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"answer_text": "people like discussing other people's lives"
},
"options": [
"celebrities depend on publications to achieve fame",
"people like discussing other people's lives",
"the publishing industry is booming",
"celebrities are ra... | It's difficult not to become involved in gossip at work. After all, people like gossip and interesting bits of information: you only have to look at the number of celebrity-focused publications to realize that we have a huge appetite for discussing other people's lives. At work, however, this type of interaction is har... | high7225.txt |
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"answer_text": "Festivals in Argentina"
},
"options": [
"Travel to Argentina",
"Entertainments in Argentina",
"Festivals in Argentina",
"A brief introduction to Argentina"
],
"question": "What would be the best title for the pa... | There are many festivals in Argentina during the year. Therefore, you can enjoy the different interesting festivals when traveling there. First of all, we should talk about the Tango Festival in Argentina, which is held in the capital of this country -- Buenos Aires, from February to March. You ought to know that Arg... | high15762.txt |
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"answer_text": "They share the money with Net Library."
},
"options": [
"They get money from selling their books to the Net Library",
"They get money from the readers.",
"They get money by cutting the cost of the books.",
"They share t... | Net Library is a library that lends out digital books. It treats a digital book like a paperback copy. It charges libraries per book per copy and gives publishers a cut of the total income.
From the consumer's point of view, this means that if more than five people want the latest Danielle Steel romance novel, other pe... | high13313.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "clothes will be able to change their pattern"
},
"options": [
"people will never get old",
"everyone will look the same",
"red will be the most popular color",
"clothes will be able to change their pattern"
],
"... | Welcome to your future life!
You get up in the morning and look into the mirror.Your face is firm and younglooking.In 2035,medical technology is better than ever.Many people your age could live to be 150,so at 40,you're not old at all.And your parents just had an antiaging treatment.Now,all three of you look the same ... | high1654.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "on holiday"
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"options": [
"on duty",
"on holiday",
"on business",
"on a visit"
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"question": "The writer found PSS Pollu when he was _ .",
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},
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"answer": {
... | I am the captain of a ship in American Marine Police Force. I have been working as a policeman on the sea for eight years. I really love the sea because of its cool winds, the fresh smell and the beautiful scenery , so I joined Marine Police Force to safeguard the sea.
Several days ago, I was out on a boat with my fri... | high9208.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because it will perhaps affect the sales of Olympic products."
},
"options": [
"Because it is not important to make it known.",
"Because everybody will know it by surfing the internet.",
"Because it will perhaps affect the sa... | Friendlies abandoned as name for mascots
The name "Friendlies" has been abandoned as the organization committee for the 2008 Beijing Olympics silently changed the English name of the Games' five mascot dolls last week. The organization committee decided to adopt the name "Fuwa", which is a pinyin translation of its Ch... | high17175.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "it hasn't come to its top level"
},
"options": [
"it isn't as easy to control as the other school bullying",
"it hasn't been concerned by the governments",
"it isn't part of school social life",
"it hasn't come to its t... | Do people ever consider the possibility that, if they're exposed to increased reports about a social problem, it's the reporting that has increased rather than the problem? It's increasingly clear that this is the case with school bullying :Only news reports about it have increased, not the behavior itself. In fact, bo... | high5432.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Supportive."
},
"options": [
"Supportive.",
"Doubtful.",
"Critical.",
"Dissatisfied."
],
"question": "What is the author's attitude towards building and developing the international space station?",
"questio... | From the first use of the rocket to carry satellites into space to the setting up of space stations,human beings have been putting great effort into space research. And so far,we have achieved many successes. But there are still numerous tasks in front of us and we should not cease trying to progress.
The international... | high20901.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "a new fact about the IQ of men and women has been found"
},
"options": [
"man are smarter then women",
"man are more stupid the women",
"a new fact about the IQ of men and women has been found",
"men are more likely to ... | Men have always believed that they are smarter than women. Now, a study has found that while this is certainly true, men also have to deal with the fact that they are also more stupid than the fairer sex.
In the study, scientists measured the IQ of 2500 brothers and sisters and they found an uneven number of men not on... | high3043.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "so bad"
},
"options": [
"pretty good",
"so bad",
"the same as before",
"completely fresh"
],
"question": "According to Ronald Harris, U2's new album is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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... | February 28th, 2009 2:54 am GMT
I have to say that am shocked at just how bad the new music is. This cannot be the same band that produced great albums such as HTDAAB and ATYCLB! This is awful! They either do not care anymore, or have completely lost it. I never thought U2 would become irrelevant, but they have officia... | high11504.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "our living skills are so poor"
},
"options": [
"what we've learned is beyond consumption",
"we are educated generation",
"we've entered higher education",
"our living skills are so poor"
],
"question": "People c... | We're so well educated - but we're useless students who have lost the ability to do anything practical. The only thing we've mastered is consumption .
Large numbers of students have entered higher education in the past 10 years, but despite being the most educated generation in history, it seems that we've grown increa... | high3725.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "a clever man who tried to get something to eat"
},
"options": [
"a rich man who owned a big wood",
"a poor Irishman who lived all by himself",
"a clever man who tried to get something to eat",
"an Irish hunter with a la... | Pat O'Burke was a poor Irishman with a large family, and one morning, waking up very early from cold and hunger, he decided to go shooting in a wood near his cottage. The wood belonged to Lord Northwood, a rich gentleman, Pat had no _ to go there, but in it there were swarms of rabbits and flocks of birds that were goo... | high11262.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Pleased."
},
"options": [
"Pleased.",
"Disappointed.",
"Awful",
"Indifferent."
],
"question": "How did Johnson feel about Christmas when he was a kid?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"ans... | When Carrie Conley's husband left in the early 1960s, she started raising six children on her own. She took a job at a hospital, delivering meals to patients as what was called "a tray girl".
Jerry Johnson, the youngest child in the family, was 5 years old when his dad left. Speaking with his mother recently, Joh... | high17613.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Queen of Great Britain."
},
"options": [
"Queen of Great Britain.",
"King of Great Britain.",
"Prime Minister of Great Britain.",
"Mayor of London."
],
"question": "Who most probably is the maker of this speech?... | "This past year has been one of great celebration for many. The enthusiasm which greeted the Diamond Jubilee was, of course, especially memorable for me and my family.
It was humbling that so many chose to mark the anniversary of a duty which passed to me 60 years ago. People of all ages took the trouble to take part i... | high5354.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Although ly small, Kepler-78b has many properties that are similar to those of the earth"
},
"options": [
"Kepler-78b is a newly-found planet in the solar system",
"Although ly small, Kepler-78b has many properties that are simil... | For the first time, scientists have found a planet beyond the solar system that not only is the same size as Earth, but has the same proportions of iron and rock, a key step in an ongoing quest to find potentially habitable sister worlds.
The planet, known as Kepler-78b, circles a star that is slightly smaller than... | high18520.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Because she was often bullied by others."
},
"options": [
"Because she had no friends at all to play with.",
"Because she often suffered from epilepsy.",
"Because she was often bullied by others.",
"Because she had no s... | I was born with epilepsy, a disease of the nervous system that causes a person to fall unconscious. I first suffered from it at 3.My mother was also born with it, but only ever so often short periods, Elementary and Junior High were not easy for me. I was unable to take part in sports and events like the other students... | high13475.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "too much homework"
},
"options": [
"too much homework",
"going to school",
"less homework",
"stay at home"
],
"question": "Students are not happy about _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | Students often complain their teachers give them too much homework . Now , two reports show that in America this is not true .
The Brookings report shows that most students do less than one hour of homework . The Rand report shows that only 10% of high school students spend more than two hours a night on homework .
The... | high1132.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "less than 48; ; less than 1262"
},
"options": [
"48; no more than 389",
"less than 48; ; less than 1262",
"less than 48; ;2540",
"more than 48; not more than 1262"
],
"question": "The train trip from Xining to L... | Beijing: prefix = st1 /Qinghai- Tibet Railway was unfolded to the public on Monday. From July 1 the service will cost a minimum of 389 yuan(hard seat) and take about 48 hours from Beijing to Lhasa. A hard sleeper(bottom bed) will cost 813 yuan, and a soft sleeper(bottom bed)1,262 yuan. The fare for an air ticket is abo... | high22870.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Germany."
},
"options": [
"Germany.",
"Denmark.",
"Australia.",
"Austria."
],
"question": "The census data of the following countries is used for research EXCEPT _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | People Born in Autumn Live Longer
People born in the autumn live longer than those born in the spring and are less likely to fall chronically ill when they are older, according to an Austrian scientist.
Using census data for more than one million people in Austria, Denmark and Australia, scientists at the Max Planck In... | high7543.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "In the Warring States Period."
},
"options": [
"In the Zhou Dynasty.",
"In the Warring States Period.",
"In the Eastern Han dynasty.",
"In the Stone Age."
],
"question": "When did the \"Ran LU\" become popular?"... | How did the ancient Chinese keep food warm in winter?
Facilities like electric rice cookers, microwaves, and electric kettles, make it easy for people to keep food warm and enjoy a comfortable winter. So how did Chinese people in ancient times keep food warm in winter without these? In fact, ancient Chinese people used... | high15004.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "He was not drawn into learning."
},
"options": [
"He was a troublemaker in class.",
"He was not drawn into learning.",
"He often played outside in the schoolyard.",
"He tried to get his teacher's attention."
],
... | I was fairly new to this particular school since my parents only moved to the area. There was a boy, who, as it turned out, was an orphan and was living and working for a small farming family. He didn't appear at first glance to ever be fully engaged in the school learning process;he would sit quietly, never seem to g... | high13461.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Internet use in China"
},
"options": [
"shopping online",
"Internet use in China",
"the Chinese typical netizens",
"popular search engines"
],
"question": "The passage is mainly about _ .",
"question_type... | The economy has developed a lot while the Internet is still not fully used in China. A study shows that about two-thirds of typical Chinese Internet users use the computer for news, often entertainment-related, or for online games, music or movies, all can be downloaded for free. Most prefers messages to e-mail, seldom... | high22864.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "grammar but not many words"
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"options": [
"a lot of problems",
"words and easy grammar",
"words but no grammar",
"grammar but not many words"
],
"question": "The early language had _ .",
"question_type"... | Language is always changing. In a society where life continues year after year with few changes, the language does not change either. The earliest known languages had difficult grammar but a small, limited vocabulary. Over the century, the grammar changed, and the vocabulary grew. For example, the English and Spanish p... | high1126.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Krunger National Park."
},
"options": [
"Serengeti National Park.",
"Masai Mara National Park.",
"Krunger National Park.",
"South Luangwa National Park."
],
"question": "If you want to see more kinds of wild ani... | There are hundreds of national parks and wildlife areas in Africa that you can travel to. Here are the top four travel destinations in Africa:
Tanzania----Serengeti National Park
During the annual migration , when the wildebeests and zebras pack up and leave their living areas to find fresher ones, the Serengeti is an... | high6891.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Special consideration ought to be shown to them."
},
"options": [
"Since women have claimed equality, they no longer need to be treated differently from men.",
"It is generally considered old-fashioned for young men to give up thei... | Manners nowadays in metropolitan cities like London are practically non-existence, it's nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her.
This question of giving up seats in public transport is mu... | high7557.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Your 20's are the basis of the rest of your life."
},
"options": [
"It's easy to see how the decisions you make in your 20's affect the rest of your life.",
"Your 20's are the basis of the rest of your life.",
"It often can s... | You are young and free. It's sometimes hard to see how the decisions you make in your 20's affect the rest of your life. The truth is, your 20's are the foundation for the rest of your life. Here are 4 mistakes 20-somethings should stop making now to ensure a bright future.
Stop wasting time.
You can waste time in many... | high8664.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Spotting the rare animals."
},
"options": [
"Filming the huge national park.",
"Reporting the event in the air.",
"Picturing the running rhinos.",
"Spotting the rare animals."
],
"question": "What made Hamlin so... | Giraffes Are Being Killed for Their Tails
Documentary filmmaker David Hamlin recalls how excited he was at the sight of three giraffes standing in a small clearing when he was flying over the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Garamba National Park in late June. "Seeing these giraffes from the air was really exciting,"... | high15010.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "introduce a new sport parkour"
},
"options": [
"introduce a new sport parkour",
"show how parkour is popular in the world",
"Tell the history of parkour",
"explain the basic movements in parkour"
],
"question": ... | Parkour is a new sport that is developing quickly in the world. The aim of parkour is to jump, climb or run over any all stair, or fence on your path easily. Usually, it is done in a city environment. Practicers take very wall or roof as their training place. If you have seen the beginning of the James Bond movie Cas... | high16519.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "for himself"
},
"options": [
"for himself",
"as an experiment",
"in his own bedroom",
"with a teacher's guidance"
],
"question": "Mc Garry first started cooking _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | At 10 years old, Flynn Mc Garry became sick of the meals his mother cooked for him. So the Los Angeles native took matters into his own hands and started making his own dinners. One of his specialties? Trout with braised leeks .
Now 13, the young chef is being praised as a "food prodigy ". He will spend his summer appr... | high3731.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "they are safe and handy"
},
"options": [
"they cannot be lost or stolen",
"they can be used anywhere",
"they are safe and handy",
"they can save travelers plenty of money"
],
"question": "People like to carry th... | When traveling abroad, it is wise to carry your money in traveler's checks because checks are protected against loss or theft. If your checks are lost or stolen, the issuing authority will refund your money.
Not only are they safe, they are also convenient. They are available in different currencies and they can be ca... | high11276.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "happy"
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"options": [
"angry",
"disappointed",
"happy",
"frightened"
],
"question": "We can infer when John Grogan wrote the book \"Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog.\", he was very _ .... | The Labrador has won the honor of the most popular breed for the past eighteen years. It has been described as gentle, clever and friendly. Yet not all Labs are the same.
John Grogan discovered _ after he and his wife adopted a Labrador that they named Marley. The dog caused Mr. Grogan a lot of trouble, but it also... | high10168.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "show that anti-Jewish feelings exist among some students in her school"
},
"options": [
"show how anti-Jewish most students at her school are",
"show that anti-Jewish feelings exist among some students in her school",
"compla... | Liah Kaminer remembers hearing the shock from the audience when two seniors rapped the words "raise your hand like a Nazi" at a school assembly during her sophomore year.
It wasn't the only instance of anti-Semitism that Kaminer, 17, of Hall High School in Connecticut, says she witnessed at her school. There were oth... | high17607.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "it could sound in the sky"
},
"options": [
"it was made of bamboo",
"it could sound in the sky",
"Li Ye was a musician",
"it looked like a whistle"
],
"question": "The kite made by Li Ye was named after a Chines... | The kite was originally called Zhiyuan in North China, and Yaozi in South China. Early in the Five dynasties, a man named Li Ye used to make and fly a kite in the emperor's court. He once attached a whistle made of bamboo to the kite. Sound was let out when the kite was flying. The kite was named after Zheng, a kind o... | high18534.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The number of students each session can admit."
},
"options": [
"The age of students who can attend the Tech-Camp programs.",
"The number of students each session can admit.",
"The programs the Camp can offer.",
"The wa... | Tech-Camp
prefix = st1 /6 Devon Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
a technology day camp for students 12--17
About Tech-Camp:
Tech-Camp is a day camp with a focus on computers and electronics technology. We offer 2-week summer programs for students of 12 to 17 years of age. We have a computer lab with the latest and fastest... | high17161.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Spain is eager to improve its economic competitiveness"
},
"options": [
"Spain is eager to improve its economic competitiveness",
"it is urgent to increase sleeping hours for Spaniards",
"Spanish schools suffer form high drop... | Trying to recover from a devastating economic crisis, Spain is considering moving the country's clock back by one hour.
Many people regard long afternoon naps and late dinners as perfect aspects of the Spanish way of life. Until the 1940s, Spain was on the same time as Britain and Portugal. In World War II, Spain and P... | high18252.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "sleeping more and better helps regulate the symptom mediators"
},
"options": [
"the researchers obtain information about the sleep habits by frequent interviews",
"the researchers do their research in the National Institutes of Hea... | People who averaged fewer than seven hours of sleep per night in the weeks before being exposed to the cold virus were nearly three times as likely to get sick as those who averaged eight hours or more, a new study found.
Researchers used frequent telephone interviews to track the sleep habits of more than 150 men and ... | high5426.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "It is below ice."
},
"options": [
"It is under the sea.",
"Its lava affects the airlines.",
"It is the largest volcano.",
"It is below ice."
],
"question": "What makes Grimsvotn different from other volcanoes?",... | A volcanic eruption in Iceland has sent ash across northern Europe. Airlines have stopped or changed the flights across the Atlantic Ocean, leaving hundreds of passengers stuck in airports.
Grimsvotn is one of the largest and most active volcanoes in Europe. What makes
Grimsvotn different is that it lies under a huge g... | high2349.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Independence Day"
},
"options": [
"Christmas Day",
"New Year's Day",
"Independence Day",
"Thanksgiving Day"
],
"question": "The Art Institute of Chicago can be visited on _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_que... | No trip to Chicago is complete without a visit to the Art Institute, which is the second largest art museum in the nation.
Opening hours:
Mon - Wed & Fri - Sun, 10:30 am - 5 pm; Thu, 10:30 am- 8 pm; closed on New Year's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.
Highlights:
* The Modern Wing contains contemporary masterpie... | high11510.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "help the Javanese with their illness"
},
"options": [
"help the Javanese with their illness",
"find ways to grow better crops",
"do some research about the island",
"spend his holiday"
],
"question": "Christian ... | Christian Eijkman, a Dutch doctor, left the Netherlands for the island of Java. Many people on the island had a disease called beri-beri. He was going there to try and find a _ .
At first, Eijkman thought some kind of germ caused beri-beri. He raised some chickens. He didn't eat them, but made experiments on them. T... | high4738.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "8 were killed by a fall of a large mass of snow down a mountainside."
},
"options": [
"12 people were lost until now.",
"25 people were rescued instantly.",
"The rest who stayed alive killed 8 people.",
"8 were killed b... | The shocking disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has captured the attention of millions around the world as the search for the airplane and its passengers and crew continues. What happened to the flight's 239 passengers and crew after the plane left Kuala Lumpur on Saturday? It is becoming an increasingly d... | high7231.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Shirley Black survived her husband Charles Black"
},
"options": [
"Shirley Black had been ill in bed for a long time",
"Black's family was of five generations before she died",
"no doctors and nurses were allowed in Black's h... | Shirley Temple Black, who lifted America's spirits as a bright-eyed child movie star during the Great Depression and later became a US diplomat , died at the age of 85 at her home in Woodside, California, on Monday.
A family statement said, "We announce with great sadness that diplomat Shirley Temple Black, former Holl... | high8102.txt |
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"answer_text": "Four ocean scientists will tell visitors some information about whales."
},
"options": [
"A large number of scientists will attend the Festival of Whales celebration.",
"The Festival of Whales celebration will be held from March 5 ... | The Ocean Institute welcomes people to the City of Dana Point's Festival of Whales celebration on both weekends.The event celebrates the migration of the whales off our coast.Respected ocean scientists of the ocean Institute introduce visitors to the world of whales.The speakers are arranged as the following.
Saturday,... | high15776.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To escape the damaging earthquake."
},
"options": [
"To attend Michael and Linda's wedding.",
"To support the organization.",
"To escape the damaging earthquake.",
"To help distribute free daily meals."
],
"ques... | Last Thursday, Michael and Linda stood behind large food trucks distributing meals to 4,000 homeless people for their wedding reception on the border town of Kilis. The couple had decided that instead of hosting their friends and family for a traditional feast reception, they would feed the victims from an earthquake-s... | high12019.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "What they wrote."
},
"options": [
"What they wrote.",
"Where they wrote.",
"When they wrote.",
"How often they wrote."
],
"question": "What was the difference between the two groups of participants in the study?... | For anyone still doubting the belief that our emotions influence our physical health, a new study from New Zealand should be able to settle the matter. It reports that the physical wounds of healthy seniors healed more quickly if they wrote about their most upsetting experiences.
This confirms the results of a 2010 stu... | high13307.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "showing favoritism is common in many families"
},
"options": [
"showing favoritism is common in many families",
"most mothers like their sons better than their daughters",
"only two-thirds of the women interviewed have more t... | In any family with more than one child, children seem to naturally compete for their parents' love and attention. Parents say they love every child equally. But is that true?
Susan, founder of a consulting firm in Chicago, interviewed 216 women and found that even though none of her questions asked directly about a par... | high14468.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "cared much about her children"
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"cared much about her children",
"was sick of staying upstairs alone",
"could not stand living in a wooden house",
"did not deal well with her family affairs during the flo... | July 21st. 2007 was a typical English summer's day--it rained for 24 hours! As usual, I rushed home from work at midday to check on the house. Nothing was _ . By the time I left work at 5p.m., however, the road into our village was flooded. Our house had never been flooded but, as I opened the front door, a wave of wat... | high7966.txt |
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As we drove off from Columbia, I wanted to write a letter to you to tell you all that is on my mind.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
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"Take care not to lost their dogs.",
"Give their dogs good training."
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That's because it took me six or seven attempts at a second novel before I started and completed this one.
*Why do you think you had so many false starts?
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* London Underground
There are 11 colour-coded Underground lines. Services run regularly from around 5:00 to 00:30 (Sunday 07:30 to 23:30).
Visit tfl.gov.uk/tube for more information.
Tip... | high14681.txt |
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Shades of that spirit spread over today's conversations.Once, a friend and I ... | high20530.txt |
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"it earned over $330 million at the ... | Disney has adapted a series of beloved animated films into its live-action movies, and that trend has not even begun to slow.
On Monday, the company announced that the newest movie to get the live-action treatment would be Mulan.
Based on the same Chinese legend as the 1998 animated movie, Mulan will follow in the foo... | high10395.txt |
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1. Werner Forss... | high7972.txt |
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London and Paris
It takes you about two hours to travel from London to Paris by Eurostar, a high-speed railway service. The two capital citi... | high9787.txt |
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That is, until two strangers threw her into their car and sped away. It seemed like a ... | high8499.txt |
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For 15-year-old Ellie Wilson from London, going through the turbulent period between childhood and adulthood is "a pain". However, she also enjoys happy times with friends, even though they have a lot of arguments.
"The thing about me and my friends is that one minute we're up and then the next w... | high22441.txt |
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"They founded the breweries in European countries.",
"They had a habit of alcohol drinking.",
"They were the maj... | The Puritans get a bad reputation in America--especially when it comes to alcohol.
Mayflower, the first ship that came over from England to Massachusetts Bay, actually carried more beer than water.In fact the Founding Fathers of America liked a drink--Samuel Adams was a partner in his father's brewery, and Thomas Jef... | high12582.txt |
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"viruses are the factors causing colds",
"colds are more severe than other illnesses",
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The most widespread mistake of all is that colds are caused by cold.They are not.They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person.You catch a cold by coming i... | high21160.txt |
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Drink water. Believe it or not , dehydration-- when... | high5195.txt |
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Just as the lights go out, you catch a slight smell of ...tuna fish?! You turn your head, searching for the source. Then you spot him... | high16914.txt |
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},
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"Two maids get off the moment the bus stops.",
"A dog waiting for someone.",
"A dog greet... | Every weekday morning I take the 8:30 bus to go to my job. I know by sight several people who also ride in that bus. Some of the girls work as maids. They get off at each stop in ones, twos or threes.
But at one corner something wonderful happens. Before the bus stops, a little dog races out of the nearest house. He do... | high24018.txt |
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"get better training for the 2012 London Paralympic Games",
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An author called Malcom Gladwell recently published a book explaining how the process works.We usually th... | high22469.txt |
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"Enthusiasm can give people more success and fame",
"Enthusiastic people will never get old",
"Enthusiasm... | Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers advised, "Barbara, be enthusiastic ! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were!
"Nothing great was ever done without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when th... | high7782.txt |
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"que... | Bobbi Kristina Brown's family has been gathered around her since she was hospitalized on Saturday after being found unconscious in the bathtub of her suburban Atlanta townhome.
Whitney Houston's only child is now at Emory University Hospital and is still fighting for her life, as a family statement said on Monday.
Noth... | high9977.txt |
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The incident, captured by a surveillance camera and broadcast by Southern T... | high101.txt |
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Dr. Conrad Murray, 58, was led away in handcuffs after the jury in Los Angeles convicted him guilty. Dozens of fans outside the court erupte... | high18087.txt |
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After more than a year of hard work and with a little good luck, Li fulfilled her d... | high3282.txt |
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"calm"
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"question": "How did Edison's mother probably feel when reading the letter?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"an... | One day Thomas Alva Edison was given a letter by his teacher. His teacher asked him to give it to his mother. Edison thought it was something nice. After he returned home, he proudly gave it to his mother, saying "My teacher let me give this letter to you."
Not knowing what it was, Edison's mother opened it, and then h... | high14871.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Apples."
},
"options": [
"Butter.",
"Chocolates.",
"Hamburgers.",
"Apples."
],
"question": "Which of the following should be kept in your fridge if you want to lose weight according to the passage",
"questi... | Figuring out how to lose weight is a challenge for many of us, particularly considering that the quickest path to weight loss is different for everyone. Of course the common methods are always proper diet and exercise, which not only work in weight loss but also keep a body healthy. Of course you've heard this before... | high23005.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Parents pass away before children grow up."
},
"options": [
"Parents bring up children.",
"Parents give love and care to children.",
"Parents educate children to be good persons.",
"Parents pass away before children gro... | People in the United States honor their parents with two special days:Mother's Day, on the second Sunday in May, and Father's Day, on the third Sunday in June. These days are set aside to show love and respect for parents. They raise their children and educate them to be responsible citizens. They give love and care. T... | high673.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The Moon and the Tide"
},
"options": [
"The Moon and Ocean",
"The Moon and the Tide",
"Water Levels",
"The Pull of the Moon and the Sun"
],
"question": "Which of the following may be the best title for the passa... | The water level of oceans rises and falls alternately twice a day. This movement of water is called the tide. Tides are causer by the pull of the sun and the moon on the earth' s surface; since the moon is closer, it affects the tides more than the sun. When the moon is directly overhead, it actually pulls on the water... | high23763.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To spend a special vacation."
},
"options": [
"To meet Robinson Crusoe.",
"To spear the shark for food.",
"To spend a special vacation.",
"To swim in the North Pacific Ocean."
],
"question": "Why did the Flakes ... | What's life like on a deserted island? Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona decided to find out.
The adventurous senator took a vacation from Capitol Hill and went on a fourday Robinson Crusoe style holiday with his two teenage sons to a remote, deserted island in the North Pacific Ocean.
The senator and his sons, 15yearold T... | high13878.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "to tell an interesting experience"
},
"options": [
"to tell an interesting experience",
"to show the easiest way out of a difficulty",
"to describe the trouble facing a newly married woman",
"to explain the difficulty o... | The easy way out isn't always easiest. I learned that lesson when I decided to treat Doug, my husband of one month, to a special meal. I glanced through my cookbook and chose a menu which included homemade bread. Knowing the bread would take time, I started on it as soon as Doug left for work. As I was not experienced ... | high9963.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The disabled"
},
"options": [
"The old",
"The disabled",
"The young",
"The deaf"
],
"question": "_ are not accessible to the Combination Room in Cambridge university without a lift. [ ]",
"question_type... | How many historic churches, pubs or buildings are there in your city? Are there worth preserving? Or are they just a waste of space? There are arguments for and against spending money on historic buildings.
Dangerous staircases. Uneven floors. A lack of IT infrastructure. The problem with many old buildings is that the... | high21174.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "It should be controlled by an autopilot system."
},
"options": [
"It should be controlled by an autopilot system.",
"It should be controlled by \"laser sintering\".",
"A pilot controls it using a remote control.",
"A pi... | Look, this is the first plane in the world to be created using the new technology of "3D printing". The airplane was built using only a computer--but it can fly at a speed of 100mph and has a two-meter wingspan.
It was produced using a special nylon laser printer that builds up something layer-by-layer. The parts were ... | high5181.txt |
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