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Our English teacher, Tom Jackson, has some good neighbors. They are Carl, Ann, Joe and Mary. Here's some information about them. Carl is a train conductor. He works on the railway for 28 years. It is always a good job for him because he likes meeting people. Carl is very helpful and tries to make the passengers comfortable. He often stops to talk with the passengers. He likes his work because he can travel to many different places. Ann is a kind woman in a small town. In a hospital, she works as a nurse for four years. She likes her work very much. This month she is helping mothers with their new babies. Joe is a taxi driver. He drives a taxi for 22 years. Most of the time Joe likes his work. He takes many film stars to the airport. He is cheerful and smiles a lot and his passengers like him. He makes a good living and _ a family of four. Mary is a teacher in a high school. She teaches French. She has 33 students in her class, 15 boys and 18 girls. She likes her students, and her students like her. She is very kind and helps them a lot. She is always happy to be a teacher.

1. Who is a train conductor?
2. Who is an English teacher?
3. How many people does he live by?
4. Which neighbor has a job in the hospital?
5. For how long?
6. What does Joe do?
7. For how long?
8. Who is a French teacher?
9. Does she enjoy it?
10. Does Carl like his job?
11. How long has Carl worked ?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Carl
2. Tom Jackson
3. Four
4. Ann
5. four years
6. he drives a taxi
7. 22 years
8. Mary
9. yes
10. yes
11. 28 years

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(CNN) -- Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced.

Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at his home in Philadelphia, his family said. He was 82.

The veteran Pennsylvania politician had overcome numerous serious illnesses over the past two decades, including a brain tumor. He had been in the public eye since serving as a member of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Specter was elected to the Senate in 1980 and represented Pennsylvania for 30 years, longer than anyone in the state's history. His politically moderate image fit hand-in-glove in the politically blue Northeast, both with its Democratic centrists and its liberal Republicans.

He was also one of America's most prominent Jewish politicians, a rare Republican in a category dominated by Democrats over the decades. And his name is synonymous with Pennsylvania, an idiosyncratic state that pushes and pulls between the two parties, and his home, the staunchly Democratic city of Philadelphia.

In 2006, Philadelphia magazine called him "one of the few true wild cards of Washington politics ... reviled by those on both the right and the left."

"Charming and churlish, brilliant and pedantic, he can be fiercely independent, entertainingly eccentric and simply maddening," the profile read.

Former Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, called Specter "a mentor, colleague and a political institution" who "did more for the people of Pennsylvania over his more than 30-year career with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin." And Pat Toomey, the Republican who now holds Specter's old Senate seat, praised him as "a man of sharp intelligence and dogged determination."

1. Who is Arlen Specter?
2. What happened to him?
3. What did he die of?
4. How old was he?
5. Where did he die?
6. In Washington D.C.?
7. Where?
8. Was he a conservative republican?
9. What kind was he?
10. When did he first enter the public's eye?
11. What was the purpose of that?
12. Who has Specter's old Senate seat now?
13. What did he say about him?
14. Who said that quote?
15. When was Specter first elected?
16. Which state did he represent?
17. Was he loved by both democrats and republicans?
18. What city did he live in?
19. Was he catholic?
20. What was his religion?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Former U.S. Senator
2. he died
3. complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
4. 82
5. at his home
6. no
7. Philadelphia
8. no
9. Democrat
10. since serving as a member of the Warren Commission
11. investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
12. Pat Toomey
13. did more for the people of Pennsylvania over his more than 30-year career with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin
14. Pat Toomey
15. 1980
16. Pennsylvania
17. no
18. Philadelphia
19. no
20. Jewish

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One day a young princess named Amelia was looking out of the window of her castle. Amelia loved to sing, but was tired of singing only the songs her mother, Queen Anne, allowed her to sing. Princess Amelia thought it might be fun to write her own songs instead.

So, on Saturday Princess Amelia went to the garden with a pen and paper. She thought and thought, but couldn't come up with any words for a song. What could she write about? Daisy, her cow? Her frog, Pete?

Nothing came to mind. She sat there all day. And the next day too. Amelia was tired and hungry. But she wanted to stay until she had a song. Finally, on Monday, Queen Anne came looking for Amelia and forced her to return to her room.

She gave Amelia a large book of songs to sing. Amelia was happy.

1. What did the Princess love to do?
2. Where did she live?
3. What did she sing?
4. Was she old?
5. What was her name?
6. Who told her she was only allowed certain songs?
7. Who was she?
8. Was Amelia satisfied with this arrangement?
9. Why not?
10. Did she ever try to do it?
11. When?
12. Where?
13. What did she take with her?
14. How many ideas did she have for a subject?
15. How long did she try?
16. And did she succeed in writing a song?
17. Who came looking for her?
18. What did Anne do when she found her?
19. Did Amelia like that?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. To sing
2. A castle
3. What she was allowed to.
4. No
5. Amelia
6. Queen Anne
7. Her mother
8. No
9. She wanted to write her own
10. Yes
11. on Saturday
12. the garden
13. pen and paper
14. None
15. 3 days
16. No
17. Anne
18. She gave her a book of songs
19. Yes