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"answer_text": "have to pull through a winter before they hatch"
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"are laid in late spring",
"have to pull through a winter before they hatch",
"are protected by mother spittlebugs all the time",
"will be eaten by ants"
... | In spring, you may have seen white foam on a green tree or other plants. As a matter of fact, the foam is where young spittlebugs live. These insects are protected by the foam, and they usually don't do much harm to the plants.
As we all know, in late summer, a mother spittlebug lays her eggs on the plant. The babies... | high8713.txt |
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"answer_text": "introduce several ways of joining a program for charity work"
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"options": [
"explain how holiday-makers can make their life meaningful",
"show what lonely and miserable lives poor citizens are leading",
"advertize for a com... | While exciting for many, the holidays are stressful for the thousands of families who are struggling in our community.
Therefore, our holiday programs coordinate food collections and donations to aid the low-income mothers, children and senior citizens. Those who wish to join the challenge can send financial donations ... | high12608.txt |
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"answer_text": "The French and British people"
},
"options": [
"The Dutch",
"Only the French",
"The Dutch and the French",
"The French and British people"
],
"question": "Who succeeded in planting sugarcane?",
"question_typ... | prefix = st1 /Mauritius, with its full name the Republic of Mauritius, an island country, lies 1,200 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa, and just east of Madagascar, another African island country, which is larger by far thanMauritius. It covers 788 square miles and has a population of 1,00,000, about 750.000 I... | high22913.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Whether humans are born with a fear of snakes and spiders."
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"options": [
"How people's fear of snakes and spiders has evolved.",
"Whether humans are born with a fear of snakes and spiders.",
"Why snakes and spiders are con... | FROM dogs and cats to pandas and penguins, lists of adorable animals can be very varied. However, when it comes to scary animals, the answers are often more or less the same - snakes and spiders are among the most dreadful ones for the majority of us.
However, most of us have never been bitten by a snake or a spider. S... | high13516.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "People can take the books and leave their books at will."
},
"options": [
"People can take the books and leave their books at will.",
"People can' t borrow books unless they donate books.",
"People can borrow whatever they li... | Public bookshelves are appearing across Germany on street corners,city squares and in suburban supermarkets. In these freeforall libraries,people can grab whatever they want to read,and leave behind anything they want for others. There's no need to register,no due date,and you can take or give as many as you want."This... | high14279.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "children of workers from outside Wuhan"
},
"options": [
"native children in Wuhan",
"children of workers from outside Wuhan",
"children from different foreign countries",
"children from poor families"
],
"questi... | Musa teaches English at Chunmiao Primary School in Wuhan. He had never heard of China's idol of selflessness before he arrived in the country, but this unusual young man from Nigeria is carrying on the good work of China's hero soldier.
Musa's week begins with a crowded two-hour bus ride for a flag-raising ceremony ... | high5237.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Observing objects can help remember what we've experienced."
},
"options": [
"Photos taken in the park have a bad effect on children's memory.",
"The fewer photos you take, the fewer details you remember.",
"Observing objects... | With parents flooding their camera phones with hundreds of photos -- from loose teeth to each step in the potty training process -- how might the photos affect our memories?
Maryanne Garry, a psychology professor, has studied the effects of photography on our memories for years. "I think the problem is that people are... | high18443.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "didn't expect a fashion industry had lots of work as ordinary as normal."
},
"options": [
"did not like the fashion.",
"imagined it being beautiful and simply.",
"didn't expect a fashion industry had lots of work as ordinary ... | As a young woman who was always interested in style, I got lucky in interning with a fashion company in Tokyo, last summer.
I worked as an assistant in the Business Planning Department, helping with marketing for the 2007 Spring/Summer collections. Fashion is a beautiful industry. But against my expectation, it als... | high17770.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a website"
},
"options": [
"a radio program",
"a website",
"a newspaper",
"a TV program"
],
"question": "This text must be taken from _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answer": {
... | Most people want to be successful, but never stop to think what it will really take to get there in their chosen field. If it means going back to college for 2 years of night school, could you do it ? If it means reading a book a week for about 6 months in order to really master a new skill ? If you aren't prepared to ... | high2558.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "study the ways to slow or stop the process of aging"
},
"options": [
"teach people how to eat properly",
"discover how important the exercise is to one's health",
"study the ways to slow or stop the process of aging",
"... | No one really knows how and why people change as they get older. Also, no theory sufficiently explains all the changes of the aging process. Aging is a complex and varied process that varies in how it affects different people and organs. In fact, even in one person , different organ systems "age " at a different rate.
... | high11301.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Home Exchange for Your Holiday"
},
"options": [
"Home Exchange for Your Holiday",
"How to Find the Best House",
"Everyone Loves Exchanging Homes",
"Tips for Your Trip"
],
"question": "The most suitable title for... | All you need to participate in home exchange is a house! You don't need to compare values of the houses or search for a _ partner in the case of a home similar to yours. It just requires identifying a home where you and your family can stay comfortably in the place you wish to visit. You need to search for a person or ... | high3646.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Rs. 240,000."
},
"options": [
"Rs. 20,000.",
"Rs. 140,000.",
"Rs. 240,000.",
"Rs. 480,000."
],
"question": "How much can you get in the first year if you are employed as the research officer?",
"question_typ... | Centre for Early Childhood Development & Research (CECDR)
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
June 20, 2014
The CECDR has been given permission for an ICSSR research project entitled "The Uttarakhand Disaster and Lives of Young Children & Pregnant & Lactating Mothers: An Exploratory Study of Impact, Coping & Interventions"... | high18457.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "they intend to keep their national secrets unknown to others"
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"options": [
"they think such freedom will lead to wars",
"they more often than not agree with each other on important matters",
"they intend to keep their nati... | Transportation and communication networks bring people together. Yet sometimes people themselves create barriers to transportation and communication. In some countries, laws stop people from moving freely from place to place.
Over the centuries, many groups of people have been denied the freedom to travel because of th... | high5223.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A Good Education"
},
"options": [
"Education",
"A Mastery of English",
"A Good Education",
"Something About Study"
],
"question": "The best title for this passage might be _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_qu... | What is a good education? The question is far from being answered. Once more, colleges and universities are changing their programs: they _ "fun courses" and restart some of the traditional subjects neglected since the 1960s. Many great schools are again requiring the students to take a number of classes in English, ... | high3652.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "125"
},
"options": [
"500",
"125",
"100",
"200"
],
"question": "How much is a dress that is usually sold at 250 yuan during Singles' Day at tmall.com?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"ans... | Ahead of so-called Singles' Day on the 11th of this month,2013, online sales have already begun peaking.
The leading e-business platform, tmall.com, has promoted its fifty-percent-off discount to attract consumers. They are also trying to attract buyers through social media. Vice President of tmall.com Wang Yulei says ... | high19749.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "it is a country with the Health Service"
},
"options": [
"people have to pay part of the medical care",
"everyone in France enjoys free medical care",
"it is a country with the Health Service",
"it is a very rich countr... | As we all know, any country has good reasons to want its citizens to be as healthy as possible. This led to the introduction of a health service in many countries. France has developed into a country in which all citizens can get most of the health treatment free. The money for this is partly from the people who are wi... | high15173.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "the general vote is being held"
},
"options": [
"the president has been murdered",
"the general strike for power has ended",
"the government has resigned",
"the general vote is being held"
],
"question": "Betwee... | Between ten and midnight the United States is politically leaderless--there is no center of information anywhere in the nation except in the New York headquarters of the great broadcasting companies and two wire services. No candidate and no party can afford the investment on election night to match the news-gathering ... | high7434.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Explaining the News."
},
"options": [
"Function of the Night Editor",
"Explaining the News.",
"Subjective versus Objective Processes",
"Choosing Facts"
],
"question": "The best title for this passage is .",
... | The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, pure, unprejudiced , objectively selected facts. But in these days the complex news it must provide more; it must supply explanation, the meaning of the facts. This is the most important assignment facing American journalism--to make clear to the reader the problems ... | high22907.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Species diversity."
},
"options": [
"Land building.",
"Species diversity.",
"Human population.",
"Wildlife's body size."
],
"question": "According to the scientists, what will fencing influence _ ?",
"ques... | Fencing or Not
Wildlife fences are constructed for a variety of reasons including to prevent the spread of diseases, to protect wildlife from poachers , and to help manage small populations of threatened species. Human-wildlife conflict is another common reason for building fences. Wildlife can damage valuable farm ani... | high9419.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "like and accept ourselves as we are"
},
"options": [
"concentrate on our body image only",
"not develop strong self-esteem",
"like and accept ourselves as we are",
"be less independent of our parents"
],
"questi... | I'm fat, I'm too skinny.I'd be happy if I were taller, shorter, had curly hair, straight hair, a smaller nose, bigger muscles, longer legs.
Do any of these statements sound familiar? Are you used to putting yourself down? If so, you' re not alone.As a teen, you're going through many changes in your body.And as your bod... | high1723.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "23 yuan."
},
"options": [
"16 yuan.",
"23 yuan.",
"30 yuan.",
"20 yuan."
],
"question": "If you go to visit the Long March exhibit with an Australian, how much will you pay altogether for the admission ?",
"... | Long March exhibit
The Shanghai History Museum is putting on an exhibition to mark the 60th anniversary of the Long March. On show are more than 220 photos and 40 items that explain with pictures how the communist Red Army drew back from its besieged bases in Jiangxi Province and fought its way to northern Shaanxi Pro... | high13264.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "her husband suffered from cancer"
},
"options": [
"she found it hard to contact with her husband",
"she settled in Silicon Valley for fifty years",
"she got marred to a technical specialist",
"her husband suffered from ... | My mother is the only living person who has never communicated via email or text. She has never turned on a computer, registered an email account, used data storage media or searched the Internet. Since 1955, she has settled in Silicon Valley, married to an extremely technical specialist in applied physics and engineer... | high8061.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "was fair and respectable"
},
"options": [
"didn't like hunting",
"enjoy being special",
"was not brave enough",
"was fair and respectable"
],
"question": "According to the passage, we can know President Roosevel... | Teddy Bears have been a very popular children's toy for many years. Most adults can remember their first stuffed bear, and over the decades these toys have become nearly a symbol of their childhood. However, children are not the only ones with whom these toys have become popular, as many adults make it a habit to colle... | high15615.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "You are the only person in it."
},
"options": [
"It is crowed with a lot of visitors.",
"Visitors are pushing you for a better view.",
"You are the only person in it.",
"You can see some ancient treasures in it."
],... | Imagine being the only person in the Forbidden City. You could stay there all day without swarms of people crowding around. You'd be able to look at the ancient treasures without worrying about other visitors pushing you for a better view. Well, in two years time you'll be able to have such an experience, just like the... | high7352.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "is quite common nowadays"
},
"options": [
"may be an efficient management method",
"should be performed secretly",
"has resulted from the development in computers",
"is quite common nowadays"
],
"question": "Acc... | Since new technologies are ever growing, employers now have the chance to monitor their employees to make them spare more time to work when they use their phones, computer terminals, emails and even when an employee is using the Internet.
Recent surveys have shown that a majority of employers monitor their employees'... | high11473.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "it would make them feel entertained"
},
"options": [
"it had damaged their homes and crops",
"it would provide them with meat",
"it would make them feel entertained",
"it was spoiling their rice fields"
],
"ques... | The orderly came back in a few minutes with a rifle and some Burmans. He told us that the elephant was in the rice fields below, only a few hundred yards away. As I started forward practically the whole population of the quarter flocked out of the houses and followed me. They had seen the rifle and were all shouting th... | high3134.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Jack was too busy realizing his dreams to think about Mr. Belser."
},
"options": [
"College and career prevented him from remembering Mr. Bleser.",
"Jack was too busy with his business and family to think about Mr. Belser.",
... | A young man learns what's most important in life from the guy next door. It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. College, girls, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to thin... | high18331.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "what caused Chinese food to taste fresh"
},
"options": [
"what caused Chinese food to taste fresh",
"how Chinese food is cooked in the US",
"when the author started to make Chinese food",
"why most foreigners like cooki... | My interest in Chinese food started years a90, when l was a young reporter for the Washington Post. Our office wasn't far from Chinatown, where I found some very good Chinese restaurants.
The first time I ever ate Chinese food I loved it. I noticed the fresh taste of the meat and vegetables. When I learned more about t... | high5545.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "5"
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"options": [
"3",
"4",
"5",
"6"
],
"question": "How many press media are mentioned in the article?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer... | The Wall Street Journal Asia Edition(prefix = st1 /U. S.), the Globe and Mail(Canada), the Guardian(U. K. ),among other foreign news agencies,have recently published articles on China's earthquake relief. They have all praised the earthquake relief efforts made by the Chinese government.
The Wall Street Journal Asia E... | high17002.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "are better solving problems and conflicts"
},
"options": [
"enjoy less pleasure of life",
"focus less on completing their tasks",
"make others feel less delighted",
"are better solving problems and conflicts"
],
... | Self-control can make you happier not only in the long-run, but also in the moment.
The research showed that self-control isn't about giving up desires, but more about managing conflicting goals. Since most people consider highly self-controlled ones as being more task-centered, the scientists decided to find out the c... | high8059.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "By releasing the free source-code."
},
"options": [
"By selling its intellectual property.",
"By doing what it is good at.",
"By releasing the free source-code.",
"By severe competition with Microsoft."
],
"ques... | Focus on what you do best. This age-old strategy has worked well for Real Networks, Microsoft's main competitor in multimedia software for the Internet. Now, the smaller Seattle-based firm is trying a novel way to contain the software giant. On October 29th, it released the underlying recipe, or source-code, of its Rea... | high22081.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "nothing new"
},
"options": [
"a new substance",
"nothing new",
"a piece of paper",
"a piece of iron"
],
"question": "In a physical change _ .is formed.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
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"... | There are two kinds of changeschemical change and physical change.
In a chemical change, there is always a new substance formed. Breaking up water into hydrogen and oxygen is a chemical change. In each of the chemical change at least one new substance is formed. A change is not a chemical change if it doesn't form a ne... | high9347.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Their father's gift."
},
"options": [
"The pleasant trip.",
"Catherine's education.",
"The political events.",
"Their father's gift."
],
"question": "What might make Wright brothers interested in the plane?",
... | Orville Wright was born on August 19, 1871 in Dayton, Ohio, USA and died on January 30, 1948. Together with his brother, Wilbur, he was the first airplane builder. The brothers created the first controlled, powered and heavier-than-air human flight.
His parents were Milton Wright and Susan Catherine Koerner and besides... | high14533.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "African wild dogs are living in groups"
},
"options": [
"African wild dogs are completely different from domestic dogs in size, weight",
"African wild dogs are living in groups",
"African wild dogs use their eyes mostly when ... | Although similar in appearance to hyenas , African wild dogs are nevertheless true wild canine . They are a mixture of black, yellow, and white in such a wide variety of patterns that no two individuals look exactly alike. African wild dogs are widely distributed across the African plains but they do not live in jungle... | high6074.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "know that smoking is bad for their health."
},
"options": [
"want to go to parties",
"can't smoke at work",
"know that smoking is bad for their health.",
"need nicotine and drugs"
],
"question": "Many smokers wa... | Ali is from a Middle Eastern country. He now stays in the USA. He smokes a lot of cigarettes every day. He has smoked for nine years. Ali says, " I tried to quit smoking in my hometown, but it was impossible. My brothers smoke. All my friends smoke. At parties and at meetings, almost all the men smoke. Here in the ... | high10755.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "reduce child overweight caused by bake food"
},
"options": [
"help schools out of budget difficulties",
"reduce child overweight caused by bake food",
"help students save money spent on food",
"reduce the price of bake ... | Believing overweight among school children is the result of bake sales, the Education Department of New York declared that bake sales will be banned all through the states, as a part of their new "wellness"policy.
The ban gives a harder time to schools tying to earn money,because of budget difficulties. Bake sales have... | high2212.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "giving explanations"
},
"options": [
"comparing different ideas",
"giving explanations",
"inferring",
"listing typical examples"
],
"question": "The author develops the passage mainly by _ .",
"question_t... | Pop stars today enjoy what once only belonged to the royalty. Wherever they go, people turn out in their thousands to greet them. The crowds go wild trying to catch a brief glimpse of their smiling, color1fully dressed idols. The stars are transported in their chauffeur driven Rolls Royces, private helicopters or execu... | high18309.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "build a strong and healthy heart"
},
"options": [
"build a strong and healthy heart",
"keep muscles and bones strong",
"keep body flexible",
"reduce risk of injuries and pain in joints and muscles"
],
"question"... | Different exercise types have different purposes and different benefits. One type of exercise may not accomplish all goals of being physically fit: a healthy heart, strong muscles and bones, and safety from injury. As a result, it is important to do enough types of exercise to have all the physical benefits. Here is a ... | high4663.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "there aren't enough bedrooms."
},
"options": [
"it is on the wrong side of the town.",
"there aren't enough bedrooms.",
"there is no dinning room.",
"the garden is too big."
],
"question": "The Browns are lookin... | Advertisements
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "2."
},
"options": [
"2.",
"11.",
"6.",
"64."
],
"question": "How many people were found catching swine flu in Spain?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
... | Governments and health officials around the world continued to take steps Tuesday against the outbreak of swine flu that has killed scores of people in Mexico and spread to the U.S., Europe and possibly Asia.
By early Tuesday, the swine flu outbreak in Mexico had caused in 152 deaths and more than 1,600 illnesses. So f... | high16324.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Not knowing how to make new friends."
},
"options": [
"Not knowing how to make new friends.",
"Not realizing the importance of making friends.",
"Looking after herself at quite an early age.",
"Trying to achieve academi... | University -- the best days of my life! I made lots of friends in my student dorm, went to great parties, joined the debating society...and, well, I did some work too -- but I must admit my lecturers were very patient with my tardiness .
It's easy to look back at our university days through rose-tinted spectacles but t... | high19771.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "he's a great fighter against the racialism"
},
"options": [
"he's as popular as Kennedy and Churchill",
"he spent 27 years in prison",
"he's a great fighter against the racialism",
"he's the first all-race elections pre... | Nelson Mandela is respected and admired across the world. And to South Africans he is a superstar. He is a hero who shocked the world by fighting for peace between races, despite the 27 years he spent in the prison of the South Africa's white, racist regime
Mandela, who won the nation's first all-race elections after ... | high16442.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "123456 was the most common leaked password in both 2013 and 2014."
},
"options": [
"Hackers leaked many more passwords in 2014.",
"Symbols were among the top 10 worst passwords.",
"123456 was the most common leaked password i... | If the hackings taught us anything in 2014, it's actually nothing.
Password management firm SplashData released its list of the worst passwords of the year and it's just as terrible as you'd think. The most common leaked password in 2014 was "123456," followed by "password" -- both topped the list the year before, to... | high10033.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "are out of shape"
},
"options": [
"do their work well",
"are out of shape",
"are relatively healthy",
"take regular exercise"
],
"question": "According to the passage,most of the police officers _ .",
"que... | All police officers should be made to take a fitness test every year,with a pay cut for those who repeatedly fail,a review said.
In the Metropolitan Police,more than half(52 percent)of its men officers are over- weight, a fifth (22 percent) are obese, and one in 100 are"morbidly obese".For women officers in the Met,a t... | high2574.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "magazine"
},
"options": [
"novel",
"science fiction",
"magazine",
"biography"
],
"question": "The passage is mostly from a\\an _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answe... | As the economy begins to recover, salary increases should do the same.
In the past few years, employers have raised workers' salaries by about 4 percent per year--except for 2009, when the figure dropped to a historically low 2.1 percent, according to a survey of World at Word. About one-third of companies froze raises... | high9421.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "share the website with others"
},
"options": [
"take pleasure in reading with their friends.",
"help a friend form the habit of reading.",
"share the website with others",
"read more but spend less"
],
"question... | Read More & Spend Less
We have more than 7 million used books for sale, from the earliest board books to the all-time classics.
If you like what we have to offer, Tell-a-Friend and we'll give you more reasons to read!
Any member of our website who invites friends and family to try our books using the "Tell-a-Friend" pr... | high14255.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "On Fridays."
},
"options": [
"On Mondays.",
"On Fridays.",
"On Sundays.",
"On Independence Day."
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HOURS
The MFA is open 7 days a week.
Monday and Tuesday: 10 am - 4:45 pm
Wednesday - Friday: 10 am - 9:45 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 10 am - 4:45 pm
HOLIDAYS AND CLOSINGS
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Amanda R. Carrico, a research assistant professor at the Vanderbilt Institute for ... | high11339.txt |
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German Chancellor(,) Angela Merkel for three consecutive years reelected top. There are 9 Chinese including Chinese first lady--Peng Liyuan. Brazil Pr... | high4111.txt |
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Even when people are traveling, they scan for free Wi-Fi. When selecting or rating a hotel, six in ten travelers believe that unlimi... | high19765.txt |
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*The best way to start growing strawberries is to buy pot-grown strawberry plants m spring:5 plants are plenty for a hanging basket and 10 for the average 13 inch-sized pot.
*Plant them immediately in soil-based compost and they will produce a modest crop in their first year.The second yea... | high10027.txt |
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],
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There are certain things British men like to believe about themselves. The first is that one day they will again win the World Cup. They also believe they do not cry.
Over the centuries, Britons are believed to have a "stiff upper lip". But is this true?
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"Rumplestiltskin is too long",
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Pollution in water is not simply a matter of "poisons" killing large numbers of fish overnight. Very often the effects of pollution are not noticed for many months or years because the first organisms to be a... | high4887.txt |
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For students,by students
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One ob... | high3130.txt |
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The job market is, after all, awfully tough. Just this month the Federal Reserve Bank publ... | high6048.txt |
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"answer": {
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When I asked my father about the missing TV, he said watching television was a waste o... | high1041.txt |
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Dover, Connecticut
January 16, 1995
Gander's Furniture Store
Stamford, Connecticut, 09876
Dear Sir,
I am writing about your January bill, which I am returning with this letter. I am not going to pay this bill. Last month I bought a table and four chairs for $65.50. They were sent to me on December ... | high15177.txt |
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But college has... | high12618.txt |
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I'm Gonna Like Me
Jamie Lee Curtis
Price: $15.00 (15% off)
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"thank the old lady."
],
"question": "The author went to church to _ .",
"question... | I was 15. She looked like she was over 70. But on that day. I think she understood me more than anyone else.
Walking into the church that Sunday was hard. I had never let anyone see me cry. But I knew I would cry that day .My grandfather was suddenly ill .The doctors said he might not live much longer. Everyone in my f... | high2548.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "lower"
},
"options": [
"higher",
"lower",
"strong",
"nice"
],
"question": "We can hear a_sound if we make the part of the ruler sticking out over the edge of the desk longer.",
"question_type": "cloze_questi... | What do you hear? Sounds all around you! You can hear the sound of traffic, the wind in the trees, a dog barking, your own breathing and lots of other things.
But what is sound? Sound happens when something vibrates or shakes. We can make something vibrate by hitting it. Try this experiment. Put your ruler on your desk... | high19995.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "tell readers about the early history of the bicycle"
},
"options": [
"compare bicycles used for different purposes",
"describe the problems early bicycle makers experienced",
"persuade readers to use bicycles for transportati... | Today, bicycles are elegantly simple machines that are common around the world. Many people ride bicycles for recreation, whereas others use them as a means of transportation. The first bicycle was invented in Germany in 1818. Because it was made of wood, it wasn't very strong nor did it have pedals .Riders moved it b... | high3642.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "receive much praise and encouragement"
},
"options": [
"need more concern",
"Grow better under pressure",
"have unimaginable potential",
"receive much praise and encouragement"
],
"question": "According to Dorot... | There are two great trends on parents bringing up children today.First,children are now praised to an unbelievable degree.As Dorothy Parker once joked,American children aren't raised;they are motivated.Children are constantly told how special they are.The second is that children are honed to an unimaginable degree.Pare... | high19759.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "there are usually difficult things for them to deal with"
},
"options": [
"they feel alone when their family and friends leave them",
"there are usually difficult things for them to deal with",
"they have no life plans and fe... | As you grow rapidly through your teenage years you will experience a lot of changes.
The changes may seem monumental and they may seem to happen quickly. Don't panic! You will deal successfully with this time! The changes may seem difficult and your new-found responsibilities may seem daunting but you're not alon... | high17774.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "get a return ticket to your home country"
},
"options": [
"have eleven days of paid leave",
"get a return ticket to your home country",
"stay in any hotel without paying for it",
"enjoy free medical service in prefix = ... | Editors/Designers Wanted
China Daily,a national English newspaper,is looking for English language senior editors/designers.
Senior Business Editor
You must:
* assist the Business editor in setting goals and working on achieving them;
* be an excellent team person who can come up with ideas and think creatively,be ab... | high18447.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Daniel had to be sent back to his father"
},
"options": [
"her eyes and her kidneys were affected",
"grandma became quite a different person",
"Daniel had to be sent back to his father",
"everything was thrown into conf... | My grandson, Daniel, and I have always been very close. When Daniel's father remarried after a divorce, Daniel, who was eleven, and his little sister, Kristie, came to live with us. My husband and I were more than happy to have kids in the house again.
Things were going along just fine until the diabetes I've lived w... | high5233.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "People who would like to travel but cannot."
},
"options": [
"People who live in an industrial city.",
"People who would like to travel but cannot.",
"Ambitious people.",
"People who go on holidays abroad."
],
"... | Everyone has an ambition to travel. But those who cannot do so themselves might find it interesting to work in a travel agency, arranging journeys for other people. Brian Lawtey does this, working in a small travel agency in an industrial city. Most of his work is concerned with holiday, both at home and abroad. Every ... | high19981.txt |
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