question: When an NBA player is young he thinks he can win the championship by himself. It is only later when he has aged and been through many battles that he learns an important lesson: there is no "I " in "team".

There is no better example of the value of teamwork than the Boston Celtics. Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett were all superstars on three different teams. Yet, none of them had any titles to show for it. Then, last season, they decided to sacrifice money and individual statistics to play together. Garnett and Allen joined Pierce on the Celtics and changed the NBA in the process.

It started in simple ways. Garnett and Allen are two of the most intense athletes in the world. They treat every second of every practice like it is the NBA championship. If you want to play alongside them then you will have to do the same. So, the young guys on the Celtics started giving their full effort too.

Pierce had been the star of the Celtics for many years. He used to shoot the ball many times a game. But with the addition of Allen and Garnett he shot less and focused on defense. His selflessness showed the young players that doing what made the team better was the only thing that mattered.

When the Celtics were winning and the game was almost over, Garnett, Pierce and Allen would come out of the game. But they wouldn't just sit on the bench. Instead, they stood and cheered and screamed for their teammates. They wanted to support their friends and teammates.

Now, the guys who don't play know they can still affect the game by cheering so they scream and cheer when Garnett, Allen and Pierce are playing. The Celtics have developed a strong relationship. They are more than just teammates. They are brothers.

The result: the Boston Celtics won the championship and are considered the favorites to win the Eastern Conference championship again this year.

There is a saying that goes, "A successful team beats with one heart." If that is the case, the Celtics may have the biggest heart in the NBA.
1. What is the important thing to learn?
2. Which one?
3. Who doesn't know this?
4. how so?
5. Does he ever learn this lesson?
6. When?
7. Who are Paul, Ray, and Kevin?
8. Are they on the same team?
9. What did they do?
10. how did they do that?
11. Was Pierce soon to follow?
12. Why not?
13. Was he a bench player?
14. Did he get the ball as much when the others joined the team?
15. What did he do then?
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answer: 1. A lesson
2. There is no "I " in "team".
3. A young NBA player
4. he thinks he can win the championship by himself
5. Yes
6. Later, when he has aged
7. NBA players.
8. Three different teams.
9. Sacrificed their records and money to play together.
10. Garnet and Allen left their teams to go to the Celtics.
11. No
12. He already played for the Celtics.
13. No, a star player.
14. No
15. Shot less and focused on defense.

question: (CNN) -- The mosque in Roxbury was crowded past capacity, with about 1,200 college students, urban hipsters and East Africans lining the hallways and front stairs.

They wanted to hear Imam Suhaib Webb, resident scholar of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center and widely considered one of the country's most influential Muslims, respond to Sam Harris and Bill Maher, who recently called Islam the "mother lode of bad ideas" and compared Muslims to the Mafia.

The lanky, blue-eyed imam, a convert originally from Oklahoma, is known for tackling taboo topics and spicing his sermons with pop culture references.

Before Friday's sermon, the last time the Roxbury mosque had been this crowded, Webb said, was when he preached about the finale of "Breaking Bad."

(On the Sunday after his sermon, Webb, who has extensive training in classical Islamic learning, answered religious questions on Twitter about "The Walking Dead.")

Instead of attacking Maher and Harris, though, Webb challenged his fellow Muslims.

"It's code red," he preached last Friday, pounding the minbar for emphasis. "People do not like us, and we need to get with it!"

"One day we're attacked by Fox News, the next day we're attacked by Muslims who actually pay to have Facebook ads about us," Webb said.

"I mean, that's the level of attacks that we're dealing with as a community and as a people. One brother told me, like what's going to happen next? It's like a soap opera."

Webb himself has been subject to some of those attacks, as conservative media outlets have sought to tie him to Alton Nolen, an Oklahoma man accused of beheading a co-worker, and the Tsarnaev brothers, suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.
1. Who is considered one of the country's most influential Muslims?
2. Where was he speaking?
3. Who denigrated Islam?
4. How many people were present for his speech?
5. Where does Webb work?
6. Who were Muslims likened to?
7. What television shows has the Imam referenced?
8. what else?
9. What color are his eyes?
10. According to Webb, how do people feel about Muslims?
11. Where is he from?
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answer: 1. Imam Suhaib Webb
2. mosque in Roxbury
3. Sam Harris and Bill Maher
4. 1,200
5. Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center
6. Mafia
7. "Breaking Bad."
8. The Walking Dead.")
9. blue
10. People do not like us
11. Oklahoma

question: Chapter 21: The Capture Of Quebec.

On the day on which he received James' report, Wolfe issued his orders for the attack. Colonel Burton, at Point Levi, was to bring up every man who could be spared, to assist in the enterprise, and that officer accordingly marched to the spot indicated for embarkation, after nightfall, with 1200 men.

As night approached, the main fleet, under Admiral Saunders, below Quebec, ranged itself opposite Beauport, and opened a tremendous cannonade, while the boats were lowered, and filled with sailors and marines. Montcalm, believing that the movements of the English above the town were only a feint, and that their main body was still below it, massed his troops in front of Beauport, to repel the expected landing.

To Colonel Howe, of the Light Infantry, was given the honour of leading the little party, who were to suddenly attack Vergor's camp, at the head of the path. James Walsham, knowing the way, was to accompany him as second in command. Twenty-four picked men volunteered to follow them. Thirty large troop boats, and some boats belonging to the ships, were in readiness, and 1700 men took their places in them.

The tide was still flowing, and, the better to deceive the French, the vessels and boats were allowed to drift upwards for a little distance, as if to attempt to effect a landing above Cap Rouge. Wolfe had, that day, gained some intelligence which would assist him to deceive the enemy, for he learned that a number of boats, laden with provisions from Quebec, were coming down with the tide.
1. Who led the small party?
2. Who knew the path?
3. Was he first in command?
4. What was he?
5. To who?
6. What group was he of?
7. How many volunteers did they have?
8. Where was the main fleet?
9. Who was leading it?
10. How many were there?
11. Who learned information that would help trick the enemy?
12. What did he find out was coming that way?
13. What was traveling toward them?
14. Carrying what?
15. From where?
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answer:
1. Colonel Burton
2. James
3. no
4. second in command
5. Colonel Howe
6. Light Infantry
7. Twenty-four
8. Quebec
9. Admiral Saunders
10. 1200
11. Wolfe
12. that day
13. number of boats
14. provisions
15. Quebec