Problem: (CNN) -- Lionel Messi has agreed a new contract with Barcelona, which will keep the Argentine at the Spanish club until 2018.

The 25-year-old already had a deal that expired with the European giants in 2016, but that has now been extended by two years.

Messi has been in sensational form this year, scoring 90 goals for both club and country to surpass the previous goalscoring record for a calendar year set by Gerd Mueller in 1972, when the German scored 85 goals.

The 21-time Spanish champions have also verbally agreed new deals with midfielder Xavi, who will extend his contract from 2014 until 2016, while defender Carles Puyol, whose contract had been due to expire next year, will stay with Barca until 2016.

None of the players has yet to put pen to paper on their new contracts but the Barca website says this will happen "over the course of the next few weeks".

"This news means that FC Barcelona has secured its ties with three of its most important players," the club said on its official website.

While both club captain Puyol, 34, and Xavi, 32, are significant figures at the club, Barcelona officials are likely to look upon the extension of Messi's deal as the most important.

Widely regarded as the best footballer in the world, the diminutive Argentina international has often spoke of the debt of gratitude he believes he owes the Catalan club.

At the age of 11, Messi was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency and neither his existing club in his home town Rosario -- Newell's Old Boys -- nor Buenos Aires giants River Plate were prepared to provide the money to treat his condition, which amounted to some US$1,000 per month.
1. How old is Messi?
2. He has agreed a new contract with who?
3. What will this contract lead to?
4. Who are the significant figures at the club?
5. His deal with European giants expired in what year/
6. At what age was Messi diagnosed with a deficiency?
7. What's the name of the deficiency?
8. Was anyone prepared to give money for his treatment?
9. what was the amount that was needed monthly?
10. When did the German score 85 goals?
Answer: 1. 25
2. Barcelona
3. it will keep the Argentine at the Spanish club
4. Puyol and Xavi
5. 2016
6. 11
7. a growth hormone deficiency
8. no
9. $1,000
10. in 1972

Problem: Tony was riding his bike home from school. Then he saw Cindy riding her bike in front of him.

Tony yelled, "Hey, Cindy!" Then he rode faster to catch up with her.

Cindy said, "Tony! Hey! Where are you going?"

"I'm going to the empty lot on Maple Street to ride my bike. The other kids are going to be there. Do you want to come?"

"Sure," said Cindy.

Tony and Cindy rode to Maple Street, to the empty lot. The empty lot did not have a house on it. Instead, it had big hills of dirt, and it had trees cut down on the ground. There was a low part that became a pond after it rained. The lot had been empty for a couple of years, because times were bad and the builder couldn't find a buyer for another house. The kids had ridden their bikes over the hills of dirt, around the cut trees, and through the muddy pond. There were bike trails all over the empty lot. There were even places where the kids could jump their bikes.

There were three other children riding their bikes at the empty lot when Tony and Cindy arrived: Lana, Billy and Chris.

Cindy said, "I am calling my mom to let her know that I'm here."

Tony said, "That's a good idea. Can I use your phone when you're done?"

Cindy said "Sure! Keep it for now. I'm going to go on the jump path. I was scared to try it last time. I don't want to break my phone if I fall. I'm leaving my backpack here, too."

"Okay." said Tony. "I'll watch. You'll do good."
1. who was riding their bike?
2. where was he going?
3. from where?
4. who did he see?
5. did he speak to her?
6. what did he say?
7. Did she speak back?
8. what did she say?
9. did they go somewhere together?
10. where?
11. were there others there?
12. how many others?
13. What were their names?
14. what were they doing there?
15. what did Cindy do?
16. did anyone else?
17. who?
18. Who's phone did they use?
19. did he give it back to her?
20. why not?
Answer: 1. Tony
2. home
3. school
4. Cindy
5. yes
6. "Hey, Cindy!
7. yes
8. "Tony! Hey! Where are you going?"
9. yes
10. an empty lot
11. yes
12. Three
13. Lana, Billy and Chris.
14. riding their bikes
15. called her mom
16. yes
17. Tony
18. Cindy's
19. no
20. she was going on the jump path

Problem: (CNN) -- A flurry of last-minute legal maneuvers Tuesday spared, for now, the life of John Ferguson, a Florida death row inmate who suffers from mental illness and at one point called himself the 'prince of God.'

Ferguson, a diagnosed schizophrenic convicted of killing eight people, was scheduled to get the lethal injection Tuesday at 6 p.m. ET at a Florida State Prison.

But an appeals court in Atlanta granted an emergency stay of execution Tuesday night.

Florida officials then asked the Supreme Court to allow the lethal injection to proceed. Just before midnight the high court denied Florida's request, keeping in place the stay of execution, according to court documents.

Some had questioned why authorities would kill a man who suffered from mental illness.

Laurel Bellows, the president of the American Bar Association, released a statement earlier Tuesday saying she was concerned about how thoroughly Ferguson's competency was evaluated.

"The American Bar Association is alarmed that Florida is poised to execute John Ferguson, a man diagnosed as severely mentally ill for more than 40 years, before the constitutionality of his execution is fully evaluated."

Chris Handman, one of Ferguson's attorneys, told CNN. "We think the court should intervene to stop that execution from going forward."

Handman said a court had earlier found that Ferguson was mentally ill and had delusions that caused him to think he is the "Prince of God."

Ferguson is on death row for the murders of eight people in Hialeah and Carol City, Florida, in the late 1970s.
1. What was given by an appeals court Tuesday?
2. Where?
3. Who received it?
4. Is he on death row?
5. Where?
6. Does he have an illness?
7. What kind?
8. Did a doctor say he's ill?
9. What is the name of his illness?
10. How long has he had that label?
11. Who is Laurel Bellows?
12. How does she say the Bar feels about this?
13. When did she say it?
14. Who is his lawyer?
15. What does he feel the court should do?
16. And do what?
17. Who did he murder?
18. when?
19. What were they planning to kill him with?
20. When?
Answer:
1. an emergency stay of execution
2. in Atlanta
3. John Ferguson
4. yup
5. Florida
6. yes
7. mentally ill
8. yes
9. schizophrenic
10. 40 years,
11. the president of the American Bar Association
12. They are alarmed
13. Tuesday
14. Chris Handman
15. intervene
16. stop that execution from going forward
17. eight people
18. the late 1970s
19. lethal injection
20. Tuesday