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Difficulty Rating |
| 2 |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move in quite another dir... |
295 |
2 |
0.9339 |
| 12 |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides, attacking that batt... |
143 |
2 |
1.0133 |
| 102 |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, a... |
288 |
1 |
1.1252 |
| 173 |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was fallin... |
258 |
1 |
1.0762 |
| 182 |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I ... |
266 |
1 |
1.0414 |
| 205 |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show i... |
247 |
1 |
1.2491 |
| 211 |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thou... |
283 |
1 |
1.0317 |
| 234 |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well. Th... |
318 |
1 |
1.0232 |
| 245 |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears directly on paper. When ... |
209 |
1 |
0.9303 |
| 246 |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. Bad posture is the r... |
212 |
1 |
0.9694 |
| 247 |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons and semicolons alway... |
274 |
1 |
0.9945 |
| 265 |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretch your arms above yo... |
183 |
1 |
0.9885 |
| 316 |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the audience's patience ... |
249 |
2 |
0.9461 |
| 335 |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ult... |
270 |
2 |
0.9856 |
| 368 |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A word like "fire" is ... |
262 |
1 |
0.9976 |
| 406 |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend interrelationships of... |
318 |
1 |
0.7570 |
| 425 |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilibrates with the high-... |
440 |
1 |
1.1235 |
| 428 |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be expected to have a r... |
200 |
1 |
0.9425 |
| 429 |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, is the obvious source... |
217 |
3 |
0.9283 |
| 460 |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state and ultimately an emp... |
260 |
2 |
0.9451 |
| 461 |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerabilities that the Spa... |
219 |
1 |
0.7985 |
| 462 |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over the surrounding peop... |
376 |
1 |
0.8089 |
| 535 |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is because of you. What other... |
253 |
1 |
0.9912 |
| 606 |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican, and only two Thai r... |
154 |
1 |
0.6888 |
| 622 |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns ou... |
273 |
1 |
0.9840 |
| 624 |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I... |
178 |
1 |
1.0059 |
| 625 |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and ... |
473 |
1 |
1.0436 |
| 632 |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremarkable things: What i... |
407 |
1 |
0.9907 |
| 633 |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry... |
162 |
1 |
1.0864 |
| 1950001 |
The girl's eyes were soft and tender and the heart within her stretched a little... |
244 |
1 |
1.0733 |
| 1950002 |
It's just one little seam after another and you never seem to be getting anywher... |
206 |
1 |
1.0545 |
| 1950010 |
It's important! It explains human beings. We're all different and we're all the ... |
198 |
1 |
1.0818 |
| 1950011 |
Meg opened the kitchen door, and there was the familiar odor of fresh bread, app... |
165 |
1 |
1.0559 |
| 1950012 |
Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could unders... |
178 |
2 |
0.9852 |
| 1950017 |
The Porpoise language has 237 words that mean "happy," and Molly had actually ch... |
286 |
1 |
1.0550 |
| 1950018 |
"Intelligence, for one thing. It's not so much that you become smarter, as that ... |
215 |
1 |
1.0068 |
| 1950019 |
There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edg... |
143 |
2 |
1.0809 |
| 1950021 |
Mr. Zuckerman took fine care of Wilbur all the rest of his days, and the pig was... |
194 |
2 |
1.0033 |
| 1950022 |
"I was a whole lot frightened," said honest Walter. "But I'm not going to be fri... |
167 |
2 |
0.8442 |
| 1950023 |
There were no napkins. It was all right, then, to lick the maple syrup from your... |
238 |
3 |
0.9994 |
| 1950027 |
True, she had not enjoyed listening to Peggy ask Wanda how many dresses she had ... |
221 |
4 |
0.9183 |
| 1950031 |
"Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that ... |
271 |
1 |
1.0104 |
| 1960000 |
If a thing is right, it can be done, and if a thing is wrong, it can be done wit... |
117 |
1 |
1.0145 |
| 1960002 |
The King does not consider that there is anyone else in the world with feelings,... |
199 |
1 |
1.0600 |
| 1960005 |
Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite ... |
267 |
1 |
1.0972 |
| 1960006 |
Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail, who were good little bunnies, went down the lane... |
210 |
1 |
0.8684 |
| 1960009 |
And suppose that you lived in that forest in France, where the average young per... |
250 |
1 |
0.9351 |
| 1960010 |
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the THINKS you can ... |
105 |
2 |
1.0270 |
| 1970001 |
Simply stated, although it's not really simple at all, my job is to transmit to ... |
140 |
1 |
1.0252 |
| 1970005 |
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wante... |
314 |
2 |
1.0770 |
| 1970007 |
No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call... |
153 |
1 |
0.9631 |
| 1970009 |
But when he looked out across the crowd, the sea of faces, the thing happened ag... |
269 |
2 |
1.1063 |
| 1970013 |
It was not a grasping of thin and burdensome recollection; this was different. T... |
145 |
1 |
1.1785 |
| 1970014 |
If he had stayed in the community, he would not be. It was as simple as that. On... |
214 |
1 |
0.8960 |
| 1970017 |
I will not play at tug o' war. I'd rather play at hug o' war, Where everyone hug... |
227 |
1 |
0.8542 |
| 1970028 |
I am Super Samson Simpson, I'm superlatively strong, I like to carry elephants, ... |
415 |
1 |
0.9157 |
| 1970029 |
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of... |
146 |
1 |
1.1849 |
| 1970032 |
Well, I reckon because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to e... |
209 |
1 |
1.0210 |
| 1970035 |
Let's go down to the courthouse and see the room that they locked Boo up in. My ... |
214 |
2 |
0.8648 |
| 1970040 |
Mr. Watras asked me whether I was practicing, and I told him I was practicing my... |
106 |
6 |
1.0128 |
| 1970045 |
Chronological means arranged in order of time in which the events took place. |
77 |
1 |
0.8837 |
| 1970054 |
A prefix is an added beginning to a word that changes its meaning. For example, ... |
130 |
1 |
0.7733 |
| 1970066 |
To edit is to check the grammar, spelling, and punctuation of a piece of writing. |
81 |
2 |
1.1422 |
| 1970072 |
A myth is a traditional story that attempts to explain such things as the origin... |
134 |
1 |
1.2740 |
| 1970077 |
To revise is to make changes in writing after proofreading and editing. |
71 |
2 |
0.9571 |
| 1970080 |
Transition includes the words or phrases that provide organization and connectio... |
129 |
1 |
1.1132 |
| 1970084 |
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in a poem. |
54 |
1 |
0.5820 |
| 1970090 |
Foreshadowing is a literary technique authors use to drop hints or clues to sugg... |
114 |
3 |
0.9757 |
| 1970091 |
An idiom is an over-used expression that means something other than its literal ... |
88 |
2 |
1.0824 |
| 1970100 |
To stereotype is to place unfair labels on people or groups of people and catego... |
138 |
1 |
0.7225 |
| 1970101 |
Symbolism is a person, place, object or action that stands for something other t... |
91 |
1 |
0.9963 |
| 1970107 |
Diameter is a line segment that passes through the center of a circle and divide... |
93 |
2 |
1.1656 |
| 1970108 |
Equivalent fractions are fractions that describe the same portion of a whole, or... |
102 |
1 |
1.0361 |
| 1970113 |
Mean is the quotient obtained when the sum of the numbers in a set is divided by... |
113 |
2 |
0.8750 |
| 1970120 |
Perpendicular is the word for two lines or planes that intersect to form a right... |
87 |
2 |
1.1176 |
| 1970122 |
A polygon is a simple, closed plane figure, having three or more line segments a... |
88 |
2 |
1.0498 |
| 1970128 |
An algebraic expression is a term or collection of terms separated by addition o... |
100 |
1 |
1.1320 |
| 1970144 |
Scientific notation is a method used to express a number written as a product of... |
153 |
1 |
1.2512 |
| 1970147 |
Unit rate is the term used when one of two quantities is given in terms of one u... |
84 |
2 |
1.0347 |
| 1970149 |
Volume refers to the number of cubic units of space that an object takes up. |
76 |
1 |
0.7529 |
| 1970152 |
Coefficient refers to the numerical factor of an algebraic term. For example, in... |
122 |
3 |
0.8012 |
| 1970175 |
Geologic time scale refers to the timeline of the geologic history of the Earth ... |
113 |
1 |
1.2684 |
| 1970183 |
Rotation refers to the Earth spinning on its axis. |
50 |
1 |
1.2413 |
| 1970201 |
Natural selection is the process by which individuals that are better adapted to... |
179 |
1 |
1.0774 |
| 1970202 |
Organ systems refers to a group of organs that work together to perform a major ... |
101 |
4 |
0.9207 |
| 1970208 |
The word species refers to a group of similar organisms that can mate with each ... |
116 |
1 |
1.0551 |
| 1970209 |
Acceleration is the act of speeding up, slowing down or changing direction in a ... |
94 |
1 |
1.0005 |
| 1970215 |
Density refers to how tightly or loosely particles are packed together in a give... |
91 |
2 |
0.9879 |
| 1970216 |
An element is a substance made up of only one kind of atom that cannot be broken... |
98 |
1 |
0.9858 |
| 1970226 |
Physical change refers to a change in a substance that only changes its physical... |
199 |
1 |
0.8473 |
| 1970227 |
Potential energy is stored energy in an object because of its position or locati... |
83 |
1 |
0.8671 |
| 1970241 |
To domesticate is to keep in the home or to control; to tame. |
61 |
3 |
0.9930 |
| 1970243 |
In Social Studies, the term "Human Characteristics" refer to man-made features o... |
141 |
1 |
0.8366 |
| 1970259 |
Currency refers to the bills and coins used as money in a particular country. |
77 |
2 |
1.3212 |
| 1970260 |
Democracy is a form of government in which citizens choose the leaders of the na... |
104 |
2 |
0.7199 |
| 1970262 |
An Empire is a group of territories, people, or nations ruled by a single author... |
84 |
1 |
0.9441 |
| 1970271 |
A Settlement is the settling of persons in a new country or place, a colony, esp... |
108 |
1 |
1.1006 |
| 1970280 |
Feudalism refers to a political system based on bonds of loyalty between lords a... |
91 |
3 |
1.0239 |
| 1970286 |
Monotheism is the belief in only one god. |
41 |
1 |
0.7708 |
| 1970288 |
Nomads are people who travel from place to place and do not have a permanent home. |
82 |
2 |
1.1463 |
| 1970299 |
Jem said he would escort me to the school auditorium. Thus began our longest jou... |
94 |
1 |
0.9411 |
| 1970302 |
In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where... |
175 |
1 |
1.0114 |
| 1970305 |
The Community lives only in the present, and the people have a narrow perspectiv... |
217 |
2 |
0.8899 |
| 1970306 |
The Community lives only in the present, and the people have a narrow perspectiv... |
217 |
2 |
0.8204 |
| 1970307 |
Whenever the Committee of Elders are faced with a new situation, they are able t... |
126 |
1 |
0.8446 |
| 1970309 |
The current Receiver, who has held the position for decades, then becomes the Gi... |
84 |
2 |
0.9368 |
| 1970311 |
While receiving the memories, Jonas learns a different and better way to live an... |
236 |
1 |
1.0648 |
| 1970312 |
As the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey bask in the glorious Summer of the Late Rose... |
141 |
2 |
0.9478 |
| 1970322 |
So it was writen, and so it has been through all the ages of mousekind since. |
77 |
3 |
1.0813 |
| 1970332 |
The morning light shone through its ears, turning them pink. |
60 |
1 |
0.9432 |
| 1970334 |
Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky c... |
111 |
2 |
0.9791 |
| 1970335 |
He wins the trip of a lifetime - a magical tour around Mr. Wonka's mysterious ch... |
96 |
1 |
0.8602 |
| 1970338 |
And in this way, Charlie would make his ten-cent bar of chocolate last him for m... |
97 |
1 |
0.9812 |
| 1970352 |
Some slight gesture that meant nothing to her had apparently meant something to ... |
89 |
1 |
1.3887 |
| 1970353 |
Lying on her stomach, she looked across a vast lawn of grass and moss and focuse... |
143 |
2 |
1.1206 |
| 1970360 |
The only reason I agreed to do this at all is because I figure later on when I'm... |
179 |
2 |
1.0231 |
| 1970362 |
Like I said, I'll be famous one day, but right now I'm stuck in middle school wi... |
101 |
2 |
1.0048 |
| 1970364 |
You got kids like me who haven't hit their growth spurt yet mixed in with gorill... |
113 |
1 |
0.5833 |
| 1970369 |
I will not play at tug o' war. I'd rather play at hug o' war, where everyone hug... |
227 |
2 |
0.9336 |
| 1970375 |
The first crewed US space missions were named for Apollo, the god of archery and... |
90 |
1 |
1.0991 |
| 1970394 |
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. |
45 |
2 |
0.9949 |
| 1970396 |
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred ... |
88 |
1 |
0.8868 |
| 1970397 |
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good. |
66 |
1 |
1.2813 |
| 1970402 |
ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, "Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!" |
72 |
1 |
0.9781 |
| 1970412 |
And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, al... |
102 |
1 |
1.1254 |
| 1970425 |
And what would you do if you met a jibboo? |
42 |
1 |
1.1755 |
| 1970429 |
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, it is not going to get better. ... |
95 |
1 |
1.0280 |
| 1970435 |
You are in pretty good shape for the shape you are in. |
54 |
1 |
1.0036 |
| 1970436 |
I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too... |
101 |
2 |
0.8904 |
| 1970456 |
All of the world is a stage, and all the men and women in it are merely players.... |
185 |
1 |
0.9997 |
| 1970458 |
You are not only good to yourself, but the cause of goodness in others. Socrates |
80 |
3 |
0.9544 |
| 1970470 |
Consider the postage stamp. Its usefulness consists of its ability to stick with... |
111 |
2 |
1.0552 |
| 1970478 |
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep. |
68 |
2 |
1.0362 |
| 1970484 |
The four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are named after famous artists - Leonardo,... |
117 |
1 |
0.4847 |
| 1970505 |
The original name for butterfly was the flutterby. |
50 |
1 |
0.9499 |
| 1970508 |
Butterflies taste with their hind feet. |
39 |
1 |
1.4223 |
| 1970515 |
It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as ten thousand ins... |
111 |
1 |
1.3014 |
| 1970519 |
A newly hatched crocodile is three times as large as the egg from which it hatch... |
83 |
1 |
0.7076 |
| 1970529 |
Bats are voracious insect eaters, devouring as many as six hundred bugs per hour... |
111 |
1 |
1.0285 |
| 1970531 |
The woolly mammoth, extinct since the Ice Age, had tusks almost sixteen feet long. |
82 |
1 |
0.7643 |
| 1970533 |
In eighteenth century France, visitors to the royal palace in Versailles were al... |
175 |
2 |
1.0710 |
| 1970541 |
Just as no two snowflakes look alike, it is said that no two cornflakes look ali... |
83 |
6 |
1.1560 |
| 1970547 |
Since the LEGO Group began manufacturing LEGO blocks in 1949, more than 189 bill... |
136 |
2 |
0.8124 |
| 1970548 |
The full name of Barbie the doll is Barbara Millicent Roberts. By the way, there... |
162 |
2 |
1.0769 |
| 1970550 |
The yo-yo originated in the Phillipines, where it was used as a weapon in hunting. |
82 |
1 |
1.0608 |
| 1970555 |
During the Middle Ages, few people were able to read or write. The clergy were v... |
113 |
1 |
1.1000 |
| 1970565 |
The cerebellum is located at the back of your brain behind the brain stem. One o... |
175 |
2 |
1.1057 |
| 1970566 |
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wante... |
123 |
1 |
0.9965 |
| 1970568 |
Learning to survive, to plan on food not just for a day but until and if he is r... |
189 |
2 |
0.9545 |
| 1970570 |
It is amazing what a single owl can do to a local population of ruffled grouse a... |
110 |
2 |
0.8596 |
| 1970573 |
His voice was starting to rattle and he felt as if he might start screaming at a... |
90 |
3 |
0.9858 |
| 1970577 |
Using the sun and the fact that it rose in the east and set in the west, he deci... |
137 |
2 |
1.0985 |
| 1970580 |
Brian tried several times to tell his father, came really close once to doing it... |
157 |
1 |
1.0500 |
| 1970582 |
A flash of metal caught his eye and he saw his hatchet in the sand where he had ... |
119 |
1 |
0.9808 |
| 1970585 |
But events - events were burned into his memory and so he used them to remember ... |
154 |
1 |
0.9024 |
| 1970589 |
He could visualize more easily his mother doing things than his father because h... |
127 |
2 |
1.2470 |
| 1970590 |
She would have the small television on the kitchen counter on and be watching th... |
184 |
1 |
1.1120 |
| 1970592 |
There were many questions on his mind about what he had seen and known, and he w... |
189 |
1 |
1.2309 |
| 1970600 |
I stared without breathing across the long room, into the dark eyes of the hunte... |
119 |
2 |
0.9569 |
| 1970604 |
The only thing that was out of place was the troll's leg umbrella stand, which w... |
144 |
2 |
1.1460 |
| 1970606 |
After the usual brief spell of darkness and near suffocation, Harry found himsel... |
167 |
3 |
1.0702 |
| 1970607 |
Together they carried the little witch into the dark passageway that led backsta... |
83 |
1 |
1.4929 |
| 1970609 |
The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teen... |
144 |
1 |
0.9142 |
| 1970613 |
Then Hermione walked forward and took her place between the other two. Harry pul... |
186 |
5 |
1.1270 |
| 1970615 |
He had traveled to that far-flung forest and retrieved the diadem from its hidin... |
175 |
1 |
0.9682 |
| 1970616 |
And wouldn't those secluded Albanian woods have seemed an excellent refuge when,... |
169 |
2 |
0.7231 |
| 1970620 |
His tone was light, but his blue eyes pierced Snape as they had frequently pierc... |
143 |
1 |
0.9317 |
| 1970621 |
They heard uproar from the distant boundary of the school as what sounded like h... |
194 |
1 |
1.1037 |
| 1970622 |
Harry saw great winged creatures soaring around the heads of Voldemort's giants,... |
286 |
1 |
0.8827 |
| 1970661 |
I know you're trying to be all mystical and Kung Fu-ey, but could you tell me wh... |
96 |
1 |
0.8646 |
| 1970662 |
This is where Oogway unraveled the mysteries of harmony and focus. This is the b... |
102 |
1 |
1.1134 |
| 1970675 |
But looking back now I feel like our lives changed because they had to, and that... |
237 |
2 |
1.1736 |
| 1970678 |
You know, I don't even know if you could call it a pizza. It was more like the e... |
132 |
1 |
1.3134 |
| 1970681 |
I remember thinking that maybe there won't be any more bad spells. Maybe she'll ... |
112 |
1 |
0.8691 |
| 1970683 |
You can pretend that you don't understand me, but I know you do. |
64 |
1 |
0.7961 |
| 1970685 |
You don't have to use this in your movie or anything, although now that I think ... |
144 |
2 |
0.8801 |
| 1970692 |
In this life, family is the most precious gift we are given, the most sacred. Tu... |
141 |
3 |
1.0266 |
| 1970726 |
Taking a piece of thread from his pocket, he lashed the paddles to the thwarts, ... |
188 |
1 |
0.9214 |
| 1970731 |
And don't forget - a person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast. |
82 |
1 |
1.1200 |
| 1970732 |
Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that l... |
100 |
1 |
1.1999 |
| 1970734 |
It was Leslie who had taken him from the cow pasture into Terabithia and turned ... |
96 |
1 |
1.1320 |
| 1970744 |
She brought you something special when she came here, didn't she? That's what yo... |
123 |
1 |
0.8535 |
| 1970745 |
She brought you something special when she came here, didn't she? |
65 |
2 |
0.8384 |
| 1970747 |
I check my air. I don't have as much time as I need to see everything, but that ... |
108 |
3 |
1.0935 |
| 1970748 |
My dad says that TV destroys brain cells. |
41 |
1 |
0.9140 |
| 1970755 |
Mel Blanc, who was the voice of Bugs Bunny in the cartoons, was allergic to carr... |
84 |
2 |
0.9758 |
| 1970763 |
Luke Skywalker's last name was changed at the last minute from Skykiller to make... |
97 |
2 |
0.9363 |
| 1970767 |
The name for Oz in The Wizard of Oz was thought up when the author looked at his... |
126 |
1 |
0.7233 |
| 1970770 |
People in Iceland read more books per capita than any other people in the world. |
80 |
1 |
1.0165 |
| 1970782 |
Statistically you are more likely to be attacked by a cow than a shark. |
71 |
2 |
1.1632 |
| 1970800 |
During the eighteenth century, books that were considered offensive were sometim... |
91 |
2 |
1.0783 |
| 1970802 |
In Boston, MA in the nineteenth century, it was illegal to bathe without a docto... |
97 |
2 |
0.8673 |
| 1970810 |
The word 'news' is actually an acronym for the four points of the compass (north... |
104 |
1 |
0.9300 |
| 1970814 |
Natural gas has no smell. The smell is added for safety reasons. |
64 |
1 |
1.0978 |
| 1970820 |
Jeffrey had the two worst black eyes I'd ever seen, and his nose was swollen to ... |
108 |
2 |
0.9543 |
| 1970823 |
When he first arrived in Philly, the doctors had run a huge battery of tests to ... |
205 |
1 |
0.9922 |
| 1970828 |
Some seemed healthier than Jeffrey, and others were in such bad shape that they ... |
119 |
1 |
1.2360 |
| 1970829 |
He deserves to have his father see what an amazing musician he is. He's also an ... |
120 |
2 |
1.1896 |
| 1970839 |
There was little industry in the colonial days in America, so manufactured goods... |
146 |
1 |
1.0225 |
| 1970840 |
In the early days in America, the colonials were proud to be British subjects, a... |
146 |
1 |
1.1641 |
| 1970849 |
Several years of labor, debate, and negotiations were required before a US Const... |
224 |
2 |
0.9407 |
| 1970854 |
Conditions in hospitals during the American Revolution were quite primitive: sur... |
185 |
3 |
0.9822 |
| 1970855 |
Many soldiers in the American Revolution died from minor wounds that became infe... |
102 |
2 |
1.2295 |
| 1970856 |
After leading the Patriots in battle against the British, George Washington serv... |
127 |
2 |
0.9961 |
| 1970858 |
When a driver hits the brakes on an electric car it recharges the battery. |
74 |
1 |
0.8950 |
| 1970860 |
Engineers and designers are now working on airplanes that will hold one thousand... |
92 |
2 |
1.1731 |
| 1970863 |
The most difficult part of flying a plane is the take-off and landing procedures. |
81 |
6 |
1.1529 |
| 1970871 |
Maglev tracks, or guideways, are lined with magnetized coils. These coils repel ... |
132 |
3 |
0.8329 |
| 1970873 |
In the past century, the ways we travel have changed at lightning pace - from ho... |
113 |
4 |
1.0662 |
| 1970874 |
In the 20th century, the car and airplane dramatically reduced the time it took ... |
162 |
2 |
0.9763 |
| 1970877 |
With a fully automated street system, drivers with "smart" cars could relax whil... |
144 |
1 |
0.9757 |
| 1970880 |
A new version of the old electric and steam-powered automobiles was invented in ... |
120 |
1 |
0.5808 |
| 1970881 |
In 1908, Henry Ford introduced manufacturing cars with mass production methods. ... |
196 |
2 |
0.8380 |
| 1970888 |
A star is a hot ball of gas, which produces heat and light from nuclear reaction... |
98 |
1 |
1.2320 |
| 1970892 |
The closest star to Earth is the Sun. It is about 94 million miles away. |
72 |
3 |
0.7764 |
| 1970896 |
The planets closest to the Sun, called the inner planets, are small, rocky and c... |
129 |
3 |
0.9292 |
| 1970897 |
Asteroids are large chunks of rock, or rock and metal. They also orbit the Sun. |
79 |
2 |
0.6803 |
| 1970898 |
Many planets have moons in orbit around them, in the same way that our Moon orbi... |
93 |
1 |
1.2178 |
| 1970902 |
Our Sun could hold more than a million planets the size of the Earth, but compar... |
162 |
1 |
0.9662 |
| 1970903 |
Sunspots are small, dark patches on the surface of the Sun that are slightly coo... |
108 |
1 |
1.1626 |
| 1970904 |
The sun blows a constant stream of invisible particles out into space, in all di... |
120 |
2 |
0.7285 |
| 1970907 |
A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, blot... |
124 |
1 |
1.2119 |
| 1970915 |
It takes the same time for the Moon to spin around once as it does for it to orb... |
89 |
1 |
1.5329 |
| 1970917 |
On Earth, the atmosphere acts like a roof. It stops the Sun from making things t... |
147 |
4 |
1.0864 |
| 1970934 |
In the northern hemisphere, the best time to see the Milky Way is between the mo... |
107 |
2 |
0.9439 |
| 1970941 |
Boston, MA is strategically located within a major north-south bird migration pa... |
112 |
1 |
0.6755 |
| 1970943 |
Common Loons dive deep and can actually swim underwater while try to catch a fish. |
82 |
1 |
0.6502 |
| 1970945 |
Gannets will soar over 100 feet above the ocean surface, then fold their wings b... |
136 |
3 |
1.0509 |
| 1970948 |
Virginia Rails prefer to build their raised nests in dense vegetation. They ofte... |
125 |
2 |
0.8025 |
| 1970951 |
Mallard ducks are the most common duck in the Northern Hemisphere. |
66 |
2 |
1.0225 |
| 1970959 |
Groups of tiny Sandpipers can be seen racing up and down beaches and mudflats se... |
97 |
1 |
1.0657 |
| 1970970 |
Unfortunately, the influx of Starlings has helped reduce the population of many ... |
100 |
2 |
1.0791 |
| 1970975 |
Once you learn how to identify a Cardinal, you'll recognize the male by it's bri... |
97 |
1 |
1.0842 |
| 1970978 |
Thomas Edison once said, "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine perc... |
98 |
2 |
0.8191 |
| 1970983 |
Tension and compression are opposite forces that are at work in the construction... |
105 |
1 |
1.2529 |
| 1970988 |
Generally there are two kinds of energy in mechanical systems: potential energy ... |
99 |
3 |
0.9690 |
| 1970989 |
Potential energy is due to the position of the object and kinetic energy is due ... |
96 |
1 |
0.9201 |
| 1971001 |
He couldn't bear to see their faces darkened with shame. Jonas bowed his head an... |
132 |
1 |
0.9222 |
| 1971002 |
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wante... |
181 |
2 |
0.8727 |
| 1971008 |
He put out his tongue again, and caught one of the dots of cold upon it. It disa... |
183 |
1 |
0.8544 |
| 1971014 |
There could be colors. And grandparents. And everybody would have memories. You ... |
100 |
2 |
1.0249 |
| 1971016 |
There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire-- He likes it 'cause it's cold in there. |
79 |
1 |
0.8111 |
| 1971020 |
A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, ... |
97 |
3 |
0.9964 |
| 1971022 |
...a dash of pepper-- that ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting i... |
88 |
1 |
0.9081 |
| 1971028 |
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tack... |
168 |
2 |
0.8700 |
| 1971031 |
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid ... |
255 |
3 |
0.9085 |
| 1971032 |
And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul... |
162 |
2 |
1.0096 |
| 1971037 |
...since Esperanza was an only child and Papa's pride and glory, she was always ... |
96 |
1 |
1.0405 |
| 1971041 |
When she reached the vines, she separated the leaves and carefully grasped a thi... |
88 |
3 |
0.9772 |
| 1971043 |
The campesinos, the field workers, spread out over the land and began the task o... |
101 |
2 |
1.1072 |
| 1971046 |
She tried to find the place in her heart where her life was anchored, but she co... |
191 |
1 |
1.0521 |
| 1971054 |
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone. |
67 |
1 |
0.9325 |
| 1971073 |
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts all on a summer's day. |
63 |
1 |
0.8675 |
| 1971076 |
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merri... |
104 |
1 |
0.8399 |
| 1971079 |
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, they all beg... |
146 |
1 |
1.1300 |
| 1971084 |
Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight. |
50 |
1 |
0.9317 |
| 1971086 |
Teddy bear, Teddy bear, touch the ground. Teddy bear, Teddy bear, turn around. |
78 |
2 |
0.9858 |
| 1971093 |
This little piggy had roast beef and this little piggy had none. |
64 |
1 |
1.1485 |
| 1971097 |
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig, home again, home again, jiggety jig. |
76 |
2 |
0.7771 |
| 1971105 |
Snips and snails and puppy dog tails, that's what little boys are made of. |
74 |
2 |
1.2207 |
| 1971109 |
Along came a spider and sat down beside her and frightened Miss Muffet away. |
76 |
2 |
1.0160 |
| 1971110 |
Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. |
77 |
2 |
0.9104 |
| 1971120 |
That's the worst thing that can happen to you. You will die a slow and painful d... |
85 |
1 |
1.1984 |
| 1971126 |
If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will ... |
105 |
2 |
1.1179 |
| 1971141 |
Stanley could see some kids dressed in orange and carrying shovels dragging them... |
104 |
2 |
1.2263 |
| 1971144 |
Stanley had never been one to leave food on his plate, matter how it tasted. |
76 |
3 |
1.0792 |
| 1971145 |
They hadn't exactly fallen from the sky. He had just walked out from under a fre... |
128 |
1 |
0.9451 |
| 1971156 |
Still, it was easier for two boys to dig a six-foot hole than it was for one boy... |
105 |
2 |
1.0823 |
| 1971162 |
For the next twenty years Kissin' Kate Barlow was one of the most feared outlaws... |
97 |
1 |
0.8579 |
| 1971168 |
I shook my head, realizing now that Miss Crocker did not even know what I was ta... |
147 |
1 |
1.0349 |
| 1971178 |
I had a good mind to go back in and find out what what had made Mr. Barnett so m... |
83 |
3 |
0.9340 |
| 1971194 |
I cried for those things which had happened that night which meant things would ... |
98 |
1 |
0.9103 |
| 1971202 |
There wasn't a muscle in his body that didn't ache. |
51 |
1 |
1.2466 |
| 1971203 |
When he was in first grade, he told his dad that he wanted to be an artist when ... |
91 |
2 |
1.1992 |
| 1971208 |
She ran as if it was her nature. It reminded him of a flight of wild ducks in th... |
193 |
4 |
1.0109 |
| 1971214 |
Everyone had to write a paper about their favorite hobby. |
57 |
1 |
1.2592 |
| 1971215 |
Nobody would make up scuba diving to be their favorite hobby if it wasn't so. Th... |
124 |
2 |
1.0833 |
| 1971216 |
Nobody would make up scuba diving to be their favorite hobby if it wasn't so. |
77 |
1 |
1.1021 |
| 1971227 |
For the first time in his life he got up every morning with something to look fo... |
89 |
1 |
1.4175 |
| 1971228 |
Leslie's favorite place besides the castle stronghold was the pine forest. There... |
145 |
2 |
0.9910 |
| 1971231 |
There was no mistaking the delight in Leslie's eyes. She dropped to her knees on... |
149 |
3 |
1.0326 |
| 1971234 |
Something whirled around inside Jess's head. He opened his mouth, but it was dry... |
173 |
1 |
0.9879 |
| 1971284 |
Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear ... |
103 |
2 |
0.8366 |
| 1971297 |
Believe that you have it, and you have it. |
42 |
2 |
0.8635 |
| 1971313 |
Worst excuse for not turning in homework: I couldn't find anyone to copy it from. |
81 |
1 |
0.7264 |
| 1971335 |
Yesterday I told a chicken to cross the road. It said, "what for?" |
66 |
1 |
1.0543 |
| 1971336 |
I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes. |
77 |
1 |
1.0682 |
| 1971337 |
There aren't enough days in the weekend. |
40 |
2 |
0.8936 |
| 1971347 |
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. |
68 |
1 |
0.7766 |
| 1971377 |
The most widely eaten fruit in America is the banana. |
53 |
1 |
1.1865 |
| 1971379 |
More than a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii. |
53 |
1 |
1.0132 |
| 1971380 |
As much as fifty gallons of maple sap are used to make a single gallon of maple ... |
86 |
2 |
0.9082 |
| 1971382 |
Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures. |
68 |
2 |
0.7928 |
| 1971386 |
The amount of potato chips Americans eat each year weighs six times more than th... |
114 |
1 |
1.2323 |
| 1971393 |
The average lead pencil can draw a line thirty-five miles long or write approxim... |
115 |
2 |
0.8785 |
| 1971403 |
Crammed into cattle trains by Hungarian police, they wept bitterly. |
67 |
1 |
0.9337 |
| 1971424 |
The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die o... |
157 |
1 |
1.2574 |
| 1971429 |
The afternoon passed slowly. The wagon doors slid open. Two men were allowed to ... |
104 |
1 |
1.1140 |
| 1971431 |
The wagon doors slid open. |
26 |
3 |
1.1777 |
| 1971441 |
Fifteen seconds later he was out of the house and lying in front of a big yellow... |
129 |
3 |
1.0719 |
| 1971443 |
A cloud passed overhead. It cast a shadow over Arthur Dent as he lay propped up ... |
109 |
1 |
0.8865 |
| 1971447 |
A sudden silence hit the Earth. If anything it was worse than the noise. For a w... |
102 |
1 |
1.0349 |
| 1971452 |
The great ships hung motionless in the sky, over every nation on Earth. |
71 |
2 |
1.0589 |
| 1971453 |
Motionless they hung, huge, heavy, steady in the sky, a blasphemy against nature. |
81 |
1 |
1.0506 |
| 1971462 |
This above all appeared to Trillian to be genuinely stupid, but she could no lon... |
114 |
2 |
1.0430 |
| 1971465 |
Slaves under the last emperors of China wore pigtails so they could be picked ou... |
90 |
1 |
0.7406 |
| 1971469 |
When the Titanic sunk there were seventy-five hundred pounds of ham on it. |
74 |
1 |
0.9972 |
| 1971482 |
One hundred sixty cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, ... |
104 |
1 |
0.8485 |
| 1971493 |
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat to keep his head cool. He changed it... |
99 |
3 |
1.2511 |
| 1971495 |
The first formal rules for playing baseball required the winning team to score t... |
95 |
2 |
1.0842 |
| 1971496 |
Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound races. |
76 |
1 |
1.2018 |
| 1971498 |
It takes three thousand cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's ... |
100 |
2 |
0.9352 |
| 1971519 |
Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour. |
59 |
1 |
0.6957 |
| 1971533 |
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad... |
103 |
1 |
0.8582 |
| 1971534 |
A large, flawless emerald is worth more than a similarly large flawless diamond. |
80 |
3 |
0.9657 |
| 1971537 |
Bamboo is the world's tallest grass and can grow up to ninety centimeters in a d... |
83 |
1 |
1.0677 |
| 1971548 |
Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature. |
61 |
1 |
0.4980 |
| 1971549 |
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produc... |
142 |
1 |
0.8370 |
| 1971562 |
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is t... |
91 |
1 |
1.1808 |
| 1971569 |
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes more than twenty minu... |
92 |
1 |
1.0216 |
| 1971575 |
A baby caribou is so swift it can outrun its mother when it is only three days o... |
83 |
3 |
0.9579 |
| 1971577 |
A baby beaver stays with its parents for a period of two years. |
63 |
2 |
1.1602 |
| 1971582 |
To be called a mammal, the female must feed her young on milk she has produced. |
79 |
1 |
1.2206 |
| 1971588 |
The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instea... |
97 |
1 |
0.9348 |
| 1971607 |
Tuna need a continual flow of water across their gills to breathe, even while th... |
88 |
2 |
1.1217 |
| 1971611 |
Measuring about eight feet at birth, killer whale bulls can grow to twenty five ... |
115 |
2 |
1.0459 |
| 1971624 |
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump. |
48 |
3 |
1.0232 |
| 1971628 |
The giant flying foxes that live in Indonesia have wingspans of nearly six feet. |
80 |
1 |
0.9380 |
| 1971635 |
To keep from being separated while sleeping, sea otters tie themselves together ... |
90 |
2 |
1.0615 |
| 1971654 |
Dinosaurs lived on every continent and ranged in size from a small sparrow to a ... |
149 |
2 |
1.0195 |
| 1971663 |
Other creatures lived on Earth for more than 3 billion years before dinosaurs ev... |
86 |
1 |
0.9814 |
| 1971678 |
Dinosaurs survived more than 500 times longer than humans have been on the Earth. |
81 |
2 |
0.8720 |
| 1971685 |
Giganotosaurus was discovered in the Argentine desert by a garage mechanic ridin... |
139 |
1 |
1.0182 |
| 1971686 |
Everybody knows Tyrannosaurus rex, and it's the most popular of dinosaurs. It wa... |
142 |
1 |
0.9468 |
| 1971689 |
The brain of Tyrannosaurus rex was twice the size of other giant meat eaters. It... |
136 |
3 |
1.0568 |
| 1971696 |
Non-violence is the last article of my faith. Mahatama Gandhi |
61 |
1 |
0.5105 |
| 1971700 |
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline... |
162 |
1 |
1.0148 |
| 1971705 |
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slave... |
181 |
3 |
1.1729 |
| 1971707 |
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they wi... |
166 |
3 |
1.0237 |
| 1971713 |
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamle... |
119 |
2 |
1.0492 |
| 1971714 |
People will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritu... |
158 |
1 |
0.9248 |
| 1971719 |
The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled the cry is a... |
121 |
1 |
0.9242 |
| 1971723 |
In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perha... |
166 |
1 |
1.0834 |
| 1971732 |
Number one in your life's blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity... |
123 |
1 |
1.1055 |
| 1971754 |
Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you d... |
92 |
1 |
0.9577 |
| 1971755 |
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do... |
134 |
1 |
1.0906 |
| 1971760 |
Archaeopteryx is among the most famous of all fossils and is considered the clos... |
131 |
2 |
1.0494 |
| 1971764 |
Dinosaur planteaters evolved different teeth for their varied diets and habitats. |
81 |
2 |
0.9003 |
| 1971770 |
The smallest and oldest armored dinosaur known was the Scutellosaurus with more ... |
150 |
1 |
1.0699 |
| 1971776 |
Dracorex was name it after Draco Malfoy, the evil character in the Harry Potter ... |
86 |
2 |
0.9167 |
| 1971777 |
Iguanodon was the first dinosaur identified by a scientist more than 180 years a... |
83 |
3 |
0.8833 |
| 1971789 |
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. |
67 |
2 |
1.1261 |
| 1971796 |
Lord Shen: The only reason you are still alive is that I find your stupidity mil... |
157 |
4 |
0.9072 |
| 1971811 |
Remember Dragon Warrior, when you follow the noble path, anything is possible. |
78 |
1 |
1.1234 |
| 1971823 |
I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time. |
81 |
2 |
0.8907 |
| 1971824 |
Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it ... |
107 |
1 |
1.1006 |
| 1971828 |
Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles. |
55 |
1 |
0.9579 |
| 1971831 |
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a... |
94 |
2 |
1.0811 |
| 1971836 |
...that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government ... |
158 |
1 |
0.9948 |
| 1971839 |
The Constitution of the United States consists of the original, framed in 1787, ... |
122 |
1 |
0.9414 |
| 1971840 |
That every man may receive at least a moderate education, and thereby be enabled... |
249 |
1 |
0.9607 |
| 1971846 |
It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate ... |
176 |
3 |
0.9775 |
| 1971848 |
Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. |
79 |
1 |
0.7153 |
| 1971863 |
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which ... |
121 |
2 |
1.0291 |
| 1971867 |
But love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commi... |
176 |
1 |
0.9016 |
| 1971869 |
What a piece of work is a man. How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty in f... |
194 |
1 |
0.9810 |
| 1971873 |
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remove... |
106 |
2 |
0.9225 |
| 1971887 |
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. Sha... |
88 |
1 |
0.8109 |
| 1971900 |
We found snake skins. |
21 |
1 |
1.4760 |
| 1971902 |
But today I'm glad to know that something of mine was left behind in Marshfield. |
80 |
1 |
1.1368 |
| 1971904 |
I liked having the same name as my father, but it did cause confusion in the hou... |
83 |
2 |
1.2715 |
| 1971908 |
But it seemed wrong to take an outside kid like Jimmy and lock him inside for si... |
94 |
2 |
0.8357 |
| 1971910 |
They should have a different kind of school - for kids who like outdoor stuff. |
78 |
1 |
1.0265 |
| 1971913 |
The kitchen was the heart of our house, and the baby's playpen stood in the cent... |
98 |
3 |
1.2873 |
| 1971918 |
It was a perfect Marshfield morning, sunny and warm. The air had a salty tang th... |
164 |
1 |
1.2406 |
| 1971920 |
He pointed to three little kids trying to dig a wall to protect a sand castle. T... |
141 |
2 |
1.1154 |
| 1971923 |
When that arrow brushed past my ear it made a soft hissing sound, as if my ances... |
114 |
1 |
1.2838 |
| 1971925 |
But the most horrifying thing was when the headless chicken got up and started r... |
198 |
1 |
0.9730 |
| 1971929 |
We made our final trip to Rexhame Beach. Jimmy found a dead sand shark that had ... |
222 |
1 |
0.8874 |
| 1971936 |
Bits of light danced in the deep forest shadows around me. I knew I'd never forg... |
164 |
1 |
1.0202 |
| 1971942 |
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. Black fish, blue fish, old fish, new fi... |
83 |
2 |
0.8233 |
| 1971950 |
I know some good games we could play, said the cat. I know some new tricks, said... |
100 |
1 |
1.1254 |
| 1971954 |
The kids slumped in their chairs too glum to complain. |
54 |
1 |
1.0863 |
| 1971981 |
When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle with their paddles ... |
241 |
1 |
0.8949 |
| 1971990 |
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yoursel... |
108 |
1 |
1.1863 |
| 1971991 |
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.... |
90 |
2 |
1.0309 |
| 1971999 |
And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free -- as turtles and, maybe, ... |
104 |
1 |
0.9229 |