Q: I Don't Have to Be Like Them All students have to face their own problems when they are growing up. You may not think that having a good family is a problem. But for me , it was. I had to face the problem of being the youngest of the Smith girls. We live in a small town in Pennsylvania, US. There are three girls in the Smith family, Amanda, Theresa and me . People often say things to me , like " Oh, the three of you , you're such nice girls. Your sisters are so pretty and so thin! You're really nothing like them . " That made me sad. At school , all of my teachers had taught my sisters . On the first day of school , they said , "Oh , the youngest of the three! I hope you're just like your sisters. They're such wonderful students." People always compared me with my sisters . So I couldn't help comparing myself with them , too. Theresa was smarter , Amanda was prettier . I began to work hard to be more like them . What my sisters did , I did , too. At last , I became drum major of our school 's marching band . Both Amanda and Theresa had been drum majors . I became editor of the school's newspaper . Theresa had been the editor two years before. But last year, Amanda went to college , and Theresa went to high school . Now I'm by myself at junior high . Everyone knows me , because I'm the drum major and the newspaper's editor . Now I don't feel like a Smith girl any more , I feel like myself . I'm proud of doing all of the same great things that my sisters did . But the best thing I did was to learn to stop comparing myself with them .

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is this story about?
2. Who is in the Smith family?
3. Where do they live?
4. Is the writer a male or female?
5. Are her sisters older or younger?
6. Was it nice having older sisters?
7. What is wrong with it?
8. Is the author like her siblings?
9. What was different?
10. Is the protagonist smarter than them?
11. Who was the more intelligent one?
12. Who was better looking?
13. How did the writer feel about that?
14. How did she cope?
15. To do what?
16. How?
17. Where at?
18. What else did she do?
19. Do they all go to school together?
A: 1. the Smith family
2. Amanda, Theresa and the writer
3. in a small town in Pennsylvania, US
4. female
5. older
6. it is a problem
7. People always compared me with my sisters
8. no
9. sisters are so pretty
10. no
11. Theresa
12. Amanda
13. compared myself with them
14. began to work hard
15. to be more like them
16. became drum major
17. school
18. became editor of the school's newspaper
19. yes
Q: Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American major record label established in 1958 as the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group (WMG), and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19, 1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros.. For most of its early existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a convoluted series of corporate mergers and acquisitions from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a struggling minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world.

In 2003, these music assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner and purchased by a private equity group. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011. WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the world's last publicly traded major music company. Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company.

Artists currently signed to Warner Bros. Records include Sleeping with Sirens, Cher, Kylie Minogue, Kimbra, the Goo Goo Dolls, Sheryl Crow, Ciara, Gorillaz, Adam Lambert, Bette Midler, Blur, Duran Duran, Fleet Foxes, Jason Derulo, Kid Rock, Lily Allen, Linkin Park, Muse, Nile Rodgers, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Black Keys, My Chemical Romance and Regina Spektor.

Answer the following questions:
1. Does this company sign artists?
2. What is the company called?
3. When was it started?
4. Is it called something different now?
5. Who is someone they signed?
6. Anyone else?
7. Was it autonomous at first?
8. Who long did it shift around?
9. Did it start big and then get small?
10. Who had them in 2003?
11. After that?
12. What happened in 2011?
13. How many huge musical businesses are there?
14. Are they the biggest?
15. Are they all on the public market?
16. Who runs it?
17. Do they only sign women?
18. What male example is there?
19. Do they have less than 5 people right now?
20. Do they make films?
A: 1. yes
2. Warner Bros. Records Inc.
3. 1958
4. WMG
5. Sleeping with Sirens
6. Cher
7. no
8. from the early 1960s to the early 2000s.
9. no
10. Time Warner
11. A private equity group.
12. It was bought by Access Industries.
13. Three
14. yes
15. no
16. Cameron Strang
17. no
18. Adam Lambert
19. no
20. no
Q: (CNN) -- Marco Simoncelli hopes he has put his Le Mans nightmare behind him after earning the first pole position of his top-level motorcycling career in Spain on Saturday.

The Italian rider was reprimanded by MotoGP chiefs following an incident in France two weeks ago that caused Dani Pedrosa to crash and miss his home race after breaking his collarbone.

Simoncelli reportedly received death threats following that collision, which resulted in the 24-year-old finishing fifth after being hit with a ride-through penalty, having been denied his first podium placing.

"This is the best way to forget what happened in Le Mans and what everyone has been saying in the last two weeks, and before this race," he said after qualifying first for Sunday's Catalunya Grand Prix near Barcelona.

Pedrosa crash overshadows Stoner's French MotoGP success

Simoncelli headed off Le Mans winner Casey Stoner and Yamaha's world champion and series leader Jorge Lorenzo as he set a late lap of one minute 42.413 seconds.

Stoner had led for the entire session but was denied his fourth pole position from five attempts this season as he bids to cut Lorenzo's 12-point advantage.

"I'm very satisfied and happy. I didn't expect it because Stoner was faster than me in the other sessions and today we had some problems in the first part of qualifying, but after we chose the right tire for me I could push like I wanted and got this time," Simoncelli said.

American Ben Spies will lead the second row on the grid from Honda's Andrea Dovizioso and fellow Yamaha rider Cal Crutchlow, while seven-time world champion Valentino Rossi was seventh ahead of Ducati teammate Nicky Hayden of the U.S.

Answer the following questions:
1. Why was Marco Simoncelli punished?
2. What sort of incident?
3. Against whom?
4. Who punished him?
5. What other punishment did he receive?
6. What did he win on Saturday?
7. What allowed him to make his top time?
8. What was the time?
9. Who set better times than him earlier on?
10. Who's at the front of the next row?
11. What nationality is he?
12. What brand of motorcycle does he drive?
13. What made Dani Pedrosa's crash especially disappointing?
14. Who has won the world championship several times?
15. Who rides a Honda?
16. What track are the runs being described taking place at?
17. What city?
18. What track did the crash take place at?
19. Who's on top of the current series?
20. How much of a lead does he have?
A:
1. racing incident in France
2. caused a crash
3. Dani Pedrosa
4. MotoGP chiefs
5. a ride-through penalty,
6. his first pole position
7. chose the right tire
8. one minute 42.413 seconds.
9. Stoner
10. Ben Spies
11. American
12. Yamaha
13. rwithout the penalty, Simoncelli would have won
14. Valentino Rossi
15. Andrea Dovizioso
16. Catalunya Grand Prix
17. Barcelona
18. in Le Mans
19. Jorge Lorenzo
20. 2-point advantage.