Q: We live in an amazing world, reading the following news and you will find it yourself. News 1: Bao Xishun is the tallest man in the world. He is 2.36 metres tall. He Pingping is the shortest man in the world. He is only 0.73 metres tall. They are Chinese. On July 13th, Bao Xishun married a girl and He Pingping took part in their wedding ceremony . News 2: In the USA, a seventh-grader, Aidan Murray Medley went fishing in the sea one morning. The 12-year-old boy caught a 250-kilogram shark! It took Aidan 28 minutes to catch the shark. It was so hard that his body lost all feeling. Aidan now has the Florida record . He beat a 232-kilogram catch from 1981. News 3: A young sheep climbs a tree to feed on leaves in a park in the southern Swedish town of Lund. The sheep climbed to a height of seven metres and spent an hour and a half in the tree before returning to the ground.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the theme of this article?
2. How so?
3. How tall is that?
4. Who is the shortest?
5. How tall is he?
6. What nationality are Bao Xishun and He Pingping?
7. Did they know each other?
8. How do you know?
9. What else is amazing?
10. Who caught the fish?
11. What is so amazing about that?
12. Was it easy to catch that big of a fish?
13. How so?
14. Did that hurt him?
15. How?
16. Was he recognized for his accomplishment?
17. How?
18. What else is amazing about our planet?
19. What is amazing about that?
20. How long did it stay up there?
A: 1. The world is amazing.
2. Bao Xishun is the tallest man.
3. 2.36 metres.
4. He Pingping
5. .73 metres.
6. Chinese
7. Yes
8. He Pingping took part in his wedding.
9. Someone caught a 250-kilogram shark
10. Aidan Murray Medley
11. He was 12.
12. No.
13. Took 28 minutes to catch.
14. Yes
15. His body lost all feeling.
16. Yes.
17. He has the Florida record.
18. Sheep climb trees to feed
19. It climbed seven metres.
20. Hour and a half
Q: Beijing (CNN) -- The wife of Ai Weiwei was taken from the Chinese artist's studio by police Tuesday and was questioned for three hours, the high-profile dissident said.

Four policemen took Lu Qing from the Beijing studio to a nearby police station, he said.

She was released by police after questioning and is now a "criminal suspect," he said.

They have not told her what crimes she is accused of, he added.

"I think the authorities are trying to threaten me through her," he said, speculating that Lu's arrest was related to her plans to visit Taiwan for an exhibition of her husband's work.

She has now been told to stay in Beijing, he added.

Police did not respond to a CNN request for comment on the case.

"Nobody can consider himself safe or innocent in an environment like this," said the dissident, who was himself detained by police for 81 days earlier this year.

He was ultimately charged with tax evasion, and last week paid $1.3 million so he can contest the charges brought against his company, Fake Cultural Development Ltd.

Had he not paid the sum, his wife -- who legally represents the company -- would have been jailed, he said.

The government says the company owes 15 million yuan ($2.3 million). The money was raised from 30,000 contributors, he said.

His lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, said last week that Ai intends to return the donations if he wins the case and is refunded the money.

His family and human rights advocates believe that the real reason for his imprisonment is his criticism of the Chinese government.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is Ai WeiWei's company called?
2. Where is the report from?
3. what happened to his wife?
4. where?
5. where was she taken from?
6. how long for?
7. how many policemen?
8. was she kept there overnight?
9. what is she now?
10. what is she charged with?
11. Why does her husband think she was arrested?
A: 1. Fake Cultural Development Ltd.
2. Beijing
3. she was questioned by police
4. a nearby police station
5. from the Chinese artist's studio
6. for three hours
7. Four policemen
8. no
9. a "criminal suspect,"
10. They have not told her what crimes she is accused of
11. He thinks the authorities are trying to threaten him through her
Q: Every child has written their names on the beach at some point.

But whereas most people's "handwriting" is washed away, one super-rich Arab sheikh has ensure that his graffiti will last a little longer.

Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, 63, has scrawled his name in sand on an island he owns with letters so big that they be seen from space.

The word "HAMAD" measures 1,000 meters high and is a staggering two miles long from the "H" to the "D" on the Al Futaisi Island.

And rather than allow the writing to be washed away by the ocean, the letters actually form waterways that absorb the encroaching tide. The ruler's name is even visible on Google's map service.

Hamad dreamed up the idea and had his workmen work hard for weeks to craft the enormous piece of sand graffiti. It is not known how much it cost to make.

However, the sheikh boasts a personal fortune second to the Saudi king's.

Hamad, also known as the "Rainbow Sheikh", is a member of the Abu Dhabi Ruling Family.

He is understood to have some 200 cars including seven Mercedes 500 SELs painted in different colors of the rainbow which he stores in a giant pyramid.

The Arab sheikh had a taste for doing things on a large scale. He built the world's largest truck--eight times the size of the Dodge Power Wagon, with four bedrooms inside the cabin.

Hamad constructed a motor home in the shape of a giant globe which is exactly 1 millionth the size of the actual earth.

Alongside his displays of wealth he has become a well-known philanthropist in medicine and supplied a complete Kinney stone operating theatre to a public hospital in Morocco where he continues to fund its stuff.

Answer the following questions:
1. What word can be seen from space?
2. How high is it?
3. How long?
4. From where to where?
5. On what island?
6. What do the letters form to catch the tide?
7. Which popular online map service could you see it on?
8. Who built his name for him?
9. How long did it take?
10. Do we have any idea what it cost him?
11. What is Hamad's nickname?
12. Which family is he a member of?
13. I assume Hamad is quite rich?
14. How many vehicles does he have?
15. What kind does he actually have seven of?
16. Where does he keep them?
17. He build something that's the biggest on the planet?
18. Does it have rooms in it?
19. What's his RV supposed to look like?
20. Where does he fund a hospital?
A:
1. HAMAD
2. 1,000 meters
3. two miles long
4. "H" to the "D"
5. Al Futaisi Island
6. waterways
7. Google's
8. his workmen
9. weeks
10. no
11. Rainbow Sheikh
12. Abu Dhabi
13. yes
14. 200 cars
15. Mercedes 500 SELs
16. in a giant pyramid
17. largest truck
18. four bedrooms
19. giant globe
20. Morocco