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"answer_text": "A and B"
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"in the afternoon",
"in summer",
"at any time",
"A and B"
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"question": "The town was never peaceful, for fire broke out _ .",
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... | Cyril was a small town. The houses there were all made of wood; almost everything in the houses such as cupboards, tables and chairs were made of wood, too. And all the houses faced south. The town was never peaceful. Fire broke out once a week on summer afternoons. Residents were puzzled who the real firebug was.
One... | high15826.txt |
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"answer_text": "sharp knives"
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"sharp knives",
"red carnations",
"yellow flowers",
"long chopsticks"
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"question": "When sending a gift to your friend in Netherlands, you should avoid _ .",
"question_type"... | When traveling, it's important to learn about the customs and etiquette of the global village, What we consider polite behavior at home isn't always accepted outside our borders.Don't be regarded rude or disrespectful on your travels.
Gift giving should be a happy, positive experience.When selecting a present for some... | high8934.txt |
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"answer_text": "had studied at the University of Colorado"
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"had been a pilot for 25 years",
"knew nothing about the organization",
"had taught at the University of North Colorado",
"had studied at the University of Colo... | "One thing I enjoy about my job is that I can work on something that is actually active," says Game McGimsey, an American volcanologist . Part of his job includes keeping an eye on Alaska's many active volcanoes and giving people a heads-up when a volcano might erupt .
Like most jobs in the science, volcanology require... | high14286.txt |
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"answer_text": "English"
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"French",
"Australian",
"English"
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"question": "Jim was _ .",
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"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text... | Jim found a job in a shop two years ago. Mrs. White, the shopkeeper trusts the able young man and pays him more. He's happy and works harder.
Once Jim knew a beautiful girl called Mabel at a friend's party. They danced for several times and the girl was deeply in love. But Mabel's parents didn't agree to marry their da... | high22734.txt |
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"answer_text": "the importance of setting goals"
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"how stupid the first driver was",
"the importance of having a map and right direction",
"how stupid the second driver was",
"the importance of setting goals"
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... | Goals can help you do, be and experience everything you want in life. Instead of just letting life happen to you, goals allow you to make your life happen.
Successful and happy people have an idea of how their life should be and they set lots of goals to help them succeed. By setting goals you are taking control of you... | high15198.txt |
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"answer_text": "playing computer games"
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"options": [
"doing housework",
"playing computer games",
"playing cards",
"cleaning the room"
],
"question": "From the passage we know that most children enjoy _ .",
"question... | Most children don't enjoy doing housework . Then like playing computer games rather than
cleaning the rooms. But in Australia, Jim and Robert's mother, Mrs Black, has a good and proper method to get their children to do housework.
Here is an example.
"Mum, have you worked out next week's housework? Let Jim and me c... | high17957.txt |
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"answer_text": "English as a Second Language"
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"English School Learners",
"English as a Second Language",
"Electronic Service Line",
"English Studying Lab"
],
"question": "The word \"ESL\" in each column probably... | Longman Dictionary with CD-ROM
The dictionary is unique because it has been written using the Longman Defining Vocabulary. Only this dictionary uses a defining vocabulary comprised of the 2,000 words that make up the intermediate-level student's most frequent vocabulary. This new edition has been completely updated usi... | high20123.txt |
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"answer_text": "the man in the red coat once beat Buck severely with a club."
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"the man in the red coat once beat Buck severely with a club.",
"Buck remembered Francois was the man in the red coat.",
"the man in the red was qu... | "Well, what did I say?Buck's a real fighter, all right," said Francois the next morning when he discovered that Spitz had disappeared and that Buck was covered in blood.
"Spitz fought like a wolf," said Perrault, as he looked at the bites all over Buck.
"And Buck fought like ten wolves," answered Francois. "And we'll t... | high3861.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "they never thought of helping her"
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"they pretended not to see her",
"she pretended to be poor",
"they never thought of helping her",
"they knew the author would help her"
],
"question": "People j... | Barefoot and dirty, the girl just sat and watched the people go by. She never tried to speak. Many people passed, but never did one person stop.
The next day I decided to go back to the park, curious to see if the little girl would still be there. Right in the very spot as she was yesterday, she sat with the saddest lo... | high17943.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "describing a scene"
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"telling a story",
"giving an example",
"offering an explanation",
"describing a scene"
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"question": "The method the writer uses to begin the passage is _ .",
"questi... | On August 5 at 10:31 p.m. PST, a rover named Curiosity touched down safely on the surface of Mars, and I was lucky enough to have a front-row seat.
My name is Clara, and when I was in Grade 6, I won the essay contest NASA held to name its next Mars rover. The essay I wrote was not even 250 words long, but somehow it wa... | high3875.txt |
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"answer_text": "It's not easy to produce and maintain large quantities of antimatter"
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"It is unrealistic to apply antimatter to medical care",
"antimatter weapon is threatening the safety of human beings",
"antimatter is not ... | The place is England. The year is 1928. One of the founding theorists of quantum mechanics , Paul Dirac, is scratching his head because solutions to his equations have _ unexpected results. For the solutions to make sense, he reasons, there must be a particle that has the mass of an electron but the opposite charge. A... | high20137.txt |
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"answer_text": "By adding a new full day to the school calendar."
},
"options": [
"By cancelling a legal 1-day holiday.",
"By copying the way of San Francisco.",
"By adding a new full day to the school calendar.",
"By changing the lega... | Mayor Bill de Blasio designated the Lunar New Year an official public school holiday in New York City in June, 2015.
The move came after de Blasio in March, 2015 declared school holidays on the most-observed holiday in Islam, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. De Blasio, _ a promise made during his 2013 mayoral campaign, sa... | high14292.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "don't want to hurt the unfavored kids"
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"keep telling the same lie seriously",
"don't want to hurt the unfavored kids",
"show pity for the unfavored kids",
"don't tell the truth to the favored kids"
]... | There's sweetness in the lies parents tell their kids, which is a very good thing, since they tell a lot of them. The lies -- nearly all of them harmless -- may differ depending on the family. But from culture to culture, there's one tall tale nearly all parents tell, and they tell it repeatedly: "We do not have a favo... | high22720.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "liked doing school projects in the geography class"
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"was always ready with a kind word",
"often forgot what she had learned very easily",
"liked doing school projects in the geography class",
"was intere... | Lisa: My best teacher is my geography teacher in 10th grade. Why? Because we did school projects! Back then I wrote about India and never forgot what I had learned. He brought the culture to life by letting me become part of it. He also listened to us and was always ready with a kind word.
David: My best teacher is my ... | high12185.txt |
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"answer_text": "The author communicates with all the 35 friends by e--mails."
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"There are 35 people in the author's list of friends right now.",
"The author communicates with all the 35 friends by e--mails.",
"The list of 35 f... | Facebook means never having to say goodbye. The social media web site has earned a reputation for reconnecting old friends. Last week,a guy whom I hadn't seen since my bachelor party five years ago sent me a friend request. I accepted and waited for "Easy E" to send me a greeting of some kind. He had sought me out,af... | high23358.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Town Twinning"
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"Town Twinning",
"Friendly Towns",
"Exchange Teachers and Students",
"Peace and Understanding"
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"question": "Which is the best title for the passage?",
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... | In Europe, many people make friends across the borders between their countries through town twinning. Town or city twinning means two towns in different countries agree and decide to become "twins" with sister city relationship.
Their citizens find pen friends in the twin town. They exchange newspapers and stamps. The ... | high9380.txt |
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"answer_text": "They are sure to watch the sunset in the evening."
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"They are sure to have trouble finding a suitable restaurant.",
"They are sure to watch the sunset in the evening.",
"They are sure to take your trains.",
... | Key West, Florida is a wonderful place to spend a vacation. It is a truly charming and fun city for the whole family. And of course you will get the good weather of Florida, with which you have plenty of time to enjoy the outdoor activities.
Key West is the most southern city in the continental USA. That is why their s... | high248.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "With its long ears."
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"With its long tail.",
"With its long ears.",
"With its strong legs",
"With its long trunk."
],
"question": "How did the elephant drive the fly away?",
"question_type": "... | A student and his teacher were walking through the forest. The student was disturbed by the fact that his mind was in constant unrest . He asked his teacher, "Why most people's minds are restless, and only a few have a calm mind? What can one do to still the mind ?"
The teacher looked at him, smiled and said, "I will ... | high10792.txt |
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"answer_text": "the methods for preventing exotic species"
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"the methods for preventing exotic species",
"the effects of exotic invasion on Hawaii",
"the problems faced by the Hawaiian economy",
"the role of biologists i... | Hawaii is an important trading center and about six million tourists visit there every year. With all that traffic in and out, exotic species have plenty of opportunities to reach the islands. According to biologists, exotic species are the number one threat to the state' s economy, environment, and way of life.
The qu... | high20889.txt |
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"answer_text": "Water cycle."
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"options": [
"Water cycle.",
"Water vapour.",
"How rain forms.",
"Water, vapour, rain."
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"question": "What is the main idea of the passage?",
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"answer": {... | Weather changes when the temperature and the amount of water in the atmosphere change. We can see and feel water coming from the atmosphere when we have rain. But the water must somehow get back to the atmosphere. Meteorologists call this the water cycle.
There are many stages in the water cycle. Rain falls when water ... | high7385.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a huge financial problem has arisen."
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"a huge financial problem has arisen.",
"many schools are mismanaged",
"lots of teachers are planning to quit",
"many administrative personnel have been laid off"
... | In communities north of prefix = st1 /Denver, residents are pitching in to help teachers and administrators as the Vrain school District tries to solve a $13.8 million budget shortage blamed on mismanagement . " We're worried about out teachers and principals, and we really don't want to lose them because of this," one... | high23370.txt |
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"answer_text": "after 1918"
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"during the war",
"after civil war",
"after 1945",
"after 1918"
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"question": "The general returned to Washington _ .",
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"answer... | Here is a story told about an American general who was a very important figure in the American army during the First World War. Everybody in the United States knew him and many people wished to have a picture or something of his in their homes.
Soon after the war the general returned to Washington. One day he went to a... | high260.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "you can't enjoy the beautiful sights well"
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"you will break the traffic rules",
"you will cause much noise",
"you can't enjoy the beautiful sights well",
"you can't drive into some parks"
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"ques... | The Gold Coast family holidays are always great fun whether you are from Australia or from abroad. There are beautiful beaches, adventure parks, nature parks and so much more.
There are so many sights to see here. It is a pity to drive in a car and you'll miss a great part of it. Australia is home to many animals and b... | high4854.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To make his mother happy."
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"options": [
"To thank his mother for buying him a bike.",
"To show his ability of making money.",
"To make his mother happy.",
"To surprise his mother."
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"question": "Why did the... | One spring,when 1 was 1 0,during one of my father's layoffs,I could tell my mother was unhappy.I decided to cheer her up by buying her a special Mother's Day gift.
One day after school I rode my bike to the Agins,which,I learned years later,was known for its high-end fashions and style.I introduced myself to Sylvia Agi... | high5592.txt |
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"answer_text": "\"I'll treat myself to a movie for my progress.\""
},
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"\"Now I have more time for fun.\"",
"\"I can start my big project later.\"",
"\"I'll treat myself to a movie for my progress.\"",
"\"I'm going to have ... | Everyone procrastinates.We put things off because we don't want to do them, or because we have too many other things on our plates.Putting things off--big or small--is part of being human.
But procrastination does have consequences.When your procrastination leaves you feeling discouraged, it is time to take action, and... | high10962.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "an official written order"
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"an identification card",
"an official written order",
"a special license",
"an access card"
],
"question": "According to the passage, a \"warrant\" is _ .",
"que... | There are many rights to make sure that people will be treated fairly when they are suspected or accused of a crime. Sometimes these rights are called "due process of law". In using these rights, a person should have the help of a lawyer.
You have a right to protect against unreasonable searches and seizures. The polic... | high3685.txt |
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"answer_text": "An Ungrateful Man"
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"An Ungrateful Man",
"Soldier and King",
"A Brave Farmer",
"Farmer and Soldier"
],
"question": "What would be the best title for this story?",
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... | Among the soldiers of King Philip there was a poor man who had done some good deeds. He had pleased the king in many ways, and so the king believed in him.
One day this soldier was on a ship at sea when a great storm came up. The winds drove the ship upon the rocks, and it was broken. The soldier was thrown upon the sh... | high21201.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "teachers can enable students to develop their own way of reading"
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"teachers can improve conditions at school for the students",
"teachers can enable students to develop their own way of reading",
"teachers can... | So long as teachers fail to distinguish between teaching and learning, they will continue to undertake to do for children what only children can do for themselves. Teaching children to read is not passing reading on to them. It is certainly not endless hours spent in activities about reading. Douglas insists that "read... | high18480.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Confusing but amusing."
},
"options": [
"Confusing but amusing.",
"Easy to understand.",
"Boring and annoying.",
"Accurate and helpful."
],
"question": "How does the writer find the English-language menus in man... | At home, ordering food from a menu is a normal, everyday routine. I don't even give it a second thought. In China, it's a whole other story! Here, ordering is a fun game of trial and error, and the adventure begins before the food is even served!
Many restaurants in central Beijing advertise "English language menus", b... | high19946.txt |
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"answer_text": "In refrigerating freight cars and households."
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"options": [
"In refrigerating freight cars and households.",
"In hotels, taverns and hospitals",
"In families of New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.",
"In fresh meat... | By the mid-nineteenth century, the term "icebox" had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns , and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fr... | high506.txt |
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"answer_text": "He has difficulty getting up early."
},
"options": [
"He has a full--time job outside.",
"He likes lying in bed all day.",
"He was once fired by a company.",
"He has difficulty getting up early."
],
"question": ... | Since I became a full--time freelancer , I've found one of the hardest things to do is to get up early. Without the danger of being fired, there just hasn't been a lot of motivation to get out of bed.
I've quickly learned that getting up is the key to success and better yet: waking up early is really just a habit.
The... | high8908.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "32cm"
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"25cm",
"29cm",
"32cm"
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"question": "According to the passage, the adjustable steel bar can help the students keep their eyes _ from books.",
"question_type": "cloze_quest... | A primary school in Wuhan has used new desks and chairs to prevent students from getting short sight. The desks and chairs make students have the correct posture, especially when reading and writing. Each desk has an adjustable steel bar. The bar can help students keep their eyes at least 30cm from books.
Zhang Jianmin... | high12813.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Listening practice after the proposal."
},
"options": [
"Getting ready for news listening.",
"Making suggestions while listening.",
"Doing follow-up activities after listening.",
"Listening practice after the proposal."... | TV is an excellent resource for hearing and listening to English. The pictures help you understand what is being said and TV news is an ideal way to help improve your listening ability because within a short period of time the same news is often repeated. This means that you can watch basically the same news program se... | high22708.txt |
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"answer_text": "\"Confucius Says\" Into Classes"
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"Difficult But Interesting",
"\"Confucius Says\" Into Classes",
"I Appreciate Lun Yu",
"The Analects of Confucius"
],
"question": "Which do you think is the best ... | CONFUCIUS would be happy if he lived in the modern world. He would see his works and philosophies still popular among teenagers even though they speak Internet slang , like PK, PLMM and GG.
In Changzhou No 2 Middle School, Jiangsu, all Senior 1 students now take a course in "Lun Yu" (The Analects of Confucius, <<>> ),... | high6925.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "hundreds of people died in the flood"
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"hundreds of people died in the flood",
"the flood lasted for several days",
"heavy rains followed the flood",
"the flood hit the village at midnight"
],
"qu... | Casablanca, Sep. 24
A flood swept across the coastal plain about 100 miles southwest of here, killing hundreds of Moroccans in a market place yesterday morning.
Reports from the area said 218 bodies had been counted, and many of the people were missing.
The flood followed heavy rains, which filled the coastal plain and... | high512.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "are self evident"
},
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"are to be further studied",
"are yet to be proved",
"are self evident",
"are supported by scientific evidence"
],
"question": "It can be learnt from the passage that the health... | America is a country on the move. In unheard of numbers, people of all ages are exercising their way to better health. According to the latest figures, 59 percent of American adults exercise regularly-up 12 percent from just two years ago and more than double the figure of 25 years ago. Even non-exercisers believe the... | high1086.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because he didn't have the internal combustion engine."
},
"options": [
"Because he was short of money.",
"Because he didn' t get support from the government.",
"Because he didn't have the internal combustion engine.",
... | The man who learned to fly
It is publicly accepted that it was the Wright brothers that invented the plane, but actually George Cayley knew how to make a plane a century before the Wright brothers took off. If only he'd got the internal combustion engine to work.
During the 18thand 19thcenturies, scientists and the pu... | high23402.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "still had a great interest in cycling"
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"options": [
"lived an easy life",
"moved to a new house",
"still had a great interest in cycling",
"spent much time with her kid"
],
"question": "After Kristin Armstron... | For every woman who feels like she's had to scale back her personal ambitions since becoming a mother, gold medal cyclist Kristin Armstrong has a message: Don't give up on your dreams.
She retired after winning gold in Beijing to start a family; son Lucas arrived in 2010, but then she decided to compete again in the Lo... | high12807.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He must have noticed the writer's new watch."
},
"options": [
"He wanted to embarrass the writer.",
"He was just fulfilling his duty by asking the passenger some usual questions.",
"He must have noticed the writer's new watch... | It was the small hours of the morning when we reached London Airport. I had rung London from Amsterdam, and there was a hired car to meet, but there was one more unfortunate happening before I reached my flat. In all my travels I have never, but for that once, been required by the British customs to open a single bag o... | high6931.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "An early winter morning."
},
"options": [
"An early winter morning.",
"A cold winter afternoon.",
"An early summer morning.",
"A windy summer afternoon."
],
"question": "At what time was the story set?",
"qu... | I was walking along the main street of a small seaside town in the north of England looking for somewhere to make a phone call. My car had broken down outside the town and I wanted to contact the AA Company. Low grey clouds were gathering across the sky and there was a cold damp wind blowing off the sea which nearly th... | high21215.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Finding sustainable living ways of using fewer resources."
},
"options": [
"How to search for a suitable trash can.",
"Challenging his students to follow his proposal.",
"Spending seven months sleeping in his office.",
... | Meet Jeff Wilson AKA Professor Dumpster , an environmental scientist and the Dean of Huston Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. The reason for his unusual nickname? He has decided to live in a dumpster for the next year. Yes, the kind that you might find filled with trash behind a restaurant.
Wilson says the ins... | high18494.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "He was well worth praising."
},
"options": [
"He was unusually quiet.",
"He was well worth praising.",
"He was cleverer than expected.",
"He was a talented football player."
],
"question": "What did Dr. Scott Le... | It's been just over a year since 9-year-old Zion Harvey received a double-hand transplant , and now, what he really wants to do is play football. "I feel happy about my new hands, and I don't feel different. I like that now I can throw a football further than when I didn't have hands," he said.
The nation's youngest h... | high19952.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "They have to be independent and cooperative."
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"options": [
"They have more arguments with classmates.",
"They have to be independent and cooperative.",
"They need to do more homework at home.",
"They have to prepare ... | LIKE many teachers, Cristi Derow and Jennifer Bradley have spent most of their careers giving classroom lectures to students who sat passively in their seats.
The Lewisvillle, Texas, school teachers were aware that the hours they spent on preparing lessons were too often wasted on many students. So Forestwood High Scho... | high4840.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "prefer Internet games to sports"
},
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"love sports more than anything else",
"prefer Internet games to sports",
"enjoy sleeping late in the morning",
"are too busy with study to do any sports"
],
"que... | When did you last go outside for sports? Some students might need a while to remember. But for students in Yangzhou University it is easy to remember as they need to run in the morning at least three times a week during their two terms. The university even uses fingerprint punch-in clocks to manage students' records. ... | high5586.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "is not sure whether the stories are true"
},
"options": [
"believes both of the stories",
"doesn't believe a word of the stories",
"is not sure whether the stories are true",
"is telling the stories just for fun"
],... | There are stories about two US Presidents,Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren,which attempt to explain the American English term OK. We don't know if either story is true,but they are both interesting.
The first explanation is based on the fact that President Jackson had very little education. In fact,he had difficulty... | high4698.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "tell people about a new technique that finds the most earth-like planet moving round another star"
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"prove that scientists have a lot of difficulties in doing scientific research",
"explain why this planet moves arou... | A new planet-hunting technique has detected the most earth-like planet yet around a star other than our sun, raising hopes of finding a space rock that might support life, astronomers reported recently.
"This is an important discovery to answer the question 'Are we alone?'" said Michael Turner of the National Science... | high10976.txt |
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"answer_text": "who was not willing to meet his nephew"
},
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"whose nephew went to visit him at the hotel",
"whose nephew is always asking him for help",
"who was not willing to meet... | A car drew up outside the Swan Hotel and a young man got out.Pausing only for a moment to see that he had come to the right place,he went into the hotel and rang the bell on the counter of the bar.
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},
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"cannot be called science fiction... | Many people seem to think that science fiction is typified by the Bug-eyed Monster, embodying every feature that most people find unpleasant. This is unfortunate because it degrades a worthwhile literary endeavor. Instead, the basic interest of science fiction lies in the relation between man and his technology and bet... | high1938.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
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"a program for children",
"a program for teachers",
"a program for students"
],
"question": "\"Sesame Street\" is actually _ .",
"question_typ... | "Sesame Street" has been called "the longest street in the world". That is because the television program by that name can now be seen in so many parts of the world. That program became one of American's exports soon after it went on the air in New York in 1969.
In the United States more than six million children watch... | high7391.txt |
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},
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"When it hits the coastline.",
"When it is more than 75 miles wide.",
"When its winds reach 75 miles per hou... | In the second half of each year, many powerful storms are born in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean seas. Of these, only about half a dozen becomes the strong, circling winds of 75 miles per hour or more that are called hurricanes, and several usually make their way to the coast. There they cause millions of dollars ... | high274.txt |
[
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "we have inherited from our ancestors who were dependent on nature"
},
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"we have inherited from our ancestors who were dependent on nature",
"people have lived with nature for tho... | Do your spirits soar on a sunny day? Do you relax at the sound of flowing water?
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"answer_text": "make a phone call"
},
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"make a phone call",
"require a new one",
"write a letter of complaint"
],
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Introduction
Before using the radio, please read all directions, and put warranty information in a safe place. You may need to refer to the warranty information later.
Warranty
The radio is warranted for one year. If it fails to work because of problems of materials, please ret... | high14523.txt |
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},
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"Wireless routers and radios.",
"Hair dryers and candles.",
"TVs and electric blankets."
],
"question": "Which of the following items ar... | University Room Regulations
Approved and Prohibited Items
The following items are approved for use in residential rooms: electric blankets, hair dryers, personal computers, radios, televisions and DVD players. Items that are not allowed in student rooms include: candles, ceiling fans, fireworks, waterbeds, sun lamps ... | high12152.txt |
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"answer_text": "hairs grow the fastest"
},
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"hairs grow at a different rate",
"hair growth comes to a stop",
"85 percent of hairs are growing"
],
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Each hair on a person's head grows from a single tub... | high8049.txt |
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"answer_text": "rains usually come without thunder and lightning."
},
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"rains usually come without thunder and lightning.",
"it is usually dry in April",
"children pay no attention to the two natural wonders.",
"parents are... | Although April did not bring us the rains we all hoped for, and although the Central Valley doesn't generally experience the sound and lightning that can go with those rains, it's still important for parents to be able to answer the youthful questions about thunder and lightning.
The reason these two wonders of nature ... | high21598.txt |
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"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Some harmful materials have been added to our food."
},
"options": [
"Diseases caused by food have been done away with.",
"It has caused a lack of information about the value of food.",
"Some harmful materials have been added... | The food we eat seems to have great effects on our health. Although science has made great steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat. Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related t... | high16334.txt |
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"it was lit three months before the Olympic Games were held",
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Tibetan female climber Cering Wangmo reached the summit with a special extreme-altitude Olympic torch. This event is what Chinahas pro... | high19007.txt |
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"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "It made her sad and depressed at first."
},
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"It made her sad and depressed at first.",
"It seriously affected her singing career.",
"It happened when she was a colleg... | Wesla Whitfield, a famous jazz singer, has a unique style and life story, so I decided to see one of her performances and interview her for my column.
I went to a nightclub in New York and watched the stage lights go up. After the band played an introduction, Wesla Whitfield wheeled herself onstage in a wheelchair. As ... | high18319.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "A, B and C"
},
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"new",
"for the young man",
"A, B and C"
],
"question": "The trousers were _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "That all depends."
},
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"He should be blamed.",
"It causes them to smoke.",
"The butts can be reused."
],
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If you hate people throwing things on the ground, you might think, "That person shouldn't litter." If you are a smoker, you might think, "I would sure like a cigarette right now."
Most likely, though, you are not thinking, "Th... | high10023.txt |
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},
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"give first aid to drowning people",
"do mouth-to-mouth breathing",
"bring a drowning child back to life"
],
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"answer": {
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"12,000,000",
"1,200,000",
"5,100,000"
],
"question": "Since 1990, the number of the children who died before 5 in the world has dropped by about _ .",
"question_typ... | In recent years, the world has made progress in reducing deaths among children under the age of five. A new report says an estimated 6.9 million children worldwide died before their fifth birthday. That compares to about twelve million in1990.
The report says child _ rates have fallen in all areas. It says the number o... | high4115.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
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},
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"nursing house",
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"insurance company"
],
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"quest... | Dear Mr.Watson,
CLAIM AL54323432--STORM DAMAGE TO ROOF
I received a cheque for $623 dated 26 January in payment of my recent claim .However, I wish to tell you how upset I have been by the way your Claims Assessor, Mr.Michael Tan, handled this claim.
When Mr.Tan first called me, he specifically told me that he believed... | high12634.txt |
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"answer_text": "www. ceilidhculrure.co.uk"
},
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"www.cockburnassociation.org.uk",
"www.edinburghschristmas.com",
"www. beltane.org"
],
"question": "If you want to find out more about the ... | Cultural events that take place in Edinburgh during August draw most people's attention, but plenty of other festivals can also entertain you throughout the rest of the year.
Ceilidh Culture Festival
Where: various places
When: Date late Mar/early Apr
Tel & website: 228 1155, www.ceilidhculrure.co.uk
Backed by the loca... | high9431.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
"options": [
"he fell into the water",
"his axe dropped into the river",
"his axe fell into a lake",
"he saw a beautiful fairy"
],
"question": "One day when the man was cutting... | One day a poor man was cutting a big piece of wood near a river. Suddenly his old axe fell into the water. He felt very sad because he lost his only axe. Then all at once a beautiful fairy came out and asked the man what was the matter.
"I have lost my axe, "he said. It fell into the water when I was cutting the wood.
... | high14245.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "discontinue the present practice"
},
"options": [
"show more kindness.",
"discontinue the present practice",
"quit being the organizer for gift giving",
"know more about co-workers' families"
],
"question": "Ham... | Dear Hamilton,
We are fortunate that in such a large, high-pressure office we all get along so well. You are one of the people who keep the social temperature at such a comfortable setting. I don't know anyone in the office who is better liked than you.
You can perhaps help with this. The collection of _ towards gifts ... | high7408.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"28",
"24",
"34"
],
"question": "Tsien Hsue--shen got married at the age of _",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_... | October 31, 2009, California
Tsien Hsue-shen, PhD'39, one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, died on October 31, He was 98.
Tsien, born in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, graduated from the National Qinghua University in 1934 and in August of 1935 he left China to study at the Massachusetts Institu... | high1079.txt |
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"answer_text": "Liu Qian's experiences of becoming a great magician"
},
"options": [
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"why people love magic",
"what magic tricks are",
"how fashionable magic is"
],
"questi... | Here's an unusual story:a diamond ring was recently found in an egg. The magician,Liu Qian,discovered it,in front of an audience of millions at CCTV's Spring Festival Gala. Liu's magic tricks have made the centuriesold art of magic fashionable once again,and made him the hottest magician in China.
As a _ young magician... | high6716.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "All brands of orange-colored glasses are not reliable for their ability to aid sleep."
},
"options": [
"The older a person is, the less he or she will be affected by blue light.",
"The exposure to the blue light does nothing but ha... | Most evenings, before watching late-night comedy or reading emails on his phone, Matt Nicoletti puts on a pair of orange-colored glasses that he bought for $8 on the Internet.
"My girlfriend thinks I look ridiculous in them," he said. But Mr.Nicoletti, a 30-year-old consultant in Denver, insists that the glasses, which... | high14251.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
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},
"options": [
"They have no guests.",
"They have all they want.",
"They live a very hard life.",
"They live a very happy life."
],
"question": "What does the author think of Adria... | While I was having dinner with a well-known author and lecturer, our conversation drifted to money. "I have enough money," he told me casually. "I don't need any more money."
"Of course you can say that," I thought to myself. "You get fifteen thousand dollars for a lecture."
Then I caught my thought process, and ponder... | high9425.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "are environmentally friendly"
},
"options": [
"are environmentally friendly",
"are cheaper",
"run much faster",
"will make useful steam"
],
"question": "The cars with hydrogen as fuel _ .",
"question_type... | Iceland has energy to spare, and the small country has found a cutting-edge way to reduce its oil dependency. Volcanoes formed the island nation out of ash and lava , which heat huge underground lakes to the boiling point. The hot water is piped into cities providing heat for homes, businesses and even swimming pools.... | high17758.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "a group of gunmen's robbery of armored car in the streets."
},
"options": [
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"a bank robbery in Paris.",
"a group of gunmen's robbery of armored car in the stre... | Pairs, Jan. 11--- An armored car robbery last night ended in a wild gunbattle that two men dead and a hostage seriously wounded.
The drama began when an armored car carrying the contents of safety boxes to a bank was struck by a large truck, police said.
The bank guards were helpless when the robbers jumped out o... | high11329.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "handwriting"
},
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"punctuation",
"handwriting",
"presentation",
"creativity"
],
"question": "Essays will be judged on the following criteria EXCEPT _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | "My Best Teacher Ever" Contest
Students
Tell us why, in 300 words or less, your teacher (present or past) is the best teacher ever.
Assay Topic
Who was/is your best teacher ever? What makes him or her the best?
Participation
The contest is open to all students enrolled in grades 2 through 12.
Entries
Word limit: 300
Es... | high16446.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "About 2000."
},
"options": [
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"About 2000.",
"More than 3000.",
"Over 4000."
],
"question": "How many hutong have disappeared in the pastsixty years in Beijing?",
"question_type": "factiod_... | Local officials in Beijing promised to furtherprotect the city's cultural heritage , in particular the narrow streets known as Hutong.
Hutong are commonly found in the cities of North China, but they are at risk. Beijingis currently believed to have fewer than 1,000 Hutong, most of which are nearthe Forbidden City. On... | high19775.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "How important is the degree?"
},
"options": [
"People used to be hard-working",
"How important is the degree?",
"How can we enter the top management?",
"Degree surely leads to success"
],
"question": "What would... | As society advances and basic needs are most often being met, things that were not considered important in the past have taken priority . In the past, people could easily get a job and progress pretty well, as long as they were hard-working; education was important but not as crucial as it is today.
Nowadays, just as ... | high10989.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "vocabulary"
},
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"vocabulary",
"grammar",
"sound",
"spelling"
],
"question": "The passage is mainly about the differences between British English and American English in _ .",
"question_type": "... | There are many differences between British English and American English.I used to teach a course about the differences between the two.We speak English on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean but we have many differences in our common language.We have examples of the same words having very d ifferent meanings,differing spe... | high4667.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "the neighbor fixed needles on his own head"
},
"options": [
"the neighbor fixed needles on his own head",
"The neighbor is a kind-hearted person.",
"The man's pain was killed before the doctor arrived",
"Soon after the ... | Everyone knows what a needle is. Of course there are needles and needles. Needles for sewing machines, needles for injection , you name it. But few people think of the wonder a needle works in the hands of those who practice acupuncture .
During the past ten years or so, I have been suffering from terrible headache. It... | high19013.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "She is cheerful and humorous."
},
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"She feels upset and unhappy.",
"She is cheerful and humorous.",
"She likes to live much longer.",
"She feels she is going to die very soon."
],
"question": "How do... | Jeanne Calment, a French woman, become a record breaker on 17 October 1995, when at the age of 120 years and 238 days, she became the longest-lived human being on record. A Japanese man died in 1986 at the age of 120 years and 237 days.
Jeanne Calment lives in a small old people's home in the south of France, her husba... | high3108.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "we can chat with unfamiliar people online"
},
"options": [
"it is not safe to surf the internet",
"people now are no longer honest",
"we can chat with unfamiliar people online",
"people online are not who they are"
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* Never respond to messages or bulletin board items that are: Su... | high2216.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Thailand"
},
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"Manhattan",
"New York",
"China"
],
"question": "My friend's grandfather camefrom _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "protect great apes' rights"
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"research the great ape society",
"save the endangered great apes",
"study the development of the great apes"
],
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Parliament's environmental committee approved resolution urging Spain to carry out the Great Ape Project (GAP), designed by scientists and philosophers who say our closest genetic s deserve... | high20692.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "understanding how ecosystems recover from glaciers."
},
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"understanding how ecosystems recover from glaciers.",
"regrowing many species that have been... | 400-year-old plants from the Little Ice Age were brought back to life, which could help us understand how the Earth will deal with climate change.
Moss found buried beneath the Teardrop glacier on Ellesmere Island in Canada has been brought back to life. Findings suggest that these plants could help repopulate region... | high5579.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Size."
},
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"Size.",
"Speed of flow.",
"Oxygen content."
],
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "August 1st"
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"August 2\nnd",
"August 3rd",
"August 4th"
],
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"q... | Bell Teacher Campus 2016: Cultural Talks
Our talks start at 16:00 on the first week in August, and each one lasts about one hour. Each talk will be offered only once during your 4-day stay. Please sign up on the main Bell Noticeboard (Second floor, Mary Allan Building).
August 1st
BRITISH MUSIC, by Pete Sharma in Room ... | high14537.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
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"is bad for health",
"sometimes works",
"causes little harm"
],
"question": "Dr. Davis believed using study drugs to improve grades _ .",
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In January, 2013, researchers from the University of Michigan Mott Children's ... | high9343.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "show interest in it"
},
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"enjoy listening to it",
"watch English programmes on TV",
"practice speaking it"
],
"question": "If we want to learn English, we must first _ .",
... | In today's world English is the most wildly used language. It is our duty to learn English in the new situation of the reform and opening to the outside world. How can we master the English language? I'd like to give you some good advice.
First, get interested in it. I enjoy listening to foreign friends talking when ... | high22085.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "people's traditional concepts about work are no longer completely true"
},
"options": [
"most people have to take part-time jobs",
"people have to change their jobs from time to time",
"people's traditional concepts about wor... | A new era is upon us. Call it what you will: the service economy, the information age, the knowledge society. It has changed the way we work. Already we're partly there. The percentage of people who earn their living by making things has fallen dramatically in the Western World. Today the majority of jobs in America, E... | high15629.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "By studying on the computer."
},
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"By going to a vacation camp.",
"By studying on the computer.",
"By watching videos."
],
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American education officials are searching for new ways to help students learn again. One tool that i... | high16308.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a pleasant thing"
},
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"a pleasant thing",
"an unavoidable duty",
"an embarrassing experience"
],
"question": "In the writer's opinion, talking to teens about the Army is _ .",
... | In 1987, while serving as the public affairs officer at Fort Bragg, I would frequently visit the local high schools to speak to the students about the Army. As alieutenant colonel , I found it particularly rewarding to talk with the teenagers about the benefits of military service, if only for a few years of their live... | high11467.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"was suffering from hunger as he was hurrying to work with... | Any passenger on the subway who caught a glimpse of me may have already thought that I was strange. In particular this gentleman sitting opposite me was staring at me, at the cheese bun on the floor in front of me, and then back at me; "Next stop, St. Patrick Station" my stop was quickly coming up. I had minutes to eit... | high20862.txt |
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},
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"How to predict earthquakes.",
"Where earthquakes often happen.",
"When a fault is formed."
],
"question": "What does the passage mainl... | The goal of earthquake prediction is to give early enough warning. The U.S. Geological Survey conducts and supports research on the likelihood of future earthquakes. Scientists estimate earthquake probabilities in two ways: by studying the history of large earthquakes in a special area and the rate at which strain accu... | high3120.txt |
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"Dopamine is a powerful brain chemical good to our health.",
"Looking for help on line is like getting help from a health professional.",
"Player is a video game... | Q: My problem is computer gaming. I do it day and night, averaging four hours of sleep. I can't control of this, and I don't know where to go for help. Do you? --Player
A: Dear Player,
You have an addiction. For some people playing video games releases dopamine, a powerful brain chemical that... | high4897.txt |
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"answer_text": "there is a huge contrast between the ancient food culture and the reality"
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"the documentary was made by a world-famous Chinese director",
"there is a hug... | You may never think a documentary film could have aroused so much public enthusiasm in Chinese history. Nowadays everybody is talking about a new 7-part documentary called A Bite of China which was recently broadcast late at night on CCTV I. The documentary describes various _ across the vast Chinese culinary landscape... | high10779.txt |
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"answer_text": "they make the music hard to understand but poetic and attractive"
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"singers regard it as one of the chief pleasures at the concert",
"they make the music hard to understand but poetic and attractive",
"the musi... | "Gangnam Style" by singer Psy from Korea, is a popular song, but its extraordinary global success is really the result of its music video, which is a great piece of genius. On September 22nd, Guinness World Records listed "Gangnam Style" as the most-liked video in the history of YouTube. It's been performed at West Poi... | high5551.txt |
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"he knew the boy well",
"it was a big shop having the most beautiful socks",
"the boy clerk was warm-hearted",
"he happened to notice it"
],
"question": "The reason why ... | One fine afternoon, while walking, I remembered that I needed a pair of socks. I turned into a sock shop that caught my eye, and a boy clerk who was about 17 came forward. "What can I do for you, sir?" There was a note of passion in his voice. "Did you know that you have come into the finest place in the world to buy... | high18325.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "couldn't accept the fact easily"
},
"options": [
"was angry with his boss",
"didn't care about it at all",
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"was as happy as usual"
],
"question": "When the father was laid off,... | When I walked into the house after school, I found my dad at home.
"What are you doing home already?" I asked casually.
"Andrew, I was laid off today," he answered quietly.
I was sure he was joking. "No, you weren't. Why are you really home?"
Then I noticed his expression and realized he was telling the truth.... | high17016.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "It is too thick for people to see something."
},
"options": [
"It is black and dirty.",
"It can affect the health.",
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],
"question": "Why do p... | London has always been known for its "black fogs". In the winter of 1952, a milky white fog rolled into the city. As the smoke poured into the air, it was so hard to see that people had to walk in front of the buses to guide them. In this way, the most serious air pollution disaster in history began. When it was over, ... | high6058.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "is really more nutritious and healthier"
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... | Is It Worth Buying Organic Food?
Organic food, grown without artificial chemicals, is increasingly popular nowadays. Consumers have been willing to pay up to twice as much for goods with organic labels . However, if you think paying a little more for organic food gets you a more nutritious and safer product, you might... | high13270.txt |
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"answer_text": "made others unwilling to talk to him"
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],
... | Zhu Haoyu, 18, a history major, wears his iPod everywhere on campus. The freshman has it going out for a walk, visiting the library or lying in bed. However, he found that his habit is like displaying a big "Do not disturb "sign for himself.
As time slips away, he has begun to regret not having conversed much with his ... | high15601.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the dog is the most popular pet for man"
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"options": [
"the dog can take the place of most medicines",
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"visits by a human wo... | A new study finds that the animal known as man's best friend can also be a good friend to the heart. Researchers in California say they have found that even just a short visit with a dog helped ease the worries of heart patients.
The study divided the patients into three groups. In Group A, a dog and a person visited e... | high7346.txt |
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