Q: As his case meanders through the Bolivian justice system, an American businessman imprisoned there for a year without formal charges is finding support from a leading human rights advocate in the U.S. Congress.

Jacob Ostreicher, a 53-year-old flooring contractor from Brooklyn, New York, has been held at the notorious Palmasola prison in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, since June 2011 on suspicions of money laundering.

Ostreicher and his family have claimed from the beginning that he is innocent, and presented a judge what they say is evidence that all of the money invested in a rice growing operation came from legal sources. But repeated delays have kept him imprisoned.

The case is now getting more attention in Washington, as U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, has become a vocal advocate for him.

Smith traveled to Bolivia this week to meet with Ostreicher in prison and to accompany him to a hearing Monday.

At that hearing, the judge transferred the case to a higher court, a move likely to create further delays.

"Justice delayed is justice denied," Smith said in a statement. "Jacob has been cooperative, patient to the extreme. There is no evidence offered against him. The rule of law must prevail in Bolivia. Innocent people must have a path to justice. He must be released."

Ostreicher is nearly two months into a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.

Smith reported that Ostreicher appeared "frail and anguished."

The lawmaker's trip follows a hearing last week before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights, which Smith chairs.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is in jail?
2. How old is he?
3. What is his career?
4. Where is he from?
5. Where is he in jail?
6. Why?
7. Has he been charged?
8. Who is advocating for him?
9. Did the representative go to Bolivia?
10. Why?
11. And?
12. Where?
13. WHen?
14. Is Ostreicher eating well?
15. Why not?
A: 1. Jacob Ostreicher
2. 53
3. flooring contractor
4. Brooklyn
5. Palmasola
6. Money laundering.
7. No.
8. Chris Smith
9. Yes.
10. To meet him.
11. Accompany him
12. To a hearing.
13. Monday.
14. No.
15. He's doing a hunger strike.
Q: (CNN) -- Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old eighth-grader from Bayside Hills, New York, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, correctly spelling the word "knaidel."

"It means that I am retiring on a good note," said Mahankali, who attends Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School 74 and was in his last year of eligibility. "I shall spend the summer, maybe the entire day, studying physics."

Mahankali, who wants to become a physicist, had finished third in the two previous national bees, being eliminated after misspelling words with German roots.

"I thought that the German curse had turned into a German blessing," he said, when asked what he thought when he heard the final word, a German-derived Yiddish word for a type of dumpling.

Pranav Sivakumar, a 13-year-old from Tower Lakes, Illinois, finished second. He missed on "cyanophycean" before Mahankali nailed "tokonoma" and "knaidel" for the victory.

The annual contest offers the winner a healthy dose of classroom cred, $32,500 in cash and savings bonds, a trophy and a library of reference materials.

Contest isn't bee-all and end-all

Eleven million schoolchildren participated in preliminaries leading up to the national contest this week. Of those, 281 children made the trip to Oxon Hill, Maryland, just outside Washington, for the national bee. Eleven spellers made it through to the finals.

Among them were 63 children who had been to at least one national bee before, and had to prepare for some changes in the rules for this year's events.

For the first time, participants had to demonstrate proficiency in vocabulary in addition to spelling.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is the young subject of the story?
2. How old is he?
3. What did he win?
4. What was the winning word?
5. What is he doing after this event?
6. What does he want to do when he grows up?
7. How did he do in his last two competitions?
8. What kind of words did he have trouble with?
9. What was the origin of the final word this time?
10. What does the word mean?
11. Who was the runner-up?
12. How old is he?
13. Where's he from?
14. What did he misspell?
15. What other word did the winning contestant get right?
16. What's the financial reward for the winner?
17. Do they also get a trophy?
18. Anything else?
19. What?
20. How many kids participate in the prelims for the event?
A: 1. Arvind Mahankali
2. 13
3. the Scripps National Spelling Bee
4. "knaidel"
5. studying physics
6. wants to become a physicist
7. he finished third
8. words with German roots
9. German
10. dumpling
11. Pranav Sivakumar
12. 13
13. Tower Lakes, Illinois
14. "cyanophycean"
15. "tokonoma"
16. $32,500 in cash
17. yes
18. yes
19. a library of reference materials
20. eleven million
Q: Lisa: My best teacher is my geography teacher in 10th grade. Why? Because we did school projects! Back then I wrote about India and never forgot what I had learned. He brought the culture to life by letting me become part of it. He also listened to us and was always ready with a kind word.

David: My best teacher is my high school social studies and history teacher, Thomas Ladenburg. He respected us, though we were just teenagers. His class was never boring because he often asked us to discuss in class. He used his own materials which made the class very interesting.

Henry: My best ever teacher is my biology teacher in high school. I really liked her class. She explained everything very clearly. She also checked our notebooks to make sure we had written down what she said. Now, many years later, I can still remember a large part of the things she taught!

Susan: The best teacher I have ever had is my 10th grade social studies teacher. She was always in a good mood and kept us laughing. She was really young, so she acted like us teenagers, which made learning fun. If we needed to talk to an adult about a problem, we would always come to her because we knew she could help us.

Tom: My favourite teacher is Mr. Yelle. He taught us math, science and music. He spoke to us "at eye level", and was very patient and kind. We did great projects for the science fairs. Forty years later, I still remember his lessons very well. By the way, though he was called Mr Yelle, he didn't yell .

Answer the following questions:
1. Whose favorite instructor taught geography?
2. What grade?
3. WHy?
4. What country did she study?
5. Who is she talking to?
6. What instructor did David like best?
7. What was his name?
8. And Henry?
9. What did that instructor check?
10. What about Susan?
11. What grade?
12. Was the instructor old?
13. What about Tom?
14. What subject?
15. Did he like to scream at the students?
A:
1. Lisa
2. 10th
3. school projects
4. India
5. her teacher
6. social studies and history teacher
7. Thomas Ladenburg
8. biology teacher
9. notebooks
10. social studies
11. 10th
12. no
13. Mr. Yelle
14. math, science and music.
15. no