question: It was an afternoon Truman would never forget.

Rayburn and his friend were talking in the office before Truman arrived. The telephone rang. It was a call from the White House asking whether Vice-President Truman had arrived yet. No, Rayburn replied. The caller asked to have him telephone the White House as soon as he arrived.

Truman entered a minute later. He immediately called the White House. As he talked, his face became white. He put down the phone and raced out of the door to his car.

Truman arrived at the White House within minutes. An assistant took him to the president's private living area. Eleanor Roosevelt, the president's wife, was waiting for him there. "Harry," she said, "the president is dead." Truman was shocked. He asked Mrs. Roosevelt if there was anything he could do to help her. But her reply made clear to him that his own life had suddenly changed. "Is there anything we can do for you ?" Mrs. Roosevelt asked the new president, " _ ."

Truman had been a surprise choice for vice-president at the Democratic Party nominating convention in nineteen forty-four. Delegates considered several other candidates before they chose him as Roosevelt's running mate. That was at a time when presidential candidates did not make their own choices for vice-president.

Harry Truman lacked the fame,the rich family and the strong speech-making skills of Franklin Roosevelt.He was a much simpler man.He grew up in the Midwestern state of Missouri.Truman only studied through high school but took some nighttime law school classes.He worked for many years as a farmer and a small businessman,but without much success.

Truman had long been interested in politics.When he was almost forty,he finally won several low-level positions in his home state.By nineteen thirty-four,he was popular enough in Missouri to be nominated and elected to the United States Senate. And he won re-election six years later.

Most Americans, however, knew little about Harry Truman when he became president.They knew he had close ties to the Democratic Party political machine in his home state.But they had also heard that he was a very honest man.They could see that Truman had strongly supported President Roosevelt's New Deal programs.But they could not be sure what kind of president Truman would become.

At the center of all the action was Harry Truman.It was not long before he showed Americans and the world that he had the ability to be a good president.He was honest,strong and willing to make decisions.
1. Who is the politician of interest in this article?
2. Who was waiting for him?
3. Had she phoned anyone?
4. Had someone taken a call?
5. Was he asked to come to the White House?
6. Did he take a message for anyone?
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answer: 1. Harry Truman
2. Eleanor Roosevelt
3. unknown
4. Yes, Rayburn
5. yes
6. unknown

question: In a very special course at Knnet School, the social-science teacher Adam Smith guides his students through the "married life". Unlike the traditional course, Adam makes his students experience the real problems married ones may face like housing and child care. "No one tells kids about money-managing problems," says Adam.

Each student should act out in ten weeks what normally takes couples ten years to finish. In the first week, one member of each couple is asked to get an after school job -- a real one. During the term, the income rules their life-style. In the third week, the couples must find an apartment they can afford.

In the fifth week, the couples "have a baby" and then struggle to cover the costs of baby clothes and furniture. In week eight, the marriage comes to the breaking point by such disaster as a mother-in-law's moving in or death. It's all over by week ten (the tenth year of marriage). After serious discussion with lawyers about alimony and child support, the students get divorced .

Adam's course, which has "married" 1,000 students since its beginning six years ago, is widely supported by parents and students. Some of the students have found the experience making them realize their real life marry plans are wrong. Marianne Baldrica, 16, who tried "marriage" last term with her boyfriend Eric Zook, 15, said, " Eric and I used to get along pretty well before we took the course together. But I wanted to live in the city, he wanted the country. He wanted lots of kids, I wanted no kids. It's been four weeks since the course ended and Eric and I are just starting to talk to each other again."
1. Who's the teacher?
2. At what school?
3. What does he teach?
4. How long do students have?
5. What must they do the first week?
6. What happens with their income?
7. What must couples do week 3?
8. When do couples give birth?
9. What struggles do they face?
10. What struggles do they face?
11. What is one week eight disaster?
12. How many have married in his course?
13. When did the program begin?
14. Do parents back the program?
15. Who else backs it?
16. How long after the course did Marianne start talking to her boyfriend?
17. What's his name?
18. Age?
19. What about hers?
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answer: 1. Adam Smith
2. Knnet School,
3. social-science
4. ten weeks
5. get a real job
6. rules their life-style
7. find an apartment they can afford.
8. 5th week
9. cover the costs of baby clothes and furniture
10. to cover the costs of baby clothes and furniture.
11. a mother-in-law's moving in or death.
12. 1000
13. six years ago,
14. yes
15. students
16. Four
17. Eric Zook,
18. 15
19. 16

question: San Francisco (CNN) -- Barry Bonds' former trainer was freed Friday from the prison where he's been held since he refused to testify in the baseball legend's perjury trial two weeks ago.

With the jury now deliberating the perjury and obstruction of justice case against Bonds, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered Gary Anderson to be released.

Illston found Anderson in contempt of court on the first day of trial testimony when his lawyer informed her that he would not take the stand to answer questions about Bonds' steroid use.

It was the third time Anderson chose jail time over testimony. He was sent to prison for several weeks twice before when he refused to appear before a federal grand jury investigating Bonds.

The absence of the trainer's testimony hampered the government's case against Bonds, who is charged with lying under oath when he testified about his steroids use in 2003 before the grand jury that was investigating an alleged sports doping scandal involving Anderson of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative.

Bonds, 46, allegedly lied about knowingly taking performance-enhancing drugs and about being injected by anyone but his doctors.

The jury of eight women and four men are deciding Bonds' fate in a San Francisco federal courthouse less than two miles from the ballpark where Bonds broke Hank Aaron's major league home run record in August 2007.

The three perjury counts and one count of obstruction of justice could each carry a 10-year prison sentence upon conviction. A fourth perjury charge was dropped by prosecutors Wednesday.
1. Who was locked up?
2. Who was released from prison?
3. And who was ordered to be released?
4. What was bonds charged with?
5. What did Illston find Anderson guilty of on day one?
6. How many times had Anderson been guilty of this?
7. Who had he refused to appear before?
8. What was Ilslton's profession?
9. How old was Bonds?
10. How many were in the jury?
11. How many were women?
12. Where was this?
13. Less than 2 miles from where?
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answer:
1. Gary Anderson
2. Barry Bonds' former trainer
3. Susan Illston
4. Lying under oath
5. Contempt of court
6. twice before
7. A federal grand jury
8. U.S. District Judge
9. 46
10. 12
11. eight
12. San Francisco
13. A ballpark