Q: Joe is a taxi driver. Now, after working for a long time, he is very tired. So he lies down on the chair in his car, and wants to have a sleep. But a man comes up to his car, and asks, "Excuse me, what's the time, please?" Joe is a little unhappy ,but he looks at his watch ,and says, "It's 10:15." The man thanks Joe and goes away. Joe says to himself, "Now I can go back to sleep again." But at 10:20,another man comes up and asks the same question, " Excuse me, sir, what's the time, please?" Joe can't sleep again. He has to tell his man the time. In ten minutes, four people come to his car and ask the time. He is very friendly, but he wants to sleep. So he writes "I don't know the time." on a piece of paper and puts the paper outside the window of his car."Now no one will come and ask me the time." But he is wrong! Look, another man is coming up to his car. He is knocking loudly at the window of Joe's car. Joe wakes up. The man says, "It's 10:50 now, sir!"

1. taxi driver
2. yes
3. no
4. have a sleep
5. in his car
6. yes
7. a man
8. to know the time
9. yes
10. 10:15
11. 5 minutes

Numbered questions:
1. What does Joe do for a living?
2. Has he worked for very long?
3. Is he full of energy?
4. What does he want to do?
5. Where?
6. On the car seat?
7. Who interrupts him first?
8. What does he want?
9. Does Joe tell him?
10. What time is it?
11. How long is it before someone else interrupts him?

Q: Emily and her boyfriend had just had a fight. She felt alone and hopeless. Then she went into the kitchen and grabbed what she needed before going back up to her room quietly. She switched on the TV and started eating...and eating...for hours, until it was all gone.

What Emily didn't know at the time was that she was suffering from an illness called binge-eating disorder(BED) .

For years, Emily didn't tell anyone what she was doing. She felt ashamed, alone, and out of control. Why don't famous people confess to BED, as they do to _ ? It's simple: There's a stigma involved. "Overeating is seen as very bad, but dieting to be skinny is seen as positive and even associated with determination," says Charles Sophy, a doctor in Beverly Hills , California.

"Some parents or friends may look at a teen with BED and think, 'Oh, a good diet and some will-power will do the trick.' But that's not true," says Dr.Ovidio Bermudez , a baby doctor at the Eating Recovery Center in Denver. "Eating disorders are real physical and mental health issues; it's not about willpower." The focus in treating BED shouldn't be on weight, because as with all eating disorders, the behaviors with food are a symptom of something deeper.

Like most other diseases, genetics may play a big part in who gets BED and who doesn't. If you have a close relative with an eating disorder, that means you're more likely to develop an eating disorder of your own.

Besides, many people with BED have tried at some point or another to control it by going on a diet, but paying more attention to food doesn't help. And it might even make things worse, like it did for Carla, who's 15 now and is recovering from BED. "My parents would always tease me about my weight, so when I was 14, I went on a very restrictive diet," she says. When you can't have something, you only want it more, so every time Carla would have a bite of something that wasn't allowed on her strict diet. She would quickly lose control and binge .

1. Emily
2. alone and hopeless.
3. eating
4. binge-eating disorder
5. no
6. she was ashamed
7. Dr.Ovidio Bermudez
8. with a diet
9. no
10. it's deeper than willpower

Numbered questions:
1. Who does this article talk about in the begining?
2. How did she feel?
3. How did she cope?
4. What illness did she have?
5. Did she talk to her family?
6. Why?
7. Who works at the eating recovery center?
8. How do people try to control BED?
9. Does it work?
10. Why not?

Q: Today was the Moon's birthday, and Ms. Star wanted to be sure to get the best gift ever for her friend Moon. She had no idea what she was going to get him! A rainbow sounded like a fun gift, but everyone has a rainbow, and she was sure that Moon had one too. Ms. Star looked all around space for the right gift for Moon. She asked Saturn was she was going to get Moon. "Oh, I think I'm going to get Moon a space puppy. He was talking about how much he loved dogs!" That sounded like such a good idea to Ms. Star, but since Saturn was going to get a space puppy, that meant that Ms. Star couldn't do it too! "Try asking Mars." said Saturn. "He might know what to get Moon." Ms. Star asked Mars. "Well," said Mars. "I know that I'm getting Moon a space ship, and that Neptune, Uranus and Pluto are going together to get Moon a new house." "Wow!" said Ms. Star. "How am I ever going to get Moon something as nice as a house, or a space ship, or a space puppy?" Mars thought about it for a little bit. "Hmm." he said. "Maybe you could make him something?" "What a great idea!" said Ms. Star. "I know what would be perfect to make for him!" That night, at Moon's birthday party, when Moon opened the gift from Ms. Star, he was the happiest he had been about any of the gifts. "It's the perfect gift! Thank you so much Ms. Star!" He pulled out of the box a beautiful sweater that Ms. Star had made out of her own star dust. "It's so cold here in space! A sweater is the best gift ever!"

1. Ms. Star
2. Moon's birthday
3. all around space
4. a space puppy
5. He loved dogs
6. yes
7. ask Mars
8. a space ship
9. Neptune, Uranus and Pluto
10. making him something
11. yes
12. a sweater
13. yes
14. yes
15. It was cold in space
16. star dust

Numbered questions:
1. Who was looking for a gift?
2. Why?
3. Where did she look?
4. What was Saturn going to get Moon?
5. Why?
6. Did Ms. Star like that idea?
7. What did Saturn suggest to Ms. Star?
8. What was he getting Moon?
9. Who was getting him a house?
10. What was Mars' suggestion?
11. Did she like that idea?
12. What did she make?
13. Did he like it?
14. Was it useful to him?
15. Why?
16. What was the sweater made out of?