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Jim wanted to make a fun meal one day. After thinking about it for a long time, he chose to make a chicken dish. Jim made a trip to the store to collect all of the different things he would need to make this meal. He drove his blue truck to the store. On the way he passed a green car, a red van, and a yellow bus. When he got to the store, he met his friends Bob & Mark. He asked if they had seen his friend Joe, but they said no. At the store, Jim bought two pieces of chicken, tomato sauce, cheese, and bread. He drove back to the house, but he saw that something was missing. He had forgotten to grab the bag with the bread in it. He drove back to the store, apologized to the clerk, and grabbed his bag with the bread inside. When he got home, he began to get the food ready. It took him an hour to get the chicken ready to cook and the oven heated up. After that, it took him another hour to cook the food. He had to wait another hour after it was done cooking for his dinner guests to arrive. When they finally arrived, everyone told Jim how wonderful the food tasted, and everyone at the table asked for seconds. Jim smiled, glad that everyone loved this meal that he had worked so hard to make.
1. Who made food?
2. What kind of meal did he want to make?
3. Was it vegetarian?
4. What was it made with?
5. How many different colored cars did he pass?
6. And how many different color vehicles total?
7. Did he see anyone at the store?
8. Who?
9. What were they to him?
10. Who wasn't at the store?
11. What did Jim forget to buy?

Numbered answers:
1. Jim
2. a fun meal
3. no
4. chicken, tomato sauce, cheese, and bread
5. One
6. Three
7. yes
8. Bob & Mark
9. friends
10. Joe
11. unknown

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(CNN) -- It could be the spartan living environment, or perhaps growing up in the thin air nearly 3,000 meters above sea level -- or maybe it's the influence of a legendary local coach.

Whatever its secret, a remote mountain town in Ethiopia has produced a string of world-beating distance runners.

Three-time Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba is the current cream of a crop that has helped put Bekoji on the map. Like many from her area, she was clearly born to run.

"Running is for me my job, but also my source of entertainment," the 27-year-old told CNN's Human to Hero series.

"It's because of running that I am well known around the world. For me, it's the ultimate thing."

Her elder sister Ejegayehu was an Olympic silver medalist in 2004, while younger sister Genzebe was the 2009 world junior cross country champion and a younger brother Dejene is a promising 800m runner.

Sporting excellence flows through the family genes: Dibaba is the cousin of double Olympic 10,000m champion Derartu Tulu, while she was also inspired by another cousin -- Bekelu, who she often calls her sister, and was an international distance runner.

They all hail from Bekoji, a town of fewer than 20,000 people set high in the mountains of the Arsi province, but with a freakish record for track and field success.

"Bekoji has produced so many great athletes starting from Derartu. In Beijing, Kenenisa (Bekele) and I brought home two gold medals each," Dibaba said.

"Bekoji has strong runners. Bekoji is great and can produce even greater athletes."
1. Who is the cream of crop?
2. Who is she?
3. What is she known for?
4. Did she speak out to CNN?
5. Do she have siblings?
6. What do they do?
7. Who is Bekelu?
8. Where are they from?
9. What is they record there?
10. What did she bring back home?
11. What can Bekoji produce?

Numbered answers:
1. Tirunesh Dibaba
2. Tirunesh Dibaba
3. Three-time Olympic champion
4. yes
5. yes
6. they are runners
7. an international distance runner
8. Bekoji
9. a record for track and field success
10. two gold medals each
11. great athletes

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Ashton Carter, the former second-in-command at the Pentagon, appears to be the top choice to replace outgoing Secretary Chuck Hagel.

Barring any last minute complications, Ash Carter will be President Barack Obama's choice as the new Secretary of Defense, several U.S. administration officials told CNN.

An administration official had said that Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, a former General Counsel at the Pentagon, was also still on the list of possibilities, but on Tuesday morning, sources said Johnson was no longer being considered. The prospect of an additional confirmation hearing for Johnson's replacement if he were to move to the Pentagon as the Senate switches to Republican control would have been problematic for the White House.

Related: Was Hagel doomed from the start?

Hagel announced his resignation last week, but has said he will stay on until his successor is confirmed by the Senate.

Carter, who served as Deputy Defense Secretary under both Leon Panetta and Hagel, would bring a wide range of experience to a department confronting multiple crises in the Middle East and preparing to enter a new phase in Afghanistan as the NATO combat mission ends.

Carter's ability to hit the ground running from his past experience at the Pentagon, in addition to the respect many senior military leaders have for him are seen as major benefits to winning confirmation should Obama nominate him.

"His career has sort of prepared him perfectly for this kind of a moment," says Michael O'Hanlon, a defense industry analyst at the Brookings Institution.
1. who is the homeland security secretary?
2. who resgined last week?
3. how long will he stay?
4. by?
5. who is the president in question here?
6. who is his choice as the new secretary of Defense?
7. what was carter doing before?
8. where?
9. what is one benefit for him?
10. who has he served under?
11. as?
12. has his career prepared him?
13. according to who?
14. who is Michael?
15. where?
16. who was not being considered anymore?
17. could there be complications?
18. what is Hagel's first name?
19. has carter handled crises internationally?
20. where?
21. and what else?

Numbered answers:
1. Jeh Johnson
2. Hagel
3. until his successor is confirmed
4. the Senate
5. Barack Obama
6. Ash Carter
7. second-in-command
8. Pentagon
9. the respect many senior military leaders have for him
10. Leon Panetta and Hagel
11. Deputy Defense Secretary
12. yes
13. Michael O'Hanlon,
14. a defense industry analyst
15. Brookings Institution
16. Johnson
17. yes
18. Chuck
19. yes
20. Middle East
21. preparing to enter a new phase in Afghanistan

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A great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale. Great powers characteristically possess military and economic strength, as well as diplomatic and soft power influence, which may cause middle or small powers to consider the great powers' opinions before taking actions of their own. International relations theorists have posited that great power status can be characterized into power capabilities, spatial aspects, and status dimensions. Sometimes the status of great powers is formally recognized in conferences such as the Congress of Vienna or an international structure such as the United Nations Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States serve as the body's five permanent members). At the same time the status of great powers can be informally recognized in a forum such as the G7 which consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
1. what is typically possessed by them?
2. How are they sometimes recognized?
3. Such as?
4. How many permanent members are there?
5. How many countries are in the G7?
6. What counties are in the UN?
7. Where are the powers exerted?
8. Are they challenged?
9. Are their knowledge sought after?
10. by whom?
11. What is a great power?
12. What does this state have?
Numbered answers:
1. military and economic strength
2. in conferences
3. Congress of Vienna
4. five
5. Seven
6. (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United State
7. globally
8. No
9. Yes
10. middle or small powers
11. a sovereign state
12. he ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale.