Today was the Moon's birthday, and Ms. Star wanted to be sure to get the best gift ever for her friend Moon. She had no idea what she was going to get him! A rainbow sounded like a fun gift, but everyone has a rainbow, and she was sure that Moon had one too. Ms. Star looked all around space for the right gift for Moon. She asked Saturn was she was going to get Moon. "Oh, I think I'm going to get Moon a space puppy. He was talking about how much he loved dogs!" That sounded like such a good idea to Ms. Star, but since Saturn was going to get a space puppy, that meant that Ms. Star couldn't do it too! "Try asking Mars." said Saturn. "He might know what to get Moon." Ms. Star asked Mars. "Well," said Mars. "I know that I'm getting Moon a space ship, and that Neptune, Uranus and Pluto are going together to get Moon a new house." "Wow!" said Ms. Star. "How am I ever going to get Moon something as nice as a house, or a space ship, or a space puppy?" Mars thought about it for a little bit. "Hmm." he said. "Maybe you could make him something?" "What a great idea!" said Ms. Star. "I know what would be perfect to make for him!" That night, at Moon's birthday party, when Moon opened the gift from Ms. Star, he was the happiest he had been about any of the gifts. "It's the perfect gift! Thank you so much Ms. Star!" He pulled out of the box a beautiful sweater that Ms. Star had made out of her own star dust. "It's so cold here in space! A sweater is the best gift ever!" What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was looking for a gift?
2. Why?
3. Where did she look?
4. What was Saturn going to get Moon?
5. Why?
6. Did Ms. Star like that idea?
7. What did Saturn suggest to Ms. Star?
8. What was he getting Moon?
9. Who was getting him a house?
10. What was Mars' suggestion?
11. Did she like that idea?
12. What did she make?
13. Did he like it?
14. Was it useful to him?
15. Why?
16. What was the sweater made out of?
Answer: 1. Ms. Star
2. Moon's birthday
3. all around space
4. a space puppy
5. He loved dogs
6. yes
7. ask Mars
8. a space ship
9. Neptune, Uranus and Pluto
10. making him something
11. yes
12. a sweater
13. yes
14. yes
15. It was cold in space
16. star dust

Problem: I once went on a week-long backpacking trip through the mountains. We had a lot of fun and saw a lot of animals. We saw two bears on the first. We also saw one buffalo. During the week we climbed four different mountains. The best day of the trip was the last day. On the last day we heard that one of best things to do was to climb the last mountain at night so that way you could watch the sunrise on top of the mountain. We had to wake up at two in the morning to do the climb. It was very tough to climb a mountain at night. We finally got to the top of the mountain at five in the morning. We watched the sunrise an hour later at six in the morning. It was very beautiful. In fact, at one time because of the rise of the mountain you it was daytime in front of us and nighttime behind us. This was one of the best times in my life.
1. How long was the backpacking trip?
2. How many people went on the trip?
3. How many mountains did they scale?
4. Which day has the author's favorite?
5. On that day, how long did it take to get to the summit?
6. How long did they stay?
7. Was this climb easy?
8. When did they first see sunlight?
9. What did the author mean by it being day in front and night behind?
10. Why did they start at night?
11. How much wildlife did they see?
Answer: 1. week-long
2. Two
3. Four
4. the last day
5. 3 hours
6. 1 hour
7. no
8. at six
9. unknown
10. to watch the sunrise
11. 2 bears and 1 buffalo

question: London (CNN) -- Sixty years ago Monday, a 25-year-old woman visiting a remote part of Kenya got a message that her father had died.

She cut her trip short and flew home to London. Prime Minister Winston Churchill met her at the airport -- because with her father dead, she had become Queen Elizabeth II.

Celebrations of her Diamond Jubilee, marking six decades on the throne, officially begin Monday and continue through June, when London will mark the anniversary of her coronation with festivities including up to 1,000 boats sailing up the River Thames.

On Monday, the queen thanked the public "for the wonderful support and encouragement that you have given to me and (husband) Prince Philip over these years."

She said in the open letter that she planned to "dedicate myself anew to your service."

She called on people to "give thanks for the great advances that have been made since 1952 and to look forward to the future with clear head and warm heart" in a brief letter that she signed simply "Elizabeth R."

She was honored with a 41-gun salute in London's Hyde Park Monday, and a 21-gun salute in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Two new photographs of the queen were released Monday as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, showing her wearing a necklace worn by Queen Victoria in her own Diamond Jubilee portrait in 1897.

She is the oldest British monarch in history, but has not yet passed her great-great-grandmother Victoria as the longest-reigning one.

Elizabeth II was not in line to the throne when she was born April 21, 1926. But the fate of Lilibet, as she was known to her friends, changed when her uncle Edward abdicated the thone to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.
1. what is a Diamond Jubilee?
2. how long has Elizabeth II been Queen?
3. how old was she at that time?
4. who is her husband?
5. How does she sign her letters?
6. how was she honored on Monday?
7. what did the recent photos released show?
8. Was she always in line to be queen?
9. what changed?
10. why did he give it up?
11. What is the queen called by her friends?
12. Is she the longest reigning monarch?
13. who is?
14. how is she related to Elizabeth?
15. what does she plan to do according to her letter?
16. what is one festivity that will take place to celebrate?
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answer:
1. marks six decades on the English throne
2. Sixty years
3. 25
4. Prince Philip
5. "Elizabeth R."
6. gun salutes
7. her wearing a necklace of Queen Victoria
8. no
9. her uncle Edward abdicated the thone
10. to marry Wallis Simpson
11. Lilibet
12. no
13. Queen Victoria
14. she is her great-great-grandmother
15. "dedicate myself anew to your service."
16. up to 1,000 boats sailing up the River Thames