question: Doctors say obesity,also known as severe overweight,is a complex condition.A doctor may advise medical interventions in addition to changes in behavior.But experts say the more successful weightloss plans include a wellbalanced diet and exercise.

People who want to avoid weight gain have to balance the number of calories they eat with the number of calories they use.To lose weight,you can reduce the number of calories you take in,or increase the number you use,or both.Experts at the National Institutes of Health say to lose weight,a person should do some moderate or intensive physical exercise most days of the week.This could include fast walking,sports or strength training.

A recent study looked at four of the most popular dieting plans in the United States.Researchers at Stanford University studied more than three hundred overweight women,mostly in their thirties or forties.Each woman went on one of the four plans:Atkins,The Zone,Ornish or LEARN.The women attended diet classes and received written information about the food plans.At the end of a year,the women on the Atkins diet had lost the most,more than four and a half kilograms on average.

Christopher Gardner led the study,reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. He said the Atkins diet may be more successful because of its simple message to lower the intake of sugar.Also,he said the advice to increase protein in the diet leads to more satisfying meals.

But last week,another report suggested that only a small minority of people have longterm success in dieting.Researchers at the University of California found that most dieters regained their lost weight within five years.And often they gained back even more.But those who kept the weight off generally were the ones who exercised.
1. how many people were in the study?
2. were they both male and female?
3. what gender were they?
4. what was it about?
5. less than 10 of them?
6. exactly how many?
7. were they named?
8. what was one?
9. another?
10. where was it conducted?
11. by who?
12. from where?
13. who was the leader?
14. were the results published?
15. where?
16. was one plan more successful?
17. which one?
18. why?
19. which is?
20. any other reason?
21. what?
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answer: 1. more than three hundred
2. No
3. female
4. dieting plans
5. Yes
6. four
7. Yes
8. Atkins
9. The Zone
10. the United States
11. Researchers
12. Stanford University
13. Christopher Gardner
14. Yes
15. the Journal of the American Medical Association.
16. Yes
17. the Atkins diet
18. because of its simple message
19. to lower the intake of sugar.
20. Yes
21. to increase protein in the diet leads to more satisfying meals.

question: Perugia, Italy (CNN) -- The father of American student Amanda Knox says prosecutors have "no case left," after an Italian judge rejected a request for new DNA testing of evidence.

"It really appears to me that they want to find the truth," Curt Knox said of Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellman's decision Wednesday. "I'm very hopeful that by the end of the month, we'll be able to bring Amanda and Rafael home."

Amanda Knox is fighting her conviction for killing her British housemate, Meredith Kercher. Knox and her ex-boyfriend, Rafael Sollecito, were found guilty of the killing in 2009.

The judge also rejected prosecution efforts to introduce newly found records about the original testing and to hear a new witness -- all victories for Knox's defense, which opposed the motions.

Curt Knox said his daughter is "handling it a step at a time. She's not pessimistic by any means. But she's also not saying, you know, I'm coming home."

He told CNN that the family will be allowed to see Amanda on Friday and will have a better sense of her reaction to the court's decision then.

Still, he acknowledged that "it was very good news for Amanda."

Even the prosecutor's office told CNN that its attorneys are less certain of the outcome. The prosecution is still confident that the verdict will be upheld, but is aware that it could go either way, the office said.

But Francesco Maresca, an attorney for the Kercher family, said that the rulings were not a defeat and that he understood why the judge rejected the requests.
1. Who is the story about?
2. What is her father's name?
3. When will he be able to see his daughter?
4. Will they be able to bring her home?
5. What is she convicted of?
6. Where is she from?
7. Was her boyfriend accused to?
8. What is her boyfriend's name?
9. Who is the judge?
10. Did the judge reject a request made by the prosecutors?
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answer: 1. Amanda Knox
2. Curt Knox
3. Friday
4. No
5. killing her British housemate
6. USA
7. Yes
8. Rafael Sollecito
9. Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellman's
10. yes

question: The region, as part of Lorraine, was part of the Holy Roman Empire, and then was gradually annexed by France in the 17th century, and formalized as one of the provinces of France. The Calvinist manufacturing republic of Mulhouse, known as Stadtrepublik Mulhausen, became a part of Alsace after a vote by its citizens on 4 January 1798. Alsace is frequently mentioned with and as part of Lorraine and the former duchy of Lorraine, since it was a vital part of the duchy, and later because German possession as the imperial province (Alsace-Lorraine, 18711918) was contested in the 19th and 20th centuries; France and Germany exchanged control of parts of Lorraine (including Alsace) four times in 75 years.

With the decline of the Roman Empire, Alsace became the territory of the Germanic Alemanni. The Alemanni were agricultural people, and their Germanic language formed the basis of modern-day dialects spoken along the Upper Rhine (Alsatian, Alemannian, Swabian, Swiss). Clovis and the Franks defeated the Alemanni during the 5th century AD, culminating with the Battle of Tolbiac, and Alsace became part of the Kingdom of Austrasia. Under Clovis' Merovingian successors the inhabitants were Christianized. Alsace remained under Frankish control until the Frankish realm, following the Oaths of Strasbourg of 842, was formally dissolved in 843 at the Treaty of Verdun; the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm into three parts. Alsace formed part of the Middle Francia, which was ruled by the youngest grandson Lothar I. Lothar died early in 855 and his realm was divided into three parts. The part known as Lotharingia, or Lorraine, was given to Lothar's son. The rest was shared between Lothar's brothers Charles the Bald (ruler of the West Frankish realm) and Louis the German (ruler of the East Frankish realm). The Kingdom of Lotharingia was short-lived, however, becoming the stem duchy of Lorraine in Eastern Francia after the Treaty of Ribemont in 880. Alsace was united with the other Alemanni east of the Rhine into the stem duchy of Swabia.
1. In antiquity Lorraine belonged to whom?
2. Who got them in 17th century?
3. What was its status then?
4. What became part of Alsace?
5. By what process?
6. When?
7. Whose part is it often mentioned?
8. Who got them later?
9. When?
10. What was its status then?
11. Did countries fight over it?
12. Which countries?
13. In which centuries?
14. Did it change hands?
15. How many times?
16. For how long?
17. What was the inhabitants profession in Roman Empire period?
18. How many parts Charlemagne divided the place?
19. How many brothers Lothar had?
20. What place Alsace united with then?
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answer:
1. he Germanic Alemanni
2. France
3. one of the provinces of France
4. the Calvinist manufacturing republic of Mulhouse
5. after a vote
6. on January 4, 1798
7. Alsace
8. Germany
9. 18711918
10. an imperial province
11. yes
12. France and Germany
13. in the 19th and 20th centuries
14. yes
15. four tiems
16. 75 years
17. agricultural
18. the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm into three parts
19. two
20. Alsace formed part of the Middle Francia