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"The zoo has money problem," Grandmother Sandy said. Angel listened. She heard that Fresno's Chaffee Zoo didn't have enough money to take care of its animals. Angel loved animals. She planned to study them when she grew up. Angel's family had four cats. Angel took good care of them and made sure that they always had food and water. Angel felt sorry for the zoo animals. While the others in the family were cooking dinner, Angel was cooking up a way to help the animals. She decided to write a letter to show how she felt. At the end of the letter, she wrote: "Give a dollar, help an animal." She sent the letter and a dollar to The Fresno Bee, a local newspaper. A few days after that, Angel's letter was published. Almost immediately, people began sending in money. Angel's letter was having effect! At school, Angel went to each classroom to read the letter that appeared on the newspaper. She asked students in her school to give money to the zoo. Next, Angel was asked to appear on television. She was invited to be on a popular talk show. The workers in the zoo were very happy. Ray Navarro is the person most responsible for the animals. "Angel opened the eyes of Fresno," said Ray. "She made us see that people can make a difference."

1. Is the zoo doing okay?
2. What was wrong?
3. Could it support it's inhabitants?
4. Who told her this?
5. How did she feel about it when she heard?
6. What did she do about it?
7. To who?
8. What did it say?
9. Was the paper national?
10. How long did it take to be posted?
11. Did it work at all?
12. Did she raise funds?
13. Did she tell her schoolmates about it?
14. How did she do that?
15. Did anything else happen to her?
16. What was it?
17. Was her endeavor a success?
18. Who said that it was?
19. What was his last name?
20. What was his job?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. no
2. money problem
3. no
4. Grandmother Sandy
5. concerned
6. write a letter
7. The Fresno Bee
8. Give a dollar, help an anima
9. no
10. A few days
11. yes
12. yes
13. yes
14. Angel went to each classroom
15. yes
16. appear on television
17. yes
18. Ray.
19. Navarro
20. responsible for the animal

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It was a beautiful day. In the morning Tommy and I went to the park to play. We rode our bikes around and went down to the lake. We swam around in the lake and splashed water on other kids. We got back on our bikes and rode back home. Mommy made lunch. It was yummy, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and milk. Then it was time for our nap. We woke up and watched some TV. Mommy gave us some money for candy later. Tommy and I went back to the park to play. Tommy and I played with a baseball with some other kids. Then we played with the football. We went to the store across the street. We bought some candy with the money Mommy gave us. We went back to the park and watched the other kids play as we ate our candy. It was hot, so we went swimming again. It was fun! We like swimming so we go swimming almost every day. We swam all afternoon until Mommy came down to the park at told us to come home. Mommy was very upset because we were gone so long. Mommy was worried that something might have happened to us. Mommy was not paying attention to her kids and what they were doing for hours. Tommy and I told Mommy she needs to pay more attention to us. Mommy started crying, then Tommy and I started crying. Mommy said from now on, I must pay more attention to you two. Daddy came home from work and playing softball for his company team. Daddy wanted to know what was going on. Daddy saw that we were all crying. Daddy started to cry too. We all said that we would pay more attention to each other. We all said that we would do more things together like going to the park. We all said we would eat together more often.

1. Who rode their bikes?
2. Where did they ride them?
3. Was anyone else there?
4. What did they do to them?
5. Did they go hiking?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Tommy and I
2. the park
3. yesd
4. splashed them with water.
5. no

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Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and some other Asian languages. In Standard Chinese they are called Hanzi (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ). They have been adapted to write a number of other languages including: Japanese, where they are known as kanji, Korean, where they are known as hanja, and Vietnamese in a system known as chu Nom. Collectively, they are known as CJKV characters. In English, they are sometimes called Han characters. Chinese characters constitute the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world. By virtue of their widespread current use in East Asia, and historic use throughout the Sinosphere, Chinese characters are among the most widely adopted writing systems in the world.

Chinese characters number in the tens of thousands, though most of them are minor graphic variants encountered only in historical texts. Studies in China have shown that functional literacy in written Chinese requires a knowledge of between three and four thousand characters. In Japan, 2,136 are taught through secondary school (the Joyo kanji); hundreds more are in everyday use. There are various national standard lists of characters, forms, and pronunciations. Simplified forms of certain characters are used in China, Singapore, and Malaysia; the corresponding traditional characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and to a limited extent in South Korea. In Japan, common characters are written in post-WWII Japan-specific simplified forms (shinjitai), which are closer to traditional forms than Chinese simplifications, while uncommon characters are written in Japanese traditional forms (kyujitai), which are virtually identical to Chinese traditional forms. In South Korea, when Chinese characters are used they are of the traditional variant and are almost identical to those used in places like Taiwan and Hong Kong. Teaching of Chinese characters in South Korea starts in the 7th grade and continues until the 12th grade where 1,800 total characters are taught albeit these characters are only used in certain cases (on signs, academic papers, historical writings, etc.) and are slowly declining in use.

1. What is used to write Asian languages?
2. What kind?
3. Do they use them in Japanese?
4. What do they call them?
5. What are they in standard Chinese?
6. In Korean?
7. What do they use in Vietnam?
8. What are they referred to as in English?
9. How many Chinese characters are there?
10. How many should you know to be literate in Chinese?
11. How many forms are there?
12. Where do they use traditional characters?
13. What kind do they use in Malaysia?
14. What about in Hong Kong?
15. How many characters would you learn in a secondary school in Japan?
16. What is that group called?
17. Do they use more than that on a daily basis?
18. When do they start learning them in South Korea?
19. When do they stop?
20. How many do they learn?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. characters
2. CJKV characters
3. yes
4. kanji
5. Hanzi
6. hanja
7. a system known as chu Nom
8. Han characters
9. the tens of thousands
10. between three and four thousand characters
11. There are various national standard lists of characters, forms, and pronunciations
12. In South Korea
13. Simplified forms of certain characters
14. A traditional variant
15. 2,136
16. the Joyo kanji
17. yes
18. the 7th grade
19. the 12th grade
20. 1,800