Q: Teary Joe was a boy with a special ability: he could make himself cry in less than a second. If he disliked something, or things became difficult, Teary Joe would not hesitate to put on a pitiful face and set great big tears running down his cheeks. In this way he managed to get practically everything he wanted, because no one could resist the pity inspired by his tearful little face.

But one day, Teary Joe met Pipo. Pipo was asking people in the street for some change, in return for him helping them in any way he could. Pipo was very poor; he had no home and no family, so he made a living however he could. Even so, Pipo always had the biggest smiles on his face.

Joe took to Pipo, so he decided to help him out in making some money. He went over next to Pipo, took off his hat, put it face-up on the ground, and started crying with the most pitiful of expressions. Ina few minutes, Joe's hat was full of coins and sweets, but when Joe offered all this to Pipo, Pipo declined. "I prefer deserving what I receive," answered Pipo with his usual smile, "It's much more fun making an effort to get things. Maybe I haven't gotten everything I've wanted, but I've done a load of interesting things." Teary Joe didn't answer; he just walked sadly away. Joe had got everything he wanted, but he'd done practically nothing of interest the whole day.

That evening, having returned home, Joe requested a delicious cake for his supper. When his mother said no, Joe tried to cry but, remembering Pipo and how joyful he was, he tried to get the cake in some other way. Joe spent the whole evening helping his mother to water the plants and organize the library books.

In the end there was no cake. But that wasn't so bad, because Joe discovered it had been much more fun doing all those things that evening rather than just sitting crying to get a piece of cake that, in the end, wouldn't have been worth it.

1. Pipo was asking for change
2. in the street
3. help them
4. any way he could
5. help Pipo
6. He went over to Pipo, took off his hat, put it face-up on the ground, and started crying
7. yes
8. coins and sweets
9. Joe's hat
10. a few minutes
11. no
12. he preferred making an effort
13. sad
14. yes
15. he could make himself cry in less than a second
16. yes
17. practically everything he wanted
18. great big
19. cake
20. no

Numbered questions:
1. Where did Teary and Pipo meet?
2. Where?
3. What did he offer to do for them?
4. how?
5. What did Teary Joe think he would do?
6. how would he convince people to give him money?
7. Did people give him money?
8. what kind?
9. Where did they put it?
10. How long did it take to fill it up?
11. Did he give it to Pipo?
12. Why didn't he want it?
13. How did that make Joe feel?
14. Did he have a special ability?
15. What was it?
16. Did he use this to obtain things?
17. What?
18. What size are his tears?
19. When he got home what did he want?
20. Did he get it?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN) -- The man closest to Tiger Woods when he plays golf says he had no idea about the extramarital affairs that have sidelined Woods from the game.

Steve Williams, Woods' caddy and confidant for nearly a decade, talked to New Zealand's TV3 about the scandal.

"I knew nothing," Williams said in an interview posted on the station's Web site Thursday. "I don't need to clarify it, extend that answer. I knew nothing."

Williams said he's heard the calls from some that he should be fired for not preventing Woods' downfall. "In some people's perception, I'm involved with it, and I've committed a crime or done wrong," he said.

"If the shoe was on somebody else, I would say the same thing, it would be very difficult for the caddy not to know," he said. "But I'm 100 percent telling you, I knew nothing, and that's that."

Williams' wife, Kirsty, defended her husband, insisting he would not have been able to keep the secret from her or Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren.

"The four of us are so close," she told TV3. "Being so close, he couldn't know and not say something to Elin or myself. You know, it's just, that's the way it is."

Woods, 34, apologized last month in a tightly controlled televised statement for his "irresponsible and selfish" behavior, which he said included infidelity.

The February 19 statement was his first public appearance since he crashed his black Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and a tree near his home in November. The crash and reports about why it happened sparked a barrage of infidelity allegations against the golfer, who has two children with his wife. 1. What famous person is featured?
2. How old is he?
3. And who spoke to TV3?
4. Who is she related to?
5. And does the caddy have a wife?
6. What was her name?
7. Did she side with her hubby?
8. Were the Williams close to the Woods?
9. How long was Steve and Tiger's confidant?
10. When did Tiger first speak on the subject?
11. After what event?
12. What did he hit?
13. What else?
14. When did this happen?
15. Did he have kids at the time?
16. How many?
numbered_answers: 1. Tiger Woods
2. 34
3. Elin Nordegren
4. Woods
5. yes
6. , Kirsty,
7. yes
8. yes
9. nearly a decade
10. February 19
11. he crashed his black Cadillac Escalade
12. a fire hydrant
13. a tree
14. November.
15. Yes
16. two

That was my grandmother's first Christmas without Grandfather. When my parents and I arrived at her little house ,we found she had waited up all night for us. Grandfather had always said that the Christmas tree was the most important decoration of all. So first we took out the beautiful tree that was stored in the closet . But the star was _ . It was my grandmother's favorite part of the tree. "Why? It must be somewhere in the closet," my grandmother said. As we opened up boxes one by one and found no star, my grandmother's eyes were full of tears. Grandfather had given it to her some fifty years ago, on their first Christmas together. But on her first Christmas without him, the star was gone. The next morning, my family sat down together to open the presents. "The last gift is to Grandmother from Grandfather," Father said, in a strange voice. "From whom?" There was surprise in my grandmother's voice. "I found this gift in Grandfather's closet when we got the tree down," Mother explained. My grandmother opened the box. There was a shinning golden star and a note in it: Don't be angry with me, dear. I broke your star while putting away the decorations, and I couldn't bear to tell you. I hope it brings you as much happiness as the first one. Merry Christmas! Love, Bryant ,A, B, C, D,. (10) What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who is experiencing something for the first time?
2. Which holiday is it?
3. What is significant about it?
4. Did she come to her children's house?
5. Did they go there?
6. What had she done the night before?
7. What did they start to do?
8. What were they looking for?
9. Why?
10. What did he think of it?
11. Were they able to find it?
12. Was that okay?
13. Why not?
14. Did she start to cry?
15. Who gave her a present the next day?
16. Who handed it to her?
17. Was his voice normal?
18. Was it the first one?
19. Where was it found?
20. Was it the old one?
Answer:
1. grandmother
2. Christmas
3. first Christmas without Grandfather
4. No
5. Yes
6. waited up
7. decorate the Christmas tree Christmas tree
8. star
9. Grandfather had given it to her
10. unknown
11. No
12. No
13. Grandfather had given it to her some fifty years ago, on their first Christmas together
14. yes
15. Grandfather
16. Father
17. No
18. No
19. Grandfather's closet
20. No