Problem: Johnny is a nine year old boy. On one hot summer day, Johnny is outside his house playing with his dog. He is very hot and wants to have some ice cream. He looks in his freezer and sees that he does not have ice cream. Johnny then hears the song of the ice cream truck. Johnny runs outside but does not see the ice cream truck. He looks down the street but the ice cream truck is nowhere to be found. The music of the truck starts to get softer and then louder. Johnny waits outside for an hour. Johnny then thinks that he needs money when the ice cream truck comes. He runs inside and finds five dollars in his room. He then hears the ice cream truck song get very loud. He runs back outside and sees the truck pass his house. Johnny runs after the truck and catches up with it. Johnny buys 4 ice cream pops and some candy. He gives his five dollars to the ice cream man and gets one dollar back. He walks home and happily eats all of his candy and ice cream.
1. Was Johnny waiting outside for two hours?
2. How long did he wait?
3. What was he waiting for?
4. What made him think it was coming?
5. Was he old?
6. How old was he?
7. Was he outside with a cat?
8. Who was he outside with?
9. Was he shivering?
10. Why not?
11. What was he missing to buy his treat?
12. How much did he find?
13. Where did he find it?
14. When he got outside, was the vehicle at his curb?
15. Where was it?
16. Where did he first look for his treat?
17. How many treats does he buy?
18. What was his change?
19. He did run afterwards?
20. Was he sad?
Answer: 1. no
2. an hour
3. for the ice cream
4. because the music of the truck get louder
5. No
6. nine years old
7. no
8. his dog
9. no
10. because it was a hot summer day
11. money
12. five dollars
13. in his room
14. no
15. nowhere
16. in the freezer
17. Four
18. one dollar
19. no
20. no

Problem: Perhaps the most famous clothing brand name in the world is Levi's.Levi Strauss & Co.is the producer of blue denim jeans.Here's how it happened. In the mid 1800s many people went to California to look for gold.A young German named Levi Strauss traveled to San Francisco to help his brother on business.He sold canvas to the workers for tents.But the workers said they needed pants more,because their pants were easy to wear out.Instead of selling his canvas for tent-making,he turned it into pants.These kinds of pants were very popular with workers.He was very happy and named the kind of pants"denims".And in 1853 he founded Levi Strauss & Co. Twenty years later the company began using a design with pockets.During the working,Strauss _ the process for putting metal rivets in the eans for strength. On May 20,1873,they received the U.S.Patent No.139,121 for the process and that date is now considered the official birthday of"blue jeans". Today the company still has its factories in San Francisco,California.Over 11,000 people work in them and bring in over $4 billion a year.
1. What nationality is Levi Strauss?
2. Where did he travel to?
3. Why?
4. How did he help?
5. Did that inspire him to start a business?
6. Howso?
7. Why did they need pants?
8. What did Levi craft his pants out of?
9. What did he call them?
10. Did they have pockets at that time?
11. When were they added?
12. Approximately when did Levi start making pants?
13. When did he found the company?
14. Is the design patented?
15. When did they get that?
16. What do they refer to that date as now?
17. What patent number did it get?
18. Where are the factories currently located?
19. How many people work there?
20. Is it the most famous clothing braND?
Answer: 1. German
2. San Francisco
3. to help his brother's business
4. sold canvas for tents
5. yes
6. he workers needed pants
7. theirs were wearing out too quickly
8. tent canvas
9. denims
10. no
11. Twenty years later
12. mid 1800s
13. 1853
14. yes
15. May 20,1873
16. the birthday of blue jeans
17. 139,121
18. SanFrancisco
19. more than 11,000 people
20. perhaps

Problem: (CNN) -- In the mid-1970s, Gloria Estefan was studying psychology, international law and French at the University of Miami and singing with a local band on the side. She was planning to head to the Sorbonne to further her studies. But then Emilio Estefan swept her off her feet, and their band, the Miami Sound Machine, would soon sweep the nation with its Conga beat.

Estefan never made it to the Sorbonne, but she launched an enduring musical career that has made her into a beloved international artist.

Thirty-five years later, she remains married to that first and only boyfriend. And the seven-time Grammy winner has now released "The Standards," an album of classic American tunes with a Gloria Estefan twist. It opens with "Good Morning Heartache," and moves on to songs like "They Can't Take That Away From Me," "What A Difference A Day Makes," "Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar" and "Young at Heart."

The album, she said, brings her career back to some of those first shaky steps onto the national stage.

"It's such a natural thing for me, something that I wanted to do so long and 25 years ago when I danced the conga on 'The Tonight Show.' I sang 'Good Morning Heartache' with my piano player as a second song and this is like full circle," Estefan said. "That's why it starts the record."

Fans know her dance hits like "Conga," "Hotel Nacional," "Wepa" and "Rhythm is Gonna Get You." But there's something about the ballads -- "Coming out of the Dark", "Higher" -- that make the heart ache.
1. What was being studied?
2. by whom?
3. Where did she never go?
4. Why not?
5. Did she have a companion?
6. Whom?
7. Do they work together?
8. What is his name?
9. When did they meet?
10. Are they stiull together?
Answer: 1. psychology
2. Gloria Estefan
3. Sorbonne
4. she launched an enduring musical career that has made her into a beloved international artist
5. Yes
6. first and only boyfriend
7. unknown
8. Emilio Estefan
9. Thirty-five years ago
10. Yes

Problem: A pub /pb/, or public house is, despite its name, a private house, but is called a public house because it is licensed to sell alcohol to the general public. It is a drinking establishment in Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Denmark and New England. In many places, especially in villages, a pub can be the focal point of the community. The writings of Samuel Pepys describe the pub as the heart of England.

The history of pubs can be traced back to Roman taverns, through the Anglo-Saxon alehouse to the development of the modern tied house system in the 19th century.

Historically, pubs have been socially and culturally distinct from cafes, bars and German beer halls. Most pubs offer a range of beers, wines, spirits, and soft drinks and snacks. Traditionally the windows of town pubs were of smoked or frosted glass to obscure the clientele from the street but from the 1990s onwards, there has been a move towards clear glass, in keeping with brighter interiors.
1. What does a public house sell?
2. to who?
3. What is described as the heart of England?
4. what is the pub considered to the community?
5. Are pubs and bars the same?
6. What do they offer?
7. Do they have windows?
8. what do they look like?
9. why?
10. Has that changed recently?
11. when?
12. What changed then?
13. why?
14. Where is the history of pubs traced back to?
15. what was the name of the ale house?
16. Who wrote about the heart of england?
Answer:
1. alcohol
2. public house is, despite its name, a private house, but is called a public house because it is licensed to sell alcohol to the general public
3. the pub
4. focal point
5. No
6. range of beers, wines, spirits, and soft drinks and snacks.
7. Yes
8. frosted glass
9. to obscure the clientele from the street
10. Yes
11. the 1990s
12. move towards clear glass
13. in keeping with brighter interiors.
14. Roman taverns
15. Anglo-Saxon
16. Samuel Pepys