Q: Billy and Sally are brother and sister. Billy is seven and Sally is eight. Their mother, Deborah, likes to have Billy and Sally dress up in costumes and play a game where they are answering the telephone. Usually when they play the game, Billy answers the telephone in a loud voice, and Sally answers the telephone in a quiet voice. On Tuesdays, Billy answers in a quiet voice, and Sally answers in a loud voice. On Fridays, Billy answers in a loud voice and Sally in a quiet voice. abBilly has blonde hair. Sally has brown hair. Deborah has blonde hair, and Billy and Sally's father, Bob, has brown hair. He tells them to eat lettuce every time that he sees them, so that they grow big and strong like he is. Deborah likes to add some sugar with the lettuce so that Billy and Sally know what it is like to have sweet tastes in their life. One day, a Wednesday, Billy throws some lettuce into Sally's hair. Deborah laughs an grabs some straw from their farm and puts it in Billy's hair. Billy and Sally live on a farm. They have a goat, named Joey, and a duck, named Quack. They sometimes play a game with the goat where they chase him around the farm. Other times, they play a game with Quack where they wave at Quack and laugh. They have a fun life growing up on the farm.

Answer the following questions:
1. Are billy and sally related?
2. How old is Billy?
3. How old is sally?
4. What is their mom's name?
5. What does she like to do?
6. Who answers in a loud voice?
7. Who anwsers in a quiet voice?
8. Is it diverent on different days of the week?
9. Who is quiet on tuesdays?
10. Does Sally anwser loud on tuesdays?
11. What color hair does billy have?
12. What about Sally?
13. What about deborah?
14. What is billy and sally's father's name?
15. What color hair does he have?
16. What does he tell them to eat everytime he see's them?
17. what's his reasoning for that?
18. What does deborah like to add to the lettuce?
A: 1. yes
2. seven
3. eight
4. Deborah
5. to have Billy and Sally dress up in costumes and play a game where they are answering the telephone
6. Billy
7. Sally
8. yes
9. Billy
10. yes
11. blonde
12. brown
13. blonde
14. Bob
15. brown
16. lettuce
17. so that they grow big and strong like he is
18. sugar

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a 2010 Pentagon budget Monday that reflects major changes in the "scope and significance" of Defense Department priorities.

One of the high-profile programs on the chopping block is the Air Force's most expensive fighter, the F-22 Raptor.

The proposed budget cuts several traditional big-ticket items while investing in programs designed to bolster the military's ability to wage an ongoing conflict against terrorists and other extremist elements in multiple regions at the same time.

Gates acknowledged that parts of the budget are likely to run into significant opposition on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are concerned in part about preserving valuable defense contracts for their districts and states.

"This is a reform budget, reflecting lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan," Gates said. "There's no question that a lot of these decisions will be controversial."

He called on Congress to "rise above parochial interests and consider what is in the best interests of the nation as a whole."

House Armed Service Chairman Ike Skelton, D-Missouri, acknowledged that congressmen have concerns about job losses in their home districts but said that ultimately, "the national interest overrides anything."

"The buck stops with us," he said. "We still have a lot of hard work ahead of us."

Three key priorities are reflected in the changes, Gates said.

The priorities are a stronger institutional commitment to the military's all-volunteer force, a decision to "rebalance" defense programs to better fight current and future conflicts, and "fundamental overhauls" of the military's procurement, acquisition and contracting process.

1. Who anounced the budget for the pentagon for 2010?
2. What was one of the more high profile programs on it?
3. was it going to increase the spending or cut it?
4. Did gates think their were going to be any opposition to parts of the budget?
5. What is it that would concern the lawmakers about it?
6. What do the major changes reflect in the budget?
7. What does the house Armed Serive chairman Ike Skelton think about it?
8. What does Gates think the reformed budget reflects?
9. What are the priorities of the budget?
10. What did Gates call on congress to do?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates
2. the F-22 Raptor.
3. Cut it?
4. yes
5. preserving valuable defense contracts for their districts and states
6. "scope and significance
7. he acknowledged that congressmen have concerns about job losses in their home districts but said that ultimately, "the national interest overrides anything."
8. lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan
9. a stronger institutional commitment to the military's all-volunteer force, a decision to "rebalance" defense programs to better fight current and future conflicts, and "fundamental overhauls" of the military's procurement, acquisition and contracting process.
10. "rise above parochial interests and consider what is in the best interests of the nation as a whole."

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXVI.

AN UNWELCOME COMRADE.

"He's in a bad way, that's certain," was Dick's comment, as he surveyed the prostrate form. Even though Jasper Grinder was an enemy, he could not help but feel sorry for the man.

"We must get him up to our shelter as soon as possible," replied John Barrow. "It is easy to see he is half frozen--and maybe starved."

"Shall we carry him?"

"We'll have to; there is no other way."

Slinging their guns across their backs, they raised up the form of the unconscious man. He was a dead weight, and to carry him through that deep snow was no light task. Less than half the distance to the shelter was covered when Dick called a halt.

"I'll have to rest up!" he gasped. "He weighs a ton."

But in a few minutes he resumed the journey, and now they did not stop with their load until the shelter was reached. Tom and Sam were watching for them.

"Jasper Grinder, by all that's wonderful!" burst out Tom.

"Was he alone?" questioned Sam.

"He was, so far as we could see," answered Dick. "I can tell you, he's almost a case for an undertaker."

This remark made everyone feel sober, and while the two younger Rovers stirred up the fire, Dick and the guide did all in their power to bring the unconscious man to his senses. Some hot coffee was poured down his throat, and his hands and back were vigorously rubbed.

"Oh!" came faintly, at last, and Jasper Grinder slowly opened his eyes, "Oh!"

1. Who was an enemy?
2. to whom?
3. what was surveyed?
4. what was surveyed?
5. where did they need to go?
6. was he carri?ed
7. did they carry weapons?
8. was he light?
9. what was on the ground?
10. was he easy to carry?
11. did someone have to rest?
12. did jasper wake up?
13. how close to their destination were they?
14. how was he woken up?
15. what was jasper's state when found?
16. was he warm?
17. was his back rubbed?
18. did they reach their destination?
19. was anything else rubbed?
20. who was watching them?
21. who called for a rest?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Jasper Grinder
2. Dick
3. the prostrate form
4. Jasper Grinder
5. their shelter
6. yes
7. Yes
8. No
9. deep snow
10. No
11. Yes
12. Yes
13. Less than half the distance
14. Some hot coffee
15. unconscious
16. No
17. Yes
18. Yes
19. his hands
20. Tom and Sam were
21. Dick