Q: One day Mary took a walk to the park. The park was very close to her house. One her way to the park she passed her friend Kim's house. Mary stopped by and asked if Kim wanted to play. Kim said yes. Mary and Kim walked together to the park. John's house was three houses down. Mary and Kim stopped by to ask John if he wanted to play at the park. John said no. He was afraid of being chased by a squirrel. Mary worried that John didn't like her, but John thought she was a good friend. So Mary and Kim went to the park to play. They loved the park. They loved the flowers, and the swings! Soon it was dinnertime and the girls went home. What a lovely day at the park.

Answer the following questions:
1. how many houses away was John's house from Mary's
2. where did Mary walk to?
3. was it close?
A: 1. Four
2. the park
3. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(CNN)How do Republicans try to breathe new life into an old scandal? We've seen it time and time again. Here's how it works:

Step One: Republicans, with nothing in their arsenal to use against Hillary Clinton, selectively leak to reporters a "scandalous" tidbit -- often one that has been previously reported.

Step Two: The new media bites.

Step Three: The media hyperventilates and suffocates the airwaves with repetition of the same story.

Step Four: Upon further examination, the story falls apart.

This is exactly how the latest media hype, this time over Hillary Clinton's use of emails at the State Department, has played out. And it presents yet another chapter in the Benghazi hoax.

The New York Times story about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account at the State Department is a perfect example of "gotcha" journalism, where reporters will take any bait the Republicans give them without proper vetting. The New York Times has a history of this. (Whitewater, anyone?)

The Times story suggests Secretary Clinton broke federal rules in relation to her email. But the Times' main source for this allegation says Clinton violated no laws.

Yes, Clinton used a private email account to communicate while she was secretary of state. But so did secretaries of state before her. According to the State Department spokesman Marie Harf, John Kerry is the first secretary of state ever to rely primarily on official State Department email.

Clinton asks State to release emails: What you need to know

In October 2014, 18 months after Clinton left, the State Department was engaged in the process of updating its records preservation policies. The State Department asked every secretary of state dating back to Madeleine Albright to provide records, including emails, from their time in office. Clinton responded to the State Department's request for emails, providing the department with over 55,000 pages of emails. She did so months ago. Clinton has been fully transparent and has asked the State Department for these emails to be made public.

1. What political party is the article about?
2. Who are they targeting?
3. What is the second step?
4. Does the story hold water?
5. What newspaper wrote a piece about her?
6. What is the type of reporting called?
7. Is this a typical thing for this newspaper?
8. Did she break the law?
9. Has she been cooperative?
10. How much did she turn over?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Republicans
2. Hillary Clinton
3. The new media bites
4. nothing in their arsenal
5. New York Times
6. gotcha
7. yes
8. no
9. yes
10. a lot

Question: An airport is an aerodrome with facilities for flights to take off and land. Airports often have facilities to store and maintain aircraft, and a control tower. An airport consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface such as a runway for a plane to take off or a helipad, and often includes adjacent utility buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminals. Larger airports may have fixed base operator services, airport aprons, air traffic control centres, passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services.

The majority of the world's airports are non-towered, with no air traffic control presence. Busy airports have air traffic control (ATC) system. All airports use a traffic pattern to assure smooth traffic flow between departing and arriving aircraft. There are a number of aids available to pilots, though not all airports are equipped with them. Many airports have lighting that help guide planes using the runways and taxiways at night or in rain, snow, or fog. In the U.S. and Canada, the vast majority of airports, large and small, will either have some form of automated airport weather station, a human observer or a combination of the two. Air safety is an important concern in the operation of an airport, and airports often have their own safety services. 1. What is an airport?
2. with what?
3. Do most have towers?
4. what does that mean?
5. What is something they all use?
6. for what?
7. between what?
8. What are some of the facilities they have?
9. What do airports consist of?
10. anything else?
11. what?
12. what are landing areas for?
13. What do some of the larger airports have?
14. What can help guide planes?
15. during what type of weather?
16. How do the airports know the weather?
17. What is an important concern?
18. What do airports usually have there own of?
19. What is the abbreviation for air traffic control?
20. What are available to pilots? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. an aerodrome
2. with facilities for flights to take off and land.
3. no
4. no air traffic control presence.
5. a traffic pattern
6. to assure smooth traffic flow
7. departing and arriving aircraft.
8. facilities to store and maintain aircraft, and a control tower.
9. a landing area
10. yes
11. utility buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminals.
12. comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface such as a runway for a plane to take off or a helipad
13. passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services
14. lighting
15. rain, snow, or fog.
16. an automated airport weather station, a human observer or a combination of the two.
17. Air safety
18. safety services.
19. ATC
20. aids

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Matt is an adult. He is looking for a job. He hopes to become a clown someday. He wants to be a clown because he loves making people laugh. In order to be a clown, Matt must go to clown school.

One day, Matt's friend tells him about a clown school in St. Louis. Matt becomes excited!

The next day, Matt goes to the clown school in St. Louis. Matt's friend does not go with him. Matt's friend does not want to be a clown because he doesn't like to look weird.

When Matt arrives at clown school, he sees a clown riding on a blue tricycle. The clown asks, "What are you doing here?"

Matt says, "I want to become a clown."

"Well, can you ride this blue tricycle?" the clown asked.

"Yes," Matt said. He rode the blue tricycle all around the clown school. In the classrooms, in the gym, and in the lunchroom.

"You have what it takes to be a clown," the clown said, "you are accepted to clown school."

1. What is Matt?
2. What is he looking for?
3. Of what?
4. why?
5. What does he have to do?
6. Does he know of one?
7. how?
8. Where?
9. How does he feel?
10. What happens the next day?
11. with who?
12. what does he see there?
13. What does the clown say?
14. How does he respond?
15. And the clown's response?
16. What did Matt do?
17. where?
18. Did he get accepted?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. an adult
2. a job.
3. a clown
4. he loves making people laugh
5. go to clown school.
6. yes
7. HIs friend tells him.
8. St. Louis
9. excited!
10. he goes to the clown school
11. no one
12. a clown riding on a blue tricycle.
13. What are you doing here?
14. I want to become a clown
15. can you ride this blue tricycle?
16. He rode it
17. around the clown school
18. yes