Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

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?

Numbered answers:

A: 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: CHAPTER XXIV.

Next day, sure enough, the cablegram didn't come. This was an immense disaster; for Tracy couldn't go into the presence without that ticket, although it wasn't going to possess any value as evidence. But if the failure of the cablegram on that first day may be called an immense disaster, where is the dictionary that can turn out a phrase sizeable enough to describe the tenth day's failure? Of course every day that the cablegram didn't come made Tracy all of twenty-four hours' more ashamed of himself than he was the day before, and made Sally fully twenty-four hours more certain than ever that he not only hadn't any father anywhere, but hadn't even a confederate--and so it followed that he was a double-dyed humbug and couldn't be otherwise.

These were hard days for Barrow and the art firm. All these had their hands full, trying to comfort Tracy. Barrow's task was particularly hard, because he was made a confidant in full, and therefore had to humor Tracy's delusion that he had a father, and that the father was an earl, and that he was going to send a cablegram. Barrow early gave up the idea of trying to convince Tracy that he hadn't any father, because this had such a bad effect on the patient, and worked up his temper to such an alarming degree. He had tried, as an experiment, letting Tracy think he had a father; the result was so good that he went further, with proper caution, and tried letting him think his father was an earl; this wrought so well, that he grew bold, and tried letting him think he had two fathers, if he wanted to, but he didn't want to, so Barrow withdrew one of them and substituted letting him think he was going to get a cablegram--which Barrow judged he wouldn't, and was right; but Barrow worked the cablegram daily for all it was worth, and it was the one thing that kept Tracy alive; that was Barrow's opinion. 1. What has not arrived?
2. Who is this bad news for?
3. Was it one day late?
4. Did it ever come?
5. What is the cablegram?
6. How does Tracy feel about himself?
7. What family member is Tracy missing?
8. Who is convinced of that?
9. What does she call him?
10. Who is trying to make him feel better?
11. Does Tracy think he has a father?
12. Who does he think his father is?
13. What does he think his father is going to do?
14. What makes Tracy mad?
15. How many fathers did he try to tell him he had?
16. How'd that go?
17. What did he replace the second father with?
18. What does Barrow think it does for Tracy? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. the cablegram
2. Tracy
3. no
4. no
5. a ticket
6. ashamed
7. a father
8. Sally
9. a double-dyed humbug
10. Barrow and the art firm
11. yes
12. an earl
13. send a cablegram.
14. telling Tracy he had no father
15. two
16. he didn't believe it
17. a cablegram
18. keeps him alive

Q: Shetland , also called the Shetland Islands, is a subarctic archipelago that lies northeast of the island of Great Britain and forms part of Scotland, United Kingdom.

The islands lie some to the northeast of Orkney and southeast of the Faroe Islands. They form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east. The total area is , and the population totalled 23,210 in 2011. Comprising the Shetland constituency of the Scottish Parliament, Shetland Islands Council is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland; the islands' administrative centre and only burgh is Lerwick, which has also been the capital of Shetland since taking over from Scalloway in 1708.

The largest island, known as the "Mainland", has an area of , making it the third-largest Scottish island and the fifth-largest of the British Isles. There are an additional 15 inhabited islands. The archipelago has an oceanic climate, a complex geology, a rugged coastline and many low, rolling hills.

Humans have lived in Shetland since the Mesolithic period. The earliest written references to the islands date back to Roman times. The early historic period was dominated by Scandinavian influences, especially from Norway, and the islands did not become part of Scotland until the 15th century. When Scotland became part of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, trade with northern Europe decreased. Fishing has continued to be an important aspect of the economy up to the present day. The discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s significantly boosted Shetland's economy, employment and public sector revenues.

1. Mainland.
2. Third-largest.
3. Fifth-largest.
4. Northeast.
5. Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.
6. West.
7. East.
8. 23,210.
9. Shetland Islands Council.
10. Scotland.
11. Fifteen.
12. Since the Mesolithic period.
13. Roman times
14. 15th century.
15. 1707.
16. Trade.
17. Northern Europe.
18. Fishing.
19. Yes.
20. 1970s.

Numbered questions:
1. What is the biggest island of Shetland called?
2. How does it rank for island sizes of Scotland?
3. How about among the British Isles?
4. Where is it located in reference to Great Britain?
5. What two bodies of water does it help separate?
6. Which direction is the Atlantic?
7. And the North Sea?
8. How many people live there?
9. It's part of the council area of where?
10. Which is part of the council area of where?
11. How many island have no residents?
12. How long has it been established?
13. When was it first mentioned in writing?
14. When did it become part of Scotland?
15. And when did Scotland become part of Great Britain?
16. What dropped significantly when that occurred?
17. With who?
18. What industry was a major part of Shetland's economy?
19. Is that still true today?
20. When was oil found there?