question: Shelly wanted a puppy. She asked her mommy and daddy every day for one. She told them that she would help take care of the puppy, if she could have one. Her mommy and daddy talked it over and said that they would get Shelly a new puppy.

Her mommy took her to the dog pound so that she could choose one that she wanted. All the puppies at the dog pound need a loving home.

Shelly went to every cage and looked each puppy in the eyes and talked to each one. After each one, she told her mommy, "No, this isn't the one for me."

Finally, she saw a black and white spotted one that she fell in love with. She screamed, "Mommy, this is the one!" Her mommy asked the worker to take the puppy out so that Shelly could make sure. Shelly and the puppy fell in love with each other right away.

Shelly and her mommy took the black and white spotted puppy home with them. Shelly was so excited that she talked all the way home. After thinking hard, Shelly had a name for her new puppy, Spot.

Now, Shelly has a new best friend and they play together every day when Shelly gets home from school.
1. Where did Shelly's parents take her?
2. Why?
3. Did she get one?
4. What does she call the puppy?
5. What does she do after school?
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answer: 1. the dog pound
2. she wanted a puppy
3. Yes
4. Spot
5. plays with Spot

question: An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated to a high temperature, by passing an electric current through it, until it glows with visible light (incandescence). The hot filament is protected from oxidation with a glass or quartz bulb that is filled with inert gas or evacuated. In a halogen lamp, filament evaporation is prevented by a chemical process that redeposits metal vapor onto the filament, extending its life. The light bulb is supplied with electric current by feed-through terminals or wires embedded in the glass. Most bulbs are used in a socket which provides mechanical support and electrical connections.

Incandescent bulbs are much less efficient than most other types of electric lighting; incandescent bulbs convert less than 5% of the energy they use into visible light, with standard light bulbs averaging about 2.2%. The remaining energy is converted into heat. The luminous efficacy of a typical incandescent bulb is 16 lumens per watt, compared with 60 lm/W for a compact fluorescent bulb or 150 lm/W for some white LED lamps. Some applications of the incandescent bulb deliberately use the heat generated by the filament. Such applications include incubators, brooding boxes for poultry, heat lights for reptile tanks, infrared heating for industrial heating and drying processes, lava lamps, and the Easy-Bake Oven toy. Incandescent bulbs typically have short lifetimes compared with other types of lighting; around 1,000 hours for home light bulbs versus typically 10,000 hours for compact fluorescents and 30,000 hours for lighting LEDs.
1. What is the energy source for an incandescent bulb?
2. Is it hot?
3. How does it get hot?
4. How is is protected?
5. How about in a halogen bulb?
6. How does the bulb get its energy supply?
7. Are incandescent lights efficient?
8. How much energy do they convert to light?
9. What happens to the rest of the energy?
10. How many lumens per watt does an incandescent bulb create?
11. What about a fluorescent bulb?
12. An LED bulb?
13. What are other uses of incandescent bulbs?
14. How long does an incandescent bulb last?
15. What about fluorescent?
16. And LED?
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answer: 1. a wire filament
2. yes
3. by passing an electric current through it
4. with a glass or quartz bulb that is filled with inert gas or evacuated.
5. a chemical process
6. by feed-through terminals or wires embedded in the glass.
7. no
8. less than 5%
9. it is converted into heat
10. 16
11. 60 lm/W
12. 150 lm/W
13. incubators, brooding boxes for poultry, heat lights for reptile tanks
14. around 1,000 hours
15. 10,000 hours
16. 30,000

question: BriGette McCoy described how she was raped on her first military assignment, two weeks before her 19th birthday. She described how, later that year, she was raped by another soldier in her unit.

Then came sexual harassment by two officers -- including one who requested that she be moved to work directly for him, she said Wednesday.

Testifying before lawmakers, the former Army specialist described the "anguish" and "entrapment" she felt, and the horror of the ordeal that followed.

"I no longer have any faith or hope that the military chain of command will consistently prosecute, convict, sentence and carry out the sentencing of sexual predators in uniform without absconding justice somehow," she told the Senate Armed Services Committee's subcommittee on personnel.

"It even starts at recruitment," she said. "We have quite a few of our men and women that are being raped and sexually harassed during the recruitment process."

McCoy was one of four alleged victims who testified Wednesday about a problem the military has acknowledged.

About 19,000 men and women suffer sexual assault each year in the military, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, though he noted that only about 3,200 assaults were reported. About 10,700 of those cases -- 56% -- involved male victims in 2010, based on anonymous reporting collected by the military.

In painful, dramatic testimony, three women and one man, all of whom have left the military, described their suffering -- and explained why, in some cases, they never filed reports. They helped paint a picture of the military as a place where victims are often pressured to remain quiet or endure having their reputations and careers tarnished for coming forward.
1. Who was testifying?
2. Where was she?
3. Where?
4. Why was she testifying?
5. How many people testified?
6. How old was she the first time she was raped?
7. How many assaults are there each year?
8. Are they all reported?
9. How many are ?
10. Did anyone explain why so many are not reported?
11. Why?
12. Are any of the witnesses still in the military?
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answer:
1. BriGette McCoy
2. Testifying before lawmakers
3. Senate Armed Services Committee's subcommittee on personnel
4. Unknown
5. four
6. 18
7. 19,000
8. No
9. 3,200
10. Yes
11. They helped paint a picture of the military as a place where victims are often pressured to remain quiet or endure having their reputations and careers tarnished for coming forward.
12. No