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"answer_text": "will suffer the bad results all their life"
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"won't be able to earn enough",
"won't be involved in housework",
"will have to work hard all their life.",
"will suffer the bad results all their life"
],... | The life-long benefits of teaching children good money habits make it well worth the effort. Children who are not taught these lessons pay the consequences for a life time. Some parents don't teach children about money because they think they shouldn't talk about money with children, don't have the time, or think they ... | high9019.txt |
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"answer_text": "He was facing things that did not belong to himself."
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"Because he was now searching a different suitcase.",
"His own blood test report has changed into an old woman's.",
"An old woman had put her savings into ... | I'd just got in a taxi at the railway station when suddenly I found one of my suitcases missing. Just then, I saw a young fellow about 30 walking away with it, opening it and drawing out the valuables. "Stop thief! Stop thief!" I shouted and threw open the car door and rushed out to him, followed by the driver and half... | high1445.txt |
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"answer_text": "carry out all the tasks on the computer"
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"be aged more than 15 years old",
"be of or above the average level in their classes",
"spend 215 minutes for the programme",
"carry out all the tasks on the comp... | Thank you for agreeing to be a Test Administrator for PISA. The purpose of this manual is to help you to understand how you will assist with the successful implementation of this large-scale student survey.
1.1. What is PISA?
PISA stands for the Programme for International Student Assessment, sponsored by the Organisat... | high13102.txt |
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"answer_text": "he will buy anything he thinks his child really needs"
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"he was given too much pocket money when young",
"he can take much control of his child by money",
"he will buy anything he thinks his child really needs"... | Parents have widely different views on the problem of pocket money. Four new fathers were asked this question and this is how they answered.
Ashish Khanna: Although many argue that pocket money helps develop children's sense of value, I don't agree. I wouldn't give my child any pocket money. First of all, I never got p... | high1323.txt |
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"answer_text": "No problem!"
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"I'm afraid not.",
"No problem!",
"It depends.",
"It's not fair!"
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"question": "If Mother asks Gina to look after her brother now, what will she probably answer?",
"question_ty... | I have a younger brother. To me , he is a fourteen-year-old kid named Joe, with blond hair and blue eyes. To others, he is different. Where I see a kid who just needs a lot more attention, others see a mentally disabled boy, a kid who cannot walk or talk or think for himself. I see someone who just makes daily routine ... | high13664.txt |
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"answer_text": "Weekend Work in Rubberlast Group Ltd."
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"Part-time Shop Assistant.",
"Teaching Assistant in Hania's Playschool.",
"Weekend Work in Rubberlast Group Ltd.",
"Teaching Assistant in the University of Bristol.... | (1)Full-time Secretary Position Available Applicants should have at least 2 year's experience and be able to type 60 words a minute.No computer skills required.Apply in person at United Business Ltd, 17 Browning Street, Leeds.
(2)Part-time Job We require three part-time shop assistants to work during the evening.No exp... | high8461.txt |
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"answer_text": "the right hand"
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"the right hand",
"the left hand",
"both hands",
"either of the two hands"
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"question": "Americans use _ to hold their fork to pick up the salad.",
"question_type": "clo... | In Europe, people hold the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right throughout the meal, a system that is generally agreed to be more efficient than the American zigzag method. Americans hold both the fork and the knife in their right hands throughout the meal, so they continually change their forks to the left... | high3534.txt |
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"answer_text": "Commercial Arts"
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"Psychology",
"Commercial Arts",
"International Business",
"English Composition"
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"question": "What did the author study originally when he was in college?",
"question_type... | I decided to go back to school in the fall of 2008 after not being happy with my current job and financial status. I obtained my Associate's Degree in May 2002 in Commercial Arts. After graduation, I had trouble obtaining a job in that field. For years, I was going from one job to another feeling unfilled, and I was no... | high5145.txt |
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"answer_text": "serious"
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"regretful",
"depressed",
"serious",
"Humorous"
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"question": "Which of the following words can best describe Tania's tone?",
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"a... | In less than 60 years the people of my tribe have gone from being an independent nation, to cultural prisoners, to welfare recipients . Is it any wonder that there are so many problems facing indigenous Australians today?
When I was growing up in Kowanyama there were 15 people in my class, I am the only one who has... | high18731.txt |
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"annoyed",
"nervous"
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"question": "When Ben read the five essays in print, he felt _ .",
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"answe... | An Outstanding Teacher
Ben put the white envelope into the mailbox. He felt proud, excited, and happy--and also a little nervous about whether his essay would win.
Ben's local newspaper had advertised a contest inviting students to submit essays in honor of a remarkable teacher. The newspaper would choose the five be... | high17402.txt |
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"answer_text": "They telephoned people between the ages of 18 and 85."
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"They did a series of experiments.",
"They made a written survey about the old people.",
"They interviewed people of different ages face to face.",
... | Old age may not sound exciting.But recent findings offer good news for older pepole and for people worried about getting older.
Researches found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty.In fact,they say by the age of eighty--five,people are happier with their life than they... | high20245.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Proud."
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"Proud.",
"Modest.",
"Serious.",
"Cautious."
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"question": "Which of the following words best describes Tim Cook's attitude toward the Apple Watch?",
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... | This time, it is to be worn on wrists. Having already changed the way we communicate with its smartphones, Apple Inc released its next big thing on March 9 in San Francisco, US.
The Apple Watch, according to CNN, is "a simple rectangular shape with a range of stylish and useful wristbands." "The style is classic... i... | high10386.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "To find out what affects birds' migration and populations."
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"To find out what affects birds' migration and populations.",
"To collect information for the new Christmas tradition.",
"To compare the birds in Was... | Recently, a small group of birdwatchers spent three weeks around Mount Vernon. They were busy counting wild birds on Mount Vernon's wetlands, south of Washington, D.C. They began in the middle of December and worked until the beginning of January, 2015.
The birdwatchers were among 70,000 volunteers who collected inform... | high18902.txt |
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"answer_text": "Because she is really shocked at Lucy's rudeness."
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"Because she is really shocked at Lucy's rudeness.",
"Because she wants to offer some other helpful advice.",
"Because she has prepared the conversation for n... | "Ok," I said to my daughter as she bent over her afternoon bowl of rice. "What's going on with you and your friend J.?" J. is the leader of a group of third-graders at her camp--a position Lucy herself occupied the previous summer. Now _ , and every day at snack time, she tells me all about it, while I offer up the unh... | high11098.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "monitored the brain activity"
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"studied the Internet",
"activated the brain",
"recorded their memories",
"monitored the brain activity"
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"question": "Researchers _ when volunteers were doing w... | Searching the Internet may help middle-aged and older adults keep their memories sharp,US researchers said.
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles ,studied people doing web searches by recording their brain activity.
"What we saw was people who had Internet experience used more of their brain during t... | high2819.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "Buying materials without paying."
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"Borrowing money.",
"Buying materials without paying.",
"Issuing bonds",
"Issuing stocks"
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"question": "Which of the following statement is not the way for com... | Companies can increase the money with which they run their business in a number of ways. One way is borrowing money, and another way is buying things with the agreement that payment would be made later. There are also other processes for providing money for use by a company. Two of these processes are described here.
... | high22452.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "expressing his grand passion for poetry"
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"expressing his grand passion for poetry",
"walking on the shore with a pretty lady",
"defeating nothingness with his true love",
"pursuing the fame of being a ro... | Directions:Read the following three passages.Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
Death is a serious theme worthy of great po... | high12591.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "women have so much to share"
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"he is treated as an outsider rather than a husband",
"women have so much to share",
"women show little interest in ball games",
"he finds his wife difficult to talk to"
... | Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles old Harold. How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ball game, come back three and a half hours later, and they're still sitting on the sofa, talking?
What in the world, Harold wonders, do t... | high23994.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "know better about human nature"
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"know more about cultures",
"know better about human nature",
"know more about photography",
"know better about an event"
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"question": "According to the passage,... | When you think of photographing people, you may think of your family reunion or the Christmas party at work. These types of pictures of people are records of fun events with nice memories. Let's take a look at another idea for taking pictures of people, with an entirely different slant.
Much as anthropologists s... | high24023.txt |
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"reducing visibility to less than 200 meters",
"disrupting traffic",
"health problems",
"heavy fog"
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"question": "The harm the smog caused didn't include _ .",
"question_... | Right now in China, talks on the street have been about the strange weather and it's raising a lot of concerns. A heavy haze has blanketed many cities in the northern and southern parts of the country in part of an unusual weather system that's descended on the nation.
The haze stretches over a vast area, from Hebei a... | high7961.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "all above"
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"doctors",
"nurses",
"dietician",
"all above"
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"question": "From the notice, we can learn _ may read your medical information.",
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... | A Notice of Delnor Hospital (the "Hospital")
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED ( )
If you have any questions about this notice, please contact:
The ASIFlex Privacy Office
PO BOX 6044
Columnbia MO 65205- 0858
We understand that medical information about you and your heal... | high9794.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "On December 12."
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"On November 30.",
"On December 4.",
"On December 8.",
"On December 12."
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"question": "When was the legal pact probably passed?",
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... | World leaders from nearly 200 countries have signed an important historic agreement to fight global climate change. The agreement came after two weeks of talks between the leaders at the 21st Conference in Paris, France.
As part of the Paris agreement, countries said they would cut down on pollution However, according ... | high14686.txt |
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"answer_text": "New Rules to Control Internet Publishing"
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"Technologies Challenge the Government",
"New Rules to Control Internet Publishing",
"The Increases of Blogs and Webcasts",
"The Popularity of Online Video Broad... | China plans to make new rules to give more controls over the growing number of blogs and webcasts. Nowadays, advanced network technologies, such as blogging and webcasting, are being improved to challenge the government's ability to watch over the Internet.
Chinese government is in the middle of making new rules over I... | high22334.txt |
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"answer_text": "finding out who had a sense of right and wrong"
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"proving that he was not the thief",
"telling people that bike theft was immoral",
"finding out who had a sense of right and wrong",
"making his experiment... | The city can seem a cold, mean place. In the middle of so many people hurrying about their own business, a person can feel alone among the millions of others.
There is a popular view that in cities, strangers are less likely to help an elderly person cross a street or call the police when they see a bike being stolen. ... | high15598.txt |
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"answer_text": "She was sent to the park because her mother left her."
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"She arrived at the park five months ago.",
"She lives at the park together with some other foxes.",
"She was sent to the park because her mother left her... | While firing off pictures of a curious five-month-old fox, photographer Simon Czapp soon realized his subject had quite an interest in photography herself. The clever fox was so curious about the camera equipment that she climbed right on top of it. And while she was supposed to be the subject of the shoot, the fox sto... | high20523.txt |
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"by simple truck",
"on their horses",
"on foot"
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"question": "Alexander and his troops traveled and fought probably _ then.",
"question_type": "cloze_questio... | Alexander the Great was a mighty king and conqueror . He was one of the greatest military geniuses the world has ever known. He was born in Pella, Macedonia. Alexander grew to be a handsome, brilliant man. Aristotle, the famous philosopher , came from Greece to teach him---geography, politics, literature, medicine a... | high11926.txt |
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"question": "Erik expected the climb of Mount Everest to be_.",
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... | Erik wants to climb Mount Everest. He loves to climb, and there is no place greater for climbers than the top of 29,035 feet, the world's highest mountain.
Erik is blind. He has been blind since age 13, when an eye disease robbed him of his sight. His new book, Touch the Top of the World: A blind Man's Journey to C... | high21629.txt |
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"He liked designing experiments.",
"His family needed his support.",
"He wanted to please the famous scientists in England.",
"His parents couldn't afford his education."... | Inventor, physicist, surveyor, astronomer, biologist, artist... Robert Hooke was all there and more. Some say he was the greatest experimental scientist of the 17th century. In the course of his work, he cooperated with famous men of science like Isaac Newton, and the great architect, Christopher Wren.
Hooke's early ed... | high16085.txt |
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"the sports book",
"the science book",
"the health book"
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"question": "The passage is probably taken from _ of a website.",
"question_type": "cloz... | Modern festival-goers who worry about ending up with a dead mobile phone battery after days stuck in a muddy field with no electric plug power points may now have a solution----power boots .
Mobile phone company European Telco Orange has introduced a phone charging prototype---- a set of thermoelectric gumboots or We... | high11932.txt |
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"Swimming.",
"Diving.",
"Soccer."
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"question": "According to the article, which of the following sports is least likely to cause a rivalry?",
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But where do all these rivalries come from?
Some rivalries start because athletes spend a lot of time close to opponents .
Other rivalries get personal. Things that one rival says that are thought to be not respectful to the other can cause ... | high14692.txt |
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"answer_text": "Lookforyou@yahoo.com"
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"Lookforyou@yahoo.com",
"Alatinpolo@yahoo.com",
"Katarinakube@yahoo.com"
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"question": "If a boy wants to rent a room, he would send an email... | Ad.1
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"five years",
"eight years",
"ten years"
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"answer": {
"an... | Older women who regularly drink green tea may have slightly lower risks of stomach and throat cancers than women who don't, according to a Canadian study that followed thousands of Chinese women over a decade.
For the study, researchers used data from a long-running health study of over 69,000 middle-aged and ... | high22446.txt |
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"answer_text": "It costs nothing to join."
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"It costs nothing to join.",
"It focuses on business plans.",
"It is designed for computer lovers.",
"It presents what life is like on other planets."
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"question": "W... | The Entropia Universe
The Entropia Universe is a virtual world on the Internet, which seems very like our real life.It is set in a distant future and based on a planet called Calypso.Entropia was the brainchild of a group of Swedish computer lovers who decided to see if they could create a three dimensional virtual w... | high12585.txt |
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"answer_text": "The Innocents Abroad"
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"The Prince and the Pauper",
"The Innocents Abroad",
"Life on the Mississippi"
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"question": "Which of the following works made Mark Twain begin to be p... | Mark Twain's works are enjoyed worldwide. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he was born on November 30th, 1835, in the village of Florida, Monroe County, Missouri. After his father's death in 1847, Twain was apprenticed to a printer and wrote for his brother's newspaper. Later, Twain worked as a licensed ... | high23980.txt |
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"teach him to have a sense of responsibility",
"let him learn to use new technology",
"adjust himself o the ever changin... | Thirteen-year-old Greg Hoffman had been begging his parents for an iPhone all year. So on Christmas morning he was thrilled to find the object of his desire under the tree, but there was a _ .
The phone came with an 18-point set of terms and conditions that he had to agree to before the phone could be his. And the agre... | high9958.txt |
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"she wanted to be self-dependent rather than rely on others",
"she didn't want to move to another city",
... | He lost his arms in an accident that claimed his father's life--who was the main source of support for the family. Since then, he has had to depend on the arms of his younger brother. For the sake of taking care of him, his younger brother became his shadow, never leaving him alone for years. Except for writing with hi... | high7975.txt |
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"He wanted to be a doctor.",
"He liked to be others.",
"He didn't want to let himself lonely.",
"He didn't know he was badly ill."
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"connected with the present situation",
"open to both students and their parents",
"warmly received by economics"
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"question"... | An increase in students applying to study economics at university is being attributed to the global economic crisis awakening a public thirst for knowledge about how the financial system works.
Applications for degree courses beginning this autumn were up by 15% this January, according to UCAS, the Universities an... | high648.txt |
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Whatever you call him, American swimmer Michael Phelps looks destined to become a household name across the world after breaking the Olympic record for most gold medals in a single Games.
Phelps's total of eight gold m... | high23758.txt |
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},
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"It pays much more than other jobs.",
"It can improve one's leadership skills.",
"Making diners comfortable is part of the... | Part-time jobs for 15 and 16 years olds
Waiter / Waitress
A job as a waiter or waitress is a good choice for 16-year-olds. Not only can one earn $9-$12 an hour, but they can also get the tips . Most people that visit a restaurant don't just have good food. They come here to relax and have a good time. Besides serving ... | high9780.txt |
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"answer_text": "Birds Change Songs to Suit Urban Life"
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"Birds Change Sex to Suit Urban Life",
"Birds Change Living Habits to Suit Urban Life",
"Birds Change Songs to Suit Urban... | A new study says that birds living in big cities sing shorter, faster songs that are higher-pitched than those sung by their brothers in the forests. The researchers think that the birds adjust their songs to allow themselves to be heard over the noises of the city, especially the low traffic noise.
To study how urba... | high20251.txt |
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"answer_text": "None of the three brothers married the princess."
},
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"The three brothers didn't get along well with each other.",
"All the brothers wanted to marry the princess.",
"The king didn't want to keep his promise.",
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One year later, the three brothers gathered again. They each _ the treasure they had.
The oldest brother brought a telescope. "I found a telescope which can see far away."
The second brother brought a flying carpet." I found... | high10392.txt |
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"answer_text": "Five."
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"Four.",
"Five.",
"Six."
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... | Many people are already planning to look for a new position when the job market picks up, but the way you quit can have a long term impact on your career. How to resign on good terms:
Be prepared.
Review your employee handbook or employment contract before announcing your decision, so you know what company policy is re... | high18916.txt |
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"answer_text": "offer the passengers an additional reading platform"
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"attract more tourists to come to Beijing to take the subway",
"make the idea of \"Green Travel\... | BEIJING, (Xinhua) --China's capital city launched its first underground library, "M Subway Library" on Jan. 12,2015. The theme of its first activity is "Our Characters". Citizens riding the special train on subway Line 4 now can read e-books provided by the National Library by scanning the QR code in the carriage.
"M S... | high9970.txt |
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"Technique.",
"Space.",
"Material."
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"question": "According to Khoshnevis,what is the main difficulty in printing buildings?",
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Chen's cave is 20 meters wide and 8 meters deep. Lichens can be seen everywhere in it. Chen says that the place is free of pollution.
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That was all he said. "See what happens?" Shouldn't we have had a better plan than that? At t... | high7949.txt |
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Sweetest Day was th... | high14447.txt |
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Spending every day together, but not families - in this coast... | high9233.txt |
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Zhang Ping, who heads China's National Development and Reform Commission, the central economic planning agency, said onl... | high3078.txt |
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"To donate the money to the homeless man.",
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Emma looked through the garbage and all the buildings where ... | high19163.txt |
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Doctor Carson is an internationally recognized doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He has been the director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the hospital for twenty-five year... | high16250.txt |
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"We don't know whether the food is safe," said Zambia's commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Dipak Patel.
His worries are shared by countries around th... | high5409.txt |
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The growth in urban areas will go ... | high2366.txt |
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The shoes- named Square Eyes- contain an electronic pressure sensor and a tiny computer chip to record how many steps the wearer has taken in a day. A wireless transmitter pa... | high2400.txt |
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Igor Vorozhbitsyn had his life saved by a Justin Bieber ringtone, when his mobile phone went off during a dangerous attack by a brown bear.
The 42-year-... | high11259.txt |
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"I'd rather pay," I replied. "If it's free, I can't afford it."
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physical object. This is now possible with the help of 3D printers. Such machines were once used just
by universities and big companies, but now, stores with 3D printing services are appearing around the
United States.
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"answer_text": "To smell the roses outside"
},
"options": [
"To save money",
"To lose weight",
"To smell the roses outside",
"To protect the environment"
],
"question": "Which is the reason for the author cycling to work?",
... | I appreciate how biking to work allows me to be outside for at least a small part of my day. I'm a senior program director. If I didn't bike to work, I'd spend my weekdays almost entirely indoors--underground tunnel. On the bike, I get trees, air and a great way to get to know city neighborhoods. Of course, I also get ... | high6666.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "an American soldier in the battle field"
},
"options": [
"an American policeman",
"an American soldier in the battle field",
"a soldier in the Vietnam War",
"a postman working far away from home"
],
"question": ... | To son, Cecil,
Just a quick note before I start in earnest. When I wrote this, you were 8, still a little boy. In 2002, I was called to active duty in the Marine Corps in the war on Terrorism . On the 11th of September 2001 when America was attacked, I knew that I would eventually have to go and I was filled with a d... | high1109.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "behavior"
},
"options": [
"appearance",
"size",
"behavior",
"change"
],
"question": "Vosshall and her colleagues are mainly studying mosquitoes' _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answ... | Mosquitoes ruin countless American picnics every year, but around the world, this bloodsucking beast isn't just annoying--it causes a health problem. More than a million people die from the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like malaria and yellow fever each year. Attempts to control populations via insecticides like ... | high8893.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "doctors can test one's breath to find about his illness"
},
"options": [
"breath varies from person to person based on food",
"your breath may give you away if you are not careful",
"doctors can test one's breath to find abou... | If doctors want to test you for something, they'll usually take a blood or urine sample . But wouldn't it be much more convenient if they just asked you to breathe through a special instrument?
In fact, your breath can say a lot about you. In traditional Chinese medicine, doctors draw a conclusion about the health sta... | high12744.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "safety belt"
},
"options": [
"car seat",
"car for children",
"safety belt",
"game on islandbreeze.com"
],
"question": "From the text we can infer the FreedomRide is a _",
"question_type": "summarization_qu... | If you have a little child , who hates sitting in a child seat, then the FreedomRide is the answer to your problem/
Would you want to be stuck in an unchangeable position every time you're in the car? No. You Wouldn't!
When an adult, sits in a car for any length of time, we stretch, we change the position, we move our ... | high22687.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "men and women differ in eating habits"
},
"options": [
"men and women differ in eating habits",
"men prefer meat while women vegetables",
"there is high risk in eating undercooked food",
"eating habits are changeable"
... | Men and women have different tastes in food, with men favoring meat and poultry , and women fruits and vegetables, researchers said in what was said to be the most extensive study so far of gender differences in eating habits.
More than 14,000 adult men and women, were surveyed from May 2006 to April 2007, for t... | high23599.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Perchlorates in Mar's water."
},
"options": [
"The thick atmosphere around Mars.",
"The physical structure of Mars.",
"The extremely low pressure on Mars.",
"Perchlorates in Mar's water."
],
"question": "What pl... | NASA on September 28, 2015 announced the strongest evidence yet for liquid water on the red planet, increasing the possibility that astronauts journeying to Mars could someday rely on the planet's own water for their drinking needs.
You may feel like you've heard about the hunt for liquid water on Mars before--and the ... | high14335.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "safeguard homeless children's hard-earned money"
},
"options": [
"provide for jobs for homeless children",
"help homeless families with emergencies",
"sponsor homeless children to go to school",
"safeguard homeless chil... | Starting a bank a child's play? Absolutely, if you ask some enterprising youngsters in India, who have not only managed to establish one, but also, unlike many of the large International banks, run it successfully since 2001. What's even more impressive is that the young bankers and their 90,004---clients are all homel... | high6672.txt |
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