A couple of weeks ago, my 12-year-old daughter, Ella threatened to take my phone and break it. "At night you'll always have your phone out and break you'll just type," Ella says. "I'm ready to go to bed, and try to get you to read stories for me and you're just standing there reading your texts and texting other people," she adds. I came to realize that I was ignoring her as a father.

Ella isn't the only kid who feels this way about her parent's relationship with devices. Catherine Steiner-Adair, a psychologist at Harvard, wrote The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age. For her book, Steiner-Adair interviewed more than 1,000 kids from the ages of 4 to 18. She talked to hundreds of teachers and parents.

One of the many things that knocked my socks off, " she says, "was the consistency with which children -- whether they were 4 or 8 or 18 or 24-- talked about feeling exhausted and frustrated or mad trying to get their parents' attention, competing with computer screens or iPhone screens or any kind of technology."

A couple of years ago, my daughter got a laptop for school. And because she was becoming more independent, we got her a phone. We set up rules for when she could use the device and when she'd need to put it away. We created a charging station, outside her bedroom, where she had to plug in these devices every night. Basically -- except for homework-- she has to put it all away when she comes home.

Steiner-Adair says most adults don't set up similar limits in their own lives. "We've lost the boundaries that protect work and family life,'' she says. "So it is very hard to manage yourself and be present in the moments your children need you.''

After my daughter's little intervention ,I made myself a promise to create my own charging station. To plug my phone in-- somewhere faraway -- when I am done working for the day. I've been trying to leave it there untouched for most of the weekend

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. Who threatened to take a phone?
2. What age is she?
3. Who works at a college?
4. What did her child receive for school?
5. What else?
6. What did they make outside of her room?
7. She mentions a lot of grown ups don't make what in their lifetime?
8. What does she vow to not touch during a day?
9. What does she say her child CAN be active on her electronics?
10. Besides weekdays - when else does she vow to not touch it very often?

1. Ella.
2. 12.
3. Catherine Steiner-Adair.
4. A laptop.
5. A phone.
6. A charging station.
7. Limits.
8. Phone.
9. Homework.
10. Most of the weekend.


(CNN) -- The United States is deeply concerned about the well-being of Eman al-Obeidy, according to a State Department source, and worked closely with officials in Europe and Libya to get her safely out of the country. The same source said the U.S. is "prepared to provide whatever help and support Eman may need."

Al-Obeidy grabbed the world's attention this spring when she accused Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's security forces of gang-raping her.

She is now on the way to Malta with her father, according to another high-level U.S. State Department source. She will eventually head to a processing center in Europe before leaving for a final destination.

She has told CNN on repeated occasions that she wants to go to the United States.

One of the State Department sources told CNN that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "has been deeply interested in the case and has followed it throughout."

Al-Obeidy was in Qatar awaiting resettlement as a refugee when she was deported Thursday and sent back to Libya. She was reportedly beaten before being deported.

Najah Dawaji, a U.S.-based Libyan pro-freedom activist, said she was with three key members of Libya's Transitional National Council when they first learned that al-Obeidy was forced from Doha and arrived in Benghazi, Libya, on Thursday. She said al-Obeidy had a black eye, bruises on her legs and scratches on her arms.

Al-Obeidy told a journalist that officials in the Transitional National Council had pressured the Qataris to expel her. But, according to Dawaji, she did not blame the rebel group for the beating itself.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Who was reportedly beaten before being deported?
2. Why was she in Qatar?
3. On what day?
4. Where was she sent back to?
5. Does any country care about her well-being?
6. Which?
7. According to what source?
8. Did the US try to get her safely out of the country?
9. When did Al-Obeidy grab the world's attention?
10. Did she make an accusation?
11. What did she say someone did to her?
12. Who?
13. Who's he?
14. Where's she traveling now?
15. Is she accompanied by anyone?
16. Who?
17. Who did Al-Obeidy say had pressured the Qataris to expel her?
18. Is Najah Dawaji a fan of freedom?
19. How many key members had she visited with of the TNC?
20. Did Al-Obeidy have any visible injuries?

1. Al-Obeidy
2. Awaiting resettlement as a refugee
3. Thursday
4. Libya
5. Yes
6. The US
7. A State Department source
8. Yes
9. This spring
10. Yes
11. Rape
12. Moammar Gadhafi's security forces
13. The Libyan leader
14. Malta
15. Yes
16. Her father
17. Transitional National Council
18. Yes
19. Three
20. Yes


(CNN) -- Engulfed by the darkness of doping's "white noise", he emerged the other side to become a beacon in cycling's anti-drugs fight.

And in a sport where the tainted legacies of former Tour de France champions Lance Armstrong and Jan Ulrich continue to cast a dark shadow, reformed rider David Millar can see a light at the end of the tunnel.

He has come a long way since nine years ago when he was was sitting in a Biarritz restaurant in south west France.

Millar was having dinner with Dave Brailsford, now performance director at British Cycling and Team Sky, when French police arrived to arrest the cyclist, throwing him in a cell and outing him as a drugs cheat.

A two-year ban from competition followed and, after a Damascene conversion, he returned to the sport a reformed character determined to remove the stain of doping from cycling.

"I was a fervent anti-doper," the Malta-born Scot, who spent his formative years in England and Hong Kong, told CNN's Changing Gear series before the start of the 2013 Tour de France.

"I was a naive kid who came from Hong Kong, who dreamed of winning the Tour de France and who was disgusted to learn that my colleagues were doping, but within four or five years I was one of them."

Blog: Cycling faces watershed of credibility

Millar had served notice of his potential by winning the prologue of his first ever Tour de France in 2000 and the journey from idealistic youngster to fully-fledged doper was not a simple one.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Who is a reformed rider?
2. Who has tainted legacies?
3. What did they win?
4. Who else?
5. What do they cast?
6. Where was David sitting in the past?
7. How long ago?
8. Where was the restaurant?
9. Who was he having dinner with?
10. Who is that now?
11. Who arrived there?
12. What did they do?
13. Why?
14. Did they ban him?
15. For how long?
16. Did he return?
17. Where was he born?
18. Where does he live?
19. What is his ethnicity?
20. Did he turn into a doper?

1. David Millar
2. Lance Armstrong
3. Tour de France champions
4. Jan Ulrich
5. dark shadow
6. Biarritz restaurant
7. nine years
8. west France
9. Dave Brailsford
10. performance director at British Cycling and Team Sky
11. French police
12. arrest the cyclist,
13. outing him as a drugs cheat
14. Yes
15. two years
16. Yes
17. Malta
18. England and Hong Kong
19. Scot
20. Yes


CHAPTER III.

A RAFT.

Forester and Marco did not take breakfast on board the steamboat, but waited until they got on shore. They had inquired of a fellow-passenger, who seemed acquainted with the country, and were told that there was a very good tavern about a quarter of a mile from the mill.

When they landed upon the logs, Marco, whose curiosity seemed to be stronger than his appetite, wanted to ramble about for a little time along the shore and among the piles of boards, but Forester thought it would be best first to go and get their breakfast.

"Because," said he, "we can then amuse ourselves by rambling about here, and shall be ready to return to the steamboat whenever they send for us."

So they went to the tavern.

Forester seemed to have little appetite for his breakfast. He complained of feeling fatigued, and yet he had nothing to fatigue him. Marco ate, and talked fast all the time; but Forester seemed silent and dejected.

"Come, cousin Forester, what is the matter with you?" said Marco at last.

Forester said that he felt somewhat unwell, and as there was a sofa in the room, he concluded to lie down upon it, and not go out. Marco was, at first, disposed to stay and take care of him, but Forester said that he did not need anything, and he wished Marco to go out and amuse himself.

"You may go and see the mill," said he, "and the logs along the shore; only be careful not to go where there is any danger; and come and let me know when the boat is coming from the steamer to take us on board again."

1. What did they land on
2. Who wanted to walk around
3. Who wanted to eat
4. Eat what?
5. What kind of ship was it
6. Where was the tavern
7. From what?
8. Was it good?
9. Did they go there
10. Who wanted to go there first
11. Who told them about the tavern
12. Did Forester eat a big breakfast
13. Did Marco eat?
14. How did he talk?
15. Was Forester feeling ill
16. What did he want to do because of that
17. on what?

Provide a numbered list of answers.

1. the logs
2. Marco
3. Forester
4. breakfast
5. A raft
6. about a quarter of a mile away
7. the mill
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. Forester
11. a fellow passenger
12. No
13. Yes
14. fast
15. Yes
16. lie down
17. a sofa


A team of British surgeons has carried out Gaza's first organ transplants for a long-term plan to train local medical staff to perform the operations.

Two patients underwent kidney transplants at the Shifa, Gaza's biggest public hospital. The operations were conducted a fortnight ago by a volunteer medical team from the Royal Liverpool hospital.

Ziad Matouk, 42, was born with one kidney and was diagnosed with renal failure several years ago. Matouk, whose wife donated one of her kidneys, hopes to return to his job within six months. The couple had sought a transplant in Cairo, but were rejected as unsuitable at a state hospital and could not afford the fee at a private hospital. "We were desperate," said Matouk.

The UK-Gaza link-up began about a year ago after Abdelkader Hammad, a doctor at the Royal Liverpool hospital, was contacted by an anaesthetist at the Shifa, who outlined the difficulties the Gaza hospital was facing with dialysis . The Shifa is forced to rely on generators because of power cuts; spare parts for its ageing dialysis machines have been difficult to import; and supplies of consumables are often scarce. After an exploratory trip last April, Hammad---whose family is Palestinian---and three colleagues from Liverpool arrived in Gaza via Egypt last month, bringing specialist equipment. Two patients were selected for surgery. The first, Mohammed Duhair, 42, received a kidney donated by his younger brother in a six-hour operation. Two days later, Matouk received a transplant after his wife, Nadia, 36, was found to be a good match. The surgeon was carried out by the British team, assisted by doctors and nurses from the Shifa. "We are very satisfied with the results," said Sobbi Skaik, head of surgery at the Gaza hospital.

Skaik hopes that Gaza medical teams will eventually carry out kidney transplants independently, and that other organ transplants may follow. The Shifa is working with the Gaza ministry of health on a plan to train its doctors, surgeons, nursing staff and laboratory technicians in transplant surgery at the Royal Liverpool. "Funding is a problem," said Hammad. "In the meantime we'll go back as volunteers to Gaza for the next couple of years to do more transplants." The Liverpool team's next visit is scheduled for May.

1. What is Adbelkader Hammad's job?
2. Where does he work?
3. Where is his family from?
4. What did he and other doctors do for the first time?
5. On how many people?
6. What organs did they transplant?
7. Were they donated by strangers or family?
8. What were the names of the patients?
9. How long did Mohammed's surgery take?
10. Was it successful?
11. What does Skaik hope?
12. What is an issue that complicates this?
13. What will they do in the meantime?
14. When will they go next?
15. When were the operations done?
16. How long does Ziad expect to be off from work?
17. How old is he?
18. What about the other patient?
19. How old is Ziad's wife?
20. Was she a match?

Provide a numbered list of answers.

1. doctor
2. at the Royal Liverpool hospital
3. Palestine
4. They carried out Gaza's first organ transplants
5. Two
6. kidneys
7. family
8. Mohammed Duhair and Ziad Matouk
9. six hours
10. yes
11. that Gaza medical teams do independent kidney transplants, and possibly other organs
12. Funding
13. They will go back as volunteers to Gaza to do more transplants
14. May
15. a fortnight ago
16. less than six months
17. 42
18. 42
19. 36
20. yes


Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(CNN) -- World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki began her latest bid for a first grand slam title with a 6-2 6-1 win over Anastasia Rodionova on Monday, joining last year's finalists Kim Clijsters and Li Na in the second round of the Australian Open.

Top seed Wozniacki looked in good shape as she wrapped up victory against the Russia-born Australian in 76 minutes, but the Dane admitted she was worried about a wrist injury she suffered during last week's quarterfinal defeat at the Sydney International.

"I was a bit nervous before the match. I didn't know exactly what to expect. But it feels better," the 21-year-old told the WTA Tour website. "I'm very happy about the way I felt out there today. I got into the rhythm as the match went on tonight."

Who will be the 2012 Australian Open victors?

Wozniacki will next play Georgia's 83rd-ranked Anna Tatishvili, who beat Australia's Ashleigh Barty 6-2 7-6 (7-4).

Former No. 1 Clijsters made a strong start to the defense of her crown with a 7-5 6-1 defeat of Portuguese qualifier Maria Joao Koehler.

The Belgian 11th seed, who will play France's world No. 98 Stephanie Foretz Gacon in the last 64, showed little sign of the hip injury which forced her out of the Brisbane International 10 days ago.

"I wanted to go out there and I wanted to start playing," the 28-year-old told the tournament's official website. "I've had that ever since we came to Australia.

"I had a good off-season where we worked obviously to try to be in good shape for Australia, then you want to put that to the test and play those matches again."

1. What is Anna's rank?
2. Who she beat?
3. What was the score?
4. Who she will be playing next?
5. What is her rank?
6. Who she played first?
7. When?
8. What was the score?
9. What tournament is this?
10. Who were finalists the previous year?
11. Who is joining them in the second round?
12. Who was former top ranked player?
13. Did she have a good start?
14. Who did she play?
15. What was the score?
16. Who is France's top ranked player?
17. Who is the 11th seed?
18. Will she continue playing?
19. Who had to leave the tournament?
20. Who talked to WTA?

1. 83rd
2. Ashleigh Barty
3. 6-2 7-6 (7-4)
4. Wozniacki
5. No. 1
6. Anastasia Rodionova
7. Monday
8. 6-2 6-1
9. The Australian Open
10. Kim Clijsters and Li Na
11. Caroline Wozniacki
12. Clijsters
13. Yes
14. Maria Joao Koehler
15. 7-5 6-1
16. unknown
17. The Belgian
18. Yes
19. unknown
20. Caroline Wozniacki


The Labrador has won the honor of the most popular breed for the past eighteen years. It has been described as gentle, clever and friendly. Yet not all Labs are the same.

John Grogan discovered _ after he and his wife adopted a Labrador that they named Marley. The dog caused Mr. Grogan a lot of trouble, but it also provided many stories for his newspaper articles. Later, he wrote a best-selling book, "Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog."

Marley was happy and fun-loving. But he was also extremely large and difficult to control. He bit anything that he could find around the house, including plastic, clothing and jewelry. And he had a great fear of loud noises, especially thunderstorms. Unfortunately, the Grogans lived in Florida where many thunderstorms develop. Marley would attack the furniture, walls and doors until his feet bled if he was left alone in the house during a thunderstorm. Marley almost damaged their home several times.

John Grogan said that at first he considered that probably his dog could be trained to be a show champion. But he soon realized that was impossible. Marley didn't like to learn skills that didn't belong to dogs, and he was driven out of the dog training school for causing troubles for other dogs. He didn't want to hide his emotions. He would show his anger and tiredness if he felt them.

Even if that, Marley still had earned a place in the Grogans'. He didn't know how to dance, and he didn't know how to walk on its two legs, but he was what he was. He would never be a Lassie or a Benji or an old Yeller for he would never like to take part in a dog show, but the Grogans accepted him and loved him very much.

Answer the following questions:
1. What book did John write?
2. After his experience with whom?
3. What kind of animal was he?
4. What breed?
5. Do they all have the same temperament?
6. What was Marley afraid of?
7. What would he damage during a storm?
8. Did he also injure himself?
9. Where?
10. Did this happen often?
11. Did John love Marley despite this?
12. Did school work for Marley?
13. Why was he kicked out?
14. What did he like to bite?
15. Where did his family live?
16. How does Marley's breed rank in terms of popularity?
17. How long have they held that rank?
18. Are labs usually smart?
19. Did Marley like to learn?
20. Ultimately, was Marley a happy dog?

1. "Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog."
2. Marley.
3. A dog.
4. Labrador
5. no
6. loud noises
7. their home
8. yes
9. his feey
10. yes
11. yes
12. no
13. for causing troubles for other dogs.
14. anything that he could find
15. Florida
16. the most popular
17. eighteen years.
18. yes
19. no
20. yes


CHAPTER VIII

Five minutes after Paula had left him, punctual to the second, the four telegrams disposed of, Dick was getting into a ranch motor car, along with Thayer, the Idaho buyer, and Naismith, the special correspondent for the _Breeders' Gazette_. Wardman, the sheep manager, joined them at the corrals where several thousand young Shropshire rams had been assembled for inspection.

There was little need for conversation. Thayer was distinctly disappointed in this, for he felt that the purchase of ten carloads of such expensive creatures was momentous enough to merit much conversation.

"They speak for themselves," Dick had assured him, and turned aside to give data to Naismith for his impending article on Shropshires in California and the Northwest.

"I wouldn't advise you to bother to select them," Dick told Thayer ten minutes later. "The average is all top. You could spend a week picking your ten carloads and have no higher grade than if you had taken the first to hand."

This cool assumption that the sale was already consummated so perturbed Thayer, that, along with the sure knowledge that he had never seen so high a quality of rams, he was nettled into changing his order to twenty carloads.

As he told Naismith, after they had regained the Big House and as they chalked their cues to finish the interrupted game:

"It's my first visit to Forrest's. He's a wizard. I've been buying in the East and importing. But those Shropshires won my judgment. You noticed I doubled my order. Those Idaho buyers will be wild for them. I only had buying orders straight for six carloads, and contingent on my judgment for two carloads more; but if every buyer doesn't double his order, straight and contingent, when he sees them rams, and if there isn't a stampede for what's left, I don't know sheep. They're the goods. If they don't jump up the sheep game of Idaho ... well, then Forrest's no breeder and I'm no buyer, that's all."

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. how many telegrams wwere disposed of?
2. how long had Paula been gone before he left too.
3. what type of car?
4. Along with who?
5. how was he described?
6. who else was there?
7. what did he do?
8. who did they meet up with?
9. and he was a what?
10. where did he meet them?
11. what was there also?
12. there for?
13. was the group chatty?
14. who didn't like that?
15. why:?
16. who disagreed?
17. who speak for themselves?
18. what is Nairsmith's article on?
19. how many carloads did Thayer buy>?
20. did he then increase it?
21. to ?

1. four
2. Five minutes
3. a ranch motor car
4. Thayer
5. "the Idaho buyer"
6. Naismith
7. correspondent for the Breeders' Gazette
8. Wardman
9. sheep manager
10. at the corrals
11. several thousand young Shropshire rams
12. inspection
13. No
14. Thayer
15. he felt that the purchase of such expensive creatures was momentous enough to merit much conversation.
16. Dick
17. the expensive creatures
18. Shropshires in California and the Northwest
19. ten
20. Yes
21. twenty


Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER IX

THE BATTLE IN THE PLAIN

The distance from the bottom of the funnel to the floor of the chamber beneath it could not have been great, for all three of the victims of Tario's wrath alighted unscathed.

Carthoris, still clasping Thuvia tightly to his breast, came to the ground catlike, upon his feet, breaking the shock for the girl. Scarce had his feet touched the rough stone flagging of this new chamber than his sword flashed out ready for instant use. But though the room was lighted, there was no sign of enemy about.

Carthoris looked toward Jav. The man was pasty white with fear.

"What is to be our fate?" asked the Heliumite. "Tell me, man! Shake off your terror long enough to tell me, so I may be prepared to sell my life and that of the Princess of Ptarth as dearly as possible."

"Komal!" whispered Jav. "We are to be devoured by Komal!"

"Your deity?" asked Carthoris.

The Lotharian nodded his head. Then he pointed toward a low doorway at one end of the chamber.

"From thence will he come upon us. Lay aside your puny sword, fool. It will but enrage him the more and make our sufferings the worse."

Carthoris smiled, gripping his long-sword the more firmly.

Presently Jav gave a horrified moan, at the same time pointing toward the door.

"He has come," he whimpered.

Carthoris and Thuvia looked in the direction the Lotharian had indicated, expecting to see some strange and fearful creature in human form; but to their astonishment they saw the broad head and great-maned shoulders of a huge banth, the largest that either ever had seen.

1. Who fell from one floor to the one under it?
2. Who was mad at them?
3. What or who was Carthoris holding?
4. Was that a girl?
5. How did Carthoris land?
6. Had it been a long drop?
7. What did Carthoris do as soon as he touched down?
8. Did he see anybody to use it on?
9. Well was there enough light to see?
10. Did he then ask a question?
11. Of whom?
12. Was Jav afraid?
13. How afraid?
14. What did Jav think was going to happen to them?
15. Did Jav think it was a good idea forn Carthoris to use his sword?
16. Why not?
17. So did Carthoris take his advice?
18. What did he do instead?
19. What was the expression on his face?
20. Did the Komal come?

1. all three of the victims
2. Tario
3. Thuvia
4. yes
5. catlike
6. no
7. drew his sword
8. no
9. yes
10. yes
11. Jav
12. yes
13. he was pasty white with fear
14. they would be devoured by Komal
15. no
16. it would just enrage him more
17. no
18. he gripped his long-sword more firmly
19. he smiled
20. yes


Make use of the article to answer the questions.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ; ; '), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.

NATO constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. Three NATO members (the United States, France and the United Kingdom) are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and are officially nuclear-weapon states. NATO Headquarters are located in Haren, Brussels, Belgium, while the headquarters of Allied Command Operations is near Mons, Belgium.

NATO is an alliance that consists of 29 independent member countries across North America and Europe. An additional 21 countries participate in NATO's Partnership for Peace program, with 15 other countries involved in institutionalized dialogue programs. The combined military spending of all NATO members constitutes over 70% of the global total. Members' defense spending is supposed to amount to at least 2% of GDP.

NATO was little more than a political association until the Korean War galvanized the organization's member states, and an integrated military structure was built up under the direction of two US Supreme Commanders. The course of the Cold War led to a rivalry with nations of the Warsaw Pact, that formed in 1955. Doubts over the strength of the relationship between the European states and the United States ebbed and flowed, along with doubts over the credibility of the NATO defense against a prospective Soviet invasion—doubts that led to the development of the independent French nuclear deterrent and the withdrawal of France from NATO's military structure in 1966 for 30 years. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany in 1989, the organization became involved in the breakup of Yugoslavia, and conducted its first military interventions in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995 and later Yugoslavia in 1999. Politically, the organization sought better relations with former Warsaw Pact countries, several of which joined the alliance in 1999 and 2004.

1. What does NATO stand for
2. What else can it be called
3. What is it
4. between who
5. When was it signed
6. who are the permanent members of NATO
7. what power do they have
8. do they have nuclear weapons
9. Where are the headquarters of NATO
10. where is the ACOs
11. how many independent countries are in NATO
12. How many additional for peace program
13. how many for dialogue
14. So how many altogether
15. how much do they spend on military out of all the money
16. what war led to a rivalry
17. with what nations
18. in what year
19. Did some of those nations ever join NATO
20. In what years

1. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
2. North Atlantic Alliance
3. a military alliance
4. North American and European states
5. 4 April 1949.
6. the United States, France and the United Kingdom
7. veto
8. yes
9. Haren, Brussels, Belgium
10. near Mons, Belgium.
11. 29
12. 21
13. 15
14. 65
15. over 70%
16. the Cold War
17. nations of the Warsaw Pac
18. 1955
19. yes
20. 1999 and 2004.


(CNN) -- The Japanese coast guard has rescued a British woman on a solo round-the-world trip whose boat was damaged when it rolled several times during a tropical storm, her team said Friday.

Sarah Outen was rescued by the coast guard in rough seas Friday afternoon, the London2London team wrote on its website.

"Sarah is now making her way to back to Japan," the team wrote. "We are awaiting final confirmation of details of Sarah's arrival in Japan and will let you know more once we have further information."

A nearby merchant vessel and a coast guard plane kept watch on Outen until the rescue ship arrived.

Sarah Outen: Around the world on two boats and a bike

A small amount of water had gotten into the cabin of Outen's boat, Gulliver, but she was "bearing up well and demonstrating the strength and resolve that has brought her the huge distance on the journey so far," the team said before her rescue.

She asked for pancakes, cold orange juice and grapes for her first meal after arriving in Japan.

Planning a round-the-world trip

Coincidentally, a second solo British rower is about 280 miles northeast of Outen's position and is also awaiting rescue, Outen's team said.

Charlie Martell departed Japan last month on a quest to row 6,000 miles across the Pacific, his website says.

Outen managed to send updates on Twitter while waiting for rescue, writing, "Trying hard2 smile and breathe calm keep getting interuptd by waves throwing us over." (sic)

Answer the following questions:
1. Who's the female star of this story?
2. Who had to rescue her?
3. From where?
4. What's her ethnicity?
5. Where was she headed?
6. Was there another rower in trouble around the same time?
7. What's his name?
8. How far from Outen was he?
9. How many miles was his goal?
10. Where would he make the attempt?
11. Across what ocean?
12. With how many people did Outen attempt her feat?

1. Sarah Outen
2. the coastguard
3. rough seas
4. British
5. round the world
6. yes
7. Charlie Martell
8. about 280 miles away
9. 6000
10. From Japan
11. the Pacific
12. a solo trip. so none


A social class (or, simply, class), as in class society, is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle, and lower classes.

Class is a subject of analysis for sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, and social historians. However, there is not a consensus on a definition of "class", and the term has a wide range of sometimes conflicting meanings. In common parlance, the term "social class" is usually synonymous with "socio-economic class", defined as "people having the same social, economic, cultural, political or educational status", e.g., "the working class"; "an emerging professional class". However, academics distinguish social class and socioeconomic status, with the former referring to one’s relatively stable sociocultural background and the latter referring to one’s current social and economic situation and, consequently, being more changeable over time.

The precise measurements of what determines social class in society has varied over time. Karl Marx thought "class" was defined by one's relationship to the means of production (their relations of production). His simple understanding of classes in modern capitalist society, are the proletariat, those who work but do not own the means of production; and the bourgeoisie, those who invest and live off of the surplus generated by the former. This contrasts with the view of the sociologist Max Weber, who argued "class" is determined by economic position, in contrast to "social status" or ""Stand"" which is determined by social prestige rather than simply just relations of production.

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. sociologists
2. political scientists
3. anthropologists
4. No
5. "social class" and "socio-economic class"
6. No
7. False
8. unknown
9. the means of production
10. proletariat
11. bourgeoisie
12. surplus generated by the former
13. modern capitalist society
14. No
15. No
16. economic position

1. What is one group that analyzes classes?
2. Ad another?
3. And one more?
4. Does everyone agree on what class means?
5. Which two terms are generally the same in common usage?
6. Do scholars think they are the same?
7. True or False: Scholars consider social class to be more changeable than the other term.
8. What are the three most common class groupings?
9. By what relationship did Marx define class?
10. Which group did not own that means?
11. What is the other group called?
12. What did they live off?
13. What kind of society did Mark see these classes in?
14. Was his theory very complex?
15. Did Weber have the same ideas?
16. What did Weber think class was decided by?


Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(CNN) -- Russia and South Ossetia have strongly denied news reports that a motorcade carrying the presidents of Georgia and Poland came under fire, calling the claims "a provocation" meant to destabilize the region.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, said there were "unpredictable people" in the area.

"This is a real provocation," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists on Monday. "It is not the first time that such things have happened: First they mastermind everything themselves and then accuse the Russian or the Ossetian side."

Eduard Kokoity, president of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, added: "Today's event was a deliberate provocative act of the Georgian and Polish presidents targeted at regional destabilization."

Kokoity made his comments to the Russian news agency, Interfax.

The motorcade, carrying Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Polish President Lech Kaczynski, was passing a checkpoint near Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region -- site of intense conflict between Russian and Georgian troops in August -- when shots were fired Sunday, according to the Georgian Interior Ministry.

The motorcade was not hit and there were no injuries, the Georgian Interior Ministry said. No other shooting was reported in the area.

The shots were fired from Russian-controlled territory as the motorcade passed, the ministry said.

Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin denied the gunfire came from its army positions.

"This is one more instance of wishful thinking on the part of Georgia," he told reporters.

After the incident, Saakashvili told reporters he would not have taken his Polish counterpart into danger intentionally and that the incident showed "you are dealing with unpredictable people" in the disputed area.

1. Who is President of Georgia?
2. And who is President of Poland?
3. Where were they when shots were fired?
4. Which groups are were previously in conflict there?
5. Was anyone injured in the shooting?
6. According to whom?
7. What position does Grigory Karasin hold?
8. For which country?
9. Did he accept responsibility for the shooting?
10. How did Saakashvili describe the people in the area?
11. Did he regret bringing Kaczynksi with him?
12. Who is the Russian Foreign Minister?
13. Does he believe this incident is the first of its kind?
14. What is Eduard Kokoity's title?
15. Why does he feel that the other presidents would make false accusations?
16. Which President spoke to Interfax?
17. In what country is it based?

1. Mikheil Saakashvili
2. Lech Kaczynski
3. South Ossetia region
4. Russian and Georgian troops
5. No
6. Georgian Interior Ministry
7. Deputy Foreign Minister
8. Russia
9. No
10. Unpredictable people
11. Yes
12. Sergei Lavrov
13. No
14. President of South Ossetia
15. To cause regional destabilization.
16. Eduard Kokoity
17. Russia


CHAPTER XXVIII.

A MEETING.

About a week after the dissolution of the Crooked Creek Company, Harry was riding over from Hetertown, and had nearly reached the creek on his way home, when he met George Purvis.

This was their first meeting since their fight, for George had been away on a visit to some relatives in Richmond.

When Harry saw George riding slowly toward him, he felt very much embarrassed, and very much annoyed because he was embarrassed.

How should he meet George? What should he say; or should he say anything?

He did not want to appear anxious to "make up" with him, nor did he want to seem as if he bore malice toward him. If he only knew how George felt about it!

As it was, he wished he had stopped somewhere on the road. He had thought of stopping at the mill--why had he not? That would just have given George time to pass.

Both boys appeared to be riding as slowly as their horses would consent to go, and yet when they met, Harry had not half made up his mind what he would say, or how he should say it, or whether it would be better or not to say anything.

"Hello, George!" said he, quite unpremeditatedly.

"Hello!" said George, reining in his horse "Where are you going?"

"Going home," said Harry, also stopping in the road.

Thus the quarrel came to an end.

"So you've sold the telegraph?" said George.

"Yes," said Harry. "And I think we made a pretty good bargain. I didn't think we'd do so well when we started."

1. what company disolved
2. who did harry meet
3. did they have a fight
4. who said hello first
5. was he embarrassed
6. what town was harry riding from
7. how fast were they riding
8. how long had it been since the company dissolved
9. who was going home
10. did the fight end
11. did george sell the telegraph
12. who did
13. did he get a good deal
14. who did george visit after the fight
15. was harry certain of harrys feelings about the argument
16. Did Harry stop at the mill
17. who stopped first
18. who was annoyed
19. was harry anxious
20. what were they riding

Provide a numbered list of answers.

1. the Crooked Creek Company
2. George Purvis.
3. Yes.
4. Harry
5. Yes.
6. Hetertown
7. as slowly as their horses would consent to go
8. About a week
9. harry
10. Yes.
11. No.
12. Harry
13. Yes.
14. relatives in Richmond.
15. No.
16. No.
17. George
18. Harry
19. unknown
20. horses


Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1998 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted book of all time. As of the 2017 edition, it is now in its 63rd year of publication, published in 100 countries and 23 languages. The international franchise has extended beyond print to include television series and museums. The popularity of the franchise has resulted in "Guinness World Records" becoming the primary international authority on the cataloging and verification of a huge number of world records; the organization employs official record adjudicators authorized to verify the authenticity of the setting and breaking of records.

On 10 November 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Breweries, went on a shooting party in the North Slob, by the River Slaney in County Wexford, Ireland. After missing a shot at a golden plover, he became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the golden plover or the red grouse. (It is the plover.) That evening at Castlebridge House, he realized that it was impossible to confirm in reference books whether or not the golden plover was Europe's fastest game bird. Beaver knew that there must be numerous other questions debated nightly in pubs throughout Ireland and abroad, but there was no book in the world with which to settle arguments about records. He realized then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove successful.

1. What does the Guinness Book record?
2. What world record does the book itself hold?
3. What publication year is it in as of 2017?
4. In how many languages is it available?
5. and how many countries?
6. What year did Sir Hugh Beaver go to a shooting party?
7. What was his argument about?
8. And what is the answer to thtat?
9. Was he the mind behind Guinness book?
10. It this book published annually?

Provide a numbered list of answers.

1. world records
2. best-selling copyrighted book of all time
3. its 63rd
4. 23
5. 100
6. 1951
7. which was the fastest game bird in Europe
8. the golden plover
9. yes
10. yes


It's finally the weekend of Halloween and I get to dress up in my lion costume. Halloween is my favorite holiday because I really like candy and love dressing up. Last year I was a ghost, but this year I am a lion. My little brother is dressed like a dinosaur and he keeps chewing on everything. He is only 3 years old so I guess that is okay. His name is Todd and his favorite holiday is his birthday but I don't think he knows much about any of them. My dad loves Christmas and my Mom really likes Thanksgiving. But I love Halloween. We have to wait for my dad to come home from work so we can go out and trick-or-treat. While we are waiting my mommy cooks us dinner. She wants us to eat good food before we spoil our dinner with all the candy we are going to get. I can't wait to go to my friend Kevin's house. His parents give the best candy and give me extra since Kevin is my friend. I think Kevin said he was going to dress up like a pirate but I don't remember. I don't think pirates are very cool, but I didn't tell Kevin that. I think I hear my dad coming up the stairs. Tonight is going to be the best Halloween ever.

Answer this series of questions:

1. How old is my brother?
2. What's my favorite holiday?
3. Was I a vampire last year?
4. What was I?
5. What's my little brother's costume?
6. Is his name Albert?
7. What's his name?
8. What's his favorite holiday?
9. Who loves Christmas?
10. And who loves Thanksgiving?
11. What happens while we're waiting for my dad?
12. Where is dad?
13. Whose house do I really want to go to?
14. Why?
15. Did I think pirates are cool?
16. Who might be coming up the stairs?
17. What will tonight be?

1. 3 years old
2. Halloween
3. no
4. a ghost
5. a dinosaur
6. no
7. Todd
8. his birthday
9. My dad
10. my Mom
11. my mommy cooks us dinner.
12. work
13. Kevin's
14. His parents give the best candy and give me extra since Kevin is my friend
15. no
16. my dad
17. the best Halloween ever


Futsal, (literally "mini-football", "futebol de salão" i.e. "big room soccer"), is a variant of association football played on a hard court, smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It can be considered a version of five-a-side football.

Futsal is played between two teams of five players each, one of whom is the goalkeeper. Unlimited substitutions are permitted. Unlike some other forms of indoor football, the game is played on a hard court surface delimited by lines; walls or boards are not used. Futsal is also played with a smaller ball. The surface, ball, and rules create an emphasis on improvisation, creativity, and technique as well as ball control and passing in small spaces.

"Futsal" comes from Spanish "fútbol sala or fútbol de salón" and from Portuguese "futebol de salão". The term is commonly translated as "indoor football" but a more literal translation is "hall/lounge football". During the sport's second world championships held in Madrid in 1985, the Spanish name "fútbol sala" was used. Since then, all other names have been officially and internationally changed to "futsal". The naming was due to a dispute between FIFUSA (the predecessor to the AMF) and FIFA over the name of "fútbol", FIFUSA has registered the word "fut-sal" in 1985 (Madrid, Spain). Since then FIFA has also started using the term futsal. The name has been translated into Italian as "calcio a 5" or "football sala", and French as "football de salle".

1. What languages does the word futsal come from?
2. What is the translation in English?
3. What ground is it played on?
4. Does it have the same number of players as regular football?
5. How many people are on a side?
6. With one playing what position?
7. What is the French version of the word?
8. What was it called in 1985?
9. What happened to its name after that?
10. Is it registered by an organization?
11. Which one?
12. What word in the name was there a controversy over?
13. Does the floor have no markings where this game is played?

1. Spanish and Portuguese
2. big room soccer
3. a hard court surface
4. unknown
5. five
6. goalkeeper.
7. "football de salle".
8. "fútbol sala"
9. changed to "futsal".
10. yes
11. FIFUSA
12. "fútbol",
13. no


Make use of the article to answer the questions.

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other animals, including cashmere and mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids. Wool mainly consists of protein together with a few percent lipids. In this regard it is chemically quite distinct from the more dominant textile, cotton, which is mainly cellulose.

Wool is produced by follicles which are small cells located in the skin. These follicles are located in the upper layer of the skin called the epidermis and push down into the second skin layer called the dermis as the wool fibers grow. Follicles can be classed as either primary or secondary follicles. Primary follicles produce three types of fiber: kemp, medullated fibers and true wool fibers. Secondary follicles only produce true wool fibers. Medullated fibers share nearly identical characteristics to hair and are long but lack crimp and elasticity. Kemp fibers are very coarse and shed out. Wool's scaling and crimp make it easier to spin the fleece by helping the individual fibers attach to each other, so they stay together. Because of the crimp, wool fabrics have greater bulk than other textiles, and they hold air, which causes the fabric to retain heat. Wool has a high specific heat coefficient, so it impedes heat transfer in general. This effect has benefited desert peoples, as Bedouins and Tuaregs use wool clothes for insulation.

1. where are follicles located?
2. what layer?
3. do follicles produce wool?
4. does wool impede heat transfer?
5. what desert people use wool?
6. who else?
7. what is wool?
8. what is wool from goats called?
9. is wool chemically similar to cotton?
10. what is cotton mainly made of?
11. can you get wool from rabbits?
12. what kind?
13. how many types of fiber do primary follicles produce
14. what are they?
15. do secondary follicles produce three types as well?
16. how many do they produce?
17. which type?
18. is wool bulkier than other textiles?
19. is it bad at retaining heat?
20. what do the fibers hold?

1. In the skin.
2. The upper layer.
3. Yes.
4. Yes.
5. Bedouins.
6. Tuaregs.
7. The textile fiber obtained from sheep and other animals
8. Mohair.
9. No.
10. Cellulose.
11. Yes.
12. Angora.
13. Three.
14. Kemp, medullated fibers and true wool fibers.
15. No.
16. One.
17. True wool fibers.
18. Yes.
19. No.
20. Air.


A great loss--Shirley Temple dies at 85

February 12,2014

BYDERRIKJ.LANG ,Associated Press

Shirley Temple Black, who died on February 10that age 85, wasn't just a child star. She was THE child star--the sweet little girl whose shining smile helped _ some of the darkest days the US has known during the Great Depression.

It's hard today to imagine the super star Shirley was once "America's Little Darling". She sang and danced her way to the top of the box office in such films as Bright Eyes, Curly Top and Heidi. By 1940, she had appeared in 43 films. Temple teamed with Bill Robison in four movies, and their dance on the stairs in The Little Colonel is still a legendary film moment.

In the 1930s, her name on a movie introduction assured a packed house. She inspired dolls, dresses, dishes--even a drink (alcohol-free, of course).

US President Franklin D. Roosevelt once famously said that "as long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.''

Unlike so many of today's child stars, Temple didn't end up with her name appearing across the headlines for bad behaviors. Instead of getting her photos on front pages or struggling with drugs and alcohol, Temple went on to a second career in diplomacy , including presidential appointments as ambassador to Ghana.

She surprised a lot of people who doubted her with her grace, knowledge and eagerness to serve. In fact, her career in public service (20 years) was longer than her career in movies (19). The role she valued most, however, was as wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

The world has lost a treasured Hollywood legend. But her movies will allow that little dynamic figure to continue charming audiences for a very long time.

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. Who is this news story about?
2. In what industry did she become famous?
3. How many movies did she appear in?
4. Any examples?
5. Did she continue to act her whole life?
6. What else did she do?
7. Would you say her family or carrer was more important to her?
8. How old was she when she started acting?
9. And during what period of US history was that?
10. What nick-name did she pickup?

1. Shirley Temple Black
2. Entertainment.
3. 43 films.
4. Bright Eyes, Curly Top
5. No.
6. Second career in diplomacy.
7. Family.
8. Four.
9. The Great Depression.
10. "America's Little Darling


Once upon a time there was a boy monster named Jerry who lived in a train car at the railroad tracks. He had lived there all his life. Jerry's mother was named Marge, and she was 36. Marge raised Jerry at the railroad tracks because she wanted to keep him safe. She was afraid of the people who lived in the town nearby. The town was named Qarth, and 100 people lived there. Marge believed that the people of Qarth would attack them if they knew they were there. Qarth used to be filled with factories when Jerry was born. By the time Jerry was a teenager, most of the factories had gone away and most of the people worked on special new machines. They ate food from the fields outside of town. Their favorite food to eat was a special kind of corn. They didn't eat meat because nobody raised any farm animals. One day when he was 11, Jerry asked his mother who his father had been. His father's name was George, and he was 2 years older than Marge. Marge looked sad and told Jerry that George had left after he was born because the people in the town didn't like him. This made Jerry very sad. He went off to his corner of the car and didn't talk to Marge again until she went to bed. After she fell asleep he wanted to go out and look for his father. He packed some food and left. When Marge woke up she was upset, but she thought she knew where he had gone.

Answer the following questions:
1. What was the boy monster's name?
2. Where did he live?
3. How long had he lived there?
4. What was his mom's name?
5. how old was she?
6. Why did she raise him at the tracks?
7. from what?
8. What was it called?
9. How many people lived there?
10. What did Marge believe would happen?
11. What was their favorite food?
12. Did they eat meat?
13. What was his father's name?
14. How old was he?
15. Why did his father leave?
16. Did this make him sad?
17. Did he go look for his father?
18. Was his mother upset?

1. Jerry
2. in a train car at the railroad tracks
3. all his life
4. Marge
5. 36
6. to keep him safe
7. the people who lived in the town nearby
8. Qarth
9. 100
10. that the people of Qarth would attack them
11. a special kind of corn
12. They didn't eat meat
13. George
14. 2 years older than his mother
15. the people in the town didn't like him
16. yes
17. yes
18. yes


PITTSBURGH - For most people, snakes seem unpleasant or even threatening. But Howie Choset sees in their delicate movements a way to save lives.

The 37-year-old Carnegie Mellon University professor has spent years developing snake-like robots he hopes will eventually slide through fallen buildings in search of victims trapped after natural disasters or other emergencies.

Dan Kara is president of Robotics Trends, a Northboro, Mass.-based company that publishes an online industry magazine and runs robotics trade shows. He said there are other snake-like robots being developed, mainly at universities, but didn't know of one that could climb pipes.

The Carnegie Mellon machines are designed to carry cameras and electronic sensors and can be controlled with a joystick . They move smoothly with the help of small electric motors, or servos, commonly used by hobbyists in model airplanes.

Built from lightweight materials, the robots are about the size of a human arm or smaller. They can sense which way is up, but are only as good as their human operators, Choset added.

Sam Stover, a search term manager with the Federal Emergency Management Agency based in Indiana, said snake-type robots would offer greater mobility than equipment currently available, such as cameras attached to extendable roles.

"It just allows us to do something we've not been able to do before," Stover said, "We needed them yesterday."

He said snifter dogs are still the best search tool for rescue workers, but that they can only be used effectively when workers have access to damaged building.

Stover, among the rescue workers who handled the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, said snake robots would have helped rescuers search flooded houses in that disaster.

Choset said the robots may not be ready for use for another five to ten years, depending on funding.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who uses snakes to save lives?
2. How old is he?
3. Does he teach?
4. Where?
5. What does he make?
6. Why?
7. What is Robotics Trends?/
8. What does it do?
9. Where is it based?
10. Which state?
11. Does it have a president?
12. Who is it?
13. What are the machines controlled by?
14. Do they move smoothly?
15. What are servos?
16. Who else uses them?
17. What are the robots built from?
18. How big are they?
19. Do they know which way is up?

1. Howie Choset
2. 37
3. Yes
4. Carnegie Mellon
5. robots
6. To help victims
7. a company
8. publishes an online industry magazine
9. Northboro
10. Massachusetts
11. Yes
12. Dan Kara
13. a joystick
14. Yes
15. small electric motors
16. hobbyists
17. lightweight materials
18. No
19. Yes


Two years ago ,Hannah Mighall ,then 13, survived a great white shark attack on Tasmania's north-east coast, but despite the terrible scars ,the shy yet courageous teenager is determined to get back into the water.

It's been a long journey back for the brave girl, whose life was changed forever as she was on her surfboard 60 metres offshore at Binalong, Bay ,Tasmania.

Her cousin ,32-yeaf-old syb Mundy ,was surfing nearby, "Suddenly, everything went quiet ,"Hannah ,now15,recalls of the day she almost lost her life, "I look down into the water and noticed a dark shadow under my board I knew instantly it was a shark."

As Syb watched in horror, the five-metre shark put hundreds of sharp teeth onto Hannah's right leg,throwing her from her board, "I was attached to my leg-rope as the shark stared to pull me under the water",She shakes, "I was lying on my back with one leg under the shark's body and the other still in its jaws."

Syb desperately punched the shark's nose and reached out to grab Hannah as the monster bit a huge chunk from the surfboard, "I was still attached to my board and was dragged back under the water again,"she says ,When she came up for air, Hannah dog paddled to Syb's board and he dragged her from the water to lie on his back ,"We looked down and saw the shark circling beneath us,"Hannah says.

Hannah was rushed to the hospital by helicopter ,She needed more than 400 stitches on her leg and spent two weeks in hospital.

Modest about her remarkable courage, Hannah owes her survival to Syb's bravery and the fact that great whites,despite their reputation as man-eaters, typically don't target humans ,After the attack ,Hannah earned the Sea Shepherd award for courage for speaking in defence of the shark "I was in his territory, she wasn't in mine,"she smiles.

1. who survived a shark attack at Tasmania coast?
2. who was Syb?
3. how long did it take for the story of this attack to be told?
4. how far was she from shore when this incident happened?
5. how long was the shark?
6. how did syb help hannah get out of the sharp's grip?
7. what else Syb do to extricate Hannah from the shark's mouth?
8. did he rescue her and how?
9. why Hannah did not have any hatred for the shark?
10. are great whites target humans?

Provide a numbered list of answers.

1. Hannah Mighall
2. Her cousin
3. two years
4. 60 metres
5. five-metres
6. Syb punched the shark's nose
7. reached out to grab Hannah
8. Yes, Hannah dog paddled to Syb's board and he dragged her from the water to lie on his back
9. "I was in his territory, she wasn't in mine,"
10. No


Paris (CNN) -- French officials Tuesday condemned an Israeli airstrike on Gaza that wounded its consul, his wife and their daughter, calling on Israel to avoid civilian casualties.

"France strongly deplores the consequences of this air strike," a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris announced. "While France is committed to security in Israel, it reaffirms the imperative need to avoid attacks on civilians. This imperative was reaffirmed to the Israeli authorities."

The consul, Majdi Shakoura, was at home with his family in the northern end of Gaza when the airstrike hit about 200 meters (650 feet) away, the Foreign Ministry said. The strike blew out their windows, and they were struck by shards of flying glass, the ministry said.

Capt. Aryeh Shalikar, an Israeli military spokesman, told CNN the airstrike was aimed at Palestinian militants who fired a rocket into southern Israel late Sunday. Shalikar said the Israel Defense Forces "never received any official statement from any source" regarding injuries to Shakoura or his relatives.

"The IDF wishes to convey that missiles are being fired at Israeli civilians from terrorists, and it has no intention of harming civilians when it returns fire at terrorists," he said.

Palestinian security and medical officials said one person died and several others were wounded in the airstrike, which they said struck a Hamas naval building in northern Gaza. A Hamas security official said two Israeli rockets struck the building.

France has a consulate and a cultural center in Gaza "to support the population," the Foreign Ministry said. France has helped build water and sewer systems and rebuild hospitals in Gaza, which is ruled by the Islamic movement Hamas.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Which official condemned the airstrike?
2. Which consul was hit?
3. How far away was their home hit?
4. Who was the airstrike aimed at?
5. Does IDF say that they're not wishing to harm any civilians?
6. And are they targeting terrorists?
7. How many people died in the airstrike?
8. Were others wounded?
9. What building was struck?
10. Has France helped in building hospitals in Gaza?

1. French officials
2. Majdi Shakoura
3. hit about 200 meters (650 feet) away
4. Palestinian militants
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. one
8. Yes
9. Hamas naval building
10. Yes


Spain and its autonomous communities are divided into fifty provinces (, ; sing. "provincia"). Ceuta, Melilla and the Plazas de soberanía are not part of any provinces.

The layout of Spain's provinces closely follows the pattern of the territorial division of the country carried out in 1833. The only major change of provincial borders since that time has been the sub-division of the Canary Islands into two provinces rather than one.

Historically, the provinces served mainly as transmission belts for policies enacted in Madrid, as Spain was a highly centralised state for most of its history. The importance of the provinces has declined since the adoption of the system of autonomous communities in the period of the Spanish transition to democracy. They nevertheless remain electoral districts for national elections and as geographical references: for instance in postal addresses and telephone codes.

A small town would normally be identified as being in, say, Valladolid province rather than the autonomous community of Castile and León. The provinces were the "building-blocks" from which the autonomous communities were created. Consequently, no province is divided between more than one of these communities.

Most of the provinces—with the exception of Álava/Araba, Asturias/Asturies, Bizkaia/Vizcaya, Cantabria, Gipuzkoa/Gipúzcoa, Illes Balears/Islas Baleares, La Rioja, and Nafarroa/Navarra—are named after their principal town. Only two capitals of autonomous communities—Mérida in Extremadura and Santiago de Compostela in Galicia—are not also the capitals of provinces.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. What were provinces historically for?
2. Where are they enacted?
3. What location is divided into fifty provinces?
4. and?
5. What are most provinces named after?
6. How many aren't?
7. How many are not the provinces' capital?
8. Which are they?
9. What made the province more unimportant?
10. How many locations do not belong to any province?
11. What are they?

1. transmission belts for policies enacted
2. in Madrid
3. Spain
4. its autonomous communities
5. their principal town
6. Eight
7. Two
8. Mérida and Santiago de Compostela
9. the adoption of the system of autonomous communities
10. Three
11. Ceuta, Melilla and the Plazas de soberanía


Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Time was running out, and Mark Dickinson wasn't sure whether he'd get to see his dying 2-year-old grandson one last time. A long line at Los Angeles International Airport's security checkpoint had kept him from getting to his gate on time.

His grandson Caden would be taken off life support in a matter of hours in Denver, Colorado, with or without his grandfather's presence, according to CNN affiliate KABC.

"I was kind of panicking because I was running late, and I really thought I wasn't going to make the flight," Dickinson told KABC.

That's when a pilot from Southwest Airlines stepped up and held the flight at the gate until Dickinson arrived. The pilot was standing by the air bridge waiting for him when Dickinson arrived in socks, so rushed that he just grabbed his shoes at security and ran through the terminal.

"I told him, 'Thank you so much. I can't tell you how much I appreciated that.' And he said, 'No problem. They can't leave without me anyway,'"Dickinson told KABC.

Authorities say Dickinson's grandson, Caden Rodgers, suffered a head injury after his mother's boyfriend threw him across the room. The boyfriend reportedly told police he was drunk and high on marijuana at the time. The child later died and the boyfriend has been charged with first-degree murder, according to the Aurora Sentinel.

Thanks to the pilot, Dickinson made it to Colorado in time to say goodbye to his grandson. Most airlines would punish any staff member who holds up a flight, according to consumer advocate Christopher Elliott, who broke the story of the sympathetic pilot on his blog. However, a Southwest spokeswoman said the pilot's actions were praiseworthy.

"You can't hold a plane for every late customer, but I think we would all agree that these were extenuating circumstances and the pilot absolutely made the right decision," Southwest spokeswoman Marilee McInnis said. "I don't think you could ask for a better example of great service for our customers."

1. Who is Dickinson's grandson?
2. What type of injury did he suffer?
3. Did someone hurt him?
4. Who?
5. What did the dude do to the little boy?
6. Was the boyfriend inebriated at the time?
7. Was he doing the cocaine or the meth?
8. What drug was he high on?
9. Did he admit it to the police?
10. Was he charged with anything?
11. What?
12. According to what publication?
13. How old was Caden?
14. Where was Mark flying from?
15. Why did he want to go to Denver?
16. What network affiliate is KABC?
17. Was Mark running on time?
18. Who held the flight for him?
19. For which airline?
20. Who said he made the right decision?

1. Caden
2. head injury
3. yes
4. his mother's boyfriend
5. he threw him
6. yes
7. no
8. marijuana
9. yes
10. yes
11. first-degree murder
12. Aurora Sentinel
13. Two
14. Los Angeles
15. see his dying 2-year-old grandson
16. CNN
17. no
18. pilot
19. Southwest
20. Marilee McInnis


Read the text and answer the questions.

Climate is the statistics of weather over long periods of time. It is measured by assessing the patterns of variation in temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological variables in a given region over long periods of time. Climate differs from weather, in that weather only describes the short-term conditions of these variables in a given region.

A region's climate is generated by the climate system, which has five components: atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.

The climate of a location is affected by its latitude, terrain, and altitude, as well as nearby water bodies and their currents. Climates can be classified according to the average and the typical ranges of different variables, most commonly temperature and precipitation. The most commonly used classification scheme was the Köppen climate classification. The Thornthwaite system, in use since 1948, incorporates evapotranspiration along with temperature and precipitation information and is used in studying biological diversity and how climate change affects it. The Bergeron and Spatial Synoptic Classification systems focus on the origin of air masses that define the climate of a region.

Paleoclimatology is the study of ancient climates. Since direct observations of climate are not available before the 19th century, paleoclimates are inferred from proxy variables that include non-biotic evidence such as sediments found in lake beds and ice cores, and biotic evidence such as tree rings and coral. Climate models are mathematical models of past, present and future climates. Climate change may occur over long and short timescales from a variety of factors; recent warming is discussed in global warming. Global warming results in redistributions. For example, "a 3°C change in mean annual temperature corresponds to a shift in isotherms of approximately 300–400 km in latitude (in the temperate zone) or 500 m in elevation. Therefore, species are expected to move upwards in elevation or towards the poles in latitude in response to shifting climate zones".

1. Were direct observations of the climate around before the 19th century?
2. What is paleocimatology?
3. What are those climates called?
4. What kind of variables are used to study them?
5. What are two categories that the evidence falls under?
6. Which one are sediments?
7. Where do scientists gather those?
8. Anywhere else?
9. Do you know of any biotic evidence?
10. What?
11. Anything else?
12. What is climate?
13. Is it the same as weather?
14. What is the difference?
15. What kind of patterns are examined to measure climate?
16. anything else?
17. Are they studied regionally or for the whole world?
18. What creates a region's climate?
19. How many parts does it have?
20. Is one of them the atmosphere?

1. No.
2. The study of ancient climates.
3. Paleoclimates.
4. Proxy variables.
5. Non-biotic and biotic.
6. Non-biotic.
7. In lake beds.
8. Ice cores,
9. Yes.
10. Tree rings.
11. Coral.
12. Statistics of weather over long periods of time.
13. No.
14. Weather only describes the short-term conditions.
15. Variation in temperature.
16. humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation.
17. Regionally.
18. The climate system.
19. Five.
20. Yes.


One of the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman said she had "no doubt" he feared for his life in the final moments of his struggle with Trayvon Martin, and that was the definitive factor in the verdict.

The woman, who was identified just as Juror B37, spoke exclusively to CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" on Monday night. She is the first juror to speak publicly about the case.

She said she believes Zimmerman's "heart was in the right place" the night he shot Martin, but that he didn't use "good judgment" in confronting the Florida teen.

"I think George Zimmerman is a man whose heart was in the right place, but just got displaced by the vandalism in the neighborhoods, and wanting to catch these people so badly that he went above and beyond what he really should have done," she said.

Fringe protesters turn violent in LA after Zimmerman verdict

"But I think his heart was in the right place. It just went terribly wrong."

If anything, Zimmerman was guilty of not using "good judgment," the juror said.

"When he was in the car, and he had called 911, he shouldn't have gotten out of that car," she said.

She also said she believes Martin threw the first punch in the confrontation that followed.

"I think George got in a little bit too deep, which he shouldn't have been there. But Trayvon decided that he wasn't going to let him scare him ... and I think Trayvon got mad and attacked him," she said.

1. What does this juror think Zimmerman was guilty of?
2. What does she think he should have done?
3. Did he call for help>
4. Where was he when he called?
5. What does she think of his intentions?
6. Who was he trying to catch?
7. Who was messing up the neighborhoods?
8. How did he feel about that?
9. Did the vandalism upset him?
10. What is this woman called?
11. Who did she talk with?
12. Just them?
13. When?
14. Did any other jurors come out before her?
15. What happened to Martin?
16. Do you know why?
17. Did he get sentenced for this crime?
18. Why not?
19. Did they find him guilty?
20. Where did this happen?

1. not using "good judgment
2. he shouldn't have gotten out of that car
3. yes
4. in the car
5. Zimmerman's "heart was in the right place"
6. Trayvon Martin
7. vandals
8. wanting to catch these people so badly
9. yes
10. Juror B37
11. CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360"
12. yes
13. Monday night
14. no
15. he shot Martin
16. Trayvon got mad and attacked him
17. no
18. he feared for his life
19. no
20. unknown


Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

London (CNN) -- Janet Jackson is opening up for the first time about a duet with her brother that she's reviving two years after his death.

Jackson took to the stage in London on Thursday and performed their 1995 song Scream as video of Michael Jackson played and his voice filled Royal Albert Hall.

The reworked duet follows in the footsteps of jazz pianist and singer Nat King Cole and his daughter, Natalie Cole. In 1991 she turned her father's famous 1961 recording "Unforgettable" into a father-daughter duet.

Janet Jackson said she did the original duet at the request of her brother years ago.

"I was on the Rhythm Nation tour and Mike actually asked me to do a song with him and I told him no. I didn't want to do it. I felt I hadn't come into my own and I hadn't fully made a name for myself ... and I didn't want to ride anyone's coattails," she said. "And I remember being in the Janet Tour a few good years later and he asked me again if I would do a song with him. And I felt, at that point, I'd carved my own little niche in this world of music and I felt okay, I can do this now and that's how it came about."

Jackson said that performing the song alongside her brother again isn't difficult.

"It feels great -- just listening to and hearing his voice," she said, adding that on stage she finds herself, "remembering the experience of recording it."

1. Who is doing a show in London?
2. What day?
3. Who is she doing a duet with?
4. Is his portion live?
5. Why not?
6. When?
7. How is he being heard?
8. What song are they singing?
9. From what year?
10. What was Janet doing the first time they did this duet?
11. Which one?
12. Who's idea was it?
13. Was it the first time he'd asked?
14. When was the first?
15. What did she say then?
16. Why?
17. Are these two related?
18. How?
19. Who did a duet in a similar fashion?
20. When?

1. Janet Jackson
2. Thursday
3. Michael Jackson
4. no
5. he died
6. two years ago
7. video
8. Scream
9. 1995
10. she was on tour
11. the Janet Tour
12. his
13. no
14. the Rhythm Nation tour
15. she told him no
16. she hadn't come into her own
17. yes
18. sister and brother
19. Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole
20. 1991


CHAPTER IX

Ten days later, Harper and Joe Ladue arrived at Sixty Mile, and Daylight, still a trifle weak, but strong enough to obey the hunch that had come to him, traded a third interest in his Stewart town site for a third interest in theirs on the Klondike.

They had faith in the Upper Country, and Harper left down-stream, with a raft-load of supplies, to start a small post at the mouth of the Klondike.

"Why don't you tackle Indian River, Daylight?" Harper advised, at parting. "There's whole slathers of creeks and draws draining in up there, and somewhere gold just crying to be found. That's my hunch. There's a big strike coming, and Indian River ain't going to be a million miles away."

"And the place is swarming with moose," Joe Ladue added. "Bob Henderson's up there somewhere, been there three years now, swearing something big is going to happen, living off'n straight moose and prospecting around like a crazy man."

Daylight decided to go Indian River a flutter, as he expressed it; but Elijah could not be persuaded into accompanying him. Elijah's soul had been seared by famine, and he was obsessed by fear of repeating the experience.

"I jest can't bear to separate from grub," he explained. "I know it's downright foolishness, but I jest can't help it. It's all I can do to tear myself away from the table when I know I'm full to bustin' and ain't got storage for another bite. I'm going back to Circle to camp by a cache until I get cured."

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. Who advised Daylight about the number of moose?
2. Where was he talking about?
3. Who was living there already?
4. What was he doing there?
5. For how long?
6. Are there many bodies of water there?
7. Says who?
8. What does he think is going to happen?
9. Where did they put their trust?
10. Where did Harper go?
11. What did he take with him?
12. What was he going to open with them?
13. Where?
14. Where did Daylight end up going?
15. Who wouldn't go with him?
16. What did he not want to have happen again?
17. What did he say he couldn't leave behind?
18. Did he not want to leave the dinner table even when he was stuffed?
19. Where was he going to go?
20. Until what could happen?

1. Joe Ladue
2. Indian River
3. Bob Henderson
4. prospecting
5. three years
6. yes
7. Harper
8. gold will be found
9. the Upper Country
10. down-stream
11. supplies
12. a post
13. at the mouth of the Klondike
14. Indian River
15. Elijah
16. famine
17. grub
18. he didn't want to get up
19. Circle
20. he is cured


Make use of the article to answer the questions.

Characters: Sandy, Rose, Jane, Justin, Mrs. Lin Setting: A middle school Rose: Sandy, follow me after class. (They go to the office together.) Rose: You are often absent and your grades are not as good as before. What's happened to you? Sandy: No, it's nothing. Thanks for your care. Rose: Are you sure? Anyway, if you have any problem, tell me. (After school, Sandy and Jane are on the way home .) Jane: Sandy, I called you yesterday. Your mother told me that you had a part-time job. What's the matter with you?We have to study hard during this year before we take the entrance examination. This year is very important to us. Sandy: (Crying) My father has lost his job, and we have no money to pay all the spending. Jane: Oh, Sandy, Don't worry. I will help you. (After the day, Jane decides to tell Rose about Sandy's problem.) Jane: Rose, I have to tell you something about Sandy. Rose: Jane, you are Sandy's good friend. Do you know what's wrong with Sandy? Jane: Eh...I hear that Sandy's father has lost his job, and Sandy has a part-time job... Rose: OK, I understand. (Rose is in the social worker's office) Rose: ...I've told you everything about Sandy. Justin: I see. I'll manage it as soon as I can. (In Sandy's home, Mrs. Lin is ill in bed) Justin: Mrs. Lin, I understand your feeling, but it's her time to study hard to enter a good senior high school, she can't do a part-time job after class. Mrs. Lin: I know what you want to tell me. But, in fact, her father hasn't found a job and I ...(Crying) I've been ill in bed several years! Justin: Don't worry. I can introduce some work I know to her father. Mrs. Lin: Thank you very much.

1. Who is unemployed?
2. What is Sandy's last name
3. what is wrong with her mother?
4. can she work?
5. Who was the first to find out about Sandy's job?
6. Who told her?
7. who did Jane tell?
8. Had Rose already noticed anything?
9. Who did Rose talk to ?
10. what is his occupation?
11. does her friends think Sandy can handle her job and school?
12. Does Justin have a solution?
13. what does he offer to do?

1. Sandy's father
2. Lin
3. she's ill
4. no
5. Jane
6. Sandy's mother
7. Rose
8. yes
9. Justin
10. social worker
11. no
12. yes
13. to find work for the father


Read the text and answer the questions.

Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- A nuclear scientist was killed in a blast in Tehran on Wednesday morning, an Iranian news agency reported, in the latest in a string of attacks that Iran has blamed on Israel.

A motorcyclist placed a magnetic bomb under Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan's Peugeot 405, the state-run IRNA news agency said. The blast also wounded two others, IRNA said.

State television channel Press TV reported later Wednesday that Roshan's driver, Reza Qashqaei, had died in a hospital from his injuries.

Mohammad Khazaee, Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, condemned what he called "cruel, inhumane and criminal acts of terrorism against the Iranian scientists."

"Based on the existing evidence collected by the relevant Iranian security authorities, similar to previous incidents, perpetrators used the same terrorist method in assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists, i.e., attaching a sticky magnetic bomb to the car carrying the scientists and detonating it," Khazaee said in a statement.

"I would like to emphasize, once again, that the Islamic Republic (of) Iran would not compromise over its inalienable right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and any kind of political and economic pressures or terrorist attacks targeting the Iranian nuclear scientists, could not prevent our nation in exercising this right," Khazaee said.

Lawmaker Kazem Jalali blamed the intelligence agencies of the United States and Israel for the latest attack, saying the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, also bore responsibility for passing on information about Iran's nuclear scientists to other countries, IRNA reports.

1. what kind of bomb was used?
2. who was killed?
3. what was his job?
4. who else died?
5. what was his name?
6. where did this take place?
7. in what country?
8. what kind of vehicle exploded?
9. who reported that?
10. what day did this all take place?
11. who blamed US intelligence agencies?
12. did he blame Israel too?
13. who else bore responsibility

1. magnetic bomb
2. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan
3. nuclear scientist
4. Roshan's driver
5. Reza Qashqaei
6. Tehran
7. Iran
8. Peugeot 405
9. IRNA
10. Wednesday
11. Kazem Jalali
12. Yes
13. International Atomic Energy Agency


Bob had a son that was named John. John owned the only red dog. There was a blue dog named Jim. The red dog was named Woof. John's mother and Bob's wife was named Gail. They all lived in a tree. There was a family down the street. They were a couple named Frank and Francine. Bob hated his neighbors. One day Bob went to Frank's house and threw toilet paper all over his trees. Frank got back at Bob by stealing his son's dog. This is how the long fight between Frank and Bob began. It lasted for ten years until Bob passed away from a bad heart attack. Frank knew he needed to say sorry to Bob's wife for the years of trouble. So Frank did apologize to Bob's wife. After this everything was great between the two families for the rest of their days on this Earth.

Answer the following questions:
1. Does Bob have children?
2. Which pet is red?
3. Who is Gail?
4. Does Bob like his neighbors?
5. Who is Frank?
6. What lasted for 10 years?
7. Did Frank apologize to Bob?
8. Who did Frank apologize to?
9. What happened to Bob?
10. From what?

1. yes
2. Woof.
3. John's mother and Bob's wife
4. no
5. Francine's husband
6. 10 years
7. no
8. Bob's wife
9. he passed away
10. a heart attack.


CHAPTER XVII.

DEFEAT.

A grey dimness was creeping in upon the schooner when a little bitter breeze sprang up from westwards, and Dampier bade them get the mainsail on to her.

"I don't like the look of the weather, and I'm beginning to feel that I'd like to see that boat," he said. "Anyhow, we'll get way on her."

It was a relief to hoist the mainsail. The work put a little warmth into them, and the white men, at least, had been conscious of a growing uneasiness about their comrades in the boat. The breeze had, however, freshened before they set it, and there were white caps on the water when the _Selache_ headed for the ice. It had somewhat changed its formation when they approached it, for big masses had become detached from it and were moving out into the open water, while the opening had become perceptibly narrower. The light was now fading rapidly, and Wyllard took the wheel when Dampier sent the man there forward.

"Get the cover off the second boat, and see everything clear for hoisting out," he said to him, and then called to Wyllard. "We're close enough. You'd better heave her round."

She came round with a thrashing of canvas, stretched out seawards, and came back again with her deck sharply slanted and little puffs of bitter spray blowing over her weather rail, for there was no doubt that the breeze was freshening fast. Then Dampier sent a man up into the foremast shrouds, and looked at Wyllard afterwards.

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. What was heading towards the boat?
2. What came from the west?
3. Who gave some orders?
4. What did he want done?
5. Did he feel good about the weather?
6. What did he want to see?
7. What did they put up?
8. How did doing this make them feel?
9. What was on the water?
10. Where were they headed?
11. What was the name of their vessel?
12. What had happened to the ice?
13. How had it changed?
14. Where were they headed?
15. Was it getting darker?
16. Who took control of the ship?
17. And what did Dampier do?
18. What did he want them to uncover?
19. And who did he speak to?
20. What did he order him to do?

1. a grey dimness
2. a bitter breeze
3. Dampier
4. get the mainsail on
5. no
6. that boat
7. the mainsail
8. a little warm
9. white caps
10. for the ice
11. the Selache
12. It had changed
13. big masses became detached
14. open water
15. yes
16. Wyllard
17. sent the man forward
18. the second boat
19. Wyllard
20. heave the boat around


"What is success"? Mr. Black asked his 6th grade business class. It was his opening conversation for the first class of the term. "Success is riding in a sweet car, watching an 80-inch( TV, and living in a place with at least twelve rooms." One student answered, earning laughs from all the students. Mr. Black smiled, but shook his head. "Tom, that is excess . That is not success." "How about being able to provide for your family?" A blonde girl named Sandy in the front suggested as an answer. "Now we're getting closer," Mr. Black smiled, "but try thinking about what you need and what you want." "Getting everything you want." Tom shouted out an answer again, trying for more laughs. Mr. Black sighed ." I believe we've already talked about excess versus(...) success." "Getting everything you need, but some of what you want?" James, sitting in the back wondered aloud. "Quite right!" Mr. Black clapped. "Success is getting everything you need and some of what you want. The more you get that you want, the more successful you are. You do reach a point where you are living in excess, though." "What does this have to do with business?" Tom asked. It seemed if it wasn't funny, he wasn't happy. "Well, Tom, think of it this way: the point of business is to make a living to support your family. Once you have properly seen to their needs, you can then seen to getting the extras that you want." "What if I don't have a family?" he continued to be difficult. "Then you have to provide for yourself, a family of one." "He has goldfish to think about!" Peter, Tom's friend, shouted out. "Then he needs to provide for a family of one with a fishbowl." Mr. Black corrected himself. Tom nodded, satisfied with that answer. "So in the next nine weeks, we're going to study basic business situations, like having a checking account and understanding credit cards ." Tom rubbed his hands together excitedly. "When do we get to start spending?" "You already are, Tom. You're spending time with us!" Mr. Black laughed. "Now, let's see what you guys know about credit cards..."

Answer this series of questions:

1. mr black asked what ?
2. who did he sak ?
3. what is success like ?
4. was that the right answer ?
5. the blond girls name is ?
6. what is the boy students name ?
7. who is sitting in the back ?
8. how many students ar named ?
9. how long is the class
10. what will they study ?

1. What is success
2. 6th grade business class
3. riding in a sweet car, watching an 80-inch( TV, and living in a place with at least twelve rooms
4. no
5. Sandy
6. Tom
7. James
8. four
9. nine weeks
10. basic business situations


Once upon a time there was a cute brown puppy. He was a very happy puppy. His name was Rudy. Rudy had a best friend. His name was Thomas. Thomas had a nice dad named Rick. Thomas and Rudy had been friends for almost a year. Rudy and Thomas loved to play in the big back yard. Sometimes, Thomas would ask his friend Jacob to come to the back yard and play with them. Jacob would always bring his puppy too. Jacob's puppy was named Sally. Thomas and Jacob would run around the back yard and Rudy and Sally chased them and barked. They all had so much fun playing together. One day, Thomas told Rudy that tomorrow would be a very special day. It would be Rudy's birthday. Rudy was very excited. The next day came and Thomas threw a birthday party for Rudy. All of Rudy's friends were there and they had presents for him. Jacob brought Rudy a new ball and Sally brought him a bone. There was one more present for Rudy to open. When he opened the gift from Thomas, Rudy was so exited that he jumped and barked. It was a new red collar with a shiny name tag on it. It was the best gift Rudy had ever been given.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was Rudy's best friend?
2. How long have they been friends?
3. Where do they like to play?
4. Does anyone join them?
5. What does he bring?
6. What was its name?
7. What did she bring to the party?
8. What did Jacob bring?
9. Whose party was it?
10. Who was the last go give him a gift?
11. What was it?
12. Was he excited?
13. What was shiny?
14. Who planned the celebration?
15. Who was his dad?
16. Was he nice?
17. Whose birthday was it?

1. Thomas
2. almost a year
3. in the back yard
4. Jacob
5. his puppy
6. Sally
7. a bone
8. ball
9. Rudy's
10. Thomas
11. new red collar
12. yes
13. yes
14. Thomas
15. Rick
16. yes
17. Rudy's


One day, my family took a vacation to the beach. We were in our car for over 10 hours but it felt like we were in the car for maybe 11, 12, or 13 hours! We thought it would only be 8 hours, but we got lost. My mom and dad were in the front seat, and my sister and I were in the back seat. My sister and I were very bored, but we had to sit still and stay quiet for a lot of the time because our dad needed to be a good driver. My sister and I played with our dolls, or we tried to play easy games. I could not read or eat in the car because I felt too sick. My sister spilled Coke on the car and my mom spanked her with a glove. The look of sadness on my sister's face almost made me cry, too! We got to the ocean so late at night, but we took a nice walk next to the ocean and then we went to bed. We were so tired from doing nothing all day! The next morning we woke up early and ran to the beach and we saw so many animals! We saw dolphins, turtles, and fish! We were hoping to see a shark, but I'm glad we did not. When it was lunch time we played with some chalk and mother made lunch. I was very happy and had a great vacation!

1. Who went to the beach?
2. How long did you expect the drive to take you?
3. Where did you sit in the car?
4. Who sat next to you?
5. Did you talk to her a lot?
6. Why not?
7. What did you do to pass the time?
8. Did you read any books?
9. Did you have any snacks?
10. How come?
11. Who spilled a soda?
12. Did she get in trouble?
13. Who punished her?
14. What did your mother do to her?
15. Did it upset you to see your sister hurting?
16. When did you finally get to the beach?
17. What animal were you wishing to find in the water?
18. Who prepared lunch?
19. Was your trip a good one?

1. my family
2. 8 hours
3. in the back seat
4. my sister
5. no
6. Because our dad needed to be a good driver
7. we played with our dolls, or we played easy games.
8. no
9. no
10. Because I felt too sick
11. My sister
12. yes
13. my mom
14. she spanked her with a glove
15. yes
16. late at night
17. a shark
18. mother
19. Yes, I had a great vacation!


Julia gets an allowance from her parents every week for different chores she does every day. The big chore she must do is to feed the dog after school. Julia had a busy day at school and had many tests to complete. When she got home, she forgot to feed her dog, Buddy. Her parents had to feed the dog later. The next day, she forgot again. She saw her parents were feeding Buddy for her each night that she forgot to do it. Julia stopped doing her chore because she knew her parents would take care of it for her. Julia used her extra time to play every day after school. At the end of the week, Julia was excited. She had been wanting a new doll that had come out in the stores. Her friends all had them, and she wanted one, too. But at the end of the week, Julia didn't get an allowance. Her parents told her it was because she had not done her big chore all week, and had played instead. Julia did not get the toy she wanted that week.

1. did ultimately Julia get her toy
2. did her friends have the one she wanted?
3. was she anticipating getting the toy?
4. what was her mood?
5. did she use her time after school wisely?
6. does she normally get an allowance?
7. how often?
8. for what?
9. did she feed the dog?
10. did she forget multiple times?
11. who did them instead?

Provide a numbered list of answers.

1. no
2. yes
3. yes
4. excited
5. no
6. yes
7. every week
8. different chores
9. no
10. yes
11. her parents


Tommy was a cowboy. He and his horse, Candy, lived by the Gentle River. The Gentle River was as clear as a mirror. One day, Tommy was riding Candy along the shore when he saw a fire in the distance.

"Wow," Tommy said. "I wonder why there's a fire."

Tommy and Candy went to see. The fire was deep in the hills, and it took a long time to get there. By the time they arrived, it was almost supper time.

The fire was a campfire. There was a little girl at the fire. She was drawing pictures with crayons.

"Hello," Tommy said. "What are you doing in the hills?"

"I'm Lucy," the girl said. "I'm camping, but my tent got blown away by the wind. So I'm sitting by the fire and drawing pictures."

"What are you drawing?"

"I'm finishing up this drawing of a dragon," she said. Then she pointed at two drawings on the ground next to her. They were held in place with pebbles. "This is an elf," she said. "And this is a pony."

"They're very pretty," Tommy said. "I'm Tommy, and this is Candy."

"Pleased to meet you," Lucy said. "Would you like to draw with me? We can do a drawing of Candy together."

"That would be fun," Tommy said.

And so they sat down and drew a picture of Candy together.

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. what was the name of Tommy's horse?
2. where did they live near?
3. was it a clear river
4. what did they see in the distance?
5. how long did it take to get to the fire?
6. was it a wild fire?
7. who was near the fire?
8. what was her name?
9. what happened to her tent?
10. what was she doing in the mean time
11. of what?

1. Candy
2. The Gentle River
3. Yes
4. A fire.
5. Until supper time!
6. No.
7. Little girl.
8. Lucy
9. Got blow away.
10. Drawing pictures.
11. Dragon


Read the text and answer the questions.

The stated clauses of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact were a guarantee of non-belligerence by each party towards the other, and a written commitment that neither party would ally itself to, or aid, an enemy of the other party. In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included a secret protocol that divided territories of Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland into German and Soviet "spheres of influence", anticipating potential "territorial and political rearrangements" of these countries. Thereafter, Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. After the Soviet–Japanese ceasefire agreement took effect on 16 September, Stalin ordered his own invasion of Poland on 17 September. Part of southeastern (Karelia) and Salla region in Finland were annexed by the Soviet Union after the Winter War. This was followed by Soviet annexations of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Romania (Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina, and the Hertza region). Concern about ethnic Ukrainians and Belarusians had been proffered as justification for the Soviet invasion of Poland. Stalin's invasion of Bukovina in 1940 violated the pact, as it went beyond the Soviet sphere of influence agreed with the Axis.

1. When did Germany invade Poland?
2. When did the agreement with the Soviet and Japan take place?
3. What did Stalin do?
4. When was that?
5. What was the goal of the Nazi-Soviet pact?
6. What was the written agreement about?
7. What areas were divided?
8. What territories were annexed by the Soviet?
9. And then where?
10. What was the justification for invading Poland?

1. 1 September 1939
2. 16 September
3. ordered his own invasion of Poland
4. 17 September
5. guarantee of non-belligerence by each party
6. neither party would ally itself to, or aid, an enemy of the other party.
7. Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland
8. Part of southeastern (Karelia) and Salla region in Finland
9. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Romania (Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina, and the Hertza region).
10. Concern about ethnic Ukrainians and Belarusians


Bob was happy. He was at a new school, and the other students were friendly. "Hi, Bob!" They said. But some students said, "Hi, Peter!" Bob didn't understand. He asked another student, " Why do some students call me Peter?" "Oh, that is easy to answer," the student said. "Peter was a student here last year. Now, he goes to a different school. You like Peter. Some students think that you are Peter." Bob wanted to meet Peter. He got Peter's address from a student and went to Peter's house. Peter opened the door. Bob couldn't believe his eyes. He looked really like Peter! Bob and Peter had the same color eyes and the same smile. They had the same black hair. They also had the same birthday. Bob and Peter found out that they were twin brothers. They both were adopted by two different families. Soon after the boys born, one family adopted Bob, and another family adopted Peter. Bob's family never knew about Peter, and Peter's family never knew about Bob, either.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. Who was happy?
2. Why?
3. What was he called?
4. Where did he go?
5. What did Bob do?
6. Who did he want to meet?
7. Where?
8. Who opened the door?
9. What color was their hair?
10. Why did they look like each other?

1. Bob
2. He was at a new school, and the other students were friendly
3. Peter
4. to a different school
5. He asked another student,
6. Peter
7. Peter's house
8. Peter
9. black
10. they were twin brothers


CHAPTER V

The day after the little conference at John's, Felix had indeed received the following note:

"DEAR FELIX:

"When you go down to see old Tod, why not put up with us at Becket? Any time will suit, and the car can take you over to Joyfields when you like. Give the pen a rest. Clara joins in hoping you'll come, and Mother is still here. No use, I suppose, to ask Flora.

"Yours ever,

"STANLEY."

During the twenty years of his brother's sojourn there Felix had been down to Becket perhaps once a year, and latterly alone; for Flora, having accompanied him the first few times, had taken a firm stand.

"My dear," she said, "I feel all body there."

Felix had rejoined:

"No bad thing, once in a way."

But Flora had remained firm. Life was too short! She did not get on well with Clara. Neither did Felix feel too happy in his sister-in-law's presence; but the gray top-hat instinct had kept him going there, for one ought to keep in touch with one's brothers.

He replied to Stanley:

"DEAR STANLEY:

"Delighted; if I may bring my two youngsters. We'll arrive to-morrow at four-fifty.

"Yours affectionately,

"FELIX."

Travelling with Nedda was always jolly; one could watch her eyes noting, inquiring, and when occasion served, have one's little finger hooked in and squeezed. Travelling with Alan was convenient, the young man having a way with railways which Felix himself had long despaired of acquiring. Neither of the children had ever been at Becket, and though Alan was seldom curious, and Nedda too curious about everything to be specially so about this, yet Felix experienced in their company the sensations of a new adventure.

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. Stanley
2. No
3. once a year
4. two
5. A note from Stanley
6. Give it a rest
7. no
8. No
9. Yes
10. his two youngsters
11. Alan and Nedda
12. four-fifty.
13. No
14. railways

1. who invited felix to stay with them?
2. did flora and clara get along?
3. how many times a year does felix visit Becket?
4. how many children does he have?
5. what did he get after the conference at John's?
6. what did Stanley want him to do with his pen?
7. does Flora usually go with him to visit Stanley?
8. Did felix get along with his sister-in-law?
9. did he reply to the invite?
10. who did he say he would bring?
11. what are there names?
12. what time were they set to arrive?
13. had the kids ever been to Becket?
14. what was Alan good with?