Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

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. 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?

Numbered answers:

A: 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

Question: Music can be a great power to change people's lives. Regina del Carmen Sanchez, 14, always believes this. The girl from Kansas City, US, leads a hard life. She lives in a small house with her mom and grandparents. Her mom gets a very low pay. But it doesn't stop Sanchez's love of music. She wrote her first song Keep Your Head Up when she was 12. It described the bad situation at her home, but it also sent the message of hope: "My house is old and poor, but it beats being homeless... Love yourself and never give up. You'll see a better life if you keep your head up..." It took Sanchez several months to finish the song. Sometimes during a break in class, when lyrics came into her head, "I would have to write them down right then," she told the local newspaper The Kansas City Star. Jeremy Lillig was a spokesman for Bright Futures, a charity fund. When he saw the video of the song, he was _ He shared it through social media . The fund has provided money for poor students in Kansas City. Now Sanchez often plays the song in public. "I want to help people understand what is happening in the world in an easy way," she said. 1. Who is this article about?
2. Who is she?
3. How old is she?
4. What is unique about her?
5. What was it about?
6. What is her situation at home?
7. Are they poor?
8. How long did it take her to write?
9. Where did she write it?
10. What was the positive message?
11. Did she make a video?
12. Has the song influenced anyone?
13. Who?
14. Who is he?
15. What did he do?
16. What did that accomplish?
17. Does she ever perform in public?
18. What message is she hoping to get across?
19. Is there a theme to the article?
20. What is the message? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Regina del Carmen Sanchez
2. girl from Kansas City, US
3. 14
4. She wrote her first song Keep Your Head Up when she was 12
5. the bad situation at her home, but it also sent the message of hope
6. She lives in a small house with her mom and grandparents
7. Yes
8. several months
9. Sometimes during a break in class
10. Love yourself and never give up. You'll see a better life if you keep your head up
11. Yes
12. Yes
13. Jeremy Lillig
14. a spokesman for Bright Futures, a charity fund
15. He shared it through social media
16. The fund has provided money for poor students in Kansas City.
17. Yes.
18. help people understand what is happening in the world in an easy way,"
19. Yes
20. Music can be a great power to change people's lives.

Q: When this story happened, they were working around a very large house. Their job was to do the cleaning. It was not a difficult job, but sometimes it was a little dangerous, because they had to walk below where workmen were working. Often these workmen dropped something from the top of the house many meters high to the ground. One morning Joe was working near the house with a cigarette behind one of his ears. Suddenly somebody on the top shouted, "Look out!" But Joe did not "look out". He looked up. And as he did so, a long knife missed Joe's head, but it cut off one of his ears. At once he put his hand to one side of his head and cried out, "I've lost an ear. Help! Help!" Jeff ran up to help his friend. "Look for my ear," Joe told him. "It must be on the ground somewhere." Jeff looked everywhere for the missing ear. At last he found an ear on the ground. He picked it up and carried it to Joe. "Here you are," he said, "I've found it." Joe looked at it. "No, that's not my ear." he said, "Mine had a cigarette behind it."

1. working on a house
2. Cleaning
3. Yes, but a bit dangerous
4. They had to walk under the workmen
5. The workmen would drop things from the top of the house
6. Joe was close to the house
7. A shout of "look out"
8. Joe looked up
9. A long knife
10. The knife cut off one of his ears.
11. He put his hand to his head and cried out
12. Jeff
13. On the ground first, then everywhere
14. Yes
15. No
16. His had a cigarette behind it

Numbered questions:
1. What were they doing?
2. Doing what?
3. Was it easy?
4. Why?
5. What would happen?
6. Where was Joe?
7. What did he hear?
8. What did he do instead?
9. What went by his face?
10. What did it do?
11. What did he do next?
12. Who helped him?
13. Where did they search?
14. Did they find it?
15. But did he think it was his?
16. Why?