question: As a funny student, Brian loved watching comedies best and hoped to become a comedy actor one day. When he heard about the talent show to be held at this school, Brian decided to take part in it.

He had never acted in public before, and he was very excited. But some students laughed at him. "You are not funny but silly," Ken, one of his classmates, said to his face. "No one will like what you do," another boy also said to him, loudly.

Brian couldn't understand why they were so unkind to him. For a moment, he thought about giving up the show. But he remembered how much his friends liked his jokes, and also his teachers said he was very funny. So he decided to prepare for the show.

Brian did a great job at the talent show. Everyone loved his performance , and he won the first prize! His teachers and friends were proud of him. Even so, Ken told Brian that he was not funny, and that he would never be successful. Brian didn't understand why Ken said so, but he realized that it had nothing to do with him. He confidently continued to work towards his dream.

As the years went on, Brian met more people like Ken. "You'll do a terrible job," they said to him. Luckily, most people encouraged him and some helped him to become even funnier. He got a lot of chances to perform in movies. He was even invited to appear on television. His fans thanked him because his comedies made them feel good when they were unhappy.

Now Brian is a big comedy star! He is doing what he loves best. He never feels worried like those unkind people, and he laughs all day long!
1. Has Brian ever performed in front of people?
2. what does he want to do when he grows up?
3. what does he enjoy watching?
4. what is being held in his school?
5. is he going to do it?
6. how did some students react?
7. what did Ken say?
8. Is ken his brother?
9. who is he?
10. what did another kids say?
11. did he decide not to do the talent show?
12. why?
13. did his performance go well?
14. what place did he get?
15. how did the audience react?
16. what did his teachers think?
17. Did Ken congratulate him?
18. what did he say?
19. Did he encounter people like ken later in life?
20. was he still successful?
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answer: 1. No
2. Be a comedy actor
3. Comedies
4. A talent show
5. Yes
6. They laughed at him
7. You are not funny but silly
8. No
9. His classmate
10. That no one would like his performance
11. No
12. His friends liked his jokes
13. Brian did a great job at the talent show
14. First
15. They loved it
16. They were proud
17. No
18. That Brian wasn't funny
19. Yes
20. Yes

question: On Thursday October 3, Adam Harper decided to stop drinking coffee. Adam is a MBA student at Harvard University. He studies long hours, gets very little sleep and as a result, he drinks a lot of coffee---anywhere from five to six cups a day. Recently, Adam felt that drinking thus much coffee was making it hard for him to sleep at all. He also began having problems with his concentration , and complained of stomachaches. Adam's doctor made this suggestions: stop drinking coffee altogether. When Adam got up on October 3, he began his day without his morning coffee. By 11:00 a.m., Adam was in a terrible mood . He was tired and had a headache. At 11:30, he had a meeting with his student advisor. In the meeting, he found it almost impossible to continue. What was going on? Caffeine, a chemical found in coffee, was most likely the reason for how Adam felt. Caffeine is a stimulant that boosts energy levels and improves concentration- but only for a short time. Lowering caffeine consumption often causes a drop in blood pressure and the result is a "coffee headache", People who stop drinking coffee often say they feel tired and moody, and find it hard to focus. The good news is that these feeling usually pass after four and five days. During this time, doctors suggested taking some aspirin for the headache. So, if Adam can wait, in less than a week, he may be feeling much better.
1. Why did Adam swear off coffee?
2. When did he make the decision?
3. Did he have any problems with his decision initially?
4. What problems?
5. What problems did he first have after he stopped?
6. How long should it take for these feelings to pass?
7. What other remedies do doctors recommend?
8. What does Adam do?
9. Did anyone advise him to stop drinking coffee, or did he decide it himself?
10. Who did he talk to about the problem?
11. How much was he drinking?
12. Was Adam successful in permanently cutting coffee?
13. What substance is responsible for these problems?
14. What effects do cutting it have?
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answer: 1. hard for him to sleep
2. Recently
3. yes
4. studies long hours, gets very little sleep
5. a terrible mood . tired and had a headache
6. four and five days
7. taking some aspirin
8. MBA student at Harvard University
9. himself
10. doctor
11. five to six cups a day
12. if Adam can wait
13. Caffeine
14. coffee headache

question: Omoa, Honduras (CNN)Alexis Gonzalez walks slowly and with some hesitation, using the outside wall of his house for balance.

"I'm getting used to the prosthesis," the 16-year-old says. He tries to smile, but an expression of sadness quickly returns to his face.

When he was 15, Gonzalez made a decision that would forever change his life -- to leave Omoa, an impoverished village in Honduras -- with dreams of getting to the United States.

At the end of the trek -- about 2,500 kilometers (1,500 miles) across Mexico and Guatemala -- he saw hope, school, a job and the chance to send money home.

"Sometimes we don't even have food to eat and I also wanted to get a higher education," Gonzalez says.

His mother was singlehandedly raising nine children, working odd jobs in restaurants and the nearby fields. They lived in a single room, an adobe house with dirt floors built on a steep and muddy hill. Chickens being raised for food roamed around the structure. Gonzalez says his father left the family when he was little boy.

When Gonzalez left in January 2014, he didn't ask his mother for permission. He only left a letter telling her about his plans. "I wouldn't have let him go," his mother Mercedes Melendez says. "When he left I went looking for him everywhere." She even went to Corinto on the Honduras-Guatemala border to ask authorities if they had seen him, she says.

Gonzalez says he traveled by land through Honduras and Guatemala with a teenage cousin. They took the bus and also walked and hitch-hiked in some places.
1. Who is the article about?
2. How old is he?
3. Where's he from?
4. Where did he want to go?
5. Why?
6. What was his home like?
7. When did he leave?
8. What was the date?
9. Did he go alone?
10. Who went with him?
11. Did his family approve?
12. Who did he live with?
13. Who else?
14. What happened to his dad?
15. Where was he?
16. Did the trip go well?
17. How do we know?
18. What does he have to use?
19. How far was the journey?
20. What transportation did they use?
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answer:
1. Alexis Gonzalez
2. 16
3. Omoa
4. United States
5. hope, school, a job and the chance to send money home
6. impoverished
7. When he was 15
8. January 2014
9. no
10. teenage cousin
11. no
12. nine children
13. His mother
14. his father
15. his father left
16. no
17. expression of sadness
18. the prosthesis
19. 2,500 kilometers
20. the bus