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"answer_text": "It helps them to protect themselves from danger."
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"It helps them to protect themselves from danger.",
"It makes it easier for them to move through the mud.",
"It makes them attractive to fish.",
"It help... | Certainly no creature in the sea is stranger than the common sea cucumber . All living creatures, especially human beings, have their features, but everything about the little sea cucumber seems unusual. What else can be said about an unusual animal that eats mud, feeds almost continuously day and night but can live wi... | high22292.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "work out marketing plans"
},
"options": [
"promote its production",
"work out marketing plans",
"speed up its life cycle",
"increase its popularity"
],
"question": "Marketers need to know which of the four stage... | We can see how the product life cycle works by looking at the introduction of instant coffee. When it was introduced, most people did not like it as well as "regular" coffee, and it took several years to gain general acceptance(introduction stage).At one point, though, instant coffee grew rapidly in popularity, and ma... | high16137.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Great imagination."
},
"options": [
"Firm determination.",
"Great imagination.",
"Rich knowledge.",
"Different personalities."
],
"question": "What matters when people are making some automatic responses?",
... | Do you often find yourself crying in arguments? Does it feel like you just can't stop your emotions defeating you completely when you are in the middle of a heated discussion with someone, and you particularly want to make clear strong points and express yourself effectively?
Many people think that someone who bursts i... | high19204.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Workers pick and package strawberries."
},
"options": [
"Farmers work hard on a corn field.",
"Workers pick and package strawberries.",
"Scientists test machines in strawberry fields.",
"Farmers operate strawberry-picki... | Strawberry fields dotted with hunched-over workers picking and packaging, then pushing the delicate red fruit to waiting trucks -- it is a typical winter scene embedded in the patchwork of homes and farms that make up eastern Hillsborough County.
That scene is changing, though, as the labor pool shrinks and technolog... | high11658.txt |
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"answer_text": "How an unsuccessful person became famous."
},
"options": [
"Sometimes an idol behaves quite foolishly.",
"Hung's performance attracted the public eye.",
"How an unsuccessful person became famous.",
"Success sometimes do... | In the age of reality television, success isn't the only way to the public eye. Failure can also create fame, just like William Hung, 21, a native of Hong Kong.
Hung recently has made an agreement with US-based entertainment firms Koch Records and Fuse Music Network. They will publish a full-length record, titled "The ... | high2001.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "An old phone - a new phone - a laptop - a street bike - a Porsche."
},
"options": [
"An old phone - a new phone - a street bike - a laptop - a Porsche.",
"An old phone - a new phone - a laptop - a street bike - a Porsche.",
"... | For most teenagers, swapping an old mobile phone with a friend for the latest album or movie ticket might be considered a good trade.But 17-year-old Steven Ortiz set his sights a little higher, and -- after a series of swaps -- is now driving himself to school in a Porsche.The youngster started exchanging items two y... | high21943.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Telephoning."
},
"options": [
"Text messaging,",
"Net chatting.",
"Telephoning.",
"Letter writing."
],
"question": "Which of the following may Mark Bauerlein encourage children to use more?",
"question_type"... | Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.
I've always known that my son uses his cellphone a lot, but his ... | high20485.txt |
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"answer_text": "People take the holiday on a place without any basic living facilities."
},
"options": [
"People take the holiday to avoid modern entertainment.",
"People go on an adventurous sailing like Robinson Crusoe.",
"People take the ... | 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 four-day Robinson Crusoe style holiday with his two teenage sons to a remote, uninhabited island in the North Pacific Ocean.
The senator and his sons, 15-ye... | high17229.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because three or four is better than six or seven."
},
"options": [
"Because he can help to solve crime.",
"Because three or four is better than six or seven.",
"Because the young criminals have a hard life on the road.",
... | Americans think that travel is good for you. Some even think it can help to solve one of the country ' s worst problems ~: crime .
Crime worries a lot of people. Every year, the number of crimes is up and up. And many criminals are young. They often come from sad homes, with only one parent or no parents at all.
Ther... | high11880.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "There are nostrils at the end of its beak."
},
"options": [
"It has no tail at all.",
"It has a long beak.",
"Its feathers are thick and brown.",
"There are nostrils at the end of its beak."
],
"question": "Whic... | The kiwi bird
The kiwi bird is a flightless bird,about the size of a chicken. It sleeps during the day and is active at nighttime. It has a long beak that is onethird the length of its body, and its beak actually has nostrils at the end. The kiwi is the only bird with this feature. Another unique feature of the kiwi ... | high5785.txt |
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"answer_text": "They wanted their son to receive the best treatment."
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"options": [
"They wanted to give their son the best education.",
"They wanted their son to receive the best treatment.",
"They weren't used to life in India or Austral... | When Siva Kalyan was born, his backbone was deformed resulting in a lifelong difficulty in walking. But that hasn't stopped the nine-year-old from becoming a prodigy .
Until he was three-and-a-half years old, Siva could not even crawl. Wanting the best treatment for their son, Siva's parents moved with him from India t... | high21770.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "they were suspected to carry dangerous objects"
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"their suitcases were too heavy",
"the agents wanted to play a joke on them",
"they were suspected to carry dangerous objects",
"the agents wanted to admir... | As jewelry designers,my sister Jodie and I are always traveling for work.We need to go to a lot of shows,so we can't pack lightly and usually bring about four suitcases filled with our work.
Most of our stuff is made from heavy materials and metals.So part of the routine for us when we fly is getting stopped by securit... | high14913.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "dogs live in groups"
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"options": [
"dogs like to live with people",
"dogs are easier to be trained",
"few dogs can be leaders",
"dogs live in groups"
],
"question": "By saying \"dogs are pack animals\"(in Para... | A typical day at work for Cesar Millan might include putting on his running shoes and taking a fourhour jog with 40 dogs--large and small, young and old. Amazingly, most of those dogs belong to him. The rest are at the heart of his work; they are troubled dogs sent to Millan to learn good behavior.
Obviously Millan, st... | high7192.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "showing body temperature"
},
"options": [
"blocking unwanted calls",
"sensing the caller's mood",
"showing body temperature",
"detecting the owner's mood"
],
"question": "According to the passage, the \"Sensay\"... | American scientists are developing an "intelligent" mobile phone capable of blocking incoming calls depending on the owner's mood. Using "context aware" technology, the "Sensay" phone will monitor calls and send back polite messages saying the user may be contacted later.
A research team at the Institute for Complex En... | high23167.txt |
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"answer_text": "Weather forecasting is a way of telling what the weather will be like."
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"Weather forecasting is a way of telling what the weather will be like.",
"Weather forecasting is a report about the weather.",
"Weather ... | No one can change the weather. Nobody can control the weather. But if we read correctly the signs around us, we can tell what the more important changes in the weather will be. This way of telling what the weather will be like on the following day or two is called weather forecasting .
For many centuries and in all cou... | high1285.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "seek solutions to the world economic crisis"
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"seek solutions to the world economic crisis",
"remove the misunderstanding between world leaders",
"build up new regulatory systems in each country",
"streng... | prefix = st1 /London
01 April 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown are calling for global unity as world leaders gather in London for an emergency economic summit .
The president says no one country can fix the economic crisis.
Mr. Obama stressed the need for all participants to seek... | high23601.txt |
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"answer_text": "Leaders should be good at making right decisions."
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"options": [
"Leaders should be good at making right decisions.",
"Leaders should be good at doing things right.",
"Leaders should be good at ignoring distinctions.",
... | Leadership is the most significant word in today's competitive business environment because it directs the manager of a business to focus inward on their personal abilities and style.Experts on leadership will quickly point out that"how things get done" influences the success of the outcomes and indicates a right way a... | high9801.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The business is not promising."
},
"options": [
"It still uses chopsticks.",
"It is well decorated.",
"The business hour is long.",
"The business is not promising."
],
"question": "What can we infer about the re... | When we walked into Papillon Bleu, a Chinese restaurant around the corner from Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal's Old Port, the sole waiter on duty looked surprised to see us. At 7:45 on a Saturday night, at the height of tourist season, just one young white family sat in the dining room. We walked past them to a table ... | high19589.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the deeper one dives into the ocean, the more gas is dissolved in the water"
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"options": [
"the less pressure it is, the less carbon dioxide gas is dissolved in the liquid",
"the deeper one dives into the ocean, the less gas is d... | Alan Izhar-Bodner, an Israeli inventor, has developed a swimming suit for divers to breathe underwater without carrying heavy oxygen tanks. His suit makes use of the air that is dissolved in water, just like fish do.
The system uses the Henry Law which states that the amount of gas that can be dissolved in a liquid is ... | high2954.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They can be listened to anywhere you like."
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"options": [
"They can be found in most big bookstores.",
"They are much cheaper than printed books.",
"They can be listened to anywhere you like.",
"They can be borrowed f... | Reading books has long been a way to relax.However,in this modern age of computers,the Internet,DVD movies and MP3 players,the simple act of reading a book has taken a back seat.People want something more interactive than just pages to turn.We seem to be turning away from the joy of reading a good book,but there is an ... | high18697.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "to cheer for their favorite teams"
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"options": [
"to take part in competitions",
"to cheer for their favorite teams",
"to be quick and strong",
"to be good high jumpers"
],
"question": "Whatcheerleaders should... | Cheerleaders arc part of athletic competitions throughout the United States. As their name says they lead the crowd in cheering for the team it likes best.
About five years ago. cheerleaders were considered to be simply entertainers. Today there is much more Cheerleading in America which has become another form of ath... | high20308.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "stay at home to raise her children"
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"options": [
"start her own company",
"teach her children at home",
"stay at home to raise her children",
"help her husband with his business"
],
"question": "If some one i... | Cherie Blair has attacked "yummy mummies" who focus on raising their children at the expense of their careers, suggesting their children lack a sense of independence. The wife of the then British Prime Minister also accused some young women of seeking to "marry a rich husband and retire" instead of working.
Mrs Blair, ... | high16862.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "drinking alcohol and smoking"
},
"options": [
"drinking hot tea and smoking",
"drinking alcohol and smoking",
"working in the kitchen and smoking",
"taking sunbaths and drinking alcohol"
],
"question": "Accordin... | Residents of Golestan Province in northern Iran have one of the highest rates of esophageal cancer in the world. They don't drink alcohol or smoke--the two primary risk factors for the disease in the west--but they do consume tea, nearly 1.2 liters per day, on average. So local researchers set out looking for a connect... | high16876.txt |
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"answer_text": "Interracial lodging may have diverse outcomes."
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"Conflicts between students of different races are unavoidable.",
"Students of different races are prejudiced against each other.",
"Interracial lodging does mor... | Several recent studies have found that being randomly assigned to a roommate of another race can lead to increased tolerance but also to a greater likelihood of conflict.
Recent reports found that lodging with a student of a different race may decrease prejudice and compel students to engage in more ethnically diverse ... | high1291.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "suffer problems from being left alone"
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"are growing in numbers",
"are also found in middle-class neighborhoods",
"watch too much television during the day",
"suffer problems from being left alone"
],... | For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming home to an empty house. Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hide. But all of them have something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called latchkey children. They're children who look after themselve... | high705.txt |
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"answer_text": "It was because of her strong determination and constant efforts that she got walking again."
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"options": [
"The girl got over her disease just by imagining.",
"It was because of her strong determination and constant efforts that ... | Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a debilitating disease involving her nervous system.She was unable to walk and her movement was restricted in other ways as well.The doctors did not hold out much hope of her ever recovering from this illness.They predicted she'd spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.They s... | high7838.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "when she was just a little child"
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"when she was just a little child",
"when she was at school four years ago",
"after she was at school four years ago",
"when she began to study in a big hospital"
],... | My friend Alice decided to be a nurse when she was four years old. She always to play at "doctors and nurses" with her playmates. When she left school last year, she still wanted to be a real nurse.
Late September she started her studies in a big hospital in Newcastle. She had to work very hard. She went to classes ev... | high23615.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "fast growing registered users"
},
"options": [
"the announcement",
"media conference",
"fast growing registered users",
"the benefits of Facebook"
],
"question": "What is Joanna Shields content with?",
"ques... | Facebook is now used by 30 million people in the UK,about half the population.
Joanna Shields,vice president of Facebook Europe,made the announcement this morning at a media conference in London.
She said: "We can announce today that we have reached 30 million in the UK,which we are really excited about."
Globally,Face... | high9815.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "have a good exercise for their brain"
},
"options": [
"have a good exercise for their brain",
"lose their short memory of its plots",
"are willing to pay a high price for tickets",
"react the same way as those watching ... | Paying a higher price than usual for a ticket to see a film in 3D is the annoyance of many a cinema-goer's life.
But there may be a benefit to doing so, as a study has found that 3D films exercise the brain and improve short-term functioning in a similar way to brain-training tests.
The research found that people who w... | high14907.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "offers specific examples of the ways people deal with disappointment"
},
"options": [
"analyzes the cause of disappointment",
"describes his personal experience in dealing with disappointment",
"criticizes Helen and Kevin's n... | No one gets through life without experiencing many disappointments. Strangely, though, most people seem unprepared for disappointment and react to it in negative ways. They feel depressed or try to escape from their troubles instead of using disappointment as an opportunity for growth.
One negative reaction to disappoi... | high7186.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He told her to write down all that her\" enemy\" had said about her and payattention only to the things that were true."
},
"options": [
"He told her not to pay any attention to what her\" enemy\" had said.",
"He criticized her a... | When I was 11, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings . Week by week her list grew: I was very thin, I wasn't a good student, I talked too much, I was too proud, and so on. I tried to hear all this as long as I could. In the end, I became so angry that I ran to my father with tears in my eyes. ... | high23173.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Emotions Affect Our Bodies"
},
"options": [
"Emotions Affect Our Bodies",
"What Happens to A Frightened Cat",
"What Happens to An Excited Person",
"Feelings That People Have"
],
"question": "The best title for t... | Sometimes people call each other "freaked-cat", but have you ever thought about this expression? When a cat is frightened, its heart starts beating faster, its muscles get tense, and there are changes in the chemicals in its bloodstream.Although the cat doesn't realize this, its body is getting ready for action.If the ... | high5949.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "high school students"
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"options": [
"parents",
"high school students",
"university students",
"teachers"
],
"question": "The potential readers of the text are _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | Thinking about taking a year out before going to university?Check out your gap year choices here and decide if it's the right decision for you...
What is it?
It's a year out between finishing senior high school and starting university in which you can travel, work and generally do mind-broadening stuff you will never f... | high12386.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "others' trust"
},
"options": [
"his neighbor's donation",
"his community",
"having got the job",
"others' trust"
],
"question": "The writer was grateful mainly for _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"... | The choice to adopt and hold gratefulness is the one that is different from those who suffer misfortune and those who enjoy a full life.
My mother died when I was 24. It was a very difficult time in my life -- everything seemed to fall apart. I lost my job, and then my _ were turned off. I had to take cold showers for... | high22245.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "we have to read faster to get more information"
},
"options": [
"we rely on e-mails and tweets too much.",
"we are busier than before",
"we have to read faster to get more information",
"we do not enjoy reading any more... | Speed-reading is an indispensable skill in the Internet age. We skim over articles, e-mails and tweets to try to grasp key words and the essential meaning of a certain text. Bombarded with information from our electronic devices, it would be impossible to cope if we read word by word, line by line.
But a new trend call... | high9183.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Confused."
},
"options": [
"Confused.",
"Angry.",
"Satisfied.",
"Proud."
],
"question": "How did Annie feel about her parents' relationship at the beginning of the article?",
"question_type": "factiod_questi... | Annie sometimes felt puzzled by the relationship between her parents.
They never seemed to show much love for each other. Annie believed that people who were in love would show it. They would hold hands, speak sweet words to each other and give each other nice gifts. Annie's parents did none of these things. So, she do... | high13098.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "how he can meet their needs"
},
"options": [
"how he can meet their needs",
"why they have such demands",
"what problems the hotels has",
"who is the best person to go to"
],
"question": "When guests ask for som... | You get all sorts of demands, and the mark of a good hotel is to supply whatever is asked for without sounding surprised. If a guest asks for rubbers gloves, you don't ask why. You say, "No problem. What color1 do you want?"
There have been some demands which, much as I would have liked to fill, I couldn't. A Japanes... | high21994.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "To see whether one's feeling can be unconsciously affected."
},
"options": [
"To see whether one's feeling can be unconsciously affected.",
"To see whether one's facial expressions can be altered.",
"To see whether laughter c... | "Does my smile look big in this?" Future fitting-room mirrors in clothing stores could subtly adjust your reflection to make you look - and hence feel - happier, encouraging you to like what you see.
That's the idea behind the Emotion Evoking System developed by Shigeo Yoshida and colleagues at the University of Tokyo ... | high10591.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "to save water and electricity"
},
"options": [
"to stop the drought in 1967",
"to support government officials",
"to pass a special law in the state",
"to save water and electricity"
],
"question": "Daylight Sav... | Today about 70 countries use Daylight Saving Time (DST). Daylight Saving was first introduced during World War I in Australia. During the world wars, DST was used for the late summers beginning January 1917 and 1942, and the full summers beginning September 1942 and 1943.
In 1967, Tasmania experienced a drought . The S... | high20452.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "No one in the writer's family is good at telling jokes."
},
"options": [
"No one in the writer's family is good at telling jokes.",
"Mark is the best at telling jokes in his family.",
"Mitch is very sensitive to all kinds of ... | A classic joke goes like this: A nurse rushes into an exam room and says, "Doctor, doctor, there's an invisible man in the waiting room." The doctor says, "Tell him I can't see him."
Pretty simple, right?
Here's how I tell it: "A nurse--her name is Joyce--feels a presence in the waiting room. She looks around but sees ... | high11857.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Finland"
},
"options": [
"the UK",
"Finland",
"the USA",
"Korea"
],
"question": "The students spend the least time in school in _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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{
"answer": {
"ans... | Whenever anyone measures educational success, East Asian countries are always top scorers. But in a recent league table, a European country, Finland, was top of the class. South Korea was still in second place, though. Britain was at number 6.
In Korea the school day is long--typically 7 or 8 hours, followed by hours o... | high5961.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Nearly sixty percent of the population."
},
"options": [
"Less than a quarter of the population.",
"About forty percent of the population.",
"Only half of the population.",
"Nearly sixty percent of the population."
... | Singapore is a country with 42% of its population foreign born. Singaporeans, even those of the same ethnic group , have many different first languages and cultures. For example, within the Singaporean Chinese group, nearly a third speak English as their home language while almost half speak Standard Chinese as their... | high18873.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "keep walking in the snow"
},
"options": [
"go home alone first",
"keep walking in the snow",
"draw pictures in the snow",
"light a fire on the ice"
],
"question": "When the author's feet felt cold, her father ad... | When I was a kid, I always used to wonder how in the world my father work outside in the winter without a coat. It could be minus 20 degrees centigrade and there'd be Dad, removing snow, or perhaps chopping some wood --- his coat thrown aside--- wearing a shirt , a cap, and a pair of gloves.
"Aren't you cold, Dad?" I'... | high2968.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "A teenager."
},
"options": [
"A liar.",
"A teenager.",
"A stranger.",
"An honest person."
],
"question": "Who is most likely to be a victim online?",
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"answer... | Targeting teens
Using the Web makes teens a target. Posting too much personal information for those millions of cyber eyes to see can cause some big problems and can even invite a threat to your life.
As Mary learned, not everyone on the Internet is who he or she says they are. Adults will sometimes pose as other teens... | high20334.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The documentary usually lasts fifty minutes."
},
"options": [
"The documentary has many different characteristics.",
"The documentary is not only about food making.",
"The documentary also involves social problems.",
"T... | Recently, the documentary "A Bite of China", which takes the fine foods as the theme, has beaten many TV series, becoming extremely popular on the microblog and turning into the hottest topic. Chinese people are proud of the great food culture of China and some even praise the documentary by saying that "it is a best v... | high17598.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Russia will co - operate closely with China"
},
"options": [
"Russia will co - operate closely with China",
"There are many differences between Russia and China",
"Put in knew little of the new generation of Chinese leaders",... | The leaders of Russia and China vowed to support each other's fight against Muslim separatists and urged peaceful solutions in Iraq, during a meeting in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on December 2, 2002.
Russian President Vladimir Put in and China's Jiang Zemin signed a joint declaration calling for a "multipolar ... | high7810.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "by myself"
},
"options": [
"with my grandma",
"with my Daddy",
"by myself",
"with my friend"
],
"question": "I went out for a walk _ .",
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},
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He is also a director and once dire... | high14091.txt |
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One day my parents gave me a bb gun. It looked just like ... | high23629.txt |
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Chang' s talent was finally recognized in 2002 by the Decca Record Company. ... | high22537.txt |
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"Native people always leave the worst jobs to the immigrants.",
"Differen... | In the past years a lot of people migrated from one country to another in Europe. They had to leave their countries with their traditions, their cultures and sometimes also their families. People migrate because they think that they will have a better life, they will find a job and they will make a lot of money for the... | high10585.txt |
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The retired professor, Archibald A. Hill in Lucasville, USA could tell us the story. Ninety-seven years ago, two of Mr. Archibald Hill's aunts, Miss Patty Hill and Miss Mildred Hill were asked to write some song... | high11843.txt |
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By STEPHEN HEYMAN June 20, 2010
A new breed of hotels is trying to stand out from the masses with designer details, memorable allowances and prices around $250 a night.
Welcome to Boutique Hotel.
To Get Those Summer Tickets in New York, Strategize
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I felt tense and shaking. I drew my violin from under my ... | high5975.txt |
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"five people being crushed",
"many cars being damaged",
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},
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"Martin preferred living at home to living at college.",
"Martin didn't want to take the public tran... | Martin had just finished high school. He would go to college at the far end of the city. He didn't want to live there, and he didn't want to take the bus either. So his father agreed to buy him a car.
His father spent all his summer teaching him how to drive, from the ABC to the XYZ. Thinking of the great feeling of dr... | high7025.txt |
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],
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},
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"answer": {
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The Taj Mahal was built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jehan, wh... | high1454.txt |
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"They lose too much body fat."
],
"question": "What kind of physical problem do many adult Americans have?",
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"answer": {
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"You cann't use WEN(r) without bubble.",
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"answer": {
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"he got some scientific ideas from fairy-tales",
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"Fairy-tales," he said, wisely nodding his head.
Why? Why would Albert Einstein -- the Nobel Prizes winning physicist recommend reading fairy-tales? Was he jo... | high17375.txt |
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"answer": {
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"a person training horses for some purpose",
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Papa was a ranger. He worked with horses. He always wore clean clothes with a hat even when he worked. His hat was always the same kind of a cowboy hat- large black hat of heavy wool. He wore his hat full and high. I think he wanted to look taller than he really was.
Mama was proud of the way he looked... | high11704.txt |
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"the countries of Africa and south--east Asia"
],
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The gorilla is the largest of the apes. He is as tall as six feet when standing upright. Many people think that gorillas are ve... | high19358.txt |
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"answer": {
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"will try their best to stay healthy",
"often stay up late to finish their job",
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Researchers peered into the fridges of 400 people in Britain and compared the contents with the owners' lifestyles. They claim to be able to cl... | high3525.txt |
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During the discovery and settlement of what is now the United States, the flags of various European nations were flown over the la... | high18720.txt |
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Tile carnival features a series of cultural performances and demonstrations,bringing the Spring Festival fun to Sydney.Over the pas... | high17413.txt |
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"answer": {
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"pine trees form rings of he same width every year",
"th... | How much rain has fallen on the earth in the past? Man has not always kept weather records. Because scientists need a way to learn about past rainfall, they study the tree rings.
A tree's trunk keeps growing year by year. Under its bark , a tree adds a layer of new wood each year it lives. If you look at a tree stum... | high1332.txt |
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"Comedians often use their sad experience.",
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},
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"is attended mainly by the people in the Sahara",
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Durin... | high8470.txt |
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"how Starbucks makes its coffee"
],
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Things really began to change for the company in 1981. T... | high15204.txt |
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"answer": {
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],
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Names are different all over the world... | high7743.txt |
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},
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},
"options": [
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"Doctors in Beijing help in making BabyCare products.",
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While China may be the world's biggest toymaker, many of the best are exported . Department stores here do not have enough high quality toys. I... | high15210.txt |
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"boat",
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],
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},
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"it is usually warmer before sandstorms come",
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From 3 o'clock p.m.,the strong cold wave from Mongolia engulfed most areas of North China and the biggest wind-force was 7.Tianjin also suffered this year's first sandstorm wit... | high7757.txt |
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"having a rest on the plane",
"calling his family on the phone"
],
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},
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"Dolphins and sharks show up in deep water.",
"Tens of thousands of marine animals are found dead.",
"Sea crea... | Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow
water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small
fish gather by the thousands off an Alabama pirer. Birds covered in
oil are crawling deep into marshes , never to be seen again.
Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster are seei... | high11076.txt |
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In June, 1966, a boy named Marl Andre who went into the mountains in search of butterfly speci... | high3531.txt |
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Fate initially seemed not to have provided him with a stage on which to achieve more than... | high10368.txt |
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"people think it important to know the time",
"bosses want to make their stores beautiful",
"they needn't wea... | When you walk along a street in a big city in the United States, you may see clocks in most stores. Radio announcers give the correct time during the day. People there think that it is important to know the time. Most Americans have watches. They want to do certain things at certain times. They do not want to be late. ... | high5140.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "gets along well with his family"
},
"options": [
"first met his wife in Chicago",
"has a sister three years younger",
"got married at a very old age",
"gets along well with his family"
],
"question": "According ... | My dad is very unique because of his personality and lifestyle.For instance,he put his watch on his left hand,even though he's a lefty,and parking his car only in the garage is just his thing and doesn't change.
My father only wears suits during the week because it's something very professional and formal. He loves to ... | high18734.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Cholesterol"
},
"options": [
"High-quality protein",
"Cholesterol",
"Canola oil",
"Minerals"
],
"question": "According to this passage,which of the following is a cause of heart disease?",
"question_type": n... | Although they are an inexpensive supplier of vitamins,minerals,and high--quality protein,eggs also contain a high level of blood cholesterol ,one of the major causes of heart disease.One egg yolk,in fact,contains a little more than two--thirds of the suggested daily cholesterol limit.
This knowledge has caused egg ... | high17407.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "animals' response to music"
},
"options": [
"the change of music over time",
"animals' response to music",
"special music for animals",
"the origin of music"
],
"question": "The research mentioned in the passage... | Monkeys prefer heavy metal to classical music, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin whose findings are published this week in Biology Letters.
Scientists played a selection of music to a group of South American cotton-top monkeys but the only sound that got a reaction were from the heavy metal band M... | high5626.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "In order to introduce a topic"
},
"options": [
"In order to introduce a topic",
"Because the story is funny",
"Because the little girl thought her father would buy a car",
"Because author likes to tell stories"
],
... | A man was cleaning car with a special brush when a little girl who had been watching him said,"My daddy has a brush like that to clean his car too.""Really!"said the man."What kind of car does your daddy have"The little girl answered,"Oh, he hasn't got the car yet, but he's got the brush to clean it."Well, I suppose yo... | high18052.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "It can help us to take control of the doomsday."
},
"options": [
"It can allow us to be free from thick coats by wearing clothes made of nanocloth.",
"It can allow us to create more new materials to meet the need of our modern soci... | Nanotechnology is a fashionable word these days. The name "nano" comes from the size of molecules, which are measured in nanometers--or one billionth of a meter. Through operating the atoms and molecules, scientists can change the nature of common materials and even create new materials that have new properties.
But s... | high17361.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Sense of smell."
},
"options": [
"Sense of smell.",
"Sense of touch.",
"Sense of sight.",
"Smart brains."
],
"question": "What do mosquitoes mainly use to find their targets?",
"question_type": null
},
{... | Mosquitoes have an extraordinary ability to target humans far away and fly straight to their unprotected skin. Regrettably,mosquitoes can do more than cause an itchy wound. Some mosquitoes spread several serious diseases,including Dengue,yellow fever and malaria.
Over one million people worldwide die from these diseas... | high11710.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "his son was not as excited by the roller coasters ride as expected"
},
"options": [
"his son was not as excited by the roller coasters ride as expected",
"his songs enjoyed turns and circles with his face stretched",
"his son... | Every summer, no matter how urgent work schedule is, I take off one day exclusively for my son. We call it dad-son day. This year our third stop was the amusement panic, where we discovered that he was tall enough to ride one of the fastest roller coasters in the world. We experienced through face-stretching turns and... | high3257.txt |
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