Q: I was in the park with my elder sister, Cathy, on Friday. My sister left her jacket on a chair while we talked to some friends. When we went back to the chair, a girl in a red T-shirt was sitting there. She had some money in her hand. When she saw us, she stood up and walked away. I asked my sister, "Did you have any money in your jacket?" She said, "Yes, Anna, I did." I said, "Look in your jacket quickly." Cathy looked in her jacket, but her money was not there. "That girl stole it!" I said, and we both ran after her. We caught her quickly. My sister was very angry and she said, "Give me the money." The girl gave the money to Cathy and ran away. We both ran after her, but we lost her. Then we went home. But before we could tell our parents, my mother said to Cathy, "You left your money at home. It's on the table in the sitting room. You must be more careful with money." So the girl in the red T-shirt was not a thief! She probably thought we were thieves! We felt terrible. Please telephone us if you know this girl! We are very sorry for our mistake. We would like to say sorry to her and give the money back to her. Our number is 512667. My name is Anna.

Answer the following questions:
1. What did Cathy leave behind while she talked to her friends?
2. Where did she leave it?
3. Who was with Cathy at the park?
4. What is her sister's name?
5. Did Cathy lose anything from her jacket?
6. Did she think she'd lost something?
7. What did she think was missing?
8. How did she think the money went missing?
9. Where was her money really at?
10. Who did she think stole the money?
A: 1. her jacket
2. on a chair
3. her sister
4. Anna
5. no
6. yes
7. her money
8. stolen
9. on the table at home
10. a girl in a red T-shirt

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Washington (CNN) -- A late evening meeting between President Barack Obama and the leaders of the House and Senate failed to reach agreement Wednesday on a spending plan to avert a government shutdown, but all the participants said progress was made and talks would continue.

If there is no deal by midnight Friday, when the current spending authorization measure expires, parts of the government will close down.

Obama called the 90-minute talks with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, "constructive" and he said they narrowed and clarified the outstanding issues.

"I remain confident that if we're serious about getting something done, we should be able to complete a deal and get it passed and avert a shutdown," Obama said in brief remarks to reporters. "But it's going to require a sufficient sense of urgency from all parties involved" to prevent a shutdown that "could have real effects on everyday Americans."

Both Reid and Boehner told reporters in their own brief comments that the meeting made progress in narrowing their differences, and that their staffs would work through the night to try to reach further consensus.

"I have confidence we can get this done," said Reid, who criticized Boehner and Republicans earlier in the day for intransigence. "We're not there yet."

Boehner, standing next to Reid, said "we do have some honest differences," and he emphasized there was no agreement on either a specific figure for spending cuts for the rest of the current fiscal year or on policy issues that the Republicans want included in the measure, such as specifically prohibiting funding for abortions.

1. Who did Barack Obama have a meeting with?
2. Did senator Reid have confidence they could get things done?
3. What was the meeting about in the first place?
4. What were they trying to avert?
5. Who is the Senate majority leaded that also met with Obama?
6. How id Obama think the talks went?
7. Did the House speaker think they had some differences they needed to resolve?
8. What is the time they needed to finish by to avoid government shutdown?
9. Were there any agreements on spending cuts?
10. Were the polititions staffs going to be working though the night?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. with John Boehner
2. yes
3. on a spending plan
4. a government shutdown
5. Harry Reid
6. "constructive"
7. yes
8. by midnight Friday
9. no
10. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(CNN) -- Venezuela's top election official said Thursday that authorities will complete a 100% audit of votes cast in Sunday's presidential election.

Tibisay Lucena, president of Venezuela's National Electoral Council, said officials decided on the audit after a lengthy debate.

Officials had already audited 54% of ballot boxes, and now will audit the remaining 46%, she said.

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The decision comes after opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski filed complaints with election officials about thousands of alleged violations during Sunday's vote.

"The electoral power is making this decision in order to preserve a climate of harmony between Venezuelans, but also to isolate violent sectors that are irresponsibly trying to harm democracy," Lucena said.

Capriles said he accepted the council's decision Thursday because he believes that the problems his campaign spotted would be detected in the audit of the remaining 46%.

"I want to congratulate our people, because this was your fight," Capriles said late Thursday.

Earlier this week, Lucena certified the election results and declared Nicolas Maduro president-elect, despite Capriles' calls for a vote-by-vote recount.

Maduro secured 50.8% of votes in Sunday's election, while Capriles won 49%, election officials said earlier this week.

Maduro is scheduled to be sworn in at a ceremony in Caracas on Friday. It was unclear late Thursday whether the audit would impact plans for his inauguration.

The audit will take about 30 days and will involve comparing results from voting machines with printed reports and registries containing voters' signatures, Venezuelan constitutional lawyer Jose Vicente Haro told CNN en Espanol.

1. Who is Tibsay Lucena?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. president of Venezuela's National Electoral Council