question: The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. The Red Sox have won eight World Series championships and have played in twelve. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox' home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox" name was chosen by the team owner, John I. Taylor, around , following the lead of previous teams that had been known as the "Boston Red Stockings", including the forerunner of the Atlanta Braves.

Boston was a dominant team in the new league, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series in 1903 and winning four more championships by . However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, dubbed the "Curse of the Bambino" after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox' sale of Babe Ruth to the rival New York Yankees two years after their world championship in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in . The team's history during that period was punctuated with some of the most memorable moments in World Series history, including Enos Slaughter's "mad dash" in , the "Impossible Dream" of , Carlton Fisk's home run in , and Bill Buckner's error in . Following their victory in the 2013 World Series, they became the first team to win three World Series trophies in the 21st century, including championships in 2004 and . Red Sox history has also been marked by the team's intense rivalry with the Yankees, arguably the fiercest and most historic in North American professional sports.
1. Which team is mentioned here?
2. What sport do they play?
3. Where do they compete in?
4. as a member club of what?
5. Have they won any championship?
6. Which one?
7. how many?
8. out of how many games in total?
9. who chose the team'
10. Who did they defeat in 1903?
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answer: 1. The Boston Red Sox
2. baseball
3. American League (AL) East division
4. Major League Baseball
5. yes
6. World Series
7. eight
8. twelve
9. the team owner, John I. Taylor
10. the Pittsburgh Pirates

question: Is getting a black belt on your life's to-do list? Then this elderly woman in San Francisco just might be your hero. Just two years before her 100th birthday, Sensei Keiko Fukuda has become the first woman to achieve a tenth-degree black belt --- the highest rank in Judo . Fukuda is now one of only four living people who have earned the tenth-degree black belt. Throughout history, only 16 people have ever achieved this honor. Fukuda began practicing Judo in 1935 and is the only surviving student of its founder, Kano Jiguro. At her teacher's requirement, she learned English to help spread Judo internationally. During a time when getting married, building a family and becoming a housewife were the norms ,Fukuda broke from tradition, continuing Judo instead of getting married. "All I did was Judo ... This was my marriage," Fukuda replied tearfully to the San Francisco Chronicle. "This is when my destiny was set. I just imagined how long the road would be." She described the Jiguro's school as "old-fashioned and sexist about belts and ranks". In fact, an edict that prevented women from achieving any higher than a fifth-degree black belt kept Fukuda at that level for 30 years. She finally got the sixth degree in 1972 when a women's division was created. Fukuda thinks Judo and her life to be "gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically". Fukuda says this kind of beauty is not external . She explained. "I believe this inner beauty is true beauty... All my life this has been my dream." Her dream was turned into reality, and the 98-year-old Sensei Keiko Fukuda continues to teach Judo three times a week at a women's Judo training center.
1. How old was Keiko when she got the tenth-degree black belt?
2. What did she learn in order to help spread Judo?
3. How many people have achieved this honor?
4. Did she get married?
5. When did she reach the sixth degree?
6. Does she consider her life gentle?
7. What is true beauty to Fukuda?
8. Who started the art of Judo?
9. Where is she now?
10. What city is Fukuda in?
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answer: 1. 98
2. English
3. 16
4. No
5. 1972
6. Yes
7. Inner beauty
8. Sensei Keiko Fukuda
9. Judo training center
10. San Francisco

question: CHAPTER XXIV

Enid, my early and my only love, I thought, but that your father came between, In former days you saw me favourably, And if it were so, do not keep it back, Make me a little happier, let me know it.--TENNYSON

The foreign tour proved a great success. The summer in the Alps was delightful. The complete change gave Bertha new life, bodily strength first returning, and then mental activity. The glacier system was a happy exchange for her _ego_, and she observed and enjoyed with all the force of her acute intelligence and spirit of inquiry, while Phoebe was happy in doing her duty by profiting by all opportunities of observation, in taking care of Maria and listening to Mervyn, and Miss Charlecote enjoyed scenery, poetry, art, and natural objects with relish keener than even that of her young friends, who were less impressible to beauty in every shape.

Mervyn behaved very well to her, knowing himself bound to make the journey agreeable to her; he was constantly kind to Bertha, and in the pleasure of her revival submitted to a wonderful amount of history and science. All his grumbling was reserved for the private ear of Phoebe, whose privilege it always was to be his murmuring block, and who was only too thankful to keep to herself his discontents whenever his route was not chosen (and often when it was), his disgusts with inns, railroads, and sights and his impatience of all pursuits save Bertha's. Many a time she was permitted to see and hear nothing but how much he was bored, but on the whole the growls were so mitigated compared with what she had known, that it was almost contentment; and that he did not absolutely dislike their habits was plain from his adherence to the ladies, though he might have been quite independent of them.
1. Who was in love with Enid?
2. Who was an obstacle to that?
3. Did Tennyson want Enid back?
4. Was the tour a success?
5. What season was that?
6. Did visit any mountain range?
7. Who felt refreshed?
8. What was a happy exchange for her?
9. Is she a smart person?
10. Inquisitive too?
11. Who was taking care of others?
12. Whom?
13. Was Phoebe attentive to someone?
14. Who was admiring the arts and poetry?
15. Who was kind to Bertha?
16. Who he was complaining about?
17. And anything else?
18. Was he supposedly in dependent of the ladies?
19. Was Charlecote more keen at observing the nature?
20. Compared to whom?
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answer:
1. Tennyson
2. Enid's father.
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. Summer.
6. the Alps
7. Bertha
8. The glacier system
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. Phoebe
12. Maria
13. Mervyn
14. Miss Charlecote
15. Mervyn
16. He was disgusted with Inns
17. Railroads
18. He could have been but he wasn't
19. Yes
20. Her young friends.