Q: Billy had a pet turtle that he took good care of, everyday. His turtle's name was Tumble. Tumble liked to walk around outside in the garden and dig small holes to sleep in. Billy loved Tumble and would visit him outside when he got home from school. Tumble's favorite food was oatmeal. So, every day after school, Billy would make Tumble a big bowl of oatmeal and take it outside for Tumble to enjoy. Tumble would see Billy and walk up to him as fast as a turtle can go. Billy would put the bowl down and wait for Tumble to come up to the bowl to eat from it. When Tumble reached the bowl, he put his nose on it. But, the oatmeal was too hot to eat. Billy reached down and blew on the hot oatmeal, to cool it down for Tumble to eat. Once the oatmeal was cool enough, Tumble could dig in and eat his big bowl of oatmeal. Billy loved to watch as Tumble ate his bowl of oatmeal, because Billy took good care of Tumble, everyday.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was tumble?
2. Did anyone care for him?
3. who?
4. What did Tumble like to do?
5. where did he sleep?
6. When would Billy see Tumble?
7. Did he feed him?
8. what?
9. did Tumble like it?
10. how much?
11. was it the right temperature?
12. why?
13. Did Billy do something?
14. what did he do?
15. could Tumble eat it then?
16. what did Billy do?
17. did Billy take good care of Tumble?
18. when?
A: 1. A turtle
2. Yes
3. Billy
4. Walk around outside.
5. small holes
6. After school.
7. Yes
8. oatmeal
9. Yes
10. his favorite
11. No
12. too hot
13. yes
14. blew on it
15. Yes
16. watched
17. Yes
18. Everyday
Q: Happiness is contagious , as researchers reported on Thursday.

People with the most social connections -- spouses, friends, neighbors and relatives -- were also the happiest, the data showed. "Each additional happy person makes you happier," Christakis said.

"Imagine that I am connected to you and you are connected to others and others are connected to still others. It is this fabric of humanity, like an American patch quilt."

Each person sits on a different colored patch. "Imagine that these patches are happy and unhappy patches. Your happiness depends on what is going on in the patch around you," Christakis said.

"It is not just happy people connecting with happy people, which they do. Above and beyond, there is this contagious process going on."

And happiness is more contagious than unhappiness, they discovered.

"If a social contact is happy, it increases the likelihood that you are happy by 15 percent, " Fowler said. "A friend of a friend, or the friend of a spouse or a sibling , if they are happy, increases your chances by 10 percent," he added.

A happy third degree friend -- the friend of a friend of a friend -- increases a person's chances of being happy by 6 percent.

"But every extra unhappy friend increases the likelihood that you'll be unhappy by 7 percent," Fowler said.

The finding is interesting and it is useful, too, Fowler said.

"Among other benefits, happiness has been shown to have an important effect on reduced mortality , pain reduction, and improved cardiac function. So better understanding of how happiness spreads can help us learn how to develop a healthier society," he said.

The study also fits in with other data suggested in 1984 that having $ 5,000 extra increased a person's chances of becoming happier by about 2 percent.

"A happy friend is worth about $ 20,000," Christakis said.

Answer the following questions:
1. what is the worth of a happy person?
2. who said this?
3. can happiness spread?
4. according to?
5. when was it reported contagious?
6. what kind of people are happiest?
7. is it more contagious then unhappiness?
8. what does an unhappy friend do to you?
9. how much happiness does a third degree happy person bring?
10. what does he compare humanity fabric to?
11. does everyone sit on one patch?
12. do they sit on the same color patch?
13. what does Fowler say?
14. what does he say about the finding?
15. what are the benefits mentioned?
16. what does data suggest?
17. what does happiness depend on?
18. would you be happy if a social contact is happy?
A: 1. $ 20,000
2. Christakis
3. Yes
4. Christakis
5. on Thursday
6. People with the most social connections
7. Yes
8. increases the likelihood that you'll be unhappy by 7 percent
9. increases a person's chances of being happy by 6 percent.
10. an American patch quilt
11. Yes
12. No
13. "If a social contact is happy, it increases the likelihood that you are happy by 15 percent.
14. It is interesting and it is useful, too
15. reduced mortality , pain reduction, and improved cardiac function.
16. that having $ 5,000 extra increased a person's chances of becoming happier by about 2 percent.
17. what is going on in the patch around you
18. most likely
Q: Jane was running late. Jane, 25, had a lot to do at work, plus visitors on the way: her parents were coming in for Thanksgiving from her hometown. But as she hurried down the subway stairs, she started to feel uncomfortably warm. By the time she got to the platform, Jane felt weak and tired---maybe it hadn't been a good idea to give blood the night before, she thought. She rested herself against a post close to the tracks.

Several yards away, Tom, 43, and his girlfriend, Jennifer, found a spot close to where the front of the train would stop. They were deep in discussion about a house they were thinking of buying.

But when he heard the scream, followed by someone yelling, "Oh, my God, she fell in!" Tom didn't hesitate. He jumped down to the tracks and ran some 40 feet toward the body lying on the rails. "No! Not you!" his girlfriend screamed after him.

She was right to be alarmed. By the time Tom reached Jane, he could feel the tracks shaking and see the light coming. The train was about 20 seconds from the station.

It was hard to lift her. She was just out. But he managed to raise her the four feet to the platform so that bystanders could hold her by the grins and drag her away from the edge. That was where Jane briefly regained consciousness, felt herself being pulled along the ground, and saw someone else holding her purse.

Jane thought she'd been robbed. A woman held her hand and a man gave his shirt to help stop the blood pouring from her head. And she tried to talk but she couldn't, and that was when she realized how much pain she was in.

Police and fire officials soon arrived, and Tom told the story to an officer. Jennifer said her boyfriend was calm on their 40-minute train ride downtown-just as he had been seconds after the rescue, which made her think about her reaction at the time. "I saw the train coming and I was thinking he was going to die," she explained.

Answer the following questions:
1. Was someone running late?
2. Who?
3. How old is she?
4. What is Tom's girlfriend's name?
5. How old is Tom?
6. Were they waiting to get on the front or the rear of the train car?
7. What was their topic of converstaion?
8. Was there something on the tracks?
9. What was it?
10. Why was she on the tracks?
11. Did anyone try and save her?
12. Who?
13. How far did he have to run down the rail before he reached Jane?
14. How long did Tom have until the locomotive would get to the station and cause disaster?
15. Was it easy to lift her out?
16. Who was able to slide her to the safety?
17. What did Jane think happened to her?
18. Why?
19. Was she able to speak when she woke up?
20. Was she in any discomfort?
A:
1. yes
2. Jane
3. 25
4. Jennifer
5. 43
6. front
7. a house they were thinking of buying
8. yes
9. Jane,
10. she fell in
11. yes
12. Tom
13. 40 feet
14. 20 seconds
15. no
16. bystanders
17. that she'd been robbed.
18. someone was holding her purse
19. no
20. yes