Question: (CNN) -- There are plenty of reasons to fall in love with a staircase.

It's a home's conduit and connector. It ushers life along, makes a grand impression on visitors and serves as the backdrop for family memories.

"It's where my daughter took pictures for her first daddy-daughter dance," said Anisa Darnell, part of the Milk and Honey Home decorator team from Roswell, Georgia. Her home's staircase is also special to her because her grandfather posed with her daughter for a snapshot there before he passed away.

The back staircase in Emily A. Clark's home is significant because it's mostly used by her kids. "I've also caught them playing school on the little landing in the middle of the stairs."

Jacki Poovey and her husband designed their staircase to be a grand, welcoming part of their Cary, North Carolina home, but it's also at the heart of countless family memories. It still bears reminders of the time their puppy chewed every bit of molding from the edges of the newel post to the cap molding on the treads. "It's a lived-in home," says Poovey.

Massive undertakings, like DIY home renovations, can imbue a home's staircase with lasting impressions of the experience.

"If you paint three stories of spindles, you never forget it," Victoria Barnes said of the painstaking restoration she and her husband undertook in their 1890 Victorian home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Barnes blogs about the "really, really, really slow" process of their work, which she calls wonderful and overwhelming.

Christine Price, from Manchester, England, can relate, having spent 250 hours stripping, sanding and painting the staircase in her Edwardian home. "The staircase is the first thing you see when you enter our home," she said. "Now that it's restored it makes such a huge difference to the whole feel of the house." 1. What part of a house is this story mainly about?
2. According to the article, is the staircase important to the house's atmosphere?
3. What photos were taken by the stairs?
4. What team of decorators is mentioned?
5. where are they from?
6. Is Emily's staircase in the front of the house?
7. Who uses it?
8. What do they do there?
9. Is it easy to forget restoring a staircase?
10. Who owns a Victorian house?
11. When does it date from?
12. Where is it located?
13. Was her work on the house easy?
14. Was it enjoyable?
15. How long did Christine spend on her project?
16. Is her house always Victorian?
17. What style is it?
18. What work did Christine do?
19. Is Jacki's staircase pristine?
20. Why not? Provide a numbered list of answers.
****
A numbered of answers: 1. The staircase
2. Yes
3. pictures for a first daddy-daughter dance
4. the Milk and Honey Home decorator team
5. Roswell, Georgia
6. No
7. Her kids
8. Playing school
9. No
10. Victoria Barnes
11. 1890
12. near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
13. No
14. Yes
15. 250 hours
16. No
17. Edwardian
18. stripping, sanding and painting
19. No
20. It has marks from where her puppy chewed it

Q: (CNN) -- Petra Kvitova dumped Caroline Wozniacki out of the WTA Championships with a straight sets victory that sealed her place in the final four.

Kvitova, the 2011 Wimbledon champion, inflicted Wozniacki's second defeat in Istanbul, winning 6-4 6-2 to go top of the Red Group.

World number one Wozniacki, who called the trainer on during her match after complaining of feeling sick, is rock bottom of the group after playing all three of her round robin games.

After her victory Kvitova told CNN she was delighted to make the final four: "It's nice when I win and I'm happy to be in the semi-final. Istanbul is a great place and it is great experience for me.

"I have had a great season and it's very nice to play here -- it's like something new for me as I'm still learning. I am enjoying every match I play and I'm trying not to think about winning here."

Wozniacki told reporters: "I tried my best, but my body didn't want to do the things I asked it today. What I told my brain didn't go to my body.

"It's just unfortunate that my body has been feeling tired. To get sick now is not the best time if you want to beat the top players."

Czech Kvitova faces Agnieszka Radwanska on Friday -- a match that will determine who grabs the second qualification spot in the red group.

Radwanska, from Poland, currently occupies second spot after she saved three match points to beat Russia's Vera Zvonareva 1-6 6-2 7-5. The Pole can make sure of her place in the semis as long as she wins a set in her clash with Kvitova.

1. Kvitova
2. delighted
3. 2011
4. Wimbledon champion
5. Wozniacki
6. Wozniack
7. no
8. the trainer
9. last
10. Kvitova
11. no
12. she enjoys it
13. it didn't go to her body
14. Radwanska
15. Poland
16. Vera Zvonareva
17. Russia
18. Czech Kvitova
19. on Friday
20. second

Numbered questions:
1. Who spoke to CNN about her win?
2. How does she feel about being in the final four?
3. When did she win?
4. What did she become?
5. Who did she beat in Istanbul?
6. Who is ranked number one?
7. Was she feeling okay?
8. Who did she tell?
9. Where did she place in the Red Group?
10. Who had a good season?
11. Does she hate the sport?
12. How does she feel about playing?
13. What was wrong with Wozniacki's brain?
14. Who is ranked number two?
15. Where is she from?
16. Who did she win against to get placed second?
17. Where is she from?
18. Who will Radwanska play next?
19. When?
20. What place will the winner be in?

input: Affirmative action in the United States tends to focus on issues such as education and employment, specifically granting special consideration to racial minorities, Native Americans, and women who have been historically excluded groups in America. Reports have shown that minorities and women have faced discrimination in schools and businesses for many years and this discrimination produced unfair advantages for whites and males in education and employment. The impetus toward affirmative action is redressing the disadvantages associated with past and present discrimination. Further impetus is a desire to ensure public institutions, such as universities, hospitals, and police forces, are more representative of the populations they serve.

Affirmative action is a subject of controversy. Some policies adopted as affirmative action, such as racial quotas or gender quotas for collegiate admission, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination, and such implementation of affirmative action has been ruled unconstitutional by the majority opinion of Gratz v. Bollinger. Affirmative action as a practice was upheld by the Supreme Court's decision in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003. Affirmative action policies were developed in order to correct decades of discrimination stemming from the Reconstruction Era by granting disadvantaged minorities opportunities. Many believe that the diversity of current American society suggests that affirmative action policies succeeded and are no longer required. Opponents of affirmative action argue that these policies are outdated and lead to reverse discrimination which entails favoring one group over another based upon racial preference rather than achievement. 1. where is affirmative action?
2. what is the disadvantage?
3. where is it used?
4. who?
5. when did it start?
6. is it widely accepted?
7. where was it decided?
8. how long has discrimination been going on?
9. is it still discrimination?
10. where did it come from Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. United States
2. discrimination
3. employment
4. women
5. 2003
6. no
7. Supreme Court
8. decades
9. no
10. Reconstruction Era