Q: Ally wanted to bake a cake for her best friend Kelly's birthday. Ally called her friend Melissa saying that she needed Melissa's help to make the cake. Melissa wanted to bake cookies and cupcakes too. Ally said that was okay and to buy everything. Melissa went to the store and bought everything. Melissa went to Ally's house and they started to make the cake. After baking the cake, they started making cookies and cupcakes. The house smelled great. They had a lot of fun baking. After cleaning up, they called Kelly to come over to Ally's house and surprise her for her birthday. Kelly was surprised and so was their friend Shannon. The girls ate the cake and snacked on the cookies and cupcakes. The ladies laughed and talked as they ate. After eating, they watched a movie on Ally's TV. It was a good movie and the ladies all laughed and talked about it after. Kelly and Shannon left Ally's house to go home. Melissa and Ally said bye and had big smiles. It was a great day, and Ally was happy.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was Ally's best friend?
2. What did Ally want to do?
3. Who did she call to help her?
4. Did she want to do anything else?
5. What?
6. Where did they make everything?
7. Did they have fun?
8. Was Kelly surprised?
9. Did anyone else come?
10. Did everyone have a good time?
11. Did they do anything else?
12. Was it a good one?
13. Who purchased the ingredients for everything?
14. What were they all celebrating?
15. Did they clean before or after she came over?
A: 1. Kelly
2. To bake a cake
3. Melissa
4. Yes
5. To bake cookies and cupcakes
6. Ally's house
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. Shannon
10. Yes
11. They watched a movie
12. Yes
13. Melissa
14. Kelly's birthday
15. After
Q: Brave Frenchman Found Half-way Around the World

(NEW YORK) A French tourist highly praised for rescuing a two-year-old girl in Manhattan said he didn't think twice before diving into the freezing East River.

Tuesday's Daily News said 29-year who left the spot quickly after the rescue last Saturday.

He lifted the little girl out of the water after she fell off the bank at the South Street Scaport museum. He handed the girl to her father, David Anderson, who had dived in after him.

"I didn't think at all," Duret told the Daily News. "It happened very fast. I reacted very fast. "

Duret, an engineer on vacation ,was walking with his girlfriend along the pier when he saw something falling into the water . He thought it was a doll, but realized it was a child when he approached the river. In an instant ,he took off his coat and jumped into the water.

When he reached the girl, she appeared lifeless, he said . Fortunately, when she was out of the water, she opened her eyes.

Anderson said his daughter slipped off the bank when he was adjusting his camera. An ambulance came later for her, said Duret, who was handed dry clothes from cookers. Duret caught a train with his girlfriend shortly after.

The rescue happened on the day before he left for France. Duret said he didn't realize his tale of heroism until he was leaving the next morning . "I don't really think I'm a hero," said Duret. "Anyone would do the same ting. "

Answer the following questions:
1. who reported this story?
2. what did they report?
3. where?
4. was the man a local?
5. where was he from?
6. what is his name?
7. why was he in NYC?
8. what is his profession?
9. was he on holiday alone?
10. who was with him?
11. who did he save?
12. from what danger?
13. what one?
14. who was with the young lady?
15. his name?
16. where was the young lady when she fell?
17. did someone else jump in?
18. who?
A: 1. The Daily News
2. A man saved a girl
3. Manhattan
4. No
5. France
6. Duret
7. vacation
8. engineer
9. No
10. his girlfriend
11. a two-year-old girl
12. she fell into a river
13. the East River
14. her dad
15. Anderson
16. the South Street Scaport museum.
17. Yes
18. David Anderson
Q: "He never asked nor accepted any reward, because he was good and simple and did not think that one did good for a reward." (Primo Levi, If This Is A Man)

Gino Bartali wanted to keep it to himself.

How could a man, so famous and so revered, keep it a secret for so long?

"Good is something you do, not something you talk about," Bartali once explained. "Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket."

He was Italy's very own version of Babe Ruth -- a man whose personality, character and success transcended sport.

In the 1930s, Bartali, a son of Tuscany, was one of the leading cyclists in the world, a man admired by all.

He had won three Giro d'Italia titles -- one of the three major European cycling events -- in addition to his triumph at the 1938 Tour de France and was very much the country's poster boy.

And yet for a man who lived in his life in the full glare of the public, a new film, My Italian Secret reveals a very different side to Bartali's remarkable life.

Directed by Oren Jacoby, the film shows how Bartali was part of a secret Italian resistance movement which helped hide the country's Jews during the Nazi invasion of 1943.

Using the handlebars on his bike to hide counterfeit identity papers, Bartali would ride to Jews in hiding and deliver their exit visas which allowed them to escape transportation to the death camps -- he is credited with saving the lives of 800 people.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who kept a secret?
2. What was his secret?
3. In what year?
4. During what?
5. Who did he help?
6. What's the title of the film?
7. And its director?
8. Where was Bartali from?
9. Did everyone admire him?
10. What was his sport?
11. Did he win the Tour de France?
12. How many times?
13. What did he deliver
14. Where were they hidden
15. How many did he save?
A:
1. Gino Bartali
2. he was part of a secret Italian resistance movement
3. 1943
4. the Nazi invasion of 1943
5. Jews
6. My Italian Secret
7. Oren Jacoby
8. Tuscany
9. Yes
10. Cycling
11. Yes
12. Once
13. counterfeit identity papers
14. the handlebars on his bike
15. 800