input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. 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 . 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?
numbered_answers: 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

input: Marjorie Gestring

Marjorie Gestring was a springboard diver from the United States who won the gold medal in 3-meter springboard diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany at the age of 13 years. With the cancellation of the Olympics in 1940 and 1944 because of World War II, Gestring did not get a chance to defend her title, and her comeback attempt for the 1948 Summer Olympics failed.

Bob Mathias

17-year-old American Bob Mathias won the decathlon only four months after taking up the sport. He is the youngest athlete in Olympic history to win a men's track and field event. By the time Mathias retired from decathlon competition in 1952, he had nine victories in nine competitions. He had won two gold medals separately in 1948 and 1952. In 1954 a film about his early life called The Bob Mathias Story was made, in which he and his wife played themselves.

Fu Mingxia

Fu Mingxia was born on August 16, 1978 in Wuhan, Hubei Province. At an early age, her father taught her to swim at a nearby river. She started exercising gymnastics at age 5, soon turning to diving. Fu Mingxia left home at age 9 to train in Beijing. In the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Fu Mingxia became China's youngest Olympic champion ever when she won the 10-meter platform gold at the age of 13.

Ian Thorpe

Ian Thorpe was born on 13 October, 1982. He is a former Australian freestyle swimmer. At the age of 14, he became the youngest male ever to represent Australia. Ian Thorpe, 17 years old, won the gold medal in the 400m freestyle by breaking his own world record in Sydney 2000. He has won five Olympic gold medals. 1. What event was Marjorie Gestring compete in?
2. What olympics did she win a gold metal in?
3. Why didn't she compete in the Olympics in 1940 and 1944?
4. When was Iam Thrope born?
5. What did he do at age 14 that was so impressive?
6. How many gold medals did Bob Mathias win?
7. What years did he win them in?
8. What Did Iam thrope medal in?
9. How many Olympic medals has he one total?
10. Who's world record did he break in the year 2000 at Sydney? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. springboard diving
2. 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin
3. World War II,
4. 13 October, 1982
5. youngest male to represent Australia in the Olympics
6. two
7. 1948 and 1952
8. 400m freestyle
9. five
10. his own

Q: Tim Welford, aged 33, and Dom Mee, aged 30, both from England, were keen on (="like..." very much) rowing boats. They made a plan to row across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to San Francisco. The name of their rowboat was "Crackers". It was about seven meters long.

They set out from Japan on May 17,2001. They had rowed nearly 5,500 miles when their boat was hit by a fishing ship on September 17,2001. Luckily they both escaped unharmed, but their boat was badly damaged and they had to abandon( =" stop)their" journey.

In a radio interview, Dom expressed his disappointment and explained how the accident took place.

"A fishing ship came towards us with nobody on the bridge and ran us down. It all happened so quickly. I managed to dive into the water. Tim felt it would be safer to stay on board. He was trapped inside as the boat was driven under the water. Finally some people appeared on the ship and saw me in the water. I shouted at them to stop the ship and to get Tim out. When the ship stopped, I eventually saw Tim, and I was very, very happy that we were still alive. We were very disappointed that we couldn't reach San Francisco. But we are alive. That above everything is the most important. "

Answer the following questions:
1. What does keen mean?
2. Whast were they keen on?
3. What were they planning on?
4. Where were they to start?
5. and end?
6. When did they leave?
7. Did they make the trip?
8. what happened?
9. How far had they went?
10. Who dived into the water?
11. why?
12. Was anyone on the bridge of the boat?
13. Did anyone appear eventually?
14. Did Dom shout at them?
15. What?
16. Was Tim happy?
17. why?
18. How old was Dom?
19. and Tim?
20. where were they from?
A:
1. Like very much.
2. Rowing boats.
3. Rowing across the Pacific Ocean.
4. Japan.
5. San Francisco.
6. May 17.
7. No.
8. Their boat was hit by a fishing ship.
9. Nearly 5,500 miles.
10. Dom.
11. He felt it was safer.
12. No.
13. Yes.
14. Yes.
15. Stop the ship and to get Tim out
16. No.
17. That we couldn't reach San Francisco.
18. 30.
19. 33.
20. England.