Q: The mother of the 13-year-old Dutch girl Laura Dekker, whose plans to make a solo sailing trip around the world have recently made world headlines, has spoken out against the trip. "It breaks my heart to think that because of this I could lose contact with my daughter," she said in an interview. "I have never before made such a difficult decision. But I must accept the consequences. I would rather have a live daughter who I will never see again than a dead daughter."

It is the first time that Laura's mother, Babs Muller, has spoken out against the trip. Laura's parents are divorced and the girl has lived with her father since she was six. Her father Dick Dekker supports Laura's plans. However, the Dutch Child Protection Board has decided to place the girl under supervision for two months to ascertain whether she is mentally and physically capable of undertaking the journey.

Ms Muller says she is confident that Laura is technically capable of making the journey. "She can sail like the devil. That's not the problem." However, she is afraid of the problems a 13-year-old girl can encounter in the harbors of Third-World countries and of the psychological pressure of being alone for such a long period on the ocean. "The most important thing, in my eyes, is that she is not yet an adult."

Ms Muller says she told Laura once before that she was opposed to the idea. Her daughter replied, "If you forbid me, you will have ruined my entire life. Then I'll never want to see you again." However, Laura's mother says that reports that a camera team is planning to follow her around the world could change her opinion about the trip.

1. The mother of of Laura Decker
2. She is afraid that she might lose contact with her daughter
3. 13
4. No
5. A sailing trip
6. Around the world
7. She plans a solo trip
8. Yes
9. No
10. Her father
11. Laura's parents are divorced.
12. Since she was 6.
13. No
14. She can sail like the devil
15. Problems that face a 13 year old girl in third world countries
16. That if she forbids her she will never want to see her again
17. Maybe not
18. A camera team.
19. it could

Numbered questions:
1. Who is upset about something?
2. Why?
3. How old is Laura?
4. Is she planning a vacation?
5. What kind of trip is she taking?
6. Where?
7. Why is this newsworthy?
8. Is her mother trying to prevent her from going?
9. Do the two live together?
10. Who does Laura live with?
11. Why?
12. For how long?
13. Does she think her daughter is too uneducated to make the trip?
14. What kind of sailor does she feel that her dauhter is?
15. What does worry Ms Muller?
16. How does Laura feel about her mothers opinion?
17. Will Laura really be alone on the triip?
18. Who might be there?
19. Does this change how her mother feels about the trip?

Q: I am very hungry. I look for my mother.

When is dinner? I ask.

Dinner is at six, my mother says.

What can we eat? I ask.

We can pick food from our garden, she says. I help her pick corn, beans, and peas.

The corn is yellow and white. The beans are small and brown. The peas are green and round.

I put the beans in a basket. I put the peas in a bowl. Mother brings the corn. We go inside.

I have dirty hands. I wash my hands with soap and water. The water is warm. My hands are now clean.

Mother lets me stir the beans. I fill a pot with water. Mother puts the corn into the pot. She puts the pot on the stove. The water boils.

Mary is my sister. Mary puts four plates on the table. Each plate is blue.

We each eat two pieces of meat. I eat more corn than Mary. Mary eats more beans than our mother.

What did you learn today? Mary asks.

I can spell ten new words, I say.

Mary can only spell two words.

1. yes
2. Mary
3. setting the table
4. four plates
5. blue
6. on the table
7. from the garden
8. corn and peas
9. The corn is yellow and white. The peas are green and round
10. in a bowl and inside
11. inside
12. I do
13. Mary
14. fewer beans than Mary
15. I
16. the corn in the pot
17. water
18. boil
19. Six
20. Three

Numbered questions:
1. Do you have siblings?
2. Who?
3. What chore did she complete?
4. What did she put down?
5. What colour were they?
6. Where did she put them?
7. Where did they get the ingredients for dinner?
8. What vegetables did they get?
9. What do they look like?
10. Where did they put them?
11. Then where did they go?
12. Who ate the most corn?
13. And beans?
14. How much did your mother eat?
15. Who learned more today?
16. What went onto the stove?
17. What else was inside?
18. What did it do next?
19. How much meat was eaten?
20. How many people eat?

Q: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and its sequel, the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn". He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City "Territorial Enterprise". His humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", was published in 1865, based on a story that he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention and was even translated into French. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.

1. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
2. November 30, 1835
3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4. Yes
5. he was raised in the town the book was set
6. mining
7. Yes
8. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
9. on a story that he heard at Angels Hotel
10. Yes
11. presidents, and artists
12. Yes
13. he spent some time as a miner
14. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Numbered questions:
1. what was Mark Twain's real name?
2. When was he born
3. What was his best book?
4. Did it had anything to do with his real life?
5. In which way?
6. What did he have a lack of success in?
7. Did he have any humorous stories?
8. What were they?
9. what was it based on?
10. Did he have famous friends?
11. Who were they?
12. what about royalty?
13. What does California have to do wtih Twain?
14. What story was translated in another language?