question: A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based.

Screenwriting is a freelance profession. No education is required to become a professional screenwriter, just good storytelling abilities and imagination. Screenwriters are not hired employees but contracted freelancers. Most, if not all, screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation (spec) and so write without being hired or paid for it. If such a script is sold, it is called a spec script. What separates a professional screenwriter from an amateur screenwriter is that professional screenwriters are usually represented by a talent agency. Also, professional screenwriters do not often work for free, but amateur screenwriters will often work for free and are considered "writers in training." Spec scripts are usually penned by unknown professional screenwriters and amateur screenwriters.

There are a legion of would-be screenwriters who attempt to enter the film industry, but it often takes years of trial-and-error, failure, and gritty persistence to achieve success. In "Writing Screenplays that Sell", Michael Hague writes, "Screenplays have become, for the last half of [the twentieth] century, what the Great American Novel was for the first half. Closet writers who used to dream of the glory of getting into print now dream of seeing their story on the big or small screen."
1. Who is a screenplay writer called in short?
2. Define screenwriter?
3. Is it a freelance profession?
4. What's a different thing about them in terms of their work?
5. What does a spec script mean?
6. What's the difference between a professional one versus an amateur one?
7. Which one from the both work for free?
8. Are they considered writers in training?
9. Does it take them long to enter the film industry?
10. Do they undergo a lot of trial and error before entering the industry?
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answer: 1. Screenwriter.
2. A writer who practices the craft of screenwriting.
3. Yes.
4. Professional screenwriters are usually represented by a talent agency.
5. A script, once sold.
6. Professionals are paid.
7. Amateur screenwriters will often work for free.
8. .Yes.
9. Yes.
10. Yes.

question: Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Closing arguments are set for Wednesday in the trial of Mexican soap opera actress Fernanda Romero on federal charges that her marriage was an illegal sham intended only to earn her a U.S. work permit.

On Tuesday, Romero tearfully testified that she really loved Kent Ross, the pizza deliveryman she married five years ago.

Their marriage was real, but it soon fell apart because of his drinking and her focus on a modeling and acting career, Romero told jurors.

Romero is accused of paying Ross $5,000 to marry her on June 12, 2005, but the prosecutor alleged they never lived together as a couple.

U.S. District Judge Manuel Real blocked defense lawyers from using evidence they said would show Romero was set up and turned in by a vengeful photographer angry that she rebuffed his romantic advances.

The job of convincing jurors the marriage was real fell on Romero, a 28-year-old actress-singer-model who starred in Telemundo's "Wounded Soul" soap opera. The prosecutor suggested Romero was using her professional acting skills to sell her own fiction.

Romero testified she married for love, not a green card.

"To be in a loving relationship, forever and ever, like my parents," she testified.

The couple didn't have a family wedding because he is Mormon and she is Catholic, she said.

They kept separate Hollywood apartments because he couldn't break a lease and she traveled a lot, she said.

The first months were "very loving, fun," she said. "We socialized together, passionate. It was the honeymoon stage."
1. Who is Fernanda Romero?
2. Why is she being accused?
3. Whom did she marry with?
4. How long ago did Fernanda Romero get married?
5. Why did the marriage fell apart?
6. How much did Romero pay Ross to marry her?
7. When did they get married?
8. Did they live together?
9. Did Romero love her?
10. Why the couple did not have a family wedding?
11. Why the couple did not live together in Hollywood?
12. How was the first months of the relationship?
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answer: 1. a soap opera actress
2. that her marriage was an illegal sham
3. Kent Ross
4. five years ago
5. his drinking and her focus on a modeling and acting career
6. $5,000
7. June 12
8. no
9. yes
10. because he is Mormon and she is Catholic
11. he couldn't break a lease and she traveled a lot
12. very loving, fun

question: (CNN) -- It's hard to believe it's been five years since Mumbai was rocked by terror attacks. Life goes on, the city continues its chaotic beat. The next news story replaces the last one, the cycle of life goes on.

The date 26/11 is now a somber anniversary the city marks. But for many, it's something much more personal. The newspapers here today are full of pictures of smiling couples and entire families who lost their lives during the attacks. They accompany messages of remembrance in ads placed their by surviving family members who miss them and grieve for them.

Ten Pakistani men associated with the terror group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba stormed buildings and killed 164 people. Nine of the gunmen were killed during the attacks, one survived. Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman, was executed in India last year

One of the pictures I saw in a newspaper today that froze me was of a broken blue wall inside Chabad House, the building where Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka were killed. Their baby son, Moshe survived.

My colleague, Sanjiv Talreja and I were the first journalists allowed inside Chabad House a few weeks after the carnage. It was the hardest assignment I have ever had. The place hadn't been cleaned. Walls and windows were blown out, only half of the floors and ceilings remained. Blood stains splashed across the wall, grenade shells and bullets littered the crumbling floor.

One thing that stopped me in my tracks though was a broken blue wall. It was in the room that baby Moshe occupied. His mother Rivka had marked his height on the wall, with the enthusiasm of any young mother watching her baby grow. Several little pencil lines marked every inch or two this young boy grew.
1. What location is the article talking about?
2. In which country is that located?
3. What is it they're remembering?
4. How long ago did they happen?
5. How many were murdered?
6. How many were behind that attack?
7. Did any of them survive
8. Who?
9. What organization was he with?
10. After the attack, who was permitted inside on of the sites?
11. How long after the attack was it?
12. Was it considered an easy assignment?
13. What was the one item that stuck out to the journalist?
14. Where was it located?
15. What was the name of the structure?
16. Was anyone murdered there?
17. Who?
18. Did they leave anyone behind?
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answer:
1. Mumbai
2. unknown
3. terror attacks
4. five years
5. 164 people
6. Ten
7. Yes
8. Mohammed Ajmal Kasab
9. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
10. Two Journalists
11. a few weeks after
12. No
13. a broken blue wall
14. in the room that baby Moshe occupied
15. Chabad House
16. Yes
17. Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka
18. Their baby son, Moshe