Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Judy Gross says she doesn't know how much longer her husband can make it. But she's scared it won't be long.

"Alan is resolved that he will not endure another year imprisoned in Cuba, and I am afraid that we are at the end," she said in a statement released Wednesday.

Her comments come on the five-year anniversary of the day when Cuban authorities arrested her husband, Alan Gross, who'd been working as a subcontractor the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Alan Gross, 65, is serving a 15-year sentence for bringing satellite communications equipment to Cuba as part of his work as a State Department subcontractor. He was convicted in March 2011.

"After five years of literally wasting away, Alan is done," Judy Gross said. "It is time for President Obama to bring Alan back to the United States now; otherwise it will be too late."

The Cuban government has called for a prisoner swap: Gross for three imprisoned Cuban intelligence agents serving lengthy federal prison sentences in the United States.

But the U.S. State Department has nixed that idea, saying Gross was an aid worker merely trying to help Cuba's small Jewish community get online despite Cuban government restrictions on Internet access.

Frustrated by the diplomatic impasse, Gross has threatened to kill himself if he isn't freed soon.

In July, he said goodbye to his wife and daughter and has refused to see them again while he's imprisoned.

He's also refused to meet with U.S. diplomats in Havana in protest over the slow progress to free him.

1. What was Alan's job?
2. for who?
3. Where is he now?
4. Can he leave?
5. How long has he been stuck there?
6. Why doesn't he leave?
7. Who took him into custody?
8. What did he do to prompt that?
9. Why did he do that?
10. What has he claimed he'll do to himself?
11. Why?
12. When was the last time he saw his family?
13. What did he tell them?
14. How old is he?
15. How long is his prison term?
16. Who is Judy?
17. What is her fear?
18. When did she tell the press that?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. subcontractor
2. State Department
3. Cuba
4. No
5. Five years
6. Because he is imprisoned.
7. Cuban authorities
8. bringing satellite communications equipment to Cuba
9. To help Cuba's small Jewish community get online
10. To kill himself
11. Bypass another year imprisoned
12. Over 5 years
13. Goodbye
14. 65
15. 15 years
16. His wife
17. He will kill himself soon.
18. On the fifth anniversary of his arrest

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Tony loved basketball. One afternoon on his way to a basketball game, he was walking and dreaming about playing college basketball the next year. Suddenly a car hit him and he was thrown three meters into the air. Tony woke up in a hospital room. When the doctor told him that both his legs were broken, he knew his college basketball dreams were over. Tony did what the doctors told him. But it didn't work when he left the hospital, Tony was sent to a _ center for physical treatment. A week after he arrived there, he met Sunny Chen. Sunny used to be a coach. His legs were hurt badly in a skating accident. Though he couldn't move his legs, Sunny became a coach of a basketball team called The Sun. It was a wheelchair basketball team, because everybody on the team played on a wheelchair. Sunny invited Tony to join the game. Tony played badly, but for the first time since the accident, he stopped feeling sorry for himself. After becoming a part of The Sun, Tony improved quickly. Playing basketball was like medicine for him. Tony was much better that before. When Tony became sad or angry, Sunny was there to help him. The day before Tony left the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny how he could be so happy, even with his broken legs. Sunny smiled and said, "It's really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadow falls behind."

1. How was Tony injured?
2. what was he doing when it happened?
3. about what?
4. what injuries did he sustain?
5. where was he sent after the hospital?
6. who did he meet there?
7. how had he been injured?
8. could he walk?
9. did he still play basketball?
10. what was the name of the team?
11. how do they play basketball?
12. did Tony decide to play?
13. Was he good at first?
14. what happened the more he practiced?
15. Did Sunny also help him emotionally?
16. what is Sunny's secret to happiness?
17. is it difficult?
18. does Tony still feel sorry for himself?
19. was joining the team therapeutic for him?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. car hit him
2. walking and dreaming
3. about playing college basketball
4. both his legs were broken
5. center for physical treatment
6. Sunny Chen
7. in a skating accident
8. no
9. yes
10. The Sun
11. on a wheelchair
12. yes
13. no
14. improved quickly
15. yes
16. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadow falls behind.
17. It's really quite easy
18. no
19. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

The Kingdom of Italy () was a state which existed from 1861, when King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 1946, when a constitutional referendum led civil discontent to abandon the monarchy and form the Italian Republic. The state was founded as a result of the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which can be considered its legal predecessor state.

Italy declared war on Austria in alliance with Prussia in 1866 and received the region of Veneto following their victory. Italian troops entered Rome in 1870, ending more than one thousand years of Papal temporal power. Italy entered into a Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1882, following strong disagreements with France about the respective colonial expansions. However, even if relations with Berlin became very friendly, the alliance with Vienna remained purely formal, as the Italians were keen to acquire Trentino and Trieste, corners of Austria-Hungary populated by Italians. So, in 1915, Italy accepted the British invitation to join the Allies in World War I because the western allies promised territorial compensation (at the expense of Austria-Hungary) for participation that was more generous than Vienna's offer in exchange for Italian neutrality. Victory in the war gave Italy a permanent seat in the Council of the League of Nations.

1. When did the Kingdom of Italty begin?
2. Who was King?
3. of?
4. until?
5. What did the dicontent cause?
6. What did it form?
7. When did Italy declare war?
8. Who was their alliance?
9. Who were they fightig?
10. when?
11. What did they receive?
12. When did Italy enter Rome?
13. How long had there been Papal power?
14. Who was in the triple alliance with Italy?
15. when?
16. How were they disagreeing with?
17. about what?
18. How was the alliance with Vienna described?
19. What did the Italians want?
20. What happened in 1915?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. 1861
2. Victor Emmanuel II
3. Sardinia
4. 1946
5. abandonment of the monarchy
6. Italian Republic
7. 1866
8. Prussia
9. Austria
10. 1866
11. region of Veneto
12. 1870
13. more than one thousand years
14. Germany and Austria-Hungary
15. 1882
16. France
17. respective colonial expansions
18. formal
19. to acquire Trentino and Trieste,
20. accepted the British invitation to join the Allies in World War I