Q: One day Mrs Wilson took Trudy and Ben to go shopping. They went to the supermarket in the new shopping mall . "Why do you buy things here, Mum?" Trudy asked. "Because they are cheaper than those at the corner store," Mrs Wilson said. "Help me check the prices." The Wilsons were not wealthy and Mrs Wilson was always careful with her money. She looked carefully at the prices of things. She bought some groceries in the supermarket. When they got home, the children said, "We don't think you saved money by going to the supermarket there." "Of course I did," said Mrs Wilson, "everything was cheap there." "We know," said the children, "but we came home by taxi because we had too much to carry. The cost of the taxi was more than the money you saved!" Mrs Wilson added everything up and found her children were right. "Well done,"she said, "next time we will do shopping near our home."

1. Three
2. Mrs Wilson, Trudy and Ben
3. no
4. yes
5. the supermarket in the new shopping mall
6. checked prices
7. no
8. yes
9. groceries
10. some
11. too much to carry
12. no
13. by taxi
14. no

Numbered questions:
1. how many people are in the sotry?
2. What are they called?
3. did they stay in the house?
4. did they travel somewhere?
5. where?
6. what did they do there?
7. did they have a great deal of money?
8. did they purchase anything?
9. what?
10. just a few?
11. how many?
12. did they walk back the house?
13. how did they travel?
14. was it free?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Item 1: JK Rowling, the Harry Potter author, has signed a publishing deal with Little Brown, to release her first ever novel for adults. The deal means that Rowling's long-standing relationship with Bloomsbury, the London-based publisher that launched the Harry Potter books, has come to an end, at least in terms of new works by the author. Rowling, who is worth an estimated PS530 million, said that the new novel will be nothing like the Harry Potter series, which sold over 30 million copies in the UK alone. She said that with the move from children's to adult fiction, a move to a new publisher seemed like a logical step.

Item 2: China's hurdler Liu Xiang was disqualified Thursday at the Stockholm indoor athletics tournament due to false start, giving his rival Dayron Robles of Cuba an easy win of 7.66 seconds. Liu was not willing to explain the reason of his false start, but he told Xinhua that it was not related to his foot injury. Another Cuban Orlando Ortega followed in 7.68 seconds and Balazs Baji of Hungary stood third in 7.70 seconds. Last Saturday, Liu won the men's 60m hurdle final in 7.41 seconds at the Birmingham indoor tournament, setting a new Asian record. He said Wednesday that he hoped to have an even better performance than he did in Birmingham at the Stockholm indoor tournament. Item 3: Former NBA star and current Bobcats owner Michael Jordan filed suit in a Chinese court against Qiaodan Sports Company Limited, a sportswear and footwear manufacturer, for the use of his name without permission. Jordan says "This complaint is not about money, it's about principle and protecting my name." The Chinese company has registered and uses the name "Qiaodan". Jordan has been known in China since he gained widespread popularity in the mid-1980s.

Item 4: A commuter train crashed at a busy central station in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, killing 49 passengers and injuring more than 600 people, the deadliest in a series of train accidents in Argentina over the past years. The train crashed at about 8:30 a.m. at its final stop at the Once Station, not far from downtown Buenos Aires. The train was carrying more than 800 passengers and traveling at an estimated 16 miles per hour when it entered the station, slamming into the barrier of the platform, destroying the engine. 1. Who signed a publishing deal with Little Brown?
2. What is the deal for?
3. How much is Rowling worth?
4. What happened to Liu Xiang on Thursday?
5. why?
6. Who won instead?
7. Where is he from?
8. What was his winning time?
9. Who placed 2nd?
10. What did Liu win last Saturday?
11. Where?
12. Who owns the NBA Bobcats?
13. Who did Jordan sue?
14. Why?
15. Is Jordan popular in China?
16. What happened in Buenos Aires on Wednesday?
17. How many passengers were killed?
18. How many injured?
19. Where did the train crash?
20. What city was the crash near?
numbered_answers: 1. JK Rowling
2. to release her first ever novel for adults
3. an estimated PS530 million
4. he was disqualified
5. a false start
6. Dayron Robles
7. Cuba
8. 7.66 seconds
9. Orlando Ortega
10. men's 60m hurdle final
11. Birmingham indoor tournament
12. Michael Jordan
13. Qiaodan Sports Company Limited
14. for the use of his name without permission
15. yes
16. A commuter train crashed
17. 49
18. more than 600 people
19. at its final stop at the Once Station
20. Buenos Aires

Sofia ( or or ; , "", ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. 1.26 million people live in the city and 1.68 million people live in its metropolitan area. The city is at the foot of Vitosha Mountain in the western part of the country. Being in the centre of the Balkan peninsula, it is midway between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea, and closest to the Aegean Sea.

Sofia has been an area of human habitation since at least 7000 BC. Being Bulgaria's primate city, Sofia is a hometown of many of the major local universities, cultural institutions and commercial companies. Sofia is one of the top 10 best places for start-up business in the world, especially in information technologies. Sofia is Europe's most affordable capital to visit .

For the longest time the city possessed a Thracian name, derived from the tribe "Serdi", who were either of Thracian, Celtic, or mixed Thracian-Celtic origin. The Serdi and the name of emperor Marcus Ulpius Traianus (53 117 AD) prompted the Romans to give the city the combinative name of "Ulpia Serdica"; Ulpia is derived from an Umbrian cognate of the Latin word "lupus", meaning "wolf." It seems that the first written mention of "Serdica" was made during his reign and the last mention was in the 19th century in a Bulgarian text (, "Sardaki"). During the Romans "civitas Serdenisium" was mentioned the "brightest city of the Serdi" in official inscriptions. The city was major throughout the past ever since Antiquity, when Roman emperor Constantine the Great referred to it as "my Rome", and it nearly became his capital. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is the capital of Bulgaria?
2. Is it a small city?
3. How manyh people live in the city?
4. And in the metro area?
5. What mountain is it at the base of?
6. How many seas is it near?
7. which one is it closest to?
8. What is one other sea nearby?
9. and the other?
10. how long have people been living there?
11. does it have universities?
12. How does it rank regarding start ups?
13. in the country?
14. What kind of name did it have?
15. where did that name came from?
16. who was the emperor?
17. What name did the Romans give to the city?
18. What does lupus mean?
19. When was he last mention of the name?
20. what did Constantine called it?
Answer:
1. Sofia
2. no
3. 1.26 million
4. 1.68 million
5. Vitosha Mountain
6. Three
7. Aegean Sea
8. Black Sea
9. Adriatic Sea
10. since at least 7000 BC
11. yes
12. one of the top 10 best places
13. in the world
14. Thracian
15. from the tribe "Serdi"
16. Constantine the Great
17. Ulpia Serdica
18. wolf
19. 19th century
20. my Rome