question: Music can be a great power to change people's lives. Regina del Carmen Sanchez, 14, always believes this. The girl from Kansas City, US, leads a hard life. She lives in a small house with her mom and grandparents. Her mom gets a very low pay. But it doesn't stop Sanchez's love of music. She wrote her first song Keep Your Head Up when she was 12. It described the bad situation at her home, but it also sent the message of hope: "My house is old and poor, but it beats being homeless... Love yourself and never give up. You'll see a better life if you keep your head up..." It took Sanchez several months to finish the song. Sometimes during a break in class, when lyrics came into her head, "I would have to write them down right then," she told the local newspaper The Kansas City Star. Jeremy Lillig was a spokesman for Bright Futures, a charity fund. When he saw the video of the song, he was _ He shared it through social media . The fund has provided money for poor students in Kansas City. Now Sanchez often plays the song in public. "I want to help people understand what is happening in the world in an easy way," she said.
1. Who is this article about?
2. Who is she?
3. How old is she?
4. What is unique about her?
5. What was it about?
6. What is her situation at home?
7. Are they poor?
8. How long did it take her to write?
9. Where did she write it?
10. What was the positive message?
11. Did she make a video?
12. Has the song influenced anyone?
13. Who?
14. Who is he?
15. What did he do?
16. What did that accomplish?
17. Does she ever perform in public?
18. What message is she hoping to get across?
19. Is there a theme to the article?
20. What is the message?
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answer: 1. Regina del Carmen Sanchez
2. girl from Kansas City, US
3. 14
4. She wrote her first song Keep Your Head Up when she was 12
5. the bad situation at her home, but it also sent the message of hope
6. She lives in a small house with her mom and grandparents
7. Yes
8. several months
9. Sometimes during a break in class
10. Love yourself and never give up. You'll see a better life if you keep your head up
11. Yes
12. Yes
13. Jeremy Lillig
14. a spokesman for Bright Futures, a charity fund
15. He shared it through social media
16. The fund has provided money for poor students in Kansas City.
17. Yes.
18. help people understand what is happening in the world in an easy way,"
19. Yes
20. Music can be a great power to change people's lives.

question: The Australian National University (ANU) is a national research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and institutes.

Founded in 1946, it is the only university to have been created by the Parliament of Australia. Originally a postgraduate research university, ANU commenced undergraduate teaching in 1960 when it integrated the Canberra University College, which had been established in 1929 as a campus of the University of Melbourne. ANU enrolls 10,052 undergraduate and 10,840 postgraduate students and employs 3,753 staff. The university's endowment stood at A$1.13 billion in 2012.

ANU is ranked 1st in Australia & the whole of Oceania, and 20th in the world by the 2018 QS World University Rankings, and 47th in the world (second in Australia) by the 2016/17 "Times Higher Education." ANU was named the world's 7th (first in Australia) most international university in a 2017 study by "Times Higher Education". In the 2016 "Times Higher Education" Global Employability University Ranking, an annual ranking of university graduates' employability, ANU was ranked 22nd in the world (first in Australia). ANU is ranked 100th (first in Australia) in the CWTS Leiden ranking.
1. when was it founded?
2. where is it located?
3. how many undergraduates does it have?
4. how many does it employ?
5. when was it named 7th in the world?
6. who conducted the study?
7. how many postgraduates does it take?
8. what is the capital of Australia?
9. how may teaching and research colleges does it have?
10. where?
11. where is this?
12. what is it ranked in the whole of Oceania?
13. is this the same in Australia?
14. was it started by a single individual?
15. then who?
16. who did it merge with?
17. when was that founded?
18. what does CWTS Leiden rank it as?
19. what was Canberra University a campus of?
20. how much is it's endowment?
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answer: 1. 1946
2. Canberra
3. 10,052
4. 3,753
5. 2017
6. Times Higher Education
7. 10,840
8. Canberra
9. seven
10. in it's main campus
11. Acton
12. 1st
13. yes
14. no
15. the Parliament of Australia.
16. Canberra University College,
17. 1929
18. 100th (first in Australia)
19. University of Melbourne
20. A$1.13 billion

question: The Black Death is thought to have originated in the arid plains of Central Asia, where it then travelled along the Silk Road, reaching Crimea by 1343. From there, it was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships. Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 3060% of Europe's total population. In total, the plague reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million down to 350375 million in the 14th century. The world population as a whole did not recover to pre-plague levels until the 17th century. The plague recurred occasionally in Europe until the 19th century.

The plague disease, caused by Yersinia pestis, is enzootic (commonly present) in populations of fleas carried by ground rodents, including marmots, in various areas including Central Asia, Kurdistan, Western Asia, Northern India and Uganda. Nestorian graves dating to 133839 near Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan have inscriptions referring to plague and are thought by many epidemiologists to mark the outbreak of the epidemic, from which it could easily have spread to China and India. In October 2010, medical geneticists suggested that all three of the great waves of the plague originated in China. In China, the 13th century Mongol conquest caused a decline in farming and trading. However, economic recovery had been observed at the beginning of the 14th century. In the 1330s a large number of natural disasters and plagues led to widespread famine, starting in 1331, with a deadly plague arriving soon after. Epidemics that may have included plague killed an estimated 25 million Chinese and other Asians during the 15 years before it reached Constantinople in 1347.
1. How much of Europe's population was killed by the Black Death?
2. What is the bacterium that caused it?
3. Where is it often found?
4. where do the fleas live?
5. How did it get to Europe?
6. What do many scientists believe was the start of the plague?
7. how many people died before the disease came to Turkey?
8. When did the population rebound?
9. Were there any more outbreaks?
10. when did they stop?
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answer:
1. 3060%
2. Yersinia pestis
3. In flea populations?
4. In Central Asia
5. From fleas on merchant ships
6. A plague in China
7. unknown
8. 17th century.
9. Yes
10. 19th century.