question: John and Bobby joined a wholesale company together just after graduation from college the same year. Both worked very hard. After several years, however, the boss promoted Bobby to the position of manager but John remained an ordinary employee. John couldn't understand it anymore, gave his resignation to the boss and complained that the boss didn't value hardworking workers, but only promoted those who flattered him. The boss knew that John worked very hard for the years. He thought for a moment and said, "Thank you for your criticism , but I have a request. I hope you will do one more thing for our company before you leave. Perhaps you will change your mind and take back your resignation." John agreed. The boss asked him to go and find out anyone selling watermelon in the market. John went and returned soon. He said he had found out a man selling watermelon. The boss asked how much per kg? John shook his head and went back to the market to ask and returned to tell the boss $1.2 per kg. Boss told John to wait a second, and he called Bobby to come to his office. He asked Bobby to go and find anyone selling watermelon in the market. Bobby went, returned and said, "Boss, only one person selling watermelon. $1.2 per kg, and $10 for 10kg. He has 340 melons in all, 58 of which are on the table. Every melon weighs about 2 kg. Bought from the South two days ago, they are fresh and red, good quality." John was very impressed and realized the difference between himself and Bobby. He decided not to resign but to learn from Bobby. My dear friends, chances exist in the daily details. For the same matter, a more successful person sees more and farther so that he can find out an opportunity and catch it to realize his aim.
1. what did the boss ask John to go find?
2. where did he work?
3. who worked for him there?
4. who got promoted?
5. was John happy about it?
6. did he threaten to quit?
7. how much were the watermelons that he found?
8. how much did Bobby find out they were?
9. how much for 10kg?
10. how many people were selling them?
11. did John quit?
12. did he take back his resignation?
13. who convinced him?
14. where did the watermelons come in from?
15. how many total were available?
16. was John impressed by Bobby?
17. how many melons were on display?
18. were they good or bad?
19. what did Johnny decide to do?
20. who did he think he could learn from?
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answer: 1. anyone selling watermelon in the market
2. a wholesale company
3. John and Bobby
4. Bobby
5. no
6. Yes
7. $1.2 per kg
8. $1.2 per kg
9. $10
10. one
11. No
12. Yes
13. Bobby
14. from the South
15. 340
16. Yes
17. , 58
18. Good
19. not to resign
20. Bobby

question: (CNN) -- We are now able to project a winner in the 2012 presidential race:

Brooks & Dunn.

Again.

If that wasn't clear enough already, it became abundantly so at the end of Newt Gingrich's victory speech in South Carolina last weekend.

As Gingrich left the stage, his campaign staff played a song through the speaker system.

The song was "Only in America," by the country duo Brooks & Dunn.

Of course. That song has become a bipartisan standard in recent presidential campaigns. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney used it at their rallies; Barack Obama used it at his rallies; John McCain used it at his rallies; and now Gingrich is using it. Mitt Romney, too.

Politicians have long utilized campaign songs, but it is unusual for Republicans and Democrats to share the same song. After Bill Clinton used Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)" in his 1992 campaign, it would have been inconceivable for a Republican opponent to use it at GOP rallies that year, or for Republicans four years later to use it. It would have reminded potential voters of the other guy.

But "Only in America" has managed to transcend party lines; its lyrics, about the U.S. ideal of opportunity for all, seem to speak to a deeply held national belief, even a yearning, and the insistent opening guitar chords rivet an audience. "Only in America," Ronnie Dunn's voice sings, "Dreaming in red, white and blue; Only in America, Where we dream as big as we want to. ..."
1. Who was the project winner in the 2012 presidental's race?
2. When was that clear?
3. Where?
4. when?
5. WHat happened when he left the stage?
6. What was it?
7. by who?
8. What kind of music do they play?
9. Have others used this song?
10. What did Bill Clinton use?
11. by who?
12. when?
13. Was he a republican?
14. What is Only in America about?
15. WHat does it seem to speak?
16. What is Dunn's first name?
17. Is it just two people in the band?
18. What year was this race?
19. What did they play the song through?
20. who played it?
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answer: 1. Brooks & Dunn.
2. the end of Newt Gingrich's victory speech
3. South Carolina
4. last weekend
5. his campaign staff played a song
6. Only in America
7. Brooks & Dunn
8. country
9. yes
10. Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)
11. Fleetwood Mac
12. 1992
13. no
14. bout the U.S. ideal of opportunity for all
15. a deeply held national belief
16. Ronnie
17. yes
18. 2012
19. a speaker system.
20. his campaign staff

question: Alexandria, Virginia (CNN) -- A former Marine Corps reservist pleaded guilty Thursday to shooting at the Pentagon and other military-related buildings and to trying to desecrate graves at Arlington National Cemetery containing the remains of veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Yonathan Melaku entered a guilty plea to three counts: damaging U.S. property with a firearm, using a firearm in a crime of violence and attempting injury to veterans' memorials on U.S. property.

Melaku, a 23-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Ethiopia, was arrested June 17 at the cemetery. He had a backpack with four plastic bags each containing 5 pounds of ammonium nitrate, material commonly used in homemade explosives. He also had numerous 9 mm spent shell casings; black paint and a notebook with Arabic statements mentioning al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and the "Path to Jihad."

In the statement of facts document signed by Melaku, he admitted he "intended to desecrate and injure grave markers by spray-painting the markers with Arabic statements and by leaving the ammonium nitrate he was carrying at the sites of these grave markers."

Melaku did not have all the components needed to make a bomb. In a search of his home, investigators found a typed list that included various components including batteries, wire and a "digital kitchen countdown timer." But he had not obtained all of those items.

Melaku admitted to five shootings with a legally owned handgun at military buildings in Northern Virginia between October 17 and November 2 of 2010. He said he attacked the Pentagon, Marine and Coast Guard recruiting offices and he twice fired at the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
1. Did Melaku have all the things he needed to make an explosive device?
2. What was found in his home during a search?
3. What was on the list?
4. Did he enter a plea in court?
5. Was it guilty or not guilty?
6. To how many counts?
7. What did he damage with a gun?
8. Was he formerly a part of the U.S. Military?
9. Which branch?
10. Which cemetery were the graves located in?
11. How old is Melaku?
12. Where was he born?
13. How many plastic bags were in his backpack?
14. What was in them?
15. What was in his notebook?
16. How did he plan on desecrating the graves?
17. How many shootings did he admit to?
18. Was the gun he used obtained legally?
19. The cemetery contained the graves of veterans who fought in which wars?
20. What date was Melaku arrested?
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answer:
1. No
2. a typed list
3. various components including batteries, wire and a "digital kitchen countdown timer.
4. Yes
5. guilty
6. three
7. veterans' memorials
8. Yes
9. Marine Corps
10. Arlington National Cemetery
11. 23
12. Ethiopia
13. four
14. each containing 5 pounds of ammonium nitrate
15. Arabic statements
16. spray-painting the markers with Arabic statements
17. five
18. Yes
19. Iraq and Afghanistan.
20. June 17