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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "by air"
},
"options": [
"by car",
"by train",
"by air",
"by sea"
],
"question": "From the passage we know the fastest way traveling is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | Modern life is impossible without traveling. The fastest way of traveling is by air. With a modern airliner you can travel in one day to places which it took a month or more to get to a hundred years ago.
Traveling by train is slower than by air, but it has its advantages . You can see the country you are traveling... | middle3644.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "High-sugar fizzy drinks."
},
"options": [
"High-sugar fizzy drinks.",
"Unsweetened juice.",
"Low-fat milk.",
"Water."
],
"question": "What kind of beverage is NOT allowed to sell on campus?",
"question_type"... | Do you like drinking Coke? As a symbol of American culture, Coca-Cola is liked by many people, especially young people all around the world. But from now on, perhaps it will be hard for students in the US to get it on campus. A new agreement will end almost all sales of high-sugar fizzy drinks in US schools. The agreem... | middle1053.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A new bike."
},
"options": [
"A clay model bike.",
"An old Barbi bike.",
"A new bike.",
"Every bike."
],
"question": "What did Mary want as her Christmas present?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
... | It was over two months before Christmas when 9-year-old Mary told her father and me that she wanted a new bike. Her old Barbi bike was too old and it often needed repairing. As Christmas came nearer; her dream for a bike seemed to disappear; for she didn't mention it again.
Then much to our surprise; on December 24th; ... | middle7422.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "pen"
},
"options": [
"pen",
"computer game",
"dictionary",
"ring"
],
"question": "Lucy found a _ in the library.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
... | Found:
A black pen is in the library. Is it yours? I am Lucy. E-mail me at lucy556@hotmail.com.
Lost:
I am Anna. I lost my computer game. It is blue. My telephone number is 471-4295. Call me! Thanks!
Lisa,
Is this your dictionary? Your name is on it. I found it in Classroom 6A.
Tom
Found:
I found a ring. It is nice. Pl... | middle8077.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Because he wanted Ben to believe that the was enjoying the work."
},
"options": [
"Because he wanted Ben to believe that the was enjoying the work.",
"Because he would like to try his best to attract Ben's attention.",
"Becau... | Aunt Polly had told Tom to paint the whole fence in front of the house. He thought of the other boys out for the day enjoying themselves and he felt very unhappy. Then he had an idea! He picked up the brush and started painting slowly and carefully. Soon, his friend Ben Rogers appeared, eating an apple. Tom pretended ... | middle1735.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Leaving home for the city"
},
"options": [
"Staying on the farm",
"Moving to the countryside",
"Leaving home for the city",
"Running away from the school"
],
"question": "What was the writer always thinking abou... | When I was a child, I often dreamed of the time when I could leave home and escape to the city. We lived on a farm and, in the winter especially, we were quite cut off from the outside world. As soon as I left school, I packed my bags and moved to the capital. However, I soon discovered that city life has its problems ... | middle5553.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "were rich but unkind"
},
"options": [
"had a quarrel every day",
"were rich but unkind",
"had a talk about their hands every day",
"lived by the side of the river"
],
"question": "The three ladies _ .",
"... | Three rich ladies met every day by the river. They sat there and talked the whole day. Once the three ladies quarreled . One of them said. "Look, how white and beautiful my hands are!" Another one said, "My hands are more beautiful." The third one said, "Mine are the most beautiful ones." An old beggar woman came up t... | middle4895.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "4"
},
"options": [
"2",
"3",
"4",
"5"
],
"question": "How many kinds of memory are mentioned in the article?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"an... | Who would win in a competition to memorize numbers, a chimp or a teenager? The teenager? Think again. Scientists have proved that chimps perform better than human beings when it comes to this kind of problem. We may have to rethink what we believe about human memory.
Memory is our ability to learn something, save it ... | middle3122.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "they don't use a proper way"
},
"options": [
"they have memory problems",
"they are too worried",
"they don't use a proper way",
"they don't like to study"
],
"question": "In the writer's opinion, students can't... | Language students often think they have memory problems. They worry because they can't remember words. In fact, the problem usually isn't with their memory. The problem is with how they study.
To remember words better, you need to understand how memory works. There are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term. Whe... | middle5547.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "writer"
},
"options": [
"guard",
"doctor",
"writer",
"painter"
],
"question": "According to the passage, a _ is more likely to be nearsighted.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": ... | When we can see well, we do not think about our eyes often: It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we come to see how important our eyes are.
People who are nearsighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing and reading, become nearsighted. ... | middle2228.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Money really can \"buy\" happiness if you spend it on others."
},
"options": [
"Money is not important for people.",
"Money really can \"buy\" happiness if you spend it on others.",
"We should try our best to give our money t... | "Spending as little as $5 a day on someone else can make you happier," the researchers from a team at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School reported.
Their experiments on 600 volunteers in the US showed people were feeling happier when they spent money on others.
The team asked their 600 volunt... | middle3136.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "can connect heart to heart"
},
"options": [
"can make children calm down",
"can connect heart to heart",
"is difficult for pre.school students",
"is a good means to find a job"
],
"question": "The author thinks ... | As a music teacher for twenty-seven years.I have always known that music touches the soul .It can break through all kinds of barriers to reach students in a very special way.It can be the means for each child to find their light.
A few years ago 1 was blessed with the chance to teach pre.school students one afternoon a... | middle4659.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "In 1965."
},
"options": [
"In 1965.",
"In 1978.",
"In 2015.",
"K is not mentioned."
],
"question": "When did the show Opportunity Knocks begin?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {... | In the UK. Saturday evenings have always been a popular time for families to watch television together. One of the most popular programme _ is the talent show, partly because people of all ages are interested in it.
Early shows, like Opportunity Knocks (1965-1978), required people to vote for their favorite acts and p... | middle7350.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "all types of blood"
},
"options": [
"only one type of blood",
"one or two types of blood",
"two or three types of blood",
"all types of blood"
],
"question": "Blood banks usually have _ .",
"question_type... | Many hospitals have blood banks. In these banks, blood of all types is stored. When blood is needed, it is taken from the bank. Healthy people then give blood to the bank to replace the blood that is used. Blood can be kept in the fridge for about three weeks with a kind of chemical.
When people lose much of their bl... | middle6728.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "forty-five"
},
"options": [
"forty",
"thirty-five",
"forty-five",
"forty-one"
],
"question": "How many books are there in all ?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
}
] | This is a mini bookstore.
There are ten books about sports. They are on Shelf A. There are nine books about History. They are on Shelf B. There are eleven books about games. They are on Shelf C. There are fifteen books about English. They are on Shelf D.
How many books are there on Shelf A,B,C and D? Do you know?
,. 1-... | middle7436.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the experiences in his early life"
},
"options": [
"the people he met in Japan",
"the experiences in his early life",
"working as a teacher in Beijing",
"his father's being put into prison"
],
"question": "Which... | Lu Xun is one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20thcentury. Today, many of his writings are included in school textbooks and his works are read by millions around the world.
Born in 1881 to rich family, Lu Xun had a happy childhood. In 1893, however, his grandfather was put into prison for taking money. At the s... | middle3650.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "her friends"
},
"options": [
"her friends",
"the baker",
"some neighbors",
"her husband"
],
"question": "At first, Nancy decided to go to the fancy-dress party with _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"... | Nancy would like to take part in a fancy-dress party . She had to go to the party with her friends because her husband has been to another city to go on a business trip. Later that night, she was busy in dressing up herself as a ghost, including putting on masks and some special costumes.
After finishing it, she went ... | middle5221.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The brain works in different ways in different situations."
},
"options": [
"Time goes by fast when we have nothing to do.",
"The ten minutes' break is important to students.",
"The brain works in different ways in different ... | You have waited 45 minutes for the valuable 10 minutes' break. But when the bell for the next class rings, you can't believe how quickly time has passed. If you have this experience, you'll know how time flies when you are having fun and _ when you are bored. Now scientists have come up with a reason why this happens.
... | middle3888.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "In 1621."
},
"options": [
"In 1621.",
"In 2012.",
"In 1921.",
"In 2011."
],
"question": "When was the first Thanksgiving?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index":... | The first Thanksgiving was in 1621. Each year, we celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November. What do American children think of Thanksgiving? This is what some of them wrote.
Thanksgiving is a holiday to say "Thank you". It means eating turkey and having a special party with your family.
Thanksgiving is... | middle4117.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "It was great."
},
"options": [
"It was boring.",
"It was great.",
"It was sad.",
"It was difficult."
],
"question": "How was Mary's vacation last year?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"an... | Mary had a nice summer vacation last year. She went to Hawaii in July. Mary likes fruits, and the Hawaiian bananas and oranges were great. The weather was very fine, but sometimes it rained heavily. On Monday she went to the museum. It was an interesting place and not very crowded . On Tuesday she went to the mountain... | middle3678.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "It's in the schoolbag."
},
"options": [
"It's on the table.",
"It's on the bed.",
"It's in the schoolbag.",
"It's in the bookcase."
],
"question": "Where's the English book?",
"question_type": "factiod_quest... | Look at this picture! It's a picture of a room. What can you see in the picture? I can see an apple on the table. Can you see an English book on the table? No, I can't. Where is it? It's in the schoolbag! The schoolbag is on the chair next to the bed. What is next to the table? Oh, it's a bookcase. Some books are in i... | middle2566.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "encourage people to be strong in life"
},
"options": [
"make more money",
"draw people's attention to his films",
"prove he was a superman",
"encourage people to be strong in life"
],
"question": "Reeve made a l... | Christopher Reeve was born in September, 1952. He was in his first school play when he was eight and he started to act in TV shows and films while he was still in college. He made many successful films and TV shows but he is most famous for his Superman films.
Unfortunately, disaster came in 1995 when he fell from his ... | middle5209.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "have the most people online"
},
"options": [
"attract the most people to learn Chinese",
"provide both QQ and AIM in China",
"are the best places for English learners",
"have the most people online"
],
"question... | People at home keep asking me, "Is it hard to learn Chinese? Why have you learned it so well?" Well, there's one thing that makes Chinese easy to learn: there are so many people to talk to. You've probably heard that it's the most spoken language. Today it's also one of the most written languages online. And with so ma... | middle2200.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "in Simony"
},
"options": [
"in a life-raft",
"in Miami",
"in Simony",
"in Panama"
],
"question": "Bill and Simone were traveling _ when they met some whales.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{... | A couple from Miami, Bill and Simone Butler, spent sixty-six days in a life-raft in the seas of Central America after their boat sank.
Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their boat, Simony, they met some whales. "They started to hit the side of the boat," said Bill, "and then suddenly we heard water." Two minut... | middle4671.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "attract the readers' attention to the topic"
},
"options": [
"invite the readers to answer the question",
"attract the readers' attention to the topic",
"show how weak older people's brains are",
"tell the readers the l... | "What's the name of our neighbor? I can't remember right now. " Have you ever heard your grandparents ask questions like this sometimes? Usually, we think that older people's memory becomes bad because their brains get weak. But now a team of scientists at the University of Tubingen in Germany has a new idea.[
"The hum... | middle7378.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "nobody helped him"
},
"options": [
"everyone helped him",
"some people helped him",
"only a few people helped him",
"nobody helped him"
],
"question": "At first, when the boy asked for help, _ .",
"questio... | There was once a boy in a village. Whenever he asked people to do things, no one would listen to him. He was sad. So he asked a wizard to solve the problem by using magic. The old wizard tried a lot of spells , but it didn't work.
A young man heard about the problem. He went to the boy and said that he knew the soluti... | middle6066.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "in winter"
},
"options": [
"in summer",
"in winter",
"in autumn",
"in spring"
],
"question": "The story happened _",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
... | Mrs Green had a young dog which was very clever. It often helped her buy a newspaper. One winter evening, the dog went out to play. It was snowing heavily. Soon the ground became white.
" The dog never loses his way. Where is he now?" Mrs Green thought. She shouted his name.
But still the dog didn't come back. So she t... | middle289.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A wig maker"
},
"options": [
"An actor",
"A director",
"A wig maker",
"A manager"
],
"question": "What is Peter Owen's job?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index... | Peter Owen has been making wigs since the 1980s. He has made wigs for the stars of more than seventy movies, including Tom Hanks inPhiladelphia, Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow, and Nicole Kidman in The Others. One of his biggest jobs so far has been designing the hair and make-up for the three Lord of the Rings movies... | middle6072.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "A car hit him."
},
"options": [
"A car hit him.",
"He met his coach.",
"His doctor called him.",
"He fell down and cut his foot."
],
"question": "What happened to Ron on his way to a basketball game?",
"ques... | Ron loved basketball. One afternoon on his way to a basketball game, he was walking and dreaming about playing college basketball the following year. As Ron was walking to the game, a car hit him so hard that he was thrown three feet into the air.
Ron woke up in a hospital room. When he learned that both his legs were ... | middle2214.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "1ikes"
},
"options": [
"dislikes",
"1ikes",
"buys",
"wears"
],
"question": "At first.Mrs Jones _ the beautiful dress in the window of the shop.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {... | One day Mrs.Jones goes shopping.When her husband comes home in the evening,she begins to tell him about a beautiful cotton dress."I see it in a shop this morning,"she says.
"And--and you want to buy it."says her husband,"How much does it cost?"
"Forty pounds."
"Forty pounds for a cotton dress? That's too much!"
But ev... | middle4665.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "trains are a good form of public transport for Londoners"
},
"options": [
"British people enjoy public transport",
"it's fast to travel from London to Paris",
"trains in Britain provide fine services for their users",
"... | Some people have to use public transport, some dislike it and still some love it. If everyone has a car and drives anywhere they want to go, there will be serious traffic problems on the road. Luckily, trains are a good form of public transport.
British people use trains a lot. This is especially so for people who are ... | middle4103.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Eating"
},
"options": [
"Growing",
"Eating",
"Processing",
"Making"
],
"question": "Which of the following processes cannot make the food be polluted?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answer": {
"... | "You are what you eat," says the old saying. So how can we know what food is healthy? Unluckily, a lot of food that looks good may have pollution. Where is the pollution from? It has something to do with how people produce food: growing it on the farm, processing it in factories, and making it ready for you to eat.
He... | middle6714.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "daughter"
},
"options": [
"son",
"grandson",
"daughter",
"granddaughter"
],
"question": "Mr. and Mrs. Long had a _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
... | Mr. and Mrs. Long had one daughter. Her name was Lena. She was eighteen years old. Lena lived with her parents and worked in an office. She had some friends, but she didn't like any of the boys very much.
One day she met a very nice man. He was young. His name was Watts and he worked in a post office. They became frien... | middle1090.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "do some shopping for her family"
},
"options": [
"catch the train",
"buy some chocolate and coffee",
"have a rest",
"do some shopping for her family"
],
"question": "The woman telling the story went to town to ... | Last Tuesday, after doing all the family shopping in town, I wanted to have a rest before catching the train. So I bought a newspaper and some chocolate and went into a station coffee shop with long tables to sit at. I put my heavy bag down on the floor, put the newspaper and chocolate on the table to keep a place, and... | middle2599.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "who was the most important"
},
"options": [
"who was the cleverest",
"who was the strongest",
"who was the most important",
"who was the most beautiful"
],
"question": "The colours were quarrelling about _ .",... | Long long ago, the colours of the world started to quarrel. Green said, "Clearly I am the most important. I am the sign of life and hope. Without me, all animals would die." Blue said, "You only think about the earth instead of the sky and the sea. Without my peace, you would all be nothing. " Yellow laughed, "You are ... | middle3687.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Four"
},
"options": [
"Five",
"Two",
"There",
"Four"
],
"question": "How many people are there in Amos' family?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
... | Dear God,
I am a boy. I live in a poor village. My Parents used to be farmer but now they are working in a big city. They want to build a new house. Our old house is _ It becomes wet after a heavy rain. I think our new house must look clean and smart. I don't mind if it is big or small. It is not in the centre of the ... | middle5590.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "rich"
},
"options": [
"a hunter",
"rich",
"a trader",
"an Indian"
],
"question": "Wearing a beaver hat was a sign that a man was _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"an... | Every winter the Indians caught beavers .They sold these beaver furs to men from France. In the 1600s and 1700s,people in France wanted beaver furs for coats and hats. Other countries wanted these furs, too . Wearing a beaver fur hat became a sign .It said ,"Look at this man! This man is rich!"
In the 1800s,men in thi... | middle4856.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "include all the senses and things we touch"
},
"options": [
"are remembered by everyone",
"express all that we think in our mind",
"include few senses and things we touch",
"include all the senses and things we touch"
... | Everybody dreams. But only some people remember their dreams. Our dreams often include all the senses--smells, sounds, sights, tastes and things we touch.
Early in the twentieth century, two famous scientists developed their personal ideas about dreams. Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud believed people often dream a... | middle262.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Ou Pingqin didn't marry"
},
"options": [
"Ou Pingqin was born in Yangxin",
"Ou Pingqin was old",
"Ou Pingqin had a son",
"Ou Pingqin didn't marry"
],
"question": "From the report we know _ .",
"question_t... | Ou Pingqin was a teacher in a special school (for deaf and mute students) of Yangxin in Huangshi, who has recently been considered the Most Beautiful Teacher in China.
After graduating from a college, she went to this school alone and worked there for nearly twenty years.
The headmaster of the school said, "She worked ... | middle7387.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Karaoke."
},
"options": [
"Qinghai Lake",
"Karaoke.",
"Kunlun Mountain.",
"The Potala Palace."
],
"question": "Which of the following is NOT among the places of interest?",
"question_type": null
},
{
... | Tibet is among the most popular places for Chinese tourists. The number of travelers to Tibet has grown by 10% every year for a few years. Since July 1,2006, when the first train ran 1956 kilometers from Xining to Lhasa, more and more people have been going to Tibet.
The train stops at several famous places along the w... | middle276.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "an ice cream sundae"
},
"options": [
"a cup of coffee",
"a plain ice cream",
"a bottle of water",
"an ice cream sundae"
],
"question": "The boy asked for the price of _ at first.",
"question_type": "cloz... | When an ice cream sundae cost much less, a boy entered a coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him.
"How much is an ice cream sundae?"
"Fifty cents," said the waitress.
The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied a number of coins in it. "How much is a dish of pla... | middle7393.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "four people"
},
"options": [
"two people",
"three people",
"four people",
"five people"
],
"question": "In the two pictures we can see _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | Here are two pictures.A man and a boy are in one picture.Who are they? Let me tell you.The man is Mr White, and the boy's name is Bill.He's the man's son.Now they are in Bill's bedroom.We can see some Chinese books in the desk.And on the bed , there is a shirt.It's Bill's.His trousers are on it, under his shirt.too.
N... | middle5584.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "take a few deep breaths breaths to help you relax."
},
"options": [
"tell ourselves not to be nervous",
"ask the teacher for help",
"go out for a walk",
"take a few deep breaths breaths to help you relax."
],
"q... | Do you want to do well in exams? Sometimes your knowledge is not enough, you also need good strategies. Here are some for you:
Before you answer the questions, if you feel a little nervous, take a few deep breaths to help you relax. Always read the question carefully and make sure that you understand it. Read it a few... | middle4842.txt |
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"answer_text": "Promoting mankind's health"
},
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"Promoting mankind's health",
"Discovering the artemisinin",
"Making contribution to the country"
],
"question": "What does the writer think... | 85-year-old Tu is awarded the Nobel Prize for her contribution to reducing the death rate of malaria , minimizing patients' suffering and promoting mankind's health. This is what science is all about.
Tu's name "Youyou", came from the Classic of Poetry. The characters depict the cheerful sounds deer make when calling ... | middle6933.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "He tried to make Ben interested in it."
},
"options": [
"He saw Ben eating an apple happily.",
"He tried to make Ben interested in it.",
"He didn't want to go swimming with Ben at all.",
"He didn't want Ben to share the... | Saturday morning was bright and fresh. There was a song in every heart, cheer on every face, and a _ in every step.
Tom appeared with a bucket of white paint in one hand and a brush in the other. His Aunt Polly told him to paint the fence around the garden. It was ninety feet long and nine feet high. He felt very blue.... | middle1084.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A dog."
},
"options": [
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"A butcher.",
"A dog.",
"A little boy."
],
"question": "Who was the customer that Sunday morning?",
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{
"answer": {
"... | It was Sunday morning. A butcher heard the doorbell and thought it must be a customer. But he was surprised to see that a dog was coming into his shop. The dog had $10 and a note in its mouth.
The butcher took the note and read it. It said,"10 pork chops , please."So the butcher took the money and put a bag of chops ... | middle3863.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "it was very old"
},
"options": [
"it was nice and brown",
"it was not nice",
"it was very old",
"it was not old"
],
"question": "Mrs. Jones didn't like the coat because _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_ques... | Mr. Jones had a nice brown coat . He loved it very much, but his wife didn't like it. Because it was old. She often said. " Give it to a poor man . " But Mr. Jones always answered, " No, I like this coat. "
Then a cigarette fell on it and made a hole in it. So Mrs Jones said, "Please don't wear it again. " Mr. Jones t... | middle538.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "how we can get flowers when we're busy"
},
"options": [
"there are few flowers around us now",
"flowers are not allowed in the workplaces",
"people don't like flowers any more",
"how we can get flowers when we're busy"
... | There are plenty of possible reasons why you don't have any flowers near you. Perhaps, you just don't like them. Or maybe someone nearby doesn't. Maybe you're at work, and flowers are not allowed. Assuming the problem is simply that you don't have time to go out and get flowers, you may be surprised to learn just how ... | middle8088.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the Musee de la Castre"
},
"options": [
"Lerins Islands",
"the Musee de la Castre",
"the Boulevard de la Croisette",
"Marseille"
],
"question": "To see beautiful works of art and paintings, you can visit _ ."... | The city of Cannes _ in the southern part of France, in the Riviera region and has a population of nearly 70,000. Cannes is very famous around the world for its Film Festival and also for its Cannes Lions Festival. It is a comfortable city and has tourism as its main industry. Cannes offers some of France's finest ho... | middle1912.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The Restroom Cultural Park"
},
"options": [
"Restroom Park",
"Toilet World",
"The Restroom Cultural Park",
"The Park of World Toilets."
],
"question": "What's the theme park's name?",
"question_type": "facti... | A city in South Korea has added a new attraction to its cultural landscape --the world's first "Toilet Theme Park". The Restroom Cultural Park in the city of Suwon is proving a huge hit with locals and tourists alike.
The park was built to memorize the former city mayor Sim Jae-duck, known as "Mr. Toilet". He believed ... | middle1906.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "polite, kind and helpful"
},
"options": [
"polite",
"kind",
"helpful",
"polite, kind and helpful"
],
"question": "People agree that a well-mannered person is really a _ person.",
"question_type": "cloze_qu... | We say that a person has good manners if he or she is polite, kind and helpful to others. Everyone likes a person with good manners. But no one likes a person with bad or careless manners. Yes, but what are good manners? How do I know what to do and what not to do?
Here are some examples of the things that a well-manne... | middle3877.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "USA"
},
"options": [
"UK",
"HK",
"USA",
"UN"
],
"question": "Kate is from the _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Chinese"
... | I'm Kate. I'm an American girl. I am thirteen. I'm in a middle school in Shanghai. My English teacher is a Chinese girl. My good friend is Mary. She is an English girl. She is thirteen, too. She is in Wuhan. I'm in Grade Eight. But she is in Grade Nine. We often have a talk by E-mail. We are both good students. | middle5989.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Four"
},
"options": [
"Four",
"Nine",
"Thirteen",
"Fourteen"
],
"question": "How old was Yao Beina when she started to learn music?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answ... | Yao Beina was not only a popular singer but also an energetic and warm-hearted angel. She donated her corneas to two men after her death.
Yao was born in a music family in September 1981 in Wuhan. She started to learn music at the age of 4, and she sang her first song on the stage when she was 9. Yao did quite well ... | middle5751.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "The coach wanted to teach the boy a lesson."
},
"options": [
"The coach wanted to teach the boy a lesson.",
"Tom wanted to get more biscuits.",
"The coach wanted to make friends with Tom.",
"The coach wanted to make Tom... | Tom brought a box of biscuits to a summer camp. He ate a few and placed the rest under his bed. After lunch, he found the box was gone. He went to tell his camp coach about it.
The next day, the coach saw a boy eating Tom's biscuits behind a tree. He came up with an idea to solve the problem. He found Tom and said to... | middle6258.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "had no one to look after her"
},
"options": [
"had no one to look after her",
"disliked all her relatives",
"didn't want to live with her family",
"was looking for someone to look after her"
],
"question": "Thro... | That warm day was the only day of the week without rain. I opened the door, took a seat and began to enjoy the wonderful sunshine. Suddenly, I noticed that the house near mine had been sold. An elderly lady was in front of the door, with some beautiful flowers beside her. I walked to her. She looked to be in her early ... | middle1537.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "The writer has lived in Seattle since 20 years ago."
},
"options": [
"The writer made a list of 75 things he was thankful to.",
"The writer's wife has been his best friend for 15 years.",
"The writer has lived in Seattle sinc... | Around twenty years ago I was living in Seattle and going through hard times. I could not find a satisfying job and I found this especially difficult as I had a lot of experience and a Master's degree.
To my shame I was driving a school bus to make ends meet and living with friends. I had been through five interviews w... | middle7146.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "sunny and warm"
},
"options": [
"sunny but cold",
"rainy and windy",
"sunny and warm",
"snowy and cold"
],
"question": "The weather will be _ this weekend.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | Bob, Jim and Alice are good friends. They all study in the same class in Red Star Middle School. The weekend is coming and the weather is going to be sunny and warm. Now they are talking about their plans.
Bob is going to the hospital on Saturday. It is not far from his house, so he wants to go there by bike. He is goi... | middle7620.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "after he graduated from school"
},
"options": [
"after he graduated from school",
"when he was in university",
"before he graduated from school",
"After graduated from university"
],
"question": "The writer trav... | After graduating from school, I didn't go directly to university. Instead, I spent a year travelling round the world.
I started my trip in London, the UK. I saw theBig Ben and visited the amazing churches.From there, I flew to Paris, and went down to the south of France, which is famous for its lovely beaches.
Next, I ... | middle1251.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "hurricane"
},
"options": [
"pet",
"hurricane",
"girl",
"cat"
],
"question": "From the passage we know Sandy is a _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
... | Whenever there's a terrible storm, there are many sad stories. Many people lost their houses, their cars and their pets. But sometimes these stories have happy endings, too.
A family in New Jersey, US, had a cat named Vivian. She was very smart. She could even draw with her wet paws on the floor. They all loved her ve... | middle5037.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "pronunciation"
},
"options": [
"listening",
"writing",
"pronunciation",
"communication"
],
"question": "Tongue twisters are helpful in improving _ skills.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | Try reading the following sentences as fast as you can. " She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells in the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells."
Not very easy, was it? What you've just read is called a tongue twister . It is an exercise made up of so... | middle2758.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "6"
},
"options": [
"4",
"5",
"6",
"7"
],
"question": "How many kinds of animals are talked about in the poster ?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
... | (Happy Children's Day!)
Come and see the Indian elephants and the tigers from America. The bears are waiting to meet you, and the monkeys from Thailand are waiting to throw things at you. The lovely dogs from Australia are waiting to laugh at you, and the giraffes from Zambia are waiting to look down on you.
Tickets: ... | middle3446.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "it might be Dad's last birthday"
},
"options": [
"Dad was to leave the hospital",
"it might be Dad's last birthday",
"they would celebrate Thanksgiving Day",
"Dad was at the nursing home"
],
"question": "The wri... | We always celebrated Dad's birthday on Thanksgiving Day, even after he entered a nursing home. When we knew it might be his last birthday, the whole family decided to get together for a huge birthday celebration at the nursing home.
Dad was a good storyteller and we were always his listeners. During a quiet moment, I a... | middle2980.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "what kind of people the man and his wife are"
},
"options": [
"never to call a man Mr. Mom",
"the man doesn't enjoy working at home",
"something about the children's school life",
"what kind of people the man and his wi... | I usually get up at 5:00. I make coffee, go to my desk and work. When my boys get up, I'm theirs. I follow the min to the kitchen and make them breakfast. While they're eating, I make their lunch, pick out their school clothes and get the little one dressed.
My wife takes them to school. I bring them home. I am not the... | middle3452.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "For some help."
},
"options": [
"For some nice clothes.",
"For some help.",
"For many thanks.",
"For some friends."
],
"question": "What does the horse go to the God for?",
"question_type": "factiod_question... | A horse doesn't think she is beautiful. She goes to see the God, "My God! Thanks for giving me a beautiful body, but I want to be more beautiful."
The God says, "What do you want to be like?"
The horse says, "If you can make my neck a little longer, my upper body will be more beautiful. And if you can make my legs much... | middle7634.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "confident"
},
"options": [
"tired",
"confident",
"sleepy",
"excited"
],
"question": "After taking a nap, you may feel more _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_in... | Just a Quick Nap
Do you feel a little sleepy after lunch? Well, that's normal. Your body naturally slows down then. What should you do about it? Don't reach for a coffee! Instead, take a nap.
It's good to have a daily nap. First of all , you are more efficient after napping. You remember things better and make fewer ... | middle1245.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "they think they are as important as men"
},
"options": [
"they don't want to stand behind their husbands in the street",
"they think they are more important than men",
"they think they are as important as men",
"housewo... | People like to say:"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world."Or theysay:"Behind every successful man,there is a woman."
Now some women still like making their husbands and sons successful.But some women want more for themselves.They want to be successful as men.
Today the best jobs are still given to men.Even wh... | middle1523.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Between classes the next day."
},
"options": [
"After school was over.",
"Between classes the next day.",
"Before it was time to hand it in.",
"Every night."
],
"question": "At first, when did the writer always ... | In general, it's hard to spend enough time in both concentrating on lessons and taking part in social activities. But I wanted to succeed in both. I knew this would be a challenge but I didn't realize how difficult it was until my classes in the high school began.
I got on well with other girls. After school, I often h... | middle7152.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "if all the answers are yes, you are suffering from stress"
},
"options": [
"many soc ial problems can cause stress",
"young people suffer more from stress than the old",
"doing yoga is the most useful way to relieve stress",
... | Do you feel tired sometimes? Nowadays, stress is everywhere in our daily life. Not just men, women and young people also suffer from stress.
There are many causes, such as: death, marriage, money, moving house, changing jobs, ending relationships.
So how do you know if you suffer from stress? Do the Stress Test and fin... | middle5745.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "ready to give up the donkey"
},
"options": [
"careless",
"kind to the donkey",
"ready to give up the donkey",
"friendly"
],
"question": "The farmer is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | Long long ago, a donkey fell into a well . The animal cried for hours as the farmer tried to think out what to do. Finally, the farmer thought the animal was too old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, so he decided not to save the donkey.
The farmer invited his neighbours to help him. They began to shovel d... | middle6264.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "He saw it in a newspaper advertisement."
},
"options": [
"He saw it in a newspaper advertisement.",
"His best friend told him.",
"He wrote to the farmer.",
"Maybe he learned it from the radio."
],
"question": "H... | Henry was an office worker in a big city. He worked very hard and enjoyed traveling in his holidays. He usually went to the seaside, but one year he saw an advertisement in a newspaper.
"Enjoy country life. Spend a few weeks at west hill farm. good food., fresh air, horse riding,Walking,fishing, cheap and interesting.... | middle8249.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "All the students and their parents from the Met School."
},
"options": [
"The headmaster of the Met School.",
"The student outside the Met School.",
"All the students and their parents from the Met School.",
"The teache... | What do you call a school with no tests, no grades, no classes, and no teachers? Students of the Met School and their parents think it to be the best school in the world.
The school is in Rhode Island, USA. Dennis Littky opened it in 1996. He was fired from two other schools, because many parents of the school student... | middle4473.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "moving about without a fixed course"
},
"options": [
"following a regular path in space",
"moving about without a fixed course",
"seldom wandering about in the universe",
"always travelling together"
],
"questio... | Millions of stars are travelling about in space. A few form groups which travel together, but most of them travel alone.
And they travel through a universe which is so large that one star seldom comes near to another. For the most important part each star makes its journey in complete loneliness, like a ship on an empt... | middle2002.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a small village"
},
"options": [
"a city",
"a small village",
"Green Sea",
"a big town"
],
"question": "Mrs Green's home is in _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answe... | Mrs Green lives in a small village . Her husband is dead ,but she has one son .His name is Jack . He is twenty-one .He worked in the shop in the village and lived with his mother , but then he found a job in a faraway town named Green Sea .He went and lived there .Mrs Green was not happy about it .
Last Sunday ,Mrs Gre... | middle2764.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Walking his dog."
},
"options": [
"Playing computer games.",
"Playing basketball.",
"Practising swimming.",
"Walking his dog."
],
"question": "What did the writer NOT do during the day?",
"question_type": "f... | How do you spend a usual holiday at home? My alarm clock wakes me, which reminds me of school. I usually would sleep like a log, but today is a holiday and I have to be at the pool for swimming practice at a quarter to seven. About 30 swimmers show up for practice. An hour later, I ride my bike home. The suburbs are q... | middle4315.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "four"
},
"options": [
"four",
"five",
"six",
"three"
],
"question": "Mary has _ friends.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "young... | Mary and Her Friends
Mary has some friends. They are Betty, Peter, Alice and Mike. Mary is the oldest of the five. Betty is thirteen years old. She is younger than Mary and older than Peter. Alice is nine and Mike is seven.
Betty and Peter are good runners . But Peter runs faster. Mary and Betty like to play basketball... | middle921.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Prof. G. White"
},
"options": [
"Miss Yang Jing",
"Prof. J. Brown",
"Prof. Wang Lan",
"Prof. G. White"
],
"question": "If you want to improve your English, you'd better learn it from _ .",
"question_type"... | Happy Children's Palace
MONDAY 19:00--20:30 English learning Prof. G. White Would you like to improve your English? This is for middle school students. (2 weeks) TUESDAY 17:30--19:00 Photography Mr. Green Learn to take good pictures. Bring your own camera with you. (4 weeks) WEDNESDAY 18:00--19:00 Office 2000 Prof. Wa... | middle935.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "3."
},
"options": [
"2.",
"3.",
"4.",
"5."
],
"question": "How many kids does Linda's mother have?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text"... | Today is Linda's mother's birthday. It is also Teachers' Day. Linda's mother is a math teacher. So today is her birthday and also her festival. Linda and her brothers buy presents for their mother. Linda buys a good skirt for Mother. Her two brothers buy Mother a big birthday cake. Linda's father also has a present. ... | middle7608.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "it's a long holiday"
},
"options": [
"it's a long holiday",
"it's the birthday of Jesus Christ",
"they can have real eggs on that day",
"everybody believes in Jesus Christ"
],
"question": "People love Easter bec... | Easter is one of the two important Christian festivals.Easter celebrates resurrections of Jesus Christ and Christmas celebrates his birth.It's not a festival as big as Christmas.It starts usually in late March or early April and the Easter holiday is Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.It's quite a long holiday for e... | middle1279.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "two big houses"
},
"options": [
"a nice wife",
"four sons",
"four cars",
"two big houses"
],
"question": "Bob Smith has _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index... | Bob Smith is old. He has two big houses and a new car. He has no wife, but he is a father of four children. He has two sons and two daughters. One son is from Canada. His name is Jack. The other is from England. His name is Mike. One of his daughters is from China. Her name is Meimei. She is eleven years old. The o... | middle6516.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Three"
},
"options": [
"Two",
"Three",
"Four",
"Five"
],
"question": "How many ways are mentioned to check if we're overworking?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_... | When you work long hours and Sundays are no longer a day to rest, feeling overworked can become the new normal. Take sportsmen as examples and do the same yourself, so you'll know if you're overworking.
Check your resting heart rate . Every day, before you get out of bed, take your pulse . Usually your heart rate wil... | middle4301.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "He teaches Chinese in England."
},
"options": [
"He teaches English in China",
"He is a Chinese teacher in China.",
"He teaches Chinese in England.",
"He teaches English in England."
],
"question": "What does Ro... | Roger, a young man from China, has taught Chinese in a primary school in England for 3 years. Many children like his class and he enjoys teaching them very much. All the pupils are quite interested in what Roger teaches them. They learn quickly and do everything carefully.
One day he said to the children, "People in a ... | middle4467.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Tommy"
},
"options": [
"Tommy",
"Mimi",
"Tina",
"I don't know"
],
"question": "_ is looking for the cat.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_... | Tommy:Hello, Tina.
Tina: Hello, Tommy.
Tommy: I can't find my cat . Tina, do you see it?
Tina: No, I don't. Is it under the chair?
Tommy: No.
Tina: Is it behind(......)the door?
Tommy: Let me see. My schoolbag is here. Where is my cat?
Tina: Hey, Tommy. Look,it's on your bed.
Tommy: Yes. Thank you,Tina. Mimi,come here. | middle2016.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "proud"
},
"options": [
"angry",
"proud",
"sad",
"surprised"
],
"question": "Parents are usually _ when their new babies are born.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answ... | Very often, newly-born babies are not beautiful. They are wrinkled or hairless, or they have an angry look on their face. They seem to say, "Get away! I hate everybody." But to a parent, that hairless, wrinkled, angry-faced baby is the most beautiful and perfect child in the world. When that proud father or mother ask... | middle5779.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "unclean"
},
"options": [
"unclean",
"useless",
"valueless",
"unimportant"
],
"question": "Indians don't hold food with the left hand because they consider it _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
... | This August, we'll welcome guests from all over the world. Some of them follow their own special cultural traditions. It's important for us to know about them.
*In many countries, such as Thailand, India and Malaysia, people believe that the left hand is unclean. So, it's not proper to use one's left hand to hold food,... | middle7185.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Eight."
},
"options": [
"Seven.",
"Eight.",
"Nine.",
"Ten."
],
"question": "How many planets are running around the Sun?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": ... | We live on the Earth. It's our home. But how much do you know about it?
The Earth is like a huge ball. Like the other seven planets, the Earth is running around the Sun. It's the third nearest planet to the Sun. It takes the Earth about 365 days to run around the Sun. At the same time, the Earth is going around itself.... | middle5792.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "connect the human brain with computers"
},
"options": [
"help to make computer systems more modern",
"connect the human brain with computers",
"help the disabled to be healthier",
"control a person's thoughts"
],
... | Since the 1970s, scientists have been searching for ways to connect the brain with computers. Braincomputer interface(BCI) technology could help people with disabilities send commands to machines.
Recently, two scientists, Jose Millan and Michele Tavella from the Federal Polytehnic School in Lausanne, Switzerland, show... | middle2943.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "have supper"
},
"options": [
"have breakfast",
"have lunch",
"have supper",
"have a party"
],
"question": "One day Kathy's parents invited some friends to _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{... | One day we invited some friends to dinner. When it was about six o'clock, my wife found that we had little bread. So she asked our five-year-old daughter, Kathy, to buy some.
'Here's a dollar,' my wife said, 'get two loaves of bread, if they have it. If they don't have it, get anything. But hurry!'
Kathy hurried off, a... | middle706.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "the mid l990s"
},
"options": [
"the early l990s",
"the mid l990s",
"the late l990s",
"1990s"
],
"question": "Many traditional companies created their own websites in _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions... | In the mid 1990s, people started doing business on the Internet. At that time, there were two kinds of companies. First, there were traditional companies which sold things in stores. Then, there were Internet companies which didn't have stores, they sold things only over the Net.
Traditional companies didn't want to lo... | middle712.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Vickie's."
},
"options": [
"Alex's",
"Nicole's.",
"Vickie's.",
"Alex's Dad's."
],
"question": "Whose idea is it to make money by sweeping the snow?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer... | Alex,Nicole and Vickie are friends.They live in the same neighborhood.They want to make some money to buy Christmas presents.
"We need to print out fliers and pass them around to all the houses,"says Nicole.Alex's dad helps them print out fliers.The three friends go to all the houses and put a flier in everyone's mailb... | middle1286.txt |
Dataset Card for "QGG-RACE Dataset"
Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Summary
- Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
- Languages
- Dataset Structure
- Data Instances
- Data Fields
- Data Splits
- Dataset Creation
- Curation Rationale
- Source Data
- Annotations
- Personal and Sensitive Information
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Social Impact of Dataset
- Discussion of Biases
- Other Known Limitations
- Additional Information
- Dataset Curators
- Licensing Information
- Citation Information
- Contributions
Dataset Summary
QGG-RACE Dataset is a subset of RACE, containing three types of questions: Factoid, Cloze, and Summarization.
Dataset Download: GitHub Release
Data Statistics:
| Types | Examples | Train | Dev | Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloze | Yingying is Wangwang's _ . | 43167 | 2405 | 2462 |
| Factiod | What can Mimi do? | 18405 | 1030 | 944 |
| Summarization | According to this passage we know that _ . | 3004 | 175 | 184 |
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
- Question Generation
- Reading Comprehension
- Text Summarization
Languages
The dataset is in English.
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
An example data instance from the dataset is shown below:
{
"answers": [
"D",
"A",
"B",
"C"
],
"options": [
[
"States",
"Doubts",
"Confirms",
"Removes"
],
[
"shows the kind of male birds females seek out.",
"indicates the wandering albatross is the most faithful.",
"is based on Professor Stutchbury's 20 years' research.",
"suggests that female birds select males near their home."
],
[
"young birds' quality depends on their feather.",
"some male birds care for others' young as their own.",
"female birds go to find males as soon as autumn comes.",
"female birds are responsible for feeding the hungry babies."
],
[
"A book about love-birds.",
"Birds' living habits and love life",
"The fact that birds don't love their mates forever.",
"The factors that influence birds to look for another mate."
]
],
"questions": [
"What does the underline word \"dispels\" mean?",
"The book The Private Lives of Birds _ .",
"According to the passage, we can infer that _ .",
"What is the passage mainly about?"
],
"article": "Birds are not as loyal to their partners as you might think ...",
"id": "high11327.txt",
"factoid_questions": [
"What does the underline word \"dispels\" mean?"
],
"cloze_questions": [
"The book The Private Lives of Birds _ ."
],
"summarization_questions": [
"According to the passage, we can infer that _ ."
]
}
Data Fields
- id: Unique identifier for the example.
- article: The main text passage.
- questions: List of questions related to the passage.
- options: List of answer options for each question.
- answers: Indexes of the correct answers for each question.
- factoid_questions: List of factoid questions.
- cloze_questions: List of cloze questions.
- summarization_questions: List of summarization questions.
Data Splits
- Train: Contains 65,576 examples.
- Dev: Contains 3,610 examples.
- Test: Contains 3,590 examples.
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
QGG-RACE dataset is created as a subset of RACE, focusing on three types of questions: Factoid, Cloze, and Summarization. This dataset is intended to facilitate research in question generation and reading comprehension.
Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
QGG-RACE dataset is derived from RACE dataset.
Who are the source language producers?
The source language producers are the authors of the RACE dataset.
Annotations
Annotation process
The dataset is annotated with questions and their corresponding answer options.
Who are the annotators?
The annotators are the authors of the RACE dataset.
Personal and Sensitive Information
The dataset does not contain any personal or sensitive information.
Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
The QGG-RACE dataset can be used for research in question generation and reading comprehension, leading to improvements in these fields.
Discussion of Biases
The dataset may inherit some biases from the RACE dataset as it is a subset of it.
Other Known Limitations
No other known limitations.
Additional Information
Dataset Curators
The QGG-RACE dataset is curated by the authors of the QGG-RACE dataset GitHub repository.
Licensing Information
The dataset is released under the CC BY 4.0 License.
Citation Information
No citation information is available for the QGG-RACE dataset.
Contributions
Thanks to @p208p2002 for creating the QGG-RACE dataset.
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