Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

A group of senior high school students are playing outside on a basketball court. They are shouting with excitement. And they all have the same dream. They wish to play in the NBA, just like Huston Rocket's Yao Ming. "Someday, there will be more Chinese players like Yao in the NBA," said 15-year-old Xie Tao, a senior 1 boy at Shanghai No. 2 Middle School. Xie always watches Yao playing on TV. "He is a great player. He makes me proud to be Chinese," he said.

Like Xie, 17-year-old Liu Yan at Beijing No. 22 Middle School is also a big NBA fan. "Since early May, I've not missed one game in the NBA," said the senior 3 student.

Basketball is becoming popular in middle schools across the country. And more young players are starting to like the sport. More students are playing the game.

Jiang Hui, a basketball teacher at Beijing No. 2 Middle School, said that 85 percent of the students at this school like the sport. "Students are full of passion for the game," Jiang's team won the regional first prize in the 2004 National High School Boy's Basketball League in march. The league is the first national basketball competition for high school students.

Playing basketball is a good way to exercise. But students also enjoy it for other reasons. For Li Yan, a Senior 2 at Shanghai No. 12 Middle School, basketball teaches him lessons in life. "When I am in a game, I feel more confident about my studies, " he said. " It also teaches me to have a good team spirit and to enjoy friendship."

1. what does the game teach them?
2. what does it teach Li?
3. how old is Xie?
4. how old is Liu?
5. who is Xie proud to be?
6. who's his favorite player?
7. Has Liu missed any games?
8. what is the name of the teacher?
9. what does he say about his players?
10. How many students enjoy it?
11. have they ever won?
12. when?
13. what?
14. is the game well liked?
15. by who?
16. what was the name of the tournament?
17. what was special about it?
18. does it help with their studies?
19. where does Jiang coach?
20. who does Yao Ming play for?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. lessons in life
2. to have a good team spirit and to enjoy friendship
3. 17
4. 17
5. Chinese
6. Yao Ming
7. Not since early May
8. Jiang Hui
9. Students are full of passion for the game
10. 85 percent
11. yes
12. March 2004
13. regional first prize
14. yes
15. high school & middle school students
16. 2004 National High School Boy's Basketball League
17. first national basketball competition for high school students
18. yes
19. Beijing No. 2 Middle School
20. Houston Rockets

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The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States. Founded in 1971 to take over most of the remaining U.S. passenger rail services, it is partially government funded yet operated and managed as a for-profit corporation.

Amtrak serves more than 500 destinations in 46 states and three Canadian provinces, operating more than 300 trains each day over of track. Some track sections allow trains to run as fast as .

In fiscal year 2015, Amtrak served 30.8million passengers and had $2.185 billion in revenue, while employing more than 20,000 people. Nearly two-thirds of passengers come from the 10 largest metropolitan areas; 83% of passengers travel on routes shorter than . Its headquarters is at Union Station in Washington, D.C.

The name "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "trak", the latter itself a sensational spelling of "track".

In 1916 98% of all commercial intercity travelers in the United States moved by rail; the remaining 2% moved by inland waterways. Passenger traffic on the railroads totaled 42 billion passenger-miles. Passenger trains were owned and operated by the same privately owned companies that operated freight trains. Thereafter patronage declined in the face of competition from buses, air travel, and the automobile. New streamlined diesel-powered trains such as the "Pioneer Zephyr" were popular with the traveling public but could not reverse the trend. By 1940 railroads held just 67 percent of commercial passenger-miles in the United States. In real terms, passenger-miles had fallen by 40% since 1916, from 42 billion to 25 billion.

1. Who was doing business with antrak?
2. what is amtrak?
3. did they do short distace?
4. how many trains are operated?
5. when was it founded?
6. were they international travelers?
7. how many states are served?
8. is it a for profit or non profit?
9. how many stops does it have?
10. how many people rode in 2015
11. what makes up the name Amtrak?
12. do they travel to canada?
13. who partially funds it?
14. how many provinces do they travel to?
15. where do most of the passengers come from?
16. how many people traveled by train in 1916?
17. what about waterway?
18. What percent did it drop to 1940?
19. What is trak short for?
20. where is it headquarters?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. The National Railroad Passenger Corporation
2. passenger railroad service
3. no
4. more than 300
5. 1971
6. yes
7. 46
8. for-profit
9. 500
10. 30.8million
11. "America" and "trak",
12. yes
13. government
14. three
15. the largest metropolitan areas
16. 42 billion passenger-miles.
17. Two
18. 67
19. track
20. Union Station

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(RollingStone.com) -- Ellie Goulding emerged in 2010 with a one-two punch: first, her (still-rising) helium-voiced hit "Lights," then, an elegant read of Elton John's "Your Song" that led to a gig at Prince William's wedding. As Cinderella stories go, it's a good one. But as a 25-year-old adept who dresses rave-y hooks in folk-rock tunefulness and art-pop filigree, Goulding earned her glass slippers.

"Halcyon," her second LP, pumps up her sound as befitting a court musician. The single "Anything Could Happen" has the London Community Gospel Choir swooping around staccato piano and club beats; elsewhere she's multitracked into a one-woman choir. If the songwriting doesn't quite measure up to U.K. art-pop divas like Kate Bush, the hooks always go to town, and her voice -- Dolly Parton-dazzling in the upper register -- mates gorgeously with electronics, swirling around itself on the title track, morphing through synthscapes on "Don't Say a Word." "I Need Your Love," a bangin' collab with Scottish rave-op master Calvin Harris (Rihanna's "We Found Love"), gets slotted as a "bonus cut," maybe to avoid confusing the more genteel fans. But Goulding's magic is in her multitasking. And if she really gets busy with current paramour Skrillex, things could get even more interesting.

See original story at RollingStone.com.

Copyright ©️ 2011 Rolling Stone.

1. who is the story about?
2. on what website?
3. which song led to a gig at a prince's wedding?
4. who was the prince?
5. what is her second LP?
6. what single has a gospel choir?
7. and what is the choir name?
8. how old is she?
9. when did she emerge?
10. with what hit?
11. where is her magic?
12. has she worked with anyone else?
13. who?
14. who is Calvin?
15. who doesn't her writing match up to?
16. what is her current paramour?
17. does it say she got her glass slippers?
18. does she dress like a school girl?
19. what tunes does she use for rave-y?
20. what beats does she use for anything could happen?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Ellie Goulding
2. RollingStone.com
3. "Your Song"
4. William
5. "Halcyon"
6. "Anything Could Happen"
7. London Community Gospel Choir
8. 25
9. 2010
10. "Lights"
11. Multitasking
12. Yes
13. Calvin Harris
14. Scottish rave-op master
15. Kate Bush
16. Skrillex
17. Yes
18. unknown
19. folk-rock
20. Club beats