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"answer_text": "The girls' creativity."
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"options": [
"The girls' poor marks.",
"The girls' skills against their mothers.",
"The girls' creativity.",
"The girls' tough attitude to their mothers."
],
"question": "What amazed C... | "When your mother scolds you, you can look elsewhere and think about other things. Just ignore her words. But remember: such a tough attitude cannot be used often."
These words are from a series of cartoons which outline skills for children to fight against their mothers. The images have created heated debate among Chi... | high5962.txt |
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"answer_text": "she was overcome with homesickness"
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"she thought she loved music more",
"she was overcome with homesickness",
"an Olympic gold was beyond her reach",
"the training for the Olympics was too hard"
],
... | In October 2010, I left my hometown and family in Virginia and moved to Iowa so I could be coached by Liang Chow. I'd been dreaming of an Olympic gold medal since I was eight -- but gradually, that dream seemed like a million miles away.
On January 2, 2012, while Mom was visiting me in Iowa, I told her, "I don't like ... | high17362.txt |
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"answer_text": "Central America"
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"options": [
"South America",
"Central America",
"Spain.",
"Africa"
],
"question": "According to historians, cacao trees were first planted in_.",
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... | Farmers grow cocoa trees in the shady areas of rainforests near the Earth's equator. These trees can be difficult to grow. They require an exact amount of water, warmth, soil and protection. After about five years, cocoa trees start producing large fruits called pods. The seeds inside these pods are harvested to make c... | high18051.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "live a better life"
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"options": [
"earn a lot of money",
"live a better life",
"pay attention to their health",
"keep healthy"
],
"question": "According to the passage, the reason why many people have to work ... | Nowadays many people have to work very hard in order to live a better life. And the hard they work, the less they pay attention to their health. But it's very important for us to keep healthy in our everyday life. Here are some ways for you to follow.
First, you should have a healthy diet. It's necessary to eat enoug... | high21808.txt |
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"answer_text": "Someone or something appearing different from others."
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"Someone or something appearing different from others.",
"Someone or something standing out of the group.",
"Someone or something arranged in pairs.",
... | Among the four skills in learning English ,which of these is the "Odd-Man-Out"?The answer is speaking. The other three you can do alone on your own. But you can't really speak alone! Speaking to yourself can be "dangerous" because men in white coats may come and take you away!
Where can you find people to speak English... | high3254.txt |
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"answer_text": "University graduates in the state are well trained."
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"University graduates in the state are well trained.",
"There's much support from the local government.",
"Many students in the state hope to be workers.",
... | Should universities focus on training workers for the next decade or curing diseases for the next century? A group of governors, educators, and CEOs weighed in on the best way universities can prepare for the future. They debated how the U.S. can take the responsibility for research while still preparing students for r... | high11713.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "feel it harder to experience happiness ."
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"options": [
"feel it harder to experience happiness .",
"associate their happiness less with others",
"will take fewer risks in pursuing happiness",
"tend to believe respons... | When asked about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, an absolute delight, which seems to get rarer the older we get.
For kids, happiness has a magical quality. Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved .
In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it's c... | high7032.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because she was too tired to talk to Lydia."
},
"options": [
"Because she thought her keeping silence was better for Lydia.",
"Because she didn't know how to comfort Lydia.",
"Because she was too tired to talk to Lydia.",
... | After a very busy afternoon,as I walked into my house,I heard the phone ringing. It was my friend Lydia,upset over an argument with her husband. My usual approach is to offer advice,but this time,exhausted from chores,I simply sat down in a chair and listened to my friend's frustration and sadness. Without the disturb... | high15575.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "respect your opinion even if he/she disagrees with it"
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"follow your advice",
"offer a solution for your problems",
"listen immediately to your problems",
"respect your opinion even if he/she disagrees wi... | People all need friends because nobody wants to be lonely and a friend can help you in good and bad times. You've made friends since childhood, but you still don't know who your true friends are. Here are some signs to tell you if your friend is a true friend:
Always honest
Honesty is important to keep a relationship a... | high8301.txt |
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"answer_text": "The former is closer to the nature of scientific research."
},
"options": [
"They cannot exist in a research at the same time.",
"The former one is of greater importance than the latter.",
"The latter one is more scientific t... | "Hypotheses ," said Medawarin 1964, "are imaginative and inspirational in character"; they are "adventures of the mind". He was arguing in favour of the position taken by Karl Popper that the nature of scientific method is hypothetico-deductive and not, as is generally believed, inductive.
The myth of scientific metho... | high13104.txt |
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"answer_text": "Google raised almost two billion dollars from its first public stock sale."
},
"options": [
"Google's first public stock sale began in 2005.",
"Google is the world's most valuable company.",
"Google's share price rose after i... | Investors soon will be able to own shares of Facebook stock. The world's biggest social media network presented documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. The documents are required before the company can make its initial public offering or IPO. A date for the stock sale has yet to be announced.
... | high29.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "what kind of person we should make friends with"
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"how to make friends with others",
"how to help friends",
"what kind of person the writer's friend is",
"what kind of person we should make friends with"
... | A friend is better than fortune. A friend is worse than poison in some cases.
The two sentences above have opposite meanings and seem to be unreasonable, but they can be explained as follows: the first refers to all good friends who drive us towards good while the second all bad ones who lead us into bad ways.
My ideal... | high1325.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Eighty."
},
"options": [
"Sixty.",
"Seventy.",
"Eighty.",
"Not known."
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"question": "According to the passage, how old is the author now?",
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"answer": {
"answer_inde... | My passage into eighties a few weeks ago gave me a moment's reflection and the thought that I should watch how others in this situation have been affected. After a while it seemed to me that the first 80 years are the hardest.
Once you reach 80, everyone wants to carry your baggage and help you up steps. If you forge... | high23979.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "criticize the old beliefs and superstitions as silly or childish"
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"collect as many records of old beliefs and practices as possible",
"compare the present customs with those of the olden times",
"criticize the... | Folklore is the branch of the study of man which deals with local customs, tales and traditions. Everybody is a storehouse of folklore, though not everybody realizes it. Often, in deed, those who have never heard the word folklore have the greatest store of it, for the people with least book education commonly cherish ... | high7754.txt |
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"answer_text": "What's a University Education worth in the UK?"
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"What's a University Education worth in the UK?",
"There is a lot of competition in the UK",
"There won't be any University Place left for British students",
... | In 2006, the UK government started to allow universities in England and Wales to charge British students tuition fees. More than 80 percent of students in England and Wales now take out a student loan in order to go to university. They use the loan to pay for tuition fees, books and living expenses. Although the int... | high869.txt |
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"answer_text": "things didn't go on smoothly"
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"options": [
"Fujiyama was supported by many friends",
"things didn't go on smoothly",
"Fujiyama had little idea of Honduras",
"many famous people joined in"
],
"question": "At t... | Born in a fishing village in Japan, Fujiyama, 25, recalls a childhood dominated by health concerns. Doctors told his parents that he had a hole in his heart and "they didn't think I had a lot longer to live". But during a later visit to the doctor, his family learned the hole had closed. "Somehow I was cured and I beca... | high15213.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because he never thought he had so many annoyances in his wife's eyes."
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"options": [
"Because he had no courage to face his shortcomings.",
"Because he never thought he had so many annoyances in his wife's eyes.",
"Because... | A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.
A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a piece of advice, "I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how w... | high8467.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he thought the light house were more important than him"
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"he thought the light house were more important than him",
"he had to help the keeper make his way",
"he was forgotten by all the people",
"his la... | The Oil Lamp and the Lighthouse
On an island off the coast of a rocky shore stood a great lighthouse. During the day, the white walls of the lighthouse shined under the sunlight, while at night it burned a light for those at sea. Many people visited the lighthouse, and when they did, they commented on its size and stre... | high19429.txt |
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"answer_text": "It was ruled by Russia, and Poles served in the Russian army."
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"options": [
"Polish officers in the Russian army had to return to Poland.",
"Russia was at war with Poland, so the Poles were enemies.",
"The Russians were ve... | Prince Roman was a Polish nobleman, a captain in the army of Czar Nicholas of Russia. When his young wife died, the prince left the army and returned in sorrow to his native Poland.
In time, love for his country and its people took the place of his lost love. He joined a Polish rising against the Russians. The rising w... | high3532.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Kind."
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"options": [
"Lovely.",
"Strict.",
"Clever.",
"Kind."
],
"question": "Which of the following can best describe Mrs. Amatuli?",
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1... | Mrs. Amatuli was my teacher in the fourth grade.
One day at lunch time, I was getting ready to eat my same old tuna fish sandwich and suddenly Mrs. Amatuli asked me if she could buy my sandwich from me. She explained that I could use the money to buy a hot lunch from the cafeteria.
I was thrilled. I never bought my lun... | high11075.txt |
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"answer_text": "these companies had not enough money to buy such expensive computers"
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"these companies had not enough money to buy such expensive computers",
"these computers could not do the work that small computers can do today"... | Without most people realizing it, there has been a revolution in office work over the last ten years. Before that time, large computers were only used by large, rich companies that could afford the investment. With the advancement of technology, small computers have come onto the market, which are capable of doing the ... | high17404.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "taboo"
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"cheerful topics",
"taboo",
"rude topics",
"topics that can never be talked about"
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"question": "The author considers politics and religion _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions... | Informal conversation is an important part of any business relationship.Before you start a discussion,however,make sure you understand which topics are suitable and which are considered taboo in a particular culture. Latin Americans enjoy sharing information about their local history, art and customs.You may expect que... | high5143.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "ideas and views in the book Emotional Intelligence"
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"the widespread reports in American newspapers",
"own observations and doubts about life and emotions",
"ideas and views in the book Emotional Intelligence",... | The first time that I had heard the term"EQ"was in the fall of 1995 when the book Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman, was widely covered by the American press. The widespread research presented in the book supported my own observations and doubts about life and emotions, and told me that I was on the right track... | high18737.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "protein"
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"fat",
"carbohydrates",
"protein",
"calories"
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"question": "According to Wycherley's analysis, dieters should take in more _ .",
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... | Dieters' who eat meals high in protein might lose a bit more weight than those who get less protein and more carbohydrates all other things being equal, a new analysis of past studies suggests. Researchers found that over an average of 12 weeks, people having a highprotein diet lost about 1.8 extra pounds, and more bo... | high4249.txt |
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"answer_text": "She became blind and deaf sometime about January 1882."
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"options": [
"Helen Keller was born blind and deaf.",
"She first became blind and then deaf.",
"She became blind and deaf in 1880.",
"She became blind and deaf ... | Helen Keller was born in America in June, 1880. Everything was all right when she was born. But when she was 19 months old, an attack of fever left her blind and deaf for the rest of her life. She was so young when she became blind that as she grew older she did not remember being able to see; and she became deaf befor... | high3526.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "realize the dream of JP Gibson"
},
"options": [
"make the team more famous",
"realize the dream of JP Gibson",
"satisfy the taste of the fans",
"promote the\"Anything Can Be\" project"
],
"question": "Utah Jazz ... | SALT LAKE CITY--The Utah Jazz basketball team signed a 5-year-old.Free-agent player to a one-day contract for a special performance in October.The Utah Jazz has just made his dream come true.The boy has suffered from blood cancer since 2012.
JP Gibson,who was diagnosed with severe blood cancer,signed his contract with ... | high11061.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "is heavier than that in the South and the North Poles"
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"options": [
"is heavier than that in the South and the North Poles",
"has never occurred near the Equator of the earth",
"brings less of the water the world uses than... | Snow falls in the Earth's extreme North and South throughout the year. However, the heaviest snowfalls have been reported in the mountains of other areas during winter. Snow is even known to fall near the Equator ,but only on the highest mountains.
Snow contains much less water than rain, but much of the water the wor... | high2638.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "have achieved a great deal in"
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"have completed what was started",
"get ready to start",
"have achieved a great deal in",
"put an end to"
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"question": "The phrase \"be well on with ......\" (Par... | With fifteen years prefix = st1 /Britainand other nations should be well on with the building of huge industrial complexes for the recycling of waste . The word rubbish could lose its meaning because everything which goes into the dumps would be made into something useful . Even the most dangerous and unpleasant wastes... | high17410.txt |
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"answer_text": "Translation work remains to be strengthened."
},
"options": [
"There are. no good translators in the west.",
"No Chinese writers have ever won the Nobel Prize.",
"Western readers don't like Chinese literature.",
"Transl... | Swedish sinologist Malmqvist celebrated his 85th birthday with his 20 more students in the Dragon House restaurant in Stockholm on Monday. During the dinner, he accepted a brief interview with the people's Daily Online.
While refusing to answer the question relating to the Nobel Prize since he himself is a member ... | high18723.txt |
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"answer_text": "some people are against the woodfire controlling regulations"
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"uncertified fireplaces are forbidden in Idaho",
"some people are against the woodfire controlling regulations",
"only energy-efficient wood stoves... | In Greek mythology , fire is a gift form God, stolen from Zeus by Prometheus and handed over to humans suffering from cold. What could be more natural than sitting around a beautiful fire on a winter night, at a campsite in the Berkshires?
Hard as it may be to believe, the fireplace--long considered a trophy , particu... | high5157.txt |
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"answer_text": "It mainly offers seafood."
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"options": [
"It offers breakfast on weekends.",
"It is closed on Sundays.",
"It mainly offers seafood.",
"It is next to the sea."
],
"question": "What is special about Skull Creek ... | Hilton Head Island, in South Carolina, is a popular vacation spot on the East Coast of the US. There are 250 restaurants on the island. You can try the following excellent restaurants.
Skull Creek Boathouse
397 Squire Pope Road
843-681-3663
It's a good place for seafood lovers. Lunch is served daily from 11:30 a.m. to ... | high13676.txt |
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"answer_text": "A cat that falls from the fourth story of a building is more likely to die than one that falls from the 10th story."
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"options": [
"A pet cat that falls out of a tall building is not really at risk.",
"Sugar was lucky that she wa... | Is it true that cats have nine lives? One 4-year-old American cat named Sugar definitely seems to have more than one. Sugar fell from the 19th floor of her owner's home in Boston last month and was only hurt a little on her chest.
"This story isn't much of a surprise," said Jake Socha, a scientist at Virginia Tech Univ... | high1331.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The group was founded by a PE teacher."
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"options": [
"The group was first established in 2009.",
"The group was founded by a PE teacher.",
"The singers usually sing popular folk songs.",
"The singers learn to sing fr... | In 2009, the Taiwu Elementary School Folk Singers were invited to perform in Belgium, France, Germany, and Luxemburg. In 2011, they were voted as one of the world's top five performance groups by audiences of Japan Broadcasting Corporation's Amazing Voice program.
Thinking back the group's first tour in Europe, Camake ... | high12568.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "will spend less money"
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"wish to make alternations",
"will spend less money",
"want to make it better",
"can fit into the sizes"
],
"question": "According to the passage, people who buy ready-made... | Department stores sell ready- to-wear clothing, which is also called ready-made clothing. Such clothing is made in fixed sizes. Those people who find that ready-made clothing fits them well can save money by buying it. Most often, people do not fit exactly into a producer's size. Their clothing must be altered to make ... | high15207.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because Prahlada loves Lord Vishnu."
},
"options": [
"Because Prahlada doesn't love him.",
"Because Prahlada is rude to Holika.",
"Because Prahlada loves Lord Vishnu.",
"Because Prahlada concentrates on his own success.... | India has many festivals, with some celebrations that last for weeks. However, none of them come even close to Holi, India's most colorful and fun festival. Celebrated on the day following the full moon, this year's festival happens to be on March 19th.
As with most Indian festivals, this one also has many different fo... | high7026.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
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"Mary Had a Little Lamb",
"The Life of Mary Sawyer",
"The Origin of a Poem",
"An Animal Friend"
],
"question": "What is the best title for the passage?",
"question_ty... | One of the most famous nursery rhymes in the English language is Mary Had a Little Lamb .It has touched many children who have read it. It is about the deep love between a young girl and her pet lamb. The poem is from a true story that happened in the early part of the 19th century in the town of Sterling, Massachuset... | high8315.txt |
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"answer_text": "LCA can help manufacturing industries decrease carbon release a lot."
},
"options": [
"LCA is used to study the impact on a product.",
"LCA is one of the exhibitions at this year's fair.",
"LCA can help manufacturing industri... | "Developed and developing nations can learn from each other seeking a low-carbon economy. In terms of energy saving and green economy, China doesn't _ developed nations," said Zhou Changyi, director of the energy saving department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
"While we can learn many aspects ... | high13110.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "forgiveness"
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"pleasure",
"forgiveness",
"happiness",
"education"
],
"question": "According to the passage, the white ribbon in the big apple tree means _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questi... | John once told me a story about his friend, Michael. Michael happened to be on a train sitting next to a young man who seemed worried. Finally the young man told the friend that he was a convict returning home from a prison far away. What he did had brought shame on his family, and they had neither visited him nor ... | high1457.txt |
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"answer_text": "Melissa Hawkinson was kind and courageous."
},
"options": [
"Melissa Hawkinson was a 41-year-old nurse",
"it was spring when the accident happened",
"Melissa Hawkinson was picking up her five-year-old son",
"Melissa Haw... | On a cool November afternoon in Fleming Island, Florida, Melissa Hawkinson, 41, was driving her five-year-old twins home from school when she saw a sudden splash in Doctors Lake just ahead. What was that? She thought. As she drove up to the scene, she saw a half-submerged car sinking about 30 yards offshore. "It was go... | high6338.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the Dragon Boat Festival"
},
"options": [
"Chinese New Year",
"Mid-Autumn Festival",
"the Dragon Boat Festival",
"Halloween"
],
"question": "What's the name of this special festival? It's called _ .",
"qu... | There is an interesting festival in China. On that special day, people in Hunan province always have a dragon boat match. The dragon boat is quite long, like a dragon. There are pictures of dragons on each side. The front of the boat is like the head of a dragon. During the match, about twenty men in the boat make it m... | high17376.txt |
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"answer_text": "He doesn't seem to be an animal lover."
},
"options": [
"He is disappointed with his first wife.",
"His daughter treats him as her best friend.",
"He and Carmen don't have much in common.",
"He doesn't seem to be an ani... | My first wife and I only had one child. It might have been nice to have more. I would have liked a son, but we just had Carmen.
I see her as my best friend. I think she always comes to me first if she has a problem. We have the same sense of humor and share many interests; except that she's crazy about animals, ob... | high18045.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "According to FDA , Seanol reaches the agreed standard."
},
"options": [
"According to FDA , Seanol reaches the agreed standard.",
"Seanol can be fat soluble entirely.",
"Seanol is a common seaweed extract fromEcklonia Cava.",... | Today, the biggest killers stem as much from our lifestyles as from bacteria and viruses. One of the worst of these is heart disease, and specifically high blood pressure. It's a slow, but efficient killer that robs many people of what should be the last 10, 20 or 30 years of their lives.
Scientists are claiming that ... | high5631.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "escape from the adults and schoolwork"
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"have a taste of her favorite vegetables",
"help her grandfather cultivate the garden",
"escape from the adults and schoolwork",
"admire her grandfather's hard work... | My grandfather spent most of his life in a turbulent India. After settling in New York, he took up his true passion: gardening.
Grandfather's garden was where I took refuge from a world of adults and schoolwork. My grandfather cultivated squash and tomatoes -- it was not rare to find me somewhere in the garden, e... | high10419.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It could be the symbol of a university"
},
"options": [
"It was not historically recorded",
"Its horn was first used in France",
"It was similar to the Indian Ass and the Oryx",
"It could be the symbol of a university"
... | Despite the fact that it has never been seen almost everyone is familiar with the legendary unicorn . Descriptions of unicorns have been found dating from ancient times. The great philosopher Aristotle theorized that there were two types of unicorn--- the so-called Indian Ass and the Oryx, a kind of antelope. Unicorns ... | high3240.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "professional yoga teacher."
},
"options": [
"favorite yoga teacher.",
"professional yoga teacher.",
"world-known yoga teacher.",
"private yoga teacher."
],
"question": "Who will teach general learners yoga?",
... | Pure Yoga is devoted to serving the yoga community in Asia and beyond,offering a wide variety of classes such as Hatha Yoga,Hot Yoga,Yin Yoga Vinyasa,etc. Our yoga classes are offered and taught by nearly 200 professional yoga teachers. Private Yoga is also available for learners of all levels. Pure Yoga constantly in... | high11707.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "American Watersports"
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"Jet Ski Tours of Miami",
"Coconut's Watersports",
"15",
"American Watersports"
],
"question": "You should especially protect yourself from sun burnt while visiting _ ."... | American Watersports Tuesday-Saturday
Located on the beach of the Sea Gardens Beach Resort, there are fun things to
rent for the whole family. They offer rentals for kayaks, jet skis, and even parasail!
Enjoy the water up-close or from a bird's eye view! No matter what activity you're
enjoying, be sure to protect yours... | high15549.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "do not need to write the answers down"
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"I won't decide about that until I see the bill." I said.
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A cool place to ho... | high855.txt |
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One of the studies looked at nearly 400 northern California third-graders. Those with TVs in their bedrooms scor... | high13886.txt |
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Surprisingly little has been published on the subject of parental lying, so Gail Heyman, professo... | high23789.txt |
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Cat security -- It's not easy keeping the ground ... | high4275.txt |
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Enjoy:
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l Free basic computer training from our computer school
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Fair Way
The Westborough High School golf team had taken the official photos with the state prize, The other teams, disappointed, were on the bus heading home. And then Westborough instructor Greg Rota noticed something wrong on one of the score cards.
A 9 had been recorded as a 7. They were not the state p... | high19367.txt |
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"No matter how life treats him, he always ... | high16054.txt |
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This nature reserve has had a lot of work done recently in order to help butterflies. Management of ... | high12232.txt |
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Previous research has shown that keeping food and exercise diaries improves the likelihood of success when you are trying to lose weight. Using a computer or a pen and pape... | high14643.txt |
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},
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"suggest that we no... | Energy goes from one plant or animal to another. A food chain shows how this energy moves. Each time an animal gets eaten, its energy is passed onto the animal that eats it. The food chain is very important because it keeps the balance of nature. If one part of the food chain disappears, it can affect all the other pla... | high9037.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It is a way to lift the restriction specially imposed by the Iphone manufacturer."
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"traveled by boat"
],
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"question_type": "cl... | Tourism probably started in Roman times. Rich Romans visited friends and family who were working in another part of the Roman Empire. But when the empire broke down,this kind of tourism stopped.
In the early 17th century, the idea of the "Grand Tour" was born. Rich young English people sailed across the English Channel... | high1480.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "RoadRagehasreceivedmuchmediacoverageinthelastfewmonths"
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"Why plastic is dangerous to the sea turtle.",
"Sea turtles suffering from plastic pollution.",
"Protecting t... | At first sight, you would think the collection of hundreds of color1ed shards could be a work of abstract art. But the objects are the contents of the stomach of a sea turtle that lost its battle with plastic pollution.
Environmentalists examined the stomach of the turtle found off the coast of Argentina. What t... | high23004.txt |
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*Do the map reading if you're being driven somewhere. It'll be easier ... | high14870.txt |
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