question: (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?
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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

Mothers and daughters go through so much--yet when was the last time a mother and daughter sat down to write a book together about it all? Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, both gifted professional writers, prove to be ideal co-writers as they examine their decades of motherhood, daughterhood, and the wonderful ways their lives have overlapped .

Perri notes with amazement how closely her own life has mirrored her mother's: both have full-time careers; both have published books, articles, and stories; each has three children; they both love to read. They also love to travel--in fact, they often take trips together. But in truth, the harder they look at their lives, the more they acknowledge their big differences in circumstance and basic nature.

A child of the Depression , Sheila was raised in Brooklyn by parents who considered education a _ for girls. Starting with her college education, she has fought for everything she's ever accomplished. Perri, on the other hand, grew up privileged in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s. For Sheila, wasting time or money is a crime, and luxury is unthinkable while Perri enjoys the occasional small luxury, but has not been successful at trying to persuade her mother into enjoying even the tiniest thing she likes.

Each writing in her own unmistakable voice, Perri and Sheila take turns exploring the joys and pains, the love and bitterness, the minor troubles and lasting respect that have always bonded them together. Sheila describes the adventure of giving birth to Perri in a tiny town in Trinidad where her husband was doing research fieldwork. Perri admits that she can't sort out all the mess in the households, even though she knows it drives her mother crazy. Together they compare thoughts on bringing up children and working, admit long-hidden sorrows, and enjoy precious memories.

Looking deep into the lives they have lived separately and together, Perri and Sheila tell their mother-daughter story with honesty, humor, enthusiasm, and admiration for each other. A written account in two voices, Every Mother Is a Daughter is a duet that produces a deep, strong sound with the experiences that all mothers and daughters will recognize. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. what did they have published
2. did they have any kids
3. how many each?
4. what did she battle with
5. where was she raised
6. what city
7. what schooling did she have
8. where did she give birth
9. what drove her mom crazy
10. what did her and her husband do
Answer: 1. a book
2. yes
3. three
4. Depression
5. Brooklyn
6. New Jersey
7. college education,
8. Trinidad
9. all the mess in the households
10. research fieldwork

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

FURTHER PROCEEDINGS IN EDEN, AND A PROCEEDING OUT OF IT. MARTIN MAKES A DISCOVERY OF SOME IMPORTANCE

From Mr Moddle to Eden is an easy and natural transition. Mr Moddle, living in the atmosphere of Miss Pecksniff's love, dwelt (if he had but known it) in a terrestrial Paradise. The thriving city of Eden was also a terrestrial Paradise, upon the showing of its proprietors. The beautiful Miss Pecksniff might have been poetically described as a something too good for man in his fallen and degraded state. That was exactly the character of the thriving city of Eden, as poetically heightened by Zephaniah Scadder, General Choke, and other worthies; part and parcel of the talons of that great American Eagle, which is always airing itself sky-high in purest aether, and never, no never, never, tumbles down with draggled wings into the mud.

When Mark Tapley, leaving Martin in the architectural and surveying offices, had effectually strengthened and encouraged his own spirits by the contemplation of their joint misfortunes, he proceeded, with new cheerfulness, in search of help; congratulating himself, as he went along, on the enviable position to which he had at last attained.

'I used to think, sometimes,' said Mr Tapley, 'as a desolate island would suit me, but I should only have had myself to provide for there, and being naturally a easy man to manage, there wouldn't have been much credit in THAT. Now here I've got my partner to take care on, and he's something like the sort of man for the purpose. I want a man as is always a-sliding off his legs when he ought to be on 'em. I want a man as is so low down in the school of life that he's always a-making figures of one in his copy-book, and can't get no further. I want a man as is his own great coat and cloak, and is always a-wrapping himself up in himself. And I have got him too,' said Mr Tapley, after a moment's silence. 'What a happiness!' 1. Was Miss Pecksniff ugly?
2. How was she described?
3. What did the narrator describe her as being too good for?
4. What did Mr Tapley say he used to think would suit him?
5. What is an easy transition?
6. What is Eden?
7. Who proceeded in search of help?
8. Was he happy about it?
9. Who did he congratulate?
10. About what?
11. What kind of man did Mr Tapley say he wanted?
12. And what else would the man be?
13. Did he say he already had him?
14. Where did Mr Moddle live?
15. Who poetically heightened the character of Eden?
16. And who else?
17. What is always airing itself sky-high?
18. Does it ever tumble down?
19. Where did Tapley leave Martin?
20. And what had he made stronger?
numbered_answers:
1. no
2. The beautiful Miss Pecksniff
3. man in his fallen and degraded state
4. a desolate island
5. no
6. city
7. Mark Tapley
8. yes
9. himself
10. the enviable position to which he had at last attained
11. is always a-sliding off his legs when he ought to be on 'em.
12. as is so low down in the school of life
13. yes
14. in a terrestrial Paradise
15. Zephaniah Scadder
16. General Choke, and other worthies
17. great American Eagle
18. no
19. architectural and surveying offices
20. the contemplation of their joint misfortunes