Question: Omoa, Honduras (CNN)Alexis Gonzalez walks slowly and with some hesitation, using the outside wall of his house for balance.

"I'm getting used to the prosthesis," the 16-year-old says. He tries to smile, but an expression of sadness quickly returns to his face.

When he was 15, Gonzalez made a decision that would forever change his life -- to leave Omoa, an impoverished village in Honduras -- with dreams of getting to the United States.

At the end of the trek -- about 2,500 kilometers (1,500 miles) across Mexico and Guatemala -- he saw hope, school, a job and the chance to send money home.

"Sometimes we don't even have food to eat and I also wanted to get a higher education," Gonzalez says.

His mother was singlehandedly raising nine children, working odd jobs in restaurants and the nearby fields. They lived in a single room, an adobe house with dirt floors built on a steep and muddy hill. Chickens being raised for food roamed around the structure. Gonzalez says his father left the family when he was little boy.

When Gonzalez left in January 2014, he didn't ask his mother for permission. He only left a letter telling her about his plans. "I wouldn't have let him go," his mother Mercedes Melendez says. "When he left I went looking for him everywhere." She even went to Corinto on the Honduras-Guatemala border to ask authorities if they had seen him, she says.

Gonzalez says he traveled by land through Honduras and Guatemala with a teenage cousin. They took the bus and also walked and hitch-hiked in some places. 1. Who is the article about?
2. How old is he?
3. Where's he from?
4. Where did he want to go?
5. Why?
6. What was his home like?
7. When did he leave?
8. What was the date?
9. Did he go alone?
10. Who went with him?
11. Did his family approve?
12. Who did he live with?
13. Who else?
14. What happened to his dad?
15. Where was he?
16. Did the trip go well?
17. How do we know?
18. What does he have to use?
19. How far was the journey?
20. What transportation did they use? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Alexis Gonzalez
2. 16
3. Omoa
4. United States
5. hope, school, a job and the chance to send money home
6. impoverished
7. When he was 15
8. January 2014
9. no
10. teenage cousin
11. no
12. nine children
13. His mother
14. his father
15. his father left
16. no
17. expression of sadness
18. the prosthesis
19. 2,500 kilometers
20. the bus

Question: Roger Rolls was the first black governor in the history of New York State, USA. He was born in one of New York's notorious slums. The children born here rarely did decent work after they grew up. However, Roger Rolls was an exception, for he was not only admitted to the university, but also he became a governor. At his inaugural press conference, a reporter asked him, "What made you become the governor?" Faced with more than 300 journalists, Rolls did not mention his struggle but only spoke of his primary school schoolmaster---Pierre Paul.

In 1961, Pierre Paul was engaged as the director and principle of Nobita Primary School. When he entered this school, he found the children here didn't cooperate with the teachers. Pierre thought up many ways to guide them, but none was effective. Later, he found these children were very superstitious , so when he gave lectures, he added a program of palm reading as a means of fortune-telling, with which he encouraged the students.

When Rolls Jumped from the hathpace and walked to the platform with his small hands stretched out, Pierre Paul said, "As soon as I see your slender little fingers, I know you will be the governor of New York State in future." At that moment, Rolls was shocked because only his grandmother inspired him once, saying that he could become the governor of New York State, so he remembered that remark and believed him.

From that day on, the "New York State Governor" was like a banner that constantly inspired him to study energetically and make progress. Rolls no longer stained his clothes with mud, nor did he speak in foul language. He began to straighten his back when he was walking. In the next more than 40 years, he demanded himself according to the identity of a governor. At the age of 51, he finally became the governor of New York State.

Put up a banner of faith for yourself and you will have the drive to struggle and the vitality of life. 1. Who is the article about?
2. What is he famous for?
3. Where was he born?
4. Where in New York?
5. Did he go to college?
6. Who inspired him?
7. Who is that?
8. What was the problem at Nobita Primary School?
9. Did Paul try to help the problem?
10. Was he successful at first?
11. What did he find was effective?
12. How old was Paul when he became governor?
13. What did Paul predict in Rolls' hand?
14. How long did it take fore Rolls become governor?
15. How many journalists were at his inaugural press conference?
16. Was Paul involved at Nobita Primary School?
17. What was his job?
18. What was Rolls' reaction to Paul's prediction?
19. Had anyone else given him encouragement before?
20. Did Rolls constantly try to improve himself? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Roger Rolls
2. first black governor in the history of New York State
3. New York
4. slum
5. yes
6. Pierre Paul
7. his primary school schoolmaster
8. children didn't cooperate with the teachers
9. yes
10. no
11. he added a program of palm reading
12. 51
13. he would become governor of New York State
14. more than 40 years
15. more than 300
16. yes
17. Director
18. shocked
19. his grandmother
20. yes

Question: Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The sentence that someone be punished in such a manner is referred to as a death sentence, whereas the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital crimes or capital offences, and they commonly include offences such as murder, treason, espionage, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Etymologically, the term "capital" (lit. "of the head", derived via the Latin "capitalis" from "caput", "head") in this context alluded to execution by beheading.

Fifty-six countries retain capital punishment, 103 countries have completely abolished it "de jure" for all crimes, six have abolished it for ordinary crimes (while maintaining it for special circumstances such as war crimes), and 30 are abolitionist in practice.

Capital punishment is a matter of active controversy in various countries and states, and positions can vary within a single political ideology or cultural region. In the European Union, Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits the use of capital punishment. Also, the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states, prohibits the use of the death penalty by its members. 1. how many countries have outlawed the death penalty?
2. how many still use it?
3. what is it's definition?
4. is it called something else?
5. what?
6. what does one have to do to get this sentence?
7. are any specific crimes mentioned?
8. how many?
9. what are the first three?
10. what are the last 3?
11. is this a controversial issue?
12. where?
13. does the EU allow it?
14. is that spelled out somewhere?
15. where?
16. does anyone else ban it's use?
17. who?
18. is that a group of countries?
19. how many? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. 103
2. Fifty-six countries
3. is a government sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime
4. Yes
5. Capital punishment
6. commit a capital crime
7. Yes
8. Six
9. murder, treason,and espionage
10. war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide
11. Yes
12. in various countries and states
13. No
14. Yes
15. Article 2 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
16. Yes
17. the Council of Europe
18. Yes
19. 47