Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Vincent Van Gogh was an important painter of the 19thcentury. He was born in Holland, but he lived much of his life inprefix = st1 /France. He was a very emotional man, and there was much suffering in his life. His style of painting was very different from classical art. He painted pictures of sunny, hot regions ofFrance. He looked for interesting shapes and exciting colours. He liked to work freely and quickly.

There is a fast movement in many of his paintings. Sometimes the trees look like fire. The sun, the moon, and stars move rapidly in the sky. He also painted pictures of people.

Like his life, his art was always unusual and very emotional.

Paul Gauguin was another 19-century painter. He was French and a friend of Van Gogh. Before he became an artist, Gauguin had been a businessman for many years. He made a lot of money, and he likes to buy modern paintings.

At the age of 354, Gauguin decided to become a painter himself. Gauguin wanted to discover more important things about man. He went to a different part of Franceto live with the farmers. He painted pictures of French country people there. Two years later he went to live in a small place in the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles fromFrance. He wanted to learn about the simple life there. His most famous and interesting paintings were painted at that time.

1. What kind of artist was Van Gogh?
2. What country did he paint?
3. What parts?
4. What appears to be burning in his work?
5. Do his paintings have movement?
6. What moves?
7. At what speed?
8. Did he use people for subjects?
9. Where was he born?
10. Did he stay there his whole life?
11. Where did he go?
12. Did he have a lot of emotion?
13. Did it show in his work?
14. Who was his friend?
15. Was did he do for a living?
16. What did he do before that?
17. How old was he when he started painting?
18. Where did he move to?
19. Then where?
20. Which of his works did he create there?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. a painter
2. France.
3. sunny, hot regions
4. trees
5. Yes
6. The sun, the moon, and stars
7. fast
8. yes
9. Holland
10. No
11. France
12. Yes
13. Yes
14. Paul Gauguin
15. painter
16. had been a businessman
17. 354
18. to live with the farmers
19. a small place in the Pacific
20. His most famous and interesting paintings

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Valentine's Day was coming. Helen felt hurt and lonely because this was her first Valentine's Day after the divorce .

Helen's twelve-year-old son, Jack, looked at his mother, knowing that this was a difficult time for both of them. In order to make his mother happy, he prepared a present, and handed it to her on Valentine's Day.

It was a beautiful gift package .Helen couldn't believe what was happening. She opened it and took out a lovely card and a small box.

"Now," he said, "read the card." It read as follows:

"I know that this isn't easy for you because it has been a hard year for both of us. I know that Valentine's Day is a special day for people in love. I want you to know that I love you. I know that Valentines are supposed to get chocolate. I went to the store today to buy some for you. Luckily, I got the last piece. I told the clerk it was just perfect."

Helen stood there for a moment and looked at her son. Her eyes sparkled in the light as tears formed in each corner. Jack knew he had done the right thing. Slowly she opened the small box, careful not to tear the paper. She would never forget the moment. She found a chocolate heart that was broken into pieces along with a note:

"I am so sorry that Dad left us, Mom. And all you were left with was a broken heart. But I just want you to know we still have each other.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Your son,

Jack"

1. Had Jack done the right thing?
2. what celebration was about to happen?
3. why was Helen upset?
4. how old is Jack?
5. was it a messy package?
6. what did he tell her to do?
7. what did the card say about the chocolate?
8. what did he say to the clerk?
9. did Helen cry?
10. why did she open the box slowly?
11. what was inside?
12. and a?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Yes
2. Valentine's Day
3. this was her first Valentine's Day after the divorce
4. twelve
5. no
6. read the card
7. Iti was the last piece
8. it was just perfect
9. yes
10. to not tear the paper.
11. a chocolate heart
12. a note

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Eleven-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover liked football, basketball and playing video games with his little brother.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy says the effects of bullying are becoming more severe.

But on April 6, after enduring what his mother called "relentless" bullying at school, Carl hanged himself with an extension cord in the family's Springfield, Massachusetts, home.

"What could make a child his age despair so much that he would take his own life? That question haunts me to this day, and I will probably never know the answer," Sirdeaner Walker said in a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on school bullying.

"He had just started secondary school in September, and we had high hopes," she said. "But I knew something was wrong, almost from the start." Watch Sirdeaner Walker describe finding her son's body "

He didn't want to say at first, she said, but reluctantly told her of classmates who called him names, "saying he acted gay and calling him faggot," Walker said.

"Hearing that, my heart just broke," she said.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-New York, said the emotional and physical effects of bullying are becoming more severe and that the acts of bullying can continue outside school.

According to the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center, about 30 percent of school-aged children in the United States are estimated to be involved in bullying, as either a bully or the target of a bully.

Steve Riach, the founder of Heart of a Champion Foundation -- a nonprofit organization that says it offers educators an "innovative and effective approach to developing character in the lives of their students" -- said his organization has learned that students recognize that school safety cannot be accomplished only with security guards and metal detectors.

1. How many school kids are part of bullying in the U.S.?
2. What role can a kid play?
3. Who put that number out?
4. Who started the Heart of a Champion Foundation?
5. What two things does he say is not enough to make schools safe?
6. How old was Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover?
7. What did he begin in the fall?
8. Did it go well?
9. What did kids in his class do
10. like what?
11. What happened on April 6th?
12. With what?
13. Where?
14. Where did he live?
15. Did he have siblings?
16. Which sex?
17. did he like sports?
18. Which ones?
19. Did he have a hobby?
20. What is his mom's name?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. about 30 percent
2. a bully or the target
3. National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
4. Steve Riach
5. security guards and metal detectors
6. eleven
7. secondary school
8. no
9. called him names
10. faggot
11. he hanged himself
12. an extension cord
13. at home
14. Springfield, Massachusetts
15. yes
16. male
17. yes
18. football and basketball
19. playing video games
20. Sirdeaner Walker