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When I first saw the bookAlice in Lace, I thought I was going to like it. And as it turned out, I love it! I love books about life and being a kid. And Alice in Laceis just that kind. It's a humorous book about being thirteen and the problems kids might face. Alice and her friends get a strange assignment from their totally cool teacher, Mr. Everett. It was like playing the game of "Life," but you had to act it out.

So Pamela is pregnant, Elizabeth buys a car and Alice gets married. Well, of course, Pamela wasn't really pregnant, but she walked around with a pillow under her shirt to get people's reactions. Elizabeth didn't really buy a car, but she went to the car lot and made the sales guy think she was. The whole class got assignments like these! I would love to do something like that for school.

In the book Alice has a lot to think about. "Getting married is hard!" Alice says. She has to plan the ceremony, the honeymoon, find a place to live, pay for furniture and two months' rent and food. Maybe she and her "husband" could work it out -- if they were getting on fine!

Although this book was funny, it really made me think about how problems like these could really mess up your life. Take teenage pregnancy for example. How could you have a baby and stay in school? You couldn't find a babysitter every day to stay with your kid. A child really consumes your life. I understand what the teacher was trying to do. He was trying to discourage the class from getting into these problems by giving them a glimpse of life. As someone about to become a teenager myself, I can say sometimes a story makes you think about what's up ahead.

Overall, I would say this book is wonderful. My favorite part of the book is discovering that if I like it, there are seven other Alice books I can check out at my local library. I love this book, and I hope you will too.
1. who was in Lace?
2. What was the name of the book?
3. What was the favorite part?
4. How many more books in the series?
5. Where are they available?
6. What was one of problems in the book?
7. Did the teacher expect students not to have child early?
8. Did the story tell you about the upcoming events?
9. What Alice thought hard?
10. What she had to think early about that?
11. anything else?
12. Did it talk about paying?
13. what?
14. Anything else?
15. Was the book entertaining?
16. Who was pregnant?
17. Who is getting married?
18. Anyone buying a vehicle?
19. Who?
20. How was the teacher?
21. What

Numbered answers:
1. Alice
2. Alice in Lace
3. discovering that if I like it
4. seven
5. local library
6. teenage pregnancy
7. yes
8. yes
9. Getting married
10. plan the ceremony
11. find a place
12. yes
13. furniture
14. rent and food
15. yes
16. Pamela
17. Alice
18. yes
19. Elizabeth
20. cool
21. Mr. Everett

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Professional wrestling (colloquially abbreviated to pro wrestling or wrestling) is an athletic form of entertainment based on a portrayal of a combat sport. Taking the form of live events held by touring promotions, it portrays a unique style of combat based on a combination of adopted styles, which include classical wrestling, catch wrestling and various forms of martial arts, as well as an innovative style based on grappling (holds/throws), striking, and aerialism. Various forms of weaponry are sometimes used.

The content including match outcomes is choreographed and the combative actions and reactions are executed in special manners designed to both protect from, yet simulate, pain. These facts were once kept highly secret, but they are now openly declared as the truth. By and large, the true nature of the content is ignored by the performing promotion in official media in order to sustain and promote the willing suspension of disbelief for the audience by maintaining an aura of verisimilitude. Fan communications by individual wrestlers and promotions through outside media (i.e., interviews) will often directly acknowledge the fictional nature of the spectacle.
1. What is professional wrestling?
2. What will directly acknowledge the fictional nature of it?
3. Is weaponry used?
4. What does it portray?
5. What is choreographed?
6. What are teh combative actions and reactions designed to protect from and simulate?
7. Were these facts always known?
8. What is professional wrestling abbreviated to?
9. What are some of the adopted styles?
10. What is ignored by and large?

Numbered answers:
1. athletic form of entertainment
2. interviews
3. sometimes
4. unique style of combat
5. the content
6. pain
7. no
8. pro wrestling or wrestling
9. classical wrestling, catch wrestling and martial arts
10. the true nature of the content

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Fresno (/frzno/ FREZ-noh), the county seat of Fresno County, is a city in the U.S. state of California. As of 2015, the city's population was 520,159, making it the fifth-largest city in California, the largest inland city in California and the 34th-largest in the nation. Fresno is in the center of the San Joaquin Valley and is the largest city in the Central Valley, which contains the San Joaquin Valley. It is approximately 220 miles (350 km) northwest of Los Angeles, 170 miles (270 km) south of the state capital, Sacramento, or 185 miles (300 km) south of San Francisco. The name Fresno means "ash tree" in Spanish, and an ash leaf is featured on the city's flag.

In 1872, the Central Pacific Railroad established a station near Easterby'sby now a hugely productive wheat farmfor its new Southern Pacific line. Soon there was a store around the station and the store grew the town of Fresno Station, later called Fresno. Many Millerton residents, drawn by the convenience of the railroad and worried about flooding, moved to the new community. Fresno became an incorporated city in 1885. By 1931 the Fresno Traction Company operated 47 streetcars over 49 miles of track.
1. When did Fresno become an incorporated city?
2. Is it in a valley inside of another valley?
3. How far away from the state capital is it?
4. In 1872 which railroad line went by it?
5. Name the valleys Fresno is it?
6. How far away is San Francisco?
7. What does the word "Fresno" mean?
8. And what is on the city flag?
9. What was the population there in 2015?
10. How does the population rank in the state?
11. And in terms of inland cities in California?
12. And in the country?
13. Is it a good place to live?
Numbered answers:
1. 1885
2. yes
3. 170 miles
4. the Central Pacific Railroad
5. Central Valley and San Joaquin Valley
6. 185 miles
7. "ash tree"
8. an ash leaf
9. 520,159
10. fifth
11. first
12. 34th
13. unknown