air around the world", "the air gets thinner when they go up higher", "it's warmer in the sky", "the air gets thicker when they go up higher" ],...	What is the sky? Where is it? How bright is it? What lies above it? These questions are difficult to answer, aren't they? Is the sky blue? The sky has no color. We know that there is air around the world. When planes fly, they need air to lift their wings. Planes can't fly very high because the air gets thinner when th...	middle1881.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "It is the year of the goat." }, "options": [ "It is the year of the goat.", "It is the year of the hare.", "It is the year of the rat.", "It is the year of the ox." ], "question": "If next year is the year of th...	Modern Chinese use the solar calendar as English people do . But at the same time, they use their own lunar calendar. Each lunar year is given the name of one of these animals : the rat , the ox , the tiger , the hare , the dragon , the snake , the horse , the goat , the monkey , the chicken , the dog and the pig . Thi...	middle4721.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "liked talking" }, "options": [ "was hard-working", "was shy", "kept silent", "liked talking" ], "question": "Simon _ before last Sunday.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { ...	Simon hardly listened to his teachers or worked hard in class. For him, talking was so much better. He never stopped talking. He wanted to be heard. "If you listen carefully, you'll learn something." Mrs. Jacobs told him many times, but it didn't work. Last Sunday, Simon had a sore throat and he lost his voice the ne...	middle2350.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "was in a plane for her first time" }, "options": [ "had been in a plane before", "was in a plane for her first time", "didn't like to travel on a train", "enjoyed keeping a blanket over her head" ], "question": ...	An old lady in a plane had a blanket over her head and she did not want to take it off. The air hostess spoke to her, but the old lady said, "I have never been in a plane before, and I am frightened. I am going to keep this blanket over my head until we are back on the ground again!" Then the captain came. He said, "Ma...	middle5359.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "A pet food tester." }, "options": [ "A paint watcher", "A water slide tester.", "A pet food tester.", "A teddy bear repair engineer" ], "question": "What is Mark Gooley's job?", "question_type": "factiod_que...	The Most Unusual Jobs Pet Food Tester . Yes, it's a thing and yes it's totally gross . But Mark Gooley ---the owner of a pet food company, eats dog food for a living. He eats everything from doggie treats and chewy bones to liver mixture. Teddy Bear repair Engineer When your favorite toy loses an arm, or suffers a b...	middle4047.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "4" }, "options": [ "2", "3", "4", "5" ], "question": "How many fun places are talked about?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "At P...	Fun places to visit in Singapore Jurong Bird Park At Jurong Bird Park you can see more than 5,000 birds and even feed some of them by hand! If feeding birds makes you hungry, you can join the park's parrots for lunch. PulauUbin Take a small boat into Singapore's past.A 10-minute ride will take you to this island.The li...	middle6888.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "their cost of living has gone up a lot, too" }, "options": [ "the middlemen have had the biggest share of profit", "the cost of their products have risen sharply too", "their cost of living has gone up a lot, too", "the...	Many Chinese people who have been to the United States think that Americans pay a little part of their money for food each day. Yet, in the latest 13 years, food prices have gone up 30% for most American families. Everyone agrees that _ . But who is really responsible ? Many people say the farmers who produce the veget...	middle6650.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "Mars" }, "options": [ "Los Angeles", "Mars", "the moon", "America" ], "question": "A rich man plans to live on _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, ...	Do you like traveling? Have you traveled to Los Angeles? Have you traveled to the moon? A rich man plans to live on Mars. Is it the beginning of a science fiction novel? In fact, it happens in the real world. Elon Musk is the founder and CEO of a private spaceflight company. He has said his plan is to live on the plan...	middle6644.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "Because he felt that his job was always the same." }, "options": [ "Because the weather changed each day.", "Because he did not want to work for a small television station.", "Because he did not like to stand in front of the ...	Bob Harris was a weatherman at a small television station. He worked for twenty years and during those twenty years, he felt that his life was boring. Every day, he studied the weather and tried to predict the next day's weather. Then, he stood in front of the camera and read his report. Some days it was cloudy, some d...	middle2422.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "The teenage smoking has become a serious problem in China." }, "options": [ "The teenagers think smoking is a symbol of being an adult and maturity.", "The social environment encourages the teenagers to smoke.", "The teenager...	Wang Bing's father began smoking when he was in college. His friend passed him his first cigarette . He has now been smoking for more than 30 years. It's an example of how young people are introduced to cigarettes,except that nowadays smokers develop their habit at an even younger age. It has become a main worry in Chi...	middle4053.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "Playing chess." }, "options": [ "Playing chess.", "Speaking French.", "Swimming.", "Dancing." ], "question": "What can Mr Chen teach you?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { ...	Swimmers Wanted Can you swim? Do you like kids? Can you help them with swimming on weekends? Come and join us. Call Jane at 330-8976 for more information . Chess Club Do you like to play chess? Mr Chen can teach you. You can come here every Friday afternoon. Tel: 623-1940 Add: Room 102 in School's P.E. Building Let's L...	middle2344.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Caffeine and Health" }, "options": [ "Coffee Is Harmful", "Coffee and Tea", "Caffeine and Health", "Caffeine Is Useful" ], "question": "A good title for this passage is _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questi...	Coffee has been a part of people's lives for thousands of years, and today it is still one of the favorite drinks in the world. Many people in the world begin their busy day by drinking a cup of or several cups of coffee. They have always said that a cup of coffee in the morning helps them begin their day in the right ...	middle1895.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "it is made of salt." }, "options": [ "it has long history.", "the price of the rooms is high.", "the guests are special.", "it is made of salt." ], "question": "The Salt Palace Hotel is unusual because _ .", ...	There are many unusual hotels around the world. In Greenland , there is a hotel made of ice, open between December and April every year. In Turkey , there is a cave hotel with a television, furniture, and a bathroom in each room. And in Bolivia , there is a hotel named the Salt Palace Hotel. Thousands of years ago, th...	middle3072.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "He earns a high payment" }, "options": [ "He has got a job.", "He lives at home with his parents", "He does not get out much.", "He earns a high payment" ], "question": "why is David so different from other youn...	Computer programmer David Jones earned $ 150,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a check card . Instead, he has been told to wait another two years until he is 18. He works for a small firm in Liverpool, where most young people of his age are finding jobs. David's...	middle5403.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "6" }, "options": [ "3", "4", "5", "6" ], "question": "According to the passage, how many things are included in the vegetables and fruit?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index"...	The advantages of Eating Fruits & Vegetables Vegetables and fruit are good for your health because of a lot of vitamins, nutrients and fiber in them. Fruits and vegetables are regarded as a healthy diet without adding chemicals or additives for carrying or storing foods. The United States Department of Agriculture su...	middle1665.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "to see her son" }, "options": [ "to learn English", "to have supper", "to see her son", "to buy a cock" ], "question": "The woman goes to London _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "a...	A French woman goes to London to see her son. She knows a little English,but cannot speak it very well. One day she goes to a shop. She wants to buy a hen ( ) for supper. But she cannot remember ( ) the English word for" hen" . Just then the shop waiter asks her, "Can I help you?" " I want the egg's mother" the woman a...	middle8127.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "Ten." }, "options": [ "Nine.", "Ten.", "Eleven.", "Twelve." ], "question": "How many times do people in American change their jobs during their lives?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "ans...	In America, people change jobs ten times during their lives. They change their homes eleven times. Americans like change because they think it _ their lives. In China, some people, of course, don't like change. They want life to be predictable . They want to do the same things every day and to see the same people every...	middle7214.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "Tara is planning to do more to help homclcss people." }, "options": [ "Tara celebrated her daughter's 8th birthday at home.", "The children felt too cold to hand out clothes.", "No one took away the clothes on the light polcs...	CBC Canada , CTV News A group of Canadian kids are spreading a bit of Christmas spirit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, by covering warm clothes around light poles for the city's homeless people to pick up and use. _ was such an unusual sight that locals stopped to take pictures to share on social media . Every year, Tara ...	middle7572.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 Year Four. Every evening we get into homework battles . Three afternoons a week, she has activities(netball, singing) after school and by the time we get home early, we argue about whether she should do her homework right after school, or if she should have some time to rest and...	middle1103.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "six" }, "options": [ "seven", "six", "five", "eight" ], "question": "Frank has _ friends in the picture.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answe...	Dear Peter, My name is Frank. I am from America. Here is a picture of my friends. We are in the same grade. Look at the picture, in the middle, you can see my friend Jimmy. He likes all the sports. He likes to eat apples and French fries. You can see Helen in the picture, too. Helen likes math. Her favorite food is mea...	middle497.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "light;heavy fur" }, "options": [ "silk;linen", "light;heavy fur", "wool;cotton", "wool;silk" ], "question": "In the north central states,people wear _ clothes in summer and _ clothes during the winter.", ...	The United States has many different kinds of climate .On the west coast ,the temperature changes very little between summer and winter,but the north central states have a very different kind of climate.In these states,people wear light clothes during the summer,and they need heavy wool or fur clothes in winter. In the...	middle5365.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Because they try to find a better way" }, "options": [ "Because of their hard work", "Because of different education", "Because they try to find a better way", "Because they study for a much longer time" ], "que...	Maybe you have seen this in schools: some students are studying hard all the time but they just pass their exams, while some others may spend much less time on their books but do much better in exams. How could this happen? People used to think that hard-work is the only way to success. But now they have understood tha...	middle3714.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "sadly" }, "options": [ "slowly", "sadly", "quickly", "early" ], "question": "Tom got back home _ when the sun was dropping.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index...	It was nearly dark, the sun was dropping down the mountains far away. Little Tom came back home, with tears in his eyes. "What's the matter, Tom? How's your trip?" his mother asked with a big smile. "I failed. The mountain is so high and full of big or small stones on the way, I still go ahead. But I was tired and it w...	middle5371.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "brothers" }, "options": [ "sisters", "brother", "brother and sister", "brothers" ], "question": "This is a picture of the twin _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answ...	This is a picture of the twin brothers Li Lei and Li Ping's bedroom. It's not big, but it's very bright. It's a nice room. In the bedroom, we can see two beds, two chairs, two desks, a table and a cat. The two beds look the same. On the wall, there are some pictures of their family. Li Lei's green coat is on his bed, b...	middle3700.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "For thirty minutes" }, "options": [ "For forty minutes", "For one hour", "For thirty minutes", "For one hour and a half" ], "question": "How long does Tony sometimes play basketball ?", "question_type": "fac...	Hi ! I'm Tony .I don't like to get up early .In the morning ,I get up at eight . Then I go to school at eight thirty . I don't have much time for breakfast , so I usually eat very quickly .For lunch ,I usually eat hamburgers .After school ,I sometimes play basketball for half an hour .When I get home ,I always do my ho...	middle6678.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "he was a successful leader" }, "options": [ "he was very ugly", "he was very handsome", "he was a successful leader", "he was tall and strong" ], "question": "Abraham Lincoln was famous because _ .", "que...	Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, was not very handsome, and he knew he was not. One day, Lincoln was walking on the road when he was stopped by an ugly man .The man had a gun in his hand. He took aim at Lincoln's nose. Lincoln was very surprised, but he pretended not to be afraid. He asked the man, "...	middle483.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "he has to know all the places in the city and serve all kinds of passengers at all the time" }, "options": [ "he has to know all the places in the city and serve all kinds of passengers at all the time", "there is much traffic in L...	Driving a car at a high speed along a highway seems to be fun. You need only to follow the bright traffic signs beside the highways and it will take you to where you wish. But to a London taxi driver, driving is not an easy job. A taxi driver has to have not only skills but also a good knowledge of the city of London, ...	middle1117.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "A company." }, "options": [ "A company.", "A TV station.", "A scientist.", "An American." ], "question": "What is \"Splash Data\"?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { "answe...	We use passwords to keep our personal information secret and safe, but some passwords we use may not be as reliable as we think. Splash Data, a computer security company, recently released a list of the 25 worst passwords of 2011.This list is based on the research of _ files containing stolen passwords. According to th...	middle1671.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "It's sunny and hot." }, "options": [ "It's sunny but cold.", "It's windy and cool.", "It's sunny and hot.", "It's windy but warm." ], "question": "What's the weather like?", "question_type": null }, { ...	I am sitting on a beach on this hot summer day and watching two children,a boy and a girl,playing in the sand.They are working hard at building a sandcastle .Just when they are successful, a big wave comes along and puts it down. I think the children may cry because all their hard work turns to nothing, but they surpr...	middle8133.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "rents an iPad to use at school for three years" }, "options": [ "plays games on iPads in each class", "shares an iPad with their classmates in class", "gets a free iPad from the teacher", "rents an iPad to use at school...	When the bell rings, every student takes out an iPad. The light from the screens makes their young faces pretty and lively. That's what happens every day at my school in the US. We use iPads in class. I felt surprised and excited when I got an iPad the first day I arrived at the school. But it was not free. I spent abo...	middle7200.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "very angry" }, "options": [ "very happy", "very sad", "very angry", "very excited" ], "question": "The writer's father was _ when he saw the handwriting in chalk on the step.", "question_type": "cloze_qu...	I stood there listening to my father shout at top of his voice. The look on his face said that one of us had done something wrong. "Which one of you did this?" We all looked down at the step. There was child's handwriting in chalk there. I was very frightened. I hope no one could see it. Would he guess it was me? I was...	middle3066.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "buying homework answers through the Internet" }, "options": [ "copying their classmates' homework", "doing their homework by themselves every day", "doing nothing at all", "buying homework answers through the Internet" ...	For many years, the school students have to finish some homework during their winter and summer holidays. But with the fast development of the Internet, some students have found a new way to deal with their homework recently. Instead of finishing their homework by themselves, they ask the Internet for help. Since most ...	middle4709.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "the USA" }, "options": [ "England", "Australia", "Canada", "the USA" ], "question": "Kelly Brown is a 13-year-old student from _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answ...	What do American middle school students like to be in the future? Some students say they want to be doctors or singers. Some want to be bank clerks or office workers. But Kelly Brown, 13, wants to be a *vegetarian chef. It is a new and interesting job. Kelly Brown wants be a chef because she doesn't eat things from ani...	middle5417.txt
[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "largest" }, "options": [ "youngest", "largest", "coldest", "hottest" ], "question": "Sydney is the _ city in Australia.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 3...	Sydney is a young city. Its history goes back just over 200 years. But in Australia, it is the oldest city. It is also the country' s largest city. Sydney is the capital of New South Wales and the most popular city of Australia. The climate of Sydney is very good. It' s not too cold during the winter and not too hot du...	middle2378.txt

[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "you may eat well without paying too much" }, "options": [ "the British aren't interested in traveling to other countries.", "workers usually have their holidays in spring", "you may eat well without paying too much", "h...

In England,factory holidays come mostly in the period between mid-July and mid-August. State schools usually only have six weeks off, from about mid-July to the end of August. The coast is the most popular place for the English people to spend their holidays, but there are few seaside hotels. Food in British hotels and...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "after school hours" }, "options": [ "before school hours", "during school hours", "after school hours", "during her holidays" ], "question": "She spends a lot of time on her hobby _ .", "question_type": "...

Swee Lin has an interesting hobby . She collects stamps. She spends a lot of time on her stamp collection after school hours. She has collected hundreds of stamps from all over the world. They are all in color. Swee Lin likes stamps with pictures of animals and birds on them. In this way, she learns the names of many ...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "Four" }, "options": [ "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven" ], "question": "How many pieces of advice does the passage give us? _", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index"...

If you think you're too shy and want to be a little brave, try the followings: You can make it. Tell people you're shy. There's no need to hide it. When they get to know you're a shy kid, they'll understand you better. This also helps you feel more _ in talks. Try to smile more. When you smile, people think you are fri...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "Six hours." }, "options": [ "Three hours.", "Four hours.", "Five hours.", "Six hours." ], "question": "How many hours for lessons are there in my ideal school?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, {...

I like to get up late, so my ideal school starts at 9: 00 a. m. It finishes at 3: 00 p. m. So we can do lots of sports after school. In my ideal school, there is a big dining hall. We have an hour for lunch. We can listen to music in the hall. We can have maths every day because I think maths is very interesting. The c...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "American" }, "options": [ "American", "Chinese", "English", "Japanese" ], "question": "Jim is _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text"...

Hello! My name is Jim. I'm from the US. Now I am in China with my father and mother. I like China. I like Chinese food, too. I have breakfast at home. I eat an egg, bread and porridge in the morning. I don't like milk. I have no time to go home for lunch. So I have it at school. The lunch in our school is very good. I ...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "some school children could not read" }, "options": [ "some school children could not read", "many children's books were interesting", "children wanted to learn to read", "a writer for children was wanted" ], "qu...

Doctor Seuss was born in 1904. By the middle 1950s, he had become one of the best-loved and most successful children's book writers in the world. His books are very popular with young readers. They enjoy the invented words and the pictures of unusual funny animals and plants. In 1954, life magazine published a report a...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "AI:a Friend or an Enemy?" }, "options": [ "AI:a Friend or an Enemy?", "The Development of AI", "The Future of Human Beings", "The Fight between Humans and AI" ], "question": "The best title for this passage may ...

We often praise the world of science. It explains the world and makes our lives easier with technology. One of the most exciting fields in science is artificial intelligence ( AI). This is an area where scientists are working on making machines that think like humans. However, Professor Stephen Hawking, a well-known Br...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "lazy" }, "options": [ "busy", "lazy", "stupid", "careful" ], "question": "About 40% passwords are easily stolen because the users are _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { ...

Better think twice before choosing a _ for email, online bank or shopping. Simple passwords are easy to be stolen. A password is like a key to your home. If someone steals it, he'll get chances to steal something else. We use passwords everywhere in our life. We are so used to passwords that we don't pay any attention ...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "Because he is funny." }, "options": [ "Because he studies well.", "Because he looks good.", "Because he can play many instruments.", "Because he is funny." ], "question": "Why does everyone like Tom very much?",...

My friend Tom is a schoolboy. Everyone likes him very much because he is funny. He can play many instruments. When he is with his friends, he often plays for them. Today is October 8th. It's Tom's birthday. He has a big and interesting party at home. Many friends come to his party. Tom's mother cooks a lot of food fo...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "soil" }, "options": [ "animal", "plant", "meat", "soil" ], "question": "From the text, we know people live on _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, ...

All our food comes from the soil . Some of us eat meat, but animals live on plants. If there are no plants, we will have no animals and meat. So the soil is necessary for us to live. The top of ground is usually covered with grass or other plants. Plants grow in soil, which has a dark color. This dark soil is humus. De...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "the writer's window was dirty" }, "options": [ "the woman's window was dirty", "the writer's window was dirty", "the woman lived far away", "the writer was near-sighted" ], "question": "The writer couldn't see a...

Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next to ours was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there and whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing and reading. After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window w...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "his schoolmates" }, "options": [ "his schoolmates", "his parents", "his teachers", "his brothers" ], "question": "Steven Jobs always got into trouble with _ in school.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" ...

Steven Jobs, the CEO of Apple, was not a good student when he was in school. At that time, he always got into trouble with his schoolmates. When he went to college, he didn't change a lot. Then he dropped out . But he was full of new ideas. After that, Steven Jobs worked as a video game designer in a company. He worked...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "more people would hear his voice" }, "options": [ "children were losing their childhoods", "he didn't have to take extra classes", "more people would hear his voice", "he could enter key middle school" ], "quest...

"Dear Grandpa Guo, we are losing our childhoods! Please help us!" Guo Chuanjie, a famous scientist, received a letter from a Beijing primary school student. The student said that many Chinese kids have to take extra classes on weekends in order to enter key middle schools. The kid hoped more people would hear his voice...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "Australia" }, "options": [ "England", "Iran", "India", "Australia" ], "question": "Tony Wheeler and his wife ended the year-long trip in _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { ...

Tony Wheeler was born to travel. His father worked for an airline. For the first 16 years of his life, Wheeler and his family lived in many different countries. In the early 1970s,Tony met a young woman named Maureen. They soon married. Before getting jobs, Tony and Maureen wanted to travel. They took a year long trip ...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "Stan Lee." }, "options": [ "Stan Lee.", "Marvel.", "Peter parker.", "Superman." ], "question": "Who created spiderman ?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer...

Spiderman is one of the most famous comic book heroes of all time. He was created by Stan Lee in 1963 and was first introduced to the world in the pages of Marvel Comic Books. Spiderman's story is the story of Peter Parker, a child who lost his parents and lives with his aunt and uncle. Peter is a shy, quiet boy wearin...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "good study habits" }, "options": [ "good study ways", "good study habits", "good study environment", "the homework" ], "question": "This passage tells about. _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, ...

All students need to have good study habits .When you have good study habits, you learn things quickly. You also remember them easily. Do you like to study in the living room? This is not a good place because it is usually too noisy. You need to study in a quiet place, like your bedroom. A quiet place will help you onl...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "He himself." }, "options": [ "His fans.", "His friends.", "He himself.", "His teacher." ], "question": "Who taught Justin to play the piano, drums and guitar?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { ...

Justin Bieber was nominated for the Best New Artist Grammy 2011. Both he and his fans were excited to hear the great news! Born on March 1, 1994, in Canada, Justin entered a singing contest when he was 12 and won the second place. He taught himself to play the piano, drums and guitar. In 2007 Justin posted videos of hi...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "He is 12." }, "options": [ "He is 11.", "He is 13.", "He is 12.", "He is 14." ], "question": "How old is Ivan now?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, ...

Let me tell you my pen friend Ivan. He is 12 years old. He likes playing football. He usually plays football with his friends at weekends. Ivan lives with his father and mother in a city in France. They have a home with five rooms, a swimming pool and a garden. They often have a party in the garden at weekends. They li...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "A few" }, "options": [ "A few", "Few", "About 1500", "Many" ], "question": "How many languages are very important in the world?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, ...

There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But only a few of them are very important. English is one of them. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the USA, but also in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 people speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are ...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "happy" }, "options": [ "interested", "happy", "sad", "sorry" ], "question": "Bob felt _ at the new school.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "ans...

Bob was happy. He was at a new school, and students there were friendly. "Hi, Bob!" some students greeted him, but some students said, "Hi, Peter!" Bob didn't understand. He asked one student. "Why do some students call me Peter?" "Oh, that's easy to answer," the students said, "Peter was a student here last year. Now ...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "Their schools took on a new look." }, "options": [ "The new school term began.", "Their schools took on a new look.", "They felt a little bit tired.", "They could get up later." ], "question": "What made the Sic...

A new school term begins, Is anything new at your school? Sichuan students are getting an extra hour to sleep in the morning. This year, Sichuan schools decided that students should start classes later. This should help them feel less tired, For Junior high schools, the first classes will begin no earlier than 8:30 am...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "future man will look different from us" }, "options": [ "man's life will be different in the future", "future man will look different from us", "man is growing taller in the future", "man is changing quickly all the tim...

What will man be like in the future --- in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, because man is slowly changing all the time. Let us take an example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. No...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "The pollution was from factories and coal that people burnt in their houses." }, "options": [ "The pollution came from factories.", "The pollution was from coal that people burnt in their houses.", "The pollution was from too...

London used to be "foggy"--- the "fog" was in fact smog, a _ of smoke and fog. In other words, it was caused by air pollution. In London, some of this pollution came from factories, but a lot of it came from the coal that people burnt in their houses to keep warm during the winter. By the 1950s, London's smog problem h...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "At school." }, "options": [ "On the beach.", "At the hospital.", "At school.", "At home." ], "question": "Where was the writer when she learned her mother was very ill?", "question_type": "factiod_questions"...

On February 14th,2000,my class went on a field trip to the beach. I had so much fun. When we returned to school,my teacher told me to go to the headmaster's office. When I got into the office,I saw a police officer. Suddenly I realized something was wrong. The police officer told me what had happened and we went to pic...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "have a rest" }, "options": [ "have a rest", "learn languages", "look for interesting jobs", "visit musuems" ], "question": "Mr. Smith goes out to _ when it's summer or winter holidays.", "question_type":...

Mr. Smith teaches English in a university . He is often busy with his work. When summer or winter holidays come, he often goes out to take vacations to relax. Usually he goes to France because he thinks it's an interesting country. And he can speak French very well. But last month he said to his wife, " I'm not visitin...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "A pupil" }, "options": [ "A write", "A reporter", "A pupil", "A student" ], "question": "What did the writer do in the passage ?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, ...

I can still remember my first day at school. I was only 6 years old at that time. It was a very big room. I sat at the desk near the window, but I couldn't see anything because the windows were too high. There was a big map of the world on the wall. But I don't think I was worried or unhappy at that time. There was ano...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "like" }, "options": [ "like", "dislike", "leave", "ask about" ], "question": "Mr and Mrs Green _ the country very much, because it is a quiet, clean place.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { ...

Mr and Mrs Green live in a big city , and one summer they go to the country for their holiday. They enjoy it very much, because it is a quiet , clean place. One day,they are going for a walk in the morning and they meet an old man. He lives on a farm and he is sitting in the warm sun in front of his house. Mr Gre...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "Texting" }, "options": [ "Writing letters", "Texting", "Making telephone calls", "Making appointments" ], "question": "Which is the most common way of communication among young students today?", "question_ty...

Now more and more people communicate by sending messages with mobile phones, sending e-mails or even chatting on line. How about our pen, pencil or paper? Which one do you think is easier and more convenient, handwriting or texting ? Today, texting is the most common way of communication, even among young students. P...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Because she doesn't clean the house." }, "options": [ "Because she doesn't study hard.", "Because she isn't good at English.", "Because she doesn't clean the house.", "Because she doesn't finish her homework." ], ...

Dear Mum: Today I'm going to tell you something really special. I know you work very hard and feel tired every day. Every time you come home and see the messy house. I know you are very angry with me. But you always say nothing and clean up the house .I always want to help you, but I have so much homework to do. After...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Four." }, "options": [ "Two", "Three", "Four.", "Five" ], "question": "How many pieces of advice about traveling are mentioned in the passage?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_...

Do you like traveling? How can you make your trip interesting? Here's some advice. Read! Before you leave, you should find some information about the place, such as its geography, history and people. You can introduce that place better by reading. Take photos! If you want to take some photos, remember to choose the mos...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "People fear the terrible weather" }, "options": [ "The farmer is unkind", "People fear the terrible weather", "It is too far from the city", "The work is too hard" ], "question": "Nearly nobody came to the farme...

Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for hired hands but never made it because most people were afraid of the awful storms. Finally, a short, thin man, approached the farmer. "Are you a good farmhand?" the farmer asked him. "Well, I can sleep when the wind blows," answere...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "The Spring Festival" }, "options": [ "Mid-autumn Day", "The Spring Festival", "Children's Day", "Teachers' Day" ], "question": "is the most important festival in China?", "question_type": "factiod_questions"...

Every year there is the Spring Festival in China. Usually it is in January or February . It is the most important festival in China. So before it comes, everyone has to prepare things. They buy pork, beef, chicken, fruit and many other things. And they often make a special kind of food called "dumplings". It means "co...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "David" }, "options": [ "A doctor", "A student", "David", "Peter" ], "question": "_ comes to the town to see his friend.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1,...

David comes from the train station and he doesn't know where to go. This is the first time he comes to this town. He comes to see his good friend, Peter. Peter is a doctor. He works in a hospital. But David doesn't know where the hospital is. He walks in the street. He passes a bank, a post office, a hotel and at last ...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Three" }, "options": [ "One", "Two", "Three", "Four" ], "question": "How many kind of music are mentioned in the passage?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "an...

When we talk about music, we can think of different kinds of it. Some people like pop music very much, but it often comes and goes so quickly. It shows our deep feelings of love, hate, joy and sadness in daily life, so it is quite popular among young people. However, classical music is not so lucky among young people t...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "56." }, "options": [ "56.", "50.", "39.", "37." ], "question": "How long has the People's Action Party (PAP) ruled Singapore?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_ind...

Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore, died on Monday, March 23, 2015, at the age of 91, according to a statement released by the Prime Minister's Office. Lee, a Cambridge-educated lawyer, is widely credited with building Singapore into one of the world's wealthiest nations. He co-founded the People's Actio...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Five" }, "options": [ "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six" ], "question": "How many people are there in Liu Hong's family?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, ...

Liu Hong is from China. She is a nice girl. Her eyes are big and her mouth is small. She has a big family . Her father is Liu Jie. And her mother's name is Deng Hua. They are very nice. Liu Hong has a sister and brother(,). Her sister is Liu Hui, and her brother is Liu Bin. Liu Hui has long hair and a round face. Bu...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "doctor" }, "options": [ "teacher", "policeman", "doctor", "gatekeeper" ], "question": "Mr Johnson is a _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "ans...

Mr. Johnson worked in a hospital. Three years ago, when he was sixty-eight, he retired. But a lot of people come to ask him to look them over. He's very busy in the daytime and he wants to have a good rest at night. Half a year ago a young man moved in the room upstairs. At first he was quiet. The old man was satisfied...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "Her family." }, "options": [ "Two brothers.", "Her family.", "Her parents.", "Father and mother." ], "question": "Who does Alice live with?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { ...

Alice Brown lives in New York with her mum and dad and two brothers,Tony and Peter.It is Alice's fourteen birthday next week.The family has got two dogs,a cat and four rabbits.Alice likes cats and rabbits but her brothers like dogs.Alice's dad works in a hotel.He's a hotel manager.Her mum teaches English at a middle sc...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "His mother." }, "options": [ "His father.", "His mother.", "His teacher.", "His parents." ], "question": "Who gives Steven money every week?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { ...

Steven is six years old. He gets some money from his mother every week. He buys a lot of things from the shops, but he doesn't really need them, and he puts them everywhere. One day his mother gives him a notebook and says, "Now, Steven, when you buy things, write their names down in the notebook, and also write down h...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "To accept the responsibility to look after her baby." }, "options": [ "To bring her high school life to an end.", "To accept the responsibility to look after her baby.", "To stop the chatting with Adam.", "To end the re...

Parents are a child's first teachers. But some parents never learned from good examples. In New York City, Covenant House tries to help homeless young mothers become good parents. The twelve or so teenagers who live at the shelter attend parenting classes four days a week. The class is called Mommy and Me. Teacher Delo...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "a stamp" }, "options": [ "an address", "a message", "a word", "a stamp" ], "question": "With an e-mail you can send a letter without putting _ on it.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "an...

Are you able to send a letter with pictures and sounds to someone, anywhere in the world without putting a stamp on it? With an e-mail you can just do that. Using computers you can send e-mails quickly and easily. The post is much slower than email. E-mail can send its messages to the other side of the world in seconds...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "They have their own hopes and dreams for China." }, "options": [ "They receive higher education in their native country.", "They receive education of all levels in California.", "They have their own hopes and dreams for China...

Recently, China Dream has been the subject of a public topic. Although it is quite common for Chinese people to dream of a developed China, most people also have their own dreams. I interviewed several young Chinese students with higher US educational backgrounds. They all had their own dreams for their native country....

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "in the school" }, "options": [ "in the school", "at home", "in a boat", "on the hill" ], "question": "The children are _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index...

It's six forty in the morning. The children are coming into the classroom. A girl is opening the windows. Some are laughing and talking. Some are listening to them. Some are reading books. Some are doing their homework. Miss Lin is standing behind the teacher's desk. She is writing on the blackboard. Sue and Anna are w...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "help with homework" }, "options": [ "buy things", "play games", "help with homework", "read news" ], "question": "According to the passage, it's a new use for students to _ on the Internet.", "question_t...

What can you do on the Internet? Many of us like to read the news, buy things and play games. Some students now have a new use for the Internet - helping them with their homework. Tina, 14, from Shenzhen, Guangdong, often searches online for the answers to her math problems. She said sometimes she and even her parent...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "an e-mail" }, "options": [ "a message", "an ad", "an e-mail", "story" ], "question": "This is _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text"...

Dear Zhang Qian, Thanks for your letter. You want to know about my favorite sport and instrument . Now let me tell you. I like swimming very much, and I like volleyball, basketball, and ping-pang, too. Swimming is my favorite sport. I am good at playing the guitar and the violin, too. My favorite instrument is the viol...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "It is dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer." }, "options": [ "It has clean rivers, lakes and green forests.", "It is like a beautiful girl.", "It is more beautiful and richer.", "It is dirtier and dirtier, poorer and ...

People often say that the earth is like our mother. She gives life to all the living things on the earth and provides us with air, food, water and other essential things we need for living. Once she was beautiful and rich, but now she becomes dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer. It is due to what we have done to her...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Different." }, "options": [ "Dull .", "Funny.", "Different.", "Bad." ], "question": "Which word can describe the life in 2050?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, ...

Scientists say life will be very different in 2050. First,there will be no TV channels in 2050.People will choose a program from a computer and watch it on TV.In 2050,we will get information from the computers only. Second,water will be a big problem in 2050.In many places,people won't have water to drink. Third,cars w...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "She believed she could cross the desert." }, "options": [ "She thought she couldn't cross the desert.", "She believed she could cross the desert.", "She thought she knew well about the desert.", "She started to worry ab...

A little stream ran down from a high mountain through many villages and forests. Then it reached a desert,"I went through so many difficulties. I should have no problem crossing the desert,"she thought. As she started, she found herself slowly disappearing into the sand. After many tries, she still failed. At this ti...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "in a shop window" }, "options": [ "at a bus stop", "in her factory", "in a shop window", "at her friend's home" ], "question": "Mr Hunt sees a nice dress _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { ...

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 yuan." "Two hundred and sixty yuan for a dress ?That's too much !" But every evening when she comes back , Mrs H...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "a tiger" }, "options": [ "a wolf", "a tiger", "a bear", "an elephant" ], "question": "Shere Kham is _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer...

In the bushes of Northern Africa, a baby lies warm and safe in a cave . He lies among baby wolves , next to Mother Wolf, and he is not afraid. Outside the cave, Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, shouts angrily, wanting to kill. "No!" says Mother Wolf. "He belongs to me. He will live to run with the other wolves and be ...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "students who studied geography seldom went out of the school building" }, "options": [ "about 10% of British schools didn't organize field trips regularly", "many British students were not interested in geography", "some geog...

"Children need more geography field trips. Schools should organize geography field trips to stop pupils from sitting before computer screens for a long time. And children should be encouraged to see the natural world and study geography," says Michael Palin. The famous actor and writer, Michael Palin, made the comments...

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You want to know about my staying in America ,right ? Well ,to tell you the truth ,it is really an eye-opening experience to study here . In China ,I had English classes five times a week since fifth grade .However ,I didn't know how different textbook English could be from everyday English until I came to Hotchkiss Sc...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "Three." }, "options": [ "Two.", "Three.", "Four.", "Five." ], "question": "How many steps should you pay attention to when you give first aid?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { ...

What would you do if you had an accident in your daily life? It is important for you to get some knowledge about first aid in your daily life. If a person has an accident, he / she needs medical care before a doctor can be found. When you give first aid, you must know three things: First, when a person stops breathing ...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "nice and clean" }, "options": [ "not nice", "not clean", "nice and clean", "not clean or nice" ], "question": ".Linda's room is _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "an...

This is Linda's room. It's a nice room. It's very clean . I can see a brown bed. A photo of a boy is on the wall . Can you see a brown desk? Yes, it's in the room, on the left . A green chair is on the floor. Some books and blue pens are on the desk. Linda's lamp is on the desk, too. It's a pink lamp. Where is Linda? ...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "travelling through the woods" }, "options": [ "holding a meeting", "taking exercise", "travelling through the woods", "sleeping in the woods" ], "question": "Nick and Jack fell into a pit when they were _ .",...

A group of frogs were travelling through the woods. Two of them, Nick and Jack, fell into a deep pit . All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told Nick and Jack that they were as good as dead. Nick and Jack ignored what the other frogs said and tried to jump up out of the...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "Cheap and good." }, "options": [ "Cheap and good.", "Cheap but bad.", "Expensive and bad.", "Expensive but good." ], "question": "How was the food in White Rose Restaurant?", "question_type": "factiod_questi...

The food in White Rose Restaurant was cheap and good, but nobody seemed to want to eat there. There were very few people going to eat there. The owner was very worried about it. Then he thought of a good idea. A few weeks later, his restaurant was always full of men and their girlfriends. Whenever a gentleman came wit...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Climbed the mountains" }, "options": [ "Rode camels", "Sold vegetables", "Climbed the mountains", "Fished on the east coast" ], "question": "According to the passage, what didn't the fathers and their children d...

Since last year, Where Are We Going, Dad? has become one of the most popular TV shows. On the show, the five fathers and their children traveled around China, riding camels through the western desserts , fishing on the east coast, and selling vegetables for their bus fare( )home in southwestern Yunnan Province. One dad...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "cooking" }, "options": [ "cleaning", "reading newspapers", "dealing with math problems", "cooking" ], "question": "The robot can do many things EXCEPT _ for the inventor.", "question_type": "cloze_questi...

An inventor has created his perfect girlfriend,a robot who can do the cleaning,remember his favorite drink and read the newspaper to him. Le Trung,33,has spent 14000 dollars creating the robot.He made the robot look like a woman in her twenties with shiny hair and blue eyes. She can speak English and Japanese and she i...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "She hurt her neighbor deeply." }, "options": [ "She didn't know the story.", "She hurt her neighbor deeply.", "She was hurt deeply.", "She was told an untrue story." ], "question": "Why did the the woman feel so...

A woman repeated a bit of gossip about a neighbor. Within a few days, the whole village knew the story. The person she talked about was deeply hurt and angry. Later, the woman spreading the rumor learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise man to find out what she could do to repair t...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "Four." }, "options": [ "Two.", "Three.", "One.", "Four." ], "question": "How many seasons are there in most parts of the world?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_i...

In most parts of the world there are four seasons. They are spring, summer, fall and winter. In different seasons people wear different clothes and do different things. For example, in summer the weather is hot, so people usually wear cool clothes and do things like swimming, boating or surfing . But near the polar reg...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "What to eat" }, "options": [ "What to eat", "What to wear", "What to learn", "What to obey" ], "question": "_", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "ans...

There are over 800 boarding schools in the UK. Children of 7 to 18 can go to boarding schools. _ In the UK, boarding schools have three terms in a school year, each student has his or her subject plan. Besides the usual classrooms and laboratories, the boarding schools also have music rooms, boats, swimming pools,...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "A, B and C" }, "options": [ "Hold your head up.", "Smile.", "Be kind.", "A, B and C" ], "question": "How can we feel great about ourselves according to the writer?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" },...

These days,more and more young people wish to be more beautiful,So they turn to plastic surgery for help.They spend thousands of yuan on these painful surgeries to fix their nose,to change their eyelids or to take off weight from their stomachs. In fact,most people are not pleased with the way they look.Even the most b...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Three" }, "options": [ "One", "Two", "Three", "Four" ], "question": "How many kinds of animals can we find in the passage?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "ans...

What will the weather be like? Some people say they can know what the weather will be like from birds. When they see birds fly high out to the sea, they know it is a nice day, because birds don't like to fly out if it rains. When the weather is bad, the birds will come back to the beach. A big wind may come with a rain...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "stop wasting food" }, "options": [ "do volunteer work", "work part time in restaurants", "stop wasting food", "wash their plates after dinner" ], "question": "The Clean Your Plate Campaign calls on people to _...

Qi Haoran, a Junior 1 student at High School Attached to Harbin Institute of Technology, was quite busy over the past winter vacation--and not just with homework. Qi, together with 10 other classmates made a volunteer group to call on people to join the Clean Your Plate Campaign . The 11 students went to many restaura...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "colorful" }, "options": [ "black", "yellow", "white", "colorful" ], "question": "According to Dr. Frank, _ school buses are safer for the students.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer...

In the USA, about 450,000 school buses take more than 25 million children to and from school. The yellow school bus is a US icon . Yellow became the color of school buses in the USA in 1939. Dr. Frank got the good idea. He said it was easy for people to see yellow buses and the black letters on them in early morning o...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "a TV program" }, "options": [ "a magazine", "a newspaper", "a film", "a TV program" ], "question": "A Bite of China is _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index...

A Bite of China Are you an eating-lover? Do you want to eat every delicious food in the world? Then do you watch the popular program A Bite of China? It's a TV program on Chinese delicious food which has been produced by CCTV. Is there any holiday that isn't celebrated with special festival food? Here are several tradi...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "the air gets thinner when they go up higher" }, "options": [ "there is air around the world", "the air gets thinner when they go up higher", "it's warmer in the sky", "the air gets thicker when they go up higher" ],...

What is the sky? Where is it? How bright is it? What lies above it? These questions are difficult to answer, aren't they? Is the sky blue? The sky has no color. We know that there is air around the world. When planes fly, they need air to lift their wings. Planes can't fly very high because the air gets thinner when th...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "It is the year of the goat." }, "options": [ "It is the year of the goat.", "It is the year of the hare.", "It is the year of the rat.", "It is the year of the ox." ], "question": "If next year is the year of th...

Modern Chinese use the solar calendar as English people do . But at the same time, they use their own lunar calendar. Each lunar year is given the name of one of these animals : the rat , the ox , the tiger , the hare , the dragon , the snake , the horse , the goat , the monkey , the chicken , the dog and the pig . Thi...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "liked talking" }, "options": [ "was hard-working", "was shy", "kept silent", "liked talking" ], "question": "Simon _ before last Sunday.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { ...

Simon hardly listened to his teachers or worked hard in class. For him, talking was so much better. He never stopped talking. He wanted to be heard. "If you listen carefully, you'll learn something." Mrs. Jacobs told him many times, but it didn't work. Last Sunday, Simon had a sore throat and he lost his voice the ne...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "was in a plane for her first time" }, "options": [ "had been in a plane before", "was in a plane for her first time", "didn't like to travel on a train", "enjoyed keeping a blanket over her head" ], "question": ...

An old lady in a plane had a blanket over her head and she did not want to take it off. The air hostess spoke to her, but the old lady said, "I have never been in a plane before, and I am frightened. I am going to keep this blanket over my head until we are back on the ground again!" Then the captain came. He said, "Ma...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "A pet food tester." }, "options": [ "A paint watcher", "A water slide tester.", "A pet food tester.", "A teddy bear repair engineer" ], "question": "What is Mark Gooley's job?", "question_type": "factiod_que...

The Most Unusual Jobs Pet Food Tester . Yes, it's a thing and yes it's totally gross . But Mark Gooley ---the owner of a pet food company, eats dog food for a living. He eats everything from doggie treats and chewy bones to liver mixture. Teddy Bear repair Engineer When your favorite toy loses an arm, or suffers a b...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "4" }, "options": [ "2", "3", "4", "5" ], "question": "How many fun places are talked about?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "At P...

Fun places to visit in Singapore Jurong Bird Park At Jurong Bird Park you can see more than 5,000 birds and even feed some of them by hand! If feeding birds makes you hungry, you can join the park's parrots for lunch. PulauUbin Take a small boat into Singapore's past.A 10-minute ride will take you to this island.The li...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "their cost of living has gone up a lot, too" }, "options": [ "the middlemen have had the biggest share of profit", "the cost of their products have risen sharply too", "their cost of living has gone up a lot, too", "the...

Many Chinese people who have been to the United States think that Americans pay a little part of their money for food each day. Yet, in the latest 13 years, food prices have gone up 30% for most American families. Everyone agrees that _ . But who is really responsible ? Many people say the farmers who produce the veget...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "Mars" }, "options": [ "Los Angeles", "Mars", "the moon", "America" ], "question": "A rich man plans to live on _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, ...

Do you like traveling? Have you traveled to Los Angeles? Have you traveled to the moon? A rich man plans to live on Mars. Is it the beginning of a science fiction novel? In fact, it happens in the real world. Elon Musk is the founder and CEO of a private spaceflight company. He has said his plan is to live on the plan...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "Because he felt that his job was always the same." }, "options": [ "Because the weather changed each day.", "Because he did not want to work for a small television station.", "Because he did not like to stand in front of the ...

Bob Harris was a weatherman at a small television station. He worked for twenty years and during those twenty years, he felt that his life was boring. Every day, he studied the weather and tried to predict the next day's weather. Then, he stood in front of the camera and read his report. Some days it was cloudy, some d...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "The teenage smoking has become a serious problem in China." }, "options": [ "The teenagers think smoking is a symbol of being an adult and maturity.", "The social environment encourages the teenagers to smoke.", "The teenager...

Wang Bing's father began smoking when he was in college. His friend passed him his first cigarette . He has now been smoking for more than 30 years. It's an example of how young people are introduced to cigarettes,except that nowadays smokers develop their habit at an even younger age. It has become a main worry in Chi...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "Playing chess." }, "options": [ "Playing chess.", "Speaking French.", "Swimming.", "Dancing." ], "question": "What can Mr Chen teach you?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { ...

Swimmers Wanted Can you swim? Do you like kids? Can you help them with swimming on weekends? Come and join us. Call Jane at 330-8976 for more information . Chess Club Do you like to play chess? Mr Chen can teach you. You can come here every Friday afternoon. Tel: 623-1940 Add: Room 102 in School's P.E. Building Let's L...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Caffeine and Health" }, "options": [ "Coffee Is Harmful", "Coffee and Tea", "Caffeine and Health", "Caffeine Is Useful" ], "question": "A good title for this passage is _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questi...

Coffee has been a part of people's lives for thousands of years, and today it is still one of the favorite drinks in the world. Many people in the world begin their busy day by drinking a cup of or several cups of coffee. They have always said that a cup of coffee in the morning helps them begin their day in the right ...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "it is made of salt." }, "options": [ "it has long history.", "the price of the rooms is high.", "the guests are special.", "it is made of salt." ], "question": "The Salt Palace Hotel is unusual because _ .", ...

There are many unusual hotels around the world. In Greenland , there is a hotel made of ice, open between December and April every year. In Turkey , there is a cave hotel with a television, furniture, and a bathroom in each room. And in Bolivia , there is a hotel named the Salt Palace Hotel. Thousands of years ago, th...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "He earns a high payment" }, "options": [ "He has got a job.", "He lives at home with his parents", "He does not get out much.", "He earns a high payment" ], "question": "why is David so different from other youn...

Computer programmer David Jones earned $ 150,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a check card . Instead, he has been told to wait another two years until he is 18. He works for a small firm in Liverpool, where most young people of his age are finding jobs. David's...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "6" }, "options": [ "3", "4", "5", "6" ], "question": "According to the passage, how many things are included in the vegetables and fruit?", "question_type": null }, { "answer": { "answer_index"...

The advantages of Eating Fruits & Vegetables Vegetables and fruit are good for your health because of a lot of vitamins, nutrients and fiber in them. Fruits and vegetables are regarded as a healthy diet without adding chemicals or additives for carrying or storing foods. The United States Department of Agriculture su...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "to see her son" }, "options": [ "to learn English", "to have supper", "to see her son", "to buy a cock" ], "question": "The woman goes to London _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "a...

A French woman goes to London to see her son. She knows a little English,but cannot speak it very well. One day she goes to a shop. She wants to buy a hen ( ) for supper. But she cannot remember ( ) the English word for" hen" . Just then the shop waiter asks her, "Can I help you?" " I want the egg's mother" the woman a...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "Ten." }, "options": [ "Nine.", "Ten.", "Eleven.", "Twelve." ], "question": "How many times do people in American change their jobs during their lives?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "ans...

In America, people change jobs ten times during their lives. They change their homes eleven times. Americans like change because they think it _ their lives. In China, some people, of course, don't like change. They want life to be predictable . They want to do the same things every day and to see the same people every...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "Tara is planning to do more to help homclcss people." }, "options": [ "Tara celebrated her daughter's 8th birthday at home.", "The children felt too cold to hand out clothes.", "No one took away the clothes on the light polcs...

CBC Canada , CTV News A group of Canadian kids are spreading a bit of Christmas spirit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, by covering warm clothes around light poles for the city's homeless people to pick up and use. _ was such an unusual sight that locals stopped to take pictures to share on social media . Every year, Tara ...

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[ { "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 Year Four. Every evening we get into homework battles . Three afternoons a week, she has activities(netball, singing) after school and by the time we get home early, we argue about whether she should do her homework right after school, or if she should have some time to rest and...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "six" }, "options": [ "seven", "six", "five", "eight" ], "question": "Frank has _ friends in the picture.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answe...

Dear Peter, My name is Frank. I am from America. Here is a picture of my friends. We are in the same grade. Look at the picture, in the middle, you can see my friend Jimmy. He likes all the sports. He likes to eat apples and French fries. You can see Helen in the picture, too. Helen likes math. Her favorite food is mea...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "light;heavy fur" }, "options": [ "silk;linen", "light;heavy fur", "wool;cotton", "wool;silk" ], "question": "In the north central states,people wear _ clothes in summer and _ clothes during the winter.", ...

The United States has many different kinds of climate .On the west coast ,the temperature changes very little between summer and winter,but the north central states have a very different kind of climate.In these states,people wear light clothes during the summer,and they need heavy wool or fur clothes in winter. In the...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "Because they try to find a better way" }, "options": [ "Because of their hard work", "Because of different education", "Because they try to find a better way", "Because they study for a much longer time" ], "que...

Maybe you have seen this in schools: some students are studying hard all the time but they just pass their exams, while some others may spend much less time on their books but do much better in exams. How could this happen? People used to think that hard-work is the only way to success. But now they have understood tha...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "sadly" }, "options": [ "slowly", "sadly", "quickly", "early" ], "question": "Tom got back home _ when the sun was dropping.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index...

It was nearly dark, the sun was dropping down the mountains far away. Little Tom came back home, with tears in his eyes. "What's the matter, Tom? How's your trip?" his mother asked with a big smile. "I failed. The mountain is so high and full of big or small stones on the way, I still go ahead. But I was tired and it w...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "brothers" }, "options": [ "sisters", "brother", "brother and sister", "brothers" ], "question": "This is a picture of the twin _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answ...

This is a picture of the twin brothers Li Lei and Li Ping's bedroom. It's not big, but it's very bright. It's a nice room. In the bedroom, we can see two beds, two chairs, two desks, a table and a cat. The two beds look the same. On the wall, there are some pictures of their family. Li Lei's green coat is on his bed, b...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "For thirty minutes" }, "options": [ "For forty minutes", "For one hour", "For thirty minutes", "For one hour and a half" ], "question": "How long does Tony sometimes play basketball ?", "question_type": "fac...

Hi ! I'm Tony .I don't like to get up early .In the morning ,I get up at eight . Then I go to school at eight thirty . I don't have much time for breakfast , so I usually eat very quickly .For lunch ,I usually eat hamburgers .After school ,I sometimes play basketball for half an hour .When I get home ,I always do my ho...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "he was a successful leader" }, "options": [ "he was very ugly", "he was very handsome", "he was a successful leader", "he was tall and strong" ], "question": "Abraham Lincoln was famous because _ .", "que...

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, was not very handsome, and he knew he was not. One day, Lincoln was walking on the road when he was stopped by an ugly man .The man had a gun in his hand. He took aim at Lincoln's nose. Lincoln was very surprised, but he pretended not to be afraid. He asked the man, "...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "he has to know all the places in the city and serve all kinds of passengers at all the time" }, "options": [ "he has to know all the places in the city and serve all kinds of passengers at all the time", "there is much traffic in L...

Driving a car at a high speed along a highway seems to be fun. You need only to follow the bright traffic signs beside the highways and it will take you to where you wish. But to a London taxi driver, driving is not an easy job. A taxi driver has to have not only skills but also a good knowledge of the city of London, ...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 0, "answer_text": "A company." }, "options": [ "A company.", "A TV station.", "A scientist.", "An American." ], "question": "What is \"Splash Data\"?", "question_type": "factiod_questions" }, { "answer": { "answe...

We use passwords to keep our personal information secret and safe, but some passwords we use may not be as reliable as we think. Splash Data, a computer security company, recently released a list of the 25 worst passwords of 2011.This list is based on the research of _ files containing stolen passwords. According to th...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "It's sunny and hot." }, "options": [ "It's sunny but cold.", "It's windy and cool.", "It's sunny and hot.", "It's windy but warm." ], "question": "What's the weather like?", "question_type": null }, { ...

I am sitting on a beach on this hot summer day and watching two children,a boy and a girl,playing in the sand.They are working hard at building a sandcastle .Just when they are successful, a big wave comes along and puts it down. I think the children may cry because all their hard work turns to nothing, but they surpr...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "rents an iPad to use at school for three years" }, "options": [ "plays games on iPads in each class", "shares an iPad with their classmates in class", "gets a free iPad from the teacher", "rents an iPad to use at school...

When the bell rings, every student takes out an iPad. The light from the screens makes their young faces pretty and lively. That's what happens every day at my school in the US. We use iPads in class. I felt surprised and excited when I got an iPad the first day I arrived at the school. But it was not free. I spent abo...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 2, "answer_text": "very angry" }, "options": [ "very happy", "very sad", "very angry", "very excited" ], "question": "The writer's father was _ when he saw the handwriting in chalk on the step.", "question_type": "cloze_qu...

I stood there listening to my father shout at top of his voice. The look on his face said that one of us had done something wrong. "Which one of you did this?" We all looked down at the step. There was child's handwriting in chalk there. I was very frightened. I hope no one could see it. Would he guess it was me? I was...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "buying homework answers through the Internet" }, "options": [ "copying their classmates' homework", "doing their homework by themselves every day", "doing nothing at all", "buying homework answers through the Internet" ...

For many years, the school students have to finish some homework during their winter and summer holidays. But with the fast development of the Internet, some students have found a new way to deal with their homework recently. Instead of finishing their homework by themselves, they ask the Internet for help. Since most ...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 3, "answer_text": "the USA" }, "options": [ "England", "Australia", "Canada", "the USA" ], "question": "Kelly Brown is a 13-year-old student from _ .", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answ...

What do American middle school students like to be in the future? Some students say they want to be doctors or singers. Some want to be bank clerks or office workers. But Kelly Brown, 13, wants to be a *vegetarian chef. It is a new and interesting job. Kelly Brown wants be a chef because she doesn't eat things from ani...

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[ { "answer": { "answer_index": 1, "answer_text": "largest" }, "options": [ "youngest", "largest", "coldest", "hottest" ], "question": "Sydney is the _ city in Australia.", "question_type": "cloze_questions" }, { "answer": { "answer_index": 3...

Sydney is a young city. Its history goes back just over 200 years. But in Australia, it is the oldest city. It is also the country' s largest city. Sydney is the capital of New South Wales and the most popular city of Australia. The climate of Sydney is very good. It' s not too cold during the winter and not too hot du...

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