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"answer_text": "Because its windows looked golden."
},
"options": [
"Because there was a small garden.",
"Because it's magic.",
"Because it's ordinary.",
"Because its windows looked golden."
],
"question": "Why did the girl lon... | A little girl lived in a small, very simple, poor house on a hill and as she grew she would play in the small garden. There, she was able to see over the garden fence and across the valley to a wonderful house high on the hill. This house had golden windows, so golden and shining that the little girl would dream of how... | high3297.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "see something unexpected"
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"options": [
"see their friends in the street",
"see something unexpected",
"see something splendid",
"see something happy"
],
"question": "People may faint if they _ .",
"ques... | People faint when the normal blood supply to the brain is suddenly cut down. This can happen if they are surprised or shocked by sudden news or by something they see suddenly. Some people faint if they see others hurt .Some people faint in crowds. Others faint if they are in a room that is hot and stuffy.
If a person f... | high21613.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Muddy road"
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"options": [
"Falling trees",
"Thick dust",
"Muddy road",
"Many discomforts"
],
"question": "Which of the following mainly prevented people from travelling fast in the past?",
"question_type":... | People who traveled in the past had to put up with many discomforts which we do not have nowadays, and of course they traveled far more slowly. Roads were bad indeed and you often found you could not get along at all because of the mud. In dry weather many places were thick in dust and when it was stormy, trees might f... | high11908.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "was difficult to find"
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"options": [
"indicated tuna was a common dish for our early ancestors",
"showed the trend of sea movement",
"was difficult to find",
"was buried in cave shelters"
],
"question": "Accor... | The world's earliest known fish hooks show that humans fished in the open sea for much longer than previously thought. Past studies have shown that early humans were able to cross the open ocean as far back as 50,000 years ago, but evidence that they could fish while in the open sea dated back only to 12,000 years ag... | high18092.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "what the earring owner said moved him"
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"what the earring owner said moved him",
"he didn't want to be a driver any more",
"his friends helped him become positive",
"he was offered a better job in a hospi... | Around twenty years ago I was going through hard times. I could not find a satisfying job. To my shame, I had to drive a school bus to make ends meet and lived in a friend's house.
One afternoon, while driving through a quiet suburban neighborhood I was so sad that I kept asking myself "Why has my life become so hard... | high2189.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he can't have a pension and other benefits"
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"he cannot get any chance to get education",
"he can't have a pension and other benefits",
"his citizenship will be taken away",
"he has to take illegal part-t... | It has taken 90 years since she was born in a poor house in County Limerick for a woman considered America's oldest illegal immigrant to get her Irish passport.It will be a few more months before Josephine Stout will finally be declared a US citizen, entitling(...) her to a pension and other benefits.
Despite having li... | high5180.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Jack bribed the voters in order to gain a position of MP."
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"Jack was first educated by private tutors and eventually graduated from Cambridge University.",
"Jack joined the army and succeeded in defeating Napoleon's... | John "Mad Jack" Mytton (1796--1834) was a carefree English aristocrat who was born into immense wealth. However, he died a poor man after a life that was once described as " _ ". So, what went wrong?
As a young boy, Jack went to Westminster School, but after only one year he was expelled for fighting with a teacher. He... | high21175.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Put up a sign in his yard."
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"options": [
"Advertise them in the newspaper.",
"Put up a sign in his yard.",
"Show them to his neighbors.",
"Send pictures to a magazine."
],
"question": "How did the farmer adve... | A farmer had some puppies to sell. He painted a sign advertising them on the edge of his yard.
One day, a little boy came to buy one of the puppies. With a whistle , the farmer called, "Here, Dolly!" Out from the doghouse ran Dolly followed by _ . The little boy stood against the fence . His eyes danced with happiness.... | high2837.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Under the sea."
},
"options": [
"At the British Museum.",
"In New York.",
"In Egypt.",
"Under the sea."
],
"question": "According to the passage, where is the Egyptian mummy now?",
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},... | Is it possible that the sinking of the Titanic was caused by a ghost? A plot of the story below is true ... but did it really happen quite like this?
Our story begins not in the icy cold waters of the North Atlantic, but rather thousands of miles away in Egypt. It is here, perhaps, that we can find the start of the mys... | high13879.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "an advertisement"
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"a warning",
"a note",
"an advertisement",
"an announcement"
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"question": "The passage is most probably _ .",
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"answer":... | How many coins nave you got in your pocket right now? Three? Two? A bent one?
With a phonecard you can make up to 200 calls without any change at all.
(1) What do you do with it?
Go to a telephone box marked(you guessed it) "phonecard".Put in your card, make your call and when you've finished, a screen tells you how mu... | high7797.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Delivering newspapers."
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"options": [
"Repairing roofs.",
"Collecting old papers.",
"Picking rocks.",
"Delivering newspapers."
],
"question": "What work did the author do at the age of 12?",
"question_type... | I have forgotten the name of an old lady who was a customer on my paper route when I was a twelve-year-old boy back in 1954. Yet it seems like just yesterday that she taught me a lesson in forgiveness that I can only hope to pass on to someone else someday.
On a Saturday afternoon, a friend and I were throwing rocks on... | high6489.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He worked hard but he always complained."
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"He worked hard but he always complained.",
"He never showed respect to his co-workers.",
"Nobody liked Tony because of his bad temper.",
"He didn't care about h... | During his college years, Rogers spent his summer holidays at an Idaho logging camp . When Roy, the manager, had to leave for a few days, he put Rogers in charge. "What if the workers refuse to follow my orders?" Rogers asked. He thought of Tony, a worker who was always giving the other men a hard time. "Fire them," R... | high23762.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Edison's building"
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"options": [
"Edison's building",
"a small part of the city",
"the whole city",
"the world"
],
"question": "The generators they brought with them could produce as much as electricity as _... | Light for the City
Edison and his assistants came to New York to set up an electric power system. They hoped it would provide enough electricity to light up a part of the great city.
They bought several machines with them. These were called generators , which produced electricity power for lamps in Edison's building.
S... | high672.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Israel removed troops and all settlements from the Gaza Strip"
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"Israel removed troops and all settlements from the Gaza Strip",
"Israel had ten settlements in the West Bank",
"President Bush supported the prop... | President Bush this week announced his support for a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.Details published Friday said Israel would remove troops and all settlements from the Gaza Strip by the end of next year.About seven-thousand settlers live there.
Israel would also remove four settlements in the West Ba... | high7783.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "ask you to go to the center"
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"options": [
"give advice",
"introduce new ways of body-building",
"ask you to go to the center",
"introduce ways to lose weight"
],
"question": "The purpose of this passage is to... | With a busy life and job, pressure can make you look tired and aged.Kissi Health-Beauty Center gives classes, makes training plans according to your physical conditions, and sets up an individual file .All these things will help you to get to know your body and the way to keep it fit.
1)BODY-BUILDING
Imported gym eq... | high22468.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Each reason mentioned above is possible."
},
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"Professional teachers spend only a little time in teaching them.",
"It is a time full of computers and voice recognition programs.",
"They don't master the skills in ... | Do American children still learn handwriting in school? In this age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. Steve Graham, a professor at Vanderbilt University, says he has been hearing about the death of handwriting in the past fifteen years. So is it still being taught? Steve... | high23776.txt |
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"answer_text": "you can find public libraries almost everywhere"
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"you can find public libraries almost everywhere",
"there are too many McDonald's restaurants",
"restaurants are as important as libraries",
"it is conven... | On Monday, Sept.25, hundreds of people gathered outside the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C., to celebrate public libraries. For more than 100 years, libraries have played an important role in keeping America informed and educated. But how are these book-filled buildings changing with the times? You may be surpr... | high24019.txt |
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"answer_text": "The first sentence of the first paragraph."
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"The first sentence of the first paragraph.",
"The first sentence of the second paragraph.",
"The first sentence of the third paragraph.",
"The last sentence o... | Today just as technology changed the face of industry, farmers have undergone an "agricultural revolution". On the farm of today, machines provide all the power.
One of the most important benefits will be the farm computer. A few forward-looking farmers are already using computers to help them run their farms more effi... | high666.txt |
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"answer_text": "There are few color1-blind women."
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"options": [
"Women are more careful.",
"There are few color1-blind women.",
"Women are fonder of driving than men.",
"Women are weaker but quicker in thinking"
],
"question... | About ten men in every hundred suffer from color1 blindness in some way. Women are luckier, only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman!
There are different forms of color1 blindness. In some cases a man can not see deep red. He may think that red, o... | high16915.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "gum chewers tend to be less stressed"
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"gum chewers may lack alertness",
"gum chewers tend to be less stressed",
"gum chewers can finish many jobs perfectly",
"gum chewers can reduce their anxiety and ang... | Everyone may all have the experience of feeling anxious and stressed when having a rough day or having some troubles. Different people may choose different ways to deal with it, and for most people a break for a 10-minute walk may be quite useful.www.zxxk.com
Anyway, here is another way around: to get a piece of chewin... | high5194.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "hard"
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"enjoyable",
"wealthy",
"hard",
"comfortable"
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"question": "According to the passage, the author is leading a/an _ life.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"answer": ... | Like many men at some point, I dream about opening a bar. I plan to call it Work Out. It will cater to married women in need of a little fun. On Friday nights, they will be able to come here and enjoy themselves.
See, I have a gift for business. I am, as my wife Zsa Zsa likes to note, "A man with a million ideas, none ... | high2823.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "got to know \"grinnies\" was used only inside her family"
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"thought everyone knew the meaning of \"grinnies\"",
"equaled \"grinnies\" to bath or chocolate in meaning",
"got to know \"grinnies\" was used only in... | Until I was twelve years old, I thought everyone in the world knew about the grinnies, if I thought about the term at all -- which is unlikely. After all, everyone in my family used the word quite naturally, and we understood each other. So far as I knew, it was a word like any other word -- like bath, orchocolate, or... | high21161.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "negative"
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"satisfied",
"unconcerned",
"doubtful",
"negative"
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"question": "Bobby Walker's attitude towards the media might be _",
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"answer":... | What's your opinion about gun control in the US?
Figures tell a different story: Countries that allow their citizens to carry guns seem to have more killings than those that do not allow them. It's easy to kill with a gun. The media is filled with violence. People, especially young people, watch television. Having a gu... | high18938.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "convenience for exercise"
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"convenience for exercise",
"income from sightseeing",
"cleaner city streets",
"more plants and animals"
],
"question": "One of the advantages of the Greenbelt for peopl... | The Greenbelt, a wide belt of open land around the cities and towns of the San Francisco Bay Area, includes about 3.75 million of the Bay Area's 4.5 million acres. The Bay Area Greenbelt is one of the largest areas of open land in any U.S. urban area. Open land is land that has few buildings and lots of natural areas. ... | high3283.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "robots are all around us"
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"there are very few robots",
"we see robots only at certain times",
"robots are something new in our life",
"robots are all around us"
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"question": "In thisstory the a... | There are robots all around us,Some do very complicated jobs like flying airplanes and driving subway trains. And some do a simple job. When an automatic washing machine is switched on, water pours in. The machine waits until the water is hot before washing the clothes. It does this by "feedback". Information about wha... | high21607.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a business aspect"
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"options": [
"a business aspect",
"a military aspect",
"an academic aspect",
"an international aspect"
],
"question": "The proposal to lay a telegraph cable from Europe to America made ocea... | Oceanography has been defined as "The application of all sciences to the study of the sea".
Before the nineteenth century scientists with an interest in the sea were few and far between. Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his writings, but he was reluctant to go to sea to further his work.
... | high19398.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "everybody has a sense of direction from birth"
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"some babies are born with a sense of direction",
"people learn a sense of direction as they grow older",
"people never lose their sense of direction",
"eve... | You either have it, or you don't-- a sense of direction, that is. But why is it that some people could find their way across the Sahara without a map, while others can lose themselves in the next street?
Scientists say we're all born with a sense of direction, but it is not properly understood how it works. One theory... | high20519.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "he had already gained enough knowledge"
},
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"he should pay attention to details",
"he should keep learning every day",
"he had already gained enough knowledge",
"he should be very careful in order to succeed... | Once upon a time, there was a scholar who wanted to gain more knowledge each day even though he had already gained enough knowledge. One day, he came to visit a saint and wanted to be his student. The saint provided some tea. He slowly filled the scholar's cup: the cup was full, yet he kept pouring and pouring. The sch... | high100.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "give us advice on how to keep the brain healthy"
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"options": [
"inform us how the brain works",
"give us advice on how to keep the brain healthy",
"tell us that the brain plays an important role in our lives",
"show h... | Work your brain!
Between 2 and 3 pounds of wonder, it controls everything we say, do or think, who we are and what we care about, the way we walk or laugh or figure out things, what we like and the talents we possess, how we see and talk and run and jump and process our food.
The brain uses 20 percent of our body's oxy... | high23010.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Positive."
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"options": [
"Negative.",
"Positive.",
"Unknown.",
"Neutral."
],
"question": "What's Wu's attitude towards the 5G network technology?",
"question_type": null
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"ans... | China started late in network technologies and has lagged behind for years. With the rapid development of wireless technologies, the concept of the Fifth Generation (5G) mobile communication system started to emerge . Although the development of 5G network technology in the international community is still in the resea... | high14864.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "explain why men have been making the effort to create a language shared by all"
},
"options": [
"explain why men have been making the effort to create a language shared by all",
"explain why men now speak different languages",
... | A story from the Bible tells of old Babylon, where the men decided to build a tower that would touch the sky.But God was unhappy, and he made them speak different languages.They couldn't understand each other, so their dream never came true.
Yet the dream remains alive: if all men speak the same language, they can do a... | high16083.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "their bodies are preparing for sleep."
},
"options": [
"they are disturbed by others.",
"they are too tired to fall asleep.",
"their bodies are preparing for sleep.",
"they believe their lives are in danger."
],
... | Has this happened to you? You're about to drift off to sleep when suddenly you feel like you're falling or coming down on a roller coaster.
You then wake up to realize that you're safe in your bed. You may have been confused or frightened for a second or two and your heart may be beating faster. You may have also felt ... | high11934.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "be more easily touched by music"
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"options": [
"be better at playing the violin",
"be more easily touched by music",
"have more spare time",
"have more music knowledge"
],
"question": "Compared to their parent... | On a cold January morning in a Washington, DC Metro Station, a man with a violin played six great pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time about two thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
After three minutes a middle-aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his... | high20531.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Dad was so hurt that he left home and never came back."
},
"options": [
"A good-bye kiss from Dad in public made Frank so embarrassing that he refused to have one more kiss, any kind.",
"Dad was so hurt that he left home and never ... | When Frank began his story, we all listened. "I grew up in San Pedro. My Dad was a fisherman, and he loved the sea. He had his own boat, but it was hard making a living on the sea. He worked hard and would stay out until he caught enough to feed the family. Not just enough for our family, but also for his Mom and Dad a... | high128.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "9"
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"21",
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"15"
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"question": "The first Beijing Fair of National Culture and Art lasted _ days.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answer": {
"answer_index":... | The first Beijing Fair of National Culture and Art kicked off August 3 and ran till August 12. The fair features more than 21 old Beijing business brands, more than 80 examples of intangible cultural heritage and 6 official Olympics merchandise. One of the highlights is a show featuring 15 lanterns.
The fair aims at st... | high23038.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Her dream career ."
},
"options": [
"Her experience and figure.",
"Her wonderful voice",
"Her age and simplicity.",
"Her dream career ."
],
"question": "What shocked the audience most before Susan started to sin... | Susan Boyle was once a Scottish church volunteer. She decided to enter a competition named "British got Talent" at the age of 47years. On April 15th 2009, when Susan got up to sing, the audience was shocked by her age and simplicity.
Middle-aged women were not the usual type of competitor on the show and the audience w... | high14694.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they are concerned about the expense on the car"
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"they are not allowed by their parents",
"they are concerned about the expense on the car",
"they have no time to prepare for the driving test",
"they are... | Liz Parle can't drive. "I did try to learn," says the 24-year-old, Birmingham-born cafe owner, "but I failed my test a few times." Then she moved to London, where running a car can be a nightmare. Instead she cycles everywhere. "It's cheap, keeps me fit, and is of course better for the environment."
_ In Britain, th... | high22326.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Large food portions and fast food are common."
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"options": [
"They don't exercise enough.",
"Large food portions and fast food are common.",
"They use unhealthy dieting methods.",
"They believe that being fat is beaut... | The West is full of fast food and large amounts of food which contribute to many women's being fat. While many are fat, thin women are admired and seen as healthier. This has led to a culture of gym-going, strange dieting methods and, frequently, eating disorders. In the East, women tend to be smaller and many women ta... | high23986.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "doctors couldn't get praise for the hard job"
},
"options": [
"most patients were seriously ill",
"patients refused to express thanks",
"doctors had nothing to do on that day",
"doctors couldn't get praise for the hard ... | A Special Appointment
Years ago I moved to Woodland Hills to take a job in a small hospital's emergency department.No one wanted to work on Christmas Eve, so the shift went to me.I kissed my family goodbye and went off to spend the night in the hospital.It was a thankless job.
At 9 pm, the ambulance brought in a man ... | high12583.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A new device that can check whether online rumors are true or not."
},
"options": [
"Tips on how to deal with rumors online.",
"Factors that make rumors so easy to spread.",
"A new device that can check whether online rumors ... | A baby mermaid was just born in Finland; Justin Bibber is getting married; iphone 6 is going to be released this year...We read rumors every day on the Internet. With the help of social media, rumors -- no matter whether they are true or false -- spread like wildfire, and sometimes we can't be sure what to believe.
Now... | high8498.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because they couldn't sit together."
},
"options": [
"Because they couldn't sit together.",
"Because they wanted to enjoy the sea weaves.",
"Because there were no empty seats.",
"Because they preferred to stand."
],... | A few months ago I was at a bus stop in town in the evening. The bus came on time and I took the window seat. The bus was travelling by the seashore and I was enjoying the soft wind while watching the sea waves . After a few minutes the bus made its next stop. A young boy and a girl got on. They were standing on my le... | high896.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "are used widely by people all over the world"
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"have three basic parts in their system",
"are hardly able to heat water above 60degC",
"are used widely by people all over the world",
"can heat water even ... | Solar water heaters can use energy from the sun to heat water. They are used around the world. The solar water heater is based on a design developed some years ago in Afghanistan. Since then, it has been built and used in many countries. It can heat seventy liters of water to 60degC. It can do this between sunrise ... | high22440.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Wooster used to be a quiet and peaceful city surrounded by farmland"
},
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"it is unavoidable to destroy farmland when a city grows",
"Wooster used to be a quiet and peaceful city surrounded by farmland",
"with many... | In a world today of immense technology, population growth and economic flourish, planning for future residential and commercial developments needs careful analysis with well thought through assumptions about effects on the environment and the people of the community.
One example of a growing city is Wooster, Ohio, my... | high13845.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "placing more demands and restrictions on the design"
},
"options": [
"using south-facing windows to take in solar energy",
"Providing energy for taking a shower when it's rainy",
"supplying fresh air with a special heat recov... | Imagine a house that keeps itself warm in the wintertime. Think of the savings in terms of fuel bills and unfriendly emissions. Such houses in fact exist, called "passive houses". The concept of these highly energy-efficient buildings took root in the 1990s, before slowly consolidating as a niche construction concept... | high9786.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To introduce some innovative ways to help us eat healthier."
},
"options": [
"To give advice on how to become slim.",
"To warn people that nutrition education is important for our daily life.",
"To tell us that someone childr... | Most nutrition education isn't very effective. People know that an apple is better than a Snickers bar, but they often eat the Snickers bar anyway. After conducting hundreds of studies on the psychology of how and why we eat, I've seen that it's good to understand nutrition, but it's much better to change your eating e... | high7973.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "it makes you eat more"
},
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"it makes you sweat",
"it' s hard work",
"it tires you out",
"it makes you eat more"
],
"question": "There seems nothing wrong with exercise EXCEPT that _",
"question_... | Some people don't mind being fat. Other people can keep slim( ) without any effort. But a lot of people do put on too much weight and don't like it. The question is : what can they do about it? Some believe exercise can be helpful. But the trouble is that it only makes you want to eat more. You might sweat out a co... | high24031.txt |
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"answer": {
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If you're looking for a cheery destination for your next vacation, consider these four spots and get ready to take notes on how to really live the good life.
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"Flossie",
"Sandy"
],
"question": "It can be inferred that _ is one of the policymakers who believe that humans are not to blame for global warming.",
... | The environmental group 350.org has launched a new campaign called Climate Name Change that proposes to revise to how hurricanes are named: call them after policymakers who say that humans are not to blame for global warming.
This will save the Katrinas and Sandys of the world from the injustice of having their names a... | high5433.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "usually think that advice from old people is not worth considering"
},
"options": [
"are willing to accept the advice from world-famous leaders",
"usually think that advice from old people is not worth considering",
"have a g... | LOS ANGELES--The advice offered from any other 82-year-olds might have made young people yawn and roll their eyes.
But when former South African President Nelson Mandela advised two dozenprefix = st1 /Los Angelesto take education seriously, his audience was listening.
The famed old man said to the young peop... | high17174.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "swimmers"
},
"options": [
"runners",
"swimmers",
"cyclists",
"horse riders"
],
"question": "Lake Placid is the best place for _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answe... | Here are some interesting places in America:
Lake Placid
Lake Placid in New York State has everything you want: great downhill skiing , great golf courses, and ponds for swimming. It is also a beautiful village with shops, restaurants, and hotels.
It is well-known as the place of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics. Whi... | high9209.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Our family members and good friends."
},
"options": [
"Friends not meeting for a long time.",
"Former teachers and friends.",
"People we want to get close to.",
"Our family members and good friends."
],
"questio... | In our life, we have rarely expressed our gratitude to the one who lived those years with us. In fact, we don't have to wait for anniversaries to thank the ones closest to us and the ones so easily overlooked. If I have learned anything about giving thanks, it is this: give it now! While your feeling of appreciation is... | high1655.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Public Awareness on Youngsters' Mental Diseases Expected"
},
"options": [
"Efforts to Mark World Mental Health Day",
"Public Awareness on Youngsters' Mental Diseases Expected",
"How to Maintain Mental Well-being",
"Seri... | China Daily Oct.11,2008-TheMinistry Of Health has called for more awareness from the public on the mental health of the young as part of efforts to mark World Mental Health Day which fell on Friday.
More than 15 percent of Chinese youths have been found with mental problems and about 30 million young people under 17 ar... | high13312.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "give up smoking"
},
"options": [
"say goodbye to his girlfriend",
"tell his friendship with Cigarette",
"tell his travelling plan",
"give up smoking"
],
"question": "By writing the letter, the author wants to ... | Dear friend,
For the past 17 years, you have been my best friend. I remember that you told me you were called Cigarette because of your features. You have seen me through difficult times, happy times and just about every stage of my life. You have always been here when I need you. Some of my family and friends didn't l... | high8117.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "give you a piece of advice on a job interview."
},
"options": [
"give you a piece of advice on a job interview.",
"tell you how to meet a job interviewer",
"describe the aptitude test.",
"advice you how to find a job"
... | The interview had been going on for about 20 minutes and everything seems to be going well.Then, suddenly, the interviewer asks an unexpected question, "Which is more important, law or love?"
Job applicants in the west increasingly find themselves asked strange questions like this.And the signs are that this is beginni... | high15763.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Less than 250 years"
},
"options": [
"About 1767 years",
"More than 300 years",
"More than 250 years",
"Less than 250 years"
],
"question": "How long is the first solar cookers invented?",
"question_type": "... | Cooking food over a smoky fire is found everywhere in the world. It is often difficult to find wood for the fire. People who do not have wood must spend large amounts of money on cooking fuel. However, there is a much easier way to cook food using energy from the sun. Solar cookers, or ovens, have been used for centuri... | high7224.txt |
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