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One day John and Sally's mother made up her mind to bake a very special cake for her son and daughter, but she didn't have the ingredients. She told John and Sally to go to the grocer's to buy the things she would need.

"I'll need some popcorn, a pea, some melon balls, and a cup of yogurt. I'm going to make a very special cake today," she said.

"Wow, that sounds horrible," said John.

"Yeah, we'd rather watch TV and eat potato chips," said Sally.

"Don't talk back, kids. Do what I said and head into town. It's a beautiful day. Go the long way and follow the river until you get there. Don't take the short way through the forest. A lion has escaped from the zoo. He might be hiding in the forest."

So John and Sally started the walk into town, but because they were disobedient children, they didn't follow the river like their mother told them. Instead they took the short way through the forest.

"I'm not afraid of a lion in the forest," said John. "Besides, I think mom has been eating too many melon balls and is letting her imagination get away from her again. If there were a lion in the forest, we would know about it."

So they wandered along the forest path, jumping in mud puddles and throwing sticks at one another. But as soon as John and Sally were in the darkest part of the forest, they heard a terrible roar. It was the lion! Horrified, they ran for their lives out of the forest, all the way back home.

"We're sorry!" they both said to their mother. "We'll never be disobedient again!"

And from that day forward, whenever their mother told them to do something, they did it right away like they were told.
1. Who wants to bake a special cake?

Numbered answers:
1. John and Sally's mother made up her mind to bake a very special cak

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(CNN) -- Three radio DJs in Kenya are going six days without food while broadcasting non-stop to promote peaceful voting in a country that was nearly torn apart after its last election five years ago.

Ghetto Radio presenters Mbusii, Solloo and Essie have been locked inside a "glass house" in central Nairobi since Wednesday, as part of the station's annual Serious Request Kenya event.

This year's theme is "Vote4Peace Vote4Kenya," ahead of the East African country's elections on March 4 2013. The vote will be the first since ethnic violence engulfed the country after disputed elections in December 2007, leaving more than 1,000 people dead and 350,000 displaced, according to the Kenya Red Cross.

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Three days into the challenge, DJ Solloo is in good spirits -- despite the lack of food.

"I'm a bit hungry," he laughingly admits, "but we have to do this -- it's a pretty good feeling."

Solloo, whose real name is Solomon Njoroge, says Kenya cannot afford a return to post-election violence. Last time around, he says, he was a victim of the bloody unrest that swept his town of Eldoret, one of the fighting hotspots in Kenya's Rift Valley province.

Solloo says that back then he had to spend more than two weeks with limited food supplies while camping at a police station for safety.

"This country cannot afford to go back to that time," says Solloo from the glass house, a few moments before going on air. "I decided to come here because we have to push for this message to be a part of every Kenyan. It has to be every Kenyan's initiative to know that peace is more than just the absence of war."
1. What are the 3 DJ's doing?
2. Why?
3. In what country?
4. What almost happened?
5. How many years ago?
6. What station do they represent?
7. What are their names?
8. Are they locked up?
9. In what?
10. Since when?
11. What is the theme of the event?
12. When is voting set for?
13. How many times have they voted since the violence?
14. What date was that?
15. How many people died?
16. Why did Solloo say he is doing this?
17. What is his actual name?
18. How was he feeling on day 3?
19. Was he hungry?
20. What was he a victim of?

Numbered answers:
1. going six days without food
2. to promote peaceful voting
3. in Kenya
4. the country was nearly torn apart
5. five years ago.
6. Ghetto Radio
7. Mbusii, Solloo and Essie
8. yes
9. a "glass house"
10. Wednesday
11. Vote4Peace Vote4Kenya
12. March 4 2013
13. This vote will be the first
14. December 2007
15. 1,000 people
16. to push for this message to be a part of every Kenyan
17. Solomon Njoroge
18. he was in good spirits
19. a bit hungry
20. the bloody unrest

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Roald Dahl was one of the most successful writers of children's books. He sold millions of books all over the world. Many of his books have been made into films and videos. He is so famous that there is even a Roald Dahl Museum you can visit. Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales, Britain. His father was rich but he died when Roald was very young. Roald and his mother lived a hard life. He had to leave school and went to Africa where he worked for an oil company. In 1939 Roald became a pilot, but he had a bad accident. It made him limp for the rest of his life. After this, Roald went to America where he wrote a story about his experience as a pilot. It was so good that it was put in a magazine. Roald married an American film star. They bought a house in England and had five children. From 1960 to 1965, _ : Theo, one of his children, was hit by a taxi and was seriously hurt. Olivia, one of Roald's daughters, died of a strange illness. Soon after this, his wife also had a serious illness. It took her years to get completely better. Gradually Roald became more and more successful. He always did his writing in an old shed at the back of his house. He always sat in the same old armchair with a wooden board on his lap. _ In 1983 Roald won a big prize for his book The BFG. During his life, Roald wrote many famous books, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Fantastic Mr. Fox. After he died in 1990, Roald left money to help people with serious illnesses and those with problems with reading and writing.
1. what year was someone born in ?
2. who was it ?
3. what was he ?
4. what kind of books ?
5. did he leave school ?
6. to go where ?
7. did he walk with a limp ?
8. how did that happen ?
9. when did he learn to fly ?
10. how many books did he sell
11. was his father poor ?
Numbered answers:
1. 1916
2. Roald Dahl
3. most successful writer
4. children's books
5. yes
6. Africa
7. yes
8. he had a bad accident
9. 1939
10. millions
11. no