If you could see a movie of your life before you lived it, would you want to live it? Probably not. The excitement of living is that you don't know what's coming. Sure, it's hard to see uncertainty in such active light when you're out of work, or when you feel like you're failing. But uncertainty is really another word for chance. When Allison graduated from Harvard, she had chances all over the place but had no idea what she wanted to do. She took a job in consulting ,but she knew she wouldn't stay there. She took the GRE and scored so high that she was able to increase her income by teaching students. Still, she didn't think she wanted to go to graduate school . Allison knew she wasn't doing what she wanted, but she didn't know what she wanted. She worried. All her friends were going to graduate school or starting their own businesses. She was lost and felt that she would never find anything out. After six years, Allison, by having a plan in mind, got married, moved to the Midwest, and used her consulting experience to get a great job. Allison realized that she spent her years finding her way: time well spent, and time we must all take if we're being honest with ourselves. The only way to lead an interesting life is to face uncertainty and make a choice. Otherwise your life is not your own - it is a path someone else has chosen. Moments of uncertainty are when you create your life, and when you become who you are. Uncertainty usually begins with a job hunt, but it doesn't end there. Every new role we take on means another round of uncertainty. Instead of fearing it, you should find some ways to deal with uncertainty What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is uncertainty another word for?
2. Who graduated from Harvard?
3. Did she get married and move to the East Coast?
4. What did scoring high on the GRE enable her to do?
5. What was her first job after graduating?
6. After how many years did she get married?
7. Did she want to go to grad school?
8. What's the only way to lead an interesting life?
9. What are moments of uncertainty?
10. Did Allison know what she wanted to do after graduating?
11. What were all of her friends doing when the graduated?
12. Where did Allison move to?
13. What did she use her consulting experience to do?
14. What did she realize?
15. What does uncertainty usually begin with?
16. And what does every new role mean?
Answer: 1. chance.
2. Allison
3. No
4. increase her income by teaching students
5. consulting
6. Six
7. No
8. to face uncertainty and make a choice
9. The excitement of living is that you don't know what's coming.
10. no
11. going to graduate school or starting their own businesses
12. the Midwest
13. to get a great job
14. she spent her years finding her way
15. with a job hunt,
16. another round of uncertainty

Problem: On the third day of November, Ron and Pam went to the store. They wanted to get some food for a new recipe. It was late in the afternoon, but they wanted to eat the food soon at dinner. To save time they split the list in half. Ron was to get the pasta and tomato sauce, and Pam was to get the vegetables and juice. They went their separate ways in the store, and made plans to meet in the checkout line in half an hour.

On her way to the fruit and vegetable section, Pam ran into her friend Tom. Tom had bought a pet bunny for his friend and wanted to buy it some food. He asked Pam what he needs to feed the bunny. Pam told him lettuce and carrots, so he put 5 heads of lettuce in his basket along with one bag of carrots. Tom said goodbye to Pam and went to the front of the store to buy his vegetables. Now it was time for Pam to pick out the vegetables she would buy for dinner. She wanted to make a salad, so she bought spinach, 2 big red tomatoes, a box of mushrooms, and 3 cucumbers. Pam then went to where they kept the juice and grabbed a big bottle of lemonade.

Pam went to the front of the store and met Ron. They handed their items to the sales clerk so that they could buy them. The total cost of the food was 20 dollars. As a gift to Pam, Ron paid for the food and said happy birthday. As a gift he would be cooking her dinner.
1. what day did Ron and Pam go to the store?
2. was it late in the afternoon?
3. what did they want to do soon?
4. to save time, how did they divide the list?
5. where were they supposed to meet?
6. who did Pam run into?
7. what was he getting for his friend's bunny?
8. did Pam know what type of food?
9. how many heads of lettuce did Tom get?
10. and how many bags of carrots?
11. What did Pam want to make?
12. how many cucumbers did she get for it?
13. did she get anything else?
14. who did she go to the front of the store to meet?
15. how much did they hand the clerk?
16. who paid
17. was it Pam's birthday?
18. what would be Ron's gift to Pam?
Answer: 1. the third day of November
2. yes
3. eat the food soon at dinner.
4. they split the list in half
5. the checkout line
6. her friend Tom
7. food.
8. yes
9. Five
10. one
11. a salad
12. Three
13. lemonade
14. Ron
15. 20 dollars
16. Ron
17. yes
18. cooking her dinner.

question: Poor Alice was very unhappy. "What a wonderful garden!" she said to herself. "I'd like to be out there - not in this dark room. Why can't I get smaller?" It was already a very strange day. and Alice was beginning to think that anything was possible. After a while she locked the door again, got up and went back to the glass table. She put the key down and she saw a little bottle on the table. Round the neck of the bottle was a piece of paper with the words DRINK ME in large letters. But Alice was a careful girl. "It can be dangerous to drink out of strange bottles," she said. "What will it do to me?" She drank a little bit very slowly. The taste was very nice. like chocolate and oranges and hot sweet coffee. and very soon Alice finished the bottle. "What a strange feeling!" said Alice. "I think I' m getting smaller and smaller every second." And she was. A few minutes later she was only 25 centimeters high. "And now," she said happily, "I can get through the little door into that beautiful garden." She ran at once to the door. When she got there. she remembered that the little gold key was back on the glass table. She ran back to the table for it, but of course, she was now much too small! There was the key, high above her, on top of the table. She tried very hard to climb up the table leg, but she could not do it. At last, tired and unhappy, Alice sat down on the floor and cried. But after a while she spoke to herself angrily. "Come now," she said, "Stop crying at once. What's the use of crying?" She was a strange child, and often talked to herself like this. Soon she saw a little glass box near her on the floor. She opened it and found a very small cake with the words EAT ME on it.[:. . ] Nothing could surprise Alice now. "Well, I'II eat it," she said. "If I get taller, I can take the key off the table. And if I get smaller, I can get under the door. _ I'll get into the garden. So it doesn't matter what happens!" She went on eating, but nothing happened.
1. Who was unhappy?
2. Did it say EAT ME on the bottle she found?
3. What did it say that on?
4. What must she do to make her way outside?
5. Where did she find the thing to sip from?
6. How many things did the liquid remind her of?
7. Did it make her taller and taller?
8. What did it make her?
9. Small enough to make it through to outside?
10. When she was outside, did she remember that she had she forgotten her hat?
11. What had she forgotten?
12. Was this easily retrieved?
13. Why not?
14. What did she have to do to become bigger?
15. Did it work?
16. Did she shock her?
17. What did she tell herself to cease?
18. Did she wind up 30 cms tall?
19. How tall was she?
20. Was the outdoors area she wanted to go to ugly?
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answer:
1. Alice
2. no
3. a cake
4. get smaller
5. on the table
6. Three
7. no
8. smaller
9. yes
10. no
11. the little gold key
12. no
13. She was too small.
14. eat the cake
15. no
16. no
17. crying
18. no
19. 25 centimeters
20. no