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"answer_text": "thought that she couldn't live long"
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"tried their best to make her live until then",
"thought it was a wonder that she could live to three",
"thought that she couldn't live long",
"believe that she could... | In my twenty-six years as a free writer, I have worked for newspapers, magazines and the Internet sites.
I have reviewed the famous people, and criticized the political characters. Yet along my journalistic journey there have been several interviews that remain deeply in my memory. For not only did the characters of th... | high8671.txt |
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"answer_text": "a 3D movie makes their brain active"
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"a 3D movie makes their brain active",
"a 3D movie is more exciting than a 2D movie",
"children enjoy watching a 3D movie",
"children like the experience which \"gets... | Watching a 3D movie can more than double the concentration powers and cognitive processing of children, a new research claims.
A study made by visual technology firm RealD and led by child psychologist Dr Richard Woolfson suggests that childrenaged between 7 and 14 experienced twice the cognitive processing speed and ... | high15005.txt |
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"answer_text": "her home was far away from where she worked."
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"she liked to live in the busiest place.",
"she didn't like to live in the country.",
"her home was far away from where she worked.",
"she didn't want to go ... | A beautiful and very successful actress was the star for a new musical show. Her home was in the countryside, but she did not want to go back there every night, so she bought an expensive house in the centre of the city, got some beautiful furniture and got a man to paint the rooms in new colours.
It was very difficu... | high6884.txt |
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"answer_text": "A fine match"
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"A clever mouse",
"A successful way",
"A fine match",
"A clever lady"
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"question": "What would be the best title of the story?",
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"answer": {... | One day a lady saw a mouse running across her kitchen floor. She was very afraid of mouse, so she ran out of the house, got into a bus and went to the shops. There she bought a mousetrap. The shopkeeper said to her, "Put some cheese in it and you will soon catch that mouse."
The lady went home with her mousetrap, but w... | high22871.txt |
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"answer_text": "deserts"
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"deserts",
"fields"
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"question": "Places where great cities once stood are now like _ .",
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... | There are some places in the world where great cities once stood. There were trees, gardens and grass. But now these cities have gone and the places are like deserts. Scientists began to study this land to find out what happened. Many of them believed the land died when the trees were cut down.
Trees help other plants ... | high1133.txt |
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"answer_text": "giving an example"
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"following the order of importance",
"making a comparison",
"setting down general rules",
"giving an example"
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"question": "The author explains the halo effect mainly by _ ... | As each semester begins, my colleague greets his students wearing a jacket and tie.
"You make only one first impression," he says. So while the rest of the semester he teaches class in his usual, more casual clothes, the first week he presents a different image.
His thought is that students will remember their first me... | high13474.txt |
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"answer_text": "Earth Hour 2014"
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"Earth Hour 2014",
"Save Our Earth",
"Lights-Off Event",
"Earth Hour Blue"
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"question": "Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage? _",
"question_... | Thousands of cities around the globe turned off their lights for an hour to mark Earth Hour 2014, a symbolic show of support for the environment organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Since the movement began in Sydney, Australia, in 2007, it has spread to more than 7,000 cities across more than 160 countries. S... | high18521.txt |
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"answer_text": "Moving both arms while walking can help you lose more weight."
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"Wearing a piece of reflective clothing can make you look smart.",
"Moving both arms while walking can help you lose more weight.",
"You should bu... | Walking is the exercise of choice for most dieters. You don't need a gym membership to do this effective exercise. Here's how to prepare:
The only equipment you really need is a decent pair of walking shoes. What matters most is comfort. When you're shopping for shoes:
*Wear the socks you plan to exercise in. That way ... | high5355.txt |
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"answer_text": "the Internet use may cause psychological problems"
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"the Internet can bring people many advantages",
"the Internet use may cause psychological problems",
"the Internet users are not satisfied with their lives",... | The Internet brings us many advantages.
With the Internet, people can send and receive emails. On the Internet, people can skim over news. Using the Telnet, the user anywhere on the Internet can log into any other machine on which he has an account. It is possible to use the FTP program to copy files from one machine o... | high17612.txt |
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"answer_text": "introduce the topic of the passage"
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"persuade readers to believe something",
"introduce the topic of the passage",
"get the readers excited",
"offer something to think over"
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"question": "The w... | We all enjoy the colors of autumn leaves. Did you ever wonder how and why a fall leaf changes color? Where do the yellows and oranges come from? To answer those questions, we first have to understand what leaves are and what they do.
Leaves are nature's food factories. Plants take water from the ground through their ro... | high11263.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "depressed"
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"Relieved",
"depressed",
"hopeful"
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"question": "When it was time to graduate, the author felt _ .",
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... | For most people, graduation is an exciting day - the culmination of years of hard work. My graduation day... was not.
I remember that weekend two years ago, Family and friends had traveled far to watch our class walk across the stage. But like everyone else in my graduating class, I had watched the economy go from ba... | high3724.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "can drink water without fearing that the water isn't treated"
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"can drink water without fearing that the water isn't treated",
"will have to pay more money eventually than if they just drink bottled water",
"wi... | Water is of vital importance in a healthy diet and lifestyle. There are many health benefits of drinking water .It helps get _ out of our systems. It aids in the delivery of oxygen and nutrients .In fact, nearly every system in our bodies depends on water for proper functioning .But how can we tell whether the water we... | high8659.txt |
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"answer_text": "only a few watches of the kind were made"
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"the watches were made many years ago",
"the watches were made by a Swiss watchmaker",
"only rich people can afford the watches",
"only a few watches of the kind... | Have you ever dreamed of having a fashionable watch of great value?
A small watchmaker in Switzerland in 1922 designed the first automatic watch to show the day, month , and date. Only seven of these splendid watches were ever made and these watches were almost lost to history. Today, it is so hard to get and origina... | high22681.txt |
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"answer_text": "there are many people who can not afford housing"
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"there is a serious lack of proper housing",
"there are many people who can not afford housing",
"transitional housing is as expensive as apartments",
"a... | An affordable housing law passed three years ago promises a possible supply of below-market-rate homes, but has failed to encourage increased housing production and is unlikely to affect prefix = st1 /San Francisco's poorest families.
Barbara, 44, who came to The City in 1970, have been trying to pick herself up from t... | high22859.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Their figure."
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"options": [
"Their figure.",
"Their future life.",
"Their work as a housewife.",
"Their eating habits."
],
"question": "What are the four women talking about?",
"question_type": "factiod_q... | Glynis
I piled on the pounds and I couldn't lose them. Then I joined a slimming club. My target weight was 140 pounds and I lost 30 pounds in six months. I felt great and people kept saying how good I looked. But Christmas came and I started to slip back into my old eating habits. I told myself I'd lose the weight at ... | high6674.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "she was anxious about her son's safety"
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"her son saved a woman",
"she was scolded by fire fighters",
"she was anxious about her son's safety",
"her son was to blame for a fire"
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"question": "Th... | My 16-year-old son, Anton, had gone to the local swimming hole. Most of the kids who swim there are fit and strong teens, and there are plenty of rocks for them to use as safe harbors, so I had no fears for his well-being. Still, the firefighter's first words, "You need to come up here to the Stillwater River," made me... | high9547.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Someone had paid for her."
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"options": [
"She was too poor to afford it.",
"Her money was not enough.",
"Someone had paid for her.",
"The charismas gifts were free."
],
"question": "Why did the Walmart employe... | In a touching story, a family was shocked to find that a stranger had secretly paid for more than half of their Christmas gifts.
When Ayers went to make a payment toward the $283 balance for her family's Christmas gifts at Walmart, her money was refused. According to a Walmart employee, a woman had paid a part of Ayers... | high14333.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "taking on English teachers"
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"introducing a school",
"taking on English teachers",
"attracting foreign students",
"arranging the subjects"
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"question": "This advertisement is about _ .",
... | Two teachers are needed in Henan Province ASAP!
7000-8000 RMB/month(20 lessons/week)plus benefits!
The school is located in Xinzheng Town,which is only 45minites away from Zhengzhou City by bus.
Requirements:
Native English speakers from Australia,Canada,UK,etc.Bachelor's degree and teaching experience
We offer:
... | high20096.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A professor."
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"A news reporter,",
"An accountant.",
"A professor.",
"A conductor."
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"question": "What do you think the author would most probably be?",
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"a... | Chinese consumers' crazy appetite for luxury goods and services appears unstoppable, with just 2 percent of the Chinese population responsible for one-third of the world's luxury items.
As China's economic miracle develops, the market opportunities for all sorts of luxury goods and services are increasing. Luxury c... | high10155.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "when he saw the wheat,he thought of his time during the Depression"
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"when he first saw it,he began to love it",
"when he saw the wheat,he thought of his time during the Depression",
"when he was young,he had a... | My dad loved pennies, especially those with the elegant stalk of wheat curving around each side of the ONE CENT on the back. Those were the pennies he grew up with during the Depression .
As a kid, I would go for walks with Dad, spying coins along the way--a penny here, a dime there. Whenever I picked up a penny, he... | high21388.txt |
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"answer_text": "walking"
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"learning",
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"question": "As a small child, Merkel was slow in _ .",
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"answer": {
"answe... | As the first woman Chancellor in German's history, Angela Merkel topped
magazine's list of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.She has even been compared to Margaret Thatcher and many people called her "Iron Lady".
Merkel was born in Hamburg, West Germany, on July 17, 1954.Six weeks af... | high16524.txt |
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"answer_text": "You can use blue ink to write notes to your friend from South Korea."
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"You can use blue ink to write notes to your friend from South Korea.",
"Giving a fancy kitchen knife to a friend from Russia is a good choice.",... | When you are traveling, it's vital to know about the customs and etiquette(,)of the global village. What we consider polite behavior at home isn't always accepted outside our borders.
* Etiquette of Gift Giving
Gift giving should be a happy, positive experience. When selecting a present for someone in Netherlands, don'... | high19617.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Refreshing and harmonious."
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"Passionate and powerful.",
"Refreshing and harmonious.",
"Cool and calming.",
"Inspiring and bright."
],
"question": "What impression can green rooms give to you?",
... | It helps to choose the colors you plan to live with in your home with awareness of how different colors affect your emotional and physical states. Every color has a unique meaning, and this can significantly affect how you feel in a room.
A room that is painted red will energize, inspire activity and movement, help pas... | high16242.txt |
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"answer_text": "woman"
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"woman"
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"answe... | I have always been interested in making things. When I was a child, I enjoyed drawing, but I also liked making things out of clay . I won a prize for one of my paintings when I was fourteen. That may be why I went to art school four years later. But I studied painting at first, not pottery . I like being a potter becau... | high19171.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Setting safety protection."
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"options": [
"Surfing the Internet.",
"Setting safety protection.",
"Sharing personal information.",
"Making foreign friends."
],
"question": "What function isn't understood by mos... | Unknown to most Facebook users, the social network actually offers a lot of privacy controls and security features which can help you lock your account, so you can speak freely. If it's used properly, you'll never have to worry about whether you will have to "friend" your boss or your mom. You can friend anyone you wan... | high4705.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "many people take in too big an amount unconsciously"
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"people are aware of the amount they take in",
"people are worried about the amount they take in",
"many people take in too big an amount unconsciously",
... | According to its label , a pint of Haagen-Dazs ice cream contains four servings . But when was the last time you measured out a fourth of a container of Cookies & Cream, then put the rest away for another day?
For many people, the reality is that much of a pint can easily disappear in one sitting. A large package of ... | high20928.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "ordinary citizens"
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"college students",
"drivers",
"ordinary citizens",
"businessmen"
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"... | Every day on the road, accidents are caused. They do not only happen. The reason may be easy to see: an overloaded tray, a shelf out of reach, a patch of ice on the road. But more often than not there is a chain of events leading up to the misfortune-frustration, tiredness or just bad temper-that show what the accident... | high2374.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "across land and water"
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"over hills and valleys",
"across land and water",
"through mountains",
"throughout the Kowloon area"
],
"question": "Hong Kong public transportation extends _ .",
"... | Hong Kong, major commercial center for Asia, and with a population which has grown at an alarming rate to over 5 million, is a city highly dependent on mass (, ) transit of all sorts, both local and long distance. An ordinary Hong Kong worker or businessman, going about his daily activities, simply must use transportat... | high10633.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They were all female."
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"They were all female.",
"They were all professional.",
"They made the longest expedition.",
"They had been strictly trained."
],
"question": "What is special about the exp... | I was going to die in Antarctica, I was certain.An image of my frost-covered body, pale and lifeless, filled my mind as I glanced around.In all directions the empty wilderness of Antarctica stretched away from me, the only feature on the landscape was the division between snow and sky.I gazed sadly at my team.They were... | high9221.txt |
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"answer_text": "the feedback one gives to the software"
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"the time you look at the card",
"the information in the computer",
"the feedback one gives to the software",
"the times one attempts to do with a card"
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... | The advantages of using flashcards to build up a vocabulary are well known. You can buy sets of cards, or make your own, and carry them with you wherever you go. There's no question this is useful and because you can use them in short bursts, it's not too much for you. It can be fun. I don't recommend drilling for hour... | high14455.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "face the audience in a natural way"
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"let his eyes rest on the subject",
"follow the audience step by step",
"face the audience in a natural way",
"look up and sown from time to time"
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"question... | We are often asked to make a speech in life. Most of us are afraid of it and don't do a good job. Here are some simple steps to make your speech a successful one. First of all, find out everything you can about your subject and at the same time find out as much as you can about your audience. Who are they? What do they... | high15993.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "didn't know much about Christmas tradition"
},
"options": [
"didn't love their child at all",
"didn't know the previous owners of the house",
"didn't know much about Christmas tradition",
"didn't have enough money to bu... | My family moved from Taiwan to a small town in central Georgia, where my dad got a visa for his family and a job. I had just learned English, and from what little I could gather from my classmates, Santa Claus would come down one's chimney and put toys in one's stocking on Christmas Eve! What a great country, I though... | high9235.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "about a school which will make all its pupils learn Chinese"
},
"options": [
"how to face up to new challenges in the 21st century",
"the realities of the 21st century",
"the fastest growing economy in the world",
"abou... | An independent college claimed to have become the first school in England to make Chinese a compulsory subject for its pupils.
Richard Cairns, the headmaster of Brighton College, said the move aims to recognize the importance of China as the world's fastest growing economy.
Chinese will become one of the core subject... | high15987.txt |
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"answer_text": "How to plan a staycation."
},
"options": [
"The popularity of a staycation.",
"The importance of a vacation.",
"Where to spend your vacation this year.",
"How to plan a staycation."
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"question": "What is mainl... | We all need a vacation, whether with the entire family or your significant other. Unfortunately, many of us will not be able to follow through with vacation plans. But now, there is an alternative that is catching on rather quickly and it is called a "Staycation". A staycation is just what it sounds like, a vacation ... | high12030.txt |
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"answer_text": "because people can communicate with each other by laughing."
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"options": [
"because people can communicate with each other by laughing.",
"because laughter is the same sound in all the human's languages.",
"because laughter... | While most people consider that laughter is one of the nature's great treatments for a whole range of mental and physical diseases, it is still a serious scientific subject that researchers are trying to figure out.
"Laughter is social." says Robert R. Provine, author of the book "Laughter: A Scientific Investigation",... | high16256.txt |
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"answer_text": "there is a wide range of people and crimes in the real life"
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"there is a wide range of people and crimes in the real life",
"smoking in an elevator goes against laws in the real life",
"there are much more cri... | Who do you think breaks the law in our society? If you believe that only tough guys commit crimes, you may have to think again. Unlike in the movies, we can't divide the world into bad guys and model citizens. _ In the same way that diseases range from the common cold to fatal forms of cancer, crimes vary in degree. Fo... | high4711.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "having problems at school"
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"giving a report in front of school",
"helping other classmates",
"having problems at school",
"answering questions in class"
],
"question": "Bad stress may happen when... | Are you ever so worried about something that you even have a headache or can't sleep at night? Do you ever feel a stomachache during a test? If so, then you know what stress is. Stress is what you feel when you are worried about something. When you are under stress, you may feel angry, sad, scared, or afraid --all this... | high19165.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Modern technology seems to be separating people."
},
"options": [
"We may no longer need to communicate with other people.",
"Modern technology seems to be separating people.",
"We may no longer need to work in the office.",
... | Michael, a normal American, stays home on workdays. He plugs into his personal computer terminal in order to connect with the office. After work he puts on his headphones, watches a movie on his home video recorder or plays baseball on the computer. On many days, Michael doesn't talk to any other human beings, and he d... | high11539.txt |
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"answer_text": "helps control the greenhouse effect"
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"options": [
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"means burning packaging for energy",
"is the solution to gas shortage",
"leads to a waste of land"
],
"question": "Acc... | Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that _ in the greenest way pos... | high2360.txt |
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"answer_text": "He was thrown into the sea when the ship struck a whale."
},
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"He and his companion got into the water to test their strength.",
"He jumped into the water to save the broken rudder.",
"He was knocked into the wate... | I felt encouraged by his words and began to swim more calmly.But my clothes stuck to me like a heavy weight.I could hardly stay above the surface.
Counsel saw this."Shall I cut them?"he asked.
With a knife he cut my clothes from top to bottom and took them of quickly while I swam for both of us.
Then I did the same for... | high10627.txt |
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"answer_text": "Cellphone users receive messages from criminals."
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"options": [
"Cellphone users turn off their mobile telephones.",
"Cellphone users receive messages from criminals.",
"Criminals contact family members of the phone user.",... | BOGOTA (Reuters) -- Colombian mobile telephone users are being tricked by criminals who pretend to be phone operators and instruct them to turn off their cellphones just long enough to demand a large amount of money from their families.
prefix = st1 /Colombia has seen a large number of cases in which mobile phone custo... | high17148.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "debris from fireworks can even find its way into water"
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"the special sounds of fireworks excite people",
"debris from fireworks can even find its way into water",
"the pretty and bright colors add to the beaut... | Bedazzling with their bright colors and eye-catching displays, fireworks light up our night skies during the holidays. However, these crowd-pleasers can have some damaging side effects.
Once a firework is set off, it only takes a couple of seconds before smoke, dust and harmful chemicals are let out into the atmosphe... | high5369.txt |
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"answer_text": "how much they should take when hungry"
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"how to stay away from poison",
"how much they should take when hungry",
"meat is worse than vegetables",
"sugar is better than fat"
],
"question": "Childre... | Remember, from the moment they are born, our children have the ability to know when they are hungry - and they cry to let us know too! Of course, they also cry to let us know they are wet, hurt, or bored, but we soon learn to tell the difference and try to meet each need somehow. When we begin to feed them solid foods,... | high10141.txt |
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"answer_text": "She finds her dog is getting a little aggressive."
},
"options": [
"She doesn't know how to make phone calls while walking a dog.",
"She has no idea how to get along well with her dog.",
"She gets worried that her dog is gett... | Question: I have a one-year-old female bulldog, who has recently taken to biting my shoes when we are in the park and I'm on the mobile. She can be slightly aggressive and I'm starting to get worried and a bit annoyed. How do I stop her? ----Susan, London.
Answer: You need to get this problem under control before it co... | high3718.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "you can ask doctors for help"
},
"options": [
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"you can ask doctors for help",
"you should save the environment",
"You can record your growth during puberty"
],
"question": "If ... | Height is just one of the thousands of features your genes decide. In fact, because you have two parents, your genes provide you a height that usually lands somewhere between the height of each parent. If both your parents are tall, then most probably you will be tall, too, but if you have questions about how tall you'... | high22695.txt |
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"answer_text": "A Room of One's Own h about more than writing,"
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"The Art o f War also gives definition of philosophy.",
"Letter to My Daughter is actually a cummon famil... | Don't have plenty of time for reading ? If you are interested in nun-fiction books, here are good choices for you.
A Room of One's Own
This essay by English writer Virginia Woolf is based on several lectures given to two woman's colleges at Cambridge University to 1928. In it, Woolf describes that it's cir... | high15039.txt |
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"her grandfather was just joking.",
"she found it difficult to play",
"she disliked playing it.",
"she hadn't learned it yet"
],
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"cared much about her children",
"could not stand living in a wooden house",
"did not deal well with her family affairs during the flood"
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"Regretful.",
"Relieved."
],
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The love for beautiful clothes has been planted in my heart the day when I was born to be a woman. Several years ago I read an ar... | high8895.txt |
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},
"options": [
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"help run the games",
"give the teams money",
"play in the World Series"
],
"question": "The mothers and fathers of Little League players _ .",... | In the United States and several other countries , 2.5 million children play baseball in an organization called Little League . They play on teams in their hometowns . Their parents and other adults in the community coach or instruct them and serve as umpires to make sure that everyone follows the rules . Local busines... | high14327.txt |
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She said, "Hi, girl! My name... | high9553.txt |
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"question_type": "cloze_questions... | There is plenty for kids and teens to do in the Syracuse area during the summer, including some great educational opportunities. Here are the top four.
Rosamond Gifford Zoo Camp
The zoo offers separate camps for kids. The camps for kindergarteners run from 9 am to 12:30 pm, and cost $115 for zoo members and $135 for no... | high470.txt |
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},
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"Lots of waste water in the country is poured into the river.",
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Up to four inches of snow was recorded in parts of France, the National Weather Service said.Most areas, including Paris, got around half that amount.French auth... | high12965.txt |
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"Mr. Kwon had intended to let guests stay at \"Prison Inside Me\" for o... | People in South Korea who feel they can no longer bear the stress of everyday life now can choose to stay in a prison to relax and think deeply.
In a society where pressure to do well in school and find highly-paid jobs is intense, a former lawyer came up with an extreme relaxation idea. Kwon Yong-seok created the "Pri... | high7595.txt |
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},
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"women were not considered as intelligent as men",
"women were not permitted to achieve their goals",
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Despite a privileged background, Katharine had to deal, while growing up, with the high demands her mother placed on her chil... | high6853.txt |
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"inform us how to date on the Internet.",
"introduce Internet dating to us.",
"tell us never to date on the Internet... | Internet dating has become one of the biggest and most successful business ventures on the Internet. Basically, Internet dating is a way to meet people for either friendship or dating without actually having to meet them in person first.
The first thing to do if you decide to try Internet dating is to build your profi... | high21377.txt |
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"options": [
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"Shanghai students focus too much on money",
"most Shanghai students are conscious of money",
"some Shanghai st... | Shanghai Children Prove Money Smarts
Shanghai,the financial center of China,sure has raised some money-savvy children.
Ninety-two percent of Shanghai primary school students who took a recent test of their money smarts showed an understanding of financial management,and some even knew a thing or two about stocks and ... | high19830.txt |
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"they are helpful in English learning",
"they are advertised for English beginners",
"they are enjoyed by most young people... | Every English learner hopes to find a patient native speaker who will politely correct mistakes and teach him some useful new vocabulary. But native speakers can be hard to find. If you're having trouble communicating in English, American situation comedies are one good way to help.
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"Importance of Health",
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"poetry is the same form of art as songs",
"people always feel the same while reading poems",
"the mean... | Why read, and sometimes even write poetry? That question is not difficult to answer if we change the word poetry to songs.
I sing when I feel good. When I sing my favorite songs, I feel even better. Sometimes when I am listening to music and to the song words, I feel that it was written for me. A good song always makes... | high10814.txt |
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"felt sorry for having wasted her energy",
"felt disappointed at not realizing her dream",
"didn't believe she could do t... | When I entered college in the early 1980s, I had my heart set on being a first-grade teacher. I did all of my observations in others' first-grade classroom. I interviewed for my first job in a first-grade classroom. At last the district offered me a job---as a fifth-grade teacher in an inner-city building, considered a... | high21411.txt |
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"the advice on home planning and whisky drinking",
"the advertisements for two objects",
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Planning a home demands great care. The fireplace should be distinctive and elegant , with a fire that looks like a fire, giving your family the warmth and protection they need.Every year 7,000 people die in fires in Britain, and hundreds of them are little children. Thousands more are disfigured for life.
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"answer_text": "The boom of pay-by-phone business."
},
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"The boom of pay-by-phone business.",
"The disappearance of credit cards.",
"The increase of Starbucks sales."
],
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In January, Starbucks announced that customers could start using their phones to buy coffee i... | high316.txt |
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},
"options": [
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"To explain how the old people get help.",
"To tell volunteers what they are tasked with.",
"To describe the life ... | Dear Volunteers,
The service you will provide to elderly individuals in Abilene as a Meals on Wheels volunteer is deeply appreciated. I want to take this opportunity to thank you for the many miles you will travel and all of the hours you will contribute to help make this one of the best programs in the entire state.
W... | high1682.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "learn to paint pictures"
},
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"work abroad",
"pay off the debts",
"learn to paint pictures"
],
"question": "Hobbs wanted to borrow money to _ .",
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One day a lawyer said to him, "One thousand dollars, and here is the money." As Hobbs took t... | high23212.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"be fun",
"like to move around",
"sit up straighter"
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Dottie Pownall, a fifth-grade teacher in West Virginia, USA, has been using ball... | high1696.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Golf is bad for people's health"
},
"options": [
"Golf wastes large areas of countryside",
"Golf runs out of much water",
"Keeping golf court in good condition needs too much energy",
"Golf is bad for people's health"
... | Sports can help you keep fit and get in touch with nature.However, whether you are on the mountains, in the waves, or on the grassland, you should be aware that your sport of choice might have great influence on the environment.
Some sports are resource-hungry. Golf, as you may know, eats up not only large areas of cou... | high302.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "remember her as the creator of the first American flag"
},
"options": [
"ask Betsy Ross who created the first American flag",
"meet her grandson who wrote a book about flags",
"debate over who designed the first American flag... | It's going to be a busy day at Betsy Ross house in Philadelphia on Thursday. She won't be there, since she died in 1836, but hundreds of tourists will be going through her house.
You see, Thursday is Flag Day in the United States. The unofficial holiday commemorates the adoption of the stars-and-stripes design of the A... | high4936.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "children under three should be sent to nursery schools"
},
"options": [
"day care should be widely spread",
"the family relationship is different in traditional societies",
"children under three should be sent to nursery scho... | The British psychoanalyst John Bowlby maintains that separation from the parents during the sensitive "attachment" period from birth to three may scar a child's personality and lead to emotional problems in later life. Some people have drawn the conclusion from Bowlby's work that children should not be subjected to day... | high18284.txt |
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"answer_text": "traditional long-distance calls"
},
"options": [
"IP phone service",
"telecom operators",
"traditional telephones",
"traditional long-distance calls"
],
"question": "Nowadays, mobile communications have graduall... | Mobile communications and the IP phone business have gradually replaced traditional long-distance calls. Mobile communications account for 28.5 percent of the total long-distance communications business. IP phones have 41.4 percent, while traditional long-distance calls are down to 30.1 percent.
China Mobile, the count... | high10800.txt |
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"answer_text": "Tan felt excited to have the opportunity to interact with people from all over the world."
},
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"It is not difficult to be selected as a voluntee... | It was a long process that involved creating a resume, submitting an online application and attending a round of interviews. Naturally Tan Kaiyin, a 21-year-old student is excited when she was selected, as more than 660, 000 people signed up to volunteer at the 16thAsian Games in Guangzhou, but only less than 10 perce... | high21405.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"small species survived as large animals disappeared",
"large sea animals may face the sa... | When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strong happened to the large animals; they suddenly became extinct. Smaller species survived; the large, slow-growing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction.
Now something similar could be happening in the oceans. That the seas are... | high3081.txt |
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"answer_text": "They partly have the features of foxes in appearance."
},
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"They partly have the features of foxes in appearance.",
"Their ancestor is the Fennec fox in fact.",
"Their... | "You know, Chihuahuas aren't actual dogs. They're a kind of fox," announced a woman at a party. This woman entirely believed that Chihuahuas are the descendants of the Fennec fox. Many people might believe this: Chihuahuas are similar to foxes in their appearance with long-haired Chihuahuas appearing almost indisting... | high17809.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "English conversations usually start with the weather"
},
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"Dr. Johnson is famous for his weather observation",
"the comment was accurate two hundred years ago",
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "is a fictional figure currently popular with netizens"
},
"options": [
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"plays an important role in a Chinese TV series",
"is a fictional figure currently popular with ne... | Recently the busiest person on the Internet is absolutely Yuanfang, a fictional figure from the Chinese TV series "Detective Di Renjie". In the TV series, Li was often asked by Di, "How do you see it, Yuanfang?" Then, the dialogues between them help advance the plot. Now, the casual pet phrase is used as many as 2.5 mi... | high5396.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the youth want to communicate with each other"
},
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"the youth want to escape the dangerous real world",
"the youth are fascinated by a digital-only world",
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I've spent over a decade observing young people's practices with technology.When I began my research,I expected to find lots o... | high19824.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
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},
"options": [
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"You have completely got rid of culture shock.",
"You never suffered from culture shock before.",
"You're in ... | You feel generally depressed and unable to concentrate. Your pattern of daily activity may change:you find yourself awake and active in the middle of the night;you sleep late into the day. You stay in your room and have little contact with people except with those who speak your language. In your mind,you criticize th... | high464.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The camera can help them out of their trouble."
},
"options": [
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"The camera can help them out of their trouble.",
"They can make profits from their documentaries.",
"They desir... | Now that newsrooms are becoming less popular in the US,young people have begun to tell their own stories.
GlobalGirl Media,a nonprofit organization that teaches teenage girls digital storytelling skills,was started by award-winning filmmakers Amie Williams and Meena Nanji in Los Angeles in 2010.
"By giving girls a voic... | high12971.txt |
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"answer": {
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"be taken in the USA"
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As always, we want creative and beautiful photos. The topic of travel is broad, so have some fun with it: Experiment with lighting, angles, subjects and composition.
One photo per person, and the photo should be taken since July 31, 2013. If you submit... | high17821.txt |
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"answer": {
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"can't cook or wash in the room",
"has to park his car far away",
"must contact the owner by telephone only"
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Room for rent for $ 500.00 per month and $500.00 damage deposit, You will have use of the refrigerator (I have two:) and the washer and dryer and the kitchen and the in-ground swimming pool.There is a one-year rental agreement but can be changed to a month-to-month a... | high11288.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The people on line"
},
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"The people on line",
"Their family",
"Their management"
],
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"question_type": "factiod_q... | Armed only with iPhones, the inventive rock band Atomic Tom has gone viral by way of the New York subway. The band has scored an Internet hit with the video to the song "Take Me Out."
Singer Luke White says the production was a top-secret operation.
"We didn't tell anyone about this. It was completely top-secret fr... | high20055.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"encourage us to spend more time working outside",
"explain why education is important for our care... | Do you enjoy watching beautiful sunsets and seeing wildlife in some of the best parts of Wisconsin? Do you like being around people who share the same respect and love for natural resources? If you say"yes", then a fisheries biologist is a great career choice for you.
As you can probably guess, education is very import... | high3917.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "$9."
},
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"$6.",
"$9.",
"$12"
],
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Regular Hours
Sunday--Friday:10 a.m.--5 P.m.
Saturday:9 a.m.--6 p.m.
Summer Hours:May 27-August 16
Monday-Saturday:9 a.m.--9 P.m.
Sunday:9 a.m.--6 p.m.
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"answer": {
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"a newspaper",
"a magazine",
"a textbook"
],
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},
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"answer": {
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The wooden bridge across the river has been washed away. The town is cut off by flood waters. At the fifth mile, Jalan Tengkn, the water is two meters deep. It is closed to a... | high12959.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Human touch makes it important."
},
"options": [
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"Human touch makes it important.",
"There is a bridge over it.",
"The highway is busy there."
],
"question": "Which of the fol... | Before we start a voyage, we usually try to find out more or less definitely where we are bound and how we are supposed to get there.
I happen to have the "Concise Oxford dictionary" on my desk and that will do as well as any other. The word I am looking for appears at the bottom of Page 344. edition 1912.
"Geography: ... | high9584.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "A lot of care and the right soil."
},
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"Frequent pruning and fertilizing.",
"Tomato plants grown alongside.",
"Cages placed around the roots."
],
"question": "Wha... | "Soon,you're going to have to move out!"cried my neighbor upon seeing the largest tomato plant known to mankind,or at least known in my neighborhood.
One tiny 9-inch plant,bought for $ 1.25 in the spring.has already taken over much of my rose bed,covering much of other plants,and is well on its way to the front doo... | high22642.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "lead to obesity"
},
"options": [
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"be difficult to digest",
"destroy body's cells",
"lead to obesity"
],
"question": "Processed foods will probably _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_... | People are interested in eating raw foods or whole foods partly because eating these types of food reduces the risk of acid accumulation in our body .
Raw and whole foods are usually digested more efficiently than cooked and processed foods . When we cook foods , we destroy the natural enzymes that are part of the food... | high12781.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To spend a holiday"
},
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"To spend a holiday",
"To teach the farmer's son",
"To see the farmer's son"
],
"question": "What did the artist go to the country for?",
"questi... | An artist went to beautiful part of the country for a holiday, and stayed with a famer. Every day he went out with his paints and his brushes and painted from morning to evening. When it got dark, he went back to the farm and had a good dinner before he went to bed. At the end of his holiday, he wanted to pay the farme... | high1866.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Silent Night"
},
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"Back to Bedlam",
"Silent Night",
"Goodbye My Lover",
"You're Beautiful"
],
"question": "All of the following belongs to Blunt EXCEPT _ .",
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Blunt comes to China for the first time this month, he will hold two concerts, one in Beijing and one in Shanghai on Ap... | high22124.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "They don't want to get on crowded buses ."
},
"options": [
"They always think the next bus will be better .",
"They don't want to get on crowded buses .",
"It's an official rule in Colombia .",
"They get into conversati... | In Colombia , there are some unwritten rules that people are used to , These rules are not officially established , but people do respect them . For example , on a bus , a person keeps a distance from another person , and people don't like to touch each other . Many people come to work late because they prefer to wait ... | high15788.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "finish the course"
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"finish the course",
"have sold three stories",
"have passed the test"
],
"question": "You are promised to publish one manuscript when you _ .",
"q... | Dear friends,
The recent success of children's books has made the general public aware that there's a huge market out there.
And there's a growing need for new writers trained to create the $3 billion worth of children's books bought each year... plus stories and articles needed by over 650 publishers of magazines for ... | high14496.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "there are so many people in the store"
},
"options": [
"they don't need to wait for staff to serve them",
"they don't need any previous experience as thieves",
"January sales offer wonderful opportunities for them",
"th... | Most shoplifters agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief. With the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any extraordinary talent to help you to take one or two little things and escape unnoticed. It is known, in the business, as "hoisting".
But the h... | high20733.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "robots were more effective at reducing people's loneliness"
},
"options": [
"dogs could help get rid of old people's loneliness",
"robots could build close connection with humans",
"robots were more effective at reducing peop... | A study by St. Louis University has found that a lovable dog named Sparky and a robotic dog AIBO, were about equally effective at reducing the loneliness of nursing home residents. The study confirmed previous findings that dogs have a good effect on nursing home residents .
Dr. Andrew Smith led the Stanford University... | high16281.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "TV or texting affects kids equally."
},
"options": [
"Kids get bad marks when using Facebook.",
"TV or texting affects kids equally.",
"Kids prefer video games to books.",
"Watching TV is better than playing video games... | Let's face it: Teenagers spend hours texting, socializing on Facebook and playing video games.And it's driving their parents nuts.
Sure, there are real dangers connected with all this screen time--everything from cyberbullying to couch-potato obesity.Not to mention driving while texting, and shortened attention spans ... | high10828.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "smart but a bit rude"
},
"options": [
"sensitive but slow",
"smart but a bit rude",
"independent but selfish",
"quick but sort of passive"
],
"question": "From the passage, we know that Kathy is_.",
"questio... | Kathy started at my nursery school at the age of three. She settled into the group easily, and would be first on the slide and highest up the climbing frame. She could put on her coat without help and not only fasten her own buttons but other children's too.
She was a lovely child but unfortunately a scratcher. If anyo... | high21439.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "She got married in Czechoslovakia."
},
"options": [
"She visited China before twenty.",
"She was given an unhappy home.",
"She got married in Czechoslovakia.",
"She could hardly tolerate her parents."
],
"questi... | I believe that it is important to be brought up with a firm belief in the good. I was fortunate in this respect. My parents not only gave me a happy home, but they had me study half a dozen foreign languages and made it possible for me to travel in other countries. This made me more tolerant and helped me to bridge man... | high16295.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the customer-centered approach"
},
"options": [
"the practice of turning goods into money",
"making goods available for purchase",
"the customer-centered approach",
"a form of persuasive salesmanship"
],
"questi... | To understand the marketing concept, it is only necessary to understand the difference between marketing and selling. Not too many years ago, most industries concentrated primarily on the efficient production of goods, and then relied on "persuasive salesmanship" _ . Such production and selling focuses on the needs of... | high22130.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Diners Club"
},
"options": [
"Diners Club",
"Sir John Herschel",
"Dr Eugen Frick",
"the Zeiss factory"
],
"question": "All of the following made a contribution to the invention and use of contact lenses EXCEPT ... | Often we take for granted the many household items we use every day. It is difficult to imagine there was a time in the past when these inventions did not exist. Actually, several of the most common inventions have been with us for quite some time. Inventions like toothbrush, contact lenses , and credit cards came into... | high1872.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "00 613 9329 9665"
},
"options": [
"00 613 9419 4444",
"00 613 9419 8637",
"0845 7747 767",
"00 613 9329 9665"
],
"question": "To get more information about Hidden Secrets Tour, you should call _",
"questio... | Why Melbourne ? Having long lived in the shadow of Sydney ,Melbourne has become a Mecca for fashion and design and cultural centre of Australia, with an enjoyable programmed of festivals.
What to see? The City center's grid system of streets conceals a maze of lanes and turn-of-the-century arcades where you will find... | high15944.txt |
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