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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Four."
},
"options": [
"Six",
"Five.",
"Four.",
"Two."
],
"question": "How many seasons are there in a year?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"an... | There are four seasons in a year.They are spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Spring is a beautiful season. It is from March to May. In spring, the trees turn green, and the flowers _ . Everything loooks new.
Summer is a happy season. It is from June to August. In summer, we can swim and eat a lot of ice cream. Of cour... | middle4249.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Four people playing Marjong"
},
"options": [
"The Chinese government",
"People who have been married",
"Four people playing Marjong",
"People who don't want to get married"
],
"question": "_ first called Novem... | Singles Day falls on every November 11th, and as the name suggests, this holiday is one specially for people who are still living the single life. It's surprising that China is the only country in the world that has set up a special day for singles to celebrate their lives. To find out more about this celebration, re... | middle3526.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "an online game"
},
"options": [
"an online game",
"an online movie",
"a talk show on TV",
"a game show on TV"
],
"question": "Angry Birds is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer":... | Now many people like the game Angry Birds. Here is a piece of good news for them--soon there will be a lot of Angry Birds-themed activity parks around the world.
The first two parks opened in Finland last year, and a few other parks are going to open in the UK. However, people still don't know when and where Angry Bird... | middle5157.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Dwarfs perform for visitors."
},
"options": [
"It is very huge.",
"It is in the mountains.",
"Dwarfs perform for visitors.",
"It looks like a fairyland."
],
"question": "What is special about the Kingdom of Litt... | If you travel in the city of Kunming, you can't miss the Kingdom of Little People. It opened in the summer of 2009 in the mountains in Kunming.
There are tiny animals, little beautiful cottages and small furniture in the park. The big attraction of the park is the performances by little people. Many little people wor... | middle1331.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "He went to see the doctor."
},
"options": [
"He played the computer games.",
"He yelled after the MP3.",
"He listened to the MP3.",
"He went to see the doctor."
],
"question": "What didn't Tom do before he had m... | Tom, a 15-year-old boy, couldn't hear anything after the whole night computer games and MP3 listening. He was excited and yelled after the MP3. When he walked out of his room the next morning, he could hear nothing about his mother's words. His mother sent him to the doctor at once. It was moderate hearing loss .
... | middle7026.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "they thought computers were useless"
},
"options": [
"they were not interested in computer",
"they were busy with their homework",
"they thought computers were useless",
"they didn't have computers at all"
],
"q... | We had one class for computers when I was in school, which was also introduced new in school and all the students did not attend it. I took it because I had free period and was interested in taking it. In those days we could not image that computers will become so important in our lives otherwise most of the students w... | middle1457.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "hiking"
},
"options": [
"to Florida",
"riding",
"hiking",
"to San Francisco"
],
"question": "Peter is going _ on his vacation.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_... | Peter: What are you doing for vacation, Steven?
Steven: I'm visiting my aunt in San Francisco. My brother's staying there. He's joining a club.
Peter: Oh? When are you going?
Steven: Next Friday.
Peter: How long are you staying?
Steven: I'm staying at my aunt's home for four days. I'm going sightseeing in San ... | middle5631.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A book."
},
"options": [
"A bike.",
"A magazine.",
"A book.",
"A friend."
],
"question": "What did Michael get on his birthday?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_i... | Michael's birthday was coming soon, so he asked his dad for a bicycle so that he would not need to walk to school anymore. However, Michael's dad had lost his job and did not have much money. Michael got a book instead.
One bright and sunny day while Michael was walking past a store on his way to school, he saw a big b... | middle3240.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "On the desk"
},
"options": [
"On the desk",
"Under the bed",
"In the pencil box",
"In the schoolbag"
],
"question": "Where are Jeff's rulers and erasers?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"... | Jeff Green has a bad habit. He can not look after his things well. Look, this is his room. His things are _ . Look at his desk. Some things are on it. They are notebook, CDs, video tapes, rulers and erasers. He doesn't put his rulers and erasers in his pencil box. Look, some of his sports collections are on the desk ... | middle6310.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "A Hungry Childhood Caused by Droughts"
},
"options": [
"A Hungry Childhood Caused by Droughts",
"Food and Hunger",
"Protecting the Environment",
"Droughts and Their Names"
],
"question": "The best title for the ... | Droughts are common in Kenya . Before ,they came every 10 years ,but now they seem to be hitting us more often and for a longer time .
We gave the droughts names :"longoza"was the drought when many animals died ; there was the drought of the "planes" because food was dropped from the air by planes; and one particularl... | middle5619.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "people who will live with a family"
},
"options": [
"salesmen",
"guides",
"people who do the cleaning",
"people who will live with a family"
],
"question": "These rules are made for",
"question_type": "facti... | House Rules
1. Please clean up before leaving.
2. Showers to be taken before 11 p. m.
3. No staying out 'after 10p. m. unless allowed by me.
4. You may have incoming calls on my mobile phone but no out going calls.
5. Bed time is 11 p. m.
6. Dinner is at 7p. m. unless noticed. . (If you don't have dinner, you must let... | middle2176.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "England"
},
"options": [
"England",
"America",
"Canada.",
"Africa."
],
"question": "Where is Alan from?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_... | Alan is an English boy. Now he studies in Shanghai Yucai Middle School. He is in Grade Seven. He has a dog. It's black and white. The dog's very smart. Alan likes it very much. Its favorite food is bone. Every day when Alan gets home, the dog meets him in front of the house.
Alan's friend, Jenny is an American girl. Sh... | middle3268.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Middle school students."
},
"options": [
"The disabled.",
"Middle school students.",
"Middle school teachers.",
"All the readers."
],
"question": "Who can take part in the competition?",
"question_type": "fa... | Island University has a competition for middle school students.
Read about the competition on their website.
School Competition
Students! Here is your chance to help the physically disabled. Think out a robot or a machine to help them live better. There'll be three prizes. The winning schools each will get $ 15,000. Re... | middle4507.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "She loves sitting on Rudi's shoulder."
},
"options": [
"She never hurts Rudi.",
"She is very lovely.",
"She likes riding with Rudi.",
"She loves sitting on Rudi's shoulder."
],
"question": "What's MJ's biggest d... | Rudy Saldia is a 25-year-old postman from America. Every day he rides to deliver parcels across his hometown of Philadelphia with his six-month-old cat called MJ always sitting on his shoulders.
MJ, short for Mary Jane, is different from other cats. She was born in a drawer in Rudy's bedroom on April Fool's day. When... | middle4261.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "he was not very good at math"
},
"options": [
"he was always at the top of the class in math",
"he understood the questions",
"he was not very good at math",
"the math teacher did not explain the questions carefully."
... | Donald was not very good at math. He could not understand the teacher's explanations . Even when the teacher explained something a second time, Donald still could not understand it. "Never mind," Donald told himself. "I am quite good at other subjects. I will cheat in the math exam, then I won't be in trouble."
"I will... | middle2610.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Technology."
},
"options": [
"Travel.",
"Culture.",
"Technology.",
"Advertisement."
],
"question": "In which part of a newspaper can we probably read this passage?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"answe... | A 15-year-old student who invented a flashlight getting power from the holder's body heat is going home today from California with a big prize and a chance to do further research.
Ann Makosinski was the only Canadian among the four winners at Google's international science competition. Thousands of young scientists fro... | middle6476.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "thirteen"
},
"options": [
"eleven",
"twelve",
"thirteen",
"fourteen"
],
"question": "WeiFang is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_tex... | I am a middle school student. My name is WeiFang. I'm thirteen now. I study at No.52 Middle School. I am in Class 3, Grade 1. There are twenty boys and twenty-three girls in my class. We have four lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon. We like English very much. | middle855.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "read newspapers"
},
"options": [
"often talk a lot",
"never talk to each other",
"read newspapers",
"never looking out of the window."
],
"question": "English people _ on the bus.",
"question_type": "cloz... | In England ,people don't often talk to each other when they travel. If you get on a bus or a train. you can see people sitting and looking out of the window. Other people may read books or newspapers.
When you meet English people, they often start a conversation by talking about the weather . So when you meet somebody ... | middle699.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Till tea-time"
},
"options": [
"In the morning",
"When he received the letter",
"At lunch time",
"Till tea-time"
],
"question": "When did the manager open the letter?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
... | Last month the manager of a jewelry shop received a letter. As he was very busy then, the letter lay on his desk till tea-time. He opened it and a 10-pound note fell out onto the desk. Within the note was a letter which said:
Dear sir:
In 1935 I got engaged . But unfortunately I lost my job. At the time a lot of peo... | middle841.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Bird flu is widely known to people."
},
"options": [
"Bird flu is widely known to people.",
"Bird flu is a very dangerous disease.",
"Bird flu could make people sick.",
"We have good medicine for bird flu now."
],
... | EVERYONE is talking about bird flu . Yes it is a very dangerous disease that could make people very sick. It will be a few months before we have good medicine for bird flu.But that doesn't mean you can't do anything to prevent it now.
So far, all the people who have caught bird flu have been those who touched sick chic... | middle4275.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "its leaves"
},
"options": [
"the sun",
"its leaves",
"its roots",
"the air"
],
"question": "A plant gets food from _",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
... | A plant makes its own food in its leaves .Water comes to the leaves through the roots . Air gets into the leaves through very small holes . The green coloring in the leaves uses the water and air to make the food for the plant . It also needs sunshine because a plant can make food only when the sun is shining.
Animal... | middle2604.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Make friends with some students who are popular."
},
"options": [
"Be nice to other people at school.",
"Find something that you are good at.",
"Make your teachers know you're a good student.",
"Make friends with some s... | Most people at some time or another have dreamed of being a popular kid at school. Being popular in middle school is much easier than it sounds. Just follow a few steps and finally see what it feels like to be a popular kid.
First, why do you want to be popular? Ask yourself if your desire for being popular comes from... | middle2162.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "don't have lunch at home"
},
"options": [
"have fast food for lunch",
"go to restaurants for lunch",
"don't have lunch at home",
"eat rice with vegetables or meat for lunch"
],
"question": "Many people _ acc... | In my country, daily meals usually start with breakfast. People usually have something to drink for breakfast, like tea with sugar and lemon, cold or warm milk or Coke. Many people have some bread, egg, hamburgers and so on. We must always remember that breakfast must be healthy and light.
The noon is lunchtime, many ... | middle4513.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "where his daughter had put her crayons"
},
"options": [
"why his daughter was so shy",
"why his daughter loved drawing",
"if his daughter had an emotional problem",
"where his daughter had put her crayons"
],
"q... | Forty years ago, I was in Grade One. One day,I was asked to go to the principal's office . I was really nervous. When I pushed the heavy door open. I found my parents were sitting in the office,too. My father walked to me,with some of my drawings in his hand. "Why do you only use a black crayon when you draw?" he asked... | middle6304.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "play basketball with him."
},
"options": [
"Help him cook dinner",
"Beat more levels for him.",
"Repair the computer for him",
"play basketball with him."
],
"question": "What did Todd ask Jason to do?",
"qu... | Ding-Dong!
"Jason, honey? Can you answer the door?"
"I am busy, mom!" Jason shouted back at his mother. He had spent three hours so far working to this point in the game. He couldn't stop now.
Ding-Dong!Mom's footsteps approached the front door.
"Jason, it's your friend Todd." Mom called from the doorway.
Todd, his bes... | middle1480.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "she wasn't feeling well"
},
"options": [
"she had a headache",
"she had a fever",
"she had caught a cold",
"she wasn't feeling well"
],
"question": "Mary went to see the doctor because _ .",
"question_ty... | Mary had some troubles, so she went to see the doctor. He was a new doctor, and did not know her. So he first asked her some questions. One of the questions was, "What is your age?"
"Well..." Mary answered, "I don't quite remember, doctor, but I will try to think." She thought for a while and then said, "Yes, I remem... | middle114.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Read interesting English books."
},
"options": [
"Go to English-speaking countries.",
"Read interesting English books.",
"Stop learning it for some time.",
"Listen to music or play sports."
],
"question": "What ... | English is very important in the modern world. Many people want to learn it well. Here are some things that I want to say about learning it.
To learn English well, you need two things- _ and good learning methods . Passion is the more important one. Why? Because passion makes you want to learn English. Learning method... | middle2189.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A recent research shows 97%of teens need more exercise."
},
"options": [
"You should have no more than two hours of screen time a day.",
"You will have more fun and it helps keep you responsible for going.",
"A recent researc... | Teens are gaining weight. Today most teenagers are at least one size larger than teens were 20 years ago. Even clothing sizes have changed. Did you know that a small today used to be a medium, 20 years ago?
A recent research shows 97%of teens need more exercise. It's bad news because too little exercise means you are m... | middle5180.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "three"
},
"options": [
"three",
"five",
"young",
"old"
],
"question": "When he was _ , Mozart took music lessons with his sisters.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answe... | Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 and died on December 5 , 1791. When he was three, he often had lessons with his elder sister. His father took him through many different countries, where he played music for lots of people.
But some people didn't believe a little boy could write such beautiful music. They asked him t... | middle2837.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "20"
},
"options": [
"18",
"19",
"20",
"21"
],
"question": "Fu Yuanhui was _ years old when she came third at Rio Olympics",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index... | China's female swimmer Fu Yuanhui came third in Women's 100 meter backstroke on Monday morning (Beijing time) at Rio Olympics. China's online community has gone crazy about the 1996-born girl, not because of her performance in the semifinal or her achievement, but because of her cheerful answer to her performance duri... | middle7797.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Martin was a musician from an American band."
},
"options": [
"Dennis spent a lot of money travelling on the earth.",
"Martin was a musician from an American band.",
"Martin couldn't afford to go on training in the center.",
... | Do you want to spend a holiday in space? Dennis Tito, a businessman, has become the world's first "space tourist". He went on a 10-day visit to the International Space Station. He paid 14 million pounds for his journey. A year later, Martin, a musician from an American band, wanted to do the same. He was only 22 years ... | middle6489.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Flesh, bones, flood and brain."
},
"options": [
"Flesh",
"Flesh and bones.",
"Flesh, bones and flood.",
"Flesh, bones, flood and brain."
],
"question": "What's our body made of?",
"question_type": "factiod_q... | If you were asked what your body is made of, probably you would say that it is made of flesh and bones and covered with skin. You also know something about the blood which flows through it, and that there is a very important part which we call the brain.
But the flesh and the bones make up the largest part of the body... | middle7783.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Some adults."
},
"options": [
"Children.",
"Some adults.",
"Students.",
"The old."
],
"question": "Who use the game to make decisions and solve problems according to this passage?",
"question_type": null
}... | Do you know the game "Rock, paper or scissors"? Maybe you think it's just a simple game for children. But in fact, some adults use it to make decisions and solve their problems. It is also popular in many countries.
There are different stories about the history of the game. But many people believe the game came from J... | middle666.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "15,000"
},
"options": [
"312,000",
"15,000",
"600,000",
"8,000,000"
],
"question": "According to the passage, _ users joined in the discussion on Weibo.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
... | A new word is becoming more and more popular on the Internet in China - but no one knows quite what it means.The word "duang" is so new that you can't even find it in the Chinese dictionary. But it has already spread like fire on the Chinese Internet , appearing more than 8,000,000 times on Weibo, where 15,000 users h... | middle5194.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "to find a job"
},
"options": [
"to do some shopping",
"to visit friend",
"to spend his holiday",
"to find a job"
],
"question": "Henry came to London _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"... | Henry was from the United States and he had come to London for a holiday.
One day he was not feeling well. So he was to the clerk at the desk of his hotel and said, "I want to see a doctor. Can you give me the name of a good one?"
The clerk looked in a book, and said, "Dr. Grey."
"Is he expensive?"
"Well," the clerk a... | middle100.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "On Thanksgiving Day."
},
"options": [
"On Christmas Day.",
"On Teachers' Day.",
"On Mother's Day.",
"On Thanksgiving Day."
],
"question": "When did the story happen?",
"question_type": null
},
{
"ans... | On Thanksgiving Day, a teacher asked her class of firstgraders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought that these children from poor families actually had little to be thankful for. And she found most of them drawing pictures of flowers or tables with food. The teacher was very surprised to s... | middle1494.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "four"
},
"options": [
"five",
"two",
"three",
"four"
],
"question": "There are _ people in Peter's family .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"an... | I have two good friends .They are Peter and Gina .Here are two photos .The first one is a photo of Peter's family , and the next one is a photo of Gina's room .
In the first photo , you can see four people . They are Peter's parents , Peter and his sister .Peter's father is a teacher . And his mother is a teacher too .... | middle5802.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "American football"
},
"options": [
"baseball",
"soccer",
"American football",
"volleyball"
],
"question": "According to the passage, _ may be the most popular sport in the U.S.A.",
"question_type": "cloz... | Baseball is one of the favorite sports in the U.S.A. Children play baseball in sports field or in parks.
At summer picnics, there is often an informal baseball game. Boys and girls, the young and the old, take turns to beat. Each team has 9 players.
The baseball season goes from April to September. During this time, ba... | middle896.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "using it"
},
"options": [
"writing in it",
"using it",
"listening to it",
"learning its grammar"
],
"question": "The writer thinks that the best way for you to learn a language is _ .",
"question_type": "c... | The best way of learning a language is using it. The best way of learning English is talking in English as much as possible. Sometimes you'll get your words mixed up and people will not understand you. Sometimes people will say things too quickly and you can't understand them. But if you keep your sense of humor , you... | middle882.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Taking a thief to the city ."
},
"options": [
"Catching a thief with others .",
"Doing nothing.",
"Taking a thief to the city .",
"Walking go the city by himself ."
],
"question": "What was the policeman doing o... | A Policeman and a Thief
One day a policeman was taking a thief to the city . On the way , they saw a shop . The thief said . " Let me go into the shop to buy some bread . We can eat it in the train . "
The policeman agreed . The thief went into the shop and ran out of the back door . When the policeman knew that , he b... | middle7967.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "quiet"
},
"options": [
"quiet",
"noisy",
"happy",
"sad,"
],
"question": "In a computer class,each student is very _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
... | Every student in Australia must wear their school uniforms when they are at school.There are many kinds of uniforms such as suits,dresses,shorts,skirts,shirts,T-shirts and so on.
Class usually begins at 8:00 a.m.in most Australian schools,and sometimes it begins at 10:00 a.m.You needn't go to class with your schoolbag,... | middle3730.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Before they go to university after graduating from school"
},
"options": [
"before they graduate from school",
"before they graduate from university",
"after they graduate from university",
"Before they go to university... | These days, more and more students in the UK are taking a "gap year"between their graduation from school and their university studies. This means they can take a year off to do something else, before they start their studies.
For most students, spending time in foreign countries is the favorite activity --- and Austral... | middle7556.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "look after the chairs in the park"
},
"options": [
"clean the park",
"grow trees",
"help people in the park",
"look after the chairs in the park"
],
"question": "Mr.White's job is to _ .",
"question_type"... | Mr. White works in a park. He can't hear or speak. He looks after the chairs in the park.
Some chairs in the park look very old. Mr. White wants to paint them. It is cloudy today. There are few people in the park,so Mr. White starts to paint a chair. After he paints it,he goes back to his office and brings a card wit... | middle6890.txt |
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"answer": {
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"answer_text": "an English boy"
},
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"an English girl",
"an English boy",
"a girl"
],
"question": "David is _ .",
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},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": ... | My name is David Green. I am an English boy. My family are in Beijing. My father and mother work there. I have a sister but no brothers. We have a nice house in Beijing. There is a TV, a radios, a telephone, a computer, two small beds, a big bed and a soccer ball in it. The computer is next to the TV. The telephone is ... | middle8103.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "in a rich family"
},
"options": [
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"in a rich family",
"in a worker's family",
"in a big factory"
],
"question": "Henry was born _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"a... | Henry was born in a small town. His father has a factory. One night the man drank too much and drove his car home. On his way he drove fast and suddenly his car fell into the river and he died in the accident. The old man left his son much money and the factory. But the man spent all the money in nearly three years and... | middle1899.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
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},
"options": [
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"whose skill was better",
"how to be stronger",
"where to pick the fruit"
],
"question": "The elephant and the monkey argued about _ .",
"... | An elephant and a monkey were arguing.
"Look, how big and strong I am!" The elephant said.
The monkey disagreed, "Look, how fast I can run and climb! Can you?"
At last they asked a wise tiger, "Which is better--to be strong or to be quick?"
The tiger said, "Go across the river and pick the fruit on that tree for me, th... | middle7230.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "two dogs"
},
"options": [
"a cat",
"two cats",
"his friend",
"two dogs"
],
"question": "John moved into a new house with _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_ind... | John moved into a new house. He was very happy. He had an old cat and a young cat. He liked them very much, He thought, "I must let my cat go in and out of my house when I'm not at home." He had an idea.
One day, a friend came to see him and saw two holes in his door. One is big, the other is small.
"My dear friend," ... | middle2348.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "at Harvard"
},
"options": [
"in Seattle",
"in Washington",
"in New York",
"at Harvard"
],
"question": "He developed the BASIC language for the first microcomputer _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | Bill Gates was born on October 28th, 1955. He grew up in Seattle, Washington. Bill Gates was named William Henry after his father and grandfather. He was a very clever boy. His favourite subject at school were science and maths.
When he was 13 years old, Bill started to play with computers. At that time, computers were... | middle5427.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "Soup."
},
"options": [
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"Ice cream.",
"Salad.",
"Cheese."
],
"question": "We should have _ first if we want to eat less main food.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
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... | This is not a diet. It's a simple way to lose weight~ And you don' t even have to give up the food you love or join a gym. You just follow some habits that thin people have. Keep them, and you'll become thin.
( 1 ) Wake - up
When you wake up in the morning, sit up slowly without using your hands. With legs straight out... | middle3042.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "The computer cannot work if the robot changes"
},
"options": [
"They cannot repair themselves.",
"The computer has changed a lot.",
"They have no computers inside.",
"The computer cannot work if the robot changes"
]... | In some science fiction movies, evil robots refuse to die, no matter how hard people fight back.
Now science fiction has become science fact. For the first time, scientists have made a robot that can take a beating and keep on going. Scientists from Cornell University made the robot, which looks like a spider with fou... | middle1655.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "fire is dangerous and harmful"
},
"options": [
"fire is dangerous and harmful",
"forest fire can be easily put out",
"who started a fire the first time",
"every month there is a forest fire in Yunnan Province"
],
... | Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very harmful. Fire can make water hot and house warm, give light and cook food. But fire can burn things, too. It can make trees, houses, animals and other things catch fire . If some people can't run away from fire, it can kill them. This happens in every countr... | middle8117.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "The church is an old building."
},
"options": [
"They want to see the priest.",
"There are many friends.",
"They want to see the baby.",
"The church is an old building."
],
"question": "Why are Jack and Mike in ... | Jack and Mike are on holiday in France. Mike loves visiting old buildings. Jack likes, too.
In the village Jack and Mike see a beautiful old church, but when they come into the church, some people are there. They don't know what the people are doing.
"Oh! Just sit quietly, and do like the others!" Mike says. Because th... | middle6884.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "A movie."
},
"options": [
"A book.",
"A movie.",
"A song.",
"A comic ."
],
"question": "What is Rio2?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_te... | 1Rio2 is a great movie. Blu, Jewl and their three kids leave their home in the city for a trip to the Amazon rainforest . When they get there, they try to adapt to the new life in the rainforest. But Blu finds they're in danger. What do the family members do next? You can find the answer in the movie, but now let's ... | middle5355.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a sign of bad luck"
},
"options": [
"lovely animals",
"a sign of bad luck",
"a sign of good luck",
"unfriendly animals"
],
"question": "Many people in Western countries may think black cats are _ .",
"que... | What do you think of black cats? Are they unluckier than cats of other colors? Many people in Western countries think so. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), did a study on cat colours and people's understandings of cat personalities.
The study found that people do judge cat personaliti... | middle3724.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "A businessman."
},
"options": [
"A manager.",
"A teacher.",
"A businessman.",
"A doctor."
],
"question": "What does Mr King do ?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_... | Now more and more foreign families move to Yiwu. The Kings is one of them. The King family is from an Arabic Country. Mr King is a businessman. Mrs King is 35 years old , five years younger than her husband. She is a teacher. They have two children. Tony, their son,is a student. He is 10. He studies in Wuai Primary s... | middle6674.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "To do some housework."
},
"options": [
"To take some medicine.",
"To call on a psychologist.",
"To be as tidy as possible.",
"To do some housework."
],
"question": "What does Carol Clark advise people under stre... | Life are always full of stress these days. How do you usually deal with your stress? Do you know doing housework is helpful in dealing with stress? In fact, doing something like washing dirty clothes may really make people relaxed.
"Doing some housework such as washing windows or ironing clothes is a good way to ... | middle2412.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "a teacher"
},
"options": [
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"a teacher",
"a farmer",
"a worker"
],
"question": "What does Mr Peterson do? Mr Peterson is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answer": {
... | This term we have a new teacher of English. His name is Mr Peterson. He comes from Australia, but now he lives in a tall building in Wuxi. He is not very tall and he is thin. He has a round face and small blue eyes. He wears glasses and they make him look smart.He has dark brown hair.
Mr Peterson works very hard. In cl... | middle4063.txt |
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"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "at the beginning of a school season"
},
"options": [
"during the summer break",
"in an English class",
"in the classroom",
"at the beginning of a school season"
],
"question": "The article is written _ .",
... | When you sit in the classroom, do you suddenly feel that summer flew by so quickly? I'm still thinking about taking walks in the park and meeting my friends at night. But I know that the school season is beginning. And homework, tests and routine all come with it.
When I stay in my room and write my homework, I often... | middle4705.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Travelling."
},
"options": [
"Global warming.",
"Pollution.",
"Hunting.",
"Travelling."
],
"question": "According to the passage, which of these answers does NOT make sea ice less?",
"question_type": null
... | Do you think of white when someone talks about a polar bear? In fact, the polar bear does not have white fur. It just appears to be white. Polar bears have a very good sense of smell. It helps them to find food. During summer, polar bears sleep longer, because they are able to find their food more easily at night. Usua... | middle2374.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "must not have a cool hairstyle"
},
"options": [
"can show their personalities by hairstyle",
"must not have a cool hairstyle",
"should wear the same shoes to school",
"can show they are different by wearing their favori... | Liang Xiyan still misses her long black hair, which was cut two weeks ago.
Liang became a senior high school student in September. In her new school, the rules say that boys' hairstyles must be cropped and girls' hair cannot fall below their shoulders.
Liang's school is not alone: many have similar rules on hairstyle... | middle6112.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Two"
},
"options": [
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"Two",
"Three",
"Four"
],
"question": "How many kinds of birthday parties are there in America?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
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"answer": {
"answer_... | Children all over the world like to celebrate their birthdays. American children are the same. They usually celebrate with a party .They ask their friends to their parties. They don't have the party on the right date of their birthday if it comes on a school day. They may hold it at the weekend then.
Today many childre... | middle6106.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "Irving Stone spent a lifetime studying and writing stories about great people."
},
"options": [
"This passage is a description of giraffes' living habits.",
"Baby giraffes can't stand up until three months old.",
"Irving Ston... | Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life.
In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-b... | middle1669.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "87%"
},
"options": [
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"64%",
"75%",
"87%"
],
"question": "_ of the teachers agreed technologies may stop students from having enough attention.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answe... | Teachers say the digital age has had a good and a not-so-good influence on the American teenagers. More than 2,000 high school teachers took an online survey.
75 percent of the teachers said the Internet and digital search tools have had a "mostly good" use for their students' research habits and skills, But 87 percent... | middle4711.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "47."
},
"options": [
"37.",
"74.",
"47.",
"40."
],
"question": "How many different kinds of kangaroos are there?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
... | There are forty-seven different kinds of kangaroos . The smallest kangaroos are about a quarter of a meter long; the biggest are taller than a man.
Kangaroos have very long strong back legs. These are used for jumping. They also have long strong tails used for resting on. Kangaroos' front legs are much shorter, and are... | middle2360.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "She held a paper cutting show at a shopping center near Washington."
},
"options": [
"She won the second prize in a national painting and art competition.",
"She was invited to many activities to show paper cutting.",
"She he... | As traditional Chinese art, paper cutting has a long history. The first and earliest paper cutting was found in China 1,500 years ago. But this traditional art is at risk of disappearing now. Luckily, Voyo Woo, a Chinese immigrant in America, is trying to bring this art back to life.
One Saturday in 2014, Ms Woo held a... | middle5369.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "At 6:30 a.m."
},
"options": [
"At 6:30 a.m.",
"At 6:50 a.m.",
"At 7:10 a.m.",
"At 7:40 a.m."
],
"question": "When does Daniel get up?",
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},
{
"answer": {
"an... | My name is Daniel. Let me talk about my day. I get up at 6:30 a.m. and I read English for about half an hour. I eat breakfast at about 7:10 a.m. I go to school by bus at about 7:40 a.m. My school starts at 8:20 a.m. In the morning, I have three lessons. I like English best. At 11:20 a.m., we have lunch at school. After... | middle2406.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "to give a talk"
},
"options": [
"to listen to a talk",
"to have lessons",
"to give a talk",
"to see his children"
],
"question": "The old man came back to school _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
... | A 50-year-old American officer came back to his school. The teacher asked him to give a talk to the small boys and girls there. The talk was about the love of their great country. All the little ones were sitting in a large meeting-room. The old officer went up and began speaking. He said , " Boys and girls . I studied... | middle4077.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "an Australian"
},
"options": [
"an American",
"an Englishman",
"a Russian",
"an Australian"
],
"question": "Mr. Evens is _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answer": {
"answer_ind... | Mr. Evens works in Sydney. Last week he had a two weeks' holiday, but he didn't know where to go. He said to his friend Robert, "I hate the hot weather here, but I can't find a cool place in Australia. How will I take my holiday?"
"That's easy," said Robert. "You'd better go to Moscow. Snow and ice are covering the gro... | middle470.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Because he devoted himself to making the blind see again."
},
"options": [
"Because he has been working on a small video camera.",
"Because he is a professor of a famous university.",
"Because he invented a video camera for t... | There are millions of people throughout the world who are either born blind or have become blind over the course of their lifetimes. It is unfair to take away the visual beauty of the world from these people. Doctor Humayun has created the world's first bionic eye that could change the life of every blind people in the... | middle7595.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "German."
},
"options": [
"English.",
"German.",
"French.",
"Russian."
],
"question": "Which language do eleven and twelve come from?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"ans... | Where did that number come from?
Eleven and Twelve
The reason behind the change in number naming is that eleven comes from the German term ainlif, which translates to "one left". Twelve follows the same rule. It comes from twalif--"two left". Why teen is used instead of lif for 13 through 19? There is something sadly l... | middle5382.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "An announcer"
},
"options": [
"A worker",
"A doctor",
"An announcer",
"A teacher"
],
"question": "What does Jim Green do?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
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"answer": {
"answer_index":... | "Good Time" is a program on ABC Radio. Jim Green is an announcer for the program. Most of the girls and boys like the program. They also like Jim Green. Some of them often make phone calls to him and thank him for his work. There are lots of letters to him every day, too.
Jim Green gets up at 6:00 every morning. He h... | middle4922.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "1,500"
},
"options": [
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"15,000",
"500",
"1,500"
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"question": "The number of different languages spoken is about _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
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"answer": {
"answer_ind... | When people communicate, they need words to express themselves. People living in different countries made different kinds of words.
Today there are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large dictionary, for example, contains four or five hundred thousand of words. ... | middle3095.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "twice a week"
},
"options": [
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"20 minutes a week",
"twice a week",
"twice a month"
],
"question": "It's good to exercise _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | We all need to exercise.Doctors say it is good for us.It makes our heart and body strong.It also gives you more energy .And you will feel better about yourself.It's good to exercise twice a week.Twenty minutes each time is enough.
There are many ways to exercise.You can walk,run,play sports or swim.Many people go to sp... | middle316.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "in your high school years"
},
"options": [
"in your high school years",
"at the beginning of your high school years",
"before your high school begins",
"after you finish your high school"
],
"question": "The wri... | You are going to high school , aren't you ? Maybe you don't know what to do . Here is a list of the top six things to do when you are in high school . These things will give you ideas of what your high school life could be like . Here you go !
1Find your passion and what kind of person you are : Whether it's dance ,b... | middle302.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "One comedian's life,"
},
"options": [
"How to tell a good joke,",
"Where the best comedy clubs are.",
"One comedian's life,",
"The funniest people in the United States,"
],
"question": "What is this passage main... | Chris Rock was born in the state of South Carolina in the United States. When he was a child, his family moved, and he grew up in a poor area in Brooklyn, New York.
As a teenager, Rock left high school and started telling jokes in comedy clubs in New York City, Even at age 18, Chris Rock was very funny. He told jokes a... | middle4936.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "A teacher."
},
"options": [
"A student.",
"A teacher.",
"A manager.",
"a farmer."
],
"question": "What is Morrie?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
... | Will you trust your friends if you can't see anything? If you are falling, do you believe they will catch you and help you stand up? Our teacher helped us to get the answer.
One day, Mr. Morrie came into the classroom and said he had a game for us to try. He divided us into two groups. One student from the first group,... | middle3081.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Maine."
},
"options": [
"Florida.",
"Maine.",
"Boston.",
"London."
],
"question": "Where did Mr Green want to go last weekend?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_in... | Mr. and Mrs. Green had different ideas about where to go last weekend. Mrs Green wanted to go to Florida to see her sister, but Mr Green didn't like to go there. He wanted to go to Maine .
"Florida is too hot in summer," Mr Green said to Mrs Green.
"Maine is quite cold," said Mrs Green, "I like swimming, but the water... | middle464.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "Six."
},
"options": [
"Five.",
"Six.",
"Seven.",
"Eight."
],
"question": "How many tips are mentioned in the passage?",
"question_type": null
},
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_t... | Staying healthy at work isn't always easy.With all your co-workers sneezing around you,it seems impossible.Find out how to avoid the germs with these tips
Wash your hands often.
You should wash your hands every time after you use the restroom,before you eat, after you sneeze or cough.Also,keep a bottle of hand saniti... | middle7581.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "At one o'clock early in the morning"
},
"options": [
"A week ago",
"A few days later",
"At one o'clock early in the morning",
"At noon"
],
"question": "What time did the writer arrive in Cuba?",
"question_ty... | A week in the sun relaxing in the beautiful March weather of Varadero, Cuba is a fantastic vacation for anyone. Luckily, my wife, two friends and I had the chance last year.
To see Cuba, you have to talk to the Cubans. Our friends met us at the airport even at 1:00 a.m. which started our trip on a positive note. After ... | middle6847.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "the people whose surnames are ordinary."
},
"options": [
"the people whose looks is ordinary.",
"the people whose families are ordinary.",
"the people whose surnames are ordinary.",
"the people whose name are ordinary."... | Most Chinese people share a few common surnames, like Zhang, Wang, Li, Liu and Chen. The Chinese expression for "ordinary people" literally means "the old one hundred surnames".
But Cheng Yinglian, a retired worker living in Changsha, the capital of Hunan, said his interest in rare surnames was piqued after reading a n... | middle3917.txt |
[
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "All people"
},
"options": [
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"Police officers",
"All people",
"Students and teachers"
],
"question": "_ in the world use sign language.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answe... | There is one language, and people, young and old , men and women, use it very often, in every country in the world. It is everyone's second language . You can't hear it, but it is very easy to understand . It is sign ( )language.
When you wave to a friend in the street, you are using sign language. When you put up your... | middle1866.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "this was Ann's first trip to Spain"
},
"options": [
"this was Ann's first trip to Spain",
"Ann was so hungry",
"Ann couldn't find her Spanish money",
"Ann wasn't well"
],
"question": "Why was Ann very excited? B... | Last summer was Ann's first trip to Spain . She was very excited. But when she arrived at the hotel, she found that her Spanish money wasn't in her handbag. She looked for it carefully in all her bags, but she couldn't find it. She had only a ten-pound note with her. She found a place to change her English money. On he... | middle1872.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "A knight"
},
"options": [
"A king",
"A knight",
"A knitter",
"A writer"
],
"question": "What does Nick do?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answ... | Nick is a knight . But he doesn't like to ride and he doesn't like to fight. Nick likes to read and write, and he likes to knit .
One night, there was a knock at the door. "I need you to fight a dragon !" cried King Kareen.
"But I'm the wrong kind of knight!" said Nick. "I don't like to fight."
"Never mind! Hurry up!" ... | middle458.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "The crow."
},
"options": [
"The swan.",
"The crow.",
"Both the swan and the crow.",
"He didn't know."
],
"question": "Who has better skills according to the crow ?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},... | A group of swans flew down to a beach where a crow was jumping around . The crow watched them with disdain .
"You have no flying skills at all ! " he said to the swans. " All you can do is to move your wings. Can you turn over in the air ? No , that's beyond you. Let's have a flying compitition. I'll show you what... | middle3903.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "it was quite early and he could find a seat there."
},
"options": [
"Mike asked him to have a cup of tea.",
"it was quite early and he could find a seat there.",
"he didn't like to stay with the schoolgirls.",
"he wante... | Tom arrived at the bus station quite early for Paris bus. The bus for Paris would not leave until five to twelve. He saw a lot of people waiting in the station. Some were standing in line , others were walking around. There was a group of schoolgirls. Their teacher was trying to keep them in line. Tom looked around but... | middle3902.txt |
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"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "He saw his huge shadow."
},
"options": [
"He grew very quickly.",
"He beat the other animals in the forest.",
"He saw his huge shadow.",
"He didn't need to be afraid of the lion any more."
],
"question": ". Why ... | When it was getting dark, a wolf was walking along the road. Then he was surprised to see his huge shadow under his feet.
"Wow, I didn't know I was so big!" The wolf was happy to know it.
As time went by, the sun was going down and his shadow grew bigger and bigger, so it looked like a giant.
"Oh, look at my shadow. I... | middle459.txt |
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{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "troubled"
},
"options": [
"naughty",
"good",
"sick",
"troubled"
],
"question": "Teddy is a _ student when Mrs. Thompson first taught him.",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | Mrs. Thompson stood in front of her 5th grade class on the first day of school. She found a boy sleeping in his seat. He was Teddy. Also Thompson noticed the boy didn't play well with the other children. It got to the point "F" at the top of his papers. Mrs. Thompson reviewed each child's past records. However, when sh... | middle3916.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "plays the violin"
},
"options": [
"plays the violin",
"plays baseball",
"has a shower",
"brushes teeth"
],
"question": "After breakfast, Mike often _",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answe... | My uncle Mike is a music teacher. He never gets up very _ He usually gets up at five o'clock in the morning. After he brushes his teeth, he often plays baseball with my aunt.
Then he eats his breakfast. After that, he often plays the violin. At about 7:50, he takes the Number 6 bus to his school.
He has no classes on T... | middle4937.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "Zheng Haiyang is a student of Beichuan Middle School."
},
"options": [
"Nearly 1,000 schools have been built.",
"Dong Xinjun makes about 3,000 yuan every year.",
"Zhu Lihu's new school has a new large gym.",
"Zheng Haiy... | Do you still remember the terrible earthquake in 2008 in Sichuan, which killed at least 87,000 people and left millions homeless? On the twelfth day after the earthquake, Premier Wen Jiabao said, "A new Wenchuan will rise from the ruins ." Now his words have come true. Three years has passed and the worst-hit areas in ... | middle303.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "got serious heart disease"
},
"options": [
"lost his job",
"got serious heart disease",
"decided to be a volunteer at a Children's Hospital.",
"was busy helping others"
],
"question": "Stephen couldn't work for ... | Stephen used to work in a company. Unfortunately , he got serious heart disease . He couldn't work for a long time. Thinking he could still do something for others, he decided to be a volunteer at a Children's Hospital. Stephen loved children very much. With his love, he did his job well. Sometimes he lost his childre... | middle1697.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "mow the lawn"
},
"options": [
"read books",
"travel",
"mow the lawn",
"watch TV"
],
"question": "In order to do something different.Jessie decided to _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"... | Jessie felt her life so boring one summer day.She was tired of watching TV.She read all her books,and her friends were on vacation.She wanted something different to do.Suddenly,she saw the lawn mower sitting in the yard.
"Mom,"she shouted,"I think I will mow the lawn."Her mom ran into the yard and said,"Oh no,you don't... | middle6846.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "helpful"
},
"options": [
"shy",
"dangerous",
"helpful",
"endangered"
],
"question": "According to the passage,bats in the United States are _",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
... | Bats are unusual animals. Even though they fly, they are not birds.Bats are the only mammals that fly. A mammal is an animal that has hair and feeds its babies with its own milk.Mother bats have babies each spring. Baby bats hang onto their mothers until they learn to fly by themselves.
Bats can be many different color... | middle7580.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "$29"
},
"options": [
"$25",
"$27",
"$28",
"$29"
],
"question": "If Fred needs three photos,he must spend _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"an... | Fred went into a _ ."I would like a photo,please,"he said."How much is it?"
"$25 for the first one,"the man said."Then $2 for others".
"OK,"Fred said."Can you take my photo now?"
"Yes,come this way,please."
The man took Fred into a room and asked him to sit down.Then he turned on some bright lights and took his photo."... | middle5397.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "No. 7 Middle School"
},
"options": [
"PEP Middle School",
"Shanghai",
"No. 7 Middle School",
"a shop"
],
"question": "Jenny Smith is a student in _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{
"ans... | Hi! My name is Jenny. I am a student in No.7 Middle School in Hangzhou. And I have a friend, Bob at school. Do you want to know my family? Here is a photo of my family. These are my grandparents. They live in Shanghai now. This is my father. His name is Bill Smith. He is a teacher in PEP Middle School. His phone number... | middle4089.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "0.5 second's work"
},
"options": [
"6 hours' work",
"15 minutes' work",
"8 seconds' work",
"0.5 second's work"
],
"question": "Today, providing one hour's light costs _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questio... | "The world has never been a better place to live in" says science writer Matt Ridley, "and it will keep on getting better." Read on to see how Ridley makes his case. Right or wrong? You decide.
Compared with 50 years ago, when I was just four years old, people now make nearly three times as much money, eat one third mo... | middle5383.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "they were old classmates"
},
"options": [
"they were old classmates",
"they lived in different villages",
"Peter was a rich man",
"Robert once helped Peter"
],
"question": "Peter believe Robert because _ .",
... | Several years ago Robert knew a girl at a party. He loved her at once. But he hadn't enough money to marry her. He went to another village and wanted to borrow five thousand dollars from Peter, one of his classmates. He said he was going to return the money in two years.
Peter Black believed him and lent the money to h... | middle6852.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 1,
"answer_text": "He was badly hurt and hungry."
},
"options": [
"He fell ill.",
"He was badly hurt and hungry.",
"He lost his way.",
"He failed in his business."
],
"question": "What was wrong with Greg when he got to the villag... | Have you ever wanted to achieve something really amazing in life? Well, Greg Mortenson wanted to climb a mountain, but he ended up helping thousands of people to have a better life.
Greg's story began with failure. In 1993, he set out to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain. But Greg never made it to the top. ... | middle7594.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "She dealt with emergencies ."
},
"options": [
"She answered the telephone calls.",
"She talked with the policemen and the doctors.",
"She played with the children.",
"She dealt with emergencies ."
],
"question":... | Mary was a 911 operator in Los Angeles. One Thursday morning, she was surprised to get a call from a young child who said, "Mom is ill, Mom is ill", again and again. Mary hurried to find the address of the call. She called the police. In a minute, the policemen and doctors arrived at the house. They broke the door ope... | middle471.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 3,
"answer_text": "6"
},
"options": [
"2",
"4",
"5",
"6"
],
"question": "How many grades are there in the school?",
"question_type": "factiod_questions"
},
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 2,
"answer_text": "S... | As a volunteer teacher, I traveled a long way to a small village school in Longzhou, Guangxi. On my way there, I thought about the village, the school and the childrenn there. However, my heart sank when I arrived there. It wasn't what I expected. It didn't look like a school at all! The school had only three rooms, o... | middle1683.txt |
[
{
"answer": {
"answer_index": 0,
"answer_text": "is a bus driver"
},
"options": [
"is a bus driver",
"has a school for dogs",
"keeps a dog in his house",
"teaches children at school"
],
"question": "Jack _ .",
"question_type": "cloze_questions"
},
{... | Jack drives a school bus.His bus is different from other school buses because it doesn't carry children.Jack's bus takes dogs to school in the morning and brings them home at night.Jack takes the dogs to "The Dog School".There four men teach the dogs to obey and protect their owners.All kinds of dogs go to the school--... | middle317.txt |
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