question: One morning, Elena woke up, much like she did every day. She threw the covers on the floor and rolled out of bed, yawning hugely. She walked to the window and said, "Hello there, Mr. tree!" at the big tree in the yard. It waved its branches back at her. She walked over to her fish bowl next. "Hello there, Mr. Fish!" But wait. Where was Mr. Fish? The bowl was empty--oh, the rocks and water and tiny castle were all there alright, but the pretty blue fish with the long shiny tail was nowhere to be seen. Elena was very worried. She liked Mr. Fish very much. She looked all around her desk, but here wasn't there. Then she looked on the floor behind the desk--and there he was! He was covered in dust bunnies and not moving. Elena picked him up and put him back in the bowl. And what do you know? He shook himself off and started swimming around again!
1. Was Elena sleeping?
2. What did she do?
3. What else?
4. What did she do with the covers?
5. What did she say to the tree?
6. Where was it?
7. What did it wave?
8. Where did she go next?
9. what did she do there?
10. was he there?
11. what was there?
12. what color was the fish?
13. Was its tail long?
14. How did she feel?
15. did she like him?
16. where did she look?
17. did she find him?
18. where?
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answer: 1. Yes, then woke up
2. yawned
3. Spoke to the tree
4. threw them on the floor
5. "Hello there, Mr. tree!"
6. in the yard
7. its branches
8. her fish bowl
9. said "Hello there, Mr. Fish!"
10. no
11. rocks, water, and castle
12. blue
13. yes
14. worried
15. very much
16. her desk and her floor
17. yes
18. on the floor

When it comes to relationship, we spend a lot of time discussing their joys, but rarely talk about the pain when they break down. Yet most people have a story about a broken relationship.

For Jane Black, a six-year friendship ended when her friend was rude to one of her children. "After quite a few drinks at a party in my house, she said something rude to my child. I ended the friendship face to face at the party," she says. "I didn't realize what I was doing at the time, I was simply standing up for my child, but in her eyes any challenge was a betrayal."

When Angela Thompson noticed a seven-year friendship disappearing, she let it go. "I didn't know how to deal with the issue. I didn't sit down for a grown-up conversation; I just walked away quietly." The decision caused a reaction among Thompson's other friends. "The other friends in the circle are the worst people when you are trying to break up with a friend," she says. "They don't want you to stop being friends, because it puts them in a difficult position. You get told to just get it over."

Though we have plenty of measures for handling conflict at work or family fight, we still don't have good ways of ending friendships. Do we sit down and properly break up, or just walk away? Psychologist Serena Cauchy has the following advice.

Don't blame.

Talk about your needs and feeling rather than talking like a Dutch uncle.

Do talk about your needs.

Talk about why the friendship is not working for you--about how your needs aren't being met.

Don't gossip.

Negative talk hurts everyone involved and in some cases can make matters worse.

Don't be so accessible.

If there is a common wish to conclude the friendship, then you can remove it. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is the profession of the person who gives advice in the story?
2. Is it a man or woman?
3. What is her first name?
4. And last?
5. What is her 1st piece of advice?
6. What does she compare talking about your needs and feelings to?
7. Does she recommend you gossip?
8. How does she feel about being accessible?
9. How long was the friendship that Jane Black ended?
10. Why did she end it?
11. Had her friend had anything to drink?
12. How many?
13. Did she end the friendship via email?
14. How then?
15. Did she realize what she was doing?
16. How did her friend see the challenge?
17. What did Angela Thompson do when she noticed a friendship disappearing?
18. Did she know how to deal with the issue?
19. Did she run away?
20. What did her decision cause among other friends?
Answer: 1. Psychologist
2. woman
3. Serena
4. Cauchy
5. Don't blame
6. a Dutch uncle
7. no
8. Don't be
9. six years
10. her friend was rude
11. yes
12. quite a few
13. no
14. face to face
15. no
16. as a betrayal
17. let it go
18. no
19. no
20. a reaction

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States. Founded in 1971 to take over most of the remaining U.S. passenger rail services, it is partially government funded yet operated and managed as a for-profit corporation.

Amtrak serves more than 500 destinations in 46 states and three Canadian provinces, operating more than 300 trains each day over of track. Some track sections allow trains to run as fast as .

In fiscal year 2015, Amtrak served 30.8million passengers and had $2.185 billion in revenue, while employing more than 20,000 people. Nearly two-thirds of passengers come from the 10 largest metropolitan areas; 83% of passengers travel on routes shorter than . Its headquarters is at Union Station in Washington, D.C.

The name "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "trak", the latter itself a sensational spelling of "track".

In 1916 98% of all commercial intercity travelers in the United States moved by rail; the remaining 2% moved by inland waterways. Passenger traffic on the railroads totaled 42 billion passenger-miles. Passenger trains were owned and operated by the same privately owned companies that operated freight trains. Thereafter patronage declined in the face of competition from buses, air travel, and the automobile. New streamlined diesel-powered trains such as the "Pioneer Zephyr" were popular with the traveling public but could not reverse the trend. By 1940 railroads held just 67 percent of commercial passenger-miles in the United States. In real terms, passenger-miles had fallen by 40% since 1916, from 42 billion to 25 billion. 1. Who was doing business with antrak?
2. what is amtrak?
3. did they do short distace?
4. how many trains are operated?
5. when was it founded?
6. were they international travelers?
7. how many states are served?
8. is it a for profit or non profit?
9. how many stops does it have?
10. how many people rode in 2015
11. what makes up the name Amtrak?
12. do they travel to canada?
13. who partially funds it?
14. how many provinces do they travel to?
15. where do most of the passengers come from?
16. how many people traveled by train in 1916?
17. what about waterway?
18. What percent did it drop to 1940?
19. What is trak short for?
20. where is it headquarters?
numbered_answers:
1. The National Railroad Passenger Corporation
2. passenger railroad service
3. no
4. more than 300
5. 1971
6. yes
7. 46
8. for-profit
9. 500
10. 30.8million
11. "America" and "trak",
12. yes
13. government
14. three
15. the largest metropolitan areas
16. 42 billion passenger-miles.
17. Two
18. 67
19. track
20. Union Station