Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Max is a very happy cow. He's dark brown, with big blue eyes, and a soft pink nose. He lives in a huge field during the summer, with beautiful, and tasty, buttercups and hay. During the winter he lives in a nice, warm barn.

The hay isn't as tasty then, but it keeps him fed until summer comes back. One winter day Max wanted to see what was happening outside when it turned cold and bright. He had never gone out during the winter because the Farmer always locked the barn door behind him. But today the door was wide open, and Max could see the sunshine reflecting off the bright ground. He had to know why! So Max pushed open the gate to his little house with his nose and walked over to the door. Max was surprised and confused by the ground outside, it was so white and sparkly. His breath started fogging in the air, and the ground was cold and crunchy. "What is this?" He asked the rooster sitting on the fence. The roosters name was Omaha, and he was all white except for a big red puff on his head.

"It's snow, son! Did you grow up in a barn?!" The rooster laughed and flew away towards his little rooster house.

"It's so pretty!" Max said. He pushed it with his nose. "Oh! It's so chilly!" He started to take a bite of the crunchy white bits. He wanted to see if they had a good taste, when he heard the farmer.

"Max! What are you doing out here?" The farmer, named Bob, asked. He was loud, but not mad. "It's much too cold for a small cow like you, we better get you back inside!" He pushed Max inside the barn, and this time locked the barn door tight.

1. What kind of animal is Max?
2. how does he feel?
3. what color is he?
4. what about his eyes?
5. what size?
6. what color was the appendage he smelled with?
7. when does he live in the field?
8. what grows there?
9. where does he live in the winter?
10. what is the temperature like there?
11. why doesn't he go outdoors when it's cold?
12. who locks it?
13. what did he see when he was able to go outdoors in the winter the first time?
14. did he know what it was at first?
15. who did he ask about what it was?
16. where was he at?
17. What was this animal called?
18. What color was the majority of his body?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. a cow
2. very happy
3. dark brown
4. blue
5. big
6. pink
7. summer
8. buttercups
9. a barn
10. warm
11. the barn door is locked
12. the Farmer
13. snow
14. no
15. the rooster
16. sitting on the fence
17. Omaha
18. white

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Can 13-year-olds do something to change the world? Cris Kesz Valdez, 13, from the Philippines believes so. At the age of 7, Valdez set up an organization to give homeless kids things like slippers and toothbrushes. So far he has helped more than 10,000 children improve their lives in his hometown. Valdez won the 2012 International Children's Peace Prize on September 19, 2012. "My motto is 'we can change the world one heart at a time,' " Valdez said at the award ceremony. In fact, Valdez is a homeless kid himself. He looked for food from trash, lived on the streets and slept in a public cemetery for most of his childhood. His parents didn't care about him and often beat him. Valdez said he felt he was living in " _ " at that time. But this "darkness" didn't turn him into a dark person. Valdez got help from community workers. On his first birthday party, at the age of 7, Valdez decided what he wanted most was to help other children who were still living on the streets. "I didn't have a lot of money, but I had a lot of love to give," Valdez explained. That day was the birth of the organization, Championing Community Children. Since then, Valdez and his friends visit homeless children and hand out bags with slippers, toys and even candy. They nurse their wounds, teach them about their rights and offer them hope. "I want children on the streets to get the same chance as I have," he said.

1. How many people have been helped by Valdez?
2. How old is he?
3. What is his motto?
4. Does he have a large home?
5. Where does he live?
6. When did he decide he wanted to help?
7. Did his parents help him?
8. Who did?
9. What did he start that day?
10. What is it called?
11. Who goes with him to pass things out?
12. What do they educate others on?
13. Does he help when they are hurt?
14. Are these kids from all over?
15. Where are they located?
16. Where is he from?
17. Has he been recognized for his work?
18. How?
19. When?
20. Does he have the support of his parents?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. more than 10,000 children
2. 13
3. we can change the world one heart at a time
4. No
5. on the streets
6. At the age of 7
7. No
8. community workers
9. the organization
10. Championing Community Children
11. his friends
12. their rights
13. Yes
14. No
15. in his hometown
16. the Philippines
17. Yes
18. Valdez won the 2012 International Children's Peace Prize
19. 2012
20. No

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(CNN) -- Professional ballet dancer Michaela DePrince was just three years old when she saw a ballerina for the first time.

She was standing near the gate of the orphanage she was living in the West African country of Sierra Leone when she found a magazine with a female ballet dancer on the cover.

The image of the beautiful, smiling ballerina mesmerized the young orphan, who had just lost both of her parents.

"I was just so fascinated by this person, by how beautiful she was, how she was wearing such a beautiful costume," she remembers. "So I ripped the cover off and I put it in my underwear."

At the time, DePrince -- or Mabinty Bangura as she was then called -- had no idea what ballet was. But she kept onto the picture, dreaming of one day becoming as happy as the ballerina on the magazine cover.

"It represented freedom, it represented hope, it represented trying to live a little longer," she recalls. "I was so upset in the orphanage, I have no idea how I got through it but seeing that, it completely saved me."

Shortly after, DePrince was adopted by an American couple and began a new life in the United States. Today, at the age of 17, she is one of the ballet world's rising stars -- last month she traveled to South Africa to make her professional debut in Johannesburg.

"I worked very hard and I was en pointe by the time I was seven years old," says DePrince. "I just moved along fast because I was so determined to be like that person on the magazine and she was what drove me to become a better dancer, a better person -- to be just like her was what I wanted to be."

1. How old was she when she first saw a ballerina?
2. Where did she see it?
3. Where was the ballerina?
4. Was she adopted?
5. By who?
6. When did she start dancing?
7. Where did she start dancing professionally?
8. Did she change her name?
9. From what?
10. To what?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. three years old
2. Sierra Leone
3. magazine cover
4. yes
5. an American couple
6. doesn't say
7. Johannesburg
8. yes
9. Mabinty Bangura
10. Michaela DePrince