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"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "clean the school toilets"
},
"options": [
"do homework only",
"finish homework at school",
"clean the playground",
"clean the school toilets"
],
"question": "A primary school in Fuzhou required the students to ... | Students at a primary school in Fuzhou, Hast China's Fujian Province were required to clean the school toilets to help them develop good habits. But some parents are strongly against the idea. They can't see the advantages of students doing such chores . They think that the school should provide students with a proper... | middle7349.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "reality TV programs"
},
"options": [
"reality TV programs",
"original stories",
"legends",
"novels"
],
"question": "The three movies are from _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer"... | This year's lunar New Year holiday season is likely to see the fierce competitions at the country's box office among three movies that come from reality TV programs instead of legends, novels and original stories.
The Chinese movies Running Man, Where are We Going, Dad? II and Emperor's Holidays are all based on South... | middle4640.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "We will use cell phones as remote controls in the future."
},
"options": [
"In the future we will all need air conditioners.",
"Business people need to use computers.",
"Some people like to make phone calls to machines.",
... | Cell phones _ are all around us.We use cell phones to call our friends,send text messages,play games,and even take photographs. Now imagine using your cell phone to call your air conditioner . If this were possible you could tell your air conditioner to rum on before you got home.Does this sound impossible to you? Wel... | middle4898.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Peter Qwen: A wigmaker to the stars"
},
"options": [
"How Peter Qwen's wigs change people",
"Peter Qwen: A wigmaker to the stars",
"Peter Qwen: Making real and expensive wigs",
"Peter Qwen's wigs are important in a movi... | Peter Qwen has been making wigs since the 1980s . He has made wigs for the stars of more than seventy movies ,including Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow and Nicole Kidman in The Others. One of his biggest jobs so far has designed the hair and makeup for the three Lord o f the Ring movies . He ha... | middle2231.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "A hospital."
},
"options": [
"A post office.",
"A hospital.",
"A bank.",
"A hotel."
],
"question": "Where did I go last month?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_in... | Last month I had a health problem and had to see a doctor. After examining me,
The doctor said to me, "The result isn't too bad ." But you must excise often and have healthy food every day. In fact, I'm a lazy person. I never get up early to exercise. And I often have junk food because I like it. In order to be healt... | middle4654.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "12"
},
"options": [
"12",
"13",
"14",
"15"
],
"question": "The girl is _ years old.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "fat"
},... | There is a nice girl in our class. She is twelve. She is not tall and is not short. She is a little fat . She has a round face like an apple. She has big black eyes and a small nose. Her mouth is small, but her ears are big. Her hair is short and black. She likes red. She is often in a red skirt. But today she is in ... | middle6043.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "6"
},
"options": [
"4",
"5",
"6",
"7"
],
"question": "How many Disneyland parks can people visit in the world now?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
... | Disneyland in Shanghai
Built from 2011, Shanghai Disney Resort is the sixth Disneyland park in the world, and the first one on the Chinese mainland. Like other Disneyland parks, the one in Shanghai will have classic Disney characters and stories. But it will also have new attractions designed for Chinese people. It is ... | middle6725.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "New York"
},
"options": [
"New York",
"London",
"Paris",
"Beijing"
],
"question": "Cathy's family went to _ for their summer vacation.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answer": {
... | Last summer, Cathy's family went to New York City for their summer vacation. They stay there for two weeks. New York City has about seven and a half million people. _ is the largest city in the United States.
First they visited the Statue of Liberty. It is one of New York's most well-known historical sites . Millions o... | middle2543.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "It can travel back in time."
},
"options": [
"It can walk and talk.",
"It can help me with my homework.",
"It can send me message.",
"It can travel back in time."
],
"question": "An e-friend can do the following... | Life in the year 3044 is very different from life in the 21st century . We still do many of the things you did, but we do them differently. For example, we now have e-friends to help us and keep us company. An e-friend is a machine that looks just like a human being. It can walk and talk like humans and can do almost t... | middle3885.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a waiter or waitress"
},
"options": [
"a secretary",
"a waiter or waitress",
"an accountant",
"a salesclerk"
],
"question": "If you don't know how to use a computer, you can just apply for the position as _ .... | Want to find a job? Now read the following advertisements.
FAIRMONT HOTEL
Five Waiters and Ten Waitresses
-- Aged under 22
-- At least high school graduate
-- Good-looking; men at least 1.72 meters tall and women at least 1.65
-- Those knowing foreign languages favoured
-- Paid 1 600--2 200 dollars per month
One Secret... | high11303.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "keep the first artist's painting a secret."
},
"options": [
"help them concentrate on their work.",
"keep the first artist's painting a secret.",
"prevent their painting from being seen.",
"make it hare for them exchang... | There lived a king who liked art. One day an artist offered to paint the most
beautiful picture in the world on the wall of his palace.
So the king said, "All right, you may work on one of the walls in the new hall." Just then, another artist said, " Please allow me to work on the opposite wall. I shall make exactly wh... | high3644.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "pretending to be coughing"
},
"options": [
"pretending to be coughing",
"having an unforced smile",
"blowing a kiss",
"showing your teeth"
],
"question": "The mouth may make your weakness known by _ according... | Most good interviewers will make an effort to establish and keep eye contact. Make sure that you do not find yourself looking down or away. If you wear glasses, be sure to buy the non-glare lenses. Do not stare.
Rapidly nodding your head can leave the impression that you are impatient and too eager to add something to... | high19987.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Because it had a sign of dying away."
},
"options": [
"Because it was difficult to take care of.",
"Because it had a sign of dying away.",
"Because it grew in a wrong place.",
"Because its leaves were always falling."
... | I lost both of my parents in a tragic car accident when I was five. Fortunately, at that age a child doesn't understand the finality of such an event.
Many years later, at the age of twenty-three, I was planning my wedding to Sheldon, who came from a complete loving family, the type I expect. Sheldon and I had already ... | high18441.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "To work is a blessing"
},
"options": [
"Inspiration from a woman",
"My chosen way of life",
"Why should I work",
"To work is a blessing"
],
"question": "Which can be the best title of the text?",
"question_t... | When I was 12, I got a part-time job on a dairy farm, milking cows. We milked 65 cows twice a day. One day, I complained to my father about having to go milk those cows, saying it was tiring. He said, you know, boy, to work is a blessing. I looked at the men who'd worked harder. I had a feeling I had been told somethin... | high17772.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Pay & 2.5 for an e - book version."
},
"options": [
"Order it from the local bookstores.",
"Download it from the Internet for free.",
"Send emails to King.",
"Pay & 2.5 for an e - book version."
],
"question": "... | Best-selling horror writer Stephen has another hit on his hands - but don't go looking for it at our bookstore. King's new ghost story, Riding the Bullet is only available on the Internet. The story - which King wrote while he was recovering from serious injuries which happened to him in a hit - and - run accident near... | high22911.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "We don't pay enough attention to home accidents"
},
"options": [
"we take the same degree of care in our homes",
"We don't care much about the accidents in large hospitals",
"We don't pay enough attention to home accidents",
... | Now we're always hearing about road accident, and when we're in a car we try to drive carefully, but how many of us take the same degree of care in our homes? Any large hospital will tell you the number of the accidents that happen in the home is almost the same as those on the road.
One of the commonest and most dange... | high1053.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Some of the national palace had fallen to the ground."
},
"options": [
"The headquarters of the UN mission was totally destroyed.",
"Some of the national palace had fallen to the ground.",
"A hospital was partly ruined in Pet... | A fierce earthquake struck HaitionJanuary 12, 2010, causing a crowded hospital to fall down and countless houses and buildings were destroyed.
The earthquake, the worst in the region in more than 200 years, with a magnitude estimated at 7.0, struck just before 5 p.m. about 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, leaving ... | high8711.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "He used letters in a special way in them"
},
"options": [
"Their titles are all written with capital letters.",
"A special capital letter is used in them to refer to the writer.",
"He used \"Y\" to refer to \"you\".",
"... | Edward Estlin Cummings was a poet well-known for how he wrote his poems He wrote his poems with capital letters in the words . For example, the title of one of his poems is "The little horse is newlY" The "Y" is a capital letter. He also used "i" instead of "I" to refer to himself in the poems.
Edward was born on Oct... | high15165.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "How to teach a child about money."
},
"options": [
"How to develop a child's initiative.",
"How to work up an amount of pocket money.",
"How to teach a child to save money.",
"How to teach a child about money."
],
... | An allowance is an important tool for teaching kids how to budget, save and make their own decisions. Children remember and learn from mistakes when their own dollars are lost or spent foolishly.
How large an allowance is appropriate? Experts say there is not right amount. Actual amounts differ from region to region, a... | high7422.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "can be used to benefit humans"
},
"options": [
"may cause oil to spill",
"can be used to benefit humans",
"are the major causes of infection",
"are more likely to be found on ships"
],
"question": "We learn from... | Scientists from England's Newcastle University have discovered that bacteria have the ability to detect smells, according to a study by the university on Sunday.
The team of scientists, led by Dr. Reindert Nijland, discovered that bacteria can detect certain types of smell- producing chemicals, including ammonia tha... | high8077.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Missy."
},
"options": [
"Marty.",
"Missy.",
"Fletcher.",
"Charlie"
],
"question": "Which of the following is probably the name of a dog?",
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"answer": {
"answer_index":... | Back to the Future
With the help of a local inventor's time machine, Marty travels back to the 1950s. There his 80s hipness stands out, and he inadvertently interferes with the fledgling romance of his parents-to-be. Can Marty keep them together? He'd better, or his own future will fade away. Featuring: Christopher Llo... | high7344.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "collect information about owls"
},
"options": [
"catch owls",
"collect information about owls",
"record the call of owls",
"carry out an experiment on owls"
],
"question": "Annie and her father went to the state... | Annie slept in the front of the seat with her father drove through the darkness. "We're almost there!" Dad announced cheerfully. "Soon well be observing and counting owls at the state park." Yawning, Annie nodded and smiled. The time was 4:30 a.m. Looking out into the darkness, Annie remembered learning in school that ... | high13272.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "to have his meal"
},
"options": [
"for his bag",
"to see the runner",
"to have his meal",
"for his pen"
],
"question": "Tom Brown went to the restaurant _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | Once a great boxer , Tom Brown, went to a restaurant for dinner. He put his bag near the door, but he was afraid that someone would take it. So he got out a pen and a piece of paper and wrote on it: "The great boxer, Tom Brown, left his bag here. He'll come back in a few minutes. " He put the paper on his bag and went... | high5553.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Step Ahead"
},
"options": [
"Tree House",
"Theme-based and Honors Courses",
"Step Ahead",
"Jump Into English, Kids World, Kids Club"
],
"question": "A child who hasn't learned English before can choose _ to ... | Tree House
The Tree House program is for students with an English or bilingual preschool background. Foreign teachers further develop students' natural English speaking skills from 1st through 6th grades in a total immersion environment. The program is theme-based with different units or themes per semester. Each unit ... | high4895.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The History of Magic"
},
"options": [
"Magical Tricks",
"The History of Magic",
"Magic as Entertainment",
"A Great Magician"
],
"question": "What would be the best title for the passage?",
"question_type": n... | Magic is believed to have begun with the Egyptians, in 1700 BC. A magician named Dedi of Dedsnefu was reported to have performed for the pharaoh, or the king. He was also known to have entertained the slaves who built the pyramids. The "Cups and Balls" trick which he was particularly good at is still performed by magic... | high11465.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the inability of dealing with relationships"
},
"options": [
"parents not understanding their children",
"the rising levels of stress and anxiety among young people",
"the inability of dealing with relationships",
"incr... | A recent survey shows that the alarming rate of child suicide in Hong Kong, raising levels of stress and anxiety among young people, increasing conflicts between children and teachers, and children's complaints that their parents do not understand their problems--all point to a drop in "emotional quotient" (EQ) , the... | high3122.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Boys are held back by women teachers."
},
"options": [
"Boys are less clever than girls in school.",
"The best way to deal with naughty boys.",
"Women teachers should be patient to boys.",
"Boys are held back by women t... | Women teachers are holding back boy students by blaming them for typically male behavior, according to a new study.
Women teachers are always saying that boys are "silly" in class. They refuse to "sit nicely like girls" and are more likely to be addicted to "schoolboy tricks".Women teachers may also keep low expectatio... | high19039.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the feasibility of sending a Venus Being to Earth"
},
"options": [
"the feasibility of landing a satellite on Earth",
"the possibility of making a first-rate flying saucer",
"the feasibility of sending a Venus Being to Earth"... | There was great excitement on the planet of Venus . Venusian scientists managed to land a satellite on the planet Earth, and it has been sending back signals as well as photographs ever since.
The satellite was directed into an area known as Manhattan, named after the great Venusian astronomer Professor. Manhattan, w... | high5547.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the mother was happy to have dinner with her son"
},
"options": [
"the mother was happy to have dinner with her son",
"the author doesn't like his work and his three children",
"the author and his mother went to a high-class ... | After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. The other woman my wife wanted me to visit was my mother, who has been a widow for 19 years, but the demands of my work and my three children had made it impossible to visit her often.
That Friday after work, when I arrived ... | high18333.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "to gain experience as a parent"
},
"options": [
"to take a doll home for fun",
"to gain experience as a parent",
"to learn to be a good baby-sitter",
"to learn to better care for others"
],
"question": "The chil... | Last year in my high school child-development class,each student had to take the "Think-It-Over" baby home for a night to get a taste of parenthood.
It was a Friday night when my turn came to take the 10-pound plastic doll home. The doll really did look like a live baby from a distance. It even had a pleasant baby pow... | high17000.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "arteries turning narrower"
},
"options": [
"brains becoming cleverer",
"faces having fewer wrinkles",
"arteries turning narrower",
"genes being changed"
],
"question": "In the author's opinion, when you exercise... | Life is to be enjoyed. There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better. When people eat more healthfully, exercise, quit smoking, and manage stress better, they find that they feel so much better that it reconstructs the reason for making these changes from fear of dyi... | high4881.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Because his parents wanted him to do better in his math."
},
"options": [
"Because he could eat well there.",
"Because he could learn more about nuns.",
"Because his parents wanted him to do better in his math.",
"Becau... | Little Tommy was doing very badly in math. His parents had tried everything -- tutors, cards, special learning centers -- in short, everything they could think of. Finally they took Tommy to a catholic school.
After the first day, little Tommy came home with a very serious look on his face. He didn't kiss his mother h... | high11471.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Nancy's office gathers used clothes from women"
},
"options": [
"Nancy's grandfather lent her the money to set up the office.",
"Nancy's office gathers used clothes from women",
"Low-income women can get jobs at \"Dress for S... | When Nancy Lublin received $5,000 from her grandfather, she never once considered taking a vacation or paying off student loans .Instead, the 24-year-old New York University law student began thinking about helping low-income women get better jobs. "If a woman goes for a job interview poorly dressed, she won't get the... | high20874.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because he thinks the dog is treated extremely well."
},
"options": [
"Because he is always in poor health and falls ill.",
"Because a Maltese dog lives longer than a human being.",
"Because his grandparents left him a large ... | If you want to know how crazy people can be about their pets, you might remember that Helmsley left $12 million to her little Maltese dog when she died last year.
The dog's name is Trouble. And apparendy Trouble is still alive. Of course, I would hang on,too, if someone left me $12 million. Look! Top-shelf dog food, so... | high3136.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "The coin is of high quality and worth collecting."
},
"options": [
"The coin is of high quality and worth collecting.",
"The coin can be circulated as a currency.",
"Limited supplies guarantee a stable price of the coin.",
... | This is What a REAL Silver Dollar Looks Like
If you trust in the yen, the euro, and the dollar... stop reading. Because this is a story about the silver coin EVERYBODY wants.
You read the headlines. You know that troubled economic times have put global currency on a rollercoasterride. But millions have found a smarter ... | high4659.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "parent fans swore and fought outside the pitch"
},
"options": [
"players abused spectators in the matches",
"parent fans swore and fought outside the pitch",
"school teachers persuaded the government to call them off",
... | Parent fans, both dads and mums, are shaming British football with their bad behaviour. Hundreds of junior soccer matches had to be abandoned last season because parent fans were swearing or even fighting on the touchline. At schools and clubs across the UK, hundreds of more matches also had to be called off for the sa... | high15617.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "American people's health is threatened by automobiles"
},
"options": [
"Americans are used to travelling by cars",
"American public transportation is growing worse",
"American car industry caused disastrous road accidents",
... | Three Yale University professors agreed in a discussion that the automobile was what one of them called "Public Health Enemy No. 1 in this century". Besides polluting the air and overcrowding the cities, cars are involved in more than half the disastrous accidents, and they contribute to heart disease "because we won't... | high8063.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "make sure they mean no harm"
},
"options": [
"make sure they mean no harm",
"read them again and again",
"say something good to hear",
"repeat them later to his face"
],
"question": "When you send short messages... | Thanks to the Internet, a whole new online world has been opened up for us to meet, chat and go where we've never been before.
But just as in face to face communication, there are some rules of behavior that should be followed when on line. The basic rule is simple: treat others in the same way you would want to be tr... | high1721.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "he could pay more attention to his study"
},
"options": [
"he could finish his homework on time",
"he couldn't bother the author",
"he could pay more attention to his study",
"he could keep silent in the room"
],
... | I am a strong believer that if a child is raised with approval he learns to love himself and will be successful in his own way.
Several weeks ago, I was doing homework with my son in the third grade and he kept standing up from his chair. I kept asking him to sit down, telling him that he would concentrate better. He s... | high13266.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Boys are going feminine."
},
"options": [
"Girls are growing like boys.",
"Boys are going feminine.",
"There are really time-traveling beings.",
"Alien movies are popular with children."
],
"question": "What is ... | I have two kids, a boy and a girl. I don't worry about my girl; I'm sure she'll be well trained in mixed martial arts. I worry about my son. I'm pretty sure he's going to be feminine . Sorry to say that, but let's face it. No dad wants his son to go feminine.
At the rate we're moving in a couple of years you won't be ... | high14509.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "It is similar to the sports like football or running."
},
"options": [
"It is a type of exercise which benefits the body and mind.",
"It makes muscles and joints stronger by stretching.",
"It contains exercise,breathing and m... | There was a sweet smell of incense in the air as the wellmuscled man moved his legs into a position well behind his head.It was something that the human body really should not be able to do.But what else would you expect at the First World Yoga Championships?
On September 25,the world's leading yoga experts arrived i... | high6728.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "written in \"The Dump\""
},
"options": [
"first published on a newspaper",
"awarded ten Academy Awards",
"written in \"The Dump\"",
"adapted from a movie"
],
"question": "The bookGone with the Wind was _ .",
... | The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writingGone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story... | high1047.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "roller-skating in big cities"
},
"options": [
"places and streets for roller-skating",
"roller-skating in big cities",
"London Skate Event",
"roller skaters in different countries"
],
"question": "This article m... | You are standing under the most famous neon lights in the centre of prefix = st1 /London, waiting to cross the road. Suddenly the traffic stops. You hear the distant sounds of cheering, clapping and shouting. Then, like a multi-color1ed train, 2, 000 people with wheels on their feet zoom past you. You have just witness... | high22905.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because they have internal temperature regulating systems."
},
"options": [
"Because their bodies are unusually efficient.",
"Because they experience different climates.",
"Because they can adjust to cultural patterns and tec... | Humans and many other mammals have unusually efficient internal temperature regulating systems that automatically maintain stable core body temperatures in cold winters and warm summers. In addition, people have developed cultural patterns and technologies that help them adjust to extremes of temperature and humidity .... | high13500.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "teacher"
},
"options": [
"poet",
"painter",
"teacher",
"student"
],
"question": "The writer of the passage is probably a _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_ind... | In a recent class I was asked "What is a short story?" My first answer was that it was something that could be read in one sitting and brought an illumination to the reader, sudden and golden like sunlight cracking(, ) through a heavy cloud. I went on to say that in my opinion a "real" short story was closer to poetry ... | high15171.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "\"You shouldn't have wasted money on repairing your dryer.\""
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"To recommend the dictionary to readers.",
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There it is - your selfie.
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Clearly... | high15159.txt |
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"Oh, hello," I said, remembering he was a new neighbor. "Simpson, isn't it?"
"Yes, that's right." He seemed quite pleased by my ready recognition.
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"He was exhausted while he was working at his office.",
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Chinese taikonauts, Jing Haipeng, 50, and Chen Dong, 37, were _ into space onboard Shenzhou-11 at 7:30 am Monday and will spend 30 days in the Chinese space laboratory Ti... | high14521.txt |
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"Becau... | I once thought that outer beauty is the only factor to become a great person.When I was young,I read many kinds of books,most of which described characters who are handsome or beautiful. So I think that being beautiful is the only way to become a success.
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"answer": {
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"Love messages may appear in newspapers."
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More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Romans celebrated a h... | high20690.txt |
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"Matthew and Marilla were Anne's parents.",
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"answer": {
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"Its victims were mostly women and children .",
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"people were fond of drinking beers in this pub.",
"he missed his two brothers living abroad very much.",
"this would help him become a local ... | A man walked into a small Irish pub and ordered three beers. Bartender was surprised, but he served that man three beers. One hour later the man ordered three beers again. The very next day that man ordered three beers again and drank quietly at a table. This repeated several times and shortly after the people of the t... | high14253.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "a university in America"
},
"options": [
"one of the states in America",
"the name of a Web site",
"another name for \"Columbus, Ohio\"",
"a university in America"
],
"question": "According to this passage, \"O... | Earlier, we explained how to begin a search for schools by going to one of the American educational advising centers around the world. We also discussed the rules for entering in the prefix = st1 /United States. And we talked about programs that can be completed online.
But if your goal is to come to the United Statest... | high22939.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "The Country Bear Playhouse will be closed."
},
"options": [
"The Country Bear Playhouse will be closed.",
"There will be a new attraction for our guests at Disneyland.",
"The number of visitors to the Country Bear Playhouse i... | Allen: I've never been in big fan of the bears, especially the vacation show. On my last trip to Disneyland (1999) we passed it by, because we didn't want to spend the time on something we didn't really enjoy. If we'd known it would be closed by our next visit, I'm sure we would have watched it one more time. I was jus... | high12622.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "dislike"
},
"options": [
"dislike",
"surprise",
"puzzle",
"interest"
],
"question": "What attitude did the children show to the doorman at first?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer":... | On the way to California, my family stopped for lunch. As we walked toward the entrance to the restaurant, a man with a dirty face jumped up from a chair, opened the door for us and greeted us in a friendly way.
Once inside, my daughters said in a low voice, "Mom, he smells." After we ordered our lunch, I explained, te... | high8739.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "is unhappy with the life they are living"
},
"options": [
"is easy to get along with",
"is unhappy with the life they are living",
"is good at observing and understanding",
"is never pleased with her neighbors"
],
... | My husband and children think they are very lucky that they are living and that it's Christmas again. We live on a dirty street in a dirty house among people who aren't much good. But Johnny and children can't see this,never can they see! What a pity it is that our neighbors have to make happiness out of all this dirt.... | high6927.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "it is time for our government to encourage people to use electric cars"
},
"options": [
"it is time for our government to encourage people to use electric cars",
"it can sell electric cars in large numbers now",
"consumers ar... | "Particulate Matter 2.5(PM2.5 for short)"is now ,it seems, officially an enemy of the people.The harmful,tiny pieces of matter,up to 2.5 microns in diameter, are too small to be seen by the naked eye.So they can be easily breathed into the lungs of people and do harm to people's health.With the issue of pollution so he... | high23414.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Relationships"
},
"options": [
"Relationships",
"Money",
"Challenges",
"Successful careers"
],
"question": "What brings career women more joy and happiness according to the passage?",
"question_type": null
... | Many independent Chinese women like to earn their own bread, even if their husbands are already bringing home the bacon. But a recent survey suggests that such women find more joy from relationships, rather than successful careers.
About 73 percent of the 7,000 women surveyed in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou said the... | high12811.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Hollywood films"
},
"options": [
"Chinese female film stars",
"Chinese male film stars",
"Hollywood films",
"Film stars in Hong Kong"
],
"question": "In some American women's eyes, Chinese men's images are bad b... | Chinese female film stars, like Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi, due to the charm of their films, have set a good image for Chinese women in the world. Compared with Chinese women, the image of Chinese men is not so good in the eyes of Western women, the Shanghai Evening Post reported.
In March 2006, Zhang Jiehai, a doctorate ... | high504.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "friends should share happiness as well as problems"
},
"options": [
"we must be careful when we choose our friends",
"friends should share happiness as well as problems",
"keeping long friendship is not easy",
"everyone... | One of the most important things in the world is friendship. In order to have friends, youhave to be a friend. You have to be with them in both good and bad times. In return, they will be there for you. But how can you be a good friend?
Listen. Listen when they are talking. Keep eye contact. Don't say anything unless ... | high19944.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "designed"
},
"options": [
"built",
"be put",
"designed",
"cut down"
],
"question": "In the second sentence of the passage, \"laid out\" means _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer"... | It is easy to find your way about in New York. It is _ so regularly. Instead of streets winding and twisting as they do in London, they are all regular and well planned. The streets running north and south are called "avenues" and are numbered, e.g. 1stAvenue, 2ndAvenue, etc. The streets going east and west are calle... | high2599.txt |
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