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"answer_text": "saw an untrustworthy face"
},
"options": [
"came across a neutral face mask",
"saw an untrustworthy face",
"met a reliable person",
"saw a familiar face"
],
"question": "The amygdala lit up more clearly when peo... | Say you're in the supermarket parking lot, holding your baby, bags of goods, and trying to open your car. A stranger walks up and says,"Here, let me hold your baby."Should you let him?
According to a new New York University study, knowing whether or not to trust someone is so important that we can tell whether a face i... | high19588.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "put a design plan into a computer"
},
"options": [
"make a computer",
"put a design plan into a computer",
"design a shoe model",
"test several pairs"
],
"question": "The first in making a new shoe is to _ ."... | When you run, you put force that is equal to three times your body weight on your feet. The human foot contains twenty muscles. This means that there is a lot that can go wrong when you run.
Most sports have some kind of running or jumping So experts at many shoe companies work hard to design good sport shoes. First, a... | high3493.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Bumblebees make false memories too."
},
"options": [
"Human memory can fail sometimes.",
"Bumblebees make false memories too.",
"Humans are not as clever as bumblebees.",
"Bumblebees have extraordinary memory."
],
... | It's well known that our human memory can fail us. People can be forgetful, and they can sometimes also "remember" things incorrectly, with damaging consequences in the classroom, courtroom, and other areas of life. Now, researchers show for the first time that bumblebees can be unreliable witnesses too.
Bumblebees ar... | high9800.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "you can stimulate your child's interest in the activity"
},
"options": [
"you find simple and funny games for your child",
"you can stimulate your child's interest in the activity",
"you force your child to get involved in mo... | You can improve your child's hearing memory considerably . Once his hearing memory has been greatly improved, he'll be able to use and remember what he listens to in class. The success of these suggestions depends upon your ability to use your child's natural desire to get involved in games he finds simple and fun.
A g... | high710.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "She prefers online banking services to local banks."
},
"options": [
"She can't afford her college education.",
"She has received a student loan",
"She prefers online banking services to local banks.",
"She has been wor... | Young people are perhaps better-known for spending money than saving it. But some new banking websites are seeking to change that. These websites offer young people the information and tools they need to watch over their money. The websites also let the users share their financial experiences with other young people.
N... | high14047.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Observe through video."
},
"options": [
"Inform the police.",
"Call his mother-in-law.",
"Arm the security alarm.",
"Observe through video."
],
"question": "What may Celebi first do if his front door opens at a ... | Interactive Home-security Systems
Tarik Celebi, who lives in San Francisco suburb, takes his home-security system with him to work, to dinner, just about anywhere.By his cell phone, he "arms" his home-security alarm from his car before he leaves for work.During his workday, he gets e-mail alerts every time his front do... | high6500.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "83"
},
"options": [
"73",
"78",
"83",
"88"
],
"question": "From the passage we can know the natural term for women in Australia is about_years.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | If you're a male and you're reading this,congratulations:you're a survivor.According to statistics,you're more than twice as likely to die of skin cancer as a woman,and nine times more likely to die of AIDS.Assuming you make it to the end of your natural term,about 78 years for men in Australia, you'll die on average f... | high24184.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Some people around them are making the world better."
},
"options": [
"They possess different kinds of superpowers.",
"They have got the power to change the world.",
"Some people around them are making the world better.",
... | If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
Dreaming about whether you would want to read minds, see through walls, or have superhuman strength may sound silly, but it actually gets to the heart of _ .
Every day in our work, we are inspired by the people we meet doing extraordinary things to improve the world.
... | high13728.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "to avenge the destruction of Athens"
},
"options": [
"to pay a return visit",
"to avenge the destruction of Athens",
"to start a well-prepared expedition",
"to spread Greek culture"
],
"question": "It can be imp... | The Greeks had long kept certain more or less formal relations with the people of Macedonia . The Macedonians from their side had kept themselves well informed about conditions in Greece.
Now it happened, just when Sparta and Athens had finished their disastrous war, that Macedonia was ruled by an extraordinarily clev... | high23833.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Julia Roberts."
},
"options": [
"Julia Roberts.",
"Hugh Grant.",
"David Duning.",
"Not mentioned."
],
"question": "According to the passage, who most probably plays the role of Anna in the film ?",
"question... | Notting hill is a small town west of London. Here lives shy William, a divorced man, who owns a little travel-book store.
It was a Wednesday, when the poor shop keeper happened to meet Anna Scott ,a movie star who walked into his shop.
They ran across each other in the street again. And they found themselves falling... | high12436.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the date consists of four \"ones\""
},
"options": [
"the persons who play Mahjong are four singles",
"the date consists of four \"ones\"",
"only single persons celebrate the day",
"it was first celebrated at universitie... | Singles Day falls on every November 11th, and as the name indicates, this relatively new holiday is one exclusively for people who are still living the single life. I was a bit surprised when I googled "Singles Day" on the Internet, to find that China is the only country in the world that has set aside a special day fo... | high15359.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "he can watch and learn from his telephone"
},
"options": [
"he can watch and learn from his telephone",
"he has completely been replaced by robots",
"robots will tell him all by telephone",
"he is not the person on call... | The Future of Dairy Farming: Robot Milkers
The future has arrived at a dairy farm in about an hour by car from WashingtonD.C. A robot is milking cows. It is milking time at Woodbourne Creamery in Mt. Airy, Maryland. The cows are standing in line for a turn at the robot.
John Fendrick is the owner of the farm. He inspe... | high19563.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the price of clothes has generally fallen by 70%"
},
"options": [
"people spend 30% less than they did on clothes",
"the spending on clothes has increased by 5% or 6%",
"the price of clothes has generally fallen by 70%",
... | They wear the latest fashions with the most up-to-date accessories . Yet these are not girls in their teens or twenties but women in their sixties and seventies. A generation which would once only wear old-fashioned clothes is now favoring the same high street looks worn by those half their age.
Professor Julia Twi... | high16650.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Brazil"
},
"options": [
"Australia",
"Kenya",
"Brazil",
"Costa Rica"
],
"question": "If you are interested in protecting the environment, you will probably go to _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | Volunteering abroad is a great way to help others, improve your skills and become a more confident, independent person. If you are interested in volunteering abroad, here are some places to go.
Australia
If you seek a life on the beach, in a great climate with friendly people, Australia might be your best bet. With tho... | high3478.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "misreading the timetable will not be an excuse for not attending an exam"
},
"options": [
"there will never be any exams on Saturdays or Sundays",
"exams are likely to be held in Semester 1 starting from November",
"misreadin... | Ensure you are prepared for your exams by understanding the processes, dates and support information relating to examinations. Please read the information under Examination Policies and Processes below, especially the Rules to be observed by candidates for examinations.
Examination period
Semester 1, 2015 Monday 15 Jun... | high10221.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the origin and development of standard English used nowadays."
},
"options": [
"the difference between standard English and non-standard English.",
"the influence between standard English and non-standard English.",
"the orig... | Standard English is that variety of English which is usually used in print,and which is normally taught in schools and to non-native speakers learning the language.It is also the variety which is normally spoken by educated people and used in news broadcasts and other similar situations.The difference between standard ... | high16888.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Watersports Club"
},
"options": [
"Watersports Club",
"Medical Centre",
"Sailing Club",
"Riding School"
],
"question": "If you want to swim and enjoy activities which are fast and a bit dangerous, you should joi... | Riding School:
You can start horse - riding at any age.Choose private or group lessons any weekday between 9:00 a.m.and 8: 30 p.m.(3: 30 p.m.on Saturdays).There are 10 kilometers of tracks and paths for leisurely rides across farmland and open country.You will need a riding hat.
Opening Hours: Monday through Friday: 9:... | high2766.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The experiences in his early life."
},
"options": [
"The people he met in Japan.",
"Working as a teacher in Beijing.",
"The experiences in his early life.",
"His father's being put into prison."
],
"question": "... | Lu Xun is one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20thcentury. Besides his famous stories, he also wrote many influential articles about the living conditions of Chinese people.
Born in 1881 to a wealthy family, Lu Xun had a happy childhood. In 1893, however, his grandfather, a senior government official, was put in... | high5009.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "All of the above."
},
"options": [
"He did not rest enough.",
"He traveled too much.",
"His body chemistry changed.",
"All of the above."
],
"question": "Why did Norman Cousins get sick?",
"question_type": "... | Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled around the world on business. He enjoyed his work and traveling.
Then, after returning to the United States from a busy and tiring trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics( USSR),Mr. Cousins got sick. Because he had pushed his body to the... | high11881.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the Internet"
},
"options": [
"newspapers",
"magazines",
"the Internet",
"radios"
],
"question": "In order to find their dream jobs, more American graduates like to use _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_quest... | Nearly 28% of college Students plan to seek employment using Linkedin, up from 5% last year, according to a survey out today from employee recognition provider i Love Rewards and career-services network Experience.Slightly more than 7% plan to use Facebook, up from 5%.
No longer do students just wait for visiting c... | high20484.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "It was sent into space in 2008."
},
"options": [
"It was sent into space in 2008.",
"It is orbiting around the dwarf planet Ceres.",
"Its destination is just the dwarf planet Ceres.",
"It will gather information about C... | An American spacecraft is moving closer to a dwarf planet called Ceres . The American space agency's Dawn spacecraft is set to reach the planet-like object in March.
Space agency scientists will then place Dawn in an orbit around the dwarf planet. Agency scientists want to know more about ice on Ceres. The spacecraft ... | high10547.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "A natural emotion of anger."
},
"options": [
"A natural emotion of anger.",
"Consequences of anger.",
"Control of anger.",
"Possible solutions to anger."
],
"question": "What does the passage mainly talk about?"... | Anger is a natural emotion that everyone experiences in life. Some researchers believe the first sound a baby makes when born could be a sign of anger. Anger may be the original or first emotion we feel and respond to. Imagine, before hunger, thirst, love, desire or any other describable feeling, we may experience ange... | high21942.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "he was a man"
},
"options": [
"he was a man",
"he wore pants",
"he was experienced",
"he enjoyed teaching"
],
"question": "In the veteran teacher's eyes, the writer got the teaching job because _ .",
"que... | "Men get all the breaks!" the veteran teacher announced to me. A cold greeting. Her stare stabbed like an icicle .
"Hello," I countered, extending my hand. "I guess we'll be teaching together this year."
"I swear, all you have to do is wear pants and walk into an elementary school and they hire you! It makes me sick... | high11659.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "her mother kept her father's dementia a secret"
},
"options": [
"she didn't visit her parents much",
"her father hid his conditions carefully",
"her father's conditions weren't serious",
"her mother kept her father's de... | My parents lived to be ninety-three and ninety-four. Mother lived longer and kept her mental sharpness until a few days before she died. Dad suffered from dementia probably for the last six months of his life. It's hard to say how long because his dear wife knew how to cover his forgetfulness or sometimes strange behav... | high19205.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "through the Internet"
},
"options": [
"by telephon",
"through the Internet",
"in his office",
"away from home"
],
"question": "From the passage we can learn that John does his job _ .",
"question_type": "c... | It's 8:30, time for John to start work. So he turns on his radio. Then he eats breakfast. As he eats, he reads his e-mail and reviews his to-do list. Then he sits on the sofa and thinks about an article he needs to write ... Wait a minute! Radio? Breakfast? Sofa? What kind of workplace is this? Well, actually it is Joh... | high4471.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "get the children prepared for the kindergarten"
},
"options": [
"develop the children's communication",
"help the children to learn by playing",
"get the children prepared for the kindergarten",
"train the children form... | Is early childhood education really necessary ? Early childhood education primarily focuses on learning through playing to develop the child's physical , sensory , communicational and social development . Early childhood education has become a concern of the government , who pushes poor children to be formally trained ... | high7178.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "reading broadens a person's experience"
},
"options": [
"reading stimulates a desire to travel",
"reading broadens a person's experience",
"people who read much live longer",
"people who read are more relaxed"
],
... | In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. To have read Gulliver's Travels is to have had the experience of listening to Jonathan Swift, of learning about man's cruelty to man. To read Huckleberry Finn is to feel what it is like to drift down th... | high12350.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because she thought he was the old man's son."
},
"options": [
"Because he was the old man's son.",
"Because she knew that he was a warm-hearted man.",
"Because she couldn't find anyone else there.",
"Because she though... | A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. "Your son is here,"she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened.
Heavily drugged with sleep because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent... | high1509.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "tried his best to the house without second thought"
},
"options": [
"was swimming in a nearby pool after work",
"dialed the fire department immediately",
"tried his best to the house without second thought",
"believed t... | Bob Butler lost his legs in a 1965 landmine explosion in Vietnam. He returned home as a war hero. Twenty years later,he proved once again that heroism comes from the heart.
Butler was working in his garage in a small town in Arizona on a hot summer day when he heard a woman's screams coming from a nearby house. He roll... | high9155.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Going a particular distance to visit friends."
},
"options": [
"Buying birthday presents.",
"Cheering up a friend in low spirits.",
"Paying for holiday gifts and other treats.",
"Going a particular distance to visit fri... | Best friends may be priceless but the cost of keeping the relationship alive is PS23,870.
According to a study, a BFF (best friends forever) does not come cheap with devoted friends spending PS4,679 on birthday presents alone over a lifetime. And while it costs nothing to be a shoulder to cry on, _ Britons go the extra... | high14721.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Waste Disposal Problem"
},
"options": [
"Places for Disposing Waste",
"Waste Pollution Dangers",
"Ways of Getting Rid of Waste",
"Waste Disposal Problem"
],
"question": "The most suitable title for this passage ... | Disposing of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it.As more and more people choose to live close together in cities,the waste-disposal problem becomes Increasingly difficult.
During the eighteenth century,it was usual for several neighboring towns to get together to select a faraway spot as a dump s... | high6266.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "It's still unknown how infants could tell the difference between languages."
},
"options": [
"All the infants in the study are of the same age.",
"The infants could hear the woman's voice while watching the videos.",
"The sto... | Kids are far better than adults at learning how to speak multiple languages. Research now shows that very young infants might have some of the best language skills of all.
A new study suggests that babies between 4 and 6 months old can tell the difference between two languages just by looking at the speaker's face. T... | high22287.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "copy the action of the adults."
},
"options": [
"copy the action of the adults.",
"prefer to talk with those of their own age.",
"show no interest in reading at all.",
"waste a lot of paper and other materials."
],
... | Do you enjoy reading? Do you read newspapers or magazines? Chances are, if you do any of these activities, your pre-school child is on his way to becoming a reader.
The process of learning to read is complex, and one of the most important things to know is that parents can help their children learn to read. As children... | high12344.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "whether it is necessary to have a telephone"
},
"options": [
"that we should be strong enough to ignore a phone call",
"that important message will reach you sooner or later",
"whether it's necessary to answer all phone calls... | Many people think a telephone is essential. But I think it is a pest and a time waster. Very often you find it impossible to escape from some idle or curious chatter-box, or from somebody who wants something for nothing. If you have a telephone in your own house, you will admit that it tends to ring when you are asleep... | high6272.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "sick stomach"
},
"options": [
"runny nose",
"bad cough",
"high fever",
"sick stomach"
],
"question": "If a boy got infected by measles virus, he might NOT show the symptom like _ .",
"question_type": "clo... | An oral drug, named ERDRP-0519, was invented. It is specifically designed to protect people who got infected measles from spreading the virus to others. Like the flu, measles spreads through the air by breathing, coughing or sneezing. There is typically a time, about two weeks, between becoming infected with the virus... | high11895.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Keep silent about it."
},
"options": [
"Go to the doctor's.",
"Be absent from work.",
"Keep silent about it.",
"Accept medical treatment."
],
"question": "According to the passage, which of the following might a... | One morning, Tina and Wesley both wake up with sore throats and stuffy noses. They have the same symptoms, but they react very differently. While Tina reaches for water and vitamins, her husband, Wesley, reached for the phone. "I'd better make a doctor's appointment," he says.
Why do these two Chinese people react to s... | high20490.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "you've got the whole picture of yourself"
},
"options": [
"you know what you don't like",
"you know what you are good at",
"you have no interest in your work",
"you've got the whole picture of yourself"
],
"ques... | Knowing about yourself not only means finding out what you're good at and what you like, but also means discovering what you're not good at and what you don't like. Both help you to see your aim in life.
Although most students would be unhappy if they failed a very difficult physics examination, they have in fact lear... | high10553.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "focus our attention on air pollution"
},
"options": [
"tell us that Shanghai is a developed city",
"ask us to stop driving sports cars",
"tell us how much people like cars",
"focus our attention on air pollution"
],... | I come from a city on the United States'east coast. It's a ten-hour flight for me to get home from Shanghai. When I got off the plane, I took photos of the blue sky and white clouds along the way. After two weeks, I returned to Shanghai. Much to my surprise, the blue sky in Shanghai that I liked before was not as blue ... | high2014.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "all the local people in the area survived"
},
"options": [
".people's health was not influenced",
".it didn't do harm to people's gardens",
"the electricity power remained normal",
"all the local people in the area surv... | Phoenix , Arizona, the USA was shaken by a big sandstorm recently. It was a huge dust storm that struck Phoenix a little after 7:00 pm local time.
Arizona has sandstorms particularly during the monsoon( )season which usually starts from mid-June until the end of September. However, this was so far the biggest. The clo... | high21956.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "To tell us how to prevent the thefts around the holidays."
},
"options": [
"To let the outdoor lights on all the time.",
"To tell us how to prevent the thefts around the holidays.",
"To tell us many families suffering from th... | How do you know if your home is an easy aim for thefts? Around the holidays, many families don't consider taking proper measures to prevent their homes from suffering holiday thefts. With just a few simple steps, you can better make sure of the safety of your home during all of the holiday celebrations. Here are a few ... | high4465.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Understanding"
},
"options": [
"Supporting",
"Understanding",
"Scolding",
"Praising"
],
"question": "What's the writer's attitude toward the students' using mobile phone applications to do theirhomework?",
"... | School children are using mobile phone applications to do their homework, which seem to beincreasing during summer vacations. But instead of blaming students for their behavior, we should say noto too much homework. This is important because by using mobile phone applications to do theirhomework, students don't add muc... | high19211.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "going there personally"
},
"options": [
"writing letters",
"making telephone calls",
"going there personally",
"sending emails"
],
"question": "If you want to be full time secretary, you can contact the company ... | (1)Needed: Full time secretary position available. Applicants should have at least 2 years experience and be able to type 60 words a minute. No computer skills required. Apply in person at United Business Ltd., 17 Browning Street, Leeds.
(2) Are you looking for a part time job? We require 3 part time shop assistants t... | high16122.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "A man of few words."
},
"options": [
"A talkative football player.",
"A parent busy at work.",
"An encouraging father.",
"A man of few words."
],
"question": "Which of the following words can best describe the a... | For most of my 15 years, my father usually said very little to my mother and me. He preferred reading the newspaper or watching football matches on television to talking to his family.
Everything changed one morning. As soon as I came downstairs to breakfast, I could see that he wasn't his usual reserved self. "Can't... | high4303.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Atmosphere and geography."
},
"options": [
"Atmosphere and locales.",
"Atmosphere and geography.",
"Locales and senses.",
"Locales and geography."
],
"question": "What contribute a lot to the mood of a story acc... | A setting of a story acts as a photographic backdrop to your plot and interacts with the characters. And the following are the elements that make a setting:
Time is the starting point of your setting. You develop your story and combine characters with respect to your chosen time period. Likewise, your story could evol... | high19577.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": ". John."
},
"options": [
"Tom.",
"Sorry, I don't know",
"Tony.",
". John."
],
"question": "What's the blind man's name?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0... | One day, there was a blind man called John sitting on a bench with a hat by his feet and a sign that read, "I am blind. Please help me."
A reporter named Tom was walking by the blind man and stopped to see that the man only had a few coins in his hat. He put a few of his own coins in the hat. Without asking for permiss... | high16644.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "introduce the main topic"
},
"options": [
"introduce the main topic",
"show the author's altitude",
"describe how to use the Interne.",
"explain how to store information"
],
"question": "The passage begins with ... | As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, are people remember less? If you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.
In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sp... | high10235.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the US students' life in China is helpful and worthwhile"
},
"options": [
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"all students of the US are living a comfortable life in China",
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Tremor looked shocked. "Why not?" he asked.
"Because he never leaves me any gifts at all," Trogmire growled.
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BackRub was the name two graduate students gave to the new search engine they de... | high6528.txt |
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A new study has found that restaurant goers who pay more for their meals think the food is tastier than offered for a smaller price. The exp... | high10786.txt |
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... | Peter Jackson, currently one of the world's most well-known directors and the unofficial face of the entire nation of New Zealand, was born on October 31, 1961 in Pukerua Bay, New Zealand. He liked to take photographs, so a family friend bought the young Jackson a super 8mm camera. He has been a filmmaker even since.... | high20645.txt |
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... | McGill Comedy Club
Important meetings today. Discussion on putting on Blazing Saddles. Union room 302, 3-4pm. New members (both actors and non-actors, living and dead) are welcome.
History Students' Association
Prof. Michael Cross of Dalhouseie University will be speaking on "Unskilled Labor on Rivers and Canals in Upp... | high11498.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Because her son was born imperfect."
},
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"Because her son had a tiny face.",
"Because she saw her son crying.",
"Because her son was born imperfect.",
"Because her son was in her arms."
],
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Time proved that the baby' s hearing was perfect. It was onl... | high1910.txt |
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A position is now open for a Research Operations Manager(ROM) to support our growing research team at th... | high22052.txt |
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The clerk, a friendly man with a beautiful smile, explained that there were three conferences in town. "All of our rooms are taken," the clerk said, "but I can't send a nice cou... | high9394.txt |
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