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Joe's parents are farmers and they have a huge farm with cows, chickens, and ducks. Joe loves the farm and all the things he gets to play around and play on. One day, Joe's father told him not to get near a tractor that was sitting in the field. His father was worried that Joe would climb on it and hurt himself. Joe went out to the field and was feeding the horses and cows. When he was done, he saw the tractor his father told him not to get near. He knew that climbing on the tractor wouldn't hurt anything, so he did. He climbed on to the seat and sat there. Then, he pretended he was his father and pretended that he was driving the tractor. Joe's father saw him playing on the tractor and called for him. Joe heard his father calling for him and got off the tractor really fast. When he did that, he fell off and hurt his arm. Joe was in pain and his father came running to check on him and picked him up and sat him on a bench and asked him why he did that. Joe looked at his father and said, "I wanted to be like you." Joe's father gave him a hug and asked him if he wanted to ride with him on the tractor. Joe did and after he got a bandage on his arm, he and his father rode in the field on the tractor.
1. What did Joe's father warn him about?
2. Why?
3. Does he obey?
4. What does he do?
5. Why did he disobey like that?
6. Had he gone out to the field just to climb on the tractor?
7. What was he out there for?
8. Did he get away with being on the tractor?
9. Why?
10. Did that startle him?
11. What was the result?
12. Was it bad?
13. Was his father upset?
14. Why?
15. What did Joe say to his dad that made his dad not be upset?
16. What is the dad going to do now with him?

Numbered answers:
1. not to go near a tractor
2. he could hurt himself
3. no
4. He climbed on to the seat
5. He knew that climbing on the tractor wouldn't hurt anything
6. no
7. to feed the horses and cows
8. no
9. his father called for him
10. yes
11. he fell off
12. yes
13. no
14. unknown
15. "I wanted to be like you."
16. give him a ride on the tractor

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Jim suffered heart problems. In conversation he expressed little joy and it seemed that his life was drawing to a close. When his heart problems led to operation, Jim went through it successfully, and a full recovery was expected. Within days, however, his heart was not beating properly. Jim was rushed back to operation, but nothing was found to explain the cause of his illness. He died on the operating table on the day before his 48th birthday. Dr. Bruce Smoller, a psychologist , had had many conversations with him, and the more he learned, the stranger he realized Jim's case was. When Jim was a child, his father, a teacher, suffered a heart attack and stayed home to recover. One morning Jim asked his father to look over his homework, promising to come home from school at noon to pick it up. His father agreed, but when Jim returned his father had died. Jim's father was 48. "I think all his life Jim believed he killed his father," Dr. Smoller says. "He felt that if he had not asked him to look at his homework, his father would have lived. Jim had been troubled by the idea. The operation was the trial he had expected for forty years. " Smoller believes that Jim willed himself not to live to the age of 48. Jim's case shows the powerful role that attitude plays in physical health, and that childhood experiences produce far-reaching effect on the health of grown-ups. Although most cases are less direct than Jim's, studies show that childhood events, besides genes, may well cause such midlife diseases as cancer, heart disease and mental illness.
1. What are midlife diseases?
2. How old was Jim when his father died?
3. What did he his dad do for a living?
4. What did the son need help with?
5. Did he believe that it killed his dad?
6. What happened when he was 47?
7. Was he expected to survive the surgery?
8. Who analyzed Jim?
9. What does he do?
10. Did Jim & Smoller talk much?
11. What effects the health of adults?

Numbered answers:
1. Cancer, heart disease and mental illness.
2. Eight
3. He was a teacher,
4. his homework
5. Dr. Smoller thiought so.
6. He died on the operating table.
7. a full recovery was expected for the first surgery.
8. Dr. Bruce Smoller
9. he is a psychologist
10. They had had many conversations
11. Attitude.

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Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world, the second oldest in the United States, and the sole member of the "Big Six" film studios still located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and honored each with a star on the logo. These fortunate few would become the first "movie stars." In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.

Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

The company's headquarters and studios are located in 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, United States.

Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company (1895) and Pathe (1896), followed by the Nordisk Film company (1906), and Universal Studios (1912). It is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles.

Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company. Hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time (leading to the slogan "Famous Players in Famous Plays"). By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success. Its first film was "Les Amours de la reine Elisabeth", which starred Sarah Bernhardt.
1. What is a subsiiary of Viacom?
2. Is there a shoter name?
3. what is it?
4. What is Paramount?
5. where is it?
6. and they are a member of what?
7. any other memberships mentioned?
8. what?
9. Who was an investor in nickelodeons?
10. where was he from?
11. What significance does 1912 have?
12. How many actors and actresses were contracted in 1916?
13. who did this?
14. what was his occupation at the time?
15. What do the stars on the logo represent?
16. these would become the first what?
17. What did Paramount do in 2014?
18. Are many major film studios in Los Angeles?
19. how many?
20. which one?
Numbered answers:
1. Paramount Pictures Corporation
2. yes
3. Paramount
4. American film studio
5. Hollywood, California
6. the "Big Six"
7. Yes
8. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
9. Adolph Zukor
10. Hungary
11. the founding date of the Famous Players Film Company.
12. 22
13. Adolph Zukor
14. film producer
15. the original 22 actors and actresses
16. "movie stars."
17. Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.
18. No
19. Just one
20. Paramount