Problem: Nature Love

Yolanda loves nature. She loves trees, flowers, grass, singing birds, the sky, and even the wind. She spends a lot of time lying on the grass, looking at the sky, and listening to the birds.

One of Yolanda's favorite things to do is to look at the shapes of the big, fluffy clouds. "That one looks like a flower. And that one looks like a boat. There's one that looks like my dog!" she says to herself. She is always surprised and happy to find a new shape.

Yolanda's most favorite thing to do is to look at the flowers and bugs that visit her place. She watches and studies all the butterflies, bees, ants, spiders, and even worms that are in her backyard.

Yolanda has a wonderful backyard. Her mother has a big, beautiful garden that she helps to take care of. This is how Yolanda is learning to grow and take care of plants. The garden makes the whole yard look beautiful and smell wonderful. And the garden brings in all kinds of amazing birds and insects.

Yolanda has lots of pictures of the birds and bugs that come into her backyard. She feels like a kid scientist. Someday, she wants to become a real scientist. Then she can learn all about plants, bugs and nature.
1. Where is one of Yolanda's favorite places to be?
2. What does she like about it?
3. What does she do with it?
4. What is attracted to the garden?
5. Is she afraid of any of the insects?
6. What else does she like to do outside?
7. Why?
8. What game does she play when she looks at them?
9. What does she want to be when she grows up/
10. Why?
11. What insects does she like to explore now?
Answer: 1. her garden
2. it's beautiful
3. learns and takes care of plants
4. birds and insects
5. No.
6. She spends a lot of time lying on the grass
7. because she likes the clouds
8. find the shape
9. scientist
10. learn about plants, bugs and nature.
11. butterflies, bees, ants, spiders, worms

Problem: (CNN) -- Chris Froome retained the yellow jersey on a day of toil and trouble as Ireland's Dan Martin won the ninth stage of the Tour de France.

Sky Team rider Froome, who has a one minute and 25 second lead over his closest challenger, was forced to battle on his own as his teammates failed to give him adequate protection.

Richie Porte lost his grip on second place overall after finishing more than 17 minutes adrift, while Vasili Kiryienka was swept up by a broom wagon and is unlikely to feature in the remainder of the Tour.

There was also misery for Peter Kennaugh, who suffered bruising after falling from his bike -- an incident which left Froome wide open to attack on all fronts.

"This was one of the hardest days I have ever had on the bike," Froome told reporters.

"I had no-one else with me. I am really happy I have come through today. I was completely on my own, I had (sporting director) Nicolas Portal in the car telling me not to worry."

Martin, the nephew of great Irish cyclist Stephen Roche, won the long descent to Bagneres-de-Bigorre with Froome following home 20 seconds later in a pack which included rivals Alejandro Valverde and Alberto Contador.

Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford revealed his surprise at seeing his team struggle with Porte's failure particularly difficult for him to comprehend.

"That was a bit of a surprise, it is not often we've seen Richie have a day like that," Brailsford said.
1. What race is this about?
2. What stage of the tour?
3. Who is Martin the nephew of?
4. Who kept the yellow jersey?
5. Did Froome also win the ninth stage?
6. Who won the ninth stage?
7. Did anyone fall?
8. who fell?
9. Was he injured?
10. Who finished over 17 minutes back?
11. What team does Froome ride for?
12. how big is Froome's lead?
13. Where is Martin from?
14. Was Froome riding with others?
15. Who won the descent?
Answer: 1. Tour de France.
2. ninth
3. great Irish cyclist Stephen Roche,
4. Chris Froome
5. no
6. Dan Martin
7. yes
8. Peter Kennaugh
9. suffered bruising
10. Richie Porte
11. Sky Team
12. one minute and 25 second
13. Ireland
14. no
15. Martin,

Problem: Welcome to the world of multitasking -- a place where the measure of a person is how many jobs they can perform at the same time. In fact, if experts are to be believed, multitasking is a disastrous idea.

One of the opponents of multitasking is Dr. Clifford Nass, a professor at Stanford University. "People who multitask frequently are less able to pay attention; they're worse at managing their memory." he said. In his opinion, the loss that we get with multitasking is harmless in some situations, for example, part of doing business in the digital world: but you can't do serious work like writing, thinking or solving an important problem this way. You do worse even as you think you're doing better. All the time the research points to a simple fact: the brain cannot cope. When you stop midway through composing a report to check an email, you force your brain to stop and regroup. It is like pressing the pause button during a movie, meaning the film takes longer to watch.

And as for Dr. Nass, the problems extend beyond the brain. Young people who frequently multitask are not as socially and emotionally healthy as those who don't. They just feel more emotionally satisfied and the feeling is so good and they are bound to desire it again. Todd Oppenheimer, a writer said "We've become a very short-term society and don't reward people for taking a lot of time on something." He fears we may end up losing the next generation of great thinkers. "It's really unfortunate because the long-term challenges of our world -- environmental issues, financial issues -- require people to think wisely about the long-term consequences of what they do. And it's no coincidence that the kind of people who do think long-term don't multitask."
1. Who is one of the opponents of multitasking?
2. Where does he teach?
3. Do the problems extend beyond the brain?
4. Into which other areas?
5. What does all the research point to?
6. Can you write, think or solve important problems when multitasking?
7. What does Todd Oppenheimer fear?
8. What is his profession?
9. Do environmental problems require multitasking?
10. Does multitasking feel good?
Answer:
1. Dr. Clifford Nass
2. Stanford University
3. Yes
4. socially and emotionally
5. the brain cannot cope
6. No
7. we may end up losing the next generation of great thinkers
8. a writer
9. No
10. Yes