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"answer_text": "To promote Earth-friendly ways of life."
},
"options": [
"To inspire their children for the future.",
"To prove a travel without motorized transport.",
"To explore the secret of global warming.",
"To promote Earth-frien... | Travelling around the world with children is difficult enough, but attempting it without using motorized transport is even more of challenge. But Dario Schworer, a 42-year-old climatologist and mountain guide, and his 33-year-old wife Sabine are on a journey to do just that.
The Swiss couple want to travel across the w... | high3684.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "To visit friends."
},
"options": [
"To take pictures.",
"To attend lessons.",
"To visit friends.",
"To enjoy sunrise."
],
"question": "What's the author's original purpose of the trip?",
"question_type": nul... | Earlier this week, I wrapped up a 5-day trip in San Francisco. I woke up a few hours before sunrise, drove through the darkness and out of the city, hiked for 30 minutes to the top of a hill overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, and snapped this photo. As I stood there soaking in the early morning light, I was reminde... | high14293.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "They can protect us from injuries completely."
},
"options": [
"They are four basic steps to keep warm.",
"Gloves can't protect us from cold sometimes.",
"We should keep ourselves as dry as possible.",
"They can protect... | Freezing weather can mean frostbite and _ unless a person is prepared. Do you know how to stay warm, dry and safe in such cold winter?
Frostbite is damage that happens when skin is exposed to extreme cold for too long. It mainly happens on the hands, feet, nose and ears. People with small cases of frostbite that affec... | high20136.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The town looked different."
},
"options": [
"No market could be held.",
"The police had done little to help.",
"The town looked different.",
"Fallen trees had not been removed."
],
"question": "Why were some peo... | Many trees in the Brackham area were brought down in the terrible storms that March. The town itself lost two great lime trees from the former market square. The disappearance of such striking features had changed the appearance of the town center entirely, to the annoyance of its more conservative inhabitants .
Among ... | high3874.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Successes and challenges."
},
"options": [
"Uncertainty",
"Pure enjoyment.",
"Successes and challenges.",
"Experimentation with life."
],
"question": "What does the author think college life holds in store for h... | Make the most of college
Dear Daughter,
As we drove off from Columbia, I wanted to write a letter to you to tell you all that is on my mind.
First, I want to tell you how proud we are. Getting into Columbia is a real testament of what a great well-rounded student you are. You should be as proud of yourself as we are.
Y... | high21228.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean"
},
"options": [
"the changing of the weather in southern Africa",
"the warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean",
"the weather which brings drought to Africa",
"the weather phen... | Scientists around the world have been studying the warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean known as El Nino . The appearance of El Nino is known to affect the weather around the world. Scientists still do not completely understand it. Yet they now find they can use it to tell about the future in different areas of the ... | high16484.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "By asking questions."
},
"options": [
"By asking questions.",
"By giving examples.",
"By offering suggestions.",
"By doing experiments."
],
"question": "How does the author introduce the topic of this text?",
... | Are you a bookworm? Is your head stuck in a book for long? If so,that's a good thing.There are many benefits to reading.Getting into a good novel improves our literacy .But who or what encourages us to pick up a book and start reading?
Of course,when we are young,our parents and teachers inspire us by introducing u... | high17942.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "from the outside to the inside"
},
"options": [
"from the left to the right",
"from the outside to the inside",
"from the inside to the outside",
"from the right to the left"
],
"question": "We can find out the ... | Do you know anything about the history of weather? Don't look at the sky. Don't look for old weather reports. Looking at the tree rings is more important. Correct weather reports date back only one century, but some trees can provide an exact record of weather even further back.
It is natural that a tree would grow bes... | high20650.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The concentrated zone of stone islands."
},
"options": [
"1,969 islands of various sizes.",
"The concentrated zone of stone islands.",
"989 islands that have been given names.",
"Man's Head Island."
],
"question... | Situated in the Northeast region of Vietnam, Halong Bay is made up of 1,969 islands of various sizes, 989 of which have been given names. The concentrated zone of stone islands is famous for its spectacular scenery of caves, and forms the central zone of Halong Bay.
Seen from above, Halong Bay looks like a geographic w... | high10793.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "children's high consumption of products"
},
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"divisions between teenagers and their parents",
"children's high consumption of products",
"what is popular among children at the moment",
"how to spend mone... | It is normal for parents to question their children's hairstyle or the clothes they wear. But today teenagers and their parents argue over something else: money.
Children are spending lots of it. Parents used to say to their children, "You're wearing that?" Now they say, "You paid how much for that?"
Children in the US... | high249.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the writer's mother might often wakes him up rudely"
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"options": [
"the writer's mother might often wakes him up rudely",
"the writer's mother is always kind to him",
"the writer's mother hates him",
"never wakes him ... | I stayed in bed for a few minutes. I was reluctant to leave its warmth and comfort, and reluctant to face the problem that I'd let myself forget for the past six months. Finally, I dragged myself out of bed.
I finished getting ready and tried to settle down. It didn't work, so I decided that my mum and I should go. W... | high23359.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "see his son and grandchildren"
},
"options": [
"bring his son newspapers",
"give his grandchildren some food",
"take exercise by walking",
"see his son and grandchildren"
],
"question": "The writer's grandfather... | My grandfather lived only half a mile away from where I grew up in New York. Every day, he would walk down to our house and bring my dad newspapers. Along with the papers he would bring a small bag of treats for my two brothers and me.
Western New York had terrible winter weather: rain, sleet , or even 3 feet of sno... | high9381.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It is in a German town."
},
"options": [
"It once ran for 104 days nonstop.",
"It is the one most difficult to ride.",
"It is most modernly equipped.",
"It is in a German town."
],
"question": "What do we know a... | Richard Rodriguez from the United States is a great roller coaster fan. Recently he broke his 15th world record after he spent 104 days riding the world's largest roller coaster.
"It got more difficult to ride and ride because of the muscle tiredness," Rodriguez, a teacher at the University of Chicago, said as he stepp... | high22047.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "what to do without her best friend"
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"options": [
"whether to give up her best friend",
"what to do without her best friend",
"whom to choose between two friends",
"how to stop missing her former friend"
],
"q... | Dear SJ,
Losing a best friend is never easy.
Your problem, is not just that you miss your best friend, it is that you feel empty and lost without her friendship.
It takes time to get over a lost, and during that time, your mind is getting used to _ . This is usually a good thing, even if it feels like a bad thing.
Now ... | high12184.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the writer came to the cafe for the first time"
},
"options": [
"the writer came to the cafe for the first time",
"the old man made a living by telling jokes in the cafe",
"the writer had known about the old man before",
... | I met the old man at a cafe. "Did you hear the radio news yesterday?" he asked me. "No," I replied. "Anything exciting?""Exciting? NO! Something very sad. A group of hungry dogs killed and ate my best friend."
"Oh, dear!" I cried. "How did it happen?""He was working on the hillside when the dogs attacked him. When he d... | high15827.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Australia"
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"options": [
"Florida",
"Australia",
"The Bahamas",
"Colorado"
],
"question": "Where was Markus Groh from?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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"answer": {
"answer_index": ... | No one goes on an adventure tour with the thought that he won't make it back alive. It is unclear what Markus Groh thought when he signed up for a late February dive that could put him face-to-face with killer Sharks--without a cage to separate him from the man-eaters. He surely didn't expect to end up dead. But the 49... | high22053.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Harvard"
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"options": [
"Yale",
"Harvard",
"Princeton",
"Columbia"
],
"question": "The oldest university in the US is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answer": {
"answer_index... | Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all the many colleges and universities in the United States. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard.
In the early years, these schools were much alike. Only young men went to college. All the students studied the same subjects, and eve... | high1911.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "be beyond Gilbert's ability"
},
"options": [
"be no trouble at all",
"be too easy for Gilbert",
"be beyond Gilbert's ability",
"require no skills"
],
"question": "Gilbert's father thought the task given by the C... | My son Gilbert was eight years old and had been in the Cub Scouts only a short time. Once he was handed a sheet of paper, a block of wood and four tires and told to return home and give them all to his father. That was not an easy task for Gilbert to do. The piece of paper was a set of instructions about how to build... | high12190.txt |
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"answer_text": "Fatal shootings of students are less than 1% of all homicides."
},
"options": [
"About 99% of 15- to-19-year-olds are safe at school.",
"Fewer students have died in car accidents than in shootings.",
"Students shot to death a... | School violence is in the headlines again after recent shootings at schools in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Colorado. After hearing the news, it's natural for students -- no matter how old they are or where they go to school -- to worry about whether this type of incident may someday happen to them.
So how safe are sch... | high11499.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Good heath care."
},
"options": [
"The stable income.",
"Good heath care.",
"Practical profits.",
"Low work stress level."
],
"question": "Which of the following could NOT be the reason for the attraction of civ... | The huge thirst for jobs in the civil service has made the national civil servant exam one of China's most competitive tests. The first exam was held in 1995, and since then more and more people have signed up for it, with applications reaching a peak over the last two years.
The latest online survey, carried out by C... | high20644.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The number of grey wolves is smaller than that of deer."
},
"options": [
"Indians used to hunt grey wolves to make a living.",
"Tourists can only visit the park by walking or hiking.",
"The number of grey wolves is smaller th... | Nearly 60 million visitors flooded to the 384 national parks across America every year. And you won't have to wander far from home to enjoy one of these national treasures, with Michigan's Isle Royale National Park nearby.
Located 56 miles from Copper Harbor on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the park remains _ that can on... | high10787.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Supportive"
},
"options": [
"Supportive",
"Objective",
"Indifferent",
"Neutral"
],
"question": "What is the writer's attitude towards the rise of technologies like Google and Wikipedia?",
"question_type": nu... | We like to think our intelligence is self-made; it happens inside our heads, the product of our inner thoughts alone. But the rise of Google, Wikipedia and other online tools has made many people question the impact of these technologies on our brains. Is typing in "Who has played James Bond in the movies?" the same as... | high3860.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "to get permission to look after babies during the day"
},
"options": [
"to help those homeless people in the room",
"to apply for a permit for ABC",
"to call on the government to help those homeless children",
"to get p... | While others look away from trouble, this lady digs in and gets to work.
Gretchen Buchenholz, the native New Yorker and mother of six, has worked on behalf of needy and margin1alized families for years in the city. She does everything from buy groceries for homeless families to start schools for children. In 1974 she f... | high20122.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Great happiness"
},
"options": [
"Great happiness",
"Great surprise",
"Great pride",
"Great honor"
],
"question": "What does the word elation mean in the sentence \"I got fives 'A's\", she still recalls with ela... | As Rosalie Warren stood at the mailbox in the lobby of her apartment building in May 1980, she shared the anxiety of many other college seniors. In her hand was an envelope containing her final grades. As she nervously opened it, Warren wondered whether her hundreds of hours of studying had paid off.
They had.
"I got f... | high16490.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Website news section."
},
"options": [
"Magazine technique section.",
"Newspaper education section.",
"Government report.",
"Website news section."
],
"question": "Where can we find this article?",
"question... | WASHINGTON -- President Obama brought together the leaders of Japan and South Korea to discuss cooperation on containing North Korea and its nuclear weapons programs. Japan and North Korea have had tense relations over unresolved issues, some of them dating back 100 years. The three leaders emphasized the importance of... | high17956.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "a new application and application fee are to be required"
},
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"the application fee can be reduced to a half",
"applicants on a reserve list needn't be assessed",
"the initial application form should be returned to... | Chinese International School
Application Form
Before an applicant can be invited to take part in an assessment, an application form should be returned to the Admissions Office, and the application fee of HK$1,000 cannot be returned. For overseas applicants wishing to pay in currencies other than HK dollars, the fee is ... | high6918.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "By strengthening stability"
},
"options": [
"By performing arms race",
"By making war",
"By strengthening stability",
"By getting foreign help"
],
"question": "How did Putin try to make Russiaa world power again... | Russian President Putin named Time magazine's person of the year
Russian President Vladimir Putin was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" on December 19th,2007for strengthening stability that made Russia a world power again.
The magazine recognized Putin's "extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country... | high22735.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "his parents' DNA decides his appearance."
},
"options": [
"he is son of his parents.",
"his parents' DNA decides his appearance.",
"he has received DNA from his father or his mother.",
"scientists have put some of his p... | DNA is one of the most important discoveries in science. DNA is the plan for the human being, as a blueprint is the plan for a building. DNA makes a person look the way he does. A person's DNA comes from a mixing of his parents' DNA. That's why a child looks like his parents. But, besides controlling things such as hei... | high15199.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Most people like the female pilot at such a young age."
},
"options": [
"More women will take up a pilot career,inspired by Kate.",
"Kate has flown to around 100 destinations across the Europe.",
"Most people like the female ... | If Kate McWilliams got a penny every time someone asked how old she was she would be on to a good thing.
Easyjet says the 26-year-old is its youngest ever commercial female airline captain.
She flies to around 100 destinations across the world and says most people "are pleasantly surprised and impressed" when she tells... | high14708.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "At age three."
},
"options": [
"At age three.",
"At age ten.",
"At age seven.",
"At age four."
],
"question": "When did Shane tell others that he could play the piano?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
... | Shane Thomas is a 10-year-old pianist from England. He's being called the next Mozart because of his amazing abilities.
He has only been having piano lessons for four months, and practices four hours a week, but he has already played difficult classical pieces. He was just seven when he sat down at the piano, and could... | high1520.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Tears when dirt gets into eyes."
},
"options": [
"Tears when eyes are dry.",
"Tears moved by a story.",
"Tears released when crying.",
"Tears when dirt gets into eyes."
],
"question": "Which of the following is ... | Sometimes,you just can't help it.Maybe you're watching a sad movie,or thinking about the friend who moved away.Next thing you know,your eyes are watering,and you have tears running down your cheeks.Why do people cry when they are emotional? What are tears? Scientists are working hard to find the answers to these questi... | high13067.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He would share a room with only one classmate."
},
"options": [
"He needn't study in a boarding home from then on.",
"There would be at least 30 classmates in his class.",
"His best friend would share a room with him.",
... | When I was six, my mother placed me in a boarding home. For the next nine years, I never slept in a room that contained less than 30 other kids in it. So, when I was promoted to senior at the high school for my final year there, I had the greatest pleasure of rooming with just one other classmate, and the added feature... | high12379.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "rhino numbers have declined greatly"
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"options": [
"rhinos are all big and dangerous",
"rhino numbers have declined greatly",
"rhinos are twice as large as elephants",
"Indricotherium is the world's biggest living ani... | Rhinos are big and can be dangerous. They are also shy and seldom seen. Once there were hundreds of rhino species, but today there are only five. One ancient rhino called Indricotherium was the largest land mammal that ever lived. It was 5m high at the shoulders, and 8.5m long-- twice the size of today's biggest eleph... | high15416.txt |
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"answer_text": "To introduce the topic of the passage."
},
"options": [
"To tell us how changeable he is.",
"To introduce the topic of the passage.",
"To introduce his college life.",
"To tell us Latin is less popular now."
],
... | American teenager Thomas Cheatham had planned to study Latin during his sophomore year at Hebron High School in Texas. But when he learned that the school district was going to offer a Mandarin class, he quickly changed his mind. "I thought it (Mandarin) would be more beneficial than Latin," said Cheatham, who is now i... | high7151.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Dallas"
},
"options": [
"Atlanta",
"Rouge",
"Baton",
"Dallas"
],
"question": "The passengers will have a fifteen-minute rest stop at the city of _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answ... | Welcome aboard the Luxury Cruise bus to Dallas, Rouge, and Atlanta. We plan to arrive in Dallas at 1:45 this afternoon. There will be a fifteen-minute rest stop at that time. We will give a thirty-minute dinner stop in Rouge at 6:15 for those of you who are continuing on to Atlanta. We should arrive in Atlanta at 1:15 ... | high4458.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The \"Unseen\" Language of Plants"
},
"options": [
"Plants Can Send Some Gas",
"Plants Can Communicate with Each Other",
"The \"Unseen\" Language of Plants",
"Plants Can't Feel Pain"
],
"question": "What's the b... | Many gardeners believe that "talking" to their plants helps them grow---it turns out that _ may not be crazy after all. According to the scientists from the University of Exeter, plants may keep communicating with each other through a secret "unseen" language.
For their experiment, the scientists picked a cabbage plant... | high11670.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To offer advice on giving complaints in English."
},
"options": [
"To give an introduction of life abroad.",
"To give suggestions on how to learn English.",
"To offer advice on giving complaints in English.",
"To offer ... | The airline lost your baggage. The hotel laundry ruined your favorite shirt. The taxi driver overcharged you. When you're abroad, sometimes things go wrong. Now you can do something about it! Use these tips when you want to express an effective complaint in English.
No matter how unfair the situation, it's best to phr... | high5746.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Valerie doesn't understand of the visitors' questions sometimes"
},
"options": [
"Valerie looks like a real beautiful woman",
"Valerie can do whatever a human receptionist can't",
"Visitors can have a conversation with Valeri... | She might not be paid, but Carnegie Mellon University's newest staff member does all that a typical receptionist can do: give directions, answer the phone -- and even gossip about her life.
University officials revealed what it considers to be the world's first robot receptionist with a personality of her own. The blon... | high18132.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "it must be very cold in winter where the writer lives"
},
"options": [
"the writer has a small life circle",
"it must be very cold in winter where the writer lives",
"the writer enjoys the dog wagging its tail",
"the bo... | They sit by the door waiting for me. And while I may speak more about the narrowness of my very limited life than their real worth, just the fact that they're sitting there, waiting for me, makes me happy.
I speak, of course, of my wonderful, brilliant, intelligently designed, calf-high rubber boots. They are a piece o... | high17201.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "typical customs and festivals of Bulgaria"
},
"options": [
"Christmas and the New Year in Bulgaria",
"the origin of Bulgarian festivals and customs",
"rosepicking and perfume industry in Bulgaria",
"typical customs and ... | Full of beauty, happiness and a healthy love of life, the Bulgarian festivals and customs date back to old time when man tried to live in peace with nature. The merriest and richest festivals are Christmas and the New Year, when the socalled "sourvakari" makes the round of house with wishes for health and wealth. Oth... | high17567.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Optimistic."
},
"options": [
"Concerned.",
"Cautious.",
"Optimistic.",
"Uninterested"
],
"question": "What's Margarett Hrrison's attitude towards the potential problems the forest may face?",
"question_type"... | Can food be free, fresh and easily accessible? That's the bold question that the city of Seattle is hoping to answer with a new experimental farm not far from the city's downtown area that will have fruits and vegetables for anyone to harvest this fall.
On Beacon Hill, just south of central Seattle, landscape develop... | high10208.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "in primary school"
},
"options": [
"in primary school",
"from parents",
"at three years old",
"at home"
],
"question": "Most pupils in China begin to learn English _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | Most Chinese people these days know what it is like to have an "English teacher", since almost all pupils study English from their third year. Usually that first English teacher will be a young and lovely lady in primary school. But my first English teacher is _ . Looking back, I can see that, when I was only a little ... | high2997.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "What's right for me?"
},
"options": [
"What's right for me?",
"But remember, there's always room for more friends.",
"You may feel lonely at break or lunchtime.",
"The best way to make friends is to be a friend.\nE. Off... | It's hard when a best friend isn't around--maybe because he or she moved to a different school or a different class. 51 . You want to have new friends, but how do you make them? Maybe it seems like everybody else already has his or her friends. 52 .
Start by looking around your classroom--think about which kids yo... | high16679.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "a decrease in death rates"
},
"options": [
"an increase in birthrates",
"the industrial development",
"a decrease in death rates",
"childhood diseases"
],
"question": "The author believes that the increased size... | Prolonging human life has increased the size of the human population. Many people alive today would have died of childhood diseases if they had been born 100 years ago. Because more people live longer, there are more people around at any given time. In fact, it is a decrease in death rates, not an increase in birthrate... | high15370.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "very often"
},
"options": [
"every month",
"twice a day",
"every week",
"very often"
],
"question": "A habit is something we do _ .",
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"answer": {
"answ... | Early to bed, Early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
This is an old English saying. Have you heard it before? It means that we must go to bed early and get up early in the morning. If we do, we shall be healthy. We shall also be rich(wealthy) and clever(wise).
Is this true? Perhaps it is. the body must h... | high1246.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "more people's suffering from eating disorder"
},
"options": [
"models' and actors' appearance in ads",
"the fall of media and entertainment industries",
"more and more people becoming obesity",
"more people's suffering ... | In our world today, the media and entertainment industries are constantly focusing on beauty over brains. Movies, television shows, commercials, and magazines all make use of models and actors whose physical attributes will sell their product.
As our country is trying to reduce the obesity numbers, eating disorder sta... | high6529.txt |
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"does not offer students opportunities to show their knowledge of English",
"does not enable students to use En... | When English as a foreign language is taught to children at the primary and early secondary levels of education, it is generally taught with a general education aim in mind--that is, it is regarded as a "good thing" for them to learn a foreign language as a part of a broad education. There is usually, however, no immed... | high8510.txt |
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"on 12 November in Washington",
"on 12 December in New York"
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The award goes to the female artist who "has shaped and inspired the music industry with her success, leadership and innovation" over the last year. Previous winners include Pink, Beyonce and Katy Per... | high7623.txt |
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},
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"He cannot stay away from his job too long.",
"The donor can only wait for that long.",
"The operation needs that very much.",
"The ice won't last any longer."
],
... | I am peter Hodes ,a volunteer stem courier. Since March 2012, I've done 89 trips of those , 51 have been abroad, I have 42 hours to carry stem cells in my little box because I've got two ice packs and that's how long they last, in all, from the time the stem cells are harvested from a donor to the time they can be im... | high13715.txt |
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"answer": {
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"often built on developing land"
],
"question": "Green buildings are _ .",
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"want others to know or to think that they are rich",
"don't want others to know they are rich",
"want to be h... | In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what "keeping up with the Joneses" is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbors.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a y... | high5034.txt |
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},
"options": [
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"Torres is feeling good",
"Torres is a 41-year-old swimmer",
"Torres is not only a feel-good story"
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"winning more beauty contests",
"encouraging people to value their beauty"
],
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"Spiderman Is Popular",
"A Boy's Love of Spiderman"
],
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Firefighter David Smith was called in after the 6-year-old'... | high2983.txt |
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"answer_text": "was recorded as a sport in China over 3,000 years ago"
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"could be seen around Europe in the 14th century",
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"answer_text": "observing his/her left hand's movements."
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"looking at how he/ she crosses his/ her fingers",
"observing whether he/ she uses body language",
"making good eye c... | What is your body language saying to your children? What is their body language telling you? I had the honor of hearing Jan Hargrave speak the other day. She is one of four body language experts in the US. Jan Hargrave says we lie with the right side of our brains, so it is our left hand that gives us away. A person to... | high3323.txt |
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"A Chinese basketball player in NBA",
"An American of Chinese descent",
"A golden boy from an important family"
],
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},
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"Relying on others during the creative process.",
"Caring about other people's opinions about us.",
"Thinki... | Have you ever made contact with the creative spirit, that certain something hard to describe, but full of good--and sometimes great--ideas? It is more than an occasional great thought. When we feel the moving of the creative spirit, it brings to life a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to invent, to exp... | high5752.txt |
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"answer": {
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"express his worry about his friend's children's future",
"show how lazy young people nowadays are",
"complain the way some young ... | Dear editor,
I am writing to ask what has happened to our young people.They are not as polite or hard-working as my generation(I will give you two examples.
Last Friday, I got on the underground at 9:15 a.m. It was very crowded so there was no free seat.There were some boys sitting on the seats near me.I didn't know wh... | high1534.txt |
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"measures to ensure network security",
"steps to keep track of passwords"
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"questio... | Every year, millions of Americans see their personal information leak into the wrong hands. Maybe there's spyware on the their computer, or a service they use suffered a security reach, leaving customers at the risk of exposure. Or perhaps their password is easy to guess.
Don't fear: You can easily set up proper defens... | high13073.txt |
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},
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"Kulturnatten",
"Father Christmas Congress",
"Tivoli Gardens"
],
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Roskilde Festival (July)
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"his loud sound",
"his strange behaviors"
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Some years ago, I had a dog named Howard. From the time when he was... | high7145.txt |
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"To tell us the importance of commitment.",
"To tell us not to look down upon beggars."
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It was a normal Mo... | high16123.txt |
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"criticize yourself"
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"question": "According to the author, you should _ .",
"q... | Criticism never changes a thing. Accept yourself exactly as you are. Everybody changes. When you criticize yourself, your changes are negative. When you _ yourself, your changes are positive.
Don't scare yourself
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Globe jobs were for life-guaranteed until retirement.For 15 years I worked there--moving from an ordinary reporter to foreign journalist and finally to senior editor.I woul... | high21957.txt |
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},
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"How to be a good team leader.",
"Training the brain is more important than training the body.",
"How to make your b... | You will spend hours at the gym training your body, but do you ever think about training your brain? Here are four ways to keep your brain mentally active and healthy.
Play games
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"answer": {
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"is not very popular in USA",
"has no link to the spoken language"
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Sign l... | high10552.txt |
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"great potential",
"quality guarantee"
],
"question": "Liu Chen chooses online shopping mainly because of its _ .",
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There's been a thought that younger consumers have been the driving force of online buying. That may not be the case. According to a statement from Alipay, the average expenditure of Alipay users born before the 1960s was 3... | high11894.txt |
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"people's opinions of keeping pets",
"Pet's value in medical research"
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Any owner will tall you how much joy a pet brings. For some, an animal provides more comfo... | high9140.txt |
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"very hard",
"worth doing",
"dangerous"
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Lucky to Have Him"
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"Trips with My Teacher",
"Lucky to Have Him",
"My High School Years"
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"future man will look quite different from us",
"man is growing taller and uglier as time passes",
"the functio... | What will man be like in the future----in 5000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly changing all the time.
Let us take an obvious example. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. ... | high8538.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "marketing this paint in Europe is not under way"
},
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"it beats other products of its kind in its lengthy effect",
"car damage is mainly caused by scratches and scr... | After years of hearing drivers complain about scratches on their cars, Japan's Nissan Motor Company has officially announced the next big thing---a paint that not only resists scratches and scrapes, but actually repairs itself within a few days.
The new material, developed by Nippon Paint Company, contains an elastic r... | high936.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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Last month his family had to move to an old house outside the city. It's farther from the post office and he has t... | high12423.txt |
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"answer": {
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Most American schools follow a traditional nine-month calen... | high23826.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"What Steve Jobs did for his company before he died.",
"Why Apple became a successful company.",
"Whe... | Despite knowing he was dying, Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple, worked for more than a year to make plans for four years of new products that he believed would maintain the company's future.
It was also revealed that Jobs fought hard to get plans approved for a spaceship-style company headquarters in California. It w... | high24191.txt |
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"answer": {
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"the crime rate is rising sharply",
"there is no gun control laws",
"buying guns is very hard"
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Yes, because with fewer weapons, you get fewer crimes.
Take a look at the crime rates of countries like the United Kingdom. Their crime rate is very low, compared to ours here in the United States. Just by simply putting stricter laws in ... | high6515.txt |
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},
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"A prosthesis was very expensive at that time.",
"To use the disabled hand was important.",
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"answer": {
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"the best way of giving a lesson"
],
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"to stop them from developing the te... | It was reported last week that developers could take photos from Apple mobile and Google Android devices without the phone owners knowing that the images were being taken. In Apple's case, developers can also obtain the location information for each photo.
Senator Charles Schumer said in a telephone interview that his... | high4302.txt |
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},
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"His children were noisy.",
"The tickets were sold out.",
"The tickets were too expensive."
],
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There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell they didn't have a lot of money. _ Th... | high5008.txt |
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},
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"Miley's 54-date North American concert tour was very successful.",
"Miley's show,Hannah Montana was po... | Without Doubt,Miley Cyrus reigns as Hollywood's "tween" queen.Her show,Hannah Montana,debuted in 2006 as the number one cable show look kids aged 6--14.Add to that success two chart-topping CDs,a sold-out concert tour and a number one movie.And she's not even 16 years old yet!
Born in 1992 in Tennessee,Miley is the dau... | high16889.txt |
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"the moon will not be able to hold all mankind",
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Within the next ten years, the U. S., China, Israel, and a crowd of private companies plan to set up camp on the moon. So if and when they plant a flag, does _ give them property rights?
A NASA working group hosted a discussion this week to ask: Who owns the moon? The answer, of course, is no use. Th... | high2767.txt |
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},
"options": [
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"Women with pleasing appearance will always be considered as better lea... | Can you be too beautiful? It is hardly a problem that most of us have to bother -- as much as we might like to dream that it were the case.
Yet the blessings and curses of beauty have been a long-standing interest in psychology. Do those blessed with shiny faces and an attractive body live in a cloud of appreciation --... | high10220.txt |
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},
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"Road block.",
"Strong wind.",
"Air crash."
],
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},
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"answer": {
"a... | A New Zealand volcano _ for more than a century has erupted,sending up ash clouds,disturbing flights and closing roads.
Mount Tongariro, one of three volcanoes in the centre of the North Island, became active just before midnight local time, with reports of loud explosions,pouting rocks and steam.
The 1, 978m peak is i... | high3479.txt |
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"a movie about Nazi concentration camps",
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"Tips for Visiting San Diego",
"Attractions in and around San Diego",
"Reasons for Visiting San Diego"
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},
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"Making phone calls",
"Sending messages.",
"Writing letters."
],
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"They often ignore the Guianese law.",
"They are separated from the modern world.",
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "declined to donate"
},
"options": [
"declined to donate",
"sang a sweet song",
"put all his money in a bank",
"seemed very surprised"
],
"question": "When the writer asked her son to give money to help the poor,... | My six-year-old came home from school this week with two envelopes. One was for a donation to help people in the Philippines. The other was to help hungry families have a Thanksgiving meal.
"I'll put a check in each of these. Then you can add your own money from your piggy bank, okay?" I said, thinking he'd be so excit... | high6501.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the leaves koalas eat are losing nutritional value"
},
"options": [
"koalas can hardly stand the hot weather",
"the leaves koalas eat are losing nutritional value",
"koalas cannot get enough water to drink",
"the leaves... | Australia's koalas could die out within 30 years unless immediate action is taken to stop the losing in population, according to researchers. They say development, climate change and bushfires have all combined to reduce the number of wild koalas sharply.
The Australian Koala Foundation said a recent survey showed the ... | high14046.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The sales of McDonald is increasing in France."
},
"options": [
"Denis Hennequin has been boss of McDonald since 2004.",
"The sales of McDonald is increasing in France.",
"Denis Hennequin tries his best to increase the sales ... | When Denis Hennequin took over as the European boss of McDonald's in January 2004, the world's biggest restaurant chain was showing signs of recovery in America and Australia, but sales in Europe were sluggish or declining.One exception was France, where Mr.Hennequin had done a reliable job as head on the group's Frenc... | high9632.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Sentences and Austen's thinking pattern."
},
"options": [
"Complex conversations.",
"Not knowing the social background.",
"The old-fashioned vocabulary.",
"Sentences and Austen's thinking pattern."
],
"question"... | To develop one's taste in English,the most effective way is to read English books extensively. However, one may be at a loss to choose the appropriate books,especially as a beginner.I would like to share some of my experience.
My first English novel was Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice,recommended by many English teac... | high14720.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the inflation in America"
},
"options": [
"the history of American currency",
"the inflation in America",
"the political cases in America",
"the price of the oil in the world"
],
"question": "The passage is main... | For several years now, the dollar has fallen lower and lower against other major currencies. Lately, though, the dollar has risen, especially against the Japanese yen and the euro. Some traders think the dollar will continue to rise, but that is not clear.
The dollar moved up this week after comments by American offici... | high9154.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "they failed to get the check"
},
"options": [
"they forgave the stockbroker",
"they went to New York immediately",
"they failed to get the check",
"they spoke to their boss at once"
],
"question": "After the aut... | When I was growing up in America, I was ashamed of my mother's Chinese English. Because of her English, she was often treated unfairly. People in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously ,did not give her good service ,pretended not to understand her ,or even acted as if they did not h... | high1508.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "a college student"
},
"options": [
"an unemployed man",
"a middle-school student",
"a college student",
"a door-to-door salesman"
],
"question": "From the text, we can tell that the writer is _ .",
"quest... | Recently in the hope of earning both money and social experience, I became a door-trw door salesman.
I once read a saying. "If somebody wants something of yours, you will be treated as warmly as spring, but if they don't you may be treated as coldly as winter." You may consider this an exaggeration , but if you are a ... | high12351.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "famous magician"
},
"options": [
"investment banker",
"famous magician",
"actor",
"investor"
],
"question": "The island which has been developed now belongs to a(n) _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions... | Owning a personal island is a luxurious treat one can imagine.
New Holland Island
$400 million, 18 acres
Roman Abramovich
Investment Banker
Located in Saint Petersburg Canal in Russia, the island takes its name after its resemblance to areas in Amsterdam. The owner plans to turn it into a cultural center. The new look ... | high7179.txt |
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