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Brasilia (Portuguese pronunciation: [bazilj]) is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. The city is located atop the Brazilian highlands in the country's center-western region. It was founded on April 21, 1960, to serve as the new national capital. Brasilia and its metro (encompassing the whole of the Federal District) had a population of 2,556,149 in 2011, making it the 4th most populous city in Brazil. Among major Latin American cities, Brasilia has the highest GDP per capita at R$61,915 (US$36,175).

The city has a unique status in Brazil, as it is an administrative division rather than a legal municipality like other cities in Brazil. The name 'Brasilia' is commonly used as a synonym for the Federal District through synecdoche; However, the Federal District is composed of 31 administrative regions, only one of which is Brasilia proper, with a population of 209,926 in a 2011 survey; Demographic publications generally do not make this distinction and list the population of Brasilia as synonymous with the population of the Federal District, considering the whole of it as its metropolitan area. The city was one of the main host cities of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Additionally, Brasilia hosted the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.
1. as of 2011, what is the population of Brasilia?
2. what country is it capital of?
3. how many administrative regions are actually known as Brasilia?
4. when did it host the FIFA cup?
5. and the confederations cup?
6. what rank is it among populous Latin American cities?
7. does any other Latin American city have a higher GDP?
8. how much is it per capita in USD?
9. when was it founded?
10. what region is it in?
11. does it have special status?
12. is it a legal municipality?
13. what is it?

Numbered answers:
1. 2,556,149
2. Brazil
3. 31
4. 2014
5. 2013
6. 4th
7. No
8. $36,175
9. April 21, 1960
10. center-western
11. Yes
12. No
13. administrative division

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One morning, Daddy, Ethan, and I went out shopping for Mother's day gifts. First we went to buy some flowers. I found a nice big bunch of pink roses that were very pretty. Then we went and bought a card. There were a lot to choose from, some of them had pictures of kids and some of them had pictures of animals. Daddy wanted to get one with a kid hugging his mommy but Ethan wanted the one with a cat on it, and I wanted the one with a dog on it. We ended up getting all three. Then we went to buy ingredients so we could cook breakfast. On Mother's day I helped Daddy make breakfast. We made chocolate pancakes and eggs. It was very messy but a lot of fun. Mommy loved getting breakfast in bed and she liked the flowers and cards. We also went out to go to the park after breakfast. It was a beautiful day and a lot of fun. I can't wait for mother's day to come by again!
1. Who made breakfast?
2. What did they make?
3. How many things did Mommy get?
4. What were they?
5. What kind of flowers?
6. What kind of cards?
7. So how did you decide?
8. Did you go anywhere?
9. Where?
10. How many people went?

Numbered answers:
1. Daddy and I
2. chocolate pancakes and eggs
3. four
4. flowers and cards
5. pink roses
6. a kid hugging his mommy but Ethan wanted the one with a cat on it, and I wanted the one with a dog on it
7. Got all three
8. yes
9. the park
10. five

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Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life. In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson. The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it's sent sprawling . When it doesn't get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there's safety. Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they've realized some small parts of what they set out to do ."
1. Who is the author who writes a book about a zoo animal?
2. What animal?
3. What time of life does the book focus on?
4. Does the mother seem to do something mean?
5. What?
6. Why does she do that?
7. Is she trying to hurt her baby?
8. What does she do after the baby gets up the first time?
9. Who wrote a book about greatness?
10. Who was one person that he wrote about?
11. Who else?
12. And another?
13. What did these people have in common?
14. Did those people achieve great things?
15. Did those people have easy lives?
16. How tall is a baby giraffe?
Numbered answers:
1. Gary Richmond
2. giraffe
3. new-born
4. YES
5. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby
6. She wants it to get up
7. no
8. kicks it off its feet again
9. Irving Stone
10. Michelangelo
11. Vincent van Gogh
12. Sigmund Freud
13. they sometime in their life have a dream of something
14. yes
15. no
16. 10 feet