question: Limit the use of private cars, improve public transport and encourage the use of bicycles to control traffic congestion during the 2008 Olympics, experts from foreign countries advised Beijing on Friday. Professor Nigel Wilson, of the civil and environmental engineering department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he was "supportive to the limiting of private cars during the Olympic Games", saying that in foreign countries, the method is also adopted during big events, but he was unsure about the approach. The government planned to keep an average of more than one million cars off the roads to improve traffic flow during the Olympics, said Liu Xiaoming, deputy director of the Beijing Traffic Committee, at the China Planning Network First Urban Transportation Congress. Sharing Wilson's view, Dr. Yoshitsugu Hayashi, dean of the Graduate School of Environmental Studies of Nagoya University, believed the reduction in car use should be achieved not by banning, but through _ . "Drivers who don't use their private cars could be given points," he said, "and the points could be exchanged for goods from online shopping." Wetzel stressed limiting the use of company cars. "Governmental officials should also be encouraged to use public transportation or ride bicycles," he said, adding that he himself is a bicycle-rider in London. Matthew Martimo, director of Traffic Engineering with Citilabs, said the bicycle was China's advantage. "Limiting private cars is an idea worth trying but it is just a temporary solution," he said. "The real cause of congestion is high density of people in Beijing and many have cars." Beijing, with a population of 15 million, is home to more than three million automobiles, and the number is rising by 1,000 a day. Professor Wilson said the Olympic Games was a great opportunity for Beijing to think about traffic problems and develop transportation, adding that the city had already been making public transport more efficient. Beijing has promised to stretch its 114-kilometer city railway to 200 kilometers before the opening of the Olympic Games. "We are looking forward to borrowing Beijing's experiences and drawing from its lessons in preparation for the 2012 Olympics," said Wetzel.
1. how many cars did they want to keep off the road during the Olympics?
2. How were they going to achieve that?
3. what were they encouraging people to use?
4. which olympics were these?
5. who advised Beijing?
6. where was he from?
7. which department?
8. where else is that method used?
9. during what time?
10. Did they think cars should be banned?
11. what did they propose instead?
12. what can they use points for?
13. what is the real cause of traffic problems?
14. Do most of them have cars?
15. how many people live there?
16. how many of them have vehicles?
17. what were they going to do with the railway?
18. what was it before expansion?
19. what would they expand it to?
20. when?
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answer: 1. one million
2. Drivers who don't use their private cars could be given points
3. public transportation or ride bicycles
4. the 2008 Olympics
5. Professor Nigel Wilson
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7. environmental engineering
8. foreign countries
9. big events
10. no
11. drivers who comply given points
12. goods from online shopping
13. high density of people in Beijing
14. yes
15. 15 million
16. three million
17. expand it
18. 114-kilometer
19. 200 kilometers
20. before the opening of the Olympic Games

(CNN) -- Here's something shocking.

Democrats and Republicans totally disagree about the significance of the GOP's victory in the first major competitive congressional ballot box test of 2014.

Republican candidate David Jolly narrowly edged out Democrat Alex Sink to win Tuesday's special election in Florida's 13th Congressional District. Jolly will fill out the term of his former boss, longtime Republican Rep. Bill Young, who died in October.

Republicans win first election showdown of the year

The race was consistently in the spotlight with national Republicans framing the election as a referendum on Obamacare. They injected a massive infusion of outside ad money into the race and some pundits cast the election as a possible bellwether for November's midterms.

"I think this was a referendum on (President Barack Obama's) policies and on Obamacare, that played out significantly to the disadvantage of (House Democratic Leader) Nancy Pelosi. And I think it sets the tone for what's coming in the fall," Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, told CNN Wednesday.

"We've been trying to tell people this is a referendum election, Obamacare is not helping people the way it was promised, and Democrats are going to have a lot of answering to do," Walden added.

But his counterpart at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sees very little predictive value in the results.

"Special elections are not indicators of the future. They never have been. They never will be. And certainly this is not an indicator of the future," Rep. Steve Israel, the DCCC chairman, told reporters. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who won Florida's 13th Congressional District?
2. Of what politcal party?
3. Against?
4. On which day of the week?
5. Who's chair was to be filled?
6. What happened to him?
7. In what month?
8. Which election win for the right was this?
9. What was there a massive infusion of?
10. From where?
11. Outside what?
12. Who was the House Democratic Leader?
Answer: 1. David Jolly
2. Republican
3. Alex Sink
4. Tuesday
5. Bill Young
6. He died
7. October
8. the first
9. money
10. outside
11. ad money
12. Nancy Pelosi

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHICAGO ---Call it a reward, or just "bribery ".

Whichever it is, many parents today readily admit to buying off their children, who getgoodies for anything from behaving in a restaurant to sleeping all night in their own beds.

That's what worries parenting experts.

"I think that reward systems have a time and a place and work really well in certain situations," says Marcy Safyer, director of the Adelphi University Institute for Parenting.

"But what often gets lost for people is being able to figure out how to communicate to their kids that doing the thing is rewarding enough," Safyer says.

Parents and experts alike agree that thedynamic is partly a reflection of the world we live in. It's unrealistic to think a parent wouldn't reward their children with material things sometimes, says Robin Lanzi, a clinical psychologist and mother of four who's the research director at the Center on Health and Education at Georgetown University.

"But you want to make sure that they match the behavior, so it's not something huge for something small," Lanzi says.

She recalls hearing about a father who offered his child a Nintendo Wii game system for scoring a couple goals in a soccer game.

Elizabeth Powell, a mother of two young daughters in Austin, Texas, knows what she means.

"You want to raise them in a way that they're respectful and appreciate things," Powell says of her children. "But sometimes, you wonder now if kids appreciate even a new pair of shoes. " 1. What did a dad offer his kid for scoring some goals?
2. What game was the kid playing?
3. How many kids does Elizabeth Powell have?
4. Are they both boys?
5. Are they young or old?
6. Will they die in some traumatic event?
7. Where does Elizabeth live?
8. What's Robin Lanzi do for a living?
9. How many kids does she have?
10. Where does she work?
11. What's her official title there?
12. Who thinks that a reward system has a time and a place?
13. Does she think it works really well in some circumstances?
14. Where does she work?
15. What's her title?
16. Does Powell think kids should be respectful?
17. Does Powell also want to raise kids to appreciate things, in addition to being respectful?
18. What's an example of something she thinks kids should appreciate getting?
19. Do experts think it's worrisome to reward kids for sleeping all night in their own beds?
20. What about for behaving in a restaurant?
numbered_answers:
1. Nintendo Wii game system
2. soccor
3. Two
4. no
5. young
6. unknown
7. Austin, Texas
8. clinical psychologist
9. Four
10. Georgetown University.
11. research director
12. Marcy Safyer
13. yes
14. Adelphi University Institute for Parenting.
15. director
16. unknown
17. yes
18. a new pair of shoes. "
19. yes
20. yes