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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Determined"
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"options": [
"Miserable",
"Unfortunate",
"Determined",
"Disabled"
],
"question": "Which word can best describe Glenn Cunningham according to the author?",
"question_type": null
},
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"a... | One morning, teachers arrived to find the little country schoolhouse swallowed in flames. They dragged an unconscious little boy, who went to start the fire in the old-fashioned coal stove to heat, out of the flaming building more dead than alive. He had major burns over the lower half of his body and was taken to a ne... | high6138.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "feeds on man-made liquid fertilizer"
},
"options": [
"feeds on man-made liquid fertilizer",
"often kills sheep and other animals",
"has once bloomed 15 years before",
"uses animals' rotting bodies as fertilizer"
],
... | A towering South American plant that is believed to kill animals with its spikes and use their rotting bodies as fertilizer is about to bloom in England. A rare Puya chilensis was planted at a greenhouse in Surrey, a county in the southeast of England about 15 years ago. However, despite its frightening description, ... | high5431.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "order and rule"
},
"options": [
"learning Latin",
"order and rule",
"individual work",
"school education"
],
"question": "We learn from the text that the author's mother used to lay emphasis on _ .",
"que... | "It hurts me more than you," and "This is for your own good." These are the statements my mother used to make years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework
That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to ... | high18245.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "can take home some medicine doctors give them"
},
"options": [
"can take home some medicine doctors give them",
"have confidence in the curative properties of a bottle of medicine",
"are given careful check-ups by doctor",
... | This is a doubtful age, but although our faith in many of the things has weakened, our confidence in the curative (,) properties of the bottle medicine remains the same. This modern faith in medicine is proved by the fact that the annual drug bill of the Health Services is increasing to huge figures and shows no signs ... | high17176.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "he hopes to improve his work and relax himself"
},
"options": [
"he wants to show that he has a lot of courage",
"researchers say standing makes one healthier",
"he intends to catch up the fashion trend",
"he hopes to i... | It takes courage to stand up at work.Now more and more people are standing up when they are working on something important.Standing up is in fashion.Medical researchers have found that people who stand at work tend to be much healthier than those who sit.But I wasn't just looking for better health -- standing would als... | high11507.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "could not work out some simple math problems"
},
"options": [
"could not read or write",
"never knew what people meant when they said to him",
"could not work out some simple math problems",
"found everything he did was... | Solomon Shereshevski was a man with an amazing memory. He was one of the world's most famous me-monists . Born in Russia in about 1900, he spent much of his life performing memory skills that people found difficult to believe. He could memorize long lists of numbers after reading them through once, and he could then re... | high20902.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "in villages in small houses made of wet earth,grass and wood"
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"options": [
"with their whole family in large mud houses in the countryside",
"in towns in small houses made of mud and iron",
"in villages in small houses mad... | Uganda is a country in East Africa and,as in many such countries,a high percentage of the population,about 80 percent,are village-dwellers living in huts,which are often no bigger than a garage. The walls of the huts are made of mud,which is held together by reeds and sticks,and the roofs of the older ones are thatched... | high3040.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "kept their store fronts covered"
},
"options": [
"kept their store fronts covered",
"hung plastic sheets on the walls",
"closed all the doors and windows",
"stopped people throwing at them"
],
"question": "To ke... | BUNOL, Spain (AFP) -- Tens of thousands of people from around the world threw tons of ripe tomatoes at each other in an annual food fight that painted the eastern Spanish town of Bunol red.
More than 40,000 people, including many visitors from Australia, Britain and the United States, took part in the food fight known ... | high16268.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Five."
},
"options": [
"Three",
"Four.",
"Five.",
"Six."
],
"question": "How many jobs had Peter taken?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_... | Peter, a high school student, was pretty busy with school, and he was on the soccer team. High school was hard, because everyone wanted to have nice clothes, hang out, drive cars, and all these cost money. Peter's father was the sort of guy that believed you had to earn whatever you got, so he wasn't just about to hand... | high11088.txt |
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"answer_text": "In different countries,the same gesture may mean different meaning."
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"All experts agree that only 30% of communication comes from talking.",
"Typical introductions often begin and end with shaking hands in Western c... | To communicate well with other people,you must learn to speak well,right?
Yes,but speaking isn't everything.Some experts say that only thirty percent of communication comes from talking.Your gestures and other non-verbal actions matter,too.But in different cultures,the same action can have different meanings.
When you ... | high2809.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Leak causes panic"
},
"options": [
"Crisis of trust",
"Leak causes panic",
"A funny rumor",
"The blind following the blind"
],
"question": "What is the best title of the passage?",
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},... | The nuclear leak at the Fukushima power plant in Japan, which followed the deadly earthquake two weeks ago, has caused an unexpected reaction in China.
A sudden panic buying of salt occurred in many areas of our
country about a week after the disaster. Salt in these districts was almost bought up overnight. Some sell... | high20255.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "In elementary school."
},
"options": [
"In elementary school.",
"The first year in high school.",
"The second and third years in high school.",
"The fourth year in high school."
],
"question": "Which of the auth... | I started to learn English when I was in elementary school. Together with my two friends, I had English classes with a private teacher. I lacked motivation and I learned very little. This stage was insignificant and could just as well have not happened at all.
I began to learn English in earnest when I went to high sch... | high10396.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Jay and his wife are often not thought of as a couple because their ages are so far apart."
},
"options": [
"There are always fights between Phil and Claire because of their different ways of raising kids.",
"Jay, Claire and Mitche... | It's not so surprising that US First Lady Michelle Obama has called Modern Family her favorite TV series. September saw the fun, heartwarming sitcom take home the Best Comedy Series award at the 2013 Emmys. This is the fourth year in a row that the series has won that title. The show features three families who move in... | high7971.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "give an example of the symptoms of OCD"
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"options": [
"show the trouble caused by OCD",
"give an example of the symptoms of OCD",
"prove stars are more likely to get OCD",
"show how OCD affects family life"
],
... | Can dogs help with OCD?
You might watch and laugh when your dog chases its tail because it looks cute. But did you know that, even though it might appear like a fun game, it could mean your pet is sick?
Researchers have found that if a dog runs after its tail, chases cars and barks at flies that are not there, it may ... | high22442.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the author's class regulations"
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"options": [
"the course material",
"others' misuse of technology",
"discussion topics",
"the author's class regulations"
],
"question": "Some of the students in the history cl... | Students and Technology in the Classroom
I love my blackberry -- it's my little connection to the larger world that can go anywhere with me. I also love my laptop computer,as it holds all of my writing and thoughts. Despite this love of technology, I know that there are times when I need to move away from these devices... | high894.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a tourist guide"
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"a government officer",
"a tourist guide",
"a traveler",
"a teacher"
],
"question": "The author of the passage is likely to be _ .",
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}... | Revealed to the world by the famous British explorer, Dr David Livingstone, in 1855, the Victoria Falls are one of Africa's best-known natural wonders. They form a natural border between Zimbabwe and Zambia .
The falls are named after Queen Victoria by Livingstone. They were known to the native people in the 18th ce... | high13847.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "the man would have positive attitude toward life"
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"there would be no homeless people",
"the man would pass on the kindness",
"he would be much richer to help others",
"the man would have positive attitud... | As I walked along the city streets, I passed a young man who was searching through a small block of land that contained a mix of leaves and rubbish. I was somewhat puzzled why some one like him would be searching through rubbish. Finding this a little _ , I asked him, "What are you searching for?" He replied very simp... | high22324.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Test out their claw skills"
},
"options": [
"Show love to the person",
"Test out their claw skills",
"Avoid the attack from the dog",
"Get food from a person's hand."
],
"question": "According to the text small ... | Cats like climbing trees and there are logical reasons behind this behavior. Interestingly, due to some of their physical features, cats will meet trouble getting down from the trees after climbing up, which may seem unusual.
There are several reasons why cats climb trees, mostly to do with defensive purposes. Cats, as... | high14696.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "It can actually pronounce the words."
},
"options": [
"I t contains more words and examples.",
"It can actually pronounce the words.",
"It has a smaller size.",
"It has many games."
],
"question": "Why does the ... | I am an English dictionary. I can still remember the day my ex-owner bought me. He had stood in front of the shelf for around half an hour before finally picking me. Originally, he chose my neighbor. But because she had some ink on the cover, he put her down and chose me instead.
I may sound arrogant . But please for... | high11936.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "How Gallaudet set up the first school for the deaf in America."
},
"options": [
"How Gallaudet set up the first school for the deaf in America.",
"What contributions Gallaudet made to the education of the deaf in America.",
"... | American sign language has an interesting history. Although there have always been deaf individuals in America, the history really begins in 1817. Before 1817 deaf people communicated by using "home signs". Gestures were individually created and used within the home for simple communication. There were no schools or fo... | high20533.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She wanted to make them less angry at the real news"
},
"options": [
"She wanted to worry them",
"She wanted to make them laugh",
"She wanted to make them less angry at the real news",
"She wanted to warn them about wha... | Sarah Williams went to a boarding school.Here is one of the letters she wrote to her parents from the school:
Wentworth Girls' school
Beachside
July 20th
Dearest Mom and Dad,
I'm afraid I have some very surprising news for you.I have been very naughty and the school headmaster is very angry with me.She is going to writ... | high16081.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "hotel"
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"school",
"hotel",
"store",
"restaurant"
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"question": "The advertisement is for a _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"... | You bring each other.We'll provide everything else.
To book the romantic getaway of a lifetime.
Visit windjammerlanding.com or call 18775220722
The Romance Package
From $2,650 for 5 days/4 nights in a Premium Ocean View Room
*Allinclusive food&beverage
*1hou couples massage
*Sparking wine&flowers upon arrival
*1 inroom... | high5800.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Her family would be eaten by the wild pig."
},
"options": [
"Her home would be destroyed.",
"Her children would get lost.",
"She would be taken as the cat's food.",
"Her family would be eaten by the wild pig."
],
... | Animals are not always animals. Some of them will try to cheat or cow some others in the way the human beings often do. Here is a fairy tale from Aesop for you to enjoy.
An eagle made her nest at the top of a high tree while a cat, having found a convenient hole, moved into the middle of the trunk, and at the same time... | high11922.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Working at Home"
},
"options": [
"Training at Home",
"Learning at Home",
"Recording Work",
"Working at Home"
],
"question": "The best title of the 3rd advertisement would be_.",
"question_type": "cloze_quest... | Inventors
Can you patent and profit from your idea?
We have been assisting inventors since 1975. Full range of patenting and marketing services.
Confidentiality guaranteed
American Inventors Corp.
Call for free information:
1-800=338-5656
or visit www.aic.com
*Parents*
Can you afford to raise your hearing impaired chil... | high22330.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "The applicants' resumes and phone numbers are created by Pedulla."
},
"options": [
"The applicants had some things in common at their first two jobs.",
"The applicants' resumes and phone numbers are created by Pedulla.",
"The... | As graduation draws near, those who haven't landed a job yet may be desperate to find one. Perhaps some of the job offers they have received are below their skill and experience levels. Is it better to take these offers, or reject them and remain unemployed?
Recently, David Pedulla, a University of Texas sociologist, c... | high14682.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "have been the biggest in Europe"
},
"options": [
"have been the biggest in Europe",
"have been larger than in China",
"reached one million two years ago",
"have taken up 20% of the market"
],
"question": "In Ger... | China may be the world's largest market for e-bikes, but Europe is fast catching up. The EU's official statistics agency says the figure reached the one million e-bike mark two years ago, and sales have sharply increased since then.
When working errands around Berlin, Lutz, who usually works with horses, uses the com... | high7965.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "focused"
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"focused",
"interesting",
"very strict",
"free of charge"
],
"question": "The author believes that children's education should be _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{... | Child care programs help us work towards the future of our children, and right from the time they are born until they graduate. It is our job to look for the best educational programs. One of the most important things of a good child care program or child day care is the teacher to child ratio . It means that every st... | high24027.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "He thought highly of it."
},
"options": [
"He was doubtful about it.",
"He thought highly of it.",
"He showed no interest in it.",
"He was against the use of it."
],
"question": "What was Whitman's attitude towa... | Change is one of the common facts of life. Most of us have seen a number of changes in our own lives from simple things like fashion trends and entertainment to big changes in technology.
Language, too, has experienced change and continues to develop. The continuous change is what keeps languages alive.
Slang is a way ... | high23748.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "hearing the sound"
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"options": [
"seeing the shape",
"hearing the sound",
"detecting the smell",
"feeling the air move"
],
"question": "While hunting at night, owls first get a prey's information by _ .",
... | Owls are some of the world's greatest hunters. From head to feet, owls' bodies are built to hunt. Scientists are studying all the things that make owls such great hunters.
Most owls hunt at night. The birds have excellent hearing, which helps them find their next meal in the dark.
Owls have one ear that is larger and ... | high9790.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "mother had a great influence on his career"
},
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"brothers were more famous than him",
"mother had a great influence on his career",
"father loved his children and wife very much",
"family was rich and happy ... | I was the youngest of five boys and also had four sisters who had to pull together and take care of each other. Dad wasn't around, so I never knew him well. He killed himself when I was three years old, leaving mom with the job of raising nine kids. She was a very hard worker, and in order to make ends meet, she hardly... | high880.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "they are more likely to fall ill"
},
"options": [
"they won't feel happy anymore",
"they are more mentally harmed than physically",
"they will find the feeling goes away by itself",
"they are more likely to fall ill"
... | Do you often feel lonely? What do you do when you feel that way? Hide yourself away and spend your time reading, watching TV or walking around?
You might think that feeling lonely is just like feeling happy, sad or scared -- that it's just one of your various moods. That is true. However, if you let yourself be lonely ... | high13853.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "brought to Europe from Constantinople"
},
"options": [
"brought to Europe from America",
"begun when forks first invented",
"brought to Europe from Constantinople",
"thought of by the Italians"
],
"question": "T... | "Fingers were made before forks." When a person gives up good manners, put aside knife and fork, and dives into his food, someone is likely to repeat that saying.
The fork was an ancient agricultural tool, but for centuries no one thought of eating with it. Not until the eleventh century, when a young lady from Constan... | high23990.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Rain."
},
"options": [
"Poor service.",
"Poor public transport.",
"Rain.",
"Overpriced hotels."
],
"question": "What do tourists complain most?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {... | BRITAIN is a popular tourist place. But tours of the country have advantages and disadvantages .
ADVANTAGES
Free museums. No charge for good collections of art works.
Pop music. Britain is the only country to rival(...)the US on this point.
Cabs. London taxi drivers well know where they are going.
Choice of food. Visit... | high9948.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "The History of Folk Music."
},
"options": [
"The History of Folk Music.",
"Folk Music Pioneers",
"The Folk Music Industry.",
"The Voice of China"
],
"question": "Which would be the best title of the passage?",
... | "Folk singers are more like poets than singers," Li Yahe, a music businessman, once told China Youth Daily.
That saying perfectly describes Zhang Lei, the 34-year-old champion of the fourth "Voice of China" singing competition, which ended on Oct 7.
Critics thought Zhang's success as a victory for folk singers. The Voi... | high12595.txt |
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"answer_text": "Researchers studied bats to help save people."
},
"options": [
"They carry many deadly diseases like SARS so it's easy for them to get sick.",
"Bats are the only animals that can tell directions easily.",
"Bats are among the ... | Bats are impressive creatures. They are known to carry dangerous diseases like SARS without getting sick.
So researchers wanted to know: How do bats fight off so many deadly diseases? Learning their secret could help doctors better treat humans who have these diseases, therefore saving millions of lives.
To solve this ... | high18906.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "mix English into Chinese"
},
"options": [
"speak as slowly as they like",
"mix English into Chinese",
"use shortened Chinese expressions",
"have much time for their programs"
],
"question": "CCTV anchors have to... | Anchors on China Central Television(CCTV) will need to do some fast talking to replace the popular English acronyms they are now banned from using. Shanghai Dailyreports that "anchors at China Central Television have been banned from saying the English acronyms NBA, CBA, GDP, and the like in their programs."
The... | high20241.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Anita's aunt."
},
"options": [
"Anita's aunt.",
"Anita's mother.",
"The operator.",
"The doctor."
],
"question": "Who played the most important part in calling an ambulance fro Anita?",
"question_type": "fac... | It is well known that the United States' population come from all over the world. The immigrants can learn the language, English, to keep this country united, but it is unnecessary to change their culture for an American way of life.
I believe that recent immigrants should learn English in order to live in the country... | high10382.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "promises to offer useful advice to those looking for employment"
},
"options": [
"informs job hunters of the opportunities available",
"informs employers of the people available for work",
"divides available jobs into various... | There is a new type of small advertisement becoming increasingly common in newspaper classified columns.It is sometimes placed among "situations vacant", although it does not offer anyone a job, and sometimes it appears among "situations wanted", although it is not placed by someone looking for a job, either.What it do... | high670.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "$350"
},
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"$350",
"$300",
"$100",
"$400"
],
"question": "If you register both the VIEW qualification course and the Forum at the same time, you will save _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_question... | For the last seventeen years CPSB has had the pleasure of hosting a learning event we call a Forum. We started offering programs inprefix = st1 /Sarasotain February in 1991 and our first Forum was held in 1992 as a small group meeting. Being from the Northern USA, this was a particularly good time to go South for the w... | high23760.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Because the Police and other law enforcers made the errors."
},
"options": [
"Because She Xianglin was convicted of murdering his wife.",
"Because the Police and other law enforcers made the errors.",
"Because through DNA tes... | A man who served 11 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murdering his wife was officially _ yesterday, walking free from Jingshan County People's Court--the same body that sentenced him to a 15year jail term in 1998--as over 2000 local residents cheered.
"Police and other law enforcers made the errors,"39y... | high7795.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "His lectures were very popular."
},
"options": [
"He liked showing off by talking about his travels abroad.",
"He thought the rich should show mercy to the poor.",
"His lectures were very popular.",
"He supported those ... | In addition to writing articles and books, Mark Twain delighted the audience with his public lectures about the faraway places he visited on his travels. People were eager to learn about his trips to places like the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii), Egypt and the Holy Land. Twain often used the fees he earned from his lec... | high9960.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "forests have increased in the US"
},
"options": [
"farmers have grown more food",
"forests have increased in the US",
"people stopped killing black bears",
"roads were built nearer to the forests"
],
"question":... | In recent years, the black bear population in the US has risen. Forests once cleared for farming have started to grow back and black bears have returned to them. But the bears are finding that their forest habitat has changed. Instead of thick forests covering thousands of acres, bears now have neighbors nearby. Roads,... | high2835.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "she has received others' food"
},
"options": [
"she is poor at cooking",
"she is a church member",
"she is friendly to others",
"she has received others' food"
],
"question": "The author has given lots of food t... | I received a call today asking if I would be willing to bring food to a family in need. The mother was having a major operation and would be lying down for several weeks. Of course, I responded with an immediate "Yes!". As I planned the meal in my head, I reflected on how many times over the years I had been asked to p... | high5182.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "contribute both to the environment and to students development"
},
"options": [
"not only benefit the environment but also win high awards",
"contribute both to the environment and to students development",
"treat and recycle... | More and more schools are being designed and used in ways that are friendly to the environment. These so-called green schools use less energy, cost less to run and are good for students.
The newly renovated Sidwell Friends Middle School in the District has been awarded the highest rating by the U.S. Green Building Co... | high18090.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "find out what in the plant works to cure disease"
},
"options": [
"find out if the plant is poisonous",
"find out what in the plant works to cure disease",
"look for aspirin in the plant",
"make sure that the plant can ... | For thousands of years humans have used herbs , roots, and other things from nature to cure disease. Scientists looking for new cures often visit traditional healers. They find out what plants are used in healing. Then they look at what the plant contains. They find the active ingredient , which is the chemical in the ... | high21611.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "are anxious about its potential danger"
},
"options": [
"are aware of its benefits to the country",
"are anxious about its potential danger",
"are curious about the advanced technology",
"are against where the carrier w... | Nuclearpowered aircraft carriers are considered one of the most important marine weapons in the 20th century. So far, only two countries in the world, the USA and France, have ever produced them. But these fearful fighting machines are about to enter Asia.
The US Navy said last month that one of its nine nuclearpowered... | high3295.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "She worked for a bank."
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Data shows that over half of the famili... | high22318.txt |
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A... | high1482.txt |
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"Dietrich was a famous film star in Ho... | Marlene Dietrich is finally to be honored by her home city, Berlin.
For more than half a century, the famous film star won huge fame in Hollywood, but remained a highly controversial figure in Germany.
When the city's new film museum is opened on September 26, three of its 15 rooms will show the star's possessions col... | high14866.txt |
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"tell the number of active volcanoe... | Scientists have searched for many years for a method to tell whether a volcano explosion will be small or large. Now, four scientists say they have discovered something in lava that will help do this. They did the research on Mount Unzen on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu.
Mount Unzen exploded in November, 1990... | high21605.txt |
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Some researchers, such as Sian Beilock and Susan Levine, are t... | high21163.txt |
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Looking at the damage to her neighbor's home from a Palestinian rocket, Batia Katar, a 17-year-old Israeli girl, was in tears. "We can't celebrate (Israel's) independence when things lik... | high2821.txt |
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"go about or stay home instead of being at school",
"try hard but always fails in the exams",
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"He does not go out much."
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He works for a small firm in Liverpool, where most young people of his age are finding jobs. David's biggest he... | high5196.txt |
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At the memorial service, his friend's wife walked to the platform to speak to the gathering. She said... | high16917.txt |
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There is no denying the popularity and usefulness of Wikipedia. It attracts as many as 78 million visit... | high7959.txt |
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},
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"makes people want to dance",
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"one out of twenty kids at the age of 18",
"five percent kids more than age of 18"
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A headline on Busin,esslnsider.com reads: "This phra... | high9974.txt |
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},
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"Some doubts about end-of-the-world predictions.",
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},
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"She was completely certain about it.",
"She thought he was telling a lie.",
"She was surprised by his response."
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"he couldn't get a good school education",
"he didn't listen to his teacher, Bill",
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When I was 20, I was taken in a rehab clinic . Inside I met Bill, my c... | high14133.txt |
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"he was suspected of possessing drugs"
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},
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"The broken car in the valley",
"an unknown place"
],
"question": "The strange light came from _ .",
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Duffy stopped his car and got out to examine. Below him far down in the dee... | high17.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"A newspaper carrier.",
"A teacher.",
"A construction worker.",
"A doctor."
],
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In 1958, he retired as a newspaper carrier from the Sherman Herald Democrat. He was 77 years old and had delivered four million copies of the Democrat. He had gone through 17 automo... | high18709.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"He is regarded as the symbol of Canadian aviation and aircraft industry.",
"He is the first man to finish a figure high in the air.",
"He now lives in Bad... | It isn't often that an entire industry is symbolized in the figure of a single human being, and such is the case with Canadian aviation and the aircraft industry. The man is the Hon. John A. D. McCurdy and the life story of this still vigorous , distinguished Canadian is at once and at the same time the thrilling histo... | high20296.txt |
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"answer": {
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"Andy",
"Liz",
"Chris"
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Today my friends show off th... | high4263.txt |
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"answer": {
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"increasing knowledge",
"widening vision",
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],
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"answer": {
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],
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Now, scientists have shown that even though you've had an apparent memory lapse , your brain never forgot what you should have done. Ww w.ks 5u.c om
Memory wo... | high16724.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They are amazing."
},
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"They are unimaginable."
],
"question": "What does the author think of oceans?",
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We know v... | high19371.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "he didn't think she could run the marathon"
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"he didn't think she could run the marathon",
"he wanted her to run the marathon",
"she wanted to run the marathon"
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Training wasn't easy, but I kept going. I d... | high16042.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Offering help to others when it's possible."
},
"options": [
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"Visiting favorite cities with her mother.",
"Looking both ways when crossing the street.",
"Offering help to o... | Hey, mom, I want you to stop dropping me off at the airport for some trip that I am about to take and start becoming my seatmate. I want to travel with you---just you.
I want to explore a new place alongside a woman who raised me, who put up with my teenager anxiety and my rebellious college years. I want to see my... | high10433.txt |
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"answer": {
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"small hot-tasting peppers",
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"popular music like Dixieland Jazz"
],
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Red is a hot color.Americans may say they are red hot about something unfair.They are red hot when they are very angry about something.The small hot-tasting peppers found in many... | high2174.txt |
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"answer": {
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"the robot delivery is appreciated in big cities",
"the robot delivery is cheaper than human delivery",
"they can travel for... | Your next Saturday night takeaway could be brought to you by a robot after a major food delivery company announced plans to use automated vehicles to transport meals. Europe's biggest online takeaway food company Just Eat has partnered with Starship Technologies to deliver food with robots on the streets of London late... | high14655.txt |
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},
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"they have little communication with their parents",
"they lost interest in real things",
"their parents don't sp... | Babies who watch TV are more likely to show late learning development and language at 14 months, especially if they are watching programs aimed at adults and older children, according to a new study, which would probably surprise those parents who leave their babies in front of a TV set.
Babies who watched 60 minutes o... | high9021.txt |
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"answer": {
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A stunt person is a man or woman who does all the dangerous bits of acting work in films or on TV. This can be anything from a simple fall into a swimming pool, or walking off the top of a tall building. It sounds like a job that you would have to be mad... | high6312.txt |
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"it's usually hard f... | I can't think of a better way of appreciating a new culture than by taking part in one of its festivals. You'll find that some festivals are celebrated by an entire country, while others may be known only to a single city or region, but either way festivals play an important role in a certain culture. Just enjoy them!
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Th... | high6306.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer": {
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"... | Papa's jaw dropped when Mama told him that Sister had cheated on her final exams--not to succeed but to fail. "It's unbelievable!" he said. "Sister has always been so proud of her good grades!"
"Yes, she has," said Mama. "But it's not unbelievable. It just shows how badly she wanted off the swimming team."
"Wanted off ... | high14899.txt |
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"they are faced with severe competition",
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For years studies have shown people in lower-status jobs generally have higher rates of heart disease and other illnesses and die earlier than those in higher-status p... | high7018.txt |
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"His big, good-natured smiles."
],
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Who were the jazz pioneers? Most were blacks. This music was not written down, and at first only blacks played it. It was... | high19365.txt |
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"she was afraid the smoke was caused by her carelessness",
"things in th... | "Bad luck always comes in three" and last Saturday seemed to prove it. After trouble with the car, the television, we spent the evening waiting for the next trouble. Shortly after dinner we both smelled smoke. My wife, who was often careless when cooking, ran to the kitchen but returned looking puzzled. I rushed up the... | high11739.txt |
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Joan Mclean thinks so. In fact, Mclean, a professor of physics at Mountain Universit... | high10427.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"Females and males both do.",
"Females do more often than males.",
"Males do more often than females."
],
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The temperature of your body should be always just the same, no matter whether the weather is hot or cold. That is why the doctor uses his thermometer when your are sick.
The body keeps the same temperature all the time ,because it balances the heat it produces and it gives off. It is always burni... | high2160.txt |
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"A deadly disease."
],
"question": "Which isn't considered the main cause of koala's population d... | The koala is one of Australia's most treasured creatures, which is a lovely little creature. But now, it is in big trouble.
Affected by habitat loss and climate change, like many other uniquely Australian animals, koalas are being squeezed into smaller regions. But at present, it is a deadly disease, a somewhat silen... | high5169.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "generally make one feel uneasy."
},
"options": [
"show one's consideration for others.",
"are a good way to make friends",
"are proper to ask a man in action",
"generally make one feel uneasy."
],
"question": "A... | One silly question I simply can't understand is "How do you feel?" Usually the question is asked of a man's action-- a man on the go, walking along the street or busily working at his desk. So what do you expect him to say? He'll probably say," Fine, I'm all right.", but you've put a bug in his ear. ---Maybe now he's n... | high10341.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "keeps himself away from his parents"
},
"options": [
"is always busy with his studies",
"doesn't want to be disturbed",
"keeps himself away from his parents",
"begins to dislike his parents"
],
"question": "\"Th... | Parents often believe that they have a good relationship with their teenagers . But last summer , Joanna and Henry noticed a change in their older son : suddenly he seemed to be talking far more to his friends than to his parents . " The door to his room is always shut ." Joanna noticed .
Tina and Mark noticed simila... | high3518.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the pictures were thought to be helpful"
},
"options": [
"the hunters wanted to see the pictures",
"the painters were animal lovers",
"the painters wanted to show imagination",
"the pictures were thought to be helpful"
... | People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted the... | high4277.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "You can enjoy your favorite foods but don't eat too much."
},
"options": [
"You can enjoy your favorite foods but don't eat too much.",
"You must pour down the foods you enjoy,for it is reasonable.",
"You shouldn't refuse any... | Do you love holidays, but hate the increase in weight that follows?You _ are _ not _ alone. Holidays are time for splendid meals and celebrating, especially with the traditional cultural foods.
With proper planning, though, it is possible to keep normal weight during the holidays. The idea is to enjoy the holidays and ... | high22495.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Her parents' educational methods."
},
"options": [
"Her parents' knowledge.",
"Her parents' educational methods.",
"Her parents' love.",
"Her parents' personalities."
],
"question": "What are the gems in the wri... | My parents are amazing. I had the most wonderful childhood, and it's not because I had everything I wanted or because I was a cool kid. I have learned a lot about parenting from what my parents did. Here are a few gems that I use now or plan to use in the future with my two boys.
Here's how a conversation often went ... | high13890.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "is addressed to the parents"
},
"options": [
"must be returned to the teachers",
"should be carried by the kids",
"is addressed to the parents",
"must be mailed to the school"
],
"question": "According to the pa... | Memo to: Parents
Memo from: Administration Office, St. Augustine's Elementary School
Topic: Lunch Program and School Information
Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2010
We would like to thank all parents and guardians for your cooperation as we carry out a new method of delivering our lunch program. So far the month-long tes... | high23953.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because she knew the rules well and was fair."
},
"options": [
"Because she called them brothers.",
"Because they wanted to make her happy.",
"Because no one else wanted to do it for them.",
"Because she knew the rules ... | Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson, South Dakota. Baseball was always her favorite sport. Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first base in their games. More often, however, they asked her to umpire for them, because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing.
One da... | high12556.txt |
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