Q: There are many kinds of heroes.Even animals can be heroes.This passage tells about three amazing animals.Each one is a hero! Thumper, the Dog Thumper was a dog that lived with a family which had a three-year-old son named Benjamin.One day Benjamin wandered into a large field. The grass in the field was taller than he was, so he could not find his way out.Hundreds of people began to search for Benjamin.When they found him, they saw Thumper stayed with Benjamin and kept him warm.So Benjamin had stayed safe. Lulu, the Pig The Altsmans had a pet pig named Lulu.One summer the couple went camping and took Lulu with them.The husband went fishing one morning.The wife didn't feel well, so she and Lulu stayed in the camper.Suddenly Mrs.Altsman fell to the floor.Lulu pushed the camper door open and climbed out for help.When a car came by, she lay down in front of it.When the driver got out, Lulu led him back to the camper.The man called for help and Mrs.Altsman was taken to hospital. Sugar, the Cat Sugar was a beautiful cat.Three years ago she wandered onto the Woods' farm in California and Mrs.Woods began feeding her.Mrs.Woods noticed something wrong with the cat's left leg, but this didn't make Sugar any less special.Mrs.Woods loved Sugar.Later the couple moved to a new farm in Oklahoma. They gave Sugar to a neighbor who would take good care of her, because they knew she wouldn't like riding in cars for days.However, Sugar walked across deserts and mountains and traveled more than 1,500 miles to the Woods' new farm! Mr.and Mrs.Woods could hardly believe their eyes.No one knows how Sugar found her way to Oklahoma.

1. Three
2. Each one is a hero
3. A dog
4. Thumper
5. Thumper stayed with Benjamin and kept him warm.So Benjamin had stayed safe.
6. the son in the family Thumper lived with
7. three
8. No
9. a pig
10. The Altsmans
11. She stopped a car to get help from the driver
12. She didn't feel well and fell to the floor
13. a cat
14. Sugar
15. California
16. Yes
17. Oklahoma
18. To follow the Woods to their new farm
19. They had given her to a neighbor
20. because they knew she wouldn't like riding in cars for days

Numbered questions:
1. How many animals are in the story?
2. How are the animals similar?
3. What was the first animal?
4. What was he named?
5. What did the dog do that was heroic?
6. Who was Benjamin?
7. How old was he?
8. Was the second animal also a dog?
9. What kind of animal was it?
10. Who was Lulu's family?
11. How did Lulu help Mrs. Altsman?
12. Why did she need help?
13. What was the third animal?
14. Named?
15. What state did she live in?
16. Did she ever go somewhere else?
17. Where?
18. Why did she go there?
19. Why wasn't she with them to begin with?
20. Why?

Q: CHAPTER VI. OF HOW ANDREA BECAME LOVE-SICK

With what fictions I could call to mind I put off Andrea's questions touching the peculiar fashion of St. Auban's leave-taking. Tell him the truth and expose to him the situation whereof he was himself the unconscious centre I dared not, lest his high-spirited impetuosity should cause him to take into his own hands the reins of the affair, and thus drive himself into irreparable disaster.

Andrea himself showed scant concern, however, and was luckily content with my hurriedly invented explanations; his thoughts had suddenly found occupation in another and a gentler theme than the ill-humour of men, and presently his tongue betrayed them when he drew the conversation to the ladies to whom he had resigned his apartments.

"Pardieu! Gaston," he burst out, "she is a lovely maid--saw you ever a bonnier?"

"Indeed she is very beautiful," I answered, laughing to myself at the thought of how little he dreamt that it was of Yvonne St. Albaret de Canaples that he spoke, and not minded for the while to enlighten him.

"If she be as kind and gentle as she is beautiful, Gaston, well--Uncle Giulio's plans are likely to suffer shipwreck. I shall not leave Choisy until I have spoken to her; in fact, I shall not leave until she leaves."

"Nevertheless, we shall still be able to set out, as we had projected, after dining, for in an hour, or two at most, they will proceed on their journey."

He was silent for some moments, then:

1. a man who is in love
2. no
3. yes
4. unknown
5. unknown
6. the narrator
7. Yvonne St. Albaret de Canaples
8. Yvonne St. Albaret de Canaples
9. yes
10. dining
11. an hour or two at most

Numbered questions:
1. Who is Andrea?
2. was it reciprocated?
3. was he focused on it?
4. was he entertaining other romantinc partners?
5. Who was he having over to his place?
6. Who was Gaston
7. who were they talking about?
8. who did they refer to as beautiful?
9. was she the maid?
10. What were they doing before setting out?
11. how long until they start their adventure?

Q: (CNN) -- Some thought it was a bomb. Others thought it was the commuter train that runs behind their buildings jumping the tracks.

It shook upper Manhattan for blocks -- and when it was over, a five-story apartment building and its neighbor were gone.

After Wednesday morning's deadly building explosion in East Harlem, squads of firefighters dug through piles of shattered bricks and beams. Ladder trucks sprayed water into the gap where the buildings once stood. As Detective Martin Speechly, a New York police spokesman, put it: "1644 Park Avenue appears not to be there anymore."

Along with that five-story apartment building, with a Latino evangelical church on the first floor, a neighboring piano store and the four floors above it collapsed in the blast.

One nearby resident, Angelica Avila, told CNN she was trapped in her apartment down the block for a short time afterward. Her stepmother had to sneak in through the back to try and open the door for her, she said.

"My neighbors came banging on my door. I guess they were evacuating the building, and I couldn't get out -- my door was jammed," she said. "Everything off my windowsill fell, and I guess the impact of the explosion jammed the door as well."

Something similar happened to Aisha Watts, who had just returned to her apartment in one of the adjoining buildings after taking her children to school. Then the windows broke out, and "the walls came tumbling down," Watts said.

A neighbor helped her out of her apartment, because the door was stuck in its frame. And she and her neighbors will have to find someplace else to stay temporarily.

1. an apartment building
2. 1644 Park Avenue
3. a Latino evangelical church
4. five
5. yes
6. a piano store
7. morning
8. Wednesday
9. East Harlem
10. yes
11. Angelica Avila
12. down the block
13. her door was jammed
14. Her stepmother
15. took her children to school
16. yes
17. A neighbor
18. yes
19. yes

Numbered questions:
1. What building was destroyed?
2. Located at what address?
3. What did it house on its first floor?
4. How many stories did it have all together?
5. Was its adjacent building also damaged?
6. What type of store was located there?
7. What time of day did the blast occur?
8. On what day of the week/
9. What neighborhood were the buildings located in?
10. Were nearby residents trapped inside of their homes?
11. Who spoke to CNN about her experience?
12. How far was she from the blast?
13. Why couldn't she evacuate?
14. Who ultimately freed her?
15. What had Aisha Watts done that morning before she returned home?
16. Was her door also jammed shut?
17. Who helped her exit?
18. Will she and other residents be relocated?
19. Did anyone die in the explosion?