Q: When it came to role models, Diana Ortiz said her mother, Marcia Dominguez, was the "hero". Ms. Dominguez came to the United States from Cuba in 1979. She went to college and got a job as a social worker --- all the while raising three children in America mostly on her own.

"It was always school first," Diana said, "My mom had us in a straight line. If we got out of line, she corrected us. She was a perfect woman. She was beautiful, she had the education and she had everything --- but the illness took over. When I was 11, it frightened me to see how quickly my mother's health was ruined by cancer. A week before I turned 14, my mother died at age 50. I had tried to prepare myself, but on the first morning I woke up without my mother, the sense of loss was painful."

Diana had not seen her father for five years, who refused to provide for her. Diana then entered the city's foster care system. She has spent about four years in foster homes.

Despite Diana's hard teenage years, the values her mother had planted in her mind inspired her to go after higher education. Since August 2010, she has been a fulltime student majoring in law. A public organization offers her tuition but she has part-time jobs to help people like her and earn more life experience. Her goal is a job in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

For now, Diana works 20 hours a week as a cashier at Marshalls, earning $7.25 an hour. In November, she moved into her own public housing studio apartment on the Lower East Side. She pays $236 a month in rent. Although she is out of foster care, Diana has been speaking at workshops for foster youths. She emphasizes that nothing should get in the way of their success, not the trials of their lives or what they may have lost.

"I tell the young who have the similar experience like me, 'Why are you going to let what happened to you affect you in the long run?' " Diana said. " 'Why are you going to sit there and feel sorry for yourself? You're wasting precious time.' It is a message my mother would approve of. My mom taught me that everything is not given to you. You have to go out and get it."

1. Diana's mother
2. 50
3. Cuba
4. she went to foster care
5. four years
6. Her father refused her
7. five years ago
8. work for Federal Bureau of Investigation
9. works as a cashier
10. Marshalls
11. the Lower East Side
12. no
13. an apartment
14. speaks at workshops

Numbered questions:
1. Who died young?
2. How old was she?
3. Where did she come from?
4. What happened to the girl?
5. For how long?
6. Why?
7. When had she last seen him?
8. What is her goal?
9. What does she do for now?
10. Where?
11. Where does she live?
12. Does she have a house?
13. Where?
14. What else does she do?

Q: It was Saturday afternoon and Andrew was bored. He had been watching TV all day. He told his dad, "There's nothing to do!" Andrew's dad said, "I think the newspaper is here. Maybe we can find an idea in the newspaper." Andrew looked outside the window and saw the newspaper by the door. On the front was a picture of an elephant. He picked up the newspaper and brought it to his dad. Andrew and his dad read the story. The circus was in town! Andrew had never been to the circus. He asked his dad, "Can we go?" "Yes, we can,' Andrew's dad said, 'but first you need to feed your goldfish." Andrew fed his goldfish some goldfish food. He promised to bring it some peanuts from the circus for later. Andrew and his dad went to the circus. The people and animals at the circus did lots of tricks. The elephant even went down a slide! Andrew and his dad ate lots of peanuts. There weren't any peanuts left to bring home to the goldfish. Andrew and his dad had a lot of fun at the circus.

1. Yes
2. The circus was in town!
3. watching TV
4. No
5. the newspaper
6. no
7. an elephant
8. No
9. his dad
10. Yes
11. Andrew fed his goldfish

Numbered questions:
1. Was andrew excited?
2. Why?
3. What had he been doing all day?
4. Did he see a book when he looked out the window?
5. what did he see?
6. Was a tiger on the front?
7. what was?
8. Did he ask his mom if they could go see it at the crcus?
9. Who did he ask?
10. Did he take him?
11. Did he do anything before he left?

Q: A Scottish woman has given birth to twins for the third time. Karen Rodger, 41, welcomed her first pair of girls rowan and Isla after having twice given birth to twin boys.

"I still haven't really taken it on board because I was convinced I was having two boys," Rodger told Sky News. Karen said her husband Colin was equally stunned when the couple learned they were going to have their fifth and sixth child. "He thought I was joking and immediately wrote back to say 'this is not funny'. I had to explain that it really was true," Karen said.

The average couple has about a 3 percent chance of having twins when not accounting for fertility drugs. And with each following pregnancy, the changes of producing twins a second, or even third time, become less.

Karen, a dance lecturer, first learned of the incredibly rare occurrence during a visit to her doctor and immediately texted her husband to share the news. "I just could not believe it. It never crossed my mind that it would be twins again. I just thought that wouldn't happen to people like me, but I'm ly delighted," she said.

It had been several years since the couple's last children were born. Their oldest twins are 14 and the second set was born just two years later. "I turned 40 and I thought, if I'm going to do it, I should do it now," Karen said. "I spoken to my husband and we both thought we'd quite like another one so that was it and, one month later, I was pregnant."

Colin says the age and gender difference will ensure a sweat-inducing dilemma for any future suitors of the twin girls. It will be a frightening challenge for any boyfriend.

1. Three
2. six
3. Colin
4. rowan and Isla
5. girls
6. Yes
7. a dance lecturer,
8. Three
9. 14
10. 12
11. No
12. Yes
13. 40
14. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. what is the percent chance a couple has twins?
2. how many children does Karen Rodger have?
3. what is her husbands name?
4. what did they name the new twins?
5. are they girls or boys?
6. is this there first set of girls?
7. what does Karen do for a living?
8. how many sets of twins does she have?
9. how old is the first set?
10. and the second?
11. did Karen think anything like this could happen?
12. was she happy about it?
13. how old was she when she got pregnant with them?
14. was Colin joking around when heard the news?