Q: Rafael Nadal completed his preparations for the U.S. Open by claiming the title in Cincinnati for the first time with a hard-fought 7-6 7-6 win over home hope John Isner Sunday.

It was his 26th victory at a Masters 1000 tournament and second in succession after lifting the trophy in Montreal last week.

Nadal, who has won nine titles in 2013 in a remarkable run since returning to the ATP circuit after injury in February, has moved to No.2 in the world off the back of that success.

It has relegated Britain's Andy Murray, who will be defending his U.S. Open crown when the action starts at Flushing Meadows on August 26, to third seed when the draw is made later this week.

Only a shock first round exit at Wimbledon has interrupted Nadal's charge to the top of the rankings with three of his successes coming on hard courts on top of his traditional dominance on clay.

Isner, who had beaten World No.1 Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals, forced two set points at 6-5 on Nadal's service in the opener, but could not punish his Spanish opponent.

Nadal eventually took the subsequent tiebreak 10-8 before another closely fought second set.

He could not force a single break point on the service of the giant Isner, but in the second tiebreaker forged a 5-1 lead to take control.

A typical cross court winner gave Nadal victory in a shade under two hours, collapsing to the ground in trade mark fashion.

It was his 15th straight victory on hard courts and he will be the man in form for the final grand slam of the season, looking at add to his French Open success earlier this year.

Answer the following questions:
1. who beat someone in the quarter finals ?
2. who did he beat ?
3. where is his opponent from ?
4. what victory # was this for him ?
5. who won 9 titles ?
6. was that in 2017 ?
7. what is the year ?
8. was he ever injured ?
9. who will defend the us open crown ?
10. where ?
11. when ?
12. where is andy from ?
13. when was nadal injured ?
A: 1. Isner
2. Novak Djokovic
3. Spain
4. unknown
5. Nadal
6. no
7. 2013
8. yes
9. Andy Murray
10. at Flushing Meadows
11. August 26
12. Britain
13. in February

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

The HOPE IS A GAME--CHANGER PROJECT will deliver unbreakable soccer balls to kids who, all too often, see things horrible, broken and not survive the simplest of circumstances. The project started taking form well before anyone knew where it would lead -which is to test the power of like-minded people working together to turn inspiration into action.

Four years ago Bobby was in Rwanda offering help to the people there and taking photos of a child soldier named Moise with his "soccer ball",which was a pile of rubbish tied together with a string. This "ball" was the only thing Moise could call his own --- no family, no home, no place to go. Forced to fight in the Congo and having killed three people at the unbearably young age of seven, the boy's spirit was broken. And Bobby knew, as he took one photo after the next, that he'd never forget him. In fact, he returned the following year to tell Moise he had stayed deep within his heart ---but he was gone.

I recently helped Bobby launch his new bookThe Power of the Invisible Sunwhich features a photo of Moise, his ball, and kids from war-torn areas around the world. All of his earnings go towards the HOPE IS A GAME-CHANGER PROJECT for the kids he visited over the past decade. They caught the emotional landscape from heartbreak to joy, but share the undeniable longing for recovery and hope.

Bobby and I share the unchangeable belief that delivering hope is really a game-changer, especially to a child. We believe that each indestructible ball will come to represent a lasting symbol of hope. A light no matter how small---The Power of the Invisible Sun.

This holiday season, I ask you to think about whether you are doing enough to help someone else in the world. Or as Bobby likes to put it, consider _ , which added together, can create transformational change. It's my great hope that the HOPE IS A GAME-CHANGER PROJECT will change the lives of children the world over --- one book, one ball at a time.

1. What does the Hope is a Game-Changer Project deliver to kids?
2. What was the name of the person in Rwanda offering help to people there?
3. What is the name of ther person he Helped?
4. What was the previous soccer ball he had made out of?
5. Bobby recently wrote a book what is the title of it?
6. What is it that Bobby and the author share?
7. Does the book feature a photo of Moise?
8. Was Moise there the following year when Bobby went back to visit him?
9. What do Bobby and the author believe each indestructiable soccer ball with come to represent?
10. What does the author ask the reader to think about this holiday season?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Unbreakable soccer balls.
2. Bobby.
3. Moise
4. A pile of rubbish tied together with a string.
5. The Power of the Invisible Sunwhich.
6. Delivering hope is really a game-changer.
7. Yes.
8. No.
9. Symbol of hope.
10. Whether you are doing enough to help someone else in the world

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XVIII. IN THE MOAT

Fortunio and the Marquise reached the window side by side, and they were in time to hear a dull splash in the waters fifty feet below them. There was a cloud over the little sickle of moon, and to their eyes, fresh from the blaze of candle-light, the darkness was impenetrable.

"He is in the moat," cried the Marquise excitedly, and Valerie, who sat on the floor whither she had slipped when Fortunio shook her off, rocked herself in an agony of fear.

To the horrors about her--the huddled bodies lying so still upon the floor, the bloody footprints everywhere, the shattered furniture, and the groans of the man with the wounded thigh--to all this she was insensible. Garnache was dead, she told herself; he was surely dead; and it seemed as if the very thought of it were killing, too, a part of her own self.

Unconsciously she sobbed her fears aloud. "He is dead," she moaned; "he is dead."

The Marquise overheard that piteous cry, and turned to survey the girl, her brows lifting, her lips parting in an astonishment that for a second effaced the horrors of that night. Suspicion spread like an oil stain in her evil mind. She stepped forward and caught the girl by one of her limp arms. Marius, paler than his stunning had left him, leaned more heavily against the door-post, and looked on with bloodshot eyes. If ever maiden avowed the secret of her heart, it seemed to him that Valerie avowed it then.

1. who went to the window
2. Were they in a line
3. what did they hear when they walked up
4. how far down
5. who was sitting on the floow
6. what emotion was she feeling
7. what was everywhere on the floor
8. what was broken
9. did a woman have the injured thigh
10. Who was dead
11. who heard the cry
12. who did he look over
13. how was the girl caught
14. what chapter is this story in
15. what covered the moon
16. what word was compared to an oil stain
17. who leaned against the door post
18. how was Garnache killed
19. what word was used to describe the darkness

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Fortunio and the Marquise
2. no
3. a dull splash
4. 50 feet down
5. Valerie
6. fear
7. bloody footprints
8. furniture
9. no
10. Garnache was dead,
11. The Marquise
12. the girl,
13. by one of her limp arms.
14. CHAPTER XVIII
15. There was a cloud
16. Suspicion
17. Marius
18. unknown
19. impenetrable.