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3txwc2nhnzqf2par7iwws7cujla9sz | race | A 51-year-old lawyer has moved back in with his mother-after giving up his Los Angeles home to a family of strangers for a year.
Tony Tolbert looked for a family in need after his father set a glowing example when he was growing up by always welcoming people to stay in their spare room. "You don't have to be Bill Gates or Warren Buffet or Oprah," Tolbert told CBS. "We can do it wherever we are, with whatever we have, and for me, I have a home that I can make available. " His mother, Marie Tolbert, added, " He is go giving, and he's always been that way. "
Tolbert went to Alexandria House, a shelter for homeless women and children, and came across Felicia Dukes, who lived in a single bedroom with three of her children. Her family had been separated as the shelter was just for children and her eldest son was unable to join them. Tolbert told the staff he wanted to bring the. family back together, and offered his home.
The family has now moved into the three-bedroom, two-bathroom home - with Duke's oldest son. It is worth nearly $400,000, according to online estimates. "My heart just fills up with appreciation, " Dukes said, as she wiped away her tears.
The heartwarming story comes after the report that l0-year-old Gracie McNulty, from England, served Christmas dinners t0 50 homeless people, achieving her fathers last Christmas wish.
Her father Craig, 38, was a regular charity volunteer who had served breakfast to the homeless on Boxing Day. But as a roofer, he suffered serious head injuries when he fell while working. And 'he died soon after the accident in August.
"It's been the best Christmas ever, " Cracie said. "I was just at school feeling sad and so I decided I wanted to do something to make him proud and this felt like the perfect thing. " QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who gave up their house?
2. Who is offering to let someone else use their home?
3. Who is permitting others to live in his home?
Q2:
1. Who is the 51 year old lawyer?
2. What is the name of the 51 year old lawyer?
3. Who is the attorney that is 51 years old?
Q3:
1. Why did Tony Tolbert give up his home?
2. What pushed Tony Tolbert to let someone else have his house?
3. What did Tony Tolbert let go of his home for?
Q4:
1. Did Tony Tolbert set an example of generosity?
2. Was Tony Tolbert's father the one to set an example for him?
3. Did Tony Tolbert decide he wanted to follow the lead of his father?
Q5:
1. Who was Tony Tolbert's mother?
2. What was the name of Tony Tolbert's mom?
3. What woman was Tony Tolbert the son of?
Q6:
1. What did Tony Tolbert's mom have to say about him?
2. What did Marie Tolbert have to say about her son?
3. What was Marie Tolbert's opinion of her son Tony?
Q7:
1. Where did Tony Tolbert go in search of people who needed help?
2. Where did Tony Tolbert go looking for people that needed his help?
3. Where did Tony Tolbert travel in order to locate someone who needed his assistance?
Q8:
1. Did Tony Tolbert find someone to help?
2. Was there anyone at Alexandria House for Tony Tolbert to help?
3. Did Tony Tolbert locate anyone at Alexandria House who could use his assistance?
Q9:
1. What was the name of the woman that needed help?
2. Who did Tony Tolbert lend a hand to?
3. Who received assistance from Tony Tolbert?
Q10:
1. Did Felicia Dukes have children?
2. Was Felicia Dukes a mother?
3. Did Felicia Dukes have any kids?
Q11:
1. How many kids did Felicia Dukes have?
2. To how many children was Felicia Dukes a mother?
3. What was the number of kids that Felicia Dukes had?
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3kgtpgbs6xlkhihwbechxlm4x7t2ud | gutenberg | CHAPTER XI
THE FRUIT THAT IS OF GOLD
At precisely the hour agreed upon Harcutt and Densham met in one of the ante-rooms leading into the "Milan" restaurant. They surrendered their coats and hats to an attendant, and strolled about waiting for Wolfenden. A quarter of an hour passed. The stream of people from the theatres began to grow thinner. Still, Wolfenden did not come. Harcutt took out his watch.
"I propose that we do not wait any longer for Wolfenden," he said. "I saw him this afternoon, and he answered me very oddly when I reminded him about to-night. There is such a crowd here too, that they will not keep our table much longer."
"Let us go in, by all means," Densham agreed. "Wolfenden will easily find us if he wants to!"
Harcutt returned his watch to his pocket slowly, and without removing his eyes from Densham's face.
"You're not looking very fit, old chap," he remarked. "Is anything wrong?"
Densham shook his head and turned away.
"I am a little tired," he said. "We've been keeping late hours the last few nights. There's nothing the matter with me, though. Come, let us go in!"
Harcutt linked his arm in Densham's. The two men stood in the doorway.
"I have not asked you yet," Harcutt said, in a low tone. "What fortune?"
Densham laughed a little bitterly.
"I will tell you all that I know presently," he said.
"You have found out something, then?"
"I have found out," Densham answered, "all that I care to know! I have found out so much that I am leaving England within a week!" QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What did Harcutt put back in his pocket?
2. What did Harcutt place back into his pocket?
3. Which of Harcutt's possessions did he return to his pocket?
Q2:
1. What was Harcutt doing when he put the watch in his pocket?
2. As Harcutt placed the watch into his pocket, what was he doing?
3. What was Harcutt up to whilst placing the watch into his pocket?
Q3:
1. What was Densham's reaction as Harcutt was putting away the pocket watch?
2. How did Densham react when Harcutt looked at him?
3. What was Densham's reaction after Harcutt put his pocketwatch away?
Q4:
1. Did Harcutt place his hands on Densham?
2. Was Densham ever touched by Harcutt?
3. Did Harcutt make physical contact with Densham?
Q5:
1. What part of Densham did Harcutt touch?
2. Where on his body was Densham touched by Harcutt?
3. Where on Densham did Harcutt place his hands?
Q6:
1. What is the name of the location where Densham and harcutt are?
2. Where are Densham and Harcutt?
3. What's the place that Harcutt and Densham are at called?
Q7:
1. What were Densham and Harcutt doing at the restaurant?
2. What brought Densham and Harcutt to the Milan?
3. Why had Densham and Harcutt come to the Milan?
Q8:
1. Were Densham and Harcutt weary?
2. Were the two men beleaguered?
3. Was the pair quite tired?
Q9:
1. Did the pair check the time?
2. Did Densham and Harcutt look to see what time it was?
3. Did Harcutt and Densham take a peek at the hour?
Q10:
1. What did Harcutt suggest since they were waiting?
2. What did Harcutt think it best to do since the pair was waiting?
3. What did Harcutt think they should do since they were waiting?
Q11:
1. Did Densham agree to go into the restaurant?
2. Did Densham accept Harcutt's proposition?
3. Was Harcutt's proposition taken up by Densham?
Q12:
1. Why wasn't Densham looking great?
2. What was wrong with Densham's appearance?
3. What was the problem with how Densham looked?
Q13:
1. Why was Densham tired?
2. What had Densham feeling sleepy?
3. What had exhausted Densham physically?
Q14:
1. Was Harcutt able to make Densham laugh?
2. Did Harcutt succeed at getting a laugh out of Densham?
3. Did Harcutt manage to make Densham chuckle?
Q15:
1. What did Harcutt say to make Densham laugh?
2. How was Harcutt able to get a chuckle out of Densham?
3. What did Harcutt say that got a laugh out of Densham?
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3gd6l00d3sxufpurj8lh1sv5sfw1mn | cnn | (CNN) -- Donald Sterling has agreed to the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Sterling's attorneys told CNN on Wednesday.
Last week, Sterling's estranged wife, Shelly, agreed to sell the franchise to Ballmer for an NBA record $2 billion. The Sterlings are co-owners of the team through a family trust.
Donald Sterling initially indicated he would fight the sale and filed a lawsuit against the National Basketball Association.
The suit has yet to be withdrawn, attorneys Bobby Samini and Maxwell Blecher, said, but that likely will happen this week.
"Donald Sterling officially announces today, the NBA and Donald Sterling and Shelly Sterling have agreed to sell the Los Angeles Clippers to Steve Ballmer for $2 billion and various additional benefits. All disputes and outstanding issues have been resolved," Samini said in a written statement.
Blecher said he thought that Sterling worked out a resolution with the league or with Shelly Sterling.
The NBA was expected to issue a news release commenting on Wednesday's developments.
As of 8 p.m. ET, the NBA had not received a sale agreement with Donald Sterling's signature, a source with detailed knowledge of the negotiations said. The source said Sterling was in a room with his two attorneys, going through the deal.
NBA owners still have to approve the sale to Ballmer, who has indicated he would keep the team in Los Angeles. Ballmer, according to Forbes magazine, is worth $20.3 billion.
Ballmer has tried to buy a NBA team before. Last year, he and investor Chris Hansen were set to purchase the Sacramento Kings, but the NBA nixed the deal because the duo would have moved the franchise to Seattle. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who were the LA Clippers purchased by?
2. Who did the LA Clippers get sold to?
3. Who was the buyer of the LA Clippers?
Q2:
1. Who did Steve Ballmer buy the LA Clippers from?
2. Who sold the LA Clippers to Steve Ballmer?
3. From whom did Steve Ballmer purchase the Los Angeles Clippers?
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3urfvvm165iantk80llvkwwbjukzu3 | cnn | (CNN) -- Mark McGwire deserves a ban from baseball more than any sympathy.
It is sad to hear his quavery confession of a career filled with steroids, his sorrow over the pain it caused his family and fans, his revelation of a life of lies that burned inside him like a hidden disease and consumed the game he loved.
But for those of us who also love baseball, the damage he did was too deep and his further threat to the integrity of the game is too great to justify his return.
McGwire's entire playing career is indelibly stained and his judgment is not to be trusted. What else are we to make of a man who cheated and didn't come clean for 20 years? Can he be trusted to coach other players who may be using steroids? Is he fit for any job that is also a test of character and personal standards? Baseball should bar him from coaching and never again allow his name on a Hall of Fame ballot.
St. Louis manager Tony La Russa, McGwire's longtime apologist, is leading the charge to rehabilitate him in his new role as the Cardinals' batting coach, saying Monday's admission and expression of regret is worthy of respect.
This from a manager who either closed his eyes to drug use on his teams, didn't know what he should have known, or kept conspiratorially silent about it through all the years with McGwire on the Oakland Athletics (along with Jose Canseco) and on the Cards. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is Mark McGwire's sport?
2. In what sport does Mark McGwire participate?
3. Which athletic activity has Mark McGwire as a player?
Q2:
1. What drugs did Mark McGwire use?
2. What were Mark McGwire's drugs of choice?
3. What doping agents did Mark McGwire partake in?
Q3:
1. Is Mark McGwire sad about his drug use?
2. Does Mark McGwire's drug use cause him pain?
3. Does Mark McGwire have regrets about taking drugs?
Q4:
1. Who did Mark McGwire cause pain?
2. Who was hurt by Mark McGwire?
3. Whose pain was a result of Mark McGwire's actions?
Q5:
1. Who, besides his family, did Mark McGwire cause pain?
2. Who was hurt by Mark McGwire, in addition to his family?
3. Whose pain was a result of Mark McGwire's actions, other than his own family?
Q6:
1. How long did it take Mark McGwire to confess?
2. How much time did it take Mark McGwire to own up to his actions?
3. For how long did Mark McGwire refuse to come clean?
Q7:
1. Does the author feel that Mark McGwire should appear in the Hall of Fame?
2. In the author's opinion, does Mark McGwire belong in the Hall of Fame?
3. Does the writer think that the Hall of Fame is an appropriate place for Mark McGwire?
Q8:
1. Does the author feel that Mark McGwire is fit to coach?
2. Would the author be okay with Mark McGwire coaching?
3. Does the author think that coaching would be an appropriate position for Mark McGwire?
Q9:
1. What is the name of St. Louis' manager?
2. Who is in charge of managing St. Louis?
3. Whose job is it to manage St. Louis?
Q10:
1. Does Tony La Russa support Mark McGwire?
2. Is Tony La Russa on Mark McGwire's side?
3. Is Tony La Russa rooting for Mark McGwire?
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3r3yrb5grf39mlc0ot5w3352a84au2 | gutenberg | CHAPTER XXI.
While Bathurst was busying himself completing his preparations for the attempt, Rabda came in with her father.
"My lord," she said, "I tremble at the thought of your venturing your life. My life is of no importance, and it belongs to you. What I would propose is this. My father will go to Bithoor, and will obtain an order from one of the Nana's officers for a lady of the zenana to visit the prisoners. I will go in veiled, as I was on the day I went there. I will change garments with the lady, and she can come out veiled, and meet you outside."
"I would not dream of such a thing, Rabda. You would be killed to a certainty when they discovered the trick. Even if I would consent to the sacrifice, Miss Hannay would not do so. I am deeply grateful to you for proposing it, but it is impossible. You will see that, with the aid of your father, I shall succeed."
"I told her that would be your answer, sahib," Rujub said, "but she insisted on making the offer."
It was arranged that they were to start at nine o'clock, as it was safer to make the attempt before everything became quiet. Before starting, Rabda was again placed in a trance. In reply to her father's questions she said that Mary Hunter was dead, and that Isobel was lying down. She was told to tell her that in an hour she was to be at the window next to the door. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Could Rabda be described as a boy or a girl?
2. Would you say that Rabda is a boy or a girl?
3. Tell us whether Rabda is a boy or a girl.
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3p59jyt76lk5h527b9m7sp02f18t2g | cnn | Paris, France (CNN) -- She's been called "beautiful," "hot" and "sexy" but when it comes to tennis, the most apt description for Maria Sharapova has to be "tough."
The Russian rallied from a set down three straight times to reach this year's French Open final and then prevailed in Saturday's thrilling three-hour finale against rising star Simona Halep, 6-4 6-7 6-4.
"This is the toughest grand slam final I've ever played," Sharapova, who was contesting a ninth such match, summed up as she collected her trophy.
Even after losing the second set and hitting a flurry of double faults, Sharapova still had the edge.
She's almost a sure thing in third sets on clay, having triumphed 20 times in a row. It's been six years since the 27-year-old was defeated after capturing the first set in a clay-court match, too.
But if Halep maintains this form, it won't be long before she opens her grand slam account.
Smaller and with less power than Sharapova, the Romanian nonetheless almost did the unthinkable -- toughing out the now five-time grand slam champion. Her manager, Virginia Ruzici, remains the last Romanian to win a grand slam, in Paris in 1978.
Sharapova famously uttered in 2007 that she felt like a "cow on ice" playing on clay but the French Open has now become her most productive grand slam -- it's the only one she's won more than once and it's the only one she's won after two serious shoulder injuries in 2008 and 2013. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is Maria Sharapova's profession?
2. What is Maria Sharapova famous for?
3. How is Maria Sharapova employed?
Q2:
1. What tennis match has Maria Sharapova competed in?
2. What tennis championship featured Maria Sharapova?
3. What was the tennis competition that Maria Sharapova played in?
Q3:
1. Who did Maria Sharapova play against?
2. Who was Maria Sharapova's opponent?
3. Who went up against Maria Sharapova?
Q4:
1. Was Maria Sharapova victorious in her match against Simona Halep?
2. Did Maria Sharapova beat Simona Halep?
3. Did Maria Sharapova come out on top in her game against Simona Halep?
Q5:
1. What was the duration of the Maria Sharapova-Simona Halep match?
2. How long did the match between Maria Sharapova and Simona Halep last?
3. For how long did Maria Sharapova and Simona Halep play against each other?
Q6:
1. When the first round was over, what was the score?
2. How many points did each player have at the end of the first round?
3. At the end of the first round, what were Maria Sharapova and Simona Halep's scores?
Q7:
1. When the second round was over, what was the score?
2. How many points did each player have at the end of the second round?
3. At the end of the second round, what were Maria Sharapova and Simona Halep's scores?
Q8:
1. When the third round was over, what was the score?
2. How many points did each player have at the end of the third round?
3. At the end of the third round, what were Maria Sharapova and Simona Halep's scores?
Q9:
1. What is the number of consecutive wins Maria Sharapova has had in third sets on clay?
2. When Maria Sharapova has played third sets on clay, how many times has she won consecutively?
3. How many times has Maria Sharapova won in a row in third sets on clay?
Q10:
1. Has Maria Sharapova lost after winning the first round on clay?
2. Has Maria Sharapova ever been defeated after winning a first round on clay?
3. After claiming victory in a first round on clay, has Maria Sharapova ever gone on to lose?
Q11:
1. How many years ago did Maria Sharapova lose a match after winning a first round on clay?
2. How long ago was it that Maria Sharapova lost after having won a first clay-court match
3. How long ago did Maria Sharapova win a first round on clay then go on to lose?
Q12:
1. how old is Maria Sharapova?
2. What is Maria Sharapova's age?
3. State the age of Maria Sharapova.
Q13:
1. Has Maria Sharapova won any competitions more than once?
2. Has Maria Sharapova ever been victorious in a competition multiple times?
3. Have there been multiple times that Maria Sharapova has won a certain competition?
Q14:
1. What championship has Maria Sharapova won more than once?
2. Which competition has Maria Sharapova won multiple times?
3. What's a competition where Maria Sharapova has claimed victory more than once?
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3uouji6mtdeliyktz3xanbg0br5uxe | cnn | (CNN) -- Michael Schumacher has been one of Pirelli's biggest critics this season, but Formula One's tire supplier has backed the seven-time world champion to end his long wait for a victory at Sunday's European Grand Prix.
The 43-year-old, who has not finished on the podium since coming out of retirement in 2010, told CNN that dealing with the rapidly degrading rubber this year was like "driving on raw eggs."
He has been outshone by Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg, but Pirelli's motorsport director Paul Hembery believes the German can perform well in Valencia, where he has failed to make the top-10 in two previous attempts.
Schumacher did, however, top the qualifying times at another street circuit last month in Monaco, but started the race sixth due to a penalty and ended up retiring early -- as he did last time out in Canada.
"I think you have to look at someone like, maybe Michael, getting the pole position," Hembery told F1's official website.
"He probably would have won Monaco if he hadn't been penalized, so why not here? Michael for Valencia, that's where the money should go."
Sauber chief: "F1 better than ever"
Schumacher, who won 91 grands prix between 1992 and 2006, was penalized in Monte Carlo due to a collision with Bruno Senna at the Spanish Grand Prix.
The former Ferrari driver has endured a miserable start to the 2012 season, collecting just two world championship points and retiring from five of the first seven races. Rosberg, meanwhile, is fifth on 67 points and clinched the first race win of his career in China. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What athlete does the article mention?
2. Who plays a sport that the article talks about?
3. Who in the article is an athlete?
Q2:
1. What sport does Pirelli play?
2. What is Pirelli's sport?
3. In what domain is Pirelli an athlete?
Q3:
1. Who has been critical of Pirelli's driving?
2. Who has criticized the way that Pirelli drives?
3. Who hasn't been a fan of Pirelli's driving style?
Q4:
1. Has Schumacher ever won a grand prix?
2. Has a grand prix ever gone to Schumacher?
3. Has Michael Schumacher ever been a grand prix winner?
Q5:
1. How many grand prix has Michael Schumacher won?
2. How many grand prix have gone to Michael Schumacher?
3. What is the number of grand prix that Michael Schumacher has been awarded?
Q6:
1. When did Michael Schumacher win his grand prix?
2. During what years were Michael Schumacher's grand prix' awarded?
3. Between which years did Michael Schumacher get his grand prixes?
Q7:
1. Has Michael Schumacher ever gotten into a wreck on the track?
2. Has Michael Schumacher ever wrecked while racing?
3. Has Michael Schumacher ever had an accident while on the track?
Q8:
1. Where did Michael Schumacher wreck?
2. What track did Michael Schumacher wreck on?
3. What was the site of Michael Schumacher's accident?
Q9:
1. Who was the other person involved in Michael Schumacher's wreck?
2. With whom did Michael Schumacher collide?
3. Who was Michael Schumacher involved in an accident with?
Q10:
1. Did Michael Schumacher qualify anywhere recently?
2. Has Michael Schumacher had any recent qualifications?
3. Has there been anywhere that Michael Schumacher has just qualified at?
Q11:
1. When did Michael Schumacher just qualify for something?
2. When was Michael Schumacher just qualified for something?
3. At what point did Michael Schumacher recently qualify?
Q12:
1. Where did Michael Schumacher qualify last month?
2. What was the site of Michael Schumacher's recent qualification?
3. In what location did Michael Schumacher qualify last month?
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3kxir214i4gl0knhw8lzkhoaz9u42c | gutenberg | CHAPTER VI.
THE PRIEST'S CHAMBER.
I was very glad that Polly had left school and come home for good. It was far more cheerful and pleasant than it had been at all since I left school. Polly made the place so cheerful with her bright happy smile, and was so full of life and fun, that I never found time to sit and muse, and wonder and fret over the future, as I had done before she came home. She never left me long alone for any time, but every day would make me go out for long walks with her, and indeed devoted herself entirely to cheering and amusing me. Papa too very much recovered his spirits under her genial influence; and altogether she made our home much brighter and more cheerful than before.
So our life went on for nearly three months, and then one Friday evening I was told that Sarah was below waiting to speak to me. I was rather surprised, for she had been to the house very seldom before, and then always on Sunday evenings.
However, the moment she came in, I saw that she had something very important to tell. Her bright face was quite pale with excitement, and her whole figure was in a nervous tremble.
"Oh, miss," she burst out directly the door was closed behind her, "Oh, miss, I have found the secret door!"
Although I had tried all along to hope that she would some day do so, that hope had been so long deferred that it had almost died away; and now at the sudden news, I felt all the blood rush to my heart, the room swam round with me, and I sat on a chair quite overwhelmed by the sudden shock. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Did Polly leave school?
2. Did Polly stop going to school?
3. Did Polly cease to be a student?
Q2:
1. Was Polly planning on returning to school?
2. Did Polly have plans to go back to school?
3. Did Polly intend to return to school?
Q3:
1. Was Polly generally a happy person?
2. Did Polly tend to be in a good mood?
3. Was Polly generally Jolly?
Q4:
1. When did Sarah arrive?
2. At what point did Sarah show up?
3. What was the time of Sarah's arrival?
Q5:
1. On what day of the week did Sarah arrive?
2. What was the day of the week when Sarah showed up?
3. On which day in the week did Sarah present herself?
Q6:
1. On what day of the week did Sarah arrive?
2. What was the day of the week when Sarah showed up?
3. On which day in the week did Sarah present herself?
Q7:
1. When did Sarah usually arrive?
2. What was Sarah's normal date of arrival?
3. When did Sarah normally come?
Q8:
1. What was so important that Sarah needed to tell?
2. What did Sarah have to say that was so important?
3. What extremely important thing did Sarah have to talk about?
Q9:
1. Was Sarah nervous about speaking?
2. Did it make Sarah nervous to talk about the secret door?
3. Did discussion of the secret door make Sarah anxious?
Q10:
1. Was the narrator taken aback?
2. Did the narrator feel surprised?
3. Was the narrator in a bit of a shock?
Q11:
1. What was Polly's daily activity?
2. What did Polly do on a daily basis?
3. What would Polly do each day?
Q12:
1. What was Polly dedicated to?
2. What did Polly devote herself to?
3. What was Polly's devotion?
Q13:
1. How was Papa?
2. What was Papa's state?
3. What sort of state was Papa in?
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3a0ex8zrn8ovm41x482h1zvloc5byx | wikipedia | ISO 20121 (full name: ISO 20121:2012, "Event sustainability management systems –- Requirements with guidance for use") is a voluntary international standard for sustainable event management, created by the International Organization for Standardization. The standard aims to help organizations improve sustainability throughout the entire event management cycle.
Every event – from a village barbecue to a major sporting event like the Olympics – will have economic, social and environmental impacts. Water and energy resources are put under pressure, significant amounts of waste and carbon emissions can be generated. Sometimes events can put a strain on local communities. By 2005, practitioners within the events industry were becoming aware of the need for more sustainable practices.
Specifically, the Head of Sustainability at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, David Stubbs, was looking for a way to make good on the sustainability promises made in the London Games bid.
He raised the issue with the British Standards Institution (BSI) in the UK. This led to the creation of BS 8901:2007 "Specification for a sustainable event management system with guidance for use". After a period of review, the second version of BS 8901 was published in 2009.
BS 8901 was received very positively by the international event industry, and was soon being widely used. For example, COP15, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, was certified as compliant with BS 8901 in December 2009. The Microsoft Corporation achieved certification to BS 8901 at its Microsoft Convergence® 2009 event in New Orleans, Louisiana, in March 2009. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the main subject of the article?
2. What does the article focus on?
3. What topic does the article mostly cover?
Q2:
1. What's one event that has impacts?
2. What is an example of an event that impacts the world?
3. Name one sort of gathering that comes with certain impacts.
Q3:
1. What's one event that has impacts, besides a village barbecue?
2. What is an example of an event that impacts the world, in addition to a village barbecue?
3. Name one sort of gathering that comes with certain impacts, as does a village barbecue.
Q4:
1. What's one event that has impacts, besides a village barbecue and the Olympics?
2. What is an example of an event that impacts the world, in addition to a village barbecue or the Olympics?
3. Name one sort of gathering that comes with certain impacts, as does a village barbecue or the Olympics.
Q5:
1. What is the number of impacts listed?
2. How many different ways is impact made?
3. How many kinds of impacts does the article mention?
Q6:
1. What is one of the impacts the article mentions?
2. Name one of the impacts listed in the article.
3. What's one example of an impact that events have?
Q7:
1. Do impacts on the environment exist?
2. Is it possible for the environment to be impacted?
3. Are there potential effects on the environment?
Q8:
1. What other impact is there, besides environmental and economical?
2. What other impact hasn't been mentioned, in addition to environmental and economic?
3. What's an impact that hasn't been discussed, as have environmental and economic ones?
Q9:
1. What's an example of a resource that can be strained?
2. What's a resource that can have strain put upon it?
3. What is one resource that sometimes feels pressure upon it?
Q10:
1. What's an example of a resource other than water that can be strained?
2. What's a resource that can have strain put upon it, besides water?
3. What is one resource that sometimes feels pressure upon it, like water?
Q11:
1. What emission can pressure on water and energy generate?
2. What is emitted as a result of pressure on water and energy?
3. What does pressure put upon water and energy result in?
Q12:
1. What emission besides waste can pressure on water and energy generate?
2. What is emitted as a result of pressure on water and energy, other than waste?
3. What does pressure put upon water and energy result in, besides waste?
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3z2r0dq0jhe3smkalexct301bqoe2b | mctest | Seedy the watermelon was a very special type of watermelon. He didn't have any seeds. He was green and he had stripes. All of his cousins had seeds, but he didn't have any. He felt very left out. He couldn't thing of why he was different. His mom told him it was because he was a very special watermelon. She also tells him she loves him the way he is. But Seedy didn't think it was a good thing. He wished he could be like everyone else and have seeds. One day, he rolled out to the lawn and looked at all of his new cousins growing in the garden. He rolled around until he found a little baby watermelon that didn't have any seeds either. He sat next to him and talked to him. He told him that he was very special, and was excited for him to be picked off the vine and be his special best friend. He would name him Seedy, Jr. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was unique about Seedy?
2. Why wasn't Seedy like the other watermelons?
3. What made Seedy different from the other watermelons?
Q2:
1. What color was Seedy?
2. What was Seedy's color?
3. What shade was Seedy in?
Q3:
1. What did Seedy's parents believe?
2. What did Seedy's parents think of them?
3. What was the opinion of Seedy's parents of their son?
Q4:
1. Did Seedy think he was special?
2. Did Seedy feel special?
3. Was special a way that Seedy felt about himself?
Q5:
1. What did Seedy think about another melon not having seeds?
2. How did Seedy feel towards a different melon that did not have seeds?
3. What were Seedy's feelings with respect to another seedless watermelon?
Q6:
1. What did Seedy call the other seedless melon?
2. What name did Seedy give to the second melon without seeds?
3. What was the name that Seedy bestowed upon the other seedless melon?
Q7:
1. Did Seedy and the other seedless melon become friends?
2. Did Seedy and Seedy Jr. strike up a friendship?
3. Did Seedy and Seedy Jr. become friends?
Q8:
1. Were Seedy and Seedy Jr. related?
2. Were Seedy and Seedy Jr. family members?
3. Did Seedy and Seedy Jr. come from the same family?
Q9:
1. Did Seedy decide he was good the way he was?
2. Did Seedy accept the way that he was?
3. Did Seedy find self-acceptance?
Q10:
1. What was Seedy's mom's name?
2. Who was Seedy's mother?
3. What was the name of Seedy's mother?
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3zotghdk5ibi9cex97fepx7jeqfosn | cnn | (CNN) -- During the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night, Jimmy Kimmel made a joke that President Obama laughed at, but that you could see was just killing him inside.
"Mr. President, do you remember when the country rallied around you in hopes of a better tomorrow?" Kimmel asked. "That was hilarious. That was your best one yet."
Yeah it was.
I'm sure he still has a lot of hope. But I would dare to say the thing that changed most over these past three years is Obama. The unbridled optimism that his first campaign once embodied has been bludgeoned by dogmatism, pragmatism and bipartisan cronyism.
Hope and change are tough when the worst economy in 80 years is waiting to greet you at the door.
Hope and change are challenging when Rush Limbaugh, the unofficial gatekeeper of the conservative movement, tells his troops "I hope Obama fails" before your first day on the job.
Hope and change are virtually impossible when working with a Congress so dysfunctional that its approval rating never reached 25% in all of 2011 and was as low as 10% in February.
No wonder his hair is a bit grayer these days.
And no wonder the new Obama slogan is "Forward."
"Hope and Change" captured the heart of a people who believed one man could change the culture of Washington. "Forward" acknowledges things are not where he said they would be, but takes ownership of a record that shows he at least has us pointed in the right direction: 12 consecutive months of job losses before he took office, 25 consecutive months and counting of job growth since 2010. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What did Obama once use as a slogan?
2. What did Obama's slogan used to be?
3. What was a previous slogan used by Barack Obama?
Q2:
1. What is Obama's new slogan?
2. What slogan is Obama using these days?
3. What is the current slogan used by Barack Obama?
Q3:
1. During Obama's presidency, the economy was at its worst in how long?
2. How long had it been since the economy was as bad as it was when Obama took office?
3. How much time had passed since the economy had reached the low point it was at when Obama became president?
Q4:
1. Who wanted Obama to do poorly?
2. Who wished for Obama's downfall?
3. Who was hoping that Obama would do a bad job?
Q5:
1. Is Rush Limbaugh a liberal or a conservative?
2. Does Rush Limbaugh hold liberal or conservative views?
3. Are Rush Limbaugh's positions liberal or conservative?
Q6:
1. What took place on Saturday?
2. What was Saturday's event?
3. What was the event that took place on Saturday?
Q7:
1. Who spoke at the White House Correspondents' Dinner?
2. Who gave a speech during the White House Correspondents' Dinner?
3. Who was the White House Correspondents' Dinner's speaker?
Q8:
1. Did Obama laugh?
2. Did Obama openly find the jokes funny?
3. Did Obama react positively to Jimmy Kimmel's joke?
Q9:
1. At the time of the article, how long had Obama been president?
2. When the article was written, how long had Obama been in office?
3. At the time of the article's publication, how long had Obama been in the presidency?
Q10:
1. What number of months have jobs been growing for?
2. For how many months has the job market been on the upswing?
3. For how many months have job numbers been going up?
Q11:
1. Were there any breaks in job growth during the 25 months?
2. Did jobs ever pause in growth during the 25 months?
3. Was there at any point a pause in job growth over the course of the 25 months?
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3di28l7yxaew312e2axyokqwklie15 | cnn | Lille, France (CNN) -- Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka each faced questions heading into Switzerland's Davis Cup final in France.
For Federer, how would his tender back hold up?
For Wawrinka, would he recover after a tough -- and contentious -- loss to his higher-profile Swiss at the World Tour Finals in London last week?
We got our answers Friday at the Stade Pierre Mauroy on a record setting day in Lille -- but for once Federer wasn't the one rewriting the history books.
In front of the largest ever tennis crowd for a pro match -- at 27,432 it eclipsed the 27,200 that turned up to watch Spain beat the U.S. in a converted Seville bullring in the 2004 Davis Cup final -- Federer not only fell to Gael Monfils but couldn't put up much of a fight.
The 6-1 6-4 6-3 result against Monfils -- who piped down his histrionics -- marked his most lopsided defeat in 45 singles matches in the competition.
"You accept the fact that you're playing the way you feel," Federer told reporters. "But it wasn't all negative. I started to feel better as the match went on. That's very encouraging, I must say."
Also encouraging for Federer and the Swiss, Wawrinka thumped a listless Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-1 3-6 6-3 6-2 to begin the day.
Federer's performance, coupled with France's apparent advantage in Saturday's doubles, means it's the home team who'll be happier come the end of play.
One of the two major titles to elude Federer in his glittering career is a Davis Cup crown and how disappointed he must have been that on his debut in a Davis Cup final he was at less than full strength. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the location of the event?
2. Where was the event held?
3. In what country was the Davis Cup held?
Q2:
1. What town was the Davis Cup held in?
2. In what town did the Davis Cup take place?
3. What was the city where the Davis Cup happened?
Q3:
1. In what stadium was the Davis Cup held?
2. What stadium did the Davis Cup take place in?
3. Which stadium was the site of the Davis Cup?
Q4:
1. Did they play football during the Davis Cup?
2. Was the Davis Cup a football competition?
3. Did the Davis Cup host a game of football?
Q5:
1. What sport was played during the Davis Cup?
2. What was the sport associated with the Davis Cup?
3. In what sport did players compete during the Davis Cup?
Q6:
1. What first name does Federer have?
2. Whose last name is Federer?
3. What tennis player's last name is Federer?
Q7:
1. Had Roger Federer won a Davis Cup before?
2. Had a Davis Cup win ever gone to Roger Federer in the past?
3. Had Roger Federer previously been the winner of the Davis Cup?
Q8:
1. Did Roger Federer win this Davis Cup?
2. Was this Davis Cup victory that of Roger Federer?
3. Did Roger Federer come out on top in the current Davis Cup?
Q9:
1. Who did Roger Federer lose to?
2. Who beat Roger Federer?
3. What's the name of the player that bested Roger Federer?
Q10:
1. In what year did the Davis Cup final take place?
2. What was the year of the Davis Cup final?
3. What was the year when Roger Federer lost the Davis Cup to Gael Monfils?
Q11:
1. What was Roger Federer's concern going into the Davis Cup?
2. Going into the competition, what concern did Roger Federer have?
3. What made Roger Federer nervous as he began competing?
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31qnsg6a5rtt5m7pens7xklnc5t878 | cnn | (CNN) -- A body discovered at Churchill Downs on Sunday, a day after the storied Louisville racetrack hosted the Kentucky Derby, may have been the victim of a homicide, police said.
Workers in the barn area discovered the body early in the morning and notified track security, which called police, said Robert Biven, a spokesman for the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department.
"We just got the call just prior to 5 a.m. to respond to the backside" of the racetrack, Biven told CNN.
Police spokeswoman Alicia Smiley said police suspect foul play.
The body, which has not been identified, appears to be a Latino man in his 30s or 40s, Biven said.
About 400 people were located Saturday night in the rear of the racetrack, he said. "So we are trying to speak with as many people as we possibly can," he said. "We do have a few leads coming in." An autopsy is to be carried out Monday morning.
Biven described the track's backside as "like a mini city," with 48 barns, workers' dormitories and areas where trainers live. "It's a 24-hour operation," he said.
I'll Have Another wins Kentucky Derby
Operations at the racetrack were to continue normally on Sunday, Churchill Downs spokesman John Asher said. No races are scheduled at the track for three days, but cleanup from Saturday's race was to continue and the racetrack museum was to be open, he said.
CNN's Kara Devlin and Christine Sever contributed to this report
QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the location of the discovered body?
2. In what location did a body get discovered?
3. Where did a body turn up?
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3efvcay5l39mph8rfwh40aqw346j8b | gutenberg | CHAPTER XIX.
ABOUT THE ROBBERY.
If Ralph had been astonished before, he was doubly so now. He looked from one to another of the men in amazement.
"Do you really think I am one of the thieves?" he gasped.
"It's mighty suspicious," responded Jack Rodman. "You were seen in the neighborhood of the post office to-night, and then this knife business is a clew."
"I don't think Ralph will run away," said Bart Haycock. "I myself think he is innocent."
"Thank you for those words," said the boy. "I am innocent."
"Then you have no objections to our making a search about here," said the constable.
"Not any objection whatever," said Ralph, promptly. "Search where you please."
"I'll help you," said Uriah to the constable.
"Hadn't you better hold me tight?" suggested Ralph, with a sarcasm which was entirely lost on the miserly storekeeper.
"Well, I dunno," hesitated Uriah.
"I will see to it that he doesn't run away," said the blacksmith. "This makes me sick, Ralph," he added, in a low tone. "I know you are as innocent as a babe. That post office was robbed by professionals."
The constable and Uriah knocked on the cottage door and Mrs. Nelson let them in. She was greatly surprised when Jack Rodman declared his errand.
"Ralph is indeed innocent!" she exclaimed. "You may search the premises all you please."
The constable and Uriah took a lamp, and the search began. Every nook and corner of the cottage was gone over, but nothing that looked like what had been taken--money and registered letters--came to light. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who did Jack assume to be a thief?
2. In Jack's opinion, who was the thief?
3. Who was stealing things, according to Jack?
Q2:
1. Who believed Ralph to be innocent?
2. Who thought that Ralph was not guilty?
3. Who was a proponent of Ralph's innocence?
Q3:
1. Where was Ralph seen this evening?
2. Where could Ralph be found on this night/
3. What was Ralph's location this evening?
Q4:
1. What was the constable hoping to do?
2. What did the constable desire?
3. What action did the constable wish to take?
Q5:
1. Who was going to help the constable?
2. Who planned on lending a hand to the constable?
3. Who intended on coming to the constable's aid?
Q6:
1. What got ransacked?
2. What did somebody rob?
3. What did someone steal from?
Q7:
1. Who did the blacksmith believe to be guilty?
2. According to the blacksmith, who committed the robbery?
3. In the opinion of the blacksmith, who was guilty of committing the robbery?
Q8:
1. Who lived in the house that was going to be searched?
2. Who was the inhabitant of the house that was going to be searched?
3. Who occupied the house that was soon to be searched?
Q9:
1. Did Mrs. Nelson think Ralph to be guilty?
2. Did Mrs. Nelson believe Ralph was the robber?
3. Was Mrs. Nelson convinced of Ralph's guilt?
Q10:
1. Who declared their intentions to Mrs. Nelson?
2. Who let Mrs. Nelson know what they planned on doing?
3. Who stated their purpose to Mrs. Nelson?
Q11:
1. Did Mrs. Nelson allow the search?
2. Did Mrs. Nelson say it was okay for her home to be searched?
3. Did Mrs. Nelson permit the search to go on?
Q12:
1. What did the constable use to see as he searched?
2. What was the light source for the search party?
3. What did the search party have as a source of light?
Q13:
1. Did the constable and his party miss anything in their search?
2. Were there things that remained overlooked during the search?
3. Did things not get overturned during the search?
Q14:
1. What was stolen during the robbery?
2. What did the robber take?
3. What were the stolen goods?
Q15:
1. Were any of the stolen goods found?
2. Did the constable locate anything that was stolen?
3. Was anything that had been taken able to be found?
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3l2is5hsfaig646pxxa1p9p29f3nuz | gutenberg | CHAPTER XIV
GOOD-NIGHT
When the three young people had been sitting for half an hour on the wide piazza of Cobhurst, enjoying the moonlight effects and waiting for the return of Dr. Tolbridge, Miriam, who was reclining in a steamer chair, ceased making remarks, but very soon after she became silent she was heard again, not speaking, however, but breathing audibly and with great regularity. Ralph and Dora turned toward her and smiled.
"Poor little thing," said the latter in a low voice; "she must be tired out."
"Yes," said Ralph, also speaking in an undertone, "she was up very early this morning, and has been at some sort of work ever since. I do not intend that this shall happen again. You must excuse her, Miss Bannister,--she is a girl yet, you know."
"And a sweet one, too," said Dora, "with a perfect right to go to sleep if she chooses. I should be ashamed of myself if I felt in the least degree offended. Do not let us disturb her until the doctor comes; the nap will do her good."
"Suppose, then," said Ralph, "that we take a little turn in the moonlight. Then we need not trouble ourselves to lower our voices."
"That will be very well," said Dora, "but I am afraid she may take cold, although the night air is so soft. I think I saw a lap robe on a table in the hall; I will spread that over her."
Ralph whispered that he would get the robe, but motioning him back, and having tiptoed into the hall and back again, Dora laid the light covering over the sleeping girl so gently that the regular breathing was not in the least interrupted. Then they both went quietly down the steps, and out upon the lawn. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the number of youths?
2. How many people that were young were present?
3. How many youths were there?
Q2:
1. What was being enjoyed by the youths as they sat?
2. What were the young people sitting and enjoying?
3. What did the young people enjoy as they were sitting?
Q3:
1. Who were the young people waiting on?
2. Who did the young people wait for?
3. Who was being waited on by the youths?
Q4:
1. What was the doctor up to?
2. What was the doctor's activty?
3. What could the doctor be found doing?
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3i3wadaz9q4h3agmxb26wmxr05q5oj | wikipedia | 500 (five hundred) is the natural number following 499 and preceding 501.
500 is a Harshad number in bases 5, 6, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 16.
Five hundred is also
501 = 3 × 167. It is: 502 = 2 × 251, also a proposed HTTP status code for indicating server is temporarily overloaded, SMTP status code meaning command not implemented 503 is: 504 = 2 × 3 × 7. It is: 505 = 5 × 101, Harshad number in bases 3, 5 and 6
This number is the magic constant of "n"×"n" normal magic square and "n"-queens problem for "n" = 10.
New Mexico – Before October 7, 2007, The United States state of New Mexico had a single area code of 505. The state was, and still is, referred to as 'the 505' in slang. 506 = 2 × 11 × 23. It is: 507 = 3 × 13, Harshad number in bases 13 and 14. 508 = 2 × 127, sum of four consecutive primes (113 + 127 + 131 + 137), Harshad number in base 13. 509 is:
510 = 2 × 3 × 5 × 17. It is: 511 = 7 × 73. It is: 512 = 2. It is: 513 = 3 × 19. It is: 514 = 2 × 257, it is: 515 = 5 × 103, it is: 516 = 2 × 3 × 43, it is: 517 = 11 × 47, it is: 518 = 2 × 7 × 37, it is: 519 = 3 × 173, it is: QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. On what day did New Mexico's area code change?
2. What date saw a change in the area code of New Mexico?
3. What was the exact date when New Mexico's area code was changed?
Q2:
1. What used to be the only area code in New Mexico?
2. What was once New Mexico's unique area code?
3. What did New Mexico once have as its only area code?
Q3:
1. What is a quality of the number 500?
2. How can the number 500 be described?
3. What would be an accurate description of the number 500?
Q4:
1. What precedes 500?
2. What's a number that 500 comes after?
3. What number is prior to 500?
Q5:
1. What number does 500 precede?
2. What number comes after 500?
3. What is the numeral following 500?
Q6:
1. What are some bases?
2. Name a couple of bases.
3. Tell us some numbers that are bases.
Q7:
1. According to the article, what number equals "n" ?
2. What number does the article say is equal to "n" ?
3. Which number is the equivalent of "n" in the article?
Q8:
1. Does 500 have more odd or even bases?
2. Is there a higher number of even or odd bases of 500?
3. For 500, are there more even or odd bases?
Q9:
1. Which primes are the four consecutive ones?
2. What four consecutive primes are given in parenthesis?
3. State the four consecutive primes that the article lists in parenthesis?
Q10:
1. What does the HTTP status code do?
2. What's the purpose of the HTTP status code?
3. What function does the HTTP status code have?
Q11:
1. What is 7 times 73?
2. According to the last paragraph what is 7 multipled by 73?
3. If you multiple 73 by 7 what do you get?
Q12:
1. What's the outcome when you multiple 19 by 3?
2. Nineteen times three equals what?
3. What is three times nineteen?
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3ovr4i9uspj2s3p2yjb0gzmdf574q5 | race | Imagine what you could do with a machine that could make things disappear.
For inspiration, you could read some books. In the books of J.R.R. Tolkein, Bilbo Baggins finds a ring that can make him disappear. Of course, there's also poor Harry Potter, who used his invisibility cloak to hide from danger.
Now that you've got some ideas, it's time for the hard part: building the cloak. To do that, you have to give up science fiction and turn to real science. An invisibility cloak has to cheat anything or anyone who might be watching. In order to understand how something can be seen, it's important to understand how we see.
Human beings can only see objects that reflect light waves. These waves enter the eye and are then processed by the brain. However, if an object doesn't reflect light, then the waves don't enter the eye, and the brain doesn't process. So building an invisibility cloak is building something that doesn't reflect light.
Cummer was part of a team of scientists from Duke University, including David Smith and David Schurig, who built the world's first version of an invisibility cloak. They had been inspired by the work of a British physicist, John Pendry. He in May said that an invisibility cloak was possible and Pendry was not the only one thinking about a disappearing act. At the same time, a Scottish physicist, UIf Leonhardt published a paper on building invisibility equipment.
"It wasn't easy," says Cummer. "As often happens in science and research, it didn't work very well the first time. That first cloak didn't work like Harry Potter's --- the scientists didn't actually see anything disappear. So the research is still under way. " QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What are researchers trying to construct?
2. What are scientists attempting to make?
3. What are scientists making attempts to build?
Q2:
1. Who tried to build the first invisibility cloak?
2. Who was the first to attempt construction of an invisibility cloak?
3. Who was the first to try and make an invisiblity cloak?
Q3:
1. How many researchers were in the Duke team?
2. What was the size of the Duke research team?
3. How big was the group of Duke scientists?
Q4:
1. Did the article name the Duke scientists?
2. Did the article say who the Duke scientists were?
3. Were the Duke researchers named in the story?
Q5:
1. Who are two of the Duke scientists?
2. What are the names of two of the scientists from Duke?
3. What are two of Duke's scientists called?
Q6:
1. Whose work inspired the project of the Duke scientists?
2. Whose work did the scientists draw from?
3. Whose writing inspired the invisiblity cloak project?
Q7:
1. What novelist does the article mention?
2. Which writer appears in the article?
3. What writer of novels does the article talk about?
Q8:
1. Who is one of JRR Tolkien's characters?
2. What is the name of one of JRR Tolkien's characters?
3. Who is a character that JRR Tolkien came up with?
Q9:
1. What did Bilbo Baggins find?
2. What came into the possession of Bilbo Baggins?
3. What did Bilbo Baggins come across?
Q10:
1. Did Bilbo's ring do anything?
2. Did the ring that Bilbo found have any special abilities?
3. Was there anything that Bilbo's ring was able to do?
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3r6byfzzp7cwzgn34e2b1bfx1ysxf8 | race | The television news feature about Ben Heckmann, an eighth grader from Farmington, Minn, was breathless in its praise. "At 14, he has accomplished something many adults can't achieve," the reporter said, "Ben is a twice-published author." But Ben's two "Velvet Black" books, describing a fictional rock band, were not picked from a pile of manuscripts by an eagle eyed publisher. They were self-published, at the cost of $400 by Ben's parents. Over the past five years, print-on-demand technology and a growing number of self publishing companies whose books can be sold online have inspired writers of all ages to avoid the traditional gatekeeping system for determining who could call himself a "published author." The mothers and fathers who foot the bill say they are simply trying to encourage their children, in the same way that other parents buy equipment for a promising baseball player. But others see self-publishing as a lost opportunity to teach children about hardship and perseverance. Mr. Robbins, a critic, thinks it is wonderful to start writing at a young age, but worries self-publishing sends the wrong message. "There are no prodigies in literature," he said. "Literature requires experience, in a way that mathematics and music do not." Alan Rinzler, a publishing industry veteran, suggested parents hire a professional editor like him to work with their child to tear a manuscript apart and help make a better. Ben's father, Ken, said Ben's ambitions "weren't to knockHarry Potteroff the list," but "to get that good feeling inside that you've done something." Ajla Dizdarevic, 12, who has self-published two books of poetry, has been on television and in local newspapers. "Being a published author," she said, "was always a dream of mine." Her new dream: three books by age 15. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the number of books published by Ben?
2. How many books did Ben come out with?
3. What was the number of volumes published by Ben?
Q2:
1. WHo published Ben's books?
2. Who came out with books by Ben Heckmann?
3. Who was Ben Heckmann's publisher?
Q3:
1. Who paid for Ben Heckmann's publishing?
2. Who paid to publish Ben Heckmann's book?
3. Who did Ben Heckmann receive funds from to publish his book?
Q4:
1. What benefit is there to self publishing?
2. What is a good point of self publishing?
3. What's a benefit that accompanies self publishing?
Q5:
1. Besides Ben Heckmann who is another child prodigy that has published books?
2. What is the name of another child prodigy who had published books like Ben Heckmann
3. What is a very talented child child that has published books in the same way that Ben Heckmann has?
Q6:
1. What was the television station's opinion of Ben publishing books?
2. What did Ben's publication of books make the television station think?
3. How did the TV station react to Ben publishing a book?
Q7:
1. Did everyone think that self publishing was a good idea?
2. Was everyone in favor of self publishing?
3. Was self publishing universally praised?
Q8:
1. Why wasn't everyone in favor of self publishing?
2. Why didn't everyone think that self publishing was a good idea?
3. What made some wary of self-publishing?
Q9:
1. Why wasn't everyone in favor of self publishing, other than lost opportunities?
2. Why didn't everyone think that self publishing was a good idea, besides opportunities lost?
3. What made some wary of self-publishing other than the possibility of lost opportunities?
Q10:
1. What did Ben Heckmann's father say to naysayers?
2. How did Ben Heckmann's father respond to those who doubted his son?
3. What was the response of Ben Heckmann's dad to people who didn't believe in his son?
Q11:
1. Who were some people that didn't believe in Ben Heckmann?
2. Who was a skeptic of Ben Heckmann's success?
3. Who didn't think that Ben Heckmann's success was so great?
Q12:
1. According to Ken, what was a top children's book?
2. What was one of the best children's books in Ken's opinion?
3. What did Ken believe to be an excellent children's book?
Q13:
1. What did Ajila dream of?
2. What did Ajila hope to accomplish?
3. What did Ajila wish to achieve?
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3yz8upk3vtmxf09y871n9yvqacncu6 | wikipedia | Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation, and expression of genes. RNA and DNA are nucleic acids, and, along with lipids, proteins and carbohydrates, constitute the four major macromolecules essential for all known forms of life. Like DNA, RNA is assembled as a chain of nucleotides, but unlike DNA it is more often found in nature as a single-strand folded onto itself, rather than a paired double-strand. Cellular organisms use messenger RNA (mRNA) to convey genetic information (using the letters G, U, A, and C to denote the nitrogenous bases guanine, uracil, adenine, and cytosine) that directs synthesis of specific proteins. Many viruses encode their genetic information using an RNA genome.
Some RNA molecules play an active role within cells by catalyzing biological reactions, controlling gene expression, or sensing and communicating responses to cellular signals. One of these active processes is protein synthesis, a universal function where RNA molecules direct the assembly of proteins on ribosomes. This process uses transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules to deliver amino acids to the ribosome, where ribosomal RNA (rRNA) then links amino acids together to form proteins.
Like DNA, most biologically active RNAs, including mRNA, tRNA, rRNA, snRNAs, and other non-coding RNAs, contain self-complementary sequences that allow parts of the RNA to fold and pair with itself to form double helices. Analysis of these RNAs has revealed that they are highly structured. Unlike DNA, their structures do not consist of long double helices, but rather collections of short helices packed together into structures akin to proteins. In this fashion, RNAs can achieve chemical catalysis (like enzymes). For instance, determination of the structure of the ribosome—an enzyme that catalyzes peptide bond formation—revealed that its active site is composed entirely of RNA. QUESTIONS:
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1. What is the subject of the article?
2. What does the article discuss?
3. What does the exerpt talk about?
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1. What is RNA similar to?
2. What is something that is like RNA?
3. What can RNA be likened to?
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2.
3.
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1. What does RNA do?
2. What is the purpose of RNA?
3. What is the job of RNA?
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1. What does RNA actively do?
2. What is the action that RNA performs?
3. What is RNA's main activity?
Q6:
1. How is RNA different from DNA?
2. What makes RNA distinct from DNA?
3. How does RNA differ from DNA?
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1. What shape are RNA?
2. What is the form of RNA?
3. Which shape do RNA take?
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1. Is RNA like enzymes?
2. Does RNA resemble enzymes?
3. Is RNA similar to enzymes?
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1. How is RNA similar to enzymes?
2. What makes RNA like an enzyme?
3. What resemblance does RNA share with enzymes?
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1. What kind of acids are RNA?
2. What is the acid that RNA is made of?
3. What sort of acid is RNA categorized as?
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3of2m9aatgowkxfw67hte9ndhu7kzu | race | Martha had been working for Miller Laboratories for two years, but she was not happy there. Nothing significant had happened in the way of promotions or salary increases. Martha felt that her supervisor, a younger and less experienced person than she, did not like her. In fact, the supervisor often said unpleasant things to her. One day, while talking with her friend Maria, she mentioned how discouraged she was. Maria gave her the name of a cousin of hers who was director of Human Resources Department for a large chemical company. Martha called him the next day and set up an interview on her lunch hour. During the interview, Mr. Petri said, "You're just the kind of person we need here. You're being wasted in your other job. Give me a call in a day or two. I'm sure we can find a place for you in our organization." Martha was so happy she almost danced out of the building. That afternoon, Ruth Kenny, her supervisor, saw that Martha had come in ten minutes late from her lunch hour and she said, "Oh, so you finally decided to come back to work today?" This was . She could not take another insult. Besides, Mr. Petri was right: she was being wasted in this job. "Look," she said angrily, "if you don't like the way I work, I don't need to stay here. I'll go where I'm appreciated! Good-bye!" She took up her things and stormed out of the office. That night she called Maria and told her what had happened and then asked Maria, "What do you think?" "Well," said Maria carefully, "are you sure about the other job?" "Well, not exactly, but..." Maria continued, "Will you be able to get a recommendation from Mrs. Kenny if you need one?" "A recommendation?...from Mrs. Kenny?" hesitated Martha, in a worried tone. "Martha, I hope you didn't burn your bridges." Maria said. "I think I would have handled it differently." QUESTIONS:
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1. Who was Martha's former employer?
2. Who had Martha been working for?
3. Who was employing Martha?
Q2:
1. How long had Martha spent working at Miller Laboratories?
2. What was the length of Martha's tenure at Miller Laboratories?
3. How many years had Miller Laboratories employed Martha?
Q3:
1. Who is Martha's supervisor at Miller Laboratories?
2. Who does Martha report to at Miller Laboratories?
3. What is the name of Martha's supervisor at her workplace?
Q4:
1. Where was Mr. Petri employed?
2. Who was Mr. Petri employed by?
3. What was the name of Mr. Petri's workplace?
Q5:
1. What opinion did Mr. Petri give Martha of her?
2. How did Mr. Petri tell Martha that he viewed her?
3. What did Mr. Petri say to Martha that he thought about her?
Q6:
1. How late was Martha getting back from lunch?
2. When Martha returned from lunch how late did she get back?
3. How late did Martha get back to her job from her lunch break?
Q7:
1. Did Martha's lateness please her supervisor?
2. Was Ruth Kenny okay with how late that Martha returned from lunch?
3. Was Ruth Kenny happy that Martha got back so late from lunch?
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3ijxv6uz1xjwcb3hwn24fq61f4pir3 | cnn | (CNN) -- An attorney for a 14-year-old Australian, accused of marijuana possession in Indonesia, is hoping to avoid a prison sentence for his client and have the boy released to undergo drug rehabilitation.
The teen, whose name has not been publicly released, could face a minimum of four years in prison, according to Bali police. The teen has been held since his arrest last week in Bali's Kuta street area.
"We are still investigating on his involvement for carrying, using and having the narcotics," said Bali police spokesman Hariadi, who, like many Indonesians, uses only one name.
Indonesia's drug laws are among the strictest in the world. But they do have a provision, article 128, under which those arrested with small amounts of drugs can be released to rehabilitation if they can prove they are an addict. In the case of underage offenders, that requires a declaration from the youth's parents, officials said.
Mulyadi, superintendent of Bali's police drug squad, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that the teen will be dealt with under the law applying to minors needing treatment for a drug problem. His parents would have to ensure he completes rehabilitation, Mulyadi said, and if they fail to report regularly they could face jail time.
Michael Tene, spokesman for Indonesia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Friday that the nation's policy on drug offenses is clear. "I believe everybody should know by now that illegal drugs in Indonesia will face a really severe penalty," he said.
The boy's attorney, Mohammad Rifan, said that he and the Australian Embassy are concerned about the junior high school student's rights as a juvenile. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the Australian's age?
2. How old is the boy accused of marijuana possession?
3. What is the age of the boy accused of marijuana possession?
Q2:
1. What was the Australian boy accused of?
2. What accusations were made against the Australian boy?
3. What are authorities claiming that the Australian boy did?
Q3:
1. Where are accusations being made against the Australian boy?
2. Where is the Australian boy facing accusations?
3. In what location does the Australian boy have accusations against him?
Q4:
1. Are Indonesia's drug laws pretty lenient?
2. Is it legally easy to get away with drug possession in Indonesia?
3. Does Indonesia tolerate a lot of drug use at a legal level?
Q5:
1. What is the name of the superintendent of the drug squad?
2. Who's the head of the drug squad?
3. Who is in charge of the drug squad?
Q6:
1. Is the Australian boy being treated as an adult?
2. Will the Australian boy be charged as an adult?
3. Is the Australian going to have laws for adults applied to his case?
Q7:
1. What does Michael Tene do?
2. What is Michael Tene's job?
3. How is Michael Tene employed?
Q8:
1. Is there someone representing the Australian boy?
2. Has the Australian boy retained legal counsel?
3. Does the Australian boy have an attorney?
Q9:
1. Who is legally representing the Australian boy?
2. What's the name of the Australian's attorney?
3. Who does the Australian have as a lawyer?
Q10:
1. Does Indonesian law treat addicts differently?
2. Is there a special provision in Indonesian law for addicts?
3. Do addicts receive different treatment under Indonesian law?
Q11:
1. What is the special provision for addicts in Indonesia?
2. What special provision exists under Indonesian law for addicts?
3. Under what provision are addicts treated differently under Indonesian law?
Q12:
1. What does Article 128 do for offenders?
2. What are offenders offered under Article 128?
3. How are offenders treated under Article 128?
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1. When was the Australian arrested?
2. At what point was the Australian detained?
3. When did the teenager get taken into custody?
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3jpsl1dz5szwrvsrrstap8d827can1 | cnn | (Oprah) -- Kick back — there's a reason they call them beach reads.
"Seating Arrangements" by Maggie Shipstead
Winn Van Meter has everything an affluent person could hope for: a devoted wife of almost 30 years, two daughters, a privileged life in Connecticut, and a summer home on Waskeke — a fictional island resembling Nantucket.
Despite his comforts, Winn suffers from a typical midlife dissatisfaction: "He had almost everything he could think to want, and yet still ambivalence bleached his world to an anemic pallor."
Maggie Shipstead's "Seating Arrangements" is a whip-smart and engaging debut novel, set on Waskeke over the course of three days. Winn's oldest daughter, Daphne, is pregnant and getting married. His youngest daughter is lovelorn and mourning a recent abortion.
Strong personalities clash as Winn struggles with his long-burning attraction to one of Daphne's gorgeous and wildly flirtatious bridesmaids, Agatha, as his marriage grows stale. "He could not be sure that he had ever been in love with Biddy, or with anyone for that matter, but Biddy was the woman he had felt the most for."
Shipstead observes the absurdity of the upper class in Winn's trivial anxieties; he's incensed that he wasn't invited to join an elite golf club, and he carries on a rivalry with another island couple. This is the best kind of smart beach read: a book that expertly examines social life with heart and wit.
Oprah.com: 20 romantic reads
"Heading Out to Wonderful" by Robert Goolrick
"Heading Out to Wonderful" — about a drifter who takes up with the wife of the richest man in small-town Virginia — is by "A Reliable Wife" author Robert Goolrick, which means it's deliciously dark and dangerous. Oprah.com: 7 books that will take you on an inner journey QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Does the article review a book?
2. Is this article a book review?
3. Does the article make a judgment about a book?
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1. What book is being reviewed in the article?
2. What is the title of the book?
3. What beach read does the article examine?
Q3:
1. Who is the author of Seating Arrangements?
2. Who wrote Seating Arrangements?
3. What is the name of the person who wrote Seating Arrangements?
Q4:
1. Who is the main character of Seating Arrangements?
2. What is the name of Seating Arrangements' protagonist?
3. Who is the protagonist in Seating Arrangements?
Q5:
1. Was Winn Van Meter wealthy?
2. Did Winn Van Meter have a lot of money?
3. Was Winn Van Meter a rich guy?
Q6:
1. Was Winn Van Meter married?
2. Did Winn Van Meter have a spouse?
3. Was there a wife in Winn Van Meter's life?
Q7:
1. How long had Winn Van Meter been married?
2. For what length of time was Winn Van Meter married?
3. How long ago did Winn Van Meter wed?
Q8:
1. How many children did Winn Van Meter have?
2. Winn Van Meter was a father to how many children?
3. How many kids had Winn Van Meter fathered?
Q9:
1. How many days are covered in Seating Arrangements?
2. Seating Arrangements takes place over the course of how many days?
3. How many days appear in the novel Seating Arrangements?
Q10:
1. Was Seating Arrangements the author's first book?
2. Was Seating Arrangements the author's debut novel?
3. Was Seating Arrangements Maggie Shipstead's first novel?
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1. Who was Winn Van Meter attracted to?
2. Who did Winn Van Meter want to get with?
3. Who drew the attention of Winn Van Meter?
Q12:
1. What was Agatha's identity?
2. Who was Agatha?
3. What was Agatha's role in the story?
Q13:
1. Who had just had an abortion?
2. Who recently terminated a pregnancy?
3. Who had recently gone through the termination of a pregnancy?
Q14:
1. How was Winn Van Meter's youngest daughter feeling?
2. What was the state of Winn Van Meter's youngest daughter?
3. What emotional state did Winn Van Meter find herself in?
Q15:
1. Who was the mother of Winn Van Meter's children?
2. Who is Winn Van Meter married to?
3. Who is Daphne's mother?
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3o7l7bfshep737ycahi4gj7i0diei1 | race | Jack was a pumpkin farmer. He lived in a big house on the edge of a town and grew the largest Pumpkin farm around the town. Jack's pumpkins were famous , for they always had the perfect shape and never rotted ( ) until well after Halloween . Every year around Halloween , people came from all over the town to buy his pumpkins to make their jack-o-lanterns ( ) One year, Jack was thinking about his pumpkin harvest ( ) of the year when his good friend Pete came to visit him. I have some bad news , Jack ," Pete said. "What is it ? " Jack asked . a little worried. The town decided not to have Halloween this year! They said there was simply no reason for it and they didn't have time to celebrate it because many other holidays were coming up soon . Peter told him. He knew this was very bad news for jack. Jack became very sad and lowered ( ) his head . "What can I do now , Peter?" I have all these beautiful pumpkins and I can't keep them until next Halloween ." Peter replied, " Well , there are always pumpkin pies and pumpkin bread for other holidays." Jack was worried and said, "I sell most of my pumpkins for the Halloween . I can only sell a few pumpkins during the rest of the year. And Pete, it's not so much about the money . I live a simple life out here in the country and I don't need much money . But I feel happy every year when thousands of people get my pumpkins and take them and make them into beautiful jack-o-lanterns. Now all these pumpkins will be useless because people won't make jack-o-lanterns this year. oh, this is very bad news ." Jack began to weep . large tears ran down his face. QUESTIONS:
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1. Why was Jack feeling bad?
2. What was the reason for Jack's sadness?
3. What had made things rough on Jack?
Q2:
1. What did Jack do to express his sadness?
2. How did Jack express that he was sad?
3. How did Jack show that he was feeling down?
Q3:
1. What did Jack do?
2. What was Jack's profession?
3. How was Jack employed?
Q4:
1. Did Jack live in a small house?
2. Was Jack's house tiny?
3. Did Jack live in a house that was not very big?
Q5:
1. Who could Jack call a friend?
2. What was the name of Jack's friend?
3. Who was Jack friendly with?
Q6:
1. Did Jack have special pumpkins?
2. Was there something special about Jack's pumpkins?
3. Did Jack's pumpkins have any special qualities?
Q7:
1. What made Jack's pumpkins special?
2. What was so special about Jack's pumpkins?
3. What unique quality did Jack's pumpkins possess?
Q8:
1. Did Jack have a lot of expenses?
2. Did Jack tend to spend a lot of money?
3. Was Jack a big spender?
Q9:
1. What made the town decide not to celebrate Halloween?
2. What was the town's reason for cancelling Halloween?
3. How come the town chose not to do Halloween?
Q10:
1. What made the town decide not to celebrate Halloween, besides not having a reason?
2. What was the town's reason for cancelling Halloween other than not seeing a reason for it?
3. How come the town chose not to do Halloween besides there being less of a reason to?
Q11:
1. Is Jack able to make up for his lost sales of pumpkins?
2. Can Jack compensate for the pumpkin sales that he has lost?
3. Does Jack have the ability to make up for the purchases of pumpkins that he will lose out on?
Q12:
1. Does Jack grow a large quantity of pumpkins?
2. Does a large quantity of pumpkins grow on Jack's farm?
3. Is Jack's pumpkin harvest quite sizeable?
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3b2x28yi3wft3krryp7pi8bsp466bq | gutenberg | CHAPTER XX
A LONG CHASE BEGUN
As they journeyed down the Hudson the boys and Martin Harris scanned the river eagerly for some sign of the _Flyaway_.
"It's ten to one she put down a pretty good distance," remarked Dick. "They wouldn't bring Dora over here unless they were bound for New York or some other place as far or further."
"I believe you," said Tom. "But she may be delayed, and if what Harris says is true the _Searchlight_ ought to make better time than Baxter's craft."
Several miles were covered, when, Sam, who had just come up from the cabin, called attention to a farmer who was ferrying a load of hay across the river.
"If he's been at that sort of work all day he may know something of the _Flyaway_," he suggested.
"We'll hail him, anyway," said Tom. "It won't do any harm, providing we don't lose any time."
So the farmer was hailed and asked if he had seen anything of the craft.
"Waal now, I jest guess I did," he replied. "They war havin' great times on board of her--a takin' care of that crazy gal."
"A crazy girl!" cried Dick. "Who said she was crazy?"
"One of the young men. He said she was his sister and had escaped from some asylum. She called to me to help her. But I don't want nuthin' to do with crazy gals. My wife's cousin was out of his head and he cut up high jinks around the house, a-threatenin' folks with a butcher knife." QUESTIONS:
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1. What's the name of the boat that the group is looking for?
2. Which boat are the boys trying to find?
3. What boat are the boys attempting to locate?
Q2:
1. What river were the boys on?
2. On which river could the group be found?
3. What river served as the group's current location?
Q3:
1. Did the group think they were far behind?
2. Did the group think themselves to be not caught off enough?
3. Did the group believe themselves to be a good distance still from the boat?
Q4:
1. Who did the boys see on the river?
2. Who on the river did the boys come across?
3. Whose path crossed that of the boys on the river?
Q5:
1. What was the farmer doing?
2. What was the farmer up to?
3. What activity was the farmer getting into?
Q6:
1. How long had the farmer been ferrying his hay?
2. For what length of time had the farmer been ferrying hay?
3. What amount of time had the farmer spent ferrying hay?
Q7:
1. Did the group think that the farmer had seen the boat?
2. Did it seem possible to the group that the farmer had spotted the boat?
3. Did the group think it a possibility that the farmer had seen the boat?
Q8:
1. Did the group ask the farmer about the boat?
2. Did the boys inquire to the farmer regarding the boat?
3. Did the farmer receive a question regarding the boat from the boys?
Q9:
1. Had the farmer seen the boat?
2. Had the boat been spotted by the farmer?
3. Did the farmer notice the sea vessel?
Q10:
1. What did the boys on the boat tell the farmer was the matter with Dora?
2. What did the farmer learn was the problem with Dora, according to the boys on the boat?
3. What did the farmer learn regarding Dora's problem, in the words of the boys on the boat?
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3uwn2hhpuy50rrel8sf1a87eoaxnsi | race | Nick Vujicic was born with no arms or legs, but he doesn't let this stop him.
The brave 26-year-old man plays football and golf, and swims, in spite of the fact that he has no arms or legs.
Nick has a small foot on his left side, which helps him balance and makes him able to kick. He uses his one foot to type, write with a pen and pick things up.
"I call it my chicken drumstick ," joked Nick, who was born in Melbourne, Australia, but now lives in Los Angeles. "I'd be lost without it. When I get in the water I float because 80 percent of my body is lungs and my drumstick acts as a propeller ."
"He's very modest, but he gets marriage proposals from women all the time," said Nick's friend Steve Appel.
"He would love to get married and start a family, but he's waiting for the right girl to come along."
When Nick was born his father was so shocked that he left the hospital room. His _ mother couldn't bring herself to hold him until he was four months old.
His disability came without any medical explanation, which was a rare case. Nick and his parents spent many years asking why this cruel trick would happen to them.
"My mother was a nurse and she did everything right during pregnancy but she still blamed herself," he said.
"It was so hard for them, but right from the start they did their best to make me independent. My dad put me in the water at 18 months and gave me the courage to learn how to swim." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Does Nick Vujicic play any sports?
2. Is Nick Vujicic an athlete?
3. Are there any sports that Nick Vujicic participates in?
Q2:
1. What sports does Nick Vujicic play?
2. What sport activities does Nick Vujicic participate in?
3. What are some sports that Nick Vujicic partakes in?
Q3:
1. Can Nick Vujicic pick things up?
2. Is Nick Vujicic able to grab things?
3. Can Nick Vujicic grasp things physically?
Q4:
1. What is the name of Nick Vujicic's friend?
2. Who is Nick Vujicic friends with?
3. Who is a part of Nick Vujicic's entourage?
Q5:
1. Why is Nick Vujicic disabled?
2. What caused Nick Vujicic's disability?
3. What led to Nick Vujicic becoming disabled?
Q6:
1. Does Nick Vujicic want a family?
2. Would Nick Vujicic like a family?
3. Does Nick Vujicic want to start his own family?
Q7:
1. Was Nick Vujicic's disability hard for his parents?
2. Did Nick Vujicic's parents struggle with his disability?
3. Was it hard for Nick Vujicic's parents to accept his disability?
Q8:
1. Did Nick Vujicic's parents start him in sports early?
2. Did Nick Vujicic's parents have him doing athletic activities from an early age?
3. Did Nick Vujicic have him start participating in sports at an early age?
Q9:
1. How old was Nick Vujicic when he started swimming?
2. At what age did Nick Vujicic begin swimming?
3. What was Nick Vujicic's age when he began to swim?
Q10:
1. What helped Nick Vujicic learn to swim?
2. What made it sort of easier for Nick Vujicic to learn to swim?
3. What did Nick Vujicic use to help him learn to swim?
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3pb5a5bd0v68y1d7xl4vpx2l0sj7g8 | gutenberg | CHAPTER IX: HONOURS
In half an hour Paolo returned leading two horses. By their trappings and appearance both had evidently belonged to officers.
"Take off the trappings," Hector said, "then put a saddle on one for me; shift your own saddle on to the other, and picket your own with the spare horses of the staff, then we will ride over and get my saddle, bridle, holsters, and trappings. The horse has carried me well ever since I left Paris, and I am grieved indeed to lose it."
"So am I, master; it was a good beast, but I think that either of these is as good, though it will be long before I get to like them as I did Scotty. We shall want housings for this second horse, master."
"Yes; there will be no difficulty about that. There are scores of dead horses on the field; choose one without any embroidery or insignia. You may as well take another pair of holsters with pistols."
Riding across to the spot where Enghien and his officers were forming up the prisoners, talking courteously to the Spanish officers and seeing to the wounded, Hector, leaving Paolo to find his fallen horse and shift his trappings to the one that he rode, cantered up to the spot where Enghien's white plume could be seen in the midst of a group of officers, among whom was General Gassion. He saluted as he came up.
"I am glad indeed to see you, Captain Campbell," Enghien said warmly, holding out his hand; "I feared that you were killed. Some of my friends told me that you were struck down in the third charge, and that they had not seen you since and feared that you were slain." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. How many horses did Paolo come with?
2. What was the number of horses that Paolo brought?
3. How many horses accompanied Paolo?
Q2:
1. What could be assumed regarding the horses' origins?
2. What could one guess regarding where the horses came from?
3. What was a possible conjecture regarding where the horses were from?
Q3:
1. How long was Paolo gone?
2. For what length of time was Paolo away?
3.
Q4:
1. What did Paolo need to ride and fetch?
2. What was necessary for Paolo in order to ride and fetch?
3. What was Paolo in need of so he could ride and fetch?
Q5:
1. Did Paolo miss his own horse?
2. Did Paolo think fondly of his own horse?
3. Was Paolo wishing to see his own horse again?
Q6:
1. Where is Paolo originally from?
2. What city does Paolo come from?
3. What is Paolo's home city?
Q7:
1. Did the battlefield have a lot of dead horses on it?
2. Could a great number of dead horses be found on the battlefield?
3. Were there a large number of deceased horses in the place where the battle was fought?
Q8:
1. Who organized the prisoners?
2. Who got the prisoners together?
3. Who found organization amongst the prisoners?
Q9:
1. What distinguishing feature did Enghien have?
2. What was one of Enghien's distinguishing features?
3. What feature of his made Enghien stand out?
Q10:
1. Who was the general that saluted?
2. What general gave a wave?
3. What was the name of the general that gave a salute?
Q11:
1. Was Enghien happy to see General Gassion?
2. Did it please Enghien to see General Gassion?
3. Was Enghien glad about General Gassion's arrival?
Q12:
1. What rumor had Enghien heard?
2. What was the rumor that Enghien had become aware of?
3. Which rumor had reached Enghien?
Q13:
1. When was the general rumored to have been killed?
2. According to rumor, when had the general been killed?
3. At what point were rumors claiming that General Gassion had been strucked down?
Q14:
1. Where did Enghien hear the rumor?
2. Who had gossiped to Enghien?
3. What was the source of the rumor that Enghien heard?
Q15:
1. Where did Hector tell Paolo to get holsters and pistols?
2. From what location did Hector instruct Paolo to procure holsters and pistols?
3. Where did Hector instruct Paolo to go in order to procure pistols and holsters?
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3i33ic7zwf20293y59vqxkaargp2ae | gutenberg | CHAPTER XXXII
"You are very smart, Ernestine," he said, looking her admiringly.
"One must be smart at Ascot," she answered, "or stay away."
"I've just heard some news," he continued.
"Yes?"
"Who do you think is here?"
She glanced at him sideways under her lace parasol. "Every one I should think."
"Including," he said, "Mr. Scarlett Trent!" She grew a shade paler, and leaned for a moment against the rail of the paddock in which they were lounging.
"I thought," she said, "that the Mazetta Castle was not due till to-day."
"She touched at Plymouth in the night, and he had a special train up. He has some horses running, you know."
"I suppose," she remarked, "that he is more of a celebrity than ever now!"
"Much more," he answered. "If he chooses he will be the lion of the season! By the by, you had nothing of interest from Fred?"
She shook her head impatiently.
"Nothing but praises! According to Fred, he's a hero!"
"I hate him," Davenant said sulkily.
"And so," she answered softly, "do I! Do you see him coming, Cecil?"
"In good company too," the young man laughed bitterly.
A little group of men, before whom every one fell back respectfully, were strolling through the paddock towards the horses. Amongst them was Royalty, and amongst them also was Scarlett Trent. But when he saw the girl in the white foulard smile at him from the paling he forgot etiquette and everything else. He walked straight across to her with that keen, bright light in his eyes which Fred had described so well in his letter. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Was the group of men large?
2. Were there a lot of men in the group?
3. Was the group of males a sizeable one?
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3fq5jj512lo2381d3j6zjmg47doknw | wikipedia | The Dutch Republic, also known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden), Republic of the United Netherlands or Republic of the Seven United Provinces (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Provinciën), was a republic in Europe existing from 1581, when part of the Netherlands separated from Spanish rule, until 1795. It preceded the Batavian Republic, the Kingdom of Holland, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and ultimately the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands. Alternative names include the United Provinces (Verenigde Provinciën), Federated Dutch Provinces (Foederatae Belgii Provinciae), and Dutch Federation (Belgica Foederata).
Until the 16th century, the Low Countries – corresponding roughly to the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg – consisted of a number of duchies, counties, and Prince-bishoprics, almost all of which were under the supremacy of the Holy Roman Empire, with the exception of the county of Flanders, which was under the Kingdom of France. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the subject of the article?
2. What does the article discuss?
3. What is the main topic of the article?
Q2:
1. When did the Dutch Republic begin?
2. When was the start of the Dutch Republic?
3. When did the Dutch Republic get its start?
Q3:
1. What occurred in 1795?
2. What event took place in 1795?
3.
Q4:
1. Does the Dutch Republic have other names?
2. Are there other names for the Dutch Republic?
3. Can you call the Dutch Republic anything else?
Q5:
1. What is an alternate name for Dutch Republic?
2. What's one other thing that the Dutch Republic is called?
3. What's one of the additional names for the Dutch Republic?
Q6:
1. What is meant by the Low Countries?
2. What makes up the Low Countries?
3. Who are the members of the Low Countries?
Q7:
1. What is the present-day name for the low countries?
2. What are the low countries called in current times?
3. How does one refer to the Low Countries in the present day?
Q8:
1. What makes up the low countries?
2. What is contained within the low countries?
3. What can one find within the low countries?
Q9:
1. Who ruled the low countries?
2. Who was in charge of the low countries?
3. Who did the low countries have as a leader?
Q10:
1. Did anyone else lead the low countries, besides the Holy Roman Empire?
2. Were there rulers of the low countries other than Holy Roman Empire?
3. Were there any parts of the low country that weren't under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire?
Q11:
1. What part of the Low Country was not under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire?
2. Where in the Low Country did the Holy Roman Empire not extend?
3. What part of the Low Country was not governed by the Holy Roman Empire?
Q12:
1. Who was in charge of Flanders?
2. Who was Flanders ruled by?
3. Who governed Flanders?
Q13:
1. How many people live in the Dutch Republic?
2. How many residents does the Dutch Republic have?
3. State the Dutch Republic's population.
Q14:
1. Was the Dutch Republic ever under Spanish rule?
2. Did the Spanish ever rule over the Dutch Republic?
3. Was Spain in charge of the Dutch Republic at some point?
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3fijly1b6u4rq7lcinsu7ytuzzpfp8 | race | Marjorie Baer used to joke about her retirement plans.She wasn't married and had no kids, but she didn't intend to be alone--she and all her single friends would move into a fictional home she called Casa de Biddies.Instead, Baer developed terminal brain cancer when she was 52.But just as she'd hoped, her friends and family provided her with love and care to the end.
Ballance was only the first of Baer's friends who became her unofficial caregivers.With her brother Phil Baer from Los Angeles, they worked out a system to watch over their friend and allow her to keep some of the privacy and independence she cherished.
Baer's good friend Ruth Henrich took Baer to doctors' appointments and helped her deal with all the aspects of life --answering machines, TV controls, and even phone numbers.After Henrich sent out an e-mail request, a group of volunteers signed up to ferry Baer back and forth to radiation therapy .Others in Baer's circle offered up particular talents: A nurse friend helped Baer figure out how to get what she was due from Social Security and her disability insurance; a lawyer pal helped Baer with her will; a partner who was an accountant took over her bills when she could no longer manage them."There was this odd sense that the right person always showed up," says Ballance.Their arrangement worked remarkably well.
Unmarried women are one of the fastest-growing groups in America; experts are concerned about how care-giving will be managed for them as they age.If the experience of Baer's friends is a guide, _ .It's already making it possible to create communities of caregivers who may have only one thing in common: the person who needs their help.On personal "care pages" set up through services such as Lotsa Helping Hands, friends and family members can post a list of tasks that need to be done, volunteer to do them, and keep updated on the person's condition.As Baer's cancer progressed, for example, her friends set up a page on Yahoo! where people could sign up to deliver meals or do errands .
Catherine Fox, one of the friends who were present when Baer died, was deeply affected."It was so comforting to know that if you're willing to ask for help, the generosity of family and friends can be phenomenal .It makes me feel secure and hopeful to know that help is there when you need it." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was Marjorie Baer's age at the time of her cancer diagnosis?
2. When Marjorie Baer got cancer, how old was she?
3. What was Marjorie Baer's age when she contracted cancer?
Q2:
1. What was Marjorie Baer's age at the time of her passing?
2. When Marjorie Baer passed away, how old was she?
3. How old was Marjorie Baer at the time of her passing?
Q3:
1. Did Marjorie Baer's children help her?
2. Was it Marjorie Baer's kids that lent her a hand?
3. Did Marjorie Baer receive help from her own children?
Q4:
1. Who helped Marjorie Baer?
2. Who did Marjorie Baer receive aid from?
3. Who lent Marjorie Baer a hand?
Q5:
1. How is Phil Baer related to Marjorie Baer?
2. What is Phil Baer in Marjorie Baer's life?
3. How does Phil know Marjorie Baer?
Q6:
1. Who took Marjorie Baer to doctor and hospital appointments?
2. How did Marjorie Baer get to doctor and hospital appointments?
3. When Marjorie Baer had a doctor or hospital appointment, who provided her transportation?
Q7:
1. Who took Marjorie Baer to doctor and hospital appointments, besides Ruth Henrich?
2. How did Marjorie Baer get to doctor and hospital appointments, in addition to Ruth Henrich?
3. When Marjorie Baer had a doctor or hospital appointment, who provided her transportation, other than Ruth Henrich?
Q8:
1. Who helped Marjorie Baer with legal issues?
2. When Marjorie Baer had a legal problem, who came to her aid?
3. Who lent Marjorie Baer a hand with any legal issues?
Q9:
1. How did Catherine Fox feel about Marjorie Baer?
2. What did Catherine Fox feel for Marjorie Baer?
3. What was Catherine Fox's role?
Q10:
1. Who helped Marjorie Baer with payments?
2. When Marjorie Baer needed to make a payment, who helped her out?
3. Who came to Marjorie Baer regarding any payments?
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32z9zlut1lktj30hyd3flj0h5fxoh1 | cnn | (CNN) -- Rutgers quarterback Philip Nelson has been dismissed from the football team, the school's coach said Tuesday.
Nelson had been arrested Sunday and charged in connection with an assault that apparently left Isaac Kolstad -- a former linebacker for Minnesota State University, Mankato -- in critical condition.
"The Rutgers football family's thoughts and prayers are with Isaac Kolstad and his family," football coach Kyle Flood said, referring to the young man whom Nelson is accused of assaulting.
Nelson, 20, faces one count of first-degree assault and one count of third-degree assault.
Authorities in Minnesota also arrested a second person in connection with the assault, a Mankato, Minnesota, city spokeswoman said.
Trevor Stenner Shelley, 21, was arrested Monday afternoon. He is charged with first- and third-degree assault.
Officers found Kolstad, who graduated in December, near a downtown intersection. He was transported by ambulance to a local hospital.
Kolstad, 24, was in critical condition after suffering a severe head injury, his family said.
Nelson was a recent transfer to Rutgers. A native of Mankato, Minnesota, he played at the University of Minnesota, according to Rutgers' website. Nelson never played a down for Rutgers before his dismissal.
CNN's Mariano Castillo and Dana Ford contributed to this report.
QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who was let go from the football team?
2. Who had to leave the football team?
3. Who was forced off of his football team?
Q2:
1. What is Philip Nelson accused of?
2. What are the accusations against Philip Nelson?
3. What are authorities alleging that Philip Nelson did?
Q3:
1. Who did Philip Nelson assault?
2. Who was the victim of Philip Nelson's assault?
3. Who suffered from an attack by Philip Nelson?
Q4:
1. How old is Philip Nelson's victim?
2. What is Isaac Kolstad's age?
3. How old is Isaac Kolstad?
Q5:
1. What did Isaac Kolstad suffer?
2. What were Isaac Kolstad's injuries?
3. How was Isaac Kolstad hurt?
Q6:
1. Is Isaac Kolstad in a critical condition?
2. Has Isaac Kolstad been listed as being in a critical condition?
3. Is Isaac Kolstad's condition listed as critical?
Q7:
1. Has anyone been arrested besides Philip Nelson?
2. Are there suspects in addition to Philip Nelson that have been detained?
3. Have there been arrests other than that of Philip Nelson?
Q8:
1. Who has been arrested in addition to Philip Nelson?
2. Who is being detained alongside Philip Nelson?
3. Who other than Philip Nelson got arrested?
Q9:
1. How old is Trevor Stenner Shelley?
2. What is Trevor Stenner Shelley's age?
3. How old is the man who was arrested with Philip Nelson?
Q10:
1. What university's team was Philip Nelson on?
2. For what university was Philip Nelson a player?
3. What unversity had Philip Nelson on their football team?
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31hq4x3t3saa3rb0wfzmxg3pjl6lsz | wikipedia | A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in. They can be found over a range of continents. Biomes are distinct biological communities that have formed in response to a shared physical climate. "Biome" is a broader term than "habitat"; any biome can comprise a variety of habitats.
While a biome can cover large areas, a microbiome is a mix of organisms that coexist in a defined space on a much smaller scale. For example, the human microbiome is the collection of bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms that are present on a human body.
A 'biota' is the total collection of organisms of a geographic region or a time period, from local geographic scales and instantaneous temporal scales all the way up to whole-planet and whole-timescale spatiotemporal scales. The biotas of the Earth make up the biosphere.
The term was suggested in 1916 by Clements, originally as a synonym for biotic community of Möbius (1877). Later, it gained its current definition, based on earlier concepts of phytophysiognomy, formation and vegetation (used in opposition to flora), with the inclusion of the animal element and the exclusion of the taxonomic element of species composition. In 1935, Tansley added the climatic and soil aspects to the idea, calling it ecosystem. The International Biological Program (1964–74) projects popularized the concept of biome. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the main topic of the article?
2. What is the subject of the article?
3. What is the article about?
Q2:
1. Are biomes large or small?
2. Are biomes big or tiny?
3. Are biomes only big or only small?
Q3:
1. When was the term biome coined?
2. When did the coining of the term biome occur?
3. In what year did someone coin the term biome?
Q4:
1. Who coined the term biome?
2. Who came up with the term biome?
3. Who was the first to use the term biome?
Q5:
1. What name was given to biomes in 1935?
2. In 1935, what were biomes designated as?
3. What term became synonymous with biome in 1935?
Q6:
1. Who named ecosystems?
2. Who came up with the term ecosystem?
3. Who coined the term ecosystem?
Q7:
1. What did Tansley add to the idea of biomes?
2. What did Tansley add on to the notion of the biome?
3. What was Tansley's contribution to the idea of the biome?
Q8:
1. What did Tansley add to the idea of biomes, other than climate aspects?
2. What did Tansley add on to the notion of the biome, in addition to climate aspects?
3. What was Tansley's contribution to the idea of the biome, besides aspects of climate?
Q9:
1. What term appeared in 1877?
2. What term came about in 1877?
3. What term started being used in 1877?
Q10:
1. What has the same meaning as a biome?
2. How can a biome be defined?
3. What also refers to the general concept of a biome?
Q11:
1. What project took place over the course of the mid 60s to early 70s?
2. What projects were active between the mid 1960s going to the early 1970s?
3. Between the mid 60s and early 70s, what was a project that was taking place?
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3hwrjooet52wxl18ftcikld5anvest | wikipedia | Vishnu (; Sanskrit: विष्णु, IAST: "") is one of the principal deities of Hinduism, and the Supreme Being in its Vaishnavism tradition. Vishnu is the "preserver" in the Hindu trinity (Trimurti) that includes Brahma and Shiva.
In Vaishnavism, Vishnu is identical to the formless metaphysical concept called Brahman, the supreme, the Svayam Bhagavan, who takes various avatars as "the preserver, protector" whenever the world is threatened with evil, chaos, and destructive forces. His avatars most notably include Rama in the "Ramayana" and Krishna in the "Mahabharata". He is also known as Narayana, Jagannath, Vasudeva, Vithoba, and Hari. He is one of the five equivalent deities worshipped in Panchayatana puja of the Smarta Tradition of Hinduism.
In Hindu inconography, Vishnu is usually depicted as having a dark, or pale blue complexion and having four arms. He holds a padma (lotus flower) in his lower left hand, Kaumodaki gada (mace) in his lower right hand, Panchajanya shankha (conch) in his upper left hand and the Sudarshana Chakra (discus) in his upper right hand. A traditional depiction is Vishnu reclining on the coils of the serpent Shesha, accompanied by his consort Lakshmi, as he "dreams the universe into reality".
Yaska, the mid 1st-millennium BCE Vedanga scholar, in his Nirukta (etymological interpretation), defines Vishnu as "viṣṇur viṣvater vā vyaśnoter vā", "one who enters everywhere". He also writes, "atha yad viṣito bhavati tad viṣnurbhavati", "that which is free from fetters and bondages is Vishnu". QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What religion does the article discuss?
2. Which religious tradition appears in the article?
3. What religion appears in the article?
Q2:
1. What can Vishnu be described as?
2. What is Vishnu's role?
3. What does Vishnu do?
Q3:
1. Does Vishnu's skin have an odd hue?
2. Does Vishnu have strangely colored skin?
3. Is Vishnu's skin in a strange color?
Q4:
1. What is the color of Vishnu's skin?
2. What is Vishnu's skin color?
3. What hue does Vishnu's skin come in?
Q5:
1. How many arms does Vishnu have?
2. How many arms are there on Vishnu?
3. What is the number of arms on Vishnu's body?
Q6:
1. Is Vishnu holding anything?
2. Does Vishnu have anything in his hand?
3. Is there something in Vishnu's hand?
Q7:
1. Where does Vishnu hold his lotus flower?
2. In what hand is Vishnu's flower
3. What hand does Vishnu hold his lotus flower in?
Q8:
1. Is Vishnu armed?
2. Does Vishnu have any weapons?
3. Does Vishnu bear arms?
Q9:
1. What kind of weapon does Vishnu have?
2. What is Vishnu's weapon?
3. Which weapon does Vishnu bear?
Q10:
1. Is Vishnu holding any shells?
2. Does Vishnu have any shells in his hands?
3. Is there a conch in one of Vishnu's hands?
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36dsne9qz5ypa9v7md60xwgwh4hojf | mctest | 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. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was Thomas and Rudy's favorite playing spot?
2. Where did Thomas and Rudy enjoy playing?
3. Where did playtime generally happen for Thomas and Rudy?
Q2:
1. How long were Thomas and Rudy friends for?
2. What was the length of Thomas and Rudy's friendship?
3. For what amount of time had Thomas and Rudy been friends?
Q3:
1. What was Rudy?
2. What animal could Rudy be described as?
3. What sort of being was Rudy?
Q4:
1. What color was Rudy?
2. What was Rudy's shade?
3. What hue did Rudy come in?
Q5:
1. Who was Jacob's dog?
2. Which dog belonged to Jacob?
3. What had Jacob named his dog?
Q6:
1. What did Sally bring Jacob?
2. What did Sally take to Jacob?
3. What did Jacob receive from his dog?
Q7:
1. What occasion was being celebrated?
2. What event was cause for celebration?
3. What was everyone getting together for?
Q8:
1. Whose birthday was it?
2. Who was having a birthday?
3. Who was turning a year older?
Q9:
1. Was Rudy excited?
2. Was Rudy in a happy mood?
3. Was Rudy feeling elated?
Q10:
1. What gift did Rudy receive?
2. What was Rudy's present?
3. What did Rudy get as a gift?
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3i3wadaz9q4h3agmxb26wmxr03io5q | cnn | (CNN) -- Real Madrid have reduced Barcelona's lead at the top of the Spanish Primera Liga to three points after coming from behind to win 2-1 at Almeria on Thursday.
Madrid, looking to bounce back following their defeat in "El Clasico", suffered a poor start and fell behind in the 14th minute.
Kalu Uche broke down the right and his low cross was met by the unmarked Albert Crusat at the far post.
And the home side nearly doubled their advantage just seven minutes later when Domingo Cisma's free-kick was superbly saved by Iker Casillas.
However, the visitors drew level in the 27th minute thanks to a moment of superb skill from Cristiano Ronaldo.
The $125 million man burst past two defenders, fooled a third with one of his trademark stepovers and fird home a shot into the far corner for his 19th league goal of the season.
From then on, Real were the better side. Veteran midfielder Guti struck the post from the edge of the area before Rafael Van der Vaart put the rebound wide.
And the winning goal came in the 69th minute when Van der Vaart collected Gonzalo Higuain's pass before firing home a low shot into the bottom corner.
Madrid should have added to their lead, but Ronaldo was denied by goalkeeper Diego Alves while Karim Benzema and Mahamadou Diarra also missed good chances.
QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who had a break down and thus unmarked Albert met them?
2. What was the name of the player that broke down and that Albert met up with?
3.
Q2:
1. What was the name of the veteran midfielder?
2. Who was an old hand at playing midfielder?
3. Who had been in the midfielder position for quite some time?
Q3:
1. At what point did the home team almost double their advantage?
2. When did the advantage of the home team nearly double?
3. At what point did the home side manage almost to double their advantage?
Q4:
1. How many points did each team have?
2. What was the number of points scored by each team?
3. What score did each team have?
Q5:
1. Who wanted to bounce back?
2. Who was trying to make a comeback?
3. Who hoped to make a comeback?
Q6:
1. Who had a free-kick that Castillas saved?
2. Whose free kick did Castillas lend a hand to?
3. Who made a free kick but needed assistance from Castillas?
Q7:
1. Who used one of his trademark stepovers to trick a third?
2. Who was able to use one of his signature stepovers to trick a third?
3. Who fooled a third by using one of his signature stepovers?
Q8:
1. When was the winning kick?
2. At what point did the winning kick come about?
3. When was the kick that one the match made?
Q9:
1. Who made the kick that won the match?
2. Whose kick caused victory in the match?
3. Whose kick was to thank for winning the match?
Q10:
1. Who did the goal keeper stop?
2. Who got stopped by the goal keeper?
3. What was the name of the player that the goal keeper denied?
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3e4gguz1t8r6emckh08fryd6vff2ky | race | Something bad happened to sam this morning. He fell over and broke his nose in the school hallway. When Sam looked up, he saw his friends. "Are you OK?" They asked him. But he didn't say anything to them. He stood up and ran to the classroom quickly. Sam put his schoolbag on his desk and went out to the school hospital. On his way back to the classroom he saw his friends again. They were laughing. Sam thought they were laughing at him, so he didn't talk to them for the rest of the morning. At lunchtime, Sam's friends came up to him and asked, "How is your nose?" "Fine!" Sam shouted. "I saw you laughing at me this morning!" "We didn't. We laughed just because Jenny told us a joke," his friends said. "Well, I'm sorry. Can you _ me?" "Yes, of course. But next time you should ask us before you assume something." They looked at each other and laughed happily. They were still friends. ,,. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What did Sam undergo?
2. What did Sam suffer from?
3. What did Sam go through one day?
Q2:
1. When did Sam fall?
2. When did Sam's fall occur?
3. At what point did Sam take a tumble?
Q3:
1. Was Sam okay after his fall?
2. Did Sam recover right away from his fall?
3. Was Sam alright after taking a tumble?
Q4:
1. What happened after Sam fell?
2. Once Sam had fallen down what happened next?
3. What was a consequence of Sam's fall?
Q5:
1. What was the location of Sam's fall?
2. Where was Sam when he took a tumble?
3. Where did Sam fall down?
Q6:
1. Why was Sam mad at his friends?
2. What made Sam angry with his friends?
3. Why was Sam feeling mad with his buddies?
Q7:
1. Were Sam's friends actually laughing at him?
2. Was it true that Sam's friends were laughing at him?
3. Did Sam's friends actually find his fall funny?
Q8:
1. Why were Sam's friends laughing?
2. What had made Sam's friends laugh?
3. What were Sam's friends laughing at?
Q9:
1. Who told the joke?
2. What was the name of the girl who told a joke?
3. Who had a joke to tell?
Q10:
1. What did Sam say to his friends?
2. How did Sam respond to his friends?
3. What was Sam's response to his friends?
Q11:
1. Did Sam's friends forgive him?
2. Did Sam receive forgiveness from his friends?
3. Did Sam's friends tell him that everything was okay?
Q12:
1. How do we know that Sam's friends forgave him?
2. What is our indication that Sam's friends forgave him?
3. How can one know that Sam was truly forgiven by his friends?
Q13:
1. Did Sam go to the doctor?
2. Did a doctor examine Sam?
3. Did Sam have a visit with a doctor?
Q14:
1. Where was Sam's doctors visit?
2. Where did Sam see a doctor?
3. In what location did a doctor examine Sam?
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336yqze83vet37vakvnt4i8m56n5mi | wikipedia | The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass . Major divisions of the agency include the National Forest System, State and Private Forestry, Business Operations, and the Research and Development branch. Managing approximately 25% of federal lands, it is the only major national land agency that is outside of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The concept of the National Forests was born from Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation group, Boone and Crockett Club, due to concerns regarding Yellowstone National Park beginning as early as 1875. In 1876, Congress created the office of Special Agent in the Department of Agriculture to assess the quality and conditions of forests in the United States. Franklin B. Hough was appointed the head of the office. In 1881, the office was expanded into the newly formed Division of Forestry. The Forest Reserve Act of 1891 authorized withdrawing land from the public domain as "forest reserves," managed by the Department of the Interior. In 1901, the Division of Forestry was renamed the Bureau of Forestry. The Transfer Act of 1905 transferred the management of forest reserves from the General Land Office of the Interior Department to the Bureau of Forestry, henceforth known as the United States Forest Service. Gifford Pinchot was the first United States Chief Forester in the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the origin of the idea of National Forests?
2. What was the source of the concept of National Forests?
3. Who originally came up with the idea of National Forests?
Q2:
1. What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt''s conservation group?
2. What was Theodore Roosevelt's conservation group?
3. What name did the conservation group run by Theodore Roosevelt go by?
Q3:
1. What was the Boone and Crockett Club's name changed to in 1901?
2. What did the Boone and Crockett Club become in 1901?
3. In 1901, what name change did the Boone and Crockett Club undergo?
Q4:
1. What is meant by USFS?
2. What is USFS short for?
3. What does the acronym USFS signify?
Q5:
1. How many major divisions does the United States Forest Service have?
2. How many main divisions are there in the USFS?
3. What is the number of main divisions within the United States Forest Service?
Q6:
1. What is the United States Forest Service a part of?
2. What does USFS belong to?
3. What does the United States Forest Service belong to?
Q7:
1. What agency does the United States Forest Service fall under?
2. What agency is in charge of USFS?
3. What agency oversees the United States Forest Service?
Q8:
1. What was the purpose of the Act of 1891?
2. What was a consequence of the Act of 1891?
3. What was made possible by the Act of 1891?
Q9:
1. Who got control of the forest reserves in 1905?
2. In 1905, who was control over the forest reserves given to?
3. Who was put in charge of the forest reserves in 1905?
Q10:
1. What was Gifford Pinchot's role?
2. What did Gifford Pinchot do?
3. What title did Gifford Pinchot have?
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3ix2egzr7bjs7mnne5n4rrl1sj2rjc | cnn | (CNN) -- After a difficult past year, Rafael Nadal is back where he feels most comfortable -- but his rivals are battling to find form ahead of the French Open.
While the Spaniard cruised into the quarterfinals of the Monte Carlo tournament he has won for the past eight seasons, world No. 1 Novak Djokovic again had to come from behind to earn his place while Andy Murray suffered a crushing defeat that will demote him to third in the rankings.
Fourth seed Tomas Berdych and No. 5 Juan Martin del Potro also crashed out Thursday to thin out the competition for Nadal as he continues his winning return to the ATP Tour following longterm knee problems.
His 6-2 6-4 rout of German 16th seed Philipp Kohlschreiber was his 16th successive victory this year following a defeat in the final of his comeback event in Chile in February.
"I feel more relaxed, yes. I had some uneasy moments during the past year," Nadal said after his 44th consecutive win at the clay-court event, which set up a clash with 21-year-old Bulgarian Gregor Dimitrov.
"Now I'm back on the tour. Just being here is good news. And winning matches -- I say it every day, but winning every match is very important to me today. Every time I have the chance to go on court and play well, feel competitive, is a really good feeling."
Dimitrov is also on a roll, having followed up his opening victory over world No. 10 Janko Tipsarevic by beating Germany's Florian Mayer 6-2 6-4. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Whats the name of the 4th seed player?
2. Which player is listed as 4th seed?
3. What player is seeded 4th?
Q2:
1. What is Novak Djokovic's position?
2. Where is Novak Djokovic in the rankings?
3. What is Novak Djokovic ranked as?
Q3:
1. Where is Novak Djokovic ranked no. 1?
2. In what context is Novak Djokovic positioned at no. 1?
3. Where does Novak Djokovic hold a no. 1 ranking?
Q4:
1. How many seasons did Rafael Nadal win in the tournament?
2. In how many seasons was Rafael Nadal the tournament winner?
3. What was the number of seasons where Rafael Nadal has been the tournament champion?
Q5:
1. How many times did Rafael Nadal win in a row?
2. What was the number of Rafael Nadal's consecutive wins?
3. How many times was Rafael Nadal crowned champion consecutively?
Q6:
1. What was the score of Rafael Nadal's game?
2. What score was listed for a Rafael Nadal game?
3. What was one of Rafael Nadal's scores?
Q7:
1. What did Rafael Nadal say was a good feeling?
2. What did Rafael Nadal say made him feel good?
3. In his own words, what brought up Rafael Nadal's spirits?
Q8:
1. In what month did the game in Chile take place?
2. What was the month of the Chile game?
3. When was there a match in Chile?
Q9:
1. Did Rafael Nadal have an easy last year?
2. Was last year a breeze for Rafael Nadal?
3. Was last year smooth sailing for Rafael Nadal?
Q10:
1. Did Rafael Nadal feel stressed after the 44th victory?
2. Did his 44th victory make Rafael Nadal feel stressed?
3. Was Rafael Nadal feeling the heat in the aftermath of his 44th victory?
Q11:
1. Is Rafael Nadal currently on tour?
2. Is Rafael Nadal on tour right now?
3. At present, is Rafael Nadal on tour?
Q12:
1. Who is doing well like Rafael Nadal is?
2. Besides Rafael Nadal, who else is doing well?
3. Who has been successful lately, other than Rafael Nadal?
Q13:
1. What was Gregor Dimitrov's score?
2. What score did Gregor Dimitrov?
3. What was the score of a Gregor Dimitrov game?
Q14:
1. Who did Gregor Dimitrov win against?
2. Who did Gregor Dimitrov beat?
3. Who lost to Gregor Dimitrov?
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3x73llyyq1eb1i05xy326u0cf5ehn1 | gutenberg | CHAPTER THREE.
Obedient to orders, Tom Brixton lay perfectly still on his back, just where he had fallen, wondering much whether the cord was really cut, for he did not feel much relaxation of it or abatement of the pain. He resolved, at any rate, to give no further cause for rough treatment, but to await the issue of events as patiently as he could.
True to his promise, the Irishman after supper sang several songs, which, if not characterised by sweetness of tone, were delivered with a degree of vigour that seemed to make full amends in the estimation of his hearers. After that he told a thrilling ghost story, which drew the entire band of men round him. Paddy had a natural gift in the way of relating ghost stories, for, besides the power of rapid and sustained discourse, without hesitation or redundancy of words, he possessed a vivid imagination, a rich fancy, a deep bass voice, an expressive countenance, and a pair of large coal-black eyes, which, as one of the Yankee diggers said, "would sartinly bore two holes in a blanket if he only looked at it long enough."
We do not intend to inflict that ghost story on the reader. It is sufficient to say that Paddy began it by exclaiming in a loud voice--"`Now or niver, boys--now or niver.' That's what the ghost said."
"What's that you say, Paddy?" asked Gashford, leaving his own separate and private fire, which he enjoyed with one or two chosen comrades, and approaching that round which the great body of the diggers were already assembled. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What chapter is discussed?
2. What number of chapter is this?
3. What is the number of this chapter?
Q2:
1. Who followed the instructions they were given?
2. Who was given a command that they followed?
3. Who was obedient of the command he was giving?
Q3:
1. Was Tom Brixton standing?
2. Was Tom Brixton on his feet?
3. Did Tom Brixton stand?
Q4:
1. Why was Tom Brixton laying down?
2. Why wasn't Tom Brixton standing?
3. What was Tom Brixton's reason for laying on the ground?
Q5:
1. What feeling did not apply to Tom Brixton's current state?
2. How was Tom Brixton not currently feeling?
3. What was Tom Brixton not feeling very much like?
Q6:
1. Who stayed true to his word?
2. Who remained truthful?
3. Who did what he said he was going to do?
Q7:
1. What was one thing Paddy did after dinner?
2. What was among Paddy's after dinner activities?
3. What was one post-dinner activity of Paddy's?
Q8:
1. Did Paddy have a sweet voice?
2. Was Paddy's voice pleasing?
3. Did people enjoy Paddy's voice?
Q9:
1. What did Paddy do to draw a crowd of men?
2. How was Paddy able to draw a crowd?
3. What was Paddy's method for drawing a crowd?
Q10:
1. What color were Paddy's eyes?
2. What was Paddy's eye color?
3. What was the shade of Paddy's peepers?
Q11:
1. In the words of a Yankee, what can be done to a quilt?
2. What did a Yankee claim could be done to a quilt?
3. According to the Yankee, what may happen to a quilt?
Q12:
1. What did Gashford have that was his and not for everyone else?
2. What did Gashford have that he did not have to share?
3. What of Gashford's was solely for him?
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3aajc4i4fgs19d9eomhhdun02fjzj6 | gutenberg | CHAPTER XL
CAPTAIN ICHABOD PUTS THE CASE
In the river at Bridgetown lay the good brig King and Queen, just arrived from Jamaica. On her deck was an impatient young gentleman, leaning over the rail and watching the approach of a boat, with two men rowing and a passenger in the stern.
This impatient young man was Dickory Charter, that morning arrived at Bridgetown and not yet having been on shore. He came for the purpose of settling some business affairs, partly on account of Miss Kate Bonnet and partly for his mother.
As the boat came nearer, Dickory recognised one of the men who were rowing and hailed him.
"Heigho! Tom Hilyer," he cried, "I am right glad to see you on this river again. I want a boat to go to my mother's house; know you of one at liberty?"
The man ceased rowing for a moment and then addressed the passenger in the stern, who, having heard what he had to say, nodded briefly.
"Well, well, Dick Charter!" cried out the man, "and have you come back as governor of the colony? You look fine enough, anyway. But if you want a boat to go to your mother's old home, you can have a seat in this one; we're going there, and our passenger does not object."
"Pull up here," cried Dickory, and in a moment he had dropped into the bow of the boat, which then proceeded on its way.
The man in the stern was fairly young, handsome, sunburned, and well dressed in a suit of black. When Dickory thanked him for allowing him to share his boat the passenger in the stern nodded his head with a jerk and an air which indicated that he took the incident as a matter of course, not to be further mentioned or considered. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who got in from Jamaica?
2. Whose place of origin was Jamaica?
3. Who arrived at the location from Jamaica?
Q2:
1. Did the deck have someone on it?
2. Was there anyone to be found upon the deck?
3. Could a person be found on the deck?
Q3:
1. Was the person on the deck young?
2. Was there a young person on the deck?
3. Was it a youthful person that was on the deck?
Q4:
1. Was the gentleman on the deck impatient?
2. Does impatient describe the gentleman on the deck?
3. Did the young guy on the deck have very little patience?
Q5:
1. Who was the impatient young man?
2. Who was the young man that lacked patience?
3. What was the name of the impatient gentleman?
Q6:
1. What did Dickory Charter come for?
2. What business did Dickory Charter have?
3. Why had Dickory Charter come to the deck?
Q7:
1. Who did Dickory Charter come on behalf of?
2. Dickory Charter came on account of whom?
3. Dickory Charter was on the deck on account of which person?
Q8:
1. Who did Dickory Charter come on behalf of, besides Kate Bonnet?
2. Dickory Charter came on account of whom, in addition to Kate Bonnet?
3. Dickory Charter was on the deck on account of which person, other than Kate Bonnet?
Q9:
1. Did Dickory Charter recognize anyone?
2. Was there anyone on deck that Dickory Charter knew?
3. Were there any familiar faces to Dickory Charter?
Q10:
1. Who did Dickory Charter recognize?
2. Who was known to Dickory Charter?
3. Who had a familiar face to Dickory Charter?
Q11:
1. What was the name of the person that Dickory Charter recognized?
2. Name the person who Dickory Charter knew.
3. State the name of the person familiar to Dickory Charter.
Q12:
1. Did Dickory Charter ask a question of Tom Hilyer?
2. Did Dickory Charter have an inquiry for Tom Hilyer?
3. Was there anything that Dickory Charter asked Tom Hilyer?
Q13:
1. What did Dickory Charter ask Tom Hilyer?
2. What information did Dickory Charter want from Tom Hilyer?
3. What was Tom Hilyer asked by Dickory Charter?
Q14:
1. Did Tom Hilyer offer to let Dickory Charter go with him?
2. Was Tom Hilyer willing to let Dickory Charter accompany him?
3. Did Tom Hilyer suggest that Dickory Charter come with him?
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39dd6s19jpbtyxnmal6qgea8wsizel | cnn | Seoul (CNN)North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is continuing to rule with an iron fist, having ordered the execution of about 15 senior officials so far this year, according to an assessment by South Korean intelligence agents, a lawmaker who attended a closed briefing said.
Shin Kyung-min, a lawmaker with the New Politics Alliance for Democracy, told a handful of reporters that he had been given the information by the South Korean National Intelligence Service.
CNN cannot independently confirm the executions. The nature of the intelligence supporting the National Intelligence Service allegations was also not immediately clear. North Korea is one of the most closed societies in the world.
According to Shin, intelligence officials say Kim is ruling in an impromptu manner and does not countenance excuses or any views at variance with his own.
He considers those a challenge to his authority, the intelligence officials said, according to Shin.
For example, a senior official with Ministry of Forestry was executed for expressing dissatisfaction with the country's forestry program, the lawmaker said.
North Korean defectors share their ordeals
The vice chairman of the State Planning Commission was executed because he objected to changing the design of a science and technology hall from a rounded shape to one resembling a flower, the intelligence officials said, according to the lawmaker.
And in March, according to the South Korean lawmaker, Kim executed on charges of espionage four members of the Unhasu Orchestra, including the general director, because of a scandal, Shin said.
Kim became North Korea's Supreme Commander in December 2011 following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. According to the National Intelligence Service, he is reported to have executed 17 senior officials in 2012, 10 in 2013 and 41 in 2014. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who rules North Korea?
2. Who is in charge of North Korea?
3. What is the name of North Korea's head of state?
Q2:
1. When did Kim Jong Un come into power?
2. When was Kim Jong Un given control of North Korea?
3. On what date did North Korea come to be ruled by Kim Jong Un?
Q3:
1. What is Kim Jong Un's accepted title?
2. What is the correct title for Kim Jong Un?
3. What title does Kim Jong Un officially go by?
Q4:
1. What is Kim Jong Un the Supreme Commander of?
2. Which nation recognizes Kim Jong Un as its Supreme Commander?
3. Where does Kim Jong Un rule as Supreme Commander?
Q5:
1. What was the name of Kim Jong Un's father?
2. What man is Kim Jong Un the son of?
3. Who was Kim Jong Un's dad?
Q6:
1. What network appears in the article?
2. What network does the article mention?
3. What news station is in the article?
Q7:
1. Does the article mention any legislators besides Kim Jong Un?
2. Do lawmakers other than Kim Jong Un get named in the article?
3. Does the excerpt name anyone involved in lawmaking other than Kim Jong Un?
Q8:
1. What lawmaker does the article mention?
2. Who is the lawmaker that appears in the article
3. What is the name of the lawmaker that the article talks about?
Q9:
1. Does Shin Kyung-min's employer appear in the article?
2. Does the article mention who Shin Kyung-min works for?
3. Do we learn who Shin Kyung-min from the article?
Q10:
1. Who is Shin Kyung-min's employer?
2. Who does Shin Kyung-min work for?
3. Where is Shin Kyung-min employed?
Q11:
1. Did Shin Kyung-min speak to someone?
2. Was there someone that Shin Kyung-min recently conversed with?
3. Did Shin Kyung-min have a conversation with someone?
Q12:
1. Who did Shin Kyung-min converse with?
2. Who did Shin Kyung-min talk to?
3. Who spoke with Shin Kyung-min?
Q13:
1. How many reporters did Shin Kyung-min speak with?
2. How many reporters talked to Shin Kyung-min?
3. What was the quantity of reporters that spoke with Shin Kyung-min?
Q14:
1. What did Shin Kyung-min say to reporters?
2. What was Shin Kyung-min's message to reporters?
3. What did Shin Kyung-min report to the press?
Q15:
1. Who gave Shin Kyung-min information?
2. Where did Shin Kyung-min's informatino come from?
3. What was the source of Shin Kyung-min's information?
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34yb12fsqyorj4ku1r6k8fzbu4vgmi | gutenberg | Chapter XIV. And Jill Finds It Out
Jill worried about it more than he did, for she was a faithful little friend, and it was a great trial to have Jack even suspected of doing anything wrong. School is a child's world while he is there, and its small affairs are very important to him, so Jill felt that the one thing to be done was to clear away the cloud about her dear boy, and restore him to public favor.
"Ed will be here Saturday night and may be he will find out, for Jack tells him everything. I do hate to have him hectored so, for I know he is, though he's too proud to complain," she said, on Thursday evening, when Frank told her some joke played upon his brother that day.
"I let him alone, but I see that he isn't badgered too much. That's all I can do. If Ed had only come home last Saturday it might have done some good, but now it will be too late; for the reports are given out to-morrow, you know," answered Frank, feeling a little jealous of Ed's influence over Jack, though his own would have been as great if he had been as gentle.
"Has Jerry come back?" asked Jill, who kept all her questions for Frank, because she seldom alluded to the tender subject when with Jack.
"No, he's off for the summer. Got a place somewhere. Hope he'll stay there and let Bob alone."
"Where is Bob now? I don't hear much about him lately," said Jill, who was constantly on the lookout for "the other fellow," since it was not Joe. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who does Jack discuss everything with?
2. Who does Jack tell everything to?
3. In whom can Jack confide everything?
Q2:
1. Who envied that Jack could always talk to Ed?
2. Who was envious of Ed's status as Jack's confident?
3. Who felt jealous that Jack could always confide in Jack?
Q3:
1. What was Frank's relation to Jack?
2. What family member was Frank to Jack?
3. How was Frank related to Jack?
Q4:
1. How can Frank's treatment of Jack be described?
2. How does Frank treat Jack?
3. How does Frank act towards his brother?
Q5:
1. What does Frank do to Jack?
2. What does Frank do to his brother?
3. What does Jack's brother do to him?
Q6:
1. Does Frank play jokes on Jack?
2. Does Jack get pranked by his brother?
3. Does Frank play pranks on his brother?
Q7:
1. How does Frank prank his brother?
2. How does Frank play jokes on Jack?
3. What sort of jokes does Frank play on his brother?
Q8:
1. What was Jill's reason for questioning Frank about Jerry?
2. Why did Jill ask Frank about Jerry?
3. Why was Frank getting questioned about Jerry by Jill?
Q9:
1. Why had Jerry left?
2. What was Jerry's reason for leaving?
3. For what reason was Jerry not present?
Q10:
1. Did Jack and Jill get along?
2. Did Jack and Jill have an amicable relationship?
3. Could Jack and Jill be described as friends?
Q11:
1. Why was Jill concerned about Jack's status?
2. What made Jill concerned about how Jack was doing?
3. What gave Jill pause with regard to Jack's status?
Q12:
1. How did Jill try and help Jack?
2. What did Jill do to try and help Jack?
3. How did Jill attempt to come to Jack's aid?
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3ftop5warfo47s3oks4p7vkek350ja | wikipedia | San Francisco (initials SF) (, Spanish for Saint Francis; Spanish: ), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. The consolidated city-county covers an area of about at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the fourth-most populous city in California, and the 13th-most populous in the United States, with a 2016 census-estimated population of 870,887. The population is projected to reach 1 million by 2033.
San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, all named for St. Francis of Assisi. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the "hippie" counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Which city has the fourth largest population in California?
2. What is California's fourth most populous city?
3. What city in California only has three that are more populous than it?
Q2:
1. Where does San Francisco's population rank within the United States?
2. What is the rank of San Francisco's population within the United States?
3. Where does San Francisco rank with respect to the population of other US cities?
Q3:
1. What was the date of San Francisco's founding?
2. On what date was San Francisco founded?
3. When was San Francisco founded?
Q4:
1. Where did San Francisco get its name?
2. What was San Francisco named for?
3. Where did San Francisco's name come from?
Q5:
1. What is the population of San Francisco?
2. How many people live in San Francisco?
3. What's the number of residents in San Francisco?
Q6:
1. Was San Francisco small during the gold rush?
2. At the time of the gold rush, was San Francisco tiny?
3. Was the population of San Francisco small when the gold rush was happening?
Q7:
1. How big was San Francisco during the gold rush?
2. What was San Francisco's size at the time of the gold rush?
3. During the gold rush, what was San Francisco's population size?
Q8:
1. Is San Francisco a part of Southern California?
2. Can San Francisco be found in Southern California?
3. Is the location of San Francisco somewhere in Southern California?
Q9:
1. Is San Francisco conservative?
2. Do people in San Francisco lean Republican?
3. Does San Francisco have a conservative bent?
Q10:
1. What happened in San Francisco in 1906?
2. What took place in San Francisco in 1906?
3. What did San Francisco undergo in 1906?
Q11:
1. What destroyed San Francisco in 1906?
2. What hit San Francisco in 1906?
3. What wreaked havoc on San Francisco in 1906?
Q12:
1. What happened in San Francisco in 1945?
2. What arrived in San Francisco in 1945?
3. What took place in 1945 in San Francisco?
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3vp0c6efsgwpmbvopexywomm0xim6q | mctest | I stepped inside my mother's car and dropped my backpack on the floor as my face filled with excitement. Today's the day that we're going to the candy store and picking out a new treat to have after dinner. Some people may like going to the movies, or the game room, or even to parks, but going to the candy store once a week and getting to see all the different colors and taste all the different treats is my favorite activity. As soon as we pull up, she tells me to not run around too much inside, but I'm so excited I barely hear her. She opens the door and we walk inside where the clerk first welcomes us. Since we do this each week, he calls me by my name of Trevor and says that he's come up with a few candies for me to try.
I walk over to the table and see three types of M&M's laid out. He knows I'm not a big fan of peanuts so he left out the peanut kind, instead giving me mint flavored, cookies 'n creme flavored, and white chocolate flavored. They all taste great and the clerk asks which I like the most. It takes me a bit to choose, but I finally choose the Mint as this week's choice. He rings us up at the front desk and says that since we buy from his shop so much, he's going to give us a sale, so we think it'll be a nickel or a dime or even a quarter off. Actually, the clerk ends up cutting it half off! We thanked him and went on our way as I tried not to eat all the way home. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is Trevor's favorite activity?
2. What activity does Trevor like most?
3. What activity brings Trevor the most pleasure?
Q2:
1. How does Trevor get to the candy store?
2. What is Trevor's means of transportation for getting to the candy store?
3. How is Trevor able to travel to the candy store?
Q3:
1. How does Trevor feel about the candy store?
2. What are Trevor's emotions towards the candy store?
3. What does the candy store make Trevor feel like?
Q4:
1. Who is the boy that likes the candy store?
2. What boy likes going to the candy store?
3. Who is the boy that appears in the story?
Q5:
1. What is Trevor not a fan of?
2. What does Trevor not enjoy?
3. What is Trevor averse to?
Q6:
1. What flavor is pleasing to Trevor?
2. Which flavor is Trevor a fan of?
3. What flavor does Trevor enjoy?
Q7:
1. What flavors could Trevor choose from?
2. What flavors were available to Trevor?
3. What kinds of MnMs could Trevor pick from?
Q8:
1. Why does Trevor and his mom get a discount?
2. Why don't Trevor and his mom have to pay full price?
3. Why is a discount given to Trevor and his mother?
Q9:
1. How much did Trevor and his mom save?
2. How big of a discount were Trevor and his mom given?
3. How much of a discount did Trevor and his motehr get?
Q10:
1. What did Trevor and his mom think of their discount?
2. How did getting a discount make Trevor and his mom feel?
3. How did Trevor and his mother feel about not paying full price?
Q11:
1. After the candy store, what was Trevor and his mom's next destination?
2. Where did Trevor and his mom go after the candy store?
3. After the candy store, where were Trevor and his mom headed?
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3uj1cz6izhpw128f4sjfgr7swrps5s | mctest | Once upon a time, there was a little frog in a little castle. The little frog was having a little party with all his little froggy friends. "I want to make them a cake!" he said, and so he went into the kitchen. In the kitchen, there were all the ingredients the frog needed to make the cake. There were eggs, milk, flour, sugar, and yes, frosting. The frog put all the ingredients in a bowl and started mixing them up. "I'm going to make the best cake ever!" he said. He took the cake and poured it into a blue bowl and popped it into the oven. He waited, and then, when it was done, he took it out. It was nice and golden brown. He put pink frosting all over the cake. It looked great! All the people at the party loved the little frog's cake. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who had a party?
2. Who was celebrating something?
3. Who hosted a celebration?
Q2:
1. Who did the frog invite to his party?
2. Who did the frog tell to come to his party?
3. Who were the invited guests at the frog's celebration?
Q3:
1. Where did the frog live?
2. What was the frog's residence?
3. Where did the frog reside?
Q4:
1. What did the frog want to bake?
2. What did the frog want to whip up in the oven?
3. What baked good did the frog want to make?
Q5:
1. Where did the frog to go make his cake?
2. What room did the frog go into to make his cake?
3. Where did the frog whip up his sweet treat?
Q6:
1. Did the kitchen have everything the frog needed for a cake?
2. Was the frog's kitchen fully equipped to make a cake?
3. Did the frog have all the necessary cake ingredients in his kitchen?
Q7:
1. Where did the frog put all of his cake ingredients?
2. Where did the frog place everything needed to make his cake?
3. Where did all the frog's cake ingredients go?
Q8:
1. What did the frog do once his ingredients were in the bowl?
2. Once the frog had his ingredients in the bowl, what was his next step?
3. What did the frog do once he had his cake components in the bowl?
Q9:
1. How did the frog think his cake would turn out?
2. How was the frog expecting his cake would come out?
3. In the frog's mind, how was his cake going to be once done?
Q10:
1. What color of bowl did the frog put his cake batter into?
2. What was the color of the bowl that the frog used for his cake batter?
3. What was the hue of the bowl for the frog's cake batter?
Q11:
1. What color was the cake when the frog pulled it out of the overn?
2. When the frog pulled his cake out of the oven, what color was it?
3. What was the shade of the frog's cake when it came out of the oven?
Q12:
1. What did the frog top his cake with?
2. What did the frog place on top of his cake?
3. What did the frog adorn his cake with?
Q13:
1. How did the frog's cake look?
2. How was the frog's cake looking?
3. What was the final state of the frog's baked treat?
Q14:
1. Did everyone like the frog's cake?
2. Was the frog's cake a universal success?
3. Was the frog's cake loved by all?
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382m9cohehfccytc4y7izmvtu90uem | race | Anyone who has ever traveled with a teenager knows that the teenager can make the vacation good or bad for the entire family. As a travel agent, Lynda Maxwell said, "If teenagers are happy, everybody is happy." Teenagers are often interested in travelling, but their interests and schedules often aren't the same as their parents'. It means that when the parents start to look for a place of interest in the early morning, their teenagers may be sleeping soundly! The thing makes travelling with teenagers very difficult, but it isn't impossible. The experts said, "The keys to success is what parents do before they travel." For many families, the hardest part may be finding a vacation time that is right for everyone. Be sure to sit down with everyone else in the family before setting a date. "After setting a date, ask teenagers where they would choose to go," suggested Maxwell. It is possible that they'd like nothing more than to sit on a beach for a week. "Maybe there's a compromise ," said Maxwell. "Most teenagers like using the Internet now, so parents can ask them to think up the ideas about what to see and do," said Brad Anderson. "I find teenagers are excellent at making great suggestions." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. How is Lynda Maxwell employed?
2. What does Lynda Maxwell do for a living?
3. What job does Lynda Maxwell have?
Q2:
1. Does Lynda Maxwell think teenagers can make or break a trip?
2. Does Lynda Maxwell believe a trip's success to be dependent on a teenager's happiness?
3. Does Lynda Maxwell think teenagers are vital to making a trip successful?
Q3:
1. Are adolescents travel fans?
2. Do teens like going on trip?
3. Is travelling something that teenagers enjoy?
Q4:
1. What makes teens different from their parents when it comes to travel?
2. How do teens differ from their parents with respect to travel?
3. What's the difference between a teenager and a parent when travelling?
Q5:
1. When is not a prime time for activities for a teenager?
2. When isn't the greatest time to plan activities for a teenager?
3. During what part of the day should one avoid scheduling activities for their teenager?
Q6:
1. Why shouldn't activities be planned for teenagers in the morning?
2. Why is it best to avoid expecting teens to do activities in the morning?
3. Why isn't it good to schedule activities for teens in the early morning?
Q7:
1. According to experts, what part of planning a vacation is most difficult?
2. What do experts point to as the potential hardest part of planning a vacation?
3. What does expert opinon say could be the most difficult part of getting together a vacation?
Q8:
1. Does Lynda Maxwell think teenagers should choose when a family vacations?
2. According to Lynda Maxwell, should teens be the ones to pick the date of vacation?
3. Does Lynda Maxwell think that choosing the date for vacation should fall into the hands of teens?
Q9:
1. What does Lynda Maxwell think that teenagers should be able to choose about vacation?
2. What part of vacation does Lynda Maxwell think that teens should have a choice in?
3. What should teens be able to decide on , according to Lynda Maxwell?
Q10:
1. What's one way that teenagers could find ideas for vacation?
2. What is one resource through which teenagers could find vacation ideas?
3. How might a teenager come across suggestions for vacation?
Q11:
1. Who thinks that teens make good suggestions?
2. Who believes adolescents to be good suggestion makers?
3. In whose opinion do teenagers suggest helpful things?
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317hq483i7sbxdbp3gln661re7finu | cnn | LONDON, England (CNN) -- Playing the Nintendo Wii Fit could improve balance and help avoid falls in seniors, researchers taking part in a new study suggest.
Researchers in Aberdeen think playing Wii Fit may improve the elderly's balance and lower risks of falling.
The University of Aberdeen, Scotland and the UK's National Health Service (NHS) have embarked on a four month study on people over 70 to observe any changes in balance after regular use of the Wii Fit.
The video game has different activities including yoga poses, push ups, strength, balance and aerobic exercises.
The Wii Fit includes a balance board that records movements and gives feedback on performance.
Dr Marie Fraser, a specialist registrar at Woodend Hospital in Scotland, UK, is carrying out the research.
She told CNN: "Falls are the most common cause of accidental injury in older people and the most common cause of accidental deaths in 75-year-olds and over."
It is hoped that using the Wii Fit's balance board can improve elderly people's balance and confidence.
Dr Alison Stewart, who devised the study said she came up with the idea while working in the Osteoporosis department at the University of Aberdeen, after seeing a large number of fractures in old people who had fallen.
Stewart, a commercial research manager with the NHS, said she then decided to research how to improve older people's balance.
She told CNN: "There exists a medical fitness device that improves balance, but it is expensive and I could not get the funding. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the subject of the study?
2. What topic does the study focus on?
3. What subject is the study interested in?
Q2:
1. How wa the Wii Fit used?
2. What was the Wii Fit used to do?
3. What activities were done with the Wii Fit?
Q3:
1. Where was the study done?
2. What was the site where the study was conducted?
3. In what location was the study carried out?
Q4:
1. What researcher conducted the study?
2. Whose study was conducted?
3. Who was in charge of the study?
Q5:
1. How long did the study last?
2. How long was the study carried out for?
3. For what length of time did the study go on?
Q6:
1. Who worked with Dr. Marie Fraser on the study?
2. Who collaborated with Dr. Marie Fraser on the study?
3. What was the name of the researcher who worked in collaboration with Dr. Marie Fraser?
Q7:
1. Who was the subject of Marie Fraser and Alison Stewart's research?
2. Who did Drs. Alison Stewart and Marie Fraser conduct research on?
3. Who were Drs. Marie Fraser and Alison Stewart studying?
Q8:
1. What were Drs. Marie Fraser and Alison Stewart trying to figure out?
2. What did Drs. Marie Fraser and Alison Stewart wish to find out?
3. What were Drs. Marie Fraser and Alison Stewart hoping to discover?
Q9:
1. What were Drs. Marie Fraser and Alison Stewart trying to reduce?
2. What did Drs. Marie Fraser and Alison Stewart want there to be less of?
3. What were Drs. Marie Fraser and Alison Stewart hoping to minimize?
Q10:
1. Why did the study use the Wii Fit?
2. What was the utility of conducting research with the Wii Fit?
3. Why put a Wii Fit into the study?
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31qnsg6a5rtt5m7pens7xklncb787y | gutenberg | CHAPTER IV.
HAL STANDS UP FOR HIMSELF.
Hal now found himself in a tight situation. Felix Hardwick had him by the throat, and was slowly but surely choking him.
"Don't! don't!" cried Mr. Sumner, in great alarm.
"The miserable tramp!" cried Hardwick. "I'll teach him to call a gentleman a thief."
He continued his choking process, paying no attention to his employer's efforts to haul him away.
But by this time Hal began to realize that Hardwick was in earnest. He began to kick, and presently landed a blow in the book-keeper's stomach that completely winded the man.
Hardwick relaxed his hold, and Hal sprang away.
"Stop! stop!" ordered Mr. Sumner. "I will not have such disgraceful scenes in this office."
"But he intimated I was a thief," said Hardwick, trying to catch his wind.
"And he said the same of me," retorted Hal.
"So you are!"
"I never stole a thing in my life, Mr. Sumner." Hal turned to the broker. "And I am not a tramp."
"Then supposing we make it a poor-house beggar," returned Hardwick, with a short laugh.
Hal turned red. The shot was a cruel one.
"Hush! Hardwick," cried Mr. Sumner. "There is no necessity for such language."
The broker turned to Hal.
"You just made a strange statement, Carson," he said. "How do you know Mr. Hardwick contemplated robbing the safe?"
"Because I do."
"That is no answer."
"I overheard him and Mr. Allen talking about the bonds being in the safe."
"When?"
"The evening I came to New York." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who's in a tussle?
2. Who's having a scrap?
3. Who is in a fight?
Q2:
1. Who is trying to stop Hal and Felix?
2. Who is attempting to end Hal and Felix's fight?
3. Who is making an effort to stop Hal and Felix's fight?
Q3:
1. Who is more aggressive, Hal or Felix?
2. Is Hal or Felix being more aggressive?
3. Who is the more aggravated one, between Felix and Hal?
Q4:
1. What is Felix doing?
2. How is Felix acting?
3. What action is Felix taking?
Q5:
1. What did Hal do in response to Felix's movements?
2. How did Hal respond to what Felix was doing?
3. What was Hal's response to the movements of Felix?
Q6:
1. Did Hal get a good hit in?
2. Did Hal manage to strike Felix?
3. Was Hal able to strike a blow to his opponent?
Q7:
1. Where did Hal strike Felix?
2. Where did Felix get struck by Hal?
3. What part of Felix's body did Hal hit?
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3fk0yff9pzgtro4y4e6xvcly9kcvv1 | cnn | (CNN) -- Judge William Adams, who made national headlines after the release of a 2004 video of him beating his then-teenage daughter, has been suspended by the Texas Supreme Court.
Adams, while not admitting guilt or wrongdoing, agreed to the suspension. He will be paid during the suspension.
The judge's lawyer, William Dudley, said his client proposed the suspension motion with input from the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, which is investigating the incident. Adams already was on voluntary leave, Dudley said in a statement to CNN.
In a separate ruling, a Texas judge ruled Wednesday that Adams can have supervised visitation with his younger daughter, 10.
Adams, a court-at-law judge in Aransas County, was roundly criticized when his now-adult daughter posted online a video of him beating her with a belt when she was 16.
The video also showed the judge cursing and berating Hillary Adams.
William Adams was punishing the girl for using the Internet "to acquire music and games that were unavailable for legal purchase at the time," Hillary Adams wrote on the web posting.
The video is punctuated by cracks of the man's belt and the girl's screams and cries.
At one point in the 7 1/2-minute video, the man says to his near-hysterical daughter, "What happened to you, Hillary? Once you were an obedient, nice little girl. Now you lie, cheat and steal."
He yells at her, "You want to put some more computer games on? You want some more?"
"Are you happy?" he asks her. "Disobeying your parents? You don't deserve to f---ing be in this house." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who beat his adolescent offspring?
2. Who laid hands on his teenage daughter?
3. Who struck his teen daughter?
Q2:
1. What did the Texas Supreme Court do to Judge William Adams?
2. What was the response of the Texas Supreme Court to Judge William Adams's actions?
3. How did the Texas Supreme Court respond to the acts of Judge William Adams?
Q3:
1. How was the incident with Judge William Adams made public?
2. How did Judge William Adams's beating of his daughter become public?
3. How did the public learn of what Judge William Adams did to his daughter?
Q4:
1. Did Judge William Adams admit fault?
2. Did Judge William Adams publicly say he was wrong?
3. Did Judge William Adams admit that he made a mistake?
Q5:
1. Who was Judge William Adams' attorney?
2. Who served as legal counsel for Judge William Adams?
3. What lawyer was Judge William Adams represented by?
Q6:
1.
2.
3.
Q7:
1. Was Judge William Adams involved in other legal cases, other than the one with his daughter?
2. Were there other legal cases involved Judge William Adams, besides the one with his daughter?
3. Did Judge William Adams have any legal issues besides the case with his daughter?
Q8:
1. What state did Judge William Adams have a case against him in?
2. In what state was Judge William Adams having legal issues?
3. What state did Judge William Adams have an open court case with?
Q9:
1. What did Judge William Adams get in the Texas case?
2. What was granted to Judge William Adams during the Texas case?
3. What did Judge William Adams receive in the court case in Texas?
Q10:
1. Who wasn't happy that the video leaked?
2. Who didn't like that the video got made public?
3. Who was upset with the fact that the public found out about the video?
Q11:
1. What does William Adams do for a living?
2. What is William Adams' profession?
3. How is William Adams employed?
Q12:
1. Where is William Adams from?
2. Where does William Adams reside?
3. What is William Adams' place of residence?
Q13:
1. How long after William Adams beat his daughter was the clip leaked?
2. How quickly did the video of William Adams beating his daughter get leaked after it was made?
3. How long after the incident beteween William Adams and his daughter was the video made public?
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3m0bcwmb8vwrxz6xp7ktg2a5dzrbwa | race | For more than 40 years, scientists have sought to learn how well human beings can adapt to long periods in space. The International Space Station continues to provide valuable knowledge about spaceflight. But an earlier space station, Skylab, helped make the current space project possible.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield sang aboard the International Space Station on May 12, 2013. His music video has become extremely popular. The astronaut played his own version of David Bowie's song Space Oddity. He performed while floating weightlessly, with images of planet earth and space appearing in the window behind him.
Chris Hadfield recently returned home after nearly five months on the space station. For him, the long flight produced a hit video on YouTube and no major physical problems. But 40 years ago, scientists did not know how humans would react to long-term spaceflight. To find out, NASA, the American space agency, launched Skylab in May, 1973. Over nearly a year, three teams of astronauts visited Skylab for stays of between 28 to 84 days. They learned how people react to extended periods in space.
Gerald Carr commanded Skylab 4. He spoke at a NASA event marking the 40th anniversary of Skylab's launch. He said that the loss of the body's muscle mass was a main concern. Astronauts on Skylab used exercise equipment to stay strong. The astronauts spent their workdays carrying out experiments, including biomedical research.
Marshall Porterfield is the director of NASA's Space Life and Physical Sciences Division. He says the Skylab astronauts' understanding of their own ability to deal with long-term spaceflight continues to help current astronauts. NASA says the next step for life away from Earth is a year-long space station mission, set for 2015. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Which space station facilitated space projects?
2. What was the space station that made it so space projects could happen?
3. By which space station were projects in space made possible?
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3r3yrb5grf39mlc0ot5w3352a1juan | race | Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82. Many people paid tribute to the former astronaut. But other people feel regret that no human has been back to the moon since 1972, just three years after Armstrong landed on it and gave his famous "giant leap for mankind" speech.
Elliot Pulham, Chief Executive of the Space Foundation, thinks that America's space agency NASA should get more money, like in the 1960s, during the moon landings programme, when astronauts went to the moon. "In this age of limited goals and tiny NASA budgets, Armstrong is a reminder of what our nation was once capable of," he said.
Armstrong died because of heart problems after surgery. His recovery seemed to be going well, and his death was a surprise to many people. His family described him as a "reluctant American hero" and said: "Honour his example of service, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink."
Speaking from the White House, Barack Obama said Armstrong was "among the greatest of
American heroes - not just of his time, but of all time". He added: "And when Neil stepped on the
moon for the first time, it was a moment of human achievement that will never be forgotten."
Buzz Aldrin flew with Armstrong on Apollo 11. He was the second man to walk on the moon. He said he was very sad at the death of his good friend and companion.
"When I look at the moon I remember that special moment, over forty years ago, when Neil and I stood on the moon," he said. "Looking back at our brilliant blue planet Earth hanging in the darkness of space, I realized that even though we were farther away from Earth than two humans
had ever been, we were not alone. Almost the entire world took that memorable journey with us. I know many millions of people around the world will join me in mourning the death of a true
American hero and the best pilot I ever knew. My friend Neil took the small step but giant leap that changed the world and will always be remembered as a historic moment in human history."
In the US, people felt that he represented the achievement of a past age of American greatness. Today, things are very different: NASA has cancelled a number of missions because they don't have enough money.
Former astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man on the moon, said: "Neil did something that people thought was impossible." Others complained about the state of the US. Journalist Andrew Pasternak wrote: "It will take longer to rebuild lower Manhattan after 9/11 than it took to build an entire space program and send a man to the moon."
Of course, NASA has its modern successes. Its engineers have landed a nuclear-powered robot on Mars. There will also be another Mars mission. It will drill below the planet's surface. But these achievements are not as exciting as Armstrong's. NASA administrator Charles Bolden expressed that in his tribute. "As we enter this next era of space exploration, we are standing on the shoulders of Neil Armstrong," he said.
Armstrong was disappointed by what NASA has become. Blogger Eric Berger saw an email from Armstrong and other former astronauts. It expressed frustration at the current problems at NASA and quoted Yogi Berra, an American baseball legend: "If you don't know where you are
going, you might not get there." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. How did Neil Armstrong die?
2. What did Neil Armstrong pass away from?
3. What was Neil Armstrong's cause of death?
Q2:
1. Was Neil Armstrong's death unexpected?
2. Did Neil Armstrong pass away unexpectedly?
3. Did Neil Armstrong's death come as a shock?
Q3:
1. What is Neil Armstrong known for?
2. What is Neil Armstrong's claim to fame?
3. How did Neil Armstrong become famous?
Q4:
1. Had anyone walked on the moon before Neil Armstrong?
2. Did others set foot on the moon prior to Neil Armstrong?
3. Was Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon after that of other astronauts?
Q5:
1. What was the last year when someone walked on the moon?
2. In what year did someone last walk on the moon?
3. What was the last year that a human set foot on the moon?
Q6:
1. Who was the last person to walk on the moon?
2. What's the name of the most recent person to have walked on the moon?
3. Who was the last human to set foot on the moon?
Q7:
1. What president honored Neil Armstrong at the White House?
2. Neil Armstrong received White House honors from which president?
3. What American head of state gave Neil Armstrong honors at the White House?
Q8:
1. What did Barack Obama say about Neil Armstrong?
2. What were Barack Obama's comments regarding Neil Armstrong?
3. What was Neil Armstrong like in the words of the American President?
Q9:
1. How old was Neil Armstrong when he died?
2. What was Neil Armstrong's age at the time of his passing?
3. How old was Neil Armstrong when he passed away?
Q10:
1. Was Neil Armstrong proud of what NASA became?
2. Did it make Neil Armstrong proud to see what NASA had become?
3. Did more recent iterations of NASA make Armstrong proud?
Q11:
1. Who did Neil Armstrong quote in an email?
2. Who did a Neil Armstrong email contain a quote from?
3. Who was cited in an email by Neil Armstrong?
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32svav9l3f9pnrzh999vguf2wgw3a4 | race | Recently, China Dream has been the subject of a public topic. Although it is quite common for Chinese people to dream of a developed China, most people also have their own dreams. I interviewed several young Chinese students with higher US educational backgrounds. They all had their own dreams for their native country. Fred Wang, an MBA student in the US, said, "I dream of equal chance for the young in China. Equality means all young people can compete fairly, based on the rule-of-law no matter whether they are rich or poor." Yujie Zhao, another MBA student in California, said, "I dream of having the best education for my children so they will not lose at the starting line, and I dream of being able to take good care of my parents after they return home from work." Yiqiong Zhang, an MBA graduate from the US, shared her dreams. "I have a dream which I have been holding for many years, that is after working hard for about 20 to 25 years, I can have enough money to build and manage a bookstore or a flower shop. Besides working hard, I am able to enjoy life, to play the piano, to hike and to enjoy a two-month-long vacation every year. This may be a common dream among young Chinese students." There is no doubt that all of these young students have their own China Dream. They all love chasing their dreams. The beautiful China Dream requires everyone's hard work. Everyone should work hard to make their dreams come true. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who got interviewed for the article?
2. Who gave an interview for the story?
3. Interviews with whom appear in the story?
Q2:
1. Where did the Chinese students study?
2. Where were the Chinese students getting an education?
3. Where were the Chinese students taking classes at?
Q3:
1. What were the Chinese students asked?
2. What questions did the Chinese students receive?
3. What inquiries did the interviewer have for the Chinese students?
Q4:
1. What did Fred Wang wish?
2. What was Fred Wang's hope?
3. What dream did Fred Wang have?
Q5:
1. How did Fred Wang define equality?
2. What was Fred Wang's definition of equality?
3. What definition did Fred Wang give of equality?
Q6:
1. What was a part of Yujie Zhao's dream?
2. What did Yujie Zhao dream of?
3. What was Yujie Zhao's wish?
Q7:
1. Who did Yujie Zhao want the best education for?
2. Who did Yujie Zhao wish to have the best education?
3. Whose good education did Yujie Zhao have dreams about?
Q8:
1. What does Yujie Zhao want for her parents?
2. What is Yujie Zhao's wish for her parents?
3. What dream does Yujie Zhao have for her parents?
Q9:
1. After working, what does Yiqiong Zhang desire to do?
2. What is Yiqiong Zhang's wish after working?
3. What dream does Yiqiong Zhang for after work?
Q10:
1. How long will Yiqiong Zhang work before pursuing his dream?
2. Before he goes after his dream, how much time will Yiqiong Zhang spend working?
3. How long is Yiqiong Zhang going to have a job before he goes after his dream?
Q11:
1. How will Yiqiong Zhang enjoy life?
2. What will Yiqiong Zhang to enjoy life?
3. What fulfilling activity will Yiqiong Zhang do?
Q12:
1. How will Yiqiong Zhang enjoy life, besides playing the piano?
2. What will Yiqiong Zhang to enjoy life, in addition to piano playing?
3. What fulfilling activity will Yiqiong Zhang do, apart from playing the piano?
Q13:
1. Does Yiqiong Zhang want to go on holidays?
2. Is Yiqiong Zhang interested in going on vacation?
3. Does Yiqiong Zhang wish to take a vacation?
Q14:
1. For what length of time would Yiqiong Zhang like to go on holiday?
2. How long does Yiqiong Zhang want to spend on vacation?
3. How long would Yiqiong Zhang hope to vacation for?
Q15:
1. How often does Yiqiong Zhang desire to go on vacation?
2. At what frequency would Yiqiong Zhang like to go on holiday?
3. How often does Yiqiong Zhang want to take facations?
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30og32w0subzh8937xvwlr3znp1enx | cnn | Washington (CNN) -- The United States is watching closely to the see the ultimate fate of the most powerful man in Pakistan, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the Pakistani army's chief of staff.
Pressured by Washington to crack down on terrorists at the same time he was kept in the dark about the U.S. raid to kill Osama bin Laden, Kayani "is facing more vocal and strident criticism than he has in the past," a senior U.S. military official told CNN. "We really think he is coming under increased scrutiny by junior and mid-grade officers."
This is the type of scrutiny senior Pakistani generals like Kayani are "not accustomed to facing," the official said.
Criticism of Kayani inside Pakistan had grown in recent months as he became close to the Obama administration and the Pentagon. But in the wake of the U.S. military raid into Pakistan to kill bin Laden, the criticism has increased from an officer corps furious that U.S. troops invaded Pakistan's territory without the Pakistani military, and especially Kayani, being consulted.
Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, is one of Kayani's closest professional and personal allies, having met with him many times in the past several years.
"Mullen does consider him a friend," said the admiral's spokesman, Capt John Kirby. "That doesn't mean there aren't still disagreements. It doesn't mean Kayani doesn't feel betrayed."
U.S. officials are closely watching a group known as the "11 corps commanders," the senior Pakistani generals hand-picked by Kayani to command. Keeping their loyalty will be crucial for Kayani to keep his job. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Is Ashfaq Parvez Kayani used to being looked at closely?
2. Does Ashfaq Parvez Kayani have a lot of experience facing lots of scrutiny?
3. Is Ashfaq Parvez Kayani used to his current level of scrutiny?
Q2:
1. What is Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's title?
2. What is Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's position?
3. What role does Ashfaq Parvez Kayani have?
Q3:
1. What is Kayani's full name?
2. What is the full name of the Pakistani army's chief of staff?
3. State the full name of army chief of staff Kayani.
Q4:
1. Who is one of Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's closest allies?
2. What is the name of a very close ally of Ashfaq Parvez Kayani?
3. Who serves as a close confidant of Ashfaq Parvez Kayani?
Q5:
1. Who is Michael Mullen?
2. What is Michael Mullen's title?
3. What sort of work does Michael Mullen do?
Q6:
1. Are there ever disputes between Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Michael Mullen?
2. Do Michael Mullen and Ashfaq Parvez Kayani ever argue?
3. Do arguments ever occur between Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Michael Mullen?
Q7:
1. What is the American government pressuring Ashfaq Parvez Kayani to do?
2. What pressure is Ashfaq Parvez Kayani facing from Washington?
3. What is the US Government trying to pressure Ashfaq Parvez Kayani into doing?
Q8:
1. What secret was kept from Ashfaq Parvez Kayani?
2. What information was kept secret from Ashfaq Parvez Kayani?
3. What information was Ashfaq Parvez Kayani not allowed to know?
Q9:
1. What purpose did the raid serve?
2. Why was there a raid in Pakistan?
3. What was the point of the raid in Pakistan?
Q10:
1. Why is the US watching Ashfaq Parvez Kayani so closely?
2. For what reason is the United States keeping a close watch on Ashfaq Parvez Kayani?
3. Why are the United States watching Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's every move?
Q11:
1. What epithet does Ashfaq Parvez Kayani have?
2. What do people call Ashfaq Parvez Kayani?
3. How is Ashfaq Parvez Kayani often referred to?
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3h7z272lx77dqzv84yvs2byewy6lpk | cnn | (CNN) -- New Zealand's center-right National Party, led by Prime Minister John Key, won Saturday's general election with 48% of the vote, according to a complete preliminary count.
It was followed by the Labour Party, which took 25% of the vote, the Green Party with 10%, and the New Zealand First Party with 9%, the Electoral Commission said.
The National Party won 61 of 121 seats in the New Zealand parliament, but in his acceptance speech Key said he would seek alliances with smaller parties.
"I feel humbled and energized by the prospect of a third term. Over the next few days I will talk to other political parties with the view of putting together a broader majority," he said.
Pre-election polls had put Key in the lead to win a third term. In polling for "preferred prime minister," Key had 43% support, compared with 12% for Labour's David Cunliffe -- this despite allegations on the campaign trail that the prime minister lied to the nation by covertly approving a widespread spying program while publicly denying it. Key rejected the claims.
One of the most vocal critics of Key has been German tech entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, who has been a New Zealand resident since 2010.
While he could not run for office, the Megaupload founder has gradually emerged as a player on the fringe of New Zealand politics, as he fights a legal battle in New Zealand courts to avoid extradition to the U.S. on criminal copyright charges.
Earlier this year, Dotcom founded a political party, the Internet Party, which teamed up with the Maori nationalist Mana Party to contest the 2014 election. They campaigned for a more inclusive society, greater digital rights and an end to government electronic surveillance. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What nation appears in the article?
2. What country does the article discuss?
3. What country is at the center of the article?
Q2:
1. What party claimed victory?
2. Which party was the winner?
3. What political party came out on top?
Q3:
1. How many seats did the National Party win?
2. What was the number of seats won by the National Party?
3. How many seats went to the National Party?
Q4:
1. The National Party party won 61 out of how many seats?
2. How many seats total were up for grabs in the election?
3. What was the total number of seats that could be won in the election?
Q5:
1. What is the name of the Prime Minister?
2. Who serves as Prime Minister?
3. Who does New Zealand have as a Prime Minister?
Q6:
1. How many times has John Key been elected?
2. How many elections has John Key won?
3. What is the number of elections where John Key has been victorious?
Q7:
1. Does anyone major oppose John Key?
2. Does John Key have any notable opposition?
3. Is there any big opposition to John Key?
Q8:
1. What major player opposes John Key?
2. Who is a well known person that doesn't support John Key?
3. What big name person is an opponent of John Key?
Q9:
1. What is Kim Dotcom's country of origin?
2. Where is Kim Dotcom from?
3. What is Kim Dotcom's home country?
Q10:
1. Does Kim Dotcom have any court cases against him?
2. Is Kim Dotcom currently involved in any legal battles?
3. Are there currently any charges against Kim Dotcom?
Q11:
1. What charges are there against Kim Dotcom?
2. What has Kim Dotcom been legally accused of?
3. What accusations have been made against Kim Dotcom?
Q12:
1. Did Kim Dotcom start a political party?
2. Was there a political party founded by Kim Dotcom?
3. Did Kim Dotcom create an official political group?
Q13:
1. What was the name of Kim Dotcom's political party?
2. What did Kim Dotcom call his political party?
3. What name did Kim Dotcom bestow upon his political party?
Q14:
1. Did Kim Dotcom's political party partner with anyone?
2. Did the Internet Party join forces with anyone?
3. Did the Internet Party team up with another political party?
Q15:
1. Who joined forces with Kim Dotcom's political party?
2. Who partnered with the Internet Party?
3. Who formed an alliance with the Internet Party?
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34hjijklp5wuxbljki5ammllvryv4p | cnn | Atlanta (CNN) -- A Georgia man was alone before his fatal fall from an upper level of Atlanta's Turner Field, police said Tuesday, as they continue to investigate his death.
Ronald L. Homer, 30, was attending Monday night's Braves game against the Phillies. The Braves said they planned to observe a moment of silence for Homer before Tuesday's game.
Four witnesses told officers that they saw Homer fall from the fourth level of the stadium during a rain delay in the game, the Atlanta Police Department said.
"All the witnesses stated that there was (sic) no other people around Mr. Homer when he fell," police said, adding there were no surveillance cameras at the scene.
Police said the fall appeared to be accidental but that it was too early to tell if alcohol was a factor.
Homer, of nearby Conyers, fell 65 feet into the players' parking lot. He was unconscious when emergency responders found him, but he died later at the hospital, police said.
An autopsy on Homer is complete, but authorities are not releasing details, citing pending toxicology results, Tami Sedivy-Schroder, an investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office, said Tuesday. Results can take up to eight weeks, she said.
Homer's mother, Connie Homer, told CNN affiliate WXIA that he was a big Braves fan who was attending the game with a friend.
"I'm just sick," she said. "We're a very close family. He was big-hearted."
The game was scheduled to start at 7:10 p.m. but heavy rains pushed back the start time nearly two hours. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. At what age did Ronald Homer pass away?
2. At what age did the Georgia man die?
3. What was Ronald Homer's age when he died?
Q2:
1. What was Homer's first name?
2. What was the first name of the Georgia man?
3. What was the first name of the man who died?
Q3:
1. What was Ronald's last name?
2. What was the last name of the man who died?
3. What was the Georgia man's last name?
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3fijly1b6u4rq7lcinsu7ytuzzxpfq | race | True Manliness
"Please, mother, do sit down and let me try my hand,"said Fred Liscom, a bright active boy, twelve years old. Mrs. Liscom, looking pale and worn, was moving languidly about, trying to clear away the breakfast she had scarcely tasted.
She smiled and said, "You, Fred, you wash dishes?"
"Yes, indeed, mother," answered Fred. "I should be a poor scholar if I couldn't, when I've seen you do it so many times. Just try me."
A look of relief came over his mother's face as she seated herself in her low rocking chair. Fred washed the dishes and put them in the closet. He swept the kitchen, brought up the potatoes from the cellar for the dinner and washed them, and then set out for school.
Fred's father was away from home and as there was some cold meat in the pantry , Mrs. Liscom found it an easy task to prepare dinner. Fred hurried home from school, set the table, and again washed the dishes.
He kept on in this way for two or three days, until his mother was able to resume her usual work. He felt amply rewarded when the doctor, who happened in one day, said, "Well, madam, it's my opinion that you would have been very sick if you had not kept quiet."
The doctor did not know how the "quiet" had been secured, nor how the boy's heart bounded at his words. Fred had given up a great deal of what boys hold dear, for the purpose of helping his mother, coasting and skating being just at this time in perfection.
Besides this, his temper and his patience had been severely tried. He had been in the habit of going early to school and staying to play after it was dismissed.
The boys missed him and their curiosity was excited when he would give no other reason for not coming to school earlier, or staying after school, than that he was "Wanted at home."
"I'll tell you," said Tom Barton, "I'll find him out, boys-see if I don't!"
So, one morning on his way to school, he called on Fred. As he went around to the side door, he walked lightly and somewhat nearer the kitchen window than was ly needful. Looking in, he saw Fred standing at the table with a dishcloth in his hand.
Of course he reported this at school, and various were the greetings poor Fred received at recess ."Well, you're a brave one to stay at home washing dishes!""Girl boy!" "Pretty Bessie!""Lost your apron, haven't you, Polly!"
Fred was not wanting either in spirit or in courage, and he was strongly tempted to resent these insults and to fight some of his tormentors . But his consciousness of right and his love for his mother helped him.
While he was struggling for self-mastery, his teacher appeared at the door of the schoolhouse. Fred caught his eye, and it seemed to look, if it did not say, "Don't give up! Be really brave!" He knew the teacher had heard the insulting taunts of his thoughtless schoolmates.
The boys received notice during the day that Fred must not be taunted in any manner. They knew that the teacher meant what he said; and so the brave little boy had no further trouble. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the boy's age?
2. What was Fred's age?
3. How old was Fred?
Q2:
1. What was the name of the bright active boy?
2. Who was the bright active boy?
3. What was the 12 year old's name?
Q3:
1. What did Fred and his family just eat?
2. What had just been devoured by Fred and his family?
3. What had just been consumed in Fred's household?
Q4:
1. What was Fred hoping to do?
2. What did Fred wish to do?
3. What did Fred request to do?
Q5:
1. What did Fred want to try his hand at?
2. What did Fred want to make an attempt at?
3. What was Fred hoping to attempt?
Q6:
1. Was Fred's mother relieved that he wanted to help with the dishes?
2. Did it soothe Fred's mom that he wanted to aid with the dishes?
3. Did Fred wanting to help his mom with the dishes bring her relief?
Q7:
1. How long did Fred keep up with helping with the dishes?
2. How long did Fred keeping lending his mom a hand?
3. For how long did Fred continue helping with the dishes?
Q8:
1. Did Fred's mom get the chance to resume her work?
2. Was Fred's mother able to resume her work?
3. Did Fred's mom get to go back to her work?
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3fe7txl1linsppafu5scnkpfvop2qf | wikipedia | The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (stylized in its logo as abc since 1957) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is part of the Big Three television networks. The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, with additional major offices and production facilities in New York City, Los Angeles and Burbank, California.
ABC originally launched on October 12, 1943 as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS and NBC. In the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop and greenlight many successful series. In the 1980s, after purchasing an 80% interest in cable sports channel ESPN, the network's parent merged with Capital Cities Communications, owner of several print publications, and television and radio stations. In 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABC's assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the date of ABC's original launch?
2. When did ABC get its start?
3. What was the launch date of ABC?
Q2:
1. Where is ABC headquartered?
2. What is the location of ABC's headquarters?
3. Where are ABC's head offices?
Q3:
1. Does ABC have locations outside of Manhattan?
2. Are there ABC offices apart from its Manhattan branch?
3. Does ABC have other offices than the ones in Manhattan?
Q4:
1. Where are there ABC locations besides Manhattan?
2. What's an example of an ABC office location that isn't in Manhattan?
3. Where can ABC offices be found outside Manhattan?
Q5:
1. Who did ABC first merge with?
2. With whom was ABC's first merger?
3. What company did ABC first get merged with?
Q6:
1. What kind of business is United Paramount Theatres?
2. What business does United Paramount Theatres do?
3. United Paramount Theatres is in the business of what?
Q7:
1. Did ABC purchase anything other than United Paramount Theatres?
2. Did any other businesses get bought by ABC besides United Paramount Theatres?
3. Did ABC buy out anybody besides United Paramount Theatres?
Q8:
1. Who besides United Paramount Theatres got bought out by ABC?
2. Who did AHC purchase in addition to United Paramount Theatres?
3. What else besides United Paramount Theatres was bought by ABC?
Q9:
1. What is ESPN?
2. How can ESPN be described?
3. What sort of programming does ESPN have?
Q10:
1. Was ABC ever bought out?
2. Did anyone ever purchase ABC?
3. Did ABC ever come under the ownership of another company?
Q11:
1. When did Disney buy ABC?
2. When was ABC purchased by the Walt Disney Company?
3. In what year did ABC get sold to the Walt Disney Company?
Q12:
1. How much was ABC sold for in 1996?
2. What was the amount for which ABC was purchsed in 1996?
3. How much did the Walt Disney Company pay to buy ABC in 1996?
Q13:
1. Who bought ABC in 1996?
2. What company bought out ABC in 1996?
3. In the year 1996, who was ABC purchased by?
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3npi0jqdao519c3dd7xjo28vp30pti | cnn | (CNN) -- Inside the Charles Manson room at the Museum of Death in Hollywood, Anne Forde looks at crime scene photos from the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
"I was a kid when he was involved in these crimes," says Forde, who grew up in County Cork, Ireland. "It's just been a fascination for me ever since."
"His eyes just stand out and look crazy," says Debbie Roberts, who was visiting the museum from Kentucky. "I can see how people followed him."
A few miles away on Saturday mornings, Scott Michaels is hosting the "Helter Skelter Tragical History Tour." For $65, you can buy a bus seat to see where the murders took place, as Michaels tells the story of Helter Skelter.
"We have people from around the world that sign up," says Michaels. "We added an additional anniversary tour, which is sold out."
August 9 marks the 45th anniversary of the murders of Sharon Tate and four others on Cielo Drive in the Benedict Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles. Tate, who was 8½ months pregnant and married to movie director Roman Polanski, was stabbed 16 times as she pleaded for the life of her unborn child. The next night, supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and Rosemary LaBianca were tortured and killed inside their home near Hollywood.
Fast facts: Manson family murders
Since then, Charles Manson, who was convicted of orchestrating the murders, has been the focus of continued fascination.
"People seem to be fascinated by things that are strange and bizarre," says Vincent Bugliosi, sitting in his Los Angeles-area living room. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who took a look at some photos?
2. Who saw photos of the Manson murders
3. Who perused photos of the Manson murders?
Q2:
1. Where is Anne Forde from?
2. Where does Anne Forde come from?
3. From where does Anne Forde hail?
Q3:
1. Where did Anne Forde go?
2. Where did Anne Forde travel to?
3. Where did Anne Forde pay a visit to?
Q4:
1. What city is the museum of death in?
2. What city is home to the Museum of Death?
3. In what city did Anne Forde visit the Museum of Death?
Q5:
1. What room in the Museum of Death did Anne Forde visit?
2. Where in the Museum of Death did Anne Forde go?
3. What part of the Museum of Death did Anne Forde see?
Q6:
1. Who did someone murder?
2. Whose life was taken?
3. Who died as a result of being murdered?
Q7:
1. What was the date of Sharon Tate's murder?
2. On what day was Sharon Tate killed?
3. What was the date when Sharon Tate was killed?
Q8:
1. In what year was Sharon Tate murdered?
2. What was the year of Sharon Tate's murder?
3. In what year was Sharon Tate's life taken from her?
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34majl3qp4nal2j008z43rt249v34u | gutenberg | CHAPTER V
THE DOOM POOL
Fortune showed itself strangely favourable to the plans of Nahoon and Nanea. One of the Zulu captain's perplexities was as to how he should lull the suspicions and evade the vigilance of his own companions, who together with himself had been detailed by the king to assist Hadden in his hunting and to guard against his escape. As it chanced, however, on the day after the incident of the visit of Maputa, a messenger arrived from no less a person than the great military Induna, Tvingwayo ka Marolo, who afterwards commanded the Zulu army at Isandhlwana, ordering these men to return to their regiment, the Umcityu Corps, which was to be placed upon full war footing. Accordingly Nahoon sent them, saying that he himself would follow with Black Heart in the course of a few days, as at present the white man was not sufficiently recovered from his hurts to allow of his travelling fast and far. So the soldiers went, doubting nothing.
Then Umgona gave it out that in obedience to the command of the king he was about to start for Ulundi, taking with him his daughter Nanea to be delivered over into the _Sigodhla_, and also those fifteen head of cattle that had been _lobola'd_ by Nahoon in consideration of his forthcoming marriage, whereof he had been fined by Cetywayo. Under pretence that they required a change of veldt, the rest of his cattle he sent away in charge of a Basuto herd who knew nothing of their plans, telling him to keep them by the Crocodile Drift, as there the grass was good and sweet. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who was going behind with Black Heart?
2. Who would accompany Black Heart?
3. Who would be Black Heart's companion in following?
Q2:
1. Where was Nahoon sent?
2. Where was Nahoon told to go back to?
3. Where was Nahoon supposed to return?
Q3:
1. Whose arrival came post-incident?
2. The incident preceded whose arrival?
3. Who came after something of note had occured?
Q4:
1. Were the soldiers resistant?
2. Did the soldiers fight back?
3. Was there push back from the soldiers?
Q5:
1. Who had someone to deliver?
2. Who brought someone along?
3. Who was delivering Nanea?
Q6:
1. Who was Umgona delivering?
2. Who was being brought by Umgona?
3. Who did Umgona have to deliver?
Q7:
1. What was the name of the girl Umgona was delivering?
2. Who was Umgona's daughter?
3. What was the name of Umgona's female child?
Q8:
1. Why was Nanea delivered?
2. For what reason did Umgona delivering his daughter?
3. What was Nanea being delivered for?
Q9:
1. What was brought in addition to Nanea?
2. What was delivered other than Umgona's daughter?
3. What delivery was made besides that of Umgona's daughter?
Q10:
1. How many cattle were delivered?
2. What was the amount of cattle delivered?
3. How much cattle got brought?
Q11:
1. Where were the cattle kept?
2. What was the storage location of the cattle?
3. Where did the cattle get stored?
Q12:
1. Why were the cattle stored near the Crocodile Drift?
2. What was the reason for keeping the cattle by the Crocodile Drift?
3. What was the logic behind keeping the cattle close to the Crocodile Drift?
Q13:
1. Did Basuto know of the plan?
2. Was Basuto aware of what was going to happen?
3. Was the plan communicated to Basuto?
Q14:
1. Who fined Basuto?
2. Who was Basuto made to pay?
3. Who did Basuto have to pay a fine to?
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3g2ul9a02de618o1l8v9d6pw58867k | mctest | There once was an alligator named Albert (who wore an office shirt). He had two good friends - Lock the cat and Gary the hamster. Gary often rode around in Albert's shirt pocket, since it would be hard for him to keep up with Albert and Lock as they walked around. One day, as they were wandering around, a storm popped up, forcing them to hurry indoors to deal with it. Unfortunately for them, they couldn't find a building quickly, so they ended up being frosted over by the dangerous weather. "If we don't get out of this soon, I might die!" yelled Gary, who was cold. "Don't worry, no one's going to die!" yelled Albert, who, as a reptile, was even worse off than Gary. Luckily, they found a house after leaving the forest, which happened to be near the ocean. They ran inside, and dried off, before they headed to sleep. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who is furless?
2. Who hasn't got any fur?
3. Who is without a coat of fur?
Q2:
1. Who is the alligator?
2. What is the alligator called?
3. What name does the alligator go by?
Q3:
1. Does Albert know any other animals?
2. Has Albert got any animal friends?
3. Are there any creatures that Albert knows?
Q4:
1. Who are the animals that Albert knows?
2. What are the names of Albert's friends?
3. What are the names of Albert's animal companions?
Q5:
1. What prevented Gary from walking?
2. For what reason did Gary not walk?
3. What kept Gary from strolling around?
Q6:
1. What was Gary's means of transportation?
2. How did Gary travel?
3. What did Gary do to get around?
Q7:
1. What did all the animals do together?
2. What did Albert and his friends do together?
3. What were the three friends up to?
Q8:
1. What happened as Albert and his friends were walking around?
2. What happened on the animals' walk?
3. What did the animals encounter as they were walking?
Q9:
1. Were the animals afraid of the storm?
2. Did the storm frighten the animals?
3. Did the aniamls get afraid due to the storm?
Q10:
1. Who was the most in danger due to the storm?
2. Who did the storm pose the greatest threat to?
3. Who could the storm have hurt the most?
Q11:
1. Where did the friends go after the storm?
2. After the storm, what was the friends next stop?
3. Where did the animals go after the forest?
Q12:
1. Were there any buildings at the ocean?
2. Did the ocean have any buildings near it?
3. Were there building structures in close proximity to the ocean?
Q13:
1. What kinds of buildings were near the ocean?
2. What building did the ocean have by it?
3. What structure was on the water?
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35gcefq6i5oqoz7pl1puxn6b69l3z4 | race | "Find a job you love, and you'll never work a day in your life." Do you agree with this old saying? Joanne Gordon does. She is the author of Be Happy at work and other books about careers . Gordon believes that about 30% of employees in North America do not like their jobs, and she thinks that is terrible. She wants to help people who do not feel satisfied with their jobs find work that is good for them. Joanne says, "There are no happy jobs, only happy workers." She believes that happy workers share three main characteristics.
First, happy workers enjoy the daily activities of their jobs, and they look forward to the workday. Take Tony Hawk, for example. At age 14, he became a professional skateboarder. Now he is a businessman working on projects related to skateboarding--films and video games, but he still skates every day. He once said, "My youngest son's pre-school was recently asked what their dads do for work. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.'" Tony agrees that his job doesn't look like work. He has found a way to spend each day doing a job he enjoys.
Second, happy workers like the people they work with. Sally Ayote says, "I work with the coolest people in the world." She and her group cook for almost 1,200 people in Antarctica. Most of these people are scientists who are doing research. Sally loves to sit and talk with them. She says, "There is no television here, no radio, so I get to know the scientists and what they're studying." Sally thinks she has a great job, and the best part about it is the people.
Third, happy workers know that their work helps others. Caroline Baron's work helps people who have had to leave their home countries because of war or other dangers. She is a filmmaker who started an organization called FilmAid, which shows movies in refugee camps around the world. Caroline believes that movies can be very helpful in these camps. For one thing, entertaining movies let refugees forget their troubles for a little while. Movies can also teach important subjects like health and safety. For example, in one camp, thousands of refugees saw a movie about how to get clean water. Caroline knows that is helping other people, and this makes her feel proud and happy about her work.
Tony Hawk, Sally Ayote, and Caroline Baron all get great satisfaction from their work. Tony Hawk says, "Find the thing you love. If you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous." Joanne Gordon would agree. She encourages people to find something they enjoy doing, find people they like to work with, and find ways to help others. Then they can be proud of what they do, and they will probably be happy at work. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who does Gordon want to help out?
2. Who does Gordon wish to assist
3. Who does Gordon want to lend a hand to?
Q2:
1. How does Joanne Gordon want to help people that don't like their jobs?
2. What does Joanne Gordon want to do for people that don't enjoy their profession?
3. What assistance would Joanne Gordon like to give to those that aren't happy in their jobs?
Q3:
1. Does a "Happy Jobs"? exist?
2. Is there such thing as a "Happy Jobs"??
3. Are "aAppy Jobs"? a real thing?
Q4:
1. Do half of North Americans like their place of employment?
2. Is half of the North American continent content with where they work?
3. Do half of the people in North America enjoy their jobs?
Q5:
1. How many North Americans like their jobs?
2. What is the percentage of people in North America who enjoy what they do for work?
3. What percent of North Americans are happy with their profession?
Q6:
1. What does Joanne Gordon say exists, if not happy jobs?
2. If happy jobs don't exist, what does Joanne Gordon say there is some of?
3. What exists according to Joanne Gordon, instead of happy jobs?
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3cp1to84pt13w3rhad49p9uoyqj25e | cnn | Cairo (CNN) -- The recent health crisis for former Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak started when he slipped in a prison bathroom, his attorney told CNN Thursday.
The ousted strongman hurt his neck and developed a blood clot after the fall in Tora prison, attorney Farid El Deeb said.
El Deeb said Mubarak was taken off life-support equipment and his health improved on Wednesday, a day after grim and contradictory news emerged over the 84-year-old man's health.
The state-run Middle East News Agency reported that he was "clinically dead." The nation's military rulers denied the report, with one general saying Mubarak's health was deteriorating and he was in critical condition.
Mubarak was transferred from Tora prison to Maadi Military Hospital. Now, El Deeb said, his ailing client is out of a coma and under the care of doctors at the facility's intensive care unit.
"He had slipped in the bathroom of Tora prison and hurt his neck, which caused a blood clot that started all his medical problems that night, last Tuesday, including heart attack and irregular breathing," El Deeb said.
He said he had warned before that "the prison hospital was not equipped with well-trained nurses or personnel to assist him or proper equipment."
The lawyer said he hadn't been informed about how the latest bout of health problems started because he was in Lebanon when Mubarak fell sick.
"I was getting information by phone with a minute-to-minute update, but I learned that he fell when I returned to Cairo," he said. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who does the article discuss?
2. Who is at the center of the article?
3. Who is the article's main subject?
Q2:
1. What is Hosni Mubarak's home country?
2. Where is Hosni Mubarak from?
3. What is Hosni Mubarak's country of origin?
Q3:
1. Did Hosni Mubarak slip in a hallway?
2. Did Hosni Mubarak's slip take place in a hallway?
3. Did Hosni Mubarak take a tumble in a hallway?
Q4:
1. Where did Hosni Mubarak fall?
2. What was the site of Hosni Mubarak's slip?
3. Where was Hosni Mubarak when he took a slip?
Q5:
1. Is Hosni Mubarak alright?
2. Is Hosni Mubarak in good condition?
3. Is Hosni Mubarak's condition stable?
Q6:
1. Is Hosni Mubarak awake?
2. Is Hosni Mubarak conscious?
3.
Q7:
1. How old is Hosni Mubarak?
2. What is Hosni Mubarak's age?
3. State the age of Hosni Mubarak.
Q8:
1. Was Hosni Mubarak at home when he slipped?
2. Did Hosni Mubarak take a fall at home?
3. Was Hosni Mubarak's fall in his house?
Q9:
1. Where did Hosni Mubarak slip?
2. What was the site of Hosni Mubarak's fall?
3. In what location did Hosni Mubarak slip?
Q10:
1. When did Hosni Mubarak's slip occur?
2. When did Hosni Mubarak slip?
3. When did Hosni Mubarak slide on the floor?
Q11:
1. Was Hosni Mubarak legally represented by anyone?
2. Did Hosni Mubarak have legal counsel?
3. Had Hosni Mubarak retained an attorney?
Q12:
1. Who was Hosni Mubarak's legal representation?
2. Who was Hosni Mubarak's lawyer?
3. What was the name of Hosni Mubarak's attorney?
Q13:
1. Where was Hosni Mubarak's attorney when he heard of the accident?
2. When Fareed El Deeb heard about the accident what was his location?
3. Where was Fareed El Deeb when he heard of his client's fall?
Q14:
1. Was Hosni Mubarak's status updated daily?
2. Did daily reports come in concerning Hosni Mubarak's condition?
3. Were there daily reports on Hosni Mubarak's status?
Q15:
1. How fast did reports come in on Hosni Mubarak's status?
2. How often was Hosni Mubarak's condition updated?
3. At what frequency did updates on Hosni Mubarak's condition come?
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37uqdcyh6xvrgy32mg3hpy5vnzgv7e | race | Isabella Stewart was born in New York City in 1 840.Her father made a great deal of money in the trade.During school,her parents took her to Italy to explore the country's many cultural treasures.
One of the private art collections Isabella visited in Milan had a deep influence on her.She wrote to her friends about her dream of owning a house one day with an art collection like the one she had seen in Italy.
In Paris,Isabella became close friends with one of her classmates,Julia Gardner,whose family was from Boston.Julia would later introduce Isabella to her brother,Jack.In 1 860,Isabella Stewart married Jack Gardner.
The couple had too much art to fit inside their home.So they decided to start planning a museum.Mrs. Gardner didn't like the cold and empty.spaces of many museums during her time.She wanted a warm museum filled with light.She once said that she decided years ago that the greatest need in her country was art.America was a young country developing quickly in other areas.But the country needed more chances for people to See beautiful examples of art.
After her husband's death in 1 898.Isabella knew she had no time to lose in building her museum.She bought land,hired a building designer,and supervised every detail of her museum's construction.
Mrs.Gardner opened her museum on January 1,1 903,which was then called Fenway Court.She invited her friends that night for a special musical performance.The next month,she opened the museum to the public.At first,visits were limited to twenty days out of the year.Visitors paid one dollar to enter.
Isabella Stewart Gardner died in 1 924 in Boston.In her will,she left the museum a million dollars and a series of requirements about how it should be managed, one that the permanent collection cannot be changed. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was Isabella Steward's birth date?
2. What was the date of Isabella Steward's birth?
3. On what day was Isabella Steward born?
Q2:
1. What Parisian classmate did Isabella Steward become close friends with?
2. Which of her classmates in Paris did Isabella Steward become a close friend of?
3. What classmate from Paris did Isabella Steward develop a close friendship with?
Q3:
1. What had a lot of influence on Isabella Steward in Milan?
2. What in Milan influenced Isabella Steward greatly?
3. What from Milan greatly affected Isabella Steward?
Q4:
1. What made the Gardners decide to open an art museum?
2. How did the Gardners get the idea of opening the art museum?
3. What pushed the Gardners to make an art museum?
Q5:
1. Which country's treasures did Isabella's parents take her to study?
2. Isabella Steward went with her parents to study the cultural treasures of what country?
3. Which nation's cultural riches were examined by Isabella Steward at the beheast of her parents?
Q6:
1. On what date did Isabella Steward open her museum?
2. When did Isabella Steward's museum become available to some of the public?
3. What was the date of Isabella Steward's museum opening?
Q7:
1. What was the name of Isabella Steward's museum at the time of its opening?
2. When Isabella Steward's museum opened, what name did it go by?
3. What did Isabella Steward call her museum when it opened?
Q8:
1. What in Isabella Gardner's will did she leave to the museum?
2. What did Fenway Court receive from Isabella Gardner's will?
3. What did Isabella Gardner's will have in it for Fenway Court?
Q9:
1. Did Isabella Gardner's will contain requirements for managing the museum?
2. Were there instructions for how to maintain Fenway Court in Isabella Gardner's will?
3. Did Isabella Garner leave instructions in her will regarding the management of her museum?
Q10:
1. How long after the initial opening was Fenway Court opened to the public?
2. How much time after it first opened did Isabella Gardner's museum become open to the public?
3. When did the museum that Isabella Gardner opened become fully open to the public?
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3mmn5bl1wz4qps866cz0pla2rb9m3o | gutenberg | CHAPTER II.
THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR.
1. Wars of Edward III.--By the Salic law, as the lawyers called it, the crown was given, on the death of Charles IV., to _Philip, Count of Valois_, son to a brother of Philip IV., but it was claimed by Edward III. of England as son of the daughter of Philip IV. Edward contented himself, however, with the mere assertion of his pretensions, until Philip exasperated him by attacks on the borders of Guienne, which the French kings had long been coveting to complete their possession of the south, and by demanding the surrender of Robert of Artois, who, being disappointed in his claim to the county of Artois by the judgment of the Parliament of Paris, was practising by sorcery on the life of the King of France. Edward then declared war, and his supposed right caused a century of warfare between France and England, in which the broken, down-trodden state of the French peasantry gave England an immense advantage. The knights and squires were fairly matched; but while the English yeomen were strong, staunch, and trustworthy, the French were useless, and only made a defeat worse by plundering the fallen on each side alike. The war began in Flanders, where Philip took the part of the count, whose tyrannies had caused his expulsion. Edward was called in to the aid of the citizens of Ghent by their leader Jacob van Arteveldt; and gained a great victory over the French fleet at Sluys, but with no important result. At the same time the two kings took opposite sides in the war of the succession in Brittany, each defending the claim most inconsistent with his own pretensions to the French crown--Edward upholding the male heir, John de Montfort, and Philip the direct female representative, the wife of Charles de Blois. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who started the war?
2. Who was the war declared by?
3. Who made the Hundred Years War happen?
Q2:
1. Whose surrender did Edward III demand?
2. Who did Edward III say needed to surrender?
3. Who did Edward III demand to be surrendered?
Q3:
1. What was the number of kings that took opposite sides?
2. How many kings were not on the same sides?
3. How many kings opposed each other?
Q4:
1. How is Edward III related to Philip IV?
2. Where in Philip IV's family is Edward III?
3. What family member is Edward III to Philip IV?
Q5:
1. What did the French kings want to do?
2. What were the French kings interested in finishing?
3. What did the French kings wish to be done?
Q6:
1. Were French peasants in good shape?
2. Was the French peasantry healthy?
3. Were the French peasants doing well?
Q7:
1. How was the French peasantry doing?
2. What was the state of the French peasantry?
3. What state were the French peasants in?
Q8:
1. Where was the start of the Hundred Years War?
2. Where did the Hundred Years War begin?
3. In what location was the Hundred Years war started?
Q9:
1. Where was the French fleet overtaken?
2. What was the location of the French fleet's defeat?
3. Where did the French fleet get taken down?
Q10:
1. Was the victory at Sluys important?
2. Were there big level consequences to the victory at Sluys?
3. Did the Sluys victory bring big results?
Q11:
1. What was the role of Charles de Blois' wife?
2. What importance did the wife of Charles de Blois have?
3. How did Charles de Blois's wife come into play?
Q12:
1. Were Britain and France fairly matched?
2. Was the war a fair fight between England and France?
3. Did both sides have an equal chance at winning in the war?
Q13:
1. How did the French lose any advantage they had?
2. What tactical mistakes did the French make?
3. What grave mistake made the French even more worthless than they had started out as?
Q14:
1. What did Jacob van Arteveldt do?
2. What was Jacob van Arteveldt's role?
3. What title did Jacob van Arteveldt have?
Q15:
1. What was John de Montfort?
2. What was the title of John de Montfort
3. What role did John de Montfort have?
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3dy4fpooa1o1yhnhvu1nufwvobzvr2 | race | Andy loved the first grade. He loved his teacher,Mrs.Parks. He loved playing games on the playground. He loved learning about dinosaurs and the solar system .
Every morning Andy's mother dropped him off in front of his school on South Street. One foggy morning,the traffic was so bad on South Street that she decided to drop him off behind the school. Andy walked for about ten minutes and got to the gate. He held the icy handle,but it didn't move!Using both hands,he tried his hardest and finally the gate opened.
After Andy closed the gate behind him,he looked in the direction of the teaching building. But all he could see was fog. He got to the spot where the slide had always been,but it was not there."The slide is gone!" he cried. He walked a little more to look for the swings,but they were not where they had always been."The swings are gone!" he cried again.
Andy kept walking. He was so anxious to see the school that he fell and landed on the ground. He still couldn't see the school. A terrible thought appeared in his head."The school is gone!" he cried sadly. No more games with Jennie,Angel and Dillon,he thought. No more reading about dinosaurs. No more watching videos on the solar system...
Suddenly the boy saw something up ahead."It's Jennie!"he shouted. Then he saw the outline of a school building. His school was still there!He was full of excitement!
"Hi,Jennie!" he stood up and caught up with the girl."I couldn't see the school. I thought it was gone." Jennie just laughed."You're so silly." "What happened to the slide and the swings?" Andy asked.
"We will have new playground equipment today," Jennie answered."The old equipment was taken away last night. Don't you remember Mrs. Parks telling us about it yesterday?" "I guess I forgot," Andy said,smiling."Anyway,I'm glad the school is here." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was the name of Andy's first grade teacher?
2. What teacher did Andy have in first grade?
3. Who taught Andy when he was in the first grade?
Q2:
1. What was Andy's favorite subject?
2. What did Andy love learning about?
3. What was Andy keen on getting more information about?
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3018q3zvoiqh6tkjkzarysii34aary | cnn | (CNN) -- Five-time winner Roger Federer opened his U.S. Open account Monday with a straight sets win over Santiago Giraldo in New York.
Despite surrendering his serve three times, the 30-year-old Swiss enjoyed a relatively comfortable match against the Colombian, ranked 54 in the world, winning 6-4 6-3 6-2 on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court.
Leading 5-1 in the opening set, a number of uncharacteristic errors from Federer saw him squander a double-break advantage before he finally rallied to win 6-4.
The second and third sets were more straight-forward, though the world number three will be concerned about his winners-to-unforced errors ratio -- he finished with 36 winners and 35 unforced errors.
"It was quite up and down, getting used to the conditions," admitted Federer, in quotes carried by usopen.org.
"I don't think I've ever played my best in the first round but it's important to come through them and come up with a good feeling."
Home favorite Mardy Fish was ruthlessly efficient as he easily dispatched Germany's Tobias Kamke 6-2 6-2 6-1.
However fellow American Ryan Harrison was not so fortunate. The 19-year old lost out to big-serving Croat Marin Cilic, 6-2, 7-5, 7-6 (8/6).
Seventh seed Gael Monfils ruined the U.S. Open debut of Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria with a battling 7-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory, while Czech Tomas Berdych, the number nine seed, beat French qualifier Romain Jouan 6-2, 7-6 (7/4), 6-1.
Elsewhere, French 13th seed Richard Gasquet trounced Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-4 6-4 6-0, Serbian Janko Tipsarevic ousted France's Augustin Gensse 6-2 7-5 6-0, while Czech Radek Stepanek beat Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4 6-1 6-3. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What sport is being played?
2. Which sport appears in the article?
3. What is the sport at the US Open?
Q2:
1. What event was tennis being played at?
2. What was the tennis event?
3. Which tennis championship does the article discuss?
Q3:
1. What was the location of the US Open?
2. Where was the US Open played?
3. What city did the US Open take place in?
Q4:
1. What player has won five times?
2. What five time winner appears in the article?
3. Who is the five time champion that the article discusses?
Q5:
1. Who loses to Roger Federer?
2. Who does Roger Federer defeat?
3. Who is bested by Roger Federer?
Q6:
1. What did Roger Federer say about playing conditions?
2. What was Roger Federer's description of playing conditions?
3. How did Roger Federer talk about the playing conditions?
Q7:
1. What did Roger Federer say about his playing?
2. What was Roger Federer's description of his playing?
3. How did Roger Federer say that he played?
Q8:
1. What is the name of the home favorite?
2. Which player is the home favorite?
3. What player is favored on his home turf?
Q9:
1. What is the American's name?
2. Which player is American?
3. What player is from the United States?
Q10:
1. How old is Ryan Harrison?
2. What is Ryan Harrison's age?
3. How old is the American player?
Q11:
1. Did Ryan Harrison beat his opponent?
2. Did Ryan Harrison win?
3. Did Ryan Harrison come out on top?
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33iztu6j81153lspay2a8aycqonsxn | race | Mark Twain is a name not usually connected with Broadway , but now his play "Is He Dead" will receive its first public performance on November 29. "Is He Dead" was written by Mark Twain in 1898 but was never performed. It was rediscovered in 2002 by Shelley Fisher Fishkin, an English professor and director of the American Studies Program at Stanford University. It was published the following year by the University of California Press. The story is about a group of poor artists who fake the death of their friend in order to increase the value of his work. "Is He Dead" is set in France in the 1840s and centers on the French painter Jean-Francois Millet. "Millet was probably the most popular European painter in the United States in Twain's lifetime," Fishkin said in a telephone interview. "Americans greatly admired him because he focused on the life of the common man and the common woman." According to Fishkin, "Is He Dead" is a satire about how value is created in the art world. Twain wrote the play when he was coming out of the hardest time of his life. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What play will be put on?
2. What play is there going to be a performance of?
3. What will be performed at the theater?
Q2:
1. Who wrote "Is He Dead"?
2. Who is the author of "Is He Dead"?
3. Who was "Is He Dead" penned by?
Q3:
1. What was the year when Mark Twain penned "Is He Dead"?
2. When did Mark Twain write "Is He Dead"?
3. In what year did Mark Twain author "Is He Dead"?
Q4:
1. Who found Mark Twain's lost play?
2. Who found "Is He Dead"?
3. Who came across?
Q5:
1. What does Shelley Fisher Fishkin do?
2. How is Shelley Fisher Fishkin employed?
3. What is Shelley Fisher Fishkin's profession?
Q6:
1. Where does Shelley Fisher Fishkin work?
2. What university does Shelley Fisher Fishkin work for?
3. Where is Shelley Fisher Fishkin a professor?
Q7:
1. Where is Stanford?
2. What state is Stanford in?
3. Which state is home to Stanford University?
Q8:
1. What's "Is He Dead" about?
2. What is the subject of "Is He Dead"?
3. Describe the plot of "Is He Dead"?
Q9:
1. Whose death is faked in "Is He Dead"?
2. Who is the fake dead friend in "Is He Dead"?
3. Which friend is supposedly dead in "Is He Dead"?
Q10:
1.
2.
3.
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3txmy6ucaeo5n72hryhizxy17orqcj | wikipedia | Trondheim (), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It has a population of 187,353 (January 1, 2016), and is the third most populous municipality in Norway, although the fourth largest urban area. It is the third largest city in the country, with a population (2013) of 169,972 inhabitants within the city borders. The city functions as the administrative centre of Sør-Trøndelag county. Trondheim lies on the south shore of Trondheim Fjord at the mouth of the River Nidelva. The city is dominated by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (SINTEF), St. Olavs University Hospital and other technology-oriented institutions.
The settlement was founded in 997 as a trading post, and it served as the capital of Norway during the Viking Age until 1217. From 1152 to 1537, the city was the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nidaros; since then, it has remained the seat of the Lutheran Diocese of Nidaros and the Nidaros Cathedral. It was incorporated in 1838. The current municipality dates from 1964, when Trondheim merged with Byneset, Leinstrand, Strinda and Tiller.
The city was originally given the name by Olav Tryggvason. It was for a long time called "Nidaros" (), or "Niðaróss" in the Old Norse spelling. But it was also just called "kaupangr" ("city") or, more specifically, "kaupangr í Þróndheimi" ("the city in the district Þróndheimr", i.e. Trøndelag). In the late Middle Ages people started to call the city just "Þróndheimr". In the Dano-Norwegian period, during the years as a provincial town in the united kingdoms of Denmark-Norway, the city name was spelled "Trondhjem". QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is the location of Trondheim?
2. Where can Trondheim be found?
3. What country is Trondheim in?
Q2:
1. When was Trondheim founded?
2. What year was Trondheim settled in?
3. In what year did Trondheim come into being?
Q3:
1. Who originally gave Trondheim its name?
2. Who gave Trondheim its name?
3. Who named the city of Trondheim?
Q4:
1. What is the population of Trondheim as of 2013?
2. As of 2013, how many people are living in Trondheim?
3. How many residents does Trondheim have as of 2013?
Q5:
1. What was Trondheim notable for from 1152 to 1537?
2. Between 1152 and 1537, what was notable about Trondheim?
3. What was important about Trondheim between the years of 1152 and 1537?
Q6:
1. The south shore of what fjord lies near Trondheim?
2. Which fjord has its south shore by Trondheim?
3. What fjord's southern shore is close by Trondheim?
Q7:
1. What name was given to Trondheim in the Middle Ages?
2. During the middle ages, how was Trondheim referred to?
3. What was Trondheim's name during the Medieval period?
Q8:
1. Is Trondheim known for its education institutions?
2. Are Trondheim's universities well known?
3. Have Trondheim's universities become renowned?
Q9:
1. What is one of Trondheim's universities?
2. Name a university in Trondheim.
3. What is one of the institutions of higher education in Trondheim?
Q10:
1. How far back does Trondheim's current municipality date?
2. When does the current municipality of Trondheim date back to?
3. What year does the current municipality in Trondheim date to?
Q11:
1. When was Trondheim incorporated?
2. What was the year of Trondheim's incorporation?
3. In what year did Trondheim become incorporated?
Q12:
1. What county does Trondheim serve as administrative seat?
2. Which county has Trondheim as its administrative seat?
3. Trondheim functions as the administrative seat of which county?
Q13:
1. What is Trondheim's rank in population within Norway?
2. How does Trondheim's population rank against that of other Norwegian municipalities?
3. How populous is Trondheim compared to other municipalities in Norway?
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3ql2ofsm96ikkappb6p1v33w131cnu | gutenberg | CHAPTER XXIII. THE OVERWHELMING ODDS
At half-past ten that same evening, Blakeney, still clad in a workman's tattered clothes, his feet bare so that he could tread the streets unheard, turned into the Rue de la Croix Blanche.
The porte-cochere of the house where Armand lodged had been left on the latch; not a soul was in sight. Peering cautiously round, he slipped into the house. On the ledge of the window, immediately on his left when he entered, a candle was left burning, and beside it there was a scrap of paper with the initials S. P. roughly traced in pencil. No one challenged him as he noiselessly glided past it, and up the narrow stairs that led to the upper floor. Here, too, on the second landing the door on the right had been left on the latch. He pushed it open and entered.
As is usual even in the meanest lodgings in Paris houses, a small antechamber gave between the front door and the main room. When Percy entered the antechamber was unlighted, but the door into the inner room beyond was ajar. Blakeney approached it with noiseless tread, and gently pushed it open.
That very instant he knew that the game was up; he heard the footsteps closing up behind him, saw Armand, deathly pale, leaning against the wall in the room in front of him, and Chauvelin and Heron standing guard over him.
The next moment the room and the antechamber were literally alive with soldiers--twenty of them to arrest one man. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What burned?
2. What had been lit?
3. What was alight?
Q2:
1. What city was Blakeney in?
2. In what city could Blakeney be found?
3. Which metropolitan area was Blakeney located in?
Q3:
1. What did the door and the main room have in between them?
2. What separated the door from the main room?
3. What could be found in the space between the main room and the door?
Q4:
1. Was the antechamber lit?
2. Was the light on in the antechamber?
3. Had the antechamber been illuminated?
Q5:
1. Was Blakeney heavyfooted?
2. Did Blakeney walk heavily?
3. Did Blakeney make a lot of noise as he walked?
Q6:
1. Was Blakeney followed?
2. Did someone pursue Blakeney?
3. Was anybody following Blakeney?
Q7:
1. Who was following Blakeney?
2. By whom was Blakeney pursued?
3. Who was Blakeney being followed by?
Q8:
1. Who were people watching over?
2. Over whom did people stand guard?
3. Who had people surrounding him?
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39gaf6dqwr0d5co0x0m8ooeikl8v1p | gutenberg | CHAPTER XII
TOM SPEAKS HIS MIND
"Tom, Miss Harrow would like to see you."
It was an hour later, and the Rovers and the Laning girls had spent the time in watching the efforts of the others to put out the last of the fire. In the meanwhile, some of those present had gone through the addition to the main building and opened the various windows and doors, thus letting out the smoke. An examination proved that the damage done there was very slight, for which the seminary authorities were thankful.
"Wants to see me, eh?" returned Tom, musingly. "Well, I don't know whether I want to see her or not."
"You might as well go, Tom, and have it over with," suggested Sam.
"If I go, I want Nellie to go along," returned the brother. "I want her to know how I stand on this missing-ring question. By the way, how is she, all right?" continued the youth, addressing Stanley, who had brought the news that he was wanted.
"She seems to he all right, although she is very nervous. She says the reason she didn't hear the alarm and get out of the building in time, was because she had had a toothache and had taken a strong dose of medicine to quiet her nerves. Evidently the medicine put her into a sound sleep."
"How about the toothache?" asked Sam, slyly.
"Oh, that's gone now; the fire scared it away."
"Where is she?" questioned Tom.
"She is in the office with some of the other teachers." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who desired to meet with Tom?
2. Who wanted Tom to come see them?
3. By whom was Tom's presence requested?
Q2:
1. Who did Tom want to accompany him?
2. Who did Tom want to go see Miss Harrow with him?
3. Whose presence was requested by Tom as he went to see Miss Harrow?
Q3:
1. How was the smoke escaping?
2. What made it so that smoke was getting out?
3. How was the smoke able to leave the building?
Q4:
1. Was Miss Harrow in stable condition?
2. Was Miss Harrow doing alright?
3. Was Miss Harrow safe and sound?
Q5:
1. Who reported on Miss Harrow's condition?
2. Who reported that Miss Harrow was alright?
3. Who told everyone about how Miss Harrow was doing?
Q6:
1. Who were the girls that watched what was happening?
2. What girls looked on as everything unfolded?
3. What girls watched what was unfolding?
Q7:
1. What kept Miss Harrow from hearing?
2. Why wasn't Miss Harrow able to hear?
3. What was Miss Harrow kept deaf by?
Q8:
1. What had put Miss Harrow into a sound sleep?
2. Why was Miss Harrow sleeping so soundly?
3. What had put Miss Harrow into so deep a sleep?
Q9:
1. Did Miss Harrow fall asleep with no help?
2. Was Miss Harrow able to fall asleep on her own unaided?
3. Did Miss Harrow go to sleep all by herself?
Q10:
1. What building was there a fire in?
2. What building got damaged?
3. What sort of building was there an issue in?
Q11:
1. Did the fire damage the whole seminary?
2. Was everything in the seminary wrecked by the fire?
3. Did the fire completely destroy the seminary?
Q12:
1. Where was Miss Harrow at present?
2. What was Miss Harrow's current location?
3. Where could Miss Harrow presently be found?
Q13:
1. What happened to Miss Harrow's toothache?
2. What was the outcome of Miss Harrow's toothache?
3. What happened in the end regarding Miss Harrow's toothache?
Q14:
1. Was Miss Harrow by herself in the office?
2. Was Miss Harrow in the office all alone?
3. Was Miss Harrow the sole person in the office?
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3wr9xg3t63bsmlkn2k2ug85iamf74o | gutenberg | CHAPTER LXXX.
SHOWING HOW AFFAIRS SETTLED THEMSELVES AT NONINGSBY.
We must now go back to Noningsby for one concluding chapter, and then our work will be completed. "You are not to go away from Noningsby when the trial is over, you know. Mamma said that I had better tell you so." It was thus that Madeline had spoken to Felix Graham as he was going out to the judge's carriage on the last morning of the celebrated great Orley Farm case, and as she did so she twisted one of her little fingers into one of his buttonholes. This she did with a prettiness of familiarity, and the assumption of a right to give him orders and hold him to obedience, which was almost intoxicating in its sweetness. And why should she not be familiar with him? Why should she not hold him to obedience by his buttonhole? Was he not her own? Had she not chosen him and taken him up to the exclusion of all other such choosings and takings?
"I shall not go till you send me," he said, putting up his hand as though to protect his coat, and just touching her fingers as he did so.
"Mamma says it will be stupid for you in the mornings, but it will not be worse for you than for Augustus. He stays till after Easter."
"And I shall stay till after Whitsuntide unless I am turned out."
"Oh! but you will be turned out. I am not going to make myself answerable for any improper amount of idleness. Papa says you have got all the law courts to reform." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What did Madeline forbig Felix from doing?
2. In Madeline's words, what was Felix not to do?
3. What did Madeline tell Felix to avoid doing?
Q2:
1. Who told Madeline to tell Felix not to go to NONINGSBY?
2. What was the source of Madeline's instruction to Felix not to go to Noningsby?
3. Where did Madeline get the idea to tell Felix not to travel to Noningsby?
Q3:
1. What was Felix last name?
2. What was the family name of Felix?
3. Tell us what Felix's last name was?
Q4:
1. What was Madeline meddling in?
2. What was Madeline playing with with her finger?
3. What was Madeline's finger in?
Q5:
1. Did Felix feel like he was Madeline's?
2. Did Felix feel that he belonged to Madeline?
3. Did Felix have the feeling of belonging to Madeline?
Q6:
1. What did Madeline seem to have the right to do?
2. What did it seem like Madeline was allowed to do?
3. What did Madeline have an air of being allowed to do?
Q7:
1. What did Felix pretend to do with his hand?
2. What was Felix acting as though he was doing?
3. What gesture did Felix mimic?
Q8:
1. What did Felix do as he made like he was protecting his coat?
2. What did Felix do at the same time as he was making like he was protecting his coat?
3.
Q9:
1. Who remains until after Easter?
2. Who stays until after a holiday?
3. Who will not leave until a holiday is over?
Q10:
1. What holiday is Augustus remaining until?
2. Augustus will not leave until the end of what holiday?
3. What holiday will Augustus be around until?
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3hosi13xhzol3q4qm869j49k93fddq | race | Linda and Lucy were best friends. They graduated from high school and went to the same college for further studies.
After some days Linda found that her friend was behaving strangely. She would remain quiet, sleep too much and turn wild, very often. At first, Linda thought it was just because of the problems she had met in her studies. However, Lucy became even stranger over time. Finally, Linda couldn't take it any longer and asked Lucy about her strange behavior. Lucy broke into tears and said that she was going around with a boy, who was taking drugs and forcing her to take them, too.
Linda was shocked by her story. She then advised her friend to leave the boy. She reminded Lucy of her dreams of becoming a successful doctor and encouraged her to set an example for others. She also reminded her of how her parents would feel if they found out what their daughter was up to. Through her efforts, Lucy was finally able to leave the boy and drugs. During this time, her friend always stood by her.
Finally, the two friends graduated and their friendship grew stronger. They both became successful doctors, but never let each other down by getting into bad habits. They lived happily as close friends.
From the story we can know that true friends are those who encourage you to become the best you can ever be. They believe in you and will never leave you. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was Lucy under the influence of?
2. What poor behavior was Lucy engaging in?
3. What was Lucy partaking in?
Q2:
1. What was Lucy's relationship to Linda?
2. What did Linda consider Lucy to be?
3. How did Linda see Lucy?
Q3:
1. Why did Linda think that Lucy was on drugs?
2. What gave Linda the impression that Lucy was on drugs?
3. How did Linda get the idea that Lucy may be taking drugs?
Q4:
1. Did Lucy become more or less strange over time?
2. Did Lucy's behavior get stranger or become more normal?
3. Did Lucy straighten herself out or become more odd?
Q5:
1. Was Lucy taking drugs of her own will?
2. Was Lucy voluntarily partaking in drugs?
3. Was Lucy using drugs of her own volition?
Q6:
1. Did Lucy's story shock Linda?
2. Was Linda surprised by what was happening to Lucy?
3. Did her friend's story take Linda by surprise?
Q7:
1. Who forced Lucy to take drugs?
2. On whose order was Lucy using drugs?
3. Who was making Lucy partake in drug use?
Q8:
1. Did the boy take drugs with Lucy?
2. Was Lucy's boyfriend a drug user with her?
3. Did Lucy's boyfriend take drugs alongside her?
Q9:
1. Does the story say that a true friend will leave you at some point?
2. According to the story, does a real friend leave you behind ever?
3. Will you be left behind by a true friend, in the words of the story?
Q10:
1. What became of Lucy and Linda after they graduated?
2. After Lucy and Linda graduated, what did both of them go on to do?
3. What profession did Lucy and Linda choose together once their schooling was over?
Q11:
1. Was it Lucy's dream to become a doctor?
2. Had Lucy dreamed of becoming a doctor?
3. Was becoming a doctor one of Lucy's goals in life?
Q12:
1. Who reminded Lucy of her dream to be a doctor?
2. Who helped Lucy remember that she wanted to become a doctor?
3. By who was Lucy brought to recollect her desire to be a doctor?
Q13:
1. What were Linda's instructions to Lucy?
2. What suggestion did Linda give Lucy?
3. What was Lucy told to do by her best friend?
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3cn4lgxd5xob15goptsutlpfelj4yh | gutenberg | CHAPTER XXII
SNOWBOUND IN THE MOUNTAINS
"If we stay here we'll be in danger of the falling trees!" cried Dave. He had to raise his voice to make himself heard above the fury of the elements.
"That's true, but where are we to go?" questioned Roger. The look in his eyes showed his keen anxiety.
"Isn't there some kind of a cliff around here, under which we can stand?" asked Granbury Lapham of the sleigh driver. Hendrik shrugged his shoulders for a moment, then suddenly tossed his head.
"Yes, I know such a spot," he said, in his native tongue. "Come, we will try to reach it before it is too late."
Amid the howling of the wind and the swirling of the snow, the horses and sleigh were turned partly around, and they struck off on a side trail, leading up the mountain. On and on they toiled, a distance of perhaps five hundred feet, although to the boys it seemed a mile or more. The wind was so strong it fairly took their breath away, and the snow all but blinded them. They had to walk, for it was all the double team could do to drag the turnout over the rough rocks and through the snow. Once Dave slipped, bumped against the Englishman, and both rolled downward a distance of several yards.
"Excuse me!" panted the young American. "My feet went up before I was aware."
"Don't mention it, my lad," was the gasped-out answer. "I fancy we're all doing the best we can." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who did the falling trees frighten?
2. Who got spooked by the falling trees?
3. Who was afraid that there may be trees falling?
Q2:
1. Did Dave raise his voice?
2. Was Dave speaking in a raised tone?
3. Did Dave yell?
Q3:
1. Why did Dave yell?
2. What was Dave's reason for shouting?
3. Why did Dave raise his voice?
Q4:
1. Where was the group stranded in the snow?
2. What was the group's snowbound location?
3. Where could the group be found stuck in the snow?
Q5:
1. Who was clearly feeling anxious?
2. Whose anxiety was clear?
3. Who obviously was nervous?
Q6:
1. Who had the suggestion of hiding under a cliff?
2. Who thought to search for a cliff to hide under?
3. Who had the idea of looking for a cliff under which to take shelter?
Q7:
1. What was the distance traveled by the group?
2. How far did the group go?
3. What was the length of the boys' journey so far?
Q8:
1. How did the boys travels make them feel?
2. How was the group feeling about their journey?
3. What was the general sentiment among the group regarding their travels?
Q9:
1. Who took a tumble?
2. Who slipped and fell down?
3. Who had a fall?
Q10:
1. Who did Dave bump against?
2. Who did Dave crash into?
3. With whom did Dave collide?
Q11:
1. What did Dave bumping into the Englishman cause?
2. What happened as a result of Dave bumping into the Englishman?
3. When Dave collided with the Englishman what was the result?
Q12:
1. What blinded the group during their journey?
2. As the group travelled, what prevented them from seeing?
3. What was the boys' vision impaired by as they traveled?
Q13:
1. Who didn't even know his own feet were up?
2. Who said that his legs went up before he could realize it?
3. Who didn't realize his legs were up until it already happened?
Q14:
1. Were all the boys putting forth their best effort?
2. Was everyone trying as hard as possible?
3. Was the whole group exerting their maximum effort?
Q15:
1. Did the group ever find a hiding place?
2. Did the boys ever come across a place to hide?
3. Was the group able to find somewhere they could hide?
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3bf51chdtva8gm8yws14vi4z764h0f | race | "Mobile phones killed our man,"screamed one headline last year. Also came claims that an unpublished study had found that mobile phones cause memory loss. And a British newspaper devoted its front page to a picture supposedly showing how mobile phones heat the brain.
For anyone who uses a moblie phone, these are worring times. But speak to the scientists whose work is the focus of these scared and you will hear a different story.
What we do have, however, are some results suggesting that mobile phones'emission have a variety of strange effects on living tissue that can't be explained by the general radiation biology. And it's only when the questions raised by these experients are answered that we'll be able to say for sure what moblie phones might be doing to the brain.
One of the odd effects comes from the now famous"merrory loss" study. Alan Preece and his colleagues at the prefix = st1 /UniversityofBristolplaced a device that imitated the microwave emission of mobile phones to the left ear of volunteers. The volunteers were all goood at recalling words and pictures they had been shown on a computer screen. Preece says he still can't comment on the effects of using a mobile phone for years on end. But he rules out the suggestion that mobile phones have an immediate effect on our cognitive abilities."I'm pretty sure there is no effect on short-term memory," he says.
Another expert, Tatterasll, remarked that his latest findings have removed fears about memory loss. One result, for instance, suggests that nerve cell synapses exposed to microwaves become more----rather than less-----receptive to under-going changes linked to the memory formation.
It would be an even happier outcome if microwave turned out to be good for you. It sounds crazy, but a couple of years ago a team led by William Adey at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in California, found that mice exposed to microwave for two hours a day were less likely to develop brain tumours when given a cancer-causing chemical.
So should we forget about mobile phone radiation causing brain tumours and scrambling our minds?
"If it doesn't certainly cause cancer in animals and cells, then it probably isn't going to cause cancer in humans,"says William. And while there's still no evidence that mobile phone does mangle your memories or give your cancer, the _ is:Don't panic. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What common device appears in the article?
2. What everyday device does the article discuss?
3. Which tool that everyone uses is the article's subject?
Q2:
1. Does the article discuss high roaming prices of cell phones?
2. Is the article about high roaming prices of cell phones?
3. Is the article centered around how high roaming charges for cell phones are?
Q3:
1. What does the article say about cell phones?
2. What about mobile phones does the article discuss?
3. What aspect of cell phone use is the article interested in?
Q4:
1. Do cell phones make your brain hot or cold?
2. Does the brain get hot or cold with cell phone use?
3. Do mobile phones cause the head to get hot or cold?
Q5:
1. Whose experiment examined if cell phones make us remember poorly?
2. Who did an experiment to see if cell phones negatively affect memory?
3. Whose experiment looked at the possibility of mobile phones hurting our memory?
Q6:
1. Did Alan Preece come to a conclusion about immediate cell phone use?
2. Was Alan Preece able to draw a conclusion about immediate effects of cell phone use?
3. Did Alan Preece decide something about the immediate effects of cell phones?
Q7:
1. What did Alan Preece find concerning the immediate use of cell phones?
2. What was Alan Preece's conclusion regarding immediate effects of cell phone use?
3. What did Alan Preece find out about immedaite effects of cell phones?
Q8:
1. Did someone suggest cell phones might help prevent forgetting things?
2. Did anyone say that cell phones could positively affect memory?
3. Was there someone who postulated about the potential positive effects of cell phones on memory?
Q9:
1. Who said that cell phones don't hurt memory?
2. Who found that cell phones might help prevent forgetfulness?
3. Whose findings indicate that cell phones don't negatively affect memory?
Q10:
1. What was the effect of the rodents that got tested?
2. What effect was observed on the tested rodents?
3. What happened to the rats that were experimented on?
Q11:
1. Who tested the rodents?
2. Who ran experiments on rats?
3. Whose experiments involved rats?
Q12:
1. Where did William Adey experiment on rats?
2. Where did William Adey run tests on rodents?
3. What was the location of William Adey's experiments with rats?
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3v26sbztbder9sei68k31obqk5rzz5 | mctest | It was Saturday afternoon and Andrew was bored. He had been watching TV all day. He told his dad, "There's nothing to do!" Andrew's dad said, "I think the newspaper is here. Maybe we can find an idea in the newspaper." Andrew looked outside the window and saw the newspaper by the door. On the front was a picture of an elephant. He picked up the newspaper and brought it to his dad. Andrew and his dad read the story. The circus was in town! Andrew had never been to the circus. He asked his dad, "Can we go?" "Yes, we can,' Andrew's dad said, 'but first you need to feed your goldfish." Andrew fed his goldfish some goldfish food. He promised to bring it some peanuts from the circus for later. Andrew and his dad went to the circus. The people and animals at the circus did lots of tricks. The elephant even went down a slide! Andrew and his dad ate lots of peanuts. There weren't any peanuts left to bring home to the goldfish. Andrew and his dad had a lot of fun at the circus. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Did Andrew feel excited?
2. Could Andrew just not wait for something?
3. Was Andrew looking forward to something?
Q2:
1. What was Andrew excited for?
2. What was Andrew looking forward to?
3. Why was Andrew feeling excited?
Q3:
1. What had Andrew been doing all day?
2. What had Andrew spent all day doing?
3. What had Andrew been up to the entire day?
Q4:
1. Did Andrew see a book when he looked out the window?
2. Was there a book out the window that Andrew noticed?
3. Did Andrew spot a book when he peered out the window?
Q5:
1. What did Andrew see out the window?
2. What was spotted by Andrew out the window?
3. What did Andrew notice when he peered out the window?
Q6:
1. Did the newspaper have a tiger on the front of it?
2. Was there a tiger on the front page of the newspaper?
3. Did the paper have a tiger displayed on its front page?
Q7:
1. What was displayed on the front page of the paper?
2. What was on the front page of the newspaper?
3. What was there a picture of on the front of the paper?
Q8:
1. Did Andrew ask his mom if they could see the elephant at the circus?
2. Was it Andrew's mother that he asked to go see the elephant at the zoo?
3. Did Andrew ask his mother to go to the circus to see the elephant?
Q9:
1. Who did Andrew ask to take him to the circus?
2. Who did Andrew ask to go to the circus with to see the elephant?
3. Which parent did Andrew ask to bring him along to the circus?
Q10:
1. Did Andrew's dad take him to the circus?
2. Did Andrew's father accompany him to the circus?
3. Did Andrew and his father go to the circus together?
Q11:
1. Did Andrew do anything before he left for the circus?
2. Before leaving for the circus, did Andrew have anything to do?
3. Did Andrew need to take care of any responsibilities before heading to the circus?
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31hq4x3t3saa3rb0wfzmxg3pjphlsi | gutenberg | CHAPTER XII
CONSOLATION
On the following Sunday neither Tudor nor Norman was at Hampton. They had both felt that they could not comfortably meet each other there, and each had declined to go. They had promised to write; and now that the matter was decided, how were they or either of them to keep the promise?
It may be thought that the bitterness of the moment was over with Norman as soon as he gave up; but such was not the case. Let him struggle as he would with himself he could not rally, nor bring himself to feel happy on what had occurred. He would have been better satisfied if Alaric would have triumphed; but Alaric seemed to take it all as a matter of course, and never spoke of his own promotion unless he did so in answer to some remark of his companion; then he could speak easily enough; otherwise he was willing to let the matter go by as one settled and at rest. He had consulted Norman about the purchase of a horse, but he hitherto had shown no other sign that he was a richer man than formerly.
It was a very bitter time for Norman. He could not divest his mind of the subject. What was he to do? Where was he to go? How was he to get away, even for a time, from Alaric Tudor? And then, was he right in wishing to get away from him? Had he not told himself, over and over again, that it behoved him as a man and a friend and a Christian to conquer the bitter feeling of envy which preyed on his spirits? Had he not himself counselled Alaric to stand this examination? and had he not promised that his doing so should make no difference in their friendship? Had he not pledged himself to rejoice in the success of his friend? and now was he to break his word both to that friend and to himself? QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. How were things going for Norm?
2. What was Norm's situation like?
3. How was Norm doing?
Q2:
1. What had Tudor recently acquired?
2. What did Tudor just get?
3. What was a recent purchase of Tudor's?
Q3:
1. What was there no indication of after Tudor bought the horse?
2. After Tudor's purchase of the horse, what was there no sign of?
3. What was not clear at all after Tudor got the horse?
Q4:
1. How many wouldn't be present on Sunday?
2. What was the number of people that would be absent on Sunday?
3. How many absences would there be on Sunday?
Q5:
1. Who was one person that wouldn't be attending on Sunday?
2. What was the full name of one absentee for Sunday?
3. Name someone that wouldn't be present on Sunday.
Q6:
1. Where would Alaric Tudor not go?
2. Where wasn't Alaric Tudor going to travel to?
3. In what location would Alaric Tudor not be present?
Q7:
1. Why wouldn't Alaric Tudor go to Hampton?
2. For what reason was Alaric Tudor staying away from Hampton?
3. What made Alaric Tudor not go to Hampton?
Q8:
1. What did the jealous person want to do?
2. What did the covetous one wish for?
3. What did the one who was jealous desire?
Q9:
1. Of what faith was Norm?
2. What religion was Norm a believer in?
3. What faith did Norm follow?
Q10:
1. What did Alaric Tudor ask Norm?
2. What was Alaric Tudor's question for Norm?
3. What information did Alaric Tudor want from Norm?
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3eicbyg644wo1ky4w8x92wmftq4jck | cnn | Los Angeles (CNN) -- Reza Taghavi, an Iranian-American detained for more than two years in Iran, returned to the United States Thursday evening.
The retired businessman from Orange County, California, was released Saturday. He had been held in Iran's notorious Evin prison since May 2008 on suspicion of supporting an anti-regime group.
Taghavi's lawyer, Pierre-Richard Prosper, had been negotiating Taghavi's release since September 2009.
Saturday's release was the product of three trips to Iran, meetings with Iranian officials in New York and Europe, and close to 300 e-mails with Iranian officials, he said.
Taghavi, 71, traveled frequently to Iran to visit family and friends without incident, according to Prosper.
In April 2008, Taghavi went to Tehran with his wife. Before he left, he was asked by an acquaintance in Los Angeles named Imran Afar to take $200 for a friend in Tehran "who was down on his luck," Prosper said.
Los Angeles has a large Persian community.
Taghavi did not know the individual to whom he was asked to deliver the money, Prosper said. He handed it over and two weeks later was detained by Iranian authorities, after the recipient of the money was arrested on charges of association with an anti-regime group called Tondar.
Prosper said Afar provided him with information he shared with the Iranian government that proved that Taghavi was not part of Tondar, which seeks to restore the monarchy in Iran. The group claimed responsibility for the April 12, 2008, bombing of the Hosseynieh Seyed al-Shohada mosque in the city of Shiraz. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Where was Reza Taghavi from?
2. Where did Reza Taghavi live?
3. What was Reza Taghavi's place of residence?
Q2:
1. Who was Reza Taghavi's legal counsel?
2. Who was Reza Taghavi represented by?
3. What was the name of Reza Taghavi's lawyer?
Q3:
1. What was Reza Taghavi's age?
2. How old was Reza Taghavi?
3. State the age of Reza Taghavi?
Q4:
1. What sum of money was Reza Taghavi asked to take to Tehran?
2. How much money was Reza Taghavi told to take to Iran?
3. How much cash was Reza Taghavi instructed to bring with him to Tehran?
Q5:
1. When did Reza Taghavi go to Tehran?
2. On what date did Reza Taghavi arrive in Tehran?
3. What was the date of Reza Taghavi's arrival in Tehran?
Q6:
1. On what date did the bombing occur in Shiraz?
2. What was the date of the bombing in Shiraz?
3. On what day did a bomb go off in the mosque?
Q7:
1. Who set off a bomb in Shiraz?
2. Who was responsible for bombing the mosque?
3. Who took responsibility for the bombing in Shiraz?
Q8:
1. Where in the US is there a big Persian community?
2. What state in the US is home to many Persians?
3. Where in the United States is there a large community of Persians?
Q9:
1. How long was Reza Taghavi detained for?
2. How long did Reza Taghavi spend in jail?
3. What was the length of time of Reza Taghavi's detention?
Q10:
1. Who did Reza Taghavi go to Tehran with?
2. Who accompanied Reza Taghavi to Tehran?
3. Who was with Reza Taghavi when he traveled to Tehran?
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3q8gyxhfep2guljj76tf1m3aafqc5n | race | Recently, China Dream has been the subject of a public topic. Although it is quite common for Chinese people to dream of a developed China, most people also have their own dreams. I interviewed several young Chinese students with higher US educational backgrounds. They all had their own dreams for their native country. Fred Wang, an MBA student in the US, said, "I dream of equal chance for the young in China. Equality means all young people can compete fairly, based on the rule-of-law no matter whether they are rich or poor." Yujie Zhao, another MBA student in California, said, "I dream of having the best education for my children so they will not lose at the starting line, and I dream of being able to take good care of my parents after they return home from work." Yiqiong Zhang, an MBA graduate from the US, shared her dreams. "I have a dream which I have been holding for many years, that is after working hard for about 20 to 25 years, I can have enough money to build and manage a bookstore or a flower shop. Besides working hard, I am able to enjoy life, to play the piano, to hike and to enjoy a two-month-long vacation every year. This may be a common dream among young Chinese students." There is no doubt that all of these young students have their own China Dream. They all love chasing their dreams. The beautiful China Dream requires everyone's hard work. Everyone should work hard to make their dreams come true. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Where does Fred Wang reside?
2. What is Fred Wang's country of residence?
3. What country does Fred Wang live in?
Q2:
1. What is Yiqiong Zhang's instrument of choice?
2. Which instrument is Yiqiong Zhang proficient in?
3. What does Yiqiong Zhang play?
Q3:
1. What is Fred Wang getting a degree in?
2. What does Fred Wang study?
3. What is Fred Wang a student in?
Q4:
1. Is Yiqiong Zhang currently pursuing an MBA?
2. Is Yiqiong Zhang getting her MBA?
3. Is Yiqiong Zhang currently studying to get an MBA?
Q5:
1. What is Yiqiong Zhang and Fred Wang's country of origin?
2. Where were Yiqiong Zhang and Fred Wang born?
3. Where are both Fred Wang and Yiqiong Zhang originally from?
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38f71oa9gtwl54ozq702quzzuubmfg | race | Not so long ago, most people didn't know who Shelly Ann Francis Pryce was going to become. She was just an average high school athlete. There was every indication that she was just another American teenager without much of a future. However, one person wants to change this. Stephen Francis observed then eighteen-year-old Shelly Ann as a track meet and was convinced that he had seen the beginning of true greatness. Her time were not exactly impressive, but even so, he seemed there was something trying to get out, something the other coaches had overlooked when they had assessed her and found her lacking. He decided to offer Shelly Ann a place in his very strict training seasons. Their cooperation quickly produced results, and a few year later at Jamaica's Olympic games in early 2008, Shelly Ann, who at that time only ranked number 70 in the world, beat Jamaica's unchallenged queen of the sprint .
"Where did she come from?" asked an astonished sprinting world, before concluding that she must be one of those one-hit wonders that spring up from time to time, only to disappear again without signs. But Shelly Ann was to prove that she was anything but a one-hit wonder. At the Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 meters Olympic gold. She did it again one year on at the World Championship in Briton, becoming world champion with a time of 10.73--- the fourth record ever.
Shelly-Ann is a little woman with a big smile. She has a mental toughness that did not come about by chance. Her journey to becoming the fastest woman on earth has been anything but smooth and effortless. She grew up in one of Jamaica's toughest inner-city communities known as Waterhouse, where she lived in a one-room apartment, sleeping four in a bed with her mother and two brothers. Waterhouse, one of the poorest communities in Jamaica, is a really violent and overpopulated place. Several of Shelly-Ann's friends and family were caught up in the killings; one of her cousins was shot dead only a few streets away from where she lived. Sometimes her family didn't have enough to eat. She ran at the school championships barefooted because she couldn't afford shoes. Her mother Maxime, one of a family of fourteen, had been an athlete herself as a young girl but, like so many other girls in Waterhouse, had to stop after she had her first baby. Maxime's early entry into the adult world with its responsibilities gave her the determination to ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouse's roundabout of poverty. One of the first things Maxime used to do with Shelly-Ann was taking her to the track, and she was ready to sacrifice everything.
It didn't take long for Shelly-Ann to realize that sports could be her way out of Waterhouse. On a summer evening in Beijing in 2008, all those long, hard hours of work and commitment finally bore fruit. The barefoot kid who just a few years previously had been living in poverty, surrounded by criminals and violence, had written a new chapter in the history of sports.
But Shelly-Ann's victory was far greater than that. The night she won Olympic gold in Beijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighbouring streets stopped. The dark cloud above one of the world's toughest criminal neighbourhoods simply disappeared for a few days. " I have so much fire burning for my country,"Shelly said. She plans to start a foundation for homeless children and wants to build a community centre in Waterhouse. She hopes to inspire the Jamaicans to lay down their weapons. She intends to fight to make it a woman's as well as a man's world.
As Muhammad Ali puts it, " Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them. A desire, a dream, a vision." One of the things Shelly-Ann can be proud of is her understanding of this truth. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who is the article about?
2. Which young woman is the subject of the article?
3. Who does the article discuss?
Q2:
1. Where is Shelly Ann Francis Pryce from?
2. What is Shelly Ann Francis Pryce's home country?
3. What country was Shelly Ann Francis Pryce born in?
Q3:
1. Is Shelly Ann Francis Pryce an only child?
2. Does Shelly Ann Francis Pryce have zero siblings?
3. Is Shelly Ann Francis Pryce the sole child in her family?
Q4:
1. How many sisters and brothers does Shelly Ann Francis Pryce have?
2. How many siblings does Shelly Ann Francis Pryce have?
3. Shelly Ann Francis Pryce is a sister to how many siblings?
Q5:
1. Did Shelly Ann Francis Pryce grow up with lots of money?
2. Did Shelly Ann Francis Pryce grow up wealthy?
3. Was Shelly Ann Francis Pryce rich growing up?
Q6:
1. What was the most prestigious medal that Shelly Ann Francis Pryce earned?
2. What was Shelly Ann Francis Pryce highest medaled honor?
3. What was the highest level of medal earned by Shelly Ann Francis Pryce?
Q7:
1. WHat social causes is Shelly Ann Francis Pryce interested in?
2. What social issues are important to Shelly Ann Francis Pryce?
3. What causes has Shelly Ann Francis Pryce taken up?
Q8:
1. What running footwear did Shelly Ann Francis Pryce use as a child?
2. When Shelly Ann Francis Pryce was a kid, what shoes would she run in?
3. What running shoes would Shelly Ann Francis Pryce put on to run in during her youth?
Q9:
1. How many rooms was the place that Shelly Ann Francis Pryce grew up in?
2. Shelly Ann Francis Pryce grew up in a home with how many rooms?
3. What was the number of rooms in Shelly Ann Francis Pryce's childhood home?
Q10:
1. Who is the famous person that the article cites?
2. What celebrity does the article quote?
3. What famous person has a quote in the story?
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3cplwgv3mozimcimzmfatd2oviz9nb | gutenberg | CHAPTER VI. PLANS TO SECURE THE DIAMONDS
WE tramped along behind Jim and Lem till we come to the back stile where old Jim's cabin was that he was captivated in, the time we set him free, and here come the dogs piling around us to say howdy, and there was the lights of the house, too; so we warn't afeard any more, and was going to climb over, but Tom says:
"Hold on; set down here a minute. By George!"
"What's the matter?" says I.
"Matter enough!" he says. "Wasn't you expecting we would be the first to tell the family who it is that's been killed yonder in the sycamores, and all about them rapscallions that done it, and about the di'monds they've smouched off of the corpse, and paint it up fine, and have the glory of being the ones that knows a lot more about it than anybody else?"
"Why, of course. It wouldn't be you, Tom Sawyer, if you was to let such a chance go by. I reckon it ain't going to suffer none for lack of paint," I says, "when you start in to scollop the facts."
"Well, now," he says, perfectly ca'm, "what would you say if I was to tell you I ain't going to start in at all?"
I was astonished to hear him talk so. I says:
"I'd say it's a lie. You ain't in earnest, Tom Sawyer?"
"You'll soon see. Was the ghost barefooted?"
"No, it wasn't. What of it?" QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Did the house have any lights on it?
2. Was the house light up?
3. Was the home illluminated by light?
Q2:
1. Who did the home belong to?
2. Who owned the house?
3. Who was the house's owner?
Q3:
1. Did anyone greet the group?
2. Was the group met by anyone at the door?
3. Was anyone at the door to welcome the group?
Q4:
1. Was the group afraid to go in the cabin?
2. Was the idea of entering the cabin scary?
3. Did the group feel scared about going in the home?
Q5:
1. What does the group intend to tell the family?
2. What does the group figure they will say to the family?
3. What information will everyone relay to the family?
Q6:
1. Who killed the murder victim?
2. Who perpetrated the murder?
3. Who was the murderer?
Q7:
1. Did the rapscallions do anything besides murder?
2. Were other crimes committed besides murder?
3. Did the rapscallions do anything other than kill someone?
Q8:
1. Did Tom have intentions to enter?
2. Was Tom going to go inside the cabin?
3. Did Tom have plans to go into the cabin?
Q9:
1. Are Tom's intentions believable?
2. Is it easy to believe Tom's intentions?
3. Do Tom's intentions have much credibility?
Q10:
1. Who did the boys follow into the home?
2. Who did Tom and his companion follow into the home?
3. Who did the group go into the home after?
Q11:
1. What observation is made about the ghost?
2. How is the ghost described?
3. What description is given of the ghost?
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3x73llyyq1eb1i05xy326u0cf2yhnf | cnn | (CNN) -- It was a bad day on the clay for Maria Sharapova as she was bounced out of the Rome Masters by Ana Ivanovic, Thursday.
It was the first time anyone other than world No.1 Serena Williams had beaten the Russian on the red stuff since the 2011 French Open.
Sharapova had been tuning up for this year's grand slam at Roland Garros in fine fettle, winning tournaments in Stuttgart and Madrid, but Ivanovic stormed to 6-1 6-4 victory to end her run in the third round of the Rome event.
"My energy level today maybe was not the best," Sharapova told reporters in Rome. "But Ana played a really great match, she came out with winners from all over the court and she was the better player.
"This can't take anything away from the last two weeks and I'm quite excited for the week coming up for the grand slam."
Ivanovic, the Serbian 2008 French Open champion, had lost her last seven matches against Sharapova.
Australian Open champion Li Na ticked off a 6-3 6-1 win over Sam Stosur while Serena Williams beat fellow American Varvarato Lepchenko to also advance to the last eight.
In the men's draw, Tommy Haas claimed a big win over Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka.
It was the 36-year-old German's first top-10 win in over a year.
Wawrinka, the world No.3, said the upset would make no difference to his preparations for this month's French Open.
"I am not focused on winning the French Open, it's so far away and there are so many players ready to win," he said. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who didn't win Thursday?
2. Whose loss occurred on Thursday?
3. Who was bested on Thursday?
Q2:
1. What competition took place on Thursday?
2. What was the name of Thursday's competition?
3. What was the competition Thursday called?
Q3:
1. Who won the Rome Masters?
2. Who was the victor of the Rome Masters?
3. Who was the Rome Masters champion?
Q4:
1. Who has bested Maria Sharapova before?
2. Who has Maria Sharapove lost to in the past?
3. Who has won past matches against Maria Sharapova?
Q5:
1. What event did Maria Sharapova lose to Serena Williams?
2. In what event has Serena Williams beat Maria Sharapova?
3. What has Serena Williams won over Maria Sharapova in?
Q6:
1. Which male player beat Stan Wawrinka?
2. Who did Stan Wawrinka lose to?
3. Which male player was Stan Wawrinka bested by?
Q7:
1. Has Stan Wawrinka ever been the champion of an Australian Open?
2. Have past Australian Opens been won by Stan Wawrinka?
3. Has Stan Wawrinka been a past winner of an Australian Open?
Q8:
1. In the match between Tommy Haas and Stan Wawrinka, who came out on top?
2. Who was the victor of the Tommy Haas and Stan Wawrinka game?
3. When Tommy Haas played Stan Wawrinka, who won?
Q9:
1. Had Tommy Haas been winning competitions other than the one against Stan Wawrinka?
2. Was Tommy Haas' victory over Stan Wawrinka one in a number of those for him?
3. Had Tommy Haas been winning a lot of other competitions when he beat Stan Wawrinka?
Q10:
1. Who did Varvarato Lepchenko lose to?
2. Who bested Varvarato Lepchenko?
3. Who was the winner in their game against Varvarato Lepchenko?
Q11:
1. Where is Varvarato Lepchenko from?
2. What is Varvarato Lepchenko's country of origin?
3. What country is Varvarato Lepchenko's home?
Q12:
1. What country was Varvarato Lepchenko's opponent from?
2. What was Serena William's home country?
3. Where was Varvarato Lepchenko's opposing player from?
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3z9wi9eozzoatcf20lbme2j8ky6hk4 | cnn | Seoul (CNN)North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is continuing to rule with an iron fist, having ordered the execution of about 15 senior officials so far this year, according to an assessment by South Korean intelligence agents, a lawmaker who attended a closed briefing said.
Shin Kyung-min, a lawmaker with the New Politics Alliance for Democracy, told a handful of reporters that he had been given the information by the South Korean National Intelligence Service.
CNN cannot independently confirm the executions. The nature of the intelligence supporting the National Intelligence Service allegations was also not immediately clear. North Korea is one of the most closed societies in the world.
According to Shin, intelligence officials say Kim is ruling in an impromptu manner and does not countenance excuses or any views at variance with his own.
He considers those a challenge to his authority, the intelligence officials said, according to Shin.
For example, a senior official with Ministry of Forestry was executed for expressing dissatisfaction with the country's forestry program, the lawmaker said.
North Korean defectors share their ordeals
The vice chairman of the State Planning Commission was executed because he objected to changing the design of a science and technology hall from a rounded shape to one resembling a flower, the intelligence officials said, according to the lawmaker.
And in March, according to the South Korean lawmaker, Kim executed on charges of espionage four members of the Unhasu Orchestra, including the general director, because of a scandal, Shin said.
Kim became North Korea's Supreme Commander in December 2011 following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. According to the National Intelligence Service, he is reported to have executed 17 senior officials in 2012, 10 in 2013 and 41 in 2014. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who rules over North Korea?
2. Who is North Korea's head of state?
3. What is the name of the head of state of North Korea?
Q2:
1. How many executions has Kim Jong Un ordered?
2. What is the number of executions commanded by Kim Jong Un?
3. How many executions have been ordered to be carried out?
Q3:
1. What were the jobs of the people who were put to death?
2. What positions were the executed people in?
3. What sorts of jobs did the victims of executions do?
Q4:
1. What organization discovered the North Korean executions?
2. What organization found out that executions were being carried out in North Korea?
3. Which organization got word of executions going on in North Korea?
Q5:
1. Why were the senior officials executed?
2. What was the reason for executing the senior officials?
3. Why did the senior officials get knocked off?
Q6:
1. Can CNN prove the executions occurred?
2. Is CNN able to confirm that the executions were carried out?
3. Is it possible for CNN to provide independent confirmation of the executions?
Q7:
1. Did anyone witness the executions?
2. Are there any witnesses to the executions?
3. Does anyone admit to seeing the executions carried out?
Q8:
1. Is it dangerous to oppose the head of state of North Korea?
2. Is it dangerous to oppose Kim Jung Un?
3. Is speaking out against Kim Jung Un a dangerous idea?
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3m81gab8a0jmd2abdylnodsjorpqbl | cnn | (CNN) -- A Florida jury awarded a widow $23.6 billion in punitive damages in her lawsuit against tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, her lawyer said.
Cynthia Robinson claimed that smoking killed her husband, Michael Johnson, in 1996. She argued R.J. Reynolds was negligent in not informing him that nicotine is addictive and smoking can cause lung cancer. Johnson started smoking when he was 13 and died of lung cancer when he was 36.
The jury award Friday evening is "courageous," said Robinson's lawyer, Christopher Chestnut.
"If anyone saw the documents that this jury saw, I believe that person would have awarded a similar or greater verdict amount," he said.
The Escambia County trial took four weeks and the jury deliberated for 15 hours, according to the Pensacola News Journal. The verdict included more than $16 million in compensatory damages, the newspaper said.
Nine ex-smokers on their last cigarette
Chestnut said five of the six jurors who heard the case were 45 or younger, which meant he had to show them how the tobacco industry presented its product before the public awareness campaigns on tobacco risks and dangers in the 1990s.
In a statement, J. Jeffery Raborn, vice president and assistant general counsel for R. J. Reynolds, said, "The damages awarded in this case are grossly excessive and impermissible under state and constitutional law.
"This verdict goes far beyond the realm of reasonableness and fairness and is completely inconsistent with the evidence presented," said Raborn. "We plan to file post-trial motions with the trial court promptly and are confident that the court will follow the law and not allow this runaway verdict to stand." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What was a favorite activity of Michael Johnson's?
2. What did Michael Johnson do all the time that brought him pleasure?
3. What did Michael Johnson enjoy doing?
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3u84xhcdicdb6vqtlfud7syhkbh4zu | cnn | (CNN) -- Bill Gates is putting out a call to inventors, but he's not looking for software, or the latest high-tech gadget. This time he's in search of a better condom.
On its Grand Challenges website, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is offering a $100,000 startup grant to the person who designs "the next generation condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure" and promotes "regular use."
It may sound like the setup for a joke, but the goal is deadly serious. While researchers call condoms one of the best ways to stop the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, getting people to use them is another story.
The foundation wants to see something that will lead men and women outside of a committed relationship to stop and think twice before having unprotected sex. The startup grant could lead to $1 million in further funding.
"Male condoms are cheap, easy to manufacture, easy to distribute, and available globally, including in resource-poor settings, through numerous well-developed distribution channels," the foundation says. Nevertheless, many people are reluctant to use them because they complain that prophylactics interfere with pleasure and intimacy. This creates "a trade-off that many men find unacceptable," the foundation notes.
Contraception, by the numbers
In some places and cultures, condom use is often seen as a sign that a man has AIDS, and many women won't sleep with such men. Female condoms are even more difficult to use and women are often afraid to suggest using them.
"Any advance or new design that gets people to use condoms would be a big plus," Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the world's leading AIDS researchers, said in an interview with CNN. He says great strides have been made in treating HIV infection in Africa, but for every person who is treated two more become newly infected. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What is Bill Gates on the hunt for?
2. What is Bill Gates trying to find?
3. What would Bill Gates like to come across?
Q2:
1. What's one reason people avoid condom usage?
2. What is one reason that people prefer not to use condom?
3. What's one explanation for why people don't like using condoms?
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3zpbjo59kp12f69s84pzapoi1vvhdq | race | Food waste has been a chronic problem for restaurants and grocery stores -- with millions of tons lost along the way as crops are hauled hundreds of miles, stored for weeks in refrigerators and prepared on busy restaurant assembly lines. But the historically high price of products is making it an even bigger drag on the bottom line.
Restaurants, colleges, hospitals and other institutions are compensating for the rising costs of waste in novel ways. Some are tracking their trash with software systems, making food in smaller packages or trying to compost (......) and cut down on trash-hauling costs.
"We have all come to work with this big elephant in the middle of kitchen, and the elephant is this 'It's okay to waste' belief system," said Andrew Shackman, president of LeanPath, a company that helps restaurants cut back food waste.
The interest in cutting food waste "has just rocketed in the last six to nine months," he said.
Roughly 30 percent of food in the United States goes to waste, costing some $48 billion annually, according to a Stockholm International Water Institute study. A University of Arizona study estimated that 40 to 50 percent of food in the United States is wasted. Wholesale food costs have risen more than 8 percent this year, the biggest jump in decades, according to the National Restaurant Association.
Freshman students at Virginia Tech were surprised this year when the two of the campus' biggest dining halls to find there were no trays.
"You have to go back and get your dishware and your drink, but it's not that different," said Caitlin Mewborn, a freshman. "It's not a big trouble. You take less food, and you don't eat more than you should."
Getting rid of trays has cut food waste by 38 percent at the dining halls, said Denny Cochrane, manager of Virginia Tech's sustainability program. Before the program began, students often grabbed whatever looked good at the buffet , only to find at the table that their eyes were bigger than their stomachs, he said. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What's the elephant in the middle of the room for kitchen staff?
2. What large problem do kitchens have that they don't address?
3. What huge problem goes unaddressed in restaurant kitchens?
Q2:
1. Who called food waste an elephant in the room?
2. Who said that food waste was like an elephant in the room?
3. Who likened food waste to an elephant in the room?
Q3:
1. What is Andrew Shackman's job?
2. How is Andrew Shackman employed?
3. What is the profession of Andrew Shackman?
Q4:
1. What does Andrew Shackman's company do?
2. What does LeanPath do?
3. What is LeanPath's mission?
Q5:
1. What did Virginia Tech remove from its dining halls?
2. What was taken out of the dining spaces at Virginia Tech?
3. What did Virginia Tech take out of the studnet cafeterias?
Q6:
1. Why did Virginia Tech remove trays from its dining halls?
2. Why did Virginia Tech take trays out of its cafeterias?
3. What was Virginia Tech's reason for removing trays from the dining halls?
Q7:
1. Did it work to take trays out of Virginia Tech's dining halls?
2. Was removing the trays from the dining halls an effective measure at Virginia Tech?
3. Did taking trays out of the dining hasll at Virginia Tech produce the desired results?
Q8:
1. How much waste was cut by removing trays from Virginia Tech's dining halls?
2. What was the decrease in waste when trays were removed from Virginia Tech cafeterias?
3. How much less waste was produced when Virginia Tech took trays out of the dining hall?
Q9:
1. Who talked about waste at Virginia Tech?
2. Who spoke about Virginia Tech's dining halls?
3. Who made comments regarding waste at Virginia Tech?
Q10:
1. What is Denny Cochrane's job?
2. How is Denny Cochrane employed?
3. What does Denny Cochrane do for a living?
Q11:
1. What is the amount of food waste in the US?
2. What quantity of food does the United States waste?
3. How much food is wasted in the United States of America?
Q12:
1. According to whom does 30 percent of food in the United States go to waste?
2. Who says that 30 percent of food in the United States goes to waste?
3. Who finds that the United States wastes 30% of its food?
Q13:
1. What is an estimate other than 30% of food waste in the US?
2. What estimate other than 30 percent is there regarding food waste in the US?
3. What's a different estimate for how much food the US wastes, besides 30 percent?
Q14:
1. Who estimated that 40 to 50 percent of food in the United States is wasted?
2. According to whom is it estimated that 40 to 50 percent of food in the United States is wasted?
3. Who found that between 40-50% of food in America is wasted?
Q15:
1. What is the cost of food waste in the US according to one estimate?
2. What does one estimate guess is the cost of food waste in America?
3. When food goes to waste in America, how much is it estimated to cost annually?
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336kav9kyqs1yr11lf9606shtuq2yv | race | Mary went to Canada on vacation. After a week, she came back to New York. She told lots of interesting things to her best friend, Jack. Jack was very interested in Canada and decided to have a visit there. The next summer vacation, Mary and Jack had a plan to go to Canada together. But her mother was badly ill so she went to the airport to see her friend off. When they got to the airport, Mary had to got to the washroom. When she came back, she couldn't find Jack because there were so many people at the airport. She looked for him everywhere, but it was hard to find Jack among the people. Suddenly Mary saw Jack and she felt very happy, so she shouted,"Hi, Jack. Here, here." At the same time, Jack waved his arms,"I'm here." In 3 minutes, so many policemen came to the front of Jack and caught him, "Please come with me to the police office." After the policemen found out the reason, they let them free. Why? Because the word "hijack" in the English has different meanings. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Where did Mary return to?
2. What city did Mary return to?
3. To which city did Mary come back?
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3hsyg7lrbjy1v2ga66ejruz0dv0kky | gutenberg | CHAPTER XXIII
THE CLAMP
When work began next morning, Jake asked Dick if he should order the peons to search for the clamps that had held the guard-rail.
"I think not," said Dick. "It would be better if you looked for the things yourself."
"Very well. Perhaps you're right."
Dick wondered how much Jake suspected, particularly as he did not appear to be searching for anything when he moved up and down among the broken concrete. Half an hour later, when none of the peons were immediately about, he came up with his hand in his pocket and indicated a corner beside a block where there was a little shade and they were not likely to be overlooked.
"I've got one," he remarked.
When they sat down Jake took out a piece of thick iron about six inches long, forged into something like the shape of a U, though the curve was different and one arm was shorter than the other. Much depended on the curve, for the thing was made on the model of an old-fashioned but efficient clamp that carpenters sometimes use for fastening work to a bench. A blow or pressure on one part wedged it fast, but a sharp tap on the other enabled it to be lifted off. This was convenient, because as the work progressed, the track along the dam had to be lengthened and the guard fixed across a fresh pair of rails.
Taking the object from Jake, Dick examined it carefully. He thought he recognized the dint where he had struck the iron, and then, turning it over, noted another mark. This had been made recently, because the surface of the iron was bright where the hammer had fallen, and a blow there would loosen the clamp. He glanced at Jake, who nodded. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What did Jake remove when he sat down with Dick?
2. When Jake and Dick sat down, what did the former take out?
3. What did Jake bring out as he and Dick sat down?
Q2:
1. What was the shape of the iron?
2. What was the iron in the shape of?
3. What form was the iron in?
Q3:
1. Who examined the iron?
2. Who took a closer look at the iron?
3. Who got a good look at the iron?
Q4:
1. What did Dick notice on the iron?
2. What stuck out about the iron to Dick?
3. What did Dick see that stuck out to him on the iron?
Q5:
1. What had been Jake's question for Dick that morning?
2. What was the content of Jake's inquiry to Dick that morning?
3. What did Jake want to find out from Dick in the early hours of the day?
Q6:
1. Did Dick agree with Jake's suggestion?
2. Did Dick think that Jake had a good idea?
3. Was Dick in favor of Dick's suggestion?
Q7:
1. What did Dick want Jake to do?
2. What was Dick's suggestion to Jake?
3. What did Dick think it best for Jake to do?
Q8:
1. Who approached Dick approximately a half hour later?
2. After about a half hour, who came up to Dick?
3. Who was Dick approached by around a half hour later?
Q9:
1. Where was Jake's hand?
2. What was the location of Jake's hand?
3. Where had Jake placed his hand?
Q10:
1. What was the length of the piece of iron?
2. How long was the iron bit?
3. How many inches did the iron measure?
Q11:
1. What did the iron resemble?
2. What had the iron been designed to look like?
3. What was the iron designed similarly to?
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3g5w44veu7iwtgkrgft4t277611gkj | wikipedia | The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank for the euro and administers monetary policy of the Eurozone, which consists of 19 EU member states and is one of the largest currency areas in the world. It is one of the world's most important central banks and is one of the seven institutions of the European Union (EU) listed in the Treaty on European Union (TEU). The capital stock of the bank is owned by the central banks of all 28 EU member states.[dated info] The Treaty of Amsterdam established the bank in 1998, and it is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. As of 2015[update] the President of the ECB is Mario Draghi, former governor of the Bank of Italy, former member of the World Bank, and former managing director of the Goldman Sachs international division (2002–2005). The bank primarily occupied the Eurotower prior to, and during, the construction of the new headquarters. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. When was the European Central Bank mostly in the EuroTower?
2. At what point was the EuroTower used by the European Central Bank?
3. When was the EuroTower occupied by the European Central Bank?
Q2:
1. What central bank is used by the Euro?
2. Which bank is centrally used for the Euro?
3. What is the bank that is centrally associated with the Euro?
Q3:
1. What's another name for the European Central Bank?
2. What else is the European Central Bank called?
3. Give an alternate name for the European Central Bank.
Q4:
1. Who does the European Central Bank administer policy for?
2. For whom is the European Central Bank charged with policy administration?
3. Whose monetary policy does the European Central Bank administer?
Q5:
1. How many states does the Eurozone have?
2. What is the number of states within the Eurozone?
3. How many nations are contained within the Eurozone?
Q6:
1. Is the European Central Bank small?
2. Is the size of the ECB tiny?
3. Is the ECB a small currency area?
Q7:
1. What is meant by EU?
2. What is EU short for?
3. What does the acronym EU mean?
Q8:
1. How many institutions does the European Union have?
2. What is the number of institutions within the European Union?
3. How many institutions has the EU got?
Q9:
1. Where are the EU's 7 institutions listed?
2. What is the location of the EU's seven listed institutions?
3. Where can one find the seven institutions of the EUropean Union?
Q10:
1. Who owns capital stock in the European Central Bank?
2. Who does capital stock in the European Central Bank belong to?
3. Name the owner of the capital stock in the European Central Bank.
Q11:
1. When was the European Central Bank established?
2. In what year was the ECB established?
3. What year saw the establishment of the European Central Bank?
Q12:
1. Under what treaty was the European Central Bank created?
2. Which treaty established the European Central Bank?
3. What treaty formed the European Central Bank?
Q13:
1. What is the location of the ECB's headquarters?
2. Where can the headquarters of the European Central Bank be found?
3. Where is the European Central Bank based out of?
Q14:
1. Who is the president of the European Central Bank?
2. Who heads the European Central Bank?
3. What's the name of the ECB's president?
Q15:
1. What was a former job of Mario Draghi?
2. What did Mario Draghi used to do for a living?
3. How was Mario Draghi once employed?
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3nkqq8o39y57ksfc83wyt4d8v60udd | cnn | (CNN) -- History was made on two fronts when Joao Sousa beat Julien Benneteau to win the Malaysian Open.
While Sousa celebrated becoming the first Portuguese man to claim an ATP title, Benneteau wasn't nearly as joyous. He slumped to 0-9 in finals to tie the unwanted men's record in the Open era, which began in 1968.
Is he tennis' unlucky loser?
Benneteau's fellow Frenchman, Cedric Pioline, and American Pat Dupre also lost their first nine finals, although Pioline went on to triumph five times -- he was a two-time grand slam finalist -- and Dupre ended his drought in Hong Kong in 1982.
No man has lost his first 10 finals in the Open era, said the ATP.
Benneteau was so close to overturning his woe in finals, too, holding a match point in the second set Sunday against Sousa.
He did little wrong on the point, approaching the net with a good forehand, but Sousa unleashed a stunning forehand down the line.
Benneteau then wasted a flurry of break points in the final set and fell 2-6 7-5 6-4.
French sports daily L'Equipe used the headline, 'Benneteau, nothing new,' when referring to his defeat on its website, and the player tweeted a picture of what looked like a beer accompanied by the words: 'To forget.'
"I tried everything today," Benneteau, 31, told the ATP's website. "I played very well, particularly I was very aggressive and I didn't let him play for two sets almost. I had match point and I played the point perfectly. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who was the winner?
2. Who came out of top?
3. Who bested their opponent?
Q2:
1. Who lost to Joao Sousa?
2. Who did Joao Sousa beat?
3. Who was bested by Joao Sousa?
Q3:
1. What tournament did Joao Sousa win?
2. In what tournament did Joao Sousa beat Julien Benneteau?
3. What was the tournament in which Julien Benneteau lost to Joao Sousa?
Q4:
1. Where was Joao Sousa from?
2. What was Joao Sousa's country of origin?
3. What was Joao Sousa's home nation?
Q5:
1. How many Malaysian Open winners had come from Portugal before Joao Sousa?
2. How many Portuguese players had won the Malaysian Open before Joao Sousa?
3. Prior to Joao Sousa's win, how many Portuguese people had won the Malaysian Open?
Q6:
1. What was Julien Benneteau record?
2. What record did Julien Benneteau have?
3. How many wins and losses did Julien Benneteau have?
Q7:
1. What epithet was given to Julien Benneteau?
2. What title did Julien Benneteau get?
3. What nickname has been ascribed to Julien Benneteau?
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37wlf8u1wpquwnvl42kihbuicyi6kd | gutenberg | CHAPTER XVII.
Five minutes later, Tom Thurston entered, and Julia Monson came down to receive HIM, her pique not interfering, and it being rather stylish to be disengaged on the morning of the day when the household was in all the confusion of a premeditated rout.
{premeditated rout = planned party}
"This is SO good of you, Miss Monson," said Tom, as he made his bow--I heard it all, being still on the sofa--"This is SO good of you, when your time must have so many demands on it."
"Not in the least, Mr. Thurston--mamma and the housekeeper have settled every thing, and I am really pleased to see you, as you can give me the history of the new play--"
"Ah! Miss Monson, my heart--my faculties--my ideas--" Tom was getting bothered, and he made a desperate effort to extricate himself--"In short, my JUDGMENT is so confused and monopolized, that I have no powers left to think or speak of plays. In a word, I was not there."
"That explains it, then--and what has thus confused your mind, Mr. Thurston?"
"The approach of this awful night. You will be surrounded by a host of admirers, pouring into your ears their admiration and love, and then what shall I have to support me, but that 'yes,' with which you once raised me from the depths of despair to an elevation of happiness that was high as the highest pinnacle of the caverns of Kentucky; raising me from the depths of Chimborazo."
{caverns of Kentucky = Mammoth Cave; Chimborazo = a 20,500 foot volcano in Ecuador} QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who entered?
2. What was the name of the person that came in?
3. Who came through the entrance of the room?
Q2:
1. Who greeted Tom Thurston?
2. Who was at the entrance to greet Tom Thurston?
3. By whom was Tom Thurston welcomed?
Q3:
1. What was the household hosting?
2. What was happening within the house?
3. What event was going on inside the home?
Q4:
1. Was Julia Monson happy to see Tom Thurston?
2. Did it please Julia Monson to see Tom Thurston?
3. Did her encounter with Tom Thurston make Julia Monson happy?
Q5:
1. What did Julia Monson say to Tom Thurston?
2. What were Julia Monson's words to Tom Thurston?
3. What did Tom Thurston hear from Julia Monson?
Q6:
1. Who sat in the sofa?
2. Who did the sofa have sitting on it?
3. Who could be found in the sofa?
Q7:
1. What does Tom Thurston say about his judgment?
2. How does Tom Thurston feel about his judgment?
3. What is Tom Thurston's opinion of his own judgment?
Q8:
1. What does Tom Thurston lack?
2. What doesn't Tom Thurston have enough of?
3. What does Tom Thurston need more of?
Q9:
1. What doesn't Tom Thurston have the power to do?
2. What kind of power is Tom Thurston lacking?
3. Which power is not possessed by Tom Thurston?
Q10:
1. Who says something to Tom Thurston about his confusion?
2. Who speaks with Tom Thurston regarding his confusion?
3. Who whas a remark for Tom Thurston on the subject of his confusion?
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39owyr0epkrlzldd9aodkpm63adyfi | wikipedia | The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London. It is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after "The Sun". Its sister paper "The Mail on Sunday" was launched in 1982 while Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of the one of the co-founders, is the current chairman and controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail and General Trust, while day-to-day editorial decisions for the newspaper are usually made by a team around the editor, Paul Dacre.
A survey in 2014 found the average age of its reader was 58, and it had the lowest demographic for 15- to 44-year-olds among the major British dailies. Uniquely for a British daily newspaper, it has a majority female readership with women making up 52-55% of its readers. It had an average daily circulation of 1,510,824 copies in November 2016. Between July and December 2013 it had an average daily readership of approximately 3.951 million, of whom approximately 2.503 million were in the ABC1 demographic and 1.448 million in the C2DE demographic. Its website has more than 100 million unique visitors per month. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who is the chairman of the Daily Mail in the present day?
2. Who currently chairs the Daily Mail?
3. What is the name of the man who now chairs the Daily Mail?
Q2:
1. What is Jonathan Harmsworth's title?
2. What title does Jonathan Harmsworth have?
3. What title describes Jonathan Harmsworth?
Q3:
1. What is Jonathan Harmsworth's relation to one of the Daily Mail's founders?
2. How is Jonathan Harmsworth related to one of the founders of the Daily Mail?
3. What relation does Jonathan Harmsworth have to a Daily Mail founder?
Q4:
1. What is the name of the Daily Mail's editor?
2. Who edits the Daily Mail?
3. Who is the editor of the Daily mail?
Q5:
1. Does Paul Dacre work alone?
2. Is Paul Dacre the only one to edit the Daily Mail?
3. Does Paul Dacre edit the Daily Mail by himself?
Q6:
1. How could the Daily Mail be described?
2. What could the Daily Mail be described as?
3. What sort of newspaper is the Daily Mail?
Q7:
1. Where is the Daily Mail published?
2. In what city does the Daily Mail get published?
3. Which city is the site of the Daily Mail's publication?
Q8:
1. By what entities is the Daily Mail owned?
2. Which entities does the Daily Mail belong to?
3. What entities own the Daily Mail?
Q9:
1. How many visitors does the website of the Daily Mail receive?
2. How many people visit the Daily Mail's website?
3. What is the number of people who go to the Daily Mail's webpage?
Q10:
1. What is the age of the typical reader of the Daily Mail?
2. How old is the average reader of the Daily Mail?
3. How old is a typical Daily Mail reader?
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3e7tuj2egcm900r9as17x8quig99da | wikipedia | A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power. It is composed of semiconductor material with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor's terminals changes the current through another pair of terminals. Because the controlled (output) power can be higher than the controlling (input) power, a transistor can amplify a signal. Today, some transistors are packaged individually, but many more are found embedded in integrated circuits.
The transistor is the fundamental building block of modern electronic devices, and is ubiquitous in modern electronic systems. First conceived by Julius Lilienfeld in 1926 and practically implemented in 1947 by American physicists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley, the transistor revolutionized the field of electronics, and paved the way for smaller and cheaper radios, calculators, and computers, among other things. The transistor is on the list of IEEE milestones in electronics, and Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their achievement. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What's one way a transistor can be used?
2. What is one way of using a transistor?
3. Cite one way to use a transistor.
Q2:
1. In terms of modern electronics, what is a transistor?
2. What could a transistor be called in the context of modern electronics?
3. What do transistors represent to modern electronics?
Q3:
1. In what year did transistors come about?
2. What was the year of the transistor's conception?
3. When were transistors conceived of?
Q4:
1. Who invented the transistor?
2. Who came up with transistors?
3. Who were transistors invented by?
Q5:
1. How many years after 1926 was the transistor implemented?
2. How long after 1926 did the transistor get used pratically?
3. When did people start actually implementing transistors after 1926?
Q6:
1. What was the number of scientists involved in the implementation of transistors?
2. How many scientists were a part of implementing transistors?
3. How many scientists contributed to putting transistors into practice?
Q7:
1. What field did transistors revolutionize?
2. Which field underwent a sea change thanks to transistors?
3. What field was vastly changed by transistors?
Q8:
1. What two types of radios were developed after the implementation of transistors?
2. What two radios came into being after transistors were implemented?
3. After transistors' implementation, which two radios were created?
Q9:
1. What item besides radios was smaller and cheaper after transistors?
2. What item did transistors facilitate smaller and cheaper manufacture of, other than radios?
3. What besides radios became smaller and cheaper to make in a post transistor world?
Q10:
1. What item besides radios and calculators was smaller and cheaper after transistors?
2. What item did transistors facilitate smaller and cheaper manufacture of, other than radios and calculators?
3. What besides radios and calculators became smaller and cheaper to make in a post transistor world?
Q11:
1. What list of milestones includes the transistor?
2. What milestone list has the transistor on it?
3. The invention of the transistor is included on which list of important discoveries?
Q12:
1. How many shared a Nobel Prize in physics for the transistors?
2. What was the number of people who got a Nobel Prize in physics for making the transistor?
3. To how many was the Nobel Prize in physics awarded for creating the transistor?
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39gxdjn2otevgc8lwlvn3y1qyr2v8x | wikipedia | Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace. Locally it is often referred to simply as "The City". The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1, 1683, as one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers; several small adjacent islands; and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood now on the U.S. mainland, physically connected to the Bronx and separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem River.
Manhattan is often described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, and hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and Manhattan is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization: the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in Manhattan, and the borough has been the for numerous books, films, and television shows. Manhattan is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders, which equals US$ today. Manhattan real estate has since become among the most expensive in the world, with the value of Manhattan Island, including real estate, estimated to exceed US$3 trillion in 2013; median residential property sale prices in Manhattan exceeded US as of 2017, and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commands the highest retail rents in the world, at US in 2017. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. How is the city of Manhattan designated?
2. What is the technical title for the city of Manhattan?
3. How is the city of Manhattan officially referred to?
Q2:
1. What do locals call Manhattan?
2. What is a colloquial term for Manhattan?
3. How is Manhattan referred to in local terms?
Q3:
1. Is Manhattan close to any bodies of water?
2. Does Manhattan have any bodies of water near it?
3. Are there water sources close to Manhattan?
Q4:
1. What bodies of water is Manhattan on?
2. What water sources are near Manhattan?
3. What rivers are around Manhattan?
Q5:
1. Is it cheap to live in Manhattan?
2. Does Manhattan have a low cost of living?
3. Is the cost of living cheap in Manhattan?
Q6:
1. What is Manhattan Island valued at?
2. How much US dollars is Manhattan Island worth?
3. What is the sum in USD that Manhattan Island is valued at?
Q7:
1. What is the world's opinion of Manhattan?
2. How is Manhattan viewed by the rest of the world?
3. How does the rest of the world feel about Manhattan?
Q8:
1. Is Manhattan often used by the media?
2. Does Manhattan make frequent appearances in the media?
3. Is Manhattan a media capital?
Q9:
1. What media outlets are based in Manhattan?
2. What media outlets make use of Manhattan?
3. What sorts of media is Manhattan a capital for?
Q10:
1. When did the purchase of Manhattan occur?
2. When was Manhattan purchased?
3. In what year was Manhattan bought?
Q11:
1. Who bought Manhattan in 1626?
2. By whom was Manhattan purchased in 1626?
3. Who acquired Manhattan in 1626?
Q12:
1. Who did the Dutch purchase Manhattan from?
2. Who sold Manhattan to the Dutch?
3. From whom did the Dutch buy Manhattan?
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3t3iwe1xg6nm9o4sdkc8o7y5veltq7 | gutenberg | CHAPTER XXIV
THE ALTERED SAILING LIST
When dinner was over, Dick sat by himself in a quiet spot on the liner's quarter-deck. There was a tall, iron bulwark beside him, but close by this was replaced by netted rails, through which he caught the pale shimmer of the sea. The warm land-breeze had freshened and ripples splashed against the vessel's side, while every now and then a languid gurgle rose from about her waterline and the foam her plates threw off was filled with phosphorescent flame. A string band was playing on the poop, and passengers and guests moved through the intricate figures of a Spanish dance on the broad deck below. Their poses were graceful and their dress was picturesque, but Dick watched them listlessly.
He was not in a mood for dancing, for he had been working hard at the dam and his thoughts were disturbed. Clare had refused him, and although he did not accept her decision as final, he could see no way of taking her out of her father's hands, while he had made no progress towards unraveling the latter's plots. Kenwardine was not on board, but Dick had only seen Clare at some distance off across the table in the saloon. Moreover, he thought she must have taken some trouble to avoid meeting him.
Then he remembered the speeches made by the visitors at dinner, and the steamship officers' replies. The former, colored by French and Spanish politeness and American wit, eulogized the power of the British navy and the courage of her merchant captains. There was war, they said, but British commerce went on without a check; goods shipped beneath the red ensign would be delivered safe in spite of storm and strife; Britannia, with trident poised, guarded the seas. For this the boldly-announced sailing list served as text, but Dick, who made allowances for exuberant Latin sentiment, noted the captain's response with some surprise. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Who was sitting by themselves?
2. What was the name of the person that sat alone?
3. Who sat in solitude?
Q2:
1. Where was Dick sitting?
2. Where did Dick sit down alone?
3. What was Dick's location as he sat alone?
Q3:
1. What was Dick sitting on?
2. What had Dick taken a seat on?
3. Where had Dick sat down?
Q4:
1. When did Dick take a seat?
2. When did Dick sit down on the quarter deck?
3. At what point did Dick take a seat on the quarter deck?
Q5:
1. What did Dick sit down near?
2. What was by Dick when he sat down?
3. What was Dick sitting in close proximity to?
Q6:
1. How was Dick able to see the water?
2. What enabled Dick to see the water?
3. What made it possible for Dick to see the water?
Q7:
1. Was the weather cold?
2. Was it a chilly day?
3. Were there cold temperatures outside?
Q8:
1. What was the band like?
2. What sort of band that was playing?
3. How could the performing band be described?
Q9:
1. What was the band playing?
2. What did the band perform?
3. What was the musical group putting on a performance of?
Q10:
1. What was on the deck below?
2. What was going on on the below deck?
3. What event was taking place on the below deck?
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37qw5d2zrgmfokrh2qqisbhjyars8h | cnn | (CNN) -- Iggy Azalea would love it if everyone channeled "Frozen" and just "let it go."
The Australian rapper has broken her silence about a supposed feud between herself and Nicki Minaj, rumors that were sparked after Minaj gave a curiously pointed acceptance speech at the BET Awards on Sunday.
The New York-bred MC made it clear that when "you hear Nicki Minaj spit, Nicki Minaj wrote it," leaving observers to assume that she was taking a dig at Azalea, who's been rumored to work with ghostwriters and was Minaj's competitor at the awards ceremony.
Nicki Minaj vs. Iggy Azalea: Where's the beef?
Although Minaj said during her acceptance speech that she wasn't giving "shade" -- aka, disrespect -- it nonetheless appeared that way to many.
With the Internet chomping down on the apparent beef, both Minaj and Azalea have tried to clear the air.
"The media puts words in my mouth all the time and this is no different. I will always take a stance on women writing b/c I believe in us!" Minaj tweeted on July 2. "I've congratulated Iggy on the success of 'Fancy,' publicly. She should be very proud of that. All the women nominated should b proud. ... That will never change my desire to motivate women to write. Our voices have to be heard. I hope I inspire up & coming females to do that."
Azalea initially remained silent on the subject, but by July 3 the rapper had grown tired of the commentary.
"I have to say the general explosion of pettiness online in the last few days is hard to ignore and honestly ... lame," Azalea wrote in a statement, as captured on her Instagram account. "If I had won the BET award that would've been great but it wasn't my year and I don't mind -- so you shouldn't either." QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What news outlet published this article?
2. Where did this article appear?
3. Which media outlet put this article out?
Q2:
1. Who is the female rapper from Australia?
2. What's the name of the Australian female rapper?
3. What rapper in the story is Australian?
Q3:
1. What did Iggy Azalea break her silence about?
2. What did Iggy Azalea finally make a public statment about?
3. What did Iggy Azalea finally address?
Q4:
1. Who was Iggy Azalea supposedly in a feud with?
2. Who did Iggy Azalea allegedly have beef with?
3. Gossip was going around about Iggy Azalea and whom?
Q5:
1. What did Nicki Minaj do to allegedly start an altercation?
2. How did Nicki Minaj supposedly start beef with Iggy Azalea?
3. What was the supposed source of Nicki Minaj's feud with Iggy Azalea?
Q6:
1. Where did Nicki Minaj give her speech?
2. What was the site of Nicki Minaj's speech?
3. Where did Nicki Minaj address a crowd?
Q7:
1. When did Nicki Minaj give her speech?
2. On what day of the week did Nicki Minaj give a speech?
3. What weekday did Nicki Minaj's awards speech happen?
Q8:
1. Where is Nicki Minaj from?
2. What is Nicki Minaj's hometown?
3. Where was Nicki Minaj born?
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3ermj6l4dys8qb9t8o2q22miw3f7me | wikipedia | The szlachta ([ˈʂlaxta] ( listen), exonym: Nobility) was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges between 1333 and 1370 during the reign of King Casimir III the Great.:211 In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown Kingdom of Poland, the existing Lithuanian nobility formally joined this class.:211 As the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) evolved and expanded in territory, its membership grew to include the leaders of Ducal Prussia, Podolian and Ruthenian lands.
The origins of the szlachta are shrouded in obscurity and mystery and have been the subject of a variety of theories.:207 Traditionally, its members were owners of landed property, often in the form of "manor farms" or so-called folwarks. The nobility negotiated substantial and increasing political and legal privileges for itself throughout its entire history until the decline of the Polish Commonwealth in the late 18th century. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Where are the szlachta from?
2. What are the origins of the szlachta?
3. What country do the szlachta come from?
Q2:
1. The szlachta were in power until when?
2. Up until what time period were the szlachta in power?
3. When did the szlachta have power until?
Q3:
1. Who qualified to be a part of the szlachta?
2. Who was allowed to be a member of the szlachta?
3. Who had the right to be a szlachta?
Q4:
1. What did nobles need to posess to be a part of the szlachta?
2. What did a noble need to have in order to belong to the szlachta?
3. If a noble was to enter into the szlachta, what did they need to be in possession of?
Q5:
1. Who did the szlachta gain power under?
2. Who was king when the szlachta took control?
3. Under which ruler did the szlachta come into power?
Q6:
1. Who was added to the szlachta later on that wasn't in it originally?
2. What members not in the original szlachta were added later on?
3. Who became members of the szlachta at a date after its creation?
Q7:
1. In what year did the existing Lithuanian nobility become szlachta?
2. What year was the szlachta expanded to include the existing Lithuanian nobility?
3. When were the existing Lithuanian mobility subsumed into the szlachta?
Q8:
1. Where did the szlachta expand?
2. What territories did the szlachta go out to?
3. How far was the expansion of the szlachta?
Q9:
1. When did the szlachta expand?
2. During what years did the szlachta expansion occur?
3. What was the time period when the szlachta was expanding?
Q10:
1. What Polish word refers to a legal class of nobility?
2. What is the word in Polish for a former legal class of nobles?
3. How were the legal class of nobility once referred to within the Kingdom of Poland?
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3e7tuj2egcm900r9as17x8quilm9dx | cnn | Moscow (CNN)More than 1 million historic documents have been destroyed in a fire at one of Russia's largest public libraries, according to the Russian state news agency Tass.
The Russian emergency situations ministry says 147 firefighters struggled for 25 hours over the weekend to put out the blaze in the main library of the Institute for Research Information on Social Sciences in Moscow.
The fire, which ripped through the library Friday evening, destroyed 2,000 square meters (about 2,400 square yards) of the building and caused part of the roof to collapse, according to an official statement. The Russian emergency situations ministry said the fire was particularly hard to put out because of the high temperatures, narrow passageways and the risk of the building falling down.
Moscow's emergency ministry said the temperature inside the rubble of the library remains high and that there is still a threat that the building could collapse.
Vladimir Fortov, president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti that the fire, which destroyed 15% of all the documents in the library, reminded him of the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine.
"It's a major loss for science. This is the largest collection of its kind in the world, probably equivalent to the Library of Congress," Fortov told the agency. "It contains material that you can't find anywhere else and all the social science institutions use this library. What has happened here is reminiscent of Chernobyl."
The institute's director, Yuri Pivovarov, told Tass that he fears the building cannot be restored. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Did the firefighters have a hard time?
2. Was it difficult for firefighters to put out the blaze?
3. Did firefighters struggle to put out the fire?
Q2:
1. How many firefighters were there?
2. What was the number of firefighters present?
3. What quantity of firefighters was needed?
Q3:
1. How long did it take firefighters to put out the blaze?
2. How long did firefighters spend extinguishing the fire?
3. How many hours were needed for firefighters to extinguish the blaze?
Q4:
1. What is Vladimir Fortov's title?
2. What does Vladimir Fortov do?
3. What position is held by Vladimir Fortov?
Q5:
1. Why was it so hard to put out the fire?
2. Why was the blaze so difficult to extinguish?
3. What made the fire so tough to put out?
Q6:
1. What other major disaster is the fire being compared to?
2. What other devastating event is being compared to the fire?
3. What comparison is being made between the fire and another disastrous event?
Q7:
1. When did Chernobyl happen?
2. In what year did Chernobyl occur?
3. What was the year of the Chernobyl disaster?
Q8:
1. Can the library be repaired?
2. Is it possible to fix the Russian library?
3. Can repairs be made to the library?
Q9:
1. What was the size of the library?
2. What was the Russian library's size?
3. How big was the the main library of the Institute for Research Information on Social Sciences in Moscow?
Q10:
1. What country was Chernobyl in?
2. In what country could Chernobyl be found?
3. Which nation was home to Chernobyl?
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3wetl7aqwt8shln0edie8jzg5ju35w | gutenberg | CHAPTER XX.
TO-MORROW.
The two girls met no living soul on their way back to the rectory. They let themselves in noiselessly; they stole upstairs unheard--the breaking morning gave them what light they needed. Shirley sought her couch immediately; and though the room was strange--for she had never slept at the rectory before--and though the recent scene was one unparalleled for excitement and terror by any it had hitherto been her lot to witness, yet scarce was her head laid on the pillow ere a deep, refreshing sleep closed her eyes and calmed her senses.
Perfect health was Shirley's enviable portion. Though warm-hearted and sympathetic, she was not nervous; powerful emotions could rouse and sway without exhausting her spirit. The tempest troubled and shook her while it lasted, but it left her elasticity unbent, and her freshness quite unblighted. As every day brought her stimulating emotion, so every night yielded her recreating rest. Caroline now watched her sleeping, and read the serenity of her mind in the beauty of her happy countenance.
For herself, being of a different temperament, she could not sleep. The commonplace excitement of the tea-drinking and school-gathering would alone have sufficed to make her restless all night; the effect of the terrible drama which had just been enacted before her eyes was not likely to quit her for days. It was vain even to try to retain a recumbent posture; she sat up by Shirley's side, counting the slow minutes, and watching the June sun mount the heavens. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. Did Caroline and Shirley see anyone on their way back?
2. Did the two girls see anyone while going back?
3. As they made their way back, did Shirley and Caroline spot anyone?
Q2:
1. Who was taking walk?
2. Who all was going for a walk?
3. Who strolled down a path?
Q3:
1. What had been the two girls' starting point?
2. Where did the two girls start walking?
3. Where did Caroline and Shirley begin their walk?
Q4:
1. Where were the two girls going?
2. What was the final destination of the two girls?
3. Where were Shirley and Caroline headed?
Q5:
1. Did the girls make it to the rectory?
2. Did the girls reach the rectory?
3. Were Caroline and Shirley able to make it to the rectory?
Q6:
1. Did the girls barge into the rectory?
2. Did the girls make a scene as they entered the rectory?
3. Did Caroline and Shirley go loudly into the rectory?
Q7:
1. Who was one of the girls?
2. What was one of the girl's names?
3. What was one of the girls called?
Q8:
1. What was Shirley looking for when she got to the rectory?
2. What did Shirley search for in the rectory?
3. What in the rectory did Shirley want to locate?
Q9:
1. Had Shirley been to the rectory before?
2. Had Shirley made previous visits to the rectory?
3. Had Shirley previously entered the rectory?
Q10:
1. Had a lot happened to Shirley that night?
2. Did Shirley have an eventful night?
3. Had Shirley had an overwhelming evening?
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3i33ic7zwf20293y59vqxkaaq4z2az | gutenberg | CHAPTER III
TREACHERY
The day following the coming of Vas Kor to the palace of the Prince of Helium great excitement reigned throughout the twin cities, reaching its climax in the palace of Carthoris. Word had come of the abduction of Thuvia of Ptarth from her father's court, and with it the veiled hint that the Prince of Helium might be suspected of considerable knowledge of the act and the whereabouts of the princess.
In the council chamber of John Carter, Warlord of Mars, was Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium; Mors Kajak, his son, Jed of Lesser Helium; Carthoris, and a score of the great nobles of the empire.
"There must be no war between Ptarth and Helium, my son," said John Carter. "That you are innocent of the charge that has been placed against you by insinuation, we well know; but Thuvan Dihn must know it well, too.
"There is but one who may convince him, and that one be you. You must hasten at once to the court of Ptarth, and by your presence there as well as by your words assure him that his suspicions are groundless. Bear with you the authority of the Warlord of Barsoom, and of the Jeddak of Helium to offer every resource of the allied powers to assist Thuvan Dihn to recover his daughter and punish her abductors, whomsoever they may be.
"Go! I know that I do not need to urge upon you the necessity for haste."
Carthoris left the council chamber, and hastened to his palace. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What palace did the action happen in ?
2. Which palace was at the center of the action?
3. What was the regal space where the climax happened?
Q2:
1. What was Carter's first name?
2. What was the first name of the man called Carter?
3. What first name was given to the Warlord of Mars?
Q3:
1. What was John's last name?
2. What last name was given to the man called John?
3. What was the last name of the Warlord of Mars?
Q4:
1. Did John Carter have a son?
2. Did John Carter have a male child?
3. Was John Carter father to a boy?
Q5:
1. Before going back to the palace, what had been Carthoris' location?
2. Where had Carthoris been located before retreating to the palace?
3. Where was Carthoris before he headed back to the palace?
Q6:
1. Who got kidnapped from his father's court?
2. Whose abduction happened in his father's court?
3. Who got taken from the court of his father?
Q7:
1. Did the Prince of Helium know where the princess was?
2. Was the location of the princess known to the prince of Helium?
3. Was the Prince of Helium familiar with the whereabouts of the princess?
Q8:
1. Who was Mors Kajak the father of?
2. What was the name of Mors Kajak's son?
3. Who had Mors Kajak for a dad?
Q9:
1. Did Jeddak come from Barsoom?
2. Was Barsoom the home of Jeddak?
3. Was Barsoom the place of origin of Jeddak?
Q10:
1. Who came from Barsoom?
2. Who had origins in Barsoom?
3. Who was originally from Barsoom?
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3ewijtffvo7wwchw6rtyaf7mejoe0t | race | Chicago is next to a beautiful lake, Lake Michigan. In the summer Lake Michigan is warm and blue .People lie on the beaches and swim in the water. In the winter Lake Michigan is cold and gray .Snow covers the beaches, and ice covers the water. On a cold January day, a little boy and his father were playing in the snow on Chicago beach. The boy was Jimrsy Tontlewicx. He was four years old .Several Minutes went by .The father still couldn't find Jimmy. Firemen arrived .Twenty minutes later they found Jimmy and pulled him out of the water. Jimmy was not breathing, and his heart was not beating . He was dead. At the beach paramedics worked on Jimmy for an hour . He began to breathe , and his heart began to beat . The paramedics rushed Jimmy to the hospital.Doctors at the hospital put Jimmy in bed .They put him on a cold mattress because they wanted his body to warm up slowly. They gave him some medicine because they wanted him to sleep .After six weeks in the hospital he got better ,Then he went to another hospital. He stayed there for seven weeks .He began to walk ,talk ,and play again. Jimmy was in the water for more than 20 minutes . He couldn't breathe in the water . He couldn't get any oxygen .But today he is alive and healthy. How is it possible? Jimmy is alive because the water was ice cold. Usually the brain needs a lot of oxygen .But when it's very cold , the brain slows down. It does not need much oxygen .So the ice cold water saved Jimmy . Jimmy's father has another reason .He says ,"Jimmy is alive today because he is a fighter . " QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. When was Jimmy's incident?
2. When did Jimmy almost drown?
3. On what day was Jimmy's incident?
Q2:
1. Where did Jimmy almost drown?
2. Where was Jimmy's incident?
3. What was the location of Jimmy's incident?
Q3:
1. What lake did Jimmy almost drown in?
2. What body of water was involved in Jimmy's accident?
3. In what lake did Jimmy have an accident?
Q4:
1. Whose issue was at Lake Michigan?
2. Who had an incident in Lake Michigan?
3. Whose problem occurred in Lake Michigan?
Q5:
1. What boy almost drowned?
2. What boy had an incident at Lake Michigan?
3. What was the boy with the issue at Lake Michigan?
Q6:
1. How long did Jimmy disappear for?
2. For what length of time could people not find Jimmy?
3. For what length of time did Jimmy go missing?
Q7:
1. Who found Jimmy?
2. Who located Jimmy?
3. Who was Jimmy spotted by?
Q8:
1. What was Jimmy's location when the firemen found him?
2. Where did firemen find Jimmy?
3. In what location did firefighters come across Jimmy?
Q9:
1. Was Jimmy taken to multiple hospitals?
2. Did Jimmy have to stay at more than one hospital?
3. Was Jimmy transferred across multiple hospitals?
Q10:
1. How long did JImmy spend at the first hospital?
2. What was the length of Jimmy's stay at the first hospital?
3. For what length of time was Jimmy kept at the first hospital?
Q11:
1. How long did JImmy spend at the second hospital?
2. What was the length of Jimmy's stay at the second hospital?
3. For what length of time was Jimmy kept at the second hospital?
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3fq5jj512lo2381d3j6zjmg46ahkni | cnn | Singing competition shows like "American Idol" and "The Voice" don't only make stars, they rehabilitate them.
Just ask Jennifer Lopez, whose seat at the "American Idol" judges' table paved the way for the success of her 2011 album and her recently announced summer tour. Or Maroon 5, who benefited greatly from frontman Adam Levine's spot on "The Voice." Even his fellow "Voice" judge, Christina Aguilera, cashed in on the group's best-selling single "Moves Like Jagger."
But for a megawatt star like Britney Spears, who already experienced a comeback of sorts in 2008 with the release of "Circus" not long after her fall from grace, a judging and mentoring gig on "The X Factor" isn't needed to sell albums.
Unlike her aforementioned reality show judge counterparts, Spears joins the Fox singing competition still riding the success of her seventh studio album, and her worldwide "Femme Fatale Tour." Even the star's personal life appears to be more in order these days.
But the pop princess hasn't exactly been accessible to her fans since she was placed in a conservatorship in 2008. And as stars like Lady Gaga and Beyonce have figured out, there's more to being a singing sensation in 2012 than meets the ear.
Fans want to relate to their favorite artists on a personal level, said Andy Greene, an associate editor at Rolling Stone. Becoming a mainstay on a show like "The X Factor," and showing off her personality each week, could reignite the level of fame Spears experienced in the early 2000s, Greene added. QUESTIONS:
| Q1:
1. What show featured Jennifer Lopez as a judge?
2. What competiton did JLo judge?
3. What singing competition had Jennifer Lopez as a judge?
Q2:
1. What show featured Adam Levine as a judge?
2. What competiton did Adam Levine judge?
3. What singing competition had Adam Levine as a judge?
Q3:
1. What show featured Christina Aguilera as a judge?
2. What competiton did Christina Aguilera judge?
3. What singing competition had Christina Aguilera as a judge?
Q4:
1. What show featured Britney Spears as a judge?
2. What competiton did Britney Spears judge?
3. What singing competition had Britney Spears as a judge?
Q5:
1. Is Adam Levine a drummer?
2. Are the drums Adam Levine's instrument of choice?
3. Is Adam Levine known for his drumming abilities?
Q6:
1. What song did Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera make together?
2. What song featured both Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera?
3. What track did Christina Aguilera and Adam Levine make together?
Q7:
1. How many albums has Britney Spears put out?
2. What is the number of albums attributed to Britney Spears?
3. How many musical albums has Britney Spears made?
Q8:
1. Is Britney Spears on tour?
2. Is there currently a Britney Spears tour going on?
3. Is Britney Spears touring right now?
Q9:
1. What tour is Britney Spears on right now?
2. What is the name of Britney Spears' current album tour?
3. What tour is Britney Spears performing on right now?
Q10:
1. How is Andy Greene employed?
2. What does Andy Greene do for a living?
3. What is Andy Greene's profession?
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