Problem: Maybe you've heard of many musical bands, but have you heard of Little Big Town, a country musical group? There are four members in this band, Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook and Phillip Sweet. They had a hard time when they began their band at first, but they didn't give up. Now it becomes very popular. "We take care of each other and we take care of the music," Karen Fairchild once said after one of their shows. As a fan of this band, I once had a chance to hang out with the members of Little Big Town. We talked about their hard beginning. At that time, they even didn't have their own stage. Fairchild also told me how the four of them were together when they were in trouble. Not only did they stand together on stage but also in their daily life. For example, they were right there when Phillip Sweet was caring for his daughter for the first time. They encouraged Kimberly Schlapman when they found her husband _ . At that time Kimberly was very sad to lose her husband. "When we have lived such a hard life together, it bonds us tightly," Phillip Sweet said. "We find true happiness is the joy of doing what we do for a living. We love the hard beginning. We also love the wonderful future."
1. Who did the author get to hang out with?
2. How many people are in the band?
3. What's the first one's name?
4. The second?
5. The third?
6. The fourth?
7. What sort of genre do they sing?
8. Did they have an easy start?
9. What were they missing at first?
10. How did they get through their rough start?
11. Did one of them have a son?
12. What do they say true pleasure is?
13. Are they friends or just tolerate each other?
14. What did one of them grieve for that was hard?
15. What was his name?
Answer: 1. the members of Little Big Town
2. Four
3. Karen Fairchild
4. Kimberly Schlapman
5. Jimi Westbrook
6. Phillip Sweet
7. country
8. no
9. A stage
10. Stood together
11. No
12. doing what they do for a living
13. Friends
14. Losing a husband
15. Phillip

Problem: Washington (CNN) -- In the tight circle that surrounds President Obama, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs is in the inner bubble.

He's the 3 a.m. wake-up call when North Korea fires a test missile, or when the Nobel committee picks the president for the top award.

"Trust me, it is a job I would gladly give to anybody who would volunteer," Gibbs said.

Or would he?

After all, he's an adviser, a friend and a mouthpiece for the administration with more access than recent press secretaries.

"I can walk in and ask him a question at any given time, pick up the phone and talk to him about anything at any given time. I think [that] makes my job easier," Gibbs said in an exclusive interview with CNN.

The president and the press secretary first connected in 2004 when Obama was a virtual unknown outside of Chicago, Illinois, and was campaigning for the U.S. Senate. They clicked and grew close, leading Obama to tell the Wall Street Journal in a 2008 interview, "Robert is the guy I want in the foxhole with me during incoming fire. If I'm wrong, he challenges me. He's not intimidated by me."

Gibbs chuckled while recalling the comment and quipped, "That is when we called him 'Senator' or by his first name."

While challenging Obama when he was on a campaign bus is much different than pushing back in the Oval Office, Gibbs insists that Obama still seeks opposing opinions and dislikes an atmosphere where everyone tells him he's right.
1. When did Obama first meet Gibbs?
2. Where?
3. What is Gibb's position?
4. Which President does he serve?
5. Does he have more or less access than others traditionally have had in his role?
6. Who is called first when an important event occures?
7. Is he intimidated by Obama?
8. Does Obama like this about him?
9. Does Obama insist on always being correct?
10. What opinions does he seek out?
Answer: 1. in 2004
2. outside of Chicago, Illinois
3. White House spokesman
4. President Obama
5. Yes
6. Robert Gibbs
7. No
8. Yes
9. No
10. He seeks opposing opinions.

Problem: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (; ; ; 27 January 1756 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era.

Born in Salzburg, he showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death.

The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons.

He composed more than 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence is profound on subsequent Western art music. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote: "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years".
1. what is Mozarts real name?
Answer: 1. Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

Problem: Ali, who was working a long way from home, wanted to send a letter to his wife, but he could neither read nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody to write his letter late at night .At last he found the house of a letter writer whose name was Nasreddin.

Nasreddin was already in bed. "It is late,"he said. "What do you want?" "I want you to write a letter to my wife , "said Ali , Nasreddin was not pleased. He thought for a few seconds and then said, "Has the letter got to go far?" "What does that matter?" answered Ali.

"Well, my writing is so strange that only I can read it, and if I have to travel a long way to read your letter to your wife, it will cost you a lot of money." Ali went away quickly.
1. was Ali working close to home?
2. who was the letter writer?
3. Was Nasreddin helpful?
4. What did he say about the way he writes?
5. Did Ali want a letter written?
6. To send to who?
7. why didn't he write it?
8. what did Nasreddin inquire?
9. was it easy for Ali to get a letter writer?
10. why not?
11. when could he get someone?
12. what was Nassredin doing?
13. was he happy about the visit?
14. how much would it cost?
15. why?
16. why did he have to travel?
17. What is the first thing Nassredin said?
18. and what else?
19. How did Ali answer?
20. Did Nasreddin do anything before talking about the distance?
Answer:
1. No
2. Nasreddin.
3. No
4. my writing is so strange that only I can read it,
5. Yes
6. his wife
7. he could neither read nor write
8. Has the letter got to go far
9. no
10. he had to work all day
11. late at night
12. He was already in bed
13. No
14. a lot
15. he had to travel a long way to read the letter
16. only he could read it
17. It is late
18. "What do you want?"
19. I want you to write a letter to my wife
20. Yes