Problem: Peter wondered why he didn't have many friends. The reason was that he was always taking, never giving. One day Peter told Bill, "I'd like to give a party on Saturday. I'd like you to come and bring Martha, too. " "Thanks, Peter. We'd be happy to come. ""Perhaps you'd like to bring your violin. You and Martha sing well together. I'm sure everyone will want you to sing for us. "That was how Peter began to plan his party. Next he asked another friend, Betty, to bring a cake. "You make the best cake in the world, Betty, and I like to eat your cake better than have one from the bakery . "Peter invited a few other friends to come to his party. He didn't forget to ask for something from each of them. He even asked Jim Jackson and Mary Jackson to let him give the party at their house! They agreed. The party was a big success. However, as the guests were leaving, they said "Thank you! "to Bill and Martha for the music, Betty for the cake, the Jacksons for the use of the house and to others for their hard work. To Peter they just said, "Thanks for the invitation. "
1. What did Peter ask Betty to bring?
2. What did Peter wonder?
3. What was the reason?
4. What did Peter tell Bill one day?
5. Who did he tell Bill to bring?
6. Who did the guest thank for the music?
7. Where did Peter have the party?
8. Was the party a flop?
9. What did Peter suggest Bill might like to bring?
10. How many friends did Peter invite?
11. What were the Jackson's names?
12. What did the guests thank them for?
13. What did the guests thank Peter for?
14. What did Bill and Martha do well together?
15. What did Peter not forget to do with each guest?
Answer: 1. a cake
2. Peter wondered why he didn't have many friends.
3. The reason was that he was always taking, never giving.
4. One day Peter told Bill, "I'd like to give a party on Saturday.
5. Martha
6. Bill and Martha
7. At the Jacksons' house
8. No
9. His violin
10. Peter invited a few other friends
11. Jim and Mary
12. the use of their house
13. the invitation
14. Sing
15. ask for something from each of them.

Problem: In two days, I will be turning 30. And I was not looking forward to a new decade . I was afraid that the best years of my life were behind me. One day, I met with my friend Nicholas. He was a 79-year-old man. He noticed something was different about me and asked if anything was wrong. I told him what I was anxious about and asked him: "What was the best time of your life?" Without hesitation, Nicholas replied: "Well, Joe, when I was a child in Austria and everything was taken care of for me, that was the best time of my life." "When I was going to school and learning the things I know today, that was the best time of my life." "When I got my first job and got paid for my work, that was the best time of my life." "When I met my wife and fell in love, that was the best time of my life." "World War IIcame, and my wife and I had to leave Austria to save our lives. When we were together and safe on a ship, that was the best time of my life." "When I became a young father and watched my children grow up, that was the best time of my life." "And now, Joe, I am 79 years old. I have my health, I feel good and I am just as in love with my wife as I was the day we met. This is the best time of my life."
1. What is about to happen?
2. When?
3. Is it exciting?
4. Why not?
5. What changed that?
6. Who is he?
7. Did he say something?
8. Did he ask about it?
9. What was said?
10. Where was he from?
11. Did they enjoy it there?
12. What else did he talk about?
13. Did he enjoy that?
14. What else happened?
15. Was he happy with her?
16. Did anything bad happen?
17. Did they have to go anywhere?
18. Why?
19. What was his last name?
20. Is he happy?
Answer: 1. I will be turning 30
2. In two days
3. No
4. I was afraid that the best years of my life were behind me
5. Nicholas
6. A 79-year-old man
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. I was anxious
10. Austria
11. Yes
12. Going to school
13. Yes
14. He fell in love
15. Yes
16. World War II came.
17. Yes
18. To save their lives.
19. unknown
20. Yes

Problem: For their nick-of-time acts, Toby, a 2-year-old dog, and Winnie, a cute cat, were named Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

As Amy Paul choked on a piece of apple at her home, her dog jumped up, landing hard on her chest and forcing the piece in her throat out. When the Keesling family of Indiana was about to be killed by carbon monoxide, their cat clawed at the wife Cathy's hair until she woke up and called for help.

No one could explain their timely heroics.

Both pets were rescued by their owners in _ -----Toby as a 4-week-old thrown into a garbage bin to die, and Winnie as a week-old orphan hiding under a barn, so helpless that Cathy's husband, Eric, had to feed her milk with an eyedropper.

As the Keeslings recalled it, a gas-driven pump being used broke down, spreading carbon monoxide through the house. By the time Winnie went to rescue, the couple's 14-year-old son was already unconscious. "Winnie jumped on the bed and was clawing at me, with a kind of angry sound," Cathy Keesling said. The state police responding to her 911 call said the family was only minutes from death, judging by the amount of poisonous gas in the house.

Amy Paul's husband was at his job when she took a midday break from making jewelry and bit into an apple. "Normally I peel them, but I read in Good Housekeeping Magazine that the skin has all the nutrients, so I ate the skin, and that's what caused me to choke," she recalled. "I couldn't breathe and I was in panic when Toby jumped on me. He never does that, but he did, and saved my life."

Both Toby and Winnie accompanied their owners to the awards luncheon.
1. Where was Toby thrown?
2. and winnie?
3. how old was she?
4. how did she feed?
5. by?
6. what award did they win?
7. Who choked?
8. what does she do for a job?
9. what did she do differntly?
10. why?
11. how did the dog help?
12. does he normally do that?
13. what was poisoning the Keeslings
14. what was the gas?
15. who was unconcious?
16. who did the cat wake?
17. how?
18. was she silent?
19. where do the Keeslings live?
20. how close to death were the family?
Answer:
1. He was thrown into a garbage bin
2. She was hiding under a barn
3. She was a week-old
4. She was fed with an eyedropper
5. By Cathy's husband, Eric
6. They won Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
7. Amy Paul
8. makes jewelry
9. She ate the skin
10. She read in Good Housekeeping Magazine that the skin has all the nutrients
11. he jumped on her
12. No
13. a gas-driven pump
14. carbon monoxide
15. the couple's 14-year-old son
16. Cathy Keesling
17. jumped on the bed and clawed her
18. No
19. Indiana
20. They were only minutes from death