Q: Mrs Black is sixty-nine years old. She has only a daughter named Sandra. Mr Black died twelve years ago. She was very sad and lived in her house alone. Two years later her daughter had a baby. The woman was busy all the time and no time to look after her son James. She asked her mother to live with with them. The old woman had to sell her house and moved there. She was strong and could do all the housework. And the family liked her. Last autumn Mrs Black went to do some shopping. A car hit her and her leg was hurt. She had to be in hospital for three months. She couldn't do anything after she came back. At first her daughter was kind to her, but soon she began to tired of her. The old woman wanted to leave, but she had no money to buy a house and nobody could take care of her. She didn't know what to do. One morning Mrs Black broke a plate. It made her daughter angry. She told James to buy a wooden for her grandma. That afternoon James came back with two wooden plates. She was surprised and asked "Why did you buy two plates, son" "One is for my grandma," answered the boy. "The other is for you." She cried for long. She's kind to her mother as she did before.

Answer the following questions:
1. How many plates did the boy buy?
2. Who broke a plate?
3. How old is she?
4. Who does she live with?
5. No husband?
6. What was the daughter's name?
7. Why did she ask her mother to move in?
8. Who did the housework?
9. What did she injure?
10. How?
11. What was she doing?
12. How long was she in the hospital?
13. Did she fully recover?
14. Was her daughter understanding?
15. Why couldn't she move out?
16. What happened to her house?
17. What did Sandra ask James to do?
18. Did he?
19. For who?
20. Did Sandra cry?
21. Did she change her mindset?
A: 1. two
2. Mrs Black
3. sixty-nine
4. her daughter
5. he died twelve years ago
6. Sandra.
7. she was busy and needed someone to look after her son
8. Mrs Black
9. her leg
10. A car hit her
11. shopping
12. three months
13. no
14. At first
15. she had no money
16. She sold it to move in with Sandra
17. buy a wooden plate
18. He bought two
19. Grandmother and Mother
20. yes
21. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Mrs. Thompson stood in front of her 5th grade class on the first day of school. She found a boy sleeping in his seat. He was Teddy. Also Thompson noticed the boy didn't play well with the other children. It got to the point "F" at the top of his papers. Mrs. Thompson reviewed each child's past records. However, when she reviewed Teddy's file , she was in a surprise. Teddy's first grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is a bright child. He does his work neatly and has good manners..." His second grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student, but he is troubled because his mother has an illness and life at home is difficult." His third grade teacher wrote, "His mother's death had been hard on him. He tries his best, but his father doesn't show much interest in his study..." Teddy's fourth grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is _ and doesn't talk with other's. Also he doesn't show much interest in school. He doesn't have many friends and he sometimes sleeps in class." By now, Mrs. Thompson realized the problem. She felt even worse when her students brought her Christmas presents wrapped in beautiful and bright paper, except for Teddy's. He sent a rhinestone bracelet with some stones missing. But Mrs. Thompson told him with a smile, "I like it very much." After school Teddy said, "Mrs. Thompson, today you smell just like my Mother used to be." Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy. The more she encouraged him, the faster he responded. By the end of the year, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class. Teddy became one of her "teacher's pets." ,.

1. What grade did Mrs. Thompson teach?
2. Which student is she having problems with?
3. What does he do in class?
4. Does he get good grades?
5. Does he interact with the other kids?
6. Did all of his previous teachers have the same concerns?
7. Did his first grade instructor have problems?
8. How about second?
9. When did his troubles start?
10. Do you know why he was having trouble?
11. What did his third grade teacher say?
12. Did his father help him?
13. How did Mrs. Thompson find all of this out?
14. Did she try to help him after that?
15. What did she do?
16. Did it help?
17. How?
18. Did he give her any gifts?
19. what did he give her?
20. When did he give her the gift?
21. Would you consider him a "teacher's pet?"

Numbered answers:

A: 1. 5th
2. Teddy
3. he sleeps
4. no
5. no
6. no
7. no
8. no
9. in second grade
10. His mother was ill.
11. That his mother's death was hard and his dad didn't pay attention to him
12. no
13. She reviewed Teddy's file.
14. yes
15. She paid particular attention to him.
16. yes
17. He became one of the smartest children in the class.
18. yes
19. a rhinestone with some stones missing
20. at Christmas time
21. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(CNN) -- A family is grieving and a Michigan community is in shock after a 9-year-old boy was stabbed to death at a playground in his neighborhood this week.

The shock felt in Kentwood, just outside of Grand Rapids, is as much over the sudden and senseless loss of Michael Conner Verkerke as it is over the circumstances of his death: The person accused of stabbing him was a 12-year-old he had just met at the playground.

Conner was playing with three other children Monday "when one of the children, for an unknown reason, pulled out a knife and repeatedly stabbed one of the other children," a Kentwood Police Department statement said.

Police say the attacker is 12-year-old Jamarion Lawhorn. A motive, if there is one, is unknown at this point, as the boys were not acquainted, according to Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker.

Lawhorn was charged Tuesday with murder. Though he'll be tried in a juvenile court, it will be as an adult, according to Becker, who added that his office has not yet decided whether the murder charges will be first or second degree.

Charles Boekeloo, Lawhorn's court-appointed attorney, said he met his client for the first time at his arraignment Tuesday but had no further comment. Boekeloo entered a not guilty plea on the youth's behalf.

Police said that after he was stabbed, Conner managed to run back home before he collapsed on the porch. An ambulance rushed him to a hospital, where he died Monday night.

Lawhorn, meanwhile, "left the playground then went to a nearby residence where he asked to use the phone," Kentwood Chief of Police Thomas Hillen said.

1. Who was stabbed?
2. How old was he?
3. Did he die?
4. Where?
5. What did the killer get charged with?
6. What was his name?
7. How old is he?
8. Was there a motive?
9. according to who?
10. What state did this happen in?
11. What did he stab him with?
12. What day of the week did this happen?
13. When was Lawhorn charged?
14. Will he be tried as an adult
15. Who is his attorney
16. Did Conner run somewhere?
17. Where?
18. Did he die that night?
19. Who is Thomas Hillen
20. is the family grieving?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Michael Conner Verkerke.
2. Nine
3. Yes.
4. A playground.
5. murder
6. Jamarion Lawhorn.
7. 12.
8. Unknown.
9. Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker.
10. Michigan .
11. A knife.
12. Monday.
13. Tuesday.
14. Yes.
15. Charles Boekeloo.
16. Yes.
17. Home.
18. Yes.
19. Kentwood Chief of Police.
20. Yes.