question: Time flies. Your time in junior high school will come to an end in a few months. Let's look back over the last three years. What were the highs and lows? For Zhang Xiaomeng, a senior high school girl from Jiangsu, meeting her best friend Hua Xuan was the best part of her time at junior high school. They went to class together, had lunch together, and even went to the washroom together. Having one or two best friends is important, said Xu Zheng, a teacher from Jiangsu. "Students have secrets. They don't want to tell their parents,"Xu added. However, being too rebellious in junior high is the biggest _ for Liu Anqing, a senior high school student from Fujian. "I didn't listen to my parents. I quarreled with my mother every week," said Liu. "I wish I could go back to that time and get on well with them." Time also needs to be taken care of. Zhang Zihua, 15, from Shanxi, thought he had plenty of time to prepare for the big exam at the end of Junior 3. Then one day, he was told: "The exam is in 100 days." "We need a strong knowledge base to pass the exam. But I didn't care about it," said Zhang. Gu Xiaoli, a teacher from Jiangsu, said that it's never too late to catch up. "No matter your regrets about wasted time, you can always pick things up from now," said Gu.
1. Where is Zhang Xiaomeng from?
2. When did she meet her best friend?
3. What grade is she in now?
4. According to Xu Zheng, what do students have?
5. From whom?
6. What does Zheng do?
7. What will end in a few months?
8. Is the exam in 10 days?
9. When is it?
10. What is needed to do well?
11. Who went to the washroom together?
12. Who did LIU fight with?
13. How often?
14. What did she want to do?
15. Why?
16. Who is from Shanxi?
17. How old is he?
18. Did he work hard to prepare for the exam?
19. Why not?
20. Who is Gu?
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answer: 1. Jiangsu
2. in junior high
3. senior high school
4. secrets.
5. their parents
6. a teacher
7. the end of Junior 3.
8. no
9. in 100 days
10. a strong knowledge base
11. Zhang Xiaomeng and Hua Xuan
12. her mother
13. every week
14. go back in time
15. to get on well with her parents.
16. Zhang Zihua,
17. 15
18. no
19. I didn't care about it,
20. a teacher

question: Steubenville, Ohio (CNN) -- One of the teens who recorded himself mocking the girl at the center of an Ohio rape case "did a really dumb thing and regrets it" but did not commit any crime, his lawyer said Monday.

The attorney, Dennis McNamara, said there was "no excuse or justification" for the jokes Michael Nodianos made, "and with some sober reflection, he is ashamed and embarrassed to hear them himself."

"He sincerely regrets his behavior and his comments and the effect that it's had on the parties involved, including his own family," McNamara told reporters in Steubenville, the small Ohio town that has become the focus of national attention because of the case. "He was not raised to act in this manner."

Two 16-year-old members of the town's powerhouse high school football team are charged with sexually assaulting a girl after a series of parties in August. They are set for trial in a juvenile court in February.

McNamara said Nodianos, 18, has been interviewed by detectives "at some length" and is not the subject of an investigation.

"Michael is a really good kid from a really good family who did a really dumb thing and regrets it," he said. "Beyond that, he has no involvement in the criminal case or in any of the underlying activity that led to the filing of the criminal charges."

Defense battles social media blizzard in Ohio rape case

The case gained national attention after The New York Times published a lengthy piece on it in December. The activist hacker group Anonymous and other critics have accused community leaders of trying to paper over rampant misconduct by football players and suggested that other students took part in the assaults or failed to do enough stop them. Anonymous helped organize a weekend protest in Steubenville that drew a crowd of hundreds to the town, a community of about 18,000 on the Ohio River across the river from West Virginia.
1. how many football players are charged in the case?
2. how old are they?
3. did one of them mock the girl?
4. True or False: He recorded himself mocking her.
5. what is the name of the mocker?
6. who is the attorney representing him?
7. how old is Nodianos?
8. where is the case taking place?
9. which publication published a piece about it?
10. did it gain national attention?
11. did McNamara condone the jokes?
12. how did he feel about hearing them?
13. does McNamara say he is innocent?
14. who is battling social media?
15. what does Anonymous accuse community leaders of?
16. what did they organize?
17. how many showed up?
18. how many people live in Steubenville?
19. is it near west virginia?
20. by what river?
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answer: 1. Two
2. 16
3. Yes.
4. True
5. Michael Nodianos
6. Dennis McNamara
7. 18
8. Steubenville, Ohio.
9. The New York Times
10. Yes.
11. No.
12. Ashamed and embarrassed.
13. Yes.
14. The defense.
15. Trying to paper over rampant misconduct by football players.
16. A protest.
17. hundreds
18. About 18,000.
19. Yes.
20. The Ohio River.

question: Charles Robert Darwin, (; 12February 1809 19April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.

Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book "On the Origin of Species", overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s, the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.

Darwin's early interest in nature led him to neglect his medical education at the University of Edinburgh; instead, he helped to investigate marine invertebrates. Studies at the University of Cambridge (Christ's College) encouraged his passion for natural science. His five-year voyage on established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author.
1. Who published "The Origin of the Species"?
2. In what year?
3. How many professions did he have?
4. What were they?
5. What was his early curiosty in?
6. Did he originally go to uni to study it?
7. What did he go for?
8. Did he have a co-author?
9. Who was he?
10. What was his main hypothesis?
11. Did this mimic selective choosing of genetic traits?
12. Did he only study in one place?
13. How many?
14. What was the first one?
15. What did he wind up studying there?
16. And where else did he study?
17. Where he studied?
18. Was his findings similar to the findings of another?
19. When did modern thoughts on the study of how we evolve support his hypotheses?
20. And when did he finally pass away?
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answer:
1. Darwin
2. 1859
3. Three
4. naturalist, geologist and biologist
5. nature
6. No
7. medical education
8. Yes
9. Alfred Russel Wallace
10. that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection
11. Yes
12. No
13. Two
14. University of Edinburgh
15. marine invertebrates
16. University of Cambridge
17. natural science
18. unknown
19. that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution
20. 19April 1882