Q: It is classified as a Beta World City, ranking seventh in Latin America and 73rd in the world. Described as a "vibrant, eclectic place with a rich cultural life", and "a thriving tech center and entrepreneurial culture", Montevideo ranks 8th in Latin America on the 2013 MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index. By 2014, is also regarded as the fifth most gay-friendly major city in the world, first in Latin America. It is the hub of commerce and higher education in Uruguay as well as its chief port. The city is also the financial and cultural hub of a larger metropolitan area, with a population of around 2 million.

A Spanish expedition was sent from Buenos Aires, organized by the Spanish governor of that city, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala. On 22 January 1724, the Spanish forced the Portuguese to abandon the location and started populating the city, initially with six families moving in from Buenos Aires and soon thereafter by families arriving from the Canary Islands who were called by the locals "guanches", "guanchos" or "canarios". There was also one significant early Italian resident by the name of Jorge Burgues.

1. Montevideo
2. %th most gay friendly
3. 8th in Latin America on the 2013 MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index
4. An expedition
5. Portugese were forced to abandon the location
6. Governor of Buenos Aires
7. Canary Islands
8. Canarios
9. Locals
10. Jorge Burgues.
11. Commerce and higher education

Numbered questions:
1. What is the City of focus?
2. What recognition did it get in 2014?
3. What about in 2013?
4. What did Zabala organize?
5. What happened in 1724?
6. And who was Zabala?
7. From which islands did some arrive?
8. What was one name for those folks?
9. Who called them by those names?
10. What is the name of the early Italian settler?
11. What type of hub is the city of a larger metro area?

Q: In seventh grade, Brittany Blythe dreamed of being a cheerleader. Her school's coaches were less than enthusiastic. "They said, 'I don't know how you'll be able to do it,' she recalls. "'You won't be able to do it. '"

But Brittany, now a junior at Strath Haven High School near Philadelphia, persisted . And when the junior team cheerleaders won a tournament last year, she was right there, dancing and cheering with the rest of the team.

Not bad for someone whose legs were cut off below the knee when she was two years old.

Brittany, 18, was born without shinbones --"just blood and muscle tissue", as she puts it. When she tried to walk, her legs twisted.

After the operation, she adapted quickly. "From day one, I basically jumped up and wanted to do everything," she says. Prosthetic legs allowed her to move around upright, but too slowly to keep up with her friends. Brittany's solution: take the legs off and walk on her knees---sometimes she still does when safety and comfort permit.

She's rarely _ . Other children laughed at her through the years, especially in junior high school, but she says the challenge only made her stronger. Now she's trying to convince her coaches to let her remove the prostheses and be a flyer, the cheerleader who's thrown in the air and caught by her teammates.

Brittany doesn't think her problems are more difficult than the next person's. "My disability was the first thing I had to get through, and that's going to prepare me for the future," she says. "It's all just a test: If someone throws you a curve ball , what are you going to do?"

1. cheerleader
2. Her school's coaches
3. Shinbones
4. Other children laughed
5. To let her remove the prostheses and be a flye
6. Her disability
7. Strath Haven High School
8. Yes
9. Two
10. a junior
11. Her school's coaches were less than enthusiastic
12. Yes
13. Yes
14. No
15. shinbones
16. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. What did Brittany dream of being in High School?
2. Who told her she couldn't be a cheerleader?
3. What was Brittany born without?
4. What was the reaction to her prosthetic legs in Junior high?
5. What does Brittany want her coaches to let her do now?
6. What was the first thing Brittany had to go through in like?
7. What school is Brittany at near Philadelphia?
8. Did the junior team cheerleaders win their tournament last year?
9. How old was Brittany when she lost the bottom of her legs?
10. What grade is Brittany in?
11. How did the coaches react to Brittany want to be a cheerleader?
12. Does Brittany ever move around without her prostetics?
13. Does Brittany have a great attitude?
14. Does Brittany think her disability makes her problems more difficult then the next persons?
15. Brittany was born without?
16. Did Brittany have any operations?

Q: Josh and Amy are like many teenagers these days. They have jobs to do to help out around the home. Josh washes cars for his neighbors while Amy helps their neighbor's kids with their homework. Like many families, both of Josh and Amy's parents work outside the home. Everyone in Josh and Amy's family is busy. Their mom works in an office and often has to stay late for meetings. Their father owns his own small business and stays late to finish his work. Josh and Amy go to school. Both belong to clubs and sports teams. They also have lots of friends with whom they want to spend time. Josh and Amy's mom leaves for work at 7:00 in the morning and does not get home most days until 6:30 pm. The same is true for their dad, but he leaves home in the morning even earlier. Josh and Amy's parents work to be able to provide for their family. They need money to pay for their home and to pay their bills. Next year they want to buy a new car. The family also wants to go on a vacation to California. Josh and Amy need clothes, books, and other things for school. Their parents are also saving money so Josh and Amy can go to college when they finish high school.[:]

1. Josh and Amy can go to college
2. they finish high school
3. Josh and Amy
4. Two
5. yes
6. washes cars
7. no
8. neighbors
9. Amy
10. neighbor's kids
11. outside
12. yes
13. clubs
14. sports teams
15. 7:00
16. even earlie
17. provide for their family
18. Two
19. bills
20. California

Numbered questions:
1. whay are mom and dad saving money ?
2. when ?
3. how many teens are mentioned ?
4. how many ?
5. do they work ?
6. what does josh do ?
7. for the church ?
8. for who ?
9. who hleps with home work ?
10. who does she help ?
11. does mom and dad work in the home or out ?
12. are they busy ?
13. what do the kids belong to ?
14. anything else ?
15. what time does the mother leave for work ?
16. how about the father ?
17. why do they work ?
18. for haw many major things ?
19. name one ?
20. where do they want to go ?