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"answer_text": "continued the race with the dog"
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"abandoned the dog immediately",
"fed the dog with enough food",
"adopted the dog for convenience",
"continued the race with the dog"
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"question": "After meetin... | Exhausted,covered in mud and desperately hungry,a team of Swedish athletes sat down for a meal as they prepared to take on a dangerous 20-mile trek through the Ecuadorian rainforest.
As they opened their canned meat,a tired Mikael Lindnord noticed a miserable stray dog staring at him out of the corner of his eye.
Feeli... | high9804.txt |
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"answer_text": "West Europe"
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"the West",
"West Europe",
"West Germany"
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"question": "A lot of women in _ wish that they were born men.",
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"answ... | A large number of women in Western European countries wish that they were born
men. The number is said as high as 60% in West Germany.
"Women often wish that they had the same chance as men have, and believe it is
still men's world," said Dr James Holden, one of the scientists who did the study.
Anne Harper... | high21013.txt |
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"answer_text": "Britain"
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"Britain",
"America"
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"question": "The author of the passage is most probably from _ .",
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"an... | If there is one thing I'm quite sure about, it is that in a hundred years from now we still be reading newspapers. Not those newspapers are a necessity. Even now some people get most of the news from the television or have the radio switched on in the background or in the car. Many buy a paper only on Saturday or Sunda... | high2951.txt |
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"answer_text": "Many suppliers produce for more than one brand."
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"The factories are often distant from companies.",
"Many suppliers produce for more than one brand.",
"There are no common standards for their checks.",
"... | Doubt usually comes along when companies talk very proudly how socially responsible they are, but Nike's decision to publish its entire list of contract suppliers on the Internet is harder to ignore. Nike's move opens a new front in companies' efforts to face their critics.
As Nike states in its latest corporate respon... | high16867.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "have to be controlled to kill all of the pigs before your birds run out"
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"have different kinds that only include faster birds and slower birds",
"have to be controlled to kill all of the pigs before your birds run o... | Angry Birds has become a worldwide gaming mega hit but how did this game come into existence? Rovio is the name of the company that created angry birds, however, it's not the first game they developed. Surprisingly they have been creating games for several years but had just never broken through into the mainstream the... | high5958.txt |
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"answer_text": "honour anyone who has helped kids in need"
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"answer questions from chilren",
"match the Adults' Nobel Prize",
"give awards to chilren in poor areas",
"honour anyone who has helped kids in need"
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... | Each year, prizes are presented to adults who accomplish great things in art, writing, science, and economics.So why not give awards to kids?
Harry Leibowitz asked himself that question in 1996.As an answer, he and his wife, Kay, created the World of Children organization and began handing out awards to kids and ad... | high21775.txt |
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"answer_text": "Londoners read a lot"
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"Londoners are great because they read a lot",
"There are a great number of readers in London",
"Londoners are readers who read only great books",
"Londoners read a lot"
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... | Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books -- especially paperbacks , which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy "proper" books, too, printed on good paper and bound between hard covers.
The... | high14916.txt |
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"answer_text": "At the Derby Arms on Sunday"
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"At the Bull's Head on Sunday",
"At the Derby Arms on Sunday",
"At the Bull on Saturday",
"At the Black Horse on Saturday"
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"question": "Where and when can you hear... | TODAY, Friday , November12
JAZZ with the Mike Thomas Jazz Band at the Derby Arms .Upper Richmond Road West ,Sheen.
DISCO Satin Sounds Disco .Free at the Lord Napier ,Mort lake High St ,from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m .Tel:682--1158.
SATURDAY, November 13
JAZZ Lysis at the Bull's Head ,Barnes Ad... | high23162.txt |
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"answer_text": "It has a lower body temperature than other mammals."
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"It has a lower body temperature than other mammals.",
"It only closes its eyes when underwater.",
"It's the only poisonous mammal in the world.",
"It... | When 18th-century scientists first came across Australia's platypus , they thought it was a trick. It is not surprising that the platypus made people confused. This funny-looking animal has feet and is a kind of warm-blooded mammal.
While other mammals usually keep their blood at around 37 degrees, the platypus has a l... | high6289.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "six out of seven were wrong"
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"half of them were right",
"2,145 were on a jury",
"six out of seven were wrong",
"1,843 made seven choices"
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"question": "Of the people who called up to respond, ... | Imagine that you are on a jury and you hear the testimony of an eyewitness who says that the accused person is guilty. You would probably vote to _ don't you think? Well, more often than not, you'd be wrong.
A few years ago, an experiment was done on an evening news show on WNBC in prefix = st1 /New York. Viewers were... | high22268.txt |
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"answer_text": "the author`s mother decided to keep Commander"
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"the author had decided to sell Commander.",
"the author`s roommate sold commander to someone else",
"the author`s mother decided to keep Commander",
"the a... | Commander was my parents` cat but I knew him first. In fact, Commander was my college roommate`s cat. My roommate wanted to sell Commander, but no one would buy him. I called my parents to see if they would like to adopt him. My mom had always loved cats but my dad disliked cats very much. As predicted my dad said, "No... | high7183.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Two."
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"One.",
"Two.",
"Three.",
"Four."
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"question": "How many colors are there in the National Flag of Canada?",
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"answer... | The Canadian red and white maple leaf flag is officially called the National Flag of Canada. The Canadian flag shows a stylized red maple leaf with 11 points on a white background, with red borders down each side. The Canadian flag is twice as long as it is wide. The white square containing the red maple leaf is the ... | high14902.txt |
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"answer_text": "can no longer have their privacy protected"
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"can no longer have their privacy protected",
"spend too much on their public appearance",
"care little about how they... | Does Fame Drive You Crazy?
Although being famous might sound like a dream come true, today's stars, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine.They are at the center of much of the world's attention.Paparazzi camp outside their homes, cameras ready.Tabloids publish thrilling stories about t... | high5794.txt |
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"answer_text": "that reminds us to drive our cars less"
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"when cars cause no damage to the earth",
"when we can go on separate holidays",
"that reminds us to drive our cars less",
"that tells us to refuse to drive any ca... | World Car Free Day is a very important day on the environmental calendar. Every September 22, governments, green groups and ordinary citizens stress the damage cars are doing to the earth. The day is a reminder that we do not need to rely so much on cars. Those who take part in the activity hope that we all should real... | high21761.txt |
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"answer_text": "is more advanced than the last version"
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"was sold out on Mar. 16",
"is more advanced than the last version",
"is cheaper than other cell phones",
"is sold only in the United States."
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"question... | SAN FRANCISCO -- Sales for Apple's third generation iPad has hit record in the first days after it was on the market, Apple and carrier AT&T said on Monday.
The new iPad went on sale on March 16 in the United States along with nine additional countries and areas.
"We had a record weekend, and we are thrilled with it,... | high21007.txt |
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"answer_text": "To play various educational games."
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"options": [
"To play various educational games.",
"To figure out the BASIC code.",
"To get the knowledge of algebra.",
"To read some latest news."
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"question": "What did... | I remember the first time that I was extremely happy. I was about 8 years old when for the first time, there was a computer in the classroom. I remember that my teacher allowed each student to take turns playing various educational games on the computer. One day, I found the source code for one of these games. Withou... | high3483.txt |
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"answer_text": "likes Miss Mao very much"
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"is a troublemaker",
"likes Miss Mao very much",
"is happy these days",
"doesn't like to tell her secret to anyone"
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"question": "Tian Yan _ .",
"question_type"... | Dear Editor,
I'm a Senior I student in a middle school. This term, my favorite teacher, Miss Mao, no longer teaches us. I want to see her, but I'm afraid that she no longer likes me and I don't want to trouble her. I really miss her. What should I do?
Tia... | high16873.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "trying to save as many starfishes as possible"
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"dancing along the beach with starfishes",
"walking with a dancer",
"picking up starfishes for sale",
"trying to save as many starfishes as possible"
],... | Once upon a time there was a wise man that used to go to the sea to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.One day he was walking along the shore.As he looked down at the beach,he saw a human figure moving like a dancer.He smiled to himself at the thought that someone would danc... | high18686.txt |
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"answer_text": "it's better to be pear-shaped than apple-shaped"
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"it's better to be pear-shaped than apple-shaped",
"it's better to be apple-shaped than pear-shaped",
"apple-shaped fat people have fewer problems than pear-sha... | Fat on human body is distributed in two different ways. Some fat people have a large chest and no waistline , looking rather like apples. Others are fatter below the waist, looking more like pears.
Doctors in Cambridge, England have been examining the relationship between health and fat distribution. They fi... | high23610.txt |
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"answer_text": "has been studying laughing for many years"
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"thinks banning weapon can end wars in the world",
"has put his machine calculating laughter into market",
"has been studying laughing for many years",
"is an e... | Japanese professor Yoji Kimura believes laughter is a weapon that in healthy doses can end the world's wars. To measure it, the expert on communications has invented a machine to chart out laughter--and a new unit of "aH" to calculate it.
"We have found that children laugh more freely, releasing 10 aH per second, whic... | high1294.txt |
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"answer_text": "food shortages in the 1840s led to a decline in population"
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"food shortages in the 1840s led to a decline in population",
"people are moving to the cities for lack of work in the countryside",
"it is harder to... | Ireland has had a very difficult history. The problems started in the 16thcentury when English rulers fried to conquer Ireland. For hundreds of years, the Irish people fought against the English. Finally, in 1921. The British government was forced to give independence to the south of Ireland. The result is that today ... | high700.txt |
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"answer_text": "Misunderstanding of English"
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"Misunderstanding of English",
"Three Young Frenchmen",
"Misfortunes of Three Frenchmen",
"A Few English Lessons"
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"question": "Which of the following would be the ... | No matter how well you understand a foreign language, misunderstanding still exists between native speakers and you. Here is such an example.
Three young Frenchmen were travelling in Britain. Though they had taken a few English lessons before their holiday, they were often in trouble because of their misunderstanding o... | high9810.txt |
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"answ... | Henry Ford grew up on an un-electrified farm, and as a young man he followed Edison's career as the inventor became a national role model.Ford took a job at the Edison Illuminating Company working his way up to chief engineer.
In 1896 Ford was thirty-three and, though still working for Edison Co.,he had created his fir... | high6464.txt |
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"answer_text": "Sony M400"
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"Sony M9",
"Sony M400",
"Philips 585"
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"question": "If you want a machine which turns off automatically and weighs very little you should choose the _ .",
... | Pocket Tape-Recorders "Family and Home Magazine" test what's on the market now.
1)Pearlcorder S702 $64
This simple model at the bottom of the Olympus range scored the most points for its excellent quality of recording. Background noise hardly affects the sound and recording from a pocket is perfectly possible, but it d... | high14123.txt |
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"answer_text": "It has a history of more than 160 years."
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"It has been existing in London for three hundred years..",
"It has a history of more than 160 years.",
"It has been there since 2007.",
"It has been visited by ... | Though the last book of the spectacular Harry Potter series was released seven years ago in 2007, the young wizard continues to be extremely popular with both kids and adults. Over the years, Harry Potter fans have been able to experience numerous aspects of the young wizard's life, right down to his favorite drink -... | high9757.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "in 1952"
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"1942",
"in 1952",
"in 2012"
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"question": "The NSA was founded _ .",
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"answer... | This is VOA. The National Cryptologic Museum is on Fort George G. Meade, a military base near Washington, DC. The method of hiding exact meanings is called coding. People have used secret codes throughout history to protect important information. The National Cryptologic Museum celebrated 60 years of cryptologic excell... | high8449.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "parents aren't used to losing control of kids"
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"teens like to have everything decided",
"parents blame teens for not respecting them",
"teens are eager to... | The clothes you wear. The food you eat. The color of your bedroom walls. Where you go and how you get there. The people you hang around with. What time you go to bed. What do these things have in common, you're asking? They're just a few examples of the many hundreds of things that your parents controlled for you when ... | high847.txt |
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"answer_text": "the Saturday before Christmas"
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"the day before Christmas",
"the Saturday before Christmas",
"Cyber Monday"
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"question": "Which is the busiest shopping day of the year according ... | The day after Thanksgiving is considered the first day of the holiday shopping season in the prefix = st1 /United States. It even has a name -- "Black Friday." The name comes from the idea that this is the day when store owners begin to show a profit for the year.
In the past, before calculators and computers, workers ... | high23957.txt |
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"answer_text": "Thankful."
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"Hopeless.",
"Thankful.",
"Regret."
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"question": "How does the writer feel after he sees the old woman?",
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"answer": ... | I'm walking along a riverbed in California. The future stretched out ahead, in the valley, hills and mountains. The past is there too, but today I prefer to walk forward, to live "in the now", and truly see all the good things in the world. Light clouds float high in the bright blue sky, and the sunlight shines off the... | high21198.txt |
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"answer_text": "About 15."
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"18.",
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... | I was eight when my neighbors got a TV. It was small and expensive, but that didn't matter. IT WAS WONDERFUL. Everyone in the building came up to the fifth floor to see this latest wonder of the modern world. That was in 1948.
Soon, a lot of people got a TV, but not us. My parents didn't think it was good for children.... | high4273.txt |
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"answer_text": "What your preference for dogs or cats tells about you."
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"Differences between dogs and cats in their personality traits.",
"Factors that influence people's preference for dogs or cats.",
"How raising a pet help... | Are you a dog person or a cat person?
With so many photos and videos of cats and dogs doing cute things online, it's easier than ever to answer which of these furry friends you like more. There are many reasons why people prefer one type of pet over the other. So, have you ever wondered what your preference for cats or... | high19407.txt |
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"answer_text": "When she was 4 years old."
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"When she was born in Uganda.",
"When she was 16 years old.",
"When she graduated from college.",
"When she was 4 years old."
],
"question": "When did Omega join the Af... | When Omega was born in Uganda, she did two things: Smile and then sing. When Omega was 4 years old, her talent for music was recognized, so she became one of the youngest members of the first African Children's Choir . She traveled the world with the choir, and it was from this experience that she grew into a singer t... | high20286.txt |
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"answer_text": "obeying the reasonable rules and social regulations"
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"obeying what is required on some special occasions",
"obeying the reasonable rules and social regula... | To discipline means to teach. To be well disciplined is to have learned to live in accordance with the sensible rules and regulations that society has set up for the behavior of its members.
Unless the child learns from each disciplinary situation how better to govern his conduct, effective discipline has not been deve... | high18719.txt |
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"answer_text": "People will get free tickets online."
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"People must buy tickets for visiting a museum.",
"Two museums offer free admission.",
"People will get free tickets online.",
"People can visit museums online and g... | Free Fun Guides
Free Admission to Hundreds of Museums Sept. 25
What a weekend! This Saturday, Sept. 25, hundreds of U.S. museums are admission free for the Smithsonian's yearly Museum Day.
Unlike previous Museum Day celebrations, you must sign up for a free ticket that admits two people to any of the participating muse... | high10345.txt |
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"answer_text": "Development of the National Flag"
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"Power of the National Flag",
"Types of Flags",
"Uses of Flags"
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"question": "The best title for the passage would be \" _... | The flag, the most common symbol of a nation in the modern world, is also one of the most ancient. With a clear symbolic meaning, the flag in the traditional form is still used today to mark buildings, ships and other vehicles related to a country.
The national flag as we know it today is in no way a primitive artifact... | high2164.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because Abner Craves told a Doubleday story."
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"Because a special commission was founded.",
"Because Doubleday provided false evidence.",
"Because Abner Craves told a Doubleday story.",
"Because Abner Cra... | You may have heard that a young man named Abner Doubleday invented the game known as baseball in Cooperstown, New York, during the summer of 1839. Doubleday then went on to become a Civil War hero, while baseball became America's beloved national pastime. Not only is that story untrue, it's not even in the ballpark( pl... | high10423.txt |
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"answer_text": "May 2"
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"May 2",
"June 23",
"August 20.",
"September 1"
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"question": "If you want to join in a tour,you can go on _ .",
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"answer": {
... | The Harvard Student-led Walking Tour
Let a student show you Harvard ... on a free walking tour.
We welcome our neighbors to stop by the Harvard University Events & Information Center, located in the Holyoke Center Arcade at 1350 Massachusetts Avenue in the heart of Harvard Square in Cambridge.
Let a student take you an... | high16052.txt |
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"Improvement in technologies",
"Animal-fights militants",
"Scientists Alan and Thomas"
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"question": "_ plays a leading role in replaci... | Scientists Alan M.Goldberg and Thomas Hartung describe recent advances in replacing the use of animals in toxicology testing.Improvements in cell and tissue culture technologies,for example,allow a growing number of tests to be performed on human cells alone.Computer models are becoming increasingly complex and many co... | high4515.txt |
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"ans... | Selfie is a photograph taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.
In the digital age, selfies have taken off in a way that no one could have predicted. The art of the selfie is one that lots of people have practiced and perfected in recent years. A recent study sho... | high19361.txt |
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"answer_text": "wants to contribute to society"
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"made the first newspaper about two years ago",
"is learning journalism at a college in Allahabad",
"wants to contribute to society",
"lives in Allahabad, the state capita... | He is only 12 years old but Utkarsh Tripathi brings out a handwritten newspaper every week on matters like the environment. He does all this to satisfy his wish to "serve the country". A Class 8 student of the Brij Bihari Sahai Inter College in Allahabad, Utkarsh has been bringing out the newspaper Jagriti for the last... | high12234.txt |
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"answer_text": "using fossils to follow the evolution"
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"sorting through the pictures of ancient times",
"using fossils to follow the evolution",
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... | "Global warming could make humans shorter," warn scientists who claim to have found evidence that it caused the world's first horses to shrink nearly 50 million years ago. In fact, a team from the universities of Florida and Nebraska says it has found a link between the Earth heating up and the size of mammals - horse... | high6302.txt |
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"answer_text": "Those including the educated"
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"Those without any common sense",
"Those including the educated",
"Only educated people."
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"question": "What type of person would b... | Most people have some common sense. When we see something suspicious on TV, in the newspaper, or on the Internet, we roll our eyes and wonder how anyone could believe something so stupid. Nevertheless, there are stories that even educated people still believe. These tales may or may not be true, but they leave us wonde... | high14645.txt |
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"answer_text": "save endangered animals from dying out"
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"save endangered animals from dying out",
"collect DNA of endangered animals to study",
"transfer the nuclear of one... | With only about 1, 000 pandas left in the world, China is desperately trying to clone the animal and save the endangered species . That's a move similar to what a Texas A & M University researchers have been undertaking for the past five years in a project called "Noah's Ark".
Noah's Ark is aimed at collecting eggs, e... | high12220.txt |
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"answer_text": "Children's academic performance afterwards will be affected."
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"Children from minorities may have less desire for learning.",
"Children's academic perf... | When children start kindergarten, evident gaps in science knowledge already exist between Whites and minorities and between youngsters from upper-income and low-income families. And they often deepen into significant achievement gaps by the end of eighth grade if they are not dealt with during elementary school.
The fi... | high14889.txt |
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"answer_text": "refuse something pressed down their throats"
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"may fight with all their strength against pills",
"refuse something pressed down their throats",
"are difficult to tr... | Pilling a cat can be a 'terrible" experience. Cats don't want something pushed down their throats, and they'll fight with all their strength to prevent it. In fact, it's amazing how powerful their small bodies can be.
The easiest way of pilling a cat is to press the pill into powder. Then mix the powder with a small am... | high6316.txt |
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"The Importance of Psychological Well-being"
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"To lower \"bad\" cholesterol."
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"He has become a stranger to his children.",
"He takes his work more seriously.",
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"More than 6 Olympic events will take place in Greenwich.",
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It's packed with the things that matter most to girls: party plans, games, crafts and girl-to-girl advice.
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"An advisor offering people career advice.",
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My husband is a loving, creative and sensitive person who is 15 years my senior. (I am in my mid-30s.)
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One such program for high school students in the Pacific Northwest is called Washington Business Week. The progr... | high13.txt |
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"he respected the elderly",
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"he wanted more pay"
],
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"working with the computer and finding out the value",
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},
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"Not all the people in Beijing can have a holiday from November 7 to 12.",
"Citi... | Beijing plans to keep a tight rule on pollution by cutting emissions caused by industrial production and vehicles when it hosts the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in November.
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Believe it or not, in the last five months, rabies killed more people in China than any other disease. 2,254 people got rabies in th... | high853.txt |
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"She reminded his brother of his slingshot.",
"She wanted to force her brother do something for her.",
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"answer": {
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"Their robot knocked itself over .",
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The team of Scouts that built the 8-inch -tall machine immediately realized one arm was too long.They would have to work fast---practice time was over , and the real robot matches were about to begin .
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},
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But there's a rapidly growing kind of professional who does a little bit of everything. She or he is called a " _ ". People wh... | high11067.txt |
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Many factors result in this on pleasant phenomenon . Among them, hunting is the main factor that endangers wild life. Some people kill wild life for sport. They take pleasur... | high16708.txt |
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Coming of age ceremonies have been held since the ancient times in Japan. In the past, boys marked their change to adultho... | high17416.txt |
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Now many newspapers are locked... | high10379.txt |
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},
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"Cao Min and her children experienced the terrible accident.",
"\"Liaoludu 7\" with all ... | Cao Min couldn't believe she was experiencing exactly what she had seen years ago in the film "Titanic".
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"answer": {
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"quest... | That woman carried a new blanket over her arm. Wordlessly, she gave it to me.
"Is it finished?" I asked.
She shook her head. "No. It is ready," she replied. I handed her the money and took the blanket.
"It is beautiful, so skillfully woven ," I said to my mother. "But what did she mean when she said it was not finished... | high11701.txt |
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"And they are eager to do so.",
"But they wrote a letter to the Department of the Education reporting the thing.",
"But they do more exercise... | In my long years of teaching, I often ask my students to read the texts until they can recite them, and I tell them that recitation is an important part of their homework. However, some of my students are tired of doing so, thinking that it is both hard and useless. They argue that it takes a long time to recite a text... | high3246.txt |
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"answer_text": "Early works were popular among young readers."
},
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"They forced readers to accept moral ideas.",
"They were greatly influenced by other writers.",
"Early works were popula... | Robert A.Heinlein was considered one of American's "Big Three"western science fiction authors,along with Issac Asimov and Arthur C.Clarke.He was born in a family of seven children in 1907,attended public school in Kansas City,and graduated from Central High School in 1924.In 1929 he graduated from fhe U.S.Naval A... | high18057.txt |
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"answer": {
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"the environment and birds",
"humans and wildlife",
"climate and wildlife"
],
"question": "The study deals with the relationship between ... | Australian cities can keep their native wildlife -- but only if they can kick their habit of urban sprawl . That's the finding of a new study by leading Australian environmental researchers Jessica Sushinsky, Professor Hugh Possingham and Dr Richard Fuller of The University of Queensland.
"While urban development usua... | high17364.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "I'll die in debt, say one in three"
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"options": [
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"Desperate British",
"The beginning of the end",
"Borrowing money from any source"
],
"question": "The best title for thi... | Nine out of 10 people have run up unsecured debt and many fear they will never be able to pay back what they owe, a survey has claimed.
Around 89% of people aged between l|8 and 35 said they owed money on a credit card, loan or overdraft, the research showed.
A third of people admitted they did not think- they would ev... | high11715.txt |
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"answer_text": "To let the public know who are influencing the policies."
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"To attract more visitors to the White House.",
"To allow people to know more about the life of the Obama family.",
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"Americans have a right to know whose voices a... | high3252.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the Internet"
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"everyday life",
"the Internet",
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"question_type": "summarizati... | Below you will find a selection of helpful books to learn more about effective campaigns and one-to-one permission email marketing and more.
* Advanced Email Marketing
Email is specially brilliant: low cost, high speed, personal, moving , and interactive. But there's a big difference between knowing that email is a p... | high15573.txt |
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},
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"he was always at the top of the class in maths",
"he understood the questions",
"he was not very good at maths",
"the maths teacher did not explain the questions carefully... | Donald was not very good at maths. He could not understand the teacher's explanations. Even when the teacher explained something a second time, Donald still could not understand it. "Never mind," Donald told himself. "I'm quite good at other subjects. I'll cheat in the maths exam, then I won't be in trouble."
"I will s... | high8307.txt |
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"answer": {
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},
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"think they can have a good ti... | When women sit together to watch a movie on TV, they usually talk simultaneously about a variety of subjects, including children, men, careers and what's happening in their lives. When groups of men and women watch a movie together, the men usually end up telling the women to shut up. Men can either talk or watch the ... | high7034.txt |
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