question: (CNN)Mikaela Shiffrin is on course to make skiing history after claiming her third consecutive slalom victory on the World Cup circuit on Saturday.

The young American is hoping to become the first woman to win both the discipline's world title and overall crown in successive seasons.

Shiffrin, who retained her slalom title at February's world championships in Colorado, now has a 90-point lead going into next week's World Cup finale in France.

"I think the first couple races of the season I was pretty arrogant and was like, 'I'm just going to win these, I guess.' And I didn't. I wasn't even close," said Shiffrin, who has won the slalom Crystal Globe two years running.

"When you're racing at a high level -- or doing any sport at a high level -- everybody's going for the win. I learned that I can't take my foot off the gas and expect to win. These last races, I was pushing everything. Any race that I won this season, I was giving my entire heart into it. I'm proud of that."

A day after her 20th birthday, Shiffrin won by a comfortable 1.41 seconds at Are in Sweden as she claimed the 14th World Cup win of her career, with Slovakia's Veronika Velez Zuzulova second and Czech Republic's Sarka Strachova third.

Slalom title rival Frida Hansdotter finished sixth in front of her home fans.

Tina Maze missed a chance to close the gap on overall World Cup leader Anna Fenninger, who did not race, as the Slovenian finished back in 16th.
1. Where did the February slalom championships take place?
2. Where will the World Cup finale take place?
3. Who is the main character in this story?
4. How many times has she won the World Cup?
5. How many points in her lead going into it this time?
6. How old was she when she won at Are?
7. Where is Are?
8. Who won second there?
9. Who took sixth there?
10. Who is Anna Fenninger?
11. Did she race?
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answer: 1. in Colorado
2. France
3. Mikaela Shiffrin
4. unknown
5. 90-point lead
6. 20
7. Sweden
8. unknown
9. Frida Hansdotter
10. the overall World Cup leader
11. no

question: CHAPTER IV

A MIDNIGHT SEARCH

That night was destined to be an eventful one on the Rover farm. Arriving home, Sam and Tom told of the fun they had had and Dick laughed heartily. Then all three of the boys went to bed.

About midnight came a loud shouting from the barn, followed by the report of a shotgun. This was followed by a shriek from Sarah, the cook, who was afraid that burglars had come to murder her.

"What's that?" questioned Dick, as he hopped out of bed.

"That's Jack Ness' gun," answered Tom. "Something must be wrong at the barn."

"Chicken thieves again--I'll bet a new hat," said Sam. By this time Randolph Rover and his wife were up and were lighting a lamp. Without waiting for them, the boys slipped on some clothing and their shoes and ran downstairs. Dick took with him a pistol and each of the others a baseball bat.

"Boys! boys! be careful!" shouted their uncle after them.

"All right," returned Dick, readily.

He was the first outside, but Sam and Tom were close upon his heels. He heard Jack Ness running to the edge of a cornfield, shouting lustily. Then came another report of the shotgun.

"What is it, Jack?" shouted Dick. "Who are you shooting at?"

"I'm after two men," was the hired man's reply. "They jest run into the cornfield."

"Chicken thieves?" queried Tom.

"I guess so--anyway they was prowlin' around the hen house an' the barn. I called an' asked 'em what they wanted and they ran for dear life--so I knew they was up to no good."
1. where did the men run to?
2. how many were they?
3. did anyone shoot?
4. who?
5. did anyone scream?
6. who was she?
7. what did she think was happening?
8. what time did all this happen?
9. did anyone tell the boys to take care?
10. what did the boys think the two men were?
11. who recognized where the shot was from?
12. what is the name of the farm?
13. where the boys happy before bed?
14. what did they talk about?
15. who lit a lamp?
16. did dick have a weapon?
17. what?
18. did the other two have guns as well?
19. then what?
20. what did Jack say the men were doing?
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answer: 1. cornfield
2. two
3. Yes
4. Jack Ness
5. Sarah
6. the cook
7. afraid that burglars had come to murder her
8. About midnight
9. their uncle
10. Chicken thieves
11. Tom
12. Rover farm
13. Yes
14. of the fun
15. Randolph Rover and his wife
16. Yes
17. a pistol
18. No
19. a baseball bat
20. they was prowlin' around the hen house an' the barn

question: Zeus (; "Zeus" ) is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter. His mythologies and powers are similar, though not identical, to those of Indo-European deities such as Indra, Jupiter, Perun, Thor, and Odin.

Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach. In most traditions, he is married to Hera, by whom he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus. At the oracle of Dodona, his consort was said to be Dione, by whom the "Iliad" states that he fathered Aphrodite. Zeus was also infamous for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Persephone, Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses.

He was respected as an allfather who was chief of the gods and assigned the others to their roles: "Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence." He was equated with many foreign weather gods, permitting Pausanias to observe "That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men". Zeus' symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" (Greek: , "Nephelegereta") also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the ancient Near East, such as the scepter. Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty.
1. What God is Zeus?
2. In what religion?
3. What was he king of?
4. Who were his parents?
5. Did he have brothers and sisters?
6. Who is his wife/
7. How many children did he have?
8. What are their names?
9. What was he known for?
10. What did they result in?
11. What are his symbols?
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answer:
1. sky and thunder
2. Greek
3. the gods
4. Cronus and Rhea
5. Yes
6. Hera
7. Three
8. Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus
9. erotic escapades
10. godly and heroic offspring
11. thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak