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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 restaurants is cheap, but rooms are not. Few English people rent houses for their holidays, but one of their traditional ways of spending a summer is in a boardinghouse . Some boardinghouse keepers give all meals to their guests, others provide breakfast only.
The British may refuse to change the times at which they take their holidays, but they have shown themselves very ready to go to new places. Every year, more Englishmen, women and children go to some parts of Europe. Many take their cars, crossing the channel by ship. When they get home again, they always talk about how they spend their holidays. | middle5007.txt |
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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 animals and birds. She also borrows books on animals and birds from her school library. She learns many things about them.
Sometimes Swee Lin has many stamps of the same kind. She gives them to her friends. They give her other stamps in return.
Swee Lin writes to her friends in many countries. She sends them stamps of her country. In return, they send her stamps of their countries. Swee Lin's father also gives her stamps. He brings them home from his office for her.
Many of Swee Lin's friends collect other things. Some collect coins and others collect matchboxes . But, all of them say that Swee Lin's collection is the most interesting of all. | middle4319.txt |
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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 friendly and easy to talk. Remember that other people have feelings, too; and most people will stay away from an angry-looking face.
Learn to be a good talker. If you find it hard to start talks, say something nice about people around you. Think about how great you feel when someone says something nice to you. Doesn't it make you want to keep talking to that person?
Get your attention elsewhere. Think more about ways to enjoy parties and games. Don't waste time, say to yourself "You did it". Keep trying and one day you'll never feel "shy" when you talk about yourself | 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 classes are very small. There are 15 students in each class. We can have a big library with a lot of _ books. We can also have a swimming pool.
After school, we only have half an hour of homework every day. Every month, we can go on a school trip to a museum or a theater. | middle6283.txt |
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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 can have different food for lunch. I eat rice, meat and vegetables for lunch. Sometimes I have noodles and dumplings. I have supper at home with my parents . Sometimes we go out to eat with friends. We have meat, vegetables and fruit. | middle4494.txt |
[
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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 about school children who could not read. The report said many children's books were not interesting. Doctor Seuss strongly hoped to help children and decided to write books that were interesting and easy to read. He used words with the same ending sound, like fish and wish. He did not receive training in art. Yet, he drew the pictures for most of his books.
In 1957, Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 230 words to write the book and even a six-year-old should be able to read it. It was a fun story and easy to read. Children loved it. Their parents loved it, too. Today it is still one of the stories they like best. The success of The Cat in the Hat made him want to write more books for children. In 1960, he wrote a book using less than fifty words. The book is called Green Eggs and Ham.
In 1984, Doctor Seuss won a Pulitzer Prize . He was honored for the education and enjoyment his books provided American children and their parents.
He died at the age of 87, but his influence remains. Millions of his books have been sold worldwide. People say his books helped change the way American children learned to read. Yet, his books are loved by people of all ages. Doctor Seuss once said, "I do not write for children. I write for people." | middle4480.txt |
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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 British scientist, is not for _ kind of technology. "The development of artificial intelligence could spell the end of human". He said so just after using the machine made for him. As Hawking has a serious illness called ALS, he needs an AI computer to communicate. The computer learns how Hawking thinks and suggests the words he may want to use next.
This kind of AI is very useful, but Hawking fears the possibility of making machines that can be smarter than humans. And it's easy to imagine how terrible things may be. We can see on TV some big killer machines that are far cleverer than us. "Humans can't compete because of their slow biological evolution " said Hawking. But no everyone holds the same idea towards AI technology. "I believe we can make good use of the technology for a long time. It will help us to solve many problems in the future." said Rollo Carpenter, CEO of Cleverbot in the UK.
In which way do you think AI is heading? Should we be hopeful or fearful? | middle7189.txt |
[
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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 to them until we lose or forget one.
A study of 28,000 passwords recently stolen from a popular website showed that people often do the easy thing. It found that 16% took a first name as a password. Another 14% used the easiest keyboard combinations such as "12345678"or "QWERTY". 5% of the stolen passwords were names of television shows or stars popular with young people. 3% of the passwords expressed feelings like "I don't care", "Whatever", "I love you" or their opposite, "I hate you".
Robert Graham, who did the study, advises people to choose a password that is longer than eight characters with one capital letter and one symbol.
Of course, safe passwords don't mean those hard to remember. Forgetting your password is sometimes a big headache for you. Maybe, the perfect password is easy for you and hard for others.
,,. | 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 for them. Everyone gives a beautiful gift to him. Sally gives him an English dictionary because Tom also likes English. Bob gives Tom a guitar because he likes playing the guitar very much. At the party, Tom plays the guitar and he also plays the piano. We sing many songs and play some interesting games. We have a good time today.
,. | middle7837.txt |
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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. Dead leaves, dead plants and animals' waste make it, but this takes a long time. When the humus has been made, plants can grow well in it.
All soil needs food. If we don't give it any, the plants will be weak. Animals' waste is the best food for the soil, but chemical fertilizers are also very useful. The same crop should not be grown in the same place every year; it is better to have a different crop. A change of crop and the use of a good fertilizer will keep the land in good condition.
When the soil is dry, the wind blows it away. Sometimes heavy rain carries the humus down to a river. People should grow more and more trees and grass to stop wind from carrying the humus away. It takes hundreds of years to make humus, and so we must save every bit of it. Without soil, where can we grow food? | middle3489.txt |
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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 was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself, "Why doesn't that woman clean her window? It really looks terrible."
One bright morning I decided to clean my apartment, including cleaning the window.
Late in the afternoon I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly seen. Her window was clean!
Then _ . I had been criticizing her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.
That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcomings ?
From then on, whenever I want to judge someone, I ask myself first, "Am I looking at him through my own dirty window? " Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I can see others' world more clearly. | middle2797.txt |
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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 there only for a few months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas and a new chance to change his life.
Steven Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India. In 1975, he began to make a new type of computer. He designed the first Apple Computer with his friend in his garage. He chose the name"Apple"just because it reminded him of a happy summer he once spent in an apple orchard.
His first Apple Computer was a great success. Because of this, Steven Jobs soon became famous all over the world. | middle722.txt |
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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 with Guo's help.
Guo is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC, ). Last month the CPPCC members met in Beijing. They are from all walks of life - scientists, businesspeople, doctors, artists and athletes. They give proposals on the country's important issues to make our country better. For the Beijing student's letter, Guo read it in front of Yuan Guiren, China's Minister of Education , during a CPPCC meeting.
According to Xinhua, there were 5,762 proposals in all. Many of the proposals were about problems like housing prices, heavy traffic and food safety, which were related to people's daily lives. Some proposals were about teenagers. For example, singer Han Hong suggested that the government should deal with people who traffic children.
As usual, proposals will be given to relative departments after the meetings. For example, Guo's proposal was handed to the Ministry of Education. The departments will consider the proposals carefully and see if they can be carried out in the future. | middle2967.txt |
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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 from England, through Asia, to Australia. On
the trip,they visited places like Iran ,India, and so on.
When Tony and Maureen arrived in Australia, people asked many
questions about their trip. To answer these questions, Wheeler wrote a book called Across Asia on the Cheap. The book told people about different countries' weather, customs , and places to see. But unlike other travel books then,Tony Wheeler's book also talked about places most
tourists did not go. He also wrote about unusual things to see and do. The book was very popular.
Tony and Maureen started a company called Lonely Planet. They
continued travelling. They wrote books for each place they visited. Today,800 people work {or Lonely Planet. The company has over 650 books. Tony Wheeler,the great traveller, still writes about travels to many places and will bring us more surprises. | middle2973.txt |
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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 wearing glasses and has few friends. One day, on a high school class trip to a science lab, he gets bitten by a special spider. Soon Peter realizes he has amazing powers: he is as strong and quick as a spider and also has a type of sixth sense. He no longer needs his glasses and he can use his super power to fly through the city streets! Remembering something his Uncle Ben has told him _ ,Peter decides to use his powers to fight against enemies who do cruel things to people. And so, Spiderman is born.
Life is not easy for Peter even though he is a superhero. He is in love with Mary Jane but he can't tell her about his amazing powers. Besides, his best friend Harry hates Spiderman! Peter is also short of money and time. He has to sell photos of Spiderman (himself!) to a newspaper and he keeps losing his other jobs because he's so busy saving people! Yet he has to fight against different kinds of cruel enemies. | middle736.txt |
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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 only think about one thing.
When you study, don't think about other things at the same time. Only think about your homework. If you do this, you will do your homework more quickly and you will make fewer mistakes.
Good study habits are very important. If you do not have them, try to learn them. If you are already good, try to make them better. | 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 his singing on the Internet and became famous. In 2008, he became a singer with a record company. Since then, he has become a big name. Justin is so popular that screaming fans show up everywhere for his appearance. Several of his performances had to be cancelled because there were too many fans!
In February, 2011, Justin's biopic Never Say Never will come out. Justin came from a poor family. But he said in his book that not having as many things as his friends made him stronger and built his character. He wants to tell people that you can do anything if you just put your mind to it. | 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 like to help their neighbours. His home is not near his school, so Ivan takes a bus for an hour and then walks for 10 minutes to school. There is a Basketball Club near his school. He likes playing basketball in the club.
Ivan's father is a worker. He is busy. Ivan's mother is a doctor. She is nice to the patients. Ivan wants to be a teacher when he grows up. I want to be a teacher, too. Every month Ivan writes two letters to me. He'll come to China next year. We'll meet then. | middle6452.txt |
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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 learning it as a foreign language. Many millions of people are trying to do so. Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different answers. Have you ever noticed ads of this kind in the newspapers or magazines? "Learn English in six weeks, or give your money back..." "Easy and funny..." "Our records and tapes help you master English in a month". Of course, it never happened quite like that.
The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should remember that we all learned our own language well when we were children. If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Think of what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears.
So it is hard to say that learning English is easy. We must do a lot of practice. And practice needs great efforts and takes much time. Good teachers, record, tapes, books, and dictionaries will be helpful, but they cannot do the student's work for him. | middle871.txt |
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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 he is at a different school. You look like Peter. Some students thought that you were Peter."
Bob wanted to meet Peter. He got Peter's address from a student and went to Peter's house. Peter opened the door. Bob couldn't believe his eyes. He looked really like Peter! Bob and Peter had the same color eyes and same smile. They had the same black hair. They also had the same birthday. And they both were adopted by two different families.
Bob and Peter found out that they were twin brothers. Soon after the boys were born, one family adopted Bob, and another family adopted Peter. Bob's family never knew about Peter, and Peter's family never knew about Bob.
Soon Bob and Peter's story appeared in the newspaper. There was a photo of Bob and Peter next to the story. A young man called John saw the photo in the newspaper. John couldn't believe his eyes. He looked like Bob and Peter! He had the same color eyes and the same smile. He had the same black hair. He had the same birthday. And he, too, was adopted by another family.
Later John met Bob and Peter. When Bob and Peter saw John, they couldn't believe their eyes. John looked really like them! Why did John looked really like Bob and Peter? You can guess. Bob and Peter are not twins. Bob, Peter and John are triplets. | middle2634.txt |
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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.
The changes have made students happy.
Liu Xian, 15, said his class was excited by the news on the first day of school. "It's so good we can get up later!" said Liu.
Liu studies in Chengdu No.4 Middle School. He used to get up at 6:40 am. Now he can get up at 7:40 am because class doesn't start until 8:40 am.
Wu Hongli, 15, said the new timetable is good for her health. "I used to drink coffee every night or I would feel to sleepy to finish my homework, "said Wu. "Now I can finish it without coffee."She used to get up at 6:30 am. Now she can get up at 7:30 am.
Wu Hongli's mother was happy, too. She thought more sleep would help her daughter grow taller.
But some parents worried that more sleep would mean less learning. There used to be five classes in the morning. Now there are only four.
Many teachers, though, say the changes will help students learn better.
"Students used to doze for the first two classes in the morning,"said Wu Zongping, an English teacher at Chendu No.12 Middle School. "But now they look fine and they learn much better than before." | middle2152.txt |
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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. Now, on average , men are about three inches taller. 500 years is relatively a short period of time, so we may suppose that man will continue to grow taller.
Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still use only about 20% of the brain's capacity . As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and finally we shall need our brains more and more, and finally we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring a physical change too. The head, especially the forehead , will grow larger.
Nowadays our eyes are used too much. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker and we have to wear glasses. But over a long time it is possible that man's eyes will grow stronger.
On the other hand, we make use of our arms and legs less. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a lot in modern life.
But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body because it does not serve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both men and women are likely to be hairless.
Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive person to look at! This may be true.However, future man will still have a lot in common with us. He will still be a person, with thoughts and feelings similar to our own. | middle6334.txt |
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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 had become so bad that the government decided to do something to clean up the air. It didn't allow people to born coal in any British city. A few years later, the air became much cleaner.
Today many Chinese cities face the same problem with air pollution that London faced sixty years ago. However, this problem is more difficult for Chinese cities to solve. One reason is that more of pollution comes from big factories, rather than from the coal burnt in people's houses. If these factories were suddenly closed, it would harm the economy and lots of people would lose their jobs. Another reason is that changing from coal to cleaner fuels is quite expensive. However, the air in many cities will become cleaner, as the government and ordinary people pay more and more attention to protecting the environment. | 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 pick my sister up. After that,we went to the hospital and waited. Time went slowly. Finally,we got to see our mother. It was terrible.
On the next day,the headmaster came and told my two teachers what had happened. I was taking a rest that day. I knew it had something to do with my mother. I kept thinking that she either died or had gotten better. How I wished that she had gotten better. When my teacher took me outside,my sister ran up to me. She started crying,"She's gone. Teresa,mommy's gone.
She's dead." I couldn't believe it. We jumped into the car and drove straight to the hospital. Most of my family were there. The silence was terrible. I knew I had to say goodbye.
Today when I look back,I still miss my mother very much,but I know that I will live. My mother was a strong mother,who had the biggest heart. My mother was an angel walking on the earth. I will always remember her as living. When someone is asked who their hero is,they usually say someone famous,like Michael Jordan or Britney Spears. When someone asks me who my hero is,I tell them,my mother. My mother lives every day. That is what makes her a true hero. | 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 visiting France this time. I want to go to a different country. I _ China. But I can hardly speak Chinese, so I'm going to study it for a month before I go." he studied pretty hard for a month, and then his vacation began. Ten days later, he came back home. His wife asked him, " How about your short vacation in China? Did you have any trouble with your Chinese there?" "No, I didn't." answered Mr. Smith. "But the Chinese did!" | 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 another little boy next to me. He sat there and kept quiet at first. Then he began to cry, because he didn't want to stay there.
More and more students came in , but the boy didn't stop crying " Mom, I want to go home. " He cried again and again. Later , the teacher came in . She went to the little boy, and said something to him. I couldn't hear what she said. Soon the boy stopped crying and began to smile.
To this day, I still don't know what the teacher said to the little boy. | 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 Green asks him, "Do you like to live in this place?"
The old man says, "Yes,I do." Mr Green asks again, "What are the good things about it?" The old man answers, "Well,the people here know each other. They often come and visit me,and I often go and visit them. And there are also lots of children here."
Mr Green says, "That's very interesting. But what are the bad things?"
The old man thinks and thinks and then says, "Well, the same things, really!" | 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. People don't write letters anymore. They usually send e-mails to their friends. From texting to e-mails, it seems like keyboard are _ the good old pencil and paper. As a result, many students are poor in handwriting. Some even don't know how to write normal words we often use.
In order to improve students handwriting skills, the British government recently decided to open handwriting lessons in middle schools. The British government hopes the students will be able to learn how to write business and personal letters properly at any length . The students will also be taught different kinds of writings. They will also learn to use correct spelling, punctuations and grammar. The handwriting lessons will begin in 2014. Why don't you practice handwriting and write letters to your family and friends to surprise them? | 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 I finish my homework, I feel like dying. I really want to help you, but I'm so tired too.
I also want to tell you one thing, I love you so much. I usually talk back to you when you say that I don't study hard enough. But in fact I just want you to praise me more. I will try my best to get good grades and get praise from my teacher. So don't feel frustrated about my grades, OK? I have made up my mind that I will study harder and help you to clean the house. I am serious this time. I will have my homework done faster so that I can have more energy to clean the house. I will watch TV less so that I can have more time to study and get good grades. All these things are for one reason: I want to make you happy Mum.
I love you!
With lots of love Sally | 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 most special sights. Don't choose the sight you can see in other places. For example, Qingdao and Ningbo are _ cities, so don't only take photos of the sea. You should take photos of something else, too.
Taste!
You'd better taste some specials in the area. Food in some places is very delicious. So why not taste it? Maybe you have just one chance to taste it in your life.
Write!
When you visit a place, you should take a pen and a notebook, so you can write down what you see and what you think during the trip. | 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," answered the little man.
Although puzzled by this answer, the farmer still hired him. The little man worked well around the farm, busy all day, and the farmer felt pleased with the man's work.
Then one night the wind blew strongly. Jumping out of the bed, the farmer carried a lantern and rushed next door to the hired man's sleeping quarters. Farmer shook the little man and shouted, "Get up! A storm is coming! Tie things down before they blow away!"
But the little man said firmly, "No sir. I told you, I can sleep when the wind blows."
The farmer had no time to lose his temper. Instead, he hurried outside to prepare for the storm. To his surprise, he found everything had been prepared. The cows were in the barn, the chickens were in the coops, and the doors were barred. The shutters were tightly secured. Everything was tied down. Nothing could blow away. The farmer then understood what his hired man meant.
When you're prepared, spiritually, mentally and physically , you have nothing to worry about. Can you sleep when the wind blows through your life? The hired man in the story was able to sleep because he had protected the farm against the storm. | 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 "come together" in Chinese. On the day before the festival, parents buy new clothes for their children and children also buy presents for their parents. On Spring Festival's Eve, all the family members come back to their home. This is a happy moment. They sing, dance and play cards. Others get the dinner ready. When they enjoy the meal, they give each other the best wishes for the coming year. They all have a good time. | 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 he goes to a school. Some students are coming out, so he asks one of the students, "Excuse me. Which is the way to People's Hospital?"
"Well, I know, you can go along this street, take the second turning on the right, and then take the third turning on your left. It's next to a museum."
"I'm sorry I can't follow you."
"Well, I just live near there, and my mother works in that hospital, too. I'm going home now. Will you go with me? I'll take you there."
"That's great! Thank you very much!"
"Then, let's go to the bus stop. And we'll take the No.12 bus there." | 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 though it's the symbol of high music level. We know that classical music is serious music, so some people can't understand its real meaning. That's why it's not popular among youngsters.
In fact, folk music is different from other music forms.It's more traditional than entertainment . In American history, fork music began to show up when people needed it most.The earliest folk songs were those like "Down by the Riverside", "We Shall over come" etc. Yhese are songs about hard life, but they are also full of hopes. Anyway , anybody can understand folk music and it also welcomes everyone to join.
,. | 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 Action Party (PAP), which has ruled Singapore since 1959 and led the newly born country when it was separated from Malaysia in 1965.
In Beijing's eyes, Lee Kuan Yew, the late founding father and leader of Singapore, was not only "an old friend of the Chinese people", but also "the founder of China-Singapore relations", according to China's previous official news releases about his visits.
Chinese media estimated that he had been to China more than 20 times, and he was known for his good personal relations with China's top figures, especially former leader Deng Xiaoping. Zhang Jiuhuan, the Chinese ambassador to Singapore from 2000 to 2004, noted that "it was a _ case" at the time that a foreign prime minister would visit China, as Lee did in 1976, in the absence of diplomatic relations between the two nations. Deng then paid back the visit, going to Singapore in 1978, in what Zhang described as a sensational trip.
Jin Canrong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University of China in Beijing, noted that Lee's No 1 contribution to China was his efforts in "sharing Singapore's successful experience in governance", adding that "China has benefited a lot" from this.
The China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park, inaugurated in February 1994 in Jiangsu province in East China, was proposed by Lee, who even went to the city in 1992 to inspect the site for the park.
Now, with the park serving as a role model for China's economic cooperation with foreign countries, more such industrial parks hosted or co-hosted by China have been established domestically and abroad. | 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. But Liu Bin has short curly hair and a long face. They are students.
, . | 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 with him. But now he has several friends. They often came to see him in the evening. They talked loudly, sang and danced. Mr Johnson was unhappy, but he didn't say anything.
It was the young man's birthday yesterday. All his friends came at seven in the evening. They drank too much and made a lot of noise. The old man couldn't fall asleep the whole night. This morning, as soon as he got up, he went upstairs and began to knock at the door. The young man opened for him and asked him to come in.
"Did you hear me beat the ceiling last night, young man?" asked Mr Johnson.
"It doesn't matter, sir," said the young man, " I don't mind it. It was very noisy in my room, too." | 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 school.
Alice and her brothers study at the same school,but they are in different grades.She's in Grade Seven, Her brother Tony is in Glade Ten and Peter is in Glade Six.They live in a house near the school.They walk to school together every day.
Alice is interested in computers. At home she plays computer games in her free time. When she leaves school,she also wants to work with computers. | 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 how much they are. Then you can look at it again when your money is all gone , and you don't waste so much money next time."
After a week, Steven says to his mother, "Do you know, Mum, before I spend any money now, I really stop and think!" His mother is very happy and thinks, "Well, my son knows the value of money now." But then she hears him say, "Mum, before I buy something, I always ask myself, 'Can I spell that word and put it down in my notebook?' " | 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 Delores Clemens is a mother of five and a grandmother. She teaches basic skills, like how to give a baby a bath and how to dress a baby in different seasons.
She remembers one student who learned from her mother not to pick up a crying baby. The mother said that would only make the child needy.
"I said 'That's not true. You have to hold your baby! He is crying for a reason. If you never pick him up, he's going to keep crying. Pick your baby up. Hug him! And she started to do that. They just want a little hugging and a little love. And it works!" Delores Clemens said.
Delores Clemens says her students also learn how to be good mothers by letting themselves be mothered. "I'm doing something for them that never has been done for them before."
In class, with her baby son, is Natasha. She lived on the streets. She is glad not only for the warmth and shelter of Covenant House. As she told reporter Adam Phillips, she is also glad for the help they offer in looking for a safer life.
"Did you go to high school?"
"Yes."
"Did you graduate?"
"No, I didn't. I was in my last year and then, I got pregnant and I got lazy."
"You look like you are willing to accept responsibility for that."
"Yes, I am, and I would like to finish."
Some teenage mothers wish they themselves could be children again. 18-year-old Placida knows that feeling. "Because you have to get up every two hours in the middle of the night, and you can't go out and say 'I am going to buy this for myself.' No. I have to buy pampers, clothes and food. So now it's two. So it's very hard." Placida said. | 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.
E-mail is easy to use and it saves time and money. The different time and different parts of the world do not matter when you send an e-mail. It does not matter if your friends are in bed when you send an e-mail to them, or you are seeing a film at the cinema when they send an e-mail back. | 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.
Fred Wang, an MBA student in the US, said, "I dream of equal chance for the young in China. Equality means all young people can compete fairly, based on the rule-of-law no matter whether they are rich or poor."
Yujie Zhao, another MBA student in California, said, "I dream of having the best education for my children so they will not lose at the starting line, and I dream of being able to take good care of my parents after they return home from work."
Yiqiong Zhang, an MBA graduate from the US, shared her dreams. "I have a dream which I have been holding for many years, that is after working hard for about 20 to 25 years, I can have enough money to build and manage a bookstore or a flower shop. Besides working hard, I am able to enjoy life, to play the piano, to hike and to enjoy a two-month-long vacation every year. This may be a common dream among young Chinese students."
There is no doubt that all of these young students have their own China Dream. They all love chasing their dreams. The beautiful China Dream requires everyone's hard work. Everyone should work hard to make their dreams come true. | 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 wearing their new dresses today. Ann is cleaning her desk. Mike is helping her. They all look happy.
What are Bill and Bob doing? Oh, dear! They are still playing basketball. | 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 parents don't know the answers to the problems, so she has to turn to the Internet.
"I can see how other people work out these problems and learn from them," Tina said. "It's easy and saves time."
But not all the students welcome this. Leo, 15, from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, thinks it may make students stop thinking.
"We should think over the problems first. Simply copying the answers won't improve our abilities. " he said.
In the eyes of Wang Zhaoming, a Shanghai teacher, the success of all this is down to the students. If they use the Internet properly , it could be a good tool for study, Wang said.
"Students should first think about the problems by themselves. As for the online answers, they should choose the best among different ones. The most important thing is to know the logic behind the answers," he said. "Don't be shy to ask teachers and classmates the next day if you don't understand the answer." | 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 violin. I often play the violin on weekends. What about you? What's your favorite sport? Do you like to play the violin or the guitar? Please write to me soon.
Yours,
Li Ping | 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. Please have a good look at her: polluted rivers and lakes, growing deserts, the destruction of the forests and wild life, and the depletion (,) of the ozone layer ...
Can she bear to see her children putting the waste here and there? Can she bear to see her children cutting down the trees and destroying the grassland, to see the acid rain destroying everything? Can we bear to see our mother suffering so much? Isn't it time for us to ask ourselves whether this is the way to treat our mother?
Floods, droughts, acid rain..., these are the punishments from nature. Everyone should know that there is only one earth. If we go on treating her like this, it won't be fit for us to live in any longer. It's time for us to love her, take good care of her and cure her. We should save the earth so as to save ourselves. | 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 will use new and clean fuels and they will go very fast.There will be a computer in every car.And the computers will control the cars and there won't be any accidents . | 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 time, a deep voice said,"if a breeze can cross the desert, so can a river."It was the voice of the desert. But the little stream answered,"that's because a breeze can fly, but I can't."
"That's because you can't give up what you are. Let yourself evaporate into the breeze, and _ can take you across,"said the desert.
"Give up what I am now? No! No!"The little stream could not accept this idea.
"The breeze can carry the vapor across the desert and let it leave as rain. The rain will form a river again,"said the desert."And whether you're a river or vapor, your nature never changes."
Hearing this, the little stream went into the open arms of the breeze. It carried her to the next stage of her life. | 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 Hunt speaks only about the dress, so at last he says , "Oh ,buy the dress ! here's the money !" She is every happy . But the next evening, when Mr Hunt wants to have a look at the nice dress, Mrs Hunt says ,"I don't want to buy it .""Why not ?" he asks.
"Well, it is still in the window of the shop after a week. So I think no one wants this dress . And I don't want it ,either." | 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 like my son. And I will call him Mowgli."
The years pass, and Mowgli--the man's baby, grows up with the wolves. He learns the Law of the Jungle from his teachers, Baloo, an old brown bear and Bagheera, a white elephant. He has many adventures , and many friends among the animals of the jungle. But he still has an enemy. Shere Khan the tiger has not forgotten him. He waits for the day when he can catch the man's child--and kill him.
If you want to know more about the story, just read The Jungle Book! | 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 days after a study showed that pupils in the UK were less likely to take part in science field trips than in most other developed countries.
The study found that 13% of schools in the UK failed to take children out of the classroom regularly.
Mr. Palin said that field trips were an important part of geography and that he was interested in geography because he had a good geography teacher and he had many opportunities to "get out of the school building".
In an interview, Mr. Palin said, "It was important for children to see things for themselves and learn about the rest of the world. You have to show them a mountain, show them a factory, show them a power station."
Mr. Palin had been to the North and South Poles, the Himalayas , the Sahara and Eastern Europe.
"Geography is about the study of the earth. It is a _ subject," he said. "It's related to everything we do: what we eat, what transport we take to work, where we live, what houses are made of, and so on."
He said children needed to get basic geography knowledge first and that once they had the basic knowledge they could move on to deeper problems, such as population and pollution. "Today's children will need to deal with a lot of problems when they grow up. They have to learn geography today," he said. | 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 School ,Connecticut .
When I first studied English ,I was told to say ,"I am fine"when people say"How are you ?"But in the US ,I found that people say ,"I am good "or"I'm tired".
One day , someone greeted me with "What's up ?"It made me _ .I thought for a moment and then smiled because I didn't know what to say .
Since then ,I have discovered more and more differences between Chinese and US cultures .
To my surprise ,US girls spend a lot of time in the burning sun to get a tan .However , in China ,girls try every possible way to get their skin paler , or"whiter".
I was also surprised by how hardworking US students are .
In China ,schoolwork is almost everything ,so we study hard and that's it .But here ,a "good "student gets good grades ,does a lot for the public and plays sports or music .
The kids here are so talented ,I am starting to be sorry that I gave up playing the piano at an early age and that I have never thought about sports . | 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 , open his / her mouth to see if there is food in his / her mouth. Second, if a person cannot breathe, try to start his / her breathing at once, using a mouth-to-mouth way. Third, if a person is hurt badly, try to stop the bleeding at once. And then take him / her to a doctor, because if a person loses one third of his / her blood, he / she may be in great danger.
Many accidents may happen at home, and everyone should know some first aid to deal with common injuries. When a person _ by an animal, wash the wound with cold running water before he / she is taken to see a doctor. When a person is burnt, wash and cool the area of the skin under the cold tap for a while, then put a piece of dry clean cloth over the burn. If a person is badly burnt, take him / her to the doctor. If a person cuts his / her finger, clean it and put a piece of clean paper round the cut.
In the future we should learn more about first aid and try to spread it. | 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? Is she in the room? No, she isn't. She is at school. | 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 pit with all of their strength. The other frogs went on telling them to stop, and that they were as good as dead. Nick listened to them and gave up. Finally, he fell down and died.
Jack continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the frogs around the pit shouted at him to stop the pain and just die. Jack jumped even harder and finally got out. When he was out, the other frogs asked, "Did not you hear us?" Jack explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him all the time. | 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 with a lady, a kind waiter would give each of them a beautiful menu. The menus looked exactly the same on the outside, but there was an important difference inside. The menu that the waiter handed to the man gave the correct price for each dish and each bottle of wine, while the menu that he handed to the lady gave a much higher price! So when the man calmly ordered dish after dish and wine after wine, the lady thought he was much more generous than he really was! The man could make a good impression on the lady. | 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 doesn't know how to do his daughter's hair, so some people try to help him. Another one must survive with his son for three days in the desert. Because the father can't cook, they only eat instant noodles .
Why is Where Are We Going, Dad? so popular? Because it is about how Chinese parents look after their kids. The show makes modern parents think about what they should do with their kids. "In traditional Chinese culture, the father is strict and the mother is kind. But on the show, we see fathers who are much kinder on their kids and more involved in their upbringing ."said Li Minyi, a professor of early childhood education.
In the past, children were taught to follow their parents' wishes and look after _ in their old age. But today Chinese parents start to realize that respecting their children's choices may be a better way to be ready for modern society. As they raise their children, parents are growing up at the same time. | 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 is also good at math.She can help Mr.Trung deal with his accounts.
Mr.Trung comes from Canada.He said he has never had time to find a real girlfriend--so he designed and created a robot as his girlfriend using the latest technology.He used to be a software programmer.In order to make this robot,he has taken out his credit cards,sold his car and spent all his life saving.
Now he is trying to find a corporate sponsor to help him complete and perfect his robot.He said his robot is what happens when science meets beauty.He said."I want to make her look,feet and act as human as possible so she can be the perfect companion.I chat a lot with her and hope to improve her knowledge."
So far the robot can understand and speak 13,000 different sentences in English and Japanese,so she's already fairly intelligent.She can _ faces and says hello when any of his family comes around to visit.She helps him what to have for dinner and knows what drinks he likes.
She doesn't need holidays,food or rest,she will work almost 24 hours a day and never goes shopping.She is very patient and never complains.What a perfect woman she is ! | 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 the harm.
"Go to the marketplace," he said, "buy a chicken, and have it killed. Then on your way home, pick its feathers and drop them one by one along the road." Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told.
The next day the wise man said, "Now, go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me."
The woman followed the same road, but she was so _ when she found the wind had blown the feathers all away. After searching for hours, she returned with only three in her hand.
"You see," said the wise man, "it's easy to drop them, but it is impossible to get them all back. So it is the same with gossip. It doesn't take much to spread a rumor, but once you do, you can never completely undo( ) the wrong." | 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 regions , there are only two seasons: winter and summer. In winter, nights are long. For more than two months you can't see the sun. In summer, days are long and the sun is always in the sky. There are no nights. The people living near the North Pole are called Inuit . In summer they live in tents and catch deer for food. In winter they live in small round snow houses. They can build a snow house. They make holes in the ice and catch fish and seals . They eat much meat but not many vegetables. | 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, cinemas and theatres for their students.
_
There are some rules for the students at boarding schools to obey. Students study and live together. They can't go outside if they are not allowed to. Most boarding schools have a "light out" time. So when it's time to go to bed, all the lights in the bedrooms are turned off.
_
Nearly all students at boarding schools wear a school uniform. Boys usually wear a shirt and a tie, and girls wear a white blouse, sometimes also a tie and a skirt. As students get older, the rules become less strict.
_
In the UK, boarding schools provide students with delicious food. They can choose to have a full English breakfast or simply bread. They can also choose between a meal with no meat and another meal at lunch and dinner. Students can also make themselves something to eat at any time in a kitchen.
A, B, C, D2-5,76-79. | 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 beautiful actresses
often wish they could change something about their looks.Should we live our whole lives believing we are ugly? Why can't we raise our head high and believe that we are as beautiful as others? A smile is beautiful on any face,whether fat,oily or hairy.And a kind heart is much more beautiful than a pretty look.
So,let's feel grateful that we all have beautiful and healthy bodies that do not need surgeries! Today,I call on you to make an easy change:hold your head high! smile and be kind to others.If you do these,you will be full of confidence ,beauty, and warmth everywhere you go. | 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. Birds do not like to fly in a big wind. They may sit in a tree when rain is coming. Other animals can also _ the weather. It is a cloudy day. The rain is coming. Chickens are not quiet, and they are running here and there. Frogs are making big noise in the pool. If it is a nice day, the frogs will come out of the water. | 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 restaurants and told people the importance of saving food."Excuse me, do you know that 950 million people around the world still haven't got enough to eat? Could you please not waste food?"They would say this kind of thing hundreds of times every day.
China in recent years has experienced serious problems with wasted food. CCTV reported in January that the food Chinese people waste every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year. It's a tradition that Chinese people offer lots of food when they invite others to dinner. Many even feel that they will lose face if their guests have eaten all their food.
Luckily the campaign has got the support of many. In a restaurant in Xinjiang, the owner gives the guests who have eaten up all that they ordered a sticker. People can enjoy a free meal when they have 10 stickers. More than 750 restaurants in Beijing have begun to offer smaller dishes and encourage their guests to take leftovers home.
Wasting food is a serious problem around the world, not only in China. It's said that 2 billion tons of food ends up as waste every year in our country. This is as much as half of all the food in the world. The UN Environment Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization held a"Think, Eat, Save" program on January 24 to help reduce food waste.
To reduce food waste is a big task, and it needs time. It's important that everyone does their bit, just like Qi. Did you finish your meals today? | 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 or late afternoon. That would make children safer.
There are not many school buses in Britain, and they are not yellow. They have trackers on them, so children are being tracked while they travel to and from school by bus. The trackers let parents know where the school bus is and whether their kids are on the bus.
Kindergarten is a difficult time for some kids. It's the first time for them to go away from their parents. To make kids love their school, Japanese kindergartens and schools have colorful buses. The buses can easily make children want to take them to go to school. Even some parents want to take them, too!
School buses are becoming more and more popular in China now. It saves a lot of time for students to go to school.
,. | 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 traditional Chinese foods:
Noodles are a symbol of long life in Chinese culture. They are as much a part of Chinese birthday celebration as a birthday cake with its candles lit in many western countries. Since noodles mean long life, it is considered very unlucky to cut it off.
Although westerners sometimes may be very sorry to see fish lying on the plate, in China a whole fish is a symbol of richness. In fact, at a party it is a tradition to serve the whole fish last, pointed towards the most valued guest. Fish also has a special meaning because the Chinese word for fish, yu, sounds like the word for richness or plenty, and it is believed that eating fish will help your wishes come true in the year to come.
A very popular dish during the Dragon Boat Festival is Zongzi. This tasty dish is made of rice dumplings with meat, peanuts or other delicious food in bamboo leaves. The tradition of Zongzi is meant to remind us of a great man, Qu Yuan in Chinese history. | 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 they go up higher. If we go up about 1,200 kilometers from the earth, we'll find no air there.
When we talk about the sky, we usually mean the atmosphere around the earth. It is like a very thick "cover" over the earth and keeps it warm. Without the "cover", the earth would be a very cold place and nothing could live on it.
Looking up above us, you will see the blue sky with white clouds. It is usually light blue, but the sky would be dark blue if you go to the top of the highest mountains. And you will see fewer clouds between you and the sun.
And if you sit in a spaceship high above the earth, there is no air at all. The sky would be so dark that its color would be black.
Sometimes the sky doesn't look blue. When the sun rises and falls, you will see red, orange, and other colors in the sky. These are the most beautiful moments of the day.
Now you may understand that we see colors because the air scatters the sunlight. Light travels through the air. Without air, there would be no light and no colors. | 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 . This list lasts for 12 years and then starts again.
Each Chinese month starts on the day of the new moon. And the full moon comes on the 15th day of the month. The New Year always starts between January 21 and February 20. On the last day of the lunar year, there is a big family dinner. All members of the family except married daughters try to be present at this meal, even if they have to travel many miles to reach the home of their parents. Old quarrels are forgotten, and everybody is happy. After the dinner, the children keep awake to welcome the New Year.
The New Year celebrations last for 15 days, from the new moon to the full moon. On the first day, children and unmarried people go to visit their elder | middle4721.txt |
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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 next morning. "Can I stay home?" he tried to ask, but words didn't come out. His mother thought he could go to school. He felt upset.
When he got to school, he didn't say anything to his friends or teachers. Everyone started talking at once. They were excited, worried and surprised. Mrs. Jacobs seemed happy. Simon was bored because he couldn't talk.
But it wasn't so bad. He could do his homework. The next day, even though his voice was coming back, he stayed quiet again. He listened and put up his hand to speak. What a great difference!
,. | middle2350.txt |
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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, "Madam, I am the captain of this plane. The weather is fine, there are no clouds in the sky, and everything is going very well." But she continued to hide.
So the captain turned and started to go back. Then the old lady looked out from under the blanket with one eye and said, "I am sorry, young man, but I don't like planes and I am never going to fly again. But I'll say one thing," She continued kindly, "You and your wife keep your plane very clean!"
,,. | middle5359.txt |
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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 bad injury, it is upsetting. But now you can get help in the Build-A-Bear Workshops, the teddy bear repair engineers repair your favorite teddy bears and get them back to themselves.
Water slide Tester
Monday morning surely seems more enjoyable if you spend your working week slipping down water slides in a theme park, especially in summer.
You might also spend your lunch break on a roller coaster, eating a hot dog for lunch.
Working holiday, am I right?
Paint Watcher
You may have heard some people say they'd "rather watch paint dry" than do something they don't want to do. Well, if they really mean it, the chance is there---- studying the drying time and effects of paint as a full-time job for a paint company. | middle4047.txt |
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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"
},
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"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 life on the island has not been changed since the 1960s.
Malls and Markets
Walk through Orchard Road's modern malls.Then try an open-air shopping experience at the markets.There you can buy inexpensive clothes,toys and old furniture.
Night Safari
Night Safari lets you see animals that are active at night in their natural environment.Walk through the park at night to get close to the animals from seven different areas. | middle6888.txt |
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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 vegetables, fruit, meat, and eggs are responsible. But farmers say that the rise in food prices is very small compared to (...) the rise in their cost of living. Farmers think middlemen have got much more money than they do. Middlemen are those people who stand between the farmers and the people who buy and eat the food. For example, truck drivers, owners of food stores and so on. Are middlemen really responsible for higher food prices?
Economists don't think so. They have found that the money that meat packers and food stores get is less than 1% in all. They say that food costs more now because modern housewives have jobs outside the home. They have less time for cooking after a day's work. They like to buy food which has already been prepared before it reaches the market. They want to buy many kinds of food that can be put on their dining tables easily and quickly. But of course they must be prepared to pay for the services of those who make their work easier.
It seems that the answer to the question of rising prices is not an easy one. Quite a number of people share the responsibility for the sharp rise in food costs. | middle6650.txt |
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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 planet. He says he plans to live on Mars with a group of fewer than ten people. He will take them on a rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane . Each one should pay $ 500,000 to fly there.
However, these passengers are not going there to travel, but they are going to work. They need to carry tools to build houses and grow crops there.
Musk believes one person out of every 100,000 people may be interested in making the journey. Then Mars will have sixty-three thousand people in the future. | middle6644.txt |
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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 days it was sunny; sometimes rainy, while sometimes snowy. The weather changed each day, but Bob still felt that his job was always the same. His boss often told him to be happier and smile more in front of the camera, but Bob rarely smiled. He thought that most people did not watch his weather report and his job did not matter much to anyone. One day, he arrived at work and began to study the weather as usual. He noticed that something was different that day.
Everything he studied told him that there was going to be a very big storm very soon, though he was not completely sure. Suddenly, Bob felt excited. He ran to his boss's office and asked to do a special weather report. The boss agreed and Bob gave a special report that afternoon, warning people of the coming storm. Because of this report, many people were safe during the storm.
Bob realized that his job was actually very important. | middle2422.txt |
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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 China that many teenagers begin to smoke. A showed that 22. 5 % of the middle school students questioned had tried smoking and 15. 8% of them smoked regularly . For many teenagers, smoking is a symbol of being an adult,maturity and attractiveness because the images who they love best often smoke on screen.
The social environment also plays an important role in attracting teenagers, to smoking. They are used to seeing their elders, especially male family members, smoking at home. Many of them imitate adult behavior and become new smokers.
To increase the price of cigarettes is a useful way to reduce the number of young smokers, as teenagers have no enough money to spend on them.
Another way is to teach the teenagers to refuse cigarettes. A survey shows that 92. 5% of the students know smoking will be bad for their health. If we tell them, in a proper way, most of them may give up smoking.
All in all, the society, the government, the school and the family should join together to take the responsibility for an anti-smoking act aimed at teenagers,not just to put empty words and warnings on cigarette packs. | middle4053.txt |
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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 Learn French
Can you speak French? Do you want to learn French? Join the French club now.
Time: 9:00 am--11:30 am(from Monday to Friday)
Call Henry at 543-1248.
Musicians Wanted
Boys and girls, are you music lovers? Can you sing or dance? Can you play any instruments ? Welcome to our Star Rock Band.
Please call Victor at 891-3453 or send an email to music@yahoo.com.
,. | middle2344.txt |
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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 way. So they say a cup of coffee is necessary for them in the morning.
Do you know what in the coffee makes our bodies and brains active? It is caffeine . Caffeine may increase a person's mental and physical abilities . For example, two cups of coffee will make you breathe faster and _ body heat. All this makes you heart beat faster, and doctors warn that this may be a little dangerous.
Caffeine is found in tea, coffee, chocolate and some other foods. A little caffeine is probably not harmful. But much caffeine can make people nervous and sleepless. | 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, the area around the Salt Palace Hotel was a large lake. But today, the area has only two small lakes and two salt deserts .
The larger of the two deserts is called Uyuni salt desert. During the day, the desert is bright white because of the salt. There are no roads across the Uyuni desert, so local people must show guests the way to the hotel.
In the early 1990s, a man named Juan Quesada built the hotel. He cut big blocks of salt from the desert and used the blocks to build it. Everything in the hotel is made of salt: the walls, the roof , the tables, the chairs, the beds, and the hotel's bar.
The sun makes the walls and roof warm during the day. At night the desert is very cold, but the rooms are warm. The hotel has twelve rooms. A single room costs$40 a night, and a double room costs$60.
A sign on the hotel's wall tells guests, " Please don't lick the walls." [:Zxxk.Com] | middle3072.txt |
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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 biggest headache is what to do with his money. Though he has high payment, he cannot drive a car, or get credit cards.
David got his job four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-Levels and working for a time in a computer shop. "I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs," he said. "I suppose $150,000 sounds a lot but I hope it will come to more than that this year." He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother $20 a week as he lives with his parents. But most of his spare time is spent working. "Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school," he said. " But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway. I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear. | middle5403.txt |
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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 suggests eating plenty of fruits and vegetables every day to get the advantages of eating a healthy diet.
Disease Prevention
The United States Department of Agriculture tells that eating fruits and vegetables helps fight strokes, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Because of the potassium in fruits and vegetables, they can prevent the risk of developing kidney stones. The fiber in fruits and vegetables helps the body fight against coronary heart disease.
Idea Health
Since fruits and vegetables add to a balanced and healthy diet, eating these will help you with your idea. The vitamins in fruits and vegetables helps fight depress , according to the Mental Health Foundation. Vitamin B and folic acid found in some vegetables and bananas help you to relax. Eating fruits and vegetables can also help improve memory.
Healthy Weight
Eating fruits and vegetables helps you have a healthy weight. Fruits and vegetables naturally include less energy than other foods, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The fiber and water in the fruits and vegetables make you feel that you are full, so you will not feel that you have to eat more food. | middle1665.txt |
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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 answers. The shop waiter does not understand( )her and says, " Sorry, we have not any bigger eggs." Suddenly )) the woman remembers the word"cock(She says, I want the cock's wife! "This time the shop waiter laughs ( ). | 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 day. When something changes, it makes them feel uncomfortable, like a child who can't go to sleep unless all his toys are in their proper places.
But can't you see there are many changes in China? People are healthier and they are living longer. People have more money, more food and they are better educated .
Without change, our lives would be very boring. It would be like listening to the same song over and over again. Change is a big part of life and we all change in small ways every day --the young get stronger, the old get weaker; we meet new friends; we find new interests. Change is good for China and it will be good for you, too. | middle7214.txt |
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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 Atkins-Smith collects warm clothes from her community in order to help the less lucky. This year, since the family was traveling to Halifax with their daughter Jayda and seven of her friends to celebrate her 8thbirthday Tara thought it was the perfect time to teach the chidren a valuable life lesson.
The kids spent time handing out coats to the homeless and tied the rest around light poles for others to pick up. Each of the clothes had a tag that read, "I am not lost. If you are caught in the cold, please take me to keep warm. " According to Tara, the experience helped the children better understand the difficult situation of homeless people, who have to brave the cold winter on the streets. "When we got back in the car after an hour on the street, they were all freezing cold and crying for the heater to be on because they were cold , " she said.
By next morning, all the jackets, gloves, and scarves on the poles were gone. Photos of the inspriring project have been shared about 8, 000 times on Facebook, and have got over10,000 likes. Tara, who did something similar in Toronto in December last year, says she's already planning next year's coat drive. She hopes that the meaningful thing can spread around the world, and she also wants to add $5 fast food gift card so that the homeless people can also enjoy a hot meal.
"We've got help from others when we were in need, and we knew how great it made us feel," said Zackary Atkins, Tara's husband. | middle7572.txt |
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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 play first. When Maria at last sits down to do her homework, she seems to want me there helping all the time, I do want to help her, but I'm sure that she is going to need to be able to do it on her own. And in fact, most of the time, I have other things I need to be doing. It seems that children these days have much more homework than we did, and some of it is really beyond their abilities . As you can see, I'm really worried about homework and I really don't know what I should do. Any ideas? | middle1103.txt |
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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 meat. But Sandra doesn't like math. Look, Sandra is here in the picture. She can speak French. She likes ping-pong. Behind her, there is a girl. She is Sally. She is a black girl. She likes to swim. And she likes to eat ice cream. Maria and Rick are behind Jimmy. Maria likes computer very much. She plays computer games very well. Rick is fun. He can play soccer ball. He likes strawberries best. I like math, too. I like to eat bananas. All of us think Beijing Opera is fun. So we go to see it. But we can't _ the words. So we don't want to see it again. But my father likes it very much. He often watches it. He can understand it. One interesting thing:two of my English friends can understand it, too. They are Maya and Kelsey. They are not in the picture. They often go to see Beijing Opera like my father.
Can you send me a picture of your friends.
Yours,
Frank | 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 southwest,the climate is quite warm during the winter,but hot in summer.
In the eastern part of the United States,summer temperatures are very different from winter temperatures.Summers are usually hot,and winters are usually cold.Spring temperatures are comfortably warm,and autumn temperatures are quite cool.
Years ago,people in the cold areas of the United States did not often get vegetables and fresh fruits during the winter.Today trucks and trains carry fruits and vegetables very quickly to all parts of the United States.In this way,Americans"send their climate"to people in other states. | middle5365.txt |
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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 that smart work can make them succeed, too.
Hard workers don't mind working for long hours, while smart workers always think of several different answers to these questions, " Why should I suffer this? Isn't there s better way to do this?" Thanks to these people, we can use computers instead of the abacus now. Progress in every field is the direct result of " try a better way" by smart workers.
There was a large soap factory in Japan. Once it received an unusual letter, complaining that there was no soap in the soapbox he bought. How could empty soapboxes go out of the factory? The engineers checked the producing and packing . The producing was fine, but in about one in ten thousand cases, the packing machine let an empty soapbox go. There was no need to spend a lot of money repairing the machine for such a small problem. The engineer soon work out a solution. He put a huge X-ray machine and two large computers to find out the empty soapboxes. After teaching the worker how to use it, he sat down in his seat, exhausted .
" Sir, we could have solved the problem in a much easier and cheaper way." said one worker. " Really? How?" " We can put a huge fan near the packing machine. The wind will _ the empty boxes. There would be no need for an X-ray machine and computers."
See, this is smart work. In order to succeed, we should not work hard like the engineer, but also think smartly like this worker. | middle3714.txt |
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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 was so late that I had to come back." Tom cried. "It doesn't matter, you are only 14 years old after all. You will have another chance." his mother said. "But, standing at the top of the mountain is my dream!" Tom said. His father came over and asked, "Did you see the green trees on your way to the mountain?" "Sure, and there are a lot of beautiful flowers by the side of the road." Tom replied. "Did you hear the birds singing?" his father asked. "There were many kinds of birds singing in the trees, and the sound was very sweet." Tom said. "Did you feel the beauty of nature?" his father asked. "Yes, the blue sky, the white clouds, the green trees and the colorful flowers made a nice picture." Tom answered. "That's enough!" his father smiled and said, "Please remember, son. For often, achieving what you expect is not the most important thing. Although you didn't reach the top of the mountain, you got a lot on the way."
It is true that not every goal will be achieved, not every job will end up with a success, and not every dream will come true. The most beautiful scenery is on the way.
,A, B, C, D,,. (5;2,10) | middle5371.txt |
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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, but his blue shoes are under his chair. Their books and pencil-boxes are on their desks. We can see some flowers and a clock on Li Ping's desk. Li Lei's schoolbag is behind his chair, but Li Ping's is on his chair. Where is their white cat? Oh, it's under Li Lei's bed. | middle3700.txt |
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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 homework first .In the evening , I either watch TV or play computer games .At ten thirty , I brush my teeth and then I go to bed .Mary is my sister .She usually gets up at six thirty .Then she always takes a shower and eats a good breakfast .After that ,she goes to school at eight thirty .At twelve ,she eats lots of fruit and vegetables for lunch .After lunch ,she sometimes plays volleyball .She always eats ice-cream after dinner .She knows it's not good for her ,but it tastes good !In the evening ,she does her homework and usually swims or takes a walk .At nine thirty ,she goes to bed . | 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, "What do you want, sir?""I've promised myself," said the man, "if I find a man who is uglier than I, I'll kill him." Then Lincoln looked at the man's face carefully and then said, "Please take aim at me, sir. If I were uglier than you are, I would not want to live." The man looked at Lincoln again, after a minute, he said, "You are right!" And he went away. | 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, from the smaller road to the most popular bar around. He has to be at service of all kinds of passengers at all times.
A certain London taxi driver told of his job as follows.
During the night it is quite usual for him to stop two or three times for some refreshments . He said, "I never drink when I'm working --- I would lose my license."
He usually goes home between 2 and 3 o'clock in the night. There are times he has to stay longer and try to make more runs. He said, "That's the worst thing about working for yourself. If you don't make any money, no one is going to give it to you."
London taxi drivers not only "take" but also "give". Every summer hundreds of children from London will go for a day at the sea --- by taxi! Their rides are paid by the taxi drivers, and these all go to the "London Taxi for _ ". At the sea, they are met by the mayor , and a lunch party is also held in honor of the taxi drivers and the children. After a happy day running around the sea beaches and visiting the markets, the children go home again --- by taxi, and free of charge , of course! | 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 the list, "password" is the worst and most common password. Many others on the list are numbers in order either forward (for example,1234) or backward. Letters on the keyboard in order, such as "qwerty" are also common, as well as some first names and animals. "Hackers can easily break into many accounts just by trying common passwords again and again, " said Morgan Slain, CEO of Splash Data.
How can you make a strong password? It should be eight characters or more, with a mix of letters, numbers and symbols. One way to create a long and easy-to-remember password is to separate short words with spaces or numbers. Having safe passwords is necessary for surfing the Internet safely. But it's not the only thing you must do to keep safety online. Here are some other web safety tips:
*Never give out information that will allow someone to find you offline. That includes your full name, address and phone number.
*Don't include your real name as part of your online screen name.
*Never meet people you met on the Internet in person. If you insist on breaking this rule, meet in a very public place and consider taking an adult with you.
Top 10 worst passwords: 1.password 2. 123456 3. 12345678 4. qwerty 5. abc123
6. monkey 7. 1234567 8. letmein 9.trustno1 10. dragon | 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 surprise me. They run up away from the water, hand in hand, and sit down to build another one.
They really teach me a lesson. We can't always be successful.Being sad is doing no good.What we need to do is to start again, hand in hand with our friends. | 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 about $100 to rent it for three years.
Every iPad at my school has a special learning system called _ . Teachers put their teaching materials like textbooks and PPTs on it. When we have classes, we enter the system and download the materials with our iPads.
It makes the classes interesting and efficient . For example, a few weeks ago, we learned about London in the UK. Our teacher prepared a video in which we saw many places of interest in London. We could not only watch the video, but also see the words at the same time. Because of the video, I know more about the city.
We also do our homework with iPads. We can know how well we do our homework right after we submit our homework.
However, there are still some bad points about learning with iPads. Some of my classmates play games or surf the Internet in class.
I believe the key to use iPads well is to have good self-control , isn't it? | 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 so scared. When he asked me, I lied, "Not me, dad." The other denied it as well. Of course, we all knew that one of us must have done it. But as the youngest and smallest of the three, I just couldn't find courage to tell the truth.
To find out who had written on the step, Father gave us each a piece of paper and a pencil. "I want each of you to write exactly what you see on the step." I tried my best to write the words differently. I didn't want dad to be able to tell it was me.
He gathered up our paper and looked at them. "Since none of you will say yes, then I will punish you all." I stood there and said nothing. The last thing I wanted was for Dad to punish me!
"I did it." My sister walked forward and said she had done something she hadn't. she was punished for a month.
We didn't talk about that day for many years. Not until we were all older and I knew it was safe to finally tell my dad it was really me. I always felt sorry because of it. That was the last time I let anyone _ for me. I told myself, "One must see to what he or she has done." | 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 of the holiday homework is the same from school to school, this makes it possible for some people to sell the homework answers on the Internet. Usually one must pay about 50 to 100 yuan for the answers for one subject of the homework. A survey shows that 90% of the students complain their homework is too much and they don't want to do it by themselves.
To solve the problem, some schools have stopped using the standard homework and turned to other forms of homework. As for students, they must remember "No pains, no gains". If today they pay for their homework answers, perhaps one day they will pay more for their laziness . | 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 animals. Now she has a problem. She can't find any vegetarian chefs on the computer, so she says she will be the first vegetarian chef, and also the best one in the U.S.A..
Kelly Brown has a *website for herself and other people. It is www.theveggiechef.net. She makes cooking *videos. "I don't like to cook with things from animals," she says. "When I want one egg, I just put in water and *arrowroot. It *tastes the same as an egg."
Now her website is very popular and it helps many people a lot. Every day about 3,000 people learn to cook a healthy meal there. To thank her for helping animals, the organization PETA calls her a "Kind Kid". Do you want to be a vegetarian chef like Kelly Brown? | 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 during the summer. The sky is blue, the air is fresh, and birds sing in the garden. People who live in Sydney seem to have an easy life style. They will tell you, "Don't worry. "
Many people think that Sydney is one of the most attractive cities in the world. It has many tall and modern buildings. Among them, Center point Tower is the tallest. Standing on the 305-metre(80 storeys)tower, you will have a great view of the city.
Sydney is famous for its deep harbor . The harbor has many bays and beautiful surf beaches. Among them, Bondi beach is the most popular. Sydney Harbor is not only beautiful, it also serves as a large port. Ships carry wool, wheat and meat from Sydney to other countries.
People living in Sydney like to call themselves Sydneysiders. They are mostly friendly and easygoing. When they are not working, they love to have a good time at the beach, swimming and sailing. | middle2378.txt |
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