Q: Amy Pankratz spent a few nights in the hospital with her daughter, Isabella, who caught a bad flu. "Lying in bed beside Isabella, I could hear the cries of children in pain, "says Amy. "It completely broke my heart."

When Isabella was getting well and could leave her room, she wore her prized possession--a "superhero cape " Amy had sewn to encourage her--and walked into the hallway. The pink cape was an instant hit with the other young patients, who were doing exercise around the nursing station. "Then, all the kidswere taking turns wearing the cape, giggling, "Amy says. "These were some of the same children I had heard crying the night before, and here they were playing and having fun--kids just being kids!"

From that moment on, Amy began making Comfort Capes for little ones battling with serious illnesses. "I felt God presenting an opportunity, "she says. "I hoped Comfort Capes can help these kids feel brave, to lift some of the fear away. "

Since then, Amy has made and donated more than 5, 000 capes in the United States. Amy usually pays for materials herself, although she accepts donations.

The capes she makes for kids in treatment are different from those her own children have. Before Amy starts to sew she learns what image or character the little boy or girl connects with. "I choose the pattern, color and theme specially for each child," explains Amy.

When she is not sewing, Amy is raising awareness of childhood cancers and looking into ways to get Comfort Capes to more kids who need them, "If a cape can help a child, even only for a moment, forget his illness, it's worth the time spent sewing," she says.

Answer the following questions:
1. What broke Amy's heart?
2. where?
3. Where were the kids?
4. What did she do about it?
5. What did she start to do to help?
6. What did she do with the capes?
7. Who did she make the first cape for?
8. Who was that?
9. Why did she sew it for her?
10. Why was Isabella in the hospital?
11. What did she hope comfort capes would do?
12. Are all the capes the same?
13. What does she do for each cape and child?
14. Do they pay for them themselves?
15. who does?
16. Does Amy pay also?
A: 1. cries of children in pain,
2. Lying in bed
3. in the hospital
4. spent a few nights
5. pink cape
6. began making Comfort Capes
7. Isabella
8. her daughter
9. to encourage her
10. bad flu
11. help these kids feel brave
12. no
13. choose the pattern, color and theme specially for each child,
14. no
15. donated
16. yes
Q: Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Closing arguments are set for Wednesday in the trial of Mexican soap opera actress Fernanda Romero on federal charges that her marriage was an illegal sham intended only to earn her a U.S. work permit.

On Tuesday, Romero tearfully testified that she really loved Kent Ross, the pizza deliveryman she married five years ago.

Their marriage was real, but it soon fell apart because of his drinking and her focus on a modeling and acting career, Romero told jurors.

Romero is accused of paying Ross $5,000 to marry her on June 12, 2005, but the prosecutor alleged they never lived together as a couple.

U.S. District Judge Manuel Real blocked defense lawyers from using evidence they said would show Romero was set up and turned in by a vengeful photographer angry that she rebuffed his romantic advances.

The job of convincing jurors the marriage was real fell on Romero, a 28-year-old actress-singer-model who starred in Telemundo's "Wounded Soul" soap opera. The prosecutor suggested Romero was using her professional acting skills to sell her own fiction.

Romero testified she married for love, not a green card.

"To be in a loving relationship, forever and ever, like my parents," she testified.

The couple didn't have a family wedding because he is Mormon and she is Catholic, she said.

They kept separate Hollywood apartments because he couldn't break a lease and she traveled a lot, she said.

The first months were "very loving, fun," she said. "We socialized together, passionate. It was the honeymoon stage."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is Fernanda Romero?
2. Why is she being accused?
3. Whom did she marry with?
4. How long ago did Fernanda Romero get married?
5. Why did the marriage fell apart?
6. How much did Romero pay Ross to marry her?
7. When did they get married?
8. Did they live together?
9. Did Romero love her?
10. Why the couple did not have a family wedding?
11. Why the couple did not live together in Hollywood?
12. How was the first months of the relationship?
A: 1. a soap opera actress
2. that her marriage was an illegal sham
3. Kent Ross
4. five years ago
5. his drinking and her focus on a modeling and acting career
6. $5,000
7. June 12
8. no
9. yes
10. because he is Mormon and she is Catholic
11. he couldn't break a lease and she traveled a lot
12. very loving, fun
Q: Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. Its name translates to "White city". The urban area of the City of Belgrade has a population of 1.23 million, while over 1,68 million people live within its administrative limits.

One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinca culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region, and after 279 BC Celts conquered the city, naming it "Singidun". It was conquered by the Romans during the reign of Augustus, and awarded city rights in the mid-2nd century. It was settled by the Slavs in the 520s, and changed hands several times between the Byzantine Empire, Frankish Empire, Bulgarian Empire and Kingdom of Hungary before it became the capital of Serbian king Stephen Dragutin (12821316). In 1521, Belgrade was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and became the seat of the Sanjak of Smederevo. It frequently passed from Ottoman to Habsburg rule, which saw the destruction of most of the city during the Austro-Ottoman wars. Belgrade was again named the capital of Serbia in 1841. Northern Belgrade remained the southernmost Habsburg post until 1918, when the city was reunited. As a strategic location, the city was battled over in 115 wars and razed 44 times. Belgrade was the capital of Yugoslavia from its creation in 1918.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the main subject?
2. What culture developed in the 6th millenium BC?
3. Where is it a capital of?
4. In terms of size, what's it ranking?
5. What's its population?
6. From what era was the Vinca culture?
7. Who lived there in antique times?
8. Until when?
9. What was it called then?
10. When did the Romans take over?
A:
1. Belgrade
2. Vinca
3. Serbia
4. 1.23 million
5. 1.23 million
6. 6th millennium BC
7. Thraco-Dacians
8. 279 BC
9. Singidun
10. during the reign of Augustus