question: One day Mrs Wilson took Trudy and Ben to go shopping. They went to the supermarket in the new shopping mall . "Why do you buy things here, Mum?" Trudy asked. "Because they are cheaper than those at the corner store," Mrs Wilson said. "Help me check the prices." The Wilsons were not wealthy and Mrs Wilson was always careful with her money. She looked carefully at the prices of things. She bought some groceries in the supermarket. When they got home, the children said, "We don't think you saved money by going to the supermarket there." "Of course I did," said Mrs Wilson, "everything was cheap there." "We know," said the children, "but we came home by taxi because we had too much to carry. The cost of the taxi was more than the money you saved!" Mrs Wilson added everything up and found her children were right. "Well done,"she said, "next time we will do shopping near our home."
1. how many people are in the sotry?
2. What are they called?
3. did they stay in the house?
4. did they travel somewhere?
5. where?
6. what did they do there?
7. did they have a great deal of money?
8. did they purchase anything?
9. what?
10. just a few?
11. how many?
12. did they walk back the house?
13. how did they travel?
14. was it free?
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answer: 1. Three
2. Mrs Wilson, Trudy and Ben
3. no
4. yes
5. the supermarket in the new shopping mall
6. checked prices
7. no
8. yes
9. groceries
10. some
11. too much to carry
12. no
13. by taxi
14. no

question: (CNN) -- NASCAR's Hall of Fame class for 2015 includes Bill Elliott, one of its most popular drivers ever, and Wendell Scott, the only African-American to win a top-level race, the auto racing sanctioning body announced Wednesday.

Three other drivers -- Fred Lorenzen, Joe Weatherly and Rex White -- will be inducted at a ceremony on January 30 at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Elliott won one Winston Cup title and 44 races in his 37-year career, including two victories at the Daytona 500. Known as "Awesome Bill from Dawsonville", a reference to his Georgia hometown, Elliott won the series top circuit championship in 1988. He was voted NASCAR's most popular driver a record 16 times.

In 1963, Scott became the only African-American to win a race at NASCAR's highest level, taking a 100-mile feature at Jacksonville, Florida, on December 1. He also was the first African-American to race full time in NASCAR's premier series, called the Grand National Series at the time.

Scott made the top 10 in 30% of the races in his 13-year Grand National career. He was portrayed in the 1977 movie "Greased Lightning" by Richard Pryor. He died in 1990.

Lorenzen was considered one of the sport's first superstars and won 26 races while running a part-time schedule in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Weatherly was a two-time champion, in 1962 and in 1963, when he raced for nine different teams.

White was a short-track specialist in the early days of NASCAR. And since there were few super speedways, White finished in the top five about half the time. He won the 1960 championship and 28 races in his career (only twice at tracks longer than a mile).
1. Who was part of Nascar's Hall of Fame for 2015?
2. Who was the driver that most people liked the most?
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answer: 1. Bill Elliott
2. Bill Elliott

question: JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli troops have completed their withdrawal from Gaza after a three-week military campaign against Hamas militants, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday.

Palestinians look at an damaged rocket launcher left behind by Israeli forces.

"The forces are now redeployed outside the Gaza Strip, and are prepared for any development," a military statement read.

During their withdrawal, Israeli troops warned Gaza residents to avoid unexploded bombs or shells left behind and report their location to Israeli authorities.

Israel said it had achieved its goal to halt Hamas' firing of rockets into southern Israel from Gaza. Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that has controlled the territory since 2007, also declared victory in the conflict during a rally in Gaza City on Tuesday.

Israeli troops began to withdraw Sunday following tentative, separate cease-fire declarations by Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Hamas.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who visited the territory Tuesday, criticized both sides and the international community for what he called their "collective political failure" in settling the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"I have condemned from the outbreak of this conflict the excessive use of force by Israeli forces in Gaza. I view the rocket attacks into Israel as completely unacceptable. We need to restore basic respect for civilians," he said. Watch troops prepare to withdraw "

The conflict, which began December 27, has left more than 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead.

Confirmation of the Israeli withdrawal came within a day of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the new president of the United States, replacing George W. Bush, whose administration was among the most supportive of Israel in decades. Ban said he hoped Obama would consider settling the conflict "a matter of priority."
1. What goal did Israel achieve?
2. Where were the rockets being aimed?
3. From where?
4. Who told the troops to withdraw?
5. What is his title?
6. When were the cease-fire orders announced?
7. How long did the campaign last?
8. What did the troops warn locals to avoid?
9. What should they do if any are found?
10. to who?
11. Did Hamas also claim to have won the conflict?
12. When did they make this statement?
13. During what type of gathering?
14. In what city?
15. Was Ban Ki-moon impressed with the resolution?
16. What is his title?
17. How long had the conflict persisted?
18. Between which two groups?
19. Whose rocket attacks did he find unacceptable?
20. Were there any casualties?
21. On one side, or both sides?
22. Which side suffered more losses?
23. With how many?
24. In contrast to how many Israelis?
25. Which U.S. President supported Israel?
26. Who was he replaced by?
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answer:
1. end rocket firing
2. into southern Israel
3. Gaza
4. Ehud Olmert
5. Israel Prime Minister
6. Sunday
7. three weeks
8. unexploded bombs or shells
9. report their location
10. Israeli authorities
11. yes
12. Tuesday
13. a rally
14. Gaza
15. no
16. U.N. Secretary-General
17. decades
18. Israelis and Palestinians
19. Israeli
20. yes
21. both sides
22. Palestinians
23. more than 1,300
24. 13
25. George W. Bush
26. Barack Obama