Q: Paul the pear lived in a bowl on the table. He was a plastic fruit, and no one could eat him. He sat in the bowl with Artie the apple and Gertie the grapes. He watched every day as the group of bananas that hung out in another basket got eaten one by one. He wished he could be taken along to work in a bag and brought along to eat. But day after day, he sat in the bowl with only his plastic friends. One day, a little boy walked over towards him and picked Paul up. Paul was very excited. The boy looked at the pear with hungry eyes. He put him up to his mouth and took a big bite. "Ewwww!!!" said the little boy, and he spit out the fake fruit all over the floor. He put Paul back in the bowl and ran away. Paul smiled to himself about his adventure.

1. Paul
2. a pear
3. No
4. He was plastic
5. Artie and Gertie
6. an apple
7. grapes
8. the group of bananas
9. He wished he could be eaten like them
10. at work
11. a little boy picked him up
12. No
13. "Ewwww!!!"
14. because he was fake fruit
15. No
16. all over the floor
17. Yes
18. The boy
19. Yes
20. himself

Numbered questions:
1. Who was a piece of fruit?
2. What kind of fruit was he?
3. Was he a real piece of fruit?
4. How do you know?
5. Who joined him in the bowl on the table?
6. What was Artie?
7. And Gertie?
8. What did Paul watch everyday?
9. Why?
10. Where were the bananas eaten?
11. What happened one day?
12. Did this make him sad?
13. What did the boy say?
14. Why?
15. Was he spit back in the bowl?
16. Where at then?
17. Did he make it back into the bowl?
18. By who?
19. Did he enjoy the adventure?
20. Who did he smile to?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Family traditions were important in our house, and none was more appreciated than the perfect Christmas tree

"Dad, can we watch when you trim the tree?" My eldest son. Dan, nine, and his seven -year-old brother John, asked

"I won't be cutting this year," my husband Bob said. "Dan, you and John are old enough to measure things. Do it all by yourselves. Think you boys can handle it?

Dan and John seemed to _ in their chairs at the thought of such an amazing responsibility. "We can handle it." Dan promised. "We won't let you down." .

A few days before Christmas. Dan and John rushed in after school. They gathered the tools they'd need and brought them out to the yard .where the tree waited. I was cooking when I heard the happy sounds as the boys carried the tree into the lying room. Then I heard the sound that every mother knows is trouble: dead silence I hurried out to them. The tree was cut too short. John crossed his arms tight across his chest. His eyes filled with angry tears.

I felt worried The tree was central to our holiday. I didn't want the boys to feel ashamed every tune they looked at it. I couldn't lower the ceiling, and I couldn't raise the floor either. There was no way to undo the damage done. Suddenly, a thought came to my mind, which turned the problem into the solution. www..com

"We can't make the tree taller." I said. "But we can put it on a higher position"

Dan nodded his head sideways. "We could put it on the coffee table. It just might work! Let's try it!"

When Bob got home and looked at the big tree on top of the coffee table, Dan and John held their breath.

"What a good idea!" he declared "Why didn't I ever think of such a thing?"

John broke into a grin Dan's chest swelled with pride. 1. Who was supposed to cut down the tree this time?
2. What did they do wrong?
3. Who was about to cry over it?
4. Who came up with a great idea to fix it?
5. Were family traditions a big deal to them?
6. Which was the biggest deal?
7. Which boy was the youngest?
8. How old was Dan?
9. What was dad's name?
10. What did Dan promise his dad?
numbered_answers: 1. Dan and John
2. The tree was cut too short
3. John
4. the dad
5. yes
6. perfect Christmas tree
7. John
8. nine
9. Bob
10. that he could handle it

Palermo (Italian: [palrmo] ( listen), Sicilian: Palermu, Latin: Panormus, from Greek: , Panormos, Arabic: , Balarm; Phoenician: , Ziz) is a city in Insular Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is located in the northwest of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

The city was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians as Ziz ('flower'). Palermo then became a possession of Carthage, before becoming part of the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and eventually part of the Byzantine Empire, for over a thousand years. The Greeks named the city Panormus meaning 'complete port'. From 831 to 1072 the city was under Arab rule during the Emirate of Sicily when the city first became a capital. The Arabs shifted the Greek name into Balarm, the root for Palermo's present-day name. Following the Norman reconquest, Palermo became the capital of a new kingdom (from 1130 to 1816), the Kingdom of Sicily and the capital of the Holy Roman Empire under Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor and Conrad IV of Germany, King of the Romans. Eventually Sicily would be united with the Kingdom of Naples to form the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies until the Italian unification of 1860. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is the city being discussed?
2. When was it established?
3. What was the name given to it by the Greeks?
4. How does that translate?
5. Which means?
6. How did the Arabs refer to it
7. When did they rule?
8. What occured in 1860?
9. How did the Phoenicians refer to the city?
10. Which means?
11. Where is it located?
12. Is the city recognized for its cousine?
13. What else?
14. Are there any significant bodies of water nearby?
15. Can you name one?
Answer:
1. Palermo
2. 734 BC
3.
4. Panormos
5.
6. Balarm
7. From 831 to 1072
8. Italian unification
9. Ziz
10. flowe
11. northwest of Sicily
12. Yes
13. history, architecture and gastronomy
14. yes
15. Gulf of Palermo